Spokane

A-Train Derailed by Laryngitis

Training Day

Closing Government

Hells Angels Ride into Court

New on the Scene: Vodka and Gin

Last Night: Hellyeah, Machine Head, Nonpoint, Bury Your Dead in Spokane

Black Crowes Back in Seattle

What's Isaac Brock Gonna Be For Halloween?

United Loves to Fly, They Just Don't Always Tell You About It

My cousin had a flight to Spokane from Seattle last night, the last leg of a long journey home from Quebec. With the storm there--a sight colder and snowier than ours--the Spokane airport canceled all incoming flights. When she landed here, around 9:45 p.m. she got onto another flight at the ticket ... More >>

Cue Ken Starr's Anyeurism in 5, 4, 3...

Insert "head" joke here. On the same day that the abstinence-nutty Bush Administration said goodbye, Portland mayor Sam Adams admitted to the Willamette Week that he had a sexual relationship with an 18-year-old intern and lied about it. Getting it on with your barely legal, not-yet-out-of-the-close ... More >>

Site: Unseen

Insert "head" joke here. On the same day that the abstinence-nutty Bush Administration said goodbye, Portland mayor Sam Adams admitted to the Willamette Week that he had a sexual relationship with an 18-year-old intern and lied about it. Getting it on with your barely legal, not-yet-out-of-the-close ... More >>

Making Noise About Spokane’s Kaylee Cole

This singer/songwriter can calm a rowdy audience.

Paralyzed by Passion

This singer/songwriter can calm a rowdy audience.

Where Rubber Meets the Roads

The best and worst of Referendum 51.

Citizen John

The best and worst of Referendum 51.

Guilty Pleasures: I *Heart* Ska!

Don't be a ska hater.It's repetitive, it all sounds the same, there's that weird "skank" dance they do. I don't care. Every time I hear ska, the horn-heavy, semi-punk thing made famous by the Mighty Mighty Bosstones (with help from their Clueless appearance), I get this goofy smile and immediately f ... More >>

Dry Fly Releasing Wheat Whiskey This Week

​OK, count this as the 207th thing I like about Twitter: Dry Fly Distilling, the first company to be granted a license to distill in Washington since Prohibition, will have the inaugural release of its wheat whiskey available for sale at the Spokane headquarters this Friday. You don't have t ... More >>

Megadeth's Skips Seattle For Spokane

Looks like if I want to interview Dave Mustaine in person and catch Rust in Peace performed in its entirety, I'll have to make the trip to Spokane. I'm seriously considering it, simply because I love that record and because more than a few friends have pointed out that it's sort of the perfect heshe ... More >>

The Mysterious Meatball-Poisoning Dog-Killer of Spokane

According to prominent afterlife experts, Satan has reserved a special roped-off section of Hell for those criminals who prey on the weak and powerless, and do so anonymously. For that reason, the mysterious meatball-poisoning dog-killer of Spokane is almost assured a spot in Lucifer's champagne r ... More >>

Gonzaga Basketball ISO One-Night Stand, Must Like Being Dominated

A date with this guy means another notch...in the loss column.​Sometimes college basketball programs struggle to fill their schedules. There are, after all, only so many conference games to go around. Eventually teams might need to look elsewhere to find an opponent. Like Basketball Traveler ... More >>

Seattle Times Subconsciously Sexist Against Female Police Chief Candidates?

Anne Kirkpatrick from Spokane is one of three women who The Times measured more carefully than their male peers.​Every police chief in America has people who don't like them. But if you were to judge strictly off of the short bios written up in The Times, you'd think that the only candidates f ... More >>

Bored Teen Behind Boy-for-Sale Craigslist Hoax

According to science, bored teens are responsible for 83 percent of all crimes.​Selling your son on Craigslist sounds like the work of a depraved father or a bored teen. Fortunately for Spokane police, it's the latter. Last month, a Spokane woman saw an ad from a man named Rick Obelophy offer ... More >>

The Fussy Eye: Municipal Salvage

Gates reclaimed from the Opera House wreckage.

Mastadon and Baroness in Spokane Tonight

Should all this sunshine lead to inspiration for a road trip, look to the East: Mastadon and Baroness play the Knitting Factory in Spokane tonight. It's a shame that bill isn't coming through Seattle as well, but the drive over there today will probably be beautiful. Plus, Valient Thorr is opening, ... More >>

Andrew Evans Pepper Sprays 3-Year-Old After Argument Over Tricycle

Conflict resolution, Spokane-style.

