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- Issue of
- Nov 22-28, 2012
- Vol. 20, No. 6
News & Comment
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- News
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Health Care: What Now?
First, the Affordable Care Act was at the mercy of the U.S. Supreme Court. Then it was left up to a drawn-out presidential race, as Mitt Romney promised he’d repeal it. Now, it’s clear tha
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- News
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Renewing Justice
Inside the courtroom, as judgment is handed down in Zehm’s death
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- News
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Move to Canada
Washington state’s charge to secede starts in Spokane; plus, local prosecutors flip-flop on pot
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- News
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Digital Witness
Spokane Police test the pros and cons of body cams
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- Comment
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Annotating the Music
There’s a hard reality behind the Spokane Symphony’s struggles
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- Comment
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Assorted Thanks
The election’s over, people are helping those in need and other subtle blessings worth remembering this time of year
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- Comment
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Trail Mix — November 22, 2012
The Art of Losing Every presidential election leaves one candidate — and his followers — on the soon-to-be-forgotten side of the ledger. Then it falls to that man to dig deep into his well of ch
Culture & Food
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- Arts & Culture
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A Ghost of Christmases Past
The Civic is staging White Christmas for the second time in three years
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- Arts & Culture
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Holiday Guide — November 22-24
Thursday, Nov. 22 Be Thankful, Eat and Watch TV While Thanksgiving has changed quite a bit since the Plymouth colonists and their Wampanoag Indian friends sat down to enjoy a plentiful har
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- Arts & Culture
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GAME — Assassin's Creed III
A bayonet to the back. Redcoats turn redder. When his Mohawk village falls to arson, killing his mother, Connor — the half-English, half-Native American protagonist — leaves his tribe to protect
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- Arts & Culture
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Holiday Guide — December 16 - 22
Sunday, Dec. 16 Celebrate Las Posadas At some point in our nation’s political and cultural discourse, the November-December-January time period switched from “Christmastime&rd
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- Arts & Culture
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Spokane’s Timekeeper
The man inside the machine
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- Arts & Culture
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Holiday Guide — November 25 - December 1
Sunday, Nov. 25 The Greatest Holiday Yet It’s that time of year to get a gym membership to make up for all that eating you did a few days ago. Kidding! Keep stuffing your face, becau
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- Arts & Culture
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For Your Consideration — November 22, 2012
MUSIC Men want to date her and women want to be her. Lana Del Rey is a modern day bombshell from her classic old-Hollywood look to her breathy, sultry voice that sounds like it came straight out
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- Arts & Culture
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Holiday Guide — December 23 - 29
Sunday, Dec. 23 Create A Playlist Music critics will soon, or already have, released their best-of music lists for 2012. Stay above their influence by creating your own playlist. Start by
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- Arts & Culture
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Holiday Guide — December 2 - 8
Sunday, Dec. 2 Wonderful Life Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life has been making worried mothers cry for more than half a century now, and who could blame them? The story of G
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- Arts & Culture
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Guys and Dolls
What do My Little Pony and Star Trek have in common? More than you think, says actor John de Lancie
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- Arts & Culture
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Holiday Guide — December 30 - January 1
Sunday, Dec. 30 De-holiday-ize In my household, the official rule has always been that every shred of Christmas décor comes down before the New Year rolls in. It’s super tacky
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- Arts & Culture
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Seasoned Coug
Spokane’s Travis Long heads into his last Apple Cup with no regrets
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- Arts & Culture
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Holiday Guide — December 9 - 15
Sunday, Dec. 9 Serving Up Kugel Lest X-mas shoppers forget, there are other holidays around this time of year. Many houses celebrate Hanukkah, most of which takes place this week, and even
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- Food & Drink
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Soup Rules
When the weather gets nasty and your mood sours, get yourself some soup
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- Food & Drink
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Slice and Suds
Pizza Pipeline adds a bar, customers rejoice
Music & Film
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- Music
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After-School Activities
A band that’s half high school teachers brings some of the most danceable rock ‘n’ roll to the Spokane scene
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- Music
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Come to Jesus
Rock band Garage Voice found its sound inside a 70-year-old church instrument
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- Film
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Cats at Sea
Life of Pi translates beautifully from best-selling pages to the big screen
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- Film
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Let’s Get Weird
I have no idea what Holy Motors is about, but I really liked it