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Spotlight: Organists line up for cathedral event

The organ at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist will be roaring today as members of the American Guild of Organists perform music ranging from J.S. Bach to Denis Bédard. The concert, today at 4, will begin with the church’s carillonneur, Byrl Cinnamon, playing the cathedral carillon. Also planned are performances of “Ave Maria” and Samuel Barber’s Adagio for String, arranged for the organ.
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Guest conductor teases out the jazz

The Fox Theater and the Spokane Symphony will be swinging this weekend. Under the direction of guest conductor Matt Catingub, and with his longtime drummer Steve Moretti and guest vocalist Abbey Crawford, the symphony will trade in the works of Beethoven and Bach for big band-era jazz.
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Juried auction supports local art, MAC programs

The annual MAC Art Auction, set for Saturday night at the Davenport Hotel, will look a little different this year. Sure, there will be plenty of works by locally and regionally known artists – Sister Paula Turnbull, the late George Flett, Harold Balazs, Kay O’Rourke, Ric Gendron, Mel McCuddin and Melissa Cole. But this year, there are fewer total works in the auction, and that’s by design, said Forrest Rodgers, executive director of the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture.
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Book Notes: Trio take spotlight at Beacon Hill event

The Beacon Hill Reading Series is hosting an Evening of Prose and Poetry at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday. The free event will feature Marianne Salina, a Spokane writer who is working on a collection of stories; David Thacker, a writing teacher from the University of Idaho and winner of the 2012 Fredrick Manfred Award from the Western Literature Association; and Sayantani Dasgupta, who teaches South Asian history and literature at the University of Idaho.
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Spotlight: Thin Air Radio celebrates 10 years on air with party

KYRS, the community radio station the broadcasts on 88.1 FM and 92.3 FM, will celebrate 10 years on the air this week. The station, which launched on Oct. 26, 2003, as a low-power FM station, is now a full-power outfit that reaches parts of six counties. Programming centers on local public affairs and arts.
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At Symphony with a Splash, eclectic lineup includes cocktails

The mission of Symphony with a Splash is multilayered. The Spokane Symphony program now in its second year aims to introduce the symphony to a new crowd. It wants to show that orchestral music isn’t always antique. And it wants the audience and musicians alike to cut loose and have fun.
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At Symphony with a Splash, eclectic lineup includes cocktails

The mission of Symphony with a Splash is multilayered. The Spokane Symphony program now in its second year aims to introduce the symphony to a new crowd. It wants to show that orchestral music isn’t always antique. And it wants the audience and musicians alike to cut loose and have fun.
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Book Notes: 19th-century Catholic bishop’s letters collected

A 19th-century bishop who worked in the Northwest is the subject of a new book co-edited by Patricia O’Connell Killen, academic vice president at Gonzaga University, and Roberta Stringham Brown, a French professor at Pacific Lutheran University. “Selected Letters of A.M.A. Blanchet, Bishop of Walla Walla & Nesqualy (1846-1879)” was released this year by the University of Washington Press. The book includes 45 letters that offer a window into Washington history.
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Book Notes: Poet Olstein headlines GU’s Writers Series

The second installment of the Gonzaga University Visiting Writers Series will be at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday and will feature poet Lisa Olstein. Olstein won the Hayden Carruth Award for her 2006 poetry collection “Radio Crackling, Radio Gone.” “Lost Alphabet” was named one of the top nine poetry books of 2009 by Library Journal. “Little Stranger,” from 2010, was Lannan Literary Selection. She has a Pushcart Prize and numerous fellowships.
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Spotlight: WSU adds Warhol prints

The Washington State University Museum of Art has received six original Andy Warhol prints from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The new prints are the largest in the museum’s permanent collection, measuring 40-by-40 inches, and include a portrait of Sitting Bull and depictions of a truck, flowers, a sunset, and even a receipt. It takes the number of Warhol pieces in WSU’s permanent collection to 174.
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It all adds up to stardom

“Ten Thousand Hours.” That’s the name of the first track on “The Heist,” the debut full-length album from Seattle hip-hop duo Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, released Oct. 11, 2012.
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Book Notes: Noted poet Raptosh to read at JACC on Oct. 24

Diana Raptosh, the Idaho writer in residence, will read from her works on Oct. 24 at the Jacklin Arts and Cultural Center in Post Falls. Raptosh, who holds the Eyck-Berringer Endowed Chair in English at the College of Idaho in Caldwell, recently published her fourth book of poems, “American Amnesiac” (Etruscan Press), which made the long list for the 2013 National Book Award for Poetry.
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Mama has never let Lawrence down

Mama is coming to town. The cantankerous Thelma Harper, an acerbic older Southern woman first brought to life by Vicki Lawrence on “The Carol Burnett Show” in 1974 and later spun off into her own show, “Mama’s Family,” is coming to Northern Quest on Sunday.
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Mama has never let Lawrence down

Mama is coming to town. The cantankerous Thelma Harper, an acerbic older Southern woman first brought to life by Vicki Lawrence on “The Carol Burnett Show” in 1974 and later spun off into her own show, “Mama’s Family,” is coming to Northern Quest on Sunday.
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Tony-winning revival of ‘Anything Goes’ hits INB

When it comes to bona fides, “Anything Goes” is awash in them. Music by Cole Porter. Original book by P.G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton, with revisions by the famed team of Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. Tony-winning 2011 revival directed and choreographed by Kathleen Marshall (“Wonderful Town”).
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Book Notes: Alexie visits to celebrate short stories

It’s been 20 years since Sherman Alexie published his short story collection “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven.” Twenty years since critics lauded the collection with comparisons to Richard Wright’s “Native Son” (Chicago Tribune) references to its stark, lyric power (New York Times), praise for its searing yet affectionate honesty (Kirkus Reviews).
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Book Notes: National Book Award winner Alexie to read at the Bing

Sherman Alexie’s breakthrough book, “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven” is turning 20, and his most recent collection of stories, “Blasphemy,” is out in paperback soon. Must be time for Alexie to visit his old stomping grounds. Alexie, a National Book Award winner who was raised on the Spokane Indian Reservation, will give a reading at 7 p.m. Oct. 9 at the Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave. The reading is free, but a suggested donation of $5 to pay for the venue is appreciated. The reading is sponsored by Auntie’s Bookstore, the Bing, and Get Lit!