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e too. Those two little words have changed how we discuss sexual harassment and assault in this country. Certainly, they’ve changed my perspective. When news broke in October about famed Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein — better known now as an alleged rapist and creep — I was struck by one thought: His is an exceptional brand of evil. He used power and influence to assault, and then silence, strong and talented women. Through their accounts, first in the New York Times, the utter terror and shame they felt was palpable.

But what I once thought was aberrant behavior I now realize is all too common. I have to thank the #MeToo movement for that, as well as the 14 local women who contributed to this week’s issue (beginning on page 20).

We invited the group — liberal and conservative, millennial and boomer — to reflect on this national discussion, and their personal stories will leave you angry, heartbroken, but most of all, inspired.

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The Price of Abuse Sexual harassment is destructive in every way; all men need to reflect on how they can help bring change

BY GEORGE NETHERCUTT

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he news of late has been full of stories of male celebrities’ sexual misdeeds, most aimed at women they’ve taken advantage of — often women who work for them or depend on them for their livelihoods. These women are victims, and such abuse must stop.

Comedian Bill Cosby’s problems of alleged sexual predation started it all — shining a light that has only grown brighter in the years since.

His alleged drugging of the women who’ve testified that he abused them was followed by revelations about Hollywood’s Harvey Weinstein, whose “outing” was followed by evidence of television star Charlie Rose’s penchant for taking short-term advantage of female underlings within his sphere of control. Rose was summarily fired from his lucrative CBS and PBS jobs amid the accusations. Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey was tagged for sexual advances against at least one younger male actor. There have been many others, as well.

Congress has not been spared, as assertions against Sen. Al Franken, Rep. John Conyers and Rep. Trent Franks surfaced. More allegations could be forthcoming. The actions taken against Cosby, Weinstein, Spacey and Rose were appropriate.

Conyers, the most senior member among House Democrats, announced his resignation, as did Franken and Franks.

Meanwhile, in perhaps the most notorious example, Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore has been accused of dating and taking advantage of underage girls (assertions he has denied). His Dec. 12 special Senate election became a referendum on whether people believed him or his accusers. President Donald Trump has also been accused of unacceptable behavior.

to human nature in its most base form.

I don’t agree.

It’s my belief that, when raised with solid values, most men model and live by the golden rule. For those perhaps more corruptible, they can now see the pain these women have gone through, along with knowing what violating normal behavior can do to a career and a life.

My argument is based on religious faith.

If a man is corruptible, he can be corrupted: If one is looking for a quick relationship outside marriage, it’s probably available. The key is not to be looking, and that’s where love, faith and propriety enter in. When we marry, we take an oath to be faithful and true to only our spouse.

When we pray the Lord’s Prayer, we pray not to be led “into temptation.” Succumbing to sexual

Succumbing to sexual temptation over a person of lower position in the workplace is the worst kind of abuse.

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en have likely taken advantage of their positions of power to abuse and manipulate women forever, in one form or another. What’s new here today is that women have had enough and are courageously speaking out. The world is starting to change. These men are finding out that their pursuit of short-term sexual encounters can ruin their reputation.

Perhaps this kind of publicity will create a strong deterrent effect in men who have this character flaw.

I once asked Nethercutt Civics Foundation college-aged Fellows if they thought everyone is corruptible. Most answered “yes,” that faced with temptations — of money, beautiful women or advanced position — most men would succumb

temptation over a person of lower position in the workplace is the worst kind of abuse. It’s bullying for self-satisfaction. And it always leads to pain for the victim and, more recently now, the perpetrator. It’s destructive behavior.

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ill Cosby, Charlie Rose, Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey and many others have all experienced severe consequences in the wake of recent revelations — job loss, divorce, pariah status. Acting on improper temptation carries a steep cost, as they are finding out.

If one is in an unhappy marriage, seek a dissolution. Apparently this doesn’t go without saying: Don’t cheat, and don’t abuse those under one’s work control.

Men should ask themselves that same question I asked the Fellows: Am I corruptible? The answer gets to the core of your character and will prompt a lot of necessary reflection. Today, in light of this movement, we can hope that such reflection will lead to the end of this kind of unacceptable behavior. n George Nethercutt served Spokane and the 5th District of Washington in Congress from 1995-2005.

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COMMENT | REFLECTIONS Perhaps it’s in the act of so much giving. In deeply considering what would make someone important to us happy, bringing a smile to their face. For a moment, putting others’ needs before our own and extending ourselves to and through each other.

Perhaps it’s in the cycle of death and rebirth. In the hope that blooms with the returning light that will overcome darkness — the transformation of our short and chilling days into longer and warmer ones.

Perhaps it’s in the promise of a new year. In finally giving ourselves permission to pause in reflection on time gone by, considering all we have failed to do well and how we aspire to do better.

Whatever the reason, in this stillness, I sit and cease, finally taking some respite in the calm.

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he world can feel like a pretty chaotic and turbulent place, sort of like my mind, which storms over loops of endless questions, scenarios and thoughts that rage like rivers running wild.

At times, those questions move outward, curiosity directed at the external but often I aim more at myself, an internal war constantly being waged within.

But there are some moments…

In the stillness of winter, amidst the chill of November and December, especially right after a heavy snowfall

blankets the world in a rather piercing silence, peace seems most possible to me. The snow and the season combine and can feel like a mother pleading with resistant children for a momentary détente, a cessation to all the agitated roving. She expertly puts us at ease, telling us to go rest inside and maneuvers us into bed, tucking us in tight before we even realize how quickly we fell in line and that she knew just what we needed.

Perhaps it’s the collective energy that emanates from the intentionality of families — those of birth and blood or those chosen. In gathering together with thanks for one another, valuing time and spending it joined to honor old and creating new traditions.

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Whatever the reason, in this stillness, I sit and cease, finally taking some respite in the calm. And when I am here, tranquility cannot help but give way to gratitude.

It pours from me because it must, as it always does in those moments when I come face to face with grace.

While I do work hard, many work harder and still have much less. While I do have plenty, others have more but couldn’t feel emptier. This awareness requests only one responsibility of me — that I share what has been given. When I concede this, I touch peace. Oh that I could stay in this place LETTERS of thankfulness and Send comments to giving, transformation editor@inlander.com. and reflection. I want to remain here, fixed in this knowledge, suspended in these moments, letting the beauty of this time, this place, this life, this experience, and this season wash so completely over me that I carry it forward forever, but that simply isn’t my reality, though I hold out hope that one day it well may be.

So if I could have one wish, this would be it: May peace be with you and also with you. When we need it, may it find us. May it settle in our longing and troubled hearts. May it envelope us in its warmth. And may it light us up from the inside-out so completely that we cannot help but extend it to another. n

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But where to start? And how to make the biggest impact with the resources you have?

Sherry Wallis, a former food bank director who works in STCU community relations, suggests three questions to help direct your philanthropic urges: 1. What’s important to you?

Look for organizations that align with your goals and values.

“Many people make charitable contributions from the heart,” Wallis says. “Something may have once touched their own lives, and now they are drawn to organizations that address those same needs.”

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Once you’ve identified some possible charities, research the organization to ensure it’s spending and management practices are transparent and efficient.

Visit GuideStar.org, the Better Business Bureau, official social media pages, or the nonprofit itself to gauge the reputation and effectiveness of a charitable organization.

“One of the absolute best ways to learn about a charitable organization is to volunteer,” Wallis says. “You’ll see whether they’re truly mission-focused.”

3. Should I volunteer or donate?

If you don’t have the budget to donate, then volunteer. If you don’t have the time to volunteer, then donate.

“Nonprofits are always looking for volunteers,” Wallis says, adding that the Volunteer Spokane website and the United Way of North Idaho keep a database of volunteer opportunities.

When donating, Wallis says, be sure your contributions never exceed what your household budget can handle. Rather than giving a lump sum, many donors set up modest, monthly subscription-style contributions to the nonprofit. That makes it easier on your pocketbook ― and more predictable for the organization to plan for future expenses.

Unrestricted donations, Wallis says, are particularly helpful, because a nonprofit can use them for monthly costs such as staffing and operations.

“If it’s easier to give money, then do so, and do it joyfully,” she says.

Gifts may be deductible Your donation to a recognized 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization may be tax deductible, so consult your tax adviser. Other, spontaneous donations may not be tax deductible, but often are worth it.

“A donation to a spaghetti feed fundraiser for a school coach who’s fighting cancer may not count as a tax write-off, but you may want to donate anyway,” Wallis says. “That’s giving from the heart.”

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The dream of becoming a police officer has renewed Alexis Bledsoe’s desire to beat addiction.

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hen Alexis Bledsoe entered her freshman year at East Valley High School, her future looked just as bright as any other 15-year-old’s. She was a star violin player. An excellent soccer player. A good student.

Few people could have guessed how her life would turn.

That year, her grandparents John and Marilyn Bledsoe, who raised her, noticed her attitude changing. She

skipped class and hung out with different friends. Eventually, she started running away from home, spending time with older men and not coming home for days. Her grandparents called the police and, when they found out she was using drugs, they would send her to outpatient drug treatment. Still, she’d run away at night.

“I spent night after night after night driving around looking for her,” her grandfather John Bledsoe recalls. “I spent hundreds of dollars in gas bills looking for her.”

“Lexi,” as she’s known, was lost to addiction. In less than two years, the girl who once loved fishing with her grandpa transformed into a girl who crushed and snorted meth in the back of the classroom behind her binder.

It’s a story that families hear all too often, but one that flies under the radar. Teens, more often those who have experienced family trauma in childhood, turn toward drugs and alcohol, either through peer pressure or to cope with pain. And girls at Daybreak Youth Services, the largest inpatient drug-treatment provider for teens in Washington state, are more likely to progress to using meth than boys are. Typically, says Daybreak CEO Annette Klinefelter, it’s a boy or older man who lead girls down the wrong path toward a life on the streets plagued by addiction and abuse and trauma.

“Families are more likely to lose girls,” Klinefelter says. “They lose them to that relationship.”

Yet for Lexi, the influence of one positive role model can lead her the other way.

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exi’s battle with addiction, in a way, started before she was born. Her mother used drugs and alcohol, and Lexi was born with fetal alcohol syndrome.

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her when Lexi was 4. She attended Otis Elementary and Trentwood Elementary. She had everything she could ever ask for, she says.

“I had a wonderful childhood,” Lexi, now 17, tells the Inlander.

In the sixth grade, she visited the Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia and saw the Changing of the Guards ritual. She was “in awe,” she says. It confirmed what she had known for a while: She wanted to be a police officer.

“I just loved the idea of that, the idea of wearing a uniform, the idea of protecting, the idea of being the law and enforcing the law,” she says. “That has just appealed to me since I was a kid.”

But she was told she could never fulfill her childhood dream to become a cop when she was 14, before she entered high school. Someone told her they don’t let people with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder carry a gun, and she believed them. She cried when she was told. Around the same time, her grandparents got a divorce, she had to say goodbye to one of her dogs, and she moved from her childhood home.

“That was devastating for her,” John Bledsoe says.

At school, she felt bullied. She started cutting herself.

She started smoking weed at the age of 15. She says she thought it was cool because her older brother did it.

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“I think that’s what started the addiction to marijuana — I was trying to cover up my pain that I was feeling,” she says.

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She skipped class more and more often.

When she was at school, she only thought about getting high.

“I would sit in the back of the class and I would feel myself coming down,” she says. “So I just put my binder up — everyone was taking a test — I’d duck underneath my binder, crush up my rocks and snort a line of meth.”

Later that year, she dropped out of East Valley High School. She lived with her grandmother after the divorce, but she’d sneak out at night and not come back for days. Her grandparents would look for her and then call police after 24 hours.

Sometimes she would steal her grandmother’s car. She went to juvenile detention over and over.

She was sexually abused by the people she got drugs from, her grandfather says, and Lexi says at least one person overdosed in front of her.

Her grandparents tried putting her in Daybreak Youth Services outpatient treatment for her drug addiction, but she’d leave the counseling session, go home and smoke again.

In April of this year, she stayed in juvenile detention for 33 days for stealing her grandmother’s car. When she got out, she went right back to meth.

“It was rapid decline. It was just more weed, more meth on the daily,” she says.

Her grandmother moved to Yakima, so in September she moved in with her grandfather around the time she turned 17. In November, she found herself in juvenile detention again.

Sitting in jail, she couldn’t wait to get out and go smoke again, she says. But then she was visited by a Spokane Police Department officer, Ben Green. A probation officer recommended Green visit her, thinking Lexi could use a mentor.

But Lexi, at first, didn’t want anything to do with him, Green recalls.

But then Green told her something that changed everything.

“I told her that if she stopped all of it, she could be a cop,” Green says.

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or nearly a month, Lexi has been in drug treatment at Daybreak Youth Services. She could have gone back to the streets after her stint in juvenile detention, but her outlook changed after speaking with Green.

“A switch had turned on,” she says. “I finally had a goal and knew how to work towards it.”

Daybreak Youth Services treats boys and girls

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for drug addiction in Vancouver, Washington, and in Spokane, but the Spokane residential treatment facility is for girls only. Klinefelter, Daybreak CEO, says it’s common for girls to come in with more severe drug addiction to multiple substances than boys.

Daybreak’s data backs that up. Most kids come in with marijuana or alcohol-abuse problems, but an Inlander analysis of A WAY OUT Daybreak’s admisThis is the second in a series of sion data from stories examining addiction, June 2016 until its toll on our community September 2017 and, importantly, how people shows that girls are finding a way out. Send are more likely to feedback and story ideas to pair that with adaddiction@inlander.com. diction to meth.

She adds that the girls who are influenced by older men often will run away from home, or live with them on the streets. It often puts them in danger of sexual abuse.

“What we have found is because girls fly under the radar with their drug use for a much more extensive period of time, it allows for more progression,” Klinefelter says. “They tend to internalize. And so their drug and alcohol use tends to be in bedrooms, typically with older boys.”

It’s unclear if Daybreak’s data on girls being more likely to abuse multiple substances extends to other treatment centers. At Excelsior Youth Center, which treats teens for drug addiction and behavioral problems, all the inpatient kids treated for drug addiction are male, and 56 percent presented abuse of at least four drugs.

Andrew Hill, CEO of Excelsior Youth Center, says it can be difficult to recognize warning signs for girls, who can seek outpatient treatment at Excelsior. Some teens “internalize” stress (becoming more withdrawn at home and school, harming themselves) and others “externalize” it (things like fighting, stealing or vandalism).

“It is plausible that a female may have more intense issues because it’s gone unnoticed, and generally our society would respond to externalizing behaviors with criminal charges or involvement with the legal system,” Hill says. “If you have a youth internalizing behavior and poor grades or apathy about school, we as a society or as a family would not necessarily associate that with potential substance use.”

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Excelsior identifies those behaviors and then uses targeted therapy to treat the underlying stressors and trauma.

What’s also important, however, is family reunification and positive relationships with adults.

Roxanne Vandermause, now at the University of Missouri, is a former Washington State University professor who has researched drug addiction among girls in the Pacific Northwest.

She’s found how important mentorship can be for treating teenage girls.

“In my research, the thing that’s been most significant is that girls are relational, and they tend to go along with the people most important to them,” Vandermause says.

That’s not necessarily different from boys, she says. But it’s not uncommon for a girl’s addiction to progress from weed and alcohol to meth and heroin under the influence of a boy or older man.

That’s what makes a positive mentor so helpful. And just as crucially, for a chance to beat their addiction, Vandermause says girls need to have a vision for where they want to go in life.

“It matters to focus on the positive aspects of the future for girls and to give girls a sense of identity in service, a purpose in the world,” she says.

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etective Ben Green knows the difference a positive mentor can make. He visits juvenile detention a couple of times a month, part of the Spokane Police Department’s youth outreach. But sometimes Green visits on his own time, trying to steer the kids in the right direction.

It’s a chance for the youth to see a different side of the police. And it gives kids an authority figure who will listen to them.

“We run into so many kids, and we have dozens and dozens of officers interacting with youth every week,” Green says. “[Lexi’s] personality and mine, we got along well.”

He told her he promised he would walk her through the process of becoming a cop, as long as she went through with her rehab.

“I think she can do it,” Green says. “It’s a classic example of someone who got pointed in the wrong direction by one set of adults and she needed that input to put her on the right track.”

Lexi, as of this writing, remains in Daybreak inpatient treatment. Living around girls and Daybreak staff — many who have gone through similar struggles with drug addiction — makes her optimistic that she can beat it. She wants to stay longer than the 30 days she was scheduled. When she gets out, she’ll live with her grandpa and start working towards her GED before she can try and become a police officer. She’s told her friends and her family that she’s going to do what it takes to become a police officer whether they like it or not.

Yet even with the help of adults around her, she knows it’s up to her.

“I”m trying to do this for me,” Lexi says. “If I try and do it for other people, it’s never going to work.” n addiction@inlander.com

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he old way of handling sexual-harassment complaints in the city of Spokane led to disaster.

Back in 2015, former police spokeswoman Monique Cotton told the mayor and city administrator she’d been sexually harassed by then-police Chief Frank Straub, but said she didn’t want her claims to be investigated.

So there was no full-scale, formal investigation. The Human Resources department was never informed. There was little-to-no documentation. And the city’s policies were vague enough that it wasn’t clear whether the policies had been followed or not.

It all fueled the controversy over the city’s handling of sexual harassment — prompting accusations of dishonesty, an unsuccessful mayoral-recall attempt, multiple lawsuits, an expensive independent investigation, and an ethics complaint from the Spokane chapter of National Organization of Women.

But then, in September of 2016, NOW struck a deal with Mayor David Condon, pulling its complaint in exchange for a seat on the “21st Century Workforce Task Force,” handing some of the city’s biggest critics a role in rewriting its harassment policies.

Today, nearly every employee, from the mayor on down, has received sexual harassment training. And city unions are currently approving a draft of a new harassment policy, one intended to be more clear and comprehensive, giving victims multiple ways to report harassment.

Under the new policy, a situation like the Straub allegations would unfold much differently, the city’s HR director Chris Cavanaugh suggests. The alleged victim would be told that the investigation would happen even without her cooperation. The HR department would be informed immediately. A formal investigation would be conducted. And because of the potential for conflicts of interest, Cavanaugh says, the city would generally hire an outside investigator to look into allegations against major division heads or mayoral cabinet members.

“With sexual harassment we have no option.

We must look into it. Period,” Cavanaugh says.

“It’s not about sex, it’s about power. If that person is abusing power with one individual, they’re [potentially] abusing it with others.”

TAKING CHARGE

By the time Cavanaugh took over the city’s HR department in August of 2016, it had spent a year under siege.

Former HR Director Heather Lowe and the city’s labor relations manager, attorney Erin Jacobson, were both targets of an independent investigation into the Straub scandal, and both resigned from the city before it was done. To Cavanaugh’s knowledge, there wasn’t even a

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log to document ongoing HR complaints under investigation.

An independent investigation into the Straub scandal concluded the HR department “routinely overlooked” its own procedures. The policies that existed, it concluded, were often vague, contradictory, or did “not conform to best practice.”

Others came to similar conclusions: A council aide analyzed five years of city harassment-investigation records and came to a similar conclusion, citing slow responses, poor recordkeeping and investigations that sometimes barely scratched the surface.

Chris Cavanaugh, the city’s director of HR, has tried to make the harassment-complaint process clearer, faster and less intimidating. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO “I don’t believe our complaint process was working well,” Cavanaugh says. “It was unclear who you were supposed to go to. I don’t think there was a structure to make sure complaints were looked at thoroughly and investigated in a consistent way.”

Part of the mission of the 21st Century Workforce Task Force — a group that included Cavanaugh, councilmembers Karen Stratton and Candace Mumm and representatives from the city’s Human Rights Commission — was to improve the way the city handled harassment. A workplace climate survey conducted by the task force had found that nearly 31.9 percent of the female city employees surveyed said they’d been harassed or bullied due to their gender.

But there was no guarantee that NOW joining the task force would go smoothly. They had previously called for Condon to resign as a result of the Straub scandal.

“Accepting the mayor’s 11th-hour settlement offer was one of the toughest decisions I have ever participated in,” NOW’s Sherry Jones writes in an email. “Should we trust the mayor after all that he had already done?”

Last December, the expanded task force quickly ran into conflict. Cavanaugh planned to hire a local company called Archbright to conduct the city’s harassment training, but Jones objected: She’d seen Archbright present about its sexual harassment training and wasn’t impressed.

“The presentation was, to me, vague, and the price very high,” Jones writes. “When I discov-

ered, during the meeting, that Ms. Cavanaugh had already chosen Archbright, I openly questioned the process and the decision.”

Stratton, a frequent critic of the administration, echoed Jones’ objections, noting that Archbright now employed Jacobson after her resignation.

Jones, frustrated, even considered restarting the ethics complaint against the mayor.

But then Cavanaugh changed course, deciding that the HR department would conduct harassment training itself: Over the next year, nearly every city employee received training, with HR employees walking them through harassment definitions and scenarios. (“Laughter is cheap,” a PowerPoint slide warns, “but lawsuits are expensive.”)

To Jones, the decision was a “watershed” moment. From then on, the relationship between NOW and the rest of the committee was amicable.

“I would work with any of them again in a heartbeat,” Cavanaugh says.

FRESH EYES

Cavanaugh says Jones and other NOW members researched harassment policies throughout the country in order to help fix Spokane’s policy. The group didn’t just want sexual harassment training; it wanted diversity training around issues like race, religion and sexual identity.

“It was a real eye-opener to me to have people who don’t work in human resources,” Cavanaugh says. She notes how NOW tried to take confusing legal jargon that pervaded the old policy and translate it into something easier to understand.

By June of this year, the draft of the new policy had been completed. It adds a long list of examples of what might be considered sexual harassment, including “verbal abuse,” “sexual pranks,” sexually suggestive gifts, “repeatedly standing too close to or brushing up against a person,” and repeated requests to socialize after work to a person who’s made it clear they’re not interested.

It defines “complaint” as any “allegation of unwelcome behavior that is sexual in nature,” not just one on an official form.

It deletes guidance to solve harassment complaints at the “lowest level,” which may have discouraged victims from contacting HR directly about harassment. Instead, NOW pushed for the new policy to include multiple ways for employees to file complaints.

“By the time we finished drafting the new policy, a phone hotline and internet complaint system had been added,” Jones writes. “I think that if we hadn’t been a part of the process, pushing hard for significant change, that those changes would not have occurred.”

In the meantime Cavanaugh has tried to improve her department internally. She says the inconsistency problem with HR investigations has been “pretty much eradicated.” The department has rolled out new investigative checklists and forms, including a pre-investigation template that lays out the dates, locations, lists of potential witnesses and any records that could establish the facts.

Critics of the city still have concerns. The Center for Justice’s Rick Eichstaedt, who represented NOW in their ethics complaint, says the new policy doesn’t explicitly protect non-city employees who are being harassed by city staffers.

Stratton still worries that Cavanaugh’s union connections — her brother-in-law heads up the biggest union in the city — makes some employees wary of trusting HR with complaints, especially about the union.

Yet Cavanaugh says the number of complaints being filed has been increasing. In 2017, there have been 32 harassment or bullying complaints so far — though only one was about sexual harassment. And she says more complaints is a good thing. It means the training is working: Employees now know what isn’t OK and are trusting human resources to fix it.

Only one person so far, she notes, has made an HR complaint through the anonymous hotline.

“I am happy that people are coming forward and complaining,” Cavanaugh says. “I am thrilled that people don’t need to pick up the hotline to call.” n danielw@inlander.com

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THE BEGINNING OF SOMETHING

It all started with an Oct. 5 report in the New York Times that detailed numerous allegations, including harassment and assault, against famed Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. Ten days later, actress Alyssa Milano invited Twitter followers to reply “Me Too” if they had been sexually harassed or assaulted. Tens of thousands responded, and the movement grew.

The #MeToo hashtag trended on social media platforms, including Facebook, where it was shared in more than 12 million posts and reactions in the first 24 hours.

Soon, women began to call out the sexual misdeeds of other powerful men in a variety of industries.

In many cases, the fallout has been swift, costing the men jobs, reputations and million-dollar contracts.

(Of course, there are notable exceptions where men have instead denied and shamed their accusers while, seemingly, suffering not the least.) But it’s not over. More women will find the courage to speak out against predators and creeps. And there’s also a stubborn question to contend with: What now?

