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• Eating contest benefits food bank

  September 4, 2011 in City on Page B3 Pig Out in the Park isn’t all about gluttony. It can be about giving, too. Four people won a chance to compete in Ben and Jerry’s Vermonster ice cream eating …

• Gluttony, for a good cause

  September 3, 2011 in City Pig Out in the Park isn’t all about gluttony. It can be about giving, too. Four people won a chance to compete in Ben and Jerry’s Vermonster ice cream eating … 7

• Annual Pig Out has it all: music, food, ambience

  September 1, 2011 in Features on Page C1 Is it possible to describe Pig Out in the Park in three words or less? Music: Free. Musselwhite. Leon.

• For Pig Out in the Park organizer, it’s all about fun

  August 29, 2011 in City on Page A1 Bill Burke, 59, will oversee his 32nd Pig Out in the Park from Wednesday through Monday at Riverfront Park. This year’s Pig Out features 54 food booths, 82 bands and … 3

• Spotlight: Listen to all that’s playing this week

  August 28, 2011 in Features on Page D6 It’s time to start planning the live music portion of your Labor Day weekend. Here are my top suggestions:

• Spotlight: Judds kick off Northern Quest’s summer series

  May 8, 2011 in Features on Page D6 The summer concert lineup is rapidly taking shape, beginning with an impressive list of household names in the Northern Quest Resort and Casino’s new outdoor series. Here’s that lineup, announced …

• Sha Na Na provides a unique flavor to this year’s Pig Out

  September 2, 2010 in Features on Page C1 Sha Na Na has been booked into Pig Out in the Park, a big outdoor festival, almost exactly 41 years after the band was booked into a slightly more gigantic …

• Pig Out in the Park: Some new food, lower prices

  September 1, 2010 in Food on Page C1 I hope you’ve been fasting. Or, that there’s a little bit of give in the waistband of your pants. Yep, it’s Pig Out time again. That wonderful time of year … 1

• Surveillance cameras help deter crime, manage traffic

  August 30, 2010 in City on Page A1 Maybe Rockwell’s 1984 song “Somebody’s Watching Me,” about the fear of being watched, foretold the future of surveillance. The chorus, “I always feel like somebody’s watching me. I have no … 7

• Pig Out bands yield to wedding bands

  September 6, 2009 in City on Page B3 After the Spokane band Blue Canoe wrapped up a rocking rendition of “Peace, Love and Understanding,” a brand-new act stepped to the stage Saturday afternoon at Pig Out in the …

• Couple tie knot at Spokane food fest

  September 5, 2009 in City After the Spokane band Blue Canoe wrapped up a rocking rendition of “Peace, Love and Understanding,” a brand-new act stepped to the stage Saturday afternoon at Pig Out in the …

• Pig Out music has grown as big as the food

  September 3, 2009 in Features on Page C1 Here are a few tasty items to sample at the 30th annual Pig Out in the Park: Hot Buttered Rum, The Other White Meat and a nice, crisp Cracker. And … 2

• Appetite for Pig Out has grown over years

  September 2, 2009 in City on Page A7 If this were a marriage, it would be the pearl anniversary. But when it comes to the 30-year love affair between Spokane and Pig Out in the Park, the appropriate … 2

• Summer wanes, wonderfully

  September 2, 2008 in City on Page A5 Spokane listened to Lucinda Williams on Sunday night as she glided through a set of songs from a new album and belted out her tough tune about a worthless boyfriend. …

• Pig Out in the Park

  August 28, 2008 on Page D1 What: Spokane’s annual Labor Day weekend festival of food and music in Riverfront Park features something for all tastes. Entertainment highlights include: An array of local indie rock acts sponsored …

• Event of porcine proportion

  August 28, 2008 in City on Page B1 The way Bill Burke tells it, Pig Out in the Park’s defining moment came on a Saturday night in 1999, when the Grammy award-winning reggae artist Shaggy performed in Riverfront …

• Pig time: Booker T. Jones headlines annual chowfest

  August 30, 2007 in Features on Page D1 Among the delicacies at this year’s Pig Out in the Park, which opened Wednesday, is a funky little dish called “Green Onions.” That would be a song, not a vegetable. …

• The Slice: These lines sure to spoil appetites

  August 30, 2007 in Features on Page D1 Here are five rejected Pig Out pickup lines. 1. “Is that barbecue sauce on your chin or what?”

• Pig Out off to cool start

  August 31, 2006 in City on Page B1 The first day of Pig Out in the Park turned into Chill Out in the Park as Wednesday’s unseasonably cool temperatures and some showers put a shiver in Spokane’s annual …

• Festival in park an opportunity to pig out

  August 30, 2006 in Food on Page D1 Don’t forget … the pigs are in the park a few days earlier this year. The unofficial end-of-summer bash Pig Out in the Park begins today at noon and lasts …

• Loosen up belt, pants; it’s Pig Out

  August 23, 2006 in Food on Page D1 Break out the buffet pants. Better yet; buy a backup pair. You might need it for six solid days of Pig Out in the Park. Yep, you read that right. …