Blues rocker Alvin Lee has died
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/03/07/173630819/alvin-lee-is-going-home-ten-years-after-guitarist-dies
The Slice archive for March 2013
THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 2013
A recording you didn't know existed 1
www.retrovinyl.runmovies.eu
How would Bob and Ray go over now? 1
www.bobandray.com How about Firesign Theatre? www.firesigntheatre.com
Sometimes newspapers get used
www.datelinessilverage.com
How many GU fans can say this? 1
When I first saw a Gonzaga basketball game, the Bulldogs were in the Big Sky Conference.
This date in Slice history (1995)
Note to Lucille Leonard of Moses Lake: Our legal department is reviewing your claim that we owe you a new bra. (She disassembled one of hers so she could send us the underwire, demonstrating that some are, in fact, made of plastic.)
Re: Today's Slice column spillover 1
Here are a few more answers to the question about readers discovering that they were/are claustrophobic. "Back in the late 1970s we were trying to get our son Wesley to do an MRI," wrote Ken Stout. "He was scared of it and I volunteered to…
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 2013
Here we have "Children of the Wheat"
www.amazon.com "Children of the Lentils"?
True or false 1
In one of the movies, the Jason Bourne character spends some time in Spokane. www.ign.com
Do any Inland Northwest kids today...
...want to be farmers, miners or timber harvesters when they grow up?
In case you missed it
See the references to an SR columnist on the second page. http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2013/03/mormon_fiction_elders_by_ryan_mcilvain_and_godforsaken_idaho_by_shawn_vestal.html
"There was time now" 1
Well, until the coming jump to Daylight Saving Time snatches away a precious hour. www.exploringthethetwilightzone.blogspot.com Always have a pair of back-up glasses.
Re: Hollywood Erotic Boutique
I'm guessing there is little of the glamour one typically associates with "Hollywood". I suspect you won't find many film stars there, shopping for sex toys. Still, you can't blame the owners for taking liberties with the name of the place. Truth in labeling might…
When there are no more cigarette butts
How will people satisfy the urge to flick small pieces of trash out the window of their vehicles?
Re: Bombing China
What percentage of the U.S. population would be OK with taking drastic military measures against China until people there stop buying ivory?
Time-capsule questions for Abner Kravitz 2
www.morethings.com When you were a young man, did it occur to you that you would never get to finish reading your paper in peace? How often do you picture Mrs. Stephens naked? Did you happen to notice that there were two different Darrins? (Same goes…
The Wednesday Slice question 2
The Riverfront Park garbage goat is a fine start. But what other animal-themed contraptions might help improve our quality of life here in Spokane?
Back when newspapers had bold ideas
www.supermanthrutheages.com
Happy birthday, Cookie Rojas
His real name is Octavio. When I was a kid, it did not occur to me that Spanish-speaking parents in Latin America would not actually name their sons things like "Cookie." www.1969topps.blogspot.com
TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 2013
Your one-question U.S. geography quiz 2
In what state was today Town Meeting Day?
Is this Spokane's No. 1 last name?
www.etsy.com One current Spokane phone book has almost a full page of tiny-type Nelson listings. Anderson is another contender. So are Jones and Wilson. To say nothing of Johnson and Smith.
Great movie moments at the lake
Dabney Coleman doing a Russian dance in "On Golden Pond." www.ebay.com Montgomery Clift and Shelley Winters in "A Place in the Sun." The court found him guilty. www.freeinfosociety.com The original stranger danger. www.vcrstar.com
Was this bad form or is a bag just a bag?
Last weekend, I saw a woman in Huckleberry's using a Trader Joe's shopping bag.
What? There were other generations?
www.beanstalkbiz.blogspot.com A Slice reader wrote to say he has nothing against baby boomers. But he added, "My generation (say about 1930-1945) has become the anonymous generation."
Would you get the reference? 3
If the SR started putting "Our Price 75 cents Cheap" on its vending boxes?
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