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EDITOR’S NOTE

“T

he crack of some abyss opened up for a moment by the end of last week.” So wrote the New York Times’ David Brooks.

Indeed, the abyss has seemed just beneath our feet lately, with horrific violence in America finding new ways to shock us. First, cellphone video captured the final moments of citizens killed by police.

Then came Dallas, where officers — watching over demonstrators protesting police violence — became targets themselves of an angry and heavily armed gunman.

In such times, we cast about in search of answers, a way forward, some reason not to despair. Brooks finds hope not in our national politics, but on the local level, where at least some leaders are thinking “practically and non-dogmatically.” For others, there was strength and inspiration found in the survivors: in Diamond Reynolds, who narrated Philando Castile’s final moments in live video watched around the globe; and in David Brown, Dallas’ police chief, who defiantly said after last week’s shooting: “We are not going to let a coward who would ambush police officers change our democracy. We are not going to do it. Our city, our country, is better than that.”

If nothing else, staring into the abyss makes certain things clear: Inaction isn’t an option. We all must stand united against violence, and attempt to think “practically and non-dogmatically” about solutions.

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uly 4. Just another long holiday weekend, right? No, it’s a special day that all Americans should celebrate — and revere. But why do we do so?

For the first time in my life, I celebrated America’s Independence Day in the country from which we first sought independence 240 years ago. I’ve always known why we celebrate July 4, because I had parents and teachers who drummed it into me. It’s hard to believe we once fought the “redcoats” for our survival, but now Great Britain is our strongest ally. The reason we sought independence was America’s desire for freedom from an oppressive government that ignored the people.

Today, too few Americans know why we celebrate July 4. As I wrote this from England, I couldn’t help but be struck by the way the United States provides a stable government so different from our mother country’s. On the heels of the Brexit vote here, where 72 percent of voters turned out, the prime minister resigned, along with other parliamentarians. The “remain” voters and opposition leaders are in an uproar, seeking modification of the people’s vote.

When Obamacare passed without Republican votes, the president didn’t resign, nor did the law’s opponents. Americans generally accept voters’ choices, realizing that another election looms two short years away, where the whole House and one-third of the Senate is up for grabs. The people can choose a new president and other leaders every four years. The Founders employed genius when they designed our government, offering freedom of choice to the people and a government designed to be stable. England has sporadic elections.

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s for religious freedom, the Church of England remains the established Christian church in England, and the monarchy heads it. In 1776, the Church dominated everything, restricting religious freedom. The Book of Common Prayer was established by English law.

That’s why Pilgrims sought a new land, with religious freedom.

We Americans should celebrate the freedoms we fought for more than two centuries ago. Our Founders developed a Constitution that would afford Americans the most freedom in their new land. That’s why we became a country. Unlike the parliamentary system in England, where birthright is a factor in who serves, the U.S. has free elections without political heritage being a consideration.

America also boasts three co-equal branches of government, with an understandable judicial system that has a final say on Constitutional issues. Not so in England, whose court system is convoluted and confusing. It consists of three

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separate systems; one for Scotland, one for England and Wales and another for Northern Ireland, with one Supreme Court over all the others. It has eight different judicial entities, each with a specific responsibility, making it extraordinarily confusing.

It’s also important to know about the freedoms that our ancestors fought and died for. They’re contained in the immigrant citizenship test that immigrants must pass if they’re to become citizens.

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ears ago, while in public office, I formed a charitable foundation to help all Americans, but particularly students, get a better civics education. My children were younger then.

I wanted input from young people concerning issues of the day. The foundation has grown and evolved.

Now the foundation is focusing nationally, offering a free web app package to schools, emphasizing civic learning and awarding scholarships. Any American can take the test: Just log on to nethercuttfoundation.org. It’s free, and takes only minutes. Go ahead, take the test! (Scores are confidential.)

Spokane’s Garco Construction has offered civics and current events questions to its employees at weekly staff meetings. So have other Spokane businesses. It’s a good way to help Americans know about America and appreciate our rich history.

STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) education is valuable, but should be integrated with civic learning if we’re to fully educate America’s future leaders. Helping students learn about Constitutional basics is the best way for them to perpetuate our governmental system. As I watch an alternative government at work here in the UK, I can see even more clearly that ours is worth protecting.

On January 20, 2017, one of the presidential candidates will grasp the Bible and swear out loud to “preserve, protect and defend” the U.S. Constitution. So will every senator, congressman and federal official who’s elected or appointed.

They should have at least read the Constitution and know something about it. Having worked in that environment, I know that too many officials don’t know Constitutional basics.

With the July 4 holiday still fresh, now is a perfect time to learn about our most sacred government document and understand why we celebrate Independence Day. 

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When it comes to the Washington State Supreme Court, former Gonzaga law professor DAVID DeWOLF says discussing anything other than the 2012 McCleary decision would be like asking, “Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?”

The current Supreme Court’s ruling that the state is not adequately funding public education has become its signature issue, and it’s a ruling DeWolf strongly disagrees with. In November, DeWolf will run for a seat on the court — one of three up in November — challenging incumbent Mary Yu, a former King County superior court judge appointed to the seat in 2014 by Gov. Jay Inslee. DeWolf says he is concerned with the direction the state Supreme Court is taking, and that it’s jeopardizing its relationship with other branches of government. The court argued that the state constitution considers full funding of basic education a “paramount duty.” DeWolf, however, argues that the court gave this one sentence too much weight.

“From that they extrapolated this wide-ranging authority to, in effect, remake the state budget,” he tells the Inlander. “And I don’t think that’s a legitimate, or even plausible, interpretation of what the state constitution meant.” (WILSON CRISCIONE)

RBG: EVEN MORE NOTORIOUS

Even casual Supreme Court fans won’t be surprised to learn that reliably liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is not a fan of GOP presidential candidate DONALD TRUMP. But Ginsburg, upfront and vocal about her opposition, sent shock waves across the legal world.

“I can’t imagine what this place would be — I can’t imagine what the country would be — with Donald Trump as our president,” Ginsburg told the New York Times on Sunday. On CNN, Ginsburg also called Trump a “faker” with “no consistency” and chided him for not releasing his tax returns.

While the impartiality of Supreme Court justices has come into question in the past — Justice Antonin Scalia went hunting with then-VP Dick Cheney in 2004 — a number of legal and political experts called Ginsburg’s comments unprecedented. Some speculated they may have been inappropriate, and wondered if Ginsburg would have to recuse herself in some cases if Trump became president. The federal code of judicial conduct has a general rule forbidding political activity by judges, including opposing a political candidate.

RBG handed Trump, who typically has to play defense on matters of propriety, a talking point. “I think it’s a disgrace to the court and I think she should apologize to the court,” he told the Times on Tuesday. “I couldn’t believe it when I saw it.” (DANIEL WALTERS)

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here is an irony of the #AllLivesMatter response to the #BlackLivesMatter movement that so many people miss. It’s this: The people who are against the movement are doing it by stating the actual hope of the BLM movement — that they will be as valued and precious as white people. Since the inception of this great

nation, when a marginalized group is valued less than the majority group, they must stand up for themselves against the inequities and injustices.

You can get on any social media platform right now and read all sorts of pointed, poignant and truthful commentary on the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, the most recent black lives to end at the hands of police. This has to end.

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It wasn’t enough to eradicate a whole continent of brown people; colonizers enslaved 4 million African and black people as well.

America has a 500-year history of being a place of pain, degradation, rape, pillage and violence for brown people. Sure, there have been strides in changing our society for the better. We have the first African American president, for instance. But that accomplishment is not enough.

How do I know it’s not enough? Because of the fear I have for my brother as he walks down the street or drives to work. He is a free man contributing to society, but I have no doubt that my big, brown, tatted brother would be shot if he didn’t immediately show his belly to those who have badges and guns.

He could be pulled over in his car, shot while my two beautiful baby nieces are in car seats in the back.

I know this is possible. I know that he could be in compliance with the police requests, but they could be too afraid and shoot him for breathing too hard. And I know that Native men are the most likely group to die at the hands of law enforcement, and my fear is real and valid and worthy of respect.

But my fear for my brother doesn’t freeze me; it motivates me. I don’t want any more unwarranted death for brown, red, blue, green, orange, black, white and rainbow-colored people. I believe that all lives in fact do matter and each human is precious and worthy of life.

I will do my part to ensure that the #BlackLivesMatter and #NativeLivesMatter movements are completely unneeded, because those marginalized communities would no longer be killed at a higher rate than their white counterparts. Or police wouldn’t kill any innocent people at all. My job is to do whatever I can to help make that happen.

We must all do our part. First, we have to stop invalidating the experiences and very real fear felt by members of these movements. Then we must work together to create a world where black and brown (and white) mothers will know that their children will not die at the hands of our very own police force. I’d think that is something we would want for every mother. And I would like very much for this fear for my brother to ease in my heart. 

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Reactions to a story (“Lane Ends Ahead,” 7/7/16) about the city of Spokane’s plans to calm traffic along North Monroe Street, which would involve taking away two lanes of traffic:

HALEY CHICOINE: I worked at REI for years and had to deal with this every day. Trying to use some of those turn lanes on Monroe you almost get sideswiped from both sides. The businesses were all built right up against the sidewalk. There’s no way to improve this area other than taking away lanes. It will be fine. People just need to slow the hell down and go with the flow.

JAMES TOSHACK: This is exactly the kind of thing that could revitalize a business district that’s been in decline for years.

MELISSA BURCHELL: The City will do the project regardless of how people feel about it!! Just wait for all the extra traffic on Maple and Ash, where it’s already way heavy during rush hour, and people are driving like nincompoops!!

CRYSTAL WINDISHAR: I’m willing to give it a try. The only downside I see is the occasion I get stuck behind someone insisting on going 15 mph.

Otherwise, currently the turn lanes suck bad enough it’s worth going to one lane when a bus already takes up two of the size of the ones we have now.

MATTHEW RODRIGUEZ: If you want to do this, finish the north-south freeway first. Avoiding Division is bad enough. 

Reactions to a blog post about how local artist Ildikó Kalapács was asked by Facebook to remove images of her paintings, which depict abstract nude figures:

BRIE EDWARDS: Getting them to take down obvious threats, harassment, and hate speech is a no-go, but taking down abstracted nude paintings is improper? Instantly done. Their [terms of service] is a joke.

STEPHANIE SUBLIE ULLAH: What a shame! Ildikó Kalapács is an amazing artist.

ANDREA GRIFFIN: Wow, Facebook would really have hated Michelangelo, and Goya, and Cezanne, and Botticelli, and Manet, and pretty much anything that isn’t a Thomas Kincaid painting. The human form has always been an artist’s muse; not until recently did it start being viewed as a commodity to be sexualized and censored.

EMILY JACKSON WITHROW: With all the truly horrific acts of hatred and violence in our world, to be offended by a couple of abstract nude paintings seems utterly ludicrous. 

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Two longtime Spokane County Jail physicians recently left the adult medical unit; one says the recent contract with a for-profit health care provider leaves inmates without quality medical care

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pokane County Detention Services Director John McGrath tried for two years to replenish a depleted medical staff with no success. Earlier this year, when three nurses quit, he was left with a staff too small to cover all the shifts, and was faced with a tough deci-

sion: let the wound fester or put a bandage on it.

He could keep trying to recruit nurses locally — and jeopardize the health and safety of an overcrowded jail population — or hire NaphCare Inc. to bring in their own nurses. He chose the latter, and in May 2016, Spokane

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County signed a six-month, $2.6 million contract with the third-party company that provides medical services for jails around the country, including Pierce County, Washington. The contract was approved unanimously by the Spokane County Board of Commissioners.

The jail’s medical department is now fully staffed for the first time in at least two years, but that’s come at a cost beyond the multimillion-dollar contract. Two of the jail’s longtime doctors recently left amid concerns about the standard of care that NaphCare provides.

Criswell Kennedy, who had worked as a physician in the county jail for the previous 15 years, left after NaphCare staff continually reversed his medical orders.

Kennedy says the quality of medical care that inmates are receiving is suffering.

McGrath, who notes that he is not a doctor and cannot weigh in on specific medical decision-making, chalks up Kennedy’s concerns to an aversion to change.

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“BITTER PILLS?” CONTINUED... to national standards, and points to NaphCare’s accreditation with the National Commission on Correctional Health Care. The jail also now has enough nurses to screen inmates during booking, McGrath says.

Naphcare didn’t return messages seeking comment. But Kennedy, for his part, says NaphCare’s changes in protocol could potentially open up the county to lawsuits.

“I think this contract is going to cost the county a lot of money to have this outfit be their medical provider,” Kennedy says. “And it’s going to cost the inmates something, too. They’re not going to receive the kind of medical care that I think they deserve.”

another, cheaper brand. Those cheaper pills can carry excessive side effects, he says.

“I’m all in favor of using medicines that are less expensive. But that’s not their standard of care as determined by their doctor in the community,” says Kennedy. “These people are innocent until proven guilty, and they don’t deserve to have excessive side effects just because you want to save money.”

“Our opinion was that if you have a person who is stabilized on a medication, then it’s probably a good idea to keep them on that medication.”

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enerally, a diabetic’s blood sugar level is supposed to hover around 180 millimeters per deciliter, Kennedy says. During the time he worked alongside NaphCare staff, incarcerated diabetics’ blood sugar levels would consistently spike to 500-600 milliliters, due to the limited range of medication that NaphCare’s protocol allows.

He gives another example of a typical scenario with antipsychotic medication. Say a person is booked into jail and is taking meds to control their schizophrenia, Kennedy posits. Those pills are relatively expensive, so now, under NaphCare’s watch, the inmate might be switched to

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He adds that the cheaper pills might not control the condition as effectively.

The issues, Kennedy says, are a diminished quality of care along with NaphCare’s “formulary” of medication — policies limiting the range of drugs that they are authorized to prescribe. If an inmate gets booked while taking drugs outside that range, they’re usually put on something else.

“Our opinion was that if you have a person who is stabilized on a medication, then it’s probably a good idea to keep them on that medication,” he says.

Indeed, a man was recently hospitalized due to a medical error when he was given someone else’s medication, according to jail records.

“There have been medical errors by our staff and NaphCare staff, because we’re still a hybrid staff,” McGrath says. “Those errors get reviewed

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otwithstanding Kennedy’s concerns, the jail’s reliance on NaphCare’s staff and protocol has an important benefit.

Spokane County Commissioner Shelly O’Quinn says the alternative to NaphCare was a seriously understaffed medical department for who knows how long — putting inmates and jail staff at risk. That’s an option McGrath says they couldn’t afford, considering the multiple inmate deaths last year.

“We’re staffed 24/7 at the jail, and at Geiger [Corrections Center],” O’Quinn says. “That’s phenomenal. We have nurses at booking now, so when someone comes in high, we have a nursing staff there to evaluate them to see if they’re able to come into the jail, or if they need to go to the hospital.”

Furthermore, O’Quinn says, NaphCare agreed to a six-month contract, which was an important factor in the commissioners’ decision.

Kennedy, for his part, says the increase in staff is indeed an upside.

“At the point they came in, we were woefully understaffed,” he says. “So the staff-to-prisoner ratio is much improved. There was a lot less pressure on the remaining nurses to work overtime.” n mitchr@inlander.com

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to determine if a nurse was following procedure, and so we can get to the bottom of what happened.”

McGrath says that review has not yet been completed, and the man has been released from the hospital. The jail could not provide the man’s name or the specific medical issue due to a federal health care privacy law.

Kennedy isn’t the only one taking issue with NaphCare’s standard of care. Across the country, horror stories have emerged.

The for-profit provider has been involved in numerous lawsuits, including one in Virginia this year, in which a 24-year-old man allegedly starved to death in his cell.

In that case at the Hampton Roads Regional Jail, Jamycheal Mitchell, a mentally ill man, was arrested for stealing $5.05 worth of snacks and died after four months from a heart condition “accompanying wasting syndrome,” according to the lawsuit. A medical examiner said Mitchell was “nearly cachectic,” meaning that his weight loss could not be reversed.

NaphCare has denied those accusations, according to a statement provided to CNN. The matter is still waiting to be resolved in court.

Asked if he considered NaphCare’s history of litigation before contracting with them, McGrath says he was satisfied by the company’s explanation.

“We discussed some of their current lawsuits, and based on our review and having been in situations where we are under litigation for medical reasons, their answers were adequate enough,” he says. “We’ve experienced a significant number of deaths [in the jail] recently, and we understand the other side of that, what comes into jail and how we need to treat and deal with those patients.”

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DEVELOPMENT As the hungry denizens of the Kendall Yards development heard word of a new, forthcoming GROCERY STORE in the area, the big price-tag question hung over the excitement.

Would it be hip and pricey, like Whole Foods? Or would it try to provide cheap deals to better serve the low-income West Central market, located far from a grocery chain? It turns out, says Greenstone Homes CEO Jim Frank (pictured), it will be somewhere in the middle. “I think that Huckleberry’s isn’t a bad comparison,” he says. Frank wants My Fresh Market, the 26,000-square-foot grocery store that Greenstone plans to open and operate next spring at the corner of Monroe Street and Summit Parkway, to be a social gathering place, offering concerts and cooking classes and wine clubs and presentations on sustainable agriculture. And in doing that, Frank says, he has to keep the price point in mind. (DANIEL WALTERS)

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DALLAS It’s been about a week since the shooting deaths of two black men at the hands of police were captured on video. And a week since a heavily armed sniper gunned down five DALLAS POLICE OFFICERS at a march protesting the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, injuring seven more. On the blog, we gathered local leaders’ reactions: New NAACP President Phil Tyler (pictured) called for more communication and understanding. County Commissioner Shelly O’Quinn called for more understanding of racial and ethnic disparities in the criminal justice system, pointing to grant money from the MacArthur Foundation to help Spokane address them. Gov. Jay Inslee quoted Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that.

Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.”

