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Tax dollars are beginning to flow into cities and counties across the state. The banking sector is trying to catch up, as are employers concerned about workers. Meanwhile, young people’s attitudes toward marijuana — if not their actual usage — is quickly changing. Read our coverage beginning on page 20.

Also this week: staff writer Daniel Walters examines the “road diet” slated for North Monroe Street (page 13) and culture writer Laura Johnson talks with comedian Marc Maron in advance of his Spokane appearance.

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e live in revolutionary times, with change coming in all shapes and sizes — and thanks to technology, we’re hyperaware of our world like no generation before.

Social progress is coming in leaps and bounds, as well. Gay marriage is the law. Cannabis is legal here in Washington. Some cities are enacting a $15-an-hour minimum wage.

People are struggling to keep up with it all, and so are the institutions that are the hallmarks of American life. Sometimes it’s just that times change — the Grange halls and Odd Fellows of yesteryear had their moments. But even Congress, a fixture of American life, seems paralyzed in new ways — it can’t help a crippled Supreme Court, grapple with climate change or even agree on how to fight Zika.

Some things are changing too fast, some not fast enough. It’s both disorienting and exhilarating. Entire industries are being torn down; job sectors can vanish. It’s creating winners and losers — and volatile politics. Institutions like government are taking the brunt of it.

With the Brexit vote, the United Kingdom just ripped apart the European Union, which created an era of peace and prosperity rarely seen in European history. Although imperfect, the EU was tarred and feathered for a range of crimes it did not commit. Voices put in England’s head by nihilistic media and opportunistic politicians preyed upon this disoriented state of mind. As the economic damage is becoming clear and once-firm campaign promises are evaporating, regret mounts. Thus the question asked the day after any revolution: Now what?

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any have wondered whether the vote to leave the EU is a harbinger for our own presidential election. The dynamics are comparable, as we, too, live in a purgatory between allegiance to institutions that have served us well and a restlessness to somehow do something — to rage against injustices real and imagined.

That’s the kind of impulse that has driven revolutions throughout the centuries, but the history is written by what comes after. It feels great to topple those statues that used to mean something, but what do you replace them with?

Should you rebuild those atrophied institutions, or start over? The first into the breach usually don’t think that far in advance.

And our institutions have it coming.

Although few would agree that “This country is a hellhole,” as a certain Republican presumptive nominee for president told FOX News in May, something’s not right. Of course Congress is Exhibit A, but too many of our institutions have lost their way and fail us. There’s too much student loan debt. Too many costly wars. Too many examples of our business sector run amok, from gouging on prescription drugs to price fixing on everything from oil to air travel.

Still, it’s times like these that make institutions all the more necessary. Without them, we are untethered and alone. Institutions are selfless enterprises — human creations that allow a group to do something bigger and better than any individual. The American military won World War II. Alexander Hamilton’s Treasury Department built our capitalist system — the greatest economic engine ever created. Our institutions of higher education, both public and private, have enlightened millions, enabled innovation and continue to improve our lives every day. When we give up on institutions, or work to destroy them, we lose the perspective of history.

We can’t forget that institutions are the bulwarks of our enlightened world. Republicans have been harping on how bad our government is for a few generations now, attacking everything from public K-12 education to Social Security to any and all regulations on business. More recently, they’ve railed against health care for all citizens, the recently created Bureau of Consumer Protection (designed to save Americans from financial predators) and the presidency itself, which has been systematically undermined for nearly eight years now.

This kind of behavior takes a toll, and it’s easy to forget all that’s good and right about those things we do together. We tear down our institutions at our own peril.

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ome of us want to live in the world we imagine existed in better days gone by — before everything got so complicated. Others are impatient for the world of their hopes and dreams — peaceful, open, free from want. Some say we can get there by reforming the institutions we have; others argue that we need to blow it all up — to make sweeping, Brexit-sized changes.

Voters will need all the wisdom they can muster to understand that Congress, the institution, is still central to our success. Meanwhile, they also need to push for real reform: A lot of the people squatting in the Capitol need to go.

Much of the oxygen in this election has been sucked up by a pair of revolutionaries, pushing all the hottest buttons. On the right we (still) have Donald Trump; on the left, it’s been, until recently, Bernie Sanders. That leaves Hillary Clinton, a status quo candidate in a year when many are allergic to the idea. Maybe if she picks Elizabeth Warren as her running mate, she can embrace enough of a reformer’s streak to fit these times. Or maybe she can make a convincing argument for grappling with this ever-changing world the way America so often has when seas grow stormy — with a level head and a steady hand. n

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The image recalled ugly stereotypes of wealthy Jews controlling politics. You could chalk it up to a goofy coincidence, and some of Trump’s flacks tried to do just that, spinning the shape as a “sheriff’s badge.”

Nevertheless, Daniel Scavino Jr., Trump’s one-time golf caddie-turnedsocial media guru, deleted the original tweet and crudely pasted a circle over the offending star. The problem, it turned out, was that Trump’s team hadn’t created the images. Reporters at the website Mic pointed out that before Trump tweeted it, it had been widely shared on an website that has become infamous as an online home for racist extremists. The image was plagiarized, it turns out, from an anti-Clinton Twitter user whose feed was full of other racist, violent and anti-Semitic imagery.

While Trump’s defenders offer that his son-in-law is Jewish, Trump’s critics point out that this is nothing new for the Republican Party’s likely presidential nominee. In December, he dipped into another well of antiSemitic stereotypes, joking before a crowd of Jews that “you’re not gonna support me because I don’t want your money.” (DANIEL WALTERS)

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Last week, Washington’s Office of Financial Management announced that over the past year, the state’s population grew at its fastest pace since 2007. This is not good news if you’re a Republican politician hoping to win a statewide election, like BILL BRYANT, who is challenging Gov. JAY INSLEE this year.

The problem for Republicans is not that the state’s population has grown; it’s where it’s grown — mostly in the state’s most liberal counties, west of the Cascades. Nine counties in Washington voted for President Obama, recreational marijuana and marriage equality in the 2012 general election. Those are the same counties, now representing 54 percent of the state’s population, that are growing at a much faster rate than the rest of the state. King and Snohomish counties alone now account for 40 percent of Washington’s population.

Spokane, with 6.8 percent of the state’s population, grew by 0.86 percent in 2015-16, or around 4,220 people. But many typically conservative counties in Eastern Washington — including Lincoln, Ferry, Garfield, Columbia and Walla Walla — all saw their population decrease. (WILSON CRISCIONE)

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COMMENTARY | EQUALITY which is a pervasive attitude.

“The theme that women’s feelings aren’t really to be trusted by men drives (an estimated) 72.81 percent of the sitcoms we watch, 31.2 percent of the books we read, and 98.9 percent of the conversations men have with other men about the women in their lives. Basically, women are crazy, and we are not,” writes Young.

Without a doubt, this work would get accomplished faster if men checked this unfounded social stigma, and stopped dismissing the real, lived experiences of women.

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It’s often overlooked that the most vocal opponents of rights like workplace protections for pregnant women, paid family leave and access to reproductive health care primarily are men. At the same time, the fight for these basic rights — and the life-altering injustices at their core — are so often marginalized as “women’s issues” by these very men.

Movements created by women are responsible for some of the greatest achievements of our time, propelling the Civil Rights movement. Yet at the same time, research shows that men are intrinsically trusted more than women. In a piece exploring how deep this conditioning goes, Damon Young, writer and co-founder of VSB magazine, admits that this stigma permeated his nearly 10-year relationship with his wife. Despite trusting who she is and her intentions, he realized he had no trust in her feelings,

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One of the most important steps we can take is to call out sexism when we see it. When you see other men catcalling, harassing women at bars, or hearing men talk about women in a degrading way, step up and say something.

Writing about sexual assault in particular, Washington Post columnist Jody Allard lays it out clearly and succinctly.

“It’s never been the job of women to dismantle rape culture. Rape culture was created and perpetuated by men. It flourishes and thrives because it suits men. Rape culture is a man problem, and it’s up to men to solve it,” Allard wrote.

In the wake of the Stanford rape case, it was easy to spot men who perpetuated stigma and dismissed the experience of the victim. She was drunk, they said. She walked alone. Case closed. Ignoring that there’s only one cause of rape — rapists. The comments were and are indefensible.

So use your voice for good, and remember that your intent to help means absolutely nothing if you can’t back it up. Believing in equality is not the same as fighting for it.  Paul Dillon, a Center for Justice board member, manages public affairs for Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington and North Idaho.

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Some pointers for men who want to help women achieve equality may be a little grayer than I was eight years ago, but this is what a feminist looks like,” the twice-elected president of the United States said to cheers last month at the first United State of Women Summit in Washington, D.C. Barack Obama is the first sitting president to call himself a feminist — a crucial move that I hope will highlight the importance of every person becoming involved in the fight for equality. Speaking for myself as a man who works for a women-led organization that primarily serves women and women’s rights movements, I can tell you that men have a responsibility to undo the twisted system that keeps equality out of reach. Men need to participate and to advance justice, but not in the way that we may have been taught to. Instead, we need to take a different approach:

Understand that women have conditioning that you did not have, as workplace practices remain stacked against them. When you have that in mind, you can change your interactions. A great description for being an ally is to pretend you’re an intern. What do you do as an intern?

You hang out, take notes, speak up when asked to. You would not hold your own meetings, where you run the show, dictating strategies and positioning yourself front and center. Help get the work done — through volunteering, making donations, or simply showing up at public events to show support — but don’t take it over.

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SAVE THE IMAX , for one, would be very saddened to see the IMAX Theatre demolished.

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Of course, I may be one of those rare persons who hates to see any old historical building torn down.

I remember seeing the film Man Belongs to the Earth at Expo ’74 when I was 15 years old, traveling all the way from a small farming community in Western Washington with my family. What an experience! The illusion of flight, of soaring over the desert landscape! You can’t do that on an iPhone.

I don’t hold much hope for the IMAX to survive — people just don’t LETTERS seem to feel as I do about these Send comments to things — but I thought I’d try to put editor@inlander.com. in my 2 cents on its behalf. Good luck to Mr. McGlathery in his efforts.

It’s ironic. The more “city councils” try to “improve” their cities, the more they destroy what’s truly unique and fascinating about them. The more they look like all the other “world class” cities in the slick travel brochures. Please, Spokane, take a more sympathetic look at your “kitsch.” You may be surprised how much visitors, “outsiders,” enjoy it, and keeps them coming back.

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Brown Building Materials owner Ron Brown says he just wants a fair deal from the city. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO

Reactions to a story (“Masters of Eminent Domain,” 6/30/16) explaining how the city of Spokane can force a property sale, in this case to build a road through the University District:

JEREMY MUDD: Eminent domain is a form of theft set up by the government to take your stuff.

MATT BEHRINGER: Eminent domain is a good tool for a city to have unless it is abused. Using it to complete [Martin Luther King, Jr. Way] is wise because it brings a new access point to downtown and potentially creates jobs with the new office development planned along the way (by the Hamilton bridge) that is reliant on the MLK roadway being there.

GENE BRAKE: I have shopped at this business many times and his complaint is preposterous. His business location is horrible and the value of the property without this road is minimal. He is just looking for a quick payday rather than a logical way forward. This street project will improve the overall value of his property and improve his long-term viability as a business.

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Lane Ends Ahead The city of Spokane wants to dramatically improve a milelong section of Monroe Street — but that means taking away two lanes

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layna Burrows-Gust was 5 when she tried to cross North Monroe Street with her mom and her 7-year-old brother.

There are five lanes on the mile-long stretch of North Monroe between the crest of the hill at Kiernan and Indiana avenues, a 30-mile-an-hour-zone that drivers sometimes treat like a 40. There’s only one stoplight, and only one crosswalk is clearly marked.

It was dark that night in October three years ago. And Elayna and her family weren’t crossing at a crosswalk.

A car hit all three of them. Her brother and her mother survived. Elayna didn’t.

“The girl was 5 years old, and she went to kindergarten at my daughter’s school,” former City Councilman Jon Snyder says.

He says he talked with her dad after it happened. “Just the saddest, saddest, saddest thing. What really made me upset, there was all this focus on whether the mother was doing drugs or not and where they crossed, and what time of day it was.”

Five times in the span of five years, pedestrians were struck crossing this section of Monroe, each time resulting in injuries or death. In that same five-year period on the same 1.12-mile stretch, there have been 23 angled collisions, three sideswipes and four collisions with stationary objects.

Snyder, a champion of the Complete Streets initiative, fought for funding for the entire stretch of the North Monroe Street Corridor. The city got it — two state grants totaling $4.1 million to improve the corridor.

The plan, which aims to not only make this stretch of Monroe safer, but more economically vibrant, hinges on stripping out two of the street’s five lanes. In a city like Spokane, altering such a major arterial is bound to cause controversy.

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Hoping to improve the quality of life for both pedestrians and businesses, the city is moving ahead with plans to reduce this section of North Monroe Street from five lanes to three. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO

Megan Kennedy, a Monroe Street business owner, was vice-chair of the EmersonGarfield Neighborhood Council when it drew up its neighborhood plan. She knows well how the five lanes of traffic impact local businesses.

“Make sure you park on our side of the street and don’t try to cross,” Kennedy tells customers planning to visit. “It feels like you’re taking your life in your hands.”

“The sidewalks in many places are exceptionally thin, where you feel the breeze of the car brushing beside you as you’re walking by the business’s wall,” Kennedy says. “Even parking on the street, there’s just not enough room. We have stories from other businesses whose customers have had mirrors ripped off from passing traffic.”

The plan the Emerson-Garfield Neighborhood Council approved in 2014 proposed reducing the five lanes to three.

The state-grant-funded project makes that proposal official. Last month, Kennedy was appointed to a city committee of neighborhood residents and business owners tasked with working out the details.

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That would buy Monroe Street a whole lot of breathing room. It would mean wider sidewalks and wider street parking. It would also mean more street parking — 25 percent more. The project would add decorative street lighting, new transit shelters and trees along the now-barren sidewalk. The intersections would get sidewalk bump-outs to reduce crossing distance. The street wouldn’t just get painted crosswalks; three to four “pedestrian islands” would be added to the middle to make crossing safer.

Construction is scheduled to begin in 2018, but Kennedy says there’s already a sense of momentum building in the corridor.

In the past year, hip businesses like Bellwether Brewing, Prohibition Gastropub, and Vessel Coffee Roasters have all opened on Monroe.

“It feels like a lot of the stars are aligning,” Kennedy says. “We’re waiting for a resurgence.”

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On a Friday around noon, the crowd of middleage drinkers at Moezy Inn Tavern erupts in a chorus of jeers and chuckles when the proposal to reduce Monroe’s lanes is mentioned.

“I think it’s stupid. To ‘beautify the street’ apparently. Stupid shit,” says Ron LeBlanc, a bar patron with a white mustache. “It’s going to raise havoc. It’ll really tick people off.”

This place, too, is a Monroe Street institution.

It’s been open in the same spot, with the same name, since the end of World War II. Co-owner Jason Huston has been leading local skepticism in response to the proposal.

“We’re not Perry,” Huston says, referencing the east side neighborhood’s transformation into a thriving, pedestrian-friendly center. “Perry District isn’t a major corridor.”

He raises the prospect of being stuck behind buses, or a car trying to park, during rush hour.

He’s concerned about the impact of construction on area businesses. He says he’s in favor of improving pedestrian safety, but wants it to be done in ways that avoid eliminating lanes, like adding flashing crosswalks. Last year, he went down the street gathering signatures from businesses for a petition opposed to the lane change. He says that most were opposed to it.

Snyder says the skeptics are flat-out wrong.

“Those people have this weird idea that if you get more traffic moving faster past your business, it somehow increases your amount of business,” he says. “I can’t find any proof, anecdotally or statistically, of what they think it’s true.”

In fact, Snyder says, research suggests the opposite.

“Traffic studies have consistently shown that road diets will not worsen congestion under the appropriate conditions,” a paper out of Los Angeles County concluded about lane reductions on roads with the same traffic volumes as Monroe.

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Nevertheless, last year the news of the proposed “road diet” proposal sparked a flurry of angry letters to the editor. They called the project “ludicrous,” naively “utopian” and “one of the dumbest ideas to come out of City Hall.” They warned of the “demise of North Monroe,” “repeat unnecessary idling and backups,” and that “Spokane would become like Portland.”

The city says that slowing traffic is part of the point. Fast and furious drivers can’t weave in and out of lanes if there’s only one lane. It also estimates that the amount of traffic would actually fall by about 15 percent during rush hour as drivers seek faster routes.

Traffic on the North Monroe Corridor has actually declined during the past two years, according to city counts. And plenty of three-lane arterials do just fine. Country Homes Boulevard, for example, already carries more traffic than Monroe.

“Look at Sprague,” Snyder says, referencing a similar lane reduction on East Sprague Avenue a few years ago. “Did we all of a sudden see terrible traffic and things back up? No. We actually saw some new investments.”

At this point, it may be too late for the critics of the plan to stop it. While nothing is truly set in stone until the concrete starts pouring, the plan is already solid.

“We’ve accepted the grant dollars,” city spokeswoman Marlene Feist says. “ It’s a project that’s moving forward.”

For now, the five lanes of traffic flow as fast and treacherous as ever. A single, small, pink-and-blue sneaker lays tossed just off the curb near the intersection of Monroe and Chelan Avenue.

