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Indeed, the Idaho State Police wouldn’t release to the Inlander any policies it has guiding its use of informants, let alone confirm whether it had Wall perform undercover drug buys. As Alexandra Natapoff, one of the nation’s leading experts on informants, tells us: “Right now the system is not designed to evaluate the true costs and benefits of informant use — the public is asked to take it on faith. That needs to change, especially where we know that the costs to the young and vulnerable are particularly high.”

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t’s April 7, 2014: Kelly Graves, the most successful head women’s basketball coach in Gonzaga history, announces that he’s leaving for Oregon. Longtime assistant coach Lisa Fortier is left wondering if she still has a job. What’s more, she knows that coaching changes are often followed by a stack of student-athlete transfers.

Then comes a wonderful surprise: The players don’t leave; instead, they rally behind her. They make clear that they want her as head coach.

“What those girls did,” Fortier tells me, “was more important than anything I had ever experienced in basketball; more important than all the wins, more important than going to the Sweet Sixteen. I will never, ever forget what they did.”

On April 14, one week after Graves’ resignation, Fortier is named head coach.

Thrilled? Of course, but in her words, it was a “very stressful time.” The rest of the coaching staff has followed Graves down to Eugene.

What’s more, she has no experienced Division I point guard. Then she gets word that her top recruit has decided to play at — guess where? — Oregon. And if all this isn’t enough, she’s seven months pregnant. Months later, when asked how she felt, Fortier smiled and said, “I felt like I was living in a zoo.”

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here to begin? She reflects: “You know, I guess I did what I always try to do. Just put one foot in front of the other.” Fortier’s first Gonzaga team would win 26 regular-season games and the West Coast Conference title, but BYU upset them in the WCC tournament semifinal, so there was no automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. Would they even get in? They were the last team called.

A tough draw, down in Corvallis, as the first-round game pitted them against the Patriot League champions, George Washington University. Never trailing, the Zags upset GW by 13 points.

Then comes Oregon State, the Pac-12 regular-season champion. The Beavers were overwhelming favorites, yet the Zags did it again, defeating the Beavers on their home court by 12 points.

The Sweet Sixteen game was played back at McCarthey Athletic Center: After leading heavily favored Tennessee by 17 points with six-and-ahalf minutes left — this was a game of runs, and the Vols made the last one — Gonzaga lost a heartbreaker in overtime by four points.

Injuries would plague Fortier’s second year.

I recall the team trainer pointing to the bench and saying: “Our best team may be sitting down there.”

“Down there” sat Elle Tinkle, first team allWCC and the Zags’ very own whirling dervish.

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Tinkle gets to loose balls before they are loose and specializes in rebounding her own misses. Kiara Kudron was also among the walking wounded; the best natural rebounder on the team, you could say that Kudron is to the vertical Lisa Fortier game what Tinkle is to the horizontal. Also injured and out for the year was Emma Wolfram, a graceful 6-foot-5 sophomore who rebounds and scores (17 points against Oregon State) with equal effectiveness.

The Zags’ season would end with a secondround WNIT loss to Utah. “The girls just kind of ran out of gas against Utah,” recalls Fortier. “It was a long year.”

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ow year three has arrived, with another tough schedule; the Zags visit Stanford on Nov. 18, and no Gonzaga team has ever beaten the Cardinal. Fortier believes that her 2016-17 squad matches up better than past teams. Then it’s on to Michigan, Florida State and an improved WCC. Things are looking up. Wolfram is on the mend, and practicing with the team; they hope to have her back full time by conference play.

Tinkle, because of her injuries last year, was granted another year of eligibility and is already playing like her old ball-hawking self. Kudron promises to be more of an offensive threat to go along with her terrific rebounding. Sophomore point guard and Spokane native Laura Stockton looks ready to have a big year, as does Jill Barta, the first Gonzaga freshman to make the allWCC first team. Two other sophomores, Zhané Templeton and Zykera Rice, played a ton of minutes last year due to the injuries; both should continue to contribute.

Gonzaga remains Spokane’s big women’s basketball story. Last season the team ranked 13th in attendance nationwide; judged by the percentage of the arena they filled, the Zags ranked third.

Through all the ups and downs over these first three seasons, Fortier hasn’t changed much.

Watch her in practice — very organized, her instructions, corrections and encouragements are precise, although perhaps now even more direct and pointed. Her demeanor never seems to change. Fortier coaches the way she lives — one foot in front of the other. n

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Moderate conservatives breathed a sigh of relief this week when they learned that Steve Bannon, DONALD TRUMP’s controversial campaign CEO, would not be President-elect Trump’s chief of staff. Instead, that honor would go to Republican National Committee chair Reince Priebus.

That sigh of relief was rapidly retracted when it turned out that Trump was making Bannon his chief strategist, arguably an even more important position. Bannon is the former chairman of Breitbart News, the anti-immigrant, far-right outlet that has turned into a Trump propaganda mouthpiece, full of intentionally incendiary headlines like “Gay Rights Have Made Us Dumber, It’s Time to Get Back in the Closet.”

Bannon is seen as a white nationalist, by both Trump critics and, well, white nationalists. Among other pieces of evidence, they point to a court declaration from 2007, where his ex-wife claims he didn’t want to send his daughters to school with Jews.

Ben Shapiro, a former incendiary Breitbart writer himself, says that Bannon himself may not be a white supremacist, but “he’s happy to pander to those people and make common cause with them in order to transform conservatism into European far-right nationalist populism.”

For now, the days of pushback from the Republican establishment against figures like Bannon seem to be over. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan praised Bannon as a “person who helped [Trump] win an incredible victory.”

And U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, who once promised to hold Trump accountable, passed out Make America Great Again hats to her fellow House Republicans this week. (DANIEL WALTERS)

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3. Education to improve reproductive health. Sex ed is perhaps somewhat ironically one of the least sexy policy topics, but it has a profound impact for the better on people’s lives. We need to end ineffective abstinence-only education, which has actually been shown to harm teens’ health. Instead we need universal comprehensive sex education, which has been proven to reduce unwanted pregnancy and sexual transmitted diseases, and actually delay when teens choose to have sex. While we’re teaching kids the facts, let’s also make sure they get educated about science, including evolution and climate change.

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or those of us who believe in basic federal policies to protect our individual liberties, communities and planet, the result of this year’s presidential race is disheartening. We’re going to need to play defense federally, but every good defense also needs a great offense. That offense now needs to play out locally more than ever. To start, here are five areas where we can make a difference.

1. Police reform to ensure our civil rights. When it comes to protecting our civil liberties, some of the most important decisions are how laws are enforced within our

neighborhoods. This starts with great police officers, and we need more young idealistic people to join the force, where they can help reinforce and build new communityminded cultures from the inside. We also need to pass laws to increase use of body cams, fund community policing and provide training to diminish racial bias.

2. Transportation policy to fight climate change. With coal plants closing down across the country, carbon pollution emissions from transportation are quickly becoming the largest contributor to climate change. The good news is that our transportation systems are largely designed and constructed at the local level. Whether it’s voting for new transit, increasing safe routes to schools so kids can

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4. Local ordinances to protect LGBT citizens. We’re long overdue for federal law that prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender expression/ identity in employment, housing, education and public accommodations. What that means is in many parts of the country, someone can get married to their partner on the weekend and be fired from their job on Monday for being with who they love. But we don’t have to wait for Congress to protect people today. Washington already has statewide protections in place, but in Idaho only about a third of people live in communities that have passed anti-discrimination ordinances. Let’s keep passing laws at the local level while continuing to pursue statewide and ultimately federal protections.

5. Organize for the present and the future. It’s true that government is too often out of touch with us.

Unfortunately, that’s often because we’re out of touch with government. None of the presidential candidates received nearly as many votes as the number of people who chose not to vote at all. The numbers become even more dismal at the local level. Let’s change that next year, when we vote in many local elections in Washington and Idaho. But it’s not just elections we’ve been neglecting. Few of us bother to make a phone call or send an email or attend a town hall. Even fewer of us show up to city council and school board meetings. So show up, but don’t settle for just having your voice heard. Gather your friends and neighbors, even the ones you disagree with, and talk about the future you want to see, and then (peacefully) demand it. n John T. Reuter, a former Sandpoint City Councilman, has been active in protecting the environment, expanding LGBT rights and Idaho’s GOP politics.

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better wage? You get to pay more taxes. This wage raise wasn’t for you, it was for the taxes.

Remember minimum is minimum no matter the dollar amount you place on it. The cost of living just got higher for everyone as prices increase for the goods we all use. This cost rises as the minimum wage rises because the cost of making and shipping those goods just got higher.

Probationary times for new employees will be shorter. Jobs for entry level workers will be more difficult to hold. Less time will be given for those workers needing more time to “get it.” Why would an employer try to train an employee for 90 days when they can find someone that “gets it” right away? Simply put, the employer is not going to waste time and money training someone who has less ability than someone else.

Less leniency will be given for tardiness, call-ins, no-shows and less than average performance. Patience will wear thin for those not willing to work or conform to company rules.

Wage raises for more experienced workers will be harder to get because of the cost of the entry level wage. Because of this, you have lost the ability to better your life because raises will come slower.

Many more families are now closer to the minimum wage due to the fact no raises will be given to match the minimum wage raise for experienced workers now making above the minimum. So if you make above minimum, which it probably took you years to achieve, your money is now worth less.

There isn’t an advantage that is anything other than a short lived one for the minimum wage worker. Everything just got more expensive for everyone.

The wage increase needs to be repealed before more damage is done.

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I understand that you are tired of being labeled things like “a basket of deplorables,” racists, sexists, xenophobes, white supremacists and homophobes. However small the group may be, I plead that you recognize that a vocal minority who fall under these labels does, in fact, exist and does support your candidate.

I plead that you recognize that this vocal minority is twisting your candidate’s rhetoric to justify their hate crimes. I plead that you stand up and speak out against it.

Reports are starting to come in across America of adults and children being harassed, threatened, and even assaulted in the name of Trump.

A female student at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette LETTERS was beaten, robbed and had her Send comments to hijab ripped off by two men, one of editor@inlander.com. them wearing a white “Trump” hat, according to police and university officials. Multiple homes, vehicles, and businesses were vandalized with “Trump,” “Sieg Heil,” swastikas and racist graffiti in South Philly. At Texas State University, flyers have been circulating calling to “arrest and torture” university leaders supporting “diversity garbage.”

Please, do not turn a blind eye to this vocal minority when you encounter them. Like it or not, you voted for the same guy. They need to hear it from you, a fellow Trump supporter, that they are wrong. They need to hear from you more than anyone that their views are not welcome in the Trump camp, let alone America.

Hate is rearing its ugly head; please don’t allow it to speak for your candidate, and please don’t allow it to speak for you.

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‘PARTY CULTURE’ Area colleges, including EWU and WSU, are cracking down on alcohol consumption as one way to prevent sexual assault

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n November 2015, a group of Eastern Washington University students marched through campus, some with teal tape over their mouths representing sexual assault awareness, the others chanting “Not on my red turf.” That fall, the number of sexual assaults reported on or near campus had already doubled what was reported the entire year prior.

In interviews with a local TV station and on signs held by protesters, they said they wanted more education on sexual assault and consent, and better communication between sexual partners.

EWU police also were alarmed by the number of reports, says Eastern’s Deputy Police Chief Gary Gasseling. They took a different tactic: All seven reports taken in those few months involved alcohol. So, the thinking

went, if police can crack down on alcohol use, maybe students won’t commit more serious crimes like sexual assault.

This year, EWU police find themselves arresting more students for alcohol-related offenses like minor in possession, in the hope that sexual assault arrests will decrease.

“That’s a strategy we’re trying new this year,” Gasseling says. “We’re taking a firmer approach.”

EWU is not alone. Washington State University assistant police chief Steve Hansen says that WSU police look for drug and alcohol violations, knowing they may be a root cause of problems like sexual assault or property damage. This month, WSU’s student-led Interfraternity and Panhellenic Councils imposed a ban on all

Greek events through the end of the semester, citing a growing problem of alcohol-related incidents in the Greek community, including sexual assault.

As college campuses struggle with how to prevent sexual assault, the idea that cutting down on alcohol use is common. But it’s also somewhat controversial, seen by some as an excuse for rapists or a justification for victimblaming.

Melynda Huskey, WSU’s dean of students, says it’s a complicated issue. While the school wants to make sure that alcohol is not blamed for causing sexual assaults, she says it is a factor.

“People choose to commit sexual assault,” Huskey says. “Having said that, it is also true that alcohol plays a ...continued on next page

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BLAME THE ALCOHOL

When Stanford University announced this summer that it was restricting the use of hard alcohol at on-campus parties, the decision was widely derided. In the wake of a high-profile case in which a now-former Stanford student named Brock Turner — convicted of raping an unconscious woman — blamed “party culture” for his decision to commit sexual assault, the hard alcohol restriction gave the impression that Stanford bought into his story. One Stanford law professor, Michele Dauber, wrote on social media it was sad that Stanford seemed to agree that alcohol and party culture were to blame for Turner’s conduct.

But many experts do see alcohol use and sexual assault as being linked. Thomas Plante, a psychology professor at Santa Clara University and adjunct clinical professor at Stanford’s School of Medicine, says cutting down on alcohol use is the No. 1 way to prevent sexual assault on campuses.

“When it comes to sexual assault, the vast, vast majority of those cases involve alcohol,” he tells the Inlander. “We feel if we can do a better job managing the alcohol, we can do a much better job managing the sexual assault.”

According to a 2015 Washington Post-Kaiser Family Foundation poll, alcohol creates an increased risk of sexual violence. Women who responded to the poll who said they sometimes drink more often than they should were more likely to be victims of sexual assault, according to the poll.

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“When it comes to sexual assault, the vast, vast majority of those cases involve alcohol.”

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WSU’s Huskey says the university made changes to its alcohol policy three years ago in response to the 2012 death of a student named Kenny Hummel, who died of alcohol poisoning.

The changes included more alcohol-free residence halls, and mandates to notify parents the first time a student is caught drinking underage.

Amy Johnson, EWU dean of students, says that Eastern hasn’t considered any ban on alcohol on campus in her four years at the school.

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She says the university’s role is to encourage students to come forward and report incidents, and give them access to support services.

“The first thing we want to reinforce is that [sexual assault] survivors are never responsible for the crime, whether alcohol or drugs or other things are involved,” Johnson says.

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So far this school year, reported sexual assaults on or near Eastern’s campus have gone down, according to Gasseling, with the EWU police. There have been four: One person reported being raped but did not want to pursue charges, another reported an assault with sexual motivation, and two other cases were arrests for indecent liberties.

That doesn’t account for sexual assaults reported off campus.

This year, there have been at least four sexual assaults reported to Cheney police.

Meanwhile, Gasseling says that the 23 students cited for minor in possession represents a higher number than in the past.

That’s on purpose.

“Are we stopping drinking? No,” says Gasseling. “Are we pushing it off campus? Perhaps.”

But it’s hard to measure progress going by the number of reported sexual assaults. Since rape is a crime that often goes unreported, any increase could be due to victims being more LETTERS comfortable with reporting.

Send comments to And Gasseling says the lower editor@inlander.com. number of reports on campus this year may not have any correlation with a crackdown on alcohol offenses.

“It’s too early to say we are having an impact,” Gasseling says.

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Suspensions by grade through the first 35 days of the school year in Spokane Public Schools.

EDUCATION Thirty-five days into the school year, suspension rates in Spokane Public Schools have gone down significantly compared to past years, as the district pushes for a decrease in exclusionary discipline. But one piece of data stands out: FIRST-GRADERS are being suspended more than students in any other grade to begin the school year. Why? That’s unclear, says Vanessa Hernandez, ACLU of Washington youth policy director. She says she’d like to see what behaviors led to the suspensions, and that suspending a first-grader should be “incredibly rare.” Jenny Rose, Spokane Education Association president, guesses it may have to do with less resources devoted to elementary schools, compared to higher grades, that would help teachers manage behavior issues. (WILSON CRISCIONE)

DEVELOPMENT Downtown Spokane Partnership President Mark Richard has a vision: Put a ZIPLINE across the river in downtown Spokane. He suggests it could go from Riverfront Park over the dam or — failing that — from Kendall Yards to Peaceful Valley. “Think about creating that destination where all of a sudden people are suddenly are coming from outside — because they will.

Because they will,” Richard says. “There’s nothing like it. If we were to do that over the river, you’re creating this amazing adrenaline rush and view. It becomes [an] attraction for out-of-towners.” He came up with this idea brainstorming with the Riverfront Park steering committee, led by Inlander publisher Ted S. McGregor — though the zipline wasn’t ultimately part of the final plan. Richard also says he’d love to see the city extend the gondola through the entire park, from Kendall Yards to the Convention Center. Or maybe add a skate park or wheel park at Riverfront Park to give young people something fun to do. (DANIEL WALTERS)

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A Clash of Values A Washington Supreme Court case pits the state’s anti-discrimination law against religious beliefs; plus, the Spokane City Council gets proactive on sick leave THE FLORIST AND HER FAITH

The Washington State Supreme Court will decide whether a small-town florist can be punished for refusing to provide arrangements for a same-sex couple’s wedding based on religious beliefs.

In 2013, Barronelle Stutzman, the owner of Arlene’s Flowers in Richland, told a longtime friend and customer that she could not do the flowers for his wedding because of her religious beliefs. Robert Ingersoll and his now-husband, Curt Freed, with the help of the ACLU of Washington, sued under the state’s anti-discrimination law, which prohibits businesses from discriminating based on race, creed, national origin and sexual orientation.

Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson also filed a lawsuit under the Consumer Protection Act. A Benton County Superior Court judge ruled in 2015 that Stutzman had violated state law and ordered her to pay the couple $1,000 in damages, and $1 in attorneys’ fees to the AG’s Office.

Multiple briefs in support of both sides have been filed leading up to the case being argued in front of the state Supreme Court. Oral arguments began Tuesday.

“I’m not asking for anything that our Constitution hasn’t promised me — and you: the right to create freely, and to live out my faith without fear of government

punishment or interference,” Stutzman writes recently in a Spokesman-Review editorial.

“We were very disappointed to be denied service

by Arlene’s Flowers after doing business with them for so many years,” Ingersoll and Freed say in a statement.

“Planning our wedding should have been a joyful time in our lives, but instead we were hurt and saddened by being rejected for who we are.”

