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His new book is oxygen, heat, fuel, chemical reaction.

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herman Alexie’s memoir, You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me, has rocketed to the best-seller list, but suddenly, on July 13, he called off the rest of his book tour, including two scheduled stops to his old stomping grounds in the Inland Northwest. The book centers on his complicated relationship with his mother, and reliving the experience, night after night on tour, was traumatizing. More than that, his late mother seemed to be haunting him.

“I don’t believe in the afterlife as a reality,” he wrote when announcing the canceled dates, “but I believe in the afterlife as metaphor. And my mother, from the afterlife, is metaphorically kicking my ass.”

We tapped a friend of Sherman — local poet and novelist Shann Ray — to delve deeper into his career and impact on writing and culture at large.

That revealing story starts on page 24. As Shann writes: “If ever there was a night lamp we needed to see us through what we currently face as a nation, domestically and globally, it is Sherman Alexie.”

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n July 19, Avista announced it had entered into an agreement to be acquired

by Ontario-based Hydro One. A few weeks earlier, Telect announced it had been acquired by Amphenol. Previously, it was PAML acquired by LabCorp, Demand Energy Networks

by Enel Green Power and etailz by Trans World Entertainment. That makes five acquisitions of Spokane-area companies in roughly a six-month period.

In many instances, the common worry is a loss of jobs and a reduction in corporate funding of community causes. While these are fair concerns, I believe these business transactions are an overall net positive for our region. These acquisitions reflect the maturation of an enterprise. Our future economic health, however, still depends on our region proactively and regularly birthing new companies — even at a higher rate than we’re used to.

Among the reasons I believe in acquisitions of local companies by larger entities: Infusion of incremental funding. Generally, buyers are larger and more substantial businesses, in many cases publicly held, with access to significant capital resources. This ensures that acquired entities will have the necessary funds to pursue growth objectives, including hiring new employees and purchasing additional property and equipment.

Realization of strategic synergies. Priced into acquisitions are strategic benefits accruing to the target; they may take the form of a more broadly recognized brand, a larger sales force and relationships with a wider swath of potential customers, great purchasing power with vendors, and economies of scale associated with more defined processes and procedures.

Migration of new and diverse talent.

Integration of an acquired company typically involves transfer of new talent in varying degrees in operations, engineering, finance, marketing and/or sales. These individuals can bring experience and knowledge that otherwise may not have been recruited or organically developed, adding to the regional talent pool.

Creation of discretional capital. Acquisitions of regional companies may generate substantial capital gains for founders, investors and key employees. A portion of these gains often are reinvested into innovative new companies and community initiatives.

Verification of the quality of our business environment. Offering an educated and skilled workforce, providing an infrastructure conducive to efficient business practices, deploying businessfriendly policies and tax codes, enabling a high quality of life and demonstrating affordability are competitive advantages. So acquisitions by large, reputable companies of Spokane-based companies verify the existence of these attributes, and serve

as a flywheel for the formation of startups, recruitment of new businesses and additional acquisitions.

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hrough the acquisition of etailz, a transaction I am familiar with as a co-founder, I have witnessed these benefits firsthand. Trans World Entertainment has provided incremental funding enabling etailz to hire more employees, pursue new opportunities and grow at a faster rate than it could have accomplished on a stand-alone basis. The liquidity provided to many etailz investors has instilled confidence in the early stage investment model and has already been, and will continue to be, redeployed into new businesses.

Of course, not all acquisitions turn out as originally expected. Sometimes the investment banking skepticism of “buyers are liars” is true. Locally, there are no remnants of General Dynamics’ acquisition of Itronix in 2005, nor PerkinElmer’s 2010 acquisition of Signature Genomics.

Yet the “circle of life” is such that as small companies grow and attain industry leadership, they attract the acquisition interest of larger companies that are unable to innovate quickly and/or cannot achieve desired growth targets organically. This outcome is inevitable and desired.

We need to embrace the reality that the leading companies in our region may ultimately be acquired, view the outcomes as favorable overall, and accept the instances when they are not.

Silicon Valley does not develop angst when one of its stars is taken over; the community there applauds acquisitions as success stories.

This is the lens through which we should view purchases of companies headquartered in Spokane.

The only missing piece is a focused, broadly supported effort to establish our region as a hub of innovation, with the requisite resources to identify, start, fund and nurture new enterprises.

Avista understood this well and demonstrated a track record of successfully innovating new companies. Its offspring include Itron, Itronix, Ecova and ReliOn, in addition to funding several other emerging businesses in the region. I am hopeful the company’s dedication and support to funding innovation will continue post-acquisition.

In parallel, however, a call to action to our economic development organizations, city leaders and entrepreneurs is in order to ensure that we are filling the pipeline of the next generation of industry-leading enterprises, and replacing the void created by recent acquisitions. n

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One Man’s ‘Distraction’ Exposing the hypocrisy of the city council’s critics and their agendas

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aking Spokane safer from potentially volatile oil trains. Codifying a Sustainability Action Plan that reduces carbon emissions while saving money. An ordinance opposing President Trump’s religious registry that passed unanimously. These are a few impactful decisions with larger implications taken up by the Spokane City Council in 2017, and what its critics point to this primary season as too much time spent on national issues instead of just “fixing the streets.”

It’s an emotional hook in Spokane as old as Bing Crosby’s sainthood, built on a false premise, meant to

misinform the public.

The reality: Most nights at the city council are free of any culture-war skirmishes, with votes passing unanimously. “Local governments tend to attract people who are solution-oriented rather than ideologues,” says Dave Cieslewicz, the former mayor of Madison, Wisconsin, and co-founder of the Mayors Innovation Project, a network of progressive city leaders. “As a rule, cities tend to hang together pretty well in terms of being politically homogenous and therefore governable.”

Our city government is mostly free of the sort of ideological grandstanding that has left both Washingtons deadlocked — with our state legislature barely avoiding a government shutdown and an increasingly cringeworthy Congress that requires safeguards. The United States can

often resemble two separate countries — one rural and one urban — but because of partisan gridlock, it has been up to cities to take matters into their own hands, especially regarding job growth, affordable housing, income inequality, racial justice and, yes, climate change.

So to the council’s critics: What is your vision for the city? What are your solutions? Fixing the streets is happening, thanks to most of you. Yes, you, if you were one of the 77 percent of Spokanites who voted for a 2014 street levy that runs until 2035, and won’t leave any of the city’s 266 miles of arterials behind. The plan was supported by Mayor David Condon, Council President Ben Stuckart, businesses and bipartisan donors, without any organized opposition. The Street Department — which is overseen by the mayor’s administration, not the city council — is ultimately responsible for the streets. Your council member or their staff can assist, but the most direct way to deal with a pothole within city limits is to simply call 311. The money is there. We are also seeing the proof in other projects approved by voters, though there’s only so much work that can be done at the same time without adversely affecting businesses and transportation.

There are limits, of course, to what city councils can do independently, but if you think that raising the Pride Flag above City Hall is a distraction, that’s dismissive of the mandate the council has to serve the majority of the public they represent. Actions like changing Columbus Day to Indigenous People’s Day — and joining multiple cities in the same commitment — are often brought forth by constituent requests. Witness the hundreds who pack council chambers to testify in support of these so-called “distractions,” and it’s very clear how important they are to the citizens of Spokane, who sometimes stay until the late hours just for the opportunity to speak for three minutes.

If those same critics really felt that the city council was spending too much time on national issues that could be litigious, they wouldn’t be pushing Proposition 1, a measure legalizing racial profiling that already faces a court challenge. They would’ve been critical of the Spokane Valley City Council for supporting anti-transgender legislation, a clear civil rights violation. Organizations like We Believe We Vote wouldn’t ask city council candidates whether or not they are “pro-life.” It’s about fixing the streets, remember?

But it isn’t. When you dig deeper, it’s a weak argument filled with potholes on a road that won’t fix itself.

Cities can’t wait to lead in a time of struggle — and neither can Spokane. n Paul Dillon, a Center for Justice board member, manages public affairs for Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington and North Idaho.

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COMMENT | FROM READERS

Destiny Brown camped along the river, until police evicted her and other people.

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reported on homelessness from the other side of the river” (Inlander. com, 7/20/17) last week. Homelessness is not a cut-and-dried issue, and assumptions and misperceptions abound. Thank you for presenting these three individuals as real people. And thank you for a more balanced approach to the story.

Currently, we are working to recruit more landlords who are willing to rent property to the many veterans we serve who are homeless. Many of these individuals have barriers that cause landlords to bypass their application.

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Readers respond to “In the Dark on the Park” (7/27/17), our story about the travails of the Riverfront Park renovation, and some folks’ opinion that the community is being ignored regarding the pavilion and other features:

Readers respond to our blog post about city signs warning homeless people against camping along the Centennial Trail (7/31/17):

ISAAC JACK JR.: Public servants are there to earn a buck however politicians manage the financial strings. Follow the money trail, find out who’s getting their cut?

MARK JOPLIN: STOP the project, put it back the way it was, and go away. Every politician involved needs to resign due to no confidence.

JEWEL NELSON: This whole article makes it sound like nobody knows what exactly is going on. And anyone who does is not being very forthcoming with information.

Likely fear of the fallout. (Elections) When you change what you proposed to do with the money so many times, how can you expect trust? The public already had those issues with government.

NICK STALEY: Little too convenient they planned and built a yuppie community right next to the poorest, most crime-ridden neighborhood in Spokane, where transients frequent and then do things like this. Human life is only valuable if they have money.

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or a moment, two years ago, Jeff Humphrey may have been the most famous local TV news reporter in the country. Humphrey says you can see his mic shaking in the footage. He’s nervous. Working off a tip from a private detective, he’s about to accuse thenNAACP President Rachel Dolezal of lying about her

race.

“I was not 100 percent sure that the information was correct,” Humphrey recalls. “In the back of my mind, I’m thinking, ‘If you don’t have this right, and you’re now harassing some African-American woman about her ethnic background?’”

He asks her if she’s African American.

“I don’t understand the question,” Dolezal replies.

Humphrey didn’t break that story — he’s happy to give credit to the Coeur d’Alene Press — but TV has a power that print doesn’t. It’s ready-made for this journalistic era of clicks, GIFs, memes and YouTube clips. That moment with Dolezal went viral, taking Humphrey with it.

Yet at the same time, this period of journalism has frustrated Humphrey. For 26 years — first at KREM and then at KXLY — Humphrey has been a Spokane TV reporter.

But today, standing in front of City Hall, there’s no mic in his hand or TV camera in his face. Instead, there’s a City of Spokane employee ID card around his neck.

The picture casts his face in a saturated orange.

“I look like an Oompa-Loompa,” he jokes.

Last month, Humphrey left KXLY to take a “media content coordinator” job with the city. It’s a temporary job — a 35-hour-a-week, temp-seasonal position that pays ...continued on next page

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concerned about losing his access, he didn’t report it.

“If I poke the bear, and I don’t kill the bear, $28.67 an hour. The position is an experiment, then the bear’s going to eat me,” Humphrey says. one where the city is testing new ways to use “You haven’t given the cops the relief they’re video to communicate to the public and press. looking for, and you’re now on the chief’s hit list, And it highlights the way that journalism is and you’re never going to get a story again.“ shifting, blurring the distinction between reporter It’s the risk inherent in the dance between and city spokesman. beat reporter and subject — anger the sheriff with one critical story too many, and watch as he stops sending you press releases. But in the TV journalism was Jeff Humphrey’s life. He case of Straub, Humphrey says he screwed up. got his first TV journalism job at 16. It was his The public wouldn’t learn about Straub’s abusive father’s life, too. Humphrey’s dad, an NBC management style until after he was ousted in investigative news reporter named Don Harris, September of 2015. died in the service of journalism. Humphrey was “I pussed out,” he says. “I think pussing out still a teenager in November 1978 when Harris is always a mistake.” confronted cult leader Jim Jones at Jones’ comMore recently, Humphrey says, he’d grown pound in the small South American country of unhappy at KXLY. Guyana. Harris, along with a U.S. congressman “I’m 55 years old. I’m starting and several other journalists, to wonder: Am I going to stand was gunned down by Jones’ out in the snow, telling people it’s cultists. snowing, until I’m 63?” Humphrey “He was my hero,” Humsays. “If you’re doing it right, the phrey says of his dad. “I just news business consumes you. And worshiped him.” dominates every part of your life.”

Humphrey became a TV Beyond that, he says, he was newsman, but one who stayed frustrated by the way the news local. After arriving in Spokane business was changing. in 1990, he stuck around, “I’m not crazy about social reporting on police and military media,” he says. “You get marks for issues. interacting with people and debat“In my 28 years, I can’t ing the news with the people.” remember how many reportHumphrey says he prefers the ers I’ve talked to, and they’ve traditional method — just put the come and they’re gone,” says news out.

Spokane Police Capt. Dan ToThese days, in a typical week, rok. But Torok can’t remember KXLY posts to Facebook more a time without Humphrey. than 200 times. Humphrey isn’t the And that time paid off. most web-savvy reporter.

As a general rule, cops aren’t “I’m embarrassed to tell you huge fans of reporters, but that after 26 years in Spokane — Humphrey was able to build trust with them. He would Jeff Humphrey praises Mayor Condon supposedly a guy in the know — I refuse to report anything that (top) for being willing to hire him, didn’t even know the city had a could compromise an ongoing despite his critical reporting. He also website,” he says.

And after he let his unhappiinvestigation. He showed them says he “pussed out” by failing to report ness with KXLY clearly be known, he understood the difficulties on former Police Chief Frank Straub that cops face every day. (bottom) sooner. he says his bosses gave him two months to find something he liked The relationships paid better. off with scoop after scoop.

That’s when Brian Coddington, spokesman Humphrey led the coverage of the investigation for the city of Spokane, reached out. He had a of serial killer Robert Yates. When there was an job offer for Humphrey. officer-involved shooting, he’d get phone calls.

“At the end of the day, he’s a storyteller,” “When bad things happen, I was the first one Coddington says about Humphrey. “And that’s to report it, too,” Humphrey says. the talent we’re looking to have.”

His reporting has been praised as fair by both police officers, like Torok, and advocates of police oversight, like the Center for Justice’s Rick The city isn’t hiring Humphrey to be another Eichstaedt. Still, Humphrey has sought to avoid spokesman — at least, not exactly. Instead, they casting the police as a whole in a negative light. want him to do much of what he did at KXLY: He’d report on a cop beating mentally disabled Produce TV-style news stories, but this time in janitor Otto Zehm with his baton in 2006 — the service of the city of Spokane. In particular, Zehm died shortly thereafter — but also how a he’s working with the Community and Neighcop could see the two-liter soda bottle Zehm was borhood Services Division, where he might, say, holding as a potentially dangerous weapon. tell the personal story of a homeless person who “I don’t think even the TV station wins if had their life affected by one of the city’s proyou bad-mouth the police department,” Humgrams. These stories would be uploaded online, phrey says. “Really, the only people winning put out on social media, or run on City Cable there [are] the crooks.”

Channel 5.

Two years ago, he says he sat on an explosive Humphrey gushes about the opportunities story. He says he knew, almost immediately, how created by his new role, and excitedly discusses abusive and destructive then-Police Chief Frank one of his first city stories, titled “Does the City Straub was to Spokane’s police department. But,

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of Spokane Provide Circumcisions?”

It focuses on the wide — sometimes bizarre — array of questions that citizens ask of the staffers who answer the My Spokane 311 telephones. The prospect of pumping out positive stories about the city doesn’t bother him — far from it.

“They know the world is going to heck in a handbasket,” Humphrey says about the public. “Tell me something new. Tell me something that you’re doing good for the community as the city.”

Jim McPherson, who used to teach media criticism at Whitworth University, says there’s been a troubling trend of TV news stations nationwide running unaltered “video press releases,” complete with scripts for their anchors, from nonprofits or other entities.

Marlene Feist, the city spokeswoman for the utilities department, says it’s unlikely that local news stations would run preproduced news packages from the city of Spokane. But she says that Humphrey could pull together footage that would be useful for news stations.

“As a former reporter, I know what reporters want,” Humphrey says.

He has other ideas, too: Like releasing raw police body-camera footage, paired with the call for service.

“Put it out to the news media without commentary,” Humphrey says. “They could use it or not use it.”

The use of body-camera footage in this manner has sometimes drawn objections. Last year, Spokane attorney Frank Cikutovich complained after body-cam footage of his client’s apparently drunk confrontation with a police officer went viral after being uploaded to Facebook with snarky commentary.

“Who are we paying in the city to post on Facebook like this and put [in] quippy hashtags?” Cikutovich asked, according to the Spokesman-Review.

Humphrey says he thinks it would be wrong to “cut in line” with existing records requests. But he sees body cameras as an untapped resource that can give the public a view into what the cops see every day.

“Think about it, every single night, there’s miles and miles of video being recorded,” Humphrey says. “But we never see it unless it’s [an officer-involved shooting] or someone does a public records request. People are so into this reality TV thing? This is the ultimate reality TV!” These days, it’s not all that unusual for a reporter to make the leap from covering the government for working for that same government. The Idaho Statesman’s Dan Popkey, for example, went from being a crusading reporter — whose exposé on Sen. Larry Craig’s bathroom sex scandal got him nominated for a Pulitzer — to leading Rep. Raul Labrador’s communications team.

Almost exactly a year before being hired by the city, Humphrey stood outside City Hall and pulled no punches as he detailed the findings of the independent investigator hired to look into the circumstances — including attempts by the mayor to hide sexual harassment allegations against the police chief — surrounding Straub’s ouster.

Coddington says that Mayor David Condon welcomes accountability from the press, and says that Humphrey had a reputation of being fair. Today, Humphrey uses the fact that he was hired despite reporting on the mayor’s missteps as a reason to praise the mayor.

“I did not expect the mayor to ever forgive and forget,” Humphrey says. “But he seemingly has, and has extended me a pretty large length of trust.”

For now, the job is temporary, only through the end of the year. But Humphrey hopes that he can use his news-business experience to prove his value.

“I’m going to try to impress these people,” he says.

Even if he does return to the world of journalism, Humphrey says his viewpoint has been changed by his experience.

“I’ve always been concerned about how my reports on the police department could affect the morale, and even endanger their lives,” Humphrey says. “I’ve never thought about how my reporting on the mayor could affect the morale of the 2,000 people who work [for] the city.” n

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MARIJUANA One man facing a mandatory 60-year sentence, and another facing a mandatory life sentence without the possibility of parole, pleaded guilty last week to FEDERAL CHARGES stemming from a marijuana grow operation.

