When Dr. Mehmet Oz announced his candidacy on Tuesday for Senate in Pennsylvania, he pledged to be a “conservative who will put America first” and who will “tell it like it is.” It’s no surprise, then, to hear that former President Trump seems to like the TV doctor with a …
Read More »Farewell to 'Pen15,' the Weirdest, Sweetest, Saddest, Funniest Show About the Growing Pains of Middle School
“I don’t usually go for younger girls, but you’re different,” a high-school boy tells Anna Kone in the next new episode of Pen15. On one level, this is a wink at the central gimmick of the Hulu comedy: that Anna (Anna Konkle) and her best friend Maya Ishii-Peters (Maya Erskine) …
Read More »Creative Power: How Cultural Entrepreneurship Could Shape the Post-Covid World
2021 marked the beginning of some semblance of recovery from Covid-19 and also was declared by the United Nations the International Year of Creative Economy for Sustainable Development. The U.N. recognized that the pandemic would likelycost 225 million jobs in 2020, leading to trillions in lost income. Specific to the …
Read More »How Covid-19 Changed Dance Music Fans' Connection to the Scene and What It Means for Brands
Dance music (DM), or electronic music, has a considerable following, with over 1.5 billion people listening to it regularly, according to numbers from IMS Business Report 2019. The DM fan community has always been thought of as a space where fans of diverse backgrounds are welcomed and accepted. This aspect …
Read More »The New Pornographers Ride Again: Carl Newman on 21 Years of Being 'a Band That Should Not Exist'
There’s no music story like the saga of the New Pornographers. The beloved Canadian indie-pop savants made their debut 21 years ago with Mass Romantic, a low-budget classic full of eccentric guitar tunecraft and perverse wit. It blew up into a word-of-mouth sensation, with gems like “Letter From an Occupant” …
Read More »Hear Jonny Greenwood's Instrumental New Song 'Licorice Pizza'
The soundtrack for Paul Thomas Anderson‘s latest film Licorice Pizza has arrived and it features a new tune from Radiohead‘s Jonny Greenwood. The song, also titled “Licorice Pizza,” was produced by Graeme Stewart and is a delicate, orchestral piece. The soundtrack also features songs from David Bowie, Nina Simone, Paul …
Read More »Hear Bloc Party Preview New Album With 'Traps'
Bloc Party will release their sixth album, Alpha Games, next spring. The band unveiled the first single from the album, a hard-hitting alt-rock number called “Traps.” “From the moment we wrote ‘Traps,’ we knew it had to be the first thing people heard from this album,” singer, songwriter and guitarist …
Read More »Bye Bye, 'American Pie': Taylor Swift's 10-Minute 'All Too Well' Becomes Longest #1 Hit
Taylor Swift‘s 10-minute version of “All Too Well” is now the longest Number One hit of all time, replacing Don McLean’s “American Pie” on Monday — a.k.a. the day the music died. According to Billboard, the extended version of Swift’s greatest song, released earlier this month on Red (Taylor’s Version), …
Read More »Virginia's Lt. Governor-elect Interview Veers Off the Rails as She Spreads Covid Misinformation
Dana Bash tried to keep up and fact check Virginia’s Republican Lt. Governor-elect Winsome Sears as the newly elected official spread Covid misinformation on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday. Bash turned the conversation to Covid vaccines, asking Sears why she opposes Virginia schools mandating the Covid vaccine when …
Read More »What Are Differences Between Medigap Plan G and Plan F?
With tens of millions of Americans enrolled in original Medicare, and with many enrollees adopting a Medicare supplement plan to enhance their healthcare services, the whole program can be pretty daunting.There are a number of decisions to make when joining Medicare that can have long-term impacts on your health coverage …
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