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NPR's Elissa Nadworny speaks with Kristin Duncanson, a farmer in Minnesota, about how record high fuel prices are affecting her business.
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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NPR's Elissa Nadworny speaks with Director Maya Annik Bedward about her new documentary, Black Zombie.
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NPR's Elissa Nadworny speaks to Sayre Quevedo, creator of the "Reaching Out' podcast, about his and his brother's journey to find their biological father.
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Pakistani authorities raze hundreds of homes of the working poor living around a beloved Sufi shrine to make way for Shanghai-style hotels.
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President Trump has a big week on the international stage, from the United Nations General Assembly to hosting the Chinese president at the White House.
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Tee up those entries: It's time for the next NPR College Podcast Challenge, and hear how the contest changed the lives of past participants. -
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.
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China is cracking down on underground churches, with one church leader finding refuge in the U.S.
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The far-right AfD is campaigning in neighborhoods it previously would never have gone near, marking a noteworthy shift in the left-leaning capital city, where local elections take place on Sunday.
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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.
