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Dear Annie: I live with my almost-30-year-old daughter. She acquired our place through a lawsuit settlement.

David Easterbrook is an unlikely influencer. The retiree has more than 1 million followers watching him water his plants on Instagram. Easterbrook doesn’t have your average backyard garden. The horticulturalist and former curator at the Montreal Botanical Garden is one of the world’s leading experts in bonsai.

Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, March 14, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by Circana BookScan © 2026 Circana. (Reprinted from Publishers Weekly, published by PWxyz LLC. © 2026, PWxyz LLC.) HARDCOVER FICTION 1. "Judge Stone: A Novel" by Viola Davis and Patterson (Little, Brown) ...

A recent cover of Dogue, a canine fashion magazine, featured an Italian greyhound wearing an evening gown, an opera glove on each paw. Several pages in, a nattily dressed labradoodle showed off a collection of trench coats.

Norris and his family came to Spokane in 2004 to film "The Cutter." He played an ex-cop and private investigator searching for an elderly diamond cutter and Auschwitz survivor.

Chuck Norris, a celebrated martial artist and action star known for “The Way of the Dragon” and “Walker, Texas Ranger” has died. He was 86. Norris died Thursday morning in Kauai, Hawaii, his family confirmed Friday morning on social media.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: What do you do if someone takes your chair? Does it matter if it is the throne of a ruler of great lands?

Netflix and chill may have a whole new meaning.

Dear Doctors: I am a 66-year-old woman, and my blood test from a physical exam shows that my blood sugar is getting higher. I am not in prediabetes yet, but I really don’t want to get there. Other than cutting out sweets, how do you eat to improve your blood sugar numbers?

Dear Annie: My younger sister is getting married this fall. I’m happy for her. The problem is her fiance.

Whether you know it or not, the viewing experience of many of your favorite films was expanded by the orchestral scores that can make or break the biggest moments and set a movie’s tone throughout. The Spokane Symphony will be exploring the music of “Star Wars,” “Pirates of the Caribbean,” “Harry Potter,” “Interstellar” and more as they pit two of the greatest film composers’ neck and neck during Hans Zimmer vs. John Williams.

Last week I talked about the practicalities of using animal manures as a soil amendment. This week I want to talk about a few other common soil amendments like compost, peat moss and coir fiber.

For bands that form in college, accustomed to performing in sticky-floor fraternity basements, it can be jarring to make the jump to selling out headline shows.

As the phrase goes, “If you want something done right, do it yourself.” But Jaz Vega, festival director of Stage Left Theater’s legacy production “Empower,” found that when it came to putting together the reader’s theater-style production celebrating the joys of womanhood, “If you want something done, ask women” was more accurate.

A mother’s love can be well-meaning but overbearing. From a child’s perspective, that love can feel supportive, but also suffocating.

The filmmaking team of Phil Lord and Christopher Miller have undeniably shaped our cinematic sensibilities over the last decade, and with their new film, the heartwarming space movie “Project Hail Mary,” starring Ryan Gosling, they’re taking their style into the previously unexplored territory of the live-action sci-fi epic.

What if running into an alien while far from home wasn’t necessarily terrifying? After decades of “Alien” movies (and their rip-offs) convincing us that deep space alien encounters end with bloody bodily destruction, directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller suggest in their sweeping sci-fi weepie “Project Hail Mary” that there might be a new way to make chests burst — with love.