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hat’s mine is yours. Rarely is that actually true, but with our public parks, it is.

RIVERFRONT PARK belongs to us all, and five years ago, we the voters got together and decided our beloved but neglected park needed some love and attention to the tune of $64 million.

The fruits of that love are now coming into bloom with this week’s grand reopening of the park’s centerpiece, the U.S. Pavilion. To mark the occasion, we’ve put together a 20-page commemorative booklet, with a behind-the-scenes look at how Spokane saved its iconic park. That begins on page 27.

Also this week, in a bit of counterprogramming: While Spokane celebrates its newest downtown attraction, the debate about the direction of downtown in general takes a new turn, driven by a controversial video paid for by a local developer. Find that story on page 20.

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WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE THING ABOUT RIVERFRONT PARK?

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The water features, particularly — I don’t know if it’s got a name — but right when you first walk into the park.

What would you like to see added to the park?

So, they have food vendors here like on Tuesdays, I think. I think they should do that more often.

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I like people watching down here. I like Riverfront Park because you have people from all over Spokane coming down here so it’s kind of like a common place for everyone.

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Well I haven’t really been over there much, but I would [say] the merry-go-round and the skating rink is the best part. It’ll be interesting when it’s all done.

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It’s a beautiful place to walk through.

What would you like to see added to the park in the future?

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What would you like to see added to the park in the future?

I can’t think of anything, I mean, maybe like more rides for little kids. You know how they used to have the rides in the Pavilion — maybe something like that.

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uring the bizarre spectacle of the Republican primary debates in 2016, “braggadocious” Donald Trump crowed about the size of everything from his fortune to his hands.

Who, then, could be surprised by the president’s latest scheme to “Make America Great Again” by buying Greenland? When size matters, adding territory over three times the size of Texas to the United States would quite literally make America greater.

In a world where wind turbines cause cancer and hurricanes can be nuked, it is too easy to dismiss Trump’s Greenland scheme as simply the latest absurdity in a surreal presidency. But buying the autonomous territory from Denmark

would follow the rule, rather than mark an exception, in American history.

As good Pacific Northwesterners, we know that presidents before Trump have struck mammoth real estate deals with foreign countries. Arguably the most famous presidential real estate deal was Thomas Jefferson’s purchase of the Louisiana Territory from Napoleonic France in 1803. For $15 million, Jefferson almost doubled the size of the country, adding territory that stretched from the Mississippi River to parts of the Inland Empire in Idaho.

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Louisiana wasn’t the last example of America’s insatiable hunger for land deals. From Florida to Alaska, the United States would buy almost anything it could lay its hands on. And Americans did not confine their ambitions to the North American mainland. In the 1850s, Southern slaveholders put together a failed attempt to buy Cuba from Spain. Historically speaking, Greenland would fit quite nicely into the United States’ real estate portfolio.

Trump’s whims are notoriously unpredictable, but in casting his envious eyes over Greenland, he shares the same imperial vision as his presidential predecessors. Capitalism, particularly the exploitation of natural resources and mineral wealth, has always underpinned American expansion.

While Trump’s Greenland overture seemed to come from nowhere, it turns out that the president has been kicking this idea around for some time. The United States government might not believe in global warming, but Trump wants to make sure that American corporate interests will monopolize Greenland’s abundant natural and mineral resources as the Arctic ice melts with gathering speed.

President Jefferson also viewed the Louisiana Territory in terms of resource extraction. He dispatched Lewis and Clark on their expedition to the Pacific Northwest with orders to identify resources to exploit. The explorer duo’s records noted the location of salt licks, lead deposits, and other natural and mineral resources. As Lewis and Clark handed peace medals to Native peoples, their expedition paved the way for the destruction of indigenous cultures based on economic reciprocity and their replacement with rapacious LETTERS capitalism, grounded in the Send comments to commodification of nature. editor@inlander.com.

Jefferson, at least, opposed monopoly. While the lands and labor of Native and enslaved peoples could be ruthlessly exploited, he feared that widening economic equality among white men would threaten the survival of the republic.

In Trump’s America, by contrast, crony capitalism is the order of the day. It is hard to imagine what Greenlanders could possibly have to gain from becoming colonial subjects of American corporate interests.

Luckily for the people of Greenland, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen dismissed Trump’s proposal as “absurd.”

Not one to be told no, the president of the United States lashed out at Ms. Frederiksen on Twitter. The leader of the free world postponed his planned state visit to Denmark and insulted the prime minister by calling her words “nasty,” his term of choice for attacking women who stand up to him. Rather than making America look bigger, Trump’s Greenland gambit has once again made the United States seem so very small. n Lawrence B. A. Hatter teaches early American history at Washington State University. He is the award-winning author of Citizens of Convenience: The Imperial Origins of American Nationhood on the U.S.-Canadian Border.

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Q&A DENNIS VERMILLION Almost 35 years after starting with the company, Dennis Vermillion is set to take over as Avista CEO

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ome October, Avista Corp. President Dennis Vermillion will take the helm of the utility as CEO, as current CEO Scott Morris steps down after more than a decade.

Born and raised in the Spokane area, Vermillion started at Avista back in 1985 when the company was still Washington Water Power. In his first 12 years, he quickly learned the ins and outs of managing power resources and risks, as well as negotiating outside power contracts.

He and his colleagues got so good at that Avista created another business to help provide those services to other utilities and companies throughout the West. For several years, Vermillion led that side company, Avista Energy, then returned to Avista in 2007, quickly moving through leadership ranks and becoming president in 2018.

Now, Vermillion says he’s excited to continue investing in a bright future for his hometown.

What we’re doing in the south landing of the U-District, across the bridge, is really, really cool with the Catalyst Building being developed there.

Catalyst is scheduled to be finished by spring, right?

Yep. We’re going to be experimenting with how to optimize building operations and building controls not only within that building itself, but also within a cluster of buildings

“We all know that our world is changing and public policy is changing around how we generate and use electricity.”

INLANDER: What are you looking forward to in your first year as CEO? VERMILLION: Some of the things that are really exciting to me are we all know that our world is changing and public policy is changing around how we generate and use electricity, and we have been leaders for decades in this area.

Being carbon neutral by 2027, that’s exciting, and then 100 percent carbon free by 2045, those are exciting times for us.

I’m excited about the spirit of innovation in our company. We’ve long been proud of the firsts we’ve done.

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with onsite generation and battery storage, solar power and thermal storage.

If we can do that and then optimize that against grid operations, then you can avoid building new utility infrastructure. For example, a substation you might have to build and serve the traditional way, if you can push that investment off 10 or 20 years by going with these “nonwire” solutions, that’s a win.

A proposed merger with Canadian utility Hydro One failed this year. Is a more hostile takeover from another utility an inevitability?

No, not at all. You know, Hydro One, there was certainly some benefits to that that we saw, and it was a very unique opportunity.

I prefer to look forward. It’s water under the bridge. We’re focused on remaining a strong, independent company going forward. n

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COMMENT | FROM READERS

Readers respond to an article in the Inlander about Gov. Jay Inslee’s run for a third term and how state Republicans think the governor could be vulnerable (“Consolation Prize?,” 8/27/19):

Readers respond to an article on Inlander.com about developer Larry Stone’s video “Curing Spokane” (8/29/19):

MATT WOLOHAN: If Inslee wants to get Democratic votes from Northeast Washington, he’s going to have to have a mea culpa moment. His hypocritical stance on the silicon smelter proposal in Newport has soured many liberals up here. A challenger in the primary may be in order if he stands pat on his position.

JORMA KNOWLES: If anything, Inslee is stronger than ever statewide, since he just recently boosted his name recognition and credibility quite a bit. Good luck, Washington GOP. You’re gonna need it.

STEVE WARNER: We will be stuck with this clown for a third term. The idiots in King County will see to that.

XAVIER CASE CORRICK: The same Republicans whining about Inslee remain silent on fascist Matt Shea.

KATHY FLUAITT SCHAAL: I’m waiting for him to denounce his dirty little secret, his Canadian-built and -run coal-burning silicon smelter that will blow all over Sandpoint, Lake Pend Oreille, even Priest Lake.

And the pollution going into Newport from the coal trucks is off the charts. Let’s join the Kalispel Tribe in stopping him. n

KAREN MOBLEY: This is slanted.

Spokane’s downtown is a hub for arts and culture, unique shopping and wonderful events. We’re dealing with the problems of most American cities. Spokane can and will be better. Let’s get together rather than bashing one another.

JOSHUA AARON VANVEEN: What Spokane needs on one end (and these are things that all major cities in Washington state need) is to have affordable housing, expanded mental health care, better drug treatment facilities, and a job placement program similar to Labor Ready for the homeless and anyone else who needs a job. On the other end, we do need some enforcement.

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JEFFERSON COULTER: Compassion = bigger jail? Maybe compassion = more treatment beds for people with mental health and addictions so that they don’t end up on the street again. Wouldn’t that be cheaper, compassionate, and solve the problem?

GENE BRAKE: Just more rich landowners and developers trying to insert themselves into Spokane politics. Follow the money. n

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CRIMINAL JUSTICE

Outsourcing Defense Spokane County is interested in privatizing the Public Defender Office; is that a good idea?

BY JOSH KELETY

Spokane County Commissioners Josh Kerns and Al French argue that hiring a nonprofit to provide legal representation for poor clients will lessen caseloads on defense attorneys and save money at the same time.

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ver the past year, Spokane County Commissioner Josh Kerns, Spokane County Public Defender Tom Krzyminski and other county officials have been hosting conference calls with staff from Snohomish County Public Defender Association — a nonprofit organization that Snohomish County contracts with to represent the most needy defendants — to learn more about its model. Commissioner Al French has also been reaching out to officials in other counties that contract with nonprofit law firms.

“It’s just something that we thought: ‘It’s worth exploring,’” Kerns tells the Inlander. “It’s just kind of one of those innovative ideas and seeing how it could potentially work here.”

Now, county staff are drawing up plans to potentially put out a request for contract bids from nonprofits, according to Kerns.

“This kind of sets in line that that’s the direction that we’re heading,” he says, referring to a coming resolution outlining the county’s intent to put out a request for bids.

“It would essentially just say that our intent is to move forward and examine this process and develop [a request

for proposals] for the process.”

French, on the other hand, is essentially sold on the idea: “I’m pretty comfortable with the idea of moving forward on it,” he tells the Inlander. “I’m not in that frame of mind where I have to be convinced about the concept.”

Union representatives for both the public defenders and their support staff — such as paralegals and investigators — say they feel blindsided: They weren’t informed about the interest in privatizing the office until they heard rumors. They also slam the initiative, arguing that it won’t improve the quality of legal representation for needy defendants.

“They started this process of looking without contacting any of the unions to let them know what they’re doing,” says Joe Kuhn, a staffer with Teamsters Local 690, the union that represents the county’s public defenders.

“I think it’s a mistake on their part to try and essentially freelance this thing out.”

Kerns says that a nonprofit model has the potential to save money for the county as well as improve the quality of service and lessen caseloads on attorneys. This could be done by giving a nonprofit the flexibility to shift

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around attorneys doing private sector work into the public defense realm so “no single attorney is overloaded,” he says.

“By going to a contracted service and working with a nonprofit, we don’t have to be constrained by the caseload restrictions like we are now,” French says. “Within the nonprofit, they have the ability to flex cases much more effectively than we do.”

Additionally both Kerns and French argue that nonprofits have the ability to take in grants, donations and revenue from private case work, meaning that they have additional revenue to spend on these cases.

“As a nonprofit, they would have the ability to go out and collect other streams of revenue that they can’t do today as a county department,” Kerns says.

Kathleen Kyle, the executive director of the Snohomish County Public Defender Association, says that while the nonprofit does contract with other jurisdictions for public defense work, they aren’t bringing in money through grants or other private defense work. “Whitecollar clients are not beating our door down,” she adds. ...continued on next page

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They have about 60 attorneys.

She says that her staff is already working at “maximum” capacity with their public defense work through Snohomish County, leaving no time for any kind of more lucrative cases on the side. And besides, Kyle says, governments shouldn’t rely on the private sector to pay lawyers for needy defendants.

“The funding for public defense comes from the Sixth Amendment and that really is a government function,” she says. “Governments should not be looking for private donations to do what is government work.”

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rench, meanwhile, is bullish about the costsaving prospects of hiring a nonprofit to provide these legal services. He also argues that caseload standards for how many cases public defenders can take on annually — which were set by the Washington state Supreme Court — mandate financial costs on the county by forcing them to hire more staff or risk a backlog of cases.

“Is it a cost factor? You bet,” French says. “Is it imposed on us? You bet.”

Gordon Smith, a representative of the local chapter of the Washington State Council of County and City Employees (WSCCC), the union that represents support staff at the Spokane County Public Defender’s Office, says that the move would be a “bad idea” because the existing staff is experienced and can do the job well.

“I can’t imagine that this could be a cost-saver,” he says. “I would think that a ton of experience and knowledge would be going out the door if such a move were to be made.”

Both Smith and Kuhn say that they plan to demand to bargain over the potential privatization of the office.

Krzyminski, the Spokane County Public Defender, says that while he’s been on the conference calls with Kerns and other local officials to learn about Snohomish County’s model, he still needs to learn more about the concept. But he adds that his office can theoretically meet the county’s public defense needs if it were properly

funded and staffed to both handle heavy caseloads and abide by caseload standards for public defenders set by the state Supreme Court.

“I believe we really have to study [it] and make sure that we understand the consequences of moving in that direction,” he says. “My concern is addressing the needs we have right now which I don’t believe are being met.”

At numerous points last year and this year, Krzyminski has delayed assigning felony cases to his attorneys to adhere to caseload standards that dictate that public defenders take on no more than 150 felony cases annually. He routinely points to the Spokane County Prosecutor’s Office high case-filing rate — combined with inadequate staffing — as the cause. Currently the Spokane County Public Defender’s Office has roughly 60 attorneys, six investigators and eight paralegals.

“We do not have enough attorneys for the cases being filed. I’m not funded to meet those needs,” Krzyminski adds. “We delay assigning.

We’ve been in that mode for a few months.”

Krzyminski held a meeting with his staff last week to address a “recent rumor regarding our office” and fill them in on the county’s interest in privatizing their office. He says that staff were “concerned” about the issue.

He adds that while he’s confident his attorneys can find jobs elsewhere, they stand to lose the county’s level of pay and benefits: “The county historically has had a very good compensation package.”

Kuhn says that the unions have been advocating for increased staffing for years, and that the argument that privatizing public defense could lessen caseloads is “disingenuous.”

“We’ve been fighting with them for additional staff even to the point of investigators and support staff that help them do their job,” he says.

“It’s really just gone on deaf ears.”

In response, Kerns points to recent boosts in spending in the Public Defender’s Office as evidence that they haven’t been ignoring the department, such as funding to keep on two temporary attorneys who were hired last summer.

Broadly, the Public Defender’s Office budget has increased from $8,642,312 in 2017 to $9,418,879 in 2019, according to figures provided by Spokane County spokesman Jared Webley.

But county finances are always tight, Kerns argues.

“With any budget discussion, we’re limited by the funds available and Tom is not the only department that is asking for more employees,” he says. “[Prosecutor] Larry Haskell wants more employees. [Sheriff] Ozzie Knezovich wants more deputies.”

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he interest in privatizing the Public Defender’s Office also comes amidst reports of high turnover in the office and complaints from former staffers that Krzyminski’s personal management style — including alleged instances of him shouting at subordinates — contribute to burnout. But both French and Kerns say that the office’s leadership isn’t driving their effort.

“What I’m talking about is a systematic change to public defense and that’s not driven by personnel as much as a system change that will make the system work better,” French says.

Krzyminski wouldn’t directly comment on the complaints about his management style: “I’m concerned about clients being represented.”

Whether the potential future nonprofit model would be one contractor or a variety that would split the workload is unclear.

Kerns says that he primarily envisioned one single nonprofit entity that would take on all of the county’s work. French, meanwhile, says that he’s open to having numerous organizations compete for the county’s public defense work.

“You’ve already got a number of nonprofit law firms here in town, so it would be nothing for them to take on the public defender caseload and expand their scope of work,” he says.

Other Washington counties have experience with privatized public defense. Prior to 2013, King County contracted with four nonprofits. In 2006, a public defender filed a successful lawsuit against that county, arguing that they were effectively county employees who were treated as contractors; King County has since folded the nonprofits into its Department of Public Defense.

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When asked if he was concerned about the potential for a similar lawsuit that prompted King County to move away from its nonprofit model, Kerns says that he hasn’t considered it thoroughly: “It’s something that will have to be looked at. Not something we’ve discussed yet.”

Lisa Daugaard is the current executive director of the Public Defender Association in Seattle and former deputy director at both the King County Department of Public Defense and the Defender Association, one of the nonprofits that used to contract with King County. She recalls that the competitive model was not effective for ensuring quality legal representation.

“When you have more than one [nonprofit], by definition, you have a hungry neighbor that is all too willing to step up and do the work for a little less or under less appropriate conditions,” she says. “That’s where you get really poor quality bad staffing arrangements because people have out-competed each other to do more for less.”

In some cases, she recalls, nonprofits would accept flat-fee contracts for unlimited caseloads that didn’t include enough compensation for adequate staffing, in part because they were competing for work. This resulted in attorneys having inadequate time to work cases.

