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Editor’s note: This column was originally published in 2020.

Eddie Murphy's Det. Axel Foley is back in beautiful Southern California in the new trailer for the next "Beverly Hills Cop" sequel.

Barbra Streisand owns 10 Grammys, two Oscars, five Emmys, three Peabodys, an honorary "Star of the Decade" Tony and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Come February, she'll have an award from one of the few groups on the planet yet to celebrate her. Streisand has been named the 59th recipient of SAG-AFTRA's highest tribute, the organization announced Thursday: the SAG Life Achievement Award

Hello, dear readers, and welcome to our monthly letters column. With chillier weather in much of the country, we’re getting a lot of questions about flu and COVID-19 prevention. And to everyone who wrote in last month to share your frustration with (and adverse effects from) the return to standard time, you are not alone. The switch prompted some interesting questions about sleep, which we’ll address in future columns. And now, your letters.

From staff reports

With the holiday season in full swing, you might find yourself experiencing both the joy and the stress of this time of year. Feeling frazzled, overscheduled or a little run down can come along with the season. It’s a good time to generously give yourself some extra care by planning for a healthier holiday season.

The Big Band Christmas show returns to the Valley courtesy of Spokane Valley Summer Theatre. A combination of Christmas classics and contemporary tunes will be delivered.

An improv theater that has spent two decades in the Garland District is moving into one of Spokane’s landmark milk bottle buildings downtown.

Since the 1950s, fueled by the furor of the Cold War, we’ve seen one cautionary tale hit movie theaters after the next. If the foe confronting society wasn’t some radioactive-reanimated dinosaur like Godzilla, it was an army of zombies.

It's a Bing Crosby Christmas with the Pops conducted by Morihiko Nakahara and vocalists Jake Bergevin and Crosby's nephew, Howard Crosby at the Fox.

Quiet Riot's Rudy Sarzo is keeping the veteran metal band alive.

“Wonka,” the new musical origin story of everyone’s favorite mischievous chocolatier, is a lot like the creative confections our protagonist conjures — we don’t need chocolate, but how can we resist such a tantalizing treat? It’s the same quandary with this movie: we never needed a musical origin story of Willy Wonka, but how can we resist this whimsical and wonderful tale crafted by ...

With “Wonka” hitting theaters, an origin story for the mysterious magical chocolatier Willy Wonka, one can’t help but think of Roald Dahl, the British writer who penned “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” in 1964.

Tributes poured in Wednesday to honor Andre Braugher, after the “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” star’s sudden death this week. He was 61.

Comedian, voice actor and musician Kate Micucci said she is on the road to recovery after undergoing lung cancer surgery earlier this month. Micucci, known for "The Big Bang Theory" and animated series "Ducktales" and "Steven Universe," said in a "sick tok" video posted last week that her doctors caught her lung cancer early and removed the impacted cells. Even with the good news, Micucci said she found her diagnosis "pretty weird."

Andre Braugher's career spanned over three decades and was filled with several notable roles across film and television. The actor, who died Monday at 61, became a household name after starring in "Homicide: Life on the Streets" as Det. Frank Pembleton. The series, based on a book by David Simon about the Baltimore Police Department's homicide unit, ran from 1993 to 1999, earning him his first Emmy in 1998 for lead actor in a drama.

Former Disney Channel star Hilary Duff is pregnant with her fourth child. The "How I Met Your Father" actor posted a photo of her family Christmas card on Instagram on Tuesday morning, which she captioned "Surprise Surprise!"

Former journalist and Emmy-winning TV writer Cord Jefferson’s directorial debut “American Fiction” is a social satire that wields a deceptively sharp shiv, not a cleaving broadsword, as it surgically slices through the many hypocrisies of the culture industry at large.

Is Jack Reacher, mountain of a man that he is, the kind of guy who can stroll into any old thrift store and find a pair of jeans that fit, let alone a jacket big enough for those arms? Probably not. But that’s the sly joke of “Reacher,” which is back for a second season on Amazon.