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The Slice archive for Jan. 1, 2011

MONDAY, JUNE 27, 2011

Maybe it sounded like an upscale mall

A Spokane woman was heading home on a Delta flight from the Twin Cities. Seated next to her was a pleasant woman coming here for a job interview. Naturally, the job candidate was curious about Spokane. So the two of them got to talking. Apparently…

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Slug eater update

Readers of the print Slice column might remember an item a couple of weeks ago about a slug-hunting feline named Genevieve. The gooey story was told by a high school girl named Allyson, who is the little sister of the cat's owner. Well, the other…

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Take me out to the ballgame

The only game I've seen at Boston's Fenway Park was preceded by a bit of local color right outside the stadium. A gentleman with one of those hard, plaster casts on his arm struck another fellow across the forehead with the aforementioned therapeutic encasement. The…

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Three things

1. If you now go an entire summer without getting even one grass stain, maybe you need to rethink your approach to the season. 2. One reason there is sometimes tension between Spokane area natives and transplants is that natives occasionally want to declare that…

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Forecast calls for mild frustration

When reading print editions of newspapers published in other states, I always look to see if Spokane is in the list of cities on the weather page. Sometimes it is. Sometimes it isn't. I'm always pleased by the former, mildly disappointed by the latter. But…

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Tradition vs. doing it the modern way

We all know you can buy tents now that virtually spring into shape the moment you pull them out of the bag. But is that really camping? Shouldn't there be a little suspense about finding all the parts? And wouldn't you miss hearing Uncle Roy…

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SUNDAY, JUNE 26, 2011


FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 2011


Slice answer

Spokane's Larry Woodard still has the first trophy he ever won, back in 1961. It's a little wooden block with a pencil for a flag pole and a small flag sporting the initials of the elementary school he attended in California. He's not sure if…

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Re: Farmer's tans

That discussion in the print Slice prompted Maria Washington to note that sometimes a farmer's tan is actually a cyclist's tan. John Petrofski made the case that sometimes it's a fisherman's tan. And as far as being a reliable predictor of how someone will vote,…

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A movie that aspired to say something

Just noticed that the Lawrence Kasdan film "Grand Canyon" is 20 years old. I remember being excited about it when it came out. In the end, not many people were all that impressed. And certainly it had its shortcomings. But at least it tried to…

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That way lies madness

I overheard a couple of younger men talking about softball. It was clear they took it pretty seriously. And I had half an impulse to warn them. Careful guys, I might have said. Let this become too important to you and you'll remember certain softball…

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THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 2011

Moronic Moments in My Career Dept.

Long ago and far away, I found myself in a hotel room talking to Dinah Shore about her new cookbook. My editor wanted me to get her to talk about her recent break-up with Burt Reynolds. She wanted to talk about cooking. For some reason,…

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Land spreadin' out so far and wide

For the longest time, I was somewhat baffled by the decision of so many of my friends and colleagues to live way out in the country. After all, isn't the relative ease of going from Point A to Point B one of Spokane's true assets?…

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On the road

It's almost a certainty that someone reading today's print Slice, in which I refer to the start of long car-drive season, will politely note that I seem to have forgotten about gas prices. Not really. I just haven't noticed motorists abandoning their cars. Sure, some…

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