Egypt and Algeria drew 1-1 in Abu Dhabi in a feisty friendly.By Dean Ammi

Algeria beat Cape Verde 5-1, thanks to goals from Aouar (2), Zerrouki, Slimani and Amoura.By Dean Ammi

A look ahead to the group stage draw of the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations.By Dean Ammi

In this episode, Dean discusses a huge 1-0 win for Algeria away to Senegal in Dakar.By Dean Ammi

New York Times #1 bestselling author Nic Stone took to the downtown Spokane theater stage Thursday night, sitting cross-legged with no shoes, to talk about mental health and the unfortunate stigma that comes with it. The talk was part of The Spokesman-Review’s Northwest Passages book club series.Stone said part of the reason she wrote her latest bo…

America's Favorite Librarian (and #1 Northwest Passages Fan) Nancy Pearl interviews prolific author Timothy Egan about his new book " A Fever in the Heartland" at the Northwest Passages Book Club Wednesday, April 5, 2023 at the Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center at Gonzaga University.By The Spokesman-Review

The Bing Crosby Theater was the place to be on March 15 as everyone showed up to celebrate the launch of Ammi Midstokke's collection of columns into a book published by Latah Creek entitled "All the Things." Fun was had by all!By The Spokesman-Review

Stephaine Courtney opens the event with a reading of her published book "Our Community." African American high school students in the Spokane area present their work for Spokane Black Voices, with discussion faciliatated by Kiantha Duncan and Mandi Price.By The Spokesman-Review

Prolific Author and Pulitzer Prize winner Edward Humes takes the stage at the Spokane Central Library with Gonzaga Law dean Jacob Rooksby to talk about the book " The Forever Witness" a true crime story of solving a cold case murder from the 1980s using genealogical DNA.By The Spokesman-Review

New York Times bestselling author, Jamie Ford in conversation with Carolyn Lamberson about his research and the writing process behind "The Many Daughters of Afong Moy." Dorothy Moy breaks her own heart for a living. As Washington’s former poet laureate, that’s how she describes channeling her dissociative episodes and mental health struggles into …

Putsata Reang emigrated from Cambodia as an infant in her mother’s arms. Her mother fought off the boat captain's efforts to toss her child overboard, and that connection began their intricate relationship. Reang was raised in rural Oregon and spent time writing for The Spokesman-Review before the New York Times, Politico and The Seattle Times and …

In this episode, we discuss the upcoming Algeria talent Fares Chaibi of Toulouse FC.By Dean Ammi

In this episode, we discuss the return to top form of Man City winger Riyad Mahrez.By Dean Ammi

In this episode, we discuss who Algeria manager Djamel Belmadi might include in the next squad.By Dean Ammi

In this episode, we discuss yet another horrid injury to Youcef Atal.By Dean Ammi

In this episode, we discuss the new Algeria kits made by Adidas.By Dean Ammi

In this episode, we discuss who Algeria's next opponents might be,By Dean Ammi

The Northwest Passages Book Club meets for a discussion with author Jess Walter, interviewed by author Shawn Vestal, at the Bing Crosby Theater in Spokane, Washington. The interview was centered on Walter releasing a new collection of short stories, "Angel of Rome."By The Spokesman-Review

Eli Francovich was dispatched as correspondent to cover the war in Ukraine for The Spokesman-Review. With approximately 30,000 Ukrainian refugees calling Spokane home, what happens in Ukraine has a little more impact in the Pacific Northwest. Francovich talks about his experience and shares his behind the scenes photographs.…

Author Mary Cronk Farrell has written books about women who many have not heard of until she wrote the book. One of those is French photojournalist Catherine LeRoy, who went to cover the Vietnam War as a 21-year-old. Farrell spoke to the Northwest Passage Book Club Wednesday, April 13, 2022 at the Montvale Event Center in Spokane, Washington.…

Author Sasha LaPointe sits down with Emma Noyes to talk about her book, "Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk", at a live session of The Spokesman-Review's Northwest Passages Book Club. An indigenous artist blends the aesthetics of punk rock with the traditional spiritual practices of the women in her lineage in this bold, …

