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AMC is introducing huge Wednesday ticket discounts. Will it increase attendance?

May 18, 2025, 6:00am Business

As the box office improves, will a steep discount on tickets bring more people to the multiplex this summer? Read story

This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows a scene from “Final Destination Bloodlines.” (Warner Bros.

Movie review: ‘Final Destination: Bloodlines’ reinvigorates horror franchise

This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows a scene from “Final Destination Bloodlines.” (Warner Bros.

May 18, 2025, 6:00am Entertainment

Debuting on the eve of the millennium in the year 2000, the “Final Destination” franchise gave a generation of millennials some very specific phobias, including lumber trucks, airplane tray tables (a friend still checks hers before every flight to this day), lawn mowers, shower curtains, roller coasters, etc. By weaponizing… Read story

Jamie Lee Curtis arrives on the red carpet at the 96th Annual Academy Awards in Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood on March 10, 2024.

Jamie Lee Curtis just wanted an AI ad removed, not to become the ‘poster child of internet fakery’

Jamie Lee Curtis arrives on the red carpet at the 96th Annual Academy Awards in Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood on March 10, 2024.

May 18, 2025, 5:53am Business

Jamie Lee Curtis didn’t expect to be at the forefront of the artificial intelligence debate in Hollywood. But she didn’t have a choice. Read story

Linda Perry attends the  2024 MusiCares Person of the Year honoring Jon Bon Jovi at Los Angeles Convention Center on Feb. 2, 2024, in Los Angeles.

Q&A: Linda Perry revs up with 4 Non Blondes reunion, new film and solo album

Linda Perry attends the  2024 MusiCares Person of the Year honoring Jon Bon Jovi at Los Angeles Convention Center on Feb. 2, 2024, in Los Angeles.

May 18, 2025, 5:50am Entertainment

As her reunited band 4 Non Blondes prepares to kick off its first run of concert dates since 1994 at this weekend’s Wonderfront Music & Arts Festival in San Diego, Linda Perry has at least two messages for fans hoping to hear the group perform all the songs from its… Read story

Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt in “Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning.” (Paramount Pictures and Skydance/TNS)

Movie review: Tom Cruise puts it all on the line in ‘Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’

Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt in “Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning.” (Paramount Pictures and Skydance/TNS)

May 18, 2025, 5:47am Entertainment

The clock has run out on Ethan Hunt. Then again, Tom Cruise seems to do almost everything like he’s running out of time. After three decades and eight films, everything that star/producer Cruise has left on his “Mission: Impossible” bucket list comes down to this. Every jaw-dropping stunt, every unexplored… Read story

Yosemite National Park won’t be opening its coveted High Sierra Camps this year. Here’s why

May 18, 2025, 5:29am Life

The highly coveted High Sierra Camps in Yosemite National Park that have been closed since 2018 will remain closed this summer because potable water and toilets won’t be available, according to park officials. Read story

Anglers display a fine catch of walleye taken in the Columbia. Guides and locals say the walleye fishing this year has been phenomenal with weeks of good fishing to come.

Walleye fishing is going gangbusters in Columbia River

Anglers display a fine catch of walleye taken in the Columbia. Guides and locals say the walleye fishing this year has been phenomenal with weeks of good fishing to come.

May 17, 2025, 6:13am Clark County Life

Walleye fishing has been nothing short of phenomenal in The Dalles and John Day Pools of the Columbia River. Read story

Gardeners love native mason bees, which are solitary and nonaggressive.

Shoo fly: Invasive Houdini flies have found their way to Clark County, threatening mason bees

Gardeners love native mason bees, which are solitary and nonaggressive.

May 17, 2025, 6:12am Clark County Life

Gardeners love mason bees, the nonaggressive, super-pollinator cousins of the honey bee. It’s easy to find adorable mason bee “hotels” with stacked, bee-sized nesting tubes hanging in yards around Clark County, where busy mason bees can lay their eggs for next spring’s generation. Read story

Lynne Schroeder records on her phone while a phonograph plays an antique record featuring her mother playing accordion at the home of Beth Webber in Vancouver on Saturday, May 12, 2018.

The Columbian’s ‘Everybody Has a Story’ has been telling readers’ tales for more than 20 years

Lynne Schroeder records on her phone while a phonograph plays an antique record featuring her mother playing accordion at the home of Beth Webber in Vancouver on Saturday, May 12, 2018.

May 17, 2025, 6:12am Clark County Life

We still believe it’s true. Everybody really does have a story. Read story

Mount St. Helens Institute’s youth education programs reached 2,203 students in 2024, according to the nonprofit’s annual report. (Contributed by Mount St.

‘A unique and powerful story’: Despite cuts, Mount St. Helens Institute committed to providing educational resources to visitors

Mount St. Helens Institute’s youth education programs reached 2,203 students in 2024, according to the nonprofit’s annual report. (Contributed by Mount St.

May 17, 2025, 6:12am Clark County Life

Since 1996, scientists, researchers, staff and volunteers at Mount St. Helens Institute have been working to educate students and visitors about the mountain’s unique volcanic landscape. Despite recent staffing and budget cuts at the U.S. Forest Service, which oversees management and operations of the national monument, the institute remains committed… Read story