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nievesmorena · 3 years

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El 16 de agosto de 1958 nace en Bay City, Michigan, Estados Unidos, Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone, mejor conocida como MADONNA, es una cantante, compositora, actriz, empresaria e ícono estadounidense.

Hija mayor de Silvio Anthony Ciccone y Madonna Louise Fortin, inmigrantes de Pacentro, Italia, su madre era de ascendencia francocanadiense.

Su progenitor trabajó como ingeniero en Chrysler y General Motors. Tiene dos hermanos mayores, Anthony (nacido en 1956) y Martin (nacido en 1957), y tres hermanos menores, Paula (nacida en 1959), Christopher (nacido en 1960), y Melanie (nacida en 1962).

Al recibir la confirmación en 1966 adoptó el nombre de Verónica.

Se crio en Pontiac y Avon Township (ahora Rochester Hills) suburbios de Detroit. Cuando tenía seis años su madre murió de cáncer de mama.

En 1966, su padre se casó con la niñera de la familia Joan Gustafson, y tuvieron dos hijos: Jennifer (nacido en 1967) y Mario (nacido en 1968).

Asistió a la St. Fredericks; la St. Andrews Catholic Elementary Schools, y la West Middle School.

Fue reconocida como una buena estudiante y por su comportamiento poco convencional. Solía realizar volteretas, hacer el pino por los pasillos y subirse la falda para que los chicos pudieran ver su ropa interior.

Madonna asistió a la Rochester Adams High School donde se convirtió en miembro del equipo de animadoras. Tras graduarse, recibió una beca de baile para la Escuela de Música, Teatro y Danza de la Universidad Michigan.

Convenció a su padre para que le permita tomar clases de ballet y fue persuadido por Christopher Flynn, su profesor de ballet, para permitirle iniciar una carrera en la danza.

En 1978 abandonó la universidad y se trasladó a la ciudad de Nueva York, donde trabajó como camarera.

Empezó en el mundo de la música en los años 70 y es compositora, cantante y productora.

Su carrera como músico pasa por diferentes fases llenas de altibajos. Se dedicó especialmente a la música disco, pop, dance y electrónica.

En New York en donde estudió y bailó con Alvin Ailey y Pearl Lang, también actuó en algunas películas eróticas. Trabajó como modelo fotográfica y poco después crea su propia banda con un amigo: The Breakfast Club, en el que tocaba la guitarra y la batería.

Pasó por varios grupos y cambió continuamente de representante, editó su primer sencillo, Everybody en 1983, con el que inició su camino a la fama.

Sus álbumes Madonna (1983) y Like a Virgen (1984) vendieron millones de copias.

Su tercer disco, True Blue se publicó en 1986 y fue un auténtico éxito de ventas.

En 1989 lanzó Like a prayer, con el que batió todos los récords de ventas.

Protagonizó Buscando a Susan desesperadamente (1985). Trabajó en Broadway con una obra de teatro titulada Speed the Plow, con notable éxito. Junto a Sean Penn (con el que se casó el 16 de agosto de 1985) protagonizó una nueva película, Shangai Surprise, que resultó un fracaso.

En 1988 editó Whos that girl y a continuación You can dance.

Inició una nueva gira con gran éxito.

Reconocida mundialmente por la provocación que despiertan sus video-clips y espectáculos así como por la versatilidad de sus shows.

En 1990 protagonizó la película Dick Tracy, junto a Warren Beatty, con quien tuvo un romance, también publicó la banda sonora de Dick Tracy.

Dos años después participó en el filme Una liga propia.

Durante 1992 se puso a la venta Erotica y en 1994 Bedtime Stories, con el que dio un giro a su carrera además de lograr un gran éxito de ventas.

En el año 1996 protagonizó Evita, junto a Antonio Banderas, con la que logra el Globo de Oro a la mejor actriz. Editó el disco con la banda sonora de la película y en octubre del mismo año nació su hija Lourdes María Ciccone, fruto de su relación con el cubano Carlos León.

En 1998 apareció Ray of Light y en el 2000 Music.

Sus actuaciones en el cine, a excepción de Buscando a Susan desesperadamente y Evita, no alcanzaron gran notoriedad.

Su aparición por las pantallas de cine resultó un batacazo en las taquillas de Estados Unidos durante el año 2002.

Swept Away, el filme de alto presupuesto que protagonizó y dirigió su marido, Guy Ritchie, no logró el favor del público.

Producido por la propia Madonna y Mirwais Ahmadzai, a primeros de 2003 salió a la venta el álbum American Life, que una vez más se vio envuelta en la polémica.

Unos días antes del lanzamiento del primer sencillo, retiró el vídeo por su contenido bélico y crítico con EE. UU.

American Life es el título de su siguiente trabajo, que como es habitual en la carrera de Madonna, sale a la venta en una edición especial limitada en formato de lujo, con portada de cuero bordada y otros extras.

En 2003 apareció su segundo libro para niños. Tras el escaso éxito de Las rosas inglesas, Madonna regresó con Las manzanas del señor Peabody.

En noviembre de 2003 lanzó Remixed and Revisited, un EP con siete cortes, entre los que figuran las colaboraciones con Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera y Missy Elliott, además de varias remezclas y un tema inédito, Your honesty.

En junio de 2004 la polémica estrella del pop cambia su nombre por el de Esther -de origen hebreo-, asumiendo así una nueva imagen pública de modestia, más en consonancia con la de una joven judía que con la de una chica materialista.

Educada en un ambiente católico, afirmó en una entrevista con el programa 20/20 de la cadena ABC News, que su identificación con la reina bíblica se debe en parte a su estudio del misticismo judío conocido como la cábala.

En 2008, la revista Billboard clasificó a Madonna en el número dos, detrás de The Beatles, en el Billboard Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists, convirtiéndola en la solista más exitosa en esa lista, además de ser incluida en el Salón de la Fama del Rock and Roll en ese mismo año.

En marzo de 2012 salió a la venta su álbum titulado MDNA que parece jugar con las palabras, a medio camino entre su nombre, Madonna, y la denominación en inglés de la droga MDMA (éxtasis). En abril la cantante lanzó el perfume Thruth or Dare que diseñó en recuerdo del olor de su madre y con el que culmina uno de sus proyectos más antiguos.

El álbum, Rebel Heart, se presentó el 10 de marzo de 2015, y de agosto a diciembre del mismo año se dedicó a su promoción.

El 14 de abril de 2019, reveló que Madame X sería el título de su próximo álbum de estudio, el primer sencillo, una colaboración con el cantante colombiano Maluma, titulada Medellín, fue lanzada el 17 de abril.

El 18 de mayo de 2019, Madonna actuó ante 200 millones de personas de todo el mundo en la gala de Eurovisión.

Apareció en el escenario del pabellón Expo de Tel Aviv (Israel) para presentar Future, junto al rapero estadounidense Quavo, una de las canciones de su nuevo disco Madame X.

En septiembre de ese mismo año, inició su undécima gira de conciertos, Madame X Tour, que continuó hasta marzo de 2020.

Además de Lourdes María tuvo otro niño nacido el 11 de agosto del 2000, Rocco Ritchie, hijo del director cinematográfico Guy Ritchie, con el que se casó en diciembre del 2000.

Además tiene cuatro hijos adoptivos: Chifundo Mercy James, David Banda Mwale y las gemelas Estere y Stella.

El reportero Michael McWilliams comentó: "Las quejas sobre Madonna –que es fría, manipuladora, codiciosa y sin talento– ocultan el fanatismo y la esencia de su arte, que es uno de los más cálidos, de los más humanos, de los más profundamente satisfactorios en toda la cultura pop".

Madonna fue incluida en el Libro Guinness como la cantante más exitosa de todos los tiempos, habiendo vendido más de 300 millones de discos en todo el mundo.

Encabezó diez giras musicales, por lo que subir a un escenario no tendría que representarle ningún problema.

Sin embargo, en una entrevista aseguró que aunque no siente miedo de actuar, sí se siente vulnerable. Por eso, reconoció que muchas veces en medio de un concierto tiene que darle la espalda al público y respirar profundo mientras se repite "esto es algo pasajero". Madonna también padece brontofobia o astrofobia que es el terror a los rayos y a las tormentas eléctricas.

Además de sus manías varias veces trascendieron sus pedidos para cuando sale de gira.

