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or… cotton candy (preferably pink), including its strange texture, melting in the mouth like some Brillo pad with a slightly gentler temperament. Similes, metaphors and analogies, oh my. Plays (on). Words — in a variety of flavors — gooey love letters, fantastic fiction, phenomenal poetry (and women and “Ain’t I ” one of those) or touching text messages. Alliteration. Public libraries. Coates, Kingsolver, Danticat, Wilson and Walker. That first work of fiction that resonates within — Winter Dreams by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Writing with a good pen. Vocabulary. Petrichor — the smell of Earth after the rain. Learning. Growth mindsets and grit. bell hooks’ on love, instructions to internalize suffering, not as
punishment, but as lessons for optimal living because even pain, heartbreak from once sacred now severed connection, is capable of stunning transformation. Know thyself. Reflection. Cleansing tears. Deep breaths. Character development. Secular Buddhist concepts, such as nonjudgmental internal investigation, empathy, equanimity, forgiveness and compassion but combined with real wisdom (no doormats here). Anti-fragility, agency and bodily autonomy. Saying no. Finding your voice. Building appropriate boundaries while deconstructing
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Larry Reaugh, CEO of American Manganese, speaking about an emerging problem with electric vehicles: As of right now, there’s no good way to recycle the expensive, hard-to-make batteries. Find that story on page 20.
unnecessary walls. Allowing love in(ternally). Respecting every inch of ourselves. The Gospel according to Lizzo. Humor. Hufflepuffs. Genuine smiles and smart-ass smirks. The meme of a lady being held back while squaring off against that white cat. Giggles. Technology. True efficiency, which does not include the constant de-autocorrecting of duck. Our semi-omniscient collective brain reflective better known as “The Google.” Getting older. Nostalgia. Roses, reminiscent of the love of my most amazing mother. Rose-gold, quartz and colored-glasses. Sweet aches of longing as reminders to love better. Ancestors. Haitian rum and drum beats. Protection. Family, both the kind you make and inherent. Little white doggies named Fern(ie) and #Fam. Being “Auntie” Inga to Enzo and Ani. Creating a village to raise children well. Fred Rogers’ style kindness in every interaction (won’t you be my neighbor because “No man is an island, entire of itself” — Donne’s Meditation XVII). Jamaica. Ripe, juicy, heavy mangos weighing down limbs. Swimming in the Caribbean Sea, where water’s molecules reflect boundless shades of blue — teal, green, cornflower, turquoise, steel, sapphire and electric. Youth. Innocence and less complication. Juxtaposition. Nuance. Complexity and layers. Baklava. Butter. Smooth, creamy bronzy-colored skin, absorbing sun’s light. Park picnics on lush grass, thick-as-carpet, during those first tepid spring days. Bees. Red ripe raspberries. All of our senses, including touch — when a baby’s chubby palm grabs onto your finger, or a * “For all that is our life we gentle nudge on the small of the sing our thanks and praise; back and moments when breath for all life is a gift which we and lips mingle. Iced lemon-vanilla are called to use to build lattes. Drinking someone in. Proustthe common good and ian memories of freshly laundered make our own days glad.” sheets, sun-dried on the line. Comfy beds and being tucked-in. Snugs, nuzzling noses, koala bear kisses. Lullabies. Sweet music. Harmony. Aretha, most of Motown, Van Morrison and the Dixie Chicks. Twangy banjos. Swelling violins. Johann Pachelbel’s Canon in D. (Capital T) Truth, the few places we still find it. Justice, restorative and critical (race theorists). Resistance and wisdom passed down from all ages. Deep listening. The privilege of hearing one’s story, piecing together the parts making us whole. “People first” — a personal mantra — and the resilience of First Peoples. Simplicity and Interdependence. Intrinsic values. Humility and curiosity. Perspective. The Hubble’s ability to capture cosmic glances of infinity. Stars (and their Wars). The darkness of night and the return of the light. The millions, no trillions, no this unfathomable list of ongoing reasons, I give innumerable thanks. n Inga N. Laurent is a local legal educator and a Fulbright scholar. She is deeply curious about the world and its constructs and delights in uncovering common points of connection that unite our shared but unique human experiences.
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Q&A EMANUEL “MANNY” VIVEIROS The Spokane Chiefs’ new head coach is loving it in his first year in the Lilac City BY CONNOR GILBERT
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manuel Viveiros is the newest head coach of the Spokane Chiefs, taking over a team that has won the Western Hockey League’s Memorial Cup championship twice — but he’s no stranger to winning. A Canadian native with experience playing and coaching hockey all over the globe, Spokane’s just the latest stop for Viveiros, whose most recent head coaching stint included winning a WHL championship with the Swift Current Broncos in Saskatchewan, Canada. This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity. INLANDER: Tell us about your coaching and playing career up to now and how you got to Spokane. VIVEIROS: Well, I played professional hockey until I was 40 years old in my career overseas. Then I got into coaching over in Europe. I started over in Austria as a coach and general manager, and I ended up coaching the Austrian national team. We ended up qualifying for the Sochi Olympics in 2014, which was a tremendous honor and really one of the highlights of my career. After that, I came over to North America and started in the Western Hockey League in Swift Current for two years, and I’m very fortunate and blessed to have been able to win a championship in Swift Current. I spent this past season with the Edmonton Oilers, and then they made a whole coaching change out of that organization. Spokane had called and asked if I was interested in coming to Spokane and I said, “absolutely.” I actually love the city. I’ve been here before — great organization and such a great place to be. How has that transition been to Spokane? In the hockey business, you’re used to living
all over the place, so it’s not new for us. My wife and I are what you’d call seasoned pros at moving around quite a bit. We’ve really enjoyed the city. We try to get out as much as possible to different parts and try almost every restaurant in the city. What are your aspirations for the Chiefs, this year and beyond? Obviously our goal is to make the playoffs. And then, you know, once you make the playoffs, if you can get to the dance, anything can happen after that. So that’s our main goal, to make it to the playoffs. It’s a funny year this year in the league, there’s so much parity. Not many teams are really separating themselves, including us, so it’s gonna be one of those years when whoever’s healthy and continues to improve can have a really good chance to go deep [in the playoffs]. What’s the biggest hockey town you’ve been to? Edmonton is where I’m from. It’s 24/7 hockey, even in the summertime in July and August. People are always talking hockey, so for me to live that experience at the NHL level with the best players in the world was incredible. There’s other great hockey cities — Toronto, Montreal, New York, all those cities. It’s incredible to experience. What’s unique about Spokane as a sports community? What I’ve found is that all sports do well here, whether it’s hockey or basketball or anything else. Obviously there’s the love with Gonzaga University basketball here and the football teams here, but there’s the high school sports here, too. It’s a great sport community and there’s enough population for everybody. n
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Readers respond to an article about Councilman Breean Beggs’ being elected as the next City Council president on Inlander.com (11/14/19):
HEATHERANN FRANZ WOODS: With the new “mayor” we’ll need all of the experience, representation and level heads we can get. We need leadership that has the interests of the people of Spokane in their intentions, not just the money. AMY BETTERMANN-BARBERY: Nothing to brag about. We need to be centered. Leaning too far one way does nothing good for our city and its many different citizens. JEFF HELMBERGER: I guess Nadine Woodward is going to have to make deals. GREG HOOVER: Big money bought one Spokane election. Now there is balance. n
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LOUISE SULLIVAN: The number of vacancies in city government is truly troubling, particularly with someone at the helm who has no governmental or leadership experience. Without that institutional knowledge, there is going to be a huge time lag for planning and accomplishment. I hope that she hires wisely and gets some people on board who have such experience. DREW MCELVANEY: She’ll be fine. She just purchased reams and reams of paper to print out the step-by-step instructions from her Seattle handlers.
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STEVE FAUST: They say you campaign in poetry and govern in prose. Not sure how you govern when your campaign is more like a generously funded, deceptive horror film. VICKI FORSLUND BORDIERI: Onthe-job training, we see how that has worked at the national level. LUCAS MCINTYRE: It’s going to be fun to see her accomplish nothing while raging against a system that has constraints which existed before she was elected and which she is powerless to change.n
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t was “sabotage,” Julie Garcia alleged on Facebook. On Nov. 5, the morning of the election, news broke that Garcia’s partner Jason Green — who co-founded with Garcia the Spokane nonprofit Jewels Helping Hands — had served 21 months in prison for embezzling from a former employer. Garcia had a theory as to why city Councilman Mike Fagan had brought the story to the attention of local reporters: It was “revenge.” Jewels had been recently picked by the city to manage a homeless warming center on South Cannon Street, instead of the Guardians Foundation, which had operated several warming centers last year. Fagan’s son, Garcia noted on Facebook, worked for the Guardians. “We have been very candid about the serious concerns and complaints made against the
Guardians regarding their operation of the warming centers,” Garcia wrote. “Every step of this process we have insisted those issues not be repeated.” For months, whispers of complaints against the Guardians Foundation had been circulating, concerning everything from a failure to maintain order to allegations that an employee had sex with one of the homeless women at the shelter. Many of these complaints had been forwarded by Garcia and her allies. Then, this month, allegations against both groups began to spill out onto social media, including an old
attempted theft charge against Garcia herself. Now, these two nonprofits — which took on the herculean task of running low-barrier warming centers to stop homeless people from freezing to death — are each in the fight for their organizations’ survival, as they both defend their reputations and attack each other.
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Last Christmas morning, according to Guardians Foundation founder Michael Shaw, a warming center employee knocked on his door with a serious allegation: The employee said that Brendan Zaebst, then a Guardian site supervisor, was telling her to not to record certain incidents at the city-funded warming center, lest it jeopardize their funding with the city. ...continued on next page
Despite the controversies the recently formed nonprofit has faced, Jewels Helping Hands plans to open a new warming center on Friday. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO
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NEWS | HOMELESSNESS “THE WARMING CENTER WARS,” CONTINUED... Zaebst, in a recording made by Shaw, fervently denied that he was asking the employee to falsify documents, but acknowledged that he warned her that it would make the Guardians look bad to report comparatively minor incidents. “I mean if we were to write an incident report every time that, you know, we asked someone to stop doing something or we asked somebody to leave, we’d have 12 a night,” Zaebst said in the recording. “And it would be literally ‘A gentleman was high on meth and wouldn’t sit still.’” A furious Shaw didn’t buy his excuses. By the end of the conversation, Zaebst was terminated. Zaebst went on to volunteer for Jewels. Shaw has been running — and living at — homeless veterans shelters in the region for the last seven years. But running a low-barrier warming center, the kind that doesn’t turn away drunk or high people, was a different sort of challenge. It was a pressure cooker where staff had to handle “stabbings, beatings, verbal threats, throwing people through windows, kicking, stealing,” Shaw says. An employee, he says, tried to intervene in a domestic altercation at a warming center and ended up getting stabbed with a pair of scissors. Shaw was used to danger. He’d served in Iraq, he says, where his Army unit was “pretty much decimated.” Two came home in body bags. One guy came home with no legs. Six or seven were diagnosed with “raging PTSD.” Still, even he was scared sometimes at the warming centers, not just for his safety, but for the lives of people staying there. “You come in at 7 o’clock and you know they’ve been out there freezing all day long, and you look in their eyes and you can see how close they are to death,” Shaw says. Other community members saw the same crisis and rushed to fill in the gaps. Activists and volunteers, including Green and Garcia, joined together to serve meals outside of the warming centers. Sharon Smith, with the Smith-Barbieri Progressive Fund, helped fund some of their efforts, including an effort organized by Jewels to house homeless people in hotel rooms until a cold snap was over. “There was one night they found a woman who was unconscious with cold,” Smith says of Jewels Helping Hands. “Julie crawled in her sleeping bag to warm her up until the paramedics got there.” At times, the Guardians teamed up with the Jewels volunteers. Together, they fixed up a trailer to turn it into
Guardians founder Mike Shaw accuses Jewels Helping Hands of trying to tarnish the Guardians Foundation with accusations. “If this didn’t stick, they’re going to come up with something else,” Shaw says. “What else are they going to say to prove their point?. DANIEL WALTERS PHOTO Human Services, raising a similar concern. Without the name of the suspected employee, Shaw says he asked his staff if they were aware of anything — they all denied it — and reiterated to his staff that having sex with the homeless clientele was unacceptable. Even after the warming center program wound down in April, the complaints continued. According to Jewels spokeswoman Tanya Riordan, the Jewels team and several homeless individuals met with City Council members and city staff in July to discuss incidents at the warming centers. That same week, Garcia spoke with Shaw personally, this time naming a specific former Guardians employee she alleged had taken advantage of a homeless woman. But Shaw says the man she named fervently denied the accusation, offering to take a polygraph to clear his name. He did the same when contacted by the Inlander. In the meantime, both Jewels and the Guardians were competing for a five-year contract to run a full-service city homeless shelter. At a Sept. 23 council meeting, Jewels volunteer Mercy Aguilar stood up and said she was aware of “the intimate details of the things I witnessed the Guardians doing to and against our homeless.” Shortly before the meeting, Aguilar had sent a nearly 2,700-word email to the city and two council members, detailing scores of accusations and complaints of “vile behavior” from the Guardians Foundation. She excoriated the nonprofit on the conditions of their warming centers, saying there often weren’t any clean blankets available and that the portable toilets were overflowing and smeared with feces. She said that an older male volunteer at one center exchanged “a shot of meth” for a sex act with a young woman staying at the shelter. “I can bring you each of the people mentioned in this letter,” she concluded. When the Inlander contacted Aguilar last week, she declined to comment, directing all questions about her accusations to Riordan, Jewels’ spokeswoman. Shaw disputes much of the letter, but acknowledges that several points were at least partially true. Blankets were being stolen, he says, at the rate of about “10 percent per day.” The portable toilets, managed by the city, were overburdened and were so damaged that they had
“You come in at 7 o’clock and you know they’ve been out there freezing all day long, and you look in their eyes and you can see how close they are to death.” a mobile shower unit, providing clean showers to homeless people. Yet activists also were worried about the conditions of the warming centers. Smith says that she even discussed hiring “secret shoppers” to stay overnight at the centers to report back on what was happening. “I did talk to a woman who had been sexually preyed upon — she was enticed into a sexual relationship [with a Guardians staff member],” Smith says. “It was heartbreaking.” By February, Shaw says, he got a call from Kelly Keenan, the city’s director of Community Housing and
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to be condemned. And he says that there was a person potentially in line for a job at one of the warming centers who was accused of injecting a woman with meth. Shaw says that when the prospective employee told him “his meth was his own business,” Shaw pulled the job offer. But despite all this, on Sept. 19, Shaw says the city was planning on tapping the Guardians to run at least one temporary warming center this winter. “Their quote was, ‘You are running the shelter,’” Shaw says. “‘Get your ass up here so we can get this contract signed.’” But a few days later, Shaw says, the city suddenly changed its mind — pulling the offer to run the warming center — and wouldn’t tell him why. For nearly two months, Shaw says, he operated under a cloud, unsure what exactly his organization was being accused of. In a phone call to the Inlander on Friday, City Attorney Mike Ormsby refused to confirm or deny that there was — or ever had been — an investigation into the Guardians Foundation. But an hour after Ormsby’s phone call, Shaw says he was contacted by Tim Sigler, interim director of the city’s Community, Housing and Human Services Department, and was told that the “Guardians Foundation is no longer under investigation and the allegations were proven to be unfounded.” It was only on Monday of this week, Shaw says, that the city informed him about what the investigation was concerning: He says he learned that in a Sept. 20 meeting with the city, Jewels had apparently raised allegations charging that at least one Guardians employee had sexually assaulted a patron. Shaw was horrified by the charge. He says he’s convinced that Jewels was trying to sabotage the Guardians, to take them out of running for operating a shelter or warming center. He accuses Jewels of spreading falsehoods against the Guardians for their own ends. “This is after we gave her a very nice trailer to use,” Shaw says of Garcia. “After I hooked her up with a contract with [Feed Spokane] to support her food program, after giving her a f---ing $500 power washer.”
THROWN STONES
Riordan denies that Jewels’ intention was to sabotage the Guardians. “The only interest was to make sure that these women’s stories were presented to the right authorities to investigate properly, to make sure they were not preyed
upon by service providers,” Riordan says. Instead, she accuses Councilman Mike Fagan, father of a former Guardians employee, of sabotage, saying he made it his “mission to attack Jewels and Jason and Julie personally.” But Fagan, who has repeatedly questioned Jewels’ qualifications, says that all he did was to publicize the contents of an FBI press release about Green’s 2015 embezzlement conviction that he was sent anonymously. After the news about Green’s embezzlement broke, it caught the attention of some of Garcia’s former coworkers, who flagged criminal allegations against Garcia herself. “I turned the information over to the authorities,” Fagan says. “And suddenly I’m being called ‘Satan.’” In 2013, Garcia was accused of attempting to steal from a 96-year-old man while she worked at the in-home health care agency Comfort Keepers. The police detective wrote that he confirmed with Wells Fargo that the elderly man made Garcia the beneficiary of his $50,000 certificate of deposit. The detective also raised concerns about nearly $2,500 in checks written directly to Garcia instead of the home care agency and noted the possibility that at least one of those checks was a forgery. Garcia hasn’t publicly explained the transactions and, through Riordan, declined to sit for an interview with the Inlander. Instead, Riordan put out a statement claiming “the case was dismissed because the allegations were completely false and made by someone with a personal vendetta.” To the contrary, the court documents indicate the charge was actually dismissed because Garcia suffered from “chronic medical issues,” and the prosecutor on the case tells the Inlander that it appears like “the defendant’s chronic illness impeded my ability to successfully prosecute the case.” Still, some community LETTERS members have rallied behind Send comments to Jewels. After a rock was thrown editor@inlander.com. through Garcia and Green’s window on Nov. 8 — allegedly with a note reading “brown bitch shut up!” — the NAACP, the Spokane Coalition of Color and the Center for Justice all signed on to a letter condemning the incident. When the city asked Jewels to vacate the Cannon Street warming center while it investigated the allegations against Garcia, activists protested outside City Hall and the city backed down. Where others saw a black mark on Garcia and Green’s records, supporters like Sharon Smith — Jewels’ fiscal sponsor — saw stories of redemption. “So many of these nonprofits employ previously incarcerated employees,” Smith says. “It would be a real shame if that turned into something bad.” Yet one of the biggest complaints leveled by Jewels against the Guardians was Shaw’s decision to employ sex offenders. “When you have employees responsible for vulnerable people in an overnight situation,” that’s different, Smith says. Indeed, two of the Guardians employees, Shaw acknowledges, were sex offenders. In 2012, the Guardians made a resolution that they wouldn’t discriminate against sex offenders. “If we discriminate against this person, who’s next on our list of discrimination?” Shaw asks. Instead, he says, he’s tried to make sure that the sex offenders he works with aren’t put into any positions that would violate their terms of probation. However, he also says the City Council needed to know about Green’s background before they approved the contract. “The problem here isn’t second chances,” Shaw says about the allegations against the Jewels founders. “The problem is the process.” On Friday, the Cannon Street warming center is scheduled to open. After paying for an extra insurance policy demanded by the city, Jewels will still be the operator. And now, Jewels will face many of the same challenges the Guardians faced last year. “No one is prepared. No one is prepared to deal with trauma you have to deal with when you’re faced with 300 destitute individuals,” Shaw says. “No one is prepared to deal with that on a daily basis for months on end.” n danielw@inlander.com
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Better Than Copy Paste A digital upgrade to Spokane County’s elections could speed up the voting process
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ith the date to finalize the GENERAL ELECTION results fast approaching, Spokane County election workers continued to get ballots counted this week. For the most part, what takes longest to tally are the “duplicate” ballots, which have to be filled out by hand for any ballot where a voter changed their mind, left a stray mark, or otherwise damaged their ballot in a way that the counting equipment can’t handle. Election workers pair up to examine the changes and fill out the new ballot, double checking each other’s work to ensure the voter’s choices can then be counted. That process takes a lot of time, which is why there has been a steady trickle of additional results released daily by the Spokane County Auditor’s Office. But come next year, the elections office will have a new tool to use that should speed up the work of correcting changed votes and stray marks, County Auditor Vicky Dalton says.
