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Mavis Staples’ latest album hums with hope that could only be delivered by the 86-year-old American treasure’s raspy contralto.“Sad and Beautiful World” sees the gospel and R&B icon, who briefly considered retirement in 2023, deliver a peaceful, even-keeled sound that is neither thunderous nor sleepy. Instead, Staples invites world-weary listeners to join her steady march forward across 10 tracks propelled by bouncy horns and tranquil, finger-picked guitars.The record features nine covers and an original, “Human Mind,” written by Hozier and Allison Russell. On that track, Staples decries “children dying by machines of war” and the sadness of missing family now passed. Yet the chorus finds space to cautiously celebrate humanity. “God bless the human mind / Who would dream the sweet desi...

The next Xbox is a PC. Well, sort of.Last week, we revealed that the next Xbox is essentially going to be a PC, and that the Xbox Ally Windows 11 handheld is a "test bed" of sorts to figure out what aspects of the OS need to be improved for that universe. Microsoft is working to boost how Windows handles HDMI, video game shaders, and all sorts of additional things within the Xbox PC ecosystem.The Xbox Ally has already delivered some powerful gaming improvements to Windows 11 as part of this initiative, allowing apps like Xbox and eventually Steam to launch right from login in full-screen mode, disabling the Desktop environment to boost gaming performance, with more planned in its handhelds roadmap. But the work doesn't stop on the consumer end. You may like On the flip side of this effo...

November means the holidays are on the horizon, and with them comes more time off to do what we love most: watch movies. Amazon Prime Video keeps an impressive rotation going, so I’ve selected some winners for you to pair with your popcorn this week. First, we’re engaging in some stand-up comedy with one of my favorite comics, then we’re back-tracking to the eighties to have breakfast with the coolest group of high school kids on the planet. After that, it’s sci-fi time with an alien investigation flick, followed by a sword-and-sandal epic and a new Amazon Original featuring Mr. Funky Bunch himself, Mark Wahlberg. These are the five movies you have to watch on Prime Video this week. 5 Tom Segura: Completely Normal (2014) ...

Iconic Austin blues venue Antone’s Nightclub has announced a lease extension to remain at its current location, 305 E. 5th St., for another 50 years. The club has also secured a $1.3 million investment from Rally Austin — a real estate nonprofit that partners with the city through the Austin Cultural Trust program  — to create the “Antone’s World Famous Museum of the Blues.”"Securing a home for 'Austin’s Home of the Blues’ for the next 50 years is a grand and poetic victory to the impassioned pursuit that Clifford Antone started 50 years ago,” Antone’s co-owner Will Bridges said in a news release. “And to bolster our presence and impact with the education and preservation focus of the blues museum deeply enriches and realizes the full vision of our mission.”The lease extension positions An...

Grand Theft Auto 5 might come to the PS Plus Game CatalogThat's according to a reliable leakerThe game will likely be available for six months Don't be too disappointed by the recent news of the latest Grand Theft Auto 6 delay, as Rockstar Games still seems eager to give you a GTA fix.According to reliable leaker 'billbil-kun', Grand Theft Auto 5 will hit the PlayStation Plus Game Catalog on November 18.The Catalog is offered to PS Plus Premium and Extra subscribers and contains a rotating selection of games to play on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4. You may like As noted by VGC, GTA 5 has been part of the PS Plus Game Catalog in the past. It was available for six months from December 2023 and then again in November 2024. With this in mind, it seems pretty plausible that GTA 5 will be ...

Turkish action movie 12 Warriors is headed to AFM and Ventana Sur with House of Film handling sales. The movie tells the story of a dozen elite warriors from around the world who are kidnapped and forced to take part in fight-to-the-death survival games. Affairs are organized by Sergey, a disgraced and sociopathic former Russian intelligence officer. He has built a shadowy organization that counts crime bosses, politicians, billionaires and members of the global elite as its members. “The film stands out not only for its real action scenes but also for its profound thematic underpinnings,” the team behind the movie said ahead of its AFM bow, adding that the project has “set out to represent Turkish cinema on the global stage.” There will be a screening of the finished picture at ...

norman lebrecht November 10, 2025 One of the landmark music addresses in Paris, at27-29 boulevard Beaumarchais, Paul Beuscher served musicians from all over the world for 175 years. On Friday it closed. For lack of sufficient custom, the owners said:Malgré tous les efforts, toute la motivation, les négociations, tous les changements – du plus minime au structurel – et l’ensemble du travail accompli par les équipes de Paul Beuscher ces dernière années, c’est avec une immense tristesse que nous vous annonçons la fermeture du magasin et du site le vendredi 7 novembre 2025. Beuscher was the kind of place where Edith Piaf once met Jimi Hendrix. Source link

GTA 6's development phase has been 'revealed' by an insider and a job ad posted by Rockstar Games. It comes soon after the studio delayed the game's release date - again - to 19 November 2026.Fans are hoping for trailer 3, more screenshots of new artwork after Rockstar shared new GTA 6 content after announcing the previous delay in May earlier this year.Despite the setback, GTA 6 remains the most highly anticipated video game in history and continues to surprise fans with new leaks, rumours and speculation.Keep it locked with the indy100 live blog for breaking GTA 6 updates, Rockstar Games news and the latest reaction as it all happens. Development phase 'revealed' by insider and job ad GTA 6's development phase has been 'revea...

A US country music star has shared footage of an ugly incident at a Melbourne McDonald’s, in which a female staffer was allegedly abused and spat at. Drew Baldridge, who has been touring Australia with Jelly Roll, praised the actions of two men who stepped in and pinned the alleged assailant to the ground. “Wrong country if you want to abuse women,” one of the men can be heard saying in the footage. In a video posted to his social media channels on Thursday, captioned “Never abuse women,” Baldridge said it was “so inspiring to watch these dudes stand up for this woman.” Baldridge said he witnessed the man repeatedly hurl verbal abuse at the staffer. “He probably said it like five times and I was starting to get frustrated. “And I was like, ‘Bro, you need to calm down....

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