Working out at the downtown Gold's Gym these days can be kind of weird/depressing/odd given that the gym's floor-to-ceiling windows face the big display ad images of the petrified cadavers in the Bodies Exhibit across the street. That's almost as weird as the placement of the Monroe high school a few feet and a chain link fence away from the Monroe prison, but whatever. Maybe taking the faces of 'roid-sucking hard-bodies and rubbing it in morbid displays of mortality was always part of the grand scheme of the suspiciously named "Dr. Gunther von Hagens," who the Seattle Times accuses of being "the German physician who originated the plasticizing technique to preserve the corpses." more ›

With not much happening in our own city’s mayoral race, we thought we would look across the Cascades to eastern Washington and see what is happening in our sister city Spokane…oh my. more ›