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Music Review: Gregory Alan Isakov returns with understated style and grace on ‘Appaloosa Bones’

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:57:49 GMT

Gregory Alan Isakov, “Appaloosa Bones” (Dualtone/Suitcase Town Music)Gregory Alan Isakov surfaces on old playlists as the artist most likely to send you looking to remind yourself who that is — so sweetly and gently understated that it’s sometimes easy to forget the source. On “Appaloosa Bones,” Isakov’s first new album in five years, he only adds to the mystical aura he created in his earlier work, including the Grammy-nominated 2018 album “Evening Machines.” His new songs are relentlessly majestic, a kind of musical morphine, invariably soothing. There’s enough beauty in them to work as background music but enough substance to reward listeners who lean in more actively.Isakov’s music also benefits from the confidence he has to never be in a hurry. He has that magical ability to convey both urgency and grandeur at the same time, a rarity these days, and he does so in his own good time.Consider “The Fall,” the album’s first single. It begins with ...

Intuit executive Chriss to become president and CEO of PayPal

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:57:49 GMT

Intuit executive Alex Chriss will become the president and CEO of digital payments company PayPal next month.Chriss will take over the CEO post from Dan Schulman, who told PayPal’s board in February that he planned to retire at the end of the year. Schulman will stay on PayPal’s board until its next annual shareholders meeting in May 2024. In January PayPal announced that it would cut about 7% of its total workforce, or about 2,000 full-time workers, due to challenging macro-economic conditions. Chriss, who has worked at Intuit for 19 years, has served as executive vice president and general manager of Intuit’s small business and self-employed group since January 2019. He led Intuit’s $12 billion acquisition of Mailchimp in 2021. Other Intuit products include TurboTax and Credit Karma.Chriss will also join PayPal’s board, effective Sept. 27.PayPal Holdings Inc., which is based in San Jose, California, is the parent of Venmo, Xoom and Honey, among other brands. Its ...

Celebrity birthdays for the week of Aug. 20-26

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:57:49 GMT

Celebrity birthdays for the week of Aug. 20-26:Aug. 20: News anchor Connie Chung is 77. Trombone player Jimmy Pankow of Chicago is 76. Actor Ray Wise (“Reaper,” ″Twin Peaks”) is 76. Actor John Noble (“Lord of the Rings” films) is 75. Singer Robert Plant (Led Zeppelin) is 75. Singer Rudy Gatlin of the Gatlin Brothers is 71. Singer-songwriter John Hiatt is 71. Actor-director Peter Horton (“thirtysomething”) is 70. “Today” show weatherman Al Roker is 69. Actor Joan Allen is 67. Director David O. Russell (“Silver Linings Playbook,” “American Hustle”) is 65. Actor James Marsters (“Angel,” ″Buffy the Vampire Slayer”) is 61. Rapper KRS-One is 58. Actor Colin Cunningham (“Falling Skies”) is 57. Actor Billy Gardell (“Mike and Molly”) is 54. Singer Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit is 53. Actor Ke Huy Quan (“Everything Everywhere All At Once,” “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom”) is 53. Guitarist Brad Avery of Third Day is 52. Actor Misha Collins (“Supernatural”) is 49. Singer Monique Powell of Sa...

Peyton Manning adds a new title – professor at his alma mater, Tennessee

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:57:49 GMT

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Peyton Manning, the five-time NFL MVP and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, has a new title.Just call him Professor Manning.The University of Tennessee announced Monday that Manning has been appointed a professor of practice at the College of Communication and Information starting this fall. Manning graduated from Tennessee in 1997 with a degree in speech communication.He said in a statement his time as a student there was a foundation for teaching him critical skills and techniques he still uses almost daily.“I look forward to working with the college’s talented faculty, and directly with students in an effort to ensure they are well prepared for their future careers,” Manning said.Manning, who earlier launched the Omaha Productions entertainment company, will join classes during the year as a featured expert.___ AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nflSource

Trump assails judge in 2020 election case after she warned him not to make inflammatory remarks

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:57:49 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump is assailing the federal judge overseeing the election conspiracy case against him, days after she warned him not to make inflammatory statements about the case.The former president made posts Monday on his social media network calling U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan “highly partisan” and “ VERY BIASED & UNFAIR!” because of her past comments in a separate case overseeing the sentencing of one of the defendants charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.Chutkan in a hearing Friday imposed a protective order in the case limiting what evidence handed over by prosecutors the former president and his legal team can publicly disclose. She warned Trump’s lawyers that his defense should be mounted in the courtroom and “not on the internet.”Trump posted about the case online anyway, firing off about the judge. A spokesperson for special counsel Jack Smith declined to comment Monday.Prosecutors sought the protective order after calling atten...

