The Spovangelist

Let’s start with something we can all agree on: City Council meetings can be excruciating even in the best circumstances. On Monday people mourn the loss of their weekend and try to get a grip on the mountain of work that lies ahead. Then there are the grueling marathon hours. Not enough time to have [...]

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 [...]

Dear Annie Oakley, What would it take to book SWAS in Spokane? I look forward to learning about the possibilities, your work is truly transformative and profound in scope. Sincerely, The Spovangelist A few days back we started inquiring into what it would take to get the Sex Workers Art Show to visit Spokane. We [...]

In a time of economic upset, more people find themselves out of work and unable to afford the increasing costs of vocational retraining. One way to gain new skills and demonstrate initiative (whether you’re employed or not) is to volunteer. While some equate volunteering with dishing out gruel at a local soup kitchen, there are [...]

Santa sure came through for us this year in the Spovangelist camp. That said, some of our sillier concepts often get held back by the scarcity (or unwillingness to purchase) certain objects of key importance. The projects that would require the following have not yet been revealed. How would you use these wish list items [...]

As a newbie to the Noise genre I was thrilled to encounter a broad variety of artists at the International Noise Conference here in Spokane. Walking up the Object Space staircase made me feel like I was entering the set of a Stanley Kubrick film. It was a foggy and quiet night outside, the wet [...]

The Spovangelist loves Rainbows. We also love Collectives. What could possibly be more exciting than combining the two? People “in the know” have had Spokane wheatpasting on the radar for quite sometime. Even the mainstream media has finally taken note. This week’s Photographer’s Eye calls for information about the mystery artist.  What most tend to [...]

Unsurprisingly, the well-meaning mobsters from NC failed to set the world record for largest water balloon fight Bloomsday Sunday. At around 3:15 a dwindling crowd of mostly high school students were already starting to dry off in the pre-summertime heat. Spovangelist diagnoses this minor disappointment as a simple case of “Too Little Too Late”. The [...]

Apparently some recent North Central grads want to set a record for the world’s largest water balloon fight over Bloomsday Sunday. The last time this happened was in Sydney, Australia in 2006. The event was sponsored by Xbox and involved 2,849 participants throwing ~55,000 balloons. Before that the record was held by a group in [...]

Search “slip and slide” on YouTube and one thing becomes abundantly clear: kids of all ages can’t get enough of this silly summer fun. Boredom, young people and hot weather are the three key ingredients that spawn slip ‘n slides all across the country. I propose that we in Spokane build the world’s largest, cascading [...]