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Republican Isaiah Paine works for the Spokane Home Builders Association.
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What do World Cup champions crave after a win? Pizza from an Orange, N.J., bagel shop. BXJ made 46 pies for the Spanish team after their victory.
Arts & Culture
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Director Jean Hardie and student actors from Spokane Civic Theatre's A Midsummer Night's Dream visited the SPR studio to preview the production, including a reading from Shakespeare's legendary script. -
Theater on the Verge visits the studio to preview their first concert, The Art of the Possible: Songs for a Marginally Less Terrible World, featuring performances from singers Abbey Crawford and Robby French. -
Maddie’s Secret, from comedian John Early, is a hard film to classify. It plays like an homage to a 1980s TV movie about a woman with an eating disorder, and Nathan Weinbender says it’s a surprisingly thoughtful and sometimes absurd study of an often-mocked genre.
Events
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Spokane Public Radio is a media partner for the 2026 Blue Waters Bluegrass Festival -
SPR was a Media Partner for Rock the Block: West Central! We also hosted our first-ever Record Sale Pop-Up Shop at the event! -
EventsJoin SPR Staff, Hosts, and Volunteers at Art on the Green 2026
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The U.S. and Canada are opening a bridge between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, without celebration as wildfires and tariffs increase tensions.
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The U.S. has undertaken a sustained missile and drone assault on Iran over the past two weeks.
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The Trump administration has employed a number of new paths for its tariff regime after the Supreme Court invalidated earlier tariffs.
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Ukraine's attacks on warehouses of the Russian online retailer Wildberries have hurt small businesses and some consumers.
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NPR's Scott Simon asks Mark Cancian of the Center for Strategic and International Studies about concerns that the war with Iran is depleting stockpiles of key U.S. munitions.
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Golden, crisp, and deeply rooted—from the kitchens of Nigeria to breakfast tables across the Americas—discover how Akara crossed oceans in the hands of the enslaved
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Protests in India are growing as the government and the Cockroach Janta ("People's") Party negotiate over reforms to the education system.
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Cameron Lavi-Jones of the Seattle-based band King Youngblood used his band's entry into this year's Tiny Desk Contest to highlight two generations of Black musicians.
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For a country that's never needed -- and often looked down on -- air conditioning, this has been a summer of reckoning. As France suffers through successive extreme heatwaves, AC has become a political issue too.
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NPR's Scott Simon and sportswriter Howard Bryant talk about how off-court WNBA drama has obscured on-court performance.
