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Chip Taylor, the man who crafted memorable hits like “Angel of the Morning” by Juice Newton, plus “Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)” by Janis Joplin, has died at the age of 86. Perhaps his biggest success was The Troggs’ weirdly wacky track, “Wild Thing.” (It’s a glorious mashup of 1960s novelty song and surreal […]

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It looked like a scene straight out of Reacher, the hit Prime Video drama starring Alan Ritchson.  We reported yesterday about an incident involving Ritchson and his neighbor. The actor was riding his green Kawasaki bike near his home in the quiet Nashville suburb of Brentwood with his children when a neighbor confronted him about the noise.  After […]

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Lainey Wilson is at the peak of her singing career. She has major awards aplenty to prove the point. As is the case with many legendary singers like Lady Gaga, Barbra Streisand, Whitney Houston, Elvis Presley, and more, she is branching out into acting. Acting and singing are not that far apart. Both involve storytelling. […]

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The Utah Jazz has started this tradition, and it’s now in its third year of operation. This isn’t the only initiative they’ve funded, either.

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