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Here’s why: They’ll be unable to raise the massive money necessary to compete for the nomination, or they’ll be co-opted on their favorite issues by other well-funded or more popular candidates.

BEN CARSON is a world-famous surgeon.

Soft-spoken, yet firmly committed to conservative values, Carson lacks any kind of track record in government. Never having been elected to public office is a detriment for his candidacy.

While possessed of thoughtful and cogent policy ideas, he lacks a defined purpose for his nomination. An expert in health care, Carson’s anti-Obamacare views are echoed by other candidates, so his expertise can’t define him in a winnable way.

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BOBBY JINDAL lost the race for Louisiana governor in 2003, was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2004 and was reelected in 2006. In 2007 Jindal was elected Louisiana governor; he was reelected in 2011.

At 44, he’s the youngest of all the candidates. If elected president, he would be the first person of Indian heritage to serve. Jindal has achieved remarkable political success in America. He delivered, to tepid response, the Republican reply to President Obama’s State of the Union address in 2009. Though highly educated, very bright and experienced for his age, his strict, anti-government message likely will not wear well in today’s political environment, especially since Jindal faces several nagging challenges in Louisiana, making his candidacy a long shot.

RAND PAUL was elected to the U.S. Senate from Kentucky in 2010. Basically a libertarian, his views have been popular in some anti-

government circles, but he’s been criticized by other Republicans for his perceived reluctance to support an aggressive military presence around the world. An ophthalmologist by background and training, Paul rose to political prominence opposing big government, decrying the American tax system and bearing the last name of perhaps the most prominent libertarian politician in America — his father, former Texas congressman Ron Paul, who himself sought the presidency in 2008 and 2012.

Though intelligent and well-spoken, Paul is tainted by the libertarian moniker, perceived as too tolerant of behaviors thought by some to be aberrant, as he often adopts a “no-government”

We all need to understand what it takes to run, win and then govern effectively. approach to policy matters. While that may attract some voters, it’s doubtful that Paul can capture a broad-based constituency for his presidential aspirations. While Paul touts raising just over a million dollars in the second quarter of 2015, he has miles to go in the 2016 presidential sweepstakes and likely won’t last. He’ll probably be reelected to the Senate after he fails to secure the Republican nomination.

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nyone who becomes a candidate for president deserves congratulations for his or her courage and energy. The campaign may actually be tougher than the presidency: having every word parsed by opponents and press outlets, needing to be cheerful to and tolerant of citizens who aren’t always respectful nor articulate, and having one’s history, finances, every prior utterance and action scrutinized to death. We owe all candidates, whatever our preferred party affiliation or political bent, gratitude for presenting themselves as candidates for the most important public policy position in the world. Yes, there are benefits to the presidency, and we need our best people running, but we all need to understand what it takes to run, win and then govern effectively.

Now eight candidates have been eliminated, by my calculations, leaving three U.S. Senators and a former business executive, among others, with Ohio Gov. John Kasich expected to announce soon. Stay tuned for more predictions in my August column. n

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ood things come to those who wait. That’s my takeaway from the recently concluded, epic Washington state legislative session.

At 177 days — that’s nearly six months — it’s the longest session ever, ending just hours before the state might have shut down. But for Eastern Washington, it was also a huge success.

Our local delegation — Republicans and Democrats alike — should be congratulated for finishing the political equivalent of an Ironman. And the finish line is sweet indeed: funding at last to finish the north-south freeway, which we’ve been talking about for at least 60 years, along with other important (and multimodal) local transportation projects; and funding to not only start a new medical school in Spokane under the auspices of Washington State University, but also to fully fund WWAMI medical education via the University of Washington here in Spokane. Really, that med school outcome is so ridiculously good for Spokane, I almost feel like we’re getting punked.

“This budget counters the urban myth that the west side gets everything in Olympia,” says Sen. Andy Billig (D-Spokane) as he thinks back on the session. “The transportation revenue package, to me, that’s as big a win as I can remember for Spokane.”

Billig adds that the legislature also made sure to restore some of the funding to mental health programs that had been cut during the recession, responding to crises in mental health care delivery that we’ve reported here.

Sen. Michael Baumgartner (R-Spokane) saw his dream of rolling back tuition at state colleges and universities become a reality, something that few expected would ever happen. And that’s just part of what many have called the richest education budget in state history, investing in our future with $1.3 billion in new money for K-12, along with the tuition rollback.

Despite that, the legislature was still getting dinged for not fully addressing outstanding education funding directives from the state Supreme Court and Initiative 1351. But big-picture, this was a huge victory for education, and Billig hopes citizens can be patient as the legislature works through the complexity of complying with the McCleary decision and finds ways to address the spirit of I-1351. With a price tag for both that could approach $10 billion that we don’t have (although firm numbers are hard to come by), it’s clear that we need to have a grown-up conversation about education funding, not the mindless political bludgeoning we’ve been getting.

We live in a vibrant state, with a dynamic economy and a bright future, and despite all the last-minute dramatics, our legislature just delivered — big time.

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COMMENT | COMMUNITY ceed. In Sandpoint, there are also numerous examples of victories achieved through community action. This cooperative spirit can be seen in the recent rescue of the town’s historic train depot and the last Amtrak stop in Idaho, or going back a few decades, to the similar rescue of the town’s historic Panida Theater. It can be found in the construction of City Beach and the recent efforts to permanently preserve the lakefront, 2-mile Pend d’Oreille Bay Trail.

It’s a paradox that captures the unique genius of the American West; rugged individualists, who knew they must come together when necessary to lend a hand...

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arlier this month, New York Times reporter Kirk Johnson penned a story on Sandpoint, Idaho. He wrote about how people there are examples of the grit and individual determination that have shaped the American West for generations. He commented on the passion they have for place, and their willingness to confront long odds with confidence and ultimately persevere.

Johnson is right about Sandpoint. It’s a town full of hardworking folk who both have character and are characters; each individual striving for a better future for

themselves and their families is an essential part of what powers the community.

But there’s another element that’s equally fundamental to Sandpoint’s success and just as much a core part of the story of the West: community itself. It’s a paradox that captures the unique genius of the American West; rugged individualists, who knew they must come together when necessary to lend a hand, built these societies we live in. The West is about the strong individual and equally about united community. Without both we will fail.

Johnson offers excellent examples of business owners and philanthropists showing that individual urge to suc-

While Sandpoint is an extraordinary example of the complementary values of the individual and the community, it’s hardly the only place in the West where success has been built upon this supposed paradox.

The first homesteaders were certainly a tough lot, who had to know how to get things done on their own if they were to survive. But many traveled to the West together in wagon trains. They could manage to build their homes with just the help of their individual families, but when it came time to raise a barn, it required the whole community to come together to help pull the walls up.

There is perhaps no greater image of the American West than the rancher, brave and individualistic. There’s truth to this myth, but ranchers in Idaho depend on public lands to run their cattle and make their livelihoods.

Public lands and ranchers together define the West. The relationship between LETTERS them, the greatest Send comments to public asset imaginable editor@inlander.com.

— unlike anything in any other country in the world — and the individuals who make their dreams come true upon it, is what constantly inspires me about the potential for our future. It’s a future that will require action from each of us alone, and all of us together.

So let us continue to celebrate the rugged, determined individuals who, with great grit, build and preserve the places we love, but let us also remember that they are building upon a foundation of community.

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Reaction to a blog (7/9) that Mayor David Condon has raised more money than any other local candidate in Washington.

TAMI ARMSTRONG TAYLOR: Of course he has. He has his hands in the pockets of the people with all the money and has the backing of our sorry excuse for a U.S. Rep. AMARAH DODSON: I would be more impressed if he raised that much money for the city and for the people, not raising it all for himself.

MARC JEFFREY DRIFTMEYER: That should motivate people to vote him out.

SCOTT MEREDITH: Of course the Inlander will shame him for it, but a Democratic presidential contender who raises over a billion from “grassroot” efforts is a hero.

MIKE BEST: I for one think Mayor Condon has done a great job! I had a problem, sent him a letter and he took care of the problem right away. ... Condon has more good than bad.

Reaction to a blog (7/10/15) on the Washington State Legislature’s decision to place components of Initiative 1351 (mandating smaller school classes) on hold for the next four years.

CHRISSI LEE P-ROX: Washington does have the $$$. Wasn’t the story printed in this very publication stating the exact amount the state government has made thus far in marijuana sales? It was ridiculously high! So where is that money going? How is that money being spent?

PATRISHA SCHREMPP: I’d eliminate the cost of higher education. In the long term being able to go to college for free will boost the economy.

Students unburdened from debt will invest in new businesses, buy houses, and have more disposable income to boost local stores. Currently our schools are packed to the max and teachers have adapted. It sucks, but we have to make tough decisions when the wealthy refuse to contribute to society and the government lets them get away with tax evasion.

JUSTIN BRADFORD: Don’t you just love our elected officials? Rather than have us focus on their ineptitude and corruption they have now pitted K-12 against college while they sit back and enjoy the fight.

QUINTON BAKER: #PayTheTeachers... We drop social ills and bad behavior off on their doorsteps in the form of children and hold them accountable for the education of America, yet we pay them shit.

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cross the sagebrush-covered hills and windswept fields of golden grain that surround the small Eastern Washington community of Odessa is a pair of hulking metal silos and a warehouse that fits right in with the spartan appearance of the other agricultural facilities that line the town.

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says Stacey Rasmussen, manager for the development authority.

But six months later, TransMessis abruptly closed its doors and laid off its employees. The Public Development Authority was still on the hook for the loan, and one company filed a lawsuit against TransMessis, alleging it engaged in shady business practices and didn’t pay $1.6 million worth of invoices.

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A facility built for bioenergy projects has sat vacant since last year when TransMessis Columbia Plateau LLC ceased operations.

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Columbia Riverkeeper’s Brett VandenHeuvel: “I don’t think we should hand over the key of a dangerous oil refinery to people who couldn’t operate a seed crusher.”

“SEEDS OF DOUBT,” CONTINUED... from people involved with TransMessis, with the aid of an influential lobbying firm, is seeking to build the first crude oil refinery on the West Coast in 25 years. They say it will be an environmentally minded facility, producing fuels that will meet clean fuel standards being adopted on the West Coast.

But critics of the refinery say there are too many question marks surrounding the consequential project. They point to the sudden failure of TransMessis, the lawsuit filed against it and the increase of potentially explosive oil trains traversing the state — all of which they say undermine the project’s viability.

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n November 2013, TransMessis entered into an agreement with Wolfkill Feed & Fertilizer, Inc., to provide canola seed.

The seed, according to Lincoln County court documents, was provided on credit; TransMessis would crush and convert it into biodiesel, oil and meal at its Odessa facility.

Five months later, TransMessis stopped paying Wolfkill, using its revenue to pay its officers and directors, according to court records. TransMessis still accepted and processed more than $1.6 million of feedstock, which it never paid for, according to court records. After an attorney for Wolfkill tried unsuccessfully to broker a settlement, the company filed a lawsuit against TransMessis in April.

The suit alleges that TransMessis CEO Damon Pistulka entered false information on his company’s credit application, which Wolfkill relied upon when it started delivering the canola seed to the Odessa facility. Court documents also show that the company was issued a warrant for more than $6,000 in unpaid taxes.

“I would describe it as unusual to have a business come in, that’s seemingly well-heeled from a financial standpoint, open up and close down rather rapidly and leave a path of unpaid creditors in their wake,” says Michael Franklin, the attorney representing Wolfkill.

The lawsuit is raising eyebrows on the other side of the state.

Earlier this spring, environmental group Columbia Riverkeeper released documents obtained through a public records request revealing that Damon Pistulka, Louis Soumas and Christopher Efird — all defendants in the Wolfkill lawsuit — were working as officers for a company called Riverside Refining LLC, which is seeking a deal with the Port of Longview to build a crude oil refinery. The collapse of TransMessis and the pending lawsuit doesn’t inspire confidence in the project, says Columbia Riverkeeper’s Executive Director Brett VandenHeuvel.

“I don’t think we should hand over the key of a dangerous oil refinery to people who couldn’t operate a seed crusher,” says VandenHeuvel.

Attempts to reach Pistulka and Efird were unsuccessful.

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gation and was only indirectly involved in TransMessis, denying that he served on its board, as alleged in the lawsuit, but rather on the board of its parent company. He says that TransMessis failed after a drop in the biofuels market, which he says wiped out 60 percent of the companies in the industry. He also points out that the company is fighting Wolfkill’s suit in court.

Soumas, now CEO of Waterside Energy LLC, Riverside Refining’s parent company, says the proposed project will have the lowest carbon footprint of any refinery in the U.S. Describing his company as an environmentally minded one, Soumas says the problem with TransMessis is that it didn’t produce biofuels in sufficient quantity to remain viable.

This new refinery, he says, in addition to refining crude oil, would also be the largest producer of renewable fuels in North America, churning out 15,000 barrels of biofuels a day from used cooking oil from Asia, as well as from canola, soy and sunflowers.

Governors in Oregon and Washington have actively sought low-carbon fuel standards, similar to those in place in California and British Columbia. Soumas, whose company has retained the influential lobbying firm Strategies 360, says that the new refinery will cater directly to markets in Oregon and Washington.

“A refinery is dangerous enough, and adding bomb trains into the equation makes this doubly problematic.”

“We share everybody’s concerns about doing what’s best for the environment,” says Soumas, who adds that he’d love to work with environmental groups.

But Eric de Place, director of policy at the environmental think tank Sightline Institute, says that there are already two failed biofuels facilities nearby. He and other critics of the project also complain that finding public information about the company has been unduly difficult for such a large and controversial project.

Both Waterside Energy and Riverside Refining are incorporated in Delaware, known as a corporate haven. Filings for both companies yield scant information.

In recent years, oil train traffic has surged in the U.S. About a dozen oil trains have derailed and exploded in the past year, and the new facility will just put more oil trains on the rails, says VandenHeuvel.

The new facility, according to documents obtained by Columbia Riverkeeper, would process 30,000 barrels of crude oil daily, brought in by rail about three times a week from North Dakota’s Bakken oil fields, all of which would pass through Spokane.

“A refinery is dangerous enough, and adding bomb trains into the equation makes this doubly problematic,” says VandenHeuvel. “And those trains would be rolling through Spokane, so any increase in oil-by-rail is a big concern.”

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ll that is still a long way off.

Ashley Hellenberg, spokeswoman for the Port of Longview, says the port is aware of the lawsuit, which will be taken into account as it considers the viability and benefits of the project. If the port signs off on the refinery, it’ll need to go through the permitting process and be approved by the Washington Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council and the governor. If all goes smoothly, it could be approved by 2018.

Meanwhile in Odessa, the facility occupied by TransMessis has been empty for about a year and it’s been hard to find a new tenant. But Rasmussen, of the Odessa Public Development Authority, says that a company just completed its inspection of the facility, and if all goes well it’ll sign an agreement to buy it.

If that happens, says Rasmussen, there’s another upside: The Department of Agriculture will forgive the balance on the $4 million loan. jaket@inlander.com

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The only prom where you can’t catch shade for showing up in a T-shirt is Bike Prom. That’s what most of the people who participated in last weekend’s Bike Prom ride wore, though some showed up in actual prom attire. The Friday night ride doubled as Spokane’s infamous full-moon ride — the Swamp Ride. However, according to Bradley Baysinger, last Friday was his last time as the organizer. That could mean the end of Swamp Rides as we know them, unless someone else takes the reins.

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BIG MONEY MAYOR | Mayor David Condon has raised more money for his REELECTION CAMPAIGN than anyone else running for local office in the state, according to filings with the Washington State Public Disclosure Commission. Seattle and King County may be more larger and more affluent, but Condon still has politicians in that part of the state beat when it comes to fundraising.

Condon had raised $294,559.93, more than King County Councilwoman Jane Hague’s $237,434.86 and Seattle City Councilman Tim Burgess’ $222,916.88. Condon’s opponent, Shar Lichty, an organizer with the Peace and Justice Action League of Spokane, had raised $8,459.54. (JAKE THOMAS)

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STILL ON LINE | Last week, the Washington Legislature moved full steam ahead to approve the last details of a $15 billion transportation package. Part of the package included $15 million for the CENTRAL CITY LINE, a six-mile high-frequency electric bus route planned to connect downtown Spokane with the University District. Spokane County voters recently rejected a sales tax increase that would have raised $12 million to pay for the Central City Line. On the blog, STA CEO E. Susan Meyer explains why the Central City Line is moving forward, what funding remains to gather, and why Spokane shouldn’t read the narrow defeat of the STA ballot measure as a mandate against the project.

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it. Ghost bikes, usually spray-painted white, are placed in areas where a cyclist was killed or injured by a car.

The movement has spread to more than 210 locations worldwide.

Phil Larkin, a local bike commuter, says he was especially concerned by the bike at Southeast and 29th, which had a baby seat on the back. Cote was apologetic, saying he wasn’t aware of ghost-bike memorials and didn’t mean to offend anyone. (MITCH RYALS)

Bikini Battle

The Spokane City Council votes down restrictions on bikini baristas; plus, a marketing ploy gone wrong DRESSED DOWN

Another attempt to regulate BIKINI BARISTAS has fallen short. On Monday, Spokane City Council voted down an ordinance proposed by Councilman Mike Fagan that would require coffee stands featuring bikini baristas to post signage indicating to the public what kind of “uniforms” their employees might be wearing. The ordinance, said Fagan, wouldn’t ban the offending stands but would require employees to be indoors and out of the public’s view.

Fagan, who has long sought a way to rein in the city’s bikini barista stands, said he’s heard numerous complaints over the years about these businesses. He said he heard from one unsuspecting coffee drinker who who accidently got more than a cup when driving up to a stand, and from a school that’s had to reroute buses and rearrange classrooms because of the proximity of one of them. He also noted that the ordinance was crafted in a way to withstand legal challenges.

However, the ordinance failed on a 4-1 vote (Councilmembers Amber Waldref and Mike Allen were absent) over concerns that it would invite a costly legal challenge.

Councilmembers Candace Mumm and Jon Snyder also suggested that the issue could be better resolved through

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Those BRIGHT ORANGE BIKES in the South Hill neighborhood were not memorials for injured or killed cyclists. They were promotional advertisements for a new gym coming to the South Hill neighborhood.

Orangetheory Fitness dotted the area surrounding their new location with spray-painted bikes as a promotional stunt. Each one had a number on it, and the plan was to have new members take selfies with the bikes for a Facebook competition. The idea was based on a similar effort to promote Seattle’s Orangetheory Fitness, says Richard Cote, whose wife owns the future Spokane location.

Ultimately, Cote decided to take the bikes down Monday afternoon after backlash on social media from cyclists, who thought the orange bikes were part of the ghost bike movement or a distasteful mocking of

Spokane police boarded up a CHRONIC DRUG NUISANCE home in the Shadle Park area Monday and announced the end of two years of drug trafficking and violence at the property to a relieved group of neighbors.

