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I frequently express my concern that Idaho is one of six states with no money, time or inclination to offer preschool education to 3- and 4-year-olds.

I do admit to complaining about Idaho’s misguided legislators who would like to take over our federal public lands. And I don’t know why Idaho passed up millions of federal dollars in the Medicaid expansion proposal, which would have helped Idaho’s medically needy and at the same time boosted our economy.

But bitching is tiring — and tiresome. Here we are, at the start of another beautiful Idaho summer. I’m determined to use the rest of this month’s allotted space to share only positive thoughts about my hometown and mostly lovable state.

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Summer has finally come to Idaho. The Pacific Northwest definitely offers the best summer weather in the country — and arguably, the world. Idaho enjoys cool nights and sweet breezes. Washington and Oregon can also claim cool nights, but the Idaho Panhandle has the best lakes for swimming, paddling, fishing and boating. That’s a slightly biased fact.

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Another positive step: Boise State University released its 2017 Public Survey in which Idaho participants said education is the most important issue facing Idaho today.

Seventy percent of those surveyed want the Idaho State Legislature to address health care issues. Eighty percent favor keeping guaranteed insurance coverage for people with pre-existing conditions. Seventy-six percent believe children should stay on their parents’ health insurance until they turn 26 years old. Much-maligned Obamacare is looking better and better. And despite the controversy over science standards for Idaho schools, 72 percent of Idahoans surveyed believe that global climate change is actually happening. That’s progress.

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A positive compromise has been reached on the Ironman triathlon. The full Ironman in Coeur d’Alene is a thing of the past.

The half-Ironman will stay, but move to August, when the lake water is warmer for the swimming segment. Trim visitors with their sleek legs and healthy bodies will arrive in August instead of June, so the envy factor roused by all those wellturned bodies on the street will be postponed to a time when it’s too late to slim down for summer bathing suits. Also, June and July will be freed up for relaxing on the beach under an umbrella, perusing beach reads. Perfect.

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Gizmo, the amazing makerspace in Midtown Coeur d’Alene, is at full speed with “Let’s Science It” summer camps for kids.

Gizmo seeks to build “Creative confidence and curiosity through programs giving access to tools, technologies and mentor.”

In a June 3 robotic competition in Spokane, Coeur d’Alene’s three Gizmo teams performed well together, and their robots brought them firstand third-place finishes in the Robotics Challenge. Gizmologists and friends are gearing up for the third annual GizMotion, a celebration of creativity scheduled for July 8 in Coeur d’Alene’s City Park. Onlookers will see vehicles on wheels of all shapes, sizes, speeds and levels of imagination. That’s the future in positive motion.

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Speaking of wheels in motion, Max Evans, our pedicab entrepreneur, is home for the summer from the University of Montana and again pedaling his Cycle Cab CdA service.

Max and partners offer a pleasant ride in a pedicab through the parks and around downtown Coeur d’Alene. Make a reservation by calling Max at 208-358-8733. The cost will be your tip, or a price determined upon making the reservation.

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A truly good thing is happening at Coeur d’Alene’s Art Spirit Gallery, which is partnering with the University of Idaho to develop a new nonprofit organization, the Art Spirit Education Collaboratory. The intent is to continue the business in the spirit of the gallery’s founder, Steve Gibbs, and, with the U of I, teach the elements of the business LETTERS of art. Gallery Send comments to owner Blair editor@inlander.com.

Williams and crew are gearing up for a celebration of the 20th anniversary of Art Spirit, as they meld a for-profit gallery with a new nonprofit mission.

Well, that concludes a positive glance at North Idaho here in June of 2017. The list of good happenings could go on and on. Despite frustrations over lost opportunities and political differences, we live here because the mountains and lakes have captured our souls, the landscape is vast and inviting, and our communities are made up of warm, giving and vital people.

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COMMENT | CONSUMERS the “multiplier effect,” where money recirculates to create more local prosperity, we also lose out on local business reinvestment and more generous community philanthropy.

With stagnant real wages and limited career prospects, many people are driven to prioritize price and convenience above all else. This creates a downward spiral, where economic opportunity is drying up fast. Consider the working class couple who wants to buy American, but can’t afford the U.S.-made tools offered at the local hardware store. Or the office professional who can’t make the farmers market fit into their schedule, and so opts for a non-local grocery delivery service instead. We are pinched for time and money at every turn, despite being the richest country on Earth.

“We are pinched for time and money at every turn, despite being the richest country on Earth.”

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Opt Local We must invest in the independent businesses that enrich our lives, while we still can

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ith Amazon’s proposed acquisition of Whole Foods last week, pundits are buzzing over the race between the internet giant and Walmart to strike the best mix of online and offline sales in our cutthroat modern economy. But which entity will cross the finish line first, and why, are not the questions we should be asking ourselves. At what cost to our economic future will this enormous retail duo reach total market dominance? And what can we do to preserve opportunity for the many, instead of continuing to concentrate wealth in the hands

of a few?

We’re constantly told that the so-called “free market” is supposed to increase choice and competition. The longer regulators wait to confront huge concentrations of corporate power, the more this lie is exposed as a convenient story to justify how those with enormous wealth can make ever more, to the detriment of innovators and independent businesses everywhere.

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We need to build an economy where consumers make enough money and have enough leisure time to exert real choice in the marketplace. And we need a marketplace where competition is not stifled by megacorporations benefiting from gross public subsidies. According to research last year by Good Jobs First, Amazon has reaped billions of dollars in the form of tax giveaways and direct economic subsidies from local and state governments.

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COMMENT | FROM READERS

THINKING OF THE CHILDREN s a parent of children who lost their dad to suicide, there needs to be a

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program to support and educate the children left behind. Some form of monitoring. Aftercare. Follow-up support. Something. Anything. As a parent, trying to ensure my kiddos don’t follow the same path as their dad is critical. Having the tools, education or support is vital to my kids’ LETTERS survival. But there is nothing. No Send comments to sorry. No follow-up, no monitoring. editor@inlander.com.

Nothing. Where are these programs?

I think teaching and supporting the children left behind could be a huge tool for these kids, and bring us one step closer to ending this epidemic.

Scared my kids will be the next generation of suicides if nothing is done, BETH JACOBSON Hunters, Wash.

Continuous Curriculum School: The wave of the future?

Readers react to “The End of Summer?”

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JEFF MURRAY: Math and reading scores are much higher in schools with shorter breaks. We need to also pay teachers more so that they don’t commit ritual suicide when we make the switch.

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The ‘Necessity Defense’ Spokane activists accused of blocking train tracks hope for a sympathetic ear in court this week

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he women clad in floral patterned dresses and floppy hats march onto the train tracks in East Central Spokane. They hold signs condemning coal and oil trains — “Coal and Oil Planet Boil,” one of them reads. They know they’re breaking the law.

“Even though we’re committing what may be considered a criminal act, it’s defensible because the harm that might come of our actions is of less import than what we are trying to prevent,” says Nancy Nelson, who on that day in 2016 sported a hat with a pink flower to match her dress. “For us, that seems very easy.”

Nelson, 71, is part of the local gaggle of “Raging Grannies,” an international network of activists who use humor, satire and and “unladylike antics” to raise awareness for social justice issues. She, along with five other people, were handcuffed and booked into jail in August

and September last year for trespassing onto Burlington Northern Sante Fe rail lines. The six did so to protest the oil and coal train corridor that runs through Spokane and, they say, those trains’ contribution to global climate change.

They’re each currently facing misdemeanor charges of second degree trespassing and obstructing or delaying a train. This week, they’ll argue to Spokane County District Court Judge Debra Hayes that they have exhausted all other options to lessen the human impact on the climate. For these six people, standing on those tracks was akin to the Revolutionary War, the Underground Railroad and lunch counter sit-ins of the 1960s: They had no choice.

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or Nelson, a social justice activist for that it does or it doesn’t, the extent of what we’re decades, civil disobedience out of necessity doing to ourselves and our climate and our dates back to at least 1985, when she was planet, there’s great controversy over that.” arrested for the first time. Back then, she was After the first Skagit County jury could not part of a group of people who stood on tracks in reach a verdict, Ward was convicted of burglary order to block the so-called “White Train,” which in a second trial. He faces a potential 10-year they believed carried nuclear warheads from sentence and $20,000 in fines.

Texas to Bangor, Washington.

However, in another Washington state In that case, a Spokane judge allowed the case, five defendants were acquitted last year of group to argue a “necessity defense,” and the charges of blocking or obstructing a train. That case was dismissed at trial — though for unrelated group, known as the “Delta 5,” built a tripod of reasons. steel poles across train tracks in “We had a friendly judge,” Everett and remained there for LETTERS Nelson says now, chuckling. “He eight hours before being arrested.

Send comments to managed to dismiss the case …

Last year, a jury convicted them editor@inlander.com. because they didn’t identify me of trespassing, but acquitted them as a woman.” on charges of obstructing a train.

Looking around the region at other climate That means BNSF could not demand that they activists charged with crimes, the six defendants pay restitution — a major victory, climate activists realize that their necessity defense is a long shot. say.

But they’re encouraged by others’ recent attempts “That’s where they can try and get you,” in Washington state to make the same argument.

Christianson says. “They can try to jack up that Just this month, high-profile climate activist restitution to try and discourage others from Ken Ward was convicted of burglary in Skagit doing it.”

County after he shut off an emergency valve on Although the judge in that case did not allow a tar sands pipeline that delivers crude oil from a “necessity defense,” the Everett case has Nelson the Canadian province of Alberta to Washington. and her co-defendants — her husband Rusty, Judge Michael Rickert did not allow Ward George Taylor, Gaea Aeolus, Margie Heller and to argue a “necessity defense,” and drew national Deena Romoff — feeling optimistic. attention to the case with his statements in open “I think we might have a small window to get court this past January: “I know there’s trementhat necessity defense in,” says Taylor, 77. “But dous controversy over the fact whether [climate even if we don’t, we can go into the trial and our change] even exists. And even if people believe attorneys can put us on the stand, allowing us to

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Nancy Nelson, one of the three Grannies pictured, has written letters and met with members of Congress to address climate change — with little effect. KAI HUSCHKE PHOTO tell the jury why we did this.”

Taylor is referring to the controversial strategy known as jury nullification — where the jury can take the law into its own hands and acquit the defendants because it believes the laws are unjust, regardless of guilt or innocence.

But if both of those tactics should fail, the six senior activists have at least one more fallback plan. They’re suing the United States.

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his January, before their arrests for standing on the BNSF tracks, these six people signed onto a lawsuit against the federal government. Along with Gunnar Holmquist, a local doctor and member of Direct Action Spokane, they claim that a federal law preventing local governments from enacting regulations to stop climate change is unconstitutional.

Specifically, the lawsuit cites the Interstate Commerce Commission Termination Act of 1995 as the reason why the Spokane City Council reversed course on a couple of ballot measures last year that would have barred fossil fuel transportation by rail through the city.

A similar lawsuit in Oregon gives hope to the seven people in Spokane. In that case, 21 youths from across the country claimed that the government’s actions were causing climate change and were therefore violating younger generations’ rights to “life, liberty and property,” and “their obligation to hold certain natural resources in trust for the people and for future generations.”

In a landmark decision, U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken ruled last November that the lawsuit can go forward, a decision that suggests citizens have a fundamental right to a stable climate.

“We can’t wait for ballot measures or until environmental leaders can devise better policies,” Taylor says. “This is an urgent matter.” n mitchr@inlander.com

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TRANSPORTATION Opponents of the city’s plan to reduce the number of lanes on a 1.12-mile stretch of NORTH MONROE Street aren’t giving up. If anything, they’re upping their rhetoric, attempting to attach a political price to supporters of the North Monroe road diet project. The Monroe Street Business Association has put up a billboard urging voters to “Remember in November!” that City Councilmembers Breean Beggs and Candace Mumm “do not support business” and that they “advocate wasteful spending.” But while both Beggs and Mumm are generally supportive of the lane reduction, neither had directly voted on the project when the billboard went up. Monday night, however, Beggs and Mumm did vote in favor of the city’s six-year street plan, which includes the North Monroe lane reduction. The billboard also appears to violate Public Disclosure Commission rules requiring the organization that funded a political billboard to be clearly identified on the ad. (DANIEL WALTERS)

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SPOKANE VALLEY In a time when many children across the world live in poverty, or face food insecurity or homelessness, Spokane Valley Councilman ED PACE holds a bold view on how government should care for children: They shouldn’t. “Countries don’t, and shouldn’t, care for children. Parents do!” Pace wrote on Twitter last week, generating a fair amount of backlash on social media. Pace, a libertarian, elaborated on his views in an interview with the Inlander, saying that if parents can’t take care of a child, then it should fall to extended family, and then to the Christian faith community. He says we need to find the root cause of why kids are left without care, and to “stop enabling people, and families” by saying the government will take care of a child. Where he draws the line, however, is in treating children with disabilities. He says government programs should still provide a “safety net” for those children. (WILSON CRISCIONE)

ENERGY What can bring supporters of wind and coal together? Groups that support wind development and the coal-powered Colstrip power plant want to lower costs to use a Montana segment of the BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATION’s 15,000-mile network.

Right now, there’s a $2 fee per megawatt hour added on top of regular costs to run electricity across a 90-mile portion of the public utility’s network in the eastern part of the state. That extra cost could be the deciding factor for some wind companies wanting to develop in that part of the state or not, according to groups that want BPA to drop the fee. The groups also argue there is unused capacity on the line because of the extra cost. If the fee is dropped and encourages more users, the partners that own Colstrip would pay less to use those lines. BPA likely won’t reconsider its choice to keep the fee until after the 2018 rates are set in late July. (SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL)

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Good For a Year Coeur d’Alene Public Schools’ new (interim) superintendent; plus, change comes slowly for Regional Law and Justice Council NEW LEADERSHIP IN CDA

Following the resignation of superintendent Matthew Handelman in April, Coeur d’Alene Public Schools has found a new superintendent — at least for the time being. STANLEY OLSON, a former Boise School District superintendent, has been chosen as interim superintendent of Coeur d’Alene Public Schools for the next school year.

In a statement, Olson says he is honored to be chosen: “The Coeur d’Alene school system is recognized throughout Idaho and the Northwest as being progressive and strongly committed to the ongoing development of every child.”

The district board of trustees approved hiring Olson during its meeting on Monday. Peter McPherson, the superintendent and federal programs director for Challis Joint School District, was also considered. Olson was a Democratic candidate for Idaho schools superintendent in 2010, but he lost to Republican Tom Luna. He currently works for an education software company called Silverback Learning Solutions.

“Dr. Olson stood out to us based on his wealth of knowledge and experience in public school administration, including managing over $100 million in voter-approved bonds to pay for new and improved schools in the Boise School District,” said board chairman Casey Morrisroe.

Olson, however, will not remain CdA schools superintendent beyond next year, as the board decided that the interim superintendent is not allowed to apply for the permanent position. The district will conduct a national search for the permanent position beginning in the fall. (WILSON CRISCIONE)

ADDRESSING RACIAL DISPARITIES

A cohort of community groups and organizations is growing increasingly frustrated with the pace at which Spokane’s REGIONAL LAW AND JUSTICE COUNCIL is addressing racial and ethnic disparities in the criminal justice system.

A letter sent to members of the Law and Justice Council and signed by more than 20 community leaders notes that only a small fraction — $20,000 — of a $1.75 million grant from the MacArthur Foundation is dedicated to reducing racial and ethnic disparities. The grant is part of the foundation’s nationwide Safety and Justice Challenge that provides Spokane and other cities with access to resources such as the W. Haywood Burns Institute — an organization that specializes in addressing racial and ethnic disparities.

The letter references a survey conducted by the Burns Institute, which found that the Law and Justice Council should focus on reducing racial disparities as a “core goal,” and suggests the city and the county invest in implicit bias training for those working in criminal justice.

Those changes are coming, if slowly, says Spokane Regional Criminal Justice Administrator Jacquie van Wormer, who has been heavily involved in criminal justice reform efforts.

“If the community is frustrated about data, I think everybody within the system is just as frustrated,” she says. “But we are working on it.”

There has been progress. With the help of the Burns Institute, Spokane now knows that seven black adults were detained in Spokane County for every one white adult in 2014. Additionally, the average length of time in jail in 2016 was 16 days for white adults, 25 days for black adults and 21 days for Native American adults.

That kind of data collection will continue, van Wormer says, adding that she hopes to start publishing those numbers online by late July. (MITCH RYALS)

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NEWS | HOMELESSNESS

Shelter In Place For years, homeless shelters have been subject to bursts of funding, followed by reduced hours when funding runs out; now, the city of Spokane seeks stability for its shelters

BY DANIEL WALTERS

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or four months, the House of Charity provided shelter for essentially any adult who needed it.

Men or women, sober or drunk, singles or couples — hundreds slept on the blue yoga mats lined up on the floor downstairs and in the beds upstairs. Unlike previous months, those sheltered wouldn’t be asked to leave during the day.

But the money that Catholic Charities and the city of Spokane hoped would flood in to keep the program going never arrived. On May 1, House of Charity ended its overflow sleeping and its 24/7 shelter model.

For weeks afterward, Jonathan Mallahan, the city’s Community and Neighborhood Services Division Director, would walk the streets underneath the I-90 corridor nearly every day, and speak with the men and women who’d lost their shelter. He remembers speaking with one man in particular, a tall, lean man with long hair and stress in his eyes.

