Yearly Archives: 2026

This may be the ultimate example of free will. All big cities have to deal with rat problems to some extent. But generally, everybody does their best to try to limit the presence of the rodents instead of attracting them. That’s apparently the problem the city of Chicago is dealing with (along with plenty of others) after a Chicago billionaire won’t stop paying people to spread expensive nuts around one of the city’s most popular neighborhoods. It all started when […]

The post A Billionaire In Chicago Won’t Stop Paying People To Feed Expensive Nuts To Rats & Nobody Knows Why first appeared on Whiskey Riff.

A Florida woman allegedly shot a storage facility manager after being told she could not sleep in a storage unit. 

The post Florida Woman Allegedly Shoots Storage Manager After Being Told She Can’t Sleep There appeared first on Wide Open Country.

The “Pretty Little Liars” star said on social media that he is still recovering from an alleged assault in West Hollywood last week. 

The post ‘Pretty Little Liars’ Star Shares Hospital Photo and Recovery Update After Armed Robbery appeared first on Wide Open Country.

At least 11 people have been killed, and 27 are injured following a horrific bus crash in Turkey. Al Jazeera and Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported that the deadly crash took place just after 11 a.m. local time on Sunday, Oct. 11, on the country’s Gebze-Orhangazi-Izmir highway. According to the outlets, the bus overturned after it […]

The post At Least 11 Dead, 27 Injured After Tourist Bus Collides With Truck on Highway appeared first on Wide Open Country.

What strangely went under-reported is that on Thursday (10-8), Musgraves stopped into Austin’s famed honky-tonk The White Horse to play a surprise intimate show for the two-stepping crowd, reprising a bunch of old school country covers.

The post Kacey Musgraves Just Wanted Fans to Two-Step at Surprise White Horse Show first appeared on Saving Country Music.

Paula Boggs Band’s “Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me ’Round” is a contemporary roots/Americana interpretation of the traditional spiritual that became an enduring Civil Rights Movement freedom anthem. The recording features The Blind Boys of Alabama and Valerie June, bringing together gospel,

CattSue — Heartstrings and Highways There are records that document where an artist has been, and there are records that seem to carry the people who traveled there with them. CattSue’s Heartstrings and Highways belongs firmly in the latter category. Across 11 songs, the singer-songwriter turns family history, grief, motherhood, romantic devotion, survival and hard-earned […]

The post REVIEW: CattSue “Heartstrings and Highways” appeared first on Americana Highways.

The name Ranky Tanky can be loosely translated as “get funky” in Gullah (which is the name of both the dialect and the sea island people of West African descent who speak it).

John Prine was born October 10, 1946. This year he would have turned 80 years old, and the Prine Family and Hello in There Foundation decided to do something special: bring the celebration back to John’s original home in Chicago.

The post 80 Years of John Prine Celebrated in Chicago first appeared on Saving Country Music.

The third single from her record, “Binnorie,” releasing the October 30 on Adhyâropa Records (and featured on Fresh Cuts), “Greenwood Sidie-o” is a perfect October song.

The post Video Premiere: Louise Bichan’s “Greenwood Sidie-o” ft. Kris Drever appeared first on Folk Alley.