A Line Around Your Thoughts

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This week's guests are Toby Keough and Chris Grubb of Coeur d'Alene's new fine art gallery and professional artist collective, MODUS.

Ahead of the gallery's grand opening on June 12, 2026, they talk about the legacy that comes with inhabiting the former Art Spirit space, some of the collective's current artist members and the m.o. of MODUS.

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It's the start of Pride Month, and our guest this week is Gatieh Nacario, who designed this year's Spokane Pride T-shirt.

Gatieh is the visual artist behind many public and private murals as well as the new North Monroe Business District banner. He talks about the development of the stained glass illusion effect that's become part of his signature style.

He's also the founder of Kultura de Filipino Dance Company, a dance troupe that specializes in preserving and performing Filipino folk dances.

The Spokane Pride Festival is on June 12 and 13, 2026.

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Our guest this week is Nathan O'Brien, founder and showrunner of the Lilac City Comicon.

The LCC will celebrate its 20th anniversary this year when it runs June 6 and 7 at the Spokane Convention Center.

Nathan talks about the two-decade evolution of the event, its community outreach and its guest star lineup in 2026.

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Welcome to the standalone second (and final) part of our two back-to-back episodes featuring members of the Spokane Public Library⁠⁠.

This week we're back on location at the SPL's in-house podcast studio, this time with SPL Writing Education Specialist and author Sharma Shields.

Sharma talks about several of the library's lit-related initiatives in addition to giving a quick preview of her forthcoming novel Duckling, which is due out next year.

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This week's episode is on location at the Spokane Public Library's podcast studio, where our guests are Eva Silverstone and Alina Murcar.

Eva is the SPL's Arts Education Specialist; Alina is the Marketing & Communications Manager.

The two of them talk about how Spokane's library system has transformed from a repository of printed matter into a multifaceted resource for the creative community.

Next week's episode with author and SPL Writing Specialist Sharma Shields will continue this conversation.

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This episode marks A Line Around Your Thoughts' one-year anniversary. And in honor of that, we're checking back in with our debut-episode pioneers, Troy Nickerson and Chris Jensen of Theater on the Verge.

They talk about a year's worth of activity as well as their upcoming production of the puppet-forward dark comedy, Hand to God.

Hand to God opens on May 21, 2026 at The Listening Room at Hamilton Studio and runs there until June 6, 2026

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On the second Thursday of each month, poet David Klenda ("86") and multi-instrumentalist Thomas Richardson unleash The Chaos at the Blue Door Theatre.

The Chaos is an unpredictable, semi-improvised evening of music, spoken word poetry, improv actors, stand-up comics, hula hoopers and even a magician.

For this week's episode, David and Thomas recap what happened at the last Chaos (hint: someone gets beaned by a hula hoop) and preview what they think is coming up at the next one on May 14, 2026.

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We're back in the Rogue Heart Media studio this week to revisit with Imagine Jazz. But this time, we're talking to musician Brendan McMurphy.

In honor of Jazz Appreciation Month, Imagine Jazz is hosting an International Jazz Day Celebration at the Spokane Public Library's downtown location on April 30, 2026.

It's a full day of free concerts featuring ensembles like Kristina Ploeger Quintet, the Brent Edstrom Trio and The Glass Bead Orchestra plus up-and-coming musicians.

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This week's episode was recorded at Hamilton Studio's Listening Room, where the musician Riley Anderson will be performing on April 24, 2026 as part of their Emerging Artists series.

Riley makes solo music as RCA and is also the frontman for RCA and the Radicals. This episode closes with RCA and the Radicals' debut single "Lakeshore Drive."

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This week, we're chatting with photographers Donna Larsen and Steve Whitacre, who are co-chairs of the Spokane Camera Club.

They cover the ins and outs of the 94-year-old club before getting into that inescapable topic—AI—and its application in photographic judging. There's also time to talk about another perennial debate in photography: How much post-processing is too much?