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Rehearsing a scene from ‘Southern Hospitality’ are CAST members (standing, left to right): Debby Mathews as ‘Geneva Musgrave,’ Debbie Tyson as ‘Honey Raye Futrelle,’ Lolly Payne as ‘Rhonda Lynn Lampley,’ Denise Davis as ‘Twink Futrelle,’ Mike Crosby as ‘John Curtis Buntner,’ Mike Stedham as ‘Dub Dubberly,’ Michelle Deese as ‘Frankie Futrelle Dubberly,’ Erin Mahaffey as ‘Gina Jo Waverly’ and Linda Lee as ‘Iney Dubberly.’ Kneeling, center is Glenn Davenport as ‘Justin Waverly.’ ‘Southern Hospitality’ opened Thursday and will run through Feb. 14. Photo: Trent Penny/The Anniston Star
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Fayro, Texas, is the scene. It’s a town sort of like ours — small, Southern, desperately in need of funds. To the rescue — of Fayro, not Anniston — are the Futrelle sisters, who have made it their duty to save the town by having, among other moneymaking ventures, a Civil War re-enactment to impress a rich prospector.
Book review: Too Much Happiness
There doesn’t appear to be all that much happiness in the new collection of 10 stories, Too much Happiness from Alice Munro, the winner of this year’s Man Booker International Prize.
There doesn’t appear to be all that much happiness in the new collection of 10 stories, Too much Happiness from Alice Munro, the winner of this year’s Man Booker International Prize.
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Artists in Action: Southern literature highlighted with On the Brink
Plantations and mansions may crumble over time, and traditions may change. But the stories Southerners write will survive. As we turn the pages of these books, we are looking at our own experience.
Plantations and mansions may crumble over time, and traditions may change. But the stories Southerners write will survive. As we turn the pages of these books, we are looking at our own experience.
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Book review: Don’t Make Me Choose Between You and My Shoes
They say everything’s bigger in Texas — the hair, the belt buckles, the drama. Edwina Perkins-Martin and Debbie Sue Overstreet, the hairdressing diva duo known as the Domestic Equalizers, have all three and then some.
They say everything’s bigger in Texas — the hair, the belt buckles, the drama. Edwina Perkins-Martin and Debbie Sue Overstreet, the hairdressing diva duo known as the Domestic Equalizers, have all three and then some.
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Donahue’s unique quilts on display at Art WorksThose who work at and operate Art Works Gallery on Noble Street admit that lifelong residents will sometimes find their gallery for the first time later in their lives, wishing they had earlier. But Betty Donahue, relatively new to the area, will be well acquainted with the place after the next few months.
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Bran Strickland: As they try to escape the island, sleep escaping me
In the first two years after your death, you catch up on all the sleep you missed during your life. I can’t remember who shared that nugget of wisdom, but it’s a theory that I live my life by. It’s one that I’ve really lived my life by lately.
In the first two years after your death, you catch up on all the sleep you missed during your life. I can’t remember who shared that nugget of wisdom, but it’s a theory that I live my life by. It’s one that I’ve really lived my life by lately.
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List of 82nd annual Academy Award nominations
Complete list of 82nd Annual Academy Award nominations announced Tuesday:
Complete list of 82nd Annual Academy Award nominations announced Tuesday:
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I was right there, within a pick axe of scaling my Lost mountain top. About 10 minutes before the end of the final episode of Season 4, I could have stopped this life-robbing marathon. The neat little bow — the must-have for all endings in my life — was affixed there, pretty as you please.
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Few birds have gone extinct faster than the Labrador Duck. Anas labradoria (the duck's original scientific name) was first spotted by Europeans in eastern Canada in 1792. Less than one hundred years later, the duck was extinct. In 1875, hunters shot the last known Labrador Duck at its wintering grounds on Long Island, N.Y.
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The majority of Alexander McCall Smith's previous novels have been mere installments in various sagas, including the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series. This time around, however, Smith seems to have crafted a novel that truly stands on its own.
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Your guide to local arts and entertainment for the week of January 29, 2010.
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OXFORD — With the Moscow State Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Knox Concert Series isn't just bringing music and culture to Anniston. It's also hoping to spark an interest in classical music with area youths.
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David Malouf is surely Australia's greatest living writer. It's been over a decade since The Conversations at Curlew Creek, his last novel, stunned the reader at every turn in its attempts to understand the barren Australian landscape. The characters of that novel are subtly channeled in Ransom, a shorter and equally humane novel that traverses a decidedly different landscape.
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Some people are born with natural talents and abilities. We hear about young children excelling in calculus, dance and piano. Olympic athletes often have been practicing and competing in their respective sports from a very young age. Nicola Keegan's novel, Swimming, is such a tale — it's the story of a Kansas-born Catholic girl who learned to swim at the ripe age of nine months.
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Those of you who follow this column know I don't have much tolerance for tedious gameplay or games with flashy marketing. Assassin's Creed II, the overrated follow-up to the overrated Assassin's Creed, has both. I wish I could say I spent lots of time playing this game. I spent about an hour cursing at it, laughing at its haphazard plot and tossing it a bone for nice costume design.
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