Author Victorya Rouse, a Ferris High School English teacher focused on new arrivals in America, collected the stories of her immigrant students into a book called "Finding Refuge." She speaks with author Shawn Vestal about the book at a Northwest Passages event in Spokane on Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2021.By The Spokesman-Review

In this episode, we discuss Said Benrahma's latest performance against Forest.By Dean Ammi

In this episode, we discuss the potential arrival to Algeria of midfielder Yacine Adli.By Dean Ammi

YA author Sundee Frazier talks about her new book, "Mighty Inside" with Kiantha Duncan at the Tuesday, Oct. 19th edition of the Northwest Passages Book Club at the Montvale Event Center. The story is based on her own families' experience as the first Black family to move into Spokane's Empire Avenue neighborhood in the 1940s.…

From bestselling and award-winning author Sara Pennypacker comes the long-awaited sequel to Pax; this is a gorgeously crafted, utterly compelling novel about chosen families and the healing power of love. And who better to talk about this book with than Chris Crutcher?!? Order your copy of "Pax, Journey Home" from Wishing Tree Books!…

Beginning with the Aronia berry and ending with zucchini, local author and poet Kate Lebo’s “The Book of Difficult Fruit: Arguments for the Tart, Tender, and Unruly” is an alphabetical collection of memoirs and recipes taken from Lebo’s life.By The Spokesman-Review

Jennifer Longo visited virtually with the Northwest Passages Book Club to talk about her book "What I Carry," a novel about a teenage girl aging out of foster care. Molly Allen, co-founder of Safety Net, an organization that helps former foster kids, poses the questions.By The Spokesman-Review

Conversation about Maggie Shipstead’s new bestseller ,“Great Circle,” follows aviator Marian Graves through Prohibition-era Montana, the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, New Zealand, wartime London and beyond as she charts her own course through life and love. Nearly a century later, actress Hadley Baxter is cast as Graves in a biopic chronicling the eve…

From New York Times bestselling author of "Escape From Camp 14," a riveting and revealing account of one of the most persistent alternative facts in American history: the story of a missionary, a tribe, a massacre, and a myth that shaped the American West.By The Spokesman-Review

Author Eileen Garvin talks about her book "The Music of Bees" with Spokane writer Kris Dinnison on the Northwest Passages Livestream Tuesday, May 4, 2021.By The Spokesman-Review

Master Gardener Susan Mulvihill talks about her book "The Vegetable Garden Pest Handbook" with book club coordinator Kristi Burns on the Northwest Passages Book Club livestream. Support local bookstores, and get your copy of "The Vegetable Garden Pest Handbook" from Auntie's Bookstore!By The Spokesman-Review

Sabina Khan is the author of ZARA HOSSAIN IS HERE and THE LOVE & LIES OF RUKHSANA ALI in conversation with Mandy Manning.By The Spokesman-Review

The conversation with legendary author Paul Theroux that you just didn't want to end. There was nary a dull moment in this hourlong discussion with Spokesman-Review editor Rob Curley and topics ranged from his latest novel, "Under the Wave at Waimea" to his perspective on a lifetime of travel.By The Spokesman-Review

"Lilac Girls," the 1.5-million-copy bestselling novel by Martha Hall Kelly, introduced readers to Caroline Ferriday, an American philanthropist who helped young girls released from Ravensbruck concentration camp. Now, in "Sunflower Sisters," Kelly tells the story of her ancestor Georgeanna Woolsey, a Union nurse who joins the war effort during the …

Author Adrienne Kisner joined a virtual gathering of the Northwest Passages Book Club to discuss her novel, “Six Angry Girls,” with Kristi Burns of the Spokesman-Review. Adulthood is overrated!By The Spokesman-Review

Sarah Gailey, author of “The Echo Wife,” joined Northwest Passages Book Club just hours after Deadline announced that Annapurna Productions had successfully optioned the book for film adaptation. Here’s the premise: “Martine is a genetically cloned replica made from Evelyn Caldwell’s award-winning research. She’s patient and gentle and obedient. Sh…