Cars, trucks and minivans zoom by, some coming within inches of crushing it. n danielw@inlander.com

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COLUMBIA RIVER The Grand Coulee Dam is leaking oil and other pollutants into the Columbia River in violation of the U.S. CLEAN WATER ACT, according to a lawsuit filed by environmental group Columbia Riverkeeper.

The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Eastern Washington last week, names the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, the operator of the dam, as defendant and argues that the federal agency is jeopardizing the health of fish populations and people who consume them. If successful, the suit will require the bureau to reduce pollution, disclose discharges and switch to more environmentally friendly lubricants used to operate the dam, one of the largest in the country. (JAKE THOMAS)

NEWS | BRIEFS

A Second Look Court of Appeals clarifies state law awarding wrongfully convicted people compensation; plus, what is Just Want Privacy hiding?

WHAT’S A YEAR IN PRISON WORTH?

In a well-known wrongful conviction case that originated in Spokane Valley, the Washington State Court of Appeals has refined what is required of WRONGFULLY CONVICTED individuals to prove in order to get paid under state law. Others have been awarded money after settlements, but this is the first case to be tried under Washington’s wrongful conviction compensation statute, according to Mack Mayo, one of the attorneys for the plaintiffs. The law went into effect in 2013.

In 2009, a jury convicted Robert Larson, Tyler Gassman and Paul Statler of a drug robbery and assault.

The state’s star witness, and most compelling evidence against the three men, was a jailhouse snitch who in exchange for his testimony received an exceptionally low sentence of 19 months in a juvenile facility. Larson, Gassman and Statler were sentenced to decades in prison.

In 2012, a Spokane Superior Court judge overturned the convictions after new evidence came to light and ordered that the men be released. Now Larson, Gassman and Statler are suing the state for the more than four years they spent in prison.

A trial court initially threw out the three men’s petition, agreeing with the state’s argument that the facts of

their case didn’t meet the requirement to receive compensation for the errant convictions. But last week, the state Court of Appeals reversed the trial court’s findings, and in doing so refined how the statute should be interpreted.

The case was sent back to the lower court for reconsideration in light of the Appeals Court’s ruling.

Under the statute, the men are entitled to up to $50,000 per year they spent in prison, in addition to a refund on any restitution payments and court costs, plus reentry counseling and assistance getting a job.

“This is the first [wrongful conviction compensation] case with an appellate court giving a lot of substance to the statute,” Mayo says. “I think it will go a long way toward helping future claimants seeking remedies under the statute.” (MITCH RYALS)

JUST WANT DISCLOSURE

Just Want Privacy, a group spearheading a Washington ballot initiative that would repeal certain PROTECTIONS FOR TRANSGENDER INDIVIDUALS, isn’t properly reporting campaign donations and is possibly concealing support it has received from a controversial right-wing organization, according to a complaint

filed with the state’s election watchdog by an LGBTQ advocacy organization.

Equal Rights Washington filed the complaint with the Washington State Public Disclosure Commission last week. According to the complaint, Just Want Privacy mentioned on its Facebook page that it received support from the Family Research Council, a conservative Christian think tank and lobbying organization based in Washington, D.C., but failed to report it as an in-kind or financial donation on its publicly available disclosure forms.

The Family Research Council has been labeled as an extremist anti-LGBT organization by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors hate groups. Monisha Harrell, chair of Equal Rights Washington’s board, says the public should know if a national group is aiding an effort to undo the state’s anti-discrimination laws.

“They spend the majority of their resources trying to keep others from having equal rights and take them away from people who received them recently,” Harrell says of the Family Research Council.

The complaint also alleges that Just Want Privacy violated state law by waiting a month to report nearly $20,000 in campaign contributions, and not reporting payments made to campaign staff. Harrell says it’s possible that an outside group is funding the payroll for Just Want Privacy, and that the public is entitled to know the sources of the campaign’s money.

Just Want Privacy did not respond to a request for comment by press time. July 8 is the deadline to turn in 246,372 valid signatures to qualify an initiative for the November ballot. According to the most recent PDC filings, Just Want Privacy has raised $181,202 in contributions, and has spent nearly $57,000. (JAKE THOMAS)

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Downstream Single-stream was supposed to make recycling and waste disposal more economical in Spokane and Coeur d’Alene, but the global market is changing that

BY JAKE THOMAS

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he transition is complete. Over the holiday weekend, Coeur d’Alene Garbage Service rolled out the last of its 32,000 recycling bins, as the city transitioned to a new company to haul its bottles, cans and paper from homes to the global recycling market.

It’s the most notable change to recycling in Coeur d’Alene in six years, when Waste Management — a national, publicly traded company that previously contracted to haul residents’ recyclables — introduced singlestream, a system increasingly embraced by U.S. cities where residents place their discarded paper, cardboard, plastic and aluminum in the same bin.

Single-stream was presented as a more economical approach to dealing with household refuse: by making it easier to recycle, the city could save money on fees associated with sending waste to the regional landfills.

Now, both Spokane and Coeur d’Alene are faced with a downturn in the global recycling market.

“Economically, landfilling is cheaper than recycling,” says Troy Tymesen, finance director for the city of Coeur d’Alene who helped negotiate the new contract with

Coeur d’Alene Garbage.

Chinese demand for the world’s paper, plastic and aluminum has dropped off. A strong U.S. dollar has made exporting recyclables less attractive, and the low price of oil has hurt demand for recycled plastic. Neither city is planning a rate increase. But Matt Stern, regional recycling director for Waste Management, says that if the trend continues, residents could be affected.

despite increases in recycling rates, along with recycling’s environmental benefits and public desire for the service, Phillip Damiano, owner of Coeur d’Alene Garbage, says that garbage collection keeps his company operational.

“It is becoming more and more evident that [what you can get for recycling] doesn’t come close to covering the expense of pulling it out of the waste stream, so it’s a deficit,” he says.

According to a city staff report, Coeur d’Alene Garbage’s successful bid for the 10-year contract was $34,355 a month, lower than Waste Management’s bid of $45,604 a month. But the report notes that even though the city will be paying less for the same service, it won’t result in lower rates.

“The City’s Sanitation Fund is just barely breaking even at this time and the low bid will enable the City to forestall price increases to the City’s constituents in the future,” reads the report.

The city of Spokane hauls its own recycling and garbage to the SMaRT Recycling Center, operated by Waste

“The City’s Sanitation Fund is just barely breaking even at this time and the low bid will enable the City to forestall price increases.”

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n 2010, Coeur d’Alene adopted single-stream recycling. By eliminating the need to sort recyclables into different bins, single-stream makes recycling easier, and more people do it.

A year after putting single-stream into place, Coeur d’Alene saw average participation in the city’s recycling services jump to 62 percent. Before single-stream, the average participation rate was 27 percent. Spokane started its own single-stream program in 2012, seeing an 80 percent increase in participation. But

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Feist says the city has automated some services and found efficiencies elsewhere that’ll stave off any rate increases for now.

“We’ve been committed to holding utility rates to inflation,” she says.

“The cost of treating it as trash is still more expensive,” says Feist. Sending recyclables to the city’s waste-to-energy plant, which is where the city’s garbage is directed, would end up costing more, she says. She also points out that in Washington, unlike Idaho, there are state mandates for cities to recycle their waste.

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lthough single-stream recycling has increased recycling rates, Bill Moore, president of the recycling consulting firm Moore & Associates, says that it has produced an unanticipated side effect of lowering the quality of recyclables, making it harder for companies to process them into new products.

In 2013, China, a large market for the world’s recyclables, launched its “Green Fence” policy to keep low-quality material out of the country. According to federal numbers, the amount of scrap plastic exported from the U.S. to China dropped from 1 million metric tons in 2011 to 814,000 in 2015.

“It made a lot of sense because people were shipping garbage,” says Chaz Miller, director of policy and advocacy for the National Waste & Recycling Association. In response, he says that recycling companies in the U.S. have been producing better quality materials. But while he says that prices for paper are improving, there is less demand for recycled material in general, because industries that rely on them are already at or over capacity for raw materials.

Miller addds that recyclables, at the tail end of the production chain, are highly prone to fluctuation.

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Growing Pains THE CANNABIS ISSUE

The recreational pot market is now 2 years old.

How’s the experiment going so far?

Test Anxiety Attitudes about cannabis have shifted in Washington and nationwide.

But when it comes to the workplace, change has been slower

BY JAKE THOMAS

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f you’ve ever been in the job market, you’ve probably read words similar to these: Drug Free Workplace. Pre-Employment Drug Screening Required.

Although the 2012 initiative legalizing recreational cannabis in Washington passed with 56 percent of the vote, employers can still require prospective employees to submit to drug tests and deny them employment if they test positive for THC, the psychoactive ingredient in cannabis.

While there’s broad agreement, even among pro-marijuana advocacy groups, that employers have a legitimate interest in keeping their employees from coming to work stoned, there’s also broad agreement that the primary means of testing for the drug is a flawed tool that’s unlikely to go away anytime soon.

“There’s no way to tell how long ago [an employee] smoked,” says Doug Thayer, owner of a local franchise of ARCpoint Labs, a national chain of testing labs.

Some drugs considered more harmful, such as cocaine or methamphetamine, exit a user’s system within a day or so. But marijuana, depending on someone’s frequency of use and DRUG body weight, lingers TESTING for weeks or longer, meaning that a drug test would catch both the employee who dabs before work and the employee who smoked a joint weeks ago. “We’ve had people who’ve had it in their system for months and they can’t get rid of it,” says Thayer.

Employer-based drug testing became increasingly common in the 1980s amid the War on Drugs. Then-President Ronald Reagan issued an executive order in 1986 declaring the federal government, the nation’s largest employer, as a “drugfree workplace” and mandated testing for employees in some positions while encouraging the private sector to follow its lead. Around the same time, studies found that drug use hurt worker productivity and made them prone to accidents, spurring more private employers to begin screening. Testing companies grew into a multibillion-dollar industry.

The initiative that legalized mari-

juana in Washington is silent about But Washington, he says, is different; employer drug testing, but past court employers are more inclined to treat pot rulings are mostly unhelpful to stonlike alcohol. ers seeking gainful employment. In “You wouldn’t want to drink at 2011, the Washington State Supreme work; you wouldn’t want to smoke at Court ruled that a company could fire work,” he says of the standard that some an employee for marijuana use, even if Washington companies have adopted. they’re using it for medically sanctioned Kevin Oliver, executive director of purposes. the Washington chapter of the National However, in 2000, a state appeals Organization for the Reform of Marijuacourt ruled that the city of Seattle, bena Laws, says his organization, like the cause it was a government entity, could ACLU, opposes employment prescreenonly drug-test employees if their position ing and random tests. However, both was related to public safety or there NORML and the ACLU support allowwas reason to suspect they were high at ing employers to drug-test employees if work. The city of Spokane, the area’s they suspect they’re impaired or they largest employer, has a zero-tolerance cause an accident. drug policy that includes Quest Diagnostics, one of the country’s largest drugmarijuana, according to testing companies, reports that it saw the percentage of city spokespositive tests increase in 2014 from 4.3 to 4.7 percent, man Brian Coddington. the second consecutive year of increasing positives.

However, he says that only public safety employees, heavy A blood draw would determine if a equipment operators and drivers are worker had used marijuana within the subject to pre-employment drug screens. previous few hours, but Oliver says that Other employees can be tested with courts have found that approach to be reasonable cause, he says. unduly excessive if used by an employer.

“We believe that it invades the priCurrently, companies and univacy and dignity of a person to be asked versities are working on mechanisms, to pee in a cup,” says Doug Honig, comincluding oral swabs and breathalyzmunications director of the American ers, that would detect if someone had Civil Liberties Union of Washington. recently ingested cannabis. But they’re He says that more employers are beginstill being developed. Thayer adds that ning to realize the antiquated Drug War even if they were available, there’s no origins of drug testing and are abandonstandard for how much THC someone ing the practice. should have in their system before they In 1996, a survey from the Ameriare considered impaired, as there is for can Management Association found that blood alcohol levels.

81 percent of companies conducted drug Oliver says that he’s been to Olymscreenings. Since then, new research pia and Washington, D.C., to lobby for has undermined previous claims that changes to marijuana laws. But he says drug screening boosts productivity and that his lobbying efforts have been foenhances safety. Now, with medical cused on making the tax code friendlier marijuana legal in 25 states and the Disfor marijuana businesses or allowing trict of Columbia, most surveys report home grows for Washington residents, that roughly half of U.S. workers are not employer drug testing. Besides, he subject to employer-based drug screensays, employers already have broad ing of some sort. latitude to dismiss their employees.

Thayer says that companies “Employers can fire you just because operating in states such as Idaho get a they don’t like the way you part your better rate on workers’ compensation hair in Washington state,” he says. “So plans if they conduct drug screenings. there’s not a lot people can do.” n

CRIMINAL RECORDS

The Center for Justice’s Julie Schaffer

Last year, Spokane became the first city in the state to allow people with past marijuana convictions to clear their records. Has anyone taken them up on the offer?

When Spokane City Council President Ben Stuckart introduced an ordinance last fall that would allow people found guilty of misdemeanor pot possession to have their records retroactively dismissed, he took to Facebook to say his measure wasn’t about marijuana but about second chances.

The council passed the ordinance on a 6-0 vote in November, and Stuckart noted that individuals with these convictions tend to disproportionately be minorities and that having this mark on their records could be a barrier to housing, education and jobs.

The ordinance, which went into effect in January, made the front page of the Huffington Post. The Center for Justice, a nonprofit law firm, offered to help walk people through the process. But so far, Julie Schaffer, an attorney at CFJ, tells the Inlander she hasn’t had a single client use it and doesn’t know of anyone else doing so. City Prosecutor Justin Bingham isn’t aware of any motions being filed using the ordinance, which he chalks up to a lack of public awareness.

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 Doug Thayer, owner of a local franchise of ARCpoint Labs, consults businesses on how to protect themselves from employees who show up to work high. However, he says there’s currently no good way to check if an employee is under the influence of cannabis while at work.

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THE CANNABIS ISSUE

Drug Money

Money from the marijuana taxes is beginning to trickle down from the state to local cities

BY DANIEL WALTERS

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hen the city of Spokane decided how to spend all the money it’s making on marijuana sales, it chose to pay for a police officer.

Appropriately, Officer Mike Roberge is tasked with marijuana and liquor enforcement. His salary and benefits are being funded by the approximately $120,000 in annual tax revenue being funneled from the state to the city from weed retailers within its borders.

“That’s significant, man,” City Councilman Mike Fagan says about the sum.

“That’s more money than a lot of people in my district make over three to five years.”

For the past year, local governments have been getting millions of dollars from marijuana sales. But while pot advocates FINANCE promised major windfalls if the drug were legalized, the revenues flooding into local coffers have been minor compared with overall budget needs.

Meanwhile, the state’s used marijuana money to fund community health centers, mental health care, youth surveys and research programs for local universities.

Much of the largess went into the general fund, where the state, controversially, spent a big chunk on K-12 education.

But even if the state spent the entire $164 million in projected pot tax revenue it’s taking in this year on education, it would need about 10 times that to meet the type of basic education funding the Washington state Supreme Court says is constitutionally necessary.

Spokane Valley, for its part, spends more on its senior center than the estimated $75,800 a year it brings in from mari-

juana. Spokane County’s nearly $443,000 for marijuana tax revenue this year isn’t exactly loose change, but it’s practically budget dust when considering the size of the county’s public safety budget — more than 270 times larger.

“The state is keeping most of the revenue,” County Commissioner Shelly O’Quinn says. “It doesn’t translate into big money for local government.”

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he figures, however, are growing. As the number of pot retailers increase, the state is expected to take in more revenue. By 2019, the Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board estimates, the amount of pot revenue will have doubled.

This year, the amount of revenue distributed to cities and counties was capped at $6 million. But next year, that’s skyrocketing up to $15 million.

The legislature has stressed the money for local jurisdictions was intended specifically “for public safety purposes and to facilitate the ongoing process of ensuring a safe regulated marijuana market in all communities across the state.”

For some cities and counties, like Spokane, that meant earmarking the money for specific programs. In Spokane County, however, the revenue simply went into the general fund.

“It always goes into the general fund, because the general fund helps supports the criminal justice system,” county spokeswoman Martha Lou Wheatley-Billeter says.

Spokane County Sheriff’s spokesman Mark Gregory says the Sheriff’s Office hasn’t seen any money specifically from marijuana legislation so far, but says it may play a part in the next county budget. But

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ities and counties only get tax money if they allow marijuana to be sold in their jurisdiction. The more weed a city sells within its borders, the bigger chunk of the state tax revenue they get.

Ban it, and they get nothing.

It’s a conundrum for a penny-pinching city like Spokane Valley. There are three recreational marijuana retailers in Spokane Valley, City Councilman Ed Pace says, and the city council has so far voted to keep the number capped at three.

Valley Councilman Ed Pace Pace says he was torn. He’s libertarian, but says many of Spokane Valley’s conservative residents don’t consider marijuana to be in line with the Valley’s “family friendly” mission.

“I represent 90,000 citizens,” Pace says. “I don’t just represent my libertarian ideals.”

As the revenue from pot grows, there’s another worry as well.

“I have concerns about the state or local economy becoming addicted to marijuana revenue,” Washington state Sen. Michael Baumgartner says. He points to state Rep. Hans Dunshee, whose committee let die a proposal to raise the Washington state cigarette smoking age to 21.

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THE CANNABIS ISSUE

LEGALIZATION

Chris Christie has said: “Marijuana is against the law in the states and it should be enforced in all 50 states.”

