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n a time when our culture seems only to speed up, there is perhaps something comforting, charming even, in America’s ongoing love affair with THE 1980s — that cornball, big-haired, bulge-in-tight-pants decade of yore. Culture writer Dan Nailen, who came of age during this era of Madonna and E.T., explores the staying power of the ’80s in a story this week (page 22) that took him from the casinos of Las Vegas to the pool halls of Spokane Valley. In 2016, the ’80s phenomenon remains big business, as people pony up to travel back to a time when they thought the party might never end.

Such nostalgia was once thought to be a mental disorder, a sign that someone couldn’t cope with the realities of daily life; however, some psychologists now believe that nostalgia increases our optimism about the future.

No wonder that the ’80s remain stuck in our minds. And no surprise, perhaps, that it was the decade that gave rise to the swaggering Donald Trump.

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emember when social media was still a baby? So cute! You could connect with Aunt Esther back in Ohio and even follow every bit of Ashton Kutcher’s day. The dream of the 2000s was alive on social media, where people could right a wrong — like KONY 2012 — and share a great idea — like the Ice Bucket Challenge. What a tool for human progress!

Then social media grew up to become… a bratty adolescent — still charming at times, but oh so contrarian. Celebrities started getting fat-shamed on Twitter, and Facebook veered into TMI territory when you found out that Aunt Esther is kinda racist. It became a place for trolls to lurk, waiting to pounce. The dream of the 2000s turned into a bummer.

Then we held an election, and some of those trolls started impersonating journalists, pumping out fake news reports that were taken as real.

Clickbait like the Pope endorsing Donald Trump was literally too crazy to be true, — and it took off like the Zika virus. The correction that followed? Not so much.

Perhaps one Trump supporter put it best after the election when he said that the choice was between the newspaper article and the comments section. The comments won.

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o we just witnessed the vandalizing of our democracy with this stew of fake news coming from all corners of the internet — some motivated by politics, some by money. In recent weeks, real journalists have been documenting the worst offenders.  During the election, Trump and his team retweeted fake headlines from Prntly.com, a fake-news site. When the Washington Post dug in, it found its proprietor to be one Alex Portelli, an ex-con who told them, “People sign up and write pretty much whatever they want.” And when Google was embarrassed as its top “final election results” search directed readers to a link from a website claiming that Trump won the popular vote, the Post said the source “looks an awful lot like Prntly.”  Social media turns out to be fertile ground for Cold War-style propaganda, the RAND Corporation reports, calling Russian backing of hundreds of fake-news websites “a firehose of falsehood.” RAND linked the behavior to the same tactics deployed to dull international outrage over Crimea and Syria. Meanwhile, many foreign policy experts say that Vladimir Putin has received a four-year pass with Trump’s election.  Then there’s Paul Horner, a supposed Hillary Clinton supporter who told the Washington Post that “I think Trump is in the White House because of me.” Horner comes off as a just-to-seewhat-would-happen doofus, but he also admitted that by sending Facebook links back to his

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anti-Hillary, fake-news websites, with Google ads placed there, he was earning $10,000 a month. “Nobody fact-checks anything anymore,” he said.

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went to the University of Missouri School of Journalism — the first in the world, founded in 1908 by Walter Williams, whose Journalist’s Creed still guides graduates. Three of his tenets are worth a fresh listen:  “I believe that the public journal is a public trust… all connected with it are, to the full measure of their responsibility, trustees for the public…  “…a journalist should write only what he holds in his heart to be true.  “…the supreme test of good journalism is the measure of its public service.”

Consider that phrase — “the public journal.”

Today, 108 years later, that certainly describes Facebook and Twitter — public spaces where the public good is debated and consensus is reached.

I do partially blame Facebook, Google and Twitter. They inserted themselves into the public journal, but they didn’t accept any of the responsibility. Mark Zuckerberg has said that he does not believe Facebook is a media company, and that he doesn’t want to be censor-in-chief.

To be fair, both Google and Facebook have announced reforms to take away the financial incentives that Paul Horner fed off, but that’s not enough. As others have pointed out, Facebook needs a team of human editors to separate the truth from the lies. That’s not censorship. One group of students offered an easy solution: mark every item posing as news as either “verified” or “not verified.”

This falls to all of us to confront — newspaper readers, computer users, iPhone addicts, journalists, educators, elected ofLETTERS ficials. We need Send comments to to be more editor@inlander.com. suspicious about things that don’t sound right. But we need the big boys’ help. Behemoths like Facebook and Google have outsized influence, and like all media companies, they must embrace a higher responsibility than profit.

Here at the Inlander, we have a motto that we think captures this moment: You Are What You Read. If you eat too much junk food, you’re not going to be very healthy. If you consume fake news, you’re not going to be very rational. n

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Incendiary Words THE FLAMES OF FREEDOM

“Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag - if they do, there must be consequences - perhaps loss of citizenship or year in jail!” DONALD TRUMP wrote on Twitter early Tuesday morning.

However, as the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in 1989’s Texas v. Johnson, the values that America represents include the free-speech right to burn the symbol that represents American values.

Antonin Scalia, the conservative justice Trump intends to replace with a like-minded jurist, voted to protect flag burning, despite his revulsion for it.

“If it were up to me, I would put in jail every sandal-wearing, scruffybearded weirdo who burns the American flag,” Scalia said shortly before his death in February. “But I am not king.”

Some observers speculated that Trump was setting up a trap: Inevitably, those protesting Trump will want to show their defiance of his statement by burning flags — the sort of action that could help turn the majority of Americans who despise flag burning against the protestors.

Trump isn’t the first politician who has pushed for restricting flag burning in the years since the Supreme Court’s decision. The Flag Protection Act of 2005 proposed to ban burning the American flag as an act of intimidation or incitement to violence. The bill’s original co-sponsor? Sen. Hillary Clinton, then representing New York. (DANIEL WALTERS)

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Three weeks after DONALD TRUMP became President-elect, at least one thing hasn’t changed: Trump spouting that the election was rigged, despite having no evidence to support his claim.

Trump won the election with more than 300 electoral college votes, but he lost the popular vote by at least 2 million. But according to Trump’s Twitter feed, he did, in fact, win the popular vote — if you don’t count the millions of illegal votes.

Again, by every indication, this is false. There’s no evidence to support his claim. But that didn’t stop Trump from bashing reporters after they found no evidence to support his false claim; in other words, when they failed to prove a negative. Trump retweeted a 16-year-old Oakland Raiders fan who told Jeff Zeleny, a CNN senior Washington correspondent, that he had “no sufficient evidence that Donald Trump did not suffer from voter fraud, shame!” Trump then added, “Bad reporter.”

Trump’s remarks come as Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein and the Clinton campaign have pushed for a recount in three swing states — Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. But even after winning, Trump is the one claiming that the election was rigged against him, and challenging the media to prove him right. (WILSON CRISCIONE)

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This Isn’t Normal America has gone down this road before, and it’s a dead end

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n February 1942, shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered 120,000 Japanese Americans to register for internment camps, contained by barbed wires and armed guards.

During this time, it became normal for patriotism to turn into anger and resentment.

At a Washington, D.C., memorial dedicated to one of the worst chapters in American history, these words are carved in stone: “The lessons learned must remain as a grave reminder of what we must not allow to happen again to any group.”

More than two-thirds of those sent to the internment camps were U.S. citizens. We want to think it can’t happen again — but with dangerous patterns emerging as Donald Trump prepares to take office, there’s hardly anything that can’t happen. So when Carl Higbie, spokesman for the pro-Trump Great American PAC, cited internment camps during a Fox News interview as the basis for creating a registry for Muslim immigrants, the backlash felt insignificant. Trump apologists struggled to explain the inexplicable, but what seems so terrible now seemed normal, because most ignored the racist underpinnings.

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Normalizers can be Republicans and Democrats. Normalizers don’t call out a friend who posts a hyperpartisan fake news story. Normalizers can swing an election.

They root for Trump to succeed so the country as a whole can as well, but they ignore those made to live in fear. A normalizer tells an undocumented immigrant student who is legally able to attend Eastern Washington University — a “Dreamer” — not to worry about deportation. They tell a Medicaid patient seeking birth control not to worry about cuts to her health care.

The normalizers hold media power, too. They run headlines like “Trump claims that millions voted illegally” — missing the key word “falsely,” since his claim is baseless. The normalizers live in post-election paralysis by analysis, spending more time theorizing why Hillary Clinton lost (she didn’t) or how Bernie Sanders could’ve won (he couldn’t), thus downplaying the tragic consequences of Trump’s ascendancy to power. The normalizers report on Trump’s “policy” pronouncements, such as building a border wall, as if it was another politician talking about a highway bill. It’s the acceptance of the term “alt-right,” when really, this is just another way to rebrand white supremacy — another tool of normalization.

They normalize the worst, most hateful impulses of our country, until it’s too late.

If you’ve lived your life on the sidelines, or if you voted for Trump because you’re upset about the economy, and you’re still with me, thank you for reading.

I hope you can listen and empathize. I’ll do the same. But you need to speak out.

What this election really meant is that if you value love and justice, it’s time to fight. Hate has long been alive and well in our country, but Trump legitimized a dangerous subset of people who believe that people of color and/or immigrants are a threat — that they are “the other,” that they are un-American, along with other groups whose rights are on the table, including women and the LGBTQ community. Their human rights are portrayed as less-than.

This is my president; I accept that. But I know that this is not what it means to live in America in 2016. The only way our country moves backward — that blatant and institutionalized discrimination becomes our new normal — is if you don’t promise to fight for policies that protect the rights of all people.

Author, journalist and feminist icon Gloria Steinem put it best: “I feel as if this is a vote against the future, and the future is going to happen anyway.” Looking back now, there’s no time to wait to see what happens next. n Paul Dillon, a Center for Justice board member, manages public affairs for Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington and North Idaho.

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for president, who turns out to have played the spoiler role and given us Der Trump? The Clintonite establishment of the Democratic Party cheated their party of a likely victory by a popular and winning candidate, Bernie Sanders.

Now, how do we prepare for what looms as a fascist era? The signs are clear. The armed thugs in Oregon who ran federal employees off of their wildlife refuge worksite were exonerated. The Native Americans in North Dakota peacefully defending their water from pollution by a pipeline relocated LETTERS away from Caucasian communities Send comments to are shot, hosed, and dog-bitten by editor@inlander.com. armed thugs in police and private security details. The fanatic right-wing appointments to Trump’s cabinet confirm that these stories are bad omens for our dark future.

The silence of Democratic leaders on Standing Rock is rooted in their being owned by the same energy companies as the Republicans. Obama should nationalize the local state guard and stop the violence, just as Eisenhower did years ago in Arkansas.

Throughout my lifetime the Democratic Party has proven hopeless and un-reformable. Progressives need their own party. The Greens welcome you.

MORTON ALEXANDER Spokane, Washington

In response to a blog post on the 20th anniversary of Ice Storm ’96, readers share their own memories of the historic weather event:

LINDA J. LEHMAN: I have so many memories of ice storm! My kids were little but many of our neighbors at the time were quite elderly. Luckily, we had power back quickly. Fireplace helped!!

MJ NODUH: My son was 2 and my daughter 3 weeks old when this happened. We went without power or heat for 5 days. Thank goodness for friends, family, and wood stoves!

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Had a house full of kids because our house had the only wood stove on the block.

LIZ BROENNEKE: How is it even possible that this was 20 years ago?!

MARGO M. CALDWELL: I was new to Spokane and living in camper, near the Lamppost… urban camping at its best… drinking espresso.

KERRIE BERNECKER: I remember living in the River Falls Tower and people were sleeping in our hallways because we had power. Great community!

MICHELLE HARMON: Wow! Already 20 years? I remember not having power at the GU dorms my freshman year of college.

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IMMIGRATION

In Defense of Refugees In the aftermath of the presidential election, local residents seek ways to love and support their refugee friends

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ytan Faris’ eyes grow red, and she clutches her hands to her mouth as her husband Khalil Omar talks about the mortars that shelled Damascus a few years ago. Faris talks about how the shells killed her sister-in-law and left her niece with shrapnel in her legs.

Omar speaks of how they fled Damascus to a smaller town in northern Syria. He talks about how hard it was to take care of their children — three of their four kids are deaf — amid civil war.

“We did not have work,” Omar says. “It was very difficult to survive there. There isn’t any kind of medical treatment.”

Their native language is Kurdish, but they speak Arabic to the translator.

Omar talks about how his family legally moved to

Turkey, where he spent two years working 12 hours a day at a hotel laundry, in order to barely afford two moldy bedrooms for their family of six.

Then, finally, their fortunes changed: They were among the thousands of Syrian refugees the United States took in this year.

They arrived in Spokane in May, the same month that Donald Trump rallied enough delegates to win the Republican nomination.

Trump, of course, has ridden — and even led — a wave of anti-refugee sentiment. Where his opponent in the general election had promised to dramatically expand the number of Syrian refugees taken in, Trump proclaimed that the influx of Syrian refugees was a “great Trojan horse” for terrorist attacks. He blamed refugees,

sometimes falsely and recklessly, for violence. He has proposed banning Muslims from entering the United States and suspending immigration from “terror prone” regions.

And at one New Hampshire rally, he’d proclaimed, “I’m putting the people on notice that are coming here from Syria as part of a mass migration, that if I win, they are going back.”

And then, last month, Trump got elected.

In Spokane, Trump’s victory sent a shock wave across refugee communities and the organizations who serve them. In the weeks since, Spokane residents have been searching for ways — both large and small — to stand by refugees, including their friends and neighbors, ...continued on next page

Aytan Faris, a refugee from Syria, is grateful for the support she’s found in Spokane.

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NEWS | IMMIGRATION an advocacy group, says they’ve seen a surge in new Facebook followers after the election. People to show them that they will continue loving have been calling, asking how they can help. them, supporting them and defending them.

Already, ideas are cropping up. The Spokane Regional ESOL Consortium, a group of teachers of English for speakers of another language, met Luisa Orellana arrived to teach at the Adult the week after the election to brainstorm. This Education Center and Ferris High School on the Saturday, they’re holding a fair at Rogers High morning after the election, to find her refugee School, aimed at connecting refugees and other students waiting outside the door for her. They non-native English speakers with the resources were terrified. they need. Meuer says that they’ve invited some “Students were scared. Some were crying,” local legal experts to put together a “civil-rights Orellana says. “They were worried they would road show” aimed at informing refugees and have to go back, because they had no home.” other immigrants of their rights.

Yet Bondarenko says that activists know there are some questions they can’t answer. Trump’s policy statements have oscillated wildly, but it looks like, at a minimum, the hope refugees had that their family members still in war-torn countries would someday be able to join them has been dashed. She describes a sort of foggy hopelessness obscuring — TRISH STAUFFER of Spokane, the future. think we’re all just on her opposition to persecuting refugees very“Iconfused.

We’re holding our breath and She tells them she’s been there, that she’s we just don’t know,” Bondarenko says. “The known how it feels to be afraid. She’d fled the uncertainty, that just kills you. That’s where a lot civil war in El Salvador with her family back in of refugees are.” the 1980s, crossing the border illegally. A network of Christian churches in Spokane protected When Omar and Faris talk about America, they her until a priest helped her get political asylum. don’t say that they’re worried about Donald And now, she makes her students a promise.

Trump. Instead, they emphasize how fortunate “We will not let anything happen to you,” they feel. They miss their family members still in she vows. “I would honestly give my life for my Syria — the borders are closed, they say, so they students if it came to it.” don’t think they’re going to get out.

These moments occurred in language schools But in Spokane, they’ve found generosity. and refugee advocacy organizations all across the They’ve been able to get new hearing aids for region. Omar says that the English instructors at their kids. They have a place of their own — they the Adult Education Center pulled him together live in the apartment below a Nepalese refugee with the other refugee students on the morning family. It’s safe here. after the election.

“We don’t want much, other than to live “They ask for this meeting so that they can safely and to have our children in a safe place,” assure us,” Omar says. He hasn’t been following Omar says. “We’re really happy.” the news closely, and says he doesn’t know much But Areej, who is translating our conversaabout Trump, but others do. Refugee students tion, says that during her work with the Family who are more skilled in English are able to anRegistration and Orientation Center, many refuswer questions for those who aren’t. gees have expressed deep fears to her that they “The classrooms have been the first line wouldn’t express publicly. Worried about her of defense for processing emotions and fears,” safety, and the safety of her family back in Iraq, says Erin Meuer, Orellana’s colleague. “We’re Areej requested that her last name not be used. constantly saying, ‘This is what you need to tell Areej says many people like her, who’ve lived your kids.’ Telling kids, ‘This is what you need to under dictators, have learned to be cautious with tell your parents.’” their words. They don’t speak frankly about There are points they hit on: Nothing is politics in public. going to change immediately. There are agencies After Trump’s election, she says, Muslim here that can protect them. They’re all in this women like her have been considering removing together. Refugees, after all, have learned to be their religious headscarves — the hijab — because resilient. it will make them less identifiable as Muslim. But “A lot of people seem to calm down when that’s a concession Areej says she’s unwilling to they hear from their colleagues and classmates,” make, no matter the consequences.

Meuer says. “That unity is really helping.”

“I’m not going to change because of hatred Refugee resettlement agency World Relief that is spreading,” Areej says. has seen an increase locally in donations and She says her friends, on both sides of the offers to help gather supplies for refugees. Anna political spectrum, have sent her texts expressing Bondarenko, director of Refugee Connections,

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“I am a church-going, Bible-believing, hands-and-feet-ofChrist Christian,” says Stauffer. “I have three people who make me a daughter of the American Revolution. My family has been here since 1720.”

Four days after the election, Stauffer went to Fred Meyer — they have the best scarf selection, Areej told her — and picked out a hijab for herself. Stauffer says that some of her fellow parishioners at her Christian church have been skeptical of her choice to wear a hijab, but mostly they understand: It’s a statement of solidarity, and an opportunity for conversation.

She points to the historical trend of one minority group or another becoming the “whipping boy” for extremists.

“I won’t participate in it,” she says. “As an American and a Christian, it’s my duty to challenge it.”

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Stay-at-home mom Vanessa Judd says the note appeared on the door of the Sudanese refugee family shortly after the election.

She says it was a torn-out sheet of college-ruled notebook paper Scotch-taped to the door, with just three words, crudely scrawled: “Go Home, N---ers.”

She knew the family because her son was in the same sixth-grade class at Wilson Elementary School with one refugee family’s sons. This family had lived in a refugee camp in Ethiopia for seven years before coming to Spokane, Judd says. For the past year, Judd and four other moms — including Spokane Regional Health District spokeswoman Kim Papich — had been helping out the family. They visit often. When the Sudanese family’s mom gave birth at the end of October, they brought meals for two weeks.

And this note, Judd says, made her sick to her stomach. She tore it off the door, hid it in her purse, and says she threw it away in a trash can at a nearby 7-Eleven. She says she wanted to protect the family from ever seeing it. She wanted to pretend it never happened.

