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hat with schools out, trees greening, graduations and wedding celebrations, June is bustin’ out all over with happy talk. But June 20 in Idaho is the deadline for paying property taxes to the counties — and what a wet blanket that casts over the bubbling June picture.

I was brought up to repeat: “It’s a privilege to pay taxes.” And I really do believe that to be a healthy mantra. We are fortunate when we own parcels of property that are worth taxing. And we are fortunate to have the public services that shield us from harm and keep the wheels of communal living turning.

But that’s a Pollyannaish view of the world.

More people agree that property taxes exist to be universally loathed, and the Bible tells us it has always been so. (Tax collectors weren’t popular in the days when Alexander the Great spread Greek culture over much of what is now Turkey and the seething Middle East. So what’s new?)

So why did the 2016 Idaho Legislature vote to raise future residential property taxes by eliminating the inflation index on the homeowner’s exemption? Does that seem politically smart?

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f course, the picture is never quite that simple. The lobbyists for the Idaho Association of Commerce and Industry, who pass out campaign funds to legislators who agree with them, has argued that the current method of indexing the homeowner’s exemption so that it increases every year as housing prices rise is hurting the broader business community.

(And that’s despite the fact that our businessmen and businesswomen live in houses, too.)

What is the Idaho homeowner’s exemption anyway? Currently, owners of a house worth $200,000 would subtract $94,745, the maximum cap set by the Idaho Housing Price Index, in estimating their property tax bill, and pay property taxes on nearly half of their home’s value. The new legislation removes the Housing Price Index as a factor and substitutes a maximum exemption of $100,000.

The Idaho homeowner’s exemption has a tortured history that began as a rumble in the 1960s, when property values were rapidly on the upswing and homeowners were paying an increasing portion of the entire county property tax bill. In 1982, a statewide initiative effort was launched to create a permanent homeowners exemption. Aroused and activated homeowners carried initiative petitions door to door. I was in the thick of it. The campaign had no advertising dollars to spend, and we signature gatherers were all volunteers. Despite the lack of advertising dollars, the measure passed with 56 percent of

the vote.

Passage of the exemption didn’t mean the fight was over.

Republican legislators continued to introduce bills to undercut or even repeal the exemption. In 1986, a challenge from eastern Idaho businesses was stopped in its tracks by the Idaho Supreme Court, which ruled that the exemption was legitimate. The ruling also noted that the homeowner’s exemption helped equalize the tax burden between businesses and homeowners.

I prowled around in my files and pulled out a piece of my campaign literature from 1994 promoting a tax cap initiative. A 1994 graph showed that despite the exemption, the percentage of growth in residential property taxes was still outpacing business growth.

It’s been a perennial seesaw through the decades, with housing values continuing to grow faster than values in the business sector. As a result, homeowners have been carrying an everexpanding load of the property tax burden.

The demand for new housing for families causes new houses to be built. New neighborhoods need new schools. But we don’t want onerous property taxes to fall primarily on young families. Healthy communities require a sound educational system to foster a healthy economy, just as it launches students toward a bright personal future. So everyone’s taxes are needed to support the schools. Fortunately, Idaho voters have generally agreed with that during these recent tough years.

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he time has come to take a critical look at how Idaho funds its most important budgets. This is a question that gets to the crux of public life — how to most fairly collect the money that keeps our state running. It’s time to shine more light on the tax breaks that add up to millions of dollars and never sunset. And it’s important to be mindful of societal changes, too.

Our modern economy is in a state of constant flux. Retail stores pay large property tax bills. Yet retail businesses now face stiff competition from online marketing.

If the Idaho legislature would clean up the tax breaks, accept federal dollars for Medicaid and quit getting embroiled in expensive lawsuits, then there surely would be enough general fund dollars available to give to counties to subsidize their local taxing district budgets.

Then the Idaho legislature could restore the homeowner’s exemption index, be equally kind to commercial property owners, and invest newly expanded general fund dollars in schools and other local taxing districts.

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BILL BRYANT, a former Seattle port commissioner and current Republican candidate for governor, has insisted on not taking a stance on DONALD TRUMP’S candidacy. Instead, Bryant has repeated that he wants to focus on the issues as he tries to unseat Gov. JAY INSLEE. In August, Bryant and Inslee will finally have a chance to discuss important issues in Washington. The two have agreed on a debate set for Aug. 17 in Spokane.

Bryant has criticized Inslee’s leadership in allowing the state Department of Corrections to commit an error that released prisoners early. He’s also blamed Inslee for mishandling Western State Hospital, for traffic jams and — because Bryant is a charter school advocate — for not signing a bill to save charter schools, even though Inslee’s inaction allowed the bill to become law anyway.

But Bryant appears to be fighting an uphill battle. Inslee, seeking a second term, has raised more than three times the money that Bryant has.

According to an April Elway Poll, 48 percent of Washington voters surveyed preferred Inslee, while 36 percent supported Bryant. (WILSON CRISCIONE)

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COMMENT | EMPLOYMENT are often uniquely eager to create a life as contributing members of society.

Fortunately, there are no-cost fair chance hiring practices, such as removing the criminal record checkbox from initial employment applications, designed to ensure that applicants are judged on their qualifications, while still allowing employers to run routine background checks later in the interviewing process. This simple delay ensures that employers don’t inadvertently pass over a qualified potential hire, and allows applicants a chance to share their experiences in context. The city of Spokane, along with more than 100 other municipalities across the country, has already implemented this common sense reform for its employees. Twenty-four states have adopted the measure and nine have done so for private employers.

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tem, we as a community have an important role to play in continuing the path to full restoration upon their exit.

Like returning veterans who are haunted by war, former offenders are often unable to leave dark memories behind in the jail cell. Reintegration into society is a challenging process made more difficult by stereotypes and biases held by fellow law-abiding citizens. These are especially damaging in the job market, where the ability to gain employment is a top factor in predicting whether or not an individual will reoffend. Contrary to popular belief, people with criminal histories come from a wide background of educational and work experiences, and

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eople are catching on to the fact that we live in one of the most prison-prone nations in the world, with nearly 30 percent of our adult population having a criminal record, according to FBI estimates. The numbers show that being so quick to lock people up does little to prevent future crime, and can actually backfire by hardening criminals in toxic prison environments.

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In some cases, people who have overcome great adversity actually have something valuable to teach the rest of us about resilience, the will to change, and the complicated dimensions of the human spirit. These qualities can be especially valuable in environments where the purpose of the work is to help disadvantaged populations and rebuild community. Unfortunately, discrimination in volunteering too often echoes that in employment settings, shutting former offenders out of valuable ways to build their résumés, reconnect with their own healing potential and give back to the community.

Once we see how blindly discriminating against those with criminal histories reinforces a dangerous cycle, we can reverse these tendencies and work instead to safely reintegrate people into society.

“After people serve their time, they need to have the best chances for success in rebuilding their lives,” says Layne Pavey, director of I Did The Time, a Spokanebased advocacy group focused on improving outlooks among the formerly incarcerated. “People deserve the chance to gain experience and move up in the world.”

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50 DEAD, 53 WOUNDED e have just experienced the worst mass shooting of innocents in

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American history. A radicalized Muslim on the terrorist watch list used a Military Assault rifle (AR-15) to kill 50 in an Orlando, Florida, night club. He legally purchased his assault weapon a week before the shooting, even though the FBI had investigated him twice for “terrorist ties,” he was on the No-Fly list and the gun store owner found him suspicious enough to call the FBI. We must stop suspected terrorists, the insane, felons, domestic violence criminals and civilians from buying these deadly military assault weapons — and protect our Second Amendment. Americans can buy their hunting and home defense weapons whenever they wish, but no civilian should be able to buy assault rifles and machine guns. These weapons are for our military — period.

This terrorist bought his AR-15 across the counter as if he were LETTERS buying a candy bar. A ban on assault Send comments to weapons and machine guns being editor@inlander.com. sold to the general public does not violate the Second Amendment.

The NRA and the Republican leadership will argue otherwise, but they are misleading you for purely political purposes. Please, let us put politics aside and allow reason to prevail. We cannot, should not allow this madness to continue. Have we not seen enough innocents killed, particularly children?

The list of American dead is long and growing: Orlando: 50 dead, 53 wounded, one AR-15, one Muslim radical.

Sandy Hook: 20 innocent first graders killed, 6 teachers, one AR-15, one white nut.

San Bernardino: 14 dead, 22 wounded, two AR-15s, two Muslim radicals.

Aurora, Colorado: 12 dead, 70 wounded, AR-15 [and other weapons], one white nut.

Umpqua Community College: 10 dead, 9 wounded, [five handguns], one white nut.

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Unlike Sen. Padden’s claim, the WVRA would lead to fewer lawsuits, rather than more. The WVRA lays out a clear process, with set timelines, that any jurisdiction can follow to address a complaint. All sides have the opportunity to work together towards a solution, rather than dragging a city, county or school board through a costly lawsuit.

We’ve seen the effects of the lack of a state Voting Rights Act in Yakima, where the community had to take its government to federal court. The City, despite a summary judgment against it, wasted $3 million in efforts to appeal the ruling. That money could have been used for community priorities.

The WVRA would have given Yakima an option to avoid that suit.

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Tanya Koval, a 29-year-old Ukrainian refugee, hopes to one day become a dentist after studying at Spokane College of English Language.

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n Donetsk, Ukraine, Tanya Koval built a life for herself. During her early 20s, she went to school, visited museums, frequented the theater and hung out in local parks.

That was until war overtook her hometown.

Koval is now a 25-year-old refugee trying to build another life in Spokane. She still likes going out to the park, but she has trouble communicating with other people.

She wants to further her education, but sometimes

struggles understanding her teachers. Not being able to speak English fluently has suddenly become a barrier.

World Relief Spokane settles between 500 and 600 refugees each year in Spokane, according to Director Mark Kadel. That number should increase next year, with the U.S. taking in more refugees overall. Also, pending federal authorization, the International Rescue Committee plans on opening an office in Spokane in 2017, which could bring an additional 150 refugees to the area,

says IRC Seattle Executive Director Nicky Smith.

For many of these refugees, learning the language of their new home is critical not only to being able to communicate socially with other people, but also in finding jobs and providing for their family. Most refugees in Spokane take English as a Second Language courses at Spokane Community College.

But for people like Koval who crave a new way of learning, there’s the Spokane College of English Language, located across from the STA Plaza downtown.

The for-profit college develops online curricula sold to hundreds of institutions worldwide. What makes Spokane College of English Language unique, says Director of Operations Josh Porter, is that it’s the only institution in the U.S. where that online curricula — called SMRT English — is both developed and taught in the classroom.

Coupled with other programs that help refugees adjust to a new culture, he says Spokane has become a great place for refugees and international students to learn English. ...continued on next page

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s Porter teaches his academic writing class, a globe rests on a desk in the middle of his classroom. A group of a half-dozen international students sit in a semicircle around it and edit their essays on Google Docs.

“Nobody in this room knows more than anybody else,” Porter tells one student. “We just know different things.”

The class uses SMRT English curricula, owned by Jim Clark of Vancouver, B.C.’s Canadian College of English Language. It stands for Simple & Intuitive Class Management System, and it’s been developed to be paperless and usable on any device. Various SMRT courses are used by 165 institutions in the world. Spokane College of English Language is the main SMRT curricula service in the U.S. “The idea is that you’re taking online curricula — something that can be collaborated on with hundreds of teachers with brilliant ideas and notions and thoughts — but then also provide the guidance of a teacher in the classroom that can sort of shift and move and attend to the student’s needs,” says Porter.

As Koval points out, studying online only wouldn’t be enough for her to learn English, her third language.

“If I studied with just the internet, or if I just read books, I [wouldn’t] know the pronunciation,” she says.

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he ESL program at Spokane Community College uses curricula that’s long been established, but is updated every year as required by the state. The program serves hundreds of refugees per quarter, says Stoja Saric, ESL program director at SCC. Saric is a refugee who learned English through the SCC program. She says if she hadn’t had the opportunity to learn English, developing in the community would have been harder. She says that since she came to Spokane in 1998, the city has increased its support for refugees.

“Spokane has certainly grown,” Saric says. “Compared to when I came to America, it seems more organized, and people are communicating with each other. It just feels more communal.”

Smith, with the International Rescue Committee, says she’s excited about the prospect of potentially opening an office in Spokane — in 2017, if approved — because the ESL programs are so impressive.

“Both Spokane Community College and the Spokane College of English Language,” she says, “fill a very important niche.”

Koval says that one day she would like to go to school to become a dentist. Her husband, who moved to the U.S. with her, already has finished his schooling at the Spokane College of English Language and got a job. Now, she’s at SCEL weekdays from 8 am until 3:30 pm.

“These people are bringing amazing skill sets to the community,” Whitmore says. “They’re not burger flippers in Ukraine.

They’re architects, they’re doctors, they’re nurses, they’re advanced agricultural specialists. They’re bringing amazing skills that, if you unlock the English capability, they can have a successful life and bring some talent to this city.” n wilsonc@inlander.com

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Porter says he used to teach in Haiti using decades-old books, with vocabulary that was outdated. He hated teaching that content to students because it taught them to speak English in an odd manner. The SMRT curricula is updated constantly, he says, and it often mixes in current events.

The college’s campus used to be at Spokane Community College. Since moving to downtown Spokane, it’s been able to serve refugees and offer tuition waivers, says Ben Whitmore, SCEL academic director. Students can enroll at any time throughout the year for a competitive price, and new courses are always added.

The school recently ended a four-month pilot program to train refugees and former refugees as medical interpreters, for example.

With the technology-based model, Whitmore says there are more possibilities to develop useful courses used internationally.

“All you need is one of those devices, which everybody has in their pocket, and you need a cellphone tower. With that, you can provide curriculum that can be created in four, six, eight weeks to teach them whatever skills are needed,” Whitmore says. “Philanthropically we want to work in Spokane and help the refugees in the community. But we’re also thinking, why can’t we teach a class on women’s health in Africa?”

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VALLEY The city of Spokane Valley has chosen a new POLICE CHIEF to replace Rick VanLeuven, who will retire on June 30. Capt.

Mark Werner, a Spokane County Sheriff’s Office Patrol Commander, was chosen by the city last week. The city contracts with the county for police services, and Werner was one of three candidates offered by Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich. Spokane Valley acting City Manager Mark Calhoun assembled two teams to interview the candidates before choosing Werner based on those interviews. VanLeuven is retiring after serving more than nine years as the Valley police chief. (WILSON CRISCIONE)

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CITY HALL Frank Straub was not fired last September, he resigned, according to Federal Chief Judge Thomas O. Rice, who DISMISSED the former police chief’s lawsuit last week. Straub sued the city, Mayor David Condon and other employees for violation of his due process rights. After hearing oral arguments from attorneys defending the city and its employees, as well as Straub’s attorney, Mary Schultz, Rice pointed to a signed letter of resignation from Straub as the basis of his decision. Schultz argued that Straub was forced to sign the resignation letter to cover up what was actually a termination. “It doesn’t end here,” says Schultz, who will appeal the case to the Ninth Circuit. (MITCH RYALS)

NEWS | BRIEFS

Coming to Terms County, activists reach agreement on longstanding Urban Growth Area conflicts; plus, new developments in the death of Ryan Holyk BORDER TRUCE For 18 months, Spokane County and several groups of neighborhood activists had been locked in a tug-of-war behind closed doors, ordered to hammer out an agreement on four long-running land-use fights.

This Monday, with the help of two Growth Management Hearings Board arbitrators, they finally forged a compromise.

The deal not only brings to an end more than a decade of lawsuits against the county, it lays out a path forward to avoid future disputes.

The battle had been waged over the county’s URBAN GROWTH AREA, the zones of the county where dense development is allowed. The county has expanded the Urban Growth Area, arguing that specific additions were necessary for reasons that included providing sewer services or allowing the construction of new schools. But land-use activists and local neighborhood groups have objected, arguing that the county wasn’t growing fast enough to justify such expansions. They warned such expansions would result in suburban sprawl, and cost the county more money in the long run.

Coming to an agreement, in other words, meant that everyone had to give up a lot of ground — in some cases, literally.

“In every mediation process, by the time you’re done with it, nobody’s happy. Everybody’s given something, and everybody’s taking something away,” County Commissioner Al French says. “So I don’t want to characterize this as a win-lose for anybody other than the community at large, which has gained greater clarity and ability to move forward.”

The deal means that most of the land added in the county’s previous UGA expansion will remain. But land-use activists can take comfort in the framework established to limit future expansions. The county is constrained from expanding the UGA before 2025 unless certain conditions, such as population growth, are met.

Otherwise, if the county wants to expand the boundaries in some places, it has to contract it in others.

“I’m optimistic this sets a path forward to try to avoid some of these legal trainwrecks that have occurred,” says Rick Eichstaedt of the Center for Justice, attorney for the neighborhood groups. (DANIEL WALTERS)

REVERSING COURSE

Last week, independent forensic accident analyst Jarrod Carter announced that his initial conclusions into the 2014 death of Spokane Valley teen RYAN HOLYK were

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wrong. After taking a closer look at the evidence, Carter concluded that Deputy Joe Bodman’s SUV hit Holyk, contradicting two law enforcement investigations and a report by the sheriff’s citizen review board.

After enhancing a photograph of Bodman’s vehicle, Carter found an imprint of a snapback hat on the deputy’s driver side bumper, matching the hat Holyk wore that night. The imprint, coupled with Holyk’s DNA found in the same spot, indicates that the vehicle clearly struck the 15-year-old, Carter determined.

