Inlander distribution boxes: now at Trader Joe's

Posted By LISA.WAANANEN at 03:21 PM on Tue, Jun. 18, 2013
The first Inlander boxes hit the streets last month in a few places downtown. Now they're showing up on the South Hill, too, with a... Read more

MORNING BRIEFING: Tutu fast, tutu furious

Posted By DANIEL.WALTERS at 10:11 AM on Tue, Jun. 18, 2013
HERE If you ever disliked law students, this story will forever justify that hate. (SR) The city council approved funds for... Read more

CITY HALL EYEBALL: Council to consider drone restrictions

Posted By HEIDI.GROOVER at 02:48 PM on Mon, Jun. 17, 2013
As of now, Spokane police aren't using drones. The department doesn't even own one. But City Council President Ben Stuckart is pushing an ordinance about... Read more
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Home Field Advantage

With major improvements to their stadium, the Indians want to remain the summer’s biggest show

Mike Bookey
| Jun 11, 2013

It’s only a week before the Spokane Indians begin their season, but the club’s front office still doesn’t know exactly who will be on their team. They’re finding that out on th

RADIO | Dial Surfing

Driving to Seattle with NPR, classic rock and Jesus

Mike Bookey
| Jun 11, 2013

I was just past the airport, whizzing west on I-90 at a carefully calculated six miles per hour over the posted limit, when I realized I’d left my iPod at home. I checked the glove box to find j

For Your Consideration | June 13, 2013

Leah Sottile
| Jun 11, 2013

ALBUM Hush all your talk about the death of good music and go pick up a copy of Queens of the Stone Age’s newest record, ...Like Clockwork. I’m hardly alone in arguing that Josh Homme

The Black Forest

Lake City’s “steampunk” version of Into the Woods lends this dark comedy some welcome bite

E.J. Iannelli
| Jun 11, 2013

When you’re out of the woods, as the expression runs, you’ve made it through a difficult situation with no chance of further reprisals or repercussions. To go into the woods, then, would n

Comic Life

Three decades after graduating from EWU, Todd McFarlane returns to the school to talk Spawn, life and maybe baseball

Sarah Munds
| Jun 11, 2013

Next week, Todd McFarlane is going to wake up in a hotel 1,400 miles away from home. At age 50, he’s going to don a cap and gown, climb onto Eastern Washington University’s stage during it

R.I.P. Spokane

Exploring the Spokane of South Dakota — left for dead long ago

Joe O'Sullivan
| Jun 11, 2013

One day last month, I drove down a back road in Custer County, South Dakota, threading through the low mountains of the Black Hills and along a cliff. They named the county after George Armstrong Cust

SUMMER GUIDE 2013

The Best Summer Ever! | Kids

Deanna Pan
| Jun 10, 2013

EXPERIMENT LIKE A MAD SCIENTIST Aaron Berenbach just set his hand on the fire. Inside a classroom at the Mobius Science Center on Main Avenue, Berenbach rolls up the sleeve of his flannel

The Best Summer Ever! | Outdoors

Jacob Jones
| Jun 10, 2013

CLIMB A MOUNTAIN Summer means adventure: Explore new frontiers. Get back to nature. Take on the great wilderness that makes up the beautiful Inland Northwest. How? Go climb a freaking mou

The Best Summer Ever! | Arts

Chey Scott
| Jun 10, 2013

LEARN ART SKILLS FROM THE PROS So one of the things you plan to do this summer is improve your drawing skills, or maybe your oil painting techniques. Painting realistic-looking plant life or dra

The Best Summer Ever! | Urban

Daniel Walters
| Jun 10, 2013

WATCH FIREWORKSí‚ FROM A DOWNTOWN PARKING GARAGE Worshipers of trees and rivers and rocks just don’t get it. There is beauty in nature, yes. But the cities? That’s where the real

The Best Summer Ever! | Theater

E.J. Iannelli
| Jun 10, 2013

TAKE A VACATION - FROM YOUR COMFORT ZONE Live theater is best, we’re often told, when it shakes us out of our complacency. This summer, individual theater groups and venues across the Inla

The Best Summer Ever! | Bikes

Heidi Groover
| Jun 10, 2013

OUTFIT YOURSELF You’re looking to get in shape or help the environment. Gas is getting expensive. The price of parking downtown is a downright injustice. Whatever your reason, it’s e

The Best Summer Ever! | Sports

Scott A. Leadingham
| Jun 10, 2013

LEARN A NEW SPORT IN FORE! WEEKS Depending on your perspective, summer is either hot, long and drawn out (for you ski bums) or unfairly short (every student ever in the history of civilization).

