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Spokane Scene no. 14

The summit of Mt. Kit Carson is just a one-hour drive and a one-hour hike from downtown Spokane—a pretty small + more

“Sketch briefly Sir Walter Rawleigh…”

Wanna feel dumb? Take a gander at this 1912 high-school entrance exam, courtesy of the Bullitt County History Museum. Now, it’s been + more

Miscellany

Alex Ross on the curious intersection of classical music and popular culture. Now this is a bridge too far: small-batch, + more

August 6

Today marks the 70th anniversary of the world’s first act of nuclear warfare. Depending on one’s politics, the detonation of Little Boy + more

Fight! Fight!

Sebastian Thrun sounds downright triumphalist in his Pacific Standard post about artificial intelligence: We need to prepare for a world + more

Highway 95 Revisited

I drove to Lewiston last Sunday to say goodbye to a friend. Just two days later, she was gone. No + more

Amber Waves

When you think of Whitman County—if you think about it at all—chances are your mind conjures up images of rolling farmland + more

In Praise of Boredom

“The world into which I was born no longer exists, of course.” Thus begins a thoughtful essay by author Claire Messud in + more

New Music

I’ve long eschewed the music of Philip Glass, in part because it’s always sounded so…pedestrian. He’s the classical-music composer you listen + more

In God’s Country

I’m not from around here, so I don’t have the advantage of multigenerational lake cabin ownership. And since CK pays + more

Mumm’s the Word

On a recent wine tour in Napa, Linda and I had an opportunity to not only taste some of Mumm + more

I’m sorry. You were saying…?

I spent much of the holiday weekend reading Neal Stephenson’s science fiction epic Seveneves. There’s a lot to love about the + more

New Music

Somehow I missed last year’s Taming the Dragon by Brad Mehldau and Mark Giulana. Thankfully, my son came to the rescue. I’m just gonna + more

32 Years Ago…

Long before helveticka began working with Bouten Construction, I had a minor connection to them. My home town of Chewelah was + more

Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman, RIP

“For me,” said Ornette Coleman, “composing is a way of keeping up with not repeating.” Coleman, the innovative saxophonist who “liberated jazz + more

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