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Let’s face it… every trip to the grocery store seems to cost more than the last. Whether you’re shopping for one or feeding a family, it’s easy to feel sticker shock at the checkout. The good news? You don’t have to spend hours clipping coupons or give up your favorite foods to save money. A few simple habits can make a big difference, and those weekly savings can really add up over time. Here are some of my favorite ways to keep our grocery bill in check.

‘Billboard’ Country Live (Billboard) How’d you like to see Tucker Wetmore and The Red Clay Strays for free the week of CMA Fest? Thanks to Billboard, that’s certainly in the realm of possibility. The respected music magazine will once again take over Luke Combs’ Nashville honky-tonk, Category 10, June 3-5 for Billboard Country Live. The festivities kick off that Wednesday with an exclusive rooftop gathering honoring Billboard‘s Country Power Players.

You can check out Ashley McBryde’s performance of her latest hit, “What If We Don’t,” from Wednesday’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on YouTube. The new album from CMA vocal group of the year The Red Clay Strays, titled Grateful, will arrive June 5. You can check out the music video for the opening track, “Demons in Your Choir,” now. Dolly Parton’s third collaboration with jewelry designer Kendra Scott, The Coat of Many Colors Collection, is out now.

We have our first look at The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping. Lionsgate has released a teaser for the prequel film, which shows a young Haymitch Abernathy, played by Joseph Zada, being chosen as a tribute for the 50th Hunger Games. The teaser shows glimpses of the arena and counts down from 10 as we see the tributes – 48 instead of the usual 24 – prepare to fight to the death.

Task and House of the Dragon are among the shows returning for another season on HBO. The network announced Thursday that Task, the Mark Ruffalo-starring crime drama series, will be back for season 2, while the Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon will return for season 4. The third season of House of the Dragon will air in summer 2026, with the fourth season airing in 2028.

Nate Smith and Tyler Hubbard are getting to work to promote their new collaboration, “After Midnight.” Though it will technically take place before the clock strikes 12, Nate and Tyler are taking over Mel’s Drive-In in Downtown Nashville on Thursday night. From kitchen to table service, the two are ready to sling some hash to draw attention to their new song, even hawking a half-price pancake special as an extra incentive.

Cynthia Erivo has made her first public comments regarding the Nov. 13 incident in which Ariana Grande was accosted by an online prankster during the Wicked:For Good premiere in Singapore. Erivo told Savannah Guthrie on NBC’s Today show Thursday why she stepped between the man, Johnson Wen, and her co-star Grande, and physically pulled him off her before security took him away. “I was really thinking, I just wanted to make sure my friend was safe,” Erivo told Guthrie.

A sequel to The Family Stone is in the works. Thomas Bezucha, who wrote and directed the 2005 film, said in a recent interview with CNN that he has been working on a follow-up to the original film. The original movie follows the Stone family at Christmastime as they navigate matriarch Sybil Stone’s (Diane Keaton) cancer diagnosis. Bezucha said he was working on the new script when he learned of Keaton’s death on Oct. 11 at the age of 79.

The upcoming espionage thriller series Ponies now has a premiere date. Peacock has announced that the show will debut to the platform on Jan. 15. The show is set in Moscow in the year 1977. Emilia Clarke and Haley Lu Richardson star as two women who work as secretaries in the American Embassy. When their husbands are killed mysteriously in the USSR, the duo become CIA operatives … Tulsa King is in need of a showrunner.

The biggest names in country music were honored at the 59th annual Country Music Association Awards Wednesday, hosted by Lainey Wilson.