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One thing at least has changed in Davenport’s view: With respected military members speaking out, the subject of UFOs is being taken more seriously. Says Davenport in our report on page 14: “Airline pilots for a long time wouldn’t talk about what they see in the cockpit. I’ve now taken seven reports from airline pilots from the cockpit since November.”

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Let Reason Prevail Inside the politicized fight over “critical race theory”

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mid a global pandemic, the Idaho Legislature took decisive action to protect Idahoans from harm: They passed a bill outlawing the teaching of so-called “critical race theory.” What exactly is this clear and present danger? I doubt the folks in Boise know. Indeed, I’ve been a student of history for over 20 years, and I have only heard the dreaded phrase since conservatives opened yet another front in their endless culture wars.

Idaho is not alone in manufacturing faux outrage against critical race theory. Republican presidential hopeful and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis also signed a bill banning the theory, which he accused of teaching “kids to hate our country and each other.” To its critics, then, critical race theory is a politically motivated attempt to indoctrinate American youth. Its practitioners, allegedly, begin with the premise that America is inherently racist and then cherry-pick evidence to support this claim. That is not how history works.

While human beings have told stories about the past for as long as people have gathered, the modern discipline of history emerged in the 19th century. The first professional historians looked to embrace the scientific method, identifying

historical laws through the careful gathering and observation of evidence.

While scientists had laboratories in which to gather evidence through experimentation, historians had archives. Primary sources — documents produced at the time of the period or event being studied — provided the evidentiary anchor for historical analysis.

Historians might no longer believe that they can discover universal historical laws, but they remain committed to the fundamental importance of evidence. While the term “historian” can cover a wide range of vocations, from interpreters at historic sites to research professors at universities, professional historians have all been trained in the use of evidence. Sources do not speak for themselves. Historians interrogate evidence.

They ask questions, like who is the author of this source? What motivated them to produce this document? Who is the audience? What impact is this document meant to have on the audience?

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it. This is malpractice that goes against the fundamental laws of our profession. Scholars of the past often disagree. But these disagreements are based upon different interpretations of evidence.

In the case of academic historians, our books and articles are all subject to blind peer review. Experts in our field weigh conflicting arguments and consider how scholars have interpreted evidence to ensure intellectual rigor and honesty before publication.

While history is an evidenced-based discipline, it is also inherently political. The most basic definition of history is that it is the study of change over time. But historians do not just chronicle the past; they also explain why things change. As such, history is often the study of power, the power to enact change. Power is often divisive. Some people have it; some people don’t. To understand power dynamics over time, historians often shine a light in dark corners, which is why they attract the ire of politicians who are more concerned with furthering their careers in the present than in an honest examination of the past.

When Thomas Jefferson founded the University of Virginia, he wrote to the English politician and scholar William Roscoe that “this institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind, for here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate error so long as reason is left free to combat it.” While the political performance in state capitals from Boise to Tallahassee is unlikely to impact our classrooms (who is to say what is critical race theory and what is not?), the intellectual underpinning of these legislative assaults on academic freedom is deeply troubling. The idea that we must constrain the freedom of the human mind, that we ought to be banned from following some truths wherever they lead, is a hallmark of totalitarianism. If conservative lawmakers truly believe that the bogeyman of critical race theory is a false prophet, they should embrace Jefferson’s intolerance of error by leaving reason free to combat it. n

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TOO HOT TO HANDLE ENERGY

Historic, deadly heat wave hits Inland Northwest, forcing blackouts that raise questions about our electric future

Avista Utilities Substation Inspector Joe Vigliotta describes the elements of a substation near Avista’s Spokane headquarters. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO

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t was going to be as hot as it’s ever been in Spokane, but the equipment was supposed to work.

The transformers were supposed to be able to handle the many air conditioners that would be running to deal with the extreme heat, because those air conditioners were going to be cycling on and off.

But the heat wave that hit the Inland Northwest on June 28 and 29 was unlike anything this area had seen.

The new official record high for Spokane tapped out at 109 degrees, but other areas like Felts Field measured up to 111 that Tuesday. Where nighttime usually brings a reprieve of cool air, the region instead saw record high low temperatures, with one night not dropping below 78 degrees.

People took to social media to show themselves frying eggs inside hot cars and on sidewalks. The Spokane County medical examiner’s office reports that at least 11 people appear to have died from heat-related conditions during the extreme temperatures.

So those AC units that were supposed to be clicking on and off? They just didn’t turn off. They couldn’t cool things down enough to stop, and that’s where part of the trouble came in for Avista.

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The electric utility has an entire team dedicated to planning for the highest usage on its system, forecasting potential demand based on historical data, and taking into account growth in the region that puts even more strain on the distribution system.

But previously, Avista had been able to bank on the fact that not every customer’s AC would be on at the same time. Until this once-in-a-century event.

“All eyes are on, watching where this load is coming from minute by minute, how much are our customers able to conserve?” says Heather Rosentrater, senior vice president of energy delivery for Avista. “We hadn’t experienced this amount of customer usage before.”

So last Monday, the utility was unexpectedly faced with the decision of shutting down power to customers who were connected to four substations throughout Spokane: one off Highway 195, two up north, and one near Spokane Falls Community College.

Engineers who have to prevent equipment failure had to make the call quickly to shut down those four areas as transformers either heated up faster than expected or saw far more customer use than Avista’s team predicted.

“We understand that all of those decisions, it’s an easy button to push or switch to open to make the change, but we understand every time we do that, that is a huge impact,” Rosentrater says. “Understanding the impacts, the challenges, the frustrations of the customers, that was on our mind during all of this.”

For customers, it was the start of two days of rolling blackouts in the middle of the hottest heat wave on record, and for some, it raised the question: Why us?

PLANNING FOR POWER

Avista’s electric system saw two problems: exceedingly high customer demand for power to cool their homes, which hit as the same heat was raising the temperatures of equipment at substations around the city.

Substations vary widely in size, Rosentrater says.

One station may have a single 10-megawatt transformer, while another may have three 30-megawatt transformers.

An average urban substation serves 30,000 customers, and each substation has “feeder” lines that distribute power from the station to a specific subset of about 5,000 customers. ...continued on page 10

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To combat the heat and alarms at various substations, the utility initially used rolling blackouts on specific feeders to reduce the burden on the transformers. But

by Tuesday, engineers were able to reconfigure which customers were being served by specific feeders to help spread out the load based on the abnormal usage, which helped avoid most blackouts last Wednesday, Rosentrater says.

Up to 24,000 customers saw blackouts at some point during the hottest parts of the heat wave. Avista provides electricity throughout Eastern Washington and North Idaho, but aside from Spokane, the only other areas to see rolling blackouts were a small section of Spokane Valley and part of Lewiston, Idaho.

WHERE THINGS WENT WRONG

In the case of the Sunset substation, parts of which were built in the 1930s, Avista saw a 1970s-era transformer there overheating far before it was providing the amount of power they expected, Rosentrater says.

There were blackouts in Eagle Ridge and parts of the South Hill on June 28 and 29 to compensate. That Tuesday, the power outage for customers was actually due to crews installing a mobile substation unit that has a transformer on a flatbed truck so it can be used to maintain power in different areas, typically during repairs.

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As it turns out, the Sunset substation is already being replaced, with work already started on grading and fencing. However, Rosentrater says that the new station won’t come online until 2023, because the installation of those $7 million to $10 million projects takes years. It takes a full year to even order and receive a new transformer.

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One question many in the community asked after last week’s blackouts was why some poor neighborhoods seemed to be targeted. People asked whether the utility may have neglected the stations in those areas and wanted to know whether they were older.

But Sunset, serving one of the wealthier areas affected, is the oldest substation in the group that had issues. All of the transformers that saw either high temperatures or overuse that caused shutdowns were from roughly the same time period in the 1970s.

Rosentrater says the time schedule to swap out that type of equipment varies dramatically.

“If we have one transformer that is really lightly loaded, it usually can have a really long life, potentially even up to 80 years,” she says. “In a higher usage area you may need to replace it as early as 40 years.”

Up north, the story of the day was sheer demand. The area has seen an increase in population and the demand simply started exceeding what the Northeast and Waikiki substations could handle, Rosentrater says.

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“Neither of them are in our five-year plan for replacement based on condition,” she says. “However, based on growth in that area, we have a new substation that is planned up north.”

The utility is still looking for land to build that station that will help provide even more power to meet the growing demand, and it’s likely years from being built.

The fourth substation that had issues was Fort Wright, which is near Spokane Falls Community College and serves parts of the northwest neighborhoods in town.

There, crews had to replace a component that measures the temperature of the oil that’s used to cool transformers down.

Fans were also brought in to help cool down transformers throughout the city, but the utility doesn’t have the same type of infrastructure for cooling as some areas that more regularly see the extreme temperatures that were seen during the heat wave.

Partly, that’s due to keeping costs manageable for customers, Rosentrater says.

“If we designed the entire system for a one-in-100-year event, we’d have a lot of infrastructure that isn’t used the majority of the time,” Rosentrater says. “It’s a cost for our customers that may be unnecessary if it’s something we’ve never experienced before.”

Moving forward, the utility plans to take lessons from the heat wave about how to better communicate before and after planned blackouts with customers, and the extreme demands placed on the system will be factored in as crews plan for future weather anomalies that may be exacerbated by climate change.

“We are recognizing that in the future, those events are likely going to be happening more frequently, and we’re getting more extreme events,” Rosentrater says. “What can we learn from this? … We recognize that human aspect of all this, and didn’t take the decisions lightly in any way.” n samanthaw@inlander.com

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Drawing New Lines Spokane Public Schools grapples with criticism that new school boundaries will damage equity goals

BY WILSON CRISCIONE

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ast week, the Spokane Public Schools board of directors examined and revised a draft of its proposed “equity policy,” which states that the school district “values diverse schools and communities and is committed to providing excellence for everyone.”

About an hour later, the same board approved a school boundary proposal that some experts argue will hamper the district’s racial equity goals by reducing diversity in its schools.

“To be an equity-based organization, which Spokane Public Schools declared they would be last year, that means you have to be not thinking about privileged students but thinking about marginalized students and how to decrease opportunity gaps for them,” says Suzie Henning, an assistant professor of education at Eastern Washington University. “This seems to be moving in the other direction.”

The school boundary proposal has stirred a debate around what equity means in a district with high rates of low-income students. Historically, school districts across the country have drawn attendance zones in ways that separate students by race and class. Advocates have pushed for districts to “desegregate” these schools, with research backing up the idea that having schools with more socioeconomic diversity can benefit disadvantaged students.

But the new Spokane school boundaries, like the old ones, will leave Spokane schools on the north end of town with consistently higher rates of students on free or reduced lunch than the southside schools.

Noticeably, as the more affluent Lewis and Clark High School will see its percentage of low-income students drop, North Central High School’s rate of lowincome students in its attendance zone will jump by more than 10 percentage points. Students in the new Denny Yasuhara Middle School boundary in northeast Spokane, meanwhile, will have a free or reduced lunch rate of nearly 90 percent, while the new South Hill middle school, Carla Peperzak Middle School, will have less than a third of its students qualify for free or reduced lunch.

“If we’re talking about equity, I can’t think of a more equitable thing to do than to ensure you don’t have schools in your district that are high-poverty schools,” says Stefan Lallinger, an education fellow at the Century Foundation, a progressive think tank based in New York.

