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Cinco de Mayo (the fifth of May) is a perfect time to celebrate Mexican food and culture. Eastern and central Washington, and much of Idaho, are blessed with many Mexican restaurants, bakeries, taquerias and mobile food vendors. Please visit them and enjoy their excellent food, service and festive music. Experience these cultural treasures during Cinco de Mayo and year-round.

On the first Friday of May, schools around the country celebrate School Lunch Hero Day. This national holiday is when students and other school staff can say an extra special “thank you” to their nutrition staff members.

Riverfront Park’s newest art piece, the Stepwell, will be transformed from May 3-19 into a speakeasy ... from 1974.

SEATTLE – Misshapen, patchy and frankly blobby, the celeriac drew Becky Selengut like a gray-green magnet.

Dear Annie: I had been in a wonderful relationship with an incredible woman for two years and 10 months. She recently broke up with me because I had not discussed my personal finances with her.

Dear Doctors: I can’t stop thinking about what my doctor said when I got my flu shot last fall. I’m a 55-year-old man, and I have a history of high blood pressure. He said the flu shot will give me extra protection against having a heart attack. What is the connection?

James Holzhauer is returning to the “Jeopardy!” stage this week.

Dear Annie: The recent letter about giving children experiences instead of things really struck a chord. When the writer said, “One of the most beautiful sounds in the world is the laughter of a child. You can almost hear their brain enjoying life,” it nearly brought me to tears.

NEW YORK — (S)he’s ba-a-a-ck — and it’s all for a good cause! Ex-Rep. George Santos on Monday is reviving his long-hidden drag queen persona for what he claims is a charity fundraising effort after the collapse of his political career. The disgraced former lawmaker tweeted that he will record personalized short videos using the cross-dressing alter ego that he abandoned nearly two decades ago, ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: It’s nearing that time again: time for the ridiculous show of kindergarten “graduations.” I generally decline invitations to any such events, but this year I have a grandniece “graduating” who lives in the same town I do.

A stained glass piece titled “Ometz” and a drawing called “Path of Hope” are the winners of this year’s Jessica Stein Memorial Art Contest.

Like for many, pandemic-era closures were hard on author Eileen Garvin.

Next season’s Spokane Symphony calendar includes classics like “Rhapsody in Blue,” Joseph Haydn’s “Creation,” Beethoven classics and new ventures, like a TikTok-famous conductor, a 2024 Grammy-award winning song and artificial intelligence experimentation.

Creating a great man cave takes some planning. There are some things you definitely won’t forget – like the biggest TV your space can handle – but there are also things you want to remember – like a pool table or kegorator.

Dear Annie: I’m struggling badly with something that occurred over a week and a half ago. I’m a mom. My son is 15. I’ve been dating a man for two years now, but I’ve known him for more than six. He has no kids and has always expressed his interest in becoming a dad.

The spirit of Christopher Guest’s mockumentary “Best in Show” (2000) will forever haunt any work focused on the captivatingly odd phenomenon of the dog show. It looms especially large over “Dogland: Passion, Glory, and Lots of Slobber at the Westminster Dog Show,” with its cover design that could be a still from the comedy: The bespangled figure of a handler appears from the torso down, faceless and paired with what you’d swear is an especially hirsute yeti – but is actually an Afghan hound. One might assume the contents will bear a strong affinity to Guest’s less-than-kind rendering of the sorts of people who inhabit the insular world of canine competition.

Lawyers for Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs are fighting to dismiss claims raised in a sexual assault lawsuit brought against the music mogul, arguing that he can’t be sued under laws that didn’t exist at the time of the alleged incident.

Flower pots, they are not. But Stephen Procter’s large stoneware garden vessels, some as tall as 5 feet and incorporating 250 pounds of clay, are nevertheless functional pottery – even without the soil and the plants.