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It's going to be another busy weekend for local animal shelters, so if you've been thinking about adding a new furry member to your family, read up and make time in your schedule to check out these events.

Tomorrow, the Spokane Humane Society, along with some other local animal rescue groups, is setting up a mobile adoption center at the North Spokane PetSmart (9950 N. Newport Hwy.), for PetSmart's Super Adoption Day. Along with animals looking for homes at the adoption center inside the pet supply chain (a new, expanded adoption center opened there about a year ago, housing homeless pets cared for by SHS), the Humane Society is showcasing adoptable pets at a parking lot booth. The event runs tomorrow, Sept. 27, from 1-5 pm. 

Spokane Humane Society volunteer and outreach coordinator Jenna Carroll says the shelter hopes to adopt as many as 50 pets during the four-hour event. Adoption specials are being offered on many animals as part of the shelter's recognition of "Less Adoptable Pet Week." The shelter has been promoting its senior, special needs and other long-term residents throughout the week. 

If you're not in the market for a pet, but still want to give back to local animal sheltering and rescue efforts, SCRAPS is also hosting its Walk in the Park dog walk, to raise money to treat injured or ill animals the regional shelter takes in. The event is set for tomorrow morning, Sept. 27, from 10 am-2 pm, at Prairie View Park on Spokane's South Hill, near the intersection of Freya and 61st Ave.

Participants are asked to gather donations but there is no registration cost to participate. The community is encouraged to "walk with or without a dog, with your 'pack,' in memory of a beloved pet, as a virtual walker, or even in honor of your cat." Registration is open before the walk, and pledges can be turned in after the walk through Monday for teams or individuals to still be eligible to win prizes for their efforts.

TONIGHT, TONIGHT
There may currently be drama associated with the business side of the Big Dipper, but that doesn’t mean the bands playing at the venue should be affected. Tonight is round one of the Tanzer4 Battle of the Bands — where 12 bands compete for $5,000 in prizes over four nights. The local acts battling it out tonight include the Backups, 37 Street Signs, Lust for Glory and Progenitus. The all-ages show is $15, doors open at 6:30 pm.

Meanwhile, there’s a huge show over at the Bartlett with Vancouver, B.C. indie pop act Said the Whale (see video below). Tera Melos and Dova open. The all-ages concert is $14. Read our preview for the show right here.



For anyone interested in drinking a lot of small-portioned beers while listening to live music, Coeur d’Alene Oktoberfest is your chance. Happening in downtown Coeur d'Alene, the event runs Friday and Saturday. Native Sun plays Friday 5 pm to 8 pm, while the Coeur d’Alene Big Band and Shiner play Saturday. Tickets are $20 and include six sampling tickets, a mug and admission to all music venues.

SATURDAY
In a celebration of life, Isamu “Som” Jordan's friends are once again hosting the Som Birthday Show at Red Room Lounge Saturday night. Performers include local hip-hoppers Staxx brothers, Flying Spiders and Bandit Train. Be sure to show up in red and black, Flying Spiders' colors. The Isamu Jordan Memorial Fundraiser show starts at 7 pm and is $5.

For more local hip-hop, check out the Big Dipper Saturday night as Jaeda, Rick Rollin, Deadly D, Wax808, Abomb take to the stage. Missoula MC Tonsofun headlines the night. The $5 show is all-ages and starts at 8 pm.

Local soul-country bluesman Sammy Eubanks has a large following, many of whom will be out for his Knitting Factory show Saturday. Local country acts Silver Treason and the Cinders take to the stage first. Everything begins at 8 pm and is free for 21+ guests, $10 for those under that age.

SUNDAY
Drunk Dad is the name of the Portland band itching to demolish Underground 15 Sunday night. The skuzzy heavy noise quintet are well worth checking out, especially with free admission. Diazepam and Rasputin open the 9 pm show. This one is going to freaking rock!

You can never be quite sure which Conor Oberst you’ll get on stage. Will he be kind and endearing, or more of an asshole? What we do know is his solo show will probably be full of songs from his latest (and pretty awesome) album, Upside Down Mountain. Jonathan Wilson opens Sunday’s Knitting Factory show at 8 pm. Tickets are $25. Read about the many faces of Oberst here. 