Meanwhile, a similar case in Oregon is getting some attention again after state Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian, a Democrat, was defeated by Republican Dennis Richardson in the race for Secretary of State. The result marks the first time in 14 years that a Republican beat a Democrat for statewide office in Oregon. Avakian gained national attention for imposing a hefty fine on a small bakery in Gresham that refused to make a cake for a lesbian wedding. The owners reportedly paid $135,000 in fines and had to close the business. (MITCH RYALS)

SICK-LEAVE MOVES

The Spokane City Council knew it was coming. The day after councilmembers had approved their months-long process of compromising and negotiating over a mandatory sick-leave policy for many private businesses within the city of Spokane, Raise Up Washington began its cam-

paign for Initiative 1433, hiking the minimum wage and putting in place a mandatory statewide sick-leave policy.

Now, I-1433’s victory statewide has set Spokane on an unusual path: Starting in January of 2017, employers with 10 or more employees will be required to let their employees earn at least five days of paid safe and sick leave a year, while businesses with fewer than 10 employees would be required to let them earn at least three days a year. Construction, seasonal and temporary workers would be exempted. Employees would earn at least one hour of sick leave for every 40 hours worked, and the city of Spokane would enforce the policy.

On Monday night, the city council passed a sunset clause that keeps the city of Spokane’s ordinance from conflicting with the new state law put into place by I-1433; that system will only be in place until 2018, when the entire thing will be discarded for a different set of rules: Employers will be required to offer their workers seven days of sick leave a year. No exceptions, no exemptions. Yet the requirements will be less stringent in an another area, requiring sick-leave hours to be handed out at a rate of only one hour for every 30 worked.

Several businesses complained to the city council, claiming that they would have to go through the work of implementing an entirely new sick-leave policy twice.

But activists and others also spoke up, pleading with the council not to delay the sick-leave mandate another year.

City Council President Ben Stuckart agreed with them, dismissing concerns that implementation would burden businesses.

“I’ve heard the refrain for the last two years that this city council is business-unfriendly and we’re hurting everything,” Stuckart says. “[But] our economy, our median income and our employment growth have outpaced everywhere in the region.” (DANIEL WALTERS)

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The Defiance Vote Faced with the choice of Clinton and Trump, a lot of Washington and Idaho residents chose neither

BY DANIEL WALTERS

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n Spokane County, more than 7,300 residents struck a blow for None of the Above. Maybe they wrote in Evan McMullin or Mitt Romney or Pat Paulsen or Harambe the gorilla. But as of the count a week after Election Day, more than 3.5 percent of voters in Spokane County chose to defy the choices on their ballot and write in somebody else.

That’s not even counting the more than 2,400 people who turned in their ballots with the presidential field completely blank. Then there’s the third-party vote.

Libertarian Gary Johnson received nearly 5.5 percent in Spokane County, more than triple his vote in 2012, and more than 11 times what the Libertarians got in 2008.

The Green Party’s Jill Stein managed to pull 1.65 percent of the vote in the county this year.

Put all of these together — we’ll call it the “protest vote” — and you can get a sense of the dissatisfaction over the two candidates picked by the main parties.

The protest vote level this year in Spokane County far outpaced the level in the previous three elections. Less than 4 percent of voters refused to support the Republi-

can or Democratic presidential nominee in 2012. The protest vote percentage this year even doubled the protest vote percentage in the county in 2000 — the year of Ralph Nader.

It’s why, despite winning Spokane County by a wider margin than the Republican nominee did four years ago, Trump, unlike Romney in 2012 Evan McMullin got nearly or George W. Bush in 2004, 30 percent of the vote couldn’t crack 50 percent. He in one Idaho county. received 48 percent of the vote — slightly less than John McCain got in 2008. Hillary Clinton received less than 42 percent of the county’s vote. A full tenth of the Spokane County electorate who turned in ballots voted for neither.

Statewide, more than 78,000 voters picked a write-in candidate — about the population of Kennewick. And more than 208,000 Washington voters — nearly the popu-

lation of Spokane — voted third party.

But the real third-party magic happened in deeply conservative Idaho, where the third-party vote was so high that Clinton actually took third in seven counties, behind conservative Mormon protest candidate McMullin.

Southeastern Idaho, after all, borders Utah, a heavily Mormon state where McMullin managed to pull nearly 21 percent of the vote. (Mormons, much more than evangelical Christians, distrust Trump’s enthusiasm for banning religious minorities.)

So it might seem crazy to see McMullin — who wasn’t even on the ballot in most states — receiving nearly 30 percent of the vote in Idaho’s Madison County. That is, until you see what’s in the center of that county: the Idaho campus of Brigham Young University. n

Trump Trauma Donald Trump’s victory prompted city and college leaders to comfort those who feel emotionally impacted

BY WILSON CRISCIONE

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hroughout the 2016 presidential campaign, a portion of the country saw the idea of a Donald Trump presidency as something apocalyptic.

But with polls mostly showing Hillary Clinton having a

ANALYSIS

The Scourge of Fake News Made-up news stories played a role in the presidential election: Who’s to blame?

BY SCOTT A. LEADINGHAM

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ope Francis endorsed Donald Trump for president. Fox News’ Megyn Kelly is a “closet liberal” secretly pulling for Hillary Clinton.

That’s a tiny sampling of the supposed news articles circling the internet in this election cycle. Both, of course, are fake. Made up. Complete BS. In the case of the pope’s “endorsement,” the article from the fake news site “WTOE 5 News” that spread the story was shared more than 1 million times on Facebook.

A Snopes article debunking it for the untrue hogwash it is has been shared only 70,000 or so times.

The existence of fake information presenting itself as legitimate news isn’t new, nor unique to the internet. But the ability of people with specific agendas to create and spread such articles without more thought than a quick click is seemingly becoming easier every day.

With the presidential election outcome seen largely as a surprise, plenty of hand-wringing is taking place. How could so many people have been so wrong? With that Wednesday-morning analysis came finger-pointing toward the forces that not only missed the signs of a Trump victory, but questions of who was to “blame.” There has been much post-election navel-gazing on that front, and

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one entity has emerged as a particularly easy punching bag: Facebook.

The ease with which false information spreads on Facebook has prompted calls for the company to address the problem. The New York Times reported that after the election, Facebook executives gathered to discuss how fake news easily spread on their site could have played a role in influencing the election.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg weighed in, posting a defense on Facebook that said in part: “After the election, many people are asking whether fake news contributed to the result, and what our responsibility is to prevent fake news from spreading,” Zuckerberg writes.

He goes on to say that “99% of what people see (on Facebook) is authentic. Only a very small amount is fake news and hoaxes,” though it’s unclear if that number is actually based on measurable statistics. “The hoaxes that do exist are not limited to one partisan view, or even to politics. Overall, this makes it extremely unlikely hoaxes changed the outcome of this election in one direction or the other,” he contends.

This comes after backlash the company faced earlier

this year, when it was reported that the site’s Trending Topics feed wasn’t based on a computer-generated algorithm of the most popular stories on Facebook, but rather was curated by humans. Claims of employees suppressing conservative-focused news led to Facebook changing its practices — and nixing the human curators.

But after switching back to an automated system, a story popped up in the Trending Topics feed about Megyn Kelly being fired from Fox News for supporting Hillary Clinton. A story that was completely fake.

Of course, Facebook isn’t the only offender. Those who make a profession of debunking outright false and made-up news stories have a never-ending supply of work. A passing look at Twitter, Reddit or any other social media site yields endless examples.

Even the omnipresent Google deserves scrutiny. Early Mark Zuckerberg is drawing this week, the top Google search fire for Facebook’s fake news. result for election results returned a blog claiming — falsely — that Donald Trump was actually leading the popular vote count. The “evidence” cited for that claim was not actual data — it was an unverified Twitter post.

Both Facebook and Google announced this week they were taking steps to restrict fake news publishers from inclusion in their advertising networks. That would in theory take away some financial incentive, but wouldn’t address the ease with which fake news is spread via Facebook and Google.

It would be unfair to suggest that the likes of Face-

lead over Trump heading into Election Day, most of those people thought it could never happen.

And then it did. It sparked protests in major cities and college campuses across the nation. A protest broke out in Portland, which turned into a riot. Reports of hate crimes spiked. People reacted to Trump’s election as they do to a traumatic event.

All of this prompted leaders from major cities and colleges to call for unity, and to try to soothe emotions.

In Spokane, Mayor David Condon and City Council President Ben Stuckart released a joint statement calling for compassion.

“Many across our country are struggling to express themselves after an emotional election season,” the statement said.

“The finality of the election and the passions that still burn strongly after more than a year of difficult discussion and debate has people searching for an outlet and looking for reassurance.”

Colleges and students, especially, reacted as if Trump’s victory was a national tragedy, to the mockery of some. At Cornell University, students gathered for a “cry-in” to mourn the election results. The University of Kansas told students that therapy dogs were available to comfort them.

In Washington, students at Washington State University and the University of Washington held peaceful protests as school leaders reminded students of available counseling services. WSU President Kirk Schulz wrote a letter to students this week saying that the school embraces diversity, and encouraged civility.

“The last several days have been a time of reflection, a time of action, and a time during which many members of the Washington State University community have experienced an emotional roller-coaster,” Schulz said.

Ana Mari Cauce, UW president, used similar language in a letter to students. She said she understood how students felt: “As an immigrant, Latina, lesbian, I can understand why some in our community may be feeling marginalized, threatened or afraid.” n

book and Google bear all responsibility for spreading fake news.

It’s even more dubious to claim, without real evidence, that such “news” truly influenced the election.

The reality is that it’s one of many problems — trade-offs — of living in a society not only extremely interconnected by easy communication, but extremely polarized. Those who create such fake news may do so for any number of reasons — not the least of which is to influence some outcome.

But such “news” can only spread, and the creators can only be rewarded, if it has a market of people willing to share and believe it. As Monica Guzman, a Seattle journalist and co-founder of the news startup The Evergrey, would note, the central question is: Who is responsible for the information they share?

The answer: everyone.

We can’t expect voters to make informed choices when the information they receive is blatantly false.

The cynical response is the supposed “real news” isn’t trustworthy, as journalists in the oft-derided mainstream media have biases and spread outright lies. And to be sure, journalists and news outlets of all sorts have some major soul-searching to do.

But as Joshua Benton, who directs the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University, wrote recently: “If we’re going to build a better environment for news, we need to think about these issues in a much bigger context than one election night. And it’ll take everyone — journalists, readers, tech companies, and more — to make it happen.”

Exactly. Limiting the scourge of fake news is up to us all.

Journalists and everyone else would be well advised to take the old journalism adage to heart: If your mother says she loves you, get a second source. n Scott A. Leadingham is director of education for the Society of Professional Journalists and editor of its magazine, Quill. On Twitter: @scottleadingham

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UNFINISHED BUSINESS Isaiah Wall wants to get his life on track.

But first, he’s gotta buy drugs for the police

BY MITCH RYALS

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is phone is buzzing again. Isaiah Wall is 19 and handsome, with freckled cheeks and biceps from his days as a wrestler. Like any teen, he spends an ungodly amount of time on his phone — checking in with his mom, seeing who wants to party and confirming his work schedule at a gun-holster manufacturer in Post Falls.

But mixed in between those messages are texts from someone named Josh, demanding that Isaiah get him more drugs.

“Can you order up from S for tomorrow. 1 zip, same as last time,” Josh texts Isaiah, using street lingo for an “ounce” of crystal meth.

“I was gunna talk to you about that,” Isaiah replies.

“I think it’d be weird going from a gram to an ounce.

Can I order up a quarter for tomorrow and do the oz a few days after?”

“Go for the full,” Josh writes. “It’s not for you remember? He said he had it so let’s go for it. You’re getting it for ‘friends’ so don’t worry.”

By all indications, Josh isn’t a friend, but rather Detective Josh Clark with the Idaho State Police; Isaiah had been roped into helping the ISP investigate drug trafficking in the area, Coeur d’Alene police tells the Inlander. Often promised leniency for alleged crimes, informants are used on the front lines of the drug war, with little training and few safeguards, as they perform high-risk police work on the cheap. Critics complain that the practice often exploits vulnerable people, many of them unstable and/or drug-addicted, with little regard to their safety.  On Facebook, Isaiah Wall The Idaho State Police posts about fast cars, guns, won’t confirm whether IsaDonald Trump (mostly because iah snitched for the agency, of gun rights), girls and partying. and through his supervisor, Some posts, however, reveal a high-spirited teenager who often Clark declined an interview request. However, feels alone and helpless. texts and Facebook messages from Isaiah’s phone match up perfectly with undercover drug buys detailed in a felony case in Kootenai County. The arresting officer in that investigation? ISP Detective Josh Clark.

Isaiah’s mother, Courtney McKinnie, says she didn’t know her son worked as an informant, until one day she went through his phone and found back-and-forth text messages like this exchange from May 23: Josh texts at 9:10 pm: “They not awake yet or they can’t handle the weight?”

“I’ve messaged both and they just haven’t texted back,” Isaiah responds. “I don’t know if it’s cuz they can’t get it right now but if I hit them up anymore it will just look weird.”

“Ok,” Josh writes. “We’ll wait. Gotta look natural.”

Six days after that exchange — and just 11 days after he started texting with Josh — Isaiah is found dead from a single gunshot to the head. There are no known witnesses, and while Coeur d’Alene police are still investigating, they say they have yet to find any connection between his work as an informant and his death.

In any case, Isaiah’s mother isn’t convinced by the explanations she’s been given.

“I just have been in the dark this whole time,” McKinnie says. “Nobody’s contacted me or anything. And it makes a big difference on the grieving whether Isaiah took his own life or whether it was snuffed out.”

As a teen, Isaiah Wall is often left to care for his younger siblings.

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By the time he’s 14, Isaiah’s watched his father, Marcus Wall, pinball in and out of prison for various felonies. Each time, his mom says, it tears him up.

“Marcus is Isaiah’s hero,” McKinnie says.

Around this time, McKinnie herself starts to unravel.

She’s been working as a dental hygienist, making decent money, but struggles to raise Isaiah and his two younger siblings on her own. The guy she’s dating doesn’t really warm up to the kids. She stays out late and drinks, leaving Isaiah to take care of them.

“I robbed him of a lot of his childhood in having to babysit his sister and brother with me out having fun,” she says. “Lots of guilt.”

Without much supervision, 14-year-old Isaiah is left to figure it out on his own.

One night around 11 pm, he and a friend are riding bikes in the neighborhood where he grew up, just north of the Coeur d’Alene Resort. Police in an unmarked car stop the boys because they don’t have lights or reflectors.

They find a foot-tall bong in Isaiah’s backpack, accord-

ing to the police report.

Prosecutors eventually drop the case, but Isaiah’s contact with the justice system continues. He regularly breaks curfew and skips school, and McKinnie kicks him out of the house as a consequence, friends say. He sleeps at a neighbor’s or crashes with buddies.

McKinnie feels that she’s lost control and calls the police.

“I was terrified,” she recalls. McKinnie pauses with a sigh. “I’m so stubborn. I feel bad about it now. All those times I called the police I thought I was doing what I should have done.”

A judge ends up sending Isaiah to a youth ranch for troubled teens near Yakima. He escapes more than once, his mom says, and hitchhikes all the way back to Coeur d’Alene. One time, she recalls, he arrives at 3 in the morning, the soles of his shoes worn through.

Matt Beever, his fourth-grade teacher at Classical Christian Academy in Post Falls, sees potential in Isaiah as a natural leader and a fierce competitor. At recess, Isaiah organizes soccer and football games without being condescending or bossy, Beever says. And come Christmas time, when other students gave Starbucks gift certificates or golf balls, Isaiah gives his teacher a stack of his favorite baseball cards.

“Knowing how much he was into sports and how much the cards were worth, I tried over and over to give them back, but he wouldn’t let me,” Beever says. “I continued to stay in touch with him through the years, because I knew he didn’t have enough voices in his life pointing out the good, positive part of him and far too many pointing out the negatives.”

In eighth grade, Isaiah starts to wrestle in school, McKinnie says, to help deal with his behavioral issues.

He goes undefeated in his first year. He eventually moves back home, bringing with him his best friend, Chris Anderson, to live with McKinnie. She pushes them to finish high school, but the boys have other ideas.

They work odd jobs and hustle for money. They paint a garage in exchange for $200 each. Isaiah, about 17 at the time, buys an ounce of pot and flips it for a profit, Anderson says. Then he buys more. At his peak, Isaiah moves about three pounds of weed in a month, Anderson estimates, and his network of connections grows. Isaiah knows people, and eventually he’s slinging small quantities of cocaine, some acid, mushrooms or Molly when he can get it.

Friends start calling him Frosty.

“Because he was always making it snow,” Anderson says, adding that Isaiah drew a line at heroin and meth “because that is some bunk ass shit.”

Girls call Isaiah “Hollister,” after the trendy SoCal clothing line. He stands over 6 feet, with six-pack abs, diamonds in his ears, a gold chain and a watch to match. He’s popular with girls, but one stands out — Aimée Grossglauser. She’s different. Kinda quiet with straight blonde hair down to the middle of her back and ...continued on next page

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They date on and off for about 2½ years, and after breaking up manage to stay good friends, Grossglauser says.

In April of this year, they take a drive around Lake Coeur d’Alene to catch up. They park, smoke a bowl and let their feet hang over the side of a dock. Grossglauser tells him about her classes at North Idaho College. He talks about moving to a new apartment next month and says he’s been working for a gun-holster manufacturer and doing construction on the side for his grandpa.

“He was saying how he doesn’t want to be in the same stuff anymore,” Grossglauser says, referring to his drug-dealing days. “He’d been doing this for a couple years and it’s not really going anywhere, and he was just tired of it.”

On Facebook, he posts about fast cars, guns, Donald Trump (mostly because of gun rights), girls and partying.

He’s amassed more than a thousand friends, but his posts also paint him as a high-spirited teenager who often feels alone and helpless.

“I’m so over this bullshit. I just need a solid place to live,” he writes in June 2015.

Later, he posts: “Nobody ever hears anyone’s cry for help until it’s too late.”

At times, he wants to give up: “Been thinking about dipping out for a while. There’s not to much to offer for me here.”

Then there’s the text message Isaiah sent Grossglauser the month before he began working for the Idaho State Police, hinting that he’s begun to look forward: “It’s hard to find people nowadays with actual goals.

Especially the same goals as you. I feel like a lot of people just live day by day and don’t really give a f--- about down the road, they just live in the here and now. That used to be my problem, but I’ve actually start[ed] to consider my future and what I want to do in life, and where I want to be.”

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At 8:17 am on May 18, 2016 — the day his father was to be sentenced for a parole violation — Isaiah Wall’s phone rings. He lets it go to voicemail, but the calls continue. He finally picks up — it’s the Idaho State Police.

