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Courtesy Homes for Our Troops
The group Homes for Our Troops built the house for Joshua Elliott and his family and will hand the keys to him on Saturday.
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Netflix
The Boroughs star Woodard talks about the Netflix series, and critic David Bianculli reviews it. Rose Byrne is one of the few actors to receive both an Oscar and a Tony nomination in the same year.
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Arts & Culture
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Dr. Andrea Olson and Logan Shevalier join host Henry McNulty in the studio to discuss their "ecumenical choral concert" Sing to the Lord! at St. John's Cathedral. -
Lucas Hallauer (Marty McFly) from the national tour of Back to the Future: The Musical joins host Henry McNulty to discuss the show's Spokane run. -
Movie ReviewsBlue Heron is director Sophy Romvari’s hushed, intimate memory of being an immigrant family in Canada and of her own brother’s fracturing mental health. Nathan Weinbender says it’s a potent study of time and loss, and it’s now playing at the Magic Lantern.
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. -
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EventsSpokane Public Radio is a media partner for Spokane Bike Everywhere Month 2026.
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What goes behind the growing the perfect grass pitch for the FIFA World Cup? NPR's Scott Simon speaks to John Sorochan of the University of Tennessee, the man in charge of delivering these fields.
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From bestselling books to popular podcasts, advice giving has become an industry. But do professional advice-givers really solve people's problems?
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NPR's Scott Simon talks with "Hamnet" author Maggie O'Farrell, whose new novel, "Land," draws on her own family's history with Ireland's Great Famine.
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Far from Colombia's tourist hubs, the Mavecure Mountains rise from the Amazon jungle. Once off-limits during conflict, they now draw adventurous visitors to rare wildlife, sacred sites and vast views. -
The National Transportation Safety Board temporarily pulled its docket system offline after digital images were used to reconstruct cockpit voice recordings of the pilots in a recent crash. -
Engineers at Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin are trying to figure out why their massive New Glenn rocket exploded on its launch pad Thursday night.
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In Laos, rescue efforts are underway to reach seven men who have been trapped inside a cave for over a week.
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A Kenyan court has temporarily halted the opening of a U.S. Ebola quarantine center. The move follows protests over infection risks and claims that the country could be used as a "containment colony."
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The Primary used to be just the first step in the electoral process — now the primary has transformed, in many places into the moment when the election is all but decided. It's shaping Congress.
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There have been hundreds of thousands of casualties on both sides of the war in Ukraine, and by some estimates more than 80% are now caused by drones. It's changed the nature of battlefield medicine.
