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avid Condon’s tenure as MAYOR OF SPOKANE is notable for a few reasons — starting with the simple fact it persisted for two terms. Voters hadn’t given a mayor a second go-around since ’73. One of Condon’s early achievements wasn’t particularly sexy, but was critically important: He figured out how to keep rain from overwhelming the sewer system and dumping unfiltered crap in the river, and he managed to do it without massive utilityrate increases. Huzzah! He also helped convince voters to pass bonds that paid for street repair and renovations to Riverfront Park.

But then, in the middle of his 2015 re-election campaign, he fired his handpicked police chief and denied there had been accusations of sexual harassment. That decision ultimately prompted ethics complaints, lawsuits, a recall attempt and an independent investigation that determined Condon’s administration had “intentionally withheld” public records about the sexual harassment allegations until after the election.

So, in short, Condon’s legacy is a little complicated. Read staff writer Daniel Walters’ report on page 26.

Also this week, we have election results and analysis about the two people who fought to replace Condon, beginning on page 20.

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rom recent news reports, it appears that billionaire Michael Bloomberg will enter the Democratic race to challenge Donald Trump, apparently disappointed with the current candidates. Bloomberg, age 77, is not likely to catch on nationally, mainly because he’s an East Coast liberal. If he’s the nominee, America is likely to be governed by President Trump from 2021-24, even though impeachment is coming.

While a majority of voters seem disaffected

by Trump, they seem unenthused about any of the potential opponents, including Bloomberg.

Moneywise, President Trump is way ahead in campaign cash as Democrats each seek to break free of the pack. Elizabeth Warren has shown signs of doing so but is constrained by her liberal

philosophy. She scares voters. It’s likely a sign of her potential prominence that some of her opponents are openly critical of her vagueness.

America is not as liberal as the announced candidates, especially as many voters live in red districts. They’ll likely vote for Trump and endorse his various policy positions, though they don’t endorse his outspoken campaign style. President Dwight Eisenhower, a popular president with a strong military background, relied heavily on his cabinet officers and outside advisers in times

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MURDERED AND MISSING INDIGENOUS WOMEN: Thousands of Native women and girls have vanished from tribal lands, rural communities and cities with no official accounting. Margo Hill, a Spokane tribal member and attorney, explains how the complicated jurisdictions of Indian Country make it difficult to protect Native women. She also examines the mobility of Indigenous women and laws needed to protect them. This program is one of the library’s events celebrating Native American Heritage Month. Sat, Nov. 16 from 1-2:30 pm. Free. South Hill Library, 3324 S. Perry. spokanelibrary.org (444-5331)

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of crisis. Trump instead seems to rely only on himself, though he hasn’t been fully challenged by an international crisis yet. His recent tweet, stating that he has superior intellect and wisdom, is telling. Even if he feels that way, he shouldn’t publicize it — the voting public generally doesn’t like bragging in their public officials.

Former vice president and senator Joe Biden could emerge, but his age and the controversy over his son have taken a toll on him in recent weeks despite his strong poll numbers. Former President Jimmy Carter has publicly stated that no one should serve as president past age 80 — Bloomberg, Biden and Bernie Sanders would turn 80 if elected in 2020. Thirty-five percent of Democrats and 37 percent of independents and Republicans in a recent Gallup Poll said they wouldn’t vote for a candidate for president who was over age 70.

Biden and his son Hunter are part of an undue influence issue. Many voters are troubled by Hunter’s acceptance of a board seat for companies in Ukraine and China and being paid big money. Biden will be dogged by questions about this situation.

The remaining Democrats are struggling to remain relevant.

As for Warren, her recent campaign appearance in which she claimed to be a “capitalist” ruffled Sanders’ feathers, as he claims to be a socialist. Gallup polling has recently found that 24 percent of Democrats, 48 percent of independents and 80 percent of Republicans would not vote for a socialist. Warren’s positions on the issues are socialist in nature — $52 trillion for her Medicare plan — and they won’t likely survive a Trump challenge.

As Bloomberg, or another candidate, reconsiders and enters the race, they stand a chance. Bloomberg has the money and the liberal bona fides to wage an extensive campaign, plus he’s served in public life already. Former Ohio Gov. John Kasich, a qualified Republican with a history of restraint, could become a candidate if Trump doesn’t run, but that’s unlikely.

The remaining Democrats are struggling to remain relevant, and some could exit the race for lack of campaign money and national support. Democrats would be wise to trim their numbers. Look for Julian Castro, Tom Steyer, Andrew Yang and Cory Booker to leave the race soon. That would leave Bloomberg, Warren, Biden, Tulsi Gabbard, Sanders, Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar and Kamala Harris to fight it out.

Buttigieg won’t leave, though his positions on issues are similar to other Democrats on the stage. Biden won’t leave, no matter that he’s now 76, but he could vow to serve only one term, perhaps choosing a woman successor as his running mate.

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Q&A LAURIE ARNOLD The Gonzaga professor’s current project links historical Native activists with modern contemporaries

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aurie Arnold is an enrolled member of the Sinixt Band of the Colville Confederated Tribe and joined Gonzaga University in 2013 as inaugural director of its Native American Studies program. During the current 2019-20 school year, however, Arnold is on sabbatical, working on a research project as part of two recently and simultaneously awarded fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and Yale University.

We chatted with Arnold by phone to learn more about her newest research project, “Native American Cultural Activism as Historical Text from Sarah Winnemucca to Twenty-First Century Drama.” Arnold’s goal is to link historical cultural activism to contemporary efforts by exploring the work of three influential Native American female writers working in the 19th century: Sarah Winnemucca, Christine Quintasket and Gertrude Bonnin.

Responses have been lightly edited for clarity.

INLANDER: Tell us about the research project you’re doing for the two fellowships.

ARNOLD: This project connects 21st century Native American playwrights to 19th century author activists from Native communities. I was inspired to do this project after seeing several recent productions of Native American plays at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the [Portland] Artists Repertory Theatre and Portland Center Stage, and seeing how the work that contemporary Native American dramatists have done to interpret Native history is very similar to the way that the 19th century author-activists were doing their own work; performing this cultural activism to correct histories about tribal peoples to help non-Native speakers understand their Native American neighbors better, and to really demonstrate the intellectual and artistic reach of Native stories.

Can you summarize why it’s important that researchers like yourself work to uncover and share these lost or untold stories of Native American leaders and writers?

I think that we all deserve to know one another, and for me and for scholars working in Native studies fields

there are just so many untold stories. That certainly is true for many American populations as well. But when we examine how the U.S. planned for and anticipated that there would no longer be Native peoples in what is currently the U.S., it becomes more vital to say ‘Actually, we’re still here and we live here in this way. We do these things.’ It’s really important for people to have context of places where they live. North America is all Indian Country, and it’s really easy to forget that. Wherever you are is Indian land.

Tell us about a time in your career as a historian that was profoundly moving or revealing to you.

You know, there is so much important work happening in Spokane on the [Columbia] Plateau, and there are so many tribal leaders, whether elected or who work for a tribe, or they’re just activists working on behalf of their communities. So those are the efforts that stay with me: the language preservation, environmental work, the legal work. People get very excited at public activism and rightly so. I’m glad that it energizes people, like the art that just opened in [downtown Spokane]; the new Native art is very exciting. People get energized by public activism, but it’s the day-in and day-out work that people do at desks, writing briefs and filling out forms and negotiating bureaucratic paperwork that make these actions come to fruition, that is what stays with me as being inspiring.

Research is exciting, but it’s work done in isolation, so it’s important for me to think of all the people that I

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know at home, at the headquarters of the Colville Tribe sitting at desks and making sure paper for water quality measures is filed. That makes me feel more connected to the work going on throughout Indian Country.

November is Native American Heritage Month.

What is one thing you hope that non-Native people can understand or learn about Native culture, now or at any time?

Together with recognizing that all of us live on Indian land, I think the real opportunity for Native American Heritage Month is like the other observance months; to say that for Native people, every day is Native American Heritage Day. These are not presentations or stories that Native people only bring out on these specific dates, but they are stories that we live with all the time and that we work to share all the time.

I’m grateful to be in my position at Gonzaga and to connect with so many communities and students, and to work with colleagues at Gonzaga to enliven our campus engagement with Native histories and lives and contemporary experiences and communities. n

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NATURAL RECOVERY IS THE WAY he National Park Service just completed taking public comments

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concerning the possible reintroduction of grizzly bears in the North Cascades of Washington. The recovery area includes North Cascades National Park, which contains designated wilderness, as well as other adjacent wilderness areas. Bears would be translocated from British Columbia and Montana via helicopter.

Grizzly bears are native to the North Cascades, but were largely extirpated in the 20th century. It is believed a few bears still survive in the region.

This may be due to grizzly populations that exist in British Columbia, with bears moving between Canada and Washington. Despite connectivity, the government failed to analyze the natural recovery of bears in the Cascades.

Capturing bears from Montana turns a blind eye to current recovery efforts in the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem. Removing bears LETTERS could also hamper the natural Send comments to recovery of bears in the Bitterroot editor@inlander.com.

Recovery Zone of Idaho and Montana. A male grizzly dispersed from the Cabinet-Yaak Area to the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness this summer. The bear did this with no human intervention.

The heavy-handed recovery of bears in the North Cascades would require hundreds of helicopter landings inside the wilderness. This is a ridiculous proposal because the use of motorized equipment is incompatible with wilderness character. A federal judge recently ruled that the Forest Service was wrong for allowing Idaho Department Fish & Game to use helicopters inside the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness. The natural recovery of bears would be better for the wilderness, and possibly the bears, too.

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‘OOOOH, SHINY!’ nce again, as in 2016, voters have reached for the bright shiny object

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Also voters reached for the low fee auto licenses. So when Nadine doesn’t cure drug addiction and homelessness and when bridges crumble and potholes erupt on all city streets and bus service stops, then the bright shiny objects won’t seem so bright and shiny. I was thinking of moving back to the city of my birth, but not so sure now. Idaho isn’t progressive by any means, but at least Idaho has a tax structure to support the state unlike Washington, which desperately needs an income tax.

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EDUCATION

‘Massive Fear Culture’ The state ethics law is supposed to prevent corruption, but some university employees say it’s overbearing

BY WILSON CRISCIONE

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EWU Professor Gregory Spatz was fined $2,500 for using state resources to promote his CD. JULIA GRAFF PHOTO

regory Spatz thought it was a harmless email. An author, musician and creative writing professor at Eastern Washington University, Spatz had just finished a new CD with his wife in spring 2018. He sent out an email to his colleagues and students inviting them to attend a launch party and potluck, with up to a $15 cover fee.

He wasn’t expecting to make a profit.

He wasn’t expecting it to constitute an ethics violation that would cost him thousands of dollars, either.

But that’s exactly what happened. Someone reported the email to the State Auditor’s Office, which then prompted an investigation by the Washington State Executive Ethics Board. Spatz learned that not only is the email a potential ethics violation — since state law prohibits state employees from using state resources for private gain — but so too were the links to his published books on his EWU bio page.

Spatz argued the ticket sales were to cover the cost of hosting the event. And he says he didn’t even create his website with links to his books, noting that other faculty members also linked to their own work. Some of the books are out of print, and he couldn’t make money from them.

Still, he was fined $2,500.

“I had no idea those violations existed,” Spatz tells the Inlander.

The situation left Spatz stunned. Other faculty members at EWU were baffled. Suddenly, they feared that seemingly everyday activities could get them in trouble.

Could they write poetry at their work desk? Could they practice for a concert on the university’s piano? Could they listen to internet radio on their work computer?

Those are the questions that Sam Ligon, an author and the faculty legislative liaison for EWU, started asking the state ethics board. And usually, the answer to those questions was no. ...continued on next page

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“It created a massive fear culture at EWU,” says Ligon, whose writing has appeared in the Inlander.

And now, it has them questioning the law in the first place. While Ligon agrees with its intent — nobody wants state employees abusing state resources — he wonders if it’s working as intended if it causes university professors to be this worried.

CAPTIVE AUDIENCE

In theory, the law is relatively straightforward: You can’t use state resources for private benefit or gain.

Compared to other states, Washington is highly ranked when it comes to how state ethics agencies enforce their sanctioning powers and how transparent the process is, according to a September report from the Coalition for Integrity. Idaho, by contrast, doesn’t have an independent state ethics agency at all.

Some recent cases investigated by the Washington State Executive Ethics Board illustrate the purpose: a former Washington State Military Department employee who used a state credit card for unauthorized charges, and a Western Washington University employee who used the university’s Amazon Prime account to purchase personal items.

In other situations with university employees, however, it’s not so black and white. Consider a professor teaching a class for which that professor wrote a textbook and may be a leading authority on the topic. Can that professor make students buy their book? The answer is yes, but the professor must demonstrate that they aren’t making a profit on the sale of the book.

“A professor cannot choose their own textbook for a class they’re teaching and benefit financially from that,”

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says Kate Reynolds, executive director for the state Executive Ethics Board. “That textbook needs to go through a review process that the professor is not involved in.”

Professors have been fined for violating that process in the past. But that introduces one of the issues with ethics violations: It’s complaint-driven, which can give the impression that the rules are enforced arbitrarily.

For example, Mike Leach, the Washington State University football coach, taught a noncredit seminar series with Spokane County Treasurer Mike Baumgartner earlier this year. One of the books on the reading list was Swing Your Sword: Leading the Charge in Football and Life, written by Leach. Leach went to Twitter to announce the class and said his book and another that he co-authored were “required pre-class reading.”

There was no process to get that book approved, WSU spokesman Phil Weiler says.

But he notes that the class was free, there were no grades and the reading list wasn’t enforced.

Reynolds says it shouldn’t matter if it’s a paid class or if there were grades.

“We would expect to see a process,” Reynolds says.

Yet even if that would meet the criteria for an ethics violation, there would likely need to be a complaint before any investigation. It’s the same reason Spatz was fined in part for linking to his own books on Amazon, even though you’re likely to find the same kind of thing in a quick search of faculty biopages at other universities.

Baumgartner, a former state senator who was vice chairman of the Senate Higher Education Committee, says he prepared the reading list for Leach’s class without thinking there would be any problem. He says he’d only

have a concern if someone was trying to coerce students for financial gain without an educational benefit.

He also doesn’t think university employees should get fined for listing their book on the university website.

“I don’t see the public harm in that,” he says.

INCENTIVIZING RESEARCH

There’s a reason professors link to their own work on their university pages. And it’s not usually for financial benefit. It’s for the benefit of the college, employees argue — it helps attract students when they see a professor has published books.

“Our whole motivation is to promote the program,” Spatz says.

“A professor cannot choose their own textbook for a class they’re teaching and benefit financially from that.”

There are, in fact, certain exceptions allowing university employees to make money using state resources. But as the law is now being interpreted, that can only occur at the state’s research universities: Washington State University and University of Washington. And it typically applies to researchers in the sciences.

An easy example of this, says WSU chief auditor Heather Lopez, is Gatorade. Researchers at Florida State University received a grant and developed a new drink, and it turned out to be something that was commercially

viable.

“That profited both the institution and individuals,” Lopez says.

WSU, which has a goal to be one of the top research universities in the nation, wants to promote research, whether it’s medical technology, engineering or something else. Telling researchers that they can’t benefit from that is not incentivizing, Lopez says.

“We want to promote research, we want to promote technology and even get some of our research and researchers into commercialization of their technology,” Lopez says.

GOOD INTENTIONS

Spatz and Ligon acknowledge that Spatz’s case was pretty clear. It was a learning experience for faculty, Ligon says. His email from a state computer would have been a problem at any university — though Ligon questions if it’s a $2,500 problem.

But Ligon wants regional universities like EWU to have LETTERS the same exceptions as the Send comments to research universities. He plans editor@inlander.com. to spend time in Olympia in his role as legislative liaison to explore options to accomplish that goal. He thinks there could be a way to interpret the law such that it lets professors from EWU come up with innovations that could reward them and the institution.

It may only require a tweak, he says.

“We want to encourage that,” Ligon says. “We don’t want to say, ‘Don’t do anything that could possibly have any value.’”

He stresses that he understands the intent of the law. But in his view, using a university credit card for personal use is different than promoting your own work.

“The intent is good,” he says. “It’s just that the way it’s being interpreted right now feels off.” n wilsonc@inlander.com

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NEWS | BRIEFS

End in Sight After more than two years, a strike at the Lucky Friday could soon be over

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oeur d’Alene-based Hecla Mining company has reached a tentative deal with the union for workers at the Lucky Friday mine, who have been on STRIKE for two-and-a-half years.

The roughly 215 members of United Steelworkers Local 5114 will receive packets with the terms of the agreement, terms of returning to work, and a ballot which they will mail to a neutral third party to be counted, Chapter President Dave Roose says.

He declined to comment on the specifics of the agreement.

“We’ll be holding some special meetings here in Mullan to handle any questions prior to voting,” Roose says.

“I want all of our members to be able to read it and use their own intelligence and vote how they feel.”

When the strike was called in spring 2017, workers didn’t like Hecla’s plans to remove a job-bidding system that allowed them to pick where they worked based on seniority, as well as choose who they worked with. There were also questions about the compensation structure.

Hecla spokesman Luke Russell says that federal negotiators helped both sides reach agreeable terms, which include an increase in base wages, agreement on medical premiums, and a switch away from the old job-bidding

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Lucky Friday mine is located a mile east of Mullan, Idaho. system to allow the company to assign where people work. From there, workers can receive training on the job, which comes with pay increases, he says. The system is modeled after another United Steelworkers mine.

If the final vote, expected in four to six weeks, is favorable, it would end more than two years of nearly 24/7 picketing outside the mine. In that time, some members have died, retired or quit for permanent jobs elsewhere, while a majority had to find other temporary work nearby while the strike was on, Roose says.

Meanwhile, the mine has run at much smaller capacity.

“There’s a workforce of salary people and now they do have hourly… I’m going to be politically correct here

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and call them ‘replacement workers,’ who crossed our picket lines,” Roose says.

If the terms are approved, Hecla leadership believes the mine could be phased up to full operation within about a year, Russell says.

“Clearly getting this resolved would be a benefit to the company, the workforce, and the local community,” Russell says. (SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL)

SIGNATURE MOVES

In a race as tight as the Spokane City Council president’s — which as of Monday, stood with Cindy Wendle leading Breean Beggs by only 145 votes — every VOTE counts.

That’s especially true for the nearly 250 votes inside the

city that technically didn’t count, because the signatures on their ballot didn’t match the signature on their voter registration.

And one name in particular on that list of rejected ballots stood out: Chud Wendle. Cindy Wendle’s husband, Chud Wendle, says it wasn’t his ballot that was rejected — it was his son, who shares Chud’s first name, last name and address, but goes by Ben. The Wendles weren’t the only political family with rejected ballots. On Facebook, council candidate Tony Kiepe said his son’s ballot was rejected, too.

Countywide, about 431 ballots were rejected for nonconforming signatures, Spokane County Elections Manager Mike McLaughlin says.

At times, signature-verification procedures in other states have come under fire.

“Signature-mismatch laws are a scourge of American elections,” wrote Slate columnist Mark Joseph Stern last year, arguing such policies often disproportionately affect voters who are disabled, elderly or nonnative English speakers.

Last year, the ACLU won cases in California and New Hampshire for failing to tell voters their ballots had been discarded. Washington state, however, makes sure to contact voters.

“Every person where their signature does not match gets a letter from us,” McLaughlin says. “On the 21st of November, we will call all of these people if we have a phone number for them and tell them that their signatures don’t match.”