The person on the other end of the line tells Isaiah they know he was involved in a hit-and-run two days before. He needs to come immediately to the ISP headquarters in Coeur d’Alene, according to Anderson, who says he was with Isaiah that day. (ISP officials have refused to confirm whether it employed Isaiah as an informant.)

This, Anderson says, is what follows:

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Isaiah Wall poses with one of his favorite things: guns.

Isaiah tells the caller he has no clue about the alleged hit-and-run. While still on the phone, he walks around his car. There’s no damage that he can see, he assures the caller.

We need to inspect the car ourselves, the caller tells Isaiah.

Get down here immediately.

The two teenagers hop into Isaiah’s forest-green Mustang — 22-inch rims, speaker box in the back — and go to the ISP building on West Wilbur Avenue. A receptionist tells them someone will be out shortly, and they go outside to wait and smoke cigarettes.

Two Idaho police officers show up.

“Isaiah Wall?” one says.

Wall raises his hand.

“You’re under arrest.”

Isaiah asks why, Anderson says, and as they put him in handcuffs, one officer answers quietly in his ear: “For being a motherf---in’ drug dealer.”

The officers tell Anderson to beat it, and he hops a bus to a friend’s house to wait. Isaiah shows up hours later. There was no hit-and-run, he tells Anderson. There weren’t even any charges against him — at least nothing officially filed, according to court records. Isaiah tells Anderson that detectives took him into a conference room and told him they’d been watching him for months; someone “very close to him” had snitched, though they wouldn’t say who.

The detectives tell Isaiah he’s facing 10 years in prison for cocaine trafficking, Anderson says. So he has two options: face the charges, or cut a deal and cooperate. They want him to do an undercover drug buy that very day, Anderson says, but Isaiah pleads to postpone it. He has to make it to his father’s sentencing hearing at 3 pm.

That afternoon Marcus Wall is sentenced to more than a year in prison. Isaiah is devastated.

Soon “Josh” will enter his life.

pick[ed] up a gram from him he’ll think that’s shady.”

Josh responds: “Hey calm down bud we’re not gonna go cold calling. We’ll wait till he says to come over but we have to plan for it.”

By 5 pm, it’s finally set up.

Detective Josh Clark recounts in court records a drug buy that day, but doesn’t name Isaiah. In sterilized legal language, he writes about an unnamed informant, who leads detectives to location of the drug deal. Detectives listen to the conversation through a wire.

“They want to get an ounce soon,” the informant says, according to Clark’s report.

“Ok, no trouble,” the dealer says.

Later that week, about 3:30 am on May 28, Isaiah sits by himself sipping a beer. He can’t sleep. He’s done three controlled buys within the past two weeks for over an ounce of meth, according to court documents the Inlander linked to Isaiah.

All three buys were from the same person, more of an acquaintance than a close friend. But later in the week he’s supposed to snitch on a buddy who’s fallen into harder drugs recently.

Isaiah starts messaging friends. He’s going crazy by himself, he tells them. Some respond, but it’s too late to come chill. Isaiah finally falls asleep.

Samm Tarkington recalls seeing Isaiah at a party about a week before his death. They had been flirting with the idea of dating for a few months at that point, she says. He was sitting on a table with his head in his hands. She didn’t know what was wrong, but she had never seen him that stressed before.

Gone was the carefree, confident kid.

“He was like, ‘I want to tell you, but I can’t talk to you about this,’” Tarkington says. “It was weighing on him heavily.”

“Grandma I don’t know what to do. I always feel like my life is falling apart.”

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“Grandma I don’t know what to do,” Isaiah texts at 10:46 am on May 24. “I always feel like my life is falling apart.”

Minutes later, he’s back to texting with Josh: “I’ve hit both of them up this morning. S hit me up at like 12:30 last night and I said to push it to today.”

“What’s he got?” Josh asks.

“He just said dope. And it’s going super fast.”

“OK. Set it up for 4 ish. See if he has a full for you and how much,” Josh texts, adding later, “Plan to be at the office at 315 and we’ll go get it.”

Isaiah is nervous that Josh wants him to pop in without getting the green light from the drug dealer.

“Wait what?” Isaiah asks Josh. “You want me to just say I’m on my way even if he doesn’t answer?

That’d be realllly weird and definitely not like me.

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The party’s over. The girls are gone. Isaiah’s buddy, Chris Anderson, left hours ago. Another friend, Ricky Robinson, is asleep in the house. It’s the early morning hours of May 29; Isaiah and a friend named William Krigbaum are the last ones up, sitting around an empty fire pit in the backyard of a house where Isaiah’s been living. ...continued on next page

WHEN THINGS GO BAD

By 1993, research shows that the use of confidential informants spiked by nearly 200 percent compared to only a decade before. That spike is driven largely by the war on drugs, according to Alexandra Natapoff, a professor at Los Angeles’ Loyola Law School and a leading expert in the use of informants. Police recruited scores of young, vulnerable and often drug-addicted individuals to do the work of undercover officers.

That risky and dangerous work is shielded from the public view. Many informants don’t survive.  IN 1996, Kentucky State Police asked LeBron Gaither to testify against a drug dealer he’d set up. Gaither (pictured) was 18 at the time, but news reports indicate that police recruited Gaither as a 16-year-old when he entered the juvenile system. The day after Gaither’s testimony, police sent him back out to buy more drugs from the guy he’d just testified against. Gaither was brutally tortured and killed. His family sued and initially won $168,000, but the judgment was vacated on appeal, with judges ruling that officers could not be held accountable for Gaither’s death because the “execution of the undercover operation was left to the judgment and discretion of the detectives.” The Kentucky Supreme Court overruled the appeals court in 2014, nearly 20 years after Gaither’s death.  IN 2007, a small-time southwestern Washington drug dealer agreed to help police nab a heroin dealer to get out from under drug charges of his own. Jeremy McLean, 26, did multiple drug buys while police listened through a wire. On New Year’s Eve 2008, his body was found in the Columbia River with four shots to the head. He’d set up a local heroin dealer, William Vance Reagan Jr., who confessed to killing McLean while he was out on bond. His family later settled a lawsuit for $375,000.  IN 2008, 23-year-old Rachel Hoffman was killed in Perry, Florida, when she lost contact with officers in the middle of a controlled buy for two and a half ounces of cocaine, 1,500 Ecstasy pills and a handgun. The convicted felons she met with found the wire in her purse. Her body was found two days later, shot five times with the gun police told her to buy.

In the wake of Hoffman’s death, state legislators passed Rachel’s Law, which placed restrictions on how police use informants. The law demands training for police, and among other provisions gives them a list of specifications to consider, including age, maturity, history of drug abuse, risk to the informant, criminal history and emotional well-being.

The law also now requires police in Florida to maintain an up-to-date database of confidential informants.  EARLIER THIS YEAR, the U.S. Department of Justice inspector general found that the DEA paid its informants millions of dollars even after they lied in court. In one example, the DEA paid a “deactivated” informant, who lied in sworn testimony, more than $469,000 in cases spread over 13 offices for five years. The report says the DEA supplied the Justice Department with shoddy data, and could not say exactly how much informants were paid after they’d been discredited. But the report indicates at least $9.4 million was paid to more than 800 informants after they’d been “deactivated.”

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The stars are out.

And Isaiah and Krigbaum are out of their minds after dropping acid, Krigbaum says. While they’re tripping, Isaiah twirls a .40-caliber handgun on his finger, ejects an unfired round from the chamber and snatches it from the air.

At 2:26 am, Isaiah texts one of the girls who left earlier: “Thanks for saying bye.”

“I’m holding my girls hair back. You know I wish I could've just stuck with being a homie.”

Isaiah, at 2:39 am: “Please come back.”

At 2:41 am, Samm Tarkington calls him for help with her drunk friend. It’s a short conversation; Tarkington can hear Krigbaum in the background, and the two boys are laughing.

Now it’s about 4:30, and the sun starts to rise. Krigbaum goes into the kitchen to get a drink of water. He moves to the couch to pass out, Krigbaum will later say, and Isaiah is still in the backyard, with his pistol, alone.

A gunshot wakes Krigbaum.

He says he staggers off the couch and stumbles into the yard. Isaiah is laying on the ground, an open Zippo lighter and a gun at his feet. A pool of blood expands under his head.

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Courtney McKinnie can’t sleep. Guilt crushes her — guilt for every stupid argument with Isaiah, for calling the police on him when he was a kid, for every time he needed his mom and she wasn’t there.

Then she gets his iPhone back from the funeral home and begins her own investigation. She methodically combs through his texts, his Facebook and Instagram accounts, looking for clues. She stops on a thread of messages with Josh. She takes pictures of the texts and of his location data placing him at Idaho State Police headquarters in Coeur d’Alene three times in the past month.

She finds a note Isaiah left for himself in his phone on May 26, noting his own license plate number and that of a “DEA” car.

McKinnie has a thousand questions. She records her meetings with Coeur d’Alene police detectives, with people at the coroner’s office, employees at the funeral home and several of Isaiah’s friends. She pays to have all the data extracted off of his phone and hires a private investigator.

She isn’t ruling out the possibility that her son took his own life. She knows he struggled with depression and is upfront about his difficult home life and her role in all of that. But things aren’t adding up, she says: â Isaiah is right-handed and, friends say, he always Thur 11/17 Inlander

Most friends had no idea about Isaiah's double life. fired guns with his right hand. But the police report indicates he fired with his left hand and then fell on his left side. â Isaiah was planning to move into a new apartment the very next day. His stuff was packed in the car, and he’d been texting his new roommate in the days — and hours — leading up to his death. McKinnie was supposed to help him move. â No autopsy was performed. Neither the Kootenai County Coroner’s Office nor the Coeur d’Alene police ordered one. The coroner, nevertheless, ruled the shooting a suicide after looking at the scene. (A Coeur d’Alene police detective tells the Inlander an autopsy might have been ordered if investigators had known he was an informant at the time.)

“We’ll always have confidential informants. Always. They’ve always been a part of narcotics work and always will be.”

Six months after Isaiah’s death, the Coeur d’Alene police investigation is still not complete. In a 25-page report released to the Inlander, there is only one mention of Isaiah’s work as a drug informant, from an interview with Krigbaum more than a week after Isaiah’s death.

There is no record of any communication with the Idaho State Police.

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The conference room inside the Idaho State Police headquarters in Coeur d’Alene is flooded in fluorescent light, with a long table surrounded by chairs. This is allegedly where Isaiah agreed to become an informant.

Seated around the table now are two sergeants as well as the captain in charge of the district, John Kempf, a tall, veteran investigator with graying temples.

They’ve agreed to speak generally about the agency’s use of confidential informants, but say they can’t comment on whether Isaiah worked for them. Doing so, they say, would betray any potential deal to keep his identity a secret and would undermine the entire confidential informant program. No one will want to secretly feed them information if they put one of their sources “on Front Street,” as they say.

Even if that source is dead.

Kempf has worked drug investigations for the Idaho State Police for 16 years and now teaches new detectives how to build drug cases — one of main functions of the Idaho State Police. Detective training includes a “significant” portion of an 80-hour class dedicated to working with informants; in his curriculum, Kempf draws from questionable, dangerous and reckless examples of informant use from across the country for lessons on what not to do.

The Idaho State Police refuse to release any policies or guidelines related to informants, citing a clause in state law exempting information that could reveal investigative techniques or the identity of a confidential informant.

Around the conference room table, Kempf and his two detectives remain ardent in their defense of secret sources.

“We’ll always have confidential informants,” Kempf says. “Always. They’ve always been a part of narcotics work and always will be. They are a necessary tool to do drug investigations.”

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CPD Detective Jared Reneau says there are still a few loose ends he needs to tie up, but can’t comment further at the risk of jeopardizing the integrity of the investigation.

Reneau met with McKinnie earlier this month. He tells her: “I was at the crime scene. From everything I saw, there wasn’t anything that was overly suspicious.”

But what if he was murdered? McKinnie asks Detective Reneau if she should be worried about the guy who’s going to jail because of Isaiah. What if he wants revenge on her or her family? Reneau doesn’t have many answers. He says the Idaho State Police don’t keep CPD in the loop.

“I’ve just been left in the dark to do my own investigating,” she tells Reneau.

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The Idaho State Police won't say whether Isaiah Wall worked for them.

The biggest advantage of using confidential informants, Kempf says, is their intimate knowledge of “the drug world or drug culture they’re involved in.” Both socially and legally speaking, confidential informants have access to places and people that detectives typically would not. For police to walk into a drug house, or any house for that matter, they need a warrant.

As to the training that informants receive to conduct police work, Kempf says: “The short answer, without giving specifics, is... they were involved in this criminal activity before we met them. So they know the street better than we do. They oftentimes know the person they’re buying drugs from much better than we do. They know how to operate, they know whether or not they have weapons.”

There are safeguards in place, and the program is

closely and continually scrutinized, Kempf and his two sergeants say, declining to give specifics. Kempf adds that they have a checklist of criteria to assess potential informants, including whether they have a history of depression or other mental health issues.

Typically the problems arise, Kempf says, when informants tell on themselves. He adds, however, that he isn’t aware of an informant in Idaho being killed on the job.

“The first thing we say is, ‘Don’t tell anybody,’” Kempf says. “It’s not because we’re worried about our case, but we know this could go sideways the more people are involved.”

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The Idaho State Police will not release its budget for the confidential informant program, nor the section of its policy manual that tells detectives how to handle secret sources. In fact, ISP doesn’t even maintain a record of the money it spends on confidential informants, or on drug investigations overall, according to a response to an Inlander request for public records. The Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office, by comparison, doesn’t have a policy governing how informants are used, according to their response to a public records request.

“The fact that police won’t even release their policies is a quintessential aspect of that culture of secrecy,” says Alexandra Natapoff, a professor at Loyola Law School and one of the nation’s leading experts on confidential informants. “That a police department feels entitled to withhold that information even after someone has died seems to be contrary to public policy.”

ISP’s refusal stands in stark opposition to local and state law enforcement agencies in Washington state.

The Spokane Police Department’s full policy manual, including the section on confidential informants, is posted on their website. The Spokane County Sheriff’s Office and the Washington State Patrol readily emailed copies of their policy manuals to the Inlander. WSP’s response even included a redacted copy of a contract between an informant and a detective, documents that show specifically what information about informants the police keep track of and how payments are approved and tracked.

The Inlander did, however, speak with ISP investigators generally about informant use:  Although Idaho State Police policy allows detectives to use juveniles as informants, Sgt. Michael Van Leuven says it’s rare and would require consent from a parent or guardian. The most common use of people under 18, Van Leuven says, is for alcohol sales control: “We’ll have them go in and try to buy booze.”  Van Leuven says detectives are told not to push informants to buy more drugs than they otherwise would.

“If we have an informant that says they’ve been buying grams from someone, we’re not going to ask them to buy ounces,” he says. “I think that would be improper, unprofessional and unethical. We don’t want to make you into something that gives you a much longer prison sentence by doing something you wouldn’t normally have done.”

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“UNFINISHED BUSINESS,” CONTINUED... tors have near-complete discretion in the use of confidential informants as a matter of public policy. The constitutional rights of defendants, she argues, are excused in the name of keeping a source of information anonymous, and vulnerable people — perhaps young, addicted to drugs, unable to afford an attorney or otherwise incapable of asserting their rights — are sent to do the work of a trained police officer.

Rarely, she says, do the specific details of that work come to light.

“Like any risky public policy, sometimes using informants is worth the risk,” she says. “But right now the system is not designed to evaluate the true costs and benefits of informant use — the public is asked to take it on faith. That needs to change, especially where we know that the costs to the young and vulnerable are particularly high.”

She points to one shocking example from Florida in which police there enlisted a small-time, college-aged pot dealer. Rachel Hoffman, the subject of a New Yorker exposé on young confidential informants, was sent to buy a large quantity of drugs and weapons back in 2008. The dealers found the wire in her purse and killed her with the very gun police wanted her to buy.

The reckless use of inLETTERS formants — leading to their Send comments to torture or murder — often editor@inlander.com. goes unnoticed, Natapoff says, unless their families have the means to hire attorneys and see the cases through lengthy legal battles.

For Natapoff, that makes exposing the Isaiah's story — a case of kid with little support or resources — all the more significant.

“Part of the tragedy is that for people like Isaiah, who’ve already been devalued by the system, their stories never get told, and their names are never heard,” she says. “Logically speaking, there are thousands of Isaiah Walls all over the country, and we will never know about them because their friends and family don’t have the resources to produce an outcry and raise public attention.”

She adds: “It’s possible that if it was a suicide, it may have been because he felt despondent and trapped because he was an informant. For someone in his situation, you could imagine how he could see that as a death sentence.”

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McKinnie sits in the driver’s seat of her navy-blue Pontiac Grand Prix, parked in a cemetery not far from where Isaiah grew up. You can see his grave from the road. It’s the one with the statute of an eagle — his favorite football team — flowers, photos and a notebook.

Smoke from her cigarette billows out of the car and into the bright sky. Her brown hair is twisted into a nest on top of her head. She’s wearing a baseball T-shirt with blue sleeves and a gold watch. Both were Isaiah’s.

She feels better having spoken with detectives, though she has yet to hear from the Idaho State Police. She is still unsure of when, or if, she’ll have answers.

“My son was just kind of tossed aside as a drug dealer, as disposable, somebody not productive in society,” she says.

“And that’s the worst part for me.”

She visits Isaiah’s gravesite and posts to his Facebook page almost daily; on Sunday, Nov. 20, she’s invited friends and family to his grave to celebrate — it would have been Isaiah’s 20th birthday. In the meantime, she’s left poring over pictures and videos of him saved on her phone. She stops on a screenshot of one of the last communications Isaiah received on his phone.

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The Bart of Storytelling An eclectic dark comedy at Gonzaga draws on The Simpsons to reflect on the notion of stories

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group of young men and women is gathered around a crackling oil-drum fire. They’re engaged in a rapid-fire discussion as they piece together an episode of The Simpsons — “Cape Feare,” as it happens — from the animated series’ fifth season.

One of them contributes a hazily recalled line of dialogue. Another struggles to remember the exact sequence of events. Why is it again that the Simpsons are thrown into the witness relocation program? Oh, yeah, on account of Bart’s archenemy, Sideshow Bob. Where do they first encounter Bob after he leaves prison? That’s right, in a movie theater. The rough framework of the episode slowly takes shape. Guesses and abstractions fill in the gaps between particulars.

This collaborative act of mental reassembly is what opens Anne Washburn’s Mr. Burns: a post-electric play. The actors’ speech is sprinkled with naturalistic tics: pauses of uncertainty, mid-sentence revisions, excited gestures as a long-forgotten detail bubbles up from the depths of memory. But it’s no quaint campfire conversation. In a way, it’s a desperate reaction, a form of self-soothing and escape in the face of catastrophic events that will be unraveled — although never fully — when a new arrival is forced out of the forest shadows, carrying, like all the others, a notebook of names in his backpack.

