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Up in Smoke: Halloweed is immersed in cannabis

Count on a varied, immersive scene Saturday when Tucson Doobie presents Halloweed at Generation Cool…



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From Aerospace to the Blues Stage: Laurie Morvan gave up engineering for soul-feeding gig

It's not easy choosing a chaotic, uncertain gig over a lucrative, secure career…



  • News & Opinion/Currents Feature

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Giving Back: Joe Bonamassa keeps busy with charity, label

The proverb “A rolling stone gathers no moss” may have provided blues icon Muddy Waters with a song title that further yielded the name for a certain Rock & Roll Hall of Fame group and a storied music publication, but it can also be applied to Joe Bonamassa…



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City Week: Week of Oct. 31, 2024

Garrett James and the Wanderers…



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Halloween night with monsters and a friendly ghost

A word about monsters…



  • News & Opinion/Tucson Salvage

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City Week: Week of Nov. 7, 2024

100 Years and Still Rollin’ Concert…



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MeFi: MySpace has lost all music uploaded between 2003 and 2015

The issue was first noticed about a year ago. MySpace have confirmed that all the music is lost and cannot be recovered. "Due to a server migration files have been corrupted and unable to be transferred to our updated site."






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Between the Lines - Fri 6pm

Coming from WPKN public radio in Bridgeport, Connecticut, Between the Lines provides a platform for individuals and spokespersons from progressive organizations generally ignored or marginalized by the mainstream media.




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Between the Lines - Thr 6:30pm

Between The Lines is a weekly syndicated half-hour radio news magazine featuring progressive perspectives on national and international political, economic and social issues.




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Weekend Lineup

SATURDAY

7a - Art, Dart & Fargo
9a - The Big Bandstand w/Steve Ward
11a - Frettin' Fingers w/Jim Hilmar
1p - Juke Joint
3p - Saturday Soul: SnF Express w/Bud Piland
5p - Gumbo Mix with D. Duane
7p - The Vault with Bill Davis

9p - Blues Odyssey with Leslie Fleury

SUNDAY

10a - Nordic Roots & Branches (R)
11a - Bluegrass Express w/Nicolette
1p - Folk Adventures w/Jean Geiger
3p - Floating World
5p - Da Coconut Wireless
7p - Reggae Yard
9p - Roat's Nest or 10,000 Good Songs




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Beale Street Caravan - Sun 10am

Beale Street Caravan brings the Sounds of Memphis to an international public radio audience with live concert performances from contemporary masters of blues, soul, folk, and rock ‘n roll. Hosts Pat Mitchell-Worley and Kevin Cubbins also feature segments from industry insiders, writers, and musicologists.




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Spokane mother-daughter duo Kim and Aimee Cash make sustainable bowl covers

It's a pretty basic need: You gotta eat…




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Question of the Week

What's the most important issue for you this election? KIARA REED…



  • Columns & Letters

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Question of the Week

Have you ever had a paranormal experience? GAIL WHITE…



  • Columns & Letters

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Need a replacement ballot? Still need to register? Spokane voting centers can help

Presidential elections often get the highest voter turnout, which is already proving true in Spokane County. With five days left to vote, nearly 48% of the county's roughly 375,000 registered voters have already returned their ballots, according to unofficial statistics provided by the Spokane County Elections Office…




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Spokane rental units are required to be registered, but not everyone knows that; now they might have to pay the fee

Whether you agree with it or not, Spokane's rental registry is law…




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Doom's new and improved storyline, Pearl Jams new album and more you need to know

PROPHET OF DOOM…



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Fourteenth-century knights succumb to toxic masculinity in The Last Duel

Ridley Scott's The Last Duel opens with two hardened 14th-century French warriors preparing for ritual combat, but don't be fooled: This isn't a historical epic about brave men headed off to war…



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The directors of Free Solo return with a mesmerizing documentary about a daring deepwater dive

If you think you know the full story of how a soccer team became trapped in a Thai cave, a spectacle that drew the breathless attention of the world, you don't…



  • Screen/Movie Reviews

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Inlander Insights: The Sweeplings

The folk duo with Spokane connections wrestles with grief on its new album, 'Debris.' Loss is never easy. Loss during a pandemic is even tougher…



  • Music/Music News

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Burke, Idaho: Wedged between mountains, the Silver Valley mine town's history of rich resources still echoes down the canyon

Crammed in a narrow canyon of North Idaho's Silver Valley, in perhaps one of the most inconvenient but also beautiful places for a hub of human habitation, are the rusted remains of a once-lively mountain mine town…



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Discover five Inland Northwest ghost towns where the past still eerily echoes

As early settlers flocked to the American West to extract the land's rich resources, small towns spread across the landscape…



  • Arts & Culture

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Three takeaways from Gonzaga’s dominant start to the season

The Gonzaga Bulldogs went 2-0 last week, with wins over Dixie State and Texas. One of those games may as well have been a scheduled win, while the other was a marquee match-up of two top-five teams…




