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iasco” was the word Betsy Russell used in the Sunday, June 15, Spokesman-Review to describe the collapse of the Idaho Republican Party Convention in Moscow. The Associated Press quoted convention chairman Congressman Raul Labrador admitting, “This is as low as the party can go.

We have hit bottom.”

Infighting brought the convention to a halt and it adjourned, we are told, without the election of a chairman or the passage of a party platform. One delegate moaned that the convention had made the Republican Party the laughingstock of Idaho.

As a longtime Democrat, my first response was to laugh. This is the Republican Party of the reddest of red states, where Republicans hold all four Congressional seats, the governor’s office, all the state elected positions and 85 out of 105 legislative seats. And they can’t get their act together to pass a party platform?

But this isn’t humorous. It’s tragic.

I suspect the disaster was a gut-wrenching experience for convention delegates, especially delegates attending a political party convention for the first time. I can identify with the disappointment, the emotional letdown, even the anger that had to course through the veins of most delegates to the failed convention.

I’ve attended a goodly number of state Democratic conventions, and recall many passionate arguments and lively debates. But never a total impasse.

It had to be humiliating and maddening to be an elected delegate not accepted by the credentials committee. Evidently the party chair, Barry Peterson of Mountain Home, wasn’t given the nod from Gov. Butch Otter for a second term as chair. Fighting back, Peterson evidently told his cronies on the credentials committee not to seat some Ada and Bannock County delegates, because they were likely supporters of Otter’s preferred candidate for party leader.

This is petty sandbox politics — not worthy of a major state party. We can’t help but worry about the impact this example of raw power politics may have on the minds of potential young activists.

Certainly it won’t inspire a young voter to jump into a political party activity. Polls tell us that GenXers and Millenials already are turned off by the partisan wrangling that has brought gridlock to Congress.

Our increasingly complex, challenging world needs its finest minds and strongest leaders at the helm. What happens if the best and the brightest young leaders remain disenchanted with partisan politics? What alternative forms of political organization are there to choose from? Or invent?

We can only guess which faction of the Re-

publican Party in Idaho will come out on top of this battle for control. It may not matter, as the Tea Party/ Libertarian bunch has been calling the shots for years. For several election cycles, Republican office holders have competed in polishing their ultraconservative images.

This past spring marked the first election cycle where moderate Republicans across the country fought back against right-wing candidates in an organized fashion. While moderate candidates held sway in most of Idaho in the recent May primary election, North Idaho lost four moderate Republican incumbents, beaten by Tea Party favorites.

My principal reason for writing about the aborted Republican convention is to emphasize how important I believe a political party platform is in a conservative, one-party state such as Idaho, where ideology rules. Every Idahoan concerned about the health of our schools, our economy and our citizens should worry about the passionate fervor of ideologues who want to be in charge of the game and the rules.

The results of Tea Party/Libertarian influence are on display in Idaho’s policy showcase. As a result of this competition to see who can be most conservative and most anti-federal government, flawed decisions are coming out of Boise. The decision to not return funding of public schools to the pre-recession level and the decision to not consider Medicaid expansion are just two examples of the tyranny of conservatism run amok.

We who are Democrats and Independents in Idaho are at the mercy of the majority Republican Party. We are pawns, not players. The Republican governor sets the state budget. Republican committee chairs set the legislative agenda.

When a strong, vocal, effective movement, like the Tea Party, has such enormous influence on Republican political thinking and candidates, the impact on policy touches every segment of public life.

Democrats in Idaho worked to produce a party platform at the Democratic state convention on Saturday, also in Moscow, that is a clear and concise summary of the values Idaho Democrats hold dear. The document reflects a strong emphasis on the importance of funding public schools, recognizing human rights, expanding Medicaid and maintaining a healthy Idaho environment.

However, we cannot laugh at the plight of the Republican Party’s platform, as their problems become problems for all of Idaho. n

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OLLYWOOD, Calif. — Let’s hear it for vacation! That’s what I was thinking Saturday night, on the longest day of the year, under perfect California skies, nestled into the side of a spectacular canyon also known as the Hollywood Bowl. We were among the 18,000 there to see this year’s inductees to the Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame: Kristin Chenoweth, Pink Martini and the Go-Go’s.

For our summer vacation, we stayed right in Hollywood — yes, to avoid the freeways, but also to take in the whole experience. Hollywood’s the kind of place where the pub around the corner was once the studio where they filmed Casablanca, or where you might see the Joker taking a break between photos with tourists, checking his emails and sipping a VitaminWater. Billboards are the size of skyscrapers, and the best nightclubs have tinted windows because the celebs like it that way.

We did brave the roads after all, and visited the Griffith Observatory and its amazing city views. We looped around Roxbury Drive in Beverly Hills, where Bing Crosby and his sons used to sing Christmas carols in their neighborhood of movie stars. Farther downtown, the massive Space Shuttle Endeavour at the California Science Center left us speechless; we felt the same way at Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall (although our kids were glued to the three Ferraris parked out front).

The Golden State has always been a land of fable — from the Gold Rush to the dawn of the Hollywood studios. In fact, the old horse barn where Cecil B. DeMille filmed his first movie is right next to the Hollywood Bowl.

On this night, the world was literally in the house. The woman next to us was Persian, Greeks behind her, a sea of ethnicity stretching up the hillside — all united by the international languages of music and wine. (If I had a nickel for everyone who asked to borrow a corkscrew… ) Underlining the international flavor of the moment, Pink Martini’s China Forbes sang in three languages. (Backed by the L.A. Philharmonic, Thomas Lauderdale’s band was perfect, representing the Northwest nobly.) And not to be outdone, Kristin Chenoweth sang “Popular” from Wicked — also in three languages.

And just as our little family from Spokane was right in the middle of our vacation, the Go-Go’s busted into the theme song: “Vacation, all I ever wanted… ” When the USC Trojans’ drum section came onstage to join the allgirl band that started out in clubs right down the road on Sunset Boulevard 30-plus years ago, that was it — our perfect California moment. 

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COMMENT | CLIMATE CHANGE

Peak Ignorance

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n Berlin, an eerily that cannot be broken down into natural lifelike sculpture, systems. Geophysicist M. King Hubbert dealmost fully veloped “peak theory” in the 1950s to statistisubmerged in water, cally model this drawdown of resources as features about 20 agthey inevitably peak and begin their terminal ing, pale men huddled decline. As we cruise past the spikes of peak in suits. The piece by oil and peak coal, and terrifyingly, peak Isaac Cordal is titled water, and delve into the ecocidal missions of “Politicians Discussing Global Warming,” further fossil fuel exploration, potential and and it reflects the uncomfortable reality felt actual disaster unfurl on all sides. And as this around the globe as we begin to experience happens, politicians and pundits continue to the catastrophic effects of climate discuss irrelevant plans to redesign change. The sculpture commugrowth-based and linear systems on a nicates nature’s indifference to finite and cyclical planet.

Send comments to the pace or plans of man-made Despite our cultural fascination editor@inlander.com. systems. with disaster, people are still deeply Since the advent of civilizain denial about the alarming evidence tion and especially since the rise of fossil fuof impending peril outside of the movies. els, humans have consumed drastic amounts Psychologically, we simply do not want to of finite resources while introducing waste deal with the traumatic implications of cli-

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mate change, as they demand action on a scale far surpassing what nearly anyone suggests. With greater access to information than previously imaginable, intentional ignorance still somehow reigns. A great deal of money is spent to prop up a wildly unbalanced and dishonest debate about the reality of our climate, prolonging the discussion and planning stage past the point of no return, as Cordal’s sculpture so eloquently shows.

We know how much carbon the atmosphere can sustain without an increase in temperature, and we can accurately map what changes will unfold as we cross those thresholds. Measuring the upper threshold for ignorance in a participatory society is more difficult, but as the world burns up around us and we remain silent, it would appear that our culture has reached peak ignorance.

The same psychologists who have studied why people become entrenched in nonfactual beliefs also have found one strategy that helps boost acceptance of uncomfortable information: namely, the inclusion of actionable steps to change the outcome. In that spirit, some good news: Never before have humans been so connected and so potentially aware of our connections to one another and to all life, to the planet itself.

As we cross the peak ignorance threshold and the disconnect between reality and fantasy becomes more of a burden than society can bear, humans can choose to continue on the path of chaos that’s popularized in our culture, or we can continue the incredible journey of our evolution as a species and do what we do best — adapt. Doing so will require a renewed acknowledgement of our physical reality, some disorientation and a great deal of uncertainty, but nature tends to finds a way. 

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Taylor Weech, who hosts the weekly public affairs program Praxis on KYRS-FM, is a Spokane writer and activist. She’s advocated, among other things, for environmental sustainability and all-ages access to the arts. She shares writing, photography and her podcast at truthscout.net.

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A nCASE FOR THE BUS PLAZA response to “STA or Go?” (6/19/14): I enjoy being able to ride the bus

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downtown, shop, go to the library, and/or a movie and come home easily on the bus. If the bus didn’t take me right downtown, I think I would not go there much at all. If I have to get in the car, I might tend to go to NorthTown Mall where there is plenty of free parking. Having the bus plaza right downtown encourages many people to enjoy the benefits there … and not just those who are a “nuisance.” Even as an older woman, I have always felt safe waiting for the bus there. Bad things as well as good things happen everywhere. Perhaps a little tolerance would go a long way in building community.

I support the Plaza makeover.

JANET BROWN Spokane, Wash.

PUThe Spokane TRANSPORTATION AT THE EDGES Transit Authority Plaza at Sprague Avenue and Wall Street

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is a bottleneck of vehicles and riders at the heart of downtown’s core banking, retail and tourism blocks. Airports aren’t in town centers. Our Amtrak and Greyhound station works beautifully on the edge of our central district. City buses would best be served at the same location just four blocks east of the current Plaza. This is the perfect location in every way. Any future trolley line can run on Sprague between Browne’s Addition and the University District. Correcting the mismatched functionality at Sprague and Wall far Send comments to outweighs any compromises due to the Intermoeditor@inlander.com. dal site reconfiguration. Spokane’s puzzle pieces indicate resurgence.

Rather than sinking millions more into a location that has been controversial for over 20 years, get this right for everyone and spend those millions on the site reconfiguration at the Intermodal Center. Then turn the vacated Plaza into the Mobius Science Center’s new home (cougar waterfall and all)!

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the article on STA’s new plaza, particularly River Park Square’s. Which is ironic, because I read the story while walking back to the Plaza through the skybridge from RPS. My friends, family, and I love the downtown area precisely because of the Plaza and how connected it is to everything. We have a movie theater not one mile from us in Airway Heights, but we always go to RPS for the combination movie+mojitos at Twigs, then take the bus home without either worrying if we’re legal to drive or making someone skip drinks to be the designated driver — not to mention skipping over the ordeal of finding/paying for a parking spot downtown. With a direct connection to the Plaza via the skybridge network, we don’t even have to step outside in winter to walk between RPS and the Plaza.

So it breaks my heart to hear that RPS considers the only reason (easy bus access) my family and I ever come downtown to be an eyesore and bad for business. Well, maybe if RPS would embrace transit and encourage their patrons to use the bus (seriously, how is “movies and mojitos, no designated driver required” not a selling point?), then maybe the stereotype of STA’s average patron being only people who are forced to ride the bus would improve. EWU issuing bus passes to every full-time student improves the image of the Plaza and the opinion of transit in general on their campus, in my opinion, and more businesses ought to embrace STA as well.

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Karie Brouillard is the lead microbiologist at the Spokane Regional Health District’s bioterrorism lab. MATT WEIGAND PHOTO

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Terrorism Testers As public dollars vanish, local lawmakers face the question: Does Spokane still need a bioterrorism lab?

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t’s a familiar story now. On a cold, cloudless day, a 36-year-old white supremacist places a backpack bomb on a downtown bench at Main and Washington as the city prepares to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. It’s found by three temporary workers who call the authorities. Police clear the area and go to work on the bomb. It doesn’t go off. No one is killed. It’s a close call.

But even after police assure that the area is safe, more work remains. They remove a portion of the shrapnel and triple-package it for Spokane’s bioterrorism lab. Karie Brouillard takes the call. “I don’t test bombs,” she tells them, but this, they tell her, is covered in “a powdery substance.”

Brouillard is the head microbiologist at Eastern Wash-

ington’s bioterrorism lab, a cluster of rooms in the Spokane Regional Health District building. The lab is a shell of its former self, no longer running the public health tests it used to, for things like tuberculosis and STDs. Yet one of its two remaining functions — the ability to test for bioterrorism agents, like anthrax and ricin — has kept its struggle to find funding in front of local lawmakers.

The lab, which costs about $160,000 a year to operate and tests suspicious substances for law enforcement from Western Montana to Eastern Washington, has traditionally been paid for by federal emergencypreparedness funding, but as that money has dwindled, the lab has looked closer to home. The law enforcement agencies that use the lab most often are facing their own funding demands and staffing shortages, and local cities and counties haven’t found money in their own budgets either. A plea to the state legislature this year was difficult as lawmakers struggled to find court-mandated new funding for K-12 education. A short-term extension from ...continued on next page

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leftover federal dollars allowed the lab to operate this spring, but it was set to close July 1. Then, in a last-ditch effort last month, the board of the Spokane Regional Health District voted to use $75,000 from its general fund to keep the lab open through the end of the year. In that time, the health district will make a final pitch to the community.

“We’ve reached out to over 60 different partners … for support,” says Joel McCullough, head of the health district. “Pretty much everyone is supportive of the lab staying here, but no one has come forward to support it financially.”

In Spokane, proponents of keeping the lab say incidents like the 2011 attempted Martin Luther King Jr. parade bombing, the ricin-laced letters addressed to the president, a federal judge and Fairchild Air Force Base that passed through Spokane post offices last year and the suspected anthrax delivered to the Davenport Hotel just last month demonstrate the continuing threats the area faces. The lab is able to test substances to determine whether those exposed need immediate medical attention, and to help in prosecution of such cases.

It’s a battle of priorities playing out across the country as funding streams run dry and the memories of anthrax scares drift further into the past. In a barely post-9/11 America, when five people were killed and 17 others injured when anthrax-laced letters were mailed to lawmakers and media outlets on the East Coast, funding for bioterrorism efforts ballooned. The federal government flooded states with new funding to bolster their preparedness for bioterrorism attacks, including new lab equipment, training and preparedness exercises. According to one analysis from the University of Pittsburgh, the government spent about $14.5 billion on “biodefense” in the first three years after 9/11. But by 2010, as the wars abroad dragged on and the country endured the recession at home, these programs hit the chopping block. When House Democrats voted to cut $2 billion from Project Bioshield,

an effort started in 2004 to stockpile life-saving drugs and vaccines in case of an attack, a former bioterrorism advisor to George W. Bush called the cuts “incomprehensible,” according to a Los Angeles Times report at the time.

Locally, fears of the worst-case scenario are regularly pitted against the constraints of actual funding, especially in public safety. Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich proposes that Spokane County, the City of Spokane and the City of Spokane Valley shoulder the cost for the lab, or risk the consequence of not being prepared.

“For some reason, we forget the lessons we learned the hard way,” Knezovich says. “It takes a major disaster, and we spend all this money to get all the capabilities, and then when it comes down to making sure we have them into the future, people don’t want to pay for them because, well, that happened years ago. There’s no such thing in this case, because year after year we can show an incident where the lab was used. It’s very shortsighted, in my opinion.”

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hen Brouillard receives the guts of Kevin Harpham’s bomb inside the lab, she stows away in a sealed-off back room and begins to test the powder. She looks twice at her first results. The bacteria she finds indicates the powder could be anthrax.

“I thought, ‘Oh my gosh. This is huge,’” she says today, surrounded by cabinets painted bright red, yellow and avocado green, as if to offset the futuristic gray machines used for testing.

The powder turns out to be rat poison, not anthrax. But the shrapnel is also covered in rat feces, Brouillard finds, brimming with bacteria that could infect victims if pieces of the bomb made contact with their blood.

Brouillard only gets bioterrorism-related tests like this about once a month, and most of them are negative. She knows it can be hard for the public to see the value in something that can seem like a vestige of post-9/11 hysteria, but she

Federal agents searched a Spokane apartment last year as part of an investigation into letters containing ricin and addressed to a federal judge and others. JACOB JONES PHOTO argues that the community can’t ignore threats all together.

“People have gotten complacent,” she says. “Our stories don’t really make the media anymore. ... There’s a lot more going on than we are really aware of.”

