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Hannah and Jamie Rowen of Stray Local have released a new track, “Shiver,” in January and have plans to release new singles every six weeks beginning in April. (Port City Daily/Photo by Justin Hall) How many streams does it take for a band to find some sense of accomplishment coming out of a pandemic year? For Stray Local, more than 6,000 on Spotify is a win — and in only a month, nonetheless.  It’s a benchmark already for band members Jamie Rowen and Hannah Lomas, who released their n...

4.9 (16) A $2.5 million donation from the Simon Family Trust is supporting the creation of a new center of expertise to help in the development of new therapies for multiple sclerosis (MS) and other neurological diseases. The new center is being launched by researchers from Gladstone Institutes and the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) and is called Gladstone-UCSF Center for Neurovascular Brain Immunology.  It will combine basic and clinical research in vascul...

New Research Center to Tackle Brain Diseases A unique combination of expertise at Gladstone Institutes and UC San Francisco will enable new therapies for Alzheimers disease and multiple sclerosis News provided by Share this article Share this article SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 28, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- A team of scientists at Gladstone Institutes and UC San Francisco (UCSF) is launching the Gladstone-UCSF Center for Neurovascular Brain Immunology to study neurological diseases in a unique way that coul...

Robert Falconer Kat McNamara did not spend 2020 learning to crochet or baking banana bread over and over and over again. Instead, the 25-year-old actress filmed a horror movie from home, started development on a YA adaptation, appeared at virtual fan conventions, and plotted where her career goes next as she looks to explore what she calls “new avenues of her psyche.” But the pandemic escapes no one, so we’re meeting over Zoom. “I have tried to make the best of it, being the stubborn o...

It’s all over the music, from the bands name to the title of its new album, “Shine & Shade” -- not to mention Future Relics dual lead singers and its poetic, folk rock songs. The new release, along with albums from Wilmington-based acts Nicolay and D&D Sluggers, helps close out a strong but tumultuous year in local music. Rollicking and heartfelt, “Shine & Shade,” recorded by Ian Millard, is also intimate enough to place you in the room with the band. Singer Kyle Lindley acknowledge...