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Story Specter

Roman Polanski knows how to deliver tension

Ed Symkus
| Mar 17, 2010

Over the decades, Roman Polanski has been attracted to characters in extreme situations; then he gets us into their heads. Think back to the deeply personal dilemmas of Rosemary Woodhouse in Rosemary&

Starring the Stars

The ultimate ride-along takes viewers into orbit and beyond

Ed Symkus
| Mar 17, 2010

Space, the final frontier. This is the voyage of STS-125. Its 13-day mission: to repair, adjust, and upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope, to boldly go where three NASA teams had gone before. The word

Memory Makers

Coincidence brings together people who remember too much of things past

Ed Symkus
| Mar 11, 2010

Nothing is easy for anyone here. Characters with short fuses get in each other’s faces. Secrets that should not even exist are kept. Emotional outbursts ranging from yelling to punching erupt. The film veers into melodramatic territory a couple of times, but pulls back before any real damage is done.

Heavy Rain

Heavy Rain is a slow, dull, soggy mess.

Marty Demarest
| Mar 17, 2010

I knew Heavy Rain was going to be an artsy game as soon as it instructed me to take a piece of paper and fold it into an origami bird. Shortly thereafter, I got to see a man’s naked ass. By the

Broken Embraces

Pedro Almodóvar renders a noir film in vivid color and with plenty of flashbacks

Sean Stewart
| Mar 17, 2010

Broken Embraces is a strange little suspense film. It contains only a few strategic betrayals and outright deceptions, but a great many unspoken secrets and lies of omission. Maybe it’s a l

Breaking Bad

Hey, buddy, wanna buy some n-methyl-1-phenyl-propan-2-amine?

Daniel Walters
| Mar 17, 2010

At first glance, the two sides of the same man couldn’t be more different. There’s Walter White (Bryan Cranston), the high school chemistry teacher whose midlife existential crisis only gr

Bourne Beyond the Wire

You can’t just fictionalize actual events and ignore their real-life consequences. The makers of Green Zone did.

Maryann Johanson
| Mar 11, 2010

Meanwhile, of course, there is lots of running around Baghdad in the dead of night for crazy-intense foot chases and gun battles and the like.

The Frazzled Blue Line

It’s hard out there for a pimp. Hard for actors, too, with all the flawed heroes in Brooklyn’s Finest

Ed Symkus
| Mar 04, 2010

Sal (Ethan Hawke) makes it look like he’s on the ball, doing what needs to be done, always in the right places at the right times when busting up drug deals. But he’s falling short in providing money for his family, and there’s a lot of dirty cash easily within his reach.

Music

Epic Quest

Jedediah the Pilot tells lofty bedtime stories in song

Jorma Knowles
| Mar 17, 2010

In the furthest eastern reaches of Hillyard, hidden in the midst of warehouses and dirt roads, Bryan Nelson of Jedediah the Pilot waves me down in the darkness. It’s 11 o’clock at night, a

Horror Show

Twiztid combines brutal imagery with a desire for greater connection

Jeff Echert
| Mar 17, 2010

Juggalos are so devoted to Insane Clown Posse that they dress up as killer clowns to prove it. For their devotion to the Detroit hip-hop duo, however, they’re reviled. Juggalos have been called

'Wasted Talent,

Solid, trunk-rattling music from a Spokane transplant

Jorma Knowles
| Mar 17, 2010

“I come from a long line of Gs, thugs and drug dealers,” Rod Mac spits on “Politicin” — a characteristically furious track on his debut LP. Indeed, his street cred is not

'Melange EP,' Mon Cheri

Six happy little tracks from one of Spokane's favorite bands

Leah Sottile
| Mar 17, 2010

It’s honestly kind of hard not to like Mon Cheri — and that’s precisely the greatest achievement and biggest flaw of the beloved local three-piece. On their upcoming EP release, the

The Class of 2010

In its ninth (and maybe final) year, the RAWK Final Four pits five young bands against each other

Leah Sottile
| Mar 11, 2010

Dave Crume says if you’ve ever wanted to catch a RAWK Final Four, you should probably go this year. The ninth annual battle of the young bands competition might be calling it quits after this year. “We’re going to take a break for a long while,” says Crume, RAWK’s president.