WSU President Kirk Schulz announced on Monday the suspension of the fraternity where a student died earlier this month. Under the new method, once signatures are verified, ballots will be taken out of their envelopes and scanned immediately into a digital system, which is siloed from the county’s network and from the internet, with a digital auditing trail to avoid tampering. “Then we’ll be able to resolve any problems on the ballot ... we’ll be able to do that on screen,” Dalton says. “We’ll only have to change whatever individual race is involved. We won’t have to physically remake the ballot.” The system, called Clear Ballot, has been used by other counties, including King County, which means Spokane luckily won’t be the guinea pig, Dalton says. “Thankfully, for a change, we are not on the bleeding edge of this process,” she says. (SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL)
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tion is ongoing. The WSU Interfraternity Council suspended all social events for the semester. In his letter to campus, Schulz reminded the community of its Good Samaritan guideline, which allows students to contact authorities without fear of disciplinary action for drug or alcohol use. Martinez was a freshman at WSU who grew up in Bellevue, Washington. Schulz says that Martinez was, by all accounts, a “19-year-old you would love to hang out with.” “Please join me in reflecting on Sam’s life with gratitude for the love and the vitality he brought to his family, friends, and our community,” Schulz says. “May we keep those memories alive in the days to come as we endeavor to ensure his death was not in vain.” (WILSON CRISCIONE)
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ALL EYES ON SPOKANE RIVER HEALTH As Washington explores giving the main POLLUTERS of PCBs into the Spokane River a hall pass on state water quality standards for the next 20 years, regulators will have to figure out at least three major elements. The Department of Ecology will decide how long of an extension the dischargers should actually get (they’ve asked for 13-20 years), how to numerically limit the release of PCBs over time in the new permits, and whether another option might protect the river’s health better. The steps are being explored as part of an environmental impact study expected to be released early next year. (SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL)
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DON’T INHALE VITAMINS The Washington State Board of Health adopted an emergency rule Monday to prohibit the sale of VAPING PRODUCTS containing vitamin E acetate based on findings by federal health officials linking the ingredient to cases of vaping-related lung injury. At least two other states, Colorado and Ohio, have banned vitamin E acetate, which can be used to thicken THC products and as an additive to electronic cigarettes. Monday’s action expands on the last month’s controversial emergency ban on flavored vaping products in Washington. Dr. Bob Lutz (above), Spokane County health officer and a member of the state board of health, says there is evidence to suggest it’s strongly associated. Lutz supports the emergency rule. “If we do not know that something is safe, I’d rather be cautious than have to learn after the fact,” Lutz says. (WILSON CRISCIONE)
IT WORKS In 2017, just a year into Priority Spokane’s pilot project to house HOMELESS YOUTH, executive director Ryan Oelrich (above) already suspected the program had the potential to have a huge impact. Now, Oelrich’s suspicions have been confirmed: Priority Spokane’s student homelessness project works. In three years, it has housed and/or stabilized 272 previously homeless students in four elementary schools, or 80 percent of participating students. Of those 272 students, 95 percent remain stable and housed, according to Priority Spokane. Those results were achieved by placing four community health workers in high-need elementary and middle schools in Spokane. Oelrich hopes that the project can now be expanded. “We have the research that shows us what works,” he says. (WILSON CRISCIONE)
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Mining What’s Already Mined Electric vehicles are needed to meet climate goals, but without recycling, their batteries pose a huge problem BY SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL
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s the world looks to seriously curb its greenhouse gas emissions to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, electric vehicles are being looked to as one of the best solutions, with new state incentives set to encourage more drivers to make the switch. By next year, the Washington Department of Commerce wants to see at least 50,000 plug-in electric vehicles registered in the state, as transportation is the largest source of emissions here. But while electric vehicles help reduce emissions, scientists and policy makers see a looming problem: How will those massively expensive lithium ion batteries that power them be managed? The batteries used in gas guzzling vehicles are one of the most successfully recycled products in existence, but currently, electric vehicle batteries are tied up in a questionable supply chain with very few options for reuse or disposal. Most of them contain rare materials, in some cases mined unethically and hoarded to control world markets. But there aren’t really recycling options that could avoid those pitfalls going forward. It’s one of the main questions that Washington is trying to get a handle on with its relatively new Joint Center for Development and Research in Earth Abundant Materials (JCDREAM). The Legislature created the center in 2015, with an eye on helping fund innovative and sustainable manufacturing practices. “When we start to look at powering every vehicle on the road with a lithium ion battery, and using those batteries to augment gaps in wind and solar generation, we’re talking about just massive, massive amounts of material,” explains JCDREAM Director Aaron Feaver. “This is a pretty ugly supply chain when you look into it.” While electric vehicles only make up about 5 percent of the cars on the road, that’s expected to start expanding in a major way in the next few years, Feaver says. Couple that with the supply of batteries being used in nearly every smartphone and computer, as well as the large battery storage banks that will likely be needed to transition to clean electricity, and you start to see the issue. “The waste stream really begins to look unmanageable not too far into the future,” Feaver says. “If we’re going to use these specialty materials in relatively short supply, we’ll need to recycle.”
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Central to the issue is that many lithium ion batteries contain rare materials such as cobalt. More than half the world’s supply of cobalt is tied up in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where child labor is often exploited, along with other questionable mining practices. “That country is a difficult place to do business. There are a lot of mines, they call them artisanal mines,
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One company, American Manganese, says it can separate lithium ion batteries into their distinct components for recycling. which is code for people literally digging holes in their backyard and sending people down on a rope and pulling material out to sell to China,” Feaver says. “Unfortunately that cobalt typically makes it through Chinese manufacturers into your Apple iPhone, your Samsung Galaxy Note, your Tesla electric vehicle. We end up with it basically enabling all of the clean tech that we’re growing more and more dependent on.” Through state funding and in collaboration with Washington’s university system, JCDREAM supports research into other types of batteries that don’t use cobalt, instead using nickel, manganese, aluminum and other abundant materials. The center also supports research into batteries that are more efficient, says Feaver, who co-founded EnerG2, a company that developed batteries that are able to last 20-30 percent longer on a normal charge. Still, he says, one of the best ways to reduce reliance on the supply chain for rare metals is to get a handle on recycling those materials over and over again.
The company originally has roots in mining critical minerals and started with buying an American property to mine manganese, explains company president and CEO Larry Reaugh. Where other countries were having success with mining in areas that had 30-40 percent manganese deposits, this property had only about 2-3 percent, and the rest was rock. “The U.S. needs a manganese supply, they have none,” Reaugh says. “There’s a saying that should be remembered: You can’t make steel without manganese, and if you can’t make steel, the world stops.” So with their background in mining, the company’s scientists worked with Kemetco Research to test a method for separating that manganese from the ore that wound up being just as affordable as mining in places with much higher deposits, Reaugh says. However, when manganese prices dropped, the project was shelved. That’s when Kemetco mentioned the same process could be put to use on electric vehicle batteries, he says. “Recycling has really just hit everybody’s belly here the last couple months. It’s been ignored; people are more interested in the hundreds of millions or billions being spent on battery research, and nobody’s given a tremendous amount of thought to what’s going to happen to the battery,” he says. “So we did a proof of concept, and sure enough we got high recovery and high purity out of that.” In fact, their system recovered 99.98 percent of the materials in the lithium ion batteries tested. Plus, the closed-loop system doesn’t further pollute the environment the way that smelting batteries can, he says. The smelting process involves melting batteries down and pulling out the materials, but it’s significantly less efficient, and creates waste slag. “I think it’s going to come down to who can give you a solution that doesn’t contaminate the environment, reduces the amount of metals that have to be taken from the earth, and guarantees you a supply of material,” Reaugh says. Importantly, American Manganese’s recycling process, called RecycLiCo (a play including the chemical symbols for lithium and cobalt), is already patented, and could be ready to scale up to a commercial scale within a year. “I think we do have the keys to that mountain of batteries, turning them into a useful product and saving the environment,” Reaugh says. n
“We’re talking about just massive, massive amounts of material. This is a pretty ugly supply chain when you look into it.” “There are currently no commercial avenues to recycle lithium ion batteries at a full commercial scale,” Feaver says. Most gas-powered vehicles use lead-acid batteries, which commercial battery creators have put into a closedloop supply chain, meaning nearly 100 percent of the battery components are recycled, as opposed to going to waste. “In fact, most lead-acid battery manufacturers view used batteries as a better feedstock than brand new virgin material,” Feaver says. “So we need to get to the advanced processing needed to enable that commercial opportunity for electric vehicle batteries.” One company just across the border in British Columbia is poised to do just that.
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Though its lab is just outside of Vancouver, British Columbia, one of the companies working on commercializing lithium ion battery recycling is called American Manganese.
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YEAR-END BLOCKBUSTERS
A QUICK PEEK AT THE MOVIES FILLING SCREENS FOR THE REST OF 2019 By Dan Nailen and Nathan Weinbender
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he days are getting shorter. The weather’s getting colder. Visiting relatives and gingerbread and itchy wool sweaters are all looming on the horizon. And it also means that it’s the perfect time to escape to the sanctuary of your neighborhood movie theater, not only because it’s warm and cozy but because Hollywood studios start dropping their most prestigious, potentially Oscar-worthy movies.
Here’s a handy rundown of all the big cinematic releases you can see in Spokane theaters between now and Christmas — when they’re coming out, what they’re about, and which specific audiences they’re catering to. If you’re not sure how to spend that AMC or Regal gift card you got as a stocking stuffer, look no further. — NATHAN WEINBENDER
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KNIVES OUT
GENRE: Comic whodunit WHAT IT’S ABOUT: When an octogenarian crime writer turns up murdered, every member of his dysfunctional family is a credible suspect. Writer-director Rian Johnson (he of The Last Jedi) has assembled an all-star cast that includes Chris Evans, Daniel Craig, Jamie Lee Curtis, Christopher Plummer, Michael Shannon, Lakeith Stanfield and more. WHO IT’S FOR: Anyone who has read a majority of Agatha Christie’s bibliography and fancies themselves an amateur Columbo. (NW)
QUEEN & SLIM
GENRE: Racially charged drama WHAT IT’S ABOUT: A young black couple (Daniel Kaluuya and Indya Moore) on their first date has a violent run-in with the police during a routine traffic stop. It sparks a media frenzy and has them running for their lives. With Lena Waithe (The Chi, Master of None) adapting the screenplay from James Frey’s story, expect more than a typical ripped-from-the-headlines flick. WHO IT’S FOR: Those concerned with social justice, and folks who dug Kaluuya in Get Out. (DN) DECEMBER 6
DARK WATERS
GENRE: Legal drama WHAT IT’S ABOUT: Erin Brokovich meets Spotlight in this true story of a corporate defense attorney (Mark Ruffalo) who turns the tables on his most high-profile clients, uncovering a conspiracy that has kept a major chemical company’s reckless pollution under
wraps. Director Todd Haynes, best known for romantic period pieces, here turns his attention to a more contemporary issue. WHO IT’S FOR: If you were riveted by procedurals like The Insider or Michael Clayton, you’re in luck. (NW)
PLAYMOBIL: THE MOVIE
GENRE: Animated product placement WHAT IT’S ABOUT: A brother and sister who were recently orphaned (wow, dark!) are sucked into the CGI world of Playmobil, those playsets with the perpetually smiley denizens. Daniel Radcliffe, Adam Lambert and Kenan Thompson lend their voices. WHO IT’S FOR: Any kid who wasn’t already burned out on The LEGO Movie, or The Emoji Movie, or The Angry Birds Movie. Adults, on the other hand, might want to take a nap through this one. (NW) DECEMBER 13
BLACK CHRISTMAS
GENRE: Holiday horror WHAT IT’S ABOUT: Some sorority girls find themselves hunted by a murderous stranger on a mostly deserted campus during the Christmas break. This is the third version of Black Christmas to hit the screen since 1974, and this one reportedly has a distinctly feminist twist as the victims fight back. WHO IT’S FOR: People who prefer their yuletide entertainment with a little bloodshed. (DN)
JUMANJI: THE NEXT LEVEL
GENRE: Family friendly action-comedy WHAT IT’S ABOUT: In the 2017 Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, 21st-century teens were trapped inside a retro video game, inhabit-
ing avatars that were nothing like themselves. They leap back into the virtual world to find their lost friend, but this time a couple of old timers (Danny DeVito, Danny Glover) are along for the ride. Think they had time to throw in an “OK, boomer” joke? WHO IT’S FOR: Fans of A) the first film, B) Dwayne Johnson playing against type, C) Jack Black’s shtick or D) all of the above. (NW)
RICHARD JEWELL
GENRE: Historical drama WHAT IT’S ABOUT: The 1996 Centennial Park bombing case during the Atlanta Olympics, in which Richard Jewell discovered the bomb and saved thousands of people — only to be accused by the media of being a redneck terrorist looking for glory. It stars Paul Walter Hauser (I, Tonya) in the title role alongside Sam Rockwell and Olivia Wilde, and was directed by Clint Eastwood. WHO IT’S FOR: Historians, and people who really love seeing the media vilified on the big screen. (DN)
UNCUT GEMS
GENRE: Paranoid crime epic WHAT IT’S ABOUT: Josh and Benny Safdie really broke out with their frenetic 2017 thriller Good Time, and they’ve apparently upped the ante with their follow-up. It’s a nail-biting New York odyssey that throws us into the routine of a jeweler (Adam Sandler, actually putting in effort this time) who makes one harebrained decision after another. And dig this weird supporting cast: Idina Menzel, Lakeith Stanfield, Judd Hirsch, Eric Bogosian, and the Weeknd and Kevin Garnett as themselves. WHO IT’S FOR: Arthouse hounds, and those whose favorite Sandler movie is Punch-Drunk Love. (NW) ...continued on next page
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BOMBSHELL
GENRE: Political drama, with laughs! WHAT IT’S ABOUT: The explosive cases of sexual harassment at Fox News, which were revealed just before network founder Roger Ailes died. The highprofile cast includes Charlize Theron as Megyn Kelly, Nicole Kidman as original Fox whistleblower Gretchen Carlson, and Margot Robbie as a fictional rising network star who learns just what’s expected to get ahead. WHO IT’S FOR: News junkies and Fox News haters should appreciate this tale penned by Charles Randolph, who won an Oscar for The Big Short. (DN)
CATS
GENRE: Anthropomorphic musical fever dream WHAT IT’S ABOUT: Andrew Lloyd Webber’s oft-derided but nonetheless massively successful Broadway phantasmagoria finally gets the big-screen treatment, and the results look… unbelievably f---ing weird. You’ve got human faces grafted onto bipedal feline bodies, a cast list that credits Dame Judi Dench right alongside Jason Derulo, and a plot that involves a bunch of singing and dancing cats pining for the day they can finally slink off to the big litter box in the sky. WHO IT’S FOR: Your guess is as good as ours. Maybe take an edible beforehand? (NW)
STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER
GENRE: Star Wars WHAT IT’S ABOUT: Specific plot details have been kept under wraps, but we’re going to make some bold predictions: There will be spaceship battles, lightsaber battles and weird intergalactic creatures, and maybe we find out one character is unexpectedly related to another. Because in the end, it’s really all about family, isn’t it? WHO IT’S FOR: Doesn’t matter. Per the mandates of our new Disney overlords, you could be subject to fines and even imprisonment if you don’t see this on opening weekend. Or, you know, you’ll just see a bunch of spoilers on Twitter. (NW)
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GENRE: Ticking-clock war saga WHAT IT’S ABOUT: Not unlike Dunkirk, here’s a British war film with a countdown clock element — a couple of WWI soldiers have only so much time to deliver an important message across battlelines. The difference here: It’s designed to look like a single unbroken take. Director Sam Mendes and legendary cinematographer Roger Deakins are pulling out all the stops. WHO IT’S FOR: War film buffs; anyone who loves a cinematic highwire act. (NW)
JUST MERCY
GENRE: Legal drama WHAT IT’S ABOUT: Inspired by true events, Michael B. Jordan plays a defense attorney fresh out of Harvard who moves to Alabama to advocate for the wrongfully imprisoned. That’s where he happens upon the case of a convicted murderer (Jamie Foxx) who was railroaded by lawyers, and the film follows their yearslong effort to exonerate him. WHO IT’S FOR: True crime junkies who are particularly interested in the legal aspects of any given case. (NW)
LITTLE WOMEN
GENRE: Historical romance WHAT IT’S ABOUT: Four smart sisters transition from children to adults in New England during and after the Civil War. The women — Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy — are loosely based on author Louisa May Alcott and her sisters, and while interpretations vary, this 2019 version (the eighth film adaptation of Little Women) written and directed by Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird) will likely lean into the gender politics of the time. WHO IT’S FOR: Timothée Chalamet stans, Gerwig fanatics, English teachers. (DN)
SPIES IN DISGUISE
GENRE: Animated comedy WHAT IT’S ABOUT: In the latest from Blue Sky Media, the studio behind the Ice Age and Rio films, a superstar secret agent (voiced by Will Smith) is accidentally turned into a pigeon by his agency’s top engineer (Tom Holland). It’s a nuisance at first, but they soon realize this new identity is actually the ultimate disguise. WHO IT’S FOR: Any family that needs a backup when Frozen II is still sold out a month after its release. (NW) n
FROM LEFT: Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood, Judy, Marriage Story and Jojo Rabbit.
OSCAR FRONTRUNNERS WE PREDICT WHICH MOVIES AND ACTORS WILL BE BATTLING IT OUT FOR AWARDS SHOW GOLD By Nathan Weinbender
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t’s never too early to start studying up for your office Oscar pool. Academy Awards season starts getting serious around Thanksgiving, when all the “for your consideration” screeners start going out to voters, and now’s the time to start catching up on all the acclaimed movies and performances you might have missed in the last few months. Looking at the three biggest and most competitive categories, we’ve whittled it down to the most likely contenders.