The men — Jerad Kynaston and Samuel Doyle — were allowed to plead to lesser charges that will allow Judge William Nielsen to sentence them to significantly less prison time, including the option of none at all. The guilty pleas mark the partial end of a case that has lingered in the system for five years. Three more co-defendants have not pleaded guilty; the next hearing is set for September. (MITCH RYALS)

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CIVIL FORFEITURE Police in the city of Sunnyside, Washington, seized a silver 2001 BMW, and almost $6,000 in cash, from Andres Gonzalez in 2013. They believed the items were connected to drug sales. A municipal judge decided in 2014 that the city could keep the car and the cash through a controversial practice known as civil asset forfeiture. For the next three years, Gonzalez fought the city all the way to the STATE SUPREME COURT. In a recent decision, the high court determined that the city must return the cash and the car to Gonzalez. The city must also pay his attorneys’ fees, meaning the case will end up costing Sunnyside more than the value of the cash and car combined, Gonzalez’s attorneys say. (MITCH RYALS)

BOOKS A community reading program has chosen a Spokane author’s debut novel as its featured title. Everybody Reads, which promotes reading across the Palouse and Snake River Valley, selected Sarah Hulse’s BLACK RIVER for its attention to detail and seamless storytelling. Hulse has earned national acclaim from the Hemingway Foundation and the American Library Association. For Everybody Reads, Hulse will talk about her writing process and meet with fans in Pullman, Lewiston, Moscow and Nezperce, Idaho, in early November. Black River tells the story of a 60-year-old Montana native as he deals with his wife’s death and the lingering anger resulting from being held hostage during a prison riot. (CHEY SCOTT)

HOUSING For about four months this spring, Brandi Murphy and Antoine Thomas lived out of their 2001 Toyota Solara, staying in Walmart and Kmart parking lots where they were less likely to be bothered. But about a month ago, the couple, 20 and 19 respectively, got a lease for a house with help from the city of Spokane, SNAP (Spokane Neighborhood Action Partners) and other agencies who worked over the past 100 days to house at least 100 HOMELESS YOUTH. During the challenge, nonprofits, service providers, businesses and the city partnered to help find places for 102 people age 24 and younger. Systemic changes in the ways those youths are helped will carry into the future as the city continues pushing to end homelessness and strengthen community resources. (SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL)

HOMELESSNESS Eighteen signs have been installed on the stretch of the Centennial Trail between the Monroe Street Bridge and the end of Bridge Avenue, all saying: “NO CAMPING Violators Subject to Arrest: Transient Shelter Ordinance (SMC 10.08B.060).” Several signs appear to be less than 100 meters apart, and one sign was even nailed to an osprey nest pole. These particular signs were added at the request of the Spokane Police Department after KHQ’s controversial report — spotlighted by the Inlander — two weeks ago on a homeless encampment below Kendall Yards. The encampment was busted and the transient campers evicted shortly after the KHQ reporter filed a complaint about the camp with the city. Generally, even with the new signs, the police will give transients a 48-hour warning to vacate their camps.

(DANIEL WALTERS)

EDUCATION Student arrests in SPOKANE PUBLIC SCHOOLS decreased by 85 percent this year, but arrests of students of color are still disproportionately high, according to district data. In the most recent academic year, the district saw 99 arrests, compared to 806 in the 2015-16 academic year. While students of color represent about 32 percent of the schools’ population, they represented just under half of all student arrests. The district’s director of safety, risk management and transportation says he doesn’t know why the disparity exists, and that campus resource officers are focused on reducing arrests across the board. (WILSON CRISCIONE)

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Bettering Bakken WSU researchers have a new plan to utilize North Dakota oil fields’ excess methane; plus, Spokane doubles down on filling potholes METHANE FLARES BEWARE

Washington State University researchers have figured out a way to more efficiently and inexpensively address methane that’s largely burned off as a byproduct in the North Dakota Bakken oil fields.

Rather than flare off the methane, which produces as much greenhouse gas in a year in that region as 1 million cars, according to a WSU news release on the RESEARCH, the gas can be converted to other products using help from an electric field.

Right now, the industry may use a nickel catalyst to break down some methane, because it’s inexpensive, says Jean-Sabin McEwen, an assistant professor of chemical engineering at WSU. “But when you use a nickel catalyst, there’s several things that go wrong,” McEwen says. “You need higher temperatures to break the methane apart, because methane is very tightly bound, and you need a lot of steam in order for the catalyst to stay active. Those two major things result in nickel catalysts being a very energyintensive process.”

But if you add an electric field to that process, it helps reorient the molecules so they’re easier to break down, and requires significantly less heat and steam, according

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to the research by McEwen and Su Ha, a WSU associate professor of chemical engineering.

“It’s like a combination lock,” Ha says in the WSU announcement on the research. “When you apply the right combination, when you apply the electric field with the right strength and right direction, it’s like you are applying a combination to a lock and click, it opens.”

In addition to producing a usable byproduct in the form of syngas (synthetic gas) components, the process could save money, reduce emissions, and potentially be used to provide electricity in remote areas.

By one estimate, the researchers calculated that industry-wide in the United States, the reaction could save from $600,000 to $2.3 million every day, due to the reduction in the amount of water/steam needed in the reaction, McEwen says. (SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL)

WHEN THE JAIL BREAKS THE LAW

A man posted bail on an assault charge in Yakima County in May, but was not released due to a federal IMMIGRATION hold. An agreement between Yakima County and immigration enforcement allows the county to hold individuals on civil immigration warrants, despite a state court order to release them.

WSU researchers believe they can reduce pollution in the Bakken oil fields.

Last week, U.S. District Court Judge Salvador Mendoza ordered the man released, and found that the immigration hold violates his Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable searches and seizures.

The ruling has potentially broad implications, as similar agreements between local jurisdictions and federal authorities are in place across the country. One of those places is Spokane County.

A section of the agreement between Spokane County and U.S. Border Patrol that directs the local jail how and when to release federal detainees is nearly identical to the agreement in Yakima, says Matt Adams, legal director of the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, who worked on the Yakima case.

The agreement in Spokane came into play when five people from India were arrested in February, soon after crossing the Canadian border into the U.S. The five people pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of entering the country illegally, and the judge ordered them to be released. But Spokane County Jail officials refused to comply, and the five people were picked up by federal agents and transferred to the Federal Detention Center, SeaTac, says local attorney Nick Vieth, who represents one of the five.

The agreement, Vieth says, “indemnifies the jail from unlawfully holding people after their release so immigration and customs can pick them up.”

“This is a crucial ruling, not only for our client and his family, but for all immigrants who have been wrongly held in county jails based on federal administrative ‘warrants’ and unlawful immigration holds,” Adams says. (MITCH RYALS)

FASTER FILL-UPS

As the Aug. 1 primary approached, nearly every challenger for a Spokane City Council seat named fixing POTHOLES as their No. 1 priority. But last month, the city council took a step that could have a huge impact on the speed with which the city can fill potholes this winter: Approving $84,000 to buy two new trailers that can haul heated asphalt mix to pothole sites.

“Technically, we can double the amount of potholes we fill in the day,” says city spokeswoman Marlene Feist.

Hot asphalt mix is typically a lot more effective at filling potholes during the winter than cold mix — the hot stuff adheres to the surrounding pavement better and lasts longer. But until now, the city has only had two heated-asphalt trucks to work with.

This year alone, the city has filled 3,900 potholes — though that’s slowed down considerably in the past six to eight weeks. If this winter is as bad as last winter, however, expect more potholes to be repaired more quickly, and with longer-lasting stuff.

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Durham School Services employees, like Kacey Waddell, left, and Christy Lamberson, spend hours at busy intersections in search of the next batch of school bus drivers.

Wanted: Bus Drivers More kids and more routes means a greater need for more bus drivers for Spokane Public Schools

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heir orange safety vests and yellow school buses glow in the summer sun. They’re hard to miss, but their services can be overlooked.

Bus drivers, monitors and other employees of Durham School Services have spent many mornings this summer near busy intersections, standing near parked school buses and waving to people driving by.

They do this every summer, encouraging more people to apply to be drivers.

For school districts around the country, finding new bus drivers and keeping them between school years is a growing challenge.

The size of the challenge in Spokane grew considerably this summer.

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an elementary school for remodeling means the fleet is looking to increase in size by about a quarter.

Spokane Public Schools outsources the responsibility of recruiting and coordinating buses to Durham School Services, a school bus branch of a transportation firm that serves more than 500 school districts in 38 states and four Canadian provinces.

In addition to needing more drivers to cover Franklin Elementary School’s students, Durham is looking to add more routes, spreading the workload across more drivers.

Brenda Wood, one of Durham’s bus driver field recruiters, says Spokane had about 150 drivers this year, which is an av-

erage amount. Wood, who was also a driver this year, says about 20 or 25 leave every summer, a gap they can usually fill, but this summer they’re looking to hire about 40. She also expects to lose a few more drivers than usual after the especially harsh winter.

To reach that goal, Durham is advertising on TV, hosting booths at street fairs and sending recruiters with big cardboard signs to stand on street corners, to draw in potential applicants.

Many school bus drivers, Wood says, are veterans, retirees, stay-at-home parents and college students looking to make some extra money, or working between other jobs.

“The pay isn’t bad, and it is steady and consistent throughout the school year,” Wood says. “[But being a] school bus driver is not meant to be the No. 1, bring-home-the-bacon kind of thing.”

The monitors are affected by the need for drivers because they often work in teams, meaning a substitute driver who’s not as familiar with the routes becomes another responsibility for the monitor. Ives faced this challenge last year, when her usual driver fell and hurt his shoulder one morning. Unexpected bumps in the road like this are the most challenging part of the job, she says.

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School bus and special client — generally the elderly and people with disabilities — bus drivers averaged $14.99 an hour in Spokane, Christy Lamberson is standing on the corner of Pend Oreille and Stevens counties in 2016, acDivision Street and North Foothills Drive. The cording to the Washington State Employment intersection is bustling, with herds of cars passing Security Department. That’s about $5 less than through at every change of the light. Though the average median wages for the three counties she’s not facing the sun, she still has to squint as in 2015. Additionally, jobs with similar licensing she smiles and waves at drivers. requirements, like transit bus and tractor-trailer Lamberson is a relatively new recruit. A drivers, averaged wages within $0.75 of the coundriver for about seven months, she’s already ties’ medians. Those jobs also offer more hours helping bring in the next group. throughout the year.

She began this year as a substitute bus driver, Franklin Elementary on the South Hill will covering morning shifts. As the mother of a son be closed for remodeling next year. This means a with autism and attention deficit number of kids who would nordisorder, she was looking to make mally walk to school will have to LETTERS some extra money. Reflecting on take the bus to a school farther Send comments to her experiences with her own son, away, stretching transportation editor@inlander.com.

Lamberson says she felt especially resources along with the addition sympathetic to the needs of special of new routes. education students.

It’s unlikely that Durham will hire 40 drivers Being a bus driver means more than picking over the summer, Wood says, but she emphasizes up and dropping off students. Lamberson says the fact that they hire year-round and should that Durham’s team dynamic and the connecmeet the goal in the next five or six months. tions with students really made it special for her.

“It is never a quick process,” says Kate “It’s a fun and fulfilling job. You definitely Walden, Durham School Services communicadon’t have the same thing happening every day,” tions director. she says. “New routes, new kiddos, new faces.

The amount of available recruits is also subAnd you get to meet everybody for the first time. ject to factors entirely out of Durham’s control, It’s like meeting a new friend.” she says.

Lamberson says she greets every students “Industry-wide, there have been ebbs and with smiles, high-fives and fist bumps to get them flows; right now it is a challenging time across in a good mood for the day ahead.

North America,” Walden says. She notes that Some buses also have monitors, people who adapting to peaks and troughs is a regular part ride along to make sure kids are safe and obeying of Durham’s routine, so the challenge is managethe rules. able.

Wilma Ives has been a monitor for buses In a surging economy, people are more likely transporting kids with special needs for a little to find full-time jobs, but in a slow economy, fullmore than a year. She found a shady spot on the time jobs are more appealing. other side of the street, where she waved a yel“If you have children or are a retiree or vetlow Frisbee with Durham’s contact information eran, it is a great job,” Walden says. “It depends on it. The other monitors and drivers call her on where they are and their situation.”

“Grandma” or “Mom.” It’s a fitting name. She Ives looks back fondly on her work as a has been a foster grandmother, and outside of monitor. One instance in particular stands out to work, she says, she likes to bake and buy gifts for her: One of the students was unable to unbuckle her family in preparation for holidays. She says himself to get off the bus and panicked, slapping her son has worked with Durham for more than at Ives’ hands when she tried to help. She man25 years. aged to calm him down and asked for his help “He’s been after me a long time. I didn’t releasing the belt. He put his hand on top of hers think I could do it,” Ives says. “So when I turned while she pushed the release button. The next 75, I decided I could, and I wish I would have day, she put her hand on his while he pushed it. done it sooner.”

“He got a big ol’ grin on his face. He got off Ives prides herself on her efforts to help kids of the bus with a smile, and that is what we are on her buses develop and grow more comfortthere for, to help the kids,” Ives says. “I wouldn’t able, even though she doesn’t have to. want to do anything else.” n

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Spokane County Prosecutor Larry Haskell says all interns and new hires attend sexual harassment training. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO

‘Old Boys’ Club’?

A GU law student has raised concerns about the culture inside the Spokane County Prosecutor’s Office

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Gonzaga University School of Law student stopped showing up for her internship in 2015 with the Spokane County Prosecutor’s Office. She began object to the lawyers offering a running commentary about her looks, rather than her legal skills.

The student reflected in an essay on the experience and her internal struggle with whether to return to the office. The essay, which talked in general about an “old boys’ club” culture within the office, mentioned other “inappropriate comments” about her physical appearance.

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“I left the office that day feeling angry, minimized and entirely uncomfortable,” she writes.

The student declined to be interviewed for this story, but her essay sparked an investigation by Spokane County HR. Heather Kvokov, the HR generalist who conducted the investigation, did not find enough evidence to support either the claims about the office’s internal culture, or the accusations of sexual harassment against a specific deputy prosecutor.

The essay, the HR investigation and a stack of other internal documents were provided to the Inlander in response to a public records request seeking information about the circumstances surrounding former Deputy Prosecutor Joe Kuhlman’s resignation. Kuhlman resigned under unexplained circumstances in March; the newly released records made clear his resignation followed accusations of inappropriate and sexually charged behavior in three separate incidents. A fourth complaint — details of which were not included in the records request — came in while HR was investigating the third.

About 175 of the 543 pages generated by the request are redacted. Those pages that are not blacked-out raise questions regarding whether Kuhlman’s actions are indicative of the culture within the prosecutor’s office.

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uhlman has been the subject of at least three HR investigations dating back to 2012. According to documents in his personnel file, he was counseled for making a sexually suggestive comment to a woman who advocates on behalf of crime victims.

Kuhlman was standing behind the victims’ advocate

in her cubicle as the two were about to call a victim to prepare for a potential case, according to the woman’s written account of what happened.

They chatted about a defendant, whom they both knew but did not like. The woman called the defendant a “dick.”

“You know who has a big dick?” Kuhlman responded, according to the woman’s statement, pointing to himself.

“Excuse me?” she said.

“This is coming out wrong,” she recalls Kuhlman saying.

“Yeah, it is. It is. I’m going to pretend I was somewhere else,” she said. “Can we call this victim now?”

Kuhlman was lectured by supervisors about his comment and was told not to contact the woman outside of work, according to a memo dated Feb. 15, 2017.

“Mr. Kuhlman responded that he did not recall the incident but was not calling her a liar,” Chief Criminal Deputy Prosecutor Jack Driscoll writes in the memo. “He said this was not his M.O., though he could get crass.”

As a part of his resignation, Kuhlman signed an agreement that restricts him from talking about these circumstances, and his attorney did not return requests for comment. Kuhlman did, however, submit a written response, which is included in his personnel file.

“This matter stems from a complaint in 2012 that did not generate a memorandum until February 5th, 2017,” Kuhlman writes in response to his sexually suggestive comment. “It was determined ... to be an issue that did not require follow up, discipline or documentation for 5 years until now, at the time of my resignation.”

It would be another three years after the incident before the Gonzaga law student would raise concerns about Kuhlman in particular, and the office culture in general.

to dress “conservatively and professionally,” and her short skirt that revealed a tattoo was not appropriate for the courtroom.

Sharon Hedlund, a deputy prosecuting attorney who was interviewed for the HR investigation, told HR that she’s known Kuhlman and has

“All staff attended that training. At each of the training sessions, I personally emphasized the zero tolerance of this office in regards to sexual harassment.”

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wo allegations, though, loom large in the student’s mind, as she describes in her reflection essay.

The first involves a local attorney who, while the student was in the office, asked her boss where “he keeps finding all of these cute secretaries to come work for him.”

“My boss half defended me,” the student writes, stating that though her boss pointed out that she was a law student and was not interested in the local attorney’s attention, he failed to point out that the comment itself was “entirely inappropriate.”

The second involved Kuhlman.

During a court hearing, the student noticed Kuhlman staring at her legs. The student took Kuhlman’s gaze as sexual in nature, and later brought it up with her supervisor.

“He dismissed my concern saying something to the extent that it was to be expected with that prosecutor,” she writes.

Kuhlman explained to the HR investigator that he was staring at the tattoo on her thigh, but his intent was not to objectify her. Rather, he told her to be careful “with that thigh piece” because some judges would find it inappropriate.

He told HR that prosecutors are expected

supervised him for years.

“She has had him work with many interns (both male and female) and has never had any issues,” the HR report states. “She would not describe him as flirtatious or approaching women in the office ‘in a sexualized way.’”

None of the GU student’s allegations — including those regarding an “old boys’ club” and sexual harassment — rose to the level of requiring discipline. The HR investigator either could not find enough evidence, or interviews turned up conflicting stories.

Still, the HR investigator recommended that Spokane County Prosecutor Larry Haskell direct his staff to go through a refresher course on sexual harassment in the workplace. Haskell complied.

“All staff attended that training,” Haskell writes in response to LETTERS emailed quesSend comments to tions. “At each editor@inlander.com. of the training sessions, I personally emphasized the zero tolerance of this office in regards to sexual harassment.” He adds that the student later applied to work at the prosecutor’s office, but was not hired.

Shortly after that training, Kuhlman would be the target of a third HR investigation involving a woman who worked in a different county department. In a letter to Haskell, HR director Tim Hansen says he believes the third incident, involving unwanted messages on social media, qualified as sexual harassment.

The HR investigator notes that “in the midst of investigating the current incident, a fourth complaint was received involving another prior intern in the office. Investigation into the fourth complaint is pending.”

No details of the fourth complaint, or any investigation, were included in Kuhlman’s public personnel file.

Kuhlman resigned in March of this year, but could not offer an explanation, due to the agreement that neither side would speak publicly about the circumstances surrounding his resignation.

But for the student, the issue clearly extended beyond Kuhlman.

“I had enjoyed the work I was doing in the Prosecutor’s office, and I do not want them to think that this kind of thing is OK, but I am honestly not sure that even saying something would change the culture [of] that office,” she writes. n

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The Haunting

Sherman Alexie had events scheduled in Moscow and Spokane this week, but on July 13, he announced that he had to cancel the remainder of his promotional book tour for his recently released memoir, You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me. It was just too hard, reliving it all, he explained in a letter to readers posted to Facebook.

