Similar to rap battles and pottery throwdowns, the Downtown Spokane Partnership's First Friday Face-Off has two artists each create a themed work in front of a live voting audience within a ~2-hour period.
Watch the DSP's Liz Hooker & artist Dave Aaron talk about the event: https://youtube.com/watch?v=pOHBrSc3Tgw
Downtown Spokane's First Friday Face-Off sees two visual artists each create a themed work in front of a live voting audience.
This week, Liz Hooker and Dave Aaron share their experiences with planning and participating in the event.
Big things are shaping up ahead of Spokane Children's Theatre’s milestone 80th season.
Tanya Morton, the organization's executive artistic director, talks about what's happening near-term as well as later this year.
#Spokane #podcast #vodcast #theater
https://alaytpodcast.com/2026/02/12/tanya-morton-of-spokane-childrens-theatre/
What do bellies—and soft ones at that—have to do with poetry? More than you might think.
This week, Spokane Poet Laureate Mery Noel Smith talks about youth initiatives and much more. She also reads "My Father Fed Me" from her forthcoming project, 'Cake.'
#poetry #arts #Spokane #podcast #vodcast
https://alaytpodcast.com/2026/02/05/mery-noel-smith-spokane-poet-laureate/
We're excited to announce we're starting a podcast "Curate This!" where we interview (bio)curators and have them show us how they work (live!)
In the first episode, we talked with @drsbello about curating mouse genotypes and alleles in @MGI
Really excited to share this week's #ITOps Query #vodcast episode with renowned public speaker, industry commentator, technologist and open source ambassador @kelseyhightower. He describes himself as an AI skeptic, but warns that #platformengineers should take the threat of #AI to their jobs seriously. In this episode, he explains the skills IT leaders must emphasize as they prepare for the question: "What value do you bring over the machines?"
In today’s episode, we’ll cover…
-- AI's "Bridge building problem"
-- Why AI is a surface-level technology
-- A coming salary correction for some IT pros
-- "Training your replacement" vs understanding systems
and more!
What compels an off-grid musician to start experimenting with the digital? And how does the patronage model foster closer ties between an artist and their community? Musician Dario Ré goes deep on this week's ALAYT.
#Spokane #Sandpoint #podcast #vodcast #music #creativeeconomy
https://alaytpodcast.com/2026/01/29/dario-re-songwriter-musician-visual-artist/
Asking a favor of all ALAYTers.
Voting for the Inlander's Best Of 2026 is open, and it would mean a lot if ALAYT placed.
1. Go here: https://bestof.inlander.com
2. Select the "Music & Entertainment" category
3. Select "Best Local Podcast"
4. Write in "A Line Around Your Thoughts"
5. Click "Vote"
Thank you!
Accompanied by Spokane Falls Community College's Ashley Demoville, recent University of Idaho grad Claire Rae Edmo talks about being at the start of her artistic career — with the first stop being the sƛ̓x̣etkʷ Artist-in-Residence program at SFCC.
Brett Smith, distinguished software developer at #AI and #datamanagement software and services company SAS, has spent nine of his 13 years with the company focused on #softwaresupplychainsecurity, managing #DevSecOps and compliance for a 3,000-developer organization. He shares the good, the bad and the ugly of the journey to date, and his outlook for the future in this week's episode of the #ITOps Query #vodcast:
Storytelling is entertainment, sense-making and connection. Morgan Marie and Eric Woodard of the live storytelling series Pivot Spokane talk about that ahead of two upcoming Pivot events.
#Spokane #storytelling #podcast #vodcast
https://alaytpodcast.com/2026/01/15/eric-woodard-morgan-marie-of-pivot-spokane/
Guten Morgen - Tässle Kaffee ☕️?
In der neuen Folge von #BlumeundInce hatten @Teh_Doc_Inan & ich vor der #Mimesis auch die #Migräne angesprochen. Zahlreiche Betroffene haben darauf bereits positiv reagiert, auch hier im #Fediverse. Es bedeutet uns viel, dass wir mit unserem #Podcast & #Vodcast Menschen erreichen und unterstützen können! Danke für jede der bereits zahlreichen Rückmeldungen! 🙏😌💡 https://scilogs.spektrum.de/natur-des-glaubens/blume-ince-49-migraene-mimesis-menschen-neurodivers/
Dank dem unermüdlichen @Teh_Doc_Inan ist die neue Folge von #BlumeundInce als #Podcast & YT-#Vodcast bereits online!
Das Thema: #Migräne & #Mimesis - Der Mensch #neurodivers
Gibt es morgen auch als Blogpost, aber hier schon vorab: https://blumeundince.podigee.io/52-folge-49-migrane-und-mimesis-mensch-neurodivers
How do you get an introvert out of their shell? Hand them a puppet.
Join us this week via pod- and vodcast as we delve into puppets and puppeteering with Tiffany and Alex at Spokane Puppetry.
#Spokane #arts #puppets #puppetry #podcast #vodcast
https://alaytpodcast.com/2026/01/08/tiffany-bubna-alex-calbick-of-spokane-puppetry/
Kicking off the #ITOps Query #vodcast for the year with guest Rob Strechay, looking back at #AIdatamanagement evolution in 2025 and ahead to #AIgovernance advances in 2026. #enterprisetech #technologypodcast #AIdatagovernance
This week's episode is the second part of the year-ending Lightning Round "Best Of" for 2025.
What's the Lightning Round? Here's your primer:
As regular listeners know—and as our guests are sometimes surprised to discover—every interview on A Line Around Your Thoughts ends with a Lightning Round.
Released on Christmas Day, this week's episode revisits a few of those Lightning Round highlights with guests from the podcast's first four months.
Part Two (with guests from the latter half of 2025) follows this Thursday to kick off 2026 and a brand new season of ALAYT.
What turns a space into a listening room? Filmmaker and photographer Don Hamilton talks about transforming his historic Hamilton Studio into a sought-after #Spokane performing arts venue.
#podcast #vodcast #music #performingarts #theater
https://alaytpodcast.com/2025/12/18/don-hamilton-photographer-filmmaker-owner-of-the-listening-room/
The final #ITOps Query #vodcast episode of 2025 is kind of an interesting counterpoint to last week's conversation about cloud repatriation and bare metal. Paul Constantinides, EVP of engineering at Salesforce, who leads the company's #Hyperforce team, and I discussed why #Salesforce expanded its #publiccloud presence as it added #AI and #AIOps.
In today’s episode, we also cover…
* Trust as a core value in infrastructure management at scale
* How cloud-native principles improve resilience for AI applications
* How internally developed AIOps tools perform automate incident remediation and response
* The role for human engineers in a #NoOps future
And more!
Programming note: We will be taking a holiday break the next two weeks, returning with new episodes Jan 8.