“It was a terrible practice and everyone knew it was a terrible practice,” Daugaard says. “So in order to get the business, [nonprofits] agreed to provide, almost by definition, substandard representation.” n joshk@inlander.com

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DARKEST BEFORE THE DAYBREAK The city of Spokane’s proposal to turn a former GROCERY OUTLET into a city-owned homeless shelter has been the recipient of fervent community opposition, particularly from one of the building’s current tenants, the Project ID disability center. Today, the city of Spokane is reconsidering its proposal. In an email sent last week, Community, Housing and Human Services Director Kelly Keenan worried that the city wouldn’t be able to get funding from Spokane County to buy the facility before cold weather hits. Keenan wrote that the city’s preferred alternative is the current Daybreak Youth Services facility at 960 E. Third. (DANIEL WALTERS)

NURSE WINS IN HOSPITAL LAWSUIT A Spokane nurse sued the former owners of DEACONESS hospital for denying a request for time off when she experienced domestic violence and for unlawful termination. On Aug. 23, a Spokane jury sided with her, awarding her a $260,000 judgment against the former owners of Deaconess, Community Health Systems. Of that amount, $160,000 is for back pay, and $100,000 is for the emotional distress Cheryl Hafer suffered. “We’re grateful the jury saw it our way and gave [Hafer] an opportunity to regain some financial traction she lost as a result of this unlawful termination,” says her attorney Patrick Kirby. “What Deaconess did to her … really set her back financially and emotionally.” (WILSON CRISCIONE)

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Browne’s Addition developments like this one, featuring modern designs, have sparked the historic neighborhood to push for a slew of new exterior design standards. DANIEL WALTERS PHOTO

‘Spokane Style’ By trying to preserve its past, has Browne’s Addition constrained its future?

BY DANIEL WALTERS

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n 2018, the Spokane City Council passed an ordinance handing the city’s oldest neighborhood a powerful tool to shape its future.

And last month property owners in Browne’s Addition became the first neighborhood to take advantage of the ordinance, voting to put a historic district overlay onto the Browne’s Addition zoning map. Now, anytime a developer wants to build a new home or put in a major exterior renovation to an old one, they’ll be graded by the city’s Historic Preservation Office and the Landmarks Commission on how well they meet a slew of new design guidelines.

Council President Ben Stuckart, who’s running for mayor, and Councilman Breean Beggs, who’s running for council president, both supported the proposal and celebrated the vote as a victory for neighborhoods.

“Historic Browne’s Addition Saves its Soul!”

Beggs wrote in email to supporters. “The law to help neighborhoods was opposed by the Washington Association of Realtors and their PAC spent well over $100,000 during the primary attempting to defeat council members, like myself, who supported this new option for Spokane neighborhoods.”

Meanwhile, Tom Hormel, chair of the Washington Realtors PAC, says he hasn’t dug into the nitty-gritty of the ordinance, but he does worry that historic preservation districts could have unintended consequences, driving up home prices and constraining the addition of more housing.

“It’s funny when they’re talking about

growth, and then they put out something that limits growth,” Hormel says.

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As the pro-density and pro-environmental group Sightline points out, historic preservation has often been deployed as a weapon against affordable housing complexes and denser developments.

“When historic preservation cuts into home production, the people who pay most dearly are those with the least housing security,” writes Sightline’s Dan Bertolet.

But Rick Biggerstaff, chair of the Browne’s Addition Neighborhood Council, says Browne’s Addition isn’t trying to impede new housing development. It just wants development “that fits the nature of the neighborhood.”

Several recent developments, Biggerstaff says, have used a more modern architectural style that’s clashed with the Browne’s Addition eclectic aesthetic.

But the new Browne’s Addition Historic District Design Standards stretch across more than 70 pages, laying out exhaustive guidelines for how new and renovated developments should match the style of nearby properties.

“Avoid introducing nontraditional stone and brick colors to foundations through parging and painting,” one guideline says, while another pushes certain property owners to research old fire insurance documents to ensure that renovated porches imitate the designs of the old ones.

“It will be a conversation with a developer to

try to come with a compatible design,” says Logan Camporeale with the city’s historic preservation office.

Beggs offers the Bavarian-themed Washington town of Leavenworth as a crude example: You can still build a McDonald’s in Leavenworth, it just has to be done up in a Bavarian style.

“It comes down to style more than substance,” Beggs says. He says the city even offers modest incentives to make certain rehabs possible.

But Hormel argues that aesthetic regulations unavoidably drive up prices.

“When I put in 100 more stipulations into how you have to build the house, that adds to the cost,” Hormel says.

Most property owners in the Browne’s Addition historic district supported it. But one Browne’s Addition developer, Bob Cooke, argues that the restriction could constrain the growth of housing in the neighborhood. He says he knows another developer who had plans to tear down a duplex and put up a larger apartment complex, but abandoned his plans after the historical district was approved.

“Why would a developer go in and throw the dice, knowing that he’s going to have an uphill battle?” Cooke asks.

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For all the concern, however, Hormel says that the ordinance wasn’t a determining factor in the Realtors’ endorsement of Stuckart and Beggs’ opponents.

Those candidates’ views remain a mystery. Beggs’ opponent, Cindy Wendle, portrayed herself in a recent Inlander interview as a candidate who could build consensus between neighbors and developers, yet declined to say whether she would have voted for the historic preservation ordinance.

“I’m not going to answer that. I wasn’t part of that process with Browne’s Addition. I don’t know,” Wendle says. “I do want to recognize that we’re in a housing crisis. I’m not saying I would have voted against it or not.”

Stuckart’s opponent, Nadine Woodward, did not return a call requesting a phone interview last week.

Stuckart, in launching his mayoral campaign, explicitly painted himself as a candidate willing to lead the charge for more dense urban development, even against neighborhoods that fretted about low-income apartment complexes and clashing aesthetics. He criticized citizens who opposed his infill development efforts because they had “steeped roofs” in their neighborhoods and didn’t want “flat roofs” in their community.

Yet the new Browne’s Addition design standards have five full pages of roof guidelines, including commands to “retain historic character of smaller roof elements, including exposed rafters and purlins, braces, cornices, treatment of overhanging eaves.”

Last month, Stuckart and Beggs sent out black and-whitefliers to neighbors in Browne’s Addition bragging about the historic preservation ordinance and their record of protecting local neighborhoods against “development proposals that would create traffic congestion and have negative environmental impacts.”

Stuckart, however, argues that his support for the historic preservation ordinance isn’t a contradiction of his other efforts to increase urban density, like easing height restrictions and parking requirements.

“I think we should be focused on our centers and corridors that we’ve designated,” Stuckart says.

While Browne’s Addition is next door to the downtown core, it’s not technically one of the city’s official “centers and corridors” intended for concentrated growth.

The neighborhood is already one of the densest neighborhoods in the city, and that density has triggered decades of frustration over traffic and on-street parking.

Yet other neighborhoods — like Cliff Cannon and Peaceful Valley, Beggs says — are also interested in using the historic preservation ordinance to create their bevy of design regulations.

“We need more infill housing,” Beggs writes to his supporters, “but we can accomplish it Spokane style without turning over our laws and development to the powers on the west side of the state.” n danielw@inlander.com

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Downtown Dissonance A local developer’s four-step plan to “cure” Spokane is met with mixed reactions

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arlier this year, the Pacific Northwest turned its attention to homelessness and drug addiction on the west side as KOMO TV declared that “Seattle is Dying.”

For some, that hourlong news special bravely presented the true impacts of addiction and crime in the Emerald City, with a rightful call to send addicts to an island for forced treatment. For others, the special crassly demonized the less fortunate and presented unrealistic and questionably legal solutions to substance abuse and associated crime.

It sparked conversations around the region, including in Spokane, where the mayoral race has touched on the city’s efforts to address safety and homelessness downtown.

For Spokane developer Larry Stone, while “Seattle Larry Stone is Dying” perhaps focused too much on the negatives, it did make him realize he could also stand up and say publicly what he’s been hearing in private: Spokane has a problem.

“Lots of great things are happening in Spokane, and if we can solve the crime — and we can — we can continue to do great things,” Stone says. “But if we don’t solve it, it’s going to really hobble us for the future.”

That’s why he decided to spend $100,000 producing a new 17-minute video called “Curing Spokane,” produced by North by Northwest digital studio, which was released on YouTube last Thursday.

Not unlike “Seattle is Dying,” Stone’s video features shots of people in various states of crisis, insisting it is about crime and not homelessness as it highlights people shooting up in public and acting strangely in the street and on sidewalks. Between beautiful overhead shots of downtown and the bustling core, homeless people are shown walking and sitting with their possessions, interspersed with shots of litter, used needles, graffiti and broken windows.

Some statistics cited in the video are inaccurate, including comparisons of jails in Spokane and Boise. Critics also point out that the solutions proposed — including building a new jail and moving the downtown bus plaza — are expensive and don’t address the mental health or addiction issues that likely contribute to the behaviors captured in the video.

In a Facebook post, mayoral candidate and current City Council President Ben Stuckart called the video “embarrassing, inciting and shaming.”

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Developer Larry Stone says downtown Spokane isn’t dying decide the solutions are parking spaces instead of mental health treatment, underground bus stations instead of affordable housing, and a bigger jail instead of programs that get our people out of poverty,” Stuckart writes.

Stone says it was intentional to release the video during the mayoral election, which has seen candidates Stuckart and Nadine Woodward at odds on how to deal with homelessness in the downtown library and other parts of the city core. However, Stone says the video is not meant as a political contribution or endorsement of any kind.

He had originally endorsed Stuckart before Woodward announced her candidacy, giving $970 to Stuckart’s campaign earlier this year. But once Woodward announced, Stone says there were “two viable candidates” and he decided to go neutral. He says he’s donated the same amount to both candidates, though no contribution to Woodward had yet been filed with the Public Disclosure Commission as of Tuesday.

Woodward thanked Stone on Facebook for going to “great lengths and personal cost to document the serious problems facing our city.”

“Thank you, Larry, for recognizing the need for a stronger, more visible police presence, with officers on foot patrol in the city’s core enforcing our laws,” Woodward writes. “This is my number 1 priority.”

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hroughout the video, residents and visitors to downtown describe their discomfort, and business owners outline issues they’ve had with vandalism and theft, before the video pivots to proposed solutions, pointing to Boise as a model.

The two cities are nearly identical by both population and ethnic makeup, the video points out, but according to 2017 crime statistics, Boise has significantly lower rates of property crime and far fewer people counted as homeless in their once-per-year count.

While it notes overdose issues in the two cities are also nearly identical, the video doesn’t mention that Spokane’s poverty rate is higher or that Boise’s median income and rental vacancy rates are slightly better.

Still, the video makes the case that Spokane’s elected officials should look to Boise for four solutions, namely: 1. build a new, bigger jail; 2. have police enforce misdemeanors and all crimes and generally be more proactive on foot or bicycle; 3. sell the STA Plaza and move the bus station underground and; 4. solve perceived parking problems by offering some free time in garages and onstreet stalls and standardizing rates.

The video claims that Spokane has less capacity for inmates than Boise, though news reports show Boise has had its own struggles with jail capacity, with commis-

sioners in Ada County earlier this summer approving funds to design an expansion.

Stone’s not alone, however, in arguing that Spokane’s jail is too small for the county’s needs.

Downtown Spokane Partnership (DSP) President Mark Richard says he knows well from his previous work as a county commissioner and in his current role on an advisory committee for the jail that there is a real need for expanded space — arguing instead that it’s sick with crime. both for jail beds and treatment options.

“We are constantly running up against this. I mean daily, an incident occurs, somebody’s arrested, and I’m not exaggerating, within an hour to two hours, the individual that’s been arrested, if it’s not a serious felony crime, they’re back on the street,” Richard says. “It is demoralizing for our law enforcement and frustrating for the folks that are victims. And I think finally, it’s not creating any sense of responsibility.”

While Stone serves on DSP’s board, he produced the video independently of the partnership.

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he video and its website, curingspokane.com, argue generally that the STA Plaza has been a complete failure in its current configuration, and it receives more police calls than anywhere in town. The video calls to sell the building and move the transit station underground, with a focus on simply moving people through, not offering a place for them to hang out.

The Inlander reported earlier this summer that while the plaza does in fact show hundreds of calls for service, many of those are check-ins by the police officer stationed there, who also receives reports of incidents happening in surrounding areas. While more than 600 calls for service had been made at the plaza as of early July, STA’s figures showed only 99 actual incidents and 54 that resulted in arrests or citations.

While the video’s website claims STA spent $8 million on the plaza in the last year alone, STA spokesman Brandon Rapez-Betty says that’s not true: in 2018 the operating and capital costs there were $1.95 million and the same cost year-to-date has been $1.05 million.

“The concerns expressed in the video are rooted in care for our city and a desire to be a part of a collaborative discussion — we at STA are fully aligned in that sentiment,” Rapez-Betty says in an email. “Practically speaking, however, the transit proposal misses the mark.

It’s not as simple as doing what Boise did. Spokane faces its own unique urban issues and the comparison is unproductive.”

As for how parking ties into all this, the idea is that making parking easier will increase the number of visitors and sales tax revenue and dilute “the vagrant element.”

While Stone says he doesn’t personally believe there’s a lack of parking, addressing that perception is key to getting more people to come visit the downtown he loves.

Despite highlighting the issues that exist, “Curing Spokane” wasn’t meant to paint downtown as a scary place, Stone explains, but to be a conversation starter.

“Downtown certainly isn’t terrifying. We’ve got problems and we need to work on them, but please do come downtown,” Stone says. n samanthaw@inlander.com

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he idea was inspired by a lucky find in rural Spokane County, and by the internet.

Spokane photographer Rachel Fellows was scouring a Greenacres flea market when she came across a black sequined dress for $10.

“A big purchase,” the 33-year-old Fellows jokes. “It is like a photographer’s dream, because it’s super sparkly. Any lights you put on it, it’s like a black disco ball.”

For four months the dress hung in Fellows’ living room while she considered what to do with it. Then she recalled a project she saw on art website Bored Panda in which various photographers took a wedding dress and did individual sessions with it, sharing the results with each other only after all the photo shoots were done. What if, she thought, a bunch of Spokane photographers did something similar? Fellows went to the Spokane Photographers’ Facebook page to see if there was interest.

“I posted it online as, like, a line in the water,” Fellows says. “I said, ‘Is this a silly project? What do you guys think?’

And it just hit [some] people right off the bat, like, ‘Yes, we want to do it!’”

From there Fellows set the parameters of what would become the #samedressspokane project. Ultimately eight photographers, including Fellows, each got one week with the dress. Joining her were Lynne Morris, Tabor Cote, Make Laverdure, Mallorie LeeAnn, Paul Brousseau, Tom Tyson and Mike Wolfgram.

The photographers could pick any setting and use any models they wanted. The only rule, Fellows says, was that they couldn’t damage or permanently alter the dress.

“I’ve had many people say, ‘Can I roll around in the sand? Can I jump in the lake?’” Fellows says. “I keep saying yes. As long as it doesn’t damage or alter it, you can go skydiving.” ...continued on next page

Ali James models the black sparkly dress that inspired #samedressspokane.

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FROM LEFT: Works by photographers Lynne Morris, Mike Laverdure, Tabor Cote and Tom Tyson from #samedressspokane

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The photographers have been doing shoots throughout July and August, and have been keeping a strict “vow of silence,” visually speaking — they haven’t shared any images with each other or posted any to their various social media outlets.

At noon on Thursday, Sept. 5, they’ll reveal their photos to the world, and each other, via their respective Instagram accounts (see accompanying list), and tagging all their photos for the project with the #samedressspokane hashtag. The photos accompanying this article are the first time anyone (besides the photographers viewing their own pictures) has seen any results from the #samedressspokane project.

The diversity of the photographers’ styles come through in their photos. Fellows, who says she typically is a “fantasy kind of photographer,” knew exactly what she wanted to do with the black dress. She made a headpiece with “kind of an art deco black lace,” and took her yellow-haired model Ali James to the corner of First and Post in downtown Spokane, where there’s a wall Fellows knew she wanted in her shots.

“I love creativity in all forms, so it’s really cool to see other people’s creative spirit,” Fellows says. “I knew the exact spot [I wanted to shoot]. But, like, Tabor [Cote] saw the dress

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At noon on Thursday, Sept. 5, eight local photographers will reveal their images using the same black dress in different settings and scenarios. Search for #samedressspokane on Instagram, or visit the photographers’ respective Instagram pages directly: Rachel Fellows @glorybephotographyspokane (model Ali James) Lynne Morris @lynnejeanettephoto (model Areana Dechand) Mallorie LeeAnn @m.l.a.photography (model Ashley Flint) Mike Laverdure @lavs49 (model Selene Shores) Paul Brousseau @paul_brousseau (model Mikayla McCoy) Tabor Cote @tabor_cote (model Selene Shores) Mike Wolfgram @mdwolfgram (model Areana Dechand) Tom Tyson @phe_tom_enon (models Lauren Fleury, Hailie Noelle)

and he thought it needed a giant snake.”

Mallorie LeeAnn, one of the photographers involved, embraced the chance to collaborate with a group of photographers she considers more experimental than herself. She mostly shoots weddings, couples and lifestyle photos for commercial work.

“I don’t do many fashion-type shoots,” LeeAnn says. “I try to do more of the average, everyday stuff that everybody can love.”

Even so, when she got the chance to participate in #samedressspokane, LeeAnn’s first inclination was to do something “unusual” with the dress and her 5-year-old daughter. Ultimately, though, she decided to do something more “on-brand” and photograph a couple in a woodsy area.

Whether #samedressspokane is just a one-off summer project or becomes an annual event, Fellows likes the fact this sparkly black dress inspired her to reach out and team up with some people whose work she admires, even if they didn’t know each other well beforehand.

“I’m really liking connecting to other photographers,” Fellows says. “We’ve met each other at different photo shoots or meetups, but never worked together like this.” n

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Now that you’re unemployed, here are five killer series you missed this summer. But, since they’re new and mostly only available on pay platforms, you might want to pick up a part-time gig. Hey, I don’t make the rules of capitalism.

ON BECOMING A GOD IN CENTRAL FLORIDA (Season 1 on Showtime) Kirsten Dunst’s wild and weird film career has always been leading up to a dark Showtime dramedy, and ’90s-set On Becoming a God in Central Florida doesn’t disappoint. Orlando everywoman Krystal (Dunst) is out to infiltrate and destroy the multilevel marketing company that screwed her over, and Dunst seethes rage and determination — hilariously, somehow.

THE BUZZ BIN THE RIGHTEOUS GEMSTONES (Season 1 on HBO Now) Following up Eastbound & Down and Vice Principals, Danny McBride’s latest HBO series takes on the easiest comedy target of all: televangelist megachurches. The Gemstone siblings (McBride, Edi Patterson and Adam Devine) live in the larger-than-life shadow of their famous father (John Goodman); they’re also complete idiots. God loves this show (he told me).