“I have been sobbing many times a day during this book tour. I have sobbed in private and I have sobbed onstage,” he writes. “I have been rebreaking my heart night after night. I have, to use recovery vocabulary, been retraumatizing myself.”

The memoir centers on his complicated relationship with his mother, Lillian, and in his letter Alexie said he couldn’t shake the sense she was haunting him still.

“I don’t believe in the afterlife as a reality,” he writes, “but I believe in the afterlife as metaphor. And my mother, from the afterlife, is metaphorically kicking my ass.”

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BY SHANN RAY Is basketball poetry and poetry basketball?

If you read Sherman Alexie, the answer is yes.

Is life poetry and poetry life? Again, if you read Sherman Alexie, yes.

Finally, is memoir poetry and poetry memoir? In Sherman’s latest book, the heartbreakingly beautiful You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me, memoir is poetry with a kick to it. Sherman has launched a 457-page, multi-genre wonder of story and personal confession, and people have been carrying it around like a love child since its release in June. Already on the New York Times bestseller list, the book has won the nation’s readers despite, or more likely because of, its brutally honest, often unsettling depictions of hate from mother to son and son to mother, followed by Sherman’s tectonic gravitas with regard to the mysteries of forgiveness and grace.

The book is oxygen, heat, fuel, chemical reaction.

In other words, Sherman is on fire.

In basketball terms, Sherman is what is commonly called a baller or a gamer; in fact, I’ve seen Sherman’s jump shot. Guess what?

It’s on fire too: a graceful, arcing parabola that routinely leaves the net smoking and the crowd smiling. He owns the art of the follow-through and the net pop, dating from his days as a prep star at Reardan, to epic battles in independent tournaments, to rat-ball extravaganzas that ranged from Montana to Seattle, north to south and east to west throughout Indian Country and beyond. Yes, he announced his retirement from basketball recently, but his team knows he still has the hot hand. His love for the game is legendary. In fact, given the choice of outdueling the infamous Black Mamba, Kobe Bryant, on national television or having one of the most creative, robust, versatile and important literary careers in America (which he’s already earned), he might actually choose the former.

A man of graceful intensity, be it in basketball, writing books, or increasingly now in how his art inhabits the national psyche, Sherman is familiar with crucibles. Common definitions of the word “crucible” include “a vessel in which substances are subjected to high heat”, “the ...continued on next page

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His is a white-hot fusion bearing us from one phase of existence to another. Born into fracture, beset by hydrocephalic brain wounding, abused, violated, in love with books in a country plagued by racist educational policies, subjected to the loss of his father and now his mother, suffering his mother’s and his own bipolar tendencies, and having lived through another significant brain event recently, Sherman is familiar with combustible things.

genocidal policy, he writes against the illness and self-insulation of dominant culture. He invokes and berates, calls out and encourages. He is also vulnerable, he loves openly, and his readers adore him like few other contemporary authors.

His body of work in poetry, short stories, novels, young adult literature, children’s literature, film and now memoir is symphonic, laced with a string music not unlike two of his beloved, belated Seattle SuperSonics fire starters from the past: Ray Allen, with his taut, swanlike follow-through, and further back, the electric smooth stroke of the Wizard, Gus Williams, who led the Sonics to the NBA title in ’79.

With each new book, Sherman’s gifts of illumination seem to gain in radiance even as his audience grows in loyalty and numbers.

His narratives sing with sincerity, transparency, Tolstoyan understandings of human nature, fervent, almost feral creativity, and the reality of love despite our deepest misgivings about love. In You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me, he speaks what we can’t or won’t speak, and because of this, his honesty is a national treasure. He speaks of our hatred for our mothers, our favoring of our fathers; our hatred for our fathers, and our favoring of our mothers. Always, fiercely, he speaks of the national shadow, but gets at it by noticing more acutely the shadow of his family and tribes and himself. In his work, trauma, brokenness and loneliness mirror not only our hatred of others, but our hatred of ourselves. ...continued on page 28

If ever there was a night lamp we needed to see us through what we currently face as a nation, domestically and globally, it is Sherman Alexie.

Writer Annie Proulx famously said, “Have you ever seen a house burning at night?”

Sherman has, and as his work attests, he is uncommonly attuned to and seemingly undaunted by even the hungriest or most fearsome flames. The roots of the word “crucible” are found in the 15th century Medieval Latin word crucibulum, meaning “melting pot for metals,” and originally, “night lamp.” If ever there was a night lamp we needed to see us through what we currently face as a nation, domestically and globally, it is Sherman Alexie.

Sherman is Spokane, Coeur d’Alene, and American. Having been born into two nations still emerging from the wake of American

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From You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me: In late June 2015, my sister called me.

“You better get here,” she said. “The doctor said Mom is near the end.”

“Okay,” I said. “I’m on the way.”

My wife, Diane, and I and our teenage sons drove from Seattle to the reservation and made our way to my childhood home.

As we pulled into the driveway, I saw my sister sitting on the front porch steps.

“Oh, God,” I said to my wife. “Mom must have died already. Arlene wants to tell me before I go inside the house.”

I hurried out of the car and ran to embrace my sister.

“When did she die?” I asked.

“Mom’s not dead yet,” my sister said.

I was confused. I couldn’t recall a single time when any Indian in my life had formally greeted me at their front door.

“Then why were you waiting for us outside?” I asked.

“I have to warn you,” my sister said.

“What?” I asked. “Is Mom deformed or something?”

I couldn’t imagine how lung cancer, how any cancer other than skin cancer, might dramatically change a person’s appearance.

“No,” my sister said. “It’s just—well, it’s just—” She hesitated and covered her face with her hands.

I thought she was crying.

But then I realized she was laughing.

“What?” I asked. “What’s so funny?”

“I wanted to warn you,” she said. “I wanted to prepare you. You see, Mom is being affectionate.

She’s, like, hugging people and telling us she loves us.

It’s weird.”

My sister and I laughed together.

We hugged again.

And then we walked inside to greet my dying mother.

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Carl Jung said, “The less embodied the shadow, the darker and denser it is.”

In other words, the less spoken our personal and collective shadows, the more dangerous they are.

Without artists with Sherman’s honesty, we might be no more than the sum of a national suicidal and homicidal self-fulfilling prophecy. With artists like Sherman, we discover, by embracing our shadows awkwardly and in the end, lovingly, we can become more than we imagined. I don’t know how many people — it’s hard to count them all — who’ve expressed to me personally how deeply they love Sherman, having met him only through his books. I think it’s because the way he sings leads us inevitably to greater humility, and to the will to love more authentically and more fully: to give love not just to beloved others but to the stranger, and not just to the stranger, but even to our enemies.

But contrary to this impulse, and contrary to a nation of readers who adore Sherman, there are those who love to hate and vilify him too. In Indian Country he is sometimes maligned as much, if not more, than in the white America famous for banning his books. His novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is among the most banned books in contemporary American literature. He’s bold, loud and audaciously funny. He says it like it is and takes no prisoners. He’s not politically correct. He’s politically incorrect, and happily so. That said, because of his uniquely genius gift for penetrating truths, great humor, lean and inviting prose and richly compelling plot lines, his 26 books have sold more than 2.5 million copies and been published in 25 languages. I don’t think I’m crazy in saying Sherman’s body of work, from fiction to filmmaking, from poetry to memoir, created against all odds and containing his singular capacity for national soul-searching, is Nobel-worthy. Below everything he writes, we sense an unflagging commitment to human flourishing.

AN AUTHOR FOR ALL AGES Sherman Alexie reading from his children’s book, Thunder Boy Jr., at a literary event at Arizona State University last year. BRUCE MATSUNAGA PHOTO

He is utterly unique, and this uniqueness forms the largest part of his mystique.

So what makes him so unique?

I’ll venture a guess. Unlike many of the dominant male writers of his generation and the generation before him (Hemingway, Graham Greene, and Jim Harrison come to mind, among others), Sherman receives the influence of the feminine. He welcomes the influence of the beloved women in his life, and sings honor songs to them with his poetry and prose. His honesty with and eventual compassion for his mother, and for his own failings, radiates a warm and welcome light that is in fact the opposite

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In basketball terms this is the ballet of the game, rather than the brute force. The sound it makes is soft, sweet, swish. The result, like what we saw in this year’s NBA Finals from the assist-abundant Golden State Warriors,

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is a revolution in the game. You could say for the past three years, Golden State has been on fire. You could also say since that first book of poems published by Hanging Loose Press in the early ’90s, Sherman has been a conflagration of literary polymathic proportions the likes of which the country has never seen. Though he’s not a Plains Indian, not Cheyenne or Crow or Blackfeet, if he had been he might have been given the name of two of the great plains basketball stars from Montana: Takes Enemy and Killsnight. When America has been his enemy Sherman takes that enemy, changing America’s image of herself forever.

When night encompasses him, his family and the human community, he kills night.

Perhaps Sherman’s greatest gift is that he replaces fracture with communion. He is so adept at it, we laugh and cry with him as he takes us through the most terrible pain into a place of unforeseen emotional and spiritual strength. Sherman is clarity and contradiction. Filled with joy. Beset with sorrow. Spiked with anger.

Gentle as a country stream. He courts both atheism and belief, and surveys love and abandonment with equal fervor. More centrally, he comprehends the heart, winning the heart in spite of just how heartsick we are over the killing fields of history, the desolate present, and the foreseeable hopelessness of the future. Sherman’s memoir is a multicolored quilt, a shout into the dark, and a melody of peace.

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Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story, and the American Book Award for Reservation Blues. Tack on the Sundance Film Festival Audience Award and the Filmmakers Trophy for his movie Smoke Signals, which is not only lovely and extremely witty but also succeeds in reminding America of her persistent genocidal amnesia and colonial imperialism. True to form, Sherman’s movie asks if we can forgive our fathers, and does so at the historical zenith of water, salmon and memory, the falls in downtown Spokane.

I can’t speak for the nation, but I want to say readers everywhere thank those elemental women of Sherman’s life, his wife and sisters and friends, and yes, his mother, who like astral birds have sent him winging through space and time. For books that shake our foundations loose, and build us anew, we thank our lucky stars! We thank Alex Kuo, the Washington State professor who asked Sherman all those years ago, “What are you going to do with the rest of your life?”

To which Sherman replied, “I don’t know.”

To which Alex replied, “I think you should write.”

Sherman wrote and wrote and wrote, and the things he wrote were quietly splendorous things, such as this passage from the closing pages of the memoir:

Filled with joy. Beset with sorrow. Spiked with anger.

Gentle as a country stream. He courts both atheism and belief.

…I reached

Later, after the game, when I returned home to the rez, my mother was sedated and asleep in the back bedroom.

Toward every other constellation.

I reached toward my sisters, Niece, and brothers. I reached Toward the memory of my mother.

I stood in the doorway and listened to her breathe.

I mourned with her and for her. She’d lost her mother, brother, and daughter to the next world.

And as I continued to shake, I felt A sparrow-sized pain rise From my body and—wait, wait, wait.

Listen. I don’t know how or when

And I understood that she’d also lost me.

She didn’t cry out my name. She didn’t whisper it.

I was now a ghost in her world. She was already haunted by who I might have become. Awake, I wept. My mother, still asleep, reached her hand toward somebody only she could see.

I whispered, “I love you,” and walked, grief-drunk and afraid, into the rest of my life.

Sherman’s work has been chosen for some of the most prestigious and time-honored awards in American literature: a PEN/Hemingway citation for The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, the PEN/ Faulkner Award for War Dances, and the National Book Award for The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. In addition, he’s won a National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship, the PEN/ NEWPORT/PRIEST RIVER ROTARY CLUB

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Shann Ray, professor of leadership studies at Gonzaga University, is the author of the poetry collection Balefire, as well as American Copper, American Masculine and Forgiveness and Power in the Age of Atrocity.

His friendship with Sherman started through Spokane author Jess Walter over basketball a number of years ago, with a few epic hoops moments at the Day Court at Gonzaga, at Sherman’s infamous basement gym in Seattle near the Space Needle, and at an Elliott Bay Book Company books and basketball night with Sherman, Jess and the poet/hoops star Natalie Diaz.

My grieving will end, but I’m always Relearning how to be human again.

For honesty with regard to indifference and hate and loneliness, Sherman Alexie, Spokane thanks you. For your sincerity and for how you help us imagine love again, Spokane thanks you.

A world of readers thanks you.

On the shelf of books that have Sherman’s name on the spine, and now in the memoir You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me, Sherman performs a rhythmic spin move just past half court and steps into a deep three for the game winner. His wife and children, his mother and father, his sisters and brothers and all his relations are with him.

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Jason Bateman’s Ozark quickly brings to mind Walter White and Breaking Bad.

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treaming services are competing with traditional TV networks with an increasingly diverse, occasionally brilliant, sometimes sucky slew of original programs. Upside? More outlets for creative minds to create shows, with viewers reaping the entertaining benefits (as well as the ability to motor through entire seasons in a weekend). Downside? So many options it’s difficult to weed out the crap, or even find the new stuff lurking

BY DAN NAILEN AND NATHAN WEINBENDER in our queues of stand-up specials and old sitcoms.

We’re here to help. We watched the first episode (and only the first episode) of two new series that recently debuted on Netflix in order to determine if they were worth a binge. Here are the results.

OZARK

There’s no fighting the sense of familiarity that comes

with the first episode of Ozark. For anyone familiar with television drama of the past decade, the travails of a seemingly mild-mannered, hangdog, middle-class white guy dragged ever deeper into a shady criminal underworld — ostensibly for the good of his family — will immediately call to mind Walter White’s Heisenberg devolution in Breaking Bad. ...continued on next page

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That’s an impossibly high standard, of course, but the first episode of Ozark is compelling enough to have high hopes for the rest of the 10-episode season. Jason Bateman is the primary reason why, thanks to his performance as Marty Byrde, a man who publicly is a Chicagobased freelance financial advisor — a boring guy who obsessively reads Consumer Reports and whose business partner mocks him by saying “I live in Trump Tower, you drive a Toyota Corolla” — but in actuality launders money for the second-largest drug cartel in Mexico.

In Episode 1, Marty learns that his wife Wendy (Laura Linney) is cheating on him and his business partner is scamming the cartel, setting off an occasionally frantic series of events where he suddenly has to wheel and deal his way into $8 million in 48 hours, then immediately move his family to the Missouri lake of the show’s title with the promise of laundering $500 million more of the cartel’s money — all just to survive.

Bateman is an executive producer on the series and directed this first episode, and he showcases some serious skills behind the camera to go along with his subdued performance in front of it. His partnership with Linney — Wendy knows all about his criminal ventures — has some promise, as does the series criminal enterprise moving to small-town America.

Binge-worthy? The first episode is well done, and ends with a couple of twists, including the last-minute introduction of FBI agents joining the dynamic between

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Bateman’s character and the violent Mexican cartel.

It’s definitely worth continuing on to Episode 2. (DAN NAILEN)

FRIENDS FROM COLLEGE

Here’s a question I’ve often asked myself while sitting through a number of Judd Apatow-ian comedies: Are these characters meant to be unlikable? I think we’re supposed to care about the characters in Friends from College, though the very notion of being in the physical company of anyone like them fills me with an almost existential dread.

It’s no surprise, then, that the series was partly the brainchild of Nicholas Stoller, a Brit whose film work has included such Apatow productions as Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Get Him to the Greek. The premise behind the show, which Stoller co-created with his wife Francesca Delbanco, is that a bunch of Harvard chums have recently reconnected in New York City, and we look on as they mismanage personal affairs, professional conflicts and other hazards of adulthood.

The cast — including the likes of Keegan-Michael Key, Cobie Smulders and Fred Savage — is solid, and the scripts have been handled by veterans of the 30 Rock, Arrested Development and Silicon Valley writers’ rooms. But Friends from College too often succumbs to what Roger

Ebert referred to as the Idiot Plot: So many of the series’ dramatic entanglements would be over in an instant if everyone involved possessed even a modicum of intelligence.

The characters here are often maddeningly inconsistent in terms of temperament and common sense. Key’s

The cast ... is solid, and the scripts have been handled by veterans of the 30 Rock, Arrested Development and Silicon Valley writers’ rooms.

Ethan, for instance, is supposed to be a deeply intellectual, critically beloved novelist, and yet he’s so oblivious to basic human social cues that you start to wonder how he’s even able to operate a standard keyboard. I’d watch Keegan-Michael Key do just about anything, but playing a dummy isn’t one of those things.

Binge-worthy? There are only eight episodes, so knocking out the whole season on a hungover afternoon would be relatively painless. It’s sometimes pretty funny, but will I be sticking around for the whole season? Definitely not. (NATHAN WEINBENDER)

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Vanessa Swenson’s “Glimpses” series was partly inspired by the artist’s love of nature.

Art Abounds Beat the heat and get out and around town for August’s First Friday showcase

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hen Vanessa Swenson returned to her hometown of Spokane three-ish years ago, she didn’t intend to stay. But after she realized how much the city and its art community had changed since heading to college at Montana State University, Swenson remembers feeling surprised, and so she thus replanted her Inland Northwest roots.

Since then, the designer and artist has been beyond busy, and whether you know it or not, you’ve seen her

artistic touches around the city: branding for Create Spokane Arts Month, Terrain and the Chinese Lantern Festival, paint-by-number community murals in Riverfront Park, film posters for the Spokane International Film Festival, and much more. Her work is also featured on beer labels and merch for Ellensburg’s Iron Horse Brewery.

Working in a combination of digital and handmade art processes, Swenson currently employs her artistic

talents as an independent designer based out of Fellow Coworking, a fitting setting for her first solo art show this month. “Glimpses” captures Swenson’s personal design aesthetic — her style is simultaneously geometric and abstract, yet also natural and soothing — and her own deep love of exploring the natural environment that surrounds us. “... Often words fail me when trying to describe the awe in which I see. My eye takes it all in pieces at a time, glimpses of the whole — a splash of color, an intricate pattern, a basic geometric form. Things that are both simplistic and wildly complex all at once,” Swenson writes in her artist statement.

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RECEPTIONS ON FRIDAY, AUG. 4, FROM 5-8 PM, UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, VISIT FIRSTFRIDAYSPOKANE.ORG. AUNTIE’S BOOKSTORE, 402 W. Main, The store hosts its first Friday poetry open mic with “Remember the Word” featured reader Gawain Fadeley. Guest poets can also share up to 3 minutes’ worth of material.

THE BARTLETT, 228 W. Sprague, “Presidential” by Karli Ingersoll was inspired by Donald Trump’s public statements and tweets.

ART SEED SPOKANE, 1115 W. First, A closing reception for the River Ridge Association of Fine Arts’ group show.

BLOEM FLOWERS, Chocolates & Paperie, 808 W. Main, Abstract monoprints by Beverly Hill-Kleinstein.

AVENUE WEST GALLERY, 907 W. Boone, The gallery hosts its annual juried art exhibition, featuring 40 pieces of art ranging from paintings to photography.