Exige tener en su camarín por lo menos 20 líneas de teléfono internacional y que esté repleto de lirios y rosas blancas, pero las flores además de ser frescas deben tener sus tallos cortados a 15,24 centímetros (seis pulgadas)

En los últimos años además ordena comida vegana es decir con ningún componente de origen animal o derivados de productos animales como huevos o lácteos.

En diversas ocasiones también pidió que los muebles del cuarto de hotel donde se hospeda sean reemplazados por los propios. La vajilla que usa debe ser de cristal o porcelana.

De todos los pedidos que hace Madonna para sus giras y presentaciones, sin duda el más curioso es su orden de destruir los inodoros que usa en cada hotel donde se hospeda.

Para mantener su cuerpo casi en el mismo estado que cuando tenía 20 años, además realiza seis comidas diarias, tres con porciones pequeñas y tres principales un poco más abundantes. Bebe mucho jugo y su favorito es el de sandía. También come barritas de proteínas orgánicas, frutas, verduras y granos como la quinoa.

En el 2016 cuando recibió el premio a la Mujer del Año en la gala Billboard pronunció un discurso contundente: "Cuando sos mujer se te permite ser linda y sexy. Pero no parezcas inteligente y finalmente, no envejezcas. Porque envejecer es un pecado. Vas a ser criticada y denigrada y definitivamente no te van a pasar en la radio".

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ediphotography · 6 years

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Singer/songwriter Ray LaMontagne, on tour.

“Ray LaMontagne has released 6 studio albums, 5 of which have reached Top 10 on Billboard’s Top Rock Albums chart and Billboard’s Digital Albums chart.” LaMontagne is currently on tour for his most recent album, Part Of The Light, which was released in May and is available for purchase or streaming now.

Upcoming tour dates: Jun 30 - Cleveland, OH Jul 1 - Rochester Hills, MI Jul 3 - Pittsburgh, PA Jul 4 - Cooperstown, NY Jul 6 - Madison, WI Jul 7 - St Louis, MO Jul 8 - Kansas City, MO Jul 10 - Morrison, CO

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topshelfrecords · 7 years

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@billboard just premiered "Rooftops" – a brand new single from Prawn, which they called "a breezy, whistle-laced four-minute bop."

If you haven't already pre-ordered their upcoming album, Run, head over to our web store.

Upcoming tour dates:

9/15 - Hackensack, NJ @ The Alementary (Run listening party)

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9/23 - Amsterdam, Holland @ Sugarfactory ^

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9/25 - Berlin, Germany @ Cassiopeia ^

9/27 - Dresden, Germany @ Scheune ^

9/28 - Hannover, Germany @ Bei Chez Heinz ^

9/29 - Nurnberg, Germany @ Desi ^

9/30 - Prague, Czech Republic @ OO7 ^

10/1 - Vienna, Austria @ Arena ^

10/2 - Budapest, Hungary @ Durer Kert ^

10/4 - Ljubljana, Slovenia @ Gala Hala ^

10/5 - Seregno, Italy @ Honky Tonky ^

10/6 - Lucerne, Switzerland @ Sedel ^

10/8 - Munich, Germany @ Kranhalle ^

10/9 - Stuttgart, Germany @ Keller Klub ^

10/10 - Cologne, Germany @ MTC ^

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12/14 - Chicago, IL @ Beat Kitchen *

12/16 - Lansing, MI @ Mac's Bar *

12/17 - Cleveland, OH @ Mahalls Downstairs *

12/19 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Funhouse +

12/20 - Rochester, NY @ Bug Jar +

12/21 - Boston, MA @ Middle East Upstairs +

12/22 - NYC, NY @ Baby's Alright +

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brishu · 8 years

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My Week At Sea - Part 2

Day 5

Several years earlier, one of my closest friends visited Jamaica and came back more disturbed than relaxed. He said the Jamaicans at his resort were so insistent on servility that they left no room for him to relate to them as people. Knowing enough about the Jamaica not enmeshed in the vicious net of tourism, he would have loved to penetrate the hotel workers’ subservience, but nothing he said or did could disrupt their forsaking their own dignity, and he was never going to align himself with the kind of racist, paternalistic assholes who enjoy a dynamic like that. I felt like I had already experienced something similar on the boat with Addy (even though she was Trini) and I was bracing myself for a flow-going day where, for the sake of my family, I settled into the role of passive oppressor as quietly as possible. I understood that all concerns like this were predicated on acknowledgement of the inherent unfairness of American foreign policy, resulting in this dark-skinned person working harder and being smarter than me, but my portion still being much greater than his. And what little he does have is far too dependent on my caprices. I guess this makes me a “snowflake” because, upon confronting poor foreigners, rather than leverage my financial power for maximum enjoyment, I would rather abrogate belief in the Manifest Destiny and deal apologetically with the Jamaican, as though that restores any balance whatsoever.

And maybe for the cruisers who opted for a high tea on a plantation or a day in the life of Bob Marley or 18 holes on Cinnamon Hill, Rastafarian minstrelsy was a welcome aspect of the experience. But again, thanks to the superior research of my wife, we had a fantastic, and perfectly comfortable excursion. Latenya, our guide, and Desmond, our driver, were kind but hardly subservient. In fact, on the bus ride to our first stop, I asked a question about Michael Manley and when my wife said, “Now you’re just showing off,” Latenya chimed in with a confirming, “Mmm hmmm.”

Throughout the ride of about 80 minutes, on the left side of the road with Desmond’s steering wheel on the right, Latenya told us about Jamaica’s history, economy and education system. Jamaica has six National Heroes and one National Heroine. Bob Marley ain’t one of them, Marcus Garvey is. Latenya also invited everyone on the bus to introduce himself in Jamaica patois: “My niem a’Brian. Me come from Brooklyn.”We were a smaller group, with only three other families: one group from Quebec, one from Mexico and one from Rochester. Guess which group asked every Jamaican we met if he knew Usain Bolt.

Again it bears remarking what an excellent job my wife did picking excursions. Ours was a two stop trip. The first was Mystic Mountain, where we rode a sky tram from the bottom to the top, gliding higher and higher, away from road noise and above the tree canopy to the summit.

That is my parents with one of our daughters in the car ahead of ours. To the left is Dolphin Cove Bay. At the top we had the opportunity to ride a self-braking roller coaster modeled after Jamaican bobsleds. I thought it might be some kind of kiddie ride but I was thrillingly wrong.

After the ride, one of the older Quebecois dudes asked me about Brooklyn and mentioned that it seemed to be the epicenter of political activity these days. My father took this to mean the guy was anti-Trump, but, considering Quebec’s reputation for cultural purity, I was more cautious in my replies. He asked me if I thought people were really going to start moving to Canada in droves and I said that I doubted it. I did not ask him his feelings about Trudeau, nor Stephen Harper because I could care less. And there was something opaque about his line of questions, as if he didn’t want me to know whether he was looking for kindred anti-Trumpism, or trying to coax forth the specious arguments of a, well, snowflake. For whatever it’s worth (not much), I think he came away respecting me, as much for avoiding hairtrigger political opinions as for the contrast between our interactions with our kids throughout the day’s adventures and those of the people from Rochester with their little boy. “Look at this Dylan! Look at that Dylan! Hey Dylan! Do you like this? What about this? Dylan! Dylan!” At some point I arrived at the belief that he was neither named after Robert Zimmerman’s stage name, nor his Welsh namesake’s, but rather after Luke Perry’s character on Beverly Hills 90210 and nothing you can say will convince me otherwise.

Our second stop was Konoko Falls. This is us at the bottom:

And we all made it to the top, some of us with a greater sense of accomplishment than others:

Above Konoko Falls was part of an old tea plantation now converted into a nature preserve, replete with caged tropical birds, towering ginger blossoms, two snapping turtles named Pretty and Ugly and the resting place of one of my compatriots whose visit didn’t go so well:

We got jerk chicken and pork with pigeon peas and rice for lunch and Latenya and our Konoko guides ate with us. I thought about complaining to them that the jerk wasn’t spicy enough, because it wasn’t, but then it would be all “Oh look at the white boy eating like an islander!” so I skipped it.

