GloriettaDrop the needle on Glorietta to get transported to a remote New Mexico mountain town at the very moment, in a tequila-soaked jam session, an unlikely singer-songwriter super group was born. In 12 songs, Glorietta — a self-titled “friend record” (Nine Mile Records, 2018)— captures rocking, heartbreaking and introspective songs recorded by pals of Matthew Logan Vasquez (Delta Spirit, Middle Brother) at a ramshackle rental outside Santa Fe over five days.
New Year's anthems
It's harder to build a New Year's playlist than it is for other winter holidays. NPR has some tips on finding the right music to ring in the new year.
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So, Who Is Jane the Virgins Narrator?
“And, for the record, I am.”
OMG! Understatement is not characteristic of telenovelas — and Jane the Virgin’s series finale certainly lived up to the standard — but when Emmy-nominated voice-over actor Anthony Mendez revealed the identity of the show’s beloved narrator in those six simple words, it was a wonderfully nuanced answer to the show’s final mystery. Yes, it’s been grown-up Mateo narrating the telenovela inspired by his mother’s novel all along.
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Surprised to see a hot woman in a wheelchair? If so, examine your prejudices
ShortcutsDisabilityDisabled people are using the Twitter meme #hotpersoninawheelchair to bite back against outdated attitudes, while showcasing their looks and style
#hotpersoninawheelchair may sound like a niche side-effect of Britain’s sweltering weather, but it is actually a campaign fighting disablism on Twitter.
YouTube star and wheelchair user Annie Segarra started the hashtag after seeing a four-year-old tweet from author Ken Jennings that said: “Nothing sadder than a hot person in a wheelchair.
The Cherry Sisters: Worst Act Ever?
In the early 20th century, the Cherry Sisters — a family of performers from Marion, Iowa — were like a meme.
Simply invoking the name — the Cherry Sisters — was shorthand for anything awful. As Anthony Slide wrote in the Encyclopedia of Vaudeville, the onstage siblings became "synonymous with any act devoid of talent."
Apparently, they were a cross between early American performance art and age old scapegoatism. Their variety act included original music, bass drum thumping, poetry, mouth harp playing, inspirational recitations, essay reading, fake hypnosis and other artistic expressions.
The Lyrics to Always Be My Maybes I Punched Keanu Reeves Rap, Annotated by Randall Park
In Always Be My Maybe, Randall Park, who was in a band in the ’90s called Ill Again, goes back to his hip-hop roots as Marcus, who moonlights with his own musical group, Hello Peril. (Yes, that’s a pun.) Park wrote and performed the songs that appear in the movie, including “Hello” and “Tennis Ball,” and finally, the one that plays over the ending credits, “I Punched Keanu Reeves.” He wrote it as a last-minute addition after Netflix executive Tendo Nagendo suggested paying homage to the John Wick actor’s cameo.
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Ciro Maiello opens the window of his apartment in Naples, on which is painted the head of Diego Maradona. Photograph: Roberto Salomone/The GuardianCiro Maiello, whose home is adorned with a painting of the player, says Napoli’s first Serie A win since Diego’s days heralds a new dawn for the city
by Lorenzo Tondo in NaplesAt 10.37pm on 4 May the man who lives in Diego Maradona’s head threw open the window of his flat in the Spanish Quarter district in Naples for the first time in months, erupting in a cathartic scream as the city celebrated another moment in its rebirth.