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Also this week: In a different answer to the what’s-going-on query, environmental reporter Samantha Wohlfeil looks at the effort to combat the scourge of northern pike in our local waterways, beginning on page 13.

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had a therapist a while back who asked me to provide examples of people in healthy relationships. For seconds I sat, mouth slightly agape, eyes fairly wide open, surprised by my own rare silence. Eventually, I abdicated, failing to formulate any response. This nonanswer signaled a gap in my awareness. I’d become pretty adept at identifying love in its inverse, an “impressive” ability to highlight attributes in their absence, but I could scarcely see the positive.

For better or for worse, I have long associated love with struggle. This started early. My parents, though extremely loving, did not know how to love one another well. Being a bystander to their near-daily strife certainly colored my perception.

I’ve been a keen observer of relationships ever since, albeit one with heavy confirmation bias.

I spent the ’80s pressing rewind on my pastel-

pink tape-deck playing sad, sappy “love” songs like “If You Don’t Know Me By Now” and “I Don’t Have the Heart” and subsequent decades mentally tallying relationship woes.

With that orientation, it’s no wonder where I gravitated. Perspective shapes reality and self-fulfilling prophecy is just a perpetuation of subtle, subversive patterns. For a good portion of my life, I selected incompatible, emotionally unavailable partners. I hyper-focused on bad acts, barely noticing the good. I became the “nonjudgmental” friend, who people felt comfortable complaining to — facially neutral, internally judgmental, amassing evidence against

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this whole misguided endeavor. I refused to buy into idyllic portrayals of romance, assuming an agenda (this belief remains strong; go home #HallmarkHolidaze, you’re drunk).

Equate love with struggle and endless examples arise to affirm. I’ve borne witness to fear-based behaviors, guised as loving, that were manipulative, abusive, passive aggressive, co-dependent and immature imitations. Seek and ye shall find.

That is until one well-timed, perfectly placed question becomes a catalyst, reorienting previous interpretations of the world. Nowadays, I still associate love with struggle, I still become disappointed by acts we label as loving, but I’ve developed a more dynamic framework, progressing from outright denial to moderately dubious, perhaps even over to skeptical-romantic.

Equate love with struggle and endless examples arise to affirm.

I remember my momma telling me once that loving another would be the hardest work I’d ever do. I always believed her but hadn’t fully heard her words left unsaid — difficult but worthwhile. Philosophers oft advise us that life includes suffering, but in choosing our pain, we create meaning. Perhaps that’s why my parents stayed together?

So, everyday I’m hustlin,’ still pragmatically observant but also choosing to diversify my inputs. Reading authors who investigate love, like bell hooks, M. Scott Peck and the Gottmans, questioning strong couples for their secrets of success, and letting myself be in awe, rather than judgment, of those who exhibit high standards of care, commitment and concern for their partners while maintaining self-love, boundaries and individuality.

This sundry exposure has given me a vocabulary of values to articulate New Visions (by hooks) on love. If asked the question today, I’d have a much better response — healthy couples exist but are rare. They match each others’ mutual efforts and make each other laugh. Good partners remain curious, turning toward each other, LETTERS answering bids for connection, rather Send comments to than away, even when hurt or angry. editor@inlander.com.

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Q&A JEREMY SHAY The new Spokane Education Association president talks about taking over at an uncertain time for local teachers

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ormer Spokane Education Association President Katy Henry has moved on up to take a job with the state teachers union, the Washington Education Association. And that means somebody needs to take over her job leading the local union — especially since they’re in the middle of negotiating a new contract with Spokane Public Schools.

That person is Jeremy Shay, formerly the SEA vice president.

Shay has taught at Ferris High School for 12 years, and for two years before that at North Central High School. He’s taking over at an uncertain time for local teachers. It’s a year after SEA negotiated massive pay raises that put Spokane Public Schools in a budgetary crisis this year.

The Inlander caught up with Shay to get a feel for how he plans to lead the teachers union through all of it.

INLANDER: Right now, with contract negotiations ongoing with Spokane Public Schools, what are SEA’s priorities?

SHAY: There are some new state laws around discipline, so we’re trying to modify our contract language to deal with that. Compensation — modest increases as we move forward. Also student discipline. Those are probably the primary issues.

People have had concerns about whether the pay raises last year — combined with the lack of state funding — led to layoffs and budgetary issues in Spokane Public Schools this year.

Looking back, is there anything you would do differently about last year’s

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negotiations knowing what you know now?

No. That money that came [from the state] for salary increases is what we used. We knew exactly how much money was sent to Spokane for those increases. And it had been a long time coming. We’ve been sitting out there for years without cost-of-living increases that were suspended because of the budget crisis at the state level. Even the district has said the same thing, that the salary increases were long overdue.

With the budget issues, where do you see students being most affected?

I don’t think you can make changes like this and not have it affect students.

I think when you do a reduction, let’s say custodial staff, you think, “Well, that’s not going to have an impact in the classroom.” But it does, because your certificated staff have to help. And your kids are coming back to rooms that aren’t as clean as they were before. And despite what people might think, kids interact with custodians, they interact with nutrition services. So I think you can do the best you can, but any adult you take out of that environment is going to impact kids.

What will you be asking for from the state next year?

I haven’t gotten a chance to look at the overall picture of that. But I know that complete special education funding continues to be a priority. Spokane Public Schools is ... underfunded in terms of the number of special ed students that we serve and the amount of funding we get for them. n

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‘AN ALL OF US’ ISSUE ’ve heard individuals around Spokane talk openly and loudly about the

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“homeless problem,” that we need to do “something about those people,” that our city needs to “protect us from the homeless.” Ooph.

Spokane doesn’t have a homeless problem, it has a problem with homelessness. The people who become homeless are not the problem; the issues that cause homelessness are the problem and the issues are what we need to focus on fixing.

At the forum on homelessness, we heard two sides to the issue. We heard we need housing first, and that we need accountability first. We heard that we need to focus on mental health and drug use, then we heard the data and facts that tell us most of Spokane’s homelessness is caused by inadequate income and family conflict.

We cannot ignore facts and we cannot ignore the most important fact — these are human beings, with struggles, who need help.

Housing first works — and it doesn’t. Required rehabilitation works — and it doesn’t. Mental health therapy works — and it doesn’t. Each person is an individual, with specific needs, who have different issues that have lead to the life they live, and the situation they find themselves in.

Before you make a person with an addiction a villain, think to yourself: Have you had a drink after a rough day at work or an emotional family situation, just to decompress? Now imagine every day of your life is that.

LETTERS Over and over and over. A GroundSend comments to hog’s Day of poverty, not knowing editor@inlander.com. where you’re going to sleep, not knowing where your next meal is coming from, if your kids will be OK, if the police are going to arrest you for trying to get some rest. Would you drink? And when drinking stops working, what would you turn to next?

Individuals need individual plans. We cannot “wait and see,” because what we “can do” is not the priority; people, human beings are the priority — and helping them is what we “should do.”

We can help break the cycle, but we need to try.

We need to try everything and we deserve leaders who know how government works, who have been working on finding the solutions, and who have been reaching across party lines to make our city better every day.

We don’t need people who say they have solutions but can’t find compassion or humanity in the issues we face.

This is not an “us versus them situation,” this is an all of us situation.

Who out there is one medical bill away from losing their home? Who out there would have to GoFundMe to get themselves through a major financial emergency? Who, like I have experienced, is one generous family member removed from deciding they’ll just have to live in their car for a while because the landlord raised rent at the end of the lease, or their roommate lost their job, or their kid broke a bone?

This is an all of us issue. We deserve a mayor and a City Council president who are willing to tackle every side of the issue, not look down from the tower window and tout “Spokane Solutions” which only divide our citizens and hide the problems.

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JANICE MILLER Spokane, Wash.

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PIKE PROBLEM Invasive and voracious, northern pike are inching closer to salmon habitat, but Washington plans to fight the threat

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almon face many threats these days, from warming water and difficult passage over dams, to diminished habitat for spawning.

Washington, along with federal, local and tribal governments, has already spent millions of dollars trying to address those issues. But now there’s an even newer threat that could stand to wipe out entire populations of salmon in the blink of an eye: northern pike.

Invasive, carnivorous, voracious and all around mean looking, the northern pike poses an immediate threat to other species in water bodies where it’s introduced. As an apex predator, it’s a fish that lives for one reason: to eat other fish. But it’s not picky either. Pike will also eat baby ducks, frogs, even each other.

Pike have decimated other species in stretches of the Pend Oreille River, where the few fish types remaining after dams were installed last century — such as bull trout, west slope cutthroat, and mountain white fish — happen to appeal to the invasive pike.

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ter resources with the Kalispel Tribe’s Natural Resources Department.

Early counts of the fish (started around 2004) put the population around 400 in the Box Canyon Reservoir, south of Metaline Falls, but within five years, the pike population had exploded to more than 10,000, Maroney says. Meanwhile, other fish dwindled.

The good news is the Kalispel Tribe, in conjunction with the state Department of Fish and Wildlife, has been quite successful in suppressing pike through netting efforts.

Even better, pike haven’t yet gotten into the state’s “anadromous zone” where migrating fish like salmon swim upriver to spawn on the Columbia and Snake rivers.

The bad news is that pike are now in Lake Roosevelt, the water body behind Grand Coulee Dam. Only that and Chief Joseph Dam separate the invasive species from areas where salmon spawn, and experts say that pike migration down the Columbia must be avoided at all costs.

So Washington’s wildlife agency and invasive species

council are looking to up the ante, potentially voting next month to classify the fish at the highest prohibited level (similar to invasive mussels) and getting ready for a rapid response to the invasive threat should they cross into that zone.

“Northern pike are a problem, not an opportunity,” says state fish biologist Randy Osborne, whose district covers Spokane, Lincoln and Whitman counties. “Really it’s not a waiting game. If those fish get into a system, you’d better pay attention to them now and take measures to correct it.”

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But elsewhere, they have been illegally introduced, most likely by anglers transporting the fish and putting them into water bodies in hopes they will produce big sport fish, Osborne says.

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Pike can easily grow to be about 2 feet long, but have been recorded up to 5 feet long, and into the area of about 40 or 50 pounds.

“It’s nothing at all for a northern pike to eat a fish that is two-thirds of its length,” Maroney says. “It’s got a big mouth with lots of little tiny teeth that it can grab on with.”

Pike also reproduce rapidly, which Kalispel Natural Resources saw firsthand when the fish were discovered in the Box Canyon Reservoir.

Knowing something needed to be done, the tribe set to work studying the population and working on suppression efforts. While they tried electrofishing and seining (which involves using large nets), gill netting quickly proved to be the most successful and least harmful to other fish, Maroney says.

Over the years it became clear that the best time to net was right at ice-out, when the surface of sloughs are thawing out, so the pike could be caught just before spawning there, and other fish caught in the nets would have a high survival rate, he says.

“One of the main reasons we start doing it right at ice-out is the fish are pretty lethargic,” Maroney says, “so the survival rate is greater than 90 percent when we release them.”

In 2013, their work removed 6,452 northern pike.

The captured number dipped dramatically each year, hitting 181 in 2016.

By 2017, netting removed only 34 northern pike, making it clear the efforts to knock down the population were effective. However, in 2018 and 2019, there was a spike back upward in the pike population, with 271 caught in 2018 and 427 caught this year. (The most recent report to Fish and Wildlife officials hasn’t been posted yet.) Still, Maroney

says that their efforts should give hope.

“I would say we’re pretty excited on the success that we’ve had on it so far,” Maroney says. “To use an analogy, we’ve got the grass mowed as short as possible and we want to keep it as short as possible. … We understand that it’s an effort we’re going to have to continue for quite some time.”

To avoid pushback from people who knew that pike are tasty, the tribe initially donated its catch to a food bank. But testing shows pike often far exceed safe levels of heavy metals, so the tribe stopped sharing the catch.

Now, after more than a decade of talking about the serious threat pike pose, Maroney says he’s happy to see others around the state taking the issue more seriously.

“When pike were just in the Pend Oreille, people didn’t really care that much, not to be too flippant,” Maroney says. “It’s only really starting to gain momentum, I would say over the last couple of years, where people are recognizing, ‘Oh man they’re in Lake Roosevelt now, they’re causing problems, and they’re moving farther downstream, not far from Grand Coulee Dam, which means not far from the salmon and steelhead zone.”

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n the middle of a multiday marathon meeting on Friday, Sept.

13, the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission hears from staff about aquatic invasive species.

First, there’s an update on the vessel-inspection sites looking to prevent the introduction of invasive mussels, which can pose serious economic threats if they get into drinking water supplies and damage infrastructure.

Next, the commissioners hear a proposal to list northern pike as a “prohibited level one” species, instead of its current level-three status, which would put it on par with those invasive mussels.

“To use an analogy, we’ve got the grass mowed as short as possible and we want to keep it as short as possible.”

It’s recognized that invasive mussels can cause billions of dollars in damage if they enter the right waterways. While there isn’t an economic analysis for pike yet, Maroney says some backof-the-napkin math can easily estimate damage into the tens to hundreds of millions per year if salmon and steelhead fisheries were impacted.

“We can all see a day where these fish are inching toward the anadromous zone,” state fish biologist Eric Winther tells the commission during its meeting. “What we’re asking is to move that from a prohibited level three up to prohibited level one. The gist is establishing building blocks toward what’s probably inevitable.

That will help us deal with slowing that down and step up our game tremendously.”

Indeed, governments including the Spokane and Confederated Colville tribes, as well as public utility districts along the Columbia, are already looking at what rapid response plans might look like, Osborne says.

Those groups came together earlier this year in May, along with the Kalispel, to do an “all-hands” pike removal in Roosevelt.

That effort gathered about 450 pike, Winther tells the commission.

The commissioners ask about other predators that have already gotten into the anadromous zone, such as bass and walleye.

Winther says while those predators are important, pike present a special threat.

“It can take a lot of resources to manage an existing problem,” Winther says. “It takes a lot fewer resources to manage an emerging problem.”

Maroney, who also sits on the invasive species council, reinforces that point to the commission.

“Seeing what [this] species can do as far as on the landscape and the ecosystem is absolutely scary,” Maroney says. “Raising it to the prohibited level one raises awareness this is a serious issue.” n samanthaw@inlander.com

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hen the city of Spokane loans out employees or assets to other governmental bodies, it’s reasonable for the city to expect some sort of compensation in return, City Councilwoman Candace Mumm argues. At the very least, the city should track who’s being sent where.

And yet, on multiple occasions, Mumm says the city had been loaning out employees without putting a plan in writing for how the city would be compensated.

A Fire Department employee was loaned to the Sheriff’s Office, Mumm says. A dispatch supervisor and an IT worker were loaned to the Spokane Regional Transportation Council. And in some cases, the city wasn’t even tracking who the supervisors were, potentially opening up the city to liability issues. Other city assets, like city vehicles and cell phones, were also being loaned to employees in other governmental agencies.

So last month, the City Council voted unanimously to set a series of restrictions on how the city could let other governmental entities use city staffers. Now, whenever a city employee is being loaned out to another agency for longer than six months and at least 25 percent of their work day, it must be accompanied by a written agreement and must be approved by the City Council.

“It was necessary, really, to protect taxpayer dollars,” Mumm says.

But Mayor David Condon vetoed the ordinance last week, arguing it would effectively stifle

the intergovernmental cooperation.

“Prohibiting the loaning of city employees to other entities unless a myriad of rules are followed sends the message to our partners that their local government is at best uncooperative and at worst completely off limits,” Condon wrote in his veto letter.

But on Monday, the council overrode the veto. The vote was unanimous, with even conservative Councilman Mike Fagan joining the veto override.

In Condon’s view, the ordinance violated the spirit of the city’s strategic plan, which urges more cooperation between agencies, not less. He also argued that the council’s mandate was a violation of the separation of powers, saying the council didn’t have the authority to tell city staffers what to do.

But Councilman Breean Beggs disputes that it will have any impact on governmental cooperation at all. “All it says is that you have to do it within that structure,” Beggs says. “Easy to do.”

Instead, Beggs says, this is yet another result of the ongoing clash over the attempt to move to an integrated countywide police and fire dispatch system. The City Council has repeatedly voted unanimously to oppose the move to the integrated system, while the mayor has continued to push in that direction.

“We’re finding out now even more and more about what the city was giving over to the [Spokane Regional Emergency Communications Systems] which was undermining the city dispatch system,” Beggs says. (DANIEL WALTERS)

MONEY FOR MENTAL HEALTH

Spokane’s law enforcement agencies have received a roughly $700,000 grant to pay for additional mental health workers to work alongside sheriff’s deputies and police officers, an innovative program intended to connect people with services and treatment instead of jail.

The money will fund four additional mental health workers from Frontier Behavioral Health who will be split between both the Spokane Police Department and the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office. Currently, the Police Department collaborates with four workers from the service provider. The Sheriff’s Office, meanwhile, has dedicated one deputy to work alongside a mental health worker full time.

The funding stems from roughly $2 million that Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs received from the state Legislature to pay for mental-health-oriented law enforcement responses. Most of this money came from the settlement in the Trueblood case, where the state was sued for not giving timely competency evaluations to mentally ill defendants.

The existing mental health teams in Spokane — officially dubbed Community Diversion Units — were also funded by Trueblood case settlement funds, and have demonstrated success so far. As of late March 2019, of the 700 people contacted by workers deployed with police officers, 487 were diverted away from jail or expensive emergency room visits to various local treatment, housing and social service providers, according to Frontier Behavioral Health staff.

Spokane, along with law enforcement in Wenatchee, were the only Eastern Washington agencies to receive the grant funding.

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VAPING ILLNESS REACHES SPOKANE Two cases of severe lung illness linked to vaping have been confirmed in Spokane County, according to the Spokane Regional Health District. The news comes as officials around the country have tallied hundreds of illnesses and SEVERAL DEATHS linked to vaping. The two cases mark three total in Washington. All three cases involved people with severe pulmonary disease who reported vaping prior to illness, the Department of Health says. But officials have yet to find any link between the three as far as a product, device or additive. (WILSON CRISCIONE)

THROWING STONE In the final few months of developer Larry Stone’s work on his controversial “Curing Spokane” video about crime and his proposed solutions, Stone says he got a phone call from someone in City Hall, warning him that the video could imperil his chances of getting a $300,000 incentive for his Falls tower project. Indeed, on Monday of last week, Stuckart floated the idea of taking the remaining $460,000 in the city’s “Projects of City Wide Significance” fund, earmarked for Stone and developer Rob Brewster’s projects, and spending it on drug treatment programs instead. From a distance, Stone (above) says, it looks a lot like RETALIATION. Stuckart argues it isn’t. Rather, he says, this is a case of Stone using his video to point a problem in the community — like drug addiction — and Stuckart responding to try to fix the problem. (DANIEL WALTERS)

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Can You Hear Me Now? The benefits — and potential steep costs — of adding video visitation to Spokane County’s jail facilities

BY JOSH KELETY

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elissa Schmitt is in a longdistance relationship. Her husband is serving time for robbery at Monroe Correctional Complex in Western Washington. She, meanwhile, lives outside of Eugene, Oregon. The drive north is roughly six hours, and she doesn’t make it up there often.

“Maybe three times a year,” Schmitt, 55, tells the Inlander.

Instead of inperson visits, they rely on phone calls and Video visitation technology is increasingly prevalent inside America’s correctional facilities. GTL PHOTO video chats — basically, a pricey Skype call for inmates — provided by forcriminal justice reform. “The root cause of counprofit corporations. But staying in touch comes ties eagerly exploring contracting out services is at a cost: Schmitt says she spends around $200 to that populations in jails are so large.” $300 every month to pay for calls. (Her husband can’t contribute much since he only earns around lobal Tel Link has provided inmate $1 an hour at his prison kitchen job.) phone services for Spokane County since “We talk every day, usually twice or more, 2007, according to court records. Under which is quite expensive,” she says. “It’s awful. this arrangement, Global Tel Link made its It’s all monetized.” money from phone call fees, which generally cost The notion of taxing inmates and their famiaround 26 cents a minute, according to Spokane lies for communicating is “criminal,” she says, County spokesman Jared Webley. The company given how crucial family connections are to lowgives the county a cut of about $175,000 annuering recidivism rates once inmates are released: ally. This money is reportedly spent on “inmate “It’s an incredible burden on the families, which welfare” programming, like education programs is really sad.” and the community garden at Geiger Corrections Local officials, however, are bullish on the Center. idea of video visitations. In early 2019, Spokane Global Tel Link alleges in its lawsuit that SpoCounty officials put out a request for proposkane County unfairly deviated from its original als to replace the jail’s current phone system as methodology for assessing bids for the contract, well as add video visitation. One of the goals of court records show. County officials, meanwhile, introducing video calls is to “reduce the need contest that Global Tel Link’s bid did not meet for physical visits” at county detention facilities, their requirements. according to documents obtained by a public Across the board, county officials declined records request. to comment on both the bid process and the But after the county awarded the contract county’s interest in video visitation, citing the in late July to Securus Technologies — a major ongoing litigation. Randall Brown, a spokesman player in the prison telecommunications industry for Global Tel Link, also declined to comment.

— Global Tel Link, an Idaho-based corporation The county and Securus are currently negothat bid on the contract, filed a lawsuit against tiating the details of the new contract, which will Spokane County, alleging that the bid process “significantly reduce costs for inmates and their was unfair. Meanwhile, the local effort to adopt families,” Webley writes in an email. video visitation technology raises questions about Bertram says that Global Tel Link’s lawsuit the role of for-profit companies in providing basic against Spokane isn’t out of character. services in crowded jails and the monetization of “In the prison and jail telecom space, it’s human captivity. relatively common for large players to sue one “All too often, private companies step into another or to sue the county that awarded the the corrections space with the hope of squeezing contract to their competitor,” she tells the Inlander. money from poor families for maximum profit,” “In many cases, it’s a win-win financial strategy says Wanda Bertram, a spokeswoman for the for them.”

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tion also follows a national trend of state and local correctional agencies adopting the technology. Over 500 facilities in 43 states adopted some form of video visitation, according to a 2015 Prison Policy Initiative Report. (The report also estimates that the technology is more prevalent in county jails than in state prisons.)

“The increase in both the incarceration rate both in jails and prisons has meant that local jails and state prisons are facing capacity constraints,” Bertram says. “And under this pressure, with more people being sent to jail, jails are looking at ways to cut costs, particularly staff costs, because one of the most significant line items on a jail’s budget is staff.”

She adds that, similar to Spokane County’s past and future inmate communication services contracts, many jails around the country get a cut of the revenue that firms generate from fees: “That can go into shoring up the jail’s budget,” Bertram says.

For years, the Bonner County Sheriff’s Office has used contracted video visitation services as its only form of visitation at the local jail, which staff say is a major cost saver in terms of human labor. Their contract with Telmate, another correctional communications firm, also doesn’t come at any financial cost to the county.

“We’re not moving inmates from cell to cell trying to get them to [a] personal visitation,” says Ror Lakewold, undersheriff at the Bonner County Sheriff’s Office. “Telmate does the installs, they provide all the equipment, all the hardware, and they make their money.”

Notably, Securus staff claimed in their bid to Spokane County that their services are “proven to reduce staff workload” and that the county would save an estimated “1,491 man hours monthly” by implementing an automated voice system to provide information to inmates and friends or family using their system.

Spokane County says it wants to maintain in-person visitation despite its interest in video services, stating in a written response to a question from a bidding vendor that the county will “continue to support face to face visitation.”

However, Bertram cautions that the introduction of video visitation has regularly resulted in all-out bans on in-person visits.

An estimated 74 percent of jails examined by the Prison Policy Initiative banned in-person visits when they implemented video visitation, according to their 2015 report. By banning in-person visits, families have no choice but to pay exorbitant fees to speak with incarcerated loved ones.

“It’s frequently used as a preliminary measure and the subsequent measure is that in-person visits go away,” she says of jails adopting video visitation.

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esearch has shown that in-person visits help improve inmate outcomes both inside and outside of correctional institutions. A 2011 study conducted by the Minnesota Department of Corrections found that a single visit decreased inmate recidivism by 13 percent. Other research has shown that parent-child visits improve outcomes for children with incarcerated parents.

Recent studies on video visitation have produced more mixed results, however. A 2017 Vera Institute study on the impacts of video visitation technology in Washington state prisons found that usage rates were low and even those who did cited pricey fees for limiting their use. Many inmates reported frequent technical issues with the system, such as poor audio and visual quality.

“Video calling technology can be a great supplement for inperson visits but they’re not a substitute,” Bertram says. “They’re low quality, they’re high-cost, and when they break people can be completely isolated from their loved ones.”

Sabrina Ryan-Helton, a staffer with the Bail Project’s Spokane branch, tells the Inlander that when she was serving a sentence in a Washington state prison, that video visitation was beneficial for staying in touch with family members who lived far away.

But, ultimately, being able to connect with loved ones inperson is vital for inmates, she says.

“You can draw strength from that,” Ryan-Helton says of inperson visits. “It reaffirms your humanity in a place that’s really inhumane.” n joshk@inlander.com

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Good Doctors, Bad Lawyers Breaking down the season’s new TV shows from traditional networks and streaming services

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n the age of streaming and cord-cutting, the notion of a fall TV season is kind of outdated, but the major broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, The CW) still roll out most of their major premieres in the fall, and cable and streaming outlets also promote some of their splashiest new series. I watched all 16 network pilots to pick out what to watch and what to avoid, and took a look ahead at some high-profile streaming premieres that aren’t yet available to screen.

WORTH A LOOK

STUMPTOWN (ABC, Sept. 25) Cobie Smulders plays a private investigator with a train wreck of a personal life in this conventional but entertaining comic book-based procedural. It’s a solid mix of familiar crime-drama elements, appealing characters and a distinctive setting, taking place around the intersection of hipsters and criminals in Portland, Oregon.

EVIL (CBS, Sept. 26) There’s a strong X-Files vibe to this supernatural-ish drama from The Good Wife/Fight creators Michelle and Robert King, in which a forensic psychologist (Katja Herbers) and a priest-in-training (Luke Cage’s Mike Colter) team up to investigate alleged instances of paranormal phenomena. It’s spooky but snarky, a mix that proved remarkably reliable for The X-Files.

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SUNNYSIDE (NBC, Sept. 26) Fans of producer Michael Schur’s civic-minded sitcoms Parks and Recreation and Brooklyn Nine-Nine should enjoy this pleasant, earnest comedy about a disgraced New York City councilman (Kal Penn) who makes a bid for redemption by working with an oddball group of immigrants seeking citizenship.

ALMOST FAMILY (Fox, Oct. 2) The ripped-fromthe-headlines story of a fertility clinic doctor (Timothy Hutton) who impregnated dozens of women with his own sperm serves as the jumping-off point for a sensitive and funny drama about inherited and chosen family from producer Jason Katims (Friday Night Lights, Parenthood).

BATWOMAN (The CW, Oct. 6) The CW’s stable of DC Comics-based superhero series has become a well-run juggernaut, and this show about Bruce Wayne’s cousin Kate Kane (Ruby Rose) fits right in. It’s a little bit cheesy and a little bit exhilarating with fun characters, a hammy villain and some cool looking costumes.

STAY AWAY

BLUFF CITY LAW (NBC, Sept. 23) A gifted lawyer (Caitlin McGee) joins the crusading Memphis-based law firm run by her civil-rights advocate father (Jimmy Smits) in this hokey legal drama, full of silly courtroom grandstanding and emotionally manipulative scenes of

wronged clients detailing the injustices perpetrated on them by heartless corporations.

PRODIGAL SON (Fox, Sept. 23) The tired set-up of the insensitive, idiosyncratic genius who’s brilliant at crime-solving gets a grim, absurd update in this procedural about a guy who’s great at catching serial killers — because he’s the son of a serial killer! Michael Sheen amusingly chews scenery as the killer dad, but the rest of the show is plodding and humorless.

CAROL’S SECOND ACT (CBS, Sept. 26) Patricia Heaton returns to the multi-cam sitcom with this annoying show about a divorced woman who decides to spend her later years pursuing a career as a doctor. It’s a bit like Scrubs for the Fox News demographic, with a studio audience that laughs uproariously at the mere mention of the term “woke bae.”

STILL A MYSTERY

THE POLITICIAN (Netflix, Sept. 27) The first show in superproducer Ryan Murphy’s massive new deal with Netflix co-stars Gwyneth Paltrow as the mother of an ambitious, privileged teen (Broadway star Ben Platt) who begins his political career by running for student body president. Expect Murphy’s typical mix of provocation and sentimentality. ...continued on page 22

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Regina King, Jeremy Irons and Don Johnson lead the cast.

THE MORNING SHOW (Apple TV+, Nov. 1) Apple’s foray into the increasingly heated streaming wars launches with this pricey drama set behind the scenes at a national morning news show. Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon and Steve Carell play high-powered journalists dealing with a #MeToo-style scandal that shakes up their newsroom.

THE MANDALORIAN (Disney+, Nov. 12) The prime selling point for Disney’s new streaming service is the first-ever original Star Wars live-action series, created by Jon Favreau. Set after the events of Return of the Jedi, the show stars Pedro Pascal as a mysterious intergalactic bounty hunter with ties to Star Wars fan-favorite character Boba Fett. n

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Sweet Dream(casts) are Made of These ONE WAY TO ROCK There’s a movie being shot in Spokane called Monsters of Rock, in which a kid has a vision of former Van Halen frontman Sammy Hagar, who encourages said kid to do whatever it takes to get the Monsters of Rock festival to town. The massive metal tour featuring Van Halen, Scorpions, Dokken, Metallica and Kingdom Come really did play Joe Albi on July 20, 1988. The movie is filming starting Sept. 21, and needs 18 and older extras who could pass as high school kids. If only I were 30 years younger, my Dokken tattoo might actually come in handy. Interested in being an extra? Email your headshot and availability to morbackground@gmail.com. (I don’t really have a Dokken tattoo). (DAN NAILEN)

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arlier last week was the 20th anniversary of the release of the Sega Dreamcast in North America.

WTF is that, you ask?

It was an ill-fated console thrust into the market in 1999 to compete with the already popular PlayStation.

Shortly after, Sega’s console legacy was no more. For some reason I had a Dreamcast, and my middle sister and I played the hell out of it growing up.

Here are four games that have imprinted themselves into my memory, for better or worse.

JET SET RADIO FUTURE The crown of Dreamcast. There is no denying JSRF’s coolness. You play as a character from a gang of in-line skaters tearing up the streets of futuristic Tokyo — where freedom of expression has been banned — whilst tagging the buildings with graffiti. It was over the top in every way, electric, rebellious, and filled with catchy

THE BUZZ BIN (original!) electro-pop tunes that I still can’t get out of my head to this day. JSRF was the game that popularized the “comic book look,” aka cel-shading.

SOULCALIBUR “What are these people wearing?” I still remember my mom asking me as I pit two scantily clad female fighters in the ring. I grew up playing fighters like Mortal Kombat, but Soulcalibur, first released for Dreamcast, was the first time I really appreciated the beautiful graphics and silky smooth fighting mechanics.

“Get out of my room, Mom!”

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HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER, Terms of Surrender. The folk-rock ace is hitting the Bartlett Oct. 14 in support of his latest.

ROBBIE ROBERTSON, Sinematic. The former Band man has made some pretty great — if sporadic — solo albums. (DAN NAILEN)

KING OF FIGHTERS ’99 KoF is often overlooked in the realm of fighters. It was my first real foray into anime, and I was totally hooked.

Although KoF ’99 didn’t utilize the Dreamcast’s full potential for graphics the way Soulcalibur did, it capitalized on a large list of playable characters. Unlike other fighters, (e.g. Street Fighter), KoF had a much larger contingent of badass non-male characters to choose from, from the overtly sexual Mai, to the gender-bendy “King.” Its male characters could also run up and down the gender spectrum, for that matter. Dangerous stuff back in 2000. (PRO TIP: A live-action film called King of Fighters exists. Do not see it.)

CRAZY TAXI Back in my day we didn’t have no Grand Theft Auto 3!