Still, statistics about the lab’s frequency of use don’t necessarily make a compelling argument for more funding. Its supporters also can’t argue that it does work no one else can. The state’s public health lab in Shoreline can perform the same tests on suspicious substances. Instead, their argument is about time. Potentially hazardous materials can get to the Spokane lab and be tested quicker than they’ll make it over the mountains to the westside — especially if weather or construction has closed Snoqualmie Pass.

That extra time matters if the tests come back positive and those exposed need medical attention.

“Hours can literally mean hundreds of lives,” Knezovich says.

City Councilman Jon Snyder sits on the health district board and introduced the idea of spending district money to hold over the lab this year. He knows it’s only a temporary fix, but says he Send comments to editor@inlander.com. sees opportunities for federal or state money if decision makers at those levels would look toward domestic terrorism instead of only international concerns. He points to several incidents in 2012 when border patrol agents responded, unrequested, to Spokane Police Department calls, and wonders why — if their work on the border afforded them time to travel to local calls — funding for those agents couldn’t be redirected to local concerns.

“I couldn’t believe that. Here we are struggling to put police on the streets,” Snyder says. “It wasn’t border patrol that helped deal with Kevin Harpham. It was local law enforcement. … Why don’t they give us some of that money for our bioterrorism lab?”

County Commissioner Todd Mielke is reluctant to say whether he thinks Spokane still needs the lab in its current form.

He wants to spend this year studying other potential funding sources, and whether private or university labs in town could take on the work of the lab. Yet he knows the financial reality is impossible to ignore.

“The local community is going to be able to rely less on federal and state assistance,” Mielke says. “They have to figure out what services they want offered in the local community and how much they’re going to pay for them. We have said we want these services and we want the federal or state government to pay for them for us. That is a diminishing opportunity.” n heidig@inlander.com

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Donald Phillips, the man who fatally stabbed another man at the Spokane Transit Authority Plaza downtown earlier this month, has pleaded guilty to murder. He was sentenced to 28 years on Tuesday.

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Council President Ben Stuckart has led the charge in recent weeks to pass two environmentally conscious ordinances and has another in the pipeline. But some have questioned why Stuckart and others supporting the ordinances — one limiting city purchase of products containing PCBs, another limiting city use of the pesticide group NEONICOTINOIDS and one the council will soon vote on creating a purchasing preference for recycled paper — aren’t analyzing the costs of these new rules before voting yes.

After the council approved the PCB ordinance, City Administrator Theresa Sanders wrote in an email to Stuckart, “We need an inventory of products containing these materials, how they are currently used, what alternatives are available etc.”

Then, at Monday’s vote on the neonicotinoid ban, Councilman Mike Fagan brought up a resolution the council passed in 2013 requiring a “financial analysis” on ordinances meant to reduce carbon emissions in the city, but the council’s attorney, Mike Piccolo, says such analyses are not required for changes not dealing with CO2 emissions, so the vote went forward.

“Either we’re going to be sustainable or we’re not,” Stuckart says. “Sometimes sustainability costs a little bit more.”

— HEIDI GROOVER

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A Washington state Court of Appeals decision has renewed a federal lawsuit against SPOKANE COUNTY stemming from the death of 84-year-old Kay Mita, who succumbed to hypothermia near the courthouse front steps during a 2007 snowstorm after security guards locked him out.

Court records indicate Mita responded to a juror summons on Nov. 26, 2007, but later struggled to locate his parked car. Despite 20-degree temperatures and calls from his family reporting him missing, security officers with Guardsmark LLC, also named in the lawsuit, twice ushered Mita outside and locked the doors behind him.

Mita was later found dead, covered in snow.

Mita’s family filed a lawsuit in 2010, but a federal judge dismissed the case. The Appeals Court decision on Tuesday reverses that ruling, setting the stage for a trial over whether the county or the security firm had a “duty to care” for the obviously lost and cold man.

Family attorney Richard Eymann says a jury may now finally have a chance to hear the case. He argues the effects of hypothermia likely caused Mita’s confusion and officers should have better protected him. Mita’s widow, Shizuko, died on June 5 at the age of 89.

“It’s really unfortunate,” Eymann says. “This really took a toll on her.”

— JACOB JONES

On any given day, according to the Centers for Disease Control, one out of every 25 hospital patients nationwide is suffering from at least one INFECTION acquired at the hospital. In other words, hospitals themselves can be dangerous.

That’s why Deaconess Hospital and Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center are now facing penalties.

Yesterday, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released a preliminary report of “hospital acquired conditions” for over 3,350 U.S. hospitals — scoring each on a scale of 1 to 10 for hospital-acquired infections and injuries, with 10 being the greatest level of harm. Over 700 hospitals were marked for preliminary penalties — including Sacred Heart (with a score of 8.35) and Deaconess (with a 9.675). Both are at risk of losing 1 percent of their federal Medicare reimbursements starting in October, though Medicare will examine the hospitals’ performances over a longer period before finalizing sanctions.

While there were 57 hospitals with worse scores than Deaconess, it remains in the top 2 percent of the worst in the country, according to the report. Deaconess spokeswoman Sasha Dae Weiler says the hospital is actively improving. “We have worked diligently to successfully reduce or eliminate the incidence of hospital acquired conditions such as pressure ulcers and selected infections due to medical care and post-operative hip fracture,” she writes in a statement.

Joe Robb, spokesman for Providence Health Care, says Sacred Heart executives have begun regularly meeting during a dedicated time to discuss patient safety.

Critics of the federal government’s report, meanwhile, complain it may inadvertently punish the hospitals that are better at identifying and reporting hospitalacquired infections.

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After Eastern patient Phillip Paul escaped from a county fair, state legislators passed laws restricting patients’ access to the outside world.

‘A College With No Graduates’ The unnamed plaintiff in a lawsuit pitting the state against insanity-defense patients isn’t mentally ill. So why is he stuck at Eastern State Hospital?

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very evening, J.T. swallows his handful of pills: Vitamin C to stave off sickness, fish oil to reduce his risk of heart disease and glucosamine for his joints. Unlike other patients on his ward, he doesn’t take any psychotropic drugs. He hasn’t been diagnosed with any current mental illness, either, since he arrived at at Eastern State Hospital two summers ago.

J.T., who is 35, is a plaintiff in a civil rights lawsuit against the state of Washington, alleging that current restrictions on insanity-defense patients violate their constitutional and civil rights to adequate mental health treatment. Two years ago, charged with assault, he was found not guilty by reason of insanity and sent to Eastern State Hospital in Medical Lake.

He asks that his full name not be used in the Inlander or in court filings, because he’s embarrassed. He says he shouldn’t be here, stuck inside a public psychiatric institution. Washington law states that patients must be both mentally ill and dangerous to remain in civil custody. J.T. says

he’s neither.

Originally from Seattle, J.T. moved to the TriCities in 2009 to live with his fiancée and their three daughters. In October 2011, he was invited to attend a local mosque by a group of Kenyan men he met in a park. He spent four hours there, discussing religion and ritually passing around a piece of root bark to consume. J.T. later discovered the bark contained ibogaine, a naturally occurring psychoactive substance that can trigger hallucinations in high doses.

“Thirty minutes later,” he says, “I started feeling real funny.”

J.T. doesn’t remember what happened next, but according to court documents, he was up all night, ranting about God and evil spirits. His fiancée called the area’s mental health crisis hotline because she was scared and he wasn’t acting like himself. (He was “totally fine,” she said, before he went to the mosque, according to court records.)

He was transported to Lourdes Counseling Center, where records indicate he physically attacked two female nurses. He was arrested and charged

with multiple counts of assault.

In their Sanity Commission evaluation, psychologists determined J.T. was psychotic at the time of the attack, but “what caused his psychosis is an unanswerable question.” After the incident, J.T. was taken to a local hospital to examine his injuries, but wasn’t given a drug screen. In June 2012, after spending nine months in jail, he was acquitted by reason of insanity and later moved to Eastern State Hospital.

Despite his lengthy rap sheet — four felonies, various misdemeanors and 19 arrests for nonviolent crimes like theft and refusing to cooperate with an officer — J.T. says he’s not dangerous. His longest criminal sentence was 45 days in county jail.

But on the advice of his public defender, he accepted a not guilty by reason of insanity plea. He figured he’d leave Eastern in six months and complete the remainder of his five-year commitment under supervision in the community.

“At the time I didn’t know what was wrong with me. I had no idea. I had an episode and I didn’t know what it was caused from,” he says.

Two years later, J.T. is still waiting to be released. He’s stuck inside the wards as a “level seven,” a designation that allows him to cut in front of other patients in line while they wait for meals in the dining hall or classes at the treatment mall. He was recently recommended for a partial conditional release by the hospital’s Risk Review Board. Once his court paperwork is finalized, J.T. will be able to go for walks on the hospital grounds. On the rare occasions in which he’s allowed to leave the hospital for court appearances, he’s forced to wear shackles.

“I don’t see any treatment being done,” he says, “for me and others. It just seems like people are being held here for a long time without any real rehabilitation. … I always say, it’s like a college that has no graduates.”

So far, J.T. has finished his GED while at Eastern. Beyond that, he spends most of his time taking “classes” at the treatment mall, like table games and volleyball, or lifting weights. Twice a week, he attends group sessions with a forensic therapist. He laughs when asked whether therapy has helped him. “No, not at all... [The therapist] just basically tells us what we need to do to move up our levels and stay out of trouble,” J.T. says. “Same thing every week.”

Once a year, his fiancée and three daughters come to visit him. His oldest thinks her dad is in a regular hospital, that he’s sick and getting treatment.

“I understand what got me here, but I don’t understand what’s keeping me here,” J.T. says. “I definitely would have just pled guilty if I had known now [what I know]. … That’s the biggest regret.”  deannap@inlander.com

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THE STATE’S RESPONSE The Washington Attorney General’s Office has responded to a federal civil rights lawsuit alleging that current state laws violate insanity-defense patients’ constitutional and civil rights to adequate mental health treatment.

Inspired by a story in the Inlander (“Patients and Prisoners,” Feb. 13), Spokane attorney Andrew Biviano of Scott Law Group, on behalf of three patients at Eastern and Western State Hospitals, filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court against Gov. Jay Inslee, the state Department of Social and Health Services and DSHS Secretary Kevin Quigley. The suit seeks to nullify two laws passed in 2010 in the aftermath of Eastern patient Phillip Paul’s escape from the Spokane County Fair. One effectively bans patients found not guilty by reason of insanity from leaving hospital grounds. The other created the governor’s Public Safety Review Panel, which attorneys for plaintiffs argue delays and deters patients from trying to reintegrate back into the community.

In its answer to the complaint, the state categorically denied all of the plaintiffs’ allegations, including “that these privileges are ‘indispensable’ for effective treatment” and “the broad statement that mental illnesses can be ‘cured.’” Asked to elaborate on these assertions, a spokeswoman for the AG’s office declined to answer, saying it would “reveal our case strategy.”

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renda Hester is trying to corral a group of giggling, distracted 12- and 13-year-olds.

“My group, over here! You’re not in my group — I just need my group,” she tells a confused bunch and points them across the gallery.

It’s the second-to-last day of school and Hester, a Medical Lake Middle School social studies teacher, and a few colleagues are trying without much success to keep the attention of the school’s 125 seventh graders as they tour the galleries housing the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture’s current exhibit, 100 Stories — A Centennial Exhibition.

The two-year exhibit, on display through January 2016, celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Eastern Washington State Historical Society, more familiarly known as the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture (aka the “MAC”), by telling the past century of our region’s history through 100 objects and places — some as far away as Grand Coulee Dam — with 100-word descriptions of each artifact.

The Medical Lake students spent the school year studying Washington state history, and though their attention spans on a recent Thursday are short, many make observant discoveries as they roam the exhibit — “Oh look, it’s Bing Crosby!” Some even studiously fill out museumprovided exhibit question booklets in pencil.

From historical photos by famed early Spokane photographer Charles Libby and a Japanese-American bride’s dress worn for a Dec. 7, 1941, wedding to elaborate Native

American beadwork, 100 Stories is sort of a “greatest hits” collection of the MAC’s archives.

“The beauty of 100 Stories is that each story could be its own exhibit,” says MAC director Forrest Rodgers.

Many of the artifacts have been displayed in the past, but mixed in are several newly exhibited items, like a massive woolly mammoth tusk unearthed in the area years ago, and an animated neon sign from a 1970s-era record shop in downtown Spokane.

One of the top challenges for the museum’s curatorial team was narrowing down its massive archives to the exhibit’s 100 highlights while fulfilling numerous criteria.

100 Stories needed to represent all decades of the past century, not just the turn-of-the-century boom years, which are widely represented in the MAC’s collections.

The story mix also needed to show major events and examples of everyday life during different eras. Another consideration is showcasing a diverse mix of the region’s cultural groups, and evenly representing men and women. An example of this was choosing to show Fairchild Air Force Base’s regional influence through the stories of women in the military.

“We wanted to tell the stories that we could best tell with our unique collection,” says museum collection curator Valerie Wahl. “We couldn’t tell comprehensively everything that’s happened, but we’re telling the stories we can tell best.”

That also meant incorporating pieces from the museum’s fine art collection alongside historical artifacts and

photographs, Wahl says.

“It’s a different way to reflect people of the region.

Most of the art in the collection, the artist has a tie — they live here now and spent their career here, or they were raised here,” she adds.

There’s no doubt that the artifacts collected and preserved over the past century would be much fewer and different in scope if the Eastern Washington State Historical Society hadn’t been formed in 1916 by a group of local teachers (originally called the Spokane Historical Society).

Ten years later in the mid-’20s, the society moved into the Campbell House — still part of the museum campus in Browne’s Addition — and began receiving state funding as a designated trustee of the state, tasked with preserving and sharing the Inland Northwest’s distinct history. In 1960 the museum moved to the adjacent Cheney Cowles Memorial Museum, where it stayed until 2001 when it rebranded as the MAC with the opening of a new exhibit and gallery facility.

Though the organization has more recently struggled with repeated state funding cuts, drops in local donations and staff departures, the MAC presses on, looking toward its next 100 years.

As much as 100 Stories seeks to reflect upon the history of the past century, just as important is its purpose to look ahead.

Says Rodgers: “What will people who come here in the future think about this place and know about this place?”

— CHEY SCOTT

One Man’s Trash The rich, jewel-tone hues of the glass range from glowing amber to a foggy peridot, and include shades of emerald, sapphire and quartz.

Embossed into some of the smallest bottles, raised lettering spells out the word “poison.” Others are more specific: “C. Damschinsky Liquid Hair Dye, New York,” “Spokane Soda Bottling Works” and “Broadview Dairy Co.” There are more than 60 bottles in a long, backlit case on the landing of the stairs down to the museum’s gallery, but this is only a small fraction of Brian Martin’s personal collection of 13,000 items, all recovered from an early Spokane dump site.

The items Martin collected over two decades, through the 1980s and ’90s, now provide a glimpse into the past that tells us what Spokane’s early residents drank, ate, imbibed, medicated with and then discarded. Most of the trash, estimated to have originated between 1880 and 1930, was burned before being dumped into the ground along the banks of the Spokane River, in a spot east of Division where the Riverpoint Campus has since risen from the dirt.

After the land was sold with the vision to become a downtown University District, and before construction began and forever sealed

Regional Stories Connecting history to the physical locations in and around Spokane, Spokane Historical’s website (spokanehistorical.org) and mobile app tell the history of 15 exhibit highlights located away from the museum itself.

the earthen vault, it was a prime digging spot for treasure seekers like Martin. Digging as deep as 20 feet down, he’d carve out notches in the walls of the holes so he could haul up buckets of dirt and the good, unbroken finds. He mostly dug in the winter because the soil was damp and easier to cut through. Most of the time, no one was bothered by the treasure hunters. Martin and other bottle diggers came and went freely.

Some of the other diggers would take their best finds directly to a nearby antique shop on East Main Avenue and sell them for cash. Not Martin.

“They were worth something, either because of the name or the color of the glass. I didn’t do it for that reason. I kept everything I ever dug,” he says.

Among the antique glass bottles and other containers, Martin found fully intact, preserved china from the Davenport Hotel — a teacup, coffee cup and a few other pieces thrown out with broken dishes. He also found “territorial bottles,” inscribed with the origin of “Spokane Falls, W.T.” when the region was still part of Washington Territory.

A century ago this was all trash. To Martin, it’s all buried treasure.

— CHEY SCOTT

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THE CHAMPION’S BLANKET

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Proctor Knott would win. That’s what everyone said (and most of them bet) at the 1889 Kentucky Derby. Proctor Knott — a proven winner and the pride of Kentucky, hailed as the finest runner ever seen in America. Who could beat him?

