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April felt like a pivotal moment for Japanese music on the global stage…or at least my travel itinerary made it feel that way. Smack-dab in the middle of last month, I traveled to the Coachella Valley Music And Arts festival for the purpose of seeing how the Japanese artists taking the stage — originally billed as three, then becoming five thanks to 88Rising’s “Futures” showcase, and hitting 10 (!?) thanks to rapper Awich’s set-within-a-set — would fare at what is the most-discussed music festival in the world.

“There are no chic women in America. The one exception is Nan Kempner.” — Diana Vreeland Nan Kempner was the quintessential New York socialite. With her slim figure, bold fashion sense and unabashed love of the limelight, she dominated the social scene for five decades. Born Nancy Field Schlesinger in 1930, Nan grew up in San Francisco as the only child of Albert Schlesinger (owner of S&C Motors auto dealership) and his wife Irma Field Schlesinger, a socialite.

“A lady whose beauty is not only a legend, but a reality” — Charlton Heston Merle Oberon was a glamorous actress of Hollywood’s Golden Era, known for her beauty and elegance on screen. If you aren’t subscribed yet, hit the subscribe button below to receive this email every weekend, directly in your inbox: She was born Estelle Merle O'Brien Thompson in Bombay, British India on February 19, 1911. Her father was Arthur Terrence O’Brien Thompson, an Anglo-Irish mechanical engineer for the Indian Railways.

Tyrone Power was a charismatic American actor who, during the mid-20th century, became one of the most prominent leading men of Hollywood’s Golden Age. Known for his dashing good looks and magnetic screen presence, Power starred in a variety of films, from swashbuckling adventures to hard-hitting dramas. ncG1vNJzZmiZlKS%2Foq7LnquipZWoe7TBwayrmpubY7CwuY6pZpqcn6euo7jEZqqtp6KuenR%2FjK2wq6eemnqxu9aeqQ%3D%3D

Ernst Heinrich “Teddy” Stauffer (May 2, 1909 — August 27, 1991) was a Swiss bandleader, musician, actor, nightclub owner, and restaurateur. He was dubbed Germany’s “Swing-king” in the 1930s and “Mr. Acapulco” from the 40s onwards. If you aren’t subscribed yet, hit the subscribe button below to receive the Adorable Stories every weekend, directly in your inbox: Ernest Henri Stauffer was born in Murten, Switzerland on the idyllic Murtensee, twenty minutes by car from the state capital Bern, in 1909.

Adria L. JawortAdria L. Jawort is a N. Cheyenne fiction writer and transgender/2 Spirit journalist based in Billings, Montana. Her writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Electric Literature, and Indian Country Today, among others publications. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjaKw0aKYo5mnpL%2B1

We are all meant to be mothers of God. What good is it to me if this eternal birth of the divine Son takes place unceasingly but does not take place within myself? And what good is it to me if Mary is full of grace if I am not also full of grace? What good is it to me for the Creator to give birth to his Son if I also do not give birth to him in my time and my culture?

A note: while this is intended to be accessible for people who aren’t familiar with Adventure Time, it does have spoilers. Where those spoilers are for the main series content released up to 2018, including the finale, I haven’t specifically marked them. Where they’re for content released post-2018, I’ve given a warning before I get to them. Where spoilers are necessary, I’ve tried to make sure that it doesn’t give away too much, and that you can still enjoy watching the show with them, but if you want to go into it knowing nothing, stop reading now.

There have been little bright spots in the downfall of twitter to cling to in its rapid descent into completely unusable territory, and one of them is the return of award winning poet, Richard Siken. His return comes from the cessation of the Richard Siken Bot (recently returned in human form with daily quotes instead of hourly) coming to its close as twitter bot functioning has been severely limited. Richard Siken remarked that most of the quotes the bot would cycle are nearly 20 years old at this point, and this coupled with it’s cessation of hourly quotes has urged him to not only share new writing with us, but also run what is functionally the best poetry and life advice column that i’ve ever had the pleasure of witnessing.