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or our Pacific Northwest “Boys of Summer,” it must begin to feel like a long slog home. I refer to the Seattle Mariners, who were predicted to compete for a place in the postseason, but… aren’t.

Let’s start with our “closer,” Fernando Rodney. Manager Lloyd McClendon has stuck with him through thick and thin. He talks about Rodney’s major league-leading 48 saves last year.

That was then — and as fans know, it was a far bumpier ride than the record shows.

But this year? Consider his first two outings this month. Against the Yankees on June 2, rookie Mike Montgomery had pitched wonderfully over six innings, giving up four hits and just one run. Top of the 8th, and in comes rookie Carson Smith. All he does is retire the Yankees on 10 pitches — two strikeouts and a pop fly.

So why wasn’t Smith sent out to pitch the 9th?

The reason? We can’t mess with “The Formula.” So in comes Rodney, and what does he do? Walks the leadoff hitter, putting the tying run on base. Then, two quick outs. Could Rodney pull off another miraculous escape? Another arrow shot into the sky? No such luck, as the next Yankee laces a single. The next doubles, tying the game. The Mariners lose two innings later.

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is next time out, against Tampa Bay, our closer inherits a scoreless game in the 9th. What does he do? Comes in and gives up the eventual game-winning home run — to the very first batter he faces. Oh yes, Smith again had pitched a no-hit 8th inning. Can’t pitch the 9th, though. Same reason — The Formula.

Parenthetically, could someone explain why we need closers? Didn’t used to have them. Relievers pitched as the situation dictated. I suggest that formulas can be compared to painting by the numbers; truly creative people resist both — they are seldom held captive to convention and never paint by the numbers.

My view? The Formula is to baseball what prevent defenses are to football, and “working the clock” is to basketball — unimaginative and a recipe for losing.

Perhaps The Formula provides contrived drama that’s also about money-making, or maybe it’s about playing “Wild Thing” one more time, or parlaying the Clint Eastwood squint for another inning or two. I don’t get it, but even in the era of the closer, it seems like sticking with an ineffective closer is a really, really bad idea.

Truth is, it isn’t just two blown games: Fernando Rodney is the most ineffective closer in the major leagues, and it’s not even close. He has the highest earned-run average — an astronomical 6.49. He has blown a major-league high three saves. He has a dismal strikeout-to-walk ratio.

And if that’s not bad enough, hitters are pounding him around the park at a brisk .295 clip — also the majors’ highest.

The team’s dismal record isn’t all Rodney’s fault. Seattle, while ranking in the middle of the league in team ERA, is at or near the league bottom in team batting average, runs scored and team strikeouts. That’s not surprising when your starting lineup has only one player hitting over .300 and several at or under .240, with a couple down below .200.

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ince Ken Griffey Jr. arrived in 1989, by my count, the Mariners have developed only three offensive threats — Alex Rodriguez, Adam Jones and Kyle Seager. Alex bailed after seven years. Jones was traded away to Baltimore after only two seasons. Remember Eric Bedard?

Few do, and that’s who we got in return for Jones. Ryan Divish, who covers the team for the Seattle Times, calls it the worst trade in Mariners history. Given the trail of terrible trades the team has made over the years, that’s saying something.

Yes, Seager is hitting in the mid-.270s, but to hear management’s LETTERS self-congratuSend comments to lations, you’d editor@inlander.com. think he’s the second coming of Griffey. He isn’t.

Which brings us to Robinson Cano; he hit .314 last year — a good season at the plate and on the field. This year? He’s hitting in the .240s.

Worse are his strikeouts. As noted, the Mariners are second worst in the league — and Cano certainly is doing his part. Last year he struck out a total of 68 times. This year, 40 percent of the way through, he’s already at 46.

His batting average and strikeouts are troubling — and if declining bat speed is the cause, we’re in big trouble — but getting picked off first base with two on and one out in an inning where the Mariners looked as if they might at least tie the game? Inexcusable. Cano appeared to have gone mentally “walkabout.” Oblivious to goingson. Which kind of sums things up.

For all of us long-suffering Mariners fans: Buy Spokane Indians tickets, get to know a barstool at your favorite local brewpub and prepare yourself for a long summer.

But don’t forget to always hope for the best.

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How Rachel Dolezal came to write for the Inlander

BY JACOB H. FRIES

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he world now knows the name Rachel Dolezal. Not for her work as a local college professor, civil rights activist, NAACP chapter president or chair of Spokane’s police ombudsman commission. Rather, as her name beamed around the globe last week, it became Internet shorthand for deception and doubt, a hashtag for someone apparently born white who appropriated the culture of black America.

To us at the Inlander, she had contributed monthly freelance opinion columns for the past year, tackling vital topics like race, equality and privilege. As an independent freelancer, she wasn’t on staff and didn’t maintain a desk here; in fact, she only visited our offices a couple of times during her tenure. Nevertheless, our readers are understandably interested: How could we work with someone whose credibility — indeed, her very identity — is now being questioned?

Dolezal caught our eye last year as a vocal activist talking about important issues. She had an interesting perspective, having lived in both Idaho and Washington, and her credentials were impressive: She taught art and black studies at area universities and had worked for the reputable Human Rights Education Institute in Coeur d’Alene. We never asked about her race.

Her standing as a community leader was such that in 2010, when the New York Times sent a reporter to the area to write about the Tea Party, he made sure to get a comment from Dolezal: “Ms. Dolezal, who is multiracial, said she could not imagine showing her face at a Tea Party event. To her, what stands out are the all-white crowds, the crude depictions of Mr. Obama as an African witch doctor and the signs labeling him a terrorist. ‘It would make me nervous to be there unless I went with a big group,’ she said.”

As editors, we did give special attention to Dolezal’s columns — even though they were her own opinions — because she wasn’t a trained journalist. We never told her what to write besides suggesting she stick to what she knew, mining her background in activism and academia. We gave her leeway to express herself, but fact-checked everything we possibly could and on several occasions removed sections that didn’t meet our standards.

Since concerns about her identity and truthfulness have become public, Dolezal has not returned any of our messages seeking comment. We are left wondering, like everyone else, what the whole story is. As one of the many organizations that put their faith in Dolezal, we, too, feel manipulated and deceived. We also feel empathy for Dolezal — she is a person, not an idea, and the global shaming she’s enduring is sizable — but truth is truth.

For journalists especially, truth and the trust that comes from sharing it are sacrosanct, and we can provide no shelter for anyone who threatens that covenant. As a result, Dolezal no longer writes for this paper.

At the Inlander, we remain dedicated to tackling the important issues, and out of this troubling episode, we know one thing for sure: The real work Dolezal did on race and justice must not end with her. It falls to us all. We must continue to have honest conversations about race, culture, equality and the obstacles to a more just society, and we will seek a new columnist who can help us raise those issues. In the coming days, new community leaders will inevitably emerge, and we must expect of them what we expect of everyone: not personal perfection, but the truth.  Jacob H. Fries is the editor of the Inlander.

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BY JOHN T. REUTER

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he Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee is by far the most powerful committee in the Idaho Legislature. Made up of 10 state senators and 10 state representatives, it is charged with setting the state’s budget each year — subject to a vote by the full bodies of each chamber.

For more than a decade, JFAC has been co-chaired by the capable hands (and minds) of Sen. Dean Cameron and Rep. Maxine Bell. The pair come from the same eastern Idaho region and have built a partnership based

on trust, fiscal responsibility and a deep friendship. This week that changed with the departure of Cameron, who will be joining Gov. Butch Otter’s administration as the director of the Idaho Department of Insurance.

Cameron will be an asset to an executive branch too often plagued by incompetence, if not corruption. He is a well-established insurance expert and has a proven record of making government more efficient and effective. Hopefully his advice will be sought on issues far outside of those officially under his oversight.

As JFAC co-chair, Cameron will be replaced by the only Idaho elected official I respect more: North Idaho

Sen. Shawn Keough. The longest-serving woman ever in the Idaho Senate, she has a history of thoughtful decisions rooted in a deep understanding of Idaho and the people she represents. She will excel as co-chair.

During the 2011 and 2012 legislative sessions, I worked for Cameron and Keough, among others, as the Senate Majority Communications Director. It was an experience that made me determined to abandon partisan politics and political parties — choosing instead to focus on advancing the people-focused policies I care most about.

In adopting this philosophy I believe I am emulating, as best I can, the approach Cameron has long taken to public service. He is a committed Republican, but his actions seem to be shaped less by partisan concerns than concern for people. I was particularly inspired by Cameron’s successful advocacy for JFAC to hold public hearings on Idaho’s budget for the first time in 2011.

It was a tough year for Idaho’s budget. With falling revenue and no political appetite for raising taxes in this deeply “red” state, painful cuts would have to be made.

I enthusiastically greeted Cameron’s decision to throw open the doors to Idaho’s complex budget deliberations and invite the public to participate. That said, I doubted that it was good politics — and feared it could be a disaster — but it was clearly the right thing to do. I was thrilled to see idealism trump political calculations.

Thousands of Idahoans answered Cameron’s call, flooding the Capitol to provide their testimony and requiring multiple overflow rooms to be opened. Thousands more watched online and provided testimony to the committee by email. Their stories were heartwrenching and made clear just how painful the cuts being proposed were in extraordinarily personal human terms.

Following the public hearings, cuts were still made — there was no feasible political path to avoid them — but they were made more carefully, made better, because of the testimony provided. Also, more draconian cuts were dismissed out of hand after the public made clear the real price of such an approach.

It was an important event in itself, but it was also the embodiment of the philosophy Dean Cameron has brought to governing for more than two decades: The people must be heard; not just the people from your party or from your community, but all the people.

I know I am not the only person who hopes that Cameron’s retirement from elected office will be a short one. n John T. Reuter, a former Sandpoint City Councilman, is the executive director of Conservation Voters for Idaho. He has been active in protecting Idaho’s environment, expanding LGBT rights and the Idaho Republican Party. n

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DAMAGING OUR DIVERSITY n light of recent events regarding Ms. Rachel Dolezal, and due to the

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Inlander’s association with Ms. Dolezal, the Inlander seems to be in a peculiar position. How do you remind a community of the positive achievements of a community leader, while acknowledging the negative impact of their personal shortcomings? As a person of color in this community, I have nothing but praise for Ms. Dolezal when it comes to her gifted promotion of cultural diversity in and around Spokane. However, I’ve lost respect for Ms. Dolezal because her personal actions have undermined the fragile ideal LETTERS of diversity in the Inland Northwest.

Send comments to White, black, yellow and brown editor@inlander.com. people marched with Dr. King over the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma.

White, black, yellow and brown people marched with Cesar Chavez in the fields of central California. I’m that person who isn’t considered light enough or dark enough. It makes Ms. Dolezal’s actions sting that much harder. The fact that my generation has forgotten the diversity of those that came before us only makes Ms. Dolezal’s personal actions more deplorable.

The lights, microphone and cameras are on; the presses are ready. Will the Inlander be the voice of the Inland Northwest? We’ve been given this national stage again; what do we do with it?

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Reaction to the media frenzy last week when it was revealed that former NAACP Spokane chapter president Rachel Dolezal had covered up key facts about her background and ethnicity

JOHN DRESSLER: All I see is a white lady trying to OCCUPY all the people of color’s opportunities to be in influential positions of power!

Specifically the people who are black living in Spokane.

MONA REED SCHURR: There are so many more important/serious issues we should be spending our time discussing.

This woman has done good work. I question her parents’ motives. I can’t wait until race isn’t an issue anymore. We all started out black, and we will all end up brownish-pinkish-gray.

COREY DOUGLAS: I personally don’t care what someone identifies themselves as, but if they used that falsity to advance themselves over other people in academics or employment, then I would say they were fraudulent.

JAMES E BURFORD II: There must be a good reason why she went through all of this trouble… you think!?

JESSICA YOCOM: She may have some internal issues. Lying about your life and heritage in a forum that considers that information relevant was a destructive move.

Regardless, she does advocate for minorities and that should be commended. 

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Care in Crisis Why did seven psych ward doctors quit their jobs at Sacred Heart?

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ast week, the entire staff of seven psychiatric doctors submitted resignation notices at Providence’s Sacred Heart Medical Center, a locked, 48-bed inpatient psychiatric unit that treats adult patients battling acute bouts of mental illness. Sacred Heart is the place the police call when someone poses an imminent threat to themselves or others and needs to be involuntarily committed. It’s the Inland Northwest’s sole provider of electroconvulsive therapy and the facility that Eastern State Hospital relies on when it reaches capacity.

The psychiatric care team will remain on staff for three months, says Liz DeRuyter, external communications director for Providence Health Care. After that, it’s unclear what will happen.

“It is unfortunate our psychiatrists have felt the need to resign, and it is going to be a challenge to replace them, but we are committed to do it,” says Jeff Collins, Sacred Heart’s chief medical officer. “We may have to modify the services based on the availability of appropriate staff.”

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That modification likely will mean a drop in the current level of inpatient services. Sacred Heart has 190 other staff members within the psychiatry department, so the 48 beds should remain operational in some capacity, but psychiatrists are hard to find these days. Fewer psychiatrists could limit the scope of services Sacred Heart is able to offer; Spokane Regional Health District Director Matthew Layton worries that inpatient care would be among the first services on the chopping block.

“We have been attempting to recruit psychiatrists, and that is continuing,” says Collins. “We have some prospective candidates, we don’t know how many, and in addition we’re working with companies that provide locum tenens.”

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NEWS | MENTAL HEALTH “CARE IN CRISIS,” CONTINUED... hunting for someone to fill a vacancy at Eastern State Hospital, where only 287 of the 325 inpatient beds currently are in service. It’s tough going, he says, even though he’s offering the equivalent of $175,000 a year, which, he says, is higher than normal for the area.

“If a candidate lives in the area and is board certified, I could really put the icing on the cake and throw a couple extra bucks their way,” says Kennedy.

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“A decrease in the number of specialists in any medical field would be detrimental to patient care,” says Teri Koski, vice president of the National Alliance on Mental Illness’ Spokane affiliate. “Imagine losing seven local cardiopulmonary doctors or oncology specialists. Imagine needing open heart surgery, only to find there are no heart surgeons available. Without consistent treatment, a mental illness can become a crisis in need of emergency intervention.”

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In 2011, Providence commissioned the consulting firm Medical Development Specialists to evaluate care needs in the area. MDS estimated there were 35 psychiatrists in the region and that 45 were needed, assuming a population of just over 900,000. Layton estimates the population east of the Cascades — the population the doctors actually are serving — at closer to 1.5 million, and growing.

“We have patients, they have money, they have insurance,” says Layton. “They still can’t get care. Our private practitioners are booked three months out.”

The state is currently short 300 inpatient beds and most of that shortage is felt in Eastern Washington. If patients can’t seek inpatient treatment at Sacred Heart, where will they go?

“We have overflow there, so of course we couldn’t house them at Eastern State,” says Kathy Spears, communications officer for Washington’s Department of Social and Health Services. Frontier Behavioral Health CEO Jeff Thomas says his organization “will continue to work collaboratively to meet the needs of individuals experiencing psychiatric challenges.”

Officers at the Spokane Police Department already deal with frequent difficulties finding open beds for people in the throes of mental health crises.

“If there’s no bed at Sacred Heart and it’s an involuntary, we’ll wait a couple hours with a person at the emergency room. We don’t like to, but we do,” says Sgt. Anthony Giannetto.

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Seven aspiring Limited License Legal Technicians have passed the state exam and should receive their licenses later this month. Legal technicians will offer legal advice and help family law clients fill out forms and draft documents. “Washington is forging new ground in being the first state in the nation to license this new level of legal service provider,” says Debra Carnes, Washington State Bar Association communications officer. (LAEL HENTERLY)

COMMUNITY INPUT WANTED | During its monthly meeting last week, the Spokane Law and Justice Council met with representatives from the Vera Institute of Justice, which will assist in preparing an application for a GRANT WORTH UP TO $4 MILLION from the MacArthur Foundation. The group of major criminal justice players is also looking to diversify the voices at its table. Applications for two open community member positions will be accepted until July 10. Specifically, the council is looking for input from those who have experience with the system. (MITCH RYALS)

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The Power of Money Election season — namely, fundraising — has begun; plus, another inmate dies at the Spokane County Jail MONEY RACE As ELECTION SEASON continues to come into full bloom, money is rapidly flowing into one race for Spokane City Council. Councilwoman Karen Stratton, who was appointed to the council last year to finish the term of Steve Salvatori, has raised $19,000 to keep her seat as she prepares to face voters in August.

Although she has a current fundraising advantage over her opponents, they’re both raising money at a quick pace. Evan Verduin, an architect who serves on the city’s Plan Commission, submitted his papers to run on the last day to file. But he’s already raised $11,000, according to records, substantially more than candidates in other races who announced their campaigns months earlier. Verduin, who describes himself as a “solid centrist,” has received the endorsement of Mayor David Condon, who has at times been at odds with the city’s legislative body. In past elections, a political action committee with ties to Condon has directed money to more conservativeleaning council candidates.

Spokane Council President Ben Stuckart, who had a hand in picking Stratton for the seat, has said that he won’t actively campaign in council races.