“This one gentleman says, ‘You guys just don’t care,’” Mallahan says. “That is kind of the message we send.

Homelessness is lonely. You already feel disconnected.

And for something like this to happen, it does feel like, ‘Here’s one more piece of evidence that I don’t matter.’”

The city of Spokane has scrambled to pull together the resources to not only restart the 24/7 shelter program at House of Charity, but to ensure that the 24/7 shelter program citywide will survive long-term.

Last week, the city agreed to dip into its reserves, taking $510,000 to restart the 24/7 shelter system at House of Charity for the rest of the year. And thanks to a major contribution from Providence Health Care, it now has enough money to keep the 24/7 shelters open through 2018.

The challenge comes after that: The city wants to put an end to the roller coaster of shelter funding and finally provide a measure of long-term stability for years to come.

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ble, the creation of a 24/7 shelter program was a triumph to be celebrated, even bragged about: Combined with a flood of housing for the chronically homeless, the city was on the crux, perhaps, of largely ending homelessness.

Different nonprofits intersected to weave a safety net without holes: Crosswalk provided 24/7 shelter for teens, Family Promise for families, Hope House and Women’s Hearth for women, and House of Charity for single people.

Mallahan said back in November that if the city didn’t raise enough money, all these gains were temporary. But he was an optimist. The problem was urgent enough, and the long-term savings were obvious enough, that he believed the city would find the nearly $600,000 extra to keep the program running through 2017.

Some organizations stepped up. The Downtown Spokane Partnership, for example, helped raise $75,000 from local businesses. But with foundations and private funders low on cash, initial commitments evaporated.

“The gap just grew,” Mallahan says.

Ultimately, the city cut off 24/7 shelter funding for cutbacks to its hours and services in 2009, 2011, 2012 House of Charity several weeks early, in order to ensure and 2016. Sometimes, last-minute outpourings of local that the funding for Family Promise would last through generosity would save the day; sometimes they wouldn’t. the rest of the year.

“Opening a program to run it for six months and “I take it very personally,” Mallahan says. “I take it then closing it… it’s traumatic to staff, and traumatic to as a personal failing that I couldn’t find a those who use our services,” says Sam way to make the pieces fall together.”

Dompier, House of Charity’s director.

LETTERS Eventually, reality set in: Despite Mallahan says that Catholic Charities Send comments to months of meetings with other municipaliwanted more of a guarantee of stability editor@inlander.com. ties and organizations, the city was largely before agreeing to reopen 24/7. Within on its own to plug the gap and restart the a span of a week and a half, the city was 24/7 program at House of Charity. able to find that guarantee. Providence Health Care made “If we’re going to make things happen, we’ve got to a one-time $173,000 donation of charity-care dollars to do it ourselves, and we’ve got to do it now,” Mallahan the shelter. And the city promised an annual $250,000 says. “And then work with others longer-term.” increase in homeless funding, every year. That fundBut even with the city dipping into its reserves to ing will come from a natural budget increase created by offer the additional $510,000, Catholic Charities wasn’t economic growth, but Mallahan recognizes that doesn’t quite willing to bite yet. For years, the organization had mean it’s free. been subject to one funding crisis after another: In ad“It means other things won’t get funded more, or will dition to this year, House of Charity faced the threat of potentially be funded less,” he says.

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Thanks to new funding from the city of Spokane, the House of Charity can resume housing the homeless on a 24/7 basis.

Beyond 2018, funding is still uncertain. Crucially, instead of forcing organizations like Catholic Charities to apply for grants every year, the city will move to a longterm model, establishing five-year performance-based contracts.

“That means less time for the shelter to try to show why we’re a good shelter on paper, and more time trying to make it a good shelter in practice,” Dompier says. “Less filling out paperwork, more boots on the ground.”

But the city still needs more funding. Mallahan is once again counting on other local governments to come to the rescue.

“I do expect we’re going to have good, productive conversations with [Spokane] Valley and the county on how to achieve this goal,” Mallahan says.

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ing homelessness for years.

“The county puts in millions of dollars into both the shelter side and also into developing transitional housing,” says County Commissioner Shelly O’Quinn.

“For one thing, we’re not in the social service business, I guess is the best way I put it.”

BEYOND CITY BORDERS

To some degree, Spokane County has already been fight-

Indeed, Spokane County has directed funding toward mental health treatment and housing for the homeless. It has also traditionally distributed grants, obtained through document recording fees, to local homeless shelters.

During the past two years, however, House of Charity hasn’t been on the list. Catholic Charities had made St. Margaret’s Shelter a higher priority than House of Charity in its funding request, and Spokane County wasn’t able to fund both.

Yet last June, the county donated $50,000 from its mental-health funds to help keep House of Charity open.

And the county’s preliminary plan for the next two years has $135,000 earmarked for House of Charity.

Mark Richard, president of the Downtown Spokane Partnership and former county commissioner, recognizes that the county doesn’t have slack in its budget, but suggests that future tax increases could include additional funds for shelters.

“If they’re going to put out a ballot measure that’s going to address public safety and regional parks, let’s ask them to help take care of our homeless and most in need,” Richard says.

The Valley is a lot more skeptical. While the city met with the county and Catholic Charities, Spokane Valley Mayor Rod Higgins declined to show up to the meeting.

Higgins says that, while he has met with Spokane Mayor David Condon separately to talk about this issue, he objected to Catholic Charities being at the meeting without other charities present.

“It was unbalanced,” Higgins says. “It was not supposed to be that way. We were misled.”

Spokane Valley has a bone-deep philosophical objection to the notion that it’s the government’s role to try to solve these sorts of problems. While it has a pool of $150,000 annually that nonprofits can apply for, Higgins says the Valley is skeptical of putting a line item in its budget for the homeless.

“For one thing, we’re not in the social service business, I guess is the best way I put it,” he says. “If you are prioritizing, [homeless shelters] would not be something I would care to go out to ask taxes for.”

That doesn’t mean Valley residents don’t care about the homeless, Higgins says. He suggests they give personally instead of the government “reaching into [their] pocketbook” and forcing them to give.

Mallahan says he recognizes that the House of Charity model may not be perfect. For all the successes of the 24/7 shelter, there were also problems to address: Some nearby businesses were frustrated with the increase in loitering and littering. There were two House of Charity norovirus outbreaks. And for homeless women who’ve experienced domestic violence, sleeping in a co-ed space near men can feel dangerous.

“You may need a different environment to feel safe,” Mallahan says.

Ideally, he’d like to spread the burden of 24/7 shelter funding, providing another overflow shelter for women.

He knows that could cost even more, but past failure hasn’t stifled Mallahan’s hopes.

“I’m still optimistic about this moving forward,” he says. n danielw@inlander.com

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The

Quest for

Some things — like Hoopfest — never change

BY WILSON CRISCIONE

Glory A s someone who has played in Hoopfest every year for nearly two decades, I’ve come to realize there are certain things about the weekend I can always count on.

There will always be that one pop song that is played over and over, until you think it’s the only thing you’ll ever hear again.

I will never, no matter how big a cooler I have, bring enough water.

The horde of people silent during the national anthem before the first game will always send chills down my spine.

Inevitably, a player on another team will want to punch me in the face after I argue with him because he called a foul that really was not a foul at all, and he’s just mad because he can’t score on me.

Another thing that seems to happen a lot is that on Sunday, I will leave disappointed that I did not win my bracket that year, but I will think, we’ll win it next year.

My team has won Hoopfest before, two years in a row, on the 8-foot baskets when I was just barely old enough to play and our jerseys were shirts that fell to our knees. We named the team the Jaguars, because I thought jaguars were pretty cool at the time. (My dad was the coach, so everyone else obliged.) We were even on the news once. One of my teammates saw the news lady

wandering around before our championship game and suggested she do a story on us. We won the year before, and were on the verge of winning again, so she did a nice little feature. She asked me on camera why I thought our team would win that year, and I said we would win because we won last year. We understood the moment. We weren’t nervous. We, not the other team, would be poised under pressure.

The television broadcast cut me off after, “I think we’ll win because we won last year.” I remember watching it, complaining that the TV news failed to capture the complexity of thought that went into the answer. When the segment was over, the TV anchors were talking about how cute we were, these little kids who take Hoopfest so seriously. One of them made a joke about us being the “future Zags.” I didn’t take it as a joke. Maybe, one day, it would be true. Maybe, if I work as hard as I can, I’ll be a star. I’ll be the next Dan Dickau. I’ll go to the NBA. That’s another thing that’s never changed: I take Hoopfest too seriously. And I’m occasionally delusional.

I didn’t really reach the peak of my basketball powers until college, though it didn’t really matter at that point. I went to Eastern Washington University and spent a lot of time there playing basketball. Not on the team, of course, but in the rec center, with the other guys who used to be OK in high school. ...continued on next page

The killer basketball instinct started early for the author.

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HOOPFEST

ABOUT RIVERFRONT PARK

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“THE QUEST FOR GLORY,” CONTINUED...

By 2013, I was fairly confident that one of my two teams would win their bracket. But then three days before the big weekend, I was practicing at the park against some high school players. One of them tried to do a spin move and ended up spinning the back of his head into my face, breaking my nose.

I bought a mask to protect my face and played in Hoopfest anyway. People walked by my courts and made remarks about the dude playing Hoopfest with a mask on. Was it really worth it? I could imagine them asking. My mom took a picture of me in a defensive stance, intensely looking through the mask at a guy much taller than me. I put the picture on Instagram and tagged Kobe Bryant, adding #maskedmamba, #mambaarmy, and #hoopfest. It was all pretty regrettable. My teams did well, but no championship shirts that year.

In 2015, I was living in Bellingham and working for the newspaper there. It was a year when I was especially grateful for the familiarity of Hoopfest. My girlfriend, now my fiancée, still lived in Spokane, and every other weekend one of us would drive across the state to see the other. Going back and forth all the time was exhausting. When Hoopfest came around, however, it was all

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the same — the music, the crowds, the competitiveness, the fantasy that there was some similarity between me and my favorite NBA player (Steph Curry, at that point). I was on two teams again, but this time the courts were on opposite sides of town, and it was the year it was, like, 110 degrees. That was also exhausting. One of my teams made the championship, but ultimately we just ran out of gas and lost.

I still haven’t found the Hoopfest glory I had when I was 9 years old, when the four of us were kings of the court, even if it was only one court out of hundreds, and even if it didn’t mean much to anybody else.

These days, I’ve found there’s another thing I can count on.

When I tell people about playing Hoopfest, many will scoff at the idea. Why? they will ask. It’s too crowded, too hot. It takes over downtown. The players are too intense, competing their overzealous little hearts out over a T-shirt that they will wear maybe twice in their life.

To all of that, I would say they are correct.

But I’d also say this: It’s fun as hell. n wilsonc@inlander.com

isitors to Spokane for Hoopfest might notice what we locals have been living with for a while — Riverfront Park is undergoing a facelift of epic proportions.

For Hoopfest players and fans, that means some elements of the tourney have moved either to a different part of the park, or out of the park completely.

Inside the park, you’ll find the Team Check-In in the U.S. Pavilion, the Foodfest in the Central Meadow, the Family Fun Zone in the Clocktower Meadow and the Master Scoreboard in the Red Wagon Meadow. You can access those park areas through the Red Wagon Meadow; the south end of the Post Street Bridge, across from the old Washington Power building; or from the north at Howard Street and Mallon Avenue.

Among the features that have moved downtown from the park are the Nike Center Court, Toyota Shootoff Court, Hoopfest Store and Visit Spokane Information Tent, which can all be found in the Bennett Block, just off Stevens Street between Main and Spokane Falls Boulevard. The main Hoopfest First Aid Station will be on the corner of Washington and Spokane Falls Boulevard, and the Elite Courts will now be found on Stevens adjacent to the Nike Center Court. n For all things Hoopfest, visit spokanehoopfest.org.

What’s in a Name?

An unscientific breakdown of the odds for our favorite team names

BY DAN NAILEN

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f the number of basketball courts dotting downtown Spokane isn’t enough to indicate the sheer scope of this hoops-happy undertaking, the number of teams entered will do the trick. I perused the complete list — all 165 pages of it — to see what names grabbed me at first glance, much like how I pick horses at the track.

Here’s a breakdown of my 20 favorite team names and their (totally made up) odds of winning this weekend:

ANGRY LARRY BIRDS Evocative of both a popular game series and one of basketball’s greatest-ever players. Odds: 20-to-1

AVOCADO TOAST Trendy. Smooth. Delicious. If their game matches their name, look out. Odds: 30-to-1

BACK THAT PASS UP A name that shows a knack for teamwork while also giving props to Juvenile’s 1998 hip-hop anthem “Back That Azz Up”? Sold. Odds: 20-to-1

BAD HOMBRES Topical after the presidential debates, and potentially intimidating to opponents. Odds: 20-to-1

BALLERS ON HBO I haven’t seen the program, but the fact that this team is paying homage to The Rock’s show and kept “on HBO” as part of their name — brilliant. Odds: 25-to-1

Even if you don’t have game, you can at least have a great Hoopfest team name.

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BEARDLESS KARNOWSKIS Nice local touch for Inland Northwesterners who remember pre-facial-hair Przemek Karnowski. But bearded Karnowski was the best Karnowski. Odds: 100-to-1

BITTER AGED HOPS I got the sense looking through all the team names that drinking beer is nearly as important as balling during Hoopfest. These guys seem ready. Odds: 50-to-1

EXPOSED BRICKERY I picture a team of interior decorators bored with every new brewpub’s décor. And the self-mocking tone is great.

Odds: 60-to-1

GIMME THE YACHT ROCK If you’re going to get footloose down in the danger zone of the lane, watch out for these guys. Odds: 40-to-1

GYRO STEPS What modern basketball fans call the “Euro step” was a “traveling violation” back in the day. Expect these guys to walk all over their opponents. Odds: 15-to-1

JUKES OF HAZZARD Please let this team show up to play in Daisy Dukes.

Odds: 35-to-1

LORENZO LLAMAS Inspired by a B-list actor, hoping to bring an A-level game to Hoopfest. Odds: 75-to-1

MAXI DADS The real question here: Will this team bring a mascot to

cheer them on? Odds: 80-to-1

NOTHING BUT NETFLIX Many Hoopfest players are going to be laid up for a few days after all the exercise. Good thing a new Orange Is The New Black season just hit. Odds: 90-to-1

PROS IN CONS Any team willing to play Hoopfest in Converse All-Stars — and I’m assuming that’s the case here — gets extra credit. Odds: 45-to-1

RUN LIKE THE WINDED Somebody please play Spinal Tap’s “Break Like The Wind” as this team takes the court. Odds: 85-to-1

SHAM YAO The Yao Ming reference is a little dated; the 7-foot-6 Chinese superstar retired six years ago. But self-deprecation goes a long way with me. Odds: 65-to-1

SWEDISH SWISH With Gonzaga being a hotbed of international talent, it makes sense that Hoopfest might have an overseas contingent. Odds: 35-to-1

THREEZ COMPANY I love both John Ritter and long-distance shooters. Odds: 25-to-1

VLADIMIR PUTINITIN I like that this name is topical, controversial and borderline filthy. Odds: 20-to-1 n

NAVIGATING HOOPFEST 2017 W

hether you’re a player or just a fan of watching Spokane’s massive three-on-three basketball tournament, you’ll have to know the best way to navigate the hundreds of courts and assorted snack shacks and souvenir stands. Here’s a quick rundown of what you need to know: TRANSPORTATION: Ditching your car is highly recommended. The Spokane Transit Authority is offering a Hoop Loop on Saturday (6 am-8 pm) and Sunday (7 am-6 pm), and the Jefferson Loop (south and west of downtown) and Riverpoint Loop (east of downtown) have buses running every 10 minutes. All-day bus passes are just $1.50 each day. Obviously, services like Uber and Lyft are also options. Use the code HOOPFEST2017 when you book

via the Uber app, and Hoopfest will allocate $1 from every ride to local charities.

PARKING: If you must drive, plan on paying to park either in downtown garages or lots, or at meters on Saturday until 7 pm.

Sunday metered parking is free. Spokane Arena is offering all-day parking for $6.

THE KIDS: The Family Fun Zone gives kids and their parents a place to kick it between games. It’s in the Clocktower Meadow of Riverfront Park, and open Friday from 11 am-7 pm, Saturday from 9 am-6 pm and Sunday from 9 am-4 pm. Entry is $1.

FOOD: Downtown Spokane has all manner of grub, of course, or you can eat and drink at the Foodfest in Riverfront

Park’s Central Meadow.

THE BIG GAMES: If you’re only going to watch a game or two of Hoopfest, make them count. Hit the Nike Center Court on Sunday to watch the Co-Ed Elite Championship (12:30 pm), Women’s Elite Championship (2:30 pm), Men’s 6-Foot-And-Under Elite Championship (5:35 pm) or Men’s Open Elite Championship (6:20 pm). There’s a slight chance that one of those games will have to move, but if it does, it will be close by and easy to find.

You can also catch the Slam Dunk Competition finals on the Nike Center Court, Sunday at 3 pm. n For all Hoopfest information, visit spokanehoopfest.org.