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IN THEIR OWN WORDS

We at the Inlander invited women we know — writers, leaders, liberals and conservatives — to reflect on our national reckoning with sexual misconduct and power. We gave them some limits on length, but otherwise let each choose her own direction. Collectively, what they’ve produced here is personal, powerful, heartbreaking and inspiring. Some felt empowered by this moment to look back at their own stories; others wanted to explore the road ahead.

We’re grateful to all of them for their openness and insight. JACOB H. FRIES, INLANDER EDITOR CONTRIBUTORS Lisa Brown 26 Kate Burke 27 Jordy Byrd 24 Stephanie Cates 27 Tara Dowd 23 Chelsea Martin 22 Mariah McKay 24 Nancy McLaughlin 25 Mary Lou Reed 24 Cathy McMorris Rodgers 26 Chey Scott 23 Taylor Weech 25 Samantha Wohlfeil 22

I Don’t Trust You

BY INGA LAURENT

Inga N. Laurent is an associate professor and director of the Externship Program at Gonzaga University’s School of Law. She returned to the faculty this fall after spending nine months researching restorative justice in Jamaica as a Fulbright scholar.

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’m just going to say it: I don’t trust you. But it’s not like you haven’t given me plenty of reasons to doubt, both personal and collective experiences that have mounted and left me wary.

Perhaps my ability to have confidence in you is buried somewhere underneath the rage radiating from the pain you’ve caused.

There have been so many broken promises, a lifetime of them. There have been far too many nights — when I had to cross the street to avoid walking past a group of you, when I had to clutch keys as a weapon, and there are always nights, as well as days, when I am forced to be hyper-vigilant of my surroundings, calling my friends to let them know that I made it safely because there is an everpresent possibility that I may not.

There have been so many times when you have felt entitled to use your body to check mine, showing me my “place” with hands that grope, arms that pin, throats that scream until voices give way to violence. There have been far too many high and drunken excuses; innumerable incidents of bad behavior masked behind the use of substances.

There have been so many opening conversations where I have simply served as a repository for your fantasies. My body turned into an object solely for your enjoyment as you shower me with “compliments” about things you want to do to me or what my lips look like they are capable of doing to you — pick-up lines used as lances to pierce every part of me. There have been far too many instances when… and when… and when…

At some point, I don’t exactly remember

when... I guess I sort of just gave up, far too weary from the exhaustion of simply being a woman in this world. I have mastered staying fairly well hidden away under layers of protection — layers that manifest in many ways, both known and unknown to myself, including constant struggles over power, making light of love, and the keeping of at least an arm’s length, a comfortable and removed distance.

Ain’t that reality enough to break your heart? It’s surely broken mine. I promise that there is certainly a piece of me that wants to know all of you better, a portion of me that sees the complexity within you, a depth that I do not often allow myself to fully envision.

Believe me, I know that this was never a fair fight, for you were schooled in the ways of being a “real man,” brought up in the art of repression.

Now, because of those pervasive and oppressive lessons, we all must suffer as we unlearn what no longer serves us well. I promise that I am doing my best to acquire new skills, like discernment, learning how to place my faith in those of you who are also doing your work, learning how to appropriately recognize, navigate, and account for the power you wield. And I have empathy for us all, as we work together to smooth out and soften some of these rigid definitions of masculinity that have restricted us. However, do not make the mistake of confusing my compassion with weakness. My awareness has never guaranteed my safety, and so until I sense your effort to make a tangible shift, I’m #sorrynotsorry but I may still be pretty difficult to reach. n

I know that this was never a fair fight, for you were schooled in the ways of being a “real man.”

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IN THEIR OWN WORDS

Dreams Aren’t Safe

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Samantha Wohlfeil covers social services, the environment, tribes and other issues for the Inlander.

She started here in February 2017 and before that, worked as a political reporter at the Bellingham Herald in northwest Washington.

It’s cruel that one person could taint what turned out to be one of the best years of my life.

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ore than 5,200 miles and three months.

That’s how far I had to get away before I could even tell myself that I had been sexually assaulted.

Coming to terms with what happened was and is messy, all tied up in reckoning with and reconciling totally discordant things.

How could something that created so much shame and self-doubt happen in one of the most beautiful places I’d ever been? I’d never slept so well as when the ocean rocked me to sleep in the underbelly of that boat off the coast of America’s “last frontier.” Yet over the years, what happened there has more than stolen that peaceful sleep back, through nightmares and hours spent lying awake, replaying events and wishing I could just change one thing here, say something different there.

It’s cruel that one person could taint what turned out to be one of the best years of my life, with the worst thing to happen to me.

FIVE YEARS. That’s how long it took before I talked about any of it with a therapist.

Because I blamed myself. Because after I repeatedly said no, and he didn’t listen, wouldn’t loosen his grip or let me go, I said yes.

See? Messy.

Part of me wanted so badly not to have my first real adventure as an independent adult ruined by an experience that everyone warns young women might happen. Because when you’re a woman in your 20s, you’re not supposed to travel alone, be impulsive or run toward exciting jobs in faraway places like Hemingway, Kerouac or other male icons. That all puts you at risk. Men can do it. But not women.

Not girls.

And if you don’t listen and something happens? As a woman, it’s on you.

Your choices, your drinking, your words. Not his.

“We told you so.”

I didn’t want anyone to tell me so, didn’t want to reinforce the idea that we should focus more energy on limiting women than on stopping men from

thinking of them as spoils.

MOSTLY, I hate that he stole my sense of safety. Dreams aren’t always safe anymore. I get panic attacks. A stranger wearing the same style sweatshirt and hat once sat down across from me at the airport, and I couldn’t see his face to know if it was him, and I just froze, wishing and hoping and praying it wasn’t him, until I forced myself to get to a bathroom where I could hide in a stall, hug my knees and wait for my ragged breathing to return to normal. It wasn’t him.

Until now, I haven’t shared my story except with a few very trusted friends. These things are hard to talk about, and hard to listen to.

But a few weeks ago, many victims and survivors started sharing their experiences.

Me too, she said.

Me too, he said.

Me too, we said.

Each refrain pounded at society’s disbelief, until the dam burst.

It seems each day a new abuse of power is put on display, but unlike before, people believe.

It’s been overwhelming, and heartbreaking, and empowering, and hope-giving.

It’s also dredging up tough memories that many of us have tried hard to bury, along with our grief and our shame, hoping we could climb out of the emptiness, dust ourselves off, and try to trust again.

But how can we trust again, when this pain is so widespread? When the number of abusers seems so high?

When it feels like every woman I’m close to has had her sense of safety and self-worth ripped away by these events at one time or another?

I don’t have a great answer for that, but I know that this movement, this moment in time, has given me hope.

We can keep talking about what hurts, and what people can do to stop it from happening.

We can remind each other: When someone shares their pain, believe them.

And as we’ve done until now, we will persist. We must. n

An Unwanted Hobby

BY CHELSEA MARTIN

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have seen plenty of genitals I didn’t want to see. I have received unwanted romantic advances during job interviews. I have been “grabbed by the pussy” in public by a complete stranger. So, yes, absolutely, #MeToo. The fact that almost all women have a Me Too story is not a revelation. Women have always known this is how it is and we work hard to try to protect ourselves from abuse.

Be vigilant when walking to your car at night.

Carry mace in your purse. Don’t put your hair in a ponytail. Trying Chelsea Martin is the Spokane-based Not to Get Raped is every woman’s unseen, author of five books, including Caca un-asked-for, shitty Dolce: Essays from a Lowbrow Life. f---ing hobby.

Her website is jerkethics.com.

Seeing the professional downfall of powerful Hollywood serial abusers has given a lot of women hope.

I mean, “hope” is a strange thing to call it when mostly what you’re hoping for is for men to stop masturbating in the seat across from you on the bus. But seeing the outrage and public dismissal of seemingly untouchable public figures like Louis C.K., Kevin Spacey, Harvey Weinstein and Ben Affleck, among others, has been truly heartening. Witnessing the media and the public at large going to bat for victims of abuse is one of the only encouraging things that has happened this year.

Even the egregious over-corrections from disingenuous men who vow to never hug a woman or take private business meetings with women again (for fear of accidentally sexually assaulting them, I guess?) are heartening, in their own despicable way. These men are clearly trying to make the #MeToo movement seem childish and hysterical, because they’re scared they might be the one called out next. And that fear gives me hope, too. For too long, abusive men in power have not thought enough about the repercussions of their disgusting behavior towards women, and, because sexual harassment is so difficult to prove, these crimes have gone unpunished by the legal system. But now, suddenly, the careers of powerful men are at stake, and for once they’ve got something to lose.

Maybe the fear of being the next abuser to lose their career will be what finally causes abusive men to assess their behavior. Maybe this fear will prevent future sexual assaults, or make them more difficult to get away with. Maybe this fear could be what drives positive social change. n

The Small Things Matter

BY CHEY SCOTT

S Born and raised in the Inland Northwest, Chey Scott has been with the Inlander since 2012. She edits the food and events sections, and also writes about arts and culture.

Careful, we’re all paying attention now.

ince the horrific revelations of the past several months began unfolding, and as we watch the nightmare continue, I’ve suddenly become hyper-aware of how even the slightest interactions with some men are intrinsically linked to this present culture of sexism, misogyny, racism and power imbalance.

To preface my recent experiences, however, I want to emphasize that the following examples are relatively “tame” in comparison with the horrific accounts of sexual abuse and harassment from countless women. But to fix this, we all need to share and call out even the tiniest of these gross behaviors. At any level, it all props up acceptance and ignorance.

So here I am. I’m angry and sad with all of you; for all of us. Because I’m confident from both of the following interactions — not to mention a lifetime of catcalls, lewd “jokes” and requests to “smile, honey” — that the men acting this way don’t see their attitudes and actions as being directly part of this problem we’re facing. Careful, we’re all paying attention now.

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he first scenario: I was recently attending a professional social event, and was introducing myself to an older man there. In response to my self-introduction as the food and events editor for the Inlander, the man said, in authentic surprise: “Oh, you’re so thin for a food editor!”

Despite that this verbal observation by

him was intended to compliment my petite figure, I couldn’t shake the utter creepiness of the fact that, upon first meeting this individual, he found it appropriate to directly remark on my physical appearance as a female, and relate it to my profession and my ability to do said job.

Another person (also a man of an older generation) later asked why I’d been offended.

Here’s why: It’s not ever OK to comment on women’s bodies in a manner like this, even if you think it’s a compliment or a benign thought. This man whom I’d literally just met decided to physically — maybe even sexually — objectify me, directly to me.

The second scenario: I was enjoying a beloved hobby of mine, playing the nerdy card game Magic: The Gathering. It happened to be during an event I was hosting for my local playgroup, formed with the intent to create an accepting and safe environment for all players, regardless of gender, race, appearance, sexual orientation, age, etc., to play this maledominated game that frequently struggles with toxicity and harassment of not just women.

I found myself winning a match against another guy, when that player’s friend, also male, came over to watch. It was all fine until the friend began chiding my opponent by making comments comparing him to a girl (“Did you just spray some perfume, because you smell pretty.”) and then saying, “Wow, she’s deceptively good.”

I immediately knew that even disguised as a compliment he actually meant it’s not ex-

pected, or widely accepted, that I’d be “good” at the strategic fantasy game because I am one of its few females who feels comfortable leaving the safety of my home to play Magic in a room full of men. Yet, I also knew this guy didn’t realize his comments were insensitive and misogynistic. Not wanting to distract myself from the game at hand or be “dramatic,” I didn’t say anything.

This isn’t the first, nor will it be the last, time that I or any other woman in a maledominated hobby — be it sports, games or anything else — will be subjected to this brand of passive sexism. To call out such behavior, though, is to risk ostracization, or worse (remember GamerGate?).

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gain, these interactions feel pretty innocuous compared to the chorus of female trauma demanding justice alongside me. Still, I shared these two moments within my social media circles, and the supportive responses were encouraging. Other women I know and respect came forward with advice, understanding and equally outrageous examples of their own: “The small things do matter,” said one.

“The little comments are super annoying and unfortunately, part of everyday life for women,” chimed in another.

“The more we speak up and speak out, the more we learn from each other, and the more men check themselves and each other,” wrote another. n

A Legacy of Violence

BY TARA DOWD

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eing an Indigenous woman in the U.S. is to be one of the people most at risk for sexual assault and violence: One in three of us will be victims of it, and 84 percent of us will experience violence of some kind.

But it’s not as simple as some statistics. It’s not as simple as keeping myself, and my daughters, safe, because European colonizers came to this land. PreColumbus, there are few stories of rape and murder among the Indigenous cultures of America. Even though the colonizer characterized and demonized to justify the crime of rape, pillage, and killing of us Indigenous cultures, rape just didn’t exist like it did in European cultures.

So this legacy that every Indigenous woman carries is proportional to the legacy of rape and murder that white men carry with them as well. It’s no surprise that we live in a country that supports and actively perpetuates rape culture. The rape and killing of Indigenous women and children are the brick and mortar in the foundation of our fine nation.

So my #MeToo story doesn’t start with being molested by a close family member when I was 4, or the numerous times I was whistled at or catcalled

Tara Dowd is Inupiaq, a mother to three beautiful children, and is a champion of justice and equity for all people in our community. She is currently serving as executive director of Excelerate Success, an organization committed to achieving education equity for all students from cradle to career in Spokane County.

whenever I walked on the street, or being hyperaware when I walk to my car at night, or when a trusted older man who I called “uncle” grabbed me against my will and tried to kiss me while his hands wandered all over my body until my voice finally came back to me and I yelled stop. No, my story starts with the fact that Native women are murdered 10 times more than the national average.

My grandmother was beat to death by her intimate partner in Juneau, Alaska. Her name was Mabel Atoruk. Her life was taken away when she was 38.

She was just 2 years older than I am now when she died. Her murderer, a white man, was never brought to justice and I don’t even know his name because justice for Native women doesn’t systemically exist.

But what really bothers me is that I never got to meet my grandmother, I never got to see her face and know who she was. From all the stories from my relatives, I have quite a bit of her in me — not only in looks but also in fierceness and competitive spirit.

But the story only gets more grotesque. The same man who killed my grandmother, on the day of her funeral, raped my then-19-year-old mother. Yes, you read that correct: He raped my mother on the

day they buried my grandmother after he beat her to death. These are just a few of the stories and legacies that colonization and rape culture have given to me and the women in my family.

I will tell you that as Indigenous women we are bent but we aren’t broken. We have cracks and sharp edges but we can still fill our cup up with love and happiness. We have burns and scars in our hearts and on our bodies but we stand strong as we continue to thrive and heal even if no one else cares about us.

Indigenous women have faced hundreds of years of colonization, white supremacy, sexual assault, rape culture, misogyny and racism. And if you understand anything about power structures, you know that those things are so intertwined there is no way to separate them; we have to take them all down at once. So I wake up every day working to Indigenize every space that I walk into. I work at eliminating paternalism and sexism everywhere I go, I work at ending racism and white supremacy in every system in America, and I am raising Indigenous daughters and sons who have the power to do the same. n

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IN THEIR OWN WORDS

‘Girls Can’t Play!’

One

By One

BY MARIAH McKAY

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t all started in the first grade. I’d always been a tomboy and never related to the shy and retiring act put on by the other girls at school. I found their constant giggling and whispering rather boring. I was in after-school soccer, so why not try it during recess to pass the time? Within seconds of stepping onto the field, a much larger boy barked “Girls can’t play!” and that was the end of that.

Three years later I would again venture onto the soccer field.

The players on my little brother’s team were outnumbered 2 to 1 and the score was 11-2. Always a sucker for pulling for the underdog, I thought I’d jump in to help out. A few passes later a boy from the winning team came at me, “Girls can’t play!” This time I was twice his size and older. “Can too!” I retorted, and continued to run around the field with the rest of the kids. Before I realized what was happening, the boy tackled my leg, another immobilized my other leg, and several others set in; punching and kicking me all over, completely overwhelming my ability to defend myself. The group beating was only interrupted by the ringing of the bell.

This was my first experience with gender-based violence. Horrified and humiliated, I was assaulted Mariah McKay is a community in the middle of the playground for organizer working to build a local being a girl who dared to play with economy that promotes equitable the boys. There was a visit to the opportunities and environmental principal’s office and calls home to restoration for all. She serves on parents, but the damage was already the board of the University District done. I’d been put in my place and wouldn’t wander outside the bounds and is currently creating cohousing of my assigned gender role as carein the East Central neighborhood. free ever again.

I share this story for a few reasons. First, it shows how even young children mimic social cues and are habituated into a pervasive culture of “isms” long before our adult sexuality begins to develop. As adults we must interrupt this cycle at its root. What behaviors are being modeled that make little boys attack a girl when she persists on “their” field? We need justice and restorative practices together. While some of my assailants were reprimanded, what would have changed if adults had ensured the soccer field was for all students?

Second, at its core, sexual violence and harassment is about power and control. It is not simply an unwanted expression of sexual “attention.” A lot of lessons from #MeToo are lost in squeamishness or hair splitting over specific sexual details. We need to see the bigger picture of how the dehumanization of others is routinely normalized and excused, especially those marginalized in mainstream culture. We hear it all of the time, “Boys will be boys, kids will be kids.” Enough with this enabling nonsense. No matter how privileged or insulated you may be, this epidemic affects #YouToo in ways you probably aren’t even aware of yet.

Last, I share this story because it is relatively safe to reflect upon.

I applaud, validate and affirm anyone who shares their trauma to heal themselves, to expose abusers or to educate others about the human costs of this crisis. I don’t choose to share my experiences of sustained sexual harassment throughout high school. Once I encountered my tormentor at a coffee shop and met his cold gaze with a smile. He was reading an Inlander. Next time, thanks to the rising tide of voices of other victims, I won’t be so sanguine. Because of the ways structural oppression influences our behavior, women, people of color, people without a stable economic base, and those of different abilities, sexual orientations and gender identities are disproportionately singled out for abuse. We must listen, learn from these perspectives, and work towards total social transformation. Collectively, our stories are the beginning of the fairer future that is our birthright. n

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BY JORDY BYRD Jordy, a former Inlander staffer, is a writer living in Portland with her two cats. She finds it laughable and terrifying that people pay her to tell her stories of blood and guts.

The barrier broke. This time it snapped me.

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couldn’t tell how many men came into the room. I couldn’t see their faces in the damp concrete box — a basement bedroom that was not my own — or hear their footsteps trespass over dirty piles of laundry.

My boyfriend came home on leave from the Marines, so I left my dorm room, the entirety of my 19-year-old world, to meet him at a house party. But we didn’t party. His blue eyes flashed red as he drank too much Jagermeister and punched the walls. He didn’t stop when his hand broke, when we heard it snap, or when his two best friends tried to wrestle him to the ground.

When he finally wore himself out, I coaxed him to sleep as we climbed into a stranger’s twin-sized bed. I propped him on his side against the wall for fear he might vomit and drown, and I laid on the outside to become a barrier to the world that was hurting him so much. But the barrier broke. This time it snapped me.

Men came one by one into the room and ripped at my clothes, my breasts and hair. They forced themselves into my mouth until I could quietly get them to leave. They came one by one, as though they were waiting in a line. Waiting for this opportunity.

I didn’t move or cry out or fight for fear that my boyfriend would wake up. I knew that he would kill them. The men knew I wouldn’t let that happen. n

Shifting the Power Balance

BY MARY LOU REED

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he #MeToo movement is like a giant Squeegee The majority of the all-male Senate committee scrubbing the dirt out from under the carpet believed Clarence Thomas’s denial. He was confirmed and the scum off the sink. by the full Senate by a vote of 52 to It’s a healthy outpouring of secrets, 48 — close, but enough to give him shame, hurt and anger. Facebook the job for life. and other social media are clearly Women of my political generaempowering women in a way never tion believed Anita Hill. before possible.

I remember attending a For power is what the issue national women’s convention of sexual misconduct is all about. for state legislators sometime Men in general outweigh women in later. We middle-aged, supposedly brawn, money and influence. The respectable female legislators found boss is power in the workplace; the ourselves literally standing on our millionaire has the power of the chairs at the dinner table, clapping dollar; the elected official exudes Mary Lou Reed, an Inlander and waving our cloth napkins in the power. Young women are vulnerable commentator and a former Idaho state air in wild enthusiasm for our dinner and powerless. senator, helped found the Kootenai speaker, Anita Hill.

In 1991, during the confirmation The #MeToo Movement has Environmental Alliance and the Idaho hearing of Supreme Court Justice Conservation League. brought the now Brandeis University Clarence Thomas, Anita Hill was Professor Anita Hill back into the talked into appearing before the news front — along with a new Senate Judiciary Committee to tell her story of being movie telling her tale. sexually harassed by her employer, the nominee, ClarAnita Hill’s valiant action laid a strong tile on the ence Thomas. She was a lone, young African American road to a new cultural ethic. Boys may be boys, but female appearing before an all-male, all-white Senate real men respect every woman’s right to freedom from committee. She stood her ground. Clarence Thomas sexual misconduct. made a vehement denial, claiming he was being subAnd social media, with all its drawbacks, is playing jected to a “high-tech lynching for uppity blacks.” a positive role in the balance of power. n

Superpower Special Victim

BY TAYLOR WEECH

I Taylor Weech is a freelance writer and micro-publisher with the collective Love & Outrage, where she edits a quarterly poetry journal of the same name. She is also active in local justice causes, primarily at the Peace & Justice Action League of Spokane. Her work can be found at Taylorweech.com.

I didn’t even know what consent was.

t’s time to come out of the closet on my own “me too” story. I have been sexually assaulted multiple times by friends, acquaintances and intimate partners. That sentence feels strange to write because it puts me in a category called “victim,” a category called “someone else,” and a category of being lucky — lucky that I was just raped and not also then found murdered, or never found at all. Can we pause for a minute and take that in? In multiple cases, I didn’t realize until much later that many of my sexual experiences had been non-consensual, because I didn’t even know what consent was.

I had been raised in a culture that has a hard time saying no and socialized as a girl — a good girl who says yes and makes others happy.

Unfortunately for me, my classmates were often young boys who were being socialized by a vast buffet of internet porn and a shame culture around that, developing violent ideas about who women are and what mature sexuality looks like in practice.

When the editors here asked me to write an essay for this collection, I was flattered and honored, but also immediately overwhelmed by the question, “Which ‘me too’ story shall I choose?” The power of the #MeToo movement lies in its intersectionality. Stories from people of all gender identities, racial identities and class heritage have been unleashed, allowing us to see each other as whole and connected in our brokenness. Late in November, this barrage of stories began to trigger me into a full-blown psychosis that included flashbacks, episodes of paranoia and more. Perhaps you’ve heard the rumors: Young ingenue writer and local organizer publicly loses marbles, vandalizes mall and then goes fully feral, running barefoot in insufficient clothing away from people I perceived as attackers. That was last week. I am healing and getting stabilized now, but want to share that this was a real response to a real problem with a real name: PTSD. So many of us live with it and sometimes we can’t anymore.

I am coming out to you now not only an abuse and rape survivor, but also as an ardent fan of the multi-season saga of beautiful detective

fiction known to many as Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. My love for the show is baffling on some level, to myself and others. Why subject yourself to what some call “trauma porn,” seeing scene after scene of damaging carnal violence done to our most innocent fellow humans?

The show fascinates me because I relate both to the powerful female protagonists — out there kicking ass and busting bad guys — and also to the victims: the college student pushed out of school after confronting a rapist, the woman trapped in an abusive relationship with a powerful man, the transgendered teen being cyberbullied to the brink of suicide. Recently, in a conversation with a man I deeply love and respect, he casually tossed out that he didn’t like SVU as much as the other Law & Order spin-offs because it was “too victim-y.”

That, too, was triggering for me. I hear jokes often about triggers, about safe space, about rape and violence, but this seemingly innocuous example displays how these bad experiences are stored in our brains and bodies in ways that cause harm to both ourselves and to others. I’ve been so inspired by seeing other people speak out and hope that the empathy between us can continue to build in this moment.

We must listen to Tarana Burke, founder of the Me Too movement, and refuse to look away from the ugly truths of the ways we treat one another in our culture. Between addiction, poverty and dysfunctional social-safety-net systems, it’s a wonder any of us with fragile brains and scary repressed trauma-demons can get out of bed in the morning. That’s why it’s so important that the abusers, harassers and other toxic people hear our voices and hear their own voice echoing “me too,” acknowledging that we have all caused harm to others, both intentionally and through ignorance. This is not a trend. This is not a test. This is an emergency and we are not going anywhere until we learn to move on and heal this legacy of trauma that is killing us all from the inside out. The healing will be beautiful, joyful and loud.

