Entries for the 'entertainment' Category

Blue and green laser lights wash over the Fayetteville crowd at a dimly lit George’s Majestic Lounge. Craig Strickland, one of the lead vocalists for the local band Backroad Anthem, works the crowd into a frenzy as he moves around the stage singing their amped up remix ...

A college buddy of mine turned me on to these guys a while back. The first time I heard this album, I remember thinking that Alabama Shakes is probably what would have happened if Lynard Skynard and Tina Turner created a music baby...

Elizabeth Strout, the Pulitzer prize winner of Olive Kitteredge, has once again won the lottery with her new book. Set in Maine and New York, it tells the story of the Burgess family from Shirley Falls, Maine...

I want to shout it from the rooftops: Read this book! It will restore your faith in your family, your neighbors, and your community. It will make you wish you lived in Holt, Colorado, a place where you could know these people...

Matt Cooper needed a change. Having cut his teeth as a singer/songwriter, he wanted to create music that sounded organic and get people stomping and clapping. A folk band seemed like the way to go...

Fayetteville’s Randall Shreve is one of the most unique and innovative musical artists in the state. His raucous “cabaret rock” has garnered fervent followers who call themselves...

This novel is set in 1988 and takes place on an Indian Reservation in North Dakota. Only if a crime is committed on Indian land by an Indian does Indian justice prevail.

Hipsters love to the throw the term “dad rock” around as a way to disparage mature music with strong songwriting and little pretense. Could Isaac Alexander be classified as “dad rock"...

On the cover of this book are four photographs, each containing the picture of a pretty mother and a young boy around six. They look happy enough, but are they? In this memoir...