HERE

A look at the positions of the District Court candidates, including Chris Bugbee, the attorney for alleged BlueStar fraudster Erick Hansen. (SR)

The Spokesman's Shawn Vestal argues that the sit-lie ordinance could use a little consistency. (SR) 

The Forest Service backs off that can't-photograph-the-forest-without-permission law. Sort of. (SR)

An empty bomb threat at Gonzaga University. (KREM)

THERE

How do you fight an enemy of your enemy, with out being too friendly to your enemy? (NYT)

ESPN'S Bill Simmons gets suspended for calling the NFL's Roger Goodell a liar. (Washington Post)

The U.S. Prison population has finally begun falling. (Slate)

MASHUP

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, as written by Ayn Rand. (The Toast)

Tonight, How To Get Away With Murder launches, along with new seasons of Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal. The same woman, arguably one of the most powerful showrunners on television, has her hands in all three: Shonda Rhimes.

Last week, that Rhimes got a lot of unanticipated press when New York Times TV critic Alessandra Stanley began her column on Rhimes with a line, “When Shonda Rhimes writes her autobiography, it should be called 'How to Get Away With Being an Angry Black Woman.'” She continued to talk about how, in her show, Rhimes rises above that stereotype, reinvents and reclaims it.

Numerous critics, viewers and even Rhimes herself cried foul, concentrating on how the column was racially insensitive.

But it wasn’t bad TV criticism just because it was racially insensitive. It was racially insensitive because it was bad TV criticism. (New York Times TV critics do not have the strongest record.) 

In other words, a show like Key and Peele channels and subverts racial stereotypes every week, and there would be nothing wrong about pointing that out (including the stereotype of the Angry Black Man.)

But here, Stanley got Rhimes completely wrong. Anger and race isn’t what makes her interesting. No, she’s interesting for the way she deals with the entire range of emotions with characters of all races, genders and sexual orientations.

That Stanley honed in on single stereotype that did not represent the the thrust of her work – that’s what was racially offensive.

Yes, Rhimes' shows sometimes thrive on anger. But that’s just one color in her palette that she uses to paint bright, vivid, sometimes absurd and surreal TV shows.

I often refer to them as "Strong Woman Crying" shows, but that isn't meant to be an insult. In many shows, Strong Woman is a synonym for Dull Woman. She understands that men and women can be strong and competent, but also weak, brittle, ill-tempered and foolish. And that is where drama often comes from. At times it drags the show down, makes it repetitive and exhausting. Other times, it invigorates the show, injects it with an unhinged kind of energy. 

It’s been a long time since I’ve watched Grey’s Anatomy (appropriately timed trivia fact: Katherine Heigl’s Izzie Stevens character was a graduate of the University of Washington school of medicine.) But from what I remember of Grey’s, it was infused with the same sort of wonderful over-the-top style as Scandal. 

Yes, they all have lots of plot twists and life-or-death moments, but that’s not what invigorates them. It’s this overpowering sense of momentum and emotion and desire that sends characters hurtling in wild directions.

It’s melodrama, yes. It’s soap opera, yes. But neither of those things are bad things when they’re executed skillfully. And if nothing else, Rhimes knows what she’s doing.

Stylistically, she’s maybe the closest match to West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin, with her tendency to have characters deliver hyper-articulate barnburner speeches at the drop of a hat. But where the passion in Sorkin’s comes through wonkery – a Great Man standing before a podium and firing off rat-a-tat-tat statistics and studies to decimate his doofus of an opponent – Rhimes' monologues are almost entirely about emotional desire. They’re the equivalent of an “I Want” song from a musical: One character stands before the other, and the words just come spilling out with rhythms and beats and crescendos. 

These are the sorts of monologues that we fantasize about delivering to the people we care about most, telling them why we love them or telling them why we hate them. It’s a pep talk, telling them that the whole world is counting on them. It’s the tell-off speech, telling them they screwed up royally and it will cost them every single thing they’ve ever wanted. It's ultimatum as music. These are the climactic epic monologues that most movies get one of. Rhimes throws them out in nearly every single episode.

(Life lesson: In my experience, Rhimes-style Choose Me monologues are sadly not nearly as effective in romantic relationships as in real life.)

And it’s here that actors like Jeff Perry get a chance to show us some of TV’s best acting. It’s here where politically infused shows like 24 and House of Cards could take a lesson. Political drama isn’t about talking points. It’s about the motivations and desire behind it all.