BEST PICTURE
SURE THINGS: One of the most accurate predictors of a film’s awards chances is its reception at the Toronto International Film Festival, with its coveted People’s Choice Award going to past Oscar favorites like 12 Years a Slave, La La Land and Green Book. This year’s TIFF winner: Jojo Rabbit, Taika Waititi’s dark comedy about WWII anxieties. It’ll likely be nominated right alongside critical darlings The Irishman, Marriage Story and Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood. And what with the kerfuffle over Marvel’s cinematic merits — and the fact that it’s now the all-time box office champ — don’t be surprised if Avengers: Endgame sneaks in there. LONG SHOTS: Speaking of comic book movies, Joker may have inspired too much (mostly unfounded)
controversy for the academy’s comfort. But its unprecedented financial success — and its rich central performance — could snag it a nomination. And while foreign language films are rarely recognized in this category, the arthouse smash Parasite could very well become South Korea’s first ever Oscar-nominated film.
BEST ACTOR
SURE THINGS: As already mentioned, Joaquin Phoenix has been the only element of the fractious Joker that seemingly everyone can agree on. It would be his fourth nomination, and maybe it’s his time to finally win. Also in the mix are recent winner Leonardo DiCaprio, doing some of his best-ever work in Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood; Robert De Niro playing a mob boss over several generations in The Irishman; and the two Adams — Driver and Sandler — for Marriage Story and Uncut Gems, respectively. And then there’s the matter of Tom Hanks: His turn as Mr. Rogers in A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood has garnered plenty of publicity, but it sounds like he could just as easily wind up in the supporting category. LONG SHOTS: The academy loves two things — comeback stories and stories about Hollywood. So why isn’t Eddie Murphy, so funny and moving in the behind-the-scenes biopic Dolemite Is My Name, getting more
buzz? The Lighthouse might be too esoteric for voters, yet it has Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson at their wildest. And Antonio Banderas turns in quiet, powerful work in Pain & Glory. They’d all be deserving.
BEST ACTRESS
SURE THINGS: The frontrunners seem to be Renee Zellweger (who is making a big comeback) as Judy Garland in the aptly named Judy, and Scarlett Johansson (who has never before been nominated) as one-half of a fracturing couple in Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story. Charlize Theron and Nicole Kidman could very well go head-to-head for their star turns in Bombshell, and academy favorite Saoirse Ronan is the likely standout amongst her Little Women co-stars. LONG SHOTS: She’s mostly been cast as comic relief, but Awkwafina proved she could do drama in Lulu Wang’s bittersweet arthouse hit The Farewell. Problem is, the academy has a notoriously short memory, and its late summer release could work against it. Same goes for Hustlers, which garnered Jennifer Lopez feverish Oscar buzz back in September (though maybe she’ll also end up in the supporting category). Cynthia Erivo has also gotten great reviews for her first starring role in Harriet, and that film’s end-of-the-year buzz could help land her a nomination. n
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LIMITED RELEASES TO LOOK FOR Looking past the major releases that will play in every theater nationwide, the tail end of 2019 promises some smaller gems that could sneak right past you. We’re not sure when (or even if) they’ll hit our area, but keep an eye out for the following titles and for updates on the Magic Lantern Theatre’s website.
THE AERONAUTS Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones are mid-19th century balloonists at the birth of flight in this historical adventure. CLEMENCY An emotionally closed-off prison warden (Alfre Woodard) contends with the implications of her job when a death row inmate begins protesting his innocence. A HIDDEN LIFE The true story of a poor Austrian farmer who was punished for defying the Nazis during WWII. As is typical of director Terrence Malick, expect a meditative, freefloating epic. HONEY BOY Shia LaBeouf didn’t just write this metaautobiography about his own tumultuous childhood, he also cast himself as his own abusive, drug-addicted father. LITTLE JOE A plant breeder brings home a dark red flower that, when properly tended to, produces a dopamine effect in its owner. But it soon reveals some horrifying side effects. MARRIAGE STORY Noah Baumbach’s study of one couple’s divorce has been receiving rave reviews. It’ll have a limited theatrical rollout — which means it might play in Spokane — before hitting Netflix on Dec. 6. PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE Another critical darling, this feminist drama from France focuses on two women in the 18th century — a young artist and the aristocrat whose wedding portrait she’s secretly been commissioned to paint. SEBERG A biopic of actress Jean Seberg, a Midwesterner who became an unlikely icon of the French New Wave in the late ‘50s. She’s played here by Kristen Stewart. — NATHAN WEINBENDER
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FROM ATTACK OF THE CLONES TO EMPIRE, WE PICK OUR FAVORITE ADVENTURES IN A GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY By Nathan Weinbender
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tar Wars. Nothing but Star Wars. At least, that’s how being on the internet is going to feel for the next few weeks in the lead-up to the Dec. 20 release of The Rise of Skywalker. Twitter was inundated just last month with folks sharing their rankings of the series, so we’re hopping on the bandwagon, running down the Star Wars movies from our least favorites to the absolute best. (Keep in mind, we’re sticking to live-action, theatrically released features.) Debate our choices, you will.
II — 10 EPISODE ATTACK OF THE CLONES (2002)
With its endless conversations about trade and tariffs and the coarseness of sand, Clones feels more like a dissertation on space politics than a Star Wars movie. Even the CGI Yoda lightsaber battle is clunky and weird.
I— 9 EPISODE THE PHANTOM MENACE (1999)
The most maligned entry of the franchise, and not undeservedly so. What keeps it half a notch above Clones: the pod-racing sequences, Liam Neeson channeling Alec Guinness and that climactic duel with Darth Maul. The less said about little Anakin and Jar-Jar Binks, the better.
8 SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY (2018)
Last year’s franchise placeholder explored the origins of Han, Chewie and a bunch of other series fixtures… but who really cares? No doubt the behind-the-scenes drama contributed to the confused tone and jumbled script. We’re still down for Donald Glover’s Lando movie, though.
III — 7 EPISODE REVENGE OF THE SITH (2005)
The best of the prequels — an admittedly low bar to clear. Unlike Solo, it’s weirdly satisfying to see all the pieces of the 1977-1983 saga click into place. Anakin becomes Darth Vader! Luke and Leia are born! The Death Star is being built!
6 ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY (2016) The first standalone Star Wars film is more interesting in theory than practice, and it feels more like an expanded universe
Star Wars novel than anything else. Maybe that’s what you’re into. All grievances aside, it closes with one of the gutsiest (and darkest) endings in the series.
5 EPISODE VIII — THE LAST JEDI (2017)
The internet is still arguing about this movie, so it must have done something right. It’s an admittedly messy, overly ambitious and yet often adventurous and beautiful film, and undoes (cleverly or flippantly, depending on who you ask) some of the idolatry that defined its predecessor. Speaking of…
VII — 4 EPISODE THE FORCE AWAKENS (2015)
The luster of J.J. Abrams’ reboot has worn off, but it reminded us all over again why we go see Star Wars movies in the first place. Yes, it plays it safe. Yes, it’s a remake of A New Hope. But that’s sort of the point: It’s a tribute to the imposing shadow of the original trilogy.
VI — 3 EPISODE THE RETURN OF THE JEDI (1983)
First, the not-so-good: The Ewoks are one of the series’ more contentious creations, and the cuddly creatures are at odds with the darkness surrounding them. The good: The opening chase through the forests of Endor, Jabba the Hutt making his official debut and Luke’s final face-off with Vader.
2 EPISODE IV — A NEW HOPE (1977)
The movie that changed the movies forever. Looking back at Star Wars (which is, lest we forget, its original title), it’s pretty remarkable how quickly and confidently Lucas establishes the inner-workings of his soon-to-be-complex universe, how alive and original it feels, and how vibrant its characters are.
V— 1 EPISODE THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (1980)
The second-ever Star Wars film is still the best, taking all of the genre-defining characteristics of its predecessor and steering them in a more epic, noticeably darker direction. It deepens the mythology in satisfying ways, and it’s got one of the great gutpunch plot twists in cinematic history. It must have played like gangbusters back in 1980, but it still works. n
WHY MARTIN SCORSESE MATTERS
Martin Scorsese, right, during the production of The Irishman
WITH A NEW NETFLIX EPIC AND A TWITTER CONTROVERSY TO HIS NAME, AMERICA’S BEST WORKING FILMMAKER IS AS RELEVANT AS EVER By Nathan Weinbender
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hile on the interview circuit promoting his new film The Irishman (see our review on page 39), director Martin Scorsese was casually asked a question that would unexpectedly dominate the internet for what seemed like an eternity: A journalist at Empire magazine wondered what he thought of Marvel movies. “That’s not cinema,” Scorsese responded. “Honestly, the closest I can think of them — as well made as they are, with actors doing the best they can under the circumstances — is theme parks. It isn’t the cinema of human beings trying to convey emotional, psychological experiences to another human being.” It touched a nerve. Folks in Scorsese’s camp thought that he was speaking harsh truths about the state of the industry. Others heard his comments and just saw that Simpsons “Old Man Yells at Cloud” meme. And then the major players in the Marvel Cinematic Universe had to weigh in, from Robert Downey Jr. to Scarlett Johansson to Marvel head honcho Kevin Feige. Their defenses all boiled down to the same fatuous argument: Scorsese’s entitled to his opinion, but our movies are popular, so who cares?
It devolved into a nuance-free reductio ad absurdum typical of the Twitter age: You either had to be Team Scorsese or Team Marvel. Scorsese felt the need to further contextualize his remarks with an op-ed in the New York Times, which wisely focused less on the inherent artistic worth of Marvel films than their sheer unavoidability. “In many places around this country and around the world, franchise films are now your primary choice if you want to see something on the big screen,” he wrote. “Many films today are perfect products manufactured for immediate consumption. Many of them are well made by teams of talented individuals. All the same, they lack something essential to cinema: the unifying vision of an individual artist.” Basically, it’s always been hard to get risky, audacious, vision-driven films financed by major studios. But the trend toward a specific kind of large-scale storytelling — expensive action spectacles set within sprawling universes — has made it exponentially harder. Marvel movies, as a subgenre unto themselves, have become a monolithic symbol for the way major films are made and marketed. They’re well-constructed,
studio-mandated objects, released with the expediency and regularity of Funko Pop! figurines — collect all 23. Scorsese, meanwhile, is emblematic of another type of filmmaking entirely, a type that will take one more step toward extinction when his career comes to a close.
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f Martin Scorsese isn’t the greatest working American director, there aren’t many others out there who would be reasonably deserving of that title. As with so many other filmmakers of his generation, he got his start making cheap exploitation movies for prolific producer Roger Corman, but he really broke out with his acclaimed 1973 feature Mean Streets, a gritty and harrowing drama inspired by his time growing up in the hardscrabble back alleys of Little Italy. That film got Scorsese critical attention, and it established a number of his most recognizable trademarks — vivid New York settings, restless camerawork, fragmentary editing (often courtesy of the inimitable Thelma Schoonmaker), jukebox soundtracks, protagonists who didn’t always do the right thing. ...continued on next page
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THE ESSENTIAL SCORSESE/ DE NIRO Need a crash course in the work of America’s greatest living director and his most frequent on-screen collaborator, but don’t know where to start?
MEAN STREETS (1973) Scorsese’s breakout feature, a perceptive story of two lifelong friends, played by Robert De Niro and Harvey Keitel, who take very different trajectories in New York’s criminal underworld. Its handheld cinematography, fractured editing and rock ’n’ roll soundtrack perfectly capture the grit of 1970s Little Italy. TAXI DRIVER (1976) One of the most influential films of the ’70s, featuring De Niro’s most iconic performance as Travis Bickle, a Vietnam vet whose contempt for society erupts into violence. Paul Schrader’s screenplay set a new precedent for interiority in cinema, and it still feels dangerous and transgressive all these years later. RAGING BULL (1980) De Niro won his second Oscar disappearing into the role of boxer Jake LaMotta, who went from a titan of the ring to a pudgy lounge lizard. More than a mere biopic, it communicates the thrill and the consequences of physical brutality, and with its beautiful black-and-white photography has the hazy, dreamy quality of a memory. THE KING OF COMEDY (1982) A weird companion piece to Taxi Driver, in which De Niro plays a sociopathic stand-up comic who goes to drastic lengths to get on his favorite talk show. Although it maintains the tone and pacing of a screwball farce, it’s deeply uncomfortable and often unsettling. Joker owes a debt to this one. GOODFELLAS (1990) Arguably Scorsese’s masterpiece, a decades-spanning epic centered on the rise and fall of mobster Henry Hill, whose power was waylaid by cocaine, murder and betrayal. It’s ingeniously constructed and endlessly inventive, and it captures the morbid pull of the gangster lifestyle better than any other film ever made. — NATHAN WEINBENDER
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De Niro (left) and Scorsese on the set of 1990’s GoodFellas.
“WHY MARTIN SCORSESE MATTERS,” CONTINUED... More so than any other filmmaker of his era, Scorsese sucOne could argue that, despite a career that reaches back to the cessfully married the stylistic experimentation of arthouse cinema late ’60s, Scorsese has never been more relevant than he is right with the classical, character-driven storytelling of old-school now. Hollywood. His films were frank in their language, often stomachchurning in their violence, and yet also deeply moralistic (no hen Scorsese criticizes the Marvel model, he is, of doubt a byproduct of his rigid Catholic upbringing). His bad guys course, coming from a place of tremendous privilege. don’t always pay for their crimes with their lives, but in a Scorsese In order to fund his latest crime epic The Irishman, film, having to contend with your sins is a fate worse than death. he turned to Netflix, a platform that has arguably altered the Scorsese is most commonly associated with his feverishly cinematic landscape more completely than Marvel. Going the styled crime epics — GoodFellas, Casino, The Departed, The Wolf of Netflix route means that most people won’t see the film the way Wall Street and now The Irishman — and has even been knocked for its maker intended — with a packed crowd in a movie theater. But making the same movie too many times. But criticizing him for the streaming service’s famously reckless financiers also gifted repetition is to be ignorant of his varied filmography. He has made Scorsese one of the largest budgets of his career (a whopping $160 poignant, frightening studies of broken men (Taxi Driver, Ragmillion), a five-month shooting schedule and total artistic freedom. ing Bull, The King of Comedy, The Aviator); slice-of-life dramas (Alice Very few filmmakers, even those of Scorsese’s caliber, could Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, The Color of Money); thoughtful religious ever dream of a deal that sweet. Because for all the talk of artistic meditations (The Last Temptation of Christ, Kundun, Silence) and lurid merit and integrity, every movie is a business transaction. It’s genre exercises (Cape Fear, Shutter Island). He explored 19th century all about how a filmmaker expresses their own vision within the social mores in The Age of Innocence, and paid tribute to Technicolor parameters of that transaction. musicals in New York, New York. The high strung Even so, Scorsese is using his clout for good. Regardurban comedy of After Hours is nothing like the less of your position on his “Marvel movies aren’t cinema” gentle family-friendly fantasy of Hugo. stance — and I’m not even sure I totally agree with him — he And that’s just his narrative features. He has initiated a vital conversation about studio politics, and has also helmed documentaries and live concert about the importance of diversifying theatrical offerings: films, including the groundbreaking The Last Small, thoughtful, grown-up films can and should coexist Waltz; a visual essay about his own personal with all-ages blockbusters filled with explosions and feats of journey through films; an exploration of his strength. own Italian-American heritage called My Voyage The arguments have also largely overlooked the tremento Italy. dous achievements of a 50-year career, and of ABOUT THE AUTHOR Scorsese’s artistic influence is inescapable, Scorsese’s encyclopedic knowledge of all things Nathan Weinbender is the and can be seen in movies as wide ranging as film; watching the Twitter commentariat exInlander’s film and music editor. Boogie Nights, Catch Me If You Can, American Hustle plain the inner workings of the studio system to He is also a film critic for Spokane and The Big Short. Surely, The Sopranos, with its Martin f---in’ Scorsese is pretty hilarious. And Public Radio, where he has couneasy blend of mordant humor and out-ofbesides, why does Marvel, one of the mightihosted the weekly show Movies nowhere violence, owes a debt to Scorsese’s est juggernauts in the history of entertainment, 101 since 2011. He has been a body of work. Just recently, Todd Phillips’ Joker need defending from anyone? If this debate diehard Scorsese fan since seeing became the highest grossing R-rated film of all were an ’80s movie, it’d be like the nerds in Taxi Driver and GoodFellas in high time, and it’s so beholden to Scorsese’s ouvre the A.V. club defending the honor of the most school, and one day he’ll actually — particularly Taxi Driver and The King of Comedy popular kid in school. get around to watching Kundun. — that it often plays like a tribute act. Still, there’s a reason some of the richest That influence extends to his behind-thepeople in Hollywood are taking one 77-yearscenes work. He founded two nonprofit orgaold’s opinions personally. As a preeminent film nizations — the Film Foundation and the World Cinema Project artist, what he says matters to other film artists, even if it won’t — that are dedicated to preserving and restoring films in danger of make a dent in Marvel’s box office receipts. Scorsese’s comments being lost. He has also helped finance films by Spike Lee, Stephen come not from a place of moral superiority but defensiveness: He Frears, Kenneth Lonergan and Ben Wheatley, and he’s credited loves cinema more than anything — and maybe more than anyone as an executive producer on a number of films from this year — — and he’s feeling protective of an art form that he no longer Joanna Hogg’s widely acclaimed The Souvenir, Kent Jones’ terrific recognizes. and underseen Diane, and Josh and Benny Safdie’s upcoming At a time when big-budget filmmaking is prioritizing market comic thriller Uncut Gems, which tips its hat to the paranoia and saturation above creative audacity, his voice is all the more valumenace of vintage Scorsese. able. n
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THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE Inspired by a 150-year-old novella, Venus in Fur dramatizes the power dynamics between men and women BY E.J. IANNELLI 30 INLANDER NOVEMBER 21, 2019
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n 1870, the Austrian nobleman Leopold von SacherMasoch published a novella that fictionalized some of the kinkier domination fetishes he’d recently lived out with his mistress. Titled Venus in Furs, Sacher-Masoch’s book soon caught the eye of a contemporary psychiatrist, who would coin the term masochism to describe the derivation of pleasure from receiving humiliation or pain. That wasn’t the only lasting impression Venus in Furs left on culture. Close to a century-and-a-half after it appeared, playwright David Ives drew heavily on its themes and characters to write Venus in Fur (note the singular), his two-person dramatic exploration of the power dynamics between the sexes. In Ives’ play, a cerebral, arrogant writer-director named Thomas is in the process of casting for his own play, which happens to be a stage adaptation of SacherMasoch’s novella. Thomas is disappointed with the caliber of actresses who’ve auditioned for the lead role of Wanda von Dunayev so far. And initially, he’s equally
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disappointed with Vanda Jordan, the scattered actress who bursts in at the last minute to try out for the part. Things start to change as they read, though, and the control that Wanda exerts over Severin von Kushemski in the play-within-the-play begins to alter Vanda’s relationship with Thomas. In the diegetic world of the show, it’s life imitating art. But life has been known to imitate art in the real world, too. Josephine Keefe, who’s directing a new production of Ives’ play at Stage Left, says that auditions for Venus in Fur wound up having eerie similarities to its plot. “I don’t know if it’s a ‘men are from Mars, women are from Venus’ kind of thing, but all of the men basically showed up on Sunday and all of the women showed up on Monday,” she laughs. “It added to some interesting dynamics. I ended up just calling back a bunch of people for callbacks and just listening to everyone read from there.” Along with puzzling over the lopsided turnouts, Keefe grew worried that she wasn’t going to find a pair of actors who could pull off the dual-character roles while capturing the artfully WEEKEND evolving relationship between C O U N T D OW N Thomas and Vanda. Get the scoop on this “It’s a play that is so incredweekend’s events with ibly dependent upon chemistry our newsletter. Sign up at that I felt that had to be present Inlander.com/newsletter. in the audition. It had to be really the selling point for me, to be able to pair up two actors that could have some fire between them. And because of our short rehearsal process and turnaround for the show and the amount of lines that the actors have to do individually on their own time, I really felt I needed to see that chemistry right away.” Then Emily Jones stumbled in at the very last minute. “She surprised me by coming into the callbacks very much like Vanda Jordan at the top of this show. She just came flying into the room, carrying her three or four bags, putting her headshot down on the table and asking, ‘Is it too late for me to audition?’” Having just read for the part of Thomas, Danny Anderson was on his way out the door. “I said, ‘Danny, can you just read with Emily really quick before you leave?’ And it was electrifying. It was so exciting to see two people that I hadn’t initially envisioned for either role find those roles so seamlessly by just working together and bouncing the humor off each other.” Jones, like Keefe, is under no illusions that it’s an easy role. She has to move quickly and seamlessly between Vanda the actress and Wanda the character, and much of the momentum of Venus in Fur relies on her being able to summon this “whole other person and persona” in a way that’s natural. “It’s been a really big challenge because the physicality has to be so different and the vocality of the character has to be so different. I go back and forth throughout the whole show, and there has to be a real clear line between when it’s tomboy Vanda ‘broing out’” with Thomas in a “high-energy, joking relationship,” she says, “and when we go back into the character of Wanda von Dunayev,” who’s commanding and mysterious. That makes Vanda “one of the most complicated female roles that I’ve ever seen,” Jones says. “It really gives me, as an actress, the opportunity to inhabit a lot of different aspects of a female personality.” Those intricacies — which, crucially, Thomas disregards at first — might even serve as a metaphor for Venus in Fur as a whole. “A lot of people make assumptions about this play based on the title or what they heard about it or what they know about the book that this play is based on. This is not what you think it might be. It’s not just whips and boots. There’s a lot of complexity here and a lot of fun things to examine. It’s a really clever, very witty piece of theater.” n
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Succession WHERE COMEDY MEETS FAMILY THERAPY Jenny Slate is a comedic creative force, and a TV legend in my book just for her portrayal of Mona Lisa on Parks and Recreation. Her 2014 movie Obvious Child showed she had some dramatic acting chops, too. All that said, I’m not sure what to make of her new Netflix stand-up special, Stage Fright. The rhythms of her performance are hard to pin down. She laughs at her own jokes. A lot. “Jokes” might not actually be the right word since her approach isn’t anything close to set-up/punchline. More charming are segments in which she abandons her stage show entirely and inserts clips of home movies and interviews family members. Stage Fright is worth a watch, but expect the unexpected. (DAN NAILEN)
Against the Twist BY DANIEL WALTERS
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he villain is his father. The agent is the mole. The gruff older mentor is actually the bad guy. Turns out, he’s been dead and in purgatory and everyone is hallucinating inside a snowglobe the entire time. Twists can make a movie or television show truly famous — or infamous. M. Night Shyamalan, after all, has done both. But more often than not, twists weaken the underlying works. The perfect twist is a delicate balancing act: It must be unpredictable enough to surprise, but justifiable enough that it makes perfect sense once it’s revealed. A good twist is a like a good magic trick. It relies on distraction — you’re so busy thinking about all the other interesting parts of a movie or show that you don’t see it coming. Or, even better, you figure it out just a few
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THIS WEEK’S PLAYLIST Some noteworthy new music arrives online and in stories Nov. 22. To wit: BECK, Hyperspace. I genuinely like Beck, and still think he’s overrated. I look forward to enjoying this album until it wins the “Album of the Year” Grammy. COLDPLAY, Everyday Life. If you were waiting for a double album of new Coldplay, raise your hand. THE WHO, Who. Does half a Who make enough of a Who to make a new album called Who? Who knows? (First single “Ball & Chain” ain’t great.)