Before GTA’s PS2 launch, us kids had to cause mayhem on the streets via Crazy Taxi. The goal of this game: Pick up and deliver your clients BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY. By default, you couldn’t run over pedestrians. Total bullshit. n

WILD AMERICA Earlier this year, the podcast Over My Dead Body examined the curious circumstances of a Florida law professor’s murder. If that story sucked you in, good news: there’s more. The show’s new six-episode season concerns one Joe Exotic (maybe you saw him as a John Oliver punchline, back when he ran for president), a gay bigamist with a platinum blonde mullet whose rinky-dink big-cat zoos in Oklahoma made him plenty of enemies from animal rights groups. Host Robert Moor digs into the bizarre saga, which involves reality TV, mall magicians, a missing husband and a murder-for-hire. (NATHAN WEINBENDER)

TAKE NOTE I wandered to the inaugural Huichica festival outside Walla Walla, and it was a good news/bad news thing. The good news: The festival, billed as a blend of indie music, great wine and tasty food, had some great music (Yo La Tengo and Robyn Hitchcock played twice; Waxahatchee, Titus Andronicus, Destroyer and the Minus 5, among others, also appeared). The food and wine were… fine. The bad news: No beer allowed in the campground. That’s NOT what I call camping! Even so, this Washington addition to a fest that annually happens in California and New York is worth keeping an eye on for 2020. (DAN NAILEN)

BELIEVE WOMEN The Pulitzer Prize-winning story “An Unbelievable Story of Rape,” a 2015 collaboration between ProPublica and the Marshall Project that exposed how Lynwood, Washington, police botched a rape investigation, has been turned into a Netflix miniseries. Unbelievable explores the devastating consequences when police didn’t take rape seriously in Washington, contrasting the case with Colorado detectives who took the extra effort to find the same serial rapist. The strength of the series is in its nuanced portrayal of the rape survivors, especially Marie (played

by Kaitlyn Dever), who was betrayed by the very system set up to protect her. (WILSON CRISCIONE)

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t’s a warm spring afternoon, but I’m holed up in a dark strip bar in Portland.

To my left, a red-headed dancer slinks down a brass pole to a mid-tempo OutKast song as she slowly unties the strings of her black velvet bodysuit. On the bar TV there’s another dance happening: the Big Dance. Gonzaga’s men’s basketball team has made it to the Elite Eight against Texas Tech. I’m in town for a writing conference and feel more comfortable catching the big game at this casual strip joint than a sports bar.

I’m only interested in Zags basketball because my grandparents are huge fans.

As a woman who’s attracted to multiple genders, I’m also interested in boobs. So this place hits the spot. As it becomes clear the Zags will lose, I sigh and shake my head between sad sips from a CBD lemonade. A bro-looking guy (rooting for Tech) sees my deflated hopes and says, “Hey, I’m sorry your team lost. Would you like a hug?” I actually do. He seems sincere and caring, so we hug. Anything can happen at a strip bar.

By now a tattooed blonde is wiping the pole down with a rag and spray bottle before her routine begins. As I watch her remove her metallic bikini (yet keep her sneakers on!) and use isolated muscle clenches to make her butt cheeks bounce individually, I think: 1. Strippers are so talented, and 2. I wish Spokane had a bar like this.

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hen it comes to topless coffee stands, Spokane has many. We have the occasional burlesque show, too. But I don’t drink coffee, and I don’t want pasties or Vaudeville shtick. I want a butt-shaking, nipples-out strip club, with dark mirrors and a strict no-photography policy — within city limits. Sure, there’s Deja Vu Showgirls — a national chain — in Spokane Valley. Post Falls has State Line Showgirls. Yet both strike me as too slick, serious, and geared toward men’s tastes.

Deja Vu calls itself a “Gentlemen’s Club” (a term I find unwelcoming to women) and their slogan of “1000’s of Beautiful Girls & 3 Ugly Ones” is just ugh. Since neither club serves liquor where dancing occurs, they charge a steep door cover to keep the lights on and the clothes off. I get that. However,

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Pull down then out

Strip clubs are better with a sense of humor.

I’d rather slide my dollars directly into a dancer’s G-string.

Weekly drag shows at nYne and go-go dancer nights at the Blind Buck are decent consolations; the mood is playful and joyful at both. Audience members usually respond with shouts and tips. (Note: If you’re in the front row gawking at a drag performer or go-go dancer, be prepared to offer up bills — or else fall back. It’s basic etiquette.) If only dancers could bare all though!

met up with a fellow bisexual friend at a Portland strip club, we weren’t drooling lustfully at every dancer, thinking, “I want to be with her!” We were like, “How is she doing the splits while upside down? Impressive!” And yeah, we were admiring her physical form, too. Even if you’re not attracted to naked women, it’s sure lovely to watch a woman move with purpose, draw her own boundaries, and receive cash.

Speaking of cash, last week the basedon-true-events stripper heist movie Hustlers hit theaters.

I caught a matinee and immediately tweeted: “Hustlers deserves multiple Oscars and your $$.” It really is that good. Expertly edited and shot in low light that mimics the interior of a strip club, Hustlers is a fast-paced, character-centered Recession tale, told from the champagne room. It’s a trippy flashback to hear Sean Kingston’s “Beautiful Girls” and see 2008 fashion trends and Escalades.

While not everyone will approve of the strippers’ iffy fundraising methods, they’ll certainly feel compassion for their choices.

Like 1997’s porn odyssey Boogie Nights, Hustlers humanizes an often-mocked profession and reveals the power of chosen family.

As I was strolling toward the theater, a classy elder woman rolled down her car window and shouted, “Hey! That’s a lovely cardigan you’re wearing.” I thanked her, and the wholesome exchange reminded me why I like being a woman at a strip club: I feel acknowledged and appreciated. One time a dancer chatted with me in the ladies room and called me “beautiful.” I blushed and glowed, fully aware I had conjured the attention with my generous tips. Getting catcalled or sexually harassed doesn’t feel good. But a respectful exchange of cash for connection feels great. Much like an unexpected compliment or sweet hug from a stranger, watching a stripper blend muscular strength and snakelike grace can relieve the sting of big losses and make life’s pain more bearable. n

“A respectful exchange of cash for connection feels great.”

I prefer strip clubs with a sense of humor. Seattle’s now-shuttered Lusty Lady was famous for its outdoor marquee loaded with sexy puns and entendres (the Devil Wears Nada, Happy Nude Year). In Seattle — behind the walls of a secret banquet room in a karaoke bar — was where I saw my first private strip show, for a friend’s bachelorette party. We chipped in and hired a tan, smooth-chested male stripper. Did he bring his own boombox? You bet he did. He danced and showered the bride-to-be with special attention. It was fun and laid-back.

By evening’s end, a mutual friend offered me a job working with teens at a private school. Conducting professional business a few feet away from a stripper felt like a scene from a mafia movie.

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hough this sounds zany, I don’t necessarily consider stripping to be sexual. Sensual, sure. Perhaps erotic. But all good dance moves — even fully clothed — originate from the pelvis. Not to get too Footloose, but there is a spiritual aspect to dancing. Add the vulnerability of nudity, and you get a tender, divine rite.

It is a privilege to witness a stripper close their eyes, get lost in a bass line, and enjoy themselves on stage (or at least appear to) without shame. It’s mesmerizing. When I

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VISUAL ARTS

CULTURE

If you take away one thing from our annual guide to the Inland Northwest’s art scene, I hope it’s the idea that art is for everyone.

Even a cursory glance through the incredible array of art openings, live performances, readings and recitals in these pages quickly makes one realize that the idea of “art” as a stuffy pursuit best left to the socalled “elites” is nonsense. The rewards of experiencing and making art are there for all of us, and they don’t require a top hat or tiara.

In the following pages you’ll find the most exhaustive list of art happenings imaginable. You’ll meet amateur authors trying to break into publishing. You’ll get a bird’s eye view of the region’s boom in public murals. You’ll get a better understanding of creating diverse casts on our regional theater stages, read about what the 40-year-old Coeur d’Alene Symphony is doing to get much-deserved attention, and learn about locals involved in a Washington state apprenticeship program designed to preserve and expand folk arts and crafts.

See you out there.

— DAN NAILEN, Inlander Arts & Culture editor

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WORDS

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LISTINGS EDITOR Chey Scott

ART DIRECTOR Derek Harrison

COPY EDITOR Quinn Welsch

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CONTRIBUTORS

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ON THE COVER:

Detail of a mural by Zemek in the Garland Art Alley

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L A U S VI S T R A

SCENIC STREETS

North Monroe’s new mural by Tiffany Patterson and Mick Burson.

New murals have been popping up across the Inland Northwest, brightening public spaces and bringing more art to the masses

BY CHEY SCOTT

C

ruising north on Monroe Street, all of a sudden the color hits you.

Emerging on the right side of the street, in the heart of Spokane’s Emerson-Garfield neighborhood, are deep blue waves, seed-speckled watermelons, fluffy clouds, a sailboat, a happy alligator and big blocks of vivid, cheerful colors and whimsical patterns.

Stretching 100 feet long and almost 30 feet tall, this eye-catching mural is one of the region’s newest public art pieces and has already become a community favorite.

Painted in just a single week this summer with the help of volunteers, the mural by prominent Spokane artist Tiffany Patterson in collaboration with visiting artist Mick Burson was a joint effort by the artists, Spokane Arts, the Emerson-Garfield Neighborhood Council and the Spokane City Council. It’s located on the side of what once was a drab, gray building, and adjacent to local Mexican restaurant Gerardo’s, at 2706 N. Monroe.

“The whole neighborhood was just so excited, and people honked and came by and said hi,” Patterson recalls. “I love the community of it. They come out when you’re painting a mural, and the fact that local businesses and restaurants and friends all donated to help make it happen, I feel like it really was a way for people to feel invested in it, too.”

The duo’s playful mural joins a growing list of new and existing large-scale paintings across the Inland Northwest, both privately and publicly supported. Just

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this year, the region has seen new murals installed in city alleyways, rural towns, urban buildings and walls and close-knit neighborhoods.

While the origins of each differ, attributes shared amongst each mural include how they unite the region’s communities, bring more art to the masses, activate otherwise drab and unwelcoming spaces and even boost the local economy.

“The North Hill Neighborhood and Garland Business District have really embraced [murals], and they see the way it’s improved the neighborhood and draws people, and I think more and more business owners and neighborhood groups are starting to recognize that,” notes Melissa Huggins, executive director of the nonprofit Spokane Arts.

Another big mural project this year was the Garland Business District’s Art in Action event, which in July brought together regional up-and-coming artists to paint new pieces in the district’s Art Alley.

Spokane Arts maintains an annual budget for public murals, but also often partners with neighborhoods, private businesses and the city of Spokane to help coordinate installations.

“Every year we want to make sure we’re doing at least one large mural and a couple of smaller ones,” Huggins adds. “As they grow in prominence and there’s more demand for them, that’s an exciting place to be. People are respecting the value and more often coming to us to

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ask, ‘What does the process look like?’ and ‘What artists can we reach out to?’”

Before winter hits, Spokane Arts expects to see one more mural added in downtown Spokane, in the alley between Wall and Howard streets near Soulful Soups & Spirits restaurant, as part of the city of Spokane’s Activating Alleyways pilot project. A local artist team’s design was recently selected, featuring three colorful cats holding paper fortune tellers.

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ther murals installed this year across the Inland Northwest include a series commissioned by the city of Colfax’s Arts Council that now decorate the sides of buildings along the Palouse town’s Main Street.

Regional artists Melissa Cole, Cori Dantini, Henry Stinson and Yelena Yunin each contributed designs to the project.

Cole invited residents to come out and help paint her piece, “Colfax Bounty,” which features regional wildflowers and huge bumblebees. She also incorporated mosaic pieces and patterns that pay homage to the region’s quilters into her nature-themed design.

“Most of the people who painted had never painted before. It was very exciting for them — young kids and all the way to retired folks and a lot of families,” Cole notes.

A prolific and recognizable regional artist, Cole has created many other murals across the region, including at the Moscow Public Library, two railroad viaduct underpasses in downtown Spokane, and a piece in Post Falls.

“I think [murals] are important because a lot of people are intimidated by going out into art settings like galleries and these are available for anyone to look at any time, and I think they do brighten the community,” she says.

“I also think it’s really important when people are able to work on the paintings… even if it’s the smallest little thing, they go back again and again, and it connects them to the mural and their communities.” n

INLAND NORTHWEST MURAL TOUR SPOKANE DANIEL LOPEZ

• American Jesus, 29 W. Second Ave. • Altamont Street I-90 underpass • North Post Street hill, between Gordon and Kiernan avenues • Staycation at Quick’s Barbershop, 1429 N. Monroe St. (north side) • Spokane history scenes at Boulevard Mercantile, 1905 N. Monroe St. (north side) • Northeast Community Center (with Gonzaga Art Department), 4001 N. Cook St.

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Stevens Street, between First and Second avenues on railroad viaduct retaining wall (facing north; across from Berserk Bar)

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Nova, between Madison and Jefferson streets on railroad viaduct retaining wall (facing south, across from Barrister Winery)

ELLEN PICKEN

Peaceful Valley, Maple Street Bridge pillars

TODD AND CAIN BENSON

Experience the wonder, delight, and inspiration of live performance.

• Waste to Energy Facility 25th Anniversary, Maple Street Bridge (northeast side) • Maple Street and Second Avenue railroad underpass • Hoffman Music, 1430 N. Monroe St.

DKER GRAFFITI WALL (various artists) Boots Bakery & Lounge, 24 W. Main Ave. (west side)

GARLAND ART ALLEY (various artists)

North Monroe Business District, at 2706 N. Monroe St. (facing south at Gerardo’s)

Carlene Carter

TOM QUINN

DOWNTOWN SPOKANE RAILROAD VIADUCT UNDERPASSES

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• Spokane iconography at Division Street and Sprague Avenue, railroad underpass • Gonzaga University luminaries at Logan Tavern, 1305 N. Hamilton St. (north side) • Browne’s Addition, Circa 1925 at Pacific Avenue and Cannon Street (east side) • Falco Peregrinus on Inland Empire Way (overpass pillars) in Vinegar Flats / West Spokane

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Alley south of Garland Avenue, between Post and Monroe streets

TIFFANY PATTERSON AND MICK BURSON

• Matt Smith, Stevens Street • SUMAC (various artists), Howard Street • Justin Gibbens and Will Bowe, Post Street • Lisa Soranaka and Eric-Alain Parker, Cedar Street • Melissa Cole, Lincoln and Monroe Streets; Third Avenue • Erin Mielcarek and Ellen Picken, Wall Street

Sept 26, 2019

Dallas String Quartet Electric

Feb 14, 2020

Oct 10, 2019

Hiplet Ballerinas

Dar He: The Story of Emmett Till

Lúnasa

Oct 17, 2019

California Guitar Trio + Montreal Guitar Trio

Nov 14, 2019

Turtle Island Quartet: Winter’s Eve

Dec 14, 2019

The Night Before Christmas Carol

Dec 19, 2019

Feb 18, 2020 Mar 5, 2020

Arcis Saxophone Quartet

Mar 18, 2020

Grim and Fischer by Wonderheads

April 2, 2020 James Tormé

May 1, 2020

Neil Berg’s 50 Years of Rock-N-Roll

May 15, 2020

Tickets and Information:

gonzaga.edu/mwpac A portion of the 160-foot-long mural by Shelby Allison and Susan Webber.

THE PALOUSE DOWNTOWN COLFAX

• Melissa Cole, The Dusty Attic, 113 N. Main St. (south side) • Cori Dantini, Bully for You Vintage, 103 S. Main St. (north side) • Henry Stinson, Fonks Coffee House, 112 N. Main St. (south side) • Yelena Yunin, Colfax City Pool, 301 N. Morton St.

MELISSA COLE

Moscow Public Library, 110 S. Jefferson St.

Memories From My Childhood, Sherman Square Park, 316 Sherman Ave.

STORM DRAIN STREET MURALS (various artists)

Second and Sherman; Sixth and Front; Seventh and Front; Coeur d’Alene City Park

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HISTORY OF BREWING BEER

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Pine Street Plaza Mural, downtown Pullman

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Bugs, Butterflies & Wildflowers, Town Square First Avenue and Cedar Street Caribou, 100 Cedar St.

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MAKOTO FUJIMURA: SILENCE-MYSTERION THROUGH OCT. 18

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Visiting artist and Whitworth alum Anna Baer, who exhibits under the name Olive Green Anna, returns to Spokane to present an exhibition of her large, colorful abstract paintings. Hear about her journeys, influences and how she learned to let go. Whitworth University, Bryan Oliver Gallery, free, Mon-Fri 10 am-5 pm, Sat. 10 am-2 pm, whitworth.edu/art (CARRIE A. SCOZZARO)

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The newest exhibit at Gonzaga’s Jundt Art Museum features the work of contemporary artist Makoto Fujimura, who’s made a career channeling themes of nature, faith and his own Japanese heritage into abstract, impressionistic paintings. You’ll see selections from Fujimura’s Silence & Beauty series, large canvases featuring deep blues, fiery reds and icy whites, which the artist has said are meant to evoke the feeling of overcoming trauma and the majesty of the world.

You might not see those influences right away, but his art is filled with details that only gradually reveal themselves the longer you stare. Jundt Art Museum at Gonzaga, free, Mon-Sat 10 am-4 pm, gonzaga.edu/jundt (NATHAN WEINBENDER)

THROUGH MARCH 14, 2020

POLLY APFELBAUM: FREQUENTLY THE WOODS ARE PINK

This show featuring the work of renowned American artist Polly Apfelbaum currently at WSU’s art museum marks a couple of firsts. It’s the first West Coast exhibition of her work, and the first of her shows dedicated solely to her printmaking. While we can quibble over calling Pullman “West Coast,” there’s no arguing the appeal of the explosively vibrant colors bursting from the 60 or so prints that make up Frequently The Woods Are Pink. Her work is geared to show that seemingly disjointed colors and shapes can meld beautifully, and perhaps the same is true of society in general. Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU, free. Tue-Sat 10 am-4 pm, museum. wsu.edu (DAN NAILEN)

SEPT. 23-OCT. 25

TALES OF THE AMERICAN & VISITING ARTIST LECTURE SERIES

Hosted by Spokane Falls Community College, this multimedia exhibition features a documentary about a storied 1900s-era hotel in Los Angeles, further transformed by artists. Two of them are also participating in the annual Visiting Artist Lecture Series. See the artwork and film at SFCC; attend the lecture at any of three locations. EWU Art Department, Oct. 16, noon; SFCC Building 24, Oct. 17, 11:30 am; the MAC, Oct. 17, 6:30 pm; free, spokanefalls.edu/gallery (CAS)

OCT. 18 SEPT. 28

LITTLE SPOKANE RIVER ARTIST STUDIO TOUR

MONSTER DRAWING RALLY: BENEFIT FOR SPOKANE ART SCHOOL

OCT. 4-OCT. 26

FAIRY TALES

Once a year, artists open up their studios to share their process with the public, typically in a self-driven, self-paced tour. The Little Spokane River tour features five locations, multiple artists per location, and an opportunity to see art in the making. Bring a friend, grab a map and be prepared for a rare look behind the scenes of some of the region’s favorite artists. Free, 10 am-5 pm, littlespokanestudios.com (CAS)

Red Riding Hood, Three Little Pigs, Rapunzel.

Fairy tales (above) are as familiar as our pillows — life’s lessons told through stories of good and evil and fantastical characters. View fairy tales reimagined by Amanda Caldwell, Brian Deemy, Grace June, Hannah Koeske, Ira Gardner, Julie Gautier-Downes, Susan Vander Kooi and Tayler Parkin. Richmond Art Collective, free, Fri 4-8 pm, Sat 10 am-2 pm, richmondartcollective.org (CAS)

OCT. 3-4

OCT. 4-26

In the ’50s and ’60s, artists used to stage “happenings,” events that might include performance art, installations, spoken word, visual art and more. Terrain (above) is like that. And more. This is a must-see-and-do for fall arts weekend and marks the last time they’ll be in the Jensen-Byrd Building! Jensen-Byrd Building, Oct. 3, 6-11 pm, $25; Oct. 4, 5 pm, free; terrainspokane.com (CAS)

Spokane powerhouse artist and arts advocate Karen Mobley had an idea for an exhibition: herself and five other powerhouses — Lila Girvin, Caren Furbeyre, Louise Kodis, Melissa Lang and Megan Martens-Haworth. Terrain said, naturally! Terrain Gallery (Washington Cracker Co. Building), free, Thu-Sat, 6-8 pm, terrainspokane.com (CAS)

TERRAIN

A STROKE OF NATURE

OCT. 5-JAN. 12, 2020

NORMAN ROCKWELL’S AMERICA

His images might be some of the best known in American culture, yet there’s more to illustrator Norman Rockwell than meets the eye. This traveling exhibition shares all the saccharine images that graced the Saturday Evening Post for 60+ years, as well as paintings and drawings reflecting the artist’s burgeoning commentary on social injustice during his lifetime. Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, $5-$10, Tue-Sun, 10 am-5 pm; Third Thursday, 10 am-8 pm; northwestmuseum.org (CAS)

You: dressed up in your funky finery. More than 30 artists (above): scrambling to make a drawing in their one-hour time slot, probably accompanied by an occasional swear word and a lot of hilarity. It’s live theater, except with art, and the finished drawings are up for sale, too (at a crazy low price of $50). Your admission, which benefits the school, also gets you good eats and one free adult beverage. Montvale Event Center, $20, 5-9 pm, spokaneartschool.net (CAS)

NOV. 8-JAN. 4, 2020

SMALL WORKS INVITATIONAL

It’s an annual favorite with twice the fun this year as the Coeur d’Alene gallery will host two separate receptions. In addition to works by more than 50 artists, look for new work to appear as existing items are purchased and removed at this popular end-of-year exhibition and sale.

The Art Spirit Gallery, free, Tue-Sat, 11 am-6 pm, theartspiritgallery.com (CAS) n

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Marlee Andrews and Rick Iberra-Rivera rehearse at Stage Left Theater.

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CASTING ABOUT

In a midsized, mostly white city, how can volunteer theater productions find the actors they need?

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UPCOMING AUDITIONS LAKE CITY PLAYHOUSE

A Christmas Story: The Musical Sept. 29, 6 pm lakecityplayhouse.org/auditions

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Venus in Fur Oct. 6-8, 6:30 pm spokanestageleft.org/auditions

BLUE DOOR THEATRE

Open auditions Oct. 12, 3 pm bluedoortheatre.com/auditions

SPOKANE CIVIC THEATRE

Present Laughter Oct. 28-29, 6:30 pm spokanecivictheatre.com/audition

IGNITE! COMMUNITY THEATRE Fireflies Dec. 16-17, 6:30 pm igniteonbroadway.org

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f acting is fundamentally an exercise in empathy, casting is fundamentally an exercise in discrimination.

That term can feel loaded at a time when inclusivity and diversity are sociocultural watchwords. Yet most roles demand very specific attributes. Playwrights generally have a strong idea of who exactly their dramatis personae are and will explicitly state as much in their character descriptions. Directors have preconceptions, too, to the point where a casting choice can spark an entire production.

Audiences aren’t free of bias, either. We all arrive with certain expectations about how certain characters should look, walk, talk, dance and sing. There are plenty of instances where conventions could be and have been challenged, but our Pucks, regardless of their race or gender, really ought to have charisma by the bucketful. Our Little Orphan Annies are pretty much always going to be children, if not necessarily redheaded girls, and they’d damn well better elicit tears in the back row when they belt “Tomorrow.”

THE DIFFICULTY OF FINDING ACTORS OF COLOR...

Absolutes like these can pose challenges for any theater. In smaller cities like Spokane, those challenges are often amplified.

Stage Left Theater’s Controversy of Valladolid earlier this year highlights one such case. The play called for actors of color in nonspeaking, subservient black and Aztec roles. Not surprisingly, local actors who might have looked the part showed little interest in auditioning. Ultimately the creative team chose to cut one pivotal character and recast with Native American actors.

More recently, as part of a wider attempt to create more fulfilling opportunities for actors of color, two multifaceted members of Spokane’s performing arts scene, Juan Mas and Josephine Keefe, worked with Stage Left Managing Director Wes Deitrick to open the season with References to Salvador Dalí Make Me Hot, running until Sept. 22.

Written by Puerto Rican playwright José Rivera, the surreal, sexually charged drama has the added advantage of providing actors of color — particularly those with Latino backgrounds — with a vehicle for their acting chops that doesn’t

reduce them to cultural stereotypes. Even with a show of that nature and caliber, casting proved difficult.

“Josephine and I knew that we were going to have a challenge, so we started looking for casting as early as April,” Mas says. “We said the four main roles have to be Latino in this show.

But it wasn’t easy.”

That might be an understatement. Keefe recalls only one participant the first night of auditions.

According to data from the most recent American Community Survey, Spokane is about 85 percent white. Pan out to include the surrounding county and that number rises to almost 90 percent. That demographic makeup inevitably reflects itself in the available talent pool. When he found himself without a Martin, the teenage neighbor in Dalí, Mas says he began contacting friends and teachers from area high schools in an attempt to fill the role. He found their drama programs to be “white from top to bottom” and had to start looking elsewhere.

...AND PRETTY MUCH EVERYONE ELSE

The challenge of casting isn’t limited only to actors of a certain ethnicity or age. Jake Schaefer, the Spokane Civic Theatre’s creative director, isn’t alone in saying that “men in all age ranges, not just the young ones coming straight out of college” are a perpetually difficult draw.

Dawn Taylor Reinhardt, another member of Spokane’s performing arts community, says it’s sometimes hard to attract actors beyond the familiar ones. She points to The Memory of Water, a play she directed at the Civic.

“As an audience member, there is nothing more refreshing than going to a theater and seeing somebody new,” she says. “I love to see new faces. I was so determined to try and have a new face for the audience to see. But it’s the same faces that show up.”

Part of that comes down to the nature of community theater. Since the Modern Theater closed in 2016, Spokane has been without a yearround venue that pays its actors. Without even a stipend for long, intense hours of rehearsal and performance, nonprofessional acting becomes a labor of love that actors have to slot around all of life’s other responsibilities. The talent pool, already restricted in demographic makeup, shrinks to those with the time and resolve and who can afford to make financial sacrifices.

Troy Nickerson, who has a long résumé of musical theater in the region, says those constraints extend to high schoolers as well.

“In a musical, you need lots of young people, and young people are just so much busier than they used to be. They’re involved in every single thing possible and they’re going like crazy. And at some level, too, I think some of the highschool [drama] programs also tend to keep their students there because they need them where they’re at.”

Thinking back to some of his earliest experiences as a director, Nickerson says audition crowds of 150 hopefuls weren’t unusual.

“Now sometimes the number can be 40, and it’s not uncommon for most people who are casting to have to go out and actually find people after the auditions,” he says.

Even Nickerson’s current production, the famous Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill collaboration

The Threepenny Opera, was no exception. Despite the reputation he enjoys within the theater community, only three people came out on the first day of auditions.

FIXES EXIST — BUT AREN’T ALWAYS QUICK

Some of Spokane’s current casting issues will likely resolve themselves with time. Provided the area population continues to grow and diversify while theater counts and production schedules stay relatively steady, casting calls could start to see healthier and more heterogeneous turnouts.

Other solutions rest with the theaters’ creative teams.

“I feel like audition awareness is half of the problem,” says Schaefer. That’s why, for the first time, the Civic has compiled and publicized its audition schedule, complete with production details and available roles. Reinhardt agrees that’s a solid first step, with the caveat that the practice needs to be adopted widely and consistently.

More variety and adventurousness in the shows and their playwrights could also serve to lure a wider range of actors.

Prior to audition interest, however, comes basic exposure to theater, which Mas, Reinhardt and Schaefer jointly recognize as the vital toehold for enticing future actors. That starts with removing barriers to access. Along the lines of what the Spokane Symphony is doing with its new Free Access to Student Tickets (FAST) program, the Civic is offering Teen Tickets to select performances at a discounted price of $10.

There’s also a more individual approach: mentoring. For the part of Coyote in Dalí, for example, Mas went into the community and sourced a nonactor, A.J. Scott, better known for his work with Power 2 the Poetry.

“That’s part of our job as creatives, to look outside of that normal circle of actors. That’s going to feed the [acting] pool later, while at the same time you’re helping this person and your show to come up with a new fresh face,” Mas says.

Mas adds that directors and theaters need to make better institutional partnerships to tap new pools of talent — possibly facilitated by the group he and Keefe are spearheading, the Spokane Theater Arts Council. Those partnerships could make sustained inroads into area schools, and not just those with established drama programs or wealthier demographics.

Nickerson adds that better communication and collaboration among the theaters themselves might help them avoid “thinning out the talent” and fatiguing audiences by staging similar — or even the same — shows in the same season.

A more extreme solution might even call for rethinking the community theater model.

“We have to recognize that there’s a change in times,” says Keefe. “We should be improvising and using other opportunities for auditions, which might include taped auditions for actors who are working multiple jobs. At one point, the community theaters here are going to need to start thinking about [monetary] incentives to keep actors in the community.”

Although many of these proposals have yet to make it beyond their earliest stages, there is at least one upside. If you’ve been wanting to try your hand at theater, the door to auditions has never been open wider. n

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SEPT. 19-29

SEPT. 20 & 22

SEPT. 27-OCT. 20

Into the Woods interweaves several classic fairy tales — Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk and Rapunzel — into the central story of a couple and their quest to undo the witch’s curse that has left them childless. This Red Bird Theater production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s timeless musical stars Kylee Lavier as the witch, Daniel Bell as the baker and Jen Kleinkauf as his wife. There’s also an upgraded Red Carpet Experience that gets you priority seating and other perks. Kroc Center, Coeur d’Alene, $25 ($40 VIP), Thu-Sat at 7 pm, Sat and Sun at 2 pm (E.J. IANNELLI)

Suffused with all the romance, beauty and tragedy for which opera is renowned, Giacomo Puccini’s Madame Butterfly is about a young Japanese girl who falls madly in love with a flawed American naval officer. Following her heart can only lead to shame, longing and despair. International soprano Elizabeth Caballero stars as Cio-Cio-san in this limited-run Inland Northwest Opera production directed by Fenlon Lamb. Sung in the original Italian with English supertitles.

Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox, $23-$90, Fri at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm (EI)

Just when you thought everything about Shakespeare had already been written, along comes a play that shines a light on a new aspect of his legacy. In fact, The Book of Will shows that there might not have been much of a legacy at all if contemporary bootleggers and copycats had had their way. After the Bard’s death, an effort led by two members of his famed acting troupe helped compile his work for posterity. Susan Hardie directs this lighthearted historical dramatization. Spokane Civic Theatre, $25, Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm (EI)

OCT. 3

OCT. 10

OCT. 11-13

If you missed the premiere performances that recently took place atop Mount Spokane, here’s another chance to catch this original theatre production. Written by Norway-based playwright Damon Falke, it blends impressions and memories to tell a love story through verse and music. Thanks to Spokane Arts Grant Awards funding, all tickets are completely free of charge. Prefer to stay home and nest? The performance will also be simultaneously broadcast live on Spokane Public Radio. Downtown Spokane Public Library, free, 7 pm (EI)

What’s old is new again as Spark Central takes a classic form of entertainment and pairs it with a classic tale of adventure. For this all-ages performance, the venue’s special radio theater troupe is performing a fun adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel Treasure Island. Audience members are invited not only to attend but to participate and help create the scene-setting sound effects for the cast. Spark Central, free, 7:30 pm (EI)

Whitworth Theatre’s autumn production of Shakespeare’s everpopular magical comedy is a perfect opportunity to see budding performers in a first-rate play at a fair price. Keep in mind that The Bing also offers dinner and accommodation packages that turn the show into a full evening of entertainment. In the event that Midsummer doesn’t sate your appetite for local university productions of Shakespeare, be sure to catch Gonzaga’s students performing Romeo and Juliet from Nov. 1-10. Bing Crosby Theater, $15, Fri-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sat-Sun at 2 pm (EI)

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THE SCENT OF A THOUSAND RAINS

MADAME BUTTERFLY

TREASURE ISLAND

THE BOOK OF WILL

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM

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Among the new Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center’s first full season is the nationally touring drama Dar He: The Story of Emmett Till. The cryptic title of this one-man, multi-character show (playwright Mike Wiley performs every role) comes from a sentence allegedly uttered by Till’s uncle as he stood to identify one of the teenage boy’s murderers during the infamous 1955 trial: “Dar he.” (“There he is.”) Those unrepentant killers would nevertheless be acquitted by an all-white jury, a travesty of justice that would catalyze America’s civil rights movement. Myrtle Woldson PAC, $25, 7:30 pm (EI)

Taking high-strung Felix Ungar and slovenly Oscar Madison and turning them into Florence and Olive, respectively, might seem like a wholly contemporary notion, but you’re giving the present too much credit. This female adaptation of Neil Simon’s comedy about an unlikely pair of New York roommates debuted back in 1985 — along with New Coke and the very first version of the Windows operating system. Although the fundamentals of the play remain the same, be warned: Trivial Pursuit takes the place of poker. Lake City Playhouse, Coeur d’Alene, $23, Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm (EI)

Although it took a mere 26 years for Charles Addams’ macabre animated family to become a live-action TV series, it took another 35 years after that for it to become a stage musical. But the passing decades still find this motley assortment of fish-out-of-water Gothic oddballs struggling to appear ordinary. This time, they’re hosting a dinner party for Wednesday’s boyfriend and his parents.

