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NEWS BRIEFS: Washington passes a long-awaited bill to project referees

Last year, inspired by injuries to a local referee decades ago, Reps. Suzanne Schmidt of Spokane Valley and Mike Volz of ...
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Canucks hockey team owners used migrant farmworkers at a Washington vineyard where feds allege they were exploited by labor contractors and poor working conditions

Federal prosecutors filed two indictments last month charging contractors who bring migrant workers to work on Eastern Washington farms with forging federal contracts to entice Mexican laborers north ...
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I Saw You, Cheers and Jeers: “Great films need to be seen at a theatre, on a big screen, as the filmmakers intended...”

TRAIN DREAMS AT THE GARLAND THEATRE: Thank you, dear Garland Theater, for showing the beautiful film, Train Dreams, last Sunday and Monday nights. You are a cultural asset! Great films need to be seen ...
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Hitchhiker’s Theatre is popping up in The Magic Lantern to draw the parallels between 2026 and 1984

Ever since 1984 appeared in the immediate aftermath of World War II, people have used George Orwell’s novel to highlight the eerie similarities that our own society might share with ...
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Kim Fu explores themes of unending grief and guilt in The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts

Seattle author Kim Fu expands upon that well-known Lewis quote over the span of 240 pages in their newest novel, The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts. Readers meet the main character, Eleanor, less than a ...
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Project Hail Mary is a cutesy, jokey take on world-saving sci-fi

Director Ridley Scott’s 2015 adaptation of Andy Weir’s novel The Martian succeeded by leaning into the “science” part of science fiction, depicting the combined efforts of a team of experts ...
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Mainstay metalcore band The Devil Wears Prada gets its Flowers

When a novel is popular enough, it often inspires other creatives to adapt the book into a movie or a TV series… or a metalcore band. It’s not entirely uncommon ...
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Gonzaga’s head coach Lisa Fortier and her star player Lauren Whittaker have battled through adversity to get Gonzaga back to the NCAA Tournament

Everything doesn’t happen for a reason. That’s fairydust nonsense. Plenty of horrendous things happen to wonderful and innocent people with no rationale. But the adversities we face in life give ...
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This year’s Zags’ clear strengths are countered by clear weaknesses, making it one of the hardest-to-pin-down squads in Mark Few’s tenure

If you’re the type of person who only tunes into college basketball in March, you might think Gonzaga is just having another typical season: “The Bulldogs are a 3-seed with ...
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After extremely long droughts, both Idaho basketball teams are headed the NCAA Tournament

As the age of Name, Image, Likeness rules in the NCAA dawned, pundits and fans across the country bemoaned how openly compensating players would only give the smaller schools less of a chance of being ...
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The Spokane Symphony celebrates two legendary film composers in an epic sonic battle

Some of the most iconic moments in cinema are punctuated by the work of two legends of film scoring. Darth Vader’s first appearance. A pirate ship approaching the shore. The ...
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Ballet Hispánico New York brings one of its signature performances to the Myrtle Woldson stage

The last time Eduardo Vilaro visited the Inland Northwest he was a young dancer for one of the nation’s leading Latine dance companies, Ballet Hispánico New York. Though he says ...