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seconds before the reveal. You’re watching the character and there’s a slight smirk playing at the corner of his lips and then you’re like — wait a minute, is he actually? — and then, indeed, he pulls off his latex mask to reveal the dashing mug of Tom Cruise. But even good twists have a price to them. Each twist is a small betrayal of the audience’s trust. A scriptwriter has to withhold information or even feed the viewer outright falsehoods to make it land. Yet you can only pull the rug out from the audience so many times before they stop stepping on the carpet. If enough sequences have turned out to be all just dreams and if enough characters are revealed to actually be clones or Cylons or Westworld robots, the story just stops mattering. Worse, you train the audience to expect twists, encouraging them to spend their viewing experience guessing what the next surprise is, instead of seeking to empathize with character motivations or to unpack the themes of the story. Twist culture can infect even shows that generally don’t fall prey to it. The recent season finale of Succession ended with a betrayal — a surprising but entirely justified turn of events. It was a rare twist that completely worked. But audiences had been so trained by other, more convoluted television shows that plenty of fans began speculating that the supposed betrayal was actually a feint, a larger scheme executed behind the scenes by a brilliant puppeteer. If they’re right, it would undercut the emotional power of the surprise and would weaken the series as a whole. Too many shows have gone the route of becoming addicted to the twist. Here’s hoping savvier shows like Succession resist the temptation. n
HOOP IT UP Tickets to Gonzaga men’s basketball games are tough to get. The showdown in the Kennel against perennial national powerhouse North Carolina Dec. 18 is even crazier — as of this writing the few tix on StubHub are going for between $900 and $3,000. Yeah, hard pass. But you can still join your fellow fanatics to watch the game with a big crowd thanks to Hoopfest’s Hooptown USA throwing “The Watch Party” in Riverfront Park’s Pavilion — complete with No-Li beer, food trucks, coffee and cocoa from Indaba and, yes, a lot of heaters. Best of all, it’s free. Visit hooptownusa.com for tickets. (DAN NAILEN)
FIT FOR A QUEEN Subtly show off your feminine regality this holiday season by donning one of the latest trends in women’s hair accessories: puffy headbands. While some in the fashion world credit the trend as yet another ’90s throwback, I say it goes back even further, to the time of the Tudors. More specifically, the ill-fated Anne Boleyn, who popularized the French hood, a trendy 1500s headpiece with a similar silhouette. With modern versions covered in jewel-toned velvets and embellished with pearls and rhinestones, these regal hair pieces are perfect for dressing up a basic outfit, standing out from the crowd and embracing your inner queen. (CHEY SCOTT)
MOCRAFT In Seattle? With the kids? With yourself? Looking for something different? MoPop’s new(ish) exhibit, Minecraft the Exhibit will fill that need (on display through September 2020). Yes, this is an entire museum exhibit dedicated to the game Minecraft. When I visited it was filled with crazed 11-year-olds monkeying around truescale Minecraft replicas, but it’s also a fun immersive experience for anyone curious about what this minimalistic game is all about and why, after 10 years, it’s still so popular. NOTE: You might have to fight a child if you expect to get a turn in the arcade. (QUINN WELSCH)
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he little lilac house in the Perry District stuffed to the brim with colorful children’s books may seem like it’s been there for years. In a part of town that’s grown accustomed to the kinds of small businesses meant to catch eyes, it feels like a natural fit. In fact, its presence has been a long time coming. Wishing Tree Books, which opened in October, is run by Janelle Smith and her husband Ivan Smith. The store stands as the culmination of years of planning and a career in books that Janelle couldn’t imagine going any other way. “I was going to school to be a teacher,” Smith says. “But what I really wanted was to have a bookstore.” She recalls a time in college when she called up the owners of the Children’s Corner bookshop in River Park Square and “begged and begged and begged” them to give her a job. Thus began a career in what her husband Ivan refer to as “book matchmaking.” It turns out that working at the Children’s Corner and later as a children’s manager at Auntie’s was a crash course in customer service and the children’s book industry, especially in a literary community like Spokane. She was able to forge relationships and make connections that helped her get started on her own. One of her previous connections, bookseller Tegan Tigani of Queen Anne Book Co., offered to become her investor, along with her husband Jordan Tigani — they shared a mutual dream of owning a bookstore. In January, when the Smiths decided they
wanted to go all-in and open the store, they found a house they thought would be perfect. And they knew who to call. The Tiganis bought the place and are now the Smiths’ landlords. When spring brings better weather, Smith has big things planned for the book-loving community. With a garage and a grassy backyard in the back, she wants to host camps in the summer and schedule groups and events throughout the year. “[A bookstore] is something that goes with you forever,” she says. Part of what appeals to Smith about selling children’s books is its resistance to online shopping — after all, rarely does anyone buy a book for a child without seeing it in person first. She wants to be a facilitator for that process. “That’s the pocket that seems to be holding on the strongest,” Smith says. “And people sometimes are fearful of like, ‘I don’t know what to buy…’ we like to think that’s how we differ from online service.” The timing isn’t easy — with Christmas shopping season rapidly approaching, Smith hopes to be able to bring in enough interest to attract customers looking to buy books for gifts. But she’s convinced that she’s doing the right things. “We have enough support in all different parts of our life to have been able to pull it together,” she says. “Our support system is so huge. And then we got this neighborhood, so it’s all working out.” n Wishing Tree Books • Tue-Sat 10 am-7 pm, Sun and Mon 11 am-5 pm • 1410 E. 11th Ave. • wishingtreebookstore.com • 315-9875
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COOKING
TRADITIONS FOR ALL Start planning your Thanksgiving and other holiday feasts with these tips and recipes from local chefs BY CHEY SCOTT
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hether you celebrate Thanksgiving, Friendsgiving, Thanksmas, Festivus or something else entirely, there’s one thing we can all agree on: Enjoying good food with those we hold dear is a universal ritual. In honor of Thanksgiving next week, we asked a few Inland Northwest chefs to share some of their best tips for stress-free preparation in the kitchen before sitting down to a tasty meal, along with a couple of their favorite recipes. Chef Aaron Fish of the regional Eat Good Group prefers a less traditional approach to Thanksgiving staples, melding classic flavors or recipes with unexpected ingredients. Take his stuffing fried rice, for example. “Most of the time I like to do fun twists, like the stuffing fried rice, which is something I haven’t done before,” Fish says. “It still has familiar flavors, but is different.” Fish recently taught a cooking class in Post Falls sharing that recipe along with a few others, like his cranberry harissa sauce inspired by the African hot chile pepper paste. “For that class, it was the same concept — how can you take stuff that has familiarity to it and has a fun, nonregional twist; something not North American,” he notes. When it comes to keeping things manageable for big meals like Thanksgiving, Fish stands by the “less is more” approach. “Pick a few things and make them really good,” he says. “It’s better to keep things simple and focus on making something tasty.”
A new twist on Thanksgiving staples: stuffing fried rice and cranberry harissa sauce. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO
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pokane restaurant owner Celeste Shaw, meanwhile, sticks to time-honored tradition when cooking Thanksgiving dinners, using recipes from her collection of well-loved old cookbooks. “I don’t even need to tab the page; when I find them I go to the pages that have the most use,” Shaw says, adding that her favorites are “tried and true; recipes women had learned to love and rely on for special occasions.”
Shaw, who owns Chaps Diner and Bakery and Paper & Cup cafe in Spokane, says she chooses traditional Thanksgiving food — “turkey, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, white dough rolls, cranberries, jello salad, vegetable side dishes, stuffing, pumpkin pie” — because of what they represent. “Traditions and traditional foods offer constancy, stability, familiarity and a semblance of order and predictability,” she reflects. “They comfort us, give us a sense of belonging, and, to me, make us feel safe and secure.”
To keep your own spread manageable, Shaw also recommends paring down the menu. “I promise you, you don’t need as much as you planned on making. It can be so tempting to go huge and make a ton of different dishes, but it’s so much easier to make large quantities of a few recipes than it is to make moderate quantities of a bunch of recipes,” she says. Start planning your own holiday dinner menu starting with the following recipes shared by Shaw and Fish. n
CRANBERRY HARISSA
LAYERED CRANBERRY JELLO SALAD
Recipe by Aaron Fish, Eat Good Group INGREDIENTS 1 pound fresh cranberries (frozen OK to substitute) 6 New Mexican chiles (dried) 1/2 cup sugar 1 teaspoon kosher salt 1 teaspoon ground coriander 1 teaspoon ground cumin 3 cloves garlic 1 teaspoon lemon juice 1/4 cup canola oil INSTRUCTIONS 1. Place cranberries, sugar and salt into a small sauce pot. Bring to a simmer and cook until thick over medium/ low heat, taking care to not scorch. 2. De-stem chiles. Place in a bowl and cover with boiling water. Let sit for 15-20 minutes. Strain and remove seeds from chile pods. 3. Place the cranberry mix, chiles and remaining ingredients into a food processor and puree until smooth. Check for seasoning.
STUFFING FRIED RICE
Recipe by Aaron Fish, Eat Good Group INGREDIENTS 1/4 pound butter, unsalted 1 cup celery, diced 1 cup yellow onion, diced 1/2 pound spicy Italian sausage 2 garlic cloves, minced 4 cups cooked long grain rice (best to cook and chill the day before) 1 cup chicken or turkey stock, reduced to 1/4 cup 1 tablespoon fresh thyme, minced 1 tablespoon fresh sage, minced salt and pepper to taste INSTRUCTIONS 1. Heat a large skillet over medium heat and add butter. When butter is melted, add celery and onion. Sweat until translucent, stirring often. 2. Add sausage and cook, breaking up sausage into little bits, until fully cooked through. 3. Make a well in the center of the pan and add the garlic to the well. Stir for 30 seconds or until fragrant to ensure garlic is cooked through. 4. Add rice and break up any clumps. Stir well and fry for 3-4 minutes. 5. Turn heat up to high and add reduced stock. Toss or stir well to absorb the liquid. Remove from heat and add herbs and season to taste.
Recipe by Celeste Shaw, Chaps Diner and Bakery Serves 12
INGREDIENTS CRANBERRY LAYER: 1 package (3 ounces) cranberry or raspberry gelatin 1 cup boiling water 1 can (14 ounces) whole-berry cranberry sauce LEMON LAYER: 1 package (3 ounces) lemon gelatin 1 cup boiling water 3 ounces cream cheese, softened 1/3 cup mayonnaise 1 can (8 ounces) crushed pineapple, undrained 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream, whipped 1 cup miniature marshmallows 2 tablespoons chopped pecans INSTRUCTIONS 1. In a small bowl, dissolve cranberry gelatin in boiling water; stir in cranberry sauce until blended. Transfer to an 8-inch square dish. Refrigerate until set. 2. In another bowl, dissolve lemon gelatin in boiling water. Beat cream cheese and mayonnaise until smooth; stir into the lemon gelatin with the pineapple. Refrigerate until slightly thickened, about 2 hours. 3. Fold the cream, marshmallows and pecans into cream cheese mixture. Spread over cranberry layer. Refrigerate for 4 hours or until set.
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Recipe by Celeste Shaw, Chaps Diner and Bakery Serves 6 INGREDIENTS 4 medium turnips (about 1 pound), peeled and cut into 1-1/4 inch pieces 1 large potato (about 3/4 pound), peeled and cut into 1-1/4 inch pieces 2 tablespoons reduced-fat cream cheese 1 tablespoon butter 1 tablespoon minced fresh parsley 1 teaspoon sea salt 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder 1/4 teaspoon pepper 1/8 teaspoon chili powder 1/8 teaspoon ground chipotle pepper
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mosas, and an under-$10 lunch special featuring one of four daily soups. (CARRIE SCOZZARO)
VEGAN CHEESE AND MORE FOR THE HOLIDAYS
Don’t wait too long to place an order for some of the many house-made holiday specialties offered this year by Allie’s Vegan Pizzeria & Cafe on the lower South Hill. Orders from Allie’s Thanksgiving takeout menu (see it at alliesvegan.com and call 321-7090 to order) are open until pickup day, Wednesday, Nov. 27. Included on the special menu is a cheese plate ($32) featuring three vegan cashew cheeses made Allie’s vegan cheese spread. by chef Chadwick Aufderhar: rosemary, porcini and toasted coriander; spiced red wine reduction swirl; and maple, candied walnut and sharp cheddar. Allie’s is also taking preorders for its vegan stuffed roast ($40) with roasted veggies, and takeand-bake sourdough cinnamon rolls with cashew cream cheese frosting ($18/half dozen; $30/dozen). (CHEY SCOTT)
WSU students bring authentic Chinese food and bubble tea to downtown Pullman BY MELINA ERNST
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andy Zhong wanted to bring authentic bubble tea and Chinese food to her college town. While studying business at Washington State University, she planned for two years with partners before opening a restaurant in the heart of downtown Pullman. RealiTea is now celebrating its one-year anniversary this November. “I want to gain more experience [in the] business world,” Zhong says. Owned and managed by WSU graduate and undergraduate students, RealiTea offers a fresh and welcoming environment. The open-concept kitchen, white walls and simple décor creates a modern and tranquil space for customers and students to enjoy their meal and study. Customers are greeted by a wall stating in all capital letters: “We only use premium tea leaves, no powder.” RealiTea’s tea blends are what set the restaurant apart from nearby tea shops. With over 20 shops that serve tea in the Pullman-Moscow area, only two of them specialize in bubble tea. RealiTea uses tea leaves imported from China and freshly brews them every morning, says “boba barista” Linh Nguyen.
Sawmill Grille Opens in Post Falls Plus, the debut of miFlavour’s full-service French cafe; local vegan-friendly holiday eats
T Find bubble tea and authentic Chinese at Pullman’s RealiTea.
