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Gonzaga basketball closes a chapter on its history with an early NCAA tournament exit

For the second straight year, the Gonzaga men’s basketball team failed to reach the Sweet 16 in the NCAA Tournament, losing ...
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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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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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Washington labor contractor Harvest Plus indicted over visa applications for farmworkers

Federal prosecutors filed two indictments last month charging contractors who bring migrant workers to work on Eastern ...
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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 ...
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Each year, the Coeur d’Alene Symphony showcases rising talent from across the country at its Young Artist concert

In the classical music sphere, competitions remain an important way for up-and-coming musicians to make a name for themselves ...
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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 ...
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Kim Fu explores themes of unending grief and guilt in The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts

Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.” Seattle author Kim Fu expands upon that well-known Lewis quote over the ...
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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 condit…

Federal prosecutors filed two indictments last month charging contractors who bring migrant workers to work on Eastern ...
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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 ...