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Several provinces lowered the eligible age bracket for the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine this week, prompting Gen X’ers to proudly share their vaccination journeys on social media. Read more: Ontario, Alberta to lower minimum age for AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine from 55 to 40 On Sunday, Canada’s federal health minister, Patty Hajdu, said provinces and territories were
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Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez’s relationship is still on but barely, with Rodriguez in the Dominican Republic with Lopez now, trying to save their four-year romance. What got their relationship, which seemed rock-solid publicly, to this point? People has new detail today about Lopez’s longtime private doubts about Rodriguez and how the pandemic (and quarantine)
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What do you feel like has been the most pivotal part of your year so far?  The most pivotal part of my year has been to be able to stay at work as a supportive teacher, to have more freedom in creating my musical material, to cooperate with music professionals. What has been a big challenge so
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The delicious unhinged quality of Brian Shapiro’s vocals is obvious less than a minute into the album All That We See. “Three Things” opens the collection with a loose, relaxed musical rave-up complete with kazoos. Yes, kazoos. It has a distinct low-fi punch, seemingly by design, but Shapiro’s near-ranting vocals occupy a central place in the
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New reports highlight the ties between veterans and service members and extremist groups—a link that one expert fears the Pentagon is unequipped to handle. It goes “much deeper than we realize,” he says. By Caleb Ecarma April 21, 2021 In the aftermath of the January 6 Capitol attack by supporters of Donald Trump, The Washington
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The late Bad Boy rapper leaves behind a legacy of plenty of great verses and album cuts besides “Whoa!” By Eric Diep April 20, 2021 NEW YORK CITY – AUGUST 3: Black Rob attends the taping of “Good Morning America” on August 3, 2001 at Rockefeller Center in New York City. (Photo by Ron Galella,
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Manny Cabo and songwriter Bonnie Warren continue to make magic in their latest collaboration “Worst Bad Decision”, a country-rock pop offering. Featuring Cabo’s wide vocal range and sincere, sage advice, “Worst Bad Decision” is top-tier songwriting and a platinum-worthy performance. Cabo, years after his national stage, chair-turning appearance on The Voice, proves once again he’s more
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Despite the incontrovertible evidence, it was far from clear that Chauvin would be found guilty. By Bess Levin April 20, 2021 For an hour on Tuesday, it felt like the entire country stopped what it was doing to collectively wait for the Derek Chauvin verdict to come in. Long used to cops escaping accountability for
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I read in a quote from from Richard Metzger (Channel 4 TV, Britain); “I have met God, and he lives in Brooklyn….Howard Bloom is next in a lineage of seminal thinkers that includes Newton, Darwin, Einstein, Freud, and Buckminster Fuller. He is going to change the way we see ourselves and everything around us.” A
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Ron DeSantis apparently has a problem with the constitutionally enshrined right to assemble. By Bess Levin April 19, 2021 As racial-justice protests swelled around the country during his last year in office, Donald Trump made it abundantly clear that he had little regard for the constitutionally enshrined right to assemble. Regularly conflating peaceful protesters with
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Australia is in the midst of a sexual assault crisis. Former parliamentary staffer Brittany Higgins spoke out earlier this year, saying she was raped by a former colleague inside of the Parliament House. Days later, accusation of rape from 1988 surfaced against Attorney General Christian Porter (which he has denied). The New York Times writes
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It’s tough to think of a topic for hit songs more successful than that of the classic break-up anthem; maybe love songs, but the two go hand in hand and wholly rely on each other to maintain their cornered market, so the idea of one being more successful than the other is irrelevant. For every
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With Glenn Close poised to tie Peter O’Toole as the actor who’s lost the most times without ever winning once, let’s look at the players and directors who are always a nominee, but never an Oscar-winner. By Colin Groundwater April 19, 2021 Amy Adams congratulates Anne Hathaway for her Best Supporting Actress win in 2013
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