WE’RE STANDING ON A bluff at the northern edge of the Dishman Hills Natural Area. It’s brisk March Sunday morning and the clouds have risen high enough to reveal a panoramic view above the pine trees. The vista stretches from Moran Prairie to downtown Spokane and wraps around Spokane Valley. This kind of view built […]
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A PROJECT NEAR AND DEAR to my heart has been resurrected! The production of HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH that thrilled audiences four years ago is coming baaaaack, heading (“heding,” if you will) to A Club, April 1st and 2nd, with the possibility of more performances to come. Hedwig has been a part of my
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THE INLAND NORTHWEST just finished another winter that bode well for cyclists with minimal snow on the valley floors and enough in the mountains for cross-country and downhill skiing, providing plenty of opportunity to get and stay fit for the cycling season. To take full advantage of that winter induced fitness, or to give you some motivation
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BONNER AND BOUNDARY COUNTY ATLAS Northwest Map Service 2010 edition, 152 pages. $24.95. A map person: I buy maps to plan and speculate, muse and daydream. You know what I’m talking about—that obsessive wonder that comes when you look at those squiggly lines and imagine slopes and steepness, the dense underbrush of a gulley, the
AFTER MOST CYCLISTS GET comfortable riding more than 20 miles or so, there’s something alluring about the idea of riding a century ride. A century ride is typically 100 miles. If you can ride a century and feel mostly normal the next day, then you’ve achieved the goal. If riding your first century is a
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HIS DAD GOT HIM interested in road biking as a kid, thanks to rides in the countryside around Nampa, Idaho, where he grew up. Today, Noah Sutherland shares his love of bikes with street youth in Spokane as the manager of Cool Water Bikes, a full-service non-profit bicycle shop in downtown Spokane that opened three
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