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The Brothers Four: 60 Years...and Counting! There’s something special about The Brothers Four, but it’s in addition to their uniqueness and wholesomeness as family-oriented entertainers. The group has been on the  international stage since 1960, an achievement unto itself....but it’s more than that, too! Read on! Author: By Bill Bronk Picking a performer or group to write about can be a lot of fun (or not!). And fun was the operative word for a fan like me in researching and ...

Looks like everybody and their mum’s mum is packing some royal lineage around here. According to Bryce, growing up he thought he was destined for greatness: “My dad was going on about how I had the same cheek bones as my great, great, great grandfather. Allegedly this guy was the Lord Chancellor of Ireland and I didn’t know what that meant but I thought I was in line for some kind of throne,” reveals Bryce (displaying a fundamental misunderstanding of succession and Irish history). “...

Julie Banks Smith, 51, of Early, passed away Sunday, January 31, 2021. A Celebration of her life will be held at 2:00 PM, Saturday, February 6, 2021 in the Heartland Funeral Home Chapel.  The family has requested that masks be worn and social distancing be observed for everyone’s safety. Julie was born November 19, 1969 in Brownwood to John and Sandy Banks. She graduated as valedictorian from Blanket High School in 1987 and received an Associate degree from Cisco Junior college in computers....

30 Famous People You Didnt Know Were College Athletes By Sophia Crisafulli, Stacker News On 2/1/21 at 8:00 PM EST The level of fame afforded to celebrities and college athletes can, at times, seem quite comparable. At schools like the University of Florida or Ohio State where sports reign supreme and tailgates are the hottest event of the semester, the young men and women whose athletic abilities have earned them a spot on the team are campus stars. This setup, of course, also comes with com...

Monument Valley: Films Most Famous Backdrop Zach Bowman © Illustration: Eddie Guy. STILLS: TOP ROW, FROM LEFT: PARAMOUNT/COURTESY EVERETT COLLECTION, WARNER B... Hollywood has spent 80 years exporting images of this scrap of desert to every other corner of the planet. Of everyone who’s ever pointed a lens at America, director John Ford may have been the most influential in defining the image of the land we call home. Ford’s 1939 film Stagecoachforever tilted our views of ...

Julie Banks Smith, 51, of Early, passed away Sunday, January 31, 2021. A Celebration of her life will be held at 2:00 PM, Saturday, February 6, 2021 in the Heartland Funeral Home Chapel. The family has requested that masks be worn and social distancing be observed for everyone’s safety. Julie was born November 19, 1969 in Brownwood to John and Sandy Banks. She graduated as valedictorian from Blanket High School in 1987 and received an Associate degree from Cisco Junior college in computers. J...

Since travel has been restricted, Ive missed my frequent visits to the States, and its made me nostalgic for a road trip I took with my father through Oklahoma a few years ago. Its a place that echoes through my new novel Journey to the Heartland, which I wrote during lockdown. One of the southern states, Oklahoma is bordered by Texas to the south and west, and Kansas to the north, and is part of the Great Plains, which has shaped its history. We checked into the Ambassador, a 1920s boutique Ma...

Henry: Yeah, Im crazy about music, you play beautiful music, beautiful sounds. Beautiful. Man: Did you like music when you were young? Henry: Yes, yes, I went to big dances and things. Man: What was your favourite music when you were young? Henry: Cab Calloway was my number one band guy I liked. Man: What was your favourite Cab Calloway song? Henry: [Sings Ill be Home for Christmas] Lynne Malcolm: Thats from a documentary called Alive Inside, when a dementia patient called Henry is awakened fr...

OPINION: Left-Wing Media Wants Republicans Designated Terrorists I’m a Republican.  I drive a Chevy.  I’ve often been partial to Dodge.  I don’t put my hands on other people and I expect the same treatment (I borrowed that one from John Wayne’s character in the Shootist!).  I’ve never broken a window in greed or anger.  I was accidentally pushed against one while playing on my front porch when I was 14-years-old.  The glass shattered and sliced open the back of my shirt.  I wa...

Why this might not seem so easy Asked for a list of his favourite filmmakers, Orson Welles once replied, “I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford and John Ford… He’s a poet and a comedian. With Ford at his best you get a sense of what the earth is made of.” Born on 1 February 1894, in the dying days of the old west he’d soon become synonymous with chronicling on screen, Ford was the pre-eminent popular artist of 20th-century American cinema,...