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sunbaked farmer in a dusty corner of Washington is tied to people halfway around the world, linked by train, plane and barge to customers he’ll likely never meet. Globalization is no doubt complicated, with winners and losers here and abroad, but this much is clear: Washington is one of the most trade-dependent states in the union. And the trade war that is brewing this week has far-reaching consequences for everyone in the Evergreen State.

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Also this week: Contributor Chelsea Martin has compiled a lighthearted list of things you can do to make it at least sound like you’re having a fun, productive summer (page 27).

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few weekends ago, my son Connor had a group of entrepreneurial friends out to my lake cabin. We hung out on the dock, played games, enjoyed meals together and talked around the campfire. I admired the creativity and enthusiasm of the young men and women as we discussed a wide range of topics.

On the following Monday, Connor was reflecting upon the weekend and commented that one of his friends had said, “Tom will dad anyone.” Initially I was unsure what he meant by this, with “dad” as a verb, nor was I confident it was a compliment. He clarified that the statement implied I took interest in other people, adding that I wasn’t shy to offer unsolicited advice and guidance.

Viewing what Connor said through rosecolored glasses, I made a parallel between my interaction with his group of friends and mentorship. Mentorship is frequently discussed as an important component in the development of successful entrepreneurs, yet it’s a subject that is vaguely understood and often misinterpreted.

As I look back upon my career, I benefited from four different mentors, each at key moments, undertaking new jobs or professions.

Interestingly, however, I didn’t know they were mentoring me, or realize the impact of their influence until many years later. Equally enlightening, I doubt each of my mentors consciously intended to become a mentor to me. Mentorship cannot be arranged or forced, it generally occurs naturally.

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entorship begins as some form of relationship between an individual and someone in a position of influence over them (a boss, co-worker, colleague, investor, etc.) and develops as they gain mutual respect for one another. The mentor sees tremendous potential in the mentee, and the mentee values the experience and contributions of the mentor. They also enjoy each other’s company and, often, a close friendship develops.

Although mentorship may be accidental and unintended at the start, a presumptive mentee needs to be open to accepting advice. They cannot have a naïve or brash sense that they know it all.

A mentor is not someone who always tells you what you want to hear. They support you in decisions they agree with, open doors for you, point out opportunities and challenges and constructively warn you of potential pitfalls.

On the other hand, mentors need to allow a mentee to make poor decisions and learn from those mistakes. One of my mentors frequently said, “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.”

So true, but it is also important for a mentor to prevent a mentee from making fatal choices.

Effective mentors warn mentees of potentially poor outcomes and steer them away from destructive ones in various ways. Most obvious is

simple, direct communication, as in “don’t do that.” I haven’t found this to be an effective means of altering decisions otherwise made by bright and tenacious young adults. War stories from a mentor’s experience, however, are more influential.

Leading by example is of equal impact. When I was a fresh investment banker, I shadowed my mentor as he solicited clients, prepared for meetings, led discussions, performed analysis, negotiated deals and celebrated the closing of a transaction. What I learned from observing and working alongside him continues to serve as my north star in business dealings.

One surprising subtlety in the mentor/mentee relationship is that the mentor is not always right.

Since mentors typically have several more years of experience than mentees, and because business models, markets and technology are constantly evolving and being disrupted, mentees may have more innovative or efficient solutions. Additionally, a mentee likely has a different style, approach or risk tolerance than their mentor. It’s important for mentors to understand these dynamics.

I feel I’ve been successful if someone I am mentoring accepts 60 percent of my input. In those cases where my guidance has not been followed, the constructive dialogue has often resulted in better results. I aspire to learn as much from those I have mentored as they have learned from me.

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he motivation to mentor is altruistic.

It’s purely out of selfless interest in the success of the mentee based on recognition of their talents and the opportunities before them. Having said that, mentorship is among the most fulfilling of life experiences.

A close friend of a person I was mentoring once interrogated me as to why I was being so helpful and what was in it for me. It wasn’t clear to her at the time, but it is now.

As time goes on, life happens, people move and mentors and mentees may lose contact with one another. Yet the nature of the relationship continues. My last mentor, community leader Dave Clack, continues to influence me today — in all walks of life.

I was recently skiing in Sun Valley and ran into Dave, who is very gifted on the slopes. After a few runs together, he asked if I was open to some pointers. Two hours later, although I fell a couple of times, I was skiing better than ever.

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COMMENT | MEDIA

The Publick Good How assaults on journalism are assaults on community

BY ZACH HAGADONE

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nyone who has ever worked in a newsroom knows Jarrod Ramos, the 38-year-old man charged with killing five people and injuring two others in a mass shooting June 28 at The Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland. He is the guy who never fails to leave a nasty comment on every story posted to the web; whose Twitter and Facebook feeds are never-ending

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streams of paranoid takedowns of reporters and editors; who fills inboxes with long denunciatory screeds.

Most times, he — and it’s almost always “he” — keeps his all-consuming beef against the paper online. Sometimes he visits the office armed with plastic grocery sacks brimming with reams of documents proving his case.

Sometimes, as in the case of the Gazette, he comes with a 12-gauge pump shotgun and smoke bombs, barricades the back exit and opens fire.

The murders in Annapolis followed years of online harassment directed at staff of the paper over a story published in 2011 detailing a social media stalking case in which Ramos was the defendant. A judge ruled in the paper’s favor in a defamation case brought by Ramos, which touched off the war of words. In 2013, managers considered filing misdemeanor charges against Ramos but decided not to for fear that it would only make matters worse. As the saying goes: Don’t feed the trolls.

It is a maxim that is harder to live by as trolls proliferate and gain in power, counting among their numbers a resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., who has declared

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Still, the morning after the massacre, a Google search for “The Capital Gazette” provided the following top two auto search suggestions: “liberal” and “liberal or conservative,” in that order. It was neither. The Gazette is a community news outlet covering city council meetings, local sports, arts and culture. Nor was Ramos’ alleged motive apparently political. Rather, it was seemingly rooted in an inarticulate rage that leaves no room in the world for people or institutions to live alongside it.

By assigning this attack a place in our vast partisan matrix, we obscure the reality that assaults on the practice and principle of journalism are also assaults on the connective tissue of community.

As printer John Campbell put it in the April 9, 1705, edition of the Boston News-Letter, the newspaper exists to serve “the Publick Good, to give a true Account of all Foreign and domestick Occurrences, and to prevent a great many false reports of the same.”

The evening of the Annapolis tragedy, the Poynter Institute echoed Campbell’s words when it described the killings as “a devastating reminder that journalism is difficult and dangerous work, performed in service to a greater good.” Yet, the United States has fallen two places to 45th on the World Press Freedom Index, which noted, “the climate of hatred is steadily more visible. … [M]ore and more democratically elected leaders no longer see the media as part of democracy’s essential underpinning, but as an adversary to which they openly display their aversion.”

Should this aversion prevail, we risk unraveling the threads of our shared identity.

The basic function of any news media is to provide people with a broader understanding of the world around them. But by vilifying news media as dangerously antiAmerican, when the press helped create and sustain the very idea of Americanness — half-joking about shooting reporters in the streets, as professional troll Milo Yiannopoulos did recently; and actually shooting newspaper employees in their own offices — we’ve established a perilous pattern of violating one of our sacred democratic spaces.

The newsroom is a factory floor, a classroom, a forum, a clubhouse, a confessional booth, the deck of a battle ship, an art studio; like the country itself, a mess spiced with stress and rivalry, camaraderie and commitment to achieving something together that too often — increasingly so — gets taken for granted. n Zach Hagadone is a former co-publisher/owner of the Sandpoint Reader, former editor of Boise Weekly and current grad student at Washington State University.

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DON’TriterBLAME THE BIG, BAD CAPITALIST Chelsea Martin’s June 28 commentary, “Crushin’ on Jeff

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Bezos” sure is clever, turning the liberal media’s favorite whipping boy — big, bad capitalist Amazon — on its head with a bit of

sarcasm.

But as easy a read as this was, I’m still unconvinced Amazon’s bigwig Bezos can cure that many ills. The U.S. debt, thanks to government spending on both sides, is never-ending, constantly generating and way over the capacity of any capitalist pig to wipe clean.

Bezos does what he can, though, within the free market system based on merit, hard work and America’s pioneering spirit.

Also, a not-so-very personal anecdote... If it weren’t for Bezos’ Amazon hiring my husband three years ago, we wouldn’t have been able to afford Seattle’s liberal lifestyle, or the jacked-up real estate, not to mention the medical care we suddenly needed for my husband’s bladder cancer and our then-13-year-old’s back-to-back-to-back ER visits preceding a baffling asthma diagnosis and ongoing treatment.

Hell, we’d probably be as homeless as the rest of the growing fringe population here.

So thanks but no thanks. I’ll take a job-generating “sociopath” like Bezos anyday.

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On the other hand, everything missing from Bezos’ largesse is expected and absent from our government, including the willingness to tax the billionaires of our country. This is where the real blame and shame belong.

LETTERS Even more than Bezos, our governSend comments to ment has the capacity to end world editor@inlander.com. hunger, end homelessness, bring safe and clean water to every person in the world and still have enough to line the pockets of the rich, although it may mean one less aircraft carrier.

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n his freshman year at Rogers High School, Isaiah Thompson realized he needed a change.

It wasn’t that he struggled in school. He regularly got A’s and B’s. But he craved a different kind of learning, something more hands-on. He didn’t think he could find that in a traditional public school.

“I wasn’t challenged at all,” Thompson, 15, tells the Inlander.

After hearing his friends rave about Innovation High School, a Spokane charter school connected to PRIDE Prep Middle School, he asked his mom, Crystal Benvenuti, if he could try to get in. After spending months on the waitlist, Thompson recently found out he’ll be attending Innovation in the fall.

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Increasingly, families across the area are starting to agree. Between Spokane’s two charter school systems — Spokane International Academy and PRIDE schools — the waitlist for students trying to get in stands at about 900. Nearly 600 are on the waiting list to get into Spokane International Academy, a kindergarten through eighth grade school. About 300 more are waiting to get into Innovation High School or PRIDE Prep Middle School. They’re among the highest charter school waitlists in the state.

“And it’s growing daily,” says Brenda McDonald, PRIDE Schools founder.

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hile the charter schools don’t have an elected school board, Spokane Public Schools is the only district in the state to authorize its two charter schools. Soon, the district will release a report on

the performance of the schools, says Jeannette Vaughn, director of the department of innovation for the district.

Without going into specifics, she says there won’t be any bad news.

“The reports are great,” Vaughn says. “They’re doing well.”

Charter schools have been criticized in places across the nation for, in some cases, poor performance and for enabling school segregation by limiting enrollment.

Teachers unions oppose them, arguing they take money from public schools but aren’t subject to the same level of public accountability without an elected school board.

In Washington, charter schools still face ongoing legal challenges, with the the state’s largest teachers union leading multiple lawsuits claiming the 2012 voter-approved initiative that allowed charter schools is unconstitutional.

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three years under their belt, it’s clear that the charter schools in Spokane give results that are at least comparable with traditional public schools.

At best, they’ve been more effective for certain populations.

At Spokane International Academy, scores for the 2016-17 statewide Smarter Balanced assessment were higher than district averages for sixth and seventh graders, according to the state Office of the Superintendent for Public Instruction. Out of over 250 students, Spokane International had similar racial demographics as Spokane Public Schools.

Roughly 42 percent were on free or reduced lunch, about 10 percent less than the district.

At PRIDE Prep, scores in math and English language arts were slightly lower than the district’s Smarter Balanced scores in 2016-17. But scores in the statewide science test were better by 10 percent. And the school has been particularly effective for students receiving special education services, with scores for those students at PRIDE Prep easily outpacing special needs students in the district and state.

Students who took the PSAT this past school year as ninth-graders at Innovation High School, meanwhile, had higher marks than freshmen in the rest of the state, according to numbers

provided by the school.

For McDonald, however, there’s more to measuring success than test scores. She knows they’re doing something right because once kids start at PRIDE Prep or Innovation, they stay there. When opening the high school, for example, only three students from the eighth-grade class decided not to go on to Innovation.

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Bree Oakley, a parent of kids attending PRIDE schools, says she’s seeing “amazing things come from my kids that we didn’t think was possible.” The way of teaching, with fewer curriculum requirements, has resonated with her children.

Her oldest, J.D. Oakley, particularly enjoys the projects that have to do with woodworking.

And he likes that the projects allow him to be in control of his own learning.

“I’m not just sitting in a classroom all day, looking at a board and memorizing things,” Oakley says. “I’m improving my own education.”

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or Katy Henry, president of the Spokane Education Association, the fact that there’s such a long waitlist to get into the charter schools means they can’t truly be public.

Henry says the union “supports public education,” but she doesn’t count charter schools as part of that. She says the union doesn’t think public money should be going to schools that put students on a lottery-based waitlist.

At PRIDE Prep, for example, a lottery would be held for the incoming sixth-grade class. If a student is not chosen in the lottery, they’re put on the waitlist, given a number, and then they wait for their number to come up. The wait can be as short as a few months or as long as two years.

“We think money should be going to support all students,” Henry says. “Spokane Public Schools has great schools.”

To her point, PRIDE Prep and Innovation offer a style of learning that involves students demonstrating their knowledge through some kind of project, but Spokane’s Community School is project-based, too. And while Spokane International Academy offers language immersion, so does a recent program launched

by Spokane Public Schools for kindergartners. That program will eventually expand to to all elementary schools.

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For Travis Franklin, founder of Spokane International Academy, the fact that there’s still such a large waitlist to get into the charter schools says something. It’s not that the traditional public school system is lacking, necessarily. But families are craving unique options, he says.

