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he latest stop on Joseph O Neal s culinary journey, one that began 13 years ago, is packing some serious heat. Having cut his teeth at several restaurants around the region, including Tony Brown s celebrated spot Ruins for six years, O Neal is poised to debut his own line of chili oils, a project expedited this past year when O Neal found himself with spare time after the pandemic s onset. I had all this free time and over 100 cookbooks, so I started grabbing a cookbook and would learn to make that [food] and share with friends. Then it came down to a chili oil that blew my mind, and I was like, All right, where can you buy this? he recalls.
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he Derek Chauvin trial appears to be going well, but I m not celebrating. Given the countless times police have killed Black people and not been charged, it is frustrating but true that even having a trial for a gruesome murder witnessed around the world is a small victory. But while Chauvin s trial represents the
possibility of police accountability within the legal system, his prosecution is an example of the system that produced him protecting itself. Jac Archer When we are accustomed to seeing police departments defend egregious behavior, it is at first encouraging to see the system finally call out a bad cop. But read the subtext. The prosecutors are proceeding on the bad apple theory, painting Chauvin as a uniquely bad officer who engaged in anomalously violent actions. Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo the city s first Black police chief led several of his officers in testifying that Chauvin s treatmen
Chancellor, WSU-Spokane: 2013-17 ); })() The largest division within the agency actually deals with housing and community services, Brown says, which includes seeverything from the state housing trust fund and the Office of Crime Victims Advocacy to a spectrum of homelessness services. The state energy office is also housed in her roughly 300-person agency. Hundreds of millions of dollars in state grants and financial assistance to people and businesses have flowed through the agency to those in need during the pandemic. So there s that whole spectrum of things that are not normally in Commerce in other states, Brown says. We re really not one of the biggest agencies in state government, but we have like 90-some programs.
Get Lit! Director Kate Peterson is taking the festival online in 2021.
Spokane s Get Lit! Festival has been gathering a diverse array of writers in the Inland Northwest every year since 1998, but 2020 introduced plot twists that no author could have seen coming. The pandemic forced Get Lit! back onto the shelf for a while, but the festival is back starting Monday, albeit in a virtual capacity. Eastern Washington University s annual literary celebration not only lauds local talent but brings in big names from all over the country. Past Get Lit! appearances have included literary legends like Kurt Vonnegut and Joyce Carol Oates, singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Colson Whitehead, and bestselling commentator Roxanne Gay.
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