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Also this week: commentator John T. Reuter explores light pollution and an effort in Idaho to preserve the night sky (page 8), and in Culture, writer E.J. Iannelli looks at the local production of Back of the Throat, a play evoking the anger and anxiety that became synonymous with Sept. 11 (page 30).

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ngaging in cheap political theater, Mike Pence left the stadium in Indianapolis — on the same day that Indiana’s hero of heroes, Peyton Manning, was to be honored. Doing his best Trump dance, he registered disapproval of football players who were making a quiet protest against what they perceive to be governmentsponsored violations of everything the American flag is supposed to stand for. The players who take a knee are protesting what they regard to be hypocritical sanctimony: police brutality that goes unpunished, white violence that is tolerated, voter suppression that is ignored, even promoted — all vestiges of America’s original sin.

Perhaps they were also protesting the narcissistic occupant of the White House, who yowls about how their concerns over serious head injuries are ruining the game.

Might we at least put the national anthem into perspective? It wasn’t even original music. It was an old British drinking club song that could be sung only after one had downed several pints.

It has been the official anthem only since 1931, and the choice was controversial. It was opposed for its racist overtones and its militancy (message: there is more to patriotism than making war). It was opposed for the support it was getting from the segregated South.

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FL players are not the first athletes to associate their patriotism with politics and protest. Muhammad Ali wrote the following regarding his refusal to fight in Vietnam: “Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go ten thousand miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights?”

Ali showed his patriotism in much the same way, by refusing to go along to get along. Then, as now, taking such a stand requires remarkable courage.

How in the world can football players who are quietly kneeling be regarded to be disrespectful? Unless, that is, one confuses the word “customary” for the word “respect.” Respect for what? The custom? Where does it say that custom determines respect? Respect determines respect. Standing and bowing a head, or kneeling, should not be regarded as disrespectful just because it doesn’t conform to what is “customary.”

Since standing is the custom, any other display is disrespectful? Is that it?

Not to put too fine a point on it, but might I remind the players’ critics, especially our occupant of the White House, that the Supreme Court, in the case of West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1943), ruled that the state cannot compel students to salute the flag and say the Pledge of Allegiance. It was a decision that revolved not around religious freedom, but freedom of speech and expression. Which, of

course, is exactly what the players were and are up to — exercising their Constitutional right to freedom of speech and expression.

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merican presidents have a broad range of responsibilities. One is to serve as “chief citizen.” That is, the citizen who speaks for all the people. We might view this aspect of the job as that of chief teacher. No president did it more dramatically or eloquently than did Abraham Lincoln in his Gettysburg Address.

Only 272 words, this speech expresses — as no other speech has, before or since — the challenge, the hope, indeed, the very ideas that undergird the American experiment, and the ideals upon which this nation-state was founded.

How can football players who are quietly kneeling be regarded to be disrespectful?

Lincoln wrote: “It is… for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

It is this promise that NFL players continue to believe in, but do not believe America is fulfilling. It’s Lincoln’s promise that leads them to continue their dignified protests.

As chief citizen, Donald Trump has flunked.

He reacted by wrapping himself in a blanket of disrespect. Instead of a thoughtful, empathetic and understanding response to the players and their concerns, we got another dose of his trademark blather — mean-spirited, narrow-minded, thinly veiled partisan, racist, rabble-rousing blather.

Notably, as chief citizen, he faced an uphill challenge from day one. He had, after all, lost the popular vote by almost three million votes, but instead of accepting his minority status and working to address it, he dismissed the truth as “fake news” and all but gave up on his role as chief citizen.

Oh yes, as for Mike Pence’s bit of cheap theater, directed by his boss? His sad little production cost taxpayers $243,000 — more than we citizens pay him annually to serve us. n

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COMMENT | ENVIRONMENT admire the existing beauty of the skies our buildings seek to touch.

We are lucky in the American West. Our public lands protect not just the ground beneath our feet, but our views of the stars above. Millions of acres of public lands ensure that with just a short car ride, we can disconnect from our busy cities and their bright lights, instead connecting to the wonders of the universe through the window of the night’s sky.

It’s an experience we must not take for granted. Fortunately in central Idaho, local communities, businesses, private landowners, public land managers and activists (including my friend and ringleader Dani Mazzota) are working together to establish the first Dark Sky Reserve in the United States. (There are currently only 12 in the entire world.)

We too often define ourselves only by what we build, and not by what we choose to preserve.

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Saving the Stars America’s first Dark Sky Reserve is taking shape in central Idaho

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arlier this week, the Weather Channel announced that “The Big Dark” is coming.

Signs of future, dark rain clouds stretch from China to Washington’s coast. Throughout the Northwest, our days will soon be darker as rain (and snow) fall, and the sun spends less time in the sky as we head into winter.

But as much as we notice the sun’s annual diminished rays during winter’s days, we often miss the slow change we have brought to our skies every night. Rather than suffering from a natural “Big Dark,” our night skies

are blotted out by a man-made “Big Light.”

Our cities, even our small towns, are filled with lights from our homes, businesses and street lamps.

These lights illuminate our paths and our lives, but their collective glow also conceals the stars above from view — hiding the deep texture of the night sky and leaving only a dull darkness, with tiny specks of stars shining dimly through.

This “light pollution” is a classic problem of civilization, as we too often define ourselves only by what we build, and not by what we choose to preserve. We celebrate the magnificence of our skyscrapers reaching toward the heavens, but frequently forget to simply

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Earlier this summer, they applied for the official designation from the International Dark Sky Association, committing to minimize artificial light pollution in their towns around the core undeveloped areas of the potential reserve — formed in part by wilderness areas, like the Boulder-White Clouds and the Sawtooths.

I deeply admire their efforts. Preservation is perhaps a bolder and braver act than creation. They’re collectively taking at least a brief break from reaching for the stars to instead simply gaze in wonder at them.

It’s an act that reminds me of a story that Boise Rabbi Dan Fink once told me, just after showing me a book of high-resolution NASA photos that he loved.

There was a man who kept a rock in his pocket, he said, to remind him of his place in the universe. On one side, in Hebrew, was written: “For my sake the world was created.” On the other side: “I am but dust and ashes.”

Together, these two phrases reveal the paradox of a spiritual life — the egotism inherent in believing that what we do matters greatly, and the humility to know just how small we are.

When we dare to still act with the full knowledge of our smallness, it is perhaps when we come closest to achieving greatness. For what could be more brazenly arrogant and more humble than seeking to save the stars? n John T. Reuter, a former Sandpoint City Councilman, has been active in protecting the environment, expanding LGBT rights and Idaho’s GOP politics.

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he only thing more terrifying than a 7-year-old werewolf-princess is the price tag you’ll find on a 7-year-old’s werewolf-princess costume. Never fear. It doesn’t take a lot of money to put together a one-of-a-kind Halloween costume that you ― or your loved one ― can be proud of, says Ashley Riley, an STCU deposit operations specialist.

Riley lives in Spokane now, but she grew up in a neighborhood in Lewiston, Idaho, known for its elaborate holiday décor. She’s a product of her early environment, known among friends and colleagues for her creative get-ups. She’s been a steam-punk Joker; an Ursula, complete with a skirt of hand-stuffed tentacles; and a blue-haired Coraline, among other characters.

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Get inspired at the thrift shop. Thrift stores and consignment shops are great places to find gently used costumes and fixings, Riley says. Keep an open mind: Maybe you’ll find a bridesmaid’s dress for a princess gown or a creaky old man’s suit for zombie wear.

“They also get discounted stuff from the pop-up Halloween stores from the previous year — unopened packages like wigs and other items,” Riley says.

Thrift shops often display sample outfits put together by employees — a big help when you’re stuck for ideas.

Recycling is boo-tiful. Team up with other people to reuse and recycle costumes. Try a community costume swap for more choices, or organize a swap with friends, neighbors, or coworkers.

Sew your own. Creating a costume from scratch might sound intimidating, but Riley says there are plenty of beginner-friendly costume patterns.

Look for patterns with easy-to-follow instructions, she advises.

Also, your pattern should outline all the supplies you’ll need up front, so you’re not making return trips to the craft store.

Many sewing and craft stores also hold classes before Halloween to help you create a finished costume under expert guidance.

Duct tape! Not everybody sews, and not everybody has to. You can construct memorable costumes from household items such as tape, cardboard, foam from old cushions, and even old shoes.

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Your daughter as a pizza box? Your son as a cell phone? The internet is awash with photos and clever ideas.

Shop at the last minute. If you’re just not up to making a costume, you may be able to save a lot of cash by shopping for one on October 30 or even on Halloween, when stores are eager to shrink their inventories.

And prices will fall again November 1. Why not shop ahead for next Halloween? In the meantime, you might be surprised at how much use you can get out of Halloween costumes.

“They can always be recycled for other events, like kids’ birthday parties,” Riley says. “My nieces have found uses for their costumes during some school functions as well. And especially at New Year’s and Mardi Gras, you’ll have a lot of people do costumethemed parties.”

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COMMENT | FROM READERS

Readers respond to “Not Silent, Still Deadly” (10/12/17), our story about the Spokane Police Department equipping its service rifles with sound suppressors:

STEVEN BATEMAN: While I don’t like the suppressors, I understand the point of them. Firearms are loud, and suppressors don’t turn people into gun wielding murder ghosts. They will preserve the hearing of people who occasionally (or frequently, depending) have to fire them.

Readers respond to our blog post “Spokane Firefighters Union has endorsed the anti-oil-train Proposition 2” (10/13/17):

JESS PONIKVAR: Absolutely agree. Thanks for watching out for Spokane, firefighters.

BENJAMIN ZGAK: Well said. While I personally like suppressors, I respect your opinion. I really wish others would educate themselves and articulate their thoughts the same way you have. “Silencing” a firearm is near impossible. The closest you will ever get to a “silenced” weapon is a suppressed .22 with subsonic ammunition. What we see in movies is pure fiction.

AARON KIRK: Having personally shot a high power rifle with and without a suppressor I can tell you this is a good thing for the officers.

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JERRY GOERTZ: Prop 2 is a waste of time and taxpayers’ money.

Local and state jurisdictions have no authority over the railroads. It’s federally regulated.

SHERI CHIN: Good! We don’t need the risk in the middle of such an urban area.

LINDA McHENRY: Firefighters are the ones who will be responsible for responding to the fiery explosion when one of these tankers derails from the elevated track running in front of LC, so I guess they probably know what they’re talking about. n

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Visit spokanearts.org/createspokane Oct. 19 MAYOR’S URBAN DESIGN AWARDS Saranac Commons / 19 W. Main / 509.625.6146 / 5:30 - 7 pm / FREE

Oct. 20 MONSTER DRAWING RALLY Watch 45 artists draw their favorite monster.

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Montvale Event Center / 1017 W. 1st Ave / spokaneartschool.net/events 5 - 9 pm, $10-$15 tickets

“BACK OF THE THROAT” This play features a young Arab-American who is confined to his home by two government agents. The questioning of him intensifies as the play progresses, with seemingly every item in his apartment a potential source of suspicion. Show runs October 20 through November 5. Written by Yussef El Guindi, directed by Heather McHenry-Kroetch.

Stage Left Theater / 108 W. Third Ave. 509.838.9727 / spokanestageleft.org Showtimes vary. $20

THE ALCHEMOUS BEASTS TOUR Maya Jewell Zeller reads poetry from her new collaborative collection "Alchemy for Cells & Other Beasts," teaming up with Spokane folk musician Liz Rognes. The pair will share music and words that thoughtfully interrogate the politicization of women's bodies.

The Bartlett / 228 W. Sprague Ave / 509.747.2174 / thebartlettspokane.com 8 pm / FREE

SPOKANE HANDWEAVERS SHOW Annual exhibit & sale of handwoven textiles, incl. household linens, rugs, scarves, shawls, simple garments, wall art and much more.

Spokane Handweavers’ Guild Hall/ 606 W. Garland / October 20: 5 - 8 pm / Oct. 21: 10 am - 5 pm / Oct. 22: 12- 4 pm

Oct. 21 TITANIC: THE ARTIFACT EXHIBITION This blockbuster exhibit takes visitors on a journey back in time to experience the legend of Titanic as never before. It features more than 120 real artifacts, all recovered from the ocean floor. The objects, along with room re-creations and personal stories, offer haunting, emotional connections to lives abruptly ended or forever altered. Opens October 21. Hours: Tues - Sun, 10 am - 5 pm.

Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture 2316 W. 1st Ave / 509.456.3931 / northwestmuseum.org

POPTOBERFEST Presented by Terrain’s Pop-Up Shop. Over 20 regional artists and makers will have handmade goods for sale and sample, with a variety of new items available. Coffee in the morning, beer at dusk. Housewares, jewelry, craft, clothing, pottery, skin care, and more!

Pop-Up Shop / 159 S. Lincoln / Questions? shop@terrainspokane.com/ 11 am - 8 pm

Oct. 21 READING: CHELSEA MARTIN Martin’s new collection, “Caca Dolce: Essays from a Lowbrow Life,” has been praised by Lena Dunham and featured in O Magazine as a “Title to Pick Up Now.” Q&A and book signing to follow the reading.

Auntie’s Bookstore / 402 W. Main Ave / 509.838.0206 / auntiesbooks.com 7 pm / FREE

Oct. 21 & Oct. 22 SPOKANE SYMPHONY CLASSICS: TALES OF TRAGEDY Conrad Tao returns with one of the most challenging of the piano repertoire, Piano Concerto No. 2. The concert is book-ended by three stirring tales. Franck’s “The Accursed Huntsman” evokes a dark, infernal chase.

Strauss captures the somber mood of Shakespeare’s “Macbeth,” and gives a charming account of the misadentures of a peasant rogue in “Till Eulenspiegel.”

Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox/ 1001 W Sprague / 509.624.1200 / spokanesympony.org Saturday, Oct 21 at 8 pm; Sunday, Oct. 22 at 3 pm / $14-57

Oct. 22 ANGELS IN AMERICA PART ONE Spotlighting the struggles of five gay men in New York, Tony Kushner’s multi-award winning “Angels” offers a rich, honest, and utterly resonant portrait of the fear and uncertainty gripping America during the AIDS crisis. Part of the Stage to Screen Film Series.

Bing Crosby Theater / 901 W Sprague Ave/ 509.534.5805/ bingcrosbytheater.com 2 pm / $7- $15

Oct. 25 AN EVENING WITH ANGELA DAVIS Known widely as one of the most respected and powerful voices in social justice, the civil rights activist, writer, and scholar will speak at Gonzaga University. This event presented by the Gonzaga Center for Public Humanities.

Gonzaga University Hemmingson Center/ 702 E. Desmet Ave. 509.444.5390 / gonzaga.edu / 7 pm / FREE / Tickets req’d

BOB ROSS’ BIRTHDAY PARTY Embrace your inner PBS Nerd and join KSPS for an evening celebrating the 75th birthday of public television’s favorite painter; the lovable, soothing Bob Ross. Attendees will paint with Pinot's Palette, play Bob Ross trivia and other contests. Ages 21+. Limited to 60 seats; pre-registration recommended. Proceeds benefit KSPS. Event venue: 319 W. Sprague Avenue/ 509.354.7724 / pinotspalette.com/spokane/event/174718 / 6:30 - 8:30 pm / $54

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Oct. 28

TAPROOT SPEAKER SERIES Ildikó Kalapács is a Hungarian-American visual artist and folk dancer, and director of The Bearing Sculpture Project. Her work is influenced by her experiences of east and west, living in a socialist and a capitalist country, and studying cultural layers through folk dance and anthropology. This speaker series features local people with inspiring ideas about creativity, innovation and imagination.

Spark Central / 1214 W. Summit Parkway 509.279.0299 / sparkcentral.org 7 pm / FREE.

THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN Scottish rockers the Jesus and Mary Chain stop in Spokane as part of their American tour.

Rolling Stone named their album “Psychocandy” as one of the 500 greatest albums of all time. The show is presented by the Bartlett and will take place at the Bing Crosby Theater.

Bing Crosby Theater/ 901 W. Sprague / ticketswest.com / 8 pm / $40

“PIE & WHISKEY: WRITERS UNDER THE INFLUENCE” BOOK LAUNCH PARTY Washington Cracker Bldg / 304 W. Pacific 21+ only / pieandwhiskey.com Doors at 8 pm / Free admission

Oct. 27 COMMUNITY MEETING:

WASHINGTON CULTURAL TRADITIONS Launching this fall, the Center for Washington Cultural Traditions will be Washington State’s new folklife and traditional arts program. The Center is hosting a series of community meetings to get your input on its development.

The Center will support tradition bearers throughout the state, interpret the state’s rich cultural heritage, conduct meaningful research, and create a range of innovative media and programming. Partnership between Humanities Washington and ArtsWA. Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture / 2316 W. 1st Ave / 509.456.3931 10 am / FREE

“I NEVER SAW ANOTHER BUTTERFLY” Spokane Civic Theatre / 1020 N Howard St 509.325.2507 / spokanecivictheatre.com 7:30 pm / $15

Nov. 04 2017 SPOKANE ARTS AWARDS The annual celebration and culmination of Spokane Arts Month includes the presentation of the 2017 Spokane Arts Awards, the announcement of Spokane's new poet laureate, the announcement of a $10,000 SAGA grant (the final grant to be awarded in 2017), and performances by local artists. Proceeds will support Spokane Arts’ programs. Ticket price includes wine, appetizers, and a full no-host bar. For more info visit: spokanearts.org/createspokane The McGinnity Room 116 W Pacific Ave / 7 pm / Tickets: $30-$75 per person. Discounts for students, seniors, and more.

READING: JOHN GREEN Bestselling YA author John Green and special guest Hank Green visit Spokane on tour in support of John's new novel, "Turtles All the Way." The brothers will talk about John's latest book, answer questions, and more.

Purchase the new book from Auntie's to receive one admission ticket. Portion of the proceeds will benefit LCHS. Lewis & Clark High School/ 521 W. Fourth Ave / 509.354.7000 / auntiesbooks.com 7 pm. Ticket included w/book purchase.

ARTIST TRUST WORKSHOP: BUILD YOUR ARTIST WEBSITE Presented by Artist Trust, this two-day workshop (October 28 & 29) will help artists create a portfolio-based website using Squarespace, covering the basics and making room for personalization as you follow along.

Leave with your own artist website with pages for standard content, including a gallery, a newsfeed, and artist information.

You will select and purchase your own domains at the beginning of the class.

Registration required. Meets Oct. 28, 9 am-noon and Oct. 29, 9 am-3 pm. $40 for Artist Trust members, $50 general.

Need-based and Filipinx scholarships available by request.

Spark Central/ 1214 W. Summit Parkway/ 509.279.0299 / artisttrust.org/ $40-$50 Register at: artistwebsitespokane.bpt.me

Oct. 30 TAROT TIME Community members share writing based on the Major Arcana tarot cards at this Halloween-themed performance & book release party. Sales of a limited-edition book benefit Spark Central.

Spark Central/ 1214 W. Summit Parkway sparkcentral.org 7 pm / FREE

POLICE OVERSIGHT

The Hot Seat Why the leader of Spokane’s volunteer police oversight commission has stepped down from her role

BY MITCH RYALS

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or the second time in two years, the chairperson of Spokane’s police ombudsman commission was asked to resign after becoming embroiled in controversy over the role of the volunteer panel.

Deb Conklin has stepped down from her position as chair of the volunteer commission charged with directing police oversight in Spokane. Her predecessor, Rachel Dolezal, was voted out of her leadership position in 2015 after an investigation into a whistleblower complaint found that Dolezal and two other members of the commission created “an intimidating, hostile and offensive environment” and “abused their authority.”

Over the past few months, Conklin has faced similar accusations stemming from what she says is a difference in opinion over the commission’s responsibility.

In an email to members of the city council, Ombudsman Commissioner Ladd Smith urges them not to reappoint Conklin.

“It has become increasingly obvious that Commissioner Conklin is more a liability than an asset on the OPOC,” Smith writes.

He adds that Conklin’s “ongoing disdain” for the ombudsman, Bart Logue, “is hindering the important work of the OPO and the effectiveness of the OPOC.” Police Ombudsman Logue has also expressed frustration with Conklin. In emails to city officials, Logue has accused Conklin of creating a “hostile work environment, which I will no longer tolerate.” He declined to elaborate, due to potential action from the city’s human resources department.

Conklin denies that she’s been demeaning toward Logue, but acknowledges that her view of the commission’s role aligns with Dolezal’s — that the commission exists to hold the ombudsman accountable, and not necessarily to support the ombudsman or “rubber-stamp” his actions.

Although she raises no issues with Logue’s work, Conklin is worried that the commission will devolve into a sounding board for the ombudsman, “and we’ll be right back where we started,” before February 2013, when voters approved a city charter amendment for an ombudsman with independent investigative power.

Others wonder if she’s taken that vision too far.

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Deb Conklin: “I’m worried about the commission being impotent and a waste of everybody’s time.”

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ogue and Conklin’s relationship got off to a rocky start.

“I think it’s fair to say there’s been observable tension between Bart Logue and Deb Conklin from the beginning of his service,” Councilman Breean Beggs says.

