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by Ann M. Colford and Susan Hamilton & r & Home Sweet Home PEOPLE & r & So you think Spokane is just a big small town? Apparently, the editors of Metropolitan Home think we qualify as metropolitan -- or at least some of our residents do. The December/January iss
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by Kevin Taylor & r & When Roger Bragdon retired from the Spokane Police Department last week, he wanted to go out the way he came in 32 years ago -- flying by the seat of his pants in a cruiser. So even though he had come up through the ranks from a graveyar
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Shann Ray teaches at Gonzaga University. He has lived on the Northern Cheyenne reservation in southeast Montana, as we
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by Inlander Staff & r & Aeon Flux -- I wanted so desperately for this movie to be good, not just for the MTV early-'90s liquid television kitsch factor, but because the general plot -- as futuristic dystopian thrillers go -- is gritty and interesting and filled
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by Inlander Staff & r & Lamentoso & r & Kelly Farris has been concertmaster of the Spokane Symphony Orchestra since the year Eckart Preu was born. And now, after 36 years as Spokane's first-chair violinist, Farris has decided to retire. How many listeners at Fr
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by Robert McGinty & r & Remember when your grandparents and great-grandparents talked about "only" having an eighth-grade education? Well, here's a newsflash: A century ago, you probably couldn't have even graduated from eighth grade. (No, Dorothy, not even
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by William Stimson & r & The philosopher William James warned against empty sentiment. It delivers good feelings, but they are illusory and selfish. His example was the Russian duchess who wept at a tragic opera scene while outside her coachman slowly froze
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by Michael Bowen & r & MB: What's your process? Did you start with a line of dialogue or a particular incident, or did the overall shape of the story come to you at once? & r & MEA: I started with the Post-it note incident. I think I was still feeling pretty sa
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Thanks to the documentary March of the Penguins, these enigmatic creatures are sho
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by John Dicker & r & Rednecks and Bluenecks by Chris Willman & r & You've heard this before, derived from a similar banality about celebrities: Music and politics don't mix. And yet, to claim an art form should remain spotlessly nonpartisan defies logic and his
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& & by Shann Ray & & & r & & & The Hounds That Guard the Fiery Gate at the Citadel of Seventh Heaven & & & r & 1. & r & Small Hands, but quick, quick fingers for chord changes and rhythms, picking patterns, strum patterns, tight slick licks the likes of which the wo
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by Luke Baumgarten & r & The Family Stone & r & 'Tis the season for offbeat, dysfunctional family comedies. Oh, how the viewing public looks forward to the familiar holiday setup. Uh oh, junior's brought home a girl/boy Mom/Dad's not gonna like! What's this?
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by Inlander Readers & r & Shame on the Recall & r & From your account of the recall in a North Side pizza joint ("Recall Reality," 12/8/05), one would think the whole town is ecstatic about the recall of Jim West as mayor. Let me assure you this is not the case
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by Holly Doering & r & This story is the only one of the eight in which I felt I was in the hands of a master craftsman. My ear picked up on the subtle eye-rhymes and alliterations of the narrative long before my conscious mind recognized them. This writer t
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by Ann M. Colford & r & Sister Paula Mary Turnbull is, in a word, inspiring (and not just because she's a nun). For more than 60 years, she has taught, shared her love of art history and produced artworks both big and small, both secular and sacred. Maybe yo
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by Inlander Staff & r & Caf & eacute; Marron -- From the folks behind Luna, Cafe Marron took over the little spot in Browne's Addition previously occupied by the Cannon Street Grill. The name means "brown" in Spanish -- probably a reference to "Browne's" Addition. It's
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by Michael Bowen & r & An uplifting story at Christmastime -- the season of sharing -- might seem a predictable choice. But in "Gratitude" -- the winner of this year's Fiction Contest -- the journey from defeat to possibility is marked with humor and some surpri
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by Robert Salsbury & r & Roper ran the comb through his thinning, well it was pretty much gone on top, blonde hair and slapped a little cologne on and straightened up his 45 year old reflection in the bathroom mirror and declared himself ready for his date.
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by Inlander Staff & r & Cheaper by the Dozen 2 -- Now cheaper, with more dozens! You'll cry as you watch another little piece of Steve Martin's (and Eugene Levy's) comedy magic chip off and die in this formulaic sequel filled with kids, physical comedy, kids
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Ten years. Never missed a day.
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by Holly Doering & r & I applaud this story for the risks it takes, the greatest one in my opinion being the experimental form of having the main character and his ego/id/superego -- whatever -- interrupting the narrative to talk among themselves. This techniq
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Ten years. Never missed a day.
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by Robert Herold & r & During the '50s, all across the country, police began to move officers off the "beat" and into the car. Two decades later, we came to understand that this tactic actually led to an increase in street crime. Even today, with crime rates
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Backbeat Books has just issued Punk Diary: The Ultimate Tra
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by Inlander Staff & r & Strum, Whisper, Strum & r & Consumers of the harder, then softer, then harder stuff are in for a treat not seen this side of 2001, when Unplugged finally (insert obvious verb denoting loss of electricity) forever. This Friday, Fat Tuesda
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by Tray Butler & r & The Grinches behind the big music labels must be cursing all the Whos down in Whoville right about now. Gone are the days when Yuletide listeners were forced to shell out $17.50 just to score the one good track on a new holiday CD, nor d
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by Ed Symkus & r & Longtime cable TV viewers will probably recognize Munich as a remake of the 1986 HBO film Sword of Gideon, in which the Israeli Secret Service puts together a team of hitmen to go after the Palestinian terrorists who murdered 11 Israeli a
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