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Netflix
Ferrell plays a zany former golf star who's trying to regain his mojo in a new Netflix series. While The Hawk has its flaws, it delivers satisfying silliness, amusing shenanigans and surprise cameos.
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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Advisers to the Food and Drug Administration are backing popular peptide therapies. They voted to allow specialized pharmacies to make them despite agency scientists' recommendations against it.
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U.S.-Iran strikes escalate, affecting global energy markets, Trump imposes double-digit tariffs on dozens of countries, Vigil held in Madison, Wisconsin, for man killed by police.
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Dalia Stasevska is a rising star in the conducting world. On her new album, "Ukrainian Mixtape," she's promoting some of Ukraine's neglected composers.
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With news of more U.S. casualties in the war with Iran, military families face the challenges of lengthy deployments.
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NPR's A Martinez asks Besa Pinchotti of the National Military Family Association what she's hearing from families of U.S. service members deployed overseas.
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Fifteen years ago, the FDA overhauled its safety rules for fruits and vegetables, hoping to prevent outbreaks of foodborne illness. How's that system working today?
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NPR's Michel Martin speaks to the New York Times' lead newsroom lawyer David McCraw about the Justice Department withdrawing subpoenas it had sent to the Times' reporters.
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The Trump administration has replaced expiring tariffs with new ones as it pursues its aggressive trade agenda.
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NPR's A Martinez speaks to Alan Wolff, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, about President Trump's new round of tariffs.
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The latest wave of grants announced by the National Endowment for the Humanities illustrates a Trump administration focus on such topics as the United States' founding.