The bus ride back to the pier was fascinating for its foreign mundanities. I’ve noticed that every country seems to have dinstinctly shaped curbs along its roads, and that the grass can be a different species too. This may seem like nothing, but it etches different borders into your field of view, giving you the abiding sense that you really are somewhere else. And then there are the commercial accents that give you some sense of a place’s imperatives:

The silhouetted animals suggest Central Dealers is a great shop for hunters. But what about the explosion behind the bullet? Come on down to Central Dealers and fuck that nice blue sky up real good! Was this the area’s biggest munitions depot, asserting dominance via advertising a la Coca-Cola? Or was it a fledgling endeavour, betting the store on a billboard’s pyrotechnics? Whatever security Central Dealers offered its customers, here’s the sign that’s supposed to assure citizens of their official safety:

Pierside at excursion’s end, Latenya and Desmond bade us all farewell with their hands held out. At the outset of our tour, they had said they would take care of us and hoped we would take care of them. So everybody hunched over, trying to keep their larger bills out of sight, extracting what they felt was appropriate and stashing the rest away to let the money they held represent the pinnacle of generosity. I gave Latenya $20 and Desmond $10 and that seemed acceptable to them. As I got back on the boat, I wondered how long the guilt would have lasted if I had tipped poorly or even not at all. But, deprived of the opportunity to savor that regret, I resumed the grim business of enjoying a high state of privelege as we set sail for Hispaniola.

With two days left, we began to get elegiac. For some, that meant the trajectory of sloth had hit its nadir and it was time to start rousing back to the surface of baseline real world functionality. For others it meant make your memories now before you part ways from all of these other fine folks. For my daughters it meant writing a thank you note to Addy for bringing them cookies one night and a towel gorilla another:

Initially I was touched, but then my older daughter told me she just wanted to let Addy know “how great her service has been.” I was not the first parent, drunk or sober, to have to measure out the proper combination of approval and correction, but somehow I did manage to mask my horror at her blithe superciliousness, and suggest she say, “Thanks for taking such good care of us” instead.

The first time we saw Addy after we’d left the note in the room, she said thank you but I sensed that she actually felt put upon by the gesture, as though it demanded a stronger connection with us than she was comfortable making. It also occurred to me that she was worried we might leave a sweet note in lieu of a healthy tip, which seemed to impel her to convey that our kids’ note didn’t mean very much to her. I tried to signify to her that I totally got her cool reception of the note, but whether she got my wordless message, I really don’t know. The next night after I stuffed the envelope she had left in our room, she greeted me far more warmly. I guess the proper way to hold up my end of this interaction would have been to smile, pat her gently on the shoulder and move on, thus concluding our business together. But I’m afraid what I did, in some tiny way, was needlessly assert some kind of superiority, silently expressing “We coulda been friends but I guess all you care about is money. Oh well.” But of course, I only pulled that shit because I fell into the older and grosser dynamic of the little white snot who can’t get enough of mammy’s loving forebearance. This all happened quickly enough to play it off, as though we’d had a vanilla interaction without wrinkles or subtext, but I felt the gnarls and, no matter how professionally dispassionate Addy might have been, she must have felt it too. But before I took my millisecond plunge into the depths of racism, we went to Haiti.

Day 6

Royal Caribbean has the lease on Labadee, Haiti until 2050. It’s a peninsula they tout as a private island, but Haitians are barred entry by company employees with paramilitary backgrounds reinforced by rolls of razorwire. When ships aren’t in port, the only people there are maintenance crew and the aforementioned mercenaries. When ships do make landfall, a village comes to life. Crowds fill the beaches, giant palapas become cafeterias, trams convey cruisers to various recreations, and rows of stalls are filled with authorized merchants’ authentic Haitian wares. The excursions we booked for the day included one ride on the Dragon’s Tail roller coaster, which, like the previous day’s bobsled ride, was an alpine coaster. I actually liked this one better than the Jamaican one because on the bobsleds, you start at the top, hurdle down through the rainforest and then get hauled back up. The Dragon’s Tail pulls you up first and then you shoot down the tracks, careening through the mountainside forest, curving out over the sky-colored sea, applying the brakes as infrequently as you dare.

As our older daughter and I swooped to the bottom, we could hear her younger sister squealing gleefully from the shuttle behind us. Our ride ended about a minute before my wife’s and hers. My parents also rode, but they were more liberal with their brake application and finished long after we had all dismounted the ride.

Following this, we had tickets to spend an hour in Labadee’s aqua park, which was like a floating inflatable obstacle course. This was a lot less fun. The inflatable slides were very difficult to climb and our daughters were whining about the discomfort of the water. At first I just thought they needed to toughen up, but then my own skin began to crawl. My wife asked the lifeguard on duty and he said the water was teeming with micro-organisms that stung but the pain was only brief. Oh. We did not last the full hour.

Delivered from the duppy-infested cesspool masquerading as tropical amusement, my wife found a more secluded spot on the beach, away from a lot of the noise our boat had brought to the “island.” My parents parked on lounge chairs closer to the pop-up cafeteria and I took the girls to a playground with a sprinkler system not unlike that in the onboard kiddie pool area. I sat on a curb and watched them play with a group of other kids. To the left of them a 6 on 6 beach volleyball game was taking place. Some of the guys’ torsos were right out of the Top Gun scene(Did they lower the nets for the shots of Mav spiking it? I think they lowered the nets). Others were right out of Dollar Night at Molly Brannigans. But interphysique comeraderie was in full effect and all the players were having fun, possibly even more fun than my children were getting spouted on by a fiberglass hippo. I wanted to play. I wanted my kids to make lasting friendships so I could leave them and go make friends of my own. But I could neither dump them on some other unsuspecting parent at the playground, nor did I want to. They were so happy they’d lost track of time. And watching their industry flare up, even for something as trifling as dumping cupfuls of water down seasawing flumes ad nauseum, was its own pleasure, even if I had to miss a few sandy, heartfelt high fives for the marvelous plays I definitely would have made if I’d gotten into the game.

Back on the boat, we gathered for our penultimate dinner together. Something about the semifinality of the it, whether the extra snappy service from our waiter Richard or the table circulating of the executive chef, raised expectations that this meal would be special. So I was actually relieved that even the big night food was so mediocre because, spoiled as I am by my wife’s cooking, I was looking forward to getting back home rather than being sad that this wonderful journey couldn’t last forever.

After dinner my wife took our daughters to a show in the ship’s large theater while I took my parents to the Schooner Bar to play trivia. Seats were scarce so one man holding a whole table invited us to sit with him. He was a very friendly man and his name was Guy, so obviously he was Canadian. Guy was like the mayor of the boat. This was his and is wife Linda’s 13th day at sea and they seemed to know everyone- cruisers, waiters, vendors and officers. I felt assured that, for all of Guy and Linda’s good fortune, tonight was their lucky night because they got to be on my trivia team and few people alive knew more trivia than me. The subject that night was movie themes and just as the game began, Guy and Linda introduced us to Eric and Samantha, a couple from Atlanta. My smugness about my encyclopedic knowledge might have seeped out a bit as I assured all four other adults that they were in good hands on my team. But as the game went on and we got better acquainted, it became apparent that whatever winning ways I embodied were paltry compared to those of Eric and Samantha. A popular subject among cruisers meeting on cruise ships is their cruising history. With neither cockiness nor abashedness, Eric showed me a picture of him, Samantha and several other relatives crowded around Steve Harvey on the set of Family Feud. Then he explained that while on the cruise they had taken with 27 other family members on the steam of their Family Feud winnings, they wandered into a Bingo game and won the cruise they were on with us. So, while I doubted Eric could identify movie themes as quickly or accurately as me, I made sure he saw that I understood that, contrary to initial impressions, me wagon, him star. Though when we did not win (19 out of 20 I could answer within two bars, but I am not ashamed of my unfamiliarity with the soundtrack from Divergent), I took responsibility while still ceding leadership to Eric and Mayor Guy.

Eric told us that his free cruise did not include drinks, so he was probably the soberest of our lot. Guy explained that he had purchased one of the beverage packages and then greased a few waiters with $20 apiece. Now they brought Linda and him whatever they wanted, whenever they wanted. I think Guy put away more than I did, so it seemed unwise for my father to try to keep up with him. On the other hand, once the trivia game was over, Guy, Linda, Eric and Samantha insisted that my parents join them at something called The Quest. They actually discouraged me from coming along and warned me that my wife and children should definitely skip it, as whatever The Quest was was decidedly NSFW. But they didn’t know my kids, who were as proud of their grandpa as Guy and Linda were for how game he was:

The Quest was sort of a concentrated scavenger hunt where the entire auditorium was divided by seating area into teams while the cruise director commanded each team to bring him a man in drag, a man with a hairy back, a picture of a woman in front of the White House, etc. I’m still not entirely sure why Guy and my dad were barefoot, but I think Linda wanted them prepared to drop trou. Samantha, Eric, my mother, wife (elbow pictured to my left) kids and I were less competitive about The Quest than my father and his new Canadian bff’s, but no less amused.