“I think it speaks to the fact that families in Spokane just want more choice in the ways they’re educated,” Franklin says. “Once people see what that choice can do, it’s pretty appealing.” n wilsonc@inlander.com

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FLAWED THEORY The former Eastern Washington University football player charged with murder and drive-by shooting is now clear of those criminal charges after the Washington State Court of Appeals upheld a trial court’s dismissal. LASHAWN JAMEISON was charged with first-degree murder and 14 counts of drive-by shooting for a gun battle in the parking lot of the now-shuttered Palomino Club in North Spokane, where an innocent bystander was shot and killed. The murder charge, and all but two of the drive-by charges, were dismissed in 2016 when a Spokane judge found that Jameison was acting in self defense and did not fire the fatal bullet. The Court of Appeals decision upholds the trial court’s dismissal and requires that Jameison be cleared of the two remaining drive-by charges. “We worry about the ramifications of the state’s theory of criminal liability,” the appeals court opinion says. “If one stretches the state’s argument, LaShawn Jameison would be responsible for his own murder,” if the fatal bullet would have struck him. (MITCH RYALS)

TRANSPARENCY IN HEALTH Patients can now compare the likely cost of certain surgeries and doctor’s visits with a new online COMPARISON TOOL created by Washington state at wahealthcarecompare.com. The tool, designed to increase transparency in health care, features details on the 2016 cost of services such as C-sections, emergency room visits or knee replacements, allowing users to search by ZIP code to see if it’d be cheaper to get that new knee in Pullman or Spokane.

The site allows users to compare costs between nearby hospitals as well as contrast them with the state average and high/low range, though not every procedure is included in its data sets. Visitors can also see information on quality of care, such as star rankings based on state or federal quality measures applicable to each facility. (SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL)

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Could a few words from Spokane City Attorney Mike Ormsby endanger a $930,000 legal settlement? That’s what a Spokesman-Review report last week suggested.

City Councilwoman Candace Mumm confirms the Spokesman’s reporting that the city signed a settlement with a telephone company named TracFone, which owes the city UNPAID UTILITY TAXES from January 2009 to May 2018. The Spokesman raises the possibility that the city may have violated a non-disclosure agreement by discussing it publicly.

“We had a finance committee meeting,” Mumm, chair of the city’s finance and administration committee, tells the Inlander. “We had a report that the back taxes needed to be paid. … I asked who had not paid their taxes. The city attorney told us. ” Without naming the company explicitly, Mumm also discussed the settlement at the June 18 council meeting, and the City Clerk’s Office initially released a settlementagreement document that named both TracFone and the settlement amount. Ormsby was not immediately available Monday before the Inlander deadline.

The City Clerk’s Office says the finance committee meeting was not recorded and the version of the settlement agreement it sent the Inlander had TracFone’s name redacted under a taxpayer privacy exemption. Some officials are wary of talking about the issue at all, lest they put the settlement at risk.

“I’m supposed to ‘no-comment’ on this completely,“ City Council President Ben Stuckart says, citing the advice of the city’s legal department. “Just because of the

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legal ramifications and the financial ramifications.”

Mumm, however, says that she hasn’t been given any prohibition against talking about the settlement. In fact, she’s working on an emergency budget ordinance to take the net amount from the settlement — nearly $700,000 — and directing it toward the city’s reserve account. More revenue from the city could be coming: She says that Ormsby said two more companies were being audited.

But those companies, Mumm says, Ormsby declined to name. (DANIEL WALTERS)

STADIUM IDEA RUNS INTO TRAFFIC

With the city of Spokane and Spokane Public Schools partnering for an upcoming bond request, the splashiest possibility for the package — a new DOWNTOWN STADIUM — got a reality check last week from the Spokane Public Schools Board of Directors.

The city and school district have been discussing a joint bond to put on the November ballot. It would fund three new middle schools on city land, replace aging middle schools and improve city libraries.

But the main point of contention has been over what to do with Joe Albi Stadium in northwest Spokane, says Mark Anderson, associate superintendent for Spokane Public Schools. Option 1 for the district would be renovating and downsizing the current stadium, which has a 30,000-person capacity yet is often empty during events.

The district would then build a new middle school at the site.

Option 2, however, is what the city would prefer. The idea would be for the district to build a football stadium in the heart of downtown on city property. It would add to the vibrancy of the downtown core, it’s more centrally located for high school sports and it allows the city to expand the Dwight Merkel Sports Complex in northwest

Spokane, which could theoretically attract more tournaments. Joe Albi Stadium, in this scenario, would be demolished.

The school board, however, remains skeptical, Anderson says. For one, building a stadium downtown would cost the district $10 million more than renovating the current stadium. And the board is concerned about traffic and a lack of parking availability downtown by the Spokane Arena.

“If those two issues are solved, with us Spokane Public Schools’ Mark Anderson adding a parking facility and if the traffic impact is manageable, I believe that would satisfy [the board’s] concerns,” Anderson tells the Inlander.

Anderson, who has been working directly with the city on crafting a bond proposal, says the district is hiring a traffic consultant to look into potential impacts. The district is also conducting a survey for parents and staff to share their thoughts.

Anderson will go back to the board July 18 to look for final direction. The deadline to put the bond on the November ballot is Aug. 1. (WILSON CRISCIONE)

FELONY CASELOAD MAY IMPACT INDIGENT DEFENSE For the last few days in June, low-income defendants charged with FELONY CRIMES in Spokane County were not immediately assigned a public defender. Tom

Krzyminski, the director of the Public Defender’s Office, says the decision not to assign felony cases to public defenders was based on concern that the lawyers would exceed the limit on the number of cases they’re legally allowed to handle in a 12-month period.

“I’m watching the number of cases that are going to our attorneys, both felony and misdemeanors.” Krzyminski says. “We can’t sustain that over a 12-month period.”

Starting this week, the overflow cases have been assigned to public defenders, Krzyminski says. Additionally, the county has approved funding for two temporary positions in the Public Defender’s Office, though those spots may be hard to fill, he adds.

In 2012, the Washington State Supreme Court decided that public defenders can handle no more than 150 felony cases per year. The decision came after lawsuits challenging the quality of public defense in some areas of the state, including Grant County, where in 2010 one lawyer handled about 500 cases per year.

Krzyminski suggests one possible explanation for the spike this year could be that prosecutors are filing felony charges for incidents that in other counties would be considered misdemeanors. Last year, when Spokane County Commissioners asked each county department for proposed budget cuts, Krzyminski offered none, citing the high rate of felony cases. During his presentation, Krzyminski showed that Spokane has a higher rate of felony charges per 1,000 people than counties with higher populations, such as Pierce, Snohomish and King counties.

Spokane County Deputy Prosecutor John Grasso says the standards for which prosecutors use to charge cases hasn’t changed, but suggests that a steady increase in referrals from law enforcement could be a contributing factor. From 2013 through 2017, charges referred to prosecutors from law enforcement increased by 413, according to numbers provided by Grasso. Those numbers also show that from January through June of this year, prosecutors have filed 337 more felony cases than they did for the same period last year. (MITCH RYALS)

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The Urbanist Mayoral candidate Ben Stuckart is charging ahead with a vision for a denser, taller Spokane, taking him into politically risky territory

BY DANIEL WALTERS

I

f you’re running for mayor in Spokane, there are a couple basic rules. Knock on a lot of doors. Raise a lot of money. And don’t piss off neighborhoods.

Spokane mayoral elections have been lost because neighbors had been incensed over relatively minor flareups involving garbage pickups in alleyways or street trees being torn out.

But Ben Stuckart?

When Stuckart, the city council president, officially announced his run for mayor back in April, he specifically took a few moments to launch salvos against a particularly active type of neighbor: not-in-my-backyarders.

“People say to me that they don’t want apartments near them,” Stuckart said at his mayoral announcement.

“What they’re saying is, when we get down to it, ‘We don’t want poor people next to us.’”

He even did an impression of an email he got from an indignant neighbor, who objected to development changes because they didn’t “want flat roofs in our community.’

“I just was, like, ‘waaaaah?!’” Stuckart said. “We need density in our community!”

In the months since then, Stuckart has doubled down on that vision.

He passed an ordinance last week that would allow residential developers to build apartments in some dense areas of the city without any parking lots at all. He’s championed a controversial plan to loosen the height restrictions on high-rises across from Riverfront Park. And despite neighborhood opposition, Stuckart has remained a supporter of both a proposed development of 25 acres of vacant woods on the South Hill and a controversial plan to send Crestline Street punching through to Southeast Boulevard.

Because now more than ever, Stuckart has become an urbanist — a supporter of denser development, fewer surface parking lots and taller buildings. And, at times, that’s a risky spot for a politician to be in.

STUCKART’S GROWTH

Back in 2011, when Stuckart was first running for Spokane City Council president, he acknowledges he probably wouldn’t have been championing taller buildings facing Riverfront Park.

“It took me a little growing to get there,” Stuckart says.

But the seeds were planted in the early days as a politician, when Italia Trattoria — a high-end restaurant in Browne’s Addition — found itself blocked from turning its parking lot into a patio because of city regulations.

That led to discussions with then-City Planning Director Scott Chesney, who called for a Spokane with a taller skyline, a denser downtown and more tightly packed housing.

“Cities have to grow or they die,” Chesney insisted.

Stuckart started reading books like The Geography of Nowhere and The High Cost of Free Parking, a massive manifesto by urban planning researcher Donald Shoup that

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Ben Stuckart: “We need density in our community!”

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argues minimum parking requirements “force-feed” cities with parking lots that “act like a fertility drug for cars.”

“Like alcohol prohibition in the 1920s, minimum parking requirements do more harm than good and should be repealed,” Shoup writes.

And Stuckart says he’s been persuaded that this is the way forward. If developers believe that parking spaces are necessary for a successful project, they’ll build them anyway, he argues — there’s usually no need for the government to artificially mandate them.

“I generally agree with getting rid of parking minimums,” Stuckart says, though, he acknowledges “it will take a long time for the community to get there.”

Yes, Stuckart’s political career has been backed by Democrats and the left, where he says, there’s “a kneejerk reaction that developers are bad.”

But in office, he says, he’s met a lot of developers.

And when you work alongside developers on projects, he says, you see that they love Spokane, too.

“I think you stop demonizing people so much,” Stuckart says about his experience. “And then that allows you to have an open mind about how to solve a problem.

Which then can cause you political problems.”

LET THERE BE HEIGHT

And lately, the biggest political problems focus on the proposal to ease height restrictions across from Riverfront Park, in order to set the stage for residential housing in a prime location.

Stuckart says he was surprised by the intensity of the backlash. Some worry about the prospect that the south bank of the park would be covered in shadow during the colder months. “It’s a no-win politically at this point,” Stuckart says.

Even when he escaped to his cabin on Twin Lakes, Idaho, last week, he says, he got harangued by a close friend over the height-restriction debate.

At other times, the banter was a little less friendly.

Former County Commissioner John Roskelley, who served on the state’s anti-sprawl Growth Management Hearings Board, suggested on Facebook that Stuckart was betraying his future children.

“In 20 years, will your offspring stand in the park in the shade of some apartment complex and say, ‘Who the hell allowed this?’” Roskelley wrote on Facebook. “And someone will say, ‘Your dad, that’s who.’ Think long term.”

“John,” Stuckart countered. “I do not want to be standing in the park in 20 years and be asked why there is still a parking lot there.”

This is an area that defies the typical 6-1 liberal-conservative divide on the City Council.

Councilwoman Lori Kinnear, who represents the downtown and South Hill regions, has often been a more

skeptical counterweight to Stuckart’s urbanist idealism. She’s raised concerns about the lack of parking in Browne’s Addition. And she says that her constituents do not want unlimited height on the properties near Riverfront Park.

“There aren’t too many saying, ‘Yes, sky’s the limit,’ literally,” Kinnear said last month.

“I don’t even think we have the votes to change this on council right now,” Stuckart says. “There’s not going to be a clean, easy vote on this one.”

Right now, the city’s Plan Commission is re-examining the details of its height-restriction recommendation.

Stuckart says he’s willing to compromise in order to spur development, perhaps by settling for a more modest height-limit increase. As strong as Stuckart’s urbanist ideology is, he’s been more than willing to settle for a smaller win if he feels it pushes the city toward the right direction.

Initially, his proposal to remove parking minimums for buildings that qualify for the city’s multi-family tax exemptions sparked skepticism from council members like Kinnear and Candace Mumm.

So Stuckart agreed to pare the proposal back, restricting it to just buildings in the city’s designated high-density “centers and corridors.” That took the lower South Hill, in Kinnear’s district, off the table. The ordinance passed last week unanimously.

In the meantime, Kinnear says that she’s watched the entire council gradually move toward a more urbanist vision. She says they’ve seen what sprawl has meant for communities like Yakima and the Tri-Cities. They grasped how expensive it can be in the long term.

“I think we’re educating each other,” Kinnear says.

THE DESTINY OF DENSITY

Walking through downtown Spokane, Stuckart sees a lot that he’d like to change.

He wants to see more protected bike lanes, despite worries they’d be difficult to plow. He wants to see more covered multi-story parking garages downtown instead of surface parking spaces. He knows people are still haunted by the River Park Square Parking garage debacle in the late ’90s — the public/private-partnership-turned-fiasco the city is still paying for. But he says people need to get over it. In the long run, the parking garage helped downtown.

Most of all, he wants to see a lot more people living downtown. Stuckart’s argument for more city-wide density is economic: We can’t grow city tax revenue — or attract major companies — without more space to put more people, he argues.

It’s also philanthropic: We need 11,000 more affordable housing units in the next four years, Stuckart proclaimed at a homelessness forum.

But for Stuckart, it even goes deeper than that. It’s psychological and sociological. Stuckart argues it’s a way to counter President Donald Trump’s ideology of division and separation. Ultimately, he says, putting more people together — mixing the rich and the poor — breaks down barriers.

Yes, he knows that angering neighborhoods could hurt his political ambitions. “I could easily lose a mayor’s race based on [building] heights on Spokane Falls Boulevard,” Stuckart says.

He remembers how Dennis Hession may have lost his mayoral race a decade ago for suspending garbage pickups in alleys.

But when Stuckart brought that up during his council president debate with Hession back in 2011, Hession insisted he didn’t regret it.