Police have been out to the property 62 times in the last three years, responding to drug overdoses, assaults and reports of stolen vehicles. After accumulating three legal violations within 60 days, the city can move to take over a property and kick out the occupants through a process called abatement. As they moved to do so with this property, the homeowner, 66-year-old York Hoskins, agreed to voluntary abatement without a court order. Hoskins, a Vietnam war veteran, will have to move elsewhere for a year and will then be allowed to return to the home.

“We’ve done two [abatements] this year. We average about four a year,” says SPD Lt. Allen Arnzen. Kicking someone out of their home isn’t the ideal solution, Arnzen says. He prefers to connect people with resources and work with them to resolve problems with neighbors. In this case, that wasn’t enough. “You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink,” says Arnzen. (LAEL HENTERLY)

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GO CAMP ING. Inmates at the Idaho State Correctional Center allege that officials doctored records so they wouldn’t receive medical treatment. IDAHO DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION PHOTO

Now Come the Feds The Idaho Department of Correction is heading to federal court, accused of tampering with prisoners’ medical records

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daho is poised for yet another prison scandal. In the wake of a 2013 investigation, which revealed that the Corrections Corporation of America had falsified documents to cover up thousands of hours of understaffing at the Idaho State Correctional Center, the company agreed to pay a $1 million settlement and slink away from Idaho’s failed private prison experiment.

Now, it’s the Idaho Department of Correction (IDOC) that is under fire. On July 22-23, the department will be brought to federal court to face allegations that it “continued to destroy, falsify and otherwise alter medical records” of inmates inside the state of Idaho’s prison complex. Officials are also being accused of a systematic “cover-up,” including manipulation of court-ordered oversight of mental health care at the prison, located outside of Boise.

“I hope [U.S. District] Judge Lynn Winmill tears the roof off the place, spills everything out and sends a team of forensic auditors into the prison,” says attorney Andrew Schoppe, representing a former clinician-turned-whistleblower. “I think it’s just a matter of time for us to see who on the inside of the Department of Correction will turn state’s evidence first, and starts telling everything.”

One official is already on her way out the door. Shell WambleFisher, a former deputy warden at the Idaho State Correctional Institution and current IDOC clinical supervisor, has informed the state that she would be retiring from her post on Saturday, Aug. 1, as part of a “personal action request.”

According to court documents, including depositions from

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clinicians and IDOC officials, six inmates are preparing to testify in federal court next week that their medical records — some requesting that they be diagnosed with “gender identity disorder” — were tampered with in order to save the state from having to provide treatment. The allegations don’t end there.

The most telling reaction to news of the federal hearing came from someone who, up until just a few months ago, was responLETTERS sible for the integrity of informaSend comments to tion recorded and disseminated editor@inlander.com. at the Idaho Department of Correction.

“This is no surprise,” Michael Chacon, an IDOC business analyst from May 2012 to April 2015, says in a prepared statement.

“Top IDOC leadership has been informed of this behavior many times and their squelching of information remains alive and well. It is sad that exceptionally dedicated … staff are afraid to speak out.”

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here had been media reports, primarily from the Associated Press in February, when Andrew Schoppe’s client, Diana Canfield, a former IDOC employee and mental health care provider at the prison, alleged that her superiors had altered or even scrubbed some of the medical notes that Canfield had written in prisoners’ health records.

Ultimately, Canfield said she had been forced to resign and

was accused of altering the records. Canfield insisted that the exact opposite was true — that her superiors were responsible for the destruction of records. In March, an Ada County Court jury agreed with Canfield in her suit against the IDOC, awarding her $78,000.

“That’s $3,000 in lost wages and $75,000 for the hell she went through,” says Schoppe. “But I can tell you that we’re not over just yet. The state of Idaho has already filed a motion for a reduced judgment. The state ... they tend to fight things to the death.”

Canfield will face the state again on July 22, this time in federal court, when she returns to Idaho — she has since moved out of state — to repeat her story in U.S. District Court. That hearing will be the latest chapter in the decades-long Balla vs. State of Idaho lawsuit. Balla is Walter Balla, a former Idaho prisoner who first alleged overcrowding and poor access to medical care in 1981, triggering a federal lawsuit that resulted in a 2011 federal court order to appoint a so-called “special master” to investigate the delivery of medical and mental health care at the Idaho State Correctional Institution. That “special master” is Marc Stern, a Seattle-based teacher, researcher and former Health Service director for the Washington State Department of Corrections.

“But recently, in February 2015, plaintiffs learned of allegations that Dr. Stern’s report was intentionally tainted and undermined by the actions and conduct of IDOC,” reads a June 22 court filing from attorneys representing plaintiffs in their legal battle against the state of Idaho. “Plaintiffs have since investigated and confirmed that the allegations are true. While Dr. Stern believed he was afforded unfettered access to people, places and documents during his visits to ISCI, he was not. IDOC misrepresented the true conditions at [the Idaho State Correctional Institution] in an attempt to mislead Dr. Stern.”

Attorneys allege that IDOC played “musical cells” in the prison’s Behavioral Health Unit and prevented certain inmates from speaking with Stern during his investigative visits to the prison.

The case has caught the attention of at least one Idaho lawmaker.

“I plan to speak with the Idaho attorney general’s office.

I’ve got a lot of questions,” says Idaho Rep. Melissa Wintrow, a member of the Idaho House Judiciary, Rules and Administration Committee.

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till another revelation came from Armida Molina-Medina, a designated examiner with the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, who in a June deposition said that then-Deputy Warden Wamble-Fisher had ordered him and fellow clinicians not to document any inmates with gender identity disorder.

According to Molina-Medina, Wamble-Fisher also said that she had gone as far as altering previous inmate medical records, removing any references to GID. When attorneys asked Molina-Medina about why medical records were altered to remove diagnoses of GID, he testified that Wamble-Fisher said, “Because IDOC would then be forced to provide treatment to those inmates for gender identity disorderrelated issues.”

One current prison inmate said in a phone interview that he had been attempting to be tested for possible GID diagnosis but has been repeatedly denied.

“I’ve been trying to get diagnosed for gender identity disorder for years,” said the inmate. “But I’ve been told the Idaho Department of Correction simply doesn’t want me to be considered GID.” Another inmate said guards had recently been ordered to remove bras, panties and makeup from certain transgender prisoners at the Idaho State Correctional Institution.

“An attorney came down to the prison to talk to six of us,” the inmate says. “So we’re getting ready to speak before the court on July 22. Honestly, I’m worried that if I testify, they may revoke my chance of parole. I’m coming up before the parole board in six months. But we have to tell the truth.”

Send comments to editor@inlander.com. A version of this story first appeared in the Boise Weekly.

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Patrick Rushing: “I’ll never resign.”

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Rushing’s Rant The Airway Heights City Council has asked the mayor to resign after posting a racist Facebook message

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he comment, racially-charged as it was, wasn’t unusual for the Internet: “Gorilla face Michelle, can’t disagree with that.

The woman is not attractive except to monkey man Barack. Check out them ears. LOL.” What was unusual was who posted it: Patrick Rushing, mayor of Airway Heights since 2010.

His comments, after being forwarded to KHQ, have the rest of the Airway Heights City Council asking Rushing to resign.

Rushing, for his part, has been making controversial Facebook posts for years.

Amid the flood of Sugar Smash and Cookie Jam Facebook game notifications, his Facebook timeline contains jokes about Caitlyn Jenner, lesbian sex and the size of Hillary Clinton’s breasts and thighs. He’s posted images defending the Confederate flag, attacking “illegals” and calling Al Sharpton a “race-baiter.” In a post about the Left Behind movie, he warned that the “second coming of Christ” would show Islamists their “god is the wrong one.”

“He’s a member of the Muslim Brotherhood,” Rushing wrote about Obama in June. “I know, I know the liberals will have a fit over this one.”

(If this seems eerily familiar, it should: Earlier this year Spokane County Prosecutor Larry Haskell, a former Airway Heights city council member, was under fire over offensive comments his wife had made online.)

Airway Heights Deputy Mayor Kevin Richey says he’s been concerned with Rushing’s Facebook page for quite some time, but the latest comment put his worries over the top.

“I don’t think he’s a racist,” says Richey. “I think he shows a severe lack of judgment. And there’s a difference.”

On Facebook, Rushing issued an apology, asking those who he offended for forgiveness.

“I got caught up in the banter between friends and made a poor choice of words,” Rushing wrote.

Still, late Monday night, he remained defiant.

“I’ll never resign,” he wrote in a post, noting his biracial granddaughter. “If the residents of Airway Heights don’t want me to continue as their mayor, they will vote me out of office.”

If Rushing won’t resign, Richey says, the city council can sanction him, limiting his ability to travel, attend hearings and issue statements in the name of the city.

It isn’t the first problem for the small-town mayor this year. In January, Rushing ran into a different sort of trouble after he rear-ended a driver in his role as a part-time bus driver for the Medical Lake School District and left the scene of the accident. Still, Rushing, who has a reputation for personally helping his constituents, has many defenders.

“I was hired on [at] Fairchild and this man took time out his schedule to help me and my family find a home close to my new job,” NAACP member Kitara Johnson wrote on Rushing’s Facebook page. “As soon as he read why the statements weren’t OK, he immediately apologized and that’s what leaders do if they make a mistake or offend someone.”

Rushing, normally responsive to calls to his cell phone, did not return requests for comment from the Inlander. “I will no longer participate in interviews without 24-hour notice and prepared questions for my review,” Rushing said on Facebook.

Last month, the mayor shared a text image on Facebook saying, “I would like to apologize to anyone I have not yet offended. Please be patient.

I will get to you shortly.”

“This sounds like me,” Rushing added. danielw@inlander.com

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he people of the Inland Northwest like new things, especially when it comes to food, which explains that long wait at the new artisanal pizza spot or gastropub in your neighborhood. But we’re also a region that appreciates history and proudly patronizes the classic eateries we’ve

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CLASSIC AND THE INEXPENSIVE propped up for years with our appetites. For this year’s Cheap Eats issue, we combined the new and the tried-and-true by getting you caught up with all the recent openings in Spokane and North Idaho, while also appreciating the classics. Along the way, we took time to give you some dessert and food cart

ideas, as well as spots that aren’t just serving up food for cheap, but dishing it out for free. Oh, and we also celebrated Inland Northwest history by eating every burger on the Zip’s menu. So take a look, gather that spare change and then get eating, folks.

— MIKE BOOKEY, culture editor

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New and Cheap A sampling of affordable places that opened since our last Cheap Eats issue

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24 TAPS BURGERS AND BREWS

825 W. Riverside | 868-5657 Last August, 24 Taps opened just in time for football season. That season might not have ended well for the Seahawks, but this sports bar is making out just fine. They recently added an expansive array of burgers.

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Cheeseburger; it and the BBQ Bliss form the foundation of the fiveburger menu. Each burger ($6-$10) is fresh-ground and hand-formed Angus chuck, cooked to your choice of rare, medium or well.

BAXTERS ON CEDAR

109 Cedar St. | Sandpoint 208-229-8377 Last summer, restaurant veterans and owners Tommy Dageford and Richard Curtis opened Baxters on Cedar with high standards. The turkey in the soup with rosemary and wild rice ($4.50/$6) or in the artisan-bread sandwich with cranberry, sweet onion and extra-sharp

white cheddar ($8.50) is roasted in-house. All “sammies” and salads are under $10.

BIJA ORGANIC JUICERY AND KOMBUCHA BAR

915 S. Perry | 818-9700 Brandi Elder and John Gardner opened the BIJA Organic Juicery and Kombucha Bar in early April as a sister business to their already established mobile juice bar BEET It Up. They offer $6-$7 organic juices and smoothies as well as Kombucha, a tea-based drink that is cultured and brewed for up to two weeks, then infused with other flavors, for $3.25-$4.25.

CHOMPER CAFE

2345 W. Prairie Ave. | Hayden, Idaho 208-719-0441 Everything at Chomper Cafe, located in a remodeled farmhouse, is under $12. One of owner Sarah Baker’s favorite things to recommend on the menu is the corned beef. It’s slowbraised in-house for 12 hours, and you can get it on the Reuben ($9) or the corned beef hash ($11) served with potatoes, onions, two eggs and toast.

Don’t miss the pies or pastries, either.

DUELING IRONS

1780 E. Schneidmiller Ave. Post Falls | 208-262-9716 Dueling Irons, which opened in late

November, is best described as a twist on classic comfort food. The house-roasted turkey is covered with melted Swiss cheese and avocado on focaccia bread with cranberry spread ($9.75). And the slow-braised pork is featured in a sandwich ($8.50) and breakfast burrito ($9.25).

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4919 S. Regal | 448-4881 Ezell’s, which opened on the South Hill on April 15, is the 11th outlet of a Seattle-based chain started by Lewis Rudd 31 years ago. Besides the famous fried chicken, there’s potato salad, cole slaw, mashed potatoes, corn and fried okra.

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4502 S. Regal | 230-0946 Guice offers both smoothies and fresh-pressed vegetable and fruit juice blends. All of the products are organic and dairy-free. Instead of milk or yogurt, they use rice, coconut and almond milk. Guice offers 8 oz. kid-sized drinks ($4), but otherwise all beverages are 16 oz., ranging in price from $6.50 to $7.

HAPPINESS CHINESE RESTAURANT 3420 E. Sprague | 534-2525 Owner and chef Kingsley Chen came from his uncle’s restaurant in Portland to create fresh, delicious and reasonably priced meals in Spokane. Most of the dinner meals are under $13, and lunches are $7.95 and $5.95. The $7.95 lunch special includes soup, spring roll, pork fried rice, fried wonton and a choice of two entrées. Dinner portions are huge, and even big eaters will have

enough leftovers for a hearty lunch the next day.

HOLESHOT PIZZA AND BREW

808 W. Main | 939-9492 Holeshot is a combination of two key ingredients: motocross and nononsense, thin-crust pies. Customers can expect food hot and quick. Four or five varieties of pizza are available, with whole pies all coming in at 16 inches in diameter. Or you can buy a slice.

THE IVORY TABLE

1822 E. Sprague | 474-1300 You can take in the Ivory Table’s menu at an eye’s glance — seven hot sandwiches and three cold sandwiches.

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LAVADOG

180 W. Hayden Ave. | Hayden, Idaho 208-818-9564 Each hot dog in this island-themed restaurant is just $3.50, has a sauce, mustard and relish — all homemade.

There are combos like lemon garlic sauce, pineapple relish and guava mustard on the Maui Dog, or mango relish and wasabi mustard with the lemon garlic sauce for the Big Island Dog.

MOD PIZZA

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3104 E. Palouse Hwy. | 570-7060 Rarely does one feel such power when ordering a pizza. Dozens of toppings — sauces, cheeses, veggies, herbs, meats — are laid out behind the glass, so you can point at will and choose what you want. The best part? You’re charged the same no matter how much you pile on. The South Hill MOD, which opened in late April, was the first Eastern Washington location of the Seattlebased nationwide chain; one is coming to downtown and the Coeur d’Alene location opens this month.

NEIGHBORHOOD PUB

124 S. Second Ave. | Sandpoint 208-597-7499 Neighborhood Pub’s beer list, with more than 100 choices, is six levels of epic adventure called the Beer Club.

Drink 50 beers and pass level one, winning a beer-can-shaped glass emblazoned with the pub’s logo; 500 beers later, and you’ll achieve “Bill Murray” awesomeness. Fuel up along the way for no more than $12 an item.

PORCH LIGHT PIZZA

Serious Gourmet Burgers & Hand Cut Fries Mon-Sun 3:30-10:30 • 825 W Riverside Spokane

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200 NE Kamiaken St. | Pullman 334-7437 Porch Light Pizza, which opened in late April, prides itself on fast, wood-fired pizza, which they readily accomplish.

Thinner-crusted pizza means you’re not going to be waiting there forever while it cooks, and a variety of toppings results in options. For $8, you can amply feed yourself (or you and a friend) with a dinner-plate-sized specialty pizza.

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TIERRA MADRE CAFE & JUICERY

301 Cedar St., Suite 105 | Sandpoint 208-255-1508 Tierra Madre Cafe & Juicery is exactly the kind of place you’d expect outside of a yoga studio run by a longtime Sandpoint chef and former owner of a health-oriented restaurant: good food and good vibes in equal measure. On the menu are vegan and vegetarian items like smoothies and juices ($7), wraps, salads, sandwiches, teas and a smattering of desserts, including raw and gluten-free, like the pumpkin pie ($5) with whipped cashew milk cream.

UNCLE LEROY’S BBQ

205 S. Pines Rd. | Spokane Valley 443-3540 LeRoy Payne used to be on the barbecue competition circuit, but decided to settle down and open Uncle LeRoy’s last August in a house-like structure on South Pines Road in Spokane Valley.

Out back, there’s plenty of room for him to teach his monthly barbecue class and do all his barbecuing outside, on a smoker that can cook 50 slabs of ribs at a time. Most items are under $12, platters and extras notwithstanding.

THE WELLNESS BAR

312 Fourth St. | Coeur d’Alene 208-665-9098 Seeing a need for a Coeur d’Alene juice bar amid a growing health scene, North Idaho Wellness publisher Monica Engebretsen opened the Wellness Bar last July in a section of Fourth Street she calls “the wellness nook.” You can get something to munch on like wraps, salads, sandwiches, hot soup and Protein Pucks, and they serve organic coffee and Tao organic tea.

WHISK

17 W. Main Ave. Last August, Pacific Avenue Pizza owner Darin Talotti decided he wanted to run a laid-back downtown bar, so he created Whisk — and placed it inside Merlyn’s former storage room. They make the pizzas across the street at the Red Lion. The full pizza menu features more than a dozen varieties, some also found at Pacific Ave, and some not.

Rolling GOODIES A few particularly tasty (and affordable) bites from the region’s food trucks

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CURRY CHICKEN ($6)

Jamaican Jerk Pan, 1925 W. Fourth Spokane’s only Jamaican food truck cooks up authentic Jamaican food made with spices straight from chef-owner Doc’s homeland. Their curry chicken is served over rice and peas, and their rotating weekly specials include curried goat, jerk pork, whole fried fish, stewed oxtail and more. They are open Monday through Friday from 11:30 am to 7 pm in their usual Browne’s Addition location.

SHAMELESS BEER BRAT ($5)

Shameless Sausages, location varies Shameless Sausages prides itself on creating out-of-the-ordinary hot dogs. Their beer brat is topped with banana peppers, jalapeños, grilled caramelized onions and spicy brown mustard. They’re also well known for their Hawaiian dog ($8) — a 9-inch sausage with Swiss cheese, cream cheese, pineapples, caramelized grilled onions and a teriyaki glaze. Beyond their regular hot dogs, they offer veggie dogs and 100 percent beef dogs. Find them on Facebook (facebook.com/ ShamelessDogs) for their current location.

GRILLED CHICKEN TACOS ($6)

King of Tacos, location varies This food truck has been sticking to a simple menu since it expanded from booths at events into a truck back in 2012. Their street tacos are their best seller, closely followed by their burritos ($7-$9), and they focus on their flavorful meats, especially their carne asada beef.