And sure enough, the horses were off, and there was Proctor Knott lunging ahead of Hindoocraft after the first quarter and nearly unseating his jockey in the effort. At that time the race was a mileand-a-half, and Proctor Knott led by five lengths on the final back stretch. But then — a sharp break to the outside rail, and up the inside came Spokane, a chestnut colt out of Montana. Halfway down the final stretch, Spokane pulled even with Proctor Knott and the two passed under the string at the same moment on opposite sides of the track.

Noah Armstrong, a Montana mining baron and horse breeder, had been visiting Spokane Falls when he received news that his mare Interpose had given birth to a colt, the son of the great Hyder Ali. Armstrong named the foal Spokane.

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by the judges, Spokane was declared the winner. The decision was met with silence in the stands. It was said that some betting Kentuckians did not pay off the debt for 25 years. But news reached Spokane Falls with enthusiasm and pride, and the businessmen of the city raised $5,000 to have a champion’s blanket created for the horse.

Spokane went on to win the Clark Stakes, also at Churchill Downs, two weeks later, and then the American Derby in Chicago the following month — the equivalent to winning today’s Triple Crown.

“It was a grand struggle, a veritable battle of the champions, that is, as far as the three-year-olds of this country are concerned,” a sportswriter wrote from Chicago. “And now Spokane is king.”

The champion never won again, and within a month the city he was named after went up in flames in what is now known as the Great Fire. But because the length of the course was shortened several years after Spokane’s victory, he continues to hold the Kentucky Derby record for the fastest race ever run at that distance.

— LISA WAANANEN JONES

After injuring her teeth in Germany, Leona Dare retired the hooked mouthpiece from which she had dangled underneath hot-air balloons around the world. Though this American trapeze artist and aerial acrobat was most famous for this shocking “iron jaw” act, her career was just as risky as it sounds, made evident by the death of the partner she dropped while performing in Spain. She ended up dying in Spokane in 1922 after following family to the area, leaving behind many of her belongings. (FRANNY WRIGHT)

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James Chase came to Spokane during the Great Depression, riding the rails from his home in Texas in search of opportunity. He shined shoes, did repair work during World War II and in 1975 became the first black member of the Spokane City Council since the city’s early days. In 1981, he was elected the city’s first black mayor. “He found a city that he could love, and that could love him, for the rest of his life,” former Mayor Vicki McNeill said at the memorial service when Chase died of cancer in 1987. Glenn Mason, then the director of the museum, spotted the cardboard sign at a yard sale in the ’90s and made it part of the collection. (LISA WAANANEN JONES)

SIGN OF THE TIMES, 1973-78

In the 1970s and early ’80s, the Magic Mushroom sold records, waterbeds and other paraphernalia. The sign is on display for the first time at the MAC, following a restoration that makes it fully work again. (LWJ)

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During his summer employment at the Kaiser aluminum plant, Michael Cain and his coworkers wore these heavy work boots, supplementing their soles with scraps of rubber tires in an attempt to withstand the heat that rose from the job site. Cain, who worked at the plant in 1980, was one of thousands employed at Kaiser’s Mead smelter during its 50-plus years of operation. Weighted under the debt of production costs, the plant closed in 2000. These days, the site is under demolition and redevelopment.

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THE GUEST OF HONOR The dolls arrived in the U.S. in time for Christmas 1927, each of the 58 nearly three feet tall with kimonos made of silk and luminous skin made of powdered shell. Earlier that year, thousands of blue-eyed dolls were sent from the U.S. to Japanese children in a gesture of friendship, and more than two million Japanese children donated sen — their pennies — to have dolls sent to America. The Japanese dolls toured the nation, then were distributed among the states to libraries and museums.

“The Committee on World Friendship among Children desires to have the dolls so located and treated as to convey their messages most effectively to the American children,” the committee wrote in a letter. “With this in view, it wishes to make sure that each museum that receives one of the dolls fully understands the situation and will help to make their presence a continual reminder to our people, and especially to our children, of the goodwill gesture of the children of Japan.”

Then the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, and the war was not kind to the dolls on either side of the Pacific. A few were damaged intentionally; most were simply put away or forgotten. In recent decades, many have been recovered and found — in flooded basements, cardboard boxes, auction houses — but a dozen remain lost. Miss Aichi, location unknown. Miss Kobe, location unknown. Miss Tochigi, location unknown.

Miss Tokushima, bestowed upon Spokane, endured the war in a storage vault, and still has her tiny, expertly crafted accessories. In 2011, she returned to Japan in her original travel trunk, where she was acquainted with Alice, the blonde, blue-eyed doll sent to Tokushima by American children. Each March, Miss Tokushima travels from the MAC to the Mukogawa Fort Wright Institute, where she is an honored guest for Hina Matsuri, the annual doll festival.

— LISA WAANANEN JONES

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ALL THAT REMAINS, 1889

The Great Spokane Fire of Aug. 4, 1889, drastically changed the landscape of downtown Spokane Falls, ravaging 32 city blocks in just a few hours time. But that devastation paved the way for many of the iconic buildings erected to replace those lost, many of which still stand today. The fire caused millions of dollars worth of damage, and newspaper headlines proclaimed: “The Entire Business Portion of the City Wiped Out of Existence” and “A Night of Terror, Devastation, Suffering and Awful Woe.” After the smoke had cleared, the National Guard was called in to protect the “burnt district” from looters, handing out passes to property owners looking to claim anything left. Local real estate broker Daniel Dwight obtained one of these passes to collect souvenirs from the decimated block where he’d owned a building. There he picked up a fused mass of colorful poker chips he donated to the museum in 1939.

(CHEY SCOTT)

GRAB THE GOLD RING, C. 1909-68

West of downtown, along a deep bend in the Spokane River lined with mobile homes, it’s hard to picture a turn-of-the-century park filled with amusement rides and sounds of merriment. Yet the defunct Natatorium Park lives on, its crown jewel now residing in Spokane’s modern central gathering place — Riverfront Park. The Looff Carrousel was originally ordered for $20,000 by the park’s original owners, but after their bankruptcy it became a gift from the famed carousel maker Charles I.D. Looff to his daughter, Emma, who coincidentally moved to Spokane to wed Louis Vogel, a banker. It was installed at Nat Park on July 18, 1909, and remained there until the park was shuttered and razed in 1968. After Expo ’74 wrapped up, the attraction was moved from storage into its current 10-sided shelter on the waterfront.

To this day, lucky riders who grab the gold ring still earn the traditional free ride. (CS)

TURNING THE EARTH, C. 1879

In contrast to today’s sprawling suburban developments, at one time the area north of Spokane’s core was wild and wooded, grassy and empty. As pioneers poured into the region to homestead and try their luck on the Western Frontier, the U.S. Homestead Act allowed newcomers like Emil Johnson to claim federal land grants for farmable land.

Johnson bought a sleek new plow from a downtown hardware store and hooked it to up to his team of between six and eight horses. That many were needed to break the dense, virgin sod of the Peone Prairie, located in the picturesque shadow of Mt. Spokane. (CS)

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THE MURDER WEAPON On the night of Sept. 14, 1935, Newport town marshal George Conniff interrupted burglars stealing from a local creamery. He was shot four times and died a few hours later. “Several new clews (sic) were uncovered this morning, but no trace of the bandits or their identity has been found at noon,” the Spokane Daily Chronicle reported two days later, the day of Conniff’s funeral.

The crime went unsolved for more than 50 years.

Then, in the 1980s, Pend Oreille lawman Tony Bamonte starting looking into the murder during research for his master’s degree at Gonzaga. The story he learned — from a deathbed confession, old police reports and aging witnesses — was that of a long-ago police cover-up.

The murderer was one of their own, a former detective named Clyde Ralstin, who was profiting off the Great Depression with a black-market butter scheme in an era of rampant corruption.

But stories are one thing, and evidence is another.

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Bamonte suspected the murder weapon could still be found; officers assigned to the reopened investigation were more skeptical.

In August 1989, Washington Water Power stopped the falls. In just five minutes, Bamonte found a pistol on the riverbed, exactly where the retired detective had told him it had been dropped. After decades underwater, the handle had disintegrated and the metal was corroded.

“I found what I expected to find,” Bamonte said at the time.

Ralstin, nearly 90 years old and living in Montana, told the Spokesman-Review the whole thing was “hogwash.” He died a few months after the pistol was found.

Bamonte donated it to the museum, along with other artifacts from his research, where it serves as a symbol of justice dredged out of history.

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CHILD’S PLAY, C. 1900-12

A pair of bisque porcelain dolls from Helen Campbell’s personal collection are traced to Bavaria or Germany, where the Campbell family visited during a European tour in the early 1900s. The museum also acquired one of third-generation German toymaker Albert Schoenhut’s complete safari sets, one of many sets crafted between 1909 and 1912, and themed after President Teddy Roosevelt on holiday in Africa. Additionally, an intricately handcrafted Native American “Old Sophie” doll has actual human hair. (JM)

PLATEAU EXPRESSIONS, C. 1880-1950

The 30 hand-beaded bags on display in a large glass case along one gallery wall are breathtaking. The intricate work, the talent of Plateau Tribe craftspeople, seems ahead of its time, and brings to mind imitated or replicated handbags that women still carry today. About half of the bags were donated to the museum in 1962 as part of the extensive, 1,427-piece Chap C. Dunning Memorial Collection; Dunning was a prolific collector of American Indian cultural pieces.

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Hoopfest Turns 25 ...and remains the world’s biggest basketball tournament

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ick Steltenpohl remembers when the lead-up to Hoopfest was just him and a few buddies racing against the coming dawn to have the tournament ready for the morning’s games to tip off. It was semichaotic in those last moments, his crew hanging banners while dangling from rooftops, tossing the occasional basketball from those heights just for kicks.

“We’re just kids and having a blast. We were so into it and interested in creating this thing,” says Steltenpohl, who is leaving the organization after 25 years at the helm of the massive event. Never forgetting that his love of the game was the fuel for all his efforts, he also took to the court with a team in each of those years.

Now the tournament, far and away the largest of its kind anywhere in the world, has hit 25, making it older than many of the 25,000-plus players who will take to one of more than 400 courts around downtown Spokane this weekend. Ancillary benefits to the city have been resounding throughout the years, ranging from the millions in tourism dollars that arrive with the many out-of-town players and spectators, to the charity donations, to the permanent courts Hoopfest has installed around the city.

Couple Hoopfest with the fact that Spokane is also home to perennial men’s and women’s college basketball powerhouses at Gonzaga, and it’s hard to argue against the reality that this city has become an unlikely hoops hotspot during this period.

Even if Steltenpohl is moving on (read more about his transition on the next page), Hoopfest has cemented itself in the culture of the Inland Northwest, something he never counted on during those early years.

“We never envisioned it having the impact it’s had and the sustainability it’s experienced. It’s so much larger than anything else in the country, and it doesn’t come easily. If it did, every [other city] would be doing it.”

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The pressure of having the weight of one of Spokane’s defining cultural events on his shoulders, though, is something he’s spent some time thinking about.

“I remember one of the first questions I was asked when I took the job was something like, ‘You’ve been handed a community trust; how does that feel?’ And I was like, ‘Wow — jeez, no pressure at all, right?’”

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Thankfully, he’s had former executive director Rick Steltenpohl, who stayed on this year as a consultant, to lean on for support. The tournament is a lot more complicated on the inside, Santangelo says, and encompasses far more of the calendar than a weekend in June. But again, Santangelo says he’s got this.

Minuscule compared to the event we’ve come to know and love, the first year saw just 2,009 players hoop it up on the streets of downtown.

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Harmon Park in Hillyard became the first of 28 locations around the Inland Northwest to receive the donation of a basketball court from the Spokane Hoopfest Association.

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Lured to town by the basketballcrazed crowd, the WNBA’s New York Liberty defeated the Seattle Storm 67-62 at Spokane Arena on Hoopfest Saturday.

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In its quarter century, Hoopfest has indeed become a beloved institution in a city that takes its basketball seriously enough to support the world’s largest hoops tournament. Most think of Santangelo as a Spokane guy, but he’s actually from Portland and had never played in Hoopfest, let alone set foot in the Lilac City, until he arrived at Gonzaga as a freshman.

After a GU career that saw him break the school’s career assist record, Santangelo played seven seasons of professional ball in Europe. He and his wife, also a GU grad, eventually returned to Spokane. The community was reintroduced to Santangelo, or more specifically to his voice, during a threeseason stint providing color commentary for Gonzaga men’s basketball radio broadcasts.

During that time, he also worked for a financial services company. The top job at Hoopfest, however, solidifies him as a true Spokane guy now.

Santangelo says the Spokane community is what has made Hoopfest such a proven entity.

“People come out to the community events here,” he says. “It’s not unique to Hoopfest, because if you look at the NCAA [basketball tournament] or Bloomsday or Ironman, those events are always some of the most well-attended for their respective fields.”

Steltenpohl hasn’t spent too much time worrying about handing over the organization to Santangelo, and hasn’t looked back since he made the decision to step down back in February.

“I’m really at peace. I wasn’t for a long time when I was trying to make the decision, but now I know it’s [Santangelo’s] gig, not mine,” says Steltenpohl. “Hoopfest will always be a part of me, though.”

When his tenure at Hoopfest is officially over after this weekend’s tournament, Steltenpohl and

Hoopfest coordinator Aaron Magner will team up for a new venture that will produce basketball tournaments around the country, and perhaps also internationally. In other words, they’re taking the Hoopfest magic on the road.

Calling Santangelo a “servant leader,” Steltenpohl says he has no doubts about his successor.

“He’s a solid guy and a great basketball mind,” says Steltenpohl. “I’m happy that he’s the guy who’s taking over.”

Santangelo knows that Hoopfest doesn’t need to be reinvented to remain successful, but he nevertheless has some ideas of where the institution could head next. One 30,000-foot notion is to make Hoopfest something that people think about more than just one weekend each summer.

“There’s this whole idea of Hoopfest being every day of the year,” says Santangelo. “What we can do as an organization is develop better basketball players and coaches and hold those coaches to standards.

There’s a lot of opportunity to how we introduce the game to people in Spokane.”

He says he’d also like to see Hoopfest become somehow sanctioned with USA Basketball to make the event an official 3-on-3 championship. There’s also talk of bringing in elite teams from big cities around the country. Santangelo says technological advances, like the new mobile app available at spokanehoopfest.net, will continue to change the face of the tournament, eventually bringing real-time score updates to spectators.

But Santangelo insists he’s not out to merely hang more bells and whistles on Hoopfest. He says it will remain about the game.

“I’m a basketball junkie and that’s how my mind works,” he says. 

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TURNING OVER THE KEYS 2014

Former Gonzaga guard Matt Santangelo is named the new Hoopfest executive director, replacing Rick Steltenpohl, who will leave the organization after this year’s tournament.

Steltenpohl has worked on the tournament since its inception.

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t’s that time of the year when thousands upon thousands of basketball fans make a pilgrimage of sorts to downtown Spokane. For the spectators, the experience is easy. They get to sit back and take in the sight of streets clogged with hoops rather than cars. For a player, it’s more complicated. The player wants to emerge victorious at the end of the weekend, but really he just needs to survive.

The best way to survive Hoopfest is to have practiced during the weeks leading up to it.

That shouldn’t be news to you, but if it is, it’s too late at this point. Don’t worry, though, because there are still ways you can survive the weekend, both physically and mentally.

Just like in college and the NBA, teams in Hoopfest get the chance to warm up on the court before the game. Unlike teams in those ranks, you don’t really get to do any scouting of your opponents. The warmup period is the closest thing to a scouting report that you’ll get.

You can practice the kinds of shots and plays you’ll run in the game. Or you could throw up nothing but two-pointers, knowing full well you won’t attempt a single one when they count.

Once you’re on the court and in the game, the obvious way to survive is to outscore the other team. So score points. Though not necessarily enough to win. I’m saying this as someone who has been on the losing end of a 20-0 game.

The moments after that game ended were exceptionally uncomfortable. Seriously, score at least one point.

Hoopfest allows each team a single, oneminute timeout per game. Using it at the right time, like to stop a run by the other team, makes you seem like a coaching genius. Though simply not forgetting to use it is all you need to survive.

A single minute allows you to catch your breath and regain the energy and mind-set to carry on.

For teams without a substitute player, the timeout becomes all the more valuable.

While you can’t lose when you’re not playing, the time between games may be the most dangerous time of all. Rainy weather can ruin Hoopfest, but the sun is no friend either. Find a place in the shade to pass some time, unless you want to suffer through Sunday with a sunburned shooting arm. Thanks to the tall buildings, most of the courts spend at least part of the day hidden from the sun.

Don’t just spend time at another court; actually take in the games that are happening. For almost every team, Hoopfest ends in a loss. That doesn’t, however, mean the weekend needs to be a failure.