Papich and Judd say they later went back to dig through the garbage can at the 7-Eleven to find the note, but couldn’t. Without that evidence, she knows, she can only ask people to believe her.

She doesn’t know who wrote the note, or why. For her, it just highlighted how necessary their outreach was. Her group ramped up their campaign of small acts of love.

The group of moms brought over winter clothes for the family this week. Judd offered to drive the oldest refugee son and LETTERS his girlfriend on a date to see Send comments to Moana. editor@inlander.com.

“At first, after the election you feel so powerless that you can’t do anything,” Judd says. “But I can control what I can do to respond to this.”

Elsewhere, there are different sorts of notes being written to refugees. Three local Christian churches — The Porch, Salem Lutheran and Branches — have been writing notes of support and encouragement. There are around 500 notes, filled with phrases like: “This city is better because of your presence. Please do not lose heart.”

“It is okay to feel afraid, but know that you are not alone. You are never alone.”

“If we meet on the street, I will smile at you and if you want your hand to be held, I will hold it.”

They’ll be hung up in the offices of Global Neighborhood, a job-training nonprofit and employer of local refugees, as a small way Spokane can show refugees that they are loved.

Ultimately, for Omar and Faris, that’s a theme they keep returning to. In Spokane — at least so far — they feel welcome.

“People are friendly. They smile,” Omar says. Areej translates.

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EDUCATION Even though students from middle school to college are often considered more digitally savvy than adults, they may not be any more adept at identifying FAKE NEWS, according to a new Stanford University study.

Stanford researchers collected responses to more than 50 tests administered to nearly 8,000 students from January 2015 through June 2016, finding that students are easily tricked by fake news. College students, the study found, had difficulty evaluating website credibility, while middle school students couldn’t differentiate an ad labeled “sponsored content” from a news story. Sam Wineburg, the report’s lead author, says that the research could help schools develop digital literacy curricula. (WILSON CRISCIONE)

CRIMINAL JUSTICE Transparency is essential to a fair and equitable justice system.

Without knowing how law enforcement officials handle criminal behavior and dole out punishment, the public cannot hold them accountable. The highly secretive, and in some cases unregulated, use of CONFIDENTIAL INFORMANTS perverts that premise (as outlined in our Nov. 17 cover story), experts say. Often, the constitutional rights of those accused of crimes are excused in favor of keeping a confidential source secret. Several reports nationwide have also found examples of police misuse of confidential informants. Cops in New York, for example, have been accused for decades of writing reports with fictitious informants; police in Atlanta tried to cover up their killing of an elderly woman by telling an informant to lie; and officers in Florida sent a 23-year-old, small-time pot dealer to buy cocaine, Ecstasy and a handgun. She was found dead two days later, shot five times with the gun police told her to buy. (MITCH RYALS)

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No License to Kill A task force says officers should be held responsible for police shootings more often; plus, the state auditor clears Spokane Valley’s firing of its city manager FINGER ON THE TRIGGER

A joint legislative task force has voted to recommend changes to the portion of state law protecting police officers who shoot people. In Washington, officers must have acted with “malice” and without a “good faith” belief that USE OF FORCE is justified in order for them to be held criminally responsible. That language makes it nearly impossible to charge cops, even if the officer wrongfully used lethal force, according to a Seattle Times investigation last year.

The group of activists, attorneys and state legislators voted 26 to 14 on Nov. 21 to recommend removal of that language.

“I think there is overwhelming support that malice is an unreasonably high barrier, but what are we going to put in its place?” says Gloria Ochoa-Bruck, a local task force member representing the state Commission on Hispanic Affairs. “That’s where we have to be very careful that the law is equitable for holding police accountable for when they act recklessly, but also to protect them when they’re doing their job.”

The task force recommended, in part, replacing “malice” and “good faith” with an objective standard — would a reasonable officer have acted similarly?

Ochoa-Bruck, a city of Spokane employee and former

prosecutor, added that law enforcement representatives almost uniformly opposed removing the language. Instead, they proposed more funding for training and data collection, some of which were also approved.

The task force’s recommendations will be forwarded to lawmakers and Gov. Jay Inslee, and face an uncertain fate, with a Democratic-controlled House and Republican-controlled Senate.

In previous discussions with the Inlander, Spokane County Prosecutor Larry Haskell declined to say definitively if he supported removing both the “malice” and “good faith” standards. However, he did say, “My concern about removing those requirements is: ‘Will police officers now hesitate?’ We already kind of see they’re not trigger-happy.”

Other recommendations include more funding for police training that emphasizes de-escalation, and to equip officers with less lethal weapons. (MITCH RYALS)

‘NOT INAPPROPRIATE’

The sudden firing of former SPOKANE VALLEY City Manager Mike Jackson in February raised at least two questions. Did the city council majority make the decision illegally outside of a public meeting? Did they pay Jackson too much to keep him silent about what

transpired?

Those questions were posed to the Washington State Auditor’s Office by nearly a dozen citizens. Nine months later, the office returned the findings of their investigation into the allegations, clearing the council of any wrongdoing.

That’s hard to believe for some of the people who filed the complaints, including Dean Grafos, a former councilman who resigned in part because of the majority’s decision to oust Jackson.

“I’m very disappointed that the state of Washington failed, or chose not to recognize, the spirit of the law in regard to the secretive, serial meetings and disrespect by the council for the citizens of Spokane Valley and their tax dollars,” Grafos says.

The auditor’s office, in a letter to new city manager Mark Calhoun, said that it noted “at least 14 instances” where there was communication between a quorum of board members outside of public meetings. But while many thought those types of instances would be considered a violation of the state’s Open Public Meetings Act, the auditor’s office considered them a “passive receipt of information.” That means information shared in a quorum is not actually discussed or responded to, says audit manager Brad White.

Responding to the allegation that the city council paid Jackson $320,000 more than they should have so he could leave quietly, the auditor’s office concluded that the main reason for the larger payment was due to negotiations that allowed Jackson to be paid 18 months of salary and his entire sick-leave balance.

Grafos also argued that the city council majority illegally diverted $270,000 in community development block grant funds to other governmental entities. But the auditor’s office says that the transfer of funds was “not inappropriate.” (WILSON CRISCIONE)

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Trumped-up Education Could the President-elect’s support of school choice trickle down to Spokane?

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or Lily Eskelsen García, the president of the nation’s largest teachers union, schools like Rogers High School can teach the country a lesson.

“We’re always looking for a story about a school that’s doing something creative, that’s doing something real,” says García, president of the National Education Association.

Rogers is one of those stories, says García. She says it’s an example of how education can be reformed

without opening a new charter school, and without the government either dangling some reward for high performance or threatening punishment. Instead, she says, Rogers has “humanized” education by building relationships with students and creating an environment where they want to succeed.

On a chilly November day a couple of weeks ago, García visited Spokane for the first time. She had heard about the rapid improvement in Rogers’ graduation rate

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Schools like this, García says, should be where public dollars for education are invested. But she fears that won’t be the case under President-elect Donald Trump, who on the campaign trail proposed a $20 billion national school voucher program, which would pay

students to attend a private school instead of a public school. And a week after García visited Spokane, Betsy DeVos, a supporter of vouchers and of charter schools, became Trump’s pick for education secretary.

DeVos’ nomination has magnified the national debate over school choice. And with Washington in the midst of a judicial battle over the existence of charter schools, García, along with local education leaders, is wondering how possible changes aimed at privatizing education would translate to public education both nationally and locally.

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ouchers are only legal in 13 states. But Jenny Rose, Spokane Education Association president, says she would be worried if the federal government somehow navigated around Washington state law to mandate that the state distribute vouchers.

“That’s our taxpayer dollars going to private schools, where there’s no regulation,” Rose says.

García says the issue with vouchers is that they could take away money from other vital educational programs, including funding for poorer schools, English language learners or special education.

“We are worried to death that [the Trump administration] is about to dismantle special education,” García says.

DeVos, a pro-charter-school advocate in Michigan, helped craft the state’s charter-school policy. The results there have been mixed. Detroit has the second largest share of students attending charter schools in the country, and critics say Detroit’s high number of for-profit charter schools, coupled with a diminishing number of students overall, has created a chaotic environment for families competing to get children into top schools, while other schools have been forced to shut down. Reading and math test scores in Detroit have been among the worst for any big city in the nation. Charter advocates, however, point out that students in Michigan charter schools have made larger learning gains in reading and math than students in Michigan public schools, according to a 2013 study by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes.

García has criticized for-profit charters. She says the NEA is studying the impact of charter schools and whether there are any that improve the system.

“You could open up a charter school across the street,” García says. “But at what expense to Rogers High School?”

However, the charter-school discussion in Washington, and especially in Spokane, is much different. A limited number of charter schools are legal in Washington, although unions are currently challenging that legality in court. Washington’s charterschool law only allows a limited number in the state, and the law does not allow for-profit charters.

Washington State Charter Schools Association CEO Tom Franta says that García has “perpetuated a number of myths that don’t exist in Washington.” He says that Spokane Public Schools, the only district in Washington to authorize its two charter schools, can be a model for the country.

“All [Washington charter] schools are run by nonprofit entities,” Franta says. “These are absolutely public schools, and absolutely serving public school students.”

Travis Franklin, who started Spokane International Academy, one of the city’s two charter schools, says that money for charter schools follows students, rather than taking away from public schools. Spokane International Academy, about 10 blocks from Rogers, offers an approach to education that he says can’t be found anywhere else in the area.

Franklin says that he wouldn’t be in favor of an “outright expansion” of charter schools, claiming he would rather see an approach that ensures there are quality schools for students in Spokane and across the nation.

But he’s still trying to determine how Trump’s presidency may change education policy.

“I think I’m like most people, trying to figure it out,” Franklin says. “I would like to see a plan, or at least an understanding of what they’re going to do.” n

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Hitting the Wall Why it seems like hate crimes are on the rise, and why it’s so difficult to catch the perpetrators

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here is no video evidence, or DNA. There are no fingerprints or physical evidence left behind.

And there are no known witnesses who saw the person or people who scrawled “N---er” in bright red paint on the side of the Martin Luther King Jr. Family Outreach Center.

The word, visible from a children’s playground, is one so steeped in racial hatred that dozens of community members and leaders gathered on Nov. 15, exactly one week after the election, to take turns painting over it.

Spokane police are investigating the incident as a felony under the state’s hate crime statute. A police captain, a detective and patrol officers went door to door looking for witnesses when the graffiti was first reported. They even checked dumpsters and trash cans for a spray-paint can, hoping to find fingerprints, SPD Lt. Dave McCabe says, with no success. Left with few other options, SPD is now offering a cash reward for anonymous tips that lead to an arrest.

But without any new information, it looks like the investigation has hit a wall, drawing frustration and outrage from law enforcement, elected officials and the community.

“Generally on these cases, it can be very difficult without [witnesses or crime scene evidence],” says SPD Capt. Dave Singley, who oversees investigations. “But there are other ways to obtain evidence, such as information from folks who call and leave a tip.”

As similar incidents locally and nationally have flashed into the public’s view in the past month, community members and police look for answers: Are hate crimes actually on the rise after the election? And how do you solve a crime for which there is no evidence?

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hroughout the divisive presidential campaign and in the time since, President-elect Donald Trump espoused policies that would prevent Muslims from entering the country, promised to deport millions of undocumented immigrants and assembled a team that included advisers who’d been accused of making racist statements.

While Spokane police received at least two reports of hate crimes within the past month, the Southern Poverty Law Center tallied 867 incidents nationwide between Nov. 9 and 18. SPLC researchers used tips to the their website and news reports to come up with the final number, and though they eliminated a few apparent hoaxes, not every incident could be confirmed.

According to the SPLC report, the majority of these incidents are anti-immigrant and almost 40 percent happened in school settings.

“I’ve worked here for 29 years, and have seen a lot of stuff come and go, especially in the ’80s and ’90s, when Richard Butler and his group were instigating hate,” says Raymond Reyes, Associate Academic Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer at Gonzaga University. “But with what has happened for the week after the election, some of our international students and students of different social identities are obviously shaken and afraid.”

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“With what has happened for the week after the election, some of our international students and students of different social identities are obviously shaken and afraid.”

— RAYMOND REYES, Chief Diversity Officer at Gonzaga University graphed graffiti painted on the side of their home that read: “Can’t Stump the Trump Mexicans,” accompanied by a swastika.

Two days after the election, John Kraus, a student at Washington State University in Pullman, reported that homophobic slurs — “Faggot!” “Die Fag” — had been smeared in red paint on his car.

“To all this is what Donald Trumps America looks like,” Kraus wrote on Facebook. “I have no fear in the face of hate! And to the coward who did this, history will not remember you kindly.”

By the end of November, the post had been shared more than 8,000 times.

Police in Pullman are investigating the incident as a hate crime; however, Spokane police were unable to say whether the graffiti in the Logan Neighborhood qualified as such by press time.

Other reports of hateful acts have circulated on social media and by word of mouth, but have not necessarily been reported to police. Together, these official and unofficial reports represent the problems with solving hate crimes.

A discrepancy in FBI statistics for hate crimes in 2013 and a U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics report from the same year indicate that a vast majority of hate crimes are not reported to police. Local and state law enforcement agencies told the FBI that 5,928 incidents were reported, while the BJS report estimates that number is nearly 260,000.

In the weeks following the apparent hate crimes in Spokane, police encouraged the public to report every incident.

“This information is vitally important for us to determine trends of what’s going on and who is responsible,” SPD Asst. Chief Justin Lundgren says. “Reporting is the only way that we’re going to get to the bottom of anything going on in the community. You are our eyes and ears.”

For hate crimes that are reported to police, there is often little evidence. About one-third of hate crimes reported to police in 2015 are crimes against property, with potentially little or no contact between an offender and a victim, according to the FBI. Then, holding a person responsible for an alleged

hate crime is difficult. According to data on federal hate crime convictions, prosecutors declined to pursue charges in 235 out of 270 cases, or 87 percent of the time.

Notably, Idaho has sent 14 cases to the federal courts since 2010, the second most of any district. Only two were prosecuted, and neither resulted in convictions. The Eastern District of Washington referred three cases; none were prosecuted.

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t’s impossible to know for sure whether hate crimes have actually spiked since Trump was elected, or if the spike is the result of more people reporting these incidents. However, the 5,850 hate crimes reported to the FBI in 2015 represents a 6 percent increase from the previous year.

“There’s a sense that there’s an increase,” says James Mohr, Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs at Washington State University in Spokane. “Yet we have to realize that these things were happening in our community even before the election.”

Last week, scores of people, including local and statelevel elected officials, showed up for a press conference held by the Spokane County Human Rights Task Force.

Dean Lynch, the group’s president, announced several new efforts to address the hateful acts, including a new tracking mechanism similar to the one set up in Kootenai County.

Gonzaga University’s Institute for Hate Studies is also hosting a conference on Dec. 3. The evening will feature group discussions directed toward fostering a better understanding of others.

“It’s about trying to interrupt the intergenerational attitudes that result in acts of hate,” says Reyes, who helped establish the Institute for Hate Studies. “It’s trying to educate people and practicing emotional intelligence and cultural competence to challenge assumptions about what people know about others.” n The “Good Neighbor Conference: Addressing Hate Through Advocacy and Action,” hosted by Gonzaga University, the Spokane Interfaith Council, Spokane Faith & Values and the Spokane County Human Rights Task Force, takes place Dec. 3 from 6-9 pm at GU’s Jepson Center.

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From Twin Peaks to the darkest reaches of our galaxy, there’s a new book for everyone on your list

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BY TIM LAPETINO Back in my day, we didn’t need any fancy VR goggles or motion-capture wands to play video games. We had two joysticks and a console with a little futuristic logo on it — “Atari.” With home versions of some of the titles you normally had to shell out quarter after quarter to play at your local pizza joint, it opened a new frontier we’re still exploring. With epic games in their catalog like Asteroids, Centipede and Missile Command, America was hooked. Like most kids, graphic designer Tim Lapetino was taken in by the games, for sure, but it was the artwork he loved most. Somehow, he tracked down a treasure trove of the original artwork used for marketing and on product packaging, and he has reproduced it in a coffee-table book that’s sure to hook your friends — when they’re not playing your PS4, that is. It’s cool, retro stuff, sprinkled with profiles and interviews with some of the key figures in the history of the brand, which dates back to 1972. (TSM)

THUNDER BOY JR.

BY SHERMAN ALEXIE AND YUYI MORALES Sherman Alexie’s first children’s book — the tale of a young Native American boy who’s named after his father, Big Thunder, but wants an identity of his own — does not disappoint. Alexie’s gift for witty, muscular prose makes a successful jump to the picture-book format, and the art by Yuyi Morales is full of gorgeous colors and ebullient, larger-than-life lines. The fact that the book is both a tender father-son story and an elaborate fart joke is just gravy on an already winning picture-book package. (SB)

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BY J.A. HAZELEY AND J.P. MORRIS The best import to come out of the UK in some time, The Fireside Grown-Up Guide to the Hangover mimics the distinctive mid-century look of the Ladybird guides for children. With the inarguable claim that “the world is just as confusing to a forty-yearold as it is to a four-year-old,” the Grown-Up Guide endeavors to help readers who are old enough to know better with such sage advice as “there is no cure for the hangover, but it can be treated with a strong cup of coffee and a couple of fried breakfasts.”

Other helpful Grown-Up Guides include “Mindfulness” and “The Husband.” (SB)

BAD LITTLE CHILDREN’S BOOKS

BY ARTHUR C. GACKLEY In a similar vein, Bad Little Children’s Books could pass for a Little Golden book right down to the vintage-y cover art and gold-foiled spine. However, you’re not going to want to leave this laying around where a small child can get to it; I cannot stress enough how not safe for work, children or easily offended people this book is. Open it and see: From the vehicular joys of “Things That Maim” to the common-sense wisdom of “Don’t Lick The Stripper Pole,” to the business truth of “Flowers Are Very Pretty (But We’d Make More Money Growing Pot),” there’s a wonderfully horrible tweaked book cover in here for everyone. (SB)

THE UNDOING PROJECT

BY MICHAEL LEWIS Is it me, or is Michael Lewis playing a little game with Hollywood?

He writes cerebral books that there’s no way would ever make good movies, and then — boom! — Hollywood does it anyway. Both The Blind Side and Moneyball took some imagination to translate to the big screen, but both made great films. With The Big Short, it seemed he won — no way they’d adapt that one about hedge funds. But Hollywood did it anyway. This year he has another try, about two obscure Israelis who helped enable the kind of big data algorithms that fueled the stat nerds in Moneyball and The Big Short.

Forty years ago, Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky — a pair of psychologists with vastly different backgrounds — collaborated on a series of economic studies that challenged the assumption that humans know best. If it sounds a tad too high-concept, know this: Michael Lewis hasn’t written a bad book yet. And rumor has it that Brad Pitt and Matt Damon already smell an Oscar and are fighting over who gets to play Amos, because that’s just a really cool name. (TSM)

HILLBILLY ELEGY

BY J.D. VANCE A lot of people have been trying to understand the dynamic in the Rust Belt and the South, in which citizens there seem to vote against their own interests in national elections. This kind of study is fraught with being the kind of flyover journalism that fails to get at the real story while completely succeeding at being condescending. Perhaps that’s why Hillbilly Elegy caused such a stir in recent months. It’s that story, but told in the first person by a man who grew up in that world.