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ist also hoping to unseat Stratton, has begun directing personal money to his campaign. Cruz receives about $52,000 annually after winning the lottery in 2014. According to campaign filings, he’s so far directed $3,000 of his money toward his bid. (JAKE THOMAS)

RULING APPEALED

The Department of Social and Health Services will appeal part of a U.S. District judge’s ruling that requires the department to conduct MENTAL HEALTH EVALUATIONS and provide treatment for criminal defendants found incompetent to stand trial within seven days of a court order.

DSHS says the seven-day timeframe could result in false positives for people coming off the effects of drugs, but are not actually mentally ill.

“If you determine that someone is mentally ill when they’re actually not, that takes up precious bed space in the hospital,” says Kathy Spears, a department spokeswoman. “We don’t want to rush the evaluations and make the wrong decision.”

The appeal is not challenging the requirement that defendants be transported for treatment within seven

days after being determined incompetent to stand trial.

“We agree with the court that wait times are too long and immediate changes are necessary,” Jane Beyer, DSHS assistant secretary for the Behavioral Health and Service Integration Administration, said in a statement.

Under the current system, the DSHS is required to provide competency evaluations, which can occur in county jails, in the community or either of the two state hospitals. If defendants are found incompetent, they are then transferred to Washington State Hospital or Eastern State Hospital for treatment. (MITCH RYALS)

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Friday evening Spokane County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Mark Gregory announced another INMATE DEATH at the Spokane County Jail. The inmate, 53-year-old Scott Stevens, was found unconscious in his cell at 6:45 pm on Friday, June 12. Stevens, who had been arrested June 10 for first-degree burglary, was not breathing and resuscitation efforts failed. The medical examiner listed the cause of death as “Pending Toxicology”; Gregory says an investigation is ongoing, but his office found no signs of trauma. The latest in-custody jail death comes on the heels of two incidents in May where men died at the jail. The first involved an inmate on suicide watch who hung himself; the second man was being strapped into a restraint chair during booking when he went into medical distress.

Jail Lt. Mike Sparber says most years his jail doesn’t experience any deaths, though he was unable to produce specific numbers. Three in-custody jail deaths in one year is a lot for a jail the size of Spokane County, says Bureau of Justice Statistics national jail-death statistician Margaret Noonan. Gregory declined to speculate on deaths at the jail in past years, but says he doesn’t see any common threads between the recent cases. (LAEL HENTERLY)

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achel Dolezal didn’t become a leading voice on racial issues in the Inland Northwest by accident.

She fought for it. She faced off against two competitors to become chair of the Spokane police ombudsman commission. She defeated a black incumbent named James Wilburn Jr. to become president of the NAACP’s Spokane chapter, “calling for a strong arm of the NAACP in Spokane to carry on civil rights.” She had her own licensed diversity-training business.

At times, she’s wanted even more: When she worked for the Human Rights Education Institute in Coeur d’Alene in 2010, Dolezal threatened to leave if they didn’t make her executive director. When they didn’t, she quit, accusing the anti-discrimination institute of discrimination.

So it’s possible that had Dolezal sought a smaller profile, all this wouldn’t have happened. The local media wouldn’t have found out that Spokane’s most prominent black commentator is… actually white.

In less than a week, Dolezal went from a respected local leader to the top trending topic on Twitter, to an international joke and outrage, to the uniquely modern archetype — an instant celebrity, occupying the intersection of fame, infamy and morbid fascination.

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“THE REAL RACHEL DOLEZAL,” CONTINUED... commission and had resigned from the NAACP. And as the Spokane community has been left reeling, Dolezal herself hasn’t apologized — instead, she’s been on a media blitz in New York, speaking to Matt Lauer and MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry. And that’s just the beginning of Dolezal’s planned journey.

“Challenging the construct of race is at the core of evolving human consciousness,” she said in her letter resigning from the NAACP. “This is not me quitting; this is a continuum.”

EMPTY THREATS?

It wasn’t just Dolezal’s position that made her famous.

It was the string of alleged hate crimes against her that had led newscasts and been splashed across newspaper front pages for five years. They were literally a part of her résumé — the words “eight documented hate crimes” against her was posted directly on her bio at Eastern Washington University.

In March, Blaine Stum, chair of the Spokane Human Rights Commission, put out a press release stating that, after receiving a threatening letter, Dolezal had been hit with her “ninth hate crime in less than a decade.” That’s what Dolezal told him. He put together a rally for her, with more than 200 people marching against hate, chanting slogans like, “This is what supporting Rachel looks like.”

But on Monday, Stum was pacing before TV cameras, waving his notes in the air. “We do not believe you can build a just community on lies!” Stum proclaimed.

“The reality is that she lied to most of us in this crowd!”

Not only do police records show far fewer than eight suspected hate crimes, Dolezal’s reports are filled with red flags. A swastika appeared on the door of the Human Rights Education Institute in 2010, but the Institute’s surveillance system, oddly, wasn’t working. (Dolezal told the Coeur d’Alene Press it may have been a power surge.) When Dolezal claimed to have found a noose on her property in North Idaho, a neighbor told police that he was 90

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percent sure the rope — hanging from his shed — was his.

He had used it to hang deer, and he said he told Dolezal that after she reported it. (She denies this.) When the cops called Dolezal to follow up, she never called back, records state.

She’s portrayed home burglaries with no apparent racial component as hate crimes against her. Yes, the N-word had once been written in chalk with an arrow pointing to Dolezal’s boyfriend’s house — but that was months before she’d moved in. She said she was a victim of a home invasion that scared her son half to death — possibly by a violent motorcycle gang. But her son told cops that not only was he not scared, the couple who wandered into their house through an unlocked door had simply seemed confused.

“They looked like normal, middle-class white people,” he told police. The “home invaders” even took time to try to retrieve Dolezal’s escaped cat from a neighbor’s yard, her son said.

Most mysterious, however, was a package ostensibly sent to her from someone calling himself “War Pig. ret.”

There were no direct threats to Dolezal, but an Inlander story on her was in the package, along with a mix of racially charged pictures and strange rants against things pertaining to California, including a refinery in Richmond and pay raises for Contra Costa County deputies.

The police investigation found the letter didn’t have a postal mark — meaning it was likely put in the P.O. box by someone who had a key to it. (Detectives cleared postal workers in their investigation.)

And when Dolezal got a follow-up letter, she told media and Stum that it was yet another death threat. In truth, it was the opposite: It was “War Pig,” writing from Oakland, apologizing to Dolezal for “causing her worry, concerns, and grief.”

“Every single one of them that she received, she represented as a clear threat to her and to her organization,” Stum says. “The best thing we can do is to call it as what it is. And that is a lie.”

BOILING POINTS

Suspicions regarding Rachel Dolezal had simmered for years. But they came to a boil in an instant.

Anonymous commentators on the Spokesman-Review, Boise Weekly and Coeur d’Alene Press websites had been sounding the alarm as long as five years ago that Dolezal was a “bona fide white woman” and that “people who have known Rachel for years do not like seeing her fraudulently passing herself off as ‘black’ for the sake of ‘the cause.’” The comments were usually surrounded by blatant racism, making them easy to dismiss as lunacy.

But her hate crime claims sent the local media digging deeper. Last week, at least four Spokane media outlets — the Coeur d’Alene Press, the Spokesman-Review, KXLY and the Inlander — were separately digging into Dolezal before the story broke. (In the case of the Inlander, reporters requested police records related to all Spokane police reports involving Dolezal on March 5, and again on June 2.)

Spokesman columnist Shawn Vestal says rumblings of a private investigator digging into Dolezal sped up his own reporting. “It made me take the identity question seriously,” Vestal says.

KXLY’s Melissa Luck says she got wind of the oncoming Coeur d’Alene Press story and preempted it with a story on Dolezal’s suspicious hate crime claims.

But it was the Coeur d’Alene Press that had the bombshell exposé: They had the interview with her estranged biological parents, both white. They had her birth certificate. And they had her childhood photos: Dolezal’s freckled skin was pale as snow. Her eyes were blue. Her hair was blonde. There wasn’t any doubt: She looked white.

And no, her dad wasn’t black former Marine Corps veteran Albert Wilkerson Jr., as she told City Councilman Jon Snyder, Idaho Rep. Paulette Jordan and countless others. No, Izaiah Dolezal wasn’t her son — he was her adopted brother. No, Jesus Christ wasn’t listed as the

FROM LEFT: Rachel Dolezal, filming an introduction video to the NAACP’s Moral Mondays discussion series in May; at a Ferguson solidarity rally in November; Dolezal pictured in her youth. witness on her birth certificate, as she’d told a reporter for EWU’s paper, the Easterner. And no, her real parents said, she wasn’t born in a teepee or used a bow and arrow to hunt her own food, and was never beaten with “baboon whips.”

The story her parents told to countless outlets was a complicated one: They’d adopted four black children.

Dolezal had received her master’s degree from historically black Howard University — but only began changing her appearance to appear black around 2006 and 2007.

One of her adopted brothers later claimed Dolezal had told him to keep quiet, for fear of blowing her cover.

“You know, when they’re using a false premise to achieve greatness and power, I think it’s our job as watchdogs to point that out,” Coeur d’Alene Press reporter Jeff Selle said in an interview with KXLY. Others in the media, however, have paused, reflecting on whether they could have done better. In Vestal’s case, there’s a March 3 front-page feature he wrote titled “NAACP leader confronts hate with confidence,” next to a picture of Dolezal holding a .44 caliber revolver.

“I feel responsible for having perpetrated some of this stuff without skepticism,” Vestal says. “I spent all day Friday writing a piece that I killed. I can’t get my headspace straight on this story.”

FEEDING FRENZIES

The ingredients for a social media firestorm were all there: It was instant fodder for outrage, mockery and astonishment. It got at the explosive core of America’s most controversial issues. Liberals latched onto it with outrage — here was the ultimate form of racial appropriation.

Conservatives cackled with glee: If you could redefine your gender with just a word, why not your race?

And so came thousands of “Orange is the New Black” jokes and Caitlyn Jenner photoshops and memes with Robert Downey Jr.’s blackface character from Tropic Thunder. A picture of the Scooby Doo gang pulling off a Dolezal mask to reveal a white girl underneath blasted

across the Internet. Twitter users mistook satirical accounts for genuine reactions and shared photoshopped pictures as if they were real. Those uneasy with the Internet mob, and those worried that more important stories were being drowned out, were ultimately overwhelmed by the Internet mob.

“This #RachelDolezal mess ain’t nothing new to us Native Americans,” locally born author Sherman Alexie quipped. “There are tons of fake Indians out there. Some of them are famous.”

Jon Stewart led the Daily Show with the story on Monday: “Whaaaat? That’s crazy. There’s an NAACP chapter in Spokane?” A half-hour later, Larry Wilmore quipped on the Nightly Show that KXLY should have asked Dolezal: “A boat is leaving from Africa — were your ancestors below deck or above deck?”

Bloomberg columnist Dave Weigel, meanwhile, called her a “bizarre scammer” but also “manna from heaven for thinkpiece writers.”

Indeed, the thinkpieces rained down from outlets like Buzzfeed, Jezebel, Slate and The New Yorker. It was a brutal reversal: Dolezal had once regularly opined on why certain actions were racially “problematic,” and now she was the one being hammered internationally with same sort of critique.

Soon, national reporters began to turn up darker corners with uglier stories. The conflict between Dolezal and her family had been brewing for years, and it was getting worse. Dolezal’s biological brother Joshua, an Iowa English professor, had been accused of sexual assault. His trial begins in August, and suddenly it had been thrust into the national spotlight.

The richest irony came from the Smoking Gun website: They revealed that Dolezal had unsuccessfully tried to sue Howard University for discrimination when she didn’t get a job she felt she was owed.

But back then, it was because she was a pregnant white woman.

INTEGRITY VS. CELEBRITY Plenty of people across the world were angry at Dolezal, despite never having met her. But many of the people who had trusted her were feeling something different.

Della Montgomery-Riggins had marched beside Dolezal in the anti-hate-crime rally.

“I’m a light-skinned African American woman. And I’ve had real experiences. I’ve had part of my past I’d love to lie away. So is that acceptable?” MontgomeryRiggins says. “I feel betrayed. I feel ultimately betrayed.”

Before Dolezal resigned, NAACP member Kitara Johnson gathered signatures for a petition, “It’s not about race, It’s about integrity!” to get Dolezal to take a leave of absence. Johnson and a small crowd of about two dozen others showed up outside the NAACP office on Monday.

Before a line of TV cameras, they held signs and chanted “Integrity Matters!”

Dolezal herself was nowhere to be seen: She was on a plane, flying first class to New York.

Dolezal hasn’t returned phone calls, emails or Facebook chat messages from the Inlander. She told KREM, “It’s more important to clarify [her race] with the black community and with my executive board, than it really is to explain it to a community that, quite frankly, I don’t think really understands the definitions of race and ethnicity.”

But it wasn’t the black community that she answered questions from first. It was the Today show’s lily-white Matt Lauer.

“You’ve had a busy week,” Lauer began. “You’ve started a discussion on race and what it means in this country.”

And Dolezal — still with darker skin and black hair — gave a warm smile. “I identify as black,” she said, drawing from the language of gender identity. Her identity started at 5, she said, telling Lauer that she was drawing self-portraits of her very pale self with a brown crayon. ...continued on next page

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Rachel Dolezal at a local MLK rally in January of this year.

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(Her parents deny this.) She brushed off claims that she’s intentionally darkened her complexion, saying, “I certainly don’t stay out of the sun.”

Lauer didn’t question the hate crimes. He still referred to Dolezal’s biological brother as one of her sons. And Dolezal objected to characterizations that she deceived anyone. She said she just didn’t correct local media outlets’ characterizations of her race.

In response, Lauer didn’t point to her Inlander column from March where she repeatedly uses “we” and “our” to refer to black women, nor the ombudsman commission application where she explicitly marks “Black/African-American” as part of her “Ethnic Origin,” nor the KREM interview a few days earlier where she said, “Yes, I do consider myself to be black.”

Dolezal apologizes for nothing. And she notes that — although the conversation has been ugly at times — “the discussion is really about what it means to be human.” And then her 10 minutes were up, and the Today show moved on to talk about hurricanes and why your dog might ignore people who are mean to you.

No word yet on what fame may yield for Dolezal, though Variety declares: “Let there be no doubt that the Rachel Dolezal story will be told

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The night before Dolezal’s interview, NAACP members gathered behind the Saranac Public House to have their own discussion on what it means to be human.

The local NAACP meeting Monday night had been canceled, apparently by orders, without explanation, from the national and regional NAACP. But a crowd of 20 members came anyway. Sandra Williams, of the Washington State Commission on African American Affairs, anticipated it.

“Before you can get to solutions, you need to let people express what they’re feeling,” Williams says. “And there has not been an opportunity.”

So she led the crowd to the patio behind the Saranac to do just that. Amid the chaos, Williams worries that “the voices of the people that are in

the room are being lost.”

As the sun set, they sat on metal chairs and retaining-wall bricks, without international news cameras or satellite uplink trucks, and they talked and listened. They argued and yelled and asked for calm. Some were angry or defensive or felt depressed or betrayed. Some speakers veered off on long tangents, plumbing the history of Spokane civil rights setbacks or debating the history of blackface. They complained about their frustrations with the media, with politicians, with local, age-old NAACP wounds.

And yes, they talked about Dolezal. Bob Lloyd, a longtime NAACP figure, praised the way she reorganized the local NAACP chapter, lighting a fire under an organization that had long seemed complacent. For years, the NAACP struggled to bring college students to attend its meetings, but Dolezal brought them from North Idaho College, Whitworth and Eastern Washington University. Members of white progressive groups started coming, too. While some black ministers stopped attending NAACP meetings when Dolezal became president, Lloyd says Dolezal responded deftly.

“She began to organize NAACP ministers to visit their churches on Sunday,” Lloyd says.

“That’s a good thing!”

But there was another side. Set aside her hate crime claims and her skin color: Dolezal’s brash leadership style resulted in serious controversy wherever she went. That was true on the ombudsman commission, where Dolezal was among the targets of a recent 101-page whistleblower complaint from another commission member.

And it was true at the NAACP: Describing her as insulting and insincere, Tia Griffin says she warned NAACP leadership about Dolezal’s style.

“It was just cold,” she says. “I said she didn’t care about the community.” She sees the scandal as vindication for her intuition.

At the end of the night, everyone seemed to take a deep breath. Williams got the sense that, despite the still-raw feelings, rebuilding had begun. “People on polar-opposite ends ended up walking out together,” she says. n danielw@inlander.com

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ust hours in, some of the booths were nearly bare.

By any expectations, the inaugural Bazaar — a one-day arts market spun off from its sister event, Terrain — was an unprecedented success. During its 11-hour span last June, an estimated 8,000 people poured nearly $36,000 into the local arts economy, buying handmade goods from close to 50 artisans who showcased their work in stalls built from rustic, recycled shipping pallets.

