Carolyn Lamberson

Stephen Smart find creative outlet in fiction.

Laura Read will be Spokane’s second poet laureate.

Shaping Sound, the contemporary dance company and show, aims to tell a story. A story without words, or special effects. A story, as company founder Travis Wall said, told “with lighting and movement and bodies.”

For fifth year, the Modern Theater brings the poetry of Edgar Allan Poe to life. This year’s show will be at the Bing Crosby Theater in Spokane.

Walter's story in 'Best American' debuted at Bedtime Stories 2013

Popular Irish dance show returns to Spokane for 20th anniversary tour.

Thom Caraway is completing his term as Spokane’s first poet laureate.

Two Spokane writers, Bruce Holbert and Tod Marshall, are awarded Washington State Book Awards.

“Christmas With Friends” will star Ellen Travolta’s husband,

Best-selling book about the South Hill rapist re-released as paperback and e-book

In its first four seasons, the FX series “American Horror Story” has been set in haunted houses and insane asylums, and among witches and sideshow freaks. For season 5, the show is moving into an old hotel, and Cheyenne Jackson is among the guests.

Spokane Art’s Create Spokane month brings arts programming to the fore.

Cheryl Strayed, author of the best-selling memoir "Wild," will be the keynote speaker at the YWCA's Women of Achievement luncheon Thursday

Kimberly Meyer, nonfiction writer and contributor to the radio program “This American Life,” will be in Spokane this week as the first author in the Gonzaga University Visiting Writers Series for 2015-16. Meyer’s most recent work, “The Book of Wanderings,” centers on her own real-life travels with her eldest daughter as they followed the route of medieval friar Felix Fabri through Italy, Greece, Israel and Egypt. It’s a book getting much good buzz. As USA Today said in its review back in March: “The arduousness and soul-baring nature of the long journey seems to have stripped her down to her essence, and she is able to confidently experience and tell the story in her own words, excellently, compellingly.”

Jason McGerr will be thrilled to be breathing Washington air again. As the drummer for Death Cab for Cutie, McGerr has been away from his home in Bellingham since the spring, when the band released its newest album, “Kintsugi.” The tour has taken McGerr, singer Ben Gibbard and bass player Nick Harmer from West Coast to East Coast and back again. Wednesday they’re in Missoula. Thursday they come to the INB in Spokane. Then it’s off for a three-night stand at the Paramount Theater in Seattle and a short break before heading to Europe.

Manuela Horn is tall. She’s 6-foot-2. Add the 5-inch platform shoes she’s fond of, and it’s easy to see why she’s nicknamed the Austrian Amazon.

Jason McGerr will be thrilled to be breathing Washington air again. As the drummer for Death Cab for Cutie, McGerr has been away from his home in Bellingham since the spring, when the band released its newest album, “Kintsugi.” The tour has taken McGerr, singer Ben Gibbard and bass player Nick Harmer from West Coast to East Coast and back again. Wednesday they’re in Missoula. Thursday they come to the INB in Spokane. Then it’s off for a three-night stand at the Paramount Theater in Seattle and a short break before heading to Europe.

Anyone who was in college in the early to mid-1980s probably has heard of the Blasters. The California band founded by brothers Phil and Dave Alvin blended a punk ethic with blues, and was at the vanguard of a roots rock movement that gave rise to bands such as Los Lobos and Lone Justice. The Alvins famously fell out in 1986. Dave Alvin, the primary songwriter, left the band and settled into a prolific solo career, while Phil Alvin has continued to record and tour with various versions of The Blasters. It would be nearly three decades before the Alvins patched things up – inspired in large part by Phil Alvin’s near-death experience while touring in Spain in 2012.