Stephanie Hammett

Artists all over Spokane will join forces Saturday to present “Art on the Go,” a citywide drive-up art show.

Starting Friday and continuing throughout May, Project Beauty Share will launch its second-annual National Beauty Drive. Through this drive, in honor of its 10th year as a nonprofit, Project Beauty Share hopes to raise $10,000 and collect 10,000 boxes of feminine hygiene products.

Worried about running out of books to read? You’re in luck. Althought they are still closed to the public, local stores are now offering curbside pick-up services.

With more time at home than ever, new hobbies and habits are popping up all over. One of those hobbies, for this journalist at least, is language learning. Whether you use Duolingo, Babbel, Rosetta Stone or any other app-based language learning program, it’s always exciting to find new ways of testing your vocab memory.

Many writers can confidently say their experiments in authorship began early, often in childhood, but for local poet Derek Annis, that journey began accidentally and much later.

Dating is, as many will attest, the worst: awkwardly trying to present the best versions of ourselves and pretending we’re stable until familiarity makes us feel safe enough to reveal more than our most heavily vetted idiosyncracies, admit that we change our outfits four times before we leave the house and, at the end of the day, don’t know who we really are.

If you’ve finished Netflix’s “Tiger King” documentary, and you’re looking for another true crime documentary series to fill that weird, weird void it’s left behind, look no further. Here is a compilation of some of the most binge-able true crime documentary series and films available online.

Since the March 20 release of “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness,” Netflix’s seven-episode documentary on big cat trading in the U.S., social media of all sorts have been buzzing with endless memes and theories surrounding the feud between the show’s wildest big cat enthusiasts.

Local author Ian Pisarcik’s debut novel “Before Familiar Woods” explores the consequences of avoiding people who fail to align with our preconceptions, particularly when it comes to children.

In the summer of 2016, Coeur d’Alene native Justin Wilder Doering set out to fulfill a long-sought-after personal goal: “To capture the collective face of homelessness” in America. The journey resulting from this hope fills the pages of his recently released book, “Fifty Sandwiches.”

Missing your local library or wishing that you could start taking advantage of their children’s book section now that the kids are stuck at home? Luckily, there are many new online options. Authors, actors and local libraries all over the country are starting new read-aloud video series and book-borrowing programs every day.

Originally formed in 1952, the Spokane Watercolor Society has been organizing competitions and exhibits for decades, but this year, for the first time, their spring open juried competition, from digital submission to final adjudication, will take place entirely online.

After the coronavirus sadled the Spokane Symphony with an unlucky end to its 2019-20 season, symphony management look forward to the next season for a better turnout.

With his latest thriller recently published, author Marc Cameron, current writer of Tom Clancy’s “Jack Ryan” series, is taking advantage of his time in self-isolation to get ahead on writing his next.

With Gov. Jay Inslee’s “stay home, stay healthy” order in effect, we’re all gearing up for another weekend at home. Luckily, the streaming options for the arts are only becoming more numerous. If ever there was a time to catch up on a few expertly crafted miniseries like HBO’s “Chernobyl” and all the other TV series your friends have been pestering you about, it is now. Tonight, the Metropolitan Opera will stream its 2012 production of Richard Wagner’s “Götterdämmerung,” conducted by Fabio Luisi and starring Deborah Voigt, Wendy Bryn Harmer, Waltraud Meier, Jay Hunter Morris, Iain Paterson, Eric Owens and Hans-Peter König. The last opera in Wagner’s “Ring Cycle,” “Götterdämmerung” continues the ring of power’s journey to its final resting place. If you loved J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings” but have ever thought that it needed fewer Urukhai, more singing and/or more being “(cast) into the fire,” this is the show for you.

Actor Eric Edelstein, a Gonzaga alumnus known for his voice-acting roles including Grizz in “We Bare Bears,” launched a reading program for children on Instagram this week.

With the kids stuck at home more than ever, you’re probably hoping for as many ways to keep them occupied as possible. Luckily, there are already many online options.

It’s not Disney World, it’s not “Westworld,” it’s “Stranger World.” After an adventurous career outside writing, local author Jack Castle turned his attention toward fiction. Castle’s “Stranger World” series has made it onto Amazon’s Top 100 list for Exploration Science Fiction.

In troubling times, we often turn to music, theater and history to ease our minds, but the requirements of social distancing make doing so more difficult than ever. Luckily for us, local organizations like Spokane Civic Theatre and international ones like the Metropolitan Opera already have our quarantined backs.

Local young adult author Chris Crutcher reached out to teachers on Facebook on Wednesday morning offering to “visit” their newly online classes.

Concert cancellations in the wake of the coronavirus have left Spokane Symphony management in a whirlwind as they try to minimize losses.

After moving into a local assisted-living community just two weeks ago, the rise of coronavirus-related quarantines left Margaret Presley without access to a lifelong, beloved pastime. But her family was able to organize a fitting St. Patrick’s Day surprise.

Inland Northwest Opera announces its 20th anniversary season, including a tragic favorite reset in the Prohibition era and a lighthearted, absurd comedy on the lake.

S.M. Hulse was raised and educated in Spokane. The author of “Eden Mind” took art classes to better help understand her main character, a painter named Jo Faber.