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Dorothy Dean presents: Effortless baked feta pasta – from TikTok and Finland to the U.S.

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Lockdown had us cozy at home living in our pajamas and binge-watching all of Netflix. And in between episodes of “Tiger King,” slathering on hand sanitizer and searching for toilet paper, we were in the kitchen.

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Kim Kardashian is now a billionaire thanks to beauty company, shapewear brand

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Seven best opening credits in movie history include ‘Casino Royale,’ ‘Deadpool,’ ‘Seven’

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Review: ‘Godzilla vs. Kong’ is the best MonsterVerse film ever and the best monster movie in years

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Labelle’s ‘Lady Marmalade’ and songs by Janet Jackson, Kermit the Frog added to National Recording Registry

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Dorothy Dean presents: Effortless baked feta pasta – from TikTok and Finland to the U.S.

UPDATED: Mon., April 12, 2021

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Game On: There’s limited space for new mascots in video gaming

Thu., April 8, 2021

“Balan Wonderworld” hit store shelves on March 26, the sales figures are in, and they’re even worse than expected. In its first week, it sold fewer than 2,100 copies in Japan, missing the top 30.

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Seven best opening credits in movie history include ‘Casino Royale,’ ‘Deadpool,’ ‘Seven’

UPDATED: Thu., April 1, 2021

They’re the first thing in a movie, and they’re packed with information, but we rarely know much about them. Opening credit sequences can give us a sense of tone, subject and themes.

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Game On: Movie and video game tie-ins aren’t always a box office hit

UPDATED: Thu., April 1, 2021

It doesn’t seem too long ago that many of the video games filling store shelves were movie tie-ins – love them or hate them, they were particularly ubiquitous in the 1990s and 2000s.

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Review: ‘Godzilla vs. Kong’ is the best MonsterVerse film ever and the best monster movie in years

UPDATED: Thu., April 1, 2021

I grew up watching as many of the Godzilla films as I could. The franchise has always drawn me in with its awe in the face of something stronger than us and how we handle such a threat.

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Labelle’s ‘Lady Marmalade’ and songs by Janet Jackson, Kermit the Frog added to National Recording Registry

Sat., March 27, 2021

An infectious recording about a sex worker in New Orleans is now considered one of the “audio treasures worthy of preservation for all time.” “Lady Marmalade” is Labelle’s 1974 R&B classic.

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A monster among monsters: The highly anticipated, $180 million ‘Godzilla vs. Kong’ is just around the corner

UPDATED: Fri., March 26, 2021

One of the first movies I remember watching was “King Kong vs. Godzilla.” I must have been 3 years old and caught it on some creature feature on the Syfy channel.

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Will ‘The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’ finally bring us a Black Captain America onscreen?

UPDATED: Thu., March 25, 2021

During the final moments of the 2019 blockbuster “Avengers: Endgame,” the possibility of a Black Captain America became a likely Hollywood reality. Captain America is elderly and time-traveled.

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What’s Worth Watching: It’s clear – ‘WandaVision’ is great TV viewing

UPDATED: Thu., March 25, 2021

While watching “Infinity War” in theaters in 2018 (what a world away that seems), I remember thinking, “Wow, Wanda and Vision, there’s a relationship I would like to see more of for sure.”

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Where’s the rock in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame?

UPDATED: Thu., March 25, 2021

Dionne Warwick rarely rocks. Nor, for that matter, do Carole King, Mary J. Blige, Kate Bush, Jay-Z, Fela Kuti, LL Cool J or most of the other 2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nominees.

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Game On: Modern video games aren’t better or worse, just different

UPDATED: Thu., March 25, 2021

It’s pretty easy to say video games have come a long way. It all started with a dot ping-pong’ing from one edge of an oscilloscope to another in “Tennis for Two” in 1958.

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Talking Tolkien: International Tolkien Reading Day is Thursday

Tue., March 23, 2021

Best known for “The Hobbit,” “The Lord of the Rings” and other works of high fantasy, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was an English writer, poet, philologist and academic.

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‘Little Nightmares II’ a hypnotic, dark fairy tale

UPDATED: Thu., March 18, 2021

It is not uncommon for children to fear the nocturnal world. The creaks at night and the shifting shadows along the bedroom wall intimate to a young person’s mind that the external world is uncontrollable.

