The Spovangelist

Last night was the last night I agreed to host a fun little get-together called the Great Food Swap. On the menu was a spicy couscous with local spring herbs and cheddar from North Idaho, an Olsen Farms potato salad with a dill and lemon vinaigrette, savory red beans and rice with almonds and onion, and [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Some of the very same cultural creatives who were involved in bringing you Terrain, Intoxicated Dreams and the Noise Conference are now teaming up for a first-ever collected works art event at the Spokane Boxing gym on East Sprague. What is a collected works show, you ask? Basically it is where local art collectors package, [...]

Education has always been a hot topic in state politics, but now the issue is starting to blow up locally as people become aware of an alarming fact: One in three high school students dropout in Spokane. The percentage of local students who graduate from high school in four years is only 60 percent, as [...]

It’s official, it’s a mania. What started as an earnest effort on behalf of the City and some key partners has finally hit the mass consciousness of everyday citizens in a mad dash to impress before Friday’s finish line.  What is going on here? In case you live under a rock, Google is planning to [...]

There once was a rag tag group of young folks that sought to carve out a bit of quality time to share updates about their mutual interests. They often felt overwhelmed with obligations to multiple jobs, transitions between living situations, the impossible number of worthwhile community events that take place in Spokane on any given [...]

I was surprised and honored to learn that I was voted Spokane’s 2nd best “Community Volunteer” today. It is a bit mind boggling since the title itself can mean a lot of different things to different people. It is always a gamble with the Best of categories. Some are here today gone tomorrow, others are [...]

Since 1985 Crosswalk has provided a safe place devoted to “breaking the cycle of youth homelessness”. Over time a suite of services have co-located in their facility, including an Early Head Start (EHS) program of Volunteers of America that keeps young parents in school by providing daytime care for their children. Prior to this arrangement, [...]

Peaceful Valley is a gem but the secret is out and running up the hill. The scenic location and closeness to downtown are too much to resist for developers. For several decades, the neighborhood has resisted drastic changes and remained a sweetly paced, unique community in the heart of Spokane. Our first Indians fished here, [...]