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- Issue of
- Oct 15-21, 2009
- Vol. 17, No. 1
News & Comment
- News
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Gone to Pot
Sitting in his office on Monday morning, John Grasso suddenly heard his name hollered over a megaphone outside his window. He shifted uncomfortably in his chair.
- News
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The Last Crusaders
For some, “Crusader” has become a dirty word. When former President George W. Bush called his War on Terror a “crusade,” his aides scrambled to reframe his words. Pope John Paul II apologized — twice — for the misdeeds of the Crusades endorsed by the popes of yesteryear.
- News
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The King and the Rocket
It was touch-and-go at about Mile 16. We were in a swarm of cyclists whizzing past Downriver Golf Course, halfway between the second rest stop at Bowl and Pitcher and the grueling climb up Doomsday Hill.
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- Comment
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Before Its Time
Pondering the future over an oyster and a bottle of wine
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JOE WILSON, SERENA AND KANYE KICK OFF OUTBURST WEEK
Rep Joe Wilson (R-SC), tennis legend Serena Williams and recording artist Kanye West held a press conference in Washington, D.C. earlier this week to kick off the first annual National Outburst Week.
Culture & Food
- Arts & Culture
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Whitopia, Idaho
A new book making national headlines shines a light on white boomtowns -- including Coeur d'Alene.
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- Arts & Culture
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Drawing as Ritual
Peter Cox is an alchemist. He doesn't just draw or paint; he conjures figures out of paper and canvas. Cox has such mastery of technique that whatever he's creating - from a simple figure study for a torso to the nearly 7-foot tall "Atalou," with its androgynous, masked warrior figure - you can easily forget you're looking at a two-dimensional image.
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- Arts & Culture
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"Dissection," John Harley Warner and James M. Edmonson
Not for the faint of heart, but a fascinating look at our grisly medical history
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- Arts & Culture
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Writer’s on Fire
He did a Joseph Conrad; now he’s done an Elmore Leonard. Denis Johnson — the North Idaho author who will appear Tuesday night at Gonzaga — has followed up his Big Important Vietnam Novel of two years ago (Tree of Smoke, 700 long pages, geographically and chronologically sprawling, National Book Award winner and Pulitzer finalist) with this year’s crime-genre caper
- Arts & Culture
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The Deep End
How a new way of swimming is helping me get my chi back.
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- Arts & Culture
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Inlander picks
Tour des Lacs • March 19-20 (preliminary rounds); leaves at 6:30 am or 7:30 am (depending on route) • Spokane Red Lion River Inn • 700 N. Division • Price: $86 (without cruise), $109 (with cruise), adults; $35 (without cruise), $55 (with cruise), kids • Visit: roundandround.
- Arts & Culture
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Practical Jokes
On the eve of his biggest performance ever, Dan Cummins has learned nothing so much as this: It's complicated being funny.
- Food & Drink
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FRESH&TASTY
The Top Notch first opened in 1931 on the corner of Monroe and Mallon, and original art deco touches remain in the renovated space. “Daily people come in with stories from the past,” new owner Don Torbenson says with a grin, “and I just found out that the grandfather of one of our servers used to wash dishes here.
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- Food & Drink
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East Meets West
For flavors of the east, head west — just a few miles west, to the international restaurant row in Airway Heights
Music & Film
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- Music
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Breaking Through
Though the title of Colbie Caillat’s sophomore album, Breakthrough, has nothing to do with how her career took off, the word literally defines her path to fame.
- Music
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Electric Mayhem
Husband-and-wife duo Jucifer are no Sonny and Cher — they’re nomadic metal barbarians who’ll pillage your feeble eardrums
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- Film
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Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box
A whimsical story and a slew of straightforward puzzles collide in the form of the Professor Layton’s Diabolical mystery.
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- Film
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And Now for Something Completely Different
A director and star known for eluding typecasting break the mold once again
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- Film
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Special Sauce
With its roofs made of pancakes and forts made of Jell-O, here’s an adaptation of a children’s book that will appeal to both kids and adults
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- Film
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Melrose Place
Fifty-four minutes I'll never get back