Tracy Dobmeier and Wendy Katzman wrote "Girls with Bright Futures" the fictional account of angst and stress of parents trying to get their children into the right universities and they talk about it with Kristi Burns of the Northwest Passages Book Club Thursday, Feb. 19, 2021 on a livestream broadcast. Books mentioned during the conversation inclu…

Kim Johnson’s THIS IS MY AMERICA delves into racial injustice within the U.S. legal system . This powerful book holds a strong relatable message for our current social climate. The book discussion is lead by Kiantha Duncan, president of the Spokane chapter of the NAACP.By The Spokesman-Review

Award winning freelance journalist and podcaster Leah Sottile talks about her work writing about the anti-government and militia movements in the western states, which she has covered for many publications. She has also produced a podcast called "Bundyville" where she digs deeper into the topic. Shawn Vestal of The Spokesman-Review interviewed Sott…

John Bryant, owner of No-Li Brewhouse in Spokane, talks with The Spokesman-Review Features Editor Don Chareunsy on Tuesday night about the Spokane beer scene, the recognition that Spokane beers, including No-Li beers, are getting across the country and how his company is faring under COVID-19 restrictions. Bryant is optimistic about the future of b…

Sarah Elmeligi has been working with bears for nearly 20 years. After completing her Masters research examining the impacts of bear-viewing tourism on bear behaviour in the K’tzim-a-deen Grizzly Bear Sanctuary on the northern tip of the Great Bear Rainforest in British Columbia, she completed her PhD studying grizzly bear habitat use of hiking trai…

Author Edward Humes talks with Nick Deshais about his 2012 book "Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair With Trash." Humes showed how recycling, at least as done by most people, barely makes a dent in the volume of trash produced and that people should strive for a less disposable lifestyle.By The Spokesman-Review

As the former Outdoors Editor of The Spokesman-Review, Rich Landers has spent more than four decades exploring the region, and the world, as he hiked, fished, skiied, hunted and explored. He has a handful of hiking and paddling books about the Northwest and recently published "Urban Trails: Spokane and Coeur d'Alene." He speaks with current Outdoor…

Spokane author Jess Walter releases his latest book, "The Cold Millions", in a live interview streamed from Auntie's Bookstore in Spokane, Washington Monday, Oct. 26, 2020. Spokesman-Review Senior Editor Carolyn Lamberson interviews Jess about his new book and about writing in general, fielding many questions from readers.…

Burn Out Comes to Book Club - Author Anne Helen Petersen (who grew up in Lewiston) and her new book, "Can't Even: How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation, is presented in the Northwest Passages livestream with Spokesman-Review writer Arielle Dreher posing the questions.By The Spokesman-Review

Author and historian Jim Kershner talks about his recently completed book, "The Sound of Spokane - The history of the Spokane Symphony" with Spokesman-Review writer Stephanie Hammett on the Northwest Passages Book Club livestream from Spokane, Washington. Principal trumpet Larry Jess joins the conversation to talk about his more than 50 years with …

A wildly original, cross-country novel that subverts a long tradition of family narratives and casts new light on the mythologies--national, individual, and collective--that drive and define us. VANESSA VESELKA is the author of the novel Zazen, which won the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize.By The Spokesman-Review

The New Chardonnay tells the unbelievable story of pot’s astonishing rebranding, pulling back the curtain to show how a drug that was once the subject of “Just Say No” warnings managed to shed its unsavory image and land at the center of a booming and surprisingly upstanding industry. Heather Cabot is an author, award-winning journalist, keynote sp…

Max Brooks, author of "World War Z", "The Harlem Hellfighters," "The Zombie Survival Guide" and his newest, "Devolution," is interviewed by Spokesman-Review Senior Editor Carolyn Lamberson about his books, his craft, and even a little about his famous parents, Anne Bancroft and Mel Brooks. This is part of the Northwest Passages Book Club Virtual Fo…