Entertainment

Opening today “Burn After Reading”

“Cool Hand Luke” •••1/2

The music business is hurting, but you wouldn’t know it from the avalanche of activity between now and Christmas. Despite the boffo business done this summer by Coldplay and Lil Wayne, the industry’s conventional wisdom still holds that the run-up to the holiday season is the best time for major-label singers and rappers to sell CDs (or digital albums). Along with the high-profile releases (described below) from Beyonce and Taylor Swift, there’ll be plenty more, from rapper T.I. (“Paper Trail,” Sept. 30), Jennifer Hudson (self-titled, Sept. 30), John Legend (“Evolver,” Sept. 30), Bob Dylan (the outtakes collection “Tell Tale Signs,” Oct. 7), and Fall Out Boy (“Folie a Deux,” Nov. 4).

Tonight 2nd Look Books:

Now that the Democratic National Convention is over, have all the PUMAs gone back to their dens? Is it safe to jog in the mountains or are rabid, ravenous Hillary Rodham Clinton supporters still crouching in the chaparral, patiently waiting until November, when they’ll avenge their candidate in one deadly pounce?

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Music Jackie Green:

Things to do Route of the Hiawatha:

Movement on the Vietnamese front Fans of Vietnamese food salivated at the news in summer 2007 that the former home of short-lived Slavic restaurants Neva Russian Tea Room and Ararat Grill, 2909 N. Division St., was to become a second branch of Pho Van, a longtime staple of the Gonzaga District restaurant scene.

“Outsourced”

STP show changes venues Saturday’s Stone Temple Pilots/Black Rebel Motorcycle Club show, originally scheduled at the Spokane Arena’s Star Theatre, has been moved to the Knitting Factory, 919 W. Sprague Ave. The show is now sold out because of the switch to a smaller venue.

Josh Hamilton loves to travel. His travel obsession is one reason why the New York-based actor jumped at the chance to star in “Outsourced,” John Jeffcoat’s little film that opened the 2008 Spokane International Film Festival.