J.D. Vance grew up in Middletown, Ohio, and thanks to a protective grandmother, found a path to becoming a lawyer and writer — four years in the Marines, Ohio State University, then Yale Law School. “Poverty is the family tradition,” he writes; the book’s subtitle calls it “a Culture in Crisis.”

Vance both judges and explains his hometown, and in the process he challenges readers to reconsider their own preconceptions. (TSM)

BISCUIT HEAD: NEW SOUTHERN BISCUITS, BREAKFASTS AND BRUNCH

BY JASON AND CAROLYN ROY Asheville, North Carolina’s Biscuit Head has become the go-to place for big flaky biscuits and delicious Southern staples. In their first cookbook, founders Jason and Carolyn Roy offer up some of the eatery’s most popular recipes, including S’mores Bacon, Fried Green Tomatoes, Sriracha Slaw, Fried Catfish and of course, the Classic Cat Head Biscuit — which gets its name from being roughly the size of an average cat’s head. Top that bad boy with some Marcona Almond Butter or Tomato Sofrito, and you’ll have a breakfast you won’t soon forget. (SB) ...continued on next page

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BY CANDICE MILLARD Most people don’t know much about Winston Churchill’s backstory. How did he rise to power? Sure, he was an aristocrat, the son of Lord Randolph Churchill of the Marlborough line (and a rich American socialite mother, Jennie), but that was never quite grand enough for him. So he went campaigning in the service of Queen Victoria in India and the Sudan. He was also a war correspondent in Cuba, getting up close to the action.

Candice Millard, who wrote about Teddy Roosevelt’s harrowing 1912 trip to the Amazon Basin in The River of Doubt, focuses here on Churchill’s efforts to earn the accolades that would make him Hero of the Empire. In the Second Boer War in South Africa, Churchill was a bit of a dandy, traveling to the front lines with a valet and a movable wine cellar. Still, he managed to get captured and then escape, spending nine days on the run, only to finally win those big, heroic headlines upon his homecoming. A star was born, and then came two world wars and a reputation for courage and resolve so cemented in our culture that there’s a word for it — “Churchillian.” (TSM)

THE ILLUSTRATED COMPENDIUM OF AMAZING ANIMAL FACTS

BY MAJA SÄFSTRÖM Did you know that owls have three sets of eyelids? Or that a panda’s stomach is actually designed to digest meat? Swedish illustrator and architect Maja Säfström shares her favorite representatives of the animal kingdom in spare, black-andwhite drawings that capture the fantastic weirdness of nature while reveling in a sense of childlike wonder. This small, blue-cloth-bound book is the perfect thing for stuffing stockings or leaving out for holiday guests to peruse. (SB)

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BY MARGOT LEE SHETTERLY Space is cool again, what with President Obama talking about a trip to Mars and futurists like Elon Musk making actual plans. On that trajectory, we have Hidden Figures, which tells the story of how the agency that would become NASA did all the math required to chart a course to the future. Starting during World War II, it was not guys with pencil protectors and black glasses, but women. And actually, as this book details, many were African American women — and this was in Hampton Roads, Virginia, in the time of Jim Crow.

Like the Keira Knightley character who helps crack the Enigma machine in The Imitation Game, it turns your notion of who should be good at math on its head. Even though the book is still new, it’s already been filmed as a movie, coming to theaters in January. Its author, Margot Lee Shetterley, has devoted her career to highlighting

the role of women — especially African American women — in the development of NASA, founding The Human Computer Project to share these stories to inspire young people going into STEM careers. (TSM)

WELCOME TO THE UNIVERSE

BY NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON, MICHAEL A. STRAUSS AND J. RICHARD GOTT And if space has you pondering its brightest supernovae and blackest holes, you could turn to Neil deGrasse Tyson, our generation’s Carl Sagan.

This book is co-written with two of his astrophysicist colleagues from Princeton who teach an introductory course with Tyson. The book itself is based on those lectures, with each author tackling their areas of specialty. That class became so popular that it finally moved into the largest lecture hall on the Princeton campus.

Reminiscent of Bill Bryson’s A Short History of Nearly Everything, which somehow brought the technical minutiae of so vast a subject to a popular audience, Welcome to the Universe has that same power. It does, however, challenge the reader a bit more — a basic understanding of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity does help. And while he shares the stage with perhaps more traditional co-authors, Tyson is the star, calling Johannes Kepler “a badass,” ranting about Pluto (is it, or is it not, a planet?) and calculating that there are, perhaps, 100 or so alien civilizations sharing our galaxy. (TSM)

ATLAS OBSCURA: AN EXPLORER’S GUIDE TO THE WORLD’S HIDDEN WONDERS

BY JOSHUA FOER, DYLAN THURAS AND ELLA MORTON When Joshua Foer and Dylan Thuras started the Atlas Obscura in 2009, it was to create a catalog of the world’s most fascinating, far-flung places. In the past seven years it has become an online compendium of thousands of entries, the best of which are profiled in Atlas Obscura: An Explorer’s Guide to the World’s Hidden Wonders. Take a vicarious tour of this cabinet of curiosities, which includes such off-the-beaten path destinations as abandoned sea forts, an amusement park 350 feet below the surface in an old salt mine, and a garden dedicated to poisonous and/or narcotic plants. (SB)

THE SECRET HISTORY OF TWIN PEAKS: A NOVEL

BY MARK FROST With Twin Peaks returning to TV in 2017 (thanks Showtime!), there’s no better time to delve into the town’s labyrinthine history.

Show co-creator Mark Frost blurs the line between fact and fiction to present this “dossier,” which includes “recently discovered” excerpts from Lewis and Clark’s journals, reports of unexplained phenomena, diary entries by the town’s residents, news clippings and more. (SB) 

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A TRIBE CALLED QUEST: WE GOT IT FROM HERE… THANK YOU 4 YOUR SERVICE

Some of the biggest music news of the year came when seminal rap group A Tribe Called Quest announced they’d be releasing their first album in 18 years.

Longtime fans didn’t quite know what to expect from We Got it From Here…

Thank You 4 Your Service ($29.98 on vinyl, which is how you should buy it), considering founding member Phife Dawg (aka Malik Isaac Taylor) died from diabetes complications in March at just 45. Luckily, the album, which the crew is calling their final one, is nothing short of brilliant. We’ve still got Q-Tip, Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Jarobi White laying it down dirty. Of course their music has changed from the albums that made them famous in the early ’90s, but their timeless tunes don’t sound like any other rap album released this year either.

What the Tribe has given us is a gift, one that includes the last tracks Phife Dawg ever recorded. (LAURA JOHNSON)

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COLECRAFT GUITARS

There aren’t many luthiers here in Spokane; we’re lucky to have Eben Cole in our midst. Owner of the Garland District’s Cole Music Co. shop — which specializes in the repair of high-end vintage and boutique guitars, and is chock-full of goodies for the guitar or bass player in your life — for more than a decade, Cole makes electric instruments, amps and pedals he would want to play. Trained in the art of guitar-making by his father, Cole emulates some of the greatest guitars from the past century — electric guitars weren’t invented until the 1930s, but those built in the 1960s and ’70s are often considered the best. There are no automated machines used in the building process, and each instrument takes many hours to complete. Materials are American-made; even the toned wood is sourced from North America to craft a completely unique sound. For prices, inquire directly at colecraftguitars.com. (LJ)

PRINCE SYMBOL CAR DECAL

When Prince passed away in April, the loss was felt deeply throughout the world. His legacy lives on through his music, and through an array of fascinating merchandise perfect for any fan on your list. Remember when the Minnesota musician announced that he had legally changed his name to a symbol, and people started calling him the Artist Formerly Known as Prince?

Now you can get your very own Prince symbol car decal to decorate the back of your vehicle. Sold at the GeekEasy Etsy shop, each handmade sticker is made to order and can come in any color you see fit (we vote for purple) for only $4.99. Don’t let anyone doubt your allegiance to the musical genius. (LJ)

DOVER QUARTET: TRIBUTE

Classical music isn’t all for the older generation. The Dover Quartet — dubbed the young American string quartet of the moment by the New Yorker — finally released its first album after eight years together. The classical group fittingly named the Mozartfilled album Tribute ($16 on CD) in honor of their mentors the Guarneri Quartet, who featured the same works on their debut album 50 years ago. The Dover Quartet, who originally met at Philadelphia’s Curtis Institute of Music, attracted the chamber-music world’s attention in 2013 by capturing all the major prizes at the Banff International String Quartet Competition. Since then, they’ve played nearly every important stage in the country and procured a residency at Northwestern University. The new album is as perfect for those wanting to get into the genre as it is for classical connoisseurs. (LJ)

ZOOTS BY BRANDNEWNOISE

It’s only the size of a couple of decks of cards, but this little gadget is a versatile recording tool that’s easy to use. Handmade by a New York company and based on the African mbira — or thumb piano — Zoots ($90) has six metal tines affixed to a wooden box, and with the push of a button, you can record up to 30 seconds of melody. Toggle a switch and Zoots loops your recording.

Turn the dial and you can shift its pitch up or down. There’s even an output jack for further manipulation. Kids can goof around with it, and adults will surely find fun ways to incorporate Zoots into hobbyist or more serious music-making endeavors. (BEN SALMON)

GOOD CHEER RECORDS FAN CLUB

When Blake Hickman and Mo Troper started Good Cheer Records in 2014, their aim was to document the Northwest’s verdant DIY scene. They’ve done exactly that, and to the surprise of no one who’s paying attention, put out a bunch of great records along the way. If you haven’t heard Little Star, Cool American, Mo Troper, Sabonis or Floating Room, you should do that now. Here’s how: For just $5 annually, join the Good Cheer fan club at goodcheerrecords.bandcamp. com. A single Lincoln gets you downloads of all past and future Good Cheer releases, plus 20 percent off orders. Bump up to $50 and you get all the above plus a cassette per month. Best deal in truly independent rock? Yup. (BS)

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This eight-part series is currently running on PBS stations, but it’s so good, it’s worth having in your personal collection. The basic premise: Making music and singing have been around as long as humans, but the ability to capture those sounds is a relatively new advancement that changed the world in ways we’re still exploring and understanding. Featuring more than 150 interviews with industry giants (including Paul McCartney, Nile Rodgers, Brian Eno, Questlove, Joni Mitchell and more), Soundbreaking is a deep dive on the convergence of human artistry and recording technology, from the concept of the studio as an instrument to the rise of sampling and hip-hop to the future of the music-delivery format. Fascinating stuff. soundbreaking.com (BS)

TRANNY: CONFESSIONS OF PUNK ROCK’S MOST INFAMOUS ANARCHIST SELLOUT

BY LAURA JANE GRACE WITH DAN OZZI Against Me! frontwoman Laura Jane Grace’s life hits all of the rock ’n’ roll biography watermarks: drugs, sex, band infighting, label squabbles, failed relationships and so on. And that’s not even diving into the internal battle that’s become the defining story of the vocal-cord-shredding punk rocker born Tom Gabel: her decades-long, deeply personal and painful struggle with transgender dysphoria before coming out as trans in 2012. In her memoir Tranny, Grace shares the highs and crushing lows of her self-discovery journey in diaristic detail that’s as unflinching, brutal, and blunt as an Against Me! song.

Hell, months before its release, Billboard had already named Tranny one of “The 100 Greatest Music Books of All Time.” This anarcho punk is now a little less mysterious. Auntie’s Bookstore, $28. (SETH SOMMERFELD)

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It’s hard waking up each day knowing we live in a world where Lonely Island’s uproariously funny musical mockumentary Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping was a colossal box office bomb. But now you can get it on DVD for $25. Lampooning the modern pop scene with a vicious silliness, Popstar is an oasis of hilarity for music-loving comedy fans. Following Andy Samberg’s out-of-touch Justin Bieber-esque Conner4Real as he deals with declining fame, strained relationships with the members of his old boy band, and an edgy up-and-coming rapper trying to take his place, the star-packed film parodies everything from Macklemore’s “Same Love” to TMZ to absurd product tie-ins and iPod DJs. With an unrelenting joke density that crams four or five bits into every minute, the best lines will get stuck in your head like a pop song. (SS)

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At this point in the year you might as well lean in to the beautiful side of heartbreak and anguish, and North Carolina singer-songwriter Angel Olsen has long possessed a rip-your-heart-right-out-of-your-chest voice that packs an emotional wallop, tremblingly expressing her lines of lovesick poetry. On her latest album, My Woman ($19), the raw edges of Olsen’s folky rock tunes receive a diamond polish and come out sounding like glimmering pop gems.

Whether begging to cut past the messy parts of romance on the undeniable single “Shut Up Kiss Me” or drowning in gorgeous melancholy on “Give It Up,” this angelic diva croons our collective pain. (SS) 

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Final Fantasy XV

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FINAL FANTASY XV (PS4, XBOX ONE)

I never got weird about Final Fantasy like a lot of people did. But when I asked my ultra-nerd friends why they were so in love with FFXV, the latest installment in the saga, they responded with an incredulous “Why wouldn’t you be?” Their eyes narrowed in suspicion at my obviously subpar nerd cred. After all, who isn’t absolutely white-knuckle excited about more Final Fantasy?

The release of this newest edition was heralded by the release of both an anime web miniseries and a Japanese fantasy film. Both pieces were planned in conjunction with the game, purportedly to develop the story alongside the game.

But we all know the real reason they were made. Anime sings the sweet, lascivious siren’s song that no nerd can resist.

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NINTENDO SWITCH

It’s an integrated home-gaming system. It’s an on-the-go game companion. It’s a tablet with removable controllers. It’s a docking station. It’s a social multiplaying game changer. It does your taxes for you. It sings you lullabies at night.

It’s the Nintendo Switch.

There is good news and bad news about the Nintendo Switch. The good news is that your child/manchild/lady-gamer will be clamoring for this life-changing, earth-rattling development in console technology. Basically, the Switch aims to coalesce mobile gaming platforms with home integration, working toward a seamless transition between both realms.

Also, all the cool kids will have one. By flashing some plastic at Nintendo, you can transform your aforementioned child/manchild/lady-gamer into the quintessential coolest kid. The bad news? It won’t be released until early 2017. So if your giftee is patient and adept with the concept of delayed gratification, settle upon the Nintendo Switch as your gift of choice. If they struggle with the concept of object permanence, move along.

VR HEADSET

What is even more radical and existence-altering than seamlessly integrated mobile and home gaming? Virtual reality. But VR has only recently started to cut the mustard as an acceptable gift for someone you love. In years past, VR has been buggy, poorly supported and more annoying than usable (a gift better suited to a frenemy). VR simply lacked support and development hours. But no longer!

This year, VR can ascend from the realm of “experimental tech” to the elevated utopia of “actually usable tech.” VR games have been developed! There is hope! Rise! Reach for the stars!

The gift? A VR headset, namely an Oculus Rift. This gift is recommended for fully grown humanoids, though (as a gift for kids, be wary). While your child may enjoy strapping on the goggles and going to town, adults have the prowess of maturity to use their VR goggles for more, if they so desire.

THE UNSPOKEN (OCULUS RIFT)

So let’s say you dropped some Benjamins and got your giftee an Oculus Rift. Or maybe he or she has had one for a while now because they’re a bleeding edge techie.

The next logical step is to invest in some games for that bad boy. The Unspoken is this year’s hottie favorite for VR, a game centered around fireball throwing and neat mystical magical shenanigans.

But we don’t care what the game is about, really. On the surface, The Unspoken is a fighter/ shooter combo where players battle royale in versus-style magic duels.

Whatever, big deal. What we really care about is that The Unspoken manages to bring that magical feeling to the player — many of the controls are motion-based, meaning that you’re blocking attacks, throwing spells, and using your body to play.

ROBOTICS KIT

Is your gamer a little too engrossed in the game? Are you afraid that your child’s ceaseless hours in front of a screen are turning the kid into a vapid, emotionless automaton? Do you want your child to have a marketable, useful skill other than the ability to press “X” on a controller really quickly?

Robotics kits! There are a thousand and one different kits that can guide your child in a thousand and one different projects.

Little programmable cars. Cute little robots that wave.

Programmable doo-dads. Robotics kits are, coincidentally, the gateway drug to a career in electrical, computer and mechanical engineering. Get your kids hooked on building stuff and they’ll be hitting those six figures at their successful STEM job in no time.

Downside? Some of these kits require parental accompaniment. So you must be prepared to get in on the science with your child.

DEAD RISING 4 (PC, XBOX ONE)

Society hopped aboard the zombie train years ago and won’t get off that train until it crashes. We will never escape the cultural infection that is zombie movies, games, books, TV shows… So, of course, there is a fourth Dead Rising. And of course you should get it for your giftee. This beat-emup horror franchise will feed their insatiable need for zombie media for yet another calendar year.

The game’s release carefully notes that this iteration does not, in fact, include a timer system but still revolves around an open world survival setting. But the biggest question remains — will the zombie hype ever end? Probably, eventually. But we birthed the societal obsession with vampires in the 1800s, and still haven’t gotten over that.

OVERWATCH (PC, XBOX ONE, PS4)

Overwatch, rated for ages 13 and up, focuses on teambased multiperson online first-person shooting and has become stupidly popular. Although the game has been floating around in beta for a while now, it was recently announced that competitive leagues for the game are slated for 2017. So get your loved one set up with the game, and get them practicing before the big kids come out to play.

3-D PRINTER

Maybe you really messed up in 2016 and want to give a gift that says sorry. Maybe it’s your first anniversary and you’re still trying to impress your partner with thoughtful, slightly overdone gifts. Maybe your giftee has a ridiculously specific use case for making small, plastic models of things.

A 3-D printer can be the gifting solution you desire.

Spend anywhere from $200 to $6,000 on one, depending on how much you want to project a message of “I’m trying to buy your love with cool gadgets.” Buy this for the hip, techie creative in your life. Buy it for the basement-dwelling D&D player who wants to make his own gaming miniatures. Buy it for the do-it-yourselfer who will have a blast making their own parts and pieces for various projects. 

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SPEAK OUT

“Pelicans love pollywog falafels” is nonsensical gibberish — but say it while holding your tongue (ah!) and you might get some giggles. That’s the premise of Hasbro’s Speak Out game: draw a card from the deck, and with a plastic mouthpiece preventing you from closing your mouth, attempt to say the phrase printed on it. The other players then have to fight through their laughter to interpret the babble. Whoever guesses correctly wins the card, and the player (or team) with the most cards at the end is triumphant. So if the election results have your family members hurling epithets at each other, at least Speak Out will have you looking and sounding like buffoons together. As long as you don’t mind sharing a mouthpiece with Uncle Fudd.

