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Which I imagine is a bummer for many of our local police and first responders who have resisted getting vaccinated and are seeking exemptions to any mandate they might face. Don’t miss staff reporter Wilson Criscione’s in-depth look at just how strong their opposition to the vaccine is (page 8).

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’m engaged.

If your response is similar to the reaction of family, friends, acquaintances or — most surprising — absolute strangers, I assume you are offering some form of congratulation. Now what comes next will sound unappreciative, but I do have a point (which I get to eventually). I had a rather mixed reaction to people’s universal satisfaction over the news.

It’s cute that folks are so excited because of this commitment to be wed. Though I must say that in my 41-year life antecedent, nothing has ever garnered this level of approval — not a birthday milestone, a solid career choice or promotions, not any contribution, nor words on a page, poured out from the heart, not even a Fulbright.

Nothing has ever secured such mass societal acceptance as this shiny ring thing.

If I channel my soon-to-be-mother-in-law, I would ask for a re-do, rewriting the above paragraph with a little less snark and a lot more con-

versation (fair warning — I do end up at a proximate conclusion). When I expressed my small irritations to the wise Mary H over the weirdness of a stranger’s glowing attention, she subtly showed me to my better self by invoking one of my own values — a uniting perspective. “Not everyone will be a lawyer or a writer, but most people get married.” While I had hyperfocused conformity, she honed in on common points of connection.

And she’s not wrong. According to a Social Security Office of Policy report, only around 4 percent of the U.S. population are “nevermarried(s).” Those numbers, though increasing, do seem to reflect our general direction toward matrimony. This remains true despite those other numbers lurking out there which tell another part

of the story — divorce statistics, which hover somewhere between 39 and 50 percent. Yes, nearly all of us will enter but close to half of us will part with the ideal of nuptial bliss.

Look, I know my attitude about facts and figures and folks’ reactions have far more to do with me and my past than any of that. Subsequently, I sat down with myself to mull over what I could possibly find disquieting about someone else’s best wishes, especially on my behalf. This is where I landed — I have not relationshiped real good, generally speaking — nothing horrific, just a string of some moderately benign disasters. (If love songs, TV dramas, anecdotes, research or every Fitzgerald story ever written portray insight into others’ affairs, then I am not alone in those choices.)

Therapy, personal growth, accountability and autonomy are tools that have helped me improve on old patterns, but when people extend effusive congrats, especially those made without knowing the substance of my present relationship, I ruffle a bit.

Of course, I can interpret those laudations as shorthand for the underlying implied good intentions, but I also happen to think we can do better. It’s time our conversations about love evolve.

Our words are sacred. What we congratulate, we value.

“From this day forward, I do solemnly swear to expand the discussion on love and devote myself to becoming truly engaged...”

Energy is a finite resource, and my recent interactions have shown me that societally, we spend an awful lot of it on a dress, a diamond or a day, which means not a whole lot remains for the less symbolic but more important discussions on the realities of marriages or the (hopefully) positive attributes our partners display or the kindness of the families we are marrying into.

The quality of a relationship — not merely its existence nor a well-intentioned commitment — matters. Somewhere along the way it seems like we let heading to the altar be our sole marker of success. I’m a little salty about that. So, from this day forward, I do solemnly swear to expand the discussion on love and devote myself to becoming truly engaged in the practice of honoring the range of people’s healthy relationship choices.

Here’s a huge shout-out to the couples in counseling, who recognize that renewing intention and continually improving communication and connection is crucial! To the individual who decides to stay single for the first time in a long time, stepping away to take stock, to heal trauma or to learn about the self, I am delighted for you. To those who ultimately end a union despite fighting hard to keep it because after all that work, you’ve realized it’s the best solution for everyone, I see you. An extra big hand if you have created a constructive way to face the grief that comes along with those heavy losses of a previous joined identity. Forging a new version of yourself amidst uncertainty and heartbreak is incredibly admirable, I am immensely proud of you. To the enduring partners, going the distance and growing together throughout decades, y’all the real MVPs (also please share your wisdom). You have my sincerest admiration for your abiding commitment. To the folks being the village we so often heard was necessary for raising a child, ya gorgeous. To the single ones, slogging their way through Tinderesque apps (aka hellscapes), struggling to stay authentically you — forthright, ethical and true, I bow down before you, beautiful human. Finally, to the folks setting those boundaries, saying what you need, and meaning what you say — even when it’s difficult, nice job out there!

I wish you all the best. n Inga N. Laurent is a local legal educator and a Fulbright scholar. She is deeply curious about the world and its constructs and delights in uncovering common points of connection that unite our shared but unique human experiences.

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n Aug. 20, days after Washington Gov. Jay Inslee issued COVID-19 vaccine mandates for health care and education workers, hundreds of protesters gathered outside the Spokane Regional Health District. They shouted “don’t be a slave!” and held signs that said things like “STOP MEDICAL TYRANNY.” But the protesters weren’t the only ones there that day strongly opposed to vaccine mandates.

So too were some of the Spokane police officers on duty monitoring the event, body camera footage shows.

“That’s F’d up,” one officer says about the state vaccine mandate for health care workers. “They’re going to try to do it to us,” another says. ...continued on page 10

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“That’ll be funny,” says the first officer. “Are they going to fire us all?”

“Well, that’s the thing,” the second officer says. “How are you going to replace 150 cops?”

The footage was obtained via public records request by local activist Kim Schmidt, who shared it with the Inlander. Another video she’s shared on YouTube previously shows Spokane police officers monitoring a protest of masks and vaccines on Dec. 15, five days after the FDA’s emergency use authorization of the Pfizer vaccine. In it, an officer says that he doesn’t think the police department “could survive” a vaccine mandate.

“I won’t get the vaccine,” he says. “I will get fired before I get the vaccine.”

The interactions underscore the resistance to vaccine mandates among local police and emergency responders, foreshadowing a potential legal battle that may arise from a vaccine requirement.

Neither the Spokane Police Department nor the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office has released information about vaccination rates in their departments, but across the country, more transparent departments have released data showing vaccination rates below the national average.

It remains unclear whether President Joe Biden’s new vaccine mandates on employers with more than 100 employees will apply to local government or law enforcement, city of Spokane spokesman Brian Coddington says. Right now, local law enforcement does not fall under Gov. Inslee’s vaccine mandate since they are not state employees or health care workers.

But a mandate that applies to local law enforcement would likely receive pushback. Some of the state troopers, correctional officers and city firefighters who do fall under Inslee’s mandate already filed a lawsuit earlier this week seeking to overturn it. In Portland, the city tried to impose a vaccine mandate on all employees including police, only for the city to backtrack due to an Oregon law that may have made the mandate illegal.

But the battle over vaccine mandates for police and first responders has strong implications for public safety. Schmidt, who founded local activist group Stronger Together Spokane, argues that unvaccinated police put both themselves and the public at risk.

“They’re responding to calls,” she says, “and putting the general public in danger.”

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Last month, the Inlander asked dozens of local leaders whether or not they’d been vaccinated for COVID-19 and, if so, how they were encouraging others to get the vaccine.

Spokane Police Chief Craig Meidl did not respond to Inlander questions because, according to spokeswoman Julie Humphreys, he was on vacation.

Now, Humphreys says Meidl “respectfully declines to comment on his vaccination status,” believing it is a personal matter.

“He believes because it’s such a contentious issue, it is not productive to hold a public discussion about who is vaccinated and who isn’t,” Humphreys says. She said that Meidl declined the Inlander’s request for an interview.

In response to the body camera video of

officers speaking against vaccine mandates, Humphreys says that it’s not necessarily representative of the entire department and that they follow state mandates around mask wearing and guidelines around possible exposures.

But it remains a mystery how many Spokane police officers are vaccinated. Humphreys says the department does not track that information.

Spokane City Council President Breean Beggs argues that it should be tracked — not just for police officers, but for all city employees.

“We could use that information to provide incentives to employees who chose to get vaccinated and also try to make sure that unvaccinated employees have limited contact with the public,” Beggs says.

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Beggs has asked for vaccination rates but says the city administration “has made a deliberate choice not to seek or keep” it. Coddington, the city spokesman, says the city may know of an individual employee’s vaccination status but that the data isn’t kept in the aggregate.

The Spokane Police Department is not alone in keeping private how many officers are vaccinated. The Spokane County Sheriff’s Office does not track that vaccination status either, though county Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich has confirmed to the Inlander that at least he is vaccinated for COVID-19.

So far, Spokane Mayor Nadine Woodward hasn’t required city employees including police to get the vaccine. Even Beggs and other members of the City Council don’t necessarily favor a mandate coming from the city.

“I believe vaccine mandates for employees interacting with the public should be considered but would prefer it to be a federal, state or health district mandate rather than a piecemeal approach by a city,” Beggs says.

He adds, however, that if the current spread of COVID continues to get worse, cities may need to consider mandates.

However, that may not be a promise that police officers would get the vaccine. And if officers refuse, as a few have said they would, it could negatively impact the department as a whole.

That’s what seems to be happening to the Spokane Fire Department. City firefighters do qualify for Gov. Inslee’s vaccine mandate, but of the 280 members of the Spokane Firefighters Union, 50 have filed for a religious exemption, says union president Tim Archer.

The union is in bargaining with the city on reasonable accommodations for those firefighters, but Archer says the city wants to remove them from the field. Archer, who filed for a religious exemption himself, would be one of them.

“I believe forcing a vaccine by these punitive means upon a free people is immoral,” Archer tells the Inlander.

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COVID-19 was the leading cause of death for police officers in 2020, according to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund.

But that doesn’t seem to be a concern for the Spokane police officers shown in the body camera footage discussing vaccines.

They dismiss COVID as something like a cold or a flu. Their reasons against vaccines mirror the reasons commonly used by the vaccine skeptics in the general public. They say that they are already healthy and don’t like putting things in their body. They fear the vaccine’s long-term effects haven’t been researched. Or they say they’ve already had COVID and have immunity.

“I didn’t get tested,” one officer says. “But I know I had it.”

Above all, they feel their vaccination status is a personal decision.

Still, it’s one that can have a profound effect on public health and safety.

In jails and prisons, COVID-19 can spread like wildfire. Since the pandemic began, Airway Heights Correctional Center has had nearly 1,700 confirmed cases — easily the most of any state prison — and four deaths attributed to COVID-19. A total of 278 cases were among staff there. The bulk of those numbers came during an outbreak in December, before vaccines were available.

Just this week at Spokane County Jail, there were about 27 positive cases among staff as of press time, according to Kelli Hawkins, spokeswoman for the Spokane Regional Health District. That’s out of about 300 staffers, she says. Hawkins, however, says the jail is mostly doing a good job “keeping it under control.”

Hawkins says law enforcement and first responders may not necessarily be more at risk than other professions interacting with the public because government agencies often have more robust testing protocols in place. Still, she adds that “our stance is that everyone should get vaccinated because it is safe and it is effective.”

Spokane City Councilmember Lori Kinnear doesn’t just point at first responders as the ones who need to get vaccinated. She says the entire community needs to stop politicizing masks and vaccines, urging people to look at the soaring hospitalizations in the Inland Northwest.

“If you want to have elective surgery now, you can’t. If you have a heart attack, good luck. And that’s not OK,” she says.

“We like to point at police or fire — but it’s anybody who’s not vaccinated.”

Still, she says with both police officers and firefighters, people don’t have a choice but to have contact with them.

“If you’re having a heart attack and call 911, the people who are going to respond are firefighters. You can let them treat you or die,” Kinnear says.

Spokane Fire Chief Brian Schaeffer, for his part, says he’s vaccinated and encourages his firefighters to do the same.

But Meidl, the police chief, has stayed quiet. Beggs says he doesn’t know what, if anything, Meidl has done to even encourage vaccination among his ranks.

“I have no information about whether Chief Meidl has encouraged vaccination,” Beggs says. “I wish I had examples of it.”

Ultimately, a Spokane police officer discussing vaccination at a December protest may have predicted how the next few weeks or months will play out.

“I think somebody up the chain, a long ways up the chain, above our chief… I think somebody statewide is going to say ‘it’s mandatory. If you’re a first responder, you will get the vaccination, period. If you don’t get the vaccination, that’s your choice, but you can’t continue in your job,’” the officer says. “I think at that point, a judge will probably step in.” n wilsonc@inlander.com

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DISTRICT 1 Biden: 61% Trump: 34%

DISTRICT 2 Biden: 42% Trump: 54%

DISTRICT 3 Biden: 37% Trump: 58%

Each of the proposed county commissioner district maps, colorcoded according to political leanings in the 2020 presidential election. All districts are of roughly equivalent population.

The deeper the reddish-orange, the larger Donald Trump’s margin of victory in that district. Similarly, the darker the blue, the stronger Joe Biden’s margin was.

DISTRICT 5 Biden: 35% Trump: 61%

DISTRICT 1&2 Biden: 52% Trump: 43%

DISTRICT 3

DISTRICT 4

Biden: 54% Trump: 41%

Biden: 45% Trump: 51%

DISTRICT 5 Biden: 46% Trump: 49%

DISTRICT 4 Biden: 37% Trump: 59%

DISTRICT 2 Biden: 50% Trump: 45%

DISTRICT 4 Biden: 52% Trump: 44%

DISTRICT 1 Biden: 36% Trump: 60%

DISTRICT 3 Biden: 57% Trump: 39%

DISTRICT 1

DISTRICT 3

Biden: 62% Trump: 33%

Biden: 36% Trump: 59%

DISTRICT 5 Biden: 46% Trump: 49%

DISTRICT 4

DISTRICT 2 Biden: 39% Trump: 56%

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t’s been four years since state legislators passed a law mandating that Spokane County move to electing five commissioners by district — instead of just three countywide. And now, we’re finally to the map-drawing stage that will influence the fall 2022 elections. Each of the two Republicans and two Democrats on the redistricting committee drew their own maps — under instruction not to give one political party an unfair advantage.

So what’s a fair map look like? While Spokane is a red county and it’s been more than a decade since a Democrat held a county seat, President Joe Biden came within 5 percentage points of beating Donald Trump last year.

The Inlander built an approximation of each of the four committee members’ maps using the existing county voter precincts and simulated what the presidential race roughly looked like under each of the four maps.

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CARTOGRAPHER: Robin Ball, retired co-owner of Sharp Shooting Indoor Range & Gun Shop (Republican) Let’s start with the reddest map, one that draws one central Spokane district so deep blue — which Biden won by 27 points — that Republicans have enough remaining to hold all four other districts, though District 5, which includes Cheney and part of the South Hill, could be a toss-up.

District 2 looks like: The head of a mighty llama, spitting out the Spokane River.

MAP B

CARTOGRAPHER: Natasha Hill, local business and family law attorney (Democrat) Hill’s map takes the opposite strategy, carving out two rural districts that went for Trump by more than 20 points, giving enough room for three — three — Biden-heavy districts.

Not only that but her District 3, which stretches from Cheney to Millwood, puts Al French — the sitting county commissioner who fought the hardest against the move to five commissioners — in a district that went for Biden by around 12 percent. It’s only Hill’s decision to cut a precinct in two that prevents County Commissioner Mary Kuney from being stuck in the same situation, halting the blue district’s border mere blocks away from Kuney’s Dishman Hills home.

District 2 looks like: A Welsh Corgi clad in the winged robes of an angel.

MAP C

CARTOGRAPHER: Brian McClatchey, attorney and Spokane City Council policy director (Democrat) McClatchey’s is the map that hews entirely to the existing voter precincts, meaning it’s easier to calculate exactly what the political outcome would be: Two very strong Trump districts, two solid Biden districts — and one Trump-leaning toss-up district. Still, it sticks French in a district that Biden won by 18 points.

District 2 looks like: Abraham Lincoln chilling in a jacuzzi.

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DESIGNER: Jim McDevitt, former U.S. attorney, former interim Spokane police chief (Republican) A decent year for Republicans and McDevitt’s map could produce a 4-1 Republican commissioner board. By contrast, it would take a truly spectacular year for Democrats — enough to beat French in a Trump +9 district — to have a majority Democratic board using McDevitt’s design.

District 2 looks like: A bouffant hairdo that, when combined with District 1, is the spitting image of Jay Leno as a prancing goat. n The committee is expected to approve one final map by Oct. 23. But in the meantime, weigh in at a public hearing at the Moran Prairie Public Library on Thu, Sept. 19, 5:30-7:30 pm.

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CLASSICAL

EMOTIONAL

RETURN

Music Director James Lowe at Spokane Symphony’s Labor Day show. HAMILTON STUDIO PHOTO

Musicians are returning from boating, busking and book editing as the symphony gears up for its comeback concert

BY E.J. IANNELLI

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or many a professional musician, in-person performances are a prime motivator for practicing their instrument in the first place. When something like, say, a global pandemic hits and live audiences become mere memories of some carefree past, it’s easy to see how things might start to feel a little rudderless. You’re suddenly a firefighter without fires, a postal carrier without a route, a surfer without waves.

At a time like that, you could allow yourself to sink into an existential despair, questioning the meaning of life and the cogency of every decision you’ve made up to that point. Or you could get your boating license.

“During the pandemic, kind of spur of the moment, my dad ended up buying this 24-foot vessel. It’s an older boat, and it sat in a guy’s garage for a few decades,” says Spokane Symphony violist James Marshall.

“So my dad worked on fixing it up — a remake of

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the engine, patching the hull, repairing the cabin. But he wound up not getting his boating license because it’s a bit time intensive, so I got my license and became the pilot when our family would go out on the lake.”

Marshall is far from the only symphony musician to take up new interests or shift gears while live performances were on hold. Along with being the first-time owners and restorers of a boat, his parents John and Lynne Feller-Marshall are also the orchestra’s principal cellist and bassoonist. Bass clarinetist Jane Ellsworth, meanwhile, edited a book of wide-ranging historical and analytical essays on the clarinet. It was published this past May with the unambiguous title The Clarinet.

In the absence of conventional concerts, Meagan Gillis, the principal timpanist, instead chose to create live, COVID-safe performances where none were scheduled.

She took her percussion instruments on a road trip across

the United States, staging impromptu pop-up gigs at landmarks along the way.

“The pandemic first sort of happened while I was visiting my parents [in Maryland], so I ended up staying on the East Coast for a few months. And then it became clear that the pandemic was not going to be a shortterm thing, so we concocted this idea to get my car from Spokane,” she says.

In June 2020, after flying to Spokane, she and her traveling companion drove west toward Seattle before heading south through Oregon and into California. From there they zigzagged back east, stopping at major cities and national parks in states like Utah, Colorado, South Dakota and Illinois, finishing with a loop that included Nashville, Tennessee, and Asheville, North Carolina, as waypoints. ...continued on page 16

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“We tried to do something at every scenic view we could find. At some of them, we got slammed by the wind or something, so we didn’t get much good video, but we probably did 35 mini xylophone performances during that trip.”

The recordings were uploaded on a rolling basis to YouTube, the same platform Gillis also used to publish fun, lockdown-era videos like “Xylophoning in the Kitchen” and one of the Spokane Symphony’s own 14-episode Social Distance Diaries, the latter of which saw her singlehandedly performing the Star Wars cantina music using video overdubs. YouTube also has several recent videos that show Gillis busking on the streets of Provincetown, Massachusetts — “a small, beachy town and a great arts community” — with fellow musicians Will Harrington, Lydia Parkington and D’Angelo Nieves. This past summer marked her ninth year of street performing.

With the return of live onstage concerts, however, these interim pursuits will have to be set aside. Both Marshall, who’s currently in Rochester, New York, at the Eastman School of Music for his doctorate studies, and Gillis are now busy prepping for the symphony’s first traditional performance in 18 months. The season kicks off with the first of seven Masterworks series concerts on Sept. 18 and 19.

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usic Director and Conductor James Lowe says that each piece of the three-part program was chosen with special care to mark the occasion.

“Normally, my programs have some unifying idea running through them. There’s something that links everything together. Masterworks 1 is a little bit different from that. Coming out of this pandemic and suddenly

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coming back together again, I wanted a program of music that took the listener on some kind of an emotional and — if it’s not too grand to say this — healing journey.”

