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Don't stay glued to your porch this summer, visit the honey bucket with the Melvins

Taylor D. Waring — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 01:30:00 -0700

Helmed by Buzz Osborne, the Melvins have helped codify the heavy music lexicon since 1983…

British period dramedy Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris tries a bit too hard to win over its audience

Josh Bell — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 01:30:00 -0700

There's a fine line between sweet and cloying, and the British dramedy Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris crosses it a little too often…

Inland Northwest tribes are using technology to track young salmon in hopes of returning runs to the Columbia and Spokane rivers

Samantha Wohlfeil — Thu, 12 May 2022 01:30:00 -0700

It starts raining just as two trucks hauling juvenile salmon arrive near the end of a gravel road at Chief Joseph Dam in the Central Washington town of Bridgeport on Friday, May 6…

Inlander Insights: The Sweeplings

Seth Sommerfeld — Fri, 08 Apr 2022 08:00:00 -0700

The folk duo with Spokane connections wrestles with grief on its new album, 'Debris.' Loss is never easy. Loss during a pandemic is even tougher…

The Lost City is a lighthearted romp, and one that largely works thanks to its likable leads

Chase Hutchinson — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 01:30:00 -0700

In evaluating the films released thus far this year, it is hard to think of one that more closely aligns with about everything you would expect than The Lost City…

Infinite Storm makes tedious drama out of an inspirational true story

Josh Bell — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 01:30:00 -0700

Things are never going to turn out well for someone who decides to go mountain climbing in a movie called Infinite Storm…

Mark Rylance dazzles in a rare leading role in the suspense thriller The Outfit

Scott Renshaw — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 01:30:00 -0700

For a few minutes there, I was about to make a huge mistake in contemplating Mark Rylance's performance in The Outfit: I was about to compare him to another actor…

Mississippi Records makes the Indie Folk show sing with an aural assist

Carrie Scozzaro — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 01:30:00 -0800

Washington State Univerity's Indie Folk is a unique art exhibition for many reasons, not the least of which is its original soundtrack of nine songs gallery-goers will be able to listen to…

C'mon C'mon delivers a tender tale of healing driven by a never-better Joaquin Phoenix and newcomer Woody Norman

Chase Hutchinson — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 01:30:00 -0800

The work of Oscar-nominated writer-director Mike Mills (20th Century Women, Beginners) has always been grounded in an inescapable sense of empathy — for the world, the people who live in it, and the characters he crafts a film around…

Inlander Insights: Spokane String Quartet's Amanda Howard-Phillips

Seth Sommerfeld — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 16:19:00 -0800

While there's always an impressive power hearing a full symphony fill a room with sound, there's a stirring subtlety that can only be achieved via classic music on a smaller scale. That's a sonic itch that the Spokane String Quartet is always happy to scratch. Before the Spokane String Quartet takes the stage at The Fox this Sunday for a program featuring special guest pianist Archie Chen, we caught up with violinist Amanda Howard-Phillips—who has played with the quartet since 2011 and is also second violin in the Spokane Symphony — to chat about the communal expression of string quartet music, SSQ's upcoming shows, and the unique place the group occupies in Spokane…

Baroness brings its expansive metal to Lucky You Lounge

Seth Sommerfeld — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 01:32:00 -0800

Guitarist Gina Gleason chats about new music and fandom before playing Spokane Baroness occupies a very unique spot in the metal world…

Spokane's Rosie CQ is carving out a musical niche all her own: vibraphone pop

Seth Sommerfeld — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 01:00:00 -0700

Descending into the mildly claustrophobic Spokane Valley basement of Creative Music Learning Center isn't an experience that screams pop music…

Inlander Insights: Super Sparkle gets ready to say goodbye

Seth Sommerfeld — Mon, 18 Oct 2021 10:07:00 -0700

Super Sparkle is returning to say au revoir…

The directors of Free Solo return with a mesmerizing documentary about a daring deepwater dive

Chase Hutchinson — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 01:31:00 -0700

If you think you know the full story of how a soccer team became trapped in a Thai cave, a spectacle that drew the breathless attention of the world, you don't…