Spending your downtime watching allows you to once again be a fan of the game, a concept which may seem foreign after a couple of bad losses. The sight of three costume-clad adults trying to dribble a basketball or little kids shooting on an 8-foot hoop is just the mental medicine you’ll need to stay positive.

Don’t let the World Cup and soccer fans fool you. Playing in, watching and surviving Hoopfest makes it clear: Basketball is truly the beautiful game. 

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PREGAME Team Check-In | Bring your team confirmation sheet and pick up your official bracket and player T-shirts. Thu, June 26, from 2-8 pm; Fri, June 27, from 11 am-7 pm. Riverfront Park Gondola Meadow.

Toyota Shootoff Pre-Qualification | Participants ages 18+ can qualify to win a 2014 Hoopfestcustomized Toyota Tacoma truck. Thu from 2-8 pm; Fri from 11 am-7 pm; Sat from 9 am-6 pm; Sun from 9 am-4 pm; finals from 3:30-4 pm. Riverfront Park Rotary Fountain.

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Free Throw Challenge | A contest for youth ages 17 and under, with a chance to win an iPad mini for players who advance to the finals. Sat from 9 am-6 pm, Sun from 9 am-4 pm; finals from 3:30-4 pm. Court at Spokane Falls Blvd. and Stevens.

Slam Dunk Contest | Hosted by the U.S. Marines; watch players compete or sign up if you’ve got the hops. Sat from 2-3 pm; finals (top 5) Sun from 3-3:30 pm. Nike Center Court.

Co-ed Elite Championship | Top teams compete for the 2014 co-ed title. Sun from 12:30-1 pm. Nike Center Court.

Cami Bradley Concert | A free performance featuring Spokane’s America’s Got Talent star, with local groups Cathedral Pearls and the Marshall McLean Band. Thu, June 26, at 7 pm. Free. Riverfront Park Clock Tower Meadow.

High School Elite Championship | Teams battle to win the title of 2014 Muscle Milk High School Elite Champs.

Sun from 2-4 pm. Muscle Milk HS Elite Court (Spokane Falls Blvd.).

Beyond the Kennel | Former Gonzaga forward Kelly Olynyk and other Zag alums share stories about their college days and making it to the pros. Moderated by local sportscaster Dennis Patchin. Fri, June 27, from 7-8:30 pm.

Lewis and Clark High School auditorium; 521 W. Fourth.

Women’s Elite Championship | The top female teams compete for the 2014 title. Sun from 3:30-4 pm. Nike Center Court.

Spokane on the Rocks | An oasis of food, drink, live music and all-ages activities, featuring spirits, beer and wine from local and regional craft breweries and food from local restaurants. Sat, June 28, from 11 am-7 pm. Free admission; all-ages. Spokane Convention Center.

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Sat from 8 am-6 pm; Sun from 8 am-noon.

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Hoopfest Store | Official Hoopfest 2014 gear and merchandise can be purchased during store hours: Thu from 2-8 pm; Fri from 11 am-7 pm; Sat from 7:30 am-6 pm; Sun from 7:30 am-4 pm.

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Men’s Under 6’ Finals | The top two men’s teams in the 6-foot and under category compete for the championship. Sun at 5:30 pm. Nike Center Court. 

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The “interpretative loop” at the second mile allows hikers to head back down or continue. After another quarter-mile, a monument dedicated to Brent “Jake” Jacobson, who gave his life as a Forest Service law enforcement officer, sits atop the edge of a cliff. The Mineral Point Picnic Area is a relaxing area to enjoy lunch before venturing back down to the water.

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In the first season, he told a frozen yogurt joint they could become a viral sensation by adding poopflavored yogurt to their offerings and told people running a haunted house they could make it truly scary by convincing a visitor, using an ambulance and a fake medical team, that they were given a terrible disease.

Get caught up on Comedy Central’s website now, then catch the new season starting July 1 at 7:30 pm on Comedy Central.

WEBSITE | When it isn’t playing dirty in negotiations with book publishers like Hachette, Amazon is committing to its mission of making Amazon Prime the broadest service in existence. Originally Prime was just a free shipping service, but in recent years it’s tacked on free Kindle rentals and streaming videos to the package. Last month, Amazon added a huge swath of HBO’s back catalog, including The Sopranos and The Wire, to Prime’s free Amazon Instant Video. Last week, it added a Spotifystyle streaming music service called PRIME MUSIC. Naturally, not every song ever recorded is available yet, but Daft Punk’s latest album is.

Scofflaw Ordinance Effective July 1 Beginning July 1, City of Spokane Parking Enforcement Officers will be empowered to immobilize and/or impound vehicles identified with four or more unpaid parking citations in collections. With the end of the 60 day Parking Citation Amnesty Program, all penalties, collection fees and interest costs will once again be applied to citations in collections.

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Pay Past Due Citations At Face Value Beginning May 1, the City is offering a limited-time Parking Citation Amnesty Program. If you have outstanding parking citations in collection, you can pay them at original face value (plus any state required statutory penalties) until June 30, 2014.

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Living Liquid

Kombucha tea has long been homegrown and bottled, but now you can find it on tap

BY JO MILLER

Bare Culture Kombucha owner Heather Threadgill. YOUNG KWAK PHOTOS

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round the world, it’s been given many glowing titles: Elixir of Life, The Divine Tsche, Champignon de longue vie (mushroom of long life) and Tea of Immortality.

Kombucha — a cultured, fermented tea — has been around thousands of years, originating in the East and moving to Western countries in the past century, being extolled along the way for qualities including preventing disease and reversing aging.

“There’s been a lot of different claims as far as health benefits, but people have to make their call on what it does,” says Heather Threadgill, who has been drinking kombucha for 10 years.

Threadgill says she drinks it three times a day on average, alongside a diet of mostly unprocessed foods and a triathlon lifestyle.

Last Tuesday, she opened a taproom called Bare Culture Kombucha in the front of her brewery in Coeur d’Alene, complete with funky colors, laid-back, beach-y décor, bar and table seating and raw food bars. Flowing from the taps, you’ll find several flavors — including Paradise Ginger, Strawberry Blood Orange, Sassy Apple and Lychee Passion — that you can get in a glass or growler.

Overstatements aside, it’s true that kombucha contains probiotics, which increasing evidence indicates aids digestion and strengthens the immune system. “[Kombucha] just gives you this kind of pick-up,” she says.

“It’s not like caffeine, where you have the highs and lows … You feel like you’re running your body at an optimal level.”

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“I like the thought of having a bubbly drink that gives you that soda feel, but I don’t like what soda does to you.”

The tea, formerly associated mostly with the hippie crowd, was found only in small health-food stores, but Threadgill says that within the past three years, a growing number of bottled brands and flavors have appeared on grocery (and health-food) store shelves. You can find about 20 varieties at Huckleberry’s, Main Market and Yoke’s; even Safeway carries about eight kinds.

The home-brewing community is going strong, too.

Julia Neil, the deli manager at Winter Ridge Natural Foods in Sandpoint, brewed and bottled her own kombucha for about a year. All you need is sugar, black or green tea and a SCOBY — an acronym for “symbiotic colony of bacteria and yeast” — the floppy, cream-colored disc of living bacteria that feeds off of the sugar and ferments the tea.

“They just kind of grow to the shape of the container,” says Neil. “Every time you do a batch, the mother produces a baby.”

The baby SCOBY can then be passed on, like friendship bread, to start new batches and the mother can be reused.

“I like my stuff strong,” she says. “The more mature the SCOBY is, the better it brews your batches.”

Brewing takes between seven and 14 days. After you cook the tea and let it cool, you put it in a glass container with the SCOBY on top, cotton cloth and a rubber band for the lid, then set it in a dark place.

For eight years, Threadgill has been brewing kombucha and sharing it with friends. But her operation got so big she decided to make it commercially on a large scale. She’s been brewing in the backroom of 814 N. 4th St. in the new midtown section of Coeur d’Alene for the past year, and selling the kombucha at her frozen yogurt shop in Walla Walla.

In 80-gallon stainless steel fermenters, she brews batches for 20 days, then infuses the kombucha with fresh fruits and herbs in smaller vats. The natural carbonation is topped off with CO and put in kegs. The result: an effervescent, light and fruity drink with a kick of vinegary taste that she now sells at Bare Culture Kombucha.

“I like the thought of having a bubbly drink that gives you that soda feel, but I don’t like what soda does to you,” Threadgill says.

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“LIVING LIQUID,” CONTINUED... area, Threadgill says, and many people are just starting to become aware it’s a drink. “Introducing it on tap is a whole other future,” she says.

Her hope is to get it on tap at local restaurants; you can currently find Bare Culture Kombucha on tap at Java’s new location at 819 Sherman Ave. in Coeur d’Alene. Winter Ridge has kegerators with three of Bare Culture’s flavors available at a time. Since Winter Ridge started carrying it on tap about three months ago, they go through an average of nine kegs per week, says Neil.

“The first day we put it out there, it was just selling like crazy,” she says. “It’s been a hot commodity.”  Bare Culture Kombucha • 814 N. 4th St., Coeur d’Alene • Open Tue and Thu, 11 am-5 pm • 208-651-6867

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Kimber Gates and winemaker Green, out past Casco and Kidd Visit Inlander.com/places to search Island bays, around Arrow Point, Dirk Brink were on hand to the region’s most comprehensive discuss their award-winning and back. Knowledgeable staff wines, including the appropriately bar and restaurant guide. provide occasional commentary named Opulence Syrah. Featuring on the area’s geography, which an array of reds and whites — the Grenache is a makes this gentle trip ideal for special events, or lovely summer sipper — Coeur d’Alene Cellars refor your aunt from Wisconsin. turns this week. Future purveyors include Selkirk In addition to the sunset cruises, the resort Abbey (June 19) and Wallace Brewing (June 26). also has a full boat of entertainment options, inAccording to Kevin Mills, beverage manager cluding Sunday brunch and a sightseeing trip to for Lake Coeur d’Alene Cruises, wine and beer the St. Joe River. And if you’re nostalgic for the prices are preset for wine (Wednesday) and beer good ol’ Derailer days, check out the adults-only (Thursday) cruises. Wine flights are $10 for three Pirate Cruise with complimentary rum punch. n 2-ounce samples, $6/glass or $15 for a flight and full glass. Beer flights range from $10 to $12 for Coeur d’Alene Lake Sunset Dinner Cruises • three 5-ounce samples and a glass of your favorSun-Thu through Sept. 14 • $51.75, $47.75/ages ite brew. Drink tickets can be purchased onboard 55+, $27.75/ages 6-12, free/ages 5 and under • or ahead of time. cdacruises.com • (208) 765-4000

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Three levels of heat are created in a specialty pie called Lava Flow — a uniquely spicy combination of Sriracha, jalapeños, and a “Lalo sauce” that James mixes up himself. This option, along with the “Reuben” pizza, is a new addition to the menu since the change in ownership.

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The slices are uniquely flavorful, with fresh-made dough and heaps of saucy cheese, and it’s Lalo’s careful quality that the new owners hope never to change.

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You can easily relive the past with a patty melt and a huckleberry milkshake, made (of course) with Mary Lou’s own homemade ice cream.

BLACK DIAMOND BILLIARDS AND EATERY 9614 E. Sprague | 891-8357 This place is one of the best reasons to dabble in the nightlife of the Spokane Valley. The Black Diamond — or the Diamond, as the locals say — is a one-stop adult playground, filled to the brim with pool tables, live DJs, food specials and girls with giant hair. With daily happy hour on weekdays and a full dessert menu, there are many other reasons to love this place.

PARADISE CREEK BREWERY 245 SE Paradise St., Pullman | 338-9463 Paradise Creek finally gives you an excuse to use the words “adorable” and “beer” in the same sentence. Located in an antique post office, this place has mastered the art of taking the old and adding flair — from the atmosphere down to the menu.

Standouts on the menu include their Lamb Burger and the BBQ sauce made with their own Porter.

CHARLEY’S GRILL & SPIRITS 801 N. Monroe | 328-8911 This cozy Monroe Street restaurant and lounge provides a quiet retreat from the hustle and bustle of the courthouse next door. The menu features Angus beef hamburgers, 8-ounce sirloin steaks, fried appetizers, a full bar and a retro cigarette vending machine. Tickets for the Spokane Arena, INB Performing Arts Center, Fox Theater, Bing Crosby Theater or Spokane Civic Theatre will get you 20 percent off food items.

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Revenge in the Outback

Guy Pearce goes all Mad Max in The Rover

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guy walks into a bar. Everything again proves to be one of else that occurs in The Rover flows the great shape-shifters from that one happenstance. The among the current galaxy guy is named Eric (Guy Pearce) and the of movie stars. Pattinson “everything else” is the character’s bloody, duly rids himself of the protracted chase through the Australian mindless heartthrob status Outback to retrieve his car, which was accorded him by the Twilight stolen while he was inside the bar having trilogy, and fully demonstrates his a drink. acting chops — although the film’s The time, we’re told in an opening massive bloodshed is bound to deter dateline, is “10 years after the collapse.”

Pattinson’s young female fans. The All we can really deduce from that is that cinematography by Natasha Braier the collapse has made the Outback dustier brilliantly captures a crushing sense of and more desolate and fly-ridden, and that the landscape’s vast, postapocalyptic it must have something to do emptiness. In following with global economics, since up on his breakout film THE ROVER the currency preferred at the Animal Kingdom, writer/diRated R scraggly, infrequently appear- Directed by David Michôd rector David Michôd (the ing trading posts is American Starring Guy Pearce, Robert screenplay is co-written dollars. with Joel Edgerton, Pattinson, Scoot McNairy Eric is a taciturn fellow, based on Edgerton’s prone to letting his gun do story idea) builds on his talking. Why he wants his car back the previous film’s depiction so badly is something that’s not revealed of twisted, violent family until the film’s closing sequence. When relationships and stunthe car thieves (Scoot McNairy, Tawaning performances (Jacki nda Manyimo and David Field) took his Weaver received an Ossedan, they left behind their perfectly car nomination for her running SUV, which had been beached by role in Animal Kingdom). a road impediment. Eric gets the SUV unWith fewer narrative stuck and gives chase, but even though it underpinnings than cult appears he received the better end of this road pictures like Two-Lane exchange, Eric stops at nothing to retrieve Blacktop and Bring Me the his car. While gun shopping at a bizarroHead of Alfredo Garcia, The land outpost, Eric discovers Rey (Robert Rover reminds us of this Pattinson), a gut-shot brother of one of the heritage without adding car thieves who was left behind for dead. much other than more Rey, a dim but querulous soul, provides a crazed bloodshed to the stark contrast to Eric’s gruff brute. mix. Despite not breakWhat The Rover lacks in story developing any new cinematic ment, it makes up for with compelling ground. The Rover plays tension, mystery and acting finesse. Pearce like a taut spellbinder. 

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OPENING FILMS FOR NO GOOD REASON

Ralph Steadman, the man, the myth, the legend — and the illustrator — is the sole subject of this Charlie Paul film. Famous for his honest and dreamlike illustrations, he is frequently correlated with gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson. Throughout this film Steadman’s personality, career and artwork are brought to life through in-depth interviews with Johnny Depp, Terry Gilliam, Richard E. Grant and Tim Robbins. (MAB) Rated R

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The last time we saw officers Jenko (Channing Tatum) and Schmidt (Jonah Hill), they were posing as high school students to bust a teenage drug ring. In 22 Jump Street (they moved across the street), the duo is back, but what could they possibly do to top their last assignment? Duh. Enroll in college. Again, the assignment is to stop a drug ring, but now at a college, while keeping their focus on fighting crime. Thankfully, Nick Offerman (you know him as Ron Swanson) is back as the take-no-crap commanding officer. (MB) Not yet rated

BLENDED

In a movie together again, Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore (Team Sandlermore, if you will) head to Africa. They play Jim and Lauren, a couple who endure an awful blind date, then somehow end up at the same resort half a world away. Both have kids, which makes things even crazier, right? When Lauren starts falling for these motherless kids, she’s in danger of falling for the whole package. Directed by frequent Sandler collaborator Frank Coraci (The Wedding Singer, The Waterboy), Blended is full of the sort of silliness Sandler has been taking to the bank with the Grown Ups franchise. (MB) Rated PG-13

CHEF

Nothing is terribly surprising in Chef’s plot, but its up-to-date narrative ingredients of a food truck, Twitter and the Internet add a freshness to the overall product that blends nicely with its heart and soul. It’s been more than a decade since Jon Favreau, who directs, writes and stars, has imbued a film with this kind of warmth. As the lead, Favreau plays a chef who once was at the top of the nation’s culinary scene, but is now frustrated in his role as a chef for an insufferable owner (Dustin Hoffman). So the chef sets out on his own, opening a food truck with friends and family. (MB) Rated R

DRAFT DAY

Director Ivan Reitman (who did, among many other things, Ghostbusters) brings us a relatively accurate depiction of the NFL draft and all the backroom shenanigans. Kevin Costner stars as the GM of the Cleveland Browns who, on the eve of the draft, has seen both his personal life and his career wander onto shaky ground. Now, he has to decide whether to take a heralded quarterback as the first pick. (MB) Rated PG-13

EDGE OF TOMORROW

Tom Cruise has picked his science-fiction films wisely (Minority Report) and less so (Oblivion). But he made the right choice on this full-blown action movie about an attack on Earth by creepy, bloodthirsty aliens, and the war waged on them by our international military. It’s also a trapped-in-a-time-loop story, similar to Groundhog Day (but more violent and funnier) in which Cruise is an unwilling soldier who keeps getting killed in battle, then waking up to fight again, knowing what’s to come. (ES) Rated PG-13

THE FAULT IN OUR STARS

The girl has cancer, the boy is in remission from cancer; this story can only end badly. As far as teenage cancer love stories go, John Green’s recent young adult novel of the same name isn’t half bad — not nearly as sappy as A Walk to Remember. With Shailene Woodley (The Descendants, Divergent) as the lead for this film adaption, many lovesick teenage girls and their boyfriends will show up for this one. (LJ) Rated PG-13

FED UP

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Without even attempting to capture the spirit of the sometimes grim, sometimes goofy series of Japanese Godzilla films that ran from 1954-2004, this second Hollywood attempt at a movie about the big, gray lizard with radioactive breath is convoluted in its story lines and plodding in its presentation.

