Entertainment

Spiderman - Does it need a kiss of Death to be successful?

Spiderman – Does it need a kiss of Death to be successful?

I have been reading with quite a bit of interest about the Broadway rendition of Spiderman.  As I am sure you are all aware this show suffered another set back this past week when during a preview performance an actor fell nearly 30 feet into the orchestra pit.   This combined with sprains and concussions [...]

Public Art…

Public Art…

“A city with public art is a city that thinks and feels” (nnpaf.org) – The statement says a lot!  When you walk down a city street or visit a city park and see a unique piece or artwork or sculpture on display what do you think?  How does it make you feel?  But more importantly, [...]

Aquariums – We Need One in Spokane

Aquariums – We Need One in Spokane

There is an old city owned building in downtown Spokane, right on the Spokane river.  The building used to belong to the YMCA and sits along a prime piece of real estate… there were/are a number of propositions for this building including it being torn down and the land becoming part of Riverfront Park as [...]

Cowboy’s Wisdom for our president

Cowboy’s Wisdom for our president

I saw this on  this.rand() and thought I would share with you. A cowboy from Texas attends a social function where Barack Obama is trying to gather support for his Health Care Plan.  Once he discovers the cowboy is from President Bush’s home area, he starts to belittle him by talking in a southern drawl and [...]

Review – “Line Notes” by Thank You 5

Paper pushing and theatre productions seem to go hand in hand. There are myriads of things that go into a production, everything from audition forms and cast lists to sign-in sheets and line notes.  As a relative novice to theatre and a seasoned professional in the software industry I began a search to find a [...]

Why I CAN’T Keep My Business Local

For those of you that do not know, I live outside a small Washington town in northern Steven’s Country called Colville.   The town is large enough to have our Super WalMat as a very nice compliment of small businesses.   To support our local economy I try to buy as much as I can locally.  In [...]

Sand Art – Kseniya Simonova

What do you get when you take a large light box, sand, dramatic music, passion, a story to tell, and an incredible artist?  You have the video below.  Kseniya Simonova is an incredibly talented artist that as you watch tells a visual story with sand and light.  In this video Kseniya tells of the German [...]

Spokane Civic Theatre - State Competition

Spokane Civic Theatre – State Competition

  Local community theatre in Spokane is alive!  My wife and I have been doing a little volunteer work at the Spokane Civic Theatre this year and recently had an opportunity to watch a dress rehearsal of the competition version of the production of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.  So what is a competition [...]

On This Independance Day

On This Independance Day

Some words of Wisdom to all of us from a great man… “It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is [...]

Amateur Astronomer - Your Recommendations...

Amateur Astronomer – Your Recommendations…

For years I have been intrigued by the stars.  Last summer at the lake house we would have nights that would be so extremely clear and dark that the number of stars you could see were absolutely mesmerizing.   There were a couple of times that you could see the shadows of our arm of the [...]