And unlike in some other states, in Washington, if those experts officially conclude your ballot signature doesn’t match, you get a chance to try again.

“You track your ballot on the county website, and they have a form you can sign, that authorizes that this is you,” the elder Chud Wendle says.

And for those who are unable to sign, McLaughlin says, they can make a mark and get the signatures of two witnesses.

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NEWS | IDAHO

With tourism as strong as ever on Lake Coeur d’Alene, political tides are turning in favor of addressing metal contamination there.

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little more than 20 years ago, Coeur d’Alene’s mayor warned local leaders to resist the Environmental Protection Agency’s effort to test Lake Coeur d’Alene and quantify the toxic legacy of North Idaho’s mining industry there.

“We can’t afford it, especially when there’s not a proven health risk,” then-Mayor Steve Judy said in his 1998 city address, the Spokesman-Review reported. Primarily, he and others wanted to avoid being dubbed a “Superfund” site, a title reserved for the most complicated environmental cleanups in the country. “How do you overcome that perception in the national mind? It will be staggering to tourism and to the image we portray to the rest of the world — that Coeur d’Alene is beautiful.”

Lead and zinc had migrated downriver from mining operations in the Silver Valley and settled on the lake bed in mass quantities for decades. With a delicate chemical balance holding those metals at the bottom of the lake for the time being, the community largely avoided the Superfund label with promises to create a lake management plan with the Coeur d’Alene Tribe and the state.

Two decades later, the tourism industry on the lake is booming, regularly attracting celebrity visitors such as Kim Kardashian, Shaquille O’Neal and Harry Styles. Upstream, the Silver Valley communities that similarly opposed the EPA’s presence in the beginning have since seen the upside of federal work, with Superfund cleanup providing hundreds of jobs, helping pave new streets and removing the worst exposures to

lead for children.

But while that work has reduced the amount of metals going downstream to Lake Coeur d’Alene, the lake’s own management plan has done little to reduce the amount of phosphorous going into the lake. The natural fertilizer can help algae grow, which then dies and uses up oxygen in the lake. If that happens enough, the balance keeping metals suppressed in the sediment instead of floating freely throughout the water system could be irreversibly destroyed.

With the tribe recently withdrawing from the management plan due to its lackluster implementation, and data showing the lake is getting worse, the tides seem to be changing among North Idaho politicians and community leaders.

At a lake health forum last week, conservative politicians and progressive environmental types alike acknowledged that if nothing changes, all the hard work to protect and build up the “gem” of North Idaho could be destroyed.

“There’s been a complex issue created for those of us who live here and hope to continue to live here,” Steve Wilson, with the Coeur d’Alene Chamber of Commerce, told the crowd of nearly 200 people at the “Our Gem Symposium.” “The lake has had her heart pierced. She is wounded, there’s no question about that. It is now time to bind that wound and to begin the nurturing process.”

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eeing leaders like current Coeur d’Alene Mayor Steve Widmyer and Kootenai County commissioners Leslie Duncan and Chris Fillios acknowledging the lake’s health problem

and talking about how to get the public on board with addressing that is huge, says Andy Dunau, executive director of the nonprofit Spokane River Forum.

“What’s at stake is if the metals from the bottom of the lake are released into the water column, it will have tremendous effects on fish, wildlife and people, throughout the system, all the way down the Spokane River,” Dunau says. “The hardest part to understand is once it starts the cycle of releasing those metals into the water column, nobody knows of a way to reverse it.”

During the symposium last week, Dunau moderated a discussion with the politicians and Phillip Cernera, director of the Coeur d’Alene Tribe’s Lake Management Department. The panel talked about the outright hatred for taxes in that area, which has made it hard to pay for enforcement of a 25-foot setback along the lake.

They also floated ideas for how to get the community on board, such as levying a yearly fee of just a few dollars for those who own properties on the lake. While that type of conversation might not seem significant to outsiders, it represented a monumental shift for those who’ve fought for water health over the last few decades.

“It takes a lot of courage for local, state and federal people to work together in an environment where science is being questioned over and over again,” Dunau says. “Now, they’re saying, ‘OK, let’s figure out how to deal with this before it’s too late.’”

At the daylong forum, hosted by the tribe and Idaho Department of Environmental Quality, attendees also learned that Idaho Gov. Brad Little is calling for a third party review of lake data collected over the last 10 years by the tribe and the state.

“It is important to me to ensure we have a correct understanding of the dynamics at play in the lake,” Little says in a statement.

“The issue is too immense, and the consequences too dire, to err in our efforts.”

Getting the state on board is a major shift, explains Rebecca Stevens, restoration coordinator and hazardous waste management program manager for the Coeur d’Alene Tribe’s Lake Management Department. Likewise, it was hopeful to hear the commissioners discuss having county staff work more closely on lake health, she says.

“It’s been a long time since we’ve had Idaho on board with the tribe’s concerns on the data,” Stevens says. “Seeing County Commissioner Leslie Duncan saying she would like to dedicate staff from two of the county’s programs to be more involved … to be more engaged in our conversations, that’s never happened.”

While a third party review might point to more ways to address the lake’s pollution problems, the question will still be who pays for that work.

The lake was not included in a 2002 court decision laying out the federal cleanup plan for the rest of the Superfund basin, which has an account with hundreds of millions of dollars from settlements with liable parties to address contamination.

So while Coeur d’Alene may have initially avoided the Superfund scarlet letter, accessing federal cleanup dollars now would take a coordinated ask from the local community and the state, as well as a court process to amend that 2002 agreement. Currently, the money is all earmarked for projects near the former Bunker Hill smelter.

“The social dynamics have changed,” Dunau says. “But until we have elected officials and state representatives and the tribe in the room agreeing to do real actions, whether they cost us money or it’s a form of enforcement, we got nothing.”

It’s important to note that the lake is still part of the overall Superfund, Stevens says. If the third-party review says an amendment to that cleanup plan is needed, that could open the door to federal cleanup money again.

Still, it seems unlikely that review will be complete sooner than a year or two from now, Stevens says. In the meantime, the tribe is functioning as if the suspension of metals into the water column is going to happen sooner rather than later, she says, and will continue to call for high quality cleanup on the lake.

“Because we know once the lake turns over and gets to a state of irreversibility, we’ve lost our ability to do anything,” Stevens says. “We’re trying to work now, instead of kicking the can down the road.” n samanthaw@inlander.com

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NEWS | ELECTION 2019

Spokane County Commissioner Josh Kerns, left, celebrates with City Council candidate Michael Cathcart at an election night party at Barrister Winery.

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SNAPSHOTS OF THE NIGHT Hopes, dreams, heartbreak and fist pumps THEY DID IT

The projection screen switches away from the KHQ broadcast to the Spokane County Election results page.

For a moment, the buzz in the room at Barrister Winery softens to a whisper.

The crowd can’t quite see the screen. Spokane County Commissioner Josh Kerns takes out his phone, trying to refresh the results page, but the connection is slow. Moments before the vote, he’s feeling optimistic, anticipating a good night for mayoral candidate Nadine Woodward and other local Republicans.

A few feet away, in the center of the room, is another Spokane County commissioner, Al French, a conservative and a powerhouse in local politics. Spokane County Treasurer Michael Baumgartner and City Council candidate Michael Cathcart are here, too. As the projection screen scrolls down to the results, showing a win for Woodward and a tight race for council president, the room is filled with exuberance.

Everyone around French cheers. But French’s reaction is measured. He slowly looks to his right, nods

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his head and, with the energy of Tiger Woods sinking a putt, pumps his fist with a thumbs-up. (WILSON CRISCIONE)

DULLED HOPES

Before the first vote tallies come in on election night, the back room of O’Doherty’s Irish Grille is a lively who’s who of liberal Spokanites and politicos who came out to support two progressive candidates: Councilman Breean Beggs, running for council president, and Lori Kinnear, running for re-election in District 2, which covers South Hill. State Rep. Marcus Riccelli, community organizer Naghmana Sherazi and lefty attorney Rick Eichstaedt make appearances, while young volunteers with Beggs’ campaign boast about their election day get-out-the-vote sprint.

Attendees are cautiously optimistic about progressive candidates’ prospects across the races. Riccelli, for instance, says that the mayoral and council president races will be “close.”

Beggs, meanwhile, makes a prediction for his race:

“I’m thinking 53 percent or higher,” he says while drinking a beer. “I feel great.”

He downplays the impact of unprecedented outside spending from the Realtors PAC in his race — they threw their weight behind his opponent, Cindy Windle — and other contests.

“I think it’s going to have much less of an impact in the general than it did in the primary,” Beggs says Later, Paul Dillon, a local liberal activist, reads out the election results from his phone to the crowd: While Kinnear is winning with more than 60 percent in her race, Beggs is 800 votes behind and Ben Stuckart is trailing Nadine Woodward by roughly 2,000 votes. The room lets out an audible sigh of disappointment.

Beggs reassures the room that the late ballots will trend liberal: “We fully expect that we’ll have a 6-1 majority and we’ll have Mayor Ben Stuckart.”

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A week after the election, Beggs’ race against Cindy Wendle is still too close to call and, as of press time, appeared to be headed for an automatic recount. (JOSH KELETY)

DIGNITY IN THE END

City Council President Ben Stuckart puts on his reading glasses. He sets down his whiskey. He’d been running for Spokane mayor off and on since April of 2016. And this was it. This was the night. His ally, Councilman Breean Beggs, may have been confident, but Stuckart wasn’t. He’s anxious.

He thought it was going to be close — a coin flip either way.

But now the coin had flipped.

He holds his printed-out concession speech in one hand and begins to read.

“Nadine Woodward has won the election to be the mayor of Spokane,” Stuckart says.

He tells the crowd he’ll work with Woodward during the transition. He thanks his supporters. He condemns money in politics. He says that he’d thought that “this election would be about how we want to grow as a city, but it turned into a referendum on homelessness.”

And then shares a story he’s never shared before, about a homeless man he knew for decades named John Hummel — a guy who donated to Stuckart’s first race. John was charismatic and intelligent, but he was also an alcoholic. He refused to go to rehab. The money he got was squandered.

But this isn’t one of those stories about how one program or another got him out of homelessness and now he’s a successful New York businessman. It’s a story that ends with John dying in 2018 at the House of Charity. It’s the sort of sad story that politicians might use to say that shelters like House of Charity have failed, that they only enable people, that we needed to do more to force people into treatment.

But to Stuckart, the lesson was the opposite. Catholic Charities couldn’t save John — but they could give him the dignity that we all deserve as a human being.

“I want to say that while I am sad I couldn’t fix John’s situation, I am forever grateful that Catholic Charities exists with no judgment,” Stuckart says, “and he was able to stay at their facility on and off throughout and at the end of his life.”

Then Stuckart’s voice begins to raise, as if to reclaim his own battered idealism, to deliver what might be the summation — and the epitaph — to his political career.

“We cannot fix everyone but we can damn well better try,” Stuckart said, “and at the very least we damn well better provide for every member of our community’s basic needs.”

(DANIEL WALTERS)

ONE LAST THING

The emotions had overcome Nadine Woodward, who fights tears of joy as she steps off the stage where she delivered her speech. But she still has one more obligation: The media.

Cameramen scramble to set up their equipment in the back of the room, where reporters were told there would be a press conference. But between supporters hugging her and a Spokesman-Review and Inlander reporter separately intercepting her to fire off some questions, it takes Woodward at least five minutes to get into position for the TV cameras.

She wipes any lingering tears from her face, and the lights turned on. Reporters squeeze between tables to get their recorders as close as they can. She’s asked what any politician is asked after a win: What will you do on your first day? “Maybe test out the view.” What do you have to say to Ben Stuckart? “I thank him for his service. … He ran an incredible campaign.”

Some people say you didn’t have experience... “I didn’t! That didn’t matter! The fact of the matter was that they trusted me.”

Her campaign manager stops the press conference after less than four minutes. The camera lights are shut off. The TV reporters gather their equipment.

“Finally!” Woodward says, reaching toward a bottle of wine. “We can celebrate!” (WILSON CRISCIONE)

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The battle of Spokane Valley was, in a way, between Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich, left, and state Rep. Matt Shea.

VALLEY KINGMAKERS In the contests for seats on the SPOKANE VALLEY CITY COUNCIL, there were endorsements from two regional political players that really mattered: Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich and state Rep. Matt Shea (R-Spokane Valley), who has been heavily criticized for his involvement in fringe right-wing extremist groups groups and is currently under investigation for promoting political violence.

And after four days of vote tallies, it looks like Knezovich will come out on top, with two wins to Shea’s one.

Knezovich, who has long raised the alarm about the dangers of right-wing extremism and Shea in particular, lined up behind the incumbent Councilwoman Brandi Peetz,

Lance Gurel, a 70-year-old accountant, and Tim Hattenburg, a former high school teacher. Shea, meanwhile, threw his support behind Michelle Rassmussen, a former city manager’s assistant, longtime Councilman Arne Woodard, and Bo Tucker, a chiropractor, in a blog post on his personal website. (All of the candidates Shea backed told the Inlander that they didn’t seek out his support.)

As of press time, Woodard was the only Shea-backed candidate to win, with a strong showing against Gurel.

Peetz, meanwhile, had a 256-vote lead over Rasmussen while Hattenburg had a comfortable lead over Tucker.

— JOSH KELETY

GROWTH ON THE BALLOT Housing costs, growth and development were top of mind for candidates in three races for the COEUR D’ALENE CITY COUNCIL. But the election results suggest that city residents weren’t single-issue voters. Two incumbents with very different stances on growth sailed back into office: Dan Gookin, who vehemently opposes large new developments that are out of character with existing neighborhoods, and Dan English, who is more open to densifying the city.

Meanwhile, anti-development neighborhood activist Elaine Price was bested by pro-growth candidate and former police officer Christie Wood, who garnered a whopping 62 percent of the vote. “I am not someone that will say ‘restrict growth completely’ like my opponent has,” Wood told the Inlander before the election. “I’d rather see [the city] focus on bringing diversity in options of what’s available.”

— JOSH KELETY

EYMAN DOES IT AGAIN Well, Tim Eyman did it: For the third time since 1999, he got voters to agree they want to lower their car tabs with approval of INITIATIVE 976.

Previously, Eyman’s initiatives to the people to drop car tab fees to $30 per year haven’t actually had that effect. In one case, that was because courts said an initiative couldn’t retroactively interfere with fees already on the books, in the other because initiatives need to focus on a single issue. As KIRO radio in Seattle reports, a similar argument could be used to challenge this year’s car tabs measure, with Seattle and King County already preparing lawsuits. Initiative 976 not only lowers car tabs to $30 across the board, it also removes the ability for local jurisdictions to implement a Transportation Benefit District fee (in Spokane, that fee has been $20 per year), and removes a variety of other

potential fees that can be levied regionally to pay for things like Sound Transit in the Puget Sound.

It’s expected that Washington could lose more than $4 billion for state and local transportation projects over the next six years if the measure is allowed to take effect.

Already, Gov. Jay Inslee has told the Washington State Department of Transportation not to start any new projects that aren’t already under construction.

For its part, Spokane will lose $3 million per year used to repair residential roads. Some City Council members have said that they would be open to asking Spokane voters to approve the Transportation Benefit District fee (the required structure under I-976), but it remains to be seen how the court process could change things.

— SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL

NOT AFFIRMED YET If there’s one thing we know about affirmative action in Washington state, it’s that public opinion is divided.

REFERENDUM 88, in which voters are choosing whether or not to restore affirmative action in public programs, remains too close to call as of press time. Supporters say bringing back affirmative action would help women and minorities

have more opportunities in education and employment, but opponents say the system should be merit-based instead.

While the statewide results are about 50/50, Spokane County voters have proven to be against affirmative action.

Nearly 60 percent of county voters rejected the referendum. ­— WILSON CRISCIONE

6.

LIBERALS FAILED TO CAMPAIGN ENOUGH IN NORTHEAST SPOKANE

7.

STUCKART HAD THE REPUTATION OF BEING A JERK

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STUCKART HANDCUFFED HIMSELF DURING THE DEBATES

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WOODWARD PROMISED MORE FOR LESS

Councilman-elect Michael Cathcart, himself a conversative, observed that progressives didn’t spend much time in northeast Spokane. “The first evidence of any doorbelling [from Stuckart] was literally three days before the primary,” Cathcart says.

As a result, two conservatives for council — Cathcart and Tim Benn — got through the primary. That meant two conservatives council candidates were going door to door, criticizing Stuckart and the current makeup of the City Council, without being countered by a council candidate in the northeast.

“I had a reputation of being a bully,” Stuckart said in an interview on election night. Woodward had clashed with former colleagues behind closed doors, but many of Stuckart’s clashes with council members and members of the public happened live and on video.

Ben Stuckart, conceding the race on election night.

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11 REASONS WHY BEN STUCKART LOST ANALYSIS BY DANIEL WALTERS

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n one sense, City Council President Ben Stuckart entered the mayor’s race with a huge advantage.

He’d had an unbroken string of political wins, turning a council that leaned a little to the right to a more liberal 6-1 veto-proof supermajority. Plus, Spokane seemed to be getting bluer all the time. Inside the city limits, Democrat Lisa Brown beat Republican U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers by 17 points in 2018.

Meanwhile, the local economy soared at nearly twice the rate of the national average during Stuckart’s tenure.

He had the endorsement of the politically powerful fire union. He could argue he had more management experience, more knowledge of City Hall, an expert’s understanding of the issues.

But he lost to Nadine Woodward, a political newcomer and former TV anchor, who noted repeatedly that she didn’t come from a place of “political experience.”

So what happened?

1.

WOODWARD HAD A TWO-DECADE HEAD START

Stuckart spent eight years in the public eye as the head of the City Council, but that was nothing compared to the head start Woodward had. For 28 years Woodward got to go on TV nearly every night and talk about community issues.

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WOODWARD HAD A CLEAR MESSAGE — STUCKART DIDN’T

Woodward’s tough-love message on homelessness could fit on a bumper sticker. Maybe something like “Seattle is Dying — Don’t Let Spokane be Next.” Or maybe “Fix Homelessness, Don’t Enable it.” Or “Arrests, Not Sandwiches.”

But what was Stuckart’s message? It was nuanced and complicated, something about densifying Spokane, while protecting the most vulnerable, while expanding economic opportunity.

3.

WOODWARD TAPPED INTO PERCEPTIONS ABOUT CHAOS DOWNTOWN

Woodward harnessed the frustration that many people had about Spokane — that with all the vandalism, crime and homelessness they were seeing, whatever the city was doing wasn’t working.

When Stuckart argued that the data showed the issues weren’t as bad as Woodward was portraying them, it just opened him up to Woodward’s counter that he was taking a “nothing to see here, move along” approach.

4.

WOODWARD MANAGED TO RUN BOTH FOR AND AGAINST THE PAST EIGHT YEARS

Woodward ran an anti-incumbent campaign with the support of the incumbent mayor: With the things that Woodward liked about the last eight years, like the years of balanced budgets, she gave full credit to Mayor David Condon. But when it came to things she didn’t like, like Stuckart and Condon’s pursuit of purchasing a new 24/7 shelter, she heaped all the blame onto the City Council.

5.

WOODWARD ESCHEWED PARTISAN LABELS

To anyone who examined her statements, Woodward was clearly conservative — possibly even more so than Condon. But Woodward intentionally avoided the Republican label, pointing out that could hurt her chance in Spokane.

Debates should have been Stuckart’s bread and butter. At Gonzaga University, Stuckart was a nationally competitive college debater, but during this campaign Stuckart rarely if ever matched the table-pounding rapidfire passion that he showcased during marathon council meetings. He says he had to hold himself back, restraining himself, because he didn’t want to feed the narrative that he was a bully.