“He goes, ‘No! It was the right thing to do,’” Stuckart says. “I think raising these [height limits] and getting more housing is the right thing to do.” n danielw@inlander.com

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What Are Your Summer Plans? ’Tis the season when it’s completely unacceptable to wrap yourself in a blanket and watch 12 hours of The Golden Girls

BY CHELSEA MARTIN

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always naively look forward to summer, thinking it’s going to be a magical season in which all I have is free time, that my lack of money somehow isn’t a massive hindrance, and that day-drinking is fun, not depressing, and totally worth it. But then summer comes around and I remember that it’s actually a uniquely hellish time of year, because not only are none of those things true, but you’re forced to pretend they are true so you don’t ruin the posi summer vibes for everyone around you. If you’re anything like me, any exterior pressure to have fun and enjoy yourself for an entire season gives you the urge to lock yourself in the basement and write an exaggeratedly pissed off article just to spite the world.

But for the sake of having something to say when you’re inevitably asked what you did over the summer, I’ve compiled a list of activities you can do to make it sound like you had a fun, eventful, productive summer.

All that matters is that it sounds good on paper! And even that’s optional.

OUTDOOR STUFF

Go for a hike. Did you know that “hike” is just another word for “walk”? That means every time you pick yourself up off the couch and walk to the freezer for a coconut bar, you’re technically taking a hike. I recommend at least four hikes per day.

Find a gorgeous view. Instead of looking at the view, refresh Twitter over and over waiting for a tweet that will satiate your need for meaning. You know it’s never going to happen, but that’s what’s so beautiful about the whole experience.

Go to the beach. Take your cat (on a leash!) and take a bunch of photos and post them to Instagram and caption it, “Just a normal day!” (The joke is it’s actually

kind of weird to take your cat to the beach.)

Invite your friends over for a backyard BBQ. Don’t have friends? Fill a bucket with nuts and wait for squirrels to come over. Squirrels always have friends.

Go stargazing. It’s kind of boring, but that’s the point.

Take a swim. And hey, wear whatever you want.

Who invented the rule that you have to swim in a bathing suit? Bathing suits are ugly and uncomfortable, at least the affordable ones. Don’t fall for it anymore.

FOOD AND DRINK

Try a new food. Figure out what you’re supposed to do with sprouts. I just found out sprouts are food, but nobody will tell me how to eat them.

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CULTURE | ESSAY “WHAT ARE YOUR SUMMER PLANS?,” CONTINUED... tire stock of Popcorn in a Pickle the second it hits shelves and then get sick of it after consuming two bags.

Harvest your garden. Remember that vegetable garden you half-heartedly planted in the spring when you were feeling hormonal? It’s not going to taste good, but you need to eat that stuff that’s growing. Eat the garden.

You have to eat it.

Make a pitcher of mojitos. Mojitos can be made with the following recipe: 1 part alcohol + 1 part soda water + 1 sprig of any leafy green (I like chard) + chunk of any fruit you have on hand (I like old apple).

SELF-CARE

Take yourself out. Force your boyfriend to drive you at 9 pm on a Saturday to use the $5 Target gift card you’ve had in your wallet for 13 months.

Protest the hair removal industry. Grow your arm hair out real long and each day ask your boyfriend if he likes your arm hair, preferably when he’s in the middle of something that requires his full concentration, and DO NOT take “I guess” for an answer.

Change up your look. Find the hairstyle that flatters your personal assortment of physical inadequacies. Hint: It probably incorporates a hat.

Chill with friends. Set up a time to hang out and stick with it. Maybe noonish at the hospital cafeteria during your mother’s hysterectomy?!?

Relax. Remember: The world is a simulation. Eat as many deep-fried Oreos as you want. Take a five-hour nap. There are no consequences to your actions that weren’t preprogrammed by the superior life form that probably forgot about us millennia ago.

COMMUNITY AND ART

Learn a new skill. Try basket weaving. Break into the local basket-making scene. Make friends with other basket makers and learn their darkest personal secrets.

Tell basket-making community gatekeepers what you’ve learned, sabotaging your new basket-making friends’ chances at success in their basket-making careers. Play it off like you weren’t the one who revealed their secrets, even though it’s pretty obvious. Maintain these shallow friendships for years, never really knowing why. Reap the rewards.

Take advantage of the endless expanse of time summer offers. Stay up all night bingeing a TV show you sort of hate but can’t stop watching because your brother’s girlfriend’s stepmom’s uncle’s Netflix account periodically gets shut down and you can’t risk not knowing what happens at the end of this god-awful show.

Support an artist. Sign up for one of your favorite artist’s Patreons, then get annoyed when they continue

Seriously, consider donating to a food bank. to promote their Patreon on their social media accounts, even though you know that a culture of getting mad at artists for trying to make a living off of their art within a capitalist system only benefits already-rich artists and artists who are willing to literally starve for their art, sacrificing all other possible perspectives.

Make something beautiful. Spill paint on the basement floor while looking for some weird, specific battery you already know you don’t have. Conceptual art, my friends. This is worth $20,000 if you can de-install your basement floor in one piece somehow.

Participate in a boycott. Since pretty much every product and service is owned by the same five or so diabolical companies, you can boycott anything for pretty much any reason you like. Want to take a stand against the unraveling environmental protections? Stop buying soda. Or jeans. Or watching anything on ABC. Donate food to a food bank. This isn’t supposed to be funny. It’s the least you can do. And I say that as someone whose heart sinks when they find out they got charged extra for a side of ranch.

WORK AND PRODUCTIVITY

Be entrepreneurial. Open a ninth Etsy store. This one is surely bound to make you rich. Surely.

Start a podcast. You keep talking about it so why don’t you just do it? Then you’ll finally see that nobody wants or needs your podcast and you can stop thinking about it.

Expand your network. Finally respond to your

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landlord-from-eight-years-ago’s request to connect with you on LinkedIn. As your grandma who never had a job always said, “You never know what might come from a random connection!”

Make that money. Continue power bottoming the gig economy — the owners of those unfathomably large, impossibly rich companies aren’t going to screw you themselves. How would they? It’s summer, baby! They’re all on their 12th vacation of the year.

GET OUT OF TOWN

Close your eyes and point to a place on a map.

Get in your car and star driving.

Tell no one.

Roll the windows all the way down and turn on your favorite album.  Remember what freedom feels like.  Feel genuinely happy for what is possibly the first time all year.  Stop for gas.  Go into the gas station and pick out whatever junk food you want.  Suddenly remember that your coworker has planned a communal public meat-cooking event for today and you were supposed to bring the condiments.  Turn around and head to the damn communal meat-cooking event.  Ask yourself if this is what you imagined your life would look like when you were younger.  Bring only ketchup. n    

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A HAPPY LITTLE DREAMS Do you ever lay awake at night and contemplate some embarrassing social interaction as if it were a life and death situation? I’m not saying I do, but if I did, a great way to silence that painful, incessant inner monologue would be with the soothing voice of TV’s Bob Ross, the famous permed painting instructor from the ’80s. Transport yourself to a world of “happy little trees” on Calm.com, a relaxation and meditation app. The audio files from his TV shows are now available as a sleeping aid.

Even if you don’t have trouble going to sleep, Calm has a load of guided and (unguided) meditations that can help you breathe deeper, improve your focus and appreciate the little things in life. (QUINN WELSCH)

BY BILL FROST

re we living in the end times? Yeah, probably — what are you going to do about it? Rage against the dying of the light and/or the machine? Sorry, neither Dylan Thomas nor Zack de la Rocha are going to save your ass from annihilation.

Here are five apocalyptic TV series to stream while standing by for sweet oblivion: Blood Drive (Season 1 on syfy.com and Syfy app) What makes 2017 Syfy series Blood Drive better than The Cannonball Run? It’s a cross-country death race wherein the cars Run! On! Blood! Blood Drive follows ex-cop Arthur (Alan Ritchson) and trigger-happy Grace (Christina Ochoa), forced to partner up in the race across an environmentally ravaged ’Merica in the “distant future” of 1999 (yep), deliriously emceed by homicidal host Julian Slink (Colin Cunningham).

The Strain (Seasons 1-4 on Hulu) When it premiered in 2014, Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan’s FX series The Strain had to face vampire fatigue in the wake of Twilight and True Blood. This was

THE BUZZ BIN anything but a hunky-vamps show — The Strain’s bloodsuckers are creepy. When an international flight full of “dead” passengers lands in New York City, a CDC agent (Corey Stoll) deciphers a grand conspiracy to transform Earth into Planet Vampire, and NYC is ground zero.

EAZY PHONE HOME Two iconic ’80s images collide on the latest iteration of River City Tattoo’s everchanging mural on the corner of Maple and Northwest Boulevard. E.T. fans will easily recognize Elliott and his alien-saving bicycle, but they might not recognize the precious cargo: N.W.A. rapper Eazy-E! This is another fine work by artist Daniel Lopez, aka “Godfitti.” (DAN NAILEN)

STREET TREATS Watch the sidewalk under your feet — both for unlucky cracks and local poetry — as you meander across Spokane this summer. Colorful stanzas of locally written poetry were recently stenciled onto sidewalks across the city by Spokane Arts.

The poems were written as part of the “I Am a Town” poetry project spearheaded by former Spokane Poet Laureate Laura Read. A map of all the poetry locations, plus the complete poems, is posted at spokanearts.org/iamatown. (CHEY SCOTT)

Wayward Pines (Seasons 1-2 on Hulu) In 2015’s Wayward Pines, Matt Dillon stars as a Secret Service agent who, after a car crash, winds up in Wayward Pines, a charming Idaho town with no roads or communication out (all the phones are landlines!). Disorienting weirdness and escalating clues that Wayward Pines may be a governmental human terrarium ensue.

M. Night Shyamalan nailed season one; don’t bother with season two.

ON THIS WEEK’S PLAYLIST Some noteworthy new music arrives online and in stores July 6. To wit: 77:78, Jellies. A pair of the underappreciated Band of Bees get together for a new project of pop-rock goodness.

THE INNOCENCE MISSION, Sun on the Square.

The long-running indie-folk crew led by Karen Peris is back with its 10th album since 1989.

ERASURE, World Be Live. The dance-music duo recorded this double-album in London, and included a cover of Blondie’s “Atomic.”

(DAN NAILEN)

Dark Angel (Seasons 1-2 on Amazon) The series that brought us Jessica Alba, 2000’s Dark Angel. Fox laid out truckloads of cash for James Cameron’s futuristic dystopia — set in 2009! — and it shows in every frame of the spectacular two-hour pilot episode. An electromagnetic pulse bomb has turned ’Merica into a computer-less mess, and genetically-engineered warrior Max (Alba) is on the lam from the military, undercover as a bike messenger and, of course … master thief?

Life After People (Seasons 1-2 on history.com and History app) So, we’re gone — what happens to the planet and all the stuff we leave behind? Scientists, engineers and others postulate all manner of crazy in Life After People, a History Channel series that imagines a de-populated Earth. Rats take over Las Vegas! Structures fall apart!

Cities flood! Worst of all, solar-powered radio stations broadcast “Hotel California” eternally! Life After People is quite soothing, actually — bring on The End. n

CUPHEAD’S EYES ON EVERYTHING Sadly, in the 90 years since Steamboat Willie, hand-drawn animation has only gotten worse.

Cuphead, a ruthlessly hard indie platformer computer game, represents the much-needed resurrection of the gorgeous wiggly-armed, bouncy animation style of yore. And here’s the one secret that Cuphead’s animators understand that so many others don’t: Put big eyes on everything.

Anthropomorphic waffles. Flying scimitars. A red-nosed glass of scotch. Sure, a carnival level has a clown trying to kill you with a bumper car, naturally. But the fact that the bumper car itself has eyes that go all angry before it charges at you?

That’s the Cuphead difference. (DANIEL WALTERS)

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CULTURE | OUTDOORS THREE WAYS TO MAKE THE MOST OF SPOKATOPIA LOOKING TO RELAX? If maybe the sports and activities aren’t your style, take a step back and relax in the hammock garden or in Spokatopia’s Bikes and Brews Beer Garden featuring local favorites and craft breweries. There will be local bands playing and even a mountain bike jump show starting at 1 pm.

Never paddleboarded? Try it this week.

Adventure For Everyone Spokatopia offers a summer’s worth of action in one day

BY SEAN PRICE

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pokatopia was founded with the ambitious goal of providing outdoor gear demos and clinics that engage outdoors experts but not alienate families or beginners. Now, the fourth annual outdoor adventure festival is hoping to achieve that goal with an event that has something for everyone, regardless of age or experience.

The festival made its name with its wide variety of popular mountain bikes available to test out in one place. But this year Derrick Knowles, founder of the Spokatopia with his wife, Shallan, hopes that the adventure clinics continue to grow in popularity.

“Because a lot of these sports can be pretty intimidating, the idea was that going with a guide or an expert from Spokane Parks and Recreation or one of our other guides just makes it easy, safe and fun, and makes it so anyone can try them,” says Knowles, “Our goal is to get more people engaged with the outdoors and trying new things.”

REI is even running a camping clinic which teaches the basics of camping, further enforcing the ideology behind Spokatopia: to make the outdoors accessible. Part of that accessibility includes hosting activities that include families who want to experience the outdoors together as well.

THE BEST BIKES IN THE WORLD For $5 you can buy a demo pass which gives you access to some of the best bike brands in the world — and allows you to actually ride them around the Beacon Hill trail system. The demo pass also allows you to try out watersport demos, but for avid cyclists the opportunity to ride a bike that normally costs anywhere from $3,000 to $5,000, from brands like Specialized, Santa Cruz, Giant, Niner and Trek, is too good to ignore.

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“There’s a lot more kids and family activities than we’ve had in the past,” explains Knowles. “We took the same recipe that we started Spokatopia with and kept the bike demos — which is what we really started out as — and expanded for people with different skill levels and different outdoor interests.”

Families with children won’t be disappointed with the amount of options they have for entertainment as Spokatopia is providing a family bouldering wall and strider bikes for kids who want to practice their mountain biking (on easier trails, of course). Also, the General Store is sponsoring a water soaker course with free water guns and obstacles around Camp Sekani.

