Sales soar for 'Maus' after its banning in Tennessee

Lauren Lane, a former contestant on "The Bachelor" and the wife of country music star Chris Lane, called mask mandates for young children in schools "cruel" in a series of social media posts. Lauren, known to Bachelor Nation fans by her maiden name Lauren Bushnell for her appearance on Season 20 of "The Bachelor," took to her Instagram Story on Tuesday to share her opposing views related to children wearing masks in school amid the coronavirus pandemic. She began by sharing the perspective of another Instagram user who called out Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and implied it's hypocritical to mandate masks for kids while allowing stadiums to be filled with unmasked adults for events.

Back-to-back babies! Nearly nine months after giving birth to daughter Della, Sierra Dawn Thomas is pregnant with her and Joe Anglim’s second child.

dangerous and possibly unconstitutional “Don’t Say Gay” bill gathers nationwide attention and condemnation – making it more likely to be passed and signed into law by Republican governor and rumored 2024 presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis, another Republican is dusting off his own “Don’t Say Gay” bill to push his “Christian values” agenda.Tennessee state Rep. Bruce Griffey says if schools are forcing him to teach Christian values at home because they won’t teach them in the classroom, they should not be allowed to “promote” what his legislation calls “LGBT issues or lifestyles.”“The state of Tennessee is not allowed to teach my daughters Christian values that I think are important and they should learn, so I teach those at home,” Rep.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Tommy Castro, Chris Cain and Tom Hambridge have earned the most nominations for this year's Blues Music Awards in Memphis, Tennessee.Nominations for the 43rd Blues Music Awards were announced Thursday by the Memphis-based Blues Foundation.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Country star Chris Young combined his skills as an artist and a producer to earn seven nominations at the Academy of Country Music Awards, including album of the year and single of the year.The show's co-hosts Jimmie Allen and Gabby Barrett announced the nominations on Thursday.

he had a “small” heart attack in July 2021 on the set of his AMC series “Better Call Saul.”Now Odenkirk, 59, has opened up about the harrowing experience — revealing that he shockingly didn’t have a pulse when he initially collapsed between filming.“We were shooting a scene, we’d been shooting all day, and luckily I didn’t go back to my trailer,” he recently told the New York Times, adding that he was taking a break with costars Patrick Fabian and Rhea Seehorn at the time of the incident — about which he has no memory.“I went to play the Cubs game and ride my workout bike, and I just went down,” Odenkirk said. “Rhea said I started turning bluish-gray right away,” he continued.

Adele doppelgänger who’s setting fire to the bluesy diva’s would-be Las Vegas reign. Janae Longo, a professional hair and makeup stylist, is belting out ballads such as “Easy On Me” and “Someone Like You” in proxy for the British singer, who postponed her much-ballyhooed, four-month “Weekends with Adele” residency at Caesars Palace due to COVID concerns. And Adele devotees who purchased the pricey $800 to $2,000 tickets to her since-canceled showcase can check out the songstress’ impressive impersonator headlining the “Legendary Divas” show at the Tropicana for free through Sept. 5.

Well, this story took a hard turn right away.

Geoffrey Ian Paschel, the "90 Day Fiancé" alum, was sentenced to 18 years in prison without a chance for parole for a 2019 attack on his former fiancée, authorities said Thursday.  In October, the 44-year-old was convicted of aggravated kidnapping and domestic assault and interference with emergency calls. Paschel remained in custody until his sentencing Thursday in Knoxville, Tennessee, according to Us Weekly.

Creating quite a stir. As fans weigh in on the character of Che Diaz in And Just Like That, the Sex and the City revival series, Sara Ramirez opened up about how they have handled the more negative feedback.

Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission.A Tennessee school board’s recent ban on Art Spiegelman’s “Maus” is the conclusion to a story we’ve already seen. A group of adults, whether it be parents or teachers, finds a book’s content to be so offensive that they call for it to be pulled from shelves, taken off syllabi or even banned entirely from schools.In the case of “Maus” — which details Spiegelman’s father’s experience of the Holocaust — it was “inappropriate language and nudity” that caused a Tennessee school board to remove the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel from its eighth grade curriculum.

Faith Hill admits she once almost — keyword, almost — forgot the lyrics to the national anthem. But her backup plan — not that she needed it — was actually, well, amazing.The star and five-time GRAMMY-winning singer appeared Tuesday night on  and recalled being asked to sing the national anthem at Super Bowl XXXIV in 2000. Hill said having her favorite team, the Tennessee Titans, taking part actually calmed her nerves, but leading up to it still proved nerve-wracking.«Singing the national anthem for the Super Bowl was terrifying,» she said.

Country music artists Chayce Beckham and Lindsay Ell just dropped a burning hot music video for their duet “Can’t Do Without Me”.

Whoopi Goldberg, 66, has been suspended from The View for two weeks due to her controversial statements about the Holocaust. The co-host and moderator had faced major backlash after she had said that the Holocaust was “not about race,” during a discussion about schools banning Art Spiegelman’s Maus. Despite her multiple apologies, ABC opted to suspend the co-host.