Column: Over the ‘Jersey Shore’ obsession

TV fall lineup serves viewers comedy, drama, dessert

Boutiques in style this shopping season

Venue offers wide range of bands

‘Talent’ returns to Spokane

'The Life of Dorian Gray'

A review of the freshman class summer reading

  ‘There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about,’ at least according to Oscar Wilde’s novel “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” the novel picked by Gonzaga as the 2010-2011 University book, as required reading for all incoming freshmen and transfer students.

Welcome to Spokane

A guide to the best places in Spokane

Kennedy Pavilion: more than athletics

Old athletic center hosted bevy of musical acts

It’s easy to forget, in the midst of all the activity on campus and the changes to Gonzaga, that the school has offered students a place to learn, live, and grow for decades. Some things — like every student’s desire to lay out in the sun at the first sign of summer — have not changed (old yearbooks, in fact, are filled with pictures of these vitamin D deficient students); on the other hand, certain aspects of Gonzaga have certainly transformed with the times.

Conan O’Brien lights up Spokane stage

Comedian and recently-canned talk show host Conan O’Brien took the stage to thunderous applause at the INB Performing Arts Center last Friday night on the third stop of his “Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television Tour.”  Bursting with energy and donning a Stephen Gray Gonzaga basketball jersey that perfectly complemented his ‘Grizzly Man’ beard, O’Brien soaked up the love from the2,800in attendance at the nearly sold-out event.

More half-assed than kick ass

‘Kick-Ass’ has its moments, but violence is overdone

“Kick-Ass,” directed by Mathew Vaughn (and produced by Brad Pitt, by the way) is one of the strangest, disjointed, and at times really entertaining films I’ve seen in a while.  Well, actually, there are two different movies going on at the same time here.