A show like The Good Wife does a much better job at portraying actual adult relationships, where things like duty and family actually matter, where the right choice often means repressing all those emotions. But, like musicals, like poetry, the unrealism in Scandal is there to speak to a deeper reality, to how feelings really feel, stripped away from all that sense and rationality.

So, no, her characters don’t act like adults. But neither do our hearts and minds and guts. She captures that uncivilized adolescent id inside us all. We humans are whiny. We humans are angry. We’re overcome with desire and depression and anxiety and burning passion and self-destruction, though we manage to make the right choices in the end. Most of us. Usually.

Rhimes’ characters mostly don’t. Even a character like Olivia Pope, a paragon of intellect and competence, can’t stop her desires from sabotaging her life in every way.

That isn’t exclusively a female thing, by the way. Practically every character in Scandal follows his or her heart, and other body parts, into stupid, stupid places. But that’s the beauty of it. That’s the fun, and insight, of visiting that what-if world of unrealistic plot twists and unrealistic speeches.

It has nothing to do with being angry. It has nothing to do with being black. It has everything to do with knowing what it’s like, in our most heightened, insane moments, to be human.

Most everything you need to know about the political beliefs of “We Believe – We Vote” can be found in the graphic at the top of their website. The “T” in “vote” is a Christian cross, right next to an American flag superimposed upon a bald eagle.

We Believe – We Vote has for the past five years made it their mission to use "biblical and traditional values to make informed voter recommendations to the faith-based community."

WBWV sits down with candidates, asking them to weigh in on issues ranging from the U.N.'s “Agenda 21” to whether “the state should ban licensed therapists from using their clinical judgment to help a minor turn away from unwanted same-sex attraction,” and ends up producing one of the more unusual, more in-depth local voter guides out there, one they’ve encouraged pastors to send their flock flocking to.

This week, We Believe – We Vote published its candidate evaluations. The interesting part isn’t who the group loved more (Hint: Republicans), it’s the details. 

The group is led by Penny Lancaster, a retired Central Valley school teacher who has long been moonlighting as an anti-pornography and anti-casino crusader, though she prefers the phrase “pro-family.” (Her name came up earlier this year when Inlander writer Heidi Groover talked to people at Miss Kitty’s in our East Sprague cover package.)

“It really bothers me when I see how many people don’t vote,” Lancaster says. “And I think a lot of people don’t vote when they don’t know who to vote for.”

Years ago, she says, her reputation as an activist led to friends asking her who to vote for in elections. “I started feeling convicted that I had not done a very good job of reviewing candidates,” she says. That led to her bringing together a group of conservatives of “many different stripes” to interview candidates, debate over their merits and then offer endorsements. Today, its board of 35 people includes 6th District Rep. John Ahern, former city councilwoman Nancy McLaughlin and Dick Erb, the former VP of Operations for the conservative Christian organization Focus on the Family.

WBWV specifically targets local churches, including a statement for pastors to put in church bulletins or project on the overhead screen as the election approaches:

“It is our privilege and duty as Christians to vote in the General Election by November 4. As your pastor, I am not endorsing any candidates, but I recommend www.WeBelieveWeVote.com as a website with a number of non-partisan resources available for your review.”

And in previous years, some pastors have done just that. “I’ve heard people say, 'Oh yeah, we have that in our bulletin,'” Lancaster says. “We have over 400 pastors on our email contact list, and 2,000 individuals. We’re hoping to have an impact on the election.”

The website even features a guide discussing what churches can and can’t do politically to avoid the risk of losing their tax-exempt status. (“In fact, you may be surprised at how much influence you can have,” one line of the guide reads.)

“I think our position is that pastors are shepherds of their flocks. … They should give [their parishioners] encouragement to be good citizens to investigate the candidates,” Lancaster says. “They should be connecting what the Bible says about culture and life and death to what’s going on to the culture today.”

That’s where things get tricky: It’s easy for churchgoers to agree on what the Bible says about loving your neighbor, it’s less easy to agree on what it says about, say, the expansion of Spokane’s Urban Growth Area.

The group doesn’t believe in using land-use and zoning laws to restrict development in most cases, but does believe in using it for moral reasons, like squashing casinos and strip clubs. The site justifies that (mostly) pro-private property, free-market stance through a Bible verse in Genesis that simply says, “Now the Israelites settled in Egypt in the region of Goshen. They acquired property there and were fruitful and increased greatly in number.”