Things naturally veer into the comically bizarre. The show kicks off Aspire Community Theatre’s fourth season. Kroc Center, Coeur d’Alene, $19-$25, Thu-Fri at 7:30 pm, Sat at 2 pm and 7:30 pm, Sun at 2pm (EI)

DAR HE: THE STORY OF EMMETT TILL THE ODD COUPLE (FEMALE VERSION) THE ADDAMS FAMILY

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OCT. 23-26

MISS SAIGON

This legendary musical favorite is an ideal way for Spokane’s Best of Broadway to launch its season, one that includes both the familiar (Jesus Christ Superstar Nov. 20-24) and the new (Escape to Margaritaville, coming this winter). Miss Saigon tells its story of love and loss through massive set pieces, a cast of 42, and songs that resound today much as they did when the show premiered in London 30 years ago, including “The Heat Is On In Saigon” and “American Dream.” First Interstate Center for the Arts, $59.75-$115.50, Wed-Fri at 7:30 pm; Sat at 2 pm and 7:30 pm (DAN NAILEN)

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A PLACE TO CALL HOME

As part of the Hutton Settlement’s centennial celebration, playwright and director Tim Rarick conceived of A Place To Call Home, the dramatic story of Levi Hutton’s efforts to build a home for needy children in the Spokane Valley after he and his wife, May, had struck it rich via North Idaho’s Hercules Mine and, after moving to Spokane, Levi’s savvy way with investments. Raised in foster homes himself, Levi spent his years after May’s death working toward the children’s home that still stands today. Spokane Civic Theatre, $25, Thu-Fri at 7:30, Sun at 2 pm (DN)

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THE CEMETERY CLUB

In this dramatic comedy directed by Troy Heppner, three widowed women meet each month to talk about their lives and then visit their husbands’ graves. When Sam, a local butcher and widower, takes a fancy to one of their trio, the other two try to put the kibosh on their relationship. The play was adapted into a 1993 film starring Olympia Dukakis and Ellen Burstyn, which earned praise from Roger Ebert at the time for showing that “love is much more complicated than most young lovers ever dream.”

Ignite! Community Theatre, $15, Fri-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm (EI)

NOV. 22-DEC. 8

VENUS IN FUR

Both subtly echoing and overtly referencing its original source material, an 1870 novella by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, David Ives’ Venus in Fur is an intense two-person play that hinges on a flipped power dynamic. As a fussy director auditions a new, unproven actress, their relationship comes to resemble the characters they’re reading. As for the specifics of that relationship, well, it’s no coincidence that Sacher-Masoch’s surname is the root of masochism. Josephine Keefe directs. Stage Left, $25, Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm (EI) n

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Roberta and James Wilburn practice the dijembe as part of their Heritage Arts apprenticeship. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO

MASTERS OF THE CRAFT From cheese making to West African drumming, the Heritage Arts Apprenticeship program funds cultural studies and timeless traditions

BY NATHAN WEINBENDER

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ou can hear the drumming from the front porch.

In the living room of their Indian Trail home, James and Roberta Wilburn are sitting sideby-side, each playing a djembe, a wooden West African drum with a rich, distinctive sound. Roberta sets the pace with a basic beat — one hand slapping the skin of the drum in 4/4 time — before James jumps in, filling the spaces in the notes with riffs and syncopated rhythms.

It goes on for as long as it feels right, like a back-andforth conversation without any words.

The Wilburns’ practice session is part of the ongoing Heritage Arts Apprenticeships, a program co-sponsored

by Humanities Washington and the Washington State Arts Commission. It provides funds for master-apprentice pairs within the state to explore a rare art form, often one that is misunderstood or threatening to become extinct, and study the cultural context that goes along with it.

Now in its second year, the program has funded 25 yearlong apprenticeships, the Wilburns’ being one of them.

James is the “master” of the duo: A retired educator

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and former Spokane NAACP president, he’s been drumming since he was a kid. Roberta, the associate dean of graduate studies in education and diversity initiatives at Whitworth University, is the “apprentice.” The Wilburns have been married for 21 years, but Roberta says the most playing she had ever done was the occasional rata-tat-tat with her fingers on one of James’ drums as she walked past it.

“I guess there was probably a little apprehension — that’s his thing, not necessarily mine,” she says. “But over the years I’ve heard him say, ‘I want somebody else to be able to play with me.’”

Their apprenticeship has a key advantage: They live under the same roof, which makes the challenge of aligning schedules something of a non-issue. They started the program in July and will continue their lessons through this coming June, at which point Roberta will have picked up other instruments and more complex rhythms, and can perform alongside James in African drum circles, at an annual African-American graduation celebration and

Kwanzaa.

But for the Wilburns, the apprenticeship is about much more than honing a skill: It’s a means of connecting to their African roots, and educating others about the instrument’s long, complicated history.

“When you think of Africa, you think of a drum,” James says. “It’s just part of the culture.”

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he Wilburns are one of 15 duos who have received grants this year — $4,000 for the masters, and $1,000 for the apprentices — which will go toward materials, equipment and any necessary travel expenses. The pairs apply for the grants with their selfimposed budgets and lesson plans, and a panel of experts determines the slate for the given year.

Langston Collin Wilkins, the director of the Center for Washington Cultural Traditions and head of the apprenticeship program, says the goal is for participants “to become stronger advocates for art and their general community.” That means not only honing their respec-

tive crafts, but learning the business and time-management side of things so they can pass their knowledge on to others.

“Everyone applied with the hope they’d be able to preserve these traditions,” Wilkins says, “and by funding them, we gave them the opportunity to dedicate serious time to preserving these traditions … I think we’re keeping the story of our communities and our state alive. Without these traditions, our understanding of our cultural landscape would be incomplete.”

This year’s apprenticeship concentrations include everything from stone carving to Salish wool weaving, henna body art to plant foraging, printmaking to hip-hop and spoken word. Last year, local culinary author Kate Lebo worked under the guidance of chef and teacher Lora Lea Misterly to learn all about farmhouse cheese making, a rare craft that she knew she could apply to her own writing.

“I’m always trying to find ways to combine culinary arts with literary arts,” Lebo says. “I wanted to be there to see all the gestures, the things she doesn’t think about when she does them.

To have the attention and perspective of a master culinarian was really special.”

As Lebo puts it, the apprenticeship program puts its focus on “arts that most people don’t think of as arts.” Not all of us have grandparents or parents that can pass down long-ago traditions that would otherwise be lost to time, she says, “so it gives structure to something if you don’t necessarily have those family connections.”

Without these traditions, our understanding of our culturural landscape would be incomplete.

SEPTEMBER 2019

Cultural Events September 16th BISON RANCH TOUR Coeur d’Alene tribal member guided tour of a working bison ranch.

Deluxe bison burger with all the fixins included along with $10 Extra Play Cash. 10 am – 2 pm | $40

September 17th KAYAKING & CANOEING TOUR A co-guided, ranger-led tour filled with wildlife, nature and history.

Vessels, life jackets and lunch included. 9 am – 3:30 pm | $30

September 19th TRIBAL HOMELANDS GUIDED HIKE Explore Heyburn State Park, guided by a tribal member. Enjoy spectacular views overlooking Lake Coeur d’Alene on Indian Cliffs Trail, and a lush canopied natural forest on the Civilian Conservation Corps Nature Trail. Lunch included. 9 am – 1 pm | $25

September 20th LIFEWAYS WORKSHOP—“MAKE YOUR OWN” CEDAR BARK NECKLACE Make your own miniature folded cedar bark basket and string it to be worn as a necklace. Coeur d'Alene tribal artist, Leanne Campbell will instruct. Includes lunch. 10 am – 3 pm | $80

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ames Wilburn has always played to his own beat. He grew up in the Marion, Arkansas, hotel that his father owned in the years of Jim Crow, and he recalls being fascinated by the musicians traveling on the Southern “Chitlin’ Circuit” who would stay the night there and sometimes even put on impromptu performances. He has played with countless musicians and has dabbled in every genre imaginable, but he didn’t explore the sounds of West African drumming until relatively recently.

He has since taught African drumming to American students and played with groups in several African countries. What he tries to impart in his lessons is just how inextricably linked the drum is with African culture — how the instrument was used to send messages between villages. How those who were enslaved and brought to America took their drums with them. How the drums were then wrenched away when the slave owners realized it was a tool of communication. How African-Americans have since taken the drums back. How the drum is, essentially, the heartbeat that bridges multiple generations of people.

“Even in modern-day music, the drum is still communicating something,” he says. “The drum is still talking to you.”

The Wilburns, who also work as motivational speakers and social justice advocates through their company Wilburn & Associates, hope that they can continue that education once their apprenticeship is complete. The music itself is important to preserve, but so is the historical context surrounding it.

“The drum is something that was taken away from us, and so we’re trying to incorporate it back into what we do,” Roberta says.

“It’s important that you know your heritage, where you came from,” James says. “If you go back far enough, you can come up with a reason why you’re here, as opposed to somewhere else.” n

September 22nd LIFEWAYS WORKSHOP—“MAKE YOUR OWN” PLATEAU BASKETRY BASICS Coeur d'Alene tribal artist, Leanne Campbell will instruct and help you craft an authentic small round root bag (also known as a “sally bag”). Includes lunch. 10 am – 5 pm | $75

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SEPT. 26

SEPT. 27-29

SEPT. 28

Comedian Demetri Martin is calling his latest cross-country jaunt the “Wandering Mind Tour,” and Martin’s wanderings are certainly the kind you want to follow. The Yale grad is super smart (obviously) and his deadpan demeanor and propensity for surreal stretches of logic make for some hilarious jokes, whether he’s doing standup, writing books or penning essays for outlets like The New Yorker and Esquire. His latest standup special, The Overthinker, is streaming now on Netflix. Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox, $40, 7 pm (DAN NAILEN)

Oktoberfest is a heralded tradition in cities and towns around Washington. In Spokane, this year’s event will feature dancing, eating, singing and, most importantly, celebration with German cheer. This year’s festival will feature musicians like S-Bahn Band, Alpen Band and Hazelnauss “Das” Music. They will also have a copious amount of authentic German food and beer, along with various family activities, the Sugar Rush 5K and 10K, and the muchbeloved wiener dog races. Consider an opportunity to immerse yourself in German culture and have a good time. Spokane Valley CenterPlace, $5-$30, Sept. 27 4-11 pm, Sept. 28 noon-11 pm, Sept.

29 11 am-5 pm (RILEY UTLEY)

Spokane’s South Asia Cultural Association has a night of eyeopening, heart-pounding dance and drama in store as the group brings South Indian show Ardha Nareeshwaram to town for one night. The show revolves around a style of dance called Kuchipudi, a form that originated in 14th century as part of a Hindu tradition designed to invoke a divine experience for both dancers and audience members through a story about the Ganges River. In addition to the performance, an Indian vegetarian dinner will be available before the show. Bing Crosby Theater, $25.15, 6:30 pm (DN)

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SEPT. 28

SPOKANE ARTS AWARDS

You can join a celebration of all the great things Spokane’s art scene has to offer as the folks at Spokane Arts hosts its annual throwdown at the sparkly new Lucky You. Comedian Casey Strain will host the award show, with four individual artists and/or organizations being recognized for their “leadership, collaboration, imagination and inclusion.” There will be music by Ray Badness and Shantell Jackson, interactive art on site, drinks and small bites, and the new Spokane poet laureate will be revealed as well.

Consider it a chance to rub elbows with some of Spokane’s most creative minds — pretty hard to resist, right? Lucky You Lounge, $30, 7:30 pm (DN)

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SPOKANE OKTOBERFEST

SEPT. 29

RUPAUL’S DRAG RACE: WERQ THE WORLD

Over the course of its increasingly popular 11 seasons (not to mention its many spin-offs), the reality competition juggernaut RuPaul’s Drag Race has brought the art of drag to the mainstream and discovered many new stars. The ongoing Werq the World tour assembles a coterie of the show’s performers, including fan favorites like Kim Chi and Detox, as well as past season winners Violet Chachki and Yvie Oddly. Outside of the ensemble numbers, the queens get their individual moments to showcase their talents for comedy, music, dance and, of course, sickening fashion. Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox, $55-$165, 8 pm (NATHAN WEINBENDER)

ARDHA NAREESHWARAM

OCT. 3

SUDS & CINEMA: OFFICE SPACE

Office Space, Mike Judge’s wry satire about the daily drudgery of pencil pushers, desk jockeys and clockwatchers, made hardly a peep when it landed in theaters in early 1999. But through its near constant rotation on Comedy Central, it developed a cult following, and now many of its jokes — The TPS report! Flare! The red stapler!

— have become catchphrases and memes unto themselves. As the film turns 20, the Inlander will be screening it as part of our Suds & Cinema, which pairs classic movies with local breweries. Bring your own printer, and we’ll supply the baseball bats. Bing Crosby Theater, $5, 7:30 pm (NW)

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RON WHITE

For some of us, the “Blue Collar Comedy Tour” was only good for one thing, and that was introducing Ron White to a much wider audience than the cigar-smoking, Scotch-swilling comic enjoyed previously. The Navy vet and proud Texan’s jokes landed with far more style and thought than, say, those of tourmate Larry the Cable Guy (a low bar, I know), but the Blue Collar life helped White establish himself as a touring pro — one who has sold more than 10 million copies of his comedy albums. He put out a new special on Netflix last year called If You Quit Listening I’ll Shut Up. Northern Quest Resort & Casino, $59-$89, 6 pm (sold out) and 9 pm (DN)

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OCT. 28

DOUBLE DARE LIVE

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THURS., FEB. 13 – 7:00 PM

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EGYPTOLOGIST

The hit Nickelodeon classic Double Dare is hitting the road and will be making a stop at the First Interstate Center for the Arts. Double Dare truly is fun for the whole family, being that the show aired when many parents were still kids and was revived recently for a younger generation. Join legendary host Marc Summers for an interactive and entertaining show that will have the whole family laughing and rooting for their favorite team as competitors navigate trivia questions, obstacle courses and, of course, plenty of slimy stunts. First Interstate Center for the Arts, $34.50-$64.50, 7:30 pm (RU)

NOV. 2

WARREN MILLER’S TIMELESS

Are you having snow withdrawals from not being able to make to the mountain in months? Have no fear because Warren Miller is here. Warren Miller’s 70th film, Timeless, features the best skiers in the world tackling runs across the globe. Filmed in British Columbia, France, Austria, Switzerland, Colorado and Jackson Hole, Timeless features some of the best terrain the world. The cinematography of the Warren Miller flicks takes ski movies to an incredible level every year, due to the seven decades of filmmaking from this company. Filmgoers will not only see the film, but get access to lift ticket discounts, free swag and more. The Bing Crosby Theater, $21, 6 pm and 9 pm (RU)

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Nearly 20 years ago, the Suicide Girls fired up as a website dedicated to pinup photography controlled by the women and photographers involved, but the brand has evolved far beyond those humble beginnings. There are now Suicide Girls books, games, movies, comics and live performances like the Blackheart Burlesque that incorporates pop culture themes like Star Wars and Games of Thrones in its choreography. Vice called it “Comicon meets burlesque nerd orgy,” and audience members often become part of the show. Knitting Factory, $25-$60, 9 pm (DN)

NOV. 9-10

SPOKANE FALL FOLK FESTIVAL

The Spokane Fall Folk Festival is a time for people to come together and celebrate traditional and ethnic art. The festival has been designed to support all kinds of regional folk musicians, and brings in groups that represent Celtic, bluegrass, blues, African, Asian, Middle Eastern cultures, and then some.

With over 100 performers there truly is something for everyone, and this year they expect about 5,000 people to attend, joining up to celebrate culture through music, dance and more. Spokane Community College’s Lair Student Center, free, Nov. 9, from 11 am-10 pm, and Nov. 10, from 11 am-5 pm (RU)

NOV. 15-17

BANFF MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL

Every year the Banff World Tour brings an array of incredible outdoor-oriented films to town, featuring jaw-dropping scenery and incredible feats by kayakers, climbers, bikers, skiers and other outdoor enthusiasts. Screenings typically include 6-10 films, and you’re always going to see something that you wouldn’t believe if you hadn’t seen it with your own eyes. The environment and how to protect it for future generations is an inevitable and welcome message that consistently comes through these screenings, too. Bing Crosby Theater, tickets TBA, Nov. 15-16 at 7 pm, Nov. 17 at 6 pm (DN)

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NOV. 22

Friday, November 8, 2019

LANCE BURTON

Lance Burton has been performing magic for 31 years, making for an impressive career that’s hard to match in the magic game. Burton’s been called “a magician’s magician” and a “patriarch of magic” He’s performed in Las Vegas, on The Tonight Show, in front of the queen of England and had his own TV show. Now he is making his way to Eastern Washington to show off his incredible skills. Northern Quest Resort & Casino, $49-$79, 7:30 pm (RU)

NOV. 23-24

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Back when Tim Burton was writing a string of instant-classic, slightly surreal films like Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands and The Nightmare Before Christmas, they were all soundtracked by the distinct musical vision of former Oingo Boingo frontman Danny Elfman (you might know him better as the guy who wrote the theme song for The Simpsons). Elfman’s twisted way with orchestral works pair perfectly with Burton’s most creative endeavors, and there are few better examples than The Nightmare Before Christmas, a flick produced by Burton but directed by Henry Selick. Enjoy the movie while the Spokane Symphony tackles Elfman’s memorable score live just below the screen.

Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox, $20-$103, Nov. 23 at 8 pm and Nov. 24 at 3 pm (DN)

DEC. 8

SESAME STREET LIVE

Sesame Street is coming out of our televisions and into the Spokane Arena this December to teach people of all ages the importance of believing in themselves. Follow Elmo and his friends on a journey filled with magic to discover the “power of yet.” The show is filled with fan favorites: Big Bird, Cookie Monster, Grover, Rosita and Count von Count, among others. Like its televised version, this show will entertain the kids while also teaching them valuable lessons, so grab the family and spend a few hours with Elmo and friends. Spokane Arena, $22-$77, 2 pm and 6 pm (RU) n

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S D R WO Caryl Briscoe talks to Dave Reynolds about his book during Reynolds’ first time attending a Spokane Authors and Self-Publishers meeting. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO

WRITTEN WORD

Inland Northwest writing groups offer insights into publishing, creating new friendships among the local and literary-minded

BY SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL

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s dozens of writers finish nibbling on their Golden Corral buffet lunches one Thursday afternoon, Spokane Authors and Self-Publishers (SASP) President Jim Parry welcomes the “SASPers and SASParillas” to their monthly meeting with a pun.

“A doctor asks a nurse, ‘What’s the status of the girl who swallowed those coins?’ The nurse says, ‘There’s been no change,’” Parry says, as the group chuckles.

Some of the members at this September meeting are retirees who’ve finished writing a book and want to learn more about self-publishing. Many others have already published some of their work and want to spread the word.

Today, the group turns its focus to Marilee Hudon, author of Waxing is Useless, which details the journey of a middle-aged soccer mom who sprouts a tail and soon

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learns of a protective pack of Spokane werewolves.

Hudon, who also does public relations for the author group, is here to share some insights about posting to social media and building a following.

“First, we’re going to talk about hashtags,” Hudon says, encouraging members to create an Instagram and Twitter account if they haven’t already, and regularly tag their posts with things like #writingcommunity, #bookstagram, #bookworms and more.

“The writing community is very large, and especially on Twitter, it’s surprisingly helpful,” she tells the room of about 30. “The best thing you can do is find an author that writes in your same genre and see how they handle their account.”

This is a pretty typical meeting for SASP: Writers gather, talk about some of the elements of self-publishing

and self-marketing, and importantly, they create social ties.

Similarly, the Inland Northwest Writers Guild, which meets the third Wednesday of the month at Frankie Doodle’s, is aimed at offering social time and insights into the industry, with more of an aim at beginning writers, explains guild-runner Linda Bond.

For many, these larger author groups that have been around for a decade or more serve as a jumping off point to get into the local writing community. The opportunity to meet people with similar interests often leads to formation of smaller, private writing groups where there’s time to share excerpts and critique each other.

“That’s why I say it’s more of an organization,” Bond says of the guild. “I try to help people make connections so they can go on with other people, specifically in the

areas they’re interested in.”

SASP Vice President Sue Eller says she and several other women participate in the Tin Pencils, a writing group that first started meeting at the Tinman art gallery, then, after the gallery closed, started taking turns hosting at their homes.

Twice a month, Tin Pencils authors meet with printed copies of a page or two of their writing, so everyone can mark up a copy as the author reads it aloud, Eller says. Each writer can take those critiques home and make whatever changes they’d like.

“It’s actually really, really helpful. It’s like having a pre-edit,” Eller says. “We have become, over the years, pretty close friends, most of us.”

Eller’s works include, among other things, the Emily Trace Mysteries, a series of books about a detective who gets sucked into some otherworldly investigations as she tries to solve her husband’s murder.

“They’re set in Spokane and the surrounding area,” Eller says.

“It’s kind of a cozy mystery with a little bit of sci-fi and a lot of humor.”

While she’s been an author for decades, when Eller first came on board as vice president of SASP, one of her goals was to get more speakers in front of the group who could help people through the publishing process.

“When I first started, [our speakers were] all people who’d written a book and wanted to just talk about it and promote it,” Eller says. “That’s nice for them, but what is it going to do for the group? We’ve tried to change the focus to be more proactive for everybody.”

Since then, they’ve had everybody from professional editors to audiobook recorders to publishers come to speak on a regular basis. Sometimes members will share personal experiences using self-publishing services and warn others about the pros and cons.

In addition to SASP and the Inland Northwest Writers Guild, Eller says there are many other resources that up-and-coming writers might want to check out, including the Idaho Writer’s League, which is holding a conference in Sandpoint from Sept.

19-21; Spark Central, which offers drop-in writing nights; the Spokane city and county library systems, which regularly offer writing workshops that sometimes require registration; and various closed groups that post their meeting times on Meetup, including the Spokane Fiction Writers.

“You’ve just gotta go to one and if it doesn’t fit, see if you can find out where there are others,” Eller says. n

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Meetings: Usually starts with dinner around 5:30 pm every third Wednesday of the month at Frankie Doodle’s, 313 E. Third Ave. Program starts closer to 6 pm.

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SPOKANE AUTHORS AND SELF-PUBLISHERS

Meetings: First Thursday of the month, 2:30 pm at Golden Corral, 7117 N. Division St. Show up earlier to grab a bite to eat before the meeting starts.

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Meetings: First and third Saturdays of the month, 9 am to noon at the East Bonner County Library, 1407 Cedar St., Sandpoint.

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SEPT. 26

REBEKAH CRANE

Acclaimed young adult author Rebekah Crane will be making her way to Auntie’s to speak about her newest book, Postcards for a Songbird. This book follows a teen who’s had to deal with a lot of people in her life leaving, leading to issues connecting and creating relationships with others. The young adult novel is rich with deep and thought-provoking themes. Crane is a former high school teacher, and through this found a passion for writing about young adults. Postcards for a Songbird is the next novel in her contemporary series along with The Upside of Falling Down and The Odds of Loving Grover Cleveland. The Spokane event includes a reading from Crane and discussion. Auntie’s Bookstore, free, 7 pm (RILEY UTLEY)

SEPT. 28

INDELIBLE IN THE HIPPOCAMPUS: WRITINGS FROM THE ME TOO MOVEMENT

Following the viral spread of the #MeToo movement, Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings from the Me Too Movement puts the voices of black, Latinx, Asian, queer and trans writers into one book to showcase the people who have said “me too,” and to reflect on their lives. Through essays, fiction and poetry, the book tells the stories of strong women who want to shine a light on “normalized sexual harassment and abuse that’d been ubiquitous for women for generations.” At this event, local favorites like Sharma Shields, Kate Lebo (above) and Ellen Welcker together read passages from the collection and have a discussion about the “collective impact of female voices.” Auntie’s Bookstore, free, 7 pm (RU)

OCT. 22

OCT. 24

Bestselling author Julie Kibler is coming to Spokane to discuss her newest book, Home for Erring and Outcast Girls. The novel is set in the turn of the 20th century in Texas at a home for girls who’ve been cast out by society, typically because they were prostitutes, addicts or unwed mothers. The story follows two mothers in the home but is pieced together 100 years later by a university librarian who feels an incredible connection to the two women. Kibler is widely celebrated and known for her previous bestselling and critically acclaimed novel Calling Me Home. Auntie’s Bookstore, free, 7 pm (RU)

Gonzaga’s Visiting Writers Series is bringing acclaimed technology author Nicholas Carr to Spokane, and the timing for his discussion on “technology and the humanities” couldn’t be better. His book The Shallows: What The Internet Is Doing To Our Brains was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2011, and helped expose how various new technologies have changed how our brains function as they’ve been introduced. Technology hasn’t slowed down since, and neither has Carr — he’s since written books on the increase in automation and critiquing Silicon Valley’s ideas about a “techno-utopianism.”

Gonzaga University Hemmingson Center, free, 7 pm (DN)

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OCT. 4

BOB WOODWARD

Journalist Bob Woodward has been making presidents nervous ever since his reporting with Carl Bernstein blew the Watergate scandal open back in the early ’70s. He hasn’t let up since, writing tome after tome on various administrations and government institutions that are always full of surprising revelations. The Pulitzer winner’s most recent book, Fear: Trump In The White House, isn’t quite the history-making document All The President’s Men was, but it’s a fun read full of current and former White House workers dishing on each other. Woodward comes as the featured speaker of Whitworth’s President’s Leadership Forum. Spokane Convention Center, $50, noon (DAN NAILEN)

OCT. 24

SPOKANE IS READING: MADELINE MILLER

There’s still plenty of time to read the 2019 selection for Spokane’s community reading initiative, Spokane is Reading. This fall, bestselling author Madeline Miller comes to give two talks about her 2018 novel Circe, retelling the tale of Greek god Helios’ unwanted daughter. An outcast amongst the gods and goddesses, Circe is sent to live in exile on a remote island, where she hones her magical abilities, tames wild beasts and holds her own against the mortal men and gods who come ashore. Greek mythology fans may recognize Circe’s name from a brief mention in Homer’s epic The Odyssey. Miller reads in Spokane Valley and at the Spokane Public Library’s downtown branch. Spokane Valley Event Center, 1 pm and Spokane Public Library Downtown, 7 pm; free (CHEY SCOTT)

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BEDTIME STORIES: MAN IN THE MOON

Each year, statewide arts and humanities nonprofit Humanities Washington hosts two special late-night storytimes for adults in the form of its annual fundraiser, Bedtime Stories. This year’s Spokane event brings together three noteworthy local authors — Sharma Shields, Jess Walter and Ben Goldfarb — to reveal original short stories penned around a specified theme; this year it’s “Man in the Moon,” a fitting nod to Apollo 11’s recent 50th anniversary. In addition to a three-course dinner, attendees also witness the presentation of this year’s Humanities Washington Award to the Salish School of Spokane.

The Spokane Club, $150, 5:30 pm (CS)

OCT. 25

VIET THANH NGUYEN

The Idaho Humanities Council has been bringing noteworthy speakers to Coeur d’Alene since 2004, and this year’s featured guest is an awesome choice. Author Viet Thanh Nguyen won the Pulitzer Prize for his debut novel The Sympathizer. While it’s a work of fiction, the book is rooted in Nguyen’s own experience of moving to America with his family as refugees of the Vietnam War, then growing up in a culture in which that war was always reflected via the lens of the American perspective. In The Sympathizer, Nguyen offers the Vietnamese perspective in a way that is riveting and revealing. His speech in Idaho will focus on “refugee stories and American greatness.” The Coeur d’Alene Resort, $65, 7 pm (DN)

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HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR SPEECH

In 1938, Eva Geiringer’s family fled Austria when the Nazis invaded, ultimately landing in Holland as neighbors of Anne Frank’s family. Both families eventually were sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where Eva and Anne became stepsisters. Eva survived the ordeal and later moved to England where she got married and raised a family of her own. Now Eva Schloss, she’s dedicated decades to making sure people don’t forget what happened during the Holocaust, and she’ll speak in Spokane, hosted

by Jewish Spokane: Chabad of Spokane. Spokane Convention Center, $25; $180/VIP, 7 pm (DN)

NOV. 11

DAVID SEDARIS

If you’ve never taken the time to check out humorist David Sedaris in person, I’ll warn you against starting now because it’s an addictive night out. The author, essayist and radio personality always delivers a howlingly funny series of readings, takes questions from the audience and turns them into more laughs, and manages to make a guy on stage reading his own writing one of the most entertaining evenings you can imagine. Sedaris’s most recent book, Calypso, delves into middle age and mortality in ways many of us can certainly relate to, even if we can’t make our own morbid thoughts quite so endearing. Bing Crosby Theater, $46-$51, 7:30 pm (DN)

EVERYBODY READS: LUIS ALBERTO URREA

For nearly 20 years the Lewis-Clark Valley and Palouse-area libraries have joined up to host Everybody Reads, in which the communities read a book together and welcome the author for several discussions in the areas’ libraries, schools or other meeting spots. This year’s guest is author Luis Alberto Urrea, and talks focus on his novel The House of Broken Angels, in which a sprawling Mexican-American family comes together for a memorial service of Big Angel’s 100-year-old mother. A Pulitzer finalist for his nonfiction work, Urrea has a way with language that should make meeting him during his visit a treat. Various locations in Lewiston, Clarkston, Moscow and Pullman (visit everybody-reads.org), free (DN)

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NOV. 14

TIFFANY MIDGE

The poet laureate of Moscow, Idaho, and a noteworthy Native voice among Pacific Northwest writers, Tiffany Midge swings through Spokane for a reading and discussion of her new book Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese’s. Via a combination of humor, social commentary and deeply personal meditations, Midge uses her sort-of memoir to address pop culture, feminism, politics and race in ways that should make for a fascinating live event. Auntie’s Bookstore, free, 7 pm (DN) n

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‘MUSIC IS THE COLOR’ New faces and community outreach help raise the profile of the 40-year-old Coeur d’Alene Symphony

BY CARRIE SCOZZARO

C

oeur d’Alene has a symphony?

Really?

Since when?

Marlo Faulkner is used to people’s reactions.

“Coeur d’Alene Symphony was the biggest secret in Coeur d’Alene,” says Faulkner, an avid supporter of the visual and performing arts, longtime Coeur d’Alene resident, and recently named executive director of the organization after working in an advisory role for the past several months.

Faulkner’s use of the past tense is no mistake.

The symphony started as a class 41 years ago at what was then called North Idaho Junior College, so one of the first orders of business, Faulkner says, has been ensuring musicians are paid (the executive director’s role is unpaid, for now, at least).

She’s also actively recruiting help — from volunteers to board members to sponsors. And she’s always looking for fundraising opportunities, like the most recent one that started as a bit of a lark when Faulkner saw a Facebook post from Garrison Keillor, founder and host of popular radio show A Prairie Home Companion for more than 40 years. Keillor was looking to donate his time in a series of nostalgia tour performances to worthy organizations.

Faulkner’s letter to the Grammy Award-winning author secured a spot on Keillor’s nationwide tour, the proceeds of which benefited the symphony.

In addition to raising funds, the overall plan is to expand the symphony’s visibility, building on past programs like Saturdays With the Symphony, a small, 30-minute free concert it provides to audiences at both Kootenai Hospital and the Coeur d’Alene Library.

More collaborations, such as with ChoraleCDA and Inland Northwest Opera, are planned, as is more community outreach, extending north to Sandpoint and south to Worley, where it hopes to work with the Coeur d’Alene Tribe. It also wants to extend its reach into area schools and other organizations.