Before the ombudsman commission voted to offer Logue the permanent job last September, for example, Conklin said publicly that she favored another candidate. Nonetheless, she voted for Logue to “strengthen the office by giving him unanimous support of the commission,” she says now.

“He and I often don’t see eye to eye on things,” she says.

“And we sort things through, usually, in the public meetings.

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“THE HOT SEAT,” CONTINUED... between Bart and I. I would not have said that about the relationship.”

Meanwhile, other commissioners have taken notice of their strained interactions. Logue and Conklin have clashed over proposed changes to the ombudsman’s ordinance, and whether to close the office on Fridays if he’s worked more than 40 hours, for example.

Smith, who was appointed chair of the commission after Conklin stepped down, is mystified by her demeanor toward Logue.

“Deb and I have been to a lot of meetings together, and have talked about a lot of things, and that’s why this is so hard,” he says. “I like her as a person — she stands strong for her convictions — but when it comes to Mr. Logue, I’m in the dark as to what she has a problem with.”

He agrees that commissioners should question the ombudsman’s actions, but says they should balance criticism with affirmation.

“I think she’s too far on the extreme of always holding the ombudsperson in suspicion,” he says. “The hard part about being a commissioner is finding that middle road. The ombudsperson needs to feel a sense that the commission is supporting him in his vision and his work, and I think it’s hard for Deb Conklin to compliment Mr. Logue.”

Scott Richter, who recently left the commission after his term ran out, has continually pushed back against Conklin’s interpretation of the commission’s role.

“We shouldn’t be going into the ombudsman’s office and telling him or the staff what to

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do,” Richter says. “That’s not the OPOC’s job. We hire a person who’s capable of doing the job, and if that person is problematic, that’s when the OPOC starts to hover and look into what they’re doing.”

Last month, Richter emailed all seven city council members raising concerns about Conklin directing the ombudsman’s daily tasks without consent of the commission, which he believes is outside the scope of the commission’s authority.

“We enable and strengthen the ombudsman until there is a concern otherwise, which there has never been about Mr. Logue,” he writes.

Conklin does not shy away from her belief in the commission’s role as an aggressive watchdog. But she doesn’t point out any shortcomings in Logue’s work, and in fact, praises the job he’s doing. In one example, he identified an officer’s questionable behavior that supervisors missed.

“In that sense, he appears to be very conscientious, because he’s looking at a part of the body camera footage that wasn’t even tagged in the complaint,” she says.

But she believes his interactions with her haven’t always been fair.

“I was not aware of the things he was saying, and now that I hear the accusations he’s saying, I think they’re unfair and LETTERS unsubstantiated,” she says.

Send comments to Regardless, Conklin is stepeditor@inlander.com. ping away, not only from the ombudsman commission, but from her role in police oversight in general.

“I’m worried about the commission being impotent and a waste of everybody’s time,” she says. “As soon as there is a replacement approved by city council, then it is my intent to walk away from police oversight, because as long as I’m involved, I will be the issue, and I can’t be the issue. It has to be about the work.” n mitchr@inlander.com

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On a mission with Fairchild’s KC-135s.

STREETS Last winter, the city of Spokane faced one of the worst snowfalls in the past half-dozen years. This time, the city hopes it will be be better prepared. On Monday, the city rolled out its new SNOWPLOWING strategy.

The citywide snowplowing will be accomplished faster by bringing in extra drivers from other departments. Residential streets will be plowed more often — but residents should expect more berms as a result. To avoid covering sidewalks with snow, the plows will carve a narrower path through the streets. The city has brought in new equipment, allowing seven plows to be equipped with “gates” to prevent them from plowing in driveways. New rules, meanwhile, will require residents to store their RVs and boat trailers, and park only on the odd side of the street from Nov. 15 to March 15.

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At Monday night’s meeting, James Wilburn told the council: “The carrot that you’re dangling is separating the community.” DANIEL WALTERS PHOTO

‘Black-andWhite Issue’

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After 4-2 city council vote, MLK Center will run the East Central Community Center

BY DANIEL WALTERS

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y the time the decision came before the Spokane City Council Monday night, what seemed like a simple question — who would get the contract to run the East Central Community Center — had become an imbroglio, involving race, conflicts of interest and questions of basic fairness.

The seeds of the conflict were planted in December 2012, when the city of Spokane — looking to save money — handed over control of the community center to a private nonprofit, the East Central Community Organization. But many of the center’s clientele, particularly in the African-American community, quickly became frustrated with the way it was being run.

With the contract up for grabs this year, ECCO faced off against a competing proposal from the Martin Luther King Jr. Family Outreach Center. Initially, the first review committee to examine the proposal recommended sticking with ECCO. But over the summer, the MLK Center filed a letter objecting to the fact that one of the review committee’s members, former Spokane NAACP president James Wilburn, had previously testified in support of ECCO. Wilburn, who said that he’d been asked by Spokane Public Schools to participate on the review committee to provide diversity, said he had not been told there was a conflict of interest. He noted that he had often supported the MLK Center as well.

Nevertheless, the the city formed a new committee that recommended giving the contract to the MLK Center instead, which ticked off ECCO supporters. On Monday, Wilburn blamed the city for perpetuating division through its messy process.

“The carrot that you’re dangling is separating the community,” Wilburn said at the end of his speech, holding up a large carrot at the podium.

Phil Tyler, another former NAACP president, argued that the choice came down to the better proposal from the MLK Center, and didn’t have anything to do with skin color.

“It is a black-and-white issue,” Tyler said. “But it’s about the black ink on the white paper of the [requests for proposal] that were returned to you.”

Ultimately, the contract was awarded to MLK by a 4-2 vote, with Councilman Breean Beggs — accused of his own conflict of interest — recusing himself and Councilmembers Mike Fagan and Karen Stratton voting against it. n

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here’s a place in Keri Hillyard’s mind where she safekeeps the image of the young man she loves.

It’s a Thursday evening in September. Tyler Berens is doting on her youngest daughter, 4-year-old Aaliyah, and helping with her math exercises. The Disney movie Moana is playing on the living room TV. In this moment, Tyler is almost perfect — Hillyard sees his generosity, his joy and his willingness to act a fool with her kids. Later, he helps Aaliyah and her older sister, Meah, get ready for bed, as he has for the past several months. The four of them watch cartoons until they fall asleep.

Just a day earlier, Hillyard had picked Tyler up from jail. The 25-year-old had turned himself in for violating his probation. He’s racked up other drug and DUI charges, stemming from a drug addiction that he’s fought for about a decade.

Where so many people see a rough facade — tattoos, fresh sneakers, no smile — Hillyard sees a kind-hearted man who thinks to help others before himself. Where others see Tyler as an addict and nothing else, she sees someone climbing out of a hole that seems to only grow bigger with each grasp.

He is almost there.

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o hear his mother tell it, Tyler is lost.

Shawna Burnett has him when she is 25 and single. His father is not a part of his life, leaving a pit no one can fill, Burnett says.

She marries when Tyler is 7 and has another son. The foursome get along OK. His friends say Tyler often feels like the odd man out. As a kid, Tyler has a knack for drawing, and Burnett buys him an art kit. Maybe he should be a tattoo artist, she thinks.

Smoking weed at 13 quickly turns into smoking opioid pain pills, Burnett says. By 16 or 17, Tyler goes to treatment at Daybreak Youth Services in Spokane. At 19, he’s off to a facility in Yakima, and he spends about a year at a center in Seattle before his 21st birthday, she says. By that point, he isn’t allowed to live at home anymore.

Burnett struggles mightily with that decision.

She and Tyler’s stepfather fight about it, but they want to shield Tyler’s stepbrother from the world of drugs.

Tyler watches a few friends get clean and stay clean.

Katie Gendron is one of those people. They date for several years. They live together, and get high together. Until one day when it gets out of control. Gendron tells it like this: Tyler made her part of his family when she had none of her own. For a while, they kept it together. They worked, paid bills and attended family functions, but hid their habit.

Tyler Berens started dating Keri Hillyard in January.

“He would shovel our elderly neighbor’s driveway first thing in the morning or go change the batteries in her fire alarm for her,” Gendron writes in a Facebook message.

“We broke up after I hit my rock bottom.

We were using so much that it had completely consumed us. I lost my job because I was so ‘out of it’ I couldn’t perform my duties. I would find Tyler almost unconscious at times. One night I overdosed and blacked out. Thankfully Tyler’s family had come over and found me.

After a few days on suicide watch at the hospital Shawna helped me pack my LETTERS belongings and Send comments to took me to my editor@inlander.com. great grandma’s house.

We both knew that Tyler was in serious trouble.”

She lives in California now. She left Tyler behind to save herself. It was the hardest decision of her life.

Jared Brown is also one of those people. He was charged with drug possession around the same time as Tyler in 2014. They started in Spokane’s drug court together and leaned on each other for support.

“But he still had that hustle, that fight to him,” Brown remembers. “Even when he was in the drug court program, I tried to keep him on course, but he was so goddamn stubborn. He would do what he wanted to do. I loved him like a brother, and I’m sure he felt the same way.”

Brown completed the program and has been clean for two years. Tyler drops out.

For a while, Tyler would get better, get a job and a place, and go snowboarding and camping with the family at Priest Lake.

“Then the other shoe would fall off, and he would sink into a deep hole again,” his mother

says.

Burnett would fall, too, paralyzed by worry. For 10 years she’s walked the razor’s edge between guilt and relief. The pit grows deeper with the DUIs, the arrests and the felony conviction. Even with her expertise as a nurse, Burnett is at a loss. The system is broken, she says.

“We put him through several treatment centers. I just wish there was longer treatment programs that are lockdown — two years in the wilderness, and they came out with a guaranteed place to live and a job. That’s what I wish.”

Few places in the United States are immune to addiction’s ruin. Initial estimates for 2016 indicate that 64,000 people died of drug overdoses, compared to about 52,000 the previous year.

Drug overdose is the leading cause of death for Americans under 50, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Through it all, Tyler and his mom stay close. He calls every day and ends each conversation saying, “I love you.” Tyler reminds his mother that his faults are not hers.

It’s on him. He wants to stop. He promises he will.

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yler is certainly not perfect. And he would tell you that.

“You have no idea how I feel,” he would tell his mom.

“I didn’t want to grow up to be a drug addict.”

Keri Hillyard loves him despite his faults. He cares for her daughters as if they’re his own — teaching them how to make shrimp and crab legs for dinner and cupcakes for dessert.

Theirs isn’t a long romance — they’ve been together since January — but it’s powerful. She encourages him to see his son by another woman, born less than a year ago. He vows to be a good father. He signs up for classes at Spokane Falls Community College. He’s going to be a counselor for recovering addicts.

Hillyard knows he’s sick, but he’s taking medication. He only uses when the medicine runs out, she says.

It’s Friday now, two days after Hillyard picked him up from jail. She falls asleep before Tyler comes home that night. The next

Tyler (right) with his mom, stepbrother and stepfather on Thanksgiving 2014. morning, her daughter Meah wakes her up. Tyler isn’t breathing. Hillyard sends the girls to the other room. Over the phone, dispatchers count as she pounds on his chest.

“Is Tyler gonna die?” Meah asks.

Hillyard sends her away again. She continues the panicked compressions.

For almost an hour, medics try to revive him. The autopsy isn’t finished yet, but friends and family believe the drugs finally overtook him.

Hillyard is remembering Tyler now, a few weeks after his death, while her children play on a nearby playground in the NorthTown Mall. This is where they met, she says.

“Do you have anything to say about Tyler?” Hillyard asks Meah.

“Tyler is nice,” the 7-year-old says. “We’d go play with him sometimes, and he’d take us to eat and to the mall. He’s a good boy.” n mitchr@inlander.com

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ELECTION 2017

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BY DANIEL WALTERS TIM BENN VS. KATE BURKE

District 1: Northeast Spokane (including the Hillyard and East Sprague neighborhoods)

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ake no mistake: Tim Benn is a conservative. In 2012 and 2014, he ran as a Republican for state representative. He regularly mocks liberals on a radio show with Mike Fagan, the sole conservative on the Spokane City Council.

And make no mistake: Kate Burke is a liberal. Since 2014, she’s been the legislative aide for Democratic State Sen. Andy Billig and agrees with him on nearly every issue. Her nearly $50,000 in campaign contributions — almost twice what Benn has raised — is filled with donations from unions and other liberal groups.

The race may represent conservatives’ best chance at chipping away at the liberals’ 6-1 council majority.

There’s no incumbent in the race, and Benn is running in the district that Fagan won handily in 2015.

Yet neither candidate has sought to fight on traditional partisan turf. Both downplay their political affiliations.

Instead, Benn and Burke converge on the complaints they’ve heard from thousands of local residents. They both say that District 1 residents feel like they haven’t truly been heard by city officials.

“It seems like in the political world, the issues are a little different than the issues in the real world,” Benn says. “It seems like their biggest concern is property crime and fixing the streets properly.”

Burke says she hears those concerns, too. She talks about how high foreclosures and property crime levels are in the northeast region of the city.

“We’re workin’ families,” Burke says. “Those roads being terrible in this area really hurt the quality of our lives.”

But even if the two candidates identify the same issues as critical, their ideologies set them on distinctly different paths. Burke, for example, strongly supports requiring businesses to offer employees sick leave.

But Benn argues that the city overstepped its role last

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Tim Benn may represent the best chance for conservatives to chip away at the liberal majority on the city council. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO year with its sick-leave mandate.

“I don’t think it’s the city’s job to do a lot of laborrelated enforcement,” Benn says.

Where Burke wants to seek federal and state funding instead of raising taxes, Benn is more likely to talk about saving by identifying wasted money and wasted ventures.

He asks questions like: Did the city have to lend Ridpath developer Ron Wells $1.75 million in loans and tax breaks to turn the hotel into apartments, or could it

have spread that money out? Did the city have to shell out money for roundabouts and pretty flowerpots when there are still potholes to fix? Are we focusing too much on temporary pothole fixes instead of paving roads the right way?

He passes along citizen complaints about the recent lane reduction on Crestline Street, from four lanes to three lanes, and suggests that citizens should have had a chance to vote on it.

By contrast, Burke doesn’t see a problem with the Crestline lane reduction. She’s more concerned about the fact that after East Sprague was rehabbed, bike lanes weren’t added.

“I’ve heard a lot of talk from the community that they’re not implementing bike lanes,” Burke says. “That community deserves a way to safely get to work.”

When Burke looks at high property crime levels, she says the city needs to go deeper in addressing root causes.

“We’re all freaking out about getting more police officers. I agree, we need more officers!” Burke says. “[But] is that the real problem? Let’s go upstream. Let’s invest in mental health services and drug addiction issues.”

Benn believes we need to look at ways to make the police force more efficient — send college students to investigate property crimes, perhaps — before raising taxes to hire more officers.

Benn was born and raised in northeast Spokane, he notes. Burke grew up on the South Hill, only moving to the Hillyard neighborhood two years ago.

“If she were to get on the council, the South Hill would basically have four representatives,” Benn says, noting that City Council President Ben Stuckart also lives on the South Hill.

But Burke argues that the fact that she’s lived in every district in the city — and in the Midwest and on the East Coast — gives her wide-ranging experience. She’s seen what Spokane could be.

“I’ve seen transit options that will blow your mind,” Burke says. n danielw@inlander.com

Kate Burke, like her opponent, says northeast Spokane residents are worried about property crime. But she argues the city needs to target the root of the problem. Â YOUNG KWAK PHOTO

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Incumbent Breean Beggs has the support of the Spokane Firefighters Union; challenger Andy Dunau is endorsed by Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich.

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District 2: South Spokane (including the South Hill and the West Plains)

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ndy Dunau never aspired to run for public office.

It was only when the polarity between the left and right intensified last November, and in the time since, that he felt the impulse.

“To me, if people don’t start standing up and saying, ‘Hey we can pull this back together, we don’t have to be like this,’ then you can’t complain about what you have,” he says.

Dunau, a former Spokane Park Board member and owner of a local communications consulting firm, is challenging Councilman Breean Beggs for his District 2 seat. Dunau touts himself as a collaborator, who looks for compromise. He says that Beggs’ “social activist agenda” places the incumbent squarely in the council’s super-progressive majority. Dunau’s brand of fiscal conservatism will bring balance to the council’s “Seattle-lite” style of governance, he says.

Beggs, appointed in 2016 to replace former Councilman Jon Snyder, has been a major player in local police and criminal justice reform. As a lawyer, he’s strived to protect vulnerable people and business and pushed for government accountability. In his short time on the council, Beggs has waded into the city’s stickiest problems to explore creative and collaborative solutions.

He points to the city’s new snow removal plan to plow sooner and focus on schools and hospitals, the potential of hiring 10 more police officers and the improvements to Spokane’s streets as evidence that the council’s is working effectively.

“That’s because we work together, we’re not stuck, and we don’t have gridlock,” he says.

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FIRST PRIORITIES The streets don’t lie. Over and over, Dunau says, the questions he hears from people while he’s knocking on doors are about Spokane’s infamous streets.

“How are we picking between our short-term fixes, which fall apart in two to three years, and our long-term fixes?” he offers as an example. “What’s the difference in materials we’re using? I think they’re good questions.”

His first project, if he wins, would be to review how the city has handled street repair starting from 2004, and “go to the public and say, ‘Here’s what we’ve done, here’s what went well, and here are the things that have been learning experiences.’”

Beggs, for his part, says members of city council meet twice a week with the Street Department.

“We’re doing well,” he says. “In my time on council, Andy has never come to one meeting. The problem is, we spent decades not fixing the streets.”

Beggs agrees that continuing street repairs is high on the priority list looking forward to 2018. Also on his mind are reducing crime and addressing the homeless population.

The council recently reserved space in the budget to hire 10 new patrol officers, Beggs points out.

As for how to address Spokane’s homeless population, both candidates support the city’s role in funding the 24/7 shelter model. But Dunau criticizes Beggs for supporting the ballast rock recently installed under I-90, where some transient people camp.

Beggs says the plan to place rocks under the freeway was in place before his time on the council. Still, he doesn’t regret the decision, because “Lewis and Clark [High School] reported that people were coming out of those bushes in that block and assaulting people,” he says.

“They weren’t necessarily homeless people, they were just people engaged in criminal behavior at a school.”

The homeless forum that followed public outcry over the basalt-rock placement has led to innovative programs and more funding from the city, he says.

STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES Even while Dunau criticizes Beggs for what he calls an extreme progressive agenda, he admires him for it.

“He didn’t run a poll, which says, ‘My district believes this stuff, so now I’m going to be the Bernie Sanders of Spokane,’” Dunau says. “That is absolutely where he’s coming from, and I respect that.”

But Beggs’ flaw, in Dunau’s eyes, is a litigious mindset. Dunau points to Proposition 2 on the ballot this November, which Beggs helped write. Prop. 2 would fine owners of oil and coal train cars carrying especially volatile Bakken crude oil.

Dunau says the measure will result in expensive litigation on the taxpayer’s dime. Beggs defends Prop. 2’s legality, but acknowledges that the city might have to go to court if the measure passes.

As for Dunau’s strength? Beggs says his challenger is good at bringing people together to find solutions that work for all stakeholders.

But when it comes time to make tough decisions that might not appease everyone, Beggs says Dunau falls short. Dunau resigned from the Park Board over his own concerns about mismanaged funds and “underbaked” projects. He didn’t publicly say why he resigned until months later.

“That’s my biggest critique,” Beggs says. “When he was in charge, and had the bully pulpit to tell us the problems and what needed to change, he didn’t do it. So that erodes my trust.” n

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LANE SPLITS T he Monroe S t re e t l a ne re duc t i on h as b ec om e t h e def i n i n g issue in th e D i s t r i c t 3 rac e , but i t 's n ot t h e on l y on e

BY DANIEL WALTERS CANDACE MUMM VS. MATTHEW HOWES

District 3: Northwest Spokane (including West Central, Shadle and Indian Trail areas)

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he biggest controversy in the District 3 city council race, oddly enough, is something that the city council never specifically voted on.

The planned overhaul of the 1.12-mile stretch of North Monroe Street between Kiernan and Indiana avenues would add streetlights, crosswalks, transit shelters, wider sidewalks and more room to park. But to do that, it would slash the number of lanes from five to three. The prospect of a brutal construction season, followed by reduced traffic, looked like a death sentence to some — though not all — business owners along that stretch.

That’s why incumbent Candace Mumm’s name gets top billing on the billboard put up by some angry Monroe Street business owners.

To opponent Matthew Howes, the Monroe Street project represents a blatant example of the council not bothering to listen to citizens.

“Most of people I’ve talked to are very frustrated with the Monroe Street project,” Howes says. “They don’t understand why that’s going through without any citizens being able to be allowed to ask questions about it or vote on it.”

Mumm doesn’t see it that way at all. In fact, she says, the council initially wasn’t included when the city administration decided to apply for the grant to make the Monroe Street project happen. That’s why, back in 2014, the council changed the rules to prevent such surprises in the future.

“We said we have to have more transparency and more involvement early on,” Mumm says. In the years since, she says, there have been numerous discussions with neighbors and businesses about the project — including about how to help businesses survive a season of construction.

In the long run, Mumm, whose parents operated one of the first restaurants along the Monroe Street corridor, believes the project will be a boon for businesses, neighbors and safety.

