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NPR's Elissa Nadworny speaks with Kurt Volker, former U.S. ambassador to NATO, about worries that Russia's "hybrid attacks" could lead to a direct military confrontation with NATO.
Arts & Culture
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Practical Magic 2 is the perfect kind of film with which to end the summer-movie season, Dan Webster says.
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This week, "Movies 101" will be discussing two films that have little in common other than a relationship with the past. The first is The Uprising, a re-creation of a real-life historical event that took place nearly 700 years ago. And the second is Practical Magic 2, a sequel to a fictional film about witches that premiered nearly three decades ago. -
Ross McElwee’s documentaries are quirky, stream-of-consciousness considerations of his own life and the world around him. In Remake, now on VOD, he stitches together archival footage to process the death of his son, and Nathan Weinbender says it’s a wounding, complicated and deeply moving film.
Events
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EventsStop by your local Farmers' Market this summer and visit with SPR staff and volunteers at various Farmers' Markets in our region. -
Spokane Public Radio was 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!
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Over the years NPR's Michele Kelemen has seen high stakes diplomacy play out at the UN General Assembly.
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The President of Sacramento State talks about their Black honors college -- and how schools are dealing with DEI under the Trump administration. This story was produced with support from the Education Writers Association's Reporting Fellowship program.
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Researchers in Taiwan are racing to restore a crucial piece of the island's film history, before it's lost forever.
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NPR's Elissa Nadworny speaks with Adéla, about the rising popstar's debut album, Prima.
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With her 1974 book, "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek," Annie Dillard became the youngest woman to win the Pulitzer Prize. We take a moment to remember her and her work. -
The Trump administration was frustrated both home and abroad this week.
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The leaders of France, Poland, and other leading European nations are alarmed over what they describe as Russian "hybrid" attacks.
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Carnegie Deli, famous for its sandwiches piled high with meat, has reopened as a sit-down restaurant in New York City after a 10-year hiatus.
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The Shorefront Legacy Center, a small archive in a church basement in Evanston, Ill., collects papers and objects that tell the history of the city's Black community.
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NPR's Scott Simon and sportswriter Howard Bryant discuss Major League Baseball's pennant race and start of football season.