BOZZI GALLERY, 221 N. Wall, “The New Vintage Collection” features paintings by Jeremy Salazar.

BISTANGO, 108 N. Post, Blues, pop and soul music by Ron Greene.

CRAFTSMAN CELLARS, 1194 W. Summit Pkwy., Paintings inspired by nature from Sheila Evans; winery open from 2-9 pm.

BARILI CELLARS, 608 W. Second, Unique mixed-wood wall pieces

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ECHO BOUTIQUE, 1033 W. First, A reception showcasing Megan Holden’s found-object jewelry and ink illustrations.

BARRISTER WINERY, 1213 W. Railroad Ave., The winery hosts pieces from The Art Spirit Gallery in Coeur d’Alene, including pieces by Robert Schlegel, Ruth Andre, Simon Levin and Marilyn Lysohir.

A portrait from John deRoulet’s “Witness,” at Kolva-Sullivan Gallery.

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FELLOW COWORKING, 304 W. Pacific, “Glimpses” by Vanessa Swenson is a mixed-media series featuring studies of color, texture, pattern and geometry.

Upcoming FREE PEOPLE, 865 W. Main, Local botanical studio Parrish & Grove displays and sells bouquets and flower arrangements.

HILLS’ RESTAURANT & LOUNGE, 401 W. Main, Live music by the Front Porch Trio, from 6:30-9:30 pm.

IRON GOAT BREWING CO., 1302 W. Second, Paintings by Jake Brown, inspired by the passing of time.

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KEITH POWELL GALLERY, 123 E. Second, Featuring art in various media

by Caroll Vrba (sumi-e paintings), Keith Powell (scuplture) and David McMillan (photography/digital pop art).

KOLVA-SULLIVAN GALLERY, 115 S. Adams, The gallery hosts “Witness,” a collection of portraits in various media by artist John deRoulet, all featuring people he met and conversed with last year on the streets of Spokane.

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NECTAR CATERING & EVENTS, 120 N. Stevens, See a new art installation by Tessa Grosoff and enjoy live music by Jamison Sampson, from 5-10 pm.

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ROCKET BAKERY, 1325 W. First, Watercolors and acrylics by by Rachel Nichols.

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Wellness Bar’s “bomb.com” açaí bowl.

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The Power of Purple

Açaí smoothie bowls can be a healthy meal replacement, packed with fiber, nutrients and fresh fruits and veggies

BY CHEY SCOTT

ith their pleasing deep-violet hue, chilly temperature and nearly limitless topping choices, açaí bowls are one of the latest hot trends to hit the menus of juice, smoothie and other health-centric cafés around the U.S. in the past decade.

Touted for having numerous good-for-you attributes, açaí (pronounced “ah-SIGH-ee”) bowls are antioxidant- and fiberrich, made from all-natural and whole-food ingredients — mainly fruits, veggies, nuts and grains; they’re also colorful, refreshing and often filling.

These bright and bountiful bowls are served at several locations across the Inland Northwest, including the Wellness Bar’s three North Idaho locations, in Coeur d’Alene, Hayden and Post Falls.

With a mix of sweet, tart, chocolatey and earthy flavor traits, the açaí berry, a fruit native to South America, can be paired with everything from kale to peanut butter, bananas to avocados, other berries and beyond. They’re as versatile, if not more so, as their blended smoothie counterparts consumed via straw, but with much more texture, thanks to the addition of toppings like granola, nuts, sliced fruit and seeds atop the frozen and blended açaí base.

Wellness Bar owners Tait and Monica Engebretsen, who discovered açaí smoothie bowls while traveling in Hawaii, have been serving them since at their juice bars for about two and a half years.

“We went to Maui and went to a couple juice bars, and they were selling açaí bowls, so we went and learned all the benefits, and we brought it back to Coeur d’Alene and were the first [here] to sell them,” Monica Engebretsen says.

“They’ve changed the entire juice bar — people are loving them,” she adds. “Our favorite thing is seeing the younger generation, from middle school to high school to college students, choosing to come here as opposed to fast food.” ...continued on next page

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çaí bowls like those at the Wellness Bar are made starting with frozen açaí purée. The berries come from the açaí palm native to the Amazonian floodplains and swamps of Brazil and northern South America. The açaí’s seeds, which make up the bulk of the grape-sized berry’s bulk, are removed after harvest; the remaining pulp is crushed into a deep red-purple mixture that’s then frozen into little portion-sized packets to distribute to businesses like the Wellness Bar. (Other processes are used to freeze-dry the berry into a powdered form, though most juice bars prefer the frozen purée.)

Across Brazil, açaí bowls... are served in both sweet and salty versions, the latter of which contains shrimp or dried fish.

Across Brazil, açaí bowls — açaí na tigela in Portuguese, which translates to “açaí in the bowl” — are a popular dish served in both sweet and salty versions, the latter of which contains shrimp or dried fish and tapioca.

You won’t find this salty, fishy variant locally, though.

At Wellness Bar, the most popular açaí blend is the “Bomb.com” ($9), which features a smoothie base of frozen açaí purée blended with cacao and topped with granola, almond butter, coconut flakes, almond slivers, sliced banana, berries, hemp hearts and honey.

Other versions of Wellness Bar’s açaí bowls come topped with sweet berries and tart kiwi, peanut butter and dark chocolate, or lots of plant seeds, like pumpkin, sunflower and chia. Its three juice bar locations also offer açaí-based smoothies ($8-$12), if you’d rather not eat the quickly melting mixture with a spoon.

In Spokane, açaí bowls are also a popular item on the menu at Method Juice Cafe’s downtown and Northside locations, where customers can chose from several base blend and topping combos ($9/each). A long list of extra toppings ($.50-$3/each) can also be added to your bowl.

And in the South Perry District, the Wellness Tree juice bar also offers a variety of tropical, nutty and berrythemed bowls, which come in small and regular sizes ($6/$9). Açaí is also on the menu at the new Liberty Lake Juice Co., and the daytime menu at Remedy on Spokane’s South Hill.

All of these local spots also serve up the açaí berry’s oft-blended counterpart, the pitaya, or “dragon fruit,” in

You’ll also find açaí bowls at Liberty Lake Juice Co. the same smoothie-bowl format. The startlingly neonpink-colored pitaya, tarter than the earthier, chocolatey açaí, comes from the fruit of a cactus native to Mexico, Central and South America.

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hether you love açaí smoothie bowls for their nutty-meets-sweet-tart flavor or the inclusion of whole fruits, veggies, nuts and other plant-based ingredients — or maybe you’re unaware of the trend — it can be hard to sort out the wide range of claims that have surrounded the berry and its purported

benefits over the past decade (including massive scams that sold açaí supplements as a weight-loss and diseasecuring miracle product touted by celebrities).

While açaí isn’t actually a weight-loss miracle berry, eating fresh whole fruits and vegetables, whether in a salad, blended in a smoothie, in and atop an açaí bowl, is a great way to add those needed nutrients and fiber to your diet, explains Spokane registered dietitian and nutritionist Korrin Fotheringham.

ENTRÉE The key to açaí, Get the scoop on local she says, is balance. food news with our weekly “As with anything, Entrée newsletter. Sign up if you’re going to at Inlander.com/newsletter. replace foods you were previously eating with more fruits and veggies, that adds nutrients; whole foods, grains and other things that are really beneficial to our bodies,” she says.

“You always have to compare it to what would have been eaten otherwise; if it’s in addition to, or as a snack you wouldn’t normally eat, it’s not going to lead to weight loss,” Fotheringham continues.

Often referred to as a “superfood,” açaí berries contain some level of cancer- and age-fighting antioxidants, like many of their dark-hued fruit counterparts, cranberries, pomegranate, red grapes and blueberries. But there’s actually been little in the way of conclusive, scientific research on the açaí berry’s benefits to our health, Fotheringham notes.

While açaí bowls have also been criticized for being high in sugar, this isn’t necessarily bad, she explains, because that sugar is coming from the natural fruit source rather than added, processed sugar.

So if your açaí smoothie bowl is full of other berries and fruits, she suggests adding plenty of toppings containing protein and healthy fats, like nuts and seeds, flaked coconut or rolled oats (she cautions that some granola blends can have added sugars). Again, remember: it’s about nutrient balance.

“When I think about trends that are incorporating more fruits and veggies into the diets of Americans, it’s exciting — that’s always a great thing,” Fotheringham summarizes.

“It’s something that can be fun, especially for kids, to eat something that is purple. My daughter’s favorite color is purple, and she gets excited when we go out and have a smoothie bowl, but sometimes we go for froyo, and sometimes we go for ice cream. It can all be part of a well-rounded diet that is healthful and nutrient-dense.” n cheys@inlander.com

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Republic Kitchen + Taphouse in Post Falls is one of Chef Adam Hegsted’s two latest projects.

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Action Hero Unmasked Chef Adam Hegsted reflects on the power of hard work, team values and work-life balance as he opens two new restaurants in North Idaho

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ook there! Isn’t that chef Adam Hegsted? He’s with a honey glaze and sweet pickles at Republic; at cooking for fundraisers like the recent Inland Farmhouse, it’s paired with waffles, honey butter, pickled Northwest Food Network’s farm-to-table dinner. peppers and slaw ($14). Each place also has its own He’s founding food festivals (this year’s inauversion of other popular dishes like kale salad gural Crave! NW), catering celebrity weddings, ($5-$10, depending on size) and beef burgers and last month alone, Hegsted opened two new ($11-$12). restaurants, both in North Idaho.

Farmhouse, however, emphasizes breakfast, Located in Post Falls, Republic Kitchen + so the fries are served à la poutine with sausage Taphouse is a converted 1910 home on the gravy, cheddar cheese, candied bacon, green national historic registry with a spacious, gardenonions and fried eggs ($12). Republic’s fries pair framed patio and the feel of a European gasthausbetter with beer or a sandwich and are served as meets-Seattle pub. Hegsted’s second summer both sides and appetizers, including the Re-Pub project, Farmhouse Kitchen and Silo Bar, is the Chef Adam Hegsted Style fries with barbecue spice, garlic aioli and companion restaurant to the new Hotel Ruby in melted blue cheese ($6).

Ponderay.

Republic and Farmhouse bring Hegsted’s restaurant Known for taking classic comfort foods and putting count to six — the others are Liberty Lake’s Eat Good his own spin on them, Hegsted incorporates variations Café and the Wandering Table, Yards Bruncheon, and on similar flavor profiles at many of his restaurants. The Gilded Unicorn in Spokane. Hegsted also runs Le Caterbuttermilk-marinated, twice-fried chicken ($12) is served ing, which provided the spread for the July wedding in

Coeur d’Alene of Dancing With the Stars’ Julianne Hough, also featured in People magazine.

It’s like he has superpowers, right?

Hardly, says Hegsted, adding that if he “could see the future and/or duplicate myself, that would be awesome.”

Instead, Hegsted attributes any success to a combination of hard work, learning from past mistakes and surrounding himself with a good team.

“I don’t micromanage,” says Hegsted, whose approach is to “give everybody direction and collect everyone together.”

It’s his goal to create an environment where employees take ownership in what they do at each place, he says, starting with his chefs and managers, as well as other kitchen staff and servers.

Although he wants staff to put their stamp on what they do, consistency is also important, says Hegsted; it’s a skill he learned at Marie Callender’s back in 1996, his first restaurant job.

“There I learned that you pick up the recipe book and you follow the recipe book, and that’s what you do,” says the chef, who realized early on that a successful enterprise had to have structure.

A work-life balance is also important; Hegsted’s blended family of five has helped shape his outlook.

Although he still enjoys the challenge and ego boost of fine dining cuisine, Hegsted knows he can impact more people in a positive way through his current path.

“When we talk about opening a new restaurant, it’s always with the realization that my favorite meals have been at a place where you’re sharing appetizers and just having a good time,” he reflects.

More Clark Kent than Superman, Hegsted says that though he’s diligent about analyzing all the numbers before jumping into a new venture, he’s less concerned about financial success — he’s experienced significant debt in his career — as he is in building community, helping people, having time for family and doing all the right things.

“We want everyone to have a balance to their life and a quality to their life,” he says, noting that helping create longevity for his staff also translates to a better experience for the customer.

“We want people to be happy where they’re at.” n Republic Kitchen + Taphouse • 120 E. Fourth Ave., Post Falls • Open Mon-Thu, Sun, 11 am-9 pm; Fri-Sat, 11 am-10 pm • republicidaho.com • 208-457-3610 Farmhouse Kitchen and Silo Bar • 477227 Highway 95, Ponderay, Idaho • Open Sun-Thu, 7 am-11 pm; Fri-Sat, 7 am-midnight • farmhousekitchenandsilobar. com • 208-255-2603

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n just a few weeks, thousands of students will return to Gonzaga University’s campus east of downtown Spokane, which means tables at the new Clark’s Fork restaurant across Hamilton Street will soon bustle with not only busy families and the weekday lunch crowd, but studious undergrads, too.

The new eatery opened just after the final days of GU’s spring semester classes, so students who’ve been away since then can look forward to the new local option for healthy and fresh caféstyle fare, and breakfast served all day.

Clark’s Fork is the second Northwest location for the Bozeman, Montana-based chain owned by Jeff Riggs; he has plans to expand across the region. Its name is indeed a play on the Clark Fork River, and also a nod to Lewis & Clark’s expedition of the Corps of Discovery that unveiled the scenic landscapes and natural bounties of the western U.S. from 1804 to 1806.

Artwork around the restaurant fittingly features passages from Lt. William Clark’s journals from the trip referencing food and mealtimes. An outline of the Clark Fork River, a major tributary of the Columbia that flows more than 300 miles through Montana and Idaho, is stained onto the cement floor.

“Clark was the more culinary-explorative of the two, so those storyboards are direct quotes from his journal for areas he found around here,” explains restaurant manager Mike Musser. “We want customers to see our brand as an exploration, or to try something new,” he adds.

In addition to a menu of numerous breakfast items, as well as deli sandwiches, grass-fed beef burgers ($8.50), rice bowls that can also be made as wraps ($8.95-$10.95) and a special kids’ meal

($4.95), the highlight, perhaps, is a fresh salad bar with more than 50 ingredients and counting.

Complementing the salad selection ($5.95/small, $7.95/large; one trip each) is the housemade soup bar ($4.50/cup, $6.95/bowl).

Musser says it’s his goal to get the number of salad toppings closer to 100, making it the biggest and most diverse in town. The challenge, though, is finding regional producers to provide those ingredients, a focus of the Clark’s Fork brand.

Customers will thus find coffee roasted over in West Central by Indaba, loose-leaf teas from Spokane’s Winterwoods Tea Company and ingredients from numerous other regional farms and producers. They won’t find local beer or wine; Clark’s Fork doesn’t serve alcohol.

In keeping with its casual and welcoming atmosphere, diners at Clark’s Fork order at the counter, standing atop a big compass etched into the floor, and servers bring their food out to a table, or in to-go containers.

To accommodate its diverse customer base of students, families and professionals, the café’s dining room seats nearly 100, with an open floor plan and a kids’ play area, as well as some more secluded seating around a corner for those looking for a quieter visit to work or study, Musser says.

Picking a location adjacent to Gonzaga was intentional; Musser says Riggs’ plan is for all future Clark’s Fork locations to be located as closely as possible to college campuses. n cheys@inlander.com Clark’s Fork • 1028 N. Hamilton • Open MonSat from 6:30 am-8 pm; Sun from 7:30 am-3 pm • clarksfork.com • 960-8962

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Ice Cream

Union Roasters is the Lake City’s newest community coffee stop.

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2102 N. Fourth St., Coeur d’Alene, 208-966-4041

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hris Lauri and his brother Shane Lauri started Union nitro cold brew in 2015. Their friend Andy Waters just so happened to have his own coffee roasting enterprise, SilverCup Coffee Roasters. So it became the perfect marriage of business ventures when the team consolidated and expanded simultaneously, converting the Grumpy Monkey Coffee House on Fourth into Union Roasters, which opened earlier this year.

Union serves assorted in-house bakery items, and is expanding to include waffles using imported ingredients to make what Chris Lauri describes as typical Belgian waffles; doughy and sweet. They also want to expand the patio, providing even more places for

people to linger over a cup.

Their tagline, says Lauri, is “for the people.” Those people include suppliers.

“What people don’t often understand is the Fair Trade logo — you can pay $1,500 a year to use that logo and it doesn’t mean much anymore,” he says.

Instead, Union works with bean brokers with whom they’ve developed a strong bond, who in turn support farms worldwide.

“More than providing a great product,” says Lauri, also a pastor at a Coeur d’Alene church, “we really feel like we exist to be a blessing to people.”

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BRAIN FREEZE CREAMERY 1238 W. Summit Pkwy. and 1230 S. Grand Blvd.

Brain Freeze has been making ice cream in Spokane Valley for local restaurants and ice cream shops for more than a decade, and has its own shop in Kendall Yards. Along with an array of ice cream flavors — including maple bacon, avocado, chipotle chocolate and salted caramel — the shop also offers espresso drinks and fresh-made sandwiches. In spring of 2016, Brain Freeze opened a second shop on the lower South Hill, which scoops 24 flavors.

DIDIER’S YOGURT & MORE 10410 N. Division An iconic destination for nearby Whitworth University undergrads, Didier’s has been doing the froyo thing for more than 25 years. In addition to the frozen treats, you can also pick up a burger or other lunch-style items at this mom-and-pop operation all day.

Consider it Spokane’s original frozen yogurt shop.

DOYLE’S ICE CREAM PARLOR 2229 W. Boone Cheaper than chain ice cream shops and scooping up servings of the frozen goodness bigger than your head, this little red-and-white-striped building is a favorite in the West Central neighborhood. Decorated with vintage toys, kids love looking around Doyle’s, while the masters behind the counter artfully create the best treats.

The smell of the homemade waffle cones will draw you in, and the taste of the ice cream will keep you coming back.

ROGER’S ICE CREAM AND BURGERS 1224 E. Sherman Ave., Coeur d’Alene While Roger’s looks like an average ice cream stand on Sherman, it stands as a staple of the Coeur d’Alene summertime tradition. Homemade fries, a wide variety of ice cream flavors, and a good burger have fed suntanned and sweaty resort-goers for years.

Outdoor seating in the summer and a heated tent in the winter aren’t the usual sit-down dining setting, so make sure to bring a jacket and an appreciation for downtown CdA. n

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Survive the Night Kathryn Bigelow’s Detroit takes an unflinching look at police brutality and injustice in America

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fter earning near-universal acclaim for her depictions of modern warfare in the Middle East with The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow has turned her directorial eye to American soil. But don’t be fooled by the red, white and blue setting: Detroit is also a war movie. This time the combat zone is the titular city during 1967’s 12th Street Riots, specifically the horrors that took place during one July night at the Algiers Motel.

Following an artful opening sequence that employs the vivid paintings of artist Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series, viewers are dropped into inner-city Detroit as racial tensions between the white police force and black civilians simmer in the summer heat. Following the raid of an illegal after-hours nightclub, the neighborhood’s response to their people being herded off in paddy wagons quickly escalates into full-blown riots.

