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A Day to Remember will perform Saturday at the Podium. 

Kelsey Waldon will showcase tracks from her latest album, "No Regular Dog," Thursday at the Lucky You Lounge.

Most octogenarians who break a bone take it easy. But not Judy Collins. The Grammy-winning singer-songwriter busted her elbow in Pittsburgh last month, which forced her to postpone her Iron City show.

Comic John Heffron actually looks forward to aging as much as he enjoys telling jokes. Heffron will spin his personal tales Friday and Saturday at the Spokane Comedy Club.

A little over a year ago, Gaye Kruger and her husband attended a Hot August Nights event at Unity Spiritual Center where they met Sandra Marlowe.

Best known for his iconic Saturday Evening Post covers, Norman Rockwell wasn’t above the occasional advertisement for companies like Jell-0 and Mass Mutual. One such advertisement, for canned peaches, featured a painting of Bing Crosby.

If Dickens had lived to write about the Jazz Age, he would have produced a novel much like Kate Atkinson’s “Shrines of Gaiety.” A sprawling and sparkling tale set in London in 1926, Atkinson’s latest is overrun with flappers, gangsters, shilling-a-dance girls, disillusioned veterans of the Great War, crooked coppers, a serial killer, absinthe cocktails, teenage runaways, snazzy roadsters and a bevy of Bright Young Things.

The Metropolitan Opera has over the past 16 years built a lucrative business around broadcasting operas live into movie theaters around the world, attracting an audience of millions for classics like “The Magic Flute” and “Madama Butterfly.”

On Sept. 29, Google announced it would be discontinuing Stadia, its cloud gaming service. The platform utilized Google’s world-class network infrastructure to offer video game streaming – essentially, pick a game and all of the processing would be performed on Google’s end before being streamed to your device.

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Her music still teems with alien vim, but if you’ve ever seen a David Attenborough documentary, you know that Björk belongs here. For nearly three decades, she’s been voicing the emotions that shape our humanity: desire, courage, grief, love – all while evoking the most fantastic extremities of this pale blue dot. Her melodies can feel as volatile as splashy magma or as delicate as a bird of paradise doing a courtship shimmy, but for all of their weirdness and wonderment, a Björk song is only ever as strange as the natural world.

Everclear's Art Alexakis is still on the road despite his MS diagnosis. Alexakis is tough as nails and surprisingly grateful that he has the disease. Everclear will mix in some new songs along with the hits.

Singer-songwriter Todd Snider will return Sunday to the Bing Crosby Theater. It's been a tough time for Snider, who has lost some of his closest friends in the business.

Heavy metal act Fit for an Autopsy perform Saturday at the Big Dipper.

In their second masterwork concert of the season, the Spokane Symphony will perform Sergei Rachmaninoff’s second symphony. A sort of prelude to Rachmaninoff’s 150th birthday year in 2023, the work is “full of melodic passion.”