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Doug Clark: It’s been one heckuva ride

Thu., Aug. 17, 2017

You’re reading my final column for The Spokesman-Review.

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Doug Clark: Pinball champ learned to play in Spokane

Sun., July 30, 2017

Raymond Davidson won the world pinball championship this summer in Denmark.

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Doug Clark: Farewell to Pat Stiley – a true Spokane original

UPDATED: Wed., July 26, 2017

Spokane attorney Pat Stiley was an original, and it pains me to report that this character I was proud to call a friend is gone.

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Doug Clark: Art Spirit Gallery has old-soul curator in 20-year-old Mason Miles

Tue., July 25, 2017

The 20th anniversary exhibition at Coeur d’Alene’s Art Spirit Gallery features the many exquisite pieces of art you’d expect, but also two surprises.

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Doug Clark: A friendly hello from your new Canadian overlords

Sun., July 23, 2017

Greetings, Yankee ratepayers! Welcome to our first installment of Ask Hydro One, formerly known as Ask Avista.

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Doug Clark: Time in jail may be good thing for wannabe politicians

Thu., July 20, 2017

So two out of the four candidates running for a Spokane Valley City Council seat have reportedly spent time in jail.

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Doug Clark: MacKay Manufacturing a well-kept Spokane secret

UPDATED: Mon., July 17, 2017

Today’s tale proves you don’t always know as much as you think you know about the place where you grew up.

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Doug Clark: A Reuben to end all Reubens

Sun., July 16, 2017

When you mouth off for a living, you occasionally must eat your words.

News >  Spokane

Doug Clark’s SATs will grade your summertime attitude

UPDATED: Thu., July 13, 2017

Is your summer turning out to be a “Wonder Woman” box office blowout? As any decent AA sponsor will tell you, the first step on the road to healing is to realize that there IS a problem. Then you can move forward and start blaming everyone else.

News >  Spokane

Clarksville: Frank the fearless bunny

Tue., July 4, 2017

Submitted for your befuddlement, a hare-raising tale about a confused critter named Frank.

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Doug Clark: Col. Wallace returns to namesake as a 1-ton tombstone

Thu., June 29, 2017

Col. William Ross Wallace was welcomed formally back into the North Idaho town he founded amid cannon blasts, flag waving, ballyhoo and one of the greatest parades ever.

News >  Spokane

Clarksville: Marycliff Class of ’47 celebrates with great memories

Tue., June 27, 2017

At the Marycliff 70th class reunion, graduates don’t speak of their big year in global events. They talk about the no-nonsense nuns who taught them and of 1947 Spokane being an opportunity-filled wonderland.

News >  Spokane

Clark: Spokane’s second day of summer was the perfect time to Tango

Sun., June 25, 2017

They say it takes two to tango. But Wednesday – the second day of summer – I swear I counted at least 10 adults who were dancing tango in the middle of the South Hill streets of Spokane.

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Doug Clark: With a crescendo and finale, Spokane Street Music Week draws to a close

Sun., June 18, 2017

The 15th annual Street Music Week reached its finale at 1 p.m. Friday amid intermittent rain and steady generosity.

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Doug Clark: Psychedelic flashbacks, bucket thieves on camera and other highlights from Street Music Week

Thu., June 15, 2017

The future of Street Music Week tracked me down Wednesday inside the Red Robin restaurant. I was grabbing a late lunch when he stuck one of our red collection buckets under my nose.

News >  Spokane

Clark: Thief can’t put a damper on Street Music Week

Mon., June 12, 2017

The 15th annual Street Music Week kicked off Monday in downtown Spokane with warm weather, cool jazz and a felonious punk.

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Doug Clark: Street Music Week kicks off on Monday

Sun., June 11, 2017

A 50-year-old, black-and-white video on YouTube. That’s what started it all.

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Doug Clark: From boat cars to car desks, Spokane’s Tim Lorentz keeps turning heads

Fri., June 9, 2017

Tim Lorentz, who motors his boat car around Spokane, has now fashioned a desk out of a 1969 Lincoln Continental.

News >  Spokane

Clarksville: Arden Gang allows visitor to experience time warp

Tue., June 6, 2017

Once upon a simpler time, before cell phones and on-demand TV and all-things internet destroyed humanity as we know it, Americans would find their entertainment in low-tech venues.

News >  Spokane

Clark: Hillyard’s weekend of old-school boxing entertainment will be lights out

Fri., June 2, 2017

Great news from Hillyard. None of the punches thrown this weekend will be barroom, sidewalk or angry neighbor related.

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Doug Clark: Online education program lets a cowgirl be a cowgirl

UPDATED: Tue., May 30, 2017

This tale is as much about the modern cyber age we live in. Because of that, public school can be tailor-made for even online cowgirls like Evelyn Picking.

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Doug Clark: The force returned to Spokane’s Michael Runyan last week

UPDATED: Sun., May 28, 2017

“May the Force Be With You.” Michael Runyan stared and puzzled over those six words that have now become as recognizable as the Pledge of Allegiance.

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Doug Clark: Nesting hummingbird is a tiny terror threatening summer bliss

Thu., May 25, 2017

Going up against a nesting hummingbird is a dangerous ordeal.

News >  Spokane

Clarksville: Spokane’s Madison Kerr rowing for national college championship

Tue., May 23, 2017

Spokane’s Madison Kerr is part of the Western Washington University rowing team eyeing an 8th national championship

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Doug Clark: Tune up your fiddles and polish your flutes, because Street Music Week is around the corner.

Sat., May 20, 2017

It’s just three weeks away from Spokane’s 15th annual Street Music Week. The annual event always takes place during the noon hours of Monday through Friday.