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TICKET TO RIDE

Aspiring industrialists, listen up! In the award-winning game Ticket to Ride, players collect cards featuring different types of train cars in an effort to claim railroad tracks across America, or (in separately sold installments of the game) India, Africa, Asia, Europe and even on the high seas (via shipping routes). Two to five players compete to acquire the biggest network of rails, through tunnels, onto ferries, city-to-city, station-to-station. Plunge into the age of early 20th-century travel, exploration and commerce. If you’re ambitious enough, world domination can be yours.

Build an empire! Just don’t let it go to your head, kid; I hear imperialist tendencies aren’t really en vogue these days. Ages 8 and up; $50 (CD)

ISLE OF SKYE: FROM CHIEFTAIN TO KING

In the vein of the ever-popular Carcassonne — a historical, kingdom-building tile game— comes Isle of Skye: From Chieftain to King. Each player starts with a castle, and after collecting gold to buy more tiles (more territory for your fiefdom!), seeks to become the dominant clan on the windswept Scottish island. With a number of scoring rules and various components, it’s a bit more complex than it sounds. And you thought being a ruthless conqueror was going to be easy? Don’t despair (“Keep the heid!”), the back of the box says it’s “Lots of Fun” and features “Woolly Sheep.” Ages 8 and up; $37 (CD)

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If you smell a rat, chances are you’re right. In Betrayal at House on the Hill, a perennial favorite, players roam a vermin-infested haunted mansion, moving room to room (the “Exploration” phase) until one player is revealed as a traitor and joins an evil entity (the “Haunt” phase). The other participants must then collaborate against the zombies, cannibals, vampires or whatever (there are 50 different “haunt” scenarios) to get out alive.

But you’re at the mercy of the spirits within the creepy house; draw an Event card or an Omen and you have to follow the instructions — your fate is sealed. Run! Ages 12 and up; $50

STAR WARS: DESTINY

George Lucas, you’ve created a monster. This December, another “epic space opera,” called Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, will grace movie screens worldwide, bringing Chewbacca Velvet Leggings and Star Warsthemed nonfat dairy creamer (yes, those exist) into your life again. Perhaps it is your destiny, then, that you’ll also pick up a collectible dice and card game. Star Wars: Destiny allows two players to choose a team of heroes or villains (from the Force, Command and Rogue factions) with whom they’ll go to battle in a back-and-forth of “what if” situations. Roll the dice, activate special abilities, and damage your enemies; then binge-watch the entire anthology until you’re mumbling incoherently in Galactic Basic. Ages 10 and up; $15

PANDEMIC: REIGN OF CTHULHU

Pandemic: Reign of Cthulhu is a game of fantasy, unless you can wrap your head around the ideas of the late Zechariah Sitchin, in which case it might be an example of art imitating life. Sitchin outlined in his book The 12th Planet the idea that humanity was created and enslaved by an ancient race of hostile interdimensional extraterrestrials, kind of like the giant Gnostic Archons or, perhaps, the Nephilim in Genesis. In the game, the evil gods are called the Old Ones, and they’re on the verge of escaping from a cosmic imprisonment into our world. Your mission, with fellow investigators, is to seal the portals through which the madness of the 12 beings could emerge, and stop cults from summoning them, or risk going insane.

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One of the most popular entries at this year’s Gen Con, the largest board game convention in North America, was Oceanos. Rumored to be the favorite game of its acclaimed designer Antoine Bauza, it takes players into the depths of the sea in a submarine adventure worthy of Jules Verne’s imagination. Score points in your search for elusive creatures and coral reefs, send divers on treasure hunts and upgrade your vessel (get all 5 puzzle pieces) for speed. But beware… of the Kraken. Ages 8 and up; $32

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There is no blood, no destruction, no evil, no violence in Sushi Go Party!, the expanded reprise of Sushi Go! You guessed it: this game is about sushi. It’s a classic addition to the card-drafting genre where, after being dealt a hand, players pick a card (a la carte-style) and pass their unwanted ones to a neighbor, refining (hopefully) their hand with each round. Each card is assigned a particular ingredient (wasabi, eel, nigiri, etc.) or tool (chopsticks, takeout box, etc.), to the benefit or detriment of your roll.

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Harry’s saga may have concluded with the play version of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child this summer (or does Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them give it legs?), but Potterheads can relive the magic in a new game, Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle.

Assume the role of Harry, Ron, Hermione or Neville and cooperate to defend the Hogwarts castle from villains. Each character possesses his or her own deck of cards, used to acquire spells, employ Dark Arts against evil and gain influence. Magic isn’t real, you say? Rumor has it if you play this game in the presence of a Ouija board and clap three times, all of your libertarian friends turn into socialists. Ages 11 and up; $50

Feeling apocalyptic lately? So too has the paranormal group F.A.I.T.H. (Federal Authority for the Interdiction of Transdimensional Horrors) in their defense of the city of Haven against the 7 Deadly Sins. In The Others, the occult Hell Club has invited the Sins into our dimension, and their intent is to destroy. As a Leader, Bruiser, Sniper or Fixer, your goal is to fight back. Unless, of course, you play as one of the Sins. Terror, Corruption and Redemption stories give the game a multitude of outcomes, all with the aim of purifying the remnants of humanity and expelling the monstrous Sins from Earth. This game hasn’t been directly endorsed by the Vatican, but should be. Ages 14 and up; $68

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VISUAL ARTS

Remnants of Rome Gonzaga’s hit Ancient Roman exhibition is a look into the past and the capability of the university’s museum

Aphrodite, also known as Venus, reminds us that the gods played a central role in Roman life. This fragment is from the 1st centuries B.C.-A.D. time period.

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BY MIKE BOOKEY

F

or the past few months, Gonzaga students and visitors to the campus museum have been able to get the sort of intimate look at life in Ancient Rome that typically requires a flight around the world. And a curious Spokane community has turned out in droves to take advantage of this incredibly unique opportunity.

The Roman Myth and Mythmaking exhibit at Gonzaga’s Jundt Museum debuted in mid-September, along with an accompanying lecture series, featuring small items like coins and jewelry and things that — in contrast to the iconic statues or architecture often associated with Ancient Rome — were handled by Romans in their daily life. While most ancient history is taught from texts and lectures — and those are, of course, useful — the show allows for us to observe items that have been in the pockets of people who lived in antiquity, providing a look at the impact that the iconography of the Roman gods had on one of history’s most successful civilizations.

“It carries the concept of how Roman myth and re-

ligion — to borrow the economic phrase — trickles down all the way to the simplest level, with gems and coins, to the point that it permeated every day life,” says Dr. Paul Manoguerra, director of the Jundt Museum.

Roman Myth and Mythmaking was a long while in the making, but has turned out to be one of the most popular exhibits to appear at the museum in recent memory. It began when Manoguerra arrived at Gonzaga more than three years ago and told professors that if they ever wanted to include visual arts in their teaching, he would be willing to team up. Dr. Andrew Goldman, a professor of history at GU and an expert in ancient Greek and Roman history, took Manoguerra up on the offer. Soon, they began team-teaching a course and began working on an Ancient Roman exhibit.

The problem, however, was that a small museum like the Jundt doesn’t have a permanent collection of ancient Roman artifacts. This meant that Goldman and Manoguerra had to reach out to colleagues at other universities

and museums to bring the antiquities to Spokane. In all, Manoguerra and Goldman, with help from Janet Grossman of the Getty Villa museum in Southern California, were able to bring in 115 different artifacts from museums at the University of Pennsylvania, Emory University in Atlanta and the American Numismatic Society.

“The idea that these institutions would be open to sharing these objects literally cross the country for Spokane to enjoy — that’s a big deal,” says Manoguerra.

When the exhibit opened, Goldman emphasized how important these physical items were to teaching the complexities of Roman history.

“These are the objects that the Romans saw and handled on a daily basis, kept in their homes, were the focus of religious practice, and were used to pass on myths and lessons of their past,” Goldman remarked in September.

“These physical remains, with their vivid images of gods and heroes, help to reveal the complex story of how the ...continued on next page

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Romans understood their world and identity, their past and their gods, as they expanded and conquered the Mediterranean world.”

The lecture series that accompanied the exhibit, a collaboration between the museum and Humanities Washington, added another way to connect with the community, says Manoguerra.

Discussions by professors from around the Northwest and beyond included topics like the power structure of Ancient Rome, Roman coins, mythology and the period’s influence on modern design. This Thursday’s final lecture is about Ancient Rome as depicted in cinema.

The success of Roman Myth and Mythmaking has also showed how the Jundt, a small operation as far as museums go, can stretch its resources and connections to expand the horizons of its museum. Manoguerra says that although the Jundt is a comparatively small museum, this collaboration has shown the possibilities of what the university is capable of.

“We also need to also focus on our permanent collection, but down the road, we may use this as a model for another project.

It’s the sort of thing a university museum should be doing,” says Manoguerra.

There are still a few weeks left in the exhibit, making for a remarkably easy — and free — way to peek into history. Take advantage while you can.

“It is tough to see it go,” says Manoguerra. “That’s true of any exhibition. They’re very ephemeral — they’re here and then they’re gone.”  Roman Myth and Mythmaking • Open Mon-Sat, 10 am to 4 pm through Dec. 17 • Jundt Museum at Gonzaga University • 200 E. Desmet • Rome as Cinematic Myth, lecture by Monica Cyrino of the University of New Mexico • Thu, Dec. 1, at 7 pm • Jundt Auditorium (Room 110) • Both are free and open to the public • gonzaga.edu/jundt

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ART FIRST FRIDAY

Ildikó Kalapács’s sculpture is on display at the Spokane YWCA.

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BY MIKE BOOKEY

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he final First Friday event of 2016 includes a special event to unveil and dedicate a new sculpture commemorating and honoring women and children who are survivors of domestic violence. Commissioned by Spokane philanthropist and YWCA Spokane supporter Debra Garrett, the cast bronze statue by Spokane-based, Hungarianborn artist Ildikó Kalapács is titled Refuge. Depicting a woman and her two children walking through a doorway, surrounded by the inscription “enter here for peace,” the piece was recently installed near the entrance of the YWCA’s Alternatives to Domestic Violence Program. Other local artists are displaying their work at Friday’s unveiling, from 5-7:30 pm at 930 N. Monroe; all art honors and acknowledges women.

— CHEY SCOTT

FIRST FRIDAY: DEC. 2 RECEPTIONS ON FRIDAY FROM 5-8 PM, UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, VISIT DOWNTOWNSPOKANE.ORG OR INLANDER.COM/FIRSTFRIDAY.

Auntie’s Bookstore, 402 W. Main 3 Minute Mic w/ Darrien Mack, 8-9:30 All You Can Ink, 9 S. Howard Paintings by Jasen Hansen Avenue West Gallery, 907 W. Boone “Paper Play” by Keiko Von Holt Barili Cellars, 608 W. Second Photos by Kent Henderson; music by the Jazz Project Barrister Winery, 1213 W. Railroad Pieces from the MAC’s Art@Work program ben GALLERY, 1033 W. First, Suite H Grand opening of Ben Joyce’s gallery Bistango, 108 N. Post Music by Ron Greene Bozzi Gallery, 221 N. Wall Gallery grand reopening feat. various artists Boutique Bleu, 1184 W. Summit Pkwy.

Acrylics and textiles by Vicky Cavin Core Pilates and Wellness, 1230 W. Summit Pkwy.

Artisan jewelry by Lisa Katz Cougar Crest Estate Tasting Room, 8 N. Post Art by Amy Charbonneau; music by Alchemy Craftsman Cellars, 1194 W. Summit Pkwy.

Watercolors by Betty Bradley; music

by Wyatt Wood Garageland, 230 W. Riverside La Resistance’s under $100 holiday show feat. various artists Hills Restaurant, 401 W. Main Music by Front Porch Trio, from 6-9 pm Iron Goat Brewing, 1302 W. Second Paintings by Linnea Tobias Keith Powell Studio & Gallery, 123 E. Second Art by Keith Powell, Lisa Waddle and Kristen Harvey Kendall Yards Welcome Center, 1335 W. Summit Pkwy.

Artisan Festival, feat. various artists, from 4-8 pm Kolva-Sullivan Gallery, 115 S. Adams Exhibition by Rebekah Wilkins-Pepiton Kress Gallery, 808 W. Main, third floor Work by students in SFCC’s Fine Arts and Photography programs Liberty Ciderworks, 164 S. Washington Oil pastels by David Wang Marmot Art Space, 1206 W. Summit Pkwy.

Holiday Small Works Show Mom’s Custom Tattoo, 1226 W. Summit Pkwy.

Taxidermy/mixed-media by Anji Marth Montvale Event Center, 1017 W. First Art by Neicy Frey, wine tasting and

open house Nodland Cellars, 926 W. Sprague Brent Edstrom and Dan Keberle The Philanthropy Center, 1020 W. Riverside Second annual live Native Art Auction Robert Karl Cellars, 115 W. Pacific Watercolors by Gail Johannes Saranac Art Projects, 25 W. Main Small Works Sale feat. various artists Spokane Public Library, 906 W. Main Big Bing Theory, art by Megan Martens-Haworth, Kelly Ranck and Spokane Montessori students Spokane Startup Central, 610 W. Second Art by Collin Muncey; music by Jon Lossing T’s Lounge, 703 N. Monroe Art and music by the Keep Green Trio Trackside Studio Ceramic Gallery, 115 S. Adams “Cup of Joy” feat. 30+ artists V du V Wines, 12 S. Scott Paintings by Ellen Blaschke; music by Crushpad Vino! A Wine Shop, 222 S. Washington “Wall Works” by Jim Kolva William Grant Gallery, 1188 W. Summit Pkwy.

Sculpture by Liz Bishop

TV If you can get through the first episode of HATERS BACK OFF! without feeling too weird or depressed or embarrassed for fictional people, you’re going to laugh your way through this new Netflix series. Created by comedian/actress/singer Colleen Ballinger, the eight-episode show is based on her viral YouTube character, Miranda Sings, a delusional teenage wannabe pop star whose cluelessness is topped only by her unearned confidence. In the series, Miranda is a homeschooled teen with a hypochondriac mother (the Office’s Angela Kinsey) who fuels her daughter’s path to fame with the help of an unemployed but arrogant uncle (Eastbound & Down’s Steve Little). The show has a Napoleon Dynamite absurdity to it, but things slowly get dark beneath the hilarity in a way I haven’t seen done before in a television comedy.

BASKETBALL For the past several years, a small group of my friends, including myself, will send texts on otherwise boring midwinter nights. “Walton is calling a game on ESPN2,” they’ll say. I rush to switch the channel when I get these notices, because to hear BILL WALTON call a Pac-12 basketball game is to get a lesson in history, the Grateful Dead discography, weather patterns, English literature and the human brain’s capacity to tolerate annoyance (most often, the brain belongs to Walton’s broadcasting partner, Dave Pasch). On occasion, Walton, one of the greatest college hoops players of all time, will comment on the game occurring on the floor in front of him, but only in the most hyperbolic of ways.

Thankfully, Walton’s broadcast schedule can be found on his terrifically outdated website, billwalton.com.

MAGIC I think of DAVID BLAINE not as a magician, but rather as one of America’s greatest athletes.

Sure, he can do things with a deck of cards that will make you question your religious beliefs, but Blaine also does insane things with his body. He’s stayed underwater for days at a time and been frozen in ice. He’s put a spike through his arm. In the recent ABC special David Blaine: Beyond Magic, he decides to catch a bullet in his teeth and find a way for frogs to live in his stomach. Catch the documentary on demand or on Hulu. 

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CULTURE | THEATER the Spokane Civic Theatre is going retro pop with this year’s upbeat Christmas musical. Plaid Tidings puts a festive spin on its original source material, a revue-style show about a four-part harmony group called Forever Plaid. In a dreary turn of events, our ’50s boy group is killed in a bus accident, but gets the chance to return to earth for a posthumous holiday performance on The Ed Sullivan Show.

Through Dec. 18: Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm • $22$30 • Spokane Civic Theatre • 1020 N. Howard • spokanecivictheatre.com

ALL IS CALM

Local theaters embrace the holiday spirit with new and classic productions staged through December

Returning to a Spokane stage for the third consecutive year, this historically based script by Peter Rothstein recreates one night in 1914 on the Western Front of World War I, when men on both sides put down their weapons and peacefully interacted with one another. History tells us they sang songs, exchanged gifts, and buried their dead together. A musical performed in a radio theater format, All is Calm is a moving production that illuminates this lesser-known moment of humanity, and reminds us that no matter our story, we’re not so different after all.

Through Dec. 24: Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm • $26-$32 • The Modern Theater Spokane • 174 S. Howard • themoderntheater.org

BY CHEY SCOTT

THE EIGHT: REINDEER MONOLOGUES

LEFT TO RIGHT: Actors Preston Loomer, Nick Whittman, David Hardie and Jonathan Barnes in Forever Plaid, Plaid Tidings.

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he season of Santa, snowmen and sparkling lights is upon us, and with it comes a bevy of appropriately themed offerings from all the region’s live theaters. From Dickens’ classic Christmastime tale to a show based on true events during World War I, the following productions should get everyone fully immersed

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FOREVER PLAID: PLAID TIDINGS

Breaking from its typical holiday show choices (past year’s repeats like White Christmas and A Christmas Carol),

For those looking to laugh deeply, Spokane’s resident alternative theater is getting ready to stage a dark (even depressing) comedy that’s rated adults only. Here’s why: Santa’s been accused of sexual harassment by one of his reindeer, Vixen. When the word gets out, other members of the magical sleigh team start coming forward with more allegations against the sainted ol’ Nick. Performed

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HOW TO FIRST FRIDAY. Sure, there are dozens of participating venues for every First Friday. But don’t think of them as individual destinations. Explore First Friday by unique neighborhoods and districts, and relax on the whole GPS mapping thing.

After all, great art shouldn’t be rushed. Pick up a detailed flyer at the visitors kiosk at River Park Square or find all participating venues at downtownspokane.org.

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in a series of confessional monologues, this darker tale might not be for everyone, but it definitely breaks free of the classic expectations we may have for holiday entertainment.

Dec. 9-10 at 7:30 pm, Dec. 11 at 2 pm • $10 • Stage Left Theater • 108 W. Third • spokanestageleft.org

A CHRISTMAS CAROL

For those who enjoy a good classic, the holiday season might not be complete without a viewing of this familiar story. After performing the story of Ebenezer Scrooge’s personal enlightenment each December for three years, the University of Idaho Theatre Arts Department is now staging its fourth and final version (for now, at least) of A Christmas Carol. In an effort to maintain the true spirit of Dickens’ work, a commentary on the realities of poverty and social injustice, the cast and crew decided to use the show to emphasize the author’s original call to action. The audience will notice that traditional cast bios in the show’s playbill have been replaced by descriptions of each member’s favorite charitable organizations.

Dec. 1-3, 8 and 10, at 7:30 pm; Dec. 4 and 11, at 2 pm • $5-$15 • University of Idaho Hartung Theater • 625 Stadium Dr., Moscow • uidaho. edu/class/theatre

IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE: A RADIO PLAY

In keeping with another new and local tradition, the Friends of the Bing and the Spokane Civic Theatre are again — just days before Christmas — producing a special two-night recreation of Frank Capra’s beloved holiday film, in radio-theater format.