For example, composer Adolphus Hailstork’s “Fanfare on Amazing Grace” celebrates “the grace that brought us to this place where, here we are, back again,” Lowe says. “And then the Sibelius ‘Violin Concerto’ is obviously a much darker, more brooding piece that has its own cathartic feel.” Acclaimed violinist Bella Hristova is the guest soloist. Her appearance is the culmination of booking efforts that began well before the pandemic.

“We end with Brahms [Symphony No. 2], which is music of real beauty and consolation and thoughtfulness, ending with great joy. So the whole concert is to take you on an emotional rollercoaster, but in a really good way, and I think it reflects some of the feelings we all have about the year we’ve just all lived through.”

As challenging as that year has been, it hasn’t been a complete write-off. One advantage that Lowe attributes to the pandemic period is that it afforded the orchestra’s musicians the opportunity to pursue and showcase different sides of themselves.

“An orchestra is always composed of a remarkable

group of people, and it’s always interesting when you dig into what they do when they’re not on the Fox stage. It’s so easy to look at people on stage and just see a massive orchestra and think, ‘These are great, talented people’ but not realize that there’s this huge wellspring of knowledge and excitement and engagement with life behind it,” he says.

Social media, such as Gillis’ YouTube videos, helped reveal some of those hidden talents. The symphony’s digital on-demand Overtones concert series took some steps in this direction, too, by capitalizing on the format to highlight the multifaceted individuals behind the formalwear and instruments.

“I have to say, I’m hugely proud of the work we’ve done in the pandemic. The digital season is some of the work that I’m most proud of, and so I don’t want to diminish that at all,” Lowe says.

“But having this missing element of an audience in front of us, it makes a huge difference. I always think there’s a triangle created between the composer, the performers and the audience. We play differently when we have an audience. And to hear the symphonic sound again will be, for me, a very moving moment.” n Masterworks 1: The Return of the Symphony • Sat, Sept. 18 at 8 pm; Sun, Sept. 19 at 3 pm • $19–$62 • Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox • 1001 W. Sprague Ave. • spokanesymphony.org • 509-624-1200

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couple weeks back I traveled to Colorado to check an item off my music-geek bucket list.

Ever since I saw U2’s “Sunday Bloody Sunday” video shot in 1983 to accompany their live album Under A Blood Red Sky, I’ve wanted to see Red Rocks Park & Amphitheatre in person. Somehow, despite ample opportunity, I never made it happen until I bought tickets in 2019 for a Black Crowes show originally scheduled for 2020, one that finally actually happened at the end of August 2021.

It wasn’t the concert or the experience of the admittedly awesome venue that’s going to stick with me from that quick getaway, though. Instead, an unexpected encounter with some long-dead artistic greats is what infused me with a much-needed spark as I returned home to Spokane, a charge I expected to get from the concert but instead got from the Denver Art Museum.

The pandemic wreaked havoc on arts communities everywhere, and I know it definitely kept me from exploring much in the way of local exhibits and openings over the past 18 months or so. I poked around some online galleries, but it’s not the same. With an empty Sunday afternoon in Denver, I hit a show called The 19th Century in European and American Art. That title doesn’t sound too exciting, does it? The show is culled from the museum’s permanent collection, a move museums large and small have had to make of late as traveling exhibits (like touring musicians) largely stopped, thanks to COVID-19. The museum workers were almost apologetic at not being able to have their full array of galleries open.

Here’s the thing, though. The Denver Art Museum’s permanent collection has

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some incredible works, and the paintings selected for this particular show left me genuinely gobsmacked at their beauty and their intensity.

If you’re like me, you’ve cruised through a lot of art shows, festivals and galleries, and only rarely been so taken with something that you find yourself revisiting the same piece over and over.

That’s exactly what happened when I came across Claude Monet’s The Coastguards Cabin. Monet’s impressionism has never been my favorite, and his nearby paintings of waterlilies and beaches did nothing for me. But something about seeing this cabin up close, zeroing in on the technique, and the colors exploding throughout the painting, took my breath away. Quite literally.

It inspired me to look at the rest of the show with a newly appreciative eye. There was a lot of Monet, as well as works by van Gogh, Cezanne, Renoir, Degas and Toulouse-Lautrec. And I might now be a superfan of Camille Pissarro, whose work I was utterly ignorant of before that show. His Autumn, Poplars, Eragny was incredible from mere inches away. But even as I found myself enraptured repeatedly by different pieces in the show, I kept circling back to that little cabin. So simple, so incredibly magnetic.

Even someone with my rudimentary knowledge of art history knows the names in this Denver Art Museum show are big-time.

But what made the experience inspiring wasn’t just seeing these masters’ works in person. It was in the reminder that we can experience art and be inspired just as well here at home, through the talented artists filling our local shows and galleries, billboards, and building sides. You just have to take the time to get in front of the work. The closer the better. n

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The personal lives of professors thankfully take a backseat for the most part in favor of storylines about sexism on campus, ageism on campus, hell, pretty much any ol’ “ism” you can think of. And there is the problem with The Chair — it jumps into a lot of big issues over the course of its six episodes, and is forced to wrap them up too quickly and neatly. Its tone shifts from slapsticky sitcom vibes to serious drama on a dime, but that would be easier to stomach if the show had more episodes to let the characters develop. (DAN NAILEN) SWEET SUCCESS Hello Sugar doughnut shop in Spokane was recently recognized as a top place to work for people living with disabilities by AtWork!, a statewide nonprofit that seeks to empower people with disabilities to be productive members of society.

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year ago as we published this annual celebration of the Inland Northwest’s art scene, we noted the ravages of the coronavirus on artists and arts organizations even as we hailed what we thought was the coming end of this pandemic nightmare, and some of the incredible work created during an historically scary time.

A year later, clearly we anticipated the demise of COVID-19 a wee bit early, even as a miraculous vaccine allows us to again gather in galleries, concert venues, theaters and bookstores to enjoy life-affirming art in person, together. Hopefully fall 2021 won’t destroy a healthy slate of arts events you’ll find in this issue, just part of an enthralling mix of stories in the following pages. We hit the road to explore arts organizations in the region’s small towns, meeting groups and individuals working to make creativity happen outside the SpokaneCoeur d’Alene metro area. We talk to Nathan Huston about the new location for his Giant Nerd bookstore, visit organizations dedicated to supporting classical music in Spokane and live theater throughout the region, and catch up with university galleries welcoming guests for exciting new shows.

We’re still not back to “normal,” whatever that is, but our arts scene remains a vibrant one. Let’s keep it that way by supporting local artists however we can, mmmkay?

— DAN NAILEN Inlander Arts & Culture editor For health and safety protocols, check with venues or individual arts organizations.

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hen you grow up in Spokane and don’t identify with the mainstream culture, you learn to find your little oases.

The Christian hegemony is strong — even in retail — from coffee shops playing worship rock to thrift stores funded and animated by religious organizations to craft stores with ready-made Jesus signs. This makes a kind of consumer-logic that can be found in other places, as well, and growing up queer in Spokane, I learned to find my littles oases.

Packed with all the bizarre, fringe books that can be tricky to find online or offline, vintage oddities, natural history specimens and comics, Giant Nerd Books is one such place. The bookstore has an occult section, shelves devoted to Eastern philosophy, a healthy horror wall, art books, classic literature, science, collectibles and so much more that you’ll easily lose an hour or so wandering the curated stacks.

What seems eclectic and disparate all orbits together around the shop’s owner, Nathan Huston, who collects the objects that gravitate toward him and holds them out to help keep our community a little strange. Huston has been an alternative bookseller in Spokane for 15 years, working first out of a consignment space in Timebomb

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NEW SPACE, SAME NERD Giant Nerd Books owner Nathan Huston talks new Garland location, reptiles and reading

BY LAUREN GILMORE

Delightful curiosities abound at Giant Nerd Books. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO

Collectibles before opening a full showroom on Monroe.

Recently, he’s moved into a new space on Garland Avenue with four times as much space as his previous spot. “There’s a lot more foot traffic,” he says. “The 20 mph speed limit is a big help. People are forced to drive slow, so we’re a lot more visible. And there are no apartments upstairs here with 100-year-old leaking plumbing destroying my books.”

As I wander the space, groups churn in and out.

Some have no idea what they are looking for until their hand falls on the cover and they find it. Others — like the young girl who walks straight to the desk and asks where to find A Series of Unfortunate Events — know exactly what they are looking for.

Huston, a kind and thoughtful presence with a dedication to the obscure, has built an empire by knowing what he is looking for. Giant Nerd Books is an emblem of a lifelong hobby. “I started buying old stuff at yard sales when I was a kid and could trade them for things I wanted more,” he says. “Eventually I opened a shop so I had somewhere to put my stuff.”

Having been in the business for so long, Huston has seen many shops shutter.

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“In the ’70s and ’80s there were used bookstores all over the place. At one point some roommates and I did a fanzine that was a pro-Spokane cheerleader, and I did a feature on used bookstores, and it was several pages long,” Huston says. “Now I think there’s four.”

If the kind of bookstore that he’s running is a bit of a lost art, it’s definitely not a dead industry. “I feel there’s a bit of a backlash to the internet sales. With books especially, there’s a certain immediacy. If you’re in the mood for Dracula or you’re in the mood for Kurt Vonnegut, you want it right then. You don’t want to wait a week or two for shipping. There’s a tactile element.”

He pauses, glancing around the back inventory space, the piles and piles of new books that have yet to be priced and put on the shelves. “Some media are built for permanence. Books and vinyl records are two that come to mind. Everything else just feels temporary.”

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In a time of extreme flux for everyone, Giant Nerd remains a touchstone in the community, using social media to display books and respond to customer requests. During the height of COVID, Huston says, he noticed people wanting to binge-read series.

“Big uptick in fantasy novels that were three or four inches thick, science fiction, and a lot of metaphysical and occult,” Huston says. “I don’t know if that was a coping mechanism or it was just one of those things where people have lists of books they’ve always intended to read and the lockdown gave them time.”

Due to the nature of his work, Huston is constantly reading books that he might stock on the shelves, following up on requests, and doing research for titles that would fit in with the selection he already has. When it comes to pleasure reading, it’s usually natural history books on reptiles.

“Family legend has it that I taught myself to read using books on snakes and dinosaurs at the library when I was 3,” he says.

“My parents built a house out north of town in the mid-’70s, and there were only a dozen or so houses in the neighborhood, so there was a lot of woods. A lot of rocks to turn over and look for wiggly things. A lot of places for a youngster to develop an interest in nature and/or get in trouble.”

Huston wants to be a facilitator of that kind of wonder.

“As a kid I was always a big fan of the old curiosity shop by the waterfront in Seattle, so I would like to do something like that but less cheesy,” he says. “I’ve got a metaphysical section in the front of the shop, but I would like the science section to be just as big if not bigger to have a balance. Having natural history specimens in the shop seems like an extension of that. It’s a way for people to see some stuff they might not otherwise have been exposed to or thought about.”

When he speaks about his natural history specimens, now, his face lights up and it’s easy to see that child checking under rocks.

Giant Nerd Books is a bit like that: The door on Garland like a stone to turn over. Walk through and you’ll discover everything wiggly — fiction, astrology, crime paperbacks — and if you’re lucky, in this counterculture oasis, you might find yourself, too. n Giant Nerd Books • 607 W. Garland Ave. • giantnerdbooks. com • 509-868-0420

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They’re joined by acclaimed Seattle author Charles Johnson, and each is sharing a story centered on the theme “Coming Together Again.” Washington State Poet Laureate Rena Priest (pictured) also reads at the event, which raises funding for the statewide nonprofit whose mission is to “open minds and bridge divides by creating spaces to explore different perspectives.” Free to participate, donation packages available; 6 pm, humanities.org. (CS)

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THEATER RETAKING THE STAGE After “lost” seasons and months of uncertainty, the region’s theaters are reopening under challenging conditions

BY E.J. IANNELLI

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t’s been over 18 months since COVID-related shutdowns became inevitable for performing arts organizations. In March 2019, most theaters in the Inland Northwest halted midrun for what they hoped would be a couple of months tops.

That turned out to be a tad too optimistic. Only now are we starting to see the resumption of in-person, indoor performances for live audiences, with one cautious eye toward how the pandemic is continuing to develop. Here’s what some of the region’s venues have been up to recently and what they tentatively have planned for the near future.

BEST OF BROADWAY

With a lineup of critically acclaimed musicals like CATS (Oct. 19–24), Mean Girls (Nov. 23–28) and Anastasia (Dec. 28–Jan. 2) scheduled the next few months, you’d be forgiven for thinking it’s business as usual for WestCoast Entertainment, the booking agency behind the STCUsponsored Best of Broadway series. But the reality is very different. As a result of COVID-19, WestCoast Entertainment had to deal with the fallout of at least 109 canceled or paused performances.

“We haven’t done a show in a year-and-a-half, and yet

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we’ve been buried because it’s been so busy. A normal show takes six months to put together, and when it moves it takes months and months to bring back. Every show that’s been affected has a tremendous amount of work to do on it. There are a lot of moving parts to each one,” says Justin Kobluk, president of WestCoast Entertainment.

Along with his colleagues and Best of Broadway’s partners, Kobluk has put in long hours to successfully reschedule around 70 of those performances. If the show is indeed to go on, however, no one can be lax about public health. Beyond venue requirements, many artists, promoters and touring productions are requiring proof of vaccination for attendance.

To stay abreast of changing guidelines, schedules and refund policies, ticket holders should keep tabs on tour websites and official social media. It’s also worth checking in regularly for Best of Broadway announcements, as Kobluk has hinted that there are some major shows in the works, circumstances permitting.

BLUE DOOR THEATRE

During the shutdown, the Blue Door Theatre formed a satellite troupe called Porch Light to offer digital

Frank Tano (right) and Liz Schroeder perform during the weekly PREDICTable show at Blue Door Theatre. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO

content and virtual performances. Financial support from Spokane Arts, Spokane Cares and the Garland Business District helped keep the Porch Light on.

These days, in true improv spirit, the theater and its resident troupe of volunteer players are forging ahead with a situation-appropriate mix of classes and live shows.

PREDICTable and Safari run Fridays and Saturdays, respectively, at 7:30 pm.

“On July 9, after 482 days, we marked the return of live performances at our Garland theater with a sold-out show,” says Marketing Manager Erin O’Halloran-Foerg.

“Since then we’ve been having shows every weekend.

We’re also offering adult improv classes. As for our teen classes, we’re still reviewing the latest guidelines and will hopefully be able to reinstate them later this fall.”

The primary difference between the current schedule and a typical year is that audiences, performers and instructors have to wear face masks. Social distancing is still in place, and there’s been talk of reducing the maximum audience size. Additionally, players are required to be vaccinated. Should things change, the Blue Door will return to Zoom-based improv classes and Porch Light performances on Facebook Live.

SPOKANE CHILDREN’S THEATRE

Despite some justifiable anxiety at the start of the pandemic shutdown, Spokane Children’s Theatre has been seizing every opportunity to bring kid-centric entertainment to the community.

The organization has been holding online classes, livestreaming shows and hosting onstage in-person shows for limited audiences. This summer, they held half-capacity summer camps as well as an intensive camp for teens that culminated in two weekends of full-blown productions of Little Shop of Horrors.

Spokane Children’s Theatre’s first conventional inperson show is Roald Dahl’s Matilda, the Musical, which happens to be the same one they were rehearsing when the shutdowns took place in spring 2020. It’s scheduled for Oct. 8-24, kicking off a season that includes Babes in Toyland and A Year with Frog and Toad.

“Having been through what we have, we’re excited to start our full 75th season. It’s a testament to the spirit of our theater and our community commitment,” says SCT Managing Director Doug Beschta. “One of our goals is to keep live theater affordable for families, which is why we are excited and proud not to be raising our ticket prices this season.”

OCT. 1 & 2

OCT. 14

Sure, Halloween probably isn’t the best time to start experimenting with magical potions, but that doesn’t stop Winifred and her sisters from concocting a brew that has the power to bring fictional characters to life. So it’s no surprise when the Pumpkin King, the Wicked Witch of the West and a cavalcade of ghouls, villains and other seasonal icons suddenly appear and cause a stir that involves plenty of singing and dancing. This allages, hourlong show has an extra meet-and-greet VIP option so the entire family can hobnob with the cast. The Salvation Army Ray and Joan Kroc Center, Coeur d’Alene, $26-$36, showtimes vary (E.J. IANNELLI)

Playwright Tristen Canfield saw her one-act play The Window debut at the Spokane Civic Theatre’s Playwright’s Forum Festival in 2015, when it won the Audience Choice award. Now she’s ready to reveal her first full-length play via a staged reading of her An Aviary for the Birds of Sadness through the new Spokane Playwrights Laboratory. Experience of a new piece of theater as a work in progress, then enjoy a drink and talk about the show with its writer right after. Pretty cool, right? Washington Cracker Building, 304 W. Pacific, free, 7:30 pm. (DAN NAILEN)

HALLOWEEN SPOOKTACULAR

AN AVIARY FOR THE BIRDS OF SADNESS

SPOKANE CIVIC THEATRE

The Spokane Civic Theatre was forced to cut a remarkably successful production short when the pandemic hit. The theater hasn’t produced any new shows since that abbreviated run of Cabaret. But it has been using the pause to carry out building renovations, including some much-needed backstage electrical and plumbing jobs, and take a hard look at all of its operations.

The Civic has also been concentrating on offering classes and training. It held 16 camps and seven workshops this summer, and it will be offering more opportunities during the autumn and winter months.

Support from ArtsWA, Innovia, Spokane Arts, Spokane County, the Washington State Department of Commerce as well as community donors has helped sustain the theater as it works toward identifying viable paths to reopening. Executive Director Jake Schaefer noted that he and the staff are prepared to start filming virtual productions if the conditions for safe, in-person shows end up being “later than ideal.”

OCT. 19-24

NOV. 12-13

How do you take a theatrical phenomenon like CATS (above) and reimagine it for a new generation? This nationally touring production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s record-smashing musical might hold the answer. The choreography, lighting, costume design, scenery and sound have been re-envisioned by some of the biggest names on Broadway — while still paying homage to Webber’s score and breakout hits like “Memory.” Updates like those are sure to make this CATS as captivating to longtime fans as to those who are seeing it for the first time. First Interstate Center for the Performing Arts, $42-$100, showtimes vary (EJI)

If you think you’ve seen every possible variation of A Christmas Carol there is to see, think again. Award-winning playwright Jack Thorne (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child) and director Matthew Warchus (Matilda) have teamed up with the goal of making this one of the most spellbinding adaptations of Charles Dickens’ timeless holiday tale. Rounding out the Broadway-quality staging and performances are 12 beloved Christmas carols like “Joy to the World,” “It Came Upon the Midnight Clear” and “Silent Night.” Hard to see how even the grumpiest Scrooge among us could resist those charms, or those of star Bradley Whitford (The West Wing, The Handmaid’s Tale). First Interstate Center for the Performing Arts, $53.50-$93.50, showtimes vary (EJI)

CATS

A CHRISTMAS CAROL

STAGE LEFT THEATER

“Shutting down required a huge pivot on our part,” says Stage Left’s Managing and Artistic Director Jeremy Whittington. “While we were able to create some outstanding art, being thwarted by another shutdown seems even more daunting. To all the inquiries, please know that we will always err on the side of safety.”

And though safety remains a top priority for the theater, that’s not to say it’s been idle. The venue has undergone an extensive remodel and now features among other improvements new seats, new signage and new dressing rooms.

On the performance side, Stage Left has presented a wide variety of streaming shows since August 2020.

Its Alone Together series, for instance, has made use of Spokane Arts Grant Award funding to introduce online audiences to a mix of one-person shows. The series’ final show (Sept. 24–26) is Aaron Mark’s Squeamish, billed as a spooky “tour de fear.”

