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It feels a bit like deja vu at the late-night TV shows. The same week Seth Meyers announced he tested positive for the coronavirus, Jimmy Fallon designated a segment of "The Tonight Show" to discussing his own experience with COVID-19. Fallon tested positive during his holiday break last.

Adrienne Iapalucci, 43, cracks wise about female teachers having sexual relationships with their students. "And that happens so often that I think we have to ask men, 'What are you doing that these women are being swept off their feet by 13-year-olds?' "

“There’s something about this show (and) I've heard this from every director I've ever talked to about it,” Troy Nickerson said. Nickerson directed “Fiddler on the Roof” with Heather McHenry Kroetch at Spokane Civic Theatre in 2014, the last local production. “It's one of those shows where … it changes you.”

In her new music video for "Read My Mind," Rebecca Black and collaborator Slayyyter portray bored convenience store employees with bad dye jobs and worse attitudes who serve a parade of juggalos and rednecks before a chance encounter with a motocross star leaves them "yassified."

The geometry of filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar's masterful, moving "Parallel Mothers," which follows the stories of two women who give birth almost simultaneously in a Madrid hospital, is really a crisscrossing set of two fascinatingly entangled lines. There's one superficial similarity between the main characters.

George Clooney directs “The Tender Bar” (2021), a coming-of-age drama starring Tye Sheridan as a boy raised by a struggling single mother (Lily Rabe) who is forced to move back into her family home. Ben Affleck gives a standout performance as his uncle, a bartender and surrogate father.

Preceded by “a pandemic, protests and economic jolts,” the “Roaring Twenties” may provide a series of lessons as we continue through the 2020s. Promoted by Humanities Washington, historian William Woodward will give a lecture on these lessons in an attempt to “shed light on ways for us to move forward.” 

It's evident that Michael Glatzmaier is taking his gig Friday at the Bing Crosby Theater seriously. The humorist-musician is relaxing while getting a haircut at Morning After Grooming Co., which is not the norm for Glatzmaier. "I do like supporting small businesses, so it's great to be at a place like Morning After."

Iran's official Oscar submission, "A Hero" centers on Rahim Soltani (Amir Jadidi), a divorced calligrapher/sign painter in Shiraz who is serving a jail sentence for his failure to pay a creditor 150,000 toman (about $35). Yes, debtor's prison is still a thing, and the story isn't set in the Middle Ages.

In "Fixer Upper: Welcome Home" (2022), Chip and Joanna Gaines’ “Fixer Upper” has moved from HGTV to Magnolia, the couples’ new TV network. Based in Waco, Texas, the Gaines use their real estate, renovation and design skills to transform tired, old houses into cozy, minimalist homes with curb appeal.

1 Elvis’ Birthday Celebration – 7 p.m. Friday, Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, 8441 N. Indian Trail Road. Prince of Peace Lutheran Church hosts celebrity impersonator Ben Klein as Elvis Presley. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. For more information, visit Prince of Peace Lutheran Church on Facebook. Admission: FREE

With the tech world growing in leaps and bounds in such a short span of time, the medium that’s seen the biggest advancements is video gaming. Books and radio have only gained more methods of delivery to consumers, and while films enjoy better special effects, video games have changed drastically.

JoJo Siwa has been an inspiration for young women ever since the video of her hit single "Boomerang" became a viral sensation in 2016. Siwa, 18, came out of nowhere, or specifically Omaha, to become a feel-good worldwide sensation as a singer, dancer and YouTuber. Top tier is where Siwa has resided since 2019.

Surreal doesn’t begin to describe performing in front of a beaming John Travolta. The iconic actor upped the ante after witnessing the annual holiday show “Saving Christmas” on Dec. 9 at Coeur d’Alene Resort, chatting with Spokane cabaret singer Abbey Crawford after the show and complimenting her on her performance.

Chris Porter avoids hot button topics such as politics and religion. The observational comic, who will perform Friday and Saturday at Spokane Comedy Club, is more likely to crack wise about artisanal cuisine. "I just want breakfast, you know what I'm saying?" Porter said during his his latest one-hour special.

Oscar winner Olivia Colman brings a compelling complexity to “The Lost Daughter” as a literature scholar on a vacation in Greece whose fascination with a young mother (Dakota Johnson) stirs up troubling memories. It’s the directorial debut of Maggie Gyllenhaal, who also adapts the novel by Elena Ferrante.

Taking over at the last minute for James Lowe, former Spokane Symphony music director Eckart Preu will once again conduct Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony during Friday night's New Year's Eve concert at Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox in downtown Spokane.

As suggested by the title of "Drive My Car," Japan's official submission to this year's Oscars, large parts of the three-hour film take place inside an automobile in which a man is being chauffeured. But this is no claustrophobic, single-setting psychological thriller, like the masterfully car-bound "Locke." 

Joel Coen, directing his first feature film without his brother Ethan, brings a spare, coolheaded elegance to William Shakespeare's blasted heath in "The Tragedy of Macbeth," his minimalist-maximalist adaptation of the famous 17th century play. Coen's production is stylized and stripped of visual and behavioral distractions.