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A boba barista greets and prepares bubble tea for customers. Bubble tea, also known as boba tea, is often made using a milk tea base and sweetener, with soft, sweet and chewy tapioca pearls nestled at the bottom. “As a barista, you really interact with people and get to know people through making drinks for them,” Nguyen says. RealiTea specializes in sea-salt cream tea and classic milk tea ($4.25-$4.75). Their homemade sea-salt cream tea is made of whipping cream, sugar and sea salt and served with a choice of black, oolong, jasmine or green tea. Customizable toppings include coconut jelly, red beans, pudding and homemade boba. The cafe’s food menu consists of house noodles, bowls, side items and desserts. Popular dishes include the honey orange chicken bowl ($8.75), Szechuan beef noodle soup ($9.25) and deep-fried coconut milk ($4.35). RealiTea also offers daily happy hour from 8-10 pm with a 20 percent discount on all drinks. Future plans for RealiTea include expanding its menu and adding weekly specials. n RealiTea • 255 E. Main St., Suite 103, Pullman • Open Mon-Thu, 11 am-10 pm; Fri-Sun, 11 am-11 pm • instagram.com/realitea_wa • 432-4326
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he Sawmill Grille is a testimony both to the team who transformed the former Post Falls mill site’s business office into the restaurant and the vital role lumber played in Post Falls’ history. The two-story wood-and-glass structure sat vacant, first on the former Louisiana-Pacific mill site, which closed in 1995, and then across the street, at 302 N. Spokane St., where it was relocated nearly six years ago. It looked more like an empty apartment building than a restaurant. “As far as revamping, we basically gutted the interior walls and replaced with two huge steel beams in order to open the main-floor dining,” says Rob Clark, who opened the place in August with wife Emily Clark. The couple, who also run Bell Tower Funeral Home in Post Falls, added live-edge tables, many of them supported on industrial-inspired welded bases, and carried the wood and industrial theme throughout the place. Look for daily and weekly specials and a menu grounded in comfort foods. Start with sweet potato tater tot poutine ($10) or house chili ($7). Your main meal could be halibut fish tacos ($14), a Cubano sandwich ($13), mac and cheese with pork belly ($14) or a burger with your choice of protein and topping ($14-$16), like beef and cheddar or lamb and Boursin cheese. In addition to a full bar and $10 late-night menu — try nachos, wings, fried Brussels sprouts or grilled cheese — they also do a Saturday brunch with mi-
MIFLAVOUR BAKERY OPENS FRENCH CAFE
After years of dreaming, Spokane bakery owners Ella and Max Piskun are finally debuting their take on a modern French cafe inside their East Spokane bakery, miFlavour. The cafe’s first day is scheduled for Friday, Nov. 22, from 7 am-9 pm — or until they sell out — at 3403 E. Sprague. To celebrate the cafe’s grand opening, which the Piskuns had originally planned for this summer, all items sold there and in the bakery are 20 percent off. The couple launched their French-style bakery in 2016, and moved into a permanent location early this year after renting commercial kitchen space during the first two years of business. The new miFlavour cafe features a full-service espresso bar, and a variety of sweet and savory French pastries and croissants. Follow the bakery on social media for the latest updates: facebook.com/miFlavour; Instagram: @miflavour. (CHEY SCOTT)
COEUR D’ALENE’S PARAGON NOW BREWING
Five years in, Coeur d’Alene’s Paragon Brewing is finally brewing on site. Although the brewery had been collaborating with Sandpoint-based MickDuff’s to use its facilities, Paragon’s own 10-barrel system is now fully operational and capable of making 20 kegs per batch, says co-owner Kerry Kieres. In addition to seven standard beers on tap, like the Beauty Bay Blonde and Maple Leaf Amber, additional releases are in the works. Look for the Switch Gulch Mocha Stout to release soon, and a limited-release American pale ale. “We invited a number of our regulars that are veterans to help brew this beer, Warriors Ethos,” Kieres says of the pale ale. Proceeds from the sales of the Warriors Ethos ale are slated to benefit Newby-ginnings, a local veterans organization. Paragon, which made a name for itself with an eclectic British pub-themed menu, also has a new chef, Eric Guiberson. Look for a continuation of appetizers, sandwiches and entrees utilizing Paragon’s signature beers, such as the beer mac and cheese ($13) and porter-braised Brussels sprouts ($8). (CARRIE SCOZZARO) n
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Tom Hanks is Mister Rogers.
NEIGHBOR? A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood is a gentle, deeply moving ode to the power of kindness BY MARYANN JOHANSON
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started sobbing from the opening moments of A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, and I didn’t stop crying for two hours. And then after I left the cinema and ran into a fellow film critic who had also just seen it, I literally could not manage a word of discussion without bursting into tears again. This film wrecked me. Utterly wrecked me. In the best possible way. I saw myself in it. It was speaking to me in that same way that Mister Rogers always magically seemed to be doing from out of the TV when I was a little kid. And I really needed its message. The whole world does right now. I’m pretty sure I never watched Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood once I started going to school at age 5. And still, from the moment Tom Hanks ambled into Mister Rogers’ little house and changed out of his jacket for a cardigan, out of his shoes for sneakers and settled in to introduce a tale about his friend Lloyd, I descended to blubbering. Maybe it’s not a matter of “still,” as if there was some contradiction in what I brought to the movie versus what it gave to me, but precisely the opposite: Perhaps Neighborhood instantly slammed me back into the vulnerability of being a very small, very uncertain, very scared child, and then instantly reassured me that everything I was feeling, all the turmoil and confusion, was, in fact, absolutely OK. This is the beauty and the genius of Marielle Heller’s not-a-biopic movie about Fred Rogers. This isn’t a
movie about him as a person — or, at least, it’s that only But there is no distinction between the performance tangentially. This is a story that is profoundly about the and the man — the Mister Rogers of TV is not a characinfluence he had on all of us who watched him on TV, ter. Fred Rogers is a man who is precisely what he presand on the world at large, via his offscreen impact on one ents himself to be. Almost unnervingly, almost unbelievadult person. The entire movie is framed as an episode of ably, although yet also immensely plausibly, too. Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, with gentle lessons that will be It’s all a beautiful wonder. And it takes some time, imparted, pitched not to children but to us but Rogers becomes a friend to Lloyd and adults today. This isn’t just a movie that is A BEAUTIFUL DAY has an intense impact on him. Those of us uncynical: It directly confronts cynicism watching may not be as “broken” (Lloyd’s IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD and misanthropy and anger and resentword) as Lloyd is, but his brokenness is Rated PG ment, and all the other heavy unpleasant very much a reflection of the world today: Directed by Marielle Heller emotions that weigh down so many of us, Starring Tom Hanks, the mistrust in authority figures, the and asks us to let them go if we can, or exhaustion with the bullshit. It’s tough to Matthew Rhys, Chris Cooper at least to acknowledge the damage they accept that anyone — particularly anyone might be doing us. with a public persona — could be so In 1998, New York journalist Lloyd Vogel (Matthew authentic, so honest, so nice. Rhys), a writer with a rep for meanness, is assigned — as This is a movie about kindness, yes, and gentleness, a joke but for real, too — by his editor (Christine Lahti) at yes, but also about intentionality. It’s about being kind Esquire to write a quickie 400-word blurb about Fred Rogand gentle not by thoughtless default but with deliberate ers for an upcoming issue on American heroes. (This is aforethought, to counter the hate, anger, pain and despair inspired by actual journalist Tom Junod’s real 1998 article of the world. To fight it. — he ended up writing not 400 but 10,000 un-world-weaI think I forgot that lesson from the Mister Rogers ry words.) Vogel goes to visit Rogers (Hanks, because, of my childhood. But I welcome the reminder. And now seriously, who else?) in his Pittsburgh studio for an I am trying to figure out how to make that happen, and interview. To say that Vogel is skeptical is an understatemake it happen with the spirit of a child who doesn’t ment: He keeps waiting for the “real” Rogers to emerge, know that isn’t impossible. Maybe I feel a bit scolded by the man behind the TV illusion, who surely cannot be as this movie, that I have lost a certain spirit. Maybe we all good and as pure and as noble as he seems. need this scolding. n
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OPENING FILMS 21 BRIDGES
In this throwback to gritty ’70s dramas, Chadwick Boseman stars as a New York cop who becomes the latest target of his corrupt fellow officers. (NW) Rated R
A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD
A lovely ode to the power of kindness, with an Esquire journalist learning to live more authentically after writing about none other than Mister Rogers. Tom Hanks, Hollywood’s nicest man, plays the beloved TV personality. (MJ) Rated PG
FROZEN II
CRITICS’ SCORECARD THE INLANDER
The requisite sequel to the Disney juggernaut, with the returning characters searching for the origins of Elsa’s icy powers. Will any of the songs be as inescapable as “Let It Go”? (NW) Rated PG
THE IRISHMAN
Martin Scorsese’s decades-spanning epic is one of his best, the saga of a mid-level gangster (Robert De Niro) who cultivates a relationship with the ill-fated Jimmy Hoffa (Al Pacino). At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Rated R
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JOJO RABBIT
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THE LIGHTHOUSE
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PARASITE
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Frozen II
NOW PLAYING CHARLIE’S ANGELS
The ’70s TV show gets yet another bigscreen adaptation, with a new trio of secret agents — Kristen Stewart, Naomi Scott and Ella Balinska — engaging in global espionage. (NW) Rated PG-13
DOCTOR SLEEP
Making a sequel to the horror classic The Shining seemed a fool’s errand, but director Mike Flanagan succeeded. Now grown-up, Danny Torrance encounters a girl who shares his gift for telepathy and is being chased by child-killing vampires. (MJ) Rated R
FANTASTIC FUNGI
The culinary, medicinal and psychotropic properties of mushrooms are explored and celebrated in this scientific nature documentary. At the Magic Lantern. (NW)
FORD V. FERRARI
From director James Mangold, a slick dramatization of the relationship between the Ford auto designer (Matt Damon) and the pro driver (Christian Bale) who set out to beat Ferrari in the ’66 24 Hours of Le Mans race. (ES) Rated PG-13
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nearly as edgy as it thinks it is. (MJ) Rated R
THE GOOD LIAR
Ian McKellen is a career con artist who worms his way into the life of a widow played by Helen Mirren, who has secrets of her own. The central performances are fun; the plot is preposterous. (NW) Rated R
HARRIET
The humanitarian and abolitionist Harriet Tubman finally gets a biopic deserving of her legacy, anchored by an electric performance by Cynthia Erivo. Old-fashioned filmmaking of the highest order. (MJ) Rated PG-13
JOJO RABBIT
In Taika Waititi’s WWII-set satire, a little boy with an imaginary friend who looks just like Hitler befriends the Jewish girl being hidden by his mother. Its juggling tones and bleak subject matter might not work for everyone. (ES) Rated PG13
JOKER
The Clown Prince gets his own origin story, with Joaquin Phoenix as a failed stand-up who violently lashes out at society. A Scorsese pastiche that’s not
LAST CHRISTMAS
Paul Feig directs this holiday dramedy about a reckless 20-something (Emilia Clarke) who starts to get her act together after falling for a mysterious, handsome stranger. (NW) Rated PG-13
THE LIGHTHOUSE
cast that includes Woody Harrelson and Dennis Quaid. (NW) Rated PG-13
PARASITE
Satire, slapstick and secrecy collide in Bong Joon-ho’s twisty, Palme d’Orwinning contraption, about a poor South Korean family that insinuates itself into the lives of an upper class clan. Surprises abound. (NW) Rated R
Robert Eggers’ follow-up to The Witch is another slow-burn period piece, with Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson as isolated lighthouse keepers going stir crazy. But unlike The Witch, this unnerving sea chantey is more bemusing than terrifying. (ES) Rated R
PLAYING WITH FIRE
MALEFICENT: MISTRESS OF EVIL
The sixth Terminator installment finally brings Sarah Connor back into the fray. Too bad it’s another rehash of what we’ve seen before, more evidence that this franchise remains stuck in the past. (MJ) Rated R
The Sleeping Beauty villain returns, again played by Angelina Jolie and here going cheekbone to cheekbone with wicked queen Michelle Pfeiffer. The few good ideas of the original are traded in for endless spectacle resembling a video game cut-scene. (NW) Rated PG
MIDWAY
The 1942 Battle of Midway gets the noisy epic treatment from schlock king Roland Emmerich, with a sprawling
John Cena stars as the captain of an elite firefighter squad that meets its match when it takes in a trio of troublemaking kids. (NW) Rated PG
TERMINATOR: DARK FATE
ZOMBIELAND: DOUBLE TAP
A decade after the horror-comedy hit, our ragtag quartet of apocalypse survivors is back for more bloody adventures. It’s hardly painful to sit through, but it’s not particularly funny and most of the jokes are retreads. (NW) Rated R n
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Elegiac, expansive and morbidly funny, Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman is a late-career masterpiece BY NATHAN WEINBENDER
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here’s a sense of finality coursing through the veins of Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman, which is a slow-motion elegy not only for its characters but for its actors, its director and its very form. Like so much of Scorsese’s work, it is preoccupied with death, but rarely has an American gangster film considered the mortality of its subjects with such a grim frankness. Theirs is a lifestyle of expendability: Either you’ll be left to bleed out on the sidewalk or you’ll survive only to waste away, hopelessly alone. There are no alternatives. Based on Charles Brandt’s nonfiction book I Heard You Paint Houses, the film chronicles the life of career criminal Frank “the Irishman” Sheeran, played with stunning virtuosity by Robert De Niro. The movie is told in flashback, with an elderly Sheeran dictating his dubious accomplishments directly to camera from his nursing home — how he started out running a grift on a meatpacking company, how that operation captured the attention of Pennsylvania crime boss Russell Bufalino (Joe Pesci), how he was eventually enlisted as a go-to errand boy for the mob. It’s this line of disreputable work that leads Sheeran to Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa (Al Pacino), who, in the late ’50s, has as many mortal enemies as ardent worshippers. Sheeran becomes a middleman between Hoffa and the Bufalinos, as well as something of a fixer, because Hoffa has built a brand on deliberately uncouth, unfiltered intensity. Though we’re introduced to a sprawling cast of supporting players — lawyers, politicians, wives, children, other hitmen who are far less exacting than Frank — it’s the relationship between Sheeran and Hoffa that eventually pulls our focus, and that gives the movie its strangely emotional center. They’re polar opposites — one is resolute, the other reckless — but we sense an almost paternal protectiveness developing between them, especially as Sheeran realizes he can’t keep rescuing Hoffa from his own worst instincts. De Niro has been phoning it in so often that it’s almost a revelation to see him putting in effort again. Frank Sheeran is amongst his greatest roles, and it requires him to inhabit a full life, go-
ing from a 20-something WWII soldier to a frail octogenarian. (The much publicized de-aging CGI is only creepy and distracting in a couple shots.) Pacino has similarly been relying on his gaudiest acting quirks, but as the ill-fated Hoffa, he finds just the right note of passion tipping over into pomposity. Pesci, on the other hand, is the opposite of overexposed. He hasn’t appeared in a film for nearly a decade, and it’s great to see him again, especially in a role that’s uncharacteristically subdued: a withering look from Bufalino is as lethal as a gunshot. Steven Zaillian’s screenplay examines the routines and hierarchies of these men with the same journalistic specificity that Nicholas Pileggi brought to his scripts for Scorsese’s GoodFellas and Casino. Some of the best scenes in THE IRISHMAN The Irishman involve Rated R process — for Directed by Martin Scorsese instance, how Frank Starring Robert De Niro, decides which gun Al Pacino, Joe Pesci he’ll use for a given At the Magic Lantern hit. It also manages to be sneakily funny all the while, full of morbid punchlines. You’ve no doubt heard that The Irishman is three and a half hours long, and yet it breezes by, because every scene has a clear purpose, every line of dialogue carries weight and every shot is packed with detail. It’s exhilarating to watch. It debuts on Netflix on Nov. 27, but it really should be seen on the big screen, where you can let it unfold in real time, undistracted, and become immersed in its teeming world. It’s more than likely that this is the last gangster epic that Scorsese, De Niro, Pacino and Pesci — all icons of the genre — will make, and that realization is reflected in the material, which Scorsese was born to film. It’s the kind of story he tells better than anyone, that of men who spend their short, brutish lives in deference to the next guy up the ladder, and whose jobs demand a level of cockiness that will most certainly get them killed. And then there are the Frank Sheerans of the world, who live to tell their outlandish stories but have nobody left to listen. n
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SLAYING SPOKANE Thrash-metal pioneers Slayer are on the last leg of their final tour, and they’re bringing a weird bunch of friends with them BY DAN NAILEN
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s far as breakthrough albums go, it’s hard to find one shorter than Slayer’s Reign in Blood. The California-based quartet’s third album arrived in 1986, their first of four releases to sell more than 500,000 copies, and managed to cram 12 songs into less than 29 minutes. (By point of comparison, consider that the Ramones’ 14-song debut comes in at just over 29 minutes.) Of course, no one ended up talking about Reign in Blood’s brevity once they heard the hyper-speed riffs from guitarists Kerry King and Jeff Hanneman, and es-
pecially singer/bassist Tom Araya’s lyrics, on opening track “Angel of Death,” about the atrocities perpetrated by Nazi monster Josef Mengele at the Auschwitz concentration camp. The band had to spend some time in early interviews batting off suggestions that they were condoning Nazism with the song, and eventually the media and fans’ focus returned to Slayer’s intense blending of metal and punk that soon had them labeled as part of thrash-metal’s “Big Four,” a group that includes Metallica, Megadeth and Anthrax. Remarkably, all those bands are still recording and
touring to various degrees of success. But Slayer is the first to announce its retirement. That announcement came in January 2018, and the band is currently on the seventh and final leg of its farewell tour (the aptly named “Final Campaign”). After the band hits Spokane Arena Sunday night, they’ll only have three more shows before Slayer is laid to rest. The end comes four years after the band released Repentless, their 12th album and first since founding guitarist Hanneman died in 2013. Gary Holt (Exodus) has been filling in for Hanneman since, and he’ll be
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MUSIC | ORCHESTRAL in the fold along with Araya, King and drummer Paul Bostoph (who’s been in and out of the band several times since the early ’90s, when he replaced founding drummer Dave Lombardo). While fans can expect songs stretching across four decades, a bombastic, fiery stage show, an insane mosh pit and a preponderance of “devil horns” thrown in the air throughout the night, they can also expect a surprisingly interesting crew of opening acts that make this show feel more like a festival than a simple Slayer sendoff. Rather than trot out some thrashers-come-lately or fellow old dudes, Slayer is bringing along some bands that could easily be headlining their own gigs. Let’s break it down:
PRIMUS
It’s a testament to how sonically wide-ranging Primus’ music is that they’re on a bill with Slayer and it’s not completely befuddling. But it is a little bit! The art-rock trio hit the big-time as part of the so-called “alternative” music boom of the early ’90s, when albums like Frizzle Fry, Sailing the Seas of Cheese and Pork Soda earned them mainstream radio play and a headlining spot on Lollapalooza. And, of course, they penned the South Park theme song. The band’s best-known lineup of bassist/vocalist Les Claypool, guitarist Larry LaLonde and drummer Tim “Herb” Alexander are back together, and in recent years they have collaborated with jam-banders like Phil Lesh and indie-pop folks like Sean Lennon. Their music is joyfully surreal, and Claypool’s bass-playing is absurdly fun. I would never think of them as metal, so I’ll be curious how Slayer’s fans react to them.
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Strings Attached
Portland Cello Project meets OK Computer for this weekend’s Bing show.
The Portland Cello Project put everything in its right place for its upcoming Radiohead tribute show BY HOWARD HARDEE
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Formed in 1981, the same year as Slayer, Al Jourgensen’s Ministry evolved from a sound nowhere close to the headliners’ aggression — dancey synth-pop — into an industrial-metal juggernaut. Albums like The Land of Rape and Honey, Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs and The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste (celebrating its 30th birthday this year) made Ministry regulars on alt-rock radio in the late ’80s and early ’90s. Despite myriad lineup changes and Jourgensen’s once-prolific drug use, Ministry has stayed relatively active for nearly four decades now. The band, now including former Tool bassist Paul D’Amour, released its 14th studio album, AmeriKKKant, in 2018, and they’ve always been pretty awesome live.
