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Dear Doctors: I don’t enjoy exercise, but it’s important for your health, so I do it. We’ve had really humid weather, and I’m having trouble staying active. I run and, in this weather, I just can’t go as far or as fast. My roommates are teasing me and say it’s all in my head. Are they right?

Dear Annie: I am an 86-year-old mother of three children, a grandmother of six and great-grandmother of eight. We have always had a great relationship with our children.

A text I recently sent to my two oldest sons was factually accurate, but a bit eyebrow-raising.

Some gardeners would think we are almost at the height of the vegetable season. Tomatoes are setting, corn is more than knee-high and cilantro and lettuce are bolting. But wait! Are we really on the home stretch for our crops? Nope, there is the fall gardening season and now is the time to start planning and planting.

Three local venues are combining forces to put Spokane music, art and local businesses on full display while looking to create a place for community connection as well.

May Pang’s birthday parties usually go off in a typical fashion; laughs and chatter filling the air of her one-bedroom New York apartment as it overflows with friends. But at one of her coveted parties in the mid-1980s, she had an unexpected guest.

Alyssa Day is not one to cry, but when the actor saw a production of “Next to Normal” at Spokane Civic Theatre years ago, she couldn’t help but sob through the entire second act.

1 Fort Sherman Chapel Tour – Step inside the Fort Sherman Chapel and discover artifacts that bring the story of the frontier military post to life. 11 a.m. Friday. Museum of North Idaho, 720 E. Young Ave., Coeur d’Alene. Admission: Free.

As Classics Northwest continues to evolve in its inaugural year, Grammy Award-winning cellist Zuill Bailey will provide four performances in three days – saving fellow Grammy Award-winners Time for Three for last.

On paper, “Come from Away” shouldn’t work as well as it does.

Indie rockers Colony House will perform at the District Bar early next week.

Stephen Wilson Jr. was once a scientist and a boxer, but the passing of his father became the catalyst for his breakout record “Son of Dad.” Although he never expected to make another album, his observations of blue collar America led to his next unannounced project.

Tackling academics at Gonzaga University while quickly becoming a staple of the Spokane scene may seem challenging, but local band Pancho has pulled it off.

In a downtown Spokane alleyway on Tuesday, under the hot July sun, six students and two supervisors painted a mural.

It’s surprising to find out that Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” is the first modern blockbuster adaptation of Homer’s second epic poem, which is, along with its predecessor “The Iliad,” arguably the first example of storytelling on a grand scale, which continues to inform our cinematic quests, our hero’s journeys. There are very few filmmakers that could or would tackle “The Odyssey” now with such an eye to authenticity and scope, and thank goodness it was Nolan, who has the resources and the skill to do so with the right crew and an all-star cast.

Watching Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” is something of an odyssey in itself. Like Odysseus’ postwar journey home to Penelope, the film is vast, eventful, loud, dramatic, stressful, exhausting and seemingly endless. But as he showed us in “Oppenheimer,” Nolan has an uncanny way of making nearly three hours fly, even as you’re starting to wonder just how many travails poor Odysseus (a sturdy Matt Damon), not to mention the audience, can endure. Much of his “Odyssey” is mesmerizing — both massive action epic and intimate story of one man losing his way.

The Guinness Book of World Records notes that the record distance that a human has spit a cherry pit is just more than 93 feet.