The school board, however, argues that simply distributing low-income students evenly across the district isn’t the answer. Busing children out of their neighborhood school would create logistical issues and would disproportionately harm poor children, they say.

The district considered it important to prioritize boundaries that can keep students within the same cohort throughout their education. To reduce poverty rates in some schools, the district will continue to allow families

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Instructor Alex Karim teaches a microbiology class at North Central High School’s Institute of Science and Technology. The program has attracted wealthier students from around the district. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO to attend schools outside their zone if they choose, and the district will add so-called “magnet” programs to northside schools that may attract wealthier students.

“We have to be very mindful and careful in how we create diverse schools, diverse communities and diverse neighborhoods,” says school board president Jerrall Haynes. “I think narrowing down the work strictly to boundaries and focusing on balance, to me, is not where the equity lies.”

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year ago, the Spokane school board passed a “racial equity” resolution that promised transformational change in local schools and began the process of creating an “equity policy.”

But since then, board member Nikki Lockwood says members of the community have “weaponized” equity against the board. Supporters of a proposal to put a new sports stadium downtown, for example, argued it was the most equitable approach — but Lockwood thought they were just adopting the term when they actually meant the location allowed equal access for students.

For Lockwood, equity isn’t providing equal support or resources for everyone. It means recognizing that certain students or schools need more support based on their unique circumstances.

That’s why she feels the boundary changes are in line with the district’s equity goals. The board approved the boundary changes on the condition that special “magnet” programs will be created at the lower-income northside high schools. It’s an approach Spokane is modeling after Seattle Public Schools, which reconfigured its boundaries in the last 15 years while adding special programs at lower-performing schools.

North Central High School already has a program like that. Its Institute of Science and Technology has attracted students from all over the district, and that’s

helped lower the free or reduced lunch rate by 5 percent.

Lockwood also points to Rogers High School. It has the highest concentration of low-income students in the district, but its graduation rate has soared in the last decade.

“Equity is really about serving the kids that are there,” Lockwood says. “And I think individually and at the school level, that’s not going away when we make this boundary choice.”

The school district had not changed its boundaries in 40 years, but it was forced to because of the addition of three new middle schools constructed as part of a plan to shift sixth-graders to those schools. Spokane Public Schools formed a boundary committee a year and a half ago to study how to adjust the boundaries.

“If we’re talking about equity, I can’t think of a more equitable thing to do than to ensure you don’t have schools in your district that are high-poverty schools.”

Associate superintendent Mark Anderson says equity was a central part of the discussion during the committee’s process. The research they leaned on showed the importance of keeping students cohorted to make for easier transitions to middle school or high school, he says. For instance, he says it’s better to keep Marshallese students in the same cohort instead of spreading them out away from their support group.

With few exceptions, the new boundaries don’t significantly alter the existing socioeconomic makeup of schools. The widening gap in poverty rates and racial diversity between North Central and Lewis and Clark, however, was a major exception. Haynes says that was

discussed at “great length” among the boundary committee.

“Ultimately, what it came down to for the boundary committee was that we didn’t design our city. We didn’t design our neighborhood,” Haynes says. “These differences do exist, but what other ways can we create more diversity within our schools?”

Haynes strongly pushes back against the idea that the school board didn’t prioritize equity in the boundary discussion.

“I find it fascinating. Especially that this board — the most diverse board in Spokane Public Schools history, the board that created the equity resolution and has realistically been leading equity conversations throughout the entire county in Spokane — is being accused of not leading with equity in mind,” Haynes says.

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enning, the EWU assistant professor, supports the district’s effort to let families have the ability to choose schools outside their boundary. But Henning, who has a background in culturally responsive teaching, is skeptical that boundaries keeping kids together in the same schools will create an equitable system.

The research on the cohort model, as it’s called, is mixed.

That’s because students can become “lassoed” — privileged students may succeed with other privileged students, but disadvantaged students are kept in the same population with other disadvantaged students and unable to succeed.

“And then they’re sent through the public school system with those disadvantages year after year after year,” Henning says.

Studies have shown that low-income students attending more affluent schools have higher test scores than those in high-poverty schools. More socioeconomic diversity in schools has also been linked to higher graduation rates, as noted by Lallinger with the Century Foundation.

“You can’t just throw your hands up and say we’re going to reproduce the segregation that exists in our housing,” he says.

Instead, the school district should say “we are going to do our damndest to try and create a school system with a socioeconomically diverse student population because we know it’s best for kids. We know that’s backed up with research,” Lallinger says.

Haynes has suggested that balancing socioeconomic diversity across Spokane schools is not feasible because it would require “mass busing,” to which Lallinger has said other districts around the country have figured out strategic transportation solutions.

Henning says she’s been “thrilled” with the direction the school board has taken recently, but she called the boundary decision a “shocker.”

“You can say it: ‘I am practicing equity,’” Henning says. “But how are you doing it?”

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efore approving the boundary changes last week, board member Mike Wiser acknowledged the criticism that the new boundaries will create less socioeconomically diverse schools. But he argued that making substantial changes now would require starting from scratch.

And the critics of the process, he says, haven’t come up with any better solutions. Ultimately, he feels the equity concerns can be addressed “programmatically.”

Board member Jenny Slagle, who has been the most reluctant to vote for the boundary changes because of the equity concerns, eventually came around to vote for the proposal for similar reasons.

“I don’t believe there’s ever been a time that the Spokane Public Schools board has been so focused on all facets of equity,” Slagle says.

Just before final approval, Haynes added that once the decision is made, the district can “roll up our sleeves and get to the real work.”

As for the critics of the process, Haynes says he appreciates that the community is engaged on topics like this.

“We’re trying to build a truly equitable system here. And a part of that is making sure this system is consistently held accountable moving forward,” Haynes says. “We ask that you continue to hold us accountable on every decision moving forward also. That’s what will keep our system healthy.” n

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DISCLOSURE OR DISAPPOINTMENT? 14 INLANDER JULY 8, 2021

No, that’s not a real photo of flying saucers; it’s a stock image someone created, but... it’s not too far from what a pilot described seeing over Mount Rainer in 1947.

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The government acknowledges UFOs after years of denial, but local UFOlogists aren’t satisfied by the answers

BY QUINN WELSCH

t was a beautiful early summer afternoon at about 9,500 feet overlooking Mount Rainier.

“The sky and air were clear as crystal,” Boisebased pilot Kenneth Arnold said of the conditions that day, June 24, 1947. Arnold, a fire control engineer who sold fire fighting equipment in the rural Western states, was flying out of Chehalis, Washington, with a final destination of Pendleton, Oregon.

His trip had been delayed slightly when he was asked to help locate a military transport that had crashed into the side of Mount Rainier the previous winter.

Flying in his CallAir Model A, Arnold made a couple passes of the mountain, but was unable to see the downed transport. He was making one final pass of the area before heading to his next destination, Yakima, when a flash of light reflected off his plane. Startled, he checked to see if any other airplanes had snuck up on him. He didn’t see anything until he looked out his window to the left. Just north of Mount Rainier were nine unusual looking aircraft flying south toward Mount Adams, moving at about 1,200 miles per hour, according to Arnold’s estimate.

Later that day, Arnold told his colleagues and acquaintances about what he described as thin saucer-like aircraft without tails. Word got around, and the next day the June 25 edition of the East Oregonian ran a story of Arnold’s sighting with the headline: “Impossible!

Maybe, But Seein’ Is Believin’, Says Flier.”

The story spread like wildfire and is credited with kicking off the UFO craze in the United States.

Shortly after the story broke, eyewitness reports of “flying saucers” were everywhere. Famously, there was the “Roswell Incident” just a couple weeks after Arnold’s sighting, which many UFO researchers and conspiracists believe to be a cover-up of a crashed alien spacecraft in New Mexico.

Fast forward to today, UFOs — or UAPs (unidentified aerial phenomenon) as they are being rebranded — might be more popular than they have ever been.

A growing number of pilots and military personnel have come forward with their own stories of strange encounters in the sky. These stories have appeared with increasing frequency in the national media over the last few years. On May 16, 60 Minutes broadcasted an interview with former Navy pilots Dave Fravor and Alex Dietrich that detailed their eyewitness account of a UAP off the coast of San Diego, which they described as a white “Tic Tac” shaped object about the size of a 737. The object moved erratically, had no visible propulsion and was lightning fast. But Fravor and Dietrich are far from the only ones. Other military personnel have come forward about similar sightings. Some of the objects, like the Tic Tac, have even been recorded by sophisticated tracking systems. The U.S. military has verified the authenticity of some of these recordings, although they can’t say exactly what they are. At least that’s the conclusion of a new report issued on June 25 by the Department of National Intelligence.

Last year, wheels were put in motion on the UFO front. The government’s secretive Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program was relaunched under a new name, the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force. It’s mission is “to detect, analyze and catalog UAPs that could potentially pose a threat to U.S. national security,” according to a Pentagon description.

Also, as part of the federal government’s $2.3 trillion spending package last year, lawmakers included an unusual provision. They wanted an unclassified report

on what the government knows about UAPs from the Department of National Intelligence and the secretary of defense within 180 days.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the report’s findings were deemed “largely inconclusive.” Definitively analyzing the reported incidents was a challenge for the department due to the technological limitations of military sensors and, admittedly, some of the stigma surrounding the topic within military and intelligence circles, the department says in its report.

The report analyzed 144 reports of these unidentified aerial phenomena between 2004 and 2021, but found that the limited data left most of them unexplained. Most reports detailed UAP near military activities or training areas (though that may be a collection bias, the report says). Only one of the reports was explained as a deflating balloon. However, 18 of the reported incidents appeared to show UAP demonstrating “advanced technology” in their movement or flight characteristics, the report says. It also says that UAP likely exist in one of five categories: “airborne clutter, natural atmospheric phenomena, [U.S. government] or industry developmental programs, foreign adversary systems, and a catchall ‘other’ bin.” The report did not mention anything extraterrestrial.

Ultimately, the report laid the groundwork for future analysis of UAP with a long-term goal of increasing its data set through more reporting and collaboration with other agencies and eventually applying machine-learning algorithms to help determine their nature.

But for some in the UFOlogy community, much of the new report isn’t really news. UFOlogist Peter Davenport, who is based in Eastern Washington, has already been collecting data on UFO/UAP incidents all over the world, and he’s got a head start on the report by a few decades.

COUNTING THE ENCOUNTERS

Davenport’s first brush with UFOs was at an outdoor cinema near the St. Louis Lambert International Airport back in the 1950s, he says. Just a child at the time, Davenport recalls there being a sudden disturbance in the cinema. People were getting out of their cars, slamming their doors, and pointing to the sky.

“I looked out the right side of our ’53 Studebaker ... and there was an incredibly bright object, red, about the shape of a British rugby ball. … It was illuminating the entire St. Louis airport like it was daylight,” he recalls.

Out of nowhere, it rose up and went behind the screen of the theater within a couple of seconds and then disappeared. The incident, still vivid in his mind’s eye more than 60 years later, is likely what led him to a career in UFOlogy, he says.

Davenport is a believer through and through. A devout Christian, trained scientist and businessman, the 76-year-old says there is little doubt what these unidentified flying objects are: Sophisticated, technological craft piloted by alien creatures.

