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In the End, We’re All Wearing a Red Shirt

When my friends and I used to act out Star Trek episodes—favorites were “The City on the Edge of Forever,” + more

Quote of the Day

“I read somewhere that 77 percent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I’m more intrigued by the 23 percent who are + more

Bringing Sexy Bach

For the kickoff to the 37th Annual Northwest Bach Festival last night, the missus and I eschewed the wine-and-cheese affair at Barrister in + more

“American youth today has its fringes…”

Nothing says “God bless America” quite like a 1968 campaign ad for the man who issued Executive Order 11582, thus designating the + more

Pick-Up Lines for the Fairer Sex

So. Valentine’s Day is coming up. If we’re to believe conventional wisdom—which, let’s be honest, is a pretty safe bet + more

On National Anthems and Pop Princesses

Having firmly established myself as something of a curmudgeon, it should come as no surprise to anyone that I found + more

Poetry Break

LET CITIES SUBSIDE TO THEIR NAMES Osip Mandelstam Let cities subside to their names, Brief meanings that flare in the + more

Tuneage

I’ve not touched on music for a while, mostly because my survey of the best of 2014—which, let’s be honest, was a tour + more

So Long, Cheddar Chad

A decade ago I worked at a downtown Spokane ad agency whose culture was, shall we say, unforgiving. Not a day passed + more

Quote of the Day

“There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who, thanks to their art + more

Miscellany Redux

More odds and ends today, but this time from the worlds of art, architecture, and poetry. So, you know…no Bigfoot. + more

Miscellany

Does a spectral being roam the halls of Pocatello High School? Why yes—yes, it does. “Real Estate Drone Spots Bigfoot, + more

What the world needs now…

…is English, sweet English. Forget Mandarin Chinese. From “the unwritten tongue of Iron Age tribes in Denmark” two thousand years + more

The Year in Music, Part 6

So. We’ve picked the best albums of 2014 in 10 different genres. Which means that, if your Christmas shopping list + more

Miscellany

Art? Not art? Play the game to find out! On this day in 1903, the world got a little smaller. Here’s Orville + more

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