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Origin Story: Akashic Records
2024-12-04
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So Akashic Records, which come from the Sanskrit word Akasha, or “sky,” is this idea that all of our lives are encoded in some library which are accessible to people who know how to read such records. This is part of Theosophy, which is a 19th-century New Age religious movement, and then also part of anthroposophy, which was established by Ru…
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Sixty years years after John Young opened the first chicken wing restaurant in Buffalo, his mumbo sauce has hit the market, thanks to years of work by his daughter, Lina Brown-Young.
The coming-out party is set for noon-3 p.m. Jan. 6, at the Michigan Street African American Heritage Corridor building, 136 Broadway.
Brown-Young has been working on getting her father’s place in history, and his mumbo sauce, recognized in current-day Buffalo.
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A friend recently drew my attention to this playful carving on the Airavatesvara Temple in Kumbakonam, India. From the left side we see a bull, from the right side an elephant. It immediately reminded me of a suggestion for the origin of the word ‘elephant’, which derives from the ancient Greek elephas, elephantos. Since elephants were not native to Greece or its Near Eastern neighbours, where did the Greeks get the word?
Just days after it was announced Ludivine was leaving the 405 diningscape, co-founder Jonathon Stranger announced his One Table Hospitality had plans to close Osteria in Nichols Hills Plaza after New Year’s Eve service for a rebrand and move.
When the concept that Stranger opened with celebrity chef Fabio Viviani reopens it will live in the Britton District under the name Osteria Italian-American Diner.
“When we opened in 2018, I had a chef-partner, and Osteria was our shared take on Italian neighborhood food.
Other Peoples' Songs: Pancho and Lefty
2024-12-04
Some folks I know were going though a tough time recently, health-wise, and they asked if I would do them a favor and record this song for them, to give them some cheer in the hospital. I like songs, I like singing and recording them — and if it brings some happiness to someone: it’s a win/win/win!
I wouldn’t myself have chosen Townes Van Zandt’s “Pancho and Lefty” to cover, so it was interesting to be tasked with recording it.
When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife Sophie Grégoire Trudeau announced in August that they had legally separated, neither offered any explanation as to why their 18-year marriage had come to an end.
But according to allegations in a divorce claim against an Ottawa pediatric surgeon, by the time the prime minister’s break up became international news, Grégoire Trudeau was already in another relationship. In the divorce application, filed April 26, 2023, Ana Remonda alleges her former spouse, Dr.
Curtis Mayfield’s uplifting songs with the Impressions and on his solo releases became part of the soundtrack of the lives of countless listeners in the 1960s and beyond. Like Bob Marley, he excelled at creating music equally suited for the prison yard and the cathedral. He framed his songs with an exquisite guitar style set in the unusual tuning of F#, A#, C#, F#, A#, F#, from low to high. (Jimi Hendrix’s guitar playing on “Little Wing” is a veritable textbook of Curtis Mayfield-isms.
At the time of this 85-minute interview, Queen seemed to rule the airwaves. A dozen of their singles had already climbed into the U.K.’s Top-20, with “Bohemian Rhapsody” reaching #1. Queen’s recently released Greatest Hits compilation was well on its way to becoming the biggest-selling album in U.K. history, a record it holds to this day.
Queen had conquered America as well. Ten of their songs had landed in the U.