“Mr. Burns is about a time when the culture is completely in crisis, and how the culture responds to it. It takes place right at the beginning of when civilization is dissolving. The power grid has been taken out, there’s been a nuclear meltdown, and there’s a mass exodus of people out of the cities. We meet a group of travelers in the middle of the Adirondacks, and they do what people do in those situations: They start trying to piece together old Simpsons episodes just to pass the time,” explains Charles Pepiton, an assistant professor at Gonzaga University. He’s directing a new production of Washburn’s play for the Theatre & Dance Department.

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“Act two is seven years later. This same group of travelers has stayed together and they’ve become this amateur theatrical society, performing the memories that they buy from people. There’s a big surprise at the end that moves us forward 75 years into act three. What we find there is essentially a religious passion play where that Simpsons episode of ‘Cape Feare’ has become unifying mythology of the culture. They’re talking about the fall of society through the lens of layers and layers of pop culture from the time before.”

Pepiton and his colleagues were first introduced to Mr. Burns last year when Abbey Plankey, technical director at the Theatre & Dance Department, brought it to their attention. She had worked on the original production of the play shortly after its premiere in 2012 at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington, D.C. “All of the faculty read it and it just seemed to be right. We wanted to do something new, and that seemed like it was leaning into culture as opposed to just providing the same old thing. This is one of those shows that’s got a little bit of everything in it.”

“Leaning into culture” is a phrase Pepiton uses more than once to describe Mr. Burns and “edgy” pieces like it. ConsciousMORE EVENTS ly or not, it’s served as a guiding Visit Inlander.com for vision for the sort of material complete listings of that the faculty of the Theatre & local events.

Dance Department are looking to explore with their students.

“I’m really excited about what we’re doing,” he says. “We have a main-stage season that’s faculty-directed, and then we have a parallel season that’s all student-directed, -designed and -produced. And all of that work is looking to how we can engage with culture now: Where is theater going? How can theater respond to the culture? How can we raise big questions that encounter where our culture is today?”

To that end, the department is already working with Terrain to stage a collection of eight student-directed scenes and short plays under the banner of a larger performance called War No More on Dec. 9. Next year, along with one-act play festivals and sketch comedy, the students will be directing and designing Stupid F---ing Bird, an update of Chekhov’s classic The Seagull.

“What we’re trying to do is giving students the tools to use theater to engage as opposed to escape,” says Pepiton. “We’re looking forward and saying, ‘Where do we want to go?’ And to pose that question to a broader audience, it’s not surprising that they would turn to Mr. Burns — an eclectic, “meta-theatrical” play rooted in the present but set in an imagined future.

“This is a really fascinating story about the power of story.

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TV Fans like me who mourn the end of the popular British period drama Downton Abbey can rejoice as we turn our attention toward a new historical series, albeit one that focuses on the royal family several decades after the Crawleys’ happy ending. With the 10-episode first season from Netflix released in its entirety this month, THE CROWN captures the early years of Queen Elizabeth II’s reign, beginning with her marriage to Prince Philip in 1947. Offering an intimate look into the luxurious lifestyle of England’s monarchy, we can imagine what HRH’s life was really like behind closed doors. Already renewed for a second season, The Crown is set to include six seasons total, bringing us up to the present day.

Chelsea Handler is doing another talk show, but this time it’s on her own terms.

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hen the loud and brash Chelsea Handler left her longtime talk show Chelsea Lately on E! in 2014, she promised she’d be back with something better. She said she was taking her talents to Netflix, but details were murky. Now, six months into her new talk show Chelsea, which features new episodes each week, we have a better idea of what that means.

Unlike her old show, where she was frequently forced to talk about things she didn’t care about, such as anything Kardashianor Justin Bieber-related, Chelsea allows its host to explore things she’s interested in learning more about (besides herself) like foreign cultures, politics and sports. She’s visited far-off places like Mexico and Russia, and even the crazy land of Florida. She interviews old men and children, her own staff members and a slew of famous people. Her dog Chunk is allowed to roam free on stage, while she toggles between self-deprecating pre-taped bits, thoughts of the day and interviews.

As it sits right now, Chelsea has a terrible 27 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes, but that was based on the initial episodes of her show. Reviewers had hoped the new show would be more out-of-the-box, like her Netflix original Chelsea Does miniseries, but instead were met with a host who struggled through her

first weeks. Now, with about 20 episodes left of this first season, Handler has found her groove, and the show has been renewed for another 90-episode season.

This is a woman who has written memoirs about her drunken one-night stands, has no qualms about baring her breasts and is wildly proud of the fact that she has no children. To say the least, her outspoken demeanor upsets many. But through the new show, even if you don’t agree with her, you’re learning something.

When she didn’t understand Brexit, she brought in an economist to explain its complexities. When actress and pal Shannen Doherty was diagnosed with breast cancer, she had her on to talk about the scary realities of the disease. Conservative commentator Ann Coulter was even booked, but ended up canceling. Handler wants you to see the world around you. Yes, sometimes that means she invites her friends on to hang out and her questions aren’t as interesting as they once were, but this is a new, smarter Handler in every possible way.

— LAURA JOHNSON Watch new episodes of Chelsea every Wednesday through Friday on Netflix.

COMIC Western and horror genres combine in the ongoing comic book series PRETTY DEADLY, now collected in two five-issue volumes; the second of which was released this past August. Written by Kelly Sue DeConnick with art by Emma Rios, the Eisner Award-nominated Pretty Deadly is as much of a feminist tribute — featuring two distinct female protagonists — as it is an examination of life, death, love and loss. In the first volume, we meet these women; Sissy is a young girl who travels around the dry and dusty landscape performing a staged show based on the lore of her narrative counterpart, Deathface Ginny, the daughter of a beautiful woman and Death himself.

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Beyond the League Stand-up comedian Steve Rannazzisi’s fantasy-fueled career

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lenty of football players can relate to being torched by former Seattle Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch — but probably none quite as literally as actor/comedian Steve Rannazzisi can.

The former Seahawks star’s guest bit on long-running fantasy football-inspired FX sitcom The League ended up with Rannazzisi’s character literally on fire after the unwise decision by his brother to toss him a beer instead of simply handing it to Lynch resulted in Rannazzisi’s stumble into a flaming grill.

The scene’s — and entire series’ — blend of absurd slapstick, real football jocks and highly improvised dialogue between Rannazzisi and comedy costars like Paul Scheer, Mark Duplass and Nick Kroll earned The League a rabid audience over the course of seven seasons.

“We’re not like Big Bang Theory, where 50 million people watched us every week, but the people that did watch, they are tremendous fans,” says Rannazzisi from his L.A. home. “They know all the references to the show, and they are very boisterous.”

For Rannazzisi, a relative unknown outside the Los Angeles comedy scene before The League, that “boisterous” response takes form in unusual ways: Getting yelled at on the street by his character’s name, Kevin, or having random strangers yell “Shiva blast!” as he walks by. That kind of positive reinforcement was not a given when the show first came together.

“We shot the pilot and we knew it was funny.

We knew it made us laugh,” Rannazzisi says. “But we’d all been through the network system, where stuff gets canceled regardless of its quality.” He credits FX with letting the series find an audience as the actors continued to “figure out our tone and how to be funny for our audience, and we did. It just got bigger and bigger year after year.”

The show’s popularity allowed Rannazzisi to hit the stand-up circuit around the country, thanks to his face suddenly being familiar. He was no rookie to comedy, working for eight years at the legendary Comedy Store after moving to Los Angeles from his native New York. Between auditioning for acting roles by day and working the door or parking cars at the club at night, he wrote jokes and got on stage to perform them whenever possible.

“That was really my entrance to the stand-up world,” Rannazzisi says. “You think you have a couple of jokes and you can go up on stage and make people laugh, but you don’t really know what it takes to continue to do that. Working there, I saw how guys like Joe Rogan or Andrew ‘Dice’ Clay, these big names, I saw how they develop their material and worked to develop their voice.”

While Rannazzisi’s acting training from college helped him always feel comfortable on stage, writing material and crafting jokes was a challenge, he says. But seeing legends like Robin

Steve Rannazzisi is stretching himself beyond The League.

Williams drop by and work out new material — not always successfully — helped the aspiring comic with his own work.

“Seeing that no one is impenetrable, no one is bulletproof, even Robin Williams, that was an eye-opener,” Rannazzisi says.

While The League raised Rannazzisi’s profile to the point where he’s headlining stand-up tours across the country now, including a stop in Spokane this week, his newfound fame came with a cost, too. Shortly before the last season of The League debuted, reporters found he had lied in some podcast interviews about working in the Twin Towers on 9/11. The discovery cost him a job doing commercials for Buffalo Wild Wings and forced him into a public apology tour; watching his 40-minute conversation on The Howard Stern Show is excruciating.

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Goes With Turkey You know what you want to cook, so here are some drinks to go with Thanksgiving dinner

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hether you’re sticking with the classics or trying something less traditional, it’s always a good idea to branch out with what you’re drinking along with Thanksgiving dinner. I caught up with Matt Dolan, who handles all things beer and wine at Rocket Market, and Kristi Gamble, a cocktail and spirit consultant, for a few tips on what to pair with your feast.

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For Dolan, whatever the drink, it should contribute to the conversation.

“It’s an opportunity to try something different, especially with family or friends,” he says.

“Some family gatherings need stimulation.”

Whether it’s a seasonal beer, an obscure grape, or wine from a region you’ve always wanted to visit, a little context can elevate it to special. “You don’t have to be a wine expert to have a wine with a story,” says Dolan.

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While Dolan is all for a good value (he favors Crémant, the rest of France’s answer to Champagne, but at a fraction of the price, as well as Australian port), he recommends spending a little more than usual for a celebratory dinner.

“When I’m in a festive setting I want to be wowed,” he says. “You’re with people that you consider special, why not make the wine match the people?”

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“Wine can be limiting,” she says. “Once the bottle is open, the flavors are immutable. Cocktails, on the other hand, can be invented and tweaked to match a dish perfectly.”

Gamble likens cocktail making to cooking.

“When you season a dish, you’re thinking about combining flavors that taste good together,” she says. “The same idea applies to cocktail pairings. This is where the miraculous happens: sometimes flavors in solid form and flavors in liquid form come together to create a third, delicious set of flavors, bringing out something you wouldn’t taste if you hadn’t tried them together.”

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“I always start with something bubbly,” says Dolan. “There’s a reason they call it the universal food wine.”

Looking for a white wine? Dolan recommends a mediumbodied one. “They tend to be appealing to a wider spectrum of people,” he says. His pick this year is a Pinot Gris.

If you’re in the market for a food-friendly red, Dolan has a few options.

“I like Barbera, or sometimes Nebbiolo for a softer red,” he says. “Pinot Noir is a slam dunk.” He’s also a fan of Zinfandel. “A roasted turkey would be amazing with Zin.” For dessert, Dolan favors a late-harvest Riesling or ENTRÉE Gewürztraminer, or a tawny Get the scoop on local port, especially with pumpkin food news with our weekly or pecan pie. “You can get a Entrée newsletter. Sign up great bottle of tawny port for at Inlander.com/newsletter. around $15, or you can get an exceptional, 10-year-aged tawny port for around $20 to $30,” he says.

Although it might not be natural to think of pairing beer with a Thanksgiving dinner, Dolan thinks it’s a great bet. For Thanksgiving, he’s a fan of German hefeweizens, seasonal beers, fresh hop (also known as wet hop) beers, and barrel-aged Imperial stouts. Gamble plays with contrasts and complements in her cocktail pairings.

“Too much contrast could make one element overpower the other, so be careful, but a little bit of contrast can bring out good things in both. Also, consider picking a drink that offers continuity with the food, complementing similar characteristics and helping them shine,” she says.

Both Dolan and Gamble agree: pairings are all about your palate. Drink what you like above all else. 

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The Right Side of Edgy The Edge of Seventeen infuses sharp modern wit into the coming-of-age teen dramedy

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here’s an inherent melodrama built into the way a teenage mind operates, but that doesn’t mean melodramatic expressions of real anxiety and depression are invalid. The Edge of Seventeen understands this on a deeper, realer level than most coming-of-age high school dramedies. When the film’s protagonist Nadine (Hailee Steinfeld) bemoans, “I had the worst thought: I have to spend the rest of my life with myself,” it’s both a messy appeal for sympathy and attention and a genuine feeling. The balance of authenticity and comedic levity makes The Edge of Seventeen somewhat of a John Hughes film for millennials.

It’s easy to empathize with Nadine’s downtrodden lot in life. The outcast high school junior must deal with her hotshot older brother Darian, and her overbearing, emotionally unstable mother (Kyra Sedgwick). Nadine’s lone ray of hope in this teenage wasteland is her best (and literally only) friend, Krista (Haley Lu Richardson). But when a hungover Nadine stumbles in on Krista and her bro hooking up, her whole

world becomes a fog of crushing loneliness. classroom in a hyperventilating huff to tell him she’s Edge of Seventeen boasts a razor-sharp script for its going to kill herself, he slyly responds by “reading” genre. Writer and first-time director Kelly her his own suicide note, Fremon Craig’s characters don’t hold back, THE EDGE OF SEVENTEEN which details how an delivering blunt and cutting R-rated zingers; annoying student who Rated R pushing boundaries with something closer keeps interrupting his Written and directed by Kelly Fremon Craig to Gilmore Girls verbosity (discussing topics Starring Hailee Steinfield, Haley Lu Richardson, lunch break has driven like mom’s sexual encounters with dentists him to crave death.

Woody Harrelson on Match.com) than American Pie raunchiOn the other hand, ness. Craig additionally does a subtly great Nadine keeps Erwin job framing Nadine so that she always seems distant, at bay despite his ridiculously goofy and adorable isolated, and alone even when in public spaces. affection for her. Szeto portrays the way But it’s Nadine’s relationships with her history the giddiness of a teenage crush is teacher and de facto therapist Mr. Bruner (Woody swiftly stomped by nerves with Harrelson) and Erwin (Hayden Szeto), the boy comedic perfection. While the in class who’s clearly crushing hard on her, that sum of The Edge of Seventeen really make The Edge of Seventeen crackle. works, it’d be a clear notch Nadine uses Mr. Bruner as a vent sponge above most teen dramedies on for her frustrations, despite his continual the strength of Harrelson and eye-rolling and sharp-tongued (probably Szeto alone.  school-code-violating) responses to her melodrama. When she storms into his

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Pazienza, a boxer who rose to prominence in the late ’80s and was at the top of his game in 1991 before breaking his neck in a car wreck. The film tells of how Pazienza, who was told he might never walk again, was able to get back into the ring. (MB) Rated R

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J.K. Rowling’s fanciful picture depicts magical creatures roaming throughout 1926 New York City. This is the consequence of unregistered wizard Newt Scamander letting them escape. Scamander travels the Wizarding World collecting magical creatures and keeping them in a magical case that allows them to roam in their habitats. Scamander’s arrival in America disrupts the secret magical society there and challenges societal norms regarding magical and non-magical people. (EG) Rated PG–13

CERTAIN WOMEN

Written and directed by Kelly Reichardt and set in modern small-town Montana, this drama displays the intersecting lives of three independent women.

Lawyer Laura Wells (Laura Dern) deals with sexism in the office and an unruly, disgruntled male client. Gina Lewis (Michelle Williams), a wife and mother, is trying to build her family’s new house from the ground up, despite her husband’s constant undermining of her.

Beth Travis (Kristen Stewart), a young law teacher working multiple jobs, relates to a curious female ranch hand who stumbles into a class Beth is teaching. (EG) Rated R

THE TAKE

CIA agent Sean Briar (Idris Elba) captures young con artist Michael Mason (Richard Madden) who unwittingly set off a bomb on a busy street after pickpocketing, killing four people in France. Together they embark on an anti-terrorist mission to combat corruption, despite working on different sides of the law. The movie (originally titled Bastille Day) was set to be released in February 2016 but was delayed due to the real-life terrorist attack in Paris in November 2015. After its release April 2016 on the day before Bastille Day, the Bastille Day Nice terrorist attack happened, killing 85 people. The movie’s was consequently retitled The Take for its UK DVD release and U.S. theatrical release. (EG) Rated R

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The man who was Batman is now an accountant... but there’s a twist! Sure, Ben Affleck is a math savant CPA with no people skills, but his clients are super evil criminals from around the world.

Didn’t expect that, did you? When a Treasury agent (J.K. Simmons) closes in on him and the CPA takes on a big-time client, people start getting shot all over the place. (MB) Rated R

ALMOST CHRISTMAS

Director David E. Talbert first gained notoriety with 2013’s Baggage Claim, and now he’s back with a holiday movie — which is coming out before Thanksgiving. Here, we have a big, dysfunctional family getting together for their first Christmas since the death of the clan’s matriarch. Starring Omar Epps, Kimberly Elise, Danny Glover, Gabrielle Union and others. (MB) Rated PG-13

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Amy Adams plays Dr. Louise Banks, a world-class linguist who is summoned by the U.S. government when a mysterious object appears in Montana. Her job is to find some way to communicate with creatures who do not resemble us, who do not understand our language, and who may not even possess body parts that allow them to speak. (PC) Rated PG-13

BOO! A MADEA HALLOWEEN

Tyler Perry has taken his beloved Madea to jail, to witness protection, to Christmas and elsewhere, but now it’s time to celebrate Halloween with the bombastic old lady (also played by Per-

ry, a choice best explained at this point by some sort of deep psychological issue). This time she’s supposed to be watching a group of teens, but encounters poltergeists, ghosts, zombies and other evil entities. (MB) Rated PG-13

THE DISAPPOINTMENTS ROOM

Kate Beckingsale plays a young mother who moves into a new, creepy house with her husband. You know where this is going, don’t you? Well, things don’t get better when he discovers a secret room in the basement that isn’t on the home’s floor plans. (MB) Rated R

DOCTOR STRANGE

Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) is a New York neurosurgeon who is in a terrible car accident that leaves him with such severe nerve

damage in his hands that he can no longer perform surgery. His search for a cure leads him to Nepal and a sort of spiritual martial-arts retreat called Kamar-Taj. Here, sorcerers the Ancient One (Tilda Swinton) and Mordo, her lieutenant, teach Stephen all about using magic, which he employs to save the world from bad guys. (SR) Rated PG-13

THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN

Emily Blunt stars in this mystery/thriller, playing the role of Rachel Watson, a devastated alcoholic divorcee. Rachel takes the train every day, fantasizing about the life of the strangers whose house she passes by every day. One day, she sees something shocking in those strangers’ backyard. Rachel tells

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Desmond Doss (Andrew Garfield) is an earnest young man as America goes to war in 1941. He’s determined to do his duty in service to his country, but, as a devout Seventh-day Adventist, he is adamant in his refusal to take up arms against another human being. So as he leaves behind his fiancée, Dorothy (Teresa Palmer), and parents (Hugo Weaving and Rachel Griffiths) with the intention of serving as a medic, he believes he can serve by saving lives rather than taking them — until he reaches basic training, and faces a U.S. Army that has no idea what to do with this guy. Directed by Mel Gibson. (MJ) Rated R.

