It's 5:00 Somewhere
It’s 5:00 Somewhere
Welcome to Happy Hour at the NewsViews Lounge on a fantastic October afternoon! It’s been one of the most beautiful times of year here in my Midwestern back yard, with so many, many days of MORE
It’s 5:00 Somewhere
It's 5:00 Somewhere
It’s 5:00 Somewhere
The seasons are changing, as denoted by the changing theme of the NewsViews home page. The days get shorter, the light rays get longer, and are soon to be featured dappling through the trees, drawing MORE
It's 5:00 Somewhere
It’s 5:00 Somewhere
Things got real this week when Joe Biden gave the country the “dad talk” about the resisters who are wearing us out and making us sick, literally and figuratively. This minority of self-described “patriots” forget MORE
It's 5:00 Somewhere
It’s 5:00 Somewhere
It’s Labor Day weekend already, so I believe that officially makes it Pumpkin Spice Season, amirite? I admit I pulled out a cookie mix — Betty Crocker/Pillsbury? — and baked some up in the air MORE
It's 5:00 Somewhere
It’s 5:00 Somewhere
Another week has gone by and NewsViews was there with you when we found out we lost an epic rock and roll friend, Charlie Watts. Drummer of the Rolling Stones for 60 years, Charlie didn’t MORE
It's 5:00 Somewhere
It’s 5:00 Somewhere
Today, class, let’s talk about box wine. It’s been one of those weeks that has me considering quantity over quality. The world watches what’s going down in Afghanistan. Desperate people are flooding the last shred MORE
It's 5:00 Somewhere
It’s 5:00 Somewhere
Well, I do hope you plan to continue your celebrations well into the night on this First Annual Reinstatement Day with an evening of song, dance and reinstatement libations. There’s a party goin’ on right MORE
It's 5:00 Somewhere
It’s 5:00 Somewhere
Yesterday it was reported that Charlie Watts, 80, would not be joining the Rolling Stones 2021 U.S. Fall Tour due to a successful medical procedure for an unknown condition. “Charlie has had a procedure which MORE
It's 5:00 Somewhere
It’s 5:00 Somewhere
My Twitter feed has alerted me to plenty of sad news from the world of music recently. This week alone, Twitterverse counted three deaths in the rock and roll sphere. Two lesser knowns, Mike Howe, MORE
It's 5:00 Somewhere
It’s 5:00 Somewhere
Well, it’s soon to be 5:00 Somewhere In Time on Mackinac Island, as one of our treasures here in the northern neck of my woods beckons. This week I’ll be on the road and eventually MORE
It's 5:00 Somewhere
It’s 5:00 Somewhere
After spending half of the week without internet service, it’s time for me to get back to the business of celebrating all things weekend-ish. Isn’t it what we work for? Grab your headbands, everybody…… Yeah, MORE
It's 5:00 Somewhere
It’s 5:00 Somewhere
So it’s the 4th of July weekend. Woot-woot! Time to celebrate the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, signed 245 years ago! We owe our thanks to those radical revolutionaries and all of their hostility MORE
Free Chat Friday
Free Chat Friday, Week 26
Happy Friday, News Viewers, welcome to the Land of the Free and the Home of the Chat. . . . . That reminds me, Independence Day is coming up and I wonder, is this nation MORE
It's 5:00 Somewhere
It’s 5:00 Somewhere
By this time next Friday, it will be July. Aside from all of my mixed feelings about celebrating Independence Day and all of that flag-waving around the country, July makes me melancholy marking the mid-point MORE
It's 5:00 Somewhere
It’s 5:00 Somewhere
Sunday brings Father’s Day, in case anyone has forgotten. My hope is that each of us has something to celebrate about Father’s Day. You may be one, or you may have parented in another sense. MORE
It's 5:00 Somewhere
It’s 5:00 Somewhere
So this week I started planning (for real this time) a road trip for next month. Each summer we look forward to packing up the summer car and heading Up North — more a state MORE
It's 5:00 Somewhere
It’s 5:00 Somewhere
It’s hot, and I have (vaccinated) out-of-state family coming. Now I don’t have the heat wave the west coast is having, but we are looking at 90’s and humid right through the weekend. So I MORE
It's 5:00 Somewhere
It’s 5:00 Somewhere
Summer officially kicks off this weekend, and while it hasn’t climbed above 50 degrees yet today, I’m willing to overlook today’s temps to a sunnier and warmer tomorrow, and I’m beginning to think about summer MORE
It's 5:00 Somewhere
It’s 5:00 Somewhere
Cheers and welcome to the 5:00 Somewhere Lounge where I’m hanging out in my flip-flops with a cool summer cocktail in hand! Woot-woot! We’ve been unseasonably warm in the mid- and upper-80s for a few MORE
It's 5:00 Somewhere
It’s 5:00 Somewhere
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced its class of 2021 inductees this week, to join a list of those who shaped the history of music. In order to be inducted into the Cleveland MORE
It's 5:00 Somewhere
It’s 5:00 Somewhere
There is a 147th run for the roses on Saturday in Kentucky, the first Jewel of the Triple Crown and the “most exciting two minutes in sports.” A day for wild and crazy hats (no MORE
It's 5:00 Somewhere
It’s 5:00 Somewhere
On April 23, 1971 — yes, 50 years ago today — the world received an interesting gift of music and art with the release of Sticky Fingers by the Rolling Stones. My BFF and I MORE
It's 5:00 Somewhere
It’s 5:00 Somewhere
Some new music has been slowly dribbling out this spring, which has me looking around more on Spotify — browsing for release dates and some promising, hopeful additions to approaching patio evenings with a bluetooth MORE
It's 5:00 Somewhere
It’s 5:00 Somewhere
Living through a pandemic for over a year has given me an opportunity to begin appreciating more wine, and I’m fortunate enough to have a four generation family winery near me whose delivery drivers are MORE
It's 5:00 Somewhere
It’s 5:00 Somewhere
It was Opening Day for baseball yesterday, and as Michiganders have been known to refer to it before, it was Sno-pening Day. If the thought of bundling up with your cold beer and hot dog MORE