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NEWS | BRIEFS

Waiting Game (Most) statewide initiatives meet filing deadline; plus, ex-Spokane police chief again draws a paycheck VERIFY AND QUALIFY

People wanting to change state laws flooded into the Washington Secretary of State’s Elections Division last week with big boxes full of signatures. July 8 was the deadline to turn in the 246,372 valid signatures from registered voters necessary to qualify INITIATIVES FOR THE NOVEMBER BALLOT. Four campaigns turned in many more than the required number of signatures and are now waiting to see if their measures will make the cut.

Those turning in signatures included I-1501, which would increase penalties for identity theft targeting seniors and other vulnerable people. Sponsors of I-1464 turned in signatures for their measure that would create a publicly funded campaign finance system while restricting private campaign donations. Backers of raising the state’s minimum wage via I-1433 dropped off signatures earlier that week. The campaign for I-1491, which would make it easier to get a court order temporarily preventing someone exhibiting mental illness or violent tendencies from accessing firearms, also turned in signatures.

It’s also notable who didn’t turn in signatures: Just Want Privacy, a group sponsoring a ballot measure that would overturn a Washington State Human Rights Com-

mission rule allowing transgender people to use public bathrooms of their choice, announced on its website that it didn’t gather enough.

Now, workers in the Elections Division will verify signatures, starting with I-1433, which should be completed by July 22, according to spokesman Brian Zylstra.

After that, he says, workers will spend three to five days on each of the remaining initiatives. If they qualify, they’ll join an already-approved ballot measure that would tax carbon emissions and another calling on Congress to enact campaign finance reform. (JAKE THOMAS)

STRAUB SURFACES IN D.C.

Frank Straub has a new gig. Spokane’s former police chief is now director of strategic studies for the Police Foundation, a nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C., dedicated to helping police departments through research and technical assistance.

What’s perhaps most interesting about STRAUB’S NEW JOB, however, is his bio page on the Police Foundation website, which states: “Dr. Straub retired as the Chief of the Spokane, Washington, Police Department, where he received national recognition for the major

reforms, community policing programs he implemented and significant crime reductions achieved during his tenure.”

Although it’s unclear whether the bio was written by Straub, the characterization of the circumstances under which he left Spokane are a little off. In fact, they appear to be in direct contradiction to his lawsuit against the city, in which he claims he was fired.

Last month, a federal judge dismissed Straub’s $4 million lawsuit against the city, Mayor David Condon, City Administrator Theresa Sanders and former City Attorney Nancy Isserlis. Straub claimed that the city violated his due process rights when it published letters from

Former Chief Frank Straub has landed a new job in the other Washington. police leadership accusing him of “retaliation,” “degradation of character,” and “personal attacks,” among other things, without first offering him a chance to defend himself.

Judge Thomas O. Rice cited a signed letter of resignation from Straub as the basis for his dismissal. Straub’s attorney, Mary Schultz, has appealed the judge’s decision to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. (MITCH RYALS)

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NEWS | ELECTION 2016

Battle in the 6th A four-term Republican legislator steps down and puts a district in play

BY JAKE THOMAS

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t looks like a claw reaching out to grab the city of Spokane, and it could tip the balance of power in Washington state politics.

The 6th Legislative District wraps around Spokane from the west, encompassing parts of the South Hill and North Indian Trail. It sprawls out into the West Plains, includes Cheney and Fairchild Air Force Base, and even extends into the Palouse.

This spring, Kevin Parker, one of the district’s Republican representatives who has sailed to re-election since first being elected in 2008, announced his retirement.

Although the district has been dominated by Republicans since 2010, Jim CastroLang, chair of the Spokane County Democrats, now sees an opening in the geographically diverse district.

“I don’t think that some of the [Republicans’] best people decided to run this time around; I’m not sure why that is,” says CastroLang. “We can definitely win in this district.”

The race has drawn relatively unknown candidates, with the Democrats running retired nurse Lynnette Vehrs against Republicans Ian Field, former press secretary for U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, and Mike Volz, Spokane County chief deputy treasurer, both of whom have drawn support from different camps in the party.

Also in the race is Samuel Canty, a Republican focused on improving the business climate, and Barry Pfundt, an attorney with the nonprofit Center for Justice who is running as an independent.

With Democrats controlling the state House of Representatives by just two seats, Dave Moore, chair of the Spokane County Republican Party, says that depending on how other races statewide turn out, the outcome of this race could put the chamber under GOP control. His candidates, he says, “are winners” with strong financial and legislative experience. But this election cycle is different, with Donald Trump, a billionaire real estate mogul whose caustic campaign has divided the GOP, at the top of the Republican ticket, and it’s unclear how his presence will affect races down the ballot.

THE ESTABLISHMENT CANDIDATE?

When Field found out that Parker wasn’t running for re-election, he started making phone calls to local Republican Party leaders about running for the seat. He also called Parker, who told him “Go for it.” Parker endorsed Field and co-chairs his campaign.

Less than three weeks out from the Aug. 2 primary, Field has the backing of much of Spokane’s Republican establishment, including his old boss McMorris Rodgers and former City Councilman Steve Salvatori. Mayor David Condon even held a fundraiser in his home for the

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FROM LEFT: Ian Field, Mike Volz, Lynnette Vehrs, Samuel Canty and Barry Pfundt are hoping to be the next representative from the 6th Legislative District. candidate. So far, Field leads the pack in fundraising with a $48,700 war chest.

“We need young people to come in with new energy,” says Field of why he ran. “I bring that energy and commitment.”

The clean-cut Field speaks with an earnest and eager cadence and wears Birkenstocks while door-belling.

Growing up in Walla Walla, Field says he was imbued with a sense of community service, and remembers helping clean up the local park with his mom. He attended Walla Walla University, where he served as editor of the school paper.

After graduating, he went to work for McMorris Rodgers, eventually becoming her press secretary. Working for the congresswoman, he says, gave him a sense of issues facing Eastern Washington and how to work in a legislative environment.

If elected, he says he wants to increase funding for schools and infrastructure, while putting property crime offenders under better monitoring. He also opposes efforts to increase minimum wage or mandate sick leave for employees.

THE OTHER ESTABLISHMENT CANDIDATE?

Mike Volz has raised $13,000 and been endorsed by other Spokane County Republican lawmakers, including Rep. Matt Shea, who has been criticized for his extreme positions and for visiting armed militants occupying the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in eastern Oregon earlier this year.

Despite repeated requests, Volz didn’t grant the Inlander an interview, but in a recent League of Women Voters forum, he touted his experience working in private business and the county while raising a family. Volz also said he was interested in job creation and reducing the tax burden on businesses. Doing so, he said, will create more revenue and prevent businesses from choosing Idaho over Washington.

“We are losing those jobs,” he said. “We are losing that opportunity for our citizens and we are losing that tax base for government.”

Despite Shea’s endorsement, Spokane County Commissioner Shelly O’Quinn, who ran as a Republican for state representative in the district in 2010, says that Volz is not a fringe candidate; Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich, a persistent critic of Shea, has also endorsed Volz.

“They’re both reasonable fiscal conservatives,” says O’Quinn, who has donated to both Volz and Field. “I wouldn’t describe either as extreme… they’ve just walked

different paths in the party.”

A SWING TO THE LEFT?

The most recent Democrat to represent the 6th District was Rep. John Driscoll, who lost in 2010 to Republican John Ahern.

Now, Lynnette Vehrs, a retired nurse, wants the district to swing back. She’s been active in politics since nursing school, when she canvassed for the Equal Rights Amendment and Sen. George McGovern’s presidential campaign.

“Nurses need to be involved in politics because a really strong part of what we do in our profession is for patients; people who are sick often don’t have a voice,” she says.

Vehrs, who has long been active in the Washington State Nurses Association and describes herself as a “moderate,” is focused on health care. She wants Spokane’s new medical school to launch smoothly, and says she’ll support a bill seeking to expand health coverage in the state. Vehrs also wants more sustainable energy and full funding for education.

State Rep. Marcus Riccelli, a Democrat from the neighboring 3rd District, says that for Vehrs to win, she’ll have to get out the vote in the South Hill and North Indian Trail. He says there’s an opportunity to pick up votes in the college town of Cheney, as well as Medical

“The extremist views of Donald Trump and his onagain, off-again war on women will be rejected.”

Lake, which is home to many state employees who work at Eastern State Hospital and might be receptive to her.

Moore, of the Spokane County Republicans, says that for a Democrat to win in the 6th, they’d also need a large sweep in outlying rural areas. While Riccelli and others say that knocking on doors and showing up at community events is critical, large swaths of the district are rural, making face-to-face interaction less likely.

Reaching these voters will require advertising, which requires money. Statewide labor unions believe that Vehrs is viable enough to contribute to her campaign. So far she’s raised $24,266, about half the amount raised by Field.

“The unfortunate thing is, money is an issue,” says Vehrs.

THE BUSINESS CANDIDATE

Samuel Canty, a former commercial aviation pilot and

owner of the South Hill cake shop Nothing Bundt Cakes, is running as a pro-business Republican, calling for the state to scrap the business and occupation tax and replace it with a corporate income tax. He also wants to do away with many permits and licenses, particularly those regarding hiring.

“Employers shouldn’t have to pay for the right to employ the state’s populace,” he says.

He also wants to boost state funding to help police combat property crime and wants to find ways to improve infrastructure.

The McCleary decision, a state Supreme Court ruling requiring lawmakers to fully fund basic education, should be resolved by lawmakers “sooner rather than later,” Canty says, but he is reluctant to raise taxes to pay for it.

Asked how he differs from his Republican opponents, Canty says that having never worked in politics and owning a business gives him a unique perspective.

“I know from personal experience the difficulties that people in the district face,” he says. “I hear it all the time.”

Although Canty has raised just $1,465, he says it’s proof that he’s not beholden to anyone.

THE INDEPENDENT

Barry Pfundt, a lawyer who splits his time between the nonprofit Center for Justice and directing a law clinic at Gonzaga University for low-income clients, says both parties’ established candidates are “a culmination of how bad it has gotten.”

“The parties have gotten us where we are today, and they are not turning this aircraft around,” he says.

Pfundt, who is running as an independent, criticizes Volz and Field for being employed by government while wanting to cut it. Pfundt says that Vehrs is too focused on health care and too entrenched in Democratic politics for the fairly conservative 6th District.

Before becoming a lawyer, Pfundt worked as a commercial fisherman, served in the Navy and worked for Democratic politicians in the state, including former 3rd District Congressman Brian Baird and governors Christine Gregoire and Gary Locke.

If elected, Pfundt says he wants an overhaul of the state’s mental health system, which he says spends too much and leaves too many people falling through the cracks. He would question subsidies given to large corporations over small businesses, and do away with the business and occupation tax.

Although he’s raised no money, Pfundt says he’ll launch a website soon and increase his social media presence.

“I’m going to win just by how anyone won their job,” he says.

“I’m going to put qualifications out there and hope that people see them.”

TOP OF THE TICKET

In 2012, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney won the 6th District with 51 percent of the vote. Four years later, there will likely be a very different Republican leading the party.

“The extremist views of Donald Trump and his on-again, offagain war on women will be rejected [by voters in the district] and will benefit Lynnette, who is a strong candidate who happens to be a woman,” says Riccelli.

Vehrs says the idea of a Trump presidency is “quite scary,” and says she’ll let her Republican opponents speak for themselves on their party’s standard-bearer.

“To be honest, Donald Trump hasn’t asked me for this endorsement yet,” jokes Field, who says that he attended the Trump rally held in Spokane in May and will vote him. But he says his first choice for president was Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. Canty says that Trump wasn’t his first choice, and he was a “big fan” of Ben Carson, a famed neurosurgeon who ran for president.

“That said, I understand [Trump] is a very business-minded individual, and he is smart when he comes to business, and he would bring a unique perspective,” says Canty.

Moore says that Trump will boost Republican turnout in Spokane County.

“I think he’s going be extremely strong,” he says. “I get constant requests for Trump signs and people wanting to work on the campaign.” 

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One Shot A former Eastern Washington University football player watched his future crumble when he was charged with a murder he didn’t commit

BY MITCH RYALS

LaShawn Jameison, 22, could spend nearly two years in prison if convicted in connection with a shooting earlier this year.

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aShawn Jameison got his first tattoo when he was 15. On the inside of his right forearm, in scrawling black ink, is his mother’s name: Shawnta. He figured she couldn’t whoop him too bad if the tattoo was in her honor, but he also wanted to pay tribute to the woman raising him alone.

When LaShawn was 11, his father was shot and killed over a couple of ounces of weed, a robbery gone wrong, according to court documents. Jameison, now 22, recalls being in court the day the 19-year-old who pulled the trigger was sentenced. He remembers the man’s yellow eyes.

As a kid growing up in Stockton, California, gun violence was too common. He recalls that by the time he finally left home for school at Southern Oregon University, where he played football before transferring to Eastern Washington University, at least 10 of his close friends were dead, mostly from gunfire.

“I grew up in an environment where people don’t go to college, no matter how academically or athletically gifted they are,” he says. “I was lucky to have both of those. Otherwise, I probably wouldn’t have made it out. I got out of Stockton just off the strength of not wanting to lose my life, like my buddies.”

Earlier this year, Jameison and two other men — Kwame Bates and Anthony Williams — were charged with first-degree murder and 14 counts of drive-by shooting stemming from a shootout near the Palomino Club in north Spokane. All but two counts of drive-by shooting against Jameison have been dismissed.

He was released from jail in June, but not before he watched his football career, and possibly his education, crumble around him. He’s still awaiting trial on the driveby charges, a free man for now. The possibility of more charges looms large.

His case further spotlights the role of video evidence in criminal cases, and raises new questions about gun violence and a citizen’s right to defend himself.

For Jameison’s attorney, Josh Maurer, the case also

King Jr. Day. The club closed, and a confrontation between at least one of Jameison’s friends and another man spilled out into the parking lot. That friend, Kwame Bates, later told police that he confronted a man named Anthony Williams for pushing a woman.

As tensions escalated, Williams left to get a handgun, according to police records. Video surveillance footage shows Bates and Jameison doing the same. Williams and Bates continued to chirp at each other. Jameison, who says he could sense what was about to happen, backed away and crouched behind the nearby Chrysler 300.

Bates was his ride home to Cheney. A group of innocent bystanders hid behind Jameison on Lidgerwood Street outside the Palomino, according to the footage.

Williams fired first, missing Bates but striking one of the bystanders in the head. Bates returned multiple shots.

Jameison fired once — in the direction opposite the victim, video shows — but did not hit anyone.

In a matter of eight seconds, at least seven shots rang out in total. One man lay dead in the street, and a fleeing red Mustang ran over him. That man was Eduardo Villagomez. Like Jameison, he was a student at EWU, though the two didn’t know each other. The junior from Wenatchee had turned 21 just three days before.

In the following week, Bates went to the police when he learned of Villagomez’s death. Jameison and Williams were then arrested for their roles in the incident, and all three men were charged with multiple counts of drive-by shooting and first-degree murder.

FAIR AND EQUITABLE? LaShawn Jameison’s right forearm is covered in tattoos honoring his family.

The cross is in memory of his father, who was killed when he was 11.

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cal,” Price says from the bench. “Citizens carrying around handguns with absolute freedom like it’s the Wild West.

It’s a complete scourge on our society. You ask yourself this question: how many of us want to go to a party — what’s supposed to be a joyous event — if we knew there were a bunch of people walking around carrying handguns?”

Price denied Jameison’s release that day. Weeks later, Jameison appeared in front of Price again to ask him to dismiss the charges. Price again expressed disdain for gun violence, but acknowledged that Jameison’s case presents a complicated question.

“Is it OK when you are arguing self-defense, to start firing back at someone who is shooting at you?” Price asks rhetorically. “That’s obviously very fact-dependent.

For example, as Mr. Williams is firing on Mr. Jameison, does Mr. Jameison have to just sit there, crouching behind a car while Mr. Williams walks up and executes him? At what point is it OK to fire back?”

Ultimately, Price ruled that although Jameison’s actions were reckless and unreasonable when he fired in an area full of innocent people, he could not be held responsible for the death of an innocent bystander. Citing the video evidence, Price dismissed the murder charge but allowed two counts of drive-by shooting to stand — one for each shot Jameison allegedly fired (his attorney says he only fired once, and in self-defense). At that point, Price released Jameison pending trial.

“We have people walking around with handguns, shooting at each other over who knows what — that’s completely nonsensical.” emphasizes a prosecutor’s responsibility to seek justice, not convictions. Maurer says Spokane County prosecutors twisted the facts to justify adding murder charges in the first place. Spokane County Deputy Prosecutor Stefanie Collins declined requests for comment, citing the pending charges.

“What bothers me is that in the face of a video that unequivocally shows what happened, the state has lied about the facts,” Maurer says. “It’s concerning to me that this type of behavior is allowed to occur in our system of justice. The principle of ‘innocent until proven guilty’ is vitiated when this type of conduct is condoned.”

A COMPLICATED QUESTION

Dressed in yellow jail scrubs, his pants tucked into his orange socks, Jameison sits next to his attorney during a bond hearing last month. Spokane Superior Court Judge Michael P. Price had released one of Jameison’s co-defendants, also charged with murder, a week earlier. On this day, Price has to get something off his chest.

“This is just my personal mindset, and it doesn’t really matter, but for what it’s worth: regardless of whether this is a no-duty-to-retreat state or not, it seems to me that in 2016 in the United States of America that we have people walking around with handguns, shooting at each other over who knows what — that’s completely nonsensi-

DEADLY CONFRONTATION

It was early on the morning of Jan. 18, 2016. Jameison just left the Palomino Club with some buddies. The crew spent the night partying in a VIP booth, drinking champagne, he says. They were celebrating Martin Luther

Since Josh Maurer took this case in February, something else has been bothering him.

He points to data collected at part of the MacArthur Foundation’s Safety and Justice Challenge, which revealed racial disparities in Spokane County’s criminal justice system. In 2014, for example, African Americans made up 11 percent of the jail’s population, despite representing about 2 percent of the county’s population. And while the average length of stay in the Spokane County Jail was 17 days for white people, black people spent an average of 25 days — the highest among all races or ethnicities recorded.

