2018

By Tyler Wilson Originally published in Coeur Voice – April 2018 Singer Mickey Gilley got along just fine before the release of the 1980 John Travolta-Debra Winger film, “Urban Cowboy.” Gilley strung together a series of country hits throughout the 1970s, and he also co-owned Gilley’s, the massive honky-tonk in Pasadena, Texas that popularized the

  By Tyler Wilson Originally published in Coeur Voice – April 2018 Time to blast John Fogerty’s “Centerfield” from your tiny smartphone speaker, because the Major League Baseball season is here again. While most of the country becomes enthralled by the NCAA basketball tournament, baseball fanatics can barely wait for the 162-game, six-month season to

By Tyler Wilson Originally published by The Spokesman Review, December 2017 Good Christmas movies warm the soul. They tap into a holiday spirit few of us can probably recreate in real life. In “It’s a Wonderful Life,” a lifetime of kindness and self-sacrifice rewards George Bailey in the end. “A Christmas Story” captures the feeling