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A stylish friend told me the other day “Technically Spokane can’t have a street fashion blog. We are all too poor to be fashionable.” So I stand corrected: Spokane needs a street style blogger, to hell with fashion! Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn. – [...]

It’s back, and it’s sleeker and more sophisticated than ever before. What started as an eager fantasy over two years ago has finally “announced itself on the larger stage of city wide awareness.” For those who need a refresher course, Terrain is unique among Art Walk attractions in that it is organized by a group [...]

Gabriel Brown: Innovator, father, friend. He’s one of those rare individuals who is universally liked by everyone.  While the Spovangelist avoids community calendar style posts, the subject matter at this exhibit is just too relevant not to mention. Make a point to go visit the MAC this Friday, while you can still get in for [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Many people dismiss blogs as “echo chambers” that endlessly circulate tired complaints or grand ideas that never gain traction in the real world. But at Spovangelist we take brakes from typing to roll up our sleeves and implement a few of our more attainable concepts. The first of these, a Young Artist Symposia & Music [...]

I live for moments like these: Last night I conducted a Flickr experiment: Searching the terms “spokane rainbow” yielded 6 pages of fairly interesting results. What was even more interesting, however, was the discovery that almost every shot of a rainbow in Spokane (excluding the predictable river pictures and sky-only compositions) displayed some kind of [...]

Consider: Portland Population: ~568,380 Spokane Population: ~202,900 If my math is correct, why with only 2.8 times the density does Portland seem to have ten times the artists, independent designers, street theater projects, fashion boutiques, experimental gallery spaces, garage bands, music festivals, and conceptual media makers? IT JUST ISN’T FAIR! We all know that birds [...]