Urban Art Awakening
Full-time muralist Daniel Lopez’s luminous, soft-edged paintings adorn prominent buildings, traffic underpasses, back alleys and restaurant patios.
Nature’s Bounty
An untrained eye would have overlooked the cluster of silvery green leaves poking up through a pile of smooth rocks on the banks of the Spokane River. But wild plant forager Aubrey Mundell immediately spots the herb.
After losing two brothers to suicide, Sabrina Votava founded a prevention-driven nonprofit in Spokane
Sabrina Votava’s family experienced unimaginable tragedy in 2003. Two separate moments that year changed Votava’s life forever and led the now 34-year-old Spokane native to devote her career to helping ensure that other families in the Inland Northwest don’t go through what hers did.
The Cake Master
Christine Leaming has always been artistic. Instead of paint or clay or other traditional materials, her chosen media these days are buttercream icing, fondant, modeling chocolate, food dyes and cake batter.
Cookie Canvas
Amber Fenton is a cookie artist. Amongst others in the world of royal icing masters, however, Fenton considers herself a “cookier,” a title adopted by fellow bakers whose canvases of choice are the infinite shapes that can be formed into a sugar cookie.
En Plein Spokane
Rain, shine, snow or wildfire smoke, Megan Perkins stayed true to her commitment to paint a Spokane-centric scene at least once a week for a full year.
Tropical Getaway
There’s a place downtown where you can almost believe you’ve been magically transported to a beach on the South Pacific.
Fire and Smoke
Chef Philip Stanton is taking food back to the basics. He’s starting with fire.
With the Grain
Beer and bread — two of the oldest recipes in the world — unite for the forthcoming South Perry bakery and brewery at The Grain Shed.
Queen of Sweet
There are diners who love Christie Sutton’s desserts so much they’ll call ahead to make sure their favorite treat is available on the day they plan to stop into Europa Restaurant and Bakery in downtown Spokane.