The Spovangelist

Some people on the sidelines may wonder, is  Earth Day still necessary? Sometimes I have mixed emotions about a day that purists think doesn’t do enough to get the message across about what individuals can and should be doing to conserve resources. Perhaps what founder Gaylord Nelson started as a groundswell of sit ins, be [...]

I like architects because let’s face it, they’re geeks. They love to live in a conceptual dimension with a vocabulary all of their own. Architects are at the very center of shaping a city’s identity because they are creative professionals that operate at the interface between disparate fields like urban planning and interior design. So [...]

Too often I feel like I’m in a room full of the most amazing creative people and the majority of them are sitting around with these awful, suffocating blindfolds on. They feel isolated and assume that no one else is in the room, so they don’t have any incentive to get up, walk around, bump [...]

Spokane’s own “loudest and proudest” will be representing our city at the third annual Honk! Fest West in Seattle this weekend. Honk! Fest is a wild and bacchanalian conference of alternative marching bands that get together to watch each other perform, trade tricks and tips on how to be the best bands they can be, [...]

I thought this photo snapped with a friend’s iPhone was worth sharing. Make of it what you will.