Sure, we all know and love the heartwarming story of George Bailey’s life-changing Christmas Eve, but seeing it live on stage in a pre-digital production style is just the ticket to get you feeling all warm and fuzzy inside — and grateful for the blessings in your own life.

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South Perry Pizza cook Nate Coyne rounds dough by tossing it into the air. YOUNG KWAK PHOTOS

A Good Foundation An exploration of the very different kinds of pizza crust found in Spokane

BY CARA STRICKLAND

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f you happened to live in the Italian city of Naples in the 18th century, you might have witnessed the invention of one the most beloved foods of all time: pizza. Originally, it was a meal for the working poor who often didn’t have kitchens, or sometimes even indoor living spaces. They needed inexpensive food that was easy and quick to eat.

Street vendors and corner restaurants began to sell a flatbread topped with tomatoes, cheese, oil, anchovies and garlic, among other things.

Over the years, immigrants from Naples brought their families, and their pizza recipes, when they came to the United States. Although the first American pizzas were still made in the Neapolitan style, soon the recipes morphed to meet the demands of the public. Major cities developed their own signature style. Although the toppings are important, pizza is nothing without the crust. The recipes and ingredients are often quite similar, but small changes in process and technique make a big difference in taste.

There isn’t an Inland Northwest pizza style.

Rather, we have a wide variety of crust styles to choose from, each with their own personality.

PAN PIZZA

When they opened Pizza Rita in 1989, Brian Dickmann and his wife June wanted to differentiate themselves from the pizza scene at the time. They chose to make a round pan pizza, which is rolled out and allowed to rise in the pan, like bread, before baking, rather than being tossed and placed on a screen to bake. Each large pizza is made up of 24 ounces of dough (the thin crust uses 14). “It’s almost a fried crust,” says Dickmann.

NEW YORK STYLE

Chris Bennett opened David’s Pizza in 1993. When he sold it in 1995, he was ready to try his hand at New York-style pizza, which is known for the way you can fold it over to eat on the run in the midst of a fast-paced New York City lifestyle. Now, at Bennedito’s, Bennett crafts East Coast-style pizzas for the Inland Northwest. At 19 inches, Bennett’s pizzas are a little bigger than a classic Neapolitan.

This style takes anywhere from 12 to 15 minutes to cook. Unlike Neapolitan crusts, New York-style pizzas have sugar and oil in their dough.

NEAPOLITAN

The majority of the craft pizza places in Spokane use a classic Neapolitan style for their crust, but that doesn’t mean they all taste the same.

“It’s chemistry, and chemistry is not just dictated by what goes into it, but how it’s cooked and the lengths of time that are used to let the different processes take place,” says Doug Johnson, co-owner of Fire. Traditional Neapolitan pizzas are made with only flour, water, salt and yeast.

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Pizza crusts can vary greatly depending on the style and cooking process.

John Siok, who owns South Perry Pizza, breaks their Neapolitan process down: “We start with a biga, which is a pre-ferment. It’s very spongy.

The pre-ferment is what we build the dough from. We make a biga every day, and then the following day we use that biga to create the dough.”

A characteristic of the Neapolitan style is a high moisture content. At South Perry, it’s about 70 percent.

“The nice thing about that is it produces a crisp but not crunchy crust, and sort of an open, airy crumb with a little bit of a chew to it. The high hydration also helps it to withstand the very high temperatures in the oven,” says Siok.

If the temperature is right, anywhere from 800 to 1,000 degrees, Neapolitan pizzas cook in 70 to 90 seconds. For successful Neapolitan pizza, you need a finely milled, high-gluten flour made in the Italian style, and a wood-fire oven.

Although Seth Carey thought about using Italian pizza flour for Veraci, he decided to get his wheat closer to home. “I think that’s what the whole concept is in Italy,” he says. “Being true to the region.” Following that train of thought, Carey uses applewood, instead of traditional oak, in his wood-fired oven. He’s also built his ovens from scratch, which makes for a unique baking experience and flavor.

If you’re curious about the difference that Italian flour makes, you might want to do a taste test at the Boiler Room. According to their dough expert, Will Stewart, their flour is the most popular type for Neapolitan pizzerias in Italy.

Whether you crave a slim Neapolitan or a more substantial slice, remember that your crust is much more than just a base for toppings. It’s an important part of the experience, with characteristics of its own. “If all the elements have a flavor to them, it’s great, but if some of them don’t, then you’re missing a flavor layer,” says Fire’s Johnson. “The texture and the flavor of the crust actually mean something. It’s not just a vehicle for a topping.” n

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Man and Wife

Joel Edgerton (front left) and Ruth Negga both shine in Loving

Simple, non-heroic love changes the world in Loving

BY SCOTT RENSHAW

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rtists don’t always choose to have their work say something particular about the time in which it appears. Sometimes, the time chooses the work.

This time may have chosen Loving.

That is perhaps an unfair burden for writer/director Jeff Nichols’ film to be asked to shoulder. After all, he’s only trying to tell a story, albeit an important story in American history: the landmark 1967 Supreme Court decision in Loving v. Virginia that rendered states’ antimiscegenation laws unconstitutional, and affirmed the marriage of a white Virginia man, Richard Loving (Joel Edgerton), to his “colored” wife, Mildred (Ruth Negga).

On a certain level, though, Loving is about people who find that they have no choice but to insert their lives into something bigger, even when it might seem simpler and easier not to fight.

There’s even a particular grace to the way Nichols introduces the relationship between Richard and Mildred at the outset of Loving circa 1958: They’re already a couple, with no origin story necessary to explain how these two people improbably came together. When Mildred learns that she’s pregnant, she and Richard drive to Washington, D.C., to be legally married, but that marriage holds no standing when local sheriffs break in on them in the middle of the night and arrest them in their Virginia home, beginning a nearly nine-year legal battle during which they’re required to remain outside of Virginia for 25 years in order to avoid prison.

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No operatic drama accompanies the scene of their deliver to the Supreme Court, Richard responds simply arrest, and indeed that’s the way Nichols approaches althat “I love my wife.” This man has no interest in changmost the entirety of Loving. David Wingo’s musical score ing the world, but the love he has — refusing to consider is sparingly used, giving the film a sense of restraint that a divorce, even when a black friend suggests it’s an easy might be surprising in a story that could easily lend itself way to uncomplicate his life — changes it anyway. to grand moments. The simple realities of the Lovings’ Loving takes its sweet time building towards its high lives — doing their work, raising their children — become points, and while that helps it earn every emotion, the the narrative base. Even the crucial arguments before the deliberate pacing combined with Nichols’ low-key staging Supreme Court are given only a few lines from the Lovcan make the events before the ACLU gets involved feel ings’ ACLU attorneys, including Richard Cohen (Nick pokey. Nichols almost seems afraid of bold gestures, to Kroll). The Lovings opted not to be present for the court the point where a visual juxtaposition like a rope thrown arguments; Nichols chooses to stay with over a tree branch while Cohen speaks them. before the Supreme Court feels posiLOVING This matter-of-fact approach extends tively startling.

Rated PG-13 to the two lead performances, which are But there’s also a reason that NichWritten and directed by Jeff Nichols remarkable in their understated complexity. Starring Joel Edgerton, Ruth Negga, ols devotes so much time to showing Negga’s Mildred builds her determination Richard at work as a mason, slathering Nick Kroll to pursue the case on simple family desires mortar onto bricks, carefully checking — she wants her children to grow up in the each one with his level. Laying the founVirginia country rather than the D.C. city, and be able dation for the places other people will live their lives isn’t to visit her own parents and sister — that only gradually sexy, but it’s work that has to be done, by people with no evolve into a sense that their case could ultimately change sense that they’ve done anything heroic. As the real-life the lives of other couples like them. Richard, however, reLovings are shown at the end of the film in an iconic Life mains focused on his own family, and it’s here that Edgmagazine photo — laughing together over The Andy Griffith erton’s performance evokes something special. He’s not a Show, Richard’s head resting in Mildred’s lap — it’s hard hero; he resists Cohen’s suggestion that they deliberately not to think about the hard work ahead in our own time, try to get arrested, and he has no desire to speak to the and the kind of love that becomes too big not to change press. When asked by Cohen if he has any message to the world. 

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Based in small-town Virginia, this drama follows the effort of small business owner Matthew Peyton (Ryan O’Quinn) to save the local Christmas pageant. As the town is going through hard economic times, Peyton struggles between financing his company and financing the Christmas pageant. When Peyton meets young, joyful Clarence (Isaac Ryan Brown), who believes in miracles, he wrestles with his desire to do what’s best for himself along with his ability to bring hope and joy to his community. (EG) Rated PG

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The title of this supernatural horror film refers to the demonic possession of an 11-year-old boy (David Mazouz) and the exorcist and scientist Dr. Seth Ember (Aaron Eckhart) who attempts to access the boy’s subconscious mind to save him while confronting terrors from his own past. Directed by Brad Peyton and written by Ronnie Christensen. (EG) Rated PG-13

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Harry deLeyer simply wanted to save the horse named Snowman from a trip to the glue factory when he bought him for $80. Two years later, man and beast were an award-winning team, taking the triple crown of show-jumping against big-money horses bred for greatness. This film documents their rise to fame in the late 1950s, and years traveling the world, through the still-vivid recollections of the now-86year-old Harry and archival footage. At Magic Lantern (DN) Not Rated

A MAN CALLED OVE

Ove, the curmudgeon in this Swedish import, walks around with the puckered face of a man who’s seemingly spent a lifetime sucking on lemons, a true crank after the death of his wife.

But the Swedish film has a charming upside, even if there are dark elements surrounding Ove. At Magic Lantern (SD) Rated PG-13

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Two assassins (Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard) meet in North Africa in 1942, each attempting to kill the same Nazi official. They fall in love, move to London, and attempt to settle down and live a life of normalcy. But when you’re on the brink of another war and you’ve known all along that the one you love is a cold-blooded killer, how can you be sure they won’t turn on you? (HM) Rated R

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

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

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Billy Bob Thornton is back after more than a decade as the drunk and naughty Willie Stokes, a man for whom Christmas is a time to take advantage of whoever possible; this time, a Chicago charity. Mark Waters (of Mean Girls’ fame) directs, and Kathy Bates joins the cast as Stokes’ mother. (HM) Rated R

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

CERTAIN WOMEN

Written and directed by Kelly Reichardt and set in modern small-town Montana, this drama displays the intersecting lives of three independent women. Lawyer Laura Wells (Laura Dern) deals with sexism in the office and an unruly, disgruntled male client. Gina Lewis (Michelle Williams), a wife and mother, is trying to build her family’s new house from the ground up, despite her husband’s constant undermining of her. Beth Travis (Kristen Stewart), a young law teacher working multiple jobs, relates to a curious female ranch hand who stumbles into a class Beth is teaching. (EG) Rated R ...continued on next page

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Nadine’s lone ray of hope in this teenage wasteland is her best (and literally only) friend, Krista (Haley Lu Richardson). But when a hungover Nadine stumbles in on Krista and her bro hooking up, her whole world becomes a fog of crushing loneliness. (SS) Rated R

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

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Emily Blunt stars in this mystery/thriller, playing the role of Rachel Watson, a devastated alcoholic divorcee. Rachel takes the train every day, fantasizing about the life of the strangers whose house she passes by every day. One day, she sees something shocking in those strangers’ backyard. Rachel tells the authorities what she thinks she saw and becomes entangled in a missing persons investigation, resulting in her trying to sort through her memories to discern what happened that day on the train. (EG) Rated R

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Desmond Doss (Andrew Garfield) is an earnest young man as America goes to war in 1941. He’s determined to do his duty in service to his country, but, as a devout Seventh-day Adventist, he is adamant in his refusal to take up arms against another human being. So as he leaves behind his fiancée, Dorothy (Teresa Palmer), and parents (Hugo Weaving and Rachel Griffiths) with the intention of serving as a medic, he believes he can serve by saving lives rather than taking them — until he reaches basic

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DOCTOR STRANGE

Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) is a New York neurosurgeon who is in a terrible car accident that leaves him with such severe nerve damage in his hands that he can no longer perform surgery. His search for a cure leads him to Nepal and a sort of spiritual martialarts retreat called Kamar-Taj. Here, sorcerers the Ancient One (Tilda Swinton) and Mordo, her lieutenant, teach Stephen all about using magic, which he employs to save the world from bad guys. (SR) Rated PG-13

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Directed by Mel Gibson. (MJ) Rated R.

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Tom Hanks plays Robert Langdon, a symbologist who must follow a complicated series of clues related to medieval poet Dante in order to solve a dastardly worldwide conspiracy plot. Landon wakes up with amnesia in an Italian hospital, and with help from doctor Sienna Brooks (Felicity Jones) he must try to regain his memories before a virus is released that could kill off half of the Earth’s population. Based on the novel written by Dan Brown, this film is directed by Academy Award winner Ron Howard. (EG) Rated PG-13

JACK REACHER: NEVER GO BACK

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

LOVING

Writer-director Jeff Nichols tells a story, and an important story in American history: the landmark 1967 Supreme Court decision in Loving v. Virginia that rendered states’ anti-miscegenation laws unconstitutional, and affirmed the marriage of a white Virginia man, Richard Loving (Joel Edgerton), to his “colored” wife, Mildred (Ruth Negga).

On a certain level, though, Loving is about people who find that they have no choice but to insert their lives into something bigger, even when it might seem simpler and easier not to fight.

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MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN

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

Based on his cryptic dying words, Jacob follows the path of his granddad’s fantastical bedtime stories about his time at Miss Peregrine’s (a wonderfully stern Eva Green) orphanage. After events lead Jacob through a time portal, he

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MOANA

Moana is driven to find out what lies beyond the reefs off her beautiful South Pacific island paradise, reefs beyond which her people are forbidden to venture. What makes her special is how she will achieve this: she is chosen by the ocean itself, as a reward for a kind act toward a sea creature, to take on a quest involving a long and dangerous journey that will, hopefully, save her island and her people. (MJ) Rated PG-13

RULES DON’T APPLY

Written, co-produced, and directed by Warren Beatty, Rules Don’t Apply tells the story of a romance in 1950s Hollywood between a young actress (Lily Collins) and her driver (Alden Ehrenreich). Beatty also plays eccentric billionaire and filmmaker Howard Hughes, a known womanizer, who forbids the two from having any sort of relationship. (HM) Rated PG-13

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Naomi Watts proved her horror skills in The Ring, and hopes to recapture some of that flick’s suspense-filled chills in Shut In. Watts plays Mary, a child psychologist who works out of a remote home office in rural New England, where she takes care of her paralyzed son. One of her patients goes missing in the snowy woods outside the home, and Mary finds herself haunted by the accident that hurt her boy and killed her husband, the feeling of letting her missing patient down, and perhaps one angry, murderous ghost that haunts her dreams. (DN) Rated PG-13

TROLLS

From the creators of Shrek and featuring the voices of celebrities such as Anna Kendrick, Justin Timberlake, Zooey Deschanel, Russell Brand, Gwen Stefani and James Corden, this animated comedy tells a tale of happiness and the lengths we’ll go to grasp it. When happy Troll Village is invaded by the grumpy Bergens and almost all citizens are kidnapped, Poppy, the leader of the trolls, must team up with no-nonsense, overly cautious troll Branch in order to save the people of Troll Village from ending up in the stomachs of the Bergens. (EG) Rated PG 

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he cranky curmudgeon in this Swedish berates an uncomprehending clerk for her stupidimport walks around with the puckered ity in selling an inferior product. face of a man who’s seemingly spent a A Man Called Ove deftly incorporates the lifetime sucking on lemons. He’s the quintessenseminal moments of its titular character’s past tial sourpuss. Each morning, Ove (Rolf Lassin a series of flashbacks that inform, rather than gård) authoritatively patrols the sidewalks and intrude upon, the present. (In the film, these alleys of his modest residential complex seeking sequences cleverly occur as Ove’s brain is being infractions (the sight of an abandoned cigarette slowly deprived of oxygen during one of his butt or the discovery of recyclables in the wrong failed shots at ending it all.) The fluid juxtaposireceptacle enrages him) with the single-mindedtion of the present-day and younger versions of ness of an Inspector Javert. Short-tempered and the character is impressive, given how other simiconfrontational, he unleashes his acid tongue on larly structured films have clunked along with the his scofflaw neighbors — and anyone else who expository grace of two left feet. pisses him off — with the rage of a misanthrope.

While Filip Berg shines as the callow younger You have to begrudgingly admire Ove for his version of Ove in those scenes — his goodness consistency: He’s an equal-opportunity asshole. and naiveté are heartbreaking — it’s the efferOf course, there’s more vescent Engvoll as the beloved than what initially meets Sonja who truly brings the past A MAN CALLED OVE the eye in A Man Called Ove to life. It’s no wonder the man Rated PG-13 (screening this week at the loved this wonderful person and Directed by Hannes Holm reopened Magic Lantern now misses her so much; she Starring Rolf Lassgård, Ida Engvoll, Filip Berg Theatre), which is based on had a smile so generous it could At Magic Lantern Theatre, subtitled the wry 2012 debut novel capture a thousand hearts. As

by Swedish blogger Fredrik the film proceeds, Ove’s blosBackman. In the tradition of grumpy old men besoming friendship with his no-nonsense pregnant ginning with Ebenezer Scrooge, you predictably neighbor (an engagingly forthright Bahar Pars) know that beneath this 59-year-old’s tart exterior and his increasingly noncombative social interacis a lonely soul embittered by the tragedies that tions with others slowly rehumanize him. have punctuated his life, most recently the death As this anticipated transformation occurs, of his adored wife, Sonja (Ida Engvoll), to cancer. however, something unfortunate happens: Visiting her gravesite faithfully, he promises The movie starts to unravel like that blue cord to join her in the afterlife, but his unsuccessindignantly tossed onto the store counter. The ful efforts to kill himself in a series of comic last 10 minutes or so are heartwarming to the suicidus interruptus attempts (the ringing doorbell point of schmaltz. Even the adept Lassgård, as is straight from Crimes of the Heart) only infuriate the old-fogey version of Ove, can’t make this him further. When one such attempt lands him increasingly feel-good shtick stick. You can just on the floor after a makeshift noose breaks midimagine him shaking his head with disgust at this swing from the living room ceiling, Ove angrily betrayal. “Idiots!” he would steadfastly proclaim. returns the frayed rope to the hardware store and “Nothing but idiots!” 

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CLASSIC GASS

Armed with a new album, the Kyle Gass Band brings its blend of rock and humor to Spokane

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t this point in his career, Kyle “KG” Gass is used to fans rushing past him at airports to take selfies with Jack Black, his Tenacious D musical partner in crime. But at 56, Gass is content.

The comedy rock duo has made three studio albums, a movie (which has gained a cult following since initially bombing at the box office) and recently even hosted their own Festival Supreme in Los Angeles, and there’s still time — thanks to Black’s often busier schedule — for Gass to do his own thing, too.