Woodward voted against Stuckart’s 2019 levy that paid for more police officers, but celebrated the additional police officers. She claimed the officers could have been added without raising taxes, though never quite detailed how. She promised to add even more if she were elected.

Woodward argued the city could spend less on lowbarrier 24/7 shelter services and simultaneously reduce homelessness. She said there was fat in the budget, but didn’t specify where.

Woodward presented voters with the prospect of major benefits without the costs.

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STUCKART’S DEVELOPER SUPPORTERS CAME BACK TO HAUNT HIM

In April of 2018, when Stuckart announced his campaign for mayor, he had the support of local developers like Ron Wells, Larry Stone and Rob Brewster. But a year and a half later, Brewster was blaming the city for lack of progress on one of his projects, Wells was accused of insurance fraud and Stone was pushing out a video called “Curing Spokane” that echoed much of Woodward’s campaign rhetoric about issues like homelessness, drug addiction and a downtown in disarray. Suddenly, Woodward was the favored candidate among many powerful builders.

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STUCKART WAS CRUSHED BY INDEPENDENT SPENDING

Political action committees racked up more than $415,000 in independent spending to try to elect Woodward. The Washington Association of Realtors alone spent nearly $265,000 in independent expenditures through its political action committee in favor of Woodward.

Stuckart had supportive PACs, too, like the fire-unionbolstered Citizens for Liberty and Labor. But the nearly $235,000 spent by PACs on behalf of Stuckart still paled in comparison to the pro-Woodward war chest. n An expanded version of this article first appeared on Inlander.com.

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STAR POWER Nadine Woodward won.

Now comes the hard part

BY INLANDER STAFF

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adine Woodward, the star of the night, isn’t anywhere to be seen. As her supporters at Barrister Winery anxiously await election results, Woodward is somewhere in the back, behind the black curtains separating her from the buzzing crowd.

Journalists with notebooks in hand post up outside the curtains, peeking in to catch a glimpse of the former TV anchor vying to become Spokane’s next mayor. Can reporters come in? Nope. Is she going to come out? Yes, if things go well, her campaign manager says. If not, nobody’s quite sure.

Then, a single guttural roar precedes a chorus of screams. Hands raise up in victory. Wine spills to the floor. Woodward has a five-point lead over her opponent, City Council President Ben Stuckart. She emerges minutes later from the curtains in a dress as dark as merlot. The crowd parts, clearing a path for her to join her family on stage.

After spending months railing against the current state of the city, Spokane’s new mayor-elect is now optimistic.

“I firmly believe our best days lie ahead,” she says.

To the joyous election night crowd, Woodward lays out the challenges: public safety, homelessness, housing, economic development.

That’s only the beginning. The shifting power dynamics in Spokane create a number of things that Woodward, who has proudly advertised her lack of political experience, will face during her first days in office.

(WILSON CRISCIONE)

10 HURDLES NADINE WOODWARD WILL FACE IN HER FIRST DAYS AS SPOKANE'S MAYOR

1.

VACANCIES: SHE'S GOT A TON OF HIRING TO DO

One by one, prominent city leaders retired or found other jobs in the last several months, and their positions were often left unfilled. The move was intentional: Mayor David Condon wanted his successor to have a chance to build a team with their own people. Departing Chief Financial Officer Gavin Cooley says there are currently about 40 major vacancies at the city.

Right now, there’s no director in charge of finance, fleet services, asset management or public works. There’s no assistant fire chief or deputy fire chief. And the directors of the parks and recreation, streets, budget, customer experience, development services, and the community housing and human services departments are all serving in interim or acting roles. Woodward will need to decide if she’ll keep them. Condon’s No. 2, Theresa Sanders, is leaving as well. Even the woman in charge of hiring people — Chris Cavanaugh, human resources director — is about ready to retire. (DANIEL WALTERS)

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A STEEP LEARNING CURVE: SHE'S ABOUT TO BECOME THE BOSS OF 2,000 EMPLOYEES City Administrator Theresa Sanders says that staff

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Surrounded by family and fans, Nadine Woodward celebrates on election night. sometimes gets frustrated during an election season when they hear candidates opine about running the city.

“This natural dissonance between political rhetoric and operational reality just makes people go, ‘Do you really have any idea what we do?’” Sanders says. “And the answer is, ‘No, not really,’ because until you start rolling around in the operation, you really can’t.”

During her campaign, Woodward repeatedly noted her lack of political experience, while arguing that her journalistic talent for listening and communication would be useful. But other than helping to manage about 10 employees at her family’s Memories By Design business, Woodward has never been a boss in the traditional sense. Former Mayor Mary Verner tells the Inlander that a mayor needs to establish trust by spending time building relationships in each department. Listening is crucial.

“Demanding trust seldom works,” Verner says. (DW)

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QUESTIONS ABOUT HER INDEPENDENCE: SHE WAS THE BENEFICIARY OF BIG-MONEY BACKERS

This election season was far and away Spokane’s largest test of how political money can change the leadership of a city, with more than $660,000 in independent political spending pouring into the race for mayor alone.

Independent groups, which candidates can’t coordinate with, spent more than $423,000 either in favor of Woodward or against her opponent. By contrast Stuckart saw independent groups, including many unions, spend more than $236,000 to support him or oppose her.

Woodward’s largest support came from the Washington Realtors Association PAC, which said it supported her for her openness to all types of development and outward expansion. She was also supported by the Spokane Good Government Alliance. That PAC drew its nearly $340,000 campaign chest from the likes of real estate developer Fritz Wolff and his wife, large businesses such as RA Pearson Company, the Cowles Company (which owns the Spokesman-Review) and BNSF, and other businesses across the construction and financial sectors.

“People don’t understand that the money that was spent by the Realtors and the PAC, the political action committee, those are funds that are raised outside of a

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candidate’s control,” Woodward told KHQ in a postelection interview last week.

“When they say, ‘You’re bought and sold by the Realtors or the developers,’ I got the Realtors endorsement, but my opponent wanted that endorsement, too,” Woodward continued. “To vilify Realtors because of their political action spending, to me, is just ridiculous. And the claim that I’m in bed with the developers? I have no history or involvement with developers.”

KHQ’s Stephanie Vigil then asked what Woodward thought about Stuckart’s comments in his concession speech that money is the root of all evil. (He actually said, “Money is the root of all problems in politics.”)

“Well, the saying really is the love of money is the root of all evil, not money, so you have to look at that part of it,” Woodward replied. “But there were far more attack ads against me than there were against Ben.” (SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL)

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THE POLICE CONTRACT: THINGS JUST GOT MORE COMPLICATED FOR WOODWARD

The Spokane Police Guild, the union representing rank-and-file officers, has been in ongoing contract negotiations with the city since 2016, when the last contract expired. And with last week’s passage of Proposition 1 — which amends the city charter to require that all union contract negotiations with the city be made public — things could get trickier. The law won’t take effect until Nov. 26, when the election results are certified, but after that date, any future bargaining sessions with representatives from the city and the guild will, theoretically, have to be held in public.

Marlene Feist, a city spokeswoman, says the city is still evaluating the measure.

“We are reviewing the language in Proposition 1,” she says. “There are some conflicting laws and legal rulings that need to be evaluated as well.”

Additionally, assuming that a contract is eventually finalized and features cost-of-living pay raises for officers, Woodward will have to figure out how to cover the back pay.

“There’s going to have to be millions of dollars of

back pay to the officers because there will be some kind of percentage increase for each year,” says Councilman Breean Beggs. “That’s going to be a big financial bill to pay, so she’s going to have to figure out how to pay that.”

Representatives of the Spokane Police Guild did not respond to requests for comment. (JOSH KELETY)

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POLICE OVERSIGHT: SHE’LL FACE RENEWED CONCERNS THAT THE OMBUDSMAN SYSTEM IS BROKEN

In late October, the Spokane Police Department released graphic body-camera footage depicting a violent arrest from last February where Officer Dan Lesser shouted vulgar threats — including “I’m going to f---ing kill you” — at a suspect before siccing a police dog on him. The footage prompted outrage, but the department brass ruled Lesser’s use of force was justified.

More troubling to some, though, is how it all came to light. The Police Department didn’t inform the ombudsman about the controversial case; instead, someone leaked details to former cop and local blogger Brian Breen, who subsequently brought it to the attention of Ombudsman Bart Logue, the city’s official law enforcement watchdog. Logue then filed a complaint, which triggered an internal affairs investigation.

Some officials argue that the string of events is reflective of a loophole in Spokane’s police oversight system that keeps potential misconduct away from the ombudsman, proper scrutiny and, ultimately, the public view.

And it’s a question that Woodward, who ran as a propolice candidate, will have to grapple with — especially if the Spokane City Council takes action on its own.

“The department is using a definition in the current ordinance that they don’t have to notify the ombudsman unless they open up a formal internal-affairs investigation,” Councilman Beggs says. “That’s how they got around informing him of the Lesser case.”

Beggs says that Woodward has the authority to instruct the department to change its practices regarding use-of-force case investigations. But he adds that the council may have to act on its own — a move which would automatically rope in Woodward.

“If the new mayor isn’t going to do that,” he says, “probably we’re going to have to look at a change in the ordinance.”

Where Woodward stands on this specific issue is unclear. However, she’s made public comments indicating that she doesn’t think the ombudsman should have any more authority or independence and that the position should have term limits. She was also endorsed by the Spokane Police Guild, the union representing rank-andfile officers, and promoted their support of her during the campaign.

“Within the city charter, the authority of the ombudsman is limited, and it needs to stay that way,” Woodward said during the campaign. (JK)

6.

THE COUNCIL: SHE’LL STILL HAVE TO DEAL WITH A LIBERAL MAJORITY

For all the talk about bringing change to the city, Woodward’s election, in a sense, may not change much with the dynamics between the Mayor’s Office and the City Council.

Woodward, like Condon, leans conservative on most issues. The seven-member City Council, on the other hand, will still have a liberal-leaning majority; whether or not it’s a veto-proof majority will depend on the results of the still-too-close-to-call races for City Council president, between Beggs and Cindy Wendle, and the council race between Councilwoman Karen Stratton and Andy Rathbun. (Even if Beggs loses the council president race, he still has two more years in his term as a councilman.)

On election night, Woodward said she was “anxious” to see a change on the council and criticized the current

members.

“All they do is listen to themselves, they don’t listen to the people,” Woodward says. “We need to change that.” (WC)

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THE NEW WARMING SHELTER: SHE’LL NEED TO SORT OUT A GROWING CONTROVERSY

The week of the election, questions were raised about the leadership of Jewels Helping Hands, the group recently selected to operate the city’s soon-to-open warming shelter. It turns out that one of the group’s founders, who serves as its treasurer, had pleaded guilty to mail fraud in 2013 and went to federal prison.

After that news broke, the city initially required Jewels Helping Hands to purchase additional insurance to protect the city, but when old allegations surfaced involving the other founder of Jewels, the city asked the agency to vacate the building until they could figure out what’s going on. As of Monday, though, the city administration informed the council it still planned to move forward with Jewels as the shelter’s operator.

Politically, the controversy might play into Woodward’s hands. She’s repeatedly criticized the city’s rush to try to find a new shelter. But on the other hand, she’ll want to avoid a repeat of last winter when a homeless encampment took up residence outside City Hall.

When the Inlander asked on election night if she would abandon the plans for a new shelter, Woodward declined to answer.

“Wait until I get into office, and we’ll see,” she said.

(DW)

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THE HOMELESS: SHE’LL HAVE TO HANDLE THE ANNUAL COUNT THAT SHE’S CRITICIZED

act is intended to protect the environment and prevent sprawl, while requiring fast-growing urban centers to plan for the larger population they’ll need to serve 20 years down the road. Through what’s called a comprehensive plan, Spokane establishes the “urban growth area,” which guides where certain types of buildings can go. Planning to provide services and infrastructure in the urban growth area is meant to enable a city to be ready for annexation as its population grows, while still limiting how much the city spreads out.

State law strictly limits the ability of cities to offer services outside of that urban growth area. To offer services beyond those boundaries would likely take a change to the comprehensive plan.

But updating the comp plan tends to be lengthy public process, and any changes proposed by the administration must be approved by the City Council. (SW)

10.

THE MEDIA: SHE’LL HAVE TO DEAL WITH PESKY REPORTERS

It was no doubt uncomfortable for someone who had sat behind an anchor desk — putting questions to public officials on a daily basis — to suddenly find herself on the other side.

As a candidate, Nadine Woodward bristled at reporters who asked about her political ideology and policy proposals, suggesting at various points that it wasn’t relevant, that she would reveal some policies only after she was in office or that simply asking such questions somehow constituted “advocacy journalism.” She frequently refused to make herself available for interviews (with the Inlander and other local media), canceled interviews that did get scheduled, failed to show up at several community forums and debates and called the media “pathetic” for “trying to distract voters” by reporting on something she had said. During the campaign, she went so far as to claim that some of her quotes had been misrepresented — even when recordings of those statements showed they

Each January, the city of Spokane conducts its annual Point-in-Time Count, which serves as a snapshot of how many people are homeless at a given time. The count, mandated by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, was revamped a couple years ago to use better technology to get more accurate data.

In 2019, the count showed a 5 percent increase in homelessness, but a 6.5 percent decrease in those who were chronically homeless.

Crucially, it asks those who are homeless about what caused them to lose a home — whether that’s a lack of affordable housing, family conflict or drug use.

Why is it important? Because it’s used by the city to write grant applications and seek funding for services. But Woodward has been skeptical of the Point-in-Time Count. During a debate, she said that it’s “not an accurate reflection of what’s going on.”

“Unfortunately, we’re using that After a career of asking questions, Nadine Woodward will have to get used to answering them. as a base for a lot of our decisions,” Woodward said.

So how will she handle this year’s count? Will she had been reported accurately and put in proper context. use the information from the count, even though she As an elected official, Woodward will face even frequently criticized the data on the campaign trail? (WC) greater scrutiny. As uncomfortable as it might be, she works for the citizens now, and every day she’s in office, GROWTH: SHE’LL HIT ROADBLOCKS TO EXPANDING reporters will be there, too, examining records, attending THE CITY’S BORDER AND URBAN GROWTH AREA meetings and asking questions in the watchdog role the On the campaign trail, Woodward said that she Founding Fathers envisioned. would be open to encouraging development of housing The campaign and the election may be over. But for outside city limits, perhaps by offering city services and the incoming mayor, the task of dealing with the local meinfrastructure to outside projects. dia — with the Inlander, the Spokesman-Review, her former The main constraint on continuing to build outward colleagues at KXLY and the other TV and radio stations is the Washington State Growth Management Act. The in town — is only just beginning. (JACOB H. FRIES) n

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CONDON LEGACY THE

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Mayor David Condon balanced the budget, cleaned the river and led the city out of recession.

But then he got re-elected

BY DANIEL WALTERS

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legacy — of a mayor or any other leader — is not just about a list of accomplishments. Perhaps, more than anything else, a legacy is about timing.

If Mayor David Condon’s tenure had ended in his first year in office — in 2012 — he could have gone down in Spokane history as a mayor who was willing to make the hard choices, who cut deep to balance the budget and ushered in an era of more efficient government.

If it had ended in 2014, he could have been the “environmental mayor,” the leader who managed to meld environmental idealism with budget-conscious conservativism, who gave us prettier parks, better streets and a cleaner river.

If his final term had ended in mid-2016, he could have been remembered for a sexual-harassment scandal that tarred his handpicked police chief and raised questions about whether Condon’s administration intentionally delayed releasing public records about it until after his re-election.

And if it had ended in mid-2017, he could have been seen as the mayor who set the city on a path to finally end homelessness — or at least dramatically reduce it.

As it stands, Condon’s legacy hangs in contradiction. Condon’s successor, Nadine Woodward, ran a campaign that argued that the city — particularly downtown — was beset by an exponential increase in crime, addiction and homelessness. And Condon campaigned for her.

So as Condon leaves office as the first two-term mayor since the ’70s, he leaves behind both a long list of accomplishments and a tangle of conflict and controversy.

THE STRONG MAYOR ERA

Maybe it’s fitting for a dry, chart-and-jargon leader like Condon that one of his most revolutionary decisions involved something as boring sounding as Combined Sewer Overflow, or CSO, tanks.

Running for office eight years ago, Condon, like many politicians before and after him, made a lot of big promises. Mayor Mary Verner’s administration presented voters David Condon was the with the possibility first Spokane mayor to of double-digit utility be re-elected to a second rate increases to meet term since 1973. requirements mandatYOUNG KWAK PHOTO ing that Spokane stop dumping so much filthy stormwater and sewage into the river, but Condon told voters that all that was unnecessary. Vote for him, and he’d find a different way to get it done.

But then he won, and he had to figure out a way to actually do it.

The experts — some of them anyway— said it couldn’t be done, that taxpayers would have to pay for steep rate increases to pay for giant CSO tanks to temporarily store the surge of dirty water during storms instead of letting it slosh into the river. “‘You’re just going to have to tell the public this is how much this is going to cost,’” Condon recalls being told.

But Condon didn’t budge. He refused to accept a utility rate increase faster than inflation.

Gavin Cooley, Condon’s eager and optimistic chief financial officer, remembers a room of longtime utilities staffers exploding when he told them of the standard the new mayor wanted them to meet, telling him that Condon was going to be responsible for “boiled water scenarios.”

Finally, the staff came up with a solution: Build smaller, cheaper, CSO tanks, but renovate roads with features like grassy trenches that absorbed water instead of just dumping it into the drain.

It was a policy that simultaneously saved the city money and helped fight potholes and cleaned up the Spokane River and provided new miniature parks built on top of the tanks.

“This is a generational investment, one that we can’t easily repeat, at least not for a long time,” Condon told members of Congress earlier this year.

But getting it done required something like a bureaucratic miracle: It meant busting down the walls separating departments, merging pools of money, and persuading the state Department of Ecology.

“I think it was ballsy to set utility rates at 2.9 percent and convince Ecology and EPA that we could deliver that,” says Theresa Sanders, Condon’s blunt, hard-charging city administrator.

And much of Condon’s first term was like that: Verner had been proud of avoiding layoffs. But Condon’s first budget, in the depths of recession, slashed entire departments, eliminating 152 positions to get the city on firmer financial ground. He went toe-to-toe with the unions, refusing to sign contracts that exceeded the city’s long-term growth projections.

“I’m the only mayor who ever rewrote retirement,” Condon says.

He chipped away at the positions employed by civil service, a formalized bureaucracy that requires a formal procedure to hire and fire people, and replaced them with highly paid “exempt” positions who could be picked or move at will. It gave Spokane’s “strong mayor” position more strength than ever.

Condon says he sought to be “transformational.” In each city department he began tracking “performance measures,” to try to spot where the city was lagging and what needed to be fixed.

He thought about these things nonstop, Cooley says.

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CITY HALL

David Condon announces the appointment of Craig Meidl as the new police chief on Aug. 1, 2016.

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“THE CONDON LEGACY,” CONTINUED...

“You’re flying back and it’s 11 o’clock at night, and he’s still focused on, ‘What about this issue? What about that issue?’” Cooley says.

The first term had its hiccups, of course. When Condon tried to reorganize the Fire Department, the fire union successfully sued him. He was also criticized for not fighting harder for stronger police oversight.

But at the same time, Condon also managed to do things like convince voters to pass bonds that paid for new streets and an upgraded Riverfront Park without raising taxes.

