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Ed Blackwell, Dewey Redman, Ornette Coleman, Charlie Haden, at Prince Street May 1971 © Val Wilmer Once upon a time, before Manhattan priced out its young talent, you had to be an artist to live in SoHo. And in the late 1960s and 70s, a cultural phenomenon known as “Loft Jazz” came into existence in downtown Manhattan’s abandoned industrial spaces. Eclectic, edgy and often Black musicians turned Soho’s neglected lofts into places where they both lived, rehearsed, recorded and performed. Before gentrification hit, musicians fled small town America to squat these urban spaces vacated by the manufacturing industry, storing their...

Leaving America and England, a group of Orthodox Christian families are looking forward to starting their new lives in Russia. The only thing they need are VISAs. The Russian Orthodox Church has agreed to work together with government authorities, offering humanitarian VISAs to these Christian immigrants. On Friday, October 22, 2021, members of the Yaroslavl regional government had a meeting with Metropolitan Vadim, head of the Russian Orthodox diocese of Yaroslavl and Rostov. The Metropolitan has given his consent to offer humanitarian VISAs to the group of immigrants soon arriving from America and England. Under Russian law, a religious organization...

Three former seminarians say Cleveland diocesan and seminary officials failed to respond appropriately, after a priest allegedly pressured them to take naked swims with him at a lake house and other locations, couching the invitations in both spiritual language and excessive alcohol consumption. One seminarian also said the priest took nude photos and videos of him without consent. While the Cleveland diocese told The Pillar Thursday that the matter “does not involve any conduct that could be reasonably considered to be coercive [or] harassing,” one former seminarian called that response stunning. The former seminarians say they were harassed and manipulated...

Democrat regulations are holding the entire economy hostage.. After a long cross-country flight, I made it out of LAX and into an Uber. I wasn’t in the mood to talk, but the driver was. And hearing that I was a journalist, he wanted to tell me a story. I’ve heard a lot of stories over the years, but this may have been the most important one I let go. He hadn’t always been driving an Uber at 11:30 at night. Not all that long ago he used to have his own business with 7 trucks before he was bankrupted by...

The ‘Ecclesial Conference of the Amazon’ now has to submit its statutes to the Pope for approval, as it fulfils the mission of the Amazon Synod.VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Francis has canonically erected the “Ecclesial Conference of the Amazon” to promote the agenda of the Amazon Synod and continue to act as the “testing ground” for changes in the wider Church, possibly including female deacons or married priests. In an October 9 audience, Cardinal Marc Ouellet, the Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops, was given papal approval of the new “Ecclesial Conference” envisaged by the 2019 Amazon Synod. Paragraph...

On Wednesday, October 20, at around 6:30 p.m., a female Ocala Police Department officer received a text message from a phone number that was later confirmed to belong to Sammie Lee Osterloh. The text message stated, “It’s Sammie,” and added, “I will hurt you.” A second message stated, “I’ll be there tomorrow to beat your (expletive).” The female officer that received those text messages had arrested Osterloh’s boyfriend earlier in the day for a parole violation.(snip) During the phone call, Osterloh made threats to beat up the female officer, and that she was going to make sure to record it....

Stupor Tuesday, October 19 in the early morning , when the nuns of the congregation of the Christian Union in Poitiers found on the door of the chapel of the private school that they hold, the poster bearing the following mention: "The institutions like the Christian Union of Poitiers are swelling the ranks of the far right: BURNS THE FACTORY IN FACHO (sic) ”. Private under contract with the State, the establishment under the supervision of the congregation has 1,000 pupils from kindergarten to high school, spread over several sites. Located on the outskirts of Poitiers cathedral , the targeted...

Former president Bill Clinton said he was back home and on the road to recovery, the first time he has been on video since he was hospitalized last week for an infection of the bloodstream. “I’m really glad to be back home,” Clinton, 75, said in a Wednesday night video as he stood in front of the Chappaqua, N.Y., woods. “I’m doing great, enjoying this beautiful fall weather.”(snip) In his video, the former president took a moment to remind “everyone out there to take the time to listen to your bodies and care for yourself.” “We all have work to...

Twitchy US NEWS MEDIA ENTERTAINMENT CARTOONS Premium Content My Account × Search twitchy.com.... Barack Obama tells Virginians we don’t have time for ‘trumped up culture wars’ and ‘fake outrage’ Posted at 7:45 pm on October 23, 2021 by Brett T. Everyone has noticed by now that Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe is bringing in a lot of big names who don’t live in Virginia to campaign for him: Kamala Harris, Stacey Abrams, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden, to name a few. Obama campaigned for McAuliffe over the weekend and told the “crowd” that we don’t have time for “trumped-up culture...

The trial of pro-family activist Bill Whatcott continues in Toronto. As we reported in our first installment, Bill is charged with “willful promotion of hatred” for passing out controversial flyers during the 2016 Toronto Gay Pride Parade. It’s stunning (and frightening) that the Canadian government is going to these extreme lengths over a flyer that in the U.S. (and most places) would simply have been considered an annoyance at most, not a high-profile felony that carries prison time. The trial began on Oct 4. During the following three sessions (Oct. 11, Oct. 15, and Oct. 18) the Crown (i.e. prosecution)...

