Artificial intelligence is accelerating faster than a Tesla toward an oak tree. Every day brings a fresh story – possibly written by AI – about the wonders of a world remastered by autonomous billionaires and their silicon golems. Perplexity, indeed.
On the walls of Spokane City Hall’s Chase Gallery, neon acrylic shades peek through oil-painted scenes of nature, and, more specifically, depict what happens when disaster strikes.
DEAR MISS MANNERS: My boyfriend and I share an apartment, and also share two pet snakes. These are not large reptiles, and are kept in very secure glass tanks behind closed doors.
Last summer, Troy Nickerson and Chris Jensen were combing through scripts in search of the perfect show with which to debut their independent theater company Theater on the Verge.
He can outrun a train, hold up a collapsing tower on a fiery oil rig and fly around the world to turn back time. But Superman's greatest challenge might just be saving the DC film franchise.
Dear Doctors: I have hay fever, but usually it’s not that bad. This year, however, it has been awful. I’m plugged up, my eyes are itchy and by the end of the day, I have a headache. We live near Atlanta, and a lot of people here are miserable. Over-the-counter meds aren’t helping. What can I do?
Dear Annie: I need some advice. My son got married three years ago to a woman we didn’t know about. He never introduced her to us. Didn’t even tell us he got married. He stopped speaking to us.
Upon arriving in Spokane from Rhode Island about four years ago, it didn’t take long for singer-songwriter Helmer Noel to take up performing around town. Before long, he became one of the scene’s standout performers, and now his debut record is in the making.
While July gardening chores revolve around watering, weeding, deadheading and helping plants through the heat, those chores might include transplanting bearded iris and watching for powdery mildew on maples.
In a way, the team at Urban Art Co-op are a little like elves at the North Pole. They work yearround for a single event, Scoops and Bowls, that brings cheer, or handmade bowls and ice cream, to attendees at Manito Park.
With a multiplatinum career spanning six decades, “there isn’t much else” Barry Manilow can do. As he embarks on his final tour, Manilow reflects as he returns to a city he first played in 1975: Spokane.
A man deemed an “alien” has his face crushed into the pavement by a masked thug. He’s then renditioned to a top-secret black site prison where he’s tortured. No, these aren’t images from today’s news — it’s from James Gunn’s new take on “Superman.” What this iconic superhero faces in the film indeed reflects reality back to us, not necessarily because Gunn could predict the future, but because he read the tea leaves (or the history books) accurately in the right moment.