“We like to think of Spokatopia as experiencing a summer’s worth of adventure in one day right in your backyard,” Knowles says, “It’s a great chance to do all these different activities in one place and that doesn’t happen in Spokane very often.”

Spokatopia only happens once a year, but promises to teach attendees something new, whether they consider themselves experts or not. n

LEARN SOMETHING NEW Spokatopia has plenty of adventure clinics available throughout the day taught by approachable and patient guides. All skill levels are welcome, but there are mountain bike and rock climbing clinics designed specifically for beginners. Other classes include kayaking, canoeing, paddleboarding, paddleboard yoga and disc golf. Clinics are $10-$20 per person, depending on the activity. Those under 18 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.

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FARMING

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How a couple of Alaskan transplants to the Northwest use permaculture to transform their north Spokane County acreage into a sustainable farm

BY CARRIE SCOZZARO

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orie and Thom Foote have always grown their own food, first in Alaska, where they lived for 30 years, and more recently in Colbert, where they relocated in 2011.

Nestled in a clearing on a forested slope north of Spokane’s urban edge, the couple’s Footehills Farm produces an assortment of fruit and vegetables, lots of garlic and more than two dozen herbs for both culinary and medicinal applications.

Although the Footes have been gardening all their lives, they more recently learned firsthand the importance of soil, especially when they decided to go from growing their own food to creating a sustainable, income-producing farm.

“How good a plant looks is merely a reflection of how good the soil is,” says Thom, paraphrasing a friend’s advice.

And soil health, or what farmers call tilth, is essential — so much so that the Footes have gone to great lengths to not only improve their soil, but to grow it themselves.

Yes, that’s right; the Foote’s grow their own soil.

First, some background. Soil is essentially the surface of the earth, but also everything that comprises it: organic matter (around 5 percent), water and air (about 25 percent each) and minerals (45 percent), according to Natural Resources Conservation Service data.

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The Footes’ 10-acre property, although full of trees and vegetation, consists of silty clay loam, typical of Eastern Washington areas where Ice Age glaciers retreated. They needed to rethink their approach.

Surely they could (at great expense) have dirt or soil amendments, like organic matter, hauled up to the hillside, but without a method for containing the dirt and maintaining the soil health, the solution wasn’t sustainable or economical. Instead, Thom signed up for a permaculture design class in 2012 taught by Michael “Skeeter” Pilarski, a recognized expert in permaculture.

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hat is permaculture? Pilarski defines it as the interdisciplinary design of “sustainable human settlement,” synthesizing “agriculture, ecology and forestry.”

Local permaculture, composting and biodynamics instructor Ryan Herring puts it another way: “It is a design tool used to regenerate soil, water, food, health and other resources that also creates resiliency in all of them at the same time.”

Many people are already applying permaculture techniques without even realizing it, says Herring, such as eliminating chemical pesticides and fertilizers, using heirloom seeds, companion planting and maximizing watering. The Footes do all this and more, like using a

solar-powered drip irrigation system Thom designed after earning a nearly $5,000 grant from the HumanLinks Foundation, a nonprofit that supports sustainable farms in Washington state.

Permaculture also includes composting, which the Environmental Protection Agency describes as a balance of “brown” organic matter, such as dead leaves or straw, and “greens,” such as grass clippings, non-meat food scraps and even coffee grounds, which, when combined in ideal conditions, decompose to help build more organic matter.

However, says Thom, permaculture is not limited to a single technique, which can vary according to growing situation. “Permaculture is, at its core, a design tool,” he says.

When they compost, the Footes use local coffee grounds and leaves because, says Thom, “one of the goals of permaculture is to reduce external inputs,” wherever they may be on the food chain.

The Footes have gone a step further than composting by creating a sustainable food source of organic material beneath their plants. The process, called hugelkultur or hugel, translates to “hill culture” and involves mounding soil on top of materials that will decompose — newspaper, leaves, branches and even logs — providing plant food, retaining moisture and even raising the temperature of

PRESENTED BY DOWNTOWN SPOKANE the soil as they do so.

Hugel beds, for example, allow the Footes to extend their growing season, reduce watering and even winter over herbs, like rosemary, that would otherwise perish.

Another project involves using biochar, which can be made by turning animal waste into a form of charcoal (the Footes are saving up for a composting toilet), in the growth of their basil for a Washington State University-led experiment. They’re also testing the basil for its sugar content (using a method called Brix testing, usually applied to fruit) whereby higher sugar content equates to better flavor, but also better soil health and improved pest resistance in the leaves of the plant.

Some of what’s grown at Footehills Farm is for the couple’s own consumption: peaches, strawberries, raspberries and rosehip bushes they’re turning into a “living” fence, along with produce like asparagus, peppers, tomatoes and herbs for cooking, drinking and making Torie’s medicinal ointments. Yet much of what the couple produces, they trade — lemon balm to Hierophant Meadery, Thai basil to Maw Phin Thai in Mead — or sell through their website and via LINC Foods’ cooperative.

Other clients include Central Food, the Davenport hotels, Perry Street Brewing, Ruins and Gonzaga University’s food services provider, Sodexo. Cochinito Taqueria uses some of Footehills’ more unusual herbs, including papalo, a cilantro-substitute, and epazote, which helps de-gas beans. Herb crops also include basil, chervil, chamomile, dill, marjoram, mint (peppermint, spearmint, chocolate mint), oregano (both Mexican and Greek), parsley, sage, savory and thyme.

Fleur de Sel’s Laurent Zirotti uses the Footes’ chocolate mint, rosemary and lemon thyme, which he infuses into creme brûlée.

“Supporting local farmers is our duty and privilege,” says Zirotti, “but the produce you get from a few miles away will always stay fresh and vibrant [longer] than the ones you get from hundreds of miles away.”

Thom and Torie Foote operate their permaculture farm in Colbert.

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he Footes get a lot out of their nearly one-acre growing space, which is designed to fit with their land’s dense vegetation. Elsewhere on the property is a tiny house for guest workers from workaway.org and Worldwide Opportunities for Organic Farms, a pen for hogs, another for both meat and egg chickens, and turkeys. An easy-up-style tent is strung with drying herbs, while two cats, Pesto and Moose, and an ebullient black lab mix named Chena have their run of the place.

The Footes make their farm available to interested groups and are involved in teaching permaculture — both have extensive teaching careers behind them, especially Torie, who taught at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks. Torie, who is concerned about local farmers being pushed out, also serves on the Spokane Food Policy Council, while Thom is involved in the Tilth Alliance’s upcoming Spokane conference (Nov. 9-11).

Permaculture, say the Footes, is about more than just planting.

It’s a mindset about one’s relationship to the land and to others.

And on their land and in their life, they follow three corresponding principles: “care of the land, care of the people, sharing of surplus.” n

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how to totally nail this first friday thing.

out of bed sometime between 6am and 3pm.

1 Get Go to work if that’s your thing. your friends at 5pm. Not literally, of course— 2 Grab that’s just rude. a gallery for free food and free fun. Repeat…oh, 3 Hit a couple dozen times before 8pm.

Don’t miss the next First Friday: July 6th, 2018

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For event listings visit: www.firstfridayspokane.org Most venues open 5-8pm

More on Footehills Farm at footehillsfarm.net and on Instagram @footehillsfarm

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FOOD | FESTIVAL

Foodies Unite

MEET SOME OF THE CHEFS HUGH ACHESON, ATLANTA Restaurants: Five & Ten, The National, Empire State South, Spiller Park Coffee, Achie’s A prominent chef in Georgia’s dining scene, Acheson is most widely known as a judge on Food Network’s intense cooking competition show, Top Chef.

The Crave! festival is back with a lineup of celebrity and local chefs sharing signature flavors at tasting events, demos and more

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ith more than 10 food-filled events across four days, the second annual Crave! Northwest festival is a gourmand’s paradise. The celebration of food and drink in Spokane Valley from July 12-15 offers locals the chance to hear from celebrity chefs, taste local cuisine, sample specialty cocktails and everything in between.

Crave! is the brainchild of Spokane chef Adam Hegsted, who collaborated with Spokane-based Vision Marketing to produce the festival. Hegsted’s presence is well known in the region’s dining scene as chef and owner of Eat Good Group, which includes a gaggle of restaurants including Wandering Table, Gilded Unicorn, IncrediBurger & Eggs and Le Catering.

His initial hope when launching Crave! was that it would become a catalyst in the local culinary movement.

“I thought it would be a good way to rally around celebrating everything that we have around here,” Hegsted says.

Crave! is a nonprofit organization, and a portion of money made from the festival supports local food banks Second Harvest and Spokane Valley Partners.

For the festival’s second inception, a variety of events are planned to tickle the taste buds of attendees. Patrons can attend a seafood bash (July 12) and other sampling events themed around international cuisine (July 13), brunch (July 15) and barbecue grilling (July 14).

In addition to these main meal events, the festival also offers two grand tastings, three-hour sessions during which guests can meet fellow food fanatics while perusing local vendors, eating bitesized samples and watching on-stage chef demos.

More than 50 chefs from the Inland Northwest and around the U.S. are attending this year’s Crave! to create, chat and teach.

Names on the guest chef list include Food Network regulars alongside local restaurant owners. On-stage demos throughout the four-day event give chefs the chance to share what they’re passionate about, what makes a restaurant successful, their favorite dishes and more.

Many chefs who attended last year, as well as first-time guests this time around, are professionals Hegsted has watched and admired throughout his career. He’s excited to share these chefs’ expertise with festival attendees.

“Having them in my town and in the place where I work, show-

BRIAN DUFFY, PHILADELPHIA Projects: Duffified Live, Duffified Spice A Food Network regular and star of Bar Rescue on Spike TV, Duffy’s straightforward attitude is well known around the Philadelphia restaurant scene and nationwide.

AARTHI SAMPATH, SEATTLE Restaurants: Kukree Chef Sampath took the winning title on Food Network’s Chopped in 2016. She’s also appeared on the network’s Beat Bobby Flay where she came out on top in a competition with the famous chef.

The seafood bash at Crave! is July 12. casing and showing off a little bit, being able to work with them and collaborating — that was really amazing to me,” he says.

Crave! co-host Vision Marketing hopes to exceed last year’s benchmark of around 2,000 attendees; event venue CenterPlace Regional Event Center has space to accommodate many more.

New events to 2018’s Crave! include an after-party following the Fire & Smoke tasting on Saturday evening, with music by DJ Unifest and local bartenders mixing featured cocktails.

With plans for Crave! to continue in the coming years, Hegsted hopes the event can continue helping connect members of the local culinary community with each other and their customers by providing a space to share ideas and pursue betterment.

“To keep the progress moving forward and to get people excited about what is here; what’s happening, that is kind of the bigger picture. That’s what I want out of Crave!,” Hegsted says. n Crave! • July 12-15; event times vary • $35-$75/tasting event; $65-$311/festival packages • CenterPlace Regional Event Center • 2426 N. Discovery Place, Spokane Valley • cravenw.com

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fter laying waste to literally half of all sentient life in Avengers: Infinity War, the Marvel Cinematic Universe takes a bit of a breather in Ant-Man and the Wasp, a breezy and mostly fun adventure for the low-level superheroes who use high-tech suits to shrink and grow by extreme proportions. Taking place over the course of just a few days sometime before the events of Infinity War, Ant-Man and the Wasp (the sequel to 2015’s Ant-Man) is almost entirely self-contained, with no appearances from other Marvel superheroes and no grand world-ending threats to stop.

It does take off from the events of 2016’s Captain America: Civil War, though, in which Scott Lang (Paul Rudd), aka Ant-Man, violated the new international law against unregistered superheroics in order to aid Captain America. Now on house arrest for his crimes, Scott spends his time playing with his precocious daughter Cassie (Abby Ryder Fortson) and planning the launch of his new security business with buddy Luis (Michael Peña). He’s monitored closely by suspicious FBI agent Jimmy Woo (Randall Park), who seems to be looking for any excuse to extend Scott’s sentence.

With just a few days left before he’s a free man, Scott is whisked away by his former associates Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) and Hank’s daughter Hope Van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly), who are still mad at Scott for taking their technology without their permission so he could play superhero with the Avengers. But they need Scott’s help to locate Hank’s wife and Hope’s mother Janet Van Dyne (Michelle Pfeiffer), who’s been trapped in the microscopic “quantum realm” for 30 years, ever since shrinking down to subatomic levels

BY JOSH BELL to stop a missile during her own superheroing days.

Cassie and a good friend and colleague to Hank and As the only person who ever entered the quantum Hope, whose respect he values. And he takes time out realm and then returned to normal size, Scott has a from his adventures to make sure that Luis has everypermanent connection (via “quantum entanglement”) thing necessary for their company’s pitch to a major with Janet, and he’s the only hope for finally getting new client. At times the story is a bit too laid-back for her back. its own good, and some of the threats (especially from There is a villain in this movie (actually, there are Goggins’ dandyish arms dealer) don’t feel particularly a few), but the story is not primarily about an external urgent. threat, and the fate of the world (or the universe) is The filmmakers (returning director Peyton Reed never on the line. The heroes’ efforts to save Janet hit and five credited writers, including Rudd) also have obstacles in the form of Scott’s FBI trouble making Luis and Scott’s other monitors, a low-level arms dealer ex-con associates an essential part ANT-MAN AND (Walton Goggins) who wants to get his THE WASP of the story, and the subplot about hands on the Pyms’ technology, and their attempt to get their business off Rated PG-13 the film’s most traditional supervillain the ground is pretty thin. Luis gets a Directed by Peyton Reed figure, a mysterious antagonist known reprise of his very amusing scene from Starring Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, as Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen), who the first movie in which other characMichael Peña, Michelle Pfeiffer has the ability to “phase” through ters re-enact his skewed recollection objects and people, and is after Janet of past events in a flashback montage, for her own self-centered ends. but the joke, like many here, is not quite as funny the Even Ghost is more misguided than evil, though, second time around. part of a recent trend of MCU villains with more Even when the movie isn’t hilarious, though, it’s complex and sympathetic personal motivations. She’s almost always pleasant and jovial, and Rudd and Lilly not a megalomaniac; she’s a scared and hurt victim of have strong chemistry as the bickering but supportive circumstance who’s lashing out in a sometimes violent title characters. Mostly on the sidelines in the first and destructive way. The heroes fight her because she’s movie, Hope is now a superhero in her own right, with trying to prevent them from saving someone they care a shrinking-powered super-suit, along with wings and about, but the more they learn about her, the more laser blasters, and Lilly proves herself worthy of the they end up caring about her, too. title billing alongside Rudd. The two make for a great It’s a refreshingly character-driven approach that team in battle and in banter, although the movie never extends to the entire movie, in contrast to the plotplays up their romance at the expense of action or comheavy monstrosity of Infinity War. Scott wants to be edy. It keeps things small-scale and low-key, and for the a superhero, but he also wants to be a good dad to most part turns out better for it. n

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Marvel’s third feature this year is the least essential of the bunch, but it’s still a breezy, mostly fun adventure.