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Conductor Jan Pellant gives the Coeur d’Alene Symphony a vibrant public face. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO

“My job now is to market the symphony,” says Faulkner, who has done just that for numerous other local organizations: Jacklin Arts and Cultural Center, Morning Star Boys Ranch and Inland Northwest Opera, which she helped found nearly 20 years ago (as Opera Plus and Opera CdA).

The symphony’s not-so-secret weapon is conductor Jan Pellant, who recently led a downsized version of the symphony’s 40-45 musicians through Handel, Copeland, Dvorak, and other composers for the symphony’s annual, free Labor Day concert in Coeur d’Alene’s City Park.

“He’s a dramatic, energetic conductor who’s brought new life to the symphony,” Faulkner says.

Faulkner met Pellant at last year’s Labor Day concert. He had only been on the job a short while, having edged out four other candidates including Spokane’s Jorge Luis Uzcategui and Danh Pham of Pullman.

Although he is fairly new to the Northwest, Pellant has spent a lifetime with music, surrounded by it from a very young age, including through his musician father. By age 5, he was playing the violin, then added the viola eight years later.

Although he has little time to play for himself, he says the experience playing was invaluable. “A conductor should know basically something about every instrument,” says Pellant.

As a young man, he studied at the Prague Academy of the Performing Arts in his native Czech Republic, and holds degrees from the Prague Conservatory and Carnegie Mellon University.

His conducting experience has taken him all over the world: China, Thailand, France, Japan, Czechoslovakia, Romania, and throughout the United States, including guest stints at the Pittsburgh Bethel Park Orchestra and several organizations in Kentucky, where he served as founding music director of the Lexington Chamber Orchestra.

As a student of the University of Kentucky’s Doctor of Musical Arts program, Pellant also found himself in the role of teacher.

“I learned to have a long-term goal, and to be moving slowly — not too fast — to make sure the orchestra is part of the community,” says Pellant, who is as excited as Faulkner about collaborating with other organizations.

One of those partnerships is with North Idaho College, where the symphony will return for the 2019-20 season and where this past year Pellant led five Young Conductor’s Workshops.

It’s part of making conducting and orchestral music more accessible and more relevant, says Pellant. So, in addition to classical composers — Mozart, Bach, Brahms, his The Coeur d’Alene Symphony season begins beloved Dvorak — the Oct. 5-6 with shows at the Kroc Center, and symphony pulls from Saturdays with the symphony offer free opGeorge Gershwin, portunities to hear the orchestra this fall on Aaron Copland and Sept. 29 and Oct. 27. On Dec. 6-7, it will host music more recogA Festive Celebration at the Kroc Center. nizable to modern Visit cdasymphony.org for more information. audiences, including from movies and pop culture.

Another goal, says Pellant, is to make the orchestra sound like a compact body. “Every orchestra has a unique sound,” he says.

How does the Coeur d’Alene Symphony sound?

“They play with a lot of passion and energy,” says Pellant.

He might as well be describing himself. As he conducts, his hands and baton are constantly in motion. He sways, steps and occasionally leaps into the air, his longish hair flying and his customary suit jacket or formal dinner jacket tails flapping about.

“The combination of Jan and [musicians] being paid changed the dynamics of the symphony,” says Faulkner, whose favorite composers include Mozart, Rossini, Puccini, all of the bel canto operas. She pauses. “The Beatles, Sinatra, Pasty Montana,” she adds. “Celtic. Big band.”

“I’ve just always been involved in music,” says Faulkner, who remembers learning to play piano as a young girl at the Immaculate Heart Academy (now Sorensen Magnet School of the Arts & Humanities), and played the snare drum and bass fiddle as a Coeur d’Alene high schooler.

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MUS I C SEPT. 26

CARLENE CARTER

She’s a member of the legendary country music pioneers the Carter family (she’s a daughter of June Carter Cash from a marriage before June married Johnny Cash), and Carlene Carter has forged a music career with every bit of the rebel spirit that her ancestors had. Between releasing 12 solo albums, including three No. 1 country singles, she found time to marry British rocker Nick Lowe, collaborate with another romantic partner in Howie Epstein from Tom Petty’s Heartbreakers, and lately tour a couple years opening for John Mellencamp. Her most recent solo work, 2014’s Carter Girl, is filled with songs penned by the Carter family, and it’s excellent. Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center, $20-$50, 7:30 pm (DAN NAILEN)

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ROBERT PLANT

What more really needs to be said about Robert Plant? He was the soaring voice of Led Zeppelin. He’s arguably the greatest rock frontman ever. He co-authored one of the most remarkable strings of albums by any band in history. That’s all common knowledge at this point. But his post-Zeppelin work — not just as a solo artist, but as a collaborator with the likes of the Honeydrippers and Alison Krauss — is just as expansive and experimental as his classic rock output, an eclectic catalog that dabbles in folk, country, world music and traditional blues. Plant hits Spokane with his band the Sensational Space Shifters, which has backed the rock legend since 2012. First Interstate Center for the Arts, $61-$101, 8 pm (NATHAN WEINBENDER)

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OCT. 9

SLEATER-KINNEY

One of America’s most heralded punk bands has matured into an adult pop-rock machine with their new album The Center Won’t Hold.

While Carrie Brownstein and Corin Tucker still deliver some searing social commentary in their lyrics, their new songs often look inward at what it means to be a 40-something woman in today’s world — all of it soundtracked by a sound featuring their newfound love of synthesizers that give the new material a distinctly ’80s sheen. Drummer Janet Weiss quit the band after the album was finished, so what Spokane gets on stage for the band’s tour opener will be a mystery until the curtain rises. Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox, $33$39.50 , 8 pm (DN)

OCT. 11

ST. PAUL AND THE BROKEN BONES

Based around the killer vocals of frontman Paul Janeway, St. Paul and the Broken Bones is an eight-piece soul crew from Alabama guaranteed to get you sweating on the dance floor. With a monster horn section blasting throughout their three albums, the band recalls everyone from Al Green to the Isley Brothers to Sly Stone. If you like a band that can deliver an excellent slow jam one minute, and a fiery funk blast the next, you’re in luck. Knitting Factory, $30, 8 pm (DN)

OCT. 12

SPOKANE SYMPHONY: MUSIC OF DAVID BOWIE

OCT. 14

HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER

Songwriter MC Taylor pens tunes that immediately sound timeless. It’s some combination of his raspy voice and penchant for using traditionally folky instrumentation — acoustic guitars, mandolins, steel guitars — in league with pounding pianos and organs that just makes every album he releases sound both utterly fresh, and straight out of the Tin Pan Alley sound of the 1920s.

His newest album, Terms of Surrender, arrived Sept. 20 and just might be his best yet. The Bartlett, $21, 8 pm (DN)

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David Bowie never appeared to be a mere mortal. He was so ageless, so singular, so wonderfully alien that it seemed like he’d outlive us all. But since Bowie died in the cursed year of 2016, his legacy has only deepened. Of course, the real Bowie will never be duplicated, but impersonator David Brighton channels his essence, transmogrifying into Bowie’s various personae, from Ziggy Stardust to the Thin White Duke. And since he’ll be backed by not only his own band but the Spokane Symphony, all those timeless songs will have extra oomph. Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox, $28-$90, 8 pm (NW)

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MUS I C OCT. 17

LORRIE MORGAN

Considering her parents named her Loretta Lynn Morgan when she was born, there was perhaps a little pressure from her country musician pop to join the family business. Good thing her torch-song pipes and an attitude that would make her namesake proud combined to make her one of country’s brightest stars for much of the ’90s, when she was the first woman in country to have three straight albums go platinum. Her 30-year career now includes more than 40 singles that hit the country singles charts, including three No. 1s in “Five Minutes,” “What Part of No” and “I Didn’t Know My Own Strength.” Northern Quest Resort & Casino, $39-$59, 7:30 pm (DN)

OCT. 19

LUCY DACUS

With her sophomore album Historian, Lucy Dacus created one of 2018’s best releases, a 10-song set she considers a concept album of sorts about “cautious optimism in the face of adversity,” whether it be external, political adversity, or deeply personal. While there are seriously dark moments along its trajectory, the overall effect for the listener is thrilling, both at Dacus’s skills as a songwriter and at the feeling of discovering an important new voice in modern rock. The Bartlett, $20-$26, 8 pm (DN)

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SON VOLT

Son Volt frontman Jay Farrar has sounded like an old man since he was in his 20s playing in Uncle Tupelo, and I mean that in the best way. Rarely has a voice and a band’s songs merged quite so perfectly as in the alt-country tunes Jay Farrar writes.

A couple years ago the band delivered an excellent show at the Bartlett that spanned their career all the way back to Son Volt’s classic debut Trace. The band’s latest album, Union, revisits the electrifying blues-rock of the band’s last release, Notes of Blue, while addressing the issues dividing the country in lyrics that hearken to Woody Guthrie and other folk years of old. Lucky You Lounge, $25-$28, 9 pm (DN)

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TYLER CHILDERS

One of the hottest young stars in country, Tyler Childers doesn’t like being pushed into an “Americana” label that seems like a convenient means for keeping old-school country folks like himself off country radio and arena stages. He won the “Emerging Artist of the Year” at the 2018 Americana Music Awards, and promptly delivered an acceptance speech that called the subgenre “purgatory” for a guy “who identifies as a country music singer.”

There’s no questioning his authenticity when you listen to his new album, Country Squire, co-produced by fellow rabble-rouser Sturgill Simpson. Childers’ show sold out in a hurry, so you’ll have to hit the secondary ticket market to catch this one. Knitting Factory, Sold Out, 8 pm (DN)

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ANCIENT TALES OF MAGIC: MUSIC OF HARRY POTTER

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Are you sad you never received your Hogwarts acceptance letter and never got to experience true magic? Well, wizards, witches and muggles, the Spokane Symphony has a solution for you. On the weekend before Halloween, the symphony — along with actors, dancers and a magician — will come together to tell the stories of Harry Potter and bring the magic to life here in Spokane. The selection of music will cover Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Goblet of Fire and Fantastic Beasts and the Crimes of Grindelwald. Along with this music will be spooky selections from Saint-Saens, Wagner and much more. $22-$55, Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox, Oct. 26 at 2 pm and 8 pm, Oct. 27 at 3 pm (RILEY UTLEY)

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NOV. 9

PIGS ON THE WING

There are a lot of bands floating around that are dedicated to paying tribute to Pink Floyd, but Portland’s Pigs On the Wing bring a distinctly Northwest flavor to their shows. Made up of ace indie musicians, these Pigs deliver aggressive takes on the classic tunes, nodding to the originals’ precise structures while adding some improvisational energy to the proceedings. At this show, they’ll be performing Pink Floyd’s Animals album in its entirety in one set, then selections of their favorites from the Roger Waters era of the band in another — all accompanied by a spectacular light and projection show. Bing Crosby Theater, $25, 8 pm (DN)

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NOV. 14

RAY LAMONTAGNE

With his raspy but tender voice and heart-on-the-sleeve lyrical sentiments, Ray LaMontagne sounds like he was beamed straight out of the ’70s singer-songwriter boom. Or back even further, because many of his songs, from the weary romanticism of his debut single “Trouble” to the heartfelt yearning of last year’s “Such a Simple Thing,” have the timeless quality of dusty old standards getting a new coat of musical paint. LaMontagne’s upcoming Just Passing Through tour will be an intimate, acoustic affair and will no doubt feature selections from his most recent album Part of the Light. Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox, $40-$125, 7:30 pm (NW)

CALIFORNIA GUITAR TRIO & MONTREAL GUITAR TRIO

Both of these groups are worthy headliners on their own. The two trios are adept at producing incredible, intricate sounds from their instruments, moving with ease between rock, classical, jazz and world music. Their sprawling approaches are natural given that the California Guitar Trio consists of players from Japan, Belgium and America, and the Montreal Guitar Trio consists of, well, three Canadians — but from French-speaking Canada! With CGT on steel strings and MGT on nylon, the sound coalesces wonderfully into what should be a memorable night of music. Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center, $30-$40, 7:30 pm (DN)

NOV. 24

SLAYER

This is allegedly Slayer’s retirement tour, so it just might be your last chance to catch this member of thrash-metal’s so-called Big Four (alongside Metallica, Megadeth and Anthrax) before Tom Araya and Co. ride into a sunset of raining blood and hyperspeed riffs. And if catching up with 38 years (!) of gloriously “evil” Slayer sounds isn’t enough to entice you, consider the all-star lineup of openers that includes industrial pioneers Ministry and prog-rock weirdos Primus. That’s a lot of head-banging fun your bucks.

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19-25

COMEDY

9/19-21 Michael Quu & The Full Throttle Comedy Tour, Spokane Comedy Club 9/20 No Clue, Blue Door Theatre 9/21 SAFARI, Blue Door Theatre 9/22 Roastamania, Spokane Comedy Club

COMMUNITY/CULTURE

9/19-22 J 49th Odessa Deutschesfest, Odessa 9/20 J Southeast Spokane County Fair, Rockford 9/20 J Park(ing) It On Sherman Block Party, Downtown Coeur d’Alene 9/20-22 J Valleyfest, Mirabeau Point Park 9/21-22 Think Big Festival, Coeur d’Alene 9/21-22 CdA Coin Club Show, Hampton Inn & Suites 9/21 J Dahlia Festival, Northland Rosarium 9/21 Huckleberry Festival Vendor Fair, Roosevelt Inn 9/21 Garden Tours, Moore-Turner Heritage Gardens 9/21 Moscow Community Contra Dance, 1912 Center 9/22 Scrumptious Junque, 1889 Salvage Co. 9/23 Basic DNA & Genealogy Workshop, Shadle Library

FILM

9/19-22 EmPOWERed, Panida Theater 9/19-22 The Last Black Man in San Francisco, The Kenworthy 9/21 509 Volume 14 Snowmobile Film Premiere Party, Northern Quest Resort & Casino 9/21 CdA Film Festival: Framing John DeLorean, Regal Cinemas Riverstone Stadium 14 9/22 J To Kill a Mockingbird, Tekoa Empire Theatre

FOOD & DRINK

9/19 SoupTember: Battle for the Golden Ladle, Farmin Park 9/20 Watch Party: Storm Area 51!, Steady Flow 9/20-21 J Inland NW Craft Beer Festival, Avista Stadium 9/20-21 J Coeur d’Alene Oktoberfest 9/20 Dinner on the Bridge, Riverfront Park.

9/20 Casanova di Neri Winer Dinner, Beverly’s 9/22 Northwest Abundance, Mont Lamm Events 9/22 Maryhill Winery Winemakers Dinner, Cochinito

MUSIC

9/19 J Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band, Spokane Arena 9/20 J Tab Benoit, Whiskey Bayou Revue, The Bing 9/20 What is Hip! Celebration of Ken Martello, House of Soul

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9/21 J Kristy White Fundraiser with Big Raffle, Lip Sick & Peru Resh, Berserk 9/21 Riley Green, Knitting Factory 9/21 Yip Deceiver, Lucky You Lounge 9/22 J Noah Gundersen, Lucky You Lounge 9/22 J Summer Cannibals, The Bartlett 9/22 Step Brothers, Arbor Crest Wine Cellars 9/22 IN-CMA Awards Show, Kroc Center 9/24 Jesse Marchant, The Bartlett 9/24-25 Spokane Symphony Soiree on the Stage, Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox 9/25 J Mike Watt & The Missingmen, Lucky You 9/25 Cataldo, Plastic Picnic, Bodies on the Beach, The Bartlett 9/25 Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio, Bing Crosby Theater

THEATER

9/19-22 J References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot, Stage Left Theater 9/19-22 Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Lake City Playhouse 9/19-22 Red Bird Theatre: Into the Woods, Kroc Center 9/19-22 J Matilda The Musical, Spokane Civic Theatre 9/20-21 Same Time, Next Year, Regional Theatre of the Palouse 9/20-22 Beehive: The 60s Musical, Chewelah Center for the Arts 9/20-22 J Madame Butterfly, The Fox 9/20-22 See How They Run, Ignite! Community Theatre 9/20 The Imaginary Invalid, Ferris High School 9/21 J Spokane Aerial + AirAligned, Bing Crosby Theater

VISUAL ARTS

9/19-22 J ZIMOUN, Prichard Art Gallery (closing week)

9/19-25 Carl Richardson & Mariah Boyle: Shoes!, Downtown Spokane Library (through Oct. 31) 9/19-22 First Nation In Color, Dahmen Barn (through Oct. 6) 9/19-25 J Reinaldo Gil Zambrano: Melão, Boswell Gallery at NIC (through Nov. 1) 9/19-25 From the Collection: Ethnicity and Identity as Themes in Art, The Jundt (through Jan. 4) 9/19-25 J Anna Baer: Blithe with Me, Bryan Oliver Gallery (through Oct. 18) 9/19-21 Nuestra Esperanza, Nuestro Futuro Latinx Art exhibit, Emerge (through Oct. 4) 9/19-25 While Wandering, The MAC (through Jan. 3) 9/19-25 Chiho Aoshima: City Glow, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU (through Dec. 14) 9/19-25 J Makoto Fujimura: Silence – Mysterion, Jundt Art Museum (through Jan. 2020) 9/19-25 Laura Truitt: An Extended Now, Spokane Art School (through Sept. 27) 9/19-25 As Grandmother Taught: Women, Tradition & Plateau Art, The MAC (through Jan. 12) 9/19-21 Chris Tyllia & Lisa Nappa: Bleared Views, Saranac Art Projects (through Sept. 28) 9/20 Glass & Fiber Group Show, New Moon Art Gallery 9/21 Pop-Up Show: Chris Walker Chorvat, New Moon Gallery 9/22 Yart Sale, Corbin Park 9/23-25 J Tales of the American, SFCC Gallery 9/25 J Chris Bovey Book Launch, Atticus Coffee

WORDS

9/19 J Martha Brockenbrough, Auntie’s 9/21 J SCBWI Fall Conference, Montvale Event Center 9/24 Northwest Author Night: Elliot Reed, Well-Read Moose 9/24 Hilleman: A Perilous Quest to Save the World’s Children + Panel Discussion, Downtown Spokane Library

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— CUTTER THEATRE —

Performance & Events 2019 Saturday Sept. 21 The Cutter Benefit Auction

6:30pm Appetizers – 7pm Auction

Nov. 9th 6pm / Nov. 10th 2pm Nov. 15 6pm / Nov. 16th 6pm Murder Mystery Dinner Theatre

Sunday Oct. 6 • 2pm George Winston

$25 – Reservations Required!

Sunday Oct. 13 • 2pm-5pm Cutter Coffee House Concert

Friday Dec. 6 • 5pm Deck The Falls Tree Lighting & Redneck Christmas

$20 – Reservations Encouraged!

$5 Cover charge

Tuesday Oct. 13 • 4pm-6pm “Focus on Fungi”

Saturday Nov. 16 “Shingle Works” Gallery Opening

Light Parade – Santa arrives!

Saturday Dec. 7 • 10am-3pm

Artist reception and book signing in atrium Deck The Falls Arts & Crafts Faire and gallery. Gallery showings continue Sunday Dec. 8 • 6pm FREE! through November 15th.

Saturday Oct. 26 Falls Festival

1:30pm Movie 3pm-5pm Chili Feed 3pm-5pm Carnival 4pm Costume Judging 7pm-9pm The Adult’s Costume Party

Community Concert at The Cutter NOTICE: All events subject to change or cancellation.

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302 Park St. Metaline Falls, WA • 509.446.4108 office@cuttertheatre.com • cuttertheatre.com

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COMMUNITY/CULTURE

9/26-29 Calypsofest Block Party & Arts Celebration, Calypsos Coffee Roasters 9/26-28 J 84th Annual Greek Festival, Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church 9/27-29 J Spokane Oktoberfest, CenterPlace 9/28 Friends of the Library Book Sale, Argonne Library 9/28 Garden Tours, Moore-Turner Heritage Gardens 9/28 J Spokane Arts Awards, Lucky You Lounge 9/28 Pullman’s FieldFest, Palouse Business Center 9/29 J SPA Fall Historic Home Tour, Spokane

SEPTEMBER

26-OCT. 2

FILM

BENEFIT

9/26 Kenworthy Annual Gala, The Kenworthy 9/27 Bras on Dudes, Coeur d’Alene Eagles 9/28 Red Dress Party, The Blind Buck 9/28 J 6th Annual Farm to Table Dinner, Davenport 9/28 Sugar Rush 5K/10K, CenterPlace Event Center 9/28 Rhythm & Brews, Moran Prairie Grange 9/28 Mrs. Idaho America Fundraiser, Castaway Cellars 9/29 Backyard Harvest’s Annual Harvest Dinner, Nectar Restaurant & Wine Bar (Moscow) 9/30 J Big Table Spokane Eats Around the World, Davenport Grand

COMEDY

9/26 J Demetri Martin: Wandering Mind Tour, The Fox 9/26-27 Mary Lynn Rajskub, Spokane Comedy Club 9/27-28 Comedy Night at the Inn, Coeur d’Alene Inn 9/27 No Clue, Blue Door Theatre 9/28 Mark Curry, Spokane Comedy Club 9/28 SAFARI, Blue Door Theatre 9/28 Luke Bohn, Bridge Press Cellars 9/29 The Dope Show!, Spokane Comedy Club 9/30 Owen Benjamin Comedy Show, Panida Theater

9/26-29 Manhattan Short Film Festival, Panida Theater 9/27-28 Toy Story 4, The Kenworthy 9/29-30 J Studio Ghibli Fest: The Secret World of Arrietty, Regal Cinemas / AMC Riverpark 10/1 Palouse French Film Festival, The Kenworthy 10/2 Movie Night: East Side Sushi, Downtown Library

MUSIC

9/26 I Declare War, Cold Hearts, Smiles, Pontiff, The Pin 9/26 Casting Crowns, The FIC 9/26 J Carlene Carter, Myrtle Woldson PAC 9/26 Watoto Children’s Choir, Prince of Peace Church 9/26 J Ghost: The Ultimate Tour Named Death, Spokane Arena 9/26 J Leo Kottke, Bing Crosby Theater 9/27 Indubious, River City Roots, The Big Dipper 9/27-27 Zach Cooper Band, The Hive 9/27 Jeff Crosby, John’s Alley 9/28-29 J Modest Music Fest ft. Ural Thomas and the Pain & Horse Feathers, Humble Burger (Moscow) 9/28 The Shivas, Night Heron, Seance Crasher, Lucky You Lounge 9/28 Scott McCreery, CdA Casino 9/28 Plague Vendor, No Parents, Spirit Mother, Bartlett 9/28 KPBX Kids’ Concert: Sister Songs, River Park

Square 9/28 J Ardha Nareeshwara: South Indian DanceDrama, Bing Crosby Theater 9/28 J Spokane Symphony Pops 1: James Bond - The Music, Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox 9/29 Gonzaga Music Department Showcase Concert, Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center 9/29 Neil Mo’Jones, Lo Budget, Sic Vicious, Amerikane Poetz, Cary Hays + more, The Pin 9/29 Proxima Parada, The Bartlett 9/29 Ya-Hoo! To Country: A Night with Wylie and the Wild West, Bing Crosby Theater 9/29 J Robert Plant & the Sensational Space Shifters, First Interstate Center for the Arts 9/30 J Bear Call, BaLonely, Fun Ladies, Berserk 10/1 Glass Park, The Bartlett 10/1 Auditorium Chamber Music Series: Imani Winds, University of Idaho Administration Building 10/2 Pavlo, Bing Crosby Theater

THEATER

9/26 Radio Theatre: Treasure Island, Spark Central 9/26-28 Same Time, Next Year, Regional Theatre of the Palouse 9/26-29 Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Lake City Playhouse 9/26-29 J Red Bird Theatre: Into the Woods, Kroc 9/26-29 J Matilda the Musical, Spokane Civic Theatre 9/27-29 J The Book of Will, Spokane Civic Theatre 9/27-29 J Drowning Ophelia, University of Idaho 9/27-28 Beehive: The 60s Musical, Chewelah Center for the Arts 9/27-29 Inner Sanctum, Pend Oreille Playhouse 9/27-29 See How They Run, Ignite! Theatre 9/28 J We Will Rock You, The FIC 9/29 J RuPaul’s Drag Race: Werq the World Tour, Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox 9/30 National Theatre Live: All About Eve, Kenworthy

10/1 The Wild Kratts Live!, The FIC

VISUAL ARTS

9/26-10/2 J Anna Baer: Blithe with Me, Bryan Oliver Gallery (through Oct. 18) 9/26-10/2 Reinaldo Gil Zambrano: Melão, Boswell Corner Gallery at NIC (through Nov. 1).

9/26-10/2 ¡Celebramos!, Spokane Gallery and Framing 9/26-10/2 J Tales of the American, SFCC Fine Arts Gallery (through Oct. 25) 9/26-27 Laura Truitt: An Extended Now, Spokane Art School (closing week) 9/26-28 J Chris Tyllia & Lisa Nappa: Bleared Views, Saranac Art Projects (closing week) 9/27 J Sanctorium, Kolva-Sullivan Gallery 9/28 Caricature with Tom Quinn, Spokane Art School.

9/28 J Little Spokane River Artist Studio Tour 10/1-2 To Shalimar: Art Inspired by Toni Morrison’s Literature, Indian Trail Library 10/1-2 River Ridge Association of Fine Arts Annual Fall Art Show, Spokane Gallery & Framing 10/2 Rob McKirdie: Embedded Consciousness, EWU Gallery of Art (through Oct. 25)

WORDS

9/26 Northwest Author Night: Lucy Gilmore, The WellRead Moose 9/26 Rebekah Crane: Postcards for a Songbird, Auntie’s 9/26 Punderground, Downtown Spokane Library 9/28 100,000 Poets for Change, Evans Bros Coffee 9/28 J Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings from the Me Too Movement, Auntie’s Bookstore 9/29 Palouse Country Cowboy Poets & Musicians, Dahmen Barn 10/1 J Tiffany Midge: Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese’s, BookPeople of Moscow 10/2 Reading: Chia-Chia Lin, Whitworth University 10/2 J Kelly Milner Halls: Cryptid Creatures, Auntie’s

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Ural Thomas & The Pain, Horse Feathers, Holiday Friends, The Shivas, Sunbathe, Bart Budwig, Sama Dams, Bryan John Appleby, mAITA, Antonioni, The Hackles, night Heron, Seance Crasher, Amenta Abioto, Small million, The weary Times, mise, monica, Hypnagogue, willy Jay Tracy, mother yeti, Triple Lutz, Curse League, meddling, Lloyd and Saviour, Itchy kitty, vivian Lake, An American Forrest, margo Cilker, Help yourself, Son Locust, okay okay, nude Dude, Hallowed Oak, Sarah Frazier, Skinny The kid, milk, I Am THE LAkE OF FIrE, meredith Brann, Gavin Scoles, marshall Poole, rose Dorn, Arman Bohn, Jason mcCue

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OCTOBER

Hagadone Event Center

3-9

FILM

10/3-5 Brad Williams, Spokane Comedy Club 10/4 Jubal Fresh Comedy Tour, Bing Crosby Theater 10/4 J Ladies Of Comedy, House of Soul 10/4 No Clue, Blue Door Theatre 10/4 Social Hour Comedy Showcase, Black Diamond 10/5 Fire Brigade Improv, Ignite! Community Theatre 10/5 SAFARI, Blue Door Theatre 10/5 Preacher Lawson, Bing Crosby Theater 10/6 The Social Hour Comedy Showcase, The Ridler 10/6 Comedy To The Rescue, Spokane Comedy Club 10/7 Improv JAM Sessions, Blue Door Theatre

COMMUNITY/CULTURE

10/3-6 J Fall for History Festival, Wallace, Idaho 10/4-5 Whiskey Barrel Weekend, Coeur d’Alene Resort 10/4-6 Custer’s 44th Annual Fall Antique & Collector’s Sale, Spokane County Fair & Expo Center 10/4-6 J Jurassic Quest, Spokane Convention Center 10/5-6 Fall Blacksmithing Hammer-In, Morgan Jade Ironworks 10/5 J Spokane Archaeology Day, The MAC 10/5 Library Con!, South Hill Library 10/5 Beyond Pink Fashion Show, Davenport Grand 10/5 J Fall Fest, Downtown Spokane 10/5 J Code in the Dark, Montvale Event Center 10/6 J The Cultural Psychology of Climate Change Denial, South Hill Library 10/8 Who’s Who in the Latinx Ethnic Community? Wait!

What is LatinX?, South Hill Library 10/8 J Think & Drink: One Click Away - Hate and the Internet, Magic Lantern Theatre 10/9 24th Annual Mayor’s Awards in the Arts,

MUSIC

10/3 Jeffrey Foucault, The Bartlett 10/3 Mike LeDonne’s Groover Quartet, House of Soul 10/4 An Evening with George Winston, Schuler PAC 10/4 Bailen, The Bartlett 10/4-5 Coeur d’Alene Symphony, Kroc Center 10/5 J Damien Jurado, The Bartlett 10/5 Uh Oh and the Oh Wells Album Release w/ Snacks After Midnight and Mallory, Lucky You Lounge 10/5 All That Remains with Lacuna Coil, Bad Omens, Toothgrinder, Uncured, Knitting Factory 10/5 Josephine the Volcano, Pend Oreille Playhouse 10/5-6 Spokane Symphony Masterworks 2: Garden Romance with Guitarist Robert Belinic, The Fox 10/6 An Evening with George Winston, Cutter Theatre 10/7 J Carbon Leaf, The Bartlett 10/7 Kishi Bashi, Takenobu, Knitting Factory 10/7 Neil Diamond Night, The Fox 10/9 J Grieves, Mouse Powell, The Bartlett 10/9 J Sleater-Kinney, The Fox 10/9 Saliva, The Pin 10/9 Spokane Symphony Fall Soiree, Rockwood South Hill

THEATER

10/3 Radio Theatre: Treasure Island, Spark Central 10/3-6 J Matilda The Musical, Spokane Civic Theatre 10/3-6 J The Book of Will, Spokane Civic Theatre 10/3-6 J Drowning Ophelia, University of Idaho

Saliva plays the Pin on Oct. 9.

10/3 J The Scent of a Thousand Rains, Downtown Spokane Library 10/4-6 Stranger in the Attic, StageWest Theatre 10/4-5 ZagFam Weekend: Musical Theatre & Dance Revue, Gonzaga University Magnuson Theatre 10/7 National Theatre Live: Fleabag, The Kenworthy

10/4 Gordon Wilson: Italian Hillsides, Marmot Art Space 10/4-9 PULP ART: a Pulp Fiction-Inspired Installation, Baby Bar 10/5-9 J Norman Rockwell’s America, Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture (through Jan. 12) 10/5 Grand Opening: YES Studio, The Steam Plant

VISUAL ARTS

WORDS

10/3 Artist Lecture: Makoto Fujimura, Whitworth HUB 10/4 J First Friday, Spokane 10/4-9 David Paul Bayles, Prichard (through Dec. 7) 10/4-5 J Fairy Tales, Richmond Art Collective 10/4-9 J Inner Workings, Chase Gallery (through Dec. 19) 10/4-9 T Kurtz: Oh Heavens!, Spokane Art School (through Oct. 25) 10/4-9 Dan McCann: Mechanics of…, Iron Goat Brewing 10/4-5 J A Stroke of Nature, Terrain Gallery (through Oct. 26) 10/4 J Terrain 12, Jensen-Byrd Building

10/3 J Burning Harry Potter, and Other Ways of Misreading Fantasy, Post Falls Library 10/4 3 Minute Mic, Auntie’s Bookstore 10/4 J Whitworth President’s Leadership Forum ft.

