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IN 7, HAPPY 100 TO THE LIBERTY BUILDING: And happy 30th to Auntie's Bookstore. While the years since have presented venerable Auntie's with its share of ups and downs, the store remains Spokane's literary jewel - celebrating its anniversary this weekend. (Also see: A brief history)
Other things to do this weekend
See: Ghost Town | Lakeview Terrace | More movies
Hear: Living Legends
Events: Search the 7 calendar

REDESIGN UPDATE: Here's a sneak preview screenshot of how the redesign looks right now. The layout is subject to change of course, but the overall attitude of the site is fresh with lots of white space and breathing room, larger images, and more ways to "suggest" content to visitors and loop them around to different places on the site. If you liked X, perhaps you'll like Y. Similar visitors also enjoyed the following videos. View the top most-read stories on the web site. See more like this.

And for those of you who like news feed format, like Facebook news feed or MySpace's friend updates, or the basic idea of an RSS feed, the new Spokesman.com will have a sub-page that functions as a news feed. All content posted to the site, all users signing up, multimedia and blog posts, etc. will be listed in this live stream of site activity.

More news to come soon. There's about a week or two left before the developers launch publicly.

New video

Quick profile on EWU offensive lineman Charlie Wulff, produced by sports videographer Nick Eaton.

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