“People are dying on this road,” Mumm says.

“There’s too many people being killed and hurt on the street.”

Mumm says public safety is one of her top priorities, pointing to her 2014 ordinance dramatically increasing the number of marked crosswalks. She praises the council’s efforts to fight property crime by pursuing a pilot project to give local property crime offenders supervision.

But Howes says that Mumm already had a chance to fix the city’s property crime problem.

“You’ve been in there for long enough to work on it,” Howes says. “Now, people are getting tired of hearing the same thing.”

He argues the city should spend more money to hire more police officers instead of wasting money on roundabouts and council-chamber renovations.

“I think her biggest mistake is constantly following [City Council President] Ben Stuckart’s voting pattern, and not thinking about what’s best for her district and city,” Howes says.

As a business owner himself — he owns Adelo’s Pizza — Howes is particularly critical of Mumm’s vote in support of requiring businesses offer a sick leave to employees. While Mumm helped to modify the policy to make things easier for certain businesses, she also supported the statewide ballot measure that raised the minimum wage and removed those exceptions.

Mumm may be concerned about the impact of marijuana shops on youths, but Howes is far more intense in his opposition: At one council meeting, he described ripping off the marijuana advertisement stickers on the Spokesman-Review to prevent his daughter from seeing them.

Ultimately, Howes sees the city council as cynical, dismissive and dishonest: Yes, the council came out fervently and explicitly against a soda tax proposal briefly floated earlier this year.

But Howes says he believes that the council will go back on their word, reversing course after the election, and support the soda tax anyway.

“People are tired of the same rhetoric,” Howes says. n danielw@inlander.com

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FROM LEFT: Current Spokane Valley Councilmembers (with their challengers directly below) Mike Munch, Caleb Collier, Pam Haley, Rod Higgins and Ed Pace.

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OPPOSING FORCES Five c hal l e nge rs t r y t o c ha nge t h e b al an c e of p ower on t h e far- r i g h t S p ok a ne Va lley C it y C ou ncil

BY WILSON CRISCIONE

FROM LEFT: Challengers Linda (Hatcher) Thompson, Brandi Peetz, Angie Beem, Chris Jackson and Ben Wick.

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n more ways than one, the five Spokane Valley City Council races this year have roots in a decision the council made more than a year and a half ago: its controversial ousting of City Manager Mike Jackson.

At the time, citizens and other councilmembers accused the council majority of violating the state’s open public meetings laws by conspiring to fire Jackson, or at least lacking transparency. (The state auditor’s office later cleared the council of wrongdoing.) It prompted a critical response from the community, and led to two councilmembers — Dean Grafos and Chuck Hafner — resigning out of frustration. A third, Bill Gothmann, left the council around the same time for other reasons.

Their departures left room for the council to appoint MIKE MUNCH, CALEB COLLIER and PAM HALEY. All three are running to keep their seats this year, joining incumbents ROD HIGGINS, also the mayor, and ED PACE, an outspoken constitutionalist and libertarian. The four councilmembers who voted to oust Jackson were already considered to be a far-right majority, and with the appointments of Munch and Collier, who share Pace’s political leanings, that’s only been reinforced.

Last year, members pushed a proposal to proclaim the Valley a “Second Amendment sanctuary city.”

Months ago, Pace proposed an ordinance that would restrict schools and health agencies from making decisions about student vaccinations, school curricula and gender-neutral bathrooms — with support from Munch and Collier. Recently on Facebook, Pace has stated he will propose a Spokane Valley resolution supporting a 51st state — an idea pushed by right-wing Spokane Valley Rep. Matt Shea.

The five challengers feel the council spends too much time on issues that are out of its control. They want to change the balance of power and bring more moderate voices to the council.

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BEN WICK, a former councilman who narrowly lost his seat in 2015, is challenging Pace. CHRIS JACKSON, an adjunct lecturer at Spokane Falls Community College, wants to unseat Higgins. BRANDI PEETZ, a member of the Spokane County Sheriff’s Citizen’s Advisory Board, is challenging Collier. LINDA (HATCHER) THOMPSON, director of the Greater Spokane Substance Abuse Council, faces Munch. And ANGIE BEEM, who organized the Spokane Women’s March, faces off against Haley, a moderate conservative.

“I think there’s a movement to get some diversity on council,” Wick says.

At stake is the future of the Valley when it comes to development, public safety and infrastructure.

CITY GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT As Spokane Valley continues to expand, it’s starting to experience some growing pains. Candidates uniformly have said they’re hearing concerns from residents who don’t want to see their neighborhoods impacted by density, particularly large apartment complexes.

Jackson, challenging Higgins, takes issue with what he sees as the council’s policy of “anything goes.” Jackson says more impact fees should be discussed.

“If things move in unfettered, it upsets people in that area,” Jackson says. “There should be some regulation.”

Wick says he will fight for neighborhood preservation. He says the Valley should examine the Comprehensive Plan to ensure that high-density development doesn’t change the character of neighborhoods.

Peetz says the Valley will need to better prepare for growth.

“We definitely have to accommodate the people moving to our city, we just have to do it responsibly,” she says.

Current councilmembers, however, say some of the issues with zoning have been addressed in the Compre-

hensive Plan. They note that some of the larger apartment complexes that Valley residents have had concerns with actually are just outside of city limits. The Comprehensive Plan was recently rewritten. Included in that was language that made sure multi-family developments were not zoned for the middle of residential areas, Pace says.

“We have a goal of preserving the quality of residential neighborhoods,” he says. “But I understand the anxiety, because they see all these big complexes going up.”

PUBLIC SAFETY ISSUES After Jackson was forced out as city manager in February 2016, critics of the council majority suggested the ouster may have been influenced by the council’s desire to create a new police department, rather than contract with the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office for police services.

But doing so would cost the city millions of dollars.

Instead, this year, the Valley renewed its contract with the Sheriff’s Office after negotiating in some cosmetic changes, like adding a Spokane Valley Police logo to more cars.

Now, the focus for current councilmembers is adding more deputies in the Valley. That’s a challenge, because the Sheriff’s Office is having trouble recruiting deputies to fill open positions.

The city currently has a surplus. Current councilmembers Pace, Munch, Collier and Haley say they’re focusing on using some of that money to use to recruit more deputies. They hope the Valley may be able to offer sign-on or retention bonuses.

“We’re not getting the officers we’re contracted for,” Munch says.

Mayor Higgins, however, doubts that “sweetening the pot” will be possible, due to the nature of the contract with the Sheriff’s Office. He’d rather put that surplus money elsewhere.

“We just completed a five-year deal with the Sheriff’s

Department, so that’s pretty well put to bed,” he says. “And with that is the campaign rhetoric that we want our own police department.”

Peetz, Collier’s opponent, touts her experience as someone with a criminal justice degree and a member of the Sheriff’s Citizen Advisory Board. She says she would not be a proponent of the Valley starting its own police force.

“I have the resources and the knowledge, where Caleb [Collier] and other councilmembers do not,” she says.

Moving forward, Peetz says public safety is her No. 1 priority.

She says she will make sure that law enforcement is adequately funded if elected. She still insists that current councilmembers want their own police force, but aren’t bringing it up publicly.

Beem says, after speaking with Spokane Valley Police Chief Mark Werner, that one of the biggest issues he’s facing is drug abuse leading to people moving in and out of jail. She says she would push ordinances that would allow officers to go to nuisance properties and clean things up, to “nip things in the bud before they get bad.”

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INFRASTRUCTURE QUESTIONS With a surplus, just about every candidate agrees that the majority of the extra money should go into roads and infrastructure.

The difference between the candidates, however, lies in whether that means prioritizing road projects or road maintenance.

Wick argues that the city is not funding road maintenance for concerns like potholes as much as it should be. He says studies have shown that every dollar spent on road maintenance can save the city up to $8 in the future that would have been spent on rebuilding.

Current councilmembers, however, seem more interested in capital projects like bridging the Valley. Higgins says that Barker, Pines and Park roads are all in need of rail crossings, with the first priority being Barker.

Councilmembers say they’re waiting to see estimates from the city’s public works department regarding street preservation. But Collier says that overall, the Valley’s streets aren’t that bad. If you don’t believe him, he says, drive to the city of Spokane.

“Compared to Spokane, our streets are pretty nice,” he says.

Thompson, challenging Munch, says the Valley needs to invest both in road preservation and capital projects. She says she would use her connections at the state and federal level, which she’s developed through her work running a nonprofit, to advocate for grants that could help with road projects.

A NEW DIRECTION? Pace, Collier and Munch have taken criticism lately for their support of an idea to allow parents, not schools or health organizations, to decide when unvaccinated students should go to school during a disease outbreak.

Even Haley and Higgins are skeptical of that idea. Higgins says that “parental rights are important,” but doesn’t agree with the manner in which Pace has pursued it, with an ordinance.

Haley says she is “completely opposed to it,” mainly because it’s outside of the purview of the city of Spokane Valley.

While Pace argues that protecting the rights of parents to decide if their unvaccinated kids can go to school is part of his duty to uphold the Constitution, most of the challengers agree that the issue shouldn’t be dealt with at a city level. But out of Wick, Peetz and Thompson — the challengers to the councilmembers supporting the “parental rights” proposal — only Thompson goes as far as to express opposition to the substance of the proposal itself.

“I support the public health officers and schools and how they will implement that decision,” she says.

The city council challengers may think more diversity of thought is needed, but Pace claims such diversity already exists.

Three councilmembers, he says, are libertarian-leaning constitutionalists: himself, Munch and Collier. The others, he says, are more traditional conservatives. Pace says with the city’s budget in a surplus, voters should keep all five current councilmembers.

“I hope people will see,” he says, “that keeping all five of us is in the best interest of the city.” n wilsonc@inlander.com

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VOLATILE DEBATE A n oil-tra in- f ue l e d ex pl os i on would devas t at e Spo ka ne , b ut is a propos e d e nf orc e me nt m ethod eve n l ega l ?

BY SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL

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very day, several trains hauling coal or crude oil move through downtown Spokane on elevated tracks.

Depending on who you ask, the trains carry needed energy to create electricity, fuel industry and run our cars, or they do all those things while presenting the risk of a fiery derailment and explosion that could devastate downtown.

On ballots sent out this week, Spokane voters will be asked whether the city should make it a civil infraction for companies to move uncovered coal train cars or untreated crude oil by rail through the city.

The measure is labeled as Proposition 2, even though it’s the only proposition on the Nov. 7 ballot for the city of Spokane, because another proposition was challenged in court and removed.

If passed, rail car owners would need to cover their cars full of coal and treat their crude oil to get it to a pressure of 8 psi (pounds per square inch) before shipping it through the city, or face a fine of $261 per car, the same dollar amount for all civil infractions in the city.

Proponents say the measure will increase safety while still allowing trains through the city. Opponents say this type of fix would not only be unenforceable, but would be too expensive.

'WHEN, NOT IF' Jim Lee is chairman of Safer Spokane, the group that collected signatures to get the measure on the ballot and helped bring the idea forward with City Councilman Breean Beggs, who wrote the measure in his private capacity as an attorney.

When asked why people should support the measure, Lee says it’s all about minimizing harm and danger in the city, not about banning oil and coal trains.

“It’s a public safety issue, and that is what it’s all about as far as we’re concerned,” Lee says.

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Oil trains roll through Spokane multiple times every day.

While the risks of a fiery train derailment are slim, small derailments happen all the time, Lee says. And when conditions are right when an oil train derails, the consequences can be devastating. In Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, when a crude oil train derailed in that small town’s center in July 2013, 47 people were killed; cleanup and repair costs are estimated in the billions of dollars.

“The risk of a derailment with fire and explosion in downtown Spokane is very real and would be very, very catastrophic,” Lee says. “It’s really a numbers game, kind of a Russian roulette of when, not if, a train will derail in Spokane.”

As for coal trains, the campaign wants coal cars to be covered not so much because a coal derailment would be dangerous, but because of concerns that coal dust can degrade tracks over time and increase the risk of an oil train derailment, Lee says.

'IT'S ILLEGAL' Michael Cathcart, spokesman for the Committee to Protect Spokane’s Economy, a group of rail, coal and oil businesses, and other industries and citizens who oppose the measure, says that people should vote against Proposition 2 first and foremost because it’s illegal.

“It violates federal law,” Cathcart says. “The hearing examiner and the [city council] policy adviser have both said it’s illegal, the Center for Justice [Riverkeeper] questions it. … I’d say it’s pretty universally panned in Spokane, based on the fact it’s illegal.”

If it’s passed, Cathcart says the city could face very expensive litigation.

He also argues that in lieu of moving oil and coal by train, the other option would be truck.

“If it could be implemented, which again is a significant question mark, then all that would happen is you take oil and coal, and you move it from the railroad to an alternative transportation source,” Cathcart says. “The only alternative that exists currently through Washington state is the highways.”

That could put more people at risk because highway crashes are more frequent, and every single oil train would need 280 trucks to replace it, which would also increase greenhouse gas emissions, Cathcart says.

Beggs and Lee say the trucking argument doesn’t hold, because it wouldn’t happen. Rather than truck the oil from North Dakota or pay the fine, it would make more sense just to stabilize the oil before transportation, they say.

“You would not transport oil 2,000 miles with trucks.

They would stabilize it,” Beggs says. “The cost of stabilizing would be way cheaper than trying to have 18-wheelers doing it.”

Cathcart says his committee’s research indicates that

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psi has little to do with oil’s volatility, and to treat it to the levels required by the measure would cost millions of dollars in new infrastructure in North Dakota. He also says that the railroads have indicated if fewer trains were to roll through Spokane, some of the 500 regional railroad jobs would go away.

LOCAL DANGER Most of the debate around the measure has centered on whether it is even possible for the city to enforce.

“We don’t get to as the city of Spokane, nor should we be getting involved in interstate commerce issues,” Cathcart says. “If we’re going to block a few commodities a few activists in Spokane don’t want to move through, what’s to stop other communities from blocking other things, like Boeing airplane parts? It can quickly turn into a trade war.”

The railroads are common carriers, which means they don’t get to choose what they transport, he says.

What they have done is invest hundreds of millions of dollars in recent years in infrastructure upgrades on their rail lines in Washington, Cathcart says.

And railroads are regulated at the federal level.

But the version of the measure that voters will decide on is not intended to levy a fine on the railroads, but on the companies that own the rail cars, Beggs says.

Perhaps more important, Beggs says there is still legal room for cities to regulate railroads with “gap filler” regulations until federal rules catch up.

“In the National Railway Safety Act, [Congress] created a gap provision, which says if you’ve got a unique local danger, and the Department of Transportation hasn’t yet promulgated a measure, you can do that as long as it’s not too burdensome,” says Beggs, who helped with litigation that changed national pipeline regulations following a June 1999 oil pipeline explosion that killed three people in Bellingham. “Instead of industry trying to slow down the federal rulemaking authority, it encourages them to speed it up, so they get a uniform rule.”

Safer Spokane argues that because the tracks are elevated through downtown and run over our singlesource drinking water aquifer, Spokane has a unique local danger.

Voters will have to decide if the court costs are worth the risk, Beggs says. If the city were to win in court, the legal costs would be maybe $100,000, he guesses, and if the city were to lose and the challengers were awarded legal fees, the cost might be as high as $1 million.

“That’s the question voters are going to ask,” Beggs says. “Are we going to risk some legal fees for the chance we won’t have these explosive oil trains through downtown, or are we OK with the risk?” n samanthaw@inlander.com

LITERATURE

A PERFECT PAIRING Now available in printed form, the Pie & Whiskey readings thrive on camaraderie and contrast

BY E.J. IANNELLI

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Kate Lebo brings the sweet.

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o hear Kate Lebo and Sam Ligon tell it, there’s no small amount of magic in pie and whiskey.

One is “sweet, it’s Sunday, it’s grandma,” says Ligon. The other is “Saturday night.” And so ingrained are these mental and emotional associations that it’s not necessary to spell out which is which.

“They seem to be these substances that we know a lot about, that we all respond to in a pretty shallow way with just delight, excitement,” Lebo says. Which is why, several years ago, she started using pie as a form of “social currency” to break the ice with fellow attendees at the Port Townsend Writers’ Conference, where she and Ligon both taught workshops.

Coincidentally, pie was a conversation starter between the two of them.

“Sam was like, ‘I can make pie.’ And I was like, ‘Oh, really? Well, I can make pie too.’ What I didn’t tell him is that I was working on a cookbook. Later that week we made a couple pies in the communal kitchen at the conference. Had a couple bottles of whiskey and, as it turns out, when you put pie and whiskey together, people come.

“You know writers,” she says. “They can be pretty weird.”

“They’re uptight!” Ligon shouts.

“Especially anxious,” says Lebo. “Wondering who’s the most famous person in the room and who to talk to.”

“And who’s an assho-o-o-ole!” interjects Ligon, drawing out the long o for comedic effect.

The pie-and-whiskey gatherings quickly became “institutionalized” at the conference, he explains, and their popularity prompted them to think of ways they might channel the buzz of the social event into a literary one.

“Our feeling was, why do readings have to suck so bad? Why do readings always have to be boring? I’d been to a reading in Pittsburgh a couple years before that’s run by [fiction writer] Sherrie Flick called the Gist Street Reading Series. And when I read there, there were about 300 people at that reading. It was a gigantic party, and I was like, ‘Holy shit, this is the best reading in the country,’” Ligon says.

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pie and whiskey “as a way to get writers’ guards down, to get my own guard down as a writer, to get to harder, more transgressive subjects.”

The first bona fide Pie & Whiskey reading took place at the Woman’s Club of Spokane as part of the 2012 Get Lit! Festival. It was an experiment, nothing more: a pilot amalgam of pie, whiskey, writers and an audience.

“We made 10 pies. We got six fifths [of whiskey]. And we hoped maybe 50 people would come. And, of course, 200 people came,” Lebo says. Though the pedantic might note that those numbers have fluctuated in successive retellings, the essence of the anecdote remains the same.

The turnout wasn’t the only thing that left them feeling underprepared.

“The other thing we realized quickly that first year was … that we were probably not going to be able to hold on to the room,” says Ligon. “Steve Almond was first, and he screamed for everybody to shut the f--- up, which was hilarious and disarming.

And then he just started reading. We were moving those writers fast. Every writer knew she was about to lose the room, so there was all this tension and excitement from the writers, and I think the audience felt that too.”

That impulsive, uninhibited energy instantly became a vital and defining

characteristic of the performative aspect of Pie & Whiskey, as well as the writing it occasioned.

“What the writers brought was so f---ing good,” Ligon says. Instead of the slightly more general-audience fare at other Get Lit! readings, it was “funnier and darker,” dealing with “sex and drugs and food and apostasy,” almost always with an overt thematic nod to one or both of the event’s cor-

“We tried to capture that crackling you get from the live experience.” nerstone comestibles. Established authors took part, as did some relative newcomers, a composite that the organizers have tried to maintain since.

“The hard thing for us is [that] being a good writer doesn’t mean you’re a good reader. … We’re always looking for someone who really knows how to do a performance,” Ligon adds. By way of example, he points to Elissa Ball, a local poet who read a “dark, anti-drinking piece” at Pie & Whiskey last year.

“She rocked that performance,” Lebo says. “It totally worked.”

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Every Wednesday in October, participating restaurants will donate a portion of proceeds from soup sales to the Arts in Healing program at Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center & Children’s Hospital.

Visit a Soup for the Soul restaurant this month and help bring art therapy to local hospital patients: • The Barrel Steak and Seafood House* 6404 N Wall St, Spokane • Fieldhouse Pizza and Pub* - both locations

4423 W Wellesley Ave, Spokane & 1235 North Liberty Lake Road Liberty Lake

• High Nooner - all locations

Downtown, Court House, Northside & Spokane Valley

• Take Five/Café Fresca (Holy Family Cafeteria) • The Little Garden Café

2901 W Northwest Blvd, Spokane

• Morty’s Tap and Grille*

5517 S Regal St, Spokane

• Picabu Bistro 901 W 14th Ave, Spokane • The Café at Sacred Heart (Sacred Heart Cafeteria) • The Screaming Yak*

118 W Francis Ave, Spokane

• Selkirk Pizza and Tap House* • Something Else Deli

12424 N Division St, Spokane

152 S Sherman St, Spokane

• Steelhead Bar and Grille* 218 N Howard St, Spokane • Waterfall Café (St. Luke’s Rehabilitation Institute)

phc.org/giving * Donating proceeds during the entire month of October, not just Wednesdays.

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As Pie & Whiskey enters its sixth year and becomes a fixture of Spokane’s event calendar (“We want it to be a thing like Bloomsday or Hoopfest,” Ligon says), the pair have tried to bottle that spirit in Pie & Whiskey: Writers Under the Influence of Butter & Booze, a collection of reading-related poems and short stories, to be released next week

by Sasquatch Books. It includes works by writers including Jess Walter, Tod Marshall, Sherrie Flick, Shawn Vestal, Anthony Doerr and Laura Read, interspersed with semitraditional pie recipes and cocktail-inspired microfiction.

“We tried to capture that crackling you get from the live experience,” Ligon says.

“The one thing we’re trying to do with what we included in the book is to make it have that feeling and that electricity.”