“I think we’re dealing with intelligent, highly developed, sentient creatures who, from time to time, come to this planet and visit us,” he says from his home in the tiny town of Harrington, Washington, about an hour west of Spokane. “I’m fairly confident that we’re being visited on a routine, consistent basis that’s been going on for at least 100 years. I suspect these creatures have been aware of our presence for a long time.” ...continued on next page

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Davenport has been running the National UFO Research Center website, nuforc.org, and hotline for 27 years. He has been an expert source for the L.A. Times, the New York Times and, obviously, the Inlander, and has been a regular guest on paranormal talk shows like Coast to Coast AM. NUFORC was established in 1974 and has served as a repository of thousands of eyewitness accounts of UFO incidents dating back several decades from all over the world, detailing strange encounters with pretty much anything that could be described as extraterrestrial. Floating lights. Massive, silent pyramid structures. Long-limbed humanoids. Flying saucers.

Before the internet, these reports had to be taken over a telephone hotline or submitted via mail to NUFORC, sometimes along with an illustration.

Davenport’s path to NUFORC has been a winding one. He served in the Army as a Russian translator before studying biology at Stanford in the 1970s. Grad school took him to the University of Washington, where he continued a career in science and later founded the biotech company BioSyn in Seattle. He met NUFORC founder Bob Gribble in 1991 at a monthly UFO meeting hosted by the Washington chapter of the Mutual UFO Network.

Gribble, who had been running the hotline for 20 years, was about to call it quits at the time though. Not wanting to see Gribble’s hard work go to waste, Davenport took the reins in 1994.

By his own admission, the work is exhausting, and Davenport now finds himself in the same position as Gribble, looking for another impassioned investigator to take over. The job has not been easy, he says. The onslaught of reports keeps him busy all day long, and the frequent prank phone calls from “young people” has grown tiresome. But he’s also become a prominent figure within the UFOlogy community.

In between questions, he cites examples of what he describes as credibly sourced eyewitness reports. There are reports from airline pilots, seminarians and law enforcement officers. Then there’s the story of Travis Walton, an Arizona man who claimed to have been abducted by aliens in the 1970s in front of several witnesses.

Walton’s book was later adapted into the 1993 sci-fi film Fire in the Sky. Davenport, who knows Walton on a personal basis, says that if his story is true, “then it is perhaps one of the leading candidates for being one of the most traumatic incidents I can think of.”

On their way back from work in a pickup truck, Wal-

ton and his co-workers allegedly spotted a UFO off the side of the road. Walton got out of the truck to investigate and claimed that he was shot by a beam of light and brought into the craft. Walton was missing for more than five days after the alleged abduction and claims to have conscious memory of some of the events.

After so many years of cataloging these stories, Davenport has become good at deciphering between the sincere and the insincere. Walton’s story is one of the former, he says.

People are more willing to believe today than ever before.

About one-third of Americans believe that UFOs spotted are alien spacecraft, according to a Gallup poll from 2019. About half of all Americans believe there are species similar to humans in the universe, the same poll says.

Even if alien spacecraft or species similar to humans don’t exist, the reports from military officers and other seemingly credible sources are hard to dismiss entirely.

Even former President Barack Obama said in a recent interview that “there is footage and records of objects in the skies that we don’t know exactly what they are.”

“The American people are more willing to address the topic, particularly members of academia and people who have a lot to lose by being labeled a kook,” Davenport says. “Airline pilots for a long time wouldn’t talk about what they see in the cockpit. I’ve now taken seven reports from airline pilots from the cockpit since November.”

The government report did not disclose the existence of extraterrestrials, but it did open up a starting point for people to have a serious conversation about the topic.

Kind of.

“If the government officials who control this information were forthright with us, they could have done it long ago.”

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“I freely admit, I don’t like the thought of being anywhere near a UFO,” Davenport says. “People argue that I’m dealing with the devil. Other people claim I’m dealing with angels. I take the assertion that we’re dealing with both.”

Despite his firm belief in extraterrestrials, Davenport, like many in the UFOlogy community, is skeptical of some of these cases.

“You develop a sixth sense. If a person doesn’t want to give his name, or is glib and jolly about his UFO sighting, these are signs it’s not a sincere report,” he says.

“People will say things they aren’t willing to write down.

It’s a warning sign [that] it’s not conclusive.”

Davenport is also suspicious of the U.S. government, he says, which is why he’s not particularly thrilled by the Department of National Intelligence’s UAP report.

“I’d like to think we’re going to get the truth, but I’m skeptical,” Davenport said in the weeks leading up to the report’s release. “If the government officials who control this information were forthright with us, they could have done it long ago.”

There have been other instances of government disclosure on what people have described as UFOs, particularly in Roswell, but also during the “Phoenix Lights” incident in 1997. But in those cases, the answers weren’t satisfying, at least not for the UFO community.

Public opinion has changed somewhat since then.

GARBAGE IN, GARBAGE OUT

In the age of information, it’s getting harder to distinguish the truth from lies. If we’ve learned anything about the internet over the last several years, it’s that we’re all highly susceptible to misinformation. We believe what we want to. Politics. News. Entertainment. Whatever. People will believe just about anything if it confirms their biggest hopes or their worst fears, and the potential existence of extraterrestrial intelligence can be both of those things.

For most people, it’s hard to say whether or not aliens exist. But no one can prove that they don’t exist; therefore, perhaps they do. This “burden of proof” logical fallacy, as it is called, is used frequently by conspiracy theorists to put the onus on their skeptics. Straight-up liars like professional lunatic Alex Jones, host and creator of InfoWars, love to use this fallacy because it asks critics to prove a negative.

You can’t prove that Dr. Anthony Fauci didn’t help orchestrate the COVID-19 pandemic, so maybe he did.

You can’t prove that the corporate news media isn’t covering up the truth of the virus to hide the globalist agenda, so maybe it is. You can’t prove that the world leaders don’t want to enslave the human population through vaccinations and implants, so maybe they do. ...continued on page 18

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This kind of thinking runs rampant in the UFO community as well, says James Clarkson, a UFOlogist based out of Port Townsend, Washington. Clarkson, a self-described member of the “old guard,” has watched the internet wreak havoc on the UFO community in recent years. The community has become increasingly intertwined with other, more fringe conspiracy communities like QAnon, he says.

It’s the human version of “garbage in, garbage out,” Clarkson says, referring to an old computer science concept. Essentially, bad data produces bad output.

“I think it’s an extreme problem, not just for UFOlogy, but for politics and the country and the world. We have to get some ethically based search for the truth,” he says. “It’s not that we have too little information. It’s that in some ways we have too much.”

The days leading up to the government’s UAP report created a “stampede of speculation” when, at the time, we didn’t know anything, he says. Clarkson didn’t find the report especially interesting. After all, it was unclassified information.

Clarkson is the former director for Washington state’s chapter of the Mutual UFO Network, or MUFON, and has been investigating UFOs for three decades. As a science fiction fan, he loves to speculate “what the alien agenda might be.” But Clarkson, who spent his professional career as an officer with the Aberdeen Police Department and as an investigator of child abuse and fraud, is very careful to note when he’s wearing his UFO researcher’s hat and when he’s wearing the tin foil hat.

He has learned to approach UFOlogy like a criminal investigation.

“While you are going through an investigation, you are continually asking yourself the same question, ‘What would a reasonable man conclude if he was confronted with the evidence in front of me right now?’ You want to keep it reasonable, you want to keep it sensible,” he says.

“That’s the problem I see in UFOlogy and the internet in general right now.”

For every 10 UFO sightings you get, about six will have commonplace explanations, he says. Only one or two are what they call “true FOs,” or truly unidentified flying objects, he says.

“Those are cases where you have highly credible witnesses, you have some kind of corroborating evidence and, hopefully, some facts that you can find,” Clarkson says. “Witnesses who know everything worry me. I expect a witness to only know their part of it. A witness who can look me in the eye and say, ‘I don’t know, I didn’t see that,’ that impresses me.”

Sometimes that means providing boring, “unpopular” answers that don’t necessarily fit a media-driven entertainment narrative, he says.

DEBUNKING WITH CARE

This might also include UFO skeptics like Mick West, a Sacramento-based professional debunker who runs the website metabunk.org and who authored the book Escaping the Rabbit Hole: How to Debunk Conspiracy Theories Using Facts, Logic, and Respect. His website covers pretty much everything from COVID to chemtrails to that monstrous photo of a gigantic Joe and Jill Biden alongside a miniature Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter. But mostly, metabunk. org covers UFOs. For almost all of the high-profile sightings featured in the May 60 Minutes broadcast, West has a perfectly reasonable explanation. Using the mathematical and problem-solving skills he developed as a video game programmer, West often re-creates certain photographic effects that mimic what some UFO witnesses report having seen in the sky.

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A recently declassified Department of Defense video captures an unidentified flying object off the coast of San Diego in 2004.

The first thing West looks for when debunking a sighting is the origin of the report: who took it, when it was taken, and where it was taken. From there, he tries to geolocate the sighting on a map to check off any environmental explanations. He also uses a handful of flight trackers that follow the signals of aircraft along their flight paths, which is a pretty common explanation for UFO sightings, he says.

Trying to convince the most ardent believers that these “sightings” might have simple explanations is not an easy task though. Talking with conspiracists requires a degree of patience and respect that can require swallowing a bit of pride, West says.

“It’s really kind of the same way you deal with people who are in cults. Essentially, you’ve got people whose minds have been kind of brainwashed in a way, and they’re starting to believe these various things that are very divergent from reality, and the way to help them is to keep them grounded in reality, even if it’s just a little bit,” he says. “You’ve got to have one toehold in reality.

This is kind of like the first step in helping anybody, just to maintain effective communication.”

All too often, people cut off their friends or relatives for expressing strange beliefs in conspiracies. But if you can find some common ground to communicate and bring them to a “stable state,” you can begin to induce helpful information that might help them see the light, West says.

Like all things on metabunk.org, West takes a measured, scientific approach. He doesn’t think the idea of UFOlogy or extraterrestrial life is crazy. He says the government report provides a good overview of what’s happening in the skies, if you disregard the paranormal implications. The potential for life in our vast universe is there, he says. “We just haven’t detected it yet.”

“I don’t think there’s any good evidence that we’re being visited now or that there’s any evidence that we’ve been visited in the past. I wouldn’t rule it out, but we just don’t have good evidence.”

‘THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION’

DOD SCREENSHOT

After his sighting near Mount Rainier, the Boise pilot Kenneth Arnold told famous broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow that he believed the aircraft to be of extraterrestrial origin. More than 70 years later, and after leaps and bounds in culture and technology, we haven’t come any closer to knowing the truth of that statement.

The aliens, if they exist, are being strangely coy. But even the slightest chance that they do exist would be one of the biggest discoveries of all time.

“It’s the most important question,” according to Davenport. It cuts through to so many of our other philosophical, moral and religious questions, he says.

“It’s the ultimate game changer,” Clarkson says. “If we suddenly are confronted with the fact that the Earth is just one small place where there is ‘intelligent life’ and that there are many other worlds with life that might be more and less intelligent than we are, then my big hope is that it will force us to start seeing each other as fellow human beings and not as members of any particular nation or religion or race.”

