While it’d normally be a bummer to work on Labor Day, there are worse things than playing a bunch of new creations at the Pacific Northwest’s premier gaming convention: PAX

When people hear the word “jazz,” many automatically (and somewhat incorrectly) think of freeform music where instrumentalists cast aside structure to indulge in their personal creative whims at any g...

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Each year around this time, leaves start losing their verdant color and turning shades of yellow and orange.

On Oct. 26, 2003, KYRS Thin Air Community Radio sent out its first broadcast.

Artists have looked to nature for inspiration throughout human history, resulting in a rich visual record of landscape artwork — forests, desert, mountains, plains, waterways — plus the inhabitants of those environments. Yet nature has done more than inspire artists; it has informed and shaped human thought and action. Nature as evidence of the divine, as a reflection of identity, as a symbol of psychological state, as something to be exploited, nurtured, feared, worshipped, protected.

When fires tore through Spokane on Aug. 1, Spokane Mayor Lisa Brown immediately asked her staff how they could set up a fund to help people.

As soon as the Spokane Complex fires started to get bad, volunteers with the Humane Evacuation Animal Rescue Team, or HEART, sprang into action to move animals affected by the

Every year, Inland Northwesterners generously share their time, spirit and money with hundreds of nonprofit organizations, which in turn support community members in need.

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On Thursday, Aug. 27, leaders from the Innovia Foundation, Spokane Public Schools, Greenstone Corporation and others gathered at Balboa Elementary School to announce a major new grant program for…

Healing isn’t always pretty. Sometimes it’s messy and complicated. And according to Jonathan Van Ness, sometimes it involves a sequined mini dress, a lot of body oil and making fun

It doesn’t take much scouring on the internet to find loads of unofficial fan-made sequels to iconic pop culture, be it spec scripts, YouTube projects, modded video games or NSFW fanfiction. It’s natural to want even more from the entertainment properties we adore, even if it’s a little bit silly.

What does a group of shoe salesmen secretly selling feet pics online, the case of a man accused of fondling pumpkins at Green Bluff, and a laughing gas-filled Hastings Entertainment

When Coeur d’Alene’s The Art Spirit Gallery closed its doors in February, North Idaho’s art community knew there would be some big shoes to fill in its absence.

Two weeks after the Spokane Complex fires, many people were still stopping by the remains of their burned down homes — to check for valuables, to gather a few surviving possessions, to process their grief. Others were checking on homes that are still standing but damaged by smoke, ash and heat.

Back in June, popstar Olivia Rodrigo went on the radio show KISS Breakfast and dropped the following unnerving factoid about some of her fans.

As will be remembered in the Spokane history books, on Sat. Aug. 1, around noon, a fire broke out in the West Plains between Airway Heights and Riverside State Park.

If a boat that disappeared under mysterious circumstances suddenly reappears just as mysteriously three decades later, the smart move is probably not to immediately gather a crew and send it back out to sea.

Classic corn dogs have a core place in many American memories, but the Korean version of the deep-fried dish takes it to another level. Swapping traditional cornmeal breading for a

“Add one more tiny thing, and I’ll accept,” 16-year-old Addyson Kitchens says.

On the Aug. 4 primary ballot, voters within the Spokane Transit Authority service area will determine whether STA can renew a 0.2% sales tax that was approved by voters in

Voters in Washington’s 6th Legislative District — which covers Airway Heights, Medical Lake, Four Lakes, Nine Mile Falls, Indian Trail, Five Mile Prairie, parts of north and northeast Spokane and

Nowadays, one of the most common questions Salish School of Spokane founder LaRae Wiley hears while speaking Salish with her grandchildren on the streets of Spokane is surprisingly simple:

On many summer afternoons, if you look closely enough, you’ll find plenty of Inland Northwest households waging a quiet war against the scorching sun. Sprinkler heads pop up, sounding off

“I do it to have a roof over my head. To have a place to sleep. To have something to eat.”

Everyone loves a mystery, and the July 22 release of an unusual adult beverage called bierschnapps by Dry Fly Distilling would not be happening were not a mystery investigated and

Even just describing the basic concept behind the new indie game Denshattack! can feel like a grab bag of millennial gaming memories. A vibrant visual aesthetic that harks back to

Don’t listen to the haters — it doesn’t always suck to suck. In fact, when it comes to cheap eats, some of our favorite thrifty menu items are best enjoyed

It’s not just about the glass bottles of cannabis-kissed lemonade over at Ray’s anymore.

Eating with sticks hits on both ends of the challenge spectrum. While many Americans have had at least a couple clumsy moments eating with chopsticks in our lives, sticks can

As much as us journalists love getting scoops, we might enjoy eating with lil’ scoops even more. More than any other category of implements in this Cheap Eats roundup, certain

Data center projects continue to generate controversy around the country. In part, that’s because a variety of different groups have competing interests — some in favor of them, some opposed

There aren’t a lot of televised musical moments as cheekily self-aware as the January 14, 1998, episode of The Tonight Show. After the camera zooms past guests Bob Newhart and

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Handheld food and cheap eats go… well… hand in hand. Why get tools involved when you can chow down the way humans have since time immemorial? Grabbing inexpensive food on

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After the events of Sept. 11, 2001, it felt like the world stood still. Nearly 3,000 people died in the world’s deadliest terrorist attack, however, in one small Canadian town

The French filmmaker Jean Renoir once said that “a director makes only one movie in his life.” Subsequently, Renoir continued, “he breaks it up and makes it again.” If you’re

After fires tore through Medical Lake and Elk in August 2023, killing two people and destroying hundreds of homes and buildings, community resilience staff in the Washington Department of Natural

Some folk shiver at the sheer guttural pronunciation of prog — as though it were some sort of Klingon delicacy. And I get it: there’s a lot of prog that’s

When you step back and really examine the fork, how funny that it’s our staple dining utensil. We eat most things with a frickin’ spear? Badass. The universality of the

Over the past 28 years — that’s seven four-year terms — Spokane County Auditor Vicky Dalton says she’s found most people don’t know what someone in her position does.

Unfortunately, everything has gotten pretty expensive, which means treating oneself to a meal out is something many of us are enjoying much less often these days. As we compiled a

During the legislative session earlier this year, Washington lawmakers voted to allow recreational cannabis producers to create agricultural cooperatives of up to three license holders.

The dangers of climate change have become such a standard part of nature documentaries in recent years that they almost recede into the background. Director Sara Dosa’s Time and Water

Throughout history, artistic creation has built bridges connecting cultures that seem distant, or even diametrically opposed. One of the best examples in the 250-year history of the United States is

The restaurant industry is known to be fast paced and filled with change. Concepts come and go, and chefs filter through kitchens as they rack up experience.