Initially, Carter and local law enforcement said that Bodman’s police SUV missed hitting Holyk as he rode his bike through an intersection against a red light on the night of May 23, 2014. Bodman was driving approximately 70 mph, in the dark, with no lights or siren.

Holyk died of head injuries in the hospital several days later.

For two years after the accident, the Sheriff’s Office pointed to the previous investigations, absolving Bodman of any blame in Holyk’s death. Following an internal investigation, Bodman was issued a letter of reprimand for not using his lights or siren and is currently back on duty.

Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich says it’s yet to be determined if Carter’s recent conclusions mean that Bodman is at fault.

Holyk’s family has filed a civil lawsuit, set for trial in August, against Bodman and the Sheriff’s Office. Mike Maurer, the attorney for Holyk’s family, says he has not yet received any settlement offers.

Spokane County Prosecutor Larry Haskell says his office will take a second look at the case and reconsider whether to file criminal charges. Haskell says that Bodman could be charged with vehicular homicide. (MITCH RYALS)

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For the 14 years Hal McGlathery was Riverfront Park’s manager, he championed the IMAX Theatre. Now he’s trying to stop it from being demolished.

The Last Stand

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BY DANIEL WALTERS

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f Riverfront Park’s renovation had stuck to the initial timeline it outlined for the state last year, it already would be too late. The park’s iconic five-story IMAX Theatre already would have been under demolition, and nothing anyone said could have stopped it.

But while plenty have been frustrated by the delays for the $64.3 million project voters approved two years ago, the delays have meant a stay of execution for the IMAX. Now Hal McGlathery, a former Riverfront Park manager, has one last shot to save the theater he’s spent decades championing.

On July 8, ground will officially be broken at Riverfront Park, beginning construction on the renovation.

Three days later, McGlathery will appear before the Riverfront Park subcommittee of the Spokane Park Board, armed with clear plastic binders full of photographs, records, case studies and financial figures. He’ll ask the group to consider amending its plan in order to save not only the IMAX, but the Riverfront Park rides nearby.

“To me it’s a no-brainer,” McGlathery says. “The city owns the IMAX Theatre and they own the rides, and they want to step away from both.”

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That, he says, would cut foot traffic, cost jobs and kill the park’s season pass program. But he thinks he has the solution.

SMASHES AND BOMBS

The white IMAX building with the slanted roof juts up in the same Riverfront Park skyline as the spiderweb of Pavilion cabling and the Clock Tower. But while the IMAX screening of Man Belongs to the Earth was just as integral a part of the Expo ’74 as anything else, the IMAX Theatre never captured local imaginations in the same way.

McGlathery tried to change that. When he first became Riverfront Park manager in 1982, McGlathery was a champion of the IMAX, believing it had been undersold and underappreciated. He countered with hype, raving to the Spokesman-Review in 1982 that Hail Columbia! was “absolutely the best IMAX film that has ever been produced.”

Every time the IMAX set a record for ticket sales, he says, he called the media to brag. He used advertising to proclaim its wonder.

“It’s big,” a 1987 Riverfront Park newspaper ad trumpeted. “You think you’re sitting in an ordinary theatre, but no... here the screen is five stories tall, and the sound is gigantic.”

The IMAX still found success after McGlathery’s tenure ended in 1996. Smash-hit Hollywood blockbusters drew big crowds.

“I saw The Dark Knight at the IMAX,” former City Councilmember Mike Allen says. “It was like a religious experience, and it was incredible.”

But live by The Dark Knight, die by John Carter. Like Disney, IMAX bet big on Disney’s John Carter in 2012, only to see it crash and burn at the box office. The movie became an anchor, plunging the IMAX deep into the red without any way to free itself.

“We were stuck showing that film for about 300 shows, because of contractual obligation, and we were showing it to nobody,” says Jeff Bailey, Riverfront Park’s assistant director.

Part of the problem LETTERS was competition. In Send comments to 2009, AMC launched editor@inlander.com. a considerably smaller IMAX screen at River Park Square — just across the street from the park. The theater chain bought the right to show IMAX blockbusters first in Spokane, leaving the theater with only crumbs.

By the end of 2012, the year that the IMAX had lost the park a record $164,000, the board voted to shut down the theater for half a year. The park considered shuttering it entirely.

This was the environment that Riverfront Park boards and committees had to consider when planning for its bond, where voters would pay for the park’s overhaul. By 2014, the year voters passed the bond, the IMAX had bled revenue every year for the past seven.

“There were people who have really strong feelings, but when you asked them the last time you went to the IMAX, they’ll say it’s been a couple years,” Parks Director Leroy Eadie says. “They liked it, but they weren’t going.”

While a 2014 survey found that a quarter of Riverfront Park visitors over the past year said they enjoyed the IMAX, only 7 percent who’d visited Riverfront Park named the theater as a reason they came. Even the survey responders who liked the IMAX felt it was “outdated,” needed to “be fixed,” “upgraded to 3-D” or have its canopy “updated.”

As voters voted on the park bond, the plan called for the IMAX to be closed. The building would either be demolished — opening up the Pavilion to the northside meadow, or shifted to another use.

PROJECTING A GOOD IMAGE

McGlathery knows he could have made a big deal about his opposition to the IMAX’s closure back when voters had a chance to vote on it. But he says he intentionally kept quiet, for fear of hurting the Riverfront Park bond.

“There’s too many good things in it,” he says.

After all, two decades ago, McGlathery warned that putting a science center in the Pavilion could mean the end of its amusement park rides and the (now defunct) petting zoo. The science center vote failed by less than 1 percent, delaying the creation of a science center by 17 years. Ironically, this helped put the IMAX Theatre on its current path toward demise.

McGlathery argues that IMAX should long ago have converted to digital. But from 2001 to 2010, the park was locked in negotiations with Mobius over whether to build a science center and new IMAX Theatre on the park’s north bank. This froze any discussions about upgrading to 3-D or digital. After 2010, the IMAX was flailing.

Here’s the good news: Despite the axe hanging over

it, the IMAX has turned itself around. Instead of blowing its budget on big feature films, Riverfront Park went for the bargain bin, searching for “oldies but goodies.” And instead of showing just one film a day, they show a selection, touching on diverse themes like history, geography, airplanes or the wonders of a microscopic world. It doesn’t bring in all that much more revenue, but costs have finally come under control.

“It is profitable,” Riverfront Park Director Jon Moog says.

“But it’s just break-even.”

The problem is that it’s getting harder and harder to find IMAX-sized prints of films. Changing to a digital projector has become more and more crucial. That’s something the Spokane Park Board had previously considered and rejected.

“The digital upgrade is expensive,” Eadie says. The price has dropped in the past few years, but upgrading to digital would still cost the Parks Department around $200,000.

Already, the park renovation has come under scrutiny from those worried that Riverfront Park upgrades have been pricier than expected. The cost of upgrading and rebuilding the bridges turned out to be six times more than the estimate put before voters. The contract with the Berger Partnership design firm soared from $1.5 million to $3.8 million. The park is considering looking for as much as $5 million for additional improvements from private donors. So far, upgrades to the IMAX Theatre aren’t on the shopping list.

McGlathery has gathered examples of plenty of other science centers and museums that have made the upgrade and found it to be worth it in the long run. The Yellowstone Giant Screen Theatre converted to digital for $375,000, for example, and started saving more than $150,000 a year on labor, licensing and maintenance costs.

McGlathery says that his proposals already have the support of former City Councilman Steve Corker. This week, he’s meeting with Candace Mumm, the city council’s representative on the Park Board.

Though Mumm wonders if the pull of the IMAX is as powerful today — in these days of movies streaming onto cellphones — but she says she’s curious to hear McGlathery’s pitch.

“For me, it has to make financial sense,” Mumm says. “And it has to be something that much of the public wants, or it won’t be successful.”

LET IT RIDE

McGlathery wants to save more than the IMAX. He also wants to save at least some of the carnival rides currently in the Pavilion. If both disappear, he says, you can say goodbye to the park’s successful season pass program, and many of the summer jobs for young people.

“A lot of people think the rides are tacky, they’re ‘carnival’ — that they’re not classy enough for the park or for the Pavilion,” McGlathery says.

But he says that unlike the IMAX, the rides have been a consistent moneymaker, often netting the park more than $100,000 a year. McGlathery understands the argument for moving the rides out of the Pavilion, but suggests relocating them to the north bank instead of trashing them.

Moog says he’s considering doing just that. He agrees with McGlathery that the area where the IMAX is currently needs some sort of attraction to drive traffic to the north side.

McGlathery knows that getting the Park Board to change its mind is a long shot. But he also knows that getting rid of the IMAX Theatre or the rides doesn’t necessarily mean they can’t come back, in some form, in the future.

He knows there are many chapters left to be written in the story of Riverfront Park.

“If I’m right and the Park Board’s wrong — the 50th anniversary of Expo, they can try again,” McGlathery says. “How many centuries will this park be here? It’s always going to subjected to tweaks or redevelopment.” n EDITOR’S NOTE: Publisher Ted S. McGregor Jr. sits on the Spokane Park Board; per Inlander policy, he does not edit columns or news stories involving any park business.

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Our Republic

Story by Scott A. Leadingham Photos by Mike Salsbury

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his could be a story about heroin in the heartland, about lives torn apart by a cursed and powerful drug devastating small-town America from Washington state to New Hampshire. It would be filled with terrifying statistics about overdoses, ideas for how to “fix” it, and quotes from this addiction expert and that political leader.

This is not that story.

This is about people I know. Or, rather, knew.

Two friends growing up in Republic, Washington, a tiny town in the northeast part of the state surrounded by mountains and lakes and nothingness, loved by families who couldn’t shield them from the wider world.

This is a story about Rafe and Scotty. *** Rafe Shores came to Boy Scout Camp Bonaparte that summer with what any observer would note as unhindered enthusiasm. He wasn’t a Boy Scout himself, but he fit the mold. At nearly 17, he looked every bit like the future police officer he aspired to be: lean, muscular, with short-cropped white hair.

Rafe wouldn’t have been there — wouldn’t have ever been introduced to me — were it not for his best friend Scotty Webber.

The two were from 25 miles down the road in Republic, a town of about a thousand souls tucked into the mountains of Ferry County, one of those places where everybody knows everybody, whether they want to or not. ...continued on next page

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Republic’s main street has a Western town motif in line with its Wild West and mining roots.

“OUR REPUBLIC,” CONTINUED...

Scotty, his mom and his brother had tell by now, there isn’t a happy ending. worked on the staff at Camp Bonaparte It’s weird, though, that sometimes you before, and in 2003 Scotty convinced Rafe to find out far more about people after they die come along for the summer. than you ever knew about them in life.

Rafe and Scotty were the type of friends who, to someone on the outside like me, * * * struck you as a real-life version of The Odd Couple. Rafe came off as the clean-cut, There’s a spot on Highway 20 driving into straight-laced nod to authority. He’d salute Republic from Camp Bonaparte where the you and call you by your first and last name thick lodgepole pine and Douglas fir trees until you told him that wasn’t necessary. of the forest open up to reveal what anyone Scotty wasn’t exactly the opposite, but he up here may think is the crown jewel of the was seemingly cut from a more relaxed cloth, Northwest: the Kettle Range. Tucked in with almost comical bowl-cut hair, a deep between the Columbia River to the east and laugh and a football-player frame.

Okanogan Highlands to the west, the Kettle If the staff uniform stanoffers sweeping 360-degree vistas dards didn’t require shoes or No one called from its 40-mile crest trail and shirts with sleeves, Scotty likely summits topping 7,000 feet. paramedics wouldn’t have worn any. He’d It’s the view we’d see as we pick hot coals from the fire drove from the camp to Repubor police when impressionable young lic for a quick overnight trip on scouts weren’t around and toss until after it Saturdays — for a resupply of junk them between his hands like a was too late... food, hot pizza instead of dining high-stakes game of hot potato. hall leftovers and a beer snuck The reality, though, is that in the woods after watching the their chemistry came naturally, or at least weekend stock car races on the town’s dirt through osmosis after being around each track. other nearly non-stop. That’s what you’d For those who like small towns — the interpret from the outside — or, say, after kind where a trip to the grocery store is as watching them ham up their differences in a much a social event as it is weekly routine — comedy routine for campers. At least that’s Republic is the Norman Rockwell painting what I interpreted. of Washington. It’s the kind of place where And that’s all there is left to have — an you’d want to raise a family, to connect with interpretation. Because as you can probably the land, to know your neighbor, or be miles

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away from your nearest one.

Even then I remember it feeling safe, remote — but a little too remote, with too little to hold a young man’s attention for long.

But for Rafe and Scotty, Republic was their home, where their parents stayed and had built lives for them. And unfortunately, sometimes you can’t leave home behind even when it’s in your best interest to do so. * * * The bowl where scout troops gather for campfires at Camp Bonaparte is at the edge of a lake, tucked into the corner where the reed stands blend into open water. Two fire rings frame the stage and provide heat and light for the performers doing skits and songs.

This is where we as a staff would gather every week to sing ridiculously boisterous songs, perform skits and generally scream our heads off, all in the name of entertaining hundreds of scouts seated in the rising amphitheater above.

Scotty came off as a natural actor, Rafe perhaps more reserved, but both fit the entertainment role of camp staff member well.

In one routine, each had to sing comedically about being something other than a camp staffer.

“I am a Bonaparte staffer. A staffer always be. But if I weren’t a staffer… ” It fit his public persona well that Rafe

HEROIN IN AMERICA

In the past 50 years, heroin’s deadly grip has spread from large urban areas into suburban and small-town America. The typical profile of a heroin user in 1960s America was a minority male, about 16 years old. He was probably living in a large city, and he bought his first taste of the insidious opiate from a street corner. A new profile is emerging. Today’s heroin users are white males and females in their mid-to-late 20s.

They’re living in affluent suburban neighborhoods and small, rural towns. One study found that 90 percent of the people who tried heroin for the first time in the past decade were white; 75 percent first got hooked on prescription opioid painkillers, such as OxyContin, which are chemical cousins to the street-level heroin.

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TOP: Rafe Shores; BOTTOM: Scotty and Karen Webber

chose what he did.

“A fireman I would be!” Rafe sang, acting the next line by holding out an imaginary net to save someone trapped in a burning building.

“Jump, lady, jump. Psych. SPLAT!” Scotty’s role was as the anchor of the song.

“A farmer I would be… ” he revealed.

And after a brief pause, in the most obnoxiously loud, mocked-up backwoods hick accent you can imagine, he’d mimic milking a cow.

“Give, Betsy, give. The baby’s gotta live!”

There wasn’t anyone there, including the other staffers singing with him, not laughing uncontrollably.

Toward the end of these performances, the mood would change: songs would be less boisterous, the clapping less intense. Soon the scouts would head back to their campsites, the distant sound of “Taps” playing to mark the end of another day.

Tonight, Scotty and Rafe take the stage again. One carries a guitar. The other stands slightly behind, waiting for a cue. The guitar player strums the opening chords, and gives a nod to his duet partner.

“Mama take this badge off of me. I can’t use it anymore.”

“It’s gettin’ dark. Too dark to see,” the second singer joins.

“Feels like I’m knockin’ on heaven’s

Mary Ciais on the family ranch in May. Of all their horses, Splash was one Rafe particularly liked, both sharing distinctive white hair.

door.”

Rafe and Scotty sing the rest of Bob Dylan’s lyrics together.

“Mama put my guns in the ground.

“I can’t shoot them, anymore.

“That long black cloud is comin’ down.

“I feel I’m knockin’ on heaven’s door.

“Knock, knock, knockin’ on heaven’s door… ” * * * Rafe was found dead in a bathtub in the house on a rural road 20 miles from Republic. No one called paramedics or police until after it was too late. It was Mother’s Day weekend, 2005. Rafe was 19.

“You could have knocked him over with a feather. He was in total shock.”

That’s how Scotty’s mom, Karen, remembers breaking the news to him that Rafe had died the previous night.

It was unclear exactly what had happened. What was certain was that Rafe had gone to a party, and Scotty was elsewhere with other friends.

The police maintain that Rafe’s death was suspicious, attributed to what Rafe’s mom Mary Ciais calls “a ridiculous cocktail of drugs.” It’s unclear whether he took the ultimately lethal mix of his own accord, whether he had help, or whether he was in some way sabotaged.

Mary has heard plenty of theories, whis-

pers about who was there and who may have had a grudge against her son. While knowing the truth and getting a sense of closure are important, she says it won’t change what happened. It never does, of course. Rafe is gone.

Mary and Ron Ciais, Rafe’s stepdad, both say he needed to get out of Republic after graduating high school, to get his life moving and working toward that career in law enforcement he’d talked about so much.

He stayed in Republic, though, working and saving money, but ultimately hanging out with a crowd his parents knew was bad news. They knew Rafe as the exceedingly funny yet strait-laced guy they called John Wayne — since everything to him was black and white, right and wrong.

But in the waning year of high school and immediately afterward, he stumbled on his path. Rafe just got caught, his mom and stepdad say together. Sometimes people do stupid, reckless things, and survive. Sometimes they get caught.

If only…

If only Rafe and Scotty had been together that night, instead of apart.

If only Rafe had lived, what might have become of Scotty?

OPIOID DEATHS

Deaths from prescription narcotics in Washington peaked at 512 in 2008 before declining to 319 in 2014, according to numbers from the state Department of Health.

However, over the same time period, the number of heroin deaths rose. In 2014, 293 people in Washington died from heroin overdoses, about twice as many in 2008.

