After gamers and critics alike showed a pretty understandable degree of exhaustion from overexposure to the Assassin’s Creed franchise – from 2009 to 2015, Ubisoft churned out at least one title every year – the publisher made the rational decision to slow things down a bit.
It was either going to be sports or music for Justin Moore, who was obsessed with the former while growing up in Arkansas. However, music has been primary source of income. The country star will deliver his hits Saturday at the First Interstate Center for the Arts.
It’s been a quick rise for emerging rap sensation Trippie Redd, who will perform Saturday at the Spokane Arena. Redd, 23, popped out of nowhere courtesy of a couple of online tracks. His catchy “Love Scars” received more than 8 million views on YouTube five years ago.
Opening Friday at Stage Left Theater, Joshua Harmon’s “Admissions” takes a satirical approach to the white perspective of race, class, privilege and diversity.
Spokane Civic Theatre’s production of “The Wizard of Oz” opens this weekend. Based on L. Frank Baum’s classic tale, “The Wizard of Oz” features iconic music from the 1939 film of the same name.
1 Spokane Valley Farmers Market – 4 p.m. on Friday, CenterPlace, 2426 N. Discovery Place, Spokane Valley. The Spokane Valley Farmers Market will be held at CenterPlace near the Discovery Playground every Friday through Sept. 16. In addition to local farmers and producers, the event will feature artisans, food trucks, live entertainment, the Kids KERNEL Program and SNAP Market Match. WIC/Senior check are accepted. For information, visit spokanevalleyfarmersmarket.org. Admission: FREE
The Spokane Symphony Orchestra will open their 77th season with guest pianist Natasha Paremski, conducted by music director James Lowe. The program will feature Hector Berlioz’s “Symphonie fantastique,” Jessie Montgomery’s “Starburst,” and Ludwig van Beethoven’s Fifth Piano Concerto.
Despite my love-hate relationship with the series, I’ve been rather silent regarding the upcoming Sonic Frontiers even with tons of new information and gameplay videos spilling in over the past few weeks. The first footage of the game, revealed by IGN on May 31, was uninspiring – all it did was show Sonic the Hedgehog scaling a massive obelisk and grinding his way down before exploring some empty open plains.
Details have finally been trickling in for Dead Island 2 after a very long wait. The series debuted in 2011, with standalone expansion “Dead Island: Riptide” being released in 2013 and mediocre spin-off “Escape Dead Island” launching in 2014. Dead Island 2 was originally slated for 2015, but faced numerous delays and was eventually handed off to a different developer entirely to be reworked from the ground up.
War Hippies, a brand new country duo featuring combat veterans and longtime musicians Scooter Brown and Donnie Reis, will take the stage Saturday at FarmJam in Colville.
By the standards of satire, the target of religious hypocrisy is a pretty low-hanging fruit. And so it takes no great bravery or effort to lampoon fake piety, as the filmmaking duo known as the Ebo twins (writer-director Adamma Ebo and her producer sister, Adanne Ebo) do in "Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul."
As the horrors of World War II continue to resonate throughout our collective memory, writer/director Ben Parker mines that time period for his historical action/horror film “Burial,” and finds an original concept within that well-known milieu. Using a framing device set in London in 1991 that reminds us of the ways in which Nazism still permeates throughout the culture, Parker tells the story ...
