• Mad Marv’s Music Den: Punk Palouse Fest — The Dilrods

    Surfing the waves of a garage punk skate-rock frenzy

    By Marvin Lee

    Punk Palouse Fest returns this weekend for its second year of punky goodness, and one band I’m the most pumpt (see note), I mean punked, to check out is The Dilrods. Yeah, you could call me biased since I played in a garage-punk band called The Rummies with The Dilrods’ bass player/vocalist/friend Bobby Rod, aka Robert Andresen, from 1999 to 2003...

  • Events Roundup: Blossoms, bands and brews

    Community celebration, live music, coffee tasting and gardening workshops lead this week’s curated list of area happenings

    By Inland 360

    There are more events like these from Inland 360’s free community events calendar at inland360.com/events. Asotin County master gardener Kathy Nelson will demonstrate the proper way to maintain garden tools, kicking off the Washington State University Master Gardener program’s annual Brown Bag Garden Series from noon to 1  p.m...

  • The Stream: In search of the ‘Fountain of Youth’

    A roundup of new movies, music, video games and television

    NEW YORK — Joe Jonas’ sophomore solo album “Work It Out” and John Krasinski and Natalie Portman searching for immortality in Guy Ritchie’s adventure movie “Fountain of Youth” are among 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: Paul Reubens shines in the documentary “Pee-wee as Himself,” Nicole Kidman returns as a shady wellness guru in “Nine Perfect Strangers” and Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping offers gamers a chance to test their de-duck-tive skills...

  • Cult Corner: The wild, wide world of wrestling

    There’s a lot to choose from, from the local to international level

    By Will Thompson

    World Wrestling Entertainment, or WWE, has been the dominant force in pro wrestling for four decades now. Ask someone to name a pro wrestler, and there’s a 99% chance they’ll name someone associated with WWE: Stone Cold Steve Austin, The Rock, John Cena...

  • Movie review: Tom Cruise goes for broke in new ‘Mission: Impossible’

    By Lindsey Bahr

    Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt is getting a bit of a god complex. It’s not exactly his fault after defying death and completing impossible missions time and time again...

  • Book review: Existentialism gets intimate in ‘The Emperor of Gladness’

    By Donna Edwards

    Hai is 19 and suicidal. Grazina is 81 and living alone with dementia...