Come October, the theater will be offering a free streaming performance (Oct. 8) of the latest installment of its popular Masterpiece Monologues. There’s a three-day (Oct. 2224) virtual run of Crystal Skillman’s Open, directed by Dawn Taylor Reinhardt and starring Chelsea Duvall as the play’s enigmatic magician and narrator. And Dec. 3-5, things will come full circle with a live performance of An Iliad, which was the theater’s first proper streaming production. n

NOV. 23-28

DEC. 3-5

Navigating the cliques and hierarchies of your average American high school can be fraught with danger. Unfortunately, Cady Heron is unaware of those risks. After living in the African wilderness most of her life, she’s started school in suburban Illinois and fallen in with a group of girls whose stock in trade is gossip and insults. Acclaimed for being funny, sassy and moving, this hit Broadway adaptation (above) of the 2004 cult film scripted

by Tina Fey charts Cady’s journey from outsider to apex predator to a more compassionate version of her true self. First Interstate Center for the Performing Arts, $39-$100, showtimes vary (EJI)

Back in January, Stage Left streamed a prerecorded production of An Iliad, Lisa Peterson and Denis O’Hare’s compelling chronicle of human bellicosity that took its inspirational cues from Homer’s ancient epic about the Trojan War. Now the theater is bringing that same well-received show — still directed by Susan Hardie and starring Robert Tombari as the war-weary poet — to its stage for an in-person run. Along with marking the theater’s anticipated return to live entertainment, An Iliad will double as a fundraiser for its upcoming season. Stage Left Theater, tickets TBA, 7 pm (EJI) n

MEAN GIRLS

AN ILIAD – LIVE

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MUSIC A VITAL ORCHESTRAL ROLE Though unassuming, the Spokane Symphony Associates are a fundraising and volunteering powerhouse

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BY E.J. IANNELLI

either Peggy Springer nor Bruce Calhoun knew a lot about the Spokane Symphony Associates before they became involved. Both were open to spending a few hours volunteering for a worthwhile cause here and there, ideally with the added benefit of socializing with friendly folks. But when it came specifically to the SSA, they’re the first to admit that their joining was more or less coincidental.

For Calhoun, it began with a move from Muncie, Indiana, where he and his wife enjoyed attending concerts by the Ball State Symphony Orchestra. Following their relocation to Spokane in 2011 he found himself with some free time and a desire to reconnect to classical music.

“After I’d been here a couple of years, I kind of got bored with what I was doing,” he says. “I went to the symphony website and just happened to be noodling around. I was clicking on the tabs, and all of a sudden here’s one that said, ‘Volunteer,’ so I clicked on that and up came the SSA. I said, ‘Hmm, this sounds like fun.’”

He was soon attending his first meeting.

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As for Springer, everything started when a friend of a friend asked her to help put together a display for a new-ish fundraiser known as Christmas Tree Elegance.

That was in 1985, when the annual event had only been running for two years.

Today, Springer is the treasurer and driving force behind the organization’s internal e-newsletter, which has kept its members connected amid the pandemic. She and Calhoun have decades of involvement in the SSA between them and, in Springer’s words, “been just about everything” when it comes to titles and roles. In fact, Springer is a two-time past SSA president, and Calhoun is the current one.

To think that they were ever unaware of the scope and workings of this 275-member organization now seems a little strange to them, but it’s not surprising. The Spokane Symphony Associates are a quiet powerhouse, operating behind the scenes and yet in plain sight.

Maybe the most obvious example of that is Christmas Tree Elegance. Ask any Spokanite and they’re almost certain to have heard of it. For many, buying a $1 raffle ticket (or two or three) in hopes of winning one of the dozen or so $5,000 themed gift packages has become a holiday ritual — one that brings in upward of $400,000 for the Spokane Symphony each year. But they’re also likely to be a little hazy on who exactly organizes the event and why.

“Even though we have a 12-foot banner behind the ticket table, people will come up and say, ‘Now, what’s this for?’” Calhoun chuckles. “For whatever reason, there’s still a lot of people who don’t make the connection.”

To some extent, the same could be said of the organization’s Upscale Sale, which launched in 2007 and is still working toward the same prominence as Christmas Tree Elegance.

“It’s like a large estate sale,” he explains. “We take donations year-round, store them up, and then we rent out a retail space and set up a bunch of tables. We do furniture, glassware, china plates, knickknacks, clothing, books, CDs, art, just about anything you can name short of exercise equipment. And it’s basically priced to sell.”

In its first year, the Upscale Sale brought in a respectable $5,000. By 2018, it was generating over $60,000.

Even during COVID-19, when in-person events have been mostly on hold, the SSA capitalized on two years’ worth of Upscale Sale donations to hit the $130,000 mark. That money helped sustain the symphony at a time when revenue had plummeted.

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ithout hyperbole, the Spokane Symphony Associates are on record as one of the most proficient, prolific supporters of any orchestra in the United States. That’s just on a pure dollar basis. And when you factor in the proportionality of money raised as a function of our budget, they very well might be the most prolific,” says Spokane Symphony Executive Director Jeff vom Saal.

Since 2000, the SSA has handed the symphony over $4.5 million. And while the SSA’s unrestricted funds are a huge boon to the symphony’s operating budget at any time, the nonprofit organization represents far more than just a key donor. Its volunteers are active both front and back of house, handing out programs, organizing refreshments and lending a hand wherever one is needed.

“Internally, they have a powerful, palpable, meaningful, positive, durable influence on the morale of this place,” vom Saal says. “Especially right now when we’re down on staff, the SSA folks came in and helped organize the library. Even things like checking in musicians for rehearsals and doing the coronavirus questionnaire that

we have to do. That’s been them all year long. You don’t have to go very far to find SSA, either person or chapter, making sure that things are going right.”

That even applies to important decision-making processes. When Music Director James Lowe came to Spokane to interview in 2019, he found himself in front of a panel of SSA members.

“They said, ‘What’s your experience in working with similar organizations to ours?’ And I had to say, “Well, there aren’t any similar organizations to yours! You’re absolutely unique,’” he says. “They raise as much for us as our endowment does every year. It’s astonishing.

And any time we need a volunteer for anything, there’s 10 or 15 Spokane Symphony Associates there. They are the lifeblood of this organization, and they epitomize this great community spirit.”

SEPT. 25

OLD DOMINION

You might have guessed from the name that several members of this contemporary country crew hail from Virginia (Old Dominion is a state nickname), but you might not realize the guys in this band have written songs for some of modern country’s biggest stars when they’re not working on their own music. Kelsea Ballerini, Blake Shelton and Luke Bryan are among the artists who’ve tackled songs by Old Dominion’s members. You might hear a few dabbled between OD’s own hits like “Break Up With Him” and “No Such Thing As A Broken Heart” as they provide a grand finale to Northern Quest’s summer concert series. Northern Quest Resort & Casino, $59-$109, 7:30 pm. (DAN NAILEN)

FACING PAGE: Peggy Springer (center) at the 2019 Christmas Tree Elegance.

ABOVE: Bruce Calhoun and Peggy Springer Locally the SSA might fly slightly under the radar, but within the Spokane Symphony proper, it’s recognized more formally through a presence on the Board of Trustees and on advisory groups. Among its peers on the national stage, the group has been lauded as a model nonprofit support organization with regular awards and a frequent seat on the Volunteer Council of the League of American Orchestras.

Unsurprisingly, Springer has served on that body, too. What makes it worthwhile for her, though, is the grassroots, shoulder-to-shoulder activity in the service of one of Spokane’s leading cultural institutions — and the friendships forged in the process.

“We support the symphony with love and with fun.

If we didn’t have fun, we wouldn’t have nearly as many members as we do,” she says. “Our vision statement is to see a thriving symphony for the city for years to come, and all of us feel that if we can support that vision, we’re pleased. It’s a great way to volunteer and to know that you’re appreciated.” n

SEPT. 29

MY MORNING JACKET

Jim James and company have put together quite the career since they burst forth, seemingly fully formed, from their Louisville hometown with a sound that appeals to Southern rock fans, emo kids, jam banders and classic rockers.

Big loud guitars and James’ falsetto prove a perfect match both on early albums like It Still Moves and more recent works filled with more spacey, psychedelic workouts, including 2020 release The Waterfall II. The band is capable of powerful balladry and the occasional dabbling in country and folk, and no matter what their mood, they put on some epic live shows. They’ll be joined in Spokane by the soulful Durand Jones and the Indications. Spokane Pavilion, $45, 6 pm (DN)

Christmas Tree Elegance 2021 • Nov. 30 to Dec. 12 • Historic Davenport Hotel and River Park Square • spokanesymphonyassoc.org • 509-458-8733

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MUSIC OCT. 1

OCT. 9-10

OCT. 11

This is classic-rock heaven for fans of this long-running band. The Doobie Brothers (below) are celebrating 50 years together with this trek, and the band behind hits ranging from “China Grove” to “Black Water” to “What a Fool Believes” has a lot of ground to cover in concert. They’ve undergone some lineup changes and different members leaving and re-entering the fray through the years, but the core four of Tom Johnston, Michael McDonald, Pat Simmons and John McFee are all on board for the first time in more than 25 years on a tour that includes the brilliant Dirty Dozen Brass Band opening.

Spokane Arena, $60-$200, 7:30 pm (DN)

Don’t show up expecting just the hits from ol’ Beethoven at this one, because Spokane Symphony Music Director James Lowe delved into the deep cuts to put together this showcase featuring some of Beethoven’s darker pieces juxtaposed with his Symphony No. 4, a decidedly bright and light work. The man had depth, people! The symphony will be joined by the Spokane Symphony Chorale and guest tenor William Ferguson for this one. Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox, $19-$62, Oct. 9 at 8 pm and Oct. 10 at 3 pm (DN)

In a way, Amy Grant (below) is a true music pioneer. Not necessarily because of the way her music sounds, but because of the success she had taking contemporary Christian music to the mainstream in a big way. She was the first Christian-marketed artist to sell platinum, to hit No. 1 on the pop charts, and to perform on the Grammys. And when she went pure pop and left the Bible out of her music for a moment, she still soared to the top of the charts. She’s sold more than 30 million albums full of her Christian and pop songs, and she’s still going strong after three decades. First Interstate Center for the Arts, $46-$100, 7:30 pm (DN)

OCT. 6

OCT. 10

OCT. 16

Tanya Tucker had her first hit song, “Delta Dawn,” at the ripe age of 13 years old, and she has been performing serious country music ever since, racking up more hits and successful albums. In 2019 she had a major comeback, thanks to a new album called While I’m Livin’ (produced by Brandi Carlile and Shooter Jennings), and ended up taking home the first two Grammys of her long career. Tucker sings outlaw country, with a little rock popping up, and her “Bring My Flowers Now” tour will also feature country singer Aubrie Sellers.

Visit bingcrosbytheater.com for tickets. Bing Crosby Theater, $47.50, 8 pm (LILLIAN PIEL)

Her career started busking on the streets of Paris, and has now taken American jazz and blues vocalist Madeleine Peyroux (above) around the world. Her 1996 album Dreamland showcased some incredible pipes as she tackled classic songs of the ’30s and ’40s, and she’s since gone on to record plenty of her own songwriting with songs that still recall the voices of iconic artists like Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald. Her current tour is called “Careless Love Forever,” so expect plenty of tunes from her platinum 2004 album Careless Love in the mix. Bing Crosby Theater, $41-$68, 8 pm (DN)

It’s not often a local band gets to celebrate a 20th anniversary in any town, but Coeur d’Alene’s Scatterbox has managed to keep their energetic brand of punk going strong and staying fresh through lineup changes and shifting tides in the local music scene. Their debut album, Run Faster, Jump Higher, arrived in 2001, and here’s hoping they play a few of those at this celebration that also includes sets by GOTU GOTU and Touch of Evil. Big Dipper, $8, 7:30 pm (DN)

DOOBIE BROTHERS

TANYA TUCKER

Please Join Us for The 17th Annual

SPOKANE SYMPHONY MASTERWORKS: BEETHOVEN’S SOUL

MADELEINE PEYROUX

AMY GRANT

SCATTERBOX

Light the Way Auc о ONLINE

Our largest fundraising event for the American Childhood Cancer Organization Inland NW. Open for anyone to view, donate, and bid online to win silent auction items.

The “Home Event Sponsor” package is $500 or individual tickets $75. visit the event website at: one.bidpal.net/accoin/welcome

Let’s shine our lights so bright that they will be seen from the moon!

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For additional information, please contact Leslie Woodfill at 509-995-5431 or lesliewoodfill@accoinlandnw.org

Sept 25th 7pm

OCT. 28

TLC

TLC is best known for their hit singles “Waterfalls” and “No Scrubs,” and the ’90s girl group is bringing their signature R&B and pop sound to the Coeur D’Alene Casino in October. Spend an evening at the casino with your friends T-Boz and Chilli (R.I.P. Left Eye) and enjoy a trip back to when these ladies blended hop-hop, soul and R&B like few of their peers. Guests must be 18 or older to attend concerts at the casino. Coeur d’Alene Casino, Worley, Idaho, $55, 7 pm (LP)

OCT. 29

CORY BRANAN

In 2014 Rolling Stone named Cory Branan one of the “10 New Artists You Need To Know,” and eight years and five albums deep into his career, that’s still the case. Blending country, rock and folk music and a knack for lyrics both profound and simple, Branan is the kind of talented dude who can attract the likes of Jason Isbell, Caitlin Rose and members of the Hold Steady and Deer Tick to record on his albums. His last one came out in 2017, but I’m guessing you’ll get a chance to hear some killer new songs when he hits Spokane. Lucky You Lounge, $14, 7 pm (DN) n

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VISUAL ARTS

LEFT: Alison Saar’s “Mulatta Seeking Inner Negress, 2006” from WSU’s Mirror Mirror: The Prints of Alison Saar.

RIGHT: François Antoine Maxime Lalanne’s “Boulevard Montmartre, 1884” at Jundt Art Museum’s From the Collection: Art in the 19th Century.

REANIMATED

After a challenging year, local college art galleries are gearing up for a fall filled with visitors and new exhibits

BY LILLIAN PIEL

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isiting an art gallery in person is a unique experience — observing each individual brush stroke on a painting, seeing the colors and intricacies of a work of art in ways that photos online cannot do justice, feeling that rare serenity that comes as you stroll the space and take everything in.

There are many local universities and community colleges with their own galleries, and they are all gearing up for a somewhat normal year, complete with actual, real-life, in-person visitors.

At Gonzaga University’s Jundt Art Museum, two exhibits this fall semester feature artwork entirely from the museum’s permanent collection. In the Arcade Gallery there is Staying Home: Interior Views from the Collection of the Jundt Art Museum, and in the Jundt Gallery there is From the Collection: Art in the 19th Century. Both exhibits run through Dec 31.

Paul Manoguerra, director and curator at the Jundt, says the unpredictability of COVID-19 motivated the decision to focus entirely on the museum’s permanent art collection, which reduces uncertainty and removes the need for contracts and possible closures and reopenings of traveling exhibits.

Staying Home features art that focuses on interior

spaces, whether that is the artist’s own interior space or another interior space entirely. Art in the 19th Century is fairly self-explanatory — all the artwork in the exhibit dates from the 19th century, and the exhibit goes along with a class on the same subject that Manoguerra teaches.

“I like museums because museums are all about the real object, and the real thing, which if we ever get to something that resembles post-pandemic, which I hope we do, I have a feeling that people are going to be tired of virtual, and museums in general can be one of the places that you can go have an authentic experience, to see the real thing again,” Manoguerra says.

At Washington State University, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU has two main exhibits open to the public this fall: Mirror Mirror: The Prints of Alison Saar, and the Black Lives Matter Artist Grant Exhibition.

Saar is a Los Angeles-based artist, and her exhibition includes nearly 50 prints and five sculptures, which chart the history of the experience of African Americans in America, says Debby Stinson, the marketing and public relations manager at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum. Mirror Mirror is open until March 12.

The Black Lives Matter Artist Grant Exhibition was created from a statewide call for artists that was pared

down to 20 artists who created works for the show. Jordan Schnitzer, the museum’s patron, donated $50,000 to each of his three namesake museums, which went toward the grant, Stinson says. The Black Lives Matters exhibit will run through Dec. 18.

The artists in the Black Lives Matter Artist Grant Exhibition use their voices and artistic expression to engage in social justice efforts in response to systemic racism, Jordan Schnitzer Museum curator and director Ryan Hardesty says via email. In addition to the two exhibits, there will be an opening reception with the artists and Jordan Schnitzer on Sept. 28 at 5 pm at the museum, an exhibition tour with Saar (Sept. 29 at 2 pm), and a Black Lives Matter intergenerational discussion (Sept. 29 at 3:30 pm).

“We model our institution as a teaching museum, a welcoming space for our communities to engage with, learn, and grow together from today’s most pressing issues,” Hardesty says.

At Eastern Washington University, the fall lineup features two exhibits, a biannual faculty exhibit and a two-person show called On the Edge: Living the Anthropocene, with artists Ann Chadwick Reid and Natalie Niblack.

Joshua Hobson, incoming gallery director at the EWU Gallery of Art, says he is excited to take the reins, and he wants to work to increase viewership from the public and make the gallery a space conducive to learning.

The faculty exhibition allows faculty members to bring in whatever they have been working on over the past few years, whether their artwork is related to the subject they teach or not, and show it at the gallery, Hobson says. The show will run from Sept. 29 to Nov. 4.

On the Edge features art that responds to climate change. Reid’s works are intricate paper works that look at the beauty and balance of ecosystems and how they are in distress, while Niblack’s pieces are large, deeply saturated oil paintings depicting wildfires, says Hobson.

“Given the summer that we’ve had and just the kind of record-breaking wildfire season we’ve had summer after summer recently, it’s a very timely work,” he says.

At Whitworth University, the Bryan Oliver Gallery is running an exhibit titled Supersonica from Sept. 14 through Oct. 29. It features a collection of new drawings from Seattle artist Kayo Nakamura, says Lance Siennema, the gallery director. Supersonica will be followed by an exhibit of works by Jiemei Lin, an artist and illustrator from Pullman, which will run Nov. 9 to Jan. 21.

Spokane Falls Community College is also gearing up for fall exhibitions, as well as workshops with the artists whose work will be on display at the SFCC Fine Arts Gallery. The first exhibit will be a series of photographs titled Travel by June Roys, a faculty member at SFCC who teaches graphic design, says Cozette Phillips, incoming gallery director at SFCC. Travel will run Sept. 21 to Oct. 20.

SFCC is also hosting an exhibit of the multimedia collage works by Len Davis, an artist from North Hollywood, Phillips says. The exhibit will run Oct. 25 through Nov. 23, and will include an opening reception and a mixed media technique workshop.

Although the Prichard Art Gallery at the University of Idaho closed recently due to cuts in funding, a new nonprofit gallery called Moscow Contemporary was opened by Roger Rowley, the previous director of the Prichard, says Sonja Foard, former assistant director. On Sept. 17, Moscow Contemporary will open the Palouse Plein Air Exhibition.

All of the local art galleries have faced challenges with having to close completely due to COVID-19, and though many pivoted quickly and started online programming, exhibitions or artist talks, having visitors at the galleries again is something everyone says they are looking forward to in the year to come. n

THROUGH DEC. 18

BLACK LIVES MATTER ARTIST GRANT EXHIBITION

Over the past year, three universities awarded grants to 60 artists from across Washington and Oregon “who are using their voices, experiences, and artistic expression toward social justice efforts in response to systemic racism,” according to Washington State University’s Jordan Schnitzer Museum, which hosts 20 of those artists. Additional programming includes an intergenerational discussion with several of the participating artists Sept. 29. Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Pullman, free, Tue-Fri 1-4 pm; Sat 10 am-4 pm (CARRIE SCOZZARO)

OCT. 2-FEB. 13, 2022

LOUIS COMFORT TIFFANY: TREASURES FROM THE DRIEHAUS COLLECTION

Tiffany lamps, synonymous with ornate colors and delicate designs, take their name from Louis Comfort Tiffany, the artist and designer whose studio first introduced and popularized them in the 1890s.

But Tiffany was active in several media besides stained glass, including blown glass, ceramics, metalwork, jewelry and painting. His craftsmanship and impeccable eye are on display in this unique exhibition, which features over 60 masterworks from his long career.

Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, Tue-Sun 10 am-5 pm (EI)

OCT. 20, NOV. 17, DEC. 15 THROUGH DEC. 31

STAYING HOME: INTERIOR VIEWS FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE JUNDT ART MUSEUM

At a time when many of us have had enough of looking at our own four walls, the Jundt is inviting us to see others’ spaces through their eyes. This exhibition brings together more than 20 prints, photos and paintings from the museum’s permanent collection, each of which relates to the theme of domestic space — even if they happen to be inside looking out, like Emily Trueblood’s linocut print Barrow Street (1975). Jundt Art Museum, Gonzaga University, free, Mon-Fri 10 am-3 pm (E.J. IANNELLI)

THROUGH MARCH 12, 2022

MIRROR, MIRROR: THE PRINTS OF ALISON SAAR

LA-based artist Alison Saar is perhaps best known as a sculptor who draws inspiration from ancient European, African and American folk art but is resolutely contemporary in her approach. Mirror, Mirror showcases five of Saar’s sculptures as well as about 50 of her prints, which maintain consistency of theme and technique despite an eclectic use of media. That mix can include anything from discarded chair backs and ceiling tin to collages of rags and handkerchiefs. Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU, Pullman, free, Tue-Fri 1-4 pm; Sat 10 am-4 pm (EI)

ARTIST SALON

If you’ve ever wondered how or why artists make art, The Art Spirit Gallery welcomes you to their new artist salon series, where audience questions help direct an evening of exploration into visual art facilitated by gallery staff. The monthly series runs every third Wednesday through March. The Art Spirit Gallery, Coeur d’Alene, free, 7 pm (CAS)

NOV. 5-26

DREAM REALMS: KATRINA BRENNAN EXHIBITION

Kolva-Sullivan will host this popular local painter whose work has previously appeared at Wiley’s Downtown Bistro, Soulful Soups and Prohibition Gastropub. Brennan’s first solo show includes colorful, surrealist acrylic paintings of animals and humans, sometimes inspired by her dreams. In addition to the free opening reception during First Friday, Brennan will be at the gallery Fridays 4-8 pm for the duration of the show. Kolva-Sullivan Gallery, free (CAS)

SEPT. 25

LITTLE SPOKANE RIVER ARTIST STUDIO TOUR

The 14th annual tour is back and better than ever with 48 artists in five studio locations, all within easy driving distance and representing every media imaginable: painting, pottery, photography, leather, fiber, stone, glass and more. This year’s limited-edition poster was created by artist and tour participant Sheila Evans. It will be available for $50, the net proceeds of which will benefit Spokane Public Radio, KPBX. Visit littlespokanestudios.com for map, free, 10 am-5 pm (CAS)

OCT. 1-30

HER WORDS TO LIFE: A CELEBRATION OF BLACK WOMEN’S VOICES

Both writers and visual artists, Tracy Poindexter-Canton and Shantell Jackson have teamed up to create an exhibition of visual interpretations of poems and prose written by Black American women writers including Nikki Giovanni, Alice Walker, Audre Lorde and Zora Neale Hurston. The show, which opens Oct. 1 from 5-8 pm, also features an audio playlist of the original poems/prose and installations to further encourage viewer engagement, interaction and education. Terrain Gallery, free, Thu-Sat 6-8 pm (CAS)

NOV. 5-27

SPOKANE PRINT FEST

Printing is one of the oldest and most varied artforms humans have and continue to work with. Experience the work of 23 artists included in Estampa, hosted by Terrain Gallery and curated by printmakers Carl Richardson and Reinaldo Gil Zambrano. A concurrent exhibit of printmaker Mary Farrell’s work is hosted by the MAC. Attend SAGA grant recipient Mel Antona Hewitt’s release of Grown Up’s First Alphabet, on Nov. 25 from 5-7 at Terrain Gallery.

Or sign up for any number of Spokane Print & Publishing Center workshops, from bookbinding to letterpress printing. Locations and times vary, Visit SpokanePrint.org for class details (CAS)

DEC. 3

WINNER TAKES ALL GALA

End the year with an artful evening that might just result in a whole gallery full of paintings, sculpture and more (so everyone on your shopping list could get some great artwork!). Tickets for Emerge’s gala are available online beginning Nov. 15. They’re $35 for an evening of live music, light refreshments and an opportunity to win the artwork on display (it will also be viewable online) through 6 pm on Dec. 5. Emerge Gallery, Coeur d’Alene, $35, 5-7 pm (CAS) n

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FACING PAGE: From the Palouse to Newport, art is alive in the rural Inland Northwest.

COUNTRY VALUES How the arts survive — and thrive — beyond the greater Spokane metropolitan area

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e know the arts have value because movies get made, photos are taken, people dance and draw and sing, regardless of whether it’s for pay or personal enjoyment.

Both matter, as we discovered checking in with several rural Inland Northwest communities to see how the arts play a role in life outside the Spokane/Coeur d’Alene metro area, and how those communities fared the past 18 months. This is a look at the value of the arts among pine trees, wheatfields and country lanes.

CHEWELAH IS CERTIFIABLY CREATIVE

Ask Chewelah resident Mike Bentz if you can assign dollar amounts to the arts and he perks up. Retired from a career with a national financial services company, Bentz speaks numbers, not metaphors.

“One of the things you consistently hear from artists is they’re marginalized,” says Bentz, who has lent his financial wherewithal to getting Chewelah established as a state-certified “creative district.”

“When you talk about the arts in concrete terms of economic impact — in numbers — you’ll be more in sync with business owners, chambers of commerce, potential financial donors, etc. that look for an understanding of what ‘creatives’ can add to a community,” he adds.

And the arts do make an impact. In 2017-18, for example, Washington’s “creative economy” was 4 percent of the workforce, yet contributed nearly 8 percent of the state’s GDP, according to the Washington State Arts Commission, which created the Certified Creative Districts Program in 2017.

By comparison, Idaho’s arts and culture economy contributes just shy of 3 percent of GDP, and uses a different approach to creative placemaking.

The Idaho Commission on the Arts funds nonprofits, schools, educators and artists through a system of grants, and is developing a toolkit for Idaho communities to launch their own, local cultural plans, says ICA Executive Director Michael Faison.

In Washington, the WSAC is considerably larger and better funded than the ICA. A dedicated staff member, Community Development Manager Annette Roth, helps interested communities navigate the lengthy application process.

BY CARRIE SCOZZARO Roth worked with Chewelah to help expand its view of the creative sector. In addition to the Chewelah Center for the Arts, the Arts Guild, ArtWalk, Trails End Gallery, a historical museum, designers, architects, musicians and a theater group, Chewelah’s creative economy also includes food and beverage, web developers, cabinet makers, auto restoration, tattooing and educators.

“The way I define it is anyone who works with their hands,” Bentz says. “What that does is it broadens the horizon and validates what a creative district is all about.”

Longtime resident Diane Evans saw her community’s creative potential early on. A founding member of the 22-year-old Arts Guild, Evans has been active in a range of community efforts.

In 2018, after hearing about the WSAC program from an artist friend, she helped organize a community meeting.

“From there, we came up with a plan, and another plan, tweaking and revising plans, on and on,” says Evans, who helped navigate the WSAC application guidebook — all 13 sections.

Application criteria addresses geographic, accessibility, financial, administrative and other requirements.

Regions must be walkable or otherwise accessible to visitors, for example. They need to promote both the community’s uniqueness, aka “brand,” and its creative sector, and create long-term plans that address cultural, economic and workforce development.

In June 2019, just two months after submitting its application, Chewelah was certified, one of only eight CCDs, and the first rural one in the state.

While CCD’s goals vary according to the community, certification means funding and support to attract visitors and creatives alike; grow economic opportunities for all; and develop heritage and preservation initiatives.

Overall, CCDs aim for making the region a more appealing place to live, work, visit and do business.

Being a CCD has enabled Chewelah to fund artist murals, reinforcing the community’s identity — its theme is “a place for all seasons” — and enhancing the downtown core. Chewelah also created “wayfinding” signage to direct what it expects will be an increase in visitors.

Along with donations from the Spokane Tribe of Indians, Chewelah also developed a consistent brand identity, internet and social media presence and a mem-

bership program.

Last December, the Department of Transportation installed signage along Highway 395 to notify visitors of Chewelah’s status as a CCD. As the state’s program grows — two years into the program, at least two dozen applications are in the pipeline, Spokane and Pullman included — this signage contributes to the message: destination Chewelah.

The future of Chewelah’s CCD is, literally, in the community’s hands. Organizers recently scheduled a community meeting to involve stakeholders in determining the town’s path forward.

That’s especially important in rural communities transformed by both declining populations and declining extraction-based economies like timber or farming, Roth says. CCDs offer opportunities for communities to recognize change and take a more active role in the process.

“People who live in rural communities love their communities just as much as people who live in urban communities and want to preserve and celebrate the things they love about their community,” Roth says.

ARTSY INSIDE AND OUT

Joyce Weir loves her community of Newport, population around 2,200 and located on the Idaho border in the lower east corner of Pend Oreille County, surrounded by forests and the nearby river. That geography defines the region’s history — timber, railroading — and is one of many challenges in running CREATE, which stands for Community Resource: Expression for the Arts through Education.

Located in a former church, CREATE Art and Community Center is busy indoors and out: arts classes for kids and adults creating things like fused glass, painting and antler baskets; musical and theatrical performances; yoga; poetry readings; ballroom dance lessons; and more.

“I’m so thankful for the diversity of the community groups who use the space,” says Weir, a former dental hygienist and master gardener who serves as board chair of CREATE, which she helped found in 1998.

Before that, she was part of a group volunteering to bring art into the district’s three schools. When they found a building that might serve as an arts hub, they raised funds — initially $30,000 — for its acquisition, upkeep and upgrades.

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CREATE continues to grow. Once members revamped the stage, they were able to host a Newportbased theater group, Pend Oreille Players, for example, and with Kalispel Tribe funding for kids’ programs, they revitalized their basement teaching space.

“We don’t have those entities who need and want to make community-enhancing donations,” Weir says, noting that the paper mill in nearby Usk closed last year.

The pandemic didn’t help things. “When we’re shut down, we can’t bring in any income at all,” she says. Instead, they rely on a host of volunteers and the generosity of the community, like donations from STCU and the local Ace Hardware.

Membership dues ($25-50) and event fees help, as did a CARES Act grant in 2020 that covered utilities and insurance, all of which had gone up, Weir says.

But some things have to wait until the resourceful six-member CREATE Board can figure out a way to do more with less, like the transition to digital sound and video capabilities they’re needing.

“In the bigger cities, they just say go hire someone or go call someone,” Weir says, laughing a bit as she describes the delight when someone brought cookies for Thursday’s “Coffee in the Garden” or an extra-large package of toilet paper.

“We try and take care of what we can the best we can.”

KEEPING THEATER ALIVE ON THE PALOUSE

They’re used to doing more with less at Regional Theater of the Palouse, say Executive Director John Rich and

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Associate Director Michael Todd. During their theater’s mandated closure, however, these creatives had to get even more so.

When they opened in 2007, their operating budget was a scant $5,000, Rich says. They’ve grown it to approximately $132,000 through a combination of summer camp tuition and performing arts workshops, ticket revenue, donations and local support. That enables them to put on four Broadway musicals and plays per year at roughly $16,000 to $20,000 a throw, plus two to three classic children’s performances.

RTOP was smack dab in the middle of rehearsal for Thoroughly Modern Millie in March 2020 when they, along with the rest of the state, were ordered closed. An actress from New York City ended up stranded in Pullman, so RTOP put her up in their separate artist-in-residence facility.

“It was kind of traumatic artistically,” says Todd. “It left our production team in a fog.”

But the show must go on, so RTOP scoured the budget for ways to save, like taking trash home to avoid that service fee and shutting off the water for a bit, says Rich.

They adjusted their mission from promoting “the Arts and Art Education through quality theatre” to “keeping the arts alive in people’s hearts and homes,” Todd says.

Some things they did to fulfill their revised mission are keepers: holiday-themed, communitywide contests; collaborations, like with Washington State University on a STEM-themed podcast featuring RTOP voice talent; and Zoom-based instruction, which has broadened the theater’s reach.

Like Newport’s CREATE, the theater also received a CARES grant. With it they transferred workshops online, resulting in the unintended benefit of participants getting a YouTube video of themselves for their portfolio.

And they opened the theater as a study hall for kids who had nowhere to go, using the desks left over from a production of Matilda.

“While it didn’t reach the masses, it really helped individuals,” Todd says. “We’re an oasis in wheatfields.”

The theater is not fully staffed, Rich says, and it probably won’t feel normal again until rehearsals begin for its next in-person show (Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard opens Sept. 30), but they made it through.

“The arts survive because you really work,” says Rich.

COLLABORATION AND CREATIVITY EXPRESSED THROUGH WOOD

There’s a reason it’s called woodworking; it takes effort.

And tools. And having an extra set of hands or someone to teach you or give you feedback is good, too.

“Alone, a woodworker might spend decades amassing the tools, space and experience necessary,” says woodworker Jim Christiansen, who unofficially founded the Palouse Woodworkers Collective in 1985 with a shop next to his house he opened to other woodworkers.

“By dividing cost, they can keep it goin’ and even do better,” Christiansen says. He added a little more structure to the small, invite-only group nine years ago, consolidating some tools and charging a modest amount to use them.

That interested artist Jill Kyong, who first saw Chris-

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Ed Krumpe works on a project at the Palouse Woodworkers Collective shared studio. CARRIE SCOZZARO PHOTO

tiansen’s woodworking at an exhibition inside the Dahmen Barn. The availability of a well-stocked facility that she couldn’t possibly achieve on her own appealed to Kyong, who figures that’s also one of the reasons she pursued metal casting and bronze at the University of Minnesota.

Kyong is one of eight members who might pay up to $150 each month to access a 2,200-square-foot building chock full of tools: drill press, chop saw, two lathes, belt sanders, dust collectors, joiner, planer, hand tools, safety equipment, and a finishing area.

It’s “99 percent of anything you’d need,” says Keith Welsh, a former geologist who relocated to Pullman four years ago, bringing with him 20-plus years’ experience from a Louisiana woodworking collaborative he helped start.

Although he is building his own shop, Welsh really likes the group, which this spring teamed up with eight additional artists to exhibit their creations at The Art Spirit Gallery.

“COVID didn’t touch us here,” says Welsh, who says that they all trusted each other and, crediting Christiansen’s mentorship, they all feel welcome.

That’s by design, says Christiansen, a retired teacher and administrator whose background includes working in special education.

At 78, Christensen has built a reputation for not only his intricately carved surfaces and knowledge of woodturning — working with a lathe to hollow out a form — but also his collaborative approach.

“Our focus is more on people than on what they ‘do,’” he says.

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HI-FLYING IN CHENEY

Some art forms simply can’t be completed on one’s own, and that’s the point.

Square dancing, for example, is a group effort. A caller guides dancers through the series of steps, whose names like promenade and do si do illuminate the art form’s early European (particularly French) ancestry. In addition, four pairs of dancers are typically needed to form a square, and up until the advent of recorded music, there would also be musicians.

The whole affair would have been — and continues to be — a party; the more squares the merrier.

“Second-best group to church,” says 60-something Kelley Sweet, who got into square dancing as a young, single parent in search of fun, safe activities for her and her children.

Sweet belongs to three of more than 16 square dancing clubs scattered across Eastern Washington and North Idaho, including Hi-Flyers out of Cheney.

Hi-Flyers dates to 1971 when someone — a captain whose name has been lost — organized dances on Fairchild Air Force Base. The club eventually moved off base and now coalesces Wednesday evenings for lessons at Cheney’s newly refurbished Wren Pierson Building.

Hi-Flyers dances are typically every third Friday, September through November and January through May. Some or all of the club’s 28 members ranging from ages 40 to 85 might attend, plus dancers from other clubs.

Guest dancers’ entry fees and activities like silent auctions help bolster the host club’s revenue, which goes toward insurance, hall rental and the cost of a caller.

More importantly, guests strengthen and expand the square dance community.

“This is a very supportive group of people to have fun and travel with,” says Sweet. “Many members have been a phone call away when needed.”

Dances take place in rented halls, grange halls and dedicated dance facilities like the North Spokane Dance Center on Freya and the Western Dance Center in Spokane Valley.

Snacks (but no alcoholic beverages) are served at the dances, although groups might go out before or after the dance, Sweet says.

They also have an annual picnic in August, which they had to forgo last year due to the mandated shutdown. Although they stayed in touch via Zoom, emails, phone calls, the Hi-Flyers web and social media page, and the like, it wasn’t the same as dancing together, Sweet says. She missed the one-on-one interaction, hearing about each other’s families and just seeing one another, she says.

“Dancing is always a fun time of moving to the music,” Sweet says. “We have fun working together to complete the patterns of the dance.”

A COLORFUL APPROACH TO KIDS AND THE ARTS

It’s pure coincidence that Claire Christy attended an elementary school named Hope while growing up in Clark Fork, Idaho. Hope was one of many benefits of a special program called Kaleidoscope.

“You came in from lunch and the Kaleidoscope lady was there,” Christy says, reflecting on her years at both Hope and Sagle Elementary schools, “and I knew I was going to have a good day.”

Created by the Sandpoint-based Pend Oreille Arts Council, Kaleidoscope is a volunteer-led program providing one hour of art instruction a month to the bulk of Lake Pend Oreille School District’s third through sixth graders since 1992.

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Kaleidoscope was a touchstone for her, says Christy, who remembers learning how to draw human figures in sixth grade, lessons she carried into her college art classes.

“I loved art, and I loved to draw, and I loved color,” she says, “but I think Kaleidoscope opened my eyes about how much [more] there was to learn.”

Now Christy helps coordinate Kaleidoscope, which serves upward of 1,500 students annually.

Roughly 20 Kaleidoscope volunteers pair up with classroom teachers to create hands-on lessons including art techniques, art history, vocabulary and other content that supports required grade-level curriculum.

Art, however, isn’t supported the same way as math or reading. Although the district pays for shared elementary music teachers, only two of the nine elementary schools have an art teacher. Both are grantfunded, and thus subject to change each school year.

So although Idaho provides K-12 content standards for visual art (and music, dance, theater, Pend Oreille Arts Council’s Kaleidoscope makes sure students in rural areas of Idaho know art is a priority. etc.), they don’t stipulate how that instruction should take place for elementary students, putting the onus on the classroom teacher.

“There’s a lot of sharing that goes on,” Deaner says, In smaller, rural or less affluent areas, this is the rule, describing some of the benefits of in-person art instrucnot the exception. In Idaho, for example, Coeur d’Alene tion, which in March 2020 was abruptly halted due to funds art teachers districtwide, but the Lake Pend Oreille mandated school closures. district does not. In Washington, elementary kids in That prompted POAC and those responsible for putSpokane schools typically have a dedicated art teacher, ting on Kaleidoscope to re-evaluate. What would it take, but not in East Valley. they wondered, to continue delivering lessons, and was Kaleidoscope addresses the art instruction gap in a it worth it if they didn’t know how or even if teachers place that otherwise paints itself as an “arts town,” for would be able to implement them? The culminating art both the visual and performing arts. show was not likely to happen.

The Sandpoint music scene, for example, is fed by As they’ve done for 43 years, Deaner says, they figthe long-running Festival at Sandpoint and the new Muured out a way to make do with what they had, focusing sic Conservatory, while the 93-year-old Panida Theater on what they could do. POAC, which is funded by grants, is a hub for a variety of theatrical, musical and cultural donations and fundraisers, hoped the community might events. Meanwhile, the visual arts get a boost from the help even more. town’s arts commission and growing public art program, They did. as well as the Pend Oreille Arts Council, which recently So, only one month into joining the POAC, Christy celebrated its 43rd year in operation. found herself organizing thousands of supplies — pencils, POAC’s other visual arts initiatives include art exhimarkers, itty-bitty containers of tempera paint — so stubitions and hosting the long-running arts and crafts fair, dents could complete the March Kaleidoscope activity. which is nearly as old and as large as Coeur d’Alene’s As she was stuffing 800 paper bags, Christy says, she venerable Art on the Green. motivated herself by thinking about what art did for her The council also coordinates an annual summer art as a kid. walk, which this year encompassed more than two dozen “It gave me an outlet,” says Christy, who figured that businesses and 100 artists, according to Board President even if only one or two kids got something out of the Carol Deaner, who began her tenure with POAC as a art supplies or the Kaleidoscope lesson, it was definitely Kaleidoscope volunteer. worth it. n

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The best awards shows are the ones that feel like a party, a celebration of the honorees of course, but also just a good hang with cool people. The Spokane Arts Awards is just that each year, as the local arts organization recognizes local creatives in categories like leadership, collaboration, inclusion and imagination. This year’s party, originally scheduled for Saturday, was shaping up to be a beauty before the stupid delta variant crept up and made an in-person throwdown seem like not such a great idea. But Spokane Arts is still celebrating all the nominees via short films at spokanearts.org and posted on their various social media outlets. Go check them out and see how some of the community’s most passionate artists and art lovers have contributed to the scene during these trying times.