THIS WEEK’S PLAYLIST Some noteworthy new music arrives online and in stores Sept. 6. To wit: BAT FOR LASHES, Lost Girls. British-Pakistani art-pop ace Natasha Khan returns after three years.

CHRISSIE HYNDE, Valve Bone Woe. The Pretenders leader goes jazz-y on covers of the Beach Boys, Nick Drake, John Coltrane and more. A stretch, but Hynde is always worth a listen.

THE HIGHWOMEN, The Highwomen. Country supergroup includes Brandi Carlile, Amanda Shires, Maren Morris and Natalie Hemby. Early indications of awesomeness.

IGGY POP, Free. The punk legend chills out with just trumpet and guitar on the title track of his jazzy, ambient new set. Don’t expect much “Lust For Life” Iggy here.

MILES DAVIS, Rubberband. Let’s stick with the jazz theme; this unreleased 1985 album was completed by its original producers, along with Davis’s nephew. (DAN NAILEN)

COZY QUARTERS Riverside State Park recently unveiled two new deluxe cabins at the Bowl and Pitcher’s lower campground. With views of the Spokane River, ADA access, heat, bathrooms, a kitchen, running water and enough space to sleep five guests, the two cabins are open year-round. Reservations can be made for a two-night minimum stay online at washington.goingtocamp.com. The cost per night is $125 during peak season May 15-Sept. 15, and $99 the rest of the year. (CHEY SCOTT)

A POET AND YOU KNOW IT? Consider this a friendly reminder to get your verse-penning booty in gear if you’re interested in being the next Spokane poet laureate. Mark Anderson’s term concludes at the end of October, and the new PL will be named at the Spokane Arts Awards at the end of this month. Deadline for applying is Friday, Sept. 13, for the next two-year term, so get thee (or thee’s friends) to spokanearts.org to apply.

(DAN NAILEN)

THE BOYS (Season 1 on Prime Video) Superheroes are managed, marketed and monetized by a megalomaniacal corporation — no, I’m not talking about Marvel/Disney. Not in this case, anyway: The Boys paints a dark world where “supes” are power-mad assholes indifferent to collateral damage, and the “Boys” (led by a deliciously profane Karl Urban) are going to end them. Rated MV for Mothereffing Violent.

SHERMAN’S SHOWCASE (Season 1 on IFC) Like Spinal Tap meets Soul Train, Sherman’s Showcase is a parody retrospective about the greatest 40-year musical-variety TV series that never existed. Host Sherman (creator Bashir Salahuddin) doesn’t care for white people, political correctness, or ever removing his shades indoors, and the musical guests (including a perfect Prince ringer, Charade) throw down.

INVADER ZIM: ENTER THE FLORPUS (Movie on Netflix) Invader Zim, a 2001-02 cartoon about a diminutive alien hell bent on enslaving the earth, remains one of the most bizarre and beloved series Nickelodeon ever produced. Even more unlikely than Zim airing in the first place was a revival, but here we are — obey the fist!

Enter the Florpus delivers dementedly, and the last 15 minutes are the best drugs you’ll take all year. n

SPAWN HITS THREE-HUNDO Sometimes I wonder how closely my parents paid attention to the comic books I read growing up.

I can’t say what became of my stash of Spawn comics, but I can recall reading through the anti-hero’s gritty tales of disturbing violence like they were memories with an old friend. This week, Spawn marks its 300th issue, and after engrossing myself in the cover variations, I realize now might be a good time for a reunion. (QUINN WELSCH)

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CULTURE | VISUAL ARTS

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Artist Sheila Evans and her sources of inspiration.

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Making a New Life After devastating personal loss, artist Sheila Evans finds solace, inspiration and healing through rescue animals

BY CARRIE SCOZZARO

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heila Evans has always liked animals, but after the unexpected and devastating loss of two very important people in her life, she discovered a newfound appreciation for them, particularly the menagerie housed at Spokane’s River’s Wish Animal Sanctuary. In Sanctorium, her upcoming exhibition at Kolva-Sullivan, Evans is paying back the kindness, not just to the animals, but also to their caregivers in the best way she knows how: through art. “[Evans] has been participating in our annual Art For the Animals: A Starry Night Celebration at River’s Wish for many years,” says Kit Jagoda, who co-founded the organization with husband Pete Jagoda in 1994. “She donates a piece and it is always in the live auction. She is such a compassionate and gifted person. We feel very fortunate to have Sheila’s support for the animals.”

For Sanctorium, however, Evans is doing more: 40 images, all of them sanctuary animals Evans photographed over several months. They’re mostly 8x8-inches or 12x12-inches, with a few larger, all close-ups with a solid or graduated color background.

“I wanted to portray them the way we portray people, showing the individuality, personality and emotion in their faces,” Ev-

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ans says. “I want people to see them as the unique, feeling beings that they are, and to hopefully connect with them as I have.”

There’s Barney, for example, a silkie bantam rooster, who along with his brother Fred are casualties of the trend towards backyard chickens (but not roosters).

Precious the sheep was brutalized in her youth, says Evans, yet is calm and sweet.

“She sits very still, turns her head to different angles, always looks at the camera, and seems to gravitate toward flattering light,” she says.

Tucker is a rare success story. A stately Belgian horse, Tucker was born at the sanctuary. His mother was rescued from being a PMU (pregnant mare’s urine) mare, which “are kept tightly confined and constantly pregnant, with minimal water, so they produce concentrated urine for the production of Premarin and Prempro, estrogenreplacement drugs,” says Evans. The foals are typically slaughtered but Tucker, having never known abuse, is a gentle giant.

Although the number fluctuates, the sanctuary typically houses around 125 animals: cows, horses, pigs, goats, sheep, rabbits, assorted birds, and even a few dogs and cats.

e are all broken in different ways, and trying to heal and make a new life,” says Evans, who was happily preparing for a coveted exhibition spot at the Art Spirit Gallery with her new work in enamels when life took a turn.

It was late summer of 2017, and Evans and her husband of 17 years, Paul Edminster, were at a good place, she says.

Iron Goat Brewery, the business she and Edminster had started with another couple in 2012, was doing well. His kids were grown and the couple was looking forward to travel, perhaps relocation nearer the ocean.

Instead, they ended up in the emergency room where Edminster, complaining of stomach pain, was diagnosed with stage four colon cancer. He suffered greatly, his family along with him, and died barely two months later.

“I somehow managed to keep breathing while my parents and friends looked after me for the weeks and months that followed,” says Evans, who kept working — in the studio and the brewery — as a way of dealing with her loss.

Then, the second shoe dropped. Her mother called because, after shoveling snow and her daily workout, she couldn’t see clearly. While at the emergency room, says Evans, her mother lost consciousness after an apparent stroke, and died within 48 hours.

“Widowhood takes your energy, your will to live, your interest in pretty much anything,” says Evans, describing both herself and her newly widowed father.

“The best you can do is try to keep moving and hopefully, eventually, find some reason to live.”

That she did, slowly, nudged by friends like Rick Garcia, a fellow artist whom Evans is dating, who set up a studio space for her in her house. Evans did a few still lifes, got bored with them, and returned to a favorite subject: animals.

“I started with a tiny painting of my pet chicken, Flo,” says Evans. “I was hooked, and painted my cats, and any animal I could find of whom I had photos.”

Familiar with Kolva-Sullivan Gallery, she proposed an exhibition, knowing she’d donate a portion of the proceeds to the place that facilitates healing for two and four-legged creatures alike.

“For years River’s Wish has been my charity of choice, as I am horrified at the treatment animals receive at our collective hands,” Evans says. “It has been healing to spend time there and with Kit and Pete Jagoda, the two artists and teachers who run River’s Wish. They are two of the most selfless and hard-working people I have met. They inspired me to find something to do that was bigger than myself.” n Sheila Evans: Sanctorium • Sept. 6-27 • Opening reception Sept. 6, 5-8 pm • Free • Kolva-Sullivan Gallery • 115 S. Adams St., #A • kolva.comcastbiz.net • 458-5517

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A behind-the-scenes look at the six-year saga of saving Riverfront Park PAGE 31

How cities like Spokane reuse the leftovers of a World’s Fair PAGE 35

The project wasn’t without its hurdles — or controversies PAGE 41

Exploring the Looff Carrousel’s new home, opened in May of 2018 PAGE 38

Digging into the Pavilion’s $22.6-million makeover PAGE 32

The Pavilion reopens with a bang this weekend PAGE 38

‘THE JOURNEY MATTERS’ How the Howard Street Promenade connects north and south PAGE 34

PHOTOGRAPHER: Young Kwak ART DIRECTOR: Derek Harrison EDITOR: Jacob H. Fries

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New sunshine-yellow signs greet you at either end of the Howard Street Promenade. You could even say the Harold Balazs Rotary Fountain transcends your entrance into Riverfront Spokane.

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The Numerica SkyRide also got a technical update as part of the bond project.

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As the reimagined World’s Fair Pavilion opens this week, here’s a look back on the six-year saga of saving Riverfront Park

BY TED S. McGREGOR JR.

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bout 11 years ago exactly, another Pig Out in the Park had me thinking about Riverfront Park. Ever since Bill Youngs published The Fair and the Falls in 1996, I had this nagging feeling that Spokane wasn’t quite doing right by the legacy of Expo ’74.

So of course I wrote a column about it, riffing on the PBS show where Norm and Tommy save old American homes from ruin. “This Old Park” appeared in the Inlander on Aug. 28, 2008.

“With a bursting belly, you’ll need to walk off the calories,” I advised all those about to Pig Out, “so this year, take a tour of the park, the hidden corners and forgotten nooks. It’s a spectacular place, and Spokane is lucky to have it. But too often, Riverfront Park is taken for granted.

“Fixing up this old park could be the R’S E ID S most important thing we could do to keep IN AN IVE Spokane on the upswing,” I concluded, PERSPECT “yet we simply don’t.”

Fast-forward to February of 2013. Mayor David Condon dropped by Inlander HQ to tell me he was ready to mobilize the City of Spokane to fix up our old park. He asked me to chair the Citizens Advisory Committee that would create a plan Spokane could vote on and that the city and its parks department could put into action.

Finally it was time to stop complaining and start doing something about Riverfront Park.

A YEAR OF PLANNING

The land around the Spokane River Falls is the soul of our city — in fact, it’s the soul of this place going back to well before American settlers ever came here. Riverfront Park, since the time it was the Expo ’74 fairgrounds, has also become our living room — the place where we hang out with each other, have fun and live as brothers and sisters of Spokane. Everybody has a stake in what it should be, and the advisory committee needed to reflect a wide swath of public opinion.

With input from Spokane Parks, the Office of the Mayor and the City Council, we recruited 22 men and women representing different sectors of the city to come up with a batch of improvements to push Riverfront Park into the 21st century. Starting in May 2013, we met for nearly a year, and we presented our final report to the Spokane Park Board in April of 2014. ...continued on page 34

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

When Inlander Publisher Ted S. McGregor Jr. was 9, his parents took him to opening day of Expo ’74 on May 4, 1974. He asked if they brought in the river just for the World’s Fair. Starting in 2013, he served as chairman of the citizens advisory committee that created the Riverfront Park redevelopment plan funded by voters in 2014.

Today he is a volunteer member of the Spokane Park Board.

Here’s what the Pavilion looked like when it was brand new, with three Spokane kids posing on Expo ’74’s opening day. Left to right: Ted, Piper and Jer McGregor.

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PAVILION GROUNDS

By emptying out the Pavilion, a huge open space has been created. Many tons of fill were brought in to create a natural amphitheater with lawns and walkways along the eastern half.

This circa 2014 Google Earth image shows what it used to look like, with the IMAX, the Ice Palace roof, the old Spokane Story structure and a concession stand.

At the western edge, geometric panels have been installed to create shade during the summer sun. With a 22,000-square-foot floor and a 37,000-square-foot amphitheater, the Pavilion is equipped to host all kinds of events.

THE ELEVATED EXPERIENCE Also new to the Pavilion is the “elevated experience,� a pathway that takes you 40 feet up into the Pavilion. The entire experience is accessible to ADA standards.

Look to the south and you see downtown and the Clock Tower.

Look to the north and you see the Spokane River, the Arena and beyond. In fact, from the overlook, you get a near-360-degree view of the city.

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HOWARD STREET PROMENADE

Did you ever feel lost in Riverfront Park? A central goal of the renovation was to connect the north and south sides of the city better via the Howard Street Promenade, which opened in June. Now you can see the Looff Carrousel from the middle of the park.

If it feels like you’re walking through pick-up sticks, you’re not far off. “The word ‘promenade’ has more meaning that just a connection,” says Guy Michaelson, principal at the Berger Partnership, the urban designers behind the promenade. “This is a place filled with people. It’s not about taking a direct line; the journey matters.”

New lighting aims to keep the park safer through the night.

“THIS NEW PARK,” CONTINUED...

Our stated goal? “To create an innovative, refreshing, transformed park that can take its place among the best in the world.”

We also agreed on nine values that drove the details of our plan: Help Riverfront Park function as a gathering place; make it a place to showcase the excellence of our community; make it an economic generator; improve accessibility; optimize safety; create a balance of uses; preserve and promote affordability; protect and highlight natural resources; and, finally, add more “Wow!” The Park Board endorsed our report, along with our recommendations on where to spend the money. The $64 million bond request was put before voters in November of 2014, and it passed with nearly two-thirds of the vote.

Spokane was officially not taking Riverfront Park for granted any more.

KEY PROJECTS

Going from plan to reality, as anyone who has done a home improvement project can tell you, is no straight line. To help defend the vision the team developed and the citizens endorsed, I joined the Park Board in May of 2015.

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A big early decision was to break the projects into pieces, rather than hiring one builder and one architect to do all the work across the park. This made it more complex, but it also allowed us to bring in the right people for the various jobs. For example, we would never have thought of an ice skating ribbon if the firm we selected, Stantec, hadn’t recommended it. We just wanted to move skating to the southwest corner of the park; instead we have something unique on the entire West Coast.

Another big project was a new home for the Looff Carrousel, which since 1978 had lived in a tiny old waffle house left over from the World’s Fair. With its illuminated interior dome and enough space to showcase the hand-carved 1909 Charles Looff Carrousel, it’s finally a proper home for so precious a treasure.

The grounds throughout the park received an overhaul, including the new Howard Street Promenade that connects north and south, from the Expo Butterfly to the Rotary Fountain, along a clear, well-lit path. And now there are power outlets peppered across the park to serve the events we enjoy throughout the year. ...continued on page 38

CAMPAIGN FOR RIVERFRONT SPOKANE If you’d like to help fund the remaining, privately funded projects inside Riverfront Spokane, or just support programming and maintenance, check out the Spokane Parks Foundation’s Campaign for Riverfront Spokane. Your gift can be memorialized around the park, from etched pavers to even adopting a Looff Carrousel animal. To learn more, visit spokaneparksfoundation.org/ riverfront-spokane-campaign.

PHOTO CREDIT: JAMES RICHMAN

WORLD’S FAIR LEFTOVERS BETWEEN 1962-84, THE UNITED STATES HOSTED SIX WORLD’S FAIRS, including Spokane’s in 1974. Each one left behind buildings that future generations had to weave into the fabric of their cities.

In 1962, Seattle was the first American city since New York in 1939 to host a World’s Fair. And they set the pace, architecture-wise, with the Space Needle, which has become one of America’s most recognizable structures. Surrounded by the Seattle Center grounds, in 2018 the Space Needle reopened after a $100 million renovation.

The Unisphere remains a New York landmark — plus it was in Men in Black.

In 1964, the New York World’s Fair left behind the New York Pavilion (similar to Spokane’s United States Pavilion for its cable-net structure) and the Unisphere, which have since been folded into the grounds of the Queens Museum at Flushing Meadows Park. While the structures have remained puzzles as far as best uses, the Unisphere especially has thrived as a backdrop for movies like Men in Black, Iron Man 2 and Tomorrowland.

The Tower of the Americas was built for the 1968 Hemisfair in San Antonio and continues to be used as a restaurant, observation deck and really big FM radio antennae.

In Spokane, the United States Pavilion, with no street access, has always been a tricky prospect, having housed a restaurant, a Disney-like interactive experience called “The Spokane Story,” ice skating, amusement rides and even an IMAX theater, all to uneven results.

Designed by Bill Bain Jr. of the renowned Seattle architecture firm NBBJ and evocative of a Native American dwelling, our Pavilion remains among the largest cable net structures in the world. (Bain just passed away in June.)

Reopening this week after a $22.6 million renovation, the Pavilion has been reimagined as an events space, with one-of-a-kind LED lighting to create a lantern effect, along with a new raised platform to offer expansive views.

In 1974, the federal government was a partner and paid for Spokane’s Pavilion; subsequent World’s Fairs struggled to gain similar federal support.

In 1982, Knoxville, Tennessee, aimed to duplicate Spokane’s World’s Fair success. They still have the Sunsphere as a reminder.

While the 1982 Knoxville World’s Fair had strong attendance, the City of Knoxville was left with a $46 million tab after its run. The Tennessee city still enjoys the Sunsphere as a local icon and observation tower.

In 1984, New Orleans hosted what would be the last World’s Fair on American soil. With EPCOT opening in Florida and the Olympics in Los Angeles that same year, it declared bankruptcy mid-run, leaving behind the Morial Convention Center but no signature architectural legacy.

— TED S. McGREGOR JR.

SPOKANE’S BIGGEST JACKPOT THIS SIDE OF OUR CASINO. The Kalispel Tribe and Northern Quest are proud to congratulate Spokane on the grand reopening of the Riverfront Park Pavilion. Restoring this community treasure brings even more exciting energy to our vibrant downtown scene and is truly a big win for everyone in this great city.

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of the City, Riverfront Park shines again!

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LOOFF CARROUSEL

The second project to reopen as part of the 2014 Riverfront Park Bond Project, the new Looff Carrousel looks out on the Spokane River and park.

Designed by NAC Architecture and built by Walker Construction.

The new Looff veranda has one of the best views in the park.

