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, has died at the age of 73. According to a statement from Gaines' family, he died on Monday following a length battle with Alzheimer's disease.Gaines is best known for his stint at Odessa Permian in the late 1980s despite coaching for over 30 years at other schools.

The Texas church that staged two performances of a highly altered and “Christianized” version of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical Hamilton has apologized for the unauthorized productions and will pay unspecified damages.

The University of Texas at Austin is offering a new class this fall and it's all about musical icon Taylor Swift. Elizabeth Scala, an English professor will be teaching the class that is new to the university this fall.

Facebook post that describes the course, taught by Dr. Elizabeth Scala, as one that “provides an introduction to literary studies and research methods that uses the songwriting of @taylorswift as the basis for teaching a wide range of skills.”According to the Austin American-Statesman, the course is titled “Literary Contests and Contexts — The Taylor Swift Songbook,” and Scala got the idea after her daughter introduced her to Swift following the release of “Red (Taylor’s Version)” in November 2021.“Let’s turn that Easter Egg hunting and reading in detail to academic purposes!” the post continues.“Swift is an intelligent and talented songwriter, and her writing skills are what made me focus on her,” Scala said in an email to the American-Statesman.

After their first spontaneous Las Vegas wedding, many Bennifer fans are asking: is Jennifer Garner invited to Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez’s second wedding?

Jewish Telegraphic Agency, who originally reported the news. “By the end of today, I need all books pulled from the library and classrooms,” Price, who is Keller ISD’s executive director of curriculum and instruction, reportedly wrote in the email.The action comes after conservative activist parents and school board members challenged the content of these books. Objections reportedly included depictions of the LGBTQ community and perceived links to critical race theory.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music CriticBilly Joe Shaver, one of the figureheads of the “outlaw country” movement that came out of Texas and flourished in the 1970s, is the subject of a forthcoming tribute album that sees some of the top names in country and Americana saluting the late legend, including Willie Nelson, Miranda Lambert, George Strait, Nathaniel Rateliff, Rodney Crowell and Margo Price. The project, “Live Forever: A Tribute to Billy Joe Shaver,” comes out on New West Nov.

Miranda tweeted. “Now lawyers do their work.”The staging of “Hamilton” performed at the Door Christian Fellowship church in McAllen, Texas, was tweaked to include biblical themes and a sermon at the end that compared homosexuality to addiction, the Dallas Morning News reported.Broadway veteran Miranda is known for his pro-LGBT stance.The paper obtained video of the Aug. 5 performance, which ran for about two hours, and the 15-minute sermon that followed.

Guy Lodge Film CriticA cemetery is not an auspicious choice of rendezvous point for an estranged father and son arranging what might be one last meeting in “A Perfect Day for Caribou,” but the dry joke of Jeff Rutherford’s tender, affectingly reserved first feature is that things get more melancholic still when they leave its glum confines. Set over the course of a single day on the fringes of some dead American anytown, this at once quiet and talkative two-hander covers no especially new ground, but strides known territory with a keen eye for lonesome landscapes, and an ear for the eternal communicative impasse felt by men who know each other all too well and not at all. Sturdy, thoughtful performances from Jeb Berrier and, in particular, rising star Charlie Plummer should hook distributor interest in this low-key indie following its premiere in Locarno’s newcomer-oriented Cineasti de Presente strand.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterLin-Manuel Miranda is praising lawyers who get the job done after a Texas church staged an “illegal, unauthorized” production of “Hamilton.”Producers of the hit Broadway musical have taken issue with The Door Christian Fellowship Ministries in McAllen, Tex., which staged the show on Aug. 5 and 6 without a license and changed lyrics and added text to include Biblical references and anti-LGBTQ rhetoric without permission.“Grateful to all of you who reached out about this illegal, unauthorized production.

Owning her age. Renée Zellweger has fully embraced being in her 50s — and says she wouldn’t go back to her 20s for anything.

“Break My Soul.”However, the 40-year-old entertainer teased her fans with a “Cliquebait” video on Thursday evening.The song is off of her newest album, “Renaissance” and a full video has yet to be revealed.The teaser was released on her YouTube channel and features a silver outfit-clad Beyoncé on top of a horse, reminiscent of her new record cover. Wind gleefully blows the “Crazy in Love ” crooner’s hair as she sits on the sparkling pony.In another shot, a fire burns next to a metallic horse with Beyoncé nowhere to be seen.The title of her seventh studio album then comes on screen for the rest of the four-minute song.Since the release of the Texas native’s album last month, a series of issues have surrounded the debut.Queen Bey used the “ableist” slur “sp – – z” on her new “Renaissance” track “Heated.”“Sp – – zin’ on that ass, sp – – z on that ass/ Fan me quick, girl, I need my glass,” the lyric says.

This week, the trial began against the man accused of killing his daughters back in 2008.

Bay Turner is a singer with a soaring voice and a compelling story.

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