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☆ Opinion: This generation needs The Talking Heads as much as their parents did
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-22 | by ( Opinion Noah Berlatsky | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

But A24’s newly restored 40th anniversary print of the band’s legendary concert film “Stop Making Sense” feels like a moment for a reappraisal. Talking Heads’ lyrics are undeniably more elliptical than N.W.A.’s or the Dead Kennedys’. “Stop Making Sense” starts off within the bounds of that New Wave approach. Byrne’s idiosyncratic dancing and physical appearance are central to “Stop Making Sense,” and he never stops being malfunctioning, android or ectomorph. “Stop Making Sense” included singers Lynn Mabry and Ednah Hold, legendary Parliament-Funkadelic keyboardist Bernie Worrell, percussionist Steve Scales and The Brothers Johnson guitarist Alex Weir.

Persons: Noah Berlatsky, CNN —, Reagan, “, ” Noah Berlatsky Noah Berlatsky, Trump, Donald Trump, he’s, Devo, Blondie, Joy, Jonathan Demme, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison, Tina Weymouth, Alex Weir, Bernie Worrell, David Byrne, Steve Scales, Lynn Mabry, Ednah Holt, Jordan Cronenweth, ” Byrne, Byrne, — George Clinton, James Brown, Fela Kuti —, Johnson, Harrison, Weir, Mabry, they’re, Sly, ”, Cab Calloway, Weir’s, Al, Reagan’s, — Organizations: CNN, Police, ”, tha, Reagan GOP, Reagan Library, Republican, GOP, New, Joy Division, Weymouth Locations: Chicago

As the all-powerful ruler of oil-rich Gabon, Ali Bongo Ondimba had two passions, music and forests, that forged powerful ties across the world. An accomplished musician, Mr. Bongo recorded a disco-funk album and lured James Brown and Michael Jackson to Gabon. As president, he built a music studio at his seaside palace and played improv jazz to foreign diplomats at state dinners. More recently, Mr. Bongo allied with Western scientists and conservationists, entranced by both the paradisiacal beauty of Gabon, an Arizona-sized country covered in lush rainforest and teeming with wildlife, and by his commitment to protecting it. But to his own people, Mr. Bongo, 64, embodied a family dynasty, founded by his father, which had dominated Gabon for 56 years — until this week, when it came crashing down.

Persons: Ali Bongo Ondimba, Bongo, James Brown, Michael Jackson, . Bongo Locations: Gabon, an Arizona

☆ This pitmaster is keeping his family’s 89-year-old BBQ restaurant alive—it brought in $1.5 million last year
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-31 | by ( Ashton Jackson | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

McCray's Backyard BBQ and Seafood is serving up ribs with a side of rich history — and now CEO and pitmaster Derrick McCray wants to take the mom-and-pop restaurant nationwide. "Uncle Jay brought my father up in the barbecue business and made him a barbecue extraordinaire," he tells CNBC Make It. And he was pretty much the only black restaurant business in his area during that time." Declared the "war on drugs" by President Nixon in 1971, the epidemic hurt the health and profitability of McCray's Backyard BBQ and Seafood. It was a major wake-up call for McCray, and ultimately led him back home to take over the BBQ business.

Persons: pitmaster Derrick McCray, McCray, Jay Harvey, Uncle Jay, Jesse Jackson, James Brown, Isaac Hayes, Nixon, FAMU, everything's, Uncle Harvey Organizations: CNBC, Klan, Florida, Mechanical University, Dixie, United States Football League, Super Bowl Locations: Palm Beach , Florida, South Florida, Winn, Dallas , Texas

☆ DJ Casper, Whose Hit Song ‘Cha-Cha Slide’ Made You Dance, Dies at 58
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-08 | by ( Derrick Bryson Taylor | More About Derrick Bryson Taylor | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

DJ Casper, the creator of the “Cha-Cha Slide,” an infectious song from the early 2000s that sparked an international line-dance craze that rivaled the Electric Slide and drew people to the dance floor at wedding receptions, bar mitzvahs and family cookouts, has died. His wife, Kim Bradshaw, confirmed his death in a statement to ABC7 Chicago. No cause was given, but Casper had cancer for several years. In her statement to the news station, she said: “Casper was a fun-loving, giving person. Casper was born Willie Perry Jr. in Chicago on May 31, 1965.

