Latest from The Spokesman-Review

• Readers fill in missing story of Expo souvenir

  March 13, 2012 in City on Page A5 Time to put a lid on the Mystery of the Expo Percolator. (That actually sounds like a title of one of those old Hardy Boys mysteries that I consumed like … 1

• Your gift to Second Harvest earns you a view of history

  February 28, 2012 in City on Page A5 The hard work of consolidating the ol’ newsroom here at The Spokesman-Review is just about finished. And please, no worn-out jokes about rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. 1

• Expo ’74 forever changed Spokane’s landscape

  July 11, 2011 in City on Page A5 As preparations for the Expo ’74 World’s Fair shifted into high gear, this area facing Trent Avenue (now Spokane Falls Boulevard) was ready for the wrecking ball in 1972. The … 8

• City tries to save Expo ’74 sculpture

  May 18, 2011 in City on Page A1 Plans to remove a sculpture created for Expo ’74 have been put on hold while city officials explore options to save it. Spokane Arts Director Karen Mobley said Tuesday that … 4

• City tries to save Expo ’74 sculpture

  May 17, 2011 Plans to remove a sculpture created for Expo ’74 have been put on hold while city officials explore options to save it. Spokane Arts Director Karen Mobley said Tuesday that … 9

• ‘Bone’ sculpture leaving play area

  April 15, 2011 in City on Page A5 A piece of Expo ’74 history is up for grabs. The Spokane Park Board voted unanimously Thursday to remove an unnamed sculpture by Charles W. Smith from Riverfront Park. 2

• Park Board gives up Expo sculpture

  April 14, 2011 in News An Expo ’74 sculpture will be removed from Riverfront Park, but could be saved if an institution or interested person pays for its removal and can maintain it as a … 10

• Sculpture decision expected today

  April 14, 2011 in City on Page A6 The Spokane Park Board will decide today if it will remove a sculpture created for Expo ’74 from Riverfront Park. The unnamed piece, by Charles W. Smith, has been labeled …

• Sculpture’s fate will be decided Thursday

  April 13, 2011 in City The Spokane Park Board will decide Thursday if it will remove a sculpture created for Expo ’74 from Riverfront Park.

• City ready to toss Expo-era sculpture

  April 8, 2011 in City on Page A1 When noted Pacific Northwest artist Charles W. Smith was creating a sculpture in what became Riverfront Park, he was often asked what it represented. “Nothing,” he told a Spokane Daily … 6

• Landmark institutions show Spokane’s growth potential

  January 23, 2011 in City on Page A1 Spokane was a far different place four decades ago. Major community projects – like the upcoming Expo ’74 World’s Fair – were typically planned by older men meeting in such … 6

• Cole’s zeal for family, city lauded

  December 24, 2010 in Business on Page A1 Family, friends and Spokane civic leaders Thursday celebrated Expo ’74 President King Cole for giving everything he had to his family and adopted city. Cole died Sunday at age 88. … 1

• Friends, family remember King Cole

  December 23, 2010 in News, City Family, friends and Spokane civic leaders Thursday celebrated Expo ’74 President King Cole for giving everything he had to his family and adopted city. Cole died Sunday at age 88. …

• Flags lowered in honor of Cole

  December 21, 2010 in News, City Spokane Mayor Mary Verner has ordered flags on city-owned buildings to be flown at half-staff on Thursday in honor of King Cole, president of Expo ’74. Cole died Sunday at …

• Spokane loses visionary leader in King Cole

    December 21, 2010 in City on Page A1 King Cole, the “father” of Expo ’74, who believed long before most everyone else that Spokane was big enough to host a world’s fair, died Sunday. He was 88. “King …

• King Cole, “Father of Expo ‘74,” dies

    December 20, 2010 in News King Cole, the “father” of Expo ’74, who believed long before most everyone else that Spokane was big enough to host a world’s fair, died Sunday. He was 88. 4

• Spokane film critic Robert Glatzer dies

  October 15, 2010 Longtime Spokane film critic, advertising executive and arts advocate Robert Glatzer died today at the age of 78. Glatzer’s death followed a stroke he suffered earlier this week. 3

• Spokane council members not keen on YMCA options

    March 10, 2010 in City on Page A1 Spokane City Council members are poised to reject Spokane County’s offer to buy the vacant Riverfront Park YMCA, a decision that could force the city to sell parkland or raise … 18

• Historic merit up for debate

    February 22, 2010 in City on Page A1 A new battle over the former YMCA pits the building’s history against the natural and cultural history of the island on which it sits and the adjacent Spokane Falls. In … 18

• Deadlines near on YMCA’s fate

      February 21, 2010 in City on Page A1 Almost a half-century after David Rodgers turned a shovel of dirt to commemorate construction of a new downtown YMCA, he considers the decision to build the Y along the shore … 12

• Yake, 90, helped reshape Spokane

  December 29, 2009 in City on Page A5 The retired Spokane administrator who led the city’s engineering effort that transformed the industrialized, decaying core surrounding the Spokane Falls into a park that became the region’s central gathering spot … 4

• Urban designs honored

  September 16, 2009 in City on Page A6 Sixteen buildings, projects and organizations received recognition in the second Mayor’s Urban Design Awards. The awards, presented every two years after consideration by the Spokane Design Review Committee, went to …

• Riverfront Park boasts King Cole Way

  August 14, 2008 in Voices on Page S1 The driving force behind the creation of Expo ’74 is being recognized with the naming of a pathway in Riverfront Park, the site of Spokane’s famed world’s fair. King Cole, …

• U. Utah Phillips, singer, dies at 73

  May 25, 2008 in Idaho on Page B3 U. Utah Phillips, a widely acclaimed folk singer, storyteller and labor activist who hosted the Expo ‘74 Folk Life exhibit in Spokane, died Friday night at his home in Nevada …