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If you’re one of those people who thinks classical music is dull, you probably just haven’t heard the right classical music. Tonight, the Spokane Symphony leaves the formality of the Fox and heads across the street to the Knitting Factory for an evening of more obscure, experimental music.

Music Classical Guitar Concert:

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On several occasions in recent weeks I’ve had the opportunity to hear stories from young gay men and lesbians about coming out to their families, in particular their parents. I’m not sure, though, that “opportunity” is accurate nomenclature in this case. The stories can be heartbreaking. One young man fought against himself through all of high school, knowing he was gay but scared to face what his family and his faith professed was immoral. On graduation day he’d finally had enough and talked frankly with his mom. She didn’t speak to him for the whole of his graduation party. For months afterward, she refused to acknowledge her son’s homosexuality.

‘Saw V” is opening today. Just thought you’d want to know, since so many of you are fans of movies boasting impalings, decapitations, limb-severings, shootings, throat-slittings, bludgeonings, immolations and disembowelings.

“The Outer Limits: The Original Series Complete Box Set”

Editor’s note: Meghan Daum is on a book tour. The following column originally ran on August 9. I need to say something. And even though I’m going to refrain from typing in all caps, I urge you to pretend I did.

Opening today “High School Musical 3: Senior Year”

Someday, Troy and Gabriella will actually open their mouths when they kiss. Someday, Sharpay won’t have backup dancers magically appear out of nowhere during her self-glorifying production numbers.

Tonight Annie Fannie’s:

Clutching a giant cluster of grapes in each hand, Davide Trezzi thrusts his arms toward the Green Bluff sky. “Look at this,” he says, carrying the deep purple barbera grapes as he walks between rows in the small vineyard. “Beautiful.” It was the moment he’d dreamed of three years ago as he and his wife, Stephanie, tended the tiny twigs that would become their grapevines – the harvest they barely dared imagine until gloved hands with clippers, and buckets overflowing with ripe fruit, made it real last week. “Every barbera is different. Every cabernet is different, right? It will be different here,” says Trezzi, his words heavily accented by his Italian heritage.

The thing about honey is that it’s not just sweet, but awfully gooey. That goes for the new film “The Secret Life of Bees,” too. Is the sweetness worth the stickiness in this maudlin “American Sisterhood of the Traveling Green Tomatoes”?

Unless otherwise noted, tickets are available through TicketsWest (TW; 800-325-SEAT, www.ticketswest.com) or Ticketmaster (TM; 509-735-0500, www.ticketmaster.com). Prices listed do not include service charges. Tickets to Spokane Symphony performances also are available through the symphony box office, (509) 624-1200. October

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Twigs scotch dinner Mike Shea, general manager for the South Hill branch of Twigs Bistro and Martini Bar, 4320 S. Regal St., is bringing Diageo master of whisky Ari Shapiro over from the West Side for another Scotch whisky tasting dinner on Oct. 29 at 6:30 p.m.