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The season of witches, fun-sized candy bars and pumpkin spice has engulfed us once more. But one aspect of the early fall season that gets overlooked are the great horror movies to watch around Halloween.

“The Velvet Underground” (2021, R) from filmmaker Todd Haynes looks at the art and cultural impact of the New York rock group that straddled high art and street culture with new interviews and archival film clips.

Overheard from the media seats as the lights went down before a recent screening of "Halloween Kills": "I have no idea what to expect here. It's just some guy with a mask and a – I don't know. I really have no idea."

When Jimmy Eat World's Jim Adkins wrote "The Middle" 20 years ago, he had no idea how close to home the song was or that it would remain resonant decades later. His pop-rock band is in the middle and has been.

"Cats" is hugely popular, raking in more than $3 billion since its debut on the West End in London in 1981. Adapted by Andrew Lloyd Webber from the 1939 poetry collection "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" by T. S. Eliot, the Broadway production ran for 18 years and helped launch the "megamusical."

The lockdown was rough for comics, but it was even more difficult for Dan Cummins. The Coeur d'Alene standup discovered that he loathes virtual performance after agreeing to take part in a fundraiser while performing.

Beginning its 2021-22 season, the Gonzaga Symphony Orchestra will open with Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 55, the “Eroica,” and continue with two concertos by faculty composer Shuying Li.

Fresh off a triumphant show at Treefort Music Festival in Boise, Itchy Kitty just can’t get enough live music. This past week, the group announced that they had been invited to accompany Built to Spill on a large leg of their 2022 tour.

The next in the “Civic Presents” lineup, actor Patrick Treadway’s “Mark Twain” is a one-man, staged retelling of the eponymous writer’s life. Starring and created by Treadway, the show incorporates excerpts of Twain’s writing.

Tony and Grammy winner Leslie Odom Jr. performs with the Spokane Symphony on Friday at 7:30 p.m. at Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox in a collaboration with Whitworth University.

Adapted from Beth Macy’s bestselling book, “Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors and the Drug Company That Addicted America,” Hulu’s latest drama follows a Samuel Finnix (Michael Keaton), a doctor from a mining town in rural Virginia.

Machine Gun Kelly’s recent reported drama with Conor McGregor at the MTV Video Music Awards and altercations at the Louder Than Life music festival in Louisville were an afterthought when the Houston rapper, singer-songwriter and actor hit the stage at Pavilion at Riverfront.

The Happiness - 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Moose Lounge, 401 E. Sherman Ave., Coeur d'Alene. Rock group the Happiness visits the Moose Lounge. This event is for ages 21 and older. 

Multiplayer gaming has non-coincidentally exploded in popularity recently as an avenue for people to stay in touch with friends and family from afar. Regardless, single-player games have maintained a strong following.

One way to tackle a difficult, challenging, taboo or otherwise complicated subject on film is to set the story in a period far, far away from our recognizable present, which often allows screenwriters to be that much more frank.

"I'll figure it out when I get there, but I'll go on about everything from the pandemic to politics to the government to love to relationships to whatever," King said. "I like to talk about things people don't think are funny and make them funny."

"I always go to Nina (Simone) when I work, but I'm not too familiar with this song," said Tracy Poindexter-Canton, one of the two artists featured in the exhibition. "I was just going to put Chaka Khan on or something." 

A number of local fans who caught Sundressed open for Ann Arbor at the Pinhook in 2017 implored the Phoenix-based punk-pop band to return to Spokane. “Some people from Spokane who were at that show asked us again and again to come back,” Trevor Hedges said.

Sponsored by River City Modelers, this year’s Spokane Fall Model Train Show will feature model train layouts of all sizes while offering collectors and sellers the chance to browse a wide variety of train- and railroad-related paraphernalia.