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On sale

Tickets are on sale at 10 a.m. Friday for: • Walk Off The Earth featuring Parachute , on Feb. 23 at the Knitting Factory. Tickets are $19.50, with VIP packages for $100 and $200, through TicketWeb.
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Artist captures everyday magic

Pencils. Tractors. Kitchen knives. Wooden spoons, bottle openers. Great pyramids, stone sphinxes, diesel engines. Harrington, Wash., artist Leslie LePere, whose show is underway at the Jundt Art Museum, finds magic in objects – small and large, domestic and those found outdoors – that others find ordinary.
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Between gags, ‘Grandpa’ lacks ‘Jackass’-level humor

Strip the danger out of “Borat” and the injuries out of “Jackass” and you’ve got a bead on “Bad Grandpa,” a fitfully funny, semi-scripted “Jackass” outing built around elaborately staged pranks played on the unsuspecting. Johnny Knoxville dons old-age makeup and becomes Irving Zisman, whom we meet at his wife’s doctor’s office.
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Documentary delivers hard truths on class

If a movie crammed front-to-back with bad news, woeful stats and glaring injustice can be considered inspiring, well, then, “Inequality for All” – starring the diminutive, indefatigable Robert Reich – is that movie. A must-see documentary about America’s widening income gap and shrinking middle class, “Inequality for All” shadows the former secretary of labor (in the first Clinton administration) and current University of California Berkeley economics professor as he drives his Mini Cooper around, meeting with families struggling to live paycheck to paycheck, faced with mounting expenses, day care costs, rents, mortgages – household budgets in the red, no matter how hard they try.
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More local bottles, cans filling grocers’ shelves

It’s not quite Christmastime yet, but area brewers are putting good things in small packages. Laughing Dog and Orlison last week became the first Inland Northwest breweries to can their beers, using the mobile services of Portland-based Northwest Canning.
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New EP reflects Lion Oh My’s growth

Pretty much every phase of the Lion Oh My’s career has been made up on the fly. When the Spokane rock four-piece played its first show, they only had four or five songs written and were practicing in an abandoned, windowless church that they rented for about $200 a month and kept warm with a small kerosene heater.
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Pianist Patricia Barber grew up on jazz

Although she’s been a recording artist for over two decades, jazz pianist Patricia Barber says she wasn’t totally comfortable with her career choice until she had been doing it for years. “I’ve always said it was a stupid thing for a smart woman to do, to go into jazz,” she said from her home in Chicago. “But it’s sort of in your blood, I think.”
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Rock doc brings sounds, stories to life

What do you want from a rock doc? Great music? Interviews with the stars? Critical perspective? A compelling story line? Alluring visual textures? Stuff you didn’t already know? Few music documentaries have even two of these ingredients, but “Muscle Shoals,” the story of a soulful redoubt in Alabama – where everyone from Aretha Franklin and Wilson Pickett to Steve Winwood and the Rolling Stones recorded during the ’60s and ’70s – has them all. It is hands down one of the best music documentaries ever made.
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Symphony pairing a perfect marriage

Dawn and Mateusz Wolski bring a new meaning to the word “harmony.” She’s an internationally renowned soprano opera singer, he’s a Polish violinist who’s been the concertmaster of the Spokane Symphony since 2007, and they’ve been married for 10 years. They both caught the musical bug at an early age.
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Theaters roll out dramatic, musical takes on comedy

Now that the dog days of summer are fading from our seasonal rearview mirror, the local theater scene is buzzing with activity. Tonight alone you’ve got two theatrical premieres to choose from: Lake City Playhouse’s production of the operatic farce “Lend Me a Tenor,” and Civic Theatre’s take on the Southern-fried comedy-drama “Second Samuel.” “Tenor” is probably the best known of the two shows. It had successful runs on both West End and Broadway, and the latter production received several Tony and Drama Desk Awards. Written by Ken Ludwig, it’s confined to a two-room hotel suite in 1930s Cleveland on the night of a watershed performance by Italian opera tenor Tito Merelli.
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Touring acts, homegrown arts

It’s been a stellar beginning of fall. Not only has the weather cooperated – because we all love these sunny, gorgeous afternoons, right? – but there has been plenty to keep us all occupied.
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What’s happening

Journalist Michele Norris Creator of “The Race Card Project” on National Public Radio, this award-winning journalist will give a community presentation followed by a Q-and-A and book signing. Monday, 5:30 p.m., Spokane Falls Community College, Music/Performing Arts Building Auditorium, 3410 W. Fort George Wright Drive. Free. (509) 533-4197. EWMEA Jazz Festival Whitworth Music department hosts this jazz festival for area middle school and high school jazz bands. All day event. Wednesday, Whitworth University, Cowles Auditorium, Stage 2, 300 W. Hawthorne Road. Free. (509) 777-3280.
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10 under $10

1“No Clue” 8 p.m. Friday, Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. Improvised murder mystery/comedy, appropriate for all ages. (509) 747-7045. Admission: $9 general; $7 military, seniors and students 2 Federico Aubuele, with Lisa Alma and Bias 8 p.m. Friday, nYne Bistro and Bar, 232 W. Sprague Ave. The Argentine singer-songwriter performs a 21 and older show.
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7 Nights Out

1 ‘Never the Sinner’ Clarence Darrow eloquently defends two young thrill killers in what was considered the “Trial of the Century” in 1924 Chicago. Directed by Ken Urso.
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Halloween activities

Spokane Valley Mission Haunted Pool Continues Friday and Saturday. Discover what is lurking in the locker rooms and what is waiting to petrify you on the pool deck. Geared for ages 12 and older, but open to all with a parent/guardian. Canned food donations go to Spokane Valley Partners. Hours are 7:30-10 p.m. Spokane Valley Mission Park, 11123 E. Mission Ave., Spokane Valley. $3/person or $2 with a can of food. (509) 688-0300. Haunted House Friday and Saturday. “Halls of Horror!” fundraiser presented by West Valley City School. 6:30-10 p.m. daily. Recommended for ages 11 and older. Tickets will be available online at www.cityschool.wix. com/hauntedhouse. West Valley City School, 8920 E. Valleyway Ave., Spokane Valley $7/advance, $9/door. (509) 921-2836.