This time out, microscopic superhero Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) ventures into a so-called “quantum zone,” teaming up with scientist Hope Van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly) to rescue her long-lost mother. (JB) Rated PG-13

THE FIRST PURGE

A prequel to the popular low-budget horror franchise, detailing the origins of the annual event that makes all crime legal for a night. Political satire or cautionary tale? (NW) Rated R

MOUNTAIN

This documentary features stunning footage of the world’s highest peaks and the thrill-seekers who ascend them. Not for acrophobes. At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Rated PG

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This synthesis of documentary and narrative studies the hard-to-believe true story of college kids who planned a heist to steal their campus’ rare books collection. Ambitious, but a bit of a mess. At the Magic Lantern. (JB) Rated R

AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR

This epic franchise crossover event assembles just about every character from the Marvel Cinematic Universe to stop supervillain Thanos from decimating half the world’s population.

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BOOK CLUB

A quartet of older women explore the

joys of Fifty Shades of Grey, which brings some panache to their boring personal lives. The cast — Jane Fonda, Diane Keaton, Mary Steenburgen and Candice Bergen — is great, but doesn’t this premise seem dated already?

(NW) Rated PG-13

DEADPOOL 2

Marvel’s most mischievous (and foulmouthed) crime fighter is back, but with slightly diminished returns, assembling a cadre of antiheroes to save a troubled kid with strange powers. It’s got self-aware, self-effacing jokes to spare, though perhaps we’ve seen all this character has to offer. (JB) Rated R

FIRST REFORMED

A terminally ill small-town minister (Ethan Hawke) becomes the counsel for a troubled young man unhealthily obsessed with the state of the world.

From the mind of Paul Schrader, it’s a dark allegory that grapples with faith and ecology, only gradually revealing its true intentions. At the Magic Lantern.

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HEREDITARY

Family secrets can be deadly in this disturbing horror yarn, starring Toni Collette as a woman whose children begin acting strangely following the death of her estranged mother. Although it’s visually assured and sometimes unnerving, it builds to a conclusion that’s both excessive and unsatisfying. (JB) Rated R

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The Jurassic juggernaut lumbers on, with Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard returning to the prehistoric island as a volcano threatens to wipe out the dinos. It’s slightly better than its immediate predecessor, but it still doesn’t deliver on the potential of its premise.

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Pleasant but forgettable comedy about a quintet of adult friends who pick up the epic game of tag they started as teenagers. No surprise, they take things way too seriously. Not as entertaining as the true story that inspired it. (JB) Rated R

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Fred Rogers, the Presbyterian minister and groundbreaking children’s TV show host, gets the biographical documentary treatment. Yes, it’s as heartwarming as you might expect, but it’s also a much-needed ode to gratitude and compassion. (JB) Rated PG-13 n

An engaging spin-off of the ClooneyPitt bank robbery larks, with a new group of con artists (led by Sandra Bullock and Cate Blanchett) setting their sights on the annual Met Gala. Like its characters, it keeps you entertained while taking your money. (JB) Rated PG-13

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Hagiographic but enlightening documentary chronicling the extraordinary life and trailblazing career of longtime Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, detailing her roles as a women’s rights advocate and feminist internet meme. At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Rated PG

THE SEAGULL

A big-screen adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s famous 1896 play about the romantic entanglements of several artistic types on a country vacation. The cast includes Annette Bening, Saoirse Ronan and Elisabeth Moss. At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Rated PG-13

SICARIO: DAY OF THE SOLDADO

Sequel to the acclaimed 2015 drug cartel thriller, with Josh Brolin’s federal agent reteaming with Benicio del Toro’s lone wolf mercenary to investigate a string of suicide bombings on the U.S.Mexico border. It’s unfocused and ideologically murky, but occasionally quite tense. (NW) Rated R

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Technological Taxidermy is a local nonprofit teaching artists the ins and outs of synthesizers and electronic music production.

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Electronic Education Tobias and Chelsea Hendrickson hope to grow and diversify Spokane’s music scene, one synthesizer at a time

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he process of learning modular synthesis is not unlike learning a language.

The act of using components to build and hone a simple sound wave, with its multitude of timbres and modulating effects, is almost like an infant learning an inflection, or even simply making sounds close to the words.

“We are learning to speak a language that is happening all over the world,” says electronic musician Tobias Hendrickson.

Tobias and his wife Chelsea are founders of Spokane’s Technological Taxidermy (TT), a nonprofit educational program and community trying to build a synthesizer scene in Spokane. On July 7, the couple and other members of the program will be showcasing their work and their designed systems at the Bartlett.

To the uninitiated, electronic music can quickly conjure up the idea of fad EDM cycles, with blasting digitized synths pre-bottled on a laptop only to be unleashed by pressing play on a turntable. But the multitudes available in analog and physical synthesizers turn that idea on its head, with limitless possibilities and rhythms that make no two artists the same.

BY TUCK CLARRY “You can have the same two people sit down at the same instrument and what comes out is vastly different,” Chelsea Hendrickson says. “It’s really a personal thing, where it’s a two-way conversation between a person and a machine, and what comes out of that conversation is completely unique.”

The group meets once a month, either at Terrain’s space, the Bartlett or Fellow Coworking, with workshops and lessons on how to progress artists’ ideas, or simply history lessons on a vital tool or person in electronic music. They also give time for exploration, when members are encouraged to dabble and discover with the gear available to them alongside other members of the class.

Eventually, when the artists are comfortable, there’s an opportunity to showcase outside of the class what they’ve learned and thought up. The Hendricksons were thrilled when, midway through their first run of classes, other members of the community began teaching workshops and programs, something they wished would happen through the second run.

“There’s this coexistence in a musical environment, without feeling massively separate,” Chelsea says. “Someone who is highly skilled can still get excited and relate

to someone who is just learning and wants to make and discover weird and interesting sounds.”

Because it is such a new kind of instrument and genre that blossomed mostly online, the couple weren’t sure what the early response to their efforts would be. Tobias thought hopefully he would see four or five heads at the first meeting, and then work on keeping them coming and telling their friends to join in. But from the start, TT has seen a dozen to 20 members at any given class, and that excitement is only growing.

The peer group features an array of skill levels, ages and backgrounds, with the program’s focus being on inclusivity and diversity. One night, when Chelsea saw that she was the only woman, she became dedicated to getting more women to the next event, believing that more stories need to be present in such a hyper-personal genre.

“Someone who has been doing modular their whole life and someone who just started can have an equally enjoyable experience sitting down at a system,” Tobias says.

The nonprofit is under the Terrain umbrella of artistic nonprofits, and the Hendricksons credit that network — along with their relationship with the Bartlett and the ...continued on next page

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MUSIC | ELECTRONIC “ELECTRONIC EDUCATION,” CONTINUED... general synth community throughout the world — for the major strides TT has seen in its first year of operation.

“We’re not creating anything new,” Tobias says. “We’re passing on the generosity that we’ve experienced in the community already.”

Both Tobias and Chelsea performed and spoke at the 10-year celebration of synth company Make Noise in Asheville, North Carolina. They were part of a panel focusing on community outreach, along with community leaders from cities like Portland and Chicago.

During the panel, someone chimed in about Spokane: “Isn’t that the racist part of Washington?” The comment left both Chelsea and Tobias a bit aghast, though their answer was in part explaining how creating and inspiring a diverse music community could help impact regressive societal norms.

After the panel, Chelsea recalled someone from the North Carolina area coming up to her and appreciating her answer to the uncomfortable comment. “They were really appreciative that even if there are these barriers that there isn’t an excuse to not try and make the community better and make an impact on it,” she says.

Tobias’ commitment to community outreach brought on a new and unexpected full-time job. While corresponding and trying to get local schools to maybe do a field trip or attend one of TT’s events, PRIDE Prep Charter Schools instead proposed hiring him as the school’s first music instructor.

“It’s great because they actually want me to continue focusing on TT to show their students that they are learning something that can be implemented outside of the classroom,” Tobias says.

The extra curriculum will only help Tobias and the program as they impart a language that is always expanding. n Night of Synthesis • Sat, July 7 at 7 pm • All ages • Free • The Bartlett • 228 W. Sprague • thebartlettspokane.com • 747-2174

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MUSIC | ROCK

It’s not exactly rocket S.C.I.E.N.C.E.: Incubus still knows how to work a stage.

Open Arms and Open Ears Incubus remains an impressive live band, and their music carries with it a wave of nostalgia

BY HOWARD HARDEE

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s we recently opined, all things ’90s are back with a vengeance as America wallows in a bottomless pool of nostalgia. And given how our pop-culture cycle moves in fast-forward these days, we imagine it won’t be long before another wave of familiar bands starts cashing in on our collective inability to embrace anything new.

It’s probably already here. Case in point: Alt-rock band Incubus is touring to support its eighth studio album — the appropriately titled 8, released earlier this year — and they’re playing Northern Quest Resort & Casino next week. You read that right: Incubus is on the casino circuit now, right alongside Joan Jett, Styx and an endless stream of AC/DC cover bands.

Despite the new album, it’s probably fair to categorize Incubus as a legacy act, having enjoyed its heyday

around the turn of the millenium. The L.A.-based outfit hit it big with 1999’s Make Yourself, an album that included the high-charting single “Drive,” and followed it up with the 2001 album Morning View, which went doubleplatinum thanks to the success of the singles “Wish You Were Here” and “Nice to Know You.” If you, like me, were a teenaged boy around that time, you probably downloaded Incubus’ music via some defunct file-sharing service like LimeWire and rocked it through crappy PC speakers while jacking pixelated taxis in Grand Theft Auto 3. (Was that too specific?) The point is, Incubus occupies a special place in the hearts of many suburban kids who are grown up now and shocked that Incubus is getting old, and so are we, and that we’re increasingly becoming a target demographic for a new generation of bands past their prime. After all, Incubus’

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Light Grenades, which I considered a comeback album at the time, dropped more than 12 (!) years ago.

This all sunk in for me over Memorial Day weekend at BottleRock Napa Valley, a music, wine and food festival held amid the vineyards of Northern California.

The festival itself was basically one big nostalgia party.

Two of this year’s headliners — the Killers and Muse — have been playing prominent slots at festivals all over the world for well over a decade, and the down-bill performers included Billy Idol and Snoop Dogg. (“Gin and Juice,” anyone?) If not for BottleRock’s closing-night headliner, Bruno Mars, this might as well have been a lineup from 2008.

Incubus took the main stage before Muse on the first night of the festival. Frontman Brandon Boyd still appeared lean and fit, his dark shoulder-length hair streaked white. His voice is every bit as strong as it was in 2001, soaring on hits like “Anna Molly” and new single “Nimble Bastard.”

The show demonstrated that Incubus is very much a product of the late 1990s/early 2000s. They cut out a niche by playing sort-of-heavy radio rock that was actually palatable, and earning bonus points for not being Creed. They dabbled but didn’t wade deep enough in the nu-metal swamp to get stuck in the muck with bands like Korn, Limp Bizkit and Kid Rock. (However, they still employ DJ Kilmore to scratch turntables, a clear holdover from that era.) There’s a hint of Southern California punk-rock in there as well, and they share deep funk roots with another L.A. rock band, Red Hot Chili Peppers. Like RHCP, Incubus is stacked with virtuosos capable of playing stuff far more technical than what most of their songs demand.

That technicality was on display all night in Napa.

Incubus is, in fact, a kick-ass live band that isn’t afraid to bang out messy power chords in this age of computerperfect sets, or throw avant-garde jam-outs into the middle of otherwise straightforward radio-rock songs.

For me, the highlight of the evening came when the band blended its 2001 hit “Wish You Were Here” into a brief cover of Pink Floyd’s song of the same title. The pairing makes a surprising amount of sense: Though the songs aren’t sonically similar, both carry a resonant emotional weight.

I hate to admit it, but the songs made me ache for people and places that are gone. Incubus made me feel that way when I was a teenager, and that tends to hit harder. I guess that makes me a sucker for nostalgia like everyone else. n Incubus with Minus the Bear • Tue, July 10 at 7:30 pm • All ages • $49-$99 • Northern Quest Resort & Casino • 100 N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights • northernquest.com • 242-7000

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COUNTRY WHITEY MORGAN

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rends come and go in country music as they do in any genre, but there will always be an audience for the authentic outlaw-country voices who slather their tales of working stiffs and heartbreak in pedal-steel, served up with a side of Jack Daniels. Whitey Morgan is no pioneer: The Flint, Michigan, native owes a lot to Waylon Jennings and Townes Van Zandt (both of whom he covered on his Sonic Ranch album). But Morgan’s retro approach to country sure stands out among modern, pop-oriented peers thanks to lyrics like these: “I gave up on running ’round, she gave up on me / I gave up the cocaine, now it’s just me and the whiskey.” Waylon would be proud.