“He has lost his scholarship for a murder the state knew he didn’t commit,” Maurer writes in an email.

“This is how disenfranchisement happens. What hope is there when the people who are charged with protecting us, and for applying the law fairly and with equity, are the people telling lies?”

For his part, Jameison says this experience has changed him. It’s skewed his perspective of the court system and thrown his life into limbo. He fears that he’s squandered his opportunity to earn a college degree. A former economics major, Jameison made EWU’s Dean’s List with at least a 3.5 grade-point average. He hoped to get a job as an actuary.

Other than the pending charges in Spokane County, Jameison’s criminal history is clean, according to Washington and California court records. Before this year, his closest brush with the law was when he got in a fight at the mall. His mom had to come pick him up from juvie.

He was 16.

Jameison struggles, at times, to reconcile his actions that night in January. He knows his background in a rough neighborhood is not an excuse, but as he waits for trial, he grapples with how to balance the familiar devastation from gun violence and his right to defend himself.

The biggest takeaway, Jameison says, is the tragedy in all this: the death of Eduardo Villagomez.

“Somebody lost their life,” Jameison says. “I want people to know that somebody lost their life, and the prosecutor is trying to make three young black men pay for something that only one of them did.” n mitchr@inlander.com

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Cheap Eats E

very year, we bring you the Cheap Eats issue, where we introduce you to the notion that there’s good food out there that won’t bust your budget — or your gut. This time around, we categorized things by the manner in which you’ll devour all of the delectable fare. We’ve got food for your fork, your spoon, even your chopsticks. We’ve also got plenty to eat with your bare hands, and even some eating (not drinking, necessarily) through a straw. But hey, these aren’t hard-and-fast rules.

Want to eat your burger with a spoon? Go for it. It’s a free country.

— MIKE BOOKEY, SECTION EDITOR

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The Hawaiian sandwich from Smacky’s on Broadway.

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our hands were there first. Before you could even grip a spoon, you picked up those peas or Cheerios with your tiny fingers and attempted to shovel them into your mouth. People around you cheered when the food didn’t end up on the floor. With the following section, we’re getting back to basics, featuring items that probably could be eaten with a fork, but for the sake of decency should be eaten with the hands. Everything below tastes amazing. These dishes are some of the area’s best, cheap (which doesn’t mean low quality) or otherwise. Some of the restaurants are a little more upscale, but if you play your cards right by attending happy hour or only ordering from the appetizer or dessert menu, you can hit that under-$10 mark quite easily.

Bread, the kind that comes in a shallow pool of garlic and grease, is almost better than pizza. The first time I ever went to BENNIDITO’S (1426 S. Lincoln), I knew I was in love with a different kind of bread-based

food: beer buddies ($4.25), fist-sized dough balls covered in melted butter and sprinkled with gobs of Parmesan cheese. Dipping sauces enhance this puffy pillow of bread; options are marinara, pesto (the one you’ll eventually start dreaming about) and ranch. They’re supposed to be the appetizer, but paired with a green salad, they can be the best dinner you ever had. Don’t hesitate to order up a big basket just for yourself.

On to another kind of breaded food item, sandwiches: With possibly the best name of any sandwich shop around, SMACKY’S ON BROADWAY (6415 E. Broadway, Spokane Valley) doesn’t disappoint when it comes to making jumbo sandwiches (averaging $6 to $9). The Hawaiian features layers of thinly sliced ham, pineapple, sprouts and tomato between two slices of white bread. The albacore tuna sandwich, with melted swiss and tomato, is the place you’ll want to start if you like fish at all. Best of all, your meal comes with a side

of pretzels and a dill pickle, and the eclectic decorations inside the joint will keep you entertained for hours.

When it comes to authentic tacos, you’ll want to check out LA MICHOACANA MINI MARKET (9907 E. Sprague, Spokane Valley). The outside of the two-year-old business is deceiving, as the inside is larger than expected and includes a bakery, bar, restaurant and convenience store. Focus on the reason you’re going there: tacos ($1.50 each for the small). The simple preparation comes with a corn tortilla filled with your choice of meat and served with cilantro, onions and tomatillo sauce. As for the meat, try the chorizo (sausage), adobada (spiced pork) and fish tacos, though meat options abound (beef head, beef tongue, chicken, tripe, beef). Fresh salsa and chips are also served to every table. Enjoy soccer on the TVs and check out the convenience store’s Mexican products; surprises are around every corner. 

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THE OBSERVATORY 15 S. Howard | 598-8933 The 21-and-over joint pulls you in with its reverence to the stars and moon — telescopes are part of its décor. This is also a place that might be playing punk rock on Friday and Saturday nights, with a bevy of handheld food, washed down with a beer or freshsqueezed cocktail. The seasonal spring rolls ($8) — herbs, pork and seasonal market veggies inside a rice wrapper, with peanut sauce — are incredibly filling and can serve as a full meal. So can the crudités platter (veggies and dip) ($8). There are hot and cold sandwiches as well, and nothing’s more than $10.

ROGER’S ICE CREAM AND BURGERS 155 W. Neider Ave., Coeur d’Alene | 208-664-0696 1224 E. Sherman Ave., Coeur d’Alene | 208-930-4900 Serving great food for the past 76 years, Roger’s is the place to go if you’re looking for a satisfying single cheeseburger ($6.81 for a combo) in Coeur d’Alene. It ranks with the area’s best burger joints; everything here is made to order. Each morning, lettuce and tomatoes are hand-cut, as are potatoes for the delicious French fries. With two locations to choose from (downtown is a walk-up stand) you’ll want this a greasy pile of goodness immediately. Other options include turkey and garden burgers, along with grilled cheese.

EAT GOOD CAFE 24001 E. Mission Ave, Suite 190, Liberty Lake | 210-0880 It isn’t easy to find this breakfast/lunch-serving cafeteria; it’s located in the bowels of a business park complex. Once there, experience some of the most creative handheld items around.

Last week, we tried the grill and deli specials, the Reubano ($6), a mix of the Reuben and the Cuban, and the buffalo chicken sliders, which included pulled chicken, buffalo sauce, blue cheese

and chicken-fried jalapeños. Both were astounding. On the permanent menu, choose between fish n’ chips ($6.49), a variety of tacos ($2 each) and a multitude of sandwiches. The owners also have the Wandering Table, Yards Bruncheon and Gilded Unicorn to their credit.

THE BLACKBIRD TAVERN + KITCHEN 905 N. Washington | 392-4000 Don’t listen when people tell you popcorn isn’t a meal. It absolutely can be, especially if it’s as stellar as Blackbird’s popcorn, which features bacon fat, salt and brown sugar. For anyone who’s crazy for popcorn, it’s just about the best in town. Pop in for happy hour, which runs most days (minus Saturday) from 3 to 6 pm and features half-off select draft beers, $5 select wines, $5 select cocktails and $3 select bar snacks (like popcorn). This is a perfect spot for a drink and a bite before a downtown night out.

The chorizo corn dogs and twisted pretzel should also be on your radar. Thinking dessert? The coffee and donuts ($7) aren’t too sweet and melt in your mouth.

EUROPA RESTAURANT & BAKERY 125 S. Wall | 455-4051 This is an Italian restaurant with old-world charm. Show up for lunch with a friend and share an appetizer — you won’t have to spend more than $9 each. Selections include hummus, served with fresh vegetables and fresh, oven-baked focaccia bread; caprese salad; onion and cheese-loaded flatbread; and a pesto torte. You can even get a mini pizza for only $6.

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CHICKEN-N-MO 414½ W. Sprague | 838-5071 Even folks who’ve lived in Spokane their whole lives may have passed right by this gem of a restaurant among Sprague’s downtown bars and nightclubs. Real Southern taste is on point, and $4.69 will get you two pieces of spiced-to-perfection chicken. The two-piece chicken dinner, with sides including baked beans, collard greens and mashed potatoes, is a good deal at $8.59 to $10.39. Mondays, the two-piece dark chicken dinner comes with a free soda. Now we’re talking. 

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selections are a lot better than the chains’ efforts. For $8, you get a specialty pizza the size of a dinner plate, big enough for now and probably later. Go with one of the specials, or create your own toppings — and they have pretty much anything. College kids aren’t the only ones enjoying this spot.

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FORKFULS

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he mighty fork: Arguably the most elevated of all utensils, both for its unmatched versatility and its mysterious ability to go missing en masse from the kitchen at Inlander headquarters. While you can’t eat soup with a fork, and surely chopsticks would do the job when the tined tool is absent, the fork as a utensil is a masterpiece of design and practicality. Even when its sharper cousin the knife is lacking, stab those stainless steel teeth into a hunk of meat and gnaw off a chunk with your own, caveman-style. But salads without forks?

Truly daunting.

If not for these pointy vegetable stabbers, we’d all be left pushing our faces into our plates like grazing cattle.

So next time you’re awkwardly shoveling heavily dressed greens down your gullet, appreciate the unparalleled engineering of the fork. When on the hunt for the following meal deals, make sure the fork isn’t forgotten. You’ll truly be lost without one — especially on the go.

Thankfully for your wallet and your waistline, the salads at METHOD JUICE CAFE (718 W. Riverside; 7704 N. Division), with locations on the Northside and downtown, are healthy, fresh, tasty and affordable. While all of its leafy green options start with a blend of romaine and spinach, the three regular menu offerings include strawberry balsamic, lemon tahini and cilantro citrus — all named after their respective dressings. Small ($5) and large ($7) servings are offered of each, and you’ll feel full, but not grossly so, after filling up on the larger of the two. For a light summer lunch, try the cilantro citrus, topped with black beans, tomato, red onion, mushroom, shredded carrots and sunflower seeds. Tossed in a light citrus vinaigrette, Method packs takeout bowls full of good-for-you food.

With options for all three of the day’s meals, the Hawaiian fare at ALOHA ISLAND GRILL (1724 N. Monroe; 1220 W. Francis) can satisfy your hankering for teriyaki on a budget any time of the day. Close to downtown, the Monroe Street spot is tiny, but don’t be fooled by appearances. The small space allows a team of cooks to whip up the tastiest, most tender teriyaki meats around, while filling orders as fast as the stream of hungry folks pass in and out its doors during the lunch or evening rush. Seriously, it’s like a little meat hut of tasty bliss. You can’t really go wrong with any of the meat choices — there are vegetarian options as well, including teriyaki portobello mushrooms and stir-fry veggie bowls — but if you want to stick with the classics, try the kalua pork bowl ($5.25) or the teriyaki chicken bowl ($5.25). All options also come in a “plate” size ($11.65 and up) if you’re feeling really famished.

While sometimes it does matter if you’re forced to eat with plastic versus stainless steel, the savory salads at downtown dining spot MIZUNA (214 N. Howard) don’t discriminate against the type of fork in hand. Offering takeout or dine-in eating, Mizuna’s lunch menu salads can fill you up in a nice, healthy fashion, while the restaurant’s interior atmosphere offers a true fine-dining vibe. Considering that Mizuna is a go-to spot for special occasion dinners in the evening, it feels a little odd to label its daytime salad offerings “cheap eats.” It’s really all about value. The lunch menu, served Monday through Saturday from 11 am to 3 pm, offers a variety of half($5.75) and full-size ($8.75) salads, from a classic roasted

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beet to grilled ginger tofu and butter lettuce. Let’s talk about the highly recommended white cheddar and apple salad, a sweet and savory mix of crisp apples, sliced into delectable straw-like strips, with deliciously tangy cubes of white cheddar sprinkled on top, along with Craisins and caramelized walnuts. Finished off with a citrus-shallot vinaigrette and a side of sliced baguette, this lunchtime go-to is carefully presented whether in a box or on a plate, and you didn’t even break $10. Nice. 

A BRIEF HISTORY OF… THE FORK Early traces of the utensil now known as the fork can be found everywhere from ancient Egypt, where primitive forks were used in cooking; to China, which laid dynastic families to rest in tombs alongside bone forks; to ancient Greece, where forks were used as serving utensils. Forks as table utensils can be traced back to the Byzantine Empire, likely the origin of forks’ rise to the realm of the commonplace all throughout the Middle East by the start of the 10th century. Forks were introduced to Western culture by the wife of a Roman emperor, who shocked onlookers by dining with the revolutionary instrument at a banquet. As they increased in popularity, forks were met with their fair share of skepticism, being seen by some as showy and unnecessary. In the mid-1800s, however, Germany added the now-typical curve to its forks, and the global community finally accepted the utensil as a superior instrument.

— ISAAC HANDELMAN

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BOOTS BAKERY & LOUNGE 24 W. Main | 703-7223 With options in the case changing daily, the salad trio plate at Boots is one of the best uses for a fork we can think of. It’s all about variety, and the diverse flavors to be found in the vegan, mostly gluten-free cafe’s signature dishes, like the tofu scramble (good any time of the day, not just breakfast). With cold salads galore, gluten-free mac and cheese, and the “crazy spicy slaw,” making a decision on just what three things to fill your plate with might be the hardest decision of your day.

CHOMPER CAFE 2345 W. Prairie Ave., Hayden | 208-719-0441 For those whose favorite meal of the day is breakfast, the options at this quaint North Idaho spot don’t get much better. Tucked into a mostly residential area where Post Falls, Hayden and Coeur d’Alene merge together, Chomper Cafe’s all-day (daily, 7 am-3 pm) breakfast menu is stacked with forkable omelets ($7.50 and up), scrambles and sweet treats like pancakes, Belgian waffles and

French toast. On the lunch side, about a third of the menu is made up of crisp salads ($7.95).

WHITE BOX CAFÉ 1215 N. Ruby | 927-8850 If you’re not eating a sandwich off this just-north-of-downtown Spokane spot’s breakfast or lunch menu, you’re definitely using a fork, perhaps enjoying a salad ($10 and up), a twice-baked potato ($9), stuffed pepper ($10) or the chef’s-choice quiche ($9). Anything here can be ordered to be made gluten-free.

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COTTAGE CAFE 6902 E. Appleway Blvd., Spokane Valley | 928-8888 This popular breakfast spot serves up all the classics, from its lauded, Southernstyle chicken fried steak to omelets, egg scrambles and all the sweet, battered treats you’d ever want to stab your fork into. For those with smaller appetites, there’s the two eggs, hashbrowns and toast in the Cottage Special ($5.45). Breakfast-eating champions might want to check out “The King’s Omelet,” which is made using six eggs, and is stuffed to the brim with fillings ($10.95).

MAPLE STREET BISTRO 5520 N. Maple | 443-3129 Located just off its namesake northbound arterial, the breakfast and lunch offerings at Maple Street Bistro range from smoothies, wraps, sandwiches, quiche and yogurt cups to a case of tasty, rotating salads — fill up on fruit salad, chicken pecan, kale Caesar, pesto pasta and plenty more. Its easily accessible location is ideal for a quick bite on your way out the door in the morning (there’s also a drive-through) or when you’re out and about running errands on weekends. 

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hanks to the scientific genius that’s been applied to blender technology, you can now eat with a straw. You might think that sucking anything through a tube qualifies as drinking, but that would be incorrect. You drink Coke Zero or organic kombucha through a straw. But when we’re talking about something like a smoothie or milkshake, or anything else that qualifies as a meal in both calorie content and satisfaction… that’s eating, my friend. With that in mind, coupled with the fact that this issue is called Cheap Eats and not Inexpensive Sips, let us agree that eating through a straw is indeed a thing and suck up some great food of the Inland Northwest.

For starters, let’s begin with some juice, which in 2016 means you’re in for a lot more than a Capri Sun or even some fresh-squeezed OJ. You can now get a day’s worth of fruits and veggies crammed into a cup, which is both wildly efficient and often quite tasty. At BEET IT UP MOBILE JUICE BAR, which I visited at its weekly Wednesday afternoon spot at the Kendall Yards Night Market (it’s often at the South Perry Thursday Market, too), all of the juices are $7. To the uninitiated, that might sound steep, but when you get something like the Veg Head, you’re getting 16 ounces of fresh carrots, celery, cucumber and sweet peppers. Having this in your stomach feels like you’ve done something good and healthy with yourself.

Now let’s step into Smoothie World, which is a lot like Juice World, but with a chance of dairy products. You can start by giving the Karate Chopper 5000 you bought on a particularly impulsive Costco run a break and let an expert do the work for you. There are plenty of quality smoothies out there, but a reliable spot is EPHATA CAFE (1908 W. Northwest Blvd.), where you can get your coffee any way you want it along with ultra-healthy breakfasts, if a smoothie doesn’t sound good. But their smoothies should sound good, especially with choices like the Funky Monkey ($4), which includes banana, spinach, milk and cocoa. If you want something fruitier, go with the Hurricane — pineapple, banana, kale and spinach.

On the sweeter side, there’s the milkshake. Now, it should be noted that any milkshake worth your precious time should be thick enough to collapse your straw. That’s what will happen when you head to BRAIN FREEZE CREAMERY (1238 W. Summit Pkwy.; 1230 S. Grand Blvd.) and pick from any of their many flavors, turning it into shake form for $6. This could be a hearty, chocolate-and-peanut butter concoction, one of their more fruity flavors or even one of their vegan-friendly varieties.

Whatever you choose, take a moment while you’re sucking that goodness in to appreciate this particular ice cream delivery system. 

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FUSION JUICE 103 S. Howard | 624-4263 You’ll find salads and sandwiches at this popular downtown Spokane spot, but as the name suggests, you’ll also find plenty of juice options. There also are smoothies, of course, and all of it is done to your specifications with fresh ingredients.

FINE BREWED 507 W. Sherman Ave., Coeur d’Alene | 208-292-4686 This place has the straw figured out, with cold-pressed juices, smoothies and shakes, as well as more solid foods, on the busy café’s menu. They also have local beer on tap and a bottomless mimosa deal, in case you want to ditch the straw.

