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While a straightforward and calm episode of Powers, Chasing Ghosts delivers where it’s important, leaving a much better foundation for the weeks to come.

Disney+ has confirmed all of the Disney animated classics, Marvel movies, Star Wars canon, The Simpsons episodes and more available in the UK.

Spiritualism’s popularity waxed and waned throughout the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century, and surged on the heels of major wars and pandemics.

Eight unmissable gigs and events to see at Leaps and Bounds Music Festival 2021 Leaps and Bounds 2019 - image by Naomi Lee Beveridge Words By August Billy Leaps and Bounds Music Festival kicks off on Friday July 16. No interstate travel? No worries. The 2021 Leaps and Bounds Music Festival program proves that Melbourne has more than enough talent and diversity to pack a ten-day festival full of live music, talks, markets and special events. After running the 2020...

On Chasing Ghosts‘ new EP, ‘Homelands’ (out this Friday) the goal is truth-telling, of sharing the real stories of people not with the platform to speak. In a true punk rock fashion, it’s to lift up other voices. For its two singles, ‘Summer‘ and ‘Busted Lung,’ the six-piece addressed Indigenous rights and white supremacy, and then forgiveness by a victim of an LGBT hate crime respectively. With this EP – Chasing Ghosts first new lot of music in five years, since the stellar �...

BILLY HOUGH, live-streamed "Scream along with Billy," at https://www.facebook.com/billy.hough1 JON RICHARDSON WITH PETER DONNELLY, live-streamed virtual performances at https://www.facebook.com/donnellyrichardson ERIC MAUL, live-streamed flute musical performances at https://www.facebook.com/ericmaulflute TIN PAN ALLEY: Virtual music events at https://www.facebook.com/tinpanalleyptown/ PATTY LARKIN, see live-streamed music and announcements by the Wellfleet-based singer, songwriter and guitar...

Wandering Eye: Self-Taught Geniuses and a Coke from Norman Rockwell Editorial Staff  © Winfred Rembert / ARS. Eye, the remarkable life of the great self-taught artist  Bill Traylor is being celebrated with a feature-length documentary produced by Sam Pollard and directed by Jeffrey Wolf.  Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts is showing in select theatres and virtual cinemas (use code MAGTRAYLOR21 to claim your discount). This week  Curious Objects host Benjamin Miller sits down with Pollard ...

Curious Objects: Bill Traylor on the Silver Screen, with filmmakers Sam Pollard and Jeffrey Wolf Editorial Staff Photograph by Horace Perry, courtesy of the Alabama State Council on the Arts. In April of 1853 a child was born into slavery on an Alabama cotton plantation owned by George Traylor. His first name was Bill and he would take the plantation owner’s last name for himself. A sharecropper and laborer for most of his life, in the decades since his death in 1949 Bill Traylor has become ...

(The following review is brought to you by longtime Athens Banner-Herald film writer Andrew Shearer. To support his work and continue seeing coverage of the local film industry like this, please consider an OnlineAthens.com digital subscription: www.onlineathens.com/subscribenow.)  Discovering a previously hidden talent, or finally having the time to develop a long-dormant one, are among the common occurrences that go along with retirement. Bill Traylor never had such a luxury in his life, b...

Print Welcome to the Ooops I Forgot to Write the Newsletter edition of Essential Arts. I’m L.A. Times arts editor Craig Nakano filling in for columnist Carolina A. Miranda, who as you’ll see has been immersing herself in architectural solutions for people who are unhoused. This week has been bizzz-eee as California kicked its reopening into a higher gear, so there’s much to share. I’m sitting down to write at an hour when I’m usually in a seismic snore. My 2-year-old is asleep, the ...