The winners will still be announced on September 18, but really, everyone nominated deserves a giant community “Thank you!” spokanearts. org (DAN NAILEN)

Like so many annual events, Lilac City Comicon was canceled in 2020, but the celebration of all things sci-fi, cosplay, anime and more is back in full effect for 2021. This year’s edition features visits from Jon Heder (yes, the Napoleon Dynamite) and Sean Gunn (Avengers, Guardians of the Galaxy, and to some of us, forever Kirk from Gilmore Girls) as well as some legendary comic book artists like James O’Barr and Freddie Williams II. Spokane Convention Center, $5-$30, Oct. 2 10 am-6 pm, Oct. 3 10 am-4 pm (DN)

Hasan Minhaj, comedian and host and creator of the weekly comedy show Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj, is coming to Spokane for an evening of laughter at the First Interstate Center for the Arts with his new one-man show, The King’s Jester.

Minhaj’s TV show explored the modern political and cultural landscape, and his standup gets a little more personal, as seen on several comedy specials on Netflix. He was also a correspondent on The Daily Show. The show will be a phone-free experience, so don’t plan on any selfies with the star. First Interstate Center for the Arts, $39.50$84.50, 8 pm (LP)

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NOV. 6

UNCAGED: UNTOLD STORIES FROM THE CAST OF THE TIGER KING

If you’re one of those folks who just couldn’t get enough of the Tiger King saga when it blew up on Netflix — it’s OK to admit it, you’re in a safe space — you might have a hankering for an extra dose of the insanity (above). Comedian and podcast host Todd McComas is joined by series stars John Reinke, Joshua Dial, Barbara Fisher and more to talk about the show and screen behind-the-scenes clips that didn’t make it into the show. First Interstate Center for the Arts, $25-$49, 7 pm (DN)

NOV. 13-14

SPOKANE FALL FOLK FESTIVAL OCT. 2

SPOKANE CHIEFS SEASON OPENER

It’s been far too long since Spokane’s hockey fans have had a chance to pile into the Spokane Arena and watch some future NHL stars get after it on the ice. The Spokane Chiefs’ league has taken a ton of precautions off the ice this season to make sure there’s action on the ice all winter long, and hopefully there will be a full season of fun to follow this opening night showdown against Tri-City.

Spokane Arena, individual tickets tbd, 7 pm (DN)

Every year the Spokane Folklore Society pulls together a truly amazing event with the Spokane Fall Folk Festival. There are a lot of events trying to showcase the various cultures that make the Inland Northwest home, but none succeed quite like this one, where you can find all manner of performing arts. It’s heavy on traditional music and dance, and it’s pretty incredible what you can see and hear all in one spot over a couple days. Last year the festival was virtual, and it will be a joy seeing the cultural collaborations in person this fall. The Lair at Spokane Community College, free, Nov. 13 11 am-10 pm and Nov. 14 11 am-5 pm (DN)

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NOV. 19-21

JAY PHAROAH

Comedian Jay Pharoah (above) has a way with voices, which helped make him the go-to guy during his Saturday Night Live years for impressions of everyone from Barack Obama to Kanye West to Denzel Washington. But he’s also lent his skills to an array of animated shows, including Bojack Horseman and Family Guy, and showcased some dramatic acting chops on shows like Showtime’s White Famous. As a standup, he’s been hitting stages for years with a combination of characters and one-liners, and he’s slated for five shows in Spokane sure to be among some of the best stand-up gigs of the year. Spokane Comedy Club, $25-$40, Nov. 19-21 at 7:30 pm, Nov. 19-20 at 10:30 pm (DN)

It can be a dicey balancing act to veer between cooking show, stand-up comedy, science demonstrations and even music, but Alton Brown (above) has managed to create one of the more unique careers in the foodie media universe.

Besides hosting a seemingly endless array of TV shows, he also does live tours like this one, where he takes the stage to charm, educate and feed hungry audiences coast to coast. Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox, $45-$125, 7:30 pm (DN)

DEC. 17

JO KOY

This long-delayed Spokane appearance by standup comic Jo Koy could be the perfect antidote to when you hit holiday overload. Since starting at open mics at coffee shops in his hometown of Las Vegas, Koy has built one of the more impressive resumes in modern comedy. After establishing himself in Vegas, he made his way to LA and became a regular panelist on Chelsea Lately, started a couple podcasts including the ongoing The Koy Pond, and has recorded standup specials for Comedy Central and Netflix, full of material touching on his family and American-Filipino heritage. First Interstate Center for the Arts, $40-$80, 8 pm (DN) n

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CALENDAR SEPTEMBER BENEFIT

9/16 Rock the Runway, Historic Flight Foundation 9/18 16th Annual CVR POW/MIA Ride, Combat Vet Riders Outreach Center 9/18 Post Falls Historical Society Spaghetti Dinner, Tilly’s on Seventh 9/19 Hope-Full: Eat. Listen. Celebrate., Compassionate Addiction Treatment 9/21 East Spokane Business Association’s 9th Annual Dinner, Gonzaga University Hemmingson Center 9/25 Art from the Attic Sale, Corbin Art Center

COMEDY

9/16-18 J Harland Williams, Spokane Comedy Club 9/17-24 Predictable, Blue Door Theatre (Fridays) 9/17 J Tom Papa, Bing Crosby Theater 9/18-25 Safari, Blue Door Theatre (Saturdays) 9/19 Michael Glatzmaier, Spokane Comedy Club 9/21 Nick Colletti, Spokane Comedy Club 9/23-25 Ari Shaffir, Spokane Comedy Club 9/29 Danny Duncan World Tour 2021, Knitting Factory 9/30 Dry Bar Comedy Live, Spokane Comedy Club

COMMUNITY

9/16 J Thursday Night Live (TNL), The MAC 9/16-30 Wild Things, Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture (through Nov. 30) 9/16 Lifeguards, Hikers and Mathematicians, Gonzaga University Cataldo Hall 9/17-18 Art, Antiques & Collectibles Sale Event, Moran Prairie Grange 9/18 J Center of the Universe Re-Dedication & Raffle, Wallace, Idaho 9/18-19 Spokane Herbal Faire, West Central Episcopal Mission 9/18 J Spokane River Clean-Up (locations vary) 9/18 Sister Cities of Spokane Rededication Ceremony, Riverfront Park 9/28 J National Voter Registration Day, Spokane County Library District branches 9/25 J 2021 Children’s Book Arts Fair, Prairie View Park 9/29 How Latina/Latino Representation Can Improve Democracy (online, humanities.org)

FESTIVAL

9/16-19 J Spokane County Interstate Fair, Spokane

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County Fair & Expo Center 9/16-19 J 50th Odessa Deutschesfest, Odessa 9/18 J Oktoberfest, The Golden Handle Project, Brick West Brewing Co., River City Brewing, Iron Goat Brewing, Whistle Punk Brewing 9/23-25 J 85th Annual Greek Festival, Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church

9/29 J Preserve It! Summer Home Food Preservation Series, WSU Spokane County Extension 9/30 Yappy Hour, Ponderay Petsafe Dog Park 9/30 J Sunset Sipper Resort Blend Whiskey Tasting, The Coeur d’Alene Resort

FILM

9/16-18 Sandpoint SongFest, Sandpoint 9/16 J Foreigner with Lita Ford, Northern Quest [SOLD OUT] 9/16 Jason Aldean with Hardy, Lainey Wilson & Dee Jay Silver, Spokane Arena 9/16 Billy Strings, Pavilion at Riverfront 9/17 J Carmen Jane, Lucky You Lounge 9/17 ZAN Album Release, The Big Dipper 9/17 Songwriter Night w/Colby Acuff & Friends, The Jacklin Arts & Cultural Center 9/17 Faculty Artist Series: Dr. Shannon Scott, Clarinet, Bryan Hall Theatre (WSU) 9/18-19 J Spokane Symphony Masterworks 1: The Return of the Symphony, Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox 9/18 KISS, Gorge Amphitheater 9/18 Kadabra Album Release Party w/ Von The Baptist and Sugar Colt, The Big Dipper

9/16-30 J Hollywood of the North: North Idaho and the Film Industry, Museum of North Idaho (through Oct. 30) 9/25 Drive-In Movie Nights: The Sandlot & The Blind Side, HUB Sports Center 9/28 J Fighting for Love: Strong Women in Onscreen Romances (online; humanities.org)

FOOD & DRINK

9/17-24 Food Truck Fridays, Downtown Spokane (Fridays) 9/17-24 Friday Night Market & Open Mic, Hillyard Food Truck Pavilion (Fridays) 9/17-24 Rocket Wine Class, Rocket Market (weekly) 9/29 Historical Tours, Commellini Estate

MUSIC

J Inlander recommends this event 9/18 Casey Donahew, Knitting Factory 9/19 J Dwight Yoakam, First Interstate Center for the Arts 9/19 J Sublime with Rome & Lifehouse, Northern Quest Resort & Casino 9/19 Masterclass Big Band, Coeur d’Alene City Park 9/21 Zonky Jazz Night, Lucky You Lounge 9/22 Beverly Crusher, Monster Watch, Black Ends, Baby Bar 9/23 Ashley McBryde: This Town Talks Tour, Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox 9/24 J Darius Rucker, Northern Quest [SOLD OUT] 9/24 Live Music with Wiebe Jammin, Pend d’Oreille Winery 9/24 Mannequin Pussy, Angel Du$t, Pinkshift, Lucky You Lounge 9/24 Great Vibes Tour ft. Tony Montana, Red Room Lounge 9/24 Pianist Teresa Walters, Cutter Theatre 9/25 J Old Dominion with Caitlyn Smith, Northern Quest Resort & Casino 9/25 KPBX Kids’ Concert: Villa Blues & Jazz (online and on air) 9/25 Backroad Jammers, Dahmen Barn 9/25 Neil Diamond Night, Bing Crosby Theater 9/25 Washington Idaho Symphony: 50th Season Premiere, Pullman High School 9/26 An evening of Jazz ft. Ken Peplowski, The Jacklin Arts & Cultural Center 9/26 Porter Robinson with James Ivy, Pavilion at Riverfront 9/27 Zeta, Pit, The Smokes, Baby Bar 9/28 Silverland Rockfest ft. Everclear, Hoobastank, Living Colour, Wheatus, Greyhound Park & Event Center 9/28 Ken Peplowski with the SFCC Jazz Faculty, Holy Names Music Center 9/28 Michael Angelo Batio, Lucky You Lounge 9/28 Isaiah Rashad: Lil Sunny’s Awesome Vacation,

Shakespeare in the Park returns on Sept. 17.

Knitting Factory 9/29 J My Morning Jacket with Durand Jones and the Indications, Pavilion at Riverfront 9/29 J The Seshen, Water Monster, Lucky You Lounge 9/29 Josh Turner, First Interstate Center for the Arts 9/30 Toadies w/ Reverend Horton Heat, Frankie & The Witch Fingers, Knitting Factory

THEATER

9/17-25 J Shakespeare in the Park: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged), Riverfront Park 9/20 Civic Academy: Civic Stories, Spokane Civic Theatre (continues for 4 or 6 weeks) 9/24-26 Squeamish (online; stagelefttheatre.org) 9/24-26 Swimming Pools (online, uidaho.edu/theatre) 9/30 J Sunset Boulevard, Regional Theatre of the Palouse

VISUAL ARTS

9/16-30 J Mirror, Mirror: The Prints of Alison Saar, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU 9/16-30 Inland Northwest Juried Pastel Exhibit, The

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Jacklin Arts & Cultural Center 9/16-30 Kayo Nakamura: Supersonica, Bryan Oliver Gallery, Whitworth 9/16-19 Justin Gibbens: Birds and Beasts, The MAC 9/16-30 J Black Lives Matter Artist Grant Exhibition, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU 9/16-30 Mat Rude: Flow, Boswell Corner Gallery at NIC 9/16-20 Animal Art by Shar Schenk, Wenaha Gallery 9/16-30 Small Paintings: Big Impact, Wenaha Gallery 9/16-19 J American Original: The Life and Work of John James Audubon, The MAC 9/16-30 J What We Make: Nature as Inspiration, Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture 9/16-30 Gloria Fox & Karen Robinette, Pottery Place Plus 9/16-30 Staying Home, Jundt Art Museum 9/16-26 Lonely Barns, Dahmen Barn 9/16-24 Owen McAuley Retrospective, Spokane Art School 9/17-30 Palouse Plein Air Exhibition, Moscow Contemporary 9/17-25 Louise Kodis, David Glass & The Reading Room, Saranac Art Projects

9/17-24 Mary Farrell: Meditation on Place: Prints & Drawings From the Last 25 Years, Gonzaga University Urban Arts Center 9/17 2021 Palouse Plein Air Exhibition Reception, Moscow Contemporary 9/17-24 J Flora Repercussions, Kolva-Sullivan Gallery 9/18 Tiny Medieval-style Painting – Circe Miniature with Hannah Charlton, Spokane Art School 9/18-30 Continuous Lines: Selections from the Joe Feddersen Collection, The MAC 9/23 J Eye Contact... A Night of Art, Washington Cracker Co. Building 9/25-30 Awakenings, The MAC 9/25 J 14th Little Spokane River Artist Studio Tour 9/29 INK! at the Drive-In, Hayden Discount Cinema 9/29-30 EWU Faculty Exhibition, EWU Gallery of Art 9/30 Masterpiece and Murals, New Moon Art Gallery

WORDS

9/17 Book Club: Books in Translation, Auntie’s 9/18 Laughing Matters: Asian Americans, Comedy, and Inclusion (online; humanities.org) 9/22-29 Broken Mic, Neato Burrito (Wednesdays) 9/22 J WSU Visiting Writers Series: Zoe Hana Mikuta, WSU Elson S. Floyd Cultural Center 9/24 J Books are Made of Other Books with Kate Lebo + Sam Ligon, Auntie’s Bookstore 9/25 100,000 Poets for Change (online; losthorspress. org) 9/25 Book Club: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Auntie’s Bookstore 9/28 J The Cold Millions by Jess Walter, The Hive 9/29 J Whitworth President’s Leadership Forum: Madeleine Albright, Spokane Convention Center 9/29 Sayantani Dasgupta: Women Who Misbehave (online; bookpeopleofmoscow.com) 9/30 Humanity in Print: Literature and Human Rights, Newport Public Library

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OCTOBER BENEFIT

10/4-10 Into Africa Auction (online; partneringforprogress.org) 10/8 Big Brothers Big Sisters’ Bigger Together Gala, Beacon Hill Events 10/9 Hoedown for HOPE, Spokane Convention Center 10/16 Hollywood Night: A Museum of North Idaho Benefit Gala, Best Western Plus Coeur d’Alene 10/23 Pumpkin Ball, Historic Davenport Hotel 10/29-31 J SpookWalk, Browne’s Addition 10/30 Ghost Ball 2021, Riverside Place

COMEDY

10/1-2 J Jeremey Piven, Spokane Comedy Club 10/1-29 No Clue, Blue Door Theatre (Fridays) 10/2-30 Safari, Blue Door Theatre (Saturdays) 10/3 Nimesh Patel, Spokane Comedy Club 10/8 Penn & Teller, Northern Quest Resort & Casino 10/8-10 Shuler King, Spokane Comedy Club 10/10 Louis C.K., First Interstate Center for the Arts 10/15-17 J Dan Cummins, Spokane Comedy Club 10/20-21 Tim Dillon, Spokane Comedy Club 10/22-23 J Daymon Wayans Jr., Spokane Comedy Club

COMMUNITY

10/1-31 Wild Things, The MAC (through Nov. 30) 10/1 Spokane Festival of Speed Oktoberfest, Downtown Spokane 10/2-3 Custer’s 46th Annual Fall Antique & Collector’s Sale, Spokane County Fair & Expo Center 10/2-3 J Spokane Arts Artist Fair, Pavilion at Riverfront 10/2 Vintage Quilt Appreciation Day, Perkins House Museum

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10/3-31 J Louis Comfort Tiffany: Treasures from the Driehaus Collection, The MAC 10/6 2021 Spokane Candidates Climate Change Forum, Gonzaga University 10/8-10 42nd Annual Home Idea Show, Spokane County Fair & Expo Center 10/9 Model Train Show, Evergreen Model Railroad Club 10/10 Model Train Show, Spokane Fair & Expo Center 10/13 Climate Girl Effect, Gonzaga Jepson Center 10/15-17 Washington State Quilt Show, Spokane County Fair & Expo Center 10/16 Great Pumpkin Race and Family Carnival, Greenwood Memorial Terrace 10/19 The Rights of Nature: Saving the Planet or Harmful to Humanity? (online; gonzaga.edu) 10/22-31 Spo-Candy Crawl, Riverfront Park 10/23 Kids Drop In & Code, Spark Central 10/30 Fall Festival, Cutter Theatre 10/30 Moonlight Halloween Cruise, The Coeur d’Alene Resort

FESTIVAL

10/2-3 Fall Fest, Downtown Spokane 10/2-3 J Lilac City Comicon, Spokane Convention Center 10/2-24 Fall Festival, Stonelodge Farm 10/16 J Lake City Comicon, Kootenai County Fairgrounds

FILM

10/1-30 J Hollywood of the North: North Idaho and the Film Industry, Museum of North Idaho 10/13 This is the End: How Movies Prepared Us for the Apocalypse (online; humanities.org) 10/14 Teton Gravity Research: Stoke the Fire, Bing Crosby Theater

Tanya Tucker takes the stage at the Bing on Oct. 16.