The supposed monstrous star of the film is in a supporting role, overshadowed by lots of scientific babble and two other monsters called Mutos who are more interested in making Muto babies than knocking down buildings. Of course, real estate goes down when Godzilla finally goes up against them. But that good stuff is too little and comes far too late. (ES) Rated PG-13

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Wes Anderson’s latest features a narrative structure in which the central story isn’t merely a flashback, but a flashback nesting in a flashback nesting inside another flashback. A woman visits a memorial for a writer; that writer (Tom Wilkinson), circa 1985, describes his encounter as a young man (Jude Law) in 1968 with Mr. Zero Moustafa (F. Murray Abraham), owner of the once-glorious Grand Budapest Hotel in the “former republic of Zubowka.” At Magic Lantern (SR) Rated R

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Picking up five years after the original, the isle of Berk has fully embraced the once-rival dragons as pets. And while Hiccup’s father Stoick, the isle’s Viking chieftain, is ready to cede power to his dragon-master heir, Hiccup’s focus lies elsewhere, as he and his dragon best friend Toothless chart the previously unexplored world beyond Berk. Unfortunately, these travels lead to some unwanted discoveries, including the existence of dragon poachers and the tyrant Drago, who controls a dragon army. (SS) Rated PG

IDA

Taking place in Poland in 1962, Ida is the story of an aspiring nun, Anna. The graceful 18-year-old hopes to take her vows in the same convent she has lived in since being orphaned. But before her vows are complete, she is required to meet with an unknown family member that will change her perspective on life.

Family secrets from the dark Nazi occupation are revealed and this sends Anna on a journey in hope of finding clarity. At Magic Lantern (MAB) Rated PG-13

JERSEY BOYS

The “boys” of the title are the Four Seasons, the ’60s pop-rock-doo-wop group whose tunes (Sherry, Big Girls Don’t Cry, etc.) were staples of Top 10 lists. Clint Eastwood’s film of the still huge Broadway play (it’s a drama with music, not a musical) grabs onto both the positive and negative energy of the band’s and especially falsetto lead singer Frankie Valli’s (John Lloyd Young) story. Resistance is futile; you will sing along. (ES) Rated R

LUCKY THEM

Elli (an excellent Toni Collette) is a rock music critic who spends more time sleeping with rock stars than actually writing about them. With her career on the line, Ellie’s editor sends her on an assignment to write about her ex-boyfriend, a beloved singer-songwriter who disappeared a decade earlier. She reluctantly teams up with a millionaire amateur documentarian (Thomas Haden Church) and heads out to find a truth she’s not quite sure she’s ready to face. At Magic Lantern. (MB) Rated R

MALEFICENT

As one of the most terrifying and iconic Disney villains, Maleficent (Angelina Jolie) has had many questions surrounding the origins of her background. This newly re-imagined flick seeks to explain exactly how the fallen fairy became so evil, and why she chose to act out against innocent Princess Aurora (Elle Fanning). As cursed child becomes young woman, Maleficent must make drastic decisions to save her kingdom of the Moors, even if it hurts her in the process. (ER) PG

NEIGHBORS

This film casts Seth Rogen in a comfortable role as a genial pot-smoker, and a wonderfully wild Rose Byrne in a comfortable role where she’s allowed to speak with her own Australian accent, as Mac and Kelly are forced to contend with the Delta Psi fraternity buying the suburban house next door to theirs. OK premise, awful result. (SR) Rated R

THE ROVER

Australian director David Michôd (who helmed the visceral Animal Kingdom) is back with a film designed to haunt your psyche for days after you’ve watched it.

Set 10 years after a global financial meltdown, it’s all but chaotic in the Australian outback. At the start of the film, our hero, played by Guy Pierce (Memento, Hurt Locker), has his car stolen and he spends the rest of the bleak film trying to amend

that wrong. Along the way he picks up Robert Pattinson (aka Edward Cullen attempting some sort of accent) as his accomplice. As the credits roll, you’ll wonder what the whole thing is all about, and that’s the point. (LJ) Rated R

THE SIGNAL

This dude named Nic, his girlfriend and a computer hacking buddy, detour into the desert while on a road trip and before you know it, they all get knocked out. Soon, Nic awakes in a sterilized white room in which a scary dude played by Laurence Fishburne starts asking him about “the signal” and when he first heard it. Nic has no idea what they’re talking about, but soon he find himself in an increasingly hellish quasi-reality with no idea how to escape. (MB) Rated PG-13

THINK LIKE A MAN, TOO

In the follow up to 2012’s Think Like a Man, the whole gang is back and this time they’re headed to a wedding in Las Vegas. All the couples are looking for a romantic time, but when things get all Hangover-ey, things get a lot more complicated than intended. Kevin Hart, as he did in the original, is at the helm of a cast of comic stars. (MB) Rated PG-13

X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST

In the latest installment of this Marvel franchise, we open on a nasty future: dark, post-apocalyptic skies and ruined cities left in the wake of the ongoing genocide of mutants and humans by robot Sentinels. The sci-fi Judgment Day has come and the Terminators aren’t even bothering to imprison survivors in the Matrix. Professor Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart) has a plan to stop the Sentinel war decades in the past, before it even begins. There will be time travel and everything is gonna get fixed. Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Hugh Jackman, Peter Dinklage, Ian McKellan and Michael Fassbender. (MJ) Rated PG-13 

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Donna’s crude comedy — punched up by In any case, it isn’t his story, it’s Donna’s, and Slate’s vox-box-vrooming between a high-pitched, Slate is so dynamic, so 100-proof potent, that it’s Muppety squeak and a low, whiskeyed growl — is easy to be entirely smitten with her. The love ina calculated move on the part of writer/director terest, a watered-down well drink, is superfluous.

Gillian Robespierre. Call it a stateObvious Child takes the same ment of purpose, and possibly a dare. shape as its elfin lead actress; OBVIOUS CHILD Soon after we meet her, Donna it’s just a slip of a thing, and it Rated R gets dumped. She gets sad and sloppy Directed by Gillian Robespierre slips easily into different guises, drunk, then sleeps with a stranger. She Starring Jenny Slate, Jake Lacy, from coarsely funny to gloaminggets pregnant. She decides to get an gloomy. It’s an indie film about Gaby Hoffmann, David Crosst abortion. These are plot points (nothabortion that comes snuggled in ing the trailer doesn’t already give the broad strokes of a quirky relaaway), but in between these points is the messy, tionship comedy. A grump might wonder when funny, peripatetic business of waking up and indie films got so soft, but I’m more intrigued by going to work and having dinner with friends or the inverse: Why aren’t more studio films this parents, even when there’s a Planned Parenthood clever and winning and conversant in the same appointment circled on the calendar. language as their audience? Acknowledging half Emotionally troubled but constitutionally of the population shouldn’t seem so daring. 

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es, weather can be fickle in the Pacific Northwest, but when our most reliable season rolls around, you have to take advantage and revel in the experience of communing over live music on a warm night, rain or not. You all know about the Festival at Sandpoint — read our preview later this summer — but there are other awesome tri-state area festivals to check out, too. Note: all mileage is calculated starting from downtown Spokane.

PARADISO June 27–28, Quincy, Wash. (The Gorge) Estimated travel time: 2 hours, 139 miles We all know who will be excited for the festival kicking off this weekend — EDM-lovin’ teens and college kids and anyone else who wants to act like that.

Paradiso got a bad rap last year after too many kids went to the hospital for drug overdoses, but not everyone who attends the bass-heavy extravaganza overdoes it.

Local artist DJ Beauflexx will play the event and headliners include Bassnectar, Zedd, Above & Beyond and Krewella.

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BOISE MUSIC FESTIVAL June 28, Boise, Idaho 6 hours and 25 minutes, 426 miles Not only is there a main stage in downtown Boise, there are six other stages featuring local Idaho talent in a variety of genres like family, EDM and acoustic. Get excited for Sir Mix-a-Lot, Sky Blu (one half of LMFAO), Fitz and The Tantrums and Train, which closes out the night. For the first time this year, a carnival will accompany the all-day event.

Expo Idaho • boisemusicfestival.com • GA/$20, beer garden/$50

WATERFRONT BLUES FESTIVAL July 3-6, Portland, Oregon 5 hours and 30 minutes, 352 miles Fourth of July weekend needs to be spent wisely. Festivals are held all across the country to commemorate the weekend; Waterfront Blues Festival features Gregg Allman (who plays Spokane on July 5). Also performing are Los Lobos (headlining Pig Out in the Park), Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk, Boz Scaggs, Los Lonely Boys, Joan Osborne with the Holmes Brothers and Otis Taylor with Mato Nanji. Our recommendation: find someone with a boat and watch from the water.

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4 hours, 262 miles This event is a lot more family-focused than you may expect. There are camping passes for those who want a more “quiet” evening and a show from children’s musicians Eli Rosenblatt and Mikey Mike. In such a serene outdoor location, it makes sense to bring along the kids to Timber!. Adults and anyone else can enjoy sweet tunes from Charles Bradley and His Extraordinaires, J Mascis, Damien Jurado, Rocky Votolato, Horse Feathers, Lonesome Shack and more.

Tolt-MacDonald Park • timbermusicfest.com • 3-day pass/$65 CAPITOL HILL BLOCK PARTY July 25-27, Seattle 4 hours and 20 minutes, 280 miles For three spectacular days, this fest takes over six blocks of Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, offering all-ages and 21-and-over stages. The event continues to champion upand-coming regional acts, but the headliners are what bring people through the gates: Spoon, Chromeo and A$AP Rocky are booked this year.

Capitol Hill neighborhood • capitolhillblockparty.com • 3-day pass/$125, 3-day VIP/$250 (21+)

SUMMER MELTDOWN Aug. 7-10, Darrington, Wash.

5 hours and 45 minutes, 353 miles Be on the lookout for Chewelah’s own Allen Stone headlining and performances by STRFKR, Seattle Rock Orchestra, The Pimps of Joytime, Polyrhythmics, Neon Indian, Sir Mix-a-Lot and more. This event also includes music workshops, activities for the kiddos and river access. The woodsy camping at Summer Meltdown is separated into distinct factions: quiet camping for families, clean and sober camping, and Wonkerville — the name says it all.

Whitehorse Mountain Amphitheater • summermeltdownfest.com • 4-day pass/$150

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At a festival, you want your campsite to be the most comfortable and efficient home base possible. Prepare for your adventure by attending the free Festival Camping Prep class at the Spokane REI, July 17 at 7 pm.

Space is limited, so sign up at rei.com or call 328-9900.

PICKATHON Aug. 1-3, Happy Valley, Oregon 5 hours and 30 minutes, 352 miles Some of the artists at Pickathon, including Valerie June, Angel Olsen and The Black Lillies, are scheduled to play Spokane this summer, but there are other awesome artists to check out, like Nickel Creek, X, Mac DeMarco, Shakey Graves, Foxygen, Parquet Courts and more. This venue feels like it’s in the middle of nowhere, but it’s only about a half-hour outside of Portland. It’s a family-friendly, zero-waste, solar-power-using environment where musicians perform twice over the weekend on six different stages.

Pendarvis Farm • pickathon.com • 3-day pass/$260

MUSICFESTNW Aug. 16-17, Portland, Oregon 5 hours and 30 minutes, 352 miles This year, MusicfestNW’s format has changed significantly — running just two days at one location rather than multiple venues throughout downtown Portland. This allages music festival is still bringing in big names like Haim, Girl Talk, Phantogram, Future Islands, Spoon and tUnE-yArDs; the event will simply be on a more manageable scale.

Tom McCall Waterfront Park • musicfestnw.com • 2-day pass/$100, 2-day VIP/$300

BUMBERSHOOT Aug. 30-Sept. 1, Seattle 4 hours and 20 minutes, 280 miles Bumbershoot festival coordinators announced the main stage will once again be at Seattle Center’s Memorial Stadium, rather than indoors at KeyArena. As always, there’s awesome Seattle talent mixed in with national artists. Some of the acts we’re excited about include Wu-Tang Clan, The Replacements, Elvis Costello and the Imposters, Red Fang, Big Freedia and Schoolyard Heroes.

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W

ith an average age of 19, the members of Los Angeles garagerock trio Cherry Glazerr understand their youth is an interesting selling point. But that doesn’t mean they like it.

“I don’t like to be seen as teenager who’s making music,” said drummer Hannah Uribe, who turns 17 on July 3. “I’d like to be seen as a musician who’s making music.”

One aspect of being a teen in a band that’s not so easy to ignore, however, is high school. Uribe attends an arts school, but class and music don’t always go handin-hand. March’s South by Southwest music festival, for example, found Uribe struggling to complete assignments between shows.

Uribe says her parents understand that she wants to pursue music and education, and don’t push her towards one path.

“They want me to do my best in school and have fun with the band,” Uribe says.

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Wednesday July 2nd “They know I’m serious about both things, so they’re totally supportive in both areas.”

Cherry Glazerr, which takes its name from Chery Glaser, an anchor for Southern California NPR affiliate KCRW, formed when Uribe and singer/guitarist Clementine Creevy, 17, recorded demos for Creevy’s solo project, Clembutt.

After Creevy met bassist Sean Redman, 23, at a Musicians Institute program, the group began working on what would become 2013’s Papa Cremp. The trio was soon back in the studio, reworking Papa Cremp songs and writing new material for their full-length debut, January’s Haxel Princess.

“I had a lot of fun collaborating with Clem and Sean,” Uribe says. “We were getting to know each other as a band and seeing what sounded right.”

Album opener “Cry Baby” has a surfpop vibe, while the title track and “White’s Not My Color This Evening” are fuzzy punk jams with riot grrrl attitude. “Trick or Treat Dancefloor” is dark dream-pop

through and through.

There’s a refreshingly straightforward quality to Creevy’s lyrics. “Grilled Cheese” is about a sandwich; “White’s” is a rant against Aunt Flo. In “Bloody Bandaid,” Creevy tells a former crush, “I like the way you smell/And I wanna go to shows at The Smell with you.”

Currently on summer vacation, Uribe has one year of school left and is contemplating her future plans. She wants to keep playing music but hasn’t ruled out college.

“That decision is going to be tough when it comes around,” Uribe says.

For someone so young, she’s got plenty of time to figure things out.  music@inlander.com

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ay Benson has held the Western swing act Asleep at the Wheel together for more than four decades as band members have come and gone. The best thing about Benson’s voice? It isn’t twangy, but rather a silky smooth baritone. You wouldn’t even know he was in a country band if you didn’t hear the backing instrumentation, with fiddle and stand-up bass. Some of the songs are more honky-tonk, with a rock ’n’ roll edge. The Austin, Texas, group has won nine Grammys for their efforts and were nominated for Best Americana Album in 2010 for Willie and the Wheel, a collaboration with Willie Nelson. They’ve released more than 20 studio albums over their storied career.

