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An Unforgettable Discovery: The Story Behind the Nat King Cole Live at the Blue Note Chicago Tapes
by Dave Hoekstra | May 29, 2024 music.newcity.com/2024/05/29…
Nat King Cole arriving at the Chicago airport onto the tarmac, April 11, 1956.
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good explainer by @noatishby
Who won Israel’s election? 🇮🇱
77.7% of Israelis came out to vote, nearly 5.7 million people, the largest voter turnout in Israel’s history. The initial results show three main blocs in the Israeli electorate.
Benjamin Netanyahu’s bloc looks like it’s only going to get about 50 seats, down from 68 in this current government. That’s a major loss for the Netanyahu bloc.
Gadi Eisenkot and the opposition bloc look like they won the most seats at around 53 mandates.
And the Arab parties are at around 17, their highest level ever.
These numbers aren’t final, but at this point, none of these blocs have a clear path to the 61 seats needed to form a government.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog will get the official results in about a week. A few days later, he gives one candidate the mandate to form a government. If a government isn’t formed, Netanyahu will remain in power, and the country will possibly go back to another election to try and break the stalemate.
Stay tuned and keep following.
.@danielsgoldman tweet:
If @AbdulElSayed truly means what he says about treating the Jewish community as he would treat his own children, then he would immediately condemn this dangerous ad as outrageously antisemitic &demand that it be taken down. If not, then he’s full of shit.
New low for normalized Jew-hate in the American Democratic Party. Very sad:
Painting your political opponents as puppets of Jews, as this El-Sayed ad does, and as crazed baby-killers and money-grubbing villains who are the root cause of every bad thing not just in the world, but in your life—from wars to the price of eggs to the reason you can’t have free healthcare—is not just low-grade Jew-hate. It’s pure Third Reich stuff, translated directly from the original German.
Do you remember when Jewish Democrats in Michigan explained that they would vote for El-Sayed despite his open disdain for Jews, since there are many other important issues they need him to fight for? That anything was worth it to “defeat MAGA”?
Well, here’s El-Sayed’s answer to them: Don’t worry, all those issues we agree on, like healthcare, inflation, and climate change, I’m going to make them about Jews too! I will tell the public that the Jews are the reason they can’t have those things.
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The NBA’s most unexpected stat? Bar mitzvah attendance. 😂🏀
Former Knicks teammates Joakim Noah and Kyle O’Quinn had a hilarious exchange after O’Quinn claimed he’d attended more bar mitzvahs than Noah, despite Noah’s own Jewish roots.
And yes, it made SportsCenter.
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Stewart Copeland of The Police revisits his song ‘Message in a Bottle’ many years later
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Joni Mitchell performing “Coyote” at Gordon Lightfoot’s house in Toronto in 1975. From the 2019 film "Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese."
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Che spettacolo incredibile hanno creato a Milano, in Galleria Vittorio Emanuele, quelli di Vogue per l’apertura della Fashion Week.
Un’interminabile sfilata di celebrità: Gigi Hadid, Jennifer Lopez, Alicia Keys, Dua Lipa, Roberto Bolle, Naomi Campbell, Monica Bellucci, Dakota Johnson, Ghali, Elodie, Levante, Marco Mengoni, Lorenzo Musetti, Aryna Sabalenka, Paola Egonu, Arianna Fontana, Vittoria Ceretti, Bianca Balti, Stefano Accorsi, Claudio Santamaria, Chiara Ferragni, Heidi Klum e tante altre star della moda, dello spettacolo e dello sport (c’erano anche calciatori di Inter e Milan).
Ma soprattutto c’era lei, la star su tutte: la Galleria dei milanesi.
#VogueWorld
get a voice transplant -- you have THE MOST irritating voice
Tens of thousands of Chicagoans signed their name for this moment.
Today we deliver.
Let’s do this, Chicago. I’m ALL IN!
#susanaforchicago
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Wake Up to Guitar Greatness
Today’s Pick: Chuck Berry – “Mean Old World” (BBC, London, 1972)
The man who built rock guitar plays an old blues standard here, the kind cut by T-Bone Walker and Little Walter decades before.
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Here’s the incomparable Dave Allen discussing how to teach your child the time. It’s one of the most perfectly delivered stand up comedy performances of all time. Absolute genius.
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I mean go fuck yourself you Nazi loser. I can’t stand you assholes. You clearly are incredibly stupid if you buy into these brainless antisemitic conspiracy theories. The Jews have nothing to do with the price of groceries. Do you not remember inflation was being used as an argument against Biden too? It didn’t just start this year and it has nothing to do with Israel. Israel gets a tiny fraction of foreign aid, and foreign aid makes up a tiny fraction of the budget, it’s a tiny fraction of a fraction. It’s all a bullshit argument made by antisemites. And Trump’s a big boy who makes his own policies, the Jews are not controlling him. Not to mention this ad was made in 2024, before any war with Iran, the whole thing is just a sad joke.