Persons: DJ Casper, Kim Bradshaw, Casper, Bradshaw, “ Casper, Willie Perry Jr, James Brown, Teddy Pendergrass Organizations: ABC7 Chicago Locations: Chicago

☆ Rhiannon Giddens Is a Songwriter, Too
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-07 | by ( Jon Pareles | More About Jon Pareles | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Giddens amassed the songs on “You’re the One” over more than a decade, channeling and mixing favorite styles, mingling homages and hybrids. Its oldest song is “Hen in the Foxhouse,” a cheerful yet pointedly feminist funky blues — with a scat-singing bridge — that she wrote 14 years ago. “In terms of my own songwriting lineage, my lyricist lineage, it’s a through line: Stephen Sondheim, Tom Lehrer, Tin Pan Alley. “She wanted this new album to be brighter and lighter and open and colorful,” Jack Splash said in a phone interview, and she wanted all of her musical influences to come into play. It has a large room where a band of a dozen musicians — merging Giddens’s folky regulars with Jack Splash’s R&B experts — could record together live.

Persons: Giddens, “, ”, Stephen Sondheim, Tom Lehrer, Tin, Jack Splash, Valerie June, Kendrick Lamar, CeeLo, James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Eric Clapton, Allman, Jack Splash’s, — Organizations: Bee Locations: Miami, Louisiana

☆ What Pan Am flight attendants did next
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-17 | by ( Annita Thomas | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

Pan Am has always been synonymous with glamor, and its flight attendants lived their opportunities to the max. Pan Am flight attendants doubled as ambassadors for the airline. Seven former Pan Am flight attendants tell us where they ended up. Memories live on, with many of us becoming members of World Wings International, a non-profit organization of former Pan Am flight attendants. Other former Pan Am flight attendants have unique ways of honoring the airline.

Persons: CNN —, Pan, ”, Camille Lewis, Camille Lewis Camille Lewis's, Camille Lewis’s, Mother Teresa, primatologist Jane Goodall, Michèle Bennett, ‘, Doc ’ Duvalier, Camille, Phillip Keene Phillip Keene, Phillip Keene, Keene, Andrew Eccles, John Gielgud, Tracey Ullman, hairstylist Vidal Sassoon, Huey Lewis, –, “, Buzz Watson, Karren Pope, Onwukwe, Susan L, Taylor, Coretta Scott King, Don King, James Brown, Linda Reynolds, Reynolds, Walter Cronkite, ” Reynolds, Joe, ” Penny Powell Penny Powell, Penny Powell, Powell, Elena Williams Elena Williams, Elena Williams, Williams, John F, Kennedy, Jr, “ I’m Elena Sugarman, ” Annita Thomas Annita Thomas, Annita Stokes Thomas I, jetsetting, I’d, Thomas, Annita Stokes Thomas, William Tolbert, Kurt Strumpf, David Hinson, David Jeffery, Oprah’s, Linda Little Freire, Pan Amer Organizations: CNN, Pan American World Airways, Boeing, Pan, LA, Hollywood, JFK, “ Clippers, JFK Jr, Metropole Hotel, Roberts, Pan Am, “, World Wings, Pan Am Museum Foundation Locations: Rome, Rio, Pakistan, Rio de Janeiro, Nairobi, Caesar’s Beach, Liberia, Saudi Arabia, Haiti, New York, Paris, Los Angeles, California, London, Amsterdam, Switzerland, Italy, Ireland, Dakar, Senegal, La Guardia, Pan, Maryland, Pan Am, Dhahran, Vietnam, Spanish, Chicago, Memphis, Tokyo, West, East Africa, South Georgia, JFK, Narita, Georgia

☆ Ireland bolsters data watchdog's powers, privacy activists cry foul
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-28 | by ( Padraic Halpin | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

DUBLIN, June 28 (Reuters) - Ireland bolstered its powerful data regulator's ability to stop the sharing of information during its inquiries into global tech companies amid criticism from opposition parties, privacy activists and non-governmental organisations. Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) is the European Union's lead regulator of many of the world's largest technology companies due to their EU headquarters being based in Ireland, and has levied billions of euros worth of fines under the bloc's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), introduced in 2018. The DPC had sought the powers in order to ensure fair procedure, he said. "To be clear nothing in this amendment will prevent a complainant from speaking out about the nature of their data privacy complaint. The European Consumer Organisation, European Digital Rights group and Amnesty International also spoke out against the bill.

