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Dear Annie: My younger sister is getting married in June and has asked me to be her maid of honor. I was genuinely touched – until she handed me an extensive “wish list.” It includes hosting a destination bachelorette weekend (on my dime until others reimburse me), attending dress fittings three hours away on weekdays, organizing a bridal shower with “an elevated garden-party aesthetic” and being available for “brainstorming calls.”

1 Custer’s 49th Annual Spring Arts & Crafts Show – Over 250 artisans from the Northwest displaying and selling fine art, hand crafts and specialty foods. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday. Spokane County Fair and Expo Center, 404 N. Havana St. Admission: $9 single day.

Classics Northwest will return for the 2026 season with acclaimed pianist Piers Lane this weekend.

The first time comedian and actor Harland Williams traveled through Washington state, he was on his way to Hollywood.

I still can’t read the weather gods well enough to predict what our weather is going to be for the next few weeks, but we are close to planting time. There is a lot of interest in adding fruit trees to backyards. You can’t beat picking a dead ripe plum, cherry or peach? Here are a few things to think about.

In a word, the Spokane International Film Festival is all about passion.

Smart, sassy, curious and willing to try new things – Junie B. Jones is the spunkiest kindergartner (and eventually first grader) around.

In the fourth installation of their season, the Spokane String Quartet will feature a guest cellist in the midst of his debut Spokane Symphony season.

In 1903, a young Japanese man who called himself Frank Matsura came to live in the central Washington town of Conconully.

With her audacious sophomore feature “The Bride!” writer/director Maggie Gyllenhaal offers a topical-ish take on “Bride of Frankenstein”: what if “the Joker” was “brat”? (To borrow Charli XCX’s ineffable description of a rebellious party girl personality.) Gyllenhaal brings this modern concept to the 91-year-old James Whale film (his sequel to “Frankenstein”), in which Elsa Lanchester made the ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My new ophthalmologist is a 35-year-old man whom I have known since he was 8 years old and I coached him in youth football. He was in my son’s class, and I had frequent contact with him through his school years until he left for college.

It’s the water.

In a Feb. 11 article titled, “Birthday schemes and Boston Baked Beans,” I reflected on the heartfelt hunt I undertook with my 93-year-young “Mama,” Mary Lou, to locate a hard-shelled peanut candy she recalled from her Spokane childhood. It seems these treats are an explosive favorite with Spokesman-Review readers.

I am not over the cottage cheese trend yet, because I never needed to get on board with it. For me, cottage cheese isn’t a fad. It’s a mainstay in my refrigerator and has been for as long as I can remember. As a child, I sat at the kitchen table with my grandfather noshing on bowls of it mixed with sour cream and sliced banana. My grandmother stirred it with hot egg noodles, butter and caramelized onions for dinner. I’ve been making cottage cheese pancakes for years, as well as using it in dressings and dips to add creamy texture in a healthier way.

FUKUI, Japan – A farmer in snowy Fukui City ships tropical bananas year-round.

Salmon recipes often say to remove the skin. The salmon I buy usually has skin only on one side. Is it really necessary to remove it when a recipe says to? And if so, what’s the reason for removing it? Does it really matter?

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Bride!” hits theaters this weekend, another take on the Frankenstein story that’s more about other Frankenstein movies than the original text itself. “Bride of Frankenstein” was always a cinematic creation anyway, arriving as a sequel film in 1935 to James Whale’s 1931 “Frankenstein,” so it stands to reason that Gyllenhaal's movie would pay homage to Hollywood’s love ...

Christina Applegate is where she spent many listless, painful nights over the last year working on her memoir: in bed. She passes most of her days inside a bedroom of her Laurel Canyon home. And it's already not a great day when we connect over video conference in late February — no day is free from the exhaustion and symptoms of multiple sclerosis, the autoimmune disease she was diagnosed with in 2021. This particular afternoon, she says, is "crap on a cracker."

Dear Doctors: I read your column about the scent of skin secretion changes in Parkinson’s disease. A couple of years ago, I read about training canines to smell and detect lung cancer. Has there been additional work done in training canines for disease detection?