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To quote the incomparable RuPaul, “You’re a winner, baby!” Ru could certainly have been referring to Spokane chef, baker, Rind and Wheat owner and new The Spokesman-Review weekly Food columnist Ricky Webster, who has just won his fourth cooking competition in four years.

The debut feature from British studio Locksmith Animation, “Ron’s Gone Wrong” has plenty of slapstick and potty humor for kids. But adults will also be intrigued by its frequently scathing (albeit somewhat conflicted) critique of consumerism.

It could have or perhaps should have been Brickell, Wash., instead of Spokane. If the man who put Spokane on the map during the 1880s had even a trace of ego, the Lilac City might have been known as Brickell. Edward James, or E.J., Brickell invested heavily in Spokane.

Get ready for some crowd work when Ian Bagg performs Friday and Saturday at the Spokane Comedy Club. The Canadian comic is adept at working the room. Bagg lives in the moment and offers observational material.

Denis Villeneuve directs “Dune” (2021, PG-13), an epic science-fiction story of royal intrigue, betrayal, rebellion and giant sand worms on a desert planet that provides the rare spice that enables interstellar travel. Timothée Chalamet stars as a prince who flees a conspiracy.

Spokane-based creative duo Cami Bradley and Benn Suede started working together this year when a mutual friend suggested a meeting. Opening up to a new collaborator can be difficult, they said, and especially so with songwriting.

Adrian Connor has much in common with AC/DC icon Angus Young. Like the Australian guitar hero, Conner is a short axe wizard who is the lone original member of a band playing AC/DC material. The always-animated Connor is the leader of Hell's Belles.

Spilt Milk is graduating from local band status to hitting the road for festivals and more. The Mead-based band, which will make its debut as a Lucky You Lounge headliner Friday, will preview tracks from its forthcoming album, which will drop in 2022.

Local label CorpoRAT Records announced last week the signing of Trans Future, a self-described New Wave Soul and Roll group hailing from Missoula. The signing is a big step forward for CorpoRAT, its first group outside Spokane.

Featuring Spokane’s Ricky Webster, owner of Rind and Wheat, Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart's aptly titled very tasty Halloween special "Snoop and Martha’s Very Tasty Halloween" is the reality-TV cooking competition of the season.

Saturday Movie Matinee: “Hocus Pocus” - 12:30 p.m. Saturday, Atomic Threads Clothing Boutique, 1925 N. Monroe St. A curious youngster moves to Salem where he struggles to fit in before awakening a trio of diabolical witches who were executed in the 17th century. 

After six long years, Adele is finally back and sounding better than ever. The release of her lead single “Easy on Me” reminded music lovers around the world of her dominance. Within hours, the ballad reached No. 1 on the global Spotify chart with 10.7 million streams.

Despite being the most ubiquitous household name in video games worldwide, it seems Nintendo still hasn’t figured out how this “internet” thing works. On Oct. 8, Nintendo finally released a Switch model that includes a LAN port for faster internet speeds.

In the past five years, French Canadian filmmaker Denis Villeneuve has established himself as a sci-fi auteur with an approach to scale and tone that makes him the only logical choice to tackle a new adaptation of “Dune,” the bestselling and wildly influential 1965 sci-fi/fantasy novel.

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."