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Show Detective – May 12-14, 2023 Friday, May 12th The Platters® with Special Guests The Classic Drifters, Troy Music Hall, Troy, 7:30pm Considered the most romantic of all the early rock & roll groups (that is, the ultimate in “make-out music”), The Platters® produced hit after hit. The quintet effortlessly achieved domestic and international chart […]
Link to the Power Chord column. Welcome to Dunn, North Carolina, Anytown, USA, population around ten thousand. It’s not the kind of place you would expect anything extraordinary musically. There is no Beale Street. There is no Graceland or Sun Recording Studio. It is, however, the hometown of a guy whose influence on rock n […]
The travelogue of Undefeated, a rock/metal band from northern New York. This is about a fish fight. Hey, what’s up?! Undefeated again. Did you miss us? I sure did! Kidding, we’re siblings and we live with each other! Meredith just turned 21 a couple months ago, and for her birthday she decided to buy a […]
The Last Time I Saw Scarface Billy. I saw Billy at the Bus Stop on Nicolette and Franklin. I hadn’t seen him in eight years, but Scarface Billy looked 20 years older. He was on crutches dragging a bum leg in a brace. His face had been always been a cross-hatch of scars, but it […]
Joe Goldberg should go to prison for the rest of his life and be forced to eat nothing but cat food. But he won’t see one bit of Fancy Feast, mainly because he’s the fictional main character in the Netflix series “You.” The long and short? He’s a stalker who murders everyone in the way […]
Al’s seen this before. He’s got a bug-spray business on the other side of the ship. From iHLS Researchers from Hokkaido University in Japan demonstrated that molecular robots can perform cargo delivery by using a swarming strategy, achieving five times the transport efficiency of individual robots. Robot swarms provide robots with capabilities that are not […]
Al looked into this, and can conclusively say that, indeed, it does taste like chicken. From BigThink It’s not like you can make food out of thin air. Well…it turns out you can. A company from Finland, Solar Foods, is planning to bring to market a new protein powder, Solein, made out of CO₂, water […]
Well, not Al’s brain, but he doesn’t hold us against it. From Hdinc.co “As an astrophysicist, I am always struck by the fact that even the wildest science-fiction stories tend to be distinctly human in character. No matter how exotic the locale or how unusual the scientific concepts, most science fiction ends up being about […]
Al has determined that table salt doesn’t work, but tastes good on French fries. From Inceptive Mind. Many hot and arid regions of the planet greatly need efficient cooling systems because of climate change, but not every community can access electricity for air conditioning and refrigeration. Therefore, Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah University of Science and […]
Al had a lead apron on, but did you? From The Big Think Every once in a while, a stellar cataclysm occurs in our Universe, bringing the life of a star to an end. The most common type of cataclysm is a core-collapse supernova, where a massive star’s interior implodes, leading to a runaway fusion […]
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