The Spovangelist

Bikes are better for road repair. Bikes are better for the environment. Bikes are better for my thighs (although moon burgers aren’t). Bikes are better for business, or so Marshall Powell, General Manager of the Elk Public House, hopes to see.     The Elk decided to remove the free parking space directly in front [...]

When I first heard Modest Mouse the idea they would have a number one album ten years later seemed like a bad joke. Living with the fact that everybody, from frat-boy to farmer, drunkenly karaoke’d  to the crossover hit “Float On” in 2004 and that three years later “We Were Dead Before The Ship Even [...]

I can’t hold it in anymore. My excitement for Elkfest 2011 is making me feel like I’m going to explode with joy. Maybe that’s an exaggeration, but the facts are there: Elkfest is going to rock Spokane like it hasn’t been rocked before, at least since Expo ’74. Terrain+NextUp Spokane+Elkfest= Pure Gold. An Actual Elkfest [...]

Last Monday I sat through as much as I could take from the Spokane City Council. It was hard to stay comfortable, or even awake. It’s no surprise that Council President, Joe Shogun, nods off from time to time. Outside of the formality of the City Council meetings, they’re hard to follow as someone not [...]

It starts easy: Four high school aged guys got together with some instruments in a Spokane basement. What happened next was bigger, exhausting and didn’t involve parents (as much). This Saturday, I had the opportunity to share a cup of joe with my old friend, Sean McCotter, the bassist for Spokane-born band The Globes. In [...]