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In "Blue Bayou," what begins as an affectingly unfussy immigrant story centering on a New Orleans tattoo artist – brought from South Korea to the United States for adoption as a child and now facing deportation in his 30s – is unable to sustain its nuanced, naturalistic tone.

Affecting the exaggerated power-suit shoulder pads of the era, her face spackled with layers of makeup and false eyelashes, Bakker became all the more of a tabloid piñata when the empire she built with Jim was destroyed amid his sexual and financial misdeeds.

There is no rocker quite like Gene Simmons. The KISS vocalist-bassist is refreshingly candid, often amusing and perhaps the most business-minded musician ever. When Simmons, 72, isn't coming up with concepts like the KISS coffin, he's on tour and planning the future.

The Spokane Symphony will return to the stage of the Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox this weekend for two concerts at 8 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday. Violin soloist Bella Hristova is featured in Jean Sibelius’ popular “Violin Concerto in D Minor.” 

Anyone who's been waiting for Clint Eastwood to return to his Western-movie roots will be gladdened by the opening scene of "Cry Macho," which features the director, producer and actor as former rodeo star Mike Milo. Brown cowboy hat shading his trademark weathered squint? Check.

The irony of Tom Papa's tour tag, "The Family Reunion," is that the veteran comic, who will perform Friday at the Bing Crosby Theater, has been sequestered with his wife and two daughters for more than a year-and-a-half. "The material I get from them is endless and hilarious," Papa said.

For local artist Caleb Strine, progress in music-making technology has meant the evolution of his own sound. Under his stage name Lost Masters, Strine recently released “Pork Belly Futures,” an album that makes ample use of all the powerful tools at a creator’s fingertips.

Basing a film off true events is often a double-edged sword. While it can make the events of the film come across as humble or brutal, depending on the events, cinema also has a tendency to exaggerate true events for the sake of drama.

For Spokane hip-hop artist All Day Trey and Seattle pop singer Nicky Buell, their newest single “Imma Dip” is more than just a cross-state collaboration – it also marks the first time both creators have worked with another LGBTQ+ artist on a track.

For as long as electric guitars have been peeling the paint off walls, the archetype for any young band making a run at the big time has almost always included finding a label with the conviction to get their music to the masses.

The world was longing for a heartbreak record, so when Lorde and Billie Eilish’s albums didn’t elicit tears the way their previous work did, the eyes of pop culture turned to award-winning country singer-songwriter Kacey Musgraves and her new album "Star-Crossed."

Actors can usually be expected to improvise a line or two every now and then, but a whole script? In “My Son,” James McAvoy does exactly that, solving the mystery step by step. An English remake of director Christian Carion’s 2017 French thriller, the film also stars Claire Foy.

When Rogue was a puppy, it was evident that Kayla Murfin's mutt was at the head of the doggie class. Whenever Murfin, a veterinary technician, returned to her north Spokane home, she discovered that Rogue was a canine Houdini.

Shakespeare in the Park - 6:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Riverfront Park, 507 N. Howard St. The Spokane Shakespeare Society presents “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged),” a comic play written by Adam Long, Daniel Singer and Jess Winfield.

For better or worse, “Sonic the Hedgehog” was my first video game series growing up. That puts every new release on my radar, and the latest is “Sonic Colors Ultimate,” a rerelease of a 2010 Nintendo Wii game now ported to Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC.

Death Cab for Cutie’s road crew loaded onto the stage, and the crowd started to pour down from the grassy hillside to the floor to get a closer spot for the indie rockers’ first show in Spokane in six years. Frontman Ben Gibbard sat behind his piano.

In the flossy, glossy high school musical "Everybody's Talking About Jamie," Max Harwood plays the title character, a gay teen living in Sheffield, England, counting the days until he leaves high school to pursue his life's goal of being a drag queen.

Already midway into their touring season after a year at home, the chart-topping musicians of Foreigner are thrilled to be getting back onstage and into the swing of things. They will be joined by glam metal artist Lita Ford and the East Valley High School Choir.

Paul Schrader has created one of the most compelling and enduring careers in Hollywood by continually returning to his cardinal character: "God's lonely man" traversing an alienated and sometimes hostile world in search of expiation for his own sins and the redemption of the world's.