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Happy New Year! - Glitterbox Radio Show NYE Special presented by Melvo Baptiste

#Glitterbox #Radio #Dance #Electronic #Deephouse, #DJ_set, #Music, #MelvoBaptiste 01. The Reese Project - Direct Me (Joey Negro Disco Blend Mix) [Warner Bros. Records] 02. Mark Picchiotti Presents Jersey St - Love Will Be Our Guide (Original Club Mix) [ITH Records] 03. Juliet Roberts - Caught In The Middle (Roger's Gospel Revival Mix) [Cooltempo] 04. Class Action - Weekend (Seamus Haji 80's Vibe) [Sleeping Bag Records] 05. Kapote - Give It To Me [Toy Tonics] 06. D Train – Music [Prelude Records] 07. Shalamar - I Owe You One (12" Version) [Solar] 08. Donna Allen - He Is The Joy (Alan Dixon Remix) [Soulfuric Recordings] 09. Junior Jack - Stupidisco (Hott 22 Remix) [PIAS Recordings] 10. Stacy Kidd - Let Love Enter 2019 (Main Mix) [House 4 Life] 11. Fire Island featuring Loleatta Holloway - Shout To The Top (Fire Island Extended Mix) 12. The O’Jays - Message In Our Music [Philadelphia International Records] 13. Eddie Kendricks - Going Up In Smoke...

New Year's Eve 2020 Live from Times Square

#NewYearsEve #NYE2020 #BallDrop #TimesSquare   #Broadway   #XAmbassadors LIVE FROM TIMESSQUARE : Watch as we count down to the new year! The official Times Square New Year’s Eve event is hosted by @JonathanBennett, with Broadway Wishes from Broadway stars, appearances by @IAmSteveHarvey, @rauldemolina, and the Mayor of NYC, plus live performances by the USO Show Troupe and XAmbassadors . For the first time in its history, and thousands of police both in plainclothes and in uniform keeping an eye on the festivities. The weather forecast, unlike some years, is mild, with temperatures forecast in the low to mid-40s. For those who can’t be in New York City for the big event, there are plenty of ways to watch on TV, online or on your phone. ABC, NBC, Fox and CNN all will air live specials. Times Square NYC is also hosting an official livestream, which you can follow throughout the night on Deadline in the video above. On ABC,  Dick Clark’s New Year’s Roc...

Soylent: How I Stopped Eating for 30 Days

#Health #Nutrition #RobRhinehart #Soylent  Is Soylent the future of food? CEO Rob Rhinehart lived on his liquid invention for 30 days straight, and the feat propelled him to internet fame and fortune. So I decided to become the first person to repeat his feat—for a month straight, I'd try to live on nothing but the chemical cocktail, just like Rob. Along the way, I'd investigate the how an artificial food replacement might impact human health, Silicon Valley, and the world at large. This is the story of life after food.                Motherboard Published on Nov 12, 2013

Hollywood Is "Finally Catching On" to the Booming Drag Queen Economy

Movi Inc for World of Wonder #Rupaul #RuPaulsDragRace #AJandtheQueen #DragQueen #DragCon   The massive success of 'RuPaul's Drag Race' has launched dozens of stars and ignited red-carpet appearance deals for films like 'Frozen 2.' Still, for a queen, "your money is on the road." As Angelina Jolie made the usual red carpet rounds at the L.A. premiere of Disney's  Maleficent: Mistress of Evil , she stopped for a picture with stars who didn't appear in the film, even if they looked like they had: drag queens Nina West, Shangela and Ginger Minj, decked out in horns, black dresses and, in Minj's case, an ensemble dedicated to the film's fairies. In recent months, queens were invited to the  Frozen 2  premiere and the  Charlie's Angels  debut, posing with Kristen Stewart, Idina Menzel and Josh Gad. (Reps declined to say how much the queens were paid to appear.) Studios like Disney are the latest entrant to the new drag quee...

Kathy Griffin on the photo shoot heard 'round the world

In May 2017 Kathy Griffin's life turned upside-down after the release of a photo of her holding what appeared to be the severed head of President Donald Trump – a joke that became anything but. Her career took a hit, she received death threats, and she found herself under investigation for conspiracy to assassinate the president. But while many people might have taken the opportunity to go into early retirement, Griffin did not. She talks with Luke Burbank about the personal and professional consequences she faced, and why she would do it over again. CBS Sunday Morning

Don't Yell at Popeyes Employees About a Sandwich

#Popeyes #FriedChicken #Sandwich #Chickensandwich The return of the much-hyped Popeyes chicken sandwich and people promptly lost their marbles. Though I understand what it’s like to be excited about a once-scarce food item (hello, Taco Bell fries), I am urging—nay, pleading—with everyone to please chill out. How to Make the Popeyes Chicken Sandwich, But Better If you blinked you may have missed it, but about a month ago Popeyes released a fried chicken… The sandwich, which was pointedly re-released on a Sunday, promptly caused a bit of mayhem. According to CNN (and the sandwich-seekers of Twitter), drive-through lines “stretched into the streets,” and I have seen multiple videos online of people acting very inappropriately towards the workers. I understand it’s a delicious sandwich, but there is no scenario where yelling at Popeyes employees (or any fast food worker) is an acceptable move.  Even if you wait hours in a line, only to find they sold the very last sandwic...

