The common denominator between some veteran recording artists who morph is the desire to listen to new music. Part of what keeps long-of-tooth icons such as Bruce Springsteen and Neil Young inspired is fresh material from musicians they admire. The same goes for flamenco guitarist Jesse Cook.
You might expect an evening programmed with works by Richard Wagner and Anton Bruckner to fall on the heavier side, but, as Spokane Symphony conductor laureate Eckart Preu explained, you might be surprised. “There are all these preconceived notions of what these composers are like,” Preu said.
The Munich Agreement, which would ultimately lead to Neville Chamberlain's legacy being tarnished forever for this act of "appeasement," could only be scuttled if Chamberlain were to be persuaded that the Sudetenland was only the first step of many in the Führer's rapacious territorial ambitions.
Filmed in black and white, "The Tragedy of Macbeth" (2021), director Joel Coen’s first project without his brother Ethan, brings a new approach to Shakespeare’s Scottish play. Starring Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand – an older pairing than you might typically see in the roles of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth.
When COVID-19 shut down the live music scene in early 2020, venues scrambled, audiences sat at home, and artists saw their main source of promotion and income go to naught. The local music scene was in desperate need of innovation, innovation that came in the form of concert films.
In a musical celebration of Blackness, healing and authenticity, Williams Homegirl Sells is presenting the inaugural Jazz Easy at Montvale Event Center on Saturday. "Black people, we have always fallen back on music," Spokane realtor and event creator Latrice Williams said.
If you thought Microsoft buying ZeniMax Media for $7.5 billion last year was a big deal, just wait – 2022 is starting off with an even bigger acquisition. On Monday, Take-Two Interactive dropped a bombshell on the gaming world when the company announced its intent to buy Zynga for a massive $12.7 billion.
2022 should be a worthwhile year for movies, with some noteworthy big blockbusters, but also great independent films and interesting entries in genres like horror and animation. Here are 10 films being released in 2022 that I’m looking forward to watching.
The "Scream" franchise began in 1996 as a piece of brilliant meta-horror: a slasher movie, directed by Wes Craven and written by Kevin Williamson, that cleverly critiqued the conventions of the genre in a way that was genuinely scary, genuinely funny and, most important, fun.
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.