People get ready and let’s continue to care well for one another. n

Forgiveness and Faith

BY NANCY McLAUGHLIN

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s a woman who survived eight years of child/teen sexual abuse, I wish to thank all the men who, through strong personal convictions and integrity, have kept their hands, and others body parts, to themselves or solely to their wives. Thank you, thank you, thank you! However, with the adult entertainment industry (porn) raking in billions of dollars a year, strong sexual overtones in the fashion industry, sexually explicit music lyrics easily accessible, sex trafficking, etc., why should it surprise us when sexual abuse and/or harassment among prominent members of our society (or anyone for that matter) comes to light? Do you really believe that we can be a morally lawless nation and not become morally corrupt?

The Word of God clearly states we have a sin problem, “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” — Romans 3:23. Sin knows no bounds in its reach and effect; male and female, young and old, black and white, rich and poor, Republican and Democrat. Sin has many names such as sexual immorality, idolatry, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish rivalries, factions, lying, murder, greed, drunkenness, etc. (See Galatians 5.)

Some sins are brought to light almost immedi-

Nancy McLaughlin served on Spokane’s city council from 2006-2013 and as a Spokane County Commissioner in 2016.

Nancy and husband, Dave, own a small business, D-MAC Construction.

ately, some are uncovered years later and others kept secret from the eyes of man forever. However, nothing escapes the eyes of God! “Do not be deceived: God is not mocked. A man reaps what he sows. Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.” — Galatians 6:7-8.

So, what can we learn from the recent uncovering of sexual sins? Some may judge the perpetrators and say, “They’re not sorry for what they did, they’re just sorry they got caught!” That may be true, but God alone knows hearts and is the ultimate judge.

Either way these men will have an opportunity to be set free from the burden of their secret sin. “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” — I John 1:9. Natural consequences could mean loss of a job, public humiliation or even prison time. However, no earthly consequence compares to eternity separated from the God who created us due to unconfessed sin! It is because of God’s deep, deep love for us that he uncovers our sin and provides an avenue of reconciliation through his son, Jesus Christ. “For God so loved the world that He gave His

one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.” — John 3:16.

But what about the hurting victims of sexual abuse or harassment? There is good news. The God who saves, also heals broken, wounded lives! “The Lord is near to the broken-hearted and saves the crushed in spirit.” — Psalm 34:18. As a “healed” victim myself, I cannot over express the tremendous power of forgiveness. “For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your Heavenly Father will also forgive you.” — Matthew 6:14. Forgiveness is never about the abuser… it sets you free! Remember, in every situation you have the opportunity to become bitter or better. Choose better! If you’ve been a victim and would like to talk, message me on Facebook under Nancy Myers McLaughlin.

One final thought. I’ve been asked, “What about the men who may have been wrongly accused?” I’m sure many of you know what it feels like to have been wrongly accused at some point in your life. We can rest assured knowing that all will reap what they sow, God is our vindicator and He hates lying! “Nothing is hidden from God’s sight; everything is uncovered and exposed before the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.” — Hebrews 4:13 n

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IN THEIR OWN WORDS

I Want to Solve the Problem

Cathy McMorris Rodgers, the highest-ranking Republican woman in Congress, has represented Washington’s 5th congressional district since 2005.

This is about showing respect and civility to one another.

BY CATHY McMORRIS RODGERS

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’m deeply troubled by the reports of sexual harassment and inappropriate behavior that have rocked Capitol Hill and elsewhere.

As I’m reading story after story of new and worse allegations, I think of my daughters and wonder what kind of culture they’re inheriting. We must make sure our workplaces are safe and secure. This type of behavior is beneath us and not who we are. It’s disgusting. We can and we will do better.

Fundamentally, we must respect each other, and under my leadership, we will demand it. I’m seeking solutions as to how we handle these situations, improve resources for survivors, and create safe workplaces and communities through education.

When you hear the stories from victims it breaks your heart, and if there’s anything the last three months have taught us it’s that sexual harassment and assault is a more pervasive problem than anyone wanted to believe. In the House of Representatives, we’ve seen these situations where members abuse their power — stories of sexual harassment and assault. Even worse, you hear stories of taxpayer dollars spent to cover up and protect those who have engaged in harassment.

It’s clear to me that Congress has outdated policies and processes for dealing with sexual harassment cases. The Congressional Accountability Act of 1995, the law responsible for governing conduct in the congressional workplace, should be reevaluated and updated to reflect these concerns.

I believe it’s my job to put a stop to these issues — to lead in Congress on behalf of women and survivors of harassment.

Two weeks ago, I co-sponsored and supported a resolution in the House to require all staff, officers and representatives to undergo yearly anti-harassment training. This unanimous resolution does more than just raise awareness — this is about making clear that harassment in any form is unacceptable. Preventing sexual harassment in the workplace starts with educating people on appropriate workplace behavior and providing resources and support for victims who need help.

Currently, the Office of Compliance is not required to publicly disclose how funds from their Awards and Settlement Fund are spent.

Like any workplace, there will be employee disputes in Congress that result in financial compensation, but taxpayers deserve to know how their money is spent to settle workplace issues. The Office of Compliance should be required to release quarterly reports detailing how many settlements occurred, the types of settlements, and how much money was spent.

I believe members of Congress and all elected officials must be held to a higher standard and should be held personally, financially liable if it’s determined that they engaged in sexual harassment or assault.

No longer should your taxpayer dollars go to cover up inappropriate behavior by members.

Unless we are transparent with these cases and those who are responsible, while protecting the anonymity of the victims, we enable an environment in which harassment and assault can continue to take place. No longer can the institution of the House of Representatives protect those who have broken the basic trust that is fundamental to their jobs and used their positions of power to act inappropriately at the expense of others. I am demanding accountability.

These are the steps I want the House to take. At the end of the day, this is about showing respect and civility to one another. Each one of us needs to be doing our part to lead by example and rebuild the moral fabric of our society. This is about the Golden Rule and restoring trust in one another.

Most importantly, I believe it is incumbent upon me to serve as a unifying force in our Eastern Washington community. To bring people together rather than tear them apart. To have courageous conversations with people all across the political spectrum. To work across the aisle and build a more peaceful community. And that’s what I will continue to do. n

Training is Not Enough

BY LISA BROWN

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n the 1980s I taught a class at Eastern Washington University called “The Economics of Women and Work.” Topics covered in the course included gender differences in hiring, pay and promotion, and the lack of family-friendly policies in the United States, such as affordable childcare and paid sick leave.

We also discussed sexual harassment. Many times the 18-to-22-year-old students had not experienced it yet, but many of the older women had, and they shared their experiences with the rest of the class. Then, as now, most did not formally complain because they were afraid they would lose their jobs or be blamed for causing the harassment.

My own experiences with harassment and discrimination happened at a fast food restaurant in Illinois and in graduate school at the University of Colorado. In both cases, I shared with co-workers and fellow graduate students, but didn’t want to jeopardize my paycheck or be considered a

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Lisa Brown is an economist, former professor at Eastern Washington University and Gonzaga University and represented Spokane for 20 years in the state legislature. As chancellor of WSU Spokane, she helped initiate the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine and is running for Congress to represent the 5th district in Eastern Washington.

“troublemaker.”

Fast forward to 1991. Anita Hill alleged sexual harassment against Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas. He was confirmed anyway, and that ignited a wave of women running for office, including me.

Having put in place training at the state senate on a “Respectful Workplace Policy” and having participated in anti-bias training at WSU, I don’t believe training is enough.

Women’s lower pay and more precarious economic standing, especially as parents, is connected to their inability to effectively speak out against harassment. This is compounded for those who are in poverty or suffer from racial or other forms of discrimination.

No doubt there are thousands of women (and some men) suffering harassment now, who do not feel safe to speak out. We can all be part of changing that by speaking out ourselves when we

suspect something is not right and working for not only explicit policies, but a culture of respect in our organizations.

We also need leaders at the national level who will put country above party and not be hypocritical about who is held accountable and who is not. At a certain point, silence becomes complicity.

I started the class at Eastern with a quote that places some of these issues in an historical framework. In 1776, Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote: Man for the Field, Woman for the Hearth Man for the Sword, and for the Needle She Man with the Head, Woman with the Heart Man to Command, Woman to Obey, All else, Confusion Women and men have heads and hearts. Let’s get beyond confusion and create safe and fair workplaces for all! n

Kate Burke, running to represent northeast Spokane on the city council, handily beat her opponent in November and will be sworn into office next week.

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was asked to write about my #MeToo experience and the events that occurred after I told my story (first reported publicly in the Inlander last month). My story wasn’t particularly unique.

Legions of women have been intimidated and sexually harassed by seemingly powerful men. What I found interesting was the conflicting predictions from onlookers. On one hand, I had close friends and mentors telling me to be as vague as possible, that naming names would damage my career. I was literally shown stories about women who were blackballed for doing what I was about to do.

At the same time, people in the community were suggesting that I was simply telling my story as a political stunt or for personal gain.

They suggested that coming forward would advance some sort of personal agenda. In my mind one prediction had to be true, the other false. I didn’t believe that both outcomes could exist in the same universe. Or could they?

There are folks who won’t talk to me now because of that story.

I have now been elected into office and there are progressive people who wish I hadn’t. There are people who are hesitant to simply meet with me now. I mostly attribute this dynamic change to the age-old fight between morality and expediency. But there will be more on that later — those people aren’t even the greatest challenge.

Believe it or not, it was the stories. I have gotten dozens of calls, emails and messages. I have heard horrific stories from women (and men) in our community who do not think this system works. Women who have undergone substantial trauma and are seeking justice or simply wanting to get their dignity back. Some have reached out to different institutions for answers, only to be met with a labyrinth of bureaucratic pitfalls, complicated procedures and victim blaming.

These women probably have little idea what effect they have had on me. Not only have they provided a sense of validation, but I’ve also been forced to look deeper into my past and allow some things to resurface that have for too long gone unaddressed. I realize that I have more work to do in understanding my past and be aware of its role in my present and future.

Years ago, my dad told me that virginity (and sex) was something you gave to someone. I don’t think he fully realized that it was something that can just as easily be taken. It’s easy to say that rape is bad. Nobody wants our sisters, daughters and mothers to go through anything that tragic. The thing men have failed to grasp is just how ubiquitous the threat of rape, assault and harassment is to the experience of simply being a woman.

But society is undergoing a reawakening. We are dismantling rape culture. We are breaking down complicity, male toxicity and the expectations of secrecy. These ingredients serve as the stew in which rape culture thrives. In many cases applying a bit of sunlight causes it to wilt away. But we must continue to pressure and focus on actual action and accountability if we wish to be truly liberated. I consider myself lucky to be a small a part of this transformation.

Yes, I have experienced some inconveniences as a result of telling my story. But they pale in comparison to the travesties the women I’ve met had to endure. It is their faces I remember and their stories I carry with me as I speak out against misogyny and patriarchy. So, to those who believe everything I’ve done — starting with telling my story and from that point — was simply a means to an end: You now know my “agenda.” And let me assure you, I will use every ounce of capital within my means to reach that end. n

#MeToo… Now What?

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t’s a simple hashtag that unloads a terrible burden. Women everywhere are finding their voice and standing up to men who have used their positions of power to sexually harass them — or worse. Despite the sordid stories, this is a positive trend, because it emboldens those who have stayed silent out of fear of career destruction. The victims can actually find strength in the numbers.

But what of the numbers? Are all men predisposed to be predatory, smarmy, vile creatures who can’t keep their hands to themselves and treat women as expendable? Thankfully, no. The only men to blame for sexual misconduct are the individuals who actually commit the misconduct.

If looking to place blame on a larger societal level, I would point to two things: 1. The decline of traditional virtues, to Stephanie Cates is the chair of the the point they are mocked. Remember the Spokane County Republican Party. ridicule and outrage feminists expressed over Mike Pence’s policy of not dining alone with a woman other than his wife? His principled stand looks better with each passing day.

2. The porn industry. It degrades women and inspires too many men to act on carnal impulses, destroying loving relationships by removing respect from sexual expression. We can’t ignore the consequences of debasing the culture like that.

Furthermore, masculinity is not the culprit! We won’t solve the problem by compelling men to get in touch with their “feminine side,” or forcing boys to play with dolls instead of monster trucks. I happen to like the fact that men and women are different. We were created to complement each other, and we should celebrate that.

So, now that the perverts are exposed and the powerful are toppling, how do we move forward and decrease the likelihood of this happening again?

For one, we need to return to holding gentlemanly behavior in high regard.

Men need to practice it, and women need to demand it — not just in the workplace, but in our social and dating lives as well.

Second, let’s emphasize healthy personal boundaries and self-respect.

Women my age need to encourage younger women to embrace their inherent worth and carry themselves with dignity. Sorry ladies, but you don’t command respect by shouting vulgarities and parading around in vagina hats. If we degrade ourselves down to just our body parts, how does that affirm a woman’s worth? How does that teach men to value our hearts and minds? It doesn’t.

Thirdly, let’s restore the importance of fathers. Too many men shirk their responsibility to care for the children they bring into this world. Rather than indulge men’s weaknesses, the culture should require them to “man up” and honor their commitments to the mothers of their children.

And finally, here’s something that’s a great equalizer in our battle for equality: the Second Amendment. I guarantee a man will think twice about messing with a woman who carries a firearm and knows how to use it. #MeToo is shining a light on some of the darkest parts of our culture, dismantling power structures, and giving a platform to those who previously were brushed aside. A sea change is happening. Let’s take this opportunity to hit the reset button on our values. n

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SMITHSONIAN ROCK AND ROLL: LIVE AND UNSEEN Certain photographs are nearly as vital to the image of rock artists as the music they make; it was true for Elvis and the Beatles and only became more so with the advent of music videos. And some images are seared in the brains of music fans after repeatedly seeing them in magazines, online and on TV. That’s what makes this book such a treat. The Smithsonian put out a call a couple of years ago for music fans to submit their own photographs of legendary musicians, onstage and off, and the result is this book, featuring rare photos spanning 142 artists and more than six decades of music history. Writer Bill Bentley adds vivid bios of the artists, but it’s the killer pics of Prince, Bruce Springsteen, Jack White, Aretha Franklin and Fleetwood Mac that will keep you flipping open this coffee-table tome. (DAN NAILEN)

HERE’S LITTLE RICHARD REISSUE Most of the music nerds I know enjoy discovering “new” old things as much as uncovering some hot brand-new tunes, and while Little Richard is far too famous to be “discovered” by most people, this deluxe reissue of his 60-year-old debut album remains an ear-opening experience. Albumopener “Tutti Frutti” put Little Richard on the map when the single came out, and here it’s the launching point to a collection of songs that helped define rock ’n’ roll — “Long Tall Sally,” “She’s Got It,” “Ready Teddy” — and forced Americans to come to terms with some antiquated ideas about race and sexuality in the process. The first disc is a remaster of the original, and second includes a slew of alternate takes from when Little Richard recorded it in New Orleans with a crew of the Big Easy’s best musicians. (DN)

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WHO IS LYDIA LOVELESS? DVD Director Gorman Bechard has made some winning music docs focused on older acts like the Replacements, Archers of Loaf and Grant Hart, but in this one he reveals one of American music’s great young talents as she and her band work on creating her excellent 2016 album, Real.

At face value, it’s a great introduction to a thoughtful indie/alt-country artist’s music, but Who Is Lydia Loveless? also delves into huge issues facing the music business, from piracy to sexism to mere survival as a working artist. No Depression magazine raved about the flick, saying Loveless’s “engaging and reflective thoughtfulness are juxtaposed with a natural ability to throw out hilarious one-liners.” Not a bad present for your twang-loving friends. (DN) ...continued on page 30

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METALLICA MASTER OF PUPPETS REISSUE There’s a “deluxe” version of this remastered 1986 metal classic that includes a book, three vinyl LPs, a cassette, two DVDs of live shows and 10 CDs including the remastered album, interviews, live shows and outtakes. That’s way more Metallica than anyone but the guys’ families need. For the rest of us, check out the three-CD (or digital, of course) reissue that delivers an excellentsounding replacement to your old discs, and you can hear new details in some of the intricacies of “Welcome Home (Sanitarium),” “Battery” and the like. A disc of rough versions of the songs is good, but even better is Disc 3, a collection of live performances from the Master of Puppets tour, including some of original bassist Cliff Burton’s last before his death in fall of 1986, and some of the first of his replacement Jason Newsted a couple of months later. (DN)

COVER ME: THE STORIES BEHIND THE GREATEST COVER SONGS OF ALL TIME The cover song is a tricky thing for an artist. Do the song well, and you can make the song your own, but you also risk being best known to the listening public for performing someone else’s tune. In 2007, Ray Padgett started the “Cover Me” blog to explore the good, bad and ugly of cover songs, and this book is based on the blog, but no mere collection of posts. Rather, Padgett uses stories about, say, Elvis’s take on Big Mama Thornton’s “Hound Dog,” the Talking Heads doing Al Green’s “Take Me To The River” or Johnny Cash doing Nine Inch Nails’ “Hurt” as a means of exploring the history of cover songs and how they’ve evolved through pop-music history. Great photos, strong analysis and original interviews combine to make this a fun read for all levels of music geek. (DN)

TO THE OUTSIDE OF EVERYTHING: THE STORY OF UK POST-PUNK 1977-1981 BOX SET A fat box set always makes for a great gift, especially one that might introduce the music lover in your life to something new. Or, in this case, to something old but still great. To The Outside of Everything captures the scene in England after punk has arrived and young musicians realized there were no rules anymore for how they approached their sound. Their imaginations ran wild to thrilling effect as evidenced in this killer collection. New sounds and approaches dot this five-disc collection that includes the likes of Joy Division, Gang of Four, the Slits, Human League, Echo and the Bunnymen and many more lesserknowns who created some amazing music in the last years before MTV. (DN)

R.E.M.: AUTOMATIC FOR THE PEOPLE 25TH ANNIVERSARY Released at the height of R.E.M.’s mainstream popularity, 1992’s Automatic for the People was a glossy pop record plagued by themes of depression and death, an emotionally fraught and experimental album that nonetheless became an alt-rock smash. From the ominous opener “Drive” to the hauntingly beautiful closing elegy “Find the River” — and with classics like “Everybody Hurts” and “Man on the Moon” in between — it pushed the band further from their post-punk roots and remains one of their most consistently brilliant records. This 25th anniversary reissue of Automatic, the first music release to be mastered in Dolby’s Atmos format, also includes a recording of a ’92 live performance, a disc of demos and a BluRay of music videos and archival photos. (NATHAN WEINBENDER)

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SQUEEZE BOX: THE COMPLETE WORKS OF “WEIRD AL” YANKOVIC There’s ridiculously elaborate album packaging, and then there’s Squeeze Box, a career retrospective of “Weird Al” Yankovic that comes stored in a replica of the beloved parody artist’s signature accordion. Clear some space on your shelf for this one. The set includes CD or vinyl copies of Yankovic’s 14 studio albums, from his 1983 self-titled debut to 2014’s Billboard-topping Mandatory Fun, as well as a new collection of rarities hand-picked by Yankovic himself and an accompanying book of rare archival photos. Anyone who’s only familiar with Al’s Top 40 spoofs might marvel at his equally brilliant (and even weirder) original compositions; brush up on those deep cuts before he brings them to the Fox Theater in May. (NW) ...continued on next page

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THE KINKS: MONO VINYL COLLECTION The Kinks could rock just as hard as the Rolling Stones, and their pastoral snapshots of middleclass English life were as evocative as anything produced during the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper phase, and yet they’re still unfairly eclipsed by their more famous contemporaries of the British Invasion.

This new vinyl collection, including the band’s first eight studio albums and a reissue of a rare two-LP singles compilation, should make any ’60s music fan swoon, especially since the Kinks’ early work is sadly underrepresented in most used record stores.

Revisiting these early releases, you can already hear a band unafraid to try just about anything, and it’s remarkable how fresh and vital late-’60s pop masterpieces like The Village Green Preservation Society and Arthur (or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) still sound. (NW)

THE COMPLETE MONTEREY POP Anything from art-film distribution company the Criterion Collection is bound to make a stellar gift, and their new repackaging of documentarian D.A. Pennebaker’s 1968 concert film Monterey Pop is no exception. The titular music festival, unfolding over three days in the summer of ’67, served as one of the first major platforms for several now-iconic performers — Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin among them — and also boasted legendary sets from the likes of Otis Redding and the Who. Pennebaker’s original film crams so many memorable moments into its 78-minute run time, but this new BluRay set includes even more: There are two additional hours of remastered performance footage from a murderer’s row of great artists, including Simon and Garfunkel, the Mamas and the Papas, Laura Nyro, the Grateful Dead and the Byrds. (NW)

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PICTURING PRINCE: AN INTIMATE PORTRAIT The world has been a dimmer, less funky place since guitar god Prince shuffled off this mortal coil, and countless tributes have been paid following his unexpected death in early 2016. But this photo book covering Prince’s ever-evolving style seems even more heartfelt than the rest: It features the work of Steve Parke, the Purple One’s longtime art director and personal photographer, who also designed the covers for such Prince albums as Graffiti Bridge and Emancipation. Many of the photos that are contained within its covers are either extremely rare or are being published for the first time, and they offer a glimpse into the personal life of one of rock’s most dazzling enigmas. (NW) n

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ast January, a small group of friends and I had the opportunity to experience heli skiing with NCHS, and our timing could not have been more spot on. We made the four-hour drive from the Spokane area during the tail end of a storm and right before a high-pressure system was projected to soon cover the Northwest.

Our first morning we went through the necessary snow and heli safety briefings at the Heli Barn and by 9:30 am, with snow falling, we were in the Eurocopter AStar B3 headed for the Cutthroat Zone, an area that is perfect for these type of storm days.

For me, there’s nothing better than storm skiing in the trees.

One, the light and the visibility is usually quite good in the trees, and two, it seems the trees usually block the wind, preventing any wind effect on the snow. This usually translates into deep, bottomless turns. This particular zone is one of several NCHS go-to areas during snowstorms when lighting and visibility can be somewhat limited.

Paul led our group through some old-growth trees, which proved to be the perfect choice. By late afternoon, the snowfall was lightening up, and you could feel the temps dropping as the high pressure was settling in. An incredible first day was had, and we were all very optimistic for Day 2.

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GETAWAY North Cascade was truly exceptional. It was one of the best days ever. It gave us everything. It was just unbelievable.”

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Lots of bowls and drainages keep things interesting.

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“PARADISE IN THE AMERICAN ALPS,” CONTINUED... way: “We woke to a couple of inches of new snow and and the stars were out before the sun came up. Our first run, they brought us out to Silver Star to ski. The sun was shining ... Just a beautiful blue sky. The two inches we got in town, was more like eight inches up here, and it was amazing blower snow. You couldn’t go wrong in it.”

To see the look on Tommy Frey’s face after his run down 3,500 vertical feet of endless untracked powder was priceless.

One of the many nice features with NCHS terrain is that there’s so many bowls and drainages offering a wide selection of routes for riders of different levels and

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varying weather conditions. “We’re fortunate enough to have some of our best terrain only five minutes away from the heli base,” Butler says. “We can easily trip out farther, changing zones, finding good snow or better snow is easy.”

Whether you’re an intermediate powder skier or skilled pro like Jeff Yates from Coeur d’ Alene, there’s something for everyone.

“I loved the steep sections tucked up along the granite faces but more than anything I loved all the features we could play on, popping airs, riding the steeps and just plain out blowing through many of the wide-open bowls.

CHS has a wide variety of packages available from one-day packages on up and, if you wish, they can include lodging and dining at the Freestone Inn. After a big day of crushing miles of powder it’s pretty relaxing to recharge and reminisce over the day’s adventure at the Freestone with its Old World character.

“The architecture is beautiful. It’s freestanding logs, a huge rock fireplace, great little bar, and wonderful food and it’s only a 100-yard walk to the heli barn. It’s all right here. Everything you want,” Frey says.

The Freestone Inn also offers cozy two-bedroom cabins that are situated between the lodge and the heli barn.

If you’re more of a human-powered RESOURCES adventurer and you heli-ski.com want a true backcounfreestoneinn.com try experience, NCHS has a yurt set up in the backcountry where they’ll fly you and your gear to.

For first-time heli skier Dan Rihm from Utah, he was just as impressed with flying in the heli as skiing: “My first heli experience was one of the best couple of days of skiing I’ve ever had. I’ve been smiles all week. Even flying around in the helicopter, it’s just as exciting as the skiing. We were just like buzzing the tower on the ridge lines all week.”