And their gun-rights support is justified through an Old Testament passage from wall-builder Nehemiah: “From that day on, half of my men did the work, while the other half were equipped with spears, shields, bows and armor…”

That socially conservative viewpoint infuses their assessments of even less partisan races. District Court Judge Gregory Tripp gets criticized for being “vague in articulating his view on ‘the law of nature and nature's God' as being the foundation of the rule of law” while WBWV expresses concerns over Supreme Court Justice Debra Stevens endorsement “by GLBT Bar Association of WA.”

Despite the many controversies Spokane Valley Rep. Matt Shea has weathered, the group calls Shea “the incumbent with a good Biblical moral and ethical record; has served the district honorably.” Lancaster elaborates that she has personal knowledge of Shea beyond what’s been reported in the media.

“I know Matt well. I heard the backstories on all of that,” Lancaster says. “I was there when he was going through that divorce.”

Shea, state Rep. Kevin Parker, Sen. Michael Baumgartner, Sen. Brian Dansel and County Treasurer Rob Chase all get the maximum five stars in their ratings. (The Democratic candidates aren’t even listed on the general election handout; Lancaster says it’s because they all got less than three stars.)

Most liberal candidates refused to sit down with WBWV for an interview. Baumgartner's opponent, Rich Cowan, and prosecutor candidate Breean Beggs, however, were exceptions.

“I haven’t turned down anyone who wanted to talk with me so far,” Beggs says. “My father was a minister, and I come from a faith background. My politics are different, [but] I thought it would be an interesting conversation. And it was an interesting conversation.” Beggs' big area of interest, after all, is the one where WBWV has veered away from a traditional social conservative stereotype: The group is a big supporter of criminal justice reform, linking to this website.

A Smart Justice-style system, Lancaster says, “is a better use of taxpayer money. You get people back on the job and taking care of their families.”

Most interesting are the sections of the evaluations listing concerns for even very conservative candidates: Shea “on occasion has lacked tact and patience when working with others,” the group writes, while his opponent “lacks political experience.” Rep. Jeff Holy “supports some level of public sector union authority” and Sheriff’s Ozzie Knezovich’s “‘commanding presence’ may have a tendency to be intimidating.”

Rep. candidate Diana Wilhite gets dinged for having concerns “about ‘fairness’" and being willing to raise taxes in some situations, while her opponent Bob McCaslin, Jr., is criticized for having “limited solutions to problems of government over-reach, unions, and health care.”

You can read the whole thing at the link below:

HERE

Spokane approved a new charter school, Spokane International Academy. And no luck for iLEAD schools, despite their tenacity. (SR)

The Coeur d’Alene school district still can’t come to agreement with its union. (SR)

A bomb threat is reported at Gonzaga University. (KREM)

Police arrest a nine-time felon who threatened to kill himself. (KXLY)

THERE

Just 1,085 days after Raul Labrador called for his resignation, Attorney General Eric Holder resigns. (NYT)

The police chief in Ferguson has finally apologized to Michael Brown’s family. (NYT)

What Pope Francis was communicating when he named Spokane Bishop Blase Cupich Archbishop of Chicago. (WP)

OOPSIE

When the cops screw up, they really, really screw up. (Cracked)

Some of the "hidden gems" throughout Spokane's 27 neighborhoods are well known by residents, but there's a lot about these places, and other parts of town, that are lesser known even to people who've lived here for all or much of their lives.

Through a new initiative launched yesterday called Shaping Spokane (shapingspokane.org), the city wants to know what we think are the best assets of our 'hoods. This information submitted by the public about where we live, work, and recreate is to be used for city planning over the next two decades relating to land use, transportation, economic development and other public projects. 

In other words, why should the city or anyone else invest in your 'hood? 

Citizens can give their input several ways — online, via email or by filling out a physical booklet. Once the public submission period closes at the end of October, city staff will sort through comments and summarize each neighborhood's profile, then passing along that information to neighborhood councils to proofread and finalize. 