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In a challenging year for the movie business, these 10 films were the best to hit screens large and small

What even is a 2021 movie?…



  • Screen/Screen News

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Meet the Mild Riders, Spokane's chillest (and only) scooter gang

Whizzing through West Central Spokane on the back of a scooter, the wind whipping around your face, offers a new perspective to getting around town…



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Seed banks around the world guard against the perils of industrialized farming and disasters. One of the most diverse banks in the U.S. can be found on the Palouse

Tucked inside a nondescript building on Washington State University's Pullman campus is a bank holding an abundance of the world's wealth, where row after row of temperature-controlled filing cabinets store something far more precious than savings bonds or artwork: seeds…



  • News/Local News

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Foo Fighters and the Breeders rock the Arena

There was a moment when Dave Grohl stopped the music and quizzed the adoring, rambunctious, rafter-packing, sold out crowd at the Spokane Arena last Friday…



  • Music/Music News

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Retired veteran Richard Weatherly has been making grandiose clocks for over 20 years

Richard Weatherly has always had time on his side…



  • Culture/Arts & Culture

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Forty years ago this week, MTV changed everything in the music business

It's obvious now, but when MTV first launched 40 years ago this summer, the idea was relatively novel that a musical artist would feel compelled to make mini-movie versions of their songs…



  • Culture/Arts & Culture

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After nearly 50 years, Jerry Quinn Sr.'s work to preserve the Northwest's railroad legacy keeps rolling

On the face of it, the legacy of Jerry Quinn Sr. is simple…



  • Health & Home/Home

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Eastern Washington ranching mogul Cody Easterday wagered hundreds of millions of dollars on the price of beef. He lost.

By Lee van der Voo, High Country News…



  • News/Local News

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The bombs exploding in Ukraine reverberate in Spokane, where tens of thousands of Ukrainian and Russian refugees now live

Alexander Kulabukhov is up at 5 am on Feb. 24, jolted awake by the explosions in his neighborhood…



  • News/Local News

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On loving the Seattle Mariners, even when it seems like a terrible idea

It's October 22, 2001, and I'm standing on a crowded Key Arena concourse…




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Is Spokane's Pavilion actually cooler than the Seattle Space Needle?

At its peak, the World's Fair was a chance for cities to wow visitors with massive, awe-inspiring structures that promised a unique vision of the future…



  • Culture/Arts & Culture

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The U.S. House once had a representative for about every 30,000 people, but now lawmakers serve between 543,000 and 991,000 constituents — what happened?

Imagine this: You're voting on a matter of national significance, you get to the front of the line, and the poll worker asks, "What state are you from?"…



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Valleyford rancher Justin Owens seeks to reimagine ranching with his Piedmontese cattle

It's calving season at Owens Farms…



  • Food/Food News

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Discover four new coffee spots in and around Spokane

Whether you're a cross-town commuter, a parent chauffeuring kids or checking off a list of errands around town, stopping to get your favorite beverage can add a bit of happiness to a busy day…



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Question of the Week

What's your go-to coffee order? …



  • News/Columns & Letters

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Writer/director Steve McQueen reframes the whitewashed image of WWII's London bombings via a harrowing childhood adventure

Blitz opens amid a terrifying conflagration on a nighttime city street…



  • Screen/Movie Reviews

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Jamie Roberts of Spokane's Three Birdies Bakery brings an artist's eye to her cookie designs

Art has always been a big part of Jamie Roberts' life…



  • Health & Home/Food & Cooking

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Spokane Youth Symphony celebrates 75 years with 'Diamond Jubilee'

The Great Hall of St. John's Cathedral was abuzz on a recent Monday evening, as musicians chatted, arranged their music stands just so and tuned their instruments in a pleasant cacophony…




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Tycho's Scott Hansen looks for balance between nature and technology on Infinite Health

For Tycho's Scott Hansen, it all comes back to water…




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The Indigo Girls enjoy renewed interest after music featured in three recent films, including their own documentary

Last year, summer belonged to "Barbenheimer," the simultaneous theatrical release of Greta Gerwig's Barbie and Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer…




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Spokane health district boss calls cops on staff for recording meeting about cuts

After seeing our report last week on two leaders being escorted out of Spokane Regional Health District amidst further cuts to leadership, Amelia Clark, the head boss there, called the cops to file a report on her staff for sharing a recording of what she said during a meeting. Clark, the district's administrative officer, specified during a call to the nonemergency Crime Check number on Monday that she wanted an officer to come take her report in person at the health district, despite such reports typically being taken over the phone…



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It's awesome when your kids are able to make you #breakfast that is as good as this! (Now they just need to work on cleaning up!)

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Haven't been to this intimate of a show in a long time... So great to see @rgenauer and the @assemblyofdust after #agreatlongwhile. Saw #Strangefolk a ton of times in the early 2000s between Chicago and Vermont

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"Some day you'll see your name in....pretzels?"

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