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hen it comes to going fast and putting it all out on the line, former American downhill skier Daron Rahlves comes to mind. To say this guy likes to go fast is an understatement. Retired from ski racing, Rahlves — or, as his friends call him, D-Money — is America’s most decorated skier in Downhill and Super-G, with World Cup wins, World Championship medals and first- and second-place finishes at the legendary downhill race at Hahnenkamm.

Rahlves, his wife and two children live north of Lake Tahoe, California. Rahlves is hard to pin down as he’s always on the go. If you want to find Rahlves, he can usually be found reaping the benefits of Tahoe’s natural playground. Whether it’s skiing at Sugar Bowl Resort, ski touring the backcountry on Donner Pass, waterskiing at 6am or racing his dirt bike in a hare scramble, Rahlves is out there pushing himself. Here’s a guy who loves the feel of wind in his face.

After 12 years of ski racing for the US Ski Team, Rahlves stepped away from the competitive World Cup Ski Racing Tour.

“I had this great career in the ski racing world on World Cup. Traveled around the world, mostly in Europe as a downhiller, I ran some Super-G and GS. I was kind of getting burned out from the travel and just doing the same thing. I think over the years I made a transition, I wanted to find out more about the sport of skiing, the different aspects of it. I decided I wanted to walk away from ski racing at the top of my game, healthy, on my own terms.”

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ahlves retired in 2006 but not long after, in 2008, he received an invite to participate in ESPN’s Winter X-Games where he competed in and won X Games Gold in Skier Cross.

Starting back in 2005 Rahlves started filming with several ski film production companies like Warren Miller Entertainment, Teton Gravity Research and Matchstick Productions. Always pushing himself and wanting to experience new skiing challenges, Rahlves was introduced to big-mountain skiing, Alaska style. Rahlves ventured to Alaska with various film crews each spring and, as you can guess, he crushed it, taking on these Alaskan faces with power and precision. It was from Rahlves’ 2009 Matchstick segment “In Deep” where Rahlves earned huge respect from the big-mountain community and was awarded, Powder Magazine’s Line of the Year.

“I was pretty proud of getting the Powder Magazine best line of the year, up in Alaska,” he says. “Just showed kind of my versatility I’ve taken from the racing world into some bigger mountain stuff.”

I asked Rahlves how taking on a steep Alaskan face is similar to ski racing. “When I raced I always liked the more challenging tracks. It’s a little more, I wouldn’t say dicey, but just a little more challenging,” he says.

“I’ve got to be focused a little more like taking on an Alaskan line, when you have stuff that’s higher consequences. I think it elevated my performance and focus where I’m firing on all cylinders.”

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SPEED RACER Daron Rahlves, one of ski racing’s most decorated champs, refuses to slow down BY BOB LEGASA

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As a young ski racer Rahlves always pushed himself to be better and that has carried on with him today.

“I’ve always felt like being a versatile athlete is great. Just immerse yourself in different things, you know, and challenge yourself. If you’re really good at one thing, it’s always good to check your ego a little bit and try something new and try and learn a new skill.

I’ve always had a love for pushing it more.”

It’s really no surprise that riding MotoX bikes is right in Rahlves’ wheelhouse: “I grew up riding dirt bikes in the summertime.

To me, it’s as close as I can get to downhill racing with that sort of rush. The start, blasting off the line, going for the first turn and chasing guys down. Scrappy and speed feels good, when you’re going fast in anything you do, the more you have to be on top of your game and the hare scrambles or desert racing is awesome because it’s really high-speed.

There’s technical sections, it’s really similar to skiing.”

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t 43, Rahlves is still heavily involved in the ski industry, working closely with his sponsors as an ambassador for both Red Bull and Sugar Bowl Resort or designing and testing equipment for Atomic skis, Giro helmets and Reush gloves, where he has his own signature glove, The D-Money Glove.

Throughout the winter Rahlves can usually be found skiing with his family at Sugar Bowl Resort or in the Tahoe backcountry, enjoying his newly found ski passion: backcountry ski touring. “I still like to race gates, I still spend a lot of time inbounds, but I kind of like to go out and earn my turns a little bit and get a little more immersed in the feeling of being in the mountains. Tahoe has an incredible amount of terrain to ski and so backcountry touring has been a big kind of focus of mine the last couple of years. When you’re hiking around and skinning you’re able to look at everything and take it all in.”

Skiing has been a generational thing for Rahlves.

“My grandparents were skiing, my parents were skiing. That’s how my sister and I got involved in it,” he recalls. “Now I have 9-year-old twins and have passed on that sort of love and passion for this sport I’ve been doing as a career. They were on skis at 3.”

Last Christmas, Rahlves took his son Dreyson on a short inbounds ski hike at Sugar Bowl. “We hiked up and got some fresh tracks. He was a little bit like, ‘Ah, we have to go that high?’ We got halfway up and he was all pumped like, ‘We’re almost there let’s keep going!’ He got sick turns. It was just that moment that was really cool, to be able to share that with my own kids.”

For a man that has always gone full throttle, it’s nice to see Rahlves slow down and take in what’s most important to him, family.

“I think after having kids it helped me open up and be willing to share more,” he says. “Now I’m just kind of the mellow daddy skier out here finding fresh lines and skiing with my kids.” n

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WINTER EVENTS DECEMBER NIGHT SKIING KICKOFF PARTY The first night skiing event of the season kicks off, with the runs aglow under the night lights. Fri, Dec. 15.

Mt. Spokane Ski & Snowboard Park, 29500 N. Mt. Spokane Park Dr. mtspokane.com (238-2220) PRAY FOR SNOW BREWFEST Lookout Pass hosts its “pray for snow” party with beer from 10 Barrel Brewery. Sat, Dec. 16. Lookout Pass, I-90 Exit 0 at Mullan, Idaho. skilookout.com (208-744-1301) LEARN TO CROSS COUNTRY SKI The Sandpoint Nordic Club and Schweitzer offer free cross-country skiing demos and lessons on the beginning trails at “The Roundabout” and the road up to the resort. Free rentals available by reservation; also includes classic skiing and skate skiing lessons. Sat, Dec. 16 from 9 am-3 pm.

Schweitzer Mountain Resort, 10000 Schweitzer Mountain Rd., Sandpoint, Idaho. schweitzer.com (208-2639555) SNOWSHOE TOUR OF MT. SPOKANE Learn the basics of snowshoeing as you travel on trails through the snowcovered hills around Mt. Spokane.

Fee includes transportation, equipment and instruction. Ages 13-17 ($25) can attend with a participating adult. Offered Dec. 17 and 23 from 10 am-2 pm. Departs from Yoke’s Foods, 14202 N. Market. $29/person. Register at spokaneparks.org SANTA VISITS WHITEWATER The jolly old elf visits the base area to say hello to the kids before his Christmas rush; kids are invited to stop and say hi and take a photo with him. Sun, Dec. 17. Whitewater Ski Resort, 602 Lake St., Nelson, B.C. skiwhitewater. com (250-354-4944) REINDEER SNOWSHOE HIKE Take a family-friendly snowshoeing adventure through the woods with Schweitzer’s Christmas reindeer experts to search for signs of Santa’s magical friends. Offered Dec. 17, 19 and 23 from noon-1:30 pm. $20/ person. Schweitzer Mountain Resort, 10000 Schweitzer Mountain Rd., Sandpoint, Idaho. schweitzer.com (208-263-9555) CAMP YOUTH WINTER ADVENTURE Kids (ages 9-12) can learn cross country skiing and snowshoeing during their winter break at both the Mt. Spokane State Park Nordic Area and 49 Degrees North. Transportation, instruction and equipment all included. $69/person. Offered Dec. 20-21 and

Dec. 27-28 from 9 am-4 pm. Departs each morning from Mountain Gear, 2002 N. Division. Register at spokaneparks.org

local craft beers, food specials and more. Sat, Dec. 23. 49 Degrees North, 3311 Flowery Trail Rd., Chewelah. ski49n.com (935-6649)

WINTER BLAST FAMILY FUN DAY Bring the whole family up to Chewelah for a day on the slopes as the mountain offers $10 discounts on every lift ticket and rental. Fri, Dec. 22. 49 Degrees North, 3311 Flowery Trail Rd., Chewelah. ski49n.com (9356649)

SKI WITH SANTA The Big Man in Red takes a break before the big day to fit in a few runs, with a balloon parade on Christmas Eve and carolers in the Village. Dec 23-24. Schweitzer Mountain Resort, 10000 Schweitzer Mountain Rd., Sandpoint, Idaho. schweitzer.com (208-263-9555)

CROSS COUNTRY SKIING LESSON (49 DEGREES NORTH) Certified ski instructors teach the basics of this winter activity during an outing organized through Spokane Parks & Recreation, which departs from the Wandermere Albertsons (12312 N. Division). Includes transportation, equipment rental and instruction. $49/person (ages 13+). Offered Dec. 22, Dec. 31, Jan. 28 and Feb. 10, from 8 am-4 pm. Register at spokaneparks.org 49 DEGREES NORTH BREWFEST The Boomtown Bar hosts a day of

NIGHT SKIING AT 49° This season, enjoy six nights on the slopes under the glowing orange lights. Several upper and lower runs are included, and each night includes a food drive to support regional food banks; get a discounted lift ticket for $5 by bringing three cans of food.

(Otherwise $15/person.) Upcoming night skiing events on Dec. 23, Dec. 30, Jan. 13 and Feb. 17, from 4-8 pm.

49 Degrees North, 3311 Flowery Trail Rd., Chewelah. ski49n.com (9356649)

Silver Mountain Resort, 610 Bunker Ave., Kellogg, Idaho. silvermt.com (208-344-2675) CHRISTMAS EVE TORCHLIGHT PARADE At one of the biggest events on the mountain every year, families can watch the torchlight parade followed by a fireworks show, and see Santa make his grand entrance in the village. Sun, Dec. 24 from 5-7 pm. $5 to participate in the parade; free to watch. Silver Star Mountain Resort, 123 Shortt St., Silver Star Mountain, B.C. skisilverstar.com (800-663-4431) WINTER BREAK SKI CAMP Young skiers spend four days exploring the terrain parks, groomed free skiing and more as they’re coached and participate in group activities.

Offered Dec. 26-29 and Jan. 2-5; meets from 9:30 am-3 pm daily. $175/child, per session. Schweitzer Mountain Resort, 10000 Schweitzer Mountain Rd., Sandpoint, Idaho. schweitzer.com (208-263-9555)

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CHRISTMAS AT MT. SPOKANE Head up to the mountain before or after the presents are opened and enjoy all the runs and the tubing hill.

Dec. 24 from 9 am-4 pm (Note that the Lodge 1, Vista House and daycare services are closed this day) and Dec. 25 from 9 am-4 pm. Mt. Spokane Ski & Snowboard Park, 29500 N. Mt. Spokane Park Dr. mtspokane.com (238-2220) CHRISTMAS AT LOOKOUT The North Idaho resort is open for all your family’s holiday festivities, with a visit from Santa Claus for treats and pictures on Dec. 24 at noon, and the mountain’s annual Christmas Day Luncheon on Dec. 25, from 11 am-2 pm ($13.49/adults; $7.99/12 and under). The runs are also open on Christmas, from 10 am-4 pm. Lookout Pass, I-90 Exit 0 at Mullan, Idaho. skilookout.com (208-744-1301) CHRISTMAS AT SILVER Santa is making the rounds at Silver and hitting the slopes on Christmas Eve and Day, followed by a Christmas dinner feast on Dec. 25 in Noah’s Loft.

SNOWSHOE MOONLIGHT HIKE REI hosts an evening snowshoe tour around the meadows and woods of Mt. Spokane. Guides, transportation, headlamps, walking poles and shoes all included in registration fee. Meets at Yoke’s Foods, 14202 N. Market. $29/person; ages 16+ ($27 for REI members). Offered Dec. 30, Jan. 26, Feb. 29 and March 31 from 6-9 pm.

Register at spokaneparks.org CROSS COUNTRY SKIING LESSON (MT. SPOKANE) Certified ski instructors teach the basics of this winter activity on the Nordic trails at Mt. Spokane State Park.

This trip organized through Spokane Parks & Recreation departs from Yokes Foods (14202 N. Market) and the activity fee includes transportation, equipment rental and instruction. $37/person ($37/ages 13-18).

Offered Dec. 30, Jan. 6-7, 20; Feb. 3, 17 and 24 from 9 am-3 pm. Register online at spokaneparks.org NEW YEAR’S EVE AT SCHWEITZER Ring in 2018 on the mountain with live music and entertainment for the whole family, with a big celebration party in Taps. Sun, Dec. 31; tickets for NYE activities went on sale Dec. 1. Schweitzer Mountain Resort, 10000 Schweitzer Mountain Rd., Sandpoint, Idaho. schweitzer.com (208-2639555) NEW YEAR’S AT SILVER The resort offers celebrations throughout the day for all ages, including night skiing and boarding until 6 pm, and an extra-late tubing

session from 5-7 pm. There’s also a family celebration and early 9 pm balloon drop at Silver Rapids waterpark. Noah’s Loft hosts a buffet-style prime rib dinner (6-9 pm) with a karaoke and DJ party afterwards for ages 21+. Dec. 31. Silver Mountain Resort, 610 Bunker Ave., Kellogg, Idaho. silvermt.com (208-344-2675)

JANUARY COLLEGE DAYS Don’t worry about spending your textbook money on lift tickets; come to Silver for $26 tickets by showing a current, valid college ID. Jan. 2-4.

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TWIN EAGLES WINTER BREAK CAMP Kids (ages 6-13) can spend their days learning practical outdoor skills like building a warm snow shelter, tracking animals, safely making a fire and more. Session runs Jan. 2-4, from 9 am-3 pm. $165 (scholarships available). Meets at Indian Springs just outside of Spokane. Register at twineagles.org (208-265-3685) JACKASS DAY Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Jackass Ski Bowl, which became Silver Mountain, with a full weekend of events and retro-priced $12 lift tickets. Other events include late night skiing (until 9 pm), a canned food drive, fireworks show, live music, night tubing and a rail jam. Sat, Jan. 5. Silver Mountain Resort, 610 Bunker Ave., Kellogg, Idaho. silvermt.com (208-344-2675) LOOKOUT FREE SKI SCHOOL PROGRAM Kids can learn how to ski or snowboard, or hone their skills, at no cost, with options for beginner, intermediate and advance levels. Ages 6-17.

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WINTER EVENTS LADIES DAY This all-day program includes a lift ticket and rental, continental breakfast and three hours of personalized instruction from female instructors, followed by lunch and video analysis.

Offered Jan. 12, Feb. 9 and March 2, from 9 am-3 pm. $89. Mt. Spokane Ski & Snowboard Park, 29500 N. Mt. Spokane Park Dr. mtspokane.com CROSS COUNTRY SKI OF FRATER LAKE A chance to explore this glacial lake of the Pend Oreille Chain, offering more than 10 miles of trails for all levels. Includes guides, transportation, equipment and ski area fees. $45/person.

Sat, Jan. 13 from 9 am-4 pm. Departs from Mountain Gear, 2002 N. Division.

Register at spokaneparks.org MLK WEEKEND AT SCHWEITZER Celebrate all weekend long with live music in Taps, the Northern Lights Spectacular fireworks show and more.

Events from Jan. 13-15. Schweitzer Mountain Resort, 10000 Schweitzer Mountain Rd., Sandpoint, Idaho. schweitzer.com WINTER CARNIVAL + FAMILY FUN DAY The tradition returns with the annual

wife-carrying contest at 1 pm, along with a three-legged race, eggy carrying contest, snowman-building competition and more. Sun, Jan. 14. Lookout Pass, I-90 Exit 0 at Mullan, Idaho. skilookout.com (208-744-1301)

sic. Jan. 27-28. Silver Mountain Resort, 610 Bunker Ave., Kellogg, Idaho. silvermt.com (208-344-2675) CROSS COUNTRY MOONLIGHT SKI TOUR & DINNER An evening tour across Mt. Spokane State Park followed by dinner from Greenbluff Fresh Catering Co. Experience recommended; discount offered for using your own equipment. $53/ person. Offered Jan. 27 and Feb. 24 from 6-9 pm. Meets at Mt. Spokane State Park Selkirk Lodge Nordic Area.

Register online at spokaneparks.org.

See Spokane Parks & Recreation’s 2018 Winter Activity Guide for a complete listing of all winter activities and dates offered this season, online at spokaneparks.org.

SNOWSHOE AND WINE TASTING Enjoy a day exploring the trails of Mt. Spokane followed by a wine tasting at Townshend Winery on Green Bluff.

Equipment, guides and transportation included. $37/person. Offered Jan. 14, Feb. 11 and March 11 from 10 am-3:30 pm. Departs from Yokes Foods (14202 N. Market). Register at spokaneparks. org WINTER TRAILS DAY Kids and adults can try cross-country skiing and snowshoeing with free trail access to all Nordic skiing and snowshoe trails, as well as multiple hosted snowshoe hikes throughout the day. Sat, Jan. 20 from 9 am-3 pm.

Schweitzer Mountain Resort, 10000 Schweitzer Mountain Rd., Sandpoint, Idaho. schweitzer.com BAVARIAN BREWS, BRATS & MUSIC FESTIVAL Another annual tradition at Lookout, the event offers locally-crafted brews,

Head to Silver Mountain for Doug E. Fresh Weekend Jan. 27-28. grilled brats and live Bavarian music.

Events coincide with the Annual Media Cup Team Races and Appreciation Day. Sun, Jan. 21. Lookout Pass, I-90 Exit 0 at Mullan, Idaho. skilookout.com TOYOTA SKI FREE DAY Drive your Toyota, Scion, or Lexus to Schweitzer and receive a free lift ticket.

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THE LAST CASTLE

BY DENISE KIERNAN If you’ve ever been to Asheville, North Carolina, no doubt you’ve seen the Biltmore Estate — about 1.4 million visit every year. The creation of George Washington Vanderbilt, grandson of the Commodore himself who’d made a fortune in railroads and shipping, it’s an audacious piece of architecture — its interior square footage is measured in acres (four), and there are 250 rooms. Denise Kiernan expands the story to profile its designer, renowned architect Richard Morris Hunt, and its landscaper, Frederick Law Olmsted; to round out the cast of Gilded Age luminaries, Vanderbilt hired John Singer Sargent to paint everyone’s portrait.

The sketches extend to New York’s upper crust, as Vanderbilt married a Stuyvesant (Edith), who outlived him and had to figure out what to do with the Biltmore. (TSM)

ARTEMIS

BY ANDY WEIR You may have heard the story of the freelance computer programmer who tried his hand at sci-fi with the result being The Martian — first a Kindle book, then one of the great sci-fi movies of all time that earned $630 million at the box office. No word on whether he’s doing much programming anymore, but he’s back with another novel just in the time for the holidays.

Artemis moves the action to the Moon, where Weir has conjured up a scientifically plausible lunar city, named Artemis, where his heroine, Jazz, lives a kinda boring life — until she feels the adrenaline rush of space smuggling.

(TED S. McGREGOR JR.)

RADIO FREE VERMONT

BY BILL McKIBBEN If you’re an environmentalist, Bill McKibben’s kind of the high priest of your movement. He was a staff writer for the New Yorker, where he reported the bulk of what would become the first book to document climate change for a mass audience, The End of Nature.

He’s organized activist organizations like Step It Up and 350.org and fought the Keystone XL pipeline.

He’s got the bona fides, but the one thing he has not done — until now — is write a novel. And instead of taking a break from all the depressing reality, he’s just presenting it all in a new — dare I say, fun — way via the character of Vern Barclay. Vern’s a seventy-something public radio host who’s had enough and is not gonna take it any more — kind of what Bernie Sanders might look like had he not gone into politics. Vern fights Wal-Mart, Starbucks and even mounts a secessionist movement. If you want to tune out the crazy world we live in, but not completely, Radio Free Vermont might be just the perfect read. (TSM)

BECOMING KAREEM

BY KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR Before there was Colin Kaepernick, there was Lew Alcindor — the basketball superstar who refused to play in the 1968 Olympics as a silent protest against racism. As families grapple with how to talk to their kids about racism, here’s a new book by Alcindor (known as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar since 1971): Becoming Kareem. Abdul-Jabbar sees the line between the likes of Muhammad Ali and Kaepernick, who he said “is forcing the country to continue to have a meaningful conversation about racial inequality when many want to pretend there is no problem,” in a recent Sports Illustrated column.

But for this book, aimed at kids 10 and up, Abdul-Jabbar wanted to simply tell the story of being a gangly and shy kid, and what led to his social awakening. After growing up in Harlem and playing basketball for a mostly white high school, he took his talents to UCLA, where his team went 88-2. Then it was on to the NBA where he remains the league’s all-time leading scorer. He was also flat-out hilarious as that cramped pilot in Airplane.

And it’s not even his only book of 2017, as he published Coach Wooden and Me in May to great reviews —a solid choice for the grown-up sports fan on your list. (TSM) ...continued on next page

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THE REVENGE OF ANALOG

BY DAVID SAX Not just for the iPhone phobic or your Luddite uncle who refuses to get “on the email,” The Revenge of Analog is for anyone who’s lost hours happily flipping through record store bins or feels a little frisson of joy when cracking open a new blank Moleskine notebook. David Sax explores technologies and institutions supposedly made obsolete by their digital forms — record pressing factories, film cameras, brick-and-mortar bookstores — and discovers that their surprising new popularity is rooted in not only nostalgia but a stubborn appreciation for tangible things.

Although this title came out late last year it’s just been released in paperback, making it a worthy contender for this season. (SHERI BOGGS)

A GLORIOUS FREEDOM

BY LISA CONGDON As any woman of a certain age will tell you, it’s no fun to age in a society that only celebrates the young. A Glorious Freedom is the refreshing antidote — Lisa Congdon’s vibrantly illustrated collection of interviews, profiles and essays on women who all pursued their dreams or did their greatest work after the age of 40. While some names are well known — Julia Child, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Vera Wang, Dara Torres — it’s the stories of ordinary women learning to surf, embracing being single, taking up lovers, and discovering painting, that resonate most, making the possibility of late blooming accessible for all. (SB)

SOURDOUGH

BY ROBIN SLOAN I’m seeing this book everywhere — end of the year “best of” lists, recommendations from work friends, other people’s gift guides — and it’s easy to see why. Robin Sloan (Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore) introduces Lois Clary, a software designer at a robotics firm who suddenly finds herself in possession of a crock of sourdough starter.

With little more than the mysterious music CD accompanying the sourdough to guide her, Lois starts baking. As her cracked loaves begin bringing in the orders, Lois attracts the attention of a high-concept farmers market but discovers it’s not easy to leave the world of robotics behind.

Much more than a digital vs. biological debate, this buoyant mix of technology, food, music and magical realism explores startup culture, fringe communities and, above all, what it means to nurture and create. (SB)

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I’M JUST NO GOOD AT RHYMING: AND OTHER NONSENSE FOR MISCHIEVOUS CHILDREN AND IMMATURE ADULTS

BY CHRIS HARRIS AND LANE SMITH Chris Harris, writer and producer of How I Met Your Mother, teams up with the prolifically entertaining illustrator Lane Smith for this collection of poetry, pictures, puns, riddles, sight gags and running jokes. Sometimes the text begs to be read aloud: “ If I ever find myself holding a gecko.../ I’ll lecko.” Sometimes it’s all gleefully unhinged art, as when Harris declares “I Don’t Like My Illustrator” and Smith responds with a sketch of Harris as a snaggletoothed, runny-nosed dweeb. And sometimes the art and text are hilariously interdependent, as in “An Alphabet Book by the Laziest Artist in the World,” which offers an upside down semi-circle for every letter, explaining, “O is for Orchestra Pit,” “P is for Parabola,” “Q is for Quail Under a Serving Lid,” etc. (SB)

YEAR END Clearance THIS BOOK IS A PLANETARIUM

BY KELLI ANDERSON This coffee-table book, with its birthday-cake-hued stripes, Futura type and night sky inset, is attractive just sitting there. But open it up and it’s a marvel of paper engineering as the pop-up contents become six working tools: a planetarium that projects the constellations, a spiralgraph, a decoder, a stringed musical instrument, an infinite calendar and a speaker. Next to the constructions themselves, Anderson explains the scientific principles that make each of them work. This Book is a Planetarium is designed for adults but will appeal to STEMminded kids with a little adult supervision. (SB)

THE MISFIT’S MANIFESTO

BY LIDIA YUKNAVITCH Following the wild success of her TED talk, “The Beauty of Being a Misfit,” Yuknavitch defines misfits as not those who occasionally feel awkward or left out, but those who “never found a way to fit in at all, from the get-go.” The Misfit’s Manifesto delves into the very real pain that underlies many an outsider’s quirks and makes the case for what misfits offer culturally, historically and sociologically. Even if you’re not a misfit yourself, chances are you know or love one, and the clarity and beauty of Yuknavitch’s prose make this a deeply human and rewarding read. (SB) n

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VIDEO GAMES IDEAS FOR THE GAMER GEEK IN YOUR LIFE

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WOLFENSTEIN 2: THE NEW COLOSSUS (PS4, XBOX ONE, PC) I considered filing a missing persons report four days after my partner disappeared into his gaming dungeon to play the newest release of the Wolfenstein franchise. He emerged thin and malnourished from his days in the pit, but with a huge grin that said those four days were a nonstop Nazimurdering thrill.

