Jan 12-18, 2012

Vol. 19, No. 13

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Local News

Gerrymandered?

Democrats say a rising star was taken out by GOP mapmaking.

By Nicholas Deshais
Jan 11, 2012
Local News

PACs Are the Taliban

Roskelley takes on Mielke. Plus, a building crisis, a Supreme Court smackdown and the quest to end corporate statehood.

By Inlander Staff
Jan 11, 2012
Local News

March On

How the bomb that didn’t go off changed the Martin Luther King Jr. Day Unity March.

By Chris Stein
Jan 11, 2012
Local News

Marriage Proposal

Washington's governor says the state should recognize same-sex marriage

By Daniel Walters
Jan 11, 2012
Columns & Letters

Wild Ride Coming Up

Our president has no platform to run on. Get ready to watch him attack his Republican challengers.

By George Nethercutt
Jan 11, 2012
Columns & Letters

Trail Mix

The problem with this election is that the candidates aren't funny.

By Ted S. McGregor Jr.
Jan 11, 2012
Columns & Letters

Forever Man

How we'll live longer, and why this may not be good for us.

By Nicholas Deshais
Jan 11, 2012

Arts & Culture

Playing It Unsafe

How local controversy over Rent sold tickets and reinforced a community theater's sense of purpose.

By E.J. Iannelli
Jan 11, 2012
Arts & Culture

For Your Consideration

New work from Jonathan Lethem. Plus, an election app from the New York Times and the source of much Internet madness.

By Nicholas Deshais
Jan 11, 2012
Arts & Culture

Jerk-istotle

Dan Cummins and the morality of being an ass.

By Luke Baumgarten
Jan 11, 2012
Arts & Culture

Surviving is One Part Of it

Their father started with nothing; Bill and Bevan Maxey started with considerably more. The rest is a story of modern America.

By Luke Baumgarten
Jan 11, 2012
Arts & Culture

Art Tease

Students and faculty reveal a little about themselves and each other in a new SFCC exhibition.

By Carrie Scozzaro
Jan 11, 2012

Food News

Heady Start

Washington State University is helping to produce a new crop of state winemakers.

By Carrie Scozzaro
Jan 11, 2012
Food News

Change is Good

Home cooking in Post Falls. Plus, the ever-rotating menu of Moscow's Gnosh.

By Tiffany Harms and Carrie Scozzaro
Jan 11, 2012

Movie Reviews

Work It

Misogyny, thy name is cross-dressing buddy comedy.

By Lisa Fairbanks-Rossi
Jan 11, 2012
Movie Reviews

Harvest Moon: The Tale of Two Towns

Alpacas and horses and cows - oh my.

By Marty Demarest
Jan 11, 2012
Movie Reviews

All to Pieces

A crippled soldier struggles to find himself away from the battlefield.

By Luke Baumgarten
Jan 11, 2012
Movie Reviews

Murky Business

A spy plot so twisted that solving the mystery is a mystery.

By Ed Symkus
Jan 11, 2012

Music News

In For the Long Haul

Despite quite a few setbacks, Aiden has managed to keep their dream alive.

By Azaria Podplesky
Jan 11, 2012
Music News

Winning. Everytime.

Why Vince Neil is the frontman we secretly crave.

By Seth Sommerfeld
Jan 11, 2012

Snowlander

Snow Globetrotting

Sagle's Scott Snow is young, fast and completely in control.

By Jen Forsyth
Jan 11, 2012
Snowlander

Grabbing Life by the Snowballs

A group of Idahoans play the game of summer in the dead of winter.

By Joseph Haeger
Jan 11, 2012
Snowlander

The Tao of Tuning

What kind of skier are you: a binding popper, tip banger or rusty numbskull?

By Tommy LeTourneau
Jan 11, 2012
Snowlander

To Race by Dog

In Priest Lake, men and dogs revel in speed and the silence of winter forests.

By Joe O'Sullivan
Jan 11, 2012
Snowlander

La Niña Blues

Local resorts are still clinging to the snow dump from back in November.

By Ted S. McGregor Jr.
Jan 11, 2012
Snowlander

Pure Canada

Dudley Do-Right would love to ski Lake Louise in the Canadian Rockies

By Bob Legasa and Ted S. McGregor Jr.
Jan 11, 2012
Snowlander

Taking Aim on Skis

In search of an unconventional sport of speed and precision.

By Scott A. Leadingham
Jan 11, 2012