As generations before have, Spokane kids are enjoying the Carrousel animals as carved by Charles Looff back in 1909. The Carrousel opened in its new $7-million home in May of 2018.

“THIS NEW PARK,” CONTINUED...

PUZZLING CENTERPIECE

And of course there’s the Pavilion, fully renovated and opening to the public this week. Figuring out what to do with that immense structure has been a riddle ever since the World’s Fair closed. The general consensus among planners was to make it a place that could be flexible enough to enjoy as an event space filled with people, or to spend a quiet afternoon with your family near the Spokane River. Inspired by the Bay Bridge lights in San Francisco, the committee hoped illuminating the cable-net structure would provide that “wow” factor we all wanted.

The first thing you’ll notice about the new Pavilion is how huge it is in there — 60,000 square feet, with an event floor and a natural, mostly grass amphitheater. With no IMAX, no looming roof from the old skating rink, it’s become a wide-open space in the middle of the city, all under the mesmerizing geometry of that cable-net structure. Engineers advised against hanging a heavy fabric roof on the structure, but shade was added via distinctive panels that will protect the floor during the hottest parts of the summer. The entire facility is a fully functioning event space as well, with seating for 4,000 and all the power your favorite band will need to plug into.

Again, the design team carried us to the finish line, as NAC Architecture and Garco Construction brought the “wow” by envisioning an elevated walkway within the pavilion to create new views of the river and beyond. Along with Spokane’s Power City Electric and GVA Lighting of Ontario, they also conjured a spectacular LED “light-blade” system that is the first of its kind anywhere. Made up of 479 individual blades that can each be controlled separately, the system creates one-of-a-kind light shows — or just glows softly like a civic lantern to connect us all.

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Still to come as the bond project wraps up next year will be the North Bank projects — an Ice Age Floods-inspired playground, a wheels park for skateboarders and scooters, new Hoopfest courts and parking, all set to open a year from now.

Finally there will be improvements to the West Havermale area, including a playground funded not by the bond, but by Providence Health Care and designed to be inclusive of all kids — especially kids with challenges for whom the usual playgrounds often don’t work. The inclusive playground, to be designed with the help of the nonprofit Shane’s Inspiration, experts in the field, is set to open in the spring of 2021.

NO MORE COASTING

Amid all the excitement, let’s not forget that we did neglect Riverfront Park for decades. Spokane’s vitality and devotion pulled Riverfront Park back from the brink of ruin over these past six years, and we should celebrate that moment under the Pavilion together. But what if our moment of truth for saving the park had come when Spokane could not afford to act?

That happens a lot, as cities struggle to maintain their public spaces — even Central Park in New York City had to be rescued. While we were holding a World’s Fair, New York City was nearly broke and had effectively abandoned Central Park. Citizens rallied to answer that challenge, ultimately taking over management of one of the greatest parks in the world.

As a volunteer on the Park Board, I have seen up close that Spokane Parks does a

JOIN THE CELEBRATION!

The Riverfront Spokane Pavilion reopens to the public this weekend. Friday features the official ribbon cutting (5 pm), with a blessing by the Spokane Tribe. There will be food vendors, a kids zone and a beer garden (4 to 9 pm), with live music by the Cronkites (6:30 pm). Saturday’s festivities run all day, starting at 9 am, with a fun run, performances and events all day long.

Food vendors will be on hand starting at 1 pm, with the beer garden opening at 4.

The Spokane Symphony performs at 4 pm, with their new music director James Lowe making his debut, followed

by Seattle’s the Dip, fresh off their Bumbershoot show, at 7. Both days conclude with a light show of the newly installed illumination blades on the Pavilion’s cable-net roof. Check out the elevated experience, and bring a blanket and stake out a spot on the lawn to take it all in. For details, visit my.spokanecity.org/ riverfrontspokane.

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great job. But it has its limits, operating on a fixed budget with 86 other parks to manage. Over the long haul, will Spokane Parks all by itself be enough? The stakes are too high to coast through another 30 or 40 years.

While our $64 million expenditure is a huge public investment, and a pivotal vote of confidence on where we are as a city today, don’t think of it as extravagant.

Consider that in 2014, the same year Spokane passed its bond, Tacoma passed its own park bond — at $198 million. In Tulsa that same year, the George Kaiser Foundation gave $200 million to the Gathering Place; that gift was more than matched by other donors, and the $465 million Oklahoma park opened last year.

Finally consider Millennium Park in Chicago, which opened in 2004 at a cost of $490 million. Boondoggle? Quite the opposite, as a 2011 Texas A&M study found it triggered $2.45 billion in construction nearby, grew the neighborhood population by 66 percent, cut crime by 27 percent and created $11.1 billion in new annual tourism spending. Millennium Park is now, according to the City of Chicago, the No. 1 tourist attraction in the entire Midwest with 25 million annual visitors.

Numbers like that prove we can’t afford to neglect our Spokane version of Central Park.

When I walked the park in the summer of 2008 and wondered why somebody wasn’t doing something, I was thinking about it all wrong. “Who’s going to fix this?” misses the point.

The challenge coming next is to find creative, broad-based ways to make Riverfront Spokane — our park’s distinctive new name — even better. So for citizens, local institutions and certainly every member of the next generation, the correct question is, “What can I do?” n

Making the Pavilion New. Again!

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45 years ago, Power City Electric was a proud part of the team that worked on the Pavilion for Expo ‘74.

Today, we’re just as proud of this town and this project!

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THE PAVILION

The big “Wow!” at the Pavilion is the LED-illuminated blade structure covering its cables. “It kind of feels like a sophisticated Disneyland now,” says Keith Comes, a principal at NAC Architecture, and the architect who led the Pavilion project. “It’s a fun place, but with a strong architectural presence.”

A detail of the illumination blades. The 479 blades add up

to 2,262 linear feet of light and can be controlled individually to create light shows that will connect the city as a kind of central lantern.

Like the Space Needle in Seattle, which just got a $100-million renovation, the Pavilion in Spokane remains an icon of the city, fresh off its own $22.6-million makeover from NAC Architecture, the Berger Partnership and Garco Construction.

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THE

PINNACLE

Beloved icon, neglected eyesore and main battleground over the park’s rehab project: The U.S. Pavilion reopens as a new symbol of innovation

BY DANIEL WALTERS

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avid Condon says he wanted to be a mayor who changed the skyline of Spokane. After all, he was born in 1974, the same year that the World’s Fair transformed an ugly railroad depot into the city’s iconic Riverfront Park.

“I jokingly said I wanted to bring back Expo ’74,” Condon says. “I looked it up, and they’re booked out until 2025. So I figured that wasn’t going to work.”

Just as the 1962 World’s Fair gave the Seattle skyline its Space Needle, Expo ’74 gave us the U.S. Pavilion, a giant exhibition tent that — once its heavy, white vinyl covering came off — left the spiderwebbed lattice of cabling that has become one of the region’s most recognizable structures.

Look at almost any image of Spokane — on a mug, a calendar or a “Spokane Doesn’t Suck” T-shirt — and if it’s not Riverfront Park’s clock tower, it’s the silhouette of the Pavilion. Or both.

And so as the transformed Pavilion officially opens up this week, Condon, in his last year in office, can truly say he’s altered Spokane’s skyline.

“Now that they’ve done the Pavilion with the lights, it’s not only going to change the skyline for the city, it will be a gathering place for the community,” he says.

For as much as the Pavilion has been a star of Spokane iconography, for decades the actual inside of it had become, frankly, a bit of an eyesore.

“It was a hole in the middle of the park,” says former City Councilman Mike Allen, who’d served as council liaison to the Park Board for four years. Garrett Jones, interim director of the Parks Department, describes the old Pavilion as a “concrete jungle, dark and cold.” It was cluttered with creaky amusement park rides during the summer and an ice rink during the winter, surrounded by industrial gray walls.

“The rides had decayed,” Allen says. “It was a big open space, so sound reverberated around.

You had this false roof inside of a roof.”

The $64.3 million Riverfront Park bond, passed by voters in 2014, changed all that. In a way, it’s done for the Pavilion what Expo ’74 did for Riverfront Park — took an ugly mess of concrete and asphalt and replaced it with a sweeping greenspace.

A cascade of green terraces — a tad bit like

Machu Picchu — rises up the eastern wall. Visitors can climb up a ramp to give them a view of the park they’ve never seen before.

“I think the park looks fantastic,” Allen says.

The Pavilion upgrade, however, stands as a testament not only to the success of the Riverfront Park revitalization, but all the challenges it had to overcome.

THE UNCOVERING

After all, for all its beauty, the completed Pavilion represents a broken promise.

Before voters approved the bond, Condon and City Council President Ben Stuckart cowrote an op-ed in the Spokesman-Review telling voters the project would create “a new cover for the Pavilion and strategic use of lighting or projected imagery.” Renderings and advertisements during the bond campaign featured a vision of a covered Pavilion.

But today, the Pavilion remains uncovered.

A covering, the Park Board determined, was too expensive and too infeasible.

The old metal structure of the Pavilion couldn’t support the weight.

In a Facebook post in 2017, former Park Board Chair Randy Cameron called the change “OUTRAGEOUS,” arguing that it “was often said that it would rival the Sydney Opera House and now the board and parks director have amnesia?”

Skeptics like Allen worried that without a covering, the community would miss out on the opportunity to project images or videos on the side of the Pavilion, while Stuckart complained that without shading, events held in the Pavilion would bake in the summer heat.

“I sat through a dozen meetings talking about that,” Stuckart says.

But there were downsides to covering the structure that would have gone beyond cost, Condon argued. You would lose the view of the rest of the park when you stepped into the Pavilion.

“It would feel like you’re inside a big tent,” Condon says, “You wouldn’t be able to have the grass in there and the terraces.”

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ABOVE: The new wooden boardwalk outside the Looff makes for a pleasant walk, but it also keeps the geese away.

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“THE PINNACLE,” CONTINUED... controversial goals. For shade, the design team stuck white, kite-shaped panels on the lower western section of the Pavilion cabling. During the hottest part of the summer day, the panels will cast shadows to cool the crowds. But during the cooler hours, the crowds will still be bathed in sunlight.

“It turned out really well,” Stuckart says now.

The Park Board had demanded a “wow factor.” And while it didn’t get a covering that the community can project images onto, it got something even more unusual.

“I never in my wildest dreams would have thought of this technology that we’re using for the lights,” Condon says.

Rob Kuffel, a member of the NAC architectural team assigned to the project, got some auto-

motive LEDs out of his garage and slapped them on the side of a Plexiglas panel. It was the earliest crude prototype. A secondary prototype wasn’t quite as jury-rigged, but it remained clunky and unwieldy.

“The thing weighs 60 pounds, [the NAC team was] lugging it to meetings, and plugging it in,” recalls Jones, the interim parks director.

Today, when you stand underneath the Pavilion and look up, the light blades spiral around the structure, almost giving an illusion of motion.

In the daytime, it turns the steel structure from a utilitarian skeleton missing a tent covering into something closer to abstract art.

And at night?

The blades won’t just light up. They’ll dance.

Every light can be controlled individually by

WHAT’S IN A NAME? You may have noticed that Spokane Parks and Recreation has taken to calling it “Riverfront Spokane” — it’s right there on the park’s new logo. That subtle name change is by design — and by vote of the Park Board.

The reason being that there are many “Riverfront Parks” across America, but there’s only one Riverfront Spokane. Don’t worry, there’s no right or wrong way to say it, and “Riverfront Park” still works just fine.

computer — technicians can program a specific light with a specific motion and a specific color at a specific moment.

And so when the Cronkites play the grand opening of the Pavilion this Friday, the last song they’ll play will be accompanied by the Pavilion structure lighting up in sync to the music. Think of it as Spokane’s own version of a Pink Floyd laser light show.

“The first time when we were out there doing the testing, you see the entire promenade lined up with people with tripods and cameras,” Jones says. “And you ask, ‘Is this cool?’ And they’re like, ‘Yeah. This is better than the Fourth of July.’”

THE TROUBLES

The fight over the Pavilion was hardly the only flare-up the Riverfront Park project has had to weather, of course. Originally, the entire rehab was supposed to be completed by the spring of 2018. But as challenges mounted, the anticipated completion date slid to 2019 to sometime in 2020.

“I underestimated how much expertise and what was needed to get going,” says former Park Board Chair Chris Wright. “We didn’t do anything for a year, and that was obvious to the public.”

There was plenty to criticize: Former Park Board members like Cameron and Andy Dunau complained at times that the Parks Department did a lousy job of communicating with the public about the project’s problems.

The decision to inspect the park’s bridges — first recommended by the city’s engineering department in May of 2013 — was delayed until five months after the bond passed. And the price tag that came back showed that repairing the bridges was much more expensive than anticipated.

As the years unfolded, the project got some surprise wins — it turned out the park wouldn’t have to replace the big blue bridge after all — but also some surprise setbacks.

Start with the cursed Rotary Fountain.

Scarcely a dozen years after opening, the Rotary Fountain had to be shut down and repaired at the cost of nearly $1 million.

And before the park’s promenade opened this spring, the park announced that one of its pedestrian bridges — where visitors could feel the spray of the falls rise up and splash against their faces — would have to be closed for repairs. It was an expense that the bond wouldn’t cover.

Meanwhile, community members successfully championed the resurrection of one of the “butterflies” sculptures featured at Expo ’74. But other beloved pieces of the park were sacrificed. A few people fought to save the aging amusement park rides, like the creaking Ferris wheel, and the old IMAX theater, but ultimately, balance-sheet calculations beat nostalgia. The Ferris wheel was junked and the IMAX was demolished.

Other plans were altered. The project’s plan originally called for an ice rink. But the Park Board ultimately went in a more ambitious direction, building a more expensive looping “ice ribbon,” complete with a slightly downhill portion.

“It was the toughest project. It was the first one,” says Wright. “I thought it turned out really well, and the winter usage is fantastic.”

Sometimes the revitalization has meant casting an old local artifact in a new light. The Looff Carrousel, more than a century old, got a new rotunda and a boardwalk. The famous garbage-eating goat statue remained untouched, but Spokane Arts painted a nearby utility box with former Inlander art director Chris Bovey’s “Spokane’s Garbage Goat” design.

The project also has had to contend with nature itself, like the federally protected ospreys that built a nest on top of the Pavilion. And there are even more destructive critters.

“To what degree have beavers created challenges for the project?” the Inlander asks Condon.

Mayor Condon laughs at the absurdity of such a silly question.

“That’s the curveball of the day,” Condon says.

But then Jones, the interim parks director, jumps in to say that, well...

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“THE PINNACLE,” CONTINUED... says. “We did have one incident on the North Bank where a beaver decided to take it and drag it. Didn’t make it all the way to the river.”

BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE

The Pavilion opens this week, but the Riverfront Park project isn’t done. There’s still the North Bank, across the Spokane River.

Today, it’s a parking lot next to a fenced-in storage space filled with old park equipment. A year from now, it’s scheduled to be turned into one of the biggest playgrounds in the region.

The playground will be almost a full acre — almost the size of 16 tennis courts — complete with a climbing structures, sandboxes and 30-foot tower with three slides. And the playground will all be themed around the Ice Age floods.

“We’re looking at having a water feature that does spill over, that mimics the Missoula floods breaking free,” Riverfront Park Director Jon Moog says.

Will there be wooly mammoth tusks? Of course, there will be wooly mammoth tusks.

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The aging Howard Street South Bridge had to be replaced. The new “orange bridge” is wider, with built-in power and water for events and vendors. The “Get Down” design element by Berger Partnership allows you to get closer to the water.

The North Bank will also fulfill a long delayed promise: a skatepark.

When the city tore down downtown’s troubled Under the Freeway skatepark in 2015, it promised to replace it. But years passed by, frustrating the local skater community. For now, the new skatepark will be only modestly sized, but if enough funds are raised, two bowls will be added, with a wall in the park’s maintenance and operations building turned into a slanted wall ride.

Even with over $64 million in spending, there’s a lot of dream projects for Riverfront Park that weren’t built. The park rehab had to fit the budget, and not the other way around.

That’s even true for some of Condon’s ideas. Nearly eight years ago, Condon was sworn in at the base of the clock tower, the other recognizable symbol of Riverfront Park.

“I thought we should reopen the clock tower,” Condon says.

“They’ve done all the engineering for it, but we didn’t have the money for it.”

That upgrade of a Riverfront Park icon, however, may have to wait until the next mayor. n

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Daniel Walters has been writing for the Inlander since 2008. In that time, he’s covered real estate scams, the Central City Line, the effort to fund the Sportsplex and the McEuen Park battle in Coeur d’Alene. He can be reached at 325-0634 ext. 263 or via email at danielw@inlander.com. His favorite Carrousel horse is the giraffe.

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hirty years after first getting on stage to try stand-up comedy, it’s safe to say Maria Bamford’s had the kind of career most comics dream of.

Bamford starred in a sitcom, Netflix’s delightfully surreal Lady Dynamite, based loosely on her real life. She’s toured the country as a headliner and with friends and peers like Patton Oswalt, Zach Galifinakis and Jackie Kashian.

Shows like Arrested Development and the animated Adventure Time have tapped her for guest spots and voice work thanks to her incredibly pliable way with accents and characters. And she’s done several stand-up specials for the likes of Comedy Central and Netflix while winning the American Comedy Award for “best club comic” a few years back.

Despite all that, Bamford says the confidence to go on stage and deliver jokes to an audience, as she will Sunday at Spokane Comedy Club, remains something that “comes and goes.”

“I still can have an off night and think, ‘Oh, gosh, I am not sure if I’m doing this properly,” Bamford says in a call with the Inlander, a 20-minute conversation in which the Duluth-raised 49-yearold personifies the concept of “Minnesota nice.”

I’ve seen Bamford perform probably five times over the last 15 years, and I can’t imagine what an “off night” looks like. While many know about Bamford’s struggles with depression and anxiety that fuel many of her stories and jokes, on stage with a microphone in her hand she is masterful in bouncing between personal anecdotes and voicing characters like judgemental Midwestern beauty queens or, seriously, a pterodactyl.

The way Bamford tells it, getting into stand-up was a means of taking control of the scenes in her head that often left her scared back before years of therapy and “fantastic meds” helped her out.

