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Music Reviews: April 2006
ARCTIC MONKEYS Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not (Domino) 360,000 Britons can’t be wrong, can they? Arctic Monkeys have shattered UK sales ...
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Book Reviews: April 2006
The Joy of Hiking Hiking The Trailmaster Way John McKinney, The Trailmaster Wilderness Press, 2005, 288 pages. With The Joy of Hiking, John McKinney gives ...
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Jess Walter: The Urban Outdoors
Someone once called golf a good walk spoiled. But I’ll tell you what really spoils a good walk: man scat. Big. Human. Turds. I can’t ...
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Whitewater Park Plan Released
Mimicking whitewater features on a relatively tame stretch of the Spokane River will require a lot of rock-2,000 cubic yards of granite boulders 4 to ...
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Summer Cycling Events
Except for a few cold snaps, the weather gods have smiled on both bicyclists and skiers this past winter, but now’s the time to step ...
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Editorial: Cycling
The new light rail system recently recommended to the Spokane Transit Authority is a thrilling opportunity for Spokane to join other transportation-smart cities. Less thrilling ...
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Book Reviews: March 2006
Dangerous Astronomy Sherman Alexie Limberlost Press, 2005 (Hand-sewn, letterpressed) Limberlost Press, a small publisher in Boise, Idaho, has gathered together ten of Sherman Alexie’s poems ...
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Bloomsday Goes Hi-Tech
After three decades of relying on volunteers to tediously track over 1,140,000 finishers, Bloomsday organizers have revamped the race’s time tracking system by outfitting each ...
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Get Those Kids Outside!
By Jena Ponti “Nature-Deficit Disorder”(nit ?r dfisit disrd?r): A non-scientific term for the cultural phenomenon that describes the increasing alienation of humans and nature. Symptoms ...
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