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Edgar Dalrymple Obituary (1937 – 2022) – Huntsville, AL  Legacy.com
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It’s Week 10 of the 2022 NFL season, and we’re keeping you updated on all the action and biggest storylines throughout the day. The Week 10 slate has some fantastic matchups and storylines — starting with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Seattle Seahawks in Munich, Germany — and we’re here to help you watch it unfold. Check back often to find out everything you need to know.
Thursday
Panthers 25, Falcons 15 (Takeaways)
Sunday 
Buccaneers 21, Seahawks 16 (in Germany) (Takeaways)
Dolphins 39, Browns 17 (Takeaways)
Steelers 20, Saints 10 (Takeaways)
Vikings 33, Bills 30 (OT) (Takeaways)
Titans 17, Broncos 10 (Recap)
Lions 31, Bears 30 (Recap)
Chiefs 27, Jaguars 17 (Recap)
Giants 24, Texans 16 (Recap)
Colts 25, Raiders 20 (Recap)
Cardinals 27, Rams 17 (Takeaways)
Packers 31, Cowboys 28 (OT) (Takeaways)
49ers 22, Chargers 16 (Takeaways)
Monday
Commanders at Eagles, 8:15 p.m. ET (Preview)
The 3-6 Packers entered the fourth quarter Sunday facing a 14-point deficit. A loss would have all but erased their hopes of making a late-season run to the playoffs. In Green Bay, home of so many Packers wins in recent years, Aaron Rodgers wouldn’t let that happen. 
Two fourth-quarter touchdowns from Christian Watson forced overtime, and after the defense blanked the Cowboys on fourth down in the extra period, a 36-yard completion to Allen Lazard set up Green Bay for the game-winning field goal. A few plays later, Mason Crosby sent his 28-yard kick through the uprights to complete the improbable comeback and save the Packers’ season.
The @packers defense comes up with a 4th down stop! #GoPackGo

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Big gain for Allen Lazard!

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Mason Crosby for the win! 🙌 #DALvsGB pic.twitter.com/zb0mYZj2Ob
Have a day, Christian Watson! Make that three touchdowns for the rookie, tying the game and forcing overtime against the Cowboys.
Christian Watson hat trick! @ChristianW2017

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No college coaching experience, no NFL coaching experience, no problem for Jeff Saturday. After tweeting Oct. 30 that the “Raiders look horrible”, he backed it up by leading Indianapolis to a 25-20 victory. Props to the Colts for playing how they did after all the hoopla surrounding the organization this past week.
The former DPOY @BumpNrunGilm0re makes the play on 4th down! #INDvsLV pic.twitter.com/iqEloFaSHD
Have to be happy for Christian Watson, who has seemingly dealt with nagging injuries since the Packers selected him 34th overall in April’s draft. (He even briefly went out with an injury during this game!) But when he’s been out there, he’s lived up to his draft billing. Rodgers has trusted him down the field on several occasions, which has resulted in two long touchdowns. The second one cut the Packers’ deficit in half.
2nd TD of the day for Christian Watson! #GoPackGo

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In their first game under new head coach Jeff Saturday, the Colts have the lead! Nice pitch-and-catch from Matt Ryan to Parris Campbell for the 35-yard score.
Matt Ryan 39-yard run? Matt Ryan 39-yard run! @M_Ryan02

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Thirty-nine yards. An NFL team allowed 37-year-old Matt Ryan to scramble for 39 yards. And every second of it was glorious. Enjoy: 
Matt Ryan 39-yard run? Matt Ryan 39-yard run! @M_Ryan02

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For as good as CeeDee Lamb has been since entering the NFL in 2020, he’s never gone over 150 yards receiving in a game. He’s well on his way Sunday, torching the Packers defense to the tune of 10 catches for 135 yards and two touchdowns. Green Bay has intercepted Prescott twice, but they’ve had zero answer for Lamb.
💿🐑 x2

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New coordinator, same results for the Packers’ special teams. Amari Rodgers fumbled the punt return, and four plays later, Tony Pollard skirted through the Green Bay defense for a 13-yard touchdown to put Dallas back in front.
Fumble! Huge play from the @DallasCowboys‘ special teams 👀

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Tony Pollard stays hot to give the Cowboys the lead 🔥 @Tp__5

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Jonathan Taylor has been an afterthought this season due to an ankle injury and all of the Colts’ shenanigans, but he’s still one of, if not the best running back in the NFL when healthy. He reminded everyone of that on his 66-yard burst to put Jeff Saturday’s squad back ahead of the Raiders.
THERE GOES JONATHAN TAYLOR @JayT23 | #ForTheShoe

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People forget that A.J. Green made SEVEN STRAIGHT Pro Bowls after the Bengals selected him with the fourth-overall pick in the 2011 NFL Draft. Now 34 years old, Green’s production has (understandably) declined, but he looked like Bengals’ A.J. Green with his back-left-corner, toe-tap touchdown to put the Cardinals up 14 points.
.@ajgreen_18‘s still got it 👏

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Rudy Ford did it again. The Packers safety owns Dak Prescott right now, hauling in his second interception and setting up Green Bay before the break.
2nd INT of the half for Rudy Ford!

