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Standing atop a Buick GNX, rapper Kendrick Lamar warned, “The revolution 'bout to be televised. You picked the right time, but the wrong guy.” Flipping Gil Scott-Heron’s 1971 poem about Black liberation, “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,” (and possibly taking aim at President Donald Trump, who was in attendance), Lamar utilized his 13-minute Super Bowl halftime performance to tell a ...

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For Stephen Pitters, it’s all about evolution. In 1985, he started the Spokane Open Poetry Association. When that ran its course, Pitters started hosting the Open Poetry Program on KYRS in 2004. With this program, he brought together not just the voices of poets, but artists of many mediums. He brings this same eye for curation to Poetry Rising, a quarterly event he’s hosted for about six years.

1 Upcycle Fashion Lab – Turn old clothes into new unique fashions using scissors and sewing machines. Expert sewists from Spokane Zero Waste's Mend-It Cafe will provide everything a creator might need to learn upcycling skills, but attendees are encouraged to bring garments they’d like to re-fashion. Registration encouraged. 3:30-5 p.m. Friday at the South Hill Library, 3324 S. Perry St. Admission: Free.

Ahead of the Super Bowl LIX halftime show, SZA is remaining mostly tight-lipped about what fans can expect from her and Kendrick Lamar’s highly anticipated performance. “That’s King Kendrick’s performance and that it is all for him to divulge,” the “Snooze” artist told New York Daily News at the 67th annual Grammy Awards. The duo walked away from the ceremony with Grammy gold, SZA winning Best ...

1 Vinyl Pop Up Shop – Browse through a collection of records provided by the Long Ear while enjoying drinks. 4-8 p.m. Saturday at the Coeur d’Alene Cider Company, 1327 E. Sherman Ave., Coeur d’Alene. Admission: Free.

The Eagles are flying without touring guitarist Steuart Smith, who is stepping away from the rock band because of health issues. “It is with profound regret that, due to performance issues associated with my recently diagnosed Parkinsonism, I find that I must bow out of my role with the Eagles while I can still do so gracefully,” the 72-year-old musician said Monday in a statement to USA ...

There’s always been a black hole in the center of the California sunlight, and the Santa Ana winds blow through it. It’s where the best Los Angeles writers have done their work: literati like Nathanael West (“The Day of the Locust”), John Fante (“Ask the Dust”), Raymond Chandler (“Red Wind”) and, of course, Joan Didion.

Attorneys representing multiple Sean “Diddy” Combs accusers aren’t happy with the jokes made by comedian Nikki Glaser at the Golden Globes on Sunday night. Ariel Mitchell, who represents Ashley Parham and others, told TMZ that Glaser’s jokes are the type that keep other sexual assault survivors from coming forward. Tyrone Blackburn, who represents Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones, told the gossip site ...

LOS ANGELES — Heading into 2025, "Bling Empire: New York" star and jewelry designer Lynn Ban is feeling "grateful and blessed" after her life almost changed "in a blink of an eye." The reality TV personality, 51, disclosed Monday that she underwent emergency brain surgery after a skiing accident on Christmas Eve. Ban detailed the accident and the subsequent chain of events on Instagram. She ...

Wendy Williams' family is "fighting" to get her back home from a facility where she's receiving treatment for her health issues, her son said. The former daytime talk show host's son Kevin Hunter Jr. on Monday shared an update about his mom's health, days after she made a rare public appearance to attend his college graduation in Florida. Radio host Charlamagne tha God reposted a video to ...

Amber Heard stepped into the Blake Lively-Justin Baldoni fray on Monday after learning that the crisis control PR firm Baldoni had hired was the same one ex-husband Johnny Depp used during their 2022 defamation trial. “Social media is the absolute personification of the classic saying ‘A lie travels halfway around the world before truth can get its boots on,’ ” she told NBC News. “I saw this ...

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On a cold and dreary afternoon not so many years ago, I risked broken bones and sanity fetching groceries in the snow ...

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Nicko McBrain bid farewell over the weekend to the last crowd of metalheads he will perform for as a touring member of Iron Maiden.

MINNEAPOLIS — A storied pair of ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in “The Wizard of Oz,” stolen from a museum display in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, then reportedly buried in a clear container in a suburban Minneapolis backyard have a high bid of $1,150,000 through Tuesday morning on Heritage Auctions’ online auction. The initial bid, when the auction opened more than a month ago, was $500,000. ...