Serra Frank, a Boise-based cannabis legalization activist, hopes to make Idaho more like neighboring states that have relaxed their pot laws.

Seeds of Change?

Unlike its neighbors to the west, Idaho has resisted loosening its cannabis laws. Could that be changing?

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n one side of an imaginary line, adults are mostly free to possess and consume cannabis. But on the other side, the same activities can result in arrest, court dates and a criminal record.

Idaho is one of the most anti-marijuana states in the western U.S. It has no medical marijuana law and possession is a misdemeanor offense, a vastly different approach from neighboring Washington and Oregon, which have both legalized the drug for recreational purposes.

Last year, Gov. Butch Otter vetoed a narrowly crafted bill that would allow children suffering from severe seizures to be treated with cannabidiol oil (CBD), a marijuana byproduct that contains none of the plant’s psychoactive properties and has been approved in other pot-adverse states, IDAHO including Utah and Alabama. Lawmakers have shown no appetite for full-blown legalization. This spring a ballot initiative, sponsored by a group called New Approach Idaho, that would have decriminalized pot and created a medical marijuana program was withdrawn after the American Academy of Pediatrics asked that its name be removed from the front page of the petition that claim it is a supporter of medicinal cannabis.

Despite the state’s stridently anti-pot climate, there are activities that could change attitudes regarding the drug.

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“Most of the people I meet are for marijuana,” says Serra Frank, a Boise-based marijuana activist and cofounder of New Approach Idaho. “It is only legislators and officials who are against it.”

Frank says that although her group’s initiative petition failed, it still received more than 20,000 signatures, putting it on its way to the 47,623 valid signatures needed to qualify it for the ballot. “It was actually a really big success because we got the awareness out there,” she says.

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Currently, she says, marijuana activists, working as part of a new group called the Idaho Medical Marijuana Association, are preparing a new initiative petition that could be ready this summer which will focus exclusively on creating a medical cannabis program in Idaho.

A poll released last year by Idaho Politics Weekly found that a majority of Idahoans oppose legalization, but other polls indicate support for medical marijuana. However, Idaho has a higher threshold to qualify initiatives than states such as Oregon. Idaho also requires 6 percent of the voting population in 18 of the state’s 35 legislative districts to sign a petition for it to qualify.

A NEW DRUG

After vetoing a bill that would have allowed CBD oil to be used to treat children suffering from debilitating seizures, Otter issued an executive order allowing 25 children with severe epilepsy to use an experimental drug derived from marijuana.

According to Elisha Figueroa, an administrator with the Idaho Office of Drug Policy, that drug is called Epidiolex and contains non-psychoactive CBD. Currently, it’s under review by the Food and Drug Administration, and studies have shown it to be effective.

“There are 24 children in the program who are receiving Epidiolex,” Figueroa says by email. “In mid-May, 15 additional spots were requested and granted to Idaho, and we hope those will soon be filled. All children receive the medication; no children receive a placebo.”

SPEAKING OF CBD...

Joel Bordeaux, a Sandpoint-based real estate investor, says that shortly after Washington legalized marijuana, he realized two important limitations of legal pot: The drug can’t be taken out of the state and not everyone is interested in using the plant to get high.

Earlier this year, he co-founded Global CBD in Sandpoint, which makes CBD vapors and tinctures. He says his product is made from the stalks and stems of organic hemp (a relative of cannabis) shipped in from Switzerland in a powderized form. Bordeaux says that his product is completely legal, which gives him opportunities not present in medical marijuana markets.

“We can ship to Canada; we can ship to Taiwan,” he says.

“There are no barriers.”

Because CBD hasn’t been approved for medical purposes by the FDA, Bordeaux won’t make any claims about his product’s effects. However, preliminary research suggests that CBD can help with ailments ranging from everyday aches and pains to post-traumatic stress disorder.

“Idaho may never legalize pot, ever,” says Bordeaux. “So my company is a smart move.” n

More states are voting on recreational pot, and the presidential election could change things When California voters made the Golden State the first to allow the medical use of marijuana in 1996, it was only a matter of time before other states followed their lead. As of this June, when Ohio adopted medical marijuana, more than half of the country’s states endorse medical cannabis — Ohio was the 26th.

One might expect a similar slow growth in recreational cannabis, considering that Alaska, Oregon and the District of Columbia have already followed the lead of Colorado and Washington voters who decided in 2012 to legalize it. Indeed, a few states are slated to consider recreational pot on this year’s ballots, including California, Nevada and Maine. Pro-legalization forces in Arizona and Massachusetts might get the issue on the ballot as well, depending on their signature-gathering success.

The wild card, of course, is the presidential election between Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump. While recreational marijuana is unlikely to be a major issue in the candidates’ debates or policy speeches, the typically higher voter turnout in presidential election years could mean that legalization advocates have more people to reach during the campaign. Clinton, if elected, might be expected to continue the Obama administration’s hands-off approach to dealing with states that choose to allow medical and/or recreation marijuana — despite federal law still considering marijuana a Schedule I drug. Trump has one of the country’s loudest anti-legalization advocates angling to be his attorney general in New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.

In Congress, marijuana continues to be a political football. Efforts to make veterans eligible for medical marijuana through the Veterans Administration hit a wall when the Veterans Equal Access Amendment was stripped from a spending bill in late June. Some legislators are also pushing the Medical Marijuana Research Act of 2016, which would allow the Food and Drug Administration and Drug Enforcement Administration to conduct tests on pot’s medical efficacy under less restriction.

— DAN NAILEN

Too Much Green The lack of banking services has forced pot transactions to be handled with cash, and that can be a problem

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torney for Canna Law Group, which he says represents anyone involved in the pot industry in Washington.

In order for that to change, big banks will have to get involved.

Last month, the Senate Appropriations Committee passed an amendment to stop regulators from prohibiting, penalizing or discouraging banks from offering services to cannabis businesses if they’re operating legally under state law. It would have put into law the current policy that the Department of Justice has in place. If passed, the amendment would have brought bigger banking, more access and likely Visa and MasterCard into the fold, so there would be less cash moving around, McVay says. But the House Rules Committee blocked a vote on that amendment.

The consequences of having too much cash in store can be deadly. In Colorado just weeks ago, a 24-yearold named Travis Mason was shot and killed while

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hether on the street or at a store, one thing hasn’t changed when it comes to buying weed.

You’ll need some cash.

Since pot remains federally illegal, large banks like Wells Fargo and Bank of America, or credit card companies like Visa and MasterCard, still adhere to federal laws and stay out of marijuana BANKING transactions. That means recreational marijuana in states that have legalized the drug is largely a cash-driven industry.

“We don’t have a credit/debit transaction carrier that will allow customers to use cards in the store,” says Todd Bennatt, owner of Spokane Green Leaf. “It’s just the nature of the business.”

This presents a problem for marijuana retailers.

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urrently, most businesses have open bank accounts with local credit unions. The Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board reports that more than 80 percent of licensees pay excise taxes through means other than cash, and as of July 1, all excise taxes must be paid by means other than cash.

Numerica Credit Union, which has led the way in working with pot growers and processors, has more than 150 accounts with marijuana companies, all in Eastern Washington. It still wasn’t until the end of 2015 that Numerica started serving retailers, says spokeswoman Kelli Hawkins. A few other credit unions in the state have followed.

“We honestly felt very strongly that it was important to the security of the community,” Hawkins says.

While this has cut down on the amount of cash floating around, the fact that transactions still must be cash-only is a safety issue, says Robert McVay, an at-

working as a security guard during an armed robbery at a pot shop.

“Even if it’s in a safe, even with safety procedures, burglars know that retailers have large amounts of cash in store,” McVay says.

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ithout a change to federal law, some pot shops have experimented with other ways to cut down on the cash used in-store.

The Top Shelf dispensary in Airway Heights, for example, freely advertises that it accepts credit cards, but the store manager says she can’t give any information as to how the store is able to do that, though she insists it’s perfectly legal.

There’s also another company called PayQwick, which lets people pay for cannabis with a PayQwick card or with a smartphone app instead of cash. Kenneth Berke, PayQwick CEO and cofounder, describes it as “PayPal for pot.”

Berke, a former attorney, says he started the company because he thought it would provide a safer option for marijuana businesses.

“We saw the need in this industry, and said, ‘Let’s figure out a way to serve this need.’” n

TERMINOLOGY

Many argue that “marijuana,” as a term, was used to make the drug sound foreign and scary.

Why more and more people are calling it “cannabis” You probably call it “pot” or “weed.” You likely only use “marijuana” when discussing it in a more formal or legal sense. Right?

Well, you may have noticed that there’s a movement away from “marijuana,” as both growers and retailers brand their product as “cannabis.” It’s hard to argue with that move, considering the actual name of the plant in question is technically cannabis.

“This is certainly a conversation within the industry and the [legalization] movement,” says Taylor West, deputy director of the National Cannabis Industry Association, a national trade organization that works to promote and legitimize the legal cannabis industry.

“Overall, we prefer to use the term cannabis, both because it’s more scientific and because it doesn’t carry the history of the word ‘marijuana,’” she says.

The history she’s talking about was an effort in the 1930s by Harry Anslinger, the first man to serve as the commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, to associate cannabis with immigrants and minorities as he lobbied to make marijuana illegal on the federal level. Many of his sensationalized stories which fueled the reefer madness that helped make the drug illegal by 1937 included explicitly racist anecdotes.

The term “marijuana” — or “marihuana” as it was often spelled in those days — was an effort, many have argued, to make the drug sound foreign, as opposed to the more clinical “cannabis.”

West says that she still uses “marijuana” from time to time, but consciously leans toward “cannabis” without adding any confusion to a nascent industry.

“We want to be sure that we’re not confusing people, but we have a preference when you’re talking about a business that’s legitimate and scientific,” says West.

— MIKE BOOKEY

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THE CANNABIS ISSUE

Think of the Children

Pot is legal. That doesn’t mean more kids are smoking it; it also doesn’t mean they should

BY MITCH RYALS

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cceptance of marijuana is growing — like a weed, some might say. As we get further and further away from that fateful day in July 2014 when the first weed shop in Spokane opened its doors, smoking, vaping and ingesting marijuana gets more and more normal.

Some are concerned that kind of thinking will waft into the minds of youths.

Although the latest statistics on whether kids these days have more access to marijuana and are using it more don’t show much change since pot was legalized, there is evidence to suggest that KIDS their attitudes are changing.

Additionally, there is some research indicating detrimental effects of recreational use of the drug on young, developing brains, but even then, direct correlation is elusive.

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very two years, the Washington Department of Health conducts the Healthy Youth Survey, designed to gauge the biggest health issues facing kids.

According to survey data from 2010, 26 percent of Spokane County high school sophomores thought there was little or no risk to using marijuana regularly. In the

2014 survey, after voters approved I-502 and it went into effect, that number jumped to 36 percent. (Statewide data shows a similar increase, from 27 to 34 percent for that same time period.)

However, the number of 10th graders in Spokane

“These products should not be used for recreational purposes by young people,” he says. “They have the same access they’ve always had, but they’re not getting it at retail, not from the ones I consider ethical at least.”

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esearch on how marijuana affects young minds has linked teen marijuana use to poor school performance and higher school dropout rates. However, a definitive causal relationship is yet to be shown, and the science is far from settled.

For example, a long-term study in New Zealand concluded that people who smoked pot in their teens scored lower on IQ tests later in life. Another study from Norway challenged that conclusion, and suggested that socioeconomic factors could have played a role in IQ loss.

Regardless of the research, it’s undeniable that a teenager’s time spent smoking weed is time that could have been spent not smoking weed. That’s why Kim Papich, spokeswoman for the Spokane Regional Health District, says it’s important to make clear that weed is not safe for youths.  mitchr@inlander.com

In a 2014 survey, 36 percent of Spokane high school sophomores said there was little or no risk to using marijuana.

County who said they had used marijuana within the past 30 days remained about the same.

Sam Calvert, owner and operator of Green Star Cannabis in Spokane, estimates that he boots three to four underage kids out of his store per week.

“But access to the black market has not gone away,” Calvert says. “Every October and November you’ll see crops coming up from California and Oregon, and some from Washington and British Columbia.”

Calvert says he has invited schoolteachers into his shop so they know what to look (and smell) for.

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KIDS

In the role of Rapunzel, Lauren Block entertains a group of young girls during a recent princess birthday party.

Princess Fever Ever wonder what it’s like to become a princess for a living? These Spokane women can tell you

BY CHEY SCOTT

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ne time, I watched a movie about you!” proclaims 5-year-old Piper Lee. “What’s a movie?”

“Oh my gosh, you don’t even know!?” Piper replies in exasperation to the perplexed princess, whose long braid hangs over her shoulder, down past her waist.

“What do you know about my life?” Rapunzel says in mock surprise to Piper.

The opening chords of the theme song from the Rapunzel Disney adaptation Tangled blare from a set of speakers. The princess bends down toward the girls gathered around her and bursts out gleefully, “Come sing with me!”

Piper and three other little girls, each wearing their

own princess gowns picked from a nearby armoire, giggle and bounce around Rapunzel’s flowing, lilac-colored skirts.

Played by 21-year-old Whitworth University student Lauren Block, the princess has left her tower of exile to journey — by carriage, she tells the girls — to the frilly pink basement of a Spokane commercial building. The princess has been summoned there to help celebrate Neveah Matlock’s ninth birthday. She puts glitter in the girls’ hair, reads them a story and plays games, never breaking character throughout the hour-long performance.

A lifelong fan of Disney’s enduring princess stories, Block first started dressing up as her favorite characters

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to entertain at kids’ events three years ago. With a background in vocal performance and some stage acting experience, she now works for local party venue A Dream is a Wish Princess Parties.

Owned by 23-year-old Alyssa Miller, it opened about two years ago. Miller, who also acts in character, usually as personal favorite the Little Mermaid, bought the business from its previous owners in March of this year. A part-time cast of seven young women and one man take on roles as a host of characters heavily based off those in Disney’s most popular princess and fairy-tale films.

But because A Dream is a Wish and countless other entertainment ventures like it across the country don’t have licensing rights from Disney to market these characters, they can’t refer to them by their recognized film names. The only exception is if the character’s name and story, like Rapunzel’s, are based on a classic fairy tale in the public domain. Others include Snow White, Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella.

These princesses from Disney’s animated features, with their impeccable hair, makeup and body shapes, are arguably more popular now than they’ve ever been, and the entertainment behemoth hasn’t stopped introducing new leading ladies — the Frozen sisters and Brave’s Merida in the past five years, plus the forthcoming Polynesian princess Moana. ...continued on next page

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“This business is definitely based on showing love to kids, not just dressing up as a princess,” Miller asserts. “You have to have a passion for kids.”

More often than she plays any other character, Block dons a sparkly blue gown and platinum blonde wig. Without question, the company’s snow queen character and her younger sister the snow princess — better recognized by kids as Frozen’s Elsa and Anna — are its most popular requests.

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nother princess party venue in Spokane Valley that began three years ago is part of this popular trend for kids’ birthday parties featuring a royal lady in ball-gown regalia.

Wish Upon a Star Princess Parties bills itself as a “character entertainment company,” and takes the portrayal of its princesses as seriously as the Disney theme park jobs they’re based on.

“We get a lot of ‘Oh, you play dress-up for a job?’” says Wish Upon a Star owner and founder Hayley Schmelzer, who’s 25.

“But getting around Disney is not our goal, and we would never want to steal material that isn’t ours,” she continues.

Costumes and wigs worn by actresses with her company are special-ordered, and often custom-made to be as close as possible to the quality of those worn in Disney’s parks. Yet carefully stated, in all marketing materials, is that Wish Upon a Star’s characters are “inspired by” those made famous by the entertainment giant.

“The reason I started this initially wasn’t to make money, it was an opportunity to give back to the community,” Schmelzer explains. “We do hospital visits, go to National Adoption Day events, and we take characters to events for local foster families.”

While some parents may be hesitant to let their kids buy into the unrealistic personas projected by popular princess characters, Spokane Valley mom Amanda Daniels views the princess party business model favorably, overall. Even so, she’s had some reservations as a parent over the messages many princess stories can send to young girls. Her daughters, ages 6 and 8, have been to several of Wish Upon a Star’s events. She says that even though they like princesses, her girls have varied interests in things considered both “girly” and not. They’ve also recognized, on their own, the admirable traits of some of these fictional characters, like being brave, kind or true to oneself.

“My girls have seen characters on Disney cruises, at Disney World and at these events, and I’ve found the [local] princesses are actually better than the cruise and Disney World. They’re much more personable — they sing, too — and they interact with the girls,” Daniels says.

As with its local competitor, the Spokane Valley venture offers on-site events, with two themed party spaces, and a large parents lounge. Both companies also can send their characters to off-site events at homes or in parks. Pricing for these parties ranges between $175 and upward of $200, depending on the venue, and how many characters are present. Additionally, both businesses occasionally host ticketed public events, such as a princess pajama party, tea parties and meet-and-greets.

Both young women who offer these princess party experiences are passionate about increasing local kids’ access to similar moments that are so treasured from their own childhoods; going to Disneyland and meeting their favorite characters.

“There are people here in Spokane who don’t have the money, or time or resources, to take a trip to Disneyland or Disney World,” says Miller, of A Dream is a Wish.

This is true of families like Nevaeh’s, the 9-year-old birthday girl celebrating with Rapunzel. Neveah’s grandmother, who booked the party, says their family probably won’t ever go to Disneyland, so this is her only way to meet a princess.