Today, the self-described morning person is having new shutters installed on his North Hollywood home

before Thanksgiving arrives and his group, the Kyle Gass Band, goes on the road for two weeks — including a stop at the Big Dipper next Monday. He says that touring is what keeps him grounded.

“It’s almost like we’re cheating,” Gass says. “Really, it’s so fun cruising around with your homeslices, and it would have to be, because I’m fortunate enough that I don’t have to, and it’s a choice.”

He says he sometimes feels bad that he named this band after himself. But after his former side project Trainwreck went off the rails in 2011, he needed to find a way to bring fans in the door for his new act. With Black not

in the picture, Gass is the most recognizable member of the band, which includes longtime Tenacious D touring guitarist John Konesky, as well as bassist Jason Keene, drummer Tim Spier and lead singer/guitarist Mike Bray.

The crew has all worked with Gass prior to KGB (that the band shares the same initials with the former Soviet Union’s security agency isn’t lost on them).

“With the last side project, because of my international fame, it was like David Bowie in Tin Machine — I’m not David Bowie, I’m like Kmart — but needless to say, with Trainwreck, it was me who people recognized. So ...continued on next page

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Besides, as Gass points out, someone has to play the recorder parts; he’s taken to playing soprano and alto recorders at the same time while on stage. It’s just one of the things in his musical bag of tricks, he says. Originally an actor, the California native came to the guitar in his 20s, something you wouldn’t guess listening to his surefire fingerings and instrumentation.

As the legend goes, he and Black hated one another when they first met in an acting troupe. But soon, they realized their talents were better together (this is all documented in the Tenacious D song “Wonderboy”). In the late ’90s, they blew up as Tenacious D, so quickly that they didn’t have time to kick their stage fright.

“Jack and I are nervous Nellies; the confident shtick is a pretty big tip-off,” Gass admits. “You get more free and comfortable the more you do it. And I’ll remind myself I do feel confident about what we’re doing; I’ve been in that situation before.”

Gass brings that confidence to KGB. He says that every night on tour is like a greatest hits special, as they only have two albums. His crew will drink on stage, he says, but not too much.

“Sometimes I tip over on stage, but that’s just from being old. The band knows what we’re doing,” he says.

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When it comes to writing with KGB, Gass says the guitar players come up with the tunes for the group, and that the whole point is to make one another laugh. Often they’ll write the song titles first, just to get the concepts. On the band’s new sophomore album Thundering Herd, they take on bro culture, lost loves, overstimulated sex lives and uncool uncles, all with a straight-up rock vibe. It’s ridiculous absurdist comedy, but still played with instrumental mastery.

“The funny is baked in the cake, it’s so natural,” Gass says. “It would be more of an effort to bring a dramatic feeling, although I like those songs too. You have to go with what’s happening in the writing, otherwise people recognize it’s not authentic. And for us, we enjoy humor.”

The last song on the album, “The Best We Could Do (In The Time Allotted),” pays homage to not getting their album done in time.

“We hoped you liked our new album / We had fun making it for you / And hey, maybe it could have been better / And that may or not be true… ” they croon over acoustic guitar, only to blast into electric sounds. The lyrics express how Gass feels about all of his work.

“Ultimately it’s about performance and entertaining, it’s about getting together,” he says. “Being on the stage is one of the few transcendent experiences left in this world.” n lauraj@inlander.com The Kyle Gass Band with Hey! is For Horses and Supervillain • Mon, Dec. 5, at 7:30 pm • $12/$15 day of • All-ages • The Big Dipper • 171 S. Washington • bigdipperevents.com • 863-8098

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t’s natural to feel skeptical.

Even if you’re the most die-hard fan of the ’80s hair-metal movement, you might have looked at the lineup for this weekend’s “Wreck The Halls” show with

some trepidation.

Bret Michaels headlines — but without Poison, the band that made him famous.

Dokken features half the original lineup, but not guitar wizard and Spokane native

George Lynch, who really gave their songs serious muscle. L.A. Guns, Warrant and the clumsily named Jack Russell’s Great White (not to be confused with the other touring Great White) all similarly have lineups that won’t be exactly the same as their old videos.

Bobby Blotzer, the drummer for RATT and only original member of that band currently touring, makes a good case for letting any skepticism go and hitting the show delivering a festival full of favorite old tunes like “Round and Round,” “Burning Like a Flame” and “Every Rose Has Its Thorn.”

“People want to go out and catch a buzz,” Blotzer says. “They’ve worked hard all week. They want to go hear some music, drink a beer and have a good time. And you know what? We’re here to deliver it.”

That’s the appeal of the genre in a nutshell, and Blotzer makes a point of explaining to the audience why the guys on stage aren’t the guys he’s WEEKEND played C O U N T D OW N with as Get the scoop on this RATT weekend’s events with for 35 our newsletter. Sign up at years.

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Band squabbles about who owns the name led to the schism that’s kept RATT from touring for more than five years, until Blotzer put this group together this year.

“I talk to the audience at a certain point in the show. I kind of feel like I have to.

And I love to, frankly,” Blotzer says. “I tell them, ‘Hey, there’s some new faces you’re seeing up here, but I want you to know something. We’re here to preserve and play RATT music live, with great integrity. We love the class of ’84 (the original lineup), but they’ve been home for six years and no one will leave their sofas. I can’t do anything about it. What I can do is provide a great show.’”

Considering that most of the bands on the bill formed three or four decades ago, it’s no surprise they don’t have their original lineups. How many 40-year marriages do you know of — let alone “band marriages” between five hard-partying young dudes asked to weather massive early fame and stick together for years thereafter?

Blotzer and the other bands at Wreck The Halls are trying to enjoy the rock ride as long as they can.

“The years are ticking along, and I’m like, ‘Hey guys, we’re dead in 20 years,’” Blotzer says of his past efforts to get the original RATT moving again. “It’s all of our music, and they’re all welcome to go play it, too. But I have the name, and that’s the way it rolls.” n

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Wreck The Halls with Bret Michaels, RATT, Dokken, L.A. Guns, Warrant and Jack Russell’s Great White • Sat, Dec. 3, at 3:30 pm • All-ages • $39/$59 • Spokane Arena • 720 W. Mallon • spokanearena.com • 279-7000

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his year has been big for East Sherman.

Already, the local metal three-piece has gone on tour twice, released multiple cassettes and played in Spokane at least a couple of times a month. Next week, the band hits even greater heights with a 7-inch EP release party, which also kicks off their third tour of the year. Guitarist Avery Strobel, who just moved to Olympia while his bandmates remain in Coeur d’Alene and Spokane, says that Desertification is the band’s most polished record yet, and their first vinyl release. The record quickly runs through three tracks full of screamin’, reverb-heavy, heart-wrenching music. Within the confines of the Observatory’s space next Thursday night, expect the volume to make your skin feel like it’s peeling while your skull quietly cracks into 100 pieces.

— LAURA JOHNSON East Sherman 7-inch EP release show with Cold Blooded, Local Pavlov and Déformer • Thu, Dec. 8, at 8 pm • $5 • 21+ • The Observatory • 15 S. Howard • observatoryspokane. com • 598-8933

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Thursday, 12/1

ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, Fireside Music Series feat. Bill Bozly BARLOWS, Sunny Nights Duo J J THE BARTLETT, Northwest of Nashville Holiday Special feat.

Jenny Anne Mannan, Dry and Dusty, Kevin Morgan, Prairie War BOOMERS CLASSIC ROCK BAR & GRILL, Randy Campbell J BOOTS BAKERY & LOUNGE, The Song Project J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, Open Jazz Jam with Erik Bowen BUCKHORN INN, Spokane River Band J CHAPS, Spare Parts COEUR D’ALENE CASINO, PJ Destiny CRAVE, DJ Freaky Fred FEDORA PUB & GRILLE, Kosh FIZZIE MULLIGANS, Kicho J THE HIVE, The Chris Robinson Brotherhood THE JACKSON ST., DJ Dave J LAGUNA CAFÉ, Just Plain Darin J MONARCH MOUNTAIN COFFEE, Open Mic hosted by Scott Reid J MOSCOW FOOD CO-OP, Aaron Torres O’SHAYS IRISH PUB & EATERY, Open mic with Adrian and Leo THE OBSERVATORY, Vinyl Meltdown: The Amoe Edition J THE PALOMINO, Open Mic THE RESERVE, Belly dancing with Safar Band RIVELLE’S RIVER GRILL, Jam Night feat. Truck Mills and special guests THE ROADHOUSE, Studebaker John J J WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY (PULLMAN), Lil Yachty [Sold out]

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INDIE POP WILD CHILD

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elsey Wilson and Alexander Beggins met when they were hired to play in the backing band for Danish act the Migrant’s U.S. tour. Before long, the two Texans began writing catchy indie-pop tunes that would eventually provide the foundation for Wild Child. Based in Austin, Wild Child often features a seven-piece lineup when they tour — which they’ve done extensively over the past few years, growing a fan base drawn to the band’s bouncy but nuanced songs that aren’t shy on the ukulele. Their latest album, 2015’s Fools, featured a bigger sound, but not one that overpowers the irresistible mix of Wilson and Beggins trading vocals.

— MIKE BOOKEY Wild Child with Walker Lukens • Sun, Dec. 4, at 8 pm • $15 • All-ages • The Bartlett • 228 W. Sprague • thebartlettspokane.com • 747-2174 ZOLA, Sauce Policy

Friday, 12/2

ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, Fireside Music Series feat. Spare Parts Duo BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn J J THE BIG DIPPER, Cattywomp, Ragtag Romantics, Dionysus and the Revelry BOLO’S, Usual Suspects BOOMERS CLASSIC ROCK BAR & GRILL, Mojo Box CDA CASINO, Somebody’s Hero CURLEY’S, My Own Worst Enemy DEER PARK EAGLES, Honky Tonk-aGo-Go FEDORA PUB & GRILLE, Tommy G

FIZZIE MULLIGANS, YESTERDAYSCAKE HILLS’ RESTAURANT, Front Porch Trio IRON HORSE BAR, Uppercut THE JACKSON ST., The Non-Profits, the Sovereign Citizens MOOSE LOUNGE, Whack A Mole MULLIGAN’S BAR & GRILLE, Rusty Jackson NASHVILLE NORTH, Luke Jaxon, DJ Tom NORTHERN QUEST CASINO, DJ Patrick THE OBSERVATORY, Gemma Ray, Jip Skippy & the Unprepared PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, The Powell Brothers REPUBLIC BREWING CO., Lowest Pair

THE RESERVE, Soul Proprietor THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos feat. Christan Raxter & Steve Ridler J THE SHOP, DJ Teej THE PEARL, Jackal J THE PIN!, Lord of War, Altaira [late show, 9:30 pm] Ces Cru with DJ THay, F.M.G, Levi Miller and more THE ROADHOUSE, Chris Reiser and the Nerve VICTORY SPORTS HALL, Kicho ZOLA, Tell the Boys

Saturday, 12/3

ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, Fireside Music Series feat. Ron Greene J THE BARTLETT, Branches, Bristol

BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn J J BIG DIPPER, Johnny J & The Flat Foot Floogies record release BOLO’S, Usual Suspects BOOMERS CLASSIC ROCK BAR & GRILL, Mojo Box CDA CASINO, Somebody’s Hero CURLEY’S, My Own Worst Enemy FEDORA PUB & GRILLE, Kicho FIZZIE MULLIGANS, YESTERDAYSCAKE IRON HORSE BAR, Uppercut THE JACKSON ST., DJ Dave J KNITTING FACTORY, Pigs On The Wing, Dawn Of Life, Quarter Monkey LA ROSA CLUB, Open Jam MOOSE LOUNGE, Whack A Mole

MULLIGAN’S BAR & GRILLE, Truck Mills J NASHVILLE NORTH, Jeremy McComb’s Christmas Extravaganza with Jeremy McComb, Rick Huckaby and more NODLAND CELLARS TASTING ROOM, Jan Harrison, Doug Folkins, Danny McCollim NORTHERN QUEST, DJ Patrick PROSPECTORS, Chris Rieser and Jay Rawley Acoustic Duo THE RESERVE, Sammy Eubanks THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos feat. Christan Raxter & Steve Ridler J THE SHOP, Beholder SPOKANE ARENA, Wreck the Halls feat. Bret Michaels, Warrant, Jack Russell’s Great White, La Guns, Ratt and Dokken (see story on page 57) J THE PIN!, Naughty Or Nice feat. DJ Daethstar THE ROADHOUSE, Meghan Linsey, Jesse Quandt, Steve Starkey ZOLA, Tell the Boys

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Sunday, 12/4

J THE BARTLETT, Wild Child (see story on facing page), Walker Lukens CURLEY’S, Bo Kirk Benefit feat. Bad Monkey DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS, Jam Night with VooDoo Church LINGER LONGER LOUNGE, Open jam J NORTHERN QUEST CASINO, Paperback Writer: The Beatles Experience O’DOHERTY’S IRISH GRILLE, Live Irish usic THE ROADHOUSE, Bridget Vogel reunion concert ZOLA, Blake Braley Band

Monday, 12/5

J J THE BIG DIPPER, The Kyle Gass Band (see story on page 55), Hey! is for Horses, Supervillain J CALYPSOS COFFEE & CREAMERY, Open Mic EICHARDT’S, Monday Night Jam with Truck Mills RED ROOM LOUNGE, Open Mic with MJ The In-Human Beatbox ZOLA, Kellen Rowe

Tuesday, 12/6

BABY BAR, Open mic THE JACKSON ST., DJ Dave KELLY’S IRISH PUB, Arvid Lundin and Deep Roots LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Turntable Tuesday MIK’S, DJ Brentano J POOLE’S PUBLIC HOUSE (SOUTH HILL), DJ Charley RED ROOM LOUNGE, Tuesday Take-

over w/ Storme THE RESERVE, Hip Hop with DJ One THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Jam night with Gil Rivas THE PEARL, T.A.S.T.Y with DJs Freaky Fred, Beauflexx J THE PIN!, Face Your Maker, Kriminals, Jacob VanKnowe J THE PIN!, Artist Showcase hosted

by Ricky Deschamp ZOLA, Bucket List

Wednesday, 12/7

J BABY BAR, Friends of Mine, the Co-Founder, Funeral Homies GENO’S TRADITIONAL FOOD & ALES, Open Mic with T & T THE LANTERN TAP HOUSE, DJ Lydell LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Carey Brazil LUCKY’S IRISH PUB, DJ D3VIN3 NO-LI BREWHOUSE, Kori Ailene THE PALOMINO, Jason Michael Carroll RED ROOM LOUNGE, Hip Hop Is A Culture THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Piano Bar with Christan Raxter J THE PIN!, Famous Last Words, The Funeral Portrait, Versus Me THE PIN!, DJ Freaky Fred THE ROADHOUSE, Open mic with Vern Vogel and the Volcanoes ZOLA, The Bossame

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J THE OBSERVATORY, East Sherman 7” release show (see story on facing page) feat. Cold Blooded, Local Pavlov, Deformer, Dec. 8 J J THE BIG DIPPER, Flannel Math Animal live video shoot, Dec. 9 J J VESSEL COFFEE ROASTERS, The Sweeplings Christmas Concert, Dec. 9 J J THE BARTLETT, Night Moves, Dec. 10 J KNITTING FACTORY, Old Dominion, Steve Moakler, Dec. 10 J NORTHERN QUEST CASINO, KC and The Sunshine Band, Dec. 11 J KNITTING FACTORY, Russ, Dec. 14 J J INB PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, Chris Tomlin with Matt Redman, Dec. 15 J J THE BIG DIPPER, Itchy Sweater Christmas Party with Itchy Kitty, Dark White Light, the Hallows, Lucky Chase, Dec. 15 J J THE PIN!, The Nightmare Before Christmas feat. FAUS, Extortionist, Age of Nefilim (Official), Losing Skin, Reason For Existence, ROT MONGER, Narrow Minded, Dec. 16 J THE BIG DIPPER, September Mourning, Mercy Brown, Elephant Gun Riot, Dec. 16 J J THE BARTLETT, Christmas Special feat. Mama Doll, Mini Murders, Curran Long, Lavoy, Catastrophe, Dec. 16 J THE HIVE, MarchFourth, Dec. 16 J KNITTING FACTORY, Robert Cray Band, Dec. 16 J J KNITTING FACTORY, Blue Christmas with Sammy Eubanks, Spokane Dan and the Blues Blazers, Brisket Blues Revue, Dec. 16 THE OBSERVATORY, Yardsss, Tony Brown, Maidenhair, Matt Dargan, Dec. 16

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

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Cicily Thompson’s “Loss for Words,” a video still collage that will be on display at RALLY.

COMMUNITY IN THIS TOGETHER

Many of us hoped to see the deep social divide spurred by the 2016 election start to subside by now. Yet it only seems to have grown deeper. The creative minds with local arts organization Terrain quickly saw a local need to safely express and unite to share these post-election feelings, no matter where on the spectrum one’s thoughts may fall. So after putting out the call for anyone and everyone to submit local art — poems, drawings, songs, letters, collage, dance, sculpture, paintings, etc.

— the culmination is RALLY. Each person who contributes to this collaborative community display gets a 1-by-1 foot space to show their piece, and all submissions are on view through Inauguration Day, Jan. 20. If you didn’t have time or weren’t aware of the open call for submissions, those who attend the opening night reception can also create art on-site.

— CHEY SCOTT RALLY • Tue, Dec. 6, from 6-8 pm • Free • All-ages • Terrain • 304 W. Pacific • bit.ly/RALLYSpokane

MUSIC GET BACK THROWBACK

The Beatles have not been a band for more than 46 years. Even so, for new and longtime fans of the Fab Four who yearn to experience the insanity of Beatlemania, there are other options besides watching old concert footage or the band’s weird but fun films (A Hard Day’s Night comes to mind). With a decade of performing experience as a group, Paperback Writer: The Beatles Experience is probably about as good as it can possibly get without time travel.

Performing an array of songs spanning the band’s decade of great tunes — from The Ed Sullivan Show to their psychedelic phase — this is a show for all Beatles lovers to experience.

— HAYLEE MILLIKAN Paperback Writer: The Beatles Experience • Sun, Dec. 4, at 4 and 7:30 pm • $27.50/$37.50/$47.50 • Northern Quest Resort & Casino • 100 N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights • northernquest. com • 481-2800

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ARTS FIRES THAT INSPIRE

Creative inspiration is found everywhere. Come and learn what inspires a diverse list of local artists working in a range of disciplines at an event hosted in the inspiring setting of the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, and moderated by Spokane-based Washington State Poet Laureate Tod Marshall, unmistakably a creative in his own right. Participating in the discussion are painter Mel McCuddin, printmaker Mary Farrell, writer Shawn Vestal and musicians Liz Rognes, Himes Alexander and Matt Slater. During the panel, Marshall offers prompts like “Does art come from within, or from without?” and “What is inspiration?” There’s a no-host beer and wine reception at this event from Humanities Washington and the Washington State Arts Commission. Go get inspired.

