Carolyn Lamberson

After a year filled with awards and accolades, 2016 kicks off with Marshall being named Washington’s new poet laureate

The Sandpoint High School graduate, now a professor at Clemson University, will tour the region with his just-released third novel.

Spokane's Marshall named Washington poet laureate

As features editor and sometimes arts writer, I can’t complain too much about my work. I get to talk to cool people and the cool things they’re doing. Here are a few of the stories I most loved doing in 2015. Playing with fire

Families invited to come out and sing along with Anna, Elsa and the gang.

Boz Scaggs coming to the Fox

Tony Bennett booked for symphony gala

David Bowie returns to Earth, and Spokane-born actress sticks the landing.

Clarion Brass continues its holiday tradition with the “Hallelujah for Everything” tour.

For fourth year, actors, singers and dancers team up for a celebration of Christmas traditions.

Bowie returns to Earth, and Caruso sticks the landing

Israeli-born cellist Matt Haimovitz made his professional debut at 13 as a soloist with the Israel Philharmonic. In a three-decade career, he’s made his mark in the classical music scene, collaborating with legends like Leonard Rose and Issac Stern, along with contemporary giants like Phillip Glass and Christopher O’Reilly.

The show reunites three couples, Ellen Travolta and Jack Bannon, Roger Welch and Mark Cotter, Laura Sable and Bill Wiemuth. They’re all longtime friends and artistic collaborators. Travolta, Bannon, Cotter and Sable were all players with Coeur d’Alene Summer Theatre, where Welch was artistic director for two decades. Sable and Wiemuth (the accompanist) work as entertainers on the American Queen, a steamboat company that journeys along the Mississippi River, as do Cotter and Welch when Cotter isn’t doing his cabaret act in New York and Welch isn’t directing plays all over the country.

Everything is awesome with new Lego exhibit at Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture.

Nationally syndicated columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. deals with modern American racism in latest novel, “Grant Park.”

It’s the height of prohibition, and the party is raging at Burrs and Queenie’s place. But that’s not all that is raging in the Modern Theater Spokane’s production of Andrew Lippa’s 2000 award-winning musical. Tempers flare, passions rise, and the booze keeps flowing.

Spokane author goes back to his Montana roots for first novel, ‘American Copper.’

Pat Metheny will get a new experience in his storied career this weekend in Spokane – playing as a guest soloist.