Soft Winds and Roses is the 11th album from internationally acclaimed Canadian jazz vocalist Diana Panton, whose impressive career has earned her multiple awards. A departure from her more recent projects, this album features songs from the 1960s onward, performed with a minimalist backing ensemble that complements her vocals beautifully. Guitarist Reg Schwager and multi-instrumentalist Don Thompson (on bass, piano, and vibes) provide a subtle yet rich sound, evoking the intimate atmosphere of a jazz club.

Love. It’s the one thing nearly all of us strive for, more than any personal achievement or career ambition. Undying love may be the seemingly unattainable ideal of Shakespearean sonnets and Harlequin romance, but with the proliferation of modern-day matchmakers, speed-dating, Tinder and other online apps, it’s clear people the world over yearn for the unique emotional connectivity love provides. But relationships are hard enough if both parties are alive and well. When one or the other is already pushing up daisies, undying love takes on a completely new meaning, as Lacey Todd, the protagonist in Alana K. Drex and Billy Ray Middleton Jr.’s hilarious new novel, Oops, I Killed My Boyfriend, inadvertently finds out.

In our fast-paced world, enhancing our enjoyment can often feel challenging, yet it can also be a rewarding journey of discovery. Frequently, the most satisfying experiences are those that may not be immediately apparent. By exploring different avenues of pleasure, we can uncover hidden opportunities that enrich our lives. This blog explores various strategies to unlock these opportunities, including a glimpse into the expanding realm of online casinos.

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Much of today’s wrestling superstars went into the family business. That’s true for Vince McMahon, Jr. founder of Titan Sports, Inc. and executive chairman of the board of directors of the WWE. It’s also true for one of the WWE’s biggest stars ever, The Rock. But you might not know that McMahon helped shape The Rock’s career right down to the name he fights under.

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There’s a saying: ‘All monsters are human’. Melodramatic, perhaps, but also true. The supernatural beings that permeate folklore have shaped the horror genre in innumerable ways, but nothing—nothing—is more frightening than a diseased psychopathic mind. Vampires, demons, ghouls, werewolves, poltergeists, extraterrestrial invaders, each can be rationalized away as dreams, hallucinations or eyewitness error, but the murderous acts perpetuated by one human against another are undeniably real and sadly commonplace.

All fictional works are voyages of discovery. The audience embarks upon imaginary worlds, eager yet unknowing where its creators will lead them. Whether it be a slam-bang cinematic spectacle or the more intimate patterns of prose, a certain trust exists on such journeys; our time and emotion is invested in the hope that we’ll be ushered to places both entertaining and enlightening. Sometimes, however—as the enduring popularity of horror proves—those escapist excursions can become dark, dangerous affairs. The fear genre’s wisest creators understand that unspoken covenant with their audience and accept the responsibility, temporarily guiding us through blackened nightmare forests. All we have to do is take their hand…

In an unstable and chaotic universe, the only constant is change. From the collapse of galaxies to the passing of seasons, the mutation of bacteria and the splitting of atoms, cycles of birth, death, and renewal envelop us. People, with our finite lifespans, have attempted to defy time’s ticking hands, through science, through medicine, through construction and art. Yet art is itself an agent of change: each creative movement is the inheritor of previous endeavors, sometimes happily, other times gleefully destroying what’s come before.

One author who understands that transitory nature of existence is Jim Horlock, who explores the theme to its most frightful degree in the new Quill & Crow Publishing short horror collection, Change & Other Terrors.

The cornerstone sporting discipline in Zambia, football combines pure entertainment with economic opportunity. Football remains a centrepiece in the culture of gambling in the country, as well as a means of firing up passions among thousands of fans.

This fires up an industry that has so far grown and become dynamic with the emergence of online platforms and relaxed regulations, furnished by Zambia's deep-rooted historical and cultural love of the sport.

Historical Development of Football Betting in Zambia

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Football betting in Zambia originated in the mid-20th century when every­body was placing informal bets on local matches. As radio broadcasting became common, more were able to follow the international games and place bets informally.

Transformation. In many ways it’s the theme common to all horror tales. Through film and the printed page, the human body—nude, dead, mutilated or deformed—has evolved into the oft-fetishized narrative centerpiece, whether it be a lycanthrope’s bestial metamorphosis, Dr. Jekyll becoming Mr. Hyde, or the putrefying decay of a zombie. With a lineage extending back to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and H.P. Lovecraft’s ‘The Colour Out of Space’, straight through to Clive Barker’s body-modifying Cenobites and the films of Japanese writer/director Shinya Tsukamoto and Canadian auteur David Cronenberg, horror embraces physical change like no other genre.

Every neighborhood has that house, avoided by other residents, talked of in whispers and nothing more. Maybe a terrible crime was committed there. Perhaps the owner was a notorious eccentric, or rumors persist of ghosts. For whatever reason, the property sits forlorn and abandoned, a bastion of dark imaginings.

Shunned homes have long been a Hollywood staple, from the classic black-and-white frights of The Old Dark House and The Haunting, to the murderous familial dens in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and House of 1000 Corpses. Those foolhardy enough to visit such dwellings do so at their own peril, as the central players in the spooky new ARC Entertainment/G57 Films motion picture Voice of Shadows learn the hard way.

