Artist to Artist

My 27-year creative friendship with Spokane's Daniel Boatsman

I’m more familiar with Daniel Boatsman’s artwork than anyone else in the world. That is not a stretch. Yes, I missed the opening of his show at the Bozzi Collection, which he also runs as

TV | Arrested Development

The show's comedic gems could only be appreciated after its cancellation

The final four episodes of Fox’s Arrested Development aired in one two-hour set back in 2006 during the opening of the Winter Olympics. Throughout its run, AD failed to grab a solid audience. It

For Your Consideration | May 23, 2013

POETRY It’s still true, even in these times of newspaper cuts, that The New York Times publishes a short novel’s worth of sentences every day. From those words comes Times Haiku, a &

The Bike Crash Kid

Reflections on bikes, mortality and transcendence

It’s National Bike Month, which got me thinking about a neighbor kid from my childhood. We grew up in the woods outside Sandpoint, and there weren’t many other kids around, so we had to ma

Bands to Watch 2013: Ian Miles

Sometimes you choose the music. And sometimes it just chooses you

On a chilly March evening, a storm is brewing inside. At Mootsy’s, a downtown Spokane watering hole, a crowd of people are craning their necks to see what all the ruckus is all about. Ther

Bands to Watch 2013: Hooves

Instrumental heavyweights Hooves make you feel as much as you hear

They spill out onto the sidewalk in clumps of twos and threes, clutching ears, yelling to be heard. Shell-shocked, the crowd nevertheless seems to agree that whatever it was they just witnessed was so

Bands to Watch 2013: Lilac Linguistics

How five young men are coining a new genre: Inland Northwest hip-hop

After being told they’d been named an Inlander Band to Watch, the guys of Lilac Linguistics didn’t know what exactly to think. They’re not even a band, really. The five DJs and rappe

Sushi Time

Kinja brings Japanese and Korean seafood inland

Sooji Shin says her father, Eddie Lee, has worked with fish for 25 years, first in their family’s hometown of Busan, South Korea, and then stateside in California and Las Vegas. Now he cre

UPDATE | The Blue Spark

The downtown bar opens its doors to the lunch crowd

The Blue Spark still has all the requisites of a late-night hangout — the trivia, the live music, the late-night finger food and neon signs. But the downtown bar is now opening its doors at noon for t

To the Pines

Ryan Gosling is at his best in one of the best films of the year

Director Derek Cianfrance proves something with his newest film: he is great at making you feel terrible. His previous movie, Blue Valentine, an instant cult classic starring Ryan Gosling and Michelle