Persons: Max Schrems, James Brown, DPC, Johnny Ryan, Catherine Murphy, Padraic Halpin, Grant McCool Organizations: DUBLIN, Data Protection, Irish, of Civil Liberties, European Consumer Organisation, European Digital Rights, Amnesty International, Social Democrats, Thomson Locations: Ireland, European, Austrian

☆ Gardening Is Hard Work. Music Can Help.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-14 | by ( Margaret Roach | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Stoked by the energy of Brown and Green, my garden took root some 35 years ago. It was James and Al who accompanied me throughout its formative stages, always there as I wielded a boombox and case of cassettes alongside my long-handled shovel and loppers. What is a garden, really, but a real-life version of the hit track from James Brown’s 1970 “Sex Machine” album, pulsing with the actual birds and bees? This is motivational music at its best. Brown and Green kept me moving — if not dancing, exactly — shod in my first pair of proper gardening boots, which were, serendipitously, brown and green.

Persons: Brown, James, Al, James Brown’s, Green

☆ Trump was DJ-ing on the patio at Bedminster and playing Elvis, Pavarotti, and James Brown tracks from an iPad after he found out about his second indictment
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-09 | by ( Aditi Bharade | Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Hours after he was indicted, Donald Trump was seen jamming to Elvis, Pavarotti and James Brown. The ex-president was seen DJ-ing at Bedminster after getting indicted, sources told The New York Times. However, he was rage-posting on Truth Social almost simultaneously. Sources close to Trump told The New York Times on Thursday evening that just 90 minutes after he received the call, he was playing tracks by Elvis, opera singer Pavarotti, and James Brown, on his iPad. He then posted a video on Truth Social shortly after, reiterating his stance that he is an innocent man and that "THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION IS TOTALLY CORRUPT."

Persons: Donald Trump, Elvis, Pavarotti, James Brown, —, he'd, Trump, He's, — Trump, James Brown's, he's, Celine Dion, Jim, CNN's Kaitlin Collins Organizations: Bedminster, New York Times, Service, The New York Times, BIDEN, Trump, Mar, DOJ Locations: Bedminster , New Jersey, United States, Mar

☆ A woman claims James Brown was murdered and has given potential evidence to prosecutors. It’s since disappeared
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-30 | by ( Thomas Lake | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Somebody wanted him dead.”After Hollander visited the DA’s office in 2020, prosecutors agreed to check out her story. “Don’t employees from the DA’s office have to sign a log when they handle evidence?” a reporter wrote to Geary. This came about after the items were shipped to her.”Legal counsel Don Geary has since left the Fulton DA’s office. CNN emailed Deputy District Attorney Jeff DiSantis, the DA’s spokesman, to ask about Hollander’s lawsuit and the missing potential evidence. In a recent phone interview with CNN, Hollander called for Willis to account for the missing items from the evidence bags.

☆ Japan's G7 refugee balancing act: door open for Ukrainians, but not many others
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-19 | by ( Elaine Lies | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

The generosity towards Ukrainian evacuees, however, will highlight the stark contrast against Japan's track record with asylum seekers, experts and advocates say, with hopes for broader refugee policy reform still distant. Ukrainians have entered Japan under a framework set up specifically for them and are referred to as evacuees rather than refugees. "We want the world to know how bad Japan's refugee recognition system is," said Keiko Tanaka, head of Osaka-based refugee assistance group Rafiq, noting the group would hold a press conference on Sunday when the G7 summit wraps up. Private charity Nippon Foundation gave her 1 million yen ($7,400)- an annual grant it extends exclusively to Ukrainian evacuees. Advocates are guardedly hopeful the Ukrainian presence could change Japan's overall refugee policy, but Temple University Japan's political science professor James Brown thought it unlikely.

"Because of higher prices, people are buying smaller amounts of groceries overall and may have become more careful not to waste food." "Despite all of that, (there are) 8% to 12% missing items on shelves," he said. "This has created a major, major issue around out-of-stock" in most of the 16 Middle Eastern countries where the company operates, he said. Laurent Thoumine, Accenture's Europe lead for retail, said supermarkets in Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Spain have had the worst stock issues. Products that are scarce in some stores include ketchup, pasta, chocolate, tea, potato chips, toothpaste and pet food, according to Nielsen IQ's Data Impact.

☆ Carol Burnett's birthday special' is an elegant (and hilarious) event
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Marianne Garvey | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Hulton Archive/Getty Images Burnett peeks at a portrait of herself that was being painted by artist Dmitri Vails in 1963. CBS/Getty Images Burnett interacts with the audience of her new variety show, "The Carol Burnett Show," in 1967. CBS/Getty Images Burnett, left, and Cher perform a skit on "The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour" in 1972. CBS/Getty Images Burnett poses with her memoir "One More Time" at a book signing in Beverly Hills, California, in 1986. Will Hart/NBC/Getty Images Carol Burnett Square was unveiled in Los Angeles in front of her alma mater, Hollywood High School, in 2013.