Rising from the coastal plains of the American Eastern seaboard, the Appalachians are made up of a broken chain of peaks, ridges and dissected plateaus extending from Newfoundland to Alabama. The Catskills of New York, the Poconos, the Blue Ridge Mountains and Great Smoky Mountains are just some of the densely forested ranges constituting the chain, and even in this modern technological age, the Appalachians conjure visions of impenetrable, untamed wilds. The early Scots-Irish, Scandinavian, and German immigrants who settled those rural barrens brought with them a rugged, earthen work ethic and clannish pride for kin, but something else, too: beneath their Protestant Christian communities lurked the folk beliefs of the Old World they’d left behind, sprites and witchcraft and creatures of the night haunting the isolated bowers of man’s domain.

Dan·dy (dan’dē), n, pl. -dies, adj. -di·er, -diest. —n. 1. a person excessively concerned about their clothes and appearance; fop. 2. something or someone of exceptional quality. —adj. 3. characteristic of a dandy; foppish. 4. fine; excellent; first-rate. [1770-80, origin uncertain] See also: —dan’dy·ish, adj. —dan’dy·ism, n.

Zom·bie (zom’bē), n. the body of a dead person supernaturally imbued with the semblance of life.

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I first became acquainted with the music of this ultra-talented trio of Canadian musicians and singers—Sharon Hampson, Lois Lilienstein, and Bram Morrison—back in 1994 when my mother bought a holiday CD called “Candles, Snow, and Mistletoe: A Holiday Celebration for the Whole Family” that they released the previous year.

I instantly fell in love with their energy, singing, and songs. In fact, one of those songs, “Mrs. Fogarty’s Christmas Cake,” became an instant family favorite. To this very day, it is the first holiday song I play every year, and it’s my daughter’s favorite too.

Now, you might think that’s not too uncommon—except when you consider that I was 33 years old and single at the time, and my daughter wasn’t born until 2000. Such is the wonderful impact this trio’s music has had on my life and my family.

Numerous cannabis strains exist, each with its own unique qualities. However, over time, several strains have gained significant favor and popularity among cannabis enthusiasts. Despite all of this adoration and popularity, Sour Candy stands out as truly unique. Its distinctive qualities stem from a few traits that set it apart from many other cannabis varieties. In this piece, we will explore the characteristics that make the Sour Candy strain unique.

The descendant of the campfire fable of yore, anthology films are the modern-day inheritors of classic gothic- and pulp-era short stories. Sharpened to visceral perfection by EC Comics during the 1950’s, anthologies distill horror to its most essential elements: a grimly humorous host announcing a simple set-up, a twist, and (hopefully) a jolt of disquieting terror. Movies such as The House That Dripped Blood, Creepshow, Tales From The Darkside: The Movie (and it’s urban-centric cousin Tales From The Hood), Two Evil Eyes, Trick ‘r Treat and the V/H/S series have kept anthologies undead throughout the ‘70’s, ‘80’s, ‘90’s and deep into the 21st century. Now Sea & Sky Productions brings a new entry to the fore with Lore, a delightfully dread-inducing compilation that kicks off the spooky season with ample thrills and chills.

Following an extensive explosion of rumors over the past few weeks, sources have finally confirmed the appointment of Jukka Jalonen as the new head of Italy's national ice hockey team.

The leading tactician behind Finland's four IIHF World Championship and its Olympic ice hockey successes sat down with French media house MTV Urheilu for a short interview.

Jalonen presided over Finland’s three golds and silver in four successive major ice hockey international tournaments between 2019 and 2022. The boss has always expressed his desire to take up the NHL top job when an opportunity presented itself. This dream explains why his existing contract with the Italy’s Ice Sports Federation includes an exit clause if a huge offer arrives on the table.

Fallen far from their King-of-the-Hill status in the Reagan-era celluloid landscape, vampires endured a difficult period beginning in the mid-‘90’s. After the prestige treatment of Francis Ford Coppola’s bravura Draculaand Neil Jordan’s Interview With The Vampire adaptations early in the decade, bloodsuckers were largely banished to low budget, direct-to-video fare featuring rehashed plots and/or chintzy production values (see: Dracula 2000 and its sequels, the diminishing Full Moon’s Subspecies franchise, et al). For every From Dusk Til Dawn or Blade that attempted to revitalize the subgenre, studios in the post-Scream millennial years were interested solely in slick slasher whodunits, found footage, and megabuck remakes.

Poetry is the music of the written word. Rooted in the rhythmic magical incantations and oral storytelling of preliterate cultures, from the epic verse of Gilgamesh and Beowulf to the romantic Shakespearean sonnets and political allusions of Yeats, poetry has assumed a vast range of elusive, sensuous, and lyrical forms. In Classical times poems were explained in spiritual terms—Homer and Hesiod claimed their writings were inspired by the Muses of Greek mythology—while in western European tradition, the oft-irrational sentiments of the poet were believed to be tainted with madness.

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