VALENTINO’S PIZZA 219 W. Canfield Ave., Coeur d’Alene | 208-772-0220 No, this beloved restaurant hasn’t invented a way for you to drink pizza, but they do have a list of 17 smoothies to choose from. The 24-ounce smoothies all come with a nutritional boost, and the menu lists the calorie and fat content of each creation. n

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THE DRINKING STRAW Though their contemporary, plastic-constructed appearance may lead you to believe that drinking straws are relatively new on the timeline of utensil invention, they can trace their origins back further than any other utensil detailed here: all the way to 3000 BCE, when the Sumerians used them to sip ancient beer (no joke).

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y chopstick abilities are like my dance-floor moves — enthusiastic, but not pretty. Things get spilled. Even so, better to delve into some cuisines using the appropriate culinary tools rather than reinforce the image of the ugly, unlearned American by punking out and using a fork. One advantage: Chopsticks slow me down and force me to savor what I’m eating rather than simply shovel it in my gaping maw. And some foods — corn dogs, popsicles — have incorporated sticks to the point where any utensil is superfluous. For this section of Cheap Eats, be careful as you read; I probably dropped some things.

When it comes to lunch buffets, there’s a delicate balance between food quality and quantity; some buffet offerings are so bad that it doesn’t matter how cheap the price. That’s not the case at Spokane’s HONG KONG EXPRESS (113 W. Indiana), where the prices are outstanding and the food is pretty damn good, too. For just $7.39, one can make multiple trips through a line of ever-changing Chinese dishes (for $7, you can pack a Styrofoam box with as much as you like, as long as you can close the lid).

You’ll always find a few basics, from egg rolls and egg drop soup to fried rice and Chinese-style chicken teriyaki. The sweet-andsour chicken has a nuclear-red hue, and the orange chicken isn’t too sweet. There are typically a few vegetarian options — although chicken seems the favorite ingredient here. You’ll walk away full and not completely broke, and since the food is MSG-free, you can feel good about that second, utterly unnecessary plate.

If you want something a bit more refined, SYRINGA (1401 N. 4th St., Coeur d’Alene) offers a good reason to pick up some chopsticks and dive into some excellent Japanese food. Like most spots serving sushi, it’s easy to rack up a hefty tab, but you can easily keep the price under control with some strategic ordering at this stylish North Idaho spot. My go-to is the poke; the combination of diced tuna, seawood, soy, sesame seeds and togarashi (a Japanese chili pepper) is delivered inside a ring of creamy avocado oh-so-thinly sliced, and two people can easily share the poke and be satisfied, especially if you pair the $12 dish with some gyoza ($7), edamame ($3) or miso soup ($2).

Somewhere in between Hong Kong Express and Syringa is KIM’S KOREAN (1314 N. Division) in Spokane, where, yes,

Korean food is the order of the day, and lunch is one of the best deals in town. The metal chopsticks are a little tricky, but they can’t keep me from digging into the Dwaeji Bulgogi ($7.50 at lunch), a platter of thin-sliced pork simmered in a hot pepper sauce and served with vegetables and rice. Because this is a Korean restaurant, you also get an ever-changing slew of appetizers delivered for the table to share, including items like anchovies, kimchi and sautéed seaweed. There are plenty of other options in the same price range for folks who don’t like spice or pork. 

AUnsurprisingly, BRIEF chopsticks HISTORY OF… CHOPSTICKS find their origin in China, with the first evidence of their existence dating back to about 1200 BCE. Chopsticks were initially used for cooking and serving, but at some point during the Han Dynasty, which lasted from 206 BCE until 220 CE, they began appearing as eating utensils. Present-day chopstick design and the ability of the utensils to handle almost all solid foods did not come into existence until the Ming Dynasty, a period lasting from 1368 until 1644. Until then, rice and other grains were usually shoveled into the mouth with one’s fingers.

— ISAAC HANDELMAN

More Stick-Friendly Spots QQ SUSHI 1902 W. Francis | 279-2721 It’s easy to spend a lot of money at QQ; the diminutive shop has a lot to offer.

There’s also plenty for diners on a budget, since one of their delicious rolls like the salmon, tuna and yellowtail-based Rainbow ($11) or Rock’n ($11), yellowtail slathered in spicy scallops and avocado, are a meal unto themselves. And at lunch, the $6.50 specials include curry chicken, sweet-and-sour chicken or General Tso’s chicken, all served with rice and soup.

MANGROVE CAFÉ AND BAKERY 18 N. Bowdish Rd., Spokane Valley | 926-2519 Inside the charming refurbished house, you find an interesting combination of bakery and Thai restaurant. So if you’re not craving a crepe or slice of quiche,

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GILDED UNICORN 310 S. Monroe | 309-3698 There are a lot of screaming deals to be found on the Gilded Unicorn’s menu, with something for every taste, but you’ll definitely want to try their sole stick-based delicacy, the wild shrimp corn dogs, served up with a spicy cocktail sauce and an apricot honey mustard for all your dipping needs.

Tasty and satisfying, you get four for $11 on the regular appetizer menu, and you can order them one at a time for $3 a pop during happy hour.

SUSHI SAKAI 829 E. Boone, Suite B | 340-9743 11420 E. Sprague, Spokane Valley | 413-1232 Serving up delicious fresh fish, Sushi Sakai offers plenty of sashimi, nigiri and sushi rolls for less than $10, making it a sweet deal. It’s easy to blow out your budget on sushi, but Sushi Sakai’s location near the Gonzaga campus and its new spot in Spokane Valley can fill you up without your back account feeling buyer’s remorse.

ZIP’S 223 S. Lincoln and various locations | 445-8535 Want to keep things simple? Real simple? Forget all the futzing with buns and condiments endemic to a burger, and skip the fries. Go straight to the Zip’s corn dog, yours for a mere $1.84 after tax, and as satisfying an all-American treat as anything you’ll find on the menu at Spokane’s favorite fastfood joint. Yes, you can add some ketchup or mustard, but that layer of deep-fried breading that’s coating the dog and surrounding a stick doesn’t need any help.

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A mere spoon can’t get at the noodles filling the bounteous bowls of delicious broth, nor gracefully grab the hard-boiled eggs and pork in every order. Then there are the appetizers — gyoza, seaweed salad and the like — that just taste better when using Japan’s favorite utensils.

FANNIE’S ICE POPS Various locations | 998-6463 When it comes to using sticks to eat on a hot summer day, there’s no beating a frosty treat like delicious, all-natural Fannie’s Ice Pops. Whether you prefer a strawberry-and-rhubarb classic combo or something more daring — the chocolate-and-avocado popsicle comes to mind — these sweet, single-stick frozen delicacies are perfect for wandering around the Kendall Yards Night Market or the South Perry Thursday Market, where you’ll always find them. 

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SPOONFULS

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poons: they’re so great, people literally collect them.

OK, maybe the jury is still out on the logic behind that hobby. But we all have fond memories of fighting siblings for the rights to a mixing spoon covered in brownie batter, or of using a spoon to fling food across a cafeteria, or of eating cereal with one in front of the TV on Saturday mornings. So to celebrate the wonder of the spoon, here’s a day’s worth of local dishes you definitely won’t want to waste in a food fight.

If you’re looking to start your day out with something hearty, skip the cold cereal and head to CHAPS (4237 Cheney Spokane Rd.), where the baked oatmeal has quite the loyal following. Your friends may hassle you for choosing oatmeal over chicken fried steak or the meat lovers scramble (for the record, both are also delicious), but share a bite and watch the badger-

ing cease. It’s a creamy and slightly sweet custard-style oatmeal with a flawless, not-too-mushy texture — the kind every grandma ought to make. To top it all off, it’s served with fresh blueberries and a small Mason jar of scalded cream. And could there possibly be a more charming spot to eat a bowl of good old-fashioned oats than at the most cottage-esque restaurant in town?

For lunch, pop into SOULFUL SOUPS & SPIRITS (117 N. Howard). Their menu rotates daily, but they always have their beer cheese soup — which is the only soup you’ll ever need anyway — on tap. This marriage of two of the world’s greatest things is thick and creamy but not too heavy, and the flavor is a perfect balance of sharp cheddar and malty goodness. If you’re looking to hit maximum beer and cheese consumption levels, it’s offered with a scoop of shredded cheddar (because why not

add cheese to your bowl of cheese?), and you can add a slice of their famous beer bread for an extra buck. If you’re still hesitant, know this: both the soup and bread are made with Big Sky Brewing’s Moose Drool brown ale, so you know it has to be good.

If at the end of the day you’re still jonesing for spoon foods, grab a bowl of the killer 74th St. Gumbo at THE ELK PUBLIC HOUSE (1931 W. Pacific). Borrowed from Seattle’s popular 74th Street Ale House, it’s become a must-have dish for plenty of people when dining at The Elk. It’s a full-bodied, perfectly spiced blend of chicken, sausage, bay shrimp and vegetables in a spicy sauce, served fittingly over Cajun dirty rice. This ain’t shrimp scampi; prepare for some serious heat. Consume this gumbo with a spoon in one hand and a cold beer in the other. n

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AUtensils BRIEF HISTORY OF… THE SPOON similar to spoons were likely some of the first eating utensils ever put to use by humans. Prehistoric civilizations are thought to have utilized shells and wood chips in ways similar to how we now use spoons. In fact, the word spoon has origins in the Anglo-Saxon “spon,” meaning “a chip or splinter of wood.” Romans began using spoons for consuming some soft food items such as soups as early as the first century.

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Time is of the Essence VISUAL ARTS

The works on display in the Jundt Museum’s newest exhibition won’t be around forever

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Drawn to the Wall features the work of five Inland Northwest artists. KRISTEN BLACK PHOTO

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very third year since 2001, Gonzaga University’s Jundt Art Museum has invited several local artists to decorate a selection of its walls by drawing directly on them. After a matter of weeks, the walls are painted over, the artists’ works never to be seen again. The gallery calls this exhibition Drawn to the Wall, and its sixth incarnation is open for public viewing now through mid-August.

What, viewers may ask, makes the exhibit special enough to warrant its return to Jundt every three years?

“The artists change,” says Paul Manoguerra, the museum’s director and curator. “The themes, ideas and issues that the artists elect to store on their walls are different every time.”

This year, Drawn to the Wall VI features works from five regional artists hailing from eclectic disciplines. Among them are: Tresia Oosting, a sculptor and dollmaker who uses discarded objects to craft her pieces; Lisa Nappa, an EWU ceramics professor whose art carries ambitious messages centering around water; Garric Simonsen, an artist and musician who frequently implements wood etchings; Lance Sinnema, a ceramics artist who dabbles in printmaking and innovative, craft-oriented works; and Travis Masingale, who has worked in a myriad of media, from technology to performance.

The divergent disciplines of these participating artists may seem confusing at first glance, given the exhibition’s focus on drawing.

“Drawing is an integral part of what artists do,” explains Karen Kaiser, the exhibit’s curator who selected the five featured artists. “An artist whose finished work might be a doll or might be a sculpture, it doesn’t mean that their work doesn’t ...continued on next page

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Each of these artists is granted one side of an 8-by-11-foot wall on which they are assigned to create a drawing, within a two-week window, in what the gallery calls a “communal studio” environment.

“The dynamic of having them work together informs the work, it influences the work,” Kaiser says. “Even if they come in with a really well-laid plan, it changes every time.”

Masingale, one of the featured artists, praises this approach. “We’re all kinda at first shy, and by the end we’re very open and talking and sharing our stories about our work,” he says.

The exhibition itself draws inspiration from American artist Jim Dine, who in 1995 adorned a German gallery with a series of charcoal drawings. After the exhibition’s six weeks had run its course, the drawings were washed off and the walls were repainted. The intentional erasure of art calls to mind the Buddhist tradition of creating beautiful, intricate sand mandalas which are wiped away soon after completion.

This parallel is strengthened by the modification that the Jundt Gallery made to Dine’s original project: after the exhibition has reached its end on Aug. 20, the artists themselves will paint over their respective drawings. “The sand painting idea and mandalas, I think it comes from the same place,” Kaiser says.

She believes that the temporary nature of the artists’ works makes them more comfortable, facilitating greater artistic freedom than

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otherwise might be present.

“There’s not that precious thing … this finished product that has to look a certain way,” she says.

It might seem that such a process could be difficult for the artists to swallow. But Sinnema, another of the featured artists, believes that the experience is worthwhile, even positive.

“I’ve thrown a lot of things away when moving from house to house,” he says. “There’s always a process that’s sort of editing and putting things in the past.”

Both Masingale and Kaiser agree.

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Of the exhibition’s eventual end, Kaiser says: “They’re painting it back to white, the color that it always is. They’ll slip right in so that they look like walls again. You won’t even know that they were there.” n Drawn to the Wall VI • Through Aug. 20; gallery open Mon-Sat, from 10 am-4 pm • Free admission • Jundt Art Museum • 200 E. Desmet • gonzaga.edu/jundt • 313-6843

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hen you create a TV show, you have choices.

You can create the sort of sexist show that leers at hot women in tiny bikinis. Or you can create a feminist show, exposing just how utterly toxic the patriarchal culture is for women.

You can create a serious TV show, exploring serious issues about race, gender and mental illness. Or you can create a soap opera, flitting between silly plot lines or outlandish twists.

You can create a romantic show, where fans sigh and swoon and desperately root for pairs of characters to hook up or get hitched. Or you can create a cynical show, where love and sex are simply lies told in exchange for power.

UnREAL (Mondays, 10 pm on Lifetime) manages to be every single one of those shows at the same time. It goes behind the scenes of Everlasting, a fictional reality show where a string of gorgeous gals seek a romantic pairing with a wealthy hunk.

The drama serves as a savage critique of dating reality shows, while embodying the very aspects that makes the genre so addictive. Hypocrisy? Perhaps. But it’s delicious, self-aware hypocrisy.

This internal contradiction is summarized through through Rachel, one of Everlasting’s producers. She’s an avowed feminist whose ambition drives her, almost unwillingly, to create a decidedly unfeminist show. Shiri Appleby plays Rachel with a blearyeyed brutality that contrasts brilliantly with the teeth-whitened smiles of the contestant’s on-camera personas.

If all this sounds a bit familiar, it’s because the show’s co-creator, Sarah Gertrude Shapiro, was once a producer on The Bachelor, where she manipulated contestants to create reality-TV drama. Shapiro’s self-hatred for her former actions seeps into UnREAL’s storyline, where ethics are brushed aside for ratings.

The second season seems a little less subtle than the first, which had a shocking moment where a decision to switch out a contestant’s medication results in the woman’s suicide. The desire to top that moment hangs over this season of both Everlasting

MUSIC Since their 2003 debut, indie/garage rock band the Kills have been refining their distinctive style and winning fans over with their plentiful personality.

The band, comprised of singer Alison Mosshart and guitarist Jamie Hince, went on hiatus in 2013 when Hince suffered a hand injury that necessitated numerous surgeries and forced him to relearn to play his instrument from scratch. The Kills came back full force this year with the release of their fifth studio album, ASH & ICE, on June 3. It’s still classic Kills through and through, but some tracks, like the headbang-worthy lead single “Doing It to Death” and the restrained, slow-building “Let it Drop,” showcase the band’s progression toward a moody, poppier sound.

TV Fans of AMC’s recently ended Mad Men who miss the cold charisma of leading man Don Draper and/or the business intrigue rooted in a historical period should check out the network’s tech-centric series HALT AND CATCH FIRE, the third season of which premieres on Aug. 23. Though the show takes obvious inspiration from its home network’s acclaimed ad-firm drama, it has enough unique ideas to stand on its own as a riotously fun watch.

The series stars Lee Pace as Joe MacMillan, a first-glance Draper-alike who has secrets of his own up his sleeve, as he leads a team that aims to set personal computing on fire amidst the industry boom in the 1980s. Now is the perfect time to catch up on the show’s first two seasons — thankfully, both are streaming on Netflix in their full glory.

UnReal is a savage critique of reality dating shows. and UnREAL. This time, the search for “suicide ratings” leads Everlasting’s producers to falsely accuse a contestant of faking her abusive past, even bringing in an actress to pretend to be the contestant’s mother. But the lie here would be so easy to disprove that the whole plot line rings false.

Sometimes, UnREAL exposes our culture’s ugly underbelly. But other times, that cynicism is simply a sneer without substance.

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VIDEO GAME Back in 2010, a small, independent studio in Denmark released a game called Limbo. It was a simple, 2D side-scrolling platformer, but received an enormous amount of attention thanks to its memorably stark visual palette and haunting atmosphere. Finally, on June 29, the developer’s second game, INSIDE, hit the Xbox store, with a Windows release following on July 7. Early reactions to the game indicate that Playdead may just have managed to make lightning strike twice. Though it’s superficially similar to Limbo, reviews say that Inside is a wholly original experience, and one that’s best had knowing as little as possible about it going in. 

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With both the NBA Finals and Hoopfest in the past, Spokane hoops fans might be jonesing for some meaningful basketball to watch. You can find it with A Few Good Men, the team comprised mostly of Gonzaga alums playing in The Basketball Tournament, a national contest that awards its winner a $2 million prize. In the opening round games in Los Angeles last weekend, AFGM won their games 109-79 and 98-54 to advance to the Sweet 16 held in Philadelphia on July 21 and 22 (televised on ESPN2 and ESPN3). With a roster featuring former NBA players including Dan Dickau, Jeremy Pargo and Austin Daye (pictured on the left), as well as Zag fan favorites like Micah Downs, Casey Calvary and Ira Brown, AFGM have a real chance at taking home that cash.

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North Idaho farmer Joe Culbreth waited six years before seeing some of his 1,200 huckleberry bushes produce fruit. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO

Nature’s Enigma

Huckleberries have yet to be successfully domesticated, but one North Idaho farmer may be on his way to unlocking the berries’ secret

BY CHEY SCOTT

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oe Culbreth admits he’s been out “huckleberryin’” only once in the past decade.

Back in the day, he’d set lofty goals to harvest at least 10 gallons each summer, scouring the North Idaho mountainsides near Fourth of July Pass for the tiny purple gems.

