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Yes. There’s no med school to serve students on this side of the state.

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COMMENT | JUSTICE

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ootenai County has a jail problem. Everyone agrees there are currently too many inmates and too few beds for the 27-yearold building to continue to meet the county’s need for correctional space.

I’m currently viewing the jail situation while coming down off a musical high acquired from an amazing performance of Les Misérables at the Coeur d’Alene Community Theater. On the tiny stage in that small building, the wickedly smart George Green, with his clever troupe, manages to deliver a mesmerizing punch — as powerful as any on a big city stage.

As most know, Les Misérables is the story of Jean Valjean, who was thrown into prison for stealing a loaf of bread to feed his sister’s fatherless children. The compassion of a generous priest inspired Jean Valjean to turn to a life of doing good.

No, I’m not going to suggest that we return to the torturous prisons of 1862, when Victor Hugo penned the story of Jean Valjean, to cram more bodies into the already overcrowded jail on the outskirts of Coeur d’Alene.

But I am going to suggest that Kootenai County should look for new, creative solutions to its overcrowding problem. Les Misérables on a tiny stage is a lesson in the importance of thinking creatively when a problem begs a solution.

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he cruel days of inflicting chains, beatings, moldy bread and gruel on prisoners have been ruled out in most civilized countries. Still, one of the threats hanging over Kootenai County’s head is a potential court order to bring the jail into compliance with accepted standards.

The for-profit company, Rocky Mountain Corrections, was very creative in proposing to build a new, privately owned, 625-bed jail at a cost to Kootenai County of $8 million to $10 million a year.

County Commissioner Jai Nelson strongly opposed the corporation’s proposal, saying the county could not afford the enormous price tag.

She suggested the lease agreement was an end run around the voters, who have, on three separate occasions, turned down proposals to expand jail space.

In late August, Judge John Stegner examined the proposed lease agreement and ruled it to be unconstitutional. Whew.

Two new county commissioners will be elected Nov. 4. We can hope they will throw out the Rocky Mountain Corrections proposal and follow Commissioner Nelson’s recommendation to consider the many workable alternatives to incarceration that are in use today all around the country.

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to expand jail space, Kootenai County voters probably were reflecting a definite change in attitudes toward jails and prisons and their enormous cost in dollars and human lives.

Not so very long ago, legislators outdid themselves to prove they were not soft on crime. They enacted mandatory sentencing laws right and left, which simply implied that there are some crimes that can never be forgiven.

Such laws may indeed punish real criminals, but the by-catch includes a wide variety of redeemable individuals. Better to leave the discretion to judges to render appropriate sentences.

Fortunately, the pendulum is swinging and many judges are choosing alternatives to jail or prison time. Most of the alternatives are not cheap, as they generally require hiring more personnel. But any alternative is a better investment than building a jail cell for an offender to sit in all day and sleep in all night, at a cost of $35,000 to $50,000 a bed to build. And then there’s the cost of feeding and supervising an inmate, which runs somewhere around $25,000 a year.

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f the county budget were increased to hire more probation officers, a process referred to as “intensive probation” would allow judges to sentence an offender to house arrest with an ankle radio device, or to check into an office or the jail daily, or have a breathalyzer device installed in the offender’s automobile.

Our local judges have already established alternative drug courts, where offenders follow a regimen of remaining drug-free, submitting to random urine testing and attending drug treatment group sessions.

Local judges have also utilized domestic violence and mental health treatment under court supervision. Such programs have proven to be effective in helping steer offenders onto new, safer and healthier paths. In addition to living with or close to family, the offender on intensive probation can work at a job, earn a living and pay his way.

People who break laws usually have underlying conditions that can be addressed, such as addiction or mental illness. Treating those underlying conditions can prevent future lawbreaking, save taxpayer dollars, and reduce crime.

Of course, if it were that easy, we could all go down to the seashore and live happily ever after. But if Kootenai County could start heading in that direction, its jail overcrowding problem would soon be history. n

COMMENT | PUBLISHER’S NOTE

Med School Shuffle

BY TED S. McGREGOR JR.

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merica will be coming up 90,000 doctors short within the decade. Here in Washington, it’s even worse, as we’ll be 4,000 behind by 2030. These are just a couple of the findings in this week’s cover story on the push for a new Washington State University medical school in Spokane.

But wait, didn’t we all just get done celebrating the opening of UW Medicine-Spokane? Yes, but the partnership, well — it just didn’t take. I really wish it had. As a proud Husky, I wish my school had not been so dismissive of Spokane’s hopes and needs. UW also seems to have underestimated the size of our doctor-shortage problem. Now that WSU is looking to go its own way, of course UW is making a lot of new promises. But it’s too little, too late. They seem most interested in protecting their turf. Yes, we know med schools are not cheap. But as UW Medicine — and super-successful Seattle — knows all too well, they are worth every penny.

The silver lining is that we have set a perfect table to start a local med school here, with facilities, faculty and community support at the ready. WSU has the right leadership, and health care providers around the state are clamoring for doctors. More of the Inland Northwest’s best and brightest — those born and raised here — could stay if we had our own med school. Students applying to WSU Medicine would, as Chancellor Lisa Brown puts it, “know exactly where they’re going and why they’re going there.” We want these future doctors to be excited to come here — and to stay in the region.

Spokane is a bit rattled by all this: Should we stay loyal to UW, or should we get behind the WSU plan? To convince people, WSU leadership needs to be out on a listening tour — and they are. They have to take it all in to make their proposal bulletproof. Spokane needs to be guaranteed some measure of input over the strategic direction of the new school. And we must be really sure about those start-up cost estimates that came in so surprisingly low.

Spokane needs to get on the same page if we want Olympia to take this plan seriously.

But as we sort through the competing studies and PR blitzes in the coming months, know this: You cannot find a state or a city anywhere that would say they wish they’d never created their medical school. The economic and civic impact is profound. It would start to address our looming health care provider crisis, and it would be a total game-changer for Spokane and the Inland Northwest. If we can’t see that, we clearly need to get our heads examined. We better hope we can get in to see a specialist in Seattle. 

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A Better Way The best way to overcome trauma? Stop perpetuating it

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here is a better way to be human than what we’re doing.” The quote comes from Gerri Haynes. She and her husband Bob deliver medical supplies and personnel to Gaza with Washington State Physicians for Social Responsibility.

They came to Spokane to share information about the medical and humanitarian crisis they’ve observed there — one that expands every day. After violence claimed at least 2,000 lives this summer, 500 of them children, daily life is slowly returning to normal in Gaza. Normal, though, is a relative term.

By 2020, Gaza will be unlivable. As the

decade ticks away, the U.S. prolongs this crisis, one funded by billions in military aid to Israel. Earlier this month, the Hayneses described normal life in Gaza to their Spokane audience. Six hours of electricity per day, limited access to medicines and clean water, a loss of protein in diets due to the coastal blockade, an over-pumped aquifer that leads to floods of sewage — conditions most of us cannot imagine. All of this unfolds at a rapid rate among a population experiencing widespread trauma. In contrast to PostTraumatic Stress Disorder seen in returning veterans and survivors of abuse, the people of Gaza are being diagnosed with continuous traumatic stress injury, which as the name suggests relates to persistent trauma in daily life.

Trauma is becoming better understood as taboos dissolve and research coalesces on

the topic. I recently came across an article about widespread PTSD related to 9/11 among New Yorkers, probably the only large group of Americans who can easily imagine what life in Gaza might be like, having experienced explosion, demolition and widespread destruction in their own neighborhoods. I was furious, thinking of the way that these people’s trauma has been used for political purposes, spread like a contagion of fear to people outside of New York, and twisted into a rationale for two botched wars and a sprawling, chaotic, covert military program around the world. Thirteen years later, the annual admonition to “Never Forget” stokes American fear and lust for revenge with enduring success.

Though daily life is certainly more manageable here in the U.S., on average, than it is in Gaza, tens of millions here also suffer ongoing trauma. Not from terrorism, but from another form of man-made violence — poverty. Our economic system limits class mobility and simply discards the people not needed to contribute to economic growth. This is not an accident; it’s a built-in condition of capitalism.

Three years ago this month, a group of Americans decided to speak out against capitalism and sparked a worldwide movement that pointed out the failings of this system and visions of something better. For all of the real and invented flaws in the Occupy movement, I hope we can remember it as a beautiful interruption of the normalized violence of poverty. When we decide what to remember as a culture, what to keep and leave behind, I hope we listen to the people who offer a message of empowerment and hope, rather than one of fear.

For better or for worse, everything can change in a day. We just need to decide whether we want to prolong fear and trauma, or if there really is a better way to be humans. n

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THEhe VALUE OF A CORONER’S INQUEST piece “Unnatural Causes” (9/11/14) should cause the community

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to reflect on the importance of open government and elected vs. appointed officials. While some were quick to call the 1981 coroner’s inquest into the death of Fire Chief Al O’Connor a “circus and a travesty,” others saw it as an opportunity to publicly air allegations and see first-hand dogged police work and the criminal justice system. Although the prosecutor at the time didn’t see fit to file charges, the citizen inquest panel returned a partial finding that there was probable cause to believe a crime had been committed and charges were warranted.

Since that time, Spokane County no longer has an elected coroner and local officials, who apparently know best, choose not to empanel coroner’s inquests.

So I ask: Would the community’s frustration and disconnect from local police agencies that boiled after the deaths of Otto Zehm, Pastor Creach, et al. have occurred if the county had an elected coroner (who responds to the public instead of the bureaucrats) and inquests had been held — an age-old practice that is still used in other Washington counties?

“MORE POINTS, COMPS & CASH MEAN I’M GETTING LUCKY, EVEN WHEN I’M NOT.”

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Readers respond to how the Spokane Police allowed iPhone customers to camp on a downtown sidewalk despite a recently expanded “sit-lie” ordinance prohibiting sitting or lying on public streets:

JOHN WARDEN: So the moral of the story, kiddies, is it’s alright to break the rules as long as someone can make money off of it.

RACHAEL ROSSBACH: I don’t want homeless people or stupid street kids loitering around downtown asking for handouts.

I’ve been to plenty of cities where you have to keep your eyes down or else you’ll have a whole following of people begging for money. I personally don’t want to have to worry about that in Spokane.

NINA ROMA PARKER-STOCKER: So as long as you can afford an iPhone the city will support your ass sitting on the sidewalk. Wow! GEORGE GLINES: Sorry. No sympathy for street kids/thugs. They need to go.

LIZ MOORE: Buying a phone is an economic purpose. Asking for financial support in a time of need is ALSO an economic purpose, it just doesn’t benefit any businesses that “matter.”

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hen voters in Washington passed Initiative 502 in November 2012, it took just a month to reap the first reward. By Dec. 6, it was legal for adults 21 and older to have up to an ounce of pot, no questions asked. Since then, the payoffs have been sparse.

After a tedious year of rule-making, the state Liquor Control Board began taking applications from hopeful entrepreneurs. Thousands of applications poured in, hundreds of which were incomplete. It was March of this year before the state’s first legal recreational cannabis grower was licensed and July before the first stores — barely stocked with limited options — opened. Now, with more growers, processors and stores doing business every week, the reality of legal marijuana is beginning

BY HEIDI GROOVER to meet one of its biggest promises: cash. Pot stores have sold just over $14 million of bud since the first openings in July, paying more than $3.5 million in state taxes so far.

According to recent estimates, pot sales will generate $25 million in taxes by next year, with nearly $7 million of that going to the general fund. By the 2015-17 budget, businesses will pay about $206 million in taxes, then as much as $404 million by 2017-19, with $119 million in the general fund.

Those numbers are all nearly inconsequential in the face of the state’s biggest challenges, including at least $3.5 billion needed to comply with a state Supreme Court ruling on K-12 funding, known as the McCleary decision.

“It’s a very, very small portion,” says Desiree Monroy, operations manager at the state’s Economic and Revenue Forecast Council. “It’s certainly not going to solve any of the woes that we read about.”

But what’s small in the state coffers can feel big in the checkout line. Growers and store owners each pay a 25 percent tax to the state. Customers also pay regular state sales tax. Faced with high overhead costs, high taxes and high demand, those in the industry are getting used to complaints from customers reluctant to pay $25 a gram.

“The system is broken,” says Sam Calvert, owner of Green Star Cannabis, a retail store on Division Street.

“Nearly half of every single price in the store goes to some sort of taxing structure.” ...continued on next page

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Others see it as a small price to pay for the luxury of being legitimate.

“It’s cheaper to pay the tax upfront than for us to pay out money for tickets, court costs, missed work, the nasty stigma put on people for the rest of our lives,” says Robert Vernon, a licensed grower with a mid-size hothouse farm in Elk. Parts of the tax revenue are already dedicated in I-502, though actual allocations won’t start until next year. A portion off the top funds the Liquor Control Board’s work implementing the law, youth and young adult surveys, an informational website and a cost-benefit analysis. Of the rest, percentages are sliced off for health care, substance abuse programs, education and media campaigns, community health care, research and dropout prevention.

The rest goes into the general fund, where how it’s spent is at the whim of the state legislature. (See graph on facing page.)

Chris Marr, a former legislator representing Spokane and a current member of the Liquor Control Board, says he’s sympathetic to concerns about the tax structure, but skeptical that change will happen this year. To tweak the system, lawmakers will need a better and fuller understanding of how it’s working, he says, and that’s likely a year or two away.

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Tuttle and her husband run Yield Farms in an industrial area of east Spokane, where they’ve consistently had more interested buyers than pot ready to sell. Basic economics mean that weed in Washington is, for the time being, a grower’s market, but Tuttle says it’s not the gold mine people may think. The couple has invested $75,000 in the business, racking up $50,000 in credit card debt. Of the $12,000 a month they make, more than $3,000 goes to taxes and the rest is mostly spent on overhead and reinvesting in the grow. “We’re maybe able to use $1,500 for our own purposes,” she says.

“People say, ‘You’re so lucky that you’re doing this. Isn’t it great to have all that money?’” Tuttle says. “Well, we didn’t have a vacation this summer. Our one camping trip was one night to Diamond Lake, and we had to drive to places where we could get cell service to look at our security cameras.”

Among her peers, Tuttle is lucky in one way: She has a business bank account. Unlike many banks worried about the drug’s federally illegal status, Spokane’s Numerica Credit Union has offered accounts to marijuana growers and processors (retailers are not allowed). Numerica wouldn’t confirm the number of accounts it’s opened or the amount of its application or monthly fees, though a spokesperson said special fees were necessary for the “initial and ongoing due diligence” on the accounts. Growers and retailers tell the Inlander the application fee alone is $1,000.

Those unwilling to spend that money, or who own retail stores, have had to get creative — especially those on the eastern side of the state looking to avoid driving cash tax payments to Olympia every month.

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“It’s extremely difficult to make certain I meet my tax obligations,” says Calvert, of Green Star, where he is careful not to keep cash on hand, though that’s how he does most of his business.

Calvert says he recently had an agreement with Moneytree, a short-term lender, to provide him with multiple $1,000 money orders he could send the state by mail for his tax payments. “Then they looked up my name and saw my business and said, ‘No.’” Calvert says he called the Liquor Control Board to “ask if there was any solution,” even offering to gather Eastern Washington’s retailers together to buy a safe and a cash machine for the local enforcement office. He says he was told enforcement staff aren’t trained to handle cash. So he’s resorted to using his personal checking account.

“If I have to write a personal check and put my personal bank account at risk,” he says, “that’s what I have to do.”

He’s not alone. Though few banks are openly welcoming cannabis businesses, more than 80 percent of the businesses that paid taxes in July did so by check, according to the Liquor Control Board, meaning there are workarounds to be found.

Frank Schade, a small-scale grower in Mead who says he couldn’t afford Numerica’s fees, hesitates on specifics but says he’s “found ways around working with the banks until they’re reasonable to work with.” Prepaid debit cards are one option, and department stores will often issue a credit card with a low spending limit.

“I had a disagreement with a financial institution and they said, ‘We do things like this to catch criminals,’” Schade says. “I said, ‘I’m not a criminal. I’m just in an all-cash business.’” n heidig@inlander.com

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Last week, a Benton County judge ordered the immediate release of an EASTERN STATE HOSPITAL patient adjudicated not guilty by reason of insanity on the grounds that he is neither mentally ill nor dangerous.

Earlier this month, Spokane attorney Andrew Biviano filed a motion for preliminary injunctive relief in a federal civil rights lawsuit against Washington state and the Department of Social and Health Services, asking the court to immediately discharge all patients found not guilty by reason of insanity who have no treatable mental illness. The lawsuit, filed on behalf of three patients at Eastern and Western State Hospitals, alleges that state laws violate insanity-defense patients of their constitutional and civil rights to adequate mental health treatment.

One of those patients, known in court filings as “J.T.,” was discharged from Eastern State Hospital last Friday after Biviano shared his motion with J.T.’s public defender.

The prosecutor and judge in Benton County, where J.T. was tried for assault and acquitted due to insanity, agreed that his commitment was unconstitutional.

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The state has until Oct. 2 to respond to Biviano’s motion. A hearing at the U.S. District Court in Spokane is set for Oct. 21. Visit Inlander.com/stateofmind for more details on the case.

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“The goal isn’t to give a black eye to the police department,” he says. “I believe they do a really good job.

My goal is to clarify and to have a public discussion.”