Bob Woodward, Spokane Convention Center 10/4-5 J Terese Marie Mailhot, WSU Elson S. Floyd Cultural Center 10/5 Tom Foley’s Legacy of Leadership, Riverside Place 10/5 Glenda Burgess: So Long As We’re Together, Auntie’s Bookstore

Norman Rockwell, The Doughboy and His Admirers, 1919, Oil on canvas. © NMAI

COMEDY

10/3 J Suds & Cinema: Office Space, The Bing 10/7 Elvis Unleashed, Regal Cinemas 10/8 Palouse French Film Festival, The Kenworthy 10/9 Flamenco, Flamenco, Downtown Spokane Library 10/9 Chinese Movie Night: Plastic China, Kenworthy

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FRIDAY 4PM-9PM SATURDAY 10AM-6PM SUNDAY 10AM-4PM CusterShows.com

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OCTOBER

10-16

BENEFIT

10/10 Spokane County Master Gardeners Fall Banquet, First Interstate Center for the Arts 10/10 4th Annual Scott Reed Conservation Lecture & Dinner, Hayden Lake Country Club 10/11 J Women of Achievement Awards Luncheon, Spokane Convention Center

COMEDY

10/10-12 Tom Arnold, Spokane Comedy Club 10/10 J POST Comedy Theatre, Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center 10/11 No Clue, Blue Door Theatre 10/12 SAFARI, Blue Door Theatre 10/13 Drink N Debate, Spokane Comedy Club 10/15 J Dry Bar Comedy Live, Spokane Comedy Club

COMMUNITY/CULTURE

10/10-16 Journeys & Adventures, Downtown Spokane Library (through Nov. 30) 10/11 Drop In & RPG, Spark Central 10/11-12 Library Book Sale, Medical Lake Library 10/11-12 Library Book Sale, North Spokane Library 10/12-13 J 24 Hour Comic Book & Art Day, Spokane Print & Publishing Center 10/12-13 Craft & Food Fair, Mt. Spokane High School 10/12 Little Bugs Make-and-Take, Art Salvage Spokane 10/12 Danza Mexica: Aztec Dancing & Culture, South Hill Library

10/12 8th Annual Epic Beard Competition, The Pin 10/12-13 Emerald Spiral Events Expo, Greyhound Park & Event Center 10/13 CdA Makers: Fall Market, Coeur d’Alene Resort 10/13 J What Your Home Says about the World, The MAC

FILM

10/10 Thursday Matinee Movie Classics: The Covered Wagon, Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture 10/10 Elvis Unleashed, Regal Cinemas 10/12 J ART in ACTION Documentary Reveal & Fundraiser, Garland Theater 10/15 Palouse French Film Festival, The Kenworthy

FOOD & DRINK

10/10 Scotch & Cigars, Prohibition Gastropub 10/11 Kid’s Cooking: Chocolate Art, Modernist Cooks 10/12 Barbecue & Grill Academy, WSU Spokane Extension 10/12 J Cooking with Chef Ricky, Shadle Library 10/13 Mimosa Sunday Brunch Series, Nectar Catering 10/13 J Tastes of the World, Sounds of the East, Unitarian Universalist Church 10/13 Dinner With Shades, Wiley’s Downtown Bistro 10/15 Tapas Tuesdays, Wanderlust Delicato 10/16 Wine Wednesday, The Culinary Stone.

MUSIC

10/10 Bombargo, The Hive 10/10 L’Freaq, Baby Bar 10/11 J Sugarhill Gang & Furious 5’s Grandmaster Mele Mel, The Hive 10/11 J St. Paul & the Broken Bones, Jeremie Albino, Knitting Factory 10/11 Ross Cooper, Baby Bar 10/11 Friends of the Guitar Hour Concert Series, Jacklin Arts & Cultural Center

10/11 Sounds of the East, Panida Theater 10/12 J The Music of David Bowie with the Spokane Symphony, Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox 10/12 Flute Day, Kimbrough Music Building (WSU) 10/12 Blistered Earth: The Ultimate Tribute to Metallica, Knitting Factory 10/12 Curtis Salgado, House of Soul 10/12 Kung Fu Vinyl, Vernita Avenue, Exzac Change, Matisse, Lucky You Lounge 10/12 30 Years of Barbershop with the Spirit of Spokane Chorus, Riverside Place 10/12 Washington Idaho Symphony, Pullman High School 10/12 Pigs on the Wing, The Kenworthy 10/13 J Spokane String Quartet, Spokane Falls Community College 10/13 Yelawolf, Knitting Factory 10/14 J Hiss Golden Messenger, Erin Rae, The Bartlett.

10/15 Doobie, The Pin 10/16 J Geoff Tate’s Operation: Mindcrime, Bing Crosby Theater

THEATER

10/10 Spark Central Radio Theatre: Treasure Island, Spark Central 10/10-13 J Matilda The Musical, Spokane Civic Theatre 10/10-13 J The Book of Will, Spokane Civic Theatre 10/10 Spark Central Radio Theatre Presents: Treasure Island LIVE, Spark Central 10/11-13 J A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Bing Crosby Theater 10/11-13 Stranger in the Attic, StageWest Theatre 10/11-13 J The Addams Family, Spokane Children’s Theatre 10/12-14 MET Live in HD: Turandot, The Kenworthy

VISUAL ARTS

10/10-16 Memory & Meaning: Textiles from the

Permanent Collection, The MAC (through Jan. 12) 10/10-16 To Shalimar: Art Inspired by Toni Morrison’s Literature, Indian Trail Library 10/10-16 J Norman Rockwell’s America, Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture (through Jan. 12) 10/10-16 ¡Celebramos!, Spokane Gallery & Framing 10/10-16 J Reinaldo Gil Zambrano: Melão, Boswell Corner Gallery at NIC (through Nov. 1) 10/10-16 Rob McKirdie: Embedded Consciousness, EWU Gallery of Art (through Oct. 25) 10/10-16 J Anna Baer: Blithe with Me, Bryan Oliver Gallery (through Oct. 18) 10/10-16 From the Collection: Ethnicity and Identity as Themes in Art, Jundt Museum (through Jan. 4) 10/11-16 J Mel McCuddin, Dennis Meiners & Deb Oliva, Art Spirit Gallery (through Nov. 3) 10/11 J INK! Rally Print Showcase, Emerge 10/12 13th Annual Artist Showcase and Art Auction, CenterPlace Regional Event Center 10/15 Artist Meet Up: Balancing Art/Work/Life, Downtown Spokane Library 10/16 J Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Stephen Seemayer & Pamela Wilson, Spokane

WORDS

10/10 Paula Coomer, BookPeople of Moscow 10/10 J Pivot: Real Stories Live, Washington Cracker Co. Building 10/11 Reading for the Library: Sharma Shields & Simeon Mills, Coeur d’Alene Public Library 10/11 J Jonathan Johnson: The Desk on the Sea, Auntie’s Bookstore 10/13 J Lilac City Lit Crawl, Spokane (locations TBA) 10/16 Lecture: The Archaeological Landscape of Early Medieval Kingdom of Northumbria, The MAC 10/16 J Shepherd Siegel: Disruptive Play, Auntie’s 10/16 Sunset Story Slam: Scared to Death, Lucky You Lounge

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Central Basin Community Concert Association 2019-2020 Concert Series - 65th Season

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Burlap to Cashmere

Pop, Jazz, Country, Spiritual, Cabaret Styles

(Bob Dylan, James Taylor, Simon & Garfunkel)

Mon Oct. 21, 2019 • 7pm

Thurs, Nov. 14, 2019 • 7pm

The Maxwell Quartet from Scotland Classical & Scottish Folk Music Favorites

Thurs, Jan. 30, 2020 • 7pm

Greenwich Village Music Scene

Sons of Serendip Pop, Inspirational, Story Telling (America’s Got Talent #9)

Thurs, March 26, 2020 • 7pm

Concerts held at Wallenstien Theatre Big Bend Community College, 6989 College Parkway NE, Moses Lake WA For more information call (509)771-1353 or (509)760-6908 or visit communityconcertsml.com

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OCTOBER

17-23

BENEFIT

10/18 Blessings Under The Stars, The Chronicle Building 10/18 Gr8ter Veterans Annual Halloween Party, Viking 10/19 J Rock the Runway: Faces of The Arc Gala, Gonzaga University Hemmingson Center

COMEDY

10/17-19 J Craig Robinson, Spokane Comedy Club 10/18 Stand-Up Comedy, Red Dragon Chinese 10/18 Comedy Open Mic, Calypsos Coffee Roasters 10/18 No Clue, Blue Door Theatre 10/19 J Ron White, Northern Quest Resort & Casino 10/19 SAFARI, Blue Door Theatre 10/20 Hodgetwins, Spokane Comedy Club

COMMUNITY/CULTURE

10/17-23 Journeys & Adventures, Downtown Spokane Library (through Nov. 30).

10/17 J Tales of the American (film), The MAC 10/17 Preservation DIY!, The MAC 10/17 J Lilac City Live!, Downtown Spokane Library 10/18 Wine Bash Spokane, CenterPlace Event Center.

10/18-20 All Hallows Tattoo Expo, Greyhound Park & Event Center 10/19 Girls Code @ Spark, Spark Central 10/19 Harry Potter Tea Party, Dahmen Barn 10/19 J Lake City Comicon, Kootenai County Fairgrounds 10/19 J Ghost Signs of Spokane, The MAC 10/22 J Haunted Gingerbread Houses, East Side Library 10/22 Palouse French Film Festival, The Kenworthy

Comedian Craig Robinson returns to Spokane Oct. 17-19.

10/22 Mysteries in Cryptozoology, Spokane Valley Library 10/23 J An Evening with The Budget Mom, CenterPlace Regional Event Center 10/20 J Our Side Hospitality Summit, Washington Cracker Co. Building

MUSIC

10/17 The Heroine, Avalysion, The Pin 10/17 J Aaron Parks: Little Big, SFCC 10/17 J Lorrie Morgan, Northern Quest Resort 10/18 J Pete Yorn Acoustic, Knitting Factory 10/18 J Joe Pug, Lucky You Lounge 10/18 Haley Young & the Bossame, Bridge Press Cellars 10/18 Noise Pollution: the AC/DC Experience, Northern Ales 10/18 Ivan & Alyosha, The Bartlett 10/18 Nick Vivid, Portable Morla, Bitwvlf, Baby Bar 10/18 Faculty Artist Series: Celebrating Dick Kattenburg’s 100th Birthday, Bryan Hall (WSU) 10/19 J Lucy Dacus, The Bartlett 10/19 J Son Volt, Lucky You Lounge 10/19 Allegaeon, INFERI, Paladin, Odyssey, The Pin

10/19 The Highwaymen Tribute Show, Lake City Center 10/19 Highly Suspect, Slothrust, Knitting Factory 10/19-20 Spokane Symphony Masterworks 3: Soviet Transcendence with Cellist Joshua Roman, Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox 10/20 J GWAR, Sacred Reich, Toxic Holocaust, Against the Grain, Knitting Factory 10/20 Mannschaft Polka Band, South Hill Library 10/21 J Michale Graves (formerly of the Misfits), Pin 10/22 J Judah & the Lion, Flora Cash, Knitting Factory 10/22 American Rivers, American Stories, CdA First Presbyterian Church 10/23 Chris Pureka, Laura Gibson, The Bartlett

THEATER

10/17-20 J The Book of Will, Spokane Civic Theatre 10/17 J Dar He: The Story of Emmett Till, Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center 10/18-20 The Addams Family, Spokane Children’s Theatre 10/18-20 A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Bing Crosby Theater 10/18-20 This Random World, The Forge Theater (UI)

10/18-20 J The Threepenny Opera, Stage Left 10/18-19 Stranger in the Attic, StageWest Theatre 10/18-20 The Addams Family, Kroc Center 10/18-20 J The Odd Couple: Female Version, Lake City Playhouse 10/18-20 J Lux Radio Theatre’s Casablanca, Ignite!

Community Theatre 10/18-20 Nightfall with Edgar Allan Poe, Pullman Civic Theatre 10/18-20 J Disney On Ice: Mickey’s Search Party, Spokane Arena 10/18-20 Women and War, Woodland Theatre 10/18-20 Noises Off, North Idaho College 10/23 J Miss Saigon, The FIC

VISUAL ARTS

10/17-18 J Anna Baer: Blithe with Me, Bryan Oliver Gallery (closing week) 10/17-17 J Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Stephen Seemayer & Pamela Wilson, Spokane 10/18-20 WSQ Quilt Show: Joyful Journey, Spokane County Fair & Expo Center 10/18 J Monster Drawing Rally, Montvale Event Center 10/19 Arts & Letters: Relief Printmaking, Spokane Print & Publishing Center 10/19 J Build-a-Bat Workshop w/ CarLy Haney, Emerge

WORDS

10/17 Arts & Letters: Poetry & Image, Spark Central 10/17 For I Am Wonderfully Made, Bing Crosby Theater.

10/19 J Spokane Zine Fest, Downtown Library 10/20 The Joy of Love in Turbulent Times, Unity Spiritual Center 10/22 J Julie Kibler: Home for Erring and Outcast Girls, Auntie’s 10/23 Northwest Passages: Rene Denfeld, The Bing

Presenting The New York Times Bestselling Author Madeline Miller

SPOKE N RIVER

A Spokane Riverkeeper Benefit

OCTOBER 24, 2019 | 6 PM FT. WRIGHT MUKOGAWA COMMONS

Thursday, October 24 1 pm | Spokane Valley Event Center (10514 E Sprague Ave) 7 pm | Spokane Public Library, Downtown (906 W Main Ave)

FREE ADMISSION

SPOKANEISREADING.ORG

TICKETS: EVENTBRITE.COM Please join us for an inspirational evening of stories in support of your river.

With special guests:

• Ben Goldfarb • Jack Nisbet • Ellen Welcker • Salish School of Spokane

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It’s Your River. We Protect It.

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10/26 Falls Festival, Cutter Theatre (Metaline Falls) 10/26 J Spark-o-ween, Spark Central 10/29 J Magic: The Library Gathering, Spokane Valley Library

OCTOBER

24-30

FILM

10/26 J Rocky Horror Picture Show, Garland Theater 10/27-30 J Studio Ghibli Fest: Spirited Away, AMC River Park Square 20 / Regal Cinemas

BENEFIT

MUSIC

10/24 STEAM Powered, The Steam Plant 10/26 The Pumpkin Ball, Davenport Grand Hotel 10/26 Ladies Masquerade, Chateau Rive 10/26 J The Ghost Ball, Riverside Place 10/26 North Idaho Life Epic Masquerade Charity Ball, Best Western Coeur d’Alene

COMEDY

10/24-27 J Damon Wayans, Spokane Comedy Club 10/24 J Harry J. Riley, Spokane Comedy Club 10/25-26 Ralph Porter, Spokane Comedy Club 10/25 No Clue + Late Laughs, Blue Door Theatre 10/26 SAFARI + After Dark, Blue Door Theatre 10/27 The Dope Show!, Spokane Comedy Club 10/27 The Social Hour Comedy Showcase, The Ridler

COMMUNITY/CULTURE

10/24-30 Journeys & Adventures, Downtown Spokane Library, Northwest Room (through Nov. 30) 10/24 Haunted Gingerbread Houses, South Hill Library 10/24 SAR Oktoberfest Party/Fundraiser, Shriners Event Center 10/25 Drop In & RPG, Spark Central 10/25-26 J SpookWalk, Browne’s Bistro 10/26 J Fall Fest & Apple Palooza, Downtown CdA 10/26 Fabulous Masks Make & Take, Art Salvage 10/26 Dia de los Muertos taller de mascaras/Maskmaking Workshop, Downtown Spokane Library

10/24 Oktubafest Part II: Faculty Artist Series ft. Chris Dickey, Kimbrough Music Building (WSU) 10/24-24 Collie Buddz, Keznamdi, Knitting Factory 10/24 Through the Roots, Pacific Dub, The Big Dipper 10/25 Ronin Barrett & the Coyote Kings, Bridge Press 10/25 Quarter Monkey, Children of Atom, T-180, Wayward West, Knitting Factory 10/25 Brotha Nature, ExZac Change & Matisse, Willis the Realist, Rouzer, The Big Dipper 10/25 Ghost Coast Tour ft. Jus Allah, Freddie Bunz, Ace Oneder, Peteyboy, Naptown Nicey, Red Room 10/25 Kevin Brown Album Release, The Bartlett 10/25 Elektroween, The Pin 10/26 Cougar Marching Band Festival, Washington State University, Martin Stadium 10/26 Tyler Childers, Courtney Marie Andrews, Knitting Factory 10/26-27 J Ancient Tales of Magic: The Music of Harry Potter & Other Halloween Favorites with the Spokane Symphony, Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox 10/26 The Brothers Comatose, Goodnight Texas, The Bartlett 10/27 Talbott Brothers, The Bartlett 10/28 Big Daddy Weave: Alive Tour, Turning Point Open Bible Church 10/28 Todrick Hall, Bing Crosby Theater

10/28 Austin Lucas, Baby Bar 10/28-30 J Idaho Bach Festival, University of Idaho 10/29 Cannibal Corpse, Thy Art Is Murder, Perdition Temple, Knitting Factory 10/29 Lilac Fortress, Marina Obscura, The Finns, Rayon Xhis, Baby Bar 10/30 Justin Peter Kinkel-Schuster, The Bartlett

THEATER

10/24-27 J The Threepenny Opera, Stage Left 10/24-27 The Addams Family, Kroc Center 10/24-27 J The Odd Couple: Female Version, Lake City Playhouse 10/24-27 Nightfall with Edgar Allan Poe, Pullman Civic Theatre.

10/24-27 This Random World, The Forge Theater 10/24-27 J Miss Saigon, First Interstate Center for the Arts 10/25-27 J The Addams Family, Spokane Children’s Theatre 10/25-27 J A Place to Call Home, Spokane Civic Theatre 10/25-27 Women and War, Woodland Theatre 10/25-26 Noises Off, North Idaho College 10/26 MET Live in HD: Manon, The Kenworthy 10/28 J Double Dare Live!, First Interstate Center for the Arts

VISUAL ARTS

10/24-30 Memory & Meaning: Textiles from the Permanent Collection, The MAC (through Jan. 12) 10/24-30 Central Valley High School Immigration Project Art Show, Downtown Spokane Library 10/24-30 Western Art by Marla Robbins, Colfax Library 10/24-30 J Norman Rockwell’s America, Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture (through Jan. 12) 10/24-30 Reinaldo Gil Zambrano: Melão, Boswell Corner Gallery at NIC (through Nov. 1)

10/24-25 Rob McKirdie: Embedded Consciousness, EWU Gallery of Art (through Oct. 25) 10/24-25 J Tales of the American, SFCC Fine Arts Gallery (closing week) 10/24-25 T Kurtz: Oh Heavens!, Spokane Art School (closing week) 10/24-30 Mel McCuddin, Dennis Meiners & Deb Oliva, Art Spirit Gallery (through Nov. 3) 10/24-26 J A Stroke of Nature, Terrain Gallery (closing week) 10/26 Norman Rockwell Step-by-Step: How He Created His Iconic Paintings, The MAC 10/27 Sofonisba Anguissola: Claiming Greatness, MAC 10/28-30 J Exhibition of Three: Jodi Sahlin, Janet Sahlin, Peter Jagoda, SFCC Fine Arts Gallery (through Dec. 6)

WORDS

10/24 J Spokane is Reading: Circe by Madeline Miller, Spokane Valley Event Center and Bing Crosby Theater 10/24 Poetry Open Mic, Monarch Mountain Coffee 10/24 J Spoken River, Mukogawa Institute 10/24 J Gonzaga Visiting Writers: Nicholas Carr, Gonzaga University Hemmingson Center 10/24 Photography, Performance, Politics: Reimagining American History, BookPeople of Moscow 10/25 J Bedtime Stories Spokane, Spokane Club 10/25 Arts & Letters: Letterpress for Broadside, Spokane Print & Publishing Center 10/25 J Pulitzer Prize Winner Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Coeur d’Alene Resort 10/25 Last Birds: A Reading of Galway Kinnell, Emerge 10/26-27 J Spokane Writers Conference, North Spokane Library 10/26 J TEDx Spokane, Bing Crosby Theater 10/28 AIA Spokane: An Evening with Michael Hsu, The McGinnity Room

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11/2 Forrest Harvest Bazaar, Forrest M. Bird Charter Schools 11/2 Wine for the Holidays, Downtown Coeur d’Alene 11/2 Kimchi Making Class, Shadle Library 11/6 Chinese Movie Night: Under the Dome, Kenworthy 11/6 Nick Norton Presents: Phantasm, An Evening of Magic, Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox

11/1 Mobius Annual Gala, Mobius Science Center 11/1 J Spookane!, Richmond Art Collective 11/2 Into Africa Auction + Dinner, Mirabeau Park Hotel

MUSIC

BENEFIT

COMEDY

10/31 Guffaw Yourself!, Neato Burrito 10/31 Josh Firestine, Spokane Comedy Club 10/31 2.0pen Mic, The District Bar 11/1 Stand-Up Comedy, Red Dragon Chinese 11/1-2 J Jeremy Piven, Spokane Comedy Club 11/1 Judge a Book By its Cover, Blue Door Theatre 11/1 Late Laughs, Blue Door Theatre 11/2 Fire Brigade Improv, Ignite! Community Theatre 11/2 SAFARI, Blue Door Theatre 11/2 DeAnne Smith, The District Bar 11/2 After Dark, Blue Door Theatre 11/3 Mark Normand, Spokane Comedy Club 11/3 The Social Hour Comedy Showcase, The Ridler

COMMUNITY/CULTURE

0/31 Giant Candyland, South Hill Library 10/31 South of the Border: Savory Street Tacos, Spokane Community College 10/31 Trick or Treat in Downtown Coeur d’Alene 10/31 J Campbell House Halloween, The MAC 10/31 J SpookWalk, Browne’s Bistro 11/1-6 J Exhibit: The Hanford Site, North Spokane Library (through Nov. 30) 11/2-3 Fall Craft Show, Shadle Park High School 11/2 Warren Miller’s Timeless, Bing Crosby Theater

10/31 J Lisa Prank, Lucky You Lounge 11/1-2 The Ben Rice Band, Bridge Press Cellars 11/1 J Luke Combs w/ Morgan Wallen, Jameson Rodgers, Spokane Arena 11/1 Kuinka, Lavoy, The Bartlett 11/1 Madeon, Knitting Factory 11/1 Marshal Charloff and The Purple Xperience, Hive 11/2 Berner, Knitting Factory 11/2 Brent Cobb and Them, The Bartlett 11/2 J Jason Mraz & Raining Jane, First Interstate Center for the Arts 11/2 The Weeks, Lucky You Lounge 11/2 An Evening with Ken Stringfellow, Music City 11/2 Whitworth Jazz Guest Artist Concert, The Fox 11/3 Remo Drive, The Pin 11/3 Spokane Youth Symphony: 70 Years of Inspiration, Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox 11/3 Veterans Concert: Grant Us Peace, St. John’s Cathedral 11/4 Charley Crockett, Lucky You Lounge 11/5 KOLARS, Dear Boy, The Bartlett 11/5 J Auditorium Chamber Music Series: ATOS Trio, University of Idaho Administration Building 11/6 Pile, Slow Code, PIT, The Bartlett 11/6 Peelander-Z, BaLonely, Baby Bar 11/6 J WSU Jazz Festival, Kimbrough Music Building

THEATER

10/31-11/3 The Threepenny Opera, Stage Left Theater

Jason Mraz and Raining Jane perform at the First Interstate Center for the Arts on Nov. 2.

10/31-11/3 The Odd Couple: Female Version, Lake City Playhouse 10/31-11/3 J A Place to Call Home, Spokane Civic Theatre 11/1-3 The Big Be-Bop Bandstand Amateur Night Talent Show, Sixth Street Theater and Melodrama.

11/1-3 Gonzaga Theatre: Romeo & Juliet, Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center 11/3 J Moscow Ballet’s Great Russian Nutcracker, First Interstate Center for the Arts 11/4 MET Live in HD: Manon, The Kenworthy.

VISUAL ARTS

10/31-11/1 J Reinaldo Gil Zambrano: Melão, Boswell Corner Gallery at NIC (closing week) 10/31 J Carl Richardson & Mariah Boyle: Shoes!, Downtown Spokane Library (closing week) 10/31-11/3 Mel McCuddin, Dennis Meiners & Deb Oliva, Art Spirit Gallery (closing week) 11/1 J First Friday, Spokane

11/1-6 Contemporary Fiber Art Exhibit, Power House Gallery (through Jan. 31) 11/1 Mixed Media, Monoprints & Moonscapes, New Moon Art Gallery 11/3 Palouse Watercolor Socius Show, Dahmen Barn (through Dec. 1) 11/6 Contemporary Drawing in the Pacific Northwest, EWU Gallery of Art (through Dec. 6)

WORDS

11/1 3 Minute Mic, Auntie’s Bookstore 11/2 History of Hutton Settlement, Argonne Library 11/3 NaNoWriMo at the MAC 11/3-6 NaNoWriMo: Come Write In, South Hill Library 11/3 Ecology of Hanford, North Spokane Library 11/3 BootSlam, Boots Bakery & Lounge 11/5 J Hanford-Inspired Literature & Journalism, Moran Prairie Library 11/5 J Poetry with Stephen Pitters, East Side Library

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Spokane Youth Symphony

November 3 4 p.m.

“70 Years of Inspiration”

January 12 4 p.m.

“70 Years of Education”

March 8

4 p.m.

“70 Years of Virtuosity”

May 17

4 p.m.

“70 Years of Celebration”

Dr. José Francisco Salgado’s stunning high-definition film from NASA set to the music captures the inspiration and excitement of space exploration.

Come early for preconcert activities.

Sponsored by Maxine Kopczynski Don & Charlotte Lamp on behalf of

M ARTIN WOLDSO N THE ATER AT THE FOX TICKETS | 509.624.1200 | SpokaneSymphony.org

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COMEDY

11/7 Guffaw Yourself!, Neato Burrito 11/7 J Paula Poundstone Live!, Bing Crosby Theater 11/7-8 Gilbert Gottfried, Spokane Comedy Club 11/7 2.0pen Mic, The District Bar 11/8 Stand-Up Comedy, Red Dragon Chinese.

11/8 J Judge a Book By its Cover, Blue Door Theatre 11/8-9 J AGT Comedian Ryan Niemiller, Bridge Press 11/9 SAFARI, Blue Door Theatre 11/10 Drink N Debate, Spokane Comedy Club 11/10 The Social Hour Comedy Showcase, The Ridler 11/12 B Simone & Special Guest Pretty Vee, Spokane Comedy Club 11/13 Open Mic, Spokane Comedy Club

COMMUNITY/CULTURE

11/7-13 Journeys & Adventures, Downtown Spokane Library (through Nov. 30) 11/7-13 J Exhibit: The Hanford Site, North Spokane Library (through Nov. 30) 11/7 Mysteries in Cryptozoology, North Spokane Library 11/7 J Suicidegirls: Blackheart Burlesque, Knitting Factory 11/8 J Drop In & RPG, Spark Central 11/8 The Mysteries in Cryptozoology, Deer Park Library 11/9 Inland NW Toy Show Classic, Spokane County Fair & Expo Center

11/9-10 J Spokane Fall Folk Festival, Spokane Community College 11/9 Father Daughter Ball, CenterPlace Event Center 11/10 J Adult Spelling Bee, Mootsy’s 11/13 Creative Studio for Variously-Abled Adults, Spark Central 11/13 The Mysteries in Cryptozoology, Otis Orchards Library

FOOD & DRINK

11/7 Lunch & Learn Lecture Series, Shadle Library 11/7 Thursday Wine Social, Gourmet Way 11/7 Scotch & Cigars, Prohibition Gastropub 11/7 A Saucy Good Time, Spokane Community College 11/8 J Epicurean Delight, Spokane Convention Center 11/9 Sip and Sample, Petunias Marketplace 11/10 Mimosa Sunday Brunch, Nectar Catering & Events 11/12 Tapas Tuesdays, Wanderlust Delicato 11/13 Wine Wednesday, The Culinary Stone 11/13 Prepare to Preserve, WSU Spokane Extension

MUSIC

11/7 WSU Symphony Orchestra, Bryan Hall Theatre 11/7 Polyrhythmics, The Bartlett 11/8 WSU Orchestra Festival, Kimbrough Music Building 11/9 J Spokane Symphony Pops 2: A Celebration of Veterans, Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox 11/9 Katie Fisher, Maryhill Winery Spokane 11/9 Gramatik, Opiuo, Balkan Bump, Knitting Factory 11/9 Pigs on the Wing: A Tribute to Pink Floyd, Bing Crosby Theater 11/9 Nekromantix, Stellar Corpses, The Dead Channels, The Lucitones, The Pin 11/10 Music with a Message: Songs of Social Change, Spokane Community College 11/10 J Spokane String Quartet, Spokane Falls Community College 11/10 Richard Marx, Northern Quest Resort & Casino

11/10 Whitworth Wind Symphony Fall Concert, Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox 11/10 Tauren Wells: The Hills and Valleys Tour, Lake City Church 11/11 John Calvin Abney, Eliza Catastrophe, Baby Bar 11/13 Jazz Wednesday, Wanderlust Delicato 11/13 A Night of Grief & Mystery, Bing Crosby Theater 11/13 Gathering of the Bands, North Idaho College.

11/13 Crimson Flutes in Concert, Kimbrough Music Building (WSU)

THEATER

11/7-10 Matilda the Musical, Regional Theatre of the Palouse 11/8-10 The Big Be-Bop Bandstand Amateur Night Talent Show, Sixth Street Theater & Melodrama 11/8-10 J The Cemetery Club, Ignite! Community Theatre 11/8-10 Gonzaga Theatre: Romeo & Juliet, Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center 11/9-10 MET Live in HD: Madama Butterfly, Kenworthy 11/9 Murder Mystery Dinner Theatre, Cutter Theatre

VISUAL ARTS

11/7-13 J Norman Rockwell’s America, Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture (through Jan. 12) 11/7-13 Contemporary Drawing in the Pacific Northwest, EWU Gallery of Art (through Dec. 6) 11/7-13 David Paul Bayles, Prichard Art Gallery (through Dec. 7) 11/7-13 J Inner Workings, Chase Gallery (through Dec. 19) 11/7-13 J Exhibition of Three: Jodi Sahlin, Janet Sahlin, Peter Jagoda, SFCC Fine Arts Gallery (through Dec. 6) 11/7-13 Contemporary Fiber Art Exhibit, Power House Gallery (through Jan. 31) 11/7-13 While Wandering, The MAC (through Jan. 3)

11/7-13 Chiho Aoshima: City Glow, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU (through Dec. 14) 11/7-13 J Makoto Fujimura: Silence – Mysterion, Jundt Art Museum (through Jan. 2020) 11/7-10 Palouse Watercolor Socius Show, Dahmen Barn (through Dec. 1) 11/7 J An Evening with Abigail Rockwell, The MAC 11/7 Fearless Painting for Watercolors, Spokane Community College 11/8-13 Ornaments and Small Works Show, Spokane Art School (through Dec. 23) 11/8-13 21st Annual Small Artworks Invitational, Art Spirit Gallery (through Jan. 5) 11/8 Second Friday Artwalk, Downtown Coeur d’Alene 11/8 Show Opening: Megan Cherry, Emerge 11/9 Found Object Monotype Printing, The MAC 11/12-13 Matthew Whitney, Bryan Oliver Gallery at Whitworth (through Jan. 24) 11/12 Open Draw with Randy Palmer, Emerge

WORDS

11/7 Diverse Voices Writing Group, Spark Central 11/7 J Holocaust Survivor Speech VI: Ann Frank’s Stepsister, Spokane Convention Center 11/8 Poetry Reading + Q&A: Jericho Brown, WSU Elson S. Floyd Cultural Center 11/9 J Reading Hanford: Poetry & Prose, North Spokane Library 11/10 NaNoWriMo at the MAC, The MAC 11/11 J An Evening With David Sedaris, Bing Crosby Theater 11/12 J Everybody Reads: The House of Broken Angels, Dahmen Barn 11/12 Drop In & Write, Spark Central 11/12 Ecology of Hanford, Moran Prairie Library 11/13 NaNoWriMo: Come Write In, South Hill Library 11/13 Poetry Workshop, Emerge 11/13 Broken Mic, Neato Burrito

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FAIRWOOD RETIREMENT VILLAGE

Annual Holiday Craft Fair Friday, November 8 • 10am-2pm

Welcome in the season by joining us for our Holiday Craft Fair featuring over 30 craft and food vendors!

FRSESEION!

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Senior Living • Continuum of Care Maintenance Free Living • Fabulous Activities Conveniently Located Village Garden Mall • Administration Building 312 W. Hastings Rd, Spokane (West off Hwy 395 - Entrance One)

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FILM

11/14 J Thursday Matinee Movie Classics: Pale Rider (1985), Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture.