PHIL ANSELMO & THE ILLEGALS
Best known as the singer for Pantera, Anselmo’s fronted a ton of bands since that band split up, including Down, Superjoint Ritual and others. This is the name for his current go-round, which released an album in 2018 called Choosing Mental Illness as a Virtue. On this tour, though, he’s doing primarily Pantera tunes. If that’s your thing, and considering Anselmo is first on the bill, you should prepare to enter the Spokane Arena screaming. n Slayer with Primus, Ministry and Phil Anselmo • Sun, Nov. 24 at 6 pm • $40-$90 • All ages • Spokane Arena • 720 W. Mallon • spokanearena.com • 279-7000
he versatile cello covers sounds as high as those of a violin and as low as an electric bass guitar. Even so, some of the sounds Radiohead achieves in the studio are non-replicable with string and woodwind instruments. But the Portland Cello Project always comes up with creative approximations. “We have really, really strong cellists who have the chops to play all the funny rhythms,” Portland Cello Project’s artistic director Doug Jenkins says. Arranging the setlist for the ensemble’s touring Radiohead tribute show was a subtle endeavor, he says. Reinterpreting the groundbreaking British rock band’s songs was about using the right textures to convey different soundscapes, and recreating details without resorting to mimicry. “‘Let Down’ was incredibly difficult to arrange. We probably rewrote it 10 different times and performed it a few dozen times before we felt like we had something that clicked,” Jenkins says. “The soundscapes in that song are so unique and we don’t make those sounds naturally, so you have to find a way to translate that and make it your own.” Honoring the signature yowl of Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke is up to singer and multi-instrumentalist Patti King of the Shins. Jenkins describes her as a “chameleon who can play or sing anything.” “She’s able to do the Thom Yorke thing where it’s possible, and where it’s not possible, we just do it instrumentally,” he says. Having toured the show for about a year and half, Portland Cello Project has had plenty of time to work out the kinks for its upcoming Spokane performance. Over the past year or so, the group’s backing band has solidified and the Radiohead show “has gelled so
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much,” Jenkins says. Jenkins is one of nine performing cellists in the ensemble. The group originally got together for a oneoff show at Portland’s Doug Fir Lounge in 2006, but slowly evolved into a touring group featuring a rotating cast of cellists and classically trained woodwind, brass and percussion players. Over the years, they’ve built a repertoire of more than 1,000 songs, including an array of pop hits. One of Portland Cello Project’s most-viewed videos on YouTube is a haunting rendition of Radiohead’s “Karma Police.” For years, Jenkins had purposefully avoided Radiohead because he didn’t know how to approach songs which are, in his opinion, perfectly arranged to begin with. “We were really careful about how we did this,” Jenkins says. “We made sure we had the right people who were going to put in the work to nail the feel of these songs.” The supporting band includes trumpeter Farnell Newton and drummer Tyrone Hendrix, who’s held down the beat for the likes of Prince and Stevie Wonder. Fun fact: Hendrix grew up playing church and gospel music, and had never listened to Radiohead prior to joining the ensemble. “It was really fun, watching him learn the songs and get really into it,” Jenkins says. One of the group’s guiding principles is to take the cello to strange new places — bars, nightclubs, dance parties, or really wherever strikes their fancy. In the same spirit, they embrace music that wouldn’t traditionally be played on the cello. No artist is off-limits, not even Prince: Having tackled Radiohead, Kanye West and Elliott Smith, the band’s next tribute show is titled Purple Reign. “One interesting byproduct of doing this show, especially with Tyrone on the rhythm section — I mean, we’re hearing stories about Prince all the time — is that we’ve been inspired to do a Prince show,” Jenkins says. “We’ll be doing that next year, basically going for Prince and seeing what happens.” The creative process for rearranging Prince songs has been “100 percent different” from Radiohead, Jenkins says. The Portland Cello Project hasn’t had much time to pull it together, either, trying to keep the current show sharp while rehearsing new material. “You always want to make sure you do things right, so we’ve had nonstop rehearsal,” Jenkins says. n The Portland Cello Project • Sat, Nov. 23 at 8 pm • $32-$48 • All ages • Bing Crosby Theater • 901 W. Sprague • bingcrosbytheater.com • 227-7638
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he 1980 John Travolta-Debra Winger drama Urban Cowboy was a modest hit that inspired a brief surge in the sales of super tight denim and mechanical bulls. But it was the blockbuster soundtrack — featuring No. 1 country hits like Johnny Lee’s “Lookin’ for Love” and Mickey Gilley’s “Stand by Me” — that cemented the movie’s status as a minor ’80s classic. As Cowboy nears its 40th anniversary, Lee and Gilley, who also appeared in the film as themselves, are touring with a show that will not only feature their signature songs but stories about making the movie. — NATHAN WEINBENDER Urban Cowboy Reunion with Johnny Lee and Mickey Gilley • Sun, Nov. 24 at 7:30 pm • $39-$69 • All ages • Northern Quest Resort & Casino • 100 N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights • northernquest.com • 481-2800
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A&P’S BAR AND GRILL, Open Mic Night with KC Carter BERSERK, Vinyl Meltdown BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn J BOOTS BAKERY & LOUNGE, The Song Project BRIDGE PRESS CELLARS, Open Mic J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, Open Jazz Jam with Erik Bowen CRUISERS, Open Jam Night DAN & JO’S BAR & GRILL, Usual Suspects FIZZIE MULLIGANS, Country Dance HONEY EATERY AND SOCIAL CLUB, MJ Ultra HOUSE OF SOUL, Jan Harrison Jazz Trio J LAGUNA CAFÉ, Just Plain Darin LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Jonathan Tibbitts LION’S LAIR, Karaoke with Donny Duck J LUCKY YOU LOUNGE, Carmen Jane; General Mojo’s J MONARCH MOUNTAIN COFFEE, Open Mic Hosted by Scott Reid MOOSE LOUNGE, Country Night with Last Chance Band MY PLACE, DJ Dave NIGHTHAWK LOUNGE (CDA CASINO), Bubble & Squeak THE NYC PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos: Dinner and a Show THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos feat. Christan Raxter & Steve Ridler THE ROCK BAR & LOUNGE, The Rock Jam Series STEAM PLANT KITCHEN + BREWERY, Nick Grow TAPP’D OFF, Karaoke on the Patio YAYA BREWING COMPANY, Jonathan Tibbetts ZOLA, Blake Braley Band
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n the grand tradition of folk and Americana, Fretland specializes in world-weary and heartrending songs tinged with a bit of hope. The relatively young five-piece, based in Snohomish, gets its name from founder Hillary Grace Fretland, who has a history as a solo singer-songwriter and gathered a group of friends and collaborators to form this project. They recently raised nearly $14,000 to fund the recording and release of their upcoming debut album, and based on the single “Long Haul,” it will be a collection full of evocative images and gorgeous melodies. — NATHAN WEINBENDER Fretland with Windoe • Fri, Nov. 22 at 8 pm • Free • 21+ • Lucky You Lounge • 1801 W. Sunset Blvd. • luckyyoulounge.com
Friday, 11/22
219 LOUNGE, The Miah Kohal Band 1210 TAVERN, River Boat Dave Band ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, Into the Drift BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn BOLO’S, Dangerous Type BOOMBOX PIZZA, Karaoke BOOMERS CLASSIC ROCK BAR & GRILL, Roundabout BRIDGE PRESS CELLARS, Jesse Weston J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, Heather and the Soulmotions CHINOOK STEAK, PASTA AND SPIRITS (CDA CASINO), Donnie Emerson & Nancy Sophia CORBY’S BAR, Karaoke COSMIC COWBOY GRILL, Son of Brad CRUISERS, Karaoke with Gary CURLEY’S, Karma’s Circle THE FISCHIN’ HOLE SALOON, Usual Suspects FREDNECK’S, Just Plain Darin HAPPY TRAILS TO BREWS, Chris Molitor
IDAHO POUR AUTHORITY, Shanna Thompson IRON GOAT BREWING CO., Jonathan Tibbetts IRON HORSE (COEUR D’ALENE), JamShack THE JACKSON ST., Rock Candy KNITTING FACTORY, Last Chance Band, Jesse Quandt, Joey Anderson, DJ Matty J LUCKY YOU LOUNGE, Milonga, Black Dolly; Fretland (see above), Windoe, DJ ROSETHROW (basement) MAX AT MIRABEAU, Mojo Box MICKDUFF’S BEER HALL, Groove Black MOONDOLLARS BISTRO, Dallas Kay MOOSE LOUNGE, The Caretakers MY PLACE, DJ Dave NASHVILLE NORTH, Ladies Night with Luke Jaxon and DJ Tom NIGHTHAWK LOUNGE (CDA CASINO), Whack A Mole THE NYC PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos: Dinner and a Show PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Red Blend
THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos feat. Christan Raxter & Steve Ridler J SARANAC COMMONS, Kevin Partridge J J SPOKANE ARENA, TransSiberian Orchestra: Christmas Eve and Other Stories STORMIN’ NORMAN’S SHIPFACED SALOON, DJ Danger J J THE WONDER BUILDING, Blake Braley ZOLA, Tuck Foster & The Tumbling Dice
Saturday, 11/23
219 LOUNGE, Dimestore Prophets 1210 TAVERN, Open Road Band ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, One Street Over BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn THE BIG DIPPER, Scarlett O’Hara, Sleep Waker, Somewhere to call Home BIGFOOT PUB, Piper’s Rush J J BING CROSBY THEATER, Portland Cello Project (see page 41)
BLACK LABEL BREWING CO., 528TRIBE feat. Eerie Irene BOLO’S, Dangerous Type BOOMERS, Roundabout BRANDYWINE BAR & BOTTLE SHOP, Carey Brazil BRIDGE PRESS CELLARS, Jesse Weston J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, Dan Maher CHINOOK STEAK, PASTA AND SPIRITS (CDA CASINO), Donnie Emerson & Nancy Sophia COSMIC COWBOY GRILL, Son of Brad CURLEY’S, Karma’s Circle DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS, ShuffleDawgs’ Juke Joint Party FREDNECK’S, James Motley GARLAND PUB & GRILL, Working Spliffs HOP MOUNTAIN TAPROOM & GRILL, Joey Anderson HUMBLE BURGER, Amanda Winterhalter, Margo Cilker, Meredith Brann IDAHO POUR AUTHORITY, Dustin Drennen
IRON HORSE (COEUR D’ALENE), JamShack THE JACKSON ST., Karaoke J LUCKY YOU LOUNGE, High Pulp, Funky Unkle MAX AT MIRABEAU, Mojo Box METALS BAR, My Own Worst Enemy MOOSE LOUNGE, The Caretakers MULLIGAN’S BAR & GRILLE, Miller’s Sun NASHVILLE NORTH, Ladies Night with Luke Jaxon and DJ Tom NIGHTHAWK LOUNGE (CDA CASINO), Whack A Mole THE NYC PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos PACIFIC PIZZA, S4LT PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Spare Parts Trio J THE PIN, Cryptic Wisdom with Jonathan Scott, Kuttl3ss, Manwithnoname POST FALLS BREWING COMPANY, Pat Coast RED ROOM LOUNGE, Scott Pemberton THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos J SEASONS OF COEUR D’ALENE, Just Plain Darin STORMIN’ NORMAN’S SHIPFACED SALOON, DJ Danger
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Sunday, 11/24
CRAVE, DJ Dave DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS, Rev. Yo’s VooDoo Church of Blues Jam GARLAND PUB & GRILL, Karaoke HOGFISH, Open Mic LINGER LONGER LOUNGE, Open Jam J J NORTHERN QUEST RESORT & CASINO, Urban Cowboy Reunion feat. Mickey Gilley and Johnny Lee (see facing page) THE NYC PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos O’DOHERTY’S IRISH GRILLE, Traditional Irish Music PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Piano Sunday with Dwayne Parsons J THE PIN, Demun Jones, Long Cut, Cypress Springs & more RED ROOM LOUNGE, Jason Perry Trio THE ROXIE, Hillyard Billys J SOUTH HILL GRILL, Just Plain Darin J J SPOKANE ARENA, Slayer with Primus, Ministry and Phil Anselmo & the Illegals (see page 40) ZOLA, Glass Honey
Monday, 11/25
THE BULL HEAD, Songsmith Series J CALYPSOS COFFEE ROASTERS, Open Mic COSMIC COWBOY GRILL, Eric Neuhausser CRAVE, DJ Dave EICHARDT’S, Monday Night Jam with Truck Mills THE NYC PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos
RED ROOM LOUNGE, Open Mic with Lucas Brookbank Brown
Tuesday, 11/26
219 LOUNGE, Karaoke with DJ Pat BOOMBOX PIZZA, Karaoke CRAVE, DJ Dave GARLAND PUB & GRILL, Karaoke LITZ’S BAR & GRILL, The ShuffleDawgs Blues Power Happy Hour THE NYC PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos: Dinner and a Show RAZZLE’S BAR & GRILL, Songsmith Series feat. Ian Nixon THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Country Swing Dancing THE ROXIE, Open Mic/Jam SAPPHIRE LOUNGE, Sharon Daggett SWEET LOU’S RESTAURANT AND TAP HOUSE, Bill Bozly TAPP’D OFF, Karaoke on the Patio THE VIKING, Songsmith Series feat. Steve Livingston ZOLA, Desperate 8s
Wednesday, 11/27
219 LOUNGE, Truck Mills & Denis Zwang J 291 BREWHOUSE, Just Plain Darin BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn J BLACK DIAMOND, Songsmith Series feat. Rick Lillemon CRAVE, DJ Dave CRUISERS, Open Jam Night Hosted by The Jam Band GENO’S TRADITIONAL FOOD & ALES, Open Mic with Host Travis Goulding IRON HORSE (COEUR D’ALENE), Open Jam IRON HORSE (VALLEY), Eric Neuhausser THE JACKSON ST., Karaoke J KNITTING FACTORY, Free the Jester, Everyone Loves a Villain, Becoming Ghosts, Lilac City Dynamics LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Carey Brazil LION’S LAIR, Funk You Up Wednesdays w/ Storme LUCKY’S IRISH PUB, DJ D3VIN3 MAD BOMBER BREWING COMPANY, Open Mic THE NYC PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos: Dinner and a Show RED ROOM LOUNGE, Blowin’ Kegs Jam Session THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos feat. Christan Raxter & Steve Ridler SOULFUL SOUPS & SPIRITS, Open Mic STORMIN’ NORMAN’S SHIPFACED SALOON, Steve Starkey ZOLA, Cruxie
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MUSIC | VENUES 219 LOUNGE • 219 N. First, Sandpoint • 208-2639934 A&P’S BAR & GRILL • 222 N. First, Sandpoint • 208-263-2313 ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS • 4705 N. Fruit Hill Rd. • 927-9463 BABY BAR • 827 W. First Ave. • 847-1234 BARLOWS • 1428 N. Liberty Lake Rd. • 924-1446 BEEROCRACY • 911 W. Garland Ave. BERSERK • 125 S. Stevens • 714-9512 THE BIG DIPPER • 171 S. Washington • 863-8098 BIGFOOT PUB • 9115 N. Division St. • 467-9638 BING CROSBY THEATER • 901 W. Sprague Ave. • 227-7638 BLACK DIAMOND • 9614 E. Sprague • 891-8357 BOLO’S • 116 S. Best Rd. • 891-8995 BOOMERS • 18219 E. Appleway Ave. • 755-7486 BOOTS BAKERY & LOUNGE • 24 W. Main Ave. • 703-7223 BRIDGE PRESS CELLARS • 39 W. Pacific • 838-7815 BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB • 201 S. Main, Moscow • 208-882-5216 THE BULL HEAD • 10211 S. Electric • 838-9717 CALYPSOS COFFEE & CREAMERY • 116 E. Lakeside Ave., CdA • 208-665-0591 CHECKERBOARD BAR • 1716 E. Sprague Ave. • 535-4007 COEUR D’ALENE CASINO • 37914 S. Nukwalqw Rd., Worley, Idaho • 800-523-2464 COEUR D’ALENE CELLARS • 3890 N. Schreiber Way, CdA • 208-664-2336 COSMIC COWBOY GRILL • 412 W. Haycraft, CdA • 208-277-0000 CRAFTED TAP HOUSE • 523 Sherman Ave., CdA • 208-292-4813 CRAVE• 401 W. Riverside • 321-7480 CRUISERS • 6105 W Seltice Way, Post Falls • 208773-4706 CURLEY’S • 26433 W. Hwy. 53 • 208-773-5816 DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS • 6412 E. Trent • 535-9309 EICHARDT’S PUB • 212 Cedar St., Sandpoint • 208-263-4005 FIRST INTERSTATE CENTER FOR THE ARTS • 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. • 279-7000 FIZZIE MULLIGANS • 331 W. Hastings • 466-5354 FOX THEATER • 1001 W. Sprague • 624-1200 THE HIVE • 207 N. First, Sandpoint • 208-457-2392 HOGFISH • 1920 E. Sherman, CdA • 208-667-1896 HONEY EATERY & SOCIAL CLUB • 317 E. Sherman, CdA • 208-930-1514 HOUSE OF SOUL • 25 E. Lincoln • 598-8783 IRON GOAT BREWING • 1302 W. 2nd • 474-0722 IRON HORSE BAR • 407 E. Sherman Ave., CdA • 208-667-7314 IRON HORSE BAR & GRILL • 11105 E. Sprague Ave., CdA • 509-926-8411 JACKSON ST. BAR & GRILL • 2436 N. Astor St. • 315-8497 JOHN’S ALLEY • 114 E. Sixth St., Moscow • 208883-7662 KNITTING FACTORY • 911 W. Sprague Ave. • 244-3279 LAGUNA CAFÉ • 2013 E. 29th Ave. • 448-0887 THE LANTERN TAP HOUSE • 1004 S. Perry St. • 315-9531 LEFTBANK WINE BAR • 108 N. Washington • 315-8623 LION’S LAIR • 205 W. Riverside • 456-5678 LUCKY YOU LOUNGE • 1801 W. Sunset LUCKY’S IRISH PUB • 408 W. Sprague • 747-2605 MARYHILL WINERY • 1303 W. Summit Pkwy, Ste. 100 • 443-3832 MAX AT MIRABEAU • 1100 N. Sullivan • 924-9000 MICKDUFF’S • 312 N. First Ave., Sandpoint • 208)255-4351 MONARCH MOUNTAIN COFFEE • 208 N 4th Ave, Sandpoint • 208-265-9382 MOOSE LOUNGE • 401 E. Sherman • 208-664-7901 MOOTSY’S • 406 W. Sprague • 838-1570 MULLIGAN’S • 506 Appleway Ave., CdA • 208- 7653200 ext. 310 NASHVILLE NORTH • 6361 W. Seltice Way, Post Falls • 208-457-9128 NORTHERN QUEST RESORT • 100 N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights • 242-7000 NYNE • 232 W. Sprague Ave. • 474-1621 O’SHAY’S • 313 E. CdA Lake Dr. • 208-667-4666 PACIFIC PIZZA • 2001 W. Pacific • 443-5467 PEND D’OREILLE WINERY • 301 Cedar St., Sandpoint • 208-265-8545 THE PIN • 412 W. Sprague • 385-1449 POST FALLS BREWING CO. • 112 N. Spokane, Post Falls • 208-773-7301 RAZZLE’S BAR & GRILL • 10325 N. Government Way, Hayden • 208-635-5874 RED ROOM LOUNGE • 521 W. Sprague • 838-7613 REPUBLIC BREWING • 26 Clark Ave. • 775-2700 RIDLER PIANO BAR • 718 W. Riverside • 822-7938 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 STORMIN’ NORMAN’S SHIPFACED SALOON • 12303 E. Trent • 862-4852 ZOLA • 22 W. Main Ave. • 624-2416
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Fans of the circus arts have a lot to choose from this holiday season. Come to think of it, Spokane gets a lot of cirque shows. What’s the deal there? But I digress! Cirque Musica swings through the First Interstate Center for the Arts Monday with a holiday-themed evening of acrobats and aerialists, bombastic effects and music. They claim to be “the premiere cirque show in the world” (I’m sure the Cirque Dreams show arriving at the FIC four days later will have something to say about that), and at the very least it seems like a perfect way to start your Thanksgiving week. — DAN NAILEN Cirque Musica • Mon, Nov. 25 at 7:30 pm • $30-$150 • First Interstate Center for the Arts • 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. • inbpac.com • 279-7000
