Garth Brooks News

Terry Fator’s voice — all 100 or so versions of it — is filled with excitement. And with good reason. The puppet-toting “America’s Got Talent” champ is about to depart for a gig at his future base of operations in the state of Nevada. There, he’ll scope out for the first time a miraculous epiphany [...]

CBS offers its annual airing of The Kennedy Center Honors (CBS, tonight, 9 ET/PT), the only awards show where you can be certain the honorees are deserving. This year’s stellar assortment: Morgan Freeman, George Jones, Twyla Tharp, Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey and Barbra Streisand. Caroline Kennedy hosts the program, which includes salutes and performances by [...]

The new year is here, and for TV fans that means bowl games and marathons. There’s a marathon choice for almost every taste, but among the best are The Twilight Zone (Sci Fi, today and Thursday), I Love Lucy (TV Land, today), The Cosby Show (TV Land, Thursday) and Bones (TNT, Thursday).

IT WAS a year in which we elected Barack Obama, the first president who not only actually likes hip-hop but can talk about it with basic knowledge.

Happy New Year, Charlie Brown 8 pm/ET ABC Although not a holiday perennial like A Charlie Brown Christmas , this 1986 special is charming. Charlie Brown rings in the New Year at a party with a thick book: Tolstoy’s War and Peace , which he has to read over the holidays.

Beachside and Diamond Taxi offer their sober rides for free on New Year’s Eve. 222-2222. New Year’s Eve Gala, 237-6042. Reservations were due Dec. 22. Event will be 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at Pawley’s Plantation Ballroom, 70 Tanglewood Drive, Pawleys Island. $124. Featuring music, dancing, dinner and open bar. [...]

Ringing in the new year can take many forms of frivolity. The ball drop on television from Times Square in the Big Apple remains must-see TV for so many people. Guy Lombardo and the Royal Canadians signed their name to that occasion with “Auld Lang Syne” for decades on CBS and “Dick Clark’s New [...]

CBS-TV broadcasts the annual “Kennedy Center Honors” Dec. 30 at 9 PM ET; check local listings.

A woman and her 13-year-old son being treated at the Joseph M. Still Burn Center in Augusta got an unexpected visit from a famous singer last week.

Karin McKemey had a surprise visitor Tuesday at the Augusta, Ga., hospital where she and her son Connor are recovering from burns: country star Garth Brooks.