The Spovangelist

Spend five minutes chewing the fat with Dr. Kevin Danaher and it’s anyone’s guess where the conversation will lead you. I just returned from breaking bread with the Executive Director of Global Exchange and the keynote speaker for tomorrow’s Sustainable September Kick-off Luncheon at the Masonic Temple. If tonight was the appetizer, I can’t wait for [...]

While it has yet to reach the same level of mass hysteria wrought by “Hey Google, Pick Spokane”, another nationwide competition has taken hold in our town. This time the aim is to win $25,000 to support Unity in the Community, an annual celebration of diverse cultures and people in Spokane. For those of you [...]

That is my mom with the drum and butterfly hat. I have to admit, she is pretty awesome. No matter where I am in the world, no matter what competitive career environment I might get sucked into someday, I will never regret the time I’ve spent building a deeper relationship with her right here in [...]

Recently I had a rather humiliating experience while trying to get to know a new guy via text. I met Mr. Text through a mutual friend after a super fun night of dancing to the B-Radicals. Since he was cute, a great dancer and asked for my number I gave it to him, something I’ve [...]

Last week I sat in on a LaunchPad Social Media panel with Chris Pirillo at the Crosby Theater. Between Bill’s cheeky sense of humor and Chris’s propensity to shock and opine, the audience went home thoroughly edutained at the end of the night. Photo by Mark Anthony I knew I had a unique perspective on [...]

We took a bike ride up to Worley, Idaho yesterday, and I saw this beautiful thing. Since I grew up in a Catholic family where nobody was naked – EVER, the whole concept of a family nudist resort makes me a little uncomfortable. Make of it what you will.

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, [...]

As we’ve intimated before, Spokane is enjoying a boom in community-based performance art. This makes sense for a large town immured in a history of socioeconomic challenges. Since we don’t have much luxury in the way of high-falutin gallery art, our artists turn to the streets to make work that is meaningful and engaging to [...]

They say an effective communication technique is to “tell ‘em what you’re gonna tell ‘em, tell ‘em, and then tell ‘em what you told ‘em.” That is what I appreciate about Gabriel and Rimas’s proactive three-pronged approach to marketing Chicken Sh@#: Exploring Urban Ecosystems. Instead of issuing a wan invitation to an opening night event [...]

“In Death and Life Jacobs described in detail how powerful forces were hurting cities, both physically and metaphysically. She discussed the importance of neighborhoods, and what made one block friendly, but another deadly. She talked about the need for old buildings, and faulted restrictive zoning regulations as often harmful to a neighborhood’s vitality. She castigated [...]