Now, considering our current political climate and the general questioning of Nazi morality, you will either be thrilled with this game or absolutely offended. Spoilers ahoy: The Wolfenstein games are centered around killing Nazis.

Wolfenstein II happens to kill Nazis in a hilarious retro sci-fi alternate universe! Try to be stealthy, spray-and-pray, lasers to the face, whatever — this is your chance for some catharsis.

If it isn’t obvious by the themes of murder and Nazis, this is not a child-friendly game. If you have moral aversion to the pervasive culture of violence in our society, this probably isn’t your game either.

DESTINY 2 (PS4, XBOX ONE, PC) The original Destiny game consumed players back in the wild, halcyon days of 2014. Everyone was playing it. People lovingly made game art their desktop backgrounds. Many a homework assignment was skipped in favor of shootin’ ’em up online. The game hearkened to the days of Halo in a way that only a “game of a generation” can, so making a sequel was an obvious move by Bungie.

The newest iteration, Destiny 2, paves over some of the rough patches of its forefather whilst keeping everyone busy, busy, busy. Destiny 2 finally fleshes out a story worth drooling over. The game also nearly overwhelms with a million and a half things to do, whether it be PvP, random wandering around, nifty side quests, raids or finishing the robust campaign itself. Parents: It will keep your children quiet and busy. Adults: It will keep you busy enough to forget about the crushing, ceaseless weight of the human condition.

MIDDLE EARTH: SHADOW OF WAR (PS4, XBOX ONE, PC) You’re not picking up this latest iteration of a Lord of the Rings game for the stunning gameplay, flabbergasting plot, or earthshattering new characters. Everyone knows you’re picking Middle Earth: Shadow of War for interactive fanservice that scratches that LOTR itch.

“We need more magic rings and uruks and piccolo themes and evil sky eyes!” cried the masses, clutching their limited edition box sets of the films. The video game gods replied with a solid continuation of the series that includes all of our favorite players (Sauron, obviously) and a surprisingly detailed horde of disfigured uruks to slay. Probably not for kiddos, unless you’re in the camp of “violence doesn’t count if it’s high fantasy violence.”

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Moving on, Super Mario anything pretty much guarantees a hearty smile and jolly wink from your gamer as soon as they pop open that wrapping paper. As it turns out, Mario’s latest escapade is well-written, thoughtful, creative and cute. The game isn’t overtly challenging, leaving exploration as the main hurdle. You have to poke around to find objectives and then churn that gray matter to divine out how to seize your prize. Absolutely appropriate for offspring and pleasantly satisfying for responsible, tax-paying adults as well.

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STAR WARS: BATTLEFRONT II Star Wars: Battlefront II stirred up some gamer-community resentment this year. What grievous transgression felled the good standing status of the game? A fat and sassy trend of overly predatory microtransaction bologna.

Let’s illustrate with a narrative. Young Billy walks to the store and forks over $80 for his treasured copy of Star Wars: Battlefront II. Billy leans a bit sadistic and just cannot wait to fire up the game as Darth Vader, the maleficent hero of his dreams. “But what?” Billy cries as he realizes the Darth Vader character is locked. He is presented with a dastardly choice — either grind in-game for a bajillion hours or pay money to unlock the character.

Developers have increasingly transitioned to a model where they make goals practically unreachable, while providing a paid way to get there instead. Thus, consumers are left with a model where they pay nearly $100 for a game, but have to swipe that card again to actually get to content. This just isn’t chill.

THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: BREATH OF THE WILD (WII U, SWITCH) A truly creative gaming experience is directly proportional to the increasing popularity of open-format sandbox games centered around detailed, sans-narrative, explorative worlds. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is mildly survival driven and almost completely devoid of an oppressive main campaign that thou shalt follow — genuinely refreshing.

It’s something Zelda, and everyone loves a familiar canon. It’s something Zelda, so it’s completely kid appropriate. In case you’re not familiar, here’s a pro insider tip: The guy with the green hat is Link, not Zelda. Many a condescending chuckle has been uttered by hardcore gamers who mock the plebes who make that aforementioned mistake.

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BY TUCK CLARRY CARCASSONNE Old enough to be heading off to college, the 17-yearold tile-placement game Carcassonne remains one of the greatest tabletops I’ve ever experienced and, oddly enough, not incredibly popular. The simple game demands players to place tiles and build the board each turn, where players must place their drawn tile in that same turn. Players try to build empires on the maps, taking advantage of plots of lands on the tiles designated for cities and farms. Players accrue points from completing cities, farmlands and road extensions as the map reveals itself with each turn. The simplicity allows for a multitude of strategies such as simply trying to improve your own empire’s progress or stealing the unfinished work of your adversaries. With two players, the game could be completed in as quickly as 30 minutes, with the tile pieces and progress markers fitting in a small bag. Ages 7 and up; $35 7 WONDERS This game fulfills many of the fancies of “epic” tabletop players with a breezy pace once accustomed to the mechanics (gameplay ranges from 35 minutes to an hour). Each player represents one of the cities that house one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.

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BETRAYAL AT HOUSE ON THE HILL Like Clue on steroids, Betrayal at House on the Hill is a story-based mystery game that remains tense throughout the hour-long-on-average game. Players embark throughout a haunted house represented by a tile board that you expand as you explore the confines. This component not only makes for tension ratcheting but also a high replay value for players as you may not experience all of the rooms or all of the potential outcomes of rooms. Players investigate the house until “the haunt” is activated through a player roll. There on, players find out who among them are “survivors” and who is the “traitor.” This creates different objectives for players (told only in specific passages in player handbooks) which are unknown to their opponents. The game before and after the haunt feels almost like two separate games, as the style turns from cooperative to all of a sudden competitive. Ages 12 and up; $50

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JAIPUR The premiere two-player game of the moment, Jaipur is a card game where players seek to be elite traders in the six different themed-goods cards ranging from leather to silks to jewels. Players compete in drawing random cards and cards available in the marketplace to use to compound the size of potential deals. There are also a set of tokens which signify the value of each deal, with the decks of tokens descending in value for each good. The game is a great combination of strategy and chance, as the 60-card deck allows for a randomness. The gameplay is rather quick and easily portable. Ages 12 and up; $25

SPANK THE YETI At house parties it seems like a mere matter of time until the host breaks out the beaten and bruised black box housing the tired and hardly true Cards Against Humanity deck. Galactic Sneeze’s Spank The Yeti maintains the vulgar sensibilities while structured for greater replay-ability. The game is set up with the “eff, marry, kill” questionnaire where, for a player’s turn, they draw three action and object cards each. The other players must guess which object card would belong to an action card and earn points based off of how many match. Ages 17 and up; $25

GREAT WESTERN TRAIL Of the games found on this list, Great Western Trail is without a doubt the most complicated. The 2016 game has on average a two-hour-long runtime, with players fashioning themselves as cow ranchers, trying to earn the most points by raising and shipping cows off to the game terminal of Kansas City.

The idea is simple and the mechanics follow suit, but players will be left with a bevy of options in terms of earning points through quick deals, hiring workers, expanding buildings, moving your railway along the way. Thankfully, the game mechanics limit the possible actions players have each turn, which help adjust the scope of the game to not be incredibly overwhelming. It includes so many add-on possibilities throughout a sit-down, such as trade deals, ranch certifications and other compounding point systems, that most players will be checking the rulebook every now and then to see if they’re making the right decisions. Ages 12 and up; $50

KING OF TOKYO A family-friendly monster game, King of Tokyo serves as a battle royale as players try to be the last standing giant in control of the city. Only one monster can control Tokyo at a time and, therefore, is the target of all opponent attacks but can also offer retribution to all others in their turn. The turn is centered on rolling six dice to reveal the combination of healing, attack powers and energy cubes that the player receives, as well as a victory point if a player rolls three of the same dice in their turn. Energy cubes are the currency for the game’s cards, which can alter the rules or deal quick damage to adversaries. The cards allow a bit of strategy to the dice-heavy game, but still with a lot fast-paced lead changes. Ages 8 and up; $40

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TIMELINE Rejuvenate your trivial Brainiac fun with one of the several sets of the card game Timeline. With sets focused on topics like American History, Inventions, Historical Events, Music & Cinema, Americana, Diversity, and even Star Wars, the game is straightforward and catered towards familiar topics but with the mechanics to make the game approachable for players who may not be an expert in certain fields. The cards will have a significant moment in the grand timeline of the set on one side, with its year listed on the back. Players will try and fit their cards into the timeline based off of moments already added by their opponents. This helps those unfamiliar with perhaps niche subjects try and find an easy possible alternative reference date to work with.

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THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER Ernst Lubitsch was one of the greatest comedy filmmakers of all time, a former actor-turned-director and studio head whose sense of timing and plotting was so effortless that his movies (To Be or Not to Be and Trouble in Paradise among them) were said to be blessed with the so-called “Lubitsch touch.” His best films are not only prime examples of classical Hollywood filmmaking but are also way ahead of their time, and 1940’s The Shop Around the Corner is no exception. Set in a Budapest boutique during the Christmas rush, it’s a hilarious ensemble workplace comedy and a touching romance, with bickering, competing salespeople James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan slowly realizing they’re one another’s lovelorn penpal. (If that plot sounds vaguely familiar, it’s because it was loosely remade in 1998 as You’ve Got Mail.) This is a perfect movie, funny and sweet and also a little sad, and it deserves to be placed in the rarefied ranks of classics like It’s a Wonderful Life. Streaming via iTunes, Amazon and YouTube ($2.99 to rent; $9.99 to purchase). (NATHAN WEINBENDER) SANTA CLAUS How’s this for a Christmas story? Santa, who lives in a sky castle outfitted with creepy devices allowing him to spy on children, is all set to deliver his presents. But his plans are foiled by an imp named Pitch, sent to Earth by the devil to ruin the holidays for the world’s poorest families. Yes, this is a real kids film (which, incidentally, no kid should ever see), a 1959 Mexican feature called Santa Claus.

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the little ones to bed, spike your eggnog and put on the Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode that featured this inexplicable movie; it’s one of the cult series’ funniest outings, leaving the famously silhouetted hosts just as baffled and hilariously horrified as you will be. (For more MST3K-themed holiday merriment, their episode mocking the 1964 disasterpiece Santa Claus Conquers the Martians is streaming on Netflix.) Free on YouTube; available to rent on Amazon ($2.99). (NW)

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A VERY MURRAY CHRISTMAS If anyone deserves the leeway to make any damn Christmas special they want to, it’s national treasure Bill Murray. This 2015 holiday treat struck perhaps a bit more melancholy than celebratory, but I’m onboard with A Very Murray Christmas becoming part of my annual Christmas rituals. The story — and I’m using that term loosely — involves Murray trying to put on a big Christmas show at New York City’s Hotel Carlyle, only for a blizzard to put the kibosh on his plans. As Murray and the trapped hotel guests and workers meander through a distinct lack of holiday spirit without a show to do or see, viewers witness an occasional f-bomb and plenty of Murray crooning. Through the darkness, though, you get comic gems like Murray and Chris Rock performing “Do You Hear What I Hear?” in matching Christmas sweaters, and winning guest turns from the likes of Amy Poehler, Michael Cera, Rashida Jones, Maya Rudolph and more. After a gloomy singalong of the Pogues’ “Fairytale of New York,” the show bursts into a Technicolor dream complete with prancing Rockettes, Miley Cyrus and George Cloo-

ney singing and dancing. Directed by Sofia Coppola, A Very Murray Christmas boasts laughs, anger, booze and tons of music you only hear this time of year. In other words, it’s a perfect encapsulation of the season. Streaming on Netflix. (DAN NAILEN) THE MAN WHO INVENTED CHRISTMAS I’ll watch anything starring Dan Stevens, the charming, handsome, blue-eyed Brit perhaps best known for his role as the dreamy Matthew Crawley of Downton Abbey, and more recently, the spellbound prince of Beauty and the Beast’s live-action adaptation. (Stevens is also spectacular as X-Men character David Haller in the TV series Legion, which aired early this year on FX.) Next up in the English actor’s repertoire is the family-friendly, holiday period drama about Charles Dickens’ struggles to write what became one of his most pivotal works, A Christmas Carol. Based on a biographical novel of the same name, The Man Who Invented Christmas transports viewers back to Christmastime in Victorian London as a writer’s block-suffering Dickens anxiously seeks inspiration for his next work. The novella needs to be completed in six weeks in order to be released by Christmas Day, and to stave off the debt collectors. As in previous roles, Stevens captivatingly portrays the frazzled genius of Dickens as he encounters real-life Londoners who become the bones for fictionalized versions of Scrooge, Marley and Tiny Tim. The Man Who Invented Christmas is packed with more heartwarming holiday charm and nostalgia than any Hallmark movie could even aspire to reach. It’s now playing in theaters, locally at AMC and Village Centres at Wandermere.

(CHEY SCOTT)

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PEE-WEE’S PLAYHOUSE CHRISTMAS SPECIAL Pee-wee Herman (aka Paul Reubens) lost his career for a “scandal” that would barely make the headlines now, 26 years later (“adult man attends adult theater” — gasp!), and as a result generations have missed out on some of the most gloriously unhinged, surreal comedy that ever graced Saturday morning television. Consider this Pee-wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special from 1988 an ideal opportunity to revisit some of the regulars from Pee-wee World — Chairry, Pterri, Jambi the genie and Cowboy Curtis (Laurence Fishburne in rare form) — along with the incredibly creative animation and puppetry, and absurd jokes, that made Pee-wee such a treasure before his 1991 arrest. There’s more fruitcake than any one Christmas special needs, and a cavalcade of guests joining the fun, from Grace Jones and Cher to k.d. lang and Oprah Winfrey. Oh, and Charo doing “Feliz Navidad” — it just doesn’t get any better than that. Streaming on Netflix. (DN) BABES IN TOYLAND (1986) I am not alone in sharing a nostalgic fondness for this semi-obscure, 1986 version of the weird yet charming dreamtime journey of young Lisa (Drew Barrymore) to a magical place called Toyland. Reviews in the iTunes store echo my sentiments for this dorky, sort of scary and simultaneously magical film being a childhood favorite: “I grew up on this movie, and when I found it on iTunes… I nearly started crying.” Anyhow, the gist is that on Christmas Eve, Lisa gets transported to the magical world of Toyland, an Oz-like land where both toys and fairytale characters, including Jack Nimble (Keanu Reeves) and Mary Contrary, are alive. Alas, but the evil Barnaby Barnacle and his nasty troll minions plan to take over Toyland and end Christmas forever! It’s now up to Lisa, Jack, Mary and crew to thwart Barnaby’s plans and save Christmas, but in order to do so, Lisa must find it in herself to truly believe in the denizens of Toyland. As with any kid favorite, this film might not hold up for others who don’t recall its captivating childhood charm. At the least, a rewatch for me brings back memories of my sister and I reenacting scenes from the made-for-TV film, which we owned on VHS, such as Jack and Mary’s storybook wedding. Streaming via iTunes ($3.99 to rent; $14.99 to purchase). (CS)

SOMETHING SCROOGE

SCROOGED When it was released in 1988, Richard Donner’s Scrooged was mostly met with shrugs: It didn’t exactly burn up the box office, and critics were either nonplussed or outright mystified by it. (Roger Ebert called it “unsettling,” “desperate” and “embarrassing.”) Perhaps that was because it starred Bill Murray (hey, there he is again!) and yet wasn’t trying to capture the same bouncy, high-tech comedy of Ghostbusters, or because it turned out to be far darker and more harebrained than audiences expected. (It was cowritten by the late Michael O’Donoghue, once Saturday Night Live’s resident nihilist.) But Scrooged has become something of an offbeat Christmas favorite in the decades since, and it still works as a showcase for Murray’s manic comic energy. In a 20th-century take on A Christmas Carol, Murray plays a craven TV executive who is — surprise, surprise — visited by a trio of ghosts that take him back and forth through his life to remind him he’d be better off not being a jerk all the time. It’s refreshingly strange, particularly in its truly inspired casting of Carol Kane, Bobcat Goldthwait and rock star David Johansen in wacked-out supporting roles. Streaming via iTunes, Amazon and YouTube ($2.99 to rent; $9.99 to purchase). (NW)

lidays A MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL I’m a Muppets fanatic, and have been for life, so let’s get that out of the way first off. And among the myriad version of Charles Dickens’ holiday classic, this one is my favorite thanks to the presence of Jim Henson’s Muppets and some winning tunes from Paul Williams filling the soundtrack. The Muppets’ take on Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim and Bob Cratchit et al. hews closely to the source material, but adds plenty of Muppet silliness, starting right away with having Gonzo (as Dickens himself) and Rizzo the Rat narrate the proceedings together. Michael Caine is the lead human, playing Scrooge with dramatic flair (as he is wont to do), but the most fun is seeing how familiar Muppets fit in to the Dickens universe. You’ll spot Beaker and Dr. Bunsen as charity collectors. Old codgers Statler and Waldorf appear as Scrooge’s old business partners, the Marleys. The Swedish Chef, Fozzie Bear, Sam the Eagle and more all fly in and out of the proceedings as Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy naturally fill the roles of Bob Cratchit and his wife Emily. Ornate sets, solid original holiday tunes and a heavy dose of Muppet silliness makes this Christmas movie, celebrating its 25th birthday this year, one worth rewatching. Streaming on HBO Go; available to rent via Amazon, YouTube and other outlets. (DN) n

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CULTURE | DIGEST STAY TUNED WITH PREET Preet Bharara, the aggressive former U.S. Attorney in New York, who was fired by President Donald Trump, will not stay silent. On his new podcast, “Stay Tuned with Preet,” Bharara and a growing list of prominent guests give insiders’ perspectives on today’s most pressing political issues. So far, the former federal prosecutor has talked with Judge Jed Rakoff, who is known for his stance that the death penalty is unconstitutional; director and writer Judd Apatow (40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Anchorman) on sexual harassment in Hollywood; chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov on the Russian government’s strategy for sowing fear and doubt; and Vanita Gupta, the former head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, who defended NFL players’ right to kneel during the National Anthem.

Episodes are free to download. (MITCH RYALS)

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Who Really Said “Man Belongs to the Earth”?

W PRIME CUSTOMER It’s impossible to keep up with all the shows.

Everyone’s always telling you to watch this show or that show or this other show. If you have an Apple TV, which carried Netflix, Hulu, HBO Now and other apps, you could usually keep up with the shows — most of them, at least. But if you wanted to watch Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, or Transparent, or Man In the High Castle? You needed to stream it on your computer with Amazon Prime, or you needed this thing they called a “Roku.”

Nevermore. Amazon and Apple made a deal, and as of last week Amazon Prime Video is available on Apple TV. Enjoy all the shows. (WILSON CRISCIONE)

SHOULD WE BE FLATTERED, OR … ?

For those obsessed with all things Gilmore Girls-related, the arrival of a new series by Amy Sherman-Palladino was cause for much rejoicing. Her new show, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, takes the writer’s skill for rapid-fire banter and balancing drama and comedy back to late ’50s New York City as a housewife reacts to her husband’s sudden departure by hopping on a beatnik performance stage and pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable at the time in standup comedy, Lenny Bruce-style. The show’s a delight, especially Rachel Brosnahan in the title role, and featured an odd moment about halfway through the show’s first episode. An African-American woman takes the stage and says, “This poem is about Spokane: ‘Spokane, Spokane, Spokane. Man. The rumble of lumber trucks, Spokane. Robbers of the indigenous, Spokane. Spokane, Spokane, Spokane. Man.” To which the emcee responds, “Don’t need to go to Spokane now!” The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is now streaming on Amazon Prime. (DAN NAILEN)

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ashington Territory in the 1850s was a tumultuous place. To native tribes living along the Salish Sea, it was twilight, as their way of life was about to be devastated; for whites, it was the dawn when a trickle of settlement was about to become a flood. In his new book, Chief Seattle and the Town That Took His Name, Seattle historian David Buerge recounts this era through the life of Chief Seattle, an enduring Native American icon.

ON THIS WEEK’S PLAYLIST Some noteworthy new music arrives online and in stores Dec. 15. To wit:  EMINEM, Revival. Shady’s back, and this time he’s targeting the president with his angry rhymes instead of his ex-wife or the pop star du jour.  G-EAZY, The Beautiful & The Damned.

The Oakland rapper tries to follow up his Top 10 hit “Me, Myself & I” on his third full-length.  LINKIN PARK. One More Light Live. One of the band’s two vocalists, Chester Bennington, died earlier this year, and this live set is drawn from their last tour.  N.E.R.D., No_One Ever Really Dies. Pharrell’s pre-“Happy” crew blends soul, funk and rock to great effect on their best songs. This is their first new set since 2010. (DAN NAILEN)

THE BUZZ BIN A member of the Duwamish Tribe, young Seattle was a fierce warrior, but by the time Americans arrived he simply wanted peace. When territorial Gov. Isaac Stevens went on his treaty-signing tour of the future state (and its resulting murderous wars that reached even to Spokane), Seattle welcomed him even as some settlers opposed his land grabs.

Seattle addressed Stevens in his native tongue sometime between 1854-55, and that speech has become a pivotal moment in our history. First committed to paper 30 years after the fact by Dr. Henry Smith, who was at the signing and heard it translated, Seattle’s speech has since been beloved by admirers — so much so, that they have often changed his words to suit them.

Still, Smith’s poetic translation has captivated generations with its pathos and prescience: “Your God loves your people and hates mine,” he quotes Chief Seattle as telling Stevens. “He folds his strong arms lovingly around the white man… but he has forsaken his red children; he makes your people wax strong every day, and soon they will fill all the land; while my people are ebbing away like a fast-receding tide…”

Activists behind the first Earth Day in 1970 regarded Seattle as a prophet of their movement, even reciting versions of his speech at some of the celebrations.

Which leads to the catch-phrase of Expo ’74: “The Earth does not belong to man; man belongs to the Earth.”

Expo planners attributed the quote to Chief Seattle, giving it even more gravity. But in fact, as Buerge reminds us, a young Texas filmmaker, Ted Perry, heard the Seattle speech on Earth Day and incorporated his own take on it for film he made about pollution. Perry’s words went into the tangled pile of Chief Seattle lore (there are nearly 100 identified “versions” of his speech), and a few years later it wound up three stories tall inside the U.S Pavilion in Spokane. n

A MOBILE MONUMENT Having been the lucky recipient of a very unexpected early Christmas gift, I’ve been spending plenty of time lately exploring the wide world of iPad gaming. The very first game I added to my new device is the utterly mesmerizing indie puzzle game Monument Valley 2, the follow-up to Ustwo Games’ critically acclaimed 2014 breakout Monument Valley.

(Though it was released for iOS back in June, MV2 just became available to Android users last month.) Monument Valley 2 features the same isometric worldview as its predecessor. Players are tasked with guiding their polygon character through a series of maze-like puzzles by recognizing optical illusions and otherwise impossible-seeming dimensions in each level. This time, though, players guide both mother Ro and her child through a more story-driven world featuring 14 puzzle “chapters,” each filled with stunning, colorful scenes and peaceful background music. I loved Monument Valley 2 so much I played it in entirety in a single two-hour sitting, feeling like a boss each time I discovered the tricky solutions.

Monument Valley 2 was named 2017’s Best Mobile Game at the Game Awards show on Dec. 7. (CHEY SCOTT)

Indaba owner Bobby Enslow is getting ready to open his third location.