“To make their dreams come true without having to get on a plane, that’s really special to me,” Miller continues. “What I wouldn’t give to have been able to meet a princess in my community growing up.” n A Dream is a Wish Princess Parties • adreamisawishprincessparties.com • 953-4933 • Wish Upon a Star Princess Parties • wishuponastar-events.com • 475-6292

CULTURE | DIGEST

SCIENCE BODIES HUMAN

Mobius hosts “Bodies Human” at its new home through December.

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t’s taken years for Mobius Science Center to find the right spot.

When it opened in 2012, it was right in the middle of a retail sector downtown, which is not an ideal location for a museum, says CEO Phil Lindsey. It also had high rent.

Then the Spokane Public Library came forward and allowed Mobius to use 3,000 square feet of its space. But the library couldn’t charge admission, so revenue for Mobius, a nonprofit, was hard to come by. Finally, Avista offered Mobius a deal that Lindsey says Mobius couldn’t refuse: For $1 per year, Avista would let Mobius use its brick building on Post Street by Riverfront Park and the Avista substation.

On Friday, Mobius opened at this new location — one that Lindsey hopes can be permanent. With its opening comes the “Bodies Human: Anatomy in Motion” exhibit, a display of real human specimens preserved through a process of replacing bodily fluids with reactive plastics, or plastination.

“We wanted to make a big splash when we reopened,” Lindsey says.

Lindsey says people are often shocked when they see these human bodies arranged in various poses. The bodies expose human insides, including skeletal, muscular, respiratory and circulatory systems. (The exhibit is recommended for ages 10 and up.)

“This exhibit really brings home that we’re a bunch of machines and we have to take care of them,” Lindsey says. “What I find is there’s always this ‘eww’ factor. That wears off after five minutes … then people become interested in what they’re seeing and what this means, and how it relates to them.”

The Bodies Human exhibit will be at Mobius until the end of 2016.

The exhibit takes up about one-third of the space at Mobius’ new location. In fact, the overall space is a bit smaller than where Mobius was years ago in the downtown retail center. But Lindsey says “we were clever with the space layout” this time, so Mobius will be able to do more things.

Eventually, there will be a makers space and 3-D movie theater, along with other traveling exhibits.

“Our goal moving forward is every six months to have something fresh,” Lindsey says. “We’re very much keen on not letting ourselves rest on our laurels.”

— WILSON CRISCIONE Bodies Human: Anatomy in Motion • Tue-Sat, 10 am-5 pm; Sun, 11 am-5 pm; closed Monday • $15; $7/members • Mobius Science Center • 331 N. Post • mobiusspokane.org

FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION

BY DAN NAILEN

ALBUM “I’ve got to get out of this tree, off of this limb.

I’m a woman acting like a kid,” Margaret Glaspy sings on the title track of her new album EMOTIONS AND MATH, but the 12 songs filling this excellent debut mark the 27-year-old singer/guitarist as mature beyond her years. Raw riffs and attitude-filled lyrics take songs like “You and I” in a punk direction, while tunes like “Situation” reveal a bluesy base underneath the snarl. Throw in some killer hooks and vocals that burrow into your head with some honeyed raspiness, and you have a remarkably assured first album from an artist worth tracking into the future.

TV It’s impossible to easily explain what comedian Maria Bamford’s brilliant Netflix sitcom LADY DYNAMITE is about. At face value, it’s the sorta fictionalized, kinda biographical story of a comic as she tries to get back in the Hollywood swing of things after her mental illness forced her to her Minnesota family home for an extended recovery alongside her beloved pug, Bert. But you don’t really want to take anything you see here at face value — Bamford’s comedy is delightfully absurd, and over the course of the show’s 12 episodes, she accidentally performs at a pro-gun rally, dates a gay meth addict and deals with two borderline insane agents.

READ When Muhammad Ali died last month, the outpouring of think pieces was overwhelming. Still, check out Mikal Gilmore’s lengthy Rolling Stone profile in the July 1 issue titled “THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME.” It’s a brilliant distillation of Ali’s life, in which Gilmore writes, “Ali signified America as it moved through decades of hatred, fear, violence, as it doubted its better promises, sometimes touching transformative grace, other times unchaining its worse paradoxes, from dilemmas of civil rights and purpose of war to disputes over one of its fundamental ideas, freedom of religion.” If you only have time for one Ali tribute, this is it. n

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arc Maron is a guy who never thought he’d be here. At one time he used cocaine and alcohol with abandon; he took any job he could get in show business (game show host is among his credits). He watched jealously as many of his peers got famous and he didn’t. But these days, the stand-up comedian is better — his TV show Maron is in its fourth season on IFC, his twice-weekly WTF podcast is more popular than ever and he’s 12 years sober. But that doesn’t mean the reality is easy.

“How do I accept I’m in an OK place, what does it mean?” says Maron, 52. “I never got into this to get a mansion or have a swimming pool or a nice car, I just wanted to be good at what I do.

I got into stand-up to be OK, and now I’m kind of OK.” Today, he answers the phone from his twobedroom home in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Highland Park, the property where, during a WTF podcast taping last June, President Obama famously said the n-word.

“I don’t know what I’ve learned,” says Maron, sipping on a smoothie he just whipped up. “Somehow, it worked out, and it didn’t look like it was going to. There’s an argument to be made to do what you love, and stick with it. But what if that doesn’t work out? I’m not sure of the answer.”

When it comes to stand-up, he won’t let it go. With so much time tied up in the podcast and TV show, Maron says he still makes time to

Marc Maron has been perfecting a stand-up career for half of his life. perform comedy regularly. These days he hits up the famed Comedy Store in L.A. almost weekly.

“I’m always doing [stand-up]. I don’t think I’ve gone two weeks without it,” he says. “I’ve been a stand-up comic for half my life. I don’t think I’ve ever been funnier at it. I did the hour special for FX last year. I’ve been working on new stuff.”

He says he has enough new jokes to fill an hour set he’s taking on the road — including a gig at Spokane Comedy Club this weekend, his first time in Spokane. He specifically told his publicist to send him places he’d never been. He’s never even driven through this town.

Maron doesn’t write anything down — not his stand-up routine and not the questions he asks famous people on his podcast. The ideas come from the gut. Like when he had a new idea for the current season of his eponymous TV show.

“This new season, it’s special. It’s a cautionary tale about what could have happened. It’s very real in its emotions and its entirety,” says Maron, who also told his life story in the 2013 memoir Attempting Normal.

The fourth season of Maron deals specifically with drug addiction. It’s written with an exit strategy, Maron says. He admits he thought season three was the end, but he had something new to say and pressed on. Besides keeping people employed, he wonders why TV shows continue on so long. Four seasons is plenty, he says.

“When do you let something be done?” Maron asks. “I’m in a position where I can say this, and I don’t know if I could have said this years ago. Before, I wouldn’t have cared if I was on the moon for the final season of a show, I would have milked it.”

Now he doesn’t have to worry about money as much. The things that will remain, he says, are his podcast and the stand-up. Always the stand-up.

As for Spokane, he says he hopes that “monsters don’t come out and ruin his show.” But he’s ready for it.

“When I started out, I never thought about a following or a brand; my comedy started compulsively,” he says. “I want people to come to the shows, but I know I’m not everyone’s cup of tea. I’ve been doing this a long time, and I’m not afraid anymore.” n lauraj@inlander.com Marc Maron • Thu, July 7, at 7:30 pm; Fri, July 8 and Sat, July 9, at 7:30 and 10:30 pm • $30/$40 • Spokane Comedy Club • 315 W. Sprague • spokanecomedyclub.com • 318-9998

New Flavors, New Ideas The Steel Barrel is home to Chad White’s ceviche spot and a brewery incubator

BY DAN NAILEN

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here might come a time when people look back at the experiment happening at the Steel Barrel and consider its arrival an important moment for the Spokane food scene.

In the meantime, the combination of brewing incubator, taproom and ceviche restaurant is already offering things the Inland Northwest has never seen. The ceviche spot is called Zona Blanca, Chef Chad White’s first opening since moving back to Spokane after 15 years away, time spent in the Navy traveling the world before becoming a restaurateur in San Diego (he still owns two spots in the area), and competing on season 13 of TV cooking competition Top Chef.

“For me, it’s just kind of the old story of ‘All roads lead home,’” White says. “All my family lives here. And I wanted to come home and do something great here.”

What he found upon arrival was a food scene he thought lacked diversity, and no one doing the Latin American flavors he fell in love with traveling through Mexico.

As he looked for spaces where he and his girlfriend/ partner Niya Ivanova could set up shop, they were introduced to the guys behind the Steel Barrel, a long-gestating brewery incubator that was prepping its downtown ...continued on next page

WHAT EXACTLY IS CEVICHE? It’s a dish with roots in the coastal regions of Latin America, with

Chad White brings ceviche to the Inland Northwest at his new Zona Blanca inside the Steel Barrel.

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raw fish “cooked” in marinades of lime juice or lemon juice and a variety of spices. At Zona Blanca, Chef Chad White serves up several versions using recipes he’s created himself or discovered on travels through different regions of Mexico. Some versions, like the Baja, incorporate Chinese flavors that came to be part of Mexicali cuisine when Chinese workers emigrated to Mexico for work. Others, like the Veracruz, feature Mediterranean flavors that arrived with the Spanish conquest of Mexico’s Mayan culture. The ceviche is served either on a tostada for about $9, or in a larger bowl for about $20, depending on which style you order.

“I think what we do really well is, for people who are coming in who have never had ceviche, or even heard of it, we do a really good job explaining what ceviche is,” White says. “Even to the point where we’re giving a historical background of why these ingredients even exist” in different versions of ceviche.

In addition to ceviche, White serves an ever-changing menu of snacks and sides, like sweet radishes served with a coriander aioli, depending on the produce available. And then there are the “Dorilocos,” a street snack he learned about in Mexico City mixing Doritos chips with hot sauce, gummy bears and all manner of secret treats that combines salty and sweet, crunchy and chewy, hitting all the taste-bud sweet spots. (DAN NAILEN)

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Spokane space. Within just a couple of months, Zona Blanca was open inside the taproom in the Luminaria Building.

White’s variety of ceviches feature flavors from throughout Mexico, using traditional recipes and newly inspired ones. Even though Spokane is perhaps known as a “steak-and-potatoes” town, White is hopeful that area diners will discover the “extremely fresh, very bright, very clean flavors” in his food.

“There are so many naysayers. ‘That will never work in Spokane. We hope you’re successful, but this is a big risk for you,’” White says. “Most of the people I tell, they assume that I’m going to be out of business. And then people come here and eat, and they’re like, ‘Dude, you’re going to be fine.’”

The combination of his ceviche and the breweries involved in the Steel Barrel, White says, “seems like a great marriage.”

In the creatively refurbished space, an old safe acts as a keg cooler and reclaimed steel and wood make the eating and drinking space an inviting one for diners and drinkers alike.

With the incubator and taproom, aspiring brewers who want to try larger-scale production can join Little Spokane Brewing Company’s Joe Potter and Young Buck Brewing Company’s Cameron Johnson in the business that’s been a long time coming; Johnson and Chris Batten, the building’s owner, started mulling the idea nearly four years ago. They officially opened June 30 after a soft opening earlier in the month.

“The concept has changed and evolved, but’s it’s always been focused around this incubator brewery, this idea of buying a brewhouse and sharing the expensive part, the brewhouse,” Johnson says. “There are a lot of great brewers around here, a lot of amazing homebrewers. And if this can help them get the opportunity, that’s great for craft brewing. That’s great for Spokane.”

White has much the same attitude about Zona Blanca.

“I hope that by opening this restaurant, other people will see it and think, ‘Maybe I can open up something unique here’ and not be afraid to do it,” White says.

Both Potter’s traditional English-style brews and Johnson’s more experimental beers are brewed on site, and they’ll be joined by up to three more brewers in the future. All the in-house beers are available in the taproom, along with a variety of others that Potter, Johnson and taproom manager Peter McArthur agree on.

Because of the long lead-up to opening, many Spokane beer zealots were waiting for the Steel Barrel. And while the taproom is a beer-lover’s dream, offering $2 short pours that make it easy to try several styles in one sitting, the brewers want the place to be comfortable for non-beer-savvy visitors, too.

“We have plenty of people who aren’t craft-beer snobs coming in,” Johnson says. “We don’t want to narrow our market too much, even though we’re beer nerds ourselves.” McArthur is also mixing cocktails in the taproom.

The combination of a fresh new dining spot and craft brewhouse makes the Steel Barrel the latest addition to a booming brewing district on the west end of downtown, joining Iron Goat, River City, Orlison and the Steam Plant all within a few blocks. n The Steel Barrel • 154 S. Madison • Wed-Sun, 3 pm-1 am • 315-9879 • thesteelbarrel.com • Zona Blanca • Wed-Sat, 3-10 pm; Sun, 3-8 pm • 925-446-9550 • limefishsalt.com

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ick Weng and Terry Pan were visiting Pan’s sister in Spokane last winter when they thought a hot bowl of ramen would be just the thing to help take the edge off a frigid night. Back home in Los Angeles, satisfying that craving would be easy.

“We have ramen restaurants all over town, from hipster ramen to traditional to fusion, just all sorts,” Pan says via email. The lack of options on their visit inspired Pan and Weng to move north and open a traditional Japanese ramen house in late June.

The savory smell hits you first when you walk into the space that quickly makes you forget you’re in a Division Street strip mall. A long bar lets diners hunker down over the large, steaming bowls as they watch the cooks, while tables sit underneath walls decorated with Japanese art like calligraphy and origami.

But back to that smell. It comes from the delicious pork and chicken broth Pan says is made daily and boiled for hours with all-natural ingredients and seasonings — no MSG added. This is Hakata-style ramen, Pan says, “where the noodles tend to be thinner,” and each bowl comes with chashu, a Japanese-style pork. Strict vegetarians will have to stick to side dishes like edamame, spring rolls and cabbage salad as their friends enjoy bounteous bowls of noodles.

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Changes by the Lake The Coeur d’Alene Resort’s family of restaurants make some changes and upgrades

BY MIKE BOOKEY

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he culinary reach of the Coeur d’Alene Resort extends beyond the confines of its palatial hotel, home of the decorated fine-dining spot Beverly’s.

In fact, it’s possible to dine in downtown Coeur d’Alene and not realize until the check arrives that you’re actually eating at a resort-operated restaurant, given the varying design and ambience of the company’s eateries.

Almost all of the resort’s restaurants have undergone menu updates and/or management changes as of late, gearing up for the throngs of hungry tourists and locals who crowd the resort town in the summer. At Bonsai Bistro, the pan-Asian restaurant capable of seating 188

patrons, the menu has been “streamlined,” as new frontof-house manager Eddie Cantu puts it.

Fear not; your favorite dishes made by Chef Troy Chandler, who has been at Bonsai since its inception more than a decade ago, are likely still on the menu. But what you’ll find is a menu that’s been pared down to ensure more reliable service and quality, and is also aimed at not bombarding the diner with too many choices.

“We’re keeping the same concept and we’re still doing sushi, and we should, because we have amazing sushi chefs here that have stuck around and know what they’re doing,” says Cantu, a restaurant veteran who has worked

“We want to focus our attention on ramen instead of other Asian-fusion items,” Pan says. “This is like ramen restaurants in Japan; they will only sell ramen.”

There are several items on the menu that diners can add to customize their soup, including sweet corn, fried garlic and pork belly, and there are condiments on the tables for those desiring a little spicy kick to their broth.

On my visit shortly after King of Ramen’s soft opening, I tried the Spicy Tonkotsu Ramen ($9.50), made with pork bone broth and spicy miso, and it was filling and delicious. The spring rolls ($4), unsalted edamame ($3) and unsweetened Iced Green Tea ($3) were satisfying as well. Beer and sake are available.

As luck would have it, I chose Weng’s favorite ramen as my first meal at his shop. When I asked him to describe what he likes about it, his words came slowly, blocked a little by the language barrier, and also by the complexity of the flavors in that broth.

“I would describe it as … incredible,” says Weng, who manages the day-to-day operations of the kitchen.

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for the resort for several stints over the years in between other stops in Arizona, California and Seattle.

At Tito’s Italian Grill, now overseen by new general manager Jeff Messinger, the menu has also taken on a new look and taste.

“We want to infuse a bit of Mediterranean flair into Tito’s,” says Chef Tim Heinig. “We still want to have the great dishes that our guests enjoy, with fresh, popping flavors like the chicken piccata and heartwarming lasagna, but we feel there is room to introduce some additional flavors from that region of the world, like our gyro with an amazing, fresh, light Tzatziki sauce, and the chicken bacon prawn pasta with its citrus wine butter sauce.”

Across the hall of the Resort Plaza Shops center, Unchained Taphouse has also made subtle changes, including adding items like the Unchained Burger, which includes two grilled patties, three slices of cheese, pulled pork, veggies, an onion ring and more. You can also find new items on the menus of both Cedars Floating Restaurant and Dockside Restaurant, both of which have added additional seafood items. n Information on all Coeur d’Alene Resort restaurants can be found at cdaresort.com.

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Watch Me Whip In the ’80s, a couple of kids filmed a shot-for-shot remake of Raiders of the Lost Ark

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f Raiders!: The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made was simply a good-hearted documentary about a bunch of kids remaking their favorite flick shot for shot, it might be entertaining for serious film geeks and Raiders of the Lost Ark fans, but few others.