Whether in reading or in hearing, any electric crackle comes down to that essential Manichaean — yet equally American — duality. Pie and whiskey. Prose and performance. Innocence and experience.

Sweetness and swagger. Sunday morning and Saturday night. Without one, the other loses color and context.

Or, as Lebo puts it, “The whiskey without the pie gets real dark real fast.” n Pie & Whiskey Book Launch Party • Thu, Oct. 26, doors at 8 pm • Free • Overbluff Event Center • 304 W. Pacific

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temperatures to almost winter-like conditions seemingly overnight, making that switch a little more harsh than usual.

While it’s too early for Inland Northwest resorts to be able to announce opening days, all are busy, working on getting ready for that big day when Mother Nature decides to lay down her first big blanket of snow. There’s a lot of buzz about the forecast for the upcoming season, with the anticipation of a La Niña year and a lot of snow; ski and snowboard enthusiasts couldn’t be more excited about that prediction.

At Inlander headquarters, work has been going on for months in anticipation of the 2017 Winter Party, which includes the Snowlander Expo and the PowderKeg Brew Festival, promising to be the biggest and best celebration yet. Save the dates: Friday and Saturday, Nov. 17 and 18. There will be plenty of live music, great brews and many vendors, who’ll be there to help get you ready for this much-anticipated season.

The countdown to Opening Day has begun! Until then, keep dreaming of powder days and doing your lunges, so you’re ready to hit the slopes when that day comes; it’ll be here before you know it!

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GET READY TO SHRED Forecasts are calling for a high chance of another La Niña winter, which could mean plenty of snow on area slopes BY SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL

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s local mountains have already started getting their first taste of winter, eager snow-sports enthusiasts may be wondering if we’ll have another excellent winter, and signs are pointing to yes.

As of mid-October, the National Weather Service’s Climate Prediction Center said that models were showing up to a 65 percent chance of another La Niña winter, like last year.

“That typically means we will see more snow than normal, and lower temperatures,” says Andy Brown, a meteorologist with the NWS office in Spokane.

For this region, Brown says that on average during a La Niña winter, areas see about 120 percent of their normal snowfall, which varies depending on the location.

Last winter, Spokane received 61.5 inches of snow, which is close to the average of 59 inches that falls during La Niña winters.

As more arctic air spills down from Canada and moisture moves in from the Pacific, places that wouldn’t usually get snow during a warmer winter can also see

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more snow, Brown says, adding that the same flow that can bring that snow to the lowlands can bring plenty to the mountains.

“Those atmospheric rivers can stack up, and we’ll get

more snow up in the mountains as well, which is what happened last year,” Brown says.

While mountain passes in Washington and Idaho have already seen the first snow of the season, it’s still a little early to know if that will mean a early ski season, he says.

“This next week will be interesting,” Brown said on Oct. 16. “We are definitely going to get some rain and high mountain snow, but the snow levels will come up a bit from what they’ve been the last week or two.”

Webcams at five local ski areas showed at least a small dusting of snow over the weekend of Oct. 14 and 15 that had mostly melted by Monday, Oct. 16: Mt. Spokane Ski and Snowboard Park webcams showed dry, brown ground on Monday, but noted that “if predictions hold true, [this season] should be as epic as last winter!”; Silver Mountain Resort had patches of snow and dry ground under the gondola; Lookout Pass had a solid dusting, with patches of grass showing, in images from over the weekend; Schweitzer Mountain Resort’s webcam showed patchy snow, but featured a photo from Oct. 13, when the resort received 5 inches; and 49 Degrees North showed a patchy dusting of snow at the summit, with mostly dry ground under the lifts.

By way of reminder, Brown says he always encourages people to plan ahead for the winter weather to shift, to ensure safe travels.

“Whether we’re forecasting snow or not, you know in the Inland Northwest we’re going to have some hazardous driving, so be prepared,” Brown says. “Know what the forecast is, have the chains, have blankets, plan ahead if you know you’re going into a storm, alter plans if you can, and if you can’t, be ready to be stuck if you’re going to travel during hazardous winter storms.” n

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ocated up scenic Flowery Trail from the northeastern Washington town of Chewelah, 49 Degrees North is made up of three basins, two peaks, seven chairlifts and 2,325 skiable acres with a vertical drop of 1,851 feet. The terrain offers a little something for everyone with pristine groomers and some of the best tree skiing in the Inland Northwest. In addition to its alpine terrain, 10 miles of Nordic skiing is also available through the resort. Food and beverage amenities are available in the main village as well as Sunrise Basin.

WHAT’S NEW?

After most of the past decade spent working on big mountain improvements, like the Angel Peak expansion and the Sunrise Basin projects, Mountain Manager Eric Bakken explains, “this season our focus has been on the ski area fundamentals, like brush cutting.” Also upgraded this season are the webcams that have been around for a decade and a half. “We’ve upgraded all of our webcams to HD and added one in a new location, the Sunrise Basin,” Bakken says. “We

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are even going to keep them lit at night so that skiers and boarders can see what is happening, even when it’s dark outside.” The three locations for these new HD cams are at the summit, the lodge and in Sunrise Basin.

HOT DEALS

49 Degrees North Ski Swap: On Saturday, Oct. 21 at the Colville Fairgrounds, the 49 Degrees North Ski Patrol hosts their annual ski swap, where the best gear deals can be found, getting you ready for the upcoming season. There’ll be new and used ski and snowboard gear available, and all proceeds will benefit the ski patrol.

Packs of tickets: This is an affordable, noncommittal way of enjoying 49 Degrees North. These ticket packs have no blackout dates and are fully transferable, with no limit on how many can be used in a single visit, so bring your friends along. Tickets can be purchased in 4- or 6-packs. Check out their website (ski49n.com) for full details on rates; 4-packs start at $159, 6-packs $249 for youths.

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ookout Pass, located on the Idaho/Montana state line on Interstate 90, offers one of the most familyfriendly skiing and snowboarding experiences in the region. Lookout Pass, known for its epic snowfall — an average of 400 inches per year — typically wins the “First to open for the season” award for the region.

Currently, the ski area offers 540 acres of skiable terrain, though with its new, in-progress expansion, it will almost double in size next season, adding 500 acres of terrain.

In the village, skiers and snowboarders will find a lively and historic lodge, with an international food court and the quintessential ski bar, the Loft Pub & Grub, on the second floor.

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WHAT’S NEW?

Implementation is underway on the newest expansion, to the top of Eagle Peak; skiers and snowboarders will get a sneak peek this winter. “This new area of the mountain will be more challenging,” says Matt Sawyer, Lookout’s director of marketing and sales. “This winter, we will introduce part of the new expansion with a new run, Tamarack, a blue square.” Though this new run won’t necessarily be indicative of the type of terrain representing the additional 500 acres that Lookout is adding, “we have logged about half of the new run, and it will be ready to go as soon as the snow is deep enough to open it,” says Sawyer. The new Eagle Peak area will have 14

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trails, plus gladed areas, and increase the vertical drop of the resort by 500 feet to 1,650 feet.

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The best deal around for full-time college students is at Lookout Pass, but only until Oct. 31. College kids ages 25 and under can use the promo code College99 and get a season pass for only $99. There are deep discounts on all other passes, with an adult pass being offered for $229, youth passes for $169. Hurry up and buy now, as the discounted season pass rates are only valid until the end of October.

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he most conveniently located ski area to Spokane, Mt. Spokane Ski & Snowboard Park, offers 1,425 acres of skiable terrain with a vertical drop of 2,071 feet, as well as the greatest amount of night skiing in the region — four nights per week, Wednesday through Saturday, with 16 lighted runs. The terrain offers an array of options, from wide-open groomers to trees and great bump runs. Back at the base area, there are two lodges to choose from: Lodge 2, open every day the resort is, offers a lively atmosphere and includes a cafeteria and the Foggy Bottom Lounge.

WHAT’S NEW?

This past summer brought a huge milestone for Mt. Spokane Ski & Snowboard Park: the Washington state Supreme Court’s decision in August to allow the Red Chair expansion project. Work began immediately to get this project moving forward. “The runs will be available

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this season, and will be something new and interesting for skiers and snowboarders,” says Brenda McQuarrie, Mt. Spokane’s guest services manager. “There will be no lift service, and will be ski-at-your-own-risk (not patrolled).” Eventually, there will be seven new runs covering 80 acres.

Other projects that were completed this summer: continued improvements to the lodge and the addition of a brand new PistenBully ParkPro snowcat, enabling Mt. Spokane to offer better features in its terrain parks.

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The best season-pass deal at Mt. Spokane is available until Oct. 31. Save $200 by purchasing your season pass before the deadline: Adult passes are $399, while Youth, College and Military passes are $299. Buy now and save big!

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he largest ski area in the Inland Northwest with 2,900 acres of skiable terrain, Schweitzer Mountain Resort also boasts world-class amenities, ranking among the nation’s top destination resorts, with plenty of accommodations, food and beverage options and the most amazing and expansive views of the surrounding mountains in the Cabinet and Selkirk ranges. And it’s all a quick 90 minutes from Spokane.

Schweitzer’s terrain, spread out over two massive bowls, offers pristine groomers, challenging steeps, and chutes and glades that would take weeks to fully explore. Most of the lifts at Schweitzer are high-speed, offering a quicker load time that enables skiers and snowboarders to get in much more time on the slopes.

New for last season was the addition of the Sky House, a full-service mountaintop lodge offering panoramic views and delicious food and drink options, keeping

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you going for a full day on the slopes. “It’s just going to be an amazing La Niña winter,” says Marketing Manager Dig Chrismer, “and we hope to see everyone at the Sky House during its second year.”

WHAT’S NEW?

Schweitzer has been busy the past several years improving infrastructure, with the aim of boosting the overall guest experience. This past summer season, they took advantage of the warmer temperatures to put the final exterior touches on the new Sky House lodge, which opened last December. Snowboarders will also notice the upgrades, with the addition of of a PistenBully ParkPro snowcat for building features in the three terrain parks.

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Alliance program, Chrismer describes some additional benefits for Schweitzer passholders: “We are pleased to announce that the Powder Alliance has added Bogus Basin (north of Boise) and La Parva, Chile, to an already impressive list of resorts. Unlimited season pass holders will now receive 43 days free at 15 other resorts throughout the West and overseas.”

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The easiest and best way to explore Schweitzer, if you aren’t going to buy a season pass, is to take advantage of the Ski3 ticket program. This sale runs through Nov. 10: For just $189 (plus taxes and fees), skiers and boarders can ride three days with no blackout dates, and the tickets are fully transferrable. “Score!” says Chrismer.

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ilver Mountain Resort, celebrating 50 years of operation this season, is conveniently located off of Interstate 90 in Kellogg, Idaho. Upon arrival, skiers and snowboarders will find easy parking and a fully equipped village with lodging, an indoor waterpark — Silver Rapids, Idaho’s largest — and plenty of eateries and watering holes. The adventure begins with an easy gondola ride, taking you to the mountaintop village.

On the mountain, there are 1,600 acres to explore, with a vertical drop of 2,200 feet and an annual average snowfall of 340 inches. For those seeking out adventure, a trip to the top of Wardner Peak is a must, with steeps, glades, and big, wide-open powder fields.

WHAT’S NEW?

The ground crews at Silver Mountain Resort have been busy this summer, with many ski-area improvements. “Klondike Express is a new intermediate run in the Chair 2 Basin that allows for nonstop, top-to-bottom laps and easy access to the terrain park,” says Willy Bartlett, the resort’s marketing coordinator. The work didn’t stop there; he explains that the crew has been working on opening up the mountain’s North Face Glades area: “This zone already features some of the best tree riding in the Northwest, and it is getting even better for the 2017-18 season.” There also have been brush-cutting efforts, and the snow-tubing lanes have been lengthened.

Off-mountain improvements can be seen online, with the installation of a new HD webcam at the top of Kellogg Peak, in conjunction with KREM-TV, providing a real-time look at what the conditions are really like. “Our Snow Stake webcam and both Mountain Haus webcams have been updated to HD quality for this season,” says Bartlett. “We will have all-HD webcams on the mountain now; guests will also be able to view a live feed of the mountain, via our new screen mounted in the village.”

As for amenities, there will be many new options in the Gondola Village, including a graband-go option with the addition of a beverage and snack shack right next to the gondola line, allowing you to get a beverage or snack for the ride up. The Jackass Snack Shack will reopen for the first time in years, providing food and beverage options in the Chair 4 Basin. Look for the “open” sign during the season’s busiest times.

HOT DEALS

The best deals at Silver Mountain are found through its many Lodging Packages, whether you want to ski, snow-tube or just want a family getaway to enjoy the Silver Rapids indoor waterpark, where the water is always 84 degrees.

Check out the website (silvermt.com) for the package that best suits your needs; there are plenty of options to chose from. Silver’s affordable season pass deadline is also nearing, with Youth passes on sale for $289, Adult passes for $399. Buy soon, as the deadline is Nov. 5.

— JEN FORSYTH

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LIFT TICKETS Adult (18-61) Daily: $56 Half Day: $47 Holiday: $61 Holiday Half Day: $51

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WINTER EVENTS OCTOBER 49 DEGREES NORTH SKI SWAP Shoppers can purchase new and used ski and snowboard gear, winter clothing, accessories and more. Also sign up for and pick up your season pass. Proceeds benefit the 49 Degrees North Ski Patrol; donations accepted. Sat, Oct. 21. Northeast Washington Fairgrounds, Ag Building, 317 W. Astor Ave., Colville. ski49n.com SILVER MOUNTAIN JOB FAIR Find out more about winter job opportunities and meet Silver Mountain staff. Sat, Oct. 21 from 9 amnoon. Silver Mountain Resort, 610 Bunker Ave., Kellogg, Idaho. silvermt.com (208-344-2675) SNOWSHOEING BASICS REI staff host an informational class on the basics of this popular winter activity, covering gear selection and how to find local spots to explore.

Wed, Oct. 25 at 6 pm. Free; register to save a spot.

REI Spokane. 1125 N. Monroe. (328-9900) WARREN MILLER’S LINE OF DESCENT A screening of the 68th winter sports film by the legendary filmmaker, paying homage to mountain culture and adventure filmmaking. Sat, Oct. 28 at 6 and 9 pm. $20. All-ages. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague. warrenmiller.com MT. SPOKANE SKI PATROL SWAP The 53rd annual swap offers new and used winter

Gear up at the Mt. Spokane Ski Patrol Swap, Oct. 28-29. sports gear from local shops and individuals, with proceeds benefiting the nonprofit volunteer ski patrol. Sat, Oct. 28 from 9 am-5 pm and Sun, Oct. 29 from 9 am-noon (register to sell your gear Oct. 27 from 3-8 pm). $5; kids 12 and under free. Spo-

kane County Fair & Expo Center, 404 N. Havana. skipatrolskiswap.com (535-0102) LOOKOUT PASS WINTER JOB FAIR Visit the regional resort and apply for available

seasonal jobs as a rental tech, food service staff, cashier, custodian, instructor, groomer and other positions. Tue, Oct. 31, 8:30 am-noon. Lookout Pass, I-90 Exit 0 at Mullan, Idaho. skilookout.com (208-744-1301)

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NOVEMBER MAP & COMPASS NAVIGATION BASICS Learn how to use a map and compass to find your way, along with how to read a topographic map and how to use these tools in tandem. Thu, Nov. 2 at 5:30 pm. $30-$50; register to save a spot. REI Spokane. 1125 N. Monroe.

(328-9900) MT. SPOKANE JOB FAIR Bring your résumé and be prepared to interview on the spot for seasonal positions on the mountain this winter; almost all positions are filled during this annual hiring event. Sat, Nov. 4, from 8 am-noon. Mt. Spokane Ski & Snowboard Park, 29500 N. Mt. Spokane Park Dr. mtspokane.com (238-2220) WINTER SWAP The Lookout Pass volunteer ski patrols host its annual ski swap event, offering new and used ski/snowboard equipment, accessories and clothing. Sat, Nov. 4 from 9 am-3 pm (register to sell your gear Nov. 3 from 3-8 pm). $5 admission; kids under 12 free. Kootenai County Fairgrounds, 4056 N. Government Way, Coeur d’Alene. winterswap.org

INLANDER WINTER PARTY The Inlander’s annual preseason event hosts local retailers and vendors offering season-low sale prices on clothing, gear and accessories; regional resorts also offer season pass specials. Also includes the PowderKeg beer festival, live music, games and more. Fri, Nov. 17 from 4-9 pm and Sat, Nov. 18 from 10 am-7 pm. $10 admission (good both days; kids under 12 free); Spokane Convention Center, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. winterparty.inlander.com

U OF IDAHO OUTDOOR EQUIPMENT SALE & SWAP The University of Idaho’s annual gear swap offers new and used gear for sale. Attendees are also welcome to bring their stuff to sell or barter ($5 fee). Thu, Nov. 9, from 6-8 pm.

Free admission. Student Recreation Center Multi-Activity Court, Moscow campus. (208-885-6810)

PRAY FOR SNOW CONCERT Wenatchee’s Mission Ridge resort hosts its annual preseason party, with live bands, food, a beer garden and more. Sat, Nov. 4 from 6-10 pm. $15/ person; ages 21+. Arlberg Sports, 25 N. Wenatchee Ave., Wenatchee, Wash. missionridge.com/events (663-3200)

SARS SKI SWAP The winter recreational equipment and clothing sale benefits the Schweitzer Alpine Racing School’s programs for athletes ages 5 and up, offering new and used items and experts on hand for shopping assistance. Sat, Nov. 11 from 9 am-2 pm. $2/person; $5/family. Bonner County Fairgrounds, 4203 N. Boyer Ave., Sandpoint, Idaho. sars.net

PRAY FOR SNOW PRE-SEASON BASH A retro-themed pre-season celebration with beer, music and prizes from top ski and snowboard brands.

Guests can also enjoy food from local food trucks. Sun, Nov. 5 from 5-8 pm. Free; register to save a spot. REI Spokane. 1125 N. Monroe. (328-9900)

OUTDOOR EMERGENCY BASICS A session with REI staff experts offering tips on how to make sure you’re prepared for an unexpected emergency when out exploring the wilderness. Wed, Nov. 15 at 6 pm. Free; register to save a spot. REI Spokane, 1125 N. Monroe. (328-9900) ...continued on next page

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NOVEMBER CONDITIONING FOR ALPINE SKIING & SNOWBOARDING Local physical therapy professionals offer tips on conditioning your body to help the upcoming season be injury-free. Thu, Nov. 16 from 5:30-7 pm. Free; register to save a spot. REI Spokane, 1125 N. Monroe. (328-9900)

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BANFF MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL The annual winter film festival kicks off in Banff, Alberta, at the beginning of November; the year’s featured mountain films then tour the U.S. and the world. Spokane screenings are Nov. 17-18, at 7 pm, and Nov. 19, at 6 pm. $20/screening; $54/threeday pass. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague. bingcrosbytheater.com HANDS-ON ALPINE SKI AND SNOWBOARD WAXING BASICS Learn how to properly prep and care for your gear to improve your experiences on the slopes this season. REI technicians walk attendees through the best practices in waxing while using the store’s benches, irons, wax and brushes. Tue, Nov. 21 from 5:307:30 pm. $35-$55; register to save a spot. REI Spokane. 1125 N. Monroe.

(328-9900) SILVER MOUNTAIN OPENING DAY The mountain opens up the runs for limited access, with weekend-only operations (lifts from 9 am-3:30 pm, Fridays through Sundays, until Dec. 15. Silver Mountain Resort, 610 Bunker Ave., Kellogg, Idaho. silvermt.com (208-344-2675) WOMEN’S SNOWSHOEING BASICS REI staff host an informational class on the basics of this popular winter

activity during a session specifically geared toward women. Gear selection and how to find local spots will be explored. Wed, Nov. 29 at 6 pm.

Free; register to save a spot. REI Spokane. 1125 N. Monroe. (328-9900) BIG WHITE OPENING DAY The resort in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies opens the runs for the first time this season. Thu, Nov. 23. Big White Ski Resort, 5315 Big White Rd., Kelowna, B.C. bigwhite. com (250-765-3101)

DECEMBER SCHWEITZER OPENING DAY The resort has plans to open the runs for the first day of the 2017-18 season, weather permitting. Fri, Dec. 1 from 9 am-3:30 pm. Schweitzer Mountain Resort, 10000 Schweitzer Mountain Rd., Sandpoint, Idaho. schweitzer. com (208-263-9555) BOOMER FRIDAYS KICKOFF Starting this week, all visitors age 40 or older can come out and enjoy time on the slopes with $30 lift ticket specials. Held every Friday (except Dec. 22 and 29) throughout the season, starting on Fri, Dec. 1. Lookout Pass, I-90 Exit 0 at Mullan, Idaho. skilookout.com (208-744-1301) TRI-CITIES GEAR SWAP Snow sport lovers in southeastern Washington can get ready for the season at this annual outdoor gear and clothing sale. Dec. 1-3; Fri from 5-9 pm, Sat from 9 am-5 pm, Sun from 11 am-3 pm. Free admission.

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Big White Ski Resort, 5315 Big White Rd., Kelowna, B.C. bigwhite.com (250-765-3101) NIGHT SKIING KICKOFF PARTY The first night skiing event of the season kicks off, with the runs aglow under the night lights. Fri, Dec. 15.