In Idaho, 64 people died from overdoses from opioid pain relievers in 2009. That number peaked at 95 in 2012 before dropping to 79 in 2013. The number of heroinrelated overdose deaths in the state has risen from one to six in the same time period.

In 2014, 28,647 Americans died from a drug overdose involving opioids, more than any year on record, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (JAKE THOMAS)

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Cover Story Heroin HOW TO GET HELP

If you have a problem with opioid dependency or know someone who does, help is available by calling the Washington Recovery Helpline at 866-789-1511. The confidential and anonymous line is funded by the state Department of Social and Health Services, is available 24 hours a day and is answered by trained volunteers and staff who can refer you to local treatment options and other community services. Another option for Washington residents is their local Behavioral Health Organization, which administers publicly funded addiction treatments. In Spokane County, the local BHO’s number is 477-5722. In Idaho, the state Department of Health and Welfare’s substance abuse referral line is 800-9223406. (JAKE THOMAS)

Karen Webber with a sign that was made for the family following Scotty’s death, highlighting the significance of butterflies in their house.

“OUR REPUBLIC,” CONTINUED... garbled that I had to listen three times before I understood who it was.

The voice on the other end was slurred, but I eventually made out what was said.

Hey. It’s Scotty. Webber. Call me.

He didn’t leave a number. I figured it was a late-night drunk dial, one he probably wouldn’t remember, and one I’d soon forget.

I hadn’t seen him in — what? — five years.

That was 2012. It wasn’t until another voicemail three years later that I realized what Scotty may have been calling about.

from Camp Bonaparte.

I didn’t realize how bad it was or how much he was really struggling.

As I found out recently, neither did his parents. * * *

Scott, it’s Karen Webber. Can you call me back? I have some news.

Though she didn’t say it in her message, I knew what the news would be. I hate to say it — hate to admit it not just in public, but to myself — but I’d been expecting the call for years.

While I wanted to believe that he would overcome * * * the speed bumps in life after Rafe’s death, I knew he was on a path that would make it incredibly hard to turn In the years following Rafe’s death, Scotty struggled. around and go the other way.

Anyone who knew him would tell you that. His parents I knew staying in Republic, at this time in his life, was knew it. His friends in Republic knew it. going to kill him.

I knew it, to the extent I saw it. And I saw very little When I called her back, it was confirmed: Scotty had — by design. died late the previous night of a heroin Like Rafe, Scotty stayed in Republic overdose.

It seems an odd after graduating high school, and he had Christmas night, that is. trouble holding down jobs, despite how “We just had a wonderful Christand inappropriate handy he was with, well, anything. If you mas together,” she told me. “But the time for a laugh, needed something fixed, Scotty was there. demons of addiction were too strong. but I couldn’t His parents believe that the lack of He fought it, but he couldn’t overcome economic opportunity in Republic, and be- help smiling at it.” ing around unscrupulous people who dealt Sometime late that night and into the sight of the him heroin, hindered his progress in life. the early morning of Dec. 26, 2015, That’s why when I saw him the sumthere was a phone call. Scotty picked minivan as a mer after Rafe died, living on a friend’s up. Karen could hear him talking to hearse... property in the woods outside of town, I someone, but she left it alone. barely recognized him.

In the morning Karen checked on He’d always been a big guy, but he him, knowing that he might sleep in. was noticeably slimmer, his eyes droopy, his speech more But knowing he’d been struggling lately, she wanted to slurred. double-check.

I figured he was just having a hard time coping with She found him hunched over, seated on the bed. And Rafe’s death, that he would rebound and go back to by him, the evidence: a needle. being the extremely happy, joking, singing-random-songs Also by him was more evidence of the struggle he’d and walking-around-barefoot guy who I remembered had for more than 10 years, though not something Karen

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had seen there before. But there it was, between the bed and the nightstand, tucked in a corner.

A picture of Rafe.

Suddenly the slurred, out-of-the-blue message I’d received from Scotty several years earlier made more sense.

And in all honesty, I would have completely forgotten it, chalked up as a routine drunk dial, if Karen hadn’t called — if Scotty hadn’t died the way he did.

“Scotty looked up to you from your time at Camp Bonaparte,” Karen told me. “He really loved that place.”

Would I be a pallbearer at his funeral?

Of course, Karen. Of course. * * * Scotty’s funeral took place two weeks after his death, on an unseasonably warm January day in Republic. The gravel lot of the Lutheran church was quickly turning from a sheet of ice to a slushy mess.

Karen and her husband Stan wanted an open casket to serve as a reminder to other young people in the community: This was our son. This is what addiction looks like. This can happen to anyone.

I’d sweated my job as a pallbearer; it was my first time serving as one. And it seems I’d overdressed. There weren’t many other ties in the audience.

Though I’d been told by his parents — and knew well enough — that the dress code could reflect what Scotty was most comfortable in: white T-shirt and jeans.

Six pallbearers carried the casket down the church steps, lifted it over a railing of a narrow staircase, and loaded it into a minivan.

It seems an odd and inappropriate time for a laugh, but I couldn’t help smiling at the sight of the minivan as a hearse. It was so Republic. Not in a derogatory way, but in a quaint, “this is just how it is around here” way.

The way of things in Republic that Scotty liked.

The burial of his ashes would come later in spring. * * *

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The view from Highway 20 looking into the valley toward Republic.

There was a threat of rain in Republic, but on a late April day this year, the sky 40 miles away in Tonasket was bright. Like the day of the funeral nearly four months prior, it was warm.

The spring had been so unseasonably warm, the lilacs that usually waited until early or even mid-May were in full bloom.

Kara Ahlson, one of Scotty’s closest friends, gathers lilacs from a nearby tree. No one will notice, right? Or care, under the circumstances.

Stan and Karen greet family and friends who have come for one final goodbye, to put Scotty Webber’s ashes in the ground.

Since the night he died, plastic butterfly figurines have been an almost constant presence in the Webber house. To Karen they represent new life, going on, moving past, creating something beautiful. Seeing them brings comfort.

Scotty’s friend, Kara, unveils a gaggle of balloons, with little plastic butterflies attached to the strings. They had intended to release each balloon and butterfly separately, but they were tangled together.

It’s OK. Life isn’t always scripted.

The breeze catches the strings and rips off one butterfly. It flies away, almost like it were real, and lands in the grass directly in front of the gravestone — right there for everyone to see, there for Karen and Stan to see.

Everyone gathers closer as Stan peels away the green carpet and places the box containing Scotty’s ashes in the hole. One last look.

The balloons are released; with the weight of them together with the other plastic butterflies, they dip and bounce close to the ground — 10 feet up, 20 feet.

Finally the wind picks up and sends them higher. Higher still. Until they aren’t visible anymore.

Before putting the carpet back and concluding the ceremony, someone picks up the butterfly from the grass — the one that got away — and puts it in the hole with Scotty’s ashes.

It didn’t get away. * * * Rafe’s mom, Mary, doesn’t think of herself as particularly religious. She and Ron think of their ranch, with its wide, expansive views, as their church.

Even so, she believes in something out there, some spiritual connectedness, some overall divine

force, whatever it is.

She sees signals too, little reminders of Rafe, indications that something bigger is out there beyond the land we live on and the spaces we occupy here.

Like the time the flowers bloomed and moved into a cross shape on their own, and moved back at night. What was that? Something, right?

Karen, too, has those feelings, though her Lutheran faith is more traditional. She sees the signs as well. The dozens and dozens of little plastic BBs she keeps finding in the oddest places, knowing they weren’t there before.

Scotty was a trickster like that. “A character,” as Karen says.

They may not share the same spiritual beliefs, but these two mothers share a burden. And now in an unexpected and uncomfortable way, I’m somehow between them, having inserted myself into their world, asking questions they would probably prefer I not ask. * * * I left Scotty’s burial that day in April and spoke with Rafe’s mom and stepdad about his time at camp, about his friendship with Scotty, about the life that was cut short.

Afterward, I went a few miles down the road to speak more with Scotty’s family.

Karen was looking up from her yard at the broken storm clouds, at once threatening hard rain and in another instant producing long rays of sunshine. She was standing in her yard with the backdrop of a rainbow, holding a picture of Scotty.

That’s when I got a text and snuck a look.

It was a picture of the sky with a message from Mary. “Came home to this cloud opening after our talk,” she wrote.

It was the same sky, the same break in the clouds, that Karen was standing under.

These two families, drawn together and sucked unwillingly into this shared club of bereavement, were both finding significance in the same sky. And I realized where they once shared their sons between them, I’m the common connection they have now.

Which makes the job of an unbiased journalist impossible. Because I’m part of this story.

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TEAM PARGO

Jeremy Pargo (last played for Gonzaga in 2009) Austin Daye (2009) Ira Brown (2009) Derek Raivio (2007) Casey Calvary (2001) Erroll Knight (2006) David Pendergraft (2008) Matt Santangelo (2000) Alex Hernandez (2002) Winston Brooks (2003) Colin Floyd (2006)

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TEAM DICKAU Dan Dickau (last played for Gonzaga in 2002) Micah Downs (2009) Steven Gray (2011) Blake Stepp (2004) Kyle Dranginis (2016) Kevin Pangos (2015) Zach Gourde (2003) David Stockton (2014) Cory Violette (2004) Mike Nilson (2000) Ryan Floyd (1999)

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Blake Stepp, Jeremy Pargo, Kevin Pangos and David Stockton will all be on hand for Friday’s Gonzaga alumni game.

SPORTS

Zags Come Home

Hoopfest is bringing together some of your favorite Gonzaga alums

BY MIKE BOOKEY

M

ark Few has a lot to be proud of when it comes to the Gonzaga men’s basketball program.

After all, the longtime head coach has won more games that just about any other coach in the college game since he took the reins in 1999. He’s said that one of the things that hits home for him is that his former players keep close ties with the program. Many have even made Spokane home after their professional basketball careers came to an end.

While the Gonzaga campus is often host to pickup games featuring a who’s who of Zags from the past two

decades, there’s never been an official reunion for former players. Former standout guard Jeremy Pargo, who’s drifted in and out of the NBA over the past few years while putting up big numbers overseas, decided to help change that. His idea for an official alumni game got a boost from Hoopfest and its executive director Matt Santangelo, another former Zag. “It’s been a fun brotherhood that we have,” says Santangelo. “We want to paint the picture of what we do as an alumni group. I think it will be a fun night, but I think there’s going to be a real basketball game out there.”

Pargo is heading up one of the teams; former AllAmerican Dan Dickau, who decided to settle his family in Spokane after his NBA career came to a close and has since embarked on a broadcasting career, heads up the other. The two captains picked their 10-man teams during a video broadcast, and they turned out a couple of talented rosters for the game, which benefits the Boys and Girls Club of Spokane and Hoopfest’s collaboration with Spokane Public Schools, called Ignite.

The talent on the floor is a mix of familiar names from recent years, including Kevin Pangos, Kyle Dranginis and David Stockton, but there are some other names from a bit before that, like Erroll Knight, Derek Raivio and Steven Gray from the mid-2000s. Going back farther, there’s sharpshooter Blake Stepp and his reliable big men Cory Violette and Zach Gourde, the latter of whom began the Zags’ tradition of excellent hairstyles. Then there are some guys you can credit with starting Gonzaga’s 18-season NCAA Tournament streak — Casey Calvary (of backboard-breaking fame), Ryan Floyd, Mike Nilson and Alex Hernandez. ...continued on next page

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Dickau stresses that this isn’t an old-timers game. Pretty much everyone can still ball, he insists. Even the older names on the roster have made waves as part of a Spokane Club team that has, at times, been one of the country’s best club teams.

“I think a lot of it is a chance for fans to see Jeremy Pargo or Austin Daye again. They’re able to see Santangelo and myself around town and on TV or radio, but guys like Micah Downs have only gotten better since their time at Gonzaga, and people will see that [at the game],” he says.

As if serving as the head of the world’s biggest three-onthree basketball tournament wasn’t enough on Santangelo’s plate, he and his team also took on the challenge of creating a mini-basketball stadium from scratch at the Spokane Convention Center. Unsure of the sort of response they’ll get in the inaugural year, Santangelo and company didn’t want to hold the alumni game in the Spokane Arena and have it feel empty.

“You don’t want to go to the Arena and have it not feel as if there’s enough energy in there,” says Santangelo.

Instead, the Convention Center offers what’s expected to be a capacity 2,000-person crowd, who will be close to the action. Hoopfest had to borrow a playing surface from a volleyball tournament and got Sport Court to provide a professional-style overlay. Whitworth University is providing two regulation hoops.

Dickau and Pargo are using this alumni game and the days surrounding it for another purpose. They’re hoping to tune up the squad they entered into the Basketball Tournament, a nationwide contest of elite teams competing for a $2 million grand prize. Last year, the Basketball Tournament featured more than 60 former NBA players; at least one, 35-year-old Dahntay Jones, played his way back into the league and won an NBA title this week with the Cleveland Cavaliers. Dickau says the tournament reached out to him about putting together a team, which is how Few Good Men came to be.

“They asked me if I had any interest in putting together a Gonzaga-based team. My first call was to Blake [Stepp], and I basically just said, ‘Hey, Blake, have you heard of this tournament?’” says Dickau with a laugh. “We wanted a mix of the younger crew that’s playing pro and some older guys who still want to play.”

The team, which has attracted national attention, including from ESPN commentators who think they could take home the grand prize, heads down to Los Angeles for the opening of the West Regional on July 9. The roster features three players with NBA experience: Dickau, Pargo and Daye.

Then there’s Calvary, Stepp, Downs, Ira Brown and Mike Hart. They rounded out the team with two non-Gonzaga guys: Justin Burrell, who played for St. John’s, and Missouri’s Leo Lyons.

Few Good Men will play some pickup games and finetune their offensive sets in workouts before the alumni game, and you can expect them to pump up the intensity during Friday night’s contest to get in game shape, Dickau says.

For Santangelo, putting together a formal gathering of Gonzaga alums is a no-brainer for Hoopfest, even if it took a little extra work to achieve. Even alumni who aren’t able to play, for whatever reason, will be on hand, Santangelo says.

One of them might even take your ticket as you enter.

“You need to take advantage of all the energy that’s in the city when Hoopfest is happening,” says Santangelo. “This also ties in to the success of Gonzaga University, and all that they’ve accomplished.” n The Alumni Game and Hopfest at Hoopfest • Fri, June 24, at 7 pm • $10-$15 • Afterparty tickets also available • Spokane Convention Center • 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. • ticketswest.com

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Hoopfest is expected to bring big crowds to downtown Spokane yet again this weekend.

Hoopfest 2016 Saturday, June 25 and Sunday, June 26

T

his year’s Hoopfest features much of what has made the world’s biggest three-onthree tournament such a beloved event in the Inland Northwest, as well as some new aspects. Here’s a rundown of what you need to know for the weekend.

TEAM CHECK-IN

Thursday, June 23, from 2 to 9 pm; Friday, June 24, from 11 am to 7 pm at the Gondola Meadow in Riverfront Park In addition to getting your team set for the weekend’s games — remember that you can’t check in on Saturday! — you can hit up the practice courts beginning at 11 am on Friday. Also at check-in, you’ll find the Nike Store, which features new Nike gear you can’t get anywhere else, including the first look at the new Nike KD (Kevin Durant) 9.

HOPFEST: THE ALUMNI GAME AFTERPARTY

Friday at 9 pm at the Spokane Convention Center Following the Alumni Game (see previous page), there’s an afterparty featuring craft beer from around the region and beyond. Hip-hop artist Lou Era, a Hoopfest veteran himself, is set to perform at the party. Tickets are available at

ticketswest.com and there are packages available for the game and afterparty.

TOYOTA SHOOTOFF

Thursday from 2 to 8 pm at Nike Center Court; Friday from 11 am to 7 pm; Saturday from 9 pm to 1 pm; Quarterfinals, Sunday at 1 pm; Semifinals, Sunday at 2:30 pm near Nike Center Court You pay $10 for three half-court shots.

Those who can drill it from downtown will progress throughout the weekend and have a shot at winning a Toyota Prius. Must be 18 or older to participate.

WENDY’S FREE THROW CONTEST

Saturday, 9 am to 6 pm; Semifinals, Sunday from 9 am to 1 pm; Finals at 3:30 pm on Sunday near Nike Center Court If you’re 17 or younger, you can participate in this free throw contest ($2 entry) to win an Xbox.

SLAM DUNK CONTEST

Pre-qualifier Saturday at 2 pm; Finals, Sunday at 3 pm at Nike Center Court Unless you’re playing on Center Court, you can’t dunk in Hoopfest, so get your fill of slams at the annual dunk contest. $5 entry fee; sign up on-site.

— MIKE BOOKEY

HOOPFEST

BY THE NUMBERS Courts: 458 Teams: 6,905 Players: 27,750 Volunteers: About 3,000 Total games played: About 14,000 Total estimated attendance: 225,000

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Yes, it’s supposed to be upside down.

ot long after Chuck Klosterman began publishing books and celebrity profiles in big-time magazines, he quickly rose to be an Ebert-level critic of all things “low culture.”

He wrote about Saved by the Bell in Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs with earnest curiosity and debated the relative evilness of sports’ greatest villains in 2013’s I Wear the Black Hat. Fresh off a stint serving as the New York Times “Ethicist,” Klosterman takes his often-hilarious writing to a different, perhaps more refined and certainly not “low culture” level with But What If We’re Wrong? Unlike his other nonfiction, this book isn’t meant to be read in grab-bag, back-of-the-toilet-tank fashion.