So Condon did what no other Spokane mayor has in over 40 years: He got re-elected. And that’s when the trouble started.

THE STRAUB SCANDAL ERA

Shortly before his re-election, Condon held a press conference announcing the forced resignation of Police Chief Frank Straub, citing complaints about his management style. When the Inlander asked the mayor directly whether there were “any sexual harassment complaints lodged against Frank,” Condon responded with a blunt, “no.”

Indeed, Sanders told the Spokesman-Review that she wasn’t aware of any issues between Straub and former police spokeswoman Monique Cotton, who was suddenly moved to the parks department.

Condon’s spokesman assured the Inlander that the move was “strictly managerial… end of story.”

It was only after Condon’s re-election that the city released public records that revealed the truth: Sanders’ handwritten notes showed Cotton had been reassigned after she told the city that Straub had allegedly “grabbed her ass and tried to kiss her,” though Cotton didn’t want a formal investigation.

The revelation triggered nearly a year of ethics hearings, lawsuits, a recall attempt and an independent investigation from a former federal prosecutor. The investigation concluded that Sanders and the former city attorney had “intentionally withheld” the information until after Condon’s re-election.

Today, Sanders continues to deny meddling with the records

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process, but also says she doesn’t regret not being initially truthful with the public.

“I think I did the right thing,” Sanders says, noting that Cotton had asked her not to tell. Today, city policy requires her to share claims about sexual harassment, even if the complainant wants her to promise to keep it secret. But Sanders worries that’s a step backward.

“I think there’s a chilling effect,” Sanders says. She calls Condon a “courageous mayor” for sticking by her through the controversy.

It’s the one area of his tenure that Condon was wary of discussing.

“I’m not going to rehash, you know, individual personnel matters,” he says.

When the Inlander asks Condon the same question it did in 2015 — “Were there any sexual harassment complaints lodged against Frank?” — Condon declines to answer.

“I’ve answered all those questions at the time,” Condon says.

And asked if he believes he was honest with the public, he answers “yes,” just as swiftly and unequivocally as he had denied there’d been any sexual harassment complaints four year earlier.

The Straub scandal eventually disappeared from the headlines, but left behind a lingering aftertaste of distrust.

At one time, Condon says, you could have “frank decisions” in “executive sessions,” but today that’s “no longer a reality.” Council members voted to waive the privacy of closed-door executive sessions so they could discuss them with the Straub scandal investigator.

The council didn’t trust that the mayor’s office would tell them the truth, Councilman Breean Beggs says, while the mayor’s office seemed worried that the council was trying to sabotage him for political reasons.

“We never really recovered from that,” Beggs says.

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Eight years ago, in an election interview with a TV anchor named Nadine Woodward, Condon stressed the importance of working closely with the City Council.

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Daniel Walters, born and raised in Spokane, has been writing for the Inlander since 2008. As the Inlander’s City Hall reporter, he’s broken stories about a former city councilmember being accused of sexual harassment, decades of domestic violence claims against a local community activist and concerns about the city putting “political pressure” on the Ridpath inspection process.

“We do have a strong mayor, but on the other hand, our policy and our budget is really set by the council. Having that good relationship is key,” Condon says.

Even after the Straub scandal, the City Council and the mayor sometimes got big things done. They stood together to announce a strategy to open up 24/7 homeless shelters and to get chronically homeless people into supportive housing. They formally drew up an official strategic plan, mapping out the direction for the next six years for the city.

Yet the relationship between the council and the mayor’s office had gotten ugly enough that Woodward used it as a talking point during her campaign.

“There has been a war between the City Council and the mayor’s office. And part of that is personality, part of that’s politics,” Woodward told KHQ in a June interview. “Grow up.”

Sanders suggested the conflict stemmed from the liberal members on the council getting a supermajority.

“We had a much more politically balanced council in the first term,” Sanders says.

The 6-1 veto-proof supermajority of liberal-leaning councilmembers couldn’t force the mayor to do what he didn’t want to do. When the council voted to fund five refuse collector positions, Condon chose not to hire them. He refused to enforce the council’s ordinance that tried to restrict Border Patrol raids from the city-owned Intermodal Center, and he refused to even put people on a council-created committee to direct the city toward a renewable energy goal the council set.

“It feels like he’s spending his last years in office fighting the things he doesn’t like, when he’s not the legislative branch,” Council President Ben Stuckart told the Inlander last year. “We are.”

Even the sole conservative on the council, Mike Fagan, lamented that his relationship with Condon had gotten “political.”

“I don’t even recall the last time I actually had a council member-mayor meeting with him. I think it’s been a year,” Fagan says.

The mayor and the council each accused the other of being motivated purely by politics. Take the fight over merging the region’s 911, fire and police dispatch systems, for example. Condon argued the system could be made more efficient, and that it would save lives.

But the City Council consistently voted against the measure. After a year of fighting over the proposal, they pointed out that basic questions hadn’t been answered.

“All along, no one could answer the question, ‘How much was this going to cost?’” Fagan says.

When the Inlander points out that Condon administration officials have been absolutely certain that the integration will

save money, Fagan lets out a long, exaggerated laugh.

“Oookay,” Fagan says. “I’m from Missouri: Show me.”

But Condon believes all the questions were merely a delaying tactic.

“It was a political decision, not operational,” Condon said at his final budget press conference.

Condon believes the fire union has too much power — and argued their influence was the real reason why the council’s opposed integration.

“I think, you know, when people make decisions to fill campaign coffers, rather than to serve the citizens, I think we’re doing something really wrong,” Sanders says.

Yet another attempt at regionalization fell apart in a similar fashion: The city wanted the support of Spokane County to help purchase a former Grocery Outlet site to turn it into a new homeless shelter. But the efforts collapsed after a county advisory board posed a list of detailed questions about the projects. Sanders believed it was a “bureaucratic foot drag.”

“I think a lot of the conversation around the shelter got sucked into a political vortex that created some fear and slowed things down,” Sanders says. “Our regional partners failed us.”

County Commissioner Josh Kerns,

emergency shelters if they repeatedly fail to complete drug treatment programs.

“The public is not there yet,” Condon says, suggesting that the public isn’t fully supportive of the city’s recent investments addressing homelessness. “When you’re looking at a family of four in this community… when they see the money being utilized in this way… you know, it’s a tough subject.”

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s Condon stands on a City Hall landing, posing for Inlander photographs, the physical improvements he’s leaving are visible in the background: The upgraded Pavilion and Carrousel at Riverfront Park. A new overlook above the cleaner river. The site where a new Sportsplex facility will be built.

But he’s also contending with a string of less positive headlines in his last few months. There’s the cop who sicced a dog on a suspect after threatening to “put a bullet in his brain.” The operator the city selected to run a warming center this year and the operator the city selected to run warming centers last year are both facing separate controversies.

Just as Stuckart praises Condon’s work on the river and the city’s budget, he argues Condon “mishandled and fluctuated on the homeless situation.” Just as the praise is bipartisan, so is the criticism.

“A lot of the mayor’s legacy is going to be the frills. A new park! We’ve got a 20-year bond on our streets! … Those are great things! But did we meet the citizens’ expectation for property crimes? Did we meet the citizens expectations on the homeless issue, on the warming center issue?” Fagan says, “Condon, with all due respect to him, he’s leaving on a bit of a sour note.”

Condon knows these problems aren’t solved. But he also knows how many mayors came before him and tried. In 2005, he notes, Mayor Jim West was criticized for shutting down the Truth Ministries homeless shelter until they got a new sprinkler system installed, but praised for allowing a temporary homeless camp on the cityowned Playfair property in the meantime.

He motions to an old issue of the Inlander, from when he was first elected, sitting on his conference table.

“Even in here, there’s an article about homelessness eight years ago,” Condon says.

Right now, every city on the West Coast is asking how it can solve the homelessness problem.

“How do we do it in a way that is consistent with how we are as a culture?”

Condon says. “As you can see in this last election, there’s going to be a pivot to a more accountable approach. And how do you do that?”

It’s a tough question. And come Dec. 30, it won’t be his job to find an answer anymore. n

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“A lot of the mayor’s legacy is going to be the frills. A new park! We’ve got a 20-year bond on our streets!” however, says that city never expressed its frustration with the county until after it pulled the Grocery Outlet shelter proposal.

“In my opinion, I think the communication was actually pretty poor, honestly,” Kerns says. “If you truly want to partner us, partner with us! Answer some questions.”

Three years ago, Condon could brag about his ability to unify local leaders with the response to homelessness. But after the city shut down its overloaded 24/7 shelter system this year, it’s repeatedly struggled to bring even temporary warming shelters online, angering both homelessness activists and downtown businesses who had to contend with the impact.

Woodward, meanwhile, accused the city of “enabling” the homeless, arguing the homelessness and crime downtown had become “exponentially” worse.

Condon partially disagrees, saying violent crime hasn’t increased downtown — and he believes that property crime truly is down citywide. But he also notes that the reports of homeless camps are up, and that the increase in misdemeanors and “vagrancy” downtown has been significant.

Condon himself has moved away from the research-backed Housing First model, suggesting that maybe homeless people who’ve been placed in permanent housing should be kicked out and placed in

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enjoy watching other people exercise on TV more than I enjoy exercising myself. Want me to watch a football game with you? I’m there and I’ll bring snacks. Want me to go jogging with you? I will power walk as fast as I can in the opposite direction.

Yet I know exercise is good for my brain and body, so I go through phases where I try to trick myself into enjoying it. Most recently, I did this by joining Class Pass. Class Pass, which entered the Spokane market earlier this year, is an online subscription service that lets you sample different types of exercise for a monthly flat fee. I tried spin, barre and yoga.

I started with spin class. The stationary bike in spin class looks normal enough, except I had to wear special shoes that clipped onto the pedals. I think the clipping is necessary because your butt is only lightly attached to the saddle. You’re constantly moving up, down and back up again as loud dance remixes of pop songs play and the instructor hollers directions at you. If it were up to me, the instructor would have blasted the New Pornographers “The Bleeding Heart Show” and Florence and the Machine’s “Shake It Out” on loop for 45 minutes, but I know that’s not a reasonable request.

Here’s what saved me: The lights were off and the room was lit by candles. There were also enormous fans running. If I screwed up (and I did), I didn’t feel like everyone else was looking at me. They were all too busy

trying to survive. I was sore for a week afterward, but I didn’t walk out of spin class feeling like I had humiliated myself. When I didn’t know what to do, I just kept pedaling.

Barre class was tougher because I couldn’t hide.

Class took place in a brightly lit exercise studio with a wall of mirrors. It was bad enough that other people had to see me, but I really did not want to see myself everywhere I turned.

Barre felt the most like a standard aerobics class.

Within the first five minutes, I could not shake the feeling that I had made a mistake somehow. It was like arriving for a first date and finding out that the guy brought both his wife and his mother. None of it felt natural or fun, but I told myself I could get through a single class.

That morphed into “I can’t leave unless I feel sick.

Feeling self-conscious isn’t enough.” In the second half of class, my stomach felt funny. It could have been nausea, panic or both. I made an excuse and left the room. In the lobby, I drank my water and apologized while the woman at the front desk said things like, “This happens more often than you think.”

For yoga a few weeks later, I made the same deal with myself: Try it once and see what happens.

The yoga instructor told us to be nice to ourselves if our brains wandered, and I was grateful for that,

because my brain was wandering all over the place. I kept flashing back to a college instructor who told me, “You carry a lot of tension in your shoulders.” The more I thought about it, the tenser I felt. Where else should I be carrying the tension, then? My purse? My glove compartment?

This whole experiment taught me something I already suspected: I am not great at relaxing in an exercise class. That’s not why I work out. When I sweat, I want to feel relaxed afterward, not during. It reminds me of how some people actively enjoy vacuuming their house, while the rest of us think of it as something we must endure so we can feel better later.

The exercise class experiment is over, and I’m trying to focus on what makes me feel strong. I may sound like I hate my body, but I don’t. I hate the hyper-intense awareness of my body that pops up when I feel like I’m not following the instructions properly.

But I like my legs, for instance. My mom played basketball in high school, and while I didn’t inherit her skill, I did get her height. A couple of weeks ago, I joined a gym. It’s a cheap one that doesn’t offer any exercise classes, but it does have stationary bikes (no clipping required). I find a bike, turn on my preferred music and ride for a few miles. The room isn’t dark, and there are some mirrors, but I’m too focused on Florence Welch’s voice and the next hill to pay attention to how I look. n

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CULTURE | THEATER

Youth Must Be Served

The Civic’s This Is Our Youth features the not-so-glorious results of a misspent youth.

Privileged, aimless and discontented, the three characters of This Is Our Youth might not be all that alien to us

BY E.J. IANNELLI

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hough it has the unmistakable ring of a declaration, This Is Our Youth treats its title more like a question than a statement. Its three characters — two boys, one girl, all in their late teens and early 20s — are aimless and uncertain. They’re unsure of who they are, who they want to be and how they fit into a world that seems to have given them everything and nothing.

Materialism and nihilism are almost natural byproducts of that state of affairs. And Kenneth Lonergan’s play, first staged in 1996, is actually set in 1982, the start of an era that would later become synonymous with those two mindsets. But, as its plot unfolds in a single apartment over a 24-hour period, This Is Our Youth reveals itself to be about more than just the attitudes or anxiety of a single decade.

Jacob Carruthers plays Warren, “a deadbeat, stonertype character” in a new production of This Is Our Youth at the Spokane Civic under the direction of Andrew Start.

“Warren has been through a lot of hard times. He’s got a very, let’s say, stormy relationship with his father stemming from some other family issues, and he finds a lot of solace hanging out with his best friend, Dennis, who sells him pot and hangs out with him. And it all kind of comes to a head when Warren has this really big fight and steals a bunch of money from his father,” he says.

The stolen money quickly gets Dennis (Denny Pham)

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and Warren scheming. The plan they hatch eventually puts Warren in contact with Jessica, played by Elizabeth Martin. Warren ends up dropping a good chunk of the ill-gotten cash in an attempt to impress her.

The odd thing about it, says Martin, is that none of them really needs the money.

“They all live in this very privileged bubble. They’re all wealthy. They all live in New York on the Upper West Side. Their parents pay for everything. She’s a fashion student, if that tells you anything,” she says. And yet, for a “people pleaser” like Jessica, it’s actually more important to find good company and to be “accepted.”

“Truthfully, at that age — and I am that age — don’t we all just want to be accepted, have friends and to be cool? And I think that’s very much still what she wants.

But I think she’s also beginning to grow up in the sense that she wants more than just a superficial friendship.”

Her actions, however, won’t always be consistent with that desire for something more substantial, given that Warren’s flashy attempt to impress her succeeds. At least in part. And that leaves Jessica, much like Warren and Dennis, trying to reconcile her behavior with the ideals that she’s still developing for herself.

It’s messy, in other words, and messiness can sometimes test audiences’ sympathy.

“These characters are like us,” says Martin, “and if that makes them unlikable, that makes them unlikable. I

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find it hard to think they’re unlikable because I’ve spent so much time dissecting them that I can see their little nuances as people. It doesn’t have a nice little bow on it at the end. It’s very real, very moment to moment about how we try to solve problems.”

Carruthers says the temptation also exists to see the characters as types: spoiled rich kids, idle stoners, emptyheaded narcissists, rebels without causes. But pigeonholing them risks overlooking their complexity.

“They are very real and very human people who are being put into a type as a result of the way they were brought up and trying to uphold the image MORE EVENTS they were given or that Visit Inlander.com for they chose for themcomplete listings of selves. And they’re local events. coming to terms with the fact that it might not be the best-suited persona for them. It’s really getting down into the weeds of what is actually making them tick.”

Just as its characters can transcend type, This Is Our Youth also has the potential to escape its moorings in the Reagan era to convey “this universality, this idea that it’s a cycle” to which culture, politics and coming of age all belong.

“It’s a very personal story that a lot of people have gone through at that age,” he says. “There’s a lot of discovery about how we treat people, how we treat ourselves. What kind of choices are we making as we proceed through this daily grind? What gives our life purpose? What are we going to be leaving behind? At the end of the day, it shows the difficulty of change. It’s a little sobering. But in a hopeful way.” n This Is Our Youth • Nov. 15-Dec. 8; Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm (no show on Nov. 28) • $25 • Spokane Civic Theatre • 1020 N. Howard St. • spokanecivictheatre.com • 325-2507

CULTURE | DIGEST

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

BY NATHAN WEINBENDER

OH MAYA Plus One has all the attributes of a typical rom-com.

Two college friends agree to be each others’ dates for weddings, and along the way they realize they (might) have feelings for each other. Nothing new under the sun, right? Except that Maya Erskine brings hilarious attitude, joyful inappropriateness and genuine emotion to her role as Alice, a woman from a large Asian-American family who is navigating not only a recent breakup and a new maybe-relationship with Ben (Jack Quaid), but the impending wedding of her (gasp!) younger sister. Plus One is 90 minutes that won’t make you feel dumb for watching it when it’s done. Now streaming on Hulu, home of the hilarious Pen15 coming-of-age sitcom Erskine co-created and stars in with Anna Konkle. (DAN NAILEN)

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harlie’s Angels hits theaters Friday, and the reboot fatigue strikes again. It’ll only continue: Next year already promises new takes on (or sequels to) The Grudge, The Invisible Man, Dr. Dolittle, Scooby-Doo, Mulan, Legally Blonde, Candyman, Top Gun and Ghostbusters. Remember all that pointless internet drama surrounding the 2016 Ghostbusters reboot? Get ready for more reasonable discourse.

The recycling of intellectual properties is a practice as old as storytelling itself. And there are great remakes out there — The Departed, The Thing, Ocean’s 11.

Since there’s no way of stopping this cinematic recycling, allow us to suggest some older films that have been done dirty (or not at all) in the remake department and could potentially be reworked into something entertaining and kinda original.

PHANTASM Just about every horror franchise gets rebooted eventually, but you could do something trippy and Lynchian with Don Coscarelli’s scrappy, low-budget nightmare-

THE BUZZ BIN logic series, which started in 1979. The 40-year-old original is driven by surrealism and disorientation, and an arty studio like A24 would be a perfect fit.

THE THIN MAN Married detectives Nick and Nora Charles were hugely popular in the ’30s and ’40s, appearing in six Thin Man films. Played by William Powell and Myrna Loy, they were constantly sniping at one another, always swilling a fresh martini, and had a clever canine sidekick. What’s not to love? A Veronica Mars-style reboot could bring them into the 21st century without too much tweaking.

THIS WEEK’S PLAYLIST Some noteworthy new music arrives online and in stories Nov. 15. To wit: JULIANA HATFIELD, Juliana Hatfield Sings The Police. The title is pretty spot on — and I’m really glad she’s doing “Canary in a Coalmine.”

DJ SHADOW, Our Pathetic Age. De La Soul, Run the Jewels and a pack of Wu dudes guest on what should be an old-school hip-hop delight.

FROZEN 2 SOUNDTRACK. Props to the parents who will be listening to this nonstop for the next year or so. (DAN NAILEN)

MINORITY REPORT Based on a Philip K. Dick short story, Steven Spielberg’s 2002 blockbuster imagining a future in which you can be arrested for crimes you’ve yet to commit is one of his best. The movie focused on one man’s plight — Tom Cruise is a cop incriminated by the very system he advocates — but the wider implications suggest endless possibilities. There’s already been a botched TV adaptation, but give this premise to another filmmaker of Spielberg’s caliber and you could have a winner.