IN A VALLEY OF VIOLENCE

Paul (Ethan Hawke) is among the denizens of poverty-stricken frontier town Denton, a place the protagonist, with his dog and horse companions, stumbles upon on his way to Mexico. Paul’s scuffle with a local hothead named Gilly Martin (James Ransone) results in a series of escalating overreactions that build to outright, brutal violence. Also starring John Travolta. (IH) Rated R

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Tom Hanks plays Robert Langdon, a symbologist who must follow a complicated series of clues related to medieval poet Dante in order to solve a dastardly worldwide conspiracy plot.

Landon wakes up with amnesia in an Italian hospital, and with help from doctor Sienna Brooks (Felicity Jones) he must try to regain his memories before a virus is released that could kill off half of the Earth’s population. Based on the novel written by Dan Brown, this film is directed by Academy Award winner Ron Howard. (EG) Rated PG-13

JACK REACHER: NEVER GO BACK

Tom Cruise plays investigator Jack Reacher in this sequel to the 2012 original. After learning that his colleague, Army Major Susan Turner (Cobie Smulders) has been arrested on charges of espionage, Reacher sets out to prove her innocence. His adventure forces him to work outside the law as he uncovers a government conspiracy involving the death of U.S. soldiers. (EG) Rated PG-13

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When outcast Florida teen Jacob (Asa Butterfield) goes to check on his beloved grandpa (Terence Stamp) after a distressed phone call, he finds the old man dying and sees monsters nearby.

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Let’s start by saying that everything about this film — in which a workaholic dad played by Kevin Spacey gets trapped in the body of his daughter’s cat — is oozing with cheese and slapstick comedy (from a CGI cat, nonetheless). Spacey’s character Tom Brand is too busy building his business empire to pay attention to his wife and daughter, so quirky pet store owner (Christopher Walken) casts a spell on him with the requirement that he reconnect with his family, or be trapped in the cat’s body for the rest of his life. Antics ensue. (CS) Rated PG

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Created by the team behind the Despicable Me films, The Secret Life of Pets tells the story of a dog named Max (voiced by Louis C.K.) suddenly forced to welcome another pet to his apartment in the shaggy, sloppy Duke (Eric Stonestreet). Mayhem naturally ensues, and the two pups get lost in the city and have to find their way home with the help of a pack of Max’s friends.

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Worth Waiting For After an explosive start, Coeur d’Alene’s Goodnight Venus has finally released their second record

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oodnight Venus says they’ve been trying to make “Northern Idaho happen” for some time. They even have a song called “Idaho.” Yet since 2010, when the alt-rock trio first got together, playing in their hometown hasn’t always been easy.

“Coeur d’Alene has a pretty terrible music scene,” says frontman Darin Schaffer. “If you don’t play covers, you don’t play.”

There are exceptions, they say, like the Hogfish and other small bars that work to bring in local original bands, but the group mostly has to travel to other cities if they want a gig. Yet it’s not only a matter of where they’re from — the band hasn’t played a show since July because they wanted to get their sophomore album completed. This was further complicated when Schaffer recently got a job in Bellingham. But on Saturday night, the group is finally getting back in the musical game, playing the Big Dipper in celebration of their new self-

titled album hitting iTunes.

While they haven’t released a record since 2012’s The Me Show, the band started out with a bang. Their first real gig was at the Bing Crosby Theater in 2011, opening for instrumental rock act Explosions in the Sky. Schaffer recalls getting out on stage that first time and playing a big drop D chord. The thought still gives him goosebumps.

“It was really cool, yet scary,” he says. “Most bands have to sell themselves and tell promoters how great they are, but we got that show by doing the opposite. We weren’t the best and don’t have a huge ‘draw.’ We just humbly asked if we could play because we love [Explosions in the Sky’s] music and the venue.”

Prior to the new record’s release, Schaffer and bassist Tony Farris met up for an interview at a Spokane coffee shop. At the time they hoped their self-titled work would be further along, but the mastering process wasn’t complete. Yet the self-proclaimed small-town guys say they are

finally at a place where they’re making this band their top priority. They’ve tried doing that before, through touring and practicing at least once a week, but the business side of music is a challenge. It doesn’t help that they all have full-time jobs and Schaffer sometimes goes off the grid (he won’t own a phone, as he doesn’t like to always be “on”).

“We’re way better at making music than selling music. I don’t know how to change that,” Schaffer says.

But Goodnight Venus’ connection remains strong.

Here, there are no egos. “It’s fun and cathartic, getting to bullshit out there with these guys,” Farris says.

The group also features drummer Scott Jessick, formerly of Black Happy, the prominent 1990s North Idaho alt-rock/funk band. So it makes sense when they say that ’90s music serves as a starting point for many of their compositions; it’s when these guys started making music.

On their new record, each song drifts towards a new ...continued on next page

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The first track, “Circles,” dips a toe into heavy metal territory, while the record’s first single, “Drift,” has an almost rockabilly vibe. Even Schaffer seems like he’s experimenting vocally from track to track, one minute singing WEEKEND melodiC O U N T D OW N cally and Get the scoop on this raspy, to weekend’s events with then movour newsletter. Sign up at ing into Inlander.com/newsletter. sing-talk phrasing.

But somehow, the 15 tracks work as a cohesive unit. The band’s instrumentation doesn’t come off as insanely complex, but their talent shines. Schaffer, now on guitar, used to have his own solo bass project, but he describes Farris as one of the best bassists around. Meanwhile, Jessick gets the most out of a sparse trap set.

When writing together, the only rule is that songs should be short, and tracks on the new record range from 19 seconds to five minutes. All the tunes here are memorable — especially the aforementioned “Idaho,” with its quick line: “Idaho, Idaho, Idaho / I don’t know / Idaho, Idaho / I-DA-H-O.” The thing you won’t get from the trio’s new album is how loud they are. A Good-

Goodnight Venus prefers to get as loud as possible at their shows. night Venus show is marked with its ability to exceptionally fill any space; they have a love affair with tube amps, after all. On Saturday, they plan to blast people’s ears with songs from the recent release as a reminder of how far they’ve come as a band.

“This is a document of memories,” Schaffer says. “Even if only 10 people love it, it’s worth it to do this. These songs are

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all about taking chances, and that’s what we’re doing.”  lauraj@inlander.com Goodnight Venus with Wayward West and Fancy Boy • Sat, Nov. 19, at 8 pm • All-ages • $5/$7 day of • The Big Dipper • 171 S. Washington • bigdipperevents. com • 863-8098

MUSIC | FOLK

Gosh,

Amos Lee Gives Thanks

I sure hope I get a chance to scream from the kids table all the cool stuff I want this year from Boo Radleys & Atticus

The folk-soul singer brings his message of gratitude to the masses

BY CONNOR DINNISON

“I

feel like a fish that’s in the best fish tank in the world,” singer-songwriter Amos Lee told an adoring crowd at New York City’s Radio City Music Hall in September. In other words, life in the spotlight is good for Lee, and he’s mighty grateful.

Things could have turned out much differently for the humble, 39-year-old Philadelphian, born Ryan Massaro, who abandoned a brief stint as a grade school teacher for the bigger audiences of concert halls on a tour with future labelmate Norah Jones in 2004. The pairing would prove fruitful and fitting: his lauded self-titled debut on Blue Note Records featured Jones and her band, and earned him a reputation as, perhaps both flatteringly and disparagingly, the “male NoJo.” Blame Lee’s currency with the Starbucks set, or his sound — a polished brew of Clear Channel-approved troubadour folk, jazz and blue-eyed soul — for the comparison, however apt, but it’s also undeniably a compliment. Where sonically his records revisit a lot of conquered territory (gently strummed acoustic guitar, check; Wurlitzer, check; gospel choir, check), Lee’s voice is a distinctly original instrument, at times ambiguous in race and gender. Lyrically, he draws from a deep well of bluesmen and storytellers, but croons more like an heir to the Stax Records vibe pioneered by R&B legends Otis Redding and Bill Withers; even the raspy chanteuse Mavis Staples.

Not bad company for someone who didn’t touch a guitar, nor begin to sing in earnest, until college. He followed his muse and was led into a once-unimaginable reality of sold-out stadium shows — opening for the likes of Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Adele and David Gray to boot — and Billboard-charting hits. Hence, the MORE EVENTS gratitude.

Visit Inlander.com for “There are times when it’s complete listings of not great,” he admitted to a Charlocal events. lotte, North Carolina, alt-weekly as his career took off, “but to have an opportunity to do something you really care about with a bunch of people that care about the music, too? You can’t really ask for much more.”

Lee’s upcoming Spokane stop (which was added after his Seattle and Portland shows sold well) will be a one-off solo acoustic affair reminiscent of his open-mic-night origins. Expect tunes from Lee’s new album Spirit, his first without Blue Note’s backing, which includes a new palette of sounds and arrangements and is Lee’s most pop-inflected and ambitious release.

Downtown Spokane on Howard St.

Singer-songwriter Amos Lee claims he can’t ask for more.

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Fear not, the coffeehouse folkie hasn’t abandoned his roots; he knows that the six-string still has the power to captivate. As he noted in a promotional podcast for his sophomore record, Supply and Demand, “When you carry a guitar around, people are a little nicer to ya.”  Amos Lee • Sun, Nov. 20, at 8 pm • $45-$55 • All-ages • Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox • 1001 W. Sprague • foxtheaterspokane.com • 624-1200

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he Hive concert venue in Sandpoint ups its funk game with Saturday night’s lineup of the New Mastersounds, a British four-piece returning to the venue, and Brooklyn nine-piece Turkuaz, which played Spokane in May. With the groups’ combined power, the show provides the perfect soundtrack for those looking to let loose and feel at one with the earth. Expect a lot of instrumental tunes off the New Mastersounds’ recent The Nashville Session, which includes freshly recorded versions of favorite songs from a career covering more than 16 years and 10 studio albums, along with a jazzy cover version of James Brown’s “In The Middle.” Turkuaz continues to promote its recent Digitonium, a synth-heavy, ’80s-influenced beast of an album.

— LAURA JOHNSON The New Mastersounds and Turkuaz • Sat, Nov. 19, at 9 pm • $20/$40 VIP • 21+ • The Hive • 207 N. First Ave., Sandpoint • livefromthehive.com

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Thursday, 11/17

ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, Fireside Music feat. Lyle Morse BARLOWS AT LIBERTY LAKE, Sunny Nights Duo J THE BARTLETT, Adam Torres, Thor & Friends BOOMERS CLASSIC ROCK BAR & GRILL, Randy Campbell acoustic show J BOOTS BAKERY & LOUNGE, The Song Project J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, Open Jazz Jam with Erik Bowen BUCKHORN INN, The Spokane River Band J CHAPS, Spare Parts COEUR D’ALENE CASINO, JamShack CRAVE, DJ Freaky Fred FEDORA PUB & GRILLE, Kicho IDAHO POUR AUTHORITY, Ben Olson and Cadie Archer THE JACKSON ST., Zaq Flanary and the song Smith series J KNITTING FACTORY, CASH’D Out, Levi Daniel Band J LAGUNA CAFÉ, Just Plain Darin LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Truck Mills J MONARCH MOUNTAIN COFFEE, Open Mic hosted by Scott Reid J MOSCOW FOOD CO-OP, Tasteful Thursdays with Lynnsean Young O’SHAYS IRISH PUB & EATERY, Open mic with Adrian and Leo J THE OBSERVATORY, The Gotobeds, Loomer, Balonely THE OBSERVATORY, Vinyl Meltdown J ONE WORLD CAFE, Joseph Hein, Okay Okay, Trey Coe THE RESERVE, Cowgirls and Cocktails with Swinging Boots RIVELLE’S RIVER GRILL, Truck Mills and special guests Jam Night

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ROCK PORTUGAL. THE MAN

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ortugal. The Man returns to Spokane after headlining Gleason Fest at Riverfront Park in August. For those who missed out on that fundraising event, they absolutely slayed with their brand of music, which falls somewhere between indie and psychedelic rock. The band, which originally hails from Wasilla, Alaska (the same city as Spokane pop act Lavoy), has continued to expand their musical empire from Portland — they’ve toured with the Black Keys and played nearly every major music festival. Their upcoming album has a title, Gloomin + Doomin, but no release date. While they keep us waiting, they continue to tour the country.

— LAURA JOHNSON Portugal. The Man with Boone Howard • Fri, Nov. 18, at 8 pm • $25 • All-ages • Knitting Factory • 919 W. Sprague • sp.knittingfactory. com • 244-3279

J THE PIN!, Wax, The Palmer Squares ZOLA, Sauce Policy

Friday, 11/18

ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, Fireside Music feat. Evan Denlinger J THE BARTLETT, Hillary Susz, Windoe, Mirror Mirror BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn J THE BIG DIPPER, Katastro, Mouse Powell, the Dimestore Prophets, Midnight Drop BOLO’S, Dangerous Type COEUR D’ALENE CASINO, Kosh CURLEY’S, YESTERDAYSCAKE FEDORA PUB & GRILLE, Just Plain Darin FIZZIE MULLIGANS, Karma’s Circle J GONZAGA UNIVERSITY, Allen Stone [Sold-out]

IDAHO POUR AUTHORITY, Marty Perron and Doug Bond J INDABA, Fall acoustic show with Jordan Collins, Andrew Dempsen, Jason Wolpert, Tyler Ciprini and Maddison Fernandez THE JACKSON ST., Dammit Jim, Bone Eye, Idle Hands JOHN’S ALLEY, Barnyard Stompers J KNITTING FACTORY, Portugal the Man (See story above), Boone Howard J LAGUNA CAFÉ, Diane Copeland LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Carey Brazil MAX AT MIRABEAU, Mojo Box MOOSE LOUNGE, Tell the Boys J MOSCOW FOOD CO-OP, Lynnsean Young MULLIGAN’S BAR & GRILLE, Eric Henderson

NORTHERN ALES, Open mic NORTHERN QUEST CASINO, DJ Patrick NYNE, Stepbrothers O’SHAYS IRISH PUB & EATERY, Arvid Lundin & Deep Roots J THE PALOMINO, Rocksgiving feat.

Nixon Rodeo, Helldorado, Project Kings, Concrete Grip PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Patrice Webb RED LION HOTEL RIVER INN, Gladhammer THE RESERVE, Sara Brown RICO’S, Brian Ward Trio THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos feat. Christan Raxter & Steve Ridler J RIVERSIDE PLACE, Northwest Fall Fest feat. The Game, Baby Eazy

E, Demon Assassin, Kenda Locc, C-Dubb and more SEASONS OF COEUR D’ALENE, Ron Greene THE ROADHOUSE, Charlie Butts and the Filter Tips VICTORY SPORTS HALL, Carli Osika WOMAN’S CLUB OF SPOKANE, Swing Dance feat. Atomic Jive ZOLA, Uppercut

Saturday, 11/19

12 TRIBES RESORT CASINO, Rumor 6 ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, Fireside Music feat. Spare Parts Duo J THE BARTLETT, James McMurtry BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn J THE BIG DIPPER, Goodnight Venus CD Release (See story on page 39) BOLO’S, Dangerous Type

J CHATEAU RIVE, An Evening With Peter Rivera CHECKERBOARD BAR, Southside Sell-out$ COEUR D’ALENE CASINO, Kosh CURLEY’S, YESTERDAYSCAKE DAHMEN BARN, Bluestreak DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS, Barnyard Stompers FEDORA PUB & GRILLE, Wyatt Wood FIZZIE MULLIGANS, Karma’s Circle GARLAND PUB & GRILL, Usual Suspects HARRINGTON OPERA HOUSE, Scott Kirby J THE HIVE, The New Mastersounds (See story on facing page), Turkuaz IDAHO POUR AUTHORITY, John Firshi THE JACKSON ST., DJ Dave JOHN’S ALLEY, Brothers Gow J KNITTING FACTORY, Keys N Krates, Branchez, KRNE, Beauflexx LA ROSA CLUB, Open Jam J LAGUNA CAFÉ, Schauer with Friends jazz trio LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Karrie O’Neill MAX AT MIRABEAU, Mojo Box MICKDUFF’S BEER HALL, Still Tipsy & The Hangovers MOOSE LOUNGE, Tell the Boys MULLIGAN’S BAR & GRILLE, Carli Osika NODLAND CELLARS TASTING ROOM, Jay Rawley & Chris Rieser Acoustic Duo NORTHERN QUEST CASINO, Celtic Thunder, DJ Patrick THE OBSERVATORY, Shakewell,

Cattywomp THE PALOMINO, Holiday Sip and Shop with Echo Elysium PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, The Powers J PROHIBITION GASTROPUB, Mary Chavez RED LION HOTEL RIVER INN, Gladhammer RED ROOM LOUNGE, Midnight North, China, Breadbox REPUBLIC BREWING CO., The Mighty Dreadful THE RESERVE, The Cronkites THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos feat. Christan Raxter & Steve Ridler THE ROCK BAR & LOUNGE, DJ Nitro J THE SHOP, EWU/SFCC Guitar Night THE PEARL, West Coast Rock Fest feat. Sins and Sinners, Ground Zero, Within Sight, Haster, Darkenside J THE PIN!, 37 Street Signs, Project X, Incidia THE ROADHOUSE, Last Chance Band ZOLA, Uppercut

Sunday, 11/20

COEUR D’ALENE CASINO, Kosh J CREATE ARTS CENTER, Stan Smith & Friends in Concert DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS, Jam Night with VooDoo Church J MARTIN WOLDSON THEATER AT THE FOX, Amos Lee (See story on page 41) LINGER LONGER LOUNGE, Open jam O’DOHERTY’S IRISH GRILLE, Live Irish

Music J SPOKANE ARENA, Winter Jam Tour Spectacular feat. Matthew West, Crowder J THE PIN!, Hutchfest with the Warriors, Concrete Grip, Critic ZOLA, Blake Braley Band

Monday, 11/21

J CALYPSOS COFFEE & CREAMERY, Open Mic EICHARDT’S, Monday Night Jam with Truck Mills RED ROOM LOUNGE, Open Mic with MJ The In-Human Beatbox ZOLA, Kellen Rowe