Klosterman tells us as much in the introduction. There’s a unifying hypothesis throughout the book, in that he continually asks us the titular question about art, science, sports, music, society at large and — not to go totally off brand — television, asking us at one point to wonder how we’d think of the viewing habits of the ancient Egyptians if it were revealed that their society had television. The idea is to guess what historians will think of our beliefs and opinions in 100 years.

He begins by pointing out that we thought we knew all about gravity from Newton, but then Einstein gave us a different understanding a few hundred years later. And a hundred years from now, it’s very likely that our understanding of gravity will be starkly different. He also points out that Moby Dick was widely panned by critics and scarcely sold upon its release in the mid1800s, but became a classic by the time World War I came to a close. There’s no reason, he argues, that what we think is correct, just, appropriate or “right” will remain so in a century.

What sets this book apart from Klosterman’s earlier works is the interviews with experts in their fields, ranging from physicists like Neil deGrasse Tyson and Brian Greene to authors like Jonathan Lethem and Junot Diaz. This, coupled with Klosterman’s ingenious wit, makes for a book that’s essentially a long thought exercise. It turns out that thinking can be a hell of a lot of fun.

— MIKE BOOKEY

THEATER MODERN THEATER MAKING MOVES The Modern Theater found a new artistic director under its own roof, and he comes with experience in virtually every aspect of producing live theater, from acting to set design, stage direction to light and sound. Spokane native Teko Dumoulin has worked with the theater since joining the then-Interplayers Theatre as technical director in 2013 after years working in various West Coast theaters after high school. Dumoulin takes over for George Green, who moved to take a similar position in San Antonio. The Modern also named longtime regional theater veteran Troy Nickerson (pictured) as its new associate artistic director.

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STAND-UP When I Googled “Bo Burnham,” it was suggested that I instead search the internet for “Bo Burnham sad.” Forgetting that he actually performs a song called “Sad” on stage, I wondered if this was because, like me, people watched his new Netflix special MAKE HAPPY and got the impression that the comedian, deep down, is very troubled. Of course, that’s all part of the act. Burnham has always mixed clever introspection with his absurdist view of society through a fragmented mixture of jokes and songs. He’s never been a traditional stand-up comedian; in fact, he pokes fun at those comedians in his new special.

TV DOCUMENTARY NOW!, created by former Saturday Night Live cast members Fred Armisen, Bill Hader and Seth Meyers, is a sharp, hilarious parody of documentaries both new and old. Each parody is based on a real documentary of some kind, whether it’s Armisen and Hader playing former bandmates who talk about how things could have been if things had gone just right, or reckless reporters going through great lengths to explain how they’re getting the real story, an obvious parody of the self-indulgent style of Vice specials on HBO. The show premiered on IFC in August 2015 and the second season will debut this fall, so if you haven’t checked it out yet, now is the perfect time.

ALBUM Ten years ago, Band of Horses released their debut album Everything All the Time, following that up the next year with Cease to Begin. The anthemic indie rock songs stuck, and to this day they make Band of Horses listeners nostalgic. The band has had trouble replicating those albums since, but their new album WHY ARE YOU OK seems to lift them in a more promising direction. The upbeat single “Casual Party” draws from their past hits, and softer tracks like “Whatever, Wherever” and “Barrel House” round out a strong album that demonstrates how Band of Horses has matured. n

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Something Fishy Mermaids, hucksters and more mermaids await audiences looking to beat the heat at Coeur d’Alene Summer Theatre

BY E.J. IANNELLI

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n celebration of their magical transmogrification from fish after coming into contact with a celestial dust called starstuff, a ragtag chorus line of mermaids in blue, stringy mop wigs and burlesque bikini tops are high-kicking, Rockette style.

Peter and the Starcatcher kicked off CdA Summer Theatre’s 2016 run.

“Don’t think about it!” one of them shouts at the audience the instant the irony becomes large-scale mainstream musicals. apparent.

“The Music Man is a piece that’s standard, This playfully self-aware musical number is classic musical theater that everybody has loved the second-act opener to Peter and the Starcatcher for generations. We’ve got a fast-talking salesman — a smart, fluid, fleet-footed origin story to Peter and a nice [love story] – like an early romantic Pan, Captain Hook and all those who inhabit the comedy in many ways,” says Vaughan. The Little world created by J.M. Barrie more than a century Mermaid will naturally appeal to younger audiago. Although its fairy-tale characters and fart ences through “visually stunning” costumes and gags put it squarely in the realm of children’s sets. fare, it has enough risqué laughs and passing Three more single-performance shows will references to Ayn Rand, The Smiths and Philip augment the season. On June 22 is a staged readGlass operas to have a cross-background, crossing of The Great Gatsby, an adaptation of F. Scott generational appeal.

Fitzgerald’s enduring novel. Then comes a staged The reason that Coeur d’Alene Summer reading of Lombardi on July 20. As its title sugTheatre has been able to land this particular play, gests, the play delves into the backstory of coach not long off Broadway, ahead of so many other Vince Lombardi, who guided the Green Bay theaters largely comes down to Laura Little, Packers to five NFL championships in the 1960s. former executive director for the organization. As Then on Aug. 17, a medley of villains from luck would have it, she co-produced Peter and the popular musicals will take the stage for the Bad Starcatcher.

Boys of Broadway concert.

“Laura wanted us to be one of the first As live theater suffers without a live auditheaters to have it regionally,” says Tracey ence, this year CdA Summer Theatre is placing Vaughan, who took over from Little this past special emphasis on affordability. Two adults and March after 10 years of teaching drama at Coeur two children can purchase tickets on Family Frid’Alene Charter Academy. Prior to that, Vaughan days at a combined cost of $100, a savings of $52 ran Lake City Playhouse (now The Modern) compared to the regular prices. During Saturday between 2003 and 2006.

Specials, under-35s can get tickets for $30 (versus Not only is Peter and the Starcatcher a “theater $49), and anyone can buy one regularly priced lover’s gem” in its own right, she says, it’s also a ticket and get a second at half price. departure from CdA Summer Theatre’s custom“We want to make sure that our shows are ary “full-blown, full-scale” musicals. accessible to everybody. We’re actually taking “While this one has some music, it’s really a our cue from Broadway on this [by] making it a play with music. It’s based on a book by humorlittle more attractive and affordable to get youngist Dave Barry and novelist Ridley Pearson, er audiences into the theater,” Vaughan says. adapted by Rick Elice for the stage. It’s got that “Even though this is a 50-year institution and tongue-in-cheek, dry humor, and we’re touting it is offering the same professional quality that it as a grown-up prequel to Peter Pan that’s great for has all along, it is a new entity in many ways,” kids as well.” says Vaughan. “There are a lot of new voices that Although Starcatcher, which runs through contribute to what we offer. There’s a new artistic July 3, is opening the theater’s 2016 season, the vision for what we do.”  mainstage shows that follow are more in keeping with the repertoire that has won CdA Summer Coeur d’Alene Summer Theatre • Salvation Theatre its loyal patronage over the past 49 Army Kroc Center • 1765 W. Golf Course Rd., years: The Music Man (July 14 to 31) and Disney’s Coeur d’Alene • (208) 660-2958 • cdasummerThe Little Mermaid (Aug. 11 to 28), both of them theatre.com

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isters Abby and Lynette Pflueger have spent the better part of the past decade cooking and baking their way across the United States.

From Florida to Hawaii and up to the Northeast, the Spokane natives gradually moved up in the hospitality industry, working at retirement homes, grocery store bakeries and major chains. They say it’s the perfect job

for wanderlust types, because there are work opportunities essentially anywhere you go.

Even so, the Pflueger sisters chose to come back home a few years ago, and probably at no better time.

They’re contributing firsthand to the Inland Northwest’s evolving culinary culture, as more and more locally owned eateries dot the urban landscape.

Lynette, 32, is the executive pastry chef for Santé Restaurant and Charcuterie, as well as its counterpart Common Crumb Bakery and the forthcoming Inland Pacific Kitchen. Abby, 29, is sous-chef at Santé.

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who owns both ventures with his wife Kate. Years back, Lynette worked as a part-time pastry chef at Santé, and Abby spent a short time washing dishes there before setting out again across the country.

“They’re perfect for the team,” Hansen says. “They’re both very hard workers and they’re passionate about what they’re doing, and they care about the people around them.”

It’s not the first time the two have worked together for a common employer. Lynette, who graduated from culinary school at the Art Institute of California in 2006, recruited Abby to take a job at a bakery that Lynette was working at in Connecticut. Abby had no experience in professional baking or cooking, but she took on the challenge, learning as much as she could on the job and from Lynette.

“She was a great teacher and inspired me to learn and grow more and work harder,” Abby recalls. “She kept moving up, and I wanted to move up, too.”

Though the urge to pack up and start a new adventure in a different state still lingers for both women, the Pflueger sisters are happy to be home and near family again. They don’t plan to leave again anytime soon.

“Every day is exciting,” says Abby. “We do a lot of special dinners, and the menu changes constantly here with what we can get from farmers that’s local and fresh. There’s room R E S TA U R A N T to change and grow, and we FINDER have the opportunity to help Looking for a new place to open another restaurant.” eat? Search the region’s She’s referring to most comprehensive bar Hansen’s next two projects, and restaurant guide at Hogwash Whiskey Den and Inlander.com/places.

Inland Pacific Kitchen, both set to open later this year in the Washington Cracker Co. Building.

Also this fall, the sisters will join Hansen as part of a small culinary team traveling to New York City to prepare a meal at the renowned James Beard Foundation, an esteemed, invitationonly opportunity.

“One thing I’m excited about with the stuff going on here is that you have the opportunity to move around and do different things without having to change your job, which is not a sustainable way to live your life,” explains Lynette. After returning to Spokane in the fall of 2014, she jumped right into helping the Hansens open Common Crumb, an invaluable and entirely new experience for her.

Food has always been a major part of the sisters’ lives. Lynette has fond childhood memories of helping her parents and grandmother in the kitchen. Their mother often made bread, and Lynette would summon all her strength to hold the bowl and keep it from rocking while their mom kneaded the dough.

Going to culinary school was not a long-term goal she had growing up, but it seemed like a natural fit.

“I remember a couple years into it talking to my older sister about how I learned to do something from our grandma, and my sister didn’t remember,” Lynette recalls. “It seems like a lot of my memories were about food, and she didn’t really remember that, so when we had that discussion, I was like, ‘Maybe I chose the right career.’ That’s comforting.”

As much as they enjoy the creativity and learning opportunities their careers offer, the sisters agree it’s not without challenges, the least of which are the long, nontraditional work hours. Abby and Lynette’s schedules are completely opposite — bakery shifts start between 3 and 6 am, while Abby’s restaurant work begins in the midday. On days off they share together, the sisters often head to their mom’s to cook dinner, or she prepares a Sunday night dinner for them.

“We’ve always thought of it as a way of showing love and appreciation,” Abby says. “Cooking a meal for the family and having everyone sit down to eat.” n

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ral Hamilton loves meats. Penny Hume, his fiancée, loves cheeses. And although they can list reasons why they love Amish meats and cheeses, they both think you have to taste them to really understand the delight of their food.

Hamilton and Hume tried Amish meats and cheeses from Bushels in Newport — now reopened in Diamond Lake — and haven’t been able to shop at regular grocery store delis since.

“We would stop into Bushels once a week,” says Hamilton.

“At least once a week,” added Hume. “Every time we went on a camping trip or any kind of outing we would always have to make a trip to Bushels first, so we wanted to open a location that could offer organic, healthy Amish foods to people in Spokane.”

They opened Slice and Grind Deli and Espresso in northeast Spokane last summer, with all of the food they sell sourced from the Amish in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and Fresno, Ohio.

The sandwich menu is simple. Pick a bread, spread, toppings and a meat and cheese — or a few, because they currently feature 10 meats and 17 cheeses. Slice and Grind also caters meat and cheese trays ($25 to $65).

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“We add to the menu depending on what customers are interested in,” says Hume. “If a customer special requests something, we’ll bring it in. If it’s popular, we’ll keep it on the menu. And if not, we can still order it just for them,” adds Hamilton.

Espresso is one of the few products Slice and Grind sells that isn’t Amish, but it is roasted locally by Uccello’s.

The drive-thru around back allows customers to quickly grab a sandwich or one of the 80 espresso flavors.

Hume says the neighborhood has been good to them, and they want to continue adding to the food menu and create a store area with Amish spices, flours, sugars and a wider selection of candies and more Amish butter than they already sell. The couple plans to start selling meats and cheeses at farmers markets in the next few weeks, and also wants to paint the building and add patio seating this summer.

“The Amish work together and help each other. That’s how they’ve always lived,” says Hume. “All of this is really about bringing it back to Mother Nature.” n Slice and Grind Deli and Espresso • 2103 E. Diamond • Open Mon-Sat, 6 am-6 pm; Sun, 9 am-3 pm • sliceandgrindinc.com • 315-5373

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he annual Washington Beer Awards were given out Sunday, and while several Spokane brewers came home with medals, the big news was No-Li Brewhouse being recognized as the state’s Large Brewery of the Year.

No-Li and other Spokane breweries did well in the individual categories as well. A total of 950 beers were entered in the competition by 139 Washington breweries. All of the beers must have been both brewed and made commercially available in the state of Washington. They were all judged in a blind taste test by panels of trained beer judges who awarded gold, silver, and bronze medals.

In addition to the big prize for large breweries, No-Li won a few medals, including a gold in American-Style Pale Ale category for Poser, a silver for its Spin Cycle Red in Bitters, a silver in English Ales for its Born and Raised IPA, a silver for its Crony in the American Brown & Black Ales category, and a bronze for its Oyster Stout collaboration with Taylor Shellfish in Specialty & Historical Beers.

Other Eastern Washington brewers also made a mark at the festival: • River City Brewing won a gold medal for its Huckleberry Ale in the American-Style Fruit Beer category, a silver in the Strong Lager category for its Congratulator Doppelbock, and a bronze for its Wine Barrel-Aged Huckleberry Ale in the Wood & Barrel Aged Beers category.

• Waddell’s Brewing won a silver for its Scottish Ale in the Scottish Shilling Ales category, and a bronze for its Alligator Stout in the American-Style Stouts category.

• Big Barn Brewing in Mead won a bronze in Smoke Beers for its Mountain Smoke Porter.

• Pullman’s Paradise Creek Brewery won a bronze in Irish Stouts for its Invective Stout. n

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ooking around at the bright orange walls of the newly opened South Hill Brain Freeze Creamery location, Tom Purdum can still easily recall how hot it could get inside the tiny room in the basement of an engineering firm where the business was located when he took ownership six years ago.

Since then, Brain Freeze has outgrown multiple locations as more of its ice cream ingredients have been made in-house, including cookies, brownies, chocolate and caramel. In 2014, Brain Freeze opened its first shop in Kendall Yards.

“Kendall Yards was one of the biggest risks we’ve taken,” Purdum says. “But it has been doing really, really well, and after its first year we thought, ‘Let’s expand a little bit and see what happens.’”

Brain Freeze opened a South Hill location last summer, but was forced to close when the building was sold. Purdum remained determined to reopen a Brain Freeze spot in that neighborhood, and did just that this spring with the new shop on Grand Boulevard.

Like the Kendall Yards location, the South Hill shop scoops 24 flavors and offers the same breakfast and sandwich menu. Purdum is excited about soon making another batch of the sauce for his favorite Brain Freeze food item — the coffee BBQ chicken sandwich.

Brain Freeze has around 100 flavors of ice cream, and when it comes to experimenting with flavors, Purdum and his son Nathan will make just about any flavor once — including a chicken

wing flavor.

Purdum’s wife Julie’s dairy intolerance inspired him to create vegan flavors while maintaining the same level of deliciousness Brain Freeze has become known for.

“You can really taste the coconut milk in the first bite of most of our vegan flavors, but in the bites after that, it kind of fades into the background and ENTRÉE really compleGet the scoop on local ments the food news with our weekly other flavors,” Entrée newsletter. Sign up he says. “Some at Inlander.com/newsletter. of our vegan flavors are our most popular, and people can’t believe there isn’t dairy in them.”

Regarding future plans for Brain Freeze, Purdum hopes to open a few other shops around the Inland Northwest in the next few years, along with purchasing a newer mobile truck that — without giving too much away — will be unlike anything Brain Freeze has done before.

“You really have to be always thinking of new flavors and combinations. It’s challenging,” says Purdum. “Like the Rainier cherry chunk I made last week. It was awesome, but will I make it again? I don’t know. Maybe next year.” n Brain Freeze Creamery • 1230 S. Grand Blvd.

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Spy Games Central Intelligence isn’t the silly popcorn flick you were waiting for this summer

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here is, of course, absolutely nothing wrong with a silly summer popcorn movie. Turn your brain off, spend a couple of hours away from the stress of your life, and just enjoy a spectacle in a dark, air-conditioned theater. That is what Central Intelligence aims to be, a funny romp with two very charismatic leads.

Jokes ricochet past, shootouts occur at everincreasing intervals, and positive themes on being true to yourself are duly administered. And yet, the film traffics in such middle-of-the-road, mediocre material (most of its humor feels like it was filtered through a committee), that Central Intelligence is less the action/buddy comedy it strives to be, ending up a tedious mishmash of concepts in which the convoluted plot hijacks much of the fun from the proceedings, and does the

two main stars no favors. satellite encryption codes (yawn).