In a statement to the Inlander, Straub says officers’ response to the line outside the Apple store was “consistent with the existing ordinance, did not reflect bias, and was consistent with the manner in which we have responded to similar special events in our City.” He adds that he’ll work with the city council and city legal to consider changes to sit-lie to “address the unique/special events.”

— HEIDI GROOVER

Spokane City Council President BEN STUCKART says he’s proposing a new city law banning police officers from engaging in “bias-based profiling” in response to comments from Spokane Police Department public information officers to the Inlander last week.

When people started camping out last week for the new iPhone in downtown Spokane, we asked SPD about why those people would not be cited under the city’s sitlie law. The law includes an exception for people “operating or patronizing a business with permission to occupy the sidewalk,” but when we spoke with department public information officers Monique Cotton and Teresa Fuller, neither were aware of any permission or permit the Apple store had received to allow its customers to sleep, eat and watch TV on the sidewalk. The reason campers would not be ticketed was because they were not posing “reasonable safety or quality of life concerns,” Cotton said.

Separately, Fuller said, “The issue is when we have homeless people sitting and lying, trying to get in people’s way to get handouts, that sort of thing.”

Stuckart, who has previously raised concerns that the law could be used to unfairly target homeless people, says he plans to meet with SPD Chief Frank Straub this week to discuss the issue and will introduce the ordinance

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After a little more than four years as Spokane’s bishop, BLASE CUPICH is getting a major promotion: On Nov. 18, he’s set to become the archbishop of Chicago.

Father Mike Savelesky, a vicar general of the Spokane diocese, says Cupich, like Pope Francis, has won praise for his modest, moderate lifestyle.

“People were surprised at this announcement.

Though this man is of such immense talent and ability, we’ve always wondered how long he would be here,” says Savelesky.

Savelesky says that Cupich is known for “his appeal for people to listen to each other.” In particular, he says, Cupich pushed for refocusing the church on its mission, helping low-income people in the city and raising money for Catholic education. Cupich was also intensely involved in the decision to stop using Paine Hamblen — the law firm that represented the Spokane diocese in a 2004 bankruptcy related to a sex abuse scandal — and in the decision to file a malpractice suit against that firm.

“That’s all still very much under litigation,” Savelesky says, and any new leadership would have to be involved in future decisions about the lawsuit.

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Insanity in Idaho Is the insanity defense a constitutional right?

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lood was everywhere — on the floor, on the ceiling and on the clothes of the 14-year-old boy accused of brutally murdering his father and younger brother.

In March, Eldon Gale Samuel III, now 15, was arrested in Coeur d’Alene after he confessed to officers to shooting his father, Eldon Samuel Jr., three times in the head, then turning the gun on his brother, Jonathan, and stabbing him repeatedly with a knife and a machete.

But Samuel’s lawyer says his client was suffering from mental illness at the time and that he should have the right to plead not guilty by reason of insanity — a defense that’s been barred in Idaho for decades. Earlier this month, Samuel’s attorney, Kootenai County Chief Public Defender John Adams, filed a motion challenging Idaho’s ban of the insanity defense. He argues that Idaho’s repeal of the insanity defense violates Samuel’s constitutional rights to due process and freedom from cruel and unusual punishment.

“I believe Idaho is wrong,” Adams tells the Inlander. “I believe it’s cruel and unusual to treat people who act out of mental illness the same as people who act out of malice or greed. People don’t ask to be born mentally ill.”

The history of the insanity defense dates back to ancient Greece and was available at the founding of the United States. Idaho, however, became one of four states (the other three are Montana, Utah and Kansas) to abolish the insanity defense following public outcry over the acquittal of John Hinckley Jr.,

“I believe it’s cruel and unusual to treat people who act out of mental illness the same as people who act out of malice or greed.”

Samuel has since been charged with second-degree murder in the death of his father and first-degree murder in the death of of his brother, and faces a lifetime adult sentence in prison. In court documents, police accused the teenager of not showing “any remorse.”

Eldon Gale Samuel III has been charged with killing his father and brother. found not guilty by reason of insanity for attempting to assassinate President Ronald Reagan in 1981. The Idaho Legislature outlawed the insanity defense in 1982, the same year of the Hinckley verdict.

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people in prison based upon things driven by their mental health,” says Idaho State Appellate Public Defender Sara Thomas. “So we end up having a higher rate of people incarcerated than we would otherwise if dealt with in a medical manner.”

Ever since, defense attorneys in Idaho have regularly argued the issue on appeals, but Adams says local courts typically “pass the buck” and defer to higher courts. In 2012, attorneys representing an Idaho man, John Delling, went as far as asking the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on whether a defendant has a constitutional right to plead insanity. Delling, who suffered from acute paranoid schizophrenia, was convicted of fatally shooting two of his friends in 2007 because he believed they were stealing his “energy” and sentenced to spend the rest of his life behind bars with no possibility of parole. High court justices refused to hear Delling’s appeal.

“He really could not have appreciated the wrongfulness of what he was doing because he was so delusional because of his schizophrenia,” says Gus Cahill, Delling’s public defender. “I’m optimistic that perhaps Mr. Adams’ case fits a similar bill, that they can take another look at it.”

Samuel’s public defender, Adams, says this is his “fourth or fifth” time challenging the ban on behalf of one of his clients and “he probably won’t be the last.”

“I have hope. There’ve been institutions and laws in this country that have stood challenge after challenge, decade after decade. It’s taken a lot to move courts or legislatures to change things,” Adams says. “Laws against interracial marriage, misogyny, same-gender marriage, owning people as slaves — those stood for decades. … I’ll keep fighting as long as I’m able.” 

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pplause erupts from 300 people sitting inside the Lincoln Center in Spokane. As PowerPoint presentations go, this one is explosive.

“This development will be as transformational as your [Expo] 1974 development. It will be as transformational as what you’ve done just recently within your downtown,” consultant Paul Umbach tells the crowd.

It’s 2010, and Umbach is describing the exact thing civic leaders have long sought: A fullfledged, four-year medical school square in the middle of Spokane.

By 2030, Umbach predicts, such a school would help the downtown Riverpoint Campus create 9,000 new jobs. It would mean an economic impact of $1.6 billion — bigger even than Fairchild Air Force Base.

Thousands of trained scientists streaming through the system: MDs, Ph.Ds, innovators, teachers and researchers, spinning off biomedical businesses, pulling in millions of research dollars.

Umbach calls it “the biggest thing that’s going to happen in the community in the last 50 years,” if the region could only make it happen. Spokane already had a head start. Since 2008, University of Washington students have been able to take Years 1, 3 and 4 of their medical education in Spokane through a partnership with Washington State University. All the city needed now was to build a topof-the-line med school facility and for UW to add that final second year.

WSU went to work on its part, opening a new $80 million health sciences building last year, and the seats were quickly filled with UW med students.

Leaders at both universities cowrote a guest editorial calling the collaboration “a win-win — for everyone.”

Now, a year later, different phrases are being thrown around: “Disappointment.”

“Escalation.” “Deeply flawed.”

“A no-win proposition.”

These Apple Cup rivals — the two most powerful educational institutions in the state — have been pulled into a fight neither wants. Seeing a huge need for more doctors and frustrated with UW, the WSU Board of Regents voted to seek their own full-fledged Spokane medical school. ...continued on next page

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A study from MGT of America, released this month, found WSU was “well positioned” to do just that: They already had the building and the faculty. They’d need $1 million to $3 million to get the school started, $47 million for eventual annual operational costs but not a dime in new construction.

While WSU wanted UW’s medical program in Spokane to continue, UW has condemned the study and warned that WSU’s ambition could destroy the UW’s medical education in Spokane.

The two universities have launched competing ad campaigns, websites and studies and hired their own lobbyists, even as they both call for collaboration.

Spokane is caught in the middle, with leaders fretting about the worst-case scenario: That as the two universities battle over medical education in Eastern Washington, Spokane could ultimately get nothing. WSU, though, says it’s not backing down.

“There is no good reason to wait,” WSU President Elson Floyd says in a deep, precise voice. “We’ve been waiting for over 100 years.

It’s now time to act.”

— TH E D O C TO R IS O U T —

Under the chandeliers of the Spokane Club dining room, University of Washington President Michael Young stands at the podium in a Huskypurple tie. As the crowd of medical students,

alumni and incoming UW undergrads dine on glazed salmon, Young gushes about UW’s prestige.

“You will be enrolling in the 15th best university in the world. In the world,” Young says, alluding to a global ranking from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. “I occasionally call up the president of Stanford and Harvard and say, ‘You know, I can give you a little advice on how to be better.’”

The crowd laughs. That prestige extends to the med school. U.S. News and World Report ranks it the top medical school in the nation for primary care, family medicine and rural medicine.

It’s in the Top 10 medical schools for research.

Three Nobel Prize winners sit on the faculty.

And in this state, it’s the only game in town.

Only five states in the nation don’t have public medical schools. One’s Delaware. The other four — Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho — send their students to the University of Washington through a partnership called WWAMI (named after the initials of each state). Students take their first year in their home state, their second on UW’s Seattle campus, and the third and fourth at clinical rotations throughout the Northwest.

Now enters WSU, with designs for its own medical school, but can it ever hope to compete with a school like UW? WSU has a clear response: They can’t.

“Frankly, it is ridiculous to think that we could in

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any way compete [with UW] for students, resources, for applicants, for faculty, for national rankings,” WSU Board of Regents Chairman Mike Worthy says. “No delusions.”

Instead, WSU wants to be different. It doesn’t want to replace WWAMI. It wants to join it in adding to a flood of new medical graduates. “At the end of the day, our state has to do a hell of a lot more,” Worthy says.

Washington state — and the nation — desperately needs more doctors, especially in rural areas. “Unless we act now,” warns a flyer from the American Association of Medical Colleges, “America will face a shortage of more than 90,000 doctors in 10 years.”

It’s a combination of factors: Baby boomers are aging, and more doctors are retiring. Washington state’s population of doctors is particularly old. And health care reform’s wave of the newly insured bumped up shortage estimates by 50 percent. “It’s predicted by 2030 our entire state is going to need 4,000 more doctors,” says Elaine Couture, chief executive of Providence Health Care in Eastern Washington. “We are not producing them, and they’re not staying in Eastern Washington.”

Washington state has nearly 7 million people, but only 120 public medicine school spots for its residents. And at least 800 Washington residents apply each year. Only three states had a lower proportion of their applicants get into an in-state medical school, the study from WSU’s consultant found.

It’s one reason why eight out of every 10 doctors come from out of state. “We hear from our constituents across the state about their children who want to go to medical school and can’t find spots in Washington state,” says Rep. Marcus Riccelli.

Sarah Hershman went to Ferris High School in Spokane and the University of Washington in Seattle. She was ready to go to UW’s School of Medicine and applied twice — once in 2010 and once in 2011. Both times, she was rejected.

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School at Rosalind Franklin University. The city of Chicago itself, she notes, has six medical schools and an osteopathic school.

Hershman loves Rosalind Franklin, but there’s a very literal price of not getting into UW. “I’ll probably graduate with $260,000 in debt,” Hershman predicts. If she’d been at UW, she estimates in-state tuition would have reduced her debt load to $180,000. For

“This is not a new problem, in terms of our need for doctors.

This gap is big and it’s urgent and it’s going to get worse.” her, that debt means potentially delaying having kids or buying a house. And it means she’s less likely to practice in Washington state.

“Once you leave,” Hershman says, “you’re less likely to return.”

— C O U N T RY M ED IC INE — It’s not just the number of doctors in the state that WSU wants to fix. It’s their geographic concentration. King County has less than a third of the state’s population, but

nearly half its doctors.

Since 1990, Marty Sackmann has been a doctor in Ritzville, a town of less than 1,700. He runs his own practice, estimating he works 70 to 80 hours a week to cover the calls. Even on vacation, he sometimes gets a call that he’s needed. “When one of us gets ill or sick … it sends a ripple through the system” of the town’s doctors, he says.

UW’s students have seen that firsthand.

Cyrus Haselman, a second-year med student, spent a month at a clinic in Tonasket, a tiny Eastern Washington town of 1,000. Last year, they only had two doctors trained in obstetrics: When the doctors weren’t working, they were on call.

“Family medicine doctors have to wear a couple hats,” says third-year UW med student Lauren Benson. “They have to do psychology, rheumatology, physical therapy.”

Both UW and WSU say they want to dramatically expand the number of medical students educated in the state: UW wants to grow the size of each class in its Spokane program to at least 80 students, while WSU wants to grow it to 120 while WWAMI continues to operate.

“Very clearly, WWAMI is the cheapest and best way to supply medical education in the future,” former Gov. Dan Evans tells the Inlander. Evans was governor back in 1971 when WWAMI was launched. Today, at 88, he’s heading up a UW task force to reboot WWAMI.

(WSU’s projected cost per student for its new medical school is $90,000 per student — far cheaper than most medical schools. UW argues that WWAMI’s $70,000 per-student cost already beats that.)

But no matter who expands, medical graduates will run into a logjam upstream: Before they can become doctors, they have to undertake a graduate medical residency.

While nationally the number of medical school students graduating has increased significantly, the number of residency slots hasn’t — leaving more students competing for limited slots.

Here, too, the distribution is unequal.

Of the 1,600 WWAMI residency slots in the state of Washington, a mere 100 are in the eastern half. UW simply taking more students wouldn’t fix that, the consultant study predicted.

Before this year, there was only a single sports medicine residency added in Eastern Washington, in 2008. And before that, it was 1987 — two years before the fall of the Berlin Wall — when the last WWAMI residencies were added.

Ironically, it’s been the university without a med school that’s helped bring more residencies: This year, WSU, the Empire Health Foundation and Providence used a federal grant to add six more residency slots.

If federal grant funding holds, they hope to add 39 more within the next five years.

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— A BRASI ON S A N D L AC E R AT I O N S — It was up to the Spokane community to raise the $2.3 million for a two-year pilot program of second-year students in Spokane. By 2013, the money had been raised and the program was underway. But that’s when the relationship between WSU and UW began to fray. The biggest issue was control. “[UW] said, no, they would not allow WSU to hire second-year faculty,” Floyd says. “They would hire second-year faculty.”

WSU also wanted more control over admissions to recruit more students. The first year, UW struggled to convince 20 students to volunteer for the pilot program. Floyd publicly blamed UW and indicated WSU’s willingness to do it on its own, if necessary.

Indeed, some of those who once had high hopes for UW’s Spokane medical school have been left disillusioned with UW’s involvement: “It became clear to me during the planning phase that this was not going to be a medical school,” says internist Jeremy Graham, with the Washington Alliance of Teaching Physicians, and a teacher for both UW and WSU. “It was going to be a distance-learning site from Seattle.”

In Spokane, the educational model has been different. Instead of lecturers, students are expected to know the material ahead of time — many watched the lectures in Seattle online — with

practicing doctors serving as “clinical guides” to shepherd them through case studies.

In other words, that city-transforming economic impact predicted in 2010 isn’t happening. “What we’ve got right now is nine second-year students sitting in a classroom. Maybe sometimes they UW President Michael Young buy dinner at Taco happily brags about the success of Bell,” says Graham.

UW’s med school.

“That’s not an economic impact on Spokane.”

This year, the number of students was even smaller: Only nine of the available 20 spots paid for by private donations from the Spokane community were filled. Evans, the former governor, interviewed most of the Spokane students who decided not to enroll a second year in Spokane and says some preferred Seattle because they wanted specialized teachers. “They said, if I’m taking neurology, I want a neurologist,” Evans says.

In August, Whitney Xu Pfleger was the very last student to hear that she’d been accepted to the UW School of Medicine. She was ecstatic. ...continued on next page

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But a few days later came the second piece of one of the consultants who studied WSU’s path news: Despite listing Seattle as her first choice, to a medical school. she was being sent to the WWAMI campus in “It’s ridiculous when I think about a state Spokane. She’d only been married a month and like Mississippi or Alabama that has more a half, and her husband’s job meant she had to schools than the state of Washington,” she says. leave him in Seattle. She loves the small class Florida State had a program similar to WWAMI sizes of the Spokane program, loves the teach— a partnership with the University of Florida. ing, and loves the study spaces in the brand-new And like UW, the University of Florida fought building. But the person she loves is in another to stop them from creating their own medical city. She doubts she’ll stay in Spokane another school. year.

“I lived through the firestorm like While many UW students say this one. And it does blow through they’ve come to love Spokane, only eventually,” she says. “Some of the Send comments to about a quarter of the students who editor@inlander.com. people who fought the hardest [now] end up here for their first year listed work for us. They’re on our faculty.” it as their first choice. There’s even a Most of their graduates, she says, name for it: “Getting WWAMI’d.” go into primary care and stay in-state. Twenty Cyrus Haselman chose Spokane for his percent are practicing in rural communities, second year of medical school, but says he unbetter than the national average. WSU wants to derstands why some of his peers picked Seattle: copy Florida State’s community-based education They’re afraid of missing out. “That’s where model, with students training in rural communithe mothership is,” Haselman says. “That’s ty clinics instead of a big research hospital. That, where the research is happening, that’s where all Hurt believes, is key to attracting more students the fancy professors are that have got all those to underserved parts of the country. grants and are doing all this cool stuff.”

But UW practically invented the communityIn the future, UW promises, Spokane will based model, the university argues, sending get more attention, more full-time faculty, and students to remote regions for rotating clerkmore research funding. “We’re committed to the ships. In fact, when Florida State launched its objective of getting research faculty in Spokane,” medical school, UW Regent Orin Smith points says UW lobbyist Margaret Shepherd. out, UW’s program was an inspiration.

