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by TERRI SCHLICHENMEYER & r & Hopes and Dreams; The Story of Barack Obama by Steve Dougherty & r & & r & & lt;span class= & quot;dropcap & quot; & A & lt;/span & ccording to a Gallup survey taken last month, 94 percent of Americans queried said they'd be willing to vote for an African-Am
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The Greek-versus-Persian battle of Thermopylae comes to bloody, exciting, eye-popping life in the CGI celebration of the Frank Miller graphic novel. Fierce, fearless and noble King Leonidas (Gerard Butler) and his band of 300 men
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By Andy Borowitz & r & & r & Court gives Gore's Oscar to Bush & r & & r & & lt;span class= & quot;dropcap & quot; & J & lt;/span & ust days after former Vice President Al Gore received an Academy Award for his global warming documentary An Inconvenient Truth, the United States Supreme Cour
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by Ann M. Colford & r & & r & & lt;span class= & quot;dropcap & quot; & B & lt;/span & urning a book is not easy. The tightly bound pages do not allow enough oxygen to get in for quick combustion. Burning a lot of books is even harder; a pile of books is a heavy, dense mass that doesn't
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by Marty Demarest & r & & r & Virtua Fighter 5 Rated Teen; PlayStation 3 & r & & lt;span class= & quot;dropcap & quot; & S & lt;/span & ince the age of 4, I've wanted to have a videogame arcade at home -- in my bedroom if possible. For a kid awakening during the digital dawn, the arcade
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"I was very touched to be able to talk to th
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The song that would eventually come to be known as "Amazing Grace" arose out of the abolitionist movement. England's abolitionist movement. They did it first. The film chronicles the life of William Wilberforce, a Brit
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by Susan Hamilton & r & & r & & lt;span class= & quot;dropcap & quot; & I & lt;/span & love Indian food. It incorporates a riot of sensory stimulation. I lappreciate how this vibrant cuisine utilizes spices -- sometimes lintensely so -- and presents a wide range of flavors, especially wi
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& & by Michael Bowen & & & r & & r & & lt;span class= & quot;dropcap & quot; & M & lt;/span & usicians can be dangerous. Oh, when you're sitting out there in a concert hall audience, those scary people in formal wear are at a safe distance, with their music only coming at you from one di
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Few people are interested, and the frog dies of it." -- E. B. White
& lt;span class= & quot;dropcap & quot; & D & lt;/span & espite E.B. White's witticism, the humor of Tim Lee's video displays needs to be
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by Luke Baumgarten & r & & r & Black Snake Moan & r & & lt;span class= & quot;dropcap & quot; & B & lt;/span & lack Snake Moan begins with two stories told in parallel. Rae (Christina Ricci) fights, moans and bawls her way through the departure of her common-law husband Ronnie (Justin Ti
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by Robert Herold & r & & r & & lt;span class= & quot;dropcap & quot; & A & lt;/span & ppearing in the most recent issue of Foreign Affairs are two must-read companion articles. In the first, James Fearon, a Stanford University political scientist, observes that while the White House rem
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"It's down there on the right," he says. "In the children's section."
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DAILY GRIND UPTOWN
Owner Lauren Izenberg and her staff take pride in knowing their customers and giving them great service -- not to mention scrumptious food. With daily specials like chicken pesto panini, a tuna melt and a meatba
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Admit it: You're flipping channels late at night, you stumble across Animal Planet, and there are the cutest canines -- everything from golden retrievers to wiener dogs -- scampering through chutes and across bridges, climbing up A-fra
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by LUKE BAUMGARTEN & r & & r & The Black Donnellys (Mondays, 10 pm, NBC) & r & & lt;span class= & quot;dropcap & quot; & Y & lt;/span & ou could tell Studio 60 was destined for hiatus by how quickly creator Aaron Sorkin took the unspoken romantic energy between Jordan and Danny and t
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Pot, Meet Kettle
There was an Inlander story about some council members saying that poor communication with the mayor hinders his ability to work with them ("Uneasy Relationship," 2/15/07). Isn't this like the pot calling
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by Michael Bowen & r & & r & & lt;span class= & quot;dropcap & quot; & I & lt;/span & t's important to be reminded of the need for simple compassion. We live in a world of stereotypes: It's easy to be quick about sizing up people and then, even more quickly, dismissing them. That's why
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DINING New York, New York
& lt;span class= & quot;dropcap & quot; & A & lt;/span & h, Brooklyn -- it's one of a kind. Brooklyn's distinctive character is a blend of its cultural diversity, strong neighborhoods, cutting-edge art scene an
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by Luke Baumgarten & r & & r & & lt;span class= & quot;dropcap & quot; & I & lt;/span & mpressively, Epitaph Records has evolved from an indie punk label to a multi-genre, three-tiered (with sister labels Hellcat and ANTI-) safe haven for truly alternative music. Releasing material by B
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by Luke Baumgarten & r & & r & & lt;span class= & quot;dropcap & quot; & W & lt;/span & hen the members of For Years Blue took the RAWK Final Four crown in 2004 as high school freshmen, they got to record a debut album. Now, having won Seattle's Sound Off, they're getting a lot more. In
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by Doug Nadvornick & r & & r & & lt;span class= & quot;dropcap & quot; & T & lt;/span & here couldn't have been two more different scenes last week. At a Boundary Review Board annexation hearing Wednesday night, Spokane County officials accused their city counterparts of "cherry picking
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Her new release on Telarc this month, On the Other Side, is a
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by Joel Smith & r & & r & Last month, Spokane County Treasurer Skip Chilberg threatened to sue over a proposal to help pay for the development of Kendall Yards with public funds. Since then, a wonky revenue mechanism called "tax increment financing" has been t
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PATTY GRIFFIN
Children Running Through
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& lt;BR & Thursday, 3/8 & lt;BR &
Big Dipper, Rocky Votolato, Slender Means, The Nightfly
Rocky packs Spokane clubs like few others. If you don't have tickets yet, you better get
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by Luke Baumgarten & r & & r & Payback-ola & r & & lt;span class= & quot;dropcap & quot; & I & lt;/span & had that damn Young Dro song stuck in my head all summer. "Shoulder Lean." The one with the characterless production and ponderous lyrics about a dance step that's more like a control
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by Doug Nadvornick & r & & r & & lt;span class= & quot;dropcap & quot; & M & lt;/span & ary Verner admits her newly approved "Near Nature Quality of Life Initiative" carries no enforcement powers. "It's just a statement of the city's goals for 2007," she says, "and putting into one docu
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by Andrew Matson & r & & r & I & lt;span class= & quot;dropcap & quot; & f & lt;/span & you're reading this on Thursday, David Strackany has written 324 songs. If you're reading this on Friday, he's written 325. Strackany, who plays under the moniker Paleo, has been writing a song a day
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by Ed Symkus & r & & r & & lt;span class= & quot;dropcap & quot; & I & lt;/span & am man, hear me roar. Apologies to Helen Reddy, but that line popped into my head every time the Spartan army of King Leonidas -- all 300 of 'em -- braced to take on the hordes of Persian soldiers at the Ba
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