The stars in question are Dwayne Johnson and It’s all there to highlight the chemistry between the Kevin Hart, two celebrities on such a roll that I’m two leads, and it often works in their favor as the film pretty sure this film was greencareens around, putting them in ridiculit without a script. But here it lous situations. Nothing wrong with that, CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE right? But too many times the film just is anyway: Hart plays Calvin, Rated PG-13 an accountant who peaked falls flat, relying on Johnson and Hart’s Directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber in high school and is now charm to carry an otherwise horrible bit Starring Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart living a boring existence until that you might see at the tail end of a he’s contacted through social Saturday Night Live episode. media by fellow student Bob (Johnson), who was once Perhaps Hart and Johnson will find their respecthe target of endless bullying because of his weight, tive breakout hits (Johnson is rumored to have signed and now, well, is the Rock, a badass CIA agent. Calvin on to act in more than a dozen films over the next was the only kid who was nice to Bob, and the two five years — in other words, the shotgun method), but reconnect in the midst of some MacGuffin plot device Central Intelligence is a throwaway film that gives suminvolving a mysterious hacker called “Black Badger” mer movies a bad name in all the worst ways: told by and, naturally, stolen, idiots, full of sound and fury, and signifying nothing ever-important but first-weekend grosses. 

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In the 1860s, not all Southerners were pro-slavery, this new Civil War film wants to remind us. Here, we see the story of poor Mississippi farmer Newton Knight (a controversial historical figure played by Matthew McConaughey) who led a group of rebels made up of farmers and slaves against the Confederate army — which led to his home of Jones County seceding from the Confederacy and becoming the Free State of Jones. (LJ) Rated R Blake Lively plays surfer Nancy in this thriller. While being attacked by a shark, she comes to grips with how to survive and escape the path of the enormous great white shark. Director Jaume Collet-Serra creates a concept similar to the film Jaws when it comes to human survival against the killer fish roaming close to shore. (KL) Rated PG-13

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It’s been two decades since Independence Day was released, and with the Fourth of July approaching, it’s coming back. Director Roland Emmerich is bringing the aliens back to invade planet Earth and take out the human race in the long-awaited sequel that somehow doesn’t feature Will Smith.

This time the human race unites to fight off the invasion with enhanced technologies they obtained after the earlier attack. (KL) Rated PG-13

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Meanwhile in the Marvel Universe… a disagreement between superheroes — Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) and Captain America (Chris Evans) take opposing sides when the United Nations demands authority over superhero actions. Aside from a lackluster score

and unnecessary visual distractions, Civil War makes for a magnificent fireworks display to kick off the first week of summer blockbuster season at the multiplex. (PC) Rated PG-13

CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE

Kevin Hart plays your typical, run-ofthe-mill accountant (or at least the movie stereotype of accountants, who in real life might be very exciting people) who is reunited with an old friend played by Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. It just so happens that the Rock is a CIA agent and takes the boring accountant on a thrill-ride doing spy stuff. (MB) Rated PG-13

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FILM | SHORTS The first installment of this franchise scared the living bejeezus out of a lot of people with its stylistic and campfree approach to the tried-and-true haunted house story. This time, Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson return as demonologists Lorraine and Ed Warren, but this now they’re in London where a single mother and her kids are suffering from a house riddled with seriously messed-up monsters and ghosts. (MB) Rated R

FINDING DORY

Set one year after the events of Finding Nemo, Dory is still settled in with Marlin and Nemo, but a flash of memory includes a clue to her parents’ possible whereabouts. Setting out across the ocean with Marlin and Nemo (Hayden Rolence), Dory eventually reaches a California aquarium for an adventure that may reunite her with her family.

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HELLO, MY NAME IS DORIS

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

JUNGLE BOOK

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

THE LOBSTER

We are dropped into a pristine, bleak dystopia, one in which being single is outlawed. We meet David (Colin Farrell, appropriately sad-sack), whose wife has left him for another. In Lanthimos’ world, single people are shipped off to a hotel resort, where they have 45 days to find a compatible partner. If they fail, they will be turned into the animal of their choice. (JK) Rated R

THE MAN WHO KNEW IFINITY

This biopic primarily focuses on the relationship between the prodigy Srinivasa Ramanujan (Dev Patel) and his Cambridge University mentor G.H. Hardy (Jeremy Irons). Although the young man received some formal schooling, his mathematical abilities were selftaught, or as he later explains to Hardy, they are expressions of God. Hardy puts the young mathematician’s work to test in this numbers game of a film. At Magic Lantern (MB) Rated PG-13

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Louisa Clark (Emilia Clarke) gets a job as caretaker for Will Traynor (Sam Clafin), a man who’s all but given up on life after becoming paralyzed in an accident. As they get to know each other, Will begins to shine in Louisa’s optimistic presence. Deep down, though, he still loathes the idea of living the rest of his life wheelchair bound. (CS) Rated PG-13

NEIGHBORS 2

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

This time a sorority has moved into the same house! And it’s a really crazy sorority, so Zac Efron has to come back and show them his abs. (MB) Rated R

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Enough people saw the FBI-mystifying magical antics of the Four Horsemen (Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Lizzy Caplan and Dave Franco) in the first movie to warrant a globe-trotting sequel, in which the quick-witted illusionists are blackmailed by a nasty tech magnate (Daniel Radcliffe) into stealing an all-powerful chip capable of controlling every computer in the world. Sounds like it was inspired by the Windows 10 rollout. Now You See Me 2 also stars powerhouses Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman and Mark Ruffalo in the very definition of a summer popcorn flick. (DN) Rated PG-13

POPSTAR: NEVER STOP NEVER STOPPING

The Lonely Island gang of Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone take their digital-short-honed knack for pop-culture hilarity to the big screen for Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, the latest in a storied line of music-biz mockumentaries. Think Spinal Tap satire aimed at Bieber Nation, with Samberg starring as Connor4Real, a rapper/singer whose sophomore album bombs, leaving his fans adrift and Connor trying everything from disastrous publicity stunts to poorly conceived stylistic reinventions to regain cultural relevance. (DN) Rated R

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WEINER

Documentary directors Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg craft this endlessly intriguing look at Anthony Weiner — the former New York congressman who resigned in 2011 following a highly publicized sexting scandal — as he tries to revive his political career by running for mayor of New York in 2013. As you probably already know, things didn’t end well. At Magic Lantern (MB) Not Rated

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X-Men: Apocalypse’s version of biggerfaster-more means that our mutant protagonists will need to save humanity from a villain who wants to destroy everything. You know, just everything — but especially bridges and recognizable world landmarks. That villain is En Sabah Nur (Oscar Isaac), an ancient Egyptian quasi-god who awakens from a centuries-long slumber ready to eradicate pitiful, primitive humanity from the planet. (SR) Rated PG-13 

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At this for 20-plus years, Boise act Built to Spill is back to being a three-piece.

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ging gracefully in rock ’n’ roll is no easy task. Not only do you have to navigate the ever-shifting loyalties of the music business and fickle fans, but also the universal inevitabilities that come with growing up — kids, mortgages, maybe a bum knee or bad back.

Few have negotiated the path as ably as Built to Spill’s Doug Martsch, who’s led his Boise-based band through 24 years, myriad lineup changes and eight studio albums. The most recent, 2015’s Untethered Moon, is as vibrant a collection of songs as Built to Spill has ever released, full of the insistent melodies, ear-candy hooks and occasional epic guitar solos the band has been known for since early gems like 1994’s There’s Nothing Wrong With Love or 1999’s almostbreakthrough Keep It Like A Secret.

The longevity of the band, and Martsch’s ability to play music for a living, is something that continually surprises him.

“We go out playing these shows and there’s still people excited about it. It’s really unbelievable,” Martsch says. “I didn’t know I’d have a moment of a career in music, let alone a full-on long one.”

Martsch’s enthusiasm for all manner of music comes through in conversation and in his choice of covers; tunes from Ozzy Osbourne to the Smiths to Blue Öyster Cult might make their way into a set on any given night. And Martsch (center above) might look like the least-likely rock star on the planet when you see him onstage in suburban-hipster-dad attire — baggy shorts, tattered T-shirts and the like. But once he unleashes one of his soaring, searing guitar solos of the sort that was virtually unheard of in indie rock for years outside of a Dinosaur Jr. concert, there’s no mistaking you’re dealing with one incredibly impressive musician — “alternative” or otherwise.

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Built to Spill album is all the more notable since the band had recorded a bunch of songs and scrapped them before changing rhythm sections and starting over. That meant hitting the road to break in the new members and learn songs old and new, and it meant a six-year break between albums. Once they got into the studio again, producer Sam Coomes helped Martsch find faith that the new songs were up to par.

“Producers do different things, and a big part of what they do is give you some moral support when things get rough in the studio and you start questioning your existence. They can be helpful for keeping things in perspective and kind of cheer you on a bit,” Martsch says.

Songs can come quickly for Martsch when he’s writing, crafting riffs with his guitar, but lyrics are another matter. Even as he’s gained confidence through the years, coming up with words remains a challenge. If lyrics came easily, he says, “we might have twice as many records.”

Part of the difficulty, Martsch says, is age.

“When I was younger, I didn’t have an audience and it was easier just to say whatever the f--- you wanted to say,” Martsch says. “Then you get older and you have an audience and some responsibilities, and you start running out of shit to say.”

Martsch sweats over his lyrics, but he’s not obsessive. He’s a huge Bob Dylan fan, but he thinks fans take Dylan’s words too seriously — more seriously than the man himself probably does.

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“Some of my favorite lyrics are silly,” Martsch says. “I’m into the lyrics being effective, the words being what they need to be for the song.

I don’t think Leonard Cohen is necessary all the time. Sometimes the simplest lines are perfect. I like soul and old reggae and stuff where a lot of lyrics are just clichés they’re singing. And I can be moved by them.”

On Built to Spill’s current tour, the band is rolling as a three-piece like they did in the very beginning, just Martsch with drummer Steve Gere and bassist Jason Albertini. Martsch says it’s the first step in working on new material, with hopes of recording again soon. Some of the band’s multilayered songs won’t be in the set as a result, “but the five-piece [lineup] couldn’t do the whole catalog, either.” The smaller lineup means more responsibility for Martsch, and another subtle evolution in the band’s sound that undoubtedly will result in an album that is still distinctly Built to Spill.

“You never know if people are going to lose interest,” Martsch says. “We just made as good a record as any of our records, and I feel like we’re getting ready to make another good one, and I think people recognize that and stick around. It’s not just a full-on nostalgia thing. People are still with us, and they see we’re still at it for real.” n Built to Spill with Toy Zoo and Genders • Wed, June 29, at 8 pm • $22 • Allages • Knitting Factory • 911 W. Sprague • sp.knittingfactory.com • 244-3279

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Rapper Riff Raff sued actor James Franco for essentially impersonating him in the film Spring Breakers.

Carefully Crafted When it comes to his outrageous career, rapper Riff Raff knows exactly what he’s doing

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f ever there was a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma, Riff Raff is it.

The world first came to know the Houston-born rapper (given name: Horst Simco) as a 2009 contestant on MTV’s From G’s to Gents, a reality show in which young men attempt to smooth out their rough edges.

Riff Raff, aka Jody Highroller, was eliminated in the second episode, but he made an impression with his cornrows, intricately shaped facial hair, colorful clothing, grill, tattoos and nonsensical statements pronounced in a thick, Southern drawl.

Example: “If you ain’t original, then you just start looking like you’re eating casserole dinners with a bow tie on, watching reruns of M*A*S*H.” Yes, it made for good TV, but at the heart of that statement was Riff Raff’s game plan: Be original, be memorable, be successful and keep ’em guessing.

With that mentality, Riff Raff took his 15 minutes of fame and made them last much longer; his career is as carefully crafted as his persona.

His appearance on the show led to collaborations with actor/comedians Simon Rex and Andy Milonakis as a member of Three Loco, a collaboration with hip-hop heavy-hitter Action Bronson (“Bird on a Wire”), the release of various singles and mixtapes, and a contract with producer Diplo’s Mad Decent record label.

His debut album, Neon Icon, was released in 2014 and managed to reach No. 22 on the Billboard 200. His latest record (and, in a way,

character) Peach Panther, is out Friday.

Much of Riff Raff’s music centers around his party-heavy lifestyle (he sells foam cups, neon tank tops, emoji-emblazoned leggings, marijuana paraphernalia and even a bow tie in his online store), though it’s not without out-of-left-field references, including rhyming “Harry Houdini” with “Versace jet ski” in “4 Million” off Peach Panther.

Outside of music, Riff Raff has pursued acting, including a guest spot on soap opera One Life to Live as “Jamie Franko” (he sued actor James Franco after Franco MORE EVENTS allegedly used Visit Inlander.com for Riff Raff as complete listings of inspiration local events. for his Spring Breakers character, Alien, without permission) and is training to become a WWE wrestler. Potential wrestler names include Peach Panther, Neon Python and Mr. Lamborghini Leg Lock.

It’s all part of his plan.

In one of his last scenes on From G’s to Gents, Riff Raff tells the world, “This ain’t the last you’ve heard of me.”

He made good on his promise then, and he knows what to do to keep it that way.  Riff Raff with Super Duper Kyle • Sat, June 25, at 8 pm • $25-$100 • All-ages • Knitting Factory • 919 W. Sprague • sp.knittingfactory. com • 244-3279

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imilar to the Electric Daisy Carnival that hit Las Vegas last weekend, the Gorge’s Paradiso Festival can get scorching hot — temperature- and talent-wise.

Artists/DJs like Datsik, Chris Lorenzo and Bassnectar are set to fill the amphitheatre and surrounding stages this weekend with vivid light shows and a whole bunch of thumping and intoxicating electronic dance music (EDM).

But mixed in with brutal sunshine, drug use and a culture that pushes people to dance and jump late into the night, the combination can be fatal — one 22-year-old died last year. The kids (the college-age concertgoers who make up most of the thousands) are all there to let loose, but to everyone headed that way this weekend, we say: Stay hydrated (filling up at the free water stations) and wear sunscreen.

— LAURA JOHNSON

Paradiso Festival • Fri, June 24-Sat, June 25 • $200 general admission • 18+ • Gorge Amphitheatre • 754 Silica Road NW, Quincy, Wash. • paradisofestival.com J = THE INLANDER RECOMMENDS THIS SHOW J = ALL AGES SHOW

Thursday, 06/23

ARBOR CReST WiNe CellARS, Jacob Cummings BARlOWS AT liBeRTY lAKe, Sunny Nights Duo J THe BARTleTT, Summer Songs feat. Scott Ryan, N. Sherman, Ruth Henrickson, Grant Cole, Kali Ingersoll BOOMeRS ClASSiC ROCK BAR & GRill, Randy Campbell acoustic show J BOOTS BAKeRY & lOuNGe, The Song Project J BuCeR’S COFFeeHOuSe PuB, Open Jazz Jam with Erik Bowen BuCKHORN iNN, The Spokane River Band J CHAPS, Spare Parts COeuR d’AleNe CASiNO, PJ Destiny CRAFTed TAP HOuSe + KiTCHeN, Riverboat Dave CRAve, DJ Freaky Fred THe CuliNARY STONe (208-2774116), Daniel Mills dAleY’S CHeAP SHOTS, Mojo Box feat. Sam Neal FedORA PuB & GRille, Carey Brazil Fizzie MulliGANS, Kicho J JACKliN ARTS & CulTuRAl CeNTeR (208-457-8950), Ren E and the Rhythm Section with Keith Strickland and Luke Zasadny JOHN’S AlleY, Andy Sydow Band leFTBANK WiNe BAR, Mary Chavez MOON TiMe (208-667-2331), Monarch Mountain Band O’SHAYS iRiSH PuB & eATeRY, Open mic with Adrian and Leo THe OBSeRvATORY, Vinyl Meltdown Red ROOM lOuNGe, Reggae Night featuring Real Life Rockaz & Real Life Sound THe RidleR PiANO BAR, The Bobby Patterson Band Rivelle’S RiveR GRill (208-930-

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OG, like their name implies, make hard-hitting tunes for folks who enjoy an unrelentingly loud soup of sludge metal. The Vancouver, B.C., act — started by frontman/show promoter Johnny Matter two years ago, when he decided he wanted to play with friends — has concocted a grueling monster mash of metal genres, with a bit of experimental blues sprinkled in to keep listeners guessing. The group writes songs about drones and snakes, with their self-titled debut album coming out last year and a follow-up on the way. As for their upcoming Spokane show? Watch out: The guys are known to go shirtless and sometimes have a little too much fun with spaghetti on stage.