Tuesday, 11/22

BABY BAR, Open mic J THE BARTLETT, Open Mic THE BOILER ROOM, Maxie Ray Mills J HOTEL RL SPOKANE-AT THE PARK, Hymn & Her THE JACKSON ST., DJ Dave KELLY’S IRISH PUB, Arvid Lundin and Deep Roots J KNITTING FACTORY, GRIZ, Haywyre, Brasstracks LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Turntable Tuesday MIK’S, DJ Brentano J MOSCOW FOOD CO-OP, Aaron Torres J POOLE’S PUBLIC HOUSE (SOUTH HILL), DJ Charley RED ROOM LOUNGE, Tuesday Takeover w/ Storme THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Jam night with Gil Rivas

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Wednesday, 11/23

THE BACKYARD PUBLIC HOUSE, Kori Ailene J THE BARTLETT, Smokey Brights EICHARDT’S, John Firshi J HOTEL RL SPOKANE-AT THE PARK, Over Sea, Under Stone THE JACKSON ST., DJ Dave J KNITTING FACTORY, Free the Jester, Punks in Drublic, the Broken Thumbs, Belafire, Deschamp LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Carey Brazil RED ROOM LOUNGE, Hip Hop Is A Culture THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Piano Bar with Christan Raxter SPORTSMAN’S BAR & GRILL, Working Spliffs J THE PIN!, Elektro Grave THE ROADHOUSE, Open mic with Vern Vogel and the Volcanoes J THE ROADHOUSE, Thanksgiving Food Drive with Sammy Eubanks ZOLA, The Bossame

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MUSIC | VENUES 315 MARTINIS & TAPAS • 315 E. Wallace, CdA • 208-667-9660 ARBOR CREST • 4705 N. Fruit Hill Rd. • 927-9463 BABY BAR • 827 W. First Ave. • 847-1234 BARLOWS • 1428 N Liberty Lake Rd, Liberty Lake • 924-1446 THE BARTLETT • 228 W. Sprague Ave. • 747-2174 THE BIG DIPPER • 171 S. Washington St. • 863-8098 BIGFOOT PUB • 9115 N. Division St. • 467-9638 BING CROSBY THEATER • 901 W. Sprague Ave. • 227-7638 BLACK DIAMOND • 9614 E. Sprague • 891-8357 BOLO’S• 116 S. Best Rd. • 891-8995 BOOMERS • 18219 E. Appleway Ave. • 755-7486 BOOTS • 24 W. Main Ave. • 703-7223 BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB • 201 S. Main, Moscow • 208-882-5216 BUCKHORN INN • 13311 Sunset Hwy.• 244-3991 CALYPSOS • 116 E Lakeside Ave., CdA • 208665-0591 THE CELLAR • 317 E. Sherman, CdA • 208-6649463 CHAPS • 4237 Cheney-Spokane Rd. • 624-4182 CHATEAU RIVE • 621 W. Mallon Ave. • 795-2030 CHECKERBOARD BAR • 1716 E. Sprague • 535-4007 COEUR D’ALENE CASINO • 37914 S. Nukwalqw Rd., Worley • 800-523-2464 COEUR D’ALENE CELLARS • 3890 N. Schreiber Way, CdA • 208-664-2336 CRAFTED TAP HOUSE • 523 Sherman Ave., CdA • 208-292-4813 CRAVE• 401 W. Riverside Suite 101. • 321-7480 CRUISERS • 6105 W Seltice Way, Post Falls • (208) 773-4706 CURLEY’S • 26433 W. Hwy. 53 • 208-773-5816 DALEY’S • 6412 E. Trent • 535-9309 EICHARDT’S • 212 Cedar St., Sandpoint • 208263-4005 FEDORA PUB • 1726 W. Kathleen, CdA • 208765-8888 FIZZIE MULLIGANS • 331 W. Hastings Rd. • 466-5354 FOX THEATER • 1001 W. Sprague • 624-1200 HOGFISH • 1920 E. Sherman, CdA • 208-667-1896 IRON HORSE • 407 E. Sherman Ave., CdA • 208-667-7314 THE JACKSON ST. • 2436 N. Astor • 315-8497 JOHN’S ALLEY • 114 E. 6th, Moscow • 208-8837662 KNITTING FACTORY • 911 W. Sprague Ave. • 244-3279 LAGUNA CAFÉ • 2013 E. 29th • 448-0887 THE LANTERN TAP HOUSE • 1004 S. Perry St. • 315-9531 THE LARIAT • 11820 N Market St, Mead • 4669918 LA ROSA CLUB • 105 S. First Ave., Sandpoint • 208-255-2100 LEFTBANK WINE BAR • 108 N. Washington • 315-8623 LOON LAKE SALOON • 3996 Hwy. 292 • 233-2738 LUCKY’S IRISH PUB • 408 W. Sprague Ave. • 747-2605 MAX AT MIRABEAU • 1100 N. Sullivan Rd. • 924-9000 MICKDUFF’S• 312 N First Ave., Sandpoint • (208) 255-4351 MONARCH MOUNTAIN COFFEE • 208 N 4th Ave, Sandpoint • (208) 265-9382 MOOSE LOUNGE • 401 E. Sherman • 208-6647901 MOOTSY’S • 406 W. Sprague • 838-1570 MULLIGAN’S • 506 Appleway Ave., CdA • (208) 765-3200 x310 NASHVILLE NORTH • 6361 W. Seltice Way, Post Falls • 208-457-9128 NECTAR• 120 N. Stevens St. • 869-1572 NORTHERN QUEST • 100 N. Hayford • 242-7000 NYNE • 232 W. Sprague Ave. • 474-1621 THE OBSERVATORY• 15 S Howard • 598-8933 O’SHAY’S • 313 E. CdA Lake Dr. • 208-667-4666 THE PALOMINO • 6425 N Lidgerwood St • 242-8907 THE PEARL • 23 E. Lincoln Rd. • 703-7474 PEND D’OREILLE WINERY • 301 Cedar St., Sandpoint • 208-265-8545 THE PIN! • 412 W. Sprague • 368-4077 RED LION RIVER INN • 700 N. Division St. • 326-5577 RED ROOM LOUNGE • 521 W. Sprague Ave. • 838-7613 REPUBLIC BREWING • 26 Clark Ave. • 775-2700 THE RESERVE • 120 N. Wall • 598-8783 THE RIDLER PIANO BAR • 718 W. Riverside . • 822-7938 RIVELLE’S• 2360 N Old Mill Loop, CdA • (208) 930-0381 THE ROADHOUSE • 20 N. Raymond • 413-1894 SEASONS OF COEUR D’ALENE • 209 E. Lakeside Ave. • 208-664-8008 THE SHOP • 924 S. Perry St. • 534-1647 SOULFUL SOUPS & SPIRITS • 117 N. Howard St. • 459-1190 SPOKANE ARENA • 720 W. Mallon • 279-7000 TIMBER GASTRO PUB •1610 E Schneidmiller, Post Falls • 208-262-9593 ZOLA • 22 W. Main Ave. • 624-2416

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Suzanne Opton’s “Soldier Birkholz: 353 Days in Iraq, 205 Days in Afghanistan”

VISUAL ARTS IMPLIED POLITICS

Opening just days before the recent election, it seems ironically fitting that the latest group exhibit at the University of Idaho’s Prichard Art Gallery is ultimately suggestive of the manner in which politics can appeal to exaggerated notions of danger and violence. “Real & Implied” features two digital installations by participating artists, including Jonathan Moore’s “Artificial Killing Machine,” which reports in real time U.S. drone strikes around the world. Also featured are Suzanne Opton’s portraits of American soldiers who served in Afghanistan and Iraq. Her powerful photographs offer a raw look at these veterans’ emotional burdens. Finally, artist Rosemarie Fiore’s “Gunflake Series” uses the beauty of snowflakes to contrast the deep implications of America’s gun culture. “Real & Implied” fully embodies the notion that art should make us think deeply as we reconsider the world we live in.

— CHEY SCOTT “Real & Implied” • Through Jan. 28; gallery hours Tue-Sat, 10 am-8 pm; Sun, 10 am-6 pm • Free admission • Prichard Art Gallery • 414 S. Main St., Moscow • prichardart.org

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FOOD & DRINK BEER FOR A CAUSE

It’s hard to create a new craft beer event that stands out from the crowd, but the Novembeer event at the Garland Theater should become an annual tradition. The party blends mighty fine bands playing (Mirror Mirror, Pine League, Whiskey Dick Mountain) with tasty breweries pouring (Big Barn, Paradise Creek and New Belgium) in the historic theater, and the only price for entry is a can of food for the folks at Second Harvest Food Bank. Even better: for every can you bring, you’re entered into a raffle for some groovy prizes. Novembeer sounds like the kind of seasonal celebration we can all get behind.

— DAN NAILEN Novembeer • Fri, Nov. 18, at 9:30 pm • Free with canned food donation • Garland Theater • 924 W. Garland • garlandtheater. com • 327-2509

MUSIC NOTHING TO PROVE

A self-proclaimed “hippie with soul,” Allen Stone is a singersongwriter whose sound falls somewhere in between St. Paul and The Broken Bones and Raphael Saadiq. His attitude is self-aware and his music is about his life, not the lives of others. His new album, which the Chewelah, Washington, native will perform in a special concert on the Gonzaga campus, extends from commentary on the consequences of white privilege to the more groovy party songs we’re used to from the genre. He’s a fantastic live performer, always keeping the crowd involved and upbeat.

— HAYLEE MILLIKAN Allen Stone • Fri, Nov. 18, at 8 pm • $10-$20 [SOLD OUT]• Cataldo Globe Room, Gonzaga campus • 502 E. Boone • gogsba.org/ allen-stone • 313-6123

Slice and Grind FEATURING:

Organic Amish Meats, Hot Sandwiches and Soup, Espresso Bar, Holiday Meat and Cheese Trays, Holiday Smoked Turkeys are in!

MUSIC ALL THAT JAZZ

Accomplished composer, pianist, saxophonist, conductor and arranger Gordon Goodwin is bringing his Big Phat Band to town. The Grammy Award winner and his accompanying 18-piece band have been going strong with their retro, big-band sound that melds with contemporary, progressive styles for the past 15 years. With a total of seven studio albums, the Big Phat Band has won three Grammys and been nominated 16 times since 2003. Performing as part of the annual Eastern Washington University Jazz Dialogue Festival, a program that allows participants to work with acclaimed musical artists over a two-day period, this event is open to anyone who is jubilant about jazz.

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Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band • Fri, Nov. 18, at 7:30 pm • $49-$75 • INB Performing Arts Center • 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. • inbpac.com • 279-7000

Only the freshest ingredients will be used in preparing our feast for your family.

Honey Glazed Ham Roast Turkey Smoked Salmon

PARTY TOAST TO ICE STORM ’96

It’s been 20 years since a winter storm brutalized Spokane with snow, then freezing rain that coated trees and roads with a thick layer of ice, which eventually knocked out power to many of the region’s residents. To celebrate the anniversary of that trying period in Spokane history, as well as celebrating the ’90s as a whole, the Baby Bar is holding a party that welcomes the fashionable duds of the era, including fluorescent snowsuits. You can also wear a pantsuit in honor of the winner of the presidential race’s popular vote.

Game Boys are not just allowed, but encouraged.

— MIKE BOOKEY

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Ice Storm ’96 Pantsuit Dance Mixer • Sat, Nov. 19, at 8 pm • Free • Baby Bar at Neato Burrito • 827 W. First • 847-1234

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BENEFIT

KEEP THE CHANGE BluBerry is donating all tips from now through December to ACCOIN to aid in its mission of serving, education, supporting, and advocating for local families affected by childhood cancer. Blu Berry Frozen Yogurt, 3007 E. 57th Ave. (443-6588) 16TH ANNUAL FURRBALL The Spokane Humane Society’s annual fundraiser gala begins with a silent auction followed by dinner, two parades of adoptable animals and a live auction of eight decorated, themed Christmas trees. Nov. 19, 6-11 pm. $125/person.

Davenport Grand Hotel, 333 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. spokanehumanesociety.org A FAIR TO REMEMBER A benefit for Bonner Homeless Transitions with

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games, entertainment, food, raffles and more. Buy an empty bowl for $20 and get it filled with soup. Nov. 19, 4-8 pm.

Columbia Bank, 414 Church St., Sandpoint. bonnerhomlesstransitions.org SCRAPS OFF LEASH ONLINE AUCTION Bid on dozens of items including restaurant certificates, hotel package, and fun things to do, with all proceeds benefiting SCRAPS’ programs to rehome and rehabilitate homeless pets.

Nov. 21, online only. scrapshopefoundation.org (477-2532) SANTA CLAWS FOR PETS AND PEOPLE The annual event benefits Washington Basset Rescue, and offers pet and people Santa photos, a vendor fair, adoptable animals, raffles, silent auction and more. Nov. 27, 11:30 am-4 pm. Spokane County Fair & Expo Center, 404 N. Havana St. bit.ly/2bYa8mQ

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I SAW YOU NORTHERN QUEST CASINO MONDAY MORNING NOVEMBER 7TH My husband and I stopped for a minute to say hello to one of the security guards that we have run across the few times we have been out there. You were with him this time and had a very calm demeanor and shy, handsome smile. You silently stood by and listened to our very short conversation. I took notice of you because on that day, I had been longing to have my son, whom I lost, in my life. So I asked my darling son to give me a sign that he was with me, even if I couldn’t see him. And then I saw you; the same demeanor he had; the same sonly smile. I saw fragments of him in you, and it brought me so much joy and peace. So thank you so much for being there, even if you didn’t realize the impact you had made on my life that early Monday morning. I will always remember you and this day.

DO I REALLY HATE IT? Dear Joey and Nico, Your podcast continues to amaze and astound us all. Do I really hate it? No, I really love it. Keep on going, maybe you’ll make it to iTunes soon. Sincerely, Not Brad CUTE WAITRESS AT HOTEL RL You are one of the finest ladies I’ve ever seen. As you rushed by to serve your other tables I couldn’t help wishing to the universe that one day I might be able to show you the world, Shining shimmering places on a magic carpet ride. Maybe Europe...

I here they have great Pokemon there.

I SAW YOUR EYES I looked into your eyes and i saw those dark rain clouds with lightning coming out of them. All time stops when i am with you. And all of my worries go away. You are my rock. You are my silent light house in the night. Your smile and your laugh makes everything better, i need you so much, i feel so alone without you. You give me so much courage to go on because i know you love me deeply and i love you the same way...

CHEERS TAKING GRANDMA TO THE BANK Cheers to the man with “13” tatted on the back of his legs walking down Southeast Blvd taking his Grandmother (I assume) to Banner Bank. It warms my heart to see someone our age helping out their older family members! You seemed very protective of her and that was so sweet!

CLOSED HEART I fell for you, and your cute smile. You... would die a million deaths to know I... or anyone has written a public notice to you. but you see, I feel I have no alternative. You closed your communication to me because you found my angry break up words “proof I am able to inflict pain, even if it is verbal.

I died inside when you broke up with me. Though my heart will remain forever closed to everyone else, I will always love your tender, gracious spirit, even though I went crazy when I lost you.

TO T & G For making your business a political-free zone and turning it into a grateful zone instead. This is what we need more than peaceful protests that turn violent. It’s amazing how people of different political parties can come together under one roof and show thanks; for family, friends, freedom. We know your candidate of choice didn’t win, and you have exemplified what it means to accept the loss and move on.

As you told us, protests only encourage violence, and you didn’t want any part.

Thanks for the political free zone!

JEERS CAPTURE THE 12TH MAN FLAG I am a 12th man flag. Every Sunday for the

past few years my owner has flown me proudly in support of her beloved Seattle Seahawks. I was there when we won Super Bowl XLVIII! I have hung in the windows of 4 different homes where we’ve lived, seen the Colosseum as well as the rest of Rome, and even made it to the summit of Mt. Adams on her back!

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JEERS TO THE STUPID OF OUR NATION...

November 8, 2016. How did we allow this to happen? First off, because the current Electoral College is bollocks. There are more reasons: 1) Because we didn’t do enough to enlighten and educate everyone in our country. When we tried to, the corporations, the charters and the churches stepped in and brainwashed the minds of the gullible and The Stupid with promises of social acceptance, financial success, and a free ticket to heaven (“and you can keep your gun, too”). 2) Our families failed to teach their kids, now adults, about compassion, loyalty to society, the need to help a neighbor, and the traits of QUALIFIED LEADERSHIP. How many younger people actually took the time to vote? Well now, The Stupid of Our Nation have elected someone clearly unqualified for the position. 3) Finally, those who are still pissed off that a minority became president have merely “latched on” to an unstable, angry celebrity with money and influence to be their voice. Again, to the Stupid of Our Nation -- you just gave your country away to Corporate Fascism;

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cal views. Cheers to the patrons who tossed you out. Is this who we want teaching our children?

LOCAL TALENT AGENCY Jeers for claiming you are here to help us when we have questions, but then speaking down in a tone like I am stupid. If one of your talents need help you should try to be a bit nicer and explanatory before jumping to conclusions that we know everything you do about this industry. You are not superior, you are just not nice.

IRRESPONSIBLE PET OWNER To the older man with the Long Haired Chihuahua mix who was in the Rosauers in Browns Addition. There is a big sign on the door of this business which clearly tells you that NON Service Animals are not permitted in the store. There is also a three foot tall standing sign which repeats the Store policy a few feet away.

You ignored this and took your dog into the store anyway. How incredibly selfish and irresponsible! No one is trying to upset your day, but dogs do NOT belong in a store. Many people are highly allergic to pet dander. Your selfish action endangers their health and well being. If it is too cold to leave your furry darling in your car — then leave it at home! 

WHEN ARE YOU LEAVING??? Jeers to all the celebrities that said if Trump wins, they’re leaving the country. This is not a pro-Trump rant. I’m just an old soldier.

When we give our word to serve, we do that regardless who is elected. We talk the talk, and walk the walk. You’ve said if Trump is elected, you will leave. You talk the talk, I can respect your view only if you Walk the Walk. When are you leaving???

WELCOME TO TRUMP’S AMERICA One (white) woman to another (white) woman: “Get out of my country if you won’t to speak English!” The second woman was speaking Spanish to her husband. She also, incidentally, was born in Seattle. Cheers to Value Village staff for asking the first woman to leave (who proceeded to claim the the multilingual woman was “persecuting” her). Sigh.