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Then there are those who only tolerate the hot weather and lack of clothing as a means to an end, when the temperatures start dropping again, ski resorts start posting weather predictions for the upcoming winter, and ski and snowboard shops bring in all of their new gear for the upcoming season. Typically, these folks work endless hours in the summer, so their winter can remain wide-open for those unexpected powder days and storm-chasing adventures.

Then there are those who make the most of all four seasons, only using the “shoulder” seasons as a means to get those “honey-do” lists completed before taking advantage of all the Inland Northwest has to offer.

October brings an urgency matched by no other month, no matter which category you fall into. For those stoked about the upcoming sea-

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CULTURE | LITERATURE

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hose of us born in the mid-to-late 1980s that her father also got kicked out of her L.A. are categorically part of the millennial reading. generation, but what typically sets us Feedback from the rest of her family menapart from younger “Gen-M” counterparts is that tioned in the book, including her mom, halfwe remember a time before the internet ruled our siblings and several cousins, aunts and uncles, is every social interaction. still trickling in.

I am one of those “old” millennials, as is “I think they’ve read some of it, and are like, Spokane transplant, artist and writer Chelsea ‘This is super weird, but it’s fine,’ I guess,” Martin Martin, whose recently published collection Caca muses. “I think they understand that this is my Dolce: Essays from a Lowbrow Life explores growing perspective and my stories.” up in that formative decade when online chat Though her relatives are pivotal characters rooms (mostly) weren’t creepy, Hot Topic was in many chapters, some of the other minor chartrendy, emo music was cool, and most parents let acters, like high school friends and old flames, their teenage kids roam unchecked and without have had their names changed. Despite writing a cellphone. openly about guys she had crushes on as a teen, Throughout Caca Dolce’s 18 essays, Martin Martin says she wouldn’t want them to recognize explores some of the most pivotal and cringethemselves in the book. worthy moments as she came of age between the mid-’90s and early 2000s: weird obsessions, dysfunctional relationships and sexual exploration.

While each chapter offers a hefty dose of nostalgia and humor, by the book’s end readers understand how all those messed-up and relatable moments led to Martin’s eventual acceptance of herself.

“I think people relate to that; feeling really weird, and also toxic friendships when you’re that age, and obsessing over the wrong people,” Martin reflects, sitting inside a coffee shop near Gonzaga University a few weeks before Chelsea Martin’s new essay collection is getting plenty of national attention. she’ll give a public reading of Caca Dolce at Auntie’s Bookstore. Martin and her boyfriend “I don’t know if I would put myself through Ian Amberson, also an artist, moved to Spokane it again — writing about other people,” she says. about a year ago to be closer to Amberson’s fam“It’s really complicated and exhausting.” ily in Coeur d’Alene.

Now that Caca Dolce has been on bookstore The essays in Caca Dolce are raw, unflinchshelves for a few months, Martin has received ing and deeply personal, written in a detailed some noteworthy attention for the collection, narrative style that places the reader alongside including best-new-book nods from Nylon, Oprah.

Martin as she relives each memory, interweaving com and Harper’s Bazaar. Lena Dunham gave a thoughts from the now 30-something author to blurb for the cover: “Chelsea Martin continues contextualize her younger self’s inner monoto prove herself the preeminent chronicler of logues. Readers hang out with Martin through internet-age malaise and I f---ing love it.” such personal experiences as losing her virginity, While Martin doesn’t regret revealing so nights of binge drinking, destructive friendships many personal details in Caca Dolce, she confesses and a diagnosis of Tourette’s and obsessive-comthat it often crosses her mind during book readpulsive disorder. ings that the stories she’s reading out loud to a “I don’t feel embarrassed about any of the room full of strangers make for an uncomfortable stories,” Martin admits. “They’re stories I wanted feeling. to tell for a really long time. I feel like I had to “Actually,” she says, “I read the piece about wait a certain amount of time to get distance Tourette’s to an audience and was like, ‘Why from the actual events to tell the stories and did I write any of this? It’s so sad … There’s 30 understand what happened, and what I went of you and you’re all staring at me while I say through.” something that’s so embarrassing. I don’t know One of the book’s most impactful recurring what you’re thinking.’” n characters is Martin’s semi-estranged biological father, who Martin didn’t meet in person until Reading: Chelsea Martin with Richard she was 16. After Caca Dolce was published, she Chiem • Sat, Oct. 21 at 7 pm • Free • Auntie’s got a “really shitty email from him after he read Bookstore • 402 W. Main • auntiesbooks.com [the book] that I didn’t respond to.” She adds • 838-0206

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Front of the Mind Back of the Throat relives the intense emotions of 9/11 to remind us of the power of fear

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he fear and suspicion toward Muslims that followed the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, are still with us today. Co-opted, broadened and more deeply institutionalized, yes, which might make them seem somehow less acute, but they continue to exist as elemental forces in America’s sociopolitical climate.

Yussef El Guindi’s Back of the Throat was written when those elemental forces were still quite raw. The play centers on a pair of government agents who drop in on a young man named Khaled, an American citizen, for an “informal” (their word) round of questioning.

“Casual,” says one of them. “As casual as a visit like this can be.”

But as the agents persist in their questioning, otherwise innocuous cultural differences create gaps where fear and suspicion can take root. The guttural k in the

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pronunciation of Khaled’s name, which lends the play its title, or the exoticism of calligraphy become symbolic of an irreconcilable otherness. Civility fades. Tension escalates.

A new production of Back of the Throat opens this weekend at Stage Left.

“There is definitely tension in the show. I don’t want to understate that,” says director Heather McHenryKroetch. “But I guess there are different levels. You can’t keep the same level of tension the entire time. There are definitely moments where it’s more and where it’s less.

And, you know, there is some humor in that script.”

She cites the delicate interplay of tension and humor as one of the play’s many appealing “complexities.” That, along with its time-hopping chronology, has the potential to make Back of the Throat more “thought-provoking and provocative” than other works, but also makes it harder to translate it from the script to the stage.

“That’s the whole challenge with this show. There’s some subtlety. It doesn’t just spell it out for you,” McHenry-Kroetch says, adding that the subtlety extends to the characterization.

“The men who we would say are the most brutal are — well … they’re not evil. They are written as real people who have likes and dislikes and senses of humor,” she says.

Appearing in this production are Robert Thompson as Khaled; Jason Young and Patrick McHenry-Kroetch (agents Bartlett and Carl, respectively); Brooklyn Robinson (playing Shelly, Beth and Jean); and Chris Jensen (Asfoor).

Some of these roles might raise eyebrows, as neither Khaled nor Asfoor is played by an actor of Middle Eastern descent. This could, on the one hand, be seen as a form of cultural insensitivity that’s at odds with the

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Robert Thompson (left) as Khaled and Patrick McHenry-Kroetch as Carl. narrative thrust of the play. On the other hand, it could be viewed as, well, acting, which boils down to pretending to be someone else convincingly enough to cause the audience to suspend its disbelief.

McHenry-Kroetch says the casting choices in Back of the Throat were much more circumstantial: No one of the right ethnicity auditioned.

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Yes,” she says, but ultimately she felt as though Thompson and Jensen could do justice to the characters.

In the end, part of the show’s aim is to evoke those intense emotions — the anger, the anxiety, the bewilderment — that became synonymous with September 11, not least for those who might not be old enough to remember them.

“While there might not be any forgetting of what happened, it might be that they didn’t experience what happens when so many people are afraid all at once,” says McHenry-Kroetch. “It’s important to see that that has certain outcomes that might not even be the intention of the people who are acting on the fear.” n Back of the Throat • Oct. 20-Nov. 5 • Fri-Sat, 7:30 pm; Sun, 2 pm • $20 • Stage Left Theater • 108 W. Third • spokanestageleft. org • 838-9727

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HIGH-END FEAST A pair of local chefs push the boundaries of culinary creativity and cannabis culture with their upcoming THC-infused dinner

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he first thing Chef Kyle “Freak” Bowlby does when he welcomes me into his north-central Spokane home is giddily take me to his kitchen.

The chef, with his cooking moniker, Chef Freak, tattooed on his right inner forearm and Salvador Dali elephants inked on the back sides of his shaved head, grabs some Japanese mountain yams out of his fridge.

He’d picked up the unusual, hairy tubers from the local Asian market, but it’s not clear what’s so special about them until he takes a ginger grater to one.

With a few rapid swipes, a transparent goo oozes out of the yams and the grater’s holes. A finger lick proves that the clear solution is the perfect flavorless vessel for seasonings and another ingredient: THC. Freak admires the reaction and says, with Frankenstein-like pride, “This will be the carnivore’s drool!”

The yam’s saliva-like goo will appear on the main plate of an upcoming 10-course, black-tie “Cannabis Cannibal Feast” prepared by Chef Freak and Chef Matt Johnson’s Two Ginger Chefs event company. The Nov. 4 cannabis-infused dinner is releasing only 30 tickets to the public, at $150 a seat. In Chef Freak’s estimation, they’re two of only four chefs working with cannabis in the state

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of Washington.

The menu of marijuana-infused morsels is further proof of the two chefs’ desire to push the boundaries of what they view as a boring era in the restaurant industry.

As Johnson begins to talk about their efforts to remove the stigma of cannabis cooking as something unsafe or harmful, Freak recalls an open-heart surgeon who attended their first event, a 12-course dinner held in Green Bluff last autumn. They also want to show the legitimate potential of pot as an eating experience.

“I’m tired of having a guy ask me what bourbon would pair well with his steak,” Johnson says. “I want to show him that I can use cannabis with his steak, and make him feel that body high of a bourbon without any of the bloating that comes along with it.”

Johnson benefits from his extensive work in fine dining and the regional shift to gastropubs, eventually combining the two at Coeur d’Alene’s The Cellar. Freak, who attended Cordon Bleu in Seattle, left to work at Quinn’s on Capitol Hill and eventually Iron Chef winner Maria Hines’ restaurants Tilth and the now-shuttered Golden Beetle. Locally, he was a sous-chef for the Wandering Table and chef at Remedy before diving full-on into the

Two Ginger Chefs venture.

“It’s a whole new world,” Johnson said. “Everything else is super passé now. Everybody’s recycling the same thing. Everybody’s putting a lamb shank with risotto and a piece of asparagus.”

In their twisted interpretation of this now ubiquitous main course, the cannabis dinner’s version of lamb shank will be coated in the aforementioned snot-and-saliva-like yam ooze that’s been pumped with blackENTRÉE ened seasonings and Get the scoop on local cannabis, and nested food news with our weekly on a bedding of black Entrée newsletter. Sign up cheesy grits. at Inlander.com/newsletter.

Both chefs have a penchant for bringing their own personalities to their meals.

“I didn’t want it to be the same tired, themed dinner of ‘Halloween,’” Freak says. “I wanted something a little more morbid.”

The pair mean serious business, with attendees being dosed with a flat 100 milligrams of THC (10 milligrams per plate). If you’re curious about what ingesting 100

Chefs Matt Johnson (left) and Kyle “Freak” Bowlby take dining to new heights with their cannabis-infused dinner. milligrams of THC could be like, the catered evening is probably not for you.

Ten milligrams is the standard single dosage sold at recreational stores, with warnings to even go with a half-dose if you haven’t yet built up a tolerance. The meal is without a doubt intended for cannabis and culinary enthusiasts who are aware of what they’re getting themselves into.

“You better be able to handle 100 milligrams,” Freak warned. “This is not for the faint. This is not for the weak. This is not for the vegans. This is going to be full protein — brain, blood and bones.”

He’s not kidding. Other courses the chefs are planning include a plate called “All in Your Head,” an actual lamb brain ravioli with a Sriracha-and-oil pentagram. Another is aptly titled “Bones,” featuring two hollowed-out beef bones filled with silkworm grub and brown-butter snail.

And the “Devil’s Tail Carpaccio” features a thinly sliced blood sausage charcuterie with cranberry gel, spiced walnuts, shaved onions and pickled mustard seeds.

Being a private party — with money exchanged for the event, not the food — and sharing their own weed, Two Ginger Chefs is exempt from the Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board’s restrictions on consumption and sales. As

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long as the event is not publicly accessible and on private property, the festivities are in the clear.

“Until [the Liquor and Cannabis Board] makes some decisions, we ride a gray area,” Johnson explains. “We’re completely legal because there are no regulations written on it yet, because no one’s really doing it.”

The event is being held at an undisclosed location, with attendees given directions to a pick-up location three hours prior to the festivities. Once all gathered, they’ll be chauffeured by limousine to the dining hall and returned to the pick-up location afterwards. For those feeling a bit too high, the event will have cannabidiol (CBD) and caffeine to help negate some of the meal’s potency.

Freak jokes that the chauffeur for their last event noted the return trip may have been the quietest group he’d ever driven. And while the upcoming event’s THC dosing seems daunting, perhaps the Two Ginger Chefs’ ability to make the grotesque appetizing might be the scariest part of all. n The Cannabis Cannibal Feast • Sat, Nov. 4; pick-up at 5:30 pm, dinner at 6 • $150/ person • Ages 21+ • facebook.com/ Twogingerchefs • 599-0883

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Out in the Cold Jo Nesbø’s best-selling novel The Snowman becomes a tedious, mind-boggling big-screen procedural

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e’s a drunk — like, a seriously falling-down, passed-outin-the-streets drunk — and a walking personal disaster.

His ex just can’t live with him anymore, and refuses to tell their teenage son that he is, in fact, the kid’s dad. He’s that unreliable, but she nevertheless continues to find him irresistibly attractive.

He’s a cop who goes to pieces without a case, but with a case, he’s utterly brilliant (but also still a drunk). Which is why his boss covers for him, backdating the paperwork that turns a week-long bender into a pre-approved leave of absence. He’s a total screw-up, an angst-ridden mess, a loose cannon who doesn’t follow the rules, and yet he’s also a seductive genius (allegedly) that no one can live without.

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.

There isn’t a single thing about Oslo detective Harry Hole that is unique, new or even vaguely interesting, except for his name, which only elicits snorts of derision from the viewer. Maybe there is something vaguely fresh in the Harry Hole series of novels by Norwegian noir novelist Jo Nesbø, one of which this is based on, but if so, none of it made it onto the screen. Hole is not intriguing, not appealing, not anything, not even played

by Michael Fassbender. Strike that off The Snowman’s list of Potential Reasons for This Movie to Exist.

The mystery Hole is investigating is about a serial killer who builds snowmen outside the houses of his victims, snowmen that are supposedly ominous because they look right at the house, as if no one in their right mind would ever do such a thing. Hole’s partner on this case — the one he doesn’t need and would rather not work with, of course, the one who has been foisted on the lone-wolf genius — is Katrine Bratt (Rebecca Ferguson), who posits that the killer is set off by the falling snow. No one in this movie set in Oslo — the Oslo in Norway, the Norway in Scandinavia, the Scandinavia known for being snowy — during winter gently suggests to

Bratt that this is like theorizing that the killer is set off by people breathing around him, and isn’t very useful as a clue. Instead, bizarrely, the movie agrees with her, and builds a story THE SNOWMAN around a killer who is set off Rated R by (among other things) fallDirected by Tomas Alfredson Starring Michael Fassbender, Rebecca Fer- ing snow.

The mind boggles, which guson, Charlotte Gainsbourg, J.K. Simmons is the only relief from the unrelenting tedium the experience of watching this movie offers.

So what else might The Snowman have to offer? An exotic locale? Well, sure. Director Tomas Alfredson (the stylish Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy; the meditative Swedish vampire drama Let the Right One In) shot in Oslo and Bergen and in the countryside in between, and yet all traces of anything Norwegian, such as the language, either spoken or written, have been removed. And the international cast — Irish, British, American, Swedish, French — speaks with a polyglot of accents, including some that appear to have been invented.

I don’t know what sort of accent J.K. Simmons, totally wasted as a local politician, thinks he’s deploying here. And what’s going on with Val Kilmer, as a cop in a flashback subplot? He sounds as if he’s been overdubbed by a completely different actor, one with marbles in his mouth and a bizarre idea of a generic Scandinavian accent. It’s like a Disneyland version of Norway.

Is The Snowman at least a solid procedural, then? Hole, of course, is no fan of method or strategy beyond striking out on his own, though Bratt, too, cultivates an impressive disdain for the sort of communication and teamwork that criminal investigation demands (all the better to ensure she becomes a damsel in distress). But by the time The Snowman takes this sexist turn, it has already taken another that is infinitely more offensive, so it barely registers in the grand scheme of pointless awfulness that is this movie. n

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OPENING FILMS BREATHE

The directorial debut of actor Andy Serkis, this is a lush biopic about Robin Cavendish, a polio-afflicted Brit who helped design breakthrough medical devices in the mid-20th century. Andrew Garfield plays Cavendish; Claire Foy is his wife Diana. (NW) Rated PG-13

GEOSTORM

The guy who wrote a bunch of those Roland Emmerich disaster films in the ’90s has a crack at his own. As per genre tradition, an international allstar cast (Gerard Butler, Andy Garcia, Jim Sturgess, etc.) runs from tsunamis, hurricanes and the like when some climate change-preventative satellites malfunction. (NW) Rated PG-13

LUCKY

The late Harry Dean Stanton was one of the greatest character actors ever, and this drama (directed by John Carroll Lynch, a great character actor himself) turned out to be the legend’s final starring role. Here he’s an atheist veteran, staring down his own spirituality at the end of his life. At the Magic Lantern.

(NW) Not Rated

MARK FELT: THE MAN WHO BROUGHT DOWN THE WHITE HOUSE

You might not immediately recognize

Lucky his name, but you’re certainly familiar with Mark Felt, otherwise known as Deep Throat. Liam Neeson stars as modern history’s most famous whistleblower, who helped reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein bring the Nixon administration to its knees. (NW) Rated PG-13

ONLY THE BRAVE

This fact-based drama enmeshes us within the ranks of a group of Arizona firefighters known as the Granite Mountain Hotshots, specifically as they attempt to contain the deadly Yarnell Hill wildfire in 2013. Josh Brolin, Miles Teller and Jeff Bridges star. (NW) Rated PG-13

SAME KIND OF DIFFERENT AS ME

Based on the best-selling nonfiction book, this inspirational story considers the unexpected friendship between a violent homeless man (Djimon Hounsou) and the troubled married couple (Greg Kinnear and Renée Zellweger) taking on a terminal illness. (NW) Rated PG-13

THE SNOWMAN

Novelist Jo Nesbø’s popular Scandinavian gumshoe Harry Hole hits the big

screen, and the results are, considering the pedigree of its cast and crew, inexcusably awful. Michael Fassbender takes on the role of the perpetually drunk, misanthropic detective, investigating a serial killer who builds snowmen outside the homes of his victims.

Yes, it’s a mystery as lame as it sounds.

(MJ) Rated R

TAKE EVERY WAVE: THE LIFE OF LAIRD HAMILTON

Pioneering athlete, daredevil, reckless risk-taker — however you describe him, Laird Hamilton unquestionably changed the rules of surfing in the ’80s.

This documentary chronicles his career, up until the current day, when his body is starting to feel those decades of wipeouts. At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Not Rated

TYLER PERRY’S BOO 2!

A MADEA HALLOWEEN

Everyone’s favorite foul-mouthed, rage-prone grandmother (writer-director-producer Perry in drag) is back in another horror-comedy, and this time she’s after a masked killer filleting nubile teens. But who’s the real threat here — the slasher, or Madea? (NW) Rated PG-13

NOW PLAYING AMERICAN MADE

See Tom Cruise run! See Tom Cruise fly a plane! See Tom Cruise smuggle thousands of kilos of cocaine for Colombian drug cartels! Director Doug Liman’s true-life espionage thriller is inspired by the antics of Barry Seal, a TWA pilot who rubbed elbows with the likes of Manuel Noriega and Pablo Escobar in the 1980s. Sure, it’s no GoodFellas, but Cruise is undoubtedly entertaining in toothy slickster mode. We are left to wonder, though: Should this material really be told with a winking shrug of acceptance? (MJ) Rated R

BATTLE OF THE SEXES

In 1973, some 50 million people watched as veteran tennis pro Bobby Riggs went up against No. 1-ranked female player Billie Jean King, a match that was ostentatiously labeled the Battle of the Sexes. This wildly entertaining dramatization of that landmark sporting event is also a trenchant history lesson, a bittersweet reminder that the fight against sexism (in athletics and beyond) still rages on. Emma Stone is wonderful as King, all quiet determination and ambition, and Steve Carell is a hoot as Riggs. (MJ) Rated PG-13

BLADE RUNNER 2049

The long-awaited sequel to Ridley Scott’s 1982 sci-fi masterpiece expands

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upon the earlier film’s already rich futuristic universe, a meditative, leisurely paced art film disguised as a franchise cash-in. Picking up the story 30 years later, L.A. cop K (Ryan Gosling) uncovers a dark replicant conspiracy, taking him on a mission that leads to Harrison Ford’s elusive detective Deckard. An epic at 164 minutes, the movie allows itself room to breathe, and it’s aided

by Roger Deakins’ stunning cinematography. (NW) Rated R

DOLORES

A documentary about the life of civil rights activist Dolores Huerta, best known for founding California labor unions in the 1950s and ’60s alongside César Chávez. Huerta, who is still active at 87, discusses the adversity and gender inequality she has encountered throughout her career. Other interviewees include Hillary Clinton, Gloria Steinem and Angela Davis. At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Not Rated

THE FOREIGNER

Jackie Chan returns to the big screen, and this time cinema’s premiere stunt star is challenged to do something he hasn’t often done: really act. He plays an immigrant restaurateur living in London whose daughter is killed in an IRA-sponsored terrorist bombing. In the vein of Liam Neeson’s Taken films,

Chan seeks revenge on the people responsible for the attack. There’s a decent supply of thrills here, but it’s hampered by inconsistencies in tone and a wonky moral compass. (SS) Rated R

HAPPY DEATH DAY

Groundhog Day reimagined as a teen slasher movie, with a conceited sorority sister getting stuck in a time loop where she’s repeatedly killed by a masked psycho. More comedy than horror, it’s got a few nifty genre-busting tricks up its sleeve, but it’s hard not to wish it had pushed its premise into nastier, gutsier territory. (NW) Rated PG-13

IT

Stephen King’s cerebral horror tome hits the big screen for the first time, and while it significantly streamlines the novel’s expansive vision, it captures the spirit of King’s writing. Set in the late ’80s in the fictional small town of Derry, Maine, seven adolescent outcasts team up to battle an evil force that takes on numerous terrifying forms, most notably the razor-toothed clown Pennywise. The movie is breaking all kinds of box office records, so expect Chapter 2, focusing on the same characters as adults, to hit theaters in the next couple years. (NW) Rated R

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KINGSMAN: THE GOLDEN CIRCLE

The follow-up to the surprise 2014 hit Kingsman: The Secret Service is even cruder and more absurd than before.