Bazaar makes its anticipated return this Saturday, with 56 vendors coming together for a street art fair on a strip of North Post Street between Riverfront Park and

Spokane City Hall. After its initial success, organizers are introducing many new features, including family-geared live entertainment on a second stage in addition to the allday live music, and more artist vendors at an improved downtown location. There’s a beer garden near City Hall, and a few local food trucks will partner for “Brunch at Bazaar” from 11 am to 2 pm.

While many of its first-year artists are back for more, Bazaar organizer/co-founder Ginger Ewing says more than two-thirds of the artists selling their work are new to the event.

“Last year was a pilot and we were going to see if this event works,” Ewing says. “If not, we thought we might not do it again, but it worked so well we have no choice, which is great.”

For many of the regional artists who sold at the debut event, like jewelry and metal artist Alycia Staggs, there was no hesitation to apply again.

“It definitely exceeded my expectations,” Staggs says, adding that she sold as much jewelry during Bazaar’s one day as she usually does online in the month leading up to ...continued on next page Christmas.

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Water Monster at last year’s event. MATT WEIGAND PHOTO ABOVE: Aaron Abolofia of Tiny Mammoth Ink, left, sits with friend Melissa Estma and dog Lola at 2014’s Bazaar, which resulted in about $36,000 in art sales. MATT WEIGAND PHOTOS

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From the popular clothing and accessories of The Great PNW to the sassy pop-culture prints and greeting cards of Black Sheep Paper Co., Bazaar’s 2015 vendor catalogue on Facebook offers a preview of the diverse mix of goods and art styles to be found.

“We had no idea the following that we had, and the impact we did make — it was unbelievable,” notes local artist/graphic designer Aaron Abolofia, who runs the local arts venture Tiny Mammoth with fellow designer Jon Merrell. “All of our T-shirts sold out and the popular prints were all gone.”

It helped that Tiny Mammoth’s art prints, printed from hand-carved reliefs in wood or linoleum, were priced from $5 to $10. Keeping with that price point, Abolofia says the plan this year is to make sure their inventory is deeper.

“Everyone should be able to own a piece of art,” he says, adding that many of Tiny Mammoth’s patrons last year were first-time art buyers. “One of them was a newlywed couple who had just purchased a home, and they bought dozens of prints because they were able to. They were able to fill the walls of their new home at a reasonable price.”

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local producers is the founders’ primary focus for Bazaar. All participants in the juried event are required to price at least 50 percent of their work at $100 or less.

“We want to create that link between the community of artists and art buyers, and create infrastructure where artists can start to think about making a living doing what they love,” Ewing says. “So for me, if we have sales just as much or hopefully more than last year, I’ll feel really good about that.”

Beyond tallying sales totals from each of the event’s artists, some of Bazaar’s other goals are a little harder to track, like how much, on average, each person who comes through is spending at the event. Social media response to the event at least offered a glimpse of buyers’ reactions, Ewing recalls.

“The thing I tracked last year was monetary goals [people shared], like, ‘I gave myself $100 to spend and look at all the amazing stuff I got,’” she says. n cheys@inlander.com Bazaar 2015 • Sat, June 20, from 11 am-10 pm • Free to attend • 300 N. Post St. (Post and Spokane Falls Blvd.) • bit. ly/Bazaar2015Festivities

ises a heightened musical lineup that rivals its sister event Terrain. Bringing in acts from all over Washington, many of these crowd-pleasing groups should sound familiar to those who’ve attended Volume or a show at the Bartlett in the last couple of years. Starting off with a jolt of hip-hop infusion, the music ranges from passionate singer-songwriters to indie rock. The night closes with local folk favorites Mama Doll (those disappointed by the band’s canceled Volume set should be glad to see them for free here) coming on right before the rambunctious, funky Down North. Out of Seattle, this four-piece is the sort of band that brings a serious party vibe. While lead singer Anthony Briscoe does his best James Brown dance moves, the band plays some of the most insane rhythms and guitar licks you’ve heard in a while.

— LAURA JOHNSON

HERE’S THE WHOLE LINEUP: 11 AM: DB RECORD SELECTOR (SPOKANE) 12:30 PM: DJ BREEZY BROWN (SPOKANE) 2 PM: SILVER TORCHES (SEATTLE) 3 PM: ORPHANS. (BELLINGHAM) 4 PM: CITY HALL (BELLINGHAM) 5 PM: SCOTT RYAN (SPOKANE) 6 PM: WILD WANTS (SEATTLE) 7 PM: FRIENDS OF MINE (SPOKANE) 8 PM: MAMA DOLL (SPOKANE) 9 PM: DOWN NORTH (SEATTLE)

CULTURE | DIGEST

THEATER REASONS TO BE HAPPY

Ryan Shore and Jennie Oliver star in the Modern Theater’s production of Reasons to be Happy. DAN BAUMER PHOTO

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hen The Modern (then Interplayers) first announced that it would be producing Neil LaBute’s Reasons to Be Pretty/Reasons to Be Happy duology, the theater’s intent was to stage the stand-alone plays back-to-back in repertory. The change of ownership resulted in a slight reshuffling of schedules, ultimately leaving a gap of four months between them.

This isn’t the disappointment it seemed at the time. The internal chronology of the plays, written five years apart, puts a roughly three-year spacing between Pretty and Happy. In the interim the characters’ relationships to and with one another have all drifted and rearranged. Jennifer, the baby who complicated the already shaky marriage between Carly (Jennie Oliver) and Kent (Nich Witham) in the previous play, is now a little girl. Her parents, once estranged, are experiencing a tentative rapprochement. Impetuous Steph (Molly Tage) is unhappily married. Greg (Ryan Shore), her ex, has become romantically involved with Carly and found work as a substitute teacher.

And yet some things remain constant: An expletive-heavy argument between Greg and Steph opens this play, too. Here they’re in the parking lot of Trader Joe’s, Greg’s ice cream sandwiches melting, Steph furious over the news that he’s now with Carly. Greg is — at the outset, at least — still a limp milquetoast

to whom life happens, and Kent is still the cocky homophobe and misogynist who only knows expression through sex and violence.

From an audience perspective, the actual time away from these characters has the effect of reinforcing the time that’s passed within the play proper, and in turn the significance of what’s changed and what hasn’t.

Reasons to Be Happy is funnier than its predecessor. Though LaBute, true to form, denies his characters happiness as well as the ability to define the term, his play at least offers the audience ample reasons for laughter. (“White Fang?” Kent sneers at one of Greg’s novels. “I hate that vampire shit.”) The respective strengths of the cast members — all of whom reprise their previous roles, once again under the direction of Dawn Taylor Reinhardt — are as visible as before, only here Shore tends to overdo his agitation to the extent that it’s unclear why Steph and Carly would be tussling over him. Oliver in particular has a remarkable naturalism. That’s offset, unfortunately, by the forced poignancy of the play’s ending and the contrivance it takes to get there.

— E.J. IANNELLI Reasons to Be Happy • Through June 28; Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm • $19 to $25 • The Modern Spokane • 174 S. Howard • the moderntheater.org • 455-PLAY

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BY ERIN ROBINSON

TV | After a year of waiting, the third season of comedy-drama ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK finally returned to Netflix last week. If you’re like me, it’ll only take you two or three days to binge-watch the 13 hour-long episodes; then it’s time for another year of anticipation and waiting.

This Netflix original show follows the life of Piper Chapman, a young New Yorker sentenced to 15 months in a women’s federal prison, as well as many other characters doing time for an array of crimes.

According to creator Jenji Kohan, faith and motherhood are the themes for Season 3, accompanied by a few new characters and plot twists.

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BOOK | Beloved author Judy Blume has done it again with her new novel IN THE UNLIKELY EVENT. Following in the steps of many of her other books, In the Unlikely Event follows the life of a young woman and her community as they cope with grief, explore love, and battle difficulties with friendships — this time, after a series of plane crashes devastate their town.

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Trivia Guru

Colin Burk pays the bills by asking people questions in bars

BY MITCH RYALS

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deep, thick voice booms through a microphone at the dimly lit Press bar every Monday night.

It’s lubricated by ice-cold Coors Light and carries with it the confident experience of world travel and an extensive record collection.

“If you do not have an answer sheet in front of you, you’re one of three people in the bar not playing trivia tonight,” the bearded emcee says. “That means if you know the answers, good for you, you’re very smart, but don’t be a dick… ” “DON’T BE A DICK!” the crowd responds.

“That’s right, don’t be a dick and shout out the answers. You may, however, whisper them into your friend’s ear and giggle quietly at how smart you are.”

Colin Burk never figured his bottomless bank of random trivial knowledge, nor his penchant for world travel, would one day pay his bills and fund his world travel, but when he kept getting requests to host trivia nights around town, he figured, “What the hell?”

“My dad always told me, ‘If you find something you’re good at and you enjoy doing it, you should try and get paid for it,’” Burk says, tipping the Coors Light bottle to his lips. “So that’s what I’m doing.”

He looks a little like the Mariners’ (bearded) Dustin Ackley and has hosted Monday-night trivia at Press for

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three years now. He also runs trivia nights at the Backyard Public House on Tuesdays and the Boiler Room on Wednesdays. Those three gigs, a Sunday-night bingo job at the Backyard and a few hours a week serving tables pay the bills and then some. Plus he gets free drinks while he’s working, which isn’t bad.

“Our first category of the night is News,” Burk announces, much to the D I S T I L L E D delight of the group of Spokesman-Review staffers A SHOT OF LIFE huddled near the door.

“And the first question: What is the slogan for Fox News?”

“The only news station worth watching,” he adds. A low chuckle rumbles throughout the bar.

The Fox News slogan question is followed by “What is Superman’s paper called?” “Name the artist whose song begins ‘I read the news today, oh boy… ’” and an obligatory Anchorman question. (Fox News’ slogan is “Fair and Balanced,” by the way.)

Burk began his foray into trivia hosting three years ago, when a friend recommended him for the job because of his “endless plethora of useless knowledge.” Since he took over, the popularity has grown. Wednesday nights at the Boiler Room typically draw anywhere from 10 to

17 teams. The turnout at Press varies, but Burk has seen as many as 20 teams in the summer — so many that they spill out onto the patio.

He credits his popularity to the element of entertainment he brings to the evening, sort of like an edgy game-show host who curses and drinks beer. Instead of reading questions Jeopardy-style all night, he mixes in little mini games. The team who comes up with the best name, for example, wins a free pitcher of beer. The catch is that all the names have to be related to a theme. Winners are the ones who can cleverly weave in a reference to genitalia.

Dick jokes for the sake of dick jokes are just tasteless.

A recent theme was Seattle, Boston or New York baseball teams. With names like A-Rod, Big Papi and Bill Buckner, you can imagine the possibilities.

His reputation has earned him some private gigs as well. He’s designed personal trivia nights for Christmas parties and even an 18-year-old’s birthday party, which was a little more difficult for the 33-year-old.

“I’m like, f---, dude, I have no idea what 18-year-old kids are into, so it was a lot of questions about Transformers, EDM music,” he says. “I just know they have an unquenchable thirst for dogshit, so I kind of played to that.”

These days, Burk is happy asking people questions in bars, and making fun of the 21-year-olds who’ve never heard of the movie Top Gun or the Beatles. Eventually he might turn his library of frivolous information into a business, similar to trivia outfits around the country including Geeks Who Drink and Brainstormer.com. But for now, he’s more excited about his upcoming trip to South America.

“I thought I was done being Peter Pan, being the lost boy,” he says. “But I think I’m gonna have to have one last hurrah.”  mitchr@inlander.com

CULTURE | VISUAL ARTS

Community Commemoration An installation artist invites you to revisit one of the region’s most gruesome pieces of history

BY MIKE BOOKEY

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n September 9, 1858, U.S. Army troops rounded up between 800 and 1,000 horses (accounts vary on the actual number) from the herd of a Palouse chief and, under orders from Col. George Wright, slaughtered the animals on the banks of the Spokane River. The act, meant to intimidate the Palouse, Spokane, Yakama and Coeur d’Alene tribes, who had been battling with Army troops in the months prior, was not only a symbolic takedown of the tribes’ stature that would endure for generations, but also resulted in starvation among native people the following winter.

It’s one of those stories you’d think lifelong Spokane residents would know, but that’s hardly the case. There actually was a monument erected in 1946 at the site of the slaughter near Liberty Lake, but the words on the stone obelisk justify Wright’s decision as a necessary and heroic one.

Beginning this weekend, residents will get a lesson in this sad history with the 900 Horses interactive chalk mural project in downtown Spokane. Seattle-based installation artist Ryan Feddersen, a member of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, is inviting the public to color in stencils of horses at the Tribal Gathering Place above Huntington Park, commemorating the event through public art.

“I consider a lot of my work to be an invitation to look at the way we think about society and culture. For me, this is related to my perspective as a contemporary indigenous person and as a mixed-race person,” she says. “I’m also interested in the way that we look at the rules of war.”

After Spokane Arts approached Feddersen about creating a chalk mural in downtown Spokane, she turned to her husband, a historian, who told her about the horse slaughter as a possible topic for the installation. Growing up in Wenatchee as a self-described “mixed-race city Indian,” Feddersen nevertheless had no knowledge of Wright’s conquest through Eastern Washington.

“I wasn’t aware of it. My father was very much aware of it, but it wasn’t part of a narrative that had reached me,” she says, adding that the slaughter came to be a symbol of oppression and angst among the region’s native people that, in some respects, still endures.

Feddersen’s other installation pieces have often been interactive, in that the public can actually contribute to the artwork. In this case, she’s making seven different stencils of horses, totaling 900 in all (she split the difference of the reported

George Wright totals) that the public will then have the opportunity to color with liquid chalk somewhere on the 2,000-square-foot Tribal Gathering Place. During appropriate times beginning on Saturday, Feddersen will curate the placement and also provide literature regarding the history behind the exhibit. The exhibit should get some heavy traffic, considering it’s taking place alongside Bazaar the first weekend and Hoopfest the second weekend.

“I wanted to find a way to give back to the community, and provide an art experience that was at no cost, that had some content that people could chew on,” says Laura Becker, the executive director of Spokane Arts. “I kind of want to just plant the seed and start thinking about how to be engaged in arts to Spokane.”

Given that it’s done in chalk, the mural isn’t permanent — with no rain it will last a few weeks, but a torrential downpour would pretty much wash it out — but Becker has plans to document the exhibit, including a time-lapse video to be created by local photographer Dean Davis, as well as Feddersen’s own social media postings.

She hopes that, in the end, this piece of history will be told a little differently than it is on that monument outside of town.

“Making the horses by myself wouldn’t have the content from the community or the same energy,” says Feddersen. “When you work on a subject, it’s a meditation, and I want to invite people to think about [the horse slaughter] and engage on a personal level.” n

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THE ULTIMATE PUB DOG • The Rookie Runt Dog • Waddell’s Pub and Grill, 4318 S. Regal • $9.95 • Toppings: Chopped jalapeños, cheddar and pepper jack cheese, bacon, grilled ham, housemade sauce, onion rings The toppings you’ll find on the Rookie Runt Dog at Waddell’s are the stuff that go well with beer (and pants with an elastic waistband). Not only is it crowned with bacon, there’s also grilled ham tucked beneath the juicy Nathan’s frank that anchors this monstrosity and two different types of cheese. The guys behind the bar say it’s one of the most-ordered dogs on the pub’s extensive list of elaborately adorned franks. You might be thinking that spending 10 bucks on a hot dog is a little much, but once you hold this thing in your hands, the weight alone will let you know that the money was well spent. One tip: Beware of the chopped jalapeños, especially if you’re eating it with bare hands (wear your favorite “hot dog gloves”), because that nose wipe a few minutes following completion of this thing will leave your face on fire.

— MIKE BOOKEY

In Search Of...

When did the phrase “hot dog” come to mean so many different things?

BY INLANDER STAFF

T THE INDULGENCE • I  Spokane • Wild Dawgs, 102 N. Howard • $7 • Toppings: cream cheese, grilled onions, mushrooms, bacon, ketchup, dip sauce, pineapple sauce, mozzarella, potato chip crumbles One thing’s obvious: this dog has a lot going on. With the most toppings/ condiments of any option on this downtown Spokane hot dog shop’s menu, a fork and knife are necessary. Wild Dawgs’ staff is so unfazed by this need, they offer utensils without asking. Though it seems lost — buried under the deliciously savory, sweet, salty and tangy flavors of all those toppings — there really is a classic beef hot dog buried in that bun (sausage or veggie dogs can be swapped in for $1). Wild Dawgs also understands that any dog this loaded needs a sturdy bun to cradle all that flavor. These large, sub sandwich-style buns are toasted to perfection, and all dogs are served with a generous handful of Lay’s classic potato chips.

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he hot dog is cool again, and it has been for quite some time.

As a country, we bought $2.5 billion worth of hot dogs last year, according to the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council (no word on if they’re currently hiring) and there’s no sign that we’re easing up. And on a culinary level, this is somewhat surprising, considering that hot dogs aren’t the most pleasantly constructed meat delivery system. Apparently, though, we’re willfully forgoing such concerns and letting the hot dog into our lives.

And with the trend hitting restaurants across the country for the past five years or so, a bun and a boiled frank topped with mustard, relish and ketchup is not the limit of the hot dog. We were quick to learn this when we set out to investigate the scope of Spokane’s hot dog options.