By some dubious criteria, a different section was proclaimed the winner of The Quest, but we didn’t care. We had laughed hard and expressed unabashed fondness for folks we just met, and at some point, my wife did a headstand in her seat, which garnered evening-long admiration from our neighbors in the seats. It all felt like the postmodern equivalent of the conga line, a postmodern letting down of the hair and kicking up the postmodern heels. I have no idea what postmodern means, nor any interest in learning. What I do understand is that socially, this was the most fun we’d had all week. We drunkenly struck up new acquaintances and took each other to new heights of enjoyment. I was so glad this had happened and deeply appreciative of Linda, Guy, Samantha and Eric for enfolding us so easily into their little band. As we parted ways, Linda asked for my personal info so she could send me some of the pictures and videos of my father’s antics. In the spirit of the moment I envisioned remaining in touch with our new friends for years to come.

Throughout the cruise I had been missing my brothers and cousins, who had made the family cruises we’d taken 15-20 years ago so much fun. And probably because that evening was really the only time we had been truly sociable with other cruisers, it was at that moment that I started thinking about my grandma and aunt, who were no longer alive. I know that part of what evoked their memories was the surrogacy assumed by my parents, now grandparents themselves, and Guy, with his Canadian Jimmy Buffet avuncularity. But of course, I was also thinking about mortality, and that if my departed relatives could have been on this trip with us, they’d have known from their time on the other side of the grass not to spend one second wallowing or actively seeking despair aboard the world’s second largest ocean liner. So ultimately, their specters were conjured to goad me into maintaining the warmth I felt toward our new friends before relapsing into dyspepticism, to stand vigil over my own happiness until it became more habitual. Weeks later, Linda did email me several pictures and videos from The Quest. And they were nearly all of Guy. I am still wondering whether I should reply with a slideshow of our trip. Or a link to this account…

Day 7

At sea all day. Spiritually too. I think at one point I saw Eric at some distance and found myself retreating the other way. I felt too much pressure to recapture whatever bonhommie we had established the night before. It occurred to me that I’d had a platonic one-night stand. But I also just wanted to be comfortable and relaxed and standing around, maintaining eye contact while chuckling about last night’s zaniness could not compare to finding somewhere to lounge, read and nap.

For the kids’ benefit I rode the zipline, one last time, delivering on a promise I had made weeks earlier, that I would invert myself while zipping, and hang like a bat, a feat I’d performed at summer camp 30+ years earlier, and presumed I still remembered how to do.

I made it about 10 feet before the lifeguard yelled “Don’t go upside down!” and I immediately complied. In retrospect, I doubt they would have thrown me off the boat for disobeying the guy, and even a ban from future zipline use would have been meaningless since the zipline was 10 minutes away from shutting down for the rest of the cruise. Maybe I wanted the younger, world-traveling recreation specialists to think I was cool, and, zipping along 80+ feet above the ground, my version of cool was readily obedient rather than daringly rebellious. So, while I can say I stopped my stunt because the boat made me, a braver man would have held his pose a bit longer.

As we gathered for our final dinner together, nobody else in my family had seemed eager to track down our friends from the night before, opting instead to drink, read and relax free of recent entanglement. And while we did little to reinforce whatever social bonds had been forged during The Quest, I wondered how many lasting friendships had been struck up that week, how many Facebook and Instagram connections made, how many romances burgeoned, or breached. How wide did the spectrum of emotion, from sadness that this magical time was ending to eagerness to get home, stretch? I had been surprised throughout the week by how many people I talked to who owned their own business. Maybe I shouldn’t have been. But I could understand why they would value a week of lethargic gluttony more than somebody whose real life entailed fewer pressures and better food. Just to steer clear of consequential decisions, to be able to screw up without harming anyone, must have been quite a tonic. I didn’t have those worries to leave behind, so I was less likely to embrace the daze.

All week long I had been pressuring myself to blow past whatever gulf there was between my personal inclinations and the style of indulgence that seemed to make my fellow cruisers the happiest. I tried convincing myself that transcendant pleasures were available if I could just ignore my myriad reservations. And even though I felt like the social version of a picky eater, I found plenty onboard to enjoy. I just didn’t have a deeply restorative experience, nor did I need one, nor did I need to care about as little as possible to enjoy being with my family. And I should note that when we left the dining room after dinner that night, the number of faces basking in the glow of devices, sometimes 10 out of 10 people at one table, was staggering. Throughout the cruise I had posted a few pictures on Instagram, but nobody in my family had taken their phone out at dinner. The tv in our room never went on, and the iPad I brought for the kids to watch on the plane stayed in my backpack all week. Surveying the dining room, I felt considerably less guilty for not connecting with more people who seemed to prefer remote electronic relationships to the friends and loved ones right in front of them. I was cautious not to milk too much superiority out of the tableau of ghostlit faces atomizing families’ last night together, but I also felt vindicated and relieved, that by remaining aloof of the vapidity, I really hadn’t missed much. Meanwhile, I knew that while the onboard sense of community had felt robust to some and anemic to others, I was so ready to return to my village of snowflakes that my departure felt like more of an escape than my arrival had.

Day 8

We got off the boat with considerably less fanfare than than we had boarded it. As the massive Port Everglades processing center spit us back out into the world, I wondered whether the feel of unceremonious credential-stripping was intentional, a touch of unpleasantness designed to make you long to return to the company’s care and good graces. Or was it simply the jarring difference between being active paying customers and former paying customers? I don’t know much about branding, but I know that Royal Carribean is a multi-billion dollar corporation and I could intuit that hundreds of suits were working every angle they could think of to open new revenue streams, and then it was another department’s job to integrate these ideas into the unified identity of a bona fide Royal Caribbean product, which was something like island pleasure, sanitized by Scandinavian experts. Based on their financial performance, these initiatives were well-executed. But held up to the scrutiny whose discouragement I so zealously ignored, the swarm of photographers, dangling of status upgrades, nutritionists of obscure nationalities selling secret fat cures in the spa, licensced gemologists convincing cruisers that this boat was among the world’s finest jewelry shops, delighted welcome vs. slightly disgusted goodbye, felt unified only by the anchor logo and the feel of aggressive upsell. Woe be unto any of these poor bastards who found themselves in Marrakech.

On the bus from Port Everglades back to the Miami airport, I recognized an older Israeli couple I had overheard speaking Hebrew at breakfast one morning. They seemed strangely un-Israeli in that they were A) Befuddled by travel and B) Polite. At the airport a large line formed outside to check bags. My wife went inside and came back telling us the lines were shorter. The Israeli couple asked where we were going and in Hebrew I told them about the smaller lines inside. On our way in, they asked my parents why I spoke Hebrew and they didn’t and, though the answer wasn’t that complicated, I think my parents were just happy to interact with fellow Jews who weren’t from Long Island. And maybe the Israelis were happy to talk with us for our hamishness, though at the moment our most attractive feature seemed to be my ability to explain the various options a typical airport kiosk offered them, and to help them make their choices. In a way, their cluelessness about airplane security gave me great hope for Israel’s current safety situation, but conversely, a grim outlook on Israel’s regional prospects, since her progress in security had not been accompanied by commensurate diplomatic strides.

We had several hours to kill before our flight. My wife’s AmEx platinum card got us into the Miami Airport Centurion Lounge. This was a lavish prospect, and one that I was somewhat reluctant to enjoy because it extended our access to food and drink at a time when I had already shut the door on such perks. My wife’s card granted admission for the four of us and at her insistence, we bought guest passes for my parents. My father almost never lets me treat him to anything, but in this case he did, for which I was glad. And it was nice to have this extra time together, relaxed, needs met, surrounded by traveling Miamians who may or may not have been drug lords.

After nearly three hours passed pleasantly in the lounge, it was time to go to our gates. My parents and daughters exchanged warm goodbyes and then my wife and I covered whatever shortcomings lace through our expressions of gratitude with vague but intentional maneuvers meant to convey that we deserved a great deal of credit for the joy they got from their granddaughters. It could be something as outwardly innocuous as, “Hope y’all had fun with the girls, “ but subtle as it was, I could neither deny the ulterior motive in saying it, nor harness my identification of this shittiness as means of surmounting it.