These ideas have been turned over countless times in popular culture in books, television, film, comics, again and again for decades now. The stories are endlessly fascinating to anyone with the smallest imagination. They provide an escape for those of us who hope for a bigger and brighter world, where the problems of today can be solved by the world of tomorrow.

Plague. War. Pollution. All of these things and more can be solved by the intervention or discovery of some unearthly technology. We want to believe that we can be saved.

But of course seeing is believing. And until we see evidence for ourselves, even a government-sanctioned report verifying the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence wouldn’t convince everyone.

The truth is still out there. Supposedly… n

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The Virtue of Vintage Spokane-based vintage fashion expert Margaret Wilds publishes guidebook on sourcing, wearing and caring for timeless clothing

Spokane vintage expert Margaret Wilds has a new book, Wear Vintage Now!

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ack in the mid-1970s, when Margaret Wilds was a teenager and first became interested in wearing vintage clothes, finding incredible pieces — those considered extremely rare by today’s standards — for cheap at thrift stores was quite common.

At that time, vintage fashion hadn’t reached the fever pitch it’s experiencing today, as more and more savvy shoppers look to stand out from the crowd via conversation-starting outfits, and to adopt more sustainable living practices.

“I didn’t have money, like most teens, and I was looking for ways to expand my wardrobe,” Wilds says. “You could get stuff for pocket change in antique stores, but back then it was called ‘old clothes.’ Vintage was just starting to be big in Seattle, where I grew up in the early ’70s. I really, really latched onto it because my parents were into good, quality clothes.”

Wilds is still very much into vintage fashion, now as a buyer, seller and collector. Since 1999 she’s run her online shop, DeniseBrain Vintage, out of her central Spokane home. Wilds’ Etsy storefront mostly features higher-end women’s pieces from the 1940s through the ’70s.

Recently, the vintage fashion enthusiast channeled her years of expertise into a book to guide vintage newbies and casual collectors on their personal fashion journeys. Wear Vintage Now!: Choose It, Care For It, Style It Your Way compiles many resources Wilds previously published on her website, denisebrain.com, about how to shop for, wear and care for vintage clothing.

“There is so much to know, even in this little book,” she says. “There is fabric and mending and styles of different decades, how to wear them, how they were once worn, designers, the fit — there are so many facets to it. It fascinates me, and I’ve always been a learner at heart.”

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ilds, 60, moved to Spokane in 1985 and was principal French horn player with the Spokane Symphony until 2001. She still subs in for the orchestra on occasion.

Her shop’s name, DeniseBrain, is a play on the name of famous virtuoso horn player Dennis Brain, whom Wilds deeply admires.

“I have the same feeling for vintage that I do for music. It’s a passion,” she says.

Wilds currently serves as president of the Vintage Fashion Guild (vintagefashionguild.org), an international collective of sellers dedicated to the history and appreciation of decades-gone-by clothing. The guild’s site offers myriad resources for both vintage sellers and buyers, many of which Wilds’ addresses in detail in Wear Vintage Now! “I was trying to explain all these things in my blog” about vintage, she says. “One New Year’s, I decided to do a series of blogs about how to buy vintage, so on things like fit, and value and pricing, and how to judge a seller’s reputation. Then it started to get book-like and some people said, ‘If this were in a book I’d buy it and read it.’”

Wear Vintage Now! is available on Wilds’ website, via Amazon and at the Spokane vintage shop Tossed & Found.

Among the endless nuances of vintage fashion, Wilds says the top piece of advice she wants readers to take away from the book is this: Vintage is for everyone.

“I want people to think they can do it. There is no such thing as no vintage for you,” she says.

Addressing proper fit of vintage clothing is another main topic.

“Fit seems to be something that really gets in people’s way,” Wilds says. “People always say ‘vintage is always tiny,’ but it’s not true. I’ve seen things for people who are very tall, very wide or both. It’s not a new thing that people need larger sizes.” ...continued on page 24

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Because clothing sizes weren’t always consistent between brands, nor numbered like modern pieces, until the early ’70s, Wilds says the most important thing to know when shopping for vintage is your own body measurements: waist, hip, bust, inseam, shoulders, etc. She says to also keep in mind that clothes should be a little bit bigger than your actual measurements for ease of movement.

“Compare a [vintage] piece to the fit of something you already have that fits well,” she recommends.

Most established vintage sellers post garment measurements, and sometimes sizing advice, in their listings. What someone might call a modern medium, though, might be another seller’s interpretation of a size small. Handmade garments, common in decades past, were also custom-made to fit their original wearer, and that can equate to unusual sizing.

If you’re buying in person, many local vintage shops have dressing rooms. Wilds also suggests bringing a tailor’s measuring tape to check pieces on racks until you learn how to quickly spot your size.

How to wash, mend, store and otherwise care for your vintage collection is a third major topic Wilds’ book explores in depth.

“I get questions every day like ‘How should I take care of my dad’s old uniform, or a taffeta dress from the ’60s?’” she says.

“Without tags, and not knowing the fabric, it’s really hard to sort that out.”

Vintage fabrics present many challenges in cleaning, like dye bleed, shrinkage and rusty buttons, but that doesn’t mean you can’t clean them yourself at home, she notes.

“These clothes were meant to be cleaned, not bought and thrown away like we do now,” Wilds says. “All of them have some technique for cleaning, you just have to figure out the key steps to do it.”

Wilds is glad to see such a widespread, heightened interest in vintage fashion. Not only is buying secondhand clothing more sustainable — garments made back in the day are also of much higher quality fabrics and construction — it makes getting dressed fun. Vintage allows a wearer to express their personality in creative ways, like mixing different eras into one outfit.

“Vintage has always had these ebbs and flows, but right now it’s at an all-time high,” Wilds says. “People are more aware of fast fashion and the degradation of the planet from the amount of resources it takes to make clothes, and to have things made in a country where people are paid very poorly. It’s very noticeable to people now, and I think people are turning the corner and wanting handmade or vintage and used clothing. It’s cool and hip.” n Find Wear Vintage Now! at denisebrain.com; shop at etsy.com/ shop/denisebrain.

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HUCK FINN-STYLE PANDEMIC I fully understand how anyone who’s lived through this last year of the pandemic might be wary about starting the Netflix show Sweet Tooth. In the setup we learn a global illness nicknamed “the sick” is taking out adults all over the place and people suddenly wear masks and eye one another warily. But it’s so much more than a virus story. The major fantasy element: all babies born after the virus starts are human-animal hybrids. The main character, Gus, is an adorable young boy/deer hybrid who will learn just how unique he really is. Based on a pre-COVID DC comic book series, the show seems extremely relevant in the modern moment. But for those sick of our infamous virus, the show does a great job of melding escapism and relevance through its depictions of beautiful natural landscapes, some anti-fascism rhetoric, and a Huck Finn adventure reimagining of sorts all tied into one. (SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL)

Halfway, if you’re lucky.

APPROACHING THE HILLTOP 50 is the new 30, right? RIGHT?!

BY DAN NAILEN

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ack around the turn of the new year, I scrolled through a giant list of noteworthy albums turning 50 years old in 2021, a batch that includes titles I’ve been listening to most of my life: Led Zeppelin IV, Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On, Isaac Hayes’ Shaft soundtrack (You’re damn right).

As I read, I thought to myself, “Wait, something else is turning 50 this year. What is that?”

Why, it’s me, isn’t it?! That’s a little reference from The Young Ones for those readers of A Certain Age and extremely niche MTV viewing habits circa 1985. My people!

Yes, I’m staring down turning a half-century old by the end of this month. I just booked a colonoscopy for this fall — true story! And while I’ve had friends go on overseas adventures or epic ski trips or romantic getaways for their big 5-0, my big hope at the beginning of 2021, before I knew if travel would even be allowed at this point, was just to get a shot or two by the time my birthday rolled around, and not the delicious bourbon kind.

Mission accomplished.

I’m not one to put much stock in one birthday being more significant than another, and given that I’ve already celebrated one during the pandemic, it wouldn’t have been a huge deal if I’d had to spend this one still on lockdown. I’m privileged with a happy home life. Of course, I say that knowing a midlife crisis could hit any second now and you’ll suddenly see me driving a too-sporty car and wearing too-tight clothes to my hair-plug appointment. There’s no predicting these things. Hopefully, though, I’ll remain someone

who drives an oh-so-practical Suburu wagon and wears an array of utterly comfortable band T-shirts while continuing balding somewhat gracefully. And if not gracefully, at least without putting up a fight.

My birthday itself will be pretty low key — a quick getaway to Missoula where my significant other and I both lived in our mid-20s without ever meeting each other back then. It should be great, and as I look back at my decade-marking birthdays, I’ve been pretty lucky.

Ten years ago I turned 40 on a hillside at a Utah ski resort, enjoying cocktails with friends and a free concert by one of my favorite musicians, Alejandro Escovedo. Twenty years ago I woke up in Sedona, Arizona, having served as best man at my buddy’s wedding the day before. As a gift, the happy couple bought me a session with a psychic (because when in Sedona…), and let me tell you, things are going to turn out great for me. If I remember correctly. I was pretty stoned for the reading (because when in Sedona…).

Thirty years ago, I turned 20 … and I don’t really remember what I did to celebrate. That’s probably a sign I had a pretty good time.

I could say the same for most of those first 50 years, five decades of pretty good times that found me living at various points in four different time zones, in 12 different states, and countless houses and apartments with many, many roommates.

If I had to make a prediction, I probably won’t move around as much over the next 50 years. And I’ll probably keep listening to those old albums as we approach 100 together. n

NEXT GEN Catching up with Mare of Easttown was worthwhile, even after the rest of the world seemed to have binged it, and I won’t spoil the mystery in which everyone is a suspect. The show will make you yearn for a Rolling Rock as the characters down them by the case, but it also reminded me of the talents of Angourie Rice, an Australian actress who was the highlight of 2016 Ryan Gosling/Russell Crowe buddy comedy The Nice Guys playing Gosling’s daughter.

As Kate Winslet’s daughter in Mare, Rice manages to make her queer rock singer and aspiring filmmaker one of the series’ best characters — and maybe the only one you never think might be a murderer. Maybe. (DAN NAILEN)

THIS WEEK’S PLAYLIST There’s noteworthy new music arriving in stores and online July 9. To wit: TWIN SHADOW, Twin Shadow. The single “Get Closer” is a pretty sweet summer jam on his fifth release.

THE WALLFLOWERS, Exit Wounds.

Jakob Dylan goes back to his band, but the sound remains the same: poppy folk-rock.

LUCINDA WILLIAMS, Lu’s Jukebox Vol 2: Southern Soul: From Memphis to Muscle Shoals. She’s been gathering her pandemic livestreams for release, and leans into the soul on this one.

(DAN NAILEN)

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REVIEW

A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCES Too many competing notions draw focus from the main character in Black Widow

BY SCOTT RENSHAW

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t has turned into something akin to a punchline every time a filmmaker or Disney+ show-runner associated with a Marvel Comics property tries to pitch its roots in a classic genre. Captain America: The Winter Soldier is a political thriller! Thor is Shakespeare among the gods!

Spider-Man: Homecoming is a John Hughes comedy! The intentions are good, I’m sure, to weave such influences into the story, but when it comes right down to it, the Marvel-ness of a Marvel story is going to dominate. You can’t pour a drop of 30-year-old single-malt scotch into a bottle of Coke and pretend it’s a high-end cocktail.