“I think the reason I did stand-up was because I had pretty intense OCD, and I preferred being by myself. So stand-up was perfect for that,” Bamford says. “It’s a real feeling of control. You’re up in front of everybody. Everybody’s paying attention. Everybody wants you to do well, at least for the first 30 seconds … I found out through doing sketch and improv that [stand-up] was very satisfying because I could write all my own material, do

anything that I wanted to talk about, and I didn’t have to wait to be given a role.

That is very freeing.”

Bamford’s taken that freedom to hilariously far-reaching degrees in her recent stand-up specials. In The Special Special Special, Bamford performs her hour set in her living room — to an audience of just her two parents. In Old Baby, she performs hit-and-run stand-up sets to unsuspecting “audiences” on park benches, in bowling alleys and in bookstores.

Both specials are streaming on Netflix, as are Lady Dynamite’s two seasons that earned Bamford critical praise and the kind of mainstream attention she hadn’t seen since she was the shopping-obsessed “Target lady” 10 years ago for a couple of Christmas commercial campaigns. While she didn’t write the show, her life figured prominently in the episodes’ plots. She looks back fondly on Lady Dynamite, but probably won’t do something like that again.

“It was the best it could have possibly been,” Bamford says.

“Television, the way it’s done is extraordinarily long hours, and a lot of work. And I’m not trained to be an actor, so to memorize and have all those lines, and having to be the main person, it was a little bit beyond what I’m capable of doing. I think I’m better as a guest star, just in terms of me having a good life.”

For Bamford, the good life remains doing stand-up. She’s an evangelist for the form; her husband started doing openmics after they got married in 2015, and she encourages her interviewer to try it.

And compared to her time spent doing TV, stand-up is a perfect outlet.

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Find a vibe to fit any mood at nine of Spokane’s tiniest drinking establishments

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hether you want to drink alone, cozy up with a date, find a great happy hour or throw back a shot after a long day, there are plenty of places across town to fit all these needs. Yet often the best atmosphere and company can be found in close quarters, like these nine “tiny bars” of Spokane — bars that mostly hit the 500-square-feet and under mark, and feel more like an intimate living room gathering than a wild party. Many are familiar mainstays, others are newer, and all are waiting to become your next favorite haunt.

NIGHT OWL

223 N. Division St. 800 square feet; capacity: 49 In the middle of the craziness that is the “Bromuda Triangle,” there’s a small oasis waiting for those who want a quality drink in a hipster hideaway. Tucked between Boombox Pizza and Fast Eddie’s in the old Revolver spot, the Night Owl beckons visitors in with its small white neon sign and Southwestern backsplash. The friendly staff are willing to mix you a delicious cocktail based on your mood that day (who needs a menu?) and they must be doing something right because they’ve become a favorite haunt for other bartenders in the area.

(SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL)

POCKET BAR

1017 W. First Ave. 495 square feet; capacity: 18+ Pocket Bar might not stay small for long — there are plans to expand when parent company Eat Good Group adds its bakery to the Montvale Hotel complex Pocket Bar calls home. But for now, the diminutive snack-and-beer spot that opened this summer is a nice place to enjoy a pint of regional craft beer, a glass of Washington wine, and an array of stuffed pastries, or “pockets,” that give the place its name. They’re $5 each or $9 for two, and feature flavors ranging from curry to pizza to cheeseburger (and then some).

Salads, dessert pockets and pretzels are available as well, and while there is typically seating for 18, manager Tyll Rodgers is happy to put out more chairs when it gets crowded. (DAN NAILEN)

BON BON

926 W. Garland Ave. ~325 square feet; capacity: 40 (seats 26) Attached to the historic Garland Theater, Bon Bon is a must for moviegoers and happy hour seekers alike, with an innovative craft cocktail menu and killer deals, plus complimentary popcorn at the bar. During happy hour (Mon-Thu from 4-7 pm; Fri-Sat from 10 pm-2 am and Sun from 4 pm-12 am), choose from a rotating list of $5 craft cocktails concocted by Bon Bon’s experienced bar team. Hungry? Enjoy the Garland’s elevated movie concessions menu — we highly recommend the mac and cheese, black bean sliders and pulled pork sandwich. If you plan to

hit up a movie, too, don’t forget that beer and wine ordered in the bar can also be taken into the theater. Bon Bon also hosts weekly trivia, bingo and other special events. (CHEY SCOTT)

BABY BAR

827 W. First Ave. 288 square feet; capacity: 25 No matter the hour, no matter the season, it always seems to be the same time inside Baby Bar. You could argue it’s the definitive tiny Spokane bar, a windowless hole in the wall that began slinging drinks when it first opened as a motel bar in the early 1970s. Since 2007, the business has been under the ownership of Patty Tully, and she’s often the smiling face you’ll see behind the bar. The ambience is what draws you in — the Twin Peaks-esque red curtains, the rotating local art, the playful hand-written signs on the wall — but it’s the dollar PBRs on Wednesday nights and its famous greyhounds with fresh-squeezed grapefruit juice that keep you coming back. Even better: Neato Burrito, which offers some of the best tortilla-wrapped goodness in town, is right down the hallway. (NATHAN WEINBENDER)

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WHISK

17 W. Main Ave. 420 square feet; capacity: 36 A calmer night spot than its brethren around the corner on North Division’s busy bar block, Whisk is laid back and also quite beloved by industry folk. Specializing in whiskey, naturally, the little bar tucked between Chosen Vintage and Merlyn’s comic book shop also stocks plenty of tall cans, which are $2 during happy hour (Tue-Sat from 4-6 pm), along with $4 wells. While inside seats just under 40, a newly installed awning out front makes the bar’s patio usable yearround. While the bar’s ownership and name is about to change, its whiskey focus and friendly, familiar bartending staff don’t plan to, meaning Whisk will remain a reliable, easygoing hangout. (CHEY SCOTT)

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EL QUE

141 S. Cannon St. ~500 square feet; capacity: 49 Browne’s Addition has its share of terrific bars, and El Que is one of the best. The tiny taqueria, owned by the same folks as neighboring public house the Elk, is decked out with votive candles and a back wall stocked with just about any kind of tequila you can think of — a truly cozy hangout. Imbibe with one of their daily specials, from $2 Modelos on Mondays to a $6 tequila shot-Tecate combo on Thursdays. In the summertime, El Que’s patio is one of Browne’s primo spots, the ideal place to enjoy an ice cold cerveza — made all the better with a squeeze of lime — or one of the bar’s refreshing on-the-rocks cocktails made with one of their fruit-infused tequilas.

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215 W. Main Ave. 283 square feet; capacity: 21 Cheap beer and hard rock. That’s what you get when you wander into the Riff. If you’re looking for cleanliness or extra elbow room between yourself and the next barfly, well, the door is never too far away. Don’t be put off by its rough appearances. It’s the inside that counts. “I love that I can come and sit down here and feel comfortable and not feel like I have to leave,” says bartender Kelsie Reynolds. “It’s like a friend’s house.” Happy hour is 5-8 pm on weekdays: $1.50 for Bud Light and $2.50 for a well shot. Shoot the shit with the regulars and be sure to pet Po the pup if he’s hanging around. (QUINN WELSCH)

THE TINY TIKI

307 W. Second Ave. 490 square feet; capacity: 30 (seats 15) An almost-hidden oasis on a mostly bland commercial stretch of Second Avenue, the Tiny Tiki rolled out its tropical, rum-centric cocktail menu last summer. Owner and longtime local bartender Claire Fieberg has the cozy space decked out in warm wicker, faux palm fronds and flowers, vintage tiki-style decor, cool and colorful lights

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and other authentic touches that make guests feel like they’re on a tropical vacation, and not really in downtown Spokane. Appropriately, the drinks at the Tiny Tiki feature plenty of fruity (but not overly so) flavors, and new specials are offered on the regular. Mai tais are made in batches and served on a nitro tap — a classic choice to sip while lounging to the bar’s oldies surf rock playlists. (CHEY SCOTT)

SCOFFLAW’S BOOK CLUB

108 N. Washington St., Suite 100 1,187 square feet; capacity: 51 Opening soon, Scofflaws Book Club is a Prohibition fanatic’s dream. Following the style of a 1920s speakeasy, the bar entrance is a bookshelf that requires a tug on the right title to enter. Literary patrons can choose from green library-style booths or a row of seats at the bar as they order from a selection of cocktails and whiskeys crafted with authors like Hemingway and Bukowski in mind. Though its square footage is a little higher than the other tiny bars featured here, what you see is what you get — there’s no extra room in back or downstairs for storage, which is why owner Bryan Harkey says, “It’s gonna be very cozy.” (SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL) n

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Feast World Kitchen Sets Course The new multicultural restaurant allows immigrant chefs to share their culture and cuisine with the Inland Northwest

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elicious aromas will again soon waft from the old Sushi Yama building at 1321 W. Third Ave. in downtown Spokane.

Feast World Kitchen, a new nonprofit venture, is rehabbing the space to house an incubator kitchen for local immigrants and refugee chefs to cook and share their culture with the Spokane community while also supporting their families.

The effort, spearheaded by Ross Carper, who runs the Compass Breakfast Wagon, and Dan Todd, who owns pop-up restaurant Inland Curry (and has hosted several international guest chefs), is currently seeking $25,000 in community support through a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo open through early October.

Find it by searching for “Feast World Kitchen” and follow the project on Facebook.

Carper says Feast plans to feature a different world cuisine and chef each night of the week, in addition to offering access to a commercial kitchen for use by area food trucks, independent chefs, caterers and other food-related businesses.

“So we’re trying to duplicate what Dan does with weekly, pop-up carry out, but with not just one night a week,” Carper says. “Feast will feature these people we know who have become our friends who just cook incredible Middle Eastern, Mediterranean and African food, or incredible tamales unlike anything you’ll find in Spokane.”

The goal is for Feast World Kitchen to open sometime in October, starting with carry-out-only orders before an on-site dining room is ready. Already, nearly 10 chefs who’ve relocated to Spokane from around the globe have expressed interest in sharing their food and culture through Feast, Carper says.

Beyond a place where locals can enjoy authentically prepared food from around the world, Carper says Feast’s mission is to help bridge the cultural gap between longtime residents and the many immigrants who’ve made this region their new home. (CHEY SCOTT)

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Show your support for Spokane bartender Kristy White at Cochinito’s benefit brunch. ed to a thoughtfully crafted creation by local bartender and cocktail expert Kristy White, lately found behind the bar at Cochinito Taqueria. White was recently diagnosed with breast cancer, but she’s in good hands with her supportive restaurant family. To support White, Cochinito is organizing Kristy’s Benefit Brunch for Sunday, Sept. 8, with three seatings at 9 am, 11 am and 1 pm. The buffetstyle meal is $30 per person, with beverages available for purchase. All sales and gratuity will go to White and her family to support her while she undergoes treatment and recovers from surgery.

On the menu: roasted chile hash browns, breakfast tacos and more. While the brunch is currently all booked, you can call the restaurant at 474-9618 and be added to a standby list. Berserk will also host a benefit show, auction and raffle for White on Sept. 21, featuring local bands Lip Sick and Big Raffle. (CHEY SCOTT)

MICKDUFF’S PLANS 2020 RELOCATION

When they opened MickDuff’s Brewery in 2006, Mickey and Duffy Mahoney had in mind a gathering place for family and friends. Their food and beer — Tipsy

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Toehead, Lake Paddler Pale Ale and others — were a hit, and they eventually outgrew brewing capacity in the original pub on Sandpoint’s busy First Avenue. In 2014, the duo added a second location, MickDuff’s Beer Hall, just down the street, which allowed them to brew more and different beer, as well as host live music. While the Beer Hall will remain as is, a new pub is planned. The Mahoney brothers are working to relocate ENTRÉE and expand their First Get the scoop on local Avenue brewpub into food news with our weekly the historic former Entrée newsletter. Sign up Sandpoint Federal at Inlander.com/newsletter.

Building at 419 Second Ave., a 1920s-era brick structure with distinct domed windows and ornate cement work on the façade. At around 12,000 square feet, the new MickDuff’s location offers plenty of room for dining, as well as a pilot brewing area to further expand the MickDuff’s line, which is frequently on tap at Sandpoint-area restaurants. The new pub is slated to open in summer 2020. (CARRIE SCOZZARO) n

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Insane Clown Posse All grown up, the Losers’ Club still has to contend with Pennywise in the bloated, tedious It: Chapter Two

BY MARYANN JOHANSON

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here’s a running “joke” throughout It: Chapter Two about how Bill Denbrough (James McAvoy) is a rich, famous and successful novelist whose books are adapted by big Hollywood studios, and he gets to write the screenplays himself, and yet also the endings of all of his novels are so legendarily awful that everyone hates them.

The many instances of This Never Happens going on here are extraordinary, but what raises this to the level of Actually Egregious is that all of this would appear to be an attempt to forestall any complaints about the ending of It: Chapter Two. Because it is somewhat different from the ending of Stephen King’s novel, which has been split into two parts, the first of which was the 2017 movie It. (Did readers not like the ending of King’s novel when it was published in the 1980s? I have no idea. King himself has a cameo in this movie, suggesting that he approves of the whole “the ending in the book was shit, so let’s fix it” motif.)

Such attempts are justified because, ironically, the ending of It: Chapter Two is as shit as those of Bill’s books. This one feels like it has been pulled out of someone’s ass for reasons I cannot comprehend. At least its pointless randomness does slot right into the two movies’ accidental contention that an evil spirit/ alien/monster/whatever-Pennywise-is would wreak arbitrary havoc on whomever she/he/it has targeted.

That’s just what she/he/it does. Somehow, though, this doesn’t feel like a positive justification.

If you haven’t seen It, nothing much here will make much sense. And it still doesn’t, really, even if you have. Quick recap, anyway: Back in 1989, a junior-high gang of friends who’d dubbed themselves the Losers Club battled Pennywise the Clown (Bill Skarsgård), who wanted to eat their faces or something. That was 2017’s It, an unscary, unintentional pastiche of 1980s kiddie adventures (think The Goonies meets Stand by Me times Poltergeist).

Now, 27 years later, they are all summoned back to their hometown of Derry, Maine, by Mike (Isaiah

Mustafa), the only member of the club who never left home, because Pennywise seems to be up to her/his/its old murderous tricks again. The club had all vowed to return should their supernatural nemesis ever rear her/his/its painted face again, but this is complicated by the fact that they all had forgotten their childhoods in Derry. Worse, they’d all forgotten that they’d forgotten.

Something about how childhood trauma impacts the rest of one’s life, and how repressed memories are never really repressed, etc., etc. Also later, something about how memories — and monsters! — only have the power you grant them. All true, to a certain degree. But Chapter Two ultimately wants to have its empowerment cake and eat it, too. Positive thinking cannot overcome all the terrors that oppress us, no matter how hard we might wish for it, or how much work we put into it.

It almost beggars belief that Chapter Two posits the feel-good denouement that it does. It’s almost dangerous in its suggestion that there are no real monsters, no real oppression that keeps us down.

And yet, a muddled message is the least of It: Chapter Two’s missteps. If only it were genuinely scary. But this overlong — almost three hours! — exercise in unironically trotting out genre clichés bypasses every opportunity to acknowledge its utter obviousness, the roteness of its tropes. For here we literally run a gamut of scary-movie nonsense — a killer clown, a disorienting hall of mirrors in a carnival funhouse, an actual haunted house, a mysterious “Indian ritual,” a sea of blood, multiple eldritch spidery creatures — as well as other down-to-earth terrors: abusive parents, bullying school kids.

Yet for all of its extreme length, Chapter Two barely gives room for a truly great cast (Jessica Chastain, Bill Hader, James Ransone, Jay Ryan, Andy Bean) to do much beyond scream and gasp at what is happening around them. The only terrifying thing here is how tedious It: Chapter Two is, and what a trial it is to sit through. n

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The follow-up to 2017’s horror smash is a leaden, overlong slog, with those precious kids, now jaded adults, returning to Derry to finally kill the evil force that is Pennywise the clown.

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Reeling from the murder of his brother’s family, a cop discovers he could stop the crimes in another timeline. A twisty, high-concept thriller that grows more ludicrous as it goes. (NW) Rated PG-13

Gerard Butler returns as President Morgan Freeman’s most reliable Secret Service agent, and this time he’s framed as an assassin. (NW) Rated R Another animated film inspired by the popular mobile game, with those colorful, flingable birds and pigs taking their antics up a notch. (NW) Rated PG

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The loves and losses of a Formula 1 driver are examined from the POV of his wise old golden retriever. Emotionally manipulative claptrap that’s so sappy it’ll give you a stomach ache.

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Ari Aster’s follow-up to Hereditary is another horror freak-out, this time about a fracturing American couple swallowed up by a Swedish cult. As perverse, unsettling and brutal as you’d expect. At the Magic Lantern. (JB) Rated R

THE NIGHTINGALE

With the help of an Aboriginal guide, an Irish convict in 1820s Tasmania seeks the British soldiers who massacred her family. A brutal exploration of vengeance and colonialism from the director of The Babadook. At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Rated R

ONCE UPON A TIME… IN HOLLYWOOD

Quentin Tarantino’s ode to 1969 L.A. finds a washed-up TV star, his longtime stunt double and Sharon Tate crossing paths in unexpected ways. Rambling, elegiac, uneven and occasionally brilliant. (NW) Rated R

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A Christian drama about a small town facing an unemployment crisis, and how a high school sports coach and his cross-country star lift everyone’s spirits.