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Once More, With Feeling O The second Alumni Game pits former Zags against ex-Huskies

BY TUCK CLARRY

Jeremy Pargo

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ne of the hardest parts about being a fan of college athletics is getting attached to players’ games and watching them leave in a quick four years. The Hoopfest Alumni Game takes some of the sting out of that loss with a fun reunion for fans with the players they’ve watched for decades — especially for Zags fans throughout Gonzaga’s historic run.

Last year’s game saw 22 former Gonzaga players suiting up and going at each other, painting images that Hoopfest Director Matt Santangelo, a former Zags star, couldn’t forget.

“At one point, Micah Downs had the ball at the wing and Erroll Knight was guarding him and you saw these two 6-7, long, lean, strong athletes matched up against each other, and it’s just, like, ‘Aww geesh,’” said Santangelo. “That’s what basketball is supposed to look like.”

The game turned out to be hypercompetitive, which wasn’t too much of a surprise to Santangelo.

“There’s a game in town on Sunday afternoons, and it’s the best game in town, better than Gonzaga’s current players. And it’s the most competitive,” he says.

“When we started putting together those rosters last year, I realized it would be just like the Sunday ball that John Stockton puts together. Anytime you get a Casey Calvary out there, or certainly a David Stockton, you know it’s going to be scrappy.”

The event was spearheaded by Dan Dickau and Jeremy Pargo, who will remain team captains for this year’s Gonzaga alumni team.

“I don’t know what I expected,” said Pargo. “From being in Spokane and at Gonzaga for four years, you expect everyone to stay the same, and add to what they do. And we have some guys that are still playing, and you can see that they’ve gotten better. And then you have guys like [34-yearold] Erroll Knight, who is a coach in Seattle. I honestly thought Erroll was the same 22-year-old when he was out there playing.”

To raise the competitiveness to an even higher level, Pargo suggested bringing in former University of Washington Huskies to face off with the Zag alums: “The rivalry was always something big while I was at Gonzaga, and they’ve always been a good program on the other side of the state.”

The Bulldogs and Huskies recently ended their nine-year hiatus, with 2015’s matchup at the Battle 4 Atlantis tournament in the Bahamas and last year’s game at the Kennel, both won easily by the Zags.

The Husky alumni team is led by coach Donald Watts, who faced off against Santangelo throughout their playing days and is familiar to Hoopfest fans.

Watts’ father, former Seattle SuperSonics standout Slick Watts, was the ambassador to Hoopfest its first two years. Coming back to Spokane and reengaging in his relationship with Santangelo was a no-brainer.

“At that time, we were both programs on the rise,” said Watts. “We went to two consecutive NCAA tournaments, that’s when they started their tournament run. At that time, Gonzaga was built on Washington guys. It was kind of a deal where the Santangelos and Calvarys weren’t guys UW was recruiting, so they went over there and found a home, and built that program.”

Watts sees events like this Alumni Game as a great opportunity to help rebuild relationships within the Huskies program moving forward: “Our guys are a little more all over the place and not as connected.”

The hope is that reestablishing former players with the program and community will help newly hired UW head coach Mike Hopkins rebuild.

The Huskies’ alumni roster is full of young guys who have played in the NBA or elsewhere professionally, with Justin Dentmon, Bobby Jones, Justin Holiday, Robert Upshaw, Tre Simmons and Darnell Gant joining Watts, with the potential of Nate Robinson’s late addition.

For Pargo, the rivalry lasted past his college days when he played for the NBA’s Memphis Grizzlies, with former Husky great Quincy Pondexter as a teammate. “I’d bust his butt every practice,” said Pargo. “I hope he shows up, even though he won’t be able to play.” (Pondexter has been hampered by knee injuries the past two years.)

Pargo hasn’t yet planned out the rotation for his team, but intends to lean on young guys like Mike Hart to log some minutes for him. “Mike is probably one of my favorite players, so he’ll probably play big minutes,” said Pargo. “And I haven’t [admitted to] myself that I’ve become the old guy yet.”

Young guys like Hart, Downs, Gary Bell Jr., Eric McClellan, Steven Gray and Robert Sacre fill out Pargo’s roster, along with with familiar older faces like Knight and Ira Brown, and the exciting reunion with the great J.P. Bautista.

“The rivalry will kick in at some point, and it will become more of a real game,” said Pargo. “Based on last year, we don’t even have it in us to let it be a showtime game, and let guys go dunk and have fun.

It’s going to be a bunch of guys that know how to play, and forever play the right way.” n Hoopfest Alumni Game • Fri, June 23 at 7 pm • $20 • Spokane Convention Center • 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. • ticketswest.com

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A Fiery New Phantom

The same Phantom “reimagined.”

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The latest iteration at the INB doubles down on spectacle and intensity while preserving the classic musical’s substance and humanity

BY E.J. IANNELLI

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ead Derrick Davis is confident that the current touring version of The Phantom of the Opera is a can’t-miss show.

Actors might be expected to lavish praise on their latest show, especially during the press rounds as part of a massive national tour.

So it is with Davis, currently playing the enigmatic masked lead in Cameron Mackintosh’s revamped, supercharged production of Phantom, which is scheduled to run at the INB Performing Arts Center as part of the Best of Broadway series starting next Wednesday.

With Davis, though, the praise comes across as far more sincere than naive or dutiful. When he concludes 20 minutes of superlative-packed

descriptions with the admission that his “only regret is that sometimes [he] would love to sit in the audience and watch it,” there’s little hint of the usual promotional hyperbole.

Just to dispel any doubt, he closes by doubling down on his endorsement: “I’m the type of person who doesn’t like my time or my money wasted, and I’d dance around it beautifully if I didn’t think this Phantom was worth the money or the time. But I am telling you that it is worth it.

It is so worth it.”

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than-life 1986 musical about genius, love, ostracism and self-loathing doesn’t just stem from the nostalgia of seeing it as a young child — although that shouldn’t be discounted entirely.

“It was the first show my parents took me to see, and so I fell in love with the brilliant original production on Broadway,” says Davis. “To step into the iconic, titular character is just mind-blowing to me. I try not to think about it too much, because it is an overwhelming thought.”

What makes this nationally touring production special, he says, is that it’s been “reimagined” with more spectacle, more intensity, more of everything that has made Phantom the longestrunning show in Broadway history: “I am all the more in love with this production. The score and script are exactly the same, so people who are Phantom lovers will come and get exactly what they exWEEKEND pect. But as far C O U N T D OW N as the content Get the scoop on this of the producweekend’s events with tion, this one our newsletter. Sign up at is grittier, it’s Inlander.com/newsletter. steeped in more realism, the characters come to life in a way that is so incredibly mind-blowing and so stirring.

“And in the 30 years since the show’s inception, technology has moved forward. This show brings everything very current, as far the sound and lighting design and the pyrotechnics. All of it is so breathtaking.”

Some of those technological advances went directly into the famous chandelier. The pendant 1,500-pound centerpiece in this show is by all accounts a marvel of theatrical design and engineering. Fog and lighting have been carefully integrated into its structure, and its pyrotechnic capabilities require 30 minutes of prep before every show. When it falls, it plunges at a rate of 10 feet per second.

Yet no amount of glitz will make up for a show that’s thin on substance and humanity,

something Davis is quick to acknowledge.

“In a musical of any kind, really, you have the spectacle that can overtake it. Even the music can become the focus of the show,” he says. “But the brilliance of [director] Laurence Connor [is that] we don’t rehearse with him on stage. We rehearse with him inside a studio space. He’ll take full songs and tell us that we’re speaking through the text. No music playing, take it out of the timing, and just make it live as dialogue between people.”

This isn’t a new experience for Davis. During his previous role as Mufasa in The Lion King, a show that used extravagant costumes and Balinese movements to tell its story, director John Stefaniuk would “strip it completely bare” during rehearsals.

“We would sit and rehearse at a table to make sure that the story is being told. Because if the story’s not being told, people aren’t being moved to that deep soul level that makes a show last for 30 years. If people are emotionally moved and you crack on a note, they’re not going to care. But if all your performance is, is about the singing of the song, then if you crack you’ve destroyed it all.

“Granted,” he adds with a basso chuckle, “we shouldn’t crack.”

And just as The Lion King and the original Phantom of the Opera each made Broadway history, Davis reasserts without reservation that this Phantom is history in the (re)making.

“This is the production, and this is the cast that you will hear about and regret that you didn’t see it, plain and simple,” he says. “There’s suspense, there’s drama, there’s passion, there’s action and adventure, there’s fire like you would not believe — because half the time I don’t believe how much fire they have us dancing around onstage.” n The Phantom of the Opera • June 28-July 9 • Showtimes vary • $32.50–$77.50 • INB Performing Arts Center • 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. • inbpac.com • 279-7000

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by Russian folklore and set in an undefined medieval period, Arden’s protagonist Vasya fights against the gender roles of her culture, where a woman’s fate is bearing children and running her husband’s household. As wild as the dense forests surrounding her village — a place beset by unrelentless winters — Vasya defies this life.

Her unflinching spirit is tested, though, when an outsider drives fear into the villagers, and forces them to leave behind their old ways and long-held pagan beliefs. As the book unfolds, Arden deftly weaves history, magic and fantasy into a tale that is — to my elation — set for a follow-up release at this year’s end.

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Head and Heart Meet your team: the Spokane Shadow PHOTOS BY YOUNG KWAK

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he Spokane SC Shadow are wrapping up their first season in the National Premier Soccer League’s Northwest Conference. If you haven’t heard, Spokane’s highest level of soccer recently moved up to the NPSL after two Evergreen Premier League championships. This is the first time the team has competed in a national league since 2005.

This past weekend, the Shadow hosted two conference foes. They lost both matches, falling 1-0 to Kitsap SC on Saturday and 2-1 against FCM Portland on Sunday.

The Shadow’s only goal came from Zack Hamer on a penalty kick. They’re sitting at fifth place in the six-team conference with 6 points (a 1-4-3 record).

While there’s no chance for a Shadow playoff berth, there are two more opportunities to catch them at home this season. They next host Seattle’s OSA FC at SFCC on Wednesday, June 28 at 7 pm. Visit spokanesoccerclubshadow.org for the complete schedule. (DEREK HARRISON)

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A new report shows that shoppers at the weekly Moscow Farmers Market infuse millions of dollars into the local economy each year.

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Market Boom A new report shows how the Moscow Farmers Market has become a major player in the region’s small business economy

BY TARYN PHANEUF

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or years, Brush Creek Creamery only sold its cheese at the Moscow Farmers Market. Rebeccah Salmeri, manager and co-owner of the Deary, Idaho, creamery, says that’s where they’ve built relationships with customers and other vendors who have the same desire to build a small, home-based business that keeps them out of the “rat race.”

The creamery has done so well that last August, after eight years at the market, it opened a storefront in Deary.

When Salmeri and her husband joined the business five years ago, Brush Creek was producing 35 gallons per week. Now it produces 600 gallons a week and ships to stores across the country.

“We sure have experienced exponential growth,” she says.

Brush Creek isn’t the only business that’s been wildly successful as a vendor at the Moscow Farmers Market.

According to an economic impact report commissioned by the city of Moscow and produced by an economist at the University of Idaho, the market pulls in millions of dollars each year across the 26 weeks it runs every Saturday between May and October. Annual market visitors grew 96 percent in one 10-year period, to nearly 164,900 from 2003 to 2013, and the market boasts an average annual growth rate of 7 percent.

Published last September and compiled by U of I eco-

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nomics professor Steven Peterson and Moscow-based research economist Stephen Pool, the report underlines that after 40 years as a local institution, the market presents the quintessential image that Moscow and Latah County residents want the world to see: a vibrant business community that built a successful local food movement and encourages local art and culture.

That much is evident to anyone who visits. On a Saturday morning in June, the market teems with people mingling with the approximately 126 vendors, shopping for the first vegetables of the season and waiting in line to buy lunch from one of the many prepared-food vendors, or just strolling the length of the market — on Main Street between Third and Sixth Streets — holding a cup of coffee from one of the nearby shops.

Solo musicians play at either end of the market and live performances go on all day in Friendship Square, a small park at the market’s center. Brunchers sit at restaurant patio tables on Main Street, dining leisurely and people-watching.

It’s an attractive picture of commerce. While city officials knew the market served as an economic engine — after all, it’s been named the best market in all of Idaho — the report attached figures to it that blew some city officials away.

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While vendors reported sales of about $1.2 million in 2015, the report estimates spending is much higher.

Based on surveys over the years, it estimates that shoppers spend at least $4.2 million annually. A 2013 survey reported that visitors spend at least $2.5 million inside the market, and another $1.6 million at other downtown businesses on market days.

Combined with the market’s power as a brand ambassador, the report demonstrates why the market is and will continue to be a good investment for the city “that’s worth preserving,” Pfiffner says.

She is most impressed by the number of businesses the market has inspired.

The report found that the market has helped launch 67 Latah County startups, from farms to restaurants to artistic businesses. It also estimates that between 25 to 30 market vendors have found enough business to grow and add a brick-and-mortar store, like Brush Creek.

Patty’s Mexican Kitchen, a restaurant and caterer, started as a booth at the market. As a graduate student at the U of I, Gerardo Alvarez began the business with a $50 investment in supplies in 2001.

“The Saturday market in Moscow is a huge thing,” says Walter Beckmann, a manager at Patty’s. “That’s why Patty’s is a restaurant now. It’s all because of the market. Patty’s makes really good salsa — delicious salsa — and it just snowballed out from selling salsa at the market.”

For its part, Brush Creek continues to sell at the market in addition to its busy storefront and wholesale business.

“I really enjoy doing the market,” Salmeri says.

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A shopper browses for vegetable starts from one of more than 100 weekly market vendors, Deep Roots Farm. TARYN PHANEUF PHOTO The report has also been useful to the city when it comes to planning and budgeting. The Moscow Farmers Market was formerly administered by the city’s arts department, but since grew into an enterprise that took over that division. Now, it’s standing on its own with a full-time market manager.

The Farmers Market Commission, established in 2013 and made up of three vendors, representatives from the Chamber of Commerce and University of Idaho, and

four residents of the region, has also begun a strategic planning process to evaluate how to accommodate growth without losing the integrity of the small-town market in the picturesque Palouse valley.

“We want to keep a good thing going,” Pfiffner says. n Moscow Farmers Market • Saturdays from 8 am-1 pm • Along South Main Street between Third and Sixth streets • facebook.com/MoscowFarmersMarket

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Brew Tunes A group on the Palouse unites history and a love of singing with the art of craft beer

BY TARYN PHANEUF

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Savory Slurps Umami Ramen brings traditional Japanese noodle bowls to the Lake City

BY CARRIE SCOZZARO

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in Sun is on a quest. The owner of Liberty Lake’s Ding How pan-Asian restaurant and the former Ugly Fish Asian bistro in Coeur d’Alene went to Japan last year expecting to expand his knowledge of sushi, yet returned home with a newfound love of ramen.

With minimal retooling at the restaurant, but a lot of study and experimentation on Sun’s part, Umami Ramen opened last month in the former Ugly Fish location inside the Riverstone development. The menu offers cuisine more typical of urban settings like Seattle, Los Angeles or New York, the latter where, in 2004, Chef David Chang’s Momofuku Noodle Bar helped launch the American revamp of ramen.

Ramen, explains Sun, is simple, “which is why you want to make it so tasty.”

His culinary kodawari — loosely translated as an uncompromising and relentless devotion to a pursuit — led him back to Japan to the Ramen Adventures school in Osaka.

His first lesson there was crushing bones for the broth, the lifeblood of good ramen.

Traditionally, ramen’s essentials are broth, noodles, toppings and flavorings. It can be characterized by what the broth is made from — tonkotsu (pork-based) or jidori (chicken) — and its seasonings, such as shio (salty), shoyu (soy sauce), or miso (bean paste).

It can be served various ways; hot, cold or tsukemen style, with the noodles served in a separate bowl to be dipped into the broth.

Umami’s basic ramen bowls (chicken, pork, and tsukemen-style) range in price from $9.95 to $11.95, with house special bowls priced up to $13.95. Diners at Umami can add typical ramen toppings, ranging from chili paste to spinach, soy-brined brisket and soft-boiled egg for $1 to $3.

Sun makes his noodles from scratch, including the kale noodles used in Umami’s vegetarian ramens ($11.95 to $12.95). Each of his base broths stew for at least 16 hours, gaining flavor from ingredients like grass-fed beef bones, slow-cooked vegetables, or fresh mackerel.

It’s ironic to consider that in the U.S., ramen has become synonymous with cheap convenience food, thanks to dehydrated, heat-and-eat noodle brands like Top Ramen and Maruchan. Traditional ramen is anything but, and can be quite healthy. This perception may be why so many American customers expect it to be served in a salty broth, says Sun. For that reason, “some customers will love it, some will hate it,” he says.