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Michael Gurian has built a career as an author, marriage and family counselor and consultant due to his expertise in childhood psychology, and his written work to this point has been nonfiction. He’s perhaps best known for his New York Times bestseller The Wonder of Boys. With his latest work, though, Gurian was moved to pen a YA novel. The Stone Boys is somewhat autobiographical and based on the author’s own trauma in being molested by a psychiatrist as a child. A Kirkus review notes that it’s “a story built not around easy answers but anguished inner arguments.” Gurian will talk about the book and his career at Auntie’s Thursday night. — DAN NAILEN Michael Gurian: The Stone Boys • Thu, Nov. 21 at 7 pm • Free • Auntie’s Bookstore • 402 W. Main • auntiesbooks.com838-0206
PERFORMANCE MAGIC MAN
Being able to see people doing absurd things on social media every day has truly diminished our appreciation for people doing absurd things in front of live audiences — magicians have become one of those slighted professions. But there’s nothing like seeing someone emerge from a sword-filled coffin unscathed or inexplicably levitate, and Lance Burton’s been doing that sort of thing on the biggest stages for over four decades. He’s rolling into Northern Quest to bring his long-running Vegas act to the Inland Northwest this Friday, and no YouTube video does justice to his handiwork. Some things need to be seen to be believed. Others you don’t need to understand, you just go with it. This show will definitely be both. — CONNOR GILBERT Lance Burton Master Magician and Friends • Fri, Nov. 22 at 7:30 pm • $49-$79 • Northern Quest Resort & Casino • 100 N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights • northernquest.com • 481-2800
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MUSIC + FILM CHRISTMAS-WEEN
I can’t tell you how many times we watched and rewatched our well-worn VHS copy of Tim Burton’s beloved, stop-motion holiday horror The Nightmare Before Christmas. We knew the words to most of the songs (“This is Halloween, this is Halloween! Pumpkins scream in the dead of night”) and Oogie Boogie scared the bejesus out of us. Fellow kids of the ’90s can relate, and thus shouldn’t miss the next installment of the Spokane Symphony’s Movies & Music series. While Halloween Town king Jack Skellington attempts his Christmas takeover on the big screen, the orchestra performs Danny Elfman’s unequivocal score live on stage, under the direction of resident conductor Morihiko Nakahara. The timing of this concert is perfect — smack dab between Halloween and Christmas — as the story in Nightmare itself hovers in holiday limbo. — CHEY SCOTT Spokane Symphony Movies & Music: The Nightmare Before Christmas • Sat, Nov. 23 at 8 pm and Sun, Nov. 24 at 3 pm • $20-$103 • Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox • 1001 W. Sprague • spokanesymphony.org • 624-1200
WARM FOR THE WINTER A winter clothing drive in memory of Charlene Jackson-Dixon to support Union Gospel Mission, Blessings Under the Bridge and Vanessa Behan Crisis Nursery. Donations of socks and gloves can also be dropped off at West Valley High School, Centennial Middle School and Market Street Auto Licensing. Through Nov. 22. Whitworth University, 300 W. Hawthorne. (777-1000) NERD NIGHT: STAR WARS Celebrate Star Wars before the release of the final installment. EWU professor Terrance MacMullan hosts an exploration of the different cosmologies of the Force and how philosophy can be a first step into a much larger world of meaning. Also presenting is professor Kevin Decker on “The Minor Miracle of Music in Star Wars.” 21+; includes one drink with each ticket. Nov. 22, 6 pm. $25. Mobius Science Center, 331 N. Post. mobiusspokane.org (321-7137) SCRAPS CORNHOLE FUNDRAISER TOURNAMENT Play a game or two to raise money for SCRAPS. Open to singles and doubles, bring a donation of pet food or pet supplies. Bags provided, or bring your own. Nov. 23, 11 am-8 pm. $10/$20. Players & Spectators Events Center, 12828 E. Sprague. playersandspectators.com SHALOM MINISTRIES HOLIDAY CONCERT & AUCTION Doors open at 5:30 for seating, silent auction bidding and refreshments, with a concert of seasonal music from the Covenant Marimbas and the Justin James Band. Proceeds benefit Shalom Ministries (shalommeal.org) serving 4,400+ meals a month to Spokane’s hungry. Nov. 23, 4:30 pm. $35. Southside Community Center, 3151 E. 27th Ave. sssac.org (710-0204)
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MUSIC CHRISTMAS ROCKINGS
For a lot of people, the Christmas season doesn’t officially kick off until the Trans-Siberian Orchestra makes its annual pilgrimage to the Inland Northwest. Their bombastic prog-rock fills arenas (including ours) on the regular, but it’s more than just the music that attracts attention: It’s the elaborate light shows, the giant video screens displaying crazy visuals, and the almost athletic musicianship of the band itself. Trans-Siberian Orchestra has carried on since the 2017 death of founder Paul O’Neill, and their current tour — Christmas Eve and Other Stories — takes its title from the band’s popular 1996 debut album. Like the holiday itself, the show will be a time for reflection, looking back at O’Neill’s legacy and revisiting some of his most beloved compositions. — NATHAN WEINBENDER Trans-Siberian Orchestra: Christmas Eve and Other Stories • Fri, Nov. 22 at 8 pm • $39.50-$89.50 • All ages • Spokane Arena • 720 W. Mallon • spokanearena.com 279-7000
JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER Let us know what you’re looking for — a genre, subject matter, time period — and the world wide web will help us find the book. Fridays in November at 7:30 pm. $8. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheatre.com (747-7045) ROY WOOD JR. Roy joined “The Best F#@ing News Team” in 2015 as a correspondent on Comedy Central’s Emmynominated hit series, “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah.” Nov. 22-23 at 7:30 and 10 pm. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com GOODTYMES COMEDY The Social Hour Comedy Showcase presents headliner Luke Severeid, featuring Greg Beachler and hosted by Ronni Taylor. Nov. 23, 8-9:30 pm. Goodtymes Bar & Grill, 9214 E. Mission. (928-1070) JASON NASH The comedian and internet personality has over 2 million subscribers on YouTube, has written and directed two feature films, was a semi-finalist on “Last Comic Standing,” and most recently starred in his own Comedy Central series. Nov. 23, 8 pm. $35-$95. Knitting Factory, 919 W. Sprague. sp.knittingfactory.com SAFARI The BDT’s version of “Whose Line,” a fast-paced short-form improv show with a few twists added. Fridays at 7:30 pm. $8. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheatre.com THE SOCIAL HOUR COMEDY SHOWCASE A special event including a tap takeover by Black Label Brewing and featuring headliner Harry Riley with Levi Manis, hosted by Deece Casillas. Nov. 23, 8 pm. $6.24. Black Diamond, 9614 E. Sprague Ave. blackdiamondspokane.com
THE DOPE SHOW! A comedy showcase where comedians joke, then toke, the joke some more. Last Sunday at 8 pm. $8-$14. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com FELIPE ESPARZA: THE BAD HAMBRE TOUR A product of the streets of East Los Angeles, the comedian and actor is known for his raw, reallife comedy that audiences everywhere can relate to. Nov. 24, 8 pm. $29-$41. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague. bingcrosbytheater.com
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HACKING DEMOCRACY: WHAT SOCIAL MEDIA IS DOING TO US POLITICS Join political scientist and WSU professor Travis Ridout to explore the pros and cons of social media in political campaigns. Nov. 21, 7 pm. Free. Spokane Valley Library, 12004 E. Main. (893-8400) LADIES NIGHT: MRS. CLAUS NIGHT OUT Kick off Christmas with Vegas-themed cocktails or wine, appetizers, light dinner, dessert and traditional games. Nov. 21, 6:30-8:30 pm. $34-$39. Ritters Garden & Gift, 10120 N. Division. 4ritter.com LILAC CITY LIVE! JHear from local authors, musicians, artists, comedians and more. Doors at 7, show starts at 8. Nov. 21, 8-9 pm. Free. Downtown Spokane Library, 906 W. Main. spokanelibrary.org CUSTER’S 43RD CHRISTMAS ARTS & CRAFTS SHOW The show features 300 professional artists and crafters from across the Northwest displaying and selling fine art, hand crafts and specialty foods across more than 78,000 square feet. Nov. 22-24; Fri 10 am-8 pm, Sat 9 am-6 pm, Sun 10 am-4 pm. $7 weekend admission. Spokane County Fair & Expo Center, 404 N. Havana. custershows.com CAMPBELL HOUSE FAMILY PHOTO STUDIO The Christmas tree in the historic Campbell House’s library is the perfect backdrop for your holiday photo, Christmas card, or family memory. Proceeds benefit the restoration of Campbell House original furnishings newly acquired in 2019. Nov. 23, 10 am-4 pm. $50/ group of 8. The MAC, 2316 W. First Ave. northwestmuseum.org (456-3931) HOMEBUYER EDUCATION SEMINAR Explore major aspects of the home-buying process in an unbiased format with SNAP Spokane instructors certified by the Washington State Housing Finance Commission. Registration required. Sessions on Nov. 23; Jan. 21 and Jan. 23. Free. North Spokane Library, 44 E. Hawthorne Rd. snapwa.org/education-calendar LIGHT UP THE NIGHT Community groups have decorated trees for the park’s Holiday Tree Walk, displayed adjacent to the Numerica Skate Ribbon from Nov. 23-Jan 5. Riverfront Park, 507 N. Howard. spokaneriverfrontpark.com SANTA’S ARRIVAL Celebrate the start of the holiday season with free hot chocolate and face painting beginning at 2 pm, with stage entertainment at 4:30pm. Jolly Ol’ St. Nick arrives with the help of some holiday magic for the annual tree lighting at 5 pm. Nov. 23, 2 pm. Free. River Park Square, 808 W. Main. riverparksquare.com (509-624-3945) SCC CRAFT FAIR Featuring local vendors and artisans of handmade goods. in the SCC Lair. Nov. 23, 9 am-5 pm. Spokane Community College, 1810 N. Greene St. scc.spokane.edu (533-7000) SHOP & AWE Boulevard Mercantile’s annual holiday kickoff and preview, featuring food and drinks, and holiday shop-
ping galore. Bring a blanket to support City Gate and to enter a drawing for a gift card. Nov. 23, 5-9 pm. Free. Boulevard Mercantile, 1905 N. Monroe St. facebook. com/BoulevardMercantile (327-7547) WINTER GLOW SPECTACULAR Liberty Lake hosts the holiday lights display. Walkable or drivable around the perimeter. Nov. 23-Jan. 1; opening ceremony Nov. 23, 4-8 pm. Orchard Park, 20298 E. Indiana. facebook.com/spokanewinterglow NATIVE AMERICAN MONTH PRESENTATION Learn about Native heritage and experience a taste of Native culture during the winter season. Events offered throughout the month, Nov. 4-30. Nov. 24, 12:30 pm. $0-$65. Human Rights Education Institute, 414 W. Fort Grounds Dr. hrei.org (208-292-2359) TRUTH & RECONCILIATION AND NATIVE AMERICANS Spokane tribal member photo/videographer and activist Jeff Ferguson presents on some of the most current issues at hand and some of the progress being made by Indigenous people. This program is one of SPL’s events celebrating Native American Heritage Month. Nov. 25, 6-7:30 pm. Free. Shadle Library, 2111 W. Wellesley. spokanelibrary.org HISTORY OF THE SPOKANE TRIBE OF INDIANS Join Warren Seyler, former Chairman of the Spokane Tribe, as he walks through 250 years of Plateau history. Held as part of SPL’s events celebrating Native American Heritage Month. Nov. 26, 6-7:45 pm. Free. Shadle Library, 2111 W. Wellesley. spokanelibrary.org TOM’S TURKEY DRIVE Distributed meals (available while supplies last) are designed to feed a family of four. Nov. 26, 10 am-5 pm. Free. Spokane Arena, 720 W. Mallon. spokanearena.com (279-7000) TURKEY LEG RUN While your turkey roasts, come run, jog or walk and help raise money to fund new children’s books and fun activities for the Palouse Library. Race begins at 117 E. Main St., Palouse. Nov. 28, 7:45 am. whitco.lib.wa.us BRRC TURKEY TROT The annual event hosted by the Bloomsday Road Runners Club to collect food and cash for Second Harvest Food Bank. Runners/walkers have the option of 2-, 3- or 5-mile routes. Race starts at 9 am. No registration or entry fee, but must sign waiver. Nov. 28, 9-11 am. Free, donations accepted. Manito Park, 1800 S. Grand Blvd. facebook.com/ bloomsdayroadrunnersclub (868-6433)
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SHARING NATIVE KNOWLEDGE Join the WSU Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation for a film screening and panel discussion with representatives from six Columbia Plateau tribes based on their work with the Plateau Peoples’ Web Portal. Nov. 21, 4-6 pm. WSU Elson S. Floyd Cultural Center, 405 SE Spokane St., Pullman. (335-8126) THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING Filmed over 211 days in nine countries and five continents over four years, “This Changes Everything” is an epic attempt to reimagine the vast challenge of climate change. Nov. 21, 7-8:30 pm. $5 suggested donation. Magic Lantern Theatre, 25 W. Main. (209-2383) LANGUAGE HEALERS: NATIVE AMERICANS REVITALIZING NATIVE LANGUAGES A short documentary telling the story of Native Americans striving to revitalize their languages. Nov. 24, 3:304:30 pm. Free. South Hill Library, 3324 S. Perry. spokanelibrary.org
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say a word, then finally, you asked me if I knew someone, and that question was the starting of our years, and years of friendship leading to the life we now have together after 10 years of loyalty, dedication, and most of all trust and love. What shocked me that day, and still today is that I have never had thoughts before that have made a person hot and bothered the way I did the day we met. And what shocks me today is that these same thoughts are still in my head every day! You JCP are the only man who can get my thoughts all hot, and wacky. I love those feelings, and all the other feelings I get with you, I love you Babe! Love You, Loving Me! KB
I SAW YOU LINE CUTTER?? At the Fall Folk Festival, a long line snaked out from the cashier. I went to the empty line on the other side of the cashier and got immediately checked out. I’m sure many of those waiting thought I was a line cutter because there was only one cashier but there’s supposed to be two lines and one cashier; it’s more efficient that way. So instead of everyone waiting while a customer gets his change, napkins, forks and food out of the way, the cashier just turns to the other line with no time wasted. The same system is found in many hospital cafeterias. Sorry if I angered you; I was trying to set an example. STILL LOVING YOU!!! It was about twenty years ago, we both saw each other on opposite corners, on the one ways in Spokane, on the west side. We both were stopped at a stop sign, looking at each other, and I can’t help but replay the thoughts that were going on in my head, when I met you for the first time. Those thoughts, twenty something years later still remain in my head on a daily basis. “Damn he’s sexy, Who is this guy?” and then again, “Damn he is sexy!” I couldn’t say a word but stare across the street at you staring at me! I couldn’t
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MACARONI & CHEESEY I saw you at Mac Daddy’s on Saturday night. I’m sorry my dinner party was so loud and antsy. You seemed able to make a positive out of everything and that was more than impressive. Maybe next time we should get double the amount of wings or those deep fried macs and you can beat me at pool? CUTIE- PIE Saw you at Shari’s North on Friday. You seemed distracted but your laugh was hard to miss. I was the one with blue hair streak and matching glasses. I’d love to share chuckles over a drink sometime. Maybe somewhere different? Though, you can’t negate the awesomeness of multiple pie options.
I SAW YOU 3 YEARS OF PERFECTION So excited to hear your forever got rolling at your favorite Perfection Tire. Best wishes for a long and happy life together. Congratulations from the enTIRE Perfection Family!
CHEERS FREE BLEEDING As a member of the human race whose uterine lining sometimes leaks out of her, I want to shout out Spokane International Airport for making
the period products in their bathroom complimentary. Thanks for doing your part to make travel less stressful and more equitable! THE LAST HERO Cheers to the last real hero who saved me on Friday night around 7 pm Nov. 15, 2019, at Safeway
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SHAME ON SPOKANE, VALLEY AND COUNTY Very much shame on our local governments for not enforcing a burning ban during the recent bad air advisory. I am pretty sure with your lack of enforcement that maybe hundreds of people with respiratory problems ended up in the emergency room like I did. Shame on
politely sociable? 2) Exactly HOW MANY of your “friends” have “died in accidents caused from road raging GRANDPAS?” Do you care to provide names or, at least, the dates and incidents? I’m curious to see these obituaries. Yeah, I thought not... Funny, now that we can further read your ill-educated “testimony” we
The money you gave me I used for gas to take me far enough away so I could be safe and think about my life and what it had become.
on Mission and Hamilton. I was sobbing because my partner had just smashed out my back windshield and I was waiting for the police. It was cold and dark, you came up to my car and my dog didn’t even bark at you, you gave me a half pack of smokes than handed me a 20 dollar bill and said “Get yourself some gas.” What you did gave me back a little bit of hope. I am homeless and that car was the only safe place for me and my dog to live. The money you gave me I used for gas to take me far enough away so I could be safe and think about my life and what it had become. For what you did I am thankful, humble and forever grateful for the last real hero. THANK YOU FROM THE DEPTHS OF MY HEART!!!!!!
JEERS BUSTED IN BENEWAH Jeers to the Benewah County cops who saw my Washington plates and stopped me for failing to use my blinker. We all know how the rest of this story goes, right? The fine I paid for my victimless crime will be the last money I spend in your county till you change your ridiculous laws.
