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Dear Annie: My 16-year-old daughter is relentless in begging me to have a sleepover with her boyfriend. She insists they are not sexually active and that she simply wants to hang out with him, watch movies and sleep next to him. For some reason, nothing I say to explain makes any sense to her.

And the answer is: Bromeliads.

Dear Doctors: I recently read about a woman complaining that her granddaughter eats very slowly. It brought to mind the condition I have called Schatzki’s ring, which is a restriction in the esophagus. I wonder if the granddaughter may have a similar problem. Could you discuss it?

Watching a good movie is great. But writing - or reading - about a bad one can sometimes be even more fun. Here are 21 of the year's worst films: dreck that couldn't even get two stars from our critics. A few of them are still in theaters. (How is that even possible?) The rest can be streamed, if you dare.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: What’s the “right” time to throw away greeting cards? When friends or family send birthday or other greeting cards, I generally read them and then throw them away, to my husband’s consternation.

Dear Annie: Our 23-year-old granddaughter and her son live with my husband and me. Her boy is 3, and she moved into our house seven months before his birth.

The new year is nearly here, and, as is custom, we ring out the old by running down the very best bottles to hit shelves during the past 12 months.

When Atlanta’s Adam Reed and Matt Thompson conceived “Archer” in 2009, they pitched it as “Arrested Development” meets James Bond, an adult animated spy spoof. While most networks gave them a hard pass, they were surprised and thrilled FX gave them a thumbs up.

Dear Doctors: My husband was given a small jar of an electrolyte powder by a friend and has decided to take it on a daily basis. He is 76 years old, sedentary, a bit overweight and has high blood pressure. Might taking electrolytes cause him problems?

Comic Tim Meadows, who will reprise his role as the principal in the forthcoming film, "Mean Girls," will perform Friday and Saturday at the Spokane Comedy Club.

A singles New Year's Eve event will feature karaoke, prizes and a Liberty Lake therapist to help guide those who are trying to break free from dating apps.

Classic ABBA tunes will be delivered at Northern Quest by Direct from Sweden.

Depending on your point of view, John Chau’s story is a sad one. Or it’s inspiring. Matters of religious faith are a personal exercise. Many of us either believe – or we don’t. The rest fall somewhere in between.

Hogmanay is the word as the Spokane Symphony celebrates New Year's Eve at the Fox with Beethoven's 9th.

Zoso, a veteran Led Zeppelin cover band, returns to the Knitting Factory.

The unrestricted world of Yellowstone National Park was not enough for actor Pierce Brosnan. The actor known for playing James Bond received a citation for "foot travel in a thermal area" at the Wyoming park, according to the court citation reviewed by The Times. According to the National Park Service's Yellowstone safety website, visitors to the park must "always walk on boardwalks and ...

Ferrari starts with some ancient history: archival footage of Enzo Ferrari racing cars as a young man in the 1920s, just a few decades into the automobile age, long before he founded his eponymous automobile company. Watching him zoom around the track in grainy black and white is thrilling. But, wait a minute-how are we cutting into these closeups? Cameras were much too large in 1924 to strap to the side of a race car. And hold on-that's not Enzo. It's that most Italian of non-Italian movie stars, Adam Driver.

With Michael Mann’s “Ferrari” having roared into theaters on Christmas Day, it’s appropriate to revisit the body of work of this American auteur, from every stone-cold classic to misunderstood masterpiece. So take a spin around the track of the Mann oeuvre on streaming over the holidays to boost your appreciation of his latest film about a man obsessively driven to professional perfection.