The Spovangelist

Dear Spovangelites, The Spovangelist will be on vacation for the next two weeks and will be unavailable to moderate comments during this time. Please resume your regular reading habits on Monday, March 16th. In Faith, The Spovangelist

First we have Tribute to Spokane, a rather uninspired and lengthy slide show featuring a funeral sound track and every last digital image transition known to humankind. Then there is the slightly shorter Spokane Downtown, with music that sounds more “retirement party” than “funeral” – sorry Kevin! The image quality is worse than before, and [...]

Spovangelist is not a bike blog for the simple reason that there are so many other outstanding local bloggers covering the topic. For some reason biking and blogging seem to go hand-in-hand. Four out of twelve of the blogs featured in the Spokane Blog Bible could be considered bike blogs, or at least strongly bike [...]

Marguerite Motie There is something appealing about the thought that regardless of where you live it is possible to invent new ways of thriving. The ability to make good friends, challenge yourself and grow with those around you is not a side-effect of the place in which you live, it is an innate quality of the [...]

The excitement of who’s-who at last Friday’s 4th Annual Sommy Awards got us thinking about band names. But we’ll leave all the juicy details of the Sommy’s up to Skywalk Sensation, a local live music blog who’d be remiss in failing to cover the big event. Meanwhile we’ll take the subject of Spokane music in [...]

Alright, I couldn’t resist this any longer. If you’re living in Spokane and working to improve it, you earn the right to poke fun of its eccentricities. Better subscribe to the comments feed on this one, it will get updated as we think of new ones. Nicknames: Power City, Spoklahoma, Spokandyland, Methlehem, Spotucky, The 509, [...]

The Blog Bible posters are complete and popping up around town at your favorite hangouts and destinations. This is perhaps Spokane’s first ever consumer driven grassroots Buy Local campaign. Poster compliments of Trey at DumbGun. The Spokane Blog Bible is a handmade miniature guide to the Spokane blogoshpere. Cooperatively produced by a motley crew of [...]

Dear Annie Oakley, What would it take to book SWAS in Spokane? I look forward to learning about the possibilities, your work is truly transformative and profound in scope. Sincerely, The Spovangelist A few days back we started inquiring into what it would take to get the Sex Workers Art Show to visit Spokane. We [...]

We hope to see more of this coming to a City Hall near you!