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you fireplace burners who could care less about the health issues you create for old people, babies and those at risk. RE: DIGNITY I think we dated the same same jackass!!! RE: RE: RESPONSE OF ROAD RAGE GRANDPAS...UGH... Oh, yet more of my valuable free time spent responding to the idiots of our local society — it becomes rather mundane, but necessary... After all, those who lack respect for their elders are only digging their own graves when, just around the corner they, too, become older. So, I digress. According to the November 14, 2019, issue of The PNW Inlander JEERS section you, Dear Youngling, challenged my previous retort to your original post with blatantly scathing remarks *and* claims. I can handle the remarks, but do you care to answer these claims now? 1) How do you actually “spend” your time “with the elder community?” Do you have a career that involves care or facilitating the elders of our region? Or are you just musing by hanging out with your grandparents on holidays or only when your friends’ plans, or your phone, or video games keep you from being
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deduce that you are either a wee highschool-age or very young college-age female (since you didn’t happen to mention GRANDMAS or even MOMS in your OP) and that you are just — again — a stupid, spoiled, whining BRAT. Enough said. Yeah, I’m condescending to you because you can’t even care to recall the basic skills your previous ELA teachers granted you, as you are purely unable to demonstrate proper grammar or prose in your stupid posts. But, PLEASE, keep driving around town blaming others for your own asinine choices — continue using your dumb-phones while driving — and the day you and/or others are injured or killed by your own ignorance will be the day we know that you finally shut the F up. n
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HOLIDAY COOKIE DISPLAYS Join Spokane chef Ricky Webster to celebrate his participation in Hallmark’s new “Christmas Cookie Matchup” series. The three-class workshop series (this is class one) covers royal icing recipes and techniques, holiday recipes, festive displays, fondant and more. Nov. 21, 6 pm. $125/session. The Blissful Whisk, 1612 N. Barker Rd. (509-242-3189) FALL HARVEST DINNER Taste the abundance of autumn, including panseared pork loin with fig glaze, apple harvest chicken with caramelized onions, oven roasted butternut squash and a special fall risotto. Nov. 21, 6-8 pm. $59. Spokane Community College, 1810 N. Greene St. (279-6030) TASTEFUL THURSDAYS The series highlights local beer brewers, winemakers and artisans who meet the public while offering free samples, gift ideas and information about their goods. First three Thursdays of Nov. and Dec. from 5-7 pm. Free. Moscow Food Co-op, 121 E. Fifth. moscowfoodcoop.com COFFEE CUPPING A coffee educator leads guests through a tasting exploring how roast affects flavor. Nov. 22, 2 pm. Free. DOMA Coffee, 6240 E. Seltice Way, Post Falls. (208-667-1267) WINE TASTING Featuring sparkling wines from around the world. Includes cheese and crackers. Nov. 22, 3-6:30 pm. $10. Vino! A Wine Shop, 222 S. Washington St. vinowine.com HERB’S CIDER TAP TAKEOVER Nectar hosts craft cider produced by worldrenowned drummer Tim “Herb” Alexander and award-winning cidermaker Chris Weir and featuring 100 percent organic Pacific Northwest fruit. Four ciders are featured, including limited kegs direct from the makers. Nov. 23, 7-11 pm. Nectar Wine & Beer, 1331 W. Summit Parkway. bit.ly/2KABIuB GREEN BLUFF PANCAKE BREAKFAST An all-you-can-eat meal of pancakes, sausage, eggs and morning beverages. Nov. 24, 8-11 am. $3.50-$5; cash/check. Green Bluff Grange, 9809 Green Bluff Rd. greenbluffgrowers.com JANE AUSTEN BIRTHDAY TEA Join the local Jane Austen Society in celebrating Jane Austen’s birthday with an elegant tea at Heavenly Special Teas (5012 N. Market). Nov. 24, 1-3 pm. $30/adult; $16/child. bit.ly/359oYmC THANKSGIVING DAY DINNER BUFFET The restaurant’s traditional all-you-caneat holiday buffet is served from 11 am-8 pm, with a holiday dinner menu available from 5-11 pm. Buffet prices: $49.95/ adults; $39.95/seniors (65+); $24.95/ ages 5-12; free/ages 4 and under. Nov. 28, 11 am-11 pm. Max at Mirabeau, 1100 N. Sullivan. maxatmirabeau.com THANKSGIVING DAY FEAST A grand buffet with all the classics: turkey, ham, mashed potatoes and more, with views of the lake during dinner. Nov. 28. Dockside Restaurant, 115 S. Second St., Coeur d’Alene Resort, Lobby Floor. docksidecda.com (855-379-5478)
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NEW DIRECTIONS Featuring the NIC Jazz Ensemble under the direction of Bryan Hannaford with the Cardinal Voices, under the direction of Max Mendez. Nov. 21, 7:30 pm. Free. Schuler Performing Arts Center, 1000 W. Garden
Ave. (209-769-3424) SFCC JAZZ PRESENTS: THE ROXY COSS QUINTET Winner of a 2016 ASCAP Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Award, the Downbeat Critics’ Poll listed Coss as a “rising star.” Nov. 22, 7:30 pm. $12-$20; SFCC students free. SFCC, 3410 W. Fort George Wright Dr. sfccjazz.com (533-3500) PORTLAND CELLO PROJECT Portland’s premiere alt-classical group brings a huge, orchestral ensemble to perform a night in homage to Radiohead. Nov. 23, 8 pm. $32-$48. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave. bingcrosbytheater.com (227-7404) SPOKANE SYMPHONY MUSIC & MOVIES: THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS Experience this beloved Tim Burton film on the Fox’s big screen while the Symphony provides the live musical soundtrack. Nov. 23 at 8 pm and Nov. 24 at 3 pm. $20-$103. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. spokanesymphony.org MUSIC CONSERVANCY OF SANDPOINT This popular annual event benefits local youth who wish to study at the school. After the performance, enjoy light appetizers and a no-host wine bar. Nov. 24, 5 pm. $20. Heartwood Center, 615 S. Oak St. sandpointconservancy.ors CIRQUE MUSICA HOLIDAY A production blending the grace and thrills of the world’s greatest cirque performers with music. Nov. 25, 7:30 pm. $35.90$150. First Interstate Center for the Arts, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. inbpac.com EWU ORCHESTRA & CHOIR A “Baroque and Beyond” concert featuring the music of Vivaldi, Corelli and other great composers. Nov. 25, 7:30-9 pm. By donation. Cathedral of Our Lady of Lourdes, 1115 W. Riverside. (359-2241) GONZAGA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FT. BRANNON CHO A winter program conducted by Kevin Hekmatpanah, featuring three spectacular orchestral showpieces; Strauss’ “Overture to Die Fledermaus,” Smetana’s “Three Dances” and Shostakovich’s “Festive Overture.” Nov. 25, 7:30-9 pm. $13-$16. Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center, 211 E. Desmet Ave. (313-6733)
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HEARTHSIDE STORIES Unknown Locals and the Panida Playhouse Players team up for two one-act plays to kick off the holiday season. Nov. 21-23 at 7:30 pm; Nov. 24 at 3:30 pm. $10-$15. Panida Theater, 300 N. First. panida.org JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR With music and lyrics by Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony winners Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, Jesus Christ Superstar is set against the backdrop of events during the final weeks in the life of Jesus Christ. Nov. 20-24; times vary. $52-$100. First Interstate Center for the Arts, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. broadwayspokane.com THIS IS OUR YOUTH In 1982, wealthy, articulate, pot-smoking teenagers who were small children in the ’60s have emerged as young adults in a country that’s rejected everything they were brought up to believe in. Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm through Dec. 8. $13-$25. Spokane Civic Theatre, 1020 N. Howard St. spokanecivictheatre.com URINETOWN THE MUSICAL: Inspired by the works of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, Urinetown is an irreverently hu-
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HOLIDAY POP-UP SERIES Local fiber artist Laurie Ann Greenberg of Roving Goddess is on site with urban fiber art, and Trades of Hope with fair trade goods. Nov. 21, 4-8 pm. Free. Helix Wines, 824 W. Sprague. helixwine.com NORMAN ROCKWELL’S AMERICA This exhibition reviews selected works in chronological order, making the stages of Rockwell’s career recognizable and his images more poignant. Original works give the viewer a chance to see Rockwell’s accomplished technique and superb craftsmanship, which are sometimes overlooked in the more widely seen reproductions of his work. TueSun from 10 am-5 pm; third Thursdays from 10 am-8 pm through Jan. 12. $5$10. The MAC, 2316 W. First. (456-3931) CLOSING RECEPTION: A WHIRLWIND OF COLOR Featuring Conrad Bagley, Pete Canfield and Rowan McCarthy with the assistance of Marcia Dukes. Kids can make a Thanksgiving hand turkey decoration. Nov. 23, 3-7 pm. Free. Object Space, 1818 1/2 E. Sprague.
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MICHAEL GURIAN: THE STONE BOYS The NYT bestselling author reads from his new young adult novel, which tells the story of two boys confronting traumatic pasts. Nov. 21, 7-8:30 pm. Free. Auntie’s, 402 W. Main. (838-0206) RICK REILLY: COMMANDER IN CHEAT: HOW GOLF EXPLAINS TRUMP The screenwriter and author who gained fame as a Sports Illustrated columnist discusses his book about President Trump, a title that’s been recently hidden in the library by an unknown critic. Nov. 21, 7 pm. Free. Coeur d’Alene Public Library, 702 E. Front. cdalibrary.org BROKEN MIC Spokane Poetry Slam’s longest-running, weekly open mic reading series. Wednesdays at 6:30 pm; sign-ups at 6:15 pm. Free. Neato Burrito, 827 W. First. bit.ly/2ZAbugD n
Advice Goddess VICIOUS RECYCLE
I’ve started dating a guy that an estranged friend of mine was engaged to and dumped 25 years ago. She completely broke his heart. She’s been engaged eight times, married five, so I hardly think he was special. But some of my girlfriends think it’s not cool and say I’m breaking “girl code.” Am I betraying her? —In A Quandary
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When you put your old couch out on the curb, you don’t get to make a bunch of restrictions about who can pick it up: “Free sofa!* *Except for that hussy Linda
and her nasty sisters.” It is cruel to take up with a guy who’s just dumped and devastated a friend of yours. But this woman is your ex-friend, and it isn’t like she’s lying in the dark, weeping over a sock he left at her place. In fact, they were engaged 25 years ago, and she dumped him. Yet, here you are, having “girl code” invoked on you. “Girl code,” like “guy code,” is a deterrent to would-be mate poachers, powered by peer pressure. However, girl code tends to play out differently from guy code. Psychologist Joyce Benenson, who researches evolved sex differences, finds that males, from early childhood on, are verbally and physically direct with one another in a way girls and women are not: “Bro, that’s my girlfriend you just dissed. You’re gonna need directions to the ER.” Women, on the other hand, are covert competitors, undermining rather than openly attacking their female rivals. Benenson and other researchers believe this strategy evolved so women could avoid physical violence, which could harm their reproductive parts or leave them incapable of fulfilling their role as their children’s primary caretaker. Women instead use sabotaging tactics like informational warfare — the threat of reputation-destroying gossip — and social exclusion. Referencing “girl code” is part of this, revving up a woman’s fears of being ostracized and creating a virtual moat around a man. Unlike in the male world of “Fight Club,” where the rules are clear — ”The first rule of fight club is you do not talk about fight club” — the rules of girl code are nebulous, unspoken. Because women compete in sneaky and undermining ways, this nebulousness makes potential transgressions of girl code more dangerous and powerful. So in deciding whether to continue with this guy, you should understand that there could be real costs for you for being thought to have violated girl code. Can you weather those costs? Is it worth it to continue with this guy? Focus not on what’s fair but on what’s realistic. Some women will talk trash about you — and never mind the fact that the guy was dumped decades ago by a woman who swaps out her husbands more often than most of us replace the kitchen sponge.
DRIVING MISS CRAZY
I’m a 32-year-old woman, and I went on one date with a guy I’d been talking to online. We have texted some since our date but haven’t made solid plans to hang again. Basically, he’ll text me and we’ll chat, and then I won’t hear from him for a week. The waiting is making me really obsessive. I find myself constantly wanting to text him. I know I shouldn’t chase him, but the urge is so strong. What’s going on? —Disturbed Sometimes, when two people get engaged, the intended groom is the last to know. The guy asks you, “So, whatcha up to Saturday? Wanna grab a coffee?” And you’re like, “I thought we’d have an afternoon wedding. But coffee’s fine, too.” It should help to understand that this sort of crazy — the intense desire to text him — doesn’t come out of some magical, vine-covered mental love fountain within you. In fact, there’s nothing romantic about it. It’s just the mechanics of our human motivational system, which works like a machine. Russian psychologist and psychiatrist Bluma Zeigarnik discovered that just as pressure in a machine builds up and needs to be released, tasks we’ve left incomplete seem to cause emotional tension -- seriously uncomfortable feelings, a sort of mental itching. This motivates us to do the thing we’ve left undone so we can stop feeling so unsettled. So, sure, you like the guy, but one date in, you’re dying to text him not because he’s “the one” but because you’re suffering through what I like to describe as the emotional version of a really bad need to pee. Reminding yourself that it’s just psychological hydraulics might help you weather the discomfort of not texting and then be all cool when the guy eventually calls: “Jason? Jason who? ... Oh, right! Heyyy! Hold on a sec,” you say, as you descend the ladder and put down the glue roller you’ve been using to wallpaper your bedroom ceiling with huge blown-up photos of his face. n ©2018, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. • Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405 or email AdviceAmy@aol.com (www.advicegoddess.com)
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dvocates for legalization of marijuana at the federal level are gaining more and more traction. On Monday, the House Judiciary Committee scheduled a vote for as early as Wednesday this week, Nov. 20, on New York Democratic Rep. Jerrold Nadler’s Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act. The bill would legalize marijuana at the federal level and work to undo much of the damage done by the war on drugs. “Our marijuana laws disproportionately harm individuals and communities of color, leading to convictions that damage job prospects, access to housing, and the ability to vote,” Nadler said in a press release. “Recognizing this, many states have legalized marijuana. It’s now time for us to remove the criminal prohibitions against marijuana at the federal level.” The MORE Act would decriminalize marijuana by removing it from the Controlled Substances Act in a process known as descheduling. Marijuana is currently listed on Schedule I alongside drugs like heroin and LSD. Nadler, along with senator and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, introduced this legislation back in July. Monday’s action by the Judiciary Committee will allow for the legislation to be brought to a vote on the floor of the House. At the time of the announcement the bill had 55 co-sponsors, 54 of whom are Democrats. That level of party-line division should not be a problem in the Democrat-controlled House, but Harris’ bill could face trouble in the Republican-led Senate. A study from the Pew Research Center released
A bill pushed by Rep. Jerrold Nadler and Sen. Kamala Harris would legalize cannabis nationwide. earlier this month showed that 91 percent of American adults support full legalization of marijuana. Even Republicans are now in favor with 55 percent in support, according to the study. The MORE Act, as the name suggests, does more than just decriminalize marijuana. And that’s why support has fallen largely along party lines. The social equity aspects of the bill, such as overturning prior convictions, protecting immigrants who have marijuana charges against them and requiring the Bureau of Labor Statistics to track demographic data on the marijuana industry, are not popular on the right side of the aisle.
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Setup for the extravaganza begins more than eight weeks prior to the official launch of holiday light season on Nov. 29, when more than 3,000 fireworks will light up the night sky over the lake. It takes a team of 20 people eight weeks to install 250 custom-made displays, like the fire-breathing dragon and 70-foot tall tree. Power is provided to the Resort’s 1.5 million holiday lights — roughly 30 bulbs for every man, woman and child in Coeur d’Alene — via 500 power cords. And yet, because the lights are LEDs, power usage is still more energy-efficient than conventional displays.
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Seeing the lights is as simple as heading to the Coeur d’Alene Resort, which is decked out in its holiday finery, inside and out. Listen to carolers in the lobby or wander among displays. Squeeze in a holiday cocktail at Beverly’s or contemplate whether this is the year you finally let the Resort’s award-winning culinary staff take care of the holiday meal. And just when you thought it couldn’t get any better — the lights, the cruises, the VIP packages — the Resort outdoes itself once again with a completely revamped cruise experience. Not only has the Resort added VIP cruiseboarding, it’s upgraded its fleet of cruise ships top-to-bottom. In addition to new décor, all ships feature state-ofthe-art technology, from dish satellite television to integrated laptop and iPad capabilities. The Resort’s contribution to the local economy is equally impressive. Last year, more than 60,000 people hopped aboard the Resort’s North Pole cruises, says Amy VanSickle (Director of Marketing). They’re hoping to top that
this year, as well as increase overnight stay packages, which last year resulted in 1,732 guest stays — all of them potentially shopping, eating and otherwise enjoying the bounty of downtown Coeur d’Alene.
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This year they’re aiming for 2,000 stays, VanSickle says. How about Santa’s Sneak Peek Stay (through Nov. 26 only) starting at $149 and including two North Pole cruise tickets, plus cookies delivered to your room by Santa’s “elves”? Or the Weekday Winter Wonderland, Sundays-Thursdays (Dec. 1-30) starting at $199? Or the family getaway, including $30 breakfast credit and fireside storytime for the kiddos (Nov. 30-Jan. 1) starting at $219? Visit cdaresort.com for more info.
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Upcoming Events Holiday Lighting Ceremony and Parade NOVEMBER 29
There’s no better place to welcome in the most wonderful time of year than Coeur d’Alene. Experience the annual Lighting Ceremony Parade on picturesque downtown Sherman Avenue starting at 5 pm, then watch as the switch is flipped on one of the most magical lighting displays in the country at 6 pm.
Opening Day at Silver Mountain Resort NOVEMBER 29
Wax those skis and tune those boards, Silver Mountain opens for business the day after Thanksgiving! Make sure you check out the new sports shop in the village, as well as the fresh glades off of Bootlegger, Lower Paymaster and Terrible Edith.
Christmas Miracles NOVEMBER 29-DECEMBER 22
Each season, the Coeur d’Alene Resort features a timeless, original, holiday theater production by Ellen Travolta, capturing the spirit of the Christmas season! This year’s production, “Christmas Miracles,” directed by Troy Nickerson, features Ellen and Margaret Travolta, Molly Allen, Abbey Crawford, Jennifer Twitchell and Eugene Jablonsky.
For more events, things to do & places to stay, go to VisitCDA.org
40 NIGHTS. 1.5 MILLION LIGHTS. Stunning fireworks shows on every cruise, every night! Experience the magic on our Journey to the North Pole cruises. Ignite your holiday spirit at The Coeur d’Alene Resort. SANTA’S FAMILY GETAWAY PACKAGES
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November Specials
Thanksgiving
BUFFET
November 28th | 11 am – 7 pm | $29.99 adults
Chef Carved Prime Rib • Sliced Turkey • Honey Smoked Ham Oven Roasted Salmon • Broasted Chicken • Buttermilk Mashed Potatoes Traditional Roasted Sweet Potatoes with Marshmallow Topping Assorted House-Baked Rolls and Bread Assortment of traditional Thanksgiving sides • Full Service Salad Bar Pumpkin, Apple, and Pecan Pie • Ice Cream and Sundae Bar
Featuring our chocolate fountain and dessert bar plus a variety of other entreés and accompaniments.
All discounts and specials listed are available in November 2019, unless specified otherwise. See venues for offer details.
N OV E M B E R O N LY | Tuesday Prime Rib Dinner Buffet
$9.99 per person ($12.99 without Coeur Rewards discount)
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We offer specialized packages for groups from 12 to 1,200 to suit all your needs. For more information, call 1 800-523-2464 x7504 or email us at banquets@cdacasino.com
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