Dolly Parton

27 Jul 2023

Jason Aldean Is An Affront To Country Music

BY JAMES CONRAD In July 2023, a video was released to promote the song “Try That In A Small Town,” written by Kelley Lovelace, Neil Thrasher, Tully Kennedy, and Kurt Allison, and recorded by American country music singer Jason Aldean. In the video, Jason Aldean, known for his explicit right-wing

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19 Nov 2021

How to Talk About Vaccines with Your Anti-Vaxxer Family & Friends

There’s plenty to discuss over turkey and cranberry sauce this year, which makes this an important time to be the voice of reason amidst a sea of misinformation. Here’s how you can do that.

Sam Devine 0
08 Oct 2024

The November 2024 BAS Voter Guide

A Big Change to This Year’s Voter Guide We’ve been doing voter guides for a really long time. I’m pretty sure we put our first one out in like 2010 or something. And I know that thousands of you rely on our voter guides to help you make decision. But

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03 Mar 2021

Watch: Dolly Parton Gets The Vaccine, While Singing To The Tune Of ‘Jolene’

The nation breathes a collective sigh of relief, as living national treasure and drag queen icon Dolly Parton has been administered the COVID-19 vaccine. Dolly herself posted the video below of her getting the vaccine at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center on Tuesday, and as a bonus, she does a

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18 Nov 2020

Dolly Parton Helped Create The COVID-19 Vaccine

The Dolly Parton COVID-19 Research Fund is a thing that actually exists, as Dolly shelled out $1 million of her own money in April to help find a cure. Dolly’s bet on a team of scientists at Vanderbilt University paid off with a jackpot, as CNN reports that Dolly Parton’s

Joe Kukura- Millionaire in Training 0
19 Jan 2017

Happy Birthday to Dolly Parton, Feminist Icon. No, Really.

Rejoice! It is the day of birth of our savior: Dolly Parton. That’s right, Dolly Rebecca Parton was born on January 19th and is now celebrating her 71st year of making our world better. What’s that? You don’t know why you should care about Dolly Parton? Perhaps you grew up

Candace Cui - Actual Unicorn 0
16 Jun 2012

Tonight, It’s Always A Business Doing Pleasure with You- Fundraiser for St. James Infirmary at Wild Side

  Its mid-June, folks, which in San Francisco means we are heading into the home-run stretch of Pride month.  As Market street gets all polychromatic and workers frantically try to blast all the dried “character” away, all across town festivals, booze- busts, lecturers and shindigs are popping up like so

Stephen Torres - Threadbare-Fact Finder (Editor, San Francisco) 0
21 Jun 2010

Lovin’: Country Style!

The Patsy Cline radio station on Pandora has been ubiquitous in my room and in my earbuds for the past 2 weeks, at least.  Not only have I since been remarking that this is probably one of the best alone-time and inexpensive activities (and/or accompanying soundtracks to writing!) ever, but

Anna G - Caliburg Contributor 0