— DAN NAILEN Whitey Morgan and the 78s • Thu, July 12 at 8 pm • All ages • $23 • Knitting Factory • 919 W. Sprague • sp.knittingfactory.com • 244-3279

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FOLK S. CAREY

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hen he isn’t performing with Bon Iver, drummer Sean Carey’s work as a solo artist is quite similar to the hushed neo-folk that made Justin Vernon into an unlikely arena filler. They’re obviously kindred spirits. Like Vernon, Carey writes lyrics that channel the mercurial pull of nature and the vast mysteries of the universe, and his vocals recall the ethereal whisperings of Sufjan Stevens. Carey’s latest album Hundred Acres explores the singer-songwriter’s fascination with the outdoors, and he muses about the benefit of natural surroundings and the positive impact of wide open spaces, all while exploring the all-consuming spell of new love.

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1210 TAVERN, Jan Harrison Blues Experiment 1898 PUBLIC HOUSE, Nick Grow 219 LOUNGE, Kevin Doran (5pm), Down South Band (9pm) BARLOWS AT LIBERTY LAKE, Devon Wade J J THE BARTLETT, Night of Synthesis (see page 39) BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn BLACK DIAMOND, DJ Kevin BOLO’S, My Own Worst Enemy CRUISERS, StateLine Music Fest feat.

Invasive, Dog Town 420, Windowpane, Children of Atom & more GARLAND PUB & GRILL, Usual Suspects J HARRISON CITY PARK, Eric-E J HOTEL RL AT THE PARK, Dawna Stafford, Working Spliffs THE JACKSON ST., Karaoke

LAUGHING DOG BREWING, Truck Mills LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Kori Ailene LOST BOYS’ GARAGE, Robby French MARYHILL WINERY, Nicholas Schauer MAX AT MIRABEAU, Tuck Foster and the Tumbling Dice MULLIGAN’S, Clinton Lane Darnell NASHVILLE NORTH, Ladies Night with Luke Jaxon and DJ Tom NORTHERN QUEST RESORT & CASINO, DJ Patrick ONE SHOT CHARLIE’S, Lucky Tongue PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Monarch Mountain Band POST FALLS BREWING COMPANY, Eric Neuhausser REPUBLIC BREWING CO., Dave McGraw & Mandy Fer RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos J ROCKET MARKET, Starlite Motel SILVER MOUNTAIN SKI RESORT, Pamela Benton (at Noah’s) THE VIKING, Viking Anniversary Celebration with The Bobby Patterson Band TWO RIVERS CASINO AND RESORT, Smash Hit Carnival J WESTWOOD BREWING CO., Just Plain Darin ZOLA, Rewind

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Sunday, 07/8

ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, Rhythm Dawgs CRAVE, DJ Dave CURLEY’S, Tuck Foster and the Tumbling Dice DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS, Jam Night with VooDoo Church GARLAND PUB & GRILL, Karaoke J HARVEST HOUSE, Just Plain Darin HUMBLE BURGER, Sunbathe, Monica + The Shy Boys LINGER LONGER LOUNGE, Open Jam MARYHILL WINERY, Over Easy O’DOHERTY’S, Live Irish Music ONE SHOT CHARLIE’S, Mark Stephens J ONE WORLD CAFE, Wayfairy, Okay Okay PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Annie Welle J THE PIN!, Songsmith Series feat.

Dave McRae (5pm), Next Up! (8pm) ZOLA, Lazy Love

Monday, 07/9

THE BULL HEAD, Tyler Lang J CALYPSOS COFFEE & CREAMERY, Open Mic CRAVE, DJ Dave EICHARDT’S, Jam with Truck Mills NORTHERN RAIL PUB, Music Challenge J THE PIN!, 24hrs, Skinnyfromthe9, Dice Soho, Chez RED ROOM LOUNGE, Open Mic with Lucas Brookbank Brown ZOLA, Perfect Mess

Tuesday, 07/10

219 LOUNGE, Karaoke with DJ Pat J THE BARTLETT, Northwest of New Orleans feat Hot Club of Spokane, David Larsen Group, Sarah Berentson, Lyle Morse J BING CROSBY THEATER, The Wood Brothers with Ashleigh Flynn CRAVE, DJ Dave J FARMIN PARK, The Powers GARLAND DRINKERY, Joshua Belliardo GARLAND PUB & GRILL, Karaoke HUMBLE BURGER, Antonioni, Happy Foam’Roller, Help Yourself J J KNITTING FACTORY, Social Distortion, Low Cut Connie, Aaron Lee Tasjan LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Turntable Tuesday MAX AT MIRABEAU, Dawna Stafford J J NORTHERN QUEST RESORT & CASINO, Incubus (see page 41), Minus the Bear J THE PIN!, Jonah Sissoyev, David Simmons POST FALLS BREWING, Devon Wade RAZZLE’S, Open Mic Jam RED ROOM LOUNGE, Storme RIDLER PIANO BAR, Open Mic/Jam RIPPLES RIVERSIDE GRILL, Land of Voices THE ROADHOUSE, Karaoke ROCKET MARKET, Ashley Pyle J SHERMAN SQUARE PARK, Stagecoach West SWEET LOU’S, Bill Bozly ZOLA, Dueling Cronkites

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Wednesday, 07/11

219 LOUNGE, Truck Mills & Ali Thomas J J THE BARTLETT, Whiskey Shivers, Matt Mitchell BLACK DIAMOND, Songsmith Series feat. Chelsey Heidenreich CRAVE, DJ Dave CRUISERS, Open Jam Night GENO’S, Open Mic w/Travis Goulding J HILLYARD LIBRARY, Ron Greene HOUSE OF SOUL, Jazz & Whiskey J IRON HORSE (VALLEY), Nick Grow THE JACKSON ST., Karaoke JOHN’S ALLEY, Frogleg KENDALL YARDS, Kori Ailene LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Carey Brazil LOST BOYS’ GARAGE, Jazz Weds.

LUCKY’S IRISH PUB, DJ D3VIN3 J MCEUEN PARK, The Powers MILLWOOD BREWING COMPANY, Dawna Stafford POOLE’S PUBLIC HOUSE, Cronkites J PRINCE OF PEACE, POP Summer Concert Series w/Ben Klein as Elvis RED ROOM LOUNGE, Jam Session RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos THE ROADHOUSE, Open Mic SOULFUL SOUPS & SPIRITS, Open Mic THE THIRSTY DOG, Karaoke UP NORTH DISTILLERY, Jimi Finn ZOLA, Whsk&Keys

Coming Up ...

J J THE BARTLETT, S. Carey (see facing page), H.C. McEntire, July 12 J J KNITTING FACTORY, Whitey Morgan (see facing page), July 12 DOWNTOWN WALLACE, Wallace Blues Festival, July 13-15

July 13, 2018

Register Today

A Tuscan Inspired Benefit For YWCA’s Domestic Violence Services

When Friday, July 13, 2018, 5-10pm Where Barrister Winery & alleyway 1213 W Railroad Ave Tickets $85 per ticket, 21yrs & over event Register ywcaspokane.org | 509-789-9312 Indulge Local arts & artists, Tuscan street fair, silent & live auction, scratch-made dinner & dessert, live music & dancing

SPOKANE

MUSIC | VENUES 219 LOUNGE • 219 N. First, Sandpoint • 208-2639934 315 MARTINIS & TAPAS • 315 E. Wallace, CdA • 208-667-9660 ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS • 4705 N. Fruit Hill Rd. • 927-9463 BABY BAR • 827 W. First Ave. • 847-1234 BARLOWS • 1428 N. Liberty Lake Rd. • 924-1446 THE BARTLETT • 228 W. Sprague Ave. • 747-2174 BEEROCRACY • 911 W. Garland Ave. BERSERK BAR • 125 S. Stevens • 714-9512 THE BIG DIPPER • 171 S. Washington • 863-8098 BIGFOOT PUB • 9115 N. Division St. • 467-9638 BING CROSBY THEATER • 901 W. Sprague Ave. • 227-7638 BLACK DIAMOND • 9614 E. Sprague • 891-8357 BOLO’S • 116 S. Best Rd. • 891-8995 BOOMERS • 18219 E. Appleway Ave. • 755-7486 BOOTS BAKERY & LOUNGE • 24 W. Main Ave. • 703-7223 BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB • 201 S. Main, Moscow • 208-882-5216 BUZZ COFFEEHOUSE • 501 S. Thor • 340-3099 CALYPSOS COFFEE & CREAMERY • 116 E. Lakeside Ave., CdA • 208-665-0591 CHATEAU RIVE • 621 W. Mallon Ave. • 795-2030 CHECKERBOARD BAR • 1716 E. Sprague Ave. • 535-4007 COEUR D’ALENE CASINO • 37914 S. Nukwalqw Rd., Worley, Idaho • 800-523-2464 COEUR D’ALENE CELLARS • 3890 N. Schreiber Way, CdA • 208-664-2336 CRAFTED TAP HOUSE • 523 Sherman Ave., CdA • 208-292-4813 CRAVE• 401 W. Riverside • 321-7480 CRUISERS • 6105 W Seltice Way, Post Falls • 208773-4706 CURLEY’S • 26433 W. Hwy. 53 • 208-773-5816 DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS • 6412 E. Trent • 535-9309 EICHARDT’S PUB • 212 Cedar St., Sandpoint • 208-263-4005 THE FEDORA • 1726 W. Kathleen, CdA • 208-7658888 FIZZIE MULLIGANS • 331 W. Hastings • 466-5354 FOX THEATER • 1001 W. Sprague • 624-1200 THE HIVE • 207 N. First, Sandpoint • 208-457-2392 HOGFISH • 1920 E. Sherman, CdA • 208-667-1896 HOLLYWOOD REVOLVER BAR • 4720 Ferrel, CdA • 208-274-0486 HOTEL RL BY RED LION AT THE PARK • 303 W. North River Dr. • 326-8000 HOUSE OF SOUL • 120 N. Wall • 217-1961 IRON HORSE BAR • 407 E. Sherman Ave., CdA • 208-667-7314 IRON HORSE BAR & GRILL • 11105 E. Sprague Ave., CdA • 509-926-8411 JACKSON ST. BAR & GRILL • 2436 N. Astor St. • 315-8497 JOHN’S ALLEY • 114 E. Sixth St., Moscow • 208883-7662 KNITTING FACTORY • 911 W. Sprague Ave. • 244-3279 LAGUNA CAFÉ • 2013 E. 29th Ave. • 448-0887 THE LANTERN TAP HOUSE • 1004 S. Perry St. • 315-9531 LEFTBANK WINE BAR • 108 N. Washington • 315-8623 LUCKY’S IRISH PUB • 408 W. Sprague • 747-2605 MAX AT MIRABEAU • 1100 N. Sullivan • 924-9000 MICKDUFF’S • 312 N. First Ave., Sandpoint • 208)255-4351 MONARCH MOUNTAIN COFFEE • 208 N 4th Ave, Sandpoint • 208-265-9382 MOOSE LOUNGE • 401 E. Sherman • 208-664-7901 MOOTSY’S • 406 W. Sprague • 838-1570 MULLIGAN’S • 506 Appleway Ave., CdA • 208- 7653200 ext. 310 NASHVILLE NORTH • 6361 W. Seltice Way, Post Falls • 208-457-9128 NECTAR CATERING & EVENTS • 120 N. Stevens St. • 869-1572 NORTHERN QUEST RESORT • 100 N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights • 242-7000 NYNE • 232 W. Sprague Ave. • 474-1621 THE OBSERVATORY • 15 S. Howard • 598-8933 OMEGA EVENT CENTER • 25 E. Lincoln Rd. O’SHAY’S • 313 E. CdA Lake Dr. • 208-667-4666 PEND D’OREILLE WINERY • 301 Cedar St., Sandpoint • 208-265-8545 THE PIN! • 412 W. Sprague • 368-4077 RED LION RIVER INN • 700 N. Division • 326-5577 RED ROOM LOUNGE • 521 W. Sprague • 838-7613 REPUBLIC BREWING • 26 Clark Ave. • 775-2700 RIDLER PIANO BAR • 718 W. Riverside • 822-7938 RIVELLE’S • 2360 N Old Mill Loop, CdA • 208-9300381 THE ROADHOUSE • 20 N. Raymond • 413-1894 SEASONS OF COEUR D’ALENE • 209 E. Lakeside Ave. • 208-664-8008 THE SHOP • 924 S. Perry St. • 534-1647 SOULFUL SOUPS & SPIRITS • 117 N. Howard St. • 459-1190 SPOKANE ARENA • 720 W. Mallon • 279-7000 THE THIRSTY DOG • 3027 E. Liberty Ave. • 487-3000 TIMBER GASTRO PUB •1610 E Schneidmiller, Post Falls • 208-262-9593 ZOLA • 22 W. Main Ave. • 624-2416

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MUSIC SONGS OF SOLIDARITY

A mission to inspire tolerance and solidarity has brought the Seattle Men’s Chorus and Seattle Women’s Chorus to Spokane.

The choruses have advocated for social justice relating to those who identify as LGBTQ since both groups’ founding: 2002 for the Women’s Chorus and 1979 for the Men’s. The internationally renowned choruses are the largest LGBTQ-identified men’s and women’s choruses in the world, and combine to form the largest community chorus in North America. The Washington tour’s program — which features covers of Broadway classics and modern radio hits — seeks to heal the divide in our nation through music. Proceeds from the concert locally benedit Odyssey Youth Movement and the Spokane AIDS Network.

— SEAN PRICE Seattle Choruses: Sing Out Washington Tour • Sat, July 7 at 7:30 pm • $29-$59 • All ages • Bing Crosby Theater • 901 W. Sprague • bingcrosbytheater.com • 227-7638

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COMEDY ALMOST FAMOUS

About a year ago I went to The Dope Show, a marijuana-related night at Spokane Comedy Club, and the definite highlight (no pun intended) was the surprise appearance by Gabriel Rutledge, who had headlined several shows that weekend. It had nothing to do with his pot-related jokes, and everything to do with the Olympiabased comic’s strong material and easy manner on stage, whether talking about the challenges of parenthood or past awful roommates. A past winner of the Seattle International Comedy Competition, Rutledge has appeared on Comedy Central and the Bob & Tom radio show, and I guarantee if you go see him, you’ll have the same reaction I did: How is this guy not famous yet?

