The Spovangelist

Every city has its costume contests, but just imagine the results of an Inland Empire themed competition! Sure there are the obvious options; marmots, Kevin Coe, Lilac Princesses and the rest. But what about uniquely local interpretations of otherwise generic Halloween themes? Forget Sarah Palin, dress up as Mayor Mary Verner instead. Jazz up your [...]

Spearheaded by some forward thinking employees at GSI, the mission of SAAMI is to “create and epicenter for music, education, production, and consumption run by and for people of all ages. This initiative will seek to effect dynamic economic development and community transformation by incubating our existing creative culture and by attracting young people from [...]

Wonderground sprang to life when five Spokanites decided that throwing a rad art and music party wasn’t enough to make a significant and lasting impact on the cultural life of our city. The idea was to lay the foundation for an action group of creative volunteers that would evolve organically, terraforming the local landscape over [...]

The Inland Empire would strongly benefit from creating a Regional Coordinator of Young Adult Marketing Initiatives to address the problem of talented young people fleeing our area. This savvy and passionate person would do the following: Collect, organize and compare all the existing demographic data that describes the composition, behavior, assets and outlooks of young [...]

As a native Spokanite I find it curious bumping into tourists downtown. The father of a well groomed family (probably from Montana) will walk over and ask “Can you please tell me where the Imax is at?” This prompts a thought experiment: What would it be like to vacation in Spokane? Would it be . [...]

I think it’d be hilarious to get a small number of people together to form a fake group called the Spokane Aesthetics Police. This satirical organization could play on a number of humorous themes and would spark conversation in a variety of unconventional ways. The basic idea would be to go around issuing “aesthetic citations” [...]