Their tacos are served on corn

tortillas with fresh chopped onions and cilantro, and all of their entrées include a side of Juanita’s chips and the King’s salsa. Check their Facebook page for their current location.

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JONELL’S COMBO ($4.50)

Toby’s BBQ, location varies Look no further for your BBQ cravings, because Toby’s brisket, pulled pork, chicken thighs, ribs or sausage are sure to satisfy them.

Their menu items are priced per pound, but they also have combo specials, including Jonell’s Combo (two bone-in chicken thighs with a side of baked beans or coleslaw).

Their hours are 11 am to 6 pm, and you can find them at the Freeman Store on Highway 27, southeast of Spokane, on Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays, and two Spokane Valley locations, Barney’s Harvest Foods at 11205 E. Dishman-Mica Rd. on Wednesdays and the Cum Inn Bar & Grill at 18221 E. Appleway on Thursdays.

H LA TURQUE ($5-$8.50)

Coeur de Breizh Crêpe-Mobile, 3615 N. Government Way, CdA These crêpes are made from a family recipe from Brittany — the birthplace of French crêpes. They sell halves and wholes of both savory and sweet crêpes, also allowing you to create your own.

The H La Turque includes hummus, black olive tapenade, feta, grated carrots and balsamic reduction, all wrapped up. They flip crêpes Wednesday through Sunday from 9 am to 3 pm and Friday until 7, and can also make gluten-free crêpes. 

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Burger Brawl pokanites have a weird relationship with Zip’s Drive-Ins. First off, folks seem to be largely divided into two camps: those who love the local fast-food chain and those who don’t, with the former mostly outnumbering the latter. Zip’s is not unlike Richard Sherman or paper grocery bags in this respect.

Those Zip’s lovers among us don’t let their opinions end

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PAPA JOE ($2.99) Score: 7.3, out of 10 Description: A cheeseburger with lettuce and — wait for it — a slice of ham.

Zip’s is not afraid to mix up their meats and this is a good example. Our crew appreciated the mixed textures of the marriage of ham and beef.

There’s a reason this is a tried-andtrue classic at Zip’s.

Notable taster remark: “As one of the only burgers with mayo, this one is a winner.”

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with a mere appreciation of Zip’s as an abstract concept, but rather will readily tell you which location they prefer and proselytize at length as to the merits of their favorite item. And often, that specifically comes down to the expansive burger options offered on the menu.

Because we love you and we love science (and we love eating, duh), the Inlander staff set out to eat 11 burgers from

WRANGLER ($5.99) Score: 7.25 Description: Three patties, cheese, bacon and served on a hoagie roll slathered with barbecue sauce.

This was intimidating just to look at when we brought it out of its foil wrapper. The size will take a second to get your head around, but the aroma — setting it apart from the other barbecue sauce-less burgers — made it unique. No one ate this entire thing, so we can’t say how manageable it is to order on your own, but at just under $6, this is a meal for two, giving it a high score on the value scale.

Notable taster remark: “My favorite of the bunch. Pretty ideal balance of bacon, cheeseburger and BBQ sauce.”

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CHEESEBURGER ($2.39) Score: 7.0 Description: Simple. One patty, one slice of cheese, pickles, ketchup.

We had to recheck our notes to make sure that such a pedestrianseeming offering could have scored so high. First off, this is the Cheap Eats issue and we were taking value into consideration. But our esteemed testers all gave it positive remarks.

Lesson: there is beauty in simplicity.

Notable taster remark: “I prefer singles — just the perfect amount of bites.”

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the Zip’s in downtown Spokane and score them on both value and overall taste on a scale of 1 to 10. It was rigorous research that made more than one of us question our belief in burgers altogether. But somebody’s got to do this.

Don’t agree with our findings? Go to your local Zip’s, try all the burgers in one sitting and then send us your opinions, Captain Know-It-All.

BACON BURGER ($3.99) Score: 6.85 Description: Take a cheeseburger, add bacon.

Zip’s bacon seems to make anything better. It’s crispy and just greasy enough to spread its flavor over the whole sandwich.

Notable taster remark: “I think this burger should run for mayor on a pro-deliciousness platform.”

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GARDEN BURGER ($3.89) Score: 6.4 Description: Two vegetarian patties, lettuce, mayo, tomatoes.

We never said this was going to be all about the beef. If you’re a vegetarian who thinks you can’t eat at Zip’s, think again.

Notable taster remark: “I thought it was a burger!”

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hat we think of as Spokane’s favorite drive-in chain didn’t actually begin in Spokane. Zip’s Drive-In originated in the Tri-Cities back in 1953, but things didn’t take off until founder Robert “Zip” Zuber built a second store on North Division Street, a few blocks from the Gonzaga campus.

After Zuber sold the business, it was sold twice more, eventually landing in the hands of Ed Minor, a potato chip salesman, Don Kelly, who worked for Wonder Bread, and Harold Fettig, who had managed a Zip’s. The group added numerous restaurants throughout the region in the subsequent years, and to this day many are still managed by the families of the three men. (Kelly passed away in 2013.)

There are currently 37 Zip’s Drive-In’s — which are not actually franchises — throughout Washington and Idaho, with the farthest from Spokane being a Boise location.

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BIG ZIPPER ($6.69) Score: 6.1 Description: Three big patties, cheese, lettuce, tomato, all on a hoagie roll.

This thing is big. Its weight alone may have been intimidating to some. This may very well violate the “don’t eat anything bigger than your head” rule recently adopted by the U.N. Notable taster remark: “That’s a lot of meat. More meat than you’d see at Gold’s Gym on a Saturday morning.”

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DOUBLE BACON ($4.79) Score: 5.6 Description: Multiply that bacon burger by two.

Again, the less-is-more theorem came into effect.

Notable taster remark: “This was OK.”

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GRILLED CHICKEN ($4.99) Score: 5.5 Description: Chicken breast on a hoagie roll with lettuce and mayo.

Again, another step away from the beef parade. The grill marks were inviting, but the amount of lettuce put it down the line a bit.

Notable taster remark: “Surprisingly great taste — a little too much money, though.”

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DOUBLE CHEESE ($3.89) Score: 5.4 Description: Two patties, two slices of cheese.

No frills here, just beef and cheese.

Notable taster remark: “This is my go-to Zip’s order. It’s classic, delicious and wellpriced,” said a member of the crew.

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TRIPLE TRIPLE CHEESE ($4.99) Score: 5 Description: Three patties, three slices of cheese.

The gang seems to think some lettuce or tomato could have helped.

Notable taster remark: “An overpowering mountain of meat puts this sandwich way out of balance.”

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BUSTER ($4.99) Score: 3.25 Description: A cheeseburger with lettuce and tomato, but topped with ham and bacon.

We’re going to get some heat for this.

Folks love the Buster around town, but the double dose of pork didn’t play well with the committee. We apologize for any hurt feelings.

Notable taster remark: “I love pork. I did not like whatever ham was on this. Bacon helped.”

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We strive to deliver the highest quality seafood in Spokane in order to make sure that any seafood meal is the best that it can be.

Lunch Menu

Williams Seafood Wraps*

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CRAB & ARTICHOKE - $9.99 SHRIMP & RED PEPPER $8.99 SMOKED SALMON - $8.99

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Fabulous Fish Tacos

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Macaroons from Sweet Frostings. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO

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CHIPS - $.99 PASTA SALAD - $3.99

SHRIMP - $8.99 Soup CRAB & SHRIMP - $9.99 Crab Dip CUP - $3.99 CRAB - $11.99 CRAB & BRIE - $12.99 BOWL - $5.99 SMOKED SALMON -$9.99 *All wraps & sandwiches come with chips & choice of sauce (Original/One Alarm Spicy/ Dill)

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SWEET FROSTINGS

15 S. Washington & 12501 N. Division, Suite 3 An obvious choice to be sure, as Sweet Frostings has been a Spokane favorite since it opened in 2011. It’s not the company’s cupcakes (which aren’t super expensive either) but rather its FRENCH MACAROONS That we’re here to talk about. Coming in gooey, sweet flavors like Strawberry Champagne, Key Lime and Salted Caramel, the macaroons are made in-house daily and are just $2 each.

These things are like a blast of sugar to the senses. Pop into the bakery with a few friends in tow and each get one to share. One bite is all you need.

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ating sweets in moderation can be the perfect way to celebrate and enhance life’s flavor — no matter what all of the sugar-hating documentaries, books and websites are saying right now. Ignore the naysayers, grab your favorite people and check out some of the most delicious and inexpensive (nothing above $4.50) treats in the Inland Northwest. You can eat salad tomorrow.

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111 S. Post Here’s where you’re going to get your chocolate fix, people. For just $3 each you can get German Chocolate Cake or even better, CHOCOLATE PEANUT BUTTER PIE, in a tasteful square shot glass. The peanut butter sample comes with golden nuts and dark chocolate sprinkled on top and a crumbly chocolate crust underneath the peanut butter filling. With other flavors like Crème Brûlée, Key Lime Pie and Cheesecake, this is another place to bring your friends and/or lovers for dessert, bask in the golden-tusk elephant décor, and share delicious, filling bite-sized treats.

DIDIER’S YOGURT & MORE

10410 N. Division This is frozen yogurt done the old-school way.

None of that bright, modern interior that you

get from other yogurt chain establishments.

Instead, you get the same friendly, mom-andpop-shop service that Didier’s has featured for more than 25 years. The best day to check it out is YOGURT TUESDAY, when it’s $1.99 for a medium yogurt flavor of your selection. Daily, there are eight flavors to choose from, like cookies and cream and Strawberry Shortcake.

Additional toppings run an extra 74 cents for candy and 84 cents for fruit toppings. Any other day of the week, a small yogurt will run you $3.19.

DID’S PIZZA & FROYO

5406 N. Division It shares the first three letters with Didier’s, but Did’s is another North Spokane treat unto itself. Walk into the Hawaiian-themed joint and your senses are bombarded with a cacophony of people and video game beeps and whirrs.

The name of the joint alludes to its yogurt, but it’s the HAWAIIAN SHAVED ICE ($2.71), which comes in dozens of flavors, that makes the place stand out. Each order of ice is freshly shaved in front of you, with your choice of up to three types of syrup drizzled on top. That first bite of shaved ice isn’t all that amazing.

But like watching the first season of Parks and Recreation, you have to keep going to get to the truly delicious stuff — that last syrupyfilled third of the dish.

PIE HUT

502 Church St., Suite A, Sandpoint No one wants a pie to the face, but a slice of pie in the mouth? Yes! At Sandpoint’s Pie Hut, the time is right to eat all the fresh, homemade HUCKLEBERRY PIE that you can possibly muster. While a normal slice of pie — think flavors like Sour Cream Lemon and Red Delicious — run you a mere $3.50 a slice, the huckleberry slice costs a whole dollar extra, thanks to high prices for this Northwest treat.

Once you have that not-too-sweet purple and flaky goodness in your mouth, you’ll be willing to pay for it again and again.

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BY DAN NAILEN ou know what’s better than cheap, tasty grub? Free, tasty grub. And while it’s not common to stumble across a place that’s dying to give away food — not exactly a sound business model when done to excess — a few in the Inland Northwest have found that throwing in a little something extra when customers belly up for a drink leads to bigger crowds, and most likely more drinking.

This is not exactly a new phenomenon. There’s a reason that bars — from the divey to the pricey — have bowls of salty treats at the ready to prime their customers’ thirst. You can find some quality free snacks around here for sure.

Pop in to BON BON (924 W. Garland, 327-2509, garlandtheater.com/bon-bon) adjacent to the Garland Theater and you get movie-theater-quality popcorn to munch on with your craft cocktails. Coeur d’Alene’s SLATE CREEK BREWERY (1710 N. Fourth St., Suite 115, 208-664-7727) offers up peanuts and an environment that invites throwing the shells right on the floor. And up north, LAUGHING DOG BREWERY (1109 Fontaine Dr., Ponderay, Idaho, 208-263-9222) brings its customers a bowl of “kibble” full of cheese puffs, pretzels, chips and the like. Bring your dog along and they get their own treat, too. Even upscale spots are in on the free snacks; THE LOUNGE AT MASSELOW’S at Northern Quest Resort & Casino (100 N. Hayford Rd., 481-6000) offers free smokey almonds, made from Chef Bob Rogers’ own special recipe, to accompany a drink before dinner or a little gaming.

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Snacking is all well and good, but man cannot exist on salty, crunchy bites alone. If you have, say, five bucks with which to dine and drink for the evening, you’re going to want to stretch that cash as far as possible.

Thankfully, a few places in the area offer free pizza to customers to go along with their drinks. Each has a welcoming vibe where you might actually want to hang for a while — and as long as free pizza is coming, why would you leave?

WHISK (17 W. Main) is a diminutive spot in one of Spokane’s coolest downtown neighborhoods, a mellow, friendly place where any time they’re open, you can get a slice of pizza with every drink you buy. This isn’t any microwave garbage, but tasty slices from PACIFIC AVE PIZZA (2001 W. Pacific, 624-0236). It might be a crapshoot as to what kind of slices are available at any given time, but hey, free is free.

On Mondays, 12 STRING BREWING CO.’s tasting room (11616 E. Montgomery Dr., Suite 26, Spokane Valley, 241-3697) turns into a bustling gathering of beer lovers eager to sip on some tasty craft-beer creations and munch down on free pizza from PIZZA RITA (multiple locations, pizzarita.net).

Wednesdays from 4 to 7 pm at PRESS (909 S. Grand, 747-7737), the pizzas come out fast and furious from next-door LALO’S PIZZA AND CALZONE (909 S. Grand, 533-5256), roughly one every 10 minutes in a variety of styles. Buy a drink, and you’re in on the busy nights that can sometimes see Press customers mow through upward of 25 pies.

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like the blackened tofu taco wrap, for just $5.49.

If you’re really hungry, add on a small salad to go, like the broccoli ($7.69/lb.), citrus ($6.99/lb.) or farmers market salad ($7.99/lb.); the latter is a colorful smorgasboard of red pepper, arugula, red onion, chickpeas, shallots and a tangy, oliveoil-based dressing.

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Two orders of blackened tofu wraps from Huckleberry’s Natural Market’s 9th Street Bistro. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO

Hot and Cold Deli counters offer just as many choices as any sit-down spot, and they’re friendlier to your wallet and waistline

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BY CHEY SCOTT ach year as Inlander staff sit down to brainstorm ideas for this annual special section, there’s always one fervent request that arises — make sure to include some healthy food options among all the mentions of indulgent, greasy fast food. So this year we thought, what better place is there to find affordable, varied, fast and good-for-you food than at the deli counter of the region’s numerous markets?

It’s entirely possible to fill yourself up for breakfast, lunch or dinner at these spots for well below $10 a meal.

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44 W. Main, 458-2667 Just as the member-owned co-op focuses on sourcing organic, natural and locally made

products for its retail side, the Main Market deli is bursting with healthy, wholesome options for any meal. In March, the market debuted a new hot bar, offering all kinds of buffet-style dishes, like tempeh cacciatore, three-cheese polenta, tofu pot pies, chicken adobo and baked spaghetti. Since the menu changes daily, deli manager Shanon Davis posts the hot bar’s offerings on Main Market’s Facebook page. All hot bar dishes are sold by weight, at $8.99/lb.

Back in the deli, don’t overlook the variety and affordability of sandwiches, wraps and salads in the case. We love the Asian-inspired airport chicken salad — it’s named after a recipe made famous in San Francisco — with rice noodles, chicken, baby spinach, cabbage, peanuts and a housemade sesame dressing. Pair a small salad

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1316 N. Fourth St., Coeur d’Alene, 208-676-9730 Much like its Lilac City counterparts, Pilgrim’s Market in the Lake City offers a dizzying array of dishes to whet anyone’s appetite, whether omnivore, vegan or vegetarian, or someone with dietary restrictions. There’s a juice and smoothie bar if you prefer your nutrition in liquid form, a cold case with salads, a hot bar and a Grab-n-Go case offering veggie and hummus snack boxes ($4.99), as well as pre-made sandwiches and packaged salads.

Should you ever cave to the urge to substitute part of your daily caloric allowance for something sweet, Pilgrim’s also makes and serves its own ice cream, offering a tasty list of gourmet (strawberry balsamic) and seasonal (huckleberry chocolate chip) flavors, for $3/ scoop or $4.25/double. A popular weekly special is “BBQ Friday” at the hot bar ($8.99/lb.) that serves up all the fixings: German potato salad, pulled pork, yam jojos, baked beans, chipotle corn salad and whole roasted chicken.

with any half-sandwich or wrap and you’ve got yourself a meal for $6.99.

HUCKLEBERRY’S NINTH STREET BISTRO

926 S. Monroe, 624-1349 The region’s only stand-alone Huckleberry’s market is always bustling during lunchtime, given its proximity to downtown and the Deaconess Hospital campus. The options are definitely as diverse as any sit-down restaurant. There’s also espresso, a juice bar, and even sushi just down from the deli counter. If you have time to dine in, the bistro has a made-to-order menu of burgers (meat, vegan or vegetarian), hot sandwiches and breakfast. For lunchtime, the cold case offers a tantalizing display of humongous half-wraps — seriously, they’re about the size of your head —

726 E. 43rd, 343-2253 Tucked back in the maze of claustrophobically narrow shelving at this tiny South Hill market, you’ll find the Jupiter Bistro, a small deli counter between a wall of wine and a small produce area. The prices of Rocket’s sandwiches and other case offerings are so darn low we almost feel guilty giving away its secret. Even better is how amazingly good it all tastes. One huge ham, brie and apple panini, on perfectly crispy bread from Bouzies Bakery, costs only $6.99, but is plenty filling for two to share, if you each add a small salad on the side. Just as tempting as this sweet-meets-savory sandwich are the square bricks of baked mac and cheese and the variety of quiche in Rocket’s case. The crunchy, colorful Lilac City Salad — aptly named for its dominant red cabbage — pairs well with this particular sandwich, but so would any of the market’s rotating salads, all listed on Rocket’s website, rocketmarket.com.

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Keeping It Classic Or Not How the time-tested favorites around the region compare to the newcomers

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GRILLED CHEESE CLASSIC: BROOKLYN DELI & LOUNGE

122 S. Monroe, 835-4177 Half Grilled Cheese Sandwich and Tomato Parmesan Soup ($8.25) Where else but a classic deli would you find the perfect combo of grilled cheese and tomato soup? Theirs is on homemade French bread with both smoked provolone and Tillamook cheddar cheese. The housemade tomato Parmesan soup is perfect for dipping. Or not.

NEW: MELTZ EXTREME GRILLED CHEESE

1735 W. Kathleen Ave., Coeur d’Alene, 208-664-1717 Build Your Own Sandwich ($5.50-$9) You’ve heard of build-your-own pizza and sub sandwiches? Same thing, only gooier. Start with sourdough or wheat and add cheese, like sharp cheddar, provolone, mozzarella, colby, pepper jack or Monterey jack ($1). Toppings could be buttermilk fried onions, an egg, or garlicky spinach ($2.95), or even meats like bacon or pulled pork ($2.50). You decide the flavors to fit your budget and style.

ver notice that as soon as you sit down to eat in a social setting you invariably end up talking about food? Some people get all misty over memories of past meals, while others debate whether Timber Gastro Pub’s pork belly-steak mix actually qualifies as a “burger,” or does it have to be all beef, like Hudson’s Hamburgers and Dick’s?

