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News >  Spokane

Clark: Bratwurst worth trip through torn-up Third Avenue

Scores of businesses are being affected by all the digging and scooping that has turned much of Third Avenue into a street maintenance war zone. Today, however, we will focus on the Alpine Delicatessen, 417 E. Third Ave., for the following reasons …
News >  Spokane

Street Music Week launched with 40-plus performers

The 11th annual Spokane Street Music Week kicked off with stellar sunny weather and 40-plus performers, including a juggler, a ukulele made out of a cigar box and Cole Barber, 15-year-old master of something he called the “Chinese yo-yo.” “I actually started when I was 7,” explained Barber, who added that it took a couple of years to nail some of the trickier tricks.
News >  Spokane

Clark: Bob Apple’s bar has it all – except for a name

When we last left Bob Apple, the ex-Spokane city councilman was inviting one and all to his brand new South Hill sports bar for tons of fun on Super Bowl Sunday. I even got caught up in all the excitement by holding a reader contest that, aside from wisecracks like “The Road Apple,” produced a positively genius name for the joint.
News >  Spokane

Clark: ‘Red Dawn’ shows truth is stranger than fiction

Whoever came up with the supermarket “impulse buy” had a sucker like me in mind. I can’t stand in a checkout line without grabbing a candy bar or a tube of lip balm or another box of mints from the goodies that have been put there to tempt the weak and simple-minded.
News >  Spokane

Clark: Prison not sounding like punishment for some

Not to frighten any of you, but I predict the entire region will soon be clobbered by a tsunami-sized crime wave. And all because of what’s been going on at Airway Heights Correctional Center, the horndog hoosegow of Eastern Washington.
News >  Spokane

Moses’ fate isn’t justice, but maybe it’s enough

There’s this old saying about how all publicity is good publicity just as long as you spell my name right. Whoever came up with that one probably never considered what it would be like having their name associated with a headline like the one that stretched across our front page last Thursday.