11/15-17 J Banff Mountain Film Festival, The Bing 11/16 Letter from Masanjia, Shadle Library 11/17-20 J Studio Ghibli Fest: Princess Mononoke, Regal Cinemas Riverstone Stadium 14

MUSIC

The Harlem Globetrotters show off their hoop skills at the Spokane Arena on Nov. 14.

NOVEMBER

COMMUNITY / CULTURE

14-20

COMEDY

11/14 Guffaw Yourself!, Neato Burrito 11/14-16 Josh Blue, Spokane Comedy Club 11/14 2.0pen Mic, The District Bar 11/15 Stand-Up Comedy, Red Dragon Chinese 11/15 Comedy Open Mic, Calypsos Coffee Roasters 11/15 J Judge a Book By its Cover, Blue Door Theatre 11/16 SAFARI, Blue Door Theatre 11/17 Roastamania, Spokane Comedy Club 11/17 The Social Hour Comedy Showcase, The Ridler 11/20 Open Mic, Spokane Comedy Club

11/14-20 J Exhibit: The Hanford Site, North Spokane Library (through Nov. 30) 11/14 Mysteries in Cryptozoology, Airway Heights Library 11/14 J Harlem Globetrotters, Spokane Arena 11/15 J Prestige Wrestling, The Pin 11/16 J Spokane Humane Society FurrBall, Davenport Grand Hotel 11/16 Mysteries in Cryptozoology, Moran Prairie Library 11/16 J Quilts: A Brief History & How to Care for Them, Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture 11/16 Adult Cooking Class: Steak & Starch Dinner, Modernist Cooks & Catering 11/17 J Whitworth Top Chef 2019, Whitworth HUB 11/19 Drop In & Read, Spark Central 11/19 J Salish School of Spokane, Shadle Library 11/20 Mysteries in Cryptozoology, Medical Lake Library

11/14 Gathering of the Bands, North Idaho College 11/14 California Guitar Trio + Montreal Guitar Trio, Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center 11/14 J Ray LaMontagne: Just Passing Through, Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox 11/15 WSU Vocal Extravaganza, Bryan Hall Theatre 11/15 Hirie, RDGLDGRN, Tunnel Vision, The Big Dipper 11/15 WSU Dad’s Weekend ft. Big & Rich w/ Cowboy Troy, Beasley Coliseum 11/15 Tyrone Wells, Dan Rodriguez, Lucky You Lounge 11/16 J KPBX Kids’ Concert: Open Doors, Westminster Congregational United Church of Christ 11/16 Hippo Campus, The Greeting Committee, Knitting Factory 11/16-17 J Spokane Symphony Masterworks 4: 50th Anniversary of the Moon Landing, Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox

THEATER

11/14-17 Matilda the Musical, Regional Theatre of the Palouse 11/15-17 The Big Be-Bop Bandstand Amateur Night Talent Show, Sixth Street Theater & Melodrama 11/15-17 J The Cemetery Club, Ignite! Theatre 11/15-17 J This Is Our Youth, Spokane Civic Theatre 11/15-17 J Urinetown The Musical, EWU 11/15-17 CYT North Idaho: Seussical, Kroc Center 11/20 Jesus Christ Superstar, First Intersate Center for the Arts

VISUAL ARTS

11/14-20 Contemporary Drawing in the Pacific Northwest, EWU Gallery of Art (through Dec. 6) 11/14-20 Matthew Whitney, Whitworth Bryan Oliver Gallery (through Jan. 24) 11/14-20 Ornaments and Small Works Show, Spokane Art School (through Dec. 23) 11/14-20 J Norman Rockwell’s America, Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture (through Jan. 12) 11/14-20 J Inner Workings, Chase Gallery (through Dec. 19) 11/15-20 Monday Painters Group Exhibition & Opening, Jacklin Arts & Cultural Center 11/16 14th Holiday Arts and Craft Gala, Dahmen Barn 11/18-20 Natalie Dotzauer: What We Take, Boswell Corner Gallery at NIC (through Jan. 31)

WORDS

11/14 J Everybody Reads: The House of Broken Angels, Colfax Library 11/14 J Hanford-Inspired Literature & Journalism, Spokane Valley Library 11/14 J Everybody Reads: The House of Broken Angels, Neill Public Library (Pullman) 11/14 J Tiffany Midge: Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese’s, Auntie’s Bookstore 11/15 J Everybody Reads: The House of Broken Angels, Washington State University 11/15 J Everybody Reads: The House of Broken Angels, 1912 Center 11/17 NaNoWriMo at the MAC, The MAC 11/17-20 NaNoWriMo: Come Write In, South Hill Library.

11/19 Drop In & Write, Spark Central 11/20 Broken Mic, Neato Burrito 11/20 J Hacking Democracy: What Social Media is Doing to US Politics, North Spokane Library

November 22-23-24, 2019 43rd Annual Christmas

OVER 300 NORTHWEST ARTISANS FINE ART | HAND CRAFT | SPECIALTY FOODS

Spokane Fair & Expo Center 404 N Havana Street | Spokane, WA FREE PARKING

Friday 10AM—8PM Saturday 9AM—6PM Sunday 10AM—4PM

Admission $7 | Kids 12 and under free!

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Arts Center 11/24 Film: Language Healers: Native Americans Revitalizing Native Languages, South Hill Library 11/25 Thanksgiving Centerpiece, Spokane Community College

NOVEMBER

21-27

FOOD & DRINK

COMEDY

11/22-23 Roy Wood Jr., Spokane Comedy Club.

11/22 Judge a Book By its Cover, Blue Door Theatre.

11/23 SAFARI, Blue Door Theatre 11/23 J Jason Nash, Knitting Factory 11/24 The Dope Show!, Spokane Comedy Club 11/24 The Social Hour Comedy Showcase, The Ridler

COMMUNITY / CULTURE

11/21-27 Journeys & Adventures, Downtown Spokane Library (through Nov. 30) 11/21-27 J Exhibit: The Hanford Site, North Spokane Library (through Nov. 30) 11/21 Veterans Tabletop Game Night, Comic Book Shop 11/21 J Hacking Democracy: What Social Media is Doing to US Politics, Spokane Valley Library 11/21 J Lilac City Live!, Downtown Spokane Library 11/21 Clay Hand Building with Wine, The MAC 11/21 Mini Folding Photo Album, North Spokane Library 11/22 Drop In & RPG, Spark Central 11/22 Lance Burton, Master Magician & Friends, Northern Quest Resort & Casino 11/22-24 J Custer’s 43rd Annual Christmas Arts & Crafts Show, Spokane County Fair & Expo Center 11/23 SCC Craft Fair, Spokane Community College 11/23 Dance Presents! Forthun + Rome and Khambatta Dance Company, Myrtle Woldson Performing

11/21 Lunch & Learn Lecture Series, Shadle Library 11/21 Thursday Wine Social, Gourmet Way 11/21 Scotch & Cigars, Prohibition Gastropub.

11/21 J Fall Harvest Dinner, Spokane Community College 11/23 Sip and Sample, Petunias Marketplace.

11/24 Mimosa Sunday Brunch, Nectar Catering 11/26 Tapas Tuesdays, Wanderlust Delicato 11/27 Wine Wednesday, The Culinary Stone

MUSIC

11/21 New Directions, North Idaho College 11/21 The Rock Jam Series, The Rock Bar & Lounge 11/22 Contra Dance, North Spokane Dance Center 11/22 J Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Spokane Arena 11/23 Strings Chamber Orchestra Concert, Whitworth University 11/23 J Portland Cello Project, Bing Crosby Theater 11/23-24 J The Nightmare Before Christmas with the Spokane Symphony, at The Fox 11/25 J Cirque Musica Holiday, First Interstate Center for the Arts 11/21 WSU Symphonic Wind Ensemble, Bryan Hall 11/21 Blake Braley Band, Zola 11/24 Lazy Love, Zola 11/24 Traditional Irish Music, O’Doherty’s Irish Grille 11/24 Demun Jones, The Pin 11/24 J Slayer, Spokane Arena 11/24 Urban Cowboy Reunion ft. Mickey Gilley and Johnny Lee, Northern Quest Resort & Casino

Catch Lilac City Live, the monthly “late night” talk show at the downtown Spokane library, on Nov. 21.

11/25 Perfect Mess, Zola 11/27 Donnie Emerson & Nancy Sophia, Zola 11/27 Funk You Up Wednesdays w/ Storme, Lion’s Lair 11/27 Free the Jester, Everyone Loves a Villain, Becoming Ghosts, Lilac City Dynamics, Knitting Factory

11/22-24 J The Cemetery Club, Ignite! Community Theatre 11/22-23 How I Learned to Drive, Pullman Civic Theatre 11/22-24 CYT North Idaho: Seussical, Kroc Center

THEATER

11/21 Lecture: Prehispanic Turkey Domestication, Husbandry and Management in the North American Southwest, The MAC 11/22 Poetry Open Mic, Emerge 11/24 NaNoWriMo at the MAC 11/26 Drop In & Write, Spark Central 11/27 J NaNoWriMo: Come Write In, South Hill Library

WORDS

11/21-24 This Is Our Youth, Spokane Civic Theatre 11/21-23 J Urinetown The Musical, Eastern Washington University 11/21-24 Jesus Christ Superstar, First Interstate Center for the Arts 11/22-24 J Venus in Fur, Stage Left Theater 4.55” wide by 5.4” high

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NOVEMBER

11/29-12/1 A Christmas Story, Lake City Playhouse 11/29-12/1 J It’s a Wonderful Life, Spokane Civic Theatre 11/29-12/1 J ‘Twas the Night before Christmas, Spokane Children’s Theatre 12/4 Festival of Shorts, Whitworth University

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COMEDY

11/28 Guffaw Yourself!, Neato Burrito 11/28 2.0pen Mic, The District Bar 11/29 Stand-Up Comedy, Red Dragon Chinese 11/29-30 J Kevin Nealon, Spokane Comedy Club 11/29 Judge a Book By its Cover, Blue Door Theatre 11/29 Late Laughs, Blue Door Theatre 11/30 SAFARI, Blue Door Theatre 11/30 J George Lopez: Live in Concert, Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox 11/30 After Dark, Blue Door Theatre 12/1 Stand-Up Comedy Show, Kelly’s Bar & Grill 12/1 The Social Hour Comedy Showcase, The Ridler Piano Bar 12/2 Improv JAM Sessions, Blue Door Theatre 12/4 Open Mic, Spokane Comedy Club

COMMUNITY / CULTURE

11/28-30 Journeys & Adventures, Downtown Spokane Library, Northwest Room (closing week).

11/28-30 J Exhibit: The Hanford Site, North Spokane Library (closing week) 11/29 J Cirque Dreams Holidaze, First Interstate Center for the Arts 11/29 Portland Invasion Drag Show, The Pin 11/28 Veterans Tabletop Gaming Night, Comic Book Shop 11/30 J Campbell House Family Photo Studio, MAC 11/30 Pokemon Trainer’s Academy, Comic Book Shop (Spokane Valley) 11/30 Upcycled Holidays with Wine, The MAC 12/2 Monday Night Dance, Corbin Senior Center

VISUAL ARTS

The Tenors bring their holiday tour to the Bing Crosby Theater on Nov. 30.

12/2 Boundless Dance Club: Snowflake Showcase, Gonzaga University Magnuson Theatre.

12/3 Drop In & Read, Spark Central 12/4 Christmas Shopping at the Inn, Best Western CdA

FOOD & DRINK

11/28 Thursday Wine Social, Gourmet Way 11/28 Scotch & Cigars, Prohibition Gastropub 11/30 J History of Yum: Norman Rockwell’s Thanksgiving, The MAC 11/30 Sip and Sample, Petunias Marketplace 12/3 Tapas Tuesdays, Wanderlust Delicato 12/4 Wine Wednesday, The Culinary Stone 12/4 Prepare to Preserve, WSU Spokane Extension

MUSIC

11/29-12/4 Dueling Pianos: Dinner and a Show, The

NYC Piano Bar 11/29-30 Ladies Night with Luke Jaxon and DJ Tom, Nashville North 11/30 J The Tenors: Wonder of Christmas Tour, Bing Crosby Theater 12/1 J Handel’s Messiah, St. John’s Cathedral 12/3 Bear Grillz, The Pin 12/3 J Winter Classics: Beethoven String Quartets Celebrating Beethoven’s 250th Birthday, Hagadone Event Center 12/4 Jazz Wednesday, Wanderlust Delicato 12/4 J Northwest BachFest: Beethoven’s 250th Birthday, Barrister Winery

THEATER

11/28-12/1 J Venus in Fur, Stage Left Theater 11/28-12/1 This Is Our Youth, Spokane Civic Theatre

11/28-12/4 Memory & Meaning: Textiles from the Permanent Collection, The MAC (through Jan. 12) 11/28-12/4 Contemporary Drawing in the Pacific Northwest, EWU Gallery of Art (through Dec. 6) 11/28-12/2 Matthew Whitney, Whitworth Bryan Oliver Gallery (through Jan. 24) 11/28-12/4 David Paul Bayles, Prichard Art Gallery (through Dec. 7) 11/28-12/4 J Ornaments and Small Works Show, Spokane Art School (through Dec. 23) 11/28-12/4 From the Collection: Ethnicity and Identity as Themes in Art, Jundt (through Jan. 4) 11/28-12/4 Natalie Dotzauer: What We Take, Boswell Corner Gallery at NIC (through Jan. 31) 11/28-12/4 J Norman Rockwell’s America, Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture (through Jan. 12) 11/28-12/4 J Inner Workings, Chase Gallery (through Dec. 19) 11/28-12/4 Exhibition of Three: Jodi Sahlin, Janet Sahlin, Peter Jagoda, SFCC (Ttrough Dec. 6) 11/28-12/4 While Wandering, Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture (through Jan. 3) 11/28-12/4 Chiho Aoshima: City Glow, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU (through Dec. 14) 11/28-12/1 Palouse Watercolor Socius Show, Dahmen Barn (closing week) 11/28-12/4 21st Annual Small Artworks Invitational, Art Spirit Gallery (through Jan. 5)

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12/5 Venus in Fur, Stage Left Theater 12/5 J A Christmas Story, Lake City Playhouse 12/5 J It’s a Wonderful Life, Spokane Civic Theatre 12/5 This Is Our Youth, Spokane Civic Theatre 12/5 Festival of Shorts, Whitworth University 12/6-8 J Little Women the Musical, Hartung Theater 12/6-8 Elementary Holiday, Pend Oreille Playhouse 12/7 Beckett Shorts: Directing II Showcase, Gonzaga University Magnuson Theatre 12/8-8 J Sesame Street Live! Make Your Magic, Spokane Arena

DECEMBER

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COMEDY

12/5-7 Vicki Barbolak’s Trailer Nasty Tour, Spokane Comedy Club 12/6 J Season’s Greetings + Late Laughs, Blue Door Theatre 12/7 Fire Brigade Improv, Ignite! Community Theatre.

12/7 SAFARI + After Dark, Blue Door Theatre 12/8 The Social Hour Comedy Showcase, The Ridler

VISUAL ARTS

COMMUNITY/CULTURE

12/5 Deck the Halls, Garden Plaza of Post Falls 12/6 Deck the Falls Tree Lighting + Parade, Cutter Theatre (Metaline Falls) 12/7-8 Holiday Open House, Dahmen Barn 12/7 J Cooking with Chef Ricky: Holiday Entertaining, Shadle Library 12/7 Deck the Falls Arts & Crafts Fair, Cutter Theatre 12/7 J Live Neigh-tivity & Santa Visits, Downtown Coeur d’Alene 12/7 Drop In & Craft, Spark Central 12/8 J Mootsy’s Adult Spelling Bee, Mootsy’s 12/9 Winter Wreath, Spokane Community College 12/11 Creative Studio for Variously-Abled Adults, Spark Central

MUSIC

12/5 Autumn Strings, St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church

Chef Ricky Webster shares his secrets to successful holiday entertaining at the Shadle Library on Dec. 7.

12/5 Kai Wachi, Sam Lamar, Knitting Factory 12/5-8 J The Nutcracker Ballet with the Spokane Symphony, Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox 12/6 Classical Christmas Piano Favorites, Memorial Community Center 12/6 Saint John Paul II Christmas Concert, Bing Crosby Theater 12/6 The Dead South, Knitting Factory 12/7-9 Amahl and the Night Visitors, The Forge Theater 12/7 WSU Music Holiday Concert, Kimbrough Music Building 12/7 J Mannheim Steamroller, First Interstate Center for the Arts

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12/7 Washington Idaho Symphony: Family Christmas, Pullman High School 12/7 J Spokane Jazz Orchestra: A Glenn Miller Christmas ft. Cami Bradley, Bing Crosby Theater 12/7-8 Sounds of Christmas, North Idaho College.

12/7-8 Candlelight Christmas Concert, Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center 12/8 J Northwest BachFest: Beethoven’s 250th Birthday, Barrister Winery 12/8 Community Holiday Concert, Cutter Theatre 12/11 J Kenny G, Northern Quest Resort & Casino 12/11 Hellyeah, Nonpoint, Deepfall, Knitting Factory

12/5-6 J Contemporary Drawing in the Pacific Northwest, EWU Gallery of Art (closing week) 12/5 J Ornaments and Small Works Show, Spokane Art School (through Dec. 23) 12/5-7 David Paul Bayles, Prichard Art Gallery (closing week) 12/5-6 Exhibition of Three: Jodi Sahlin, Janet Sahlin, Peter Jagoda, SFCC Gallery (closing week) 12/5 First Thursday, Moscow 12/6 J First Friday, Spokane 12/6-11 J Winter Art Market and Ornament Display, Pend Oreille Arts Council Gallery 12/6 Fantastic Circumstance, New Moon Art Gallery 12/7 J Third Annual Holiday Artist Studio Tour, Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture 12/7-11 Dahmen Resident Artists Exhibit, Dahmen Barn 12/10 Open Draw with Randy Palmer, Emerge

WORDS

12/5 Diverse Voices Writing Group, Spark Central 12/6 J 3 Minute Mic, Auntie’s Bookstore 12/7 Reading: Patricia Meredith, South Hill Library 12/8 Creative Writing at the MAC, Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture

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12/14 J Bing Crosby Holiday Film Festival, Bing Crosby Theater 12/16-18 J Studio Ghibli Fest: The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, AMC River Park Square 20; Regal NorthTown & CdA Riverstone

COMEDY

MUSIC

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12/13-27 Season’s Greetings, Blue Door Theatre (Fridays) 12/14-28 SAFARI, Blue Door Theatre 12/20 Comedy Open Mic, Calypsos Coffee Roasters 12/26-28 J Dan Cummins: The Happy Murder Tour, Spokane Comedy Club 12/27 Late Laughs, Blue Door Theatre 12/28 After Dark, Blue Door Theatre 12/29 The Dope Show!, Spokane Comedy Club

COMMUNITY/CULTURE

12/12 Pen & Paper: Teen Writing Group, Spark Central 12/13-27 Drop In & RPG, Spark Central 12/14 J History of Yum: Gingerbread, Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture 12/14-29 J Campbell House Holidays, Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture 12/17 Drop In & Read, Spark Central 12/17 Holiday Centerpiece, Spokane Community College 12/19 Cheeky Cross-Stitch, North Spokane Library 12/19 J Lilac City Live!, Downtown Spokane Library 12/21-31 J Mount St. Helens: Critical Memory, Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture 12/21 Drop In & Science, Spark Central 12/22 J Holiday Magic with Adam Trent, Bing Crosby Theater

FILM

12/12 J Thursday Matinee Movie Classics: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), The MAC

12/12 Static-X, Wednesday 13, Knitting Factory.

12/13 Mat Kearney: City of Black & White Revisited Acoustic Tour, Bing Crosby Theater 12/14 Granger Smith feat. Earl Dibbles Jr. and Casey Donahew, Knitting Factory 12/14 J Turtle Island Quartet: Winter’s Eve, Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center 12/14 J Dear Hearts & Gentle People: Norman Rockwell in Words and Music, Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture 12/14-15 Whitworth Christmas Festival Concert, Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox 12/15 J Queensrÿche, Northern Quest Resort & Casino.

12/15 J Affiniti Celtic Christmas, Bing Crosby Theater.

12/21 Bartell Music Academy, Bing Crosby Theater.

12/21-22 J Spokane Symphony Holiday Pops with Vanessa Williams, Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox 12/27 Contra Dance, North Spokane Dance Center 12/31 J Spokane Symphony’s Beethoven’s Ninth on New Year’s Eve, Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox 12/21 Katie Fisher, Maryhill Winery Spokane 12/27 Zoso: The Ultimate Led Zeppelin Experience, Knitting Factory 12/31 J Roaring 20s New Year’s Eve Party, The Big Dipper

THEATER

12/12-15 J Little Women the Musical, Hartung Theater

Studio Ghibli Fest brings The Tale of the Princess Kaguya back to the big screen Dec. 16-18.

12/13-15 Christmas at Sixth Street, Sixth Street Theater and Melodrama 12/13-19 J Traditions of Christmas, Kroc Center 12/13-19 A Christmas Carol, Pullman Civic Theatre 12/13-15 Elementary Holiday, Pend Oreille Playhouse 12/18 J Eugene Ballet’s The Nutcracker, Panida Theater 12/19 J The Night Before Christmas Carol, Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center

VISUAL ARTS

12/12-31 Memory & Meaning: Textiles from the Permanent Collection, The MAC (through Jan. 12)

12/12-31 From the Collection: Ethnicity and Identity as Themes in Art, Jundt (through Jan. 4) 12/12-19 J Inner Workings, Chase Gallery (final week) 12/12-31 As Grandmother Taught: Women, Tradition & Plateau Art, The MAC (through Jan. 12).

12/12 Chiho Aoshima: City Glow, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU (through Dec. 14).

12/12 Winter Art Market and Ornament Display, Pend Oreille Arts Council Gallery 12/12-29 J 21st Annual Small Artworks Invitational, Art Spirit Gallery (through Jan. 5) 12/13 Second Friday Artwalk, Downtown Coeur d’Alene 12/13 J Show Opening: Randy Palmer, Tyler White, Todd Mire, Emerge

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A Art Spirit Gallery Auntie’s Bookstore

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B The Bartlett Beasley Coliseum The Big Dipper Bing Crosby Theater Blue Door Theatre BookPeople of Moscow

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CenterPlace Regional Event Center 688-0300 Chase Gallery/Spokane Arts spokanearts.org Christian Youth Theater - North Idaho cytnorthidaho.org Coeur d’Alene Arts & Culture Alliance artsandculturecda.org Coeur d’Alene Casino cdacasino.com Coeur d’Alene Symphony cdasymphony.org Custer Enterprises custershows.com Cutter Theatre cuttertheatre.com

D Dahmen Barn

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E Eastern Washington University ewu.edu Emerge emergecda.com Epicurean Delight epicurendelight.org Everybody Reads everybody-reads.org

F First Friday Spokane First Interstate Center for the Arts

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G Garland Theater Gonzaga University

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H Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church holytrinityspokane.org Humanities Washington humanities.org

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Jacklin Arts & Cultural Center thejacklincenter.org Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU museum.wsu.edu Jundt Art Museum gonzaga.edu/jundt

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Kenworthy Performing Arts Center Knitting Factory Kroc Center

kenworthy.org sp.knittingfactory.com kroccda.org

L Laboratory laboratoryspokane.com Lake City Playhouse lakecityplayhouse.org Lucky You Lounge luckyyoulounge.com

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Magic Lantern Theater magiclanternonmain.com Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox foxtheaterspokane.org Mobius Science Center mobiusspokane.org

N New Moon Art Gallery manicmoonandmore.com North Idaho College nic.edu Northern Quest Resort & Casino northernquest.com Northwest Bach Fest nwbachfest.com Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture northwestmuseum.org

P Panida Theater Pend Oreille Arts Council Pend Oreille Playhouse The Pin! Prichard Art Gallery

panida.org artinsandpoint.org pendoreilleplayhouse.org thepinevents.com 208-885-3586

R idahohumanities.org igniteonbroadway.org

Red Bird Theater redbirdcda.com Regional Theatre of the Palouse rtoptheatre.org Richmond Art Collective richmondartcollective.org

Saranac Art Projects saranacartprojects.wordpress.com SFCC Fine Arts Gallery spokanefalls.edu/gallery Sixth Street Melodrama sixthstreetmelodrama.com Spark Central spark-central.org Spokane Arena spokanearena.com Spokane Art School spokaneartschool.net Spokane Children’s Theater spokanechildrenstheatre.org Spokane Civic Theater spokanecivictheatre.com Spokane Comedy Club spokanecomedyclub.com Spokane Community College scc.spokane.edu Spokane Convention Center spokanecenter.com Spokane County Fair & Expo Center spokanecounty.org Spokane County Library District scld.org Spokane Fall Folk Festival spokanefolkfestival.org Spokane is Reading spokaneisreading.com Spokane Jazz Orchestra spokanejazz.org Spokane Poetry Slam spokanepoetryslam.org Spokane Preservation Advocates spokanepreservation.org Spokane Public Library spokanelibrary.org Spokane Public Radio kpbx.org Spokane String Quartet spokanestringquartet.org Spokane Symphony spokanesymphony.org Spokane Youth Symphony spokaneyouthsymphony.org St. John’s Cathedral stjohns-cathedral.org Stage Left Theater spokanestageleft.org StageWest Theater 768-4792

T Terrain terrainspokane.com Trackside Studio Ceramic Gallery tracksidestudio.net

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University of Idaho

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Washington Idaho Symphony washingtonidahosymphony.org Washington State University wsu.edu/life/events The Well-Read Moose wellreadmoose.com Whitworth University whitworth.edu/calendar

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LOCAL ARTISANS

STUNNING SWEETS Meet four Inland Northwest bakers who turn sugar cookies into colorful works of custom art

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op on Instagram and search for the tag “#cookier.” Prepare to be blown away by the artistic skill achieved using a few simple ingredients, mainly sugar. The cookier community, as it’s been dubbed by its members — practiced bakers and pastry decorators who use royal icing (water, meringue powder and confectioner’s sugar) to turn sugar cookie cutouts into everything from movie characters to unicorns — has taken off globally, and here in the Inland Northwest. The following four women are right up there with the best, delighting customers of all ages with their colorful, creative and intricately detailed frosted designs.

FLOUR & FROSTING

@flourandfrostingspokane A year and a half ago, Amber Stout found herself mesmerized by Instagram videos from fellow cookiers sharing their decorating process. She tried out what she’d gleaned for her own Christmas cookies that year, and “immediately fell in love with it.”

The former preschool teacher got business and cottage kitchen licenses for Flour & Frosting just a month later, in January 2018.

“It’s been cookies ever since,” Stout says, smiling.

That includes for her appearance, filmed just six months after launching the cookie business, for the Food Network’s Christmas Cookie Challenge show. In the episode, she competed alongside Spokane chef (and show winner) Ricky Webster.

After a scroll through Stout’s Instagram feed, it may seem like decorating sugar cookies with detailed designs of Disney characters, local university and business logos and other pop culture symbols is something she’s been doing for much longer than 18 months.

“I’m not a baker, and I don’t consider myself an artist — I can’t draw worth anything,” Stout confesses. “But piping bags are way easier to work with.”

While her calendar is often fully booked for custom orders, at $36 per dozen and requiring a two-week minimum notice, Stout recently started selling predecorated cookies on select dates at the Liberty Lake Farmers Market. Local aspiring cookiers can also learn the tricks of the trade directly from Stout at occasional local classes; ...continued on next page

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Besides a classic soft-baked sugar cookie, Flour & Frosting offers flavors like shortbread, lemon, chocolate and cinnamon. Stout adds a hint of flavor to her royal icing, too, either vanilla or almond extract.

“I like to use one consistency of icing for most of my designs, because on those you can’t see an outline,” Stout explains. “A lot of cookiers, they use two — they outline and flood, and you can see the lines.”

In cookier-speak, flooding is the process to ice large areas of a cookie using a piping bag, after first outlining the shape to be filled. The royal icing inside these borders then spreads out, or floods, and dries in a smooth, consistent layer.

Like her cookier counterparts, Stout loves bringing joy to customers through her colorful and cute designs. Unlike so many passing trends in food, she believes cookie art is here to stay.

“Cookies are easily transported, they package well and are accessible,” she notes. “You can personalize them and customize them to whatever you want really easily. I feel like everyone also feels like they can decorate a cookie. That’s how I got started, and I knew I could do it or at least try it.”

ELECTRIC SUGAR COOKIE

@electricsugarcookie Using a backdrop of white royal icing to showcase her signature neon “watercolors” made from food dye, Amber Fenton’s vivid palette translates to electric green cacti streaked with edible gold glitter. Half-moon shapes with scalloped inner edges become slices of hot pink watermelon with toothy bite marks. Chartreuse mermaid tails shimmer with golden scales, and five-pointed stars sport a patriotic ombré of red, white and blue.

The Coeur d’Alene-based cookier behind Electric Sugar Cookie has been making and selling her colorful, custom creations since December 2017, but started dabbling in cookie decorating as a hobby several years before.

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home kitchen — Idaho also has a cottage food law allowing for certain food products to be made and sold from a person’s home — both for local and faraway customers (nonlocal orders can be made through her business’s Etsy shop).

“The draw is definitely the artistic side of it,” Fenton says, adding that cookies have been a favorite treat to bake since childhood.

“It’s just eye candy. People are like ‘Oh my gosh, I can do that from home,’ and so there’s that accessibility, too,” she continues.

Most customers buy one or two dozen cookies at a time, which Fenton sells for $3 each, regardless of order size.

In addition to food dyes, the cookie artist sometimes uses a die cutter to make little shapes out of gumpaste paper that she can color and place on cookies as accents. Icing pens also allow her to create more intricate hand-drawn designs that would be difficult to achieve with a paintbrush. Stencils and a mini light projector are other tools in Fenton’s cookier box, both of which she turns to when applying repeat patterns, custom logos or hand lettering.

“A lot of my ideas come from my paper crafting background and trends, and then adding my spin to it,” she explains. “My goal is for someone to see what I make and say ‘Oh, that’s Amber’s.’

I feel like that is important. I don’t want to be a cookie cutter image. I want there to be a difference.”

THREE BIRDIES BAKERY

@threebirdiesbakery After she gets home from her full-time job at Community Colleges of Spokane, Jamie Roberts has dinner with her family, sees her kids to bed and begins baking and decorating, often until the wee hours of the morning.

Someday soon, though, Roberts hopes to see her Three Birdies Bakery, named after her three girls, become a full-time venture.

“The whole thing started by accident, really,” she explains. “I traditionally make cookies with my kids for Halloween and Christmas, and a few years ago I posted [Christmas cookies] on Facebook and a friend said ‘I would totally buy these from you.’”

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A few months later for Valentine’s Day, Roberts sold more than 400 cookies just via word of mouth. Soon after that, in early 2018, she launched the bakery, and hasn’t slowed down since.

All of the sugar cookies — in carefully tested flavors like funfetti, lemon, strawberry lemonade and classic sugar cookie — are frosted by hand without the use of stencils or other tools favored by the cookier community for making complex designs.

“I take a ton of pride in that. It shows how much love and time I put into each cookie, because I don’t take shortcuts to get to the finished products,” Roberts says, adding that she’s never formally studied art, but credits her artistic talent to her mom.

Besides a steady hand and a piping bag, Roberts also uses paint brushes and food dyes to “paint” scenes onto a canvas of white royal icing.

“I use a lot of techniques based on the design, and I’m always thinking ‘Can I make this into a cookie?’”

Three Birdies Bakery’s customers can place orders through the bakery’s social media pages.

Starting in 2019, Roberts also began selling predecorated cookies for $4 each at the Kendall Yards Night Market. For custom orders, cookies are $40 per dozen, and, because she works full time, orders must be placed at least two weeks in advance.

Since launching Three Birdies Bakery, Roberts has decorated large batches of custom cookies for many local businesses and events, including the Coeur d’Alene Food & Wine Festival and Gleason Fest.

“It’s more rewarding than I can put into words,” she reflects. “Doing something creative and delicious and that’s putting joy into our world is all I want to do. To get to a point where I can do that full time is the ultimate dream.”

THE CLASSY COOKIE

@the.classy.cookie A gifted family lifestyle magazine subscription unexpectedly propelled Marianne Thompson into the colorful world of elaborately decorated cookies.