Whatever. That’s the beauty of this great nation: You don’t have to choose one or the other.

Go for the classics — meaning seasoned staples of the culinary landscape — or the newbies, newfangled or just plain noteworthy.

The menu is minimal — six or seven items — but mostly scratch-made. The carne asada is tender, flavorful marinated skirt steak bulging out of a flour tortilla alongside fluffy, fragrant rice and beans. There’s an added bonus, too. Freedom Burrito donates 10 percent of their year-end profits to the Wounded Warrior Project and Gold Star Families for Peace organizations.

over the top and for extra crunch, potato chips are crumpled into the cheese. Pair that with $2 Tuesdays, when almost all drinks are just $2.25 and you’ve got a date with deliciousness.

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Near 115 S. University Rd. and East Sprague Avenue Hot Dog ($2.50 including tax) Blue and yellow umbrella on the cart? Check.

Steamed buns? Check (that makes them chewy, as compared to the snap of the 100-percentimported-from-New York City Sabrett dogs).

Ketchup, mustard, sauerkraut, relish and the like?

Free with the purchase of a dog. Also free? A little dose of nostalgia for the kinds of dogs that still rule the Big Apple.

2152 N. Hamilton, 714-2482, donutparade.com Flatliner ($3) Purists may insist that protein has no business being on a donut. Phooey. For more than 40 years, Darrell and Kathryn Jones have been making donuts, so if they want to take their fluffy, maple-coated bar and stuff it with sausage before topping it with bacon, who are we to argue? Grab a coffee drink, milk or juice for a few bucks more and you have a mighty meal any time of the day.

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(Various locations at atilanos.com) Machaca Breakfast Burrito ($4.19) Breakfast — so they say — is the most important meal of the day. So what if it’s 3 am? Atilano’s has you covered with four locations in Spokane and Coeur d’Alene, late-night hours downtown and nothing over $8. This is stick-to-your-ribs Mexican food, with nearly 30 burritos. The Machaca is tender beef, crispy potatoes, gooey cheese, eggs and that unmistakably fresh Atilano’s salsa.

NEW: FREEDOM BURRITO

1602 E. Seltice Way, Post Falls, 208-777-4460 Carne Asada Burrito with rice, beans ($8.75) In a Post Falls strip mall, Freedom Burrito is quietly assembling an army of loyal followers.

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NEW: WILD DAWGS

102 N. Howard, 255-3688 Dogs Gone Wild ($7 including tax) Sounding like what happens when pizza gets it on with a hot dog, this mouthful of meat features a huge bun from Portland-based Franz, an all-beef dog, ham, pineapple, bacon, grilled onions and assorted sauces. Mozzarella is melted

425 W. Sprague, 624-3952 Breakfast Sandwich ($6.95) Even if you were just next door at the Satellite Lounge only hours (or minutes) before, this is downtown icon’s reputation is justifiably earned.

In one hand, you’ll have the sandwich: two eggs, your choice of bacon, sausage or ham and cheddar cheese on either locally made focaccia bread, flatbread or a croissant. In the other hand? One of their kick-ass Bloody Marys, of course.

NEW: COMMON KNOWLEDGE CAFE

823 Main St., Sandpoint, 208-263-0509 Bagel Sandwich ($6 including tax) Order this for a flavorful, protein-packed breakfast of a toasted egg on a locally made, Ice House bakery bagel, with organic pesto, sprouts and chèvre goat cheese. While your delicious, organic (and often gluten-free) meal is being prepared, peruse pottery crafted by the region’s artists and gifts or browse in the adjacent bookstore. Then sit outside in their garden and know you’re doing something great for your mind and body.

CLASSIC: DONUT PARADE

NEW: DAVIS DONUTS

2520 N. Fourth St., Coeur d’Alene, 208-664-1701 Brioche Donut ($1.25) Technically not new, Davis Donuts transferred ownership last year. They’ve offering more thematic donuts like green and blue glazed for Seahawks games, unusual flavors like lemon and poppyseed, even vegan and gluten-free options.

Their Brioche Donut is topped with blueberry Greek yogurt icing and a sprinkle of granola. Still hungry? Get 10 one-day-old donuts for $5, but only the cake donuts; all the others are donated to the local food bank.

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Small towns can be a blur from the interstate. Their charm is easily discovered by stretching one’s legs and refilling that soft drink. A place like Wilbur will reel you in deeper. After a pit-stop at Billy Burger, right there on Main Street, you’ll be telling tales of the small-town burger that tasted just like America. Once you share its deliciousness with cyberspace, mapping apps will be serving up maps to this roadside attraction. Make sure you finish it off with Billy’s fresh peach shake.

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It’s a Goat… and a Town

If you grow enough apples and apricots, maybe you start giving them little nicknames. That’s one likely explanation for the name of Liberty Orchards’ signature products — Aplets and Cotlets. A stop in Cashmere (it was on a Cashmere goat before it became your sweater) will take you to the sweetest tour on the Cascade Loop. You can see how these tasty confections are made at their downtown factory. And don’t forget about the free samples!

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This best drive has you staying at the Sleeping Lady Mountain Resort, lovely accommodations nestled in the Cascades on the banks of Icicle Creek. Here, you can’t escape nature — and why would you want to — as it’s all around you, offering a constant reminder that a best drive truly transports. While in Leavenworth, don’t miss Schocolat, an unassuming chocolate counter tucked in the back of the Edelweiss building. They’ll insist that you try their salted caramel sauce and a selection of handmade treats. It’s a destination all its own. If

you lean to the savory end of the palette, the Cheesemonger’s Shop is a must-try. And after enjoying authentic Bavarian fare, you might try dining at South — it’s one of the most authentic and interesting south-of-the-border experiences, with menu items from Mexico, Argentina, and Cuba. A great way to burn off your culinary adventure is by shopping. Lucky for you, the Kris Kringl Christmas store is open all year long. The selection is mind-boggling with a holiday delight at every turn. It’s easy to spend hours and hours among the ornaments.

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Robert Wynecoop, of the Spokane Tribe, dancing at an event earlier this year. Similar dances will be held at the first-ever Cultural Experience at the Coeur d’Alene Casino Resort. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO

SONGS OF SUMMER With the Julyamsh Powwow canceled, the Coeur d’Alene Tribe’s “Cultural Experience” has stepped in with gifts of salmon, huckleberries and dubstep

BY DANIEL WALTERS

t was the machines, and the anger and arguments surrounding them, that ended with the Coeur d’Alene Tribe canceling the largest outdoor powwow in the Northwest.

Specifically, it was a crowd of “historical horse racing” machines at the Greyhound Park and Event Center that became objects of contention for Idaho’s tribes. The machines, legalized in Idaho in 2013, were supposed to give bettors a chance to bet on historical horse races at racing tracks, just like they could bet on modern races.

In reality, they turned out a lot more like conventional slot machines, complete with spinning reels, blinking lights and select-thetreasure-chest bonus rounds. The tribes, which had struck exclusive gaming compacts, cried foul.

Meanwhile, the Julyamsh Powwow, complete with 1,600 dancers, was supposed to take place at the Greyhound Park — a business kept afloat by the controversial machines.

The tribe’s cultural committee scrambled, looking for another place to hold the powwow.

“There wasn’t enough time to do it right, nor did we have a location that would fit our needs,” says Heather Keen, spokeswoman for the tribe.

There’s no replacement for the Julyamsh Powwow, but as an alternative, check out the tribe’s cultural experience event on July 18, appropriately called “Cultural Experience.”

“I’m trying to build a sense of togetherness,” says Quanah Matheson, the cultural affairs director for the Coeur d’Alene Casino Resort.

“I want everybody to feel comfortable, and feel good when they leave. And learn something new about us.”

The concept isn’t new. For six years, the tribe’s been putting on an event called Winter Blessing, inspired by its wintertime traditions of pulling everyone together in the warmth of longhouses and sharing stories. As many as 1,000 visitors have come to Winter Blessing in years past to eat frybread, hear tales and watch fireworks.

Cultural Experience, by contrast, gets its inspiration from the foods, dances and songs of summer, when the tribe would catch salmon, of course, funneling them into narrow channels to make the fish easy to snare, spear or net. Families would get together and make huckleberry-picking pilgrimages up into the surrounding mountains of Idaho and western Montana. As the women would pick berries and dig for camas ...continued on next page

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roots, the men would provide protection and hunt game.

And so every attendee of the Cultural Experience will be handed gifts of huckleberry jam and salmon. No charge. The event is free, a celebration of the tribe’s tradition of generosity.

“We’re gifting away salmon. We’re gifting away huckleberries,” Matheson says. “We’re showing our dances that come from here.

Our songs that come from here.”

There’s the traditional Prairie Chicken Dance from the male dancers, drawing from the story of an animal appearing to a young man in crisis. These are old dance moves, passed from dancer to dancer through decades of powwow traditions all across America.

There’s the traditional female dance, a rhythmic interpretation of digging for camas roots. And then comes the dubstep.

When Matheson wanted a way to merge the traditional with the modern, he turned to his son.

“I suggested it,” says Kodamen, 14. “I’ve been dancing [dubstep] for a little while. I thought it would be cool.”

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The Canadian musical group A Tribe Called Red already mixes the tribal drum beat with dubstep’s rat-a-tat electronic distortions.

So Kodamen will create the same sort of combination in his dance steps, powwow moves combined with dubstep moves. It’s mash-up as metaphor.

Because as much as tradition is still part of native life, as much as the memories of picking huckleberries, digging roots and catching salmon a century ago still resonate, Matheson wants to remind the audience that they’re still a people very much in the present.

They’re still very much enmeshed with modern life.

“We drive cars. We’re educated. We have bills. We have insurance. We live in regular houses,” says Matheson. “We’re still alive.

We’re still here.”  Cultural Experience • Sat, July 18, at 7 pm; doors open at 6 • Free • Coeur d’Alene Casino Resort, Chinook Meadow • 37914 S. Nukwalqw, Worley, Idaho • cdacasino.com

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BOOK PRIEST LAKE HISTORY T

he allure of Priest Lake comes in different forms for the residents of the Inland Northwest (and beyond) who’ve come to love the pristine waters of “Idaho’s Crown Jewel.”

Maybe it’s the crisp mountain air or the recreation opportunities or the nostalgia of family trips to the lake.

Still, most of these lake-goers don’t stop to ponder how such a remote and hard-to-access spot became a beloved destination for the region over the years. History of this far North Idaho outpost has traditionally been spotty, but Wild Place: A History of Priest Lake, Idaho, sets out to tie together the story of the lake.

Written by historian Kris Runberg Smith, who grew up vacationing at Priest Lake and now is a professor at Lindenwood University in Missouri, the book from WSU Press is an easy read for the less historically inclined, but nevertheless is rich with primary sources, including accounts of early settlers that should make modern lake visitors thankful for the relative comfort available to them.

Smith got an assist on the project from Tom Weitz, a longtime Priest Lake resident and geologist who serves as the president of the Priest Lake Museum Association and helped provide many of the remarkable historical photos provided in these pages.

The book notes that Priest Lake was a seasonal getaway of sorts even before it was “discovered” by missionaries and settlers. Members of the Kalispel Tribe, Smith writes, would cross the mountains from the Pend Oreille River during the warm month to hunt and fish. As tales from explorers and cartographers circulated the country, tours comprised of wealthy outdoorsman came to Priest for often-grueling expeditions. The book’s first-person accounts of these early visits are remarkable, and continue throughout the pages to support the notion of the lake as a haven for rugged and adventurous souls.

The sections about the mining and timber industries may come as a surprise to some who see today’s Priest Lake as virtually untouched. Smith tells of timber operations taking up the shoreline and mines digging into the hills and the seafloor of the lake itself. And the tales of the

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accompanying bars and side businesses that came alongside this industry lend a little Wild West mystique to the book.

The history of Priest Lake’s current primary industry — tourism, of course — is prominently featured as well, with stories of the hardscrabble Hill and Elkins families whose namesake resorts remain institutions in the region. The influence of Spokane economics also plays a big part in the creation of Priest Lake as a modern-day getaway.

If anything, Wild Place should give you more to think about on your next trip to very northernmost Idaho.

— MIKE BOOKEY

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BOOKS | Harper Lee’s first novel since To Kill a Mockingbird was released Tuesday. The much-anticipated GO SET A WATCHMAN takes place 20 years after Mockingbird, and tells of Jean Louise “Scout” Finch’s return to Maycomb, Alabama, from her New York City home. Since news broke of the sequel to one of the most beloved and widely read books in American literature, a mystery has lingered over how the manuscript was found and whether the 89-year-old Lee ever intended to publish it. Last Friday, when the first chapter of the book was released by the Wall Street Journal, readers were shocked to see Mockingbird’s moral conscience and defender of justice, Atticus Finch, portrayed as an antiintegration bigot.

TWITTER | @LETTERSOFNOTE is instantly addictive.

The account, based on a blog (which was turned into a book), tweets correspondence between celebrities and historical figures from a wide range of interest areas. A quick scroll features a letter from Conan O’Brien to a 16-year-old girl, declining her prom invitation; a letter from 26-year-old Lewis Plush, a lieutenant during World War I, to his parents immediately after the war ended; and a letter from W.E.B. Du Bois to his 13-year-old daughter after she left home to study in England.

“Deserve it, then,” Du Bois tells his daughter of her acceptance to the Bedales School. “Study, do your work. Be honest, frank and fearless and get some grasp of the real values of life.” Seriously, take a break from your mindless Facebook scrolling and soak up some important stuff. History matters. Letters matter. Handwriting matters.

TV | You may now officially proclaim this “THE SUMMER OF GEORGE!” All 180 episodes of SEINFELD were added to Hulu last month, and yada yada yada, some fans of the show are a little pissed off because Hulu makes you sit through commercials despite the $8-a-month subscription. What’s the deal with that? Nevertheless, it’s the first time one of the most popular sitcoms of all time has been offered via instant streaming. Hulu reportedly paid more than $150 million for the rights. Giddyup!

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Mallory King and John David Scott star in Singin’ in the Rain. BRETT FONTANA PHOTO

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iven that some of its most resonant scenes are dominated by visions of Gene Kelly’s graceful, carefree puddle jumping or the sanguine wee-hours uplift of “Good Morning” in the 1952 film, Singin’ in the Rain is widely regarded as a musical that’s bright and buoyant and wholly without guile.

Yet there’s a distinct strain of cynicism that runs through it — enough for one to argue that its emotional leitmotif is disillusionment. Disillusionment with the vapidity of showbiz and the avaricious studio system. With the public’s fickle but insatiable appetite for celebrity. With America’s wealth- and fame-based hierarchy masquerading as everyman egalitarianism. Singin’ in the Rain only seems otherwise because it wraps its bitter pill in humor’s sweetness. As Cosmo Brown sings in “Make ‘em Laugh,” another one of the musical’s memorable numbers, “Just slip on a banana peel / The world’s at your feet.”

With his talk of “a coming-of-age story,” director Jadd Davis alludes to this disillusionment in his program notes to Coeur d’Alene Summer Theatre’s production of Singin’ in the Rain, but very little of it is evident on stage. This Singin’ in the Rain is a gleeful period piece that seems delighted by the opportunity to time-travel to the Roaring, yet still remarkably quaint, Twenties, a time when “talkies” are shaking up Hollywood’s silent film era.

Once Monumental studio head R.F. Simpson (Jerry Sciarrio) realizes he’s dealing with more than just a temporary fad, he tasks his resident celebrity couple, debonair silent film star Don Lockwood (John David Scott) and his pampered screen partner Lina Lamont (Krista Curry), to make the transition. Unfortunately, untalented and entitled Lina has the voice of fingernails meeting blackboard — Curry pulls this squeaky shriek off with superhuman aplomb — and, thanks to an ingenious idea from Cosmo (Greg McCormick Allen), gets her voice dubbed by

down-to-earth actress Kathy Selden (Mallory King, who starred here in Mary Poppins two years ago). Lina resents the arrangement and works to put a stop to it, while Don, contrary to the tabloid gossip citing him and Lina as an item, falls for Kathy.

For the iconic title sequence, which is indeed performed under copious amounts of water streaming from the flyspace overhead, Scott not only channels the spirit of Gene Kelly, he performs like a man possessed. It’s slightly unnerving, as it breaks from his character in the rest of the show, whose behavioral barometer points more toward unbridled zeal than suavity.

But Scott’s tapping is excellent and enjoyable, especially in his wonderfully synchronized songand-dance duos with Allen, who plays Cosmo as a rubber-faced, eminently good-natured third wheel to Don and Kathy’s romantic couple.

King, for her part, is absolutely mesmerizing; as an actress, she brings the quiet, confident star quality of her character to the stage.

After a series of opening scenes that aren’t yet as taut as they ought to be, the ensemble starts to gel quite nicely. Tamara Schupman flits smoothly between several roles (announcer, voice coach), as does Henry McNulty, recently seen in a more high-profile part in The Modern’s Boeing Boeing.

The orchestra, led by Scott David Miller, is outstanding from the first note to the last.

All this makes this production of Singin’ in the Rain strong in key performance areas, but disappointingly light when it comes to the real meat of the musical. So long as audiences don’t mind, R.F. Simpson probably wouldn’t either. arts@inlander.com Singin’ in the Rain • Through July 26; Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sat-Sun at 2 pm • $27-$49 • Coeur d’Alene Summer Theatre • The Kroc Center, 1765 W. Golf Course Rd., Coeur d’Alene • cdasummertheatre.com • (208) 660-2958

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After a year on hiatus, Vintage Spokane — the city’s largest summer wine and food event — is back this weekend at the Spokane Convention Center.

The new-look festival keeps its eye on fine wine and cuisine, but with a more approachable, less exclusive outlook, allowing more of the public to celebrate the region’s

booming wine industry.

Kirk Tourtillotte, vice president of Varsity Communications, the company behind the event, says that Vintage Spokane presents the same high quality with a more attractive price tag ($45 general admission; $60 VIP admission), in part due to the location. Taste Washington had always been held at the Davenport Hotel, making it “a little more

exclusive.”

“We moved it intentionally to be able to appeal to a wider bandwidth of attendees, and make it really a showcase event in the summertime for Spokane,” he says. This year, Tourtillotte says they’re expecting more than 800 attendees.

They’ll have the opportunity to taste wine from more than 50 wineries, primarily featuring Washington

wines, with a few representations from Oregon and Idaho.

The Washington wine industry has seen tremendous growth over the past several years, and 2014 was no exception. In a record harvest, the state produced 227,000 tons of grapes, compared to 210,000 in 2013 and 188,000 in 2012.

