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A&E >  Entertainment

Here’s the 411 on The Weeknd

The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” was 2020’s most-streamed track on Spotify and broke Billboard records for the most weeks spent in the top five (38 weeks and counting) and the top 10 (47 weeks and counting) on the Hot 100.
A&E >  Music

The Weeknd announces 2022 date at the Spokane Arena

Award-winning singer-songwriter the Weeknd has announced new cities on his “The After Hours Tour” following the release of his latest Billboard No. 1 album, “After Hours,” and one of those cities in 2022 is Spokane. Tickets go on sale Monday.
A&E >  Food

Chocolate festival Days of Decadence returns virtually from Jan. 31-Feb. 14

The premier annual chocolate tasting event Decadence! Spokane Chocolate Festival is back from Sunday through, appropriately, Feb. 14 as Days of Decadence virtually amid the continuing coronavirus pandemic. As a safe alternative to an in-person event, Days of Decadence organizers have created a digital experience.
A&E >  Food

Posole for the Sol benefits Second Harvest

It is said that chicken soup is for the soul, but in Spokane this week, purchasing posole for the Sol benefits the food bank Second Harvest. Chef Travis Dickinson’s Cochinito Taqueria downtown is taking part in Bowl of Sol, a benefit for Second Harvest that pairs his posole with a locally made bowl for the customer’s keeping.
A&E >  Food

Running Tab: Looking back at and forward to the Spokane area food scene

The year 2020 was unlike any other, to say the least, but one thing that stood out was the innovation, talent and perseverance of the culinary and hospitality industry in Spokane, Coeur d’Alene and the surrounding areas. Restaurants and bars have closed, reopened and closed again, with the hope of reopening in January in Washington
A&E >  Food

Eva Roberts’ Just Desserts: Spokane Valley small-business owner achieves success in long career, on ‘Holiday Baking Championship’

Eva Roberts opened her bakery Just American Desserts in Spokane Valley in 1986, and it’s safe to say in her 34 years as a small-business owner, 2020 has been one of the most memorable. Despite the pandemic, business has been strong for the diversified Just American Desserts, for which Roberts is very thankful (“We’ve been very lucky during the pandemic,” she said).
A&E >  Food

Difference Maker: Chad White wants to help Save the 509

What a difference four years makes. “When I opened Zona Blanca in 2016, I was on unemployment,” chef and restaurateur Chad White said Dec. 15 at the new location of his ceviche restaurant and oyster bar, which is set to open in mid-January in the downtown Holley-Mason Building after the recent COVID-19 shutdown delayed a December debut.
A&E

It is lit! Holiday lights displays in town

We asked The Spokesman-Review readers to tell us about their favorite holiday lights displays, and here is what they’ve shared with us so far. Do you have a favorite holiday lights display that’s missing from our list? Go to spokesman.com/maps/holiday-lights-2020 to enter an address. While you’re there, you can plot your own holiday lights tour.