Despite the self-described huckleberry enthusiast’s recent lack of attention toward the mountain’s berry bounty, Culbreth is now celebrating a remarkable huckleberry milestone. After six long, patient years, the 77-year-old farmer is seeing berries for the first time on some of the more than 1,200 western huckleberry bushes he’s planted on his North Idaho farm, Culbreth Berry & Nut Farm outside of Rathdrum, Idaho.

“It’s been tough to get the huckleberries to do anything, and now this year they did, and I can’t put my finger exactly on why,” Culbreth says. “Is it the size? The weather? The soil?”

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After retiring in 2001 from a career as a computer systems analyst, Culbreth decided to try his hand at farming, buying the farm plot in 2007, a piece of land that was nothing but weeds. Today, his farm produces blueberries, blackberries, grapes, cherries, apples, several nut varieties — and now huckleberries — across 15 acres.

Though he knew it would take years for the carefully tended juvenile bushes to produce, he’d just about given up on the idea of trying to mass-grow the highly soughtafter berries. When bushes would die off over the winter, he’d replant new ones. This spring, he didn’t.

“I said, ‘They have to go. All the huckleberries have to go, and I’m going to just stick with blueberries,’” Culbreth recalls. “But then I got flowers and huckleberries — I scared ’em. They produced! You can imagine what I’m going to tell them next year,” he laughs.

Most of the now-fruiting plants were put into the ground six years ago as tiny seed starts that Culbreth

procured from the Tekoa, Washington-based nursery Plants of the Wild. Others came from a University of Idaho agricultural research nursery in Sandpoint, where for more than a dozen years, a team led by horticulture specialist Dan Barney worked to unlock huckleberries’ secrets of domestic propagation. Though some success with fruiting bushes was observed by the now-defunct program, the huckleberry still doesn’t appear ready for commercialized farming. With his first year of berries, Culbreth might be on the path to huckleberry farming success, though it’s still early.

For now, berry lovers still have to hike up into the woods, plucking away for hours to get their fill in both bellies and buckets. Even if horticulturists do succeed in creating a domesticated huckleberry plant, there are arguably those who will still choose the wild, natural route.

All of these reasons and more also explain why the tiny, stubborn berries have become elevated to an almost mythological quality here in the Western U.S. Never letting us in on the mystery of their finicky growing requirements, even experienced backyard gardeners are likely to have poor results when trying to get a bush planted from wild huckleberry seeds to produce fruit.

At Plants of the Wild, where Culbreth bought most of his starts, employees haven’t heard of any other operations in the region that have managed to pull off what the Rathdrum farmer has.

“We hear back every once in awhile of people being able to keep the plant alive, but not so much for berry production,” says Plants of the Wild nursery manager

Kathy Hutton. She adds that most customers who buy the company’s huckleberry starts are small-scale home growers.

“We sell to them with the caution that it’s very difficult to produce berries other than in a natural area, but people want to try anyway because they are curious, and they want to figure out the solution,” Hutton adds.

Plants of the Wild also sells bush starts to the U.S. Forest Service and other federal wildland agencies for plant remediation projects in disturbed forested areas damaged by fires or other causes.

Huckleberries have long proven difficult to grow domestically.

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rowing up in North Carolina — host to a different species of huckleberry than what you’ll find in the West — Culbreth has fond memories of berry picking as a child.

“I’ve eaten huckleberries for a long time, and I’ve always loved ’em, and I thought ‘I’m gonna grow some,’” he says. “I was looking for something different. I don’t like to do what everyone else is doing, and I love huckleberries, and everyone in the family loves huckleberries.”

A careful student of his largely uncharted discipline, Culbreth has taken into account factors like the soil pH, bringing it down to levels found where wild huckleberries grow. He also gives the bushes more water and fertilizer than they’d get in the wild, with the hopes they’ll favor those conditions in their current setting.

It may be too soon to tell for sure whether Culbreth’s huckleberries will continue producing on a consistent, wide scale, yet already, the fact that it’s not just one bush here and one bush there producing the berries this summer is a promising sign. Walking down the raised rows of berry bushes, he parts the branches to reveal a few deep purple orbs hiding among the waxy leaves.

“A lot of times you won’t see them on the top — you have to look down inside,” he indicates. “These aren’t very big and not very pretty, but they’re berries.”

Planted alongside the huckleberries are taller, branching blueberry bushes, heavy with clusters of indigo orbs. Culbreth has planted them alongside in an attempt to help shade the stouter huckleberries, which grow wild in the shade of evergreens. Japanese heartnut, peach and apple trees interspersed along the rows also provide some protection to the huckleberries.

While he’s still astounded to see his plants producing the elusive berries this season, one looming issue concerns Culbreth. So far, the berries are much more tart than any specimens harvested from the forest. It’s not the taste he’s looking for.

Improving the flavor will determine if and when Culbreth can harvest and sell the berries commercially, likely to area restaurants and food producers. For the rest of the season, he’ll focus on one day at a time, observing the bushes and continuing to tastetest to find that perfect mix of tart and sweet.

“If we can’t get that huckleberry taste, I don’t have a market,” he says. “But we’re over the big hurdle. We can get berries now,” he adds, joking: “Maybe I’ll come out and sprinkle sugar around every night.” n

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Revolver Bar & Lounge owners Romeo Villaro and Amanda Haines are accustomed to heading into work when the bar opens at 5 pm, but having four kids, the couple wanted to open a place they could bring the kids in to visit. So a few weeks ago, they opened a family-friendly pizza place — Slice Pints & Pies.

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With covered umbrella seating, benches and large picnic tables, the patio will soon have a projector to show late night movies. There are also plans to add a projection screen inside to show games alongside the two TVs. Slice hosted an Afroman ENTRÉE Get the scoop on local concert in the parking lot to food news with our weekly celebrate its grand opening last Entrée newsletter. Sign up month. Villaro says they plan to at Inlander.com/newsletter. host more events co-sponsored with the Viking, along with a DJ on the patio during weekend nights.

“Our four kids obviously can’t come in and visit us at our other spots,” says Villaro. “But they were actually able to come in and eat lunch here the other day. Now that was awesome.”  Slice Pints & Pies • 829 E. Boone • Open Mon-Sun, 11 am-2 am • Facebook: SLICE Pints and Pies • 241-3001

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Short Order A new food truck on the scene serves up specialty burgers and fries in the Shadle Park area

BY CHEY SCOTT

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he converted school bus just showed up one day in early June, and it hasn’t left its parking spot near the corner of Rowan and Maple since, catching the eyes and tempting the hungry stomachs of northbound commuters with its mustard-yellow paint and a wooden sign along the top emblazoned with its name — Short Bus Bistro.

The newly debuted burgers-and-fries food truck — or, rather, food bus — is the result of an ongoing project by four Spokane friends who spent more than two-and-a-half years retrofitting the bus they bought from a Tri-Cities church.

For now, thanks to an agreement with owners of the S & B Mart gas station and convenience store where it’s parked, Short Bus Bistro has a semi-permanent home on the north end of the Shadle neighborhood. Its business partners have close ties to the surrounding area, having converted the vehicle into a full-sized commercial kitchen just blocks away.

“We love the Shadle area, and the idea is to provide a good neighborhood food truck that people know is

Short Bus Bistro co-owners, from left to right, Justin Dennis, Richard Reidt and Chris Crow spent years retrofitting the bus’s kitchen. going to be around, and they can come get lunch here,” says co-owner Richard Reidt, who developed Short Bus Bistro’s menu of gourmet-style burgers and sandwiches.

Reidt also works in dining services at the Mukogawa Institute in Spokane, and has gained culinary experience from traveling around the world. He and the rest of the business’ four-man team — consisting of Justin Dennis, Chris Crow and Adam Bellotty — split their time between working the food truck, which also offers catering services, and other day jobs.

Short Bus Bistro’s concise menu of nine burgers and chicken sandwiches ($8) are each named after the respective culinary regions in the U.S. they were inspired by. There’s the Bitterroot, after the Northwest mountain region, with blueberry sauce, peppered bacon, toasted marshmallow, mayo and fresh onion atop a Yakimaraised beef patty. Paying homage to the South is the Bayou, with Cajun-seasoned fried chicken; and the

Alamo is a tribute to Texas with housemade barbecue sauce and pickles. Other sandwiches take after Midwest and Hawaiian cuisine. For those who want to keep their burger simple, the Classic sticks to its roots with onion, pickles, cheese, ketchup and mustard ($5). You can add fries to all orders for an extra $2, or add a larger side order for $4.

“We understand that cheeseburgers are an oversaturated market — there is a McDonald’s and a Burger King and a Zip’s on every corner — but when you think about where to go here to get the best burger, we never thought there was a place like that in Spokane,” Reidt says. “And we want to be that place.” n Short Bus Bistro • Open Tue-Sat, 11 am-8 pm; Sun, 11 am-5 pm • Corner of Maple Street and Rowan Avenue, Spokane • Facebook: Short Bus Bistro • shortbusbistro@gmail.com

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BURGERS D. LISH’S HAMBURGERS 1625 N. Division | 323-7130 D. Lish’s serves up juicy burgers that are, well, delicious. Go ahead and take a pass on the many fast-food joints lining North Division, and hit up this classic place for a top-quality lunch or dinner. It’s fast-food cheap, with a lot more taste, and you can basically customize your burger, adding more patties, veggies or cheese as you go.

Splurge on the fries, too.

HOP JACK’S 9265 N. Nevada | 465-1880 The Washington state chain bills itself as a “neighborhood gathering place,” and this location near the North Division Y appeals to local families, college students and tired shoppers who just couldn’t get out of Home Depot in time to cook dinner. There are 14 burgers to choose from. Try the jalapeño burger, which comes fully loaded with jalapeño peppers, pepper jack and bacon. But the hook is the drink menu, with fruity martinis served in glasses made of ice and 34-degree tap beer.

HUDSON’S HAMBURGERS 207 E. Sherman Ave. | Coeur d’Alene 208-664-5444 Don’t order fries (they don’t have ’em). Don’t ask for lettuce or tomatoes or any frou-frou blue cheese on your burger (they don’t have any of that, either). Just order one of Hudson’s no-frills burgers. They’ll shape the patty in front of you, throw it on the grill, and once you take a bite, you’ll understand why Inlander readers consistently vote Hudson’s their Best North Idaho Burger, and why after 109 years in business, it’s become an Idaho must-see.

POST STREET ALE HOUSE 1 N. Post | 789-6900 Post Street’s prime downtown Spokane location across from the Davenport Hotel draws a mix of businessmen, concertgoers, sports fans and college kids. If you go, try the burger, which pairs well with the house sauce. Feeling more adventurous? Go for the fried pickle, a sweet, deep-fried morsel that can be enjoyed with one of their 26 beers.

THE RUSTY MOOSE 9105 W. Hwy. 2 | 747-5579 It may only be five minutes west of

Hudson’s is consistently voted North Idaho’s Best Burger. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO downtown Spokane, but the ambience of the Rusty Moose makes you feel like you’re in a cozy mountain resort. The restaurant serves up 16 types of burgers, as well as sandwiches, wraps and seasonally served fresh fish. You can leave with a full belly, but don’t leave empty-handed: Rusty’s sells three exclusive varieties of spices, as well as glassware, coffee and signature wine.

WADDELL’S PUB & GRILL 4318 S. Regal | 443-6500 This South Hill sports-bar stalwart does everything well, from the 30 beers (some of which are brewed at Waddell’s own brewery in north Spokane) on tap to the slate of wellexecuted pub grub. It does everything you’d expect, and one thing you

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Your new Ghostbusters, from left: Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon, Kristen Wiig and Leslie Jones.

The Ghostbusters reboot dishes out laughs with a new team of ghoul chasers

BY MARYANN JOHANSON

M

y reaction to the idea of an all-female Ghostbusters reboot? I’m desperate for movies about women doing all sorts of things — including silly stuff like engaging in experimental particle physics, playing around with total protonic reversal and saving New York City — but I’d also like women to get their own stories and the opportunity to create their own iconic characters.

I knew that even if this remake turned out to be completely amazing, any success would come with an asterisk. There would always been the “real” Ghostbusters — the original 1984 movie — and the “girl” Ghostbusters.

Women deserve better than to be constantly tagged as the lesser, the other, the not-quite-as-good.

I still believe all of that. But I’m getting to have my feminist cake and eat it too, because Saturday Night Live badass Kate McKinnon has gone and created an instantly iconic new character in gleefully reckless physicist and tinkerer Jillian Holtzmann, simultaneously a snappy dresser, a devil-may-care snarkster, a master of the mysteries of the universe, and a creator of cool crap that goes “boom!” Holtzmann is clearly the analogue here for Harold Ramis’ Egon Spengler from the original movie,

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but she’s nothing like him. She’s nothing like any female character The Movies have ever seen. She’s powerful in a way that has nothing to do with her appeal to men, all too frequently the only power women onscreen are allowed to deploy. She’s brainy comic mayhem, a touch of Back to the Future’s Doc Brown and a whole lotta the Doctor (Doctor Who, that is). She’s the authority of science combined with the freedom of GHOSTBUSTERS no f---s given, Rated PG-13 and she’s not the Directed by Paul Feig sort of woman Starring Kate McKinnon, Melissa McCarthy, we typically see Kristen Wiig, Leslie Jones women granted the cultural permission to be.

This new Ghostbusters would be worth hailing for Holtzmann alone... but happily, there’s much more to cheer. The snappy script by director Paul Feig and Katie Dippold zings from the movie’s opening moments with cunning, snappy verve, often out of left field: pay close attention to the commentary offered in the opening scene by the tour guide of an historic NYC mansion that soon

turns up haunted. The plot follows a similar track to that of the original, with Columbia University physics professor Erin Gilbert (Kristen Wiig) and the more paranormally inclined academic Abby Yates (Melissa McCarthy) teaming up, along with Holtzmann, to hunt down the ghosts suddenly showing up all over town.

Both actors have toned down their sometimes overamped comic personas here, making it less easy to determine which characters from the original films Gilbert and Yates are shadows of: simultaneously, they’re neither and both Dan Aykroyd’s Ray Stantz and Bill Murray’s Peter Venkman. As with the authentically fresh Holtzmann, they aren’t attempting to imitate anyone, which distinguishes this movie from the spate of far more reprocessed reboots, remakes and do-overs we’ve been subjected to of late.

Unlike the original — in which ghosts started appearing at precisely, by pure coincidence, the same moment when a new business came into existence to deal with them — there’s actually a reason baked into the story about why ghosts are now popping up, prompting the formation of Gilbert’s and Yates’ project, which isn’t an entrepreneurial effort but a scientific research endeavor to capture and study them. Baked into that reason is the feminism of this new Ghostbusters. (Sorry, boys who are afraid of girls: this is an unabashedly feminist movie. But it’s still super fun, promise!)

There are a few not-really-throwaway lines of dialogue about nasty comments the women receive online, as in a response to videos of ghosts they post on YouTube; these comments are nearly identical to some of those that the mere idea of this movie itself has generated.

Far more incisive is the villain of the piece, a literally basement-dwelling creep (Neil Casey) who justifies the very bad things he does as his way of striking back at bullies. Contrast this with Gilbert’s and Yates’ tales of being denigrated for their deliciously dorky oddness.

Guy treated badly wants to end the world; gals treated badly turn their pain into something positive, and find themselves in a position to save the world. 

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Hunt for the Wilderpeople

OPENING FILMS GHOSTBUSTERS

The plot follows a similar track to that of the original, with Columbia University physics professor Erin Gilbert (Kristen Wiig) and the more paranormally inclined academic Abby Yates (Melissa McCarthy) teaming up, along with Jillian Holtzmann (Kate McKinnon) and Patty Tolan (Leslie Jones) to hunt down the ghosts suddenly showing up all over town. (MJ) Rated PG-13

HUNT FOR THE WILDERPEOPLE

Up-and-coming New Zealand director Taika Waititi is responsible for last year’s acclaimed horror/comedy What We Do In The Shadows, and has already secured a gig directing Marvel’s upcoming third Thor film. Before he jumps into blockbuster territory, Waititi graces us with Wilderpeople, a coming-of-age story set in the director’s home country. The film focuses on the relationship between a boy and his new foster father as they go on the run in the New Zealand wilderness. At Magic Lantern (IH) Rated PG-13

NOW PLAYING THE BFG

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

CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE

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

THE CONJURING 2

The first installment of this franchise scared the living bejeezus out of a lot of people with its stylistic and campfree approach to the tried-and-true

haunted house story. This time, Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson return as demonologists Lorraine and Ed Warren, but this now they’re in London where a single mother and her kids are suffering from a house riddled with seriously messed-up monsters and ghosts. (MB) Rated R

DARK HORSE

This documentary chronicles a group of blue-collar Welsh friends who resolve to take on the giants of the horse-racing industry by breeding their own racehorse, named Dream Alliance. The horse goes on to become an unlikely contender at a myriad of competitive events, forming the basis of this inspirational film. At Magic Lantern (IH) Rated PG

FINDING DORY

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

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FREE STATE OF JONES

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

(LJ) Rated R

INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE

It’s been two decades since Independence Day was released, and with the Fourth of July approaching, it’s coming back. Director Roland Emmerich is bringing the aliens back to invade planet Earth and take out the human race in the long-awaited sequel that somehow doesn’t feature Will Smith. This time the human race unites to fight off the invasion with enhanced technologies they obtained after the earlier attack. (KL) Rated PG-13

THE INFILTRATOR

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

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(IH) Rated PG-13

THE LOBSTER

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MIKE AND DAVE NEED WEDDING DATES

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

NEIGHBORS 2

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

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

NOW YOU SEE ME 2

Enough people saw the FBI-mystifying magical antics of the Four Horsemen (Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Lizzy Caplan and Dave Franco) in the first movie to warrant a globe-trotting sequel, in which the quick-witted illusionists are blackmailed by a nasty tech magnate (Daniel Radcliffe) into stealing an all-powerful chip capable of controlling every computer in the world. (DN) Rated PG-13

PURGE ELECTION YEAR

The annual purge is back and the one goal is survival. The third movie in the series takes place during an election where Frank Grillo’s character is head of security for a U.S. Senator front-runner portrayed by Elizabeth Mitchell. As certain candidates campaign against the purge, hostility and vengeance arises from the government come Purge night.

