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A 59-year-old man who police said chased a neighbor with a lawnmower blade while asking him if he had seen the movie, 'Sling Blade,' has been jailed on assault charges.

Blues musician John Mayall is 76. Actress Diane Ladd is 74. Musician Chuck Mangione is 69.

I just returned from seeing the new Sandra Bullock movie, The Blind Side , co-starring Tim McGraw , and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

There are no nightclubs here, only gin joints. There are no hopeless romantics, only broken hearts.

Courtesy of Vic Chesnutt If you go a What: Vic Chesnutt in concert with with Fugazi's Guy Picciotto and members of Godspeed You! Black Emperor and A Silver Mt.

When: 8 p.m. Friday. Where: Silver Star Convention Center, Choctaw. Cost: $35. Who is he?: Dwight Yoakam is one of country music's all-time greatest stars, having sold more than 25 million records and charted more than 30 country hits.

With all his fans, Dwight Yoakam is never that lonely yet. Details: 8 p.m. Saturday, November 21, at the Arena Theatre, 7326 Southwest Fwy., 713-772-5900 or www.arenahouston.com . Dwight Yoakam All Dwight Yoakam 's local fans who have been waiting for him to please, please come back to Houston can now say "Thank you." When he came racing out of ...

Vic Chesnutt is currently touring in support of his latest record, At The Cut, and from this album and its tour are trailing an entourage of indie notables.

A singer who fused honky-tonk with rock and roll, Dwight Yoakam, with his trademark white cowboy hat, emerged during the late 1980s as one of the more respected country artists.

Actor, director and producer Tim Reid says his frustration with the lack of black people in the movie "Saving Private Ryan" led him to do a documentary on black veterans.

The 2009 Secret City Festival takes place October 8-11 at the Oak Ridge Playhouse in Jackson Square.

In hard times, entertainment either grinds it out with the rest of us, or it waltzes.

"Fame," the original "high school musical," earns a sometimes toe-tapping remake that borrows scenes, situations and character "types" from its 1980 original.

The upcoming Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum's All for the Hall Los Angeles fundraiser-set for Thursday, October 1, at Club Nokia in Los Angeles and which features a once-in-a-lifetime chance to see Vince Gill, Emmylou Harris, Dwight Yoakam, Melissa Etheridge and friends performing together-will be preceded the night before by a special duet ...

When she first read the script for "October Sky" more than a decade ago, actress Natalie Canerday never anticipated the lasting appeal of the true story of the Rocket Boys of McDowell County.

It's hard to believe it has been 10 years since the motion picture "October Sky" made its box-office launch.

COALWOOD, W.Va. -- Natalie Canerday played Homer Hickam's mother in the 1999 film "October Sky,'' but she's never seen the West Virginia town where the movie's events took place.

The Grand Ole Opry in Nashville is joining the fight against breast cancer by "going pink" during two performances Oct.

William Drake wasn't a cowboy when he left for Hollywood. But when he came back to Johnston County, he brought Tinseltown's Old West with him.

Studio/Run Time: Capricorn Pictures, 99 mins. Not every film has to be Raging Bull .