Between the looting, buildings being set ablaze, the National Guard rolling around in tanks and the rubble of destroyed structures, there’s no getting around the simple truth — the city has become a battlefield.

All of this leads to a fateful night at the Algiers Motel. After establishing a series of characters — including an aspiring Motown crooner and his buddy, a pair of young white female friends and a lot of seedy motel residents — all hell breaks loose when police assume that

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starter-pistol shots are actually sniper fire coming from shows up at the Algiers after hearing shots, he attempts the Algiers. Soon, three sketchy cops are on the scene, to calm the scene as a go-between, and Boyega aptly one of the black men is dead, and the rest of the people manages to display both a sturdy, heady exterior and in the motel are forced to put their hands and heads his trembling nerves. against the wall and begin enduring the worst night of Playing Krauss, the ringleader of the racist cops, their lives. Nearly two hours of police brutality, intimiWill Poulter so effectively embodies a brand of pure dation and murder follow. human evil that it may be difficult for him to shake the Bigelow makes everything about this extended role going forward in his career. (On a similar note, if scene feel sweaty, crowded and agonizing. She has you’re a huge fan of Jim from The Office, John Krasinno intention of letting the viewer escape the palpable ski’s solid turn as the cops’ lawyer in the film may ruin anxiety that each of the “suspects” your fond memories of him.) But it’s Algee DETROIT feels. For all the tension Bigelow Smith as aspiring singer Cleveland Larry creates with her images, the script by Rated R Reed who serves as the emotional heart of Directed by Kathryn Bigelow her frequent collaborator Mark Boal Detroit, conveying the terror, tragedy and Starring John Boyega, Will Poulstruggles at times to not feel a bit broken dreams that come to define the generic. There’s an unseemly amount ter, Algee Smith, Jason Mitchell night. of less-than-subtle telegraphing that It’s supposed to be hard to watch undercuts some of the shock when these horrifying Detroit’s police brutality, and that’s exactly what makes events actually transpire, making some of the proceedthe movie relevant. When the President literally ings feel a bit Hollywood, rather than authentic. encouraged police to be more violent last week during However, the acting helps make up for the screena speech to officers on Long Island, Detroit felt of-theplay’s shortcomings. John Boyega portrays Melvin moment. And when the film’s courtroom seems frightDismukes, a security officer struggling to straddle the eningly similar to recent trials regarding the deaths of line between his black brethren (who think of him as Philando Castile or Freddie Gray or Trayvon Martin, an Uncle Tom, even when he’s helping them) and law Detroit resonates. enforcement (who see him as just another black man, It may be a movie about a historical event, but who happens to be in a uniform). When Dismukes we’re living the history right now. n

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Errol Morris is one of the greatest living nonfiction filmmakers, and this is his first feature since the 2013 Donald Rumsfeld documentary The Unknown Known. He turns his keen eye (and his trademark camera known as the Interrotron) to the life and career of veteran photographer Elsa Dorfman, whose vast collection of Polaroid portraits chronicles a number of important eras in modern American history, including the Beat Generation, the birth of feminism and the Civil Rights movement.

(NW) Rated R

THE DARK TOWER

Stephen King’s epic, eight-book fantasy series finally hits the big screen after years in development hell, and it’ll either be a prequel, a sequel or an amalgamation of several novels. How they’ll condense King’s sprawling world into a 95-minute feature remains to be seen, though we do know that Idris Elba is the mythical gunslinger Roland Deschain, whose pursuit of the fabled Man in Black (Matthew McConaughey) leads him through a portal into the real world. (NW) Rated PG-13

DETROIT

The third collaboration between director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty) dramatizes a hellish evening in July 1967 when, during the riots of the Detroit Rebellion, a group of white police officers tortured and murdered three black men in a seedy motel room. At 143 minutes, it’s designed to make us feel the intensity and brutality of the situation, and despite some on-the-nose storytelling beats, it’s a powerful, hard-to-watch and sadly relevant film. Detroit may be about a historical event, but we’re living the history right now. (SS) Rated R

AN INCONVENIENT SEQUEL: TRUTH TO POWER

Al Gore’s 2006 documentary An Inconvenient Truth was a wake-up call to anybody unaware of the dangerous implications of global warming.

A decade later and we stupid humans haven’t learned our lesson, because the former Vice President is back in theaters to further explore the toll of climate change in an era when the leader of the free world believes it to be a hoax. (NW) Rated PG

KIDNAP

It seems like a lifetime ago, but Halle Berry once won an Academy Award, and now she’s regularly overacting in cheap-looking, generically titled thrillers that would have been released straight to Cinemax 20 years ago. In this one, Berry plays a mother who witnesses her son getting nabbed from the park and then doggedly chases after the kidnappers. (NW) Rated R

LADY MACBETH

Not a Shakespeare adaptation but a loose interpretation of an 1865 Russian novella, which has been transplanted to 19th century rural England. Frances Pugh, a relative newcomer who’s completely transfixing here, plays a provincial young woman who’s forced into marriage with an older man and begins an affair with a servant when her husband is away. Considering the title, it doesn’t end well. Beautifully photographed and unflinchingly brutal, this is a steely portrait of a woman who’s perhaps a bit too determined to have her way. At the Magic Lantern.

(NW) Rated R

THE LION KING

The Disney classic returns to theaters this weekend, and it still holds up as one of the strongest features of the studio’s renaissance period. It was the highest-grossing film of 1994, and it’s no wonder: The hand-drawn animation is bright and colorful, the characters are memorable (as are the Oscar-winning songs by Tim Rice and Elton John), and it follows a simple but primal story that culls liberally from Hamlet (and, controversially, the mid’60s TV series Kimba the White Lion).

The movie’s limited theatrical run also includes a sing-along version, which doesn’t sound annoying at all. (NW) Rated G

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The premise might sound ridiculous, but writer-director David Lowery’s newest film is a beautiful and odd cinematic tone poem about the horror of life and loss. Casey Affleck plays an unnamed man who dies unexpectedly. His spirit, clad only in a white bedsheet with eyeholes cut out of it, sticks around to haunt his old house, even after his wife (Rooney Mara) and son move out. A meditation on mortality and the legacies we leave behind, this is not an easy movie to shake. (SS) Rated R

ATOMIC BLONDE

This second action spectacle from former stuntman and John Wick director

David Leitch is perhaps a bit too long and certainly too densely plotted for its own good, but it’s effortlessly cool, uber-stylish and set to a thumping soundtrack of great ’80s pop hits.

Based on the graphic novel The Coldest City and set in 1989 Berlin, Charlize Theron kicks a whole lotta ass as MI6 agent (or is she?) Lorraine Broughton, on a mission to track down a list of double agents that could potentially blow her cover. (NW) Rated R

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Salma Hayek stars as a poor masseuse invited to a wealthy dinner party out of kindness, only to find her ultra-liberal beliefs clashing with one of the guests, a boorish real estate magnate played

by John Lithgow. Although well-acted and tightly paced, the film’s jabs at class disparity and racial intolerance are a bit mealy-mouthed, and the ending is frustrating in its moral ambiguity. At the Magic Lantern (NW) Rated R

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There’s only one problem: He’s keeping their relationship a secret from his traditional Pakistani parents. This is further complicated when Emily is put into a medically induced coma. (SS) Rated R

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DESPICABLE ME 3

The hugely popular animated series continues unabated, and this time reformed bad guy Gru (voiced by Steve Carell) has just been kicked out of the Anti-Villain League. Enter his long-lost twin brother Dru, who convinces Gru to go back to his evil ways. (NW) Rated PG

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Christopher Nolan’s WWII drama, painstakingly and authentically depicting the bloody Battle of Dunkirk, is a remarkable example of sheer filmmaking craft. The only thing it’s missing is a little humanity. Although the technical skill on display — from Hans Zimmer’s score to Hoyte Van Hoytema’s IMAX cinematography — is dazzling to behold, Nolan’s attempts to elicit any emotion from the audience feel strangely calculated because every character in the film is essentially a disposable pawn on a chessboard. (SS) Rated PG-13

THE EMOJI MOVIE

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does that mean this movie needed to be made? Dreamworks Animation offers up another family-friendly allegory about the importance of being yourself, this time with a “meh” emoji (voiced by T.J. Miller) discovering he has more than one emotion. (NW) Rated PG

GIRLS TRIP

The latest entry in the women-behaving-badly comedy subgenre assembles a quartet of likable actresses — Regina Hall, Queen Latifah, Jada Pinkett Smith and Tiffany Haddish — and takes them on a gleefully R-rated cross-country trip to New Orleans for the Essence Music Festival. “Crude and sexual content,” per the MPAA, abounds. (NW) Rated R

THE HERO

Sam Elliott plays a faded Western star who gets a grave health diagnosis just as he finds his career on an unexpected upswing. This Sundance-approved drama is pretty thin, but it just barely gets by on a stellar central performance from an old pro who doesn’t get nearly enough lead roles. At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Rated R

MAUDIE

The life of Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis, known for painting hundreds of colorful country scenes as her rheumatoid arthritis gradually worsened, is chronicled in this modest biopic. Sally Hawkins is great in the title role; less convincing is Ethan Hawke as her stern, weathered husband. At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Rated PG-13

NEITHER WOLF NOR DOG

A white writer is contacted by a 95-year-old Native American man wanting his life story documented before he dies, and he soon finds himself ferried about the Lakota reservation on a task he feels ill-equipped for. This sensitive indie comedy-drama, adapted from a novel by Kent Nerburn, creates a trio of vivid characters and allows them to explore their cultural and generational differences without ever coming across as preachy or condescending. At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Not Rated

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slinging alter ego finally get another feature worthy of the character’s long history. With fresh-faced Tom Holland donning Spidey’s spandex, the SpiderMan franchise feels more grounded and human than ever, with Peter’s high school drama taking just as much precedence as the large-scale superhero set pieces. (ES) Rated PG-13

VALERIAN AND THE CITY OF A THOUSAND PLANETS

Luc Besson’s latest space opera is daffy, exhausting, occasionally dazzling and frequently befuddling. Inspired by a French comic series about rakish intergalactic swashbucklers, this film is so overloaded with outlandish alien creatures and neon-colored space markets that Rihanna’s appearance as a shapeshifting stripper is one of its least bizarre occurrences. (NW) Rated PG-13

WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES

This third installment in the Planet of the Apes franchise is another sophisticated sci-fi epic, with super-intelligent primate Caesar (Andy Serkis) and his simian army taking on a human warlord (Woody Harrelson). It’s more focused on its nuanced characters than action, and it’s amazing how emotionally involved we get in the trials of CGI apes.

(ES) Rated PG-13

WISH UPON

An unpopular and self-absorbed teenage girl is gifted an ornate Chinese box and discovers that it successfully grants wishes. The downside: All her friends and loved ones start succumbing to bizarre accidents. A ridiculous horror film.

(NW) Rated PG-13

WONDER WOMAN

On the heels of the lackluster Batman v. Superman and Suicide Squad, DC’s latest actually does justice to one of its longest-running and most beloved characters, and it turns out to be one of the better superhero origin films.

Gal Gadot announces herself as a major new star, playing the Amazon princess and Lasso of Truth-brandishing warrior who saves the life of an American spy (Chris Pine) and finds herself on the front lines of the first World War. (MS) Rated PG-13 n

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Something wicked this way comes: Florence Pugh gives a star-making performance in Lady Macbeth.

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Lady Macbeth is a tale of murder, adultery and betrayal, with the look of a period piece and the ruthlessness of a horror film

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espite its title, Lady Macbeth is not another screen adaptation And unlike Marie Antoinette, Lady Macbeth doesn’t avert its of a Shakespeare classic. It is, in fact, based on a racy 1865 gaze from the servants of the house, and it’s as much about racial novella by the Russian author Nikolai Leskov, previously dynamics as it is class disparity and gender politics. While her filmed in 1962 by the late Polish master Andrzej Wajda, and this husband is away, Katherine has a run-in with one of his workers, time his story of doomed romance and revenge has been transplantSebastian (Cosmo Jarvis), a brutish man of mixed race who corners ed to 19th-century England.

Katherine in her room. She resists at first, but not for long, and So the movie does not contain yet another interpretation of the soon they’re rolling about in her bed at all hours of the day. Anna, Bard’s most scrutinized woman, and yet its central figure noticeably who is black, is thus forced into the role of Katherine’s confidante, shares that iconic character’s cutthroat opportunism. The paraleven though Katherine is shockingly cavalier about her liaisons lels are obvious. But what differentiates her from the actual Lady with Sebastian. The power dynamics between these three characters Macbeth is an apparent moral compass: She’s willing to do just shift in unexpected ways, right up to the point when someone is about anything to get what she wants, though it murdered. would be easy to mistake her fierce independence The basic building blocks of this plot LADY MACBETH for sociopathy. suggest an overheated, torrid melodrama, but Rated R The lady of the title is named Katherine, and Lady Macbeth truly belongs in the same camp as Directed by William Oldroyd she’s played in a gripping performance by relative Starring Florence Pugh, Cosmo Jarvis, Naomi recent literary adaptations — Cary Fukunaga’s newcomer Florence Pugh. As Lady Macbeth opens, Jane Eyre, Andrea Arnold’s Wuthering Heights, Ackie, Paul Hilton she’s being married off to a much older, richer Thomas Vinterberg’s Far from the Madding man (Paul Hilton), who coops her up in his large Crowd — that are grubbier and darker (both country estate and regards her with cruel indifference. He also physically and tonally) than the staid versions we’re using to seeing refuses to consummate the marriage, for reasons that won’t become on PBS. If anything, Oldroyd seems to be channeling the Austrian apparent until later. auteur Michael Haneke, whose nihilistic influence is felt most Director William Oldroyd, making his feature debut, allows us evidently in a scene near the end of the film which unflinchingly to see both the monotony and the severity of daily life inside the observes a moment of violence that will unsettle a lot of viewers. house. Every morning, Katherine’s maid Anna (Naomi Ackie) forceKatherine is, I suppose, our emotional conduit into this suffully brushes the knots out of her waist-length hair before cinching focating environment, and yet we realize with growing horror that her into the painful constriction of a corset. And then Katherine we’re as alienated from her as she is from her own husband. For waits around, all dressed up for no one. When her husband does this character to seem like a plausible human being, you need the have guests over, she’s left unacknowledged in the corner. She’s right actress, and Pugh is completely convincing at every moment. often in solitude, sometimes drifting off to sleep right where she’s Her performance is such that we’re never quite sure when and why sitting. we’re being played, nor if anything she says, especially in the film’s In its examination of an idle rich woman surrounded by condeconcluding drawing-room confrontation, can be taken at face value. scending men, Lady Macbeth initially provokes comparison to Sofia If Lady Macbeth, which was adapted from Leskov’s book by Coppola’s Marie Antoinette, which transmuted bourgeois boredom screenwriter Alice Birch, is using the retrograde beliefs of a bygone and ennui into pop excess. (Young Marie’s life may be completely era to comment on our own, I’m not quite sure what it’s trying unfulfilling, but dig those lavish costumes!) Even if it is beautiful to say. But as a brutal and unforgiving look at subordination and to look at — cinematographer Ari Wegner makes even the muddy, humiliation begetting violence, it’s an occasionally stunning piece of windswept plains surrounding the estate look mournful and mystework. The milk of human kindness is nowhere to be found in this rious — there’s nothing luxurious about Katherine’s world. one. n

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he Festival at Sandpoint is one of our area’s best annual music festivals for a couple of reasons. First, Memorial Field is really the ideal setting for a late summer outdoor concert series, with the nearby Pend Oreille River serving as an idyllic backdrop. On top of that, the lineup is always a diverse surprise every year: Everyone from Etta James to the Pretenders have been featured performers.

The festival kicks off Thursday with the jazzy international flavor of Pink Martini, and continues through next Sunday with a roster of artists that should satisfy

pop, country, rock and reggae fans. Here’s what you have to look forward to. (Doors for all concerts open at 6 pm.)

THE B-52s (FRI, AUG. 4 AT 7:30 PM)

People seem to have forgotten how truly strange and transgressive the B-52s seemed when they busted out of Athens, Georgia, in the late 1970s in a fog of Aqua Net and nostalgia. In the decades since, the band’s batty concoction of ’50s girlgroup doo-wop and space-age quirkiness has been normalized through its rotation on retro-pop radio stations everywhere,

but their earliest material (the stuff you won’t hear on your morning commute) is still eccentric and singular. I saw the B-52s at Northern Quest in 2008 — not surprisingly, they’re great live — and while everyone in the audience started dancing when the band launched into hits like “Roam” and “Love Shack,” all but the die-hards were mostly perplexed by quirky deep cuts like “Party Out of Bounds” and “Planet Claire,” with its headless, Plymouth-driving aliens. They’ve always embraced kitsch, and never ironically.

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the Wailers, which were originally formed as Marley’s backing band and continued on after the iconic musician’s 1981 death, are important architects of the genre.

(What reggae dude probably didn’t know: The group’s lineup still features founding bassist Aston Barrett and guitarist Junior Marvin.) If the Wailers are the masters of the form, then Iration are the disciples. Founded in Hawaii and specializing in what’s known as sunshine reggae, they’ve only been around since 2004, but their following is such that they’ll likely draw as many devotees as the legendary headliners. $54.95.

JAKE OWEN (SAT, AUG. 5 AT 7:30 PM)

While perusing Jake Owen’s Wikipedia page, I learned the following tidbit about “Yee Haw,” the country star’s evocatively titled breakout single: “[Owen] describes the song (an up-tempo party anthem in which the narrator expresses his enjoyment with a cry of ‘yee haw’) as being written ‘to make people have a good time.’” So there you have it. Upon further reading, I see that the rest of his discography is filled with a lot of country song-sounding titles: “Barefoot Blue Jean Night,” “Eight Second Ride,” “Beachin’” and — whaddaya know! — “American Country Love Song.” Based on his ticket prices, I’m sure he’s got his fans. With Mitchell Tenpenny; $74.95.

GEORGE THOROGOOD (SAT, AUG. 12 AT 7:30 PM)

With his screaming guitar licks and his stuttering b-b-bbaritone, George Thorogood has made a career out of writing originals that sounded like classics when they were new, all while he was taking old blues standards and making them his own. His biggest hits include “Bad to the Bone” and “I Drink Alone,” but he also breathed fresh, raucous life into Hank Williams’ “Move It on Over,” Amos Milburn’s “One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer” and Bo Diddley’s “Who Do You Love?” I got a chance to talk to Thorogood when he and his backing band the Delaware Destroyers came through town in 2014, and he left me with a simple credo that I’ve never forgotten: “Rock ’n’ roll never sleeps,” he told me. “It just passes out.” Keep that in mind when you see him. With the White Buffalo; $74.95. n

THE HEAD AND THE HEART (THU, AUG. 10 AT 7:30 PM)

These Seattle-based pop-folksters are aptly named: Their lyrics certainly have a thoughtful, intellectual bent, but their melodies are the kind that hit you in an elemental, almost primal place. In the heart, if you will. The band developed a following in this neck of the woods after forming in 2009, though they broke out in a big way around the same time that other nu-folk acts — Mumford & Sons, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, the Lumineers — were getting their days in the sun on Top 40 radio. And while the Head and the Heart might not have had the same mainstream success of those bands, they still draw crowds, and their last two studio albums cracked the Billboard Top 10. With Matt Hopper and the Roman Candles; $44.95.