— LAURA JOHNSON KYRS Presents: BOG, Hex Partners, Crow’s Head and Fitz Fitzpatrick (poet) • Tue, June 28, at 7 pm • $5 suggested donation • All-ages • Saranac Rooftop • 21 W. Main • 747-3012 (radio station)

0381), Truck Mills with special guests jam night TeMPliN’S Red liON (208-773-1611), Sammy Eubanks J THe PiN!, The Maension, The Ambivalent TiMBeR GASTRO PuB (208-2629593), Talmadge zOlA, Caprise

Friday, 06/24

BeveRlY’S, Robert Vaughn BiG SKY’S TAveRN (489-2073), Prairie Breeze BlACK diAMONd, Diamond DJ BOlO’S, YESTERDAYSCAKE BOOMeRS ClASSiC ROCK BAR & GRill, Crybaby ClOveR (487-2937), Robbie French THe CluB AT BlACK ROCK (208-6768999), Daniel Mills COeuR d’AleNe CASiNO, Bill Bozly, Somebody’s Hero

CONKliNG MARiNA & ReSORT, JamShack CuRleY’S, Phoenix FedORA PuB & GRille, Echo Elysium Fizzie MulliGANS, Slow Burn FRedNeCK’S (291-3880), Ken Davis In Transit J GORGe AMPHiTHeATeR, Paradiso Festival (See story above) idAHO POuR AuTHORiTY (208-5977096), John Firshi iRON HORSe BAR, Tell the Boys JOHN’S AlleY, Ticket Sauce leFTBANK WiNe BAR, Kari Marguerite MAx AT MiRABeAu, Mojo Box MOOSe lOuNGe, Gladhammer MulliGAN’S BAR & GRille, Carli Osika NOdlANd CellARS TASTiNG ROOM (927-7770), The Don Goodwin Trio NORTHeRN QueST CASiNO, DJ Ramsin

O’SHAYS iRiSH PuB & eATeRY, Richard Buford THe OBSeRvATORY, Left Over Soul PeNd d’OReille WiNeRY, The Electric Cole Show J THe PiN!, Dead Horse Trauma, Chrysalis, Thunder Knife, Project X J Red liON HOTel AT THe PARK, Spare Parts Red ROOM lOuNGe, Hoopfest PreParty feat. DJ Wax 808 THe ReSeRve, Hoopfest Weekend kickoff party feat. Connor Phalen hosting a DJ battle THe RidleR PiANO BAR, Dueling Pianos feat. Christan Raxter & Steve Ridler SANdPOiNT eAGleS lOdGe (208263-3514), Texas Twister SullivAN SCOReBOARd (891-0880), The Cronkites THe ROAdHOuSe, Kenny James Miller Band

J TWiSP CAFe (474-9146), Brenna Yaeger, Luke Yates, Christy Lee J vAlleY ASSeMBlY OF GOd (924-0466), A Night of Big Band feat. Tuxedo Junction, Pamela Brownlee, Ken Mankins THe viKiNG BAR & GRill, Stepbrothers zOlA, Uppercut

Saturday, 06/25

BARlOWS AT liBeRTY lAKe, Jan Harrison, Doug Folkins, Danny McCollim J THe BARTleTT, The Round No. 19 feat. Marshall McLean, David Hensrud, Andrew Liljenberg, Danielle Estelle Ramsay BeveRlY’S, Robert Vaughn J THe BiG diPPeR, Sessionz Smooth Jazz feat. Heather Simmons, and host Michael Bethely BiG SKY’S TAveRN, Laughing Bones

BLACK DIAMOND, 1 Tribe BOLO’S, YESTERDAYSCAKE BOOMERS CLASSIC ROCK BAR & GRILL, Crybaby BUCKHORN INN, Tufnel CHECKERBOARD BAR, Zach Hval COEUR D’ALENE CASINO, Bill Bozly, Somebody’s Hero CONKLING MARINA & RESORT, JamShack CURLEY’S, Phoenix FEDORA PUB & GRILLE, Echo Elysium FIZZIE MULLIGANS, Slow Burn GARLAND PUB & GRILL (326-7777), Tracer J GORGE AMPHITHEATER, Paradiso Festival (See story on facing page) IRON HORSE BAR, Tell the Boys THE JACKSON ST., DJ Dave J KNITTING FACTORY, Riff Raff (See story on page 41) and Superduper Kyle LA ROSA CLUB, Open Jam THE LARIAT INN, Honky Tonk a Go-Go LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Haley Young J LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Nick Grow LOST BOYS’ GARAGE (443-5023), Glenn & Rachael Acoustic Duo Show MAX AT MIRABEAU, Mojo Box MOONDOLLARS BISTRO (208-7777040), Kelly Hughes MOOSE LOUNGE, Gladhammer MULLIGAN’S BAR & GRILLE, Daniel Mills J NEWPORT CITY PARK, Festivities in the Park feat. Larry Sauer, Mila, Skookum Creek Music Company, the Plastic Saints, NODLAND CELLARS TASTING ROOM, Brent Edstrom Trio NORTHERN QUEST CASINO, DJ Ramsin THE OBSERVATORY, DJ Orange THE PALOMINO, Rock Fest feat. Fallen Kings and Fallstreak, Deschamp, Catalyst, Zamtrip, Blumeadows and Burning Clean, Broken Identity PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Marty & Doug J THE PIN!, Kokane, Wizeguy Entertainment, State of Krisis, Myriah, Manwitnoname J RED LION HOTEL AT THE PARK, Sarah Brown Band RED ROOM LOUNGE, Hoopfest Party feat. DJ Devine REPUBLIC BREWING CO., Intuitive Compass THE RESERVE, Ball Out with DJ X2050, DJ Freaky Fred THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos feat. Christan Raxter & Steve Ridler ROCKET MARKET (343-2253), Sidhe feat. Michael and Keleren Milham J THE SHOP, Brett and Janet THE ROADHOUSE, Steve Starkey THE VIKING BAR & GRILL, Waking Things, the Backups ZOLA, Uppercut

Sunday, 06/26

ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, Devon Wade Band J BIG BARN BREWING CO. (7102961), Sam Vullo COEUR D’ALENE CASINO, Kosh, Wyatt Wood

CONKLING MARINA & RESORT, Vibe Raiders CRAFTED TAP HOUSE + KITCHEN, Kicho CRUISERS, Kyle Swaffard DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS, Jam Night with VooDoo Church J THE OBSERVATORY, Gygax, WORWS, Bandit Train, Tri Force SCHWEITZER MOUNTAIN RESORT, Monarch Mountain Band J THE PIN!, Aggression, Toxinaut THE ROADHOUSE, Gatsby’s Reunion feat. Flash, Unintentionally Blank, Aftermath, Black Rose, Rumbleboy, Riff Raff ZOLA, Bristol

Monday, 06/27

J CALYPSOS COFFEE & CREAMERY, Open Mic EICHARDT’S, Monday Night Jam with Truck Mills LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Monday Night Spotlight feat. Carey Brazil RED ROOM LOUNGE, Open Mic with MJ The In-Human Beatbox ZOLA, Fus Bol

Tuesday, 06/28

J THE BARTLETT, Northwest of Nashville feat. the Powers, Windoe, Lucas Brown, the Brad Keeler Trio THE JACKSON ST., DJ Dave LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Turntable Tuesday J THE PIN!, Immortal Bird, InAeona RED LION HOTEL RIVER INN, Land of Voices with Dirk Swartz THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Open mic Jam Session ROCKET MARKET, Kori Ailene J SARANAC PUBLIC HOUSE, KYRS Presents: BOG (See story on facing page), Hex Partners, Crows Head, Fitz Fitzpatrick THE VIKING BAR & GRILL, October Sky, the Broken Thumbs ZOLA, The Bucket List

CONKLING MARINA & RESORT, Still Kickin’, July 1-3.

PEND OREILLE PLAYHOUSE, Open Mic, J RED LION HOTEL AT THE PARK, Sammy Eubanks, July 1, 6 pm.

CLOVER, Jessica Haffner, July 1, 6:30 pm.

J DOWNTOWN SPOKANE LIBRARY, B Radicals, July 1, 6:30-8 pm.

J THE SHOP, DJ Teej, July 1, 7 pm.

J THE BARTLETT, Radkey, July 1, 8 pm.

BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn, 8 pm.

PANIDA THEATER, Duke Evers, July 1, 8-10:30 pm.

REX THEATRE, Jeanne Jolly, July 1, 8-10 pm.

THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos feat. Christan Raxter & Steve Ridler, 8:30 pm.

NORTHERN QUEST CASINO, DJ Ramsin, 9 pm.

THE JACKSON ST., DJ Dave, Tues., Sat..

LA ROSA CLUB, Open Jam, J RED LION HOTEL AT THE PARK, Mojo Box, July 2, 6 pm.

REPUBLIC BREWING CO., Robert Sarazin Blake, July 2, 7 pm.

CHECKERBOARD BAR, Amy Bleu, July 2, 8 pm.

J THE PIN!, Mobile Deathcamp, Resurgence, Alcohology, Dysfunktynal Kaos, July 2, 8:30 pm.

DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS, Jam Night with VooDoo Church, Sun..

NEWPORT, Scotia Road, July 3, 2:305 pm.

LINGER LONGER LOUNGE, Open jam, 4 pm.

J DOWNTOWN COEUR D’ALENE, Live After 5 feat. the Rub, July 3, 5-9 pm.

ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, The Rhythm Dawgs, July 3, 5:30 pm.

COEUR D’ALENE CASINO, Kosh, J THE BIG DIPPER, Hot Night Acoustic feat. Karrie O’Neill, Whitherward, Andy Rumsey, Erin Parkes, July 3, 8 pm.

LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Monday Night Spotlight feat. Carey Brazil, ZOLA, Fus Bol, J CALYPSOS COFFEE & CREAMERY, Open Mic, 6-8:30 pm.

PAVILLION PARK, Fireworks and Concert feat. Tuxedo Junction, July 4, 6 pm.

EICHARDT’S, Monday Night Jam with Truck Mills, 7 pm.

J RED LION HOTEL AT THE PARK, 4th of July celebration feat. Barking Katz, July 4, 7 pm.

RED ROOM LOUNGE, Open Mic with MJ The In-Human Beatbox, ZOLA, The Bucket List, THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Open mic Jam Session, Tues., 6 pm.

LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Turntable Tuesday, Tues., 7 pm.

SPOKANE GYMNASTICS, Adult Hip Hop Dance Class, J THE PIN!, The Animal in Me, Set to Stun, July 5, 7:30 pm.

MIK’S, DJ Brentano, Tues., 8 pm.

SWAXX, T.A.S.T.Y with DJs Freaky Fred, Beauflexx

Wednesday, 06/29 BARRISTER WINERY, Sammy Eubanks J DOWNTOWN COEUR D’ALENE, Live After 5 feat. Sol Seed EICHARDT’S, Charley Packard THE JACKSON ST., DJ Dave JOHN’S ALLEY, Indigenous J KNITTING FACTORY, Built to Spill (See story on page 39), Toy Zoo, Genders J THE PIN!, You Bastard, Jesus and the Dinosaurs RED ROOM LOUNGE, Writer’s Cup THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, R&B with Slow Cookin’ THE ROADHOUSE, Open mic with Vern Vogel and the Volcanoes ZOLA, The Bossame

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CHECKERBOARD BAR, Wizzerd, Swamp Ritual, Tsuga, June 30 THE BIG DIPPER, Divides, Elephant Gun Riot, Ghost Heart, July 1 THE HIVE, Blitzen Trapper, July 1 KNITTING FACTORY, Bone Thugs-nHarmony, July 2 tJOHN’S ALLEY, Duke Evers, June 30 CRAVE, DJ Freaky Fred, Thurs., 10 pm.

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MUSIC | VENUES 315 MARTINIS & TAPAS • 315 E. Wallace, CdA • 208-667-9660 ARBOR CREST • 4705 N. Fruit Hill Rd. • 927-9463 BABY BAR • 827 W. First Ave. • 847-1234 BARLOWS • 1428 N Liberty Lake Rd, Liberty Lake • 924-1446 THE BARTLETT • 228 W. Sprague Ave. • 747-2174 THE BIG DIPPER • 171 S. Washington St. • 863-8098 BIGFOOT PUB • 9115 N. Division St. • 467-9638 BING CROSBY THEATER • 901 W. Sprague Ave. • 227-7638 BLACK DIAMOND • 9614 E. Sprague • 891-8357 BOLO’S• 116 S. Best Rd. • 891-8995 BOOMERS • 18219 E. Appleway Ave. • 755-7486 BOOTS • 24 W. Main Ave. • 703-7223 BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB • 201 S. Main, Moscow • 208-882-5216 BUCKHORN INN • 13311 Sunset Hwy.• 244-3991 CALYPSOS • 116 E Lakeside Ave., CdA • 208665-0591 THE CELLAR • 317 E. Sherman, CdA • 208-6649463 CHAPS • 4237 Cheney-Spokane Rd. • 624-4182 CHATEAU RIVE • 621 W. Mallon Ave. • 795-2030 CHECKERBOARD BAR • 1716 E. Sprague • 535-4007 COEUR D’ALENE CASINO • 37914 S. Nukwalqw Rd., Worley • 800-523-2464 COEUR D’ALENE CELLARS • 3890 N. Schreiber Way, CdA • 208-664-2336 CONKLING MARINA & RESORT • 20 W. Jerry Ln., Worley• 208-686-1151 CRAFTED TAP HOUSE • 523 Sherman Ave., CdA • 208-292-4813 CRAVE• 401 W. Riverside Suite 101. • 321-7480 CRUISERS • 6105 W Seltice Way, Post Falls • (208) 773-4706 CURLEY’S • 26433 W. Hwy. 53 • 208-773-5816 DALEY’S • 6412 E. Trent • 535-9309 EICHARDT’S • 212 Cedar St., Sandpoint • 208263-4005 FEDORA PUB • 1726 W. Kathleen, CdA • 208765-8888 FIZZIE MULLIGANS • 331 W. Hastings Rd. • 466-5354 FOX THEATER • 1001 W. Sprague • 624-1200 HOGFISH • 1920 E. Sherman, CdA • 208-667-1896 IRON HORSE • 407 E. Sherman Ave., CdA • 208-667-7314 THE JACKSON ST. • 2436 N. Astor • 315-8497 JOHN’S ALLEY • 114 E. 6th, Moscow • 208-8837662 KNITTING FACTORY • 911 W. Sprague Ave. • 244-3279 LAGUNA CAFÉ • 2013 E. 29th • 448-0887 THE LANTERN TAP HOUSE • 1004 S. Perry St. • 315-9531 THE LARIAT • 11820 N Market St, Mead • 4669918 LA ROSA CLUB • 105 S. First Ave., Sandpoint • 208-255-2100 LEFTBANK WINE BAR • 108 N. Washington • 315-8623 LOON LAKE SALOON • 3996 Hwy. 292 • 233-2738 LUCKY’S IRISH PUB • 408 W. Sprague Ave. • 747-2605 MAX AT MIRABEAU • 1100 N. Sullivan Rd. • 924-9000 MONARCH MOUNTAIN COFFEE • 208 N 4th Ave, Sandpoint • (208) 265-9382 MOOSE LOUNGE • 401 E. Sherman • 208-6647901 MOOTSY’S • 406 W. Sprague • 838-1570 MULLIGAN’S • 506 Appleway Ave., CdA • (208) 765-3200 x310 NASHVILLE NORTH • 6361 W. Seltice Way, Post Falls • 208-457-9128 NECTAR• 120 N. Stevens St. • 869-1572 NORTHERN QUEST • 100 N. Hayford • 242-7000 NYNE • 232 W. Sprague Ave. • 474-1621 THE 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 St. • 326-5577 RED ROOM LOUNGE • 521 W. Sprague Ave. • 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 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 SWAXX • 23 E. Lincoln Rd. • 703-7474 TIMBER GASTRO PUB •1610 E Schneidmiller, Post Falls • 208-262-9593 THE VIKING • 1221 N. Stevens St. • 315-4547 ZOLA • 22 W. Main Ave. • 624-2416

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ARTS MAKE AND TAKE

After hosting workshops around town and running a part-time pop-up shop, Spokane Art Salvage is going big with this weekend’s Madelia Makers Market. Now in its second year as a local nonprofit, Art Salvage takes donations of extra, unused art supplies and shows others how to make cool, repurposed arts and crafts with it. All that momentum over the past few years has built to this event, a full day of workshops sharing how to make everything from paper flowers to feather charms from old bike tires. Attendees need to pre-register online for any of the workshops offered, but shopping the market is free.

Art Salvage is selling odds and ends from its massive collection for super cheap, and many other local artisan vendors are also on site with booths offering inspiration and original creations.

— CHEY SCOTT Madelia Makers Market • Sat, June 25, from 10 am-4 pm • Free to attend; workshops from $10-$15 • Madelia Mercantile • 827 N. Madelia • artsalvagespokane.com

VISUAL ARTS BOYS’ CLUB

Opening during Father’s Day weekend, the New Moon Art Gallery on East Sprague currently is hosting a featured show of its male members’ artwork, an exhibition that runs through mid-July. Artists in the co-op’s main show include Spokane painter Tom Quinn, photographers John Holen and Ron Yorke, and glass artist Steve Reynolds. While a regular participant in Spokane’s monthly First Friday arts night, New Moon’s shows typically run mid-month to mid-month, debuting new collections on the third Saturday.

Though this show features new works solely by men, the regional artist co-op has plenty more original art to view or consider adding to your personal art collection.

— CHEY SCOTT Men in the Moon • Through July 13; gallery open Tue-Sat, from 11 am-5 pm • 1326 E. Sprague • newmoonartgallery.com • 413-9101

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FOOD BERRY GOOD

The onset of summer comes with a bonus for lovers of the fresh fruits and veggies grown around Green Bluff. For the next two weekends, it’s a Strawberry Celebration, offering families the chance to cruise through some of the farms and grab the tasty little treasures to their hearts’ content. Imagine the possibilities when you get your load home: fresh strawberry milkshakes. Strawberry pie. Strawberry shortcake. Strawberries and champagne in time for Wimbledon. With several farms offering up the goods, you can taste-test your way to strawberry bliss for the next couple of weeks.