Federal Judge Forces Hawaiian Garbage To Stay On the Island

​If you fly into Honolulu and smell something a little rancid in the air, this is why. Bales of garbage from Hawaii were supposed to be arriving in Washington state, bound for a landfill near the Columbia River, Nina Shapiro reported earlier this week. But yesterday a federal judge in Spokane ... More >>

Spokane High School Teacher Sent Home for Exposing Teens to Dangerous Rap Lyrics

​Here's a question for all you parents out there: where would you rather have your kids hear curse words? In a classroom run by a good teacher who's them in the service of a larger idea? Or everywhere else? If you went with the first choice, you're probably not the mom or dad who ratted out th ... More >>

Spokane Police Get Search Warrant for Suspect's Rectum

​When Spokane police pulled over the 31-year-old man during a traffic stop, they found a knife, marijuana and a digital scale in his backpack. They also found that he had a few outstanding warrants out for his arrest. But it wasn't until they got him down to the station that they suspected he ... More >>

Washington Supreme Court: Cops Are Free to Pose As Kids to Catch Pervs

​Should police officers be able to pose as children in sting operations that try to nab child rapists and molesters? The standard answer is "hell yes," but the Washington Supreme Court debated the question from a legal standpoint with regards to whether there needs to be an actual minor involv ... More >>

Fake Degree Holding Troopers Sue State for Defamation, Saying Degrees Were Fake, But Not THAT Fake

​There on dozens of websites out there from "universities" like "University of Berkley" and "Almeda University" (not to be confused with Berkeley and Alameda) where people can log on, plug in a bunch of info on their "life experience," then pay a fee and wait while the website shits out a "deg ... More >>

Campus Cops

Five state troopers with faux college degrees sue the state.

FBI: MLK Parade Backpack Bomb Linked to Aryan Nations. People of Spokane: Seriously?

Image via cdapress.com​We now know what the backpack bomb placed on the route of Spokane's Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade looks like, but the bigger question still looms: Who planted the potentially catastrophic device and why? In public statements, the FBI has suggested that the Aryan Nati ... More >>

East or West, Everyone Loves a Good Dick's

John RigginsIf it looks like a Dick's and it quacks like a Dick's, it might not be a Dick's.​When Jim Spady visits Spokane, there's one regular stop he tries to make: Dick's Drive-In. It's an interesting experience for the CFO of the west side Dick's Drive-In chain, which filed the permitting ... More >>

The Globes' Kyle Musselwhite Digs "Table Tennis," Ping-Pong, and Dirty Dancing

Ben Blood​Every March, the entire music industry descends on Austin, Texas, for the South by Southwest Music Conference and Festival March 15 to 20, and Seattle's scene is no exception. Dozens of bands are making the trip, and they'll be playing more shows and downing more free Red Stripes tha ... More >>

Breaking: Arrest Made in Spokane MLK Bomb Scare

​UPDATE: More details are emerging about the bombing suspect. He's 36-years-old, a former Army soldier stationed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord base south of Seattle and a member of the National Alliance neo-Nazi group, which was the same group thought to have inspired Timothy McVeigh prior to th ... More >>

Kevin Harpham, Alleged Spokane Bomber, Was in Kettle Falls When Bomb Was Found, But May Have Helped Build It, Says Dad

​On the one hand, white supremacist and alleged Spokane parade MLK bomber Kevin Harpham's dad Bill Harpham tells police that there's no way his son could have planted the bomb, as the two were together that morning 80 miles from Spokane in Kettle Falls. On the other hand, he admits that his so ... More >>

Pullman Police Arrest More Than Three Times as Many People for Marijuana Possession as Spokane Police

​So it turns out that the Pullman Police Department isn't only targeting black college athletes in marijuana-possession sweeps. Actually, cops in Pullman are targeting everyone--to the tune of handing out more than three times as many pot-possession citations per resident as in neighboring and ... More >>

So No One Actually Left the World's Cutest Puppy in a Spokane Dumpster

​See the little Dalmatian puppy to the right, there? That's the little bugger that yesterday had dog lovers statewide howling over reports that somebody dumped her in a Spokane dumpster and left her for dead. What a tragic tale! If it were true.

