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Sylvia had the idea to re-record Chic’s “Good Times” for the backing track, and even played on the session. (The idea would come back to bite her when the guys who wrote that song heard their music, didn’t see their name on the record, and promptly sued). The three strangers, one using lyrics from a rapper he managed—not even bothering to change the name—stepped in the booth. The result, a nearly 15-minute-long track called “Rapper’s Delight,” somehow worked. Those already steeped in the culture were skeptical, but nearly everyone else was blown away. From radio play on a single station in St. Louis, the song took off to the point that the label was pressing around 50,000 copies a day.

Impeccably photographed by Daniele Banzato to capture the extraordinary layout of Prizzi and the gloriousness of its architecture and surrounding countryside, this is a tourist board’s dream. Accompanied by a beautiful score by Giuseppe Vasapolli, it feels a little worthy in places. But the interaction between the locals and the artists and their genuine affection for the Texan who became one of them is a pleasure to behold.

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THE KINDERGARTEN TEACHER Maggie Gyllenhaal earned raves at Sundance for her performance in Sara Colangelo’s remake of Nadav Lapid’s excellent Israeli film, about a kindergarten teacher who becomes obsessed with tapping the genius of one of her students (Parker Sevak), an apparent poetry prodigy.

Robinson may have ended up as “one of the most reviled businesspeople in hip-hop,” but her story didn’t start that way. Best known at the time for singing “Love Is Strange,” she was a music business lifer who wanted to start a new label with her husband Joe, with a loan from notorious music biz gangster Morris Levy. In the summer of 1979, she was at a party at the uptown nightspot Harlem World when she saw Lovebug Starski playing records and exhorting the crowd in rhyme. “A spirit said to me, ‘Put a concept like that on a record and it will be the biggest thing you ever had,’” she told Vanity Fair years later.

“The game wasn’t five minutes old when Levi went up to bat and fouled his first swing of the season off his eye,” South coach Ben Baier said, softly, recoiling at what was about to unfold on the playing field. “At first, I thought it went off his nose – there was a lot of blood – and Levi came running over to me and I knew it was a lot worse.”

I lived in a semi-rural community with plenty of blue collar workers, but this wasn’t the type of place where men couldn’t afford an extra pair of shoes and had to lug their dirty duds into the gym for squats. The footwear was clearly a choice and not a necessity, as I saw guys walk in wearing sneakers, then change into the heavy-duty steeltoes for their workout on multiple occasions. There was a strong contingent of boot wearers mucking up the squat rack, day after day, even after the sign went up.

Following the surgery, Legate and his mother were in his hospital room when he awoke from the anesthesia.

Almost-16-year-old Frock You Vintage Clothing is, by itself, a treasure trove of vintage finds for yourself and for outside-of-the-big-box gifts for others. Every few months, though, they invite guest vendors to set up in the tent-covered lot next to their shop to hold what they dub a Huge Frocking Sale. Now in it’s 8th year, December’s Frock The Halls version not only promises gorgeous vintage fashions, housewares, and gifts galore, but the ever-coveted Ugly X-mas Sweaters. Details for this holiday-themed incarnation are: December 7th & 8th from 12 pm to 6 pm and Sunday, December 9th from noon until 3 pm.

From Combine & Create’s one-of-a-kind gemstone-rich jewelry pieces to Open Apothecary’s CBD products to local art and t-shirts by Irie Iye to La Flor’s ethical smudge sticks, this shop is a well-curated bonanza of covetable goods. A natural apothecary section has an array of homemade tonics, tinctures, potions, and syrups to keep the body and heart healthy and supported. Custom tea blends, sustainable crystals, mystical handmade dolls, and energy candles round out their eclectic offerings. They also offer workshops and an array of rotating, on-site massage therapists, healers, psychics, tarot readers, reiki masters, and more. Check out the shop’s Healers Collective Binder to peruse bios and contact info to find your perfect fit and to make appointments outside of store hours.

Description: He’s been everything from a pirate captain in Peter Pan to a starship captain in Star Trek: Discovery, but you may know him best as a wizard. Join Lucius Malfoy himself, Jason Isaacs, as he apparates onto the ECCC Main Stage!

LIFE AND NOTHING MORE The director Antonio Méndez Esparza brings a documentarylike immediacy to this indie, a festival favorite about a mother (Regina Williams) on her own with her son (Andrew Bleechington).