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Healthy Fats Believe It or Not Are you afraid of fats? Most people are due to the recent hype of low fat advertising on food labels and packaging that has people looking for other things when getting food. “Low fat” and “fat free” have become standard on many food packages and most think by consuming […]

GLUTEN FREE WINES Wondering about gluten free wine? There are a wide variety of reasons you may be avoiding gluten, from wheat allergies to Celiac disease. If you are avoiding wheat and gluten, you may be worried that you will have to give up your wine drinking options. However, there is wine available that you […]

Natura Organic Wine // Old Vine Zinfandel In this review, I’m going to cover three Natura Organic wines.  Consider it a 3 for 1 review! These three wines from Natura come from the Emiliana Organic Vineyards in Chile. Emiliana’s Natura wines are said to only come from organically farmed estate vineyards in the best wine […]

MOVIE REVIEW OF ”THE HIGHWAYMAN” “Blind Side” director John Lee Hancock’s authentic, Depression Era, road-trip, manhunt thriller “The Highwaymen” (*** OUT OF ****), co-starring Oscar winning actor Kevin Costner and Oscar nominated Woody Harrelson, serves as the flipside of the classic Warner Brothers’ gangster epic “Bonnie & Clyde” (1967), with Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty. […]

“Big Kill” Movie Review Freshman writer & director Scott Martin trots out every cliché for his western shoot’em up “Big Kill” (**1/2 OUT OF ****), co-starring Jason Patric of “Sleepers” and Lou Diamond Phillips of “Young Guns” as the truculent hooligans who menace our heroes.  If you enjoy westerns, you’ll know which westerns inspired Martin […]

MOVIE REVIEW OF ”THE STANDOFF AT SPARROW CREEK” The title of writer & director Henry Dunham’s feature film debut “The Standoff at Sparrow Creek” (*** OUT OF ****) is reminiscent of the classic John Sturges paranoid conspiracy thriller “Bad Day at Black Rock” (1955) with its alliterative title.  Initially, “Militia” served as the preproduction title, […]

FILM REVIEW OF ”FIGHTING WITH MY FAMILY” Although Dwayne ‘the Rock’ Johnson gets top billing in British writer & director Steven Merchants’ amusing but insightful wrestling biography “Fighting with My Family” (**** OUT OF ****), he spends most of its 108 minutes off screen.  In other words, if you’re going to watch another of the […]

Zac Brown Band Talks About There New Tour Zac Brown Band may just be the world’s greatest cover band or at least that’s been the case on its current “Down the Rabbit Hole” tour. The tour, which began last summer, found the ZBB mixing all or parts of at least 15 songs done by other […]

Pink Pours Out ‘Beautiful Trauma’ on Birmingham’s Legacy Arena Stage Pink is almost impossible to lock down. She doesn’t like boundaries. And as a solo artist, she’s proven that over her almost two decades of music. For critics who have tried to pin the flying acrobatic pop star to a specific genre or category, she […]

TobyMac Talks About His New CD and Life TobyMac’s current album, “Elements,” has given him his biggest hit single in a half-dozen years with the song “I Just Need U,” which spent a dozen weeks atop the Christian music singles chart. He can now look back and feel the struggles he and co-writers experienced in […]

Moon Taxi Talks About There New Album. To Trevor Terndrup, creativity is a use-it-or-lose-it sort of gift, which helps explain why less than 11 months after the release of “Let the Record Play,” the breakthrough album by his band, Moon Taxi, he and his bandmates are already at work on their next album. “You’ve got […]