Pauline Anna Strom, Composer of Enduring Electronic Sounds, Dies at 74
Her blindness, she said, enhanced her music, which included homemade recordings from the 1980s prized by aficionados.
Pauline Anna Strom in 2017, when her music from the 1980s was rereleased, drawing a burst of attention and new fans.Credit.Aubrey Trinnaman
Jan. 28, 2021
In the early 1980s, a blind woman stood in her San Francisco apartment with one hand in a bowl of water and the other holding a microphone, recording the burbling sound as she stirred and splashed.
“It’s a wonder I didn’t kill myself,” she joked years later.
The arrest is the latest in a growing number of prosecutions against people accused of attacking law enforcement officials in the storming of the Capitol.
Egypt Denied an Oxygen Failure Killed Covid Patients. We Found That It Did.
For many Egyptians, a video offered a rare and uncensored view of the coronavirus’s real toll at the peak of Egypt’s second wave of the pandemic.
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EL HUSSEINEYA, Egypt A cry pierced the night from the balcony of an Egyptian hospital. A nurse was screaming that the patients in the Covid intensive care unit were gasping for air.
Ahmed Nafei, who was standing outside, brushed past a security guard, dashed in and saw that his 62-year-old aunt was dead.
Furious, he whipped out his phone and began filming. It appeared that the hospital had run out of oxygen. Monitors were beeping. A nurse was visibly distressed and cowering in a corner as her colleagues tried to resuscitate a man using a manual ventilator.
Meet Kidd G, Country Musicâs Next Emo-Rap Star
A 17-year-old from a small Georgia town built an audience as a rapper on TikTok and SoundCloud before pivoting to country music and inching his way into a notoriously cloistered industry.
The country music up-and-comer Kidd G got his start in an entirely different genre (hip-hop), via a platform the industry is just learning to embrace (TikTok).Credit.Peyton Fulford for The New York Times
Jan. 14, 2021
Kidd G was 11 years old when his older brother, Dustin, got his first car. Dustin wasnât quite old enough to drive it yet, but he could use it to listen to music, and he and his younger brother would sit in the front seat for hours, soaking in Rae Sremmurd, Young Thug, Chance the Rapper. Before long, Kidd G was teaching himself to freestyle.