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While growing up in rural England during the ‘90s, JoAnne Shaw Taylor gravitated toward blues guitar heroes, such as Albert Collins, Muddy Waters and Stevie Ray Vaughn.

Keith Niehenke recalls what is arguably the greatest concert in Post Falls history like it was yesterday. The vocalist-fiddler stood in rapt attention nearly three decades ago when Merle Haggard played two shows on Feb. 6, 1994, at Kelly’s.

After the release of Woody Allen’s “Hannah and her Sisters” hit screens in 1986, the word was that the inspiration for the pompous artist, Frederick, brilliantly played by Max Von Sydow, was Mark Rothko.

If you’ve never seen anyone tap dance to The Animals, you’ll have that opportunity Wednesday evening when “Letters from Home” brings their 50-state tour to the Kroc Center in Coeur d’Alene.

Kevin Pollak laughed when asked whether fans realize he was a standup comic long before he became an actor.

When Resident Evil 2 was remade in 2019, raking in several awards and excellent reception for modernizing the 1998 classic that cemented the franchise’s prominence, many fans speculated that Capcom would go on to do the same with several other entries. While a separate studio handled the third entry’s remake in 2020, RE2’s developer M-Two immediately got to work on recreating Resident Evil 4.

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“Backup Plan” isn’t just one of the first singles from Girl Named Tom. It also describes the path traveled by the sibling folk trio. Vocalist-guitarists Caleb Liechty, 27, Joshua Liechty, 24, and Bekah Liechty, 22, each decided to attend medical school.

It’s not surprising that blue is Big Jay Oakerson’s favorite color. The veteran comic is as blue collar as fellow humorists Jeff Foxworthy and Ron White

It’ll be a sort of homecoming for Katharine Paul, aka Black Belt Eagle Scout, when she returns to Spokane. The singer-songwriter, who grew up an hour north of Seattle in the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community, spent considerable time throughout her childhood visiting relatives in Spokane and Colville.

I’ve written on numerous occasions about the “games as a service” model pervasive in the video gaming space in recent years. World of Warcraft largely pioneered the concept in the mid-00s, to great success – Blizzard Entertainment found they could easily hook players with the low subscription cost of $15 and keep them coming back month after month, soon netting them far more than the average $40-$60 per copy that most games were earning.

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After performing in front of an enthusiastic capacity crowd at the Knitting Factory in February 2020, Alter Bridge vocalist-guitarist Myles Kennedy was thinking about the back end of his band’s ill-fated tour.

Jared Freid has nothing against the Zags, but the veteran comic was rooting against the perennial March Madness darlings for personal reasons last weekend.

The lack of time is the only downside for Jeremy Camp’s return to Spokane. Since Camp, who will perform Sunday at the Spokane Arena, is headlining the annual Winter Jam tour, which features seven recording artists, his set is shorter than usual.

“The Hustler” is an apt title for Kelsey Cook’s initial hourlong comedy special. The Cheney High alum has been constantly on the move over the past few months. Since September, Cook has recorded her special, moved from Spokane to Minneapolis and performed throughout the country.

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The final episode of HBO’s screen adaptation of “The Last of Us” aired on Sunday, and I’m pleased to report that while it wasn’t perfect, season one was excellent overall – it delivered all the necessary plot beats, compellingly recreated the franchise’s apocalyptic setting and crafted some memorable characters.