Miranda Lambert is offering a look inside her trusty Airstream, Wanda The Wanderer.
Miranda has had the 1954 Flying Cloud Airstream with her on the road for the past decade. Designed in part by her longtime friends Amie Sikes and Jolie Sikes-Smith, hosts of Junk Gypsies, Wandacombines her rock and roll vibe with the feeling of home. “Thank God her walls can’t talk because there’s stories from in here,” Miranda quips to People.
Among the singer’s favorite pieces on the bus is an old church pew that’s been repurposed as a bench painted gold with the words “Jesus drank wine.”
Then there’s a pair of maroon velvet chairs with funky yet comfy pillows, including a pink tie-dye one and another with a desert landscape, where the singer likes to lounge after a show — often with a drink in hand. “This seems to be the end of the night area where you lean back with your last night cap and chill and listen to music,” she describes.
Another favorite item is a rounded snakeskin couch that greets you as you walk in the door, adding a “rock and roll vibe” to the free-spirited camper. All the curtains are “handmade and homemade,” in reference to the lyrics in her “Airstream Song.” The Texas native also incorporated “glamping elements” like a retro tin water canteen that can withstand the literal bumps along the road. “It needs to be hearty like we are,” Miranda says with a smile.
Wanda was damaged in a vehicle accident in Oregon in 2017, but they managed to piece her back together, complete with a crown on top. “She kept her crown on like a true road queen,” Miranda jokes. “Wanda’s out forever now.”
(NEW YORK) — The wildfire that is threatening an iconic grove of sequoia trees in Yosemite National Park could now affect human health hundreds of miles in the opposite direction.
An air quality advisory has been issued for California’s Bay Area, specifically the North Bay and East Bay regions, as the Washburn Fire continues to grow on the southern portion of Yosemite National Park.
The fire, which sparked Thursday near the Washburn Trail in Yosemite’s Mariposa Grove, had expanded to more than 2,700 acres by Monday — inching dangerously close to sequoia trees that have been in the region for thousands of years. More than 2,000 of the acres burned are located in the national park, according to Yosemite Fire and Aviation Management.
In the regions surrounding the San Francisco Bay about 200 miles west of the fire, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District is warning residents of pollutant levels that are expected to be in the moderate range.
Satellite images show significant amounts of smoke wafting over Northern California’s Pacific coast.
Despite the significant smog, air quality is not expected to worsen beyond federal health standards, according to the agency.
The fire is expected to continue “moderately” over the next 12 hours, but fire activity will increase and “actively” spread through the week due to warming temperatures and subsequent drying, according to Yosemite Fire.
The management of the fire is progressing at a relatively slow pace as firefighters set off backfires to clear the fuel that compiled in the region over a large tree mortality event between 2013 and 2015.
Since the fire is slow-moving and not affecting human safety, firefighters are able to take the time to clear the fuel, which consists of both standing trees and dead leaves and brush that have fallen to the ground, fire experts told ABC News.
About 360 firefighters are battling the Washburn Fire, according to Yosemite Fire.
The fuel, however, is posing a significant safety threat to firefighters on the ground, the experts said. The spread may also slow once the fire reaches some of the recent fire scars, according to Yosemite Fire.
The Mariposa Grove, one of the most popular destinations in Yosemite National Park and home to more than 500 mature giant sequoia trees, remains closed, as does the Highway 41 entrance into Yosemite National Park. Sequoias, native to the Sierra Nevada mountain range in California, are adaptive to fire, but intense fire amplified by the dry fuel could kill them, according to experts.
No reports of damage to any of the named trees in the grove have been released, and some tree trunks have been wrapped in fire-resistant foil as protection, a method used in September when the KNP Complex Fire threatened trees in Sequoia National Park’s Giant Forest.
Sprinklers have also been set up around several trees, including the Grizzly Giant, the most famous giant sequoia at Yosemite, which stands at 209 feet. Fire officials hope the steady stream of water, combined with prescribed burns, will be enough to protect the trees from a fatal encounter with the wildfire.
Wildfires sparked by lightning have killed about 20% of the 75,000 large sequoias in the West in recent years, The Associated Press reported. Protections for the Mariposa Grove began as early as 1864, when President Abraham Lincoln signed legislation to conserve the grove, marking the first time the U.S. federal government set aside a natural wonder so that future generations could enjoy it.
