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Tammie’s Dutch Holiday Potatoes
These mashed potatoes have been a huge hit at our family get togethers my entire life. The only thing is, they come out Orange. Once someone tries them, the fear of the Orange is gone, and so are the spuds!
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Activities At The Library
The Parmly Billings Library is offering a lot of ways for you to keep your kids reading and discovery skills sharp this summer. There are tons of fun activities and prizes for kids of all ages. Keep the kids out of the heat, and keep their skills sharp all summer long
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NFL Star Highlights Storytime at Library
Buffalo Bills defensive tackle Dwan Edwards will be in Billings this week to lead a special story time at Parmly Billings Library. Edwards will be sharing the book “You Can Do It” by Tony Dungy with readers of all ages on Wednesday June 27 at 7:00p.m.
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Dolly Parton Book ‘Dream More’ To Be Released in November
If there’s any country star who knows how to dream big, it’s Dolly Parton. With her roots stemming from rural East Tennessee, Parton grew up an impoverished youth in the Appalachian mountains. Now that she has spent decades at the top of the country music scene, she’s ready to impart some of the wisdom she gained on her journey to other dreamers.
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Carrie Underwood Gets ‘Blown Away’ on the Cover of Billboard
Carrie Underwood took the April/May 2012 cover of Vegas magazine, and this week she’s staring back at us from the front of Billboard’s April 21 issue. Looking striking in black with black lace gloves, Underwood is more intentionally disheveled than we usually see her, with her blonde locks blowing freely as the starlet holds them back. The cover story bears the title ‘Carrie Underwood Plays On.’
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Trace Adkins Gifts Randy Houser With ‘Badonkadonk’ Baby Book
Randy Houser and his wife Jessa Lee Yantz Houser welcomed their first child, sweet little baby boy West Yantz Houser, into the world on Tuesday, March 6. And now, just a month later, their good friends Trace Adkins and his wife Rhonda have gifted them with a little something special to help guide them in parenthood.
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Loretta Lynn Releases New Book ‘Honky Tonk Girl: My Life in Lyrics’
Loretta Lynn‘s life and career have been documented in many special tributes, songs and even in movies throughout the years, but now the legendary singer is releasing a new book, ‘Honky Tonk Girl: My Life in Lyrics.’
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Taylor Swift Gets Special Gift From ‘The Hunger Games’ Author
Even before she wrote the lead single and another cut for ‘The Hunger Games’ soundtrack, Taylor Swift was already a huge fan of the books. The starlet said in a recent interview, “I fell in love with the book, fell in love with the themes running through it, fell in love with Katniss (the lead protagonist in the story).” So we’re guessing she was pretty ecstatic about receiving a copy of the book with a personal message scrawled in it from none other than author Suzanne Collins.
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‘The Protester’ Named TIME Magazine’s ‘Person of 2011′ [IMAGE]
This year, the iconic Time Magazine Person of the Year cover slot goes to “The Protestor,” a conceptual idea meant to indicate men and women around the world, particularly in the Middle East, who have agitated for change.
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Could 5-Year-Old Suri Cruise Be Writing a Children’s Book?
She has famous parents, she’s adorable and she’s a snappy little dresser, but is Suri Cruise also an author? In Touch magazine reports that she is.
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Brad Paisley’s ‘Diary of a Player’ Makes New York Times Best Sellers List
We’re not pulling for Brad Paisley to quit his day job, but the “Whiskey Lullaby” singer is shaping up to be quite the author. Paisley released his first book, ‘Diary of a Player,’ on Nov. 1, and the title has spent the past two weeks living on the New York Times Best Sellers list.
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Is a Movie About the Casey Anthony Trial in the Works?
Casey Anthony, the Florida woman acquitted of killing her toddler daughter earlier this year, has repelled book publishers and movie studios who feel it would be tasteless to pay for her story — but that doesn’t mean the whole case is off-limits.