This charming movie, though, proves far more than that, as it recounts the story of three Mississippi 11-yearolds who spent the better part of the ’80s — and their respective childhoods — crafting a homemade ode to the 1981 Steven Spielberg action classic. In relaying the tale of their shared passion project, made over seven years save for one scene that proved too problematic for adolescents to recreate, Raiders! becomes a story of lifelong friendships tested, trashed and ultimately recovered, as well as a valentine to perseverance, artistic ambition and

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indie filmmaking.

The three boys who took this project on, and thus star in this documentary, are Chris Strompolos (the director), Eric Zala (who played Indiana Jones) and Jayson Lamb (an amateur special-effects maestro), although they managed to recruit dozens of classmates and relatives to help them work on their movie every summer, Christmas vacation and spring break. Raiders! bounces in time between clips of the kids reconstructing famous scenes from Raiders of the Lost Ark — the giant rolling boulder nearly crushing Indy, the melting Nazi faces of the finale — and their reunion 30 years later to film the one scene missing from what they originally called Raiders of The Lost Ark: The Adaptation.

That scene is the fistfight between Indy and a giant

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German as they dodge spinning propellers on a plane that eventually explodes. Much of Raiders! details how the now-adult filmmakers went about finding the money and begging for the time off from their real jobs to complete their long-gestating project. This is the least interesting part of the film, although there’s no denying the uplift in seeing them overcome an array of obstacles conspiring against them.

More RAIDERS!: THE STORY enthralling are OF THE GREATEST FAN FILM EVER interviews in which the childMADE hood friends Directed by Jeremy Coon and Tim Skousen talk about At Magic Lantern their movie as a release from rough home lives, and how their friendship broke apart as filming ending in the ’80s, only to reignite at times of desperation — Zala’s cocaine addiction in particular — and ultimately when director Eli Roth and some film geeks got a copy of the friends’ movie and went searching for the filmmakers.

We should all be thankful they did, since the result is this joyful-if-overlong ode to movies and fandom, a perfect antidote to the summer bombardment of studio wannabe-blockbusters that pale in comparison to Raiders of the Lost Ark, and this movie documenting the making of a movie recreating a movie. n

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This winning documentary tells the story of three Mississippi teenagers who were so obsessed by Raiders of the Lost Ark that they spent virtually every free moment of their childhoods meticulously recreating the action classic for their own filmed adaptation.

Decades later, their amateur remake finds an unlikely audience and inspires the friends to reconnect and finish the one scene they never could recreate.

It’s a story of enduring friendships and passion for film far more satisfying than most so-called “blockbusters.” At Magic Lantern. (DN) Not rated

GURUKULAM

This experimental documentary film seeks to provide viewers with an enlightening viewing experience. Taking place in the secluded forests of southern India, it chronicles the learnings of a group of pupils seeking to absorb the philosophical and spiritual lessons provided by their teacher. Forgoing narration, the film seeks to immerse viewers in a cultural landscape unlike any they have inhabited before, providing an encapsulation of a way of daily life unseen by most. At Magic Lantern. (IH) Not rated

THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS

Created by the team behind the Despicable Me films, The Secret Life of Pets tells the story of a dog named Max (voiced by Louis C.K.) suddenly forced to welcome another pet to his apartment in the shaggy, sloppy Duke (Eric Stonestreet). Mayhem naturally ensues, and the two pups get lost in the city and have to find their way home with the help of a pack of Max’s friends, animals of all stripes voiced by talented big names like Albert Brooks, Kevin Hart, Jenny Slate and Dana Carvey. (DN) Rated PG

MIKE AND DAVE NEED WEDDING DATES

Already dubbed the millennials’ version of 2005’s Wedding Crashers (yes, that film is already more than a decade old), Mike and Dave is a crazy, unapologetic comedy in which two party-happy brothers (Zac Efron and Adam Devine) put out a Craigslist request (the premise is actually based on real-life viral moment) for “nice girls” to take as dates to their sister’s getaway wedding. But, the party bros quickly realize that their dates — played by the hilarious duo of Anna Kendrick and Aubrey Plaza — are here to one-up them in every way they can, thus turning the wedding date into an ultimate, 20-somethings’ battle of the sexes. (CS) Rated R

SING STREET

Conor, a 15-year-old boy in Dublin, is taken out of his private Jesuit school and sent to a lesser one where he’s subjected to the indignities of bullies and petty-minded priests. After Conor tells an attractive, much-cooler girl that he needs a model for his band’s music video, he actually has to go form a band, which is the driving force behind this coming-of-age film. (MB) Rated PG-13

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THE INFILTRATOR

Bryan Cranston stars as U.S. Customs Agent Bob Mazur, who went deep undercover in 1985 to get inside drug kingpin Pablo Escobar’s mob by posing as a money-laundering businessman. Based on a true story, The Infiltrator turns Mazur’s experience working with a loose-cannon partner (John Leguizamo) and fake fiance/ rookie agent (Diane Kruger) into a thriller as he meticulously builds a case that eventually led to the indictment of dozens of drug dealers and dirty bankers. Opens Wednesday, July 13. (DN) Rated R

NOW PLAYING THE BFG

Working from a script by the late Melissa Mathison (E.T.), Steven Spielberg sticks close to Roald Dahl’s story of an orphaned British girl named Sophie (Ruby Barnhill) who, up late one evening, spots from the orphanage window a huge figure prowling through the streets. He turns out to be a giant who calls himself the Big Friendly Giant (Mark Rylance) and he whisks her away to his home in Giant Country.

(SR) Rated PG

DARK HORSE

This documentary chronicles a group of blue-collar Welsh friends who resolve to take on the giants of the horse-racing industry by breeding their own racehorse, named Dream Alliance. The horse goes on to become an unlikely contender at a myriad of competitive events, forming the basis

of this inspirational film. At Magic Lantern (IH) Rated PG

THE LEGEND OF TARZAN

The newest big-screen incarnation of the legendary jungle-dwelling, apebefriending hero is a new spin on the character. In the film, Tarzan (Alexander Skarsgård) returns to his home in Africa after years of living in London with his wife, Jane (Margot Robbie).

Tarzan finds himself a pawn in the scheme of the devious Captain Léon Rom, played by Christoph Waltz, who’s sure to chew up the screen in a signature, villainous role. (IH) Rated PG-13

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FILM | SHORTS widowed British aristocrat Lady Susan (Kate Beckinsale). Staying with her inlaws while she waits for rumors of her promiscuity to blow over, Susan sets about trying to secure comfortable futures for herself and her daughter. The film also stars Chloë Sevigny, Stephen Fry, and Xavier Samuel. At Magic Lantern (IH) Rated PG

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SWISS ARMY MAN

Having become known around the internet as the “farting corpse movie,” you’d be forgiven for having written Swiss Army Man off as disposable summer fare. However, this fantastical dramedy shouldn’t go unconsidered just because of a little absurdity — it’s been hailed for featuring strong performances from leading men Paul Dano and Daniel Radcliffe, and seems, according to many, to fall into the everelusive “so crazy it works” category.

(IH) Rated R

OUR KIND OF TRAITOR

An English couple played by Ewan McGregor and Naomie Harris happen to get mixed up with both the Russian mafia and a skeptical British Secret Service. Our Kind of Traitor follows the couple as they agree to deliver classified information to the Secret Service for a Russian mafia member and informant. After they are captured in a whirlwind of events, the couple realizes that they can no longer trust anyone.

(KL) Rated R

CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR

Meanwhile in the Marvel Universe… a disagreement between superheroes — Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) and Captain America (Chris Evans) take opposing sides when the United Nations demands authority over superhero actions. Aside from a lackluster score and unnecessary visual distractions, Civil War makes for a magnificent fireworks display to kick off the first week of summer blockbuster season at the multiplex. (PC) Rated PG-13

CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE

Kevin Hart plays your typical, run-ofthe-mill accountant (or at least the movie stereotype of accountants, who in real life might be very exciting people) who is reunited with an old friend played by Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.

It just so happens that the Rock is a CIA agent and takes the boring accountant on a thrill-ride doing spy stuff. (MB) Rated PG-13

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and Patrick Wilson return as demonologists Lorraine and Ed Warren, but this now they’re in London where a single mother and her kids are suffering from a house riddled with seriously messedup monsters and ghosts. (MB) Rated R

FINDING DORY

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

(SR) Rated PG

FREE STATE OF JONES

In the 1860s, not all Southerners were pro-slavery, this new Civil War film wants to remind us. Here, we see the story of poor Mississippi farmer Newton Knight (a controversial historical figure played by Matthew McConaughey) who led a group of rebels made up of farmers and slaves against the Confederate army — which led to his home of Jones County seceding from the Confederacy and becoming the Free State of Jones.

(LJ) Rated R

INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE

It’s been two decades since Independence Day was released, and with the Fourth of July approaching, it’s coming back. Director Roland Emmerich is bringing the aliens back to invade planet Earth and take out the human race in the long-awaited sequel that somehow doesn’t feature Will Smith. This time the human race unites to fight off the invasion with enhanced technologies they obtained after the earlier attack.

(KL) Rated PG-13

THE LOBSTER

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

NEIGHBORS 2

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

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

NOW YOU SEE ME 2

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

THE SHALLOWS

Blake Lively plays surfer Nancy in this thriller. While being attacked by a shark, she comes to grips with how to survive and escape the path of the enormous great white shark. Director Jaume Collet-Serra creates a concept similar to the film Jaws when it comes to human survival against the killer fish roaming close to shore. (KL) Rated PG-13

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: OUT OF THE SHADOWS

The second installment in this rebooted franchise is about an alien who wants to take over Earth for the usual reasons (i.e., no plausible ones) and it all plays like the script was written by an 8-year-old. The creepy anthropomorphized titular come across as a child’s idea of what being a grown-up must be like: all pizza parties and hanging out in your own cool hidden clubhouse.

When you’re not fighting aliens with your ninja powers, of course. (MJ) Rated PG-13 

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That’s the only scenario where anyone could The film never makes viewers care about love this toothless wannabe raunch comedy. these characters. As the tamest of the bunch, Brothers Mike (Devine) and Dave (Zac Efron’s Dave offers the closest thing to a groundEfron) like to think of themed lead. Unfortunately, Kendrick selves as the life of the party, simply isn’t convincing as a crazy MIKE AND DAVE but in actuality, their antics as mess, no matter how mussy her NEED WEDDING DATES wedding guests often result in hair. When Dave and Alice calm Rated R severe property damage and things down and connect in HaDirected by Jake Szymanski injury. In anticipation of their waii, there’s actually some decent Starring Adam Devine, Zac Efron, beloved sister Jeanie’s Hawaiian Aubrey Plaza, Anna Kendrick chemistry. On the other hand, wedding, their parents demand there’s nothing particularly likable they find dates to bring along about Devine’s portrayal of Mike, to keep them in check. After their search for he’s just a self-destructive loser. And as Alice, dates on Craigslist goes viral, a TV appearance Plaza serves up full-blown narcissism for most of catches the eyes of Tatiana (Aubrey Plaza) and the movie, only to suddenly flip course for and Alice (Anna Kendrick), a pair of relatively trashy act empathetic toward Mike — a guy who openly roommates. Tatiana hatches a plan to woo the admits he just brought her there for sex — for no brothers for the free vacation to Hawaii. Soon discernible reason. the tables turn, as Mike and Dave’s secretly wild Even in Mike and Dave’s moment of dates begin messing everything up. triumph, the best their parents can muster is, Mike and Dave’s attempts at humor fall “Those assholes kinda did it.” No, those assholes squarely into the Workaholics school of inebriated failed miserably. n

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The Dip is currently on their second tour, and presumably caffeine is helping them out a lot.

From the Hip Seattle’s the Dip continues to help bring soul and funk music to a new generation

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niversity of Washington house shows often pound with DJ prowess or rock ’n’ roll grit. But what the Dip brought to parties was a funky beat with a blasting horn section. It was enough to stop some inebriated students in their tracks.

“The parties were pretty wild, our set caught people off guard,” drummer Jarred Katz recalls of early 2012,

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when it all began. “Not many people have seen a [baritone] sax at a house party; they didn’t know what to make of it. That was the mystique, that’s what got people interested.”

And for a bunch of college guys mostly involved with the U-Dub jazz department, playing the shows was a way into the music mainstream. Once the initial shock wore

off, people danced and wouldn’t stop until late in the morning. Crowds grew; eventually, that led to booking gigs at local watering holes and music venues. Now out of the college scene, the past year and a half has been impressive for the Seattle-based group. They’ve released a full-length album, an instrumental EP, played Capitol Hill Block Party and Sasquatch! and are currently on their second tour.

Katz, a Spokane native and Lewis and Clark High School graduate, answers the phone from somewhere near San Diego last week. He says that traveling down the road with seven dudes in a 15-passenger van isn’t as bad as you’d think; driving shifts are short and there’s a lot of sleeping involved. At one point there were nine members, but Katz says the current lineup is invested.

“We’re all friends,” says Katz, 26. “All we want to do is play all of the time.”

Making things more complicated: three of the members of the Dip, including Katz, also play in the indie pop-rock group Beat Connection, which has played the

Bartlett multiple times. This leads to some booking nightmares, but as in the case of this year’s Sasquatch!, it also made it easy for both groups to play on the same day. Last month, Beat Connection played a show in Seattle, then later that night, drove down to Olympia for a gig with the Dip. “I can’t count the number of times we’ve gotten emails from people for both bands for the same date,” Katz says.

The Dip finishes up their West Coast tour on Saturday with a Spokane gig, and later this summer, Beat WEEKEND Connection hits the road.

C O U N T D OW N With so much action, you’d Get the scoop on this think the bands played weekend’s events with full time, but most of the our newsletter. Sign up at Dip’s members are teaching Inlander.com/newsletter. music lessons and doing outside projects just to get by. The band’s horn section, known as the Honeynut Horns, often plays guest spots with other groups.

“I thought this was going to be easier,” Katz admits. “But we hope to take this full time in the next year or so.”

In the meantime, the Dip keep writing songs. Ones that dig into the past but don’t sound like a complete copy of tunes that came from the 1960s and ’70s, when funk and soul music soared.

“Even if you tried to sound like Al Green or someone else, it won’t work, so don’t,” Katz says. “It’s about getting the spirit in the process, but making sure you sound original.”

“The audience vibes off the solos, but it’s important to not get too long and jammy. Nobody wants that.”

Singer-guitarist Tom Eddy brings smoothness to the work, while the rest of the instrumentalists blast through groovy rhythms and crunchy melodies. It’s cool and showy, but doesn’t get wrapped up in overtly complex lines. Shows move between vocal-filled and instrumental songs. Katz says they attempt to feel out what the audience wants.

“We all have a solo in our normal sets,” Katz says. “The audience vibes off the solos, but it’s important to not get too long and jammy. Nobody wants that.”

Katz says his group is grateful for bands that are showing the way in the genre (think Fitz and the Tantrums or Allen Stone), taking the sound to a wider group of music fans.

“Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, they’re famous now, but they’ve been grinding,” Katz says. “They are working and creating to showcase the music. It’s all stemming back to the original stuff, but their spin is on it. Soul groups are getting popular, and it’s helping people like us a lot.”

He thinks he knows why this music is resonating. “This music evokes a good feeling with people,” Katz says. “People are just smiling. It has a powerful effect.” n lauraj@inlander.com Soul Night feat. the Dip, Super Sparkle and 45th St. Brass • Sat, July 9, at 8 pm • $8/$10 day of • All-ages • The Bartlett • 228 W. Sprague • thebartlettspokane.com • 747-2174

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or three years, Max Hart played keyboard in pop goddess Katy Perry’s band, choosing to leave the gig after — oh, no big deal — sharing the stage with the notorious Left Shark in 2015 at Super Bowl XLIX in Glendale, Arizona.

From there, Hart headed to New York City to produce Helter Seltzer, the fifth album from Brooklyn pop-rock veterans We Are Scientists, with whom he had toured in 2008 and 2009.

With newfound time on his hands, Hart partnered with core Scientists Chris Cain and Keith Murray to rent a studio space, set up a bunch of gear and spent three months recording in a relaxed environment.

“Coming fresh off (playing with) Katy Perry, Max was recently in touch with a world that we kind of wanted to tap with some of these songs,” says Cain, bassist/vocalist for the band. “He’s an amazing keyboardist and knows synth sounds back and forth.”

To be fair, We Are Scientists have always danced along the line between pop music and rock ’n’ roll, ever since the band’s breakthrough album, 2006’s With Love And Squalor, paired unabashedly catchy melodies with buzzy guitars and punk energy. But on the April release Helter Seltzer, Cain and longtime musical partner Murray push farther into the pop sound-world than ever before.

The opening track “Buckle” juxtaposes rumbling verses with a soaring chorus that cuts the tension like a serrated rainbow. “Hold On” starts off with a snarling post-punk vibe before opening

up into a landscape of glittery synth lines and vocal harmonies straight out of the Fleetwood Mac playbook. The effect is sometimes disorienting, though not off-putting.

The songs on Helter Seltzer weren’t written with Hart in mind as a producer, but once Crain and Murray decided to work with their old bandmate, that pretty much pushed them into a certain stylistic direction as well, Cain says.

With each of We Are Scientists’ past three albums, Cain and Murray have eventually reached that fork in the road, where they must veer either toward their poppier output or their “hard rock-sounding songs,” Cain says. So far, the pop songs have won every time. “That’s definitely a side of ourselves that … we’ve been suppressing, I guess,” Cain says.