— LAURA JOHNSON An evening with Asleep at the Wheel • Thu, July 3, at 7:30 pm • $34-$44 • All-ages • Bing Crosby Theater • 901 W. Sprague • TicketsWest.com • 800-325-7328

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RAP NACHO PICASSO

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— LAURA JOHNSON Hoopfest Weekend feat. Nacho Picasso, Spac3man, IMperfect Cody, Moe Davis, Lou Rodas, T.S The Solution and KaGaH • Sun, June 29, at 9 pm • $8/$10 day of • 21+ • Red Room Lounge • 521 W. Sprague • 838-7613

J BuCeR’S CoFFeeHouSe PuB, Bucer’s Street Concert CARLIN BAy ReSoRT, FM THe CeLLAR, Laffin’ Bones CHeCKeRBoARD BAR, Hessler CLoveR (487-2937), Patio Music Series feat. Evan Denlinger CoeuR D’ALeNe CASINo, Dueling on the Deck feat. Keys West CoNKLING MARINA, Charlie Butts & the Filter Tips CuRLey’S, YESTERDAYSCAKE FIZZIe MuLLIGANS, Karma’s Circle THe FLAMe, DJ Big Mike J GoRGe AMPHITHeATeR (7856262), Paradiso Festival (See story on page 47) feat. Bassnectar, Above & Beyond, Zedd, Krewella GRANDe RoNDe CeLLARS, “When I’m 64 & More” Party feat. Maxie Ray Mills and Barry Aiken J THe HoP!, Witchburn, Wild Throne, Ape Machine, Project Kings

IDAHo PouR AuTHoRITy (208-2902280), Charley Packard IRoN HoRSe BAR, Scorpius J JoNeS RADIAToR, Blackberry Bushes String Band KooTeNAI RIveR BReWeRy (208267-4677), Monarch Mountain Band J LAGuNA CAFé, Diane Copeland LIBRARy LouNGe, Big Hair Revolution MAx AT MIRABeAu, Salty Dog MooSe MARKeT LouNGe (208-6647901), The Usual Suspects MooTSy’S, Quarter Monkey, B Radicals NyNe, DJ C-Mad o’SHAy’S, Arvid Lundin and Deep Roots J PARK BeNCH CAFe (456-4349), Just Plain Darin PeND D’oReILLe WINeRy, Britchy Folk Duo ReD RooM LouNGe, DJ D3VIN3

RoADHouSe CouNTRy RoCK BAR, Ryan Larsen Band RoCKeR RooM (208-676-2582), Lefty’s Uncle J THe SHoP, DJ Teej SPIKe’S PHILLyS AND MoRe (4893647), Dan Conrad, Carli Osika THe vIKING BAR AND GRILL, Stepbrothers ZoLA, Raggs and Bush Doktor

Saturday, 06/28

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315 MARTINIS AND TAPAS, The Rub J THE BARTLETT, Open Mic BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn BORRACHO TACOS & TEQUILERIA, DJ D3VIN3 THE CELLAR, Kosh CRAFTED TAP HOUSE + KITCHEN (208-292-4813), Harmony Clayton FEDORA PUB, Tuesday Night Jam with Truck Mills JONES RADIATOR, Open Mic of Open-ness NYNE, Dan Conrad & The Urban Achievers J THE PHAT HOUSE, Carcinogens SPLASH, Bill Bozly TRINITY AT CITY BEACH (208-2557558), Tuesdays with Ray Allen THE VAULT SOCIAL CLUB, DJ Q THE VIKING BAR AND GRILL, Haster, Unconfined ZOLA, The Bucket List

Sunday, 06/29

ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, Concerts on the Cliff feat. The Cronkites J BABY BAR, The Everymen THE CELLAR, Traveling Keys Dueling Piano Show COEUR D’ALENE CASINO, PJ Destiny, Kosh CONKLING MARINA, PJ Destiny CURLEY’S, Krashbox DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS, Jam Night with VooDoo Church J THE PHAT HOUSE, Acoustic Artist Showcase J RED ROOM LOUNGE, Hoopfest Weekend feat. Nacho Picasso (See story on facing page), Spac3man, IMperfect Cody, Moe Davis, Lou Rodas, T.S The Solution, Kagah ZOLA, Son of Brad

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MUSIC HOOPFEST OPENING ACT

We all know what Spokane sweetheart Cami Bradley is capable of — taking sixth place on last year’s America’s Got Talent and selling out two shows at the Bing Crosby Theater.

In celebration of Hoopfest turning 25, Bradley is putting on a free concert at Riverfront Park to kick off the two-day event, performing from her arsenal of originals and covers. This will be her only public show in Spokane for the rest of 2014, according to her Facebook page. Opening for Bradley are two of the most slick performers in town, Cathedral Pearls and the Marshall McLean Band. The show is appropriate for the entire family.

— LAURA JOHNSON Hoopfest 25th Anniversary Concert with Cami Bradley, Cathedral Pearls, Marshall McLean Band • Thu, June 26, at 7 pm • Free • Clock Tower Meadow in Riverfront Park • spokanehoopfest.net

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FESTIVAL SNOW-FREE ADVENTURE

COMMUNITY BENEFIT IN THE BOG

Schweitzer Summer Celebration • Sun, June 29, from 10 am-5 pm • Free admission • Schweitzer Mountain Resort, Sandpoint • schweitzer.com • 208-255-3081

Zombie Bog Jog Poker Run • Sat, June 28, starting at noon • $55/ participants, $5/spectators • Cow Girl Co-op • 20424 N. Dunn Rd. • 499-0999

When you think of Schweitzer Mountain, your mind likely drifts to visions of powdery snow. But now that it’s officially summer, it’s time to transform that vision and appreciate the mountain’s summer beauty. Schweitzer’s summer season kicks off this weekend, offering live music throughout the day by local bands Harold’s IGA and the Blackberry Bushes Stringband. Enjoy free rides up the Great Escape Quad, Schweitzer’s picturesque lift, with biking and hiking trails at the top. Down at the Village, peruse arts and crafts vendors, play some tennis or ascend a climbing wall.

— MADISON BENNETT

As filming of zombie apocalypse TV show Z Nation continues, the undead are also taking over north of town. For the Inland Northwest LGBT Center’s fundraiser, participants start with a set of flags and a hand of cards, attempting to end the race with a winning poker hand. The other goal? Don’t get your flags pulled by the hordes of zombies chasing you through the mud, or you’ll become one of the walking — rather, running — dead, too. Combined with a beer garden, root beer garden, and a 70-acre course rife with morbidly dressed zombies, and we’ve got one fun apocalypse.

— JENNA MULLIGAN

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— FRANNY WRIGHT Coeur d’Alene Murder Mystery Theatre • Fri, June 27, from 6-9 pm • $30/ wine club members; $35/nonmembers • CdA Cellars • 3890 N. Schreiber Way • cdamurdermysterytheatre.com • 208-664-2336

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NO-LI CHARITY OF THE MONTH The brewery contributes $2 for every flight of craft beer purchased in the month of June to SpokAnimal. No-Li Brewhouse, 1003 E. Trent. nolibrewhouse.com (242-2739) RITTER’S BEACH PARTY The community is invited to bring their dogs to enjoy the pool and summer time activities, including a doggie bikini contest as a fundraiser benefiting the Spokane Humane Society.

June 28, 10 am. Free. Ritter’s Garden & Gift, 10120 N. Division. spokanehumanesociety.org (467-5235 Ext. 211) ZOMBIE BOG JOG Fun run on 70 acres of “zombie-infested” land, benefiting the Inland Northwest LGBT Center. Event is spectator-friendly ($5), and includes a shorter obstacle course for kids age 12 and under. Also includes food, a beer garden and root beer garden. June 28, noon. $55/person; $20/kids’ run. Cowgirl Co-op, 20424 N. Dunn Rd. thelgbtcenter. org/zombie-bog-jog (499-0999) SKYDIVES FOR SERVICEMEN West Plains Skydiving is donating $20 from every tandem jump to the local nonprofit Skydives for Servicemen, which offers free jumps for local service men and women. Fundraiser runs July 4-6. facebook.com/westplainsskydiving

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STAND-UP COMEDY OPEN MIC Local comedians; see weekly schedule online. Thursdays at 8 pm. Free. Uncle D’s Comedy Underground, 2721 N. Market St. bluznews.com (483-7300) AFTER DARK A adult-rated version of the Blue Door’s monthly, Friday night show. On the last Friday of the month at 10 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. bluedoortheatre.com (747-7045) EXPEDITION A fast-paced improvised comedy show, rated for all ages. Fridays all summer, June 6-Aug. 29, at 8 pm (no show July 4). $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. (747-7045) OPEN MIC COMEDY Live stand-up comedy, open to newcomers and experienced comedians. Fridays at 8 pm. Ages 21+.

Free. Red Dragon Chinese, 1406 W. Third Ave. (475-6209) LIVE COMEDY Live stand-up comedy shows. Sundays at 9 pm. Goodtymes, 9214 E. Mission Ave. (928-1070) OPEN MIC COMEDY Wednesdays at 8 pm. Ages 21+. Free. Brooklyn Deli & Lounge, 122 S. Monroe. brooklyndelispokane.com (835-4177) SHORT STACKS The BDT Players &

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First Fridays of the month at 10 pm. Not suitable for all ages. $5. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. (747-7045) SAFARI Fast-paced short-form improv games based on audience suggestions.

(Not rated.) Saturdays at 9 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. (747-7045)

COMMUNITY

HOPE IN HARD TIMES An exhibit on how the Great Depression of the 1930s affected Washington state residents, featuring artifacts, personal accounts, events and programming. Last day of exhibit is June 30, open daily during regular library hours. Free. North Spokane Library, 44 E. Hawthorne Rd. scld.org/hope-in-hardtimes (893-8350) FOURTH FRIDAY PUB PEDDLERS Group cycling ride, making a few stops at bars along the way to a final destination.

Meets at 7 pm, departs at 8 pm. Free.

Swamp Tavern, 1904 W. Fifth. (251-2107) BLUES SOCIETY YARD SALE FUNDRAISER Open to the community to donate and/or shop, also includes live musicy by Anita Royce, Missy Califano, Pamela Van Kirk, Jeff Aker, Doghouse Boyz and Brother Music. June 28, 11 am-5 pm. Spokane Valley Eagles, 16801 E. Sprague Ave. ieblues.org (922-5692) JUNE BUG BALL USA Dance Sandpoint hosts a 70s disco-themed community dance, with hustle lessons preceding open dancing from 8-10 pm. June 28, 7 pm. $5-$9. Sandpoint Community Hall, 204 S. First. usadancesandpoint.org (208-699-0421) FAMILY FUN FAIR An annual parenting expo. June 29, 11 am-4 pm. Free. Silver Lake Mall, 200 W. Hanley Ave. silverlakemall.com (928-9664) 4TH OF JULY FUN AT MOBIUS Gear up for an awesome Fourth of July by making sparkly red, white and blue crafts in the “Out of Hand Art Studio.” July 4, 10 am-5 pm. Free with admission. Mobius Kids, 808 W. Main. mobiusspokane.org (624-5437) PENNANT RUN The 3rd annual Spokane Indians Fourth of July Pennant Run benefits the Wounded Warrior Project.

Distances include 1K, 5K and a Little Sluggers Dash for kids age 3 and under (free). July 4, 10:30 am. $15-$35. Avista Stadium, 602 N. Havana St. spokaneindianspennantrun.com (343-6807) WOMEN OF INDEPENDENCE & FREEDOM Spokane Feminist Forum invites the public

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FESTIVAL

RIVERSTONE STREET FAIR Coeur d’Alene’s Riverstone Village hosts a weekly outdoor market and street fair, hosting 200+ vendors of arts and crafts, food, live music, a farmers market and more. Thursdays from 4-9 pm, June 5-Aug. 28. Free. riverstonestreetfair.com (509-703-9345) GREEN BLUFF STRAWBERRY CELEBRATION Strawberries at local farms are ready to pick fresh from the field during the weekends of June 28-29 and July 5-6. Green Bluff Growers, Mead. greenbluffgrowers.com SPOKANE ROSE SHOW The 67th annual showcase of locally-cultivated roses and rose arrangements, hosted by the Spokane Rose Society. Also includes seminars and presentations. Roses also available to purchase from the nursery.

June 28, 8 am-4 pm. Free. Northland Rosarium, 9405 S. Williams Ln. spokanerosesociety.org (448-4968) SCHWEITZER SUMMER CELEBRATION The mountain officially opens for the summer, offering free chair lift rides, arts and craft vendors, a barbecue, climbing wall, mountain biking, live music and more. June 29, 10 am-5 pm. Schweitzer Mountain Resort, Sandpoint. schweitzer. com (208-255-3081)

FILM

EPIC Screening as part of the theater’s Summer Family Movies series. (Rated PG) June 23-27, daily at 9:30 am. $1. Garland Theater, 924 W. Garland. (327-1050) KIDS’ SUMMER MOVIES The Kenworthy hosts summer movie screenings every Wed-Thur (June 25-26; July 2-3) at 1 pm. $3/film; $20/summer pass. Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St, Moscow. kenworthy.org (208882-4127) SAVING MR. BANKS Film screening as part of the Global Cinema Cafe Series.

June 26-28 at 7:30 pm. Thurs.-Sat.. through June 28. Panida Theater, 300 N. First, Sandpoint. (208-263-9191) THE WONDERS OF WILDERNESS FILM FESTIVAL Public events celebrating the 50th Anniversary of The Wilderness Act are held through this fall across the Inland Northwest, including a wilderness

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June 28. Free. The Shop, 924 S. Perry St. (534-1647) TURBO Screening as part of the theater’s Summer Family Movies series. (Rated PG) June 30-July 4, daily at 9:30 am. $1. Garland Theater, 924 W. Garland. (327-1050) DOLLAR SUMMER MOVIES Screening sponsored by the Kootenai Alliance for Children and Families. July 1-2, 10 am. $1.

Regal Cinemas Riverstone Stadium 14, 2416 Old Mill Loop. (800-326-3264) OUTDOOR MOVIES AT RIVERFRONT PARK: UP Outdoor showing on the big screen, with pre-film performance by Spokane Aerial Performance Arts, movie trivia and local food trucks. July 2, 7-10 pm. $5. Riverfront Park. (625-6601) FROZEN SING-A-LONG Screening of the new Disney hit with subtitles for the audience to sing-a-long. July 3. Free. Pavillion Park, 727 N. Molter Rd. pavillionpark. org (755-6726)

FOOD & DRINK

SUMMER SAMPLER Sandpoint’s annual outdoor food festival offers samples from the city’s top restaurants, along with cook-offs, a beer/wine garden and live music. Samples priced $3-$8. June 26, 5-8 pm. Farmin Park, Third and Main.

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Hillyard Library, 4005 N. Cook. (444-5331) MUSIC, MICROS & BARBECUE The second installment of the summer entertainment series features live music by Joel Brantley and beer from Laughing Dog Brewery of Sandpoint, as well as a barbecue buffet ($14). June 28, 5-9 pm.

Coeur d’Alene Casino, 37914 S Hwy 95. cdacasino.com (800-523-2467) SPOKANE ON THE ROCKS Annual craft spirits and beer event, featuring more than 40 beer/wine/spirits and food vendors. June 28, 11 am-7 pm. Free admission. INB Performing Arts Center, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. spokaneontherocks.com (621-0125) ASIAN DUMPLINGS CLASS Learn how to master the art of rolling, filling and forming Asian dumplings with Chef Laurie Faloon. July 1, 6-8 pm. $49. Inland Northwest Culinary Academy (INCA), 1810 N. Greene St. (533-8141) NEIGHBORHOOD BARBECUE SERIES Central Lutheran Church hosts weekly neighborhood barbecues every Wednesday at 6 pm, June 25-Aug. 27. Also includes games for all ages after the meal and the chance to get to know your neighbors. Free. Central Lutheran Church, 512 S. Bernard St. (624-9233) SUNSET DINNER CRUISES King Estate Winery is on-board sharing their wine selections on July 2, from 7:30-9:30 pm. Then on July 3, Olison Brewing Co. is the hosted brewery. $51.75. Coeur d’Alene Resort, 115 S. 2nd. cdaresort.com (208-765-4000 x 21)

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RUBY DEVINE American folk music concert for children. Performing June 26 at the Hillyard branch, at 3 pm; June 27 at the downtown branch, at 2 pm; and June 28 at the Shadle branch, at 3 pm. Free. spokanelibrary.org (444-5300) WASHINGTON IDAHO SYMPHONY An evening of jazz music, heavy hors d’oeuvres, sangria and dessert. June 27, 7-10 pm. $65. BellTower, 125 SE Spring St., Pullman. washingtonidahosymphony.org (334-4195) BASE: SONGWRITING WORKSHOP A four-session interactive songwriting workshop led by local musician Scott Ryan, for beginning to advanced songwriters, with a showcase finale at The Bartlett. Meets June 28, July 12, 19 and Aug. 9 from noon-2 pm. (Ages 16+) $75.

