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Fund-Raiser To Bring Aids Quilt To Spokane

A fund-raiser will be held tonight and Saturday to collect the last of the money needed to bring part of the AIDS quilt to Spokane. Nine hundred and sixty panels, each about the size of a coffin, will be on display at both the Ag Trade Center and the Convention Center April 25-28. The quilt covers 13 acres and weighs 38 tons. Several new panels will be dedicated on April 28. This week's fund-raiser will be held at West 4 Main from noon to 7 p.m. today and from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday. A variety of indoor and outdoor garden items will be on sale, including 55 flats of bedding plants, garden tools and accessories, and seeds. Easter-related items will also be offered.
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Popular Glover Mansion Expands Into Dinner Hour

Glover Mansion - that gorgeous historic house on Spokane's South Hill - started serving dinner this week. The mansion has long been a favorite among those who lunch, and general manager Paul Strickley is sure the venue's popularity will spill over into the dinner hour. The evening menu will change weekly, to emphasize the freshest ingredients available in the area. Strickley describes the fare as continental-style cuisine, which seems perfectly appropriate for such elegant surroundings.
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‘The Natural,’ ‘League’ Videos Available For Purchase This Month

In the spring a fan's thoughts drift to a good sports video, and more than a few noteworthy ones are available this month. At the top of any list should be two of the most engaging movies about baseball ever produced, Robert Redford's "The Natural" (1984) and "A League of Their Own" (1992) with Tom Hanks, Geena Davis and Madonna. Columbia TriStar Home Video makes them available this month in a boxed set at $24.95, which has to be the biggest hit on the sports-video schedule this season.
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Year’s Top 10 Movies At Box Office

1. Toy Story $184,704,860 (18 wks. 3 days) 2. Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls $108,334,348 (19 wks. 3 days) 3. GoldenEye $103,830,174 (18 wks. 3 days) 4. Jumanji $96,559,261 (16 wks. 3 days) 5. Father of the Bride Part II $76,410,119 (16 wks. 3 days) 6. Mr. Holland's Opus $74,867,748 (13 wks. 3 days) 7. The Birdcage $74,627,943 (3 wks. 3 days) 8. Grumpier Old Men $71,054,458 (14 wks. 3 days) 9. Heat $67,163,568 (15 wks. 3 days) 10.Waiting to Exhale $66,695,907 (14 wks. 3 days) Note: Industry year begins with the 1995 Thanksgiving-Christmas holiday season. Figures through March 31.)
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‘Yellowstone’ Lacking The Thrill Of What Imax Is For

"Yellowstone," the newest addition to the IMAX Theatre film series, has all the format's familiar super-big-screen touches. A helicopter shot takes us off a snowy ridge, then causes our stomachs to lurch as our whole worldview shifts with the movement of the IMAX camera, first one way and then the next. We watch a dramatized scene of early "Yellowstone" explorers being run out of camp by a hungry grizzly bear.
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Albertini’s Working To Improve At New Valley Location

Veteran restaurateur and one-time mayoral candidate Dave Albertini is back in business. When he sold his downtown Spokane restaurant (and busy watering hole) several years ago, he planned to live on Lake Coeur d'Alene and run Carlin Bay Resort, on the east side of the lake. But he found it tough to make a living during the short summer season.
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For Demi, Navy Helpful

At a time when the U.S. Navy's decrepit, old F-14 "Top Gun" carrier fighters are dropping like 35-ton, $50 million flies fully 172 of the 675 built have been destroyed in accidents our beloved president has elected to cut defense spending by 6 percent, with most of the reduction to come out of new equipment budgets. As a mere former Army corporal and Air Force auxiliary captain, I must confess I at first failed to comprehend the Big Picture logic in this. The Navy is keeping the F-14s flying, not with glue and baling wire but almost. It's restricting the big fighters - which helped make Tom Cruise a macho man in the movie "Top Gun" - to the speed of commercial jetliners at altitudes below 17,000 feet.
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Moshing Evolves Into The Extreme

Once upon a time, fans at rock concerts came in, sat down and listened. Maybe they stood on their chairs. No more. With the advent of punk music came pogoing (jumping up and down) and, later, slam-dancing (as you might expect, slamming into each other). The sweaty son of those two is moshing, the violent, roiling, seething mass-dance done by concertgoers at alternative, metal and industrial concerts, to the music of bands such as Green Day, Pantera, Ministry, Nine Inch Nails and Metallica. The mosh pit is the area, usually directly in front of the stage, where the action takes place.
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Strong Acting Delivers Subtle Humor

(From For the Record, Saturday, March 30, 1996:) James Earl Jones is pictured with Robert Duvall from the film "A Family Thing" in Friday's Weekend magazine. The caption misidentified Jones. James Earl Ray, left and Robert Duvall play brothers in "A Family Thing."
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Take Stock In Hollywood, Just For Fun

Actors, directors, authors, musicians and hundreds of actual film, TV, book and music projects will soon be converted into stocks and bonds to be traded on a fictitious new Internet stock market called the Hollywood Stock Exchange. In a kind of fantasy movie mogul game not unlike rotisserie baseball, the Hollywood Stock Exchange will offer users all over the world the chance to pick which movies are worth developing, based on actual daily updates regarding the attachment of directors and actors, as well as budgets and other factors. HSE is being created by 36-year-old former Wall Street stockbroker-turned writer Max Keiser and Michael Burns, 37, a managing director of the media group for Prudential Securities. Both are based in Los Angeles.
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