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Featured News Articles
The Princess of Cool
By Katie Pollock Sometimes, if you are Deana Martin, people hold on to you, and they won’t let go. Women old enough to be your mother wrap their hands around your arm in a death grip, and they won’t release you until they’ve had their say. They want to tell you stories about the man who [...]
What’s Your Favorite?
By Jeff Houghton After his rise to national fame in the ’70s beginning with his songs “Spiders and Snakes” and “Swamp Witch,” Jim Stafford made 24 appearances on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. In fact, he had an open invitation. Today, he speaks about Carson admiringly: “His job was to make that thing work. His [...]
Form, Function and Family
By Nichole Lemmon When Dr. Rich Makuch decided to move to Branson in 2003 to take a staff radiologist job at Skaggs Community Health Center, he was charged with the challenge of finding a home for his wife, Angie Ann, and their large family. The Georgia transplants were looking for a large home. Rich had looked [...]
The Real Yakov Smirnoff
By Jacob Harper Something’s different about Yakov Smirnoff today. At a Saturday morning show in his eponymous theater, he’s not telling jokes about Russia or using catchphrases or really doing anything that you expect to see at a Yakov “What a Country!” Smirnoff show. In the second half of the variety act, Yakov, clad in a [...]
Highly Vocal
By Tiesha Miller It sounds like a trumpet, but it is not a trumpet. It might sound like a beat box, flute or guitar, but it is not any of these things. Whatever the sound, it’s coming from one of the Knudsens who make up the group SIX. “Sitting through our show you forget that we are [...]
Work and Play
By Katie Pollock “I can entertain 75 people out here,” says Bill Killian, of The Killian Group. His Springfield-based construction company built Branson Landing and has clients all over the country. And when he says he has outdoor space for more than six dozen people, he’s not talking about a backyard. He’s talking about a balcony. [...]
Up in the Air
By Tiesha Miller The rumors of a Branson airport circulated for so long that as the years passed it seemed like a pie in the sky. No more. After a seven-year fight on the behalf of Aviations Facility Co., Steve Peet, president and CEO of Branson Airport LLC, broke ground on July 17 for the privately [...]
Restaurant Renaissance
By Gregory Holman Elizabeth Farris is a member of Branson’s Tsahiridis clan. Her father, Dimitrios Tsahiridis, owned Dimitri’s restaurant for about 25 years before it closed in the mid-’90s, which makes the Tsahiridises a fixture-family in Branson. They’ve been there since well before the Branson-got-on-60 Minutes-and-became-famous era, much less Branson-built-Branson-Landing-and-wants-to-modernize- era. Yet she’s part of Branson’s modernization; [...]
Europe Meets the Ozarks?
By Clarissa French Branson businessman David Cushman comes from a long line of Taney County land developers. His parents started Mutton Hollow; today he dreams of turning on a skeptical Branson to an entertainment-resort village called Pinnable Falls. A Branson native son with a bold vision for the future, David Cushman aspires to bring Branson tourism to [...]
Word of Mouth, Now on Steroids
By Gregory Holman In the same way that the YouTube debates have remade this year’s presidential primary season, a bottom-up, user-generated conversation carried on via Internet is having its effect on how people travel to Branson. Sites like TripAdvisor, Gusto and iGoUgo not only allow for instant, in-your-jammies price comparisons, but message boards and review posts [...]