(KL) Rated R

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THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS

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

THE SHALLOWS

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

SWISS ARMY MAN

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

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: OUT OF THE SHADOWS

The second installment in this rebooted franchise is about an alien who wants to take over Earth for the usual reasons (i.e., no plausible ones) and it all plays like the script was written by an 8-year-old. The creepy anthropomorphized titular come across as a child’s idea of what being a grown-up must be like: all pizza parties and hanging out in your own cool hidden clubhouse. When you’re not fighting aliens with your ninja powers, of course. (MJ) Rated PG-13 

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by Max’s friends, other Starring the voices of Louis C.K., (the voice of Ellie Kemper), neighborhood pets such as Eric Stonestreet, Kevin Hart, Ellie Kemper is thrown into disarray when Gidget the fluffball handshe brings home his “new brother,” Duke (the bag dog (the voice of Jenny Slate, who just about voice of Eric Stonestreet), a large, shambling, steals the show), and Chloe the cat (the voice of clumsy sheepdoggy creature. Comedy of disaster Lake Bell). ensues when their competition for the spot of Pets is pure joy, unencumbered by anything of top dog in the household results in them being import greater than a gentle message to take care separated from their inattentive afternoon huof our companion animals: the putative villain of man dog-walker and lost in the Big City. Their the piece, discarded magician’s bunny Snowball adventures along the path back home are cleverly (the voice of Kevin Hart), is nowhere near as constructed and amusingly rendered by a team of evil as he thinks he is; he’s just crushed by his mostly Despicable Me/Minions vets — co-directors abandonment and lashing out because of it. The Chris Renaud and Yarrow Cheney, screenwriters laser-sharp focus on home, family and friendKen Daurio, Brian Lynch and Cinco Paul — and ship to the exclusion of all else seems the perfect breathe with the same wacky inventiveness of the evocation of how our pets might feel. 

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The Avett Brothers just landed their first overall No. 1 on the Billboard charts.

Still Life The Avett Brothers have worked for years to get to the top, and they’ll never stop evolving

BY LAURA JOHNSON

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heir songs are already known. People sing and scream every word at their often-sold-out shows all around the country. But finally last week, the Avett Brothers’ latest effort True Sadness took Billboard’s top-selling album title — a first for the band.

“I’d have to go back to the 15-years-ago self,” says Scott Avett, who along with brother Seth started the

North Carolina-based folk/bluegrass/rock band in 2000.

“If someone said, ‘You’re going to embark on a journey and you won’t have a hit until 15 years into your career,’ I wouldn’t have believed them.”

Still, he wasn’t completely surprised. He says that after all of the work they’ve put in (touring constantly, recording nine studio albums) and the luck they’ve had

along the way (Mumford & Sons helping to take folk music into the mainstream), this was the next logical step.

“But the mountain didn’t move when our manager texted us with the news,” Scott says. “We still had a show; I was still talking to my wife about sending the kids to summer camp. Life moves on.” ...continued on next page

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t began with a suggestion. What if they took the new album’s songs and remixed them? Scott says that famed producer Rick Rubin, who has worked on the Avetts’ past four records, was only spitballing, not dictating. But they liked the challenge. So along with core members Bob Crawford (standup bass) and Joe Kwon (cello) and others, they recorded electronic/pop versions of the mostly acoustic tunes.

Scott calls the process eye-opening.

“We all agreed even if we didn’t choose those tracks, we didn’t lose anything, it would change us and inform us,” he says.

“That’s the bigger point — rather than making something that would upset people or please them, to move forward with this craft that we do.”

They’ve been living with the songs on True Sadness for two years, and are glad to take the new tunes on the road this summer — including a stop in Airway Heights next week, where they’ll decide the playlist the day of, as they do for all of their shows.

Not everyone is thrilled about the new direction. Reading the dissenting opinions, the ones that say they’ve sold out or they’re trying to make a Top 40 pop record, are upsetting, Scott says. He read one review that didn’t appreciate the canned clapping on the opening track “Ain’t No Man.” “Of course, I was there in the studio with nine other people doing the clapping for that,” he says. “People can have their opinion, I shouldn’t say much of anything. But that song, the big chorus, was written 10 years ago. It’s hard.”

Even back when Scott was still in charge of the band’s website, fans were sending him emails outraged that other groups of folks were coming out to the shows, as if the band could only be owned by a select few. “They want the masses, and then when they come, it’s difficult to let go,” Scott says.

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oday, Scott’s out and about on his farm in Concord, North Carolina, the scenic area he was raised in and sees no reason to leave. It’s part of why the band likes to play smaller venues (they’re not playing Seattle this time around).

“Early on, we built what we do by accidently dodging the major markets,” Scott says. “It was a misstep in some ways, but we understand the mentality of smaller cities; we grew up in one.

The depth is never-ending, and you kind of know what to expect there.”

After 2013’s Magpie and the Dandelion, the band time took some time to regroup. Seth Avett went through a divorce, then started dating Dexter’s Jennifer Carpenter. They closed ranks and barely talked to the media. But this new album addresses issues (“Divorce Separation Blues”) and a certain theme runs throughout: you aren’t perfect, but try to be good anyway.

In March, Seth posted a letter to fans on the band’s website: “Scott and I lead different lives, but we are, as we have always been, fully invested in one another’s stories.”

Scott says he’s ready to keep making the music. He says that they could record a new album this weekend, given the chance.

But they don’t want to annoy people with even more tunes.

At 40, Scott says he hasn’t learned much about life. But one thing he’s realized is that it’s easy to accumulate way too much stuff.

“At this age you really start looking, you’ve worn a black T-shirt and a blue button-up shirt every day, you’re not going to wear that rhinestone jacket,” he says. “I’m feeling minimalist lately. I’d like to see me living lower than I can be, because it’s enough.”  lauraj@inlander.com

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Gene Simmons (far right) is ready to show off that infamous tongue come Friday night.

They Love It Loud

Gene Simmons talks bombast, Beatles and, oh yeah, songs

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ven if he didn’t breathe fire, spit blood and flap his stupendous serpentine tongue constantly on stage, Gene Simmons would still have one of the most famous mouths in rock.

The KISS co-founder and brains behind their over-the-top marketing ploys — getting buried in a KISS Koffin? Thank Gene — loves to talk. In a short phone conversation, he does a lot of talking: • About his band’s success: “We have more gold records than any other group in American history.”

• About the evils of alcohol: “I’ve never subscribed to the romantic notion of ‘Wow, look at that guy, he’s cool. He’s wasted.’ No, he’s a loser, he’s wasted.”

• About why he and Paul Stanley are the two

original KISS members still going 43 years in: “Ace (Frehley) and Peter (Criss) were terrific in the beginning. We were all-for-one and one-for-all. And then a few years on, when all the big money and fame and chicks come along, no one says ‘no’ to your face. And self-destruction happened.”

This summer, the band renowned for monstersize shows full of lights and pyrotechnics is hitting smaller towns than typical. Simmons says it’s a return to the band’s roots.

“It’s how we cut our teeth,” he says. “When we first started, we went to places that the rest of the world never heard of. Ypsilanti. Mankato. They’re real cities, real cool people live there. And where you’re born and where you live is every bit as cool as London, Paris, New York, except they get all the

headlines.”

The hits will come fast and furious — “If I see the Stones and they’re not playing ‘Satisfaction,’ I get pissed off” — so longtime fans can expect to hear classics like “Rock and Roll All Nite” and “Detroit Rock City.” And even though Spokane Arena is no Dodger Stadium, the show won’t lack its typical explosive eye candy. “We’re bringing the full kit and caboodle,” Simmons says. “Your girlfriend’s been lying all these years, size DOES count, and we’re bringing all of it.”

Subtle, right?

Still, there’s no denying the entertainment value of a KISS show.

Stanley and Simmons, along with guitarist Tommy Thayer and drummer Eric Singer, put in a hard night’s work when they hit the stage.

And while it doesn’t seem like KISS will ever slow down, Simmons, now 66, admits that the end is in sight.

“Let’s not kid ourselves,” he says. “Although (Mick) Jagger and Charlie Watts and those guys are 73 or 74, and I think (Paul) McCartney has got to be 73, 74, I can’t do that. I love McCartney to death, but imagine McCartney at 73 in KISS, putting on the dragon boots — that’s seven inches — wearing 50 pounds of armor, spitting fire and flying through the air. He would pass out in the middle of a show.” n dann@inlander.com KISS and Caleb Johnson • Fri, July 15, at 8 pm • $39.50/$59.50/$89.50/$125 • Spokane Arena • 720 W. Mallon • spokanearena.com • 279-7050

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nyone who’s read Nathan Rabin’s book You Don’t Know Me but You Don’t Like Me: Phish, Insane Clown Posse, and My Misadventures with Two of Music’s Most Maligned Tribes, knows that hitting up a Phish show means hanging out with a bunch of folks who love the band more than almost anything else in the world. This is a four-piece rock group that hasn’t had many major radio hits, but through decades of playing highly creative and lengthy improvisational sets — each one different than the next, sometimes not turning out so well — they keep their fan base coming back for more shows. Last at the Gorge three years ago, Phish is back this weekend for two nights. The crew, which originated in Vermont, may not have great lyrics, but for those wanting to wade into the tradition and mystique of what it means to be a Phish follower, this is one of the greatest venues to do so.

Camping is available for the weekend beginning Thursday.

— LAURA JOHNSON Phish • Fri, July 15 and Sat, July 16, at 7:30 pm • $65/$110 twoday pass • All-ages • Gorge Amphitheatre • 754 Silica Road NW, Quincy, Wash. • livenation.com

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Thursday, 07/14

ARboR CReST WiNe CellARS, Keys West Dueling Pianos bARloWS AT libeRTy lAke, Sunny Nights Duo J The bARTleTT, Jessica Hernandez & the Deltas, Scott Ryan J The biG DiPPeR, Billy Strings, Moses Willey, No Going Back Band bolo’S, Inland Empire Blues Society Monthly Blues Boogie booMeRS ClASSiC RoCk bAR & GRill, Randy Campbell acoustic show booTS bAkeRy & louNGe, The Song Project J buCeR’S CoFFeehouSe Pub, Open Jazz Jam with Erik Bowen buCkhoRN iNN, The Spokane River Band J ChAPS, Spare Parts CoeuR D’AleNe CASiNo, PJ Destiny J CoeuR D’AleNe PARk, Coeur d’Alene Park Summer Concert Series feat. Carousel Calliope CRAFTeD TAP houSe + kiTCheN, Kicho CRAve, DJ Freaky Fred The CuliNARy SToNe (208-2774116), Chip Whitson FeDoRA Pub & GRille, Echo Elysim JohN’S Alley, Sneaky Pete & the Secret Weapons o’ShAyS, Open mic with Adrian and Leo The obSeRvAToRy, Vinyl Meltdown J oNe WoRlD CAFe (208-8833537), The Dancing Plague of 1518 The RiDleR PiANo bAR, The Bobby Patterson Band Rivelle’S (208-930-0381), Truck Mills and special guests Jam Night J RiveRSToNe PARk, Monarch Mountain Band J The PiN!, Vesuvius (Tragic Hero Records), Heart of An Awl, Fed to

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hris Cornell possesses one of the best rock voices of the past quarter-century, something that was obvious from the initial howls and growls of the first Soundgarden releases in the late ’80s and continuing through that band’s rise to megastardom, his years fronting supergroup Audioslave and several solo albums. His current tour features a quieter side of that voice; it’s primarily Cornell alone on stage with an acoustic guitar, tackling songs from throughout his career and filling rooms with his remarkable vocal instrument. The results are no less powerful than his full-on rock approach, judging by reviews from around the world. Expect songs from his folk-tinged 2015 release Higher Truth, along with plenty of old favorites and cover tunes; past shows have included nods to Prince, Michael Jackson, Led Zeppelin and Bob Marley. The show is officially sold out, but you can find tickets on the internet.

— DAN NAILEN Chris Cornell with Fantastic Negrito • Wed., July 20, at 8 pm • Sold out • Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox • 1001 W. Sprague • foxtheaterspokane.com • 624-1200

the Flames, Ghost Heart J TiMbeR GASTRo Pub (208-2629593), Just Plain Darin ZolA, Troubadour

Friday, 07/15

bAby bAR, GravelRoad, Spinning Whips, Supervillain J The bARTleTT, Chris Pureka, Sera Cahoone beveRly’S, Robert Vaughn J The biG DiPPeR, Bullets or Balloons, Sleepwell Citizen, Summer in Siberia biGFooT Pub, YESTERDAYSCAKE blACk DiAMoND, DJ Major One bolo’S, Whiskey Rebellion bullheAD SAlooN, Usual Suspects CloveR, Pat Coast CoNkliNG MARiNA & ReSoRT, Stagecoach West CRAFTSMAN CellARS, Lyle Morse CuRley’S, Somebody’s Hero J FeRRy CouNTRy FAiRGRouNDS,

Republic Motorcycle/ATV Rally & Music Festival feat. The Randy Hansen Band, The Led Zeppelin Experience and more FiZZie MulliGANS, Back at It Duo FoRTy-oNe SouTh (208-265-2000), Truck Mills J GoRGe AMPhiTheATeR, Phish (See story above) iRoN hoRSe bAR, Phoenix JohN’S Alley, Left Hand Smoke J lAGuNA CAFé, Just Plain Darin MAx AT MiRAbeAu, Jesse Weston MooSe louNGe, The Cary Fly Band MulliGAN’S bAR & GRille, Frank Moore NoDlAND CellARS (927-7770), Nicholas Schauer and Craig Landron NoRTheRN QueST CASiNo, DJ Ramsin The obSeRvAToRy, The Hague, Hard Sulks, The Colourflies J The PAloMiNo, Desolate Distruc-

tion, Burning Clean, Noctym’s Descent, Nova Babies PeND D’oReille WiNeRy, Justin Lantrip J DoWNToWN RAThDRuM, Rathdrum Days feat. The Spokane River Band J ReD lioN hoTel AT The PARk, Smash Hit Carnival The RiDleR PiANo bAR, Dueling Pianos feat. Christan Raxter & Steve Ridler J SPokANe AReNA, KISS (See story on page 51), Caleb Johnson The RoADhouSe, Stpbrothers ZolA, Sammy Eubanks

Saturday, 07/16

bARloWS AT libeRTy lAke, Just Plain Darin J The bARTleTT, The Cave Singers beveRly’S, Robert Vaughn J The biG DiPPeR, Beat City USA feat. Supervillain, Sales Wagon

biGFooT Pub, YESTERDAYSCAKE blACk DiAMoND, DJ Major One bolo’S, Whiskey Rebellion CoNkliNG MARiNA & ReSoRT, Stagecoach West CuRley’S, Somebody’s Hero DAley’S CheAP ShoTS, Mojo Box Di luNA’S CAFe, Laney Jones and the Spirits J DoWNToWN libeRTy lAke, Rock the Block feat. the Mountain Brothers J FeRRy CouNTRy FAiRGRouNDS, Republic Motorcycle/ATV Rally & Music Festival feat. Junkyard Jane, the Guy Johnson Band and more FiZZie MulliGANS, Back at It Duo J GoRGe AMPhiTheATeR, Phish (See story above) hoGFiSh, Bullets or Balloons, Sleepwell Citizen, Bird Fight iRoN hoRSe bAR, Phoenix The JACkSoN ST., DJ Dave lA RoSA Club, Open Jam

J LAKELAND HIGH SCHOOL, Rathdrum Days feat. Not Fragile, Blue Water Strangers, 3D Band MAX AT MIRABEAU, Jesse Weston J MCEUEN PARK, St. Vinny’s Party in the Park feat. the Kelly Hughes Band and Colby & Justin MOOSE LOUNGE, The Cary Fly Band MULLIGAN’S BAR & GRILLE, Pat Coast THE MUSEUM (844-2187), Enterprise Earth, Rot Monger, The Hallows, Blitchard NODLAND CELLARS TASTING ROOM, Ken Rokicki NORTHERN QUEST CASINO, DJ Ramsin THE OBSERVATORY, Graveshare, Dead See Squirrels, Lucky Chase THE PALOMINO, Jesse Quandt Band with Brenna Yaeger PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Deep Roots POST FALLS BREWING COMPANY (208-773-7301), Flying Mammals PROHIBITION GASTROPUB (4749040), Jazz Night feat. Mary Chavez J RED LION HOTEL AT THE PARK, Outdoor Concert Series feat.

Gladhammer THE RESERVE, Like Father Like Son, Tim Hales THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos feat. Christan Raxter & Steve Ridler J SOUTH PERRY STREET FAIR, Marshall McLean Band, Delbert, Super Sparkle, Silver Treason, Little Wolf, Grooveacre J SPRINGDALE SHOWCASE, Star Struck Music, Six-Strings n’ Pearls STATELINE SPEEDWAY (208-7735019), Northern Lights 2016 EDM festival feat. DJ ROgue, DJ Felon, DJ Crooze, Bon Panda Breaks, 1Slurr, DJ Shauk J STEEL ROSE GARAGE (208-6595711), Treaty Rock-a-Palooza feat.

