Douglas “803Fresh” Furtick recently sat down with Rick Wade of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the conversation quickly moved beyond music to lessons in entrepreneurship, ownership, and building a sustainable business for long-term…
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World Cafe : World Cafe Words and Music Podcast : NPR
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Chicago Journalists Swap Bylines For Basslines In New Christmas Album For Charity
CHICAGO — Local journalists are reporting the news and recording holiday tunes.
A group of Chicago reporters who have dubbed themselves the Chicago Media Chorus dropped their first Christmas album, “Christmas Carols for 2025,”…
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New public artwork ‘Kindred’ celebrates community and heritage along World Heritage Trail
SAN ANTONIO – Editor’s note: This story was published through a partnership between KSAT and Live From the Southside, a local and Latina-owned magazine that works to improve & expand community relationships through promoting events, stories…
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Jimmy Kimmel criticises ‘fascism’ in Channel 4’s Alternative Christmas Message
US chat show host Jimmy Kimmel will say 2025 has been “a really great year for fascism”, when he delivers this year’s Alternative Christmas Message on Channel 4.
The presenter’s ABC talk show was briefly taken off air in September after comments…
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The celibate, dancing Shakers were once seen as a threat to society – 250 years later, they’re part of the sound of America
Director Mona Fastvold’s new film, “The Testament of Ann Lee,” features actor Amanda Seyfried in the titular role: the English spiritual seeker who brought the Shaker movement to America. The trailer literally writhes with snakes…
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Hundreds attend Stone Roses Mani’s star-studded Manchester funeral
With Mani on bass, Brown on vocals, John Squire on guitar and Alan “Reni” Wren on drums, The Stone Roses were at the forefront of the “Madchester” indie scene of the late 1980s and early 90s, which peaked with a famous gig at Spike Island in…
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Kate Winslet recalls early body shaming experience in career
Kate Winslet, a well-known actress, has faced body-shaming throughout her successful career….
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Hugh Cutting/ Refound review – countertenor’s darkly compelling recital is an imaginative treat | Classical music
Hugh Cutting is still sometimes described as a rising countertenor. That should surely now be unconditional. Cutting has risen, almost to the top, and 2025 has been a stellar year. This enthusiastically performed and received recital, a world…
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Timeless Christmas hit is the gift that keeps on giving for Wizzard | Pop and rock
If you listen closely to the start of Wizzard’s yuletide standard I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday, you’ll hear the kerching of a cash register.
The sound might have been “a winning speck of cynicism in the tinselly facade” of 70s…
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