Sun attended culinary school in his native China before relocating to America. He lived in California and Alaska, eventually relocating to Washington, where, in 2004 he opened Ding How with wife Yi Liu. Just before opening Umami — the restaurant’s name refers to ramen’s savory flavor profile, imparted by the meat-based broths — Sun invited staff to join him in his ramen journey: “I challenge each one of you to make healthy, tasty ramen,” he remembers telling them. “Never settle for less.” n Umami Ramen • 1927 W. Riverstone Dr., Coeur d’Alene • Open Tue-Sat, 11:30 am-2:30 pm and 4-9 pm • facebook/umami-ramen • 208-667-1166

ith a pint in hand, Palouse Choral Society Director Sarah Graham leads a crowd at Clarkston, Washington’s Riverport Brewing Co. through a round of an unfamiliar, alehouse-inspired tune from the year 1611. The early verse is a little quiet, but the “hey-nonny-nonnies” ring out as more and more singers add their voices.

Once a month since last October, the Palouse-Two Rivers Beer Choir, made up mostly of local choral society members, brings a stack of songbooks, a few instruments and an appetite for craft beer to breweries in either the Lewis-Clark Valley or the Palouse.

The concept is straightforward: “The Beer Choir is the choir that sings while drinking beer,” as its theme song goes.

Created in 2014 by Michael Engelhardt, a choral composer and conductor in St. Louis, beer choir is a lively combination of music and beer reminiscent of pubs in the United Kingdom, or Oktoberfest celebrations in Germany.

Beer choir has taken off in about a dozen chapters around the U.S. — mostly in areas with burgeoning craft beer markets — from major cities like Seattle to smaller regions like the Palouse.

Introduced to beer choir through a network for choral directors that includes the movement’s founder, Graham put forth the opportunity to lead monthly community singing events when she took over directing the Palouse Choral Society this year.

In the same vein as protest music, though admittedly more lighthearted, Graham says people enjoy singing in large groups because it connects them to something bigger.

“It’s something Americans don’t do,” she says. “It brings people together in a way other things don’t.”

Hunga Dunga Brewery Co. in Moscow has hosted the local beer choir, and brewery owner Graham Lilly says the group draws a sizable crowd.

“It creates a really fun atmosphere and encourages participation, [and] for people to come down and engage with people, and sing songs, and songs about beer,” Lilly says. “It’s pretty fun. We like to do live music from time to time when we can.”

The beer choir hymnal, as it’s called, includes a collection of traditional European drinking songs, with a few

additions, like “Dough-Ray-Me,” which includes instructions to sing “like Julie Andrews, but more surly… and slurry.”

“Dough, the stuff that buys my beer; Ray, the guy who serves my beer,” the song goes. “Me, the guy who drinks my beer. Far — a long, long way for beer… ” Gary Peterson, a longtime choral member who also owns a Moscow antique shop, enjoys dark beer and singing “Drunken Sailor,” a song that didn’t require adaptation to fit the ale-inspired theme of these evening shows.

Mostly a way to socialize and have fun outside of rehearsals, about a quarter of choral members show up to beer choir events, he says. He hopes that beer

Sarah Graham leads the Beer Choir.

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choir exposes more people to the choral society, emphasizing that they’d love to draw new singers, especially a few younger voices.

“We would love to have more young singers. For the most part, we’re an older group, and we’re always looking for young people to come join us,” says Peterson.

“While this is sort of an old-fashioned idea of getting together to sing in a bar, it’s easy to join in, and it’s a rare person who doesn’t find it fun. So I think we can kind of cross the generations that way, and that’s really great.” n Palouse-Two Rivers Beer Choir • Thu, June 29 from 7-8 pm • Free • Birch & Barley • 1360 Bishop Blvd., Pullman • palousechoralsociety.org/beer-choir

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Comedy of manners: It’s Salma Hayek vs. rich white people in the social satire Beatriz at Dinner.

Dinner Theater

The dark social comedy Beatriz at Dinner mines racial and cultural discomfort for satire, mostly with mixed results

BY NATHAN WEINBENDER

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’ve seen a lot of plays that start like this.

A group of characters, either friends or casual acquaintances or business associates, meet for what they expect will be an uneventful evening of pleasant conversation over drinks. Personalities are developed, social hierarchies are established and tensions begin to mount, typically because somebody makes a comment that’s twisted well past its initial intention, and the hostility in the room is further exacerbated by the free-flowing booze.

Beatriz at Dinner follows that kind of setup, which we’ve seen in the likes of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and God of Carnage, and it has all the claustrophobic discomfort and sociological grandstanding of an especially caustic off-Broadway drama. It also seems to think that it’s dropping a serious bombshell by revealing that onepercenters can be — gasp! — classist, sexist and racist, even when they’re desperately trying not to be. This isn’t really a bad movie, but its satire ultimately isn’t as savage as it thinks it is.

Salma Hayek, who’s very good here, plays the Beatriz of the title, a New Age healer and masseuse living in Los Angeles. The movie bends over backward to show us what a delicate soul she has: She prays to a self-made altar — which includes a framed photo of her recently deceased pet goat — every morning, and her car is adorned with a toy Buddha on the dashboard and an image of the Virgin Mary dangling from the rearview mirror.

As the movie opens, she’s driving across the trafficclogged, pollution-choked city for a session with one of

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her rich clients, snaking her way up into the hills through her family’s village. a gated community of monotone McMansions. When It’s all downhill from there: More drinks are poured, Beatriz’s rickety Volkswagen breaks down in the drivefinger-pointing ensues, and a shattered cellphone and the way, the homeowner, Cathy (Connie Britton), invites unfortunate implementation of a letter opener end any her to stay for the evening. After all, she says, Beatriz notion that Beatriz will ever be invited back. is practically family: She was such an inspiration when Beatriz at Dinner, which I saw last month at the Seattle Cathy’s teenage daughter was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s International Film Festival, is the latest feature from direclymphoma. tor Miguel Arteta and screenwriter Mike White, whose Cathy’s hospitality reeks of condescension, but previous collaborations include the dark, confrontational Beatriz reluctantly accepts anyway, and soon the wealthy comedies Chuck & Buck and The Good Girl. As with those guests (played by the likes of Jay Duplass, Chloë Sevigny earlier films, this one doesn’t let any of its characters and Amy Landecker, all dripping completely off the hook: They’re vain and with West Coast elitism) begin boorish and culturally tone-deaf, sometimes BEATRIZ AT DINNER to arrive. The occasion for the to the point of caricature, and even poor Rated R gathering is a big real estate deal Beatriz starts to wear on our nerves a bit.

Directed by Miguel Arteta that Cathy’s husband Grant (David As nice as she is, she seems totally ignorant Starring Salma Hayek, John Lithgow, Warshofsky) has just finalized with of basic social cues.

Connie Britton well-known hotel baron Doug Strutt But once the movie traps everyone (John Lithgow), whose name should inside its manufactured pressure cooker — tell you everything you need to know about him. and the characters are little more than pieces to be moved Nearly everyone is only as cordial as they have to be about in this game of class warfare — it becomes clear toward Beatriz; they mostly regard her as if she’s part of that it doesn’t really have anywhere to go. When it finally the wallpaper. Strutt, on the other hand, is (no surprise) arrives at its ending, which indulges in an almost impresa complete dick. He initially mistakes Beatriz for a maid. sionistic ambiguity, it feels like a spectacular cheat.

He prods her about her immigration status. He gloats White and Arteta pull the rug out from under us not about big-game hunting upon discovering she’s a staunch once but twice, and it isn’t all that clever; we merely feel vegetarian. And when Beatriz tells him she’s from jerked around. It’s as if they wanted to back their characCalifornia, he responds, “But where are you really from?” ters into a corner to watch them squirm, only to chicken Making matters worse, Beatriz is pretty sure that Strutt out before ever taking the first step. You start to wonder: is the guy whose luxury resort destroyed the economy of What would Edward Albee have done? n

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ALL EYEZ ON ME

Tupac Shakur was one of the most influential and controversial voices in ’90s hip-hop, so it’s a shame that the first major narrative feature about his short, turbulent life turns out to be an uninspired, formulaic biopic that lazily covers much of the same ground as earlier hip-hop history lessons Notorious and Straight Outta Compton. Tupac fans won’t find anything enlightening, and those unfamiliar with his work won’t really get a sense of the rapper’s legacy.

At least newcomer Demetrius Shipp Jr. is perfectly cast as Shakur, and Danai Gurira is deeply effective as his mother Afeni. (NW) Rated R

BAYWATCH

This big-screen take on ’90s TV’s guiltiest pleasure can’t decide if it wants to be an outrageously raunchy bro comedy or a straight-faced adaptation of the original show. Dwayne Johnson and Zac Efron try (and fail) to generate comedic sparks, donning those iconic red swim trunks to track down the source of a drug epidemic dogging their Florida beach. In case you were wondering, yes, David Hasselhoff and Pamela Anderson make cameos, but like everything else in the movie, those appearances are half-assed. (NW) Rated R

THE BOOK OF HENRY

Director Colin Trevorrow’s follow-up to Jurassic World gets him back to his indie roots, but his best intentions are undone by a colossally misguided script. Naomi Watts plays a single mother whose precocious 11-year-old son develops an outlandish plan to rescue the neighbor girl from her abusive stepfather. She becomes unexpectedly involved in the scheme, and what transpires is laughable when it isn’t merely manipulative. This is the rare kind of disaster that’s almost worth seeing because it’s so preposterous. (NW) Rated PG-13

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Based on Dav Pilkey’s long-running series of children’s novels, this animated feature leans heavily on toilet humor that’s strictly for the 10-and-under set.

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Featuring the voices of Kevin Hart, Nick Kroll, Ed Helms and Thomas Middleditch. (SS) Rated PG

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Parents: Be prepared to shell out for even more tie-in merchandise. (NW) Rated G

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Summer movie season officially kicks off as Star-Lord and company blast back into theaters, and this brightly colored, exuberantly paced sequel turns out to be just as funny and flashy (if not quite as fresh) as its predecessor. The story this time around — as the Guardians are pursued through space, the ever-smirking ruffian Peter Quill is reunited with his swashbuckler father — is secondary to the action set pieces and the soundtrack of ’70s pop hits, but that’s just fine with us. (SS) Rated PG-13

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Two families barricade themselves inside an isolated house in the woods after a fatal, highly contagious disease has decimated the population, but a creeping sense of distrust develops about the possibility that one of them is infected. The sophomore feature from writer-director Trey Edward Shults is a deeply unsettling, claustrophobic paranoid thriller, which masterfully manipulates us with its eerie visuals and sound design. This is a movie that’s going to stick with you. (ES) Rated R

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Inspired by a true story, Kate Mara stars as the title figure, a young Marine who trains and develops a bond with a particularly aggressive German shepherd named Rex in the K-9 unit. While deployed in Iraq, Leavey and her canine companion risk their lives in numerous harrowing situations involving IEDs. (NW) Rated PG-13

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The remains of the 1932 classic starring Boris Karloff again rise from the tomb, this time with a vengeful Egyptian princess shaking off her cobwebs and wreaking havoc on humanity — and Tom Cruise. The movie works in fits and starts as a gleefully dumb monstermovie matinee, but it’s awkwardly

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Documentarian Eleanor Coppola’s narrative debut stars Diane Lane as an American woman who’s on a vacation in Cannes with her overworked husband (Alec Baldwin). When he has to attend to business, she embarks on a road trip to Paris with one of his charming French associates (Arnaud Viard), sampling the region’s finest food and wines along the way. Care to predict what happens next? (NW) Rated PG

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There was a time when Johnny Depp’s Jack Sparrow could enliven any tired script, but that ship has long since sailed. The bloated Disney behemoth splashes back into theaters, and this fifth big-budget adventure involves a zombie pirate hunter and a magical trident… or something. It’s about as much fun as waiting in an endless amusement park line on a 100-degree day. (MJ) Rated PG-13

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A drug- and booze-fueled bachelorette party goes horribly wrong when a male stripper winds up dead, and the soon-to-be-married Scarlett Johansson and her four college friends — Kate McKinnon, Jillian Bell, Ilana Glazer and Zoë Kravitz — do their best to cover it up. The plot of this comedy from the Broad City crew bears an uncanny resemblance to the (deservedly) forgotten 1998 comedy Very Bad Things, but here’s hoping that terrific cast can sell the material. (NW) Rated R

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If Wes Anderson totally sucked, he’d probably make something like The Book of Henry.

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York, where the characters live on a sprawling tract of land with an elaborate treehouse that only a Hollywood production designer could afford, and where Naomi Watts works in a cutesy corner diner with a brassy waitress (Sarah Silverman) who calls her customers “toots.”

Believe it or not, it’s set in the present day.

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ometimes you see a movie that’s so bad, so confounding, so thoroughly misguided in every way, you almost want to recommend it to people, simply because they’ll never see anything quite like it.

The Book of Henry is a movie like that.

It takes place in a picturesque hamlet in upstate New

This is the kind of world that’s not aiming for realism; the town could just as conceivably been the Land of Oz. So when the film swerves abruptly into out-of-leftfield, grown-up plot devices — child molestation, alcoholism, brain tumors — we experience tonal whiplash. The Book of Henry’s desire to explore dark, complex themes while also indulging in manipulative melodrama would probably be offensive were it not told so incompetently.

It’s at least anchored by good performances, especially from Watts, who plays a single mother to two young sons — the child genius Henry (Jaeden Lieberher, Midnight Special) and the more naive Peter (Jacob Tremblay, Room). Henry is precocious in a way that no kid in the history of the THE BOOK OF HENRY universe has ever been precocious.

Rated PG-13 He trades stock tips Directed by Colin Trevorrow after school (on Starring Naomi Watts, Jaeden Lieberher, a pay phone, for Jacob Tremblay, Dean Norris some reason). He calls the principal by her first name. He pays his mother’s bills while she plays Xbox every night. He carries around such quirky accessories as a mini tape recorder and a Polaroid camera. He’s so perfect in every way, you almost expect the film to reveal that he has superpowers.

Although maybe he does, because Henry soon discovers that the little girl who lives next door is being abused by her police chief stepfather (Dean Norris), and he devises a harebrained plan to rescue her.

I can’t explain what happens next without spoiling the plot, but it hurtles toward absurdity and grows dangerously unhinged. All I’ll say is that the second half of the film involves an unexpected death, backroom arms dealing, police corruption, a handsome neurosurgeon and a talent show. There’s also a sequence in which Watts breathlessly assembles a sniper rifle, and it’s intercut with footage of little girls tap dancing. It’s mind-boggling.

The Book of Henry is the third feature from director Colin Trevorrow, who debuted with the lo-fi comedy Safety Not Guaranteed and followed it up with the bloated Jurassic World. His approach in the film’s earlier scenes is almost violently cuddly, and then he treats its darker subplots with the solemnity and intensity of a Bourne movie.

He’s been done no favors by Gregg Hurwitz’s laughable screenplay, which has reportedly been kicking around Hollywood for a couple of decades (ah, that explains the pay phone). You’d think that would have been plenty of time to simply rewrite the entire thing.

It’s nearly impossible, though, to imagine anyone putting these disparate pieces together in a convincing way.

As the movie reached its ludicrous finale, I sat there in awe, wondering how in the hell we had ended up there. I would say The Book of Henry must be seen to be believed, but I don’t want to encourage masochism. n

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Rankin’ Rhymin’ Simon Paul Simon, one of pop music’s most respected tunesmiths, performs at the Arena on Friday night.

Before Paul Simon hits Spokane on Friday night, we’ve ranked the legendary singer-songwriter’s postSimon and Garfunkel discography

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12. SONGS FROM THE CAPEMAN (1997)

Something of a curiosity, a recording of the score from Simon’s short-lived Broadway musical about Salvador Agron, a teenage gang member who became a poet and activist while on Death Row. There are some decent showtunes on here (Simon collaborated with Nobel Prizewinning poet Derek Walcott), but they don’t really work out of context from the production that bred them.

Tracks you’ll hear live: None

11. SURPRISE (2006)

Recorded piecemeal over the course of four years with producer Brian Eno, Surprise is accurately named, a weird sonic departure from anything Simon recorded before or since. Eno’s work with U2 was clearly an influence, and that more bombastic approach is seriously hit-or-miss: It occasionally underlines the elements that make Simon’s songwriting great in the first place, but a lot of the time it

just sounds goofy.

Tracks you’ll hear live: None

10. YOU’RE THE ONE (2000)

Simon took a break from his world music explorations to crank out what might be his most disillusioned record, which is almost pathologically obsessed with glancing toward the past. It’s merely a wisp of an album, though, so understated that it never totally registers. Bittersweet story-songs like “Darling Lorraine” and “Hurricane Eye” are standouts, while “Love” and “Pigs, Sheeps and Wolves” are rare Simon clunkers.

Tracks you’ll hear live: None

9. ONE-TRICK PONY (1980)

Most everyone has probably forgotten about the 1980 film One-Trick Pony, which was written by and starred Simon as a folk musician who had huge successes in the ’60s and was now struggling two decades later. What a stretch! This album that was released concurrently (though it’s curiously not a soundtrack) is also mostly forgettable, with a couple of OK live tracks thrown in for good measure.

Tracks you’ll hear live: “Late in the Evening”

8. STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS (1975)

Minus its two big hits, Simon’s third ’70s solo record feels more like a collection of B-sides than a cohesive whole.

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(“Slip Slidin’ Away” was initially considered for the album, and would’ve been the best thing on it.) It doesn’t contain any outright duds, and there’s a welcome cameo from Art Garfunkel on “My Little Town,” but it’s probably not a coincidence that Simon’s critical cachet dipped a bit after this album.

