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Roger Sickmiller tours the streets so slow it almost feels like he's driving in black and white.

The Mayberry Malt and Coffee Shoppe, Clay City, recently opened for business. The business, which is owned by two families Dan Webster, Jeff Fritz, Carol Fritz, Darcie Fritz, 13, Kacie Fritz, 16, and Bradie Fritz, 11, are inviting members of the community to see what the place has to offer.

As one of the four comedians that form the Blue Collar Comedy Tour, Ron White has always seemed like a bit of a black sheep, and not just because his traditional black suit differs from the colorful and plaid threads worn by Jeff Foxworthy, Bill Engvall and Larry the Cable Guy.

FIREWORKS. Tiki Barber and Natalie Morales host " Macy's 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular" , with guests including Kenny Chesney , Natasha Bedingfield , Katharine McPhee and Jordin Sparks .

Third in a series on local efforts to treat drug and alcohol abuse. "I was treated like a human being, and eventually that made me think that I needed to care of myself.

Pop-culture history is filled with illustrious "second bananas," usually in comedy acts - the folks who feed the straight lines, or play the fool, to the No.

As June blends into July , I couldn't think of a better Toobworld location to induct into the TV Crossover Hall Of Fame than Mayberry, North Carolina.

This wouldn't have happened in Mayberry. Somehow the sheriff and his deputy, who were known to get cross every once in awhile, would have again patched things up.

And when it premiered on radio, the title was one punctuation mark longer than the TV version: "Father Knows Best?" The original title was meant to be a question.

TV's Dick Van Dyke , would get prime rib au jus for dinner on Father's Day. My favorite TV father is Rob Petrie from the 1960s "The Dick Van Dyke Show." He was funny, charming, a talented singer/dancer, slightly neurotic at times, and worked in New York City with other funny, talented people.

Bill Cosby's small-screen alter ego Cliff Huxtable from "The Cosby Show" is America's favorite television dad, a Harris poll indicated.

If we listed only the "best'' TV dads, most of them would probably be from the 1950s.

Don't you wish that channel buffered faster? It used to be that television got a bad rap for corroding people's minds and producing too much stupidity, sex, violence, etc.

The irony is that good bluegrass music is highly complex and technically challenging.

NEW YORK Five Oklahoma-born celebrities Brad Pitt, Phil McGraw, Ron Howard, Toby Keith and Carrie Underwood were ranked among Forbes magazine's annual Celebrity 100, which ranks the rich and famous based on media exposure and career earnings over the past year.

Chaplain Jerry Riggert gives a Bible study as Nora Mank and Mary Jo McBride participate at Lenoir Woods Senior Living center on April 22.

With his folksy, down-to-earth charm and winning smile, actor Andy Griffith brought a warm sincerity to his most popular roles - " small town Sheriff Andy Taylor on "The Andy Griffith Show" and the crafty.... With his folksy, down-to-earth charm and winning smile, actor Andy Griffith brought a warm sincerity to his most popular roles - " small town ...

Something's got into the folks at Wells Fargo Bank. Like, Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

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You probably wouldn't believe it if you crossed her on the street, but Margaret Kerry is the closest you could ever get to meeting the real Disney Tinker Bell.