For the purists, there remain the simple hot dog carts and ballpark options that rely more on tradition than reinvention. On the other hand, there are a few places in town that will put enough ancillary items atop your dog that you’ll forget it’s even a hot dog in the first place.

So for our latest In Search Of feature, we went between the buns (get your head out of the gutter) to see just how far this collective hot dog obsession has gone. Some of what we found might shock you. 

THE STREET DOG •Big Dog • D&D Hot Dogs, 1026 W. Broadway • $4 • Toppings: mustard, onions Doug Bickford has every topping imaginable to make you one of his specialty dogs like the Mr. T (a burger/hot dog combo) or Big Dog Cheese (a quarter-pound dog slathered in cream cheese and freshly grated Tillamook cheddar). But when I want a quality street-cart hot dog, I keep it simple — two toppings, no more. At Bickford’s cart, the dogs get steamed first, and then hit a hot grill for a few seconds before being nestled in a soft bun. Slathered with onions and yellow mustard, the quarter-pound all-beef dog attains its perfect iteration, not hiding under a pile of toppings, and not naked, either.

— DAN NAILEN

BACON LOVER’S DELIGHT • The Bacon Wrapped Dog • Big Red’s, Parking lot at the corner of West Sunset Boulevard and South Government Way • $6.50 • Toppings: Bacon, grilled onions, barbecue sauce, cream cheese People working at Big Red’s cramped food truck will hand you a tall stack of napkins to go along with this monstrosity; you’ll need them all. Even if you eat it with a knife and fork, expect the sauces and juicy Chicago-made hot dog goodness to make a mess of your hands, arms and face — but your mouth won’t complain about the indulgence. The hot dog is at least a foot long (I could only eat half of it in one sitting) and despite its unusual combination of toppings, the extra-crispy, thick bacon brings the sweet, savory and salty flavors together. This is a must-try for anyone who still worships at the alter of all things bacon.

— LAURA JOHNSON

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Caruso’s Jay Jordan and Vince Caruso celebrate the opening with a cold beer and the Tuscan pizza. MEGHAN KIRK PHOTO

Another Option

Caruso’s expands its reach to Spokane with a new location

BY FRANNY WRIGHT

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ooths lining the back walls, rows of tall tables taking up a majority of the indoor floor space and umbrella-covered tables on the patio surrounding an elevated fire pit are filled with people excitedly reaching onto each other’s plates to try bites of different pizza slices.

After working on a rebranding for the past two years, Caruso’s has expanded from Spokane Valley and Coeur d’Alene to its new location in a renovated pocket of downtown Spokane’s U District.

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Caruso’s manager Jay Jordan describes this expansion as a way to come together with GVD Commercial Properties, the owner of the new Ruby Suites hotel (formerly the Burgan’s Furniture building) that houses Caruso’s, to offer quality food — fresh salads, pasta, sandwiches and pizza — to more people. All of their bread is baked fresh daily and their dough is hand-tossed.

Mozzarella, provolone, chicken breast, bacon, Roma tomatoes and avocado on

an olive oil base drizzled with basil pesto sauce all come together to create their Tuscan pie, one of the most popular items on the menu.

When designing the layout of the new location, transparency was a major focus. “What we do will be visible to the customers,” says Jordan. “We want to let them craft their own food and watch us build it.”

The tables where the salads, pasta and sandwiches are made have been turned

around to face the customers, and the pizzas are topped in front of them — even on one of Caruso’s signature pies — before being popped into the ovens.

“Our food travels well, so it can be delivered and is also available for pick-up, not to mention that we also cater,” says Jordan.

Jordan believes this new location is unique because it’s at the cross-section of many demographics, providing space to host big events, gather for game days, or bring the family.

“And guess what. There are no meters,” he says. A parking lot, along with free street parking, allows customers to quickly stop in for a bite or stay and enjoy their food for a while without worrying about getting a ticket, or needing to add more change to the meter.  Caruso’s Sandwiches and Artisan Pizza • 1120 N. Division • Open Sun-Thu, 10 am-10 pm; Fri-Sat, 10am-midnight • carusosandco.com • 868-0585

FOOD | OPENING

FIND THE HAPPY HOUR NEAREST YOU. The Gastro Burger at Timber. CARRIE SCOZZARO PHOTO

New Growth History is served with beer at Timber Gastro Pub in Post Falls

BY CARRIE SCOZZARO

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imber Gastro Pub joins a bevy of places honoring early Inland Northwest history in a big way with a prime location, top-notch design and a well-versed restaurant team.

Located in the former Hot Rod Cafe, Timber is highly visible and easily accessible from Highway 90 in Post Falls, which gets a new Greensferry Road freeway exit later this year. At 7,500 square feet, the place could seem cavernous, save the redesign

by HDG Hissong + Hurtado Design Group of Spokane, which reapportioned the space into smaller seating areas of high-tops and booths. Their trademark is blending chic, urban industrial and rustic design elements, along the lines of two other North Idaho restaurant projects, Fire Artisan Pizza and Crafted Tap House + Kitchen.

There are grainy, oversized, sepia-toned images of rugged logging operations and rough-cut wood slats on the walls, but also linen napkins and serve-yourself bottles of water on the tables.

While servers might be a little too cute in their red suspenders and jeans, there are plenty of them, and the emphasis on fast, friendly and flexible service is duly noted.

Service is a critical component to running a successful restaurant. That comes from experience, which owners Bill Miller and Randy Ingraham — of Spokane restaurants Longhorn BBQ and Maggie’s South Hill Grill — have in abundance.

The menu, designed by executive chef Jeff Chatigny, is an extension of the level of detail throughout Timber. The Steak House burger ($13.95) with crispy onion, blue cheese and housemade pickles is a mix of pork belly and Angus beef. Pizza is wood-fired to order, ranging from simple margherita ($11.95) to the Hawaiian-inspired Da Kine ($13.95) with Spam, kalua pork, and diced mango and pineapple.

The bar menu ranges from custom, logging-themed cocktails like the Old Growth ($7.50) with huckleberry vodka to 16 rotating, regional taps like MickDuff’s Knot Tree Porter ($5) out of Sandpoint or Timber House, a Scottish-style ale brewed especially for Timber by Spokane-based Waddell’s Neighborhood Pub & Grille. n Timber Gastro Pub • 1610 E. Schneidmiller Dr., Post Falls • Open Sun-Thu, 11 am-9 pm; Fri-Sat, 11 am-10 pm • facebook. com/timbergastropub • 208-262-9593

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ust in time for the summer tourist season, the Lake City’s most authentic lakeside dining experience — because it’s literally floating on the water — has debuted an entirely new outdoor deck to allow for yearround, open-air dining. The year-round element comes into play with heating options and enclosures to protect diners from the weather during the cooler months.

“We’re very thrilled,” says restaurant manager Lynette Baskins. “It’s the perfect place for celebrations of all kinds.”

To celebrate the 50-year-old waterfront restaurant’s

new feature, the Cedars is hosting a 3 pm daily happy hour through all of July and August. Besides the new deck, the restaurant also has spruced up its popular salad bar, upping the number of toppings and ingredients to 40 items.

Because these changes are bound to bring diners both new and faithful into the establishment, the Cedars also added more parking spots in its lot. The restaurant begins serving dinner daily at 4 pm.

— CHEY SCOTT

FOOD | SAMPLER

SEAFOOD ANTHONY’S BEACH CAFÉ 2912 E. Palouse Hwy. | 448-0668 In a corner of the South Hill Regal Plaza where the new Target went up, Anthony’s Beach Café opened its doors at the end of October. It’s part of a family of Anthony’s restaurants that originated in Bellevue in 1969 and now have locations throughout the Pacific Northwest, each falling into one of three categories: dinner houses, casual dining and to-go fishand-chip bars. Anthony’s at the Falls lands in the fine dining group; Anthony’s Beach Café is in the middle as a casual, sit-down restaurant.

CLINKERDAGGER 621 W. Mallon | 328-5965 With excellent food, service and view of the river, Clinkerdagger sets the standard for reliable fine dining in Spokane. The restaurant’s pea salad and rock salt prime rib have become beloved favorites since the restaurant opened during Expo ’74. Want to try something new? Order off the seasonal menu, featuring fresh and locally grown ingredients.

HAY J’S BISTRO 21706 E. Mission Ave. | Liberty Lake 926-2310 The blocky strip-mall exterior — and book-cover first impressions — are immediately overturned the second you open the door. Inside, Hay J’s Bistro is pure class, with candle flames flickering atop wine bottles at the tables, and metallic vine sculptures wrapping around wine bottles on the walls. With a wine list boasting 100 choices, and a wine bar next door, the selection manages to live up to the hype set by the décor.

The relatively pricey menu boasts steaks, tapas, burgers, pastas and risottos — but seafood remains the most popular genre.

back to Hill’s — their breakfast, available on their recently enlarged deck overlooking the lake, is just as good as dinner.

HILL’S RESORT 4777 W. Lakeshore Rd. | Priest Lake, Idaho 208-443-2551 Housed in a rustic yet upscale lodge overlooking Luby Bay on Priest Lake, Hill’s Resort’s restaurant boasts a menu of Northwest standards, including fresh seafood, steaks and their signature baby back pork ribs. In addition to creative seafood options you can choose from while sipping on a specialty cocktail from the bar. When you wake up in the morning, you might as well come

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Emotions come to life in Inside Out. are manifested as floating mini-cities, while imagination, nightmares and lost memories take on equally fascinating forms. It’s an animator’s dream to create an entire universe from scratch, and Inside Out does so with creativity that pops with its own perfect internal logic.

Yet as terrific a technical achievement as Inside Out might be, it’s an even better piece of writing. Throughout his Pixar films — which also include Monsters, Inc. and Up — Docter has shown himself to be deeply connected to parental relationships, and the evolving emotional needs of children as they grow. Here, he’s wrestling with something that on its surface would seem to be too much of a all is an emotional “control room,” with physical manidowner for an ostensibly “family” film: How do parents festations of those emotions responding to the things that deal with the reality of their carefree child transitioning push our metaphorical buttons by pushing literal buttons. into the more complicated emotional life of an adolesFor an 11-year-old girl named Riley (Kaitcent? With Joy serving as the parental lyn Dias) whose parents (Kyle MacLachlan surrogate in this case, Inside Out hits some INSIDE OUT and Diane Lane) have just moved from of the same wrenching notes that Toy Story Rated PG Minnesota to San Francisco, those emo3 did in touching on transitional moments Directed by Pete Docter and tions take the form of Joy (Amy Poehler), when a mother or father has to let go of a Ronaldo Del Carmen Sadness (Phyllis Smith), Fear (Bill Hader), child as they used to know them, in order Starring Amy Poehler, Phyllis Disgust (Mindy Kaling) and Anger (Lewis to make way for the adult they’ll eventuSmith, Bill Hader, Lewis Black Black). As Riley struggles with adjusting to ally become. her new home and new surroundings, Joy There’s plenty of fun to be found and Sadness inadvertently wind up whisked away to the in the characters and voice performances — including far reaches of Riley’s subconscious, trying to preserve the Richard Kind as Riley’s imaginary friend Bing Bong, happiness of Riley’s “core memories” and make their way a pink elephant — plus a bunch of hilarious postscript back to headquarters. material that expands the “brain control room concept” The fanciful scenario — while something that’s been to several other characters from the film. But whatever an idea in everything from Woody Allen’s Everything Inside Out offers to kids — and is promising in commercials You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to aimed squarely at the grade-school crowd — is nothing Ask) to Herman’s Head — allows Docter and company to compared to what the Pixar films continue to deliver for craft a fantastically detailed world inside Riley’s brain. adults, in storytelling that nails some of the most defining, Memories are stored in the form of brightly colored balls lump-in-the-throat moments of human experience. Those that race along shiny tracks, with cleanup crews amuscommercials might get the kids to nag parents into a visit ingly doing the work of weeding out stuff we all know to the theater, where those parents might be startled to we’ll never remember. The core memories themselves discover a movie that’s really all about them. n

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f there’s anything we should realize by now about the way Disney markets its animated films — whether from Disney Animation Studios or Pixar — it’s that there’s simply no way to know from the advertising what these films are actually about.

Brave’s advertising played up the comic relief from the mischievous triplets, completely hiding the fact that the central story was about a complex mother-daughter relationship. Frozen’s marketing campaign emphasized Olaf the snowman and the playful reindeer, again hiding the centrality of the female protagonists. And Big Hero 6 kept the focus on gentle robot Baymax, burying the grief and anger of main character Hiro. There’s what a movie is, and there’s what a movie sells, and if you don’t realize that Disney is remarkably — perhaps even cynically — savvy about such matters, you’re gonna be in for some big surprises.

That preface is crucial for any adult considering seeing Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out, and basing that decision on what they see in commercials. While the brightly colored central characters and high-concept premise might suggest a simplistic, gag-filled story, you have no idea of the emotional complexity director Pete Docter has packed into this terrific adventure.

That high concept is indeed easy to distill: Inside us

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In a dramedy made for those of a certain age, widowed Carol (Blythe Danner) has begun to feel lonely and depressed. Her friends (June Squibb, Rhea Perlman and Mary Kay Place) attempt to help her find some love and joy. After many awkward encounters, she meets the charismatic, affluent Bill (Sam Elliott) and goes on a date with him. This Sundance Official Selection teaches about life, love and loss. (MS) Rated PG-13

DOPE

In Sundance star Dope, a brilliant young African-American man, Malcolm (Shameik Moore), lives in a rough neighborhood of Los Angeles.

He tries to stay out of trouble – he wants to make it into Harvard – and spends his time worshipping ’90s hip hop and playing in a punk band with his friends. However, unlikely happenings find him and his friends in the world of drugs and gangs they had avoided thus far. (MS) Rated R

INSIDE OUT

Pixar’s newest film (following 2013’s Monsters University) is a major “emotion” picture — it’s about how choices between conflicting emotions drive the life of a Minnesota family. Young Riley (Kaitlyn Dias) and her parents (Diane Lane and Kyle MacLachlan) struggle with joy, sadness, fear, anger and disgust — that’s Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith, Bill Hader, Lewis Black and Mindy Kaling, respectively — and the personified emotions create their own problems inside Riley’s head.

(MS) Rated PG

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If that lengthy title didn’t tell you enough, this Swedish film is about a man who celebrates his 100th birthday by escaping from a nursing home. He’s been cooped up in there, but is used to the colorful life he once had, so goes on the run and gets in all sorts of hijinks. At Magic Lantern (MB) Rated R

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the while trying to make sense of his tumultuous yet successful life. If those names don’t do it for you, take a taste of the rest of the cast: John Krasinski, Alec Baldwin, Danny McBride and …

Bill Murray. Yes, Bill Murray. Rated PG13 (MB)

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

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

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The bros from the HBO series are back and as bro-y as ever, bro. The film begins with Vincent Chase (Adrian Grenier) partying with a bunch of hot people in Ibiza and then he finds out he might do a remake of Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde and he’s all like “Yo, Ari? Am I gonna do the movie?” and the Turtle is like, “Yo, is Vince gonna do the movie?” Add in some gay jokes and glamorization of Hollywood’s worst parts and apparently you have something that looks like a movie. (SR) Rated R

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JURASSIC WORLD

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

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

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

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Chris Stamp and Kit Lambert were friends and aspiring filmmakers in early ’60s England who, in their effort to make a documentary about a young rock band, found themselves in the unlikely position of managing one of the groups they scouted for their film — the Who. This doc tracks their friendship and role in the band’s rise to stardom through the duo’s never-seen film clips, vibrant music performances and interviews with the men and the band. (DN) Rated R

LOVE & MERCY

This rock biopic about the life of Brian Wilson is an insightful look at two periods of the surfer boy’s life. In the midto-late-’60s segments, when Wilson was at his songwriting and producing peak as the creative genius behind the Beach Boys, he’s played by Paul Dano.

In the parts set in the 1980s, Wilson, played by John Cusack, is now a drugaddled, empty shell of a man, under the “care” of psychologist Eugene Landy (Paul Giamatti), a short-tempered, delusional sociopath who seems to thrive only when he has total control over other people. Somehow, it all works.

(ES) Rated PG-13

MAD MAX: FURY ROAD

Fury Road is astonishing in a way that makes you feel like you haven’t seen a true action movie in a while, underscoring how sterile the genre has been. Warlord Immortan Joe (Hugh Keays-Byrne) thinks he’s sending his trusted Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron) on a mission to bring back fuel from Gas Town to the Citadel he rules with an iron fist, but she’s got a secret mission of her own: to free the enslaved “breeders” of Joe’s children and bring them to the Green Place far away that she remembers from her own childhood. (MJ) Rated R

Three years ago, Pitch Perfect took Glee’s a cappella craze to college. Naturally, a second film had to be made.

All the favorite characters are back: Anna Kendrick as Beca the unlikely choirgirl, Rebel Wilson as Fat Amy and Elizabeth Banks as one of the worst commentators ever. This time around, the Barden Bellas are at the top of the collegiate a cappella world. But when a concert — in front of the president, no less — goes awry, they must clear their good name by entering in an international voice competition that no American team has ever won. (LJ) Rated PG-13

SAN ANDREAS

The big one finally hits the West Coast, and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson zips around in his rescue chopper trying to save his family as buildings tumble and oceans rise. But he’s not really the star of this big-budget disaster movie.