Tracks you’ll hear live: “Still Crazy After All These Years,” “My Little Town,” “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover”

7. THE RHYTHM OF THE SAINTS (1990)

It’s impossible not to compare this album to its blockbuster predecessor, Graceland, and while it’s nowhere near as good, it’s clearly a spiritual sequel. From the thundering African drums on opener “The Obvious Child” (one of Simon’s very best songs), it delves deep into its international flavors, which sometimes feel more like affectation than anything else. Still, there’s some interesting, tricky instrumentation going on here, even if it doesn’t boast nearly as many unshakable melodies as Graceland.

Tracks you’ll hear live: “The Obvious Child,” “Spirit Voices”

6. SO BEAUTIFUL OR SO WHAT (2011)

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R&B and New Orleans-inflected jazz for years, but this is where that experimentation started in earnest.

Tracks you’ll hear live: “One Man’s Ceiling Is Another Man’s Floor”

but it also features clever tunes about the monotony of getting into heaven (“You’ve got to fill out a form first / Then you wait in a line”), the frustrations of songwriting and how life isn’t so different from a made-up bedtime story.

Tracks you’ll hear live: “Dazzling Blue,” “Rewrite,” “Questions for the Angels”

2. GRACELAND (1986)

Following the underwhelming response to Hearts and Bones, the international flavor of Graceland represented Simon’s popular and creative rebirth as an artist. He fully embraces Latin and African rhythms and then flips them upside down, and this Grammy-winning smash still sounds vital and is still just as controversial (allegations of cultural appropriation and plagiarism continue to dog it, and they’re not unfounded) as it was 30 years ago.

Tracks you’ll hear live: “The Boy in the Bubble,” “Graceland,” “You Can Call Me Al,” “Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes,” “That Was Your Mother”

5. STRANGER TO STRANGER (2016)

Most successful artists who are comfortably into their 70s aren’t as wily as Paul Simon, and his most recent album is a portrait of a veteran musician defiantly shirking complacency. As is the case with most late-period Simon albums (and, let’s be honest, even some of his earlier ones), this one contains a few “oh, brother” moments — Simon casually dropping the F-bomb, for instance. But it’s jittery, experimental and unpredictable, for better or worse.

Tracks you’ll hear live: “Wristband,” “Stranger to Stranger”

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4. HEARTS AND BONES (1983)

This album’s reputation as a flop precedes it (Simon is apparently not a fan of it himself), though it’s not bad at all.

Sure, it shows some of Simon’s growing pains entering the synth-soaked ’80s — “Cars Are Cars,” for instance, is a desperate attempt at aping David Byrne-esque new wave — but strip it of some of its too-plastic production, and it’s not far removed from Simon’s earlier work. This one deserves critical reconsideration.

Tracks you’ll hear live: None, but check out “When Numbers Get Serious,” “Think Too Much (a)” and “Train in the Distance”

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3. THERE GOES RHYMIN’ SIMON (1973)

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Simon’s second ’70s solo effort was released a little more than a year after his first, and it’s bursting with the creative energy of a songwriter finding his groove. Right from the opening moments of the wistful megahit “Kodachrome,” Rhymin’ Simon announces itself as a fresh new chapter in his discography: He’s dabbled in doo-wop,

Simon’s self-titled solo album still represents a remarkably confident statement of musical independence, and it’s certainly one of the best, most evocative singer-songwriter records of the ’70s. Its smaller, more intimate songs are all gems — unsung highlights include “Run That Body Down,” “Peace Like a River” and “Papa Hobo” — and it also boasts some of the finest singles Simon ever wrote. To me, it’s still his best album.

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Now in their third decade, Japan’s hard-rock legends Guitar Wolf still find new ways to outdo themselves.

Japanese noise-abilly trio Guitar Wolf gives electroshock therapy to CBGB-era punk

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agasaki noise-punkers Guitar Wolf are something of a godsend to those of us who were never around to see the Ramones live, or who would kill to see them on stage again. As the years slip by, more and more young punk obsessives emerge who will never experience the band in its heyday, and there’s something about the Ramones that no studio album or live recording will ever accurately translate: their furious, white-knuckle energy.

The trio that comprises Guitar Wolf positively radiates that same intensity. To get a sense of this, you needn’t look any further than their brilliant name, which is emblematic of both their obsession with the American garage pastiche and their immutable, distortion-obsessed brand of brain-busting punk rock.

For three decades, Guitar Wolf has been cranking out record after record of fittingly guitar-heavy garage punk, equal parts faithful nostalgia and new invention. These records are louder, grittier and often even faster than like-minded ancestors such as the Sonics and Link Wray dared to get.

2003’s UFO Romantics, arguably their best studio LP, showcases their dedication to balancing excessive noise with tight, succinct compositions that linger far beyond their brief running times. All killer… well, you know the rest.

Even 14 years later, putting on a new Guitar Wolf LP sort of feels like coming back to a raging party that you ditched for a bit to get some sleep. Somehow, everyone’s still at it, and the band sounds like they haven’t stopped playing the entire time you’ve been away.

That undying frenzy is plastered all over both sides of their insane 2013 album Beast Vibrator. The band’s members — who go by the monikers Guitar Wolf, Bass Wolf and Drum Wolf, respectively — haven’t aged a day, at least not tonally speaking (though the band is on its second Bass Wolf; a heart attack claimed their original bassist a dozen years ago). Vocalist Guitar Wolf, so named for his instrument of choice, seems to have maintained an enviably youthful howl, albeit with the added grit of decades of whiskey, cigarettes and

tape distortion.

Yet the trio still seems determined not to be outdone by their own discography; each new release is a chance to one-up the mayhem brought on by past albums. The band’s newest record, the perfectly titled T-Rex from a Tiny Space Yojouhan, catapults 11 outbursts your way in just over 30 minutes.

“Ninja Season,” a 2-minute Molotov cocktail of a punk track, is a definite highlight, a deafening reassurance that old habits die hard.

It should be fairly obvious that Guitar Wolf’s live shows are not for the faint of heart — or eardrums. Keeping in line with the band’s unspoken rules of no excess and no subtlety, their shows are lightningquick, laser-focused adrenaline shots of sharp guitars and leather jackets. The most refreshing element on display, though, is a straight-faced lack of reliance on gimmicks, tonal or otherwise. In that sense, Guitar Wolf is somewhat traditional: They realize that, technically speaking, nothing about their genre is broken or needs updating.

Guitar Wolf is a lot of things, including punk, noise, garage and rockabilly, but most important, Guitar Wolf is untarnished by cheapness, trends or the passage of time.

They are the undying spirit of punk rock, a personification of the spit and vigor that keeps “punk’s not dead” ringing true. n Guitar Wolf with Isaac Rother & the Phantoms and Itchy Kitty • Wed, June 28 at 7:30 pm • $10/$14 day of • All-ages • The Big Dipper • 171 S. Washington • bigdipperevents.com • 863-8098

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t’s sort of surprising to learn that that a band as unapologetically loud and heavy as Radkey is made up of just three dudes. The band’s members are actually brothers — Isaiah, Solomon and Dee Radke — hailing from St. Joseph, Missouri, which isn’t exactly the first place you’d expect to yield such down-anddirty garage rock. Listening to the band’s most recent LP, last year’s aptly named Delicious Rock Noise, you might be inspired to start mentally cataloguing all their possible influences: “Dark Black Makeup” is a hook-heavy anthem built upon the intersection where Thin Lizzy and KISS meet, “Le Song” is a two-minute burst of Misfits-esque punk, and “Marvel” tips its superhero-obsessed hat to early grunge and post-rock.

— NATHAN WEINBENDER Radkey with Outercourse and Æges • Fri, June 23 at 8 pm • $8/$10 day of • Allages • The Bartlett • 228 W. Sprague • thebartlettspokane.com • 747-2174

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PSYCH-ROCK THE LOVE DIMENSION

Thursday, 06/22

ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, Evan Denlinger J J THE BARTLETT, Wrinkles, Sea Giant, Summer in Siberia BEEROCRACY, Open Mic BOOMERS CLASSIC ROCK BAR & GRILL, Randy Campbell BOOTS BAKERY, Song Project J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, Open Jazz Jam with Erik Bowen CORBY’S BAR, Open Mic and Karaoke CRAFTED TAP HOUSE, Kicho CRAVE, DJ Freaky Fred CRUISERS, Open Mic Jam Slam DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS, Slow Cookin’ FEDORA PUB & GRILLE, Hannah G JOHN’S ALLEY, Noelle Tannen and the Filthy No-No’s J LAGUNA CAFÉ, Just Plain Darin LANTERN TAP HOUSE, Jenny Anne Mannan LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Kori Ailene MICKDUFF’S BEER HALL, Kevin Dorin NIGHTHAWK LOUNGE (CDA CASINO), PJ Destiny THE OBSERVATORY, Vinyl Meltdown J THE PIN!, Inanimate Existence, Reaping Asmodeia, Cyborg Octopus POST FALLS BREWING COMPANY, Devon Wade THE RESERVE, Karaoke with DJ Dave RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos THE ROADHOUSE, Dennis Jones Band THE ROCK BAR & LOUNGE, Spokane River Band ZOLA, Blake Braley

Friday, 06/23

J J THE BARTLETT, Radkey (see above), Outercourse, Æges BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn

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he Love Dimension: That name alone conjures up the late 1960s, when the most far-out music was coming out of the Haight-Ashbury district and was best experienced on an, ahem, alternate plane. No surprise, then, that this psych-rock collective is originally from San Francisco, and their fuzzed-out sound harkens back to some of the Bay Area’s most famous psychedelic groups: Jefferson Airplane, Moby Grape, the Grateful Dead. Founded by frontman Jimmy L. Dias, who’s backed by a constantly rotating roster of musicians — some shows feature only a few members; others will boast a dozen or so — the Love Dimension is more than just a throwback act, as elements of ’90s alt-rock and contemporary electronica sneak their way into the music. Fans of the Brian Jonestown Massacre should be in heaven.

— NATHAN WEINBENDER The Love Dimension with Vanessa Silberman, Mujahedeen and Runaway Octopus • Tue, June 27 at 9 pm • $5 • 21+ • The Observatory • 15 S. Howard • observatoryspokane.com • 598-8933

J THE BIG DIPPER, The Rub, Darin Shaffer BIGFOOT PUB, NightShift BLACK DIAMOND, DJ Sterling BOLO’S, Yesterdayscake BOOMERS CLASSIC ROCK BAR & GRILL, Clinton Lane Darnell CHINOOK STEAK, PASTA AND SPIRITS (CDA CASINO), Bill Bozly J CONKLING MARINA, JamShack CORBY’S BAR, Karaoke CURLEY’S, Loose Gazoonz J DI LUNA’S CAFE, Polly O’Keary and the Rythmn Method FEDORA PUB & GRILLE, Echo Elysium GORGE AMPHITHEATER, Paradiso

HILL’S RESORT, Royale J HOTEL RL AT THE PARK, Soul Proprietor, Ron Greene IRON HORSE BAR, Gladhammer THE JACKSON ST., Black Jack Band JOHN’S ALLEY, Community Center J LAGUNA CAFÉ, Pamela Benton LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Carey Brazil MICKDUFF’S BEER HALL, The Beat Diggers MOOSE LOUNGE, Slow Burn MULLIGAN’S, Wyatt Wood NASHVILLE NORTH, Ladies Night with Luke Jaxon and DJ Tom NORTHERN QUEST, DJ Patrick O’SHAYS IRISH PUB & EATERY, Arvid

Lundin & Deep Roots ONE SHOT CHARLIE’S, Karma Circle THE PALOMINO, B LEGIT, Shorty PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, BareGrass J THE PIN!, Belico BlackOp, Cordell Drake REPUBLIC BREWING CO., Chris Knight J RICHLAND, Blue Tattoo, Colorblind RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos THE ROADHOUSE, Too Slim and the Taildraggers THE ROCK BAR & LOUNGE, DJ Steve Baker SILVER FOX, Usual Suspects J J SPOKANE ARENA, Paul Simon (see page 37)

SPOKANE VALLEY EAGLES, Stagecoach West ZOLA, The Cronkites

Saturday, 06/24

12 TRIBES RESORT CASINO, The Australian Bee Gees Show 315 MARTINIS & TAPAS, John Firshi BARLOWS AT LIBERTY LAKE, Jan Harrison Trio J THE BARTLETT, Tow’rs BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn J J THE BIG DIPPER, Coffin Break, Big Yuck Mouth, Fun Ladies BLACK DIAMOND, DJ Stud BOLO’S, Yesterdayscake

CHINOOK STEAK, PASTA AND SPIRITS (CDA CASINO), Bill Bozly J CLEARWATER RIVER CASINO, Clint Black J CONKLING MARINA, JamShack CRUISERS, Guns of Nevada, Nogunaso, Jacob Vankoknow CURLEY’S, Loose Gazoonz FEDORA PUB & GRILLE, Wyatt Wood J FLAME & CORK, Just Plain Darin GARLAND PUB, Usual Suspects GORGE AMPHITHEATER, Paradiso HOGFISH, Amber Sweeney J HOTEL RL AT THE PARK, Spare Parts J HUCKLEBERRY’S NATURAL MARKET, Andy Rumsey IRON GOAT BREWING CO., Dylan Hathaway IRON HORSE BAR, Gladhammer THE JACKSON ST., Karaoke w/James JOHN’S ALLEY, Andy Sydow Band LA ROSA CLUB, Open Jam LANTERN TAP HOUSE, Super Sparkle J LOST BOYS’ GARAGE, Tommy G MICKDUFF’S BEER HALL, Brown Salmon Truck MOOSE LOUNGE, Slow Burn MULLIGAN’S BAR & GRILLE, Ron Greene

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NASHVILLE NORTH, Ladies Night NORTHERN QUEST, DJ Patrick J THE OBSERVATORY, Electronic Night feat. The Dancing Plague of 1518, Pop Goddess Athena, Walker ONE SHOT CHARLIE’S, Karma Circle PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Mike Wagonner and Utah John J THE PIN!, The Function 3 POST FALLS BREWING COMPANY, Son of Brad REPUBLIC BREWING CO., Scratchdog String Band J RESURRECTION RECORDS, Heavy Seventeen (acoustic) RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos THE ROADHOUSE, Cristy Lee and the Broken Rosary Band J ROCKET MARKET, Michael and Keleren Milham THE THIRSTY DOG, DJ Dave ZOLA, The Cronkites

Sunday, 06/25

ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, Blue Mustangs J THE BARTLETT, Foresteater, Griffey CHINOOK STEAK, PASTA AND SPIRITS (CDA CASINO), Kicho J CONKLING MARINA, PJ Destiny CRAFTED TAP HOUSE, Echo Elysium CURLEY’S, Cary Fly Band DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS, Jam Night IRON HORSE BAR & GRILL, AlgoRhythms LINGER LONGER LOUNGE, Open Jam O’DOHERTY’S, Live Irish Music ONE SHOT CHARLIE’S, Nate Ostrander J THE PIN!, Johnny Quest, B-Pac, E Dogg

RIDLER PIANO BAR, Karaoke Night THE ROADHOUSE, Wyatt Wood J SCHWEITZER MOUNTAIN RESORT, Monarch Mountain Band, the Brandon & Cole Show, Incredible Flying Dookie Brothers ZOLA, Whsk&Keys

Monday, 06/26

J CALYPSOS COFFEE & CREAMERY, Open Mic EICHARDT’S, Monday Night Jam J HOTEL RL AT THE PARK, Whitherward JOHN’S ALLEY, Too Slim and the Taildraggers RED ROOM LOUNGE, Open Mic with Lucas Brookbank Brown ZOLA, Perfect Mess

Tuesday, 06/27

BABY BAR, Whitherward J THE BARTLETT, Northwest of Nashville THE EMPEROR ROOM, T.A.S.T.Y with DJs Freaky Fred, Beauflexx LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Turntable Tuesday MIK’S, DJ Brentano J THE OBSERVATORY, The Love Dimension (see facing page), Vanessa Silberman, Mujahedeen, Runaway Octopus J THE PIN!, Symbolik, Accidentally Murdered POOLE’S PUBLIC HOUSE, Nick Grow RED ROOM LOUNGE, Tuesday Takeover with Storme RIDLER PIANO BAR, Open Mic RIPPLES, Son of Brad J ROCKET MARKET, John Floridis UP NORTH DISTILLERY, Wyatt Wood ZOLA, Troubadour

Wednesday, 06/28 J THE BARTLETT, Cattywomp, Fake News J BEVERLY’S, Just Plain Darin J J THE BIG DIPPER, Guitar Wolf (see page 39), Isaac Rother and the Phantoms, Itchy Kitty J DOWNTOWN COEUR D’ALENE, Son of Brad GENO’S, Open Mic IRON HORSE BAR & GRILL, Land of Voices J KENDALL YARDS, Scott McLeod, Karrie O’Neill LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Carey Brazil LITTLE GARDEN CAFE, Nick Grow LUCKY’S IRISH PUB, DJ D3VIN3 J MCEUEN PARK, Five Alarm Funk RIDLER PIANO BAR, Live Piano RIVELLE’S RIVER GRILL, Jam Night SOULFUL SOUPS & SPIRITS, Open Mic THE THIRSTY DOG, DJ Dave ZOLA, The Bossame

