Inlander

SPOKANE JAZZ ORCHESTRA Not a lot of arts institutions around town can claim they’ve been around for half a century, so that makes the longevity of the Spokane Jazz Orchestra all the more impressive.

Get your hands on traditional Greek pastries like baklava and loukoumades. Holden Jacobi Henry photos For nine decades, the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church has been serving the Inland Northwest a slice of Greek culture through its annual Greek Fest — the longest-running Greek food festival in the nation. This year’s 90th anniversary celebration returns Sept. 24-26 at the church at 1703 N.

Washington state is no stranger to data centers, with the first wave of modern facilities going into the small Grant County city of Quincy two decades ago, thanks to state sales tax incentives, affordable land and cheap hydropower electricity. A decade ago, Microsoft’s Columbia Data Center there was considered the largest in the world and consumed up to about 50 megawatts of electricity.

In the words of David Bowie, “Let’s dance!” For Haru (Rinko Kikuchi), dancing with her husband Luis (Alejandro Edda) is something magical. Director Josef Kubota Wladyka expresses that magic literally when Haru and Luis take the floor during a Tokyo dance competition at the beginning of Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!. They float in the air, focused only on each other as they gracefully glide through their steps, in a lovely visual representation of their devotion.

Erick Doxey photo PHOTO EYE: CLOSING BROWNE FOR GREEN Contractors working for the city of Spokane installed construction fencing to temporarily close off the four pedestrian entrances to the Browne Street viaduct on Thursday, Sept. 17. The temporary closure was put in place as the city started work on the first phase of constructing the Pacific Avenue Greenway, which will create an east-west bike route from Howard Street to Sherman Street.

I SAW YOU YOU HAD ME AT BURRATA: Thursday evening 9/17 Costco in the Valley. I was looking at the Burrata Salad and you started chatting with me about it. We ran into each other again throughout the store and continued to chat. You asked what I did for work because of what I was wearing. You then gave me a fist bump and said thank you for what you do. It’s so refreshing to run into nice genuine people in the world these days. You made my night! I sooo wish I would have had the guts to get your number.

In general, like with any major development in the world with technology, you have to look at the pros and cons. I think that a lot of the pros that come out of AI usage are primarily benefiting the billionaires who are spending trillions of fake dollars on it. I think, in the long term, AI is going to be a greater societal good than a societal negative. But the amount of pain we are going to have to endure is not to be discounted. What restrictions should be placed on AI and data centers?

Young Kwak Coffee is part of many people’s morning rituals, but not many dive deeper than a drink spruced up with cream and flavored syrup. “The same way with craft beer or wine or whatever that you get into, you start really appreciating like, ‘Wow, there’s a lot more to coffee than just covering it up with milk and sugar,’” says Indaba Coffee Roaster’s founder and CEO, Bobby Enslow. “Like you can actually enjoy black coffee.

For this year’s main story in our Election Issue, which hits stands on Oct. 22, we want to try something a little different. Instead of asking the questions we think are most pressing, why not open it up to local readers and voters to share what they think are the most important questions each candidate should answer?

TIFF standouts: Bucking Fastard, Possible Love, Tender Loving Care. Venturing to this year’s Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), which technically opened with the sci-fi action romp Hope as a special screening, there was already a sense things were off.