MUSIC

10/1 J The Doobie Brothers 50th Anniversary Tour, Spokane Arena 10/1-1 Loudermilk, The Ladybird Unition, Dust Moth, Lucky You Lounge 10/1-2 Beyond Wonderland, Gorge Amphitheater 10/2 J Tennis with Molly Burch, Knitting Factory 10/2 J Coeur d’Alene Symphony: Transcendence: Mozart’s (R)evolution, Schuler Performing Arts Center 10/3 J Spokane String Quartet, Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox 10/3 Tracy Byrd, Northern Quest Resort & Casino 10/5 Black Label Society w/ Obituary, Prong, Knitting Factory 10/6 J Tanya Tucker w/ Aubrie Sellers, Bing Crosby Theater 10/6 The Blue Stones, Maybird, Lucky You Lounge 10/7 RIVVRS, Lucky You Lounge

10/8 Tyler Rich w/ Shy Carter, Knitting Factory 10/8 Joshy Soul, Thom.Ko, Lucky You Lounge 10/9 Sol, Sam Lachow, Lucky You Lounge 10/9 J Coeur d’Alene Symphony: Blazing Fiddles Gala, Coeur d’Alene Casino 10/9 Fall Family Weekend Concert, Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center 10/9-10 J Spokane Symphony Masterworks 2: Beethoven’s Soul, Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox 10/10 J Madeleine Peyroux: Carless Love Forever Tour, Bing Crosby Theater 10/11 An Evening with Amy Grant, First Interstate Center for the Arts 10/12 Machine Gun Kelly with JXDN, carolesdaughter, Pavilion at Riverfront 10/12 Wheelwright, Lucky You Lounge 10/13-15 Spokane Symphony Chamber Soiree, Barrister Winery

J Inlander recommends this event 10/13 Badflower w/ Teenage Wrist, Dead Poet Society, Knitting Factory 10/14 Avatar: Going Hunting Tour with Magic Sword, Tallah, Knitting Factory 10/14 Trampa North American Tour ft. Trampa, Oddprophet, Jinx, Riverside Place 10/15 J Jimmy Eat World and Taking Back Sunday w/ The Beaches, Pavilion at Riverfront 10/15 J Whitworth University Presents: Leslie Odom, Jr. with the Spokane Symphony, Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox [SOLD OUT] 10/16 J Trego Album Release w/ Terrible Buttons, Folk Crimes, Lucky You Lounge 10/16 Scatterbox 20th Anniversary Show w/ Gotu Gotu, Touch of Evil, The Big Dipper 10/17 Tech N9ne w/ Rittz, King Iso, Maez301, Jehry Robinon, Knitting Factory 10/17 Riley Downing, Silver Treason, Kassi Valazza, Lucky You Lounge 10/18 J Gonzaga Symphony Orchestra, Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center 10/20 Paloma, The Home Team, Glacier Veins, The Big Dipper 10/21 Queensrÿche, Northern Quest Resort & Casino 10/22-22 Hell’s Belles, Knitting Factory 10/22 Pigs on the Wing: A Tribute to Pink Floyd, Bing Crosby Theater 10/22 Fox Presents: Walt Wagner Trio, Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox 10/23 J Purity Ring w/ Dawn Richard, Knitting Factory 10/26 Chorale Coeur d’Alene: Sing On!, Peace Lutheran Church 10/27 Book of Madrigals: A Lecture-Recital with Cary Boyce (online; whitworth.edu) 10/28 Whitworth Symphony Orchestra Halloween Concert, Whitworth Hixson Union Building 10/28 J TLC, Coeur d’Alene Casino

10/29 J Itchy Kitty, Gotu Gotu, the Dilrods, The Big Dipper 10/29 Cory Branan, Lucky You Lounge 10/29 Okaidja Afroso, Panida Theater 10/31 The Black Jacket Sypmphony presents: Led Zeppelin IV, Bing Crosby Theater

THEATER

10/1-10 Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, Pullman Civic Theatre 10/1-10 J Sunset Boulevard, Regional Theatre of the Palouse 10/1-3 The Durable Barfly (online; uidaho.edu/theatre) 10/1-2 A Halloween Spooktacular, Kroc Center 10/5 Shen Yun, First Interstate Center for the Arts 10/8-9 Murder Mystery Dinner Theatre, Cutter Theatre 10/8-24 J Roald Dahl’s Matilda, The Musical, Spokane Children’s Theatre 10/8 Masterpiece Monologues: New Works (online; stagelefttheater.org) 10/14 J Staged Reading: An Aviary for the Birds of Sadness, Washington Cracker Co. Building 10/15-24 The SpongeBob Musical, Kroc Center 10/15-24 Macbeth: Alba Gu Brath, Hartung Theater 10/16 Haunted House Murder Mystery, Crime Scene Entertainment 10/19-24 J Cats, First Interstate Center for the Arts 10/23 Haunted House Murder Mystery, Crime Scene Entertainment 10/29-31 J Inland Northwest Opera: Orpheus and Eurydice, Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox

VISUAL ARTS

10/1 J First Friday, Spokane 10/1-2 Inland Northwest Juried Pastel Exhibit, The Jacklin Arts & Cultural Center 10/1-29 EWU Faculty Exhibition, EWU Gallery of Art 10/1-29 Kayo Nakamura: Supersonica, Bryan Oliver Gallery, Whitworth

10/1-30 J Mirror, Mirror: The Prints of Alison Saar, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU 10/1-30 Art by Tom Kramer + Robens Napolitan, Monarch Mountain Coffee 10/1-30 J Black Lives Matter Artist Grant Exhibition, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU 10/1-29 Spokane Watercolor Society Juried Member Show, Spokane Art School 10/1-17 Palouse Plein Air Exhibition, Moscow Contemporary 10/1-29 Mat Rude: Flow, Boswell Corner Gallery at NIC 10/1-4 Small Paintings: Big Impact, Wenaha Gallery 10/1-31 J What We Make: Nature as Inspiration, Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture 10/1-31 Continuous Lines: Selections from the Joe Feddersen Collection, The MAC 10/1-30 J Staying Home: Interior Views from the Collection, Jundt Art Museum 10/1-31 Awakenings, The MAC 10/1-30 Masterpiece and Murals, New Moon Art Gallery 10/1-22 Mary Farrell: Meditation on Place: Prints & Drawings From the Last 25 Years, Gonzaga University Urban Arts Center 10/1 First Friday, Pend Oreille Arts Council Gallery 10/2 Tiny Medieval-Style Painting with Hannah Charlton, Spokane Art School 10/3-31 J Recent Acquisitions: Selections from the Safeco Art Collection, The MAC 10/3 Mosaic with Lisa Soranaka, Spokane Art School 10/7 First Thursday, Moscow 10/8 Gallery Opening: Jen Erickson, Otis Bardwell, Kate Lund, Emerge 10/8 Second Friday Artwalk, Downtown Coeur d’Alene

WORDS

10/1 Humanity in Print: Literature and Human Rights, Newport Public Library 10/1 J Three Minute Mic, Auntie’s Bookstore

10/5 J WSU Visiting Writers Series: Haki R. Madhubuti (online; english.wsu.edu) 10/5 How Latina/Latino Representation Can Improve Democracy (online; humanities.org) 10/5-20 J Diamonds in the Rough: The Gentrification of Rural Washington (online; humanities.org) 10/6-13 The River That Made Seattle (online; humanities.org) 10/6-27 Broken Mic, Neato Burrito (Wednesdays) 10/7 J Amor Towles in Conversation with John Grisham (online; auntiesbooks.com) 10/7 J Kate Lebo: The Book of Difficult Fruit, CenterPlace Regional Event Center 10/8 J Bedtime Stories (online; humanities.org) 10/9 Book Release: A Long Road There, The Warehouse 10/9 J TEDxSpokane 2021, Bing Crosby Theater 10/12 J Crossroads: Jonathan Franzen in Conversation with Maria Semple (online; auntiesbooks.com) 10/13 A Nicer Kind of Murder: The Evolution of Crime Fiction (online; humanities.org) 10/13 J Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Taker by Patricia Meredith, Auntie’s Bookstore 10/13 Authors DJ Lee and Tina Ontiveros, The Kenworthy 10/14 Book Club: New Fiction, Auntie’s Bookstore 10/15 Book Club: Books in Translation, Auntie’s 10/16 Virtual Storytime: With Great Power: The Marvelous Stan Lee (online; auntiesbooks.com) 10/19 WSU Visiting Writers Series: Brian Blanchfield, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU 10/23 J Washington State Poet Laureate Rena Priest, Cutter Theatre 10/23 Book Club: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Auntie’s Bookstore 10/24 J Washington State Poet Laureate Rena Priest, Camas Wellness Center 10/24 J Washington State Poet Laureate Rena Priest, Create Arts Center 10/27 J Atomic Washington: Our Nuclear Past, Present, and Future (online; humanities.org)

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NOVEMBER

COMEDY

11/4-4 Dude Perfect, Spokane Arena 1/5-26 Coming Soon..., Blue Door Theatre (Fridays) 11/6 Dustin Sims, Spokane Comedy Club 11/6-27 Safari, Blue Door Theatre (Saturdays) 11/7 WellRed, Spokane Comedy Club 11/12-13 Pauly Shore, Spokane Comedy Club 11/16 J Hasan Minhaj, First Interstate Center for the Arts 11/18 Shapel Lacey, Spokane Comedy Club 11/19-21 J Jay Pharoah, Spokane Comedy Club 11/26-28 JP Sears, Spokane Comedy Club

COMMUNITY

11/2-30 J Louis Comfort Tiffany: Treasures from the Driehaus Collection, Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture (through Feb. 2022) 11/2-30 Wild Things, Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture (closes Nov. 30) 11/3 J Thomas Berry’s Vision for the Earth Community (online; gonzaga.edu.climatecenterevents) 11/10-17 J Riverfront Winter Market, Riverfront Park 11/11 & 11/26 State Parks Free Day, All Washington State Parks 11/13 The Price Is Right Live, Northern Quest Resort & Casino 11/13-14 J 26th Annual Fall Folk Festival, Spokane Community College 11/16 J Climate Crisis as Public Health Crisis: A Regional Perspective, Gonzaga University Hemmingson Center 11/18 Mixed Martial Arts - King of the Cage, Coeur d’Alene Casino 11/19-21 Custer’s 45th Annual Christmas Arts & Crafts Show, Spokane County Fair & Expo Center

Comedian Hasan Minhaj visits Spokane on Nov. 16.

11/23 American Democracy’s Indigenous Roots and Future (online; humanities.org) 11/23 J Alton Brown Live: Beyond the Eats, Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox 11/27 J Numerica Tree Lighting, Riverfront Park 11/27-30 Light Up the Night, Riverfront Park 11/30 J Christmas Tree Elegance, Historic Davenport Hotel and River Park Square

MUSIC

11/2 Post Animal, Hot Flash Heat Wave, Reptaliens, Lucky You Lounge 11/3-26 Music at the Winery, Barrister Winery 11/4 Sawyer Brown, Northern Quest Resort & Casino 11/5 Bodysnatcher, Boundaries, Left to Suffer, Mouth for War, Dead Low, The Big Dipper 11/5 Kuinka, Strange Hotels, Lucky You Lounge

11/5 Rival Sons with Dorothy, Knitting Factory 11/6 J Washington Idaho Symphony: Halloween Pops, Pullman High School 11/7 & 11/13 Yung Gravy: Back in Business Tour, Knitting Factory 11/7 J Spokane Youth Symphony, Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox 11/7 J Women Composers Concert (online; whitworth. edu/music) 11/9-12 Whitworth Chamber Ensemble Concert (online; whitworth.edu/music) 11/10 Granger Smith feat. Earl Dibbles Jr., Knitting Factory 11/11 Whitworth Jazz Combo Concert (online; whitworth.edu/music 11/12 Death Bells, Provoker, Lucky You Lounge 11/12 Big Business, Monsterwatch, The Big Dipper

11/13-14 J Spokane Symphony Masterworks 3: Points North, Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox 11/13 Liz Cooper, Pearl Charles, Lucky You Lounge 11/14 OHTIS, Johanna Samuels, Lucky You Lounge 11/16 Whitworth Concert Band & Jazz Ensemble Fall Concert (online; whitworth.edu/music) 11/16 X Ambassadors w/ Scarypoolparty, Taylor Janzen, Knitting Factory 11/18 J George Thorogood and The Destroyers, Northern Quest Resort & Casino 11/18 Dead Horses, Lucky You Lounge 11/18 Whitey Morgan, Knitting Factory 11/19 Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Northern Quest Resort & Casino 11/19 Blue October, Knitting Factory 11/19 Barrio Manouche, Panida Theater 11/20 Milky Chance w/ Giant Rooks, Knitting Factory 11/20 Zach Williams with We the Kingdom, Cain, First Interstate Center for the Arts 11/21 J Spokane String Quartet, Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox 11/21 Whitworth Chamber String Orchestra Concert (online; whitworth.edu/music) 11/24 ThanksGiving ThrowDown VII ft. Free the Jester, The Nixon Rodeo, Eazz, Kaleb J., Knitting Factory 11/26 J Trans-Siberian Orchestra: Christmas Eve & Other Stories, Spokane Arena

THEATER

11/5-21 The Fall Follies, Sixth Street Theater and Melodrama 11/5-14 CYT Spokane: Elf the Musical, Bing Crosby Theater 11/6-7 Auditions: Corpus Christi, Stage Left Theater 11/6 J Uncaged: The Untold Stories from the Cast of Tiger King, First Interstate Center for the Arts 11/11 Staged Reading: In Call, Washington Cracker Co. Building

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J Inlander recommends this event 11/3-24 Drop In & Draw, Spark Central (Wednesdays) 11/4 First Thursday, Moscow 11/5 J First Friday, Spokane 11/5 J Spokane Print Fest, Washington Cracker Co. Building 11/5-30 J Ornament and Small Works Show, Spokane Art School 11/5 First Fridays with POAC, Pend Oreille Arts Council Gallery 11/12-27 Art Overcomes, The Jacklin Arts & Cultural Center 11/12 Second Friday Artwalk, Downtown Coeur d’Alene 11/12 J INK! Prints Show Opening Reception, Emerge 11/13 Mosaic with Lisa Soranaka, Spokane Art School

WORDS

A Christmas Carol takes the stage of the FIC Nov. 12-13.

11/12-13 J A Christmas Carol, First Interstate Center for the Arts 11/23 J Mean Girls, First Interstate Center for the Arts 11/26-28 Babes in Toyland, Spokane Children’s Theatre

VISUAL ARTS

11/1-5 Mat Rude: Flow, Boswell Corner Gallery at NIC 11/1-4 EWU Faculty Exhibition, EWU Gallery of Art

11/1-30 Staying Home: Interior Views from the Collection of the Jundt Art Museum, Jundt Art Museum 11/2-30 J Mirror, Mirror: The Prints of Alison Saar, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU 11/2-30 J Black Lives Matter Artist Grant Exhibition, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU 11/2-30 What We Make: Nature as Inspiration, Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture

11/2-30 J Continuous Lines: Selections from the Joe Feddersen Collection, Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture 11/2-30 Awakenings, Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture 11/2-30 Recent Acquisitions: Selections from the Safeco Art Collection, Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture

11/2-30 Drop In & Write, Spark Central (Tuesdays) 11/3-24 Broken Mic, Neato Burrito (Wednesdays) 11/3 J Redefining Protest through Music (online; humanities.org) 11/5 Three Minute Mic, Auntie’s Bookstore 11/5 J Spoken River, (online; spokenriver.com) 11/6 The River That Made Seattle (online; humanities. org) 11/10 J A Nicer Kind of Murder: The Evolution of Crime Fiction (online; humanities.org) 11/11 Book Club: New Fiction, Auntie’s Bookstore 11/13 J Whiskey and Wiretaps: The Northwest’s Rumrunning King (online; humanities.org) 11/18 Pompeii on the Potomac: Constantino Brumidi’s Roman-Style Wall Paintings for the US Capitol (online; gonzaga.edu) 11/19 J Will the 2020s Roar like the 1920s? (online; humanities.org) 11/19 Auntie’s Book Club: Books in Translation, Auntie’s Bookstore 11/27 Auntie’s Book Club: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Auntie’s Bookstore

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DECEMBER COMEDY

12/3 J Ha!Mark Holiday Special, Blue Door Theatre (Fridays) 12/4 Kevin James Thornton, Spokane Comedy Club 12/4-18 Safari, Blue Door Theatre (Saturdays) 12/16-18 Josh Blue, Spokane Comedy Club 12/17 J Jo Koy, First Interstate Center for the Arts 12/19 Todd Barry, Spokane Comedy Club 12/30-31 Chris Porter, Spokane Comedy Club

COMMUNITY

12/1-12 J Christmas Tree Elegance, Historic Davenport Hotel and River Park Square 12/1-22 Riverfront Winter Market, Riverfront Park 12/1-31 Light Up the Night, Riverfront Park 12/1-4 J Louis Comfort Tiffany: Treasures from the Driehaus Collection, Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture 12/3 Deck the Falls, Cutter Theatre 12/4 Dahmen Barn Holiday Market, Dahmen Barn 12/31 J New Year’s Eve Community Fireworks, Riverfront Park

MUSIC

12/1-22 Music at the Winery, Barrister Winery (Wednesdays and Fridays) 12/2-5 J Spokane Symphony: The Nutcracker with State Street Ballet, Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox 12/4 J Coeur d’Alene Symphony: Holiday Pops, Schuler Performing Arts Center 12/4 Washington Idaho Symphony: Holiday Brass, Pullman High School 12/6 Gonzaga Symphony Orchestra, Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center

J Inlander recommends this event 12/7 Mat and Savanna Shaw, Knitting Factory 12/9 & 12/11-12 J Northwest BachFest December Classics, Barrister Winery 12/10-11 Chorale Coeur d’Alene: A Christmas to Remember, Trinity Lutheran Church 12/11 Noah Kahan: I Was / I Am Tour w/ Blake Rose, Knitting Factory 12/14 Lanco: Honky-Tonk Hippies Tour w/ Ross Ellis, Knitting Factory 12/14 Okey Dokey, Lucky You Lounge 12/16 Zoso: the Ultimate Led Zeppelin Experience, Knitting Factory 12/17 Theory w/ 10 years, Knitting Factory 12/18 J An Evening with Bruce Cockburn, Bing Crosby Theater 12/18-19 J Spokane Symphony Pops 1: Holiday Pops with The Sweeplings, Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox 12/21 The Dead South, Knitting Factory 12/31 J Spokane Symphony New Year’s Eve: Beethoven’s Ninth, Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox

THEATER

12/3-5 The Mysterious Missing Lawn Ornament -orWho Stole the Blow Mold Santa?, Sixth Street Theater and Melodrama 12/3-19 J Babes in Toyland, Spokane Children’s Theatre 12/3-12 A Christmas Carol, Hartung Theater 12/3 J An Iliad, Stage Left Theater 12/8 Stage Left Holiday Patron Gala, Stage Left Theater 12/10-22 J Traditions of Christmas, Kroc Center 12/28 J Anastasia, First Interstate Center for the Arts

VISUAL ARTS

12/1-31 J Mirror, Mirror: The Prints of Alison Saar, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU

BrrrZAAR is back at River Park Square on Dec. 18, just in time for the holidays.

12/1-31 J Ornament & Small Works Show, Spokane Art School 12/1-31 Art Overcomes, Jacklin Arts & Cultural Center 12/1-18 J Black Lives Matter Artist Grant Exhibition, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU 12/1-31 J What We Make: Nature as Inspiration, Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture 12/1-31 Staying Home, Jundt Art Museum 12/1-3 Continuous Lines: Selections from the Joe Feddersen Collection, The MAC 12/1-3 Awakenings, The MAC 12/1-4 Recent Acquisitions: Selections from the Safeco Art Collection, The MAC 12/3 First Friday, Pend Oreille Arts Council Gallery 12/3 J Winner Takes ALL Opening Gala, Emerge

12/10 Second Friday Artwalk, Downtown Coeur d’Alene 12/10 Michael Horswill & Sarah Thompson Moore, Emerge 12/11 J Emerge Holiday Market, Emerge 12/18 J BrrrZAAR, River Park Square

WORDS

12/1-29 Broken Mic, Neato Burrito 12/2 Hip Hop and It Don’t Stop (online; humanities.org) 12/3 Three Minute Mic, Auntie’s Bookstore 12/7-28 Drop In & Write, Spark Central (Tuesdays) 12/9 Book Club: New Fiction, Auntie’s Bookstore 12/12 Last Podcast on the Left, Bing Crosby Theater 12/17 Book Club: Books in Translation, Auntie’s 12/25 Book Club: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Auntie’s Bookstore

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TEENAGE DREAM Everybody’s Talking About Jamie is an exuberant, colorful drag musical

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verybody in the working-class English city of Sheffield is talking about Jamie New (Max Harwood) because Jamie represents something, well, new for Sheffield, although perhaps not for bigger, more sophisticated metropolitan areas. Jamie is a teenage drag queen, and Everybody’s Talking About Jamie is a heartwarming, sometimes corny musical about his surprisingly smooth road to acceptance in his seemingly old-fashioned, closeminded community. Although it’s inspired by a true story (as depicted in the 2011 BBC documentary Jamie: Drag Queen at 16), pretty much everything about Jamie’s journey is predictable and obvious. But the emotions behind it are genuine, the characters are endearing, and the songs are just catchy enough that viewers may be absent-mindedly humming them the next day.

The film version, arriving Friday on Amazon Prime, was created by the same team that made Everybody’s Talking About Jamie into a West End stage hit: director Jonathan Butterell, writer and lyricist Tom MacRae, and composer Dan Gillespie Sells. But this isn’t just a rote translation of a stage production. Butterell opens up the action, both in the range of locations and in the visual style, and one of the most affecting scenes showcases a new song written specifically for the movie. Butterell preserves the spirit of the stage production without being limited by it.

That spirit is familiar from a long line of movies about unconventional artistic projects shaking up hardscrabble British communities, from The Full Monty to Billy Elliot to Kinky Boots (all of which, not coincidentally, have been adapted into stage musicals). Like Billy Elliot himself, Jamie is a dreamer with aspirations that most people in his community don’t understand, especially his gruff, macho dad (Ralph Ineson), who considers Jamie a failure as a son. Even Jamie’s best friend, Pritti (Lauren Patel), a fellow misfit as the only Muslim in their high school, isn’t quite on board with his goals at first.

