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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September's Free KPBX Kids' Concert featured Olivia Brownlee in the River Park Square Atrium Saturday, September 21st at 1 pm
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Spokane Public Radio is a media partner for the 2024 Blue Waters Bluegrass Festival
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Join SPR Staff, Hosts, and Volunteers at Art on the Green 2024
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NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with horror movie director and critic Rebekah McKendry about her favorite scary movies of 2024.
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During the Halloween season—a trip to a cemetery can be part of a spooky adventure. But in one Kansas City cemetery, volunteers work to clean markers and tombstones in order to preserve history.
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Seth Meyers draws a question from the Wild Card deck and talks about a lesson he learned during his time at Saturday Night Live.
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Filmmaker Paul Morrissey, best known for his avant-garde collaborations with Andy Warhol, died this week in New York at age 86. The pair made low-budget, provocative films in the 1960s and '70s.
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The Biden administration says it is tracking thousands of North Korean troops in Russia and, according to U.S. intelligence reports, those troops could be involved in combat with Ukrainians soon.
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On Oct. 31, some Hindu-American families will be celebrating the confluence of two holidays: Diwali and Halloween. One is a festival of lights; the other a fun celebration of darker things.
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Puerto Ricans will elect a new governor on Tuesday. For the first time in decades, an upstart political movement is posing a viable challenge to the island's two main parties.
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Strategies differ, but with days to the election, both campaigns are working to get out the vote.
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Housing costs are a top issue for many Americans. Former President Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris have proposed different ideas for addressing the country's housing woes.
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Sing Sing, a maximum security prison in New York, hosted its first film festival. With the help of the Marshall Project, a jury of incarcerated men weighed the merits of documentaries.