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Game On: The Xbox brand is poised to make a comeback

UPDATED: Thu., March 18, 2021

The Xbox brand has always been a surprising success. Sure, it has the might of Microsoft behind it, but recent events will tell you capital alone is rarely enough to break into the video game industry.

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What’s Worth Watching: Revisit Oscar-winning ‘The Queen’ for another view of palace in crisis mode

UPDATED: Thu., March 11, 2021

As social media flooded with references to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s “bombshell” interview with Oprah Winfrey over the weekend, my mind couldn’t help wandering back a couple of decades to a similar royal catastrophe.

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Game On: Video games can tell stories no other medium can

UPDATED: Thu., March 11, 2021

For many years, storytelling was often seen as one of the weaker selling points of any video game. It’s not difficult to understand why: “Pong,” “Pac-Man” and “Space Invaders” didn’t exactly contain gripping narratives – or any narratives at all.

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Lost time: Eight things to consider doing before daylight saving time arrives on Sunday

UPDATED: Tue., March 9, 2021

This Sunday morning, we’re losing an hour due to daylight saving time. But after losing an entire year, what’s one more hour? Here are eight things to consider doing in Spokane before that lost hour arrives this weekend.

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Keanu Reeves on the joy of writing his first comic book: ‘Why not? That sounds amazing!’

Sat., March 6, 2021

It was the fall of 2017, and Keanu Reeves had been carrying around a character in his head. The actor so associated with portraying a phalanx of dark-clad fighters kept envisioning a world-weary warrior whose birth predated even human language.

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Around the Remote: Expect royal revelations from Oprah interview with Harry and Meghan

UPDATED: Sat., March 6, 2021

“Oprah With Meghan and Harry: A CBS Primetime Special” – Royal rebels Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan sit down for their first American TV interview in this 90-minute program, and Oprah Winfrey has promised “shocking” revelations.

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Swag and style: Muralist Daniel Lopez has gone from feeling alone to being known and loved

UPDATED: Thu., March 4, 2021

When tattoo and graffiti artist Daniel Lopez stepped off a bus in Spokane for the first time in 2013, he was a 30-year-old addict from Southern California who had already spent more than half his life clouding his mind and talents with drugs. Lopez was on the verge of suicide.

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Featured Stories

Dorothy Dean presents: Effortless baked feta pasta – from TikTok and Finland to the U.S.

Game On: There’s limited space for new mascots in video gaming

Kim Kardashian is now a billionaire thanks to beauty company, shapewear brand

Seven best opening credits in movie history include ‘Casino Royale,’ ‘Deadpool,’ ‘Seven’

Game On: Movie and video game tie-ins aren’t always a box office hit

Review: ‘Godzilla vs. Kong’ is the best MonsterVerse film ever and the best monster movie in years

Labelle’s ‘Lady Marmalade’ and songs by Janet Jackson, Kermit the Frog added to National Recording Registry

Latest Stories

Dorothy Dean presents: Effortless baked feta pasta – from TikTok and Finland to the U.S.

Game On: There’s limited space for new mascots in video gaming

Seven best opening credits in movie history include ‘Casino Royale,’ ‘Deadpool,’ ‘Seven’

Game On: Movie and video game tie-ins aren’t always a box office hit

Review: ‘Godzilla vs. Kong’ is the best MonsterVerse film ever and the best monster movie in years

Labelle’s ‘Lady Marmalade’ and songs by Janet Jackson, Kermit the Frog added to National Recording Registry

A monster among monsters: The highly anticipated, $180 million ‘Godzilla vs. Kong’ is just around the corner

Will ‘The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’ finally bring us a Black Captain America onscreen?

What’s Worth Watching: It’s clear – ‘WandaVision’ is great TV viewing

Where’s the rock in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame?

Game On: Modern video games aren’t better or worse, just different

Talking Tolkien: International Tolkien Reading Day is Thursday

‘Little Nightmares II’ a hypnotic, dark fairy tale

Game On: The Xbox brand is poised to make a comeback

What’s Worth Watching: Revisit Oscar-winning ‘The Queen’ for another view of palace in crisis mode

Game On: Video games can tell stories no other medium can

Lost time: Eight things to consider doing before daylight saving time arrives on Sunday

Keanu Reeves on the joy of writing his first comic book: ‘Why not? That sounds amazing!’

Around the Remote: Expect royal revelations from Oprah interview with Harry and Meghan

Swag and style: Muralist Daniel Lopez has gone from feeling alone to being known and loved

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