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he easier it becomes for bands to record their own material, the more difficult it is to get noticed. Think about it: If anyone can potentially release an album without the assistance of a high-powered label or producer, you need to put out A-plus material if you don’t want to get lost in the shuffle.

It’s tough keeping up with everything that’s coming out of the Inland Northwest — it seems like four or five new local discs pop up on my radar every week — but here are a quartet of recent regional releases that I think are definitely worth checking out.

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It shouldn’t be a surprise considering their name, but Boise’s the Dirty Moogs stack synths atop synths atop even more synths on this new 7-song WEEKEND EP of bright, playful C O U N T D OW N dance pop. Filtering Get the scoop on this the retro disco-funk weekend’s events with of Midnight Vultures-era our newsletter. Sign up at Beck through the blips Inlander.com/newsletter. and bloops of 8-bit instrumentation, the band’s impish sense of humor really shines through here, from the Back to the Future references on opening track

“Carrie Ann” (“She only wants me for my DeLorean”) to the jam-band jabs on the bittersweet breakup song “Pretty Susie” (“I’ve been working day and night / So you can stay home and watch The Facts of Life”). Streaming on Spotify; available for purchase via iTunes.

FOLKINCEPTION: GREAT NORTHERN

Since they formed in 2011, Folkinception has become one of those local bands that effortlessly bridges the gaps between generations: Go to any one of their shows and you’ll see everyone from kids to grandparents digging on their polished brand of Americana. Great Northern is the sextet’s second full-length, and it boasts a wider sonic palette than 2014’s Tower Mountain. The whole album is as rootsy and rustic as you’d expect, with a country twang always bubbling just beneath the surface. But it’s as beautifully produced as any professional pop album, with the lofty vocal harmonies, plinking piano and fiddle parts receiving equal attention in the mix. Pick up the album yourself when the band performs at the Nest in Kendall Yards on Aug. 9. Streaming on Spotify; available for purchase via iTunes.

INDIAN GOAT: 1

The newest project from Blackwater Prophet’s Garrett Zanol, Indian Goat continues that beloved Spokane band’s predilection for gritty, feedback-heavy rock ’n’

roll, and they do it with just a guitar and drums. Zanol and Travis Tveit dole out riffs and beats so heavy that it’s hard to believe there’s only two of them, but their songs occasionally veer into dreamy, stoned, slightly bluesy territory that recalls the best of ’60s psychedelic rock. The duo are coming out of the gate swinging furiously with their ferocious debut EP, aptly named 1, which clocks in at around 26 minutes and is certainly not lacking in stylistic confidence. The band is releasing the EP through local label Resurrection Records, and you can purchase a copy on cassette following their Saturday night set at the Observatory (15 S. Howard). Streaming on Bandcamp.

THE SOUTH HILL: HALF IT ALL

There’s an airy reverie hanging over the debut LP from this Spokane quintet, and it’s the kind of album best played through headphones while you’re sprawled out on a lawn as the summer sun sinks. The South Hill certainly owes a debt to contemporary acts like Iron and Wine and Bon Iver, but perhaps even more so to the rock of the post-Woodstock era; even the cover of Half It All, designed to look like a worn and dog-eared vinyl record sleeve, carries a twinge of nostalgia with it. Most of the album consists of gentle, folky ballads, but songs like “Bigger Plans,” “Ddr” and the live cut “Travelin’ Song” bring the uptempo shuffle. Streaming on Spotify; available for purchase at theshouthhill.com and via iTunes. n

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n “Old Friends,” the opening track of Pinegrove’s 2016 LP Cardinal, songwriter and frontman Evan Stephens Hall, who’s been spending his afternoons with the shades drawn, dispiritedly wonders, “How come every outcome is such a comedown?” Hailing from Montclair, New Jersey, a small town just outside of Newark, Pinegrove is a six-piece (though they sometimes play with a pared-down lineup) that’s channeling a lot of things simultaneously: the morose-but-shiny pop of the Shins, Wilco-esque alt-country, Pavement’s amiably angular post-rock. The album closes its loose narrative bookend with “New Friends,” which worries that the old friends from that earlier song have been further alienated, so Hall decides he’ll just start over again: “What’s the worst that could happen?”

— NATHAN WEINBENDER Pinegrove with Stephen Steinbrink • Mon, Aug. 7 at 8 pm • $12/$15 at the door • All ages • The Bartlett • 228 W. Sprague • thebartlettspokane.com • 747-2174

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Thursday, 08/3

ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, Benton and Gallagher J BABY BAR, Human Leather, Dancing Plague of 1518, Local Pavlov J J THE BARTLETT, Aldous Harding, Henry Nordstrom BEEROCRACY, Open Mic BOOTS BAKERY, The Song Project J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, Open Jazz Jam with Erik Bowen J COEUR D’ALENE PARK, Angela Marie Project THE COEUR D’ALENE RESORT, Bands on Boats feat. The Rhythm Dawgs CORBY’S BAR, Open Mic and Karaoke CRAFTED TAP HOUSE, KOSH CRAVE, DJ Freaky Fred CRUISERS, Open Mic Jam Slam THE CULINARY STONE, Wyatt Wood DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS, Tuck Foster and the Tumbling Dice FEDORA PUB & GRILLE, Tommy G JACKSON ST., Tyler Lang LAGUNA CAFÉ, Just Plain Darin J J MEMORIAL FIELD, Pink Martini J MONARCH MOUNTAIN COFFEE, Open Mic Hosted by Scott Reid NIGHTHAWK LOUNGE (CDA CASINO), PJ Destiny J NORTHERN QUEST RESORT & CASINO, Toby Keith, Waterloo Revival THE OBSERVATORY, Vinyl Meltdown J THE PIN!, Ill Bill, $keety Doo, Drips, Maxy, Big Saucy Gor POST FALLS BREWING, Son of Brad RAZZLE’S BAR & GRILL, Open Mic THE RESERVE, Karaoke with DJ Dave RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos J RIVERSTONE PARK, John Welsh Band THE ROADHOUSE, Stacy Jones Band J THE STEEL BARREL TAPROOM, Buffalo Jones, Street Tang ZOLA, Blake Braley

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traight from the heart of Memphis comes this sludgy, scrappy quintet that worships at the altar of Iggy Pop and shreds through songs like “Nightmare Zone” and “Young Trash” with the reckless abandon of every proto-punk band to ever blow the doors off their garage. Ex-Cult (originally known as Sex Cult) was ushered into prominence by prolific retro-rock practitioner Ty Segall, who reportedly became besotted with the group when he saw them at SXSW and offered to produce their self-titled 2012 debut. Segall was also behind the boards for the band’s third full-length, 2016’s Negative Growth, which defies its own title with its buzzing take on the groundwork laid by the Germs and Social Distortion. They don’t slow down, and they take no prisoners.

— NATHAN WEINBENDER Ex-Cult with the Birth Defects and Peru Resh • Tue, Aug. 8 at 9 pm • $8/$10 at the door • 21+ • The Observatory • 15 S. Howard • brownpapertickets.com • 598-8933

Friday, 08/4

J J THE BARTLETT, Mini Murders EP Release, with Soul Man Black BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn BISTANGO, Ron Greene BLACK DIAMOND, DJ Sterling BOLO’S, Mojobox J J COEUR D’ALENE CASINO, Kenny Rogers J CONKLING MARINA, The Cronkites CORBY’S BAR, Karaoke CURLEY’S, Dragonfly J DOWNTOWN SPOKANE LIBRARY, Rachel Bade-McMurphy FEDORA PUB & GRILLE, Kicho J FORZA COFFEE CO., Karen McCormick J J MARTIN WOLDSON THEATER AT THE FOX, Melissa Etheridge (see page 52) J GORGE AMPHITHEATER, Pretty Lights HILLS’ RESTAURANT, Front Porch Trio

THE HIVE, Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe HOGFISH, Wayward West Album Release, with Bullets or Balloons J HOTEL RL AT THE PARK, Curtis Salgado J INDABA, Andrew Dempsen IRON HORSE BAR, Haze JACKSON ST., Vern and the Volcanoes LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Nick Grow J THE LOCAL DELI, Wyatt Wood J LOST BOYS’ GARAGE, William Nover MAX AT MIRABEAU, Tuck Foster and the Tumbling Dice J J MEMORIAL FIELD, The B-52’s (see page 47), Biddadat MOOSE LOUNGE, Yesterdayscake MULLIGAN’S BAR & GRILLE, Brother Music NASHVILLE NORTH, Ladies Night with Luke Jaxon and DJ Tom NIGHTHAWK LOUNGE (CDA CASINO), Smash Hit Carnival

NORTHERN QUEST RESORT & CASINO, DJ Patrick NYNE, Angela Marie Project THE OBSERVATORY, Losing Skin, Vessels, Manifestations, Blacktracks J PARK BENCH CAFE, Michael Keleren PEND OREILLE PLAYHOUSE, Open Mic J THE PIN!, Strange Music’s Prozak RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos THE ROADHOUSE, Ambrosia SEASONS OF COEUR D’ALENE, Son of Brad SILVER MOUNTAIN SKI RESORT, Pat Coast J SPOKANE ARENA, Spokane Brewers Festival with Super Sparkle, Haley Young and the Bossame, Honey Business ZOLA, Sammy Eubanks

Saturday, 08/5

12 TRIBES RESORT CASINO, Ambrosia

BARLOWS AT LIBERTY LAKE, Bill Bozly J THE BARTLETT, The Mondegreens, Runaway Octopus BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn J THE BIG DIPPER, Odyssey 10 Year Anniversary Show with Flannel Math Animal BLACK DIAMOND, DJ Stud BOLO’S, Mojobox BORRACHO TACOS & TEQUILERIA, DJ MC Squared, Beauflexx J COEUR D’ALENE CITY HALL, JamShack COLBERT TRADING CO., Ryan Dunn J CONKLING MARINA, The Cronkites CRUISERS, The Adarna, 12 Gauge Saints, Dirtbag CURLEY’S, Dragonfly J DEER PARK, Stagecoach West FEDORA PUB & GRILLE, Donnie Emerson FLAME & CORK, Son of Brad

GARLAND PUB & GRILL, Last Call Band J GORGE AMPHITHEATER, Pretty Lights J HILLYARD, Hillyard Festival with Rusted Hand, Jim Bury Band, Crazy Mountain Bullies, Ragtag Romantics, Hillyard Belles THE HIVE, Jerry Joseph and the Jackmormons J HOTEL RL AT THE PARK, Anni Piper IRON GOAT BREWING CO., Dylan Hathaway IRON HORSE BAR, Haze JACKSON ST., Karaoke with James J KNITTING FACTORY, Chase Rice, Dylan Jakobsen J THE LANTERN TAP HOUSE, Nat Park and the Tunnels of Love LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Karrie O’Neill MAX AT MIRABEAU, Tuck Foster and the Tumbling Dice J J MEMORIAL FIELD, Jake Owen (see page 48), with Mitchell Tempenny MOOSE LOUNGE, Yesterdayscake MULLIGAN’S BAR & GRILLE, Rusty Jackson NASHVILLE NORTH, Ladies Night with Luke Jaxon and DJ Tom

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NIGHTHAWK LOUNGE (CDA CASINO), Smash Hit Carnival NORTHERN QUEST RESORT & CASINO, DJ Patrick J THE OBSERVATORY, Bullets or Balloons, Himiko Cloud, Indian Goat J THE PIN!, Luni Coleone, Cordell Drake POST FALLS BREWING, Ron Greene REPUBLIC BREWING CO., Hillfolk Noir RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos THE ROADHOUSE, Steve Starkey J J SARANAC ROOFTOP, Wandering I, The Colourflies, Over Sea Under Stone J SOUTH HILL LIBRARY, Floating Crowbar J SPOKANE ARENA, Spokane Brewers Festival with Kalaj, The Dapper Devils, River City Roots Band, The Holy Broke, Sulphur Banks J J STEAM PLANT SQUARE, Octapalooza feat. Every Time I Die, He Is Legend, Islander, To Speak of Wolves and more THE THIRSTY DOG, DJ Dave ZOLA, Sammy Eubanks

Sunday, 08/6

ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, Devon Wade Band J BIG BARN BREWING CO., Moses Willey CHINOOK STEAK, PASTA AND SPIRITS (CDA CASINO), KOSH J CONKLING MARINA & RESORT, Jeff Rowe CRAFTED TAP HOUSE, Keanu & Joey CURLEY’S, Kosta La Vista Band

DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS, Jam Night with VooDoo Church J HARVEST HOUSE, Just Plain Darin, Donnie Emerson and Nancy Sophia IRON HORSE BAR & GRILL, Back Road Toad LINGER LONGER LOUNGE, Open Jam J NORTH IDAHO COLLEGE, Soul Proprietor O’DOHERTY’S, Live Irish Music THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Sunday Karaoke Night ZOLA, Lazy Love

Monday, 08/7

J J THE BARTLETT, Pinegrove (see facing page), Stephen Steinbrink J CALYPSOS COFFEE & CREAMERY, Open Mic EICHARDT’S, Jam with Truck Mills RED ROOM LOUNGE, Open Mic with Lucas Brookbank Brown ZOLA, Perfect Mess

Tuesday, 08/8

THE EMPEROR ROOM, T.A.S.T.Y with DJs Freaky Fred, Beauflexx LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Turntable Tuesday MICKDUFF’S BEER HALL, Open Mic MIK’S, DJ Brentano J J NORTHERN QUEST RESORT & CASINO, Willie Nelson and Family, Kacey Musgraves J THE OBSERVATORY, Ex-Cult (see facing page), The Birth Defects, Peru Resh J THE PIN!, Killmore, H0BG0BL1N, Culture Bane

RED ROOM LOUNGE, Tuesday Takeover with Storme RIDLER PIANO BAR, Open Mic/Jam Night RIPPLES RIVERSIDE GRILL, Son of Brad UP NORTH DISTILLERY, Kicho ZOLA, Evan Dillinger

Wednesday, 08/9

GENO’S, Open Mic w/Travis Goulding J KENDALL YARDS, Dylan Hathaway LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Carey Brazil LUCKY’S IRISH PUB, DJ D3VIN3 J MCEUEN PARK, Sol Seed J THE NEST AT KENDALL YARDS, Folkinception J NO-LI BREWHOUSE, Just Plain Darin J PARKSIDE EVENT CENTER, Redeye Empire J THE PIN!, Elektro Grave Presents Dissolution THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Live Piano RIVELLE’S, Jam Night with Truck Mills SOULFUL SOUPS & SPIRITS, Open Mic THE THIRSTY DOG, DJ Dave ZOLA, Whsk&Keys

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The Spokane Brewers Festival returns with more than 30 breweries and tons of great local music.

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FESTIVAL BEER HERE!

The inaugural Spokane Brewers Festival was far better than a beer festival in a parking lot had any right to be, and you can bet this year’s will be even better. With more than 30 Inland Northwest breweries offering samples of their delicious wares in an array of styles, the festival also offers some great live tunes (lineup below), several food trucks and the kid- and designated driver-friendly River City Root Beer Garden. Best of all, the party benefits the statewide hunger-relief organization Feeding Washington. We’ll certainly drink to that.

— DAN NAILEN Spokane Brewers Festival • Fri, Aug. 4 from 4-8 pm; Sat, Aug. 5 from 11 am-8 pm • $30, includes glass and first 13 tokens • Spokane Arena • 720 W. Mallon • spokanebrewfest.com

MUSIC LINEUP

FRIDAY 4 pm: Honey Business; 5:30 pm: Haley Young and The Bossame; 7 pm: Super Sparkle SATURDAY 1 pm: Sulphur Banks; 2:30 pm: The Holy Broke; 4 pm: River City Roots Band; 5:30 pm: The Dapper Devils; 7 pm: KALÄJ

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MUSIC GLAMOUR ROCK

The last stop on the West Coast tour for Calista Kazuko and Chanel & The Circus — which has included performances in some unusual venues, from a Beverly Hills mansion to a boxing ring — is set to conclude at the intimate and classical Holy Names Music Center. Attendees can experience a unique interpretation of a loosely defined pop-rock genre from these two London-based artists, united by their flair for artistically adventurous musical storytelling.

— BRAD BROWN Living Room Tour: Calista Kazuko and Chanel & the Circus • Tue, Aug. 8 at 8 pm • $15; $10/students, seniors • Holy Names Music Center • 3910 W. Custer Dr. • 326-9516

MUSIC THIS IS M.E.

Of the most popular singer-songwriters who rose to prominence in the era of Lilith Fair, soulful vocalist and guitar virtuoso Melissa Etheridge is the closest thing to a straight-up rocker. She broke out into the mainstream with her 1993 album Yes I Am, which included the Top 40 singles “Come to My Window” and “I’m the Only One.” Etheridge has since maintained a steady touring presence — she’s returning to Spokane following a Northern Quest gig with Pat Benatar last summer — and her latest studio album, Memphis Rock and Soul, is a catalog of her bluesy musical roots.

— NATHAN WEINBENDER Melissa Etheridge • Fri, Aug. 4 at 8 pm • $48-$85 • Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox • 1001 W. Sprague • foxtheaterspokane.org • 624-1200

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For just shy of a half-century, this annual celebration of regional fine arts and artisans has been setting up on the scenic shores of Lake Coeur d’Alene.

Always featuring plenty to see and do for art lovers of all ages and interests, Art on the Green 2017 is no different, with more than 190 artists displaying their carefully crafted fine wares, made with paint, glass, wood, metal, fiber and more. The three-day festival — which wouldn’t be possible without its team of 500 volunteers — also offers live music, a beer garden, local food vendors and many other performances and activities for families, including a hands-on art area for kids to make their own masterpieces. Pack your swimsuits to take a midday dip in the water on what’s sure to be another mid-summer scorcher, and perhaps also take a stroll through downtown Coeur d’Alene, which is simultaneously hosting the Coeur d’Alene Street Fair along Sherman Avenue.

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Art on the Green • Fri, Aug. 4 from noon-7:30 pm; Sat, Aug. 5 from 10 am-7:30 pm; Sun, Aug. 6 from 10 am-5 pm • Free admission • North Idaho College • 1000 W. Garden Ave., Coeur d’Alene • artonthegreencda.com

FESTIVAL SCOTTISH GAMES

Buff dudes in kilts tossing heavy objects, highland dancing and — of course — bagpipes are back for the annual event celebrating Scottish culture and community. The 2017 Highland Games’ festivities kick off with an oldfashioned tug-of-war, followed by pipe band exhibitions, heavy athletics and highland dancing. You don’t need to be Scottish to appreciate the “hielan’ coos’” cow herding and blacksmith exhibitions, but if you do happen to have ancestral ties to Scotland, you can perhaps reunite with your own Scottish family clan at their festival booth. For auto enthusiasts, the fest includes a British car exhibit showcasing Austin Minis, Jaguars, Austin-Healeys, and other models from the 1950s through the ’70s. Kids of all ages can also take their turn at the pint-sized caber toss and the “shoot the English knight” game.

