Ahead of a concert at The Listening Room on April 24 as part of their Emerging Artists series, Riley Anderson (aka RCA) talks about his solo music, his band and building momentum.
#Spokane #music #podcast #vodcast #arts
ICYMI: This week's episode is with the #Spokane Camera Club's Donna Larsen and Steve Whitacre.
The club has been running since 1932 and has rolled with the changes. It's now experimenting with using AI to judge photos.
Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/0bXg...
The #Spokane Camera Club has been going since 1932, which means adapting to the times. From film to digital up to the era of effortless post-processing & AI.
Donna Larsen & Steve Whitacre talk about how the club rolls with the changes: youtube.com/watch?v=xH07...
#photography #visualarts #vodcast
Can AI be a good judge of photographic merit?
Put your knee-jerk reactions to one side as this week's guests, Donna Larsen and Steve Whitacre, talk about why the 94-year-old Spokane Camera Club has started experimenting with it.
#Spokane #podcast #vodcast #photography #visualarts #arts
This week's ALAYT gets a little tech-y as we consider UX design and how code can tell a story.
youtube.com/watch?v=RhfF...
#Spokane #EWU #technology #podcast #vodcast #arts
What happens to human-centered design in the AI era?
This week's episode gets a little nerdy with Colin Manikoth from the Department of Design at Eastern Washington University.
#Spokane #podcast #vodcast #design #UXdesign
Watch printmakers RGZ and MEG talk about the upcoming #Spokane Print Fest (Apr. 4 to 18) as well as #printmaking in general.
Later on, the Lightning Round also yields some music recommendations and stories about the things we do for love.
youtube.com/watch?v=iK9N...
#art #vodcast #visualart
The 2026 Spokane Print Fest kicks off on April 4 and runs until April 18. This week's guests, who sign their work RGZ and MEG, preview what's in store — but not before talking about printmaking as a process and an ethos.
#Spokane #CoeurDAlene #printmaking #visualart #arts #podcast #vodcast
33 Artists Market returns this coming weekend (Mar. 28) to The Woman's Club of #Spokane.
Hear all about who'll be at the upcoming event and what's in store for 33 (hint: nonprofit status, new locations) on this week's episode of ALAYT: open.spotify.com/episode/6tVk...
33 Artists Market... does that sound familiar? After 9 months, the popular multi-vendor market returns to the podcast — but this time it's under the stewardship of this week's guests, Scott and Irene Kelly. The artist couple talk about what they've got planned.
#Spokane #arts #podcast
Another link—audio this time—to the current ALAYT episode featuring @gregbem.bsky.social of Carbonation Press. It's clear that folks are picking up what he's putting down. Which is kinda the point of these conversations.
open.spotify.com/episode/4ZgG...
#Spokane #podcast #books #literature
Watch this week's episode with @gregbem.bsky.social, who talks about Carbonation Press and its new anthologies "Down River, Deep Root" and "Somos ajolotes": youtube.com/watch?v=M9WE...
Greg also reads his poem "interiority."
#Spokane #podcast #vodcast #books #literature
How a small literary press became a way to ease the departure from one place and feel at home in another:
Poet and librarian Greg Bem talks about his Carbonation Press and two of its new titles, "Somos ajolotes" and "Down River, Deep Root."
#Spokane #literature #books #arts #podcast #vodcast
For perhaps the first time ever, someone has finally compared weavers' looms to Beanie Babies.
Listen to textile artists Meagan Smith and Allyce Wood talk about their new exhibition "Tidal Loop" at the Eastern Washington University Art Gallery, where it runs until April 3.
#Spokane #podcast #arts
The 2026 #Spokane International Film Festival kicks off this Friday!
If you're wondering what's on offer and which films you might want to see, check out the current #vodcast episode of ALAYT featuring SpIFF's Aaron Spickelmire.
youtu.be/W3niMVbpjQ0
"Train Dreams" Q&As, locally made movies, a rich slate of Indigenous films and animated shorts with Oscar nods are all part of this year's Spokane International Film Festival.
SpIFF's Aaron Spickelmire joins us this week with a preview of the 3-day event (Mar. 6-8).
#film #Spokane #podcast
Similar to rap battles and pottery throwdowns, the @downtownspokane.bsky.social First Friday Face-Off has two artists each create a themed work before a live voting audience.
Watch the DSP's Liz Hooker & artist Dave Aaron talk about the event: youtube.com/watch?v=pOHB...
#Spokane #vodcast #arts
Downtown Spokane's First Friday Face-Off sees two visual artists each create a themed work in front of a live voting audience.
This week, Liz Hooker and Dave Aaron share their experiences with planning and participating in the event.
#Spokane #podcast #vodcast #visualart #arts
Big things are shaping up ahead of Spokane Children's Theater's milestone 80th season.
Tanya Morton, the organization's executive artistic director, talks about what's happening near-term as well as later this year.
#Spokane #podcast #vodcast #theater
If you value our weekly deep-dive conversations with local creatives, your support for Best Local Podcast in the Inlander's Best of 2026 poll would be hugely appreciated.
To vote, just head to bestof.inlander.com and look under the "Music & Entertainment" category. Thank you!
#Spokane #INW
What do bellies—and soft ones at that—have to do with poetry? More than you might think.
This week, Spokane Poet Laureate Mery Noel Smith talks about youth initiatives and much more. She also reads "My Father Fed Me" from her forthcoming project, 'Cake.'
#poetry #arts #Spokane #podcast #vodcast
What compels an off-grid musician to start experimenting with the digital? And how does the patronage model foster closer ties between an artist and their community? Musician Dario Ré goes deep on this week's ALAYT.
#Spokane #Sandpoint #podcast #vodcast #music #creativeeconomy
Asking a favor of all ALAYTers. Voting for the Inlander's Best Of 2026 is open, and it would mean a lot if ALAYT placed.
1. Go here: bestof.inlander.com
2. Select the "Music & Entertainment" category
3. Select "Best Local Podcast"
4. Write in "A Line Around Your Thoughts"
5. Click "Vote"
Thanks!
Joined by Spokane Falls Community College's Ashley Demoville, recent U of I grad Claire Rae Edmo talks about being at the start of her artistic career — the first stop being SFCC's sƛ̓x̣etkʷ Artist-in-Residence program.
#Spokane #arts #podcast #vodcast #education
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Storytelling is entertainment, sense-making and connection. Morgan Marie and Eric Woodard of the live storytelling series Pivot Spokane talk about that ahead of two upcoming Pivot events.
#Spokane #storytelling #podcast #vodcast
Check out this week's vodcast of ALAYT featuring Alex and Tiffany—plus special guests—from Spokane Puppetry: youtube.com/watch?v=WsYF...
#Spokane #puppetry #arts #podcast #vodcast
How do you get an introvert out of their shell? Hand them a puppet.
Join us this week via pod- and vodcast as we delve into puppets and puppeteering with Tiffany and Alex at Spokane Puppetry.
#Spokane #arts #puppets #puppetry #podcast #vodcast
This week's episode is the second part of the year-ending Lightning Round "Best Of" for 2025.
What's the Lightning Round? Here's your primer:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZXG...
#Spokane #podcast #vodcast #art #creatives
As regular listeners know—and as our guests are sometimes surprised to discover—every A Line Around Your Thoughts interview ends with a Lightning Round.
Released on Christmas Day, this week's episode (part 1 of 2) revisits some LR highlights.
open.spotify.com/episode/1GOa...
#Spokane #podcast
