Slice Blog Advisory Board Critiques Week 1
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The Slice archive for Jan. 1, 2011
FRIDAY, MAY 27, 2011
Gettin' nostalgic with it 2
Slice reader Eric Rieckers weighed in on bygone Spokane movie theaters. "I miss the State (now Bing Crosby) Theater. My grandma lived across the street above the old Travo's (now Agave) and she took me to see 'High Anxiety' there in 1977. I was 8…
Slice Group Retail Consulting
Is it too much to ask that I be allowed to enter or exit Rite Aid without the sensors at the door setting off accusatory-sounding beeping? Maybe it's just me. I can see the store employees wanting to know when someone is coming in or…
What's the local connection?
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By any other name
The other day, I mentioned the practice of referring to neighbors by nicknames. That prompted a note from a South Hill waitress. "We have plenty of code names for some of our customers," she wrote. Among the examples she shared were "The good son," "Bionic…
THURSDAY, MAY 26, 2011
Thursday bonus nonsense
On "The Big Valley," Audra Barkley was known for saying: A) "Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges." B) "I've heard that you're a low-down Yankee liar." C) "Who ARE those guys?" D) "Good morning, mother." www.possumsal.com
Slice Blog Advisory Board Critiques Day 4
quixoticzephyr.wordpress.com
What's the local connection?
www.livedash.com
40th anniversary looming
It was over a long Fourth of July weekend in 1971 that the Universal Life Church "picnic" took place at North Idaho's Farragut State Park. It was actually a multi-band rock concert and celebration of what someone once described as "a morally casual attitude." Some…
Slow in what sense?
Jeff Clausen enjoys this sign at NorthTown so much he decided to take a picture of it.
Slice answer
Today's Slice column in print included a multiple-choice exercise in which readers of a certain age were asked to characterize their role during dodgeball back in school. Ashley Steinhart selected the last option, "Other." "Non-violent Peace Protestor," she wrote. "Hell NO, I won't GO! Threw…
Doing the wave
Now in my fourth year of three-season bicycle commuting, I've gotten to where I can usually tell when another Spokane cyclist is not going to return a friendly wave. So I have pretty much abandoned the practice of acknowledging bike riders decked out in such…
WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 2011
Built 'em all, with brutal results 1
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Slice Blog Advisory Board Critiques Day 3
www.wordtotheys.com
Just wondering
Are you more interested in criminal proceedings if the alleged perpetrator or victim is good-looking?
Today's photo of a B-24 in action 1
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Today's picture of Secretariat
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Thank-You Notes From Kids Department
I'll leave my source and the name of the child out of this. But here's the note. "Dear Ms. Zimmer "Thank you for coming to our school to teach us about the aquifer. Making the aquifer. Thank you again for wasting your time for us.…
Win a reporter's notebook 7
Just be the first to correctly identify this distant relative of mine. Here's a hint. His accomplishment should have paved the way to untold riches for many generations of his descendants. That's not what happened.
In retreat
"After gallantly fighting, using all the weapons and tools at my disposal, the not so Dandy-Lions have captured the battlefield," wrote Larry Woodard. "However, I live to fight the battle another day."
You make the call
True classic or hilariously overrated? www.surfermoon.com
Wednesday's Slice question
I haven't gotten to pipe up on a Wednesday since the early or mid-'90s, back when the food section came out on a different day. Feels good. So, anyway, here's one for my fellow early-risers. How often, on your way to work or when out…
TUESDAY, MAY 24, 2011
Slice Blog Advisory Panel Critiques Day 2
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Texting idiocy
So I duck into the downtown post office and head for the service counters. There's one employee on duty, and he is busy with a customer. One other person, a young man in a hoodie, is positioned about 10 or 15 feet away from the…
North By East West 1
Here's one for the Changes in Latitude file. "Regarding the North Idaho/Northern Idaho debate," wrote Shannon Bahr-Allert. "When I was visiting Pocatello last summer we were watching the local TV station and they refer to 'Eastern Idaho's biggest Ford dealership' or 'Eastern Idaho's best weather…
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