Fourteenth-century knights succumb to toxic masculinity in The Last Duel

Josh Bell — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 01:30:00 -0700

Ridley Scott's The Last Duel opens with two hardened 14th-century French warriors preparing for ritual combat, but don't be fooled: This isn't a historical epic about brave men headed off to war…

First-time filmmaker Edson Oda delivers a masterful drama with Nine Days

Chase Hutchinson — Thu, 05 Aug 2021 01:30:00 -0700

Every once in a while, there is a film that is just soul shatteringly good…

The smartest thing the Fast and Furious franchise ever did was become gloriously stupid

Daniel Walters — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 01:30:00 -0700

It all comes down to a thrilling vehicular showdown with a ruthless villain at an arctic base. With a clock ticking and the threat of a weapon of mass destruction looming, our hero races an absurdly modified classic car on a frozen lake, contending with assault rifle-wielding snowmobilers and enemy vehicles firing rockets…

The Inlander teamed up with a Rogers art teacher to paint a tribute to 2020 grads in Riverfront Park

Daniel Walters — Fri, 22 May 2020 12:52:00 -0700

As a general rule, if you start spray-painting Riverfront Park, Riverfront Park gets mad at you…

Creative cooking at home with chef Ricky Webster

Chey Scott — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 04:04:00 -0700

Spokane chef Ricky Webster is bringing tips, recipes and good cheer from his kitchen to yours through a series of lighthearted cooking videos…

New music we love: Fiona Apple's thrilling Fetch the Bolt Cutters is a rush of lacerating lyrics and swirling sonics

Nathan Weinbender — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 15:26:00 -0700

You don't have to wander around the internet long before bumping into a rave review of Fiona Apple's new record Fetch the Bolt Cutters: It has inspired breathless acclaim, has already been labeled a masterwork and is notably the first new album in nearly a decade that Pitchfork has assigned a perfect 10/10 rating…

A cherished resource in this moment: our region's writers, poets and journalists

Jacob H. Fries — Wed, 22 Apr 2020 09:25:00 -0700

Our staff of reporters and photographers at the Inlander has been working tirelessly to cover the coronavirus pandemic and all of its implications for the Inland Northwest — on jobs, schools, employment, the restaurant industry, arts organizations, hospitals and much, much more. However, we’ve also tapped into a boundless resource that is our region’s community of writers, and in recent days they’ve shared with Inlander readers an awe-inspiring series of essays and stories that has left us inspired, hopeful, heartbroken and more than a little grateful…

Health Officials Recommended Canceling Events with 10-50 People. Then 33,000 Fans Attended a Major League Soccer Game.

ProPublica — Sun, 19 Apr 2020 07:23:00 -0700

As COVID-19 fears grew, public officials and sports execs contemplated health risks — and debated a PR message — but let 33,000 fans into a Seattle Sounders soccer match, emails show. By Ken Armstrong, ProPublica, and David Gutman and Lewis Kamb, The Seattle Times On March 6, at 2:43 p.m., the health officer for Public Health — Seattle & King County, the hardest-hit region in the first state to be slammed by COVID-19, sent an email to a half-dozen colleagues, saying, “I want to cancel large group gatherings now.”…

Doom's new and improved storyline, Pearl Jams new album and more you need to know

Thu, 26 Mar 2020 01:30:00 -0700

PROPHET OF DOOM…

Where I Can Find an Inlander?

Jacob H. Fries — Mon, 23 Mar 2020 16:28:00 -0700

We at the Inlander remain committed to keeping people informed and connected during the coronavirus outbreak, supporting our readers and local businesses in the ways we always have. We have experienced some disruption in where we distribute papers, but we're stocking and restocking thousands of copies at local Rosauers, Super 1, URM Cash & Carry, Yoke's, Albertson's and Safeway stores, plus Papa Murphy's locations, My Fresh Basket and more…

How Spokane Bishop Thomas Daly wrestled with the moral dilemma of canceling Mass for coronavirus

Daniel Walters — Fri, 20 Mar 2020 13:44:00 -0700

This is hardly the first time the Catholic Church has to deal with a plague. Spokane Bishop Thomas Daly knows that well…