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A young man with Down syndrome and pro wrestling aspirations runs away from his care facility, teaming up with a down-and-out fisherman (Shia LaBeouf) in this heartwarming roadtrip fable. (SR) Rated R

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On her wedding day, a young bride is forced into a deadly game of hide and seek with her wealthy in-laws. This bloody horror-comedy is mostly amusing, though you might wish it had a more satirical edge. (NW) Rated R

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Inventive special effects and stylish direction anchor this entertaining adaptation of Alvin Schwartz’s childhoodscarring horror anthologies, as a group of 1960s teenagers are menaced by monsters that come out of a haunted book. (NW) Rated PG-13

SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME

Even on a trip to Europe, Peter Parker can’t dodge his superhero duties, donning his Spidey suit to fight off evil humanoids known as Elementals. A sharp and funny continuation of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. (SS) Rated PG-13

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Behind-the-scenes drama of a popular soap opera stands in for the IsraeliPalestinian conflict, as an antagonistic relationship between a writer and a soldier begins influencing the show’s plotlines. At the Magic Lantern. (NW)

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New Non-Fiction Now streaming: Documentaries about social media celebrities, the plight of American and Chinese factory workers

BY NATHAN WEINBENDER

American Factory

AMERICAN FACTORY (NETFLIX)

American Factory is a fascinating portrait of corporate capitalism in a microcosm, a look at the expendability of cheap labor and the human cost of efficiency. Its focus is specific, but its concerns are universal.

The first feature to be released through Barack and Michelle Obama’s production company Higher Ground, it’s set in a neighborhood outside Dayton, Ohio, which has never recovered from the closure of a General Motors plant that left thousands of workers unemployed. As the film opens, though, the abandoned factory has been taken over by the Fuyao corporation, a Chinese company that manufactures automobile glass, and a sense of relief washes over the locals as they realize they can finally head back to a steady job.

Fuyao brings in Chinese workers to show the Americans the ropes, and a camaraderie develops among them despite the language barrier. But that sense of idealism quickly curdles into resentment as the Chinese owners wrest control away from the American managers, and as the stark differences between their work cultures — the Chinese complain that the Americans are too chatty, while the Americans wonder why their Chinese coworkers have to be so serious all the time — make things even more difficult.

So, too, does the company’s antipathy toward unions, leading one worker to have a Norma Rae moment, carrying a pro-union sign through the factory before he’s escorted out. Directors Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert don’t really take sides in the fight: They show us how the Chinese employees are struggling just as much as the Americans, living away from their families, often for years at a time, in order to secure a better life.

Existing somewhere between the agitprop of Michael Moore and the naturalistic style of Barbara Kopple, American Factory has as many moving human moments as it does infuriating ones. The blue-collar struggle for decent working conditions and a livable wage is ongoing, but the movie doesn’t simplify it by diagnosing the problem. It merely observes.

JAWLINE (HULU)

Jawline peers into a particular corner of the online world wherein teenagers are selling themselves as bankable personalities to other teenagers, a process that no doubt carries a morbid fascination for anyone beyond the age of the people who participate in it.

The film’s primary subject is a 16-year-old named Austyn Tester, from Kingsport, Tennessee. He spends his evenings on YouNow and Snapchat, live streaming to audiences of several hundred, talking about his day and dispensing generic “follow your dreams” platitudes. His young viewers comment as they watch, and Austyn personally responds.

Austyn wants to be famous, he says, so that he can spread positivity on a global scale, and Jawline introduces us to other teenagers like him who have more notoriety. They’re called “creators” or “influencers.” They produce not art or material but “content,” which takes minimal effort both to make and to watch. The most popular of them tour the country and appear before crowds of screaming girls, dancing to prerecorded pop tracks and taking selfies with the front row. The touchy-feely nature of these meet-and-greet events appears to be sexless — it involves lots of hugging and kissing on the cheek — but it nonetheless made me extremely uneasy as swarms of girls descend upon these young men, weeping and hyperventilating.

I was expecting Jawline to be a cynical excoriation of vacuous social media culture — which would be easy enough to make — but director Liza Mandelup is surprisingly empathetic, both toward the online celebrities and the young women who worship them. She captures a particular moment in time when being noticed and being ignored are easier than ever. Tester, with his puppy-dog earnestness, hasn’t yet been broken down by the ruthless grown-up world and feels almost entitled to fame, but we know with creeping certainty that his followers will eventually refresh their feeds and forget all about him. n

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Local Staples Albums from BaLonely and Brotha Nature, Northern Quest hits a milestone, and more local music news

BY NATHAN WEINBENDER

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pokane’s music scene seems to be more vibrant than ever, and a number of our favorite artists have been really busy lately, churning out new tunes. We thought we’d shoutout a handful of new local releases that we’ve been rocking out to in the waning weeks of summer; maybe it’ll turn you on to your new favorite band.

BALONELY, STAPLES

Since dropping their debut album Stories late last year, the Spokane band BaLonely has been hard at work on new music and has grown from a trio to a five-piece.

Now they’ve got a sophomore LP called Staples, and it’s an album all about the very act of consuming music and having it, in turn, consume you — from its title track about a song that lodges itself in your head, to “The Riff,” a tribute to the joyous discovery of a great melody.

Available on Spotify and Bandcamp.

BROTHA NATURE, THE COSMIC NINJA

Eli Dyer, better known as Brotha Nature, has been a feature in the scene for a while now, with a distinctive style that exists somewhere between dreamy R&B and dextrous hip-hop. He dropped The Cosmic Ninja back in May, but only recently celebrated its physical release, which is the best way to hear its airy production style courtesy of Lucas Brown. The album is a nice encapsulation of his live shows, where he utilizes looping to blend a melange of sounds — vocals, prerecorded samples, beatboxing and trumpet licks. Available on Spotify and Soundcloud.

VANNA OH!, “BEAR NAMED SUE”

The alter ego of singer-songwriter Lindsay Johnston, Vanna Oh! is set to drop a full-length album on Sept. 20, so keep an eye out for that. In the meantime, she released a music video for the single “Bear Named Sue” last week, a blues-rock jam with a guitar riff that slices through the song like a razorblade. Johnston is about to take off on a West Coast tour, returning to Spokane with a homecoming show on Oct 11. Available on Spotify and YouTube.

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THE EMILYS, “SUNDAY FASHION”

In less than two and a half minutes, the Emilys’ newest single “Sunday Fashion” gets its hooks in you. And it’s all hooks, each piece of the song catchier than the one before. That’s typical of the Spokane three-piece, who are masters of the quick-and-dirty pop-rock song so spirited and sugary that you’ll just have to play it over again as soon as it’s over. Here’s hoping we get a fulllength release in the future. Available on Spotify.

WILD ROSE

Speaking of new albums we love: Olympia’s Oh, Rose — who performed at last year’s Volume Music Festival — has released their newest record, While My Father Sleeps. It’s worth a listen (or 10), with singles “25, Alive” and “Baby” standing out along with the toe-tapping “Easy,” fuzzy, bass-heavy “You Got Fire,” and the moody “Water.” The first time I heard the band, I found myself laughing out loud, stupefied, more than a little delighted, and exclaiming to anyone within earshot: “Where the hell did that come from?” At that moment I was listening to “Seven,” the title track of the band’s 2016 album, when about halfway through the melodic tune, something dramatic happens: Singer Olivia Rose explodes with a throat-shredding scream so grimy and wild that I peeped at my phone to verify that it was still indeed the same song. Turns out, Rose’s voice swings playfully throughout the band’s entire catalog, at times sweet and loving before taking dramatic left turns. Available on Spotify. (JACOB H. FRIES)

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Allen Stone has only played a handful of local shows since he moved back to Spokane, but his next gig is one for a good cause.

The popular R&B crooner is set to headline a Sept. 9 concert at Arbor Crest Wine Cellars (4705 N. Fruit Hill Rd.), and proceeds will benefit the Northwest Parkinson’s Foundation. General admission for the event runs $50, and VIP tickets — which include drink tickets and a meet-and-greet with the musicians — are going for $125. The music starts at 5 pm with back-to-back opening sets by the bluegrass-country outfit Buck99 and jazz group 4’derves.

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Anyone who’s seen the evolution of the outdoor summer stage at Northern Quest Resort & Casino knows the venue has never been better than it is right now. The grandstand that opened in 2018 added 1,000 seats and improved sight lines for concert-goers, not to mention creating better seating for both ADA customers and casino VIPs. The stage has grown over the years, too, and the current iteration can handle pretty much any touring production you can think of, as giant video screens on either side assure great closeups of the musicians on stage whether you’re in the first row or the last. As Northern Quest’s 2019 summer season winds down, that outdoor stage hits a serious benchmark with the final concert, rising country stars Old Dominion, who hit the stage on Sunday, Sept. 15. Old Dominion marks the 100th outdoor concert at Northern Quest, a series that’s included living legends like Dolly Parton and John Fogerty, new stars like Kane Brown and Avett Brothers, and everyone in between, in every genre imaginable. Here’s hoping the next 100 summer shows there are even better. (DAN NAILEN) n

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ack in the ’70s, Kansas was one of the few American prog-rock acts to translate their complex arrangements and lyrics inspired by literature, history and mythology into mainstream success. Your typical Kansas album is a baroque affair, with multi-part suites and bombastic theatricality, from the cover art to the music itself. But occasionally you’ll get a song, like their signature tunes “Carry On Wayward Son” and “Dust in the Wind,” that’s as singular as it is ready for the radio. The current lineup features founding members Phil Ehart and Rich Williams; let them whisk you back to their glory days.

— NATHAN WEINBENDER Kansas • Wed, Sept. 11 at 7:30 pm • $47.50$126.50 • All ages • First Interstate Center for the Arts • 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. • inbpac.com • 279-7000

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ou can’t keep a good rocker down. The Distillers, one of the most promising California punk acts to emerge in the waning years of the 20th century, disbanded abruptly in 2006, but they’re back and as thrashy as ever. The band reunited last year and has since released a handful of singles, which are set to appear on an eventual new album, their first since 2003. Frontwoman Brody Dalle has been keeping busy, both as a solo artist and as a member of Spinnerette, but it’s the Distillers that finds her at her most outspoken.

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219 LOUNGE, The Miah Kohal Band A&P’S BAR AND GRILL, DJ Skwish J BABY BAR, Dancing Plague Album Release with S4LT & Portable Morla J THE BARTLETT, Blackfoot Gypsies J BERSERK, Fun Ladies, The Riffbrokers, Mopsey BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn J THE BIG DIPPER, Light In Mirrors, Ten-Speed Pile-Up, The Monties THE BIG DOG BAR & GRILL, DJ Dave BISTANGO MARTINI LOUNGE, Ron Greene BOOMBOX PIZZA, Karaoke BRIDGE PRESS CELLARS, The Bobby Patterson Band J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, Pick Axe Bluegrass J CLEARWATER RIVER CASINO, The Marshall Tucker Band CORBY’S BAR, Karaoke

COSMIC COWBOY GRILL, Eric Neuhausser CRUISERS, Karaoke with Gary DI LUNA’S CAFE, King Cardinal EICHARDT’S, Larry Myer J FORZA COFFEE CO. (GONZAGA), The Raelunds J J GORGE AMPHITHEATER, Bon Iver, Sharon Van Etten THE HIVE, Pato Banton HONEY EATERY AND SOCIAL CLUB, Krista Hojem J HUMBLE ABODE BREWING, Just Plain Darin IDAHO POUR AUTHORITY, Mike & Shanna Thompson JOHN’S ALLEY, Evergreen Afrobeat Orchestra J KNITTING FACTORY, Steel Panther, Everyone Loves a Villain LIBERTY LAKE WINE CELLARS, Dallas Kay LUCKY YOU LOUNGE, Petit Poucet, Dead Serious Lovers MARYHILL WINERY, Dylan Hathaway MAX AT MIRABEAU, Laffin’ Bones

MICKDUFF’S BEER HALL, Devon Wade MULLIGAN’S BAR & GRILLE, Pat Coast NASHVILLE NORTH, Ladies Night with Luke Jaxon and DJ Tom J J NORTHERN QUEST RESORT & CASINO, Pitbull [Rescheduled] THE NYC PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Mike Oregano PEND OREILLE PLAYHOUSE, Open Mic J THE PIN, The Hooten Hallers RAIN LOUNGE, Echo Elysium THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos RIVER ROCK TAPHOUSE, Gil Rivas THE ROXIE, Karaoke with Tom SILVER MOUNTAIN SKI RESORT, Kevin Dorin (at Noah’s) SPOKANE EAGLES LODGE, Stagecoach West STORMIN’ NORMAN’S, DJ Danger STUDIO 107, Arvid Lundin & Deep Roots THE STEAM PLANT, Brewftop feat.

Heat Speak and Nat Park & the Tunnels of Love

Saturday, 09/7

12 TRIBES RESORT CASINO, The Phoenix 219 LOUNGE, The Groove Black A&P’S BAR AND GRILL, DJ Skwish J J THE BARTLETT, Runaway Octopus Album Release with Bandit Train BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn J THE BIG DIPPER, Free the Jester, Velafire, Within Sight, TR3EZY J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, Natalie Greenfield COLBERT TRADING CO., Dylan Hathaway COSMIC COWBOY GRILL, Rusty Jackson GARLAND PUB & GRILL, Usual Suspects J HUCKLEBERRY’S NATURAL MARKET, Todd Milne IDAHO POUR AUTHORITY, Justin Lantrip IRON GOAT BREWING CO., Nat Park and The Tunnels of Love THE JACKSON ST., Karaoke

JOHN’S ALLEY, The Pine Hearts LUCKY YOU LOUNGE, Johnny Raincloud J MARTIN WOLDSON THEATER AT THE FOX, Marshall Tucker Band MAX AT MIRABEAU, Laffin’ Bones NASHVILLE NORTH, Ladies Night with Luke Jaxon and DJ Tom THE NYC PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos PACIFIC PIZZA, Itchy Kitty, The Finns PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Jake Robin J THE PIN, Battle of the Bands POST FALLS BREWING COMPANY, Son of Brad REPUBLIC BREWING CO., Vincent Neil Emerson THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos J RIVER CITY BREWING, Rock the Block feat. LAMINATES, Indian Goat, Wayward West & more J ROCKET MARKET, Heyer Ground THE ROXIE, The Rooks Reunion, L.O.S. SILVER FOX, Roundabout J SILVER MOUNTAIN RESORT (NOAH’S), Just Plain Darin STORMIN’ NORMAN’S, DJ Danger TOWNSHEND CELLAR, Brittany Jean

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ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, Hot Rod Deluxe BIG BARN BREWING CO., Dylan Hathaway CRUISERS, Songsmith Series feat.

Jason Perry DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS, Blues Jam GARLAND PUB & GRILL, Karaoke J HARVEST HOUSE, Just Plain Darin HOGFISH, Open Mic LIBERTY LAKE WINE CELLARS, Karen McCormick LINGER LONGER LOUNGE, Open Jam THE NYC PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos O’DOHERTY’S, Traditional Irish Music PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Bob Beading RED ROOM LOUNGE, Jason Perry Trio THE ROXIE, Hillyard Billys ZOLA, Lazy Love

Monday, 09/9

J ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, Allen Stone Benefit (see page 57) THE BULL HEAD, Songsmith Series J CALYPSOS COFFEE ROASTERS, Open Mic COSMIC COWBOY, Kyle Swaffard CRAVE, DJ Dave EICHARDT’S, Jam with Truck Mills J J KNITTING FACTORY, STRFKR, Das Kope THE NYC PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos RED ROOM LOUNGE, Open Mic J J SPOKANE COUNTY FAIR & EXPO CENTER, Shenandoah and Restless Heart ZOLA, Perfect Mess

Tuesday, 09/10

219 LOUNGE, Karaoke with DJ Pat 315 MARTINIS & TAPAS, John Firshi BOOMBOX PIZZA, Karaoke CRAVE, DJ Dave GARLAND PUB & GRILL, Karaoke J J KNITTING FACTORY, The Distillers (see facing page), Monsterwatch LITZ’S BAR & GRILL, The ShuffleDawgs Blues Power Happy Hour THE NYC PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos RAZZLE’S BAR & GRILL, Open Mic Jam THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Country Swing Dancing THE ROXIE, Open Mic/Jam J J SPOKANE COUNTY FAIR & EXPO CENTER, Trace Adkins SWEET LOU’S RESTAURANT AND TAP HOUSE, Robbie French TAPP’D OFF, Karaoke on the Patio THE VIKING, Songsmith Series feat.

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Wednesday, 09/11

219 LOUNGE, Truck Mills J THE BARTLETT, The Brother Brothers, Nick Jaina BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn BLACK DIAMOND, Songsmith Series feat. Zaq Flanary CRAVE, DJ Dave CRUISERS, Open Jam Night EICHARDT’S, John Firshi J J FIRST INTERSTATE CENTER FOR THE ARTS, Kansas (see facing page) GENO’S, Open Mic IRON HORSE (COEUR D’ALENE), Open Jam THE JACKSON ST., Karaoke LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Carey Brazil J THE LOCAL DELI, Devon Wade LUCKY’S IRISH PUB, DJ D3VIN3 THE NYC PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos J THE PIN, Bubba Sparxxx, Alexander King, Dirt Road Mafia, Cheto, Big Kountry, Buddha Northwest J RED DRAGON CHINESE, Tommy G RED ROOM LOUNGE, Blowin’ Kegs Jam Session THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos SOULFUL SOUPS & SPIRITS, Open Mic J J SPOKANE COUNTY FAIR & EXPO CENTER, Foreigner STORMIN’ NORMAN’S, Clint & Troy ZOLA, Donnie Emerson & Nancy Sophia

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THEATER HOT STUFF

In depicting a young Californian housewife anticipating her husband’s return from military service, Puerto Rican screenwriter and playwright José Rivera’s dreamlike, sexually charged dramedy References to Salvador Dalí Make Me Hot blends the surrealism of Salvador Dalí (painter of melting clocks) and the magical realism of Gabriel García Márquez (Nobel Prize-winning author of One Hundred Years of Solitude).

That’s why its trio of all-too-human characters, which also includes a libidinous teenaged neighbor, is rounded out by personified ancestral totems like the moon, a coyote and a cat.

While its more titillating aspects might involve more than just references to Dalí, Rivera’s play also has its fair share of poetry and philosophical self-reflection. The interactions between this unlikely crew can be rich in lyrical meditations on love and individual identity. Juan Mas, known for his local filmwork, directs.