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Tranche Cellars plans to showcase its Rhone- and Mediterranean-inspired varietals at Vintage Spokane. from 800 to 850. That number has more than doubled in the past 10 years. One area of immense growth has been Walla Walla. Jay Tucker, partner and manager of Reininger Winery in Walla Walla, says he regularly sees new wineries opening in the area.

“I think it’s definitely increasing, not in an alarming rate, but I think it’s a very steady rate that’s going up ever since the [recent] recession. That did hit the industry pretty hard. It’s recovering like any other industry,” says Tucker.

Michaela Baltasar, communications director for the Washington State Wine Commission, has noticed an increasing number of small wineries popping up across the state. “There are a lot of people who have full-time jobs, and they have a small winery as their second jobs, and it becomes a labor of love for them,” she says.

It’s not just Washington residents who are devoting their time and money to Washington wines. “We’re also seeing a lot of outside investment from people from other countries, and other states, purchasing property in Washington,” says Baltasar.

As the Washington wine market grows, wineries are looking increasingly to Spokane as a promising marketplace. Yvonne Swanberg, owner and operator of San Juan Vineyards, predicts that five years from now, the Washington wine market will be even more competitive with California than ever before.

“There are some excellent, excellent, excellent wineries,” she says of the region.

Swanberg is preparing to showcase her two estate wines, Madeleine Angevine and Siegerrbe. She’s no stranger to the Spokane wine market, having participated in Vintage Spokane all four years and in Taste Washington before that. Swanberg says that people come to Vintage Spokane and seek out her varietals, which are also carried by several local restaurants and grocery stores — the Sapphire Lounge, Huckleberry’s and Main Street Market, to name three.

Over the past five years, Swanberg says she’s seen huge growth in Spokane’s level of food and wine enjoyment, as a “nice, small community with a lot of sophistication.”

During the course of the event, wandering attendees can visit the pods of wineries, snack on some local bites and check out demonstrations at the main stage. Several Spokane household names, including Masselow’s and Le Catering, will provide food to enjoy alongside the wine.

One new addition to this year’s event is the wine store.

“We’re really excited… you can actually purchase the bottle you tasted,” says Tony Dellino, marketing and event manager for Varsity Communications. Attendees can stop and purchase their favorite bottles, with proceeds benefiting the Spokane Youth Sports Association. Dellino says that SYSA was a natural fit, as Varsity Communications also serves as a sports marketing group.

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he Five Mile Shopping Center in North Spokane might be hiding one of the city’s best spots for sushi. Quietly opening last November, QQ Sushi & Kitchen hasn’t sought much attention. Despite this, it’s attracted quite the neighborhood following.

Located in a spot that as of late has rotated eateries in and out about once per year — the previous place to fill its walls was the Evergreen Bistro, which closed in the first half of 2014 — QQ Sushi sits in a strip-mall storefront next to a Subway sandwich shop facing Francis Avenue. Stepping inside, one first notices how tiny its dining room is, with a seating capacity of around 30. But the rich, dark-wood furniture and a long, communal table with bench seating anchoring the room extends an inviting vibe to first-time diners.

Owned by Bao Zhang and Tong Liu — each have 10 years of sushi chef and restaurant experience behind them — QQ’s menu offers a mix of fresh, baked and specialty sushi rolls, nigiri and sashimi sushi, and Asian fusion dishes, including Japanese bento boxes ($9-$11/lunch; $12-$18/dinner) and chow mein ($8-$12).

Most items on the menu can also be placed as to-go orders.

The presentation of each dish is a direct, artistic expression of Chef Zhang — sauces and garnishes are placed carefully around the plate to make an arrangement of rolls into a smiley face, a flower or a fish. Pieces of salmon and tuna sashimi are rolled into the shape of a rose blossom. One of the most visually stunning dishes, and a popular menu choice, is the Fire Lion King roll ($12), a spicy baked roll of eel, crab and avocado topped with salmon, which is served aflame, wrapped in foil.

“That is kind of [Zhang’s] signature. He makes everything really beautiful and presentation means a lot to him,” says QQ server Angelique Tauala, who’s worked with co-owner Liu for six years.

Liu is also part-owner of Ginger Asian Bistro on Spokane’s South Hill. Chef Zhang most previously owned Wasabi Asian Bistro, but sold the eatery to new owners and is now solely focusing on running QQ. Also notable is the overwhelmingly positive reviews on QQ’s Facebook page — a total of 80 diners have felt strongly enough about their experience to leave nothing but 5-star reviews and comments raving about the quality of its sushi.

“The owners are super hospitable and down to earth, and they like pleasing people with food,” notes server and manager Gino Guajardo. “We get a lot of regulars in the area, and a lot who come in two to three times a week.”

The restaurant’s quirky name refers directly to its small size, Tauala explains. “When Bao found the place he felt it was really cozy, and in Chinese [slang], QQ means cute and small and happy.”

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n the scene from Marvel Studios’ (Evangeline Lilly), and there’s more than latest superhero tale Ant-Man in which enough parental and surrogate-parental Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) first tries out angst to go around, what with Cross the suit that can shrink him to the size fuming over not getting enough apof an insect, his greatest threat is being proval from Pym, and Hope wondering washed down a bathtub drain, or flung about the mysterious, never-explained from a spinning record during a dance circumstances of her mother’s death, party. During one late action sequence, and Scott trying to convince his ex-wife Scott flees from explosions that reduce (Judy Greer, wasted as per usual lately) the buildings and landscape around him that he should be allowed to be around to rubble — the exploding surroundings his daughter. Virtually none of it works are only a scale model. In his climacbeyond the level of background noise, tic battle with an equally minuscule in part because it’s nearly impossible adversary, Scott hurls a train car — except to make sense of Scott as a character, that it’s the 3-inch wooden caboose from including the specifics of his criminal Thomas the Tank Engine. career. Rudd may be a charming actor, We’ve grown so accustomed to the but it feels as though Ant-Man doesn’t ever-growing apocalyptic stakes of modreally know what to do with that charm, ern blockbusters that even Scott’s mentor, beyond giving him a chance to flash that scientist Hank Pym (Michael Douglas), goofy smile a few times, and letting him jokes about the Avengers probably being be endearingly awkward when Hope is off somewhere “dropping a city.” And smacking him around during their trainthat’s part of what makes Ant-Man so ing sessions. refreshing on a variety of levels: There’s Yet that lack of an emotional center no assumption that the stakes for a rousfeels less frustrating when director Peyton ing adventure must include the threat of Reed (Down With Love) kicks the action widespread annihilation. It’s a reminder into gear. What the story lacks in fate-ofthat being a superhero — the-universe consequences, aside from, you know, the it more than makes up ANT-MAN occasional threat of being for in simple pleasures, Rated PG-13 blown up by a supervillain combining the slickness of Directed by Peyton Reed — might actually be kinda a heist thriller with specialStarring Paul Rudd, Evangeline fun. effects-driven fisticuffs.

Lilly, Michael Douglas The setup finds Scott Perhaps best of all, it’s the just released from a stint most playful comic-book in San Quentin for a Robin Hood-esque story since Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man films, burglary at a tech company, trying to get from the silliness of the sequence in his life back together enough to spend which Scott’s partner in crime (Michael time with his young daughter. But a rePeña) discursively explains how he turn to a life of crime seems like the only learned about a specific break-in target to option — until Pym shows up with that the sheer kinetic pleasure of superhuman high-tech suit and a unique offer. It seems abilities. Gravitas gives way to what The that Pym’s successor at his company, Flash TV series is reminding everyone: Darren Cross (Corey Stoll), is developSometimes all you ask from costumed ing a similar size-reducing technology crime fighters is that they leave you with with the intent of weaponizing it. Pym a stupid grin on your face. wants Scott to combine the suit’s abilities Because this is part of the ever-grow— communicating with and controlling ing Marvel Cinematic Universe, Ant-Man ants, in addition to becoming the same makes sure to provide its connection to size and strength as one — with his own The Avengers (including an extended charbreaking-and-entering talents to shut acter cameo for one action sequence), down Cross’ operation. and to set up Scott Lang’s ongoing presThe planning also involves ence in that universe. But it’s better at Pym’s badass daughter Hope carving out this character’s unique place in that universe, as a hero who doesn’t necessarily need to be chasing down Infinity Stones and Tesseracts and whatnot.

While Ant-Man may not have mastered giving its hero a soul, it reminds us that you can still have a blast at the movies, even when the good guy and bad guy are having a life-ordeath fight that can be contained inside a briefcase. 

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Scott (Paul Rudd) was just released from prison and a return to a life of crime seems like the only option — until Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) shows up with a high-tech suit and a unique offer. He wants Scott to combine the suit’s abilities — communicating with and controlling ants, in addition to becoming the same size and strength as one — with his own breaking-andentering talents to shut down a sinister operation. Rated PG-13 (SR)

TRAINWRECK

In addition to starring, Amy Schumer wrote the script for Trainwreck, casting herself as a monogamy-averse magazine writer who doesn’t know quite how to handle herself when she gets involved in a real relationship with an interview subject, a nice-guy sports orthopedic surgeon (Bill Hader). Directed by Judd Apatow, the story is

predicated on the complicated relationship between Amy and her alcoholic father (Colin Quinn), and it’s clear that Schumer wants to say something about the familial baggage that can damage our chance for happiness.

Rated R (SR)

MR. HOLMES

These days, Sherlock Holmes is a big deal again thanks to the spicedup Robert Downey Jr. films and the modern-day BBC mini-series starring Benedict Cumberbatch as the English sleuth. Now it’s Ian McKellen’s (better known as Gandalf or Magneto) turn to take on Holmes, only this time the story finds our hero in old age. Long since retired, and struggling with his now romanticized public persona, Holmes is once more called upon to solve a mystery — one he couldn’t crack 50 years ago. (LJ) Rated PG

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He goes to the local bus station and travels wherever the road takes him — it happens to involve a suitcase full of cash, a cadaver dog, an elephant and some unlucky endings for those who pursue him. This Swedish film with English subtitles is based on the best-selling Jonas Jonasson novel by the same name. At Magic Lantern (MS) Rated R

AMY

Amy Winehouse only made two albums, and her chaotic personal life drew far more attention than her Grammy wins, monster hits and stunning voice. The documentary Amy puts the focus back on the singer’s artistry, at least for 90 minutes, as it tells the story of how a girl focused on the joy of music rose to fame — only to have that fame push her toward a dramatic and tragic demise at just 27. (DN) Rated R

THE AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON

Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) has made an AI creation that he calls Ultron with some nifty powers from the defeated Loki (from the last movie).

Ultron (the voice of James Spader) has some of Tony’s attitudes, but a glitch in its “birth” makes it go a bit cyberinsane, and it extrapolates Tony’s notion of world peace to mean “a planet without humans.” Oh, and the Hulk has gone bonkers, so the Avengers also have that mess to clean up. (MJ) Rated PG-13

THE COKEVILLE MIRACLE

In 1986, in the sleepy town of Cokeville, Wyoming, a couple named David and Doris Young walked into an elementary school armed with guns and a

homemade explosive. After they gathered all of the teachers and students into one classroom, the bomb detonated killing only the Youngs. (In real life, David killed Doris and then himself). Eyewitness survivor accounts say they were saved thanks to heavenly intervention. T.C. Christensen’s independent film The Cokeville Miracle vividly depicts the encounter and the aftermath of a small town trying its best to grapple with tragedy, skepticism and faith. At AMC (LJ) Rated PG-13

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However, unlikely happenings find him and his friends in the world of drugs and gangs they had avoided thus far.

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ENTOURAGE

The bros from the HBO series are back and as bro-y as ever, bro. The film begins with Vincent Chase (Adrian Grenier) partying with a bunch of hot people in Ibiza and then he finds out he might do a remake of Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde and he’s all like “Yo, Ari? Am I gonna do the movie?” and the Turtle is like, “Yo, is Vince gonna do the movie?” Add in some gay jokes and glamorization of Hollywood’s worst parts and apparently you have something that looks like a movie. (SR) Rated R

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The story illuminates the nature of relationships, love and the value of strength through hardships. This British film marks the fourth film adaptation of the classic 1874 Tom Hardy novel. At Magic Lantern (MS) Rated PG-13

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Any theater/opera house worth its salt is supposedly haunted. The California high school theater featured in The Gallows gained its ghost after an accidental onstage death during a production 20 years ago. Filmed as found footage, the twisty horror movie follows a group of students who attempt to recreate the play. Understandably, things go badly.

The film was made for about $100,000, and features all unknown actors using their real names (just to make it scarier for them during the process). Don’t expect any blood or gore in this one, just straight heart-stopping thrills. (LJ) Rated R In a dramedy made for those of a certain age, widowed Carol (Blythe Danner) has begun to feel lonely and depressed. Her friends (June Squibb, Rhea Perlman and Mary Kay Place) attempt to help her find some love and joy. After many awkward encounters, she meets the charismatic, affluent Bill (Sam Elliott) and goes on a date with him. At Magic Lantern (MS) Rated PG-13

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Pixar’s newest film (following 2013’s Monsters University) is a major “emotion” picture — it’s about how choices between conflicting emotions drive the life of a Minnesota family. Young Riley (Kaitlyn Dias) and her parents (Diane Lane and Kyle MacLachlan) struggle with joy, sadness, fear, anger and disgust — that’s Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith, Bill Hader, Lewis Black and Mindy Kaling, respectively — and the personified emotions create their own problems inside Riley’s head. (MS) Rated PG

JURASSIC WORLD

This reimagining of the beloved trilogy features a familiar plot line but an entirely new cast, and even a new direction. Though Steven Spielberg is executive producer, Colin Trevorrow has stepped up to the role of director for this fourth journey into the Jurassic extravaganza. Set 22 years postJurassic Park, the dreamed-about, fully functioning dinosaur amusement park is finally a reality. \ (KA) Rated PG-13

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This rock biopic about the life of Brian Wilson is an insightful look at two periods of the surfer boy’s life. In the midto-late-’60s segments, when Wilson was at his songwriting and producing peak as the creative genius behind the Beach Boys, he’s played by Paul Dano.

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played by John Cusack, is now a drugaddled, empty shell of a man, under the “care” of psychologist Eugene Landy (Paul Giamatti), a short-tempered, delusional sociopath who seems to thrive only when he has total control over other people. Somehow, it all works.

(ES) Rated PG-13

MAD MAX: FURY ROAD

Fury Road is astonishing in a way that makes you feel like you haven’t seen a true action movie in a while, underscoring how sterile the genre has been.

Warlord Immortan Joe (Hugh KeaysByrne) thinks he’s sending his trusted Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron) on a mission to bring back fuel from Gas Town to the Citadel he rules with an iron fist, but she’s got a secret mission of her own: to free the enslaved “breeders” of Joe’s children and bring them to the Green Place far away that she remembers from her own childhood. (MJ) Rated R

MAGIC MIKE XXL

“It’s not bro time, it’s showtime,” a club owner says to the male strippers of Magic Mike XXL, characters made famous in 2012 with Magic Mike. That memorable quote is not quite indicative of the film, however. The story starts three years after legendary stripper Mike Lane (Channing Tatum) retired at his peak. When he finds out the bros of his old crew, the Kings of Tampa, are going on a road trip for a “blow-out” finale, he can’t resist the memories — he comes along and takes it all off. (MS) Rated R

ME EARL AND THE DYING GIRL

Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s adaptation of Jesse Andrews’ young-adult novel, this film pulled off the rare sweep of the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival in January. The story about a teenage boy guilted into befriending a classmate suffering from cancer is touching and provides a timely look at our culture’s narcissistic ways. (SR) Rated PG-13

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SELF/LESS

Director Tarsem Singh (The Cell, Immortals) doesn’t quite live up to expectations in this science-fiction suspense yarn about a multimillionaire New York real estate tycoon named Damian Hale (Ben Kingsley) who’s dying of cancer.

Instead of kicking the bucket, he undergoes an experimental procedure that puts his mind into the body of a younger man (Ryan Reynolds) in order to destroy his business rival. (SR) Rated PG-13

SPY

Director Paul Feig goes back to the well with Melissa McCarthy for their third movie together (Bridesmaids, The Heat). McCarthy plays a meek CIA agent thrust into an epic globetrotting adventure alongside professional asskicker Jason Statham and über-suave Jude Law as they try to hunt down sexy foe Rose Byrne, another Bridesmaids veteran. (DN) Rated R

TED 2

When Ted (a talking stuffed bear voiced by director, writer and producer Seth McFarlane) tries to have a baby with his new wife, he asks his best friend, John (Mark Wahlberg), to provide the sperm.

But his help doesn’t stop there. When Ted and his wife are denied custody unless Ted can prove he is human, the two best bros team up with lawyer Samantha L. Jackson (Amanda Seyfried) and take to the courts to defend Ted’s civil rights. (MS) Rated R

TERMINATOR GENISYS

Neither a remake nor a prequel nor a sequel, it’s kind of a reinvention of the first two films, but with all sorts of new futures and pasts. Yet for the first halfhour or so, it appears that we’re reliving the first film from a different point of view. There’s John Connor (Jason Clarke) in 2029, pumping up his rebel followers with a rousing pep talk about how “this is the night we take back our world” from the machines. But suddenly pieces that we didn’t know were missing from that first film are filled in.

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BY L g e e l verg e r Th con es r n ge

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hese aren’t necessarily the acts you’d associate with a casino circuit tour. And in looking at the other summer concert dates, Melissa Etheridge, Blondie and Joan Jett & the Blackhearts aren’t playing many other casinos — they aren’t playing any other shows together either. So it’s some kind of miracle that they’re converging next Monday night for a one-off show at the Northern Quest Resort & Casino. ...continued on next page

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MUSIC | ROCK “THE ONLY ONES,” CONTINUED...

While these rockers aren’t topping the charts as we speak, they’re by no means a bunch of has-beens.

They are rock pioneers. Joan Jett was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame earlier this year; Blondie was already there. All three acts continue to release new material and tour — although Blondie did take a 15-year hiatus. Even at 70 (Blondie lead singer Debbie Harry), 56 (Jett) and 54 (Etheridge), these artists continue to push themselves creatively.

“I told my new agent I wanted to play more shows with other fun rock ’n’ roll acts,” says Etheridge last week from a hotel in Niagara Falls.

She wasn’t specific about what that meant, and fully expected to work with all-male acts.

“It’s going to be electric, and I feel funny saying it’s an all-women show. That’s beside the fact,” Etheridge says.

She and Blondie, still including original members Harry and guitarist Chris Stein, have played a half-dozen shows together this month, but the Airway Heights show is the only one with Jett participating, as she and her band have been busy opening for the Who’s arena tour.

So far, Etheridge says their shows have attracted a completely mixed crowd of ages, genders and orientations.

Etheridge is the type of person who feels like an old friend when you talk to her. She’s truthful to a fault at times. She’s just gotten back from a hike by Niagara Falls, just out by herself — rolling with an entourage is not her scene, she says.

“People sometimes recognize me,” Etheridge says.

“But I have to go out in the community wherever I am, or else I’ll just go crazy in the hotel room.”

