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Beltline Bones, a "new music ensemble disguised as a trombone quartet," offers an album with much variety, yet these commissions seem to lean into one another. Each engages in its own way, as all five composers seem to fully understand the ensemble's sensibility.

Melissa McCarthy joined Phoebe Judge and Lauren Spohrer to celebrate live the 10th Anniversary of the podcast 'Criminal.'

That's what I asked myself this morning as I glanced out the window.

Stephen Colbert is out. Jimmy Kimmel is off the air. And the FCC Chairman has offered the country a chilling choice: “We can do this the easy way or the hard way.”

It grieves me to see how much it costs to use these potentially life-changing medicines...but the lowest dose restored my willpower over food.

Little other Grateful Dead concert material from this period has survived. The July 3, 1966, show is apparently the earliest full concert to be preserved.