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YOU DON’T GET A PASS Jeers to the very large man at a downtown Spokane bar on election night who felt it was OK to assault, yes assault, a women having a private discussion with friends. It is not OK to shove your arm into a woman’s throat and attempt to punch her friend because you don’t agree with their politi-

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you have handed over the nuclear football to the wrong team. The worst part is, your kids and grand-kids will have to bear the final costs of your ignorance and Stupidity. Perhaps the best we can hope for is the Second American Civil War, this time between the Enlightened and The Stupid. If you haven’t already

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COMEDY

2.0PEN MIC Local comedy night hosted

by Ken McComb. Thursdays, from 8-10 pm. Free. The District Bar, 916 W. First Ave. facebook.com/districtbarspokane/ GUFFAW YOURSELF! Open mic comedy night; Thursdays at 10 pm. Free. Neato Burrito, 827 W. First. (847-1234) STEVE RANNAZZISI Currently, Rannazzisi stars and writes for the critically acclaimed FX Network comedy series, “The League.” Nov. 17-19, 7:30 pm; also Nov. 18-19, 10:30 pm. $18-$31. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com (509-318-9998) STAND-UP COMEDY Live comedy featuring established and up-and-coming local comedians. Fridays at 8 pm. No cover. Red Dragon Chinese, 1406 W. Third. reddragondelivery.com (838-6688) SAFARI Fast-paced, short-form improv games based on audience suggestions.

(Recommended for ages 16+) Saturdays at 8 pm, through Dec. 17. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. (747-7045) IMPROV JAM SESSIONS An opportunity to try something new, polish your improv skills and have fun. Each session is led by a BDT Troupe member, and is an informal get together and not considered an improv class. For ages 18+. Meets first and third Mondays of every month through the end of the year, from 7-9 pm. Free.

Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheatre.com (747-7045) MONDAY NIGHT COMEDY A weekly comedy open mic on Mondays, hosted

by Nick Cavasier. Sign-up at 7:30, show at 8 pm. Free. The Reserve, 120 N. Wall St.

facebook.com/spokomedy (598-8783) SPOKANE COMEDY’S STANDUP SHOWDOWN A friendly local comedy competition. Comedians get a topic and have four minutes to perform; the crowd then votes for a winner. Tuesdays, from 8-10 pm. Free. The Observatory, 15 S. Howard. (598-8933) TRIVIA + OPEN MIC COMEDY Trivia starts at 8 pm; stick around for open mic comedy afterward. Tuesdays, from 8-10 pm. Free. Checkerboard Bar, 1716 E. Sprague Ave. checkerboardbar.com OPEN MIC A free open mic night every Wednesday, starting at 8 pm. Doors open at 7 pm. Free. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com BRIAN MOOTE Moote made appearances on USA’s “Characters Welcome,” Nickelodeon’s “Nickmom’s Nite Out,” and more. Nov. 24-26, 7 pm; Nov. 25-26, 10:30 pm. $10-$22. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. (509-318-9998) AFTER DARK An adult-rated version of the Blue Door’s monthly, Friday show; on the first and last Friday of the month, at 10 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. bluedoortheatre.com (747-7045) DUOS: LATE NIGHT COMEDY TWO-BYTWO A comedy show pairing two Blue Door players for 15 minutes of improv.

For mature audiences, shows are on the last Saturday of the month (Sept. 24, Oct. 29 and Nov. 26), at 10 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. (747-7045) DUSTIN NICKERSON A 2015 finalist in San Diego’s Funniest Person Contest, Dustin Nickerson performs in clubs, colleges, corporate events, churches,

casinos, and colleges throughout the country. Nov. 27, 8 pm. $10-$16. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com (509-318-9998)

COMMUNITY

BODIES HUMAN: ANATOMY IN MOTION For the first exhibit in its new home, Mobius hosts “BODIES HUMAN: Anatomy in Motion,” which includes six whole bodies, more than 100 individual organs, and transparent body slices that have been preserved through plastination, a technique that replaces bodily fluids with reactive plastics. Exhibit runs through Dec. 31; hours are Tu-Sat, 10 am-5 pm and Sun, 11 am-5 pm. (Recommended for ages 10+.) $15. Mobius Science Center, 331 N. Post. mobiusspokane.org (321-7137) COMMUNITY OPEN DANCE An all-ages dance, offering all types of music and styles od dance. Thursdays, at 7 pm. $5.

Western Dance Center, 1901 N. Sullivan Rd. squaredancespokane.org (979-2607) FAFSA: FINANCIAL AID FOR COLLEGE Financial aid expert Tammy Zibell demonstrates how to navigate the federal financial aid system. Laptops will be available after the class for those who want to continue the FAFSA process. Nov. 17, 6:30-8 pm. Free. North Spokane Library, 44 E. Hawthorne Rd. (509-893-8350) FUN FALL ENGINEERING When school lets out early, come to the library for some fun! We’ll make a snack and then build a masterpiece – a spoon catapult, mini bio dome, or fall-themed object made of Legos. Nov. 17, 1:30-3 pm. Free.

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INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION & DIVERSITY FORUM The 9th annual event seeks to build international and cultural understanding, to prepare individuals for life in a global environment, and to encourage conversations surrounding each year’s theme. Nov. 17, 6-9 pm. Free and open to the public. Whitworth Hixson Union Building, 300 W. Hawthorne Rd. whitworth.edu (777-4603) LOST EGYPT: ANCIENT SECRETS, MODERN SCIENCE Explore ancient Egypt with hands-on activities, human and animal mummies and real Egyptian artifacts. Through Jan. 6; open Tue-Sun, 10 am-5 pm (until 8 pm on Wed; half-price admission on Tue). $5-$10/admission.

Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture, 2316 W. First Ave. northwestmuseum.org RANDOM FANDOM Whovians, Bronies, Otakus, Trekkies and more are invited to geek out at the library. Share your enthusiasm. Make crafts. Play games. Munch on treats. Plus, check out the original books, comics, and movies that spark your excitement. Third Thursday of the month, 6-7:30 pm. Free. Spokane Valley Library, 12004 E. Main. (893-8400) CHRISTMAS IS COMING The barn is warm and filled with vintage treasures and Christmas cheer, including vintage items, antiques, home decor, signs, primitives, furniture, jewelry and more. Nov. 18-19, 10 am-4 pm. Free admission. Past Blessings Farm, 8521 N. Orchard Prairie. pastblessingsfarm.com CUSTER’S CHRISTMAS ARTS & CRAFTS SHOW The 40th annual event hosts more than 400 artisans and crafters offering handmade items including fine art, jewelry, candles, pottery, woodwork, gour-

met foods and more. Nov. 18, 10 am-8 pm; Nov. 19, 10 am-6 pm and Nov. 20, 10 am-4 pm. $7/weekend admission. Spokane County Fair & Expo Center, 404 N. Havana St. custershows.com (477-1766) HOLIDAY LIGHTS HELICOPTER TOUR Join Inland Helicopters for an evening flight over the Spokane Falls and experience the holiday lights from above.

Flights for three people start at $75/ person. Call for reservations, tours available daily through Dec. 31. $75/person, in groups of three. Felts Field, 6105 E. Rutter Rd. Inlanhelicopters.com SANTA’S ARRIVAL AND TREE LIGHTING Join guest emcee Tom McArthur to celebrate Santa’s big arrival. Includes free hot chocolate and face painting at 6 pm, and a holiday performance by Charlie Brown & Friends at 6:30. Santa arrives to light the 50-foot tree with more than 10,000 LED lights at 7 pm. Nov. 18, 6:30-7 pm.

Free. River Park Square, 808 W. Main.

(363-0304) SWING DANCE Atomic Jive plays at Strictly Swing’s monthly swing dance.

Beginner lesson from 7-8, with a live band from 8-10, and DJ’d music from 1011 pm. Nov. 18, 7-11 pm. $8. Woman’s Club of Spokane, 1428 W. Ninth. strictlyswingspokane.com TREE OF SHARING For the 34th year, volunteers are available to help shoppers choose and purchase gifts for Spokane’s most at-risk citizens. This year there are 7,500 gift requests from the 57 participating community agencies. Tables located at River Park Square, NorthTown and Spokane Valley malls. Gift deadline Mon, Dec. 12. (808-4919)

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CAMPBELL HOUSE FAMILY HOLIDAY PHOTO STUDIO The library Christmas tree is a perfect backdrop for your family holiday photo, Christmas card or fun memory. It only takes 10 minutes to have a professional photo taken (you can have up to 8 people) by a member of the SFCC Photo Arts Club. Reserve a spot online or by phone. Nov. 19, 10:30 am-4 pm. $50 for up to 8 people.

Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture, 2316 W. First. northwestmuseum.org DEMYSTIFYING INVESTING Explore the tools and strategies that are available to help you work toward your financial goals and feel more comfortable with the investing process. Nov. 19, 10-11 am. Free. North Spokane Library, 44 E. Hawthorne Rd. (509-893-8350) UNITY & THANKSGIVING: FREE COMMUNITY MEAL The Women & Children’s Free Restaurant & Community Kitchen is offering a free community Thanksgiving dinner, and anticipates serving up to 1,500 residents. Nov. 19, 3-6 pm. Free. Rogers High School, 1622 E. Wellesley Ave. wcfrspokane.org ICE STORM ‘96 PANTSUIT DANCE MIXER Commemorate the 20th anniversary of Ice Storm ‘96 and celebrate the 90’s while wearing your nastiest pantsuit, snowsuit, or other fresh 90’s gear. Nov. 19, 8 pm-1 am. Free. Baby Bar, 827 W. First. bit.ly/2fDqLdE INTERNATIONAL GAMES DAY When school lets out early, come to the library for some fun. Kids make a snack and then build a masterpiece – a spoon catapult, mini bio dome, or fall-themed object made of Legos. Nov. 19, 1-5 pm. Free.

Fairfield Library, 305 E. Maint. (893-8320) NAVIGATING YOUR CREDIT Learn how to get free access to your credit report and understand what it means. Explore ways to increase your score, establish good credit, and deal with collection agencies.

Nov. 19, 2 pm. Free. North Spokane Library, 44 E. Hawthorne. (893-8350) NONVIOLENT COMMUNICATION / MINDFULNESS WORKSHOP Join members of Spokane’s growing NVC community for an introductory workshop with certified trainer Rena Patty.

NVC teaches that all our actions are attempts to meet universal human needs.

Nov. 19, 10:30 am-4:30 pm. Free, RSVP requested. Downtown Spokane Library, 906 W. Main. nvcspokane.org PANIDA OPEN HOUSE Celebrate the historic theater’s 89th birthday with cake and a no-host bar. Nov. 19, 5-7 pm. Panida Theater, 300 N. First Ave. panida.org (208-255-7801) TRANSGENDER DAY OF REMEMBRANCE A day to remember those in the transgender community who were murdered or committed suicide each year. Includes a candlelit memorial, speakers and poets sharing their work.

Nov. 19, 6-8 pm. Free. Westminster Congregational United Church of Christ, 411 S. Washington St. bit.ly/2e06Fbn FAFSA: FINANCIAL AID FOR COLLEGE Financial aid expert Tammy Zibell demonstrates how to navigate the federal financial aid system. Laptops will be available after the class for those who want to continue the FAFSA process.

Nov. 22, 6:30-8 pm. Free. Medical Lake Library, 3212 Herb. (893-8330) ALL GIRLS TEAM FIRST LEGO LEAGUE: The girls engineering group meets Sept. 21 through November, on Wednesdays from 3:30-5:45 pm. Competition date to be announced. $40 (scholarships available). Gizmo-cda,

806 N. Fourth. gizmo-cda.org CONTRA DANCE Spokane Folklore Society’s weekly dance, with Dog Paw providing music, and caller Susan Dankovich. Nov. 23, 7:30-9:30 pm. $5/$7.

Woman’s Club of Spokane, 1428 W. Ninth. spokanefolklore.org (838-5667) FUN FALL ENGINEERING When school lets out early, come to the library for some fun! We’ll make a snack and then build a masterpiece – a spoon catapult, mini bio dome, or fall-themed object made of Legos. Nov. 23, 1:30-3 pm.

Free. Medical Lake Library, 3212 Herb St. (509-893-8330) HOLIDAY LIGHTS SHOW + JOURNEY TO THE NORTH POLE The 30th annual holiday event includes the “Journey to the North Pole” lake cruises. Official lighting ceremony, fireworks and parade Nov. 25 at 5 pm. Lights are on display through Jan. 2; cruises depart nightly on the lake. The Coeur d’Alene Resort, 115 S. Second. cdaresort.com ‘TIS THE SEASON GIFT SHOW A showcase of local artists and artisans. Nov. 25, 10 am-5 pm and Nov. 26, 10 am-4 pm. Hill’s Resort, 4777 W. Lakeshore. hillsresort.com (208-443-2551) SMALL BUSINESS SATURDAY Independent bookstores celebrate Small Business Saturday, the antidote to Black Friday. Previously we have enjoyed the company of local authors like Kris Dinnison, SM Hulse, Bruce Holbert, Jess Walter, Shann Ray, Trent Reedy and Sharma Shields, who served as “Honorary Auntie’s Staff” for the Day. Nov. 26, 9 am-9 pm. Auntie’s, 402 W. Main. (838-0206)

FILM

A MAN CALLED OVE Based on Fredrik Backman’s international best-selling novel, Ove is a quintessential angry old man next door. Showing Nov. 17, 20 and 25; times vary. $4-$7. Panida Theater, 300 N. First. panida.org (208-255-7801) BANFF FILM FESTIVAL The annual winter film festival tour stops in Spokane for three days of winter sports cinema. Nov. 18-19, 7 pm. Nov. 20. $20/ day; $45/pass. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague. bingcrosbytheater.com THE DRESSMAKER A glamorous woman returns to her small town in rural Australia. With her sewing machine and haute couture style, she transforms the women and exacts sweet revenge on those who did her wrong. Rated R. Showing Nov. 18-20, times vary. $6. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main. kenworthy.org PIECES OF APRIL Join the library for a screening of the independent comedy drama starring Katie Holmes. Nov. 21, 6 pm. Free. South Hill Library, 3324 S. Perry St. spokanelibrary.org (444-5331) CERTAIN WOMEN This film follows a handful of intersecting lives across Montana. Nov. 25-27, show times vary. $6. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. Kenworthy.org (208-882-4127)

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SANGRIA GRILL Enjoy making taqueria style tacos and the ultimate handmade sangria. Nov. 17, 6-8 pm. $59. Inland Northwest Culinary Academy (INCA), 1810 N. Greene St. (533-8141) SCOTCH & CIGARS Select a flight of whiskey, scotch or bourbon paired with a recommended cigar from Cigar Train during an event on the headed, out-

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Thursdays, from 4-6 pm. Free. Gourmet Way, 8222 N. Government Way. gourmetwayhayden.com (208-762-1333) 2016 HOLIDAY WINE FESTIVAL The wineries of downtown Spokane’s Cork District offer specials, new releases, featured artists and more. Nov. 18-20, noon-5 pm. corkdistrict.com COOKING CLASS: FALL RAVIOLI Chef Jean-Pierre leads a hands-on class teaching how to make fresh ravioli stuffed with fall-themed fillings. Nov. 18, 6-9 pm. $40. Gourmet Way, 8222 N. Government Way. (208-762-1333) HOME BREWING: GETTING STARTED WITH STOUTS & MORE Learn how you can master the ancient art of brewing from local group Inland Brewers Unite, and how you can stock up on this hearty variety. Nov. 19, 2-4 pm. Free. Hillyard Library, 4005 N. Cook. (444-5331) AMERICAN ITALIAN CLUB SPAGHETTI DINNER The 48th annual spaghetti dinner, with take-out meals available.

Proceeds benefit the club’s scholarship program and charitable efforts in the community. Nov. 20, 12-6 pm. $12/adult; $6/12 and under; free/6 and under. Gonzaga Prep, 1224 E. Euclid. (319-4613) PRIME RIB CLASS In this lesson, learn how to select, prepare, and roast prime rib, along with the temperature at which you cook the roast will impact the final outcome. Nov. 20, 2 pm. $59.

Kitchen Engine, 621 W. Mallon Ave. thekitchenengine.com (328-3335) THANKSGIVING DINNER A traditional Thanksgiving dinner, served buffet style. $29.90/adults; $26.90/seniors; $16.90/kids 5-12; kids under 5 free. Nov. 24, 11 am-4 pm. Max at Mirabeau, 1100 N. Sullivan Rd. maxatmirabeau.com

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BLUE ALLUSIONS: A CONCERT OF ARTFUL WORKS The GU Wind Ensemble and friends perform in the John Hemmingson Ballroom for an evening of works inspired by jazz and popular music. Nov. 17, 7:30-9 pm. $10-$15.

Gonzaga, 502 E. Boone. (313-6733) GATHERING OF THE BANDS Featuring the NIC Wind Symphony performing with combined area middle school bands. Nov. 16-17, 7:30 pm. Free. Schuler Performing Arts Center at North Idaho College, 1000 W. Garden. nic.edu LENNON: THROUGH A GLASS ONION A show celebrating the genius, music and phenomenon of John Lennon. Nov. 17, 7:30 pm. $40.50. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague. ticketswest.com GORDON GOODWIN’S BIG PHAT BAND The Grammy-winning pianist/saxophonist/bandleader and his 18-piece band perform as part of the EWU Jazz Dialogue Festival. Nov. 18, 7:30 pm. $29-$75. INB Performing Arts Center, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. wcebroadway.com

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But the good news was tempered by the election of Donald Trump, whose wishy-washy stance on the subject has left many guessing how his administration will, or won’t, bridge the legal chasm between state and federal law. The billionaire business tycoon is something of a wild card; his campaign was, perhaps strategically, noticeably light on policy inclinations, and frustratingly nebulous. On the cannabis question, however, the President-elect has at least hinted at tolerance in that he subscribes to the ...continued on next page

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“In terms of marijuana and legalization,” Trump told a crowd of supporters last year. “I think that should be a state issue. State by state.”

Not everyone is convinced he will speak, or govern, so favorably once he assumes the presidency. Because state laws still conflict with the Controlled Substances Act, some believe state cannabis markets could be easy targets for an administration eager to implement a platform of law and order, creating scapegoats for a broader agenda of social change. “I would not be surprised if Trump found a way to make an example of some people,” said Brian Vicente, a Colorado attorney and a primary author of Amendment 64, which

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Unfortunately for liberty-minded Americans, Trump’s short list for Attorney General (the office that heads the Department of Justice and is, ultimately, the decider regarding enforcement of the President’s marijuana protocol) is rife with some of the GOP’s most ardent prohibitionists, including former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani and New Jersey governor Chris Christie.

