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NMSU and the Jazz Arts festival invited the Las Cruces community to kick off Juneteenth weekend

The community of Oildale saying a final farewell to the Trout's Nightclub. A long-time honkey-tonk and one of a few historic locations made famous by the Bakersfield Sound. From Merle Haggard to Tommy Hays, the stage of Trout’s once hosted them all.

I like a good truck-driving song.

I like a good truck-driving song.

This year’s theme is “Black to Black: Building Leadership, Advocacy, Community and Knowledge.”

Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Jerry Jeff Walker—and now Junior Brown? The former community college teacher is the latest outlaw to hijack Texas country music, and he may be the greatest.

THERE are 34 empty shops in Bishop Auckland’s Newgate Street – that’ll become 35 when Boots closes in April.

If a country music artist has any staying power, chances are that before they record their first “greatest hits” album, they’ve turned out a collection of

Ted Cruz blames Chick-fil-A sauce shortage on Biden — and Twitter cant tell whether hes kidding Posted By Sanford Nowlin on Thu, May 13, 2021 at 12:23 PM click to enlarge U.S. Sen Ted Cruzs itchy Twitter finger has confused some of his followers. U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz spews so much overheated hyperbole on Twitter that folks apparently had a hard ti...

Leamington and Tokoroa doctor Fred Simpson self-publishes second novel 24 Feb, 2021 06:25 PM 5 minutes to read Fred Simpson and his "co-writer", cat Henry. Photo / Danielle Zollickhofer Leamington and long-time Tokoroa GP Fred Simpson is known to many as their family doctor, but outside medicine he is just as passionate about writing - both poetry and prose. Still working part-time as a doctor, Fred has just self-published his second novel. The Sunflower and the Sparrow is a comic drama that fo...