Top Regional News
Spokane's mayor directs money to homeless sheltering this winter, the state faces a shortfall in its own homeless service funding, the U.S. Attorney's office is looking out for election reports in eastern WA, and a Google map points visitors to "spooky houses."
A future Supreme Court justice helped launch a program to challenge voters at the Arizona polls in the early 1960s, in a county that's become a hotbed for election conspiracies in the decades since.
Arts & Culture
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“Will & Harper” is a serious comedy about enduring friendship in a time of cultural transition, Dan Webster says in his review.
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Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis” came out last week to dismal box office receipts and venomous reviews. Nathan Weinbender says it’s a fascinating failure, a bizarre and singular vision from a filmmaker contending with his own career—and his own mortality.
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On this week’s show, Dan Webster, Nathan Weinbender, and Mary Pat Treuthart discuss a pair of films that roll over boundaries as if they were so much roadkill—Francis Ford Coppola’s reach into the fantastic titled “Megalopolis” and French-born filmmaker Coralie Fargeat’s feminist study “The Substance.”
Events
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The next Free KPBX Kids' Concert features The Radio Helpers in the Great Room at CenterPlace Regional Event Center, Saturday, November 23rd at 1 pm
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SPR is a media partner for BODYTRAFFIC at the Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center on the Gonzaga University campus, Saturday, October 19th.
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Across the country, anti-Trump statues having been mysteriously appearing. Anonymous, guerilla art has a long history of mixing with politics.
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Getting Latinos to the polls in representative numbers has been challenging. A concert promoter thinks he’s got an answer using the growing popularity of Mexican regional music as a hook.
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Harris and Trump are reaching out to voters in the southwest Thursday, particularly the swing states Nevada and Arizona.
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The historic fight between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman is still revered as a cherished moment in the central African country's troubled history and has spurred an enduring love of boxing.
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Parrots are unique among birds in how they produce the pigmentation that makes their vibrant feathering. It turns out a single enzyme calibrates the reds and yellows of a parrot’s brilliance.
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Golson, who died Sept. 21, captured the sunny optimism of American in the late '50s and early '60s. He composed internal music for hit TV shows and appeared as himself in the 2004 film The Terminal.
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New Yorker journalist David Kirkpatrick says a government command hub has been tasked with tracking and protecting U.S. elections from foreign adversaries who seek to sow discord and foment violence.
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NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Tom Nichols, a staff writer at The Atlantic, about why some Americans have grown increasingly hostile to expertise, and what it means in this election.
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The humanitarian crisis in northern Gaza is getting worse by the day, and there are increasing questions over what Israel’s end-game there might be.
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Netflix’s The Diplomat rides a compelling line between serving up hefty slices of political and emotional drama.