T’ai Chi In The Park
Spokane’s World Tai Chi Day event will be held at Manito Park @ 10:00am, Saturday, April 24th
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April 2010
What’s Your gear? : Tom Towey, Marathoning Mayor
“I don’t consider myself an athlete,” says Spokane Valley Mayor Tom Towey. “I just like running marathons.” Despite Mayor Towey’s humble remakes, he’s got an impressive track record. Since he started running in the early ‘80s, he’s run 40 marathons, completed countless mini-triathlons, and scores of locals races. “I was always curious as to what
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Power 2 The Pedal: New Community Bike Shop Fosters A Love Of Cycling
Two dollars and seventeen cents. Even a super-part-time writer with a part-time day job can afford a bike tune-up for two dollars and seventeen cents. And even if I couldn’t, Pedals2People wouldn’t have turned me away. Bicycles are supposed to be the great equalizer for transportation, but without do-it-yourself know-how, they can cost a lot
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Book Reviews March 2010
Planet Ice: A Climate For Change James Martin Braided River, 2010, 176 pages. Suggested alternate titles: Ice: A Love Story; An Elegy for Ice; or Ignore the Melt at Your Peril! Forget polar bears. Rapidly retreating ice flows, sea ice and glaciers could spell major disaster for another mammal at the top of the food
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Everyday Cyclist: High Drive Trail Explosion
For walking or biking, I love the High Drive trails. The High Drive trails sprawl over the west and south sides of the bluff that climbs up to the South Hill from Latah Creek. I grew up on the lower South Hill in the ‘80s. Way back then, the area off High Drive had an
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Editorial: It Happened At The Plaza
I’ve been using Spokane Transit’s bike carriers a lot more lately to extend the reach of my cycling around town. It used to be that in order to use these bus bike carriers you needed to watch a training video and get a special card. Not anymore. Anyone can do it. Just remember to load
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Eating In The Age Of Climate Change
Anna Lappé is a national best-selling author who addresses sustainability in our everyday lives. In 2001, Lappé founded the Small Planet Institute (www.smallplanet.org) along with her mother, Francis Moore Lappé (author of Diet for a Small Planet, originally published in 1971). “At the Small Planet Institute, we seek to identify the core, often unspoken, assumptions
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Crushing Rocks: The Used, Nurses, And Dinosaurs
Once upon a time in a rock ‘n’ roll dreamland far, far away (Los Angeles, specifically, or was it somewhere in Utah?), there lived a young man named Bert McCracken. Bert was a hard-working, hard-wailing, formerly straight-edged kid from Utah with a hit song and a young pop princess girlfriend. The song, “The Taste of
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How About Skiing For Free?
Two local mountains have free skiing deals this week:
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