The Spovangelist

Spend five minutes chewing the fat with Dr. Kevin Danaher and it’s anyone’s guess where the conversation will lead you. I just returned from breaking bread with the Executive Director of Global Exchange and the keynote speaker for tomorrow’s Sustainable September Kick-off Luncheon at the Masonic Temple. If tonight was the appetizer, I can’t wait for [...]

While it has yet to reach the same level of mass hysteria wrought by “Hey Google, Pick Spokane”, another nationwide competition has taken hold in our town. This time the aim is to win $25,000 to support Unity in the Community, an annual celebration of diverse cultures and people in Spokane. For those of you [...]

There is a lot of excitement in the air about South Perry that has been mounting steadily over the past few years. Stand outs like The Shop, South Perry Pizza, The Lantern, and the Farmer’s Market have all conspired to put this tucked away Spokane neighborhood on the map. This summer, these staple establishments have [...]

When I rode by myself to meet the other volunteers for the inaugural Summer Parkways, I had that familiar first date feeling in my stomach like “yeeaaah.” Scientifically known as butterflies. What will happen, I thought, since this has never been done in Spokane? It felt like a historical moment with over half of the [...]

Last week I sat in on a LaunchPad Social Media panel with Chris Pirillo at the Crosby Theater. Between Bill’s cheeky sense of humor and Chris’s propensity to shock and opine, the audience went home thoroughly edutained at the end of the night. Photo by Mark Anthony I knew I had a unique perspective on [...]

Basketball is a numbers game. From twenty feet away, the idea of putting an inflatable ball with a diameter of roughly nine and a half inches into a basket that is eighteen inches across and ten feet from the ground should defy physics. But that is precisely what happened countless times this last weekend with [...]

Close your eyes. Picture the transportation advancements in the last sixty years. Bike lanes. Light rail. Maybe you even thought of space travel. But before Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier, Spokane focused on simpler plans. In 1946, the city released a study in response to an obvious prediction for the future: increased North-South traffic. [...]

Some people on the sidelines may wonder, is  Earth Day still necessary? Sometimes I have mixed emotions about a day that purists think doesn’t do enough to get the message across about what individuals can and should be doing to conserve resources. Perhaps what founder Gaylord Nelson started as a groundswell of sit ins, be [...]

Spokane’s own “loudest and proudest” will be representing our city at the third annual Honk! Fest West in Seattle this weekend. Honk! Fest is a wild and bacchanalian conference of alternative marching bands that get together to watch each other perform, trade tricks and tips on how to be the best bands they can be, [...]

It’s official, it’s a mania. What started as an earnest effort on behalf of the City and some key partners has finally hit the mass consciousness of everyday citizens in a mad dash to impress before Friday’s finish line.  What is going on here? In case you live under a rock, Google is planning to [...]