Already, little color-coded icons are popping up on the Shaping Spokane interactive map. One user in the Emerson-Garfield neighborhood submitted a comment lauding Corbin Park for its historic value and modern amenities as a public gathering space. In the Chief Garry Park neighborhood, a user added an icon to share a local "pocket park," calling it a "great place off the beaten path for kids to enjoy safe fun." 

Users can highlight places and stories by tagging them on the map with color-coded icons, representing locations as "hidden gems," "defining features," "favorite destinations," "what you love" about Spokane and other reasons a place is special.

We tested out the interactive map and it's fairly simple to submit your nominations. After selecting the icon you want to use to highlight a place, click on a spot on the map to place it. There's also a built-in search function if you don't feel like guessing or scrolling around the map to find a specific location. However, we immediately noticed that the newer streets of Kendall Yards aren't in this mapping system after a search for the Inlander office's address took us to somewhere in South Carolina.

After your icon has been placed, type what you want to share about that location in the text boxes provided. To save the pin, simply close the pop-up box using the "X" in the upper right. This was a little confusing at first because the pop-up includes a delete and a photo-upload option, but no "save" button. 

The Shaping Spokane site also includes a feature called "My Neighborhood Story" for users to submit narrative responses to prompts about their neighborhood, as well as a list of neighborhood-specific discussion threads. 

Not sure what official neighborhood you live or work in? The map blocks out each official neighborhoods' boundaries, and to see a list of all 27 Spokane 'hoods, visit the discussion page mentioned above.

Dave Rawlings and Gillian Welch are songwriting royalty among Americana music fans, with two decades of recordings and tours as a duo — mostly under Welch’s name — helping them build up an incredible amount of good will. Surround them with an amazing band, as happened Tuesday at Spokane’s Bing Crosby Theater, and you have the makings of an unforgettable night.

Rawlings was the ostensible leader of the proceedings, held as they were under the Dave Rawlings Machine moniker. But what happened on stage was close to an old-fashioned hootenanny, with Rawlings regularly asking the others to step up and take over lead vocals or break out an instrumental solo. Welch, naturally, garnered loud hoots from the crowd filling the venue, and guitarist/former Old Crow Medicine Show member Willie Watson had some of the best songs of the night when he took center stage (metaphorically speaking — he stayed at stage-right all night). Even bass player Paul Kowert was offered a few opportunities to take over vocals with his baritone, most notably on the show-closing cover of the Band’s “The Weight.”

The only person on stage who didn’t sing lead at any point was the man whose introduction elicited the loudest roar all night. John Paul Jones, most notably a former member of hard rock pioneers Led Zeppelin, sang plenty of harmonies with the others, while his mandolin solos mesmerized regularly on songs like “To Be Young (is to Be Sad, is to Be High)” and a scorching cover of Bob Dylan’s “Queen Jane Approximately” late in the show; he and Rawlings traded rapid-fire licks throughout that one, with Rawlings even looping in a few bars of the Allman Brothers’ “Midnight Rider” along the way.

In a show full of highlights, it’s hard to pick out favorite moments. The obvious joy on display, led by Rawlings and his huge grin and self-deprecating between-song banter, was infectious. It’s hard for me to remember seeing a band smile so much during a show. The crowd regularly burst into applause at particularly strong instrumental passages, even mid-song, and every break between tunes was met with whoops and hollers.

Rawlings kicked off the proceedings with “The Monkey and the Engineer,” a Jesse Fuller tune the Grateful Dead was fond of, followed by an as-yet-recorded tune, “Candy.” Watson took over for an old-time mountain song, “Dry Bones,” before Welch took lead for the first time on a harmonica-driven “Wayside Back in Time” from her Soul Journey album.

Next came a transcendent run of songs highlighted by the Machine’s first-ever performance, according to Rawlings' introduction, of Bob Dylan’s “As I Went Out One Morning,” the aforementioned “To Be Young (is to Be Sad, is to Be High),” which Rawlings wrote with Ryan Adams, and Watson’s take on “Keep It Clean.” From that point on, the crowd was fully engaged, clapping and stomping along with the fast tunes, falling silent during the ballads.

The band took a break mid-show, and the crowd serenaded Watson with “Happy Birthday” after intermission before Rawlings led his Machine through a second set full of winning performances. Rawlings’ own “Ruby” featured some stunning four-part harmonies between him, Welch, Jones and Watson. Welch led the way through “Will the Circle Be Unbroken” before a raucous rip through bluegrass spiritual “He Will Set Your Fields on Fire” — the picking got so fast Welch exclaimed at its conclusion, “I think my pick is smaller now!”