The Rhythm Dawgs J THE PIN!, Saul, All But Lost, Toarn, Hermosa; LATE SHOW DJ Vibes, Young East, Young West THE ROADHOUSE, The Hankers ZOLA, Milonga

Sunday, 07/17

ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, Jesse Weston Band

BEYOND HOPE RESORT (208-2645251), Truck Mills with Brown Salmon Truck J THE BIG DIPPER, Perspective A Lovely Hand to Hold, Fell Better, Griffey, Wake Up Flora CHECKERBOARD BAR, Cake Alchemy COEUR D’ALENE CASINO, Kosh, Kicho CRAFTED TAP HOUSE + KITCHEN, Carli Osika CRUISERS, Son of Brad CURLEY’S, My Own Worst Enemy J FERRY COUNTRY FAIRGROUNDS, Republic Motorcycle/ATV Rally & Music Festival feat. Alive She Cried J THE FLAME (534-9121), Taste of Talent feat. Ragtag Romantics, Burning Clean, 37 Street Signs, Bret Allen, (Children of The Sun), Project X / Twist J HARVEST HOUSE (238-6970), Just Plain Darin IRON GOAT BREWING CO. (4740722), Christy Hays with Lucas McIntyre and Ripe Mangos IRON HORSE BAR, Riverboat Band JOHN’S ALLEY, Laney Jones J THE MUSEUM, Blessthefall, Like Moths to Flames, Get Scared, Picturesque J O’SHAYS IRISH PUB & EATERY, HoneyBee ZOLA, Evan Denlinger Trio

Monday, 07/18

RED ROOM LOUNGE, Open Mic with MJ The In-Human Beatbox ZOLA, Fus Bol

Tuesday, 07/19

J BABY BAR, Toner, New Circle, Local Pavlov, S1ugs THE JACKSON ST., DJ Dave LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Turntable Tuesday J MOSCOW FOOD CO-OP, Gefilte Trout J NORTHERN QUEST CASINO, The Avett Brothers (See story on page 49), Grace Potter THE OBSERVATORY, Cian Nugent, Marshal McLean THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Jam night with Gil Rivas J THE PIN!, Arkaik, Vale of Pnath, Singularity ZOLA, The Bucket List

Wednesday, 07/20 J THE BIG DIPPER, Rising Apalacia CAFE BODEGA, Five Minutes of Fame open mic J DOWNTOWN COEUR D’ALENE, Live After 5 feat. Chris Laterzo EICHARDT’S, Charley Packard J MARTIN WOLDSON THEATER AT THE FOX, [sold-out] Chris Cornell (See story on facing page), Fantastic Negrito J THE HIVE, The Wailers J THE NEST AT KENDALL YARDS, Rock the Nest feat. the Sextones THE OBSERVATORY, Early Show: Idlehands, The Bight, Deadlegs; Late Show: The Fabulous Miss Wendy, Casey MF Rogers & The One Man

Train Wreck J POOLE’S PUBLIC HOUSE (SOUTH HILL), Just Plain Darin PRINCE OF PEACE, POP Summer Concerts feat. Brown Sugar & Cream ZOLA, The Bossame

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COMMUNITY PARTY IN PERRY

Occupy your Saturday with all that the hip Perry District has to offer during the 17th annual South Perry Street Fair. This year’s community celebration hosts more than 80 vendors and booths, along with live music and entertainment that guests of all ages can enjoy. The musical lineup showcases local favorites the Marshall McLean Band, Silver Treason and a special reunion of the group Delbert the Band. The day’s festivities begin with South Perry Yoga Studio providing a free yoga session in the park at 9 am. Neighborhood activities take place throughout the day, including performances from the Spokane Taiko Drummers and the Grant School Drummers. Kids can separately enjoy their own pint-sized activities in the park.

— KRISTI LUCCETTA South Perry Street Fair • Sat, July 16, from 11 am-10pm; kids’ fair from 10 am-5 pm • Free • South Perry Business District, Spokane • southperrystreetfair.com

THEATER MUSIC TO OUR EARS

The Coeur d’Alene Summer Theatre’s second show of the year is a classic tale that’s sure to please viewers of all ages: The Music Man. Ever since debuting on stage in 1957, this Tony Award-winning musical has enthralled audiences with its pitch-perfect mixture of romance, comedy, warmth and catchy tunes. It’s a timeless tall tale, and an ideal non-outdoors summer outing for the whole family.

— ISAAC HANDELMAN The Music Man • July 14-31; Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm; Sun at 2 pm • $27-$49 • The Kroc Center • 1765 W. Golf Course Rd., Coeur d’Alene • cdasummertheatre.com • 208-660-2958

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THEATER A NIGHT TO REMEMBER

Everyone from the most die-hard opera fanatics to those who just want to get their feet wet should consider Opera Coeur d’Alene’s upcoming event, Opera on the Lake. This unique production features a performance of Johann Strauss’ legendary 1874 operatic romantic drama Die Fledermaus (in English, The Bat). A group of Coeur d’Alene’s best-known stage performers will entertain viewers onboard a cruise on scenic Lake Coeur d’Alene, while wine and food is served. Few classier ways exist to spend a summer evening.

— ISAAC HANDELMAN Opera on the Lake • Sun, July 17, boards at 6 pm • $50-$65 • The Coeur d’Alene Resort, Boardwalk Marina • 115 S. Second St. • operacda.com • 800-418-1485 ext. 1

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WORDS A HOMECOMING

Though he’s not been a resident of the Spokane area for several decades now, we still proudly lay claim to Inland Northwest native Sherman Alexie as one of our region’s most accomplished literary sons. Having written his way to the top with stories and novels inspired by his own life growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Wellpinit, the lauded Alexie is shaking up the publishing world again with his first-ever children’s book, Thunder Boy Jr. This Friday night, Alexie takes to the stage of the Bing to read aloud this new work, a lyrical tale about a young boy named after his father who longs to find a defining title of his own.

— CHEY SCOTT An Evening with Sherman Alexie • Fri, July 15, at 7 pm • Free; $3 suggested donation • Bing Crosby Theater • 901 W. Sprague • auntiesbookstore.com • 838-0206

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OUTDOORS ROUGH ROAD

Though last weekend was just host to the popular Dirty Dash mud run in Spokane, if you missed it or can’t get enough of the thrill that comes from plowing through puddles of mud, Idaho’s Kootenai County is host to its own mud run challenge this weekend. The annual Muddy Miles race is independently organized and benefits a good cause: Heritage Health’s Maryellen Fund, which provides access to health care for the area’s most vulnerable.

The 2-mile run is open to families (and kids as young as age 3), so rally up a team as ready and willing as you are to slog through the bog. Make sure to register ASAP, as registration closes the Friday night (July 15) before the race.

— CHEY SCOTT Muddy Miles • Sat, July 16, from 10 am-1 pm • $15-$35/person; $100-$150/ team • Race located at Highway 41 and Prairie Avenue, Post Falls • muddymiles.org • 208-415-0292

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I SAW YOU INVISIBLE MAN I saw you, having a great time with our old friends, bbqs and parties, replacing me with your new husband. I see our old friends but they don't see me.

Holidays, Birthdays, the birth of our first grandchild went unnoticed in my home by all except for me. They say one should be happy for other people and their fortunes and happiness. You see me acting happy for you. My kids see me acting happy for you.

No one else sees me.

SPOKANE STEELERS FANS As the season is getting closer I see you getting ready and amped up for football season. We need to plan a get together to greet and meet.

Check us out on FB: Spokane Steelers Fans so we can meet and plan for a fantastic football season. Don't go at it alone lets have a great time together and watch some football.

PLAYING BASKETBALL IN CDA ON THE 4TH OF JULY posting this for a friend who was too shy to say hi to you. You were playing basketball in CDA on the 4th of July around 4 pm. You're tall, dark skinned, and would have been wearing purple and yellow shoes and a black and white flag shirt. She is short, long highlighted hair, was wearing a black baseball hat, shorts, and chuck Taylors. She noticed you noticing her at the basketball court, and then saw you again walking to the bars around 5. If you think this is you or someone you know please send me and email at jeggwagner@ hotmail.com TREEFINGERS Shut the french door! I can't believe it's been a little over a month

since we really first saw one another, even though we have seen each other so many times before, Ladybug. I've seen who you are, who you were, and who you will be, and I can't wait to see what we will become.

Always grab 2 to share with me. I can't wait to see you again, whether it's up in a tree, dancing downtown, or in the middle of the night at Pooch's Perch watching the city lights dance across the color spectrum. <3 DEAR LOOKING So you are upset because your BF now has a girlfriend. How old are you? Grown-ups can have friends and relationships. Ever think that it because your inability to behave in an appropriate manner? Grow up, behave, act your age.

YOUNG AND CAREFREE I saw you first across the throng at the Saturday Market — you were looking for skirts, and I was watching the acrobats. Then I saw you walking on the beach at Manzanita, looking as peaceful as you had in months.

When you left to go to the reading, you looked young, carefree, and beautiful — more beautiful than the day we met, and I remembered how lucky I am to see you every day.

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another great 4th of July celebration!

PAPA MURPHY'S DANCING MAN To the dancing guy on 29th and SE Blvd: Thank you for sharing your moves. Your enthusiasm is contagious and always makes my day better. Keep on groovin!

CHEERS TO MELISSA MCCONNELL OF CLASSY LASS ILLUSTRATING who took on a near-impossible project for us; who was willing to draw our late son based on only a detailed description since he died before birth, and we didn't have any pictures; only what dreams revealed. She met the challenge and we were greeted with a superb, excellent picture of our son.

We cannot thank her enough for her time and talent. She even decided that a bigger picture would work better and refused to

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who put profits over the health of the public. It is time for all people to stand up to these producers and let them know we demand honest, clean, non-pesticide medicine, not altered by the greed of those producers who want to have huge crops at the expense of the health of all. Watch what they sell you at the retail marijuana stores, they are not selling you a medicinal grade clean product, they are selling you a plant contaminated with chemicals so that they can make more money.

WE LOVE SERVICE DOGS Re: "Jeers to Service Dogs" from last week's Inlander.

The issue we have is NOT with Service Dogs.

The issue we have is with irresponsible pet owners who PRETEND their "canine child" is a service animal. Like any spoiled child, they do not know how to behave in

If you need your chihuahua with you to keep you calm while you go to the supermarket, you do not need a ‘therapy dog.’ You just need therapy.

SEXY COP AT STARBUCKS Saw you at Starbucks in Hillyard Sunday July 10 sitting with a bunch of your colleagues. You: dark hair, bearded. me: blonde in a green dress.

Would love to get to know you, coffee maybe?

CHEERS A MAGICAL 4TH OF JULY Cheers to the 4th of July Celebration Committee and workers who did a terrific job at Riverfront Park this last week! I've been a professional magician for nearly 60 years and have worked with a lot of wonderful people in that time and this years Celebration Committee was certainly no exception! Everyone was professional and friendly and the crowds who caught my show were truly fantastic! So, thank you to everyone who let me know they enjoyed the magic show and cheers to everyone who put in the time and work to pull off

charge us for the size increase. Truly an artist with a heart of gold! Thank you so much, Melissa!

JEERS TRASHING THE ARTS Jeers to Riverfront Park for disrespecting the iconic runners sculpture on Spokane Falls Boulevard & Post by filling the empty spots with garbage cans. Get some class!

LEAVE FIDO AT HOME Cheers to Spokane for making prime firework-watching seats free this year but the jeers to my fellow Spokanites who thought it'd be a wonderful idea to bring their 4 legged friend along for this event. As I sat down with my family, I had 3 different groups of people come with their dogs in tow. People around me, myself included, started asking these owners about their dogs and wondered if they were going to be okay once the fireworks started. After many reassuring words, all owners were convinced their pups would

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

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

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CHARITY RUMMAGE SALE Offering a wide variety of items, including clothing, decorations, hardware and more.

Proceeds benefit church programs. July 16, 8 am-3 pm. Episcopal Church of the Resurrection, 15319 E. 8th. (926-6450) RIDE FOR LIFE The 16th annual event includes a barbecue, live/silent auctions and more. Proceeds support local children and their families affected by a cancer diagnosis. July 16, 10 am-6 pm. $25. Curley’s, 26433 W. Hwy 53, Post Falls. bit.ly/1qAFZC1 (710-7711) ZAK! CHARITY OPEN The annual dinner, auction and golf tournament benefits the Rypien Foundation, which supports local children with cancer. Dinner and auction ($125/person) on July 17 at Northern Quest; golf tournament on July 18 at the Kalispel Golf & Country Club. Kalispel Golf and Country Club, 2010 W. Waikiki Rd. zakcharityopen.org

COMEDY

COMEDY 2.0PEN MIC A competitive comedy open mic; with the winner getting $20. Thursdays, from 8-10 pm, through Aug. 4. Free. The District Bar, 916 W. First. (244-3279) KEVIN BOZEMAN A semi-finalist on NBC’s “Last Comic Standing” in 2010, this past summer Bozeman co-starred in the Indie film “Flat Chested” starring Alicia Witt and Luke Perry. July 14-16 at 8 pm, also July 16 at 10:30 pm. $10-$22.

Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com BEAT CITY USA! EPISODE 2 The local variety/late night talk show features live sketch comedy, recorded funnies, interviews with local artists and comedians, followed by a live musical performance. July 16, 7 pm. $5. The Big Dipper, 171 S. Washington. (863-8098) SAFARI Fast-paced, short-form improv games based on audience suggestions.

(Ages 16+) Saturdays at 8 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. (747-7045)

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BODIES HUMAN For the first exhibit in its new home, Mobius hosts six whole bodies, more than 100 individual organs, and transparent body slices that have been preserved through plastination, a technique that replaces bodily fluids with reactive plastics. Exhibit runs through Dec. 31; hours are Tu-Sat, 10 am-5 pm and Sun, 11 am-5 pm. (Recommended for ages 10+.) $15. Mobius Science Center, 331 N. Post. mobiusspokane.org (321-7137) RENDEZVOUS IN THE PARK Moscow’s summer music and arts festival, with live music, food, kids’ activities (Rendezvous for Kids, on July 14-15), a beer garden and more. This year’s headlines are Milonga, Ana Popovic, Jessica Hernandez & the Deltas. $12.50-$25/night or $50/three night pass. (Kids 12 and under are free with paid adult.) July 1416, Thu at 5:30, Fri at 5 pm and Sat at 5:30 pm. East City Park, 900 E. 3rd St. rendezvousinthepark.com COMMUNITY BLOOD DRIVE Register online or at the Kroc. All donors receive a T-shirt, a day pass to the center and are entered into a raffle. July 15, 9:30 am-2:30 pm. Kroc Center, 1765 W. Golf Course Rd. inbcsaves.org INLAND EMPIRE KENNEL ASSOCIATION ALL-BREED SHOW The annual

AKC-sanctioned all-breed dog show is open from 8:30 am-3 pm both days. Admission to the show is free, but there’s a $5 parking fee each day.

July 16-17. July 16 and July 17. Kootenai County Fairgrounds, 4056 N. Government Way. (456-3784) POCO HISTORICAL SOCIETY 50TH ANNIVERSARY A day to celebrate the society’s 50th year, with activities, info booths and more. July 16, 11 am-2 pm.

Pend Oreille County Museum, 402 S. Washinton Ave., Newport. pocmuseum. org (509-447-2770) ST. VINNY’S PARTY IN THE PARK Community event featuring live music by the Kelly Hughes Band, Colby Acuff and Justin Sherfey. Tickets include a pulled pork sandwich, sides and beverage, with proceeds benefiting St. Vincent de Paul North Idaho. Also includes a live/silent auction, beer garden, kids activities and more. July 16, 5 pm. $10.

McEuen Park, 420 E. Front St. stvincentdepaulcda.org (208-416-4717) BONNER COUNTY GARDEN TOUR After a one year hiatus, the Bonner County Gardeners Association announces the return of the popular garden tour.

This self-guided tour of eight gardens spans the county, from Kootenai to Garfield Bay. See details online. July 17, 10 am-5 pm. $10. bcgardeners.org MOORE-TURNER GARDEN TOURS Hear the history of the hillside garden, and how it was rediscovered and restored as it can be seen today. Tours offered July 17, 11 am; Aug. 3, 2 pm; and Aug. 21, 11 am. Free, donations accepted.

Moore-Turner Heritage Gardens, 507 W. Seventh. heritagegardens.org DOWNTOWN SCHOLARSHIP CAR SHOW A classic car show along Riverside Avenue. July 21, 6 pm. Downtown Spokane. downtown.spokane.net

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JAPANESE OBON FESTIVAL Featuring Japanese and Hawaiian food, games and crafts for kids, live music, traditional dancing, taiko drumming, an anime/manga cosplay and more. Also purchase traditional Japanese food, including small plates and senbei rice crackers. July 16-17, 11 am-7 pm. Free admission. Spokane Buddhist Temple, 927 S. Perry. (534-7954) NORTHWEST RENAISSANCE FEST The annual Renaissance festival and fair features live actors, sporting events, music and more. July 16-17, and 23-24, from 11 am-7 pm. $5-$35. Northwest Renaissance Festival, 6493 Hwy 291. nwrf.net (276-7728) PRIEST LAKE HUCKLEBERRY FEST The free, annual, family event hosts food and vendor booths, arts and crafts, live blue grass music by the Brad Keeler Trio and Jackie Fox and the Hounds, raffles, and more. At the Priest Lake Golf Course (152 Fairway Dr.). July 16, 10 am-5 pm. Free. bit.ly/29F6dPk SOUTH PERRY STREET FAIR The 17th annual street festival includes a parade, local vendor fair, live music and more.

