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Volume 69 | Number 10
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A Salute to Our Heroes Blake Shelton honors vets through heartfelt songs
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lake Shelton, one of country music’s hottest performers and most engaging personalities, will pay tribute to members of our armed services and veterans on the holiday named in their honor. Audience members can wave the red, white and blue at songs such as “God’s Country”, which peaked at number one on Hot Country Songs in mid-2019, “Hell Right”, a duet with Trace Adkins, “Nobody but You” and “Happy Anywhere,”, collaborations with wife Gwen Stefani, “I’ll Name The Dogs,” “Minimum Wage,” “Hillbilly Bone,” “Go Ahead and Break My Heart,” “Came Here to Forget” and many others. In 2001, Shelton made his debut with the single “Austin.” The lead-off single spent five weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. The now Platinum-certified debut album also produced two more top 20 entries (“All Over Me” and “Ol’ Red”). His albums, “The Dreamer” and “Blake Shelton’s Barn & Grill,” went gold and platinum, respectively. His fourth album, “Pure BS,” was re-issued in 2008 with a cover of Michael Bublé’s pop hit “Home,” and his fifth album, “Startin’ Fires,” was followed by “Red River Blue, Based on a True Story...,” “Bringing Back the Sunshine,” “If I’m Hon-
• Two of the most common paint colors at Walt Disney World are “Go Away Green” and “Blending Blue.” Their curious monikers attest to the fact that Disney Imagineers created them to make your eyes ignore them. • You’ve no doubt heard of shattering a glass with your voice, but how about singing at a pitch so low only an elephant can hear it?
In This Issue
Morongo Basin Veterans Tribute..........5 La Quinta Art Celebration.....................6 Palm Springs Women’s Jazz Fest........8 Veterans Day Facts..............................9
1. TELEVISION: What was Netflix’s first exclusive content series? 2. U.S. STATES: Which state is home to the Grand Canyon? 3. GEOGRAPHY: Where are the famous Moai statues located? 4. MOVIES: Who directed the chilling 2017 movie “Get Out”?
est,” “Texoma Shore” and “Fully Loaded: God’s Country.” Shelton has charted 40 singles, including 28 number ones. He has received nine Grammy Award nominations, including two for Best Country Album. Shelton is a coach on the NBC televised singing competition “The Voice,” who appears this season with his wife, Gwen Stefani. A member of his performing team has won in eight of 22 seasons. He was also named People Magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive in 2017, following in the footsteps of fellow “The Voice” coach Adam Levine. Opening the Veteran’s Day show
will be artist MacKenzie Porter, a Canadian country singer, actress and songwriter. She has released one self-titled album and achieved four Canada Country number ones with “About You”, “These Days”, “Seeing Other People”, and “Pickup”. She is featured on Dustin Lynch’s number one Country Airplay hit “Thinking ‘Bout You.” The concert is held on Friday, November 11 at 7 p.m. Tickets are $50 general admission. Active duty military and veterans receive 25% discount. Coachella Crossroads, 46605 Dillon Road, Coachella.Visit coachellacrossroads.com for tickets and more info.
That feat belongs to Tim Storms, who possesses a 10-octave vocal range and holds the Guinness World Record for lowest note produced by a human and widest vocal range.
“Go Harvard” when raised, the actual message read “We Suck.”
• In some parts of the world, tarantulas have “pet” frogs, which they protect from predators.
• Billy Joel’s song “Only the Good Die Young” was banned by some radio stations for being “antiCatholic.” Joel hardly minded, however, as the resulting publicity made the tune so popular that he wrote to the president of Seton Hall College in New Jersey (the first entity to forbid it) requesting a ban on his next record as well.
• At the Harvard-Yale annual college football matchup in 2004, Yale students played quite the trick on their opponents by dressing as Harvard pep squad members and handing out crimson and gold placards to the crowd. While told their cards would spell out
• The first known dental filling dates to the Neolithic period and was made of beeswax.
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5. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: Which country’s largest airline is Aeroflot? 6. U.S. PRESIDENTS: Which president was elected to two nonconsecutive terms? 7. ANATOMY: The ossicles are located in what part of the human body? 8. LITERATURE: Which awardwinning novel is set in Maycomb, Alabama? 9. MEDICAL: Which international organization declared monkey pox to be a public health emergency? 10. ANIMAL KINGDOM: What is the only natural predator of great white sharks, aside from humans? (c) 2022 King Features Synd., Inc. ANSWER TO TRIVIA ON PAGE 10