— BRAD BROWN Spokane Scottish Highland Games • Sat, Aug. 5 from 8 am-5:30 pm • $10/ adults; $8/seniors and youth; $5/children • Spokane County Fair & Expo Center • 404 N. Havana • spokanehighlandgames.net

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I SAW YOU YOU SAW ME AT THE STA PLAZA, SOMETIME IN 2001-2002 You were the male teenager between 13-15. I was the 30ish woman, (though many thought I was 10 years younger), dressed in a skirt and blouse, waiting for the bus to take me to my job. You walked around me for a few minutes and finally approached me, shyly asking me if I had 75 cents. It was rare I ever had any any extra money to spare but that day, I did. I could tell your asking was in the sincerest form so that’s why I didn’t hesitate to give you that 75 cents. You thanked me kindly and went on your way. After all these years, I still think about that moment. Why? I was going through a rough time back then and really didn’t know how to communicate with others. I wish I would have said more to you; even given you a little extra $$ that I could have spared. Wherever you were going that day, I hope you got there safe and sound. Wherever are now, I hope this message finds you well. Anytime I think of that moment, I send a prayer up to Heaven and ask God to watch over you and your family.

PREPARED AND PRETTY I saw you at a reception at Bozarth’s Mansion on Saturday, the 22nd. You were wearing a pair of neon sunglasses and provided sunscreen for those who were lucky enough to sit at your table. I couldn’t help but notice how prepared and attentive you were — grabbing drinks for the ladies at your table, making sure they got to where they needed to be safely, snapping photos for everyone. You

should have taken some selfies yourself, handsome! I think you might know where to find me. If you are game — I would love to grab a glass of wine and check out that pretty view, again — and you ;) MYSTERIOUS REDHEAD 15 years ago after a senior fitness class at the gym, I made a pass which you quickly shot down. And I’d still see you once in awhile and my heart would take a little skip. But this evening Friday 7/28, you smiled once and made eye contact four times, once right after picking up an Inlander heading out the door.

Whoa, Nelly! Give me one more smile next time you see me and I’ll take you to dinner.

Friends is OK. From the tall guy too shocked to respond.

LOVING YOUR BOY I doubt you’ll see this — but I saw you, waiting to cross the street at Central & Division by the Rite Aid — Saturday 7/29 @2p. You: handsome black man, wearing a white, flat-billed hat, slouchy jeans (how DO those stay up under your cheeks anyway??). Your boy: looked freckled, with red hair, about 9 or 10. What I saw though, was you messing his hair in a lovingly playful way, then putting your arm around him, then taking his hand to cross the street, then putting yourself in between him and the traffic. All of these actions, I’m sure you didn’t notice you were doing. But I saw them, and I smiled for your boy. Your boy feels them. Keep being a good Daddy (or important man in that boy’s life). Most important job you’ll ever have. Thanks for the smile.

KIDD Ben you have been the most amazing man ever there is not a day that goes by that I dont love you more and more. Thank you for loving me I will love you to the moon and back you are my light house that shines right back. Thank you for always try for your family Love To

YOU SAW ME WALKING THE LAZY RIVER AT SILVERWOOD You told me I needed a tube (7/25/17). I told you it was easier to get around walking. You made the suggestion that I could link up with you if I had a tube.

I was trying my best to keep up with my lil peeps and continued walking. I didn’t mean to be rude or disinterested. Doubt you’ll see this... rare chance you do, tag you’re it.

CHEERS CAMAS CLUB REPRESENTATIVE JACOB We would like to wish you a Happy Birthday (August 6th) and thank you once again for always being so honorable, respectable, courteous, personable, congenial, friendly, positive, enthusiastic, optimistic, etc. There

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blowing their horn at the Moab junction overpass (Trent & Starr)? I have observed this, about once a week, and not once was there an animal or person on or near the tracks. I know the rules, I have researched them. I have contacted a regional PR rep. with limited results. Please get control of your engineer(s).

The renters in Spokane are left without a paddle in a very muddy creek.

are so many words to describe the wonderful person you are that this list would go on and on and on. So those are just a few.

You are one of the kindest people we have ever met. We know it was you that day awhile back who helped a senior with her chair and her card. We saw how pleasant and respectable you were to that senior for we were sitting two chairs down that day. (someone else put those remarks here but without a name so today, we decided to let everyone know it was you who assisted that senior.) You are truly one amazing person.

We hope you have a joyous, wonderful birthday with many more to come. May happiness, joy, peace, success and prosperity be yours always. With all sincerity, P & S. IRISH SEAFARER You are like the ocean tides that change with the phases of the moon. And I have waded out too far with the tides, nearly drowning, as the waves were crashing over me, only to be miraculously saved, as I am washed up to the sea shore, barely alive. But I saw you as a fisherman, who saw me there and picked me up and carried me somewhere warm and comforting, only to awaken to see your face as dream come, after having the most horrible nightmare...

CAMAS CLUB REPRESENTATIVE JACOB...

WE FORGOT TO ADD THIS: We forgot to add something: you are a constant reminder of why we continue to return to Northern Quest time and again. You have so much integrity and are very high spirited. From

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.”

skills, we believe you are one who will go far in life and persevere. We also believe you will definitely have ample opportunity to advance your career. We would miss your genuine smile, charismatic personality and momentous customer service skills at the Camas Club desk if you did advance to another department, but we also know, with all certainty, that you would take with you those same unique skills and qualifications, that make you superb at your job, wherever you went.Have a stupendous birthday, and may you have a MASSIVE win on the prize wheel.

HOUSING STATUS SPOKANE 2017: LANDLORDS CAN DRINK TO THAT! Because Spokane has no official or unofficial watchdog/obudsman for minor infractions of the housing laws/codes; and because SPD and SCSO blatenly refuse to uphold the RCW’s that pertain to housing when the renter is the first contact (i.e. landlord locks renter out by changing locks to unit instead of using the court process for eviction) — the renters in Spokane are left without a paddle in a very muddy creek. I just am pretending (escapism) that I am a landlord and am making a toast with my fellow lords to this fact and to a future full of promise — to our pusuit of happieness!!!

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TRANSITIONS’ GROUND BREAKING CEREMONY Transitions and its partners gather together at a groundbreaking ceremony for The Home Yard Cottages.

The 24 energy-efficient cottages are being built to house individuals and families living below the poverty line, and have on-site support services. Refreshments provided by New Leaf Bakery-Café. RSVP to Transitions at mtracey@help4women. org or call 328-6702. Aug. 8, 11:30 am12:30 pm. Free to the public. help4women.org (328-6702) YAPPY HOUR A happy hour to benefit the Spokane Humane Society, and to recognize its 120th anniversary year. Come for drinks and to see historical photos of the organization, and to hear its accomplishments and future plans. Aug. 10, 4:30-7:30 pm. Free admission. The McGinnity Room, 116 W. Pacific. spokanehumanesociety.org COACHES VS. CANCER This year’s event takes backyard games to a new level at Arbor Crest’s scenic grounds. Wear your game gear and bring your skills to test against local athletes and coaches. Aug. 11, 5:30-10 pm. Arbor Crest Wine Cellars, 4705 N. Fruit Hill Rd. acsspokane. ejoinme.org/SpokaneGameOn

COMEDY

2.0PEN MIC Local comedy night hosted

by Ken McComb. Thursdays, from 8-10 pm. Free. The District Bar, 916 W. First Ave. facebook.com/districtbarspokane/ GUFFAW YOURSELF! Open mic comedy night hosted by Casey Strain; Thursdays at 10 pm. Free. Neato Burrito, 827 W. First Ave. (847-1234) SPOKANE’S FUNNIEST PERSON Twenty comedians compete for more than $1,000 in cash prizes as the audience judges their performance. Aug. 3-5 at 8 pm, also Aug. 5 at 10:30 pm. $10-$16.

Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com EXPEDITION A game-based show with a few BDT twists and turns thrown in for laughs. Fridays at 8 pm, July 7-Aug. 11.

For all ages. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. bluedoortheatre.com NERVE DAMAGE An all-improvised show in which BDT players test their nerves for audience laughs. First Friday of the month, at 10 pm. For mature audiences. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheatre.com 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 Ave. reddragondelivery.com AFTER DARK A mature-rated version of the Blue Door’s monthly, Friday show; on the first and last Saturday of the month, at 10 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheatre.com IGNITE IMPROV TROUPE A performance by the local theater’s in-house comedy improv troupe. Upcoming shows on June 3, July 1, Aug. 5 and Sept. 2, at 7 pm. $5. Ignite! Community Theatre, 10814 E. Broadway Ave. igniteonbroadway.org HEATHER MCDONALD The best-selling comedian, writer and actress has starred in numerous TV programs, has a bestselling book, her own stand-up special and much more. Aug. 6, 8 pm. $22-$30.

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THE SOCIAL HOUR COMEDY SHOWCASE Featuring comics from the Northwest and beyond, and hosted by Deece Casillas. Sundays, from 8-9:30 pm. Free.

The Ridler Piano Bar, 718 W. Riverside Ave. socialhourpod.com (822-7938) COMEDY OPEN MIC Five minutes for anyone who knows at least one joke.

No two drink minimum, but with dollar beers, who cares? Monday nights; signups at 8:30 pm, mic starts at 9. Ages 21+.

Free. Garland Drinkery, 828 W. Garland Ave. facebook.com/drinkerynation/ MONDAY NIGHT COMEDY Hosted by Jared Chastain, with local acts followed by open mic. Mondays at 8 pm. Ages 21+.

Free. Etsi Bravo, 215 E. Main, Pullman. etsibravo.com (715-1037) OPEN MIC A free open mic night every Wednesday, starting at 8 pm. Doors open at 7 pm. Free. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com PIFF THE MAGIC DRAGON With more than 40 million YouTube hits, Piff has performed to hundreds of thousands of fans all over the world, and was a breakout start of “America’s Got Talent” season 10. Aug. 10-11 at 7:30 pm and Aug. 11-12 at 10 pm. $15-$30. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. (318-9998) DRINK N’ DEBATE: A politically​incorrect comedy competition created by SpoKomedy. Teams of funny folks from around the region get pitchers of beer and then debate topics from the historical to hysterical. Aug. 13, 8 pm. $5/$10.

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DISHMAN HILLS CONSERVANCY COMMUNITY PICNIC Enjoy food and drink (non-alcoholic), and learn about the Dishman Hills. The event is free and donations will be accepted. Please register for planning purposes. Aug. 3, 5:30-8 pm. Free. Dishman Hills, 625 S. Sargent Rd. dishmanhills.org/events (999-5100) LAKE COEUR D’ALENE CRUISES The Lake CdA Cruise fleet departs daily from The Coeur d’Alene Resort all summer for scenic tours, holiday specials, late morning brunch and evening sunset dinner cruises. $25/adults; $23/ages 55+; $17/ ages 6-17; free/age 5 and under. The Coeur d’Alene Resort, 115 S. Second. cdacruises.com (208-765-4000) HERITAGE GARDENS TOURS A guided tour of the gardens, restored in 2007 to look as they did when in use in 1915.

Learn about the discovery, the restoration and the two influential families of early Spokane who enjoyed them. Upcoming tours: Aug. 3 (2 pm), 6 (11 am), 10 (2 pm), 13 (11 am), 17 (2 pm) and 31 (5:30 pm). Free. Moore-Turner Heritage Gardens, 507 W. 7th. heritagegardens.org REMEMBER THE WATER PADDLE The Kalispel Tribe hosts this 3-day, 51-mile journey on Lake Pend Oreille and the Pend Oreille River, with members of neighboring tribes and the community. The paddle ends during the Kalispel Tribe’s powwow on Aug. 5. The launch at City Beach in Sandpoint, Aug. 3 at 9 am, is free to watch. Ends in Usk, Wash. kalispeltribe.com (671-7183) BAREFOOT IN THE PARK The community gathering includes a 3-v-3 soccer match, car show, beer garden, live music, food trucks, vendors and more. Aug. 4, 5-10 pm and Aug. 5, 9 am-11 pm. Pavillion Park, 727 N. Molter Rd. (850-0845) DROP IN & ROCK OUT Hang out with

friends and enjoy a variety of games and activities; this evening’s Teen Night agenda is playing the games Rock Band & Guitar Hero. Aug. 4, 7-9 pm. Free. Airway Heights Community Center, 13120 W. 13th Ave. cawh.org (244-4845) FIRST FRIDAY ON FIRST A community block party, with live music by Seeking the Elephant, art by Cherry Street Studios, food, beverages, tours of the newlyrenovated center and more. Aug. 4, 5-9 pm. Free. Montvale Event Center, 1017 W. First. montvalespokane.com KSPS FITKIDS DAY Kids enjoy a morning of active play and can meet Daniel from “Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood,” Fred from “Nature Cat,” and Aqua Duck from the Spokane Aquifer Joint Board. Features activities for every age, including parachute games, gigantic beach balls, banana races, kites, bubbles. Aug. 4, 10 am-noon. Free. Ferris High School, 3020 E. 37th Ave. ksps.org (443-7700) COFFEE TALK: FORGIVING VS. FORGETTING Join SpokaneFAVS and the Spokane Interfaith Council for a discussion on “Forgiving vs Forgetting” with guest panelist Melissa Opel, the Minister Assistant at the Spokane Buddhist Temple. Aug. 5, 10-11:30 am. Free. Saranac Commons, 19 W. Main. (240-1830) SHARING THE DHARMA DAY Compassionate living is the theme for this month’s event. The monthly talks, meditations, and discussions are based on “An Open-Hearted Life,” a book co-written by Venerable Thubten Chodron, Sravasti Abbey founder and abbess. Aug. 6, 9:45 am.

By donation. Sravasti Abbey, 692 Country Lane Rd. sravastiabbey.org (447-5549) FEMFEST COMMITTEE MEETING FemFest is an upcoming juried art show set to highlight feminism in a positive light, hoping to break down the stigma associated with the word and our demand for intersectional equality. Learn more about the project and how you can help. Aug. 7, 7 pm. Free. My Fresh Basket, 1030 W. Summit Pkwy. bit.ly/2tWj3iu BONNER COUNTY FAIR The traditional community fair features a rodeo, ag expos, food, entertainment and more. Aug. 8-12. Bonner County Fairgrounds, 4203 N. Boyer Rd., Sandpoint. bonnercountyfair.com/events (208-263-8414) PULLMAN NONPROFIT SHOWCASE The Pullman Chamber hosts a community showcase with representatives from many regional nonprofits that serve the area, an event held during the Chamber’s August general membership luncheon.

Lunch from noon-1 pm ($12-$15, RSVP required), showcase (free) from 1-2 pm.

Aug. 8. SEL Event Center, Pullman. (3343565) PEACE MEMORIAL FOR NAGASAKI & HIROSHIMA PJALS of Spokane hosts an event to commemorate the estimated 225,000 lives lost in the U.S. bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. It serves to remind us that this kind of mass destruction must never happen again, and that we must seek peaceful ways to resolve international conflicts. Gather at the Convention Center steps in Riverfront Park. Aug. 9, 6 pm. Free. pjals.org PJALS POSTCARD HAPPY HOUR An opportunity for the public to communicate a short message to Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers and Senators Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell. Post cards will then be delivered to these elected officials. Event on the second Thursday of the month, from 4:30-6:30 pm. Saranac Commons, 19 W. Main. (838-7870) PRINCESS PARTY Ariel, Moana, Belle,

Snow White, and Rapunzel, who making a special visit to the gardens to sing, dance, and meet their fans. Aug. 10, 4-7 pm. $5/child. Ritter’s Garden & Gift, 10120 N. Division. 4ritter.com/home (467-5258) MAGICAL TRIVIA NIGHT Fans of Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts, this grownup themed party is for you! During an adults-only trivia night, celebrate all things magical with Butterbeer brewing, crafts, and Potter trivia. Ages 18+. Aug. 11, 6-8 pm. Free. Spokane Valley Library, 12004 E. Main. (893-8400)

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COEUR D’ALENE STREET FAIR The 26th annual summer festival in scenic downtown Coeur d’Alene features more than 250 vendors of fine arts and crafts, food, drink, live music and more. Aug. 4-6; FriSat from 10 am-8 pm, Sun from 10 am-5 pm. Free. Downtown Coeur d’Alene, along Sherman Ave. cdadowntown.com COLVILLE RENDEZVOUS DAYS The 34th annual community festival features live music and entertainment on two stages, food and craft vendors, a baseball tourney, classic car and bike show, and the living history encampment. Aug. 4-6. colvillerendezvous.org HILLYARD FESTIVAL This year’s theme is “Pirates and Other Outlaws.” Events include the Hi-Jinx Parade, live entertainment, fireworks, a beer garden, car parade, vendors and more. Aug. 4-6. Free. hillyardfestival.com KALISPEL TRIBE 42ND POW WOW The tribe’s annual summer pow wow, with a grand entry on Aug. 4, at 7 pm, followed by a fun run on Saturday, buffalo barbecue at 11 am and grand entries at noon and 7 pm, along with the stickgame tourney at 2 pm. Aug. 4-6. At the tribal headquarters in Usk, Wash. kalispeltribe.com SPOKANE SCOTTISH HIGHLAND GAMES The annual event showcases traditional features of Scottish highland games, such as massed bands, pipe band exhibitions, individual piping, heavy athletics and highland dancing. Aug. 5, 9 am-5:30 pm. $5-$10. Spokane County Fair & Expo Center, 404 N. Havana St. spokanehighlandgames.net COTTONWOOD RASPBERRY FESTIVAL The 25th annual event features a pancake breakfast, food vendors, a vintage sale, arts and crafts fair, fun run, live music, kids’ carnival, art and car shows, demos, chapel and museum tours and more. The event benefits the Historical Museum at St. Gertrude. In Cottonwood, Idaho. Aug. 6, 9 am-4 pm. Free. myraspberryfestival.org

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GARLAND SUMMER MOVIES: ANGRY BIRDS Catch the recent animated film based on characters from the popular mobile game. July 31-Aug. 4, at 9:30 am.