Top billing should go to the visual effects wizards who make it all so excitingly, frighteningly real. Audiences will squirm and scream and even forgive the filmmakers for the regular doses of cheesy, clichéd drama. Oddly, when it’s over, and millions of people have been killed, you will have had scads of fun. (ES) Rated PG-13

SPY

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

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“All right, No. 1,” Christan Raxter and Steve Ridler call out from behind their opposite grand pianos. The first hoppedup contestant steps forward, swivels 180 degrees and moves her buns to the jazzy music. The liquored-up audience claps and hollers. As the ladies each take a turn in the spotlight, the crowd’s cheers decide who stays and who goes.

The booty shake-off contest, often featuring birthday gals and brides-to-be, is a taste of what happens at the Ridler Piano Bar, especially after midnight. That’s when the piano duo’s cover songs may include a couple expletives. But for the bulk of the night, depending on the audience, expect more classics like Frank Sinatra and, of course, “Piano Man.” “I’m here to encourage the rowdy but I don’t like the vulgar,” Ridler says. “We realize this isn’t church, but you have to have standards.”

After purchasing Gibliano Brothers Dueling Piano Bar in February, this space now belongs to Ridler and his daughter Emily. He says he wanted to buy the bar for his family.

“Where else was I going to continue to play this music?” asks Ridler, who had played in the dimly lit club since it opened in 2009.

Last Friday night, Ridler bangs out rock piano riffs along with Raxter, singing and harmonizing back and forth. There’s a live drummer too. Sometimes it’s complete cheese up there — as in a vocally hilarious rendition of All in the Family’s theme song “Those Were the Days.” Piano men Elton John and Billy Joel are fully paid tribute, while “The Lady in Red” causes one couple on the cramped dance floor to reenact the lift sequence from Dirty Dancing.

For Ridler, it’s a party on stage every night he plays.

“It’s like the New Year’s Eve you always wanted,” he says.

“And you’re in control of how it works out.”

The dueling pianists’ job doesn’t come easy. It’s not about how many concertos a musician has perfected, but rather how off-the-cuff he can be — much of the all-night jam sessions run on adrenaline, playing by ear and working off of the audience’s reactions.

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e l k s Tic y e K e h t The Ridler Piano Bar keeps the good times rolling in downtown Spokane with dueling musicians

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he five women lined up at the front of the stage know what they’re in

and Saturday, Ridler is off limits to the outside world. He doesn’t talk to anyone. It’s the time he needs to switch his brain to musician mode come 8:30 pm, when he hits the stage. Once clicked in, he can lose himself in the work, needing just one short break until closing time.

“For 32 years I’ve been playing in piano bars, and it’s all about making people feel like it’s happening in their living room,” explains Ridler, who got his start in Seattle clubs.

Every night, favorites like “Sweet Caroline” and “Don’t Stop Believin’” are sure to be scribbled on request sheets, but Ridler says he likes it when people pick something out of the ordinary.

The musicians don’t care if the song is 100 years old or came out that week; they’ll try to play everything that comes their way, even if that means learning it on the spot. The larger the tip, the higher in the order it’ll go.

Ridler is from the entrepreneurial American mold, the one that says you can reinvent yourself over and over. Starting his first business at 17, he’s worked for himself in everything from music to real estate. He even tried retirement once.

“I’ve been quite well-off and then flat broke,” Ridler, now 53, admits. “And it’s not always easy, but I just keep going. I have to

After playing in piano bars for 32 years, co-owner Steve Ridler finally has his own place. YOUNG KWAK PHOTOS keep moving.”

Bar manager and co-owner Emily Ridler, 24, was living in Seattle when her father called to ask if she’d come into business with him. The reaction was immediate. Even though she’d never operated a bar, she moved back to Spokane for “the perfect opportunity.” There nearly every night of the week, Emily says she never tires of the music.

“There are songs I hear all the time,” she admits. “But it’s pretty much a different show every night. My dad is a goofball and a character on that stage. This is what he’s built to do.”

The business celebrated its grand opening earlier this month, and so far Emily says things are going well — especially for the summer, a notoriously dead time for the downtown location. With the addition of a new food and drink menu, along with nightly entertainment including country night, tango lesson night, comedy night and the dueling piano act, the Ridlers are trying to pump oxygen back into the only business of its kind in Spokane. There already are plans to take the pianos on the road for private shows.

“I wouldn’t still do this if I didn’t love it,” Ridler says. “Otherwise, I’d just be out at my property at Deer Lake. I’ve got horses to ride.”  lauraj@inlander.com Dueling Pianos • Every Fri and Sat, at 8:30 pm • $5 cover (free before 7 pm) • 21+ • The Ridler Piano Bar • 718 W. Riverside,

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Mercy Brown’s self-titled debut album came out in March.

Lightening the Mood Local metal quartet Mercy Brown garners fans around the globe thanks to a viral video

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t first, the video seems familiar: beloved magical nanny Mary Poppins, jack-ofall-trades Bert and a band of animated townspeople are shown about to break into song. Then the music begins and Sera Hatchett, lead singer of local metal quartet Mercy Brown, growls through “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” like she’s cursing an enemy, not singing about a made-up word.

The “Mary Poppins Sings Death Metal” project is the brainchild of L.A.-based overdub video creator Andy Rehfeldt. Mercy Brown guitarist Chris Tanaka Canwell and bassist Josh Schultz saw Rehfeldt was looking for a female metal vocalist and suggested that Hatchett message him. She sent in a tape and Rehfeldt took it from there.

“I looked on YouTube and there’s 3,000 hits… ” Schultz says. “Then later that day, there’s two million hits. I was like, ‘What the hell?’”

Since its February upload, “Mary Poppins Sings Death Metal” has racked up more than 3.6 million views.

Sitting in Tanaka Canwell’s Birdhouse Squirrel studio, Schultz and Tanaka Canwell say there hasn’t been much local response to the video, though it has jump-started the band’s international career.

“We’ve been getting people buying albums from South America and Europe, all these places we’ve never been,” Tanaka Canwell says. “A lot of people are connecting with us that wouldn’t have heard about us.”

Mercy Brown, rounded out by drummer Lunden Herndon, released its self-titled full-

length in March.

The majority of Mercy Brown is in-your-face, weight-on-your-chest metal, but the band also brings punk rock and ambient instrumentals into the mix.

“We wanted to focus on the album as a whole, so the whole thing flows from song to song perfectly, and the dynamic of each song complements the next one and the one before it,” Schultz says.

This well-rounded album fits with what the group sees as an equally diverse local scene.

“One of the cool things about metal is you can sound so many different ways that, especially a place this size, you’re not competing with someone that sounds like you and just trying to be better than them,” Tanaka Canwell says. “Everybody’s OK with being a little different.”

Having seen countless bands and venues come and go, Mercy Brown is practically a veteran band after five years together in an unpredictable scene. And though the two-year Mercy Brown recording process was at times agonizing, the band can’t see itself doing anything else.

“We try to have fun doing what we’re doing, and then let it go where it goes,” Schultz says.

“If it gets popular, cool. If not, it’s OK. We’ll still keep playing.” n Mercy Brown with Cold Blooded, Rasputin and Serpentspire • Fri, June 19, at 8 pm • $5/ under 21, Free/21+ • All-ages • Knitting Factory • 919 W. Sprague • sp.knittingfactory. com • 244-3279 (See next page for info on the band’s Saturday Pinnacle Northwest show)

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EVENT STATELINE MUSIC FESTIVAL

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ontinuing the area’s string of free, local, music-packed concerts is the third annual Stateline Music Festival. Taking place outside at the newly remodeled Cruisers in Idaho, owner Justin Veo says that Father’s Day weekend should be the right fit for families to come out for live music (after previously trying Hoopfest and Labor Day weekends). While the first year started with 10 bands, this year’s festivities includes two days and 18 acts. Saturday features hard rock bands doing their own stuff — expect a lot from Invasive, Mechanism, Elephant Gun Riot (pictured), AntiHero, Free the Jester, Banish the Echo and Children of Atom — while Sunday includes cover bands like Coleman Underground and Slightly Committed playing the whole musical gamut from country to funk. The event will also include aerial flyovers, roller derby exhibitions and yes, fire dancers.

— LAURA JOHNSON Stateline Music Festival • Sat, June 20, from noon-10 pm; Sun, June 21, from 1-8 pm • Free • All-ages • Cruisers Bar & Grill • 6105 W. Seltice Way, State Line Village, Idaho • Facebook: Stateline MusicFest • 208-773-4706

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Thursday, 06/18

ArBor CrESt WINE CELLArS, Karrie O’Neil BooMErS CLASSIC roCk BAr & GrILL, Randy Campbell acoustic show J BuCEr’S CoFFEEHouSE PuB, Open Jazz Jam with Erik Bowen CHECkErBoArd BAr, Timmy Tombstone CoEur d’ALENE CASINo, PJ Destiny tHE CuLINAry StoNE (208-2774116), Son of Brad FIzzIE MuLLIGANS, Kicho tHE FLAME, DJ WesOne Nights JoHN’S ALLEy, The Calamity Cubes LEFtBANk WINE BAr, Nick Grow J MoNArCH MouNtAIN CoFFEE (208-265-9382), Open Mic hosted

by Scott Reid NortHErN QuESt CASINo, Doobie Brothers NortHErN rAIL PuB (487-4269), Open Mic with Johnny & the Moondogs PENd d’orEILLE WINEry, Zach Pohl J PINNACLE NortHWESt, DC North, Secrets of the Sky, E. Sherman, Dark White Light, Empyrean Throne tEMPLIN’S rEd LIoN (208-773-1611), Sammy Eubanks tHE VIkING BAr & GrILL, Robbie Walden zoLA, Boomshack

Friday, 06/19

AVoNdALE GoLF CLuB (208-7725963), Son of Brad BABy BAr, Wild Wants J tHE BArtLEtt, The Round No. 9 feat. Water Montset, Drake Wilcox, Lindsay Johnston and more BEVErLy’S, Robert Vaughn J tHE BIG dIPPEr, The Picturebooks, Over Sea Under Stone, Dawn of

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ne thing you can count on when it comes to metal — no matter what subgenre one might get sucked into — is some serious instrumental prowess. In Portland’s Eight Bells, the trio’s chops are delivered in the service of sprawling tunes that evoke drone-rock, dark metal and psychedelia. Guitarist/vocalist Melynda Jackson is stingy with her singing, only deigning to whisper or wail on rare occasions on the band’s The Captain’s Daughter. Instead, she prefers to lock in with drummer Chris Van Huffel and bassist Haley Westeiner and work every conceivable musical angle. One can imagine the band’s live shows will invite noisier wanderings.

— DAN NAILEN Eight Bells with Mercy Brown, Heavy Petal and Bitch Slapped • Sat, June 20, at 8:30 pm • $7 • All-ages • Pinnacle Northwest • 412 W. Sprague • thepinevents.com • 368-4077

Life BLACk dIAMoNd, DJ Perfechter J BuCEr’S CoFFEEHouSE PuB, Jail Break Blues CHECkErBoArd BAr, Vector Row, MAYO CoEur d’ALENE CASINo, Ron Criscone, Strictly Business CoNkLING MArINA & rESort, The Dan Conrad Band CrAVE, Stoney Hawk tHE FLAME, DJ WesOne Nights GrANdE roNdE CELLArS, Eric Taylor HANdLEBArS, Raised in a Barn Band HoGFISH, Boomshack IdAHo Pour AutHorIty (208-5977096), Truck Mills IroN GoAt BrEWING Co. (4740722), Wyatt Wood JACkSoN StrEEt BAr & GrILL, The Usual Suspects JoHN’S ALLEy, Ryan Hutchens JoNES rAdIAtor, La Fin Absolute

du Monde J kNIttING FACtory, Mercy Brown (See story on page 48), Cold Blooded, Rasputin, Serpentspire J LAGuNA CAFé, Just Plain Darin LEFtBANk WINE BAr, Carey Brazil MAx At MIrABEAu, Chris Rieser & the Nerve NASHVILLE NortH, Luke Jaxon with Jeremy McComb NECtAr tAStING rooM, Ken Davis NortHErN QuESt CASINo, DJ Ramsin J PArk BENCH CAFE (456-4349), Liz Rognes PENd d’orEILLE WINEry, One Street Over PINNACLE NortHWESt, Girls Night Out: Ultimate Males Vegas Strip Show feat. DJ Felon tHE rIdLEr PIANo BAr, Dueling Pianos feat. Christan Raxter & Steve Ridler

tAMArACk PuBLIC HouSE, Casey Ryan tHE roAdHouSE, Christy Lee Comrie tHE VIkING BAr & GrILL, Jamie Nova Sky, Elephant Gun Riot, Jimmy Nuge zoLA, Sammy Eubanks

Saturday, 06/20

J BABy BAr, Jan Francisco, Dead Sea Squirrels, Fun Ladies BArLoWS At LIBErty LAkE (9241446), Jan Harrison J tHE BArtLEtt, Marshall McLean Band, Jeffery Martin BEVErLy’S, Robert Vaughn J tHE BIG dIPPEr, Soul Proprietor BLACk dIAMoNd, DJ Perfechter J BorrACHo tACoS & tEQuILErIA (822-7789), Seven2 Draw Off: Summer Series No. 2 J BuCEr’S CoFFEEHouSE PuB, Open mic night with Ethan

Stevenson J CHAPS, Just Plain Darin with Tyler Coulston CHECkErBoArd BAr, Stranded By Choice, Over Sea Under Stone, Heart Avail CoEur d’ALENE CASINo, Can You Sing-off feat. Strictly Busines, also Music, Micros & Barbecue, Ron Criscone CoEur d’ALENE CELLArS (208-6642336), Pamela Benton CoNkLING MArINA & rESort, The Dan Conrad Band CrAVE, Stoney Hawk J CruISErS, Stateline Music Fest (See story above) feat. Children of Atom, Banish the Echo, Free the Jester and more J dAHMEN BArN (229-3414), Summer Concert Series: Eric Taylor J doWNtoWN HArrISoN, Harrison Summer Concerts feat. Bill Bozly

 DOWNTOWN SANDPOINT, Sandpoint Summer Sounds feat.

Ken Rokicki THE FLAME, DJ Big Mike, DJ WesOne GORGE AMPHITHEATER, Nickleback with Lifehouse HANDLEBARS, Raised in a Barn Band JOHN’S ALLEY, Timmy Tombstone THE LARIAT INN, Dude Ranch LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Karrie O’Neil MAX AT MIRABEAU, Chris Rieser & the Nerve NASHVILLE NORTH, Luke Jaxon with Jeremy McComb NORTHERN QUEST CASINO, DJ Ramsin NORTHERN RAIL PUB, Johnny & the Moondogs ONE 14 BAR & GRILL (299-6114), Bobby Bremer Band PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Spumoni Blues  PINNACLE NORTHWEST, Eight Bells (See story on facing page), Mercy Brown, Heavy Petal, Bitch Slapped  PRICHARD ART GALLERY (208885-3586), Cult of Zir, Space Movies, teleg.  THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling

Pianos feat. Christan Raxter & Steve Ridler (See story on page 46)  THE SHOP, Hannah Siglin SWAXX, Buffalo Soldier’s Fundraiser feat. DJ JT Washington TAMARACK PUBLIC HOUSE, Charlie Butts and the Filter Tips THE VIKING BAR & GRILL, The Last Chance Band ZOLA, Jesse Weston Band

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Sunday, 06/21

ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, Singlewide  THE BARTLETT, Grieves CONKLING MARINA & RESORT, PJ Destiny  CRUISERS, Stateline Music Fest (See story on facing page) feat.