— DAN NAILEN Strawberry Celebration • Sat-Sun, June 25-26; Fri-Sun, July 1-3 • various locations in Green Bluff • greenbluffgrowers.com

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The games have begun. The final production of the season (a guest show by Woodland Theatre Productions) at Spokane’s Stage Left is The Gin Game, a two-act play showcasing two well-known local cast members: Ed Bryan and Kathie Doyle-Lipe. This Pulitzer Prize-winning play by D.L. Coburn centers around Weller and Fonsia, two elderly residents at a nursing home. Without other friends in this dull setting, the pair immediately strike up conversation and begin to enjoy each others’ company. Then Weller offers to teach Fonsia the game of gin rummy. Though a beginner, she wins consistently. Battles between the two spark when a each player tries to expose the other’s weakness through humiliation and belittling.

— KRISTI LUCCHETTA The Gin Game • June 23-26; Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm; Sun at 2 pm • $10 • Stage Left Theater • 108 W. Third • stageleftspokane.org • 838-9727

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Sometimes it just takes the right person telling you the right thing at the right time to set you on the right path. For comedian Ralphie May, that person was legendary comedian Sam Kinison. After May won a contest when he was in high school to open a show for Kinison, the notorious screamer encouraged the 17-year-old May to move to Houston and focus on his standup. May did so, launching a career that’s seen him finish second on the first season of Last Comic Standing and create four Comedy Central specials and two more on Netflix. And like his idol Kinison, May has managed to find his way into controversy along the way; earlier this year he had to do damage control for some old material insulting Native Americans and insulting comic Chelsea Peretti on Twitter.

— DAN NAILEN Ralphie May • June 28-29; Tue-Wed at 6 and 9:30 pm • Spokane Comedy Club • 315 W. Sprague • spokanecomedyclub.com • 318-9998

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I SAW YOU ICE CREAM CART CUTIE we made eye contact a few times and i saw you smiling as you drove away, then you turned around and i waved like a goofball at you as you drove past again. should have flagged you down and got your name and number. thanks for making my day with your cute smile and good attitude.

COSTCO PHARMACY I was behind you today in the line at the north COSTCO pharmacy dept. You asked if I would save your place while you looked at something on a shelf. Your hair was pulled back and you had a small pink bow in it. Wonderful smile, cute freckles, very easy on the eyes. You thanked me again as we were both checking out. If you aren't otherwise committed, I would like another chance to stand in line with you.

If you respond to this I will put an e-mail address in the I SAW YOU column.

TALL, DARK AND HANDSOME Thank you for never noticing how crazy i was about you. You never accepted my friendship instead you accepted her. I respect that, I will never bother you again. The person that really cared for me was there the whole time in front of my face, I never noticed him because i was dumb enough to think that someday you were going to like me. I wish you happiness always.

CRYING ON YOUR PRIDE FLAG All I could do was sit next to you and hold you. I'm not good with words so I didn't know what to say. I wish I would have

said something. Now I will (hoping you will see this). You matter to me. You are cared for. You are a vital part of this community. You are loved... by me.

YOUR BIG HEART I've seen you around town. Medians, freeway off ramps, and bus stop benches, to name a few of your favorite places. Your red background is bright, but what stands out the most to me is your big white heart and what you stand for. You stand for the nurses at Sacred Heart Hospital. You stand to make the community aware that you care about them. You stand to make the community aware of how important it is that Providence care about the health and well being of their nurses. You stand so the community knows that your heart only wishes to maintain what you still have rather than gain anything extra.

You stand so the community is aware of what Providence has already taken from their nurses in recent years. That being retirement funds and a decent health care plan that was replaced with a health care plan that requires a $6000$9000 deductible be met before you have any health insurance at all. You stand so the community knows about the millions of dollars administration makes each year and the $600,000 dollar bonus... BONUS that was deposited into some administration pockets last year. You stand around town because Providence Sacred Heart nurses want to say to the community how very hard we work at our jobs, we sacrifice ourselves in so many ways, but still we love what we do. You stand around town to show Providence that the Washington State Nursing Association WSNA is UNITED and will not sacrifice anymore takeaways to benefit the pockets of administration and their lavish livelihoods while they ignore their own mission, vision, and values statement that their nurses stand behind. Providence Sacred Heart nurses are asking our community to notice around town and support our bright red signs with the big white heart.

CHEERS DADDY MAC'S Owner, June 16. Corner of Montgomery & Van Martyr. U really saved my day! Helped me so wouldn't have to walk for miles to find bus change! You are right 1 good turn deserves another & since you wouldn't accept repayment

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NOT INCLUDED I am the elderly lady who fell off the city bus near the Plaza on Thursday, June 9. I have a toy Maltese service dog who kept trying to lie on top of me as I lay on the sidewalk, profusely

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There was also a nice lady who called 911 and a daughter for me, and stayed by me the hour it took for 911 to tell her since the dispatched fire truck never came for an hour 911 were now sending an ambulance. Cheers to these extra special people.

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S.C.E. Dave, Thank You so much for the kind words and birthday wishes! xoxo I wish you all the best today and always.

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RE: CHEERS TO WORK WIVES & HUSBANDS Sunshine, you aggravated my mild alcohol dependency while lifting me up and reminding me to smile. From time to time, the clock hits five and I have a mild sense of existential angst. I wonder what to do with myself, and what's missing. But these moments are becoming more and more infrequent, and when they arise I quickly recall to mind that the answer is always, "Anything, so long as it's fun." In Thailand I was often told, "Don't be serious." You renewed this mantra in a new context. So cheers back to you. And here's to new beginnings.

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AGGRESSIVE BARTENDER A group of us entered a pub for the start of Elkfest and I stepped up to the bar with my friend's money to purchase some drinks for the group. After handing the brunette bartender with glasses $30 for five drinks, I handed them out. I was walking past the bar when the bartender said "I'll remember you motherf***er." I was confused and said "What?" She said, "You see what happens next time you step up to my bar after not tipping." My friends and I had planned on staying there for dinner and we would've tipped after finishing our meals/drinks. I have been a loyal customer for years, but thank you for solidifying my resolve to never attend your pub again with any of my friends! 

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“A WALK TO REMEMBER” ADULT PROM An semi-formal adult prom to raise money for Shriners Children’s Hospital. June 24, 7-11 pm. $10. The Palomino, 6425 N. Lidgerwood St. spokanepalomino.com SPOKANE COUNTY YOUNG MARINE’S BREAKFAST An event to raise money for needed supplies and camping trips this summer. The national nonprofit, anti-drug youth education program also focuses on leadership, discipline, teamwork, community service, physical fitness and more. June 26, 8:30-10:30 am. $5-$7. VFW Post 51, 300 W. Mission Ave. bit.ly/1S4wHDy (509-327-9847) THUNDER DRUM & BUGLE CORPS DINNER A dinner, live and silent auction and a performance by Thunder as they embark on their 2016 competitive tour. Tickets include dinner and performance, wine and beer also available for purchase. June 30, 5-8 pm. $20.

At 615 4th St., Cheney. thunderdrumcorps.org

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COMEDY 2.0PEN MIC A competitive comedy open mic; with the winner getting $20. Thursdays, from 8-10 pm, through Aug. 4. Free. The District Bar, 916 W. First. knittingfactory.com (2443279) GUFFAW YOURSELF Open mic comedy night; every other Thursday at 10 pm. Free. Neato Burrito, 827 W. First Ave. (509-847-1234) HAMMER TIME Five comedians perform stand-up, then get a little “silly” and attempt to perform again. June 23, 8 pm. $10-$16. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com JUBAL FLAGG The standup comedian and radio host has been entertaining audiences on-stage and on the radio for over 10 years, and is known for his “Phone Scams” on Hot 96.9 in Spokane. June 23-25 at 8 pm and Sat at 10:30 pm. $10-$22. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com AFTER DARK An adult-rated version of the Blue Door’s monthly, Friday show; on the first and last Friday of the month, at 10 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. bluedoortheatre. com (747-7045) CAGE MATCH Teams of improv comedians battle it out, and the audience votes. Fridays in June, at 8 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. (7477045) NATE BARGATZE Live comedy show featuring the comedian who’s had multiple appearances on late night network TV, and whose debut comedy album reached No. 1 on the iTunes charts. June 24, 8 pm. $15/$20. The Bartlett, 228 W. Sprague Ave. thebartlettspokane.com 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. reddragondelivery.com (8386688) DUOS: LATE NIGHT COMEDY 2-BY-2 A comedy show pairing two Blue Door players for 15 minutes of improv. For mature audiences, shows are on the

last Saturday of the month (June 25, July 30, Aug. 27, Oct. 29 and Nov. 26), at 10 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheatre.com (747-7045) SAFARI Fast-paced, short-form improv games based on audience suggestions. (Recommended for ages 16+) Saturdays at 8 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. bluedoortheatre.com IMPROV JAM SESSIONS An opportunity to try something new, polish your improv skills and have fun. Each session is led by a BDT Troupe member, and is an informal get together and not considered an improv class. For ages 18+. Meets Mondays, from 7-9 pm (see website for dates, as the event doesn’t happen weekly). Free. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheatre.com (747-7045) MATT BAKER COMEDY STUNT SHOW Far from the jugglers you might see at a children’s birthday party, Matt’s resume boasts a Guinness World Record, appearances on America’s Got Talent and Last Comic Standing, plus performances in 14 countries and in all 50 states. June 28, 4 pm. Free. Colfax Library, 102 S. Main St. whitco.lib.wa.us (509-397-4366) RALPHIE MAY For 25 years now, May has appeared at the biggest venues, slayed every late-night audience multiple times, recorded a special for every comedy-loving network on television, traveled the world for the USO and reached the level of popularity few standup comedians have attained. June 28-29, at 6 pm and 9:30 pm. $32.50-$52.50. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com (509-318-9998) TRIVIA + OPEN MIC COMEDY Trivia starts at 8 pm; stick around for open mic comedy afterward. Tuesdays, from 8-10 pm. Free. Checkerboard Bar, 1716 E. Sprague Ave. checkerboardbar.com GREAT IDEAS: SPOKANE: TODAY! A show with six presentations “that boldly push the limits of powerpoint and the human mind!” featuring Casey Strain, Annica Eagle, Dan Anderson, Michael Glatzmaier, and Matt Dargen.

Doors open at 7:30 pm. Ages 21+. June 29, 8:30 pm. $5/$7. The Big Dipper, 171 S. Washington. bigdipperevents.com SUSAN JONES A recent finalist in NBC 2015 National Standup Search, Jones has appeared on UpLateNW as well as opened for Rob Schneider and Brad Garrett. June 30-July 2; Thu-Sat at 8 pm, also Sat at 10:30 pm. $10$22. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. (318-9998)

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CORBIN WALKERS GROUP Meets on Thursday mornings at 8:45 am (through Oct. 27) and takes the van to a different starting point each week, walks about an hour and return to Corbin for a coffee break. $2/person per trip. Corbin Senior Center, 827 W. Cleveland. (327-1584) MEET THE TORTOISES The West Valley Outdoor Learning Center brings their Tortoises to the library; come in and learn about these amazing reptiles. Visits include the Hillyard branch on June 23, 3 pm; Downtown on June 24; 2 pm; Shadle on June 25, 3 pm. Free. spokanelibrary.org

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EVENTS | CALENDAR SUMMER LEGO CLUB The SCLD hosts recurring Lego Clubs all summer. All ages are welcome; children age 6 and under must bring an adult. June 23, 3:30-4:30 at Deer Park Library, 208 Forest St.; also June 23, from 6-8 pm, at North Spokane, 44 E. Hawthorne; June 24, 3-5 pm, at Argonne, 4322 N. Argonne Rd; June 25, 2-3 pm, at Fairfield; and June 25, 4-5:30 pm at Moran Prairie. scld.org MORAN PRAIRIE LIBRARY HEALTH FAIR Offering free health screenings for hearing, eyesight, blood pressure, and diabetes. Get information about nutrition, healthcare choices and healthy habits. Also donate blood and be a hero. June 24, 1-6 pm. Free. Moran Prairie Library, 6004 S. Regal St. (8938340) USED BOOK SALE BENEFIT Hundreds of books are offered for a free-will donation, along with fair-trade coffee and deer repellant. All proceeds benefit the support of the Guatemalan missions. June 24-26, from 9 am-1 pm.

St. Joseph’s Church, 3720 E. Colbert Rd. (509-466-4991) AMATEUR RADIO FIELD DAY Spokane County “hams” join with thousands of other amateur radio operators showing their emergency capabilities this weekend. June 25, 11 am-2 pm. Free. Glover Middle School, 2404 W. Longfellow.

(993-8468) COMMUNITY READING OF THE STANFORD VICTIM’S STATEMENT Showing solidarity with and support for the Stanford Rape Victim and all those who have suffered sexual assault, Spokane Feminist Forum, Lutheran Community Services Northwest, EWU Women’s Studies Center and Spokane Area NOW host a peaceful, safe, community reading of the Stanford Rape Victim’s Statement.

June 25, 4:30-6 pm. Free. EWU Riverpoint Campus, 668 N. Riverpoint Blvd. bit.ly/28K1Pj5 (359-2331) FESTIVITIES IN THE PARK Escape the chaos of HoopFest in Spokane and come north to Newport for a day of live music, kids’ games, a beer and wine garden, artisan vendors and more, during Newport’s Rodeo Weekend. June 25, 12-6 pm. Free. Newport City Park, First St. and Calispel Ave. (710-9379) JUNE BUG BALL This 70’s themed dance begins at 7 pm with a hustle dance lesson with a professional instructor, followed by general dancing, refreshments, door prizes, and more.

June 25, 7-10 pm. $5-$9. Sandpoint Community Hall, 204 S. First. (208699-0421) KINETIC FEST BUILD DAYS Come down to Gizmo and build your own human powered kinetic sculpture vehicle. A trailer of bike parts is provided, access to Gizmo’s tools and workspace and more. Then enter your kinetic sculpture vehicle in the Kinetic Fest Parade on July 10. Open workshop hours on June 11, 18, 25, July 2 and 9, 10 am-6 pm. $36. Gizmo-cda, 806 N. Fourth St. facebook.com/cdakineticfest/timeline (208-651-6200) MADELIA MAKERS MARKET Hosted

by Madelia Marketplace and Art Salvage, events include workshops, local artisan vendors, food, local organizations’ info booths and a huge pop-up shop of materials collected by Spokane Art Salvage. June 25, 10 am-4 pm. Free. Madelia Mercantile, 817 N.

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7B SUNDAY The summer season kickoff weekend for Schweitzer. The mountain hosts businesses and nonprofits of Bonner County for the public to sample and learn about local restaurants, retail stores, beer and wine producers, artists/musicians and more.

June 26, 11 am-5 pm. Free. Schweitzer Mountain Resort, 10,000 Schweitzer Mountain Rd. schweitzer.com (208263-9555) FAMILY FUN NIGHT AT CAMP DARTLO Visit the 51-acre summer day camp for hiking tours, archery, games, bouldering and more. Bring a picnic dinner or purchase the optional BBQ dinner for $5. RSVP requested. June 27, 5:308 pm. Camp Dart-Lo, 14000 N. Dartford Dr. campfireinc.org

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THE PEANUTS MOVIE Showing as part of the Garland’s annual, free summer movie series for kids. June 20-24, 9:30 am. Free. Garland Theater, 924 W. Garland. garlandtheater.com HORTON HEARS A WHO A screening as part of the Kenworthy’s 15th annual Summer Matinee Movie Series for kids.

June 22-23, 1 pm. $3. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy.org ME BEFORE YOU See the romantic drama adapted from the bestselling book of the same name. Rated PG13. June 23-26, show times vary. $4$7. Panida Theater, 300 N. First Ave. panida.org STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS A family-friendly outdoor film screening as part of U. Idaho Student Involvement’s “Screen on the Green” series, on the Theophilus Tower lawn.

June 23, 8:45 pm. Free. University of Idaho, 709 S Deakin St. uidaho.edu (208-885-6111) WAYNE’S WORLD Screening as part of the Garland’s “Summer Camp 2016” series, this year featuring staff favorites. June 21, 7 pm and June 23, 5 pm. $2.50. Garland Theater, 924 W. Garland Ave. garlandtheater.com (3271050) THE LOBSTER Colin Farrell stars as David, a man who has just been dumped by his wife, and who lives in a society where single people have 45 days to find true love or else they are turned into the animal of their choice and released into the woods. June 24-25, 8:30 pm. $5-$7. Panida Theater, 300 N. First. panida.org SUMMER MOONLIGHT MOVIES: THE GOOD DINOSAUR Catch a showing on the big screen in the park; film starts at dusk. June 24. Free. Sunset Park, S. King St., Airway Heights. cahw.org SATURDAY MARKET CARTOONS Weekly cartoons are screened during Moscow Farmers Market hours. Saturdays, from 9-noon, through Sept.

24. Free. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main. kenworthy.org SINGING WITH THE ANGELS A young woman at a crossroads in life reflects on her decision to join the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and how it strengthened her through its challenges. June 25, 3:30 pm; June 27, 6:30 pm. $5$7. Panida Theater, 300 N. First Ave. panida.org

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I’m increasingly frustrated by your views that women are attracted to men with status or wealth and don’t care much about men’s looks. Personally, I’m not attracted by men’s status or wealth, and I’m very aroused by gorgeous naked men — as are many women. Granted, women thousands of years ago were forced to rely on men for security, but there’s been something called “evolution.”