ROBOCOP Another contemporary sci-fi classic, Paul Verhoeven’s vicious dystopian satire was rendered cartoonish and bloodless in increasingly awful sequels, a series spinoff and a forgettable 2014 feature reboot. But I don’t think the core premise of Robocop is worth giving up on: In the hands of a visionary director, its commentary on the uneasy relationship between corporations and the police state could easily be plugged into a contemporary story that’s as socially conscious as it is grimly satirical. n

DANCE, BILL! DANCE! Twitter is so often a political and ideological battleground it’s refreshing when somebody disrupts it with some dumb fun. The account “bill hader dancing to” (@billhaderdancin) is predicated on a simple gimmick: It takes footage of Bill Hader awkwardly busting a move in an unaired 2015 Saturday Night Live sketch and sets it to popular songs — Smash Mouth’s “All Star,” Rihanna’s “Disturbia,” OutKast’s “Hey Ya!” and more. And that’s it. And it’s funny every time. “im pretty sure you’re all getting sick of these videos,” the account’s moderator tweeted a few weeks ago, “but im gonna keep doing them anyways.” (NATHAN WEINBENDER)

REEDUS ’N THE FETUS Death Stranding is so bizarre, you can’t help but fall in love with it. In this new game recently released for PS4, you play as a delivery man of sorts, connecting various settlements in a Black Mirroresque fantasy world that blends a virtual world with a supernatural one. You also carry around a small baby in a jar. It’s complicated, but interesting! This is Hideo Kojima’s first title from his independent studio, Kojima Productions, and he wasn’t pulling any punches. Norman Reedus stars as the main character, alongside other Alist talent on the bill. (QUINN WELSCH)

LAUGHS LOGGING OFF In the opening of Silicon Valley’s sixth and final season, the scene is utterly familiar: Tech industry giants in Washington, D.C., to testify about internet-user data collection and their monopolistic grip on the industry. Among them is Richard Hendricks (Thomas Middleditch), idealistic CEO of Pied Piper, a company striving to create a new decentralized internet. He gives a speech about his idea, only to discover his company is knee-deep in data collection.

Featuring high-caliber witty humor, this season stands to address the dark question currently roiling the real-life tech industry: Can ideals like democracy and internet privacy withstand greed? Now streaming on HBO. (JOSH KELETY)

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Spokane’s Gander and Ryegrass invites diners to slow down and savor with a multi-course menu and comfortable setting

BY CHEY SCOTT

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rom the Inland Northwest to Florence, Italy, and then across the Cascades and back, chef Peter Froese has cooked at restaurants near and far for the past decade and a half.

Now, he’s finally home. Inside a prime downtown Spokane spot best known as the former home of Santé Restaurant and Charcuterie, the self-trained chef recently debuted his long-aspired inaugural restaurant, Gander and Ryegrass, to significant local anticipation.

Described by Froese as “Italian-inspired long-course meals,” Gander and Ryegrass is a carefully executed yet approachable take on traditional European fine dining. Its opening menu the first weekend of November featured a three-course meal for $45 per person with a handful of choices per course, and optional drink pairings for an additional $40.

Course one was a chicory apple salad with toasted hazelnuts or beef crudo with beets.

Next came the pasta course: pappardelle with pork shoulder, tortelloni with ricotta and Calabrian chili sausage or risotto with charred radicchio and Taleggio cheese. For the main course, duck breast or strip loin with roasted vegetables.

In addition to their course selections, guests are treated to a chef’s choice amuse bouche bite, a plate of bread and butter before pasta, and a palate-cleansing intermezzo before entree service.

Gander and Ryegrass’s “marathon” dinner option, at $75 per person, meanwhile, consists of 10 to 12 individually coursed or table-shared portions prepared at the chef’s whim, with some overlap on the three-course menu.

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Grilled octopus with basil, white bean and arugula, one of the restaurant’s first-plate choices. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO

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Diners can expect to see Gander and Ryegrass’s menu in a state of constant evolution due to seasonality and creativity. Currently, Froese says he’s about halfway to the total number of dishes he’d like to offer per course.

“I don’t want to show up every day and cook the same thing over and over,” he says. “I want to find things that are exciting to me, and sometimes that’s pulling great produce out of the garden or earth somewhere… I also don’t want to get stuck in a rut.”

While the chef says he’ll eventually add a la carte pricing to the menu, he plans for the multicourse dining experience to be Gander and Ryegrass’s focus. A separate bar menu, meanwhile, features a handful of snack-sized plates, like smoked nuts and lamb ribs, for $3-$9.

Besides offering diners a chance to sample many areas of the menu, the format is also beneficial for the chef and his kitchen staff, who can better pace cooking times and service.

“One of my favorite ways to eat is when you sit down for long periods of time and you start digging deeper into your history and building memories with the people you’re with, and you tell stories you forgot about because you’ve been there so long, for three to four hours,” he explains. “We’re going to do our darndest to bring that to this dining room.”

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hen asked about the origin of his restaurant’s name, Froese’s answer is simple: He liked the pairing of the two words. Later, however, he realized how the name choice could be “retrofitted” to reflect his personal culinary philosophy and what he hopes diners experience at Gander and Ryegrass.

“Ryegrass is something incredibly normal and down

Gander and Ryegrass chef and owner Peter Froese.

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to earth. It’s your lawn. It’s the basics,” he explains.

“Gander is something that catches your eye, or maybe is related to geese, which is kind of a specialty thing.

We can move forward with something incredible and exquisite and exciting, but never losing the plot, which is dinner. You’re here to eat, and we’re going to have as much fun as we can in the kitchen.”

While the opportunity to open his first restaurant inside arose suddenly, after Spokane chef and restaurateur Jeremy Hansen departed this summer for an opportunity in Philadelphia, Froese had been brainstorming concepts and menus long before.

“There was a morning that Jeremy called me and said ‘I’m leaving in 30 days, do you want my restaurant?’”

Froese recalls. “It took me three weeks to be like, ‘OK, let’s do this.’”

Froese and his family had recently moved back to Spokane after several years in Seattle, where he worked for restaurant mogul Ethan Stowell and at the esteemed Italian eatery Altura. For the latter, he was both butcher and pasta chef, roles that served as major inspiration for Gander and Ryegrass. His resume also includes stints at Ruins, Central Food, Mizuna, Santé and Latah Bistro.

“I’ve been writing menus forever, even before I was

cooking,” he continues. “Over the summer we did a few pop-ups… but [the menu] needed and will continue to need development. That is how I see the menus.”

Inside the space, which Hansen had briefly rebranded as Smoke & Mirrors Saloon, gone are the red velvet curtains and an Old West-inspired back bar. The former Butcher Bar space is still undergoing renovations to expand dining room seating, and to house a new built-in wine and beer cellar.

Froese also plans to rework the bar area early next year, yet most of the restaurant’s layout inside the historic Liberty Building should feel familiar to Santé regulars.

Come the arrival of patio season next year, Froese plans to add lunch service.

Behind the bar, bartender Justin Helm has crafted a concise menu of classics and traditionally inspired house cocktails. The restaurant is also focusing on stocking high-end and rare whiskeys on shelving reaching to the space’s high ceiling. “[Justin’s] working on a house Campari, and we had to order an incredible amount of rare things I’d never heard of, to be quite honest,” Froese reflects. “He’s really going to work at pushing our bar program somewhere we’re constantly excited about.”

It’s evident that excitement and creativity are driving themes at Gander and Ryegrass, even if, as Froese says, it all begins with one simple dish.

“We’ll have as much fun as we can without losing the fact that it’s dinner, and pasta does that very well. It grounds you, and you can put as much crazy stuff on it as you want, but at the end of the day, it’s pasta.” n cheys@inlander.com Gander and Ryegrass • 404 W. Main • Open Tue-Sat from 5-10 pm • ganderandryegrass.com • 315-4613

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Monarch’s “G-Star” ramen.

Metamorphosis on Fourth Street

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The old home of Syringa Sushi has been transformed into Monarch Ramen Noodle House

BY CARRIE SCOZZARO

Monarch Ramen & Noodle House • 1401 N. Fourth St., Coeur d’Alene • Open Tue-Sat 11 am-8 pm • facebook.com/monarchramen • 208-966-4230

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Monarch, which honors Idaho’s state insect, the monarch butterfly, features a variety of broth types, each one an homage to the Bassos’ other restaurants.

The Bluebird Ramen ($13), for example, features curry, chicken, carrots, caramelized onion, egg and togarashi, a common Japanese spice blend they make in-house.

“The G-Star ramen is an ode to when we owned the Garnet,” Basso says. “Viljo was in the kitchen and he worked his magic and came up with a dish that was a play off the spaghetti and eggs at the Garnet.”

It’s also atypically brothless, so more like a stir fry than soup.

You can build your own ramen, too ($13).

Choose one of six broths from vegetarian to pork to miso, as well as noodles, including a glutenfree option. Add a protein, from chicken katsu to beef short rib, and up to three toppings, from mushrooms to egg to the pungent takana zuke, pickled mustard greens.

Unlike their other restaurants, Monarch includes a kids’ menu, albeit with one item: Kids Cup Noodle soup ($5).

“We believe that our whole menu is diverse enough to find something for everyone, kids included,” says Basso. “There are many things on all our menus that will satisfy the pickiest of eaters.” n

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onarch Ramen and Noodle House is one of Coeur d’Alene’s hottest new restaurants, literally and figuratively.

Ever since owners papered over the windows of the former Syringa Japanese Café & Sushi Bar location, which relocated further up on Fourth Street earlier this year, people have been stopping by to check on their progress, reports co-owner Autumn Basso.

The interior of the new place resembles the old Syringa with a few upgrades, like the windowside counter. Thirteen-and-a-half years took its toll on the place, says Basso, who opened Syringa in 2007 with husband and chef Viljo Basso. The couple also launched Garnet Café, which they’ve since sold, as well as the bistro Midtown Bluebird and White Pine Coffee Shop, all on Fourth Street.

Beyond the virtual and real-life food fans following Monarch’s October unveiling, the little restaurant is just plain steamy. Drive by on any given day (except Monday, when they’re closed) and you’re likely to see the front window fogged up from all the brothy goodness that makes ramen such a welcoming meal.

“We picked ramen because we saw a niche that hasn’t arrived in Coeur d’Alene yet… and we like it,” Basso says.

Monarch’s menu includes a few dishes that overlap with Syringa’s offering like gyoza potstickers ($9) and agedashi dofu, or fried tofu ($6). The bulk of the menu, however, is ramen, a Japanese noodle soup with origins in China. Key ingredients are the typically chewy noodles, some kind of broth and toppings.

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Spicy Tony, Green Dahlia, Tuscan and more rustic style pizzas, traditional Italian appetizers, salads and house made tiramisu. Full Bar- Patio overlooking downtown and the Spokane River.

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CRUISE CONTROL Sturdy and old-fashioned, Ford v Ferrari is a leisurely paced character study about cool guys and fast cars

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here are no legal skirmishes in Ford v Ferrari. The battles between the automakers take place in boardrooms, racetracks and other places where men have car-measuring contests. Directed by James Mangold, who brought similar confidence to Walk the Line and 3:10 to Yuma, this is a smooth, crowd-pleasing true story about Americans striving to outpace foreign rivals in a feat of engineering — the kind of engineering that goes vroom vroom. The motives are petty and capitalistic (making a Ford that goes faster than a Ferrari ain’t exactly the space race), but the story is calibrated to emphasize the charms of its characters, not the competition nor the patriotism. The movie also happens to feature some of the best cinematic racing ever filmed.

Carroll Shelby (Matt Damon), a folksy, feisty Texan who quit racing for health reasons but still drives like a racer in his daily life, and Ken Miles (Christian Bale), a mercurial English gearhead who’s “difficult” to work with but gets results, have known each other for a while when we begin, in 1963. Carroll has his own automotive company; Ken is racing on the side while running a garage that he rules in the manner of a record store snob.

Carroll is recruited by the Ford Motor Company after a bright young junior executive named

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Lee Iacocca (Jon Bernthal) suggests to owner Henry Ford II (Tracy Letts) that they get into — and start dominating — the world of auto racing.

Ferrari is the current undisputed leader, and after failing to vanquish the company the old-fashioned way (i.e. by buying it — Enzo Ferrari refuses to sell), Ford chooses the next best route: pouring unlimited funds into getting the best car designers and drivers to produce a car that will win the 24 Hours of Le Mans race and stick it in stupid old Enzo Ferrari’s face. Carroll Shelby is whom they call on to oversee the project; Ken Miles is whom Carroll selects to be the driver, much to the dismay of the Ford execs — especially bootlicking Leo Beebe (Josh Lucas) — who feel Ken’s boisterous, unkempt persona isn’t a good representation of the Ford brand.

All of this takes some time to set up. The cars move fast; the movie, not particularly. But the screenplay, by brothers Jez and John-Henry Butterworth (Edge of Tomorrow) and Jason Keller (Machine Gun Preacher), though leisurely paced, gives Carroll and Ken plenty to do, separately and together: convincing Ford to let them do their thing; fighting with each other about how to do it; building, testing, driving and improving the car; and navigating the politics and bureaucracy of the Ford company.

Carroll’s family isn’t mentioned (in real life he was married several times and between wives when the film takes place), but Damon plays

him like a chummy dad, comfortable with his legacy as a former racer who still gets asked to sign autographs now and then. Ken has a wife (Caitriona Balfe) to fill the role of Concerned Wife on Phone (a must in any biopic about a bold man), and a son (Noah Jupe) who idolizes him, and the latter relationship yields some sweet moments.

Ken, who must learn to be a team player if he wants to get work and support his family, is the only character with an arc, which seems like a shame for Carroll, who has just as much screen time but is essentially the same at the end as he was at the beginning. (Not the same: Henry Ford II, who has a very amusing change of heart about the intricacies of auto racing after Carroll takes him for a spin around the track.)

And the racing! I’m not a car guy. All the jargon about sizes of engines and whatnot goes over my head.

I couldn’t care less who wins a race, and I have no particular affection for FORD V FERRARI the Ford corporation. But Rated PG-13 watching cars drive very Directed by James Mangold fast around dangerous Starring Matt Damon, Christian curves, cameras low to Bale, Tracy Letts, Jon Bernthal the ground, tires screeching like Satan himself, the action edited for maximum pulse-pounding effect — it doesn’t matter who’s driving or for what reason, that stuff is exciting. The danger and thrill of racing come across loud and clear (especially loud), and the participants’ enthusiasm for it is infectious.

It’s a sturdy, old-fashioned movie, made from a template but delivered with gusto. n

FILM | SHORTS

OPENING FILMS CHARLIE’S ANGELS

The ’70s TV show gets yet another bigscreen adaptation, with a new trio of secret agents — Kristen Stewart, Naomi Scott and Ella Balinska — engaging in global espionage. (NW) Rated PG-13

The Good Liar

FORD V. FERRARI

From director James Mangold, a slick dramatization of the relationship between the Ford auto designer (Matt Damon) and the pro driver (Christian Bale) who set out to beat Ferrari in the ’66 24 Hours of Le Mans race. (ES) Rated PG-13

NOW PLAYING THE ADDAMS FAMILY

America’s creepiest and kookiest clan gets the toon treatment in an episodic story that finds them moving to the decidedly un-spooky suburbs of New Jersey. Forgettable animated fare. (NW) Rated PG

THE CURRENT WAR

In the late 19th century, Edison and Westinghouse race to popularize their dueling electrical systems. This 2018 film was lost in the Weinstein scandal and is now being released in a director’s cut. (NW) Rated PG-13

DOCTOR SLEEP

Making a sequel to the horror classic The Shining seemed a fool’s errand, but director Mike Flanagan succeeded. Now grown-up, Danny Torrance encounters a girl who shares his gift for telepathy and is being chased by child-killing vampires. (MJ) Rated R

DOWNTON ABBEY

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

FANTASTIC FUNGI

The culinary, medicinal and psychotropic properties of mushrooms are explored and celebrated in this scientific nature documentary. At the Magic Lantern. (NW)

HARRIET

The humanitarian and abolitionist Harriet Tubman finally gets a biopic deserving of her legacy, anchored by an electric performance by Cynthia Erivo.

Old-fashioned filmmaking of the highest order. (MJ) Rated PG-13

JOJO RABBIT

In Taika Waititi’s WWII-set satire, a little boy with an imaginary friend who looks just like Hitler befriends the Jewish girl

THE GOOD LIAR

Ian McKellen is a lifelong con artist who unwittingly falls for his latest mark, a widow played by Helen Mirren. But she has secrets of her own. (NW) Rated R

Inspired by true events, a staffer under Sen. Dianne Feinstein uncovers the CIA’s illegal use of torture in the aftermath of 9/11. Adam Driver, Annette Bening and Jon Hamm star. At the Magic Lantern. (NW)

CRITICS’ SCORECARD

being hidden by his mother. Its juggling tones and bleak subject matter might not work for everyone. (ES) Rated PG-13

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JUDY

Renée Zellweger disappears into the role of legendary torch singer Judy Garland, whose career is falling apart in the final year of her life. The central performance is revelatory; the film itself is not.

At the Magic Lantern. (ES) Rated PG-13

LAST CHRISTMAS

Paul Feig directs this holiday dramedy about a reckless 20-something (Emilia Clarke) who starts to get her act together after falling for a mysterious, handsome stranger. (NW) Rated PG-13

THE LIGHTHOUSE

Robert Eggers’ follow-up to The Witch is another slow-burn period piece, with Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson as isolated lighthouse keepers going stir crazy. But unlike The Witch, this unnerving sea chantey is more bemusing than terrifying. (ES) Rated R

MALEFICENT: MISTRESS OF EVIL

The Sleeping Beauty villain returns, again played by Angelina Jolie and here going cheekbone to cheekbone with wicked queen Michelle Pfeiffer. The few good ideas of the original are traded in for endless spectacle resembling a video game cut-scene. (NW) Rated PG The 1942 Battle of Midway gets the noisy epic treatment from schlock king Roland Emmerich, with a sprawling cast that includes Woody Harrelson and

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DOCTOR SLEEP

60

HARRIET

67

JOJO RABBIT

58

THE LIGHTHOUSE

82

PAIN & GLORY

88

PARASITE

95

TERMINATOR: DARK FATE

54

JOKER

The Clown Prince gets his own origin story, with Joaquin Phoenix as a failed stand-up who violently lashes out at society. A Scorsese pastiche that’s not nearly as edgy as it thinks it is. (MJ) Rated R

MIDWAY

THE REPORT

DON’T MISS IT

WORTH $10

WATCH IT AT HOME

SKIP IT

Dennis Quaid. (NW) Rated PG-13

the Magic Lantern. (SR) Rated PG-13

MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN

PLAYING WITH FIRE

Edward Norton directs and stars in this adaptation of Jonathan Lethem’s bestseller, a ’50s-set noir following a private dick with Tourette’s and his search for his mentor’s murderer. (NW) Rated R

PAIN & GLORY

Spanish master Pedro Almodóvar reflects on his own life and career in this autobiographical meditation, starring Antonio Banderas as an aging film director reconnecting with his past. Beautiful, subtle and moving. (NW) Rated R

PARASITE

Satire, slapstick and secrecy collide in Bong Joon-ho’s twisty, Palme d’Or-winning contraption, about a poor South Korean family that insinuates itself into the lives of an upper class clan. Surprises abound. (NW) Rated R

THE PEANUT BUTTER FALCON

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

John Cena stars as the captain of an elite firefighter squad that meets its match when it takes in a trio of troublemaking kids. (NW) Rated PG

TERMINATOR: DARK FATE

The sixth Terminator installment finally brings Sarah Connor back into the fray.

Too bad it’s another rehash of what we’ve seen before, more evidence that this franchise remains stuck in the past.

