Mickey Gilley, the smooth-voiced, piano-playing country crooner who helped popularize the “Urban Cowboy” movement of the Eighties, died Saturday in Branson, Missouri. He was 86. Gilley’s publicist confirmed the singer’s death. While Gilley had a run of success in the Seventies singing barroom-piano country ballads and rave-ups like “Room Full of Roses” and “Don’t the
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Today’s Featured Deals In Case You Missed Yesterday’s Most Popular Deals Previous Daily Deals Disappearance at Devil’s Rock by Paul Tremblay for $1.99 My Soul to Keep by Tananarive Due for $1.99 The Great Passage by Shion Miura, trans. by Juliet Winters Carpenter for $1.99 A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor by Hank Green for $1.99 When Sparks
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DC-area novelist Kimberly Greer has won a 2021 Incipere Award for women’s fiction. Her debut novel, “Masked Intent: A Modern-Day Morality Play,”was released in Sept. 2021 and is set in the Washington, DC,suburb of Brambleton, Virginia. The Incipere Awards, sponsored by Entrada Publishing, recognize exceptional writing across multiple genres with particular focus on works that
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Every week, The Boot highlights recent favorites from country, Americana, folk and everything in between. In every list, you’ll find picks from our contributing team that we think you’ll love. Keep reading to check out the latest installment of The Boot’s Weekly Picks. Angel Olsen “Big Time” Angel Olsen fully embraces country music — something she’s flirted with
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Refresh for updates Disney/Marvel’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness racked up $36M from previews that began at 3PM. That’s the tkk best preview during the pandemic. Critical reviews for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness have settled at 77% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, which is lower than the first movie’s 89% Certified fresh, and significantly
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One of the excavated stoneholes. CREDIT: Aerial-Cam, A Stanford Recent research has potentially identified an intriguing new connection between Stonehenge and a partially dismantled stone circle in south-west Wales – furthering the connection between these two areas during the Neolithic period. Previous work on the origins of Stonehenge’s smaller stones, known as ‘bluestones’, has provided
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Chappelle addressed the incident during an impromptu set at The Comedy Store. By Grant Rindner May 6, 2022 Dave Chappelle speaks during the 36th Annual Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony at Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse on October 30, 2021 in Cleveland, Ohio. Courtesy of Kevin Mazur via Getty Images. It didn’t take Dave Chappelle
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The Summer I Turned Pretty will fill the To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before-shaped hole in your heart. The YA novel by Jenny Han, actually published years before her TATBILB series, is being adapted into a series on Prime Video. A perfect binge for the warmer months, the romance follows a girl named Belly
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If Keith Urban pushed the boundaries of country music with his 2013 album Fuse, the country superstar broke straight through them like the Kool-Aid Man with 2016’s Ripcord. Urban’s ninth solo studio album, the record was released six years ago today, on May 6, 2016. Both Ripcord‘s lead single, “John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16,” and its second release, “Break
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