Black Widow is a bit stranger in this regard, in the sense that the movie arriving in theaters and on Disney+ Premiere Access on Friday feels like an attempt to pour two radically different flavors into that fizzy Marvel formula. On the one hand, it’s quite clearly aiming for the globe-trotting highs of a vintage James Bond thriller; on the other hand, it wants to delve into the dysfunctional family dynamics of a Chekhov play. And it’s hard to envision a scenario in which those flavors could all work together while still allowing Black Widow herself a showcase.

Not surprisingly to anyone who saw Natasha Romanoff (Scarlett Johansson) die in Avengers: Endgame, this is almost entirely a flashback story, set primarily in the time between Captain America: Civil War and Avengers: Infinity War when Natasha was a fugitive from the government. A prologue to that main story shows her as a child in 1990s Ohio, an orphan being raised along with

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a younger “sister” by two Russian spies, Alexei (David Moonraker on television. From the title cards prominently Harbour) and Melina (Rachel Weisz) to promote the emphasizing locations like “MOROCCO” and “BUillusion of a normal American family. More than 20 years DAPEST,” to the pairing of a big villain (Ray Winstone) later, Natasha and that adopted sister, Yelena (Florence with a silent, nearly unstoppable henchman called the Pugh), are reunited in an attempt to finally destroy the Taskmaster, to the car chases and free-fall-from-low-orbit Russian “Black Widow” training program that turned set pieces, it all feels like something Roger Moore could both of them into elite killers. have starred in. And there’s some fun action along the Black Widow takes off once Natasha and Yelena are way, even if it still feels like nobody involved in modern working together, thanks largely to the brittle energy blockbuster filmmaking understands how to edit a handPugh brings to her performance. She captures the jealouto-hand fight sequence anymore. sy of a younger sibling who’s watched Natasha become The awkwardness of Black Widow is that somewhere a famous Avenger, and the anger at Natasha never once in all of that, we mostly lose the idea that this is a “standtrying to find her, all while poking at the way Natasha alone” Black Widow movie. No matter how many hints always strikes the three-point “hero pose.” It’s previous MCU movies dropped regardeven more entertaining when Harbour joins ing Natasha’s mysterious past, the charBLACK WIDOW acter was always sort of an afterthought the family reunion as a doughy version of the Soviet-era super-soldier Red Guardian, slowly Rated PG-13 among her far-more-powerful male Directed by Cate Shortland realizing he was much more concerned with Avengers teammates. Johansson tries trying to return to his (largely imagined) glory Starring Scarlett Johansson, gamely to wrestle some emotion from days than with protecting his girls from harm. Florence Pugh, David Harbour the story arc here, yet she’s still overThere’s plenty of potential in watching shadowed by her co-stars, and doesn’t Natasha and Yelena work through their abandonment get enough opportunity to play the dysfunctional family issues while still trying to kick ass, except the ass-kicking emotions before the James Bond stuff has to reassert itpart was always going to take center stage. Here, direcself. Black Widow ends up trying to throw too many things tor Cate Shortland and the screenwriting team — with a into a story that ultimately needs to serve the MCU “big story co-credited to WandaVision creator Jac Schaeffer and picture,” including setting up Pugh for appearances in screenplay by Agent Carter writer Eric Pearson — are clearother films and series. While all those flavors fight for ly aiming for a vibe reminiscent of late-1970s Bond films, attention, Natasha is just left to be a woman in a formemphasized when we get a shot of Natasha watching fitting bodysuit, striking that three-point hero pose. n

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A flashback in the Marvel Universe in which the title character (Scarlett Johansson) is overshadowed by her spunky sister (Florence Pugh) in an action-packed affair. (DN) Rated PG-13

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THE BOSS BABY: FAMILY BUSINESS

The boss baby (Alec Baldwin) and his big brother (James Marsden) are all grown up in this sequel, and they’ve drifted apart only to come back together when a new boss baby shows up in their lives. (DN) Rated PG

THE CONJURING: THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT

The latest chiller about supposed paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren, investigating a murder suspect who claims to be possessed by a demon. (NW) Rated R

CRUELLA

Disney’s puppy-skinning villainess gets her own origin story, as Emma Stone portrays the enterprising seamstress turned devilish fashionista. (NW) Rated PG-13

family of ranch hands who work for them, forcing the two families to band together and fight. (DN) Rated R

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THE HITMAN’S WIFE’S BODYGUARD

A young girl befriends a rebellious horse named Spirit after moving to a small town, and must foil the bad guys’ plans to capture Spirit and his herd in this animated family flick featuring the voices of Julianne Moore and Jake Gyllenhaal. (DN) Rated PG

Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L. Jackson are an odd couple hitman and bodyguard combo back for another actionpacked adventure, this time with Salma Hayek in the mix as a world-class con artist. (DN) Rated R

IN THE HEIGHTS

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Bronx-set musical hits the big screens under the direction of John Chu (Crazy Rich Asians), tracking a bodega owner’s dreams of forging a better life in a neighborhood full of colorful characters (and a whole lot of music). (DN) Rated PG-13

Questlove directs this documentary about 1969’s Harlem Cultural Festival, featuring incredible performances by the likes of Stevie Wonder, Sly and the Family Stone, Nina Simone and more.

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WEREWOLVES WITHIN

Here comes a Peter Rabbit sequel in which the mischievous rodent finds a place beyond the garden where he’s accepted for his roguish charm. Is that enough to keep him from going home?

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A new forest ranger (Sam Richardson) and postal worker (Milana Vayntrub) try to uncover the mystery of a creature terrorizing the small town of Beaverfield as the town’s residents are trapped together by a snowstorm in this comedy/mystery. (DN) Rated R

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The long-awaited ninth episode finally hits theaters, bringing Vin Diesel’s Dom back into action to foil a plot hatched by his long-forsaken brother Jakob (John Cena). (DN) PG-13

THE FOREVER PURGE

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On the morning after the annual bloodletting purge, a masked gang attacks a wealthy ranch family in Texas, and the

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Think Mean Girls, but set in a retirement home instead of a high school. Ellen Burstyn is the newbie trying to navigate romantic pitfalls and interpersonal politics, joined by Ann-Margret, James Caan, Jane Curtin and more. At the Magic Lantern. (DN) Rated PG-13

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A Twitter thread-turned-feature film documents a wild weekend endured by a Detroit server and a customer who convinces her to take off for a round of partying and dancing. Mayhem, naturally, ensues. (DN) Rated R n

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The Flatlanders are, from left, Butch Hancock, Joe Ely and Jimmie Dale Gilmore.

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Simple Treasures Jimmie Dale Gilmore talks about how the Flatlanders’ moved from being seldom-heard legends to become a real band

BY DAN NAILEN

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he Flatlanders are pretty much the opposite of an overnight success story.

The Texas trio recorded their first album in 1972, and it didn’t see the light of day until nearly a decade later, well after the band had split up. And that release was in Europe; it would take until 1990 for an American label to put those old recordings out.

In the intervening years, all three members — Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Joe Ely, Butch Hancock — established themselves as solo stars among discerning roots-music fans. That long-delayed 1990 album, cleverly titled More A Legend Than A Band, reignited interest in the music the

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trio makes together, leading to a second act that’s lasted more than 30 years, full of new albums, tours and accolades like NPR calling them “one of country-rock’s most influential bands,” and the New York Times hailing that nearly 50-year-old first album as a “founding document of the alternative country movement.”

The Flatlanders’ ongoing story adds a new chapter Friday with the release of Treasure of Love, their first new collection in 12 years, and one that likely wouldn’t have been completed if the pandemic hadn’t hit and halted the trio’s respective solo projects.

“That sort of put it on the front burner,” Gilmore

says via phone from Texas about the project that’s been recorded in fits and starts for years at Ely’s Austin studio.

“It might have come to fruition sometime or other, but [the pandemic] definitely speeded it up.”

“It’s all songs that we loved that we had never recorded, or never had good recordings of, or songs we’ve traded back and forth. The vocals and basic tracks were stuff that Joe had, like, in his vault. And with the pandemic, it was like, ‘Golly, we’ve got this stuff sitting here.’”

Gilmore was the instigator, but his partners were quickly on board for revisiting the covers and originals

they’ve messed with off and on for decades. They recruited longtime friend and producer Lloyd Maines to help whip the songs into shape, and the result is a pleasingly loose album that touches on everything Flatlanders are known for: country, folk, bluegrass and rock ’n’ roll, all delivered with shared vocals and harmonies that intertwine in the most pleasing of ways.

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he highlights on Treasure of Love are many, from the Hancock-penned opener “Moanin’ of the Midnight Train” to the slow, bluegrass-twinged saunter through “Long Time Gone,” first made famous by the Everly Brothers, to a stunning Gilmore lead vocal on Bob Dylan’s “She Belongs To Me.” A love of Dylan is something all three Flatlanders shared growing up in Lubbock, Texas, well before they were in a band together, Gilmore says.

“We didn’t learn about Dylan from each other, we already were deeply into that,” Gilmore says, noting that the song is one the band has done live for decades.

“That song, the very first time I heard it — as with a lot of Dylan songs — I was like, ‘This is brilliant, and unusual, and nothing like anything on the radio.’ It was one of the ones where the whole feeling was, this is giantly creative, and yet also real musically accessible, you know. Real fun to listen to. I learned that song real, real early on.”

The band’s version on Treasure of Love genuinely swings, and the 76-year-old Gilmore’s distinct twang gives it a different spin than the one you get from Dylan’s 1965 version, recorded when he was just 24.

The Flatlanders’ comfort tackling an iconic song from a legendary artist is something that only comes with confidence and years of experience. And the Flatlanders have both in spades thanks to lengthy solo careers in addition to their Flatlanders work.

Even when they’re not working together as the Flatlanders, Gilmore says he and Ely and Hancock are constantly in and out of each other’s lives. He and Hancock knew each other as children, and Gilmore and Ely met when Buddy Holly’s father funded some early demos when Gilmore was a solo teenage folk singer; Ely was a member of the band brought in to record with the lanky vocalist. Their friendships run deep, and while that certainly comes through in the music, the music isn’t the only reason they’re friends.

“We have so many common interests, besides the music,” Gilmore says. “Like literature and all kinds of philosophy and stuff.”

Musically, Gilmore says, they all have roots in old-time rock ’n’ roll and “the really well-known, popular country music. We grew up in Lubbock, you can’t miss that growing up in Lubbock.”

Even so, and despite their long relationships, they continue to surprise one another with some of the different things they bring to the table. It’s been that way right from the beginning 50 years ago.

“I had more of an in-depth knowledge of Hank Williams and honky-tonk, basically. Ernest Tubb and Marty Robbins, all that sort of thing,” Gilmore says. “And Butch leans slightly more toward bluegrass, and actually started out playing the banjo. And Joe had come purely from the rock ’n’ roll.

“We also have real different personalities. Joe was much more of a polished professional. You know, ‘get it rehearsed and do it right’ type of person. Butch and I were both just kind of hanging loose, freewheeling. It turns out, to do real good music, you’ve got to rehearse together!”