(MJ) Rated R

WHERE’S MY ROY COHN?

A documentary portrait of controversial lawyer and political figure Roy Cohn, who held more behind-the-scenes clout than anyone could have imagined. At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Rated PG-13

ZOMBIELAND: DOUBLE TAP

A decade after the horror-comedy hit, our ragtag quartet of apocalypse survivors is back for more bloody adventures.

It’s hardly painful to sit through, but it’s not particularly funny and most of the jokes are retreads. (NW) Rated R n

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POP

NEW STYLE

Singer-songwriter Cami Bradley reinvents herself with the dark, moody sounds of Carmen Jane

BY NATHAN WEINBENDER

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he Cami Bradley you’ll see under the moniker of Carmen Jane isn’t the Cami Bradley you’ve seen singing plaintive arrangements of classic pop songs, or as one half of the folk duo the Sweeplings, or even the Cami Bradley you saw as a contestant on America’s Got Talent.

No, this project is slightly more adventurous and definitely more experimental, and Bradley, 31, admits she’s still trying to cement its identity. She describes the new sound as “dark pop,” and says that she was probably channeling the gothic electronics of Billie Eilish when she first went into the recording studio. But it’s still gestating.

“It’s very different from anything I’ve ever done,” Bradley tells the Inlander. “But I’m loving it. It’s the first time I’ve felt fully me in music.”

Bradley is still based in Spokane, but she’s regularly pinballing back and forth between here and Los Angeles, where she’s still feeling her way through the complicated machinations of the music industry. She’s also still making music with the Sweeplings, the folk duo she formed in 2013 with Alabama singer-songwriter Whitney Dean.

They don’t tour all that often, though they’ve reached a wide audience because their songs have appeared in commercials and on TV series like Pretty Little Liars and The Vampire Diaries.

But that’s just one of many musical irons that Bradley has in the fire. In a corner of Atticus on a busy Saturday afternoon, she has a brief respite before flying back to L.A.; this trip will be devoted to writing new material with her younger brother Ryan, who lives there and performs blues-rock under the stage name Dirt Miller.

Bradley says she needs those professional partnerships to push her style in unexpected directions. Though

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she put out a few solo releases pre-Sweeplings, she says now that she was never fully satisfied with those songs once they were committed to tape: “Maybe I hadn’t lived enough life or felt enough things to be as deep as I wanted. The sound was never real enough to me.

“You get into a groove — and it’s a good one. But I wasn’t really expanding upon how I wrote or who I wrote with,” she continues. “The Sweeplings is one of the most amazing things, but it’s only one side of me as an artist. And there was another side that I also wanted to get out there.”

Carmen Jane is different. It feels a bit more grown-up, more sure of itself, moodier and edgier than anything she’s done before. The acoustic hush of the Sweeplings has given way to slinky synthesizers and club-ready beats, and while Bradley’s powerful voice is still at the center, it’s almost unrecognizable from the more delicate intimacy of her previous solo work.

As a project, Carmen Jane has been a collaboration with producer Nico Rebscher, who had an international hit co-writing Alice Merton’s jittery pop song “No Roots.”

Bradley has traveled to his native Germany to write and record with him, and she says their connection was almost immediate.

“I’ve always had in my head what I wanted [this sound] to be and could never get someone to understand,” Bradley says. “The first chords [Nico] played on the piano was, ‘Yes, that’s exactly what I’m talking about.’

And he’s really good at pushing me beyond my limits.”

Bradley doesn’t want to be defined by her time on America’s Got Talent back in 2013, but she’s also aware that her career would look a lot different if she hadn’t been given that kind of national platform. Bradley was

an unassuming audience favorite during the competition show’s eighth season, eventually taking sixth place amongst a pool of thousands of performers. She didn’t take on a recording contract immediately after her run on the show, which is usually de rigueur for newfound TV stars, and she has no regrets about it now.

“There’s a subsidiary of the music industry that’s made for cover bands and reality stars,” Bradley says.

“You can be successful in that for sure, but I’m coming back into the L.A. world fresh and with a new name, so people don’t tie me to that. I definitely don’t have regrets now that I’m dipping my toe back into it, and realizing that it was a smart decision.”

And now she’s on a totally different trajectory as Carmen Jane — which are Bradley’s real first and middle names — though the handful of songs merely exist in the demo stage right now. This upcoming show is her second ever with the project, following a performance at the Bartlett back in September. Bradley describes that first concert as “a little experiment,” a spontaneous gig she arranged with a drummer and a keyboard player and announced a couple weeks before the actual show. They ended up selling out the venue, and as soon as she started playing her new songs, Bradley knew that Carmen Jane had potential.

“I told my husband as I walked off stage that I felt like, for the first time, I had found myself as an artist,” Bradley says. “And I was excited to put it out there so that everybody could hear it.” n Carmen Jane with CATE • Thu, Nov. 21 at 8:30 pm • $10 • 21+ • Lucky You Lounge • 1801 W. Sunset Blvd.

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MUSIC | ROCK

Words & Guitar With layered guitar lines and lyrical repetition, indie rockers Hippo Campus marry the melodic with the morbid

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he St. Paul-based indie-rock band Hippo Campus’s 2018 sophomore album, Bambi, is easy on the ears with its slickly produced vocal hooks and jangly guitars. But frontman Jake Luppen touches on the heavy subjects of mental health, suicide, vulnerability, toxic masculinity and the #MeToo movement.

This results in a “Pumped Up Kicks” type of effect, where happy-sounding music is paired with incongruously gruesome lyrics. On bouncy summertime jam “Suicide Saturday,” for example, Luppen sings: “Cocked her father’s gun, like the oldest son / She could try, she could try it / Blessed by the bed where she laid her head and calmed to a dull roar.”

“Suicide Saturday” also features one of Hippo Campus’ signature instrumental traits: Guitars and vocals repeating the same phrase back and forth, or playing it simultaneously. It’s a trick employed on many of the band’s most popular songs, including “Buttercup” and “Way It Goes.”

Guitarist Nathan Stocker says he’s been consistently drawn to that songwriting mechanism since Hippo Campus’ 2017 debut album, Landmark.

“Some of my favorite vocal melodies are ones that are doubled by guitar,” he says. “I never think of myself as a lead guitarist. Everything exists on this one plane.”

Hippo Campus is on the road through the end of the year and stopping at Knitting Factory on Saturday. Speaking from Lawrence, Kansas, Stocker explains that his simple-yet-melodic guitar style is due partially to watching YouTube videos of acoustic fingerstyle guitar players like Andy McKee and imitating the parts he liked.

“That kind of shit blew my mind,” he says.

“I think Guitar Hero also deserves credit, as well.

Even beyond guitar players, but for our generation, that exposed everybody to different ideas about the music industry and what it’s like to dream about being a rock star. It had such a wide array of songs that kids otherwise wouldn’t have known about unless they went to the School of Rock or their parents listened to it.”

In addition to such screen-based influences, Stocker has a background as a piano player. As a result, he thinks of the guitar as having “two voices,” or rhythm and lead parts occurring simultaneously.

“I pictured the guitar neck as a piano, pertaining to intervals and stuff like that,” he says.

The Dodos, an indie-rock band out of San

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Francisco, have also had a big impact on Stocker’s guitar playing, both in terms of the tones and level of intricacy he adopts. He’s somewhat of a minimalist who preaches the importance of leaving blank space in songs and “not hiding behind a mask of reverb and tremolo.”

“A lot of my playing is just chilling in my room,” he says. “Developing my own voice has always been more important than playing fast or being super precise. A lot of that comes from looping and playing with myself. Not in that way, but, you know, yeah — guitar masturbation, in a certain way, has helped me out a lot.”

Moving forward, however, Stocker and his bandmates aren’t interested in a solitary creative process. Hippo Campus is due to take an extended break early next year, but Stocker expects the band to steer toward broader horizons once they’re back together.

“We’re going to spend some time re-evaluating our goals within the songwriting process,” he says. “In terms of sonics, we’re all interested in more experimental stuff. In terms of songwriting, we want it to be less isolated, not just these two people writing together.”

The “experimental stuff” will probably involve a more thorough exploration of the electronic, math- and post-rock elements that color Hippo Campus’ pop songs.

“It’s weird, trying to balance what a song needs with what you want for the song,” Stocker says. “I think the need to experiment has always been there, so now we’re going to lean into our want to experiment. So, that’s kind of exciting.” n Hippo Campus with the Greeting Committee • Sat, Nov. 16 at 8 pm • $25 • All ages • Knitting Factory • 919 W. Sprague • sp.knittingfactory.com • 244-3279

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MUSIC | SOUND ADVICE

HIP-HOP SUGARHILL GANG

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t’s possible that modern hip-hop would look a lot different if the Sugarhill Gang hadn’t come along. Their 1979 single “Rapper’s Delight,” buoyed by a sample of Chic’s “Good Times,” was the first rap hit and ushered the genre into the mainstream, with other hip-hop pioneers like Run-DMC and Erik B. & Rakim following right behind. Forty years later and original Gang members Wonder Mike and Master Gee are back at it, and they’ll be performing in Sandpoint alongside Grandmaster Melle Mel of groundbreaking hip-hop collective the Furious 5. Vintage rap fans shouldn’t miss it.

— NATHAN WEINBENDER The Sugarhill Gang with Grandmaster Mele Mel • Fri, Nov. 15 at 9 pm • $25 advance, $30 at the door • 21+ • The Hive • 207 N. First St., Sandpoint • beeswaxsystems.com/thehive

J = THE INLANDER RECOMMENDS THIS SHOW J = ALL AGES SHOW

Thursday, 11/14

A&P’S BAR AND GRILL, Open Mic Night with KC Carter J BABY BAR, Jan Francisco, Sleepspent BERSERK, Vinyl Meltdown BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn THE BIG DIPPER, Johnny Luv, Soultree, Kyle Siegel BOLO’S, Inland Empire Blues Society Monthly Blues Boogie J BOOTS BAKERY & LOUNGE, The Song Project BRIDGE PRESS CELLARS, Open Mic J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, Open Jazz Jam with Erik Bowen CALYPSOS COFFEE ROASTERS, Troll, Bosco Mujo, Merlock CHECKERBOARD BAR, Jrod The Problem, Alan Wayne, Buddha CRUISERS, Open Jam Night FIZZIE MULLIGANS, Country Dance J J MARTIN WOLDSON THEATER AT THE FOX, Ray LaMontagne THE GILDED UNICORN, Starlite Motel GLOBE BAR & KITCHEN, Late Night Snaq J HOUSE OF SOUL, Jazz Thursdays J J KNITTING FACTORY, Matisyahu J LAGUNA CAFÉ, Just Plain Darin LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Jonathan Tibbitts LION’S LAIR, Karaoke MOOSE LOUNGE, Last Chance Band MY PLACE, DJ Dave THE NYC PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos J THE PIN, The Last Ten Seconds of Life, Odyssey, Throneburner, Smiles THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos feat. Christan Raxter & Steve Ridler TAPP’D OFF, Karaoke on the Patio YAYA BREWING COMPANY, Jonathan Tibbetts ZOLA, Blake Braley Band

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inger-songwriter Heather Mae isn’t afraid to take on the kind of complex subjects that so much commercial pop shies away from. Her identity as an openly queer, plus-size woman living with bipolar disorder is a defining feature of her music, and following a period when she was unable to perform due to vocal cord nodules, Mae has said that she’s determined to use her voice to make a difference. Her latest album Glimmer is a collection of moody, empowering songs dealing with mental health, women’s rights, racial prejudice and LGBTQ+ love stories.

— NATHAN WEINBENDER Heather Mae with Atari Ferrari • Sun, Nov. 17 at 8 pm • $10 advance, $12 at the door • 21+ • nYne Bar & Bistro • 232 W. Sprague • heathermae.bpt.me • 474-1621

Friday, 11/15

219 LOUNGE, Nights of Neon 1210 TAVERN, Phil-N-Prescriptions THE AGING BARREL, Just Plain Darin ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, KOSH J BEASLEY COLISEUM, Big & Rich with Cowboy Troy BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn J THE BIG DIPPER, Hirie, RDGLDGRN, Tunnel Vision BIGFOOT PUB, Steve Starkey Band BOLO’S, Mojo Box BOOMBOX PIZZA, Karaoke BRIDGE PRESS CELLARS, Dragonfly J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, The Chelseas THE BULL HEAD, Smoke’n Wheels CHINOOK STEAK, PASTA AND SPIRITS (CDA CASINO), Kyle Swaffard CORBY’S BAR, Karaoke COSMIC COWBOY GRILL, Robby French CRUISERS, Karaoke with Gary CURLEY’S, The Caretakers THE FISCHIN’ HOLE SALOON, Joey Anderson

J FORZA COFFEE CO. (SOUTH HILL), One Trick Pony GEEKS & GLORY, Dieselboy, Radikill, Akoma, Appollotone, DJ Differential J THE HIVE, Sugarhill Gang (see above), Furious 5’s Grandmaster Mele Mel IDAHO POUR AUTHORITY, Ron Kieper Jazz Trio IRON HORSE (CDA), The Nudge THE JACKSON ST., Mad Love JOHN’S ALLEY, SoDown J KNITTING FACTORY, The Next Big Thing feat. Thompson Square, Noah Schnacky, Jackson Michelson, Brandon Ratcliff & Nate Botsford LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Joshua Belliardo J LUCKY YOU LOUNGE, Tyrone Wells, Dan Rodriguez; DJ Storme (basement) MAX AT MIRABEAU, Tuck Foster & The Tumbling Dice MICKDUFF’S BEER HALL, Devon Wade MOOSE LOUNGE, Dirty Betty

MULLIGAN’S BAR & GRILLE, Jan Harrison & Steve Brody MY PLACE, DJ Dave NASHVILLE NORTH, Ladies Night with Luke Jaxon and DJ Tom NIGHTHAWK LOUNGE (CDA CASINO), Ryan Larsen Band THE NYC PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Mike Wagoner Trio THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos feat. Christan Raxter & Steve Ridler J SARANAC COMMONS, Kevin Partridge SPOKANE VALLEY EAGLES, Into the Drift Duo STORMIN’ NORMAN’S SHIPFACED SALOON, DJ Danger UP NORTH DISTILLERY, Bill Bozly WHIM WINE BAR, Nick Grow ZOLA, Pastiche

Saturday, 11/16

219 LOUNGE, Mudslide Charlie 1210 TAVERN, Jan Harrison Jazz Trio

ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, KOSH BERSERK, Soul Man Black, Portable Morla BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn BIGFOOT PUB, Steve Starkey Band BOLO’S, Mojo Box BRANDYWINE BAR & BOTTLE SHOP, Katie Fisher BRIDGE PRESS CELLARS, Dragonfly J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, Colby Acuff CHINOOK STEAK, PASTA AND SPIRITS (CDA CASINO), Kyle Swaffard COSMIC COWBOY GRILL, Sam Leyde CURLEY’S, The Caretakers THE HIVE, JamShack HONEY EATERY AND SOCIAL CLUB, The DIGaddie J HOP MOUNTAIN TAPROOM AND GRILL, Just Plain Darin J HUCKLEBERRY’S NATURAL MARKET, Dallas Kay HUNTERS BAR & GRILL, My Own Worst Enemy IDAHO POUR AUTHORITY, Ponderay Paradox

IRON HORSE (COEUR D’ALENE), The Nudge THE JACKSON ST., Karaoke JOHN’S ALLEY, The Bedspins J J KNITTING FACTORY, Hippo Campus (see page 41), The Greeting Committee LEFTBANK WINE BAR, NICK GROW LUCKY YOU LOUNGE, Trego, Mother Yeti; DJ WesOne (basement) MAX AT MIRABEAU, Tuck Foster & The Tumbling Dice MOOSE LOUNGE, Dirty Betty MULLIGAN’S BAR & GRILLE, Fancee That NASHVILLE NORTH, Ladies Night with Luke Jaxon and DJ Tom NIGHTHAWK LOUNGE (CDA CASINO), Ryan Larsen Band THE NYC PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos ONE WORLD CAFE, Porch Light PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Tonedevil Brothers POST FALLS BREWING COMPANY, Rusty Jackson THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos feat. Christan Raxter & Steve Ridler STORMIN’ NORMAN’S SHIPFACED SALOON, DJ Danger

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THE NYC PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos RED ROOM LOUNGE, Open Mic with Lucas Brookbank Brown ZOLA, Glass Honey

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Tuesday, 11/19

CRAVE, DJ Dave DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS, Rev. Yo’s VooDoo Church of Blues Jam GARLAND PUB & GRILL, Karaoke HOGFISH, Open Mic IRON HORSE (VALLEY), The Ronaldos J KNITTING FACTORY, Buku, Esseks, Secret Recipe LINGER LONGER LOUNGE, Open Jam THE NYC PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos J NYNE, Heather Mae (see facing page), Atari Ferrari O’DOHERTY’S, Traditional Irish Music PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Piano Sunday with Peter Lucht RED ROOM LOUNGE, Jason Perry Trio THE ROXIE, Hillyard Billys J SOUTH HILL GRILL, Just Plain Darin ZOLA, Glass Honey

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J BITTERROOT TATTOO, Watabou, Decide Today, Lip Sick THE BULL HEAD, Songsmith Series J CALYPSOS COFFEE ROASTERS, Open Mic COSMIC COWBOY GRILL, Maxie Ray Mills CRAVE, DJ Dave EICHARDT’S, Monday Night Jam with Truck Mills

219 LOUNGE, Karaoke with DJ Pat BOOMBOX PIZZA, Karaoke CRAVE, DJ Dave GARLAND PUB & GRILL, Karaoke J LUCKY YOU LOUNGE, That 1 Guy THE NYC PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos J THE PIN, Sons of Texas, September Mourning, Chase the Sun RAZZLE’S BAR & GRILL, Songsmith Series feat. Nathan Chartrey THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Country Swing Dancing THE ROXIE, Open Mic/Jam SWEET LOU’S RESTAURANT AND TAP HOUSE, Echo Elysium TAPP’D OFF, Karaoke on the Patio THE VIKING, Songsmith Series ZOLA, Desperate 8s

Wednesday, 11/20

219 LOUNGE, Truck Mills & Carl Rey J AARON HUFF MEMORIAL CULTURAL CENTER, Chris Trapper BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn J BLACK DIAMOND, Songsmith Series feat. Jonathan Tibbetts CRAVE, DJ Dave CRUISERS, Open Jam Night Hosted by The Jam Band GENO’S TRADITIONAL FOOD & ALES, Open Mic IRON HORSE (COEUR D’ALENE), Open Jam

IRON HORSE (VALLEY), Katelyn Bartel THE JACKSON ST., Karaoke LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Carey Brazil LUCKY’S IRISH PUB, DJ D3VIN3 MAD BOMBER BREWING COMPANY, Open Mic THE NYC PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos J RED DRAGON CHINESE, Tommy G RED ROOM LOUNGE, Blowin’ Kegs Jam Session THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos feat. Christan Raxter & Steve Ridler STORMIN’ NORMAN’S SHIPFACED SALOON, Clint & Troy ZOLA, Cruxie

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LUCKY YOU LOUNGE, Milonga, Black Dolly, Nov. 22 J SPOKANE ARENA, Trans-Siberian Orchestra: Christmas Eve and Other Stories, Nov. 22 THE BIG DIPPER, Scarlett O’Hara, Nov. 23 NORTHERN QUEST RESORT & CASINO, Urban Cowboy Reunion feat. Mickey Gilley and Johnny Lee, Nov. 24 J THE PIN, Demun Jones, Nov. 24 J SPOKANE ARENA, Slayer, Nov. 24 J KNITTING FACTORY, Free the Jester, Everyone Loves a Villain, Becoming Ghosts, Lilac City Dynamics, Nov. 27

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THEATER RESURRECTED CLASSIC

Celebrating 50 years as one of theater’s most iconic productions, Jesus Christ Superstar got a little refurbishing to help celebrate its anniversary. The new production arriving in Spokane Nov. 20 was reinvented in London a couple years ago by director Timothy Sheader to give the familiar tale recounting the last weeks of Jesus Christ’s life, as seen through the eyes of Judas, a modern twist while celebrating the legendary soundtrack full of songs by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. This version won a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Musical Revival, and while its themes and plot remain the same, seeing an updated take on this timeless story should be a thrill for folks who have seen past productions.

