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- Jun 14-20, 2001
- Vol. 8, No. 35
News & Comment
Hypocrites unite!
Hal Clifford is a known hypocrite," wrote one of my many fans several years ago. I've always treasured that phrase, and I repeat it often because it's completely true. I fight logging companies, but I live in a house built of wood. I despi
Sunken Cinema
While there's usually big cause for celebration upon the release of a new animated feature from the folks at Disney, something about this new one, the story of a turn-of-the-20th-century search for the legendary sunken continent, just doesn't
Citizen Critique
Guns go off and bullets whiz by. Bombs explode in great Technicolor bursts. Airplanes dive and crash or save themselves at the last second. Ships hit by torpedoes buckle and implode, then turn over and sink with hu
Diamond in daylight
The Spokane Indians baseball team is cutting back on its use of electricity this season, which is only fitting since the team's home is Avista Stadium. Instead of its normal start time of 7:05 pm, the Indians are moving their nightly gam
Born at the Bray
One of the first things you discover in studying contemporary ceramics is that the word pottery has two meanings. Pottery is, of course, the finished vessel -- the satisfying curl of a mug, the limitless possibility of an empty bowl, the bla
Blast from the past
The field of tall grass is strangely quiet. Suddenly a band of horsemen bursts from a pine thicket and charges across the field. Dressed in gray and carrying a Confederate battle standard, they fire noisy black powder pistols on a contingent
Letters to the editor
I believe that openness is best, at all levels of government, and
Women on a mission
About a year after Patsy Clarke's son Mark died from AIDS in 1994, she sat down and wrote a family friend. A powerful U.S. Senator, the friend had been close to her late husband, and vice versa. But this senator had also recently been quo
The bare minimum
Nobody wants to be poor. True, some may dedicate their lives to poverty and service, but most of the everyday working people who end up a handful of bucks short of paying the last bill didn't set out with that in mind. Today's working adu
Sign language
Users of the soon-to-be-opened "Rails to Trails" recreational path through North Idaho could face some scary warnings along its 72-mile course from the Coeur d'Alene Indian Reservation in Plummer to the town of Mullan. As proposed, signs po
Living hand to mouth
Flipping burgers. Cleaning house. Waitressing. Retail work. These are often the jobs we get fresh out of the gate, when we're just starting out, saving for a car, putting ourselves through school or getting that all-important "experience" t
The Beat goes on
Local musician JEFF SCHMIDT has discovered that music (unlike crime) does pay, though sometimes it can take a couple decades of hard work and dedication before recognition (and the steady paycheck that goes with it) comes a-knockin'. Then
Our Lady Peace, Spiritual Machines
Ostensibly a concept album based on writer Ray Kurzweil's treatise on artificial intelligence (complete with short monologues by the author interspersed between cuts), Spiritual Machines sounds distinctly un-spiritual and more than just a
Desert island discs
At first I thought it was really tough to choose only five CDs to be stranded on an island with. But since I don't have a solar powered CD player, I would gladly trade them for some chicken. Kiss, Alive: I've liked early Kiss ever since
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