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- Issue of
- Apr 22-28, 2010
- Vol. 17, No. 28
News & Comment
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- News
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Flags for His Brothers
An Idaho man plans an epic journey to honor soldiers killed in Iraq
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- News
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Q&A: Rachael Pascal Osborn
The water lawyer on aquifers and the effects of the Clean Water Act
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- News
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Q&A: Rose Dempsey
The Valley councilwoman on clean water, clean air and a clean Kellogg.
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- News
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Beck's Call
Whitworth’s new president says he’ll be, well, a lot like the old president
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- News
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Q&A: Steve Faust
The Main Market man on trails, Kendall Yards and the YMCA
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- News
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Expo '74 and Earth Day
Some celebrations pay lip service, but Expo ’74 embodied green goals
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- News
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Brian, Meet Sediba
In South Africa, a mother and her child fell into a sinkhole and died. Two million years later, a WSU grad found their bones
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- News
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Q&A: Sam Mace
The salmon-watcher on dams and free-flowing rivers
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- News
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Chair Force
Spokane Arena considers the costs and benefits of adding more seats
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- News
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Dino, Duncan and a Bunch of Cobras
Rumors of Dino Rossi’s return; plus, news from the snake world
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- News
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Q&A: Amber Waldref
Spokane's youngest City Council member on sustainability and looking for LEED
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- Comment
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Too Bad, Boise
Conan O'Brien graced Spokane last week. Guess where he didn't go.
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- Comment
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Portrait in Mediocrity
Why does Idaho keep ignoring kids?
Culture & Food
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- Arts & Culture
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The Operator is Snorting
Lily Tomlin thinks Alan Greenspan looks like a Shar Pei. And Meryl Streep can kiss her ass.
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- Arts & Culture
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Left at the Baghdad Zoo
A Spokane writer has turned a soldier’s rescue efforts into children’s nonfiction.
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- Arts & Culture
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Smart But Unkind
“Eleemosynary”? It means “being charitable” — and the women in this play could do with more of that.
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- Arts & Culture
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'Shell Games,' Craig Welch
Puget Sound, 3 am: Law enforcement does surveillance on smugglers. And the contraband? Clams.
Music & Film
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- Music
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No Country for This Man
Cowboy artist Wylie Gustafson likes brands, but not labels
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- Music
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Musicology
Shearwater isn’t even clear on how or why they make the music they make
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- Music
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'Under Great White Northern Lights," The White Stripes
Entering their second decade as rock’s great white hope, the White Stripes again raised a giant middle finger to the world with Under Great White Northern Lights. It’s a live album. Record
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- Music
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True Life Story
Holly Golightly lives a fantasy life — just like her namesake
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- Music
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'Geneva,' Russian Circles
Thinkers. Musers. Dreamers and brooders. This is who will enjoy the third full-length record by Russian Circles, an instrumental album full of epic rises and torrential falls. What I like most about i
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- Film
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River Monsters
On a goose chase to uncover the biggest, most bizarre mysteries lurking beneath freshwater.
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- Film
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District 9
Behind the scenes in Neill Blomkamp's beautiful alien world
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- Film
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Major League Baseball 2K10
My first mistake was deciding to play as a catcher. The “My Player” feature, which joins Major League Baseball 2K10 in addition to its basic “play ball” mode, allows me to deve
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- Film
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Layer Cake
This thriller keeps piling on nuance in a tale of the best way to serve up justice.