My newborn daughter passed away in her sleep yesterday. She was 2 weeks old and had just been to the doctor the day before. She had gained weight since birth and was doing amazing! The only issue of note was that her temperature read low at the doctor. They had us do skin to skin and it went up on the 3rd reading so we were allowed to leave. The next morning we found her. My heart is breaking and we have no answers as to why this would happen. I hope some of you may be able to please...

For several years I have advocated a Shallow Exponent Flat Tax. Instead of 4 or 5 tiers, there would be only ONE tier that we all face. But the more money you make, your burden goes up slightly higher than as a flat percentage. The tax would look something like: Tax = 10% X {[Income]^1.05} The exponent could be set by congress every 10 years or during wartime. The flat exponent perhaps should be on a longer timeframe for revisiting, because 10% is very easy to do in your head. As you go up higher in income, your tax burden...

GOD'S PERFECTION In Brooklyn, New York, Chush is a school that caters to learning disabled children. Some children remain in Chush for their entire school career, while others can be main-streamed into conventional schools. At a Chush fund-raising dinner, the father of a Chush child delivered a speech that would never be forgotten by all who attended. After extolling the school and its dedicated staff, he cried out, "Where is the perfection in my son Shaya? Everything God does is done with perfection. But my child cannot understand things as other children do. My child cannot remember facts and...

The Art Institute of Chicago fired more than 150 volunteers and suspended its decades-old docent program after the famed museum hired a woke consulting firm that advised the cultural institution to ditch the 'wealthy white' guides and prioritize 'equity and diversity.' Even worse, the mostly elderly docents, who are well-versed on the the exhibits at nearly 150-year-old museum on Lake Michigan, were terminated by email on Sept 3 because it wanted to 'rebuild our program from the ground up.' The museum - featured prominently in the 1986 hit film Ferris Beuller's Day Off - hired The Equity Project, a Colorado-based...

The annual United Nations climate conference is where world leaders go to make a reputation for themselves. For Gov. Gavin Newsom, this year’s climate summit couldn’t come at a better time. On the heels of the recall election, Newsom is primed to boldly reassert California’s leadership on climate. He ran on a pro-science message — contrasting his stance on COVID and the climate crisis with that of his conservative challengers — and it worked. The governor defeated the recall attempt by the same 24-point margin that he was elected with in 2018.

Pope-Biden meeting seen as a chance to address shared global concernsPresident Joe Biden’s upcoming audience with Pope Francis presents an opportunity for the pontiff to inspire the U.S. leader to work more diligently to advance solutions on shared concerns such as climate change, COVID-19 vaccine distribution, stifling poverty and conflict in vulnerable countries, a Catholic Relief Services executive said.“You have the two loudest microphones in the international community” coming together, Bill O’Keefe, executive vice president for mission, mobilization and advocacy at the U.S. bishops’ global development and humanitarian aid agency, said of the Oct. 29 meeting at the Vatican.“I hope...

The move means 10 ambassadors — including those of Germany and the United States — are now just one step from expulsion after calling for the release of activist Osman Kavala. Ambassadors from 10 countries who appealed for the release of Turkish activist Osman Kavala are to be declared "persona non grata," President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday. The designation is a diplomatic term that signifies the first step before expulsion. What does this move mean? Erdogan did not specifically clarify whether his order meant that the diplomats — who he accused of "indecency" — would be ordered to...

In yet more fallout from one of the biggest political self-owns in recent memory, police have recommended charges be filed against four left-wing activists who recorded themselves harassing Arizona Democrat Sen. Kyrsten Sinema while she was in a bathroom stall and then uploaded the exchange to social media.According to AZFamily.com, police at Arizona State University confirmed Wednesday they had submitted misdemeanor charges against four people to the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office. KTAR-TV reported the office is reviewing the charges.The incident occurred Oct. 3 at ASU’s Phoenix campus, where Sinema teaches a class.Activists from Living United for Change in Arizona —...

Just in time for Halloween and in what is perhaps the most bizarre collar of their lives, police in Guelph, Canada, have arrested a machete-wielding, bike-riding clown. The bizarre incident unfolded at 2:30 a.m. Friday when someone called cops to report an apparent fight, in which a man “wearing a clown mask and carrying a machete” had dragged another guy out of a nearby business,” authorities told Toronto City News. The victim managed to escape and run, and afterward, the masked marauder tried to cycle away with the weapon hanging out of his backpack, making him an easy target for...

Click here to view the full articleHow creepy is it when you find out that George Soros hired his own detective to work with the Senate Armed Forces Committee, chaired by NeverTrumper John McCain in order to frame Donald Trump by making it appear that he was colluding with Russia?This should surprise no one because we already knew that McCain sent an aide to get a copy of the Steele/Clinton/DNC/PerkinsCoieFusion GPS Dossier. He then shopped it around and then supplied the FBI with a copy of it in hopes that Hillary would be president.And it doesn’t surprise us that George...