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Author Ann Patchett calls it "A beautiful & deeply compassionate examination of life." The book is "We Were Brothers" by National Book Award-winning illustrator Barry Moser, & new hardcover read is up for grabs this afternoon (Monday) at 4:35 on my Puffman Musical Trivia contest. "We We...

I'm ready for another round of Puffman Sports Trivia tomorrow (Saturday) morning on the Puffman Show. I'll be jacking my jaws about the NBA & placing another Weam Namou book up for grabs at 7:30. Weam's an Iraqi American author, journalist, & filmmaker. She's ...

The NFL’s eight best teams square off in the divisional round of the playoffs this weekend. By Sunday night, we’ll know which four teams are headed to Championship Sunday.

This morning’s big Oscar nominations announcement had to contend with an even more major and affecting piece of breaking news. A few days after David Bowie passed into the next dimension, cancer has taken another sixty-nine-year-old Brit from us: esteemed actor Alan Rickman. Flip to the word “arch” in the newest editions of the Oxford Goes To Hollywood dictionary, and there you’ll find a photo of Rickman, single eyebrow raised, his tone of dour bemusement audible even from the printed page. The man gained the most international recognition from a choice role in a certain franchise about a boy wizard, but he was an actor of boundless versatility who gifted audiences plenty of fond moviegoing memories.

Helen Elliot that is. I want to find out more about the marvelous musical performance coming up this Sunday afternoon at the beautiful Orpheum Theatre down in Conrad. We might say it's a regular duel...the Duo Dueling Banjos & a Guitar along with the 14th Street Quartet will be THERE & Helen will be HERE on the Puffman Show this afternoon (Friday) at 2:30 to fill us in. Showti...

It's Montana History night up at the Marias Heritage Center this evening (Tuesday), & we'll be starting Chapter 37 of our book on the saga of Charles E. Conrad. It's a long book, some 300 plus pages & 54 chapters all together but we're certainly enjoying James E. Murphy...

David Bowie's work moved millions of people, and the varied outpouring of public tributes that's sprung up since we received word of his passing offers a testament to just how widely his influence is felt.

The centennial of Frank Sinatra's birth rolled around last month (December 12th), & a new book looks all the way back over that long, long, road, & finds that they were very good years indeed. The hardback book is David Lehman's "Sinatra's Century; One Hundred Notes On The Man And His World" from Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins & the book is up for grabs this afternoon (M

That's Thomas Mitz, author of "The Last Supper" referring to the book that's up for grabs tomorrow (Saturday) morning on Puffman Sports Trivia. The book is, "The Mismatched Braid," a brand new novel by Weam Namou. There's quite a story on this woman...

Yesterday on the Puffman Blog, it was "tomatoes"...today it's corn! ACORN that is. An ACORN whistleblower is out with "The Story-Behind-The-Story" on ACORN. The book is, "Race Power & Politics; Memoirs oF an ACORN Whistleblower" As Told by Marcel Reid." A...

Mary Ellen Pethel captures the spirit & legacy of single-gender education over the past 150 years in her tome, "All-Girls Education fro Ward Seminary to Harpeth Hall, 1865-2015," & this hardback narrative is up for grabs this afternoon (Monday) at 4:35 on Puffman Musical Trivia. During...

My friend, Peter Franklin, aka The Gabby Cabby," has a "True Tale" this week involving a lady New York City lady who's flunked the NY City Fire Department physical test SIX times! According to the driver of the yellow conveyance lounge, the "locals" are saying that "The Fix" is in, & she'll make it for sure when she gets her 7th chance. I'...