SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)… AEW Rampage pulled in 482,000 viewers and a .22 in the adult 18-49 demographic in a new time slot on Friday night. This week’s show moved from 10pm EST to 7pm EST due to the NBA Playoffs airing on TNT. The 482,000 viewership is down […]
SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)… Pat McAfee and Amazon are in contractual talks to bring the WWE Smackdown color commentator to their platform as part of their Thursday Night Football NFL broadcast. The New York Post is reporting that while nothing has been finalized or signed, conversations are being had […]
SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)… The MJF promo on this week’s episode of AEW Dynamite reportedly didn’t go off quite as it was planned to. The Wrestling Observer is reporting that MJF was set to cut a heel promo and then have the microphone cut out halfway through in an […]
Nina Simone: The Montreux Years Simone, vocals, piano; Buck Clarke, Paul Robinson, drums; Leopoldo Fleming, percussion; Gene Taylor, bass; others. BMG BMGCAT461D (2LP, 2CD). 2021. Nick Bonard, Fraser Kennedy, Thierry Amsallem, prods.; Tony Cousins, eng. Performance ****½ Sonics ****½ Nina Simone was one of the most remarkable singers of the 20th century, but few albums […]
SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)… Hook is the new FTW Champion. He won the title from Ricky Starks on this week’s episode of AEW Dynamite. Starks had a scheduled title defense against Danhausen. Starks easily won that bout, but then issued an open challenge and Hook answered. Hook connected with […]
(All prices are in Canadian funds unless otherwise indicated.) Who knew I’d meet Paul Simon—the Paul Simon, pop star, the shorter half of Simon and Garfunkel—at the Toronto Audiofest? I wasn’t expecting to, but there he was, singing to me. I also met Satch, a/k/a Louis Armstrong. Both were in the room belonging to Acora […]
My first night here at the Hilton, loud music pumped from the room next to mine. At 11:45pm and it was still blasting, interrupting my much-needed beauty sleep. Several calls later, the volume from the adjacent Daedalus Audio room went down, and I was down for the count. That experience didn’t dissuade me from walking […]
Paul Heyman gives some insight as to why Cody Rhodes was booked to lose at WrestleMania 39 against Roman Reigns. Fans were shocked when Reigns defeated The American Nightmare at the Showcase of the Immortals as many assumed he would be the one to dethrone the Tribal Chief on the biggest stage possible. In […]
FREMONT, CA — The state’s continuous stormy weather has officially brought enough snow to not only relieve more than half the state of drought conditions but also to tie a record for the most snowfall set way back in 1952, state water officials confirmed during their fourth snow survey of the year. The manual survey […]
Avec une infinie précaution, la pièce maîtresse de l’exposition se dévoile : le sarcophage en bois peint de Ramsès II. Un trésor inestimable que l’Égypte a exceptionnellement accepté de prêter à la France. “C’est pour couronner les relations excellentes entre la France et l’Égypte, et pour montrer la place exceptionnelle que la France a toujours […]