— DAN NAILEN Gabriel Rutledge • Thu-Fri, July 5-6 at 8 pm; Sat, July 7 at 7 pm and 9:30 pm • $8-$16 • 21+ • Spokane Comedy Club • 315 W. Sprague • spokanecomedyclub.com • 318-9998

MUSIC SEVENTY-SIX TROMBONES

Brass bands are tooting their own horns in downtown Spokane during a block party that’s sure to wake all your neighbors. The first local band get-together is modeled after Honk! Fest, a festival in Somerville, Massachusetts, that celebrates a rising street-band movement. Spokane’s two-day affair, Sponk!, begins Friday with performances along Wall Street, ending in a show that night at the House of Soul. Saturday’s schedule includes various performances in the downtown core throughout the day. Keep your eyes and ears peeled for a band parade beginning in Riverfront Park at 11 am. Sponk! is host to five marching bands from around the U.S., including Chicago brass band Environmental Encroachment. Event organizers are still looking for sponsors and volunteers; for more information, visit their website.

— BROOKE CARLSON Sponk! Festival • Fri, July 6 at 6 pm and Sat, July 7 from 11 am-11 pm • Free • Events along Wall Street and Main Avenue, Downtown Spokane • spokanecommunity.org

Olivia Waterman at Avenue West

VISUAL ARTS FIRST FRIDAY

All events below happen Friday, July 6, from 5-8 pm, unless otherwise noted.

These listings were compiled from information provided by First Friday organizer Downtown Spokane Partnership, as well as host venues and artists.

For additional information visit firstfridayspokane.org.

— CHEY SCOTT ART SEED SPOKANE, 1115 W. First “Spiders, Bats and Installation Arts, Oh My!”, from 5-9 pm.

AUNTIE’S, 402 W. Main 3 Minute Mic poetry at 8 pm.

AVENUE WEST, 907 W. Boone Ave. “Small Things,” art by gallery members in small size or focus.

BARILI CELLARS, 608 W. Second Manipulated photography by Jessica Bloom, from 4-9 pm.

BARRISTER WINERY, 1213 W. Railroad Ave. Art by members of River Ridge Fine Arts Association, from 5-10 pm.

THE BARTLETT, 228 W. Sprague The Inlander’s 2018 Volume poster show continues, from 6-11:30 pm.

BERSERK, 125 S. Stevens Art by Jon Swanstrom.

CHASE GALLERY, 808 W. Spokane Falls Blvd.

A showcase celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Spokane Handweavers Guild.

THE CLAY CONNECTION, 714 E. Sprague Studio grand reopening, with art by Kendahl Jan Jubb and Ken Nguyen-Scott.

CRAFTSMAN CELLARS, 1194 W. Summit Pkwy.

“The Unseen Palouse” series by JR McCurdie, from 5-9 pm.

ELLIOTS, AN URBAN KITCHEN, 2209 N. Monroe “Elements,” acrylic paintings

by Billy.

EXPRESS EMPLOYMENT PROFESSIONALS, 331 W. Main Art by students in Rogers High School’s AP digital photography course, from 8 am-5 pm.

HILLS’ RESTAURANT & LOUNGE, 401 W. Main Music by the Brent Edstrom Trio, from 6-9 pm.

HOUSE OF SOUL, 120 N. Wall Live music to preview SPONK! Spokane HONK! Fest; 6-11 pm.

IRON GOAT BREWING, 1302 W. Second Abstract paintings and woodblock prints by Eric Rau.

KOLVA-SULLIVAN GALLERY, 115 S. Adams St. “Tertiary Row Immersion” by Bruce Hormann, from 5-9 pm.

LEFTBANK WINE BAR, 108 N. Washington Abstract expressionism by Louis Gravely, from 5-10 pm.

LIBERTY BUILDING, 203 N. Washington Art by Dylan Lipsker, Sheila Johnston and Lisa McKinney Kreymborg.

MARMOT ART SPACE, 1202 W. Summit Pkwy.

“Quilts & Field Patterns” by Rob Fifield, from 4:30-8 pm.

MARYHILL WINERY SPOKANE, 1303 W. Summit Pkwy.

Pointillism paintings by Beth Heart, from 5-9 pm.

MOM’S CUSTOM TATTOO, 1226 W. Summit Pkwy.

Art by tattoo artists Bonnie Gillson and Anji Marth.

POTTERY PLACE PLUS, 203 N. Washington Paintings and mixed media by Amy Charbonneau; 5-9 pm.

ROBERT KARL CELLARS, 115 W. Pacific Ave. Art by Gail Lindsay; 2-8 pm.

SARANAC ART PROJECTS, 25 W. Main “Fragments” by Mariah Boyle and “The Gloomy Art of Flower Arranging” by Tobe Harvey.

SPOKANE CITY HALL, 808 W. Main Megan Perkins’ “Artist’s Eye on Spokane” series.

SPOKANE PUBLIC LIBRARY, 906 W. Main Music by Quarter Monkey, from 6:30-8 pm.

SOULFUL SOUPS, 117 N. Howard Mixed media by LauraLee, from 5-9 pm.

TERRAIN, 304 W. Pacific “Home Studios,” photos and installations by Julie GautierDownes.

WILEY’S DOWNTOWN BISTRO, 115 N. Washington “Best of Wiley’s,” art displayed at the restaurant in the past year.

Food.

Beverages.

Music.

Celebrity golf.

Providing hope.

Showcase Celebrity Golf Exhibition to Fight Cancer CDA Resort Golf Course, Saturday, July 28

Community Cancer Fund’s annual fundraiser to fight local cancer is back, and you’re invited to attend. Come watch 9-holes of celebrity golf while enjoying live music, a variety of beers and other beverages, as well as tasty cuisine from local food truck vendors.

TICKETS Together, we are Community Cancer Fund.

ON SALE NOW!

P R E S E N T E D B Y:

Event tickets and other details at showcasegolf.com.

Benefitting: communitycancerfund.org

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W I SAW YOU

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I SAW YOU FROM THE BEARDED MT. DEW GUY I walked into Subway during my lunch break with several co-workers and laid eyes on you immediately… The whole time you were laughing and seemingly having a great time with your friend and I was trying my hardest not to stare the whole time. We had a couple brief moments of eye contact while I was taking bashful little peeks your way. When I was walking back to my truck I looked back, you were looking my way and had the biggest most beautiful smile on your face. Everything inside of me was telling me to go up and talk to you, but given that you were with your friend and I with my co-workers my shyness got the better of me… Then we were heading the same way north on Argonne for awhile and I literally almost jumped out at the light to ran up and say hi and ask if you wanted to talk sometime. I’m kicking myself for not stepping up. I know it’s a long shot but if you read this I hope at least it puts a smile on your face and maybe… just maybe there is some way to connect through this. I will say that if I ever happen to see you again I will not make the same mistake twice! P.S. I never would have ever thought I would do one of these I Saw You type things...

#SPOKANESOMETIMESSUCKS Hey I DIDN’T see you the other day but wish I had. I was walking out to my car and was talking to my mother over the phone when I saw my car’s back door open. All of my tools were stolen as well as important paperwork I keep in my glove box for my car and other things. It’s ok, I only needed those for my job that I work on planes with.

When I saw this I quickly started cursing and accidentally taught my 5 year old niece new “sentence enhancers,” sorry Amber. I hope those tools you stole were worth the $20 you got at the pawn shop or drug dealer so you can buy crack. I am offended though, of all the things you stole, you left all my CDs. Are you saying I have bad taste in music? I’ll have you know I listen to Katy Perry all day without shame. But... you really did help me out though. I was just thinking the other day “If only there was a way to make my life a lot harder.” You’re like my douchey fairy godfather from Felony Flats. Thanks for granting my wish! I wonder if I’ll see my Kobalt 227 piece tool set (big blue tool set with 3 tiers) out on the streets some time.

Maybe I’ll find you there too. Until then, love you, have a great life!

EL DIABLO WITH THE GORGEOUS EYES! I saw you. Pouring drinks for a few patrons at a local pub. I was the one admiring your smile and one dimple. That laugh is so genuine and contagious! Would love to meet up for drinks sometime. Tequila?

CHEERS IRISH SETTER SOUTH HILL Hi. About 9 years ago I gave my Irish Setter (Sophie) to a really nice couple on the South Hill, near Manito Park, since I was moving to San Diego. I am back up in Spokane for a bit and was hoping I could see Sophie for a few minutes, just to say hi. My email is brian@vata7. com Thank you, Brian.

PHONE SAVIOR Thank you for returning my phone! You spotted it in the street and kindly collected it, keeping it safe until I could pick it up from you (at the Rosauers). It was a great feeling to know there are considerate honest people out there!

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everyone else and NO tipping allowed.

No customer should ever feel they are worthless because you are working a job that pays less. I have heard many people remark they feel almost panicky because the wait staff will be mad if they can’t afford to leave more. Customers can be a pain for

Maybe in the future, you could kindly keep your grubby hands off my stuff and my car and keep your distance from my kids.

CHEERS TO DR. SIMON PROSSER DDS The agony of knowing I had to have a root canal was so much worse than the actual process. Cheers to Dr. Simon Prosser, DDS and his office staff, due to tranquilizers and nitrous oxide, the procedure could not have been better. My fear of the process was totally unnecessary! It’s nice to have a dentist and staff like them to deal with the icky things in life. THANK YOU!

JEERS ENTITLED PARK-GOER Normally, before I leave the house I make sure to grab my “be everywhere at once” spray. It definitely comes in handy as a mom with kids. Unfortunately though, on Sunday, I left it at home, so when you wanted to get in to the parking space next to mine, I had no idea because I was on the other side trying to buckle my infant in. You know... safety first. So my other child was waiting politely for me to buckle her also. The door was open because kids shouldn’t shut doors themselves until

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

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

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they are old enough, you know, little fingers and all. So you took it upon yourself to put the booster that had fallen out and shut the door. I’m sure your motives were so selfless, walking through the park from a different starting point is OBVIOUSLY out of the question. I definitely thought letting

your unleashed dog run around the parking lot and take a giant poop next to me was very motivating. Leaving his poop there was fantastic. I’m sure there will definitely not be any children getting their shoes covered with that steamy pile of love. In the future I will definitely remember my super spray so I can be everywhere at once. Maybe in the future, you could kindly keep your grubby hands off my stuff and my car and keep your distance from my kids. Your Prius gets really good gas milage, I’m sure waiting 30 more seconds won’t be that terrible.

SHAMEFUL TIPPING I have watched the back and forth about tipping...

I have worked in restaurants in several capacities, I was usually a well liked employee and customers seemed to feel the same... But lately, I have seen alot more restaurant employees remark: if you can’t tip or tip well STAY HOME... News flash... you’re not special and neither is your job. No other job assumes the customer should make up the wages of the employees. You should be paid the same wages as

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many reasons, so can the wait staff. I have turned employees in for messing with people’s food because they were unhappy with them for one reason or another. People are often afraid to ask for stuff to be fixed for those reasons.

Employers should be made to pay regular wages, and tipping should NOT be allowed. Most of you don’t work hard enough to deserve what you do get. Go to school and get a career if you want better money, like the rest of us... Shameful. n

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EVENTS | CALENDAR

COMEDY

GABRIEL RUTLEDGE The past winner of the Seattle International Comedy Competition has been on Comedy Central and more. July 5-6 at 7 pm, July 7 at 7 and 9:30 pm. $8-$22. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com 50/50 A mix of favorite improvised games and show formats. Fridays at 8 pm, July 6-Aug. 10. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. bluedoortheatre.com DRINK N’ DEBATE The monthly competition features teams of comedians who hit the stage given a topic and five minutes to prep. July 8, 8 pm. $5. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. (318-9998)

COMMUNITY

FAMILY NIGHTS AT THE POOL A pool party open only to families and their friends, with food, music and fun. Offered at Hillyard (7/6), Liberty (7/20), AM Cannon (8/3) and Comstock (8/17) from 6:30-8 pm. Free. spokaneparks.org VIRTUAL REALITY FIRST FRIDAYS Experiment with games and creative tools in a virtual 3D space. Stop by any time between 5-8 pm on First Friday to explore worlds or create your own virtual art. Free. Spark Central, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. spark-central.org/drop-in/ DOWNTOWN GHOST WALKING TOUR A 2-hour stroll through the haunted history of Downtown Spokane with storyteller and Spokane historian Chet Caskey. July 7, 7:30-9:30 pm. $15. spokaneparks.org GIZMOTION Celebrate creativity with Gizmo, Coeur d’Alene’s makerspace, at the fourth annual event exploring art, technology and human-powered vehicles. July 7, 11:30 am-4 pm. Free. Coeur d’Alene City Park, 415 W. Mullan Rd. gizmo-cda.org/gizmotion WALKING TOURS OF BROWNE’S ADDITION Take a walking tour of the historic neighborhood. Proceeds support the Friends of Coeur d’Alene Park. July 7 at 1 pm, July 18 at 6 pm, July 27 at 7 pm and Aug. 11 at 9:30 am. $15. (850-0056)

FESTIVAL

U-PICK LAVENDER FEST The summer event offers u-pick lavender, food and artisan vendors, live music and more. July 7-8 from 9 am-5 pm. $5. Evening Light Lavender, 5552 S. Wallbridge Rd., Deer Park. eveninglightlavender.com CHEWELAH CHATAQUA The 45th community celebration is one of the longestrunning in Eastern Washington, offering three days of food and entertainment, a carnival, sports, and more. July 13-15.

Free admission. chewelahchataqua.com

FILM

MY LITTLE PONY MOVIE Showing as part of the Garland’s annual “Free Summer Movie Series;” doors open at 9 am.

Through July 6, 9:30 am. Free. Garland Theater, 924 W. Garland. (327-1050) SUMMER MATINEE SERIES: THE LEGO NINJAGO MOVIE The battle for NINJAGO City calls to action young Master Builder Lloyd. July 4-5 at 1 pm. $3. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy.org THE GREATEST SHOWMAN Musical improv by Michael Glatzmaier, movie trivia, food, vendors and The Greatest showman on the big screen. July 7, 7 pm. $5-$6. Riverfront Park, 705 N. Howard St.

