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Dispute closes rapper's restaurant
CLINTON, Iowa (AP) - A fried chicken restaurant in Iowa founded by Flavor Flav has abruptly closed its doors after the reality TV star and his business partner cut ties and exchanged harsh words.
'Restrepo' director Hetherington killed in Libya
NEW YORK - In "Restrepo," his searing, Oscar-nominated documentary about a U.S. platoon in Afghanistan, Tim Hetherington achieved what every war filmmaker aspires to: bringing the viewer painfully close to the raw …
Entertainment Briefs for April 22, 2011
NIC students to exhibit artwork
Barrage coming to CHS
COEUR d'ALENE - Barrage, a high-octane string group that features an eclectic mix of music, song and dance will perform at Coeur d'Alene High School on May 11 at 7 p.m.
Library to host 'Bookers Dozen' exhibit in May
COEUR d'ALENE - The Coeur d'Alene Public Library, 702 E. Front Ave., will host "Bookers Dozen 2011," a traveling exhibit from the Idaho Center for the Book at Boise State University, May 1-29.
Did I hear a Scream?
When I found out they were making a fourth Scream movie, my first thought was: Why?
Life's Story
It's not unusual for Sue Hill Crowley's students to cry in class. Yet, the North Idaho College instructor thinks that she is the luckiest teacher in the world.…
The write stuff
Our local writers have been busy. You continue to give us what we asked for, your verse, your rhymes, and prose. We like that.
Saving Bambi Arts Briefs
SANDPOINT - The unusual path that Dory McIsaac walks today didn't wait to be chosen, it strolled into her backyard and proceeded to take over her life.
Egan wins fiction Pulitzer Prize
NEW YORK - Jennifer Egan's inventive novel about the passage of time, "A Visit from the Goon Squad," won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction Monday, honored for its "big-hearted curiosity about cultural change at warp s…
New York mansion linked to 'Great Gatsby' being razed
SANDS POINT, N.Y. - A 25-room Long Island mansion that some believe inspired F. Scott Fitzgerald's portrayal of lavish lifestyles in his Jazz Age classic "The …
Film fans head for 'Rio,' shrug over new 'Scream'
LOS ANGELES - Movie fans are going to "Rio" in big numbers, but they're not quite screaming over the latest installment of a horror-comedy franchise.
'Paul Bunyan in a kilt'
SHARON SPRINGS, N.Y. - It sounds like the breathless plot of a zany sitcom: Manhattan adman who moonlights as a drag queen trades high heels for barn boots to raise goats and purple tomatoes with his life partner, …
Grandparent scam foiled
HAYDEN - It sounded like her grandson on the other end of the phone call Wednesday morning.
DanceFest returns Saturday
COEUR d'ALENE - Pick a style, any style.