This time around, most of the Kingsman organization’s agents, save for superspy Eggsy, are taken out by a sinister rival group, which also threatens to release a devastating virus.

Over-the-top, comic-book spectacle abounds. Whether or not you enjoy it depends on how much you value style over tact. (SS) Rated R

THE LEGO NINJAGO MOVIE

Another fast-paced, genre-goofing animated feature from the LEGO film factory, this time playing around with the company’s popular Ninjago toy line.

It’s bright and occasionally very funny, though it hardly holds a candle to the anarchic verve of the earlier LEGO movies. It’s also more of a traditional family film than its predecessors, with a light, all-ages story about the importance of a parent-child bond, listening, self-awareness and self-worth. (SS) Rated PG

MARSHALL

In 1941, years before he was the Supreme Court’s first African-American justice, attorney Thurgood Marshall (Chadwick Boseman) is called to defend a black chauffeur accused of raping a white woman. Though it hardly reinvents the biopic wheel, the film is a slickly-produced courtroom drama anchored by pertinent messages about racial and social injustice. (NW) Rated PG-13

THE MOUNTAIN BETWEEN US

An impending winter storm strands Idris Elba and Kate Winslet in an airport, so they charter a private biplane that promptly crashes in the mountains.

With the pilot dead and only meager rations (and a cute dog) at their disposal, they band together (and inevitably fall in love) to stay alive. As a survival saga, it’s got a few thrills; as a romance, though, it’s totally unconvincing. (NW) Rated PG-13

MY LITTLE PONY: THE MOVIE

Those sparkly, big-eyed, super-magical equines beloved by young children and some adult men finally return to

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the big screen. On this adventure, the ponies from the animated Friendship Is Magic series, with twinkly names like Twilight Sparkle and Rainbow Dash, must stop the evil Tempest Shadow from bringing darkness to Ponyville.

(NW) Rated PG

PROFESSOR MARSTON AND THE WONDER WOMEN

Wonder Woman’s comic-book origins are dramatized in this steamy 1930sset biopic, as the character’s feminist ethos emerge from the polyamorous relationship of her creator, psychologist William Moulton Marston, his wife and their younger mistress. Glossily made and well-acted but too broadly written, and ultimately tamer than its central relationship suggests. (NW) Rated R

RUMBLE: THE INDIANS WHO ROCKED THE WORLD

An engaging documentary that looks to embolden the Native American musicians whose influence on rock has either been diminished or completely forgotten. Among the legends discussed: blues pioneer Charley Patton, jazz luminary (and one-time Spokane resident) Mildred Bailey, Jimi Hendrix, Buffy Sainte-Marie, the Band’s Robbie Robertson and guitarist Link Wray, whose instrumental hit “Rumble” is an invaluable rock ‘n’ roll monument.

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VICTORIA AND ABDUL

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SHOEGAZE

Sweet As “Honey” We break down why the Jesus and Mary Chain is so much more than their most famous single

BY JORDAN SATTERFIELD Jim (left) and William Reid are the noise architects behind the Jesus and Mary Chain, who play the Bing on Oct. 26.

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ew bands in rock history are held in such a high regard, despite their total disinterest in crowd-pleasing, as the Jesus and Mary Chain. They’re often credited as being among the originators of shoegaze, but more than anything, lead songwriting duo (and brothers) Jim and William Reid controlled their sound more like a punk band with a penchant for surf rock, ’60s girl groups and sickeningly serrated guitar feedback.

Without question, the Scottish band’s most enduring single is the gorgeous dream-pop anthem “Just Like Honey,” but it’s somewhat ironic that a band so chameleonic throughout its existence is best known for one of its very first musical outings. There’s a lot to unpack in their aurally dense catalog, but if you’re new to the group, these tracks would be a great place to start.

“UPSIDE DOWN,” SINGLE (1984)

Clocking in at exactly three minutes, the Reid brothers’ debut single “Upside Down” has taken on iconic status for its ingenuity, as well as a total disregard for the well-being of its audience’s eardrums. The clamoring drum introduction is exciting but innocent enough, giving you mere moments to prepare for an onslaught of shrieking distortion feedback on the horizon. The simple, surf-rock disguise the song wears is a bizarrely breezy backdrop, but we’re really here for the notorious, yet oddly musical, feedback squelches. When people dismissively say, “It’s just noise,” this is what they’re referring to. And they’re wrong.

“TASTE THE FLOOR,” FROM PSYCHOCANDY (1985)

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music with a deliciously sharp edge.

Effortlessly cool is another coat frequently worn by the Jesus and Mary Chain, and no early track boasts an old-school bravado quite like “Taste the Floor” from their debut LP Psychocandy. Trading back and forth between a leather-clad American rock pastiche and the jarring scrapes of metallic guitar feedback, it perfectly marries two seemingly incompatible sounds and, in the process, solidified the compelling dichotomy that the J&MC would focus on in their early career.

“SIDEWALKING,” SINGLE (1988)

“YOU TRIP ME UP,” FROM PSYCHOCANDY (1985)

Automatic, the band’s third LP, is widely considered something of a creative dirge for the Jesus and Mary Chain. A few standout songs have given the record a cult following, though, and one of them is among the J&MC’s very best tracks: “Head On,” a brilliant piece of guitar pop famously covered by the Pixies two years later.

Lyrically speaking, Jim Reid has almost never topped the gleefully dazed chorus: “Makes you wanna feel / Makes you wanna try / Makes you wanna blow the stars from the sky.”

The Jesus and Mary Chain is a band that positively oozes an aloof attitude on the surface, so it’s often a shock to experience the earnest, hopeless romanticism employed in so many of their songs. “You Trip Me Up” is a perfect example, and like sister track “Just Like Honey,” it deals in both pillow-softness and shrill depravity, recreating heartbreak by inciting headaches.

“APRIL SKIES,” FROM DARKLANDS (1987)

Purists be damned, the second full-length album from the Jesus and Mary Chain was a welcome maturation of the Reid brothers’ aural and lyrical inclinations. Darklands sees the J&MC cleaning up their production considerably, providing hefty amounts of clean space for their songwriting to shine like it couldn’t in the past. Career highlight “April Skies” is gorgeous, a pure piece of lovesick pop

Not content to be rebranded as a softer, approachable pop band, the J&MC returned to their ear-splitting roots in extravagant fashion with “Sidewalking.” Snide, sneering and properly snotty, “Sidewalking” brings it all back — the fuzz, the cocky demeanor and, most importantly, the sweet, piercing treble of William Reid’s guitar.

“HEAD ON,” FROM AUTOMATIC (1989)

“ROLLERCOASTER,” FROM HONEY’S DEAD (1992)

The ’90s saw a seismic shift in the band’s production approach, and titling their first full-length of the decade Honey’s Dead was a very deliberate stab at their past selves — this isn’t the same beast that made “Just Like Honey” ...continued on next page

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MUSIC | SHOEGAZE “SWEET AS ‘HONEY’,” CONTINUED... seven years prior. “Rollercoaster” wraps all of this galvanized new energy into one blaring track, with explosive live drums, and power chords that crunch as much as they jangle, all in a perfect shade of melancholy.

“FAR GONE AND OUT,” FROM HONEY’S DEAD (1992)

No track that the Jesus and Mary Chain has ever recorded has gotten to the point as quickly as “Far Gone and Out,” Honey’s Dead’s definitive standout and one of the all-time great shoegaze songs. Kickstarted by a propulsive snare roll seemingly MORE EVENTS borrowed from contemporaries Visit Inlander.com for My Bloody Valentine, it’s a gutcomplete listings of punch of newfound enthusiasm, local events. all centered around a white-hot breakbeat. The guitars oscillate between big, fuzzy blasts and sun-kissed sparkles, perfectly complementing Jim Reid in a rare sing-along mood: “Hey, hey, hey! I got to get her back!”

“SOMETIMES ALWAYS,” FROM STONED & DETHRONED (1994)

By the mid-’90s, it was time for the band to reinvent itself once again. “Sometimes Always,” a duet with Mazzy Star’s angelicvoiced Hope Sandoval, presents the J&MC deep in the throes of a shambolic pensiveness. Abandoning murderous fuzz in exchange for shimmering acoustic guitars and an alt-country twinge, the painfully brief tapestry woven by Sandoval and Jim Reid is a defining moment in the band’s history, a sound they continue to explore in their later career. n The Jesus and Mary Chain with Cold Cave • Thu, Oct. 26 at 8 pm • $39.50 • All-ages • Bing Crosby Theater • 901 W. Sprague • bingcrosbytheater.com • 227-7638

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MUSIC | FOLK

Birds of a Feather Folk duo Penny & Sparrow exorcise fears on their latest album, Wendigo

BY NATHAN WEINBENDER

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n Native American folklore, a wendigo is a mythological monster that possesses humans and drives them to commit heinous, violent acts. Wendigo is also the name of the latest LP from Andy Baxter and Kyle Jahnke, better known as Penny & Sparrow, and, appropriately, it’s an exploration of what scares us and why.

Baxter calls Wendigo, the folk duo’s fifth full-length album, “a study in fear”: It deals with real-world concerns, the impending spectre of death, and our suspicions that supernatural, cannibalistic shapeshifters might, in fact, exist. Consider it therapy by way of songwriting.

“We were talking about things people were scared of, ourselves included. … If I’m scared of death, we’re going to talk about it a lot, and then see how I feel about it when we’re done,” Baxter says. “But every conclusion is not a sad, dark one. … If you shine a flashlight in the dark corner of the closet, you get to figure out if there’s anything in there to be afraid of.”

Penny & Sparrow play the Bartlett on Tuesday.

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The album is perhaps the most ambitious project yet from the two founding members of Penny & Sparrow, who first met as college students in Austin (Jahnke still lives there, while Baxter is currently based in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, another of the country’s most famous music cities).

Baxter recalls moving into a house with at least a dozen other guys (“The rent was stupid cheap,” he says), and Jahnke was his roommate. They soon discovered a shared affinity for what Baxter calls “sad bastard folk songs,” and while Jahnke taught himself guitar, they started jamming together. Soon enough, they were writing their own material.

“It was literally a means of passing the time,” Baxter says. “It was never an attempt to form a burgeoning music career. … We blinked and realized all these weekend runs we were doing for fun were actually getting high numbers in attendance.”

And it still works the way it did when they first started out around 2010: Jahnke picks on an acoustic guitar and Baxter sings over it, accompanied by Jahnke’s own vocal harmonies.

“The melodies are born with Kyle and the words are born with me,” Baxter says. “I keep an ongoing notebook

of phrases or words I want to work into songs, and Kyle is constantly mumbling melodic gibberish into his phone.

He sends me those, and I go into ‘word world’ and basically play Mad Libs.”

Baxter and Jehnke originally set out to make the Wendigo project into a suite-heavy, narrative-driven record, à la Willie Nelson’s 1975 album Red Headed Stranger.

Considering their shared love of theater (keep your ears open for explicit lyrical references to Les Misérables), they also briefly toyed with the idea of writing a musical for the stage. And while that idea was mostly scrapped in favor of a more traditional album structure, the finished product is certainly hung upon a thematic through-line; one could argue it’s still a loose concept record.

“What was originally going to be a story album, a Broadway musical of sorts, became a more mixed bag,” Baxter says. “I think melodically and lyrically we’ve pushed back on convention [with this album]. Looking back across the landscape of what we’ve gotten to do, I feel like we experimented more with this.”

Like its predecessors, Wendigo is a showcase for the band’s haunting musical meditations, with Jahnke’s spare arrangements accentuating Baxter’s plaintive lyrics about the fallibility of humanity and the meaning of faith. But the typical Penny & Sparrow show, despite the themes tackled in the music, is hardly a grim, morose affair.

“We both think it’s disingenuous to be dark and heavy all the time. It’s also not genuine to laugh all the time, either,” Baxter says. “We run the entire emotional spectrum through the show … and I think people will be surprised by that.” n Penny & Sparrow with Lowland Hum • Tue, Oct. 24 at 8 pm • Sold out • All-ages • The Bartlett • 228 W. Sprague • thebartlettspokane.com • 747-2174

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METAL MASTODON

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f there’s a way to quietly become one of the best metal bands on the planet, Mastodon found it. While they’ve spent the past decade delivering scorching albums that have landed in Billboard’s Top 10 alongside Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran and been nominated for multiple Grammys, Mastodon has never seen the mainstream breakthrough that their forebears like Metallica enjoyed. No matter, really, as the headbanging masses have embraced the Atlanta-based band’s tunes, full of intricate time changes and monster riffs. Their latest full-length, Emperor of Sand, ponders the nature of time through the story of a man sentenced to die. Mastodon’s live shows made fans of Pearl Jam, Tool and Queens of the Stone Age; add the joyfully sleazy rock of Eagles of Death Metal and instrumental prog-metallers Russian Circles to the bill, and you have the makings of one raucous, rocking night.

— DAN NAILEN Mastodon with Eagles of Death Metal and Russian Circles • Tue, Oct. 24 at 7:30 pm • $39.50 • All-ages • Knitting Factory • 919 W. Sprague • 244-32798

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Thursday, 10/19

3RD WHEEL, Perpetual Dementia, Arise in Chaos, Three Sixes BEEROCRACY, Open Mic BOOTS BAKERY, The Song Project J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, Open Jazz Jam CORBY’S BAR, Open Mic and Karaoke CRAVE, DJ Freaky Fred CRUISERS, Open Jam Night HILLS, Floating Crowbar HOTEL RL AT THE PARK, Ron Greene HOUSE OF SOUL, Karaoke w/DJ Dave THE JACKSON ST., Kicho J J KNITTING FACTORY, Famous Dex, King Skellee, Lou Era, Loud Crew and more J LAGUNA CAFÉ, Just Plain Darin THE MASON JAR, Jamison Sampson J MONARCH MOUNTAIN COFFEE, Open Mic with Scott Reid MOON TIME, Truck Mills NIGHTHAWK LOUNGE (CDA CASINO), JamShack THE OBSERVATORY, Vinyl Meltdown J J THE PIN!, Dead Bars, Pink Socks, Grumpelstiltskins, William Nover POST FALLS BREWING, Christy Lee RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos ZOLA, Blake Braley

Friday, 10/20

12 TRIBES CASINO, Fred Bauer Band 219 LOUNGE, Andrea Harsell & Luna Roja BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn J J THE BIG DIPPER, Tobias the Owl, Traveler of Home, Walleye, Rex Vox, Traxxx45 BLACK DIAMOND, DJ Sterling BOLO’S, Loose Gazoonz BOOMERS, Smoke’n Wheels CEDAR ST. BRIDGE, Mostly Harmless CHINOOK STEAK, PASTA & SPIRITS (CDA CASINO), KOSH CORBY’S BAR, Karaoke CRUISERS, Karaoke with Gary CURLEY’S, Destiny FEDORA PUB & GRILLE, Ron Greene

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PUNK AGENT ORANGE

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hen the California punk trio Agent Orange hit the scene in 1979, Sid and Nancy were dead, the Ramones were merging into the mainstream and disco had hustled its way onto the airwaves in sequined platform shoes. “Things seem so much different now,” the band howled on their early song “Bloodstains.” “The scene has died away.” But Agent Orange have stuck around, with their boisterous blend of classic rock, surf and old-school thrash predating a lot of contemporary pop-punk. And while plenty of members have come and gone since ’79, the current lineup still features founding frontman Mike Palm. If you’re unfamiliar with a band that really should be more wellknown outside punk-obsessive circles, check out their 2008 compilation Surfing to Some F#*ked Up S@!t, which will give you a grasp on their particular genre smorgasbord.

— NATHAN WEINBENDER Agent Orange with Flatfoot 56, Get Dead and Snakes/Sermons • Mon, Oct. 23 at 7 pm • $20 • All-ages • The Pin! • 412 W. Sprague • 624-0746

J HOTEL RL, Isaac Walton IDAHO POUR AUTHORITY, Two Guys IRON HORSE BAR, Smash Hit Carnival JOHN’S ALLEY, Dylan Jakobsen J KNITTING FACTORY, Hollywood Undead, Butcher Babies, Demrick LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Nick Grow MICKDUFF’S BEER HALL, Devon Wade MOOSE LOUNGE, Riverboat Dave and the Fur Traders MULLIGAN’S, The Cole Show NASHVILLE NORTH, Ladies Night NIGHTHAWK LOUNGE (CDA CASINO), JamShack NORTHERN QUEST, DJ Patrick NYNE, Royale, DJ-Soul1 THE OBSERVATORY, Wayward West, Sentient Divide, ACPO PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Son of Brad J RED ROOM LOUNGE, KALAJ, Shakewell, Shark Buffalo RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos RIPPLES RIVERSIDE GRILL, Dragonfly THE ROADHOUSE, Tuck Foster and the Tumbling Dice, Tom Norton SOULFUL SOUPS & SPIRITS, Ghosts of Dublin

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Saturday, 10/21

3RD WHEEL, Master of Tributes 12 TRIBES, The M80s, Metal Shop 1210 TAVERN, Black Jack Band 219 LOUNGE, Donna Donna, Cattywomp BARLOWS, Son of Brad J J THE BARTLETT, Massy Ferguson, Buffalo Jones (at 7 pm) J THE BARTLETT, Whiskey Shivers, Matt Mitchell (at 9:30 pm) BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn BLACK DIAMOND, DJ Stud BOLO’S, Loose Gazoonz BOOMERS, Smoke’n Wheels CHINOOK STEAK, PASTA & SPIRITS (CDA CASINO), KOSH COEUR D’ALENE CASINO, Amigo the Devil COMMUNITY PINT, Ron Greene CORBY’S BAR, Cold Shot CURLEY’S, Destiny FEDORA PUB, Donnie Emerson

FLAME & CORK, Christy Lee FREDNECK’S, Dee’s Nuts HARVEST HOUSE, Nick Grow, Sidetrack J THE HIVE, Griz HOUSE OF SOUL, Nu Jack City J HUCKLEBERRY’S, Talmadge IDAHO POUR AUTHORITY, Truck Mills IRON HORSE BAR, Smash Hit Carnival JACKSON ST., Karaoke with James JOHN’S ALLEY, Daring Greatly J J KNITTING FACTORY, Meaux Green, Levitate, AMF and more MICKDUFF’S BEER HALL, Brian Jacobs and Chris Lynch MOONDOLLARS BISTRO, Sammy Eubanks MOOSE LOUNGE, Riverboat Dave and the Fur Traders MULLIGAN’S, Clinton Lane Darnell NASHVILLE NORTH, ‘90s Country with Jeremy McComb & Luke Jaxon NIGHTHAWK LOUNGE (CDA CASINO), JamShack NO-LI BREWHOUSE, Wyatt Wood NORTHERN QUEST, DJ Patrick J THE OBSERVATORY, Six State Bender, Klaw, Dark White Light

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Monroe, Tarvali, Pika and more POST FALLS BREWING CO., Just Plain Darin J PROHIBITION GASTROPUB, Echo Elysium J RED ROOM LOUNGE, Sneaky Pete and the Secret Weapons, B-Radicals, Jenny JahLee RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos RIPPLES RIVERSIDE GRILL, Dragonfly STIX BAR, Honky Tonk A’ Go-Go THE THIRSTY DOG, DJ Dave WESTWOOD BREWING CO., Andy Rumsey ZOLA, Dangerous Type

Sunday, 10/22

DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS, Jam Night GARLAND PUB & GRILL, Karaoke HARVEST HOUSE, Donnie Emerson and Nancy Sophia IRON HORSE BAR & GRILL, LittleFish J KNITTING FACTORY, Yelawolf LINGER LONGER LOUNGE, Open Jam J J NORTHERN QUEST, Naughty by Nature, Tone Lōc (see page 44) O’DOHERTY’S, Live Irish Music