— CHEY SCOTT The Muse, the Angel, and the Duende • Fri, Dec. 2, from 6:30-8:15 pm • $10 suggested donation • The MAC • 2316 W. First • northwestmuseum.org

FILM ENDLESS SCIENCE

Besides the one and only Neil deGrasse Tyson, we can’t think of a better or more epic voice than Liam Neeson’s to take viewers on the interstellar journey featured in Black Holes: The Other Side of Science. This visual show offers a high-resolution simulated journey through the cosmos, outlining the current scientific understanding of black holes and bringing those theories to light on screen. SFCC’s state-of-the-art planetarium hosts the show for several public screenings this weekend, projecting images onto its dome.

Also catch a short introduction to the local night sky before you watch the universe unfold before your eyes, traveling light-years away to the gigantic black hole at its center.

— HAYLEE MILLIKAN Planetarium Show: Black Holes • Dec. 1-4: Thu-Fri at 6 pm, Fri at 7:30 pm, Sat at 5 pm, Sun at 3 pm • $3-$6; advance purchase suggested • Spokane Falls Community College • 3410 W. Fort George Wright Dr. • 533-3569

MUSIC LOCAL CLASSICS

Since its inception more than a decade ago, the Music in Historic Homes concert series has offered locals the chance to view some of our city’s most stately and storied homes, while also enjoying live classical music in an intimate setting. Perhaps even more festive and romantic this time of year, the upcoming second program in the current four-concert series for 2016-17 features a selection of holiday tunes performed by local musicians in the stately Larsen-Lindholm House. Built in 1909, the Arts and Crafts-style home was originally constructed for the cool price of $8,000. Its current homeowners previously hosted a concert for the series back in 2004.

— CHEY SCOTT Music in Historic Homes • Wed, Dec. 7 and Thu, Dec. 8, at 3, 5 and 7 pm (select times sold out) • $25 • Larsen-Lindholm House • 1243 S. Wall • spokanehistoricconcerts.org

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BENEFIT

THE BORGEN PROJECT INFORMATIONAL/FUNDRAISING EVENT The Borgen Project is a nonprofit based out of Seattle that advocates for those suffering from global poverty. This meeting introduces local residents to the nonprofit’s work and how to get involved. Dec. 1, 6-8 pm. Spokane Valley Library, 12004 E. Main. Also Dec. 2 at Cheney Library. (496-8173) COMMUNITY CANCER FUND HOLIDAY BASH The second annual benefit includes complimentary food, beverage, a live performance by Kelley James and band, and late-night dancing to DJ Patrick. Proceeds benefit the Community Cancer Fund and its mission of fighting cancer in the Inland Northwest. Dec. 2, 7 pm-1 am. $125-

$350. Davenport Grand Hotel, 333 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. ccfbash.com HOLIDAY DROP & SHOP Need to get some holiday shopping done?

Have kids that you don’t want tagging along? Drop them off at TAC for an evening of games, movies, snacks, crafts and more with certified baby sitters and adult supervision. Dec. 3, 5:30-9 pm. $15/child. Theater Arts for Children, 2114 N. Pines. theaterartsforchildren.weebly.com (995-6718) KEEP THE CHANGE BluBerry is donating all of their tips from now through December to ACCOIN to aid in its mission of serving, education, supporting, and advocating for local families affected by childhood cancer. Blu Berry Frozen Yogurt, 3007 E. 57th Ave. acco. org/inlandnw (443-6588)

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I SAW YOU LOOKING FOR HONESTY If you were the gentleman that hit a man on his bike on Progress and Broadway (crosswalk at Progress Elementary) Monday evening Nov 21, approx 6 pm, you were kind enough to stop and check on him, but did not share any information for him to contact you back. Be honest and contact us for insurance info, his jaw is most likely broken and he does not hold medical insurance. Do the right thing and be a man, email behonestspovalley@gmail.com OF COURSE ON THANKSGIVING In my dreams all night you popped in and out but when I woke up I knew not what the where about. I enjoyed seeing the kids and you in a soft light, got to play with them again so I guess I can be thankful this year for that.

God blessing me with comfort when all I wanted was you guys for the holidays. O well you matched your pattern again this year. Here for a few months but gone before the holidays, last time it was 7 months of no communication before you came back. It promises to be a longer absence this time though, Once again I’m left wondering why you’d expect me to trust such a flighty person, in fact how could you expect that? A Here today gone tomorrow attitude creates no trust and leaves only holes in hearts. No more anger, I’m finding my peace. No more sadness, I’m still alive and living for me. I thought this would break me but it has only made me stronger. I pray everyday for your family though you are no longer the only ones. Life is Good...Happy Holidays!! Best wishes from B to C

FROM 1500 MILES AWAY Believing there were greener pastures, I said goodbye and headed west, thinking I would never return to you. For seven years, I saw my heart endure a desolate wasteland that could quickly turn into a flood plain within seconds. I wanted sunshine but not at the expense of so many dry days. I wanted warmth but not without the white Christmases I came to know and love so much for 13 years. I could no longer hear the soothing calm of the flowing river; witness breathtaking beauty of the snow

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do without you, I’m still figuring that one out. But I’m trying my best. To the moon and back, I hope you are well. And simply put I miss you everyday.

CHEERS TO THE INLANDER You guys rock! I have written several I saw you/Cheers and everyone has been word for word what I wrote. Thank you guys for letting my voice

covered mountains; listen to the gentle rain beating on the windowsill; admire the lush vegetation that surrounded you; hear strangers greet me with a warm smile. One day, I awakened, and as I heard the unbearable noise of 1 million+ cars and saw blank stares on millions of strangers faces, I realized I should have never left you. So I came back, unsure if you would give me another chance. However, you welcomed me with warm, open arms and gave me another chance at loving you. I promise I will never leave you again. I went in search of greener pastures only to discover YOU were those green pastures all along. Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like Spokane. It’s good to be home.

YOU SAW ME HOW? It still feels like yesterday, and the photos don’t help. Liquor always lead me down the wrong path, and now you’re gone. The look in my eyes is something I have never seen photographed. Happiness, love, serenity. I’ll never forget dimly lit red hallways like the one we met in. It was doomed from the start. Everyone said it.

How foolish of me to think we could have proved them wrong. The bottles have dried, yet my eyes haven’t. I don’t know what I will

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be heard unedited. Though the articles(?) have not necessarily served their intended purposes it still warms the heart to see them in your paper and know that its my metaphorical baby in there. Granted I swear a lot more in person and I’m better on the page since I can condense my thoughts but its still nice to know no one is sitting there reading this with a big black out marker in there hand. Cheers Mates HAPPY BIRTHDAY LOVE Happy Birthday Beverley, the one I adore // since I met you, you’ve been 44 // I’ve loved you every day and every day I love you more // Even this special birthday will not be the cure // For the passion I feel to love you another 44. // Happy Birthday Sweetheart!!

TO THE LGBT COMMUNITY My heart is so heavy and goes out to all of you as I know at this place in time, there is much fear, anxiety and uncertainty within this wonderful and awesome community. I just want all of you to know that in me, you have an ally and a friend. I will always be there for you; defending you; standing by your side; fighting for your rights. I will always be someone in whom you can trust and confide. If you need a safety net, I will be there for you.

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Thank you to whoever is responsible for this good deed, not only for removing the burden of disposing leaves but also for proving in a time of uncertainty that people generally are good. Happy Holidays and I hope that your good karma comes full circle .

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TO THOSE TOO BUSY PROTESTING That you overlooked Sunday was a day for one of your own! It was Transgender Day of Remembrance but so many people were so focused on the protest of the previous day that this day was forgotten. For shame for this! Want to change the world? STOP protesting and START doing something TRULY worthy!!! You can start by remembering significant days!!!!! Want your voice heard?

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every one of you, because my polydactal cat fell off the roof and broke her leg. Not ONE of you seemed like you cared about anything other than a payday! I made no indication that we could not pay for anything she needed done. I did not ask for prices, yet I was interrupted before I could even complete my reason for the call, with a list of fees and how they must be paid in order for the cat to be seen. The cat has a broken leg. I don’t CARE what your prices are, or I would not be calling. What I was listening for was a semblance of empathy,

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2.0PEN MIC Local comedy night hosted

by Ken McComb. Thursdays, from 8-10 pm. Free. The District Bar, 916 W. First Ave. facebook.com/districtbarspokane FIRST THURSDAY COMEDY Live standup comedy the first Thursday of every month in Impulse Nightclub at 8 pm (doors at 6 pm). Each edition of the show features funny local folks from around the region.

Ages 21+ . $10. Northern Quest Casino, 100 N. Hayford Rd. northernquest.com GUFFAW YOURSELF! Open mic comedy night; Thursdays at 10 pm. Free. Neato Burrito, 827 W. First Ave. (847-1234) JO KOY The weekly guest on The Adam Carolla Show podcast recently started his own podcast, The Koy Pond with Jo Koy. Dec. 1-3, 7:30 pm; also Dec. 2-3, 10:30 pm. $30-$42.50. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. (318-9998) AFTER DARK An adult-rated version of the Blue Door’s monthly, Friday show; on the first and last Friday of the month, at 10 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. bluedoortheatre.com (747-7045) BOONE STREET HOOLIGANS The allstudent written, directed and performed

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BODIES HUMAN: ANATOMY IN MOTION Mobius hosts six whole bodies, more than 100 individual organs, and transparent body slices that have been preserved through plastination, a technique that

replaces bodily fluids with reactive plastics. Exhibit runs through Dec. 31; hours are Tu-Sat, 10 am-5 pm and Sun, 11 am-5 pm. (Recommended for ages 10+.) $15.

Mobius Science Center, 331 N. Post. mobiusspokane.org (509-321-7137) CHRISTMAS TREE ELEGANCE The annual display and raffle of 18 themed, custom-decorated trees supports the Spokane Symphony. Trees are displayed in the Davenport Hotel and River Park Square through Dec. 11. facebook.com/ ChristmasTreeElegance CITY OF CHENEY TREE LIGHTING CEREMONY Bring your family and friends for the annual tree lighting, holiday stories, refreshments, holiday music, and a visit from Santa. Dec. 1, 5:30 pm. Free. Cheney Library, 610 First St. (235-7333) HOLIDAY LIGHTS SHOW + JOURNEY TO THE NORTH POLE The 30th annual holiday event includes the “Journey to the North Pole” lake cruises. Lights are on display through Jan. 2; cruises depart nightly on the lake. $7.50-$22.50.

The Coeur d’Alene Resort, 115 S. Second. cdaresort.com (208-765-4000) COLFAX WINTER CELEBRATION Events include a parade, fireworks, visit from Santa, local vendors and family activities. The public can vote for their favorite decorated tree in the Colfax Library, on display through the month. Dec. 1. explorecolfax.com LOST EGYPT: ANCIENT SECRETS, MODERN SCIENCE Explore ancient Egypt with hands-on activities, human and animal mummies and real Egyptian artifacts. Through Jan. 6; open Tue-Sun, 10 am-5 pm (until 8 pm on Wed; half-price admission on Tue). $5-$10/admission.

Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture, 2316 W. First Ave. northwestmuseum.org OPERATION KIDSAFE: CHILD SAFETY EVENT Parents can get a bio-document of their child to have ready in case of an emergency. Dec. 1-2, 10 am-6 pm and Dec. 3, 10 am-4 pm. Free. Subaru of Spo-

kane, 423 W. Third Ave. (625-3200) SPOKANE VALLEY CELEBRATION OF LIGHTS Mayor Rod Higgins and members of the city council spread holiday cheer by reading the classic poem “’Twas the Night Before Christmas.” Also includes music, visit from Santa and more. Dec. 1, 5:30 pm. At the former University City Mall site, 10512 E. Sprague.

TREE OF SHARING For the 34th year, volunteers are available to help shoppers choose and purchase gifts for Spokane’s most at-risk citizens. This year there are 7,500 gift requests from the 57 participating community agencies. Tables located at River Park Square, NorthTown and Spokane Valley malls. Gift deadline is Sun, Dec. 11. (808-4919) WINTER BLESSING The annual event is highlighted by traditional dance, song and complimentary fry bread and huckleberry jam. Dec. 1, 6 pm. Free. Coeur d’Alene Casino, 37914 S Hwy 95. cdacasino.com (800-523-2467) FAMILY DANCE & POTLUCK Easy-tolearn line, circle, contra, and folk dances are taught by Susan Dankovich, accompanied by live music. No partners or experience required. Potluck at 6:30 pm with dance starting at 7. Dec 2, 6:30-8 pm. Free, donations accepted. St. John’s Cathedral, 127 E. 12th Ave. (533-9955) GINGERBREAD HOUSE BUILDING Take home your creation after this fun, nopressure gingerbread house build, with all materials supplied by the library. Dec. 2, 6:30-8:30 pm. Free. Millwood Masonic Center, 3219 N. Argonne. (893-8260) HOLIDAY LIGHTS HELICOPTER TOUR An evening flight over the Spokane Falls to experience the holiday lights from above. Call for reservations, tours available daily through Dec. 31. $75/person, in groups of three. Felts Field, 6105 E. Rutter Rd. Inlanhelicopters.com (534-9114) INVESTIGATING RIVERFRONT PARK’S HISTORY BEFORE EXPO Join Ashley Morton, archaeologist with Fort Walla

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(Recommended for ages 16+) Saturdays at 8 pm, through Dec. 17. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. (747-7045) MONDAY NIGHT COMEDY A weekly comedy open mic, hosted by Nick Cavasier. Sign-up at 7:30, show at 8 pm. Free.

The Reserve, 120 N. Wall. (598-8783) SPOKANE COMEDY’S STANDUP SHOWDOWN Comedians get a topic and have four minutes to perform; the crowd then votes for a winner. Tuesdays, from 8-10 pm. Free. The Observatory, 15 S. Howard. observatoryspokane.com (598-8933) OPEN MIC A free open mic night every Wednesday, starting at 8 pm. Doors open at 7 pm. Free. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com

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PANCAKE BREAKFAST FUNDRAISER A breakfast supporting the Sports 4 the Blind baseball team. Dec. 3, 8-10 am. $10. Applebee’s, 9634 N. Newport Hwy. (263-3281) AUCTION FOR AN ANGEL A benefit for the Josie Freier Scholarship Fund, with lunch and silent/live auction. Dec. 4, 1-4 pm. $20. CenterPlace Regional Event Center, 2426 N. Discovery Place Dr. bit. ly/2ezviy3 (863-6107) ICL HOLIDAY PARTY At the Idaho Conservation League’s annual holiday party, enjoy craft beer and wine, complimentary appetizers, a raffle, and updates on conservation in Idaho. Dec. 7, 5-8 pm.

Free and open to the public. Idaho Pour Authority, 203 Cedar. (208-265-9565)

Walla Museum, and Megan Duvall, City/ County of Spokane Historic Preservation Officer, as they present research and resources to learn about the area’s 90year history from the 1870s to the 1960s.

Dec. 2, 4 pm. Free. Downtown Spokane Library, 906 W. Main. spokanelibrary.org JOURNEY TO BETHLEHEM The annual nativity display features 100+ live actors and animals. Dec. 2-4; Fri 6-8 pm, Sat-Sun, 5-8 pm. Free. South Hill Seventh Day Adventist Church, 5607 S. Freya St. jtbspokane.org (448-6425) KENDALL YARDS ARTISAN FEST The holiday marketplace hosts local artisans selling handmade clothing, jewelry, art and crafts. Dec. 2, 4-8 pm and Dec. 3, 10 am-4 pm. See link for complete list of vendors. Free to attend. bit.ly/2gln4dn LUCKY CHRISTMAS: A FANCY AFFAIR The local retail shop invites the community to celebrate the season with champagne, shopping from local vendors and treats. Dec. 2, 5-9 pm. Lucky Vintage & Pretty Things, 1930 S. Inland Empire Way. bit.ly/2f9o5TP PICKIN’ CHRISTMAS VINTAGE & ARTISAN SHOW A juried event filled with vendors throughout the Northwest, offering vintage/antique items, home decor, handcrafts, furniture, jewelry and more. Dec. 3, 9 am-6 pm; Dec. 4, 10 am-4 pm. $7 weekend admission; kids 12 and under free. Greyhound Park & Event Center, 5100 Riverbend Ave. pastblessingsfarm.com BREAKFAST WITH SANTA Enjoy pancakes, sausage, juice and coffee, along with photos with Santa, face painting and story time. Dec. 3, 9-10:30 am. $3$5. First Church of Nazarene, 9004 N. Country Homes Blvd. (467-8986) DECK THE FALLS The Cutter hosts its annual local artisan and craft show. Dec. 3, 10 am-4 pm. Cutter Theatre, 302 Park St, Metaline Falls, Wash. cuttertheatre.com (509-446-4108)

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by Two Woman Vintage Goods offers antique/vintage home decor, baked goods and more. Dec. 3, 10 am-5 pm and Dec. 4, 10 am-4 pm. $5/weekend admission. Moran Prairie Grange, 6006 S. Palouse Hwy. twowomenvintagegoods.com GAMES & DANCING CANDY CANES A night of games, prizes and dancing, with all proceeds supporting Friends Across Cheney Equally (F.A.C.E.)! Admission includes food, bingo, an ugly sweater contest, silent auction and more. Dec. 3, 4-8 pm. $3-$5. Wren Pierson Community Center, 615 Fourth St. bit.ly/2fykT1K (590-6358) HOLIDAY GIFT GALA The 11th annual event hosts two local authors and 16 artists and find craftspeople, who join the Dahmen’s 22 resident artists to offer their creations to the public. Dec. 3, 10 am-4 pm. Free. Dahmen Barn, 419 N. Park Way, Uniontown, Wash. artisanbarn.org (229-3414) SCRAPS HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE Visit the shelter and enjoy cookies, cocoa, treats, games, and photos with Santa.

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SCRAPS Regional Animal Shelter, 6815 E. Trent. spokanecounty.org/scraps ICE PRINCESS PARTY Come meet the Ice Queen, the Snow Princess and their reindeer in a winter wonderland.

Admission includes photos with the princesses as they sing songs and tell stories of their adventures. Dec. 3, 10 am-4 pm. $6. Ritter’s Garden & Gift, 10120 N. Division. (467-5258) JINGLE BELL FUN RUN YMCA of the Palouse hosts this annual event, offering costume contests, holiday-themed snacks after the race, a tree lighting ceremony and more. Registration at 3:15 pm, race at 4 pm. Dec. 3. Pullman. palouseymca.org KOOTENAI COUNTY WINTER MARKET The last market of 2016 offers local produce, honey, meats, cheeses, eggs, baked goods and jams, along with handmade gifts and crafts. Dec. 3, 10 am-3 pm. Kootenai County Fairgrounds, 4056 N. Government Way. (208-765-4969) PULLMAN HOLIDAY FEST Events include a pancake breakfast (7 am), music fest, food drive, afternoon tea, fun run, live music, and tree lighting ceremony. Dec. 3; more details at pullmanchamber.com.