The Best Summer Ever! | Film

Mike Bookey
| Jun 10, 2013

WATCH A MOVIE IN THE PARK If you’re from the Northwest, you’re presented with a problem euro;” summer is the best season for movies, but those movies are screened indoors. And you kn

The Best Summer Ever! | Water

Megan Peterson
| Jun 10, 2013

WALK ON WATER The Inland Northwest is home to a lot of large bodies of water, and it would be a shame not to enjoy them. What better way to get out on the water than stand-up paddling (SUP)?

The Best Summer Ever! | Food

Annemarie C. Frohnhoefer
| Jun 10, 2013

HAVE A DOG AT THE BALLPARK AVISTA STADIUM underwent a remodel over the winter. Now, according to Indians promotions coordinator Dustin Toms, you can leave your cash at home and buy your elephan

The Best Summer Ever! | Music

Leah Sottile
| Jun 10, 2013

GET DOWN IN PEACEFUL VALLEY There’s an old snapshot on the KYRS MUSIC FEST’S website from a punk show back in the early 1990s, held outside the Peaceful Valley Community Center

The Best Summer Ever! | Roadtrips

Lisa Waananen
| Jun 10, 2013

GO EAST: EXPERIENCE REAL AMERICA Spokane is an excellent jumping-off point for some of the best routes through the Great American West euro;” and you should drive east. Really. Get on eastbound

Moss and Culture

Tribal elders work to sustain tradition in Wellpinit

Annemarie C. Frohnhoefer
| Jun 11, 2013

Yellow school buses slow down as they pull off a dirt road, their tires coming to a gritty halt in a field three hours north of Spokane. Kindergarteners through high schoolers disembark; most are from

Guilty Pleasures

Baja Mexican Restaurant dishes out old-school burritos in Medical Lake

Annemarie C. Frohnhoefer
| Jun 11, 2013

Word on Lefevre Street in Medical Lake is that Baja Mexican Restaurant has some humongous burritos. It does. But one look at its equally humongous five-page menu will show that there’s quite a b

Family Feel

The neighborhood gathers at Red Rooster to spill their souls and drink coffee

Anna Clausen
| Jun 11, 2013

When Red Rooster Coffee Co. reopened last week with an “Opening Open Mic of Openness,” Amanda Maule took to the stage to recite her wedding vows in front of 15 or so strangers, in a tiny h

After the Loving

Before Midnight turns Jesse and Celine’s reunion into a stunning story of love and time

Scott Renshaw
| Jun 11, 2013

There’s no point attempting to separate one’s response to director Richard Linklater’s third visit with Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (Julie Delpy) from those that came before — and

The Most Super of Men

Man of Steel adds more comic book heroism to the summer blockbuster slate

Ed Symkus
| Jun 11, 2013

Comic books have become the go-to place for cinematic source material, so it should be no surprise that Iron Man 3 is still in theaters as Man of Steel begins its run. All of that metal, and all of th

Secret Agents

How avoiding the spotlight actually helped Unknown Mortal Orchestra find it

Seth Sommerfeld
| Jun 11, 2013

This is the hyper-information age. Most questions can be answered in seconds by typing an Internet search into a mobile phone. We feel closer than ever to celebrities, musicians, and just about anyone

Born of Fear

The Almost tackles trepidation with faith and alt rock

Jo Miller
| Jun 11, 2013

Aaron Gillespie and his wife were expecting their first son when they learned the baby might be born with Down syndrome and a malfunctioning heart. Gillespie, frontman of alternative rock band T

Drip, Drip, Drip

Why the city of Spokane pumped 4 billion gallons of water it never used last year

Heidi Groover
| Jun 11, 2013

The pipes are like uncooked spaghetti, Dan Kegley says. They fill with water and then empty, as the ground around them freezes and thaws, but sometimes when they should bend, they snap instead.

Calculating Crimes

Spokane police say new efforts have slowed the rise in property crime rates, which have increased since 1985 despite national trends

Jacob Jones, Lisa Waananen
| Jun 12, 2013

About 2,095 vehicles got stolen off Spokane streets in 2012. Records show 3,114 residential burglaries and 713 commercial or non-residential burglaries. At least 675 bicycles went missing. Near

Going into Overtime

Lawmakers in Olympia are still trying to make a deal; plus, a yet-to-open school hits a snag

Deanna Pan, Daniel Walters
| Jun 11, 2013

Budget Impasse  A second Special Session is set to start this week after lawmakers failed to agree on a new two-year operating budget. Negotiations between the Republican-controlled S

Time to Reconnect

Our elected leaders are more effective when they stay close to the people of their districts and states

George Nethercutt
| Jun 11, 2013

As a former Congressman, I’m as frustrated with our nation’s leaders as the general public. The May 2013 RealClearPolitics average polling showed President Obama with a 47.1 percent

Orwell Called It

Publisher's Note

Ted S. McGregor Jr.
| Jun 11, 2013

The revelation that the National Security Agency is collecting phone records in the name of keeping us safe isn’t much of a revelation, really.

 
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