Md. mom shares mission and message with new potty-training underwear

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:57:49 GMT

Eunique Jones Gibson remembers the day in October 2019 that she decided to create potty-training underwear for her three-year-old daughter.“She was sleeping in training pants and the one I pulled out of the package was Cinderella,” Jones Gibson said. “It just didn’t resonate with me because we had been working with her on embracing who she is. And I wanted something that looked like her.”She contacted various mom groups on social media and did some market research on other training pants — leading to Jones Gibson creating Big Ups, shea butter-infused underwear decorated with characters of color and words of affirmation.Jones Gibson’s company, Happy Hues, launched the product earlier this year with online sales only.“I just thought, ‘What a great opportunity to introduce community and differences and getting them to appreciate differences of one another at a basic age,’” she said.Jones Gibson said she was also motivated to create the product after reading a study th...

Grains mostly lower, Livstock mixed.

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:57:49 GMT

CHICAGO (AP) — Grain futures were mostly lower Monday in early trading on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for Sep. lost 28.25 cents at $6.10 a bushel; Sep. corn fell 11.50 cents at $4.7275 a bushel; Sep. oats was up 2 cents at $4.2275 a bushel; while Aug. soybeans declined 57.25 cents at $13.5175 a bushel.Beef was lower and pork was higher on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.Aug. live cattle fell .83 cent at $1.8042 a pound; Aug. feeder cattle was off .53 cent at $2.4747 a pound; Aug. lean hogs was up .23 cent at $1.02 a pound.Source

Miami Senior High School participates in active shooter training ahead of new school year

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:57:49 GMT

Miami-Dade students are days away from the new school year and the district is working to ensure their safety with active shooter drills. At 10 a.m. Monday, police officials in the county hosted training exercises to guarantee students will know what to do when an active shooter enters their school. Authorities started as early as 8 a.m. setting up a perimeter in preparation for the drill.Gunshots, as real as they can get, rang out at Miami Senior High School for a training simulation to get students prepared for the worst. Students were bandaged and covered in makeup resembling gunshot wounds as police officers pretending to be school shooters ran across halls and classrooms. Miami-Dade Schools Police Chief Ivan Silva said the dramatization is to get necessary for their safety.“We want to create the scenario as realistic as possible to put them in a stressful situation to see how they’re going to act in order to evaluate them and also give them something to revert back ...

Miami mayor’s former aide sentenced to 6 years in federal prison for child pornography case

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:57:49 GMT

A former aide to Miami Mayor Francis Suarez was sentenced to 6 years in federal prison on Monday after he pleaded guilty to receiving child pornography. Rene Pedrosa will have 15 years of supervised release following his sentence. 7News cameras captured Pedrosa as he left the Miami Federal Courthouse following his sentence, neither he nor his lawyers chose to comment.Pedrosa, 51, apologize to the court and the victim’s family for his actions. He admitted to receiving pornographic materials from a 16-year-old boy in 2019. He entered a guilty plea on May 24, 2023, for his actions. Court documents stated that Pedrosa connected with a male teenager in November 2019 on social media for a potential web design position for Mayor Suarez. The document also stated that on Nov. 25, 2019, Pedrosa admittedly kissed and sexually touched the 16-year-old at Miami City Hall when the victim’s mother dropped him off for a follow-up meeting.Pedrosa confessed he continued communication with ...

$25K reward offered by Animal Recovery Mission for information on stolen horses in Southwest Ranches

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:57:49 GMT

The Animal Recovery Mission (ARM) is offering a $25,000 reward in an urgent bid to bring to justice those responsible for the theft of two horses from a secluded property in Southwest Ranches. The private property, located in the tranquil Rolling Oaks area of Southwest Ranches, is situated near the esteemed World Class Equestrian Centre, which is known as a prominent horse-loving community.The stolen horses are identified as Milagro, 8 months old, and Venus, 2 years old, who the owners believe were taken from the home sometime Friday night, early Saturday morning.“The worker, that works for me came to feed the horses, they were gone and we found the fence broken,” said Pablo Gamboa, the owner of the horses. ARM was immediately alerted by the horses’ owner following the discovery of their disappearance. “These horses are like kids for us,” said Gamboa. “Like family members.” The family rescued Venus when she was 3 months old and have also had...