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On Saturday, Spokane Lilac Festival Association is hosting its third annual Spokane Lilac Festival Brewfest, which will feature over 30 local and regional breweries, as well as live music from Snacks at Midnight.

Dear Annie: I have a younger co-worker whom I met at a work social event, and we started talking a bit about novels we are writing as a hobby. A few weeks later, he came by my cubicle to ask me more about writing, so I gave him a few resources to a local writers group. Ever since then, he keeps stopping by, often interrupting my lunchtime to talk about writing.

Country icon Wynonna Judd has announced a Sept. 21 concert at Northern Quest Resort & Casino’s BECU Live outdoor stage. Tickets go on sale Friday.

I’ve written about some pretty niche cooking topics over the years. But often the articles that are the most discussed and the most fun to debate focus on those mundane, everyday tasks in the kitchen. You know, the ones everyone has an opinion about.

Dear Doctors: I am a 54-year-old man, and I’m recovering from a heart attack. My doctor is monitoring my heart and my kidneys. (So far, they are fine.) She says a heart attack puts you at risk of kidney disease. Why is that? What can be done to prevent it?

After a hiatus of nearly five months, Bon Bon reopened its doors in late April. The bar was temporarily shuttered as ownership of the adjoining Garland Theater changed hands. The bar’s hours are 4-10 p.m., seven days a week.

Dear Annie: My husband and I have been together for 15 years. He has three children from a previous marriage. In the early days of our relationship, my nieces would often come and visit during the summers, and all the kids would play together. As everyone grew older, the visits lessened to just holidays.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am privileged to receive free air travel benefits from my husband’s job as an airline pilot. My family flies on standby status, so we are usually among the last passengers to board the plane. Because of this, I am often separated from my 10-year-old. This is fine with us, as my son is an experienced traveler and is a quiet, self-sufficient and polite passenger.

The first time Tom Mathe, head bartender at L’Avenue in New York City, saw a child order a mocktail, he didn’t know what to think.

Spokane’s history is a tissue of improbabilities. How likely was it that one of America’s great architects would do his best work here, including the Davenport Hotel? How likely was it that, when that great building was about to fall to the wrecking ball, a couple, who started making money by renovating old grocery stores, would restore it to the peak of its former glory and go on to use it as the foundation of a group of world-class hotels, attracting visitors from every corner of the planet? How probable is it that, while newspapers in major cities throughout the country are vanishing, we still find in our front yards a newspaper with the same masthead – and the same publisher’s name – as has appeared there for over a century, enabling us to find out what went on at last Saturday’s symphony concert?

Roger Corman, a low-budget but resourceful Hollywood filmmaker who churned out dozens of laughably ridiculous and ridiculously profitable movies about crab monsters, a human-eating plant and buxom women in prison, died Thursday at his home in Santa Monica, California. He was 98.

Dear Annie: My mom passed away six months ago. I am in possession of her cremated remains. Shortly before her death, I moved across the country, to a place she’d never been.

A utilitarian walk-in shower works just as well as something nicer, so why spend the time and effort – and the money – to upgrade it?

Dear Doctors: I’m getting a lot of advice during my pregnancy. Some of it is useful, but there have been a few old wives’ tales mixed in. A friend says you’re supposed to save your children’s baby teeth because they’re a source of stem cells. Is this really true?

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My friend and I had tickets for a show, and we thought we had allowed enough time beforehand – nearly two hours – to eat dinner at one of the casual restaurants near the theater. However, on a weeknight, every eatery nearby was packed. We waited at one place for 20 minutes until there was a table available.

Riverfront Park’s newest art piece, “Stepwell,” is a bit hidden, tucked into the northern part of the park off the main pathways.

“Cheers” stars Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson are reuniting again and returning to their roots for a new podcast named after the theme song from their hit 1980s sitcom.

Modern country music is being led by the Morgan Wallens and Luke Combs of the world, but Alabama’s Riley Green is paving his own path toward the top.

Over the past couple years, a country renaissance has been taking the genre by storm, especially among online audiences. And this is exactly how Sam Barber went from posting cover videos to playing venues like the sold-out Knitting Factory this Thursday.