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The Other Brewing News Similar to the region’s craft beer industry, Spokane and surrounding areas are seeing expansions of artisan coffee culture

BY CARRIE SCOZZARO

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he Northwest’s craft beer scene isn’t the only beverage category bubbling over with enthusiasm and growth.

As its followers already know, our region continues to expand its thirst for and recognition of the local artisan coffee market. The Portland-based, global coffee coverage site Sprudge, for example, has posted on Spokane and Sandpoint numerous times in recent years, while Expedia this month touted Spokane as one of 13 “up-and-coming coffee cultures” alongside the likes of San Diego, Kansas City, Miami and Phoenix.

As with craft beer, the region’s appreciation of coffee culture continues to evolve, with an influx of coffee shops and roasters helping to elevate our collective coffee IQ and consumption. Just in the last year and a half, newcomers to this regional bean scene include Vessel Coffee Roasters, Coeur d’Alene Coffee Co., and Lake City Coffee. Other established coffee purveyors like Roast House, Indaba and Evans Bros., meanwhile, continue to expand their physical footprints, and name recognition.

When Cravens Coffee and Thomas Hammer Coffee both opened in Spokane back in 1993, they were at the

forefront of coffee’s so-called third wave, which industry experts agree began in the 1990s, and presents coffee as more of an artisanal ingredient, like wine and chocolate, than a commodity. (The first wave of American coffee culture began with the mass import of coffee in the 19th century, which was later followed by milestones of the second wave, including the Seattle coffee scene of the 1970s-90s, the rise of espresso bars and specialty roasters, and the founding of Starbucks.)

More than two-and-a-half decades later, the much expanded roster of local roasters varies in capacity and focus, from sustainability and direct-relationships, to experimenting with flavors and processes, as well as collaborative business models.

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n Spokane, two award-winning roasting houses are riding this “third wave” into 2018 with expanded locations and recognition in the community.

Roast House Coffee is kicking off the new year with a First Night Spokane preview of its soon-to-be-newest tasting room in the refurbished Music City building of downtown Spokane, at 1011 W. First. Roast House still

maintains a warehouse and central roasting facility near Gonzaga University, though its flagship tasting room is currently located in Kendall Yards inside My Fresh Basket.

Roast House’s goal as a company is to educate people about coffee, including origin and processing, says founder Deborah DiBernardo.

“The biggest thing for me is preserving what little ecosystem is left,” says DiBernardo, who meticulously sources only organic, fair-trade, shade-grown coffee that is defect-free, which, she adds, results in the best tasting coffee.

Indaba Coffee Roasters founder Bobby Enslow is equally passionate about coffee, which is the vessel for achieving his mission to strengthen the community. Enslow launched Indaba’s flagship West Central coffee shop on Broadway Avenue in 2009. He began roasting his own beans in 2014, favoring the Nordic approach, which advocates seasonal sourcing and small batch roasting.

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7-10 days, says Enslow.

Indaba added a second downtown location on Howard Street in 2015 and, next spring, they’ll add a third, new Kendall Yards shop, which will house a 20-pound roaster to alleviate the business’s current ’round-the-clock roasting schedule. Indaba is also partnering with a pop-up donut shop called Hello Sugar, to be housed in the new location.

“It’s always been part of my original dream to be deeper in [West Central],” says Enslow, who dedicates a portion of sales to Second Harvest food bank, and is fine-tuning a program to teach at-risk youth about coffee.

Indaba also provides supportive employment opportunities to those who might not otherwise have access to it, like Aaron Rivkin, who, with his wife Katie, recently opened Ladder Coffee & Toast in North Spokane, where they serve locally-roasted brands including Indaba.

“It’s been cool to see them go on to start their own businesses,” says Enslow.

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lthough it hasn’t received quite as much attention as Spokane, North Idaho communities also continue to boost the region’s coffee culture.

Coeur d’Alene Coffee Company is one of the newest Northwest roasters, and is located inside the Innovation Collective private club and entrepreneurial center in downtown Coeur d’Alene.

“My husband, my two boys and myself built most everything in the coffee shop, from welding

the metal, building the bars [and] countertops, to all of the tables, coffee tables, the shelves and the benches,” says co-owner Danelle Peterson.

It’s important, says Peterson, for her business to give back to the community, support innovation and provide for its employees.

“Our goal is that this enables [employees] to grow and learn, while actually being able to support a family and getting to follow their passion.”

Nearby, Evans Brothers Coffee Roasters recently opened a Coeur d’Alene location, nine years since building their main roasting and retail facility in Sandpoint, which serves as a cultural hub with art exhibits, poetry readings, music and community events. Like they do in Sandpoint, says co-owner Rick Evans, the Lake City location also focuses on education and community.

“I feel like it’s full circle, from going to farms and getting to know producers and then sharing that with customers,” says Evans.

Evans laughingly admits the Coeur d’Alene coffee market is more saturated than in Sandpoint, yet he’s optimistic.

“If we stick to who we are and are true to our vision, I think we’ll be ok,” he says.

Enslow, a coffee scholar with boundless enthusiasm, is equally philosophical about the region’s coffee culture. There is more collaboration than competition amongst vendors, similar to the craft beer market, says Enslow.

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NO BULL ABOUT IT The animated fable Ferdinand takes a beloved children’s story and transforms it into a refreshing celebration of an outsider

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hen the now-beloved children’s book The Story sensitive soul in a big, scary body. There’s plenty that’s of Ferdinand was first published in 1936, some silly and downright goofy here — this is a movie for grown-ups were worried that it might have a children, after all — but there’s never anything “funny” in bad influence on children. Apparently its sweet, simple Ferdinand’s gentleness, in his lack of interest in knocking story — from writer Munro Leaf, with instantly iconic heads with the other bulls, in his love of small furry critillustrations by Robert Lawson — was seen as promoting ters and delicate flowers. (take your pick) pacifism, fascism, communism and/or What humor is derived from Ferdinand’s disposition anarchism. is of a melancholy sort, as he attempts not to have the To be fair, its tale of a bull in Spain who devastating impact on his surroundings that wasn’t interested in bullfighting and only FERDINAND his “freakish hugeness” sometimes makes wanted to loll about in fields of flowers could Rated PG inevitable. There is a literal bull-in-a-chinacertainly be taken as pacifist. Maybe it wasn’t Directed by Carlos Saldanha shop sequence here, in which Ferdinand is even unreasonable to see Ferdinand as an trying so very hard not to cause any damage, Starring John Cena, Kate anarchic hero: If bulls (or people) suddenly McKinnon, Bobby Cannavale that is absolutely lovely in how it plays with got it into their heads that they could just do kiddie comedy, mining hilarious suspense whatever they wanted, contrary to whatever their “rightout of incipient slapstick. ful” place in the world was, maybe that would have led The brief source material has obviously been to anarchy. expanded to fill a feature-length film, but the core story I wish those hand wringers could see Blue Sky’s new remains the same. Ferdinand has no desire for the arena, big-screen take on Ferdinand. They’d freak out, because and longs only to frolic in fields of wildflowers chasing this Ferdinand moves that “anarchy” way beyond the stanbutterflies. Big new chunks of story come in a runaway dard cartoon-movie message of “be yourself” and into Ferdinand’s sojourn on a flower farm with a little girl a realm that overtly criticizes cultural presumptions and called Nina (the voice of Lily Day), who treats him like a expectations as tyrannical. Ferdinand celebrates an odd pet, and her dog Paco (Jerrod Carmichael), whom Ferdioutsider not merely for his own sake but for how his definand calls a brother. ance of convention and his daring to be true to himself “A dog and a bull can’t be brothers,” Paco insists. highlights just how dangerous those conventions can be.

“That would be weird.”

The notion to cast WWE wrestler John Cena as “I guess weird is the new normal,” Ferdinand replies the voice of Ferdinand was an absolute stroke of genius, happily. not least because Cena has been making a bit of a mark “Weird” as a personal achievement, in the sense of for himself in live-action comedies as an unexpectedly breaking free of social pressure to conform, is a flag this

movie proudly flies. More big new chunks of story come in with Ferdinand’s fellow bulls (Bobby Cannavale, Anthony Anderson, Peyton Manning and David Tennant) who, well, bully him for being a “weirdo.” They eagerly await the glory of the bullring… or what they have been told will be glory, anyway.

Ferdinand isn’t only a pro-smelling-flowers story, it’s very much an overtly anti-bullfighting one, and uncovering the truth about bullfighting — like how it doesn’t go well for the bulls — is very much wrapped up in how the movie depicts the negative impact on the bulls of the lies they’ve been told about what it means to be a bull.

Ferdinand is, then, the first movie for kids that I’m aware of that directly confronts the idea of toxic masculinity, that the gendered expectations that boys and men are subjected to — be strong and fierce, avoid looking weak or expressing soft emotion — can be harmful and limiting. (Never fear: It does so in a completely age-appropriate way that is organic to a fun, rollicking adventure story.)

Blue Sky is 20th Century Fox’s animation studio; its best-known previous films are the Ice Age series and the Rio movies, which rely heavily on abominable gender stereotypes most at home in 1950s sitcoms. It’s astonishing, then, that this movie — so kind, so freethinking, so uncommon in its ideas — could have sprung from it. And to have snuck in its rebellion among some fairly conventional, if well done, animal antics!

Perhaps there’s another lesson there: Change is always possible, no matter how your life has previously been defined. Bravo. n

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OPENING FILMS FERDINAND

An animated adaptation of the 1936 children’s book about a misunderstood bull (voiced by former wrestler John Cena) who would rather frolic in fields of flowers than fight in an arena.

A smart, funny family film that espouses a refreshing message about gender stereotypes. (MJ) Rated PG

STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI

Hey, did you hear? There’s a new Star Wars movie coming out! Director Rian Johnson (Looper) joins the franchise for its eighth episode, which continues young Jedi Rey’s quest to uncover

the mysteries surrounding the exile of Luke Skywalker. We’ll have a review of the year’s most anticipated blockbuster next week; in the meantime, do your best to avoid spoilers. (NW) Rated PG-13

WONDER WHEEL

Woody Allen continues to recycle pet themes — and, we can assume, air his questionable personal hang ups — in this 1950s-set drama about a love triangle that develops between an aspiring writer, a married woman and her stepdaughter. A bit on the nose, don’t you think? (NW) Rated PG-13

NOW PLAYING A BAD MOMS CHRISTMAS

Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell and Kathryn Hahn are back as cinema’s most foul-mouthed mothers, and this time they’re throwing the middle finger at the most stressful aspects of the yuletide season. The other new addition to the mix: the bad moms’ moms (Christine Baranski, Cheryl Hines, Susan Sarandon). (NW) Rated R

COCO

On the eve of Día de los Muertos, 12-year-old Miguel finds himself in the land of the dead, where he discovers he’s descended from a legendary Mexican musician. The latest from Pixar creates a vivid world and then runs around in it, all while conveying a message about the importance of family that actually feels sincere. (ES) Rated PG

DADDY’S HOME 2

A sequel to the 2015 alpha-male comedy in which co-parents Will Ferrell

and Mark Wahlberg, having solved their differences from the previous film, come to blows again when their fathers — played by John Lithgow and Mel Gibson (yeah, they’re letting him be in movies again) — come to town for Christmas. (NW) Rated PG-13

THE DISASTER ARTIST

The funniest movie of the year is a behind-the-scenes look at the worst movie of all time. James Franco directs and stars as Tommy Wiseau, the wannabe auteur behind the misguided 2003 curiosity The Room, which became a so-bad-it’s-good cult favorite.

This is a hilarious tribute to the original film, but it also has a compelling message about the elusive nature of artistic success. (SS) Rated R

THE FLORIDA PROJECT

From Tangerine director Sean Baker comes this vivid snapshot of life in a run-down motel in Orlando, shot on lo-

NTERN THEAT GIC LA ER MA cation with a cast of mostly non-actors.

Structured as a series of vignettes, it’s a winsome, bittersweet look at a childhood in poverty, following a 6-year-old troublemaker, her single mother and the kindhearted motel manager, played by a reserved Willem Dafoe. At the Magic Lantern. (SS) Rated R

JANE

Documentarian Brett Morgen explores the early life and groundbreaking work of Jane Goodall, whose up-close-andpersonal studies of African chimpanzees had seismic effects on science.

Most of the film consists of astonishing, never-before-seen footage shot in the 1960s by nature photographer (and Goodall’s husband) Hugo van Lawick.

At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Rated PG

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DC’s take on Marvel’s Avengers formula is mostly turgid, with a game cast up against a forgettable villain, mediocre special effects and a bunch of tackedon jokes that are only there to remind us they’re not taking things too seriously. A whole lot is going on at all times, and yet nothing of consequence ever seems to happen. (NW) Rated PG-13

LADY BIRD

Greta Gerwig’s first foray behind the camera is a funny, observant and empathetic coming-of-age story about a fiercely independent teenage girl finding her true identity in post-9/11 Sacramento. Saoirse Ronan is phenomenal as the title character, as is Laurie Metcalf as the mother she’s often at odds with.

A remarkably assured directorial debut.

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and center as detective extraordinaire Hercule Poirot. The true mystery of the film: Why, exactly, was it made? (MJ) Rated PG-13

THE STAR

This cheap-looking animated film finally answers the question no one has ever asked: What were the animals like at the Nativity? The huge voice cast includes Oprah Winfrey, Mariah Carey and Christopher Plummer. (NW) Rated PG

THOR: RAGNAROK

The third film in the Thor franchise is the best of the bunch, with the character’s comic energy getting a muchneeded jolt from director Taika Waititi.

This time around, the God of Thunder learns he has a long-lost sister (Cate Blanchett, snacking on scenery), who casts Thor and Loki off to a prison planet and steals the throne of Asgard. (SS) Rated PG-13

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When her daughter is murdered, an angry mother (Frances McDormand) erects a trio of uncouth billboards calling out the local police department, causing a stir in her tiny town. While the all-star cast delivers emotionally wrenching, award-worthy performances, writer-director Martin McDonagh’s inconsistent script occasionally veers into idiotic absurdity that undercuts the gravity of the drama. (SS)

WONDER

A little boy with facial deformities (Jacob Tremblay of Room) is sent off to a public school for the first time, with his encouraging parents (Julia Roberts and Owen Wilson) looking on. A sweet and gentle adaptation of R.J. Palacio’s bestselling YA novel that nonetheless bashes you over the head with its already obvious themes and messages.

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Agatha Christie’s 1934 novel about a homicide on a snowbound train is one of the most famous whodunits ever written, and its second big-budget, star-studded adaptation has Kenneth Branagh behind the camera and front

LOVING VINCENT (93 MIN) FRI/SAT: 7:30 SUN: 1:15 TUE-THU: 1:15

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Advertised as the first entirely handpainted feature, the look of this impressionistic animated drama is a thing to behold. Set in the 1890s, a postmaster’s son is sent to deliver a long-lost letter written by the late Vincent van Gogh, only to find himself questioning the circumstances of the influential artist’s suicide. At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Rated PG-13

MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS

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A fictionalized account of the creation of Charles Dickens’ 1843 novella A Christmas Carol, which became perhaps the definitive yuletide text. Dan Stevens plays the beloved author; Christopher Plummer embodies miser Ebenezer Scrooge. (NW) Rated PG

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Tommy Lee Jones is a retired F.B.I. agent and Morgan Freeman is a former mob lawyer in the Witness Protection Program who team up to stop a contract killing. Because it’s from Tin Cup director Ron Shelton, the whole thing centers on a golf game for some reason.

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ALT-ROCK

THE LONG HAUL

Local band Von the Baptist has been exploring new sounds over the course of five years, and they’ve still got room to grow

BY TUCK CLARRY

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onsidering how quickly bands form and dissolve, five years of steady gigging and collaboration is a rarity for most local bands. But somehow, Von the Baptist frontman Vaughn Wood sees the band as entrenched as ever within a sound that makes the project still feel new.

The deliberate pace is a functional blessing for a group with full personal schedules for work, family and other projects. They’re two years removed from their 2015 self-titled EP, and they’re now in the process of working through the tracklist for their second release.

Over the course of 2016 Von the Baptist started to build a rapport with venues outside of Spokane, and Wood believes that the band is ready to start building on a groundwork that has no signs of slowing down.

They’re a journeyman group of local players: Wood’s first major experience was gigging with Oil of Angels while he was 17; he’s currently a year in with his lat-

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Von the Baptist performing during Uncharted. est project Mini Murders. He and drummer Brandon Vasquez also play in Dead Serious Lovers, bassist Alex Morrison has also been playing regularly around town since high school (most recently with Nat Park and the Tunnels of Love), and guitarist Will Haworth has been in numerous post-hardcore and ambient projects throughout his playing career.

Wood credits the eclectic nature and vast experience of each member for this project’s longevity. While he takes on much of the songwriting duties of the band, each member crafts and interpolates their parts within each song, a relationship and process that has grown since this iteration of the band has been together.

“At the beginning, our songs were pretty mellow and now we seem to be going down more of a rock ’n’ roll path,” Wood says.

He credits the addition of Haworth for the reenergized band: “Our sound has more texture now thanks to

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him. He was a good friend of ours and we asked him to sit in on a song at Baby Bar forever ago, and we loved what he played so we kind of slowly asked him to be a full-time member. We all knew what he could do to improve our sound.”

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he band rips live thanks to Haworth’s swells and soundscapes, as well as the chugging of Morrison’s bass. Their song “Erase My Mind” is a treat to hear live, as the bouncing chord progression soaks into the venue’s walls and even the most reserved crowd begins to finally let loose.

If you just go by their gear, Von the Baptist is as obsessive with their live sound as their song structure.

Wood’s and Haworth’s pedal boards seem large enough to cover the foreground of most stages, and Vasquez’s drum kit is ever growing and offers a technical sound that centers the sound mix nearly as well as his playing

centers the structure of the band.

You can hear root inspiration in Wood’s songwriting and each member’s adaptation to their parts. “Love Is a Pill” has the guitar tone, tense builds and subsequent cathartic releases of Dummy-era Portishead, and Wood’s bittersweet melancholy vocals and lyrics nods to the heroin blues of Spiritualized.

“I really focus on a hook or a chorus first and then let the verses and the rest of the song fall into place after I know I have something,” Wood says. His approach is to find keywords that resonate, and let the theme and story shape around it.

Wood has been writing music from a young age, dating back to his time spent in church bands, which he credits for his exposure to affecting music.

“I would be lying if I say it hasn’t influenced my songwriting, even though I haven’t been a Christian or in that scene for over 10 years,” he says. “But all of that shit is probably why I’m obsessed with overtly emotional music and simple yet dynamic song structure.”

Vaughn Wood (second from right) fronts Von the Baptist.

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ood has long had confidence in his ability to write catchy rock songs, but his experience with Terrain’s Uncharted series is something he credits as affirmation in his craft. Last year’s event had artists creating works in collaboration with the Spokane Symphony for a reinterpretation of the classic symphonic fairy tale Peter and the Wolf.

Von the Baptist was naturally tasked with writing an original song to match the brooding and menacing tone of the Wolf, with the symphony’s brass section in mind. As a songwriter who doesn’t produce sheet music, Wood desperately wanted to prove himself to classically trained professional musicians.

“It was intimidating because these guys went to college for this and you’re someone who plays by ear and feeling,” Wood says. “But after the first rehearsal the nerves were gone. Their reaction to our sound was like we were rock stars.”

Wood wrote the band’s parts through the songwriting software Trillian, a basic tool that creates a rough digital blueprint of what a song sounds like with different sections of an orchestra.

The simplistic sound samples don’t necessarily deliver a “wow” factor, but through a retooling process with symphony conductor Eckart Preu and his brother Hans-Peter, the arrangement came together in a sound that felt like a live rendition of Portishead’s ’90s trip-hop.

Ultimately, Wood hopes to continue expanding his songwriting as a career, writing scores for television and film. It would be a natural move for someone who excels at atmosphere and mood.

“We’ve found a unique sound,” Wood says, “so it’s time to record a bunch and play rad shows to get that new material out there.” n Von the Baptist with Indian Goat and Bullets or Balloons • Fri, Dec. 15 at 7:30 pm • $6 advance, $8 day-of • All-ages • The Big Dipper • 171 S. Washington • bigdipperevents.com • 863-8098

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MUSIC | SOUND ADVICE

HOLIDAY BARTLETT CHRISTMAS SPECIAL

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’m a bit of a Scrooge when it comes to Christmas music, particularly that onslaught of the same dusty standards repeating like clockwork as soon as Thanksgiving is over.

But when I found myself at the Bartlett’s first Christmas party back in 2014, my cynicism melted away like snow in Miami. The holiday show has since become an annual tradition, a loose, festive celebration that often finds the venue’s stage crammed with musicians.

While you’ll hear some holiday classics, the real selling points are the original yuletide tunes written and performed by local music scene stalwarts: This year’s highlights include the bubblegum pop of Miles Martin’s “Hello Santa,” Ripe Mangos’ spare folk ballad “Clumsy Bell” and Newman’s dreamy, shoegaze-y “South to North.” Those songs have been released as an EP, which you can hear on the Bartlett’s Bandcamp and can purchase at Friday’s show.

— NATHAN WEINBENDER Bartlett Christmas Special feat. Chris Molitor (pictured), Runaway Octopus, Super Sparkle, Marshall McLean and more • Fri, Dec. 15 at 8 pm • $10 advance, $12 day-of • All-ages • The Bartlett • 228 W. Sprague • thebartlettspokane.com • 747-2174

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Thursday, 12/14

BOLO’S, Inland Empire Blues Society Monthly Blues Boogie J BOOTS BAKERY, The Song Project J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, Open Jazz Jam with Erik Bowen CORBY’S BAR, Dan Mills THE CORK & TAP, Truck Mills CRAVE, DJ Stoney Hawk CRUISERS, Open Jam Night J GILDED UNICORN, Dylan Hathaway J HUMBLE BURGER, Joseph Hein and Mise THE JACKSON ST., Shaiden Hutchman J LAGUNA CAFÉ, Just Plain Darin LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Lucas Brown NIGHTHAWK LOUNGE (CDA CASINO), PJ Destiny J OBJECT SPACE, Mattica Malvo THE OBSERVATORY, Vinyl Meltdown POST FALLS BREWING COMPANY, Devon Wade RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos feat. Christan Raxter & Steve Ridler ZOLA, Blake Braley

Friday, 12/15

12 TRIBES CASINO, The Phoenix 219 LOUNGE, The Somethings ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, Jan Harrison J J THE BARTLETT, Christmas Special (see above) feat. Chris Molitor, Runaway Octopus, Newman, Scott Ryan, Jenny Anne Mannan, Windoe, Misty Mountain Pony Club BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn

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PSYCH-ROCK GHOST FROG

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f you’re to believe the origin story behind the self-described “space punk” quartet Ghost Frog, they’re not of this world, its members descending from the dark recesses of the universe and boasting intergalactic monikers like Quartzog and Zarchie. OK, so it’s a gimmick, but the band — which is, as far as we can tell, four regular human dudes — has really committed to it. And besides, they’re currently based out of Portland, which could, depending on the neighborhood you’re in, be mistaken for another planet entirely. Ghost Frog is touring behind its recent sophomore album Cosmic Bowling, which is simultaneously space-age retro and electronic-age contemporary, a fuzzy freakout filled with aliens, UFOs, laser beams and the occasional saxophone solo.

