The Spovangelist

No matter how public or private the writer, blogging  is a fundamentally social activity. Many of our most popular posting ideas come directly from you, the reader, and that is one reason why the Spovangelist is now on Facebook.
With the new layout, navigating to your favorite pages can be a bit of a hassle. One [...]

When people think of philanthropy they usually think of things like the Gates Foundation, wealthy community figures, or some kind of corporate giving program. But with many traditional centers of wealth freezing up in the throes of our topsy-turvy economy, micro-philanthropy from the everyday masses is becoming more and more important.
This often means contributions that [...]

Last night a cheerful lady knocked on our door to introduce herself as the “Browne’s Addition Welcome Wagon.” She had seen us working in our vegetable patch and wanted to celebrate our new status as neighbors. My roommate and I scored some strawberries, tea, pastries, seeds and a bouquet of fresh flowers, a card and [...]

Spring 4-Ward: Local Micro Media Part 2
Spovangelist reader, freelance writer and Gonzaga student Brittany Wilmes beat us to the punch on this story. Read her insightful interview (excerpted below) with SPOKE(a)N(e) Magazine editors Tyson and Sara Habein.
To summarize, SPOKE(a)N(e) Magazine is a monthly .pdf publication that features the people, places and events of Spokane’s “creative [...]

Spring 4-Ward: Local Micro Media Part 1
From behind the Pinecone Curtain emerges a new voice for the North Side Pirates, those talented yet remote Whitworthians – culled from across the world and every small town within 500 miles. As publications go CORSAIR is still in its infancy, but has the raw material to become a [...]

Spokane’s exciting new crop of independent magazines.
Something aside from spring is in the air. March April and May this year will witness the launch of four (count ‘em, 4!) new independently produced interest magazines. Each has its own focus and mission, and each carries new promise for the growth and improvement of Spokane’s local [...]

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 [...]

The Blog Bible authors have said it best in describing this little project. We’ve heard about the community trust that sales proceeds will benefit,  reflected on our motivations for writing, gotten the word out, embraced the novelty, met one another and upped the ante for blogging in Spokane overall.

Handbill compliments of Dreyer Press.
If you live [...]

Well we’ve been at it again over here at the Spovangelist, rousing the rabble and fanning the flames of a truly cohesive community network. This time we’ve teamed up with fourteen local bloggers to cooperatively produce a 28 page pocketbook guide to the local blogosphere – the Spokane Blog Bible.

Two months, 300 emails, imposing on [...]

The Finger, an Olympia-based art, music, activism, culture and lifestyle zine, is looking for contributors to bolster it’s Spokane representation. They offer “access to secret, free downloads of each edition of The Finger, the accompanying compilation CDs, and other silly little things that we happen to upload.”
If this video of Ghost Mice playing in “some [...]