Nathan Weinbender

The cardinal rule in most art galleries is “no touching.” You should keep your distance, admiring from afar, and if you have to get close, it’s to study the brush strokes with your nose just a few inches away from the canvas. But then there’s interactive art, which actually requires the viewer to get hands-on.

Science is all about asking “how?” and “why?” Science fiction, on the other hand, is more about asking “what if?” and following those scenarios to their logical extremes.

Science is all about asking “how?” and “why?” Science fiction, on the other hand, is more about asking “what if?” and following those scenarios to their logical extremes.

Glover Field sits tucked away in Peaceful Valley, a patch of land about two acres big located near the south bank of the Spokane River. Once a hub of activity – athletic events, carnivals and exhibitions were all common there in the early part of the 20th century – the park is now used primarily for community and recreational events. This Saturday, Glover Field will serve as the venue for KYRS Music Fest, a daylong event hosted by Thin Air Community Radio.

Glover Field sits tucked away in Peaceful Valley, a patch of land about two acres big located near the south bank of the Spokane River. Once a hub of activity – athletic events, carnivals and exhibitions were all common there in the early part of the 20th century – the park is now used primarily for community and recreational events. This Saturday, Glover Field will serve as the venue for KYRS Music Fest, a daylong event hosted by Thin Air Community Radio.

Sarah Polley’s documentary “Stories We Tell” begins as an elegy and ends as something completely different and altogether unexpected, a fascinating family history and an examination of truth in storytelling and the complexity of memory. If you plan to see it – and you really should – do yourself a favor and read as little about it as possible: It unfolds hypnotically, revealing itself slowly to us, and the less you know about it the more enthralling it will be. The movie is a lot of things at once: It’s a memorial to the director’s late mother, it’s a strange and convoluted familial saga, and it’s Polley’s personal search for her own identity. It’s also an achingly honest and refreshingly frank film, and even if its construction sometimes toys with our own perception of reality, it’s always intensely sincere.

Maybe I’m late to the party, but I’m going through a bit of a Fleetwood Mac phase right now. They’ve dominated my iPod for the past couple of months – everything from their early blues material to their slightly corny ’80s output – so I’m as excited as anyone that they’re playing the Spokane Arena this weekend. The band has been on tour since late April and has yet to deviate from the same set list, so expect to hear all of the biggest Lindsey Buckingham-Stevie Nicks hits. (And don’t hold out for any of Christine McVie’s compositions – she hasn’t played with the band since the late ’90s.)

Ben Wheatley’s “Sightseers” is an intriguingly odd film, an aggressively dark comedy and an acidic satire on British social mores about a romantic road trip that turns into a spontaneous killing spree. It’s both intensely unpleasant and weirdly uproarious, as so much English humor is, but it wears itself out well before it’s over. The film follows a mousy couple somewhere in their 30s, Chris (Steve Oram) and Tina (Alice Lowe), who have loaded up his caravan with plans of exploring the countryside, including such picturesque locations as the Cumberland Pencil Museum.