More odds and ends from a life lived through the prism of the wine glass … Making the Muse (Follow-up) After I wrote about country and international varietal association marketing last week, I checked out Nielsen Scantrack wine sales data as presented in Wine Business Monthly. Sure enough, when you look at sales by dollar value by country – who is growing and who is not – you can...
Dance With Them That Brung You by digby Looks like Sarah Palin has disappointed some of her fans : She's making a big mistake. One of the most important things a country star does is cater to the fans. It's expected that they will stay for long hours and sign memorabilia and get their picture taken: Have you ever wondered why careers of country stars last a long, long time? The biggest reason, of...
“When you think of the world’s most prolific pot smokers, certain names come to mind: Snoop, Cheech and Chong, Willie Nelson. How about Irvin Rosenfeld? The 56-year-old Fort Lauderdale stockbroker will put his name among the greats when he sets a world record tomorrow for weed consumption while lighting up his 115,000th joint. The best [...]
Supergroups are never as mind-blowingly awesome as you think they’ll be. The Traveling Wilburys, for example, seemed like a good idea, what with the combination of George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty and Roy Orbison. But the music was largely terrible . Same basically goes for the Highwaymen, with Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson and Waylon Jennings: great on paper, disappointing...
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The Closer, starring Kyra Sedgwick, is my husband's favorite show. In the summer he goes to a neighbor's to watch it, so I don't see the episodes until they are reruns. Last Monday was "Smells like Murder" which I think is the fourth one that had Charlie (Sosie Bacon, her real life daughter) Brenda's rebellious, risk taking niece. In this episode there's a sub-lot about Charlie receiving...
From performing at the Grand Ole Opry to getting acknowledged by Willie Nelson, Miranda Lambert, Jimmy Wayne and others reveal their star-defining moment
I think we can all agree that Edge of Darkness was a fine bit of television – perhaps even a straight-up masterpiece – and a superb evocation of grief, with some of its best scenes to be found in the aftermath of the murder of Emma, played by Joanne Whalley. Perhaps its most famous scene – and the one that still perplexes me some 24 years on, hence this post – involves Ronald...
Click here to download TV listings for the week of Nov. 15 - 21 in PDF format This week's TV Movies Willie and the Wheel: Willie Nelson and Asleep at the Wheel celebrate their collaborative effort "Austin City Limits" at...
As the cold remnants of Hurricane Ida drenched the Mid-Atlantic, a few intrepid souls left the quotidian comforts of home to gather at the Black Cat for three sets of warm acoustic bluesfolk from Mimicking Birds , The Low Anthem , and headliners Blind Pilot . The lineup was assembled from across the US—the first and final hailing from Portland, OR, the median from Providence, RI. The main stage...
Barbara Mandrell I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool Lyrics & Music Video As if to prove the boast of the title, this tribute is filled with musicians with a stronger country pedigree than Mandrell ever had -- newcomers like Terri Clark, Brad Paisley, Blaine Larsen, Gretchen Wilson, and Dierks Bentley, who all have a harder country background than Barbara. Combine this with a couple of legendary
Barbara Mandrell I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool Lyrics & Music Video As if to prove the boast of the title, this tribute is filled with musicians with a stronger country pedigree than Mandrell ever had -- newcomers like Terri Clark, Brad Paisley, Blaine Larsen, Gretchen Wilson, and Dierks Bentley, who all have a harder country background than Barbara. Combine this with a couple of legendary
Zombieland is an American zombie comedy horror film, written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick and directed by Ruben Fleischer. The film stars Woody Harrelson , Jesse Eisenberg , Emma Stone , and Abigail Breslin as survivors of a zombie apocalypse. Distributed by Columbia Pictures, Zombieland was released on October 2, 2009 in the USA and Canada. The film is rated R for horror violence/gore and language.
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