Spokane Medical-Marijuana Dispensaries Stay Open, Despite Threats from Feds

​Yesterday week we told you about how U.S. Attorney Michael C. Ormsby has thrown down the gantlet on Eastern Washington medical-marijuana dispensaries, ranting about how they're illegal and saying he'll be cracking down like never before. This of course goes against the Obama administration's ... More >>

4 Good Reasons - Besides the Meth - To Drive to Spokane to See G. Love on Friday

Don't you, forget about me.​Spokane, Washington. Ah, yes. There are so many reasons not to go there - the considerable excess of Wal-Marts, the tweaked-out, drug-addled zombie people, and for every Smartcar modestly obeying traffic in Seattle, there are two over sized, gas-guzzling pick-up tru ... More >>

Kevin Harpham, Alleged Spokane MLK Bomber, Charged with Federal Hate Crimes

​What evidence prosecutors have lined up against alleged white-supremacist and would-be Spokane bomber Kevin Harpham, they're not saying. But whatever it is, it was apparently enough to convince a grand jury to add two new federal hate crime charges to the list.

Quit Tweakin', Townies! G. Love -- and Spokane -- Put on Their Best, Friday Night at The Knitting Factory

​G. Love and Special Sauce The Knitting Factory, Spokane, WA Friday, April 22 Last week, I posted a list of reasons why readers should drive to Spokane to see G. Love and Special Sauce play the Knitting Factory. It contained some clearly hyperbolic statements about the region that were added ... More >>

Reverb Comment of the Week

SPOKANE!​And it's only Tuesday! "We just need new stereotypes to work with. Say, Spokanites get angry about online articles making fun of them. Seattlites bold practically EVERYTHING on the Internet." -- Danieltwalters Via Gwendolyn Elliott's post, "Quit Tweakin', Townies! G. Love--and Spok ... More >>

Spokane Marijuana Dispensaries Raided; Feds Say New State Law Won't Stop Crackdown

Image source​DEA agents raided at least four medical marijuana dispensaries in Spokane yesterday, a month after federal prosecutors warned the business owners and their landlords that they are operating in violation of both state and federal law. Meanwhile, Gov. Gregoire will likely decide tod ... More >>

Spokane Police, Busy Raiding Pot Dispensaries, No Longer Have Time to Investigate Property Crime

​Posted Wednesday on the City of Spokane website, one-and-a-half hours after SPD officers raided one of at least three medical-marijuana dispensaries in the town: "We are at a critical point that requires us to severely limit property crime investigations and make additional choices about whe ... More >>

Wild Pack of Family Dogs Roaming Through Northeast Washington, Killing at Will

​UPDATE: The wild pack of killer dogs has been eliminated (or at least three members of the pack have been killed), Steven's County Sheriff Kendle Allen confirms to Seattle Weekly today. The "pack leader," a white "wolfish looking" dog (not an actual wolf) was shot dead by a turkey hunter and ... More >>

Trial Finally Begins for Karl F. Thompson, Spokane Cop Who Beat/Tasered Mentally-Disabled Janitor Otto Zehm to Death

​It's been more than five-and-a-half years since mentally-disabled janitor Otto Zehm was beaten and Tasered to death by Spokane police officer Karl F. Thompson on the floor of a convenience store. But after a mile-long list of court motions and attorney jostling, the trial is finally set to ... More >>

Border Patrol's 2011 Drug Haul: Lots of Ecstasy and Weed, Not Much Heroin or Meth

Image Source​The Border Patrol's two Pacific Northwest outposts tallied their total drug seizures for 2011, and the stats indicate that smugglers were caught trying to sneak ecstasy and marijuana across the border more frequently than meth, heroin, and other drugs.

SpokAnarchy!: Aging Punk Rockers Remember the '80s

Image Source​The Border Patrol's two Pacific Northwest outposts tallied their total drug seizures for 2011, and the stats indicate that smugglers were caught trying to sneak ecstasy and marijuana across the border more frequently than meth, heroin, and other drugs.

SpokAnarchy!: Aging Punk Rockers Recall the '80s!

spokanarchy.comNothing ends a tour faster than a burning Econoline van.​Opening tomorrow at the Grand Illusion, the new documentary SpokAnarchy! makes us want to add an exclamation mark to every sentence we write! Like this! Or maybe that's just the way punk rockers in Spokane expressed themse ... More >>