— DAN NAILEN Jesus Christ Superstar • Nov. 20-24: Wed-Fri at 7:30 pm, Sat at 2 pm and 7:30 pm, Sun at 1 pm and 6 pm • $60-$115 • First Interstate Center for the Arts • 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. • broadwayspokane.com • 279-7000

WORDS BIG, GIANT VISIT

Literary junkies always get a kick out of accomplished authors coming to town, and Eastern Washington University continues to give the people what they want. EWU’s Visiting Writers Series is bringing in yet another talented writer to the region this weekend.

Christopher Boucher — the author of novels like How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive (2011), Golden Delicious (2016) and Big Giant Floating Head (2019), and a professor of literature and writing at Boston College — is bringing his knowledge all the way from his Massachusetts home to Spark Central for a reading and discussion of his work. If you enjoy the written word but want to venture outside of the local scene, this is an excellent opportunity.

— CONNOR GILBERT EWU Visiting Writers Series: Chris Boucher • Fri, Nov. 15 at 7:30 pm • Free • Spark Central • 1214 W. Summit Pkwy • spark-central.org

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MUSIC BEATS, RHYMES & LIFE

For nearly two decades, Matisyahu has been making music that really makes you think while you’re indulging in a raucous party atmosphere. Born Matthew Miller, the rapper initially gained attention within the hip-hop community because so much of his image was defined by his Orthodox Jewish faith. He has since transformed himself, both physically and spiritually, but his lyrics still grapple with the complexities and the inherent contradictions of religion, and with the grand mystery that is life. If you’ve ever seen him live, then you’ll know that he’s a commanding stage presence, and that as a performer he radiates nothing but good feelings.

— NATHAN WEINBENDER Matisyahu • Thu, Nov. 14 at 8 pm • $25 • All ages • Knitting Factory • 919 W. Sprague • sp.knittingfactory.com • 244-3279

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And all of it is housed in a new location this year in the Spokane Convention Center’s Exhibition Halls.

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MUSIC ONE GIANT LEAP

For its fourth Masterworks series concert, the Spokane Symphony is bringing the sounds of the moon a little closer, 50 years after humankind set foot on its rocky surface. Under the direction of guest conductor Roger Kalia, the orchestra performs space-themed classical music, including Debussy’s “Clair de Lune” and Holst’s “The Planets,” paired with science-themed programming celebrating one of humanity’s greatest achievements. Emmy-nominated astronomer José Francisco Salgado introduces accompanying NASA films and special effects set to the music, and Spokane’s own astronaut Anne McClain shares her experiences in space at the International Space Station. Come early to view special displays in the lobby and other activities, along with a pre-concert talk an hour before each show.

— CHEY SCOTT Spokane Symphony Masterworks: 50th Anniversary of the Moon Landing • Sat, Nov. 16 at 8 pm and Sun, Nov. 17 at 3 pm • $21-$66; free to students K-12 (call to reserve) • Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox • 1001 W. Sprague • spokanesymphony.org • 624-1200

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any officer give any motorist a ticket downtown, ever? I’ve been doing delivery downtown for four years and I’ve never seen it. So next time a pedestrian or cyclist gets killed by an aggressive or negligent driver, do we even have to ask who was to blame? Spokane drivers can literally get away with murder. If the Spokane Police cared about the safety of people living and working downtown, they would stop wasting time harassing the poor and start ticketing negligent motorists.

SOLIDARITY IN THE SLUMP I saw you at Ben Stuckart’s Tuesday election results event. In fact, I saw all of Spokane’s young thinkers and achievers. All of our sage and experienced leaders and success stories of equality, justice and creativity. I felt the collective slump in the crowd, alongside you, as we heard the news. What a sore night for our community. The small glimmers of hope were your supportive smile, those amazing catered treats and the shared sense of community and solidarity. I owe you a drink next time. Also: Ben, one for you — on me, too.

I SAW YOU CANOPY CREDIT UNION LOUNGE We saw each other on Halloween Eve in the Lobby of Canopy Credit Union. You were sitting in the lounge fiddling with your beanie. That smile tho!!! You made it very hard to pay attention to the transaction at hand. Next time I’ll try to catch your name. “Nice boots!”

CHEERS

3 YEARS OF “PERFECTION” . . . It’s me again, the short lady who saw you, the tall man, in the waiting room at Perfection Tires 3 years ago this month.

Yes, I’m still short, you’re still tall, and we’re still getting our snow tires on at the same place. We’re still having the time of our lives, and as I predicted in last year’s “I Saw You”, 2019 has been an exciting year for us. You see, dear Inlander readers, this short lady and this tall man are getting married in a few days! It just goes to prove, you never know when a chance encounter could totally change your life!

MY CALM IN THE STORM Only you could find joy in a hectic post-rough week jaunt to Taco Bell with two overactive children.

I find amazement in your strength, support, optimism and guidance each day.

I love you.

CHEERS TO BOB Sitting a couple of stools from us at Jeremiah Johnson’s brewery in CDA, Bob overheard us mention that it was our 15th anniversary and we had celebrated so far by hiking Mineral Ridge. Bob corralled our waitress without our noticing and paid our bill before he left. Your act of kindness made a good day even better and we will certainly pay it forward.

I AM BEYOND I AM BEYOND GRATEFUL TO HAVE YOU IN MY LIFE Please marry me you are better than I deserve. I am so grateful. Mr. JD, my daddy, I love you and am honored to be in your life and I can’t be sorry enough for the past but now we are new.

JEERS RE: RE - DIGNITY AND SELF RESPECT I’m not shallow or narrow minded, Mr. Ciao. I had a temporary moment of

DOWNTOWN SPOKANE Have you ever seen a car pulled over downtown getting a citation from a cop? Have you seen

weakness and was taken advantage of.

You’re right, not all men are pigs like my message would suggest, but because I assume “he” will be genuine, I get taken advantage of. One of my flaws is wearing my heart on my sleeve, which makes me vulnerable to predators, like the Mr. Wrong I went on a rant about. I hadn’t

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dated for over a year and finally allowed someone to get close and date on a regular basis, then he slipped and told me that his “roommate” was actually HIS WIFE. Thank you for putting my a$$ back in check, Mr. Ciao, and thank you for being one of the good guys. Hopefully it’s contagious! <Muah> RE: WELCOME TO SPOKANE To the dummy who wrote the jeers about Spokane welcome, I have fulfilled your challenge and found: 1. No need for security scans in grocery stores. The poor people just want free stuff. 2. Nobody asked me for a beer downtown but I got asked for a lot of money and gave it all away because it’s important that those who don’t work are able to eat. 3. I saw a lot of people with cardboard signs and markers and gave them money so they could buy more markers and food.

4. I saw a lot of tents by the river but they had their piles of garbage stacked neatly by their fecal piles. 5. I saw people outside grocery stores and gave them money so they could get food inside. 6. I didn’t see any security around any of the areas. My guess is because Spokane has so much crime, they’re probably busy with that. I did go close to the river and only saw a few needles and a little garbage close to the feces and toilet paper.

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about their communities. They are like the Trump supporters thinking what they can GET, not what is best for all of us in Spokane. I spoke with other voters, the ones who believed the erroneous “blurbs” about Mrs. Clinton, who didn’t care about the experienced and knowledgeable candidate and voted for the “celebrity.” All of you should feel ashamed, but you won’t. You’ll stick your fingers in your lapels and say “I won” because Spokane didn’t.

SKATEBOARDER ON GARLAND To the trashy girl on the skateboard with the verbal diarrhea who barked at us for taking up too much room while holding hands on Garland’s tight sidewalk... a couple of things. 1. You should read Spokane Municipal Code 16A. You do not have the right of way. 2. We don’t have eyes in the back of our heads and could not see you coming until you were already getting off your skateboard. 3.

Brush your hair, you’re a mess. Try not to get hit by a car and maybe say a sincere kind word from time to time.

You must have someone in your family you’d like to make proud by making the world warmer and not the toxic garbage your mouth can’t help but to projectile vomit. 4. If that’s too unreasonable, maybe you would travel better by broom

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and a waste of life on this earth. But in return they tell you a story on how many times that they were pulled over drunk and not arrested and how the cop followed them home... Congrats old dude, you didn’t kill somebody drinking and driving.

RE: RESPONSE OF ROAD RAGE GRANDPAS Excuse me for being concerned about road rage, older gentleman.

Seriously, your response and rude comments were uncalled for. I am in no way an ageist and actually spend a lot of my time with the elder community. I am not a whiner, or a spoiled brat. I have friends who have died in accidents caused from road raging GRANDPAS. I’m far from either of those. Good thing I know who I am, you condescending asshole. Have a nice life. n

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NOT SURPRISED The citizens of Spokane voted exactly like I thought they would.

Voting in I-976 because they don’t care

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Safe travels now, you nasty little witch!

Maybe you would travel better by broom stick. They’re cheap and they sell them everywhere, just be careful for splinters.

Safe travels now, you nasty little witch!

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EXCHANGE CLUB OF SPOKANE CRAB FEED The 53rd annual event supports local organizations working to prevent child abuse: The Vanessa Behan Crisis Nursery, Children’s Home Society and Partners with Families and Children.

Nov. 15, 4:30-11 pm. Spokane Convention Center, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. downtownspokaneexchangeclub.org KYRS SILENT AUCTION GALA Enjoy jazzy delights from Pink Tango, then party with Floating Crowbar, the region’s premiere Irish folk ensemble.

Dinner features Syrian food from Feast World Kitchen, with beer courtesy of Iron Goat and wine. Nov. 16, 7-10 pm. $25. Hamilton Studio, 1427 W. Dean Ave. kyrs.org (747-3012) MURDER MYSTERY FUNDRAISER Resident art collector and local philanthropist Harriet “Harry” Builgamore hosts this annual event to benefit local charities and the community. Nov. 16, 5:30 pm. $35. Jacklin Arts & Cultural Center, 405 N. William St., Post Falls. thejacklincenter.org OPEN YOUR PURSE FOR THE KIDS Join shops at the Coeur d’Alene Resort for a shopping event featuring gently used purses, handbags, wallets and accessories. All proceed benefit the grief support and child safety program of Inland Northwest SIDS Foundation. Nov. 16, 10 am. Free. Coeur d’Alene Resort, 115 S. Second. cdaresort.com FURRBALL The annual gala dinner and auction is the Spokane Humane Society’s biggest fundraiser of the year, now celebrating its 20th anniversary, with silent/live auctions, live music, a gourmet dinner, wine, adoptable animals and more. Nov. 16, 5:30-10 pm. $125. Davenport Grand, 333 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. spokanehumanesociety.org SPALIDAYS! Bring in the holiday season with spa mini services, hors d’oeuvres, wine, shopping, a fashion show and more in support of Project Beauty Share. Nov. 17, 4:30 pm. $25$75. Northern Quest, 100 N. Hayford Rd. northernquest.com WARM FOR THE WINTER A winter clothing drive in memory of Charlene Jackson-Dixon to support Union Gospel Mission, Blessings Under the Bridge and Vanessa Behan Crisis Nursery. Donations of socks and gloves can also be dropped off at West Valley High School, Centennial Middle School and Market Street Auto Licensing. Nov. 18-22. Nov. 18-22. Whitworth University, 300 W. Hawthorne Rd. whitworth.edu BLUFF TALKS Friends of the Bluff hosts five members of the Spokane community to share unique stories related to the High Drive Bluff Park. Nov. 20, 6:309 pm. $10 suggested donation, $20 for families. Montvale Event Center, 1017 W. First. (413-2915)

COMEDY

JOSH BLUE Perhaps best known as the comedian who puts the cerebral in Cerebral Palsy, Blue centers of his selfdeprecating act around his disability.

Nov. 14-16 at 7:30 pm, Nov. 16 at 10 pm. $15-$28. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com COMEDY FOR A CAUSE Presented by the Panida and Bonner County Food Bank, featuring nationally touring comedian Richie Minervini, with opener Sam Cornett. Nov. 15, 7:30-9:30 pm. $20. Pan-

ida Theater, 300 N. First Ave. panida.org COMEDY OPEN MIC Tell some jokes, share some laughs. Signups at 6, funnies start at 6:30. Third Friday of the month from 6-8 pm. Free. Calypsos Coffee, 116 E. Lakeside. bit.ly/2LVJXET JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER Improv based on book genres, titles, plots and more. Fridays in November at 7:30 pm. $8. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheatre.com (747-7045) SAFARI The BDT’s version of “Whose Line,” a fast-paced short-form improv show with a few twists added. Fridays at 7:30 pm. $8. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheatre.com ROASTAMANIA Four comedians perform stand-up and go head to head in a battle of wits and insults. Sept. 22 and Nov. 17 at 7:30 pm. Nov. 17, 7:30 pm. $5-$12. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com

COMMUNITY

DIABETES DAY The event includes a Q&A with a healthcare provider, info booths, blood glucose checks, risk assessments and more. Nov. 14, 3-6 pm.

Free. Kootenai Health, 2003 Kootenai Health Way. DiabetesDay2019.eventbrite.com (208-666-2000) EXHIBIT: THE HANFORD SITE This exhibit shares what it was like to live in a town centered around a top secret project and what’s done at the decommissioned site today, exploring the science and history behind Hanford. Open daily during library hours through Nov. 30. Free. North Spokane Library, 44 E. Hawthorne Rd. (893-8350) INLAND NORTHWEST WOMEN OF THE YEAR Featuring Karen Wicke, former Google exec and bestselling author and Tess Vigeland, former host of Marketplace Money and author. Nov. 14, 7 pm. $6. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague. bingcrosbytheater.com POINSETTIA OPEN HOUSE Purchase poinsettias grown by SCC horticulture students. More than 20 varieties, along with houseplants, are available. Nov. 1415, 10 am-5 pm. Spokane Community College, 1810 N. Greene. scc.spokane.edu VINTAGE VIXEN’S HOLIDAY SALE Shop from local vendors offering antiques, paper crafts, jewelry, vintage clothing, decorations, retro items and more. Bring a non-perishable food item for the local food bank and get entered into a drawing. Nov. 15, 9 am-5 pm; Nov. 14, 9 am-4 pm. Free. Ritter’s Garden & Gift, 10120 N. Division. 4ritter.com BEGINNING BEEKEEPING CLASSES This classes shares what to know to start successfully raising and caring for bees. Topics include hive types, equipment needed, bee diseases and pests and much more. Nov. 16, 10 am-4 pm. $50. Cheney Library, 610 First St. wpbeekeepers.org/services/classes COMMUNITY RESOURCE EXCHANGE This event is targeted to people seeking assistance for housing, education, employment, food, and healthcare.

More than 25 regional nonprofits are on site. Nov. 16, 10 am-2 pm. Free. Spokane Resource Center, 130 S. Arthur St. unitedwayspokane.org (867-8188) HOME ENERGY SAVING TIPS Allen Gates, certified building analyst and owner of SynerGreen Home Perfection, teaches basics of a home energy audit for a safe, comfortable, energy efficient and healthy living environment. Nov.

16, 2-3 pm. Free. Hillyard Library, 4005 N. Cook St. (444-5300) JIGSAW PUZZLE SWAP Trade jigsaw puzzles you’ve completed for a new challenge. Please only bring puzzles that have all of their pieces; can be any difficulty level. Nov. 16, 10 am-noon.

Free. North Spokane Library, 44 E. Hawthorne Rd. scld.org/events (893-8350) QUILTS: A BRIEF HISTORY & HOW TO CARE FOR THEM In conjunction with the exhibition “Memory and Meaning: Textiles from the Permanent Collection,” textile researcher Dana Fobes Bowne explores quiltmaking history and offers a rare opportunity to view several quilts in the museum’s collection too fragile to exhibit. Nov. 16, 2 pm. $10 suggested donation. The MAC, 2316 W. First. northwestmuseum.org MURDERED & MISSING INDIGENOUS WOMEN Thousands of Native women and girls have vanished with no official accounting. Margo Hill, a Spokane tribal member and attorney, explains how the complicated jurisdictions of Indian Country make it difficult to protect Native women. Nov. 17, 1-2:30 pm. Free.

South Hill Library, 3324 S. Perry. spokanelibrary.org (444-5300) SALISH SCHOOL OF SPOKANE Students and faculty present stories and songs in the Interior Salish language and discuss successful revitalization efforts. Also learn some words in Salish.

Nov. 19, 4-5 pm. Free. Shadle Library, 2111 W. Wellesley. spokanelibrary.org HACKING DEMOCRACY: WHAT SOCIAL MEDIA IS DOING TO US POLITICS Join political scientist and WSU Professor Travis Ridout to explore the pros and cons of social media in political campaigns. While social media use gives citizens access to a wealth of information, it also exposes them to messages that are carefully tailored and targeted in a highly sophisticated manner. Nov. 21, 7 pm. Free. Spokane Valley Library, 12004 E. Main. (893-8400) LADIES NIGHT: MRS. CLAUS NIGHT OUT Kick off Christmas at Ritters with Vegas-themed cocktails or wine, savory appetizers, light dinner, dessert and traditional games. Nov. 21, 6:30-8:30 pm. $34-$39. Ritter’s Garden & Gift, 10120 N. Division. 4ritter.com LILAC CITY LIVE! An all new Lilac City Live! Hear from local authors, musicians, artists, comedians and more.

Doors at 7, show starts at 8. Nov. 21, 8-9 pm. Free. Downtown Spokane Library, 906 W. Main. spokanelibrary.org

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FILM

BANFF MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL The annual winter sports and adventure film festival returns to Spokane for it’s 2019-20 tour. Nov. 15-16 at 7 pm, Nov. 17 at 6 pm. [SOLD OUT] Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague. (227-7404) DOWNTON ABBEY The Crawley family and their staff prepare for a visit from the King and Queen of England.

The Panida serves afternoon tea for this special event. Nov. 16, 12-2 pm. $9. Panida Theater, 300 N. First Ave. panida.org LETTER FROM MASANJIA Peabodywinning filmmaker Leon Lee chronicles events that ultimately led to the closure of one of China’s most notorious modern-day labor camps. Nov. 16, 1 pm.

Free. Shadle Library, 2111 W. Wellesley Ave. spokanelibrary.org

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VAPING

An Unusual Suspect The CDC believes it’s found the culprit behind the vaping-related illnesses

BY WILL MAUPIN

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he Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced on Nov. 8 that a breakthrough development had been made in its investigation into the cause of the nationwide vape crisis.

Vitamin E acetate, a chemical with a benign, even beneficial, sounding name, is the likely culprit.

The CDC stated in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report that vitamin E acetate was found in samples taken from 29 patients across 10 states. The findings provide “direct evidence of vitamin E acetate at the primary site of injury.” The CDC’s report states that vitamin E acetate appears to be a cause, but more research is needed because “it is possible that more than one compound or ingredient could be a cause of lung injury.” But it also states that other potential culprits the CDC looked into such as plant oils, distillates and terpenes were not found at the site of injury.