On Treasure of Love, you can hear all of it: Ely’s driving rock focus, Hancock’s poetry, Gilmore’s honky-tonk roots. They might never be superstars who fill an arena, but at least at this point, the Flatlanders are more a band than mere legends. n

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BENEFIT HIT THE ROAD

Crank up the AC and hit the road for a good cause during Greater Spokane County Meals on Wheels’ annual summer fundraiser, the Great Spokane Road Rally. Part Amazing Racestyle scavenger hunt and golf scramble, the rally raises money to provide vulnerable area seniors with nutritious, hot meals that come with a friendly check-in from the nonprofit’s volunteers. In addition to eight pit “challenge” stops, rally teams receive coffee and pastries at the start/finish line, swag bags and a barbecue lunch, which is then followed by an awards ceremony and vendor fair. Drivers must be at least 21 years old, and have proof of a valid license and vehicle registration. If your team has more than two members, it’s $15 per extra rider, but all riders need to be at least 16.

— CHEY SCOTT Great Spokane Road Rally • Sat, July 10 from 8 am-2 pm • $50-$75/team • Starts at Airway Heights Recreation Center • 11405 W. Deno Rd. • gscmealsonwheels.org • 509-924-6976

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MUSIC WELCOME BACK

Sandpoint Beerfest • Sat, July 10 from noon-5 pm • $50/advance; $60/door • 21+ • Trinity at City Beach • 58 Bridge St., Sandpoint • tickets.beerfests.com/event/sandpoint-beerfest

Buffalo Jones with (abbreviated) Atari Ferrari, Erin Parkes • Sat, July 10 at 7:30 pm • $10 • All ages • Big Dipper • 171 S. Washington St. • bigdipperevents.com • 509-863-8098

Not that we ever need an excuse to sample an array of delicious beers and other alcoholic beverages in one shot, but the Sandpoint Beerfest on the lawn of Trinity at City Beach sure makes it sound more appealing by throwing that whole “beach” part in the mix.

The seventh annual North Idaho beer bash features an array of beers, ciders and seltzers from three Sandpoint breweries, as well as other purveyors from throughout the region, including Mickduff’s Brewing, Laughing Dog, Matchwood Brewing and more.

There’s more than 20 things to sample using your nifty new Beerfest glass, and there will be live music, cornhole contests and beer trivia to help you pace the day. Only 750 tickets will be sold, so you might want to get one in advance.

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We’re thrilled to see the Big Dipper come back to life this week; it’s hard to imagine life in Spokane without the venerable venue that welcomes all genres of music to its sunken stage. It’s been a long pause, but the Dipper has three shows on its docket, starting with local roots-rockers Buffalo Jones this Saturday, joined by Erin Parkes and (part of) Atari Ferrari. And then on July 16, local hard rockers Free The Jester return to the Dipper stage, joined by CCB Crew, Tr3ezy and Nathan Chartrey. No doubt many shows will be hitting the Big Dipper schedule soon, and the all-vaccinated staff would love any non-vaxxed visitors to wear a mask while rocking out. If you’re all vaxxed, go ahead and rock out with your mouth out.

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Thankfully the weather will be back to more “normal” temperatures by the time the annual Post Falls Festival rolls around. The three-day event offers the standard festival fare: food and craft/artisan vendors, live music, a beer garden, kids activities and more. Set up some lawn chairs and blankets in the park on Friday evening for a free showing of Disney’s Moana at 9 pm. Then, first thing Saturday morning there’s the community parade, followed by a craft fair in the park, a car show-and-shine at city hall and a free ice cream social at the Post Falls Museum. The historic Jacklin Arts & Cultural Center is also celebrating its centennial all day from 11 am to 5 pm. Food and craft vendors remain on-site through Sunday, which also offers a community church service in the park at 10 am. See the city’s website for more details and a full slate of live music performances all three days.

— CHEY SCOTT Post Falls Festival • Fri, July 9 and Sat, July 10 from 10 am-8 pm; Sun, July 11 from 10 am-4 pm • Free • Most events at Q’emiln Park • 12201 W. Parkway Dr., Post Falls • postfallsidaho.org

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Although the pandemic caused many theater fans to miss out on attending or performing in live shows, one byproduct of the past year that has allowed theater to become more accessible is the emergence of livestreamed shows.

Written by Jessica Chipman, a master of fine arts candidate at the University of Idaho, You Can Unmute is an adult comedy drama specifically made for livestreaming. There will be three readings of the show, which features three former college roommates catching up over wine on a Zoom call. They reminisce on the good times they had and gossip together, although talking about the past brings up some secrets. The show is intended for mature audiences, and confronts present-day issues while exploring questions of longtime friendship, what is left unsaid and complicity, and ultimately asks, “What do we do?”

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BENEFIT

POOLSIDE YOGA ON THE FARM Enjoy an hour long, all-levels welcome, outdoor yoga class poolside and overlooking Higher Ground Animal Sanctuary.

Pre-registration required. Ages 7+. July 11, July 25, Aug. 8 and Aug. 22 at 9 am. $15. Higher Ground Animal Sanctuary, 16602 N. Day Mt. Spokane Rd. highergroundanimalsanctuary.org

COMEDY

COMEDY NIGHT WITH SIMON KAUFMAN The Social Hour Comedy presents Simon Kaufman, who’s performed stand-up on Comcast Cable and Up Late Northwest. He’s appeared on Bravo TV’s “Millionaire Matchmaker” and was in the movie “Silver Skies” with George Hamilton and Dick Van Patten. July 8, 7:30-9 pm. $10. Ruby River Hotel, 700 N. Division St. fb.me/ e/1zYfGsPG8 JEFF ALLEN Jeff Allen’s rapid-fire humor, which centers on marriage and family, is a hit with all ages. A live comedy favorite, Jeff has appeared on Showtime, Comedy Central, VH1 and more. July 8, 7:30 pm. $25-$35. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com MIKE EPPS Epps has appeared in multiple films including “Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins,” “The Grand,” “Soul Men,” “Hancock” and “Open Season 2.”

July 9, 7:30 & 10:30 pm, July 10, 7:30 & 10:30 pm and July 11, 7:30 pm. $40-$55.

Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com WOK OF SHAME COMEDY TOUR WITH JIMMY SHIN Jimmy Shin is a Los Angeles-based stand-up comedian and actor. A regular in the LA comedy scene, Jimmy has been on The Tonight Show, Jimmy Kimmel, and the Carson Daly New Year’s Special. He made his debut on the HBO Series Luck. July 9, 8 pm and July 10, 8 pm. $20. Honey Eatery and Social Club, 317 Sherman Ave. honeyeateryandsocialclub.com JEFF DUNHAM Instrumental in reviving the art of ventriloquism, comedian Jeff Dunham has stayed at the top of his game for more than two decades with Guinness-record breaking sales. July 10, 7:30 pm. $59-$99. Northern Quest Resort & Casino, 100 N. Hayford Rd. northernquest.com (509-242-7000)

COMMUNITY

ENTERTAINMENT IN THE PARK Evening programming features children’s entertainment at 6 pm followed by musical performances at 7 pm. The series aligns with the Moscow Public Library’s summer reading program, which encourages school-aged children to engage in reading and learning. July 8, 6 pm. East City Park, 900 E. 3rd St. moscowchamber.com ROOTS OF WISDOM Children and families discover the unique partnership between cutting-edge western science and traditional knowledge of indigenous peoples. The exhibition offers visitors real life examples of how complementary solutions to ecological and health challenges are being applied to improve our world. Through Sept. 5; Tue-Sun 10 am-5 pm. $5-$12. Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture, 2316 W. First Ave. northwestmuseum.org POST FALLS FESTIVAL The annual

community festival offers three days of live music and entertainment, a beer garden, games, a movie in the park, food and artisan vendors, car show, craft fair and more. July 9-11. Most events in Q’emiln Park, some at other locations. Free. postfallsidaho.org CHEWELAH CREATIVE DISTRICT RIBBON CUTTING Come out to view new murals, wayfinding signs and a kiosk for the Chewelah Creative District. The ribbon cutting celebration includes live music, food, tours, wagon rides and more. Chewelah has the distinction of being the only Creative District designated by the State of Washington Arts Commission on the east side of the state. July 10, 11 am-1 pm. Free. chewelahpaca@gmail.com GREAT SPOKANE ROAD RALLY Teams navigate Spokane County to find a pit stop, conquer a challenge and then head down the road to the next destination. All proceeds benefit Great Spokane County Meals on Wheels and the seniors we serve. July 10, 8 am. $25/person. Airway Heights Recreation Center, 11405 W. Deno Rd. greatspokaneroadrally.com (509-418-2186) LOCAL AUTHOR STORYTIME Bring your family to the Sandpoint Library as talented local authors read their stories, lead a children’s craft project, and answer your questions. Book signing to follow (bring your copy; also available for purchase at the event). July 10, Aug. 21 and Sep. 11 at 10 am. Free. Sandpoint Library, 1407 Cedar St. (208-265-9565) COEUR D’ALENE GARDEN TOUR This year’s 23rd annual tour features six lovely gardens in the area of varying sizes. Each is diverse with unique details such as water features, trees, shrubs, flowers and vegetables. Host gardens also offer music and artisan/ vendors. July 11, 11 am-4 pm. $15-$20.

Details and map at cdagardenclub.com MONDAY FUNDAY: STORYTIME AT THE NORTH BANK Join local librarians for storytime at the North Bank Shelter across from the Ice Age Floods Playground. Sessions July 12, July 26, and August 9 at 11 am. Free. Riverfront Park, 507 N. Howard. events.spokanelibrary. org/event/5210105 (509-444-5300) POETRY WORKSHOP WITH KENN NESBITT Spokane’s own children’s poet laureate, Kenn Nesbitt, leads third through fifth graders in creating poetry.

Register to participate and receive an email with a link with instructions on how to participate before the event.

July 13, 11 am. Free. events.spokanelibrary.org/event/5210108 (444-5300) HEALTH, WELLNESS AND CAREER FAIR This fair is a collaboration between Spokane Tribal service programs, local HR programs and social service partners in Stevens and Spokane County.

The event’s goal is to bring awareness and resources to the Spokane Tribe’s community on behavioral health, family and domestic violence, Indian Health Services, Indian housing, COVID relief, diabetes prevention, substance abuse prevention, higher education, career opportunities and more. At the Wellpinit Powwow Grounds. July 15, 10 am-2 pm. Free. Wellpinit, Wash. spokanetribe.com (509-258-7502) THURSDAY NIGHT LIVE (TNL) This summer the MAC remains open late once a month with half-off admission.

TNL offers a fun, engaging mix of live music, gallery cruising, scheduled guided exhibit talks led by museum

staff, public talks, artist workshops and/ or demonstrations and periodic exhibit openings. The Museum also sells bottled water, soft drinks, beer and wine (21+), and the MAC store is open. Third Thursday of the month through Sept.

Third Thurs. of every month. $6. Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture, 2316 W. First. northwestmuseum.org

FILM

CRUELLA Estella is a young and clever grifter who’s determined to make a name for herself in the fashion world.