Free. Garland Theater, 924 W. Garland Ave. garlandtheater.com HARE KRISHNA! A screening of the new documentary film about the controversial religious movement during the 1960s counterculture era. Aug. 3 at 7 pm. Magic Lantern Theatre, 25 W. Main Ave. magiclanternonmain.com SCREEN ON THE GREEN: A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN The UI Dept. of Student Involvement’s family summer movie series is held on Thursdays at the Theophilus Tower Lawn. Aug. 3, 8:45 pm. Free. University of Idaho, 709 S Deakin St. uidaho. edu (208-885-6111)

Z NATION: BEHIND THE CAMERA During summer 2017, the MAC becomes a working TV studio and a celebration of the dozens of local artists behind the hit Syfy series Z Nation. Visitors can watch scenes being shot for season 4, learn how a TV series is made, and about the local crew members working on the show. The exhibit also features props, costumes and other items used in the show. June 10Sept. 10; open Tue-Sun, 10 am-5 pm. $5$10/admission. The MAC, 2316 W. First Ave. northwestmuseum.org SATURDAY MARKET CARTOONS Join the Kenworthy every Saturday from June through September from 9 am-noon for free classic cartoons on the big screen.

Free. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy.org (208-882-4127) INDIANA JONES & THE TEMPLE OF DOOM Films start at dusk, with a short pre-show fundraiser to help raise donations for local charities. Bring a lawn chair and blankets to set up in the parking lot of the Shop for this annual summer tradition. Aug. 5. Free. The Shop, 924 S. Perry St. theshoponsouthperry.com SWIM & A MOVIE: MOANA Enjoy a twohour swim, grab some grub from the concessions stand, throw down a towel, and enjoy a family-friendly movie played on our huge blow-up screen. At Spokane County’s Northside and Southside Aquatics Centers. Aug. 5, 6 pm. $2.50$5. spokanecounty.org/1657/Swim-anda-Movie (468-5107) CHILDREN’S FILM FESTIVAL SEATTLE The Bing Theater hosts the third annual festival featuring 16 award-winning short films (animated and live action) for kids and the child in all of us. Aug. 6, 2-4:30 pm. $4-$6. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave. friendsofthebing.org SING A mouse, a timid elephant, a pig, a gorilla and a punk-rock porcupine compete in a vocal competition planned as the saving grace of a failing theater. Aug. 7-11, at 9:30 am. Free. Garland Theater, 924 W. Garland. garlandtheater.com MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO A screening of the classic film as part of the Garland’s 2017 summer film series, Aug. 8, 7 pm. $2.50. Garland Theater, 924 W. Garland Ave. garlandtheater.com

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SPOKANE BREWERS FESTIVAL The second annual local beer festival features more than 30 craft breweries from the Inland Northwest; proceeds benefit Feeding Washington. Aug. 4-5; Fri 4-8 pm and Sat 11 am-8 pm. $25/$30. Spokane Arena, 720 W. Mallon. spokanebrewersfestival.com TASTE OF THE COEUR D’ALENES The 30th annual food vendor fair features more than 100 food and craft vendors, live music, a beer garden and free kids activities. Aug. 4-6; Fri-Sat 10 am-8:30 pm and Sun, 10 am-6 pm. Free admission. Coeur d’Alene City Park, 415 W. Mullan Rd. panhandlekiwanis.org VINO WINE TASTING Featuring selections from Vino’s Wine of the Month Club, and the art of Leslie Cooley, on Fri, Aug. 4 from 3-7:30 pm. On Sat. Aug. 5, come for a blind wine tasting from 2-4:30 pm. $10/tasting. Vino!, 222 S. Washington St. vinowine.com WINES FOR HOT AUGUST NIGHTS Find out what to pair with that perfect summer salad as you take your wine knowledge to the next level. Aug. 4, 6-8 pm. $25. My Fresh Basket, 1030 W. Summit Pkwy. myfreshspokane.com

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Valley Councilman Caleb Collier (left) gets a crash course in pot production last year, courtesy of Grow Op Farms owner Rob McKinley.

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in Vancouver, which sold more than $1.4 million in cannabis in June thanks in part to its selection of 1,300 items.

$216,946

That’s how much excise tax TreeHouse Club was responsible for in June. The excise tax is 37 percent of sales, and the state took in more than $28 million in total cannabis excise tax revenue in June alone. Spokane County was responsible for more than $3 million of that.

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BY MIKE BOOKEY he cannabis industry is big business… perhaps even bigger business than you realize. You may have seen a full parking lot at your local marijuana retailer and figured that they must be doing brisk business, and that strong, skunky scent you pick up while driving down the freeway gives you an idea that somebody is growing a hell of a lot of pot somewhere nearby, but you might not know how to quantify all of this. Allow us to give you a hand.

Here’s a rundown of some of the recent data from the Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board to give you some perspective of the cannabis industry in your backyard.

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$6,270,671

That’s the total revenue from marijuana processed in Spokane County in June of this year, making our county the state leader when it comes to processing. Spokane County is also the top producer of cannabis as well, with Snohomish County coming in a close second.

$586,342

The total reported sales from Spokane Valley’s TreeHouse Club in June, which led the county in sales that month. Sativa Sisters came in second with $570,879.

Those are some impressive numbers, but don’t hold a candle to the state’s leading store, Main Street Marijuana

Apparently there’s some good stuff being grown out at Grow Op Farms in Spokane Valley, because they produced weed worth this much in June. That’s the most in the county and second overall in the state.

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We have this many producers and processors in Spokane County, significantly more than King County’s 112.

Thank your local cannabis farmer for giving us some bragging rights over the Westsiders.

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That’s how much cannabis Spokane County retailers sell per person, far and away the most of any county in the state. So pat yourself on the back for that one, too. n

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My otherwise wonderful husband always leaves his wet towel on the bed (on my side!). I’ve asked him to stop doing this countless times, but I don’t think he’s being passive-aggressive or anything. I think he just spaces out after showering. How can I get him to remember? —Soggy It’s good for a man to have goals, though ideally not one that involves growing a fern out of your comforter.

AMY ALKON As you appear to understand, the problem isn’t ill will; it’s “I, Robot.” The first time your husband wondered “Where do I put this wet towel?”

— perhaps at age 10 — his brain said, “Easy peasy…just drop it right there on the bed.”

Sadly, it seems his superhero bedspread didn’t pipe up: “Superman’s got a ton to do today, and flying your wet towel over to the hamper is not on his agenda.”

Our brain is an efficiency expert. Figuring things out the first time around (a la “what should I do with this towel?”) takes a bunch of energy. But, as neuroscientist Donald Hebb pointed out (in somewhat more neuroscientific terms), as you do an action over and over, your brain goes, “Oh, that again.” The trigger for the action — in this case, approaching the bed (while in a towel, ready to get dressed) — becomes automatic. Automatic means there’s no stopping to muse, “Wait! I have a wife now, and she’s threatening to Saran Wrap the bed.” There’s only the old familiar launch code: “Bed!” — cueing “Drop wet towel here!”

This automation thing — with thinking removed from the equation — is the reason nagging or even asking nicely before or after the fact is so often useless in changing behavior. You need to break in to the automatic sequence as it’s in progress (when he gets to the bed), kind of like an air traffic controller coming in over the plane’s intercom — “Attention Southwest two-two-niner…”

Interrupting the trigger sequence allows you to send a yoo-hoo to areas of his prefrontal cortex, the brain’s department of rational thought — asking them to kindly wake the hell up and take over from the basal ganglia and other parts of the brain’s department of automation.

No, I’m not suggesting you stand guard by the bed like one of those decorative architectural lions, waiting for wet towel time. And hiring one of those street-corner sign spinners would probably be both impractical and a little creepy.

To grab your husband’s attention in a positive way, I suggest collecting cartoons (like one of my faves, “Bizarro,” by Dan Piraro) and leaving one marked “Towel alert! xo” on the area of the bed he turns into terrycloth swampland. (Pair it with a batteryoperated flashing light if he ends up dropping his towel on top of it.) The cartoon should break him out of his auto-daze, reminding him to return the wet towel to its ancestral home, Ye Olde Towel Rack. (If there is something missing for the two of you in bed, it probably isn’t mildew.)

FAME FATALE

I’m a novelist who’s suddenly getting successful (after 20 years of crappy jobs and rejected manuscripts). Every day, several people make this annoying and rather insulting comment to me: “Don’t forget about me when you’re famous!” This got me wondering: What keeps some people grounded while others let success go to their head? —Published Of course you’ll stay in touch with your old friends. You’ll have your assistant call them to see whether they’d like to come over and clean out your rain gutters.

The quality that keeps success from turning you into, well, Kanye East is humility.

People confuse humility — being humble — with being humiliated. However, humility is basically a healthy awareness of your limitations — what social psychologist and humility researcher Pelin Kesebir describes as “a down-to-earth perspective of yourself in relation to all other beings.”

That’s something you’re more likely to have when you make it at 40 — after 20 years of working crappy jobs, driving a car held together with duct tape and hope, and selling your blood to buy a tuna melt. Contrast that with hitting it big at 17: “Bro, I was just on my hoverboard at the mall, and some dude handed me a recording contract!”

The cool thing is, social psychologist Elliott Kruse and his colleagues find that you can bolster humility by expressing gratitude — appreciation for how another person has helped you. Expressing gratitude both “inhibits internal focus” and “promotes external focus” — focus on others. This sort of wider view may help you keep any fame you get in perspective. After all, there’s a way to live on in the hearts and minds of many, even after you die, and it’s by creating brilliant, spirit-moving art — or by being a chinchilla videotaped while eating a Dorito. n ©2017, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. • Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405 or email AdviceAmy@aol.com (www.advicegoddess.com)

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EVENTS | CALENDAR SIP OF BEVERLY’S An introductory wine class and tasting event with Beverly’s Sommelier Trevor Treller. First Saturday, at 3 pm. Ages 21+. $25. Beverly’s, 115 S. 2nd. beverlyscda.com POUROVER COFFEE CLASS Join Roast House’s Deborah Di Bernardo to learn the art of the pourover coffee. Aug. 7, 6-7 pm. $20. My Fresh Basket, 1030 W. Summit Pkwy. myfreshspokane.com NINKASI BREWING DINNER A sixcourse dinner by Chef Travis Dickinson, featuring beer pairings from Ninkasi Brewing Co. Aug. 8, 6:30 pm. $65. Clover, 913 E. Sharp. cloverspokane.com FRIED CHICKEN & LOCAL BEER The monthly event from Chef Adam Hegsted features fried chicken paired with beers from a local brewery. Aug. 9, from 6-9 pm. $35. Wandering Table, 1242 W. Summit Pkwy. (443-4410) STIR FRY CLASS Learn how to make stir-fry at home with a skillet and in only a few minutes. Aug. 9, 5:30-7 pm. $30. Second Harvest Food Bank, 1234 E. Front. secondharvestkitchen.org TASTING ON THE TERRACE Meet GSI members and enjoy tastings from Spokane wineries and breweries. Aug. 10, 5-7 pm. $25/$30. Spokane Convention Center, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. spokanecenter.com (279-7000)

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FESTIVAL AT SANDPOINT The 35th year of the concert series features Pink Martini, The B-52s, Jake Owen, The Head and the Heart, Iration, The Wailers, George Thorogood and the Destroyers with White Buffalo and the Spokane Symphony. Aug. 3-13. $6-$84/ concert. Memorial Field, 801 Ontario St. festivalatsandpoint.com SCENIC 6 FIDDLE SHOW The annual community music event and concert, at Potlatch High School. Aug. 5, 6 pm. $5 adults. Potlatch, Idaho. (208-875-0947) THE CHERRY SISTERS REVIVAL This group’s style blends old time traditional folk music, country, a little bluegrass, and more. Aug. 5, 7 pm. $15. Dahmen Barn, 419 N. Park Way. artisanbarn.org A GRAND CELEBRATION The recently restored 1893 Bluthner grand piano that has for the last 27 years occupied the Reception Room of the Washington State Capitol is introduced to the public in Spokane, where it was a part of Spokane’s music scene for more than 50 years. Aug. 6, 3-5 pm. Free. The MAC, 2316 W. First. northwestmuseum.org OPERA ON A SUMMER’S EVE The 3rd annual fundraiser for the JACC, featuring Italian opera and show tunes sung by world-class opera singers. Aug. 7, 7:30 pm. $30-$45. Jacklin Arts & Cultural Center, 405 N. William, Post Falls. thejacklincenter.org CALISTA KAZUKO The London-based singer-songwriter is all about high art, high class, high gloss and high drama.

Aug. 8, 8-10 pm. $10-$15. Holy Names Music Center, 3910 W. Custer Dr. hnmc.org MICHAEL JACKSON HISTORY SHOW Showtime Australia presents this music tribute and full-scale stage production honoring the King of Pop. Aug. 9, 8 pm. $30-$59. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave. bingcrosbytheater.com SPOKANE SYMPHONY: SOIRÉE ON THE EDGE Cool classical music is paired with wines atop the Cliff House grounds of Arbor Crest. Aug. 9 and 23 at 7 pm.

Ages 21+. $30-$75. Arbor Crest Wine Cellars, 4705 N. Fruit Hill Rd. spokanesymphony.org (624-1200)

SPORTS & OUTDOORS

SPOKANE INDIANS VS. EUGENE Five game home series; Aug. 3-7; Thu-Sat and Mon at 6:30 pm, Sun at 3:30 pm. $5-$20. Avista Stadium, 602 N. Havana St. spokaneindiansbaseball.com THE GLOW YOGA EXPERIENCE: SHAMAN DREAMS A night of guided flow yoga inside a glow world of black lights, body paint, enhanced by inspiring visuals, and music designed to draw you into the magic of the moment. Aug. 5, 7-9 pm. $20-$25. Coil Yoga + Bellydance, 304 W. Pacific. (208-557-3211) HOT AUGUST NIGHTS An all-day, outdoor regional wrestling tournament. $30/wrestler, open to all ages. Aug. 5, 9 am. Joe Albi Stadium, Wellesley and Assembly. spokanewrestling.com LONG BRIDGE SWIM Swim 1.76 miles across Lake Pend Oreille in Sandpoint in the 22nd annual open-water event, which helps fund swimming lessons for local children and adults. Aug. 5, 9 am. $25-$30. longbridgeswim.org MIDNIGHT CENTURY RIDE An annual, informal and unsupported 100-mile nighttime bicycle ride on dirt roads through rural areas around Spokane.

Aug. 5, 11:59 pm. Free. Elk Public House, 1931 W. Pacific. midnightcentury.com PADDLE, SPLASH & PLAY The Spokane Canoe & Kayak Club’s annual water expo/demo day for kids and families. Bring a life jacket. Discover Pass required for park entry. Aug. 5, 10 am-2 pm. Free. Riverside State Park Nine Mile Recreation Area, 14925 N. Hedin Rd. sckc.ws/events SPIKE & DIG The two-day, 6-vs-6 coed, outdoor volleyball tournament features 300+ teams from across the Pacific NW. $190-$220/team. Aug. 5-6. Dwight Merkel Sports Complex, 5701 N. Assembly St. spikeanddig.com TOURNAMENT OF THE INLAND EMPIRE The third annual event features traditional medieval games, including a joust, melee, archery, longsword and more. Aug. 5-6. Clayton Fairgrounds. bit.ly/2uwfp2p (509-276-2444) HUCKLEBERRY COLOR FUN RUN Run or walk through the forest and get covered with color at this family event marked for 5K and 2.5K participants.

Aug. 6, 11 am. $32-$45. Schweitzer Mountain Resort, 10,000 Schweitzer Mountain Rd. schweitzer.com CLASS & A GLASS Includes a guided yoga/pilates class with professional local instructors, live music and a glass of wine with a keepsake glass. Aug. 8, 5:30-9 pm. $35. Arbor Crest Wine Cellars, 4705 N. Fruit Hill Rd. (927-8571)

THEATER

CAROUSEL A local production of the Rodgers and Hammerstein story about a carnival worker who falls on hard times.

July 14-Aug. 6; Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $24-$30. Lake City Playhouse, 1320 E. Garden. (208-673-7529) FROM WALLACE WITH LOVE Can Secret Agent Quintuple-O-Seven thwart the deplorable penny-counterfeiting plot of the boisterous Blohard Copperfinger? Aug. 2-27; Wed-Sat at 7 pm,

Sun at 2 pm. $10. Sixth Street Theater, 212 Sixth St. sixthstreetmelodrama.com THE SECRET GARDEN: A MUSICAL The classic of children’s literature is reimagined in musical style. July 21-Aug. 6; Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $20-$38. Central Valley High School, 821 S. Sullivan. svsummertheatre.com MOSCOW COMMUNITY THEATRE: MURDER INN A mystery set in a dilapidated 18th century inn which is supposedly haunted. July 28-Aug. 6; Fri-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $10-$15. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. moscowcommunitytheatre.org (208-882-4127) OPERA CDA GALA Tosca artists perform at a private residence on the river as guests big on auction items and enjoy food during the glow of a summer sunset. Aug. 5, 6 pm. $75. Coeur d’Alene. operacda.com MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET A musical recapturing of the famous recording session between Presley, Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins. Aug 10-27; Wed-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $27$49. Kroc Center, 1765 W. Golf Course Rd. cdasummertheatre.com

VISUAL ARTS

ART ON THE GREEN The 49th annual outdoor fine arts and crafts fair features 190+ regional artists and artisan vendors, live music, performances, a beer/wine garden and more. Aug. 4-6; Friday noon-7 pm, Sat 10 am-7:30 pm, Sun 10 am-5 pm. Free admission. North Idaho College, 1000 W. Garden Ave. artonthegreencda.com FIRST FRIDAY Art galleries and businesses across downtown Spokane and beyond host monthly receptions to showcase new displays of art. Aug. 4, from 5-8 pm. firstfridayspokane.org.

ART ON THE STREET A community artmaking event with local artist Derrick Freeland. Aug. 5, 1-3 pm. Free. Spokane Art School, 809 W. Garland. spokaneartschool.net (325-3001) CARE SO MUCH Contemporary paintings by Montana artist Jade Lowder and ceramics by Moscow artist J Casey Doyle. Through Aug. 27, opening reception Aug. 6, from 1-3 pm. Open ThuSun, 10 am-6 pm. Free. Dahmen Barn, 419 N. Park Way. artisanbarn.org PAPER & PASTE: COLLAGE WORKSHOP BY ART SALVAGE Cut, tear, and paste with upcycled papers to create a collage on a repurposed wood plaque.

Aug. 9, 6-8 pm. $40. Window Dressing Pop Up Shop, 159 S. Lincoln. artsalvagespokane.com

WORDS

SPOKANE POETRY SLAM TEAM SEND OFF & FUNDRAISER Join SPS as they prepare to send this year’s team to the National Poetry Slam. Members of the 2017 team are joined by teams of the past in a showcase and fundraiser to help send the team to Colorado. Aug. 3, 6-8 pm. Donations accepted. The Observatory, 15 S. Howard. (598-8933) READING: AMY SHIVELY HAWK The author reads from “Six Years in the Hanoi Hilton: An Extraordinary Story of Courage and Survival in Vietnam,” the story of her father, a Vietnam prisoner of war who survived six years in captivity. Aug. 9, 7 pm. Free. BookPeople of Moscow, 521 S. Main St. bookpeopleofmoscow.com (208-882-2669) n

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Scenes from the ninth annual KuroNekoCon this past weekend.

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