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MUSIC | VENUES 315 MARTINIS & TAPAS • 315 E. Wallace, CdA • 208-667-9660 ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS • 4705 N. Fruit Hill Rd. • 927-9463 BABY BAR • 827 W. First Ave. • 847-1234 BARLOWS • 1428 N. Liberty Lake Rd. • 924-1446 THE BARTLETT • 228 W. Sprague Ave. • 747-2174 BEEROCRACY • 911 W. Garland Ave. THE BIG DIPPER • 171 S. Washington • 863-8098 BIGFOOT PUB • 9115 N. Division St. • 467-9638 BING CROSBY THEATER • 901 W. Sprague Ave. • 227-7638 BLACK DIAMOND • 9614 E. Sprague • 891-8357 BOLO’S • 116 S. Best Rd. • 891-8995 BOOMERS • 18219 E. Appleway Ave. • 755-7486 BOOTS BAKERY & LOUNGE • 24 W. Main Ave. • 703-7223 BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB • 201 S. Main, Moscow • 208-882-5216 BUZZ COFFEEHOUSE • 501 S. Thor • 340-3099 CALYPSOS COFFEE & CREAMERY • 116 E. Lakeside Ave., CdA • 208-665-0591 CHAPS • 4237 Cheney-Spokane Rd. • 624-4182 CHATEAU RIVE • 621 W. Mallon Ave. • 795-2030 CHECKERBOARD BAR • 1716 E. Sprague Ave. • 535-4007 COEUR D’ALENE CASINO • 37914 S. Nukwalqw Rd., Worley, Idaho • 800-523-2464 COEUR D’ALENE CELLARS • 3890 N. Schreiber Way, CdA • 208-664-2336 CRAFTED TAP HOUSE • 523 Sherman Ave., CdA • 208-292-4813 CRAVE• 401 W. Riverside • 321-7480 CRUISERS • 6105 W Seltice Way, Post Falls • 208773-4706 CURLEY’S • 26433 W. Hwy. 53 • 208-773-5816 DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS • 6412 E. Trent • 535-9309 DIAMS DEN • 412 W. Sprague • 934-3640 EICHARDT’S PUB • 212 Cedar St., Sandpoint • 208-263-4005 THE EMPEROR ROOM • 25 E. Lincoln Rd. • 703-7474 THE FEDORA • 1726 W. Kathleen, CdA • 208-7658888 FIZZIE MULLIGANS • 331 W. Hastings • 466-5354 FOX THEATER • 1001 W. Sprague • 624-1200 HOGFISH • 1920 E. Sherman, CdA • 208-667-1896 HOTEL RL BY RED LION AT THE PARK • 303 W. North River Dr. • 326-8000 IRON HORSE • 407 E. Sherman Ave., CdA • 208667-7314 JACKSON ST. BAR & GRILL • 2436 N. Astor St. • 315-8497 JOHN’S ALLEY • 114 E. Sixth St., Moscow • 208883-7662 KNITTING FACTORY • 911 W. Sprague Ave. • 244-3279 LAGUNA CAFÉ • 2013 E. 29th Ave. • 448-0887 THE LANTERN TAP HOUSE • 1004 S. Perry St. • 315-9531 THE LARIAT • 11820 N. Market St. • 466-9918 LA ROSA CLUB • 105 S. First Ave., Sandpoint • 208-255-2100 LEFTBANK WINE BAR • 108 N. Washington • 315-8623 LUCKY’S IRISH PUB • 408 W. Sprague • 747-2605 MAX AT MIRABEAU • 1100 N. Sullivan • 924-9000 MICKDUFF’S • 312 N. First Ave., Sandpoint • 208)255-4351 MONARCH MOUNTAIN COFFEE • 208 N 4th Ave, Sandpoint • 208-265-9382 MOOSE LOUNGE • 401 E. Sherman • 208-664-7901 MOOTSY’S • 406 W. Sprague • 838-1570 MULLIGAN’S • 506 Appleway Ave., CdA • 208- 7653200 ext. 310 NASHVILLE NORTH • 6361 W. Seltice Way, Post Falls • 208-457-9128 NECTAR CATERING & EVENTS • 120 N. Stevens St. • 869-1572 NORTHERN QUEST RESORT • 100 N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights • 242-7000 NYNE • 232 W. Sprague Ave. • 474-1621 THE OBSERVATORY • 15 S. Howard • 598-8933 O’SHAY’S • 313 E. CdA Lake Dr. • 208-667-4666 THE PALOMINO • 6425 N. Lidgerwood St. • 242-8907 PEND D’OREILLE WINERY • 301 Cedar St., Sandpoint • 208-265-8545 THE PIN! • 412 W. Sprague • 368-4077 RED LION RIVER INN • 700 N. Division • 326-5577 RED ROOM LOUNGE • 521 W. Sprague • 838-7613 REPUBLIC BREWING • 26 Clark Ave. • 775-2700 THE RESERVE • 120 N. Wall • 598-8783 THE RIDLER PIANO BAR • 718 W. Riverside • 822-7938 RIVELLE’S • 2360 N Old Mill Loop, CdA • 208-9300381 THE ROADHOUSE • 20 N. Raymond • 413-1894 SEASONS OF COEUR D’ALENE • 209 E. Lakeside Ave. • 208-664-8008 THE SHOP • 924 S. Perry St. • 534-1647 SOULFUL SOUPS & SPIRITS • 117 N. Howard St. • 459-1190 SPOKANE ARENA • 720 W. Mallon • 279-7000 THE THIRSTY DOG • 3027 E. Liberty Ave. • 487-3000 TIMBER GASTRO PUB •1610 E Schneidmiller, Post Falls • 208-262-9593 ZOLA • 22 W. Main Ave. • 624-2416

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Bellwether Brewing Co. head brewer Thomas Croskrey’s love of ancient style ales is showcased during Braggotfest on Saturday.

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BEER OLD-TIME ALES

The guys at Bellwether are at it again with their latest beer collaboration, offering beer lovers the chance to try historically inspired ales made with and by other local beer makers during Saturday’s Braggotfest. Braggot, for those unaware, is a fermented alcoholic beverage made from grain and honey.

Created by ancient Celtic and Nordic cultures, it was enjoyed by peasants and nobility alike. For the evening beer fest, Bellwether is pouring a brew made with Young Buck Brewing and Hierophant Meadery; it contains a merlot barrel-aged gruit ale blended with Hierophant’s vanilla poplar mead. Attendees of the one-night event can also sample special braggots from six local guest breweries; in all, there will be 10 versions on tap.

The $15 entry includes a commemorative mug and six drink tickets. Extra tickets are $2 each, or three for $5.

— CHEY SCOTT Braggotfest 2017 • Sat, June 24 from 3-9 pm • $15 • Bellwether Brewing Co. • 2019 N. Monroe • facebook.com/ bellwetherbrewing • 328-0428

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FILM DRAWN TOGETHER

WORDS + ARTS LOCAL PRIDE

Studio Ghibli Fest feat. My Neighbor Totoro • Sun, June 25 at 12:55 pm; Mon, June 26 at 7 pm (festival continues through November) • $13 • Regal NorthTown Mall 12 • 4750 N. Division • Regal Riverstone Stadium 14 • 2416 Old Mill Loop, CdA • fathomevents.com

Snapshot Workshop with Poet Laureate Laura Read • Wed, June 28 from 6-9 pm • $5 • Cracker Co. Building • 304 W. Pacific • bit.ly/SnapshotTerrain

In his native Japan, animator Hayao Miyazaki is perhaps the most revered living filmmaker. Though he also has a following in America, Miyazaki really deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as Walt Disney. Through this November, select Regal Cinemas theaters are screening the greatest hits of Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli, starting this weekend with 1988’s My Neighbor Totoro (the English-dubbed version runs on Sunday afternoon, followed by a subtitled version the following evening). Upcoming titles in the series include Kiki’s Delivery Service (July 23-24) and Spirited Away (Oct. 29-30), which the New York Times recently named the second greatest film of the century so far. The big screen is really the best way to see Miyazaki’s work: He fills the frame with so many colorful details that you’ll want to be enveloped in his strange world.

— NATHAN WEINBENDER

It could be said that pride for the city of Spokane is at an all-time high. Of course, this view depends on where you look, and who you ask. Piecing together an accurate and diverse viewpoint of Spokane’s true sense of place and identity in 2017 is the underlying goal of a new project spearheaded by Laura Read (pictured), the city’s Poet Laureate, and local arts nonprofit Terrain. Through a photography showcase and an upcoming writing workshop, residents of all ages and backgrounds are invited to share their personal connection with Spokane through words and images (visit link for photo submission info). Select pieces from the writing session will be showcased in tandem with the Snapshot gallery show, opening on July 7, and during an upcoming reading scheduled for July 12.

— CHEY SCOTT

WORDS RARE BOOKS & BIRDS

The Spokane Public Library’s Northwest Room hosts a special rare book viewing for two of John James Audubon’s most well-known works, bringing out from its collection an 1854 edition of Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America and an 1856 edition of The Birds of America. Audubon’s highly detailed and visually striking depictions in Birds established him as one of the world’s greatest ornithologists. “The images speak for themselves, because they are really something pretty unique,” says Northwest Room librarian Riva Dean, who wanted to display these visually appealing and well-preserved books because of previous success with events to showcase the photography of Edward S. Curtis’ The North American Indian.

— FORREST HOLT John James Audubon Book Viewing • Tue, June 27 from 6-7 pm • Free • Downtown Spokane Library, LevelUp space (third floor) • 906 W. Main • spokanelibrary.org

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This year’s annual community celebration of the historic silver mining town of Wallace, Idaho, founded in 1884, is a big one. There’s the usual parade and street fair festivities, but the highlight of 2017’s gathering is the rededication of town founder William R. Wallace’s tombstone, which most recently was in the possession of a collector (Wallace was buried in California in 1901; the tombstone’s journey since is quite a long story). Now, 116 years later, his grave marker is being reinstalled at the town’s Northern Pacific Railroad Depot Museum, with a dedication ceremony on Saturday at 3:30 pm. Other events throughout the day include the parade (1 pm), a community picnic (2 pm), historical reenactors and book signings.

— CHEY SCOTT Wallace Founder’s Day • Sat, June 24, starting at noon • Free • All ages • Downtown Wallace, Idaho • wallacefoundersday.com • 208-752-0111

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CHEERS GOOD SAMARITAN I was walking with my elderly grandma to a restaurant on 14th when she tripped and fell. As I was bending over her to make sure she was okay, a hand with black sparkly nail polish reached over to help her up. We got her to her feet and I looked over to the nice young man who came to the rescue.

I cannot thank you enough; what you did was so kind and unexpected. Thank you.

TO CAMAS CLUB REPRESENTATIVE JACOB No matter how busy, stressful, difficult or tough the day is, you remain cheerful and and always offer us the most exemplary customer service with a friendly greeting and warm smile and always make us beam and laugh with your sense of humor and magnetic, dynamic personality. My wife and I just want to thank you for all you do and always engaging in conversation with us. We always enjoy talking with you whenever you assist us. A week ago, you even said ‘hello’ to us as you walked by.

That made our day. (especially my wife’s day. She’d been going through some difficult days & had been in tears on and off during those days.) You lived up to the committment of making us feel special.

We haven’t said anything to you but did take notice that you finally got the pronounciation of my wife’s name correct. You were determined to get it right, and you finally succeeded. That tells us something about you: you will never give

up in life. You will just keep going until you succeed. We just wanted to give this shout out to you.

JEERS BAD SERVICE To the waitress at a cafe in Ritzville, WA 6-3-17; My Native American husband, who also happens to be a Veteran, had visited your establishment, hoping to have a nice breakfast. He wasn’t even acknowledged, and I was treated very rudely. Between your bad attitude, the dirty restroom, and the food, I will make sure all my family and friends will never go there!

NOT A DUMP On 6/4/17, I had driven by the Goodwill donation truck at 6:30 am, on West Francis Avenue. Someone had left garbage everywhere, and the bags were all torn open and contents strewn about. Boy, what class you have. Give me your address, so I can “donate” my garbage to your door, and trash your lawn...

Karma will get you.

PRINCESS OF THE PARKING LOT Your royal highness of the Great Harvest Bread parking lot and her lame boyfriend. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to serve you after I made the terrible mistake of parking between you and another person who apparently do not know how to park in the middle of a parking spot. You came out wagging your free bread sample and demanded that I let you in your car. I realize most people would have maybe asked nicely or asked their boyfriend to move over and move the car out so you could get yourself in your car. But I, being 7 months pregnant understand that all your issues are mine. I will never again make the mistake of thinking that I should be thanked even after I moved out and let you get in and your boyfriend thought he was a big shot by trying to intimidate a woman. I assume he must, for you are the Princess of the parking lot, and I... I am just the fool who dared park next to you.

RE: SPOKANE SPEEDERS Oh so typical response from the usual type of Spokane driver were all so familiar with. Let me put it this way, maybe it isn’t “boys with small organs” whose “lives aren’t as important” as you so stupidly and igno-

rantly stated but possibly, just maybe, did you consider for even a fraction of a second that others around you have places to be as well? Your probably one of those drivers were ALL OH TOO FAMILIAR with who goes 5-10 mph under the posted speed limit, you come to a complete stop to execute your right turn at a light or into a parking lot, you

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a $7 meal and she only gave me $3 back.

You said you would count the register — only a buck over, you said. I know exactly how much money I gave the cashier because ATMs won’t give you $10 cash back, only $20s or more. You said you’d look at the camera — and lied straight to my face. I hope you and the incompetent cashier both lose your jobs.

of hit me and sent me spinning. I had my tiny kids in the car and your foolish selfish acts could of hurt them. If you think for one sec mama bear isn’t going to come out as a result of you treating the 2 ton weapon you’re driving around like a bumper car you’re sorely mistaken.

You want to be a foolish moron do it on your own time.

Half a dozen overpriced antique stores and a Zip’s does not constitute a shopping district.

don’t take free right turns and wait for the green light even though it was clear the whole time, you speed up to block people from passing you even though you were driving under the speed limit the last Mile or so, you take off as slow as possible at Green lights, you merge onto i-90 at 35-40mph, and overall just cruise around ever so leisurely like it was a slow stroll in the park. Well guess what?

Other people are trying to get to their destinations as well, and some actually have time limits or possibly are rushing to tend to a family emergency, or maybe they are speeding because they’ve just had a real crappy day and are pissed off. Even if the latter was the case, your so pompous and ignorant you actually believe that other human beings around you lives are less valuable than your own which is quite honestly despicable and reveals alot about your character. Your a dirtbag and most likely an even worse driver, just because you like to drive under the 35 mph speed limit and others around you would like to do 40 doesn’t mean squat, maybe you should pick up the pace yourself and people wouldn’t be swerving from behind you and then getting in front of you. Get a clue MCDONALDS Jeers to the McDonalds manager who lied and stole my $10 11:30 Fri. the 16th. I gave the cashier a $20 for

THANKS WALT I personally wanted to thank Walt Worthy for destroying the 300 block of Main Ave. and Bernard. I have walked and driven by several times.

Look, I admire and appreciate what Walt has done for the city of Spokane but he didn’t do us any favors with the Grand.

Main avenue is nothing more than a blocked off corridor with no entrance and the Bernard side is used for chair and table storage. This could have been so much more. Small shops, florist, baristas, a sports bar, etc....it is really a shame. So much potential for this development yet the city let Worthy get away with public space murder.

YES/NO MONROE? To all the constant whingers, the lying billboards, the passive-aggressive placards up in the windows of the businesses up North Monroe.

You say that making the road narrower will somehow ruin your businesses and the neighborhood. Well, to be honest, it already is ruined. Half a dozen overpriced antique stores and a Zip’s does not constitute a shopping district.

TAILGATING Big giant jeers to the self absorbed driver headed south bound on Argonne sun morn. I was driving 5 miles over the speed limit and you were so close to my bumper if a deer or anything would of ran out in front of me you would

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WTH. People where crowding around trying to see this creature while I’m trying to buy bird block to keep your “pet’s” filthy friends out of my garden. If I wanted to hang out or be around creepy footed creatures then I would go to a zoo or a pet store. I was not shy about my disgusted looks about your choice to bring your “pet” into a store I presumed to be free of fowl filth. You got into the checkout line right behind me and had the audacity to tell me it wasn’t going to hurt me... Really? Really? My safety is what’s being questioned here, not the fact that you brought some freak of the jungle to a home improvement store. n

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EVENTS | CALENDAR

BENEFIT

BOOK SALE FUNDRAISER The Social Justice Ministry hosts its semiannual book and DVD sale, offering more than 1,000 items. Proceeds (free will offering) support missions to Guatemala. June 2325, from 9 am-1 pm. St. Joseph’s Church (Colbert), 3720 E. Colbert Rd. (464-1497) BIZARRE BAZAAR A yard sale to support SpoCon Science Fiction fest, offering games, books, comics and collectibles and more. June 24, 8 am-5 pm. Free.

Shadle Park HS, 4327 N. Ash. spocon.org CHARITY DINNER CONCERT Entertainer Tracey Singer and his family perform a dinner concert to benefit Family Promise of North Idaho. June 24, 6:30-9 pm. $25.