Young Strummer

Ted Leo is punk rock — in the most traditional sense of the phrase

Seth Sommerfeld
| Mar 11, 2010

The Notre Dame grad and his backing band, the Pharmacists, have built a loyal following thanks to the undying spirit of rebellion and a relentless touring regimen. TheyÂ’ve played everywhere from dingy, holein-the-wall bars in the Dakotas to stadium shows as openers for Pearl Jam.

Moonage Daydream

Space Opera 77 has figured out glam rock. Now they just need to work out a decent demo.

Jordy Byrd
| Mar 04, 2010

As the name suggests, the project was intended to be a rock opera. Forged out of boredom, the opera developed into a band in the last year. Since then, the mostly local group (harpist Melissa Achten recently moved to Seattle) has been slowly saturating the Spokane music scene.

Bardcore

When amps collided with iambic pentameter, the Metal Shakespeare Company was born

Michael Bowen
| Mar 04, 2010

Luke Dennis, the group’s bassist, signed onto the idea because, as he says, “A literate metal fan would be hard-pressed to dispute that there is anything more metal than the tragedies that befall the likes of Macbeth and Hamlet — both victims of their own treacherous environments and their own agonizing thoughts.

NEWS/COMMENTARY

Cop Out

The city has been taken off Shonto Pete's lawsuit. Not everyone's happy about that.

Nicholas Deshais
| Mar 17, 2010

The slow dismantling of reality in the case of Jay Olsen versus Shonto Pete continued last week, again at the hands of the judicial system. This is what is known: Olsen, an off-duty Spokane police

State vs. State

Which state is the most objectively business-friendly? Depends on your measuring stick

Daniel Walters
| Mar 17, 2010

Butch started it. Against the backdrop of a tax increase in Oregon — and proposed tax increases in Washington — Idaho Governor C.L. “Butch” Otter published a “love letter

Idaho to D.C.: No, Thanks

Gem State lawmakers aren't interested in reform and send the Health Freedom Act to the governor

Natalie Johnson
| Mar 17, 2010

Congress is still wrestling over how to reform health care, but this much seems clear: Idaho isn’t interested. The Idaho Senate recently passed the Health Freedom Act, which would essentially

New World, New Words

It's trickier to save a language rooted in a world that no longer exists

Kevin Taylor
| Mar 17, 2010

Words fall short. At a conference last week designed to encourage area Indian tribes to save their native Salish language from extinction, a paradox emerged: Even if the tribes triumph and create a wa

California Dreamin'

Let's get on with the serious business of solving problems

Robert Herold
| Mar 17, 2010

Following his recent talk in San Francisco at the Commonwealth Club of California, New Yorker writer Hendrik Hertzberg was asked during the question-and-answer period for his opinion on whether Califo

Following Fitz

Remembering Dan Fitzgerald

Ted S. McGregor Jr.
| Mar 17, 2010

There’s an American, a Canadian and an Irishman: They go into a bar. The American gets a beer, and a fly buzzes down and lands right in it. He asks the bartender for a new brew. The Canadian get

Reasonable Doubt

How spotty detective work and careless prosecution may have put the wrong men behind bars

Jacob H. Fries
| Feb 19, 2010

The courtroom was full of tears. Tyler Gassman, a 22-year-old Spokane kid, had just learned his fate — 25 years in prison — and his sister, mother and friends wept. So did David Partovi, his lawyer. Partovi had lost cases before, but this felt different.

Lost at Sea

A local boy watches his ship go down in the Atlantic Ocean and spends two days on the open sea

Nicholas Deshais
| Mar 11, 2010

“I went out into the companion way, wondering what was going on,” Phillips says. “My friend was out there with her rain jacket on. She said, ‘Oh, it’s fine. Let’s just go on deck and check it out.’ The ship starts keeling even more and then the floor — it’s just vertical — and I slide to the opposite side of the wall.

