Sep 27 - Oct 3, 2012

Vol. 19, No. 50

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Local News

'Socialist' vs. 'Law Breaker'

The campaign to unseat Matt Shea gets both political and personal

By Daniel Walters
Sep 26, 2012
Local News

Fired Up About Coal

Spokane gets to weigh in on coal shipments; plus, money for the skatepark but not homeless men

By Joe O'Sullivan
Sep 26, 2012
Local News

379 Days

Why Karl Thompson remains out of prison and defended with public money

By Heidi Groover
Sep 26, 2012
Columns & Letters

Trail Mix - 9.27.12

By Ted S. McGregor Jr.
Sep 25, 2012
Columns & Letters

Stop the Luna-cy

In November, vote to let Idaho’s teachers do their jobs

By Mary Lou Reed
Sep 25, 2012

Arts & Culture

For Your Consideration - 9.27.12

By Chey Scott
Sep 25, 2012
Arts & Culture

The End of the Hunt

For three generations, Walters men hunted. Then I came along

By Daniel Walters
Sep 25, 2012
Arts & Culture

The Great TV Turn-On — FOX

By Daniel Walters
Sep 25, 2012
Arts & Culture

The Great TV Turn-On — NBC

By Mike Bookey
Sep 25, 2012
Arts & Culture

Wags, Widows and WWII

It’s not easy to turn bad taste into good humor, but the Civic pulls it off with The Producers

By E.J. Iannelli
Sep 25, 2012
Arts & Culture

The Great TV Turn-On — The Manly Channels

By Leah Sottile
Sep 26, 2012
Arts & Culture

Streams of Consciousness

At Bedtime Stories, four literary heavyweights write stories based on a single prompt; things get weird

By Luke Baumgarten
Sep 25, 2012
Arts & Culture

The Great TV Turn-On — ABC

By Daniel Walters
Sep 25, 2012
Arts & Culture

The Great TV Turn-On — Premium

By Luke Baumgarten
Sep 26, 2012
Arts & Culture

Changing of the Guard

By E.J. Iannelli
Sep 25, 2012
Arts & Culture

The Great TV Turn-On — CBS

By Ashley Graham
Sep 25, 2012
Arts & Culture

The Great TV Turn-On — "Educational" TV

By Chey Scott
Sep 26, 2012
Arts & Culture

CAT FRIDAY: Meet Tardar Sauce, a perpetually grumpy cat

By Chey Scott
Sep 28, 2012

Food News

Pass the Pumpkin

Once a dietary staple for Americans, pumpkin has become a seasonal novelty whose popularity continues to rise

By Chey Scott
Sep 25, 2012
Food News

A Mighty Roll

The Original Phat Truck turns gourmet burgers and fries into a mobile meal

By Annemarie C. Frohnhoefer
Sep 25, 2012
Food News

A New Original

After closing, the Viking Bar returns with new ownership, but the same sea of beer

By Alicia Purvis-Lariviere
Sep 25, 2012
Food News

UPDATE — Rock City Grill

By Mike Bookey
Sep 25, 2012

Movie Reviews

It’s (Not) About Time

The mechanics of time travel aren’t really the point of the dazzling Looper

By Scott Renshaw
Sep 25, 2012
Movie Reviews

Real Life Radio

Sleepwalk With Me was an NPR piece before Mike Birbiglia took it to the big screen

By Kimberley Jones
Sep 25, 2012

Music News

Coming Clean

There’s something we have to get off our chests

By Leah Sottile, Jordan Satterfield and Austin Mell
Sep 25, 2012
Music News

Serious-Punk-Man

The Minutemen’s Mike Watt makes a punk rock opera to look inside himself

By Seth Sommerfeld
Sep 25, 2012