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Music Review: Folk singer Willi Carlisle’s album about life in the hills and hollers is a wild ride

Music Review: Folk singer Willi Carlisle’s album about life in the hills and hollers is a wild ride

Willi Carlisle's folk music focuses on the folks in the shadows of the hills and hollers, or, as he calls it, “Critterland.” That’s the title of his new album, a compelling follow-up to Carlisle’s 2022 breakout release, “Peculiar, Missouri.
Music Review: A sweet and savory mostly acoustic mix from Avery Hellman’s ISMAY on 'Desert Pavement'

Music Review: A sweet and savory mostly acoustic mix from Avery Hellman’s ISMAY on 'Desert Pavement'

Avery Hellman possesses an affable alto that’s quirky, as is the perspective from which Hellman writes. “Sitting alone on the porch I think / About the things we washed down the sink,” goes one couplet.
Avril Lavigne sets Canadian dates on 'greatest hits' tour

Avril Lavigne sets Canadian dates on 'greatest hits' tour

Avril Lavigne plans to keep it simple on her 2024 concert tour with performances of only her greatest hits.
Don’t toss extra rice! Use it in this curried shrimp fried rice

Don’t toss extra rice! Use it in this curried shrimp fried rice

Though it is common knowledge throughout Asia, many American cooks may not know that the key to perfect fried rice is using previously cooked and chilled rice.
Liz Weston: Retiring wasn’t easy - even after years of writing about it

Liz Weston: Retiring wasn’t easy - even after years of writing about it

A couple of years ago, I wrote a column about how to have a retirement worth saving for . It ended with a quote from personal finance educator Barbara O’Neill, who reflected on how the pandemic disrupted many retirees’ plans.
Cameroon starts world's first malaria vaccine program for children

Cameroon starts world's first malaria vaccine program for children

Cameroon will be the first country to routinely give children a new malaria vaccine as the shots are rolled out in Africa.
In small-town Wisconsin, looking for the roots of the modern American conspiracy theory

In small-town Wisconsin, looking for the roots of the modern American conspiracy theory

APPLETON, Wis. (AP) — The decades fall away as you open the front doors. It’s the late 1950s in the cramped little offices — or maybe the pre-hippie 1960s.
Man arrested near Taylor Swift's NYC townhouse after reported break-in attempt

Man arrested near Taylor Swift's NYC townhouse after reported break-in attempt

NEW YORK (AP) — Taylor Swift's townhouse in New York City appears to have been the target of another break-in attempt, this time by a man who was arrested near the singer's Tribeca home Saturday as police responded to a report of a disorderly person.
Mary Weiss, lead singer of the Shangri-Las, dies at 75

Mary Weiss, lead singer of the Shangri-Las, dies at 75

Mary Weiss, the lead singer of the 1960s pop group the Shangri-Las, whose hits included “Leader of the Pack,” has died. She was 75. Miriam Linna, founder of Weiss' label, Norton Records, said Sunday that Weiss died Friday in Palm Springs, California.
Inside Pitchfork's absorption into GQ: When 'music media' becomes 'men's media,' what's lost?

Inside Pitchfork's absorption into GQ: When 'music media' becomes 'men's media,' what's lost?

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Nearly three decades after it was established, Pitchfork, the most influential music publication of the internet age with the power to make or break an artist, is being absorbed by another entity — a men’s fashion and style magazin
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