DOWNTOWN FAMILY SKATE DAY Washington Trust and Riverfront Park invite the community to enjoy free ice skating ($3.50/rental). Also enjoy $1 hot cocoa, skating lessons and a Charlie Brown dance contest at 1 pm. Dec. 4, 11 am-4:45 pm. Riverfront Park, 705 N. Howard. downtownspokane.org PAJAMA STORYTIME Hear local authors read their favorite picture books at a special pajama storytime. Dec. 6, 6:30-7:30 pm. Free. Spokane Valley Library, 12004 E. Main. (893-8400) RALLY Terrain invites the community to create a piece of artwork reflects post-election emotions. Each person

gets a 1-by-1 foot space, and art will be up through Inauguration Day, Jan. 20.

Opening reception/celebration on Dec. 6, 6-8 pm. Free. Terrain, 304 W. Pacific. bit.ly/RALLYSpokane SPOKANE MOVES TO AMEND THE CONSTITUTION Gather with local residents to discuss upcoming activities and actions in the struggle to reduce, minimize, end the powerful influence of money in our political processes.

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Liberty Park Methodist Church, 1526 E. 11th Ave. (276-6549) VETERANS MEMORIAL TRIBUTE The Army National Guard Honor Guard conducts a Veterans Memorial Tribute in honor of Pearl Harbor Day. It will consist of a reading of names, a ceremonial flag fold/presentation and a firing party. Dec. 7, 11 am. Free and open to the public. Washington State Veterans Cemetery, 21702 W. Espanola Rd. dva.wa.gov/cemetery (532-2777) HOLIDAYS AT THE HEARTH Learn more about Transitions’ shelter for women and how you can help during the holidays. Dec. 8, 4:30-5:30 pm.

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PLANETARIUM SHOW: BLACK HOLES The production features high-resolution visualizations of cosmic phenomena. Showing Dec. 1-4 (times vary). $6/adults, $3/CCS students and kids 3-18. SFCC, 3410 W. Ft. George Wright Dr. spokanefalls.edu/planetarium BING CROSBY HOLIDAY FILM FEST The 11th annual celebration of Crosby’s life and career includes screenings of his best-loved films, a live performance (6:15 pm) by nephew Howard Crosby, and more. Films include: White Christmas (10:30 am, 7:30 pm), The Bells of St. Mary’s (1 pm), Birth of the Blues (4 pm). Dec. 3, 10:30 am-7:30 pm. $10. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague. bingcrosbyadvocates.org PLANETARIUM SHOW: EARTH, MOON & SUN An educational show for kids. Dec. 3, 3 pm. $6/adults; $3/ students; ages 3-18. SFCC, 3410 W. Fort George Wright Dr. spokanefalls.edu/ planetarium THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL Celebrate Christmas with a muppet retelling of Dickens’ classic. Rated G. Dec. 3, 2 pm. Free. South Hill Library, 3324 S. Perry. (444-5331) SPECIAL BLOOD A screening of Natalie Metzger’s new documentary, which follows four patients living with a rare and life-threatening blood disease called Hereditary Angioedema (HAE).

Dec. 5, 6:30 pm. $10. Spokane Valley Mall Regal Cinemas, 14700 E. Indiana. tugg.com/events/special-blood-3hky TOTALLY TUBULAR TUESDAY: HOLIDAY FILMS The Tuesday night classic film series gets festive, with screenings of Love Actually (Dec. 6), The Polar Express (Dec. 13) and Elf (Dec. 20). Tuesdays at 7 pm. $2.50. Garland Theater, 924 W. Garland. garlandtheater.com BURN COUNTRY Presented as part of the New York Film Critics Series.

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A female friend of mine wanted to get married, but her boyfriend was resistant. He’d been married before, with disastrous results. He eventually married her — not because he wanted to be married but because it meant so much to her. Initially, she felt bad about this. She had to give up her romantic dream of getting married because somebody would want to be tied to her forever. Do men just marry women to make us happy?

—Wondering Woman

Picture a zookeeper coming in in the morning and going, “Crap — we’ve got a new giraffe. How did he get in here?”

On one level, a man pining for a life in sexual captivity makes about as much sense as a wild animal breaking in to a zoo. Evolutionary psychologists David Buss and David Schmitt note that we humans evolved to choose between two different sexual strategies — short-term and long-term. Women typically benefit more from a “long-term sexual strategy” — a commitment model, i.e., getting men to stick around to invest in their children. Men often benefit more from a “short-term sexual strategy” — a lack-ofcommitment model, i.e., sticking it into a long line of sexfriends. That’s because a man can have sex with thousands of women and never end up pregnant with something that needs to be fed, clothed, and sent to hipster day care.

Though a man gets more shots to pass on his genes with the short-term “I love a parade!” approach, it’s sometimes more advantageous for him to opt for a long-term strategy. It’s a huge time-, energy-, and resource-suck to perpetually be on the hunt.

Also, Buss explains, because “highly desirable women” can hold out for commitment, men can get a much better woman if they’re willing to go for a long-term thing (buying the relationship stroganoff instead of living off the free samples in the supermarket).

Whether to commit generally doesn’t play out in men’s heads in such clear costbenefit terms — like calculations on whether to go all in on pork futures. It’s emotion that pushes them toward commitment — loving a woman who happens to insist on a commitment and wanting to make her happy. Economist Robert H. Frank calls love ”a solution to the commitment problem.” Mushywushy feelings are what keep you with that special someone — instead of running off the moment somebody who’s objectively a better deal moves in next door or your beloved is tossing their cookies on the side of the road: “Bye, hon…hope somebody nice comes along to hold your hair back!”

So a man’s being willing to officially take his penis off the market — even if he isn’t particularly hot on the idea of marriage — is a really big deal. There are two major reasons you spend the rest of your life with one person: Either you realize you love them more than you love your freedom or you’re serving a sentence for a string of really bad felonies.

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My wife isn’t smart. She also doesn’t read books or newspapers or know anything about current events or politics. I knew that when I married her, but we were both kids, and I thought it was kinda sweet and funny. Fifteen years later, it bothers and embarrasses me. I still love her, but I’m depressed by the idea of spending the rest of my life with someone who can’t share some of what I see as life’s basic pleasures —Hating Myself For Sounding Snobby It’s something of an attraction killer when you look deep into a woman’s eyes — and feel pretty sure you can see clear out the back of her head.

Yes, 15 years ago, you pledged to spend forever with this woman — surely intending to follow through, despite how she probably makes major life decisions by consulting fortune cookies. The truth is, we can lack foresight when we’re younger. (As late as eighth grade, I announced to my parents with great gravitas: “Roller-skating is my life!”)

Though you care about her, what you’re missing — being similar in essential areas — is called “assortative mating.” Psychologist Michelle Shiota notes that “studies have repeatedly found that similarity between romantic partners in domains such as socioeconomic status, educational background, age, ethnicity, religion, physical attractiveness, intelligence, attitudes, and values predicts higher levels of marital satisfaction and lower likelihood of separation and divorce.”

Sure, you could focus on what you love about her and try to get your intellectual needs met elsewhere. However, if what makes you feel alive and connected to somebody is engaging intellectually, this might just be a bridge too far — being with someone who believes the Electoral College is where your 18-year-old niece is going next fall to study bioengineering. n ©2016, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. • Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405 or email AdviceAmy@aol.com (www.advicegoddess.com)

68 INLANDER DECEMBER 1, 2016

EVENTS | CALENDAR ELF: THE SINGALONG Enjoy a screening of this new holiday classic, and sing along to all the familiar holiday tunes with the rest of the audience. Dec. 8, 6:30 pm. $5. Panida Theater, 300 N. First Ave. panida.org (208-255-7801)

FOOD & DRINK

12 ALES OF CHRISTMAS The 20th annual winter beer fest offers guests 12, 8-oz. samples of seasonal brews, along with a holiday buffet, ugly sweater competition and a live DJ. Dec. 3, 6:30 pm. $55. Capone’s, 751 N. 4th, CdA. bit. ly/2gj0hQ1 (208-667-4843) MEET THE FARMER TASTING EVENT Local food producers include: Somkhit Thai, Prairie Pantry, Angelina’s and Petunia’s. Dec. 3, 11 am-3 pm. Free. Petunia’s Marketplace, 2010 N. Madison.

PetuniasMarket.com TURKEY & TUNES A farm-to-tablestyle turkey dinner and festive concert

by Sean and Shannon Siemen, with a dinner menu by Chef LJ Klink. Dec. 4, 4:30-7:30 pm. $25-$50. Mont Lamm Events, 7501 Enoch Rd. (276-7636) FIVE: A FOOD & BEER PAIRING Bellwether and the Inland Northwest Culinary Academy host five chefs who’ve created five small plates plus dessert, served with beer pairings. Dec. 5, 5:30 pm. $25. Bellwether Brewing Co., 2019 N. Monroe. bit.ly/2gqjsn0 CHRISTMAS TREE ELEGANCE HOLIDAY LUNCHEON The gala luncheon with Spokane Symphony music director Eckart Preu and 10 members of the orchestra includes performances of popular holiday favorites, along with a cork pull, prizes and more. Proceeds benefit the Spokane Symphony. Dec. 6 and 7, from 11 am-1 pm. $50. Davenport Hotel, 10 S. Post St. facebook.com/ChristmasTreeElegance (800-899-1482) COOKING CLASS: CHRISTMAS TREATS Join Chef Randee as she teaches you to make a number of Christmas goodies that are perfect for gatherings and gifts. Dec. 7, 6-8 pm. $40. Gourmet Way, 8222 N. Government Way. gourmetwayhayden.com

MUSIC

SPOKANE SYMPHONY: THE NUTCRACKER The Symphony celebrates the holidays with its annual performance of the classic story by E.T.A. Hoffman. Featuring dancers from the State Street Ballet, and dancers from region. Dec. 1-3 at 7:30 pm, Dec. 3-4 at 2 pm. $12.50-$75. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. spokanesymphony.org (624-1200) COEUR D’ALENE SYMPHONY The symphony’s holiday concert features a program of works by Brahms, holiday favorites and a sing-along. Dec. 2 at 7:30 pm, Dec. 3 at 2 pm. $10-$27.

Kroc Center, 1765 W. Golf Course Rd. cdasymphony.org (208-667-1865) JOY TO THE WORLD Spokane Choral Artists present their holiday concert with joyful music selections from around the world. Dec. 2, 7:30-9:30 pm. $12-$18. Salem Lutheran, 1428 W. Broadway. spokanechoralartists.com PALOUSE CHORAL SOCIETY: A BRITISH ISLES CHRISTMAS Join the Palouse Choral Society for an evening of seasonal music born in the British Isles. Dec. 2 at 7:30 pm, Dec. 4 at 4 pm. $8-$15. St. Boniface Catholic Church,

207 S. St. Boniface St. (208-352-0201) PRESIDIO BRASS HOLIDAY CONCERT Drawn from the Yamaha Performing Ensemble’s CD “Christmas Day,” selections include “Silent Night,” “White Christmas,” and more. Dec. 2, 7:30-9:30 pm. $9-$18; WSU students free w/ID. Jones Theatre at Daggy Hall, WSU Pullman. performingarts.wsu.edu SPOKANE ACCORDION ENSEMBLE CHRISTMAS CONCERT The group presents its “Sing-Along Sounds of the Holidays” concert. Dec. 2, 7-9 pm. $10 suggested donation. St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, 316 E. 24th Ave. (747-6677) JOY TO THE WORLD Spokane Choral Artists present their holiday concert with selections from around the world. Dec. 3, 7:30-9:30 pm. $12-$18.

St. Thomas Moore, 505 W. St. Thomas More Way. spokanechoralartists.com PAPERBACK WRITER: THE BEATLES EXPERIENCE Concert by the Beatles tribute band, with shows at 4 pm and 7:30 pm. Dec. 4. $28/$38/$48. Northern Quest Casino, 100 N. Hayford Rd. northernquest.com (509-242-7000) THE PLAZA CHRISTMAS BALL An evening of ballroom and swing dancing, featuring the MasterClass Big Band.

Doors at 6, lesson at 6:30, dancing at 7 pm. Dec. 4, 6:30-10 pm. $18-$22. Skate Plaza, 5685 N. Pioneer Dr. cdaballroomdancing.com (208-661-0262) STRING MUSIC FOR CHRISTMAS Featuring music performed by the NIC Cardinal Chamber Orchestra. Dec. 4, 7 pm.

Free. CdA First Presbyterian Church, 521 Lakeside Ave. nic.edu (208-769-3276) GONZAGA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA A concert featuring guest cello soloist Amit Peled. Conducted by Kevin Hekmatpanah, the program includes works

by Franck and Elgar. Dec. 6, 7:30-9 pm. $10-$14. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. (624-1200) MUSIC IN HISTORIC HOMES An intimate classical concert, with holiday favorites, by Yi-chun Chen and David Dutton, in the historic Larson-Lindholm House (1243 S. Wall). Dec. 7 and 8, with concerts at 3, 5 and 7 pm. $25. spokanehistoricconcerts.org

THEATER

ALL IS CALM A retelling of the 1914 Christmas Truce during WWI. Through Dec. 24; Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $26-$32. Modern Theater Spokane, 174 S. Howard. themoderntheater.org A CHRISTMAS CAROL The annual production features larger-than-life ghost puppets, colorful costumes, lighting, music and dance. Dec 1-11, Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $5-$15. U. of Idaho Hartung Theater, 6th & Stadium Way. uidaho.edu/class/theatre THE CHRISTMAS SHOW Ellen Travolta joins husband Jack Bannon, sister Margaret Travolta, and musicians Katie Strohmaier and Scott Steed, for the fourth-annual Christmas revue. Thorugh Dec. 18, Thu-Sat, 7:30 pm and Sun, 5 pm. $27.50. Coeur d’Alene Resort, 115 S. Second. cdachristmas.com EURYDICE Playwright Sarah Ruhl reimagines the myth of Orpheus through the eyes of heroine, Eurydice. Dec. 1, 3, 8-9 at 7:30 pm, Dec. 3 and 10 at 2 pm. $5-$10. Wadleigh Theatre, WSU Pullman. performingarts.wsu.edu FOREVER PLAID: PLAID TIDINGS A retro-pop Christmas musical. Through

Dec. 18, Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $22-$30. Spokane Civic Theatre, 1020 N. Howard. (325-2507) ‘TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS A joyful tribute to the holiday season. Dec. 2-18, Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $24-$31. Modern Theater Coeur d’Alene, 1320 E. Garden Ave. themoderntheater.org (455-7529) NORTHWOODS PERFORMING ARTS: TINSEL TOWN A musical celebration of all that is Christmas, with chorale, ensemble and solo performances. Dec. 2-3, 6, 8-10, 6:30-9:30 pm. Dining service at 6:30, show at 7:30 pm. $10-$35.

Circle Moon Theater, Hwy 211 off Hwy 2., Newport. (208-448-1294) THE LITTLEST ANGEL StageWest Community Theatre presents a radio theatre production based on the story

by Charles Tazewell. Dec. 2-11, Fri-Sat at 7 pm, Sun at 3 pm. Dinner theater Dec. 11, 6 pm ($30). $5-$12. Marketplace, 1011 First St., Cheney. (299-2649) A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS The Peanuts gang perform their annual production. Dec. 3-4, 10-11, times vary. $5-$10. Spokane Civic Theatre, 1020 N. Howard. spokanecivictheatre.com A CHRISTMAS WITH C.S. LEWIS The writer gives an informal talk about the meaning of Christmas. Dec. 4, 2 pm. $17-$22. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague. bingcrosbytheater.com 10-MINUTE PLAY FEST UI Theatre’s annual festival, featuring all original work directed and performed by students.

Dec. 5-7. $10. The Forge Theater, 404 Sweet Ave, Moscow. (208-885-2558)

ARTS

18TH SMALL ARTWORKS INVITATIONAL The annual show features 200+ new artworks by 32 regional artists that are all smaller than 12-inches by 12-inches. Dec. 2-Jan. 7; opening reception Dec. 2, from 5-8 pm. Gallery open daily from 11 am-6 pm (except 12/25-26). Art Spirit Gallery, 415 Sherman Ave. theartspiritgallery.com ANNUAL OPEN STUDIO Bill & Kathy Kostelec welcome all to their 7th annual photography open studio. Dec. 2, 5-9 pm and Dec. 3-4, 1-5 pm. Free. Cherry Street Studios, 1123 S. Cherry St. cherryststudios.com (868-8910) LR MONTGOMERY OPEN HOUSE Meet and visit with artist LR Montgomery at his studio/gallery. Dec. 2, 5-9 pm, Dec. 3, 10 am-9 pm, Dec. 4, 12-5 pm. Free.

LR Montgomery Studio & Gallery, 428 E. 21st. LRMontgomery.com (624-0261) FIRST FRIDAY Art galleries and businesses across downtown Spokane and beyond host receptions and showcase new displays of art. Dec. 2, 5-8 pm. Free.

Details at Inlander.com/FirstFriday.

WORDS

3 MINUTE MIC Auntie’s first Friday poetry open mic, with featured reader Darrien Mack. Open mic readers can share up to 3 minutes’ worth of poetry.

Dec. 2, 8-9:30 pm. Free. Auntie’s, 402 W. Main. (838-0206) CREATIVITY! THE MUSE, THE ANGEL, AND THE DUENDE A panel on creative inspiration, moderated by Washington State Poet Laureate Tod Marshall, with Spokane artists. Dec. 2, 6:30-8 pm. $10 suggested donation. The MAC, 2316 W. First. northwestmuseum.org n

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DECEMBER 1, 2016 INLANDER 69

APPLE CUP 2016 STORY AND PHOTOS BY YOUNG KWAK

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y halftime of the 109th Apple Cup, some of the Cougar faithful who’d come to Pullman hoping to see Washington State win their way into their first-ever appearance in the Pac-12 Championship game were already heading for the exits. Washington came out quick, scoring four touchdowns in the first quarter to put themselves up 28-3 and didn’t look back.

UW’s Jake Browning threw for 292 yards and three touchdowns as UW (111 overall, 8-1 Pac-12) topped WSU (8-4 overall, 7-2 Pac-12) 45-17.

WSU quarterback Luke Falk struggled, throwing for 269 yards and one touchdown and three interceptions. In his final home game, WSU receiver Gabe Marks caught 11 passes for 111 yards and a touchdown. But the Cougar offense was only able to rush for 65 yards compared to 168 yards for the Huskies.

There was a faint glimmer for the Cougs when, down 35-17 toward the end of the third quarter, they marched down the field. But faced with a fourth down at the Washington one-yard line, running back Gerard Wicks was unable to punch through for a touchdown, turning it over on downs. Washington then scored a field goal and another touchdown to seal the game.

WSU now waits for its bowl assignment, while Washington is set to play for the Pac-12 title on Friday, Dec. 2 at 6 pm in Santa Clara, CA, against Colorado. A win could put UW in the College Football Playoff. n

UW’s Dante Pettis (left) hauls in one of his two touchdowns. Head Coach Mike Leach (below) couldn’t get his offense, or quarterback Luke Falk (bottom right) rolling in the Apple Cup. Huskies senior Psalm Wooching (top right) holds up the Apple Cup Trophy.

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