Quick trips: Nashville (Miami Herald)
On any given night, country music flows from the honky tonk bars on Broadway Avenue in Nashville. Tucked between Fourth and Fifth Avenues, Honky Tonk Row is a tightly-packed block of hole-in-the-wall joints where men and women with wide-brimmed cowboy hats and shiny boots play their hearts out in a haze of cigarette smoke and neon lights.
HeatWave Articles (Arizona Daily Wildcat)
Ranching is a long-forgotten way of life for many Arizonans. Rodeos are mere remnants of what once constructed the area's economic backbone, and cowboy hats are more indicative of fashion than of an actual lifestyle.
PrideFest wedding ceremony celebrates unity, love (Colorado Springs Gazette)
They wore formal dresses and Technicolor tank tops; a pink lace-up corset and straw cowboy hats. All wore smiles. Many were smiling through tears.
Obit: Hat shop owner and inventor Maurice Silver (Houston Chronicle)
The haberdasher who changed the Western-wear business by developing a water-resistant straw hat has died at 81.
Friends golf in every state to raise money for cancer (The World)
KAPOLEI, Hawaii — Nine-hundred holes, 2,000 golf balls, four bottles of sunscreen — Bill Evans and Craig Forney on Tuesday completed their grueling 50-day, cross-country golfing odyssey.
My big fat music weekend (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
This weekend rocks and rolls through six days, beginning tonight and extending through Tuesday, making it the most concentrated, most diverse and most satisfying lineup of the year.
Madonna tones fashion to darn-near nondescript (The Charlotte Observer)
If you've been reading between the lines in the coverage of Madonna and Alex Rodriguez, you might be inclined to believe that the pop star is not to blame for the breakup of the baseball player's marriage. And if you have noticed the images of Madonna that have blanketed the news, dominated by a photograph taken in May at the Cannes Film Festival showing her in a pink silk Stella McCartney ...
Cowgirls Add Glitz to Rodeo (KBTX 3 Bryan - College Station)
They rode in this weekends Lions Club Pro rodeo at the Brazos County Expo Complex. Along with the cowboy hats, boots and wranglers, they were also wearing plenty of rhinestones, make-up, and hair spray. The Catalena Cowgirls perform in rodeos across the United States. If you didn't get to see them this weekend, Ashlea Sigman has look at what you missed.
News briefs (The Marion Sentinel)
Find out what's happening in Marion, Mattapoisett, Rochester and surronding towns.
Soundbites (Tucson Weekly)
Little bits of music strung together haphazardly.
