Yesterday's Out and About. The 2026 Spokane Pride Festival has begun!

Yesterday, I talked with Spokane Pride Executive Director Matt Danielson. We talked about North Idaho's very successful Pride Festival that took place last week. The Pride Festival is already underway, here in Spokane. Tonight at 7 pm, there is an interfaith worship service at St. John’s Cathedral. 

Friday is when a lot of stuff starts happening. If you come to Riverfront Park for the Trans Rights Rally on Friday at the Red Wagon (I will be one of the speakers) you can stick around for Yoga in the Park (thank you to COIL) and then the fun really accelerates with shows, music and dancing. Saturday, of course, is the big day with the vendor and food fair starting at 11. The parade at noon (Robert Sevilla and I will once again be playing music, announcing and broadcasting the parade for KYRS), activities all through the day, including a Two-Spirit Powwow, beer garden, food, vendors, shows and performances (on six different stages) in Riverfront Park. After the day’s festivities, you can head over to Nyne for a street fair and dance.

The Pride Festival is family-friendly and open to everyone. If you are already missing Pig Out in the Park, Neighbor Days or any of the other Spokane community celebrations, come on down for some fun. Hang out with a bunch of other kind, and honorable folks.

 
With our nation being plunged into fascism and the reluctance of legacy media to acknowledge the state we are in, it can be crazy-making. It can cause anxiety and loss of hope. That is exactly what the regime/cult wants you to feel. The Pride Festival is an antidote for that.

Having fun with thousands of other people who value community, kindness, honor, truth and intelligence will make you feel good - no matter who you are - straight, gay, cis or trans. Maybe this is why so many mainline churches, temples and synagogues have participated in Pride each year.

If you missed yesterday’s Out and About, you can take a listen here https://archive.kyrs.org/mp3/kyrs_260609_160000b.mp3

As always, thank you to my underwriters - Boots Bakery and Eastern Washington University. 

Tune into Out and About every Tuesday at 4 pm on KYRS at 88.1 and 92.3 fm. Also streaming at KYRS.org. Thanks for listening! Maeve 

 

Today's Out and About - PRIDE FESTIVAL IS THIS WEEKEND! HAPPY PRIDE!

 

On today’s show, we will be checking in again with Matt Danielson. Matt’s the director of Spokane Pride.

This weekend is the Pride Festival in Spokane. It’s an event that brings tens of thousands of kind and decent people to Downtown Spokane and Riverfront Park. It’s fun. It’s free. Just being there with a multitude of honorable people will make you feel good, whether you are LGBTQ or not. It is family-friendly and a powerful respite from the continual onslaught of Fascism, lies and violence spewing from the immoral crime family and cult running our nation right now.

This year, KYRS will once again be broadcasting from the start of the parade. We (Creative Mindset’s Robert Sevilla and I) will be playing happy music and announcing the participants as they walk, skate, skip, gallop, ride, swim or drive by. The parade starts at noon and the rest of the day is filled with fun programing. The weather is supposed to be really nice. If you can’t be there, you can listen to the parade on KYRS starting at noon and hear the fun. 

The event kicks off at 3 pm in Riverfront Park on Friday with a rally for trans rights. Matt and I will be giving you the lowdown on all the activities that will be taking place this weekend. 

I will also be telling you (as usual) when and where all the pro-democracy demonstrations will be taking place this week.

Thank you to my underwriters - Boots Bakery and Eastern Washington University.

 Out and About airs every Tuesday at 4 pm on KYRS at 88.1 and 92.3 fm. Also streaming at KYRS.org. Thanks for listening! Maeve 

Haiku Friday - June 5, 2026

 

Freedom Two Fifty:

A party for the aged. Senility now! 

Max Q 

Shiitake mushrooms

Golden umbrellas of good

For tonight’s stir fry

Bill

A quest for beauty 

By being so well preserved 

Free of expression 

Rikosan 

Rejoice human life

Kindness, honor, grit, love, truth

The Pride Festival

Maeve

Yesterday's Out and About - HAND TO GOD...