— NATHAN WEINBENDER Ghost Frog with the Colourflies and Runaway Octopus • Sat, Dec. 16 at 9 pm • $6 • 21+ • The Observatory • 15 S. Howard • observatoryspokane.com • 598-8933

J J THE BIG DIPPER, Ugly Sweater Party with Von the Baptist (see page 48), Indian Goat and Bullets or Balloons BLACK DIAMOND, DJ Sterling BOLO’S, My Own Worst Enemy BRIDGE PRESS CELLARS, Open Mic J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, Colby Acuff THE BULL HEAD, Christy Lee and the Broken Rosary, Whiskey Thieves, Luke Yates J THE BUZZ PIZZERIA, BAR AND LOUNGE, Dylan Hathaway

CHINOOK STEAK, PASTA AND SPIRITS (CDA CASINO), Tommy G COMMUNITY PINT, Ron Greene CORBY’S BAR, Karaoke CRUISERS, Karaoke with Gary CURLEY’S, Haze FARMHOUSE KITCHEN AND SILO BAR, Tom D’Orazi and Friends FEDORA PUB, Donnie Emerson J FORZA COFFEE CO. (VALLEY), Jenna Johansen HOUSE OF SOUL, Fuego Latin Night IDAHO POUR AUTHORITY, Bright Moments Jazz

J INB PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, Lindsey Stirling: Warmer in the Winter Christmas Tour IRON HORSE (COEUR D’ALENE), Karma’s Circle JOHN’S ALLEY, The Intentions LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Nick Grow J THE LOCAL DELI, Ethereal in E MOOSE LOUNGE, Riverboat Dave and the Fur Traders MULLIGAN’S BAR & GRILLE, Son of Brad NASHVILLE NORTH, Ladies Night with Luke Jaxon and DJ Tom

NIGHTHAWK LOUNGE (CDA CASINO), Chris Rieser and the Nerve NORTHERN QUEST RESORT & CASINO, DJ Patrick NYNE, StepBrothers PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Sadie Wagoner J THE PIN!, Nightmare Before Christmas Metal Festival feat. The Ongoing Concept, Wayward West, Project-X, Becoming Ghosts, Still No Pickles and Ghostdivorce RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos feat. Christan Raxter & Steve Ridler

Saturday, 12/16

12 TRIBES RESORT CASINO, Fred Bauer Band 219 LOUNGE, Like Minds J 4000 HOLES, Atari Ferrari BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn BLACK DIAMOND, DJ Stud BOLO’S, My Own Worst Enemy J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, Dan Maher CHINOOK STEAK, PASTA AND SPIRITS (CDA CASINO), Tommy G CORBY’S BAR, Son of Brad CURLEY’S, Haze

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EICHARDT’S, Adrien Xavier, Arthur Goldblum and Friends FEDORA PUB & GRILLE, Pat Coast FLAME & CORK, Eric Neuhauser HOGFISH, Bullets or Balloons, Better Daze, Foxtrot Epidemic J HOTEL RL BY RED LION AT THE PARK, Isaac Walton HOUSE OF SOUL, Bobby Patterson Band J HUCKLEBERRY’S NATURAL MARKET, Andy Rumsey IDAHO POUR AUTHORITY, John Firshi IRON HORSE (COEUR D’ALENE), Karma’s Circle THE JACKSON ST., Karaoke w/James J J KNITTING FACTORY, Alter Bridge, All That Remains LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Chuck Dunlop THE LOCAL DELI, Wyatt Wood MICKDUFF’S, Brown Salmon Truck MOOSE LOUNGE, Riverboat Dave and the Fur Traders MULLIGAN’S BAR & GRILLE, i2 NASHVILLE NORTH, Ladies Night with Luke Jaxon and DJ Tom NIGHTHAWK LOUNGE (CDA CASINO), Chris Rieser and the Nerve NORTHERN QUEST, DJ Patrick J THE OBSERVATORY, Ghost Frog (see facing page), The Colourflies, Runaway Octopus J THE PIN!, Nightmare Before Christmas Metal Festival feat. Faus, Blacktracks, Guardian, Carved in Bone, Shallows End POST FALLS BREWING COMPANY, Devon Wade J PROHIBITION GASTROPUB, Kevin Dorin

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J RESURRECTION RECORDS, Balonely RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos feat. Christan Raxter & Steve Ridler RIPPLES RIVERSIDE GRILL, Dangerous Type THE ROCK BAR, DJ Sterling SPOKANE EAGLES LODGE, Ben Klein: Swing to the King Christmas THE THIRSTY DOG, DJ Dave WAGON WHEEL BAR & GRILL, Honky Tonk A’ Go-Go WESTWOOD BREWING, Echo Elysium ZOLA, Cronkites

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RIPPLES RIVERSIDE GRILL, Dangerous Type THE ROCK BAR, DJ Steve Baker THE ROXIE, Blue Helix, Jacob VanKnowe SOULFUL SOUPS & SPIRITS, Lucas Brookbank Brown SPOKANE EAGLES LODGE, Spokane River Band SPOKANE VALLEY EAGLES, Honky Tonk A’ Go-Go WOMAN’S CLUB OF SPOKANE, Third Friday Swing Dance feat. Hot Club of Spokane ZOLA, Cronkites

Sunday, 12/17

J BIG BARN BREWING CO., Dylan Hathaway DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS, Jam Night with VooDoo Church GARLAND PUB & GRILL, Karaoke IRON HORSE (VALLEY), Land of Voices LINGER LONGER LOUNGE, Open Jam O’DOHERTY’S, Live Irish Music J ONE WORLD CAFE, Bart Budwig Holiday Show J THE PIN!, Young Neves and Friends RIDLER PIANO BAR, Karaoke ZOLA, Lazy Love

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Monday, 12/18

J CALYPSOS COFFEE, Open Mic EICHARDT’S, Monday Night Jam RED ROOM LOUNGE, Open Mic ZOLA, Evan Dillinger

Tuesday, 12/19

J THE BARTLETT, Holiday Open Mic GARLAND PUB & GRILL, Karaoke LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Turntable Tues.

POOLE’S PUBLIC HOUSE, Nick Grow RAZZLE’S, Open Mic Jam RED ROOM LOUNGE, Tuesday Takeover with Storme RIDLER PIANO BAR, Open Mic/Jam ZOLA, Dueling Cronkites

Wednesday, 12/20

219 LOUNGE, Truck Mills, Bruce Bishop J THE BARTLETT, Ill Noise 2 feat.

Wanderers, Jiggy N Jamaal, CollinB, Beny3stacks, AG, Rob Diablo, Keff, Papa Dons, Steevie G BLACK DIAMOND, Wyatt Wood GENO’S, Open Mic w/Travis Goulding LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Carey Brazil LUCKY’S IRISH PUB, DJ D3VIN3 POOLE’S PUBLIC HOUSE, The Cronkites RED ROOM LOUNGE, Blowin’ Kegs Jam Session RIDLER PIANO BAR, The Ronaldos THE THIRSTY DOG, Karaoke J TWO SEVEN PUBLIC HOUSE, Matt Mitchell ZOLA, Whsk&Keys

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J KNITTING FACTORY, Sammy Eubanks, Bobby Patterson, Big Honey, Dec. 22 RED ROOM LOUNGE, Deer, KALAJ, Dec. 22 J THE BIG DIPPER, Bad Penmanship, Dec. 23 J IRON GOAT BREWING CO., Stella Jones, Dec. 23 JOHN’S ALLEY, The Senders, Dec. 23

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219 LOUNGE • 219 N. First, Sandpoint • 208-2639934 315 MARTINIS & TAPAS • 315 E. Wallace, CdA • 208-667-9660 ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS • 4705 N. Fruit Hill Rd. • 927-9463 BABY BAR • 827 W. First Ave. • 847-1234 BARLOWS • 1428 N. Liberty Lake Rd. • 924-1446 THE BARTLETT • 228 W. Sprague Ave. • 747-2174 BEEROCRACY • 911 W. Garland Ave. THE BIG DIPPER • 171 S. Washington • 863-8098 BIGFOOT PUB • 9115 N. Division St. • 467-9638 BING CROSBY THEATER • 901 W. Sprague Ave. • 227-7638 BLACK DIAMOND • 9614 E. Sprague • 891-8357 BOLO’S • 116 S. Best Rd. • 891-8995 BOOMERS • 18219 E. Appleway Ave. • 755-7486 BOOTS BAKERY & LOUNGE • 24 W. Main Ave. • 703-7223 BRAVO CONCERT HOUSE • 25 E. Lincoln Rd. • 703-7474 BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB • 201 S. Main, Moscow • 208-882-5216 BUZZ COFFEEHOUSE • 501 S. Thor • 340-3099 CALYPSOS COFFEE & CREAMERY • 116 E. Lakeside Ave., CdA • 208-665-0591 CHATEAU RIVE • 621 W. Mallon Ave. • 795-2030 CHECKERBOARD BAR • 1716 E. Sprague Ave. • 535-4007 COEUR D’ALENE CASINO • 37914 S. Nukwalqw Rd., Worley, Idaho • 800-523-2464 COEUR D’ALENE CELLARS • 3890 N. Schreiber Way, CdA • 208-664-2336 CRAFTED TAP HOUSE • 523 Sherman Ave., CdA • 208-292-4813 CRAVE• 401 W. Riverside • 321-7480 CRUISERS • 6105 W Seltice Way, Post Falls • 208773-4706 CURLEY’S • 26433 W. Hwy. 53 • 208-773-5816 DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS • 6412 E. Trent • 535-9309 EICHARDT’S PUB • 212 Cedar St., Sandpoint • 208-263-4005 THE FEDORA • 1726 W. Kathleen, CdA • 208-7658888 FIZZIE MULLIGANS • 331 W. Hastings • 466-5354 FOX THEATER • 1001 W. Sprague • 624-1200 THE HIVE • 207 N. First, Sandpoint • 208-457-2392 HOGFISH • 1920 E. Sherman, CdA • 208-667-1896 HOTEL RL BY RED LION AT THE PARK • 303 W. North River Dr. • 326-8000 HOUSE OF SOUL • 120 N. Wall • 217-1961 IRON HORSE BAR • 407 E. Sherman Ave., CdA • 208-667-7314 IRON HORSE BAR & GRILL • 11105 E. Sprague Ave., CdA • 509-926-8411 JACKSON ST. BAR & GRILL • 2436 N. Astor St. • 315-8497 JOHN’S ALLEY • 114 E. Sixth St., Moscow • 208883-7662 KNITTING FACTORY • 911 W. Sprague Ave. • 244-3279 LAGUNA CAFÉ • 2013 E. 29th Ave. • 448-0887 THE LANTERN TAP HOUSE • 1004 S. Perry St. • 315-9531 LA ROSA CLUB • 105 S. First Ave., Sandpoint • 208-255-2100 LEFTBANK WINE BAR • 108 N. Washington • 315-8623 LUCKY’S IRISH PUB • 408 W. Sprague • 747-2605 MAX AT MIRABEAU • 1100 N. Sullivan • 924-9000 MICKDUFF’S • 312 N. First Ave., Sandpoint • 208)255-4351 MONARCH MOUNTAIN COFFEE • 208 N 4th Ave, Sandpoint • 208-265-9382 MOOSE LOUNGE • 401 E. Sherman • 208-664-7901 MOOTSY’S • 406 W. Sprague • 838-1570 MULLIGAN’S • 506 Appleway Ave., CdA • 208- 7653200 ext. 310 NASHVILLE NORTH • 6361 W. Seltice Way, Post Falls • 208-457-9128 NECTAR CATERING & EVENTS • 120 N. Stevens St. • 869-1572 NORTHERN QUEST RESORT • 100 N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights • 242-7000 NYNE • 232 W. Sprague Ave. • 474-1621 THE OBSERVATORY • 15 S. Howard • 598-8933 O’SHAY’S • 313 E. CdA Lake Dr. • 208-667-4666 PEND D’OREILLE WINERY • 301 Cedar St., Sandpoint • 208-265-8545 THE PIN! • 412 W. Sprague • 368-4077 RED LION RIVER INN • 700 N. Division • 326-5577 RED ROOM LOUNGE • 521 W. Sprague • 838-7613 REPUBLIC BREWING • 26 Clark Ave. • 775-2700 THE RIDLER PIANO BAR • 718 W. Riverside • 822-7938 RIVELLE’S • 2360 N Old Mill Loop, CdA • 208-9300381 THE ROADHOUSE • 20 N. Raymond • 413-1894 SEASONS OF COEUR D’ALENE • 209 E. Lakeside Ave. • 208-664-8008 THE SHOP • 924 S. Perry St. • 534-1647 SOULFUL SOUPS & SPIRITS • 117 N. Howard St. • 459-1190 SPOKANE ARENA • 720 W. Mallon • 279-7000 THE THIRSTY DOG • 3027 E. Liberty Ave. • 487-3000 TIMBER GASTRO PUB •1610 E Schneidmiller, Post Falls • 208-262-9593 ZOLA • 22 W. Main Ave. • 624-2416

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WSU’s Malachi Flynn

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SPORTS COUGS AND CAROLS

Expectations weren’t sky-high for Coach Ernie Kent and his hooping crew on the Palouse, but Washington State’s men’s basketball team got off to a surprisingly strong start to the 2017-18 season. Most impressive among a flurry of wins was a trip to Southern California for the Wooden Legacy tournament, where they stormed back from 20 points down in their first game to beat Saint Joseph’s, and then followed with wins against Gonzaga rival Saint Mary’s and then San Diego State to win the tourney title. Now you can enjoy star guard Malachi Flynn (pictured) and his teammates without driving to Pullman when the Cougs play Kansas State, a team that’s beaten Vanderbilt and hung with Top 20 Arizona State so far this season. Consider this a perfect early Christmas present for your Cougs-crazed friends and family.

— DAN NAILEN WSU vs. Kansas State • Wed, Dec. 20 at 8 pm • $10-$60 • Spokane Arena • 720 W. Mallon • spokanearena.com • 279-7000

COMMUNITY KID LIT

Diverse characters in kid books are really lacking. While efforts to introduce more books featuring people from all backgrounds have definitely improved in recent years, there’s still a long way to go.

Pushing for more diverse representation is the mission of national nonprofit We Need Diverse Books, an idea also being celebrated at an upcoming event for young minds (ages 2-5) at local literacy and education center Spark Central. Some of the books to be read by local authors include Sherman Alexie’s Thunder Boy, Jr. and Rukhsana Khan’s Big Red Lollipop. Energetic young readers also get to sing, dance, play and make a craft.

— CHEY SCOTT We Need Diverse Books! Storytime with Local Authors • Sat, Dec. 16 at 10 am • Free • Spark Central • 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. • spark-central.org • 279-0299

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BEER SIP AND SING

If you’re nervous about attending an event hosted by the Inland Northwest Chapter of Beer Choir, a national organization that promotes the singing of songs whilst drinking some ale, don’t be.

A pint of beer will help with that. Plus, you’ll get a songbook with all the words, and no one cares if you’re a little off-key. Beer Choir events started appearing in pubs and breweries across the U.S. back in 2015 with the mission to “make our world a little better by singing and drinking together.” The Spokane-area chapter hosts its next event with a holiday twist, including an ugly sweater contest and the singing of some yuletide favorites, in addition to selections from the official beer hymnal that contains traditional and original drinking-themed songs. Come out and hear what it’s all about.

— CHEY SCOTT A Very Merry Beer Choir • Mon, Dec. 18 at 6:30 pm • Free to participate • 21+ • Black Label Brewing Co. • 19 W. Main • beerchoir. com or facebook.com/InlandNWBeerChoir

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THEATER DAS KOMEDY

In the revolutionary spirit? March down to the Bing Crosby Theater to see, as part of the Bing’s Stage to Screen Series, London’s Bridge Theatres’ staged production of Young Marx. A foray into the earlier and more immature days of Karl Marx (played by Rory Kinnear), the play serves to demystify the proletariat rabble-rouser through laughter, hijinks and a bit of hooch.

Accompanied by his comrade Friedrich Engels, Marx stumbles through the squalid Soho neighborhoods of 1850’s London, which sets the backdrop of his revolutionary hiding. Pursued by creditors, German spies and his own wife, the rapscallion shirks his duties for a night of hilarity about town.

— JASON STILL Stage to Screen: Young Marx • Sun, Dec. 17 at 2 pm • $7-$9/students; $13$15/adults • Bing Crosby Theater • 901 W. Sprague • bingcrosbytheater. com • 227-7638

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I SAW YOU PRODUCE PROGRESS I’m almost positive you won’t see this, but until I muster up the gumption to form a coherent sentence when we speak this will have to do. I have seen you more than a few times over the last year, diligently working away in the produce isle. We smile, we express what our desires are through short averted glances. Hell, we even spoke for the first time just last week, of course word salad was all you got from me as I am utterly taken by you more and more each time. In case you are reading this, and if you think but aren’t quite sure, know this, it is me, and I didn’t drop the cat food on purpose to garner your attention, that was probably the most embarrassing moment of my entire week. One day, I will ask your name, promise.

SOUTH HILL HARDWARE HOTTIE You’re the amazingly pretty assistant with a pup and the primary reason I shop at Miller’s.

You explained what a dear-head is and we both agreed they’re more handsome.

Do you remember me? I was holding a caulk. I’d love to meet for coffee if/when you’re available.

CHEERS CHEERS My family wants to give a big cheers to the Cheney Police Department, especially officer Hillman, for going out of his way to get my daughter’s bike back to her. Thank you so much :)

FRED MEYER VALLEY ANGEL I was hugely stressed while running errands and FORGOT to take my cash back — a decent amount — from the self-checker after bagging my purchases. I was sick, thought the money was gone. But when I called, someone had turned it in! May you receive much kindness and joy for your integrity and know you are the good in this world.

SINGLE MOMS Cheers to all the single moms in the world. The holiday season can be rough. Thanks for making it happen, no matter the cost.

CHEERS Good thoughts to first children of Spokane’s Famous Auto Racing/Builder father (now deceased). These kids continue to navigate a complex legal system with their Dad’s integrity and patience.

Definitely “not about the money” as they are spending their own-about the legacy of a great fellow!

ing Gonzaga basketball. No sour grapes here other than to say I would like some reporting on the ratio of “Gonzaga basketball” to <i>any</i> other stories. P.S. Can I use HTML tags? lol NEWLY ELECTED SPOKANE SCHOOL BOARD Jeers to the School Board members who made 25 Kindergarten students

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around the city. It’s too bad there is so little talent among these dirtbags that they can’t even paint something appealingly. Instead they produce their silly scrawl under bridges and on abondanded buildings at night when people are asleep.

Perhaps if they went to sleep at night they’d be able to wake up and work foe a living and actually do something produc-

The future coyotes of earth will need to scavenge the increasingly scarce remnants of man’s waste.

THE MOST HAPPY Sitting next to you, I cannot help but think ... I have never known this kind of happiness. No one has ever been so kind, doting, loving, accepting... no one has listened to me like you do.

Thank you for accepting my nerdiness and nerding out with me. I love you, endlessly.

wait well PAST their bedtime to present at the last meeting. So glad you could pick your seats while sweet kids were waiting as patiently as a 5 year old can in the hall.

Next time show support of students by amending your agenda so it’s kids first... not 9th!!

tive besides drawing all over the concrete with their 5-year old talent. Of course they won’t read this because their not smart enough to do so. After all, the mental maggots can’t even color between the lines. Duh! Duh! Duh! Duh! Such stupid children.

“GIVE ME YOUR TIRED, YOUR POOR, YOUR HUDDLED MASSES” A year ago my daughter and I were walking under a freeway overpass near downtown Spokane, as we often do. We were ill-prepared for the weather, and my daughter kept waving her hands, screaming “They’re cold!” A man who was in a group of people, cold, huddled under the overpass, gave me a brand to pair of gloves for my daughter. I felt he needed them, but he knew my child did too. We have never had any issues or concerns of safety walking past this group, and have only benefited by their presence.

In an effort to pay it forward, I had planned to bring back pairs of gloves. In the citiy’s recent effort to “clean-up” the homeless though, this group disappeared. Hopefully this story can do more than donating a few pairs of gloves would, for a group of people who are part of our community.

ABUSIVE BOSS To the manager of a national laundry/linen delivery company: YOU ARE A BULLY! I cannot count the times I have seen you scream at, belittle and intimidate your employees, especially the older women and immigrants. You don’t stop at your employees, either. I have overheard you on the phone with customers threatening them with lawsuits because they needed to cancel service due to business closure. And, you wonder why you have the most lost business in the company? I want you to know that I called the company and “Blew the whistle” on your abusiveness. They said they would investigate. Luckily, I recorded your bullying on one of the elderly Asian ladies.

So you know, you jerk, she has terminal Cancer. There is a special place in Hell for you!

SLOWPOKE/RE:CATCHY CARTOONIST Jen Sorrinson, i respect that you say how you feel but every time i read your comic it comes of somewhat as a hyperbole. they come of as regurgitated and bland statements that left speakers have said time and time again, and a majority of the time this information you are talking about isn’t even researched. you just go and say what you think the facts are. your art style is unique and very pleasing to the eyes, unfortunately your writing is not as impressive. lets try for a little more effort in the future.

JEERS ALL GONZAGA ALL THE TIME I honestly don’t know if journalism exists outside of stories in the Spokesman Review regard-

can get stiff dicks -- no blue fin tuna, because they are rare and epicureans love any endangered species, as food -- no more wild forests, we had to have cheap K-mart furniture and CD holders -- no more salmon, we must consume it all. If it can be screwed into the dirt man’s your choice for the job. We, as a species, threaten the natural aspects of the planet as we

SCUMBAGS Once upon a time there was a city called Spokane that was one of the world’s best kept secrets. Now it’s still a pretty city in some places with lots of ugly places. Thank you to the worthless scumbags who paint up the city with their inferior garbage graffiti at various places

OIL TRAINS AND AIRWAY HEIGHT WATER The future coyotes of earth will need to scavenge the increasingly scarce remnants of man’s waste. These opportunists will have to fight off abandoned young, deserted old, and ever present rats, for their existence. The world will need to draw further and further from the natural places, placing them in the nostalgic category of life. As the next generation reflects on what could have been they will be confronted with the past’s decisions.

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did the Africans, Irish, Orientals, Indians, and all other subjugates, like worthless trash. We have no idea of another’s right to the same rights as man. All of the rest of the planet exists for the sake of man, we are the crowning glory of 4 billion years of fine tuning the planet. There has never been nor shall there ever be another more stellar example of life as totally complete as man. We are the epitome of perfection.

Evolution can stop, her masterpiece has arisen. Yes, man is it. There could never be a more perfect example of egocentric, egomaniacal, self-gratifying, omnivorous pestilence than man. We are the last of the bipedal destroyers. By the time man is through there will be no more habitat for large mammals. Oh, the planet will recover and spawn new and different diversities than currently exist, but man will not be among them. Man will be found in the yesterday’s news file under fossilized scat. n

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BERT KREISCHER Bert hosts the Travel Channel’s Trip Flip, an upcoming new season of the hit Bert the Conqueror, and previously hosted Hurt Bert. Dec. 14-16 at 7:30 pm, Dec. 15-16 at 10:30 pm. $25$37.50. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com BEFORE IT’S IN THEATRES Audience members choose a movie trailer and the BDT players fill in the blanks. Fridays at 8 pm through Dec. 15. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. bluedoortheatre.com SAFARI The fast-paced short-form improv show for mature audiences relies on audience suggestions to fuel each scene.

Saturdays at 8 pm through Dec. 30. $7.

Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheatre.com (747-7045) THE DOPE SHOW Presented by Tyler Smith, and featuring nationally touring comedians with various tolerances to marijuana. Some will power through; some will have panic attacks — but ev-

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JOURNEY TO THE NORTH POLE The 31st annual holiday tradition; lights on display through Jan. 1; 40-minute cruises ($7.50/ ages 6-12; $22.25/adults; $21.25/seniors) depart nightly on the lake at 5:30, 6:30 and 7:30 pm. Coeur d’Alene Resort, 115 S. Second. cdaresort.com WINTER BLESSING An evening of Coeur d’Alene tribal culture and history honoring one of the strongest tribal traditions and open to all. Dec. 14, 5:30 pm. Free.

Coeur d’Alene Casino, 37914 S. Nukwalqw. cdacasino.com/events FESTIVAL OF TREES & ART Two rooms of decorated trees provide a scenic backdrop for artwork and photography. Open Mon-Wed 10 am-8 pm, Thu-Fri 10 am-6 pm and Sat-Sun 1-5 pm thru Dec. 31. Colfax Library, 102 S. Main. whitco.lib.wa.us GAISER CONSERVATORY HOLIDAY LIGHTS The spectacular annual holiday lights display is a benefit for the Friends of Manito. Through Dec. 17, daily from 8 am-7:30 pm. Donations accepted. Manito Park, 1800 S. Grand Blvd. thefriendsofmanito.org (456-8038) LILAC CITY LIVE! The first “late night” talk show of its kind featuring local talent at the Downtown Library, with drinks, music, local authors and artists. Hosted

by Ryan Dean Tucker and featuring author Sharma Shields, musician Marshall McLean, comedian Ryan McComb and artist Amber Hoit. Dec. 14, 7 pm. Free.