Women don’t need men to survive anymore. ConsequentAMY ALKON ly, women are experiencing a discovery of their real libido, which is greatly stimulated by the vision of beautiful male bodies. —Modern Woman If women truly prioritized men’s looks like you say, Victoria’s Secret would be raking in the bucks with a companion chain of sexy undies stores for men. However, Victor’s Secret, if any, remains pretty simple: “Turn ‘em inside out and you can wear ‘em another day.”

You are right; “there’s been something called ‘evolution.’” Unfortunately, psychological change takes a little longer than you think — which is to say you’re only off by maybe a few million years. As evolutionary psychologists Leda Cosmides and John Tooby explain, we’re living in modern times with a “stone age mind.” By this, they mean that the genes right now driving our psychology and behavior were molded by (and are still largely adapted for) mating and survival problems in the hunter-gatherer environment millions of years ago.

We do continue to evolve. For example, over the 10,000 years since humans started dairy farming, some of us eventually developed the physiology to digest lactose (the sugar in cow’s milk) — allowing us to drink milkshakes without gassing it up under the covers and asphyxiating the dog. But changes in our psychological architecture — like the complex cognitive adaptations behind our mating behavior — don’t happen anywhere near that fast. So, no, your genes didn’t just go “Whoa, look, women’s lib!” and then make you start catcalling construction workers.

Of course, we ladies will take a nice view if we can get it, but other things come first. Anthropologist Robert Trivers explains that what women evolved to prioritize in a partner comes out of the greater amount of “parental investment” required from us.

Because a man could just walk away after sex (in the days before there was a state to come after him for child support) and because the features men find hot reflect fertility and health, male sexuality evolved to be primarily looks-driven. For a woman, however, a single romp in the bushes with some loinclothed Hunky McHunkerson could have left her with a kid to feed — long before baby food was sold in stores in cute little jars.

So, the women whose children survived to pass on their genes to us were those who vetted men for the ability and willingness to “provide.” There was no “wealth” in ancestral times — no National Bank of the Stone Age. However, evolutionary psychologists believe a modern man’s high earnings act as a cue for what women evolved to go for in a man — high status, meaning high social standing and the ability to bring home the wildebeest steaks for Mommy and the twins.

You, however, claim that a man’s status does nothing for you. Now, studies reveal how most people are, not individual differences, so you may be right. However, cognitive neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga explains that 98 percent of our brain’s activity is unconscious — including some of our decision-making — but we invent reasons for our choices afterward (typically those that make us seem rational, consistent, and admirable). And research keeps reflecting that women subconsciously prioritize status.

In a study by evolutionary psychologist Michael Dunn, women found the exact same man hotter when he was driving a Bentley than when he was driving a Ford Fiesta.

Men? They found a woman equally attractive in either car, and frankly, a woman who’s hot can probably get dates while “driving” a donkey with bumper stickers on the back.

Next, there’s your claim that you and other women are “very aroused” by “gorgeous naked men.” Um, sorry, but that’s not what the vagina monitor says. Sex researcher Meredith Chivers hooked some ladies up to a machine that measures arousal through blood flow in their ladyparts. Though the women were aroused by footage of sex acts, she also showed them footage of a hot dude exercising naked. The vaginal response: “Yeah, whatevs.”

And finally, for the perfect example of how sex differences play out, if a man flashes a woman on the street, it’s “You pervert! I’m calling the cops.” If a woman does it to a man, it’s probably one of the best days he’s had in forever: “Wow…it’s not even my birthday! How ‘bout some yoga poses? Downward-facing dog? Shoulder stand?…

Wait. Where are you going? Come back! I think you dropped an earring.” n ©2016, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. • Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405 or email AdviceAmy@aol.com (www.advicegoddess.com)

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EVENTS | CALENDAR SWIM AND A MOVIE: MUPPET TREASURE ISLAND See Muppet Treasure Island on the big screen, poolside, after taking a dip in the pool at the Northside or Southside Family Aquatics Facilities.

June 25, 6 pm. Free. $5. spokanecounty. org/1657/Swim-and-a-Movie SHAKESPEARE AT THE BBC A screening of a special series featuring “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” starring Lynn Redgrave and Robert Stephens. June 26, 6:30-8:30 pm. Free. Panida Theater, 300 N. First Ave. panida.org FREE SUMMER MOVIES: BOYS ON THE HOOD Showing as part of the Garland’s annual, free summer movie series for kids. June 27-July 1, at 9:30 am. Garland Theater, 924 W. Garland. (327-1050) BLAZING SADDLES Screening as part of the Garland’s “Summer Camp 2016” series, this year featuring staff faves. June 28, 7 pm; June 30, 5 pm. $2.50. Garland Theater, 924 W. Garland. (327-1050) RIFFTRAX LIVE: MST3K REUNION Rifftrax celebrates its 10th anniversary with a historic live event, reuniting with their fellow cast members from Mystery Science Theater 3000 for one night of great comedy. Showing locally at Regal Cinemas Northtown and Riverstone 14 (CdA) on June 28 and July 12, at 8 pm. $13. rifftrax.com/MST3Kreunion ANNIE (1982) A screening of the original classic as part of the Kenworthy’s summer matinee movie series for kids.

June 29-30 at 1 pm. $3. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy.org OUTDOOR MOVIES AT RIVERFRONT PARK: STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS The summer series sponsored by BECU features big screen outdoor movies, live entertainment, trivia and local food vendors. Seating opens at 7 pm; movies start at dusk. All events are dog friendly. $5/person; ages 5 and under free. June 29, 7 pm. Riverfront Park, 705 N. Howard. epiceap.com/ spokane-outdoor-movies

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MATCHBOOK WINES TASTING Tastings include cheese and crackers. June 24, 3-6:30 pm. Vino! A Wine Shop, 222 S. Washington. vinowine.com ROCKET MARKET WINE CLASSES Rocket’s wine specialist Matt Dolan and cheese expert Christine Jameson teach attendees how to pair wine and cheese with food, and how to find affordable wines from all over the world. Fridays, at 7 pm. See website for details. $20.

Rocket Market, 726 E. 43rd Ave. rocketmarket.com (343-2253) GREEN BLUFF STRAWBERRY CELEBRATION Farmers on the bluff host the annual ode to strawberries, the first fruit of the season, in their prime June 25-26 and July 1-3. Free. Green Bluff Growers, Mead. greenbluffgrowers.com INTERNATIONAL CHILI COOK-OFF Benefits Bonner General Health Community Hospice, with events offering awards and prize monies in various categories. June 25-26. Trinity at City Beach, 58 Bridge. chilicookoff.com

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KPBX KIDS CONCERT Jim Tevenan gathers some of the area’s best pianists for a demonstration of what’s black and white and musical all over in a show titled “The Piano Bench.” June 24, noon. Free. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W.

Sprague Ave. bingcrosbytheater.com WRITER’S CUP A competition for poets and MC’s to write their best 16 bars in 1 hour. Competitors are judged while performing 16 bars live to a 9095 bpm random, hip-hop instrumental.

Last Wednesday, 9 pm to midnight. $5 to compete. Red Room Lounge, 521 W. Sprague. (838-7613)

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CORBIN CENTER GOLF SCRAMBLE An afternoon raising funds to benefit the Corbin Senior Center. Fee includes play, cart, and dinner. June 24, noon. $75-$85/ person; $325/team of 4. Indian Canyon Golf Course, 4303 W. West Dr. (327-1584) IRONMAN PRO MEET & GREET Join professional IRONMAN, hear about their journey as triathletes and gain tips for your next race. June 24, 6-8 pm.

Free. Kroc Center, 1765 W. Golf Course Rd. kroccda.org (208-667-1865) NEWPORT RODEO A pro-west sanctioned event, with bareback, tie-down roping, steer wrestling, barrel racing, bull riding and more. June 24-25, 7:30 pm. Also see the Rodeo Parade Saturday at 11 am. newportrodeo.weebly.com WVOLC NOCTURNAL ANIMALS OPEN HOUSE Learn about nocturnal animals, meet our education birds, and participate in games and activities. $5 per person suggested donation. (Rescheduled from June 17) June 24, 6-8 pm.

West Valley Outdoor Learning Center, 8706 E. Upriver Drive. olc.wvsd.org HOOPFEST Participate in or be a spectator at Spokane’s annual three-onthree basketball tournament, the largest of its kind in the world. June 25-26.

Free to spectate. Downtown Spokane. spokanehoopfest.net (624-2414) HILL’S 70TH ANNIVERSARY GOLF TOURNAMENT A tourney and dinner, celebrating the resort’s 70th anniversary. June 26. At the Priest Lake Golf Course. (208-443-2525) IRONMAN HALF 70.3 This race follows the same course as IRONMAN Coeur d’Alene, with athletes simply completing one loop of each discipline instead of two, for a total distance of 70.3 miles.

Registration is now closed, but the course is open to spectators. June 26.

Downtown CdA. (208-415-0116) PACIFIC NORTHWEST CAMPING BASICS Learn what you need to take your first (second or third) camping trip, with special considerations for the diverse camping opportunities in the PNW. June 28, 6 pm. Free, register online. REI, 1125 N. Monroe. (328-9900) SPOKANE INDIANS VS. EVERETT Home game series promotion nights includes a visit from Smokey Bear and local wildland fire agencies, “Bark in the Park” and more. June 28-30, 6:30 pm. $5-$20. Avista Stadium, 602 N. Havana St. (535-2922)

THEATER

ANYTHING GOES This Broadway musical is full of madcap antics involving a stowaway in love with an attached heiress, a nightclub singer, Public Enemy #13, and the rest of the ship’s crew and passengers. Through June 26; Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $24-$27. The Modern Theater Coeur d’Alene, 1320 E. Garden Ave. themoderntheater.org THE GIN GAME Two elderly residents at a nursing home for senior citizens, strike

up an acquaintance and begin a tense friendship over games of gin rummy.

June 23-26, Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $10. Stage Left Theater, 108 W. Third Ave. spokanestageleft.org CDA SUMMER THEATRE: PETER & THE STARCATCHER The humorous and fantastical backstory of Peter Pan and his arch-nemesis Captain Hook. Through July 3; Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm; Sun at 2 pm. $27-$49. Kroc Center, 1765 W. Golf Course Rd. cdasummertheatre.com ACES ARE FEVERISH The world premiere of an original comedy/murder mystery by Matthew Weaver. Through July 3, Fri-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $7-$14. Masquers Theatre, 322 E. Main Ave. masquers.com (509-246-2611) THE HOSTAGE The final show of the season, set inside a bawdy Irish brothel filled with patriotic Irish men and women during a time of political unrest. Through June 26, Fri-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $10-$15. Ignite! Community Theatre, 10814 E. Broadway. igniteonbroadway.org TREASURE ISLAND A reader’s theater production. June 23-25 at 7 pm, also Sat, at 2 pm. $7. Liberty Lake Community Theatre, 22910 E. Appleway. bit. ly/1UDWPJZ (342-2055)

VISUAL ARTS

PAST AND PRESENT A Spokane Art School faculty show featuring Tom Quinn, Roger DuBois, Liz Bishop, Ken Spiering, Tresia Oosting and many others. Through June 25. Open Mon-Fri, 10 am-5 pm, Sat, 10 am-4 pm. Free. Spokane Art School, 809 W. Garland.

ARTISTS OF THE WEST A two-day, western-themed art show and sale, with paintings, prints, glass art, cards and other western-themed artworks for sale, along with a raffle and door prizes. June 24, noon-6 pm and June 25, 10 am-5 pm.

At 331 S. Washington Ave, Newport. evergreenartassocation.weebly.com PALOUSE ARTISTS’ SHOWCASE The 12th annual event features local artists’ work on display in downtown businesses and the Palouse Community Center.

June 24, 6-9 pm, June 25, 11 am-6 pm and June 26, 11 am-3 pm. Free. Palouse Community Center, 220 E. Main St. (509-878-2301) FLORIDAE: ART & CONTEXT This year’s 10th annual show debuts the work of Pullman artist Kelly McGovern, alongside art by Jim Gale and Marty Bolick. Art on display through the end of August; gallery hours Thu-Sat, 11 am-5 pm. Art reception June 25; 10 am-3 pm, with a luncheon ($13/person) and a home and garden tour of the property in recognition of its 130th anniversary. Bank Left Gallery, 100 S. Bridge, Palouse. bankleftgallery.com

WORDS

CHRIS DOOLEY WITH KEVIN PANGOS Retired high school teacher and coach Chris Dooley reads from his book, “Can’t Miss: The Kevin Pangos Story.”

Pangos also attends to answer audience questions. June 23, 7-8 pm. Free.

Auntie’s, 402 W. Main. (838-0206) READING: ALEXIS SMITH & SHAWN VESTAL Alexis Smith (Portland) reads from her newly-released novel, “Marrow Island,” and Vestal (Spokane) reads from his book, “Daredevils.” June 30, 7-8 pm. Free. Auntie’s, 402 W. Main. auntiesbooks.com (838-0206) n

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The City of Spokane Falls, circa 1890; Territorial Supreme Court Justice George Turner of Spokane pushed back against women’s right to vote and serve on juries.

The Fight for Suffrage How the Washington Territory granted women the right to vote, took it away, gave it back, then took it away again

BY MITCH RYALS

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lthough the legal landscape during pre-Washington statehood days looked much different than the system we know today, many problems brought before the courts were much the same: disputes over land ownership, personal injury claims, negligence and murder.

And yes, men deciding which rights women do and don’t have.

In the early 1850s, the approximately 3,965 residents in the northwestern section of the “Oregon Territory” decided they wanted a little more autonomy. In his book A Century of Judging: A Political History of the Washington Supreme Court, the late WSU political science professor Charles Sheldon wrote that residents of “Northern Oregon” were motivated by “local pride and by the not altogether erroneous belief that the territorial government in Salem was dominated by the residents south of the Columbia.”

By 1853, the “Washington Territory” was born, and along with it, a Territorial Supreme Court. Originally made of up of three justices, it was later expanded to four. Back then, justices were not elected, but were instead appointed by the president. The four justices would preside over trials throughout four districts, and would assemble in Olympia once a year to hear appeals to the Supreme Court.

Recently, the Washington state courts website published all Territorial Supreme Court decisions. After a few calls to legal historians, attorneys and judges throughout the state, one story kept coming up: the battle for women’s right to vote before Washington was even a state.

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fter many failed attempts, the legislature finally passed a women’s suffrage act in 1883, which also allowed women to serve on juries. In 1884, the Supreme Court upheld the new law when Mollie Rosencrantz of Tacoma, who was convicted of “keeping a house of ill fame,” appealed her conviction because a married woman served on the grand jury that indicted her.

Justice John P. Hoyt of Olympia denied her appeal, but his ruling did not stand for long.

In 1886, an Oregon resident named Jeff Harland was convicted in Pierce County of “conducting a swindling game called ‘Twenty-One’ or ‘Top and Bottom Dice.’”

He too appealed to the Supreme Court because married women served on the jury. In 1887, the court ruled in Harland’s favor. Hoyt was still a justice, but because he presided over Harland’s original trial, he could not rule on the appeal.

Justice George Turner of Spokane, who dissented in Hoyt’s original decision, said the Suffrage Act was technically void because of its title, which read: “An act to amend section 3050, c. 238 of the Code of Washington Territory.” According to what was at that time known as the Organic Act, an 1853 document that essentially acted as a constitution for the Washington Territory, “every law shall embrace but one object, and that shall be expressed in the title,” a requirement that still exists in our state constitution.

In other words, the suffrage act was void because it did not proclaim its purpose in its title.

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Turner had this to say: “In theory, legislators inform themselves carefully and laboriously of the effect of the laws upon which they vote. In practice they do not. Laws are often passed by their titles alone. They are very rarely referred to in publications, official or otherwise, prior to their passage, except by their titles. Knowing this fact and accepting it … our constitution makers gave their mandate intending to obviate, as far as possible, the evils resulting from this lax way of doing business.”

The issue came back before the territorial high court again in 1888, after the legislature again reinstated women’s right to vote. That case, out of Spokane Falls, entangled women’s voting rights with Prohibition.

Nevada Bloomer was denied the right to vote in a municipal election, and sued the elections officer for $5,000 in damages. In a 1989 article, current State Supreme Court Justice Charles K. Wiggins suggests that the case was manufactured by saloon owners and suppliers in order to provide the Territorial Supreme Court with yet another opportunity to snatch away women’s suffrage, possibly out of fear that they were more likely than men to vote in favor of Prohibition.

Bloomer’s husband owned a saloon, and John Todd, one of the election officers named as a defendant, owned a beer bottling company that supplied him. Justices Hoyt and Turner had both resigned from the bench by that time, but Turner was hired as a defense attorney in the case.

Once again, the court disenfranchised women, but this time provided a different rationale. Although Congress granted the territorial legislature authority to enfranchise its “citizens,” it actually intended to include the word “male” before the word “citizen,” the court reasoned. Having caught what was surely congressional oversight, the court said the legislature had no authority to grant women the right to vote.

Suffragettes in nearby territories raised funds for Bloomer to appeal her case to the United States Supreme Court, but she refused. Women would not get the right to vote in Washington state until an amendment to the state constitution overwhelmingly passed in 1910 — 27 years after Washington first took on the issue. n mitchr@inlander.com

INTREPID There’s a fearless spirit about us Inlanders. It’s unmistakable.

Maybe it’s because we have come of age adjacent to the unforgiving wilds of the middle of nowhere.

Or because our secluded little spot on the map affords us the luxury of testing the waters early and often.

Regardless of origin, that intrepid spirit is one of the many things that make us Inlanders. And we deserve a paper with that same courageous character. Because at the end of the day, the only thing we’re afraid of is the status quo.

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