The Bartlett, 228 W. Sprague Ave. thebartlettspokane.com/base RED, WHITE AND BLUES An event to honor local Vets with live blues music and a barbecue. June 28, 5-10 pm. $6. Spokane Elks Lodge @338, 2605 N. Robie St. (926-2328) ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL Concert by the Grammy Award-winning, Austin, Tex.based country/western swing band. July 3, 7:30 pm. $34-$44. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague. bingcrosbytheater. com (227-7404) SPOKANE JAZZ ORCHESTRA The local music group presents its annual Fourth of July Celebration concert, featuring vocalists Patrice Thompson and Jon Brownell, under the direction of Tom Molter. July 4, 7:30-10 pm. Free. Riverfront Park, 705 N. Howard St. spokanejazz.org (435-1007)

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CAMP COOKING BASICS Learn how to set up an outdoor kitchen and create easy meals for the whole family. Class is to be held outdoors (weather permitting) with an opportunity to taste REI staff’s culinary creations. June 26, 7 pm. Free. REI, 1125 N. Monroe. rei.com/spokane (328-9900) THURSDAY NIGHT PADDLES The CdA Canoe & Kayak club hosts weekly paddles, open to the public, Thursdays from 5:307:30 pm. See site for details. Free. cdaca- Learn more at avistalegacy.com noekayakclub.com NEWPORT RODEO The city’s biggest summer event. June 27-28; Friday rodeo Learn more at avistalegacy.com at 7 pm, Saturday parade at 11 am and rodeo at 7 pm. Newport, Wash. (360770-1180)

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RELATIONSHIPS

Advice Goddess CArbon DAtinG

I am a single 58-year-old woman with a one-year subscription to eHarmony. In the six months I’ve been on, only two men have contacted me. Of the dozen men I’ve reached out to, only one responded, and nothing came of it. I’m stumped as to why I’m getting such a sparse response. I am attractive, am very fit, have a career, and own a home. Is my online dating experience typical for women my age? Sad to think I’ll face the next 20 to 25 AMY ALKON years without a partner. And I am NOT just sitting at home waiting for a man to fall into my lap. I’m in a cycling club, a wine group, a music lovers group, and a craft beer group. Yet none of it has produced a boyfriend. —Cobwebs On dating sites, where the face-to-face embarrassment of overstepping the bounds of reality has been removed, 70-something men are hitting on 30-something women as fast as their wrinkly fingers can hit “send.” In other words, the youngest guy to even include 58-year-old women in his search criteria will likely want to talk about Titanic — not the movie but the boat wreck he survived.

Sure, dating sites promote themselves as a bonanza-in-waiting for people of all ages, but the truth is, online dating is heavily skewed toward younger people.

It works like dog years. You may be 58 on your passport and driver’s license, but in Match.com years, you’re 406 going on 407. Also, men on dating sites care first and foremost about your four or five profile pictures (in which you’re competing with pix of women in their early 20s — typically the height of female hotitude).

Musical interests? Favorite hobbies? You may as well list them in Cantonese.

But there is hope for you, and it comes from behavioral economics research

by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky. It turns out that we decide the value of things not out of the blue but rather by comparing them with similar alternatives.

In other words, you need an “anchor” to make yourself look more attractive to men, and no, I’m not suggesting you start accessorizing with the big iron thing from a ship. An anchor is a reference point for comparison. For example, after hearing about this concept on my radio show, a lumber company owner started stocking an expensive ceiling tile next to the one he sells a ton of, in order to make buyers feel they were getting a really good deal.

Likewise, as a 58-year-old who takes care of herself, you’ll look far more appealing in a neighborhood filled with 58-year-old reference points than 20-something ones. Like, for example, on a dating site specifically for singles over 50, such as OurTime.com. The same goes for activities. The best groups for you are those where you aren’t the anchor making some 22-year-old of average attractiveness look hot. It may also help to acknowledge and even try to laugh about how hard dating is for women your age. Seeing this simply as an annoying fact of life after 50 may help you take it less personally. It could also lead you to a greater appreciation of later life’s small victories, like when sex ends with a man rolling over and snoring (as opposed to being zipped into a bag by the coroner).

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My best friend’s new boyfriend is a convicted sex offender who has three children from three different women. He has no job and pays no child support. I’ve tried in vain to convince her that he’s a bad bet. They keep insisting we all go to dinner so I can “get to know” him. How do I explain that I want nothing to do with him without ruining our friendship?

—Uncomfortable When your friend meets guys online, it shouldn’t be on MegansLaw.com.

Unfortunately, pointing this out to her is probably futile. We’re slaves to our ego, determined to see ourselves as smart, lovable, and making wise choices, even if it takes believing the unbelievable: “Soulmate, inmate — what’s the difference?”

What you don’t have to do is accept their offer of a ringside seat. Instead, tell her you’re happy she’s happy but you’d prefer to spend time with her alone. Her knowing you disapprove of him may put a gash in your friendship, but it may be a smaller gash if you stop trying to convince her. This may mean you’ll be around when she needs you most — after things go south. Maybe you can at least keep her from immediately seeking his replacement, like by dolling herself up and lingering outside parole hearings: “Hey, handsome…didn’t I see you on ‘Law & Order: Special Victims Unit’?” n ©2014, 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 WEEKEND FISHERMEN’S RETREAT Faith-based fishing retreat, including tips and advice from experts Pat Neal, a North Olympic Peninsula fishing guide, author and humorist on Steelhead hot spots, and Deacon Allen Peterson, owner of Swede’s Fly Shop of Spokane on fly fishing, and more. Open to men and women of all ages. June 27-29. $185/ overnight; $100/commuters. Immaculate Heart Retreat Center, 6910 S. Ben Burr Rd. ihrc.net (448-1224) FESTIVAL CAMPING PREP REI staff lead a class on how to best pack and prep for overnight camping at a music or cultural festival this summer. Offered June 28 at 11 am, and July 17 at 7 pm.

Free. REI, 1125 N. Monroe. rei.com/spokane (328-9900) HOOPFEST Participate in or be a spectator at Spokane’s annual three-onthree basketball tournament. June 2829. Free to watch. Downtown Spokane. spokanehoopfest.net (624-2414) SWIMMING CLINICS USA Swimmingcertified coaches provide individual swimming stroke analysis, stroke theory, tips and more. June 28 and Aug. 9 from 9-10 am. *(These are not swim lessons; participants must be able to swim freestyle for 50 meters.) Free. Mission Park, 1208 E. Mission Ave. spokaneareaswimming.org (625-6200) IRONMAN COEUR D’ALENE The annual triathlon race is popular for both athletes and spectators, and features a 2.4-mile swim in Lake CdA, a 112-mile bike ride and a 26.2-mile run. June 29. ironmancda.com SPOKANE BADMINTON CLUB Meets Sun from 4:30-7 pm and Wed from 7-10 pm. $6/visit. West Central Community Center, 1603 N. Belt. wccc.myspokane. net (448-5694) SPOKANE TABLE TENNIS CLUB Pingpong club meets Wed from 6:30-9 pm and Sun from 1:30-4 pm. $2/visit.

Southside Senior & Community Center, 3151 E. 27th Ave. sssac.org (456-3581) SPOKANE TABLE TENNIS Ping-pong club meets Mon and Wed, from 6-9 pm, now at the HUB in Liberty Lake. $3/visit.

HUB Sports Center, 19619 E. Cataldo Ave, Liberty Lake. spokanetabletennis. com (768-1780) SPOKE’S ON YOU A basic bike maintenance clinic with Paul Edwards of Argonne Cycle, including how to fix a flat, make minor adjustments and more. Bring your bike if you can. June 30, 7 pm. Free. Argonne Library, 4322 N. Argonne Rd. (893-8260) GREAT FAMILY HIKES Presenter Kathy Kalich shares the ins and outs of Spokane’s best hikes for all ability levels.

July 1, 6:30 pm. Free. East Side Library, 524 S. Stone St. (444-5375) PADDLING BASICS A class offering an overview on canoes, kayaks and standup paddleboards and related equipment. July 3, 6:30 pm. Free. REI, 1125 N. Monroe. rei.com/spokane (328-9900) SPOKANE INDIANS VS. VANCOUVER CANADIANS July 4-6, games at 6:30 pm daily. $5-$11/single game. Avista Stadium, 602 N. Havana St. spokaneindians.com (535-2922) WRESTLERAVE VIII Spokane Anarchy Wrestling presents its biggest and first show of the year, feat. live professional wrestling. Also accepting non-perishable food for Peaceful Valley Community Center food bank. July 5, 4-7 pm.

Free. Peaceful Valley Community Center, Spokane. tinyurl.com/o4pbqtr

THEATER

THE FOREIGNER Comedy/farce.

Through June 28, Wed-Sun; show times vary. $12-$28. Interplayers Theatre, 174 S. Howard. interplayerstheatre.org (455-7529) GUYS AND DOLLS Performance of the classic musical comedy. Through June 28, Thur-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $14-$20. Lake City Playhouse, 1320 E. Garden Ave. lakecityplayhouse.org (208-667-1323) CDA MURDER MYSTERY THEATRE: THE MAFIA MURDERS A dinner-theater performance during which characters are introduced, a murder occurs, questions and clues arise, and the audience has a chance to guess who dunnit, and the mystery is eventually solved.

June 27 and Aug. 15 from 6-9 pm. $30$35, reservations suggested. Coeur d’Alene Cellars, 3890 N. Schreiber Way. cdacellars.com (208-664-2336) CHARLEY’S AUNT A comedy/farce in three acts. June 27-July 13, Fri-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $10-$15 (includes 5 samplers). Masquers Theatre, 322 E. Main Ave, Soap Lake, Wash. masquers. com (509-246-2611) HAPPY A one-night staged reading of the acclaimed play by University of Idaho prof. Robert Caisley, performed by the Idaho Reparatory Theatre. June 27, 7:30 pm. $30. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St., Moscow. kenworthy.org (208885-6465) MARY MARY The celebrated romantic comedy is presented by Sandpoint Onstage. June 27-28 at 7:30 pm and Sat, June 21 at 2 pm. Heartwood Center, 615 S. Oak St. sandpointonstage.com (208263-8699) PIRATES OF PENZANCE A comedic operetta presented in a Victorian-era, melodramatic style. Through June 29, Fri-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 3 pm. $5-$12.

Pend Oreille Playhouse, 240 N. Union Ave., Newport. pendoreilleplayers.org (509-447-9900) DIRTY DEEDS IN DALLAS OR OIL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL Summer season production of an original, locallywritten Western-themed melodrama.

July 2-27, Wed-Sat at 7 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $16-$18. Sixth Street Theater, 212 Sixth St. sixthstreetmelodrama.com (208-752-8871) COEUR D’ALENE SUMMER THEATRE: MY FAIR LADY Lerner and Loewe’s masterpiece is the centerpiece of CST’s 2014 season. July 10-27, Thurs-Sun at 7:30 pm, Sat-Sun at 2 pm. $49/adults, $42/ seniors, $27/kids 12 and younger. Kroc Center, 1765 W. Golf Course Rd. cdasummertheatre.com (208-660-2958) TOMATO PLANT GIRL Outdoor theater performance on the Hartung lawn, picnics welcome. July 10-12, July 24-26 and July 31-Aug. 2, all shows at 7 pm. $5/youth, $15/adults. University of Idaho Hartung Theater, 709 Deakin Ave. uidaho.edu/class/irt (208-885-6465)

VISUAL ARTS

AN ART OF DECEPTION Artist Frank Werner gives a talk on the theme of: “Folk art collides with contemporary art in a post-modern field.” June 27, 4 pm.

Free. Jundt Art Museum, 502 E. Boone Ave. (313-6613 or 208-245-7926) MARIE HARCUS Artist reception showcasing the artist’s whimsical mixedmedia paintings, with food, wine tasting and live music. June 27, 6-9 pm.

Vintage Vines, 106 N. Evergreen Rd. vintageineswineshop.com (227-9463) SANDPOINT ARTWALK Sandpoint businesses and galleries host juried art exhibits for the 37th annual ArtWalk showcase throughout the summer tourist season, through Sept. 12. Free.

See website for list of participating venues’ hours and featured artists. artsinsandpoint.org/37th-annual-artwalk “HORSES” GALLERY SHOW A horsethemed regional group show, featuring images in watercolor, photography, clay, batik, iron and more. July 1-30, with an artist reception during CdA ArtWalk July 11, from 5-8 pm. Free. Gallery Northwest, 217 E. Sherman Ave. thegallerynorthwest.com (208-667-5700) GAY WALDMAN: COLOR CONCEPTS Featuring the artist’s digitally enhanced photo collages on metal, from July 1-31.

Artist reception July 6, from 1-3 pm.

Entree Gallery, 1755 Reeder Bay Rd., Priest Lake. entreegallery.com (208443-2001) PATTY HAAG & TOM O’DAY “Everybody’s Home is Not a Place” features mixed media by O’Day, influenced by his recent travels to Scotland, and Haag’s acrylic paintings depict her visit to Tibet. Both at instructors at SFCC. July 1-31, gallery hours Mon-Thurs from 9 am-3 pm. Artist reception July 1 from 5-7 pm. Free. Spokane Falls Community College, 3410 W. Fort George Wright Dr. spokanefalls.edu (533-3710) SUMI-E PAINTINGS Exhibit showcasing sumi-e paintings by Keiko Von Holt, Ann Haseman, Jane Beaven, Olivia Waterman and other local artists.

July 1, from 11 am-9 pm. Free to view.

Gordy’s Sichuan Cafe, 501 E. 30th Ave. (747-1170) DIANE WARD The local wildlife photographer’s work is on display in her exhibit “Three Babes in a Bucket.” July 1-31, open daily during library hours.

Free. CdA Public Library, 702 E. Front Ave. cdalibrary.org (208-769-2315) PAINTING AT TWILIGHT Local watercolorist Kelly Merrick leads a painting class, with cider maker Will Jordan sharing the cidery’s latest releases, with appetizers and more. July 11, 6-8:30 pm. $40/person. Twilight Cider Works, 18102 N. Day Mt. Spokane Rd. twilightciderworks.com (570-8563)

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CDA IN THE 20TH CENTURY A 12-month lecture series hosted by the library and the Museum of North Idaho, presented by regional historian Robert Singletary. Held on the fourth Thursday of each month at 7 pm. Free. Coeur d’Alene Public Library, 702 E. Front Ave. cdalibrary.org (208-769-2315) AUTHOR MICHAEL HILTZIK The L.A. Times Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and author of “Colossus: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century and The New Deal: A Modern History” presents about the Great Depression themes in his books and his thoughts on some solutions born out of the necessities of the 1930s. Hosted as part of the “Hope in Hard Times” exhibit. June 28, 2-3 pm. Free. Spokane Valley Library, 12004 E. Main. scld.org (893-8400) BROKEN MIC Spokane Poetry Slam’s weekly open mic reading series, open to all readers and all-ages. Wednesdays at 6:30 pm. Free. Neato Burrito, 827 W. First. spokanepoetryslam.org

3 MINUTE MIC Auntie’s monthly open mic poetry event continues with U. S. Children’s Poet Laureate Kenn Nesbitt featuring in the “Remember the Word” showcase. July 3, 7-8:45 pm. Free. Auntie’s Bookstore, 402 W. Main. (838-0206)

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WANDERLUST CIRCUS Portland’s “Proudest Circus Family” performs its high-flying acrobatics, aerialism, gymnastics, and hijinks, with a guest performance by Spokane Aerial Performance Arts. June 26, 7-9 pm. $17. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague. wanderlustcircus.com (227-7638) MONSTER TRUCK MASH-UP Featuring the All-Star Monster Truck Tour, and offering VIP passes to meet the drivers and

ride in a truck at local O’Reilly Auto Parts stores. June 27-28, at 7:30 pm. $12-$15.

Kootenai County Fairgrounds, 4056 N. Gov’t Way. northidahofair.com (208-7654969) ST. JOHN’S CATHEDRAL TOURS Guided tours of the historic cathedral, featuring Medieval-style French stained glass by Charles J. Connick and Willet & Sons.