Downtown Spokane Library, 906 W. Main Ave. bit.ly/2A9u3Qz (444-5336)

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TREE OF GIVING The local nonprofit aids those in need during the holiday season, with donation trees at Walmart stores in Hayden, Post Falls, Spokane Valley, Spokane, Airway Heights; also Shopko and KMart stores and INB bank on Ruby St. Donation drives run through Dec. 20. facebook.com/Helping-needy-familiesat-christmas-198593107352375/ SANTA EXPRESS The 25th annual holiday store offers items at allowancefriendly prices (50 cents to $8) for area children (ages 4-12) to purchase for their friends and family, with proceeds supporting the Vanessa Behan Crisis Nursery. Open daily through Dec. 23 during mall hours. River Park Square, 808 W. Main Ave. santaexpress.org (624-3945) HOLIDAY FOR THE HORSES Join Full Circle Equine Rehabilitation Center and Mini Acres for a holiday celebration with chili and hot cider, tours of the rescue barn, meeting of the animals and a gift exchange for the animals at Mini Acres.

Full Circle Equine Rescue, 5808 E. Greenbluff Rd, Colbert. Dec. 16, 2-5 pm. Free. fullcirclerescue.org

SPOKANE WINTER GLOW The fourth annual holiday lights show features themed displays including the North Pole, Enchanted Forest, Gingerbread House, Train and Animal Light Zoo. Lights are on daily at dusk through Jan. 1. Free.

Cowley Park, Sixth and Division St. spokanewinterglow.com THIRD ANNUAL KRAMPUS TAKEOVER Groups of with have 60 minutes to right the wrong Krampus has done and put Christmas back together again. (Use promo code “inlander55” for 30 percent off your order at checkout). Through Jan. 15; open Thu-Sun from 4:30-10 pm. Unit 55, 225 N. Ella Rd. cartelhaunts.com TITANIC: THE ARTIFACT EXHIBITION This blockbuster exhibit features more than 120 artifacts all recovered from the ocean floor. The objects, along with room re-creations and personal stories, offer haunting, emotional connections to lives abruptly ended or forever altered.

Through May 20, 2018; Tue-Sun 10 am-5 pm (Wed until 8 pm). $18/adults, $16/seniors, $10/ages 6-17, $13/college students w/ID. The MAC, 2316 W. First. northwestmuseum.org TREE OF SHARING Community members can help provide holiday gifts to Spokane’s often forgotten residents. Pick up gift tags from tables at River Park Square, NorthTown and and the Spokane Valley Mall. Collection runs through Dec. 17; tables open during regular mall hours. treeofsharing.org (808-4919) GREENBLUFF CHRISTMAS EXPERIENCE Take a horse-drawn sleigh ride across Green Bluff to cut your own Christmas tree, do some wine tasting, eat lunch and shop. $65 for any size U-cut tree with a sleigh ride and lunch. ($15/additional adult, $12/additional child). Private rides for two are also available. Through Dec. 23; Fri-Sun from 10 am-3 pm. High Country Orchard, 8518 E. Green Bluff Rd. bit. ly/2htfgEY (238-9545) HORSE & CARRIAGE RIDES Wheatland Bank sponsors this year’s holiday horse and carriage rides around downtown Spokane. Through Dec. 24; Fri from 3-8 pm, Sat-Sun from noon-5 pm (noon-3 pm on Dec. 24). Pick-up at 222 N. Wall.

Free. downtownspokane.org/carriagerides

eryone will have a kush experience. Dec. 17 at 8 pm. $10-$16. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. (318-9998) COMEDY SHOWCASE The Monday night showcase lets the audience help pick the “Best Set” of the night from among four local comedians. Third Monday, from 8-9:30 pm. No cover; 2-item min. purchase. The Buzz Pizzeria, Bar and Lounge, 501 S Thor. thebuzzspokane.com COOKING HOT COMEDY Comedian Deece Casillas and Chef Amanda Ann Hillmann present a live cooking plus comedy show Dec. 19, at 7:30 pm. $13.

The Roxie, 3023 E. Diamond. SocialHourPod.com (509-464-9334)

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CAMPBELL HOUSE HOLIDAYS Explore the house at your own pace, participate in fun crafts and activities. This year’s cast of characters includes the cook, the coachman, the first floor maid, and the Campbell’s daughter Helen. Free with admission to Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition. Dec. 16-31; Thu-Sun from 10 am-5 pm. Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture, 2316 W. First Ave. northwestmuseum.org COMMUNITY CONTRA DANCE Hosted by the Palouse Folklore Society, with music by Under the Wire. Free lessons for beginners at 7:30 pm, open to all ages.

Dec. 16, 7:30 pm. $5-$8. 1912 Center, 412 E. Third St. (208-669-2249) DROP IN & SCIENCE FOR KIDS Spark’s resident mad scientist shares experiments from the gross to the glorious, inspiring a sense of wonder. Held on the third Saturday of the month, from 3-5 pm. Free. Spark Central, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. spark-central.org (279-0299) PHOTOS WITH SANTA Kids can write a letter to the North Pole, enjoy warm apple cider and visit with Santa. Pets welcome. A portion of proceeds benefit Teen Closet of Spokane. Call to schedule on Dec. 16 or 17, between 11 am-4 pm. $25.

Creative Catch Studio, 1804 E. Sprague. thecreativecatch.com (879-3262) SANTA BREAKFAST Santa invites you and yours for full hot breakfast and photos with him in his sleigh. Offered Dec. 2, 9 and 16; breakfast from 9 am-noon; photos from noon-3 pm. Dec. 16. $7-$12.

Southside Senior & Community Center, 3151 E. 27th Ave. sssac.org (535-0803) SANTA SATURDAYS AT THE LIBERTY Come chat with Santa in a casual environment and take your own photos. Also includes storytime, kids crafts and free cookies and cocoa. Dec. 16 from 11 am-2 pm. Free. Liberty Building, 402 N. Washington. (768-1268) WE NEED DIVERSE BOOKS! Spark celebrates this grassroots movement with an engaging storytime. Books read include Sherman Alexie’s “Thunder Boy, Jr.,” Matt de la Pena’s “Last Stop on Market Street,” Rukhsana Khan’s “Big Red Lollipop,” and Jacqueline Woodson’s “This is the Rope.”

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WINTER WONDERLAND ON GARLAND The business district hosts its first-ever holiday event, with festivities all along Garland between Mary Lou’s Milkbottle and North Monroe, including movie screenings, live music, shopping, comedy sketches, visit from Santa and more.

A portion of event proceeds benefit the Foster Parent Assoc. of WA. Dec. 16, 10:30 am-4 pm. Free. Garland District, n/a. facebook.com/GarlandDistrict CHANUKAH FAMILY FESTIVAL Includes doughnuts and latkes, dreidels and gelt, a special video presentation, Chanukah crafts, a candle-making workshop, balloon artist, photo ops and more. Dec. 17, 5:30-8 pm. $18. Southside Senior & Community Center, 3151 E. 27th Ave. JewishSpokane.com (443-0770) GERMAN CHRISTMAS SERVICE German-American Society of Spokane celebrates its annual German Christmas service. Traditional German carols will be sung before and during the service by the Concordia Choir. All are welcome to attend. A reception with coffee and Christmas cookies follows at the Deutsches Haus, W. 25 Third. Dec. 17. Free. St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, 316 E. 24th. (928-2595) FAMILY SKATE NIGHT Come check-out the new Riverfront Park Ice Ribbon with free ice skating admission for the first 500 attendees, courtesy of Washington Trust Bank. Skate rental additional $4.50.

Dec. 18, 5-8 pm. Riverfront Park, 705 N. Howard. downtownspokane.org SCHOOL’S OUT DAY CAMP Kids can enjoy all The Kroc has to offer, including a variety of the following activities lead by Kroc staff: swimming, rock climbing, gym games, art, cooking and more. Lunch and two snacks are provided. Offered Dec. 1822 and 27-29 from 9 am-4 pm each day.

Ages 6-13. $36-$45/day. Kroc Center, 1765 W. Golf Course Rd. kroccda.org SPOKANE CONTRA DANCE Spokane Folklore Society’s weekly, Wednesday night dance with the band Crooked Kilt playing and caller Emily Faulkner. This is a community dance; no experience is necessary, everyone is welcome. Beginner workshop at 7:15 pm. Dec. 20, 7:30-9:30 pm. $5/$7. Woman’s Club of Spokane, 1428 W. Ninth. womansclubspokane.org (598-9111)

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he United States Army has increased the number of marijuana waivers for active-duty enlistees to 500, a major increase from 2016’s 191. The waiver is in an effort to bolster enlistment numbers by adding people who used the drug in their past.

Three years prior, the Army had no such waiver.

The marijuana exclusion equates to about one-quarter of the total misconduct waivers the Army granted this year, a major reason for the 50 percent increase in waiver included recruitment. Most waivers are still related to mental and physical health.

“Provided they understand that they cannot do that when they serve in the military, I will waive that all day long,” Major General and head of the Army’s recruiting Jeff Snow said in an Associated Press article.

The decision comes at a time where more and more states legalize and decriminalize the drug. It’s hard to enforce a ban for an infraction that is now measured the same as a traffic violation, let alone the 29 states that have medical marijuana access and the eight states that

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Advice Goddess NOSE TO THE GROIN STONE

I’m a woman, and I recently made a new professional connection — a man who’s excited about my work. We’re planning on doing a big important project together. I’m worried that he’s interested in me romantically (based on a few things he’s said). I’m not interested in him in that way. What’s the right thing to say to get that across? —All Business

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It’s tempting to get everything out in the open right away: “I’ve run the numbers on your chances of having sex with me, and they’re pretty close to the odds of your being crushed to death by a middle-aged dentist falling out of the sky.”

Informing a guy pronto that you aren’t romantically interested in him — though in somewhat kinder language — would be the right thing to do if he were just some persistent Tinder date you wanted to unload forever. But you’re hoping to have a continuing business relationship with this guy. So even if it were wildly obvious that he has the hots for you, the last thing you should do is mention that particular elephant in the room (not even while you’re pole-vaulting over steaming mountain ranges of elephant dung).

Cognitive psychologist and linguist Steven Pinker points out that “most social interaction” involves some conflicting goals — for example, when only one of two people is interested in ending the evening in the tool shed/sex dungeon. (Yes, sometimes the nightcap is a rubber hood.)

Pinker explains that “indirect speech” — not saying exactly what you think or want — is a way two people can maintain their relationship as it is (even when both suspect or are pretty sure that their desired outcomes are in sharp conflict). The sometimes tiny measure of ambiguity — uncertainty about another person’s goals — that is fostered by indirect speech does a big job. It allows the person who wants something the other doesn’t to save face, enabling the two to preserve their common ground.

So, your refraining from telling the guy that you aren’t interested (in so many words) allows him to cling to the ego-preserving possibility that you might be. If he goes direct on you — tells you he wants to sex up your business relationship — that’s when you likewise get explicit: Tell him straight out that you want to keep things strictly professional. However, this may not be necessary if you act in ways that say “just business!” Avoid going flirty in communicating with him, and schedule meetings for the utterly unsexiest times and places possible. Nobody ends up doing the walk of shame because they had seconds on biscotti and one too many double espressos.

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There’s always been an attraction between this guy and me. I’ve been thinking of testing the waters with him romantically, but he recently mentioned that he freaks out when women cry. He says he just has no idea what to do. Well, I’m an emotional person — generally happy but also a big crier. Are we a bad match, or could I teach him to soothe me? —Waterworks Most men are comfortable dealing with any leaky item — as long as it can be fixed with an adjustable wrench and a Phillips screwdriver.

If there’s a decoder ring for human emotion, it’s the female brain. Psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen finds that men, generally speaking, just aren’t as good as women at what’s called “theory of mind” — the ability to “infer what other people might be thinking or intending.” He explains that women, from childhood on, tend to be the “empathizers” of the species, driven to identify others’ “emotions and thoughts, and to respond with the appropriate emotions” (say, by hugging a teary-eyed person instead of treating them like a statue weeping blood).

In contrast with female “empathizers,” Baron-Cohen describes men as the “systematizers” of the species. This is a fancy way of saying they’re engineering-focused — driven, from a young age, to identify how inanimate stuff works and “derive the underlying rules that govern the behavior of a system.” However, these are “reliable” rules, like the law of gravity — “What goes up must come down“ — nothing helpful for fathoming what the girlfriend’s got swirling around in her head when she suddenly goes all funeralface.

Typically, women believe “If he loved me, he’d figure it out.” Um, no. Not here in realityland. Assume most heterosexual men are sucky at emotional tea leaf reading.

When you’re in boohooville (or on your way), tell a man what you’re feeling and how he could help — for example, by just listening and rubbing your back. In time, this may help him avoid reacting to the welling of that very first tear by diving behind the couch and yelling, “Incoming! One o’clock! Alpha team, flank left!” n ©2017, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. • Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405 or email AdviceAmy@aol.com (www.advicegoddess.com)

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FILM

GRUMPY CAT’S WORST CHRISTMAS EVER Watch Grumpy Cat’s holiday film, while coloring Grumpy Cat coloring pages and eating a snack. Dec. 16, 2 pm. Free. Hillyard Library, 4005 N. Cook. (444-5331) MOVIE NIGHT: ELF Catch a free showing of this modern holiday classic. Dec. 20, 6 pm. Downtown Spokane Library, 906 W. Main Ave. spokanelibrary.org SUDS & CINEMA: NATIONAL LAMPOON’S CHRISTMAS VACATION The holiday installment of Suds includes beer from Rainier, an ugly sweater contest, raffles, free popcorn (while supplies last) and free ice cream from Brain Freeze. Sponsored by Horizon Credit Union. Dec. 21, 6:30 pm. $5. Garland Theater, 924 W. Garland. bit.ly/2ik4voN

FOOD

HOTEL RL LIFESIZE GINGERBREAD HOUSE A life-size gingerbread house for the community to enjoy, with special treats sold to benefit local nonprofit Blessings Under the Bridge ($3-$12).

House is free to view and open daily thru Jan. 1. Hotel RL at the Park, 201 W. North River Dr. redlion.com/park-spokane VINO WINE TASTING Friday, Dec. 15th’s tasting features Purple Star Wines, from 3-6:30 pm. Sat, Dec. 16 is a showcase of sparkling wines and champagne, from 2-4:30 pm. Tastings include cheese and crackers. Vino! , 222 S. Washington St. vinowine.com BAD SANTA CHRISTMAS CRAWL The annual, holiday-themed scavenger hunt pub crawl throughout downtown Spokane. Dec. 16, 5 pm. bit.ly/2ihNCv7 PETUNIAS SUPPER CLUB A fivecourse dinner paired with wines from Ste. Michelle’s global portfolio. Dec. 16 at 6:30 pm and Dec. 17 at 4:30 pm. $60.

Petunias Marketplace, 2010 N. Madison St. petuniasmarket.com (328-4257) HISTORY OF YUM: GINGERBREAD! Local food historian Monica Stenzel teaches this class on the history and creative art of making festive gingerbread treats. Dec. 17, 2-3:30 pm. $22.50-$25. The MAC, 2316 W. First. northwestmuseum.org A VERY MERRY BEER CHOIR Beer Choir events are informal gatherings at breweries or pubs during which drinking and singing happen simultaneously. The Inland NW chapter hosts this event, with holiday carols. Dec. 18, 6:30 pm. Free.

Black Label Brewing Co., 19 W. Main. facebook.com/InlandNWBeerChoir/

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ORGANISYNTH Join Richmond Gallery and Laboratory Spokane for an evening of sci-fi electronic music where you become part of the experience. Dec. 14. Free. Richmond Gallery, 228 W. Sprague. laboratoryspokane.com SING FOR YOUR SPIRIT Join the Spokane Area Youth Choirs for a festive concert. Dec. 14, 7-8 pm. $10. Westminster Congregational United Church of Christ, 411 S. Washington St. (624-7992) ADVENT LESSONS & CAROLS An evening of quiet reflection as the combined Cathedral Choir, Junior Choir, and Chancel Ringers present an array of anthems and carols. Dec. 15, 7-8:30 pm. Free. St. John’s Cathedral, 127 E. 12th. (838-4277)

SPIRIT OF SPOKANE CHORUS The award-winning a capella chorus presents “The Missing Claus.” Dec. 15 at 7 pm and Dec. 16 at 2 pm. $12. Opportunity Presbyterian, 202 N. Pines. spiritofspokanechorus.org NATHAN PACHECO CHRISTMAS TOUR The classically-trained tenor performs music from his soon-to-be-released Christmas album. Dec. 16, 7:30 pm. $27-$51. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave. bingcrosbytheater.com SPOKANE SYMPHONY HOLIDAY POPS The Symphony celebrates the music of the holidays under the baton of Resident Conductor Morihiko Nakahara. Dec. 16 at 8 pm and Dec. 17 at 2 pm. $24-$57/kids; $36-$83/adults. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. spokanesymphony.org CLARION BRASS: THIS IS WHAT CHRISTMAS SOUNDS LIKE Each year, Clarion artistic director William Berry hangs shiny new ornaments on the tree in the form of traditional carols and quirky takes on holiday favorites. Dec. 19, 7:30 pm. St. John’s Cathedral, 127 E. 12th Ave. (Also Dec. 20 in CdA at the Kroc Center) figarotunes.com/clarion THE SING TEAM A concert by the merry troupe of family and friends, with inspiration ranging from Motown to The Muppets. Dec. 19, 7 pm. $20. Kroc Center, 1765 W. Golf Course Rd. kroccda.org

SPORTS

SPOKANE CHIEFS Versus the Everett Silvertips on Dec. 15, at 7:05 pm. Versus the Seattle Thunderbirds on Dec. 17, at 5:05 pm. $10-$22. Spokane Arena, 720 W. Mallon Ave. spokanearena.com CASCADE CHRISTMAS FOOD DRIVE + WRESTLING The wrestlers of Cascade perform for an event that also serves as a food drive benefiting Second Harvest. Bring a donation to get a free seat.

Dec. 17, 5:30 pm. The Museum, 5225 N. Freya. bit.ly/2htGwTM WSU MEN’S BASKETBALL VS. KANSAS STATE A pre-season game. Dec. 20, 8 pm. $10-$60. Spokane Arena, 720 W. Mallon Ave. spokanearena.com

THEATER

A CHRISTMAS STORY: THE MUSICAL The endearing tale of Ralphie Parker and his quest to get a Red Ryder BB Gun for Christmas. Through Dec. 17; Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $30$32. Spokane Civic Theatre, 1020 N. Howard St. spokanecivictheatre.com CHRISTMAS WITH A TWIST Ellen Travolta returns this holiday season for her new production, directed by Troy Nickerson. Through Dec. 17; Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 5 pm. $27.50. CdA Resort, 115 S. Second. cdachristmas.com ELF THE MUSICAL JR. A play based on the beloved holiday film. Dec. 14-16 at 7 pm; Dec. 16 at 2 pm. $15. Liberty Lake Community Theatre, 22910 E. Appleway Ave. libertylaketheatre.com EVERY CHRISTMAS STORY EVER TOLD Three actors decide to perform every Christmas story in this comedy romp. Thru Dec. 17, Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $20-$22. Lake City Playhouse, 1320 E. Garden. (208-673-7529) IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE: A LIVE RADIO PLAY The classic film is brought to life as a live radio broadcast. Dec. 14-17, Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $25.

Jacklin Arts & Cultural Center, 405 N.

William St. cdasummertheatre.com WARDROBES, RINGS & THE LAST GOODBYE David Payne returns with new drama about the last encounter between C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. Dec. 14, 7 pm. $17-$27. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague. bingcrosbytheater.com ANNIE Local children and adults perform the beloved musical. Through Dec. 17; Fri at 7 pm, Sat-Sun at 2 pm. $10-$14. Spokane Children’s Theatre, 2727 N. Madelia. spokanechildrenstheatre.org A CHRISTMAS CAROL The classic tale of redemption is brought into today’s world. Dec. 8-17, Fri-Sat at 7 pm, Sun at 3 pm. $7-$12. Pend Oreille Playhouse, 236 S. Union. pendoreilleplayers.org FREUD’S LAST SESSION A comedic, fast-moving debate between young novelist C.S. Lewis and aging psychoanalyst Dr. Sigmund Freud. Thorugh Dec. 17; Fri-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $20. Stage Left Theater, 108 W. Third Ave. spokanestageleft.org HOLIDAY HIJINKS: Join Civic performers as they present a series of off-colored short, original and rarely produced comedic plays and songs that poke fun at the holidays. Through Dec. 16, Fri-Sat at 7:30 pm. $15. Spokane Civic Theatre, 1020 N. Howard. (325-2507) TRADITIONS OF CHRISTMAS The annual Radio City Music Hall-style show includes a USO tribute, bringing Christmas classics to life with song and dance.

Dec. 15-17 and 21-23; times vary. $20$36. Kroc Center, 1765 W. Golf Course Rd. traditionsofchristmasnw.com THE WORST MURDEROUS HOLIDAY PAGEANT EVER A holiday-themed murder mystery set around the production of a holiday pageant. Dec. 15, 6:458:45 pm. $40. Coeur d’Alene Cellars, 3890 N. Schreiber Way. cdacellars.com THE NUTCRACKER BALLET A performance of the classic by members of the Children’s Ballet of Spokane. Dec. 16 at 2 and 7 pm. $15. SCC, 1810 N. Greene. companyballetspokane.com STAGE TO SCREEN: YOUNG MARX The new comedy is presented via a filmed performance of a live show starring Rory Kinnear and Oliver Chris. Dec. 17, 2 pm. $7-$13. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague. bingcrosbytheater.com

ARTS

HOLIDAY MARKET Emerge hosts its second annual holiday market, with artisan vendors of knit goods, furniture, weavings, jewelry, pottery, and art. Dec. 16, 10 am-4 pm. Emerge, 208 N. Fourth. emergecda.com (208-660-5142) TO SEE AND BE SEEN: MANET’S WOMAN AT THE BAR In this third of five programs on French Modernism, Dr. Meredith Shimizu discusses this well-known Manet painting. Dec. 17, 2 pm. $9. The MAC, 2316 W. First. (456-3931) SIGNING: ZACK DAVISSON “Kaibyo: The Supernatural Cats of Japan” is an in-depth exploration of the feline creatures and ghosts of Japan. Dec. 16, 1:30 pm. Auntie’s, 402 W. Main. (838-0206) BOOK RELEASE: A WOMAN’S JOURNEY AROUND THE WORLD ON A BICYCLE Meet local author Sally Vantress-Lodato for a toast and reading of her book chronicling her 18-month trip cycling more than 21,000 miles around the world. Dec. 17, 12-3 pm.

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ake Coeur d’Alene Cruises’ “Journey to the North Pole” holiday lights cruise isn’t just for children; there’s plenty for adults, too. (Hint: pyrotechnics are involved!) Here, some experienced cruisers dish on making the most of your journey: Check the schedule. Purchase tickets online (12/24 and 12/25 are nearly sold out) and arrive earlier than the requested 45 minutes to Resort Plaza Shops, where you’ll queue up for boarding. Factor time for parking, walking, even grabbing a bite in town first.

Get on Santa’s List. Imagine the surprised delight at hearing Santa call your name? Help ensure correct

pronunciation by providing a phonetic or sounded-out spelling of your child’s name for Santa.

Prepare for weather. If it’s dry, pack a blanket and sit topside for panoramic views. Wetter weather calls for comfortable, no-slip shoes.

Dress in layers and bring a tote-bag for storing hats, gloves, etc.

Seat yourself. Kids will likely stand outside during the 40-minute cruise and there are no bad seats. Exiting the marina, look right (to starboard) for the first “powerful” displays. About halfway in, the focus shifts to the front (or bow) as you near Santa’s house.

Grab photo opportunities. Bring a camera that handles low-light conditions to snap pics, including the kiddos with any of the real-life characters onboard: elves, a familiar reindeer and a friendly Grinch. Consider commemorating your cruise with a family photo to accompany your annual holiday greetings.

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Tickets: $23.25 adults; $21.25 ages 55 and up; $15.25 children ages 6-12; Dec. 16-17, Dec. 26- Jan. 1; noon and 1-3 pm.

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The Worst (Murderous) Holiday Pageant Ever

DECEMBER 15 This murder mystery puts the ho-ho-ho in your holiday with a wacky production that invites you to dress up and play along. One house drink included with ticket; additional beverages and appetizers available for purchase. Tickets $40, Dec. 15, 7-10 pm (doors open at 6:45 pm). Coeur d’Alene Cellars; 208-664-2336

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DECEMBER 18-JANUARY 1 Holiday lights, a tree in the middle of the ice rink, and maybe a visit from Santa. That’s 12 Skates of Christmas at Frontier Ice arena.

Tickets $7, children 5 and under free; $2 skate rental, free rental to families of five or more; noon-6:15 pm (Dec 24, noon-3 pm; Dec. 25 closed). Frontier Ice Arena; 208765-4423

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