“There was this issue and the cookies and

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icing just looked so perfect, and I just wanted to know how that happened,” recalls Thompson, a Spokane Valley-based cookie artist and mom of five.

Now, several years later, Thompson’s flawlessly smooth frosting and amazing attention to detail would not be out of place in the same publication that inspired her to turn her then newfound pastry-decorating talent into a business, the Classy Cookie.

On Instagram, artful displays of her cookies include colorful, themed sets to celebrate children’s birthdays, holidays, graduations, the seasons, weddings and more. By icing the cookies in separate steps, letting each color or layer of frosting set or dry before starting the next, Thompson’s cookies have a pillowy, three-dimensional effect, amplified by shadows and light.

While this technique is common amongst many cookie artists she admires, Thompson strives to be unique.

“I am a fan of so many others’ cookie art, but almost none of them look exactly alike,” she notes. “We all have our own penmanship, so I can’t really describe what makes mine different, but I know when I see it in my own work, and that’s when I’m satisfied by it.”

Washington state has a cottage kitchen law that allows certain homemade food goods to be sold commercially after a rigorous health inspection of the maker’s home. Customers can order from the Classy Cookie by contacting Thompson on Instagram or via her email listed there.

Custom orders are $40 per dozen, and usually start at a minimum of two dozen cookies. During holidays like Christmas, Thompson often sells premade cookie sets for a little less.

Besides the creative satisfaction she finds in her art, Thompson loves the personal connections she makes with each customer.

“This might sound oversimplified about sugar, but cookies make people really happy, and effort makes people happy,” she says. “I consider everyone who’s ordered from me a friend now.

There is a connection in sharing your art.” n This article first appeared in the Inlander’s Annual Manual magazine, the insider’s guide to the Inland Northwest, on newsstands now.

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Wander and Savor New to downtown Spokane, Wanderlust Delicato offers specialty cheese, cured meat and wine from around the world

BY CHEY SCOTT

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mber Park loves to travel the world and sample its diverse and unique cuisines.

With this wanderlust in mind, paired with more than two decades in the region’s food and beverage industry, Park decided to bring some of her favorite flavors to Spokane in the form of wine, cheese and cured meats.

Wanderlust Delicato opened in downtown Spokane along West Main Avenue in early summer, offering tasting flights, bottles, cheese and meat to-go, cooking classes and other events, including a weekly jazz night (Wednesday from 6-8 pm) and tapas showcase (Tuesday from 4-6 pm, $10).

“When I travel, I like to find out what is unique to the area,” Park says. “So you hear a lot about terroir with wine, but it’s also the culture and history and geography,

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Wanderlust Delicato also hosts cooking classes.

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and all of that combined with wine and charcuterie and cheese. I like the connection of all three being about preservation, and they all happen to go amazingly well with each other.”

Park’s hope for Wanderlust is that it becomes a place for locals to shop, eat and learn.

For customers looking to take something new home, the shop offers wine by the bottle from across the world (as well as Washington state) that range from $20-$40. A cold case showcases both imported and regionally made artisan cheese and cured meats — serrano jamon, prosciutto di parma, capicola — that can be ordered by the pound or on

snack plates served in store.

One of Park’s favorite cheeses in stock currently is the weinkäse lagrein, a German-inspired, semi-aged cheese from Northern Italy that has an earthy, umami flavor.

“These are artisan cheeses and classic imports that people don’t carry in regular stores or are from small, hard-to-find locales,” she notes.

A limited food menu includes cheese and charcuterie plates ($12 each), a combination of both ($18) and sides ($3 each) of olives, cornichon pickles, sliced baguette and crackers and dried or fresh fruit. Wanderlust’s Globetrotter baguette sandwiches ($10 each) include a Spanishinspired bocadillo, the French-style, ham-and-cheese jambon beurre, a caprese and one rotating special.

Platters for groups ($40) of four to six, along with snack packs ($8) or snack cones ($5) — both are premade combinations of meat, cheese and nuts — round out the menu.

Tasting flights of Wanderlust’s rotating three featured wines are $10 each; each wine is also available by the glass ($10).

In the back of the store, Park has transformed a former storage room into a high-end teaching kitchen for guest chefs to share their passion with the community.

During the shop’s recent grand opening weekend, Spokane chef and restaurateur Chad White taught a class on lobster. A local French-born chef also taught a session.

“It’s all about experiences throughout the store,” Park says. “We want you to experience the stories behind [products] and the great local chefs we have.” n cheys@inlander.com Wanderlust Delicato • 421 W. Main • Open Tue-Sat 11 am-8 pm, Sun 11 am-4 pm • wanderlustdelicato.com • 822-7087

ESSAY

BARELY STAYIN’ ALIVE

John Travolta in The Fanatic.

John Travolta is one of our best actors. Why is he in so many terrible movies?

BY NATHAN WEINBENDER

I

n The Fanatic, an idiotic new thriller directed by former Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst, John Travolta plays a movie obsessive and autograph hound named Moose. He’s socially maladjusted and most likely mentally ill, and his infatuation with a washed-up B-movie actor (Devon Sawa) begins as clingy and turns violent.

It’s now available on VOD, and it’s one of the worst, most inexplicable movies Travolta has ever appeared in, and he’s been in some all-time howlers (Battlefield Earth, anyone?). What’s perhaps most dispiriting is that he really seems to be trying his hardest, and failing badly.

It pains me to say this. I’m a big Travolta fan. I even have him framed — in the form of a poster for the 1981 Brian De Palma thriller Blow Out — on the wall of my home office. I love Saturday Night Fever and Grease, the two films that made Travolta the biggest star of the late ’70s.

Those movies prove how terrific he can be. He can sing and dance. He can do comedy, drama and action. He’s cool, yet unafraid to be vulnerable or goofy. He’s the rare screen presence who can simply turn toward the camera and make us wonder, “Who is that guy?”

I don’t think I need to tell you that, post-Grease, Travolta’s fame waxed and waned. It was Pulp Fiction that famously revitalized his career in 1994, leading to

barn-burning starring roles in Get Shorty, Phenomenon, Michael and Face/Off. And then things dried up again, but this latest slump is even more dire than the last. So what happened… again? Is it his well-publicized role in the Church of Scientology? Is it the sexual misconduct allegations that have dogged him? Does he have the world’s worst agent?

Let’s look at the films themselves. Other than his Emmy-nominated performance as Robert Shapiro on the limited series American Crime Story, Travolta has mostly been turning up in movies that seem to have been made specifically to fill up a gas station Redbox. His Rotten Tomatoes profile lists five consecutive films with zero percent scores between 2016 and now; most of them weren’t released in enough theaters to collect box office receipts.

Recognize any of his recent features? How about the Death Wish riff I Am Wrath? Or Trading Paint, where he stars as a racecar driver with a rebellious son? Have you seen The Poison Rose, a neo-noir co-starring the similarly slumming Morgan Freeman? Or the hilariously inept Gotti, an embarrassing Scorsese knockoff in which he scowled and mugged as the infamous crime boss?

Maybe you have seen one of those forgettable titles, because they often pop up for weeklong engagements

in Spokane theaters, likely because of the star’s local ties. And a few of them, including The Fanatic, were coproduced by Richard Salvatore, who was behind such made-in-Spokane classics as Whacked!, starring Carmen Electra, and the Cuba Gooding Jr. vehicles End Game and Lies & Illusions.

But I shudder to think what could be beneath the bottom of the barrel that is The Fanatic. Travolta can be as magnetic as any performer alive, but all of his acting choices in this movie are fatal. It’s not enough that he gave Moose a hunched posture and mannered hand gestures; he also dons a bizarre haircut, loud Hawaiian shirts and a bright purple kids’ backpack. Moose feels like he shuffled out of a terrible improv exercise, wherein the actor merely grabbed a bunch of random props and then adopted an offensive caricature of a person on the autism spectrum (which Travolta has confirmed Moose is).

The movie is ugly and nihilistic and tone deaf, and it often feels like a vessel for Travolta to lash out at being back in show-biz jail. His target of his ire, though, is everyone — the Hollywood establishment, the paparazzi, the fans — but himself, and I’m afraid he’s only got himself to blame. He needs to be thrown a lifesaver in the form of another Pulp Fiction. n

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OPENING FILMS AD ASTRA

In this heady sci-fi parable, Brad Pitt travels across the solar system to find his long-lost astronaut father. A tip of the space helmet to Solaris, Interstellar and 2001. (NW) Rated PG-13

DOWNTON ABBEY

The beloved British series gets a big

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screen sequel, fast-forwarding to 1927 to catch us up on all the goings-on of the titular estate and its stiff-upperlipped inhabitants. (NW) Rated PG

HONEYLAND

An indigenous beekeeper has her land in rural Macedonia encroached upon by a nomadic family that threatens her

NOW PLAYING ANGEL HAS FALLEN

Gerard Butler returns as President Morgan Freeman’s most reliable Secret Service agent, and this time he’s framed as an assassin. (NW) Rated R

THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN

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

BRITTANY RUNS A MARATHON

Jillian Bell plays a woman who decides to stop partying and get in shape, with the New York Marathon as an end goal.

Predictable, Sundance-y comedy elevated by the charms of its star. (NW) Rated R

DAVID CROSBY: REMEMBER MY NAME

The loves, losses and vices of the folkrock pioneer are chronicled in this entertaining doc, a refreshingly candid portrait of a prickly subject. At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Rated R

FAST & FURIOUS PRESENTS: HOBBS & SHAW

Former foes Jason Statham and Dwayne Johnson go the mismatched buddycomedy route, begrudgingly teaming up to fight super-soldier Idris Elba. A mostly forgettable Fast & Furious franchise spinoff. (NW) Rated PG-13

THE GOLDFINCH

Donna Tartt’s Pulitzer-winning novel comes to the screen, an epic picaresque about an aimless young man, his connection to his dead mother and a stolen painting that haunts him. (NW) Rated R

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GOOD BOYS

A trio of 11-year-olds encounter obstacles on their way to a big-kid party in what’s best described as Superbad about the middle school set. Raunchy, funny and unexpectedly sly. (MJ) Rated R

colony. An intimate documentary with the visual sweep of an epic narrative. At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Not Rated

Starring Keira Knightley, Matt Smith and Ralph Fiennes. (NW) Rated R

OFFICIAL SECRETS

Sylvester Stallone has already brought back Rocky, so hey — why not Rambo, too? The super soldier’s final mission involves him going after a drug cartel that has kidnapped his niece. (NW) Rated R

The true story of British whistleblower Katharine Gun, who, in the leadup to the Iraq War, leaked an NSA memo that promoted a blackmailing operation.

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IT: CHAPTER TWO

The follow-up to 2017’s horror smash is a leaden, overlong slog, with those precious kids, now jaded adults, returning to Derry to finally kill the evil force that is Pennywise the clown. Nothing floats here. (MJ) Rated R

LINDA RONSTADT: THE SOUND OF MY VOICE

The towering rock vocalist receives the affectionate career retrospective treatment, looking back at her groundbreaking legacy and talents that were silenced by Parkinson’s. At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Rated PG-13

THE LION KING

Sure, it’s nowhere near as good as the original, but this CGI remake of Disney’s 1994 classic is nonetheless an entertaining, visually sumptuous jungle adventure. The stories and songs remain foolproof — hakuna matata, indeed.

(SS) Rated PG

MAIDEN

A documentary about a group of young women who entered the 1989 Whitbread yacht race, the first entirely

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Based on the true story of strippers who swindled their Wall Street customers, this is a terrific, intelligent heist film. Director Lorene Scafaria weaves sympathy, sensitivity and humor into the tricky clockwork plot. (MJ) Rated R

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female crew to do so. At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Rated PG

ONCE UPON A TIME… IN HOLLYWOOD

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

OVERCOMER

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

THE PEANUT BUTTER FALCON

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

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

SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME

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

TOY STORY 4

Pixar’s most beloved franchise returns to assault your tear ducts. Having been given to a new owner, Woody and Buzz Lightyear have some familiar funfilled adventures while also ruminating about the existential angst of being a toy. (MJ) Rated G n

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Bee movie: Honeyland is the rare documentary that could snag an Oscar nod for its cinematography.

Good Buzz Rural Turkish beekeepers spar with one another and the wrath of nature in the beautifully photographed documentary Honeyland

BY NATHAN WEINBENDER

T

he opening images of the documentary Honeyland instantly establish the film’s visual strategy: It shows us a beautiful and expansive landscape, then zooms in on the people who occupy it, revealing just how inhospitable these places can be.

In a breathtaking wide shot, we see a speck of a woman, a shock of bright yellow against the green and brown of the Macedonian countryside.

She moves deliberately through a clearing, then up a mountain and onto a narrow, precarious cliffside pathway. As we get closer to her, we watch as she kneels and chips away a chunk of rock, revealing a colony of bees buzzing away.

She removes a chunk of the honeycomb and some of the bees, and climbs down again. She sings a ceremonial song to the insects for good measure. They’re her livelihood.

We soon learn that the woman is named Hatidze. She lives outside the city of Skopje in a stone hut with her elderly mother, who is going deaf and can only see out of one eye. Hatidze keeps a small bee colony inside a stone wall on her property, and she occasionally heads into the city to sell her honey to the vendors at a bustling marketplace. A preternatural calm radiates from her, particularly when she’s handling the bees.

She doesn’t even wear protective gloves, as if she trusts them not to sting her.

The same sense of serenity does not apply to Hatidze’s next door neighbors, the nomadic Sam family, nine people crammed inside a roving camper. They’re raising cattle — and not particularly well, it seems — but the father, Hussein, soon decides to start keeping bees himself. This negatively affects Hatidze’s own operation, as her bees start to die. “May God burn their livers!”

her mother warbles from her bed in the corner.

Honeyland is more immersive and experiential than informative or polemical; there’s no narration, no talking head interviews, no on-screen chyrons telling us who’s who and how they’re related to one another. If you’re seeking information about the beekeeping process, look elsewhere. Directors Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov instead let us figure out the details ourselves, allowing narrative threads to slowly emerge from seemingly disconnected images.

There are scenes so packed with detail that they feel pulled from a scripted feature. The family crowded around a transistor radio, desperately trying to hear the weather report. A sketchy merchant from the city haggling with Hussein for a cut of his honey. One of Hussein’s sons growing steadily disenchanted with the process of harvesting honey, only to find a friend in the more resolute Hatidze. The cattle succumbing to an unknown sickness, and Hussein pointing fingers at everyone but himself.

All of this is lovingly shot by Fejmi Daut and Samir Ljuma; this is the rare documentary that could conceivably score an Oscar nomination for its cinematography.

HONEYLAND Drones elegantly reveal the sweep of the Not Rated Directed by Tamara Kotevska, land, handheld camerawork mires us in Ljubomir Stefanov the muck of the cattle At the Magic Lantern operation, up-close photography lets us see the bees at work, and unbroken static shots create stark tableaux.

Some moments are so gorgeously staged and framed, in fact, that I had to wonder how spontaneous they could possibly be; others are intimate in a way that sometimes made me feel as if I was encroaching on things I wasn’t meant to see.

I’m left, then, with questions about the methods behind the filmmaking — how the directors found these people, how hands-off they really were in their approach, how the subjects themselves felt about a camera crew prying into their distinctly analog lifestyle and capturing them at their most vulnerable.

And yet there’s a visual lyricism to Honeyland that pulled me in, and Hatidze has one of those faces, stoic and weathered and full of wisdom, I won’t soon forget. It’s a document of a gorgeous but unforgiving place, of people who either resist its harshness or adapt to it, and of a land that can take away just as much as it can give. n

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ROCK

BITING BACK

Portland’s Summer Cannibals feast on fuzz on their new album Can’t Tell Me No

BY C.A. COYLE

O

ne of the loudest shows I’ve seen in recent memory was Portland’s Summer Cannibals promoting their 2015 full-length Show Us Your Mind. My biggest takeaway that night was how effortlessly frontwoman and lead guitarist Jessica Boudreaux churned out hook after hook — all of which sounded like a buzzsaw on its last leg.

It only takes a song or two into the set to realize that Boudreaux’s guitar playing is the crux of the combo.

Out in front — and typically strangled by fuzz — the one-woman riff factory bestows the raw, “pre”-grunge of Greg Sage (Wipers) or sewer-guitar of Rob Vasquez (Nights and Days); hooks vary from Black Sabbath to Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. But unlike a lead axe in a band centered around whatever shots the guitarist is calling, Boudreaux stresses she’s not the focal point when it comes to piecing together the Cannibals’ material. She says her guitar parts aren’t really born until hearing a drum beat or bass line first.

This approach, paired with some lineup changes, has made for arguably the band’s strongest effort yet in Can’t Tell Me No on Tiny Engines Records.

As a whole, Can’t Tell Me No still bears the familiar off-leash element of Boudreaux’s guitar work, but finds its songs drifting down a dark, ominous river, making turbulent turns along the way not unlike the melodic-yet-unpredictable sides of Sonic Youth or Pavement.

Anytime the production begins to feel a little too slick, the heaviness finds a way to create some sort of disarray.

The album’s title track blazes along a choppy beat, with surges of fuzz intermittently firing off ahead of a

giant chorus with Boudreaux chanting, “Can’t tell me no!” By contrast, near the album’s end is “Spin,” a borderline shoegaze anthem. Loaded guitars weave through a ballad that depicts a story of helplessly watching a toxic relationship from afar.

The widening sound on the band’s fourth full-length isn’t so much a change of direction as it is a change in supporting cast and outlook. The album features newbies Cassi Blum and Ethan Butman joining Boudreaux and mainstay drummer Devon Shirley — all of whom embrace the new record’s experimentation and rejection of boundaries.

Prior to Boudreaux recruiting Blum for the Cannibals, the two had been running a home recording studio in Boudreaux’s basement, tracking and mixing predominantly Portland-based rock acts. The pair’s expertise paved the way for the band to engineer and produce Can’t Tell Me No on their own.

“On a personal level, [the new additions] are great,”

says Boudreaux, who believes the immediate commitment from the new blood has electrified her always-expanding desire to tour and make records. “But Cassi and Ethan both have brought a lot to the sound of the band — and to the new record. I think we’re all really excited for the next one because the plan is to just keep making [this] more and more collaborative.”

The new album’s June release symbolizes more than just the completion of a new record with new members, however. The roughly two years leading up to Can’t Tell Me No were marred by the end of a tumultuous relationship between Boudreaux and an industry-related person connected to the band. In the aftermath of the blowup, Boudreaux and the band chose to scrap an entire Summer Cannibals album that was ready to be released — all because of the person’s involvement.

Some might be quick to assume that for the Cannibals not to release the album is a sign of defeat, or would be allowing their artistic expression to be suppressed.

However, trashing it was Boudreaux’s way of ensuring no one could financially benefit from the music. To her, songs aren’t worth it.

“I’ve never been precious about the music I write,” says Boudreaux. “A song is a song to me. I know a song can mean so much [to someone], it can change somebody’s life, it can help people out through really tough things. But when I write a song, I close the session and I write a new song. I feel proud of the record [Summer Cannibals] made before the new one, but I knew that I could write a record just as good, if not better.

And I could do it without the weight of someone’s hand on it.

“At the end of the day, it’s just a record. It’s not gonna cure cancer.” n Summer Cannibals with Wild Powwers and Itchy Kitty • Sun, Sept. 22 at 8 pm • $10 advance, $12 day of • All ages • The Bartlett • 228 W. Sprague • thebartlettspokane.com • 747-2174

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MUSIC | MIXTAPE

Fond Farewells Spokane remembers beloved musician Ken Martello, and the Bartlett announces its closure

BY NATHAN WEINBENDER

MUSICAL MEMORIAL

Anyone who has been following the Spokane music scene for long enough has likely danced to the music of Ken Martello, who was most notably a founding member of the popular local band Soul Proprietor. Martello died earlier this summer after a battle with cancer, and some of his musical cohorts are gathering on Friday, Sept.

20, at the House of Soul (25 E. Lincoln) to honor him. All proceeds from the event will go toward the Martello family.

“On the one hand, it’s a tribute to a great human being and musician, and it’s also a fundraiser for Ken Martello the family,” says Gary Edighoffer, who played with Martello in Soul Proprietor. “He was just such a great guy. He’d give you the shirt off his back, to quote a cliche.”

Martello first began Soul Proprietor 25 years ago, Edighoffer says, and their decade-plus initial run involved countless shows — including a gig as the house band for Ankeny’s restaurant at the top of the old Ridpath — before they disbanded sometime around 2008. A couple years after that, Martello decided to reform Soul Proprietor, which is when Edighoffer joined as tenor sax player.

The band’s nine-person lineup has stayed more or less the same since, though Martello was the only consistent member over the band’s long history. Soul Proprietor was modeled on the sound of the legendary soul-funk act Tower of

Morihiko Nakahara, Conductor Hugh Panaro, Vocals Morgan James, Vocals

A crowd outside the Bartlett during Volume 2018.

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Power, and Martello’s bass style was inspired by that group’s bassist, Rocco Prestia.

It’s fitting, then, that a tribute to Martello is going to be overloaded with music, including local blues-rock favorite Sammy Eubanks, former Rare Earth singer/drummer Peter Rivera’s band Celebrate, the old-school R&B ensemble Nu Jack City and, of course, Soul Proprietor itself. The band will continue on, which is what Martello would have wanted, Edighoffer says.

“We wanted to do this before Ken passed as our tribute to him,” Edighoffer says. “But I’m sure he’ll be aware of it.”

Doors open at 6 pm, when a silent auction will be held; prizes include a soprano sax and a Fender jazz bass donated by Hoffman Music (Edighoffer says Martello himself often played this very instrument). The musical lineup then kicks off at 7 pm and goes late into the evening.

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Morgan James, Vocals Hugh Panaro, Vocals

Broadway stars Hugh Panaro and Morgan James perform blockbuster hits from Goldfinger, Live and Let Die, Diamonds are Forever, Skyfall, and more.

THE BARTLETT BIDS ADIEU

Unless you’ve been walking around with your fingers in your ears for the last week, then you’ve heard the downtown all-ages venue the Bartlett is shutting its doors in November.

“It’s time for us to move on,” co-owners Caleb and Karli Ingersoll wrote on Facebook.

“As musicians, it’s still one of our favorite places to play, and as music fans it’s one of our favorite places to go to a show. If we’re being completely honest, it’s one of the best small venues that’s ever existed. And we’ve been to a lot of venues around the country.”

As for the Ingersolls’ other venue, the relatively new Browne’s Addition club Lucky You Lounge — it will “continue on as planned and get even more of our attention,” Karli Ingersoll tells the Inlander.

The future of the Bartlett space itself is less certain, though whatever it becomes won’t carry the Bartlett brand. “[Building owner] Dan Spalding is open to what could happen in the space,” Ingersoll says via email. “[We] are open to selling the equipment and turning over the space to someone who might want to run something similar.”

The Bartlett opened in late 2013 on the heels of several venue closures, and it helped fill a gap in the city’s all-ages music scene. You still have plenty of chances to see a show there before the lights go out — they’re booked pretty solid through October — and a farewell show is being planned for Nov. 8. We’ll update you with details when we know more. n

It’s a musical salute to our veterans from all branches of the armed forces, with patriotic music and popular songs from each era of American military involvement.

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PUNK MIKE WATT

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hen it comes to Mike Watt’s “punk” music, it’s defined more by his DIY work ethic and willingness to go in any sonic direction than by any mohawked stereotypes. Since his days in the pioneering Minutemen and more recent stints in the Stooges and as a solo artist, Watt’s bass-first approach has led him down aural alleys ranging from jazz to funk to rock. His diverse tastes are exemplified by cover tunes he’s done through the years — Van Halen, Madonna, Public Enemy — and his backing Missingmen (guitarist Tom Watson, drummer Nick Aguilar) help him delve into all eras of a career that stretches back nearly four decades.

— DAN NAILEN Mike Watt and the Missingmen • Wed, Sept.

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219 LOUNGE, Paul and Ieva Cataldo A&P’S BAR AND GRILL, Open Mic ARBOR CREST WINE, Dan Conrad J THE BARTLETT, SISTERS, Ray Badness BERSERK, Vinyl Meltdown BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn THE BIG DOG BAR & GRILL, DJ Dave BOBBI’S BAR, PowerHouse Band J BOOTS BAKERY, The Song Project BRIDGE PRESS CELLARS, Open Mic J BUCER’S, Open Jazz Jam CRUISERS, Open Jam Night FIZZIE MULLIGANS, Country Dance THE GILDED UNICORN, Queen Suite J HOUSE OF SOUL, Jazz Thursdays JOHN’S ALLEY, Dirk Quinn Band J LAGUNA CAFÉ, Just Plain Darin LEFTBANK WINE, Jonathan Tibbitts LION’S LAIR, Karaoke LUCKY YOU LOUNGE, Stolen Jars, Lads J MONARCH MOUNTAIN COFFEE, Open Mic Hosted by Scott Reid MOOSE LOUNGE, Last Chance Band MOOTSY’S, HEVVY, Merlock MOUNTAIN LAKES BREWING CO., Steven King THE NYC PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos O’SHAYS IRISH PUB, O’Pen Mic RAZZLE’S BAR & GRILL, Tommy G RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos J J SPOKANE ARENA, Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band STELLA’S ON THE HILL, Brian Sacco TAPP’D OFF, Karaoke on the Patio THE STEAM PLANT, Wyatt Wood ZOLA, Blake Braley Band

Friday, 09/20

219 LOUNGE, B Radicals A&P’S BAR AND GRILL, DJ Skwish THE AGING BARREL, Just Plain Darin BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn THE BIG DOG BAR & GRILL, DJ Dave

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oah Gundersen not only called his newest album Lover, the same title as Taylor Swift’s latest blockbuster, but he dropped his the same day as the pop superstar’s. Surely coincidental, though it nonetheless suggests an artist unafraid of risk. The Seattle singer-songwriter’s past work has fallen on the folkier side of things, but Lover finds him experimenting with sultry electronic beats and spare arrangements that sometimes allow room noise to sink into the record’s bones. It’s clearly a deeply personal collection of songs, with its themes of mental health, drunken regret, romantic dissolution and rebirth.

Gundersen’s strong voice cuts through it all, haunted but wise.

— NATHAN WEINBENDER Noah Gundersen • Sun, Sept. 22 at 8 pm • $20 advance, $25 day of • 21+ • Lucky You Lounge • 1801 W. Sunset Blvd. • luckyyoulounge.com BIGFOOT PUB, Kicho J J BING CROSBY THEATER, Tab Benoit, Whiskey Bayou Revue BOBBI’S BAR, The PowerHouse Band BOLO’S, My Own Worst Enemy BOOMBOX PIZZA, Karaoke BRIDGE PRESS CELLARS, Dragon ly J BUCER’S, Red Light Challenge THE BULL HEAD, Roundabout CHINOOK STEAK, PASTA AND SPIRITS (CDA CASINO), Into the Drift CORBY’S BAR, Karaoke COSMIC COWBOY GRILL, Ron Greene CRUISERS, Karaoke with Gary CURLEY’S, The Happiness J DOWNTOWN COEUR D’ALENE, OktoberFest feat. JamShack J FORZA COFFEE CO., The DIGaddie J HOUSE OF SOUL, What Is Hip! Celebration of Ken Martello (see page 81) IDAHO POUR AUTHORITY, Bright Moments Jazz

IRON HORSE (COEUR D’ALENE), The Ryan Larsen Band THE JACKSON ST., Last Chance Band JOHN’S ALLEY, Dodgy Mountain Men LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Nic Vigil MARYHILL WINERY, Joey Anderson MATCHWOOD BREWING, Monarch Mountain Band MAX AT MIRABEAU, Mojo Box MICKDUFF’S BEER HALL, Devon Wade MOOSE LOUNGE, Rewind MOOTSY’S, Dark White Light, Trash Casket NASHVILLE NORTH, Ladies Night NIGHTHAWK LOUNGE (CDA CASINO), Dangerous Type THE NYC PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Echo Elysium RED ROOM LOUNGE, Jus Wright, Drey808, WillisTheRealist RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos J RIVERSTONE PARK, The Powers

THE ROXIE, Karaoke with Tom SILVER MOUNTAIN (NOAH’S), Son of Brad SPOKANE EAGLES LODGE, TNT STORMIN’ NORMAN’S, DJ Danger UP NORTH DISTILLERY, Bill Bozly ZOLA, Karma’s Circle

Saturday, 09/21

12 TRIBES RESORT CASINO, Radio 80 219 LOUNGE, Donnie Emerson & Nancy Sophia 1210 TAVERN, Jan Harrison Blues Band A&P’S BAR AND GRILL, DJ Exodus J THE BARTLETT, KnowMads, Common Market, All Star Opera J BERSERK, Kristy White Fundraiser with Big Raffle, Lip Sick, Peru Resh BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn BIGFOOT PUB, Kicho BOLO’S, My Own Worst Enemy BRIDGE PRESS CELLARS, Dragon ly BULL HEAD, Bobby Patterson Band

CHINOOK STEAK, PASTA AND SPIRITS (CDA CASINO), Into the Drift COSMIC COWBOY GRILL, Sam Leyde CURLEY’S, The Happiness J DOWNTOWN COEUR D’ALENE, OktoberFest feat. Royale, Pastiche & more HOUSE OF SOUL, Nu Jack City J HUCKLEBERRY’S NATURAL MARKET, Nick Grow IDAHO POUR AUTHORITY, John Firshi IRON HORSE (COEUR D’ALENE), The Ryan Larsen Band THE JACKSON ST., Karaoke J KNITTING FACTORY, Riley Green LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Kari Marguerite LUCKY YOU LOUNGE, Yip Deceiver MAX AT MIRABEAU, Mojo Box MOOSE LOUNGE, Rewind NASHVILLE NORTH, Ladies Night NIGHTHAWK LOUNGE (CDA CASINO), Dangerous Type

THE NYC PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos PACIFIC PIZZA, Big Raffle PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Justin Lantrip POST FALLS BREWING COMPANY, Eric Neuhausser RED ROOM LOUNGE, DJ D3vin3 REPUBLIC BREWING CO., Michael McGarrah RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos J RIVERSTONE PARK, The Powers J SILVER MOUNTAIN (NOAH’S), Just Plain Darin SPOKANE EAGLES LODGE, Bruce & Betsy Mullen STORMIN’ NORMAN’S, DJ Danger TOWNSHEND CELLAR, Maxie Ray Mills THE VIKING, Nathan Chartrey, Joey Anderson & Shaiden Hutchman WESTWOOD BREWING, Son of Brad ZOLA, Karma’s Circle

Sunday, 09/22

ARBOR CREST WINE, Step Brothers J J THE BARTLETT, Summer Cannibals (see page 80), Wild Powwers, Itchy Kitty CHECKERBOARD BAR, Mortal Ashes, Embryocide, Throneburner CRUISERS, Dino Romanelli

CRAVE, DJ Dave GARLAND PUB & GRILL, Karaoke LITZ’S BAR, Blues Happy Hour THE NYC PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos J THE PIN, BI·AS, Natas Lived & more RAZZLE’S BAR, Open Mic Jam RIDLER PIANO BAR, Country Swing Dancing THE ROXIE, Open Mic/Jam J SWEET LOU’S, Just Plain Darin TAPP’D OFF, Karaoke on the Patio THE VIKING, Dave McRae ZOLA, Desperate 8s

Wednesday, 09/25 219 LOUNGE, Truck Mills J THE BARTLETT, Cataldo, Plastic Picnic, Bodies on the Beach BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn

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J BING CROSBY THEATER, Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio J BLACK DIAMOND, Josh Fiegel CRAVE, DJ Dave CRUISERS, Open Jam Night EICHARDT’S, John Firshi J FORZA COFFEE (GU), Dan & Drum GENO’S, Open Mic IRON HORSE (CDA), Open Jam IRON HORSE (VALLEY), Just Plain Darin THE JACKSON ST., Karaoke J KENDALL YARDS, Jessica Haffner LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Carey Brazil J LUCKY YOU LOUNGE, Mike Watt & The Missingmen (see facing page) LUCKY’S IRISH PUB, DJ D3VIN3 THE NYC PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos

J ONE WORLD CAFE, Palouse Forro J THE PIN, Pound, thrpii, Odyssey J RED DRAGON CHINESE, Tommy G RED ROOM LOUNGE, Jam Session RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos RIVER ROCK TAPHOUSE, Echo Elysium SOULFUL SOUPS & SPIRITS, Open Mic STORMIN’ NORMAN’S, Gil Rivas ZOLA, Donnie Emerson & Nancy Sophia

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COMMUNITY VALLEY RALLY

For three decades, residents of Spokane Valley have rallied together to host this annual three-day festival showcasing the community’s friendly spirit. Valleyfest’s 30th anniversary brings back many favorite festival events, including Friday evening’s Hearts of Gold Parade down Sprague (7 pm), Responsible Dog Ownership Day (Sunday) and Fishing at the Falls (Saturday). New this year is the “Flamingo Rescue” event to benefit the Valleyfest Children’s Foundation, and a celebration of the Periodic Table’s 150th birthday as part of special STEM events for all ages. The list of things to do is long, and also includes a family bike ride, comedy, car show, outdoor movie, pancake breakfast and fun run. Find all the details and the full event schedule online.