Tours offered Wed, Fri and Sat from 11 am-2 pm. Free. St. John’s Cathedral, 127 E. 12th. stjohns-cathedral.org (838-4277) WOMEN CREATING SUCCESS CONFERENCE Annual conference hosted by the CdA Chamber of Commerce, hosting keynote speaker First Lady of Idaho Lori Otter and other local women leaders. June 27. $59. Best Western Coeur d’Alene, 506 W. Appleway Ave. cdachamber.com

(208-415-0111) FLOWER POWER SINGLES DANCE A 60s and 70s-inspired dance, with a best costume contest, music by DJ Dan and socializing. June 28, 8 pm. $10. Sinto Activity Center, 1124 W. Sinto. (464-1524) ARGENTINE TANGO LESSONS Lessons for beginning to advanced dancers. Sundays at 1 pm. $5. Home studio at 1907 E. Marshall Ave. (formerly held at the Spokane Women’s Club). (534-4617) ARGENTINE TANGO LESSONS No experience or partner necessary. Lessons on Mondays from 6:30-7 pm, practice from 7-9 pm. $10, or $5/practice only. Spokane Tango, 2117 E. 37th Ave. spokanetango. com (688-4587) SPOKANE MOVES TO AMEND THE

CONSTITUTION The local activist group meets on the first Tuesdays of the month. at 6:30 pm. Donations accepted. Liberty Park Methodist Church, 1526 E. 11th Ave. (844-1776) BEAUTY PRO NIGHTS The Make-Up Studio hosts its beauty classes on the first Wednesday of the month, from 5:30-7 pm. Topics each month vary, see website for more details. RSVP required.

The Make-Up Studio, 216 N. Bernard St. (455-7430) PALOUSE EMPIRE APPALOOSA CLUB SHOW The PEAC “Fistful of Silver” show features Appaloosas and an open breed horse show, offering prizes in a variety of categories. July 4-6. Spokane County Fair & Expo Center, 404 N. Havana St. peaclub.com (688-3820)

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Calypsos 5pm June 17th, it was a rainy day and I saw you in Calypsos with 2 friends. You had a teal colored rain jacket and blond hair. I had out a few notebooks and was reading my bible. We exchanged several glances but I was to nervous to greet you. I’d like a second chance to meet you.

RE: Blast From The Past In re; the ad several months back “blast from the past” simply you are way too good for me, and honestly I am still not over my ex, nor will I probably ever truly be.

with one another after all we have been through. You are the only woman that has or will ever own my heart and I love you as much today as I did that fateful day, August 27, 2002. You are and always will be the prettiest part of my heart and the very best part of my soul.

Forever yours in love ... Grizz

Get Along? Could everyone here just get along? I guess that it’s probably a no. Would be great if everyone did get along.

Tiger on The Loose Part Deux Your brown eyes caught me off guard again. What can I say about your beauty that wouldn’t be an understatement. My heart skipped again as you glanced my way from your silver car. If there is any possible way we meet again I hope I have the courage to talk to my “Tiger” Can I purr for you?...Soon my love...

Beautiful Bar Owner Your name is Mel and you are the new owner of The Hop Shop. You don’t know me, and I swear I’m not creepy, but who can help but notice you? I have admired you for weeks and can see that you are a perfect combination of insecurity and confidence, shyness and ferocity, grace and awkwardness, intelligence and humility. I heard you were widowed young and still single so I can only assume that every available man in Spokane is a blind idiot or like me: convinced you are far too good for us. I believe you to be perfect and I know you are light years out of my league, so I will worship you from the bar stool and cover my smile when you break yet another glass.

Winco tattooed hottie I don’t exactly remember your tattoos, all I know is that you had them on your upper arms, like you said it was whirlwind I couldn’t help but be distracted by your beauty. You know where I work come and find me so we can get dinner some time.

Sacred Heart Hottie! You: blonde/ blue and in charge! I know you are on the 15-2300 shift and I see you work your magic on the floor. Your staff loves you and that’s apparent.

I “see” you in all that you do and how big your heart is. I’m not staff...I’m just crazy about you. I’m waiting for you to see me... more than you already do! Open your eyes! Open your heart!! Take a chance again and KNOW that it’s worth the risk! To the staff in the ER.. someone point this out to your favorite charge!

Downtown Dominos You: Ashley.

Me: Ryan. I’m your customer periodically at the downtown Dominos. Asking you out while you’re at work seems awkward, so here I am... Email me some time, runningman229@gmail.com

RE: Stranded Redhead Yes, a car was broke down but it wasn’t mine. I was helping a friend.

However if you thought I was gorgeous and you wanted to take me for a drink shouldn’t you have stopped?? Hmmmm I would think a real interested man would have stopped to help no matter how many people were there. So tell me....do I give you another chance to earn a drink with me???

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Cheers Doyle’s Ice Cream Cheers to Doyle’s Ice Cream, Spokane’s classic ice cream parlor. Cheers to the man who left a few dollars to cover the cost of ice cream cones for my grandkids and me. Doyle’s is classic in lots of ways including taking only cash. Telling the kids we’d figure out what we could choose with the cash I had, this man overheard and quietly left money to cover our treat in case I was short. A classic and classy gift, thank you! Thanks to Doyle’s for the tasty treats, great service to each of us including our spills, and for providing tasty homemade ice cream and classic display of toys, collected over many decades.

Happy Happy Birthday Happy birthday to my sister Chris. You are a wonderful, caring, a loving sister. On this day and through out the year I wish you peace, joy, good food and friends, exciting adventures, but most of all happiness all year. Happy Birthday, your sister Vicki Marsha It’s been almost 12 years since that fateful moment when we first met and my heart was lost to you forever. Since then we’ve been together, apart, estranged, you name it. Yet, through it all, no matter how hard you and I have both fought it, we have always remained in love with one another.

So it is, my love that I propose that we put aside our past differences, hurts, slights and arguments and instead rejoice that even separated we are still here, friends and in love

Good Samaritan To the girl in the blue Jeep. I was the little red truck broke down. You helped push me into the Rite-Aid parking lot. In this day and age, it’s nice to see others help others. You’re my hero.

Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.

Jeers Spokane Drivers To the woman in the dark blue Honda driving north on Division going into NorthTown Mall during rush hour. Let me first say that your erratic driving was the best. No one else could drive that terrible. It might be your fantastic ability to cut people off while texting and smoking a cigarette, but your driving was top notch awful. Let’s just hope I don’t see you again. You are the poster child for everything wrong with Spokane drivers.

Karma Remember what goes around comes around when you least expect it ten times over.

People do not realize their actions now will come back to haunt them later. Remember what goes around comes around 10 times harder.

Reform To all you minimum wage workers who collect food stamps and get subsidized health care.... that wage increase is going to put you over the threshold to qualify for food stamps and health care subsidy......the democrats want to cut these entitlements in half and this is how they will accomplish it.

Job Listings Who would respond to an ad that doesn’t even tell you what the job is. Like sales jobs that don’t say what you’re selling or delivery jobs that don’t say what you’d be delivering. Why don’t some companies want us to know what they do? Is it that bad?

Question? This girl broke up with me without even speaking to me.

Did it through a text. Are women today that out of touch? And they claim men are insensitive! OH! And she’s 35

Tipping We went out to eat Friday, June 13th, the service was par. No complaints other than an overly ambitious server, who stopped and asked how we were doing every Liars To the people out there who single time he walked by (about 5 meet someone and lie about who times after taking our food order). I they are. You think it’s harmless, get that, he’s trying to be helpful. I you’re unhappy with your life so tipped the guy 30% simply because you create a new one? Someone I didn’t feel like waiting for him befriends you and you lie to them to get my change. As I’m getting about everything. At first it may ready to leave, the gentleman seem harmless, just a little white takes the book containing the lie. But when those lies go on and check and walks away. He returns on it becomes sick and twisted. only a moment later, before going You play with people’s feelings to to the register (I assume because make yourself feel better. Did you he opened the check and looked ever stop to think maybe they liked before he made it to the counter) you for you? Not your title or how , and says to me out loud; “The much money or how many houses enormous tip you gave me is very much appreciated.” I personally felt like this was a bit brash and slightly inappropriate. I understand that he was attempting to be polite, but I don’t see why announcing my gratuity Cavities H. is this week’s winner of the to the tables surrounding me “Say it Sweet” promotion! is necessary.

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you had. And in the end you lost more than you gained. You lost a real friend, and those are hard to come by. But maybe you’re too out of touch to realize it. Hope it was worth it.

on a Friday night was a eye opener.

Homeless people using a gurney to sleep off a liquor fueled stupor, questionable looking people faking illness just to score some drugs and yet nothing to tie them down from causing havoc. Regulations, protocol for medical personal of all sorts needs to be re-evaluated in making a better call on who to restrain and who not too. Having a older parent that have lost their facilities is not a easy task, we must guard them with the same care, love and compassion as we do our small children. The rules that are in place needs serious reconsideration.

you can afford better clothes. The SUV you parked across two spaces gave it away. How is it possible to purchase a big grocery cart of food and go to the food bank in one day?

You must be exhausted. Relax and have a beer it’s on me. Disgusting

Road Rage Maniac What on earth is wrong with you? Is your life as miserable as I can only imagine it is? If so, I’m terribly, terribly sorry for you. I recommend you immediately seek a mental health evaluation, as well as a vasectomy.

Just wondering, who do you think you are? The speed limit is the speed limit. Get use to it.

Daytime Running Lights I saw you driving at night with no taillights!! People! Please check your tail lights, if you continually use your day time running lights! They do not light up, even though your headlights and dash are well lit! I work late (after midnight) and I see this a lot! Headlights on and nothing in the back! Check and make sure you have tail-lights!!

Elderly Care To those in the field of taking care of the elderly. I know there are many of you out there who actually have compassion towards them as they were your own parent(s)/grandparent(s) but the other people that it’s just a job and a paycheck, here is a middle finger and a punch in the throat, as well. My mother had wandered (unattended) out the front door of her facility and hobbled down their lengthy driveway onto the Palouse Highway up off 57th, but not one of the staff noticed? Long story short, she was located and shackled by her wrists and ankles by the paramedics. Pure terror a 7 mile ride without seeing a familiar face must have been for her. My Mom is 86 years old (dementia) and maybe 125 pounds, so I seriously doubt she had much fight in her after being traumatized. When I arrived at the ER, she was still in restraints.

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Re: Everyone’s Least Favorite Employee I agree with the person in last week’s jeers about this. I’ve worked retail almost my whole working life and I can tell you that people really do abuse clothes and everything else that a store will sell. I have a Marketing degree that is ten years old that no one wants.

To say to someone “Get a better job”, or “Quit”, is almost like telling a terminally ill person to “Get Better”. Where are the better jobs?

Yes, leaving clothes rumpled up in piles damages them. I’ve worked in several clothing stores and I can attest to the fact that many people will not buy clothes that do not have the original store folds in them. If you love your job so much maybe you should marry it. P.S. Unless you are a child or you have a bladder condition, there is NO excuse for peeing just anywhere.

Garage Sale Whiner You were upset because you thought you were ripped off by selling some fishing lures at your garage sale too cheaply. Dude---or---Dudette, do your homework! You have a computer. Look up the values on Ebay or some other venue

Driving When I got my license when I was 16, I really enjoyed driving so much because of the obvious reasons. The freedom to go wherever I wanted without having to depend on my parents anymore. I even decided to go get a class B license to get a job driving and now I am so glad I never found a job driving because, fast forward to today when I’m 40 and I absolutely hate driving now.

It’s not the actual task of driving, it’s having to deal with the amount of completely asinine drivers that are now on the road. I really do not understand what happened. When I first started driving, morons were at a minimum and through the years I just saw that number increase and increase. Every single time I have to go out I come across at least 10 idiotic drivers. I swear I have a huge sign painted on my car that says, “Sure, go ahead cut me off. I like being tailgated. Please T-bone me.” I’m at a point now where I don’t even drive unless absolutely necessary because I have become afraid to get behind the wheel for any amount of time.

So I don’t even drive to places that I use to to have fun. And forget about driving just to go for a drive.

Really, what the hell happened?

I can’t fathom how some of the people I come across got their license. Does the road test now consist of just playing Grand Theft Auto and the instructor saying, “Try not to do that when you’re actually driving.” and hand them the license and send them on their merry way?

Thank You! “To the male passenger who drove by me and my dog. It seems to me you felt the need to remind me that I have no business wearing short shorts in 80 degree weather, which will only get hotter in the day. While yes, I am a larger person and do agree with you, you’ve happily proved my point as to why I hate being outside and getting in some exercise so that I may lose some weight. But, that would be beside my point - You seemed to have felt the need to let me know what you think of fat people trying to keep themselves from dying ’S K E the heat. So, yes.. once THIS WE ! inagain, thank you to the male ANSWERS passenger who felt the need to LOUDLY let me know of how he felt about fat people trying to keep themselves cool while they walk their dog. I wish you nothing but what you deserve. Truly, I do.

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Achievement Unlocked Video games are dangerous, but not for the reason you think

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Yet, as someone raised by video games — I’ve contracted dysentery in The Oregon Trail, headcrabs in HalfLife and zombie-ism in The Walking Dead — I now believe they are, in fact, dangerous. Not because they make us aggressive. Because they make us feel like we’ve truly done something.

Our psyche craves accomplishment. Without it, we’re left with unease, a desperate desire to become somebody better, create something grander, do something bigger.

It’s a craving that drives midlife or quarter-life crises. It’s a catalyst to change careers, move to a new country or launch a startup. It makes us work harder and longer, sends us to hit the gym or the library or the learning annex.

One problem: Video games satisfy that same urge.

They’re like cheat codes, allowing us to wallhack through all those barriers and hurdles standing between us and a feeling of triumph.

Yes, some games make you earn that feeling of success, requiring you to solve fiendish puzzles or reforge muscle memory to adapt to convoluted dodge-attack patterns. But for many others, you’re just a “match three”

game away from the sounding of trumpets. “Divine!” the Candy Crush announcer shouts in a silky baritone after successfully lining up three virtual candies. “Tasty!”

The Plinko-style game Peggle bathes you in bright colors and pleasing sound effects, and literally plays “Ode to Joy” when you clear the board. Form a long word in the Boggle-style Bookworm Adventures and a little cartoon worm cries out, in high-pitched awe, “ASTONISHING!” All that praise and easy accomplishment goes a long way toward soothing us angsty types. A 2011 East Carolina University study measured biofeedback of subjects playing Bookworm Adventures and Peggle and found the games significantly reduced their symptoms of depression and anxiety.

But it’s precisely that ability to distract from more complicated feelings where video games pose the biggest risk. It’s not that video games are bad for you. It’s that they’re good enough to work as a substitute — an escape — for tougher, more important things. According to a 2013 Psychology Today overview of research, those who play games to get “a sense of victory or control over” their lives are more likely to get addicted than those who play to have fun.

“Internet Gaming Disorder” made a cameo in the latest edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, warning that the rhythm of reward and achievement in online games, like World of Warcraft, can rewire a brain in a manner similar to drug addiction.

Consider Simpsons: Tapped Out, a mobile game I compulsively

played this winter. Ultimately, there was no actual game to it, other than tapping coins on a cellphone screen. But when I used those coins to plop down Moe’s Taverns and Duff Breweries onto the game’s empty lots, I saw my little Springfield grow. In a season when I felt directionless, I was building something, no matter how tiny, no matter how fictional.

Virtual achievement, no matter how petty, feels like victory. Xbox 360 games reward players with “Achievement Unlocked” pop-ups upon completing specific feats.

Naturally, some players set out to accomplish even the most mind-numbing achievements — finding all 200 virtual pigeons, say, or playing for 14 straight hours — just for that tiny victory.

But reality’s an even rougher grind. You can’t learn Spanish by trading in experience points. You can’t select “master the piano” on a level-up skill tree. And real life achievements — “Put away money for retirement” or “Called elderly family member” — are rarely as flashy as saving princesses, shooting down Star Destroyers or slaying Lords of Terror.

In adulthood, progression can be elusive and immeasurable. In video games, it’s virtual, yet feels tangible.

Your success is displayed with cold numbers on a stats screen, with the ever-more-wicked armor you drop on your barbarian, with the way you can effortlessly smite the dragons and giants that once crushed and charbroiled you.

Some clever developers have tried to take fix this fact, dressing up dull, real-life tasks with the addictive glitz of games. In my halting, sporadic attempts to learn Spanish, I’ve been using a mobile app called Duolingo — which, in fact, does try to teach you Spanish with experience points. It has achievements, levels and a currency to buy upgrades, just like a video game. Similar apps tackle running, weightlifting and dieting.

But aesthetic makeovers, sadly, can’t change fundamental truths: Learning a new language hurts your brain.

Running makes you tired. Weights are heavy. Life’s much easier slouched in a computer chair, feeling like you’re really getting somewhere, one click, swipe or button mash at a time.  danielw@inlander.com

Just one more level — then I’ll feel existentially satisfied.

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