July 16. Free. South Perry Business District. southperrystreefair.com

FILM

LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING Enjoy Peter Jackson’s masterful adaptations of Tolkien’s classic. July 15, 7-10 pm. Free. Spark Center, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. sparkwestcentral.org

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STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS An outdoor screening of the familyfriendly film hosted by the Friends of Pavillion Park. Movie starts at dusk. July 16. Free. Pavillion Park, 727 N. Molter Rd. (509-755-6726) AS YOU LIKE IT Shakespeare’s summertime romp through the Forest of Arden has become a thoughtfully glorious comedy of love and change in the hands of director Polly Findlay for this National Theatre production. July 17, 2 pm. $17. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave. friendsofthebing.org BENNY & JOON Following the film, the Spokane GeoTour publishes a new “Benny and Joon”-themed Geocache trail, highlighting places featured in the film. July 17, 9:30 am. $6. Garland Theater, 924 W. Garland Ave. garlandtheater.com/ (509-327-1050) FREE SUMMER MOVIES: HOME Showing as part of the Garland’s annual, free summer movie series for kids. July 1822, at 9:30 am. Free. Garland Theater, 924 W. Garland. (327-1050) THE DARK KNIGHT Screening as part of the Garland’s “Summer Camp 2016” series, this year featuring staff favorites. July 19, 7 pm and July 21, 5 pm. $2.50. Garland Theater, 924 W. Garland Ave. garlandtheater.com (327-1050) SPOKANE OUTDOOR MOVIES: NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM Offering outdoor, open-air seating and drive-in style in your car. $3-$5/person; $20/carload (four or more). Cash only entry at the gate. July 19, 7 pm. Joe Albi Stadium, Wellesley and Assembly. bit.ly/1RXjHzH OUTDOOR MOVIES AT RIVERFRONT PARK: ALADDIN The summer series eatures big screen outdoor movies, live entertainment, trivia and local food vendors. Seating opens at 7 pm; movies start at dusk. $5/person; ages 5 and under free. July 20, 7 pm. Riverfront Park, 705 N. Howard St. epiceap.com SPOKANE OUTDOOR MOVIES: THE MARTIAN Offering outdoor, open-air seating and drive-in style in your car. $3-$5/person; $20/carload (four or more). Cash only entry at the gate. July 20, 7 pm. Spokane County Raceway, 750 N. Hayford Rd. bit.ly/25MsykQ

FOOD & DRINK

CLASS & A GLASS A guided yoga/pilates class under the vineyard tent, open to all levels. Entry includes one glass of wine in a souvenir glass. July 15 and Aug. 19, from 5:30-9 pm. Ages 21+ only. $35/ session. Arbor Crest Wine Cellars, 4705 N. Fruit Hill Rd. arborcrest.com GREEN BLUFF CHERRY SEASON Trees are dripping with mid-summer’s ruby red fruit, and during the final weekends of July the picking is in its prime.

July 16-17, 23-24 and 30-31. Green Bluff Growers. greenbluffgrowers.com NORTHWEST WINEFEST The second annual event returns, adding another day of events, which include live music, wine tasting, food vendors, arts and crafts vendors, family activities and more. $20 for wine glass with 10 tickets; additional tickets available. July 1617. Schweitzer Mountain Resort, Sandpoint. schweitzer.com (208-263-9555) #FOODIEDELIGHT: RED WHITE & THE BLUES Join Mont Lamm Farm to Table for an evening of American barbecue, with a five-course menu created by Chef LJ Klink. July 17, 4:30-7:30 pm. $65/person. Mont Lamm Events, 7501 Enoch Rd. (389-3666)

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I’ve always been a very athletic guy. I do jujitsu every day. When I don’t exercise, I feel depressed. My girlfriend, however, has never been very physically active. She has a great body — naturally slim — without doing anything, which is probably why she’s unmotivated to work out. I just think that if she did — even a little — she’d look like a superhero and feel better. I keep urging her to exercise, but it’s not working. How do I encourage her?

—Concerned

There’s that saying, “You are what you eat.” Apparently, your girlfriend ate a supermodel.

Numerous studies find that exercise is a mood booster and improves our cognitive abilities (like memory), even protecting them into old age. Incredibly, a study on female twins by geneticist Tim Spector found that those with fitter leg muscles showed fewer signs of aging in their brain 10 years later. But we humans have a very now-oriented psychology. So, for many people — like women who shave their legs before stepping on the scale — these pluses are merely fringe benefits of workouts for jiggle management. And unfortunately, when your girlfriend looks in the mirror, she sees that all those runs to the vending machine seem to be paying off.

It’s sweet and loving that you want her to have the benefits of exercising, but stand back, because I’m about to make a big mess slaughtering a sacred cow. Dr. Michael Eades and Dr. Mary Dan Eades, low-carb pioneers whose evidence-based approach to dietary medicine I have great respect for, dug into the research on exercise after meeting professional fitness trainer Fredrick Hahn. They were surprised at what they found and ended up writing a book with Hahn — “The Slow Burn Fitness Revolution.”

In their book, they note that many of the ways people exercise actually don’t do all that much for their bodies or long-term health. For example, they say that many endurance workouts — like the 7-mile runs I used to do — are “tremendously inefficient” for improving health and often come with some serious costs, like the need to have your knees rebuilt with medical Tupperware.

They also write that many sports that people consider exercise — including tennis, skiing, and (sorry!) martial arts — have some fitness benefits but would better be considered play. They explain that exercise should do all of the following: 1. Make you stronger. 2. Improve your cardiovascular system. 3. Help you lose excess body fat. 4. Improve your endurance. 5. Improve your flexibility. And 6. Preserve or increase your bone density and muscle mass.

The one exercise that does all of these things is slow-motion strength training.

This involves lifting extremely heavy weights — weights that you can barely lift at all — extremely slowly. You do just three to six reps in 60- or 90-second intervals — to the point where your muscles just scream and give out.

By the way, though it says on the cover of their book that you can change your body by working out like this for just 30 minutes weekly, Mary Dan Eades told me that you really only have to do it for 12 to 15 minutes a week but they figured nobody would believe that.

Now maybe you’re saying, “Come on…weightlifting for cardio?” Consider that your heart is a muscle and muscle cells need oxygen as they work. Mike Eades explains on his blog that conditioning your muscles through strength training makes the body more efficient at getting oxygen into muscle cells, which is what improves your cardiopulmonary function — not all the pound, pound, pound of a run.

As for how to get your girlfriend into this kind of exercise, first, it helps to explain that it requires a ridiculously small time commitment — far less than it takes for her to do “natural look” makeup (which, ironically, can take 40 minutes or more to apply). Of course, there’s still the problem of motivating her — considering how all she has to do to fit into her skinny jeans is have a plate of french fries and a nap.

Well, when you’re in a relationship, you get to make requests of your partner — things you ask them to do simply because it would make you happy. Put your request in that light, but give her an attractive (rebellion-quashing) timetable: For just three weeks, try slow-motion strength training with you. If, after that time, she hates it, she can stop. Mary Dan Eades explains that the three-week “try this” allows a person to experience some benefits, which often motivates them to keep going. If she does really get into it, be prepared: This eliminates any need to drag you kicking and screaming to the altar; she can just hoist you over her shoulder.  ©2016, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. • Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405 or email AdviceAmy@aol.com (www.advicegoddess.com)

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SAVING YOUR OWN SEEDS Learn how to save your own seeds from your garden. Snacks provided. July 21, 2-4 pm.

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KPBX KIDS CONCERT: MESHUGGA DADDIES Enjoy Klezmer music from Rick Singer, Eugene Jablonsky, Liz Dreisbach, Steve Reich and Larry Weiser. In the Lair Auditorium. July 15, 12-1 pm. Free. Spokane Community College, 1810 N. Greene. (328-5729) MUSIC UNDER THE OAKS FEAT. PAMELA BENTON A new, four-part summer concert series hosted by the Bemiss Neighborhood Council , C.O.P.S., and the City of Spokane. July 15, 6:308:30 pm. Free. Hays Park, Crestline and Providence. (303-818-4147) COMPLETE UNACCOMPANIED BACH CELLO SUITES Dr. Kevin Hekmatpanah performs in a two–part series to benefit residents of Hillyard. July 17, 1 pm.

Free, donations accepted. St. Patrick’s Parish, 5021 N. Nelson. bit.ly/290FuIq KIDSTOCK A live concert on the lake, with all proceeds benefiting the preschool programs at Priest Lake Elementary. July 17. Hill’s Resort, 4777 W. Lakeshore Rd. hillsresort.com OPERA CDA: DIE FLEDERMAUS Experience Johann Strauss’s most famous Operetta aboard a lake cruise with wine and food. The cast includes local favorites Jadd Davis, Dawn Wolski, Christina Kowalski and Opera CDA director Aaron St.Clair Nicholson. July 17, 5:30 pm. $50-$65. operacda.org

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SPOKANE INDIANS VS. SALEMKEIZER Home game series promotions include “Rhythm & Brews Night,” “Star Wars Night” and more. July 12-16, 6:30 pm. $5-$20. Avista Stadium, 602 N. Havana St. (535-2922) SPRINGDALE SUPER CROSS The third annual event hosted by Stix and Stones Off Road, featuring motorcycle racing, a beer garden, concessions, live music and more. July 15-16. Springdale, Wash. stixstonesoffroad.com FAMILY FUN! DAYS Kick the afternoon off with barbecue on the back patio, then build your own model vehicle, race it against other families, and watch a fun movie. June 18, July 16 and Aug. 20, noon-4 pm. $20/family.

Kroc Center, 1765 W. Golf Course Rd. kroccda.org (208-667-1865) MUDDY MILES Runners compete in teams or solo in this mud-filled, 2-mile obstacle course and race. Proceeds benefit Heritage Health’s programs and services for residents of North Idaho. $15-$35/person or $100-$150/ family or team. July 16, 10 am-1 pm.

Kootenai County Fairgrounds, 4056 N. Government Way. muddymiles.org SCHWEITZER MOUNTAIN TRAIL RUN The fifth annual trail run offers 3.5mile and 10-mile distances, on mostly single-track trails. The Schweitzer Music Festival takes place after the race (2 pm). July 16, 10 am. $35-$45. Schweitzer Mountain Resort, 10,000 Schweitzer Mountain Rd. smtrailrun.com FILMED IN SPOKANE GEOTOUR KICKOFF The main “Filmed in Spokane GeoTour Kick Off” starts at Greenacres

Park in Spokane Valley. The curated collection of geocaches take geocachers on a predetermined, self-guided tour of filming locations around the Spokane area. July 16, 9:30 am. coord. info/GC6BJP9 SPOKENYA 7K RUN/WALK An event to help fund clean water efforts in Kenya. Run or walk a timed, 7K loop (4.3 miles). Jog strollers and wheelchairs welcome. July 16, 9 am-3 pm. $30. Life Center Church, 1202 N. Government Way. spokenyarun.org (209-7504) SPOKANE INDIANS VS. VANCOUVER Home game series promotional nights include First Responders Appreciation Night and Future Texas Rangers. July 18-20, 6:30 pm. $5-$20. Avista Stadium, 602 N. Havana St. (535-2922) WALLACE ATV JAMBOREE A week of hosted trail rides with 5-7 rides to choose from each day. Rides are set up according to three levels of difficulty, determined primarily by the type of terrain encountered. Factors considered include: steepness, roughness, obstacles, snow and distance. July 18-23. Downtown Wallace, n/a. highmountainatv.com (208-512-5645) FIND YOUR PARK: JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK REI staff share the best spots to recreate at Joshua Tree National Park, along with the first-hand knowledge you’ll need to enjoy your time on the trails. July 19, 6 pm. Free, register online. REI, 1125 N. Monroe.

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BIG FISH See the regional premiere of the musical based on the acclaimed novel and film. July 14-16, 7:30 pm and July 17, 2 pm. $10-$23. Davenport High School, 1101 Sixth. davenporttheatrical. org/bigfish (725-5758) BUDDY, THE BUDDY HOLLY STORY B. Dalen Gunn returns to Spokane to perform as the lead of this show at the new Spokane Valley Summer Theatre.

Through July 17, Wed-Sat at 7:30 pm and Sun at 2:30 pm. $24-$38. Central Valley High School, 821 S. Sullivan. svsummertheatre.com CDA MURDER MYSTERY THEATER: MOONSHINE & TOMBSTONES It’s the annual Moonshine Moon Celebration at the Rouge City Saloon and things could turn deadly. July 14-15, from 6-9 pm. $35/person. Coeur d’Alene Cellars, 3890 N. Schreiber Way. cdacellars.com THE DILIGENT DAUGHTER OR LIPS THAT TOUCH WINE Nellie and Naomi Nice are in search of their father who has disappeared. He must be found before midnight so they can claim their family inheritance from poor, departed Aunt Hester’s estate. But, if they fail, the entire estate goes to the Bilious Brewery. July 6-31; Wed-Sat at 7 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $10. Sixth Street Theater, 212 Sixth. sixthstreetmelodrama.com FIDDLER ON THE ROOF The classic musical performed by students in CYT North Idaho. July 14-17, Thu-Sat at 7 pm, Sat-Sun at 3 pm. $10-$15. University High School, 12320 E. 32nd Ave. cytni.org (926-6981) MAN OF LA MANCHA Nominated for 10 Tony Awards and the winner of five, is this show a play within a play, or one man’s delusion as the cell walls collapse around him? Through July 30, Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $23$27. The Modern Theater Spokane, 174 S. Howard. themoderntheater.org

CDA SUMMER THEATRE: THE MUSIC MAN Meredith Wilson’s six-time, Tony Award-winning musical comedy has been entertaining audiences since 1957.

July 14-31; Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm; Sun at 2 pm. $27-$49. Kroc Center, 1765 W. Golf Course Rd. cdasummertheatre.com CDA SUMMER THEATRE: LOMBARDI A staged reading based on the bestselling biography of Vince Lombardi

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DRAWN TO THE WALL VI The museum’s summer show features artwork by well-known regional artists on 8-by-11 foot moveable walls. Through Aug. 20; gallery hours Mon-Sat, 10 am-4 pm.

Free and open to the public. Jundt Art Museum, 200 E. Desmet. (313-6843) ART ON THE STREET The Spokane Art School sets up an easel on the sidewalk and a well-known, local artist hosts a community drawing event. Passersby are invited to participate in the art making process. Saturdays, through Aug. 27, from 1-4 pm. Free. Spokane Art School, 809 W. Garland. (325-3001) SCOOPS & BOWLS Pick out a handmade bowl, then have it filled with ice cream. You keep the bowl, with proceeds benefiting Urban Art Co-op. July 16, 11 am-5 pm. $10. Manito Park, 1800 S. Grand Blvd. bit.ly/1UHTXZQ WALDMAN STUDIO SALE Local artist Gay Waldman offers art cards, prints, art canvases, picture framing odds and ends, free art supplies, free scrap mats, free used frames and more. July 16, 10 am-5 pm. Waldman Originals, 315 W. 37th Ave. gwaldman.com (456-7240) THREADED TALES: THE ART OF QUILTING A group exhibit featuring Spokane Chapter of the Washington State Quilters Guild members. Through Aug 22; gallery hours Mon–Fri, 10 am–5 pm. Free. EWU Downtown Student Gallery, 404 Second, Cheney. (359-6802)

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SHERMAN ALEXIE BookPeople of Moscow hosts the National Book Award winner who reads from and signs copies of his debut picture book “Thunder Boy Jr.” July 14, 7 pm. Free. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main. bookpeopleofmoscow.com AUNTIE’S BOOKSTORE PRESENTS: SHERMAN ALEXIE The locally-raised author reads from his new children’s book, “Thunder Boy Jr.” July 15, 7 pm.

By donation. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague. auntiesbooks.com POETRY PICNIC With Don Mee Choi, Sarah Mangold, Melanie Noel, and Rob Schlegel. Bring a blanket or folding chair to sit on and enjoy an evening of poems and complimentary Ferrante’s gelato in the library’s backyard amphitheater. July 21, 7-8:30 pm. Free. Moran Prairie Library, 6004 S. Regal. sparkwestcentral.org (279-0299) READING: JIM LYNCH The author/ journalist reads from his new book, “Before the Wind.” He wrote for papers across the U.S., including the Spokesman-Review, the Oregonian and the Seattle Times. July 21, 7 pm. Free. Auntie’s Bookstore, 402 W. Main. auntiesbooks.com (838-0206) n

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Let the Wanderlust Win Why you shouldn’t let anything hold you back from traveling

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any evenings I paced the floor of my tiny Spokane apartment, trying to work up the courage to call up friends and go out. Too nervous, I would often surrender to the comfort of my bed, a bowl of ice cream and a slew of Netflix shows.

I spent the days wandering the city alone, crying in my therapist’s office or having anxiety attacks between work assignments. I was stuck.

When you have LETTERS that unkind combo of Send comments to mental health issues — editor@inlander.com. depression and anxiety — you feel like you can’t move. Invisible weights keep you physically chained close to home and mentally chained to darkness. I was 25, two years out of university, with $60,000 in student loan debt and had decided not to work in the field I got my degree in.

But I had an option, something tickling my mind for years: I wanted to travel. Without much planning, I quit my jobs, put my belongings in a storage unit, filled a backpack and left.

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had snagged a seasonal job on a ship processing salmon at sea in Alaska. From there, I volunteered for Mercy Ships on their nonprofit hospital ship in Madagascar. I traveled to South Africa and I saw Dubai. I returned to Alaska to process cod in the late winter. I flew to Europe and backpacked around the western countries.

Now I’m in the south of Ireland, working at a hostel in exchange for room and board. I’ve been gone a year and a month.

Was I in the best mental and financial condition to go? No. I just went. I decided to let my passion to see the world outweigh my fears and my shallow bank account. And despite many days of kid-like excitement and calming joy on the road, it hasn’t always been fun. I have struggled more than I anticipated.

This is how I thought of it: I will always be sad and anxious. What’s the point of staying sad and shut up in my apartment? Why not be sad sailing up to the Bering Sea, walking through the streets of Paris or seeing the Roman ruins? Why not feel it abroad in beautiful places, in places that at least give me the chance to feel something better?

Plenty of people I met decided to do what they’re doing on a whim, or unprepared.

Nate and Sal had wanderlust so bad, they were train-hopping and busking their way around the United States for seven years before they got on the ship to work in Alaska. Sabine from Germany quit after 20 years of being a secretary to caravan around Europe. Robert from America beamed with pride when he told me around a bonfire in Munich that it was his first time traveling abroad, that he was traveling on his own and he’s completely deaf.

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he world is a much kinder place than you might imagine.

There are places along the way to help you and to energize you. Those places are hostels, the nexus of like-minded travelers hell-bent on exploring the world.

Those places are the couches of generous locals. Those places are cafés, forests and beaches.

I found kindness in a mom and daughter walking me back to my hostel after I got lost in Soweto. I found it in a nun who offered me counsel at a hermitage in Glendalough. I found it in a local serving me tea and toast in his apartment in Derry. I found it in a friend I met in Madagascar who put me up in her London flat.

Whether you’re sad, broken, stuck or simply bored, catch a bus, ride a ferry, take a train, hitch a ride or get on a plane.

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