Our gate was full of crying children, which tested my inner saint. On one hand, I genuinely cared about these kids, and felt confident that I could cheer them up in short order. I often did just that with funny faces or even conversations if the sad kid was close enough that it didn’t seem weird. But on the other hand, I felt helplessly triumphant that my kids were such sanguine travelers, and the attendant feelings of parental superiority were hard to avoid.

We had purchased our tickets with an American Airlines credit card, which I was led to believe accorded us some type of boarding priority. But by the time active military, first class, business class, diamond star medallion, platinum status and American Airlines Advantage Preferred had been invited to traipse planeward across the special carpet, we were one of maybe 10 families left to board. Once again the special feeling extended on point of sale was withdrawn post-purchase.

I had booked the aisle and window on both sides of the same row, knowing it would give us flexibility to offer an aisle or window to whichever middle-seater was willing to switch so we could sit three on one side and one on the other. Instead, we got entangled with a scattered group of elderly Italians and again I felt like an unacknowledged superhero for being able to help another family in their mother tongue. The Italians reunited, our family contiguous across the aisle and a formerly middle-seater on the aisle ahead of us, we were seated comfortably and the plane took off.

On our flight down to Miami, each seat had its own entertainment system. The older plane we rode back to new York was equipped with monitors hanging intermittently from the ceiling, all broadcasting a long-form infomercial for a new show on NBC. Mostly I read or napped, but sometimes I would look up at the screens and watch behind the scenes clips about a show called Emerald City which was set in Oz well before Dorothy’s arrival. Cast members were interviewed in full costume, while special effects experts and producers wore t-shirts and stubble. Even though I couldn’t hear any of it, it was clear they were speaking with great seriousness. But a sublte aspect of their postures betrayed network brass compulsion. The cast included unknown actors plus a few “prestige ones” like Vincent D’Onofrio and Joely Richardson and there was something performative about the passion they exuded, which in some respects I found comforting, since it showed a tiny but perceptible leaking of the awareness that they were all involved in something expensive, derivative (it was clearly meant to be Wizard of Oz meets Game of Thrones) and preposterous. Maybe some of the younger cast extolled the show without irony, just young beef- and cheesecake thrilled by the chance to be on TV. But while the older actors and creative types all seemed engaged in a chaarade, it struck me that the millions of people who might be interested in watching this drek would have to actively ignore the micro-signals emitted by the more aware members of the show’s creative team. And this more effortful form of ignorance, this determination to elude the minefield of buzzkills that spoil superficial entertainment, even at the expense of sensitivity toward loved ones’ feelings, was as prevalent on land (or in the air) as it was at sea. Millions of enormous people geared up to consume, consume, consume, happy to think as little as possible, all while remaining vigilantly unaware of even their lack of awareness that no amount of material plenitude would turn them away from devices and toward the friendly people at the shore at whom they had such a hard time waving.

But what did that say about me, flogging the same distinctions over and over again, careening headlong into the buzzkills, coopting any human foible I could find as an excuse to remain aloof of the fray? Was I afraid of what might happen if my brain just shut up and let me enjoy the festivities too? Yes. I was.

Back home that night, we settled in to watch the Oscars. I imagined a Monday to Monday voyage at sea, where we attended an onboard Oscar party. My musings got specific as I pictured cruisers name-checking the Vanity Fair party as proof of their cinematic sophistication, and then my own parsing why their citation felt obtuse while my own impassioned takedown of Whiplash signified a superior comprehension of what was good and bad about movies. But why was I still litigating arguments that never even took place out loud? Surely I didn’t think the Quebecois from the Jamaica excursion, or the guys I’d watched a basketball game with one night, or even Linda, Guy, Samantha and Eric were sitting at home now wishing we’d gotten to know each other better. And neither was I. So what the fuck was my problem? Well, I have many. And it’s not a cruise’s job to solve them. If I didn’t fit in on the boat as snugly as other folks, I needn’t see it as a loss, nor justify it philosophically. I’m me, they’re them, and none of them will read this anyway.

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Eminem Makes a Quick Sale of His Discounted Michigan Mansion

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Iconic rapper Eminem, aka Marshall Mathers, recently made a hyped return to the rap game with a politically charged freestyle. Besides unburdening his feelings in verse, he also lifted a bit of real estate weight off his shoulders.

The rapper sold his 17,500-square-foot mansion in Rochester Hills, MI, for $1,900,000 in late September, less than half the $4.75 million he paid for it in 2003. The mansion went on the market in August for $2 million, so the deal happened nearly as fast as the bars Slim Shady spits.

The financial hit didn’t leave the rapper gasping for breath. The Detroit Free Press reports that Eminem and his family spent very little time in the five-bedroom, 10-bath home outside Detroit. For the past decade, he raised his three daughters at another home in Clinton Township in nearby Macomb County. He used this home, previously owned by former Kmart chairman Chuck Conaway, as an “occasional getaway.”

For an occasional getaway, it was quite a spread. It sits on 5.69 wooded acres and has fancy features such as a sport court, pool, entertainment cabana, guardhouse, five-car garage, private pond, and guesthouse with a “wild game room,” according to the listing.

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In some ways, the $1.9 million Eminem scored was more than he could have hoped for—it’s above what tax records indicate the property is worth. In 2014 the estate was assessed at $1,517,410, and in 2016 it climbed to $1,763,160.

The 44-year-old rapper is one of the best-selling musical artists of all time, with his 7-year-old album “Recovery” recently hitting its 300th week on the Billboard 200 chart.

He has 15 Grammies and an Oscar under his belt, and is on the verge of launching another much-anticipated album, possibly around the time he is scheduled to appear as the musical guest on “Saturday Night Live,” on November 18. Chance the Rapper will be hosting that night.

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Stephen Stills and Judy Collins Hit the Road Together for More Tour Dates!

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Stephen Stills and Judy Collins – Image courtesy of Jensen Communications.

Stephen Stills and Judy Collins will hit the road again this spring in support of last year’s Everybody Knows, a riveting ten-song collection that breathes new life into a trove of gems from their five-decade intertwined history. The duo, who just performed together alongside Neil Young, Patti Smith, Sheryl Crow, Burt Bacharach, Beck, and others at Stills’ 5th Light Up the Blues benefit concert for Autism Speaks, will kick off the tour in Eugene, OR on May 3, with dates continuing through June across the country.

Everybody Knows is brimming with rich harmonies from two of American music’s most unmistakable voices, accompanied by Stills’ storied guitar work and a tight-knit three-piece behind them. On the album, Stills and Collins reflect on fifty years of music and friendship, beginning with their tumultuous love affair in the late 1960s.

That interplay can be seen on the duo’s tour, which began last fall and will continue through November 2018.

Stills and Collins have penned a number of songs about one another throughout the years, perhaps most famously the Crosby, Stills and Nash juggernaut “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes.” Everybody Knows finds the pair revisiting some of this work, including Stills’ “Judy,” a 1968 demo which remained lost for decades, and Collins’ “Houses,” from her 1975 Platinum-selling ‘Judith’ album. ‘Everybody Knows’ comes in the midst of an illustrious three-year stretch for Collins: her 2015 record ‘Strangers Again’ earned her highest Billboard 200 debut in almost 30 years, and 2016’s ‘Silver Skies Blue’ earned her first GRAMMY nomination since 1976. Stills and Collins’ 50-date U.S. tour will continue into November. A full list of stops is below.