“The model the consultants have proposed — TR EATM ENT P LA N— for WSU, and the one they’ve claimed is so costMyra Hurt beams into a WSU Board of Regents efficient and so forward-looking, is exactly the meeting via teleconference, from a Florida State model that has been used for 40 years at UW,” University conference room. She was one of the Smith says. UW is moving even further in that major movers to bring Florida State University direction: Starting next year, UW med students its own medical school 15 years ago, and she is will spend only 18 months in the traditional lec-

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ture format, with the other two and a half years spent in the clinics.

“I think the WWAMI program is viewed by a lot as the model of what works,” says Christiane Mitchell, of the Washington, D.C.-based Association of American Medical Colleges.

“Exposing those students to a rural community shows them what it’s like.”

But Hurt sees UW as clearly different from the vision of Florida State and WSU. “It’s a [Johns] Hopkins, it’s a Harvard, it’s in that class,” Hurt says about UW. “It’s not a community school of medicine.”

Florida State recruits specifically in rural communities, whetting students’ appetites for medical education as early as middle school.

WSU wants to do the same. WSU wants their

Friends of WWAMI and a longtime supporter of the Riverpoint Campus. “They’re here.”

Michael Senske, current board chair for Greater Spokane Inc., also says the community should stick with the original plan, with UW taking the lead in Spokane, at least for the short term.

“What I’d really hate to see is for the community to turn their back on the University of Washington and WWAMI, and have WSU not fully realize their vision,” says Senske. “We want to make sure that Spokane really has a say here, and we’re not caught between two warring educational institutions.”

But to Rich Hadley, former president of GSI, it’s obvious which university has invested more in Spokane. “WSU has been our partner from Day One. UW was always who we had to pull along,” says Hadley. That’s echoed by Antony Chiang, president of the Empire Health Foundation, the biggest donor to the two-year medical school pilot program. He says UW hasn’t taken advantage of opportunities to bring more research to Spokane.

“Out of 500 million [research] dollars that came to the state [three years ago], $17 million went outside of King County,” Chiang says.

“Less than a rounding error.”

He believes both UW and WSU should expand medical education in Spokane. That desire is echoed by Providence. “We don’t consider it a question of either/or but rather both/and,” says Couture, the regional chief executive.

Both universities plan to ask Olympia to expand medical education. UW wants about $10 million to increase enrollment in Spokane.

WSU’s initial request will be more modest: $2.5 million to help pay for planning and accreditation.

“I think the real risk is the legislature doesn’t have any money to begin with,” says UW’s Smith. “I am confident that there are not legislators who are going to relish this discussion.” The state faces a budget deficit in the billions.

On July 9, in a conference room in the Sheraton Hotel in Seattle, and again on Aug. 4 at Spokane’s Davenport Hotel, some of the most powerful men in the state sat down for closeddoor negotiations. Avista CEO Scott Morris and former Providence CEO Mike Wilson, representing the goals of GSI, met with UW President Young and Regent Smith, and WSU President Floyd and Regent Worthy.

“I don’t have a purple hat or a crimson hat, I’m wearing a Spokane hat that has 120 medical students in Spokane,” Morris says. “That’s been my agenda.”

In those meetings, UW expressed a willingness to compromise, including giving WSU more control over hiring faculty and admissions.

But WSU stuck by its plan to seek its own accredited medical school.

“They have until January to continue to bargain, to see if there’s a way to collaborate,” Morris says, pointing to the opening of the 2015 legislative session in Olympia. “If they don’t … my sense is that someone is going to have to make a choice.”  danielw@inlander.com

“It’s ridiculous when I think about a state like Mississippi or Alabama that has more schools than the state of Washington.” admissions process to favor not just test scores and acumen, but location: By intentionally admitting rural students, the hope is they’ll be more likely to return to their hometown to practice.

And there’s one other advantage: WSU won’t be competing with other hospital systems like Providence. UW owns four hospitals, nine clinics and its own medical transport services.

“And that limits their ability to partner with those other institutions,” WSU Regent Worthy says.

— PROGN O S I S —

In a meeting last week over reforming WWAMI at Avista headquarters, the tension boils over: UW Regent Orin Smith turns his chair to look at WSU Regent Mike Worthy across the long wooden conference table. He points out that the WSU study assumes resources currently being used for WWAMI would go to WSU’s medical school, and rattles off a long list of logistical problems with running two programs with the same resources.

“The feasibility study essentially defunds WWAMI,” Smith says. “It also raises the question, Mike: Is the legislature going to fund two medical schools?”

Even though the details haven’t been worked out, Worthy doesn’t see a problem: “The notion that WSU could not continue to be a WWAMI partner, I say, with all due respect, is ridiculous.”

He argues that the school could use other Riverpoint classrooms, cut programs, share faculty, and make other heroic efforts to ensure both programs could operate side by side.

But until that third way is found, the community remains divided over WSU’s new venture. “Our objective from the get-go was to attract the University of Washington to come here with four years of medical education,” says former banker Dave Clack, co-chair of the

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The 12th Hawk

Taima the Hawk brings together Seahawks fans from both sides of the Cascades

BY LAURA JOHNSON

F

rom his lawn perch, Taima fans out his impressive 5-foot wingspan, soaking his black and cream-colored feathers in the warm weather.

“Look at him sunning himself,” says owner and master falconer David Knutson.

It’s one of the last days of summer, and Knutson’s West Plains backyard is brimming with animal activity — various falcons resting on their perches, hunting dogs barking in the distance, a gray cat napping on a nearby deck chair. Here at home, Taima is just one of 26 other birds, but at CenturyLink Field, he’s a star.

For 10 seasons, the African augur hawk has led the Seattle Seahawks onto their home field — more often than not to victory, as the team has won 70.8 percent of home games since moving to their new stadium in 2002. Released by Knutson’s wife Robin in the Seahawks tunnel, Taima flies through smoke, noisemakers, and scantily clad cheerleaders to Knutson’s gloved hand.

Since the Seahawks’ Super Bowl beatdown of the Denver Broncos, Taima’s profile has soared. In February, the Washington state House

Taima the Hawk lives in Spokane, but is at CenturyLink Field on gamedays to lead the Super Bowl champion Seahawks onto the field.

of Representatives approved a resolution recognizing his accomplishments as a live mascot for the football team, declaring: “He has become a uniting element to Washington state, bringing Eastern Washington and Western Washington together during Seahawks games.”

Everywhere he goes, people want to touch him and take pictures with him — including, says Knutson, members of Congress.

“That’s the draw, why he’s so popular. He doesn’t go away, he’s real,” Knutson, 57, says.

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rowing up in the San Francisco Bay area (yes, Knutson used to be a 49ers fan), he’s been smitten with birds of prey since he was 12 years old, owning his first at 14. Little did he know the hunting hobby would turn into his livelihood. As owner and president of KlearView Resources, Inc., he’s been contracted by Fairchild Air Force Base, among others, for the past 18 years to remove birds and wildlife from the flight line.

“I use falcons and dogs to scare problem birds away,” explains Knutson, who also breeds falcons. ...continued on next page

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“I bring an unnatural amount of predators.”

In 2003, Knutson was contacted by the Seahawks organization. Team owner Paul Allen, who took over in 1997, envisioned a live hawk flying at every home game.

“I just thought, ‘I’m a sports fan. If nothing else, I’ll talk to them,’” Knutson recalls. “But there was no way I would ever move over there.”

He drove to Seattle, and in front of about 30 suits, demonNAME: Taima (means “thunder”) strated HOMETOWN: Spokane with birds WINGSPAN: Nearly 5 feet he had.

WEIGHT: 2 pounds, 6 ounces “I SPECIES: African augur hawk figured HATCHED: 2005 they’d say, ‘We need you to have a bird go through a ring of fire,’” he says. But that never happened. Instead, they asked him what he could do. So he went into an elaborate description that included a heartbeat played loudly through the stadium, and a bird flying out of the tunnel in front of the team.

They loved it.

“I called Robin after the meeting and said, ‘I have no idea what I just did,’ because I didn’t have a hawk that could do this,” Knutson says.

A hawk named Faith filled Taima’s role for the first two seasons, but at that point Knutson was running out with the bird, which wasn’t

the desired effect. To train Taima, who came to them in early 2005, Robin would open the horse-barn doors, stand in the back like a tunnel and have him fly to Knutson on his second-level balcony of their home.

“The point was to add chaos into it and make the flight path harder than it ever is at the game,” Knutson says.

At games, Taima simply blocks all the noise and fans out, and for the most part remains calm. But if he wanted to, there’s nothing stopping him from flying away.

T

aima nearly missed February’s Super Bowl. In the Seahawks’ previous Super Bowl appearance in 2006, the bird was not invited, but this year, after the Broncos’ horse mascot was allowed on the field, Taima got the green light. He received celebrity treatment, including his own hotel room. Not everything was perfect: Pyrotechnics meant his owners chose to send Taima out of the tunnel before the cameras were rolling, but Knutson describes the experience of being on the winning field as one of the most thrilling moments of his life.

Only seven teams have won back-to-back Super Bowls (the Steelers have done it twice); this year, the Seahawks attempt to become the eighth.

“Anything but winning the Super Bowl again this year will be a disappointment for our team,” Knutson says. 

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Batman is like that. Through his long history, the character has run the gamut in tone and quality, from the grim and gritty (The Dark Knight) to the dopey and silly (Adam West, Batman and Robin). Gotham strikes an agreeable Burtonesque balance, taking itself seriously but refusing to fall prey to self-seriousness.

Gotham follows police detective Jim Gordon (Ben McKenzie, The OC) and greasy, sleazy detective Harvey Bullock (Donal Logue, Terriers) long before Batman takes up the cowl.

As with all prequels, it’s limited by built-in-handcuffs and predestined arcs: The writers can’t, say, kill little Bruce Wayne, even if that would be the best direction the show could go in.

There are plenty of other quibbles: The first episode crams in a bit too much Batmannery, introducing young versions of the Riddler, Catwoman, Poison Ivy and the Penguin. (Presumably, Two-Face, Mr. Freeze and Calendar Man were saved for episode two.)

Unfortunately, by murdering the Waynes’ parents immediately (Don’t walk down a street named “Crime Alley” at night, kids) Gotham loses what could have been an interesting arc for an entire season: A rich couple tries to save Gotham through clinics and charities rather than body blows and Batarangs, only to get shot, leaving the city with a power vacuum, filled by rogues.

G A E L I C STOR M Oswald Cobblepot, the man who will become The Penguin.

But when the show focuses on Gordon and Bullock — drawing upon the police procedural genre, One Good Cop stories, and even a bit of noir — all those little flaws and missed opportunities stop mattering: It’s here, not the sprawling comic-book arcs, where Gotham finds itself, where it’s able to rise above its influences. We’ve heard the story of Batman told in countless variations. But the story of Gordon, the man behind the Bat-Signal? That’s something worth basing a series around.

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Human Proportions Lake City Playhouse cuts Les Mis down to size

BY E.J. IANNELLI

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ake City Playhouse took two big risks in deciding to stage Les Misérables.

The first concerns timing. It was only last September that the Spokane Civic Theatre opened its season with the same musical (wider performance rights were just made available for the first time in June 2013). To follow so closely on the heels of that sold-out production, which itself followed the immensely popular 2012 cinematic version of the musical, put a great deal of faith in audiences’ undiminished enthusiasm for the stage adaptation of Victor Hugo’s 1862 novel.

The second has to do with scale. Les Mis is nothing short of grandiose — in scope, sentiment, spectacle, sound — and responds to confinement in the same way an atomic blast or a sharknado might. To bring such a production to a stage so often euphemistically described as “intimate” clearly requires a process of economization beyond the one that turned Hugo’s roughly 1,500-page epic into a three-hour musical, albeit without sacrificing the qualities that have endeared Les Mis to theatergoers for just shy of 30 years.

But Lake City has proven itself to be a theater that relishes risk, not least in its recent subsumption of the chronically beleaguered Interplayers Theatre, and if the full-length Les Mis is to be miniaturized without being diminished, then this is the theater with enough chutzpah and chops to attempt it.

Much of this miniaturization is achieved through efficient set design: a revolving floor to simulate wandering or to feature double-faced sets, key set pieces that merely suggest a location (in keeping with the musical’s episodic nature), an intermediate curtain, a trap door, unexpectedly utilitarian walls. This production doesn’t skimp on feverish scene changes, but its Parisian

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And so, if for no other reason than space constraints, the meat of the story — Javert’s (Daniel Bell) Ahab-like quest to find Jean Valjean (J.R. Haynie); Eponine’s (Amber Fiedler) unrequited love for Marius (Aaron Baldwin), the student revolutionary smitten by Cosette (Caitlin Duffey); the Thénardiers’ (Kelly Hauenstein, Whitney Huskey) shameless greed — takes center stage. Under the direction of George Green, the teeming, brawling, shouting, sprawling narrative shrinks to more human proportions, bringing vulnerability, idealism and injustice to the fore.

As the misunderstood criminal with a heart of gold, Haynie has good presence, though his voice can seem attenuated, particularly when juxtaposed with Bell’s sonorous baritone.

Hauenstein’s devious innkeeper is as sinister as he is comic; he’s aided and abetted well by Huskey. As Fantine, Briane Green tends to overemote, which is either a cause of or response to a touch of vocal fatigue. The surprise and delight of this production is Fiedler, whose Eponine is movingly sympathetic without being sappy, and whose singing is effortlessly full and rounded, with the occasional hint of jazz-club smokiness.

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Building an Appetite Take in some of Spokane’s best food in the city’s newest houses

BY MIKE BOOKEY

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fter wrapping up a long shift as executive chef at Clinkerdagger, Matthew Dircks rarely wants to whip something up when he gets home.

There’s an excellent kitchen in his house; he even helped design it. But sometimes it’s nice to leave your work at work.

That said, Dircks doesn’t mind when his restaurant brings its food to someone else’s kitchen, which he’ll be doing at the firstever Festival of

Clinkerdagger Executive Chef Matthew Dircks with a burnt cream dessert at a newly constructed home in the Eagle Ridge neighborhood. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO

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Chefs. The event is part of the annual Spokane Fall Festival of Homes, which takes participants to newly built houses in the area to get a look at the latest building trends. This year the Festival of Chefs adds another component, bringing food from some of Spokane’s most popular restaurants to be served in nine selected homes. The restaurants will serve their fare at different locations, enabling diners to taste their way from home to home.

Dircks says it’s becoming increasingly common for chefs like himself to take their creations out of the restaurant.

“It’s nice to get out of the kitchen from time to time. I think there’s been a big boom with the Food Network, where celebrity chefs want to be out in the public,” says Dircks, a career restaurant worker now in his sixth year at the helm of the Clinkerdagger kitchen.

His burnt cream will be featured at a house in the River’s Edge Estates in North Spokane, not far from two of the other homes. Nichole Kerns, marketing coordinator for the Spokane Homebuilders Association, the group putting on the tours, says that given the distance between the houses, it would be tough for anyone to hit up all nine during the allotted four hours — unless there was some fast driving and even faster eating involved. She says that four houses, however, is easily doable. There are three clusters of houses — in North Spokane, Spokane Valley/Liberty Lake and South Spokane — making for easier navigation.

Another of the restaurants featured is the Women and Children’s Free Restaurant, which doubles Get the scoop on the local food scene as the festival’s charity beneficiary. The others with our Entrée newsletter. Visit are Wasabi Asian Bistro, Inlander.com/newsletter to sign up.

Cake Bakery, Luna, Latah Bistro, Ambrosia Bistro & Wine Bar, Ferrante’s Marketplace Cafe and Hay J’s Bistro.

Kerns, who is heading up the project, says the Festival of Chefs, inspired by home-and-food tours that take place in other Washington cities, was a chance to bring two seemingly divergent industries — homebuilding and restaurants — together. It also makes walking through a new house a little more entertaining.

“It’s a different way to experience the Fall Festival of Homes. Rather than just an open house tour, this is more of an event that they can enjoy,” says Kerns of the tour, which also features entertainment and wine from local wineries.

For the foodies — and this event should feature no shortage of them in attendance — there likely will be a focus on the kitchen in these new homes. Dircks says there are a few features to keep an eye out for if you want to cook like a pro.

“When I remodeled my home, I designed it with a chef working in mind,” he says. “You want a gas stove. That’s a must. And hanging your pans is a big space saver.”

He adds that you need a lot of space for a nice cutting block, rather than the roll-in-roll-out cutting boards that can be less than sanitary. And you need a fridge — preferably a stainless steel one — with plenty of room for the ingredients that will go into your creations. Since you likely don’t spend your workdays in a kitchen, you can’t use Dircks’ excuse. 

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There are six signature burritos on the menu.

The namesake King Burrito comes with chunks of pork in light tomatillo sauce, rolled with rice, whole beans, onions, green peppers and spices.

Carne asada, diced potatoes, Monterey cheese and Mexican salsa is the formula for the Illegal Burrito.

“That one’s more of a Tex-Mex kind of burrito,” Campbell says.

Besides burritos, you can order quesadillas ($7) that come with lettuce, tomato, onions, guacamole, sour cream and meat, or tacos ($1.50), as well as bacon-wrapped hot dogs and rotating weekly specials like enchiladas or veggie burritos.

