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There's more to brown than meets the eye. Here are some tips for decorating with different shades of brown:

Over the years dozens of movies and television miniseries have been produced about World War II in Europe and the Pacific, but of those, there are only a handful that touched upon the event that thrust the United States into the war, the attack on Pearl Harbor, 83 years ago Saturday.

Dear Doctors: I am a 47-year-old woman in good health. I exercise regularly and eat a healthy diet. At my physical, I was surprised when my doctor said I have A-fib. I have never felt anything wrong with my heart, so I am confused. Can you please explain A-fib?

Dear Annie: I’ve been with my spouse for nine years. Lately, I feel he’s so distant, and I can’t help but be bothered by it. About a year ago, everything changed. He started hiding his phone, being secretive with his friends, had multiple social media accounts, etc.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I just started a new job, and a group text chat was created for us to communicate about our shift availability. However, employees have begun using this chat for small talk.

Guns N' Roses lead singer Axl Rose is moving on from a lawsuit that accused him last year of sexually assaulting a model in the 1980s.

Dear Doctors: Like a lot of people, I’ve had to return to the office. At home, I did calls and meetings on the treadmill, walked at lunch and lifted weights during breaks. That’s not possible now. I know sitting is bad for your health. Can you discuss the research? I’d like to share it with my boss.

Dear Annie: I’m a 17-year-old girl, and I will be turning 18 next month. I’m a senior in high school, and my grades are excellent! I’ve applied to all of my colleges, and now I’m waiting for the decisions, which I will find out very soon. I live in Arizona, and the schools are in New York, D.C. and North Carolina (with my first choice being in New York).

Spokane author Megan Young is out with a new children’s book highlighting some of Spokane’s most iconic spots and paying homage to the famous Garbage Goat in Riverfront Park.

Spokane playwright Pam Kingsley had a very good reason for not picking up her fellow book club member’s chosen book.

From staff reports

In many ways, Joe Gatto is a comedy veteran.

“Saturday Night Live” alum Kyle Mooney’s directorial debut “Y2K” makes for a fascinating test case for Gen Z’s appetite for all things 2000s. His comedic sensibility, honed through throwback TV parodies on “SNL,” is at once broad and hyper-specific. In the nostalgia piece “Y2K,” he hits the big sign posts that will delight the younger generation craving the simpler times of a pre-9/11 world, but he also gets granular with late ‘90s music, fashion and culture in a way that one could only understand if they actually lived through it.

Every holiday season, performer Callahan Gillispie, who grew up near Sumner and Bonney Lake, would leave carrots in her yard for Santa’s reindeer.

From staff reports

My love of movie scoundrels has been sorely tested this year. When I was young, I daydreamed of exotic heists, slick con artists and lovable crooks I’d seen on screen. For most of my moviegoing life, I’ve been a sucker for larceny done well. Most of us are, probably. But now it’s late 2024. Mood is wrong. It’s scoundrel time. Maybe Charles Dickens was right. In “American Notes for General ...

With Kyle Mooney’s nostalgia-packed horror comedy “Y2K” hitting theaters, it may be time for a bit of an education about the millennium, especially for Gen Z, who have the appetite for all things 2000s, but might not have all the references. Or, this streaming guide can serve as a comfort watch for millennials who miss the good ol' days of flip phones and JNCO jeans (or remember that maybe things were also not great then, too).

Uberto Pasolini tackles Homer’s epic poem “The Odyssey” with his intimate and muscular adaptation “The Return.” Despite the centuries-long significance of the text, not many films have tackled its events directly, and Pasolini focuses on Odysseus’ “nostos,” or his return to the island of Ithaca after years fighting in the Trojan War and his long way home.