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For one family turning to Spanish-language resources, the days are too busy to dwell. At night, reality sinks in.
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Amelia Earhart was famous as an early aviatrix. Her flight suit is part of a bigger story about the history of American fashion and celebrity.
Arts & Culture
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You’ve probably never heard of the microbudget Burt, but Nathan Weinbender says this unassuming comedy about a musician and his estranged son is a buried treasure worth digging up. It’s now streaming on Kanopy.
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Blue Heron tells the story of how one child’s emotional problems affects the other members of his family, Dan Webster says.
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Rose of Nevada, now playing at the Magic Lantern Theatre, is a slow, dreamy meditation on time travel and maritime economies. Nathan Weinbender says it’s a challenging, heady film from British writer-director Mark Jenkin.
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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From its triumphant revolution to the decay of today, singer-songwriter Silvio Rodriguez has chronicled Cuba's history.
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NPR's Eyder Peralta and sports reporter Michele Steele discuss the sale of the L.A. Lakers, the WNBA's handling of player remarks on transgender athletes and "Pope night" for the Chicago White Sox.
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Contemporary silent films are touring around the New York area this summer as part of Modern Silent Shorts.
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A look inside Phoebe Bridgers' new album, "Lost Weekend," and the lives she's lived since we heard from her last.
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NPR's Eyder Peralta talks to the care team of Rhossi, a sea turtle from the Gulf of Mexico that was returned to Texas this week after getting swept up in an ocean current that took him to Wales.
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Widespread fraud on a university entrance exam in Mexico is one more example of cheating in the age of AI. NPR's Eyder Peralta talks with Tricia Bertram Gallant of UCSD about academic integrity.
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Five years ago, Taliban militants retook the Afghan capital, Kabul. NPR's Eyder Peralta talks to former Afghan official Matin Bek about the consequences of the U.S. withdrawal from his country.
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A shortage of some munitions as well as the problems with the USS Lincoln have the Trump administration on the defensive. Meanwhile, what the latest primaries show about Democratic enthusiasm.
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NPR's Eyder Peralta talks to show creator Liz Meriwether about her new dark and funny TV crime thriller, 'Furious.'
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NPR's Eyder Peralta talks to former U.S. ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar about his new memoir, "Borderlands: My Fight For an Inclusive America."
