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BASIN EVENTS: April 3-11, 2026
COLUMBIA BASIN — It’s finally spring, and fun things to do are popping up all over the Basin. Here are a few optio…
Review: 'High Note' is easy listening for troubled times
There may have been a point — say, oh, a few months ago? — when we’d have demanded a lot more edge from a movie like “The High Note,” and been less forgiving of its more implausible moments.
Review: John Prine sideman steps out as reflective balladeer
Jason Wilber, "Time Traveler” (WilberTone)
Robb Forman Dew, prize-winning novelist, dead at 73
NEW YORK (AP) — Robb Forman Dew, a prize-winning fiction writer who drew upon her small-town Ohio background for such novels as “Dale Loves Sophie to Death” and “The Evidence Against Her,” has died.
Larry Kramer, playwright and AIDS activist, dies at 84
NEW YORK (AP) — Larry Kramer, the playwright whose angry voice and pen raised theatergoers’ consciousness about AIDS and roused thousands to militant protests in the early years of the epidemic, has died at 84.
Disney, SeaWorld announce plans for Florida parks to reopen
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — SeaWorld and Walt Disney World will reopen in Orlando, Florida, in June and July after months of inactivity because of the
NASA chief "all in" for Tom Cruise to film on space station
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA is rolling out the International Space Station’s red carpet for Tom Cruise to make a movie in orbit.
Author Murakami DJs 'Stay Home' radio show to lift spirits
TOKYO (AP) — Acclaimed Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami, hosting a special radio show from home, painted a brighter side of the world with his favorite music, and said the fight against the coronavirus is a challe…
In 'Wild World,' singer Kip Moore turns a mirror on himself
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — When country singer Kip Moore wasn’t performing, he was traveling the world to places like Iceland and Costa Rica looking for the next great wave to surf, or a cliff to climb or a remote tra…
Fallon apologizes for using blackface in 20-year-old skit
NEW YORK (AP) — NBC “Tonight” show host Jimmy Fallon has apologized for doing an impersonation of fellow comic Chris Rock while in blackface during a 2000 episode of “Saturday Night Live.”
Too much TV? Enter HBO Max, the latest streaming wannabe
Is a pandemic the perfect time to launch a new and relatively expensive streaming service? AT&T sure hopes so.
Review: A powerful #MeToo chapter in ‘On the Record’ doc
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Documentary focuses on unlikely champion of Mexican cuisine
NEW YORK (AP) — If you add garlic to your guacamole, we have bad news: You're not doing it right. Do you mince the onion? That's also a no-no. And, please, leave the avocado lumpy.
The Doobie Brothers reschedule 50th anniversary tour
NEW YORK (AP) — The Doobie Brothers are rescheduling their 50th anniversary tour because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Jimmy Cobb, 'Kind of Blue' drummer for Miles Davis, dies
Jimmy Cobb, a percussionist and the last surviving member of Miles Davis’ 1959 “Kind of Blue” groundbreaking jazz album which transformed the genre and sparked several careers, died Sunday.
Stars to come out to support NYC's The Public Theater
NEW YORK (AP) — Jesse Tyler Ferguson is a star in his own right but even he has had to gulp at the wattage on tap for the upcoming benefit for New York City's fabled Public Theater.