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Master everything from vegetables to cupcake decorating with INCA After Dark in July. Chef Adam Hegsted will teach a class on preparing vegetarian small plates July 9 from 6 to 8 p.m. Hegsted will focus on seasonal produce from local farmers markets. The class is $50 per person. Then on July 31, Joslynn Lende, the bakery manager of Sweet Frostings, will teach students to make professional-looking cupcakes by mastering frosting bags, tips and sparkling sugars. The class is 6 to 8 p.m. and it is $50 each.

Spokane’s craft-brewing community will get a new contributor this fall when Ben and Christy Lukes open Perry Street Brewing Co. in the South Perry District. The Lukes, who moved last year from Missoula, to Spokane, will be the anchor tenants in a 4,400-square-foot new building at the corner of South Perry and 11th Avenue.

Greet guests with this easy flavored butter and some simple biscuits or scones. They’ll feel like you doted on them, but it won’t take long at all. The recipe is one of the spreads in the new “Flavored Butters” book by Lucy Vaserfirer.

Quick look: If the thought of butter melting on a hot biscuit or in a dish next to Dungeness crab is enough to get your mouth watering, the new “Flavored Butters” cookbook is sure to spark your imagination. Author Lucy Vaserfirer of Vancouver, Wash., is the author of “Seared to Perfection” and the popular Hungry Cravings blog, at www.hungrycravings.com. Her new book will have you making, shaping and using flavored butters with abandon. What’s inside: Put a new spin on your favorite breads, baked goods, vegetables, burgers and seafood with these spreads, which are sometimes called compound butter. Spread apricot-almond butter or mint butter on a breakfast scone. Try goat cheese and sun-dried tomato butter on a piece of multigrain toast. Or, top a steak or burger with gorgonzola-chive butter.

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Colbert resident Joan Cossette is making another play for $1 million. For the second time, Cossette is a semifinalist in the Pillsbury Bake-Off Competition. She needs votes to advance her Lemon Pistachio Blackberry Thumbprints recipe to the finals and have a chance to win the grand prize.

The phone number for tickets was incorrect in last week’s article about the upcoming YWCA fundraiser, An Evening in Tuscany, which will help raise money to provide a safe place for people displaced by domestic violence. The YWCA, 930 N. Monroe St., will host An Evening in Tuscany on Saturday with dinner made by former restaurant owner and chef Gina Lanza, of Amore and the Anaconda Grille in Spokane. The menu features artichoke pesto lasagna, served with a Caesar salad and an Italian dessert. Drinks and dessert will be served on the rooftop.

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Mavis Staples is scheduled on “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” (11 p.m., Comedy Central). Tom Brokaw and Darlene Love appear on “Late Show With David Letterman” (11:35 p.m., CBS).

These cookies aren’t exactly healthy. But why not embrace these treats for what they are and let Father’s Day be a day of indulgence?

The Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Vouchers will be distributed starting Friday. In order to receive the vouchers, recipients must be at least 60 years old, or 55 years old if they are American Indian. Also, recipients must have an income of 185 percent of the federal poverty level or less for one person. That is $21,257 per year, according to Pam Almeida, executive director of Meals on Wheels.