THIS WEEK:  Loretta Napoleoni – The ISIS Crisis. Loretta Napoleoni is a leading expert on money laundering and terror financing. She has worked as London correspondent and columnist for La Stampa, La Repubblica, El País, and Le Monde.

KSER SPECIAL:  CAPITOL STEPS - Politics Takes  A Holiday.  The Capitol Steps bring their usual irreverance to the politics of the day.

Alternative Radio is an internationally syndicated, one-hour, weekly radio program, featuring serious interviews with humanitarian and progressive thinkers. Host, David Barsamian.

Turnstyles is a new four-hour daily eclectic music program for community & public radio from Radio Rethink.

Turnstyles Playlists

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.

For those who remember KYYX, KJET and Skoochies, host Bill Davis creates a weekly mixtape of exploratory styles like new wave, industrial, goth, punk music and more!

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

Ben Joyce: Places…

There's been a tremendous uptick in travel abroad since the lifting of COVID-related restrictions…

"After all is said and all is done, it's just me and you."…

There are what you might call "traditional" paths in academia that advance in a very linear way…

On Monday, Oct. 28, the Washington Secretary of State's Office reported that a "suspected incendiary device" was put in the Fisher's Landing ballot drop box in Vancouver…

Spokane Valley has finished its nearly $4.6 million Sprague Avenue stormwater and multimodal project, which reduced the road from five to three lanes between North University Road and North Herald Road, where Balfour Park and Spokane Valley City Hall are located…

On Tuesday, we will learn what kind of state we want to live in, and about who we are…

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…

Nearly half a century ago, the Environmental Protection Agency used the Toxic Substances Control Act to ban the use and production of polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs…

Plus, Spokane wants historic teardowns to go to good use and Idaho wants phones banned in all schools ENOUGH PROGRESS?…

The narrative goes something like this: Downtown Spokane is in decline, is unsafe, is a hotbed of crime and unsavory activity…

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

When you take stock of all the performing and fine arts offerings around the region, there's little doubt that entertainment lovers are spoiled for choice…

This is hardly the first time the Catholic Church has to deal with a plague. Spokane Bishop Thomas Daly knows that well…

PROPHET OF DOOM…

As COVID-19 fears grew, public officials and sports execs contemplated health risks — and debated a PR message — but let 33,000 fans into a Seattle Sounders soccer match, emails show. By Ken Armstrong, ProPublica, and David Gutman and Lewis Kamb, The Seattle Times On March 6, at 2:43 p.m., the health officer for Public Health — Seattle & King County, the hardest-hit region in the first state to be slammed by COVID-19, sent an email to a half-dozen colleagues, saying, “I want to cancel large group gatherings now.”…

You don't have to wander around the internet long before bumping into a rave review of Fiona Apple's new record Fetch the Bolt Cutters: It has inspired breathless acclaim, has already been labeled a masterwork and is notably the first new album in nearly a decade that Pitchfork has assigned a perfect 10/10 rating…

Spokane chef Ricky Webster is bringing tips, recipes and good cheer from his kitchen to yours through a series of lighthearted cooking videos…

As a general rule, if you start spray-painting Riverfront Park, Riverfront Park gets mad at you…

It all comes down to a thrilling vehicular showdown with a ruthless villain at an arctic base. With a clock ticking and the threat of a weapon of mass destruction looming, our hero races an absurdly modified classic car on a frozen lake, contending with assault rifle-wielding snowmobilers and enemy vehicles firing rockets…

Every once in a while, there is a film that is just soul shatteringly good…

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…

Descending into the mildly claustrophobic Spokane Valley basement of Creative Music Learning Center isn't an experience that screams pop music…

Guitarist Gina Gleason chats about new music and fandom before playing Spokane Baroness occupies a very unique spot in the metal world…

The work of Oscar-nominated writer-director Mike Mills (20th Century Women, Beginners) has always been grounded in an inescapable sense of empathy — for the world, the people who live in it, and the characters he crafts a film around…

Helmed by Buzz Osborne, the Melvins have helped codify the heavy music lexicon since 1983…

There's a fine line between sweet and cloying, and the British dramedy Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris crosses it a little too often…

A sign that read "St. Joseph's Catholic School Gymnasium" used to hang above the front door of a brick building in Spokane's West Central neighborhood, but it's since been replaced by a simple metal sign bearing the surname "Hamilton."…

FUNDS FOR ARTISTS…

The Rocky Horror Picture Show is unlike anything else…

More than 100 years ago the opulent Glover Mansion was built for its first inhabitants, James and Susan Glover…

Though a sign on Washington State Route 129 points you in the right direction, driving the nearly 12 miles along Cloverland Road to arrive at the Cloverland Garage in Asotin County can make you feel like you're, well, chasing ghosts…

I don't realize it until I'm standing at the base of the steps of the United Brethren Church in Elberton, but I've made the hourlong drive from Spokane to the Whitman County ghost town on a Sunday…

I've driven past many dilapidated buildings in my life…

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…

GONZAGA MEN…

It's a scary time of year, but not because of Halloween…

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

Don't let anyone tell you that you can't go home again…

Art and community have gone hand in hand for millennia…

Like the main characters of his latest book, author and journalist Nate Schweber is shaped by his upbringing in the Western United States…

Forget rebuilding and reloading…

What even is a 2021 movie?…