After Big Grand Opening, Garth Brooks Plans to Give Over His Honky-Tonk Stage to the 'Next Guys'

Garth Brooks in Nashville in November 2017.Photo:Michael Loccisano/Getty Michael Loccisano/Getty Garth Brookshasn’t put his name on his brand-new honky-tonk on Nashville’s Lower Broadway. And except for his one gangbuster opening-night show on Friday, he also doesn’t plan to appear on its stage. The reason, Brooks made clear at a news conference this week, is that the Friends in Low Places Bar & Honky-Tonk is no vanity project. It’s his pay-it-back gesture to the city that gave him his career and it’s his pay-it-forward gift to new generations of artists.

After Brittney Griner's Release, Paul Whelan's Family Continues Fighting to Bring Him Home

Paul Whelan behind bars in Russia.Photo: KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP via Getty Fans and supporters around the world celebrated when WNBA starBrittney Grinerwas recently released from a Russian prison, but David Whelan admits he felt hopeless when his brother, Paul, was not on the plane home with her. For the past four years, his twin brother has been held in a Russian work camp, and the family hoped he would return with Griner.

After Children on School Bus Were Kidnapped and Buried Underground, 14-Year-Old Miraculously Led Escape

Michael Marshall.Photo:Leo Cohen/MediaNews Group/Oakland Tribune via Getty Leo Cohen/MediaNews Group/Oakland Tribune via Getty ​​On July 15, 1976, three men in their 20shijacked a busload of 26 school childrenon their way back from a swim excursion in Chowchilla, Calif. The men, who were asking for $5 million in ransom, drove them around for 11 hours before forcing the driver, Ed Ray, and the children, ages 5 to 14, to climb through a hole in the ground into a moving van buried in a rock quarry in Livermore.

After College Student Gets Devastating News Weeks Into Freshman Year, Her Next Move Goes Viral (Exclusive)

Ryan and Chloe Potes.Photo:Courtesy of Chloe Potes Courtesy of Chloe Potes One month after moving into her dorm room at James Madison University in August 2024, Chloe Potes received an unexpected visit from her mother, Kristene. Sitting in a hotel room with her father, Ryan, on the phone, she learned that he had just been diagnosed with stage 2multiple myeloma, a cancer of plasma cells. “Finding out this news was and still is the most heart-wrenching thing,” Potes, who is a first-year justice studies major, tells PEOPLE exclusively.

After Decades of Paying for 'Joint Gift' for Mom by Himself, Brother Finally Stands Up to Sister at Wife's Request

Family exchanging gifts in stock photo.Photo: Steve Debenport / Getty Images In a post shared toReddit, the woman writes, “My husband and his sister have a ‘tradition’ of buying their mom gifts together, but it always means she will pick the gifts and my husband [pays] for them. She never contributes a dime but the gifts are still presented as being from both of them.” As the tradition has continued into adulthood, the poster has suggested the sister contribute to the “joint” gift.