Carolyn Lamberson

Since 2013, Christmas in Coeur d’Alene has come with a festive dose of Ellen Travolta.

Now that Thanksgiving is behind us, it’s time to deck the halls and take in some of the sights and sounds of the season. From classic plays and stirring music to glittery lights and cultural events, there’s a little something for everyone.

In 'Forever Witness,' author Ed Humes finds intersection of crime, science and humanity  The Spokesman Review

I have never met a bedroom makeover I didn’t like. Actually, scratch that. There is one notable exception: the white-box-of-a-bedroom in the apartment Logan and I lived in during his first year at the University of Washington. That year, some nefarious force got it into my head that what our bedroom walls were really crying out for were stripes. Horizontal stripes. Yellow horizontal stripes.

It’s been 14 years since North Central High School graduate Max Kumangai moved to New York City to carve out a career as an actor.

For her 10th edition, Ellen Travolta is putting together a “best of” version of her annual Christmas show at the Coeur d’Alene Resort.

The game last week started out like any other. Skinny little seventh-graders, their helmets and shoulder pads looking like they were about to topple them over, did warm-up exercises on either side of the field. Parents sat and stood along the sidelines, chatting and shielding their eyes from the late-September sun. Emmett and Hyrum, my two youngest sons, lolled about in the uncharacteristically high heat, already bored as they waited impatiently to see their big brother Henry play in his second…

I’ve written at length about the “games as a service” model before, wherein video games are continually updated with new content every few months. One of the longest-running examples would be World of Warcraft, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game initially released in 2004 that continue…

Eat at home instead of dining out. Cook from scratch rather than buying packaged foods. Those are two pieces of advice you will hear if you ask for ways to cut food costs. The issue then becomes how to balance the money you’ll save against the time you’ll sacrifice. Grocery shopping, cooking and cleaning all take time – even if you are making a 30-minute recipe from the pantry.

It was a surprise, a shock really, when John Waters released the film “Hairspray” in 1988.