The Spovangelist

When I first spotted this garment in an attempt to find a picture of the Boo Radley’s “Can” T-shirt, I wondered if someone had picked up on my idea to create a Spokane Alumni Society. It would be a fun way to network former residents and enlist them as civic ambassadors and business connections between [...]

“You love to travel but you’re no tourist. No guidebooks. No sightseeing buses. No package deals. You know a country’s best-kept secrets cannot be found between the pages of Fodor’s or a slick brochure. You know better than anyone else these places can only be found off the beaten track.” What do Ashland, Eugene, LaGrange, [...]

You may remember this story from the Inlander. Some people were inspired by it. Others felt it was intellectual self-congratulation. While we are busy surviving the rigors of Sustainable September Spokane, we thought it might be fun to revisit the unedited version of the opening comments made by local environmental advocate Kitty Klitzke. “Kitty Ain’t [...]

Spokane seems to have something of a crush on President Lincoln. Be it our beloved Lincoln Statue, the Symphony performing Letters from Lincoln, the Chase gallery exhibiting “A House Divided: The Legacy of Lincoln,” or even just the swank new Lincoln Center on Lincoln Ave., there are an awful lot of Lincolns in the local [...]

We’ve got politics on the brain these days. Local politics that is, the kind you can actually have a tangible hand in shaping. This fall’s off-year election is getting a head start with City Council primaries and signature gathering for a variety of thought provoking initiatives. Take a look at Exhibit A: The Spokane City [...]

Imagine how creeped out you would feel if you woke up, checked your email, and received a Google Alert for a profile of yourself that you never created? Then imagine if someone pretended to be your blog. Even weirder, right? Duplicate profile names happen all the time, but actual impersonation takes it to a whole [...]

First we have Tribute to Spokane, a rather uninspired and lengthy slide show featuring a funeral sound track and every last digital image transition known to humankind. Then there is the slightly shorter Spokane Downtown, with music that sounds more “retirement party” than “funeral” – sorry Kevin! The image quality is worse than before, and [...]

I’ve often wondered, what are Spokane’s cultural exports? At the top of the list would surely be Bing Crosby, likable, easy-on-the-ears mega star of the 1940s and beyond. What effect might growing up in Spokane have on such famous personalities, if any at all? An appreciation of the simple life? Humility? A sense of colloquial [...]

Despite the sluggish economy a whole crop of new nightclubs have opened up in Spokane this year. Yet at the same time certain theater and live music locations have struggled to stay open, with some closing their doors altogether. Does the clubbish bent to these new venues mean Spokane is becoming a generic and predictable [...]

“I hope you can handle all the rain” … the mantra of advice given to me by countless friends and coworkers upon the news of my departure. Stigmas of Spokane from those living in other parts of the country typically stem from the stereotypes associated with Seattle, as a majority of people have never been [...]