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The Slice archive for Oct. 16, 2014

THURSDAY, OCT. 16, 2014



Nirvana's 1994 Spokane set list 

http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/nirvana/1994/spokane-coliseum-spokane-wa-43d6037b.html Here are a few notes about that show. http://www.nirvanaguide.com/1994.php http://sweetsuitewritings.blogspot.com/2012/12/nirvanas-concert-in-spokane-wa-jan-6.html And here are some Dan Pelle photos of that show and many others. http://www.spokesman.com/picture-stories/music-legends/#445

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Charting Spokane's four seasons 

I can't prove it. But I suspect that if you asked Spokane area residents to express the relative lengths of our four seasons as a pie chart or whatever, the results would vary wildly. To hear some people talk, you would think Spokane's winters are…

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Today's baseball card

Sometimes space limitations contribute to prose that lacks a certain elegance. But that last sentence on Juan's back-of-the-card write up is remarkable in its own way. http://1970topps.blogspot.com

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Blinded me with you know what

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/fear-ebola-outbreak-make-nation-turn-science?utm_source=tny&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=borowitz&mbid=nl_141016_Borowitz&CUST_ID=25055572&spMailingID=7208458&spUserID=MzA3MDY4NTEwNzcS1&spJobID=541761736&spReportId=NTQxNzYxNzM2S0

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Ice Palace opening delayed

The new target date for opening is Oct. 29. The folks at Riverfront Park had planned to start the ice rink's season on Oct. 22. But it has been too warm to establish a decent sheet of ice at the open air facility.

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Downtown Spokane at 5:33 a.m.

I'm headed west on Sprague, riding my bike toward the back entrance to the Review Tower. A guy in a hoodie calls out to me in the dark. But his speech is so slurred it takes me half a block to figure out what he…

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