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With no Hunter Renfrow and no Darren Waller, someone has to step up for the Raiders. So far that’s been backup tight end Foster Moreau, whose 21-yard pickup earlier in the drive set up his diving four-yard score to get Las Vegas on the board.
Foster Moreau’s first TD of the season @fhmoreau

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It really is a beautiful thing seeing Aaron Rodgers drop back and, with just the flick of the wrist, unload a bomb down the field. He was right on target in the second quarter Sunday, hitting rookie Christian Watson in stride for the 58-yard, game-tying score.
58-YARD TD FOR THE ROOKIE CHRISTIAN WATSON

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A more-or-less uneventful afternoon has gotten a lot more interesting, thanks in large part to the Cowboys-Packers game. Trailing 7-0 after a Ceedee Lamb touchdown, Green Bay seemed to be headed for a two-touchdown deficit after Demarcus Lawrence stripped Aaron Rodgers and Dallas recovered in the red zone.
Cowboys recover the fumble and will have great field position 👀 @DallasCowboys

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But then…
Three plays later, Dak Prescott tried to thread the needle to Dalton Schultz in the middle of the end zone. Safety Rudy Ford, reading Prescott the entire way, said “I’ll take that!” while corralling the end zone interception and taking it the other way. With the way the Packers offense has played this season, it served as a crucial turnover for the defense.
Rudy Ford end zone INT. Packers get it back! 👀

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After somehow tying the game with a field goal at the end of regulation, the Bills were in position to defeat the Vikings with a touchdown in overtime. But Josh Allen, who has been careless with the ball in recent weeks, tried to thread the needle in the end zone and was intercepted for the second time by veteran Patrick Peterson, ending the game. As they’ve done all season, the Vikings survived again to move to 8-1.
PATRICK PETERSON WINS IT FOR THE @VIKINGS. #MINvsBUF pic.twitter.com/TXlgeYjYGM
Kneeling is usually the safest way to secure a win in the final moments. But on your own 1-inch line, that’s not possible. You have to try to move forward to avoid a safety. That’s what Josh Allen was planning to do — only he didn’t handle the snap cleanly. The ball hit the field, and Eric Kendricks recovered in the end zone, impossibly giving the Vikings the lead.
VIKINGS TOUCHDOWN ON THE FUMBLED SNAP.

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Fourth-and-goal. One-inch line. 50 seconds. Needing a touchdown. Unsurprisingly, the Vikings called a quarterback sneak for Kirk Cousins. Fall forward and Minnesota would be ahead. Only Cousins couldn’t get there, getting stopped JUST SHORT of the goal line. Buffalo ball.
Cousins is stopped SHORT of the goal line 😱

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The Vikings had one chance to keep the game alive. Fourth-and-18 from their own 27-yard line, two minutes to play. Cousins, with no one seemingly open, made the best decision — which in this case was just to throw the ball up to Justin Jefferson, who had been gashing the Bills defense all day. And somehow, miraculously, Jefferson came down with the ball to keep the game alive. You may not see a better catch (given the circumstances) the rest of 2022.
JUSTIN JEFFERSON ASDGJSKDNFGKSDF;K

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Despite 147 more yards on the ground and two touchdowns — plus two more through the air — Justin Fields couldn’t lead the Bears past the division rival Lions in the final moments. Julian Okwara made the play defensively with a fourth-down sack, and then Jamaal Williams sealed it with a first down on the ground. Third win of the season for the Lions.
Julian Okwara gave it his all and got the sack on 4th down! @julian_okwara

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Jamaal Williams runs for the first down to clinch it! @jswaggdaddy

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That’s one happy head coach 🔥 @Lions #DETvsCHI pic.twitter.com/Rh8Pa7Z4Ld
Sept. 17, 2017 — that’s the last time Vikings fullback C.J. Ham rushed for a touchdown. It was his second career game after signing with Minnesota out of Augustana (SD) the year before.
Nov. 13, 2022 — this is the second time Ham has rushed for a touchdown. Incredibly, it took more than five years bewteen his first and second, but it was important nonetheless, pulling the Vikings within four.
The @Vikings are within one score after this C.J. Ham TD!

