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mzabrodsky@post-journal.com In this June 18, 2006 photo, Chuck Mangione performs during the Playboy Jazz Festival in Los Angeles, Calif. AP photo I was listening to the radio the other day, and heard a song that is in my collection. It’s a song I like, but not for the reason you would suspect. I like it for the brass instrument solo. In many popular songs from the mid 1960s until present solos are performed by either guitar, saxophone, or keyboards. Those instruments make for very good solo instruments because of their sonic qualities. Either acoustic or electric or a combination of both, ...

Mailpac Group says it gave over $20 million in cash, discounts, and gifts to its customers throughout the fourth quarter of 2020. The endeavour, coined “Bring Back The

Ramaphosa breaks silence on Zuma’s defiance of Zondo: ‘Give him time and space’ By Sihle Mlambo Share Johannesburg – President Cyril Ramaphosa has broken his silence on the issue of former president Jacob Zuma, who said this week he intended to defy the Constitutional Court by no longer taking part in proceedings at the Zondo Commission of Inquiry into State Capture. The Constitutional Court has ordered Zuma to comply with the commission and to answer questions directed at him. The court also said he had no right to remain silent. A defiant Zuma said he did not fear being...

BLACK Lives Matter may be the cause of the last year, but in truth, black lives have been mattering in Scotland for the last couple of hundred years, and no more so than 175 years ago when anti-slavery titan Frederick Douglass toured the country. This month marked the start of the first set of Scottish lecture tours given by Douglass (a more common spelling in the US). Douglass, born a slave Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey in Maryland in 1818, had escaped his captivity at 20 and taken on the name Douglass after the heroic exiled figure James Douglas, from Sir Walter Scott’s The L...

Galveston Bay closed to oyster harvesting starting this weekend FacebookTwitterEmail Get there while you can. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is closing a wide swath of Galveston Bay to oyster harvesting starting this weekend. That's because recent samples indicate that most of these mollusks are too small to be caught legally, according to the department. Oysters under three inches cannot be legally captured. Those waters have limited numbers of legally sized oysters, according to Christine Jensen, Galveston Bay Ecosystem team lead. "This closure is designed to provide some protectio...