That initiative later became the model for the National Park system.
ABC News’ Jenna Harrison contributed to this report.
(WASHINGTON) — An Ohio man who accused Joe Biden, other Democrats, and the mainstream media of “treason” is set to testify in a public hearing Tuesday before the House committee investigating the attack on the U.S. Capitol last year, according to a source familiar with the matter.
The hearing is expected to focus on the rise of radical extremism in the United States, and the source said one of the key witnesses will be Stephen Ayres of Warren, Ohio, who recently pleaded admitted to illegally entering the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
A former spokesman for the Oath Keepers militia group, Jason Van Tatenhove, will also be testifying Tuesday, the source said.
In court documents filed last month, Ayres acknowledged that the day before the riot, he drove to Washington, D.C., to protest Congress’ certification of the 2020 presidential election results.
On Facebook, Ayres had spotlighted then-President Donald Trump’s call for supporters to descend on Washington on Jan. 6, which Trump said will “be wild” in a Tweet he posted on Dec. 19, 2020.
During Tuesday’s hearing, the committee hopes to explore the impact that Tweet had on Trump’s supporters, committee aides said. The hearing is expected to also include clips from former White House counsel Pat Cipollone’s deposition with congressional investigators last week, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.
Two days before he left for the nation’s capital, Ayres posted a message on Facebook saying, “Mainstream media, social media, Democrat party, FISA courts, Chief Justice John Roberts, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, etc….all have committed TREASON against a sitting U.S. president!!! All are now put on notice by ‘We The People!'”
In the week before that, Ayres said in social media posts that it was “time for us to start standing up to tyranny!” and he warned that “If the [deep state] robs president Trump!!! Civil War will ensue!” according to the FBI.
Ayres joined the mob outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, then entered the building that afternoon, court documents say.
Last month, he pleaded guilty to one federal charge of disorderly conduct inside a restricted building. His sentencing is scheduled for September.
An attorney representing Ayres declined to comment when contacted by ABC News.
Gabby Windey and Rachel Recchia, who first appeared on Clayton Echard‘s season of The Bachelor, began their journey as the first Bachelorettes to co-star in a full season on Monday by meeting their 32 potential suitors — the most in the show’s history.
If you recall, Gabby, a 30-year-old ICU nurse from Denver and Rachel, a 25-year-old a flight instructor from Clermont, Florida, were devastated when Clayton simultaneously broke up with both of them, following his admission that his heart belonged to Susie Evans. On Monday, however, Gabby and Rachel were ready to move on — even if that meant breaking all the rules on night one.
Both the ladies and their suitors — which included a set of twins, a magician, a drag racer and a meatball enthusiast — tried their best to figure out the logistics of dealing with so many men and two Bachelorettes, which proved to be a daunting task. There simply wasn’t enough time for the women to talk to every guy in the allotted time.
Two men — Tino, a general contractor from California, and Mario, a personal trainer from Illinois — were lucky enough to snag Rachel and Gabby’s respective first impression roses.
As for the others, the two Bachelorettes decided to bend the rules, first, by eliminating three of the men with whom they did get to speak, but didn’t feel a connection. They were Roby, the magician from Los Angeles; and Justin and Joey, the twins from Connecticut.
The remaining men were informed that, in the interest of giving all them a fair shot, Gabby and Rachel had canceled the first rose ceremony, and all of them would be moving forward.