The decision tends to fall to Cain. Murray is the musical wizard in the band, but he can’t be objective about his own work. So Cain listens to the material and figures out the focus of each song. It’s an unconventional process, but for these best buds, it has worked well for two decades.

“There’s a very strange and unscientific chemistry to successful art projects, and you can’t force it and you can’t necessarily construct it at will,” Cain says. “So if you stumble into something that works, you just have to let it ride.”  We Are Scientists with the Palms • Fri, July 8, at 8 pm • $15 • All-ages • The Bartlett • 228 W. Sprague • thebartlettspokane.com • 747-2174

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ALT-ROCK LUNCH DUCHESS

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ost drummers are not lead singers. But with Minneapolis-based Lunch Duchess, Katharine Seggerman fills the Phil Collins role to the best of her ability, complete with a Britney Spears-esque cordless microphone headset. Watching this four-piece band on stage is to experience a feminist garage/pop-punk lovefest.

As heard on the group’s fresh debut EP, My Mom Says I Have a Rich Inner Life, Lunch Duchess has an impressive ability to wallow in the slow and contemplative. Like on “How You Love,” where Seggerman moves from twisting and turning vocals to all-out howling, the group’s songs range from almost carefree beachy tunes to wonky distorted rides. This is certainly music to savor, and when it’s all over you’ll try to figure out what it was you just heard.

— LAURA JOHNSON Lunch Duchess with Holy Cows and Ben Jennings • Fri, July 8, at 10 pm • Free • 21+ • Baby Bar • 827 W. First • 847-1234

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ArBor CreSt WINe CellArS, Bill Bozly BArloWS At lIBerty lAke, Sunny Nights Duo J the BArtlett, Frontier Ruckus, Matt Mitchell BoomerS ClASSIC roCk BAr & GrIll, Randy Campbell acoustic show J BuCer’S CoFFeehouSe PuB, Open Jazz Jam with Erik Bowen BuCkhorN INN, The Spokane River Band J ChAPS, Spare Parts J CheWelAh, Chataqua Festival feat. Chris Rieser and the Nerve Coeur d’AleNe CASINo, PJ Destiny J Coeur d’AleNe PArk, Coeur d’Alene Park Summer Concert Series feat. Tango Volcado CrAFted tAP houSe + kItCheN, Echo Elysim CrAve, DJ Freaky Fred FIzzIe mullIGANS, Kicho J hAydeN CIty PArk, The Hankers JohN’S Alley, Ayron Jones and the Way leFtBANk WINe BAr, Nick Grow J moNArCh mouNtAIN CoFFee, Open Mic hosted by Scott Reid o’ShAyS IrISh PuB & eAtery, Open mic with Adrian and Leo the oBServAtory, Vinyl Meltdown PeNd d’oreIlle WINery, Truck Mills red room louNGe, Reggae Night feat. The Real Life Rockaz the rIdler PIANo BAr, The Bobby Patterson Band J the PIN!, Robbie Walden Band, Erika Anderson, Christy Lee, Jesse Qaundt, Bobby Schaefer J trINIty At CIty BeACh, Kevin Doran

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ROCK ALICE IN CHAINS

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mong the many bands forced to replace a lead singer, Alice in Chains seemed like one of the least likely to succeed.

Original frontman Layne Staley was a singular force, his haunting vocals delivering guitarist/ songwriter Jerry Cantrell’s darker-than-dark lyrics with an irreplaceable style. The band was essentially over by the time Staley died in 2002 after years of addiction, but a benefit show led to a tour that led to new singer William DuVall joining a reinvigorated band that’s released two strong albums, Black Gives Way to Blue and The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here, since reforming, and toured like crazy. After selling out the Knit last year, Alice in Chains hits a bigger Spokane stage this time around.

— DAN NAILEN Alice in Chains • Sat, July 9, at 8 pm • $49.50/$59.50/$74.50 • All-ages • INB Performing Arts Center • 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. • inbpac.com • 279-7000

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Friday, 07/08

J BABy BAr, Lunch Duchess (See story above), Holy Cows, Ben Jennings J the BArtlett, We Are Scientists (See story on page 42) , the Palms Beverly’S, Robert Vaughn BlACk dIAmoNd, Diamond DJ Bolo’S, FM BoomerS ClASSIC roCk BAr & GrIll, Kosta La Vista Bull heAd tAverN, Rodeo Weekend feat. Spokane River Band J CheWelAh PArk, Chataqua Festival feat. Mojo the Party Band, Robbie Walden Band, Spectra, Savannah B Clover, Karrie O’Neill

Coeur d’AleNe CASINo, Kicho, Eclectic Approach CoNklING mArINA & reSort, Hot Wired Curley’S, YESTERDAYSCAKE J doWNtoWN WAllACe, Wallace Blues Festival feat. Sammy Eubanks, Dog House Boyz and John Kelley J eurekA mouNtAIN CeNter, Sandpoint SummerFest feat. Yak Attackk, Dodgy Mountain Men, Dana Louise + Glorious Drifters FIzzIe mullIGANS, Chris Rieser, The Smoking Section Forty-oNe South, Truck Mills Gem StAte CluB, JamShack hoGFISh, 45th St. Brass IdAho Pour AuthorIty, Bright Moments Jazz

IroN horSe BAr, Somebody’s Hero JohN’S Alley, Eight Dollar Mountain J kNIttING FACtory, Black Stone Cherry acoustic show mAx At mIrABeAu, Spokane Dan and The Blues Blazers J mICkduFF’S, B Radicals mooSe louNGe, Aftermath mullIGAN’S BAr & GrIlle, Ron Greene NortherN QueSt CASINo, DJ Ramsin PAolA’S rAINBoW reSort, My Honkytonk Habit PAtIt Creek CellArS, Ken Davis In Transit J the PeArl theAter, Almeda Bradshaw dance and concert ProhIBItIoN GAStroPuB, Jazz Night feat. Rachel Bade-McMurphy

J Q’emIlN PArk, Post Falls Festival feat. Gladhammer, YESTERDAYSCAKE, Donnie & Nancy Emerson Duo and Band J red lIoN hotel At the PArk, Harliss Sweetwater Band the rIdler PIANo BAr, Dueling Pianos feat. Christan Raxter & Steve Ridler J the roAdhouSe, Herrick, the Hankers trINIty At CIty BeACh, Running With Scissors zolA, Tell the Boys

Saturday, 07/09

BArloWS At lIBerty lAke, Jan Harrison, Doug Folkins, Danny McCollim, Pat Barclay J the BArtlett, Soul Night feat. the

Dip (See story on page 40), Super Sparkle, 45th St. Brass BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn THE BIG DIPPER, ‘90s Prom feat. DJ LG BLACK DIAMOND, Diamond DJ BOLO’S, FM BOOMERS CLASSIC ROCK BAR & GRILL, Kosta La Vista BULL HEAD TAVERN, Rodeo Weekend feat. Spokane River Band THE CELLAR, John Firshi  CHEWELAH, Chataqua Festival feat. Kelly Hughes Band COEUR D’ALENE CASINO, Kicho, Eclectic Approach CURLEY’S, YESTERDAYSCAKE  DOWNTOWN SANDPOINT, Summer Sounds feat. Back Street Dixie  DOWNTOWN WALLACE, Wallace Blues Festival feat. Curtis Salgado, Samantha Fish, Harlis Sweetwater, Ayron Jones and the Way  EUREKA MOUNTAIN CENTER, Sandpoint SummerFest feat. Whiskey Shivers, Down North, Eight Dollar Mountain, Harolds IGA, Trout Fishing in America and more FIZZIE MULLIGANS, Chris Rieser, The Smoking Section GARLAND PUB & GRILL, Usual Suspects GEM STATE CLUB, JamShack  INB PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, Alice in Chains (See story on facing page) IRON HORSE BAR, Somebody’s Hero  KNITTING FACTORY, Mozzy and Friends

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LA ROSA CLUB, Open Jam THE LANTERN TAP HOUSE, Milonga LOST BOYS’ GARAGE, Maxie Ray Mills MICKDUFF’S, Brian Jacobs and Chris Lynch MOOSE LOUNGE, Aftermath MULLIGAN’S, Truck Mills THE OBSERVATORY, Dark White Light, Snakes/Sermons, the Ashamed PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Mike and Sadie Wagoner PROHIBITION GASTROPUB, Jazz Night  Q’EMILN PARK, Post Falls Festival feat. Karma’s Circle  RED LION HOTEL AT THE PARK, Hot Club of Spokane REPUBLIC BREWING CO., The Alkis THE RESERVE, The Drag, the Colourflies THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos feat. Christan Raxter & Steve Ridler  SARANAC PUBLIC HOUSE, KYRS Rooftop concert with Casual Hex, Big Bite, S1ugs  THE SHOP, Particlehead  THE PIN!, Michete birthday/going away show THE ROADHOUSE, The Bobby Bremer Band TRINITY AT CITY BEACH, Sandpoint Beerfest feat. Still Tipsy and the Hangovers, Later: Arthur and Mia of Bright Moments WILD BILL’S LONGBAR, Usual Suspects ZOLA, Tell the Boys ZYTHUM BREWING COMPANY, Ran-

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Sunday, 07/10

ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, 8 Second Ride BEYOND HOPE RESORT, Truck Mills with Brown Salmon Truck BIG BARN BREWING CO., The Hathaway Brothers  CHEWELAH PARK, Chataqua Festival feat. Sarah Brown Band COEUR D’ALENE CASINO, Kosh, Echo Elysium  COEUR D’ALENE CITY PARK, Stagecoach West CONKLING MARINA & RESORT, The Vibe Raiderzz CRAFTED TAP HOUSE + KITCHEN, Ron Greene CRUISERS, Echo Elysim CURLEY’S, Dangerous Type DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS, Jam Night with VooDoo Church  DOWNTOWN WALLACE, Wallace Blues Festival feat. John Kelley IRON HORSE BAR, Riverboat Band  THE OBSERVATORY, Lemolo, Dead Serious Lovers, Water Monster  TRINITY AT CITY BEACH, Bruce Bishop and Drew ZOLA, Evan Denlinger Trio

Monday, 07/11

 THE BARTLETT, Wye Oak  BING CROSBY THEATER, Buckethead LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Monday Night Spotlight feat. Carey Brazil ZOLA, Fus Bol

THE HIVE, Kimock  MOSCOW FOOD CO-OP, Lynnsean Young THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Jam night with Gil Rivas ZOLA, The Bucket List

Wednesday, 07/13  THE BARTLETT, Ben Caplan & the Casual Smokers CHECKERBOARD BAR, Attalla, Rasputin, Tsuga  DOWNTOWN COEUR D’ALENE, Live After 5 feat. the Powers  THE NEST AT KENDALL YARDS, Rock the Nest feat. David Luning  PRINCE OF PEACE, Summer Concert Series feat. Just Plain Darin RED ROOM LOUNGE, Hip Hop Is A Culture THE RESERVE, EDM Wednesdays THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Piano Bar with Christan Raxter  THE PIN!, Omnipotent Hysteria, Embodied Torment, Face of Oblivion ZOLA, The Bossame

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MUSIC | VENUES 315 MARTINIS & TAPAS • 315 E. Wallace, CdA • 208-667-9660 ARBOR CREST • 4705 N. Fruit Hill Rd. • 927-9463 BABY BAR • 827 W. First Ave. • 847-1234 BARLOWS • 1428 N Liberty Lake Rd, Liberty Lake • 924-1446 THE BARTLETT • 228 W. Sprague Ave. • 747-2174 THE BIG DIPPER • 171 S. Washington St. • 863-8098 BIGFOOT PUB • 9115 N. Division St. • 467-9638 BING CROSBY THEATER • 901 W. Sprague Ave. • 227-7638 BLACK DIAMOND • 9614 E. Sprague • 891-8357 BOLO’S• 116 S. Best Rd. • 891-8995 BOOMERS • 18219 E. Appleway Ave. • 755-7486 BOOTS • 24 W. Main Ave. • 703-7223 BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB • 201 S. Main, Moscow • 208-882-5216 BUCKHORN INN • 13311 Sunset Hwy.• 244-3991 CALYPSOS • 116 E Lakeside Ave., CdA • 208665-0591 THE CELLAR • 317 E. Sherman, CdA • 208-6649463 CHAPS • 4237 Cheney-Spokane Rd. • 624-4182 CHATEAU RIVE • 621 W. Mallon Ave. • 795-2030 CHECKERBOARD BAR • 1716 E. Sprague • 535-4007 COEUR D’ALENE CASINO • 37914 S. Nukwalqw Rd., Worley • 800-523-2464 COEUR D’ALENE CELLARS • 3890 N. Schreiber Way, CdA • 208-664-2336 CONKLING MARINA & RESORT • 20 W. Jerry Ln., Worley• 208-686-1151 CRAFTED TAP HOUSE • 523 Sherman Ave., CdA • 208-292-4813 CRAVE• 401 W. Riverside Suite 101. • 321-7480 CRUISERS • 6105 W Seltice Way, Post Falls • (208) 773-4706 CURLEY’S • 26433 W. Hwy. 53 • 208-773-5816 DALEY’S • 6412 E. Trent • 535-9309 EICHARDT’S • 212 Cedar St., Sandpoint • 208263-4005 FEDORA PUB • 1726 W. Kathleen, CdA • 208765-8888 FIZZIE MULLIGANS • 331 W. Hastings Rd. • 466-5354 FOX THEATER • 1001 W. Sprague • 624-1200 HOGFISH • 1920 E. Sherman, CdA • 208-667-1896 IRON HORSE • 407 E. Sherman Ave., CdA • 208-667-7314 THE JACKSON ST. • 2436 N. Astor • 315-8497 JOHN’S ALLEY • 114 E. 6th, Moscow • 208-8837662 KNITTING FACTORY • 911 W. Sprague Ave. • 244-3279 LAGUNA CAFÉ • 2013 E. 29th • 448-0887 THE LANTERN TAP HOUSE • 1004 S. Perry St. • 315-9531 THE LARIAT • 11820 N Market St, Mead • 4669918 LA ROSA CLUB • 105 S. First Ave., Sandpoint • 208-255-2100 LEFTBANK WINE BAR • 108 N. Washington • 315-8623 LOON LAKE SALOON • 3996 Hwy. 292 • 233-2738 LUCKY’S IRISH PUB • 408 W. Sprague Ave. • 747-2605 MAX AT MIRABEAU • 1100 N. Sullivan Rd. • 924-9000 MONARCH MOUNTAIN COFFEE • 208 N 4th Ave, Sandpoint • (208) 265-9382 MOOSE LOUNGE • 401 E. Sherman • 208-6647901 MOOTSY’S • 406 W. Sprague • 838-1570 MULLIGAN’S • 506 Appleway Ave., CdA • (208) 765-3200 x310 NASHVILLE NORTH • 6361 W. Seltice Way, Post Falls • 208-457-9128 NECTAR• 120 N. Stevens St. • 869-1572 NORTHERN QUEST • 100 N. Hayford • 242-7000 NYNE • 232 W. Sprague Ave. • 474-1621 THE OBSERVATORY• 15 S Howard • 598-8933 O’SHAY’S • 313 E. CdA Lake Dr. • 208-667-4666 THE PALOMINO • 6425 N Lidgerwood St • 242-8907 PEND D’OREILLE WINERY • 301 Cedar St., Sandpoint • 208-265-8545 THE PIN! • 412 W. Sprague • 368-4077 RED LION RIVER INN • 700 N. Division St. • 326-5577 RED ROOM LOUNGE • 521 W. Sprague Ave. • 838-7613 REPUBLIC BREWING • 26 Clark Ave. • 775-2700 THE RESERVE • 120 N. Wall • 598-8783 THE RIDLER PIANO BAR • 718 W. Riverside . • 822-7938 THE ROADHOUSE • 20 N. Raymond • 413-1894 SEASONS OF COEUR D’ALENE • 209 E. Lakeside Ave. • 208-664-8008 THE SHOP • 924 S. Perry St. • 534-1647 SOULFUL SOUPS & SPIRITS • 117 N. Howard St. • 459-1190 SPOKANE ARENA • 720 W. Mallon • 279-7000 SWAXX • 23 E. Lincoln Rd. • 703-7474 TIMBER GASTRO PUB •1610 E Schneidmiller, Post Falls • 208-262-9593 THE VIKING • 1221 N. Stevens St. • 315-4547 ZOLA • 22 W. Main Ave. • 624-2416

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Students work on a project at Gizmo Coeur d’Alene, the host of the annual Kinetic Fest.

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COMMUNITY KINETIC CONNECTION

“Sculptures must be decorated in a recognizable theme, or unrecognizable, as long as it is glorious,” the rules state. If there’s any better hint of the fun to be had at the 2016 Kinetic Festival in Coeur d’Alene, we couldn’t begin to guess what that might be. The annual event, organized by the Lake City’s tech-learning hub Gizmo Coeur d’Alene, is set to wow spectators with its funky contraptions, set to roll through the park in a parade of human-powered glory. There’s still time to register your vehicle, but definitely make sure to read the rules first.

If you didn’t have time to engineer a wild ride this year, head down to get inspiration for next year, and to simply marvel at the community’s creative prowess.

