Ian Anderson pays tribute to Jethro Tull founding member Mick Abrahams

Mick Abrahams - Blodwyn Pig, 1969, Copenhagen, Denmark (Photo by Jorgen Angel/Redferns)Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson is paying tribute to the band’s original guitarist Mick Abrahams, who passed away Dec. 19 at the age of 82.In a post on the band’s website, Anderson wrote that it was "with great sadness" that he learned of Abraham’s’ passing, noting Abrahams had "endured worsening ill health for the last 15 years leaving him finally unable to perform or interact socially to any degree.""Mick was vitally […]

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Music

The Zombies announce dates for third annual Begin Here festival

Soren Koch, Rod Argent, Colin Blunstone, Tom Toomey and Steve Rodford of The Zombies perform at Variety Playhouse on April 03, 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by R. Diamond/Getty Images)The Zombies have announced the dates for their third annual Begin Here festival. The 2026 event, which takes place in their hometown of St. Albans, U.K., will run from Oct. 30 to Nov. 1.The Begin Here festival, which launched in November 2023, usually features a whole host of Zombies-related events. In […]

December 24, 2025

Music

On This Day, Dec. 24, 1988: Poison landed their only #1 song with ‘Every Rose Has Its Thorn’

On This Day, Dec. 24, 1988 ...Glam rockers Poison landed their first and only #1 song with the power ballad “Every Rose Has Its Thorn.”The song, from the band’s sophomore album, Open Up and Say … Ah!, spent three weeks on top of the Billboard Hot 100 and was #3 on the Billboard year-end charts for 1989.The band’s frontman, Bret Michaels, shared in an interview for VH1’s Behind the Music that the song was inspired by a cheating girlfriend. He […]

December 24, 2025

Viewpoints

Culture Crash: Is King Sorrow Worth Reading? Inside Joe Hill’s Newest Novel

Welcome to Culture Crash, where we examine American culture – what’s new and old in entertainment… Author Joe Hill is known for his creepy tales of horror and discontent. He wrote the source material for the Netflix show Locke & Key, the 2013 movie Horns, and the Black Phone movies starring Ethan Hawke. He’s been publishing his work for decades now, but Joe Hill’s newest novel, King Sorrow, may just be his best work yet. King Sorrow is an 896-page […]

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Viewpoints

Viewpoints Explained: The Holiday Leftover Mistakes Many Of Us Make

This is Viewpoints Explained… For many, the holidays are when our fridges hit maximum capacity. Leftovers pile up left and right, pies rotate in and out – and, meanwhile, everyone’s quietly debating what really needs to be go back in the fridge. But here’s the twist: some of the dishes we often treat as “Safe” this time of year really aren’t. Take pumpkin pie. Many of us assume you can leave it out, but food experts say it really needs […]

December 24, 2025

Health

Medical Notes: A New Form Of Evolution, Why Winter Is The Best Season For Your Diet, And The ‘Milk Bond’ Between Mother And Baby

We may have discovered a new form of evolution. Scientists studied how insects coped with hurricane harvey in 2017 for a paper published in Nature Ecology And Evolution. They noticed that many bugs went through a type of evolution called ‘Spatial sorting’. It changes the likelihood of which specific traits are passed on, like with natural selection. But instead of taking thousands of years, the change occurred almost instantaneously. Since it’s often triggered by major natural disasters, scientists think we’ll […]

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Entertainment

In brief: ‘Percy Jackson and the Olympians’ adds three to cast and more

Percy Jackson and the Olympians has added three new actors to its cast. Holt McCallany joins the ensemble of the Disney+ series in season 3 as Atlas. He will appear in a recurring guest role as the pivotal villain and the third season's primary antagonist. Also joining the cast are David Costabile as Dr. Thorn and Jesse L. Martin as Annabeth's father, Frederick Chase ...The film The Legend of Aang: The Last Airbender will no longer get a theatrical release. […]

December 24, 2025

Entertainment

The Year in Entertainment 2025: Trends that took over

If you're not careful, you can find out that it's not clocking to you that you haven't been standing on business by knowing all of the cultural trends that happened this year. That's why we're going over the memes, viral moments and trend-setting sensations that dominated the cultural landscape of 2025:No one could get enough of Labubus this year. The collectible plush toys, which were created by Hong Kong illustrator Kasing Lung, are fluffy monsters with pointy teeth, large ears and […]

December 24, 2025

Music

The Year in Music 2025: Bruce Springsteen hits the big screen, celebrates big anniversaries & a whole lot more

It was another big year for Bruce Springsteen, which culminated in the New Jersey rocker’s life being depicted on the big screen.Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere premiered at the New York Film Festival in September and opened in theaters in October. The Bear’s Jeremy Allen White starred as The Boss, and did his own singing, while Succession’s Jeremy Strong playing the rocker’s manager, Jon Landau. The film followed Springsteen’s efforts in making his 1982 solo album, Nebraska. White earned a Golden Globe nomination for his portrayal of the New […]

December 24, 2025

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