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.
Recovering ’90s fashion victim
Everywhere I look, the fashion of the 1990s is mocking me. It’s like the dELiA*s catalog has been reborn into reality. Does anyone else think this comeback was a little fast?
Inlander Pet Issue, 2018
After being inspired by similar “pet issues” published by a few other alternative weeklies in the U.S., I developed and edited this cover package with contributions from The Inlander’s editorial team.
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.
Down by the Creek
We didn’t have a lot of money growing up, so traditional family vacation trips were rare. What we did have, though, was 20 acres of land in the country, and plenty of time on our hands each summer to enjoy all it had to offer.
Tropical Getaway
There’s a place downtown where you can almost believe you’ve been magically transported to a beach on the South Pacific.