Latest Northwest Passages Stories

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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.

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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.

News >  Features

‘Bad guys doing good’: How a group of Spokane professionals transforms from day jobs to charitable Star Wars villains

UPDATED: Sat., Dec. 16, 2023

Dressed in clunky, barely breathable armor often limiting their vision, Stormtroopers may be seen walking through the halls of local hospitals on any given day.

News >  Further Review

The Star Wars Holiday Special: Incase You Were Lucky Enough To Miss It

Sun., Dec. 10, 2023

Embarrassingly low-budget, panned by the very stars who appeared in it, and rated by author David Hofstede as the worst two hours of television to ever occur. That's the Star Wars Holiday Special. Let's explore how this disaster happened.

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The force was not with the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special but the vibes with the book about the disaster are immaculate

Sun., Dec. 10, 2023

Author Steve Kozak will break down the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special during the Northwest Passages Event. Kozak will discuss his book, "A Disturbance in the Force: How and Why the Star Wars Holiday Special Happened" and his documentary, "A Disturbance in the Force."

News >  Spokane

Spokane lawyer, former congressional candidate Natasha Hill announced as editor of relaunched Black Lens

Sun., Dec. 3, 2023

Natasha Hill had not been involved in activism until she found herself with a bullhorn at the front of a Spokane Black Lives Matter march in the summer of 2020.

News >  Spokane

The Black Lens, Spokane’s Black newspaper, will return in February

UPDATED: Fri., Jan. 12, 2024

Spokane’s only Black newspaper is set to relaunch early next year – this time with a much wider distribution and a new website.

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Stephanie Land talks writing, ‘Class’ and the new poverty at Northwest Passages book club

UPDATED: Thu., Nov. 30, 2023

New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Land – whose memoir “Maid” inspired the hit Netflix series of the same name – discussed the writing process behind her follow-up memoir “Class” at Wednesday’s Northwest Passages event.

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Northwest Passages author Stephanie Land’s ‘Class’ praised for ‘raw’ and ‘intimate’ take on poverty and motherhood

UPDATED: Thu., Nov. 30, 2023

Stephanie Land – a prolifically acclaimed writer from the Pacific Northwest, a New York Times bestseller and a one-time featured author on a presidential reading list – comes home Wednesday to Northwest Passages at Gonzaga University to discuss her experiences as an English major juggling courses, a child and the expenses of living in our modern world.

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Book review: ‘Class’ exposes the patriarchy in all its ugliness

UPDATED: Wed., Nov. 29, 2023

If a single mother cries and no one pays attention, does she make any sound?