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Plus, Washington U.S. Senator Patty Murray visited Spokane to talk wildfire recovery. And Spokane developer Walt Worthy, who helped renovate the Davenport, opens his wallet to help wildfire survivors.
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Arts & Culture
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This week, Movies 101 will tackle a pair of films that have little, if anything, in common … save for something plot-oriented that smacks of mystery. The first is the big-budget sci-fi survival adventure title, pun intended, “The End of Oak Street.” The other is the Japanese historical study “The Samurai and the Prisoner.” -
The End of Oak Street is a standard family-in-crisis movie with a fantastical dystopian conceit, Dan Webster says.
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Jim Tevenan and guests discuss the North Idaho Philharmonia's upcoming production of Carl Orff's beloved cantata, "Carmina Burana"
Events
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Join SPR as we welcome NPR's David Folkenflik to The Bing Crosby Theater on April 14, 2026 -
Thank you to everyone who came out and supported the 35th Annual Record Sale -
Spokane Public Radio was a media partner for BANFF Mountain Film Festival
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His first solo album finds the Beastie Boys rapper making music with his sons and embracing the unpredictability of collaboration. -
A war that was supposed to last weeks and end Iran's Islamic regime has now been underway for six months. People inside Iran who were initially hopeful have grown increasingly disillusioned.
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Palestinians have started burning and banning kids kites after Israel says they'll treat them as hostile acts if they blow across the border.
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New Trump-led proposals to change how federal grants are decided could spell trouble for blue cities and states, The Indicator reports.
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The jury has begun deliberating in the trial of Lindsay Clancy, the Boston-area mother accused of murdering her three young children.
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A conservative group is planning cash prizes for State Department employees who fight DEI and help deport migrants.
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NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with David Wilcox, with the Peterson Institute for International Economics, about what investors and economists are hoping to hear from the Fed chair's speech Friday.
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NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, set to launch this weekend, may shed new light on the nature of dark energy -- that mysterious force causing the universe to expand.
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Congressional Democrats are preparing for a new kind of midterm challenge: The risk that President Trump will attempt to undermine November's elections by claiming fraud or interfering with voting.
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For StoryCorps, a grandfather helps his grandson remember his father who was murdered in 2003.