Here are the remaining men after the rose ceremony:
Alec, 27, a wedding photographer from Houston, Texas
Aven, 28, a sales executive from San Diego, California
Brandan, 23, a bartender from Carlsbad, California
Chris, 30, a mentality coach from Redondo Beach, California
Colin, 36, a sales director from Chicago, Illinois
Erich, 29, a real estate analyst from Bedminster, New Jersey
Ethan, 27, an advertising executive from New York, New York
Hayden, 29, a leisure executive from Tampa, Florida
Jacob, 27, a mortgage broker from Scottsdale, Arizona
James, 25, a meatball enthusiast from Winnetka, Illinois
Jason, 30, an investment banker from Santa Monica, California
John, 26, English Teacher from Nashville, Tennessee
Johnny, 25, a realtor from Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
Jordan H., 35, a software developer from Tampa, Florida
Jordan V., 27, a drag racer from Alpharetta, Georgia
Justin B., 32, a physical therapist from Solana Beach, California
Kirk, 29, a college football coach from Lubbock, Texas
Logan, 26, a videographer from San Diego, California
Mario, 31, a personal trainer from Naperville, Illinois
Matt, 25, a shipping executive from San Diego, California
Michael, 32, a pharmaceutical salesman from Long Beach, California
Nate, 33, an electrical engineer from Chicago, Illinois
Quincey, 25, a life coach from Miami, Florida
Ryan, 36, an investment director from Boston, Massachusetts
Spencer, 27, an army officer from Chicago, Illinois
Termayne, 28, a crypto guy from Naperville, Illinois
Tino, 28, a general contractor from Playa Del Rey, California
Tyler, 25, a small business owner from Wildwood, New Jersey
Zach, 25, a tech executive from Anaheim Hills, California
The Bachelorette returns Monday at 8 p.m. ET on ABC.
Looking back on his breakthrough album, Golden Road,Keith Urban says the songs have stood the test of time in a way he didn’t imagine when he was making the record 20 years ago.
Released in 2002, Golden Road features several of the Australia native’s signature hits, like “Somebody Like You” and “You’ll Think of Me,” and he attributes the album’s enduring success to its “good bones.” Golden Road debuted at #2 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart and has since been certified triple Platinum.
“Some of these songs have proved much more resilient than I imagined at the time, not that I was thinking that far ahead. I never have, I’m always in the moment. I wasn’t thinking about these songs being played 20 years later,” Keith explains. “It’s crazy, but I think they were built right from the beginning, and so they continue to have good bones … I think they can take a fresh coat of paint every few seasons and not lose their center, but still flow with the other songs really well.”
Looking at his career as a whole, Keith notes that while his sound has evolved over time, the heart of his music hasn’t changed, one of the many ways his songs connect through the years.
“I think for all the changes that I may have or not have made musically over the years, there is threads that go through all of it. I didn’t go make a speed metal record one year and then polka the next record. There’s threads through all of it, and I think playing live is the premier opportunity for me to show that those songs thread together and make sense together much more than sometimes albums alone,” he says.
Disturbed has shared a preview of the band’s new single “Hey You.”
The “Down with the Sickness” outfit has tweeted a video featuring the first 30 seconds of the track, showcasing its opening riff and cutting off just as frontman David Draiman yelps the song’s title.
You’ll be able to hear the rest when “Hey You” premieres this Thursday, July 14.
“Hey You” is expected to be the first single off the next Disturbed album, the follow-up to 2018’s Evolution. No details about the record have officially been announced, but Draiman said in a tweet last month that he’s “very proud” of the “amazing” album, while adding it includes a “surprise track…that’s going to blow your minds.”
Next year, Vance Joy will launch a U.S. headlining tour in support of his new album, In Our Sweet Time. In addition to bringing the fresh material to the States, the Australian artist is planning on adding a new cover to the set.
“I love that song ‘Solsbury Hill’ by Peter Gabriel,” Vance tells ABC Audio. “It’s got a great guitar riff, so I’ve been learning that guitar riff. I’d love to be able to weave that into a song at some point.”
Vance is no stranger to including covers in his live shows and used to include a rendition of the Fleetwood Mac classic “The Chain” in the set — perhaps a surprising choice for the acoustic-based singer/songwriter. Even now, Vance wonders how he and his bandmates were able to pull it off.
“It’s funny looking back at the songs we’ve played,” Vance says. “Like, how did we even do ‘The Chain?” Like, it’s a proper guitar riff. But, we managed it.”
“Sometimes you look back and you go, ‘Jeez, we were pretty ambitious trying to cover such classic songs,'” he laughs.
Vance’s U.S. tour kicks off in February. In Our Own Sweet Time, which features the singles “Missing Piece” and “Clarity,” is out now.
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It feels like forever since the Jonas Brothers released their reunion album, Happiness Begins, in 2019. But while appearing on Live with Kelly & Ryan on Monday, Kevin Jonas revealed that new music is on the way — and the group is more proud of it than “anything we’ve ever done.”
