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Editor’s note: This is the latest installment in a recurring series where a Pucks and Rec writer will select the top contemporary actor from each city in a hockey league. This week, we focus on the current markets in the SPHL. All filmography and award information was found on the Internet Movie Database. Birmingham: Courteney…

Editor’s note: This is the latest installment in a recurring series where a Pucks and Rec writer will select the top contemporary actor from each city in a hockey league. This week, we focus on the current markets in the USHL Western Conference. All filmography and award information was found on the Internet Movie Database.…

Editor’s note: This is the latest installment in a recurring series where a Pucks and Rec writer will select the top contemporary actor from each city in a hockey league. This week, we focus on the current markets in the USHL Eastern Conference. All filmography and award information was found on the Internet Movie Database.…

This author finished this column in a location where the day’s forecasted high breached the 70s. A Christmas song is thus all the more crucial to salvaging any semblance of a holiday atmosphere. Even when spring- or summer-esque air comes expectedly, people seek relief via Christmas tunes. A slew of noteworthy Christmas song origin stories…

This season bucked a trend where a new Modern Family Christmas episode premiered every odd-numbered year. A bona fide holiday-heavy episode marked the midway points of the first, third, fifth and seventh seasons. The eighth season had “Snow Ball” closing out 2016, but was more of a normal episode featuring a winter dance. The ABC sitcom will…

Did anyone else notice how the hype for A Bad Moms Christmas fizzled before Thanksgiving? At the other extreme, who else remembered that this Monday marks 25 years since The Muppet Christmas Carol hit theaters? Namely two weeks before Christmas of that year? Forget the debate over entertainment value. The two aforementioned American Christmas movies…

With all due respect to the late Bobby Helms, “Jingle Bell Rock” had ample evolution ahead when he introduced it. Maybe it was a mark of the era, but hardly anything about Helms’ original 1957 recording matches the title. His suggestion “to rock the night away” comes closer to evoking visuals of sleeping in a…

Editor’s note: This is the final installment of a series in which a Pucks and Rec writer will select the top contemporary entertainment citizen of every city in a select minor-league hockey division. The seven markets comprising the ECHL Mountain Division are this week’s focus. All filmography and award information is courtesy of the Internet…

Editor’s note: This is the latest installment of a series in which a Pucks and Rec writer will select the top contemporary entertainment citizen of every city in a select minor-league hockey division. The seven markets comprising the ECHL Central Division are this week’s focus. All filmography and award information is courtesy of the Internet…

Editor’s note: This is the latest installment of a series in which a Pucks and Rec writer will select the top contemporary entertainment citizen of every city in a select minor-league hockey division. The seven markets comprising the ECHL South Division are this week’s focus. All filmography and award information is courtesy of the Internet…