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• Spotlight: Patty Duke eager to join Baxter for spin on ‘Glee’

  May 5, 2013 in Features on Page D6 Local fans of the television show “Glee” will see a familiar face on screen. Patty Duke, the Oscar- and Emmy-winning actress who has called Coeur d’Alene home since the late … 1

• Theater puts Franz, Duke, Travolta, Bannon together for one night

  July 29, 2012 in Features on Page D1 Six actors will take the stage. The set will consist of a few chairs. There will be no elaborate costumes. But when the lights go down and the curtain rises, …

• Spotlight: CdA Summer Theatre will feature Franz

  June 10, 2012 in Features on Page D7 There’s big news for the Spotlight column, and then there is Big News. I think this falls into the latter category. Coeur d’Alene Summer Theatre has announced a special show, …

• Huckleberries: Adams touchy about public contradiction

  April 22, 2012 in City, Idaho on Page B2 Steve Adams, a new Coeur d’Alene councilman who refuses to support any issue that involves federal dollars, doesn’t like correction. After being corrected twice by City Attorney Mike Gridley for …

• Huckleberries: The Big One got away from birthday tracker

  December 18, 2011 in City on Page B2 Kerri Thoreson was keeping track of everyone’s birthdays in Kootenai County before Facebook arrived and wanted to be friends. Kerri, a woman of many hats (Post Falls councilwoman, Coeur d’Alene …

• ‘Miracle Worker’ returns to the stage

  August 25, 2011 in Features on Page C1 Can a “Miracle” strike twice? Interplayers Professional Theatre certainly hopes so. Interplayers is reviving its hit springtime production of William Gibson’s “The Miracle Worker” for 10 more performances beginning Friday. 2

• Spotlight: Carlile, Franti top Sandpoint lineup

  May 22, 2011 in Features on Page D6 The Festival at Sandpoint concerts were announced Thursday, and you might call it the back-by-popular-demand lineup. Three of the headliners have been big draws in previous Sandpoint summers at the …

• Huckleberries: Osprey weren’t striving to be empty nesters

  May 22, 2011 in City on Page B2 Times are hard for ospreys, too. Bad luck and bad housekeeping left a feathered couple homeless in Post Falls a few weeks ago. Originally, according to Terry Harris of the …

• Review: ‘Miracle Worker’ riveting, stirs strong reaction

  May 8, 2011 in City on Page B2 The capacity crowd at Interplayers on opening night Friday may have been drawn because of Patty Duke, but its thundering applause was for Sarah Denison and Sophia Caruso. Those are …

• Patty Duke directs the show that made her famous

  May 1, 2011 in Features on Page D1 The 14-year-old Patty Duke was inconsolable on the day in 1961 when she filmed the final scene of “The Miracle Worker.” “I was heartbroken, absolutely heartbroken,” says Duke, 50 years …

• Spotlight: Crosby uniform will be on display at Bing

  December 5, 2010 in Features on Page D6 Attention, “White Christmas” fanatics: The Army uniform worn by Bing Crosby in that 1954 movie will be on display at the Bing Crosby Holiday Film Festival on Saturday.

• Theaters’ upcoming season include ‘Wicked,’ ‘White Christmas’

  August 29, 2010 in Features on Page D1 Buy a ticket, park yourself in your theater seat and watch the following unfold: • Four actors playing 150 characters in a Hitchcock spoof.

• Patty Duke hopes talk helps Interplayers

  June 3, 2010 in Features on Page C1 Patty Duke has several goals for her three-day gig at Interplayers, “An Intimate Conversation: Patty Duke,” starting tonight: • She wants it to be like a live, local version of …

• Patty Duke to share ‘Intimate Conversation’ at Interplayers

  May 9, 2010 in Features on Page D5 You might call it a local, live “Inside the Actor’s Studio.” Patty Duke will talk about her Oscar- and Emmy-winning career in a series of special benefit events for Interplayers …

• Huckleberries: The echo of her British accent still lingers

  January 31, 2009 in Idaho Voices on Page I2 It’s OK to admit it now, I guess. After all, it has been 45 years since I had a “tween” crush on Cathy and Patty – the Lane cousins. Remember …

• Neighbors complain about group homes

  March 5, 2008 in City on Page B1 A local doctor has transformed several Hayden area houses, including actress Patty Duke’s former ranch, into group homes for troubled youth, leading some neighbors in the rural neighborhoods to complain …