Instead of opening on Friday, Oct. 19, the downtown skating rink is to begin its season on Friday, Oct. 26. The ice is artificially chilled, but the Ice Palace is an open-air facility and the ice-makers need cooler weather to do their thing.
Just wondering. If not hell, perhaps they wind up in a place where they have to answer questions about the propriety and logic of blowing debris onto a public thoroughfare or someone else's property.
Facing a formidable challenge this weekend? You might want to play this before hurling yourself into the fray. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-yZNMWFqvM
Are those supposed to be contrails? The whitest skies you've ever seen are in, uh, Spokane. www.tumblr.com Bend and Peel could be a band name.
The Inland Northwest's foundational occupations have always been dangerous. Farming, mining and lumbering are jobs that involve risk. So I wonder how many extended families around here can point to at least one relative who has been seriously injured on the job.
I do not know the answer. I just have a theory. It starts with recognition that cooler temperatures will soon have many people spending more time indoors. And then there's the indisputable truth that the smell of pies, cookies and breads baking gives people a…
You know how Lucy would yank the football away and Charlie Brown would go flying? Did that make sense to you? No, not the part about the blockhead falling for it every autumn. I'm referring to the depiction of what happens to Charlie Brown after…
Check out the big boys on display at 37th and Arthur on Spokane's South Hill.
Was talking with a newsroom colleague about how much we both like broadcaster Kristi Gorenson. In addition to being on TV and radio in Spokane for a long time, she did a stint at the SR when the newspaper dabbled in radio a few years…
Today, of course, is the real Columbus Day. I don't think there is a Las Vegas line, but you have to guess both versions are living on borrowed time in terms of enjoying any sort of holiday status. But while we're on the subject, here's…
It's easy to understand why TV programs of long ago didn't depict gritty reality when it came to features on animals. The sponsors back then would not have been thrilled with the thought of millions of American kids being traumatized by devastating reports on wildlife…
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