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There was encouraging news for Bangkok's pedestrians last week when the city governor announced that during the coming year there would be a major upgrade of pavements in the Big Mango. It was promised that some pavements might even become "walkable". Well, best of luck with that.

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TV tonight: a gorgeous documentary about ‘first lady of song’ Ella Fitzgerald

Laura Mvula and Jamie Cullum help celebrate the singer. Plus: on the hunt for Tutankhamun. Here’s everything to watch this evening.

The Guardian - UK

From SZA to The Full Monty: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

Whether it’s pop superstars or Sheffield strippers, our critics have you covered for the next seven days

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TV tonight: Our highlights for Saturday, June 10

Casualty is just one of the gems on TV tonight.

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A Grandparent’s Guide to Today’s Popular Music

A guide for grandparents to today's popular music, including how to stream music online.

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Things to do in Chicago April 20-26: The Mix

“Into the Woods,” Joe Perry in concert, and Pixar Putt mini-golf at Navy Pier are among the highlights in the week ahead.

Chicago Sun-Times

How Doug Emhoff became the White House’s voice against antisemitism

WASHINGTON — Second gentleman Doug Emhoff was furious.

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Samara Joy, a 2-time 2023 Grammy-winner at 23, is understandably jazzed: 'It was pretty crazy!'

The 2023 Grammy Awards took place more than a month ago, but Samara Joy's feet are still not back on the ground.

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The Incomparable Freda Payne To Receive Lifetime Achievement Award At Luxury Gala Oscars

Freda Payne continues to rake in awards more than 60 years after starting her career.

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Lizzo tweeted 'cancel culture is appropriation.' Not everyone agreed with her point

Is it possible to cancel cancel culture?

Los Angeles Times

Twitter queen Dionne Warwick discusses music, singing with Chance the Rapper and chiding Snoop Dogg

Before she became one of the biggest-selling female solo artists of the 20th century, Dionne Warwick was a teenaged piano major who earned tuition money as a background singer on records by The Drifters, Dinah Washington, Brook Benton, Solomon Burke and other vocal greats.

Tribune News Service

Well noted: A selection of some music-themed gifts this year

The Associated Press is recommending for music lovers gifts including vinyl box sets by Neil Young, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald, Paul McCartney and heavy metal icon Iron Maiden

The Independent UK

The country’s going to the dogs, but at least the police have cleared the M25

The Met says Just Stop Oil are a tiny minority causing ‘disproportionate’ disruption. Isn’t environmental Armageddon enough justification?

The Guardian - UK

We studied the 'bibles' of jazz standards – and found sexism lurking in the strangest place

We are two female jazz singers, jazz researchers and lovers of jazz. And we have discovered jazz gave us another shared experience – sexism.

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AFP

Bookish and traumatised: the real Marilyn Monroe comes to Venice

Paris (AFP) - Sixty years after her death, Marilyn Monroe is back in the limelight as the subject of the buzzy Netflix biopic 'Blonde', which premiers at the Venice Film Festival on Thursday.

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Grammy and Tony Award winner Dee Dee Bridgewater to star in Ella Fitzgerald musical developed by Anna Deavere Smith

NEW YORK — The life and times of the First Lady of Song has been turned into a musical — with a powerhouse team developing it for Broadway.

Los Angeles Times

Jean Smart is holding on to optimism ... crying to Whitney Houston helps

LOS ANGELES — Jean Smart just pulled her car over to the side of the road. She needed a moment. Whitney Houston's soaring power ballad "I Have Nothing" is playing on KOST-FM ("love songs on the Cooooast "), a song that ranks as Smart's "all-time singalong if you want to…

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Robert Englund’s 'Stranger Things 4' cameo, explained: Who is Victor Creel?

The horror icon makes a short but pivotal appearance in the new season of the Netflix series. Learn more about Robert Englund's Victor Creel in 'Stranger Things 4.'

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Review: 'Constructing a Nervous System,' by Margo Jefferson

NONFICTION: In her second memoir, Margo Jefferson comes close — but not close enough — to her own story.

Chicago Sun-Times

Lionel J. Washington Sr., 103, was a devoted family man full of dignity

Lionel J. Washington Sr. passed away peacefully as the world continued to obsess over Will Smith’s slap. The Oscar-winning actor could learn a thing or two from my treasured Uncle Lionel.

Chicago Tribune

Sound engineer Mike King, dead at 85, was there for radio’s glory days, including the glorious ‘Chickenman’

CHICAGO — Many years ago, sitting in his office high atop the Wrigley Building, Mike King was telling me about the many people he had worked with in his long career as a sound engineer — a star-studded crowd that included Jonathan Winters, Burgess Meredith, Bob Newhart, Ellen Barkin, Dionne…

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