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bit.ly/2JdCQ8Q (509-625-6600) SWIM & A MOVIE: DESPICABLE ME 3 Enjoy a two-hour swim, concessions, and a family-friendly movie on the blow-up screen. At the Northside and Southside aquatic facilities. July 7, 6 pm. Free. spokanecounty.org/parks THE HEMINGWAY SERIES KYRS and the Lantern host monthly screenings of classic films based on Ernest Hemingway’s writings. Second Tuesday at 6:30 pm: July 12 (Under My Skin), Aug. 14 (The Old Man and the Sea). $5. Magic Lantern Theatre, 25 W. Main. magiclanternonmain.com SUMMER CAMP: THE BOONDOCK SAINTS The Garland’s summer movie series returns Tuesday nights; spend $10 in Bon Bon before the show to get in free.

July 10, 7 pm. $2.50. Garland Theater, 924 W. Garland Ave. garlandtheater.com 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU Live music by Covenant Marimba Band, movie trivia, food, vendors “10 Things I Hate About You” on the big screen. July 11, 7 pm. $5-$6. Riverfront Park, 705 N. Howard St. bit.ly/2HpGozf (509-625-6600)

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WINE! WHITE WINES YOU’VE NEVER TRIED Taste five white wines and a bubbly; all made with grapes you may have never heard of. July 6, 4-7 pm. $15. Petunias Marketplace, 2010 N. Madison St. petuniasmarket.com (328-4257) DOWNTOWN CDA BREWFEST The second annual Brewfest features more than 30 regional beers and ciders, along with food vendors and live music. July 7.

McEuen Park, 420 E. Front St. cdadowntown.com/brewfest (208-769-2252) SUMMER PARTY Celebrate the summer with live music, dancing and family entertainment at the winery estate on Lake Roosevelt and sample “headache-free” organic wines. July 7, 12-8 pm. $10. China Bend Winery, 3751 Vineyard Way, Kettle Falls. chinabend.com (732-6123) ICE CREAM SOCIAL Head to this quaint Palouse town for an afternoon of ice cream during this annual summer tradition. July 8, 12-3 pm. Palouse, Wash., n/a. visitpalouse.com (878-2310) INTERNATIONAL FLAVORS BUFFET: Take a culinary trip around the world and feast on Swedish meatballs with egg noodles, Italian-style Tuscan salmon, manicotti with alfredo, chicken pad thai, sweet and sour pork, Mexican taco bar, New England style clam chowder and more. Sundays from 4-8 pm. $22. Coeur d’Alene Casino, 37914 S. Nukwalqw. cdacasino.com (800-523-2467) JERKY MAKING BASICS Come and learn the steps to safely make your own jerky with food preservation specialist Anna Kestell. July 10, 6:30 pm. Free. East Side Library, 524 S. Stone St. (444-5331) SEASONAL COOKING: BIBIMBAP Try your hand at bibimbap, a Korean veggie and rice bowl, paired with homemade gochujang (Korean chile paste) sauce to take home. July 10, 5:30-7:30 pm. $20.

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I got ghosted -- dumped by a guy who just disappeared on me, no explanation — after three months of lovey-dovey dating. Clearly, he isn’t a great person, yet I’m unable to stop thinking about him and wondering why he left. How do I accept that it’s over so I can start dating again? —Plagued

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Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague. bingcrosbytheater.com SPONK! SPOKANE HONK! FEST Spokane’s first HONK! fest hosts community marching bands from around the U.S. who connect with audiences through interactive, energetic music, dance and performance. On Main between Browne and Division. July 7, 7-11 pm. Free. spokanecommunity.org SWEET SOUNDS & SUMMER BREEZES An annual outdoor concert featuring local musicians and composers at the U of Idaho Arboretum and Botanical Garden.

July 9, 7-8:30 pm. Free. University of Idaho, 709 S Deakin St. (208-596-2865)

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It’s hard on the ego to learn why somebody’s leaving you, but it beats needing a Ouija board.

AMY ALKON It’s the mystery that’s causing the problem. Typically, when rotten things happen to us, our feel-bad emotions (like anger and sadness) rise up — driving us to take a wiser course of action the next time so we’ll keep those bad feelings from popping by again: “Wassup? Got any beer?”

Knowing the wiser course starts with knowing what to avoid. But all you’ve got is a terrible itch — the itch of uncertainty about why this guy vanished — and little hope of yanking him in to give you answers: “Wanted/Reward — ex-boyfriend who ghosted me, last seen on 3/11/2018 carrying the remains of my dignity in a green reusable bag.”

However, you can probably dupe your mind into believing it has the answer.

Research by cognitive neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga suggests our mind is quick to create stories to fill in and make sense out of incomplete information — and then we tend to go right ahead and believe our stories. To take advantage of this, imagine a possible reason the guy vamoosed on you — and then just decide to accept it as THE reason.

What might also help is transforming your thoughts of the guy into a material object — a piece of garbage, in fact — and throwing it away. And yes, I get that this sounds absurd, but there’s a growing area of social science research — embodied cognition — that finds taking action is a highly efficient way to change our feelings.

Accordingly, social psychologist Pablo Brinol had research participants write a negative thought on a piece of paper and then rip the paper up and throw it into a nearby trash can. This actually led to participants “mentally disposing” of their disturbing thinking to a great degree.

Should the guy sneak back into your thoughts, don’t worry; just widen the shot.

Shift your focus from him to yourself — looking at how you maybe crossed your fingers that you had a keeper instead of seeing whether that actually was the case. Understanding what you should do differently is the first step toward expanding the male companionship in your life — amusing as it can be to spend your nights watching your current partner get loaded on catnip and try to make sweet love to your throw pillows.

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My husband and I are both 70, and we have a good, satisfying sex life. I found out recently that he masturbates now and then. I was puzzled and hurt, but he said he just doesn’t want to bother me all the time. Should I be worried that he’s masturbating?

—In The Dark You really want your husband to hit you up for some sex whenever the urge strikes him? Imagine the call: “Hi, honey…I’m in the golf course bathroom. How quickly can you get down here?”

As long as your husband isn’t ditching sex with you for his knuckle-love sessions, his masturbating isn’t something you should take personally. People masturbate because they’re bored, they’re tense, they can’t sleep, or their phone needs to recharge before they can continue their Facebook flame war over whether “Saved by the Bell” was a vehicle for the Illuminati.

Also, there are times when a person just wants to get off solo — maybe because they’re short on time and maybe because they’re low on emotional energy (and their hand doesn’t get miffy if they don’t cuddle it afterward and tell it it’s beautiful).

Still, maybe you’re thinking, “Well, why can’t he just wait till I’m around?” And it’s understandable that you’d think that — maybe because you’re just fine with waiting.

And if you are, that may be because you’re a woman. It turns out that there are sex differences in sexual desire.

Social psychologist Roy Baumeister and his colleagues, surveying piles of studies, explain that men tend to have a far stronger sex drive, with “more frequent and more intense sexual desires than women.” That’s surely why it’s primarily men (and probably single men) who show up in emergency rooms with embarrassing sex-for-one-related injuries — like wiener-in-the-vacuum-cleaner lacerations. (Since penis-in-vagina sex is fun, why not penis-in-the-Shop-Vac?!)

So, back to your question: Should you be worried that he’s masturbating? No, you should be celebrating! Bake his penis a cake! (That’s what we do for people who are still alive at 70. Why not for their sex parts?) n ©2018, 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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LEGALIZATION

Here to Stay How June’s legal news supports more mainstream marijuana legalization

BY TUCK CLARRY

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hile prohibition may loosely stay intact for the remainder of Donald Trump’s presidency, the call for a zero-sum federal stance on marijuana seems to be in the tone of a death rattle.

June held some of the largest changes and substantial landmark shifts that the cannabis community has seen since recreational legalization passed first in Washington and Colorado. Mainstream cannabis appears to be here to stay, both in approved legalization, legislative moves and even Food and Drug Administration integration.

On June 19, Canada became the first G7 nation to legalize cannabis for all adults in a nearly two-thirds majority vote. While there is still a dispute over the right of home cultivation, Canadian President Justin Trudeau and those in favor hope to find an economic boon and cut down black market sales.

This news comes a week after the World Health

Canada is legalizing pot for all adults.

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Organization (WHO) announced its findings on cannabis as a “relatively safe drug” that can and has been used to manage numerous medical conditions.

WHO surveyed over 953 cannabis patients from 31 countries and found that many were successful at treating ailments and illnesses with the drug under physician supervision. The study found that cannabis was an effective way to treat a vast range of illnesses, stimulating appetites for those with HIV/AIDS, easing insomnia and anxiety

and decreasing neuropathic pain and aiding in motor ability for those with Parkinson’s disease.

WHO also highlighted the lack of studies being conducted, in part to the scheduling of the drug in places like the U.S. But that too may change after the FDA approved its first CBD drug on June 25. The federal agency approved the prescription drug Epidiolex, a marijuanabased epilepsy medication.

The drug’s acceptance should not only help remove some of the stigma that CBD oil receives in the pharmaceutical community, but also help standardize the potency and dosing of CBD products moving forward.

But perhaps the most telling form of progress for mainstream marijuana comes from Oklahoma’s medicinal legalization. Two years ago, Oklahoma fought alongside Nebraska to deem Colorado’s legalization as unconstitutional.

Lawmakers feared the growing trend of pot smokers but were denied by the U.S. Supreme Court in stopping recreational adult use. But on June 26, Oklahoma voters approved medical marijuana 57 percent to 43 percent, with legislation that allows the cultivation, possession and use of medical cannabis by qualified patients.

Perhaps most fascinating is that the legislation is incredibly open-ended, with no limiting qualifying conditions for patients, as well as incredibly large possession allowances. And due to its location, Oklahoma could be the gateway to Texas, a state which often informs its political opinions by its neighbors to the north. And once the largest state in the union shifts its weight, who knows who is left to defend the old guard? n

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Brewing Up Some Fun

Sampling Welcome at Annual Brew Fest

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omething good is brewing in the Northwest in an ever-increasing variety of craft breweries and cideries. Shop the shelves of your favorite local market or go out to eat and you’ll notice Northwest lagers, stouts, IPAs, porters and more.

which in this case is at the laid back, yet scenic McEuen Park, as well as the food and music.

“Craft beer is a total experience,” says Darrell Dlouhy, of Coeur d’Alene’s Daft Badger Brewery. For the drinkers, says Dlouhy, The choices seem “it involves happy people endless, but the Coeur enjoying the nuances of beer Coeur d’Alene d’Alene Brew Fest lets styles coupled often with Brew Fest you try the ones that great food and always with July 7 interest you most! This conversations with friends is how it works: Pay to and family.” Although they 2-8 pm at McEuen Park enter ($25; children and aren’t participating as a cdadowntown.com/brewfest designated drivers get vendor, Dlouhy says he still 208-415-0116 in free) and receive a wanted to be involved, so his cup and six tickets, which brewery sponsored the music you can “spend” to get six 5-ounce pours at the upcoming Brew Fest. of your choice. Try cider from North Idaho “Music done well creates a convivial vibe Cider and beer from Spokane’s Waddell’s that both enhances and enables the Brewery, or any of around 30 beers and connections that craft beer creates,” says ciders. Additional pour tickets are available Dlouhy, who chose DJ Joel Gorman to get for $2 each. the party started and local band Dimestore Festivals are about more than just sampling Prophets to keep it going. beer, however. There’s the atmosphere, C O E U R

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The Righteous Brothers

JULY 5 American musical duo the Righteous Brothers take stage at Coeur d’Alene Casino on Thursday. The original “blueeyed soul” duo gained fame in the early ’60s for their emotive vocal style and catchy tunes, including “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling” and “Unchained Melody.”

Tickets start at $25; 7-9 pm at the Coeur d’Alene Casino.

Bands on Boats

JULY 6 Rock the boat on Lake Coeur d’Alene during the Bands on Boats Summer Concert Series put on by the Coeur d’Alene Resort. The series starts this weekend, with some country tunes from the Kelly Hughes Band. $25; 21+ only; cruise departs at 7 pm; visit cdacruises.com/bands-onboats.

From the Ashes

JULY 14 Calling all barbecue lovers! From the Ashes, An American Smoked and Fired Foods Adventure, will welcome nationally recognized pitmasters from all over the country to Coeur d’Alene. In addition to sampling amazing brisket, ribs, sausage, trout and more, guests can also visit the “application station” to learn how to smoke and fire foods better at home. $15-$83; 11 am-8 pm; Settlers Creek, 5803 W. Riverview Dr., Coeur d’Alene.

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JULY 5, 2018 INLANDER 55

Entertainment

THE ISLEY BROTHERS FEAT. RONALD & ERNEST ISLEY Event Center | 7 pm Tickets from $35

Don’t miss this Grammy award-winning group with songs like “Groove With You,” “Fight the Power,” Brother, Brother,” “You Are Love” and more!

THURSDAY, AUGUST 2ND

THURSDAY, AUGUST 16TH LONESTAR Event Center | 7 pm Tickets from $25 Known for merging their country roots with strong melodies and rich vocals, Lonestar achieved ten #1 country hits including “No News,” “Come Crying To Me,” and their crossover smash “Amazed.”

THURSDAY, AUGUST 30TH

THURSDAY, SEPT. 13TH

THE FAB FOUR: THE ULTIMATE TRIBUTE

PURPLE REIGN: THE PRINCE TRIBUTE

Event Center | 7 pm Tickets from $25 The Emmy Award Winning Fab Four is elevated far above every other Beatles Tribute due to their precise attention to detail. It’s one night you won’t want to miss.

Event Center | 7 pm Two Free tickets for Coeur Rewards Members Coeur Rewards Member Special: All existing and new Coeur Rewards members can receive two free tickets to THE Prince Tribute show Purple Reign. Just visit the Coeur Rewards booth today! While supplies last Offer available at casino location only.

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