The Clark Sisters: First Ladies Of Gospel | OFFICIAL TRAILER|

#KarenClarkSheard #DorindaClarkCole  #TwinkieClark #JackyClark #TheClarkSisters #BlackGospel #GospelMusic  The Clark Sisters: The First Ladies of Gospel recounts the story of the highest-selling female gospel group in history and their trailblazing mother, Mattie Moss Clark. Credited with bringing gospel music to the mainstream, the five Clark sisters overcame humble beginnings in Detroit, enduring abuse, loss, rejection, betrayal and sibling rivalries to achieve international fame as icons of the gospel music industry. Christine Swanson is the director of the Sylvia L. Jones-written script. The legendary gospel group, consisting of sisters Karen Clark Sheard, Dorinda Clark-Cole, Jacky Clark-Chisholm, Denise "Niecy" Clark Bradford and Elbernita “Twinkie” Clark-Terrell, are considered to be gospel music pioneers and one of the first gospel acts to transition to the mainstream with an impact not only on gospel music but Black music in general. Their popular songs inc...

Reading the Four Gospels: The Power of Different Perspectives

#Bible #Christian #Gospels #Christianity #TheGospels #NewTestament #Religion Christians have a habit of trying to harmonize the discrepancies found in the Bible. Yet this practice contributes to stripping the Bible of what makes it interesting, and what can make it speak powerfully. Harmonizing involves eliminating differences, usually by pretending they aren't there or by forcing incongruous pieces into a clumsy agreement. It's like trying to explain to children why it's no big deal that the poem "The Night before Christmas" doesn't mention Rudolph, whom a certain song has led them to expect when the reindeer are named. At first, they'll let you contort the stories, but soon they figure out you're playing tricks. We do this all the time with the Bible, especially by combining distinctive elements from different Gospels into a composite narrative. Sometimes we have to do it, to keep track of all the pieces available to us for envisioning the big ...

46 Years Later, Aretha Franklin's 'Amazing Grace' Resurrected by Modern Day Tech

Amazing Grace—a documentary film about #ArethaFranklin  two-night performance January 1972, which turned into one of the best-selling gospel albums of all time—makes its long-awaited debut with screenings at the DOC NYC festival. Although the 46-year delay was due in part to negotiation issues with Franklin herself, there was another reason entirely that a documentary shot by legendary director #SydneyPollack took so long to appear: The audio wasn’t synced correctly. Which, in 1972, was a catastrophic problem. “In 1972, even with the most compact 16mm film, you’re dealing with a big reel that goes through a camera slot,” explains Amazing Grace producer Alan Elliott. Back then, film crews used a clapperboard in order to be able to line up video footage with the audio. “You would put a 10-minute film canister on the mag, roll it up, and then clap it at the top, and record all the way for 10 minutes.” Clapping would presumably have been complicated during a live performance,...

Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot in the works with Joss Whedon returning

#BuffytheVampireSlayer  #Buffyverse  #JossWhedon  #SarahMichelleGellar, The Buffyverse is about to expand. A reboot of  Buffy the Vampire Slayer  is in active development, EW has confirmed. The cult classic series, which starred Sarah Michelle Gellar as a “Slayer” chosen by fate to battle against vampires and demons for the greater good while also trying to live a normal life as a teenager, ran for seven seasons and has built-in esteem since going off the air in 2003, praised widely for its feminist themes and artistry.  Buffy  was preceded by a film of the same name and has spawned various companion materials over the past decade, including the spin-off  Angel . EW has learned that informal discussions over bringing  Buffy  back in a new form began last fall, with Monica Owusu-Breen ( Alias ,  Midnight Texas ) tapped as the new version’s writer and Joss Whedon working closely with her, returning to his role of exec...

Archaeologists explore a rural field in Arkansas City,Kansas, and a lost city emerges

Photo by: David Kelly / For The Times #ArkansasCity #Kansas #WSU #AncientSettlement #Etzanoa #SouthCentralKansas Of all the places to discover a lost city, this pleasing little community seems an unlikely candidate. There are no vine-covered temples or impenetrable jungles here — just an old-fashioned downtown, a drug store that serves up root beer floats and rambling houses along shady brick lanes. Yet there’s always been something — something just below the surface. Locals have long scoured fields and river banks for arrowheads and bits of pottery, amassing huge collections. Then there were those murky tales of a sprawling city on the Great Plains and a chief who drank from a goblet of gold. A few years ago, Donald Blakeslee, an anthropologist and archaeology professor at  Wichita State University , began piecing things together. And what he’s found has spurred a rethinking of traditional views on the early settlement of the Midwest, while potentially fill...