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News >  Spokane

Zombie TV series ‘Z Nation’ will provide Spokane with good jobs

The zombies are coming. And they’re bringing work for nearly 200 actors, 1,300 extras and more than 100 crew members. The new SyFy Network television series “Z Nation” will begin shooting in Spokane next month. The network has ordered 13 episodes, all of which will be filmed in the Spokane area this spring and summer and are scheduled to begin airing in the fall.
News >  Features

Book Notes: Alexis M. Smith to read at Auntie’s

Portland novelist Alexis M. Smith will read at Auntie’s Bookstore on Friday in a program sponsored by the EWU Visiting Author Series and Get Lit. Smith will read from her 2012 novel, “Glaciers” (Tin House Books, $10.95). The story centers on a day in the life of Isabel, a 20-something thrift-shopper, whose quest for love and the perfect vintage dress is set against the decay of urban life and melting glaciers in her native Alaska.
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Spotlight: ‘Love Letters’ hits Lake City in May

If you missed Ellen Travolta and Jack Bannon performing “Love Letters” at the University of Idaho in Moscow earlier this month, don’t worry. The acting couple will be bringing the show closer to home in May. A.R. Gurney’s beloved play will be presented May 29, 30 and 31 at Lake City Playhouse in Coeur d’Alene as a benefit for the community theater company and the Coeur d’Alene Public Library Foundation.
News >  Spokane

Review: Light takes center stage in Interplayers’ ‘Wait Until Dark’

Our scene opens on a typical New York City basement apartment in 1944. It’s dark, illuminated only by an outside streetlight. We see a man walk past the window over the kitchen sink. He enters the apartment and lights a cigarette. He wanders to the refrigerator, its light spilling out. He samples some of the leftovers inside, and in short order is joined by another man. Together, they craft a plot that sets “Wait Until Dark” into motion.
A&E >  Entertainment

Travolta, Bannon to perform benefit

Ellen Travolta and Jack Bannon are taking their love story on the road to the Palouse. The veteran actors – who are married and longtime residents of Coeur d’Alene – will perform “Love Letters” on Saturday in Moscow as a benefit for the Idaho Repertory Theatre at the University of Idaho.
News >  Features

Library’s ‘Hard Times’ exhibit features Egan talk

There’s no doubt that during the annual Get Lit festival, venues around downtown are hopping with writers and fans. This year there’s some fun for literary and history types on the North Side when “Hope in Hard Times: Washington During the Great Depression” opens at the North Spokane Library on Hawthorne Road.
News >  Spokane

‘Sister Act’ a high-energy, heart-warming musical

Deloris Carter – or, rather Deloris Van Cartier, as she has refashioned herself – wants to make it big in the music biz. As a young woman in 1977 Philadelphia, she longs for fame, imagining herself like Donna Summer, resplendent in a glamorous white gown and white fur coat. Instead, she’s a little desperate, in her thigh-high boots, too-short shorts and loud, spangled top. She thinks her thug of a boyfriend, Curtis, is the key to her dreams. But as her story unfolds in “Sister Act,” Deloris realizes the key to her dream is within herself.
A&E >  Entertainment

On the brighter side of the blues

First things first. Curtis Salgado is healthy. Which is saying something. Last time the Oregon-based singer was in the Inland Northwest, to headline the Wallace Blues Festival in 2012, he’d just gotten word that his lung cancer had returned, and within a few weeks he underwent a partial lobectomy.
A&E >  Entertainment

On the brighter side of the blues

First things first. Curtis Salgado is healthy. Which is saying something. Last time the Oregon-based singer was in the Inland Northwest, to headline the Wallace Blues Festival in 2012, he’d just gotten word that his lung cancer had returned, and within a few weeks he underwent a partial lobectomy.
News >  Features

Civic brings in a new artistic director

At first glance, Baton Rouge, La., and Spokane seem pretty different. One city is nestled in the hot and humid deep South, while the other is on the dry side of the Pacific Northwest.
A&E >  Entertainment

Finding his place among stage sisters

Melvin Abston’s relationship with “Sister Act” is long running. It doesn’t date back to the movie, which was released in 1992 and starred Whoopi Goldberg, Maggie Smith and Kathy Najimi.
News >  Features

Book Notes: Up-and-coming authors find literary home at Ecotone

Ecotone, a literary journal based at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, was founded in 2005. Since then, twice a year, the journal has published fiction, nonfiction and poetry by up-and-coming authors and established award winners. Just this past week, Ecotone released a collection of stories, “Astoria to Zion: Stories of Risk and Abandon from Ecotone’s First Decade.” The writers who are featured include Rick Bass (“Why I Came West”), Edith Perlman (“Binocular Vision”), Steve Almond (“God Bless America”) and Shawn Vestal (“Godforsaken Idaho”).
News >  Features

For 2014-15 season, symphony ready to run the gamut

From John Adams to Frank Zappa. A to Z. With Bach, Brahms, Beethoven, Bernstein, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Villa-Lobos and many others in between. Spokane Symphony Orchestra conductor and artistic director Eckart Preu will begin his 11th season this fall by once again giving Spokane audiences classic works by the grand masters, eclectic pieces by avant garde composers and talented guest artists to share in their creation.
A&E >  Entertainment

Pianist’s style melds Bach, Brubeck

Two years ago, pianist Lara Downes performed a program titled “13 Ways of Looking at the Goldberg” in Spokane for the Northwest Bach Festival. This year, she’s back, and one of the two programs she’s performing this weekend is the result of her work on J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations and a related CD she recorded.
A&E >  Entertainment

Pianist’s style melds Bach, Brubeck

Two years ago, pianist Lara Downes performed a program titled “13 Ways of Looking at the Goldberg” in Spokane for the Northwest Bach Festival. This year, she’s back, and one of the two programs she’s performing this weekend is the result of her work on J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations and a related CD she recorded.
News >  Features

Oscar parties tonight at Bing, Northern Quest

The Academy Awards are today, and if you aren’t up for hanging out at home and watching the festivities, there are at least two watch parties planned. One features a real-life Oscar winner and will benefit Coeur d’Alene Summer Theatre; the other is the grand dame of Spokane Oscar parties, entering its 16th year.
A&E >  Entertainment

‘Les Mis’ stage hits right notes

Last Friday, five young actors from Spokane Civic Theatre walked onto the stage at the Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox. As they took in the space before them – the gorgeous art deco ceiling, the 1,600 seats – their eyes got wide. Smiles broke out across their faces. One young woman wept tears of joy. The reason for the visit? A quick look at the venue where they’ll be reviving Civic’s production of the epic musical “Les Misérables,” in tandem with the Spokane Symphony Orchestra. The two-show revival this weekend is a fundraiser for Civic, the symphony and the Fox.
A&E >  Entertainment

Violinist Pine masters classical to metal

Rachel Barton Pine knows the caprices. Composer and musician Niccolo Paganini wrote the 24 short works between 1802 and 1817 to demonstrate all the cool things one could do with a violin. To perform them all requires tremendous skill, and mastery of every trick in the violinist’s toolbox.
A&E >  Entertainment

‘Les Mis’ stage hits right notes

Last Friday, five young actors from Spokane Civic Theatre walked onto the stage at the Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox. As they took in the space before them – the gorgeous art deco ceiling, the 1,600 seats – their eyes got wide. Smiles broke out across their faces. One young woman wept tears of joy. The reason for the visit? A quick look at the venue where they’ll be reviving Civic’s production of the epic musical “Les Misérables,” in tandem with the Spokane Symphony Orchestra. The two-show revival this weekend is a fundraiser for Civic, the symphony and the Fox.