But Pritti takes barely half a scene to come around, and Jamie’s patient mother, Margaret (Sarah Lancashire), is consistently supportive. The town on the whole is more progressive than a similar town might be in a movie from even 10 years ago, and while certain school administrators don’t approve of Jamie’s plan to attend the prom in drag, they are quick to clarify that they support all students’ individual identities. Those changing attitudes are heartening, but the result is that the main opponent of Jamie’s efforts, teacher Miss Hedge (Sharon Horgan), isn’t much of an antagonist. She puts up only the most perfunctory objections, and the stakes never seem particularly high.

Instead, the conflict is more internal and emotional,

as Jamie deals with his father’s disapproval (which Margaret has partially hidden from him) and discovers his own unique drag identity. His mentor on that path is a retired drag queen once known as Loco Chanelle (Richard E. Grant), who EVERYBODY’S runs a costume shop. Hugo (as he’s now known) gets TALKING ABOUT JAMIE a showcase in the newly Rated PG-13 written song “This Was Directed by Jonathan Butterell Me,” which serves as a sort Starring Max Harwood, Sarah of LGBTQ history lesson, Lancashire, Lauren Patel flashing back to the height Streaming on Amazon Prime of the AIDS epidemic and gay rights protests. It’s a heavy interlude in a mostly bubbly, lighthearted movie, but it provides a perfect counterbalance to Jamie’s sometimes self-centered endeavors.

Jamie’s occasional selfishness is the closest the movie gets to serious tension, but his quarrels with Margaret and Pritti are brief and easily resolved. This isn’t a movie to watch for complex drama or incisive social commentary. It’s a celebration of openness and individuality, wrapped up in colorful, exuberant pop-musical numbers.

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Honky Tonk Man Dwight Yoakam’s the kind of cool character who gives country music a good name

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was never the type to proclaim “I hate country music.” As a child I’d spent far too many hours with my parents with the sounds of Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn and Willie Nelson emanating from the crappy radio in our Ford Falcon station wagon to think such a thing.

I grew into a punk-loving teenager in the ’80s, and then absorbed hip-hop and metal as the ’90s arrived, and there wasn’t a lot of new country music to keep my interest. Much ’80s country was rife with cheesy production, meaning new artists sounded too “pop” for my taste, and classic artists like Cash and George Jones and Dolly Parton suddenly sounded, well, too much like those new artists. The ’90s didn’t sound much better; forgive me Spokane, I know you love Garth Brooks, but his music always seemed all-hat no-cattle to my ears. Same goes for the likes of Brooks & Dunn, Tim McGraw and Shania Twain.

One artist, though, helped me keep the faith that there was hope for mainstream country music, and he’s coming to Spokane Sunday night for a headlining gig at the First Interstate Center for the Arts.

Dwight Yoakam’s 1986 debut, Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc., was the first I bought, thanks to an appearance on an MTV show called I.R.S.’s The Cutting Edge, which showcased hot then-young artists like R.E.M., Los Lobos and even a country cat like Yoakam. That blast of rockabilly-ish music started a 35-year bout of fandom for me as Yoakam has navigated the industry with a mix of

platinum albums, hit songs and dalliances with Hollywood (as an actor and one-time Sharon Stone beau).

The appeal for me starts with Yoakam’s dedication to traditional country music. Whether penning his own tunes or covering beloved oldies, his songs have a timeless quality. Whether weepy ballads, honky tonk dance tunes or straight-up rockers, Yoakam handles them with ease, with a hiccup in his vocals and an Elvis stage pose always at the ready when he’s performing live. I first saw him in concert 20 years ago, and last saw him two years ago, and he still delivers a scintillating set adorned in a cowboy hat and jeans so tight they might have been spray-painted on.

If you’ve never given Yoakam a listen, go track down albums like Guitars, Cadillacs or If There Was A Way or Second Hand Heart or Dwight Sings Buck, his tribute to his buddy Buck Owens. And then peruse this list of things that make Yoakam something special among his country peers of the last quarter century.  His video for “Honky Tonk Man,” from his debut album Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc. Etc., was the first country video ever played on MTV.  He’s acted in some mighty fine movies (Sling Blade, Red Rock West), some clunkers (Hollywood Homicide) and some genuine box office hits (Panic Room, Wedding Crashers).  He’s recorded 12 gold albums (for sales of 500,000 and more) and nine platinum albums (for sales greater than 1 million copies). That’s a lot.

 After struggling early in his career in Nashville, he moved to Los Angeles and played his “hillbilly” music in clubs alongside punk and non-country acts like X, the Blasters and Los Lobos.  He sang backup vocals on Warren Zevon’s last album, The Wind. If Warren thinks he’s OK, he’s OK.  He’s a killer with a cover tune. Over the years, he’s done a honky-tonk spin on Queen’s “Crazy Little Thing Called Love,” Cheap Trick’s “I Want You To Want Me,” The Clash’s “Train In Vain,” Prince’s “Purple Rain” and the Grateful Dead’s “Truckin,” among others.  He’s collaborated with country royalty like Buck Owens, Earl Scruggs and Ralph Stanley.  His SiriusXM station, Dwight Yoakam and the Bakersfield Beat, features music that influenced the Southern California “Bakersfield sound,” as well as Yoakam interviewing fellow artists.  He’s released 15 studio albums. The most recent, Swimmin’ Pools, Movie Stars in 2016, was made up of bluegrass versions of some of his older songs, along with that Prince cover. And his two albums before that one, Three Pears and Second Hand Heart, are among the best of his career. Yoakam seems far from slowing down. n Dwight Yoakam • Sun, Sept. 19 at 7 pm • $58-$88 • First Interstate Center for the Arts • 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. • firstinterstatecenter.org • 509-279-7000

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COMEDY WE’RE DOING GREAT

I don’t know if being called “a comedian’s comedian” is an insult, but it sure seems Tom Papa is one of those guys, like Brian Regan, that fellow comics love. And with good reason, as Papa’s spent more than two decades honing his voice between other creative pursuits like acting (The New Adventures of Old Christine), screenwriting (Jerry Seinfeld’s Bee Movie), even hosting a baking show on the Food Network. His most recent Netflix special, You’re Doing Great, was released early in the pandemic and turned my entire household into rabid fans.

Papa’s relentless optimism was a nice change of pace from the horrific world of lockdown, and the man knows how to wring constant laughter from seemingly mundane topics. The fact he’s worked with everyone from Seinfeld to Rob Zombie, NPR to Joe Rogan, shows the man has some serious comedic range, and he’ll showcase it for one night only in Spokane.

— DAN NAILEN Tom Papa • Fri, Sept. 17 at 8 pm • $27.50-$50 • All ages; proof of vaccination or negative test within 48 hours required • Bing Crosby Theater • 901 W. Sprague Ave. • bingcrosbytheater.com • 509-227-7638

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Ashley McBryde is one of those musical shooting stars who appears to show up out of nowhere, when the truth is that she was busting her ass in dive bars and honky tonks across the South — and selfreleasing independent albums of her own songs — for years before she landed a major-label record deal. Since Warner Bros. gave McBryde that contract a full dozen years after she put out her own debut, she’s earned multiple Grammy nominations and won the “Best New Artist” trophy at the 2019 CMA awards on the strength of her 2018 release, Girl Going Nowhere. Her 2020 follow-up album, Never Will, earned plaudits for its country-rock tunes due to McBryde’s way with lyrics. She’s a star on the rise, and the confines of the Fox Theater might soon be too small to hold her if country radio has the sense to put her in heavy rotation.

— DAN NAILEN Ashley McBryde with Ray Fulcher • Thu, Sept. 23 at 8 pm • $22.50-$39.50 • All ages; masks required • Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox • 1001 W. Sprague Ave. • foxtheaterspokane.org • 509-624-1200

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FOOD GO GREEK

Gyros, loukoumades, baklava and many other Greek food favorites are back on the menu with the return of the Holy Trinity Greek Food Festival after its COVID-caused 2020 hiatus. Organizers of the massively popular, 85-year-old food and culture celebration are taking needed precautions, however, so all of that tasty, authentically prepared Greek food is only available for to-go orders this year. Other festivities, including tours of the historic church in north-central Spokane (daily at 12:30, 4 and 6 pm), require guests to socially distance and wear face masks. Even so, the three-day event seeks to maintain its warm and welcoming atmosphere with lots of music, laughter and fun. In Greek, these feel-good vibes translate to parea, or a “joyfully connected group of friends.”

— CHEY SCOTT 85th Annual Greek Food Festival • Thu, Sept. 23 through Sat, Sept. 25 from 11 am-8 pm • Free admission • Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church • 1703 N. Washington St. • holytrinityspokane.org • 509-328-9310

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Become more in touch with your outdoorsy side at this year’s Spokatopia, a daylong celebration of anything and everything you can do in the woods, on the water or via wheels, plus much more. Among the many outdoor pursuits attendees can literally test the waters of are stand-up paddleboarding and kayaking, plus land-based fun like mountain biking, disc golf and slacklining.

Spokatopia really packs it all in, with local recreation exhibitors, live music, food vendors, a beer garden, mountain bike jump show, hammock garden, yard games, kids programs, yoga classes, trail runs and more. Tickets are limited for most of Spokatopia’s attractions this year due to safety precautions (and an industrywide bike shortage!), so head to its website and buy passes early to save yourself a spot.

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COMMUNITY CLEAN-UP TEAM-UP

Join hundreds of locals doing some good during the Lands Council’s annual Spokane River Clean-Up. Due to safety precautions, this year’s version of the volunteer-driven event is self-guided, meaning you’ll need to independently organize a team — or head out solo — to spruce up a spot along the river.

Even so, the Lands Council has some important takeaways for trash pickers.

Pick up trash bags in advance from the Saranac Building (25 W. Main), or use your own. Collected refuse that’s placed by cones near each designated cleanup site needs to be ready for city trucks to pick up by 2 pm. Most locations chosen for this year’s cleanup are near public parking, and all sites are marked on a handy map on the Lands Council’s website. So pick one close to home, or where you love to recreate, and help keep the Spokane River clean and healthy for all.

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I SAW YOU NO MASK Called me rude for suggesting you should be masked — not sure why — I don’t want you or your kids to die. Take care, I hope you survive.

RE: I SAW YOU AGAIN If I am responding to someone who was writing about me in the first place last week with your response to our little interaction we have had and done so subtle. I feel good about you going with me against your better judgment and falling in love with me when I left back to the valley. I fell for you too. I choose to listen to you, not the lies I continuously hear from others. You have not given me a reason to think that you are deceptive. I have to admit the way things have been going I too am confused at times, but I do understand you and where you are coming from when we do talk.

MEOW KAPOW! You were in the produce section of the Super 1 on 29th singing to the ’80s hits, and occasionally dancing.

You wore a sweatshirt featuring a kitten throwing a grenade. I liked the silver in your hair. I complimented your dancing skill and your shirt. You made me laugh.

Want to meet up and dance to ’80s songs?

I have a kitten shirt I can wear too.

AUNT JENN FROM IDAHO We met in line entering a high school game on Friday (9/3). I was going to watch my son play, and you were going to watch your niece cheerlead. That says a lot about you! It

HELPING... BUT NOT REALLY We saw you leaving boxes of food, toiletries and clothes in our neighborhood. You feel you are helping people in need, and your heart is in the right place, but you’re not helping... really. Most of the food will be wasted, gone bad or not eaten, the toiletries and clothes scattered around our neighborhood and thrown away as trash.

Food and goods with no information to break the cycle in not helpful. We saw you trying to be helpful, but your help would go further if you could drop your food at 2d Harvest and the toiletries and clothes at Goodwill or a shelter. Or consider a monetary donation; the organizations know exactly where it is needed most. We saw you trying to be helpful, but helping that way is not helpful... really. Thank you.

CHEERS WEARING A MASK! The easiest way to measure IQ. Thank you for caring about my health; I know you are probably vaccinated and as tired as I am about this ongoing pandemic; I am so relieved to see I am not alone in wanting to survive.

My heart breaks for all those who are so stupid and endangering others. Especially those anti-maskers yelling about freedom.

Are you really so dumb you can’t tell people are trying to save your life?!

FEMALE RESPONSE TO MAN WHO WAVED To the succinct lady making very clear why women recreate outdoors.

THANK YOU!!! Most of us worry about unwanted male interactions when we are doing what we’re doing. Women being outside IS NOT AN INVITATION...to anything. I LOVED how you focused on exactly what is going through your mind and body when you (we) work out outside. It’s NOBLE AND HEALTHY AND STRONG and has absolutely nothing to do with passing males. There was something transcendent about your wording. Almost like... women have a whole myriad of reasons for fitness, working out and adventure... just like men.

Hmmm! Anyway just wanted to send a huge thanks!!!!

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JEERS UNVAXXED BY CHOICE You seem to be incapable of making a “sacrifice” for the greater good by getting vaxxed. But there is one last chance for you to redeem yourselves and be a real patriot. If you get

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JUST CHILLIN’ Cheers to the elderly gent who was relaxing and reclining on the free couch and free La-Z-Boy chair on the sidewalk on North Wall Street. I like your style.

COVID and need hospitalization, just stay home and deal with the consequences of your choice on your own. Do not contribute to stressing our health care system and let those resources concentrate on those who actually make an effort to protect others and especially for children who cannot get vaxxed. This should match up well with your strong independent beliefs.

If you don’t need the vaccine, then you do not need help from others if you get too sick. Deal?

TOMATO STREET Cheers to the awesome staff and management at The Tomato Street on North Division. My family and I came in on Sept. 1 to celebrate a special a unique event in our lives, and you ALL went above and beyond to make sure we had a great meal, and new memories to cherish. Thank you!

MARINGO DRIVE TRAILHEAD THIEF Jeers to the lowlife who stole my e-bike outside the vault toilet at Maringo trailhead.

Stepped inside to relieve myself and came out to find your skateboard where my bike had been. Bad on me for trusting in the morals of people that I should take one minute for a piss and not have my bike ripped. Karma is a bitch asshole. Cheers to the gentleman who stopped on the trail and called 911 for me. Turned around and went back up the trail to see if he could find anything. Actually caught the thief coming out of the woods with my bike but couldn’t stop him. Appreciate your efforts.

COUNTY COMMISSIONERS CALLED OUT Hearty congrats to the citizen who wrote about the deplorable county roads. Living in NW Spokane County, I can attest to the complete lack of road maintenance this past six months. It makes one wonder what is done with the taxes paid — other than the $100K per year the commissioners are paid. Maybe we could name the worst roads after each of them to see if ego would get the roads graded, graveled or, god forbid, paved.

DEDICATED SOUTH HILL WALKER Cheers to the older gentleman in the grey sweatsuit who walks up and down the South Hill every single evening. The 110-degree heat didn’t even stop you; you’re a dynamo! I honestly don’t know how you do it, but wow! Watching you these past months has truly been a joy and reminds me daily, “If he can do it, I can do it.” Thank you for your inspiration.

BAD HAIR DAYS AT QANON SALON Jeers to the creepy QANON hairstylist who bullies her clients and co-workers with ridiculous anti-vax rants and has a sign quoting Ben Franklin on her door that she thinks proves her “point.” Ben Franklin was a scientist and and early climatologist who figured out that a weird years’ long

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Sept. 16 at 7:30 pm, Sept. 17-18 at 7 and 10 pm. $15-$30. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com/events/43737 PREDICTABLE The BDT players combine your suggestions with the whims of a predictive algorithm to generate hilarious improv situations. Fridays in September at 7:30 pm. Rated for general audiences. $8. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheatre. com/predictable (747-7045) TOM PAPA Tom is a veteran stand up comedian whose clean but cutting

LIFEGUARDS, HIKERS & MATHEMATICIANS This address from Rob McCann, president and CEO of Catholic Charities of Eastern Washington, on the sobering realities and consequences of intergenerational poverty, launches the School of Education’s 2021-22 “Hope Dialogues,” a lecture series presented by the School’s Office of a Pedagogy of Hope through Research and Practice. McCann’s speech is also broadcast via Zoom and will be posted online at a later date. Sept. 16, 4:30 pm. Free.

Gonzaga Cataldo Hall, Addison and Sharp. gonzaga.edu/school-of-education/about/office-of-a-pedagogy-ofhope/poh-office-events THURSDAY NIGHT LIVE (TNL) This summer the MAC remains open late once a month with half-off admission (members free). TNL offers an engaging mix of live music, gallery cruising, guided exhibit talks, public talks, artist workshops and/or demonstrations and more. The museum also sells bottled water, soft drinks, beer and wine (21+), and the MAC store is open. Sept. 16. $6.

Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture, 2316 W. First. northwestmuseum.org WILD THINGS This showcase inside the Campbell House explores the personal histories behind period clothing made from leather, fur and feathers to interpret the social fabric of the era.

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19, 4-7 pm. $75. Compassionate Addiction Treatment, 112 E 1st Ave. catspokane.org (509-919-3362) LIGHT THE WAY AUCTION The American Childhood Cancer Association’s 17th annual auction and fundraiser.

Silent auction starts Mon, Sept. 20 and ends Sept. 25 at 10 pm. Virtual event tickets ($75/person or $500 for a home host package) available for the live program on Sept. 25. one.bidpal. net/accoin/welcome EAST SPOKANE BUSINESS ASSOCIATION’S 9TH ANNUAL DINNER The 9th Annual Business After Hours Dinner is presented by the East Spokane Business Association (ESBA) as an evening to share information, promote awareness of development activities and strengthen partnerships among businesses in the East Central neighborhood of Spokane. Sept. 21, 5-8 pm.

Gonzaga University Hemmingson Center, 702 E. Desmet Ave. esbiz.org LADIE’S NIGHT OUT The studio’s 4th annual event at Beacon Hill kicks off with a yoga flow, followed by bites and wine from Barrister Winery. Also includes chair massage sessions, stretch therapy sessions and raffle prizes with ticket sales benefitting Vanessa Behan Crisis Nursery. Sept. 23, 6-9 pm. $58.

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comedy has earned the respect of both his peers and the public alike. Sept. 17, 8 pm. $27.50. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague. bingcrosbytheater.com SAFARI Blue Door’s version of “Whose Line,” a fast-paced improv show with a few twists and turns added. Rated for mature audiences/ages 16+. Reservations recommended. Saturdays from 7:30-9 pm. $8. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheatre.com MICHAEL GLATZMAIER Michael is a musical improv comedian who creates songs on the spot based on audience suggestions mixed with original music.

Sept. 19, 7:30 pm. $8-$14. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com/shows/146624 NICK COLLETTI Nick can currently be seen starring alongside Jimmy Tatro in Facebook Watch’s comedy The Real Bros of Simi Valley. Sept. 21, 7:30 pm. $25-$35. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub. com/shows/144539 (509-318-9998) ARI SHAFFIR Shaffir’s Netflix special, Double Negative is presented in two 45-minute episodes, Children and Adulthood. Self-described as his version of a “Smashing Pumpkins Double Album,” this type of double header release hasn’t been seen since George Carlin’s 1972 FM & AM. Sept. 23-25; showtimes vary. $25-$35. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com/events/45042

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EVENTS | CALENDAR FIRST ANNUAL RECOVERY RALLY 2021 Recovery Month is a national observance in September to educate Americans that substance-use treatment and mental health services can enable those with such disorders to live healthy and rewarding lives. Now in its 32nd year, Recovery Month celebrates the gains made by those living in recovery. This local event includes vendors, food, family fun, live performances by DJ Sassy, Jawbo and Recovery Comedian Jay Armstrong, and much more. Sep. 18, 2-8 pm. Free.

Eagles 15th Street Pavilion, 1700 N. 15th St., CdA. kootenairecovery.org/recoveryrally-2021 (208-932-8005) CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE RE-DEDICATION & RAFFLE Celebrate the anniversary of the 2004 Mayor’s Proclamation with toasts, a drum and bugle corps salute, reading of the Proclamation and guest dignitaries — including the last stoplight on I-90. Enter the raffle to win a car and scores of prizes. Sept. 18, 10 am-8 pm. Free. Wallace, Idaho. wallaceid.fun NATIONAL VOTER REGISTRATION DAY (VOLUNTEERS NEEDED) Spokane County Library District is helping make sure every citizen has the opportunity to vote. On National Voter Registration Day, volunteers and library staff are available at all library branches to help update voter registration and register to vote.

Event is all day during library hours on Tue, Sept. 28. Online volunteer training (required to assist) for this event is Sept.