But for her, being out in the open also means giving

Melissa Etheridge, Joan Jett and Debbie Harry of Blondie come together for a single celebration of rock on Monday. her opinion without hesitation. The recent Supreme Court decision legalizing gay marriage was a huge deal for the musician, who’s been pushing for gay rights for decades, and Rolling Stone and Billboard.com immediately wanted her take. But the happiness was in hearing the news while still in bed with her wife — knowing that her marriage was now recognized in all 50 states.

“It was such a beautiful thing,” Etheridge says of first finding out about the decision. “I got to tell you, when your country finally goes through its growing pains and a majority of people can get over this gay thing and realize that love is love, that’s something to celebrate.”

Etheridge recalls years ago, when her then-10-yearold daughter wondered why people were so angry about gay marriage.

“I told her there were people out there who didn’t think I was a good mom because I was gay,” Etheridge says. “She just laughed at me. She thought it was the silliest thing she had ever heard.”

Family — four kids and a wife in California — is a big part of her life.

“I think about year-long tours in chunks,” Etheridge says. “I try to carve out times that I can be home, the big things like birthdays. But when I’m out on the road, I’m not sad. Home and the road benefit both sides of me.”

Her most recent release was a live album recorded in Los Angeles. Currently, she has many musical ideas floating around, but nothing is for sure. Now an independent artist, she’s not beholden to any label and can move at her own speed.

“In my 30s, I thought I was as good as I was ever going to get,” Etheridge says. “And now in my 50s, I’m thinking about getting better every night on stage. I want to be considered a guitar player more than anything.”

On Monday night, Etheridge’s guitar playing and singing will be just one piece of the puzzle. n lauraj@inlander.com Melissa Etheridge, Blondie and Joan Jett & the Blackhearts • Mon, July 20, at 7 pm • $45-$85 • All-ages • Northern Quest Resort & Casino • 100 N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights • northernquest.com • 242-7000

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ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION Local instrumental surf rockers BBBBandits are calling it quits.

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With local favorites BBBBandits’ final show this weekend, an Inlander freelancer looks back on his time with the band

BY GAWAIN FADELEY

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s the furious State Line sun beat down, I took a moment to soak up the scenery.

Twenty feet from the stage, maybe five people stood watching us play. Toes may have been tapping. In the distance, beyond the modest audience, sat 25 to 30 glorious classic automobiles, the focus of the afternoon. To my left, just past my bandmates, a young woman in a bikini top and the shortest Daisy Dukes permitted by Idaho law stared aimlessly back at me while eating a hot dog. I believe she was supposed to be dancing on stage to the music, perhaps in a manner befitting a dancer of her status as a Stateline Showgirl.

Why were we, a wholesome, instrumental rock ’n’ roll quartet, playing a car show in a strip club parking lot?

Well, someone asked us to.

Over the past four-odd years, BBBBandits has not turned down many shows. I think we always figured it would be a whole hell of a lot more fun to play than not play, so whether a touring band needed an opener at the last minute, or a friend was throwing a party and needed a band, we were usually game.

Sometimes there was a great crowd and we played terribly. Sometimes there was literally no one there and we played great. I don’t think we would have it any other way.

There was the time we got an offer to play a corporate booze cruise on Lake Coeur d’Alene for an interior design company. It was a two-hour cruise, so we played every song we knew. Twice.

There was the time we set up in the Moran Prairie Library after hours and nearly shook

the true crime A-through-K section right off the shelves.

We played a KYRS benefit in front of about six people. We played KYRS Music Fest (later Marmot Fest) in 2013 to about six people.

Thankfully, Tambourine Man was one of them.

We played the opening of Batch Bakeshop in West Central. There were free cookies and strange looks from the neighbors. A grown man on a BMX rolled up and tried to sell our drummer, Jeff Glinski, a set of cymbals.

Now, it goes without saying we’ve played some terrific shows with some great bands.

Volume was amazing every year. Playing the Big Dipper was always a treat, and Neato Burrito feels like playing a house show for your best friends.

And, of course, the best part of this whole deal is that we’ve managed to pull it all off playing instrumental surf rock, which is not exactly burning up the airwaves right now.

Regardless, after four-and-a-half years we’ve decided to call it a day. There was no falling out or differences of opinion. Colleen Vice didn’t throw her bass through a window. We’ve all been in bands — often with each other — since high school, so I wouldn’t be surprised if we got something going again.

Moral of the story, kids: Start a band with your friends and play as often as you can.

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INDIE ROCK CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH

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en years, people. It’s been 10 years since Clap Your Hands Say Yeah’s seminal, self-titled debut album burst onto the indie rock scene.

Back then, that off-kilter guitar and fuzzy keyboard sound, paired with Alec Ounsworth’s warbly voice, fit right in with the other hot indie acts of the moment — especially the track “The Skin Of My Yellow Country Teeth.” The band has made plenty of music since, but nothing quite as influential as that first release. For this summer tour, which includes a stop at the Bartlett on Sunday, the band is playing their debut in its entirety. Check out the recently released anniversary edition of the record, including 12 bonus tracks.

— LAURA JOHNSON Clap Your Hands Say Yeah with Teen Men • Sun, July 19, at 8 pm • $15 • All-ages • The Bartlett • 228 W. Sprague • thebartlettspokane.com • 747-2174

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Thursday, 07/16

ArBor CreST WiNe CellArS, Gator Loops THe Big Dipper, Bad Penmanship feat. Jaeda, Meganoke, k. Clifton, Freetime, BITWVFL, Lacs Crew and FIll N the Blank Big SkY’S TAverN, Triple Shot BooMerS ClASSiC roCk BAr & grill, Randy Campbell acoustic show BuCer’S CoffeeHouSe puB, Open Jazz Jam with Erik Bowen CHeCkerBoArD BAr, Opposite Box, Quarter Monkey Coeur D’AleNe CASiNo, Creedence Clearwater Revisited Coeur D’AleNe CASiNo, PJ Destiny Coeur D’AleNe CellArS (208-6642336), Wine with Patsy Cline feat.

Laura Sable Coeur D’AleNe pArk, Browne’s Addition Summer Concert Series feat. Tommy G fizzie MulligANS, Kicho THe flAMe, DJ WesOne HAYDeN CiTY pArk, Barry Aiken & Northpoint JACkSoN STreeT BAr & grill, Jason and Cary lAguNA CAfé, Just Plain Darin THe lANTerN TAp HouSe, DJ Lydell MoNArCH MouNTAiN Coffee (208-265-9382), Open Mic hosted

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Robby French THe NeigHBorHooD puB (208-5977499), Bright Moments Jazz Band True legeNDS grill (892-3077), Dan Conrad THe vikiNg BAr & grill, The Broken Thumbs, Volcanoes on the Sun,

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alk about a change of pace. Bruce Hornsby just finished playing piano at the five Fare Thee Well shows of the Grateful Dead at stadiums full of roughly 70,000 fans. Two weeks later, he’s bringing his merry band of Noisemakers to a 750-seat theater, and you can bet his playing will be just as creative and passionate, as Hornsby is one guy who never mails it in. Whether playing his own pop and folk-tinged compositions or tearing up killer, jam-heavy covers, Hornsby likes to keep the playing loose and the sound as diverse as possible.

That’s led to his work in everything from bluegrass to jazz to classic rock, and it makes for a live show full of surprises for unsuspecting audiences.

— DAN NAILEN Bruce Hornsby and the Noisemakers • Mon, July 20, at 7:30 pm • $59/$69 • All-ages • Bing Crosby Theater • 901 W. Sprague • bingcrosbytheater.com • 227-7638

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Friday, 07/17

THe BArTleTT, Eleni Mandell, Coutrney Marie Andrews BeverlY’S, Robert Vaughn THe Big Dipper, Chrysalis, Empty Vessel, Switchin to Whiskey, 37 Street Signs Bolo’S, Limousine BuCer’S CoffeeHouSe puB, The Lack Family CArliN BAY reSorT (208-6893295), FM CHATeAu rive, T. Scot Wilburn & the Shut Up-N-Playboys CHeCkerBoArD BAr, Captain Algebra, Itchy Kitty, Phlegm Fatale Coeur D’AleNe CASiNo, Echo Elysim, Donnie Emerson CoNkliNg MAriNA & reSorT, Stagecoach West Band

CurleY’S, Tell the Boys feDorA puB & grille, Kyle Swaffard fizzie MulligANS, Tracer THe flAMe, DJ WesOne Ladies Night freDNeCk’S (291-3880), Kidd Whiskey iroN HorSe BAr, JamShack JACkSoN STreeT BAr & grill, Coleman Underground JoNeS rADiATor, Blue Canoe MooSe louNge (208-664-7901), The Usual Suspects NeCTAr TASTiNg rooM, Kori Ailene NorTHerN QueST CASiNo, DJ Ramsin pArk BeNCH CAfe, Brad Keeler Trio peND D’oreille WiNerY, Tom Catmull piNNACle NorTHWeST, Disk Jockey F3lon, DJ Darkwood reD lioN HoTel AT THe pArk, The Sweeplings

reD lioN HoTel AT THe pArk, Atomatic Jive repuBliC BreWiNg Co., Brother Grand THe riDler piANo BAr, Dueling Pianos feat. Christan Raxter & Steve Ridler SeASoNS of Coeur D’AleNe (208664-8008), GRE3NE/Ron Greene SullivAN SCoreBoArD, Chris Reiser & the Nerve TAMArACk puBliC HouSe, Dank Tronics THe vikiNg BAr & grill, All Age Rage feat. The Nixon Rodeo, Soblivios, Seven Cycles, Concrete Grip, Thunderhound, Lions Beside Us, A Cryptic Ending, North Fork, Amnija zolA, Karma’s Circle

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feat. Ela Barton, Hillary Susz and more BeverlY’S, Robert Vaughn Bolo’S, Limousine BuCer’S CoffeeHouSe puB, Jodi Marie Fisher CArliN BAY reSorT, FM CHApS, Just Plain Darin CHeCkerBoArD BAr, Deception’s Past Coeur D’AleNe CASiNo, Echo Elysim, Donnie Emerson ,Eclectic Approach CoNkliNg MAriNA & reSorT, Stagecoach West Band CruiSerS, Kosh CurleY’S, Tell the Boys DAHMeN BArN (229-3414), Summer Concert Series: Bridges Home DAleY’S CHeAp SHoTS, Mojo Box DoWNToWN HArriSoN, Harrison Summer Concerts feat. Moses

Wiley  DOWNTOWN SANDPOINT, Sandpoint Summer Sounds feat.

Larry Mooney FIZZIE MULLIGANS, Tracer THE FLAME, DJ Big Mike, DJ WesOne HOGFISH, Bullets or Balloons, Empty Vessel, Nasal Rod IRON HORSE BAR, JamShack JACKSON STREET BAR & GRILL, Poker run feat. Steve Livingston, Triple Shot JOHN’S ALLEY, Reverend Bear THE LANTERN TAP HOUSE, Pine League, Shannon Winant LITZ’S BAR & GRILL (327-7092), Martini Brothers MOOSE LOUNGE, The Usual Suspects  MOOTSY’S, Shannon and the Clams, BBBBandits (Last Show) (See story on page 49), Fun Ladies MULLIGAN’S BAR & GRILLE (208765-3200), Michael Ross NORTHERN QUEST CASINO, Big BBQ Battle feat. Sammy Eubanks Also, DJ Ramsin PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Dave Hannon  PINNACLE NORTHWEST, Smar-T Jones THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos feat. Christan Raxter & Steve Ridler ROCKET MARKET, Lyle Morse SULLIVAN SCOREBOARD, Chris Reiser & the Nerve TAMARACK PUBLIC HOUSE, Dan Conrad and the Urban Achievers TRUE LEGENDS GRILL, Carli Osika

Monday, 07/20

TWO RIVERS CASINO AND RESORT (722-4000), Sara Brown Band  THE VIKING BAR & GRILL, All Age Rage feat. The Failsafe Project, December In Red, Project Kings, Helldorado and more ZOLA, Karma’s Circle

 BING CROSBY THEATER, Bruce Hornsby and the Noisemakers (See story on facing page)  CALYPSOS COFFEE & CREAMERY, Open Mic EICHARDT’S, Monday Night Jam with Truck Mills  INB PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, Harry Connick, Jr. LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Monday Night Spotlight feat. Carey Brazil  NORTHERN QUEST CASINO, Melissa Etheridge, Blondie, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts (See story on page 47)  PINNACLE NORTHWEST, Elektro Grave ZOLA, Nate Ostrander Trio

Sunday, 07/19

ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, Grand Avenue  THE BARTLETT, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (See story on facing page), Teen Men BIG BARN BREWING CO. (710-2961), Dirk Swartz CHECKERBOARD BAR, Erik Anarchy, Regulor Junior COEUR D’ALENE CASINO, Echo Elysium, Carli Oskia  COEUR D’ALENE CITY PARK, An Dochas CONKLING MARINA & RESORT, Cary Fly Band CRUISERS, Kicho CURLEY’S, Tell the Boys DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS, Jam Night with VooDoo Church  HILL’S RESORT (208-443-2551), Kidstock 2015 feat. Ben Baker, Devon Wade, the Kustoms, Sammy Eubanks HOGFISH, Open Mic IRON HORSE BAR & GRILL, Ray Vasquez  PINNACLE NORTHWEST, Thrive, Stranger, B Radicals ZOLA, Soulful Max Trio

Tuesday, 07/21

315 MARTINIS & TAPAS, The Rub  THE BARTLETT, Open Mic FEDORA PUB & GRILLE, Tuesday Night Jam with Truck Mills JOHN’S ALLEY, Grant Farm JONES RADIATOR, Open Mic KELLY’S IRISH PUB, Arvid Lundin & Deep Roots  PINNACLE NORTHWEST, My Body Sings Electric, Lotus Crush ROCKET MARKET, Ray Vasquez  SHERMAN SQUARE PARK, The Ryan Larsen Band SWAXX, T.A.S.T.Y with DJs Freaky Fred, Beauflexx ZOLA, The Bucket List

Wednesday, 07/22 BARRISTER WINERY (465-3591), Karrie O’Neill  THE BARTLETT, Jim Adkins of Jimmy Eat World CRAFTED TAP HOUSE + KITCHEN, Casey Ryan  DOWNTOWN COEUR D’ALENE, Live After 5 feat. Sessionz Smooth Jazz JONES RADIATOR, Whiskey Wednesday with Don Hawkins and Cajon Joe  KNITTING FACTORY, Alice in Chains [Sold-Out] LA ROSA CLUB, Robert Beadling and Friends LITZ’S BAR & GRILL, Nick Grow LUCKY’S IRISH PUB, DJ D3VIN3  THE NEST AT KENDALL YARDS, Rock the Nest concert feat.

Milonga PEND D’OREILLE WINERY (208-2658545), David Lane Walsh  PINNACLE NORTHWEST, Helsott, Draconis, Finding Phaedra, Noctyms Descent, Dysfunktional Kaos  PRINCE OF PEACE (465-0779), Brown Sugar & Cream THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Jam with Steve Ridler SOULFUL SOUPS & SPIRITS, Open mic ZOLA, The Bossame

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As a kid, Jurassic Park might have made you cry in fear. In Jurassic Park: Comedy Edition, three local comedians might make tears flow again when you see the movie, but this time from laughter. In the style of Mystery Science Theatre 3000, Tom Meisfjord, Missy Narrance and Steve Johnson add their comedic input to the 1993 Spielberg classic. While you’re there, enjoy some beers on tap from No-Li Brewhouse. Blending classic cinema, local comedy and local beer promises to deliver an exciting evening of parody, hilarity and a good time for all.

— MATTHEW SALZANO Jurassic Park: Comedy Edition • Fri, July 17, at 8 pm • $10-$12 • Bing Crosby Theater • 901 W. Sprague • bingcrosbytheater. com • 227-7638

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Harry Connick, Jr. • Mon, July 20, at 7:30 pm • $50-$125 • INB Performing Arts Center • 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. • inbpac.com

Land of Plenty • Thu, July 23 and Fri, July 24, at 6 pm • $10/night • All-ages • The Bartlett • 228 W. Sprague • landofplentyart.com

It’s easy to forget among Harry Connick, Jr.’s various acting gigs and his stint as an American Idol judge that the guy is one mean musician. His undeniable charm and good looks made him a natural to move beyond music, but his New Orleans roots and musical education — his parents owned a record store, and he performed classical and jazz piano starting as a 5-year-old — have served him well, leading to 16 million albums sold, several Grammys and 10 No. 1 albums. His concerts are a joyful trip through big-band and jazz styles, and his between-song banter is excellent stuff.

— DAN NAILEN

If you haven’t gotten out there to experience some of Spokane’s creative innovation yet, this upcoming collaboration is a perfect opportunity. While there are artists and performers featured from outside the region, more than half of the all-female participants in Land of Plenty are local. Spearheaded by Karli Ingersoll, the collaborative event showcases eight musicians, eight photographers and eight artists/designers who’ve teamed up to create a multimedia “landscape” of art. Locals in the show include Cami Bradley, Mama Doll, Tiffany Patterson, Hannah Reader and Windoe.

— CHEY SCOTT

FOOD GREAT GRILLIN’

OUTDOORS OLD SOULS

Some of the oldest trees in the region reach their branching arms up to the sky from the northwest side of Mt. Spokane. But in recent years, some argue that plans to expand ski runs to that side of the mountain threaten the removal of parts of this rare, preserved forest habitat. This side of Mt. Spokane has never been logged since the region was settled. To share this beautiful sub-alpine ecosystem’s importance with the public, the Lands Council and Save Mt. Spokane Coalition are hosting this third annual hike through the old growth forest. The 6-mile round-trip hike on a service road is an easy walk.

Discover Passes are required to access the park; also bring water and a lunch or snacks.

— CHEY SCOTT

Walla Walla

Dance Festival July 25th-31st Free events for adults, children and teens at various downtown venues.

Ticketed events include the Cabaret Night and the Grand Performance.

509-240-3428

Big BBQ Battle • Sat, July 18, from noon-6 pm • $10/adults, $8/seniors and military, free/kids • Northern Quest Resort & Casino • 100 N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights • battleofthepitts.com • 242-7000

TICKETS AVAILABLE BY PHONE - 208-885-6465, OR AT THE DOOR.

WWDF.ORG

Longhorn Barbecue and Northern Quest Resort & Casino have teamed up for the inaugural “Big BBQ Battle.” This competition brings together passionate barbecuers who compete head-to-head (grill-to-grill?) for their share of a $15,000 prize pool. Winners can choose to donate all or half to a charity of their choice. Guest judges and local celebrity chefs will walk from pit to pit to pick their favorite, and spectators can join in on the fun. Sample pork, brisket, chicken and ribs and cast your vote for the People’s Choice Award, then enjoy live music from Sammy Eubanks, specialty beers, and other barbecue concessions. If you go, it’s probably best not to wear white.