Praise for Everybody Knows:

“A lovely consideration of days gone by…poignant and emotionally moving.” – American Songwriter

“Long overdue…their earnest take on Leonard Cohen’s gravelly voiced title track has a warmth that would have impressed the Canadian bard.” – Paste

“Stills & Collins transcend wistfulness and melancholy into something deeper.” – PopMatters

“It’s a clean and crisp production…there’s an inherent warmth to Everybody Knows. Stills and Collins have a gentle, easy chemistry.” – AllMusic

“‘Houses’ is especially excellent….’Girl From The North Country’ gets a pretty beautiful reading.” – ABC News

Listen to ‘Everybody Knows’:

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STILLS & COLLINS TOUR DATES:

THU 3 MAY – Hult Center for the Performing Arts – Eugene, OR

FRI 4 MAY – Snoqualmie Casino – Snoqualmie, WA

SUN 6 MAY – Revolution Hall – Portland, OR

MON 7 MAY – Revolution Hall – Portland, OR

WED 9 MAY – Cascade Theater – Redding, CA

THU 10 MAY – Uptown Theatre – Napa, CA

SAT 12 MAY – The Fremont Theater – San Luis Obispo, CA

SUN 13 MAY – Spectrum Amphitheatre – Bakersfield, CA

WED 16 MAY – The Rose – Pasadena, CA

THU 17 MAY – The Canyon – Santa Clarita, CA

SAT 19 MAY – Silver Legacy Resort & Casino – Reno, NV

TUE 29 MAY – The Coach House – San Juan Capistrano, CA

WED 30 MAY – The Coach House – San Juan Capistrano, CA

FRI 1 JUNE – Luther Burbank Center for the Arts – Santa Rosa, CA

SAT 2 JUNE – Mountain Winery – Saratoga, CA

MON 4 JUNE – Humphrey’s Concerts by the Bay – San Diego, CA

FRI 8 JUNE – Coronado Performing Arts Center – Rockford, IL

SAT 9 JUNE – Meadow Brook Amphitheatre – Rochester Hills, MI

MON 11 JUNE – Schuster Performing Arts Center – Dayton, OH

WED 13 JUNE – Atlanta Symphony Hall – Atlanta, GA

THU 14 JUNE – Ryman Auditorium – Nashville, TN

SUN 17 JUNE – Tanglewood – Lenox, MA

MON 18 JUNE – Ridgefield Playhouse – Ridgefield, CT

WED 20 JUNE – Colonial Theatre – Keene, NH

THU 21 JUNE – Lynn Memorial Auditorium – Lynn, MA

SAT 23 JUNE – Tropicana Showroom, Tropicana Casino – Atlantic City, NJ

SUN 24 JUNE – Bergen Performing Arts Center – Englewood, NJ

TUE 26 JUNE – Smith Opera House – Geneva, NY

WED 27 JUNE – Santander Performing Arts Center – Reading, PA

FRI 29 JUNE – St. George Theatre – Staten Island, NY

SAT 30 JUNE – John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts – Washington, DC,

Fall dates forthcoming.

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Jan.17, 2018: In other news

MerleFest 2018 Announces New Additions to Lineup Early Bird Tickets on Sale Now

MerleFest, presented by Window World and slated for April 26 - 29, is proud to announce five additions to the 2018 lineup: The Mavericks, Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn, Mandolin Orange, Alison Brown, and Brandy Clark. The annual homecoming of musicians and music fans returns to the campus of Wilkes Community College in Wilkesboro, North Carolina. MerleFest has already announced over 75 artists for 2018, including Kris Kristofferson, Jamey Johnson, Rodney Crowell, Rhiannon Giddens, Elephant Revival, The Devil Makes Three, a Midnight Jam hosted by Town Mountain and Jim Lauderdale, and many more. The rest of the distinguished lineup for MerleFest 2018 will roll out over the next few months.

The Mavericks – The genre-defying Mavericks are declaring their independence and stepping out on their own with Brand New Day, the first studio album released on Mono Mundo Recordings, the label they founded in 2016. Brand New Day is the follow-up to the widely praised albums Mono (2015) and In Time (2013). Flashing the same exhilarating, beyond-category style that has defined the Mavericks, the new album introduces a collection of taut, energetic, economical songs sure to be embraced by both original fans of their top-10 albums and hit singles of the ‘90s and a new generation of listeners who have joined the party since their triumphant 2012 reunion. It is the mature and timely work of an exciting and underestimated American band that has embraced its own destiny.

“This is the first studio record on our own label, and it is an important component in the band’s history,” Malo says, “but the real goal was just to make a great record.”

The new collection – co-produced like its immediate predecessors by the band’s golden-voiced singer Raul Malo and Niko Bolas (Neil Young, Warren Zevon, Melissa Etheridge), who is partnered with the band in the new Mono Mundo imprint – features the core members of the group since their reformation: Malo, drummer Paul Deakin, guitarist Eddie Perez, and keyboardist Jerry Dale McFadden, along with auxiliary members “the Fantastic Four” filling out the set’s brawny sound with their signature accordion and horns. The Mavericks will play the Watson Stage on Thursday night.

Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn – With one eye on using the banjo to showcase America’s rich heritage and the other pulling the noble instrument from its most familiar arena into new and unique realms, Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn’s second album Echo in the Valley is simultaneously familiar and wildly innovative. Echo in the Valley is the follow up to Béla and Abigail’s acclaimed, self-titled debut that earned the 2016 Grammy for Best Folk Album. This time around, the mission was to take their double banjo combination of three finger and clawhammer styles “to the next level and find things to do together that we had not done before,” says Béla. “We’re expressing different emotions through past techniques and going to deeper places.” The results are fascinating, especially considering their strict rules for recording: all sounds must be created by the two of them, the only instruments used are banjos (they have seven between them, ranging from a ukulele to an upright bass banjo), and they must be able to perform every recorded song live. Fleck and Washburn will play the Watson Stage on Friday night.

Mandolin Orange – Mandolin Orange's music is “laced with bluegrass, country and folk...often wistful and contemplative without being somber, and always firmly grounded in the South" (WNYC). The Chapel Hill, N.C. duo has built a noteworthy catalog of recordings and performances since their founding in 2009. Their live shows are filled with vibrant chemistry, effortless instrumentation, and breezy, fluid harmonies that continue to win over local and far away fans. Recent performances include Red Rocks Amphitheater, Telluride Bluegrass, Newport Folk Festival, Bonnaroo and Pickathon, with 2018 performances in support of the Avett Brothers at PNC Arena and Josh Ritter at the Ryman Auditorium. Hailed by No Depression as “one of the most talented acts making music today,” Mandolin Orange’s most recent album "Blindfaller" debuted #3 on Billboard’s Bluegrass Album Chart, was featured on NPR’s Heavy Rotation and made Rolling Stone’s “40 Best Country Albums of 2016.”

"The musical tapestry of 'Blindfaller' is delicately woven with lush threads of acoustic guitar, banjo, mandolin, violin and pedal steel, all ever-present without ever overplaying. However, it's the vocal interplay of Frantz and Marlin that is the band's most distinctive calling card" (Rolling Stone). Lean in to the album and you’ll understand why. You’ll hear the way it magnifies the intimacy at the heart of the North Carolina duo’s music, as if they created their own musical language as they recorded it. Mandolin Orange will play the Watson Stage on Friday night.

Alison Brown – Alison Brown has taken an unlikely path in establishing herself as one of the most critically acclaimed banjoists in the world. A former investment banker (she has a bachelor's degree in History and Literature from Harvard and an MBA from UCLA), she toured with Alison Krauss and Union Station and Michelle Shocked before forming her own group, The Alison Brown Quartet. She has recorded 10 critically-acclaimed solo albums, received 4 Grammy nominations, a Grammy award and the Banjo Player of the Year award from the International Bluegrass Music Association. Alison has been featured on CBS Sunday Morning, NPR's All Things Considered and in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. She was personally requested to play at the inauguration of Harvard’s first female president, Drew Faust, and was a recipient of Irish America Magazine’s “Stars of the South Award” for her efforts towards the “cultivation and preservation of Irish music.” In 2014 she was awarded the prestigious United States Artists fellowship for excellence in music. Alison and her band have performed at a long list of music festivals in the US and abroad including The Newport Folk Festival, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, MerleFest, Rochester Jazz Festival, Celtic Connections (UK), Verbier Festival (Switzerland), Country Gold (Japan). Alison is also co-founder of the internationally recognized Compass Records Group, which has been called by Billboard Magazine “one of the greatest independent labels of the last decade.” She currently serves on the board of the Nashville Chamber of Commerce and on adjunct faculty of Vanderbilt’s Blair School of Music. Alison Brown will play the Hillside Stage on Saturday and the Watson Stage on Sunday.

Brandy Clark – The Nashville, Tennessee-based Clark received her first of an impressive six career GRAMMY nominations in 2013 in the Best Country Song category for co-writing the Miranda Lambert No. 1 hit “Mama’s Broken Heart.” Her talent as a storyteller has quickly propelled her into critical acclaim as one of Nashville's best tunesmiths. Subsequently writing songs for Sheryl Crow, The Band Perry, Reba McEntire, LeAnn Rimes, Billy Currington, Darius Rucker, and Kacey Musgraves to name a few. In 2015, Brandy independently released her own debut album 12 Stories, which embraced by music lovers and critics alike and was subsequently nominated for two GRAMMYs including Best New Artist and Best Country Album. 12 Stories went on to be named "Best Album of 2013" by The Boston Globe, New York Magazine, NPR, The New York Post, and more. Brandy also won the 2014 CMA Song of the Year Award for “Follow Your Arrow,” which she co-wrote with Shane McAnally and Kacey Musgraves, and was also nominated for a CMA New Artist Of The Year that same year. 2016 brought the release of her sophomore album Big Day In A Small Town, which also garnered two GRAMMY nominations for Best Country Album and Best Country Solo Performance ("Love Can Go To Hell") and once again topped critics' "Best of" lists including NPR, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, Billboard, among others thus cementing Clark as one of country music's most talented artists, beloved by fans, critics, and fellow entertainers alike. Famed music critic and author, Ann Powers, calls Clark, “a storyteller of the highest caliber.” Brandy Clark will play at the Watson Stage on Friday.