On Friday and Saturday nights, you’ll find King Burrito rolling between downtown bars, but during the day they’re parked at the downtown Conoco station. Two tables sit outside the truck, so you can grab a seat and a bottle of your favorite Jarritos flavor, figure out how to hold the massive burrito you just ordered and dig in. 

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When the couple — who have been dating since high school — got engaged last summer, they wanted to make a change and do something together. So they opened a food truck.

Silva had spent time working in Medical Lake with her family, who’s been in the restaurant business for 30 years. Her dad bought a taco truck two years ago and had it up and running, but needed someone to tend to it. So Campbell and Silva moved back to the Inland Northwest, where they both grew up, to start up the King Burrito truck, and Campbell got some cooking lessons from her dad.

“It was nice learning from an authentic Mexican cook who knows what he’s doing,” says Campbell. “We got good recipes.”

As the name suggests, burritos ($8) are their specialty. The 14-inch tortillas enveloping your choice of rice, beans, meat, cheese, guacamole, sour cream, onions, cilantro and pico de gallo make for a monstrous meal. For meat options, they cook up carne asada, adobada (marinated

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The Inland Northwest Craft Beer Festival heads to the ballpark

BY MIKE BOOKEY

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ou can drink beer without watching baseball, but I’m not so sure you can watch baseball without drinking beer.

Well, you can, but what’s the fun in that?

One problem, though. The Spokane Indians wrapped up their season almost a month ago and the Mariners very well may be (but hopefully not) mathematically eliminated from the playoffs by the time you read this. The Washington State Beer Commission has you covered, though, after moving its annual Inland Northwest Craft Beer Festival to Avista Stadium this year.

The event had typically been held at Riverfront Park, but you can’t blame it for relocating after torrential rain turned last year’s festival into a muddy (but still tasty) mess.

Eric Radovich lays out what sounds like an appealing setup for the 35 breweries (including almost all of Spokane’s beer makers) serving more than 100 different beers at the city’s wellmanicured baseball park.

“The booths will be lined up just inside the warning track from foul line to foul line. There’s going to be a music stage at second base and activities — including Wiffle ball — around home plate,” says Radovich. He’s got the credentials of a “baseball guy” — his other job is as an official scorer for the Mariners, and he also serves as the team’s public-address announcer (the “now batting” guy) for about a dozen games each season.

The beer commission is pleased with the participating breweries this year, including a number of small craft brewers from elsewhere in the state whose product local beer fans likely haven’t tasted. There’s no shortage of beer makers to choose from, given that Washington opens a new brewery about once a week, many producing small batches, says Radovich.

As for Spokane, Radovich sees this festival’s evolution and growth as another step in the city’s embrace of craft beer culture.

He even compares the possibility of the city’s beer tourism becoming something like beer mecca Bend, Oregon.

“There were only two or three [breweries] in 2010 in the greater Spokane area, and now look at it. It’s booming,” says Radovich. “Now they’ve started the Ale Trail, and that’s part of a shift in that direction.”  Inland Northwest Craft Beer Festival • Fri, Sept. 26, 4-8 pm; Sat, Sept. 27, noon-8 pm • Avista Stadium • $20/advance, $25/ gate • Entrance includes tasting glass and six tastes • Tickets and brewery listings at washingtonbeer.com

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The deli and lounge rolled out a new appetizer menu last week, complete with nachos, meatball sliders and mini naan-bread pizzas. The old standards remain, though, and the pastrami stacker sandwich and tomato parmesan soup remain the most popular with customers.

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PIZZA BABS’ PIZZERIA 1319 Highway 2, Suite C | Sandpoint 208-265-7992 Head over to Sandpoint when you need more than just another cheese pizza. New York-style, thin-crust pizza is the name of the game at this pizzeria, which offers specialties like the Village (pesto, sun-dried tomatoes, artichokes, crumbled feta), the Little Italy (marinara, sweet sausage, green peppers, red onions) and the Hell’s Kitchen (spinach, roasted red peppers, mushrooms and chicken), which blend flavors that demand another visit.

THE BOILER ROOM 6501 N. Cedar | 863-9213 Located in the new, mixed-use Cedar Crossing development, the Boiler Room serves up a menu of woodfired craft pizza served piping hot on long wooden boards. Try the “Fireball,” topped with Italian sausage, pepperoni, pancetta, peppers, chili flakes and Sriracha hot sauce. The “swill” aspect of the Boiler Room’s tagline, “craft pizza and swill,” includes housemade cocktails named after neighborhood streets and places. The draft and bottled beer

list even features a few brews from its (also new) next door neighbor, Waddell’s Brewpub & Grille.

BULLMAN’S WOOD FIRED PIZZA 2385 N. Old Mill Loop | Coeur d’Alene 208-930-0219 Located in the upscale Riverstone development with an urban lodge décor, Bullman’s delivers crisp Neapolitan-style pies with a telltale char and enticing smokiness. The pies, named for areas throughout Montana, range from about $9 for a small 10-inch that easily feeds two people to just under $20 for the 14inch large. Try the Bitterroot, which features pistachios, red onions, rosemary, mozzarella, olive oil and sea salt. Besides pizza, Bullman’s menu includes a half-dozen hearty salads, as well as sandwiches.

FIELDHOUSE PIZZA AND PUB 4423 W. Wellesley | 474-1991 This family dining/bar hybrid provides all the necessary requirements for a night out. Between the 25 toppings and six sauces, they have create-your-own pizza lovers covered. The menu also includes 14 signature pizzas, from the Alley-Oop

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THE FLYING GOAT 3318 W. Northwest Blvd. | 327-8277 Already a quintessential Spokane restaurant, the Goat offers some of the best Neapolitan-style pizza in town and a drool-worthy collection of beers and wines. Everything here is made from scratch each day — from the dough, to all the sauces and dressings. Even some of the artisan meats are cured in-house. Toppings span from the classic to the gourmet.

Don’t be afraid to try the Kiernan, with a medium egg resting on top of a mound of arugula, cheese and Italian sausage. Trust us. It’s delicious.

Snag one of the many beers on tap or in bottles (or cans) to go along with your pie. 

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Stop Violence Against Women Day September 27th | 11:30 am – 8 pm Women’s Health & Resource Fair with the N. Idaho Affiliate Susan G. Komen for the Cure Coeur d’ Alene Casino Resort Hotel 37914 S Hwy 95 Worley, ID 83876

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To register please call: (208) 686-0601 or Find us on facebook: Stop Violence Against Women Day

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The Boxtrolls’ stop-action animation delivers wonders. cluding Eggs’ surrogate father, Fish; the snaggle-toothed, pot-bellied Dickensian villainy of Snatcher; and the trio of henchmen who assist Snatcher, occasionally questioning whether they’re the good guys. The animators imbue these weird little creatures with genuine performances and personality, more than ably assisted by great vocal work — particularly from Kingsley, who prowls deliciously around every one of Snatcher’s elongated utterances.

It’s even more remarkable absorbing the detail in the sets, from the aboveground world of Cheesebridge to the Snatcher (Ben Kingsley) is trying to maximize that fear cavern where the Boxtrolls light the “sky” with purloined in order to move up the Cheesebridge hierarchy into the bulbs, and craft massive machines with rescued gears, world of the “white hats,” even as the now 10-year-old springs and scrap metal. Directors Graham Annable and Boxtroll-raised human boy, called Eggs (Isaac Hempstead Anthony Stacchi move their characters around those Wright), begins to wonder if he may belong to a different sets with a precision that indicates the value of every world. micro-millimeter motion. Filmmakers The screenplay adaptation choreographing live-action set pieces THE BOXTROLLS

by Irena Brignull and Adam would do well to take a few lessons Rated PG Pava does a fine job of establishDirected by Graham Annable and Anthony Stacchi from The Boxtrolls on how to take ing the stratified society literally advantage of the space in which action Starring Ben Kingsley, Isaac Hempstead Wright, represented by Cheesebridge’s is occurring, and the value of knowing Elle Fanning conical structure. The town’s selfthe arc of a sequence before you start absorbed, cheese-nibbling, whitetrying to find it in the editing room. hat-wearing oligarchy — led by Lord Portley-Rind (Jared There’s a demented side to The Boxtrolls that’s bound Harris), whose neglected daughter Winnie (Elle Fanning) to be a little off-putting for some viewers, whether it’s winds up befriending Eggs — provides the perfect launchthe Boxtrolls’ gleeful eating of bugs or the unfortunate ing pad for Snatcher’s disgruntled sense of entitlement. fate of some of the characters. At times, it feels like an While The Boxtrolls never pushes the point very hard, Edward Gorey version of one of those vintage Rankinthere’s an effective undercurrent of the scapegoating that Bass stop-motion Christmas specials, with a few wickedly emerges in a culture where there seems to be no way to witty verbal asides, like the incongruous chant of one of move up, leaving the inevitability of crap rolling down a Snatcher’s henchmen when a mob gets worked up. But very tall hill. there’s just so much imagination in every frame that it’s Yet the greatest pleasures in The Boxtrolls come in the hard not to feel the joy of its creation. Maybe something way this world is realized physically. The characters are special happens to a movie’s world when someone has remarkable creations: the whimsically grotesque Boxtrolls held it in the palm of his hand.  themselves in their name-identifying package clothing, in-

The tactile world of The Boxtrolls explodes with imagination

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he town of Cheesebridge — the setting for The Boxtrolls — rises from the water’s edge like a traffic cone dotted with teetering Victorian buildings.

It’s a mad, dizzying construction of spiraling streets and a complete absence of right angles, one that — in theory — could have been created on a computer for any animated feature film. But it wasn’t. It exists in three dimensions in the real world. And don’t think for a moment that isn’t part of what makes The Boxtrolls so thoroughly delightful.

“Animated film” in the 21st century has come to be so specifically defined as one thing — CGI animation — it’s sometimes hard to remember that there are many other ways to create fantastical worlds on screen. LAIKA’s stop-motion universes in previous releases like Coraline and ParaNorman were engaging in their uniquely tactile quality, but there’s been a next-level leap to the work on display in The Boxtrolls. This is world-building in the most literal sense of the term.

This is not to slight the narrative in any way. Loosely adapted from Alan Snow’s 2005 book Here Be Monsters!, it tells the tale of the titular creatures, reclusive scavengers who live beneath the surface world in the heart of Cheesebridge’s pointy mountain. Yet they’re believed to steal babies and eat humans — a story given some credence by the disappearance of one infant 10 years earlier. The “Boxtroll exterminator” Archibald

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Loosely adapted from Alan Snow’s 2005 book Here Be Monsters!, this stop-action film tells the tale of the titular creatures, reclusive scavengers who live beneath the surface world in the heart of a pointy mountain. Yet they’re believed to steal babies and eat humans. The “Boxtroll exterminator” Archibald Snatcher is trying to maximize that fear in order to move up the Cheesebridge hierarchy, even as the now 10-year-old Boxtroll-raised human boy, called Eggs, begins to wonder if he may belong to a different world. (SR) Rated PG

THE EQUALIZER

Denzel Washington plays McCall, a former professional badass who clearly misses his past life. He can’t sleep, you see, because even though he seems happy with his minimum-wage job, he isn’t following his own philosophy of “gotta be who you are in this world no matter what.” He relates this to — you’ll love this — a hooker with a heart of gold and the soul of an artist, Teri (Chloë Grace Moretz), who also hangs out in a diner where McCall always finds himself in the wee hours. When Teri gets beat up by some thugs, McCall goes out for revenge. (MJ) Rated R

MY OLD LADY

Mathias Gold, an American, cannot inherit his father’s apartment in France until 90-year-old tenant Mathilde Gerard (played by Smith) dies. While sharing the space, the two develop an unusual closeness, made only more complicated by the love interest between Gerard’s daughter and Gold.

This exploration of temporality, money and affection takes place in the quint-

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THE SONG

Based on the Song of Solomon comes a tale about a small town romance that faces trouble in the face of fame. Singer-songwriter Jed King writes a heartfelt song about his wife that becomes diluted once he gains fans and fortune because of it. Tempted by the glamorous life of wealth and attention, King becomes absent from his family and his morals. Stuck between two worlds, King is forced to choose between love and money. (MS) PG-13

The documentary Alive Inside follows Dan Cohen, founder of the nonprofit organization Music & Memory, which uses the power of music to invigorate people who are sick and lonely. Just seeing people listening to music on screen, seeing that intense sense of joy and self, it just shows how important music is for this planet. The film understandably won this year’s Sundance Film Festival Audience Award. At Magic Lantern (LJ) Not Rated

BOYHOOD

Richard Linklater’s newest film, shot over the course of 12 years, is a true masterwork and eschews the bigbang theory of dramatics in favor of the million-and-one little things that accumulate daily and help shape who we are, and who we will become. The story focuses on Mason, who we follow from age 7 to 19 as he struggles with divorced parents and the process of learning how to navigate the world.

(MB) Rated R

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THE SKELETON TWINS

As a winner at the Sundance Film Festival, this story of an estranged family is perfectly bizarre, emotional and lighthearted. Siblings Milo and Maggie, played by Bill Hader and Kristin Wiig, reunite after 10 years of separation and attempt to find understanding in their messy relationship. Their quirky, loving and complicated dynamics are highly entertaining. (MS) Rated R

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Love it or leave it, James Gandolfini’s role as Cousin Marv — a beaten-down dive bar owner who owes his neighborhood Chechen mafia a lot more than a fistful of dollars — was his last. And it’s memorable in its weary grace notes.

Adapted by Dennis Lehane from his own short story “Animal Rescue,” this movie is like a short story in ways both good and bad. It’s tightly wound, concise, and compact, but some characters feel merely shaded in. (MS) Rated R.

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The girl has cancer, the boy is in remission from cancer; this story can only end badly. As far as teenage cancer love stories go, John Green’s recent young adult novel of the same name isn’t half bad — not nearly as sappy as A Walk to Remember. Shailene Woodley (The Descendants, Divergent) plays the lead. (LJ) Rated PG-13

THE GIVER

Based on the classic young adult novel of the same name, The Giver is set in a utopian society with almost no struggle or pain. When a young man (Brenton Thwaites) is selected to learn the history of his surroundings, the truth of how things came to be so perfect comes into view. Starring Jeff Bridges as the Giver and Meryl Streep as the Chief Elder. (MB) Rated PG-13

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY

The titular Guardians are a ragtag, five-pronged crew of interstellar outcasts tasked with stopping Ronan the Accuser (Lee Pace), a rogue zealot bent on planetary destruction. The Guardians are led by Peter Quill (Chris Pratt), a cocky, wisecracking treasure hunter from Earth who likes to go by Star-Lord. (SS) Rated PG-13

LET’S BE COPS

THE MAZE RUNNER

A group of displaced young men with erased memories find themselves trapped in a deserted wasteland with no way out, except for a treacherous maze known to kill those who dare enter. A mysterious and powerful force keeps the prisoners hostage and in constant fear. Once Thomas arrives on the scene, he inspires the group to attempt an escape as they try to solve the mystery of their capture. (MS) Rated PG-13

NO GOOD DEED

It’s the ultimate nightmare for any female who’s been left alone at home for the weekend, or one who lives alone: home invasion. A handsome stranger (Idris Elba, who knows how to play a baddie well — see The Wire) shows up at a woman’s home (Taraji P. Henson) while her husband is away one stormy night asking to use her phone. When the man, an escaped convict, finds his way into the house, she must fend for the lives of her children and herself. (LJ) Rated PG-13

Best friends Ryan (Jake Johnson from New Girl) and Justin (Damon Wayans Jr.) dress up as cops for a costume party, only to realize they like the attention the uniform gains them.

Things quickly escalate however, when they get involved with some real mobsters. Soon their pretend badges aren’t nearly as fun as they used to be. Meanwhile, many ridiculous gags keep the audience laughing (many involving comedians Rob Riggle and Keegan-Michael Key) until the plot has to kick in at the end. (LJ) Rated R

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A LIFE OF CRIME

Judd (Jason Bateman) is a simple guy whose marriage is falling apart just as he receives the call that his father has passed away. So off he heads to the family home in upstate New York for the funeral, and to learn from his

Novelist Elmore Leonard’s trademark blend of comedy and action has made for some winning films (Get Shorty, Jackie Brown) and some notso-memorable efforts (the less said about The Big Bounce, the better).

They always attract a cast eager to tear into his dazzling dialogue, and for Life of Crime, an adaptation of his novel The Switch, the likes of Tim Robbins, Isla Fisher, Jennifer Aniston, John Hawkes and Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def) are on board for the tale of bumbling criminals who kidnap a corrupt real-estate developer’s wife, only to realize he’s not interested in paying any ransom to get her back. At Magic Lantern (DN) Rated R

MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT

Stanley (Colin Firth) is a touring stage illusionist who also delights in acting as a debunker of fraudulent mediums and diviners of all kinds. So when he’s informed by an old friend that a young woman named Sophie (Emma Stone) is enjoying the patronage of a wealthy family in France while

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claiming to make contact with the dead husband of the matriarch (Jacki Weaver), Stanley is more than happy to take on the job of exposing her.

