Northwest Passages Stories

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Patrick Hutchison builds ‘Cabin’ off nostalgia, hard labor

Sun., Jan. 5, 2025

Patrick Hutchison’s friends were making bewildering (to him) decisions: getting married, buying houses, enrolling in grad school. He earned decent pay as a copywriter for a Seattle tech company, but his life could be broken down to his commute to work, eight hours under fluorescent lighting and the commute home.

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Book review: ‘The Cabin’ a good escape from reality

Sun., Dec. 29, 2024

Patrick Hutchinson is a writer trying to bang out a living the only way available at a moment in his life: writing marketing emails.

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Veteran journalist and Further Review author, designer talks serendipity and ‘pure dumb luck’ at Northwest Passages book club event

UPDATED: Mon., Nov. 18, 2024

After authoring and designing pages on myriad topics from “The Star -Spangled Banner” to Chick-Fil-A and Henry Ford’s quadricycle, you’d think Charles Apple would run out of topics to feature in his Further Review series.

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Book review: Longmire takes on the Arctic Circle in Craig Johnson’s latest ‘Tooth and Claw’

Sun., Nov. 17, 2024

In Craig Johnson’s newest novella set in the Longmire universe, “Tooth and Claw,” we follow Walt Longmire’s thrilling adventure in the desolate wilderness of the Arctic Circle. It’s John Carpenter’s “The Thing” crossed with Steven Spielberg’s “Jaws,” as Walt and the geographical survey crew he’s supposed to protect finds itself stranded on glaciers near the northernmost point of Alaska, fighting to survive.

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Charles Apple: The history behind the history pages of the Further Review coffee table book out Friday

Fri., Nov. 15, 2024

Greetings, Spokane. I’m the guy who creates the Further Review pages for your morning newspaper!

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Rob Curley: A look back at the 10 most notable wild moments from Further Review pages, ahead of Charles Apple book release

UPDATED: Thu., Nov. 14, 2024

Every industry has its rock stars. You know, the kind of person everyone in a chosen profession knows exactly who he or she is.

News > Features

Maasai woman leads cultural change over female genital mutilation from Spokane

UPDATED: Thu., Nov. 14, 2024

How does Spokane have a connection to a Maasai village in Kenya? Via writer and activist Charity Resian.

Opinion > Column

Rob Curley: Badges, bells and boots bring together Western fans and downtown fun(ds)

UPDATED: Tue., Nov. 12, 2024

Hey, howdy hey! There were bells ringing across Spokane on Tuesday.

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Be-leaf it: Craig Johnson returns, plus more upcoming Northwest Passages events

Fri., Nov. 1, 2024

It’s way more than a book club.

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Northwest Passages: ‘Fabric of Character’ author set to visit Bing Crosby Theater

Mon., Oct. 21, 2024

Anne Snyder is editor-in-chief of Comment Magazine and author of the 2019 book, "The Fabric of Character: A Wise Giver's Guide to Renewing Our Social and Moral Landscape." Snyder plans to bring such perspectives to a Whitworth University's election year series talk, "Social Architecture: Creating a Scaffold of Social Life for the Common Good," 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Bing Crosby Theater. Northwest Passages is co-hosting the event.

Sports > Spokane Indians

‘Voice of the Yankees’ Paul Olden returns to Spokane to celebrate nearly 50 years in broadcasting

Tue., Aug. 13, 2024

Unless you were listening to radio broadcasts of the Spokane Indians in the early 1980s, you might not recognize Paul Olden by name. But you would probably recognize his voice.

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At Northwest Passages event, Steve Gleason will share the pain and beauty of resiliency in the face of ALS battle: ‘He’s going to blow people’s minds’

Wed., July 31, 2024

Maybe you’ve been to author presentations.

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Longmire author Craig Johnson, actor A Martinez will hit Gonzaga stage together as Johnson launches 20th Longmire novel

Sun., May 26, 2024

At his current pace, Craig Johnson is five years away from publishing as many novels in his Walt Longmire mystery series as the population of the Wyoming town where he lives.

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Spokane native, bestselling author Eileen Garvin talks new novel, ‘Crow Talk’

UPDATED: Thu., May 2, 2024

Good things are often born from bad situations.

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Book review: Crows talk and us humans should listen, says Eileen Garvin’s latest ‘Crow Talk’

Sat., April 27, 2024

Eileen Garvin uses wildlife to comment on the human condition.

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Author Ed Humes explores not-so-wonderful world of waste with Northwest Passages Book Club

UPDATED: Thu., April 18, 2024

Pulitzer prize-winning author Ed Humes spoke to more than a hundred students and community members Thursday evening at the Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center at Gonzaga University with the hope of getting Spokanites to engage with what could be the most consequential challenge the country is facing: waste.

Opinion > Column

Ed Humes: Ours is the most wasteful civilization in history. Here’s how to stop that

UPDATED: Tue., April 16, 2024

What if the looming calamities of climate change, plastic pollution, the energy crisis and our whole environmental doom-scroll are symptoms of just one malady and it’s something we actually can fix?

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‘Both important and secondary’ Simone Gorrindo examines life as an Army wife in new memoir ‘The Wives’

UPDATED: Mon., April 15, 2024

At one time the “foundational betrayal” in Simone Gorrindo’s marriage was her husband’s career in the military. For a pacifist-raised editor in New York City, it was difficult moving to a military base in Georgia with a full-time job of being a supportive spouse to someone fighting terrorism overseas.