• Growing her FARM LIFE FAM

    By Mary Stone

    This story is part of a series of occasional features about local creators who’ve built substantial followings on social media. Kayla Zenner...

  • Laughing along the way

    Billy Ray Rock had a self-proclaimed rough start in comedy, but stuck with it to make a career in the craft

    By Mary Stone

    Billy Ray Rock’s stand-up career started with a casual remark to a buddy during an open mic in his then hometown of Fresno, Calif.: When Rock said the guy up there was terrible, his friend said, “You wouldn’t go up there, would you?” “I went up there and also sucked,” he said during a recent interview in his current hometown of Asotin...

  • Moving together

    Moscow Movement Arts Center brings community members together for annual ‘Nutcracker’ performance

    By Mary Stone

    Three years ago, Rachel Dodson’s dream of breaking through the stereotype of ballet as an elite art form and staging an inclusive community performance of “The Nutcracker” came to fruition. Gordon Mellot, now assistant director for the annual production, joined that first year and experienced firsthand the spirit of togetherness Moscow Movement Arts Center brought to the production, when someone took issue with him — Mellot is a drag artist — being involved...

  • Events Roundup: Under construction

    Inland 360’s calendar continues to grow, with your help

    By Inland 360

    Thank you to events organizers who have created new accounts and uploaded events to Inland 360’s new calendar system. As of this writing, 31 “event creators” have added 54 events to our new calendar...

  • The Stream: ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ hits home screens

    By Associated Press

    Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman starring in “Deadpool & Wolverine” and James Patterson’s psychologist detective Alex Cross finally having his own thriller TV show are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you. Also among the streaming offerings worth your time as selected by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists: a new album from Shawn Mendes, the return of the Apple TV+ dark comedy “Bad Sisters” and a new generation of storm chasers featured in “Twisters.”

  • Movie review: ‘Red One’ tries to supersize the Christmas movie

    By Jake Coyle

    Ah, the Christmas movie. That old chestnut...