“I Wanna Dance with Somebody” suffers from thin dialogue and predictability — dull trappings intrinsic to biopics. Naomi Ackie as Whitney Houston in "I Wanna Dance with Somebody." To wit: Whitney Houston was a Black woman — ate Black, slept Black, lived Black, cried Black, walked Black and died Black. The most peculiar aspect of this criticism is the fact that nearly all American music is Black music. While Houston has mostly elided criticism that she wasn’t Black enough or didn’t make Black music, the spirit of this indictment lives on today.

Closely watched state Supreme Court races in which divisive issues such as abortion rights and redistricting fueled political donations and record campaign fundraising ended with mixed results on Election Day. Republican Supreme Court Justice Pat DeWine speaks to supporters at an election watch party on November 8, 2022 in Columbus, Ohio. Andrew Spear / Getty ImagesIn North Carolina, Republicans were victorious, claiming the two open seats on the state Supreme Court and flipping its makeup to a 5-2 Republican majority — clinching power for the first time in six years. The 6th Supreme Court District is comprised of 13 largely Republican-leaning counties, and eight of them rejected the amendment, she added. While the state Legislature is controlled by Republicans, voters may not have been swayed by politics when it came to deciding who sits on the state Supreme Court.

☆ Analysis: A new Netflix show keeps the memory of Blockbuster alive
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-05 | by ( Lisa Respers France | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Three things to watch‘Blockbuster’(From left) Olga Merediz and Melissa Fumero in a scene from Netflix's "Blockbuster." In the eponymous show, Randall Park plays Timmy Yoon, “an analog dreamer living in a 5G world” who manages the last Blockbuster location out there. The series is streaming on Netflix now. ‘Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me’Selena Gomez attends the 28th Screen Actors Guild Awards on February 27 in Santa Monica, California. (From left) Melanie Chisholm, Emma Bunton, Melanie Brown, Geri Halliwell and Victoria Beckham of the Spice Girls perform during the Closing Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games on August 12, 2012.

☆ Five years ago, a circus singer called to say James Brown was murdered
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( Thomas Lake | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

On the line was a woman who told me, “James Brown did not die the way they said he died. James Brown, one of the greatest entertainers in American history, died at a hospital in Atlanta in 2006, officially of natural causes. Jacque Hollander's call to Thomas Lake spurred CNN's investigation into James Brown's death. "The James Brown Mystery" is a new, eight-episode investigative podcast from CNN. She’s still convinced that someone murdered James Brown, and that someone murdered Adrienne Brown, and that the killers should be prosecuted.

☆ Jerry Lee Lewis, rock ’n’ roll pioneer who sang ‘Great Balls of Fire,’ dies at 87
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( Brandon Griggs | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

And I’ve been on one all my life,” Lewis said in “Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story,” a 2014 biography by Rick Bragg. Jerry Lee Lewis performs on stage at the Country Music Festival held at Wembley Arena, London in April 1982. In 1989 “Great Balls of Fire!”, a biopic starring Dennis Quaid as Lewis, brought new attention to Lewis’ life and music. Jerry Lee Lewis speaks at the Country Music Hall of Fame 2022 inductees presented by CMA at Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum on May 17, 2022 in Nashville, Tennessee. Well, forget about it, let me hear that song.’”Lewis is survived by his wife, Judith Coghlan Lewis, his children Jerry Lee Lewis III, Ronnie Lewis, Pheobe Lewis and Lori Lancaster, sister Linda Gail Lewis, cousin Swaggart and many grandchildren, nieces and nephews, according to his representative’s statement.

Fischer is also the author of Kentucky’s 2019 “trigger” law, which went into effect when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June and makes most abortions illegal in the state. This year, with 84 seats up for election in state supreme court races nationwide – the highest number in recent years, according to election tracking organization Ballotpedia – these down-ballot races are taking on a heightened significance and scrutiny. Four out of seven of Kentucky’s state Supreme Court seats are up on Nov. 8, with three of those races contested. But if the amendment loses, a legal challenge from the American Civil Liberties Union and Planned Parenthood attempting to overturn the ban would move forward before the state Supreme Court. A ‘new frontier’In Montana, Republicans have accused the seven-member state Supreme Court of holding a “liberal bias,” particularly while Democratic governors filled court vacancies in recent years.