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The Jaguars are still fighting despite facing a 17-point deficit. Christian Kirk has been great for Jacksonville, going over 100 yards and catching two touchdowns from Trevor Lawrence.
Christian Kirk diving catch for 6 🙌 @ckirk

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The Bills were going for the kill on fourth-and-2 from the Vikings’ seven-yard line. Instead, Allen threw the ball right to Patrick Peterson in the red zone to keep Minnesota within striking distance.
Patrick Peterson with an end zone INT @P2

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Courtland Sutton had the catch of the day earlier. That’s no more after what Stefon Diggs did on this 25-yard gain. 
STEFON DIGGS OH MY

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Seriously, c’mon Justin Fields. Quarterbacks shouldn’t be able to do this at any level, never mind the NFL. What a turnaround it’s been from the dangerous dual threat, who went from struggling sophomore to electric franchise QB in Chicago.
JUSTIN. FIELDS.

67-YARD TD! #DaBears

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The Titans executed the flea-flicker PERFECTLY to take the lead over the Broncos. Derrick Henry took the hand-off and then flipped it back to Ryan Tannehill, who found a WIDE OPEN Nick Westbrook-Ikhine down the right sideline. After making the catch, he had one man to beat. Easy money for the 63-yard score.
Flea flicker for the lead! @nick_west15

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Dalvin Cook reminded the Bills, and the rest of the NFL, who the best Cook brother is. With rookie James Cook watching from the Buffalo sideline, Dalvin ripped one of the longest runs in the NFL this season. 81 yards to the HOUSE, and he was barely touched in the process.
.@DalvinCook goes 81 YARDS!!!

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You can only contain Nick Chubb for so long, which the Dolphins learned early in the fourth quarter. And this is what makes Chubb so special: he can spin off of a defender, regain his balance and still rumble the 25 yards into the end zone.
Nick Chubb spins out of a tackle for the 33-yard TD!

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Patrick Mahomes has been on another level this season. He entered Sunday with a 21-to-6 touchdown-to-interception ratio, and he’s padded to his stats against the Jaguars. In just three quarters, he’s already thrown for 263 yards and four touchdowns, keeping the Chiefs in complete control.
Travis Kelce extends the @Chiefs lead #ChiefsKingdom

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The Bears offense, believe it or not, has been very fun to watch over the past several weeks. Much of the entertainment value is Justin Fields making baffling plays with his legs, but he can also sling it. In addition to his 74 rushing yards so far, he’s completed 10 of his 14 passes for 154 yards and a pair of touchdowns to Cole Kmet.
Cole Kmet WIDE OPEN. 50-yard @ChicagoBears TD!

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Raheem Mostert is a smooth runner, which he showed by leisurely weaving in and out of the Browns defense for the score from 24 yards out.
Mostert paydirt 🙌

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The Giants let the Texans hang around in the first half, but another big play from Darius Slayton has New York in firm control to start the third quarter. Despite falling down, Daniel Jones got the pass off in the left flat. Slayton, with help from the helpless Houston defense, did the rest en route to a 54-yard touchdown.
WOW DANIEL JONES TO DARIUS SLAYTON. 54-YARD TD!

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Josh Allen looks just fine after nearly missing this contest with an elbow injury. He led the Bills to 24 first-half points, including this 11-yard strike to Gabe Davis before intermission.
Allen to Davis! 24 first-half points for the @BuffaloBills.

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188 yards? On just 11 completions? That’s the Russell Wilson we loved watching in Seattle — when Pete Carroll actually let him cook — and he’s back at it again versus the Titans. Here was the biggest play of the first half: a 66-yard pitch and catch. to undrafted rookie Jalen Virgil.
Russell Wilson. Jalen Virgil. 66 yards! #BroncosCountry

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Tua Tagovailoa is playing with so much confidence this season, and it’s continued Sunday against the Browns. Check out this dime to Trent Sherfield for the score. Heckuva catch, too!
Perfect placement from @Tua to Trent Sherfield! @Channel__10

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The MVS stands for, you guessed it (hopefully), Marquez Valdes-Scantling, and the TD stands for the 18-yard catch that doubled the Chiefs advantage.
.@MVS__11 gets his first tuddy as a Chief‼️

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Everyone has been talking about the Seahawks’ Kenneth Walker III for NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year, but there’s another running back who deserves your attention. It’s Dameon Pierce, and here he is exploding up the middle for a 44-yard pickup.
Watch him work 🏃‍♂️💨 @IRep229

