Buford Pusser, you will recall, is the Tennessee sheriff who combined Lester Maddox's ax handle with Estes Kefauver's populism and John Wayne's heroism in "Walking Tall," a movie eventually seen by 35 million people. I was not among them. I was out of town at the time.Still, duty calls, and over the weekend I went to see "Part Two Walking Tall." I don't know what I expected, but what I found, to my surprise, was a wellcrafted action film with some good performances and a nice feeling for its characters. After suffering through a summer of Good Old Boys (of whom the least bearable was Joe Don Baker, the original Buford Pusser, in "Mitchell"), here at last is a movie about people whose personalities and motivations seem halfway plausible. That's largely because of Bo Svenson, who stepped in to play the lead after Buford Pusser, having just signed up to play himself in his first movie role, ran his sports car over an embankment in an exc
It s no secret that Grand Rapids is a city that loves art, from ArtPrize, one of the world s largest art competitions to the numerous murals around downtown Grand Rapids.
Well, on Wednesdays through April, you could actually take a free guided tour of the different public art and outdoor art murals around Grand Rapids on buildings, overpasses, utility boxes, and more with Downtown Grand Rapids Inc. and Grand Rapids Running Tours who partnered for the spring tours.
As their website reads,
These are murals - street and wall artworks.- painted by artists that celebrate beauty, calls to action, or tributes to heroes. The murals transform otherwise unnoticeable - or worse- blighted spaces into must-see, energizing attractions.
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