— CHEY SCOTT Coeur d’Alene Kinetic Festival • Sun, July 10, at noon • Free to spectate; $5-$30/vehicle parade registration • McEuen Park • 420 E. Front Ave., CdA • gizmo-cda.org

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THEATER JUST LIKE BUDDY HOLLY

COMMUNITY PARK PARTY

Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story • July 7-17: Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm; Sun at 2 pm • $24-$38 • Central Valley Performing Arts Center • 821 S. Sullivan Rd. • svsummertheatre.com • 368-7897

Riverfront Party in the Park • Fri, July 8, from 3-8 pm • Free entry • Riverfront Park, 507 N. Howard • riverfrontparknow.com

The Spokane Valley Summer Theatre is a brand-new stage company spearheaded by veterans of the local theater scene. Its first show, Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story, opens the theater’s inaugural season this week. This originally British production has become a global smash hit over the years, and the Spokane Valley Summer Theatre is bringing it right to our backyard. Featuring a cavalcade of the legendary singer’s biggest hit songs, the play chronicles the lightning-quick rise and tragic fall of its titular figure. Productions by the nascent theater set for later this summer are downright exclamatory: Oliver! and Bring It On!.

— ISAAC HANDELMAN

Construction is about to begin at Riverfront Park to update the beloved space in the city’s center, and the Parks Department wants to celebrate. Construction is expected to extend through 2019 and will add new features to the park, as well as upgrades to existing areas, including work on a recreation rink that’s expected to begin this year. This free party in the park’s Gondola Meadow features plenty of kids’ activities, life-size board games, food trucks, a 30-ton sandbox and a beer and wine garden for those 21 and up. Make it down to this party, so you can say you were there when Riverfront Park’s changes began.

— MIKE BOOKEY

VISUAL ARTS CREATE WITH ARTISTS

Just as we proclaim loudly and proudly in the pages of the Inlander each week, there are countless opportunities to see and support our region’s celebrated community of artists. This summer, the Spokane Art School — which brings art learning opportunities to the masses — is giving the casual artist in all of us a chance to collaborate with the local pros. Each Saturday through July, and continuing in August, a professional local artist is setting up an easel on the street outside the art school gallery, asking passersby to chip in. First up is well-known Spokane artist Ric Gendron (pictured), followed by Karen Mobley, Tom Quinn and Deanna Camp.

— CHEY SCOTT Art on the Street • Saturdays, July 9, 16, 23 and 30, from 1-4 pm • Free • Spokane Art School • 811 W. Garland • spokaneartschool.net • 325-1500

CLASSICAL WANT SOME MO’?

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Mozart died at 35. But in his short life he composed some of the greatest works known to humankind. Next week, for the 26th time, Connoisseur Concerts celebrates the famous classical artist with its Mozart on a Summer’s Eve concerts at Manito Park. The show begins with the Connoisseur Concerts’ Wind Ensemble, along with local soprano/songwriter Madeline McNeill, working through everything from Mozart to Edith Piaf. Zuill Bailey (pictured), artistic director of the Northwest Bach Festival, then gets busy on the cello, playing Haydn and Elgar, accompanied by a trio of young cellists from his Sitka Cello Seminar. For those reserving tables, Luna restaurant will cater dinner at a separate request. For those on the lawn, bring blankets and/ or chairs to sit on. Picnic food and beverages are encouraged. Seating begins at 5:30 pm.

— LAURA JOHNSON

You’ve spent hours capturing that perfect image. You’ve spent more money than you should have on that new lens. So now’s the time to be recognized for the compelling photos you take.

Mozart on a Summer’s Eve • Tue-Wed, July 12-13, at 7 pm • $15/lawn seating; $30/table • Manito Park • 1800 S. Grand Blvd. • nwbachfest.com

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MCKENZIE’S MOMENT A yard sale, bake sale and auction to benefit the Huisman family, whose 15-year-old daughter McKenzie was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer. The family is trying to cross off items on McKenzie’s bucket list this summer while she is well enough to do so. Corner of McDonald and Sprague in Spokane Valley. July 9, 7 am-2 pm. bit.ly/29jz2lA

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FIRST THURSDAY COMEDY Live standup comedy featuring funny folks from around the region. Ages 21+ only. $10. Northern Quest (Impulse Lounge), 100 N. Hayford. northernquest.com

MARC MARON For more than 20 years, Maron has been writing and performing thought-provoking comedy for print, stage, radio, online and TV. July 7-9 at 7:30 pm, also July 8-9 at 10:30 pm. $20-$40. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com THE MIDNIGHT GOATS The musical improv duo takes suggestions from the audience and turns them into songs that inspire improvised scene work.

July 9, 10 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. bit.ly/2957XjN IAN ABRAMSON The comedian has contributed to The Onion, Comedy Central, Funny or Die, and performed at multiple, major comedy festivals.

July 12, 8 pm. $8/$10. The Bartlett, 228 W. Sprague. thebartlettspokane.com

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I SAW YOU LITERATURE & LIBATIONS And I thought to myself, "the Baby Bar is an awfully dark place to read a book, I wonder if she's reading anything familiar? It's noisy in here too, it must be a good one." So I leaned toward you and asked. Sure enough, it was a Christopher Moore page turner; yum! We briefly discussed our favorites by the author and then a smoke bomb went off or something because I'm pretty sure you just vanished into thin air! Hey, where'd you go?

Let's start a book club! Yours Truly, BabyBarFlyGuy ZIP TRIP ON ALTAMONT JULY 1ST, 8:30 AM This morning I fell head over heels for you, why did I let you go without at least trying to know you better? About 6', trimmed silver beard, perfect fitting jeans, and yummy. You helped a stranded kid with some gas. I told you, "that was sweet", you shrugged, an aw shucks kind of comment.

If there is a god, we will meet again. BTW, I drive by that station every work day, and will be looking for you!

HOME DEPOT AIR CONDITIONER Me, in work clothes in line before you on the morning of Friday, July 1. You, purchasing an air conditioner. I was going to ask to help you load it in your car but I lost you in parking lot. Iced coffee sometime perhaps ?

CHEERS CONTRACTORS Thank you Accent stove

and Spa of Spokane. Your excellence in sales and installation of my new stove insert and the way you treated me as a veteran was priceless. KUDOS To you.

THANK YOU! I want to send a shout out to the person who paid for my Starbucks coffee in the drive thru this morning (June 29). I've had a rough couple of months and that really made my day! Thank you for giving me a positive boost. I'll never forget it.

TO MY SHADOW PRINCE who always comes through for me. When I'm ready to give up, somehow you just know, and you are always there, pulling me through. Thank you, my Shadow Prince!

FROM ME TO YOU: A SCRATCH BEHIND THE EARS You run errands for neighbors.

You hand your umbrella to moms herding kids through thunderstorms. You volunteer in schools, leave campsites better than you found them, walk shelter dogs, and pick up after them on the sidewalk. See my tail?

It's wagging because of you. Love, Hobbes SOUTH HILL LIBRARY PARKING LOT GUARDIAN ANGEL My deepest thanks to the kind person who put a note on the window of my Jeep, parked at the South Hill branch of the Spokane Public Library on 6/30, to let me know that I had a nail in my passenger-side rear tire. If you had not drawn my attention to it, I doubt that I would have noticed until the next morning, when the tire would have been entirely flat.

As it was, I was able to drive directly to a tire place and have repairs made. You are a life-saver and the best sort of quiet hero. I sing your praises!

JEERS BEGGARS BEGONE To the obese blonde male beggar with a cardboard sign at Division and Wellesley on 27 June: Have you no shame? First of all, you're a fat slob which indicates you are well fed. Second, the cigarette you were smoking and trying to hide behind your back while the cars were passing by indicates you wanted somebody else to pay for your $10 pack of smokes. Third, the large cell phone you sneakily kept checking as you were holding the sign indicates it was probably an IPhone 6 with all the bells and whistles that you wanted someone else to pay for. If anybody reading this that has ever given a beggar money on Spokane streets, know that you

are giving these dregs free money for cigs, booze, and/or weed. There are so many birth-to-death entitlements today that no one needs to beg openly and shamelessly to survive. Only a fool gives beggars money in America.

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By law, no business can ask what a person's disability is or prove the dog is in fact a service animal. You're actually calling for business to discriminate against someone that's already having a rough enough life?

You are one sick puppy, no pun intended.

STOLEN VALOR To those "turd(s)" who stole my U.S. flag this weekend; That flag was a gift given to me by a special friend

You’re actually calling for business to discriminate against someone that’s already having a rough enough life? You are one sick puppy, no pun intended.

Ranger Stations — Helping!!?? Idiots in Spokane still get out of their cars to chase moose — sometimes the size of a horse until they have to be put down. Know how to prove people don't read? There have many quite a number of stories just recently about National Parks and stupid people.

No One Ever Learns to do the right thing!

Stop — try to Think — leave the little animal alone. DON'T get out of your car to take a selfie! Don't be so Dumb! Remember only You can increase the level of intelligence!

THE HALLWAY IS A ROAD When I was at Ferris High School, I got slammed into a wall, just because I asked the perpetrator to walk on the right side of the hallway.

Everywhere I go, I have to watch out for people who can't (or won't) move faster than 1 mile per hour, in a group that's big enough to take over the NorthTown Mall, all the while preventing me from passing.

The same is true at Wal-Mart. I cannot travel more than a couple aisles without almost hitting somebody with my cart. But in each instance, I am on the right side of the hallway and the other person seems to suddenly fly from a perpendicular aisle right in front of me. Then I have a huge crush of people moving toward me on the wrong side. If you think I'm going to move my cart to let you pass, think again.

If it is illegal to drive on the wrong side of a freeway, what makes it okay to walk on the

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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wrong side of a hallway? And then you have the audacity to get mad at me for almost hitting your toddler when she jumped in front of my cart?! No! You walk on the RIGHT. Not on the left, not straight down the middle, ON THE RIGHT. I'm tired of having to swerve because you are walking like a staggering drunk!

MAJOR jeers to the disgusting thief who decided to break into my car on July 2 while I was working at Dominos in the valley. Thank you for stealing my phone and wallet; not only ruining my day, but costing me seven hours of work, $200 towards a new phone and $55 for a new license that I can't even get until after July 4th weekend. Not to mention the countless hours of running around town to reactivate cards, and making endless phone calls to automated machines. I hope you enjoy your 10k gold bracelet, punch automatic and two plier set that you charged $202.33 with my credit card at Sears! I am a poor college student works part time to support herself.

I utilize my phone to help me deliver to costumers at a quick rate, and you rendered me and my store in a helpless position when you left the only delivery driver they had that morning incapable of doing her job. I also have bills and rent, and count on my hours to get by. SHAME ON YOU! JEERS TO SERVICE DOGS? Obviously you're ignorant about the laws regarding service animals. A simple Google search could have informed you about the law before you made an ass out of yourself.

Service dogs by law do not need anything to identify themselves as a service dog.

Those little vests you see some of them wearing is a choice the handler has made to stop unwanted attention and questions.

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and a dedicated soldier while serving in Iraq. That flag flew high over the U.S. Embassy in the "Green Zone." That flag is easily identified but I will not go door to door in search of my flag! Enjoy a piece of history, a lot of U.S. troops lost their lives in Iraq so that the flag you took would hang over the Embassy once again. 

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BODIES HUMAN For the first exhibit in its new home, Mobius hosts six whole bodies, more than 100 individual organs, and transparent body slices that have been preserved through plastination. Exhibit runs through Dec. 31; hours are Tu-Sat, 10 am-5 pm and Sun, 11 am-5 pm. (Recommended for ages 10+.) $15. Mobius Science Center, 331 N. Post. mobiusspokane.org (321-7137) AMAZING ANIMALS OPEN HOUSE Learn about animals, from extreme builders to skilled hunters; meet our education birds, and participate in games and activities. $5 per person suggested donation. July 8, 10 am-2 pm. West Valley Outdoor Learning Center, 8706 E. Upriver Drive. olc.wvsd.org (340-1028) RIVERFRONT PARK BLOCK PARTY A celebration to kick off construction for the big park renovation. Events include a 30-ton sandbox for kids, life-size sidewalk games, a paint-by-numbers project, beer garden, live music and food from Spokane area food trucks for purchase. July 8, 3-8 pm. Free. Riverfront Park. bit.ly/295eevR KSPS CHARACTER DAY KSPS Public TV has invited popular kids’ show characters Buddy from Dinosaur Train, Nature Cat and Clifford the Big Red Dog to walk about River Park Square greeting their fans. The SCLD also provides S.T.E.M. activities. July 9, 10 am-1 pm.

Free. River Park Square, 808 W. Main Ave. ksps.org/home (443-7700) MILITARY APPRECIATION DAY Event features a free pig roast, live music, photobooth, kids bounce house, face painting, bike wash and more. All active/retired military and first responders can learn to ride a motorcycle for free in the riding academy. July 9, 10 am-6 pm. Free. Lone Wolf Harley-Davidson, 19011 E. Cataldo Ave. facebook. com/lonewolfharleydavidson RIDING WITH ROVER The first annual motorcycle fundraiser ride, open to all ages, including four-legged friends.

Starts with breakfast at the SpokAnimal event center, followed by a group ride through North Idaho, ending at Daley’s Cheap Shots with live music, food, an auction and more. July 9, 8 am. SpokAnimal, 710 N. Napa. bit. ly/1thGJg1 (534-8133) COEUR D’ALENE GARDEN TOUR The 2016 tour features several diverse gardens, with live music and artisan vendors stationed throughout. Proceeds benefit local charities. July 10, 11 am-4 pm. $15/$17. Coeur d’Alene. cdagardenclub.com (208-664-0987) DIAL-A-STORY PROJECT On July 11 and 18, write and podcast: a (true) short story about the West Central neighborhood for public enjoyment on one of three Dial-A-Story phone booths that will be placed throughout West Central. Free. Spark Center, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. sparkwestcentral.org THE ARC’S OPEN HOUSE Enjoy a barbecue dinner, shop local artist booths, take a tour of the building and learn more about The Arc’s programs. July 13, 4-6:30 pm. Free. Arc of Spokane, 320 E. Second. arc-spokane.org

FESTIVAL

COLFAX CONCRETE RIVER FESTIVAL Events during the Palouse town’s annual summer festival include a parade, car cruise, art walk, roller derby, arts

and crafts vendors, historic tours, battle of the bands, fireworks and more.

July 7-10. concreteriverfestival.com CHEWELAH CHATAQUA Chewelah’s 43rd annual festival hosts carnival rides, a parade, food, arts and crafts vendors, live music, entertainment, a beer garden and much more, held in City Park along the creekside. July 8-10. chewelahchataqua.com SPOKANE AUTOMOTIVE & COLLECTIBLE SWAP MEET The annual show hosted by the Early Ford V8 Club features antique and street rod cars, farm and transportation collectibles, antiques and old toys, parts and supplies and more. July 8-10. $5/admission.

Spokane County Fair & Expo Center, 404 N. Havana St. spokanecounty.org SANDPOINT SUMMERFEST A weekend family music, arts and culture festival featuring local, regional and national musical talent along with performers, artists, craftsmen, vendors and entertainers. July 8-10. $15-$240.

Eureka Mountain Center, 6162 Eureka Rd. (208-265-4000) LAVENDER FESTIVAL The first youpick festival offers food, music, crafts, lavender merchandise, children’s activities, demonstration/education presentations and more. July 9, 10 am-4 pm. Evening Light Lavender Farm, 5552 S. Wallbridge Rd, Deer Park. eveninglightlavender.com NORTHWEST RENAISSANCE FEST The annual Renaissance festival and fair features live actors, sporting events, music and more. July 9-10, 16-17, and 23-24, from 11 am-7 pm. $5$35. Northwest Renaissance Festival, 6493 Hwy 291. nwrf.net (276-7728) SECOND ANNUAL KINETIC FEST This family-friendly event features handson activities, a parade of human-powered vehicles, live music and entertainment throughout the day, with food and beverages available for purchase from local vendors. July 10, 12-5 pm.

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FILM

MOVIES IN THE PARK: JURASSIC WORLD Includes free, pre-movie activities for kids, an hour before the films start, at sunset. July 8. Free. Mirabeau Park Meadows, 13500 Mirabeau Parkway. spokanevalley.org HOME An outdoor screening of the family-friendly film hosted by the Friends of Pavillion Park. Movie starts at dusk. July 9. Free. Half Moon Park, Holl Blvd. & Indiana Ave. SWIM + A MOVIE: MINIONS See Minions on the big screen, poolside, after taking a dip in the pool at the Northside or Southside Family Aquatics Facilities. Doors open at 6 pm, movie shows at dusk. July 9, 6 pm. Free/$5. spokanecounty.org/parks RIFFTRAX LIVE: MST3K REUNION Rifftrax is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a historic live event, reuniting with their fellow cast members from Mystery Science Theater 3000 for a night of comedy. Showing locally at Regal Cinemas Northtown and Riverstone 14 (CdA), July 12, at 8 pm. $13. rifftrax.com/MST3Kreunion TOMMY BOY Screening as part of the Garland’s “Summer Camp 2016” series.

July 12, 7 pm and July 14, 5 pm. $2.50.

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The Cannabis Patient Protection Act, which went into effect July 1, merged the unregulated medical marijuana market with the regulated recreational market.

With the law in effect, qualified medical patients now have three means of obtaining marijuana. They can grow a limited number of plants at home, join a four-member cooperative or purchase marijuana from a licensed retail store.