“We are extremely excited to be adding these artists to an already stellar lineup for 2018. They represent the diverse talent that MerleFest is famous for,” says Ted Hagaman, Festival Director. The 2018 current lineup may be viewed at www.MerleFest.org/lineup.

Tickets for the festival may be purchased at www.MerleFest.org or by calling 1-800-343-7857. MerleFest offers a three-tiered pricing structure and encourages fans to take advantage of the extended early bird discount. Early Bird Tier 1 tickets may be purchased from November 14 to February 18, 2018; Early Bird Tier 2 tickets from February 19 to April 25. Tickets will be sold using Tier 3 pricing at the gate during the festival.

About MerleFest

MerleFest was founded in 1988 in memory of the son of the late American music legend Doc Watson, renowned guitarist Eddy Merle Watson. MerleFest is a celebration of "traditional plus" music, a unique mix of traditional, roots-oriented sounds of the Appalachian region, including old-time, classic country, bluegrass, folk and gospel and blues, and expanded to include Americana, classic rock and many other styles. The festival hosts a diverse mix of artists on its 13 stages during the course of the four-day event. MerleFest has become the primary fundraiser for the WCC Foundation, funding scholarships, capital projects and other educational needs.

About Window World

Window World, headquartered in North Wilkesboro, N.C., is America’s largest replacement window and exterior remodeling company, with more than 200 locally owned offices nationwide. Founded in 1995, the company sells and installs windows, siding, doors and other exterior products, with a total of over 14 million windows sold to date. Window World is an ENERGY STAR partner, and its window products have earned the Good Housekeeping Seal for 10 consecutive years. Additionally, through its charitable foundation Window World Cares, the Window World family provides funding for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, which honored the foundation with its Organizational Support Award in 2017. Since its inception in 2008, Window World Cares has raised over $7 million for St. Jude. Window World Inc. also supports the Veterans Airlift Command, a non-profit organization that facilitates free air transportation to wounded veterans and their families. For more information, visit www.WindowWorld.com or call 1-800 NEXT WINDOW. For home improvement and energy efficiency tips, décor ideas and more, follow Window World on Facebook and Twitter.

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Eminem Makes a Quick Sale of His Discounted Michigan Mansion

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Emily Osment Biography

Emily Jordan Osment born on March 10, 1992 is an American performer, artist, and lyricist born in Los Angeles, California. In the wake of working in a few TV movies in her youth, she picked up acclaim for co-featuring as the character Gerti Giggles in Spy Kids Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams and Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over. She went ahead to co-star in the Emmy Award-designated Disney Channel sitcom Hannah Montana as Lilly Truscott and in addition the arrangement motion picture, Hannah Montana: The Movie. She likewise featured as Cassie in R. L. Stine’s: The Haunting Hour Volume One: Don’t Think About It and the Disney Channel Original Movie, Dadnapped as Melissa Morris. Osment extended her collection into popular music and option/independent rock where she has recorded high schooler pop hits as “I Don’t Think About It”, “In the event that I Didn’t Have You” nearby her Hannah Montana co-star Mitchel Musso, and “Once Upon a Dream”. Osment entered the universe of music recording soundtracks for motion picture singles and Disney collections. As per a meeting at the 2008 Grammys, she was composing a few tunes together with Eve 6. In 2009 she marked with the Wind-up Records name and discharged “As far as possible Up”, the main single from her EP debut, All the Right Wrongs, discharged on October 26, 2009. The EP appeared at the Billboard 200 and her melodies achieved the top positions on the Canadian Hot 100 and Radio Disney. The EP was advanced inside the United States by the 2010 Clap Your Hands Tour. Osment’s presentation collection, Fight or Flight was discharged on October 5, 2010 by means of Wind-up Records. The lead single “How about we Be Friends” was discharged on June 8, 2010 and the second single “Lovesick” was discharged on October 19, 2010. In October 2010 she started her Fight or Flight Tour, whose first execution occurred in São Paulo, Brazil. She featured in the 2011 ABC Family Original Movie, Cyberbully, the 2013/2014 arrangement Cleaners, delivered for the online administration Crackle and the 2014 Lifetime motion picture A Daughter’s Nightmare and Studio Universal motion picture Kiss Me. She presently stars in the ABC Family TV arrangement Young and Hungry as Gabi Diamond.

Emily Osment Personal Info.

Full Name: Emily Jordan Osment

Nick Name: Emy

Family: Michael Eugene Osment – (Father) Theresa Osment – (Mother) Haley Joel Osment – (Brother)

Education: In 2011, Emily began going to Occidental College in Los Angeles, California.

Date of Birth: 10 March, 1992

Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Religion: Roman Catholic

Ethnicity: White

Nationality: American

Profession: Actress, Singer, Songwriter

Measurements: 34-24-32 in or 87-61-81 cm

Bra Size: 32B

Height: 5′ 2½” (159 cm)

Weight: 119 lbs (54 kg)

Eye Color: Blue

Hair Color: Blonde

Dress Size: 04

Shoe Size: 6.5

Friends: Javares Rochester, Mitchel Musso, Miley Cyrus, Demi Lovato, Ashley Tisdale

Boyfriend/Dating History:

Lucas Till – Emily was Rumored to be dating the American performing artist, Lucas Till.

Frankie Allison (2002-2004) – From 2002 to 2004, she was dating American performing artist Frankie.

Cody Linley (2005-2007) – Cody, who initially met Emily on the arrangement of Hannah Montana began dating her in February 2005 until August 2007.

Mitchel Musso (2007-2009) – From 2007 to 2009, Hannah Montana co-stars Mitchel Musso and Emily Osment were a thing. They likewise initially met each other, while taping for Hannah Montana.

Tony Oller (2009-2010) – Another on-screen character Tony Oller was spotted with Emily amid Dodgers diversion in October 2010. They amplified their relationship till May 2010.

Nathan Keyes (2013-2014) – Actor Nathan Keyes started dating Osment on January 30, 2013. The team met by means of Twitter. They split in 2014.

Jimmy Tatro (2014-Present) – Actor, comic, author Jimmy Tatro is as of now dating Emily Osment. He made the YouTube channel “LIFE ACCORDING TO JIMMY”, which has more than 2.2 million endorsers.

Known For: Emily Osment is best known for her leading role of Lilly Truscott / Lola Luftnagle in Disney Channel Series ” Hannah Montana”.

Active Year: 1999 (present)

Favorite Food: Pasta

Favorite TV Cartoon: The Simpsons

Favorite Actress: Audrey Hepburn

Favorite Actor: Tom Hanks

Favorite Band: The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Modest Mouse

Official Twitter: Twitter Account

Official Facebook: FB Account

Emily Osment Filmography:

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Year Title 1999 The Secret Life of Girls 1999 Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter’s End 2000 Edwurd Fudwupper Fibbed Big 2002 Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams 2003 Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over 2005 Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch 2006 Holidaze: The Christmas That Almost Didn’t Happen 2007 The Haunting Hour: Don’t Think About It 2008 Soccer Mom 2008 Surviving Sid 2009 Hannah Montana: The Movie 2009 Dadnapped 2011 Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2 2011 Cyberbully 2012 Beverly Hills Chihuahua 3: Viva la Fiesta! 2013 From Up on Poppy Hill 2013 Seasick Sailor[28] 2014 A Daughter’s Nightmare 2014 Kiss Me 2015 No Way Jose 2016 Love Is All You Need?

