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NIKKI LANE IS ALL-IN Wednesday, December 10, 2014
‘Country as shit’ and proudly salt of the earth, Lane is riding high on songs about heartbreak, whiskey and scoring strange
The Big Easy’s finest ambassador plays the Ritz Theatre Dec. 13
OUR 5 FAVORITE DIRTY HOLIDAY DITTIES Wednesday, December 10, 2014
The John Waters one is definitely NSFW
Northeast Florida artist Mac Truque has gone through quite a transformation 
 in the last few years. At 40, the multifaceted painter has focused on balancing that artistic life with parenthood's pragmatic realities, looking to create a stable …
This time of year brings a lot of hurt
TMI Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Kansas lawyer Dennis Hawver was disbarred in November for his comically bad (24 separate deficiencies) defense of double-murder suspect Phillip Cheatham in 2005 (Cheatham got a new trial). Hawver admitted to the jury his client was a "shooter of …
NAMES IN THE NEWS Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Arrested in November in Gainesville, Florida, on sexual assault charges but exonerated three days later when accuser Jeremy Foster was caught lying: Mr. Phuc Kieu, 58. Arrested in October for burglary of a Kohl's department store in Alhambra, …
THE CREATIVE CLASS Wednesday, December 10, 2014
To spark interest in the new leisure center opening in spring 2015 in Selby in North Yorkshire, England, the management company WLCT sponsored a contest to name the center, with the prize a year's free membership. On Nov. 5, General Manager Paul …
SCARY 'BAMA SCHOOLS Wednesday, December 10, 2014
In October, a mother charged that officials at E.R. Dickson School in Mobile, Alabama, first detained her daughter, 5, for pointing a crayon at student as if it were a gun, then pressured the girl to sign a paper promising not to kill anyone or …
AIM … FIRE! OOPSIE Wednesday, December 10, 2014
A West Briton newspaper reported in October that a darts team, composed of blind men, was ready for its inaugural match at an inn in Grampound, England, sponsored by St. Austell Bay Rotary Club. The inn's landlord acknowledged the game-room door …