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GOOD EVENING TXK COLUMN BY BAILEY GRAVITT
I magine my harrowing dismay when I reluctantly attended my church’s Super Bowl party in 2012 only to find out that during Madonna’s halftime show (the only reason I would even attend a Super Bowl party to begin with), they were going to be cutting the projector screen off and giving us a mini-sermon instead. Shock. Disappointment. Anger… many emotions were rising within me. No one may have understood the POWER that Madonna bringing a then fresh faced Nicki Minaj on stage with her would’ve had at the time, but I, at a ripe 14 years of age, KNEW! I knew, and I wanted to see it all go down. LIVE! Madonna?… Eh. Nicki Minaj?… I had been begging my mom for months, by that point, to go to one of her concerts. Instead of being able to see my queen LIVE at the Super Bowl, I had to watch the replay on YouTube later! Boooooooooo! I get it. It’s church, and a raunchy Super Bowl performance on display for kids of all ages would have been inappropriate. I can be logical sometimes, too. However,
who even watches the Super Bowl for the football? People do that? On what planet? Growing up in a family absolutely obsessed with sports and being invited to Super Bowl parties every year, I cannot sit back and pretend that the Super Bowl didn’t
shape some small part of my life. It comes around again and again every single year after all, so it is in some ways a part of all of our lives. I respect everyone’s love and appreciation for different things. It’s what
LIVE MUSIC
February 5 Trophy Husband 67 Landing, 7:30 PM February 11 T-Town 5 67 Landing, 7:30 PM Music City Texas Theater, 7:00 PM February 12 Tailgate Poets 67 Landing, 7:30 PM February 12 Marty Stuart
February 12 DJ Chum Chum The Hideout, 9:00 PM February 17 Adam Crabb, The Gaither Vocal Band Trinity Baptist Church, 7:00 PM February 18 Lorrie Morgan Crossties, 7:00 PM
February 19 T-Town 5 RedBone Magic Brewery, 7:00 PM February 19 Charlotte’s Web Band Fat Jack’s, 9:00 PM February 25 Ace The Gambler & the Flying Squirrel Twisted Fork, 7 PM February 26 Stone Blue The Hideout, 9:00 PM
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