March 8, 1998 in Features on Page E4 Eddie Van Halen, far right, and Gary Cherone, third from left, hit it off from the start. Photo by BPI

March 8, 1998 in Features on Page E4 The Artist “Crystal Ball” (NPG Records) **-1/2 At first blush, it would be easy to dismiss “Crystal Ball” as merely the latest in a series of self-sabotaging career moves by …

March 8, 1998 in Features on Page E4 Country star Clint Black says he is “squarely against” throat surgery on singers and adds that he believes Nashville physicians are “too quick” to perform it. “I think there is …

March 8, 1998 in Features on Page E5 If you picked up Gadfly magazine without knowing who published it, you’d be perplexed. If you picked up Gadfly knowing that it’s published by the Rutherford Institute the legal services …

March 8, 1998 in Features on Page E5 Fans of the late Puget Sound writer Betty MacDonald remember her as the author of such novels as “The Egg & I” and “Anybody Can Do Anything.” Perhaps not as …

March 8, 1998 in Features on Page E5 “An Unfortunate Prairie Occurrence” by Jamie Harrison (Hyperion, $22.95) Questions about old bones and a series of increasingly violent rapes occupy the forefront of Jamie Harrison’s third mystery, but a …

March 8, 1998 in Features on Page E5 Naming the 10 dumbest congressmen is a hackneyed trick of magazine journalism, and the lists are inevitably subjective, unfair and nasty. But I like them anyway. This month, the Progressive …

March 8, 1998 in Features on Page E6 Spokane Art School is offering an answer to parents’ prayers during Spokane School District’s early dismissal days afternoon workshops on Tuesday and Wednesday. The classes, 1:30 to 3 p.m., are …

March 8, 1998 in Features on Page E7 As a parent, I believe it is my responsibility to help my son develop the skills he will need to become a responsible and productive member of society. So I …

March 8, 1998 in Features on Page E7 It’s an impressive resume: Chief presiding judge of Atlanta’s Fulton County Juvenile Court, Georgia’s first African-American chief presiding judge of a state court, recipient of the NAACP Thurgood Marshall Award, …

March 8, 1998 in Features on Page E9 (Photo of couple)

March 8, 1998 in Features on Page E9 (Photo of couple)

March 8, 1998 in Features on Page E9 (Photo of couple)

March 8, 1998 in Features on Page E9 Mabel Quorn

March 8, 1998 in Features on Page E9 Aukofer-Hott - Diane Rae Hott and John Robert Aukofer, both of Spokane, plan to marry June 27. Ashley-Ries - Kim Ries, Moses Lake, and Justin Ashley, Spokane, plan to marry …

March 8, 1998 in Features on Page E9 (Photo of couple)

March 8, 1998 in Features on Page E9 (Photo of couple)

March 8, 1998 in Features on Page E9 (Photo of couple)

March 8, 1998 in Features on Page E10 It has lots of names smooching, necking, sucking face, even tonsil diving. Kissing. We’re talking “Kiss me, you fool” romantic embraces. At their finest, intimate lip-locks can be spine-melting interludes, …

March 8, 1998 in Features on Page E10 It was the day from hell, I discovered by the dawn’s early light. An old, dry contact lens scraped my left eyeball. My blow-dryer exploded. So I slapped on eyeglasses, …

March 8, 1998 in Features on Page E10 The office is a good place to meet someone to date or even a spouse, Time magazine reports.

March 8, 1998 on Page G1 1. Fishing shoulder-to-shoulder on Alaska’s Russian River during sockeye season. File/The Spokesman-Review 2. Increased human traffic is driving Alaskan gray wolves farther into the wilderness. File/The Anchorage Daily News 3. …

March 8, 1998 on Page G1 Tim Palmer’s new book is part historical review, part political manifesto, part breathless travelogue. That’s all packed into a slender paperback volume that’s pretty enough to be a Sierra Club …