18 from 2-3 pm and Sept. 21 from 11 amnoon. Free. scld.org SISTER CITIES OF SPOKANE REDEDICATION CEREMONY New features in the Sister Cities Garden at Riverfront Park include a monument to Spokane’s newest Sister City, Cagli, Italy, as well as a new Kokanee statue representing the city of Spokane. Event includes speakers, music, good and more. Sept. 18, 11 am. Riverfront Park, 507 N. Howard St. spokanesistercities.org (509-625-6600) SPOKANE HERBAL FAIRE The 6th annual faire to promote the culture of herbalism via education, vendors and a socially engaging platform. Includes a marketplace of artisan vendors, herbalists and knowledge, along with children’s activities, a prize drawing, classes and more.

Sept. 18 from 10 am-4 pm; Sept. 19 from 10 am-3 pm. $3; children free. West Central Episcopal Mission, 1832 W. Dean Ave. spokaneherbalfaire.org (509-998-4674) SPOKANE RIVER CLEAN-UP This year’s event is planned to cover locations in the Spokane Valley, University District, Downtown river gorge area of Peaceful Valley, High Bridge Park and People’s Park. Sept. 18, 8 am-2 pm. Register at landscouncil.org/events/spokane-riverclean-up (509-209-2851) HANDS ACROSS THE FALLS A public show of support for those in recovery and those still battling addictions, as well as a time to honor those who have been lost to their addictions. Sept. 19, 1-4 pm. Free.

Riverfront Park, 507 N. Howard. community-minded.org/hands-across-the-falls SPOKANE PARKS COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS Spokane Parks & Rec is creating a roadmap for the next 10 years, and is asking for additional community input through virtual workshops. Two meetings are focused on specific parks; one meeting is community-wide. All workshops are virtual. Sessions on Sept. 14 at 5:30 pm (Minnehaha Park) and 7 pm (Meadowglen Park); community-wide park workshop is Sept. 22 from 6-8 pm. Free. my.spokanecity.org/parksrec/ master-plan

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50TH ODESSA DEUTSCHESFEST The community festival offers attractions for all ages, including authentic German food, a biergarten, live music, parade, kids zone, street vendors and more. Sept.

16 from 6-11 pm; Sept. 17-18 from 7 am-1 am; Sept. 19 from 7 am-2 pm. Free admission. Odessa, Hwy 21 and Hwy 28. deutschesfest.com SPOKANE COUNTY INTERSTATE FAIR The fair is back with “More Fun in 2021” for its 70th anniversary celebration. Sept.

10-19; complete schedule of events and performances online. $10-$13. Spokane County Fair & Expo Center, 404 N. Havana St. thespokanefair.com SRDFEST 4: ROCKIN WRESTLIN WEEKEND Sweet Rebel D is back again with the fourth installment of the #SRDFEST: three days of music, food vendors and pro wrestling. Sept. 17-19; see full schedule online. $25-$50. brownpapertickets. com/event/5193666 85TH ANNUAL GREEK FESTIVAL The annual celebration of Greek culture showcases authentic cuisine and pastries, music, history and more, including tours of the church. Food available to-go only; tours require masks and social distancing. Sept. 23-25 from 11 am-8 pm.

Free to attend. Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, 1703 N. Washington St. holytrinityspokane.org/festival (328-9310)

FOOD

FOOD TRUCK FRIDAYS Downtown Spokane shuts down Wall Street every Friday this summer to offer a variety of local food trucks and entertainment. Fridays from 11 am-2 pm through Sept. 24. downtownspokane.org ROCKET WINE CLASS Rocket Market hosts weekly wine classes; sign up in advance for the week’s selections. Fridays at 7 pm. Call to reserve a seat, or register online. Rocket Market, 726 E. 43rd Ave. rocketmarket.com (509-343-2253) WEST END OKTOBERFEST A beer festival in the heart of downtown Spokane’s West End District, with five participating breweries: River City Brewing, Iron Goat Brewing, The Golden Handle Project, Whistle Punk Brewing, and Brick West Brewing. This all-day event offers live entertainment, Oktoberfest Mugs and $3 pours for all Oktoberfest beers at all participating breweries. 21+ to participate, though some venues are all ages. Sep. 18, 1-10 pm. $20. westendbeerfest.com KILL THE KEG & SERVICE INDUSTRY NIGHT This weekly special includes $2 off select GHP beer taps, and $1 off select guest beer tap, along with a 20 percent discount for service industry patrons.

Thursdays from 3-9 pm. The Golden Handle Project, 111 S Cedar. goldenhandle.org

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MUSIC ON MAIN Music on Main happens in Pullman’s Pine Street Plaza each Thursday evening from 6-8 pm through September featuring local artists and bands. Free. pullmanchamber.com SANDPOINT SONGFEST Musicians including Coley McCabe Shepherd, Thom Shepherd, Wil Nance, Steve Azar and Leslie Satcher, who each perform their No. 1 songs and share the tales of their songs’ creative development. Venues and concert times vary, see link for details. Event benefits the Music Conservatory of Sandpoint. Sept. 16-18. $35-$79.

facebook.com/SandpointSongFest FACULTY ARTIST SERIES: DR. SHANNON SCOTT, CLARINET In the program “Me, Myself, and I: Music for Clarinets,” experience the amazing range of emotion and imagery a clarinet can express.

Sept. 17, 7:30 pm. Free. Bryan Hall Theatre (WSU), 605 Veterans Way. events. wsu.edu (509-335-7696) MUSIC AT THE WINERY Doors open at 5 pm; reservations required. Guests can bring a picnic dinner or order food from Beacon Hill Catering (orders must be placed by noon the day prior before).

Find updates on who’s playing on the winery’s Facebook page. Music happens Wednesdays and Fridays from 7-9 pm.

Barrister Winery, 1213 W. Railroad Ave. facebook.com/BarristerWinery SPOKANE SYMPHONY MASTERWORKS 1: THE RETURN OF THE SYMPHONY After a tumultuous year it’s appropriate to re-open with Hailstork’s jubilant fanfare based on “Amazing Grace,” possibly one of the single most recognizable tunes in the English-speaking world. Bella Hristova joins for Sibelius’ monumental Violin Concerto, one of the most original and masterly works in the repertoire. Program also includes Brahms’ Symphony No. 2. Sept. 18 at 8 pm, Sept. 19 at 3 pm. **Proof of vaccination required for ages 12+ -OR- proof of negative COVID-19 test taken no more than 48 hours prior.** Sept. 18, 8 pm and Sept. 19, 3 pm. $19$62. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. spokanesymphony.org

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THE BASICS OF ORIENTEERING Members of the Eastern Washington Orienteering Club present the basics of map and compass navigation, using detailed maps of Manito Park. Sept. 18, 11 am12:30 pm. Free. Online; sign up at thefriendsofmanito.org COEUR D’FONDO A breathtaking course around beautiful Lake Coeur d’Alene with fully-stocked aid stations. This year’s event offers five distances from 15 up to nearly 120 miles. Sept. 18. $55-$120. nsplit.com HIKING TURNBULL’S BLUEBIRD TRAIL Drive out to Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge to meet up with Spokane teacher, naturalist and writer Jack Nisbet and join him for a guided walking tour of Turnbull’s Bluebird Hiking Trail. Bluebird is a 3.6 mile loop hike that’s walkable family friendly. ($3/car to park without membership.) Sept. 18, 1 pm. $25. Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge, 26010 S. Smith Rd. Sign up at northwestmuseum.org ROCKIN’ FLOW Join Eclipse Power Yoga for this event combining live music and yoga. Flow it out with instructor Jessica Haffner and local musician Ron Greene at Grant Park in South Perry. Also includes Fannie’s Ice Pops, raffles, door prizes and live music an hour after class. All raffle proceeds benefit the Future Song Foundation. Sept. 18, 2-4 pm. $35. Grant Park, 1015 S. Arthur St. eclipsepoweryoga.com SPOKATOPIA Spokatopia is the place to try different bikes, water activities and more. Sept. 18, 8 am-6 pm. $5-$15. Camp Sekani, 67070 E. Upriver Dr. spokatopia. com (509-822-0123) CHAMPIONSHIP SUNDAY AT CIRCLING RAVEN Raven Club, Advantage Members, PDP Players, and OP 36 Participants… this is your day to shine!!

Who will be this year’s Club Champion?

Sept. 19, 1 pm. Circling Raven Golf Course, 27068 S. Highway 95. cdacasino.com SCENIC HALF MARATHON Participants compete in a 13.1-mile half marathon or a 10K. Each race awards age category winners and half marathon competitors who complete the race receive a finisher’s medal. Presented by the Greater Sandpoint Chamber of Commerce. Sept. 19. $40-$65. scenichalf.com

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THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED) Spokane Shakespeare Society presents their inaugural season in Riverfront Park. Play by Adam Long, Daniel Singer and Jess Winfield; directed by Jessica Loomer. Friends and families can gather, bring their lawn chairs or blankets (open seating), pack a picnic or enjoy food from Riverfront restaurants and enjoy a night of professional theatre under the stars. Sept. 17-18 and Sept. 23-25 from 6:30-9 pm. Free.

Riverfront Park, 507 N. Howard St. riverfrontspokanecom (509-625-6600) CIVIC ACADEMY: CIVIC STORIES Dive into American folklore and discover the connection of storytelling as the foundation of acting while examining the vast creation myths and cultures that have contributed to the American tapestry.

Students ages 6-18 can participate in “Play in a Week” camps as well as 4- and 6-week scene studies and production classes while expanding creativity, honing technique and gaining new skills rooted in storytelling and its variety of styles and methods utilized since the dawn of time. Sessions start Sept. 20. $100-$175. Spokane Civic Theatre, 1020 N. Howard St. civicClass.com (325-2507)

VISUAL ARTS

INLAND NORTHWEST JURIED PASTEL EXHIBIT The JACC hosts its second annual juried pastel exhibit, featuring beautiful paintings and refreshments. Show on display Sept. 10-Oct. 2; gallery open Wed-Sat (times vary). Free. The Jacklin Arts & Cultural Center, 405 N. William St. thejacklincenter.org (208-457-8950) KAYO NAKAMURA: SUPERSONICA An exhibition of new drawings by Kayo Nakamura. The title is a made-up word suggesting blistering speed; the work in this exhibition is the result of an experiment in the artist’s process to do less thinking and critiquing, which yielded surprising patterns and unexpected relationships.

Through Oct. 29; open Mon-Fri 10 am-5 pm, Sat 10 am-2 pm. Free. Bryan Oliver Gallery, Whitworth, 300 W. Hawthorne Ave. whitworthart.com MAT RUDE: FLOW Featuring the work of Spokane-based ceramic artist Mat Rude, who’s an associate professor of art at Gonzaga University. Through Nov. 5; Mon-Thu 10 am-4 pm, Fri 10 am-2:30 pm. Free. Boswell Corner Gallery, 1000 W. Garden Ave., Building 22. nic.edu 2021 PALOUSE PLEIN AIR EXHIBITION RECEPTION Join the City of Moscow, Moscow Contemporary, the Prichard Art Gallery and the University of Idaho College of Art + Architecture at an opening reception and awards ceremony showcasing artwork created during the annual Palouse Plein Air painting competition.

Sep. 17, 5-7 pm. Moscow Contemporary, 414 S. Main St. (208-883-7036) CONTINUOUS LINES: SELECTIONS FROM THE JOE FEDDERSEN COLLECTION Joe Feddersen (Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation) is an

artist whose work is featured in the MAC’s permanent collection. Based in Omak, he spent a career teaching at Evergreen College in Olympia and exhibiting nationally.

This exhibition features work from Feddersen’s personal collection of contemporary American Indian art, reflecting his friendships and artistic interests over the past few decades. Sept. 18-Feb. 7, 2022; open Tue-Sun from 10 am-5 pm. $7-$12.

Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture, 2316 W. First Ave. northwestmuseum.org TINY MEDIEVAL-STYLE PAINTING Join artist Hannah Charlton to create tiny medieval-style paintings using gouache and plant-based parchment. Sept. 18 and 25 from 9-11:30 am. $65. Spokane Art School, 811 W. Garland Ave. spokaneartschool.net (509-325-1500.)

MY BODY, MY TRUTH + RECENT “My Body, My Truth” focuses on issues of body autonomy, from the fight to preserve reproductive rights to issues of gender identity. Also showing are June T Sanders’ portraits, which challenge assumptions of scale and intimacy. Sept.

19-Nov. 21; open by appt. Artist reception Oct. 10, 5-7 pm. Dog & Pony, South Hill (address provided upon appt.) dogandponyshow@christopherrussell.art RIVER RIDGE ASSN. OF FINE ARTS MONTHLY MEETING All attendees are asked to bring a recently completed piece of their work. In addition, Denny Carman updates the group on venue options and a nominating committee will fill out the slate of candidates for executive and board positions. Sept. 22, 6-8 pm.

Free. Spokane Art Supply, 1303 N. Monroe St. (509-325-0471) EYE CONTACT... A NIGHT OF ART Volunteers of America’s annual fundraiser is a one-night event that brings together local artists of all kinds to showcase their work while drawing attention to the needs of some of Spokane’s most vulnerable residents. The evening included food and beverage, live music, a silent auction of artwork by local artists, performance art pieces and a gallery show of work created by youth and women experiencing homelessness. Sept. 23, 5-8 pm. $20. Washington Cracker Co. Building, 304 W. Pacific. voaspokane.org/eyecontact (509-710-8944)

WORDS

AUNTIE’S BOOK CLUB: BOOKS IN TRANSLATION Host Jai (he/him) has been selling books for a little over half a decade and reading books for a little over three decades. He has a Bachelor’s degree in English Literature from EWU and a particular fondness for Angela Carter, Thomas Bernhard, Jean Genet, Marguerite Duras, Julio Cortazar and his cats. Meets monthly on the third Friday at 7 pm; see site for current title. Free.

Auntie’s Bookstore, 402 W. Main Ave. auntiesbooks.com (509-838-0206) LAUGHING MATTERS: ASIAN AMERICANS, COMEDY, AND INCLUSION: Using clips of comedians and cartoons, Professor Michelle Liu explores how Asian Americans have experimented with humor to change patterns of belonging that everyone living in the United States has inherited. Join Liu to better understand the ways laughter can help us connect with each other and share how humor has shaped your understanding of inclusion. Sept. 18, 2 pm. Free. Online: humanities.org/event/online-laughingmatters-asian-americans-comedy-andinclusion n

LEGALIZATION

A Tipping Point Will Idaho be among the next group of states to legalize recreational cannabis?

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lection Day 2021 is still more than a month away, but all eyes are already on 2022 when it comes to cannabis policy.

Last week, activists in Wyoming held signature drives at seven locations around the state. They’re hoping to get a measure on the 2022 ballot that would legalize medical marijuana and largely decriminalize recreational cannabis. It’s the most recent development in a growing wave of voter-led legalization efforts around the nation.

In Arkansas, Idaho, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota and Ohio, potential ballot measures to legalize cannabis have been cleared to move into the signature-gathering portion of the pre-ballot process. In Idaho and Nebraska there are separate ballot measures that would only legalize medical marijuana going through the signature-gathering process as well.

Idaho’s pair of potential initiatives need to gather 64,945 valid signatures by May 1 to make it onto next year’s ballot. Last year, a ballot measure to legalize medical marijuana in Idaho stalled out when supporters called off in-person signature-gathering efforts due to the pandemic.

The swing back to ballot-based Idaho is nearly legalization efforts comes after a busy 65,000 signatures 2021 for state legislatures across the away from having a country. Bills that would have legalized shot at legal weed. cannabis outright, legalized medical marijuana or decriminalized possession without legalizing it were introduced in 27 states this year alone. That led to five state legislatures legalizing cannabis outright, one to legalize medical marijuana and another to decriminalize possession.

These bills have been introduced in red and blue states alike, but only one of the seven bills approved so far this year has passed in a state carried by Donald Trump. At the legislative level, cannabis continues to be more of a divisive, party-line issue than it does at the ballot box.

Four states had legalization on the ballot last fall, and those initiatives passed in all four states. Two of those states, New Jersey and Arizona, were won by Joe Biden.

The other two, Montana and South Dakota, went for Trump. Notably, Trump won all seven of the states with active signature-gathering efforts for 2022.

As of now, 19 states have legalized recreational cannabis. If each of those seven measures makes it to the ballot, and if 2022 goes the way 2020 went and all seven are approved, cannabis will become legal in a majority of states in the union. n

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I’m a guy in my 30s. I thought I’d found the love of my life. We had an incredible first few dates. We were so in sync we didn’t even need words to communicate.

However, as we’ve spent more time together, things about her are really starting to bother me — especially how she has no interest in the news or the world beyond herself and mostly wants to gossip about her friends and celebrities. How could I have been so wrong about her being The One?

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There’s fairy tale romance, and then there’s fairy tale romance that’s gotten into a fender-bender with reality: “I will love you forever — uh, or until I learn your interest in international affairs is limited to the relationship status of the Queen’s beefcake great-nephew, aka ‘His Royal Handsome.’”

Contrary to that schmaltzo saying, “to know someone is to love them,” to know someone is to be increasingly annoyed by them. This is hard to imagine if we have an instant connection. Psychologist Michael I. Norton and his colleagues explain that when we like someone we’ve just met, we tend to notice all the ways they seem similar to us, which leads to our liking them more. We then assume getting to know them even better will keep our liking of them on the upswing — an assumption that plays an underrecognized role in the “disintegration of friendships, the demise of business relationships,” and divorce.

In fact, peeling the info onion generally leads to our liking a person a whole lot less, explain the researchers. We start to see evidence of “dissimilarity” — ways they aren’t like us — and it has a “cascading” effect. New information we discover about them “is more likely to be interpreted as further evidence of dissimilarity, leading to decreased liking.”

When you’re first dating someone, being mindful of how prone we are to leap to “you’re so amazeballs!” (”just like me!”) is the best defense against sliding from the initial seeing into believing. To speed your weeding-out process, you might come up with a mental list — your bottom-line must-haves in a partner. Use this to ask questions (and also observe) to see whether a woman’s ticking all the essential boxes: “You had me at knowing your Kim Jong-il from your Kim Kardashian.”

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I had this amazing chemistry with a guy I met at a wedding. Then he casually dropped that he’s in a new relationship of about six months. A mutual friend told me the guy isn’t too happy with the woman and feels he’s “settling.” The guy’s been texting me in what seems to be a purely friendly way. Still, if I were his girlfriend, I’d be pretty upset.

—Confused About His Intentions Say your car skids off the road in North Nowhere and you wake up trapped in the driver’s seat with zero bars on your phone. You’d probably trade your house, your car, and your favorite grandma for some emergency eats in the glove box — even the remains of a granola bar that looks to have been purchased just before the Lewis & Clark expedition.

Well, humans seem to have evolved to be romantic doomsday preppers: ready for any sudden famine in the partner department. At the moment, you seem to fall into the category of “backup mate” for this guy, though maybe just because he’s inconveniently still attached to somebody else.

Evolutionary psychologists Joshua Duntley and David Buss find that both men and women cultivate backup mates — “approximately three,” on average — whom we can use to rapidly replace our current long-term mate in case they die, dump us, or cheat, or their mate value takes a dive. Maintaining a romantic plan B cuts the time costs of having to start from scratch — which could be the difference between, say, a man passing on his genes and passing on what could’ve been into an old tube sock.

As disturbing (and, perhaps, dirtbaggy) as this partner reserve stock business might seem, Duntley and Buss report that even people in happy relationships seem motivated — often subconsciously — to maintain backup mates. (Not being quite aware of one’s own motives keeps away the guilt that would likely accompany consciously collecting potential relief pitchers.)

This guy you met might be figuring out whether to give notice in his current relationship, or, if that’ll be in the pipeline, figuring out how. Consider the potential risks of texting with him: getting emotionally entwined with someone who might remain unavailable and suggesting you need to take whatever romantic scraps you’re given. If you prefer to opt out of these risks, you could tell him you hope to hear from him again but that you’re a woman with standards: “Call me when you’ve lost weight — 125 pounds of excess girlfriend.” n ©2021, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. • Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405 or email AdviceAmy@aol.com (www.advicegoddess.com)

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