J THE PIN!, Decades In, Samsara, Lungless, Ghost Heart and more RIDLER PIANO BAR, Karaoke Night ZOLA, Lazy Love

Monday, 10/23

J CALYPSOS COFFEE, Open Mic EICHARDT’S, Monday Night Jam with Truck Mills J J THE PIN!, Agent Orange (see facing page), Flatfoot 56, Get Dead, Snakes/Sermons RED ROOM LOUNGE, Open Mic with Lucas Brookbank Brown ZOLA, Perfect Mess

Tuesday, 10/24

J J THE BARTLETT, Penny & Sparrow (see page 41), Lowland Hum BRAVO CLUB, T.A.S.T.Y w/DJs Freaky Fred, Beauflexx THE BULL HEAD, Rusty Jackson GARLAND PUB & GRILL, Karaoke J J KNITTING FACTORY, Mastodon (see facing page), Eagles of Death Metal, Russian Circles LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Turntable Tue. J THE PIN!, Rittz, Sam Lachow, Eric Biddines RAZZLE’S, Open Mic Jam RED ROOM LOUNGE, Mr. P Chill, Mr. Hooper, Cleen, Storme RIDLER PIANO BAR, Open Mic Jam ZOLA, Dueling Cronkites

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J J THE BARTLETT, A Giant Dog, Itchy Kitty BEEROCRACY, Marshall McLean BLACK DIAMOND, Rusty Jackson J CARUSO’S, Just Plain Darin CHECKERBOARD BAR, Rabbit Hole of Horrors EDM Night feat. Toxic Tok3r, Kid Kaotic and more GENO’S, Open Mic w/Travis Goulding IRON HORSE BAR & GRILL, Eric Neuhausser J KNITTING FACTORY, Greta Van Fleet, Stone Horses, The Glorious Sons, Drone Epidemic LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Carey Brazil LUCKY’S IRISH PUB, DJ D3VIN3 J THE PIN!, Secondhand Serenade, He is We, Ronnie Winter, Joshua James Belliardo, Rylei Franks J PROHIBITION GASTROPUB, Echo Elysium J RED ROOM LOUNGE, Lyrics Born, Kosmos, Brotha Nature RIDLER PIANO BAR, The Ronaldos SOULFUL SOUPS & SPIRITS, Open Mic THE THIRSTY DOG, Karaoke J TWO SEVEN PUBLIC HOUSE, Matt Mitchell ZOLA, Whsk&Keys

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J J BING CROSBY THEATER, The Jesus and Mary Chain (see page 39), Cold Cave, Oct. 26 J KNITTING FACTORY, Needtobreathe, The Brummies, Oct. 27 MOOTSY’S, Dept. of Martyrs, Oct. 28 BABY BAR, Omni, Outercourse, BaLonely, Oct. 30 J KNITTING FACTORY, Silversun Pickups, Minus the Bear, Oct. 31 J THE BARTLETT, Brother Ali, SaRoc, Last Word, Sol Messiah, Nov. 1

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219 LOUNGE • 219 N. First, Sandpoint • 208-2639934 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 BARLOWS • 1428 N. Liberty Lake Rd. • 924-1446 THE BARTLETT • 228 W. Sprague Ave. • 747-2174 BEEROCRACY • 911 W. Garland Ave. THE BIG DIPPER • 171 S. Washington • 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 BOLO’S • 116 S. Best Rd. • 891-8995 BOOMERS • 18219 E. Appleway Ave. • 755-7486 BOOTS BAKERY & LOUNGE • 24 W. Main Ave. • 703-7223 BRAVO CONCERT HOUSE • 25 E. Lincoln Rd. • 703-7474 BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB • 201 S. Main, Moscow • 208-882-5216 BUZZ COFFEEHOUSE • 501 S. Thor • 340-3099 CALYPSOS COFFEE & CREAMERY • 116 E. Lakeside Ave., CdA • 208-665-0591 CHATEAU RIVE • 621 W. Mallon Ave. • 795-2030 CHECKERBOARD BAR • 1716 E. Sprague Ave. • 535-4007 COEUR D’ALENE CASINO • 37914 S. Nukwalqw Rd., Worley, Idaho • 800-523-2464 COEUR D’ALENE CELLARS • 3890 N. Schreiber Way, CdA • 208-664-2336 CRAFTED TAP HOUSE • 523 Sherman Ave., CdA • 208-292-4813 CRAVE• 401 W. Riverside • 321-7480 CRUISERS • 6105 W Seltice Way, Post Falls • 208773-4706 CURLEY’S • 26433 W. Hwy. 53 • 208-773-5816 DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS • 6412 E. Trent • 535-9309 EICHARDT’S PUB • 212 Cedar St., Sandpoint • 208-263-4005 THE FEDORA • 1726 W. Kathleen, CdA • 208-7658888 FIZZIE MULLIGANS • 331 W. Hastings • 466-5354 FOX THEATER • 1001 W. Sprague • 624-1200 THE HIVE • 207 N. First, Sandpoint • 208-457-2392 HOGFISH • 1920 E. Sherman, CdA • 208-667-1896 HOTEL RL BY RED LION AT THE PARK • 303 W. North River Dr. • 326-8000 HOUSE OF SOUL • 120 N. Wall • 217-1961 IRON HORSE BAR • 407 E. Sherman Ave., CdA • 208-667-7314 IRON HORSE BAR & GRILL • 11105 E. Sprague Ave., CdA • 509-926-8411 JACKSON ST. BAR & GRILL • 2436 N. Astor St. • 315-8497 JOHN’S ALLEY • 114 E. Sixth St., Moscow • 208883-7662 KNITTING FACTORY • 911 W. Sprague Ave. • 244-3279 LAGUNA CAFÉ • 2013 E. 29th Ave. • 448-0887 THE LANTERN TAP HOUSE • 1004 S. Perry St. • 315-9531 LA ROSA CLUB • 105 S. First Ave., Sandpoint • 208-255-2100 LEFTBANK WINE BAR • 108 N. Washington • 315-8623 LUCKY’S IRISH PUB • 408 W. Sprague • 747-2605 MAX AT MIRABEAU • 1100 N. Sullivan • 924-9000 MICKDUFF’S • 312 N. First Ave., Sandpoint • 208)255-4351 MONARCH MOUNTAIN COFFEE • 208 N 4th Ave, Sandpoint • 208-265-9382 MOOSE LOUNGE • 401 E. Sherman • 208-664-7901 MOOTSY’S • 406 W. Sprague • 838-1570 MULLIGAN’S • 506 Appleway Ave., CdA • 208- 7653200 ext. 310 NASHVILLE NORTH • 6361 W. Seltice Way, Post Falls • 208-457-9128 NECTAR CATERING & EVENTS • 120 N. Stevens St. • 869-1572 NORTHERN QUEST RESORT • 100 N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights • 242-7000 NYNE • 232 W. Sprague Ave. • 474-1621 THE OBSERVATORY • 15 S. Howard • 598-8933 O’SHAY’S • 313 E. CdA Lake Dr. • 208-667-4666 PEND D’OREILLE WINERY • 301 Cedar St., Sandpoint • 208-265-8545 THE PIN! • 412 W. Sprague • 368-4077 RED LION RIVER INN • 700 N. Division • 326-5577 RED ROOM LOUNGE • 521 W. Sprague • 838-7613 REPUBLIC BREWING • 26 Clark Ave. • 775-2700 THE RIDLER PIANO BAR • 718 W. Riverside • 822-7938 RIVELLE’S • 2360 N Old Mill Loop, CdA • 208-9300381 THE ROADHOUSE • 20 N. Raymond • 413-1894 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 THE THIRSTY DOG • 3027 E. Liberty Ave. • 487-3000 TIMBER GASTRO PUB •1610 E Schneidmiller, Post Falls • 208-262-9593 ZOLA • 22 W. Main Ave. • 624-2416

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Watch out for zombies shambling through Riverside State Park this Saturday night.

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OUTDOORS TREAD WITH THE DEAD

Besides the colder weather, there’s another reason you might be shaking in your boots this weekend: the sixth annual Haunted Zombie Hike is here again for those who like their exercise with a side of frights. Organized by the Riverside State Park Foundation and sponsored in part by locally filmed Syfy series Z Nation, this outdoor infestation is primed to be a thrilling and spooky spectacle. Prepare yourself with the right footwear and experience a half-mile of horror, with decaying delights lurking around every corner. If you’re feeling famished after wandering around with the undead, a bonfire and food trucks are also available to satiate your screams. Proceeds benefit the park foundation, which reminds the frightening hike’s attendees to leave their pets at home and keep a careful eye on kids under age 12.

— JASON STILL Haunted Zombie Hike • Sat, Oct. 21 from 6:30-9:30 pm • $10/adults; $5/kids under 10 • Riverside State Park, 7 Mile Airstrip • 7903 W. Missoula Rd., Nine Mile Falls • 465-5066

MUSIC STILL FRESH

Back in the day, the double bill of Naughty By Nature and Tone Lōc would have been an arena-filling proposition, so big were the hits delivered by both the New Jersey-bred hip-hop trio and the SoCalraised, gruff-voiced rapper. For a few years, both artists were in heavy rotation on MTV and pop radio, thanks to tunes like Naughty

By Nature’s “O.P.P.” and “Hip Hop Hooray” and Tone Lōc’s “Funky Cold Medina” and Van Halen-sampling “Wild Thing.” Life at the top of the charts didn’t last forever, but both acts are total pros who know how to host a concert party. Be prepared to throw your hands in the air, yes, like you just don’t care.

— DAN NAILEN Naughty By Nature and Tone Lōc • Sun, Oct. 22 at 7:30 pm • $35/$45/$65 • All-ages • Northern Quest Resort & Casino • 100 N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights • northernquest.com • 481-2100

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WORDS IDEAS ILLUMINATED

If TED Talks haven’t quite made it onto your radar yet, a perfect opportunity to be inspired is right around the corner. For those unfamiliar, these engaging conferences highlight innovative concepts of curious minds for curious minds. The local spin-off TEDxSpokane offers a platform for some of our region’s most intriguing ideas to be put forth. After a long process of auditions, an enlightening selection of 16 contributors come together to present their edifying expertise on a variety of subjects. The theme of this year’s event is “Predictors and Prognosticators: What is the Future of the Future.”

We’re predicting this will be a fascinating and eye-opening event you won’t want to miss. Visit the TEDxSpokane site for an introduction to this year’s speakers.

— JASON STILL TEDxSpokane • Sat, Oct. 21 from 9 am-4 pm • $40 • Bing Crosby Theater • 901 W. Sprague • tedxspokane.com

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ARTS / BENEFIT MONSTER MASH-UP

What monstrous menaces lurk deep in the minds of some of the region’s best-known artists? Curious onlookers will have the chance to see for themselves during the Spokane Art School’s inaugural Monster Drawing Rally, a live-drawing event hosting more than 45 local artists. Divided into three 1-hour rounds that each feature 15 artists simultaneously drawing with inspiration from the event’s monster theme, rally attendees will have the first chance to purchase finalized versions for a fixed price of $50. Several wellknown artists are also displaying specially created monster-themed works in a juried gallery, some of which are for sale in a silent auction. Proceeds from the rally support children’s programs at the Spokane Art School. For a complete list of participating artists, head to the school’s website.

— CHEY SCOTT Monster Drawing Rally • Fri, Oct. 20 from 5-10 pm • $15/$20 at the door • Montvale Event Center • 1017 W. First • spokaneartschool.net

• MUSICAL AND THEATRICAL ENTERTAINMENT • PUMPKIN CARVING STATION • THE LINE-UP OF CARVED, LIGHTED PUMPKINS • NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM – AN EERIE RENDERING WITH LIVE HISTORICAL CHARACTERS • FOOD VENDORS • GAMES AND A PUMPKIN CUP RELAY • PHOTO OP ENTRANCE • GIANT PUMPKIN CONTEST • SKY LANTERN LAUNCH E Gibson Photography

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WORDS SLINGING SPELLS

Through any period of ideological upheaval, works of art abound across all media to protest and cry out against oppression, ignorance and bigotry.

We’re living through one of those times, and a new poetry collection by Spokane poet Maya Jewell Zeller, titled Alchemy for Cells & Other Beasts, with stunning art by Seattle artist Carrie DeBacker, takes a powerful look into one of the most polarizing topics of our time: the politicization of women’s bodies. For the collection’s Spokane launch party, Zeller teams up with local musician and writer Liz Rognes to creatively express pieces from the collection. Its poems, many of which are titled with the thematic phrase structure a “spell for,” are neatly summarized for curious readers on its back cover: “This book sets out to discover meaning in this terrible, beautiful time — and suggests wonder is where we’ll find it: “the diagnosis is strong / for the wild & wind mills.”

— CHEY SCOTT Book Launch: Alchemy for Cells & Other Beasts • Fri, Oct. 20 at 8 pm • Free • All-ages • The Bartlett • 228 W. Sprague • mayajewellzeller.com

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Looking to ”outshine”NYC’s Central Park Carved pumpkins about 8-10 pounds or the size of a soccer ball - are ideal

CONTESTS 2:00-3:15 PM

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MOST PEOPLE WRAPPED AS MUMMY IN 3 MINUTES TP & up to 3 Wrapper Team plus persons to be wrapped

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I SAW YOU TACO TIME TREAT I saw you at the downtown Taco Time on Wednesday. You looked amazing — carrying confidence with each step. Those blue eyes had me hypnotized. And that smile: WOW. I was the one with the excessive amount of Tacos — maybe I can buy you one sometime?

FAIRY TALES DO COME TRUE (I KNOW, I’M LIVING IT) well its been almost to years we have had a some of the greats times we have went through so much we have rode are bikes tell well mine is destoyed the wall and it didnt get along hurt me really bad but there you were like an angle i have never been treated so great it was so hard on you and you never faltered. and here we are two years bb it has been asum we are so good togather you make me want to be more than i ever thought i could you faith love courage and big heart make you one of tbe most asum ladys on this planet. I wake every day looking forward to what we are going to do you are the most put going and never back down . I love you with all my heart little one always always will RAMEN HOUSE HOTTIE This weekend, King Ramen was open again and it seems we both couldn’t resist. I wanted to say thank you for suggesting the chicken broth...it was fantastic! Those blue/green eyes of yours lioked fantastic in the early agyernoob light Maybe I can buy you a bowl next time?

EDGE OF THE RED LINE I’m trying not to fall, I swear I really am / yet with each passing day, I don’t think I can / at the edge of the Red Line trying to hold on / but the rapid descent makes it impossible not to fall / I tried to pull the cords, but the shoot it just won’t spring / I tried to pump the brakes, but the cliff it’s ever nearing / Love, lust, or folly time will tell indeed / I tried to ignore it but you burrowed through my heart / Every time I see you, my walls they fall apart / Brick by brick you tear them down / itself an irony that knows no bounds / I tried not to love you I swear I really did / yet something pulls me closer... we may both know what it is / The edge of the red line pulling towards fate / Is it destined to be an epic love story? / will it end tragically fueled by the fury of the fates / I only want to hold your heart and keep it close to me / take away the pain and show you what love should really be / together singing carefree in the rain yet you pull away / then inch closer still / leaving me to wonder... should I tell you how I really feel?

CHEERS GOOD PEOPLE ARE EVERYWHERE! Heartfelt gratitude to the good-hearted lady who found my large red purse. I accidentally left it in a shopping cart in the Shadle Wal-Mart parking lot, Friday, 10.06.17, 3pm. When I approached the Wal-Mart Customer Service Counter a few minutes later, I never expected to see it again. They said that you had returned it. My faith in humanity was restored.

The Wal-Mart employees were so happy to bring your kindness to my loss. More important than your return of my IDs, money and personal papers was the return of my belief that the goodness and kindness are all around us. So many tragic events happened in the world that week, one even in that very same Shadle WalMart parking lot. But you shined a light of hope that good can win! Thank you to you and all the helpful, hard-working employees at the Shadle Wal-Mart.

LOSER ON WIN DAVE’S MONEY You may have lost the game on Friday the 13th, but you definitely won my heart and, if I’m so bold, the heart of the avid listeners of the show. I hope Ken, Dave, and Molly feature you more often!

SUPER MARCHING BAND COMPETITION After years of hearing about the Marching Band Competition too late, I finally made it out to Albi Saturday and was totally amazed at the quality of this entertainment. Fortunately, I had just seen the posting in the Inlander’s Events Calendar.

Next year spring for some advertising and fill up the stands....you’re worth it!

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tage of women you have girlfriends & you look for more you pretend to be someone your not. Your crooked your a con. You break hearts like thats ok. You move on so easily until they see what you are. I am sorry for you & your low down behavior you should be ashamed of yourself.

Michelle & Susan & John already know.

Get a life stop using woman! Its not very manly! Your a romance scammer watch out ladies!

knowing the neighborhood as I do, twice a day street cleaning would certainly do the job. Please have mercy for the seniors experiencing, living through this construction nightmare. Thank you.

NO DATELINE SATURDAY NIGHTS, NO KHQ For over a month I’ve been stewing in my juices because the Guide of TV shows that I go to says, Dateline is on Sat. night @8:00 pm. When another Sat. came

Thank you for the chocolate and cuddles. I don’t know where I would be without you.

CHEERS BABE I’M EXCITED FOR US Mike you are the best thing that ever happened to me your my soul mate..... I’m very excited we accomplish buying our brand new house together.... I love you more then you will ever know..... you are the best dad your son could ever have in his life...... so glad to call you my hubby ..... you are a soul provider and a strong will man...... I am beyond grateful to love and cherish you growing together as a family..... cheers to another year ..... cheers to falling in love 5 1/2 Years I love you with all my heart and soul CONSTANT COMFORT THANK YOU for saving me on Friday. Thank YOU for supporting me, comforting me and helping me. Thank you for the chocolate and cuddles. I dont know where I would be without you.

DAVE, I’LL ALWAYS LOVE YOU You are in my heart year after year after year.

There’s just no getting over you. Ever. In spite of everything. I ache for you and I always will.

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OUR ELDERLY BEING USED ABUSED & DENIGRATED Alright I’m a liberal, have always supported human rights, but never thought I would have to stand up for our senior citizens, I thought everyone respected them for what they have done for our country. So I watched in shock Sat. night when a highly respected comedy show depicted an elderly woman, with a disgusting expression on her face, sitting in a slovenly position being described as the so called whore (my word) of the nursing home. To see the elderly denigrated, abused and used, to get some laughs from the audience was heartbreaking. I have written to this network to remind them of their ignorance, hope many others will too. Most of us will be old someday, stand up for yourselves!

NOISE POLLUTION IN SPOKANE City of Spokane, it’s not disturbing nor painful enough that our nerves, ears & stomachs are suffering from the constant, every 10 minutes, moving of diesel trucks, carrying thousands of pounds of gravel transported by our windows @ Riverside & Jefferson throughout the day, the city now sends street cleaning machines also throughout the day. Irritation is putting it mildly, more like “jumping off the balcony irritating.” Agree, the streets, do need cleaning to pick up the excess gravel, but

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BENEFIT

MONSTER MASH BENEFIT In addition to dancing and costume fun, the Miss Shifters All Girls Car Club hosts a “Trunk-or-Treat.” Entry by donation (see item wish list on Facebook event page); proceeds benefit the UGM Women and Children’s Center in Coeur d’Alene. Oct. 21, 6:30 pm-midnight.

The Retro Studio, 8193 Main St., Rathdrum. theretrostudiophotography.com ODYSSEY MASQUERADE Celebrate with a night of costumes, dancing, live and silent auctions, food and more, all in support of Spokane’s LGBTQ youth.

This year’s theme, ‘Mask-erade’, will bring guests into the worlds of their favorite caped crusaders and villains.

Oct. 21, 6-9 pm. $35. nYne, 232 W. Sprague. odysseyyouth.org PAW-LOUSE 5K Join the Humane Society of the Palouse for its annual 5k fun run/walk, this year paired with an Oktoberfest beer garden. Check-in at 10 am, race starts at 11. Located at the U of Idaho Sweet Avenue parking lot.

