The Town of Wartrace and the Wartrace Chamber of Commerce presents the ninth-annual Wartrace MusicFest from 4-11 p.m. Saturday June 8, 2013, at the Wartrace Horse Show Grounds, 112 Bridgeview Ave., Wartrace, Tenn. The event is a non-profit effort to benefit civic improvements for the Town of Wartrace, including park benches, trash receptacles and street [...]
Very few writers have as intimate a relationship with their subject matter as crime-novelist Andrew Vachss. A crime-fiction novelist, Vachss’s career spans four decades, pulling in his true-to-life experiences as an attorney, child-protection consultant and animal advocate. Perhaps best known for authoring The Burke Series, Vachss has written 25 books and has also penned songs, poetry, [...]
I’ve yet to see a show at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center that didn’t leave me spellbound. Those folks pull out all of the stops when it comes to entertaining an audience, and leaving the show-goers satisfied and beaming as they walk out the door. So when I read that their end to the 2012-2013 [...]
The Murfreesboro area certainly has no shortage of Mexican restaurants (or Mexican-themed, or Tex-Mex, or chip-and-salsa shacks … call them what you will, you know what I’m talking about). Every few years, as the city expands and new strip malls and neighborhoods are constructed, a new one will open to service the area with that [...]
Magicians love a full house. The Middle Tennessee Magic Club, also known as “The Sam Walkoff Ring,” is looking for just that at the Razzle Dazzle Magic Show XXII. The performance is being held at 7:02 p.m. on Friday, May 3, and Saturday, May 4, at the Murfreesboro Center for the Arts. All the club’s [...]
The Pocket Gallery at Moxie Art Supply is pleased to announce its inaugural exhibition: ¡Viva Las Luchadores! This show features new paintings by Murfreesboro artist Art Growden. The work will showcase a variety of “luchadores” or Mexican wrestlers. The vivid paintings celebrate the bombastic nature of the sport as well as the culture from which [...]
It’s strawberry time in Tennessee! The sweet little guys typically turn red the first week of May, and only have a few weeks to grow, so grab some while they’re fresh. And if your impression of strawberries is the large, flavorless, crunchy, dry, imported items with a large white core from the big grocery stores, [...]
Heidi (Sheri Moon Zombie), a radio personality in Salem, Mass., with a rocky drug-filled past, is delivered a mysterious vinyl record, one that, when played, unleashes a host of demonic apparitions that began to tear Heidi down to her core. Meanwhile, Francis, a local town historian (played by Bruce Davison) who’s interviewed on Heidi’s show [...]
