The Spovangelist

Sustainable September went out with a bang last week. The feature event for the Energy Security Track was called “Shift to Green: Spokane’s Transition to Clean Energy” and was basically a wrap-up celebration with food by New Leaf Bakery, music by the Angela Marie Project, and speeches by Bonnie Mager and Sierra Club organizer Brad [...]

People outside Spokane are always asking me how long I’ve lived here. At first I shyly underestimated my tenure back home. “Oh, two years or so,” I’d venture, knowing full well it had been a little more like three. With the annual Dirty Martinis for Clean Water fundraiser taking place tomorrow night to benefit the [...]

Sometimes you don’t know what you’re missing until it comes over the mountains and gets handed to you in an ice cold glass. Last weekend I had the pleasure of volunteering to pour for Fremont Brewing at Spokane’s First Annual Oktoberfest in Riverfront Park. I had no clue this was such a big deal until I [...]

This has been a season for cycling city wide tours. After biking to four different locations on the Green + Solar Home Tour following Spokefest, I thought why not take the same route for the 3rd annual Spokane Community Garden Tour? Garden-goer listens to Connie explain the Riverfront Farms story. We started at the popular [...]

By Mark Simonds The new Apple store in Spokane is set to open at 10am this Saturday (9/25). If other openings are any indication, there will be people camping out in front to be the first through its doors. There is a lot of pent up excitement among local Apple heads as well as curious [...]