— CHEY SCOTT Valleyfest • Fri, Sept. 20 through Sun, Sept. 22 • Free • All ages • Spokane Valley: Mirabeau Park, CenterPlace Regional Event Center, Plantes Ferry Park • valleyfest.org • 922-3299

MUSIC BLUES DUDE

Considering the storied musical history of New Orleans and the surrounding areas, being elected to the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame is no small feat. That’s just the beginning of the accolades that Delta blues ace Tab Benoit has racked up over a 30-year career. A masterful guitarist with a soulful voice to boot, Benoit’s talents have taken him around the world, and onto stages with peers like Dr. John, Allen Toussaint and a bunch of different Neville brothers. A five-times-over Blues Music Award winner, Benoit is also an environmental activist who’s worked tirelessly to protect Louisiana’s threatened coastal waters through his Voice of the Wetlands organization.

— DAN NAILEN Tab Benoit • Fri, Sept. 20 at 8 pm • $29-$45 • All ages • Bing Crosby Theater • 901 W. Sprague • bingcrosbytheater.com • 227-7638

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WORDS GRAMMAR GIRL, AND THEN SOME

Martha Brockenbrough’s catalog of books — award-winning novels to YA lit, nonfiction biographies to picture books — is easily enough to recommend going to hear her talk when she hits Spokane. But her list of achievements doesn’t stop there, and some of the other things she’s done has hit this word geek right in the sweet spot. For example, Brockenbrough established National Grammar Day back in 2008 (she is, after all, founder of the Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar). She’s also authored game questions for both Cranium and Trivial Pursuit (swoon!). Her appearance will surely touch on her Trump biography Unpresidented and her Washington State Book Award winner The Game of Love and Death, but I’m hoping she throws some trivia at the audience, too.

— DAN NAILEN An Evening with Martha Brockenbrough • Thu, Sept. 19 at 7 pm • Free • Auntie’s Bookstore • 402 W. Main • auntiesbooks.com • 838-0206

COMMUNITY NEIGHBORLY LOVE

Porches are the centerpiece of the local music scene this Saturday, big stages and arenas be damned. For the sixth time, West Central Spokane is opening its porches to local musicians and poets for PorchFest 2019. As part of a nationwide movement that began in Ithaca, New York, in 2007, PorchFest has grown every year in Spokane, and this year aims to have more performers than ever. West Central residents are the majority of the hosts and performers, so you’ll get a great taste of the neighborhood no matter where or when you go. Sets start throughout the afternoon, so you’ll have plenty of time to stroll, get to know the neighborhood, and enjoy some laid-back live music, free of charge. Performers and locations are still being finalized; visit porchfestwestcentral.com for updates.

— CONNOR GILBERT PorchFest 2019 • Sat, Sept. 21 from 3-7 pm • Free • All ages • porchfestwestcentral.com

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DANCE THE AIR UP THERE

The laws of gravity exist only to be defied by the aerial dancers of California’s AirAligned Academy, who perform remarkable feats of flexibility and agility while dangling off fabric hanging from the ceiling — it’s not unlike Cirque du Soleil. The academy’s artistic director, Tresa Honaker, is a former aerial dancer herself, and though she was in an aerial accident that left her paralyzed, she’s still choreographing routines and spreading the beauty of the artform around the country. During this weekend’s performance, the AirAligned dancers will appear with members of the Spokane Aerial Performance Arts troupe, as well as dancer Sherrie Martin, who’s still flying through the air at 60 years old.

— NATHAN WEINBENDER Spokane Aerial with AirAligned and Sherrie Martin • Sat, Sept.

21 at 7:30 pm • $27 • All ages • Bing Crosby Theater • 901 W. Sprague • bingcrosbytheater.com • 227-7638

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end, you didn’t let that phase you. You kept the line moving with smiles on your faces, when there was a distraction you just blew it off! I’m impressed!

There should be more people like you!

Way to go Charlie and Katie!!

CHEERS TO THE LITTLE BIG ONES!!! ...to the Lillies that rise to meet the rain, to the rivers that flow with the music of legends, to the bravin’ the STRONG, the Journey is on...Walk in love and harmony... ALWAYS (: (...’TILL WE’RE ‘OLE-SUN!!!) - Caseopea

I SAW YOU CUTE BIKER BOY Handsome, tall, blonde/brown haired dude with old man/hipster glasses. You ride a red fixed gear bike with black rims and your frame is covered with stickers. I’m in love. Let’s rob a bank, get away on our bikes, and start a new life together in South America. You are HOT! SAFEWAY SMILES I saw you at the Hillyard Safeway on Saturday. You looked fantastic in gray. Your sense of humor had me giggling. I’d love to get lunch with you sometime soon.

CHEERS SO BRAVE! Cheers to Nadine Woodward for so bravely attending the Our Town Gala in Riverfront Park on 9/13. You courageously showed up in downtown Spokane despite all the drug-addicted crazies that you see around every corner of our fair city!

MOVING IT ALONG NICELY! To the girls at the Spokane Valley Costco exit door. Being on a busy payday week-

JEERS WEAK SAUCE If you make someone a job offer and rescind the offer at the last minute, it’s pretty telling of a lack of ethics and professionalism. Never in all my years in the service industry would I think to do that. It’s shameful to do that to a person just trying to get back on their feet. You’ve lost me as a great potential employee and forever as a customer. If this is how you operate, I can only imagine how you treat your existing employees. Word of mouth travels fast in this industry and some voices carry weight.

JEERS TO THE CULTURE OF AMERICA The culture that places an angry man’s right to have access to military grade weaponry above everyone else’s right to go to an outdoor music event, shopping center, work and school without being shot and killed. “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people.” Yeah, I know, but do you notice how many people die from gunshot wounds at major sporting events? Not many, because security at baseball parks and football stadiums is so tight that

no one packing a handgun, shotgun, AK-47 assault rifle makes it in. If ever there was an environment roiling with heated emotion and irrational thinking, it is a sporting event. Maybe

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that’s it, America: The Game. Exciting, Bloody, High-Impact! Get It Now! Massacre American Style Part I and II, No One Gets Out Alive! Yes, it’s the culture stupid. Canada is at least as well armed as we are, but their rates of antisocial mass shootings are far outpaced by our weekly assassinations of total strangers. I was a child in the ‘70s, we talked about guns and killing like it was cool. None of us actually had guns. In the ‘50s, kids played Cowboys and Indians and Cops and Robbers, how many mass shootings happened between 1950 and 1980? No idea, but I bet people of those decades couldn’t fathom an America where hundreds of everyday Americans lose their lives to gun violence at rates higher than the fictionalized killings oozing across their television screens. Solution? An utterly unimaginable sea change in America that sees willing surrender of firearms, gun laws with teeth, intensive mental health treatment for men on the edge, and a culture that values masculinity outside of its too close relationship to violence. Best hope: we “grow out” of this obsession/fascina-

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SKATEBOARDERS Again, this is a public safety issue. One late night as I exited a front door at River Park Square, after a movie, a tall man on a skateboard almost hit me. He was going at a high rate of speed on the sidewalk. He knows better, yet he continues his game of public joyride and intimidation. Others’ injuries should never be the expense of his fleeting “happiness.” Stop indiscriminate public skateboarding UN-BREAK MY HEART Everynight I drench my pillow in tears because I miss you so much. You left me for another woman and my heart is broken. You have banned me from your life but I am still madly in love with you. I wrote songs about you that I wish you could hear. I told you there will never be another woman who

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WATER SUMMIT: DISCOVERING THE UNSEEN The Lake Pend Oreille Waterkeeper is celebrating its 10-year anniversary with a summit discussing technology and scientific breakthroughs that influence water quality. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. serves as keynote. Sep. 20, 6-9 pm. $35. Panida Theater, 300 N. First. lakependoreillewaterkeeper.org THE CUTTER BENEFIT DINER & AUCTION The annual event benefits the upkeep of this historic theater in Metaline Falls. Includes dinner and an auction.

Sep. 21, 5:30 pm. $20. Cutter Theatre, 302 Park. facebook.com/cuttertheatre MAC ART AUCTION The annual art auction benefiting the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture’s art acquisition fund returns, featuring local artists’ work for sale. Includes a reception and dinner.

Sept. 21, 5:30-9:30 pm. $100/person.

The MAC, 2316 W. First. (363-5357) RAISING THE ROOF Shop from over 30 local small businesses. Includes a raffle and silent auction items, with proceeds benefiting the Gathering House. Sep. 21, 10 am-3 pm. Free. The Gathering House, 733 W. Garland. (747-2818) SCENES & SONGS FOR THE REFUGE An event featuring local musicians, artists, photography, a silent auction, food and more to support The Friends of Turnbull Wildlife Refuge’s K-12 environmental education. Sep. 21, noon. Free.

Wren Pierson Community Center, 615 Fourth St., Cheney. fotnwr.org ONE LIFE AT A TIME A benefit luncheon for the nonprofit Christ Kitchen, with food and a keynote by local business owner Kevin Parker. Sep. 23, 11:45 am. $40. Christ Kitchen, 2410 N. Monroe St. christkitchen.org (325-4343) INVESTING IN DREAMS FOR NORTH IDAHO COLLEGE Anthony’s Coeur d’Alene serves a four-course seafood dinner and wine pairing to benefit the North Idaho College Foundation. Reservations required. Sep. 24, 5:30-8:30 pm. $100. Anthony’s at Coeur d’Alene, 1926 W. Riverstone Dr. nic.edu/give A MARTINI AFFAIR Safe Passage’s annual event, featuring dinner, beverages, silent/live auctions, a wine grab and more. The event raises funds to support the unique needs of survivors of violence in our community. Sep. 25, 5:30-8:30 pm. $50. safepassageid.org

COMEDY

MICHAEL QUU & THE FULL THROTTLE COMEDY TOUR Originally a staple of the Hollywood comedy scene, Full Throttle Comedy now tours across the nation.

Sept. 19-21 at 7:30 pm, Sept. 21 at 10 pm. $8-$22. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com NO CLUE Join the BDT Players as they put a comedic spin on this favorite macabre guessing game. Fridays at 7:30 pm through Oct. 25. $8. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. bluedoortheatre.com SAFARI The BDT’s version of “Whose Line,” a fast-paced short-form improv show with a few twists added. Fridays at 7:30 pm. $8. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheatre.com ROASTAMANIA Four comedians perform stand-up and then go head to head in a tournament-style battle of wits and insults. Sept. 22 at 7:30 pm. $5-$12. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com

DEMETRI MARTIN The standup comedian, artist, writer and director has released three comedy albums and four standup comedy specials, including his latest for Netflix, “The Overthinker.”

Sep. 26, 7 pm. $39.50. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. foxtheaterspokane.org (624-1200)

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APPETITE FOR CONSERVATION Enjoy local cuisine and hear about how to help facilitate the protection of natural areas through the Inland Northwest Land Conservancy. Sept. 19, 5:30 pm. $56.88-$65. Riverside Place, 1108 W. Riverside. recspokane.com (747-1200) SPOTTING FAKE NEWS & IMAGES ON THE WEB This presentation offers tools to assess the validity of online news and images, covers technology being used to deceive, and resources the library offers that can help. Sep. 19, 6-7:30 pm.

Free. Post Falls Library, 821 N. Spokane St. bit.ly/2lBoC6R THURSDAY NIGHT LIVE Join the MAC for the final concert in the Summer TNL Concert Series with funk/soul/rock band Haley Young and the Bossame in the amphitheater. Visit new exhibitions and join a guided gallery talk. Sep. 19, 5-9 pm. Free/$5. The MAC, 2316 W. First. northwestmuseum.org PARK(ING) IT ON SHERMAN BLOCK PARTY The intersection of 14th Street and East Sherman hosts a community block party with live music, a kids’ bike rodeo, dog scavenger hunt, interactive booths, beer/wine vendors, market vendors and other entertainment. Sep. 20, 4-9 pm. Free. Downtown Coeur d’Alene. bit.ly/2khfQuq SOUTHEAST SPOKANE COUNTY FAIR The community fair for all of south Spokane and Kootenai counties offers exhibits, animals, a parade, entertainment, a fun run, craft vendors, a carnival, food and more. Sept. 20-22; Fri 12-8 pm, Sat 7 am-8 pm, Sun 9 am-5 pm. Free. Rockford, Wash. sespokanecountyfair.com SPOKANE STRIKE FOR THE CLIMATE Come together as a community to fight for a cleaner, safer and healthier climate. Meet at the Rotary Fountain. Sep. 20, 12-4 pm. Free. Riverfront Park, 507 N. Howard St. 350spokane.org COLVILLE CORN MAZE & PUMPKIN PATCH Come visit the 12-acre corn maze and take home a pumpkin. Open daily from 11 am-7 pm, Sept. 21-Oct. 31. $6-$8/maze. Colville Corn Maze & Pumpkin Patch, 73 Oakshott Rd. colvillecornmaze.com (509-684-6751) DAHLIA FESTIVAL Celebrate dahlia season with floral displays, a floral arranging class, live music, food vendors and more. Sep. 21, 9 am-5 pm. Free.

Northland Rosarium, 9405 S. Williams Lane. bit.ly/2Zdjl8o (448-4968) GLOBAL CLIMATE STRIKE IN SANDPOINT Join with friends and family as the communities of Lake Pend Oreille come together as part of the Global Climate Strike. Sep. 21, 1 pm. Free. Farmin Park, Third & Main. cityofsandpoint.com HERITAGE GARDENS TOURS Step back in time and experience this unique garden as it looked in 1915. Tours every Saturday in Sept. from 11 am-noon.

Free. Moore-Turner Heritage Gardens, 507 W. Seventh. heritagegardens.org NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OPEN HOUSE Come visit the NWS Spokane

for weather talks, presentations, office tours, kids activities and balloon launches. Sep. 21, 10 am-4 pm. Free.

National Weather Service, 2610 N. Rambo Rd. weather.gov/spokane THINK BIG FESTIVAL This annual event educates and empowers entrepreneurs by focusing on the speed at which technology is moving and our role in its progression. Sept. 21-22. $20-$50. Coeur d’Alene. thinkbigfestival.com SCRUMPTIOUS JUNQUE A monthly market and vendor sale in the parking lot, offering antiques, vintage and salvaged goods, clothing, art, decor, furniture, collectibles and more. Sept. 22 from 10 am-4 pm. Free admission. 1889 Salvage Co., 2824 N. Monroe. facebook. com/1889SalvageCo (315-4485) ADDICTION IN THE NORTHWEST: ADDRESSING THE DRUG CRISIS How can we address the drug problem in the region? Hear solutions from John Roll, professor and vice dean for research at WSU’s Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine and Bob Lutz, health officer for the Spokane Regional Health District. Sep. 24, 12-1 pm. Free. Bryan Hall Theatre (WSU), 605 Veterans Way. foley.wsu.edu CITY ELECTIONS CANDIDATE FORUM Join the League of Women Voters and KSPS for a discussion of issues facing Spokane with candidates for mayor, council president and and city council.

Sep. 24, 3-7 pm. Free. Spokane City Hall, 808 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. (755-2489) NATIONAL DAY OF REMEMBRANCE FOR MURDER VICTIMS The Victim/ Witness Unit from the Spokane County Prosecutors Office hosts a celebration of life vigil to honor the memories of murder victims, and to recognize the impact of homicide on surviving family/friends. Sep. 25, 5:30-7 pm. Free.

Spokane County Public Works Building, 1100 W. Mallon Ave. (477-3640) SEL WELLNESS & EDUCATION EXPO The annual community event features more than 50 health and education vendors. Workshops include meal planning, interview preparedness and resume building. Sep. 25, 11:30 am-5:30 pm. Free. Schweitzer Event Center, 1825 Schweitzer Dr., Pullman. bit.ly/1iqVtoh

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EMPOWERED A documentary short about the Jicarilla Apache Nation’s Johnson O’Malley program, which encourages and empowers Native American youth in the filmmaking process.

Sept. 19-22; times vary. $6. Panida Theater, 300 N. First Ave. panida.org THE LAST BLACK MAN IN SAN FRANCISCO A young man searches for home in a changing city that seems to have left him behind. Sept. 19-22. $7. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main. kenworthy.org

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LEGALIZATION

Primary Research The DEA triples the amount of cannabis available for research

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ne of the strangest monopolies in the United States is coming to an end, and it marks a major step forward in federal policy on marijuana.

Last week, the Drug Enforcement Administration put out a press release calling for the production of 3,200 kilograms of marijuana for research in 2020. That’s triple the amount the DEA allowed for in 2018.

The announcement comes as the DEA is loosening restrictions on growing federally legal marijuana intended for research purposes.

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at the University of Mississippi. Last month, however, the DEA announced that it was in the process of registering additional marijuana manufacturers who would be able to grow and produce marijuana for legal research.

“We support additional research into marijuana and its components, and we believe registering more growers will result in researchers having access to a wider variety for study,” DEA acting administrator Uttam Dhillon says in a press release.

Taken together, these announcements show that the federal entity that still considers marijuana to be a Schedule I drug — as dangerous and illegal as, say, heroin — is

actually getting serious about researching marijuana. Observers expect the process will likely prove to the agency that marijuana is clearly not as dangerous as heroin. It’s also, even if the feds refuse to accept this, de facto not as illegal as heroin.

This comes at a time when the push towards legalization is bubbling up to the federal level. On Sept. 10, the front page of USA Today was dominated by a Venn diagram showing where each of the Democratic candidates for president stood on the issue. Of the 20 candidates listed, 14 support, at a minimum, full federal legalization.

Even now, under the administration of President Trump, federal acceptance of marijuana is growing. It was Trump’s DEA that made these announcements.

Trump’s attorney general, William Barr, has thrown his support behind the announced changes, too.

“I am pleased that DEA is moving forward with its review of applications for those who seek to grow marijuana legally to support research,” Barr says in a statement.

Regardless of who wins the White House in 2020, the federal government has already begun charting a path that will lead to, at the very least, a better understanding of marijuana. And that’s a step in the right direction, whether it’s towards legalization or not. n

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Advice Goddess ARE YOU CLONESOME TONIGHT?

My friend thinks I’d do better in dating if I went on those sites that match people according to “similarities.” Most of the couples I know aren’t that similar. Could those sites be wrong? How much does similarity matter for being a good match with somebody and the chances of a relationship working out long-term? —Single Woman There are points of difference that are simply a bridge AMY ALKON too far — like if one partner enjoys shooting dinner with a crossbow and the other bursts into tears every time a short-order cook cracks an egg into a frying pan.

However, there are three areas in which partner harmony seems essential to happy coupledom. If couples have clashing religious beliefs, political orientations, or values, “it’s found to cause tremendous problems in a marriage,” explained psychologist David Buss at a recent evolutionary psychology conference. Sure, there are couples with differences in these areas who make a go of it, but in general, the committed Catholic and the aggressive atheist go together like peanut butter and a leaf blower.

Beyond the big three — shared religion, political orientation, and values — the notion that you and your partner need to be all matchy-matchy to be happy together just isn’t supported by science. In fact, a whole lot of science finds otherwise.

Admittedly, the notion that partners should match like a pair of nightstands has powerful intuitive appeal — hitting us in our craving for consistency and order. This, perhaps, leads many people — including many psychologists -- to buy into the bliss-ofthe-clones myth, the notion that we’ll be happiest if we find somebody just like us.

Not surprisingly, dating sites take advantage of this widely believed myth, hawking features like the “billion points of similarity” compatibility test. (Obviously, they can’t sell memberships with “Hey, it’s a crapshoot!”)

Dating sites advertising themselves with a meaningless test might not seem like a big deal. But it reinforces the myth that partner similarity equals romantic happiness, and this belief has a real downside, according to research by psychologist Michael I. Norton and his colleagues.

Consider that when we first meet a person, we get excited about all of our apparent similarities: “You like sticking up banks! I like sticking up banks!” At this point, and in the early days of a relationship, we’re prone to identify similarities where none exist, spinning ambiguities — vague or missing details about a person — into support for their being just like us. But Norton explains that as partners get to know each other, dissimilarities begin to surface. And this leads partners who were initially stoked about how alike they seemed to be to become less satisfied with each other and the relationship.

Interestingly, it seems that dissimilarity between partners actually gets an undeserved bad rap. Discovering this took more sophisticated methodology than used in previous research, in which scientists basically tallied up ways partners were alike and different and then looked at how satisfied they were with their relationship.

Psychologist Manon van Scheppingen and her colleagues instead explored interactions between romantic partners’ personality traits over an eight-year period. Their findings suggest that partners don’t have to match perfectly on traits; in fact, sometimes, their having differences is ideal.

Take conscientiousness, a personality trait reflecting self-control and a sense of responsibility to others. According to the team’s research, if one partner was low in conscientiousness, their relationship worked better and they were happier when they were with somebody higher in conscientiousness. Likewise, relationships worked better when partners had varying levels of extraversion, rather than being two outgoing peas in a pod.

The one distinct exception — where the researchers found similarity was consistently best — was for women only, regarding “agreeableness.” This personality trait plays out in kindness, cooperativeness, warmth, and concern for others. When a woman’s partner had a similar level of agreeableness, it was associated with the woman finding her partner more supportive.

The upshot of this stew of findings is that happy coupledom seems to depend on an interplay of factors. This in turn suggests that what makes for happy relationships is largely “process” — how two people communicate, foster each other’s growth, solve problems, and manage the intractable ones.

Beyond this and beyond the three vital areas where partners need to be in tune — religion, politics, and values — what seems important is for partners to not be sharply different in ways that will make them unhappy together. To avoid that, you need to dig into yourself and figure out what your deal breakers are. For example, if you’re an urban girl like me, no amount of love would change your belief that there’s only one reason to spend a month in a cabin in the wilderness without indoor plumbing, and it’s because you’ve been kidnapped and are tied to a chair. n ©2019, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. • Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405 or email AdviceAmy@aol.com (www.advicegoddess.com)

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EVENTS | CALENDAR CDA FILM FESTIVAL: FRAMING JOHN DELOREAN Walk the red carpet, take photos with two DeLoreans, meet the film’s producer and more. Sep. 21, 7 pm. $20. Regal Cinemas Riverstone, 2416 Old Mill Loop. (800-326-3264) DOCUMENTARY: CLIMATE REFUGEES The first feature film to explore indepth the global human impact of climate change and its serious destabilizing effect on international politics. Sep. 22, 2 pm. Free. South Hill Library, 3324 S. Perry St. spokanelibrary.org

SPOKANE SYMPHONY SOIREE ON THE STAGE Patrons are seated at tables on the stage, surrounded by small ensembles of musicians performing chamber works. Coffee and dessert included; wines available for purchase.

Sept. 24 and 25 at 7:30 pm. $68. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. spokanesymphony.org

FOOD

BARRE ON THE RIBBON Join Core4Collective on the Numerica Skate Ribbon in Riverfront Park every Thursday this September for free barre classes.

Instruction begins at 6 pm. Bring your own mat. Riverfront Park, 507 N. Howard St. riverfrontspokane.org SILVEROXX A three-day celebration of two-wheel, off-road fun, with events for every rider type. Sept. 20-22. Silver Mountain Ski Resort, 610 Bunker Ave. silvermt.com (208-783-1111) CDA ROLLER DERBY A bout against Butte, Montana’s Copper City Queens.

Sep. 21, 6 pm. $5/$8. Kootenai County Fairgrounds, 4056 N. Government Way. kcfairgrounds.com (208-765-4969)

CASANOVA DI NERI WINER DINNER A dinner featuring a menu by executive chef Jim Barrett alongside Casanova di Neri wines selected by sommelier Sam Lange. Reservations required. Sep. 20, 6:30 pm. $150. Beverly’s, 115 S. Second. beverlyscda.com COEUR D’ALENE OKTOBERFEST This two day bash features live bands, 30+ beers and ciders, three biergartens and more. Sept. 20 from 4-9 pm and Sept.

21 from 12-9 pm. $25-$30. Downtown Coeur d’Alene. bit.ly/2Lge0Do DINNER ON THE BRIDGE Benefiting the Women and Children’s Free Restaurant and Community Kitchen, this annual celebration of regional farmers, culinary creativity and artisan producers takes the form of an alfresco dinner in the park. Sep. 20, 6-9 pm. $115-$135.

Riverfront Park, 507 N. Howard St. bit. ly/2MzceQU (625-6600) INLAND NW CRAFT BEER FESTIVAL The 10th annual festival features 40 Washington state-based craft breweries pouring more than 200 different beers, along with live music, food and more. Fri, Sept. 20 from 4-9 pm (21+) and Sat, Sept. 21 from noon-6 pm (all ages). $5-$20. Avista Stadium, 602 N. Havana. washingtonbeer.com NO WATER NO BEER An evening of beer, wine, food, billiard games and silent/live auctions. Proceeds fund training scholarships for water operators and Water For People, providing clean sustainable water in third world countries. Sep. 20, 6-10 pm. $20/$25. The Museum, 5225 N. Freya. bit.ly/2TBm2ux NORTH IDAHO CENTENNIAL TRAIL BENEFIT & WINE PAIRING DINNER Enjoy a five-course wine and food pairing by five local chefs, along with live music, a raffle and more. Sep. 20, 5 pm. $50. LivforBlu Wine Bar, 505 Sherman Ave. liveforblue.com (208-314-1804) DEHYDRATING FOODS Learn how to dehydrate leftover summer produce, including fruits, vegetables and herbs.

Sep. 21, 10:30 am. Free, registration required. South Hill Library, 3324 S. Perry St. thefriendsofmanito.org (444-5331) MARYHILL WINERY WINEMAKERS DINNER A six-course dinner by chef Travis Dickinson with wine parings from Maryhill, cohosted by winery owner Vicki Leuthold. Sep. 22, 6 pm. $79. Cochinito Taqueria, 10 N. Post. facebook. com/cochinitotaqueria (474-9618)

MUSIC

WHAT IS HIP! CELEBRATION OF KEN MARTELLO A remembrance celebration, fundraiser and tribute to Spokane musician Ken Martello with music, dancing, a silent auction, food and more. Sep. 20, 5:30 pm. $15. House of Soul, 25 E. Lincoln Rd. soulspokane.com

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JOSEPH & THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT A reimagining of the Biblical story of Joseph, his father Jacob, eleven brothers and the coat of many colors. Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm through Sep. 29. $23-$25. Lake City Playhouse, 1320 E. Garden Ave. lakecityplayhouse.org (208-673-7529) RED BIRD THEATRE: INTO THE WOODS As the result of a curse, a baker and his wife are childless. During their journey, they meet Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel and Jack, each on a quest to fulfill a wish. Sept.

19-21 and 26-28 at 7 pm; Sept. 28-29 at 2 pm. $25-$40. Kroc Center, 1765 W. Golf Course Rd. shop.redbirdcda.com REFERENCES TO SALVADOR DALI MAKE ME HOT Following the Persian Gulf War, a beautiful young woman awaits the return of her husband who’s been forever changed by the war. ThuSat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm through Sep. 22. $20-$25. Stage Left Theater, 108 W. Third. spokanestageleft.org ROALD DAHL’S MATILDA THE MUSICAL Matilda is a little girl with astonishing wit, intelligence and psychokinetic powers. Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm through Oct. 13. $15-$35. Spokane Civic Theatre, 1020 N. Howard St. spokanecivictheatre.com (325-2507) YOU’RE A GOOD MAN CHARLIE BROWN A play about an average day in the life of Charlie Brown, in the style of a dinner-theater show. Sep. 19, 7 pm. $5-$10. Saint George’s School, 2929 W. Waikiki Rd. sgs.org (466-1636) BEEHIVE: THE 60S MUSICAL From Aretha Franklin to Janis Joplin, Beehive is a wailing musical tribute to the ladies who left their mark on music. Sep. 2021 and 27-28 at 7 pm, Sep. 22 at 2 pm. $15. Chewelah Center for the Arts, 405 N. Third. chewelahcenterforthearts.com MADAME BUTTERFLY Presented by Inland Northwest Opera. A young Japanese maiden, whose pride and honor are wounded by an American naval officer, is left to heartbreak and tragedy.

Sept. 20 at 7:30 pm, Sept. 22 at 2 pm. $23-$90. Martin Woldson Theater at

The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. (624-1200) SAME TIME, NEXT YEAR The plot follows a love affair between Doris and George, married to others, who rendezvous once a year. Sept. 20-21 and Sept.

26-28 at 7:30 pm. $20. Regional Theatre of the Palouse, 122 N. Grand Ave. rtoptheatre.org SEE HOW THEY RUN A fast-paced British farce that takes place in a vicarage in the late 1940s. Sept. 13-29; Fri-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $15. Ignite! Community Theatre, 10814 E. Broadway Ave. igniteonbroadway.org (795-0004) THE IMAGINARY INVALID A family friendly farce poking fun at both doctors and patients. Sep. 20, 7:30 pm. $0$25. Ferris High School, 3020 E. 37th Ave. spokaneschools.org/ferris

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NUESTRA ESPERANZA, NUESTRO FUTURO LATINX ART EXHIBIT An all Latinx showcase by Emerge and LTNX Artes exploring the hopes, dreams, and cultural heritage of Latinos, Latinas, and Latinx artists in the Pacific Northwest. Sept. 13-Oct. 4; Thu-Sat from 12-4 pm. Opening reception Sept. 13 from 5-8 pm. Free. Emerge, 208 N. Fourth St. emergecda.com (208-818-3342) ZIMOUN Internationally-acclaimed Swiss-based artist Zimoun has created site-specific sound installations with commonplace industrial objects that reference the chaos of the modern day.

Through Sept. 22; Tue-Sat 10 am-8 pm, Sun 10 am-6 pm. Free. Prichard Art Gallery, 414 S. Main St. prichardart.org GLASS & FIBER GROUP SHOW A group showcase featuring stained, fused and blown glass, sculptural felting, fiber wall hangings, and wearable art accessories. Sep. 20, 5-9 pm. Free.

New Moon Art Gallery, 1326 E. Sprague, Suite B. newmoonartgallery.com YART SALE Local artist Jackie Treiber offers five year’s worth of collage art pieces for sale. Sep. 22, 3-6 pm. Free to attend. Corbin Park, 2914 N. West Oval St. bit.ly/2MAyZ78 TALES OF THE AMERICAN The film and exhibition examines the history of the American Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. Sept. 23-Oct. 25; open Mon-Fri 8:30 am-3:30 pm. Free. SFCC Fine Arts Gallery, 3410 W. Fort George Wright Dr., Bldg. 6. (533-3710) CHRIS BOVEY BOOK LAUNCH “Vintage Spokane: The Art of Chris Bovey” gathers together some of Chris’ best prints along with stories of how and why he chose featured locations, and little-known facts about some of the region’s best-loved landmarks. Sep. 25, 6-7:30 pm. Free. Atticus Coffee, 222 N. Howard St. bit.ly/2kcVC4Z (747-0336) AN EVENING WITH MARTHA BROCKENBROUGH Brockenbrough is the author of a dozen books for young readers. She founded National Grammar Day and teaches in the MFA program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her newest book for teens and adults, “Unpresidented,” examines Donald Trump’s rise to power. Sep. 19, 7-8:30 pm. Free. Auntie’s, 402 W. Main. auntiesbooks.com NORTHWEST AUTHOR NIGHT: ELLIOT REED Reed reads from and signs copies of his book, “A Key to Treehouse Living.” Food and drinks available for purchase. Sep. 24, 6 pm. Free. The WellRead Moose, 2048 N. Main. facebook. com/TheWellReadMoose n

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The Wilma lot at Second and Sherman is home to Prostgarten, a tented venue and one of three bierhallen or beer halls.

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