Arrow-right Camera
The Spokesman-Review Newspaper
Spokane, Washington  Est. May 19, 1883

Michael Guilfoil

This individual is no longer an employee with The Spokesman-Review.

All Stories

News >  Features

Feeding The Earth Celebrating Earth Day By Thinking About What We Can Give Back

Earth Day turns 25 today, and like most 25-year-olds, it's showing signs of maturity. For starters, Earth Day is less flashy - fewer rock concerts, fewer pranks (like the time ecoterrorists dumped oil in the reflecting pool outside Standard Oil's San Francisco headquarters). Instead, it's become more family oriented. Riverfront Park will host an assortment of activities for all ages today, including fiddlers, story-tellers and solar-powered model car races. Elsewhere, cleanups and picnics are planned.
News >  Features

State Of The Arts Planning Spokane’s Cultural Future

Beautiful voices alone don't make a choir great. Also needed are lyrics, notes and a shared vision. Likewise, cities require more than talented individuals to achieve cultural harmony. They also need a plan, says Michael Sullivan, Tacoma's manager of cultural resources - one that considers a community's strengths, its weaknesses and its hopes for the future. Tacoma completed its cultural plan two years ago, and Sullivan calls the results astonishing. Arts-related jobs and revenue have doubled, and community pride is on the upswing. Says Sullivan, "This city has changed forever."

Designing Idaho Idaho Architects Invite Area Residents To Choose Favorites

1. Architect Jerry Anderson designed this 5,260-quare-foot Fernan Lake residence for Robert and Muriel Schini. Photos from American Institute of Architects' North Idaho Section 2. Kootenai County Library's Hayden Branch, designed by G.D. Longwell Architects. 3. This contemporary residence on Hayden Lake was designed by Kristina Clark for Stan and Marge Jones. 4. This four-story home on Fernan Lake is the private residence of architect Monte Miller and his wife, Anneliese.

Architect To Speak On `Making Things Fit’

Architect James Cutler has been called one of the nation's best "regionalists" - designers who draw inspiration from their immediate surroundings to create structures that somehow belong on a particular site. But that hasn't kept Cutler from seeking commissions far afield of his Bainbridge Island headquarters. The town of Salem, Mass., chose Cutler's vision for the Witch Trials Tercentenary Memorial from among 242 international entrants. Another client had him design a home on an Ohio dairy farm, where Cutler took cues from nearby outbuildings.
News >  Features

Romance Writers Like Flowers, Gifts Of Time Music Boxes Also Rate High In National Poll

Stumped for ideas about what to give your sweet babboo on this, the most romantic of holidays (not including the anniversary of your first date, which you forgot again last month)? According to a poll of America's 7,000-plus romance writers, the most romantic gifts you can give are time, a music box, and flowers (particularly roses). Their suggestions for romantic dates include a moonlight sail, an evening of ballet, or a weekend together.
News >  Features

Who Will Be My Valentine? Out-Of-The-Ordinary Just Right For Author

Remember the old warning to be careful what you wish for? Local author Susan Christina has created a contemporary heroine who seeks relief from an unhappy marriage - and winds up in early 19th century England, where she struggles to overcome her disorientation with what historians call the Regency period, ruled by George, Prince of Wales.
News >  Features

Life Lists Putting Dreams On Paper Can Make Them Come True

1. Carolyn Orcutt has backpacked to the base of five 8,000-meter peaks, including Everest and K2. She still has nine summits left on her life list. Photo by Christopher Anderson/The Spokesman-Review 2. Getting her photography published is one goal Teri Barr can check off her list. At left is her photo of Haystack Rock taken while-vacationing at Oregon's Cannon Beach. Photo by Craig Buck/The Spokesman-Review 3. 'There's nothing like a Harley,' says Don Kirby, 41, who plans to own one by his 50th birthday. Photo by Craig Buck/The Spokesman-Review 4. Unlike most organ recipients, Karen Weber chooses to maintain close ties with the family of her donor, Lori Olson, who died two years ago at age 26. Weber received a liver transplant. Photo by Dan McComb/The Spokesman-Review
News >  Features

Lists Help Give Priority To Goals

Life lists are important, says human resource consultant Jennifer Leake, "because we tend to be visual." Putting goals on paper "helps crystallize your image of where you want to be." Start the process by flexing your imagination. "No idea is too crazy, too wild or too impossible," says Leake. "Think big!"
News >  Features

Readers Share Their Life Goals

Karen Weber figures her liver transplant gave her a second shot at life, and she plans to make the most of it. Weber's goals are to raise public awareness of the need for more organ donors "and to live a long, happy life, one day at a time." Her comments were among two dozen mailed to The Spokesman-Review and telephoned to Cityline.