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Print Building rendering. The grand opening of the American Home Furnishings Hall of Fame permanent building is scheduled for 2023.   HIGH POINT, N.C. - Close to $2 million in donations have been provided recently to the American Home Furnishings Hall of Fame for its building fund. The grand opening of the permanent Hall of Fame building is targeted for 2023. Most recently, a $250,000 gift was received from Neil and Robin Goldberg for the Tribute Wall, in honor of the people behind Raymour &...

Advertisement The Disco Biscuits bassist Marc Brownstein celebrates his birthday today. Brownie was born on April 8, 1973 in New York City and went on to co-found The Disco Biscuits in 1995 with guitarist Jon Gutwillig, keyboardist Aron Magner and drummer Sam Altman — with current drummer Allen Aucoin joining the band in 2005 — while attending the University of Pennsylvania. Combining elements of psychedelic rock, electronic, jazz, soul, blues and more, the band pioneered their self-describ...

Design News, Delivered —xx, your friends at Business of Home ASID names CEO, The Novogratz has a new president, and more ASID names CEO, The Novogratz has a new president, and more Business of Home’s February roundup of new hires in design, manufacturing, media and more. TO THE TRADE Lynchburg, Virginia–based leather company Moore & Giles has promoted Adam Shurr to the position of director of marketing, where he will lead the team and oversee strategies. St. Augustine, F...

As winter forces Evanston residents inside, people have been trying to find new ways to safely interact in-person with friends and family. The Daily sat down with Andy Bernstein, a pediatrician at North Suburban Pediatrics in Evanston, to talk quarantine pods, childhood development and mental health. This interview has been lightly edited and condensed for...

Get Out the Vote: Creative Ideas for Photographers By Ellyn Kail on October 4, 2020 “Photographers are the hidden heroes of getting out the vote,” Andy Bernstein, the Executive Director at HeadCount, a non-partisan organization that works with musicians to register voters and promote participation in democracy, tells us.  Over the past few months, his organization has worked with photographers to take pictures of hundreds of musicians and influencers wearing VOTE masks or holding ‘Regis...

ONLINE: Georgia Comes Alive Bobby Rush In many years runoff elections in Georgia would not inspire collective national hand-wringing, but as with much else in 2020 normal expectations can be jettisoned. Georgia Comes Alive is a livestream concert to promote voter participation in the Peach States Jan. 5 runoff contest, but everyone else can just join in and enjoy a lot of fine music. Its your one time to see The Lame Ducks, an impromptu supergroup featuring Bob Weir (Grateful Dead), and a wide ...

Foo Fighters to Headline Voter Participation Concert in Georgia Senate Races 21 Dec 2020 Georgia is centerstage for the battle for the balance of power in Washington, D.C., as control of the U.S. Senate now hinges on the outcome of the two Senate runoff races in the state. A few weeks ago Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) declared, “Now we take Georgia, and then we change America.” Now the rock band Foo Fighters, whose frontman Dave Grohl apologized to the world for President Donald Trump, announc...

Reply(1) Georgia Comes Alive, a one-day virtual music festival to promote voter participation in the Jan. 5 Senate runoffs, takes place Dec 26. (Shutterstock) ATLANTA, GA — Live for Live Music, a premier music media, marketing and production company, and HeadCount— a national, nonpartisan nonprofit that works with musicians to promote participation in democracy in the U.S. — partnered to present Georgia Comes Alive, a one-day virtual music festival on Dec. 26 to promote voter participatio...

On Saturday, December 26th at 3 PM ET, Live For Live Music, in partnership with HeadCount, presents Georgia Comes Alive, a one-day virtual music festival to promote voter participation in the upcoming Georgia runoff elections by supporting local grassroots organizations like Georgia Coalition for the Peoples Agenda and CivicGeorgia. Starting today, fans are encouraged to visit GeorgiaComesAlive.com and donate to the cause. Those who make a donation of any size in advance will receive an email w...