Tag Archives: Creative Culture

The World is Round with The Globes

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 [...]

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Urban Growth ought to Grow Agriculture

Moving from place to place is getting expensive as gas reaches a national average of four dollars a gallon. With the rising cost of transportation comes the high price of food. We are going to run out of a reliable fuel source someday, and someday much sooner than we’d all like, most food will become [...]

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John Waite against the Zerg

It all started with Jon Snyder, creator and former editor of Star Wars Insider, and now the geekdom has exploded in the city council race. John Waite, candidate for Spokane City Council District 3 posed as a player in the game Starcraft, a military science fiction real-time strategy online game much like World of Warcraft. [...]

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New Wave No Wave

By Taylor Weech Watching “Blank City” alone–as in, the only person in the theater, not just dateless– at the Magic Lantern Theater last week, I came to a series of conclusions. The first of which is: Manhattan in the late 1970’s doesn’t seem too far removed from parts of downtown Spokane, but this is a [...]

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Move over Marmots!

The Cats cast in Riverfront Park scaring away the marmots. Stolen from Barry Geraghty’s Twitter

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