Showing July 8-10 at 7 pm; July 11 at 4 pm. $7. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy.org (208-882-4127) MOVIES IN THE PARK A family-friendly event every Friday, through Aug. 27, in Sally’s Park. All movies begin at sundown. Bring blankets and lawn chairs and enjoy the outdoors. Snacks and drinks available, with all proceeds benefiting local youth programs. The Salvation Army Spokane, 222 E. Indiana Ave. salvationarmyspokane.org VANDAL SUMMER CINEMA SERIES Classic throwbacks, suspenseful action and comedies are center stage for the University of Idaho’s Summer Cinema series. Half of this year’s movies are part of the Screen on the Green series on the Theophilus Tower Lawn; the other half are at the Moscow Drive-In at the ASUIKibbie Activity Center parking lot (Lot 57). Each movie starts at approximately 9 pm, primarily on Fridays through Aug. 26. See complete schedule and details at uidaho.edu/summercinema ICE AGE MOVIE MARATHON Join Riverfront Park for an Ice Age movie marathon featuring the five-movie animated series. Movies show on Wednesday evenings at the Ice Age Floods Playground in Riverfront Park. July 14-Aug. 11; Wednesdays from 8-10 pm. Free. Ice Age Floods Playground, 507 N Howard St. riverfrontspokane.com IN THE HEIGHTS A film version of the Broadway musical in which Usnavi, a sympathetic New York bodega owner, saves every penny every day as he imagines and sings about a better life.

Showing July 15-18 at 7 pm. $7. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy. org (208-882-4127) DRIVE-IN MOVIE NIGHTS: INDEPENDENCE DAY The HUB is hosting a series of outdoor movies this summer. Admission is per car, and local food trucks are on site selling snacks and concessions.

See website for complete schedule and COVID-19 safety policies. July 16, 11 pm. $20. HUB Sports Center, 19619 E. Cataldo Ave. hubsportscenter.org PAVILLION PARK SUMMER FEST: STAR WARS: RISE OF SKYWALKER Liberty Lake’s annual summer event series, with weekly outdoor movies at local parks; starts at dusk. July 17. Free.

Pavillion Park, 727 N. Molter Rd. pavillionpark.org (509-755-6726)

FOOD & DRINK

PAIRINGS IN THE PINES Experience the magic of Pine Street Woods and celebrate the community forest together. Enjoy locally-crafted food paired with wines while immersed in the sights and sounds of nature at the forest’s edge under the open sky. Two departure times available. Each session limited to 50 guests. Ages 21+. July 8, 4-7 pm. $125. Pine Street Woods, 11915 W. Pine St. kaniksu.org (208-263-9471)

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PARTY ON THE PATIO Monthy summer parties on the patio, co-hosted by the Inlander and Three Peaks Kitchen with live music, lots of food and drink specials, giveaways and more. Upcoming dates: July 8 and Aug. 12, from 5-8 pm.

Free. Three Peaks Kitchen + Bar, 14300 W. SR Highway 2. inlander.com/PartyonthePatio (509-818-1547) FOOD TRUCK FRIDAYS Downtown Spokane is shutting down Wall Street every Friday this summer to offer a variety of local food trucks and entertainment. Fridays from 11 am-2 pm through Sep. 24. downtownspokane.org HILLYARD FOOD TRUCK PAVILION: FRIDAY NIGHT MARKET & OPEN MIC The weekly market features area food trucks on site, along with an opportunity for local musicians to sign up for an open mic session. Also includes lawn games, crafts, and other allages activities. Fridays from 5-9 pm through Sep. 24. Free. Hillyard Food Truck Pavilion, 5108 N. Market St. facebook.com/Hillyard-Food-Truck-Pavilion-100232218924654 RIDE & DINE Every Friday in July and August, enjoy a scenic gondola ride, live music and a savory mountaintop barbecue. Lift ticket is included in the price; also includes an option to mountain bike back down the mountain. . Fridays from 3-7 pm through Aug. 27. $8-$55.

Silver Mountain Resort, 610 Bunker Ave. silvermt.com (208-783-1111) ROCKET WINE CLASS Rocket Market hosts weekly wine classes; sign up in advance for the week’s selections. Fridays at 7 pm. Call Kevin at 509-3432253 to reserve a seat or register online.

Price varies. Rocket Market, 726 E. 43rd Ave. rocketmarket.com SANDPOINT BEERFEST Tickets for the 7th annual beer fest include a commemorative glass and tastes of beer, cider and seltzers from regional craft brewers. The event also boasts live music, corn hole, trivia, prizes and more.

July 10, 12-5 pm. $40-$60. City Beach, Sandpoint. (208-263-2161) THE UNION PRESENTS: YOGA & MIMOSAS This summer event series includes a one-hour vinyasa flow followed by mimosas of choice. Pre-registration required. Ages 21+. Upcoming events on July 11, Aug. 8 and Aug. 22 at 10 am. $20. Brick West Brewing Co., 1318 W. First. brickwestbrewingco.com YOGA & MIMOSA A guided yoga and pilates class with local instructor Sara Randall. Tickets include bottled water, keepsake glass and one mimosa. Preregistration required. 21+. July 11, Aug. 1, Aug. 15 and Aug. 29 at 10 am. $38.

Arbor Crest Wine Cellars, 4705 N. Fruit Hill Rd. arborcrest.com (509-927-9463) RIVERFRONT EATS FOOD TRUCK SERIES The outdoor food truck series in the park happens Tuesdays through Aug. 31 from 11 am-2 pm. Each week features a new lineup of locally owned food trucks; see complete schedule at link. Riverfront Park, 507 N. Howard St. riverfrontspokane.com

MUSIC

MUSIC ON MAIN Live music in Pullman’s Pine Street Plaza each Thursday evening from 6-8 pm through September. Enjoy local artists and bands; follow the Pullman Chamber’s Facebook page for updates. Free. pullmanchamber.com (509-334-3565)

FRIDAYS AT THE CLOCK The WSU School of Music hosts this new summer music series. Located between Bryan Hall and Holland Library, concerts take place every Friday in July at 6:30 pm.

Bring blankets, lawn chairs and picnics for family-friendly concerts. Free. Bryan Hall Theatre, 605 Veterans Way. music. wsu.edu MUSIC ON MONDAYS An outdoor concert at the library — bring chairs and snacks. Singer/songwriter Kathy Colton, Carla Grant and Denise Bartlett are local favorites and perform upbeat folk/rock.

July 12, 6-7:30 pm. Free. Coeur d’Alene Public Library, 702 E. Front Ave. cdalibrary.org (208-769-2315) SUMMER BREEZES AND SWEET SOUNDS An annual outdoor concert featuring local musicians and composers at the University of Idaho Arboretum and Botanical Garden. July 12, 7-8:30 pm. Free. University of Idaho Arboretum and Botanical Garden, 1200 W. Palouse River Dr. (208-885-6231)

SPORTS

BARRE ON THE BRIDGE Strengthen and tone your entire body with emphasis on core stability and balance. Class on the Barbieri Bridge near the Centennial Hotel. Thursdays from 7-8 pm through July 15. Free. Riverfront Park, 507 N. Howard. riverfrontspokane.com HISTORIC BISMARK RANGER STATION SITE HIKE Bismark Ranger Station trail head is a road on the west side of Highway 57 at Mile Marker 36.3 just south of Nordman, Idaho. It’s a relatively easy and short walk. July 8, 9 am-noon. Free. Register at priestlakemuseum.org (206-443-2676) ROCKIN THE LAKE CITY CAR SHOW Pharoahs Car Club presents its first annual hot rod car show with special guest and TV personality Heather Storm. Includes prizes, food and drink, raffles and more. July 10, 9 am. Kootenai County Fairgrounds, 4056 N. Government Way. (208-765-4969) THE SHOOTOUT AT SILVER MOUNTAIN An archery competition with 70 targets spread over four courses on top of Silver Mountain Resort in Kellogg, Idaho. July 10-11. Silver Mountain Resort, 610 Bunker Ave. silvermt.com SPOKANE SHOCK VS. SIOUX FALLS STORM Arena football. Game also scheduled to air on radio, TV and YouTube. July 10, 7:05 pm. $8-$58. Spokane Arena, 720 W. Mallon Ave. thespokaneshock.com (279-7000) FAMILY FUN FUNDRAISER POKER RIDE Enjoy a 2.5-hour horseback ride with friends and family over wellmarked trails and play games of “skill” to fill a poker hand for prizes. Discover Pass required to access park. July 11, 8 am. $20-$25. Riverside State Park Equestrian Area, 3402 N. Aubrey L. White Pkwy. pbchw.com (466-2225) RIVERFRONT MOVES: SPIN AT THE PAVILION Come lose yourself on a spin bike with a high-intensity, full-body, cardio workout while jamming to great music. Tuesdays from 6:30-7:30 pm, through July 20. Free. Riverfront Park, 507 N. Howard. riverfrontspokane.com SPOKANE INDIANS VS. EUGENE EMERALDS Home series. July 13-17, 6:30 pm and July 18, 5:09 pm. $5-$14. Avista Stadium, 602 N. Havana St. milb.com/ spokane/schedule/2021-07 (535-2922)

THEATER

YOU CAN UNMUTE BY JESSICA CHIPMAN Presented by U of I Theatre Arts as a livestream Zoom reading. A play about long-time friendship, complicity, and what is left unsaid, “You Can Unmute” confronts contemporary issues and asks the question, “what do we do?” as three former college roommates reconnect on a wine-soaked Zoom call. $10 individuals, $20 group pass, matinee is pay what you can. Free for UI students. July 9-10 at 6 pm, July 11 at 2 pm. uidaho.edu/theatre MET LIVE IN HD: THE GERSHWINS’ PORGY AND BESS James Robinson’s stylish production transports audiences to Catfish Row on the Charleston waterfront, vibrant with the music, dancing, emotion, and heartbreak of its inhabitants. July 14, 6-9:30 pm. $12. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy.org

VISUAL ARTS

POWER TO THE PEOPLE — STICK IT TO THE WALL July’s Terrain Gallery show features the artwork of Spokane’s Black Lives Matter muralists: Carl Richardson, Sarah Torres, Shantell Jackson, Robert Lloyd, Ohjunsoo, Emma Noyes, RGZ Prints, Jiemei Lin and Remelisa Cullitan. Continues through July 31; Thu-Sat 6-8 pm. Free. Terrain Gallery, 304 W. Pacific Ave. terrainspokane.com SECOND FRIDAY ARTWALK Join the community to stroll the streets of downtown Coeur d’Alene and enjoy locally and nationally acclaimed artists, along with local shops, restaurants and businesses. Second Fridays from 5-8 pm. Free. (208-415-0116) PAINTINGS OF MANITO & OTHER SPOKANE SCENES Join local artist Megan Perkins as she discusses the subject of her paintings with particular focus on those done at Manito, as well as other Spokane scenes. On Zoom; sign up before 7/16 to receive a link. July 17, 11 am12:30 pm. Free. thefriendsofmanito.org

WORDS

ARTCURIOUS WITH JENNIFER DASAL Join Auntie’s for a Zoom event with Jennifer Dasal, who’s discussing zany art history with artist Carolyn Janssen.

July 8, 7-8 pm. Free. auntiesbooks.com GOSSIP GIRLS LIVING HISTORY PROGRAM A special event in the Campbell House full of gossip, games and calling cards. Test your skills against living history actors in a game of croquet; or offer a calling card as you discuss the important news of the day. July 10, 17, 24 and 31 from 11 am-3 pm. $5-$12. Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture, 2316 W. First Ave. northwestmuseum.org BROKEN MIC Broken Mic, a weekly poetry open mic, makes its live return to Neato Burrito. All ages, however, this is a free speech event. Weekly on Wednesdays from 6:30-9 pm. Free.

