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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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Waste is a global issue. Author Ed Humes wants to do something about it

Sun., April 14, 2024

The planet is facing a number of environmental crises, and the impacts are all too present here in the West.

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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.

A&E > Books

Book review: Be all that you can be… to support the mission, a central theme of ‘The Wives’

Fri., April 12, 2024

“The Wives” hit close to home.

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Book review: Cruelty and kindness in Denfeld’s ‘Sleeping Giants’

Sun., March 31, 2024

In “Sleeping Giants,” Rene Denfeld tells an awakening story that weighs the complex balance between human cruelty and kindness.

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Rene Denfeld hopes to inspire change, reflection with new book ‘Sleeping Giants’

Sun., March 31, 2024

On its face, “Sleeping Giants” can appear like a dark story focused on a woman searching for truth after learning her 9-year-old biological brother was swept away by waves crashing on a remote Oregon beach 20 years before.

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Erin Pringle’s ‘Unexpected Weather Events’ may bring unexpected emotions surrounding grief

Sun., Feb. 18, 2024

Grief takes the center stage in author Erin Pringle’s work.

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Ron Sylvester: Erin Pringle’s ‘Unexpected Weather Events’ has simple surprises

UPDATED: Thu., Feb. 15, 2024

In real life, unexpected weather events are a sense of stress, wonder and, sometimes, a struggle to survive.

News > Washington

The Black Lens returns with celebrations, hope

UPDATED: Sun., Feb. 4, 2024

Spokane’s Black newspaper has returned after a two-year hiatus.

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‘I thought of my grandmothers’: Students celebrate Black joy in third annual Black Voices Symposium

UPDATED: Thu., Feb. 8, 2024

In kitchens, in Michael Jackson’s “Rock with You,” in turtles, in deepest failures. These are some of the places students from the Spokane area encounter Black joy, as they shared at Thursday night’s Black Voices Symposium Northwest Passages event.

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‘There’s nothing worse than a forgotten story’: With ‘The Strange Beautiful,’ Carla Crujido mixes fantasy and Spokane history

Sun., Jan. 14, 2024

Author Carla Crujido has lived all over the country but Spokane has always been special to her.

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Ron Sylvester: Real magic in ‘The Strange Beautiful’

Fri., Jan. 12, 2024

Anyone who’s ever fantasized about sex with Tinker Bell, but wasn’t sure how that would happen, Carla Crujido has you covered. But flings with flying sprites is only a start to the wild world of “The Strange and Beautiful” series of short stories and fiction writing debut for Crujido.

Sports > Gonzaga basketball

‘It’s beautiful to be back’: Members of Gonzaga’s 1999 team reminisce on run to Elite Eight at Northwest Passages event

UPDATED: Sat., Jan. 6, 2024

With the stage set up as a makeshift Jack and Dan’s, it was only right that the event to honor the 1999 Gonzaga men’s basketball team became two hours of recalling stories, telling jokes and reminiscing on the many moments that defined the group’s remarkable run.

Sports > Gonzaga basketball

Gonzaga, CCF express interest in annual contest at the Spokane Arena

UPDATED: Thu., Jan. 4, 2024

Gonzaga has played in front of a packed house at the Spokane Arena each of the last two years and came away with a pair of double-digit victories, which leads to a natural question. Would Gonzaga have interest in a game annually at the Arena?

Sports > Gonzaga basketball

Zags do their homework: Gonzaga needed a little magic to pull off first-round win over scandal-embroiled Minnesota

UPDATED: Thu., Jan. 4, 2024

Editor’s note: This is the third of a six-part look back at Gonzaga’s wild run to the Elite Eight during the 1998-99 season.

Sports > Gonzaga basketball

‘Huge victory for us’: Matt Santangelo’s 1998 game-winner helped Gonzaga escape momentum killer against lowly Texas-Pan American

UPDATED: Thu., Jan. 4, 2024

Retrospective analyses of historic athletic seasons mostly focus on the big wins and the headline upsets. But, successful seasons being the progressive accumulation of momentum and win-fueled confidence, sometimes it is the heart-stopping escapes against lesser opponents that are every bit as important -- but so often forgotten over time.

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Director explains new ‘Star Wars Holiday Special’ documentary at Northwest Passages event

UPDATED: Sat., Dec. 16, 2023

The bizarre “Star Wars Holiday Special” aired once on television 45 years ago and never saw the light of day again, except by “Star Wars” fans who copied the show on VHS tapes.