“If you’re getting high in Colorado today, enjoy it,” Christie threatened at a town hall forum in New Hampshire during his short-lived presidential bid last summer. “As of January 2017, I will enforce the federal laws.”

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This will sound crazy, but…should I tell my girlfriend, the love of my life, that I was abducted by aliens? It happened a long time ago, and I have no proof — just my own recollection. Yes, it could’ve been a dream, but even so, it changed how I see things and opened me up to new possibilities. My girlfriend is a schoolteacher and probably wouldn’t believe me. Whether she’d still stay with me, I don’t know. I want to be completely honest with her. Is that crazy? —UFO-napped

Strange how nobody ever manages to shoot video when there’s an alien spaceship in the vicinity — perhaps because they’re too busy recording that guy, two traffic lanes over, who’s picking his nose.

Like you, science historian and Skeptic magazine founder Michael Shermer felt like he had a little meet-’n’-greet with some outer space dudes. However, he realized that his supposed abduction was just the effects of “sleep deprivation and physical exhaustion” because he had just cycled 83 straight hours in a bike-athlon. This — mixed with a “distant memory” of a TV episode about aliens taking over the earth — made for what Shermer calls “nothing more than a bizarre hallucination.”

Shermer notes that UFOs and alien abductions are “1. unaccepted by most people in astronomy, exobiology” and SETI (the search for extraterrestrial intelligence), “2. extremely unlikely (although not logically impossible), and 3. … largely based on anecdotal and uncorroborated evidence.”

However, Shermer explains, “the human capacity for self-delusion is boundless, and the effects of belief are overpowering” — leading many people to swear that they actually did go on a ride with the little green men. As “evidence,” they’ll tell you they have really vivid “memories” — of, say, the aliens bickering: “Just put him in the trunk of your flying saucer. Nah, got all my intergalactic soccer gear in there. You take him!”

But such “memories” are probably due to what memory researcher Elizabeth Loftus and her colleagues call “imagination inflation.” This describes how repeatedly imagining an experience can, over time, lead us to forget that the particular event — “heyyy, how ‘bout them aliens!” — came out of our imagination or a dream. We can start to believe it really happened.

For example, Loftus and her colleagues told research participants that a dream they’d revealed to the researchers probably meant that they’d had an upsetting experience before the age of 3, “like being bullied by an older child.” The participants insisted that they didn’t recall anything like that. Yet, about two weeks later, many reported experiencing the bullying they were simply told about — even offering details on how they were supposedly oppressed by some other 3-year-old.

This makes sense, considering cognitive psychologist Robert Bjork’s finding that “using one’s memory shapes memory” — meaning that the more we recall something the bigger and stronger it grows in our memory. Also, in recalling some event — for ourselves or others — we have a tendency to “decorate,” adding details that can easily get merged into the particular “memory.” We quickly forget that we just threw them in to, oh, put on a good show at the alien abductee party because we were feeling all “my tinfoil hat is so last season.”

Also consider “cognitive dissonance” — the discomfort from simultaneously holding two opposing beliefs, like thinking that your worldview was transformed by UFOs while also thinking that it’s stupid to believe in UFOs. We tend to smooth out the clash by going with whichever belief works best for our ego. So, in your case, to continue believing that you’re intelligent and also not cockadoody in the head, you tell yourself that your memory of your special vacay with the 00100010111 family has to be real.

As for what to tell your girlfriend, what counts is that you had these insights — not the sense that a space alien opened your skull up with some high-tech can opener and dumped them in. If you mention the alien thing at all, explain it in light of the science on how our memory likes to dabble in fiction writing.

While you’re at it, give yourself credit for your insights. It may help to understand our brain’s “default mode” processing. Our mind doesn’t just turn off when we take a break from directed, focused thinking (like reading, studying, or pondering something).

Wider neural networks take over and do subconscious background processing — gnawing on ideas and problems we’ve been working on. This can make insights seem like they came out of nowhere. But chances are, yours are a product of your mind and your real-life experience — an explanation that, sadly, lacks the panache of claiming the space dudes were going to use the anal probe on you but weren’t sure whether you could afford the copay. n ©2016, 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 CELTIC THUNDER Formed in Dublin in 2007, Celtic Thunder is an internationally-known musical and theatrical ensemble. Nov. 19, 7 pm. $55/$65/$85.

Northern Quest Casino, 100 N. Hayford Rd. northernquest.com (242-7000) KPBX KIDS’ CONCERT Familiar Spokane folk singer/guitarists Jen Edgren and Steve Simmons lead everyone in old favorites from the U.S. and around the globe. Nov. 19, 1 pm. Free.

Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague. bingcrosbytheater.com SCOTT KIRBY A program showcasing 150 years of American music, original artwork, video and narrative in a unique celebration. Proceeds benefit ongoing rehabilitation projects for the historic opera house. Nov. 19, 4-6 pm. $15/$20.

Harrington Opera House, 19 S. Third St. harringtonoperahouse.org SPOKANE SYMPHONY SUPERPOPS 2: WYLIE GUSTAFSON & THE WILD WEST Wylie Gustafson, singer, songwriter, rancher, horseman, and the world-famous Yahoo! yodeler, leads the musical outfit known as Wylie & the Wild West. He returns to perform with the Spokane Symphony for this special event. Nov. 19, 8 pm. $28-$62. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. spokanesymphony.org WHITWORTH WIND SYMPHONY Fall concert. Nov. 20, 3-4:30 pm. $5-$7.

Whitworth Cowles Auditorium, 300 W. Hawthorne. whitworth.edu/theatre/

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KING OF THE CAGE King of the Cage returns featuring some of the region’s top MMA fighters. Nov. 17, 7-10 pm. $25$60. Coeur d’Alene Casino, 37914 S Hwy 95. cdacasino.com (800-523-2467) SPOKANE CHIEFS Hockey match vs. the Calgary Hitmen. Nov. 18, 7:05 pm. $10-$23. Spokane Arena, 720 W. Mallon Ave. spokanearena.com (279-7000) SPOKANE CHIEFS Hockey match vs. the Kamloops Blazers. Nov. 19, 7:05 pm. $10-$23. Spokane Arena, 720 W. Mallon Ave. spokanearena.com (279-7000) SPOKANNIBALS VS. FLATHEAD VALLEY ROLLER DERBY The Spokannibals final home season bout versus Kalispel, Montana’s Flathead Valley Roller Derby!

Tickets available through brownpapertickets.com and at the door. Nov. 19, 7-9 pm. $5-$8. Roller Valley Skate Center, 9415 E. Fourth Ave. bit.ly/2fTMFr5 BRRC TURKEY TROT Sponsored by the Bloomsday Road Runners Club, the race serves as a drive to collect food and cash for Second Harvest Food Bank. Runners/walkers can choose a 2-, 3- or 5-mile route. No registration or entry fee, but must sign waiver. Please no pets on the course. Nov. 24, 8:30-10 am. Free. Manito Park, 1800 S. Grand Blvd. brrc.net (868-6433)

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EWU THEATRE: OUR TOWN Students perform the Thornton Wilder classic, directed by Sara Goff. Nov. 18-19 at 7:30 pm, Nov. 17, 5 pm and Nov. 20, 2 pm. $10/public. Eastern Washington University, 526 Fifth. (359-2459) THE ADDAMS FAMILY MUSICAL Ferris High School Performing Arts presents this original story about a grown up Wednesday Addams. Nov. 10-29; Thu-

Sat at 7 pm. $10-$12. Ferris High School, 3020 E. 37th. (354-6000) FIRST DATE This lighthearted musical comedy chronicles a blind date between a guy who’s never gone out with a stranger, and serial blind-dater. Nov. 17-19 at 7 pm, Nov. 20 at 2 pm. Coeur d’Alene Eagles, 209 Sherman. cdasummertheatre.com THE GOOD DOCTOR Neil Simon’s play offers a delightfully funny side of human nature and the struggles of an emerging 19th century writer named Anton Chekhov. Through Nov. 20, Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $10.

Spartan Theater at SFCC, 3410 W. Fort George Wright Dr. (533-3592) MR. BURNS: A POST-ELECTRIC PLAY Directed by Charles M. Pepiton, Mr. Burns asks what will endure when the cataclysm arrives. When the grid fails and society crumbles, how will we sustain ourselves in order to rebuild? Nov. 11-20, Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $10-$15. Gonzaga University Magnuson Theatre, 502 E. Boone. (313-6553) NT LIVE: THE DEEP BLUE SEA Behind the fragile veneer of post-war civility burns a brutal sense of loss and longing. Nov. 17, 7 pm. $12. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main. kenworthy.org THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ABRIDGED An irreverent, fast-paced romp through the Bard’s 37 plays, in 97 minutes. Through Nov. 20, Fri-Sat at 7 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $13-$15. Sixth Street Theater, 212 Sixth. sixthstreetmelodrama.com ELF THE MUSICAL, JR. A performance of the new Christmas classic by CYT North Idaho. Nov. 18-27; Fri-Sat at 7 pm, Sat-Sun at 3 pm. $9-$15. Kroc Center, 1765 W. Golf Course Rd. (208-277-5727) FARCE OF NATURE A performance of the play by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten. Through Nov. 27, Fri-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. Ignite!

Community Theatre, 10814 E. Broadway. (795-0004) THE LITTLE MERMAID, JR. A musical performed by local 7-12 grade students.

Through Nov. 20, Fri-Sat at 7 pm, Sun at 3 pm. $12/adults; $6/students. Pend Oreille Playhouse, 236 S. Union Ave. pendoreilleplayers.org (447-9900) LIVING VOICES: NATIVE VISION A Navajo girl explores her family’s past while struggling to keep her culture in a government-run boarding school. Nov. 18, 7-9 pm. $5-$15. Panida Theater, 300 N. First. panida.org (208-255-7801) UNKNOWN LOCALS: HAMLET Love, loyalty and carefully-crafted facades give way to death and decay in one of William Shakespeare’s most famous plays. Nov. 11-19, Fri-Sat at 7:30 pm. $12-$14. Heartwood Center, 615 S. Oak St. heartwoodsandpoint.com SCOOBY-DOO MEETS THE ADDAMS FAMILY A lighthearted adaptation taken from the well-known cartoon series, highlighting participants of all ages in the RTOP Performing Arts School. Nov. 19, at 1:30 and 4 pm. $5-$8. Regional Theatre of the Palouse, 122 N Grand Ave. (509-334-0750)

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WEIRD SCIENCE: JUSTIN GIBBENS & RENEE ADAMS In this show, Gibbens’ work is inspired by natural history and the animal denizens of our planet, while Adams’ mixed-media work is influenced by the flora and fauna around

her home. In the Boswell Corner Gallery.

Nov. 15-Feb. 3; gallery open Mon-Thu, 10 am-4 pm; Fri, 10 am-2:30 pm. Free.

North Idaho College, 1000 W. Garden Ave. nic.edu (208-769-3276) STEVE GIBBS BENEFIT SHOW This show celebrates beloved gallery owner and curator, recently diagnosed with ALS. It features a 20+ year accumulation of work from Steve’s personal collection, including highly collectable pieces from internationally acclaimed artists. Through Nov. 26; Tue-Sat, 11 am-6 pm. Art Spirit Gallery, 415 Sherman. theartspiritgallery.com LETTERPRESS WORKSHOP Local letterpress expert Breanna White demonstrates this printing art form, also called relief printing. Nov. 22, 6:30-7:30 pm.

Free. Otis Orchards Library, 22324 E. Wellesley. (893-8390)

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GONZAGA VISITING WRITER SERIES: SHARMA SHIELD & KRIS DINNISON A reading by the two Spokane-based authors. Shields’ “The Sasquatch Hunters Almanac” just won a 2016 Washington State Book Award. Dinnison’s debut novel “You and Me and Him” for young adults was published last year. Nov. 17, 7:30 pm. Free and open to the public.

Gonzaga University Jepson Center, 502 E. Boone Ave. (509-313-6681) PANEL/READING: MARY CRONK FARREL An event celebrating the release of two new books by the award-winning author and former journalist: “Irena’s Children: Young Readers Edition” and “Fannie Never Flinched.” The event also includes a panel discussion exploring social justice issues in Spokane. Nov. 17, 7-9 pm. Free. Auntie’s, 402 W. Main Ave. auntiesbooks.com TRADITION ON TRIAL EWU’s Center for Northwest Politics and Humanities Washington team up to present the extraordinary story of the Yakima Nation activist who battled the U.S. Government and the state of Washington over native fishing rights along the Columbia River, leaving an indelible mark on salmon run issues in the Northwest.

Nov. 17, 7-9 pm. Free and open to the public. EWU Riverpoint Campus, 668 N. Riverpoint Blvd. (359-6057) LAWRENCE KRAUSS: A UNIVERSE FROM NOTHING The NYT bestselling author and internationally-known theoretical physicist offers a paradigmshifting view of how everything that exists came to be in the first place with his lecture. Presented by The President’s Forum for Critical Thought at EWU. Nov. 17, 7-8:30 pm. Free. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. (624-1200) READING FOR THE LIBRARY Spokane author Sharma Shields, winner of the 2016 Washington Book Award for fiction, discusses her book, “The Sasquatch Hunter’s Almanac,” at a special event supporting the CdA Library Foundation.

Nov. 18, 6:30 pm. $30. CdA Public Library, 702 E. Front Ave. (208-769-2315) EXPLORING POETRY WITH TOD MARSHALL The Spokane-based Washington State Poet Laureate introduces works by several poets in this casual discussion series, open to all. Nov. 21, 6:30-7:30 pm. Free. Moran Prairie Library, 6004 S. Regal. (893-8340) n

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Just as that had been true for the right at Malheur, it was true for the left in Portland this week, where outrage over Donald Trump’s election as president turned into raucous — and at times violent — demonstrations.

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Livestreaming has handed us an intimate lens with which to witness the fear, anguish and anger that have marked the past year.

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The Live Wire This year, we’ve witnessed the power — and peril — of livestreaming footage

BY DANIEL WALTERS

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he most riveting, suspenseful and — at times — terrifying media event of this year came back in February. And it wasn’t on TV. It wasn’t even a video. It was a marathon of livestreaming phone calls from Washington state libertarian activist Gavin Seim, speaking with the final holdouts among the armed occupiers of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in eastern Oregon.

Stretching across two days and eight and a half hours, it was at times a political rally, a far right-wing history lesson, a counseling session, a religious intervention and a recitation of conspiracy theories.

But then the stream veered onto a darker path. One person had already died during the Oregon standoff.

And David Fry, a 27-year-old occupier later diagnosed with schizotypal personality disorder by a forensic psychologist, was talking like he’d be the second.

“It’s better to die with honor than to be forced to live dishonorably!” he yelled at Seim and the others on the call. “And so that’s what I’m doing. Until you guys can address my grievances, you guys will probably have to kill me. Or watch me kill myself.”

The listeners didn’t know if they were going to hear a man shoot himself on air or charge at the feds with

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weapons.

“My life means nothing,” Fry continued. “I’m not going to just let you do your job and walk away with clean hands. I’m going to give you dirty hands. Because you guys deserve it.”

J.J. MacNab, a fellow at George Washington University’s Program on Extremism, was one of the 50,000 viewers on the other side of the livestream. We both got that ugly feeling in our stomachs, the fear that we were listening to the audio equivalent of a snuff film.

“I had a finger on a button, ready to click it off if he committed suicide,” MacNab says. Fry eventually gave himself up. But the experience lingers.

“It was like a cross between being a peeping Tom and virtual reality,” MacNab says. “It is as real as it gets.”

She followed the militia movement for a living, but these livestreams gave her the ability to go to places she’d never be allowed to go, hear conversations she wouldn’t otherwise get to hear. It was audio voyeurism, simultaneously lurid and illuminating.

Increasingly, activists and amateur journalists have waded into the livestream, turning their smartphones and podcasting tools into unfiltered lenses, letting us eavesdrop upon the insight and insanity of the modern protest.

ike Bivins, a Portland State University student who works night shifts at a local hospital, had livestreamed the Portland protests after Fry and the other Malheur occupiers were acquitted last month.

This past week, his cellphone has streamed scenes from the protests after Trump’s election.

Cops march in riot gear. Protesters pound on the windows of cars driving through, screaming at the occupants.

Bivins pans across shattered windows in Portland’s Pearl District, as screams of anger and glee mix with the sound of glass breaking in the distance. Flash grenades careen through the air, blowing up into a shower of sparks and smoke in the middle of the crowd.

“I’m at the #TrumpRiot and it is without question a riot,” Bivins writes on Twitter. “Chaos.”

Bivins tells the Inlander that livestreams like his have advantages over traditional media outlets, allowing him to take more risks.

“I’ve put my phone in my mouth,” Bivins says. “And I’ll crawl up onto high spots and get a better vantage point easier, because I don’t have a big camera weighing me down.”

Cameras that cost $50,000 can’t capture grit and upheaval like a cellphone can.

Bivins says his inspiration for this sort of guerilla journalism comes from Bassem Masri, the aggressive, profane livestreamer during the 2014 riots in Ferguson, Missouri, who’d scream at cops that they were “coward pigs” and he was praying for their deaths. These aren’t Bivins’ preferred tactics. But the potential was obvious.

“This guy with a camera and thousands of people watching him?” Bivins says. “Holy shit, if he can do it, I can do it.”

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his is a medium that thrives under extreme, chaotic conditions — and sometimes rewards extremism and chaos: We tune in when anarchists light newspaper stands on fire in Portland or when cops fire tear gas into a throng of protesters in Ferguson, or when armed radicals threaten guns-a-blazing last stands against the feds.

For the unknown people hit with unimaginable tragedy, like the Minnesota woman who streamed her horror on Facebook Live as her boyfriend bled to death in her passenger seat after being shot by police, livestreams can amplify their screams so they can be heard by the entire nation. For others, just the knowledge that others are listening can be its own sort of salvation.

“The world is watching you right now,” Seim assured the Oregon standoff holdouts. “50, 60,000 people.”

During Fry’s crucible of life-or-death desperation, amid his fears of government conspiracy and being sexually assaulted in prison, that worry was the most stark: That nobody was going to listen to what he had to say.

Then came the livestream.

“That was the whole point,” MacNab says. “This kid, this skinny kid from wherever, all of a sudden had a voice. He had power. It’s an answer to his disenfranchisement. … He’s powerful now.”

Fry, freed from prison at the end of October, returned to the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge last week, narrating a YouTube video of the experience. These days, he’s much peppier.

“Were you guys terrified during the occupation at the wildlife refuge?” he jokingly asks a herd of cows near the refuge. “Moo! Nope, nope, they’re not terrified.”

As of Monday, the video had more than 3,000 views. n danielw@inlander.com

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