Oct. 21, 10 am-1 pm. $20/$25. humanesocietyofthepalouse.org SOUP FOR THE SOUL Support Sacred Heart Children’s Hospital’s Arts in Healing program by ordering a bowl of soup at participating Spokane-area restaurants on Wednesdays throughout October. Participating restaurants: The Barrel, Fieldhouse Pizza, High Nooner, Little Garden Café, Morty’s, Picabu Bistro, Screaming Yak, Selkirk Pizza, Something Else Deli, Steelhead Bar and Grille, St. Luke’s Waterfall Café and the Holy Family and Sacred Heart hospital campus cafes. providence.org

COMEDY

BRANDON T. JACKSON You know him from the show “Wild ‘N Out “with Nick Cannon, and in the films “Tropic Thunder,” as Alpa Chino, and “Lottery Ticket” as Benny. Oct. 19, 8 pm. $15$23. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com NO CLUE Join the BDT Players as they put a comedic spin on everyone’s favorite macabre guessing game. Fridays at 8 pm, through Nov. 3. For general audiences. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. bluedoortheatre.com PREACHER LAWSON In 2015 Preacher won the title of Funniest Comedian In Florida, in 2016 he was crowned the winner of the Seattle International Comedy Competition. Oct. 20-21 at 8 pm, Oct. 21 at 10:30 pm. $20-$28. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com COMEDY WITH FRIENDS Phillip Kopczynski blends storytelling, sketch comedy, and stand up comedy. Oct. 21, 8-10 pm. $12. Panida Theater, 300 N. First Ave. panida.org ERIC SCHWARTZ With appearances on The Tonight Show, Showtime, Comics Unleashed, BET and more, GQ India names him one of “5 International Comics You Must Catch.” Oct. 22, 8 pm. $12-$25. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com RAY WILLIAM JOHNSON Live show by the comedian and actor living in Los Angeles. Oct. 25, 8 pm. $19. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com (509-318-9998)

COMMUNITY

COLVILLE CORN MAZE Come explore the 12-acre corn maze and a 3-acre pumpkin patch. Open Mon-Fri from 3-7 pm, Sat-Sun from 11 am-7 pm, through Oct. 31. $5-$7. Colville Corn Maze, 73 Oakshott Rd. colvillecornmaze.com SCARYWOOD The theme park’s annual haunted house attraction. Through Oct. 28, Thu from 7-11 pm, Fri-Sat from 7 pm-midnight. $26-$45. Silverwood Theme Park, 27843 U.S. 95. scarywoodhaunt.com SPOKANE MAYOR’S URBAN DESIGN AWARDS The 10th biennial awards highlight the importance of creative thought, technical proficiency, and the relationship of good urban design to our city’s economic health and overall well-being. Oct. 19, 5:30-7 pm. Free.

Saranac Commons, 19 W. Main. bit. ly/2pm6Ncu (625-6146) FALL FUN OPEN HOUSE Learn how animals get ready for winter, make some crafts, go on a pumpkin hunt, and meet the center’s animals. Oct. 21, 10 am-2 pm. $5 suggested donation.

West Valley Outdoor Learning Center, 8706 E. Upriver Drive. (340-1028) POPTOBERFEST A fall celebration of the arts, with local coffee and treats in the morning, No-Li beer and music in the evening. Shop for handmade local goods throughout the day. Oct. 21, 11 am-8 pm. Free. Window Dressing Pop Up Shop, 159 S. Lincoln. facebook.com/ popupshopspokane/ TITANIC: THE ARTIFACT EXHIBITION This blockbuster exhibit takes visitors on a journey back in time with more than 120 real artifacts all recovered from the ocean floor. Oct. 21 through May 20, 2018; Tue-Sun 10 am-5 pm (Wed until 8 pm). $10-$18. The MAC, 2316 W. First. (456-3931) FREE FALL VACCINATION CLINIC Adults can receive free influenza and MMR vaccines; kids ages 2-18 can receive any needed vaccinations including school-required vaccines, hepatitis A, HPV, meningococcal and influenza.

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n recent weeks, the Green Zone has examined potency studies conducted for the Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board, as well the misnomer of likening THC and THCA levels to percentages of alcohol by volume.

Another major concern with the pairing of alcohol and cannabis as recreational drugs involves discerning impairment. It’s hard to argue that driving while high is good. But what is a true threshold for impairment via cannabis?

Washington state implemented a 5-nanograms-permilliliter limit when conducting blood tests when I-502 was passed in 2012. Initially, chronic cannabis users and

groups like the National Institute on Drug Abuse argued over whether or not the 5-nanogram limit was too low or too high.

Marilyn Huestis, formerly a senior investigator for NIDA, told seattlepi.com in 2013 that “with whole blood (testing), we haven’t had anybody over 5 [nanograms per milliliter] after 24 hours.”

NIDA’s research found that while not completely disappearing, major levels of THC fall well below 5 nanograms within 24 hours of consumption. And considering the amount of time it would take to request a warrant by the arresting officer, as well as transporting and conducting a blood test, it’s hard to trust the accuracy of the

eventual blood level of THC. Now, there’s a legitimate concern that this style of testing is wholly insufficient. Johns Hopkins University professor Ryan Vandrey published a study this year on marijuana edibles and their effect on blood levels of THC. According to the Washington Post, “Although the marijuana brownies caused significant decrements in participants’ attentiveness, physical coordination and ability to concentrate, only 11 percent of them ever had a THC blood level over the legal limit.”

Massachusetts, in the early stages of recreational cannabis legalization, is also dealing with the lack of comparability of cannabis and alcohol impairment. The state’s Supreme Judicial Court recently ruled that police officers are allowed to testify how individuals performed during sobriety tests, but not about whether the defendant passed their sobriety test, and cannot opine about whether the defendant was too high to operate a vehicle.

“A significant of amount of research has shown that the consumption of marijuana can impair the ability to drive,” the court ruled. “There is ongoing disagreement among scientists, however, as to whether [field sobriety tests] are indicative of marijuana impairment.”

With alcohol, the rule of thumb of no more than one drink per hour seems to be commonly accepted and applicable across all legal consumers. But considering how significantly different the metabolizing of THC is — with genetic and body-specific variables, as well as the form of consumption, needing to be taken into account — the standard for impairment, many experts say, needs to be readdressed. n

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My boyfriend unplugs my laptop when it’s charging and plugs the charger into his, despite knowing that I need my computer charged for work. This is actually part of a pattern — a general lack of consideration, from constantly being late to always leaving messes for me to clean up to knocking the shower door off the track and then just leaving it leaning against the tub. Recently, my dad emailed him three times without hearing back — in response to a favor he’d asked of my dad! — and I had to bug him to reply. How can I get him to be more considerate? —Disturbed

There are people who go all crazybiscuits if you don’t immediately email them back — confusing the ability to reply nearly instantly with a mandate to do that. Still, there’s a middle ground between frantically responding to every message and taking so long that somebody sends the cops around to peer in the windows for a body.

When you’re romantically involved with someone, it’s kind of a problem if the most reliable thing about them is their unreliability. Granted, we all fail in the followthrough department every now and then — like when my car got ticketed because the registration sticker I’d paid for remained in a pile of unopened mail that had gradually migrated under my bed.

But when somebody has a pretty pervasive pattern of carelessness — when they’re basically an entitlement-infused, corner-cutting slacktastrophe of a person — it points to their coming up short on what psychologists call “conscientiousness.”

This is one of the five core personality dimensions (along with openness, extroversion, agreeableness, and emotional stability), and it reflects a person’s level of self-control and sense of responsibility to others.

Personality researcher Brent Roberts explains that people who are “high in conscientiousness” “tend to write down important dates, comb their hair, polish their shoes, stand up straight, and scrub floors.” That last one is an unexpected plus if you have dingy grout; however, there’s such a thing as too much conscientiousness — which is cool if your “type” is a rigid, perfectionistic mini-Mussolini.

Meanwhile, on the perennially chillaxed end of the spectrum, people “low in conscientiousness” tend to break promises, cancel plans, watch more TV, oversleep, and see credit limits as credit suggestions. The plan-canceling and promise-breaking reflect something noteworthy — self-centeredness and a lack of concern for how their behavior affects others. (Essentially, they tend to do things halfway — but only when they can’t get away with doing them a third of the way or less.)

Not surprisingly, researchers find that people’s lives work better if they keep their promises, don’t go around with yesterday’s sloppy Joe on their shirt, and get to work at an hour that does not require an explanation that opens with “you’ll never believe what happened this time!”

However, it isn’t just your own level of conscientiousness that impacts your life.

Psychologists Brittany Solomon and Joshua Jackson find that having a partner high in conscientiousness makes you likely to have higher income and job satisfaction and a better shot at getting promoted. They suggest that having a more conscientious partner makes for a more satisfying and supportive home life, allowing a person to focus more on their work.

Personality traits are, to a great extent, genetic and are largely stable because of that. However, Roberts finds evidence that people can increase their level of conscientiousness. This starts in the smallest ways, like making the bed and tidying the house in the morning so it looks more “lived in” than “ransacked.” Repeated behaviors become habits, and collectively, our habits form who we are.

Of course, changing starts with wanting to change — valuing conscientiousness enough to be motivated to make it an integral part of everything one does. This sometimes happens when a person gets a tragedy-driven wake-up call. Absent that, your best chance for inspiring your boyfriend to want to live more conscientiously is by using empathy as a motivator — gently explaining to him how unloved you feel and how disrespected other people must feel in the wake of his constant sloppy disregard for anyone but himself.

If he says he wants to change, give yourself a deadline — perhaps two or three months down the road — to see whether he’s making meaningful improvement. If you decide to break up, you might want to make conscientiousness one of the “musthaves” on your “What I Need In A Man” list so your next relationship feels more like a romantic partnership than a remedial finishing school for one. Lesson 36: One should email the girlfriend’s dad back in less time than it would take to deliver the message by pony express — if you first had to get the mare and the stallion to hook up to make the pony. n ©2017, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. • Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405 or email AdviceAmy@aol.com (www.advicegoddess.com)

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ANGELS IN AMERICA PART ONE: MILLENNIUM APPROACHES Many subplots of Mr. Kushner’s kaleidoscopic work are still fresh today. Oct. 22, 2-5:30 pm. $7-$15. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave. friendsofthebing.org MONDAY NIGHT MOVIES: SWIM TEAM This film chronicles the extraordinary rise of the New Jersey Hammerheads, a team where every swimmer is on the autism spectrum. Oct. 23, 7 pm. $8. Magic Lantern Theatre, 25 W. Main. magiclanternonmain.com BEST OF RIFFTRAX LIVE: NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD Join the RiffTrax crew — Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett (of Mystery Science Theater 3000 fame) — for a hilarious take on the classic horror film. At Regal Northtown and Riverstone (CdA). Oct. 25, 7:30 pm. $13. fathomevents.com UNITED BY WATER The Upper Columbia United Tribes hosts a premier of the Derek LaMere film showing the first tribal canoe journey and gathering at Kettle Falls since the Ceremony of Tears in 1943. Oct. 26, 6:45-9 pm. Free. Garland Theater, 924 W. Garland. facebook. com/uppercolumbiaunitedtribes

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FALL RISOTTO Learn how to make a hearty, favorite Italian dish-with a nutritious twist. Ticket includes a two-hour class, a serving of the dishes made, and a coupon to use in the store. Oct. 20, 6-8 pm. $40. My Fresh Basket, 1030 W. Summit Pkwy. myfreshspokane.com APPLE FEST The harvest celebration offers homemade apple dumpling pie, baked goods, arts and crafts, vendors, entertainment and more. Oct. 7-22; Sat 10 am-5 pm and Sun noon-5 pm. Free.

Green Bluff United Methodist Church, 9908 E. Greenbluff Rd. (979-2607) OKTOBEERFEST A celebration of fall with seasonal beers along with bratwursts, pretzels and more. The heated outdoor beer garden features games, live music and more. Oct. 21. $5. The Viking, 1221 N. Stevens. bit.ly/2gMueph SOLACE FEST: ART & ANIMALS BLOCK PARTY Solace celebrates its first anniversary with a fundraiser benefiting Higher Ground Animal Sanctuary, and with art from members of the Richmond Art Collective and Laboratory.

Oct. 22, 12-6 pm. Solace Mead & Cider, 1198 W. Summit Pkwy. bit.ly/2y6MUKl CROWN ROYAL WHISKY DINNER Join Twigs and representatives from Crown Royal for a special four-course dinner and tasting event. Oct. 24, 6-8 pm. $55. Twigs Bistro, 808 W. Main. bit. ly/2kVD4G5

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SPIRIT AWAKE: SALUTE TO THE HEARTLAND Chorale Coeur d’Alene, presents a concert of European masters and other contemporary American works. Oct. 20 at 7 pm and Oct. 21 at 3 pm. $10-$20. Trinity Lutheran Church, 812 N. Fifth St. ChoraleCdA.com RYAN ZIMMERMAN The singer/songwriter from Long Beach Island, New Jersey performs a solo acoustic performance. Oct. 21, 7:30-9:30 pm. $20.

Indie Air Radio, 1514 S. Cedar St. indieairradio.com/concerts/ (879-1871) SPOKANE SYMPHONY CLASSICS 3:

TALES OF TRAGEDY Pianist Conrad Tao returns to the Spokane Symphony under the musical direction of Eckart Preu with Saint-Saens’ exquisite Piano Concerto No. 2. Oct. 21 at 8 pm and Oct. 22 at 3 pm. $14-$57. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. spokanesymphony.org SING FOR YOUR HEALTH The Spokane Area Youth Choirs presents all four choirs in their first concert of the season. Oct. 22, 5-6 pm. $6-$10. Westminster Congregational United Church of Christ, 411 S. Washington. (624-7992)

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FIVE WOMEN WEARING THE SAME DRESS Five reluctant bridesmaids hide out in an upstairs bedroom and discover what bonds them together.

Oct. 19-28, Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm. Free.

Schuler Performing Arts Center, 1000 W. Garden Ave. (208-769-3220) PSYCHO BEACH PARTY An insanely fun romp on Malibu Beach in 1962.

Through Nov. 5, Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $27. Spokane Civic Theatre, 1020 N. Howard St. (325-2507) ROOF! BY RICKY J. MARTINEZ A tribute to friendship, featuring an eclectic group of emerging artists struggling to work out their relationships to art, society and each other. Oct. 19-21 at 7:30 pm, Oct. 21-22 at 2 pm. $5-$15. Hartung Theater, 875 Perimeter Dr. uitheatre. com (208-885-6465) BACK OF THE THROAT A young ArabAmerican is confined to his home by two government agents. Questioning of him intensifies as the play progresses, with seemingly every item in his apartment a potential source of suspicion. Oct. 20-Nov. 5, Fri-Sat at 7:30 pm. $20. Stage Left Theater, 108 W. Third Ave. spokanestageleft.org (838-9727) SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK LIVE! The Emmy Award-winning cartoon series that makes a comeback on stage.

Through Oct. 29; Fri at 7 pm, Sat-Sun at 2 pm. $10-$14. Spokane Children’s Theatre, 2727 N. Madelia. spokanechildrenstheatre.org (509-328-4886) WEST SIDE STORY The season opener has been extended for two more shows: Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is transported to NYC in the turbulent 60s as two young, idealistic lovers find themselves caught between warring street gangs. Oct. 20-21 at 7:30 pm. $30-32. Spokane Civic Theatre, 1020 N. Howard St. spokanecivictheatre.com THE ELEPHANT MAN A play based on the life of John Merrick, who became a star attraction in sideshows due to his rare skin and bone disease. Oct. 20 at 7:30 pm, Oct. 22 at 2 pm. $10-$12. Whitworth Cowles Auditorium, 300 W. Hawthorne. whitworth.edu/theatre/ YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN: THE MEL BROOKS MUSICAL The comedy genius of Mel Brooks, adapted from his legendarily funny film. Oct. 20-21 and 25-28 at 7:30 pm; Oct. 21 and 28 at 2 pm. $13-$17. Kroc Center, 1765 W. Golf Course Rd. aspirecda.com

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HANDWOVEN TEXTILES SHOW & SALE Items available include household linens, rugs, scarves and shawls, simple garments, wall art and more.

Oct. 20, 5-8 pm; Oct. 21, 10 am-5 pm; Oct. 22, noon-4 pm. Spokane Handweavers’ Guild Hall, 606 W. Garland.

spokaneweavers.org MONSTER DRAWING RALLY See 45 local artists draw their favorite monsters in three, hour-long live drawing sessions, with all pieces for sale after each round for $50 each. Proceeds benefit Spokane Art School children’s programming. Oct. 20, 5-9 pm. $15/$20.

Montvale Event Center, 1017 W. First. spokaneartschool.net ARTIST IN RESIDENCE: KAREN MOBLEY October’s artist is local visual artist, poet and arts consultant Karen Mobley.

During each residency, artists provide hands-on sessions for the public, as well as on-site art making for observation. Special sessions with Mobley on Oct. 21, 1:30-4:30 pm; registration required. Free. North Spokane Library, 44 E. Hawthorne Rd. scld.org (893-8350) BOB ROSS’ BIRTHDAY PARTY Join KSPS for an evening celebrating the 75th birthday of public television’s favorite painter. Ages 21+, pre-registration recommended. Benefits KSPS. Oct. 25, 6:30-8:30 pm. $54. Pinot’s Palette, 319 W. Sprague. bit.ly/2j4ngzH

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THE ALCHEMOUS BEASTS TOUR Maya Jewell Zeller reads poetry from her new collaborative collection “Alchemy for Cells & Other Beasts,” teaming up with Spokane folk musician Liz Rognes. Oct. 20, 8 pm. Free. The Bartlett, 228 W. Sprague Ave. thebartlettspokane.com AUTHOR PETE FROMM The Missoula author discusses his latest book “The Names of the Stars.” Oct. 20, 7 pm.

Free. Coeur d’Alene Public Library, 702 E. Front Ave. cdalibrary.org READING: JACLYN WATTERSON + MICHAEL SHOU-YUNG SHUM A reading showcasing Spokane’s Prize for Short Fiction winner Jaclyn Watterson and fellow short story writer Michael ShouYun Shum. Oct. 20, 7 pm. Free. Auntie’s, 402 W. Main. auntiesbooks.com READING: CHELSEA MARTIN The Spokane transplant writer reads from her acclaimed new collection, “Caca Dolce: Essays from a Lowbrow Life.” Oct. 21, 7 pm. Free. Auntie’s, 402 W. Main Ave. auntiesbooks.com (509-838-0206) TEDXSPOKANE 2017 Featuring a speaker line-up that includes mostly regional professionals showcasing their expertise with the theme “Predictors and Prognosticators.” Oct. 21, 9 am-4 pm. $40. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave. tedxspokane.com AN EVENING WITH ANGELA DAVIS A talk with the political activists, hosted by the Gonzaga Center for Public Humanities. Oct. 25, 7 pm. [SOLD OUT].

Gonzaga Hemmingson Center, 702 E. Desmet. (509-313-6942) PIE & WHISKEY BOOK RELEASE PARTY A celebration of and reading from the new anthology “Pie & Whiskey: Writers Under the Influence of Butter and Booze,” which features essays by local writers. Edited by Kate Lebo and Sam Ligon; also includes pie by Lebo and whiskey from Dry Fly ($5/drink), with drink proceeds benefiting Spokane Arts. Oct. 26, 8 pm. Free. Terrain, 304 W. Pacific. pieandwhiskey.com n

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7. Parts of a contract 14. La Brea fossil preserve 16. Scuba gear component 17. 2000s CBS drama created by David Mamet 18. “Tastes so good, cats ask for it by name” sloganeer 19. Suffix with prank or poll 20. Composer of many patriotic tunes in honor of the country seen at the end of his name 21. Move like a moth 23. Almost any “Get rich quick!” offer 25. Get rid of 29. Accomplishment for a soprano 31. ____ rage (result of juicing) 33. Bongo or conga 34. Long Island town

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13. ____ ed 15. Nix 20. ____ Paulo, Brazil 21. Lad mag that originated in the U.K. 22. 2018 Super Bowl number

24. First light 26. Singer Grande, to fans 27. Mystery author Grafton 28. What dialing 911 may bring 30. The “C” of FDIC: Abbr.

THIS W ANSWE EEK’S I SAW RS ON YOUS 32. Rural road sign silhouette 35. Bank offering 37. [You cad!]

40. “Cheers” bartender 41. When a plane is due in, for short 42. Harry’s pal at Hogwarts 44. Sneaks a peek through a window 45. Suffix in many language names 46. Prefix with functional 49. Shade of green 52. Shirts’ opponents in a pickup game 54. Bar closing time, perhaps 57. Double-reed woodwind 59. Antlered animals 60. Ice cream container 61. Unlock, in verse 62. Orch. section 63. 1960s atty. gen.

64. Uganda’s Amin 65. Org. for which Edward Snowden once worked

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Fleet Feet Eagles stay grounded, yet fly atop the Big Sky PHOTOS BY YOUNG KWAK

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e’ve become accustomed to Eastern Washington airing it out against opponents behind star quarterback Gage Gubrud and his rapidly expanding cast of skilled receivers, but on Saturday, the Eagles used a battering-ram day of running to beat Montana State 31-19 and stay atop the Big Sky Conference.

The Eagles went up early on the Bobcats from Bozeman and stayed there, thanks to sophomore running back Antoine Custer Jr.’s 147 yards and two touchdowns. They got a little sloppy in the fourth quarter, allowing Montana State back into the game, but held on for a victory — their 12th consecutive in conference play — that makes Eastern 4-0 in the Big Sky heading into Saturday’s game at Southern Utah University, which beat a strong Weber State team on the road Saturday. This one could be tricky.

Saturday’s win took EWU up to No. 8 in the country in the Football Championship Subdivision coaches poll. Keep up with the Eagles and the rest of the region’s football teams every week in our Monday Morning Placekicker blog on Inlander.com.

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Shred up to three grocery bags or two banker boxes of paper, and recycle old TVs, laptops, CPUs, monitors, computers, tablets and portable DVD players.

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Plus, enter to win a four-pack of football tickets, parking included, (valued at $400) to watch the WSU Cougars take on Stanford on Nov 4th. Entries will be accepted on-site at both shred event locations.

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