— ERIN ROBINSON

Cabaret Night

at Charles Smith Wines

July 29th

Grand Performance at Cordiner Hall

July 31st

3rd Annual Mt. Spokane Old Growth Hike • Sat, July 18, at 10 am • Free • Mt. Spokane State Park • Meet at Upper Kit Carson Trail Rd. trailhead • bit. ly/OldGrowthHike • 209-2404 Photo by David DeSilva

EVENTS | CALENDAR

BENEFIT

TAILS AT TWILIGHT The biggest and most important fundraiser of the year, bringing in more than 10% of the Kootenai Humane Society’s annual income.

July 16, 5-9 pm. $100/person or $175/ pair, $700/table. Coeur d’Alene Casino, 37914 S Hwy 95. (800-523-2467) PANIDA YARD SALE Shop to support Sandpoint’s historic Panida Theater. Donations are being accepted at the theater, Tue-Sat, up until the sale. July 18, 8 am-1 pm. varies. Foster’s Crossing, 504 Oak St. panida.org (208-263-9894) RIDE FOR LIFE A ride to raise money and awareness for the American Cancer Childhood Organization Inland Northwest. All monies stay local to help kids who are battling cancer.

Event includes a carnival, live and si-

lent auction, raffle, food and drinks.

July 18, 9 am-6 pm. Free. Curley’s, 26433 W. Hwy. 53. rideforlifeidaho.net SPOKENYA 7K RUN/WALK The annual, timed fundraiser walk/run helps fund water projects in Aidedo, Kenya. July 18, 9-11 am. $25. Life Center Church, 1202 N. Government Way. spokenyarun.org (993-0596)

COMEDY

STAND-UP COMEDY OPEN MIC Local comedians; see weekly schedule online. Thursdays at 8 pm. Free. Uncle D’s, 2721 N. Market St. (483-7300) EXPEDITION Live improv comedy show. Fridays in July and August, at 8 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. bluedoortheatre.com (747-7045)

The Death of Otto Zehm

By Andrew Gabriel Britt

A meticulously researched, compelling account of the complex civic and legal matters that resulted from Otto Zehm’s death in custody and changed Spokane’s policing forever.

Available now at Auntie’s Bookstore in Spokane, Well Read Moose in CDA and on Amazon*. (*Available electronically for your Kindle)

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W I SAW U YOU

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I SAW YOU ONCE UPON A TIME G - I learned from you so much about history...then we shared and made our own. I miss the times we had and the laughs too. I miss your smiling face and how I felt your friendship true. Please get back to me somehow, you know I need it very much, I wouldn't be reaching out this way, if I didn't need that special touch.

I WANT YOU TOO J I want you too. I felt so comfortable with you it was as if there was no distance between us...I fell in love with you the moment I looked in your eyes and I've been meaning to tell you,I have this feeling that won't subside. M

CHEERS TO THE MACY'S EMPLOYEES ON THE 5TH FLOOR DURING HOOPFEST I was in the women's bathroom with heat exhaustion setting in. You got me a chair and cold, wet washcloths for my face and neck, and kept me company until the medics arrived. Thank you so much for your concern and extra efforts to make sure I was alright.

CONTINUOUSLY AMAZED BY THE GERNEROSITY OF OTHERS I am a barista in the Spokane area, and I would like to say thank you to everyone that has ever tipped me! I actually get paid to do this, but something about my service makes you feel like giving me a few cents

upwards to a few dollars out of your hard earned money, and I am so impressed!

Thank you everyone. Over the past year I have saved the majority of my tips and am about to embark on a wonderful road trip to California, and to Disneyland! This is because of all of you, THANK YOU! I hope you are all enjoying your summer and drinking delicious coffee!

ACCEPTANCE I am Jamie, a MTF Transgender Woman, and I am so pleased with the amount of acceptance from friends and from so many others, young and old alike, here in Spokane. I have received such positive and respectful responses, especially from clerks, waitpersons, and salespeople. If some individuals do not accept me, then at least they have not made rude comments out loud. Some people have asked why I am "wanting to change my sex" and it isn't clear to most people that I am not "WANTING...," I "NEED" to be the person that I was really born as inside, "a FEMALE." I'm on Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) and am slowly seeing differences in my body appearance. While I am not able to afford all the "work" like Caitlyn Jenner, I do not yet appear as polished and "feminine" as she. But I dress every day as a woman and try to be as naturally feminine as possible. THANK YOU, SPOKANE!!

HELPFUL CORBIN PARK JOGGER Thanks so much to the Corbin Park jogger who volunteered to help me lift my heavy garage sale purchase into the back of my car on Friday morning 7/10/15. By the way, nice abs!!

BLACK AND WHITE PHOTO BOOTH You have changed my life profoundly, my lovely twin. Thank you for the picture, and the memories I hold dear while we are apart. I love you, as always.

YOU DESERVE A RAISE Sweet-natured little new gal that’s working at the Flying Goat. We are (semi) regulars in our mid 60’s. It’s been brutally hot and working the patio lately, you still have that inviting smile on your face regardless of being tripped by children running around or dealing with a demanding table. It’s refreshing to see one of the younger set these days radiate HAPPINESS. Overheard you talking to a co-worker, your positivity about life in

general is awe-inspiring. You stand out in the crowd. Thought you’d like to know that unbeknownst to you … people are impressed. Tell your boss to give you a raise. We will be back.

JEERS INSENSITIVE LADY AT ANIMAL SHELTER Jeers to the lady that marched into SpokAnimal and barged her way to the front counter, demanding to know why they "charged so much for their dogs." She proceeded to announce to anyone that was in the general vicinity that she "didn't pay this much before for a dog" and that their fees are too high. The front desk lady at SpokAnimal very patiently spoke to her, telling her gently that the fees cover shots and other things to support the dogs that are housed there, but this woman would not listen. She then complained that there wasn't a "good selection" for her to choose from. Shame on you, lady! Our local animal shelters have to deal with enough bad behavior from people that abuse and neglect their pets. Take a lap in someone else's shoes, miss. Or better yet, take your energy and volunteer to help animals in bad situations. It will cost you nothing.

SHAKES ARE MADE WITH ICE CREAM Okay, so it's not a BIG deal, but it frustrates me when so many coffee stands advertise espresso shakes and what you get has NO ice cream in it. Or they think blending it up with a mix of some sort and ice is a shake. It's not, that's called a frappe. I can't tell you how many time I've asked for a shake and gotten this.

One time I specifically asked — you make this with ice cream, right? She said yes — and then I heard the ice being blended.

Just be honest if you want my business — that's all I'm saying.

LEARN HOW TO READ (AND DRIVE) A special shout-out to the lady in the large black SUV who didnt want to let me in to the I-90 on Thursday from the Pullman Highway. There are signs clearly warning you to allow traffic to merge over, but maybe reading and driving are somewhat challenging areas for you. You self-righteous idiots driving in the right lane at this junction need to recognize how small the merge lane is, and how

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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dangerous it is for drivers to have to stop there. Which is why I forced myself in at all cost! It was really awesome how you had to slam on your brakes because you suddenly realize I'm getting over. In the future when you're traveling down Sunset Hill, let's hope you will be more aware of traffic that needs to merge over, so that you aren't in this situation again.

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and Spokane Falls Boulevard. Stop having your silly parties and boasting your extravagant ventures and start writing real articles about sh*t that actually matters. Thank God for the intelligent, passionate writers at the Inlander.

RE: NOT CUTE OR NICE Really, you're complaining about an older man talking to you, I bet if he was some movie star

Jeers to me! I am the rude person who made a very nice lady move from her seat at the Sunday show at Chautauqua.

Or maybe the next time you try to get onto a highway, some dead-ass moron (like yourself) will give you the same hellride you gave me!

MAYOR RUSHING I just wanted to send out a big jeer to Airway Heights Mayor Patrick Rushing and his racist Facebook post. Shameful act for a public figure!

THE OTHER LOCAL "PUBLICATION" To the other magazine that recently released their "annual food issue." First of all, the food section is a whopping 20 pages long, and doesn't even begin until page 131. Secondly, you only feature those who pay for advertising instead of talking about our real food scene and how it has vastly changed in the last decade. Third, featured in your cover photo and article, a true "filet of ribeye" should never have a bone in it and in the photo is not wrapped in bacon, as the article claims. The proper name for this dish should be bone-in rib chop. Stop featuring only businesses who give you money — they aren't always the most savvy of the city. Lastly, your neighborhood feature of Riverside avenue is 100% wrong: none of those businesses are actually on Riverside Avenue, they are on the streets of Main, Washington,

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or producer, would you be quick to complain and older people have a right to go any bar they want and just so you know, younger men go into bars looking for older women, and there is no such bars for the older people, people go to bars not just to meet young immature spoiled brats like yourself. Seems like you need to watch out for young weirdos.

VERY BAD MANNERS AT CHAUTAUQUA Jeers to me! I am the rude person who made a very nice lady move from her seat at the Sunday show at Chautauqua.

I said it was my seat which was very rude as well as ridiculous. I am so sorry for being such a crass mole (and sorry to the moles who don't deserve this). Please accept my apology. I hope I didn't wreck your day

THIS WEEK'S ANSWERS

NOTE: I Saw You/Cheers & Jeers is for adults 18 or older. The Inlander reserves the right to edit or reject any posting at any time at its sole discretion and assumes no responsibility for the content.

EVENTS | CALENDAR STAND-UP COMEDY Live comedy featuring established and up-and-coming local comedians. Fridays at 8 pm. No cover. Red Dragon Chinese, 1406 W. Third.

(838-6688) SAFARI Fast-paced short-form improv games based on audience suggestions. (Not rated.) Saturdays at 9 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland.

(747-7045) THIS, THAT OR THE OTHER Liberty Lake Community Theatre’s comedy improv troupe. July 18, Aug. 22 and Sept.

19 at 8 pm. $7. Liberty Lake Community Theatre, 22910 E. Appleway Ave. (7686429) STAND UP / SHOW DOWN Live comedy, Mondays at 8 pm. Free. Sapphire Lounge, 901 W. First. facebook.com/ spokanecomedyfan (747-1041) IMPROV JAM SESSION An open-mic style improv comedy night, open to all regardless of experience. Tuesdays in July and August. $5. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. bluedoortheatre.com OPEN MIC COMEDY Wednesdays at 8 pm. Ages 21+. Free. Brooklyn Deli & Lounge, 122 S. Monroe St. (835-4177)

COMMUNITY

CHERRY PICKERS TROT Enjoy a fourmile run (7 pm) through Green Bluff’s orchards (walkers welcome) as well as the annual Pit Spit Contest (5:30 pm) and a burger/hotdog feed (5 pm) with live music, vendors and more. July 16. $9/person.

Green Bluff Growers. greenbluffgrowers. com/trot PULLMAN CRAZY DAYS Downtown Pullman merchants add a new twist to this year’s historical event, utilizing the shady Cougar Plaza parking lot and the adjacent alley to set up their bargains.

Also new is live music, and food and beverages. July 16, 10 am-9 pm, July 17, 9 am-4 pm. (334-3545) WHERE’S WALDO? The famous children’s book character visits 20 local businesses in July, and those who spot him can win prizes and more. The annual event supports shopping local, and runs through the month. Free. Downtown Spokane. downtown.spokane.net FUN FRIDAYS @ THE PARKS Each Friday in July, Spokane Valley Parks program leaders head to two different city parks with fun activities planned to engage park users. See schedule and locations online. Free. spokanevalley.org/ ParkPassport MONTHLY SWING DANCE A dance for all swing dance styles, including Lindy Hop, Charleston, East Coast, West Coast, Balboa, or Country Swing. Open to all ages. Includes a lesson from 7-8 pm, and dancing until 11 pm. Third Fri. of every month, 7-11 pm, through July 17. $5. Woman’s Club of Spokane, 1428 W. Ninth. strictlyswingspokane.com (944-5071) SPIRIT OF SERVICE AWARDS Five of America’s finest enlisted service men and women will be honored at The American Legion Department of Washington 97th Annual State Convention.

July 17, 8-11:30 am. Red Lion Hotel at the Park, 201 W. North River Dr. (425218-4624) CAMP DART-LO’S 70TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION Celebrate 70 years of camp experiences, reconnect with friends, explore the 52 acres of trees and reminisce about Camp Dart-Lo memories. July 18, 11 am-4 pm. Free.

Camp Dart-Lo, 14000 N. Dartford Dr.

campfireinc.org (747-6191) UPROOTED: JAPANESE AMERICAN FARM LABOR CAMPS DURING WWII The exhibit opens to the public, with a reception featuring David Milholland, Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission president and Uprooted project codirector, presenting a program at 6 pm, including two short films created from interviews with individuals who lived in and worked from Idaho and Oregon farm labor camps. Exhibit runs through Sept. 19; open Mon-Fri, 10 am-5 pm.

Free, donations accepted. Human Rights Institute, 414 Mullan Ave. hrei. org (208-292-2359) EVERY DROP COUNTS: WATER CONSERVATION TIPS Learn about small steps you can take inside and outside your home to reduce overall water consumption, including low-cost or no-cost methods. Hosted by SNAP. July 21, 6-7 pm. Free. East Side Library, 524 S. Stone St. (444-5331) BRING A “NEW” FRIEND TO THE JACC Learn more about the events and opportunities at the JACC, check out the gallery and enjoy live music and the magic of Dick Frost. July 22, 6-8 pm.

Free. Jacklin Arts & Cultural Center, 405 N. William St. thejacklincenter.org (208-457-8950) KIDS SUMMER SAFETY FAIR A day filled with exhibits, resources and activities for the whole family, including info on fire safety, police, water safety, bike safety, drawings, snacks, games, crafts, community resource booths and more. July 23, 10 am-2 pm. Free.

Harmon-Shipley Park, 6000 N. Market St. (741-0776) ADA 25TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION Disability Action Center NW hosts a free family event to celebrate the Americans with Disabilities Act, signed into law in 1990. The event features live music, speakers, arts and crafts and disability resource booths, kids activities including face paintig, prizes and a free barbecue.

July 24, 10 am-2 pm. Free. Riverstone Park, 1800 Tilford Ln. dacnw.org (208883-0523)

FESTIVAL

PIONEER DAYS The annual community festival celebrates Davenport’s 125 year history, with favorite activities such as the Pioneer Plod fun run, classic car show, parade, live music, barbecues, belly flop contest and much more. July 17-19. Free admission. pioneerdays.org RATHDRUM DAYS The annual community celebration includes a classic car cruise, street dancing, live music, vendor fair, food/beer, lawn mower races and more. July 17-19. rathdrumchamberofcommerce.com 5TH ANNUAL SHOWCASE IN THE PARK Community celebration hosting local artists, clubs, and businesses, with live music, karaoke, food vendors, kids activities and more. July 18, 11 am-5 pm.

Free. Springdale, Wash. gsllcoc.com/ featured-events.html (844-4811) CULTURAL EXPERIENCE: SUMMERDANCE A celebration of Coeur d’Alene Tribal traditions, featuring traditional and new dances, singing, drumming and more. July 18, 7-10 pm. Free. Coeur d’Alene Casino, 37914 S Hwy 95. cdacasino.com (800-523-2467) GREEN BLUFF CHERRY FESTIVAL Head up to Green Bluff for u-pick cherries, prepicked cherries, cherry treats and more.

Cherry fest events run July 18-19 and 2627. Green Bluff. greenbluffgrowers.com

NORTH PEND OREILLE COUNTY

MOUNTAIN MUSIC & WINE FESTIVAL The annual event features three bands, a barbecue, arts and craft vendors and samplings of wine from 20 Northwest/ regional wineries. Music from 12-8 pm; wine tasting from 11 am-8 pm. Tasting packages from $5-$27. July 18. Schweitzer Mountain Resort, 10,000 Schweitzer Mtn Rd. schweitzer.com NORTHWEST RENAISSANCE FESTIVAL The 21st annual renaissance festival includes jousting, performances, entertainers and more. July 18-19, from 11 am-7 pm. $6-$35. Northwest Renaissance Festival, 6493 Hwy 291. nwrf.net (276-7728) PRIEST LAKE HUCKLEBERRY FESTIVAL The annual HuckFest, sponsored

by Priest Lake Search & Rescue includes food, arts and crafts booths, and live music by Jackie Fox and the Hounds and the Brad Keeler Trio. July 18, 10 am-5 pm. Free. Priest Lake, Idaho. plsar. com CANYON COUNTY FAIR The county fair features traditional events such as live music (Brett Eldredge, Easton Corbin), ag exhibits, carnival rides/games, food, exhibits and more. July 23-26. $3-$100.

Caldwell, Idaho. canyoncountyfair.org BAREFOOT IN THE PARK The City of Liberty Lake hosts a new community event offering a barefoot soccer tournament, car show, live music/bands, inflatables, family entertainment and more. July 24-26; Fri 5-9 pm, Sat 8 am11 pm, Sun 8 am-3 pm. Free. Pavillion Park, 727 N. Molter Rd. libertylakewa. gov/387/Barefoot-in-the-Park (7556726) DOWN RIVER DAYS North Pend Oreille County’s 59th annual celebration on the river, including the Tri-Town Float Down poker paddle. July 24-26. Ione, Wash. downriverdays.com (442-3435) GRASSHOPPER FESTIVAL The mission of the fest is to celebrate the science and fantasy of the grasshopper and to promote local and global value of this abundant resource. July 24-25. Republic, Wash. grasshopperfestival.org HARRISON OLD TIME PICNIC The three-day community celebration culminates on Sunday with a parade, community picnic and old-fashioned contests like sack races an obstacle and more. July 24-26. Harrison, Idaho. harrisonidaho.org NORTHWEST YOGA FEAST The 6th annual event’s name does not include a typo, it really is a “feast” of yoga and food, with Seattle guest chef Karrian Neal. The weekend retreat offers yoga practice, food and personal development. July 24-26. $300-$350. Eureka Institute, 513 Oak St., Sandpoint. nwyogafeast.com (208-265-4000)

FILM

CHEESY SUPERHERO MOVIE NIGHT “Batman Forever,” is shown as a Millennial Meetup, the library’s programs geared for patrons in their 20s and 30s.

Popcorn and other refreshments are provided. July 16, 6:30 pm. Free. Coeur d’Alene Public Library, 702 E. Front Ave. facebook.com/millennialmeetup SPOKANE FILM SOCIETY The local group screens a film to get audiences thinking, with each month focusing on a new theme. Thursdays at 9 pm. $5.

Garland Theater, 924 W. Garland Ave. garlandtheater.com (327-1050)

DOWN RIVER DAYS July 25th & 26th North Pend Oreille Valley Lions Club

Scenic Excursion

Train Rides July 25 & 26 Saturday: 1pm & 3pm Sunday: 11am & 1pm

Cowboy Breakfast 7-10am Ione Park Train leaves from Ione Station

For information & reservations visit www.lionstrainrides.com or call 1-877-525-5226, Mon-Fri 6am-5pm. Reservations highly recommended.

