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In it’s third year, festival lineup includes 20 musicians.

Street food vendor corners the hot dog market at one of downtown Spokane’s key intersections.

Maria Bamford’s comedy has always been a little off-kilter. She makes bizarre, guttural noises, contorts her face, jumps around to different voice and inflections that are so unlike her own high-pitched, Midwestern accent. Bamford’s material is gleefully surreal and sometimes quite dark, and you can see the quirky comedian in action at the Spokane Comedy Club on Sunday.

The Spokane Symphony returns to the Fox Theater stage this weekend with its first Classics concert of the year. The orchestra, under the direction of Eckart Preu, will be accompanied by renowned Russian violinist Ilya Kaler, who will perform Beethoven’s Violin Concerto.

What a treat it is to dive back into the cozy world of Bridget Jones, who is the kind of old friend you can pick up with right where it left off, no matter how long it’s been. “Bridget Jones’s Baby” opens with a familiar scene for our pal: Bridget (Renee Zellweger) celebrating her birthday alone to the tune of “All By Myself,” blowing out a candle on a single cupcake, guzzling white wine in her jammies. The pity party’s over soon enough though, as she skips the song and boogies instead to “Jump Around.” Has Bridget Jones gotten her groove back?

Credits: Directed by Oliver Stone, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley, Melissa Leo, Zachary Quinto, Tom Wilkinson, Rhys Ifans, Ben Schnetzer, Nicolas Cage

Bonnie Raitt is currently touring behind her 17th studio album, “Dig in Deep,” and she makes a stop at the INB Performing Arts Center on Wednesday. The celebrated singer and guitarist has been recording and touring for four decades, and her goal as an artist has always been to never do the same thing twice.

The Spokane County Interstate Fair kicks off on Friday at the Expo Center, 404 N. Havana St., and this year’s music lineup includes a handful of big names. Tickets range from $25 to $40, which includes gate admission to the fair, and are available through TicketsWest. For a full fair schedule, visit spokanecounty.org. All grandstand concerts begin at 7 p.m.

Fresh off their gold-medal win in Rio, the Final Five are kicking off a national tour Thursday in Spokane.

The sight of a passenger plane along the skyline of New York is an image that has been seared in the global collective consciousness. It’s a memory that “Sully,” Clint Eastwood’s new film, acknowledges, but also attempts to redefine. What if a plane skimming skyscrapers could conjure an image not just of unimaginable terror, but one of incredible heroism and skill? That’s what “Sully” might accomplish, in committing to film the heartwarming story of “The Miracle on the Hudson,” when Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger made a forced water landing on the Hudson River with 155 passengers aboard a U.S. Airways flight to Charlotte.

James Pendleton has long been involved in the local film scene, and his directorial debut, a short titled “Gich and the Skystone,” has already earned him recognition. Pendleton’s film was named first runner-up in a fan film competition organized by the Jim Henson Company, the studio founded by the legendary Muppets creator.

The tale of Robinson Crusoe, loosely based on the real life experiences of castaway Alexander Selkirk, has been told for hundreds of years, since Daniel Defoe’s 1719 epistolary novel. But what if Crusoe’s story had been seen from the perspective of the animals and local wildlife he encountered during his shipwrecked stay on a tropical island? That’s what the animated feature “The Wild Life,” directed by Vincent Kesteloot, imagines.

What’s new for home viewing on video-on-demand and Netflix, Amazon Prime, and other streaming services.

Because so many people are familiar with the story of “Beauty and the Beast,” the Civic’s production doesn’t stray too far from the 1991 Disney film.

You’ve probably seen Steve Smith on TV while flipping through the channels, but you likely know him best as his alter ego Red Green, a hapless handyman who had his own do-it-yourself show for 15 years. Smith has been touring as Green since 2006, and he brings his newest one-man show, “I’m Not Old, I’m Ripe,” to the Bing Crosby Theater on Monday.

Opera CdA stages the famous Figaro opera in a Vegas casino hotel, complete with an Elvis impersonator barber.