May 10-16, 2012

Vol. 19, No. 30

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Local News

Moving Targets

The battle to educate kids who bounce from school to school.

By Daniel Walters
May 9, 2012
Local News

Abortion Crusaders

Can a Chattaroy couple really overturn Roe v. Wade?

By Chris Stein
May 9, 2012
Local News

Taking Issue

Citizens try to reverse changes to the citizen initiative process. Plus, a dropout warning system.

By Joe O'Sullivan
May 9, 2012
Local News

Jail Bait

Three GOP candidates, one crowded jail. What to do?

By Joe O'Sullivan
May 9, 2012
Local News

Wide Open

Can Democrats live up to Sen. Lisa Brown’s legacy?

By Joe O'Sullivan
May 9, 2012
Columns & Letters

Rehab Candidate

America's fallen and it won't get up without enacting five surgical reforms.

By George Nethercutt
May 9, 2012
Columns & Letters

Trail Mix

Lisa Brown's departure has created a political domino effect

By Ted S. McGregor Jr.
May 9, 2012

Arts & Culture

Western Gothic

In Lonesome Animals, his debut novel, local schoolteacher and writer Bruce Holbert exposes the destructive power of the Western myth.

By E.J. Iannelli
May 9, 2012
Arts & Culture

The Last of the Merchants

Five small businesses that just won't quit

By Chris Stein
May 9, 2012
Arts & Culture

Summer Camps 2012 (3 of 4)

Camps for music, theater, dance/cheer, basketball, softball, baseball, football, and soccer.

By Jordy Byrd
May 9, 2012
Arts & Culture

Inside the Female Mind

What Girls gets right about women, and what it doesn't.

By Leah Sottile
May 9, 2012
Arts & Culture

Life During Wartime

Although landlocked, Spokane was a major port during World War II.

By Annie Szotkowski
May 9, 2012
Arts & Culture

Summer Camps 2012 (4 of 4)

Camps for volleyball, gymnastic, tennis, swimming and other sports

May 9, 2012
Arts & Culture

For Your Consideration

Test your looks with the Ugly Meter. Plus, new work by Mars Volta and an investigation of chaos in Congo.

By Chris Stein
May 9, 2012
Arts & Culture

Summer Camps 2012 (1 of 4)

Residential camps and day camps.

May 9, 2012
Arts & Culture

Creative Competition

Musicfest Northwest brings young artists out of the practice room, into the spotlight.

By Mike Bookey
May 9, 2012
Arts & Culture

Summer Camps 2012 (2 of 4)

Special-needs, education and creative arts camps

May 9, 2012

Food News

Higher Calling

Being a vegetarian is in now, but Seventh-day Adventists have been meat-free for 100 years.

By Leah Sottile
May 9, 2012
Food News

Inspired Cuisine

Clover brings home-crafted food and drinks to the Gonzaga neighborhood.

By Kirsten Harrington
May 9, 2012
Food News

Update: Dolly's Cafe

A cozy neighborhood diner that keeps on keeping on

By Alicia Purvis-Lariviere
May 9, 2012

Movie Reviews

Diary of a Slammer

Inside the creation of a film for the 50 Hour Slam

By Aaron Fink
May 9, 2012
Movie Reviews

Vampire Revisited

Depp and Burton team up to breathe life into a long-forgotten soap opera in Dark Shadows.

By Ed Symkus
May 9, 2012

Music News

Still Screaming After All These Years

A decade (or so) later, Black Dahlia Murder still wants to bro down.

By Kevin Stewart-Panko
May 9, 2012
Music News

Glory Days

Social Distortion and the Toadies evoke the mood of a different, easier time.

By Leah Sottile and Kevin Stewart-Panko
May 9, 2012