(SR) Rated PG-13

Your favorite post-pubescent crimefighting amphibians are back on the big screen after a couple decades away and they have a bit of a different look, but still love to kick butt and eat pizza. This doesn’t stray far from the established TMNT storyline as the four ninjas go after a crime lord who is trying to destroy New York. Megan Fox stars as television reporter April O’Neil. (MB) Rated PG-13

THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU

mother, Hillary (Jane Fonda), that Dad had one last request: the entire family should sit shiva for the full traditional seven days. That means an oftencontentious week for Judd, stuck in the same house with Mom, his older brother Paul (Corey Stoll), his sister Wendy (Tina Fey) and youngest brother Phillip (played by an amazingly hilarious Driver), a perpetual screw-up. (SR) Rated R

THE TRIP TO ITALY

Over six amazing Italian courses, old coworkers Steve and Rob, played

by Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon, respectively, develop their quirky friendship on a food critic tour. The two share silly conversations, delicious meals and whimsical adventures among the backdrop of the Italian countryside. With feel-good side plots of romance and self-discovery, the film’s overall story stays close to the food and the landscape. (MS) Not Rated

TUSK

Kevin Smith has finally made a masterpiece. It’s a mad scientist story with more twists than a knot-tying competition. A jerky podcaster (Justin Long) who makes fun of freaky people on his show, becomes one himself when he’s snared by a crazy coot (Michael Parks) who intends to turn him into a walrus, for reasons that are explained and, to some, will make sense. A hilarious and heavily disguised and accented Johnny Depp shows up as a disgraced detective, and a certain Fleetwood Mac song is played loud and proud on the soundtrack. (ES) Rated R

WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES

Liam Neeson stars as Matthew Scudder, an unofficial detective in search of the men who killed his client’s wife.

As bits of information are revealed, he discovers that the killers had more intricate plans than he expected and the kidnapping was not random. Playing with our worst nightmares, this thriller explores the darkest sides of revenge at the cost of human lives. (MS) Rated R

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BY MARYANN JOHANSON

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o you remember the 1980s TV sefinds himself in the wee hours. ries The Equalizer, in which Edward Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.

Woodward played a mysterious former Now, the Boston that McCall exists in is intelligence operative who did little private-eye a cesspit of crime and corruption. Those cops vigilante jobs for people in trouble in New York whom the Russian mob doesn’t have in its City? No? pockets are running protection rackets among the Never mind. Doesn’t matter. If this movie citizens they’re meant to be protecting. But Mcwasn’t entitled The Equalizer, you’d Call doesn’t even seem to notice, never guess it was meant to be a never mind care, until Teri gets THE EQUALIZER reboot of the series. That doesn’t beaten up by her Russian mobRated R mean it’s not constructed of rester pimp. Teri then all but disDirected by Antoine Fuqua cycled junk. This is but one more appears from the story, because Starring Denzel Washington, Marton artifact of the long stagnation of she has served all the purpose Csokas, Chloë Grace Moretz Hollywood, which has been reshe needs to serve. In fact, her making the same movies over and abusers will be more developed over and over again for the past 30 years. as characters than she ever is, and will get more Denzel Washington’s McCall is a former screen time: from the pimp and his gang to the professional badass of some unnamed (at least at sent-from-Moscow fixer (Marton Csokas) who first) sort who clearly misses his past life. As one will battle McCall once the game is on, it’s somedoes. We know this because even though he now how vitally important that we understand precisely works at a DIY big-box store, he still lives his how awful they are. You might think that simply life with military precision: timing down to the saying “international sex trafficker” would do it, second how long it takes him to eat his dinner, but it seems not. hospital corners on the bed you could bounce This is probably so that the movie can feel a quarter off of, etc. A bed he never sleeps in, justified in McCall’s grotesque precision in how apparently. He can’t sleep, you see, because even he takes them out, one by one. It is a Hard Realthough (fantasy alert!) he seems happy with his ity, you see, that men are bad in all these diverse minimum-wage job, he isn’t following his own and perverse ways, so Hollywood is totally philosophy of “gotta be who you are in this justified in barfing up another vigilante badass to world no matter what.” He relates this to — you’ll clean up the world. love this — a hooker with a heart of gold and the *yawn* You know what would be badass? soul of an artist, Teri (Chloë Grace Moretz), who A movie about international sex trafficking that also hangs out in a diner where McCall always didn’t victimize women all over again. 

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The many faces of Nebraska singersongwriter Conor Oberst

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hysically, Conor Oberst’s face, which seemed like it would remain milky and childlike forever, has gained some lines and his cheeks have sunken slightly. His greasy mop of inky hair, however, looks the same as it did when he began writing music at 13. But even if his looks haven’t changed considerably, Oberst has explored nearly every realm of music with his myriad of projects.

He has a reputation for not always being the sweetest — “I don’t know if it makes me an asshole to not want to talk to my fans,” he told Rolling Stone in February — but fans will put up with almost anything as long as a musician is talented and brooding. That is where Oberst excels.

His performances astound; his quivering, bittersweet vocals keep listeners as intrigued as his mostly introspective lyrics do.

Sunday, this indie rocker plays the Knitting Factory. In preparation, check out the many faces of Conor Oberst.

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It began in Omaha, Nebraska.

For everything the city is — hometown of former President Gerald Ford, rich guy Warren Buffett and the alleged inventor of the Reuben sandwich — it was never known for its indie music scene. And while Oberst and his friends were by no means the first groups out of Omaha to warrant interest from the rest of the country (311 started there, for what that’s worth), they were the first to stay put.

After releasing his debut solo cassette at 13, Oberst’s brother

Justin co-founded Lumberjack Records, which later became Saddle Creek Records. The label served as a platform for Oberst and other music made in Omaha. Within the next two years, Oberst would go on to form the short-lived rock groups Norman Bailer (later the Faint) and Commander Venus. He also experimented with other bands, but soon Bright Eyes would be his ticket to stardom.

He wouldn’t always stay in Omaha — in 2003 he hightailed it to New York (where he still keeps an apartment) — but has since come back. He even opened a restaurant/bar in his native city in 2012.

Song to start with: “Patient Hope in New Snow,” Bright Eyes

BRIGHT EYES

Bright Eyes is Oberst. The band has settled down, with its steady lineup of Mike Mogis and Nate Walcott since 2006, but it still essentially is Oberst’s.

The group started as a moniker for his solo music, but quickly shifted to a carousel of musicians playing alongside him.

The sound began as incredibly emotional and sad; misunderstood teens everywhere latched on to it. But then a funny thing happened: Around 2002, music critics noticed the band too, and many hailed Oberst as the next Bob Dylan. Since then, the band has experimented, flavoring its indie-rock sound with deeper folk, Americana and electronic influences.

Its most recent album The People’s Key came out in early 2011. Oberst has hinted at retirement, but only time will tell.

Song to start with: “First Day of My Life,” Bright Eyes

OTHER OUTLETS

If he didn’t have other musical outlets, it seems that Oberst would feel stymied. Enter Desaparecidos and Monsters of Folk, two acts he’s dabbled with. Desaparecidos began in the ...continued on next page

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The group caters to Oberst’s punk and social-commentary sensibilities.

With supergroup Monsters of Folk, which includes Jim James of My Morning Jacket, M. Ward of She & Him and Bright Eyes’ Mike Mogis, Oberst was part of one of the biggest folk records of 2009.

Song to start with: “Greater Omaha,” Desaparecidos; “Ahead of the Curve,” Monsters of Folk

MAJOR-LABEL MAN

For his new country-tinged solo record Upside Down Mountain, his first album of any kind in three years, Oberst has moved to a major label, Nonesuch Records, which is distributed by Warner Bros. and also boasts the Black Keys and Wilco. He’s officially no longer indie.

Much has happened since Visit Inlander.com for complete his previous work. Despite a rape accusation against him listings of local events. that has since been dropped and recanted, the 34-year-old may actually be happy. Take the lyrics from “Hundreds of Ways” for instance: “What a thing to be a witness to the sunshine / What a dream to just be walking on the ground.”

This can be attributed to his recent marriage to Mexican musician Corina Escamilla Figueroa, but also he’s no longer a teenager. Life is no longer so emo.

Song to start with: “Time Forgot,” Conor Oberst n

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MUSIC | INDIE POP

Pop rock quintet Said the Whale has received plenty of acclaim in their home country of Canada.

Northern Exposure

Vancouver’s Said the Whale still searches for a stateside audience

BY SETH SOMMERFELD

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ongwriting. Recording. Touring. Paperwork. Band practice. Promotion. Live show. Paperwork. This is all just part of the routine for Vancouver, B.C., indie pop quintet Said the Whale. In order to survive as a band in Canada, especially one with aspirations of breaking big in the United States, there’s a never-ending cycle of applying for grant money.

Canada has an extensive grant program for bands the same way traditional arts organizations do in the U.S. Groups can apply for funding to help with their next career steps and proudly represent Canadian music on the global scene. The process for getting that money (i.e.: filling out forms) can be as dry and boring as one might expect, but Said the Whale isn’t scoffing at it.

“That funding is always being threatened in one way or another by government cutbacks,” says singer/guitarist Tyler Bancroft. “But while it exists now, we’re all tremendously lucky to have it. There are a lot of tours that would be impossible if it weren’t for arts grants.”

Said the Whale’s sound is centered on the two-singer dynamic of Bancroft and Ben Worcester. Bancroft’s songs tend to be more of the shiny pop singles and hushed love songs, while Worcester sings more folk-tinged tales about nature’s beauty and old love. Even their looks contrast, Bancroft appearing more the casual rock frontman who could make teen girls swoon. The bearded and hat-adorned Worcester seems like he’d be most at home strumming around a campfire. The mix makes for wonderfully appealing feel-good pop rock that’s received plenty of acclaim up north. In 2011, the group won the Juno (Canadian Grammy) for New Group of the Year.

Unfortunately, homeland success doesn’t always cross the Canada-U.S. border. “That invisible line is deafening,” Bancroft says. In order to truly make this a career, Said the Whale — like just about every other Canadian group — needs to find a stateside audience. The band’s quest to break into the U.S. was even captured in the Canadian Broadcast Corporation’s 2011 documentary Winning America, which shows the spirit of frustration of a band trying to break out at South by Southwest.

After receiving some American airplay last year with “I Love You” — the infectious single from the superb album hawaiii — and opening U.S. tours for Tokyo Police Club and Stars, Said the Whale is ready to gauge its stateside popularity once more.

“This tour will be a litmus test for if our extensive touring has paid off,” Bancroft says.  Said the Whale feat. Tera Melos and Dova • Fri, Sept.

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MUSIC | SOUND ADVICE

ROCK SEBADOH

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ou Barlow is a songwriter as capable of penning devastating ballads of heartbreak and woe as he is writing buoyant slabs of noisy, aggressive punk — he can have you in tears one moment, and contemplating a mosh pit the next. And the man knows noise as a founding member of Dinosaur Jr., a band he reunited with in 2005. Thankfully Sebadoh, the band Barlow formed in 1986 as an outlet when he couldn’t get many of his own tunes on early Dinosaur albums, proved to be just as enduring, producing some classics through the ’90s like Bubble and Scrape and Bakesale. In 2013, Sebadoh released their first new album in 14 years, and Defend Yourself fits right alongside the older material, matching beauty and beastly riffs in glorious ways.

— DAN NAILEN Sebadoh with Literature • Wed, Oct. 1, at 8 pm • $13/$15 day of • All-ages • The Bartlett • 228 W. Sprague • thebartlettspokane.com • 747-2174

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Thursday, 09/25

ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, Performers on the Patio feat. Ron Greene BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn J THE BIG DIPPER, Fiesta Tropical Salsa Social BUCKHORN INN, Spokane River Band COEUR D’ALENE CASINO, PJ Destiny CURLEY’S, The Usual Suspects THE DAM BAR & GRILL (326-8000), Evan Denlinger THE FLAME (534-9121), DJ WesOne THE FORK (208-292-4392), Truck Mills THE HANDLE BAR (474-0933), SixStrings n’ Pearls JONES RADIATOR, Los Chingadores KNITTING FACTORY, The Freaknight Traveling Circus feat. Borgore, Caked Up, Botnek, Darrius J LAGUNA CAFÉ, Just Plain Darin LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Chris Rieser J LUXE COFFEEHOUSE, Particlehead MACKENZIE RIVER PIZZA CO. (3154447), Kicho Forrest O’SHAY’S, Open mic J THE PHAT HOUSE, The Big Bang ZOLA, Phil Lamb

Friday, 09/26

315 MARTINIS AND TAPAS, Bill Bozly J THE BARTLETT, Said the Whale (See story on page 47), Tera Melos BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn J THE BIG DIPPER, Tanzer4 Rock Off Battle of the Bands with the Backups, 37 Street Signs, Lust for Glory, Progenitus BLACK DIAMOND, Donnie Emerson & Nancy Sophia BOLO’S, YESTERDAYSCAKE BROOKLYN DELI & LOUNGE (8354177), Ryan Dunn COEUR D’ALENE CASINO, Kosh, Smash Hit Carnival

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HEAVY NOISE DRUNK DAD

CURLEY’S, Phoenix DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS, Working Spliffs THE DAM BAR & GRILL, Dan Conrad J DOWNTOWN COEUR D’ALENE, CdA Oktoberfest feat. Native Sun, the Coeur d’Alene Big Band, Shiner EICHARDT’S, Truck Mills with Bright Moments FEDORA PUB, Mike Morris FIZZIE MULLIGANS, Untied THE FLAME, DJ Big Mike GRANDE RONDE CELLARS, Maxie Ray Mills THE HOP!, Naughty Neo Pastie Costume Party feat. Vanity, Atum, Shauk, Tripp, Delereum IDAHO POUR AUTHORITY (208-2902280), Charley Packard IRON GOAT BREWING CO. (4740722), Nicolas Vigil IRON HORSE BAR, Chairmen of Rock JOHN’S ALLEY, Down North JONES RADIATOR, Buffalo Jones,

Andy Ramsey J KNITTING FACTORY, Trapt, Darling Parade, First Decree J LAGUNA CAFÉ, Diane Copeland LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Carey Brazil MAX AT MIRABEAU, Jesse Westin THE MEMBERS LOUNGE, Fabulous Fridays ft. DJ Wesone J MEZZO PAZZO WINE BAR, Ron Criscione NORTHERN QUEST CASINO, DJ Ramsin, DJ Freaky Fred NYNE, DJ C-Mad PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Ron Keiper J THE PHAT HOUSE, Left Over Soul ROCKER ROOM, Karma’s Circle SULLIVAN SCOREBOARD (891-0880), Chris Rieser & Snap the Nerve THE VIKING BAR AND GRILL, Show Me Your Tattoo #9 feat. the Vine That Ate the South, Evolved, 6 gun quota WILLOW SPRINGS (235-4420), The Usual Suspects

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ll hail Eolian Empire! As Portland turns out a seemingly endless supply of indie pop, folk rock and doom bands, the good folks at this weirdo record label are busy documenting the shadowy corners of the scene. The best band on Eolian Empire’s roster is Drunk Dad, a scuzzy quartet that makes some of the nastiest, noisiest heavy music anywhere — as heard on its new album Ripper Killer, an eighttrack carpet-bombing of noise rock, grunge, punk and thrash that feels like being punched in the throat nonstop for a half-hour. If that sounds unappealing, also note: Drunk Dad laces its aural assault with enough melody to keep most adventurous listeners, at least, engaged.

— BEN SALMON Drunk Dad with Diazepam, Rasputin • Sun, Sept. 28, at 9 pm • Free • 21+ • Underground 15 • 15 S. Howard • facebook.com/Underground15 • 868-0358

ZOLA, Raggs and Bush Doktor

Saturday, 09/27

315 MARTINIS AND TAPAS, Andy Day BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn J THE BIG DIPPER, Tonsofun, Jaeda, Rick Rollin, Deadly D, Wax808, Abomb BLACK DIAMOND, Maxie Ray Mills BOLO’S, YESTERDAYSCAKE J CHAPS, Just Plain Darin COEUR D’ALENE CASINO, Kosh, Smash Hit Carnival COEUR D’ALENE CELLARS (208-6642336), Steven Harris CURLEY’S, Phoenix J DOWNTOWN COEUR D’ALENE, CdA Oktoberfest feat. Native Sun, the Coeur d’Alene Big Band, Shiner FIZZIE MULLIGANS, Untied J GORGE AMPHITHEATER (7856262), Zac Brown Band HARVEST HOUSE (238-6970), Johnny & the Moondogs

J THE HOP!, Crowbar, Revocation, Havok, Armed for the Apocalypse, Fit for an Autopsy IRON GOAT BREWING CO., Lucas Brown IRON HORSE BAR, Chairmen of Rock JOHN’S ALLEY, Kytami JONES RADIATOR, New Mud Blues Trio J KNITTING FACTORY, Sammy Eubanks, Silver Treason THE LARIAT (466-9918), Six-Strings n’ Pearls LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Kari Marguerite MAX AT MIRABEAU, Jesse Westin NORTHERN QUEST CASINO, DJ Ramsin, DJ Freaky Fred, DJ Patrick NYNE, DJ the Devine Jewels J THE PHAT HOUSE, World Banditis J RED ROOM LOUNGE, The Som Birthday Show feat. Staxx Brothers, Flying Spiders, Bandit Train ROCKER ROOM, Karma’s Circle

J THE SHOP, Lucas McIntire’s Songwriter Circle SULLIVAN SCOREBOARD, Chris Rieser & Snap the Nerve SWAXX (703-7474), Dru Down J TWISP CAFE (474-9146), The Oracle’s Kitchen UNDERGROUND 15, Every Last One, Playing With Fire, Flora’s Ghost, Jordan Collins!

