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MSRP: $39.99 The Production: 4/5 Public school music teacher Joe Gardner (voiced by Jamie Foxx) may have just gotten his first big break in the music industry: the chance to play piano for jazz great Dorothea Williams (voiced by Angela Bassett), despite his mother (Phylicia Rashad) suggesting, in fact insisting, he take the full time teaching position he was just offered by the school district. Before getting the chance to play in front of a live audience, Joe falls down a manhole on his way home from his audition. When he wakes up, he is ascending a staircase towards a bright light, surround...

Not only has this last year been hard on us music fans, but it's been more difficult for the venues where we used to go see our favorite artists — before March of last year. We can only imagine the huge financial loss that a full year of closure has caused for local venues. For owners and their staff, however, as we saw with Hodi's Half Note, Three Kings and others, shuttering permanently can be a really scary reality. But, we've all been hopeful that aid from somewhere would help the shows go on.  Get our free mobile app According to The Know, Senator John Hickenlooper recently an...

Yazz Ahmed – La Saboteuse (Naim): “Bahraini-British performer, Yazz Ahmed, is transforming what jazz means in 2017. This trumpet and flugelhorn-playing artist has worked with Radiohead and These New Puritans, experiments with electronic effects, and combines sounds from her shared heritage to author a new narrative for the genre. Part of the new wave of artists credited with stirring up the sound, including Kamasi Washington, Yussef Kamaal, Sons of Kemet and The Comet is Coming, Yazz Ahmed is thrilled by the possibilities of making something new. “I feel like I’m a part of modernisin...

WHITE PLAINS, Westchester County (WABC) -- A woman was able to reunite with her husband for their first in-person visit since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Harriet and Jerry Shenkman were finally able to be together in the same room Wednesday at The Bristal at White Plains. "It's been quite an experience, and not something I'd ever imagine in my lifetime," Harriet said. Overcoming the dual challenge of a pandemic and cognitive decline, Jerry has spent the last three years battling Alzheimer's disease. Although the debilitating disease has robbed most of the 80-year-old's memories for...

Soul, including the ending.] is Pixar’s first film with a Black protagonist, but the story never accepts the narrative complexities of Blackness. It’s a film where the Black character is either a blue blob or a cat for much of the action, but is rarely in his own Black body. It’s a film where a supposedly raceless character takes over a Black body, causing the Black character to minimize his own dreams for a symbiotic good. Soul opens as a story about finding individual purpose in life. But when the nebulous character 22 enters the fray, the animated jazz odyssey becomes a wholly diffe...