ARTS & CULTURE

Best of the Arts

The region's finest gallery, play, band and concert of the year (and other stuff)

Staff
| Mar 16, 2010

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Best of Nightlife

The region's finest nightclub, happy hour and bowling alley (and other stuff)

Staff
| Mar 16, 2010

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Best of the Outdoors

The region's finest golfing, swimming and outdoor supplies (plus other stuff)

Staff
| Mar 16, 2010

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Zags Go Dancing

The inside scoop on this weekend's NCAA tournament

Howie Stalwick
| Mar 17, 2010

THE MEN This might have been a rebuilding year. Now a young Gonzaga team gets a tough draw and a lot of expectations Matt Bouldin, a supporting actor his first three seasons at Gonzaga, was excited

Balm in Gilead

Have a piece of pie and tell us your troubles: The Spitfire Grill faces adversity with optimistic songs

Michael Bowen
| Mar 17, 2010

The Spitfire Grill opened in New York City just four days before 9/11. In the days after the attack, the show got a positive reception from both audiences and critics who warmed to the homespun optimi

Blank Slate

Your friend has ridiculous taste. Do you correct him? Or do you preserve your friendship?

Michael Bowen
| Mar 17, 2010

“Art” isn’t about art at all. It’s about friendship: How we try to domineer our friends and mold them according to our own values. It’s a thoughtful play, but “Ar

Classical Punk

What happens when you just wanna dance, and can’t? Or when you just wanna listen?

Michael Bowen
| Mar 11, 2010

We love the music that we and our friends choose to love. But disagreements about music’s nature split us into opposed camps: How prominent should the beat be? How complex? For dancing or for listening? Primarily for self-expression or for developing empathy? Angry or beautiful? Spontaneous or rehearsed?.

Arthur of Arabia

How a local man may have found millennia-old antiquities in his mom's garage

Luke Baumgarten
| Mar 11, 2010

Georgia Bonny Bazemore has spent her life in the field, in pursuit of one thing. For 22 years, she’s meticulously cordoned off swatches of land on the small but historically rich island of Cyprus — people’s back yards sometimes — combing through dirt and rock, looking for evidence of a culture that died two thousand years earlier.

FOOD/DRINK

Best of Food

The region's finest seafood, burritos and the best new restaurant (and other stuff)

Staff
| Mar 16, 2010

BEST SEAFOOD Anthony’s Home Port Whether you’re looking to show off Spokane to out-of-town guests or impress your first date, this stunning seafood restaurant overlooking Spokane Fal

Bring It!

There’s a new gourmet pizza delivery chain with national ambitions in the Lake City. Here’s how it stacks up.

Carrie Scozzaro
| Mar 11, 2010

We`re pizza-rich and cash-poor so when a new pizza place opens, especially one claiming to be gourmet (translation: higher-priced), piquing our interest takes more than coupons or claims-to-fame. In the Coeur d’Alene area, whitepages.com lists more than three-dozen “pizza” providers.

Seoul Food

Bibim Bap is Korean for the best comfort food you’ve never heard of

Carey Jackson
| Mar 04, 2010

Bibim bap, which translates to “Mixed Rice,” (and is sometimes anglicized “bibimbap,” “bibimbop,” or “bibim bop”) is a popular Korean comfort food with a myriad of incarnations.

Bars in Downtown Spokane

Eighty-six bars, taverns and lounges from A to Zola

Staff
| Feb 25, 2010

EDITOR'S NOTE: Our focus here was on bars that have opened since our last guide two years ago, as well as on great older bars we didn’t cover last time (like Italian Kitchen, Fizzie Mulligan&rs

The Search for the Holy Grail

Three Spokane-area drinks you need to try. Plus a lot of crap to avoid.

Joel Smith
| Feb 25, 2010

For the past three weeks, I’ve been on the hunt for the perfect mixed drink in the Inland Northwest. A drink that’s inventive and cutting-edge but still tasty — crisp and refreshing. Something with a good story (see The Last Word, p. 54), or a connection to the past.

Dive Bars

Searching for low-brow booze across Spokane

Nicholas Deshais
| Feb 25, 2010

Here we sit at the PARK INN, just one outpost on my search for Spokane’s perfect dive bar. I traveled far and wide — within city limits, of course — hunting for that special, seedy locale. The dirtier, cheaper and scarier, the better. Give me Rainier in cans and stale peanuts.

Eating Cheap in Downtown Spokane

Twenty-two affordable eateries from Andy's to Zola

Staff
| Feb 09, 2010

Let's Co-operate

Spokane has wanted a grocery store downtown for years. Now we have one.

Sarah Hauge
| Feb 08, 2010

You need to pick up some groceries. So do you: A) stop by Rite Aid and dig through their random bins of onions and apples; B) trek to Rosauers in Browne’s Addition; or C) leave downtown in search of better options? Finally, a long-awaited fourth choice is here:.

 
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