Rebecca Corry left her home of Kent, in the Seattle suburbs, at age 19, bound for Chicago. She lived for nine years in the Windy City, study writing, acting and improvisation with the famed Second City and other theater companies. She spent 11 months pregnant as the maid of honor in the Chicago production of “Tony and Tina’s Wedding” before returning to the West Coast to pursue a career in Los Angeles.
“We really needed a night like last night to realize that this isn’t going to be seven shows,” Brooks said. “This is going to be seven parties. Let’s just all relax and have fun.”
The 29-year-old, who grew up in Mica, an unincorporated community between Spokane Valley and Freeman, founded Broken Mic, the long-running performance poetry open mic, held Wednesday nights at Neato Burrito in downtown Spokane.
Northwest Passages is the new book club sponsored by The Spokesman-Review. Each month, Spokane-area readers will be invited to read along, join in the conversation and attend author events. Up first is Shawn Vestal, a familiar name to Spokesman-Review readers. Vestal’s day job is as a columnist for the newspaper.
The world-renowned opera singer will help celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Fox Theater restoration in two performances this weekend with the Spokane Symphony.
The format is simple. There are dinner and drinks, then four writers will read works created for the event based on that year’s theme. This year, it’s “Beacon in the Night.”
Throw in some words stitched together by some of the region’s best writers – writers under the influence of butter and booze, as they say – and it’s a recipe for night of literary celebration.
“And this is just our first round of announcements, we have tons of other great authors coming and will make more announcements as we continue to contract with them,” said festival executive director Kate Peterson.
October is one of the busiest months at Green Bluff. The pastoral community northeast of Spokane, home to dozens of small family farms and artisan food and beverage producers, attracts all sorts of visitors on October weekends because there are so many seasonal activities to do there.
“The Princess Bride” has it all: romance, comedy, swashbuckling, wizards, bad guys, good guys, pirates, a vocabulary-challenged Sicilian, a princess, rodents of unusual size, one very large man and the most dedicated vengeance-seeker of all time.
The national touring production, which continues through Saturday at the INB Performing Arts Center, features a high-quality cast in a genuinely funny show.
In 1590s London, there’s one playwright who rules them all. His name is Shakespeare. And the Bottom brothers, Nick and Nigel, are more than a little peeved about that. They’re downright green with envy. Desperate for a hit play, one of the brothers seeks advice from a soothsayer named Nostradamus. (No, not that one. A distant cousin.)
Frontman James Mercer said he’s having a blast with the current lineup of the Shins, which will play the Knitting Factory on Sunday in support of the new album, “Heartworms.”
DeGeneres and her team arranged to have Knoll attend the latest product launch at the new Apple Park campus in Cupertino, Calif., where he got to check out the new iPhone and Apple Watch.