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

Our new events calendar continues to grow as organizers add their listings online each day. You can explore more arts and entertainment options at inland360.com/events, where you also can upload your own coming events...

When the crisp autumn air settles in, you know it’s Thanksgiving time. A day meant for connection, gratitude and togetherness, this holiday invites you to trade in the glow of your screens for the warmth of family gatherings around your Thanksgiving table...

Soundtrack released for new movie, as well as other music, TV shows and movies to stream

Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo teaming up for the soundtrack to the coming movie “Wicked” and a TV series based on the 1999 film “Cruel Intentions” are some of the new music, television, films and games headed to a device near you. Also among the streaming offerings worth your time as selected by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists: season three of Max’s “The Sex Lives of College Girls,” Denzel Washington’s son Malcolm directing August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson” for Netflix and the animated tale in “Spellbound” with a heroine voiced by Rachel Zegler...

Ridley Scott’s 2000 sword-and-sandal epic “Gladiator” closed on a memorable shot that became an indelible image associated with the film: star Russell Crowe’s hands, callused and battle-worn, softly caressing strands of wheat, as the spirit of his character Maximus makes his way home in the afterlife. Scott references this peaceful image in the opening of his sequel, “Gladiator II.” Rough, thick hands, toughened by farming and fighting, plunge into a sack of harvested grain, feeling the fruits of their labor...

In December, 1970, Walt Longmire, back in the United States after fighting in Vietnam, was working security for an oil company on Alaska’s North Slope. There, he found himself battling predators, both animal and human, in brutal weather conditions...