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Dear Doctors: I’ve been offered a new job that would start this summer. It comes with a sizable pay raise, so I am considering it. What worries me is that it’s an overnight shift, which I’ve read is hard on your health. I would like to know more about that, and if I can avoid the negative health impacts.

Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, May 11, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by Circana BookScan © 2024 Circana. (Reprinted from Publishers Weekly, published by PWxyz LLC. © 2024, PWxyz LLC.) HARDCOVER FICTION 1. "The Women: A Novel" by Kristin Hannah (St. Martin's) Last week: 2 2. ...

SEATTLE – A year ago, at the Cannes Film Festival, Lily Gladstone’s career shot into the stratosphere. “Killers of the Flower Moon,” Martin Scorsese’s based-on-fact drama about a mysterious series of murders in the Osage Nation in 1920s Oklahoma, made its world premiere at Cannes on May 20, to a 9-minute standing ovation. “The loudest screams,” wrote a Variety reporter at the time, “were directed at the film’s discovery”: Gladstone, who lived as a child on Montana’s Blackfeet Reservation and graduated in 2004 from Mountlake Terrace (Washington) High School. She had spent many years as a working actor in independent film, television and theater – but the Cannes screening marked the beginning of a new phase of her career, with bright lights shining.

Disturbing footage published by CNN Friday appears to show Sean “Diddy” Combs viciously assaulting singer Cassie Ventura at a Los Angeles hotel in 2016.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: We were scheduled to have dinner with two friends at the tail end of a fun week – several days of entertainments, parties, drinking and late nights. When the day of our dinner date came up, my wife and I were so miserable that we had to cancel our dinner plans. Eating another bite of food was the last thing we wanted to – or could – do. We were burned out, and it was self-inflicted.

A group of cats, called the Jellicles, must come together to make the “Jellicle choice,” which involves deciding which of them will rise to the “Heaviside Layer” and be born anew.

Spokane is quite the distance from Wasilla, Alaska, but the Knitting Factory is actually one of the venues closer to home for popular alt-rock band Portugal. The Man as they embark on their “Knik Country Tour.”

Dear Annie: I’ve been happily married for more than 12 years, but lately, I’ve noticed a growing distance between my husband “Bryan” and me. He’s always been a bit of a workaholic, but it’s come to the point where even on weekends, he’s either at the office or on his phone dealing with work issues. We used to enjoy things like hiking and trying new restaurants together, but now it seems like he has no energy or interest. If we do go, it hasn’t been fun at all because he’s on his phone checking emails the whole time.

Hello, dear readers, and welcome back to our monthly letters column. We have several interesting topics, so we’ll dive right in.

Resting atop a hill, a headless deer gazes down at a city. Without eyes, the deer manages to appear sentinel. This was artist Emilija Blake’s first creature, artwork that serves as a stand-in for her disabilities and symptoms. The deer is disassociation, “feeling like you’re outside of your body, existing somewhere else, like your head is in the clouds,” Blake said, sitting with her mom, Taffy Hunter, in Hamilton Studio, while Don Hamilton, Hamilton Studio co-owner, busied himself setting up projectors, and her service dog, Kasper, a goldendoodle, stayed by her side.

Rumor has it that Ludwig van Beethoven was a big drinker. In raising their glasses to the classical composer, the Spokane Symphony is host to Beethoven and Brews being held at the Fox Theater on Saturday.

Kristina Kuzmic started posting videos on social media for fun. But when her son began struggling with his mental health, her online presence became something more for the mother of three.

The trends may come and go, but quality folk Americana continues to find itself chasing white lines across the country, and the Last Revel is an excellent component of this beloved scene.

Two queer artists were both showing work at John’s Alley Tavern in Moscow, Idaho, toward the beginning of Moscow Artwalk’s 2023-24 season. After talking for hours about their art and mutual love of zines, they became best friends and were editing two zines together within weeks.

When Spokane Valley musician Isabella Mesenbrink was asked to audition last summer for the role of assistant music director for the national touring production of Broadway’s “The Cher Show,” she had barely even heard of the so-called “Goddess of Pop.”

The Spokane String Quartet is wrapping up its 2023-24 season with a concert featuring compositions from Benjamin Britten, Edward Elgar and Joseph Haydn.

It would be a challenging undertaking for any filmmaker to attempt to represent the outsize talent, unique style and utterly devastating downfall of soul singer/songwriter Amy Winehouse in biopic form. It’s a thankless task for any actor too. To quote one of Winehouse’s most poignant ballads, the endeavor is “a losing game” before it even starts.

There’s an existential question at the heart of writer/director John Krasinski’s new kid-friendly semi-animated movie “IF.” It’s a simple query, but it speaks to the limitless potential of a child’s imagination, and it gets asked again and again: “what if?”