— E.J. IANNELLI References to Salvador Dalí Make Me Hot • Sept. 6-22; ThuSat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm • $20-$25 • Stage Left Theater • 108 W Third • spokanestageleft.org • 838-9727

MUSIC ALL’S FAIR IN ROCK

Listen to retro radio long enough and you’ll eventually hear Foreigner. That’s because the band cranked out a staggering number of massive singles that ticked multiple genre boxes, from ’70s classic-rock staples — “Cold as Ice,” “Double Vision,” “Feels Like the First Time” — to ’80s pop ballads like “Waiting for a Girl Like You” and the mega-hit “I Want to Know What Love Is.” Pro tip: All of those songs are excellent karaoke choices. Foreigner is the highlight of this year’s Spokane County Fair music lineup, which also includes some treats for country music fans — check out bands Restless Heart and Shenandoah on Sept. 9, and “Honky Tonk Badonkadonk” singer Trace Adkins on Sept. 10 — and closes with hard rockers Pop Evil on the 12th.

— NATHAN WEINBENDER Foreigner • Wed, Sept. 11 at 7 pm • $35-$75 • All ages • Spokane County Fair & Expo Center • 404 N. Havana • spokanecounty.org • 477-1766

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VISUAL ARTS SILENCE IS GOLDEN

The newest exhibit opening at Gonzaga’s Jundt Art Museum features the work of contemporary artist Makoto Fujimura, who has made a career channeling themes of nature, faith and his own Japanese heritage into abstract, impressionistic paintings. You’ll be able to see selections from Fujimura’s Silence & Beauty series, large canvases featuring deep blues, fiery reds and icy whites, which the artist has said are meant to evoke the feeling of overcoming trauma and the majesty of the world. You might not see those influences right away, but his art is filled with details that only gradually reveal themselves the longer you stare.

— NATHAN WEINBENDER Makoto Fujimura: Silence — Mysterion • Sat, Sept. 7 through Jan. 4; Mon-Sat from 10 am-4 pm • Jundt Art Museum at Gonzaga University • 200 E. Desmet Ave • gonzaga.edu/jundt • 313-6843

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VISUAL ARTS SEPTEMBER STROLL

After a long weekend, get back into the swing of things with a late summer stroll around Spokane for the city’s monthly visual arts showcase. There’s plenty to see, hear and taste at participating venues, including Barrister Winery, where featured artist Doug Martingale showcases bold, impressionistic landscapes (above) done in pastel. At Kolva-Sullivan Gallery, Sanctorium celebrates and benefits the animals of River’s Wish Animal Sanctuary (see our story on page 26). Get a preview of the upcoming Little Spokane River Artist Studio Tour happening later this month (Sept. 28) at Iron Goat Brewing. At the Terrain Gallery, a new exhibit and installation, Things Change by Rajah Bose and Ellen Picken, explores the nostalgia of childhood and the nature of constant change.

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so gracious and didn’t kill us! What killed the night was my lady had left her brown leather jacket in your car. I know it’s a long shot but it’s one of the first things I got her that she actually liked!

Write me at ilostherjacket@yahoo.com if you were the nice young man who tried to help us!

I SAW YOU SEARCHING FOR THE MAN ON THE MOTORCYCLE ON 8/16 CRESTLINE NO RINGS ATTACHED I saw you on Friday 8/16/19 between 5 and 6:00 pm on a nice black motorbike sitting at a gas pump at the Grocery Boys on North Crestline. I was watching you as you were watching me and then you waved and motioned for me to come to you. I did with excitement and said hi. You said “I noticed you don’t have a ring on.” I said “no, do you?” I would love to meet up and continue the conversation.

Blue eyes.

AUDI SUN ZIP We locked eyes and shared a wave at the local Zip-Trip.

Did the cracked cup work for your Sunflower seeds? Maybe next season we can drive your black Audi to a few baseball games, and spit seeds together!!! sunaudi@aol.com

CHEERS THANKS BUT I LOST HER JACKET Saturday night 8/24 after an amazing concert at the Fox we were dialing up a ride and saw you with your windows down. I offered you $5 for a ride to the the Grand. Risky I know, but you were

KEEPING ME ROLLIN Cheers to the banker of Bank of America that helped me put my spare tire on my van in front of my daughter’s daycare Monday morning after I parked and you heard my tire pouring out air. You and your other banker friend were quick to help despite being dressed top notch, it would have taken me forever. That’s for letting me know there is still hope for humanity.

THANK YOU BOWL & PITCHER Thank you to the kind human at Bowl & Pitcher who found my phone on Saturday 8/31.

I was on a 20 mile run and left the phone somewhere between the bathroom a mile or so south on trail 25.

Once I noticed, I ran back looking for it but never found it. You must have picked it up. I kept going and chatted with others on the trail - all were kind and told me they’d keep and eye out for me, thank you! I completed my route, and returned to the ranger station at Bowl & Pitcher, asking about lost and found. Low and behold my phone had been turned in! It either fell out of my bag, or left in the bathroom, either way it was my mistake and I am so grateful for kind people like you.

JEERS HOOD VANDALS We had a deer head taped to the front of my mother’s car.

It brought her a lot of joy and people smiled at it when they saw it. It made her happy. So the people who broke the ears and antlers off of it, shame on you. You really think you are being funny, but you are just proving the lack of character you have. “It’s hilarious

to destroy other people’s things,” says nobody but a bunch of simple minded weasels. May the acts you display in this world come back around to you.

SHAME ON YOU! This morning I went to get pictures at JCPenney Portrait Studio in the Northtown Mall. While I

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was there, the lady whose appointment was after mine, yelled at the photographer and made a big deal because she wanted her appointment to be at 11 instead of 11:30 which she had made it for. The photographer nicely explained and showed the lady that her appointment was for 11:30 and not 11. The lady yelled at the photographer because of the temperature in the room, she yelled at her because she wouldn’t move her appointment time to 11 because it was already taken by me and my family, she cussed and made a huge scene in front of not only her kids but mine! if you are that lady, shame on you! That poor girl was nothing but professional with you, just as she was with me. I highly doubt that she goes out of her way to come to your work and make your day worse.

Please let this serve as a lesson to all, work is hard enough without people being jerks unnecessarily! No matter what anyone’s job is, it is not okay to be nasty and disrespectful! You should be as embarrassed as your husband and children clearly were.

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Ave out of a white car on the street: really? You can keep the black pair, but please return the other and put it in the mailbox.

LIME SIDEWALK CRIME Kids on Lime scooters going down sidewalks at top speed, irregardless of people. Unsafe,

Curing Spokane? Why don’t you just say what you really meant, “MAKE SPOKANE GREAT AGAIN”!!!

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ing in negative results and a stronger Russia and China. Had this money been split amongst the 3,142 counties, etc in the USA, Spokane County would have received $1,550 Million. Imagine no grubbing around finding money for freeways, schools, roads, medical care, housing, solar/wind... the list goes on

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and on. Very few presidential candidates are addressing this waste in lives and treasure; one of the few wise ones has the initials TG.

irresponsible and foolhardy. This happened before, and they were banned.

What outside money brought them back? They are a bane! Stop Lime crime!

SAY WHAT YOU MEAN! Jeers Mr Stone.

Curing Spokane? Why don’t you just say what you really meant, “MAKE SPOKANE GREAT AGAIN”!!!

A GOOD WAY TO GET YOURSELF HIT. To the idiot crossing against a green light yesterday, 8/27/2019 at the intersection of 37th and Regal. The light turns green for traffic to go and this guy deliberately steps out to cross against the light, knowing that I will not hit him. I honk and all he does he stare at me from the middle of the intersection.

People are always so quick to blame the drivers in this town whenever there is a vehicle/pedestrian accident. It’s idiots like this who are to blame as well!! n

FADE INTO YOU... I hope that song haunts you for the rest of your life.

I’d “cheers” you, but you’re a double “fister.” Cheers yourself. The best is yet to come, Twirly.

FIRE BAN Our neighbor had a fire going in his backyard. So I called the fire department and asked if there was still a burn ban. The fireman that answered said yes there is. Told him about the neighbor and his fire. The fireman said he would come talk too my neighbor if I wanted. How about you just do your job fireman! More useless men and women in uniforms in this moron city of Spokane. Embarrassed to tell people where we are from. Sad sad sad.

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LATE LAUGHS An improvised comedy show featuring a mix of experiments in improv, duos, teams, sketch and more.

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VANDAL TOWN BLOCK PARTY Open to residents and students, join the University of Idaho to herald in the start of the fall semester and new school year with lawn games, food trucks and live entertainment on Main Street in downtown Moscow. Sep. 5, 5-9 pm. Free.

Friendship Square, Fourth Ave. and Main St. (208-883-7132) FAMILY DANCE & POTLUCK Celebrate fall with food, friends and dancing, including easy circle, line, folk, and contra dances. No experience or partner needed. Sep. 6, 6:30-8 pm. Free; donations accepted. Bethany Presbyterian Church, 2607 S. Ray St. (533-9955) JAPAN CULTURE DAY AT THE FAIR Enjoy Japanese art, dance and music in the Main Exhibition Hall, Bay 4. Featured events include Taiko drummers, Japanese dancers, flower arranging, ink brush painting, origami, embroidery, a tea ceremony setting and more. Sep. 6, 11 am-3 pm. Fair entrance ($8-$11) apply. Spokane County Fair & Expo Center, 404 N. Havana. spokanecounty.org RIVERFRONT PARK PAVILION GRAND OPENING The grand opening of the renovated Expo ‘74 Pavilion features live music from the Spokane Symphony and The Cronkites, and national act The Dip, fresh from Bumbershoot Music Festival. Attendees can also enjoy light shows, fitness programming, a kids zone, native cultural presentation, food vendors, beer garden and more.

Sept. 6 from 4-9 pm and Sept. 7 from 9 am-9 pm. See schedule at link. Free.

Riverfront Park, 507 N. Howard St. bit. ly/2Zg6YbN 9/11 MEMORIAL MOVING TRIBUTE This year’s tribute involves a procession of the American flag and a Flag of Honor bearing the names of victims of the 9/11 attacks along the Latah Trail to the University of Idaho Campus, ending with a ceremony and family barbecue in downtown Moscow. Sep. 7, 8:46 am. moscow.id.us BULGARIA THE BEAUTIFUL: LAND OF CONTRASTS & CONTROVERSY Travel through ancient and modern times to learn about Bulgaria’s rich history, culture, traditions and people. Sep. 7, 3:30-4:30 pm. Free. Shadle Library, 2111 W. Wellesley Ave. spokanelibrary.org FALL OPEN HOUSE An opportunity for you to visit the studio, sample classes and meet staff. Sep. 7, 9 am-5 pm. Free.

Harmony Yoga, 1717 W. Sixth Ave. harmonyoga.com/workshops (747-4430) FRIENDS OF MANITO FALL PLANT SALE The annual plant sale offers new cultivars, “plant of the year” prize winners and other Northwest favorites, including grasses, shrubs, pollinatorfriendly, deer and drought resistant and more. Sep. 7, 8 am-3 pm. Manito Park, 1800 S. Grand Blvd. thefriendsofmanito.org (509-456-8038) FRIENDS OF THE FAIRFIELD LIBRARY BOOK SALE Proceeds from book sales support library programs, activities, and services. Sep. 7, 10 am-4 pm. Free.

Fairfield Library, 305 E. Main St. scldfriends.org/events (893-8320) HASSIE ALL ORIGINAL CAR SHOW The Historical Automobile Society of Spokane & Inland Empire (HASSIE) show for vintage and classic cars and trucks, with numerous vehicle classes (fully restored, all-original condition and more.) Register to enter ($25) a vehicle by Aug. 24. Sep. 7, 10 am-4 pm.

Free. Mirabeau Point Park, 2426 N. Discovery Place. (385- 9992) HERITAGE GARDENS TOURS Step back in time and experience this unique garden as it looked in 1915. Gardens close for the season at the end of September. Tours every Saturday in Sept. from 11 am-noon. Free. Moore-Turner Heritage Gardens, 507 W. Seventh Ave. heritagegardens.org OUT OF THE DARKNESS WALK A local awareness walk to support the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention’s education and support programs and its goal to reduce the annual U.S. rate of suicide 20 percent by the year 2025.

Sep. 7, 10:30 am. By donation. Pavillion Park, 727 N. Molter Rd. afsp.org KSPS EVERY CHILD READS STORYTIME A fun-filled hour dedicated to reading, PBS Kids books, interactive stories, songs, crafts, and free takehome educational resources. Sep. 9, 10:30-11:30 am. Free; register to reserve a spot. KSPS Public TV, 3911 S. Regal St. ksps.org/storytime (443-7748) SCIENCE ON THE PALOUSE: THE HIDDEN COCKTAIL THREATENING LAKE CDA Rebecca Stevens, Restoration & Hazardous Waste Program Manager for the Coeur d’Alene Tribe, talks about the people who inhabited the area for thousands of years, land management legacies, historical effects, and the future health of one of North Idaho’s largest glacial lakes. Sep. 9, 6 pm. Free.

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BREWFTOP Catch up on what The Lands Council does for the regional environment, and how you can get involved. Sep. 6, 5-9 pm. The Steam Plant, 159 S. Lincoln. landscouncil.org NW PARKINSON’S DAY | WALK FOR PARKINSON’S An opportunity to celebrate the Parkinson’s community while having fun, raising awareness of Parkinson’s and raising funds for the NW Parkinson’s Foundation. The event includes engaging activities and challenges accessible for all ages and levels of mobility. Sep. 6, noon. Free. SIERR Building at McKinstry Station, 850 E. Spokane Falls Blvd. walkforparkinsons.org WILDLIFE TRIVIA NIGHT Join American Heritage Wildlife Foundation for a night of fun and test your knowledge of Sandpoint’s wild species and spaces.

Sep. 6, 4-7 pm. By donation. Matchwood Brewing, 513 Oak. (801-347-1526) HOWLING AT HAMILTON The Humane Society of the Palouse hosts this 12th annual event, including a dog jumping contest at 5 pm. Dogs only in the pool; one dog per person. Sep. 8, 1-6 pm. $10/dog. Hamilton-Lowe Aquatics Center, 830 N. Mountain View Rod. humanesocietyofthepalouse.org CORAZON HAPPY HOUR FT. THE MERRY MAKERS An evening of music and wine; tickets include glass of wine and tapas. Each additional glass purchased provides a $2 donation to Amigas de Corazon Programming. Sep. 9, 6-8 pm. $25. Craftsman Cellars, 1194 W. Summit Pkwy. (714-8928) NW PARKINSON’S CONCERT FOR A CAUSE FT. ALLEN STONE Join headliner and Spokane native Allen Stone in raising awareness of Parkinson’s and funds for the NW Parkinson’s community alongside bluegrass band Buck99 and jazz band, 4’derves. All proceeds benefit the Northwest Parkinson’s Foundation. Sep. 9, 4 pm. $6-$125. Arbor Crest Wine Cellars, 4705 N. Fruit Hill Rd. arborcrest.com (443-3361) EWI OF SPOKANE WINE & WIN EVENT Executive Women International Spokane is a networking group with a focus on philanthropic, literacy and professional development. Each year it awards $15,000 in scholarships to local students. Enjoy an evening of wine and hors d’oeuvres with a raffle. Sep. 12, 5 pm. $30. Maryhill, 1303 W. Summit Pkwy. ewispokane.org EYE CONTACT: HOMELESS ART EXHIBIT & FUNDRAISER The annual fundraiser supporting all of Volunteers of America programs features live music, dance, poetry and performance art with a curated display of artwork produced by homeless men, women, and youth; specifically those who’ve been guests at Crosswalk Youth Shelter and Hope House Women’s Shelter. Sep. 12, 6 pm. $25. Washington Cracker Co. Building, 304 W. Pacific. voaspokane.org HAPPINESS HOUR Mingle with friends, taste local craft beers, wine and cider, and have a good time while helping raise funds to grant wishes to kids with critical illnesses. Sep. 12, 5:30 pm. $0$75. Montvale Event Center, 1017 W. First. montvalespokane.com

First and last Friday of the month at 9:30 pm. Rated for mature audiences. $8. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheatre.com (747-7045) 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 THIS JUST IN... With audience suggestions, the BDT players build a one-of-akind evening of all-improvised parody news. Fridays at 7:30 pm, Aug. 2-Sept.

6. $8. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheatre.com AFTER DARK Catch a late-night mature audience version of the BDT’s longform improv show. First/last Saturday of the month at 9:30 pm. $8. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. (747-7045) FIRE BRIGADE IMPROV The theater’s in-house, family-friendly comedy troupe performs the first Saturday of each month at 7 pm. $5. Ignite! Community Theatre, 10814 E. Broadway Ave. igniteonbroadway.org JEFF DUNHAM Known for his politically incorrect brand of humor shared through the likes of Walter, Bubba J, Achmed, Seamus and others. Sep. 7, 7:30 pm. $59-$99. Northern Quest Resort & Casino, 100 N. Hayford Rd. northernquest.com (509-242-7000) TIG NOTARO Notaro is hailed for her effortless storytelling and fearless stage presence, her subject matter ranges from the delightfully absurd to the monumentally serious. Sep. 7, 8 pm. $35-$55. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave. bingcrosbytheater.com NEARLY FAMOUS COMEDY Comedy music inspired by audience suggestions, performed by Michael Glatzmaier and Deece Casillas. Sep. 10, 7 pm. $11.49-$37.74. Northern Ales, 325 W. Third Ave. (509-738-7382)

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AMY ALKON

I have to go visit my mom, who’s in the hospital in another state. She’s really ill. Her boyfriend told me she’s lost a lot of weight and it might be shocking to see her initially. I want to be strong for her, but I’m a big crier.

I cry on every phone call, and it’s awful. How do I show up for her and not let my feelings overwhelm me so she is not sad or worried about me and can concentrate on getting better?

—Emotional

When you’re visiting a friend or loved one who’s seriously ill, it’s nice to show up bearing gifts — like flowers, magazines, and a paper bag you can hyperventilate into.

It’s scary seeing someone you care about all small and frail in a hospital bed.

And this is your mom who’s really ill. If something happens to her, it’s not like you can just run out and pick up another one at Costco.