Television Year Title 1999 3rd Rock from the Sun 2000 Touched by an Angel 2001 Friends 2006–2011 Hannah Montana 2007 Shorty McShorts’ Shorts 2009 The Suite Life on Deck 2010 Jonas 2010–2012 Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil 2012 Life with Boys 2012–2015 Family Guy 2013 Two and a Half Men 2014–present Young & Hungry 2014 Rainbow Brite 2015–2016 Mom

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Celebrity Drive: Geoff Downes, Keyboardist for Yes, Asia, Buggles

Quick Stats: Geoff Downes, keyboardist, Yes/Asia/Buggles Daily Driver: 2014 Porsche Boxster S (Geoff’s rating: 9 on a scale of 1 to 10) Other cars: see below Favorite road trip: A40 in Wales Car he learned to drive in: 1970 Land Rover First car bought: 1965 Hillman Imp

Class of 2017 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Yes keyboardist Geoff Downes was driving a beat-up old Ford Escort wagon when he did session work, because it could fit his electric piano and other items. But then “Video Killed the Radio Star” topped the charts, and he could afford a proper rock star car in 1980, well before the hit helped launch a cable network called MTV.

“When we got the Buggles success, I thought ‘I’m not going to drive around in this battered old thing anymore,’ so I just dumped it and bought myself a Porsche 911 Targa,” Downes tells Motor Trend. “That was my first new car, because at that time I’d made a bit of money off the Buggles and so I was splashing out a bit, so I thought I’d go buy myself a Porsche. And I did. It was great, I loved it.”

You might say that 1980 Porsche 911 made Downes a Porsche guy to this day when looking at the cars in his garage. “I’ve got two and they’re both Porsches, I’ve got a Porsche Boxster S and that’s the one I bum around in and then we’ve got a Porsche Cayenne,” he says.

Even after the mega success of Asia’s “Heat of the Moment” in 1982, with fans around the world wearing their long sleeved T-shirts and denim jackets painted with album art, Downes still kept the reliable Porsche.

“We were the biggest band on the planet in 1982. It’s so big that album, it was No. 1 on Billboard. I was quite happy with what I had. It was a bit of a bonus really to get success in that as well,” he says. “I really loved the car. People used to joke with me because I had it for quite a few years.”

Downes laughs thinking about the parking lot where the band came together. “When we formed Asia, I remember being outside of the rehearsal room and the cars were incredible because John Wetton had an Aston Martin, Carl Palmer had a Rolls Royce and Steve Howe had a Bristol, which was quite a rare British car. These cars were all lined up outside, it looked pretty fancy. We used to joke that it was like one of the big show rooms,” he says. “In the interim, I’d been in Yes for a couple years, and again, Chris Squire had a Rolls-Royce Phantom, Alan White had a Bentley Continental S. It was like a prestige car showroom.”

Downes kept the Porsche because it stood him in good stead. “It was always a good car to leave outside the studio, it got me there in the mornings. It was a nice vehicle,” he says.

Daily Driver

2014 Porsche Boxster S

Rating: 9

“It’s very fast, very comfortable car. It’s automatic as well, so it’s pretty cool in traffic. The whole thing was people thought having the stick shift was a proper sports car, but I think times changed that and the automatics are really, really good,” Downes says.

This is the third Boxster he’s had. “I think there were four versions, four models, and I’ve had the last three models. I’ve always been very, very satisfied with it,” he says. “I’ve think they’re very reliable. I’ve not had, touch wood, too much problems with them.”

Downes also likes the fact that they’re very driveable and yet comfortable rides. “They look pretty cool as well. You take the lid off on a sunny day, we get don’t get too many of those in the U.K.,” he says from the U.K. “It’s a great car. I don’t have too many complaints about it.”

2014 Porsche Cayenne Diesel

Rating: 8 or 9

For a long drive, the Cayenne is always the ride Downes takes. “That’s just like sitting in an arm chair. That’s an amazing drive. A lot of people that come in the car say, ‘Wow this is really nice, it’s really comfortable,’” he says. “The Boxster S is the sporty version and the other one is more of a traveling car. But they’ve both proven to be very, very reliable, which is good.”

Downes had another Cayenne, but switched to this diesel because of the high price of gas. “The one before was extremely greedy on petrol, which, as you know, it’s a lot cheaper for you guys over there,” he says. “But here, we pay a very, very high price for fuel and the actual amount of mileage you get out of the that would be probably about 200 or 250 miles, whereas with a diesel it’s about 700 on a full tank. The old petrol version got a bit expensive on the gas as you can imagine. Particularly in Europe and the U.K. where petrol is very expensive, you see quite a lot more diesel because their consumption is much, much better. They have a much better ratio to miles to gallons. It’s a much better car.”

He’s also looked at other Porsche models, like the Macan. “You can’t really go wrong with Porsches,” Downes says. “Something like 70 percent of them ever made from the very beginning are still on the road, which is an incredible testament to that particular brand of motors. Then you think that many cars are still in service on the road, that’s a pretty amazing percentage.”

There isn’t really anything Downes dislikes about the Cayenne, except for one thing. “I’ve got a panoramic sunroof on it and that’s pretty nice, it gives a lot of light in the car,” he says. “Sometimes with the newer one, with that window, it’s a bit less vision, so you don’t quite have as much peripheral vision as they had on the older ones, but that’s a small point and you get used to it.”

Car he learned to drive in

“The car that I passed my driving test in was a Land Rover, which was a very difficult car to drive and difficult car to learn on because it had very complex gearing. They call it double declutch,” Downes says. “It was not an easy thing to do, but once you get used to it, it was pretty good. You’ve got to press the clutch again when you move up a gear, you have to double it when you hit neutral and then put it back in again. It’s a slightly complex method of changing gear, but those old ones were like that.”

Downes says the Land Rover, which belonged to his parents, was most effective as a farm vehicle. “It was a standard short-wheelbased Landrover. If you look at those old Land Rovers, they haven’t really changed their design too much,” he says, guessing it was a circa 1970 model year. “You’ve got the short-wheelbase or the long-wheelbase and visually they’re about the same. I suppose they were a version of a British jeep in many ways.”

He learned to drive on the streets around Manchester, where he grew up. “I used to bob around in this car, and unfortunately it was very, very expensive on gas. You had to keep filling it up which is a bit of a pain,” Downes says. “It was a nice car to drive. I had a lot of fun in it. It was pretty good because it was a soft top and in the summer it was quite cool to take the lid off. There wasn’t as much traffic on the road then. It wasn’t anything like it is now.”

First car bought

After passing his driver’s test, Downes bought a circa 1965 or 1966 Hillman Imp with money he made as a landscape gardener during his gap year before music college.

“It was a bit like a Mini,” he says. “I drove it to a music college in Leeds, which was about 50-60 miles away from Manchester and that was my car that I kept in Leeds when I was a student,” he says. “I had a little bit of money and I had a grant, so I could just about afford to run it.”

As any first car that a teenager can just barely afford, it had its problems, but Downes was grateful to have a college car.

“I had a bit of a problem with it because the third gear didn’t work, so I had to rev it really high in second and then chuck it into fourth,” he says, laughing. “So I toughed it out. But what separated Leeds and Manchester are some pretty savage mountain, there were mountain roads. Going over those on a weekend when I was driving home, it was pretty intense going up the hill when you didn’t have third gear, you need third gear when you’re going up the hill. I could make do it with it, it was character building.”

Favorite road trip

“I live in the south of Wales and there’s a really nice road that goes all the way up to the mountains at the top,” Downes says. “It’s called the A40. It goes the whole length of Wales. It’s pretty amazing and some of the scenery is absolutely breathtaking, but it’s quite winding, because it’s not a proper motorway, but it’s an extremely scenic trip and you go through reservoirs and these beautiful mountainous views and lakes in the mountains. It’s pretty phenomenal.”

The only thing is that Downes makes sure to be careful with the Boxster. “The clearance is very, very low. You can’t go off track too far because of uneven surfaces, you just bottom out on it,” he says. “The car bottoms on the surface, so you’ve got to be careful you don’t go too far off the track.”

2017 Yestival Summer Tour starts Aug. 4 and Yes’ 50th Anniversary

It’s a big year for Yes. Earlier this year they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Downes is busy this month on the summer Yestival tour around North America, which started Aug. 4 and ends Sept. 19 in Huntington, New York, with stops in Rochester and Boston just before that. Todd Rundgren and Carl Palmer’s ELP Legacy will join the tour at various dates. Yestival will feature the greatest hits from all of Yes’ studio albums up until 1980.

Aug. 4 is a special date for Yes because as of that day, the prog rock band is now in its 50th year, having played their first concert on Aug. 3, 1968. Yes will also be on Cruise to the Edge on Feb. 3, sailing from Florida for five days of progressive rock. For all things Yes please visit yesworld.com.