Christ the King Church, 1700 Pennsylvania. familypromiseni.org (208-777-4190)

COMEDY

2.0PEN MIC Local comedy night hosted

by Ken McComb. Thursdays, from 8-10 pm. Free. The District Bar, 916 W. First Ave. facebook.com/districtbarspokane/ GUFFAW YOURSELF! Open mic comedy night hosted by Casey Strain; Thursdays at 10 pm. Free. Neato Burrito, 827 W. First Ave. (509-847-1234) JUBAL FLAGG The comedian and Marconi Award-winning radio host, television personality, and comedy writer has been performing for more than 15 years. June 22-24, times vary. $10-$22. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com (509-318-9998) CAGE MATCH Join the BDT for a “Comedy Death Match,” pitting team against

team to determine Spokane’s improv comedy champs. Fridays in June, at 8 pm. For mature audiences. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. (747-7045) STAND-UP COMEDY Live comedy featuring established and up-and-coming local comedians. Fridays at 8 pm. No cover. Red Dragon Chinese, 1406 W. Third Ave. reddragondelivery.com AFTER DARK A mature-rated version of the Blue Door’s monthly, Friday show; on the first and last Saturday of the month, at 10 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheatre.com SAFARI The Blue Door’s fast-paced, short-form improv show relies on audience suggestions to fuel each scene.

Rated for mature audiences. Saturdays at 8 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. bluedoortheatre.com (747-7045) THE DOPE SHOW A comedy showcase for which comedians joke, then toke, the joke some more. Hosted by Tyler Smith and featuring nationally touring comedians with various tolerances to marijuana. June 25, July 30, Aug. 27 at 8 pm. $16-$22. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com OPEN MIC XL Live comedy, Tuesdays at 9 pm. The Observatory, 15 S. Howard. observatoryspokane.com (509-598-8933) OPEN MIC A free open mic night every Wednesday, starting at 8 pm. Doors open at 7 pm. Free. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com CORY MICHAELIS A teacher by day and comic by night, Michaelis keeps his act edgy enough to keep the audience from feeling like they’re in his 10th grade His-

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tory class. June 29-July 1 at 8 pm, July 1 at 10:30 pm. $10-$22. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. (318-9998) DUOS Several BDT players are paired up two-by-two and given free rein for 15 minutes to do whatever style of improv they want. Last Friday of the month, at 10 pm. For mature audiences. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. (747-7045) IGNITE IMPROV TROUPE A performance by the local theater’s in-house comedy improv troupe. July 1 at 7 pm. $5. Ignite!

Community Theatre, 10814 E. Broadway. igniteonbroadway.org

COMMUNITY

DISABILITY RIGHTS WASHINGTON MEETING Discuss DRW’s current priorities and share what issues are important to you and your community. For accommodation requests, contact info@dr-wa. org. June 22, 6-8 pm. Free. Peyton Building, 10 N. Post, 6th floor. (206-324-1521) LAKE COEUR D’ALENE CRUISES The fleet departs daily from the Coeur d’Alene Resort all summer for scenic tours, holiday specials, late morning brunch and evening sunset dinner cruises. $25/ adults; $23/ages 55+; $17/ages 6-17; free/ age 5 and under. CdA Resort, 115 S. Second. cdacruises.com (208-765-4000) HERITAGE GARDENS TOURS A guided tour of the gardens, restored in 2007 to look as they did when in use in 1915.

Learn about the discovery, the restoration and the two influential families of early Spokane who enjoyed them.

Upcoming tours (see site for times and other details): June 22; July 13, 16, 20, 23,

27 and 30; Aug. 31. Free. Moore-Turner Heritage Gardens, 507 W. Seventh Ave. heritagegardens.org PATRIOT TOUR The 8th annual 100-day, 14,000-mile journey consists of motorcycle riders carrying an American flag cityto-city, through all 48 continental states, to raise money for wounded veterans and their families. Tour stops in Spokane on June 22-23. Lone Wolf Harley-Davidson, 19011 E. Cataldo. nationofpatriots.com SPOKANE COHOUSING INFO MEETING A public information meeting on an intergenerational community forming now in the South Perry neighborhood. June 22, 6-8 pm. Free. East Central Community Center, 500 S. Stone St. (991-5117) THURSDAY EVENING SWING Come swing dance every Thursday night, from 6:30-10 pm. Includes beginner/intermediate lessons; no partner or experience necessary. $8/door or $50/10-week punch card. Woman’s Club of Spokane, 1428 W. Ninth. strictlyswingspokane.com JUNKIN’ JUNK BARN SALE A barn sale offering vintage/antique items, home decor, furniture, yard art, signs and more.

June 23, 10 am-4 pm; June 24, 10 am-2 pm. Free. Past Blessings Farm, 8521 N. Orchard Prairie. pastblessingsfarm.com LIBERTY LAKE KIWANIS COMMUNITY YARD SALE Hundreds of homes in and around Liberty Lake host yard sales, along with food vendors and artisan vendors at Pavilion Park. June 23, 9 am-5 pm and June 24, 8 am-5 pm. Pavillion Park, 727 N. Molter. liberty-lake.kiwanisone.org SUPER SUMMER KICK-OFF CARNIVAL A summer kick-off carnival with open camp enrollment. Come for food, car-

nival games, bounce houses and more.

June 23, 2-6 pm. Free. Lisa Styles-Gyllenhammer Club, 12509 N. Market St. bgcspokanecounty.org (489-0741) TAKE YOUR DOG TO WORK DAY SCRAPS is celebrating with Downtown Spokane Partnership at this first annual event. Come enjoy music, a pet fashion show, vendors and much more. June 23, 10 am-2 pm. Free. Huntington Park, 350 N. Post St. spokanecounty.org/scraps GHOST HUNT & WALK Join local storyteller Chet Caskey for a stroll from the dark Corbin Mansion, the Moore-Turner Gardens, and the Undercliff Mansion for tales of murder, intrigue and paranormal disturbances. Ages 12+. June 24, July 15 and Sept. 23, from 8-10 pm. $17. Corbin Art Center, 507 W. Seventh. spokaneparks.org JUNEBUG BALL Learn how to do the hustle with professional instructors, followed by general dancing, mixers, door prizes, refreshments and more. June 24, 7-10 pm. $5-$9. Sandpoint Community Hall, 204 S. First Ave. (208-699-0421) MILLWOOD PRINT WORKS OPEN HOUSE Explore the new printshop space and see demos of a platen press. June 24, 5-8 pm. Free. Millwood Print Works, 8921 E. Euclid. facebook.com/millwoodprintworks SPOKANE NAACP SPAGHETTI FEED The 13th annual spaghetti dinner fundraiser includes a full meal with sides, along with a silent auction. Dine in and take out available. June 24, 5-8 pm. $7$10 suggested donation. East Central Community Center, 500 S. Stone St. (209-2425)

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Celebrate Summer A rundown of cannabis events happening in the state of Washington

BY MIKE BOOKEY

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ummer is festival season here in the Northwest.

There are music festivals, food festivals, beer festivals, and a gathering for pretty much any other interest you might have. So it’s natural that there are a number of cannabis-related events in our region, too.

Here’s a quick cheat sheet for the green-friendly happenings this summer, so you can turn your travels around the state into a weed-cation.

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com/JFestBlaine). There will be live music and local art displays. And, of course, cannabis.

HEMPFEST: SEATTLE

Aug. 18-20 Back during the days of cannabis prohibition, Seattle’s Hempfest was a display of collective civil disobedience on a massive scale, as nearly 100,000 people gathered to rally for legal weed and illicitly indulge. Even though cannabis is now legal, the event (hempfest.org) hasn’t lost much steam. It’s still a huge gathering, and the political and social stances have progressed to include taking cannabis off the list of items on the Controlled Substances Act list, reforming tax laws and legal reform. There are

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also tons of vendors and music, and a whole lot of laidback folks.

TERPESTIVAL: SEATTLE

July 15 This festival is for the weed geeks out there who want to get deep into the science of cannabis, or perhaps put their strains to the test. At Terpestival (cannabisandsocialpolicy.org/terpestival-2017), cannabis producers, retailers and processors can have their products tested for terpene characteristics (the fragrant oils in cannabis) and ranked accordingly. May the best buds win.

KING CANNABIS EXPO: SPOKANE

Sept. 29-30 This looks to be one of the biggest cannabis events the Inland Northwest has ever seen. Taking place at the Spokane Convention Center, this expo (kingcannabisexpo.com) will provide a top-to-bottom look at the state’s cannabis industry, with vendors from all levels of the growing-to-selling process. There will even be a room for wholesalers and retailers to buy or sell their product. n

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EVENTS | CALENDAR SPOKANE SIDEWALK GAMES SUMMER KICKOFF Come to the North entrance to RPS for the debut of new games (Face Drop, a giant ring toss) and the return of old favorites. June 24, noon. Free. River Park Square, 808 W. Main Ave. (624-3945) WALLACE FOUNDER’S DAY The tombstone of town founder Col. William R. Wallace will be brought back in style to its namesake, with a grand parade, picnic and dedication. June 24, 1 pm. Wallace, Idaho. wallacefoundersday.com FESTIVITIES IN THE PARK: The community festival during Newport Rodeo Weekend features live music in the park, chicken poop bingo, vendors, kids’ games, food, stick horse races, a beer/wine garden and more. June 24, 11 am. Free. Newport City Park, First and Calispel. newportarechamber.com 7B SUNDAY The grand opening weekend for summer season on the mountain, featuring a vendor fair of local restaurants, shops, beer/wine producers, artists and musicians. June 25, 11 am-5 pm. Free. Schweitzer Mountain Resort, 10,000 Schweitzer Mountain Rd. schweitzer.com (208-263-9555) TRAVELING LANTERN THEATRE COMPANY The educational group presents “The Ribbles Build a Residence” to locations on the Palouse, including in the park in Malden on June 26 at 6 pm, the Colfax library on June 27 at 4 pm, and on June 28 at 10 am in the park in Lacrosse. Fod kids in grades K-8. June 26, 2 pm. Free. Empire Theatre, 126 S. Crosby St., Tekoa, Wash. (284-2000) WITNESSES FOR THE CLIMATE Experts on the struggle for the health of our planet testify in court on June 26 for the Spokane Climate Protectors.

June 26, 7-8:30 pm. Free. Community Building, 35 W. Main Ave. directactionspokane.org (232-1950) ORIGIN STORIES: SUPERHERO CREATION FOR KIDS Learn the secrets of superheroes as you write and illustrate your own comic with characters and stories built around the idea of superpowers. No cost; registration required.

For grades 3-7. June 28, 9-11 am. Free.

Spark Central, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. spark-central.org (279-0299) SPOKANE CONTRA DANCE Spokane Folklore Society’s weekly dance, with Out of the Wood playing and caller Ray Polhemus. Open to all ages/experiences; beginner workshop at 7:15 pm. June 28, 7:30-9:30 pm. $5/$7. Woman’s Club of Spokane, 1428 W. Ninth. (598-9111) MILITARISM, ISLAMOPHOBIA & THE TRUMP-BANNON-PENCE VISION A presentation and discussion by Gonzaga philosophy lecturer Joan Braune connecting the dots between militarism and other forms of oppression and violence as it relates to President Trump and White House Chief Strategist Stephen Bannon’s plans for war. June 29, 6-8 pm. Free and open to the public.

Westminster Congregational UCC, 411 S. Washington St. pjals.org (533-3721) DROP IN & CODE FOR KIDS Explore the world of coding using game-based lessons on Code.org and Scratch. For kids grade 3 and up. Meets the last Friday of the month, from 3-5:30 pm. Free. Spark Central, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. sparkcentral.org (279-0299) THE MAGIC OF HARRY POTTER’S WORLD An exhibition exploring Harry Potter’s world, its roots in Renaissance science, and the ethical questions that

affected not only the wizards of Harry Potter, but also the historical thinkers featured in the series. Exhibit runs July 3-Aug. 12; open Mon-Thu 10 am-9 pm; Fri-Sat 10 am-6 pm, Sun 1-5 pm. Free.

Spokane Valley Library, 12004 E. Main.

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FILM

Z NATION: BEHIND THE CAMERA During summer 2017, the MAC becomes a working TV studio and a celebration of the dozens of local artists behind the hit Syfy series Z Nation. Visitors can watch scenes being shot for season 4, learn how a TV series is made, and about the local crew members working on the show. The exhibit also features props, costumes and other items used in the show. June 10-Sept. 10; open Tue-Sun, 10 am-5 pm. $5-$10/admission. The MAC, 2316 W. First. (456-3931) FINDING DORY In this sequel to Finding Nemo, lovable, blue tang Dory decides to go off in search of her long-lost parents. June 23, 3 pm. Free. Shadle Library, 2111 W. Wellesley. (444-5390) SATURDAY MARKET CARTOONS Join the Kenworthy every Saturday from June through September from 9 amnoon for free classic cartoons on the big screen. Free. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy.org (208-882-4127) STUDIO GHIBLI FEST: MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO Hayao Miyazaki’s tale of two girls who move to a new house in the countryside and soon discover that the surrounding forests are home to a family of Totoros, gentle but powerful creatures who are seen only by children. At Regal Cinemas Northtown and Riverstone (CdA); June 25 (dubbed) at 12:55 pm and June 26 (subtitled) at 7 pm. $13. fathomevents.com ICE AGE COLLISION COURSE See the latest installment in this silly and fun animated series. June 26-30 at 9:30 am. Free. Garland Theater, 924 W. Garland Ave. garlandtheater.com SUMMER CAMP: PULP FICTION A screening of the classic film as part of the Garland’s 2017 summer film series, Tuesdays at 7 pm. June 27, 7 pm. $2.50.

Garland Theater, 924 W. Garland Ave. garlandtheater.com (327-1050) GHOSBUSTERS (1984) The BECU outdoor movie series features pre-show live entertainment, trivia and local food vendors. Seating opens at 7 pm; movies start at dusk. June 28, 7 pm. $5. Riverfront Park, 705 N. Howard St. epiceap. com/spokane-outdoor-movies SUMMER MATINEE SERIES: STORKS Storks deliver babies… or at least they used to. Now they deliver packages for global internet giant Cornerstore.com.

June 28-29 at 1 pm. $3. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy.org A QUIET PASSION Cynthia Nixon delivers a triumphant performance as Emily Dickinson. June 29-July 2. Panida Theater, 300 N. First Ave. panida.org SCREEN ON THE GREEN: GHOSTBUSTERS The UI Dept. of Student Involvement’s family summer movie series is held on Thursdays at the Theophilus Tower Lawn. June 29, 8:45 pm. Free. University of Idaho, 709 S Deakin St. uidaho.edu (208-885-6111) SUMMER MOONLIGHT MOVIES: HOOK A screening as part of the City of Airway Heights’ annual summer outdoor movie series. June 30, 9 pm. Free. Sunset Park, S. King St. cahw.org

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BACKYARD BAR PARTY Weekly backyard parties include local beer from Slate Creek, local cider from Summit Cider, a featured wine of the week, live music, lawn games and more. Thursdays, 5:30-8:30 pm, through Aug. 30.

Free admission. The Blackwell Hotel, 820 E. Sherman. (208-765-7799) DRINK THIS! The Inland NW Food Network beverage tasting and education series is held every month on the fourth Thursday, from 6:30-8 pm. Locations vary; see link for schedule and registration. $10-$15. inwfoodnetwork.org PIZZERIA PIZZA & STROMBOLI, OH MY! Drawing from Neapolitan and California influences, you’ll make pizza dough and learn what is needed to ensure perfect crust every time. June 22, 6-8 pm. $49. Inland Northwest Culinary Academy, 1810 N. Greene St. (533-8141) STEEL BARREL ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY The brewery incubator and taproom celebrates one year with specialty beer releases, games, food specials from Zona Blanca, live music and more. June 22-24. Ages 21+. The Steel Barrel Taproom, 154 S. Madison. bit. ly/2sp77sD (509-315-9879) FOOD TRUCK FRIDAYS A weekly, summer event hosted by Downtown Spokane Partnership and featuring different regional food trucks each week, parked along the North 200 block of Wall Street.

Fridays, 11:30 am-1:30 pm, through August. downtown.spokane.net ROCKET MARKET WINE/BEER CLASSES Every Friday evening, head to the Rocket Market for a guided tasting session of wine or beer, with a new theme each week. Fridays, at 7 pm.

Reservations requested. $25/session.

Rocket Market, 726 E. 43rd Ave. rocketmarket.com (509-343-2253) BRAGGOTFEST A celebration of the historic fermented beverage of grain and honey, created by ancient Nordic and Celtic cultures. Entry includes a commemorative mug and 6 drink tickets. Extra tickets $2 or 3/$5. June 24, 3-9 pm. $15. Bellwether Brewing Co., 2019 N. Monroe. bit.ly/2sYs6zc MAD HATTER TEA PARTY An “Alice in Wonderland”-themed tea party to kick off summer, with crumpets, light refreshments and more. June 24, 10 am-noon. $25/person. Jacklin Arts & Cultural Center, 405 N. William St. thejacklincenter.org (208-457-8950) SPOKANE SCRUMPY RELEASE PARTY Liberty Ciderworks releases a special batch of cider to benefit Second Harvest made from apples rescued from backyards, roadsides, and abandoned orchards. The debut tasting also features samples from Booey’s Gourmet hot sauces, and food pairings. June 27, 5:30-7:30 pm. $30. Second Harvest, 1234 E. Front. 2-harvest.org/scrumpy PERFECTING YOUR BACKYARD BBQ GAME A midsummer barbecue class to help attendees make this grilling season their best ever. June 28, 6-9 pm. $65. Dahmen Barn, 419 N. Park Way. artisanbarn.org (229-3414) BBQ 101: SAUCES, BRINES & RUBS Scott McCandless shares pit master secrets for great barbecue brines, sauces and more. Attendees enjoy light appetizers with beer and wine during the two-hour class. Reservations requested. June 29, 6-8 pm. $50. Clover, 913 E. Sharp. cloverspokane.com (487-2937)

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My girlfriend of two years had me help her download photos from her phone, and I found about two dozen close-ups of her private parts. She said she was “just curious.” Well, okay, but why not use a mirror? Besides, she’s in her 30s. Surely, she knows what her parts look like without a photo shoot.