 

Yesterday, on Out and About, I had a fun conversation with Troy Nickerson and Chris Jensen about their play Hand to God. Troy is the director of the show and Chris produced it. This Theater on the Verge production was an incredible thing to witness and was like nothing I had ever seen before. The story, the acting, the puppets, the set - everything was superb. How did they make something this complex, this weird, this moving and this funny?

I was plagued by a failing voice yesterday, and as I type this my voice is completely gone! I have to say I probably haven’t laughed this hard during an interview. If you haven’t seen the play, get your tickets here -  https://theaterontheverge.ticketspice.com/hand-to-god 

If you missed yesterday’s Out and About, you can take a listen here - https://archive.kyrs.org/mp3/kyrs_260602_160000b.mp3

As always, thank you to my underwriters - Boots Bakery and Eastern Washington University. 

Tune into Out and About every Tuesday at 4 pm on KYRS at 88.1 and 92.3 fm. Also streaming at KYRS.org. Thanks for listening! Maeve 

Today's Out and About - Theater on the Verge's performance of HAND TO GOD...

I really enjoyed Theater on the Verge’s production of Hand to God, last weekend. The performance was like nothing I had ever witnessed. If you have a chance to see this play, it is very much worth your time and money.

When love, grief and longing get tangled up in a church’s puppet ministry, you know the story is going to be good. Mix in a little possible hand-puppet-demonic-possession? For me? Ambrosia! 

This play left me with a lot of questions, though. The performances were so wonderful and the puppets (one in particular) had such believable personalities, I couldn’t help but ask myself - How did they do that? If you’ve seen the play, you will want to tune in. If you haven’t seen the play, tune in and then be prepared to get your tickets here -  https://theaterontheverge.ticketspice.com/hand-to-god 

Thank you to my underwriters - Boots Bakery and Eastern Washington University.

 Out and About airs every Tuesday at 4 pm on KYRS at 88.1 and 92.3 fm. Also streaming at KYRS.org. Thanks for listening! Maeve 

Haiku Friday - May 29, 2026

 

Slipping on my Crocs:

A morning fashion statement 

Of the frugal kind. 

Max Q

Busy lady bug 

Scurries up a blade of grass

Lost in its own world

Bill

In people less rooms 

Still standing or standing still 

Chairs can get the blues 

Rikosan

Fish story shadow

Glowing light casts peaceful hope

While truth is too bright 

Maeve 

Yesterday's Out and About - Spokane Pride Executive Director Matt Danielson

 

Yesterday, I talked with Spokane Pride Executive Director Matt Danielson. The Pride Festival is coming up! It’s now a two day celebration. There are plenty of events on Friday, June 12 and the usual big events on Saturday, June 13 which have attracted tens of thousands of people to downtown Spokane every year. 

Matt and I spent some time talking about why the Pride Festival is for everyone. It’s a celebration of community for all kind and honorable people. It’s family-friendly too.

With our nation being plunged into fascism and the reluctance of legacy media to acknowledge the state we are in, it can be crazy-making. It can cause anxiety and loss of hope. That is exactly what the regime/cult wants you to feel. The Pride Festival is an antidote for that.

Having fun with thousands of other people who value community, kindness, honor, truth and intelligence will make you feel good - no matter who you are - straight, gay, cis or trans. Maybe this is why so many mainline churches, temples and synagogues have participated in Pride each year.

If you missed yesterday’s Out and About, you can take a listen here -https://archive.kyrs.org/mp3/kyrs_260526_160000b.mp3

As always, thank you to my underwriters - Boots Bakery and Eastern Washington University. 

Tune into Out and About every Tuesday at 4 pm on KYRS at 88.1 and 92.3 fm. Also streaming at KYRS.org. Thanks for listening! Maeve