Recreational stores that received a medical marijuana endorsement are now able to sell concentrates and other products identified as medical grade by the state Department of Health. Those dispensaries must have at least one medical marijuana consultant

BE AWARE: Marijuana is legal for adults 21 and older under Washington State law (e.g., RCW 69.50, RCW 69.51A, HB0001 Initiative 502 and Senate Bill 5052). State law does not preempt federal law; possessing, using, distributing and selling marijuana remains illegal under federal law. In Washington state, consuming marijuana in public, driving while under the influence of marijuana and transporting marijuana across state lines are all illegal. Marijuana has intoxicating effects; there may be health risks associated with its consumption, and it may be habit-forming. It can also impair concentration, coordination and judgment. Do not operate a vehicle or machinery under the influence of this drug.

Keep out of reach of children. For more information, consult the Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board at www.liq.wa.gov.

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According to the Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board, 82 percent of the state’s 378 licensed retail stores now have a medical endorsement to sell medical marijuana.

The following Spokane County dispensaries have medical marijuana endorsements: 4:20 Friendly, Cinder (both Spokane and Spokane Valley locations), Endo, First and Third, The Garden, Greenhand, Green Light, The Green Nugget, Green Star Cannabis, Hidden Joint, Locals Canna House, Lucky Leaf, Next Steps, Royal’s Cannabis, S&K Green Goods, Sativa Sisters, Satori, Simply Cannabis, Smokane, Spocannabis, Spokane Green Leaf, Toker Friendly, The Top Shelf and Treehouse Club.

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Advice Goddess FASTEN YOUR DECEIT BELT

I’m a 44-year-old woman who’s been dating a successful actor for a year. When we met, he told me he was 35.

Well, in picking up a prescription for him, I discovered he’s actually 42! I’m relieved — but miffed that he lied. I’ve felt uneasy about being so much older (especially because his previous girlfriend was 24). He said he’d been meaning to say something and he was glad I found out. He explained that as an actor, it’s important to be viewed as young. (His AMY ALKON agent doesn’t even know his real age.) He seems to be a good person, but I’m wondering what else he’s lied about. I don’t lie, and I don’t want to be with someone who is a liar.

—Worried Welcome to Moral High Ground, population: you. Wow, so that’s your real weight on your driver’s license?

The truth is, we all lie — yes, all of us — which is why social psychologist Bella DePaulo explains in her research on lying that people can’t be tossed into “one of two moral bins, one for people who are honest and the other for the liars.” DePaulo explains that you are lying whenever “you intentionally try to mislead someone.”

This includes telling your friend “I completely forgot you were performing at the coffeehouse!” or assuring her that her new haircut looks “cool and edgy,” and not like a small animal that got hit by a car.

However, there are different kinds of lies, and the kind your boyfriend told is an “instrumental lie” — a strategic lie people use to take a shortcut to something they want. This kind of lie is common to Machiavellian personalities — schemers who manipulate other people to get their way. It’s also linked to having crappy relationships, since you can’t very well be close to somebody who’s frequently pretending to be somebody else.

Ruh-roh, huh? Maybe not. Context matters — including why he lied, why he didn’t tell you, and whether his lie has lots of brothers and sisters to keep it company.

If he doesn’t seem to be a big truth shaver, consider that this age fibbie may be a necessary evil — a “cost of doing business” lie. (In poetry, “Beauty is truth, truth beauty.” In Hollywood, truth is unemployment.)

Why didn’t he tell you? Maybe because he didn’t tell you, and then he still hadn’t told you, and then it seemed he was way late in telling you. If you don’t see a pattern of lying, maybe this is a sign, not that he’s a terrible person but that he dreaded disappointing you. You and he could even turn this incident into a positive thing — an opportunity to come up with a policy for honesty in your relationship. What’s especially important is making it a safe place for telling the truth — pledging to sit down and talk stuff out instead of going all explodypants over it. This includes shocking Hollywood revelations like his current one, which — frankly — is too ho-hum to even make the wastebasket at TMZ. You’ve merely discovered that the guy’s another age, not that there’s another woman — the one he’s always dreamed of being.

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I’m a man who respects science and tries to live rationally, and I’m dating this truly great woman who, unfortunately, is into astrology, energy healing, past lives, and other ridiculousness. I try to be open-minded, and I’ve been telling myself, “Hey, people can be different and still be together.” However, she recently told me she’d seen a giant space worm out of the corner of her eye. It was 4 feet tall. Come on.

—Reasonoid Yes, “people can be different and still be together.” In one case, headphones made this possible — for a sweet guy who cheers up by listening to death metal but fell in love with a woman whose favorite music video scene has the von Trapp children skipping around the Swiss Alps in drapes.

Unfortunately, there’s no nifty audio technology to block out the lack of respect you feel for your girlfriend when you hear about her getting pony rides from a space slug or refusing to eat chicken when the moon’s in Aquarius. A lack of respect for your partner’s beliefs (as opposed to finding them merely odd or infuriating) is the starting line for contempt — the amped-up form of disgust — which marriage researcher John Gottman finds is the single best predictor that a relationship will tank.

So, in vetting partners, yes, it’s good to keep an open mind. However, as the saying goes, just “not so open that your brains fall out” — and you come to hear, “Hey, honey, the kids and I will be home a little late. They’re running an hour and two ritual slaughters behind at the primary care shaman.” n ©2016, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. • Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405 or email AdviceAmy@aol.com (www.advicegoddess.com)

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EVENTS | CALENDAR OUTDOOR MOVIES AT RIVERFRONT PARK: JURASSIC WORLD The summer series sponsored by BECU features big screen outdoor movies, live entertainment, trivia and local food vendors.

Seating opens at 7 pm; movies start at dusk. $5/person; ages 5 and under free.

July 13, 7 pm. Riverfront Park, 705 N. Howard St. epiceap.com THE JUNGLE BOOK A family-friendly outdoor film screening as part of U. Idaho Student Involvement’s “Screen on the Green” series, on the Theophilus Tower lawn. July 14, 8:45 pm. Free.

University of Idaho, 709 S Deakin St. uidaho.edu (208-885-6111)

FOOD & DRINK

MUSIC, MICROS & BBQ The CdA Casino’s summer food and drink series continues, highlighting breweries from Western Washington, Cruzan Rums spirits, and music by Eclectic Approach, with an $18 all-you-can-eat barbecue.

July 9, 5-10 pm. Free to attend. Coeur d’Alene Casino, 37914 S Hwy 95. cdacasino.com (800-523-2467) SANDPOINT BEERFEST The third annual event features 20 local craft brews, along with games, food and live music

by Still Tipsy and the Hangovers. July 9, 12-5 pm. Free to attend. Trinity at City Beach, 58 Bridge St. (208-263-2161) FARM TO FORK SERIES FEAT. ANTONIA LOFASO Chef Lofaso has appeared on Top Chef, Cutthroat Kitchen and Restaurant Startup, among others. She owns the Black Market Liquor Bar and Scopa Italian Roots in Los Angeles, and comes to CdA to host a cooking demo in conjunction with a special farmers market (10 am, free to attend). July 10, 7 pm. $15-$40. Coeur d’Alene Casino, 37914 S Hwy 95. cdacasino.com/farmtofork/index.php (800-523-2467) PALOUSE ICE CREAM SOCIAL The annual community ice cream social welcomes visitors and neighbors from across the Northwest. July 10, 12-3:30 pm. Palouse, Wash. visitpalouse.com

MUSIC

HISTORIC WALLACE BLUES FESTIVAL The fifth annual event brings blues musicians from around the country, with beer gardens, entertainment and more.

See website for complete line up, times, tickets and more. July 8-10. wallacebluesfestival.com COMPLETE UNACCOMPANIED BACH CELLO SUITES Dr. Kevin Hekmatpanah, Professor and Chair of the Music Department at Gonzaga University, and a member of the Spokane Symphony, performs Bach’s Complete Unaccompanied Cello Suites in a two–part series to benefit residents of Hillyard. July 10 and 17, 1 pm. Free, donations accepted.

St. Patrick’s Parish, 5021 N. Nelson. bit. ly/290FuIq (466-3811) MOZART ON A SUMMER’S EVE The 26th annual concert series in the meadow east of Duncan Gardens. Table seating ($30) comes with gourmet coffee and dessert from Luna. $15/lawn seating. July 12 and 13, 7-9 pm. Manito Park, 1800 S. Grand Blvd. mozartspokane.com

SPORTS

DISC GOLF FUNDRAISER Family Promise of North Idaho and Rapid Fire Disc Golf host an inaugural disc golf tourney, with all proceeds supporting

local programs that aid homeless children and their families. Open to teams of up to six players. July 9, 9 am-2 pm. $15/person; $35/family. Corbin Park, 896 S. Corbin Rd. familypromiseni.org S.A.W. PRESENT: WRESTLERAVE X Spokane Anarchy Wrestling’s annual spectacular. Doors open at 5:30; bell rings at 6 pm. July 9, 6 pm. Swaxx, 25 E. Lincoln Rd. bit.ly/24GrF7E (703-7474) SPOKATOPIA The second annual outdoor adventure fest lets visitors try activities like stand up paddleboarding, kayaking, disc golf, rock climbing, mountain biking and more. Also features vendor booths, live music and more. July 9, 10 am. Free. Camp Sekani, 67070 E. Upriver Dr. spokatopia.com STRIDER CUP RACES The highest level national Strider-sanctioned races that give small children and people with special needs a chance to put their Strider Balance Bike skills to the test.

July 9, 9 am-3:30 pm. $27.37. Riverfront Park, 705 N. Howard St. striderbikes. com/spokane (605-342-0266) FOURTH ANNUAL OLD GROWTH HIKE A six-mile round trip hike through the old-growth forest of Mt. Spokane, hosted by the Lands Council. Discover Pass required for park entry. Children and dogs-on-leash are welcome. July 10, 10 am. Free. Mt. Spokane State Park, 26107 N. Mt. Spokane Park Dr. bit.ly/1UkqtB7 KIDS XTREME FUN RUN Kids can run, jump and slide their way to victory on the YMCA’s 500 meter obstacle course that includes a slip-n-slide, mud pit, tire obstacles and more. Ages 4+. July 10, 9:30 am. $15-$20. YMCA North Spokane, 10727 N. Newport Hwy. SPOKANE INDIANS VS. SALEMKEIZER Home game series promotions include “Rhythm & Brews Night,” “Star Wars Night” and more. July 12-16, 6:30 pm. $5-$20. Avista Stadium, 602 N. Havana. (535-2922)

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Central Valley High School, 821 S. Sullivan Rd. svsummertheatre.com THE DILIGENT DAUGHTER OR LIPS THAT TOUCH WINE Nellie and Naomi Nice are in search of their father who has disappeared. He must be found before midnight so they can claim their family inheritance from poor, departed Aunt Hester’s estate. But, if they fail, the entire estate goes to the Bilious Brewery. July 6-31; Wed-Sat at 7 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $10. Sixth Street Theater, 212 Sixth St. sixthstreetmelodrama.com CDA MURDER MYSTERY THEATER It’s the annual Moonshine Moon Celebration at the Rouge City Saloon and things could turn deadly. Showing July 8, and July 14-15, from 6-9 pm. $35/ person. Coeur d’Alene Cellars, 3890 N. Schreiber Way. (208-664-2336) MAN OF LA MANCHA Nominated for 10 Tony Awards and the winner of five, is this show a play within a play, or one man’s delusion as the cell walls collapse around him? July 8-30, Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $23-$27. The Modern Theater Spokane, 174 S. Howard. themoderntheater.org (455-7529)

ONE ACT PLAY FESTIVAL A selection of new, unpublished, one act plays are brought to life on stage. Plays were submitted from all over the world, but the directors and actors in this 7th annual festival are local. July 8-9, at 7 pm. $6-$12. Pend Oreille Playhouse, 236 S. Union Ave. pendoreilleplayers.org

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CATHERINE EARLE & CARY WEIGAND An exhibition of new works by figurative clay sculptor Weigand and translucent acrylic painter Earle. July 8-Aug. 6, open daily from 11 am-6 pm; opening reception July 8, 5-8 pm with an artist talk and demo July 9, at 1 pm. Free to view. Art Spirit Gallery, 415 Sherman Ave. theartspiritgallery.com GULLIVER’S TRAVELS A themed, group art show featuring works by regional artists, including Sister Paula Turnbull, Tom Quinn, Virginia Carter, Viza Arlington and many others. July 8-Aug. 26, gallery hours Mon-Fri, 10 am-5 pm. Opening reception July 8, 5-8 pm. Spokane Art School, 809 W. Garland Ave. spokaneartschool.net ART FOR THE ANIMALS The sixth annual event features a catered meal, with dessert and beer, live music, sanctuary tours and more. Proceeds support the animal rescue organization’s work. July 9. River’s Wish Animal Sanctuary, 11511 W. Garfield Rd. riverswishanimalsanctuary.org (951-3650) ART ON THE STREET SAS sets up an easel on the sidewalk and a wellknown, local artist hosts a community drawing event. Passersby are invited to participate in the art making process.

Saturdays, July 9-Aug. 27, from 1-4 pm.

Free. Spokane Art School, 809 W. Garland. spokaneartschool.net ARTIST IN ACTION Member artists participate in a live art in an outdoor tent in front of the gallery. Also add your brushwork to a collaborative painting or bring your own paint and supplies.

July 9, 11 am-3 pm. Free. Avenue West, 907 W. Boone. (838-4999)

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EWU professor Kevin Decker authored Who is Who?: The Philosophy of Doctor Who and other books exploring pop culture and philosophy.

Finding a Deeper Meaning

How an EWU professor sees the intersection of pop culture and philosophy

BY WILSON CRISCIONE

S

ome people take TV shows and movies too seriously. For me, it was The Matrix. I became so enthralled with the movies as a kid that it became the baseline for all of my adolescent views on philosophy. I would say things like “None of this is even real, man.”

For Kevin Decker, a philosophy professor at Eastern Washington University, it was classic Star Trek. Unlike some other shows during the ’70s, Star Trek was about more than “flash and explosion,” he says.

“Every Star Trek episode was a mini-philosophy or mini-ethics lesson.”

For Decker, pop culture is a vehicle for helping people understand and engage in philosophical discussions, and he uses that to his advantage in the classroom. He also writes and co-edits books examining culture through a philosophical lens.

Take, for example, Star Wars. Decker co-edited a book called The Ultimate Star Wars and Philosophy. Students love Star Wars, and he uses their interest in The Force to discuss mythological and metaphysical theories. He says it’s easy to see several philosophical theories reflected in the movies, and in particular, in different characters.

Han Solo, for instance, is what you’d call an empiricist: If he can’t see it or feel it (The Force), then it doesn’t exist to him. That allows students to engage in a broader discussion.

“What we end up doing is moving from the philosophy in blank,” he says, “to the philosophy of blank.”

It’s an approach that may become more common as certain pop culture mediums, like TV, have introduced

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more philosophical theories into writing and have become more accepted by “highbrow” culture.

D

ecker says that his own roots in philosophy are more mundane. He got started with more traditional philosophy, earning his doctorate at St. Louis University, and writing his dissertation on John Dewey, an American educator and philosopher.

He and a couple of other St. Louis graduates were inspired to examine pop culture and philosophy more by William Irwin, series editor of Wiley: The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series. Now, Decker is an editor for the series and contributes to some of its books.

Some in the field criticize injecting pop culture into philosophy, believing it’s a superficial dumbing-down of philosophical theories. Decker says this comes down to a divide between high culture and low culture. The criticism, he says, is tied to the view of philosophers that there are simply non-philosophical aspects of culture that offer no ability to search for truth through methods of logical and conceptual analysis. But Decker argues that culture itself can be explored philosophically for more understanding.

“It’s that broader conception that I endorse,” he says.

“It’s certainly not as specialized and not as rarefied, and not as targeted to conclusions … but that doesn’t mean that it’s any less valuable, in my opinion.”

The transformation of television from something considered to be low culture decades ago, into, at worst, “middlebrow mass consumption and mass art,” offers more

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opportunities for philosophical exploration, Decker says.

Decker is writing a chapter for a book he is co-editing called The Philosophy of Breaking Bad, which should be released this fall. Some of the book focuses on a sequence of events in the show (spoiler alert; but really, watch Breaking Bad), in which Walter White allows Jesse’s girlfriend, Jane, to choke to death. That leads Jane’s dad, an air traffic controller, to cause a plane crash that kills 167 people.

It raises a question of moral responsibility. One chapter of the book, written by another author, argues that Walter is completely responsible for the plane crash.

Decker, in contrast, says that assumes Walter has too much freedom to change events. Decker bases his argument on an existentialist theory of “facticity” — that our freedom is constrained by what we can’t control.

This kind of analysis is more common now than it was decades ago because of the evolution of TV, Decker says. The intention is no longer to merely keep people’s attention from week to week.

“I think that’s lending itself to better and more philosophical TV,” he says.

W

hen Decker came to EWU in 2005, the philosophy department didn’t have any majors.

Now, at any given time, it has between 35 and 50 students who major in philosophy. He hopes that means more are going into graduate school, law school or politics.

Decker, as the former faculty president, has been involved for the past six years in the effort to reform general education at EWU. Part of that involves improving first-year experiences for students. Many students do better in college if they start with courses that are of high interest, and hone skills that will help them through their academic career. He will teach a class to first-year students about superheroes, how they have evolved and what it means for our culture.

He notes that there have been paradigm shifts in philosophy throughout history, where people import something considered unphilosophical into the field. Using movies and TV shows for philosophical purposes is not so different, and it’s an approach that may be working.

“I think it is connecting a lot with students now,” he says.  wilsonc@inlander.com

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