Do you think she took these to send to another guy?

—Disturbed Men aren’t used to women being preoccupied with their girlparts. Even in Redneckville, you never see a woman hanging a rubber replica of hers off the back of her pickup.

The truth is, not all women went for a look-see down there with a hand mirror at age 14. Recently, some women may have gotten inspired to do some camera-phone sightseeing thanks to the increased visibility of the ladygarden via free internet porn, the mainstreaming of the waxed-bald vulva, and giant ads for labiaplasty (aka a face-lift for your vagina).

Though it’s possible that your girlfriend is texting these to other guys, consider what anthropologist Donald Symons calls the human tendency “to imagine that other minds are much like our own.” This can lead us to forget about biological sex differences, like how men, who are in no danger of getting pregnant from sex, evolved to be the less sexually discriminating half of humanity. Note that women don’t have to text photos of their naked bits to get sex; they just need to text their address and tell the guy not to dawdle.

It’s hard for many people to tell whether another person is lying, especially when they’re invested in believing otherwise. Borrowing from research methodology, a way to figure out whether a lone ambiguous event might be meaningful — like whether the panty hamster pictorial might mean what you dread it does — is to see how much company it has. (In other words, is it part of a pattern?)

Look back on your girlfriend’s behavior over your two years together. Does she act ethically — even when she thinks nobody’s looking? Does it, in fact, mean something to her to do the right thing? Being honest with yourself about whether she has a pattern of ethical corner-cutting will allow you to make the best (that is, most informed) guess about whether you have something to worry about — beyond coming home to a, um, new addition to the framed photos of her parents’ anniversary and your nephew with his Little League trophy.

AMY ALKON

FALLING IN LEAVE

My relationship ended recently, and I asked my ex not to contact me. But just as I’d start feeling a little less sad, I’d hear from him and fall apart. I’ve now blocked him on my phone and social media. This seems so immature. Why can’t I be more grown up about this?

—Incommunicado For you, breaking up but staying in contact makes a lot of sense — about the same sort as trying to drop 20 pounds while working as a frosting taster.

Sure, there’s this notion that you “should” be able to be friends with your ex. Some people can be — eventually or even right away — especially if they had a relationship that just fizzled out instead of the kind where you need a rowboat to make it to the kitchen through the river of your tears.

However — not surprisingly — clinical psychologists David Sbarra and Robert Emery find that “contact with one’s former partner … can stall the emotional adjustment process” by reactivating both love and painful emotions. For example, in their survey of people who’d recently gone through a breakup, “on days when participants reported having telephone or in-person contact with their former partner, they also reported more love and sadness.”

It might help you to understand how adjusting to the new “no more him” thing works. In a serious relationship, your partner becomes a sort of emotional support animal — the one you always turn to for affection, attention, and comforting. This habit of turning toward him gets written into your brain on a neural level, becoming increasingly automatic over time.

Post-breakup, you turn and — oops — there’s no boo, only a faint dent in his side of the bed. Your job in healing is to get used to this change — which you don’t do by having him keep popping up, messing with your new belief that he’s no longer available for emotional need-meeting.

That’s why, in a situation like yours, breaking up with your boyfriend should work like breaking up with your couch. When the thing gets dropped off at the city dump, it stays there; you don’t come out on your porch the next morning to it saying, “Hey, babe…was in the neighborhood, so I thought I’d bring over some of your stuff — 36 cents, a pen cap, and this hair elastic.” n ©2017, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. • Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405 or email AdviceAmy@aol.com (www.advicegoddess.com)

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EVENTS | CALENDAR PALOUSE BEER CHOIR Beer Choir celebrates the pleasures of pub-singing and craft beer. June 29, 7-8 pm. Free and open to the public. Birch & Barley, 1360 SE Bishop Blvd. (208-285-1258) SALAD LAB In this hands-on class, experiment with a wide range of greens, and sample oils and vinegars for making quick and versatile dressings. June 29, 5:30-7 pm. $45. Kitchen Engine, 621 W. Mallon Ave. thekitchenengine.com SUMMER SAMPLER The community block party offers samplings from local food and beverage purveyors, along with live music and more. Food and drink items range from $3-$7. June 29, 5-8 pm. Farmin Park, Third and Main, Sandpoint. bit.ly/2rGTOCc RIDE & DINE DINNER SERIES Tickets include a ride to the top of the mountain on the gondola, a barbecue dinner and live music. Fridays, June 30-Sept. 1, from 2-8 pm. $41-$48. Silver Mountain Ski Resort, 610 Bunker. silvermt.com CHINA BEND 30TH SUMMER PARTY: The 30th annual summer celebration features live music, performers, sports, dancing, local arts and crafts, food and more. July 1, noon. Free. China Bend Winery, 3751 Vineyard Way, Kettle Falls. chinabend.com (732-6123)

MUSIC

SUMMER HANDBELL CONCERT A performance by the Ivey Ringers of Charlotte, North Carolina, a high school group that’s performed nationally and internationally. June 22, 7-8:30 pm. Donations accepted. St. John’s Cathedral, 127 E. 12th Ave. (838-4277) SOUND OF MUSIC SING-A-LONG A screening that encourages audience participation, and includes subtitles for all the songs. June 25 and Sept. 9, at 6:30 pm. $15. Kroc Center, 1765 W. Golf Course Rd. LauraLittleTheatricals.com PATRIOTIC MUSIC Get in a patriotic spirit with singer Mary Clark and pianist Doug Scott. June 28, 6:30 pm. Free.

Touchmark South Hill, 2929 S. Waterford Dr. (536-2929) VIOLA CONCERT FEAT. JENNIFER O’BANNAN Enjoy an afternoon of music as Jennifer O’Bannan plays selections on her viola. June 29, 1:30 pm.

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IRONMAN PRO MEET & GREET A panel of Ironman 70.3 athletes share stories about their journey and give training tips. June 22, 6-8 pm. Free. Kroc Center, 1765 W. Golf Course Rd. kroccda.org LIGHTWEIGHT BACKPACKING An REI expert provides tips on lightweight backpacking techniques, covering shelters, backpacks, food choices, and fuel efficiency. June 22, 6 pm. Free. REI, 1125 N. Monroe St. rei.com/spokane RAIN BARREL WORKSHOP Participants learn how and why to use a rain barrel and go home with a completed rain barrel. Pre-registration required.

June 22 and July 12, at 3:30 pm and 5:30 pm. $20. Spokane Conservation District, 210 N. Havana St. sccd.org HOOPFEST 2017 Participate in or be a spectator at Spokane’s annual 3-on-3 basketball tournament, the largest of its kind in the world. June 24-25. Down-

town Spokane. spokanehoopfest.net CDA SKATE PARK FAREWELL Celebrate the last days of the old Coeur d’Alene skate park before it is gone.

June 24, 8 am-6 pm. Free. Coeur d’Alene Skate Park, 480 W. Garden Ave. facebook.com/cdask8prk/ WRESTLING FOR AUTISM A night of family entertainment, with all proceeds going to the NW Autism Center. June 24, 6-9 pm. $5. East Central Community Center, 500 S. Stone. (701-6203) HIKE THREE SUMMITS Hike to the tops of Mt. Kit Carson, Day Mountain, and Mt. Spokane, three of the eight named summits in Mt. Spokane State Park.

Guidebook author Cris Currie guides this moderately challenging, 6-mile interpretive hike that begins at the historic Cook’s Cabin and CCC areas and ends at the Vista House. June 25, 9 am. $35. Mt. Spokane State Park, 26107 N. Mt. Spokane Park Dr. spokaneparks.org IRONMAN HALF 70.3 Athletes can train for the full Ironman race in August with this half-distance course, which includes a 1.2-mile swim, a 56-mile bike ride and a 13.1 mile run. Starts at City Beach on the lake; ends along Sherman Ave in CdA. June 25. ironman.com SPOKANE INDIANS VS. TRI-CITY Home series; June 26-28 at 6:30 pm. $5-$20. Avista Stadium, 602 N. Havana St. spokaneindiansbaseball.com SPOKANE SHADOW The Men’s First Team competes against OSA Soccer Club. June 28, 7 pm. $5-$7. SFCC, 3410 W. Fort George Wright Dr. spokanesoccerclubshadow.org WEDNESDAYS IN THE WOODS The third annual summer-long series from REI features a diverse weekly program lineup, from live music to educational sessions on camp cooking, pet first aid, hiking and more. Wednesdays, from 6:30-8 pm. Discover Pass required for parking. Free. Riverside State Park, Spokane. REI.com/Learn

THEATER

CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG See a live retelling of story of the loveable but wacky inventor Caractacus Potts, his two children, and the gorgeous Truly Scrumptious. Through July 2; Wed-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $27-$49. Kroc Center, 1765 W. Golf Course Rd. cdasummertheatre.com (208-660-2958) MOSCOW ART THEATRE (TOO): GOD OF CARNAGE A playground altercation between 11-year-old boys brings together two sets of parents for a meeting to discuss the fight. June 25-July 2, Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $10. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main. kenworthy.org LEGALLY BLONDE: THE MUSICAL A show based on the 2001 film. June 2325, Fri-Sat at 7 pm, Sun at 3 pm. $6-$12.

Pend Oreille Playhouse, 236 S. Union Ave. pendoreilleplayers.org SPOKANE VALLEY SUMMER THEATRE: ALWAYS, PATSY CLINE A staged musical based on the live of the famous musician. June 23-July 8; WedSat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $20-$38.

Central Valley High School, 821 S. Sullivan Rd. svsummertheatre.com THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL A play about the myth of an idea called home.

Through June 25, Fri-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $10. Stage Left Theater, 108 W. Third Ave. spokanestageleft.org PLAY WRITING & PUPPET MAKING:

Each child makes their own puppet character, then brought to life with a story they create. The final day ends with a performance. Ages 6+. June 2630, 10 am-3 pm. $120. Emerge, 208 N. Fourth St. emergecda.org THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA Cameron Mackintosh’s spectacular new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s story comes to Spokane as part of a brand new North American Tour. June 28-July 9; times vary. $32.50-$77.50.

INB Performing Arts Center, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. wcebroadway.com

VISUAL ARTS

PALOUSE ARTISTS’ SHOWCASE The Palouse Arts Council’s 13th annual showcase features artwork shown in local downtown businesses. June 23-25; Fri 1-7 pm; Sat 10 am-4 pm; Sun, noon3 pm. Free. Palouse Community Center, 220 E. Main St. (878-1701) RODNEY HALLEN A gallery show featuring the artist’s abstract world, along with works by New Moon member artists Alice and Chuck Harmon. June 23, 5-9 pm and June 24, 1-5 pm. Free. New Moon Art Gallery, 1326 E. Sprague, Ste. B. newmoonartgallery.com (413-9101) FLORIDAE The 11th annual arts celebration features a French-inspired antiques market, floral nursery market, garden tours, art exhibit, food and more. June 24, 10 am-5 pm. Bank Left Gallery, 100 S. Bridge St, Palouse, Wash. bankleftgallery.com (509-878-8425) ART ON THE BLACKTOP The 4th annual outdoor art festival features art by local artists and craftspeople. June 30-July 2; Fri 5-9 pm, Sat 10 am-6 pm, Sun 10 am-5 pm. Free. 29th Avenue Artworks, 3128 E. 29th Ave. 29arts.com

WORDS

READING: RODNEY FREY Frey reads from his new book “Carry Forth the Stories: An Ethnographer’s Journey into Native Oral Tradition.” June 22, 7 pm. Free. BookPeople of Moscow, 521 S. Main St. bookpeopleofmoscow.com READING: STEVE OLSON “Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens” weaves accounts from the event’s victims with an insight of its impact on science. June 22, 7 pm. Free. Auntie’s Bookstore, 402 W. Main Ave. auntiesbooks.com (509-838-0206) PAULA POUNDSTONE The comedian returns to Spokane with her quickthinking, unscripted humor for this SPR benefit performance. June 22, 7:30 pm. $42-$46. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague (227-7404) POET ZAN AGZIGIAN Zan is accompanied by live music as she performs a summer solstice landscape of prose and poetry. June 24, 6 pm. Free. Hotel RL at the Park, 201 W. North River Dr. redlion.com/park-spokane (326-8000) READING: CHRISTOPHER HOWELL The poet shares his newest collection “Love’s Last Number.” June 28, 7 pm.

Free. Auntie’s Bookstore, 402 W. Main Ave. auntiesbooks.com (838-0206) SNAPSHOT SPOKANE WORKSHOP A workshop with Terrain and Spokane Poet Laureate Laura Read to capture the thoughts and feelings of Spokane on paper. See link for more details and to register. June 28, 6-9 pm. $5. Terrain, 304 W. Pacific Ave. bit.ly/2rm9dFx n

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JUNE 22, 2017 INLANDER 53

MEANING IS MALLEABLE

CALEB WALSH ILLUSTRATION

Finding the meaning(lessness) of life at age 30

BY JORDY BYRD

B

y the time I told a stranger at a wedding reception that I was a nihilist, someone had already slipped Ecstasy into my red Solo cup. I didn’t find out I was drugged until months later when a friend said it was given covertly to everyone. So on the other side of the world, at a wedding in Australia, I found myself face-toface with an overly joyous blond man with dimples like a cherub.

I didn’t know how difficult it would be to explain the meaningless of life to him as he, the best man at the wedding, tried to fit all of his fingers into my mouth. He was on Ecstasy, too. With most people, the drug enhances senses and inhibits the reluctance to touch, be touched and express emotional peace or empathy, which is probably why I admitted — for the first time out loud — that I believed in nothing.

The contradiction between my chemical-induced euphoria and my overwhelming disbelief in reality, thereby fueling my despair, was not proper wedding talk for me, the maid of honor, a woman with unruly hair that day adorned with white roses. But it’s a subject I’ve come to embrace as I embark on the first year of my 30s.

In my 30 years I’ve seen the stock market crash, genocide, crippling natural disasters, and lived in a nation and world constantly at war, with terror, both domestic and abroad, so pervasive that attempts at joy — to go to a movie, club or concert — are fraught with mass shootings and bombings. Even moral acts seem fruitless when we

continue to kill each other in the name of morality, and continue to be divided by politics and parties that have no one’s best interests at heart.

I don’t care that by comparison other generations had it worse, or that statements like this are the exact reason everyone hates millennials. I don’t care anymore about searching for the meaning of life.

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esonating with an age-old philosophy made popular by Friedrich Nietzsche makes me sound like a hipster, but it’s the only thing that seems to make sense.

Nihilists are thought to exert their beliefs, or lack thereof, in one of two ways — through hedonism or resentment — with the sole impulse to destroy. Despite the occasional accidental Ecstasy experience, I’m far too cautious to be a hedonist, too deeply unhappy and crippled by vulnerability to actually feel good. And the only thing I’ve ever set out to butcher and extinguish was myself.

While I’m empathetic, I’ve never gotten good at understanding how people cope with the world. Those who know me well see that I occasionally express great joy, but mostly great sorrow. To say that nihilism was always coming is an understatement.

At 19, I tried to kill myself with a steak knife. In my early 20s, I used sex as an entrapment for love. My mid-

If my 20s taught me anything, it’s to trust the darkness in the tunnel.

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20s were dedicated to the bottle and my depression, and for a while I simply wallowed in self-loathing and pizza.

In this time, my belief that people are intrinsically selfish and bad was only amplified, but I clung to the hope that if I was good, if I was kind and without ego, an answer would be revealed at the end of the tunnel. And I don’t mean a light, because I am not so foolish as to believe in God. If my 20s taught me anything, it’s to trust the darkness in the tunnel and cultivate an ego. It’s that the apocalyptic terror of our culture is dedicated to its destruction.

It’s that no love is great enough to save us.

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s the best man pulled his sticky fingers out of my mouth, he asked how I could believe in nothing.

I tried to explain that our actions, our distinction between what is right and what is wrong — our very claim to a singular reality — was pointless.

But the music was too loud, the drug was too strong and we were too unaware of its psychoactive effects to truly persuade the other — him a joyous cherub and me an unruly void. We spent the rest of the wedding reception holed up at the bar listening to Slayer, trying to mold each other’s lips and cheeks and faces in our hands like Play-Doh. In that moment, and in all the ones that have passed since I’ve turned 30, I’ve found peace in the absurdity and meaningless of life. I’m focused less on my inability to cope, or pretend to fit into it anymore. I’m less resentful because I’m not focused on the payout — I’m not waiting for an answer that doesn’t exist. n

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