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PIONEER DAYS 2015

Celebrating 125 years of history Davenport, WA July 17th - 19th The Pioneer Plod Fun Run, The Road Knights Classic Car Show, Pioneer Days Parade, The Lions Club BBQ in the Park, The Belly Flop Contest, Live Music in the Park, Teen Dance, Farmers Market, Vendors, Beer Garden, and so much more! visit the reardan plowboy for more info

245 W. Broadway (Sr2) , Reardan Wa 99029 • 509.796.3331

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Advice Goddess Requiem FoR A ScReAm

I’m a 28-year-old woman in a relationship with a really great guy. The problem is, it started as a hookup, and I faked my orgasm. I didn’t announce I was having one, but I, um, made certain noises. I was enjoying myself, but I just didn’t feel one coming, and I didn’t want him to feel bad. Now that we’re “a thing,” I can’t keep faking, but I’m not sure how to tell him.

—Unsatisfied

AMY ALKON

There are a number of reasons women fake orgasms, like that the guy is taking FOREVER. The woman’s thinking, “What is this, the slow train to Siberia? No, the bus. The slow bus. Over the back roads. With a day trip to Latvia. Hey, driver! This is my stop. Stop the bus, please! I know…maybe this’ll work”: “Aahhhh-aaaaah-AAAAAAAH!” Movies — and not just the dirty ones — also lead to orgasm fakery, giving us distorted expectations of how orgasms look and sound and how quickly they happen for a woman, even in casual sex with a stranger. (Welcome to the toilet stall or car hood insta-gasm!)

Back here in real life, research by sociologist Elizabeth A. Armstrong finds that, on average, in a first or second hookup involving intercourse, a woman has only a 35 percent chance of getting to the big finish (compared with a 75 percent chance if she’s having sex in a relationship). A woman’s chances do increase the more she hooks up with a particular bedfella. But often, until a hookup becomes a regular thing, a man will have his cake, and, yes, a woman will have hers, too, but somebody clears the plate before she gets to the frosting.

The value of practice isn’t exactly surprising, considering that even for a guy trying his bestest, hooking up with a new girl can be like driving a rental car: You hit what you think is the turn signal, and — oops! — there go the windshield wipers and the car alarm. Of course, it doesn’t help that a woman tends to feel awkward detailing her sexual needs to a man she barely knows: “Hold on — let me pull out the 41-page manual.”

As you’ve discovered, the problem comes when Hookup Guy becomes Boyfriend Guy and is under the impression that he’s providing happy endings and not the never-ending middle. The right time to correct this is as soon as possible (though not while you’re in bed). Explain why you love sex with him and then confess: You faked it the first time and didn’t quite know how to roll back from that.

Pledge that in the future you’ll only cheer when your team is winning, and tell him that the next time you’re in bed, you’ll show him what works for you. (Basically, guide him like you would a fireman: “This way! No, over here! HURRY!!!”)

After a few test runs, he should feel secure that if you’re screaming during sex it’s because he’s truly showing you a good time — or because you rolled over on a Hot Wheels truck his nephew left in his bed.

EVENTS | CALENDAR SUMMER MATINEE SERIES: BOOK OF LIFE The midweek summer matinee movie series screens family friendly films through the summer. July 15-16 at 1 pm. $3 or $20/summer movie pass.

The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy.org AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON When Tony Stark tries to jumpstart a dormant peacekeeping program, things go awry and Earth’s Mightiest Heroes are put to the ultimate test. July 17-19, show times vary. $3-$6. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy.org (208-882-4127) MOVIES IN THE PARK: HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 Screening at dusk.

July 18. Pavillion Park, 727 N. Molter Rd. pavillionpark.org (755-6726) SOUTH PERRY SUMMER THEATER: GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY The annual summer movie series returns, screening at the parking lot of The Shop.

Movies start at dusk, preceded by a fundraiser for a local charity. July 18. Free.

The Shop, 924 S. Perry St. (534-1647) SUMMER CAMP 2015: WET, HOT, AMERICAN SUMMER The Garland’s summer movie series returns, and includes beer specials from River City Brewing. Tuesday’s showings also include contests and prizes. July 19, 21, and 23. Garland Theater, 924 W. Garland Ave. garlandtheater.com NEFARIOUS: MERCHANT OF SOULS DOCUMENTARY A powerful documentary screening, followed by a Q&A with FBI and local experts who discuss the local communities’ current challenges and efforts being made to eradicate sex trafficking. For mature audiences only.

July 21, 6-8:30 pm. Free. Kroc Center,

1765 W. Golf Course Rd. kroccda.org SPOKANE DRIVE-IN MOVIES: TOP GUN Outdoor movies are screened Tuesdays, with drive-in or picnic-style seating. Gates open at 7 pm, with movies starting at dusk (around 9 pm.) $4$5/person without a car; $20-$25/carload of 4+, or $5/person for cars of 1-3 people. Cash only. Concessions provided by local food trucks/businesses. July 21. Spokane Drive-In Movies (North), 4307 E. Mt. Spokane Park Dr. facebook. com/OutdoorMoviesSpokane SPOKANE DRIVE-IN MOVIES: MONSTERS UNIVERSITY Outdoor movies are screened Wednesdays, with drivein or picnic-style seating. Gates open at 7 pm, with movies starting at dusk (around 9 pm.) $4-$5/person without a car; $20-$25/carload of 4+, or $5/ person for cars of 1-3 people. Cash only.

Concessions provided by local food trucks/businesses. July 22. Spokane Drive-In Movies (West), 750 N. Hayford. facebook.com/OutdoorMoviesSpokane SUMMER MATINEE SERIES: NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM The midweek summer matinee movie series screens family friendly films through the summer. July 22-23 at 1 pm. $3 or $20/summer movie pass. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy.org (208-882-4127)

FOOD & DRINK

GIRLS PINT OUT CDA MEETUP The Inland Northwest chapter of the national craft beer organization for women meets on the third Thursday of the month, from 6:30-8:30 pm. Free to attend. Free. Cork & Tap, 2034 Main St. girlsbeerblog.com (208-930-0769)

MAD HATTER TEA PARTY The annual fundraiser hosted by Alice and the Mad Hatter includes an evening of tea, refreshments, live music and games, benefiting the Franciscan Place at St. Joseph Family Center. July 16, 6-9 pm. $50/ person. St. Joseph’s Family Center, 1016 N. Superior St. sjfconline.org (483-6495) THURSDAY NIGHT THROWDOWN The local latte art competition and cup tasters competition at DOMA’s new coffee lab. Food trucks are on site and prizes are offered. Sign-up at 7:30 pm, starts at 8 pm. July 16, 7-10 pm. $5/compete; free to attend. DOMA Coffee, 6240 E. Seltice Way. on.fb.me/1GOKglu (208-667-1267) FRUGAL TRAVELER SERIES: PORTUGAL ON A DIME Sample eight wines from Portugal, all priced between $8$12/bottle. July 17, 7 pm. $20, registration requested. Rocket Market, 726 E. 43rd Ave. (343-2253) VINO WINE TASTING Friday, July 17 features a tasting of wines from Côte Bonneville Winery, from 3-6:30 pm.

Saturday, July 18 is a show down between CA v. WA Chardonnays, from 2-4:30 pm. Tastings include cheese and crackers. $10/tasting. Vino!, 222 S. Washington St. vinowine.com BIG BBQ BATTLE The inaugural barbeque competition sanctioned by the Pacific Northwest Barbecue Association (PNWBA), hosted by Northern Quest and the Longhorn Barbecue. Event includes samplings from competitors and the Longhorn, live music and more.

July 18. $8-$10; kids 12 and under free.

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Fishing” is the theme of July’s event, with live music by Eclectic Approach (Seattle) and beer specials from Leinenkugel, Blue Moon, Wallace Brewing Co. and Laughing Dog. Brewing Co. July 18, 5-10 pm. $17. Coeur d’Alene Casino, 37914 S Hwy 95. cdacasino.com ST. VINCENT STEAK FRY The annual fundraiser includes a steak dinner with all the fixins’, live music by the Kelly Huges Band and Colby Acuff & Justin Sherfey.

Proceeds benefit the St. Vincent warming centers in North Idaho. July 18, 4-10 pm. $25. Kootenai County Fairgrounds, 4056 N. Government Way. stvincentdepaulcda. org (208-416-4717) VINTAGE SPOKANE A wine and food festival hosting more than 50 local wineries, with small bites from local chefs.

Also includes chef demos, a coffee bar and beer garden. July 19, 5-8 pm. $40$55. Spokane Convention Center, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. vintagespokane.com

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KPBX KIDS’ CONCERT Musician and Nacho Celtic Hour host Carlos Alden hosts a jam session with regional musicians and folksy tunes played on fiddle, banjo, spoons, and whatever comes on stage.

July 17, noon. Free. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague. bingcrosbytheater.com LAURA SABLE & BILL WIEMUTH Concert with a dinner-theater option. July 17-18. $10-$25. Circle Moon Theater, Hwy 211 off Hwy 2., Newport. northwoodsperformingarts.com (208-448-1294) RENDEZVOUS IN THE PARK The all-ages outdoor music fest features a variety of local, national and international musi-

cians, with 2015 headliners Los Lonely Boys and Samantha Fish. Also includes music and art workshops for children on Sat-Sun. July 17-19. $25/evening, or $50/ festival pass. East City Park, 900 E. 3rd St., Moscow. rendezvousinthepark.com HORSE CRAZY COWGIRL BAND Concert by the band named a 2012 finalist for the Western Music Association Awards’ Entertainers of the Year, Album of the Year and Song of the year. July 18, 7 pm. $8-$12.

Empire Theatre, 126 S. Crosby St., Tekoa. tekoaempiretheatre.com (284-2000) SUMMER CONCERT SERIES: BRIDGES HOME Sandpoint couple Tami and Dave Gunter are dual lead vocalists, multiinstrumentalists and purveyors of Americana, Celtic, roots and originals. July 18, 7-9 pm. $12. Dahmen Barn, 419 N. Park Way., Uniontown. artisanbarn.org JENNY EDGREN The local singer songwriter performs a fun concert to be enjoyed by children of all ages. July 22, 2-3 & 3:30-4:30 pm. Free. South Hill Library, 3324 S. Perry St. (444-5385) EMMA SCHERER & HADRIAN LEVEQUE DE SAVONA A free lunchtime concert by two Paris-based Broadway performers at the Providence Faith and Healing Garden, across from the Children’s Emergency Center. July 23, 12-1 pm. Free. Sacred Heart Medical Center, 101 W. Eighth Ave.

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SPOKANE INDIANS VS. TRI-CITY DUST DEVILS Three-game series, July 15-17, starting at 6:30 pm each night. July 17 is Yoke’s $1 family feast night. $5-$20.

Avista Stadium, 602 N. Havana St. spokaneindiansbaseball.com (535-2922) SPOKANE SHOCK VS. ARIZONA RATTLERS Arena football game. July 17, 7 pm. $15-$60. Spokane Arena, 720 W. Mallon Ave. (242-7462) 3RD ANNUAL MT. SPOKANE OLD GROWTH HIKE The Lands Council’s third annual, 7-mile round-trip hike around Mt. Spokane’s old growth forest. Bring lunch and water. July 18, 10 am-4 pm. Mt. Spokane State Park, 26107 N. Mt. Spokane Park Dr. landscouncil.org (209-2404) THE DIRTY DASH The annual, 4-mile mud-run obstacle course returns to Spokane for another muddy event. July 18, 9 am. $50-$66. Riverside State Park, Spokane. thedirtydash.com MUDDY MILES Runners compete in teams or solo in this mud-filled, 2-mile obstacle course and race, during which spectators lob water balloons. Proceeds benefit Heritage Health programs and the Salvation Army Kroc Center. Sat, July 18, from 10 am-1 pm. $15-$35/person or $100-$135/family or team. Kootenai County Fairgrounds, 4056 N. Gov’t Way. muddymiles.org (208-415-0292) SCHWEITZER MOUNTAIN TRAIL RUN The fourth annual trail run offers 3.5-mile and 10-mile distances, on mostly singletrack trails. The Schweitzer Music Festival takes place after the race (2 pm). July 18, 10 am. $20-$55. Schweitzer Mountain Resort, 10,000 Schweitzer Mountain Rd. smtrailrun.com (208-263-9555) TIGER TRI The 25th annual race includes a 1K swim, 40K bike ride and 8K run, with post-race food/drink and live music.

Open to individuals and teams. July 18. $75-$85. Colville, Wash. tigertri.com

RACE THE RIVER The 8th annual sprintdistance triathlon includes a half-mile swim with the current of the Spokane River, a 10-mile bike ride and a 3-mile run. Also includes a kids’ race ($20). $60$90/individual, $150-$210/relay team of 2-3 members. July 19. Riverstone Park, 1800 Tilford Ln. racetheriver.com WALLACE ATV JAMBOREE The annual event offers a week filled with hosted trail rides (4-6/day) organized into varying difficulty levels. July 20-25. Downtown Wallace, Idaho. highmountainatv. org/jamboree (208-512-5465) INLAND NORTHWEST BACKPACKING BASICS Along with local information, learn how to choose a pack, select proper clothing and footwear. Also includes tips on trail etiquette and Leave No Trace principles. July 21, 7-8:30 pm. Free, register to save a spot. REI, 1125 N. Monroe St. rei.com/spokane (328-9900) U-DISTRICT FOUNDATION SUMMER FUN RUN SERIES The annual fun run 5K series takes place the last three Tuesdays in July (14, 21 and 28), from 5-8 pm. Runner’s Soul and David’s Pizza are on site at each event. $5/race (adults); free/ages 17 and under. U-District PT, 730 N. Hamilton St. udistrictpt.com/foundation/programs LIGHTWEIGHT BACKPACKING BASICS An REI backpacking expert provides tips on lightweight backpacking techniques, including ideal shelters, backpacks, food choices and fuel efficiency. July 22, 7-8:30 pm. Free, register to save a spot.

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Stage Left Theater, 108 W. Third Ave. etcspokane.com (638-6193) MUTUALLY ASSURED DESTRUCTION: 10 PLAYS ABOUT BROTHERS & SISTERS Ferris Theatre Arts produces its first summer production, a funny and poignant play exploring the relationships between siblings through the decades. July 16-17 at 7 pm. $5. Ferris High School, 3020 E. 37th Ave. (354-6000) NT LIVE PRESENTS: MAN + SUPERMAN Academy Award nominee Ralph Fiennes plays Jack Tanner in this exhilarating reinvention of Shaw’s witty, provocative classic. Part of the Kenworthy’s National Theatre Live broadcast series. July 16, 7-10 pm. $12. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy.org (208-882-4127) THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH The wellknown and beloved book is brought to life on stage. July 16-19; Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $10 $15. Pullman Civic Theatre, 1220 NW Nye St. pullmancivictheatre.org (509-332-8406) THE SECRET GARDEN An original adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s novel, “The Secret Garden.” July 16-27; Thu-Fri at 7 pm and Sat-Sun at 1 pm. $10$12. Spokane Children’s Theatre, 2727 N. Madelia. spokanechildrenstheatre.org SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN CST presents what’s often referred to as the “greatest movie musical of all time.” Through July 26; Thur-Sat at 7:30, Sat-Sun at 2 pm. $49/adult, $42/senior, $27/children. Kroc Center, 1765 W. Golf Course Rd. cdasummertheatre.com (208-660-2958)

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July 10-18, Fri-Sat at 7:30 pm, July 19 at 3 pm. $14. Panida Theater, 300 N. First Ave. panida.org (208-255-7801) AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS A staged reading of the play is back by popular demand for 2015. July 22, 7:30-9:30 pm. $25. Kroc Center, 1765 W. Golf Course Rd. cdasummertheatre. com (208-660-2958) EMPIRE THEATER COMPANY: CUPIDS Performance of the original romantic comedy by Hazel Bean. July 22-Aug. 2, Wed-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $10.

Stage Left Theater, 108 W. Third Ave. etcspokane.com THE BEST OF TIM MCMANUS Actor Tim Behrens stars as a one-man cast of your favorite McManus characters, from Rancid Crabtree to Melba Peachbottom, from a dog named Strange to daft old Mrs. Swisher. July 22, 6:30-8 pm. Free, donations accepted. Post Falls Library, 821 N. Spokane St. (208-773-1506) THE LITTLE PRINCE The Idaho Repertory Theatre performs a stage adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s beloved classic. July 23-25, July 31-Aug. 1, Aug. 7-8 at 7:30 pm; also July 26 and Aug. 2 at 2 pm. $5-$10. University of Idaho Hartung Theater, 6th & Stadium Way. (208-885-6465)

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Mini parks, or “parklets,” are designed to be community gathering places. JOSE BARAJAS RENDERING

Parallel Parking

The drive in Spokane to build parks that fit into parking spaces

BY MITCH RYALS

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pokane will soon join the likes of San Francisco, Seattle, Boston, New York and other big cities around the country in efforts to add green space, fellowship and art to areas carved with cement and metal (and in the case of Spokane, dotted with potholes).

Those efforts are known as parklets. Think of them like downtown’s front porch — a space to gather, sit, read, people-watch, eat and drink. They’re tiny reprieves from tall buildings and city buses and typically take over one or two parallel parking spots.

The local push to reclaim public spaces from the automobile comes from a group of design-minded friends who started the nonprofit organization Yes (You Express Studio). During a brainstorming session in March of last year, the group decided that parklets would be a good outlet for their collective creative energies. Drawing from

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designs in San Francisco and Seattle, the team scrounged up every pallet and usable piece of wood they could find to create a sprawling, building-blocks-style prototype.

They built it in a driveway and showcased it at the Garland Street Fair last year.

“That was just the first step,” says Jose Barajas, one of the founders of Yes, who works at Integrus Architecture designing buildings. “Now we’re making it more legit, and we’re collaborating with the city to model our program after the one in Seattle.”

The city of Spokane still has to approve the design and location for the newest parklet, but Barajas says they’re close to getting the plans finalized. When that happens, he hopes to install it in front of the Saranac Commons on West Main at the beginning of August.

For the first one, he says, the group decided to stick

with a simple design that looks like a giant urban sandbox (without the sand, sadly). The parklet design he’ll submit to the city will take up the majority of two parking spaces and include three tables, a standing bar and a bench created by WSU students using digital fabrication.

Earlier this year, following a trial run that started in 2013, Seattle formalized its parklet program and now accepts applications for new parklets twice a year. Barajas hopes to do something similar in Spokane, so other artists and designers can come up with their own ideas reflective of the surrounding neighborhood and businesses.

San Francisco, which has had a parklet program in place for five years, now has more than 50 of the mini plazas throughout the city. An assessment by the San Francisco Planning Department found that parklets promote alternative modes of transportation such as biking and walking, support local businesses and improve the overall aesthetic of the block.

Ultimately, Barajas says, he’d like to see parklets as a permanent fixture in Spokane. He sees them as gathering places and community builders; they could also serve as a stage for a poetry reading or an impromptu concert.

“We think Spokane has incomplete streets,” he says.

“There’s not enough outdoor seating and greenery, and too much hardscape. I think it will encourage more people to walk and shop downtown. The possibilities are endless.” mitchr@inlander.com

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