Coleman Underground, Slightly Committed and more DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS, Jam Night with VooDoo Church THE FLAME, Open mic with SixStrings n’ Pearls IRON HORSE BAR & GRILL (VALLEY) (926-8411), Kicho ZOLA, Soulful Max Trio

Monday, 06/22

Truck Mills LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Monday Night Spotlight feat. Carey Brazil UNDERGROUND 15, Open Mic ZOLA, Nate Ostrander Trio

Tuesday, 06/23

315 MARTINIS & TAPAS, The Rub CHECKERBOARD BAR, Periscope FEDORA PUB & GRILLE, Tuesday Night Jam with Truck Mills JONES RADIATOR, Open Mic of Open-ness KELLY’S IRISH PUB, Arvid Lundin & Deep Roots LA ROSA CLUB, Bright Moments Jazz Group MARIJANE’S TAPHOUSE & GRILL, DJ WesOne & DJ Barry Love  PINNACLE NORTHWEST, Vessels, Castaway, Kaustik, East Sherman RED ROOM LOUNGE, Unplugged with Jimmy Nudge THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Steve Ridler and Chuck Swanson SWAXX, T.A.S.T.Y with DJs Freaky Fred, Beauflexx ZOLA, The Bucket List

Wednesday, 06/24 BARRISTER WINERY (465-3591), Karrie O’Neill  CHAPS, Land of Voices with Dirk Swartz  DOWNTOWN COEUR D’ALENE, Live After 5 feat. the Donnie Emerson & Nancy Sofia Band EICHARDT’S, Charley Packard THE FLAME, RockStarzz Karaoke

GARLAND AVENUE DRINKERY (3155327), Open Mic with DJ Scratch n Smith GENO’S TRADITIONAL FOOD & ALES (368-9087), Open Mic with T & T IRON HORSE BAR & GRILL, Evan Denlinger JONES RADIATOR, Whiskey Wednesday with John Fershee LA ROSA CLUB, Robert Beadling and Friends THE LANTERN TAP HOUSE, Open Turntables Night with DJ Lydell LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Wyatt Wood LITZ’S BAR & GRILL (327-7092), Nick Grow LUCKY’S IRISH PUB, DJ D3VIN3 MARIJANE’S TAPHOUSE & GRILL, DJ WesOne & DJ Barry Love POOLE’S PUBLIC HOUSE (413-1834), Sammy Eubanks SOULFUL SOUPS & SPIRITS, Open mic with Son of Brad ZOLA, The Bossame

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MUSIC | VENUES 315 MARTINIS & TAPAS • 315 E. Wallace, CdA • 208-667-9660 ARBOR CREST • 4705 N. Fruit Hill Rd. • 927-9463 BABY BAR • 827 W. First Ave. • 847-1234 THE BARTLETT • 228 W. Sprague Ave. • 747-2174 BEVERLY’S • 115 S. 2nd St., CdA • 208-765-4000 THE BIG DIPPER • 171 S. Washington St. • 863-8098 BIGFOOT PUB • 9115 N. Division St. • 467-9638 BING CROSBY THEATER • 901 W. Sprague Ave. • 227-7638 BLACK DIAMOND • 9614 E. Sprague • 891-8357 BOLO’S• 116 S. Best Rd. • 891-8995 BOOMERS • 18219 E. Appleway Ave. • 755-7486 BOOTS BAKERY & LOUNGE • 24 W. Main Ave. • 703-7223 BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB • 201 S. Main, Moscow • 208-882-5216 BUCKHORN INN • 13311 Sunset Hwy.• 244-3991 THE CELLAR • 317 E. Sherman, CdA • 208-6649463 CALYPSOS • 116 E Lakeside Ave., CdA • 208665-0591 CHAPS • 4237 Cheney-Spokane Rd. • 624-4182 CHATEAU RIVE • 621 W. Mallon Ave. • 795-2030 CHECKERBOARD BAR • 1716 E. Sprague • 535-4007 COEUR D’ALENE CASINO • 37914 S. Nukwalqw Rd., Worley • 800-523-2464 CONKLING MARINA & RESORT • 20 W Jerry Ln, Worley • 208-686-1151 CRAFTED TAP HOUSE • 523 Sherman Ave., CdA • 208-292-4813 CRAVE• 401 W. Riverside Suite 101. • 321-7480 CRUISERS • 6105 W Seltice Way, Post Falls • (208) 773-4706 CURLEY’S • 26433 W. Hwy. 53 • 208-773-5816 DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS • 6412 E. Trent • 5359309 EICHARDT’S • 212 Cedar St., Sandpoint • 208263-4005 FEDORA PUB • 1726 W. Kathleen, CdA • 208765-8888 FIZZIE MULLIGANS • 331 W. Hastings Rd. • 466-5354 THE FLAME • 2401 E. Sprague Ave. • 534-9121 FOX THEATER • 1001 W. Sprague • 624-1200 GRANDE RONDE CELLARS • 906 W. 2nd • 455-8161 HANDLEBARS • 12005 E. Trent Ave.• 924-3720 HOGFISH • 1920 E. Sherman, CdA • 208-667-1896 THE HOP! • 706 N. Monroe St. • 368-4077 IRON HORSE • 407 E. Sherman Ave., CdA • 208-667-7314 JACKSON STREET B&G • 2436 N. Astor • 315-8497 JOHN’S ALLEY • 114 E. 6th, Moscow • 208-8837662 JONES RADIATOR • 120 E. Sprague • 747-6005 KNITTING FACTORY • 911 W. Sprague Ave. • 244-3279 LAGUNA CAFÉ • 4302 S. Regal St. • 448-0887 THE LANTERN TAP HOUSE • 1004 S. Perry St. • 315-9531 THE LARIAT • 11820 N Market St, Mead • 4669918 LA ROSA CLUB • 105 S. First Ave., Sandpoint • 208-255-2100 LEFTBANK WINE BAR • 108 N. Washington • 315-8623 LUCKY’S IRISH PUB • 408 W. Sprague Ave. • 747-2605 MAX AT MIRABEAU • 1100 N. Sullivan Rd. • 924-9000 MOOTSY’S • 406 W. Sprague • 838-1570 NASHVILLE NORTH • 6361 W. Seltice Way, Post Falls • 208-457-9128 NECTAR• 120 N. Stevens St. • 869-1572 NORTHERN QUEST • 100 N. Hayford • 242-7000 NYNE • 232 W. Sprague Ave. • 474-1621 THE SHOP • 924 S. Perry St. • 534-1647 O’SHAY’S • 313 E. CdA Lake Dr. • 208-667-4666 THE PALOMINO CLUB • 6425 N. Lidgerwood St • 443-5213 PEND D’OREILLE WINERY • 301 Cedar St., Sandpoint • 208-265-8545 PINNACLE NORTHWEST • 412 W. Sprague • 368-4077 RED LION RIVER INN • 700 N. Division St. • 326-5577 RED ROOM LOUNGE • 521 W. Sprague Ave. • 838-7613 REPUBLIC BREWING • 26 Clark Ave. • 775-2700 THE RIDLER PIANO BAR • 718 W. Riverside . • 822-7938 THE ROADHOUSE • 20 N. Raymond • 413-1894 ROCKET MARKET • 726 E. 43rd Ave. • 343-2253 SEASONS OF COEUR D’ALENE • 209 E. Lakeside Ave. • 208-664-8008 THE SHOP • 924 S. Perry St. • 534-1647 SOULFUL SOUPS & SPIRITS • 117 N. Howard St. • 459-1190 SPOKANE ARENA • 720 W. Mallon • 279-7000 SWAXX • 23 E. Lincoln Rd. • 703-7474 TAMARACK • 912 W Sprague • 315-4846 UNDERGROUND 15 • 15 S. Howard St. • 290-2122 THE VIKING • 1221 N. Stevens St. • 315-4547 ZOLA • 22 W. Main Ave. • 624-2416

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VISUAL ARTS A SCENIC STROLL

Summer is Sandpoint’s time to shine. The lake is cool and inviting, the days are long and the quaint North Idaho town’s downtown shops and restaurants are bustling with tourists from near and far. To take advantage of this influx, the annual ArtWalk runs all summer and showcases juried exhibitions by area artists at host businesses throughout Sandpoint’s downtown core. The open-format event, organized by the Pend Oreille Arts Council, is featured in colorful, free brochures allowing anyone to pick up from wherever they are to create a custom summer arts experience.

— CHEY SCOTT Sandpoint ArtWalk 2015 • June 19-Sept. 11; opening reception Fri, June 19, from 5:30-8:30 pm • Free • Downtown Sandpoint • artinsandpoint.org • 208-263-6139

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FILM SUMMER ON SCREEN

FESTIVAL AN IDAHO TRADITION

Summer Camp 2015 • June 21-Aug. 27, with shows on Tue, Sun, Thu; times vary • $5 • Garland Theater • 924 W. Garland • garlandtheater.com • 327-2509

Wallace Gyro Days and Lead Creek Derby • Thu-Sat, June 18-20 • Downtown Wallace, Idaho • wallaceidahochamber.com • 208753-7151

Alright, alright, alright! This Sunday, the Garland Theater kicks off its annual summer movie series with the 1993 classic Dazed and Confused. Other films on this summer’s lineup include Jurassic Park, Dirty Dancing, Caddyshack and many more classic favorites.

Movies rotate weekly and are shown every Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday. If you hit the theater on a Tuesday, expect a few contests and the chance to win prizes. You can also sip on an ice-cold local beer while you do so, since the Garland teams up with River City Brewing to offer beer specials during each screening.

— ERIN ROBINSON

Do you have fond memories of dropping a large, leather beachball into a creek and guessing how quickly it would travel 7 miles?

Those who don’t should start this year. Head to the 74th annual Wallace Gyro Days and Lead Creek Derby to watch the colorful orb travel down the Coeur d’Alene River from Mullan, Idaho, to the Sixth Street bridge in Wallace. The ball drops at noon on Saturday.

The historic mining town kicks off its annual summer celebration with a carnival, food and fun rides starting Thursday at noon.

— MATTHEW SALZANO

COMMUNITY NAMASTE IN THE PARK

Sling that yoga mat over your shoulder and head down to Riverfront Park for a community yoga experience like few others to be found. The fitness fanatics at the Union and lululemon athletica are hosting a relaxing welcome to the start of summer with a yoga party for all. Last year a similar event took place on Main Avenue in the early morning, but this year the cool grass of Riverfront Park will cushion the mats of local yoga practitioners during the hour-long flow. Healthy treats from Method Juice Cafe kick off the event so everyone stays energized through the session. Yoga starts at 8 pm, and local DJ Freaky Fred provides the beats to keep your body moving.

— CHEY SCOTT Summer Solstice Yoga in the Park • Sun, June 21, from 7:30-9 pm • Free • Riverfront Park, near the Clock Tower • on.fb.me/1MJDG4G

COMMUNITY LET IT GROW

For some folks, the only thing better than getting their hands into their own dirt is getting a look at some neighbors’ beautiful gardens for inspiration.

That’s what the Spokane In Bloom tour is all about — getting a glimpse at some of the best gardens in the area while sharing some great conversation with fellow green thumbs. The 14th edition, presented by the Inland Empire Gardeners, includes seven stops, as well as gardening vendors, music and an optional barbecue. Whether you’re an expert or someone still struggling with the difference between perennials and annuals, there’s a fine time in store.

— DAN NAILEN Spokane In Bloom Garden Tour • Sat, June 20, from 10 am-5 pm • $10 • Various South Hill homes • tieg.org

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BENEFIT AN EVENING IN TUSCANY The annual dinner and auction benefits the YWCA Safe Shelters program. Dinner includes arichoke-pesto lasagna, a wine bar and live music. June 20, 6 pm. $50/person.

YMCA Central Spokane, 930 N. Monroe St. ymcaspokane.org (863-2882) PARADE OF PAWS Spokane Humane Society’s annual 2- or 4-mile pledge walk to benefit the animals it serves.

Day-of registration at 8 am; early reg.

June 19, from 12-7 pm. Collect pledges from family, friends, co-workers and anyone else. June 20, 10 am-2 pm. Spokane Humane Society, 6607 N. Havana. spokanehumanesociety.org (467-5235) THE POUR The annual gourmet winemaker’s dinner and auction benefits the Providence Health Care Founda-

tion. June 20, 5:30 pm. $175/person.

Arbor Crest Wine Cellars, 4705 N. Fruit Hill Rd. thepour.info (474-2819) INTO THE FUTURE SCLERODERMA WALK A 5K run/walk to raise awareness and funds to support research and treatment of scleroderma. June 20, 10 am. Mirabeau Park Meadows, 13500 Mirabeau Pkwy. scleroderma.org (944-6922) PEDAL, POSE & PAMPER A fundraiser to benefit the Vanessa Behan Crisis Nursery and a celebration of International Yoga Day, Father’s Day and the first day of summer. Ride to South Perry Yoga by 9 am, then enjoy a bike ride through the area, yoga at 9:30 am and at 11 am. Pre-registration requested; $10-$20 or 1 package of diapers, sizes 5-6. June 21, 9 am-noon. South Perry Yoga, 915 S. Perry. southperryoga.com (443-6241)

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I SAW YOU DOES ANYONE KNOW A GUY THEY CALL "TREE"? I met Tree a couple times at the Illinios Bar. I would really like to get ahold of him if anyone can help. It's a pretty unique nickname so hopefully someone out their can help.

ROCKY PICTURE SHOW GARLAND THEATER Saw you at the Bon before the show, captivating, unique, are my disciption of you, platinum hair, spike bra, me blue outfit, long hair. drinks sometime? moesfunk88@gmail.com CINDER (DIVISION) CANNABIS BEAUTY I saw you on Wednesday, June 10th around 1. You were the beautiful petite brunette working at Cinder on Division. Me: 6'4" blonde guy. You were very knowledgeable and helpful, and even knew that the product that I was buying was an aphrodisiac! You also gave your coworker a hard time for jumping into the conversation as soon as she heard aphrodisiac. *All three of your crew were super nice and helpful, by the way. If your boss is reading this-they all deserve raises!* Anyway, I missed several opportunities to figure out if you're single. If you are, and would like to talk, say hi! runsfarslowly@gmail.com HOGFISH You sitting with two friends out smoking. me wearing grellow. you kept looking my way we caught eyes and i smiled. do i know you from the past? I sure would like to see that smile again!

If you see this ask j the bartender.for my

info. you bright shoes and skate board.

TIFU Saturday June 13th: I was watering in my backyard when I noticed an aggressive robin start fighting with all the other birds over the bird bath, so I decided to cool him down. He made his way to the top of my fence. He seemed to like the shower but finally flew away.

Moments later I heard a car start from behind the fence and drive off. It didn't take long for the embarrassment to set in, as I realized that people do take lunch breaks on that particular street during lunch time. I apologize to whomever was in the car behind the fence if your car got wet. Please excuse me for this mishap, I meant no offense toward you. I'll be sure to be extra careful for now on.

SWEETEST MUFFIN I see you standing there lost and confused. That's OK. I love you and will give you the space you need. People change all the time, but it doesn't have to be a bad thing. You've been sad and I haven't had all the time to give you. I now know what I need to do for this and for us. Don't give up! Find yourself! But when it's all said and done come back to me.

CHEERS TRUE COMPASSION Noah, thank you for your genuine compassion towards me the night of May 26th at the car crash site at Nevada and Rich. I was the lady in the black vehicle who was in shock. I am so glad that there are kind people like you.

RACHEL DOLEZAL From an old frontier preacher. Cattle, buckaroos, sheep and wild horses. Ghost towns, ice caves, lava flows, and lots of sagebrush. When I first became a preacher I asked my preacher father for his sage advice. I was expecting scripture and verse that would change my life forever, but my father knew me well. He once walked me into the police station. Me on toe-tips, because he was holding onto my left ear. I was nine years old. His advise to me is my advise to spokane now. He said ""Son, never make a habit of pointing your finger at folks. If you do you have three fingers pointing right back at you."" For little comfort and a big smile read Hebrews chapter 11. The Hero's Roll Call of Faith. You will never read a list with such a motley crew of degenerates that had a heart for god.

Murderers, thieves and prostitutes. You will know me when you see me. It will be many years from now in heaven. You and everyone else will be entering the temple to sit at the foot of the throne of God. I will be the poor slob in a crisp white uniform with old cowboy boots holding the door open just happy to be there.

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CORRUPT SPOKANE COURT I'm amazed at the unethical actions of a

for oncoming vehicles. A bicycle is considered a vehicle for purposes of the law - RCW 46.61.755. What he should have said was "get out of my way." I doubt you do that.

MISUSERS OF THE WORD "GAY" Jeers to the fact that people still use the word "gay" to mean something is stupid. I

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Jeers to the fact that people still use the word ‘gay’ to mean something is stupid.

RESSA'S ROCKS! "Bags, belts, Birkenstocks, boots, buckles, shoes and more!! Ressa's can handle all these repairs, with great skill, good humor, service, patience, and honesty. They've put new straps on my favorite shopping bag, stretched my boots, repaired torn sandal straps on my favorite summer sandals, resoled shoes, and even told me honestly and with humor, my favorite sport bag was not even worth repairing.

And they'll restore your favorite boots or Birks as well. Bonus! Ressa's a local business, stop in with your favorite shoes and they'll fix them up, good as new.

LOOK OUT WORLD Congratulations on your new job. My bohemian girl has gone corporate. Traded in your peasant skirts and dangling earrings for the corporate suit. I would wish you luck, but you don’t need it. Knock ’em dead.

WATER BOY Thank you, to the gentleman from the parks department who filled my water bottle 6/15 at the Fish Lake trailhead. Monday was my longest ride of the season and I was ill prepared.

It's unfortunate working water fountains are a thing of the past so it was fortuitous that I ran into you. Thank you!

JEERS WASTING MORE TAX DOLLARS Way to go (city of Spokane) another blunder!

The landscaping at the new maintainance facility looks real nice and I just

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

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

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can't figure out why they would do all that planting just to let it all die due to lack of water? I drove by on Desmet and almost all the planted stuff is dried up beyond recovery.What a huge waste of money! More poor planning

Spokane Superior Court judge and lawyer's postings on social media. When a lawyer posts on Facebook she wants to start punching crazy people in the face that she deals with in court, and a judge, who is her friend, (conflict of interest???) posts in response~ Me Too!!

