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- Issue of
- Sep 25 - Oct 1, 2008
- Vol. 15, No. 50
News & Comment
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Fun Runner
by MICHAEL BOWEN & r & & r & & lt;span class= & quot;dropcap & quot; & W & lt;/span & hen it comes to running, Rachel Toor has the zeal of the converted. Unlike most runners, she didn't start until she was 30. She still isn't very fast 16 years later. But she can outrun your sorry butt.
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Opening Films
by INLANDER STAFF & r & & r & CHOKE & r & & r & A guy (Sam Rockwell) scams restaurant patrons by pretending to choke on food, then accepts money from them as they get involved in his life. Is he just a con man? It's not that simple: He needs the money so he can tak
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WASL Wars
by JOEL SMITH & r & & r & & lt;span class= & quot;dropcap & quot; & "T & lt;/span & his election is about getting it right. We've gone the wrong direction on the WASL. It needs to be replaced." That's the point Randy Dorn tried to hammer home when he debated incumbent Superintendent of
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Little Boxes
Actua
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The Woman Who Strayed
by MARY STOVER & r & & r & & lt;span class= & quot;dropcap & quot; & D & lt;/span & on't know opera? Think of it this way: La Traviata is like Pretty Woman without the happy ending -- or like Moulin Rouge if Nicole Kidman could have hit the really, really high musical notes. If you've se
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The Player
by MARTY DEMAREST & r & & r & Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise & r & Rated Everyone; Xbox 360 & r & 2 Stars & r & & r & & lt;span class= & quot;dropcap & quot; & A & lt;/span & nd now a few responses from this column's readers: & r & & r & "Either you choose to review games that you don't like or you'r
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Now Playing
BANGKOK DANGEROUS
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Recently Reviewed
The Inlander Staff & r & & r & CHING HUA GARDEN & r & & r & Family-style is the way to go at this Asian haven behind the red-barn fa & ccedil;ade. The surprise hit of the night was the vegetables with fried tofu -- big chunky triangles of deep-fried tofu teamed with vibrant
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The Good Indian?
& & by KEVIN TAYLOR & r & & r & & & & lt;span class= & quot;dropcap & quot; & & quot; & lt;/span & ... I had two hearts and have had two hearts ever since ... & quot; & r & & r & This is the heart of a quote from a man who was thrust by fate into the gristmill of change when two races, two cultures, two w
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Take Two
Lakeview Terrace & r & & r & by MARYANN JOHANSON & r & & r & & lt;span class= & quot;dropcap & quot; & O & lt;/span & h, to live to see such a rarity: a horror movie for grownups! No mad slashers. No psychopath who likes to play torture games. Just the plausible pettiness of human nastiness
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Book Review
by MICHAEL BOWEN & r & & r & Apples & amp; Oranges & r & by Marie Brenner & r & & r & & lt;span class= & quot;dropcap & quot; & M & lt;/span & arie Brenner's brother Carl was a perplexing soul. He was generous; he was a control freak. He went off on paranoid political rants; there were women, on the
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DVD Review
Yes. Sur
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Meals of Memory
by ANN M. COLFORD & r & & r & & lt;span class= & quot;dropcap & quot; & M & lt;/span & ention favorite sandwiches from childhood, and you'll bump into some seriously strong emotions really fast. Childhood memories come wrapped in layers of nostalgia, after all, and people have firm, def
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He's as Free as a Squirrel
by DANIEL WALTERS & r & & r & & lt;span class= & quot;dropcap & quot; & T & lt;/span & o truly understand the Spokane-based comedian Dan Cummins, one must first consider the noble Squirrelador. The Squirrelador is a genetic miracle -- some might say abomination -- bred by the mad scientis
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Remote Possibilities
by LUKE BAUMGARTEN & r & & r & Gossip Girl vs. 90210 & r & & r & (CW, Mondays, 8 pm, CW, Tuesdays, 8 pm) & r & & r & & lt;span class= & quot;dropcap & quot; & I & lt;/span & t's easy to lump Gossip Girl, last year's hot-as-hell teen drama, in with 90210, this year's (and also 1990's) hot-as-hell
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Mercy or Murder?
But w
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Use the Good China
The Dining Room, by A.R.
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Fresh & amp;amp; Tasty
CASUAL Endless Summer & r & & r & & lt;span class= & quot;dropcap & quot; & D & lt;/span & ecorated in Tiki fashion with bright oranges, yellows and blues, a huge mural of surfboard dudes in silhouette, seashells and netting in the walls, THE MONTEREY CAF & Eacute; is "a fun escape from your off
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All Roads West
by NICHOLAS DESHAIS & r & & r & & lt;span class= & quot;dropcap & quot; & I & lt;/span & f Tim Eyman gets his way this November, the non-existent car pool lanes on Inland Northwest highways will be opened to all vehicles and the already-synchronized signals on Spokane's busiest roads wi
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Bomb Garden
by LUKE BAUMGARTEN & r & & r & On Size Mattering & r & & r & I should have planned things out a little better. I guess I just assumed I'd be able to find something to do in Charlotte, North Carolina. I was there for a day, on vacation between two places I really wa
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Volume Turned Low
"Cyrus Fell Down's going to be playing at a bookstore?" "How did they manage to get the permits for that?" "Won't it destroy that entire 2
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Rotten Crumbs
by TED S. McGREGOR JR. & r & & r & & lt;span class= & quot;dropcap & quot; & I & lt;/span & n times like these, Wall Street seems aptly named, as there has always been an opaque division between those few on the inside who pull the arcane levers of high finance and the rest of us. The a
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Sound Advice
Thursday, 9/25 Caterina, Kristen Marlo, Dave Hannon, Dane Ueland Connie's Lounge (208-255-2227), Mac Loyd Di Luna's, Bearfoot Empyrean, Kaylee Cole, Karen Finnyfrock
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Guns For Hire
by JACOB H. FRIES & r & & r & & lt;span class= & quot;dropcap & quot; & U & lt;/span & ntil March 31, 2004, when four men were ambushed, dragged through the streets of Fallujah and set on fire, Jeremy Scahill hadn't even heard of Blackwater. He watched the grisly news footage. "I rememb
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CD Reviews
NE-YO & r & & r & Year of the Gentleman & r & & r & 3-1/2 STARS & r & & r & & lt;span class= & quot;dropcap & quot; & N & lt;/span & e-Yo and Usher have this R & amp;B thing figured out: Chiseled, hard bodies? Check. Lyrics dedicated to adulation of the opposite sex? Check. Lyrics dedicated to sex? Che
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Feed Your Head
The words of Gandhi are still profound some 60 years after he uttered them: "To forget how to dig the earth and tend the soil is to forget ourselves."
Music & Film
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Not Rudderless
Turns out yours truly was watching the snowboarding flick Technica
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Racism Buffaloed
by ED SYMKUS & r & & r & & lt;span class= & quot;dropcap & quot; & A & lt;/span & fter the box office success of Spike Lee's Inside Man a couple of years ago, someone -- I'd guess it was a producer -- must've pulled the director aside and said, "Spike, this was your first real mainstream