THE VIKING BAR AND GRILL, Marshall Catch Band WILLOW SPRINGS, The Usual Suspects ZOLA, Milonga

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Sunday, 09/28

ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, Concerts on the Cliff feat. Common Ground BIG BARN BREWING CO. (238-2489), Dirk Swartz THE CELLAR, Pat Coast COEUR D’ALENE CASINO, Kosh DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS, Jam Night with VooDoo Church J KELLY’S IRISH PUB (208-6671717), Songwriter Sundays with the Flying Mammals

J KNITTING FACTORY, Conor Oberst See story on page 45), Jonathan Wilson J UNDERGROUND 15, Drunk Dad (See story on facing page), Diazepam, Rasputin ZOLA, Son of Brad

Monday, 09/29

J THE BARTLETT, Chuck Ragen J THE BIG DIPPER, The Bob Curnow Big Band J CALYPSOS, Open Mic EICHARDT’S, Monday Night Jam with Truck Mills JOHN’S ALLEY, Gypsy Lumberjacks J THE PHAT HOUSE, Open Mic J RICO’S (332-6566), Open Mic ZOLA, Nate Ostrander Trio

Tuesday, 09/30

315 MARTINIS AND TAPAS, The Rub J THE BARTLETT, Open Mic BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn CRAFTED TAP HOUSE + KITCHEN (208-292-4813), Kosh FEDORA PUB, Tuesday Night Jam with Truck Mills JONES RADIATOR, Open Mic of Open-ness J THE PHAT HOUSE, Ragtime Steve J SPOKANE ARENA, Casting Crowns, Mandisa, Sidewalk Prophets THE VIKING BAR AND GRILL, Marco Polo Collective ZOLA, The Bucket List

Wednesday, 10/1 J THE BARTLETT, Sebadoh (See

story on facing page), Literature BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn CHECKERBOARD BAR, Odyssey EICHARDT’S, Charley Packard FIZZIE MULLIGANS, Kicho GENO’S, Open Mic with T & T J THE HOP!, Scatterbox CD release show feat, Blister Unit, Reason for Existence, Dank Submission, K. Sherman at Midnight, Collateral Damage IRON HORSE BAR & GRILL, Open mic JJ’S GRILL AND BREWHOUSE (4674267), Nate Ostrander JONES RADIATOR, Jazz night with with Brendan McMurphy, Rachel Bade-McMurphy and more LA ROSA CLUB, Robert Beadling and Friends THE LANTERN TAP HOUSE (3159531), Open Turntables Night with DJ Lydell J LIFE CENTER NORTH (444-8445), Esterlyn LUCKY’S IRISH PUB, DJ D3VIN3 J MEZZO PAZZO WINE BAR, Starlite Motel J THE PHAT HOUSE, Songwriters Forum feat. Kylie Foote, T Mike, Greg Gower SOULFUL SOUPS AND SPIRITS, Open mic THE VIKING BAR AND GRILL, Death

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THE HOP!, Brotha Lynch Hung, Gho5T Suspect, Dalima and more, Oct. 2

WASHINGTON CRACKER CO. BUILDING, Terrain 7 feat. Durazzo, Bishop Allen, Gypsy Bros, Loomer, Head Hiatus, Trummors, Lost Masters, Heavy Seventeen, Bitwvlf, Oct. 3 THE BIG DIPPER, Folkinception, Pine League, Oct. 3 CHATEAU RIVE, Alex de Grassi, Oct. 3 INB PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, Pixies with Royal Blood, Oct. 3 KNITTING FACTORY, Dropkick Murphys, Oct. 3 THE BIG DIPPER, Tanzer4 Rock Off Battle of the Bands with In Denial, Amnija, the Pushback Resistance, Cutback Davis, Oct. 4 KNITTING FACTORY, Aaron Carter, This Boy That Girl, Matt Ryan King, Oct. 5 THE HOP!, Haystak!, Cremro, Big Snap, BB Swing, Jesse James Greenwood, Oct. 6 KNITTING FACTORY, Less Than Jake, Big D & the Kids Table, The Interrupters, T-180, Oct. 7 THE HOP!, Hellion, Oct. 9 SPOKANE ARENA, Safe in Sound EDM Fest feat. Flux Pavilion, Destroid With Excision, Adventure Club, UZ, Terravita, Oct. 9 THE HOP!, Gigan, Pyrrhon, Artificial Brain, Zan, Oct. 10, 7:30 pm.

KNITTING FACTORY, American Authors, the Mowgli’s, Echosmith, Oct. 10, 8 pm.

THE HOP!, Green Jelly, the Atlas Moth, the Proselyte, the Ashamed, Oct. 11 THE BARTLETT, Sallie Ford, Summer Cannibals, Oct. 11

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MUSIC | VENUES 315 MARTINIS & TAPAS • 315 E. Wallace, CdA • 208-667-9660 ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS • 4705 N. Fruit Hill Rd. • 927-9463 BABY BAR • 827 W. First Ave. • 847-1234 THE BARTLETT • 228 W. Sprague Ave. • 747-2174 BEVERLY’S • 115 S. 2nd St., CdA • 208-765-4000 THE BIG DIPPER • 171 S. Washington St. • 863-8098 BIGFOOT PUB • 9115 N. Division St. • 467-9638 BING CROSBY THEATER • 901 W. Sprague Ave. • 227-7638 BLACK DIAMOND • 9614 E. Sprague • 891-8357 THE BLIND BUCK • 204 N. Division • 290-6229 BOLO’S• 116 S. Best Rd. • 891-8995 BOOMERS • 18219 E. Appleway Ave. • 755-7486 BOOTS BAKERY & LOUNGE • 24 W. Main Ave. • 703-7223 BOWL’Z BITEZ & SPIRITZ• 401 W. Riverside Suite 101. • 321-7480 BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB • 201 S. Main, Moscow • 208-882-5216 BUCKHORN INN • 13311 Sunset Hwy.• 244-3991 CARLIN BAY RESORT • 14691 Idaho 97, Harrison, • 208-689-3295 THE CELLAR • 317 E. Sherman, CdA • 208-6649463 CHAPS • 4237 Cheney-Spokane Rd. • 624-4182 CHECKERBOARD BAR • 1716 E. Sprague • 535-4007 COEUR D’ALENE CASINO • 37914 S. Nukwalqw Rd., Worley • 800-523-2464 COLDWATER CREEK WINE BAR • 20 W. Jerry Ln., Worley • 208-263-6971 CONKLING MARINA • 20 W. Jerry Ln, Worley • 208-686-1151 CURLEY’S • 26433 W. Hwy. 53 • 208-773-5816 DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS • 6412 E. Trent • 535-9309 EICHARDT’S • 212 Cedar St., Sandpoint • 208263-4005 FEDORA PUB • 1726 W. Kathleen, CdA • 208765-8888 FIZZIE MULLIGANS • 331 W. Hastings Rd. • 466-5354 FOX THEATER • 1001 W. Sprague • 624-1200 GRANDE RONDE CELLARS • 906 W. 2nd • 455-8161 THE HOP! • 706 N. Monroe St. • 368-4077 IRON HORSE • 407 E. Sherman Ave., CdA • 208-667-7314 IRV’S BAR • 415 W. Sprague Ave. • 624-4450 JOHN’S ALLEY • 114 E. 6th, Moscow • 208-8837662 JONES RADIATOR • 120 E. Sprague • 747-6005 KNITTING FACTORY • 911 W. Sprague Ave. • 244-3279 LAGUNA CAFÉ • 4302 S. Regal St. • 448-0887 LA ROSA CLUB • 105 S. First Ave., Sandpoint • 208-255-2100 LATAH BISTRO • 4241 Cheney-Spokane Rd. • 838-8338 LEFTBANK WINE BAR • 108 N. Washington • 315-8623 LIBRARY LOUNGE • 110 E. 4th Ave. •747-3371 LION’S LAIR • 205 W. Riverside Ave. • 456-5678 LUCKY’S IRISH PUB • 408 W. Sprague Ave. • 747-2605 LUXE COFFEEHOUSE • 1017 W. First Ave. • 642-5514 MAX AT MIRABEAU • 1100 N. Sullivan Rd. • 924-9000 MEZZO PAZZO WINE BAR • 2718 E. 57th • 863-9313 MOOTSY’S • 406 W. Sprague • 838-1570 MOSCOW FOOD CO-OP • 121 E. Fifth St. • 208882-8537 NORTHERN QUEST • 100 N. Hayford • 242-7000 NYNE • 232 W. Sprague Ave. • 474-1621 THE SHOP • 924 S. Perry St. • 534-1647 O’SHAY’S • 313 E. CdA Lake Dr. • 208-667-4666 PEND D’OREILLE WINERY • 301 Cedar St., Sandpoint • 208-265-8545 THE PHAT HOUSE • 417 S. Browne • 443-4103 PJ’S BAR & GRILL • 1717 N. Monroe St. • 328-2153 RED LION RIVER INN • 700 N. Division St. • 326-5577 RED ROOM LOUNGE • 521 W. Sprague Ave. • 838-7613 REPUBLIC BREWING • 26 Clark Ave. • 775-2700 THE ROADHOUSE • 20 N. Raymond • 413-1894 THE ROCK BAR • 13921 E. Trent Ave. • 43-3796 ROCKER ROOM • 216 E. Coeur d’Alene Ave. • 208-676-2582 ROCKET MARKET • 726 E. 43rd Ave. • 343-2253 SEASONS OF COEUR D’ALENE • 209 E. Lakeside Ave. • 208-664-8008 THE SHOP • 924 S. Perry St. • 534-1647 SOULFUL SOUPS & SPIRITS • 117 N. Howard St. • 459-1190 SPOKANE ARENA • 720 W. Mallon • 279-7000 SPLASH • 115 S. 2nd St., CdA • 208-765-4000 THE SWAMP • 1904 W. Fifth Ave. • 458-2337 UNDERGROUND 15 • 15 S. Howard St. • 290-2122 THE VAULT • 120 N. Wall St. • 863-9597 THE VIKING • 1221 N. Stevens St. • 315-4547 WEBSTER’S RANCH HOUSE SALOON • 1914 N. Monroe St. • 474-9040 ZOLA • 22 W. Main Ave. • 624-2416

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WORDS “MAGIC IS NORMAL”

Who would be the heroine of a Spokane-centric fairy tale?

Perhaps she’d be a bike-riding artist; a restaurant waitress; a city councilwoman; a young university student. At a new literary and music event this week, local female writers, artists and musicians present their interpretations of a Lilac City fairy tale. Spearheaded by Spokane author Sharma Shields, the event features readings of new short pieces by several area writers inspired by the theme “Magic is normal.” Local musicians Mama Doll and Liz Rognes also perform, and a panel discussion between recognizable arts community organizers is scheduled to wrap up the evening.

— CHEY SCOTT Lilac City Fairy Tales • Thu, Sept. 25, at 7 pm • $15 • Bing Crosby Theater • 901 W. Sprague • tinyurl.com/LilacFairytales

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CULTURE OPA!

If there was one thing Jesus knew how to do well, it was throw a good party. In this spirit, the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church’s annual three-day food festival returns this weekend, offering authentic Greek cuisine prepared by members of the parish. A local tradition for nearly 80 years, the festival features all kinds of savory and sweet Greek dishes — pastries, baklava, diples, souvlakia, and the dessert favorite loukoumades, deep-fried dough topped with sugar and cinnamon. There’s also a full taverna offering beer and wine. Beyond food, the fest also showcases traditional Greek dancing and church tours.

— CHRISTIAN VOSLER 79th Annual Greek Dinner Festival • Thu, Sept. 25-Sat, Sept. 27 • $6-$15 • Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church • 1703 N. Washington • holytrinityspokane.org • 328-9310

LECTURE HARSH TRUTHS

TED-talk superstar and “proud and unapologetic capitalist” Nick Hanauer has a message for his fellow one-percenters: Don’t get comfortable. Washington State University’s Foley Institute for Public Policy & Public Service is bringing Hanauer for two appearances to lecture on “Saving American Capitalism: The truth about jobs, prosperity, and economic growth.” The entrepreneur and civic activist gained global attention through his 2010 viral TED talk about “true job creators,” and he’s coauthored two bestselling tomes on politics.

— DAN NAILEN Nick Hanauer • Thu, Oct. 2, at 2 pm • CUB Auditorium, WSU Pullman • Also at 7:30 pm, at Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox • 1001 W. Sprague • Free • foley.wsu.edu/events

VISUAL ART SPIRITUAL SCULPTURES

Estella Loretto’s pieces can be seen at institutions and public spaces across the U.S., including the Smithsonian, the Capitol building in Santa Fe, and exhibits celebrating the art and history of Native American culture. Many recognize Loretto as the most prominent female Native American sculptor in the country. Her art’s broad theme centers around the power of prayer and people’s connection to higher powers. Growing up in the small Jemez Pueblo of New Mexico, Loretto later spent several years in the mid-’80s working as an artist in Spokane. She returns to our fair city for a special showcase — the first since she lived here 25 years ago. The show features a diverse collection of masks, paintings, jewelry and sculpture.

— MOLLY SMITH Spirit Rising: The Art of Estella Loretto • Meet the artist Sept. 26, from 5-8 pm; show runs Sept. 26-Oct. 31 • Dodson’s Jewelers • 516 W. Riverside • estellaloretto.com

CULTURE COME ON IN

The thoughts come often while walking or jogging through some of Spokane’s older, historic neighborhoods. Whenever I pass a picturesque Craftsman or Victorian-style home along one of the city’s tree-lined streets, the history nerd in me longs to see the beautiful wood-filled interiors and to discover these homes’ stories. A few times a year, the public gets that chance when local historic homeowners open their doors to share their castles with us. This fall’s historic homes tour features three residences of varying architectural styles in the South Hill’s Cannon Hill Park neighborhood. None of the homes have been toured before, so don’t miss this rare glimpse into Spokane’s past.

— CHEY SCOTT Autumn Historic Homes Tour • Sun, Sept. 28, from noon-4 pm • $15 • Cannon Hill Park Neighborhood • 22nd Avenue and Howard Street • spokanepreservation.org

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BENEFIT

KENWORTHY GALA The theater’s annual gala featuring food, live music by the University of Idaho Jazz IV, art auction, no-host bar and more. Sept. 25, 7 pm. $20/person. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main. kenworthy.org (208-882-4127) SPOKANE EDIBLE TREE PROJECT FUNDRAISER The new, local nonprofit’s first annual fundraiser features a raffle, live music, local food/drink and more. Sept. 25, 6-8 pm. $15/advance; $20/door. Community Building, 35 W. Main. tinyurl.com/l4ouyvb (232-1950) HAM BINGO FUNDRAISER First annual fundraiser event, offering food and prizes all day. $1/card or $10/15 prepaid. Sept. 27, 10 am-6 pm. Sinto Activity Center, 1124 W. Sinto Ave. sintocenter.com (327-2861)

SIGNATURE CHEFS AUCTION March of Dimes’ 8th annual benefit, featuring pacakages prepared by 10 local chefs and wineries during a live auction.

Sept. 27, 6 pm. $150/person. Red Lion Hotel at the Park, 201 W. North River Dr. marchofdimes.org/washington (328-1920) SPOKANE AIDS WALK Walk offers 3- and 1-mile routes, and also includes guest speakers, music, and light refreshments. Benefits the Spokane AIDS Network. Sept. 27, 12-3 pm. $20/ adults; $15/youth. Riverfront Park, 705 N. Howard St. sanwalk.org (455-8993) WALK TO END ALZHEIMER’S (CDA) A 3-mile walk to raise awareness and funds to fight the disease and to provide services to caregivers. Sept. 28, 10 am. Free. McEuen Park, 420 E. Front St. act.alz.org/northidaho (473-3390)

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The Spokane Renaissance Faire October 4th & 5th

featuring Rebel Tymes One Weekend Only!

Come see us at Safeway this Friday

Two Locations Liberty Lake & North Pointe Bring 2 cans of food &

get $1.00 off admission

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COMEDY

“YEARBOOK” AFTER DARK Adultrated version of the Blue Door’s monthly, Friday night show. Sept. 26, 10 pm (Family-friendly show at 8 pm). $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland.

(747-7045) DON PARKINS, NICK THEISEN AND JAMIE BOYD Live comedy show. Sept.

26-27, at 8 pm. $12. Uncle D’s Comedy Underground, 2721 N. Market St. (4837300) OPEN MIC COMEDY Live stand-up comedy, open to newcomers and experienced comedians. Fridays at 8 pm. Ages 21+.

Free. Red Dragon, 1406 W. Third. (4756209) SAFARI Fast-paced short-form improv games based on audience suggestions.

Sept. 27 at 10 pm (Two for one $7 tickets this night only). $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. (747-7045) LAUGH FOR THE CURE Featuring Gabriel Rutledge and Heath Harmison, with proceeds benefiting the Susan G. Komen Eastern Washington Affiliate.

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COLVILLE CORN MAZE & PUMPKIN PATCH Explore 12 acres of corn maze and pumpkin patches, offering u-pick or pre-picked. Open daily through Oct. 31 from 11 am-8 pm. $5-$7. 73 Oakshott Rd. colvillecornmaze.com NATIONAL DAY OF REMEMBRANCE OF MURDER VICTIMS The Victim/Witness Unit of the Spokane County Pros-

ecutors hosts a meet-and-greet and Candlelight Vigil to honor the memories of murder victims. Sept. 25, 5 pm.

