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Jay Mumford, better known by his moniker, J-Zone, is a work in progress. He’s worn many hats throughout his career—from rapper, to producer and beat-maker, to DJ, to drummer—and each role, despite the occasional setback, has been creative and fruitful. But his biggest shift came in 2011, when he left rap, wrote his hip hop memoir, Root for the Villain: Rap, Bullshit and a Celebration of Failure, and started over on drums.

Not included in the blockbuster J. Robert Oppenheimer movie is how a Cape Cod connection played a crucial role in Oppenheimer’s early life, including his eventual move to Los Alamos to build a bomb that can destroy the world. It swings through Brewster, and a man who was Oppenheimer’s teacher, an early role model — part mentor, life guide — who stayed in touch with his former student throughout his life: Herbert Winslow Smith.

Peak: #6 on the Hot 100 Streams: 1.1 million It’s not so unusual for classical music to be the basis of a pop hit. Just ask The Toys. But it’s rarer for a piece of classical music itself to storm the charts. The most famous example is probably “A Fifth of Beethoven,” Walter Murphy’s disco reworking of Beethoven’s fifth symphony. It got all the way to #1 i… ncG1vNJzZmikn6jBtLvNoKpnq6WXwLWtwqRlnKedZL1wts6yZJqon6G5sHmQaWdmaWlsf26uwJyfZqKVqMI%3D

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Hello, Poetry Fanatics! Today we’re talking about our first Beat poet, Jack Kerouac. I first encountered Beat Generation ideas through reruns of the old sitcom, The Many Loves ofDobie Gillis. This sitcom originally ran from 1959-1963, long before my time. But, I discovered it when it ran in the late evenings as a Nickolodian experiment called, Nick at Night in the late 1980s. A pre-Gilligan’s Island Bob Denver played a comical version of a Beatnik.

Bear with me, this intro’s worth it… I think… Motown is synonymous with Detroit. After all you get “Motown” as a take on “Motor City”. Well, despite being Black-owned and stocked with mostly Black acts from Detroit, Motown in the late 1960s was enthralled with the idea of suburban flight just like White America. Sure, Detroit’s uprising against the police in 1967 didn’t help the city’s image as “business friendly”, but the writing had been on the wall for Detroit—and other Midwestern industrial cities—for quite awhile before the 1960s rebellions.

Greetings from not sunny, not warm, and not dry Los Angeles! Truly feeling so #blessed that my West Coast escape is giving damp New England vibes. It’s exactly what I was hoping for. I’m spending the rest of December in LA because come January, I will be moving into my own place in one of my favorite New York neighborhoods! More on that soon. I’m too exhausted to even begin to try to put a spin on this move, so I’m just going to be honest and say that I am experiencing the very visceral end to an almost 6-year relationship – and all the sadness, anxiety, confusion, and liberation that might imply.

Born on August 1, 1968, in Virginia, United States, Woodriff exhibited early signs of brilliance and a passion for technology. He pursued his interest in computer science at the University of Virginia, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1991. Armed with his education, Woodriff embarked on his professional career as a software developer at IBM, laying the foundation for his future endeavors. Woodriff's rise to prominence was marked by several notable milestones.