Me Too!! it becomes very corrupt and troubling. Should judges, who judge people for violent acts, engage in posting desires to violently assault people?

This is not funny or judicious and is a blatant violation of the Judicial Canon of the State of Washington. I encourage all who read this to expose the corruption they encounter in the courts of Spokane.

DOUBLE JEERS TO THE PEDESTRIAN IGNORING THE LAW This is response to "JEERS TO CYCLIST IGNORANT OF THE LAW." You quoted RCW 46.61.250 telling the cyclist he was ignorant of the law when he said "get to the other side" of the road. Running on the left side of the road is allowable when a sidewalk is not provided. Having encountered numerous runners/walkers on the left side of the road while cycling, I always look back and then move OUT OF THEIR WAY to pass. You ignored part of the RCW you yourself quoted. For your edification, here is the part you left out, " ... (pedestrians) walk or move only on the left side of the roadway or its shoulder facing traffic which may approach from the opposite direction and upon meeting an oncoming vehicle shall move clear of the roadway." Meaning get off the roadway

didn't consciously choose to be gay and it hurts that you would use a word that describes me to connote something is dumb. When I went to the Pride Parade Saturday for the first time, I was happy to be around people who are like me and who don't use that word in the hurtful ways you have.

ADULT IMMATURITY AT DANCE STUDIO You expect children to be immature, but when the instructors and parents do nothing but air their dirty laundry on Facebook something needs to be said!

The nastiness that has been shown by the staff (including the Director) at a local dance academy is ridiculous. These adults are supposed to be setting an example to these young dancers. It's more like Junior High! Shame on you! 

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EVENTS | CALENDAR FOOD FOR STRINGS Free guitar restrings with a donation of four cans of food. Also includes live music, store specials and more. Use your own strings or get a free set (available to the first 40 participants). June 27, 10 am-4 pm. Free.

Northwest Academy of Music, 3700 N. Government Way. nwacademy.com

COMEDY A TREE GROWS IN GARLAND A themed show offering a comedic twist to local stories/history. Fridays in June, at 8 pm.

Rated for general audiences. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. (747-7045) CAGE MATCH Each week, teams of comedians go head to head. Saturdays in June, at 9 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. bluedoortheatre.com THIS, THAT OR THE OTHER Liberty Lake Community Theatre’s comedy improv troupe. June 20 and July 18 at 8 pm. $7.

Liberty Lake Community Theatre, 22910 E. Appleway Ave., Ste. 1. (342-2055) DRINK N’ DEBATE A live, improv comedy show, during which comedian teams debate topics chosen at random. Mondays from 8-10 pm. Free. Underground 15, 15 S. Howard St. (868-0358) SIDEWAYS CINEMA Members of the Blue Door troupe re-dub on the spot a classically bad sci-fi movie. June 25, July 30 and Aug. 27, at 9 pm. Rated for mature audiences. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. (747-7045) TERRY CANFIELD MEMORIAL SHOW A show to honor Terry Canfield’s memory with good humor. Uncle D’s was a regular spot of Terry’s, and he could be found at Thursday’s Open Mic, telling stories and

giving his unique outlook on many different topics. June 25, 8-10 pm. By donation.

Uncle D’s Comedy Underground, 2721 N. Market St. on.fb.me/1FYw1OT (483-7300)

COMMUNITY GIRLS ROCK LAB INFO MEETING Join the women who brought Girls Rock Lab to Spokane last year and learn how you can become a volunteer to help us with the upcoming benefit concert and other events. June 18, 6-8 pm. Spark Center, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. sparkwestcentral.org PARTNERS IN JUSTICE AWARDS An annual event to highlight the important work done by individuals, businesses, or agencies in the community which display a strong commitment to justice for all.

June 18, 6 pm. Donations accepted. Barrister Winery, 1213 W. Railroad. barristerwinery.com (465-3591) SUMMER PARKWAYS Spokane’s biggest block party, now in its 6th year. Streets are closed to motorized vehicles and opened up to bikes, pedestrians, skaters, and other human-powered transportation. Activities and booths can be found in Manito and Comstock Parks and along the designated 4 mile car-free route. June 18, 6-9 pm.

Free. summerparkways.com INWJC PILLAR AWARDS The Inland Northwest Juneteenth Coalition (INWJC) presents the second annual ceremony to honor and show respect to those who have made an impact to and/or for the African American Community of Spokane. June 19, 6-8 pm. $10/person; $50/ table. Holy Temple Church, 806 W. Indiana Ave. inwjc.org (624-0522) JUNKIN’ JUNE AT PAST BLESSINGS

FARM A weekend sale offering all things vintage, rusty, chipp-y and worn, for the home and garden. June 19-20, from 10 am-4 pm. Free admission. Past Blessings Farm, 8521 N. Orchard Prairie. pastblessings.com MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID COURSE Participants learn to identify risk factors and warning signs for mental health and addiction concerns, how to respond to those experiencing a crisis and other related topics. June 19, 8 am-5 pm. $85.

NIC Workforce Training Center, 525 W. Clearwater Loop. workforcetraining.nic. edu (208-769-3333) RELAY FOR LIFE SANDPOINT The Sandpoint community hosts a fundraiser walk to raise money for the American Cancer Society and celebrate those who’ve overcome cancer and remember those who’ve lost their battle. June 19, 6:30 pm. Bonner County Fairgrounds, 4203 N. Boyer Ave. (208-263-8414) SUMMER SOLSTICE FUN RUN The Children’s Tumor Foundation, Fleet Feet and Spokane Swifts running team host a 10K fundraiser run along the Centennial Trail, with 100 percent of registration proceeds benefiting the Children’s Tumor Foundation. Also includes a quarter-mile kids’ run. June 19. $15-$35. Riverfront Park, 705 N. Howard St. (625-6601) 5TH ANNUAL JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION The family-friendly event recognizes and celebrates African American emancipation, history and culture. June 20, 1-4:30 pm. Free. Liberty Park, 502 S. Pittsburg St. INWJC.org CORBIN PARK YARD SALE Homes around or near the park host yard sales during this community event. June 20, 9

am-3 pm. Corbin Park, 2914 N. West Oval St. emersongarfield.org FATHER’S DAY BREAKFAST A free Father’s day breakfast to honor father’s and the City of Spokane as the birth place of Father’s day. June 20, 8-10 am. Rogers High School, 1622 E. Wellesley. inwjc.org (324-1995) FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY BOOK SALE The Friends of the Spokane Library host a mini book sale to kick off the summer reading program, with all items priced $1 or less. Proceeds support the summer reading program for kids and teens. June 20, 10 am-3 pm. Indian Trail Library, 4909 W. Barnes Rd. (444-5307) COMMUNITY SHRED DAY Local residents can learn how to reduce their likelihood of becoming identity theft victims and shred sensitive documents at no charge. Consumers and small businesses are invited to bring sensitive documents to Numerica Credit Union’s Wandermere branch, at 405 E. Farwell Rd. June 20, 9 am-noon.

Free. numericacu.com (991-7056) SPOKANE IN BLOOM GARDEN TOUR The annual garden tour hosted by The Inland Empire Gardeners club features private gardens on display throughout South Spokane during a self-guided tour.

Tickets available at the gardens, online, or at various local nurseries/businesses.

June 20, 10 am-5 pm. $10. tieg.org SPOKANE ROSE SHOW Locally-grown roses are in full bloom and on display for the community to enjoy, along with arrangements from amateur and professional gardeners. June 20, 8 am-4 pm.

Free. Northland Rosarium, 9405 S. Williams Lane. northlandrosarium.com WORLD REFUGE DAY A community cel-

ebration to welcome and recognize the local refugee population, with international food tasting, a naturalization ceremony, vendor fair and a soccer match.

June 20, 11 am-2 pm. Free. Manito Park, 1800 S. Grand Blvd. (456-8038) YOGA IN THE PARK Celebrate the first day of summer with evening yoga in the park, hosted by The Union and lululemon. Method Juice serves healthy treats, DJ Freaky Fred spins and yoga starts at 8 pm. June 21, 7:30-9 pm. Free. Riverfront Park, 705 N. Howard St. (625-6601) MOMS CLUB END-OF-YEAR PARTY Local stay-at-home moms looking for other moms to socialize with while the kids play are invited to the MOMS Club of North Spokane end-of-year party. Please RSVP so we know who to look for. June 22, 10-11:30 am. Free. Dwight Merkel Sports Complex, 5701 N. Assembly St. (703-380-8446) SPOKANE FOSSIL FUEL PROJECTS FORUM A public forum on the transport of fossil fuels through our region, with a four-person panel consisting of Twa-le Abrahamson, Spokane Tribal Air Quality Coordinator; Eric de Place, Policy Director at Sightline Institute; Ben Stuckart, Spokane City Council President and Jen Wallis, International Steering Committee Co-Chair of Railroad Workers United. June 23, 7 pm. Free. Gonzaga University School of Law, 721 N. Cincinnati. (747-3304) SANDPOINT OIL TRAIN FORUM Learn from experts about the growing risk from Bakken crude oil shipped by rail through North Idaho. Co-sponsored by the Sightline Institute, Idaho Conservation League, and Lake Pend Oreille Waterkeeper. June 24, 5:30-7:30 pm. Free. Heartwood Center, 615 S. Oak St. idahoconservation.org

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RELATIONSHIPS

Advice Goddess DORK MATTER

I’m just out of a bad relationship and ready to start dating.

I recently met a guy I liked at the mall. There was definitely a physical attraction, and we had a lot in common, but not an hour after we met, he sent me a text that said, “Miss you already.” That set off red flags for me. Sweet or creepy? I’m on the fence.

—Want To Be Charitable

AMY ALKON

He’s looking forward to watching you sleep -- from the third-floor apartment across the way, with a set of high-

powered binoculars.

Then again, it’s possible that socially, he’s kind of a mouth-breather. Socially clueless guys will sometimes dig around in the “Chicks Love This Stuff” bin, pull out some romantic-sounding line and lay it on a woman, hoping it’ll stick. They don’t get that prematurely expressed affection can creep women out. Sure, his “Miss you already” -- or one of its cousins, “I loved you before I even knew you!” -- sounds like a sweet sentiment. But using it before real feeling has time to develop can suggest that one’s underlying motivation is not “Can’t wait to take you to Paris” but maybe “Can’t wait to keep you in a crate under my bed.”

That’s probably where your intuition is taking you. Intuitions -- gut feelings -- are judgments we arrive at without conscious reasoning. But they don’t come out of nowhere. Your brain compares input from your current environment with prior situations (from your past and your evolutionary past), looking for patterns that suggest danger is afoot. The thing is, these alerts are often wrong. But that actually isn’t a bad thing. Evolutionary psychologists Martie Haselton and David Buss find that we seem to have evolved to make the less costly error -- like your erring on the side of red-flagging a guy because it’s less costly for you to end up home alone on a Saturday night than to end up crated or dead.

Should you override your weirdo-dar? It can feel unfair to write somebody off on the basis of one yicky remark. But if you’re going to take a risk, it should be an informed risk, meaning that you use information about past behavior (which you’re rather short on) to predict the likelihood a situation will go south. You also factor in your ability to deal if it does. Like if he turns stalker, will you be all “Not gonna make it through the armed guards and the moat around my house” or “My neighbors in 4B would cheerfully buzz in Charles Manson”?

On the other side of informed risk is “cross my fingers and hope it turns out okay,” which, given the level of information you have, is pretty much where you are now. However, the reality is, sometimes throwing caution to the wind makes sense, like if the guy in question seems to be the last man on earth or your last shot before eternal spinsterhood. If this is the case, it would probably be prudent to pair your high hopes with a bedside Taser, on the off chance Mr. Right turns out to be Mr. Right Outside In Your Bushes.

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I’m dating my co-worker, and this is kind of embarrassing, but I’ve hooked up with two other guys at our company. These encounters happened a while back, and they were meaningless. My concern is that one of these guys will get wind of the fact that I am seeing and really like this guy and they’ll tell him and he’ll be put off. He knows I used to be pretty wild and said he didn’t want to know the specifics, but he also didn’t know that they involve our co-workers. Should I warn him?

—Unsure To be human is to engage in episodes of poor judgment: drop-crotch pants… cornrows on a white person…vajazzling (adhering sparkly gemstones to a part of your body that nobody looks at and grumbles, “Gosh, if only it weren’t so plain”).

Likewise, though life partners sometimes start as co-workers, it’s generally best to score hookup partners from the larger population pool -- men whom you might occasionally run into at the grocery store, as opposed to every 45 minutes in the coffee room.

However, what’s done is done, and what your new beau wants to hear about it is none of it. And sure, there’s a chance that one or both of these guys will spill, but there’s also a chance that neither will. If it comes out, deal with it as needed.

Otherwise, what he doesn’t quite know won’t, well…let’s just say the abstract idea that you were wild is different from his having mug shots in his head of the specific co-workers who’ve ignored the tattoo on your pelvic bone: “Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here.” n ©2015, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. • Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405 or email AdviceAmy@aol.com (www.advicegoddess.com)

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EVENTS | CALENDAR

FESTIVAL WALLACE GYRO DAYS & LEAD CREEK DERBY The 74th annual festival includes the famous ball race down the river from Mullan to the Sixth Street bridge, along with a three-day celebration in downtown Wallace. June 18-20.

Downtown. wallaceidahochamber.com ALL WHEELS WEEKEND Dayton opens up its downtown streets for a car show, live music, “drag races,” a demo derby and retro activities like a sock hop, root beer floats, and more. June 19-21. Dayton, Wash. allwheelsweekend.com CAR D’ALENE The annual car show and parade celebrates its 25th anniversary, hosting classic cards for 1975 or pre-75 cars and trucks. Parade/cruise Friday, 6-9 pm; car show Saturday, 8 am-4 pm.

June 19-20. Free to spectators. Downtown Coeur d’Alene, Sherman Ave. cdadowntown.com (208-415-0116) MEDICAL LAKE FOUNDER’S DAY The 44th annual community celebration includes a street parade, car show, vendor fair, softball and basketball tourneys, kids activities and more. June 20.

Free. medical-lake.org PROSSER SCOTTISH FEST & HIGHLAND GAMES The 15th annual festival includes the anvil launch, heavy athletics games, highland dancing, Celtic music, clan tents, kids’ activities, vendors, food and more. June 20, 8 am-6 pm. $5-$10.

Prosser, Wash. prosserscottishfest.org THE BIG BACK IN Every Father’s Day, Spirit Lake becomes “Mower Town,” with 40-plus racers and more than 3,000 spectators. June 21, noon. Free.

Spirit Lake, Idaho. spiritlakechamber. com (208-623-3411)

FILM PADDINGTON A young Peruvian bear with a passion for all things British travels to London in search of a home.

Rated PG. June 17-18, at 1 pm. $3. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy. org (208-882-4127) SPOKANE FILM SOCIETY The local group screens a film to get audiences thinking, with each month focusing on a new theme. Beer/wine and food for purchase during the show. Thursdays at 9 pm. $5. Garland Theater, 924 W. Garland Ave. garlandtheater.com CARDBOARD CAR DRIVE-IN MOVIES Roll on in with your cardboard car and enjoy a free showing of The Incredibles (rated PG). Come two hour early to make a car. Children 10 and under should be accompanied by an adult.

June 19, 3:30-7:30 pm. Free. Broadway Elementary, 11016 E. Broadway. scld.org KLINK’S RESORT SUMMER SHORTS Teams spend the weekend producing a short film at the lake or elsewhere in the region, with top entries screened in August. Filming weekend June 19-21.

Klink’s on the Lake, 18617 Williams Lake Rd. facebook.com/TheKlinksResortSummerShort (509-235-2391) NEVERENDING STORY MOVIE A fantasy land is threatened by a mysterious force, and a brave boy must fight to save the magical world. Rated PG; 107 min. June 20, 2 pm. Free. Downtown Library, 906 W. Main Ave. (444-5330) DAZED & CONFUSED The Garland’s summer movie series returns, and includes beer specials from River City Brewing. Tuesday’s showings also include contests and prizes. June 21, 23 and 25. Garland Theater, 924 W. Gar-

land Ave. garlandtheater.com SPOKANE DRIVE-IN MOVIES: FOOTLOOSE Outdoor movies are screened, with drive-in or picnic-style seating.

Gates open at 7 pm, with movies starting at dusk. $4-$5/person without a car; $20-$25/carload of 4+, or $5/ person for cars of 1-3 people. Cash only. June 23. Spokane Drive-In Movies (North), 4307 E. Mt. Spokane Park Dr. facebook.com/OutdoorMoviesSpokane OUTDOOR MOVIES @ RIVERFRONT: SPACE JAM A showing on the big screen with pre-show live entertainment, movie trivia and tasty food trucks. $5/pre-movie seating and entertainment (ages 5 and under free).

Dog friendly and tobacco free. June 24, 7-10:30 pm. Riverfront Park. epiceap. com/spokane-outdoor-movies SPOKANE DRIVE-IN MOVIES: DAYS OF THUNDER Outdoor movies are screened with drive-in or picnic-style seating. Gates open at 7 pm, with movies starting at dusk. $4-$5/person without a car; $20-$25/carload of 4+, or $5/ person for cars of 1-3 people. Cash only.

