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The Music in My Head: Beach Music — It Will Stand! There are people who know a lot more about Beach Music than I do, so I’m not going to get into a conversation with anyone, anytime, about the definition of Beach Music! Some people will fight you to the death if you disagree, even a little bit, with what they think. I guess it’s because Beach Music — however you define it — creates such a fierce loyalty among its fans. I don’t want to talk too much (maybe only a little) about the origins of Beach Music, either. Again, there are those who know more than I do about that. I just know...

By Richard Fausset May 7, 2021, 5:43 p.m. ET ATLANTA — At a news conference in which she fought to hold back tears, Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms of Atlanta said on Friday that there was no single reason for her abrupt and dramatic decision not to run for a second term.… But the most serious political threat that emerged for Ms. Bottoms in recent months was a phenomenon she had previously described as the “Covid crime wave.” Like many other American cities, Atlanta is struggling with a spike in violent crime, including a 58 percent increase in homicides last year — the likely result, r...

-0:00 ‘It Is Time to Pass the Baton’: Atlanta Mayor Won’t Seek Re-Election Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms of Atlanta rattled off a list of grinding municipal crises on Friday, saying there was not a specific reason she decided not to seek re-election. In the same way that it was very clear to me, almost five years ago, that I should run for mayor of Atlanta, it is abundantly clear to me today that it is time to pass the baton on to someone else. Three months into our term, there was the biggest cyberattack in the history of a municipality in America. A federal investigation that seemed to l...

How the mayor of Atlanta and rising star in the Democratic Party has led her city through tumultuous times.

Photgraphy, Film, Words, Music, Design, Doodles & DJ Welcome back again to the Bluffers Guide, and this time we're picking up the pace from Soul and looking at Northern Soul, a genre that has its own amazing energy... I think of my own Da, and how important his co-workers were in the factory, he couldn't hold a note that fella. He loved music and just like the factory and mine workers in the North of England; they loved uptempo soul music. We're talking about a specific time in the early '70s in places like Manchester's Twisted Wheel, Wigan Casino, even the torch, Tunstall in Stoke-on-Tren...