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SO, WHAT IS VITAMIN E ACETATE?

If you’re the type to read ingredients lists, you’ve probably run across it before. It’s a vitamin, so it has health benefits.

A shelf-stable form of vitamin E, also known as tocopheryl acetate, it is a common ingredient in skin care products.

With strong antioxidant properties, vitamin E acetate helps protect the skin from damage caused by exposure to UV rays. It’s good for skin. It’s not good for lungs.

WHY WAS IT BEING USED IN VAPES?

As state and federal agencies researched the vape crisis over the past few months, they have found a strong, but not total link between black market products and lung injuries. Vitamin E acetate can be used to dilute the active ingredients, namely THC, in oil used for vape pens. In much the same way that cocaine gets cut with baking soda, weed oil gets cut with vitamin E acetate.

That’s not to say it’s only used in black market products. Legitimate manufacturers have also used vitamin E acetate for its thickening properties.

WHAT’S NEXT?

When Gov. Jay Inslee’s executive order banning flavored vape products went into effect last month, it also stipulated that should other potentially dangerous chemicals or additives be identified, they would be banned as well. Shortly after the CDC announced its findings, the Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board sent out a release asking retailers and producers to remove vitamin E acetate from the market. The LCB is now considering whether to turn that request into a requirement.

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EVENTS | CALENDAR STUDIO GHIBLI FEST: PRINCESS MONONOKE From Academy Awardwinning director Hayao Miyazaki comes an epic masterpiece of breathtaking imagination, exhilarating battles, and deep humanity. Nov. 17 (dubs) at 12:55 pm; Nov. 18 (subs) at 7 pm and Nov. 20 (dubs) at 7 pm. At Regal NorthTown and Riverstone; AMC River Park Square. fathomevents.com SILENT FILM NIGHT A selection of historic silent films (The Great Train Robbery, A Broncho Billy Western and The Tramp) shown with live piano accompaniment. Local film historian Larry Telles also provides an overview of silent film history. Nov. 19, 7 pm. $3.

Hayden Discount Cinema, 300 West Centa Ave. (208-215-2060) MOVIE NIGHT: A GOOD DAY TO DIE Bittersweet and compelling, this film charts the rise and fall of a movement that fought for the civil rights of American Indians. Nov. 20, 6-7:30 pm. Free.

Downtown Spokane Library, 906 W. Main Ave. spokanelibrary.org UNCOVERED WITH NICHOLE MISCHKE: SHARING STORIES OF SHAME When Spokane resident Nichole Mischke decided to open up about her 10-year battle with bulimia, she never imagined the life-changing impact it would have. Nov. 20, 6 pm. $15.

Magic Lantern, 25 W. Main. (994-7830) SHARING NATIVE KNOWLEDGE Join the WSU Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation for a film screening and panel discussion with representatives from six Columbia Plateau tribes based on their work with the Plateau Peoples’ Web Portal. Nov. 21, 4-6 pm. WSU Elson S. Floyd Cultural Center, 405 SE Spokane St. (335-8126) THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING Filmed in 211 days in nine countries and five continents over four years, the film is an epic attempt to re-imagine the vast challenge of climate change. Nov. 21, 7-8:30 pm. Suggested $5 donation.

Magic Lantern, 25 W. Main. (209-2383)

FOOD

TASTEFUL THURSDAYS The series highlights local beer brewers, winemakers and artisans who meet the public while offering samples, gift ideas and information about their goods.

Held the first three Thursdays of November and December, from 5-7 pm.

Free. Moscow Food Co-op, 121 E. 5th St. moscowfoodcoop.com COOKING CLASS: STEAK & STARCH DINNER This class is for meat and starch loving foodies. Participants make a tasting dinner using new techniques and ingredients. 21+; BYOB. Nov. 16, 7-9 pm. $62. Modernist Cooks & Catering, 1014 N. Pines. modernistcooks.com MIMOSA SUNDAY BRUNCH SERIES: Each week, chef Steven and team create a buffet brunch with various items, paired with a mimosa bar. Sundays through Nov. 24; service at 9 am and 10:30 am. $20. Nectar Catering & Events, 120 N. Stevens. (290-5182) WHITWORTH TOP CHEF A student competition showcasing food from different cultures, evaluated on presentation, knowledge, creativity, taste and skill. Nov. 17, 4:30-6:30 pm. Whitworth HUB, 300 W. Hawthorne. whitworth.edu DUCKHORN FAMILY TASTING EXPERIENCE A guided tasting event featuring the Napa Valley producer that has been making wine since 1976. The event

is limited to three, 90-minute sessions of 12 guests. Each small group enjoys a cheese and charcuterie spread to pair with wine. Sessions at 4:30, 6 and 7:30 pm. $20. Nectar Wine & Beer, 1331 W. Summit Pkwy. nectarkendallyards.com PREPARE TO PRESERVE Classes cover principles of canning, causes of foodborne illnesses, preserving low/high acid foods and more. Nov. 20, Dec. 4 and Dec. 11 at 5:30 pm. WSU Spokane County Extension, 222 N. Havana. extension.wsu.edu/spokane HOLIDAY COOKIE DISPLAYS Join Spokane chef Ricky Webster to celebrate his participation in Hallmark’s new “Christmas Cookie Matchup” series. The threeclass series (this is class one) covers royal icing recipes and techniques, cookie recipes, festive holiday displays, fondant and more. Nov. 21, 6 pm. $125/session.

The Blissful Whisk, 1612 N. Barker. facebook.com/TheBlissfulWhiskSpokane FALL HARVEST DINNER Taste the abundance of autumn, including panseared pork loin with fig glaze, apple harvest chicken with caramelized onions, roasted butternut squash and fall risotto. Nov. 21, 6-8 pm. $59. Spokane Community College, 1810 N. Greene St. (279-6030)

MUSIC

CALIFORNIA GUITAR TRIO + MONTREAL GUITAR TRIO Two guitar trios known for their creativity and virtuosity combine to play original compositions and arrangements of progressive rock, world, jazz and classical music. Nov. 14, 7:30 pm. $20-$40. Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center, 211 E. Desmet Ave. (313-2787) GATHERING OF THE BANDS Featuring the North Idaho College Wind Symphony, under the direction of Bryan Hannaford with guest conductor Dr. Michael Keepe and student guests from area middle schools. Nov. 13-14 at 7 pm.

Fre. North Idaho College, 1000 W. Garden Ave. nic.edu (208-769-3300) KPBX KIDS’ CONCERT: OPEN DOORS Join SPR for this concert celebrating the 140th anniversary of the Westminster Congregational United Church of Christ, Spokane’s oldest church. Nov. 16, 1 pm.

Free. Westminster Congregational UCC, 411 S. Washington. spokanepublicradio. org (328-5729) SPOKANE SYMPHONY MASTERWORKS 4: 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE MOON LANDING The Symphony celebrates with the drama of Gustav Holst’s “The Planets” and astronomer Dr. Jose Francisco Salgado’s special visual effects from NASA accompanying the music. Also features a special appearance from Spokane astronaut Anne McClain. Tickets free for students K-12; contact box office for details. Nov. 16 at 8 pm and Nov. 17 at 3 pm. $21+. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. spokanesymphony.org STILL STANDING Join the Spectrum Singers as they explore songs of protest and hope in pursuit of a better future where we all can stand tall. Nov. 16, 7 pm. $8-$10. SFCC, 3410 W. Fort George Wright Dr. spokanefalls.edu (533-3500) CLASSICAL FLUTE & PIANO A concert featuring Alicia Mielke on flute, accompanied by Kevin Garnica on piano at the historic venue. Proceeds HOHS. Nov. 17, 1-2:15 pm. By donation. Harrington Opera House, 19 S. Third St. (253-4719) HARMONIES OF THE HEART PRES-

ENTS: LYNN YEW EVERS The awardwinning pianist performs classical works, as well as her own compositions in both solo and ensemble. Nov. 17, 3-4:30 pm. $10 suggested donation.

Sacred Heart Church, 219 E. Rockwood Blvd. (747-5790) KIDS RAVE 2K19 A special event for kids 12 and under only; all must be accompanied by parent or adult 18+. Parents get in free; VIP packages available.

Nov. 17, 5 pm. $5-$20. The Pin, 412 W. Sprague Ave. thepinspokane.com PIANISSIMO 2019 The Keyboard Division from the University of Montana School of Music presents this annual concert featuring more than 20 pianists. Nov. 17, 1 pm. Free. Steinway Piano Gallery, 13418 E. Nora Ave. (327-4266) EWU ORCHESTRA AND CHOIR: BAROQUE & BEYOND A program featuring Vivaldi’s “Magnificat” and Corelli’s “Christmas Concerto.” Nov. 18, 7:30 pm. $10/general; $5/students, seniors. Eastern Washington University, 526 Fifth, Cheney. In the Music Bldg. Recital Hall. ewu.edu (359-2241) WHITWORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA The Whitworth Music Department presents the Whitworth Symphony Orchestra in concert. Nov. 18, 7 pm. $5$7. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. (624-1200) NEW DIRECTIONS Featuring the NIC Jazz Ensemble under the direction of Bryan Hannaford, with the Cardinal Voices under the direction of Max Mendez. Nov. 21, 7:30 pm. North Idaho College, 1000 W. Garden Ave. nic.edu

SPORTS & OUTDOORS

HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS The team returns to Spokane on it’s “Fan Powered World Tour.” Nov. 14, 7 pm. $25.50-$103.50. Spokane Arena, 720 W. Mallon. spokanearena.com CONQUEST OF THE CAGE Featherweight and former UFC fighter Austin “Golden Boy” Arnett leads a packed card for November’s MMA event. Nov. 15, 7 pm. $45-$125. Northern Quest Resort, 100 N. Hayford Rd. (242-7000) INLANDER WINTER PARTY Wander the annual snow season kickoff show with local beer and cider while checking out deals from retailers and mountain resorts, and enjoying live music from local favorites. Nov. 15, 4-9 pm; Nov. 16, 10 am-7 pm. $10. Spokane Convention Center, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. snowlanderexpo.com PRESTIGE WRESTLING: THE RISE OR DIE TRYING TOURNAMENT Featuring Joey Ryan, Zicky Dice, DAGA, Bull James, Ethan HD. Nov. 15, 7 pm. $20$85. The Pin, 412 W. Sprague Ave. thepinspokane.com SPOKANE CHIEFS VS. SASKATOON BLADES Promo for the night is TicketsWest player magnet giveaway. Nov. 20, 7:05 pm. $11-$26. Spokane Arena, 720 W. Mallon Ave. spokanechiefs.com

THEATER

MATILDA THE MUSICAL The story of an extraordinary girl who dares to change her own destiny. Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sat-Sun at 1:30 pm. through Nov. 17. $20. Regional Theatre of the Palouse, 122 N. Grand. rtoptheatre.org

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RELATIONSHIPS

Advice Goddess ONCE UPON A CRIME

I’ve been with my boyfriend for nine years, and I’m still pissed off about stuff from like five years ago. I don’t know how I remember this stuff when I can’t find my keys half the time. I’d like to get rid of these resentments and not keep bringing them up. I know it’s not healthy for me or our relationship, but I don’t know how to let them go. ­—Stuck So, basically, this is you: “I wish they allowed dogs in AMY ALKON my building, but no biggie. I’ll take this thing you did in 2006 and make it my special pet. I’ll feed it raw food and buy it artisanally made toys and take it around in a stroller.”

On the other end of the spectrum from endlessly reprosecuting relationship misdemeanors is forgiveness. Evolutionary psychologist Michael McCullough explains in “Beyond Revenge” that “forgiveness is an internal process of getting over your ill will” for somebody who’s wronged you and then “experiencing a return of goodwill” and “opening yourself up to the possibility of a renewed positive relationship” with the person.

Forgiveness appears to have evolved to preserve valuable relationships we have with others, but it seems contingent on our not being made repeated patsies, meaning we need to see that the offender won’t just trample our interests again.

In line with this, research by social psychologist Ian Williamson and his colleagues finds that a reluctance to forgive can come out fear, including concerns by the victim “about how offenders will interpret forgiveness.” Basically, there’s a worry that forgiving the perp could send a message that it’s open season for repeat offending.

Consider whether there’s reason to believe your boyfriend doesn’t have your best interests in mind. If you stack up his behavior toward you, does it suggest he doesn’t care about you? If this is old stuff and he isn’t repeating the behavior, maybe it serves you best to decide to let it go. McCullough notes that a “lack of forgiveness for close, valuable relationship partners who harmed us in the past is associated with more anxiety, tension, and physiological arousal.” McCullough goes cute, writing: “Know forgiveness, know peace. No forgiveness, no peace.”

If you feel your boyfriend’s a good guy but needs of yours aren’t being met, bring this out, talk to him about it. That could improve things, or you could decide to leave if things don’t change sufficiently. That said, his changing may take more than one discussion, or at least a few reminders to get the gears of new and improved behavior grinding into action.

If you see he’s making an effort, maybe cut him some slack. Laugh at his human fallibility instead of taking it personally when he again leaves his toenail clippings in a tiny pile on the bathroom floor, as if they’ll magically float over to the trash can and fling themselves over the rim: “Goodbye cruel world!”

MY FARE LADY

I’ve been dating a guy for just over a month. He’s asked me to go with him to an outof-state wedding (across the country) several weeks from now, but he didn’t mention buying me a plane ticket. I think he should buy it because he invited me. Am I expecting too much?

—Unsure Chances are he doesn’t expect you to mail yourself in a really big crate or saddle up Hortense the limping mule and meet him there — just in time for the divorce party.

Should you pick up the tab for your ticket? I don’t think so — and not just because the guy invited you as his guest. Destination weddings in exotic places (or simply faraway weddings in dull and unglamorous locales) are not vacations. They are social obligations, big life events that are reinforced by the presence of witnesses.

Having the community as an “audience” to a marriage ceremony is thought by Matthijs Kalmijn and other sociologists to help reinforce a couple’s lifelong commitment. The ceremony is typically followed by an open bar, some fancy grub, and a Beyonce cover band so the wedding is attended by more than the bride and groom’s teary-eyed relatives and a homeless guy who snuck in looking for free hooch.

Don’t let this question fester in your mind to the point that you’re tempted to snarl at the guy, “Hey, tightwad, you planning to pay for my ticket or what?!” Ask right away, something like: “What’s the transportation situation? How are we getting to the wedding?” Assuming he doesn’t generally seem weirdly stingy, there’s a good chance he’s planning to buy your ticket but didn’t think to make it clear. There are a number of reasons a person spends hundreds of dollars on a plane ticket, and it’s generally not so they can eat free cake with a bunch of strangers on the other side of the country. n ©2018, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. • Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405 or email AdviceAmy@aol.com (www.advicegoddess.com)

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EVENTS | CALENDAR THE BIG BE-BOP BANDSTAND AMATEUR NIGHT TALENT SHOW An original melodrama written and directed by Terri Robinson. Fri-Sat at 7 pm, Sun at 2 pm through Nov. 17. $13-$15. Sixth Street Theater & Melodrama, 212 Sixth St., Wallace, Idaho. sixthstreetmelodrama.com CYT NORTH IDAHO: SEUSSICAL Favorite Dr. Seuss characters come to life on stage. Nov. 15-24; Fri-Sat at 7 pm, SatSun at 3 pm. $11-$16. Kroc Center, 1765 W. Golf Course Rd. cytnorthidaho.org SIX ROUNDS OF VENGEANCE In postapocalyptic “Lost Vegas,” a gunslinger and a samurai cowboy out for vengeance become just as bloodthirsty as the monsters they’re facing. Nov. 14-24; Fri-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $10; SFCC students free. SFCC, 3410 W. Fort George Wright Dr. (533-3500) THE CEMETERY CLUB In this tender comedy, three Jewish widows meet once a month for tea before going to visit their husbands’ graves. Fri-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm through Nov. 24. $12$15. Ignite! Community Theatre, 10814 E. Broadway. igniteonbroadway.org THIS IS OUR YOUTH Wealthy and articulate teenagers who were kids in the ’60s have emerged as young adults in a country that’s resoundingly rejected everything they were brought up to believe in. Nov. 15-Dec. 8; Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $13-$25. Spokane Civic Theatre, 1020 N. Howard. spokanecivictheatre.com URINETOWN THE MUSICAL Urinetown catapults the “comedic romp” into the new millennium with its outrageous perspective and modern wit. Nov. 15-16 and

22-23 at 7:30 pm, $10 (cash/check only); EWU students free. EWU, 526 Fifth. ewu. edu/cale/theatre-film/theatre JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR Featuring music and lyrics by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, and set during the final weeks in the life of Jesus Christ as seen through the eyes of Judas. Nov. 20-24; times vary. $52-$100. First Interstate Center for the Arts, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. broadwayspokane.com

VISUAL ARTS

HOLIDAY ART SHOW An annual showcase of art, wine and shopping. Nov. 15, 3-7 pm; Nov. 16, 12-7 pm; Nov. 17, 12-4 pm. Free. 21+. Arbor Crest Wine Cellars, 4705 N. Fruit Hill Rd. arborcrest.com HOLIDAY ARTS & CRAFT GALA Visiting artists and craftspeople from throughout the region join the Dahmen’s resident artists to sell one-ofa-kind products. Nov. 16, 10 am-4 pm.

Free. Dahmen Barn, 419 N. Park Way., Uniontown. artisanbarn.org MURAL RECEPTION & CELEBRATION Celebrate four new murals recently installed in Colfax with refreshments and a chance to meet artists community members. Nov. 16, 5:30-7 pm. Free. Colfax Library, 102 S. Main. whitco.lib.wa.us

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EVERYBODY READS: THE HOUSE OF BROKEN ANGELS A 2005 Pulitzer Prize finalist for nonfiction and member of the Latino Literature Hall of Fame, Urrea is the critically acclaimed and

best-selling author of 17 books. Nov. 14 at noon, Colfax Library; Nov. 14 at 7 pm, Neill Public Library, Pullman. Also Nov. 15 at noon at WSU; Nov. 15 at 7 pm, 1912 Center, Moscow. everybody-reads.org HANFORD-INSPIRED LITERATURE & JOURNALISM Spokane author Sharma Shields reads from “The Cassandra” and talks about the inspiration for the novel.

Journalist Karen Dorn Steele discusses her work to disclose secret and widespread Hanford radiation emissions.

Nov. 14, 6:30 pm. Free. Spokane Valley Library, 12004 E. Main. (893-8400) TIFFANY MIDGE: BURY MY HEART AT CHUCK E. CHEESE’S Artfully blending sly humor, social commentary, and meditations on love and loss, Midge employs humor as an act of resistance.

Nov. 14, 7 pm. Free. Auntie’s, 402 W. Main. auntiesbooks.com (838-0206) READING: CHRISTOPHER HOWELL & LINDA BIERDS A reading with EWU faculty member Christopher Howell and National Book Award nominee Linda Bierds. Nov. 16, 7-8:30 pm. Free.

Auntie’s Bookstore, 402 W. Main. auntiesbooks.com(838-0206) SPOKANE INTERNATIONAL RAILWAY Learn about the history of Spokane’s rail system with author Dale W. Jones.

Nov. 20, 7-8:30 pm. Free. Auntie’s Bookstore, 402 W. Main. (838-0206) MICHAEL GURIAN: THE STONE BOYS The NYT bestselling author reads from his new young adult novel, which tells the story of two boys confronting their traumatic pasts. Nov. 21, 7-8:30 pm.

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