Concessions provided by local food trucks/businesses. June 24. Spokane Drive-In Movies (West), 750 N. Hayford. facebook.com/OutdoorMoviesSpokane

cider styles, flavor components, tasting procedures and more. RSVP required, to austin@libertycider.com. June 23, 7 pm. $20/person, Liberty Ciderworks, 164 S. Washington St. libertycider.com GOURMET GRILLING: STEAKS & VEGGIES Part of INCA’s Summer Sizzle Series, Chef Erin Streicher shares her favorite recipes for a summer of grilling.

June 24, 6-8 pm. $49. Inland Northwest Culinary Academy (INCA), 1810 N. Greene. incaafterdark.scc.spokane.edu GRANDE RONDE VERTICAL TASTING A vertical tasting of 10 vintages of the winery’s Seven Hills Cabernet Sauvignon, beginning with the first release in 2007. Includes a three-course dinner. June 24, 7 pm. $75/person. Grande Ronde Cellars, 906 W. Second. granderondecellars.com (455-8161) SANDPOINT SUMMER SAMPLER The 10th annual food festival hosts local restaurants, breweries and wineries serving small bites of some of their most popular creations. Also includes a cooking competition hosted by Litehouse. All samples range in price from $1-$7. June 25, 5-8 pm. Farmin Park, Third and Main. sandpointchamber.org

FOOD & DRINK

CAMI BRADLEY LIVE! A concert to benefit Project ID, with food, a silent auction and wine available for purchase. Project ID is a recreation and life enrichment center for those with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

June 19, 6-10 pm. $45. Barrister Winery, 1213 W. Railroad. (475-7185) KPBX KIDS’ CONCERT A concert by Greg and Jere Canote, identical twins whose music is steeped in vintage, Americana and novelty songs. June 19, noon. Free. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave. bingcrosbytheater.com SUMMER CONCERT SERIES: ERIC TAYLOR This Texas musician is a master storyteller and has been influencing other songwriters for the last four decades. June 20, 7-9 pm. $15. Dahmen Barn, 419 N. Park Way, Uniontown, Wash. artisanbarn.org (509-229-3414)

GIRLS PINT OUT CDA MEETUP The Inland Northwest chapter of the national craft beer organization for women meets on the third Thursday of the month, from 6:30-8:30 pm. Free to attend. Free. Cork & Tap, 2034 Main St. girlsbeerblog.com (208-930-0769) FRUGAL TRAVELER SERIES: ITALY ON A DIME Take a virtual journey from the north, through Tuscany and to Sicily and the south, with a lineup of wines in the $8-$12 price range. June 19, 7 pm. $20, registration requested. Rocket Market, 726 E. 43rd. (343-2253) PEND D’OREILLE WINERY 20TH ANNIVERSARY The winery celebrates 20 years with wines specials and a live music. June 19-20. Pend d’Oreille Winery, 301 Cedar St. powine.com (877-452-9011) GROWING SMALL FRUITS WSU Master Gardener Steve Nokes discusses the planting, feeding, and pruning of small home fruits, including strawberries, raspberries, and blueberries. June 20, 10 am. Free and open to the public.

Manito Park, 1800 S. Grand Blvd. thefriendsofmanito.org (456-8038) HOPPED UP BREWING SECOND ANNIVERSARY The brewery celebrates two years, releases its first Pilsner and hosts live music and local food truck Tacos el Guerro. June 20, 2-9 pm. Free to attend. Hopped Up Brewing Co., 10421 E. Sprague. on.fb.me/1MD3Oyd (413-2488) MUSIC, MICROS & BARBECUE The CdA Casino’s summer series, featuring music by the Ron Greene Trio (7-10 pm) and beer specials from Daft Badger, Trickster and Slate Creek. June 20, 5-10 pm. $17. CdA Casino, 37914 S Hwy 95.

(800-523-2467) BARK ‘N’ BREW A dog-friendly festival, offering a barbecue and beer garden, live music, kids activities, silent auction, vendor fair and dog contests, with proceeds benefiting H.E.L.P. – Help Every Little Paw, a local nonprofit. June 21, 1-6 pm. Silver Mountain Ski Resort, 610 Bunker. (208-659-6408) CIDER APPRECIATION CLASS Liberty’s head cidermaker Rick Hastings presents an in-depth orientation on

MUSIC

SPORTS & OUTDOORS SPOKANE INDIANS VS. HILLSBORO HOPS Five-day game series, June 1822; Thu-Sat, Mon at 6:30 pm, Sun at 3:30 pm. Opening night (June 18) includes a fireworks show after the game. $5-$20. Avista Stadium, 602 N. Havana St. spokaneindiansbaseball.com COLVILLE PANORAMA RODEO Traditional rodeo events held nightly at 7 pm. Saturday also includes a parade at 1 pm and events from 2-6 pm. June 1920.Northeast Washington Fair Grounds, 317 W. Astor Ave. (509-684-2585) CHAFE 150 The Gran Fondo bike race offers 150-mile or 80-mile route options, starting and finishing in Sandpoint. Hosted by the Sandpoint Rotary Club to benefit the Lake Pend Oreille School District. June 20. $45-$75. chafe150.org JUSTIN C. HAEGER MEMORIAL RACE The ninth annual memorial race is run in the memory of its namesake, who passed away from a prescription drug overdoes in 2006. Offers a 3.1-mile or a 10-mile race. Proceeds support Daybreak Youth Services. June 20, 8 am. $10-$23. SFCC, 3410 W. Fort George

Wright Dr. jchtenmiler.com SAND VOLLEYBALL COURT RIBBON CUTTING The City of Spokane Valley celebrates the completion of seven sand volleyball courts at Browns Park. The ceremony is followed by the USAV Junior Beach Volleyball Tour at 9 am. June 20, 8:45 am. Free. Browns Park, 3101 N. Pines Rd. spokanevalley.org SPOKANE SHADOW VS. BELLINGHAM Men’s team game for the Evergreen Premier League season. June 20, 7 pm.

SFCC, 3410 W. Fort George Wright Dr. spokanesoccerclubshadow.org WEBB’S SLOUGH SPRINT BOAT RACES The weekend races kick off with a show and shine in downtown St. John, from 5-7 pm. On race day (Sat), gates open at 9 am and races start at 10 am. June 20 and Aug. 29. $15-$25. webbsslough.com DAD’S DAY DASH 2015 The third annual Dad’s Day Dash benefits SNAP. The timed/chipped event is a Bloomsday Second Seed Qualifier. June 21, 9-10:30 am. $20-$25. Manito Park, 1800 S. Grand Blvd. active.com (456-7111, ext. 242) SCENIC FAMILY HIKES Learn about the best family hikes in Spokane, tips for hiking with children, a list of short family hikes, and how to access a website offering free, guided hikes in the area for all ages. June 22, 6:30 pm. Free. South Hill Library, 3324 S. Perry St. (444-5385) MAP & COMPASS NAVIGATION BASICS CLASS Learn basic navigation skills using map and compass to find your way, along with the parts of a compass, how to read a topographic map and how to use them in tandem. June 23, 7-8:30 pm. $30-$50; register to save a spot. REI, 1125 N. Monroe St. rei.com/spokane (328-9900) SPOKANE INDIANS VS. EVERETT AQUASOX Two-day game series, June 24-25, starting each night at 6:30 pm. $5-$20. Avista Stadium, 602 N. Havana St. spokaneindiansbaseball.com WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOUNTAIN BIKE RACES The 10th annual season of the Wednesday Night Rides is open to riders of all levels, with a new course on the park’s mountain bike trails each week.

Wednesdays, at 6:30, through June.

Starts at the old airstrip in the 7-mile area of Riverside State Park. $10-$20/race. nomadzracing.com/races.html JOHN ROSKELLEY: PADDLING THE COLUMBIA Author and outdoorsman John Roskelley shares insight from his latest book, “Paddling the Columbia: A Guide to all 1200 Miles of our Scenic & Historical River.” At the Bowl & Pitcher Amphitheater. June 24, 6:30-7:30 pm. Free; register to save spot. rei.com/spokane HANDS-ON BIKE MAINTENANCE - FIX A FLAT REI bike techs share tips and tricks for fixing a flat, changing a bike tube and getting back on the go. Participants should bring their own wheel, tire and tube to work on during the class.

June 25, 7-8:30 pm. $20-$40; register to save a spot. REI, 1125 N. Monroe St. rei. com/spokane (328-9900) IRONMAN PRO MEET & GREET Professional triathletes Andy Potts, Trevor Wurtele and Heather Wurtele share their personal stories about becoming triathletes and share their expert tips to follow during your next race. June 25, 6-7 pm. Kroc Center, 1765 W. Golf Course Rd. kroccda.org (208-667-1865)

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$25. Eagles Lodge, 209 E. Sherman Ave. cdasummertheatre.com REASONS TO BE HAPPY The sequel to Neil Labute’s “Reasons to Be Pretty,” examining the choices and sacrifices people are willing to make in search of elusive ideals. Through June 28; Thur-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $19-$25. The Modern Theater Spokane, 174 S. Howard. (455-7529) THE SOUND OF MUSIC Performance of the classic musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein. Through June 28; Thur-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. Modern Theater CdA, 1320 E. Garden Ave. themoderntheater.org (208-667-1323) BOB: A LIFE IN FIVE ACTS An optimistic comedy. June 19-July 12; Fri-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. (No show July 4.) $17. Masquers Theatre, 322 E. Main Ave, Soap Lake, Wash. masquers.com (509-246-2611) OKLAHOMA! The PoP perform the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical as the last show of its 11th season. June 19-29; Fri-Sat at 7 pm, Sun at 3 pm. $5$12. Pend Oreille Playhouse, 236 S. Union. pendoreilleplayers.org (447-9900) STEEL KISS An examination of the proximity of prejudice to hatred and violence.

Through June 28; Fri-Sat at 7 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $10. Stage Left Theater, 108 W. Third. spokanestageleft.org (838-9727) WITHOUT DECOR PRESENTS: LUCKY ME Without Décor, a quarterly series featuring plays read without the sets, costumes, bright lights and other usual features of the stage, kicks off with this romantic comedy. June 19-20 at 7 pm.

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VISUAL ARTS PAST FORWARD: CONTEMPORARY ART FROM THE EMIRATES The exhibition tells the story of the UAE’s rich history, culture, and rapid development through the works of 25 notable Emirati artists. Through June 25; gallery open Wed-Sun, 10 am-5 pm. $5-$10/museum admission. The MAC, 2316 W. First. (456-3931) PALOUSE ARTISTS’ SHOWCASE The 11th annual show features artwork shown in local downtown businesses and the Palouse Grange. June 19, 6-9 pm, June 20, 11 am-6 pm, June 21, 12-3 pm. Free.

Palouse Grange Hall, 210 E. Bluff St. (509-878-1701) SANDPOINT ARTWALK 2015 The summertime arts tradition involves local businesses and galleries hosting art from the juried exhibition from June 19-Sept.

11. Artist reception June 19, from 5:308:30 pm. The public can view art during each business’s operating hours; each location is listed on the event brochure with a walking map. artsinsandpoint.org ART ON THE BLACKTOP The second annual artist gathering and art sale features paintings, photography, metalwork, jewelry, recycled art, paper arts and more.

June 20-21, from 10 am-6 pm. Free admission. 29th Avenue Artworks, 3128 E. 29th Ave. 29artworks.com BAZAAR The second annual local arts festival returns, hosted by Terrain. Featuring 50+ artist booths, selling goods priced at or under $100. Also includes live music, a beer garden, food trucks and the new family entertainment stage. On Post Street between City Hall and Riverfront Park. June 20, 11 am-10 pm. Free admission. terrainspokane.com/bazaar COMMUNITY CHALK MURAL: 900 HORSES The community is invited to help artist Ryan Feddersen create a chalk mural of 900 horses in the Spokane Trib-

al Gathering Place plaza, to commemorate U.S. Army Col. George Wright’s slaughter of local tribes’ horses in the late 1800s. All ages are welcome. June 20-28; Fri-Sun 10 am-4 pm, Mon-Thu, 12-4 pm.

Spokane City Hall, 808 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. spokanearts.org (509-328-5729) FLORIDAE The gallery’s 9th annual floral-themed exhibit and luncheon. Exhibit runs through July 10. June 20, 12-5 pm. Bank Left Gallery, 100 S. Bridge St, Palouse. bankleftgallery.com (878-8425) FREE FAMILY SATURDAY A day of free family activities, sponsored by STCU, in celebration of Father’s Day. Events include hands-on activities, artist demos, live music and more. June 20. Free. The MAC, 2316 W. First. (456-3931) SEVEN2 DRAW OFF: SUMMER SERIES NO. 2 The second local artist draw off series, between Chelsea Hendrickson and Karli Ingersoll and Scott Nicks and Zach Snuggs Grassi. Also featuring live music

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WORDS AUTHOR CRAIG JOHNSON The author of the popular Walt Longmire Western mystery series reads from his work and answers questions. June 18, 7 pm. Free.

Auntie’s, 402 W. Main Ave. (838-0206) AUTHOR TONIE CHACON Local author Tonie Chacon celebrates her debut novel, “Struck! A Titanic Love Story,” the LGBTQ book club pick of the month. Snacks provided. June 19, 7 pm. Auntie’s, 402 W. Main. auntiesbooks.com LISTEN TO YOUR MOTHER! READING Authors Mery Smith and Stacey Conner, two of the contributors to the inspirational new book “Listen to Your Mother: What She Said Then, What We’re Saying Now” share stories and talk about their work on this national project. June 20, 7 pm. Free.

Auntie’s, 402 W. Main. (838-0206) AUTHOR BILL PERCY Idaho author Bill Percy comes to Auntie’s for a reading and discussion of his thriller novel, “Climbing the Coliseum.” June 23, 7 pm. Free. Auntie’s, 402 W. Main. auntiesbooks.com WORDTASTING WITH THE MINIMALISTS A national tour that highlights the work of several authors from Asymmetrical Press, incorporating live music into this entreating and educational evening.

June 25, 7 pm. Free. Auntie’s, 402 W. Main Ave. auntiesbooks.com YOUNG WRITERS OF THE LOST HORSE A creative writing and book arts camp for children and teens (grades 5-12), sponsored by Lost Horse Press and the East Bonner County Library District. June 23-25, from 1-4 pm. Free, registration required. Sandpoint Library, 1407 Cedar St. (208-263-6930)

ETC. SPOKANE YOUTH BALLET The program opens with “The Seasons” set to the famous score by Glazunov. June 20, 7 pm. $12-$23. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. (624-1200) SPOKANE CANNABIS JOB FAIR Hosted by the Marijuana Business Association (MJBA), a trade organization supporting the recreational marijuana market.

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Crashing combines (top) give the Lind derby something special to draw crowds to the annual event. Full-contact truck races keep the action going between combine battles.

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A hot and windy day at a noisy dirt-track outdoor arena — the air filled with the scents of engine exhaust and grilling sausages — might not be for everyone. But it should be. There are few better ways to get to know a small town than attending its most noteworthy community celebration.

For some towns, that might mean attending an arts festival. Maybe a regatta or a parade. For Lind, Washington, the annual Combine Demolition Derby fits the bill. This year marked the 28th edition since it started as merely a bit of intermission entertainment at the town’s old rodeos.

Demolition derbies have been part of the rural

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American landscape for more than half a century, but few can compare to the one put on by the Lind Lions Club each June roughly 75 miles southwest of Spokane, just past Ritzville.

Between the racing and crashing pickups, grain trucks and combines, the Lind derby brings a remarkable amount of steel to the party, all in service of raising money for the small town — population less than 600 in the 2010 census — and entertaining everyone from young families to old-timers, bikers to college kids. All the revelers on hand want to see combines named JAWS, Hillbilly Deluxe and Beaver Commander bash into each other — often, and as loudly as possible.

Farm tractors might look like ungainly conveyances for a demolition derby, given their sheer bulk. But seeing the combines in action gives one a similar feeling as seeing a buffalo in the wild; they’re definitely faster than you think, and remarkably nimble for their size.

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The combines are the deserving headliners in Lind, but the action is virtually nonstop thanks to multiple heats of highly destructive races held between the combine events. And the demo derby itself is just one part of a weekend-long party that included pickup races Friday night, a community breakfast and parades Saturday before the rock ’em, sock ’em action started, and even more races on Sunday.

The trip got off to a rocky start as I whipped right by the Lind/Kahlotus exit on Highway 395. As anyone who’s spent any time driving around rural Eastern Washington knows, missing an exit quickly becomes a half-hour mistake spent searching for somewhere — anywhere — to flip a U-turn and get back headed in the right direction.

Thankfully, I still got there in plenty of time to join a few thousand people in the little arena marked by a U.S. flag on one end and a WSU flag on the other, the dirt center surrounded by bleachers and a layer of metal fencing designed to keep flying machine parts from hitting anyone in the audience.

A drop of the flag, a roar of the engines, a cheer from the crowd and another round of destruction is off and running, bringing generations of Lind natives together for an annual town ritual, and welcoming visitors from afar into the tight-knit community, too, even if just for a day. n dann@inlander.com

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