Carolyn Lamberson

Foo Fighters rock the Gorge

Six East Side writers – four of them from Spokane – are finalists for the Washington State Book Awards, the Washington Center for the Book announced on Friday. The Spokane nominees are Bruce Holbert , Tod Marshall , Mary Cronk Farrell and Greg Gordon . Joining them are Moses Lake native Heather Brittain Bergstrom , who now lives in California, and Richland writer Maureen McQuerry .

Holbert, Marshall, Farrell, Gordon earn Washington Book Award nominations

‘All Hands on Deck” is a singing and dancing tribute to the Greatest Generation, those who fought and lived through World War II. As such, West Coast Entertainment President Jack Lucas wants to make sure those who fought in World War II and later conflicts will get a chance to see it for free.

There is a something gloriously cheeseball about “Rock of Ages.” The Tony-nominated Broadway show is a classic “boy meets girl, boy loses girl, girl becomes a stripper before finding her way back to boy” romance, set against a backdrop of the famed Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, circa 1987.

There is a something gloriously cheeseball about “Rock of Ages.” The Tony-nominated Broadway show is a classic “boy meets girl, boy loses girl, girl becomes a stripper before finding her way back to boy” romance, set against a backdrop of the famed Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, circa 1987.

The calendar's officially full

Do not expect J.A. Jance to read from her latest book, “Dance of the Bones: A J.P. Beaumont and Brandon Walker Novel” when she comes to Spokane on Thursday as part of her book tour. She promises she will not be doing any reading at her book reading.

The Whitman County Library system will be reading Anthony Doerr’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “All the Light We Cannot See” as part of the Everybody Reads program. In conjunction with Everybody Reads, Doerr – who lives in Boise – will make appearances across the Palouse as well as in the Lewiston- Clarkston area in November. The schedule is:

Macklemore, Lewis video goes live

Tuesday night on the shores of Lake Coeur d’Alene, the songs of Disney will come to life. Yes, even that one – the one from “Frozen” that everyone’s been singing for nearly two years.

Tuesday night on the shores of Lake Coeur d’Alene, the songs of Disney will come to life. Yes, even that one – the one from “Frozen” that everyone’s been singing for nearly two years.

Mystery writer J.A. Jance, whose stories featuring Seattle police detective J.P. Beaumont, Arizona sheriff Joanna Brady and others have thrilled readers for years, is coming to Spokane this fall to support her latest (and 51st book), “Dance of the Bones.” The novel, which will be released on Sept. 8, teams her longtime character Beaumont with Arizona sheriff Brandon Walker, featured in the Walker Family series. Both men, now retired, must work together to rescue a missing boy from a sociopath.

Shrek is an ogre. Then again, anyone who has paid attention for the past 25 years knows that. Based on a 1990 picture book by William Stieg, the animated version of “Shrek” was a box office smash in 2001, and won the first-ever Oscar for best animated feature. There have been three sequels, a spinoff and various holiday specials.

It was nearly three years between the 2012 release of Brandi Carlile’s album “Bear Creek” and this spring’s “The Firewatcher’s Daughter.” And it was a monumental three years.

Macklemore announces new baby with a song

Under the tall pines of North Idaho College, an explosion of art is about to happen. Nearly 200 artists – many from around here and some from as far away as Illinois, North Carolina and Georgia – will set up booths for the 47th annual Art on the Green show and sale on the NIC campus. It’s all part of a traditionally big weekend in the Lake City, with Taste of Coeur d’Alene happening in nearby City Park and the annual downtown Street Fair taking over Sherman Avenue as far east as Seventh Street.

Coeur d’Alene Summer Theatre brings its season to a close with “Shrek the Musical,” the Tony-nominated Broadway musical based on the hit Dreamworks animated film. You know the movie. The one in which a large green ogre beats out an evil – and very short – lord to find true love with a princess, helped by his pal Donkey and a host of fairy tale creatures.

Beginning today, 16 members of the artist-owned cooperative gallery Saranac Art Projects will be showing their own works in the galleries of the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture. The contemporary works are large and small, and include ceramics and porcelain, charcoals and mosaics, figures and abstracts, installations and video. Most of the works are for sale, and all told, there are more than 70 pieces in the show – which will run for two months. Among the artists featured are Jo K. Quetsch, Hannah Koeske, Lisa Nappa, Dan McCann, Carrie Scozzaro, Kurt Madison, Jeff Huston and Bradd Skubinna.