Neato Burrito, 827 W. First Ave. PRIEST LAKE & THE PERIOD OF CONTACT Jack Nisbet presents this historical lecture on how Kalispel tribal members helped white explorers navigate complex geography and interbraided cultures within the region, including at Priest Lake. July 14, 7-8:30 pm. Free.

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I still love you, doubly so since then.

Nikita, I want you to marry me, will ya? -C

I SAW YOU STILL THINKING ABOUT OUR BRIEF ENCOUNTER I saw you at Wal-Mart the one on Sprague. We both comment on our good-looking appearance. You were looking marvelous in the dress or the dress was looking marvelous on you, but I am still thinking about that moment. I was so taken away by your total beauty (I wish I could have seen your eyes hiding behind stylish sunglasses) that I paid your bill. I hope you see this and respond; I want to continue our encounter.

I SAW YOU 6/26/21, ACE HARDWARE PARKING LOT You were very pretty with a great smile, and you drove a red Toyota Corolla (I think.) You came out of Ace hardware at Sullivan and Sprague on Saturday 6/26 as I was getting out of my truck, and you said, “Sorry I didn’t park so well with the lines,” and I said, “It’s OK; they’re only lines.” I should have asked you out on the spot, but I did not.

HIT WITH A COCONUT You saw me cooking dinner, and the strangest thing happened. A coconut bonked you on the noggin, and suddenly a sensational truth

COMING OUT Hi! I was a trainwreck of a comedian, a mediocre improviser with jokes about hooking up with dragons and being a polite schoolgirl. I podcasted, I tried to be undeniable and above all I loved the Spokane comedy scene. But I couldn’t get anything to work, no matter what. When my mother passed, madness claimed me. I was trying like hell to burn all bridges and upset the right people enough to get hate crimed by local fascists. None of it worked. When I started playing nonbinary or crossgender characters, I was facing the idea that I didn’t really identify with masculinity. When I started playing the one I’m known for as “agender,” I didn’t realize I was testing the people around me for amenability to that sort of thing, and I was scared of all the people failing that test. So I went back to the weird edgelord routine until my mother passed and my family disowned me, and I just let insanity claim me. I didn’t see any road back, nor a place I wanted to return to, and I genuinely thought my obit would include the words “senseless tragedy.” But I’m here now, and I can’t just keep sitting in the shadows waiting for old friends to notice me, so here I am with a message: I, the voice of Doctor Donut, the absent technical improviser, the embodiment of mania themselves... they are a trans she/ her, and now I no longer have to lie about it and whatever that does to my reputation, so be it. I’m not afraid anymore, and I have nothing to lose. If you know me... come say hi!

CHEERS I SAW YOU AT OCTAPHARMA PLASMA I saw you at Octapharma Plasma saving lives! We appreciate every single one of you who comes in and donates plasma

at our facility. It is people like you who are responsible for creating lifesaving therapeutics around the world and here at home. Every donation you make gives someone out there a better life. The plasma that is collected every day is used in so many great things from treating trauma to severe burns to mother/baby

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employee deserves to be humiliated, traumatized and fired for speaking her mind on her own time, but SRHD board member Dr. Jason Kinley can publicly undermine public health and the regional COVID-19 response with no repercussions? Cool. Cool.

tions and forms!!! If you are in the know and have experienced this wild ride, you might be saying to yourself...but dear citizen there is an information window right when you walk in!! No one is ever there!!!

It is people like you who are responsible for creating lifesaving therapeutics...

compatibility and so much more. You are making a difference every single day, and we couldn’t do it with out you. I truly thank you for all you do!

GOOD NEIGHBORS Cheers to the folks at Barrister Winery and the Meals on Wheels for spending time, energy and supplies to pick up trash and abate the rampant graffiti along the alley outside their doors! Downtown’s a neighborhood too — let’s support businesses that treat it that way!

JEERS AVISTA PRIORITIES Yes, we had heat wave that brought extra demands on Avista’s power supply. One might ask if energy is being sold at this time to other regions of the country if we can’t take of Spokane’s needs? Why are the poor areas of Spokane so hard hit when many don’t have the luxury of AC? Isn’t the responsibility of a major supplier to meet and plan for all of the customers it serves?

BUT SOME ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS Jeers to the double standards (or complete lack of standards) of our county’s Board of Health. A state

POOR BUSINESS PRACTICE Spokane restaurant: Look at your cameras in your parking lot at 6:00 pm Wednesday night. All those people are the ones that showed up and had reservations, but someone failed to call them ahead of time to inform them you had closed the day before for heat and power outage issues. That reasoning we can understand. What are the people in the lot doing? We are all scrambling to find somewhere else to eat when it would have been a common courtesy to call us ahead of time so we could have been forewarned. And, yes, you did take our phone number when we made the reservation weeks ago for a wedding anniversay.

TREASURER OFFICE CLOSED TO PUBLIC??? Jeers to the Treasurer Office! The very nature of a county employee at the courthouse is being a PUBLIC servant!!! How can they be CLOSED to the PUBLIC??? But COVID!!! Red Alert on the BS meter!!! Jeers Spokane County Courthouse is a complete SH*T show...

The level of disorganization is palpable and astounding!!! It’s as if every employee that works there assumes that every citizen walks into the place and joins the BORG information collective and now knows exactly the ins and outs and loca-

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MISSED CUSTOMER SERVICE OPPORTUNITY Jeers to a lighting store for their behavior over the return of an order from a good customer. From the time the order was placed, there was no customer follow-up. Part of the order was lost, no calls, no apologies, no notification when the order arrived at the store and when the order turned out to be the wrong size, only excuses. When I returned the product, I was treated coldly and again with no sign of apology on the horizon and, worse, no offer to see if a new order could be placed. Loss of a customer for good and a warning to others. n

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This divergence was put on display again earlier this month when track star Sha’Carri Richardson was given a onemonth suspension for testing positive for THC. A favorite to medal in the 100-meter dash at the Tokyo Olympics, Richardson will be forced to miss her signature event.

The suspension was handed down two weeks after Richardson won that event at the U.S. Olympic Trials last month in Eugene, Oregon.

Cannabis is legal in Oregon, and Richardson is of legal age, but none of that matters because the World Anti-Doping Agency considers THC to be a prohibited substance. It should be noted that THC isn’t considered a performance-enhancing

substance, like steroids, but rather classified as a substance of abuse by WADA, which it defines as something “frequently abused in society outside the context of sport.”

Basically, because cannabis is still seen as something that can only be abused, it’s acceptable in WADA’s eyes for it to be banned in sport.

But is cannabis really still viewed in that light? Not in Oregon, where Richardson was tested. Not here in Washington, or in any of the 17 other states that have legalized recreational cannabis. It’s not viewed that way in the court of public opinion either, as evidenced by Richardson’s first tweet after the suspension. That tweet — which said “I am human” and nothing else — received more than 550,000 likes and more than 91,000 retweets in its first three days online.

Athletes and celebrities gave statements

of support, scathing editorials were published, and Richardson’s biggest sponsors stood by her.

President Joe Biden, though, said, “the rules are the rules.”

Biden’s not wrong: The rules are the rules, but also, the rules are a mess. THC is banned by WADA because cannabis is “frequently abused in society,” but WADA no longer bans CBD, which comes from the same plant. Just like how THC is banned by the United States, but CBD is not banned in the United States, unless it comes from cannabis. When it comes from hemp, which the United States government considers to be a different plant, then it’s allowed.

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I’m a 28-year-old woman. My boyfriend of three months is a great person, and I started to think he might be The One. However, he got a new haircut — one that had him using excessive gel. Looking at him, I felt a wave of revulsion and needed to get away...permanently. I don’t understand the sudden change in my feelings.

—Disgusted You, like many women, want a man who appears to have the grooming routine of a golden lab: running across the lawn when the sprinklers are on and then shaking off.

Many women find it disturbing when a man spends more time in the bathroom or uses more “product” than they do. Evolutionary psychology research suggests we women evolved to seek a man who will protect us — as opposed to one who’ll fight us to the death for the last of our poshbrand conditioner.

Sure, hair gel could be the “gateway” goop to your dude dolling up with Fenty eyeshadow, contour foundation, and sparkly self-tanner by the weekend. But chances are he just went heavy on the stuff because he’s a first-timer at using it.

And chances are your sudden extreme reaction is not about him but about you — and probably your panicking at the prospect of commitment. Commitment involves finding not the perfect right person but a right enough person at the right time, observes clinical psychologist Judith Sills. Being ready for a relationship is a key factor. This requires getting yourself “sorted,” as the Brits say, meaning developing both self-respect and self-acceptance, including a realistic and self-compassionate understanding of your limitations.

Sensing that you “could be lovable in the eyes of another person,” leads to a shift, explains Sills. “You stop being so critical of a potential partner’s shortcomings and begin to appreciate his or her strengths.” This doesn’t mean you are “without anxiety or ambivalence” — wanting and not wanting a relationship at the same time — but readiness for a relationship helps you push through those feelings.

If you aren’t yet ready, you should make that clear to men you date. If becoming ready will require some personal development work, you might want to hop on that.

In general, the more “up there” in years women get, the more they find their standards for a partner in need of relaxing — in the direction of “not currently incarcerated and has at least a weak pulse.”

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My male roommate began having women over for one-night stands almost daily, even meeting one for the first time at our apartment with no heads-up for me.

I’m a woman and very careful about whom I have over: usually only friends I’ve known for a while. I’m uncomfortable having my space constantly intruded on by strangers, but he seems surprisingly unaware of this.

—Unsettled You need a needlepoint for the kitchen wall: “Home sweet sex den.”

People who live with roommates tend to make allowances for the occasional drunken hookup — even those that end with some stranger in their kitchen drinking their OJ out of the carton. However, when there’s a new hookuperella every few mornings, it crosses a line.

It’s a shared space. You agreed to share it with your roommate, not your roommate and half of local female Tinder. His behavior calls to mind “the tragedy of the commons,” ecologist Garrett Hardin’s term for individuals with access to a shared space trashing it or taking more than their fair share of resources, ruining it for everyone. Hardin was referring to public land and, say, one farmer letting his sheep eat all the communal grass, leaving only dirt for the other farmers’ hungry sheep, but it seems to apply to your situation.

Granted, the resources being depleted here are not tangible (grabbable, like grass). However, they’re highly valuable and are generally understood to be benefits of renting an apartment — including a level of privacy and the sanctity (aka safety) of “home” and the peace of mind that comes with each of these.

Now, it could be argued that no guest policy was spelled out. However, most people know roommates won’t be happy with a revolving cast of sex-providing strangers marching through their home. Chances are your roommate is counting on your being too uncomfortable to speak up — which means there’s no reason for him to stop.

Explain how unsettling it is for you to constantly have these strangers in your place — people he barely knows — and ask him to think on it and propose a solution. Should he suggest, “You just hafta suck it up” or close, tell him straight up what you need (which might ultimately be “a new living situation”). If you wanted to encounter strangers in your kitchen at 6 a.m., you’d live in a bad neighborhood on the first floor and leave a window wide open. n ©2021, 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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