Asked about the status of the new music, Kevin said, “We’ve been working on the album for a couple of years now. It’s funny, it’s many years [of work] that have come together in four weeks, you know? Like, you search and you work really hard and all of a sudden it happens!” He mentioned they’re finishing the album right now.
Asked how Kevin, Joe and Nick were able to coordinate their schedules to get the album done, Kevin told Ryan Seacrest, “You know, we’re all in different places, everyone’s got their different schedules. But we know that … let’s call it the ‘mother ship’ that is the Jonas Brothers … it’s our priority and it’s something we want to get right. I think it means too much to us.”
“But I can honestly say this is the most exciting and we’re the most proud of this music that we’ve ever been about anything we’ve ever done,” Kevin teased.
When asked when we might hear the music, Kevin said he wasn’t sure. When Ryan pressed him about whether or not we’ll see a new album before Christmas, Kevin swore he wasn’t holding back — he honestly doesn’t know.
Of course, there have been a few changes in the JoBros’ lives since 2019: Joe and his wife, SophieTurner, welcomed their first child and are expecting another, while Nick and his wife, PriyankaChopra, welcomed a baby girl via surrogate.
The Bros’ most recent single, “Who’s In Your Head,” came out in September 2021.
In her real life, Selena Gomez has kissed quite a few celebrities — Nick Jonas, Justin Bieber and The Weeknd, just to name a few. But a few weeks ago on her Hulu series Only Murders in The Building, we saw Selena kiss a real-life good friend of hers: Cara Delevingne.
Cara plays Alice, an art gallery owner who’s a new friend of Selena’s character, Mabel. The smooch happens after Mabel, egged on by Alice, destroys a piece of art in the process of working through some of her issues, and then goes in for the kiss.
“It was definitely fun,” Cara recalls ABC Audio, but adds, “It was a very intense scene. And I think for those two characters, the way that it builds … clearly, Alice is kind of, you know, completely enticed by [Mabel] and just so astounded by her. It was just … they wrote it so well … it was just an amazing thing to be a part of.”
So, how was the kiss? “Of course it was wonderful kissing Selena!” Cara laughs. “Who wouldn’t like kissing Selena?”
But for Cara, the best part of being on Only Murders in the Building wasn’t making out with Selena — it was just spending time with her.
“We don’t get to hang out as much because we’re so busy. So being able to hang out all the time is like the nicest thing in the world,” says Cara. “[But] also working together, because she’s such a professional. She’s so good at what she does.”
“She’s so talented and so funny,” Cara says, adding, “Even if we weren’t friends, I’d be so blown away by her!”
Only Murders in The Building is now streaming on Hulu and has been renewed for a third season.
Graham Nash launches a U.S. summer leg of his “An Intimate Evening of Songs and Stories” tour this Wednesday, July 13, in Red Bank, New Jersey.
The new outing, which will visit various venues in the Northeast, is mapped out through an August 8 concert in Ocean City, New Jersey, and follows a March-April trek that saw the 80-year-old folk-rock legend playing mainly in the Midwest and Southern U.S.
The early-2022 concerts featured Graham performing songs he recorded with Crosby, Stills & Nash, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, The Hollies and from his solo career, as well as select covers.
Nash tells ABC Audio that for his upcoming concerts, he wants to add some brand-new tunes to his set that will appear on his next solo album, which he revealed recently is almost finished, but he admits that this may be a challenge.
“There’s only so much time,” Graham notes. “[W]hen you have the amount of songs that I have [that fans want to hear], plus all the stuff that I want to do in between, plus…the new stuff, I have to really do some serious thinking about which songs not to play.”
During his April-March trek, Nash performed such interesting covers as his ex-girlfriend Joni Mitchell‘s “A Case of You,” Neil Young‘s “Only Love Can Break Your Heart” and the Stephen Stills-penned CSNY tune “4 + 20,” but it remains to be seen if those tunes will appear in his upcoming sets.
Nash also has a fall leg lined up that will stop in cities throughout the Western U.S., and will run from a September 29 concert in Tacoma, Washington, through a three-show stand, October 27-29, in Park City, Utah. Check out his full schedule at GrahamNash.com.
