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<b>Tandy Culpepper Talks To Veteran Entertainment Journo Steve Kmetko About His New Podcast <i>StIll Here Hollywood</i></b>

Tandy Culpepper Talks To Veteran Entertainment Journo Steve Kmetko About His New Podcast StIll Here Hollywood

NewsmakersAugust 5, 2024by Tandy Culpepper

In the nineties and early aughts, Steve Kmetko was arguably the preeminent entertainment reporter in Hollywood. Upon arriving in Los Angeles in the eighties, he…

<b>Tandy Culpepper Talks To Country Music Singer-Songwriter James Robert Webb About His New Single and EP <i>Ride or Die</i></b>

Tandy Culpepper Talks To Country Music Singer-Songwriter James Robert Webb About His New Single and EP Ride or Die

UncategorizedJuly 24, 2024by Tandy Culpepper

Country music singer-songwriter James Robert Webb is a man on the rise. In 2022 Nashville’s Music Row Magazine named him Country Breakout Awards’ Independent Artist…

<b>Tandy Culpepper Talks With Singer-Songwriter Susannah B About Music, Motherhood, Her New Album <i>POV</i> & More</b>

Tandy Culpepper Talks With Singer-Songwriter Susannah B About Music, Motherhood, Her New Album POV & More

UncategorizedJuly 21, 2024by Tandy Culpepper

She’s the daughter of a renowned Broadway composer and lyricist and the mother of two grown children, but now, at long last, singer-songwriter Susannah B…

<b>Tandy Culpepper Talks With Journo William Keck About His Hollywood Memoir, <i>When You Step Upon A Star</i></b>

Tandy Culpepper Talks With Journo William Keck About His Hollywood Memoir, When You Step Upon A Star

Books, TVJuly 17, 2024by Tandy Culpepper

William Keck is a veteran entertainment journalist who has seen it all – not necessarily by invitation – and who has interviewed many of the…

<b>Tandy Culpepper Talks with Author Laurence Leamer about His Book <i>Capote’s Women</i> as well as the TV Adaptation <i>Capote vs. the Swans</i></b>

Tandy Culpepper Talks with Author Laurence Leamer about His Book Capote’s Women as well as the TV Adaptation Capote vs. the Swans

Books, TVJuly 2, 2024by Tandy Culpepper

Before Laurence Leamer became a best-selling author of nonfiction books, he wore many hats in widely divergent locales. Journalist in Iowa and at Newsweek. A…

<b>Tandy Culpepper Talks with Historian Donald L. Miller About His Book <i>Masters of the Air</i> and the TV Miniseries Adaptation of It</b>

Tandy Culpepper Talks with Historian Donald L. Miller About His Book Masters of the Air and the TV Miniseries Adaptation of It

Books, TVJune 21, 2024by Tandy Culpepper

To say that Donald L. Miller is a brilliant academic is the under-statement of all understatements. The John Henry McCracken Professor emeritus at Pennsylvania’s Lafayette…

<b>Tandy CulpepperTalks With Country Music Singer-Songwriter Dionya Marie About Her Latest Single, <i>Miss You So Mad</i></b>

Tandy CulpepperTalks With Country Music Singer-Songwriter Dionya Marie About Her Latest Single, Miss You So Mad

UncategorizedMay 12, 2024by Tandy Culpepper

She’s as versatile a singer-songwriter as you are ever likely to meet. Dionya Marie has drawn comparisons both to Shania Twain and to Karen Carpenter….

<b>Tandy Culpepper Talks to Louisa Hall & Annie Nardolilli of GRIEFCAT About Their New Album, <i>Late Stage Capitalism</i></b>

Tandy Culpepper Talks to Louisa Hall & Annie Nardolilli of GRIEFCAT About Their New Album, Late Stage Capitalism

UncategorizedApril 21, 2024by Tandy Culpepper

In 2019, that halcyon year before we found ourselves seeking shelter from the storm known as covid, musicians of every stripe were putting the finishing…

<b>Tandy Culpepper Talks  With Singer-Songwriter Leo Sawikin About His Upcoming Album And Tour</b>

Tandy Culpepper Talks With Singer-Songwriter Leo Sawikin About His Upcoming Album And Tour

UncategorizedApril 20, 2024by Tandy Culpepper

Singer-songwriter Leo Sawikin, like many other emerging recording artists, is busy making up for lost time. He wrote the material for his first album, Row…

<b>Tandy Culpepper Talks to Susan Bartz Herrick about Her Gripping Mother-Son Memoir, <i>Slow Dancing with the Devil</i></b>

Tandy Culpepper Talks to Susan Bartz Herrick about Her Gripping Mother-Son Memoir, Slow Dancing with the Devil

BooksMarch 31, 2024by Tandy Culpepper

In 2021 alone, more than 60 thousand of the 80 thousand overdose deaths in the United States were due to opiods. One of those who…

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