The Spovangelist

This woman is a hair product representative and was on a sales call to a downtown Spokane salon. I have a friend who put her son through Gonzaga Prep doing this work. It is not for the faint of heart. How can you not agree, Spokane is gorgeous and so are the people in it.

There is a lot of excitement in the air about South Perry that has been mounting steadily over the past few years. Stand outs like The Shop, South Perry Pizza, The Lantern, and the Farmer’s Market have all conspired to put this tucked away Spokane neighborhood on the map. This summer, these staple establishments have [...]

Over the last year I’ve gotten all fired up over rooftop gardens as a means of growing nutritious food without the use of chemicals or genetically modified organisms. Rooftop farms improve food security, benefit city residents, the natural environment and the local economy in a variety of interesting and unexpected ways. Outstanding examples of rooftop [...]

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately … I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life. The reasons Thoreau once gave for his retreat into the forest near Walden Pond are eerily similar to our own reasons for moving to Spokane last month after ten years [...]

Everyone knows that “Video Killed the Radio Star,” but sometimes I wonder if all the drive-thru chains on 3rd are part of what is strangling a more vibrant food cart culture in Downtown Spokane. McDonald’s should change its slogan to “Killing Customers and the Competition since 1955.” At first it might seem a little lofty to [...]

Tomorrow, er, today is First Friday Art Walk in Spokane. For the past two weeks now I’ve been collecting emails and newsletter announcements inviting me to the latest and greatest that Spokane’s surprisingly vital and diverse art scene has to offer. I’ve been meticulously calendaring a course throughout downtown so that you don’t have to. [...]

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, [...]

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, [...]