Archive | September, 2010

Dirty Martinis Year Four

People outside Spokane are always asking me how long I’ve lived here. At first I shyly underestimated my tenure back home. “Oh, two years or so,” I’d venture, knowing full well it had been a little more like three. With the annual Dirty Martinis for Clean Water fundraiser taking place tomorrow night to benefit the [...]

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Oktoberfest Makes the Hop

Sometimes you don’t know what you’re missing until it comes over the mountains and gets handed to you in an ice cold glass. Last weekend I had the pleasure of volunteering to pour for Fremont Brewing at Spokane’s First Annual Oktoberfest in Riverfront Park. I had no clue this was such a big deal until I [...]

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Main Squeeze

If eating healthy local and organic foods made you this gorgeous I think everyone would be doing it. I love the scalloped edging on the top and bottom of this woman’s skirt, not to mention her high energy stance and smile. Does it make sense for so many women to spend more money on what [...]

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Spokane Community Garden Tour

This has been a season for cycling city wide tours. After biking to four different locations on the Green + Solar Home Tour following Spokefest, I thought why not take the same route for the 3rd annual Spokane Community Garden Tour? Garden-goer listens to Connie explain the Riverfront Farms story. We started at the popular [...]

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Strong Solutions Camp Out on Sprague

By Mark Simonds The new Apple store in Spokane is set to open at 10am this Saturday (9/25). If other openings are any indication, there will be people camping out in front to be the first through its doors. There is a lot of pent up excitement among local Apple heads as well as curious [...]

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