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Relatives of Prince have asked President Trump to stop playing “Purple Rain” at campaign rallies, echoing similar requests made previously on behalf of fellow Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees ranging from Aerosmith to Queen.

‘Previously unreleased Prince music is “coming soon,” estate adviser Troy Carter tells Variety, although he declined to specify any further details about the recordings. “He was a guy who practically lived in a recording studio, and once we started going through [the unreleased material] we really started finding some gems,” Carter, who is also Spotify’s global head of creative services, said earlier this month. “I heard some music the other night that was pretty mind-blowing and we’re getting some stuff mixed right now. We’ve got great projects in the works that I’m excited to talk about. “So the answer is...

The most entertaining part of CNN's State Of The Union is often the tail end when host Jake Tapper presents cartoons he has drawn to illustrate stories in the news. And today he did not disappoint with an interesting angle on the death of Prince, namely the Tipper Gore connection. He reminded us via illustrations that Tipper Gore's once notorious Parents Music Research Center came about in reaction to Tipper and her daughter listening to a Prince album. 

Many advocates of an international gay parade in Jerusalem – another step toward legal recognition of homosexual marriage – tout gay advances as avant-garde. Actually, they are regressive – taking us back several thousand years to antediluvian times. One of the litigants in a recent Israeli High Court of Justice victory giving two lesbian women adoption rights hailed the decision as "a sign that society has progressed." However, it turns out that legalizing such unions was a practice of the generation of Noah. The Midrash in Genesis points out that even though forbidden same-sex unions were widespread, "the generation of...