The latter stages of the show were heavy on cover songs. “I Hear Them All,” a song Rawlings co-wrote with Old Crow Medicine Show, was mashed up with a stirring “This Land is Your Land.” The epic combination of Bright Eyes’ “Method Acting” and Neil Young’s “Cortez the Killer” stretched a good 10 minutes, and I would have happily taken more.

Dylan’s “Queen Jane Approximately” closed down the second set, leading to a thrilling encore of Led Zeppelin’s “Going to California,” Jones’ mandolin leading the way while Rawlings tackled vocals. Welch’s “Miss Ohio” satisfied a woman who’d been shouting for it all night before the band closed it down with “The Weight,” a song that’s probably been covered a few too many times, but never by any group of musicians more skilled than the Dave Rawlings Machine.

Here's a little something of what they sounded like, from the Dave Rawlings Machine website, filmed last year before a show in Georgia: 

Welcome back to Weed Wednesday, your weekly dose of pot news. Wondering what this is about? Click. Looking for our previous marijuana coverage? Click. Got a question or tip? Email me at heidig@inlander.com.

Spokane County has a new pot store, bringing us to six licensed and five confirmed open. (Feel free to make the trip across the mountains, Seattleites.) Green Light opened on East Trent over the weekend and co-owner Brandon Olson tells us prices range from $18-$23 a gram and the store expects concentrates and edibles in coming weeks. Find all the stores open in the region on our map here. Statewide, 57 stores and 233 growers have been licensed, 35 infused products (from trail mix to soda) have been approved for sale and stores have sold more than $16 million worth of weed, generating about $4 million in state taxes.

After Seattle police determined one of their officers had gone on some sort of personal anti-pot crusade and issued 80 percent of the department's tickets for public consumption in the first half of the year, the city prosecutor will dismiss 100 tickets and give refunds to 22 people who'd already paid, reports the AP.

Also in Seattle, competition is alive and well: Staff at the city's only open I-502 store say a dealer has been parking his Buick in front of their store looking to poach their customers.

In Colorado, schools may be out millions of cannabis tax dollars because of a loophole that allows some pot transfers to be tax-free. (Denver Post)

In what has proven a highly effective way to get her story to go viral, an Alaskan TV news reporter quit on air by revealing she's the owner of a marijuana club and saying of her current job, "F—- it." She's since released another video (her dramatic TV reporter cadence in full force) explaining her reasons for supporting legalization.

Financial advice site NerdWallet has a new analysis of how much money each state could make per year from marijuana legalization, based on estimated demand and taxes. Nationwide, pot taxes could generate more than $3 billion, according to the study, and the estimates for Washington are in line with recent state forecasts. Read more about where all those taxes go and how businesses are reacting to them in this week's Inlander.

Addictions specialist and former VH1 Celebrity Rehab host Drew Pinsky told a group in Denver last week he believes marijuana "acts like an opiate and causes severe addiction," reports the Denver Post.

In an interview with Sports Illustrated's Peter King, Denver Broncos quarterback and Papa John's franchise owner Peyton Manning says the "pizza business is pretty good out here, believe it or not, due to some recent law changes."

And here's what happens when New York Times columnist and how-not-to-do-edibles case study Maureen Dowd hangs out with Willie Nelson.

Spokane poet Dan Butterworth, who's also a professor of literature and writing at Gonzaga University, is the first guest for this year's Visiting Writers Series.

Gonzaga hosts several writers and poets annually as part of the series, organized by the university's English department and College of Arts and Sciences. Featured artists read their works aloud, take questions from the audience and discuss their careers and creative processes. 

The Visiting Writer Series this academic year also hosts poet Brenda Hillman (Oct. 21), writers Joanna Luloff (Nov. 20), Douglas Kearney (March 25) and Michael Gurian (April 15); and Pulitzer Prize winner Marilynne Robinson (Feb. 18).

Butterworth's writing has been published by Algonquin Books and Lost Horse Press. Radium Watch Dial Painters, a compilation of his poems, is a finalist for the Washington State Book Awards. Tonight, he reads excerpts from this book in the Cataldo Globe Room at 7:30 pm. The event is free and open to the public.