☆ They left the U.S. to 'live the beach life and save money' — take a look at what they eat, spend and do in a week
▼ + stars: | 2021-09-28 | by ( Gabriella M. Lindsay | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

They often ask what it's like to live the beach life. We spend an average of $150 per week on groceries and try to eat most of our meals at home. People love bringing their laptops to the beach, but I prefer to sit on my patio, where it's quiet and sand-free! Zoom In Icon Arrows pointing outwards My husband and I love our day dates at cafes like The Bakery Lab. It's something we all look forward to, and a way to reconnect and unwind from the week.

☆ Vasilii Pavlenco: «În teatrul «De pe strada Trandafirilor» Iurii Harmelin a înrădăcinat multe dintre tradițiile școlii Vahtangov»
▼ + stars: | 2021-03-17 | by ( Mld Media Srl | ) noi.md time to read: +19 min

Noi – îndeosebi, căci Iurii Arcadievici a fost , într-o singură persoană, un regizor remarcabil, pedagog, prieten mai mare, un manager perfect. Spiritul prieteniei, a ajutorului reciproc a fost una dintre principalele învățături ale lui Harmelin. A fost o întorsătură bruscă a soartei, dar lumea teatrului, lumea lui Harmelin m-a vrăjit din primele zile. Iurii Arcadievici a fost și bun, și exigent în același timp. În teatrul «De pe strada Trandafirilor» Iurii Arcadievici a înrădăcinat multe tradiții ale școlii Vahtangov, înainte de toate – spiritul libertății și cel de studio.

Persons: Arcadievici, iurii, RM Alexandr Petrov, Harmelin, Tata, Boris Sciuchin, Iurii, Glen Miller, James Brown ., Selectez, Șolomei, Serghei Druguș ., Alla Haiut, Plus, Goldoni, Nicolai Luchin, Dvs, Bogdan Horohorin, Elena Tendeli, Shakespeare, Elena, Alina Uncu, Alina, Elene Tendeli, Gogol, Cehov, Alexandr Nasencov, Andrei Mihailovici Muraviov, Nicolai Coleada, Sankt Petersburg Alexandr Platunov, Tatiana, Федотастрелец, Василий Теркин Organizations: UNESCO, Trandafirilor, Буксир, Варшавскийнабат, Трактирщиц, КорольЛир, Балтийский дом, Соотечественники, Падампадам, КолядаТеатр Locations: RM, Moldova, Harmelin, Moscova, Marșac, Ostrovschii, Lescov, Coleada, Filatov, CSI, Țările Baltice, Zvenigorod, republican, Tiraspol, Paris, Cipru, Lituania, Belarus, Israel, Ecaterinburg, Celeabinsc, Sankt - Petersburg, Samara, Vladimir, -, Rusiei, Sankt Petersburg, Россия

☆ (video) A fost stabilit care este cel mai bun cântec din toate timpurile
▼ + stars: | 2015-10-13 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +3 min

(video) A fost stabilit care este cel mai bun cântec din toate timpurileSavantul Dr Mick Grierson a stabilit, cu ajutorul unei analize computerizate, care este cel mai bun cântec din toate timpurile. La baza cercetării au stat top chart-uri ale unor publicații cu renume și a inclus 50 de piese muzicale populare. Cea mai bună combinație a tuturor factorilor luați în considerație a fost înregistrată la piesa care a luat locul întâi – „Smells Like Teen Spirit”, Nirvana. „Știința nu poate contribui la obținerea unui cântec perfect”, a subliniat Mick Grierson. „Like A Rolling Stone”, Bob Dylan#8.

Persons: Mick Grierson, John Lenon și, bază, în, această, susține, Descoperă, jos piesa, Vezi, John Lennon, Billie Jean ”, Michael Jackson, ”, „, Jude ”, Bob Dylan, O’Mine ”, Elton John, Chubby Checker, Whitney, David Bowie, Elvis Presley, Judy Garland, Marvin Gaye, Bruce Springsteen, Simon, Garfunkel, Aretha Franklin, Haze ”, Jimi Hendrix, „ Jonny B, Chuck Berry, Bob Marley, Jeff Buckley, Ben E King, „ Papa’s, James Brown, Ray Charles, Martha Reeves, Sam Cooke, Ike, Tina Turner Organizations: Beatles, „, Eagles, Zeppelin, Oasis, Whitney Houston, Radiohead, Stone, Boys, Police, Vandellas, Prince Locations: jos, „, Dire Straits

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