Feb 23-29, 2012

Vol. 19, No. 19

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Local News

Come and Get It

There is $32 million of unclaimed property in Spokane County. Is any of it yours?

By Joe O'Sullivan
Feb 22, 2012
Local News

Return of Paul

Four years ago, Ron Paul won Spokane County's Republican caucus. He's hoping for a repeat.

By Daniel Walters
Feb 22, 2012
Local News

Big-Screen Beer

A bill in Olympia could allow you to drink at the Garland. If the theater can afford it.

By Nicholas Deshais
Feb 22, 2012
Local News

Bus Oddities

Wheelchair crashes, collapsing drunks, head-sniffers and other aberrations on Spokane's bus system.

By Chris Stein
Feb 22, 2012
Local News

Q&A with Darren McCrea

The pot activist explains his new University of Spokamsterdam.

By Nicholas Deshais
Feb 22, 2012
Local News

Tragedy on the Slopes

Death on the mountain, a booming Internet town and animal welfare.

By Chris Stein, Heidi Groover and Lauren Miller
Feb 22, 2012
Columns & Letters

Trail Mix

The return of the culture wars.

By Ted S. McGregor Jr.
Feb 22, 2012
Columns & Letters

Sticky Note Slaughter

The Idaho State Senate chose to hide in the Dark Ages when it failed to protect Idahoans’ civil rights.

By Mary Lou Reed
Feb 22, 2012

Arts & Culture

Hillyard

Where you can move away, but you can never leave.

By Chris Stein
Feb 22, 2012
Arts & Culture

Downtown Spokane (East)

Drinking, diving and getting inked in the heart of downtown.

By Alicia Purvis-Lariviere
Feb 22, 2012
Arts & Culture

Wallace

Drink with the miners in one of the Panhandle's greatest small towns.

By Joel Smith
Feb 22, 2012
Arts & Culture

Sizing Things Up

Lake City Playhouse hits a deliberately lighter note with Epic Proportions.

By E.J. Iannelli
Feb 22, 2012
Arts & Culture

Moscow/Pullman

Where the young meet the old meet the college students.

By Tiffany Harms
Feb 22, 2012
Arts & Culture

Spokane Valley

Through the haze of sprawl, there are some diamonds in the Valley.

By Leah Sottile
Feb 22, 2012
Arts & Culture

Celestial Wonders

Spokane Falls hopes to blow some minds when it unveils its planetarium to the public.

By Mike Bookey
Feb 22, 2012
Arts & Culture

Cheney

Where Eagles go to spread their wings.

By Azaria Podplesky
Feb 22, 2012
Arts & Culture

The Perry District

A tiny-sized village in a medium-sized city.

By Daniel Walters
Feb 22, 2012
Arts & Culture

The Garland District

Where the hip and working-class hang out. Separately, a block apart.

By Nicholas Deshais
Feb 22, 2012
Arts & Culture

For Your Consideration

A new biography of Ernest Hemingway. Plus, Oscar madness on AMC and Bach on old instruments.

By Ted S. McGregor Jr.
Feb 22, 2012
Arts & Culture

Coeur d’Alene

A madhouse in the summer, right now it's all townies.

By Luke Baumgarten
Feb 22, 2012
Arts & Culture

Downtown Spokane (West)

Where the city's elite, drunks and hipsters find refuge.

By Jordy Byrd
Feb 22, 2012
Arts & Culture

Life In Transition

Philip Porter’s journey there and back.

By Jordy Byrd
Feb 23, 2012
Arts & Culture

East Central

A trip into Spokane's old-school industrial district.

By Joe O'Sullivan
Feb 22, 2012
Arts & Culture

Redneck Fascist Hipster Pinkos

Two local artists ponder election-year discourse, and beat each other up in the process

By Leah Sottile
Feb 22, 2012
Arts & Culture

North Division Street

Go straight, stop at the neon signs.

By Mike Bookey
Feb 22, 2012

Food News

A Thumbs-Up

Husband-and-wife duo's Ding How keeps Asian food in Liberty Lake.

By Kyler Hood
Feb 22, 2012
Food News

Spicy in Idaho

Salsa is making an unlikely surge in the Panhandle.

By Carrie Scozzaro
Feb 22, 2012
Food News

Bigger, Sweeter

Success is no surprise for Chocolate Myracles.

By Kirsten Harrington
Feb 22, 2012

Movie Reviews

This Bird Has Flown

Adapting Murakami isn't for the faint of heart, but it has a way of lifting the soul.

By Luke Baumgarten
Feb 22, 2012
Movie Reviews

Just Screwy

More than unhinged, Soderbergh’s action flick makes no sense.

By Ed Symkus
Feb 22, 2012

Music News

How to Save a Band

All it took was a little help from the Muppets to save the Fray.

By Alan Sculley
Feb 22, 2012
Music News

Stories from the City

Why the Perennials are ditching the Northwest for New York.

By Leah Sottile
Feb 22, 2012