Even so, the level of fear you experience when you see her is something you could have some control over. Neuroscience studies find that novel experiences are the most emotionally powerful, having the most intense effect on us. Additionally, psychology research finds that people quickly become acclimated to both positive and negative changes in their lives. Accordingly, seeing your mom for the first time will have the most gut-punchability.

To dial down the intensity of your reaction when you first see her, you could ask her boyfriend to take some video of her and send it to you. He should ask your mom first, of course, so it won’t violate her privacy, and perhaps cast what he’s doing as sending you a hello. If she balks at letting him, he could then tell her the real deal: that it’s to emotionally prepare you for seeing her.

The other major player in how you react to your mom’s condition is empathy.

Neuroscientists Olga Klimecki and Tania Singer note that empathy involves our observing or even just imagining what another person is feeling and having that trigger the same sort of feeling in us. They give the example of hearing that a friend is sad because her grandmother is dying: “Our first reaction would be empathy, which means we would share the feeling of sadness and thereby know what our friend is going through.”

This initial bolt of empathy rises up automatically. But once you experience it, Klimecki and Singer explain, there’s a fork in the road, which is to say you can go one of two ways with your empathy: into unhealthy empathic distress or healthy empathic concern.

Empathic distress is a me-focused response — empathy that turns into emotional quicksand when we just keep “feeling with” a person (feeling and feeling and feeling) without doing anything to try to change their situation. In time, we get overwhelmed by the distress we’re experiencing at their distress. This often leads to what Klimecki and Singer call “withdrawal behavior”: our trying to escape our uncomfortable emotions by ducking out and leaving the other person alone with their suffering.

Empathic concern, on the other hand, is an other-focused response. It starts with our experiencing that initial bolt of “feeling with” a person who’s suffering, but then we shift into “feeling for” — as in “What can I do FOR you?” Empathic concern is basically empathy with an action plan, motivating us to try to make things better for another person.

The important takeaway for you is that you don’t have to let your feelings run the show, dragging you boohooingly along behind them. You can instead control your feelings by shifting from me-driven empathy, empathic distress, to mom-centered empathic concern. In practice, this simply takes redirecting your focus from how sad you are to how helpful you can be — emotionally and practically. Think Warrior Nurse instead of Drama Queen.

One of the kindest things you can do for a very sick person is make their life boringly normal. Distract them from their illness by watching their favorite streamed show with them, playing Scrabble, losing $6 million to them in gin rummy, telling them the latest gossip about the slutty neighbor.

Really, your just being there is huge. And once you leave, you can start sending her cards a few days a week. This will help keep you from falling into the swamp of me-focused pointless distress, and it’ll be comforting for her. Ultimately, it’s feeling loved — not laughter — that’s “the best medicine.” I’m guessing that’s why hospitals instituted visiting hours instead of replacing the IV bag on the pole with a foul-mouthed parrot in a tiny bandanna squawking insults at passerby. n ©2018, 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 LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS MEETING The non-partisan group hosts an introductory meeting to present this year’s activities. All are welcome. Sep. 10, 11:30 am-1 pm. Free. St. Andrew’s Episcopal, 2404 N. Hamilton. lwvspokane.org STRONG TOWNS - STRONG AMERICA TOUR The Strong America presentation begins by showcasing why so many towns in North America are struggling financially despite decades of robust growth, and then invites the audience to “choose their own adventure” from a range of presentation tracks and go deeper into just one area where their unique community can make a change today. Sep. 10, 6 pm. Free. Gonzaga University School of Law, 721 N. Cincinnati St. strongtowns.org/strongamerica

FESTIVAL

SPOKANE COUNTY INTERSTATE FAIR The 10-day event includes exhibits in agriculture, gardening, food preservation, gardening and more, along with live music and entertainment on the Grandstand, including the PRCA Rodeo and Demolition Derby, and performances by Foreigner, Trace Adkins and more. Sept. 6-14 from 10 am-10:30 pm; Sept. 15 from 10 am-8 pm. $8-$11/gate; doesn’t include Grandstand entertainment. Spokane County Fair & Expo Center, 404 N. Havana. spokanecounty.org SPOKANE-COEUR D’ALENE WATER LANTERN FESTIVAL Attendees decorate and launch floating paper lanterns during a family friendly festival with food trucks, music, activities and more.

Lanterns and other trash are collected after the event. Sep. 7, 5:30-10 pm. $25$40. Q’Emiln Park, 12201 W Parkway Dr. waterlanternfestival.com

FILM

THE KITCHEN The wives of New York gangsters in Hell’s Kitchen in the 1970s continue to operate their husbands’ rackets after they’re locked up in prison.

Rated R. Sept. 5-8; times vary. $7. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main. kenworthy.org ODE TO JOY Charlie (Martin Freeman) has a neurological disorder where strong emotions, especially joy, make him faint. His work as a librarian provides a quiet environment until Francesca (Morena Baccarin) enters his library and life. Sept. 5-8; times vary. $5-$8. Panida Theater, 300 N. First Ave. panida.org (208-255-7801) ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW The Garland’s regular screenings of the cult classic include prop bags, shadow casts and other revelries. Upcoming screenings at midnight on Sept. 7 and Oct. 26. $7. Garland Theater, 924 W. Garland Ave. garlandtheater.com RUM RUNNERS MOVIE NIGHT A screening of the film shot in Chewelah, Colville and surrounding areas. Includes beer, wine and snacks available for purchase. Sep. 7, 6 pm. $7.29. Chewelah Center for the Arts, 405 N. Third St. chewelahcenterforthearts.com DAMMED TO EXTINCTION A documentary featuring interviews with scientists, experts and cultural commentators from across the Northwest. Sep.

9, 7 pm. Free. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy.org (208-882-4127) CHICAGO’S BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT Professors Thabiti Lewis and Pavithra Narayanan of WSU Vancouver, who directed BAM! Chicago’s Black Arts Movement, screen the documentary film on the WSU-Pullman campus (Fine Arts Building). Q&A with the filmmakers to follow. Sep. 11, 5 pm. Free and open to the public. Washington State University, 2000 NE Stadium Way. english.wsu. edu/visiting-writers/ (335-3564) CHINESE MOVIE NIGHT: BEHEMOTH Beginning with a mining explosion in Mongolia and ending in a ghost city west of Beijing, documentarian Zhao Liang’s visionary film details, in one breathtaking sequence after another, the social and ecological devastation behind an economic miracle. Sep. 11, 7-9 pm. Free. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy.org (208-882-4127)

FOOD

TERRAIN TABLE A benefit dinner for Terrain, featuring cocktails, live music, food by chef Chad White and a surprise performance. At the farm of Celeste Shaw-Coulston and Dan Coulston (address provided to ticketholders). Sep. 5, 5-10 pm. $125. terraintable.org FIRST FRIDAY WINE + CHEESE NIGHT Enjoy cheese paried with the winery’s Red Mountain Estate Wines while listening to cellist Grant Bierschbach out on the patio. Sep. 6, 5-8 pm. Terra Blanca Winery, 926 W. Sprague. (3409140)

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WINE TASTING Taste September selections from Vino’s Wine of the Month Club. Includes cheese and crackers. Sep. 6, 3-6:30 pm. $10. Vino! A Wine Shop, 222 S. Washington St. vinowine.com FARM TO TABLE TAILGATE BBQ Dine in at the Spokane County Interstate Fair for one of three locally-sourced feasts served by chef Adam Hegsted. Ticket price includes gate admission. 21+. Sep. 7, 5-8 pm. $45. Spokane County Fair & Expo Center, 404 N. Havana St. bit.ly/31Ya015 SALSA FIESTA The annual festival offers live music by Natasha Force and the Northern Aliens, spicy foods, arts and craft vendors, wine sampling and more.

Sep. 7, 12-5 pm. $10. China Bend Winery, 3751 Vineyard Way. chinabend.com TAKE FLIGHT WITH COIL + LIBERTY A 90-min. acro yoga adventure in the brewing room of Liberty Ciderworks followed by a cider tasting flight. Sep. 7, 3:30-5:30 pm. $25. Liberty Ciderworks, 164 S. Washington. bit.ly/30p3hNj WINE TASTING A sherry tasting; includes cheese and crackers. Sep. 7, 2-4:30 pm. $10. Vino! A Wine Shop, 222 S. Washington St. vinowine.com (509-838-1229) FARM TO TABLE BEND & BRUNCH Dine in at the Spokane County Interstate Fair for one of three locally-sourced feasts served by chef Adam Hegsted. Ticket price includes gate admission. 21+. Event also includes yoga with Soul Barre Studio before brunch service. Sep. 8, 9:30 am-12:30 pm. $45. Spokane County Fair & Expo Center, 404 N. Havana. bit. ly/2ztCd3T GRADUATE GOLDEN ALE RELEASE PARTY Sales of the collaboratively brewed beer, from Ten Pin Brewing, help fund scholarships for WSU students studying wine and beverage business

management. Sep. 8, 3-6 pm. Press, 909 S. Grand Blvd. (509-747-7737) CHEF’S INTERNATIONAL DINNER Guests enjoy a five-course meal of international cuisine prepared with locally sourced ingredients and covering a wide range of cultures, also paired with cocktails. Reservations required. Sep. 12, 6:30 pm. $35. The Wandering Table, 1242 W. Summit Pkwy. thewanderingtable.com

MUSIC

JAZZ AT THE JACC An evening of “Straight Ahead Jazz” from the Great American Songbook with Michael Jaramillo & Friends, plus a guest performance by the CdA Charter Academy Jazz Band.

Sep. 6, 7 pm. $10. Jacklin Arts & Cultural Center, 405 North William Street.

MICHAEL CAVANAUGH: THE MUSIC OF ELTON JOHN WITH THE SPOKANE SYMPHONY Cavanaugh wowed Spokane audiences last winter, performing the music of Billy Joel with the Spokane Symphony. The charismatic performer returns to lend his musical brilliance to Elton John’s biggest hits. Sep. 6, 8-10 pm. $43+. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. spokanesymphony.org AMERICAN IDOL AUDITIONS An open call for the live TV voice talent series.

Sep. 8. Davenport Grand Hotel, 333 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. abc.go.com/shows/ american-idol/auditions (800-918-9344) MUSIC VIDEO JAMS / SCREENING & AWARDS: The second annual music video festival and competition, organized by the Bartlett, Global Credit Union, Homegrown Radio show, KYRS, CMTV14, Spokane Arts and Purple Crayon Pictures.

Sep. 8, 7:30 pm. $5-$6. The Bartlett, 228 W. Sprague Ave. thebartlettspokane.com

WEDNESDAY NIGHT CONTRA DANCE The Spokane Folklore Society presents its weekly dance with the River City Ramblers and caller Nancy Staub. This is a community dance, all are welcome. Sep. 11, 7:30-9:30 pm. $5/$7. Woman’s Club of Spokane, 1428 W. Ninth. myspokanefolklore@gmail.com (509-838-5667)

SPORTS & OUTDOORS

BARRE ON THE RIBBON Join Core4Collective on the Numerica Skate Ribbon every Thursday this September. Bring your own mat. Thu from 6-7 pm through Sep. 26. Free. Riverfront Park, 507 N. Howard St. riverfrontspokane.org (625-6600) FIX A FLAT CLINIC Includes a demonstration and instruction on dealing with a flat tire, then participants do hands-on practice. Please bring one of your wheels from your bike to practice on. Sep. 6, 7 pm. Free. Wheel Sport South, 3020 S. Grand Blvd. wheelsportbikes.com

THEATER

REFERENCES TO SALVADOR DALI MAKE ME HOT Following the Persian Gulf War, Gabriela, a beautiful young woman, awaits the return of her husband, Benito; who has been forever changed by the war and its aftermath. Imagined through the mating rituals of a cat and a coyote, Gabriela delivers Benito an ultimatum.

Sept. 6-22; Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $20-$25. Stage Left Theater, 108 W. Third Ave. spokanestageleft.org

ARTS

MOSCOW FIRST THURSDAY The city of

Moscow’s monthly community arts celebration, featuring art displays around the downtown area, live music and more.

First Thursdays, 5-8 pm. See link for details: facebook.com/moscowfirsthursday FIRST FRIDAY Art galleries and businesses across downtown Spokane and beyond host monthly receptions to showcase new displays of art. Free. Sept.

6, 5-8 pm. Additional details at firstfridayspokane.org.

FIRST FRIDAYS WITH POAC First Friday arts events in Sandpoint, organized by the Pend Oreille Arts Council. First Friday from 5:30-7:30 pm. First Fri. of every month, 5:30-7:30 pm. Pend Oreille Arts Council Gallery, 110 Main St. artinsandpoint.org (208-263-6139) OPEN HOUSE: LABORATORY ART + RESIDENCY Laboratory’s re-introduction to Spokane includes interactive artwork from past resident artists and tours of the studio and apartments where residents live and work. Sep. 6, 7-10 pm. Free. Richmond Art Collective, 228 W. Sprague. bit. ly/2kpTFlC SUMMER DAYDREAMS ARTIST TALK Join Spokane Arts for a talk with the three artists featured in the Chase Gallery’s current exhibit, Summer Daydreams: Amanda Caldwell, Seiko A. Purdue and Kenneth Susynski. Sep. 6, 12-1 pm. Free. Chase Gallery, 808 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. (321-9416) INK! PRINT RALLY Emerge host its third annual Print Rally, featuring interactive printmaking booths, local artisans and makers, live music, food trucks and a beer garden. Featured in the center of the parking lot, large-scale prints are created using 5’ x 4’ carved wood panels, an asphalt roller, and bed sheets. Sep. 7, 1-7 pm. Free. Emerge, 208 N. Fourth St. bit.

ly/2Z8V4jQ (208-818-3342) MAKOTO FUJIMURA: SILENCE – MYSTERION A solo exhibition of recent works by renowned international artist, Makoto Fujimura, including large-scale paintings from his “Silence & Beauty Series,” and “the Four Holy Gospels” frontispieces.

Sept. 7-Jan. 4; Mon-Sat 10 am-4 pm.

Mon.-10 am-4 pm through Jan. 4. Free admission. Jundt Art Museum, 200 E. Desmet Ave. (509-313-6843) GARLAND SKETCH CRAWL Sketch the landmarks of the Garland neighborhood with local artist Megan Perkins. Ages 14+.

Sep. 10, 5-8 pm. $20. Spokane Art School, 811 W. Garland Ave. spokaneartschool.net

WORDS

BOOK LAUNCH: ALEXANDRA TEAGUE Moscow author Alexandra Teague reads from her newest poetry collection “Or What We’ll Call Desire,” that mixes high art and popular culture. Books available for sale and signing. Sep. 5, 7 pm. Free.

BookPeople of Moscow, 521 S. Main St. bookpeopleofmoscow.com 3 MINUTE MIC Auntie’s First Friday open mic series. Readers can share up to 3 minutes’ worth of poetry. Arrive by 7:45 for signups; readings 8-9 pm. Sep. 6, Oct. 4, Nov. 1 and Dec. 6. Free. Auntie’s Bookstore, 402 W. Main. auntiesbooks.com MARY CLEARMAN BLEW: SWEEP OUT THE ASHES A reading with the author of the novels “Sweep Out the Ashes,” “Ruby Dreams of Janis Joplin” and “Jackalope Dreams.” Books available for signing.

Sep. 12, 7 pm. Free. BookPeople of Moscow, 521 S. Main St. bookpeopleofmoscow.com (208-882-2669) n

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A Look Ahead Washington state regulators have some reforms in mind

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Last week, in an interview with the Associated Press, Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board Director Rick Garza outlined plans for what the board is calling “Cannabis 2.0.” The series of proposals, which will head to the state Legislature in the form of two bills during the next session, take a more proactive approach going forward.

“We’ve typically been so challenged with the issues of the day we haven’t been looking out long-term to determine what the future looks like,” Garza told the AP. ...continued on page 68

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Be aware of the differences in the law between Idaho and Washington. It is illegal to possess, sell or transport cannabis in the State of Idaho. Possessing up to an ounce is a misdemeanor and can get you a year in jail and up to a $1,000 fine; more than three ounces is a felony that can carry a five-year sentence and fine of up to $10,000. Transporting marijuana across state lines, like from Washington into Idaho, is a felony under federal law.

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If the proposals go through, they will mark the largest changes to the state’s legal marijuana market since its inception, and they would impact everyone from potential producers all the way to the consumer.

One bill targets existing producers. Specifically, it deals with “tier one” producers, the smallest in the state, who are currently limited to just 2,000 square feet of growing space. The bill would expand that number to 5,000 square feet, and potentially 8,000 down the road. It would also allow them to sell medical marijuana directly to medical patients.

The other bill aims to make the marijuana industry in the state more diverse and inclusive. It proposes a statewide equity program that would funnel new producer licences to women, minorities and veterans. That is only if the state decides to begin issuing new licences in the future, as it is not doing so currently.

Another notable proposal would allow for small growers to sell their product at “farmers-market-style locations.” But those locations would be required to be indoors and at least three miles from established retailers. In other words, not in Kendall Yards or South Perry alongside artisan bread and organic zucchini.

LETTERS Alongside those specific Send comments to proposals is something of a editor@inlander.com. broad, philosophical change within the state’s regulation of the industry. The Liquor and Cannabis Board is no longer going it alone. Other state agencies, such as the Department of Ecology and Department of Financial Institutions, have been included in talks about “Cannabis 2.0” and are part of the regulatory plans outlined in the proposals.

After a profitable and successful start to the era of legal marijuana in Washington, state regulators feel ready to usher in a new and, if all goes well, brighter future. n BE AWARE: Marijuana is legal for adults 21 and older under Washington State law (e.g., RCW 69.50, RCW 69.51A, HB0001 Initiative 502 and Senate Bill 5052). State law does not preempt federal law; possessing, using, distributing and selling marijuana remains illegal under federal law. In Washington state, consuming marijuana in public, driving while under the influence of marijuana and transporting marijuana across state lines are all illegal. Marijuana has intoxicating effects; there may be health risks associated with its consumption, and it may be habit-forming. It can also impair concentration, coordination and judgment. Do not operate a vehicle or machinery under the influence of this drug. Keep out of reach of children. For more information, consult the Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board at www.liq.wa.gov.

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