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    Growing up, Bobby Bare Jr. was accustomed to hitting the road with his musician parents 鈥 country artist Bobby Bare Sr. and singer Jeannie Bare. 鈥淢e and my family had a family show for a while,鈥 said the 58-year-old singer-songwriter-guitarist for Guided by Voices. 鈥淸When] we went to Miami, we had a police escort to our show. It was spectacular.鈥 Born and raised in Nashville, where he still resides, he is currently on tour with his group (https://www.guidedbyvoices.com/tour) promoting their current album " Strut of Kings." Fans may follow him on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/p/CoQWCzBhiM/?hl=en) and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/bobbybarejrmusic/).

      It's sunset, and I'm at the place to be in Granada 鈥 the breathtaking San Nicol谩s viewpoint overlooking the fortress of the Alhambra. Here, at the edge of the city's exotic Moorish quarter, lovers, widows, and tourists jostle for the best view of the hill-capping, floodlit fortress, the last stronghold of the Moorish kingdom in Spain. For more than 700 years, Spain, the most Catholic of countries, lived under Muslim rule, until the Christians retook the land in 1492.

        Thirty-six years have passed since the first 鈥淏eetlejuice,鈥 both in real life and in the new sequel. Some things have changed but others have stayed the same, most importantly Tim Burton鈥檚 joyously inventive direction and Michael Keaton鈥檚 darkly fiendish energy as the naughty 鈥榖io-exorcist,鈥 who is, yes, still dead, but back for more mayhem in 鈥淏eetlejuice Beetlejuice.鈥 Burton also brings back a lovely Winona Ryder and the ever-sublime comic actor Catherine O鈥橦ara, writes Associated Press critic Jocelyn Noveck in her review. Additions are Justin Theroux as a smarmy manager, Jenna Ortega as an appealing and grounded daughter figure, Willem Dafoe and Monica Bellucci. Opens in theaters Friday.

          The story of one of the great fictional sleuths, Dashiell Hammett鈥檚 Sam Spade, will be continued by prize-winning crime writer Max Allan Collins. The publisher Hard Case Crime announced Thursday that Collins鈥 鈥淭he Return of the Maltese Falcon" will be released in January 2026, when the Hammett classic featuring Spade, 鈥淭he Maltese Falcon,鈥 enters the public domain. 鈥淭he Maltese Falcon,鈥 published in 1930 and known to movie fans for the 1941 adaptation starring Humphrey Bogart, is widely regarded as a model for the hard-boiled detective novel. When copyright protection ends for a book, anyone is free to use the characters and story line.

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