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Recession be damned. Young entrepreneurs in Spokane are taking the opportunity to switch gears, plan smart, and open up the small businesses they’ve always dreamed of running.  And why not? Retail space is plentiful and relatively affordable in downtown Spokane, offering a variety of price points that make starting a new business a bit less [...]

Spokane is beautiful, don’t you ever forget it.

Can you name every mural in this video? Do you recognize all the different neighborhoods? I love how uniquely Spokane this is, yet the pavilion and clock tower are nowhere in sight.
How cool is it that this band held their last CD release party at a grange out [...]

Local artist Tiffany Patterson has a knack for inspiring people. So we pushed the magic buttons and made a Wordle all of our own.

This is the internet equivalent of reading tea leaves. It is pretty clear there is a good degree of randomness in the formula, and the results are drawn from a given homepage [...]

Spokane needs a dedicated street fashion photographer.

Portrait by Austinspace
We’ve issued an appeal to round out the local blogosphere before, but we’ve learned if you really want something done you’d better be prepared to roll up your sleeves and do it yourself.
Consider: There is a world-renowned street fashion blog called the Sartorialist. It was [...]

“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 [...]

Reprinted with permission from the Youth Sustainability Council.
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Last Friday, commuters and downtown dwellers were confronted with an unusual sight on Main Street. Sandwiched between parked cars in front of Starbucks was a miniature park and garden of local produce put there by members of the YSC as part of International [...]

I did not write this ode. It means so much more that somebody else did. Cheers to the person who loved our city enough to so sincerely say goodbye.

Cheers To My Spokane
By Anonymous on Pg. 58 in the September 3rd Inlander, 2009
Cheers to the mid-size city by the river, my home. To all of its [...]

“This July 4th, let’s declare our food independence by sourcing the ingredients for our holiday meals as locally, sustainably and deliciously as possible, and let’s ask our elected officials to do the same.”

Spokane is proud to be an All-American City. What better way to act on our patriotism than to celebrate the bounty of our [...]

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 [...]

Spokane writ 581 x 154 pixels in orange and lime!

Gerik Asher, in case you weren’t aware, is a street art duo bent on adding a little color and whim to the city of Spokane. This panorama can’t be done justice squeezed into the confines of our Wordpress software, so you’ll just have to imagine it [...]