Spokane County Public Works Bldg, 1100 W. Mallon. (477-3640) HUMANITAS 2014 The 2nd annual festival features world music, dance, cuisine, workshops, outreach programs and other activities. Sept. 25-27; see full event schedule online. WSU Pullman. performingarts.wsu.edu/humanitas A T. REX NAMED SUE The Chicago Field Museum’s exhibit features a replicated cast of the 67-million-year-old, 42-foot long fossil. which also includes mechanical models, videos and other interactive exhibits. Runs through Jan. 4, 2015. Museum open Tues-Sun; hours vary. $7-$10. Mobius Science Center, 811 W. Main Ave. mobiusspokane.org (509443-5669) WSU SPOKANE’S 25TH ANNIVERSARY A celebration for community members, alum and supporters of WSU. Includes wine tasting by Cougar-owned wineries and breweries, campus tours and more. Ages 21+ only. Sep. 25, 5-7 pm. $25/person. WSU Spokane, 600 N. Riverpoint Blvd. spokane.wsu.edu (358-7616) FALL FESTIVAL OF HOMES The 10th annual showcase hosted by the Spokane Home Builders Association, featuring 36 new homes of various prices and locations. Sept. 26-28 and Oct. 3-5; 10 am-5 pm daily. Free. spokanefestivalofhomes. com MAD HATTER VINTAGE FLEA MARKET 6th annual event, featuring local vendors of handmade, salvaged/repurposed and vintage goods; live music,

food and more. Sept. 26 from 4-9 pm, Sept. 27 from 9 am-5 pm. $5. Greenscape Gardens, 14212 N. Market St. junebugfurnitureanddesign.blogspot. com (990-4558) INCREDIBLE CORN MAZE & PUMPKIN PATCH Includes 3 mazes through 12+ acres of corn, a corn cannon, tractor tire playground, pumpkin patch, helicopter rides (Sat-Sun in Oct.) and free drive-in movie night (Sat in Oct.) Sept. 26-Nov. 1. See website for hours and pricing. $7$10. 3405 N. Beck Rd. incrediblecornmaze.com (1-855-855-MAZE) JUST BETWEEN FRIENDS Semi-annual consignment sale offering gently-used infant, children, juniors and maternity clothing, strollers, swings, books, toys and more. $5/Fri-Sat; free/Sun. Sept.

26-28. Spokane Fair & Expo Center, 404 N. Havana St. spokane.jbfsale.com (5362840) HUB-A-PLAOOZA FAMILY FESTIVAL An open house at the activity center for its 7th anniversary, offering free exercise classes, kids activities, community booths and more. Sept. 27, 1-4 pm. Free. HUB Sports Center, 19619 E. Cataldo Ave. hubsportscenter.org (509927-0602) PICNIC WITH THE BEAVERS The Lands Council’s annual fundraiser event offers a guided hike to the area’s beaver dams, educational presentations/demos, interactive kids activities and more. Sept. 27, 1-4 pm. Free. Liberty Lake Regional Park, 3707 S. Zephyr Rd. tinyurl.com/klbxrzp (209-2851) A WALK IN THE PARK Dog walk fundraiser benefiting SCRAPS’ Animal Medical program. Free to participate;

pledges/donations requested. Sept. 27, 10 am-2 pm. Prairie View Park, E. 61st Ave. (477-4730) DUCK WADDLE 2014 A family-oriented, timed 5k through Riverfront Park, before the famous El Katif Shriners Duck Race down the Spokane River.

Sept. 28, 12:30-2:30 pm. $15/person.

Riverfront Park. tinyurl.com/duckwaddle2014 (623-0471) AUTUMN HISTORIC HOMES TOUR A walking tour of historic homes in the historic Cannon Hill Park neighborhood.. Sept. 28, 12-4 pm. $15. spokanepreservation.org (344-1065) SPOKANE TRIVIA CHAMPIONSHIPS A knowledge bowl featuring 18-24 threeperson teams, competing for the title of Spokane Trivia Champion. Proceeds benefit the Spokane Public Library’s STEM programs. Oct. 2, 7 pm. $12. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave. spokanelibraryfoundation.org/triviachampionship

FILM

MARKIE HANCOCK PRESENTATION Hancock is known for her independent documentaries exploring the historical roots of homophobia in the evangelical Christian church. Sept. 25, 7 pm. Free.

Whitworth University, 300 W. Hawthorne Rd. whitworth.edu (777-4565) TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD The Oscarwinning movie screens as part of Banned Book Week activities. Sep. 26, 6 pm. Free. CdA Public Library, 702 E. Front Ave. (208-769-2315) GONE WITH THE WIND 75TH ANNIVERSARY The film is screened in its

original 1:37 aspect ratio, at 2 pm and 7 pm on Sept. 28 and Oct. 1. $12.50. Regal Cinemas Riverstone Stadium 14, 2416 Old Mill Loop. fathomevents.com (800326-3264) FIESTA SPOKANE: CENTRAL STATION The Oscar-nominated drama follows the interplay between two characters during their journey to Brazil’s remote Northeast region. Hosted as part of Spokane’s celebration of Hispanic Heritage and Culture month. Sep. 30, 6:30 pm. $5. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave. (227-7404)

FOOD & DRINK

GREEK DINNER FESTIVAL The annual festival of Greek food and culture features authentic cuisine, beer/wine, church tours, dancing and more. Sept.

25-27. $16-$15. Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, 1703 N. Washington St. holytrinityspokane.org (328-9310) CDA CELLARS WINE DINNER A fivecourse dinner with wine pairings. Sep. 25, 6:30 pm. $44/person. Uva Trattoria, 2605 N. 4th. uvacda.com (208-9300573) INLAND NW CRAFT BEER FESTIVAL Thirty regional breweries are on site pouring samplers, with a focus on fall seasonal or pumpkin beers. Event also includes live music, food and activities.

Sept. 26, from 4-8 pm, Sept. 27 from 12-8 pm. $20/advance; $25/door. Avista Stadium, 602 N. Havana St. (206941-7271) CDA OKTOBERFEST A weekend of beer tasting, in conjunction with the Coeur d’Fondo bike ride, featuring live

entertainment, German food and fall beers. Sept. 26-27; Fri from 4-9 pm, Sat from 1-8 pm. $20. Downtown CdA. coeurdaleneoktoberfest.com (208-4150116) VINO’S SMALL PLATES WINE TASTING Sample hand-picked wines with small plate style appetizers. Reservations required. Sept. 30, 6-8:30 pm. $45. Spokane Club, 1002 W. Riverside.

(838-1229) FESTIVAL OF CHEFS The Spokane Home Builders Association hosts its inaugural event featuring local chefs serving sample-sized portions of signature dishes during the Fall Festival of Homes Tour. Also includes beer/ wine sampling and live music at select locations. Ages 21+ only. Oct. 2, 4-8 pm. $35/person. spokanefestivalofhomes. com (532-4990) WHISKEY TASTING Event features 10 world-class whiskeys. Oct. 2, 6 pm. $30.

315 Martinis and Tapas, 315 Wallace Ave. (208-667-9660) BIG SKY BEER DINNER The Connoisseur’s Club beer dinner features five courses paired with a beer from Montana’s Big Sky Brewing Co. Oct. 3, 6-10 pm. $55/person. Lincoln Center, 1316 N. Lincoln St. (327-8000) FIRST FRIDAY OCTOBERFEST DINNER CONCERT A fine-dining experience in Riverfront Park with a four-course meal prepared by Chef Jeremy Hansen of Sante Restaurant & Charcuterie, paired with local, seasonal beers. Reserved seating $65/person; public seating (unreserved) $15-$15, purchased on site.

Oct. 3, 5:30-7:30 pm. Fountain Cafe, 610 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. (625-6601)

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Advice Goddess TO LEECH ACCORDING TO HER NEEDS

My roommate’s girlfriend is unemployed and just hangs around our place all week, even when he’s at work. (She has her own place but is never there.) She’s very wasteful with our utilities. Yesterday, after work, I found her in the living room watching TV with the air conditioning on full blast — even though she also had all the windows open and, for some reason, had turned on our gas fireplace!

When I muttered something to my roommate about her kicking in for utilities, he retorted that my girlfriend isn’t AMY ALKON paying any extra. Well, she is here a night or two a week, has a job, and doesn’t run up our electric bill.

—Feeling Scammed You need to establish a new house rule: “Residents and their guests can experience only one climate at a time.”

Your problem started with going into a roommate situation without rules — without a written document spelling out how things would work between you and how they’d work if something weren’t working. Signing a roommate contract (like this example from Nolo’s “Every Tenant’s Legal Guide”: bit.ly/roommatecontract) might sound unnecessarily formal. However, it’s wise to do whenever you’re rooming with anything more animated than a cactus. Remember, to be human is to be annoying — like, for example, by letting another human move in and cause climate change in your living room.

The fair thing is to get Jackie Brownout to start forking over for the utilities — before it occurs to her to run the dryer all night because the white noise helps her sleep. But the fair thing isn’t always the smartest thing. Consider what this is costing you — and what it could cost you. Compare bills from the previous year to get an idea of how much she’s actually sending the bill up. No, putting every power source in the house on full blast isn’t free, but her usage probably doesn’t add more than $10 or $20 to your monthly bill. And no, it isn’t fair that you’re paying half of that.

However, getting into this with your roommate might lead to your putting the $10 or so you’d be saving on moocher energy charges toward doughnuts for the movers you’d be paying hundreds of dollars to haul your stuff to storage until you could find your next apartment.

If you decide it would eat away at you too much to be paying for her, say something to your roommate, but in a mellow way, over a beer. Tell him you really like his girlfriend (because diplomacy, not truth, is life’s little lubricant). As far as you’re concerned, she’s welcome to stay over as much as she wants, but you’d like a new house policy: Girlfriends who stay over four or more days a week need to kick in for utilities. Stress that this applies to your girlfriend, as well, and add that the particular roommate, not the girlfriend, should be responsible for the payment. The last thing you need is to be going all collection agent on this woman — preferable as it might be to asking her to cut to the chase and heat the house by burning stacks of your money on the coffee table.

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MUSIC

GAITHER VOCAL BAND The group performs timeless gospel classics and new favorites. Sept. 27, 6 pm. $22-$72. INB Performing Arts Center, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. inbpac.com SPOKANE JAZZ ORCHESTRA The local group celebrates its 40th season, with a season-opener program of songs originally by Sinatra and Count Basie, and featuring guest vocalist of Seattle, Jake Bergevin. Sept. 27, 7:30 pm. $24$26.50. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave. spokanejazz.org SPOKANE SYMPHONY SUPERPOPS NO. 1 “The King — The Music of Elvis” features the Symphony performing some of Elvis’s greatest hit. Sept. 27, 8 pm. Prices vary. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. spokanesymphony.org (624-1200) SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK Concert by the Grammy-nominated a cappella ensemble. as African-American women Sept. 27, 7:30 pm. $10-$20. Beasley Coliseum, 225 N. Grand Ave. performingarts.wsu.edu (509-335-3525) WASHINGTON IDAHO SYMPHONY The “Music of Latin America” concert program features compositions by Marquez, Piazzolla, Hare and Villa-Lobos.

Violinist Mateusz Wolksi of the Spokane Symphony accompanies the orchestra.

Sep. 27, 3 pm. $10-$25. Jones Theatre at Daggy Hall, WSU Pullman. washingtonidahosymphony.org (509-335-8522) JONI HARMS The musician performs original country songs from her new CD, “From Oregon to Ireland.” Sept. 28, 2 pm. $15-$25. Dahmen Barn, 419 N.

Park Way. artisanbarn.org (229-3414) AUDITORIUM CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES The Atlantic Brass Quintet, acknowledged as “among the finest quintets of our time“ by the Swiss Brass Journal, performs works of Bach, Brahms and Shostakovich as well as new compositions inspired by jazz, hiphop, and Balkan music. Sept. 30, 7:30 pm. $10-$22. University of Idaho Administration Building, 851 Campus Dr. auditoriumseries.org (208-885-7557) SPOKANE SYMPHONY CHAMBER SOIREE The “Autumn” chamber soiree features ensembles of Symphony musicians, with hors d’oeuvres and dessert. Sept. 30 and Oct. 1 from 7:30-9:30 pm. Prices vary.

Spokane Club, 1002 W. Riverside. spokanesymphony.org (624-1200) ANTSY MCCLAIN Performance by the small-town singer-songwriter and humorist. Oct. 3, 8 pm. $20. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague. (227-7404)

SPORTS

AISA GOLF SCRAMBLE Members of the North Idaho College American Indian Student Alliance (AISA) host the fifth annual four-person golf scramble to raise money for the Che’nshish scholarship. Sept. 26, 10 am. $100/person.

Circling Raven Golf Course, 27068 S. Highway 95. (800-5232464) WILD MOOSE CHASE TRAIL RUN The EWU Doctor of Physical Therapy Class of 2016 hosts the 4th annual Wild trail run, with 3 course lengths, starting and finishing at the Selkirk lodge on Mt. Spokane. Proceeds help send Physical Therapy students to the annual Com-

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FOR WHOM THE WIND CHIMES TOLL

October 10, 2014

This girl I’m dating is truly great — except for how she is into astrology, buys me crystals to improve my “energy,” and keeps sitting me down for tarot card readings. As we get more serious, I feel like telling her I don’t believe in any of this. But I think she actually believes in this stuff and would be hurt if I came clean.

—Rationally Based Somehow, people who find it perfectly reasonable to ask a deck of cards whether they should invest in a 401(k) will sneer at you for asking a mailbox for directions to the movie theater. The question is, as a guy who tries to live rationally, can you respect a woman who probably reads books like “The Healing Power of Pebbles” and “How to Ask the Universe for a Pony”? (Without respect, you have contempt, which researcher John Gottman finds is the number one killer of relationships.)

Figure out whether you can compartmentalize — focus on what you love and shrug off her planning her day based around whether she sees a sign in her toast.

If you stay together, gently explain that you appreciate how sweet she is in wanting to help you but that you really don’t believe in all this stuff. Over time, if you let her see your thought process but don’t hammer her with it, she may come around to the merits of evidence-based beliefs. In the meantime, do your best to be polite when she introduces you to her relatives — all her relatives, ever. (Are you free for a seance Friday night?) n ©2014, 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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bined Sections Meeting (CSM). Sept. 27, 8 am-2 pm. $10-$35. Selkirk Lodge, N. Mt. Spokane Park Dr. wildmoosechasetrailrun.com (907-317-1215) COEUR D’FONDO Third annual scenic bike ride around Lake Coeur d’Alene along Idaho’s Scenic Byway, Hwy. 97.

Offering competitive and non-competitive starts; with a 15-mile family ride and distances of 37, 47, 84 and 108 miles. Sep. 27, 8 am-6 pm. $10-$85. cdagranfondo.com COWBOY ACTION SHOOTING The local group meets two weekends a month from April through November to practice sharp-shooting skills with oldfashioned guns like those used in the American West. Windy Plane Range, 26127 W. Lehn Rd. Sept. 27 and Oct. 11 from 8:30 am-noon. $12 to participate; free to watch. windyplainsdrifters.com (509-299-3703) DOVER BAY 5K-9 A dog-friendly 5K run/walk to benefit the Panhandle Animal Shelter, followed by a chili cook-off and kids’ activities. Sep. 27, 9 am-2 pm. $25. Dover Bay Resort, 651 Lakeshore Ave. facebook.com/doverbay5k9 (208946-0226) FREE STATE PARK DAY Washington State Parks and Rec allows visitors access to all state parks without a Discovery Pass. Includes access to Riverside State Park and Mt. Spokane State Park.

Upcoming 2014 “free” days include Sept. 27, Nov. 11. discoverpass.wa.gov.

HAPPY GIRLS RUN The popular women’s race series comes to Spokane for the first time, offering a course of varied terrain, pre- and post-race yoga, music and race swag bags. Includes 5K, 10K

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and half-marathon distance routes. $75-$85/half-marathon, $25-$35/5K and $35-$45/10K. Sept. 27. Riverside State Park, Spokane. happygirlsrun. com/spokane HEAD OF THE PEND OREILLE (HOP) REGATTA The 4th annual rowing event features university rowing teams from around the Western U.S. (including WSU), and is followed by a barbecue and other events. Sept. 27, 10 am. $7$10. Priest River, Idaho. hopregatta.org RIVERSIDE STATE PARK EQUESTRIAN OPEN HOUSE The Park Foundation introduces its new equestrian area with events such as drill team demos, jousting performances, veterinary seminars, educational presentations and more. Free and open to the public (no Discover Pass required). Equestrian area located off Government Way between Old Trails Rd. and Ft. George Wright. Sep. 27, 10 am-4:30 pm. (4662225) SPOKANE CHIEFS VS. TRI CITY AMERICANS Opening night of the Chief’s 2014-15 season. Sept. 27, 7 pm. $10-$23. Spokane Arena, 720 W. Mallon. spokanearena.com BUBBLEBALL SOCCER JAM Try out this new form of soccer; one game per session guaranteed. Sep. 28, 12-6 pm. $15/session. HUB Sports Center, 19619 E. Cataldo. hubsportscenter.org (9270602) WASH. TRAILS ASSOC. AT ILLER CREEK Work involves digging tread, brushing, drainage work and other activities to help improve the outdoor experience of hikers, equestrians and mountain bikers. Work parties sched-

uled for Sept. 28, Oct. 5, 9, 11, 19 and 26-27, from 8:30 am-3:30 pm. free.

Iller Creek Conservation Area, East Holman Rd. and Rockcrest Lane. wta. org/volunteer/east (921-8928) PADDLING THE COLUMBIA WITH JOHN ROSKELLEY The new guide provides fundamental knowledge needed to enjoy an adventure on the mighty river. Sept. 30, 7-8:30 pm. Free.

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THEATER

FIDDLER ON THE ROOF The season opening show is performance of the classic musical, directed by Troy Nickerson and Heather McHenry-Kroetch.

Through Oct. 19, Thur-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. Oct. 1 performance benefits Hearth Homes of Spokane ($40); Oct. 8 performance benefits the Ministry Institute ($35); Oct. 15 benefits Big Brothers Big Sisters ($35). $22$30. Spokane Civic Theatre, 1020 N. Howard St. spokanecivictheatre.com (325-2507) LES MISERABLES Performance of the classic musical based on Victor Hugo’s epic novel. Through Oct. 12, Thur-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $17-$25. Lake City Playhouse, 1320 E. Garden Ave. lakecityplayhouse.org (208-667-1323) DADDY’S DYIN’ WHO’S GOT THE WILL? StageWest Community Theater performs a comedy about a family of misfits who come together for the first time in years. Through Oct. 5, Fri-Sat at 7 pm, Sun at 3 pm. Dinner theater show Sept. 27 at 6 pm ($25). $5-$12.

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High Stakes The consequences of driving under the influence

BY KATE GIBBONS

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is too early to tell, but she warns that driving high will get you a DUI. “If you are going to go out and have a good time, have a plan to get home without driving,” Fuller says. “It is the safest thing to do so you don’t become a statistic.”

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BE AWARE: Marijuana is legal for adults 21 and older under Washington State law (e.g., RCW 69.50, RCW 69.51A, HB0001 and Initiative 502).

State law does not preempt federal law; possessing, using, distributing and selling marijuana remains illegal under federal law. In Washington State, consuming marijuana in public, driving while under the influence of marijuana and transporting marijuana across state lines are all illegal.

Marijuana has intoxicating effects and may be habit forming. It can also impair concentration, coordination and judgment. Do not operate a vehicle or machinery under the influence of this drug. For more information, consult the Washington State Liquor Control Board at www.liq.wa.gov.

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Marijuana level: Just like alcohol, there is a legal limit when it comes to marijuana. The legal limit for Washington is 5 nanograms of active THC per milliliter.

If you think that doesn’t sound like very much, you’re correct, but active THC does dissipate much faster than alcohol.

Being pulled over: According to Fuller, officers may become suspicious that a driver is under the influence if the car is weaving, speeding or going too slow, or if the driver sits through more than one rotation of a stoplight, among other indicators.

Testing: If an officer has probable cause to suspect impairment, you will be taken to a hospital or clinic for a blood test. While the results won’t come back for a few weeks, you are under arrest at that point, and will be booked with your case forwarded to the office of the prosecutor. If you refuse a blood test, you will be detained and the police may call a drug recognition expert. The experts have been trained to recognize involuntary eye movements, blood pressure indicators and other signs that a person is under the influence of drugs. Their diagnosis can determine the charge against you.

A DUI from drugs is a DUI: A marijuana or drug-related DUI is treated the same in the eyes of the law as if you are driving drunk and carries the same penalties, including possible license suspension, fines and jail time. n

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All proceeds benefit the Green Bluff Grange Scholarship Fund. Through Sept. 28; Fri-Sat at 7 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $10. Green Bluff Grange, 9809 Green Bluff Rd. oldorchardtheatre.com SPLIT Sandpoint Onstage presents a hilarious comedy, Sept. 26-27. Panida Theater, 300 N. First Ave. sandpointonstage.com (208-263-9191) VANYA & SONIA & MASHA & SPIKE The Inland Northwest premiere of the 2013 Best Play Tony Award about middle-aged siblings. Sept. 26-Oct. 12; Sat-Sun at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $13$15. Ignite Community Theatre, 10814 E. Broadway Ave. (795-0004) MURDER AT THE JUICE JOINT Dinner-theater murder mystery event, themed around a night of mystery and intrigue in the roaring 20s. Costumes welcomed and strongly encouraged; ticket includes dinner and keepsake.

Sept. 27, 5:30-9 pm. $65. BellTower, 125 SE Spring St. (334-4195) TAKE FIVE The 2nd annual gala fundraiser featuring beer/wine, hors d’oeuvres a silent auction and a performance of the one-act comedy “Take Five.” Sept. 27, 7 pm. $35/person or $60/pair. Liberty Lake Community Theatre, 22910 E. Appleway Ave. libertylaketheatre.com (342-2055) YOUNG NATIVE PLAYWRIGHTS INITIATIVE A showcase of one-act plays by young Coeur d’Alene and Nez Perce writers. Sept. 27, 12:30-2 pm. Free.

Wadleigh Theatre at Daggy Hall, WSU Pullman. performingarts.wsu.edu/humanitas (509-335-8522) JOVET 40 A staged reading by local actor Patrick Treadway. Sept. 29, 7:30 pm. $10. Stage Left Theater, 108 W. Third Ave. spokanestageleft.org

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“LETTERS FROM BRACKHAM WOOD” READING Local authors Rita Gard Seedorf and M.A. Verhoef read from and discuss their novel in letters.

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Ferrante’s I saw you working at Ferrante’s the other night! Me: thin, long dark wavy hair pulled up (I promise I don’t always look like I just rolled out of bed), wearing a black jacket and dining with an older couple. You: scruffy beard, dark hair, working in the kitchen. My apologies for staring awkwardly, but you have a fabulous smile.

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thank them. I have gone through some really hard times in the last 10 years, and each and every one of you has made a difference in helping me build my new life and my newfound confidence. As the weather gets colder you will see us out there less and less, but when you do feel free to stop and listen, give a smile, or even just a nod of the head. It is all appreciated!

other peoples lives to get nowhere fast. Also every ticket and/or accident you cause not only clogs the roads when you are pulled over, hence the rubbernecking from other drivers, you also cause insurance rates to rise across the board. Stop being so careless. And for you suits in the big 4x4s, slow down, get off everyones ass. A big truck with smokestacks won’t change that. Oh, also women, putting your makeup on at 70 miles per hour it doesn’t help.

someone were to have hit your kid, you are the type who would held that person responsible, when YOU were the one creating the hazard.

Lose the entitlement attitude and show some consideration for others.

You Were Taking A Picture Hey. I was just wondering what was going on? On September 16th I was on driving on Wesley and looked over, you waved and smiled.

Then I looked forward and back at you and you had your phone out taking a picture of me. You were handsome. All you did was smile and look down. I would like to know who this person was. You were the passenger in a white truck.

That smile is something I will never forget.

CdA Exxon 95 & Appleway Friday 9/19 8:30 am `ish. You: Redhead trying on hats (you would look good in any of them) and you were also the passenger in a white vehicle. Me: Getting a fountain soda. Yes, you are physically beautiful. But, this is not why I wanted to get to know more about you. You certainly made me take notice and stop dead in my tracks.

I needed to be in Post Falls, but I waited until you left. I wanted to talk more and exchange numbers.

Unfortunately, I am very shy when it comes to my own needs. I could not see if you were committed to someone. If so, they are very lucky.

If not, contact me: CDAEXXON@ gmx.com Valley Dollar Store I saw you and I must say I was goo goo gaga like a school girl, you: tall dark handsome with a sexy beard...you shot me a look as you left oh my you stuck in me head....

Cheers Pot of Gold To Dok, I found my pot of gold at the Rainbow...from your lady Thank You! A big huge thank you to the people of Spokane for supporting your local street musicians. All summer I frequently posted up downtown near Riverpark Square with my saxophone, and was overwhelmed with kindness, generosity, and so many compliments that it could take months for my head to shrink back to it’s normal size. I wish I could stop playing each time someone gave me a tip, a thumbs up, or a smile and personally

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Put a non-identifying email address in your message, like “petals327@yahoo.com” — not “j.smith@comcast.net.” and I appreciate the work you do to assist us as we wade through this system. Health insurance is too important to let a website become a barrier for citizens. Shout out to CHAS & Planned Parenthood Navigators! Keep up the good work; it makes a huge difference in the lives of individuals and the health of our community as a whole.

Trex Will Always Be My Cuttlefish Trex, cheers to you for giving Annabelle the happiest, unforgettable summer yet.

Yolandi was a sad cuttlefish before reuniting with ninja. Our adventures have been magical and breathtaking. Cheers to Trex for showing Annabelle true beauty in life, nature and within, and opening Annabelle’s closed eyes to a world larger than she knew. Annabelle is truly grateful and appreciative of the happiness Trex has shown her. Cuttlefish will always be there to have pho or bloodymarys with Trex. Trex, here’s a rawr cheer for you. RAAAWR!!

Jeers Speeders This for all of you dumb, ticket getting, accident causing idiots that cannot seem to read speed limit signs, the drivers on the phone and rednecks in trucks that think they are getting wherever fast by flying by other motorists only to meet up at the same red light. 70 in a 40 come on! You dumb idiots are so consumed with your pathetic lives so you jeopardize

One Day At A Time I turned 26 on Sunday. I work full time and go to school full time at SFCC. Good grades and I work hard. Buying books this semester was really difficult because I had to spend all my student loan money on buying a car since my old one broke down a few months ago. Spent 2k on a 1999 Honda Accord. It gets the job done even though the check engine light is on. Just sitting here in the room I rent and I’m really hungry because the only thing I ate today was what I spent my last 5 bucks on campus and half a burrito I got for free. Payday is Friday... It’s depressing when you have to go to bed hungry, especially knowing that you have to go to work in the morning still hungry but act happy and fine when you know you won’t eat all day tomorrow. Then school again on Thursday. Functioning on whatever I can scrounge together with the pocket change on my nightstand. Can’t even afford my medication. Someone order me pizza and make this sh84#y Tuesday better? Anyway, thanks for listening. Hang tough friends. It always gets better right?

5 Mile Hill Drivers Scenario: you driving south on Cedar Road; me driving north on Cedar Road. We meet at the wonderful new traffic light, both turning west onto Ash/ Country Homes. Guess what!

There are TWO lanes there: one for you, one for me. YOU take the one closest to you, not the one on the left…that’s MY lane. If you can’t turn your vehicle tight enough to get into the correct lane – maybe you shouldn’t be driving. Hit me and you best hope your insurance is paid.

Thieves To the thieves who keep breaking into our churches shed. First you stole gas so we stopped keeping gas there. Then you damaged the door so we had to rebuild it. Then you made life harder for me (a disabled VietNam vet) when you stole our riding lawnmower and self propelled mower. Now I have to load and unload my self propelled mower from home and walk more when mowing each week. My helper hauls his riding mower also. You even came back and broke in again and took nothing. Please look in the window to see there is nothing left to steal and stop doing damage.

Please come to the church of your choice and ask for forgiveness and get help turning your life around.

Attitude To the self-absorbed dad on the the Trail of the Coeur d’Alenes just east of the Chatcolet bike bridge on Saturday afternoon, September 13th. Just because you have reproduced does not give you the right to stop and block the path while you mess around with your kid’s bike. I didn’t say anything as I passed, but I did shake my Submit your Cheers at head at the lack of consideration for inlander.com/sweet and be entered to win:1 others using the trail, which was VERY busy that day.

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Idiots At The Fair Jeers to the imbecilic morons on Friday, September 12th at approx. 7:30 who thought it would be a good idea to smoke marijuana in public in the kids game and ride area no less. It’s too bad I couldn’t pinpoint who it was or I would have reported you to the WSP officers there. Keep it at home idiots.

beyond sad. Karma will get you someday.

Signaless in Spokane Trent and Barker. September 15th, at about 4:45. You need to learn to use your turn signal. When you don’t people tend to get too close to you when you put on the brakes and traffic is going 50-55 mph. So, instead of signaling to me with you middle finger from your coffee can muffler POS when I swerve to pass (which only shows your IQ), use your signal. Otherwise, your POS is gonna get rear ended. Either that or someone with a short fuse will help you stow that finger.

Tree Killers Words are hard to convey the sadness my family feels towards our neighbor who took down 9 beautiful trees that were over 100 years old, including a blue spruce. The canopy that those trees provided us for over 30 years were priceless. The trees weren’t dying nor diseased. They were beautiful. The trees were killed so a 4-car garage could be built. It’s their property, right? What ever happened to consideration for your neighbors? For people who have lived in this neighborhood for over 30 years? These people don’t care about anyone but themselves.

So now our family gets to look at a very ugly house, an ugly yard, more construction. Ugh. Why, I ask, didn’t they spend all their money and build a house and garage somewhere that has no trees. It is

Spokane Drivers I drive to work but mostly ride a bike, and you drivers bitch about how the bikers don’t follow the rules. Well most do! Let’s talk about how the drivers don’t watch out for bikes, don’t care about bikers, too busy on the phone or just doing other things.

Just be more aware, because next time you have a run in with a bike. It could be in the bikes favor.

Paybacks are a bitch!!

Tweaker Thiefs How low do you have to be to steal a combat veterans backpack out of the bar while he’s smoking? You worthless, useless pieces of s*%$.

I bled for four tours for that, you had no right.... enjoy it... better hope I don’t see you on the street wearing it. Who am I kidding.

You’re probably too poor and dumb to read this anyway.

Jeers to pedestrians downtown who seem to think that the “walk” signals downtown mean that they’re allowed to cross the street!

We drivers in cars need to turn right on red, and you are always in the way. We try to scare you away from walking around downtown (how DARE you, by the way?) by nearly running you over in all of the crosswalks, but you don’t seem to be getting the message. I don’t care if you’re walking, I’m in a car and I need to go - NOW! I don’t care about your life or well being, especially at the intersection of Washington and First or at Division and Second. You’re in my way! Get off the sidewalks, get out of the crosswalks, and be more important - in a car - like the rest of us.

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BY DAN NAILEN

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ike many kids, dinosaurs captured my imagination early on. Prehistoric-themed coloring books, plastic figurines and Land of the Lost Saturday morning reruns were all hugely important in my early development. And like many kids, the fascination waned, and new obsessions like baseball and bike-wheelies overtook fantasies about Velociraptors, Iguanadons and, of course, the Tyrannosaurus Rex that made the opening credits of Land of the Lost so exciting.

But this year, my curiosity in the ancient animals was reignited by a movie, and no, it wasn’t the latest remake of Godzilla. Even the presence of Bryan Cranston at the height of his Walter White hype couldn’t lure me to that flick.

Rather, it was Dinosaur 13, a documentary that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January and trickled into art houses across the country in August.

The movie tracks the 1990 discovery in South Dakota’s Black Hills of the most complete T-Rex fossil ever found.

Amateur paleontologist Sue Hendrickson came across it when she was out on one of many regular excursions with a pair of commercial fossil-hunting brothers, Peter

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and Neal Larson.

Dinosaur 13 not only documents the discovery and excavation of the T-Rex — named Sue in Hendrickson’s honor, and most remarkable for being 90 percent intact — but the complications that arose when the federal government found out the fossil was discovered at an odd intersection of federal, tribal and private lands. That led to a bizarre sequence of a federal raid of a small-town museum, criminal trials and lawsuits, and ultimately the auctioning off of Sue to the highest bidder — an odd alliance of McDonald’s and Walt Disney World that ponied up $8.4 million on behalf of Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History.

That’s where Sue now resides, on public display since 2000. There’s also a cast replica that tours the country in an exhibit called A T. rex Named Sue, and it opened last week at the Mobius Science Center, seven years after it last visited Spokane for a four-month stay at the MAC. Mobius CEO Phil Lindsey has only been at the museum about six months, but he isn’t worried that a return engagement will prove any less exciting, given that seven years ago “was a whole other generation of

children.” Seeing the 3,000-pound fossil replica take over the 10,000-foot Mobius gallery space — Sue’s tail nearly scrapes the two-story ceiling as she “bows” toward visitors — made Lindsey recall his own childhood obsession with dinosaurs, and how that affected his career.

“What appealed to me as an 8-year-old was that they were giants and vicious and primal,” Lindsey says. “I wanted to learn all the scientific names. I wanted to be able to identify them all. I did not become a paleontologist, but what it did for me was put me on the pathway of science and engineering, and those things served me well for the rest of my life.”

While A T. rex Named Sue came to the Mobius as a last-minute opportunity — “Essentially, they reached out to us and said, ‘We got A T. rex. You want it?’” — Lindsey hopes the natural draw of a dinosaur introduces a new audience to the fledgling science museum, still trying to gain its footing two years after opening.

“Sue is going to be great for us,” Lindsey says. “We’re very confident that we’re going to see a bump in attendance, and that’s great. But it’s not an ongoing, long-term solution [to attracting the public]. We have to create that longer-term engagement, and that just frankly takes time, that takes decades. What we’ll get better at over the next few years is interpreting what exactly will resonate with our constituency.

“No one starts out as a beloved cultural institution. It takes a while to get there.” n A T. rex Named Sue • Tue-Sun through Jan. 4, 2015 • $10 adults/$7 children/free, children 3 and under and Mobius members • Mobius Science Center • 811 W. Main • mobiusspokane.org • 321-7133

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