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First there was the MetLife Stadium black cat, and now we have the Pittsburgh pigeons. Seriously, check out of these birds just casually watching first-round rookie quarterback Kenny Pickett. No price of admission, either!
how many yards is a ‘too many pigeons’ penalty? pic.twitter.com/SicsdVYYTv
The Pittsburgh Pigeons have the best seat in the house pic.twitter.com/GTkO9qg1tn
Early nominee for catch of the day has to be Courtland Sutton, who made a great one-handed catch while falling to the ground. 16-yard pickup.
Courtland Sutton makes a spectacular one-handed grab falling down! 😱

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The Bills went three-and-out on their first possession, then turned into what they’ve been doing all season and started gashing the Vikings defense. They scored touchdowns on their next two possessions, both by Devin Singletary.
Devin Singletary and the @BuffaloBills answer back!

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Devin Singletary’s second TD of the first quarter! @motorsingletary

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In the second game with his new team, former first-round WR Kadarius Toney made his presence felt, hopping (seriously), into the end zone for his first-career score.
Kadarius Toney hops his way in for his first career touchdown! #ChiefsKingdom @0fficialC2N

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If you thought the 6-2 Giants would come back down to Earth off the bye week, you’d be wrong — for now. Great start for New York, which forced a quick three-and-out and then drove 68 yards for an opening-drive touchdown. Getting the score was third-year tight end Lawrence Cager, who signed to the team’s practice squad in mid-October. A month later, his third-career catch went for the first touchdown of his career.
Daniel Jones to Lawrence Cager for the @Giants TD!

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Perfect start for the 7-1 Vikings. After forcing the Bills into a three-and-out, Minnesota drove right down the field thanks almost exclusively to Kirk Cousins and Justin Jefferson. The duo connected twice, the first for a 46-yard gain and the second for a 22-yard touchdown. 
Jefferson is on the move already. @JJettas2

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Justin Jefferson is UNFAIR. @JJettas2

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Doug Pederson, YOU DOG! What a gutsy, genius call to begin the game with an onside kick. And making it even better is that Riley Patterson recovered his own kick! When you’re 9.5-point underdogs, you have to get creative. The Jaguars are off to a great start.
Jags start the game with a surprise onside kick recovered by the kicker! 🔥

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Four starting quarterbacks enter Sunday with a questionable tag: Josh Allen (Bills, elbow), Ryan Tannehill (Titans, ankle), Matthew Stafford (Rams, concussion) and Kyler Murray (Cardinals, hamstring). So who’s going to suit up? And who will be sidelined? Here’s the latest:
NFL Media reported Saturday evening that Allen, who has been dealing with a UCL injury in his throwing elbow, is set to start vs. the Vikings. Allen, who practiced sparingly throughout the week, is able to grip the ball and threw some passes Friday, per Ian Rapoport. The Bills announced on Sundayannounced on Sunday that Allen is indeed active.
After missing the past two games with an ankle injury, Tannehill is expected to start against the Broncos. Tannehill was a limited participant in practice Wednesday and Friday but practiced in full Thursday, apparently giving the Titans enough confidence to re-insert their veteran signal-caller as the starter for Week 10.
Stafford, who entered concussion protocol Tuesday, is a long shot to play, according to NFL Media. If Stafford can’t play, John Wolford would get the start under center.
Kyler Murray will work out pregame to see if he can play, per NFL Media, but it’s unlikely he’ll be able to go due to a hamstring injury. “He’s still moving very gingerly,” according to Ian Rapoport. If Murray can’t play, veteran Colt McCoy would be QB1.
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by Brian Cantor Nov 13, 2022, 7:30 pm
Enjoying a breakout year that has included massive success for songs like “Fingers Crossed” and “Flowers,” Lauren Spencer Smith attended one of the biggest international music events Sunday.
The Canadian artist participated in Sunday’s 2022 MTV Europe Music Awards.
Alongside Sam Ryder, Spencer Smith presented “Best Collaboration” to “I’m Good (Blue)” collaborators David Guetta and Bebe Rexha.
In addition to presenting and walking the red carpet, the artist spent time in the show’s portrait studio. Her stint there produced some beautiful shots, which MTV shared as part of its EMA publicity campaign.
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Brian Cantor is the editor-in-chief for Headline Planet. He has been a leading reporter in the music, movie, television and sporting spaces since 2002.
Brian’s reporting has been cited by major websites like BuzzFeed, Billboard, the New Yorker and The Fader — and shared by celebrities like Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber and Nicki Minaj.
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GUNTERSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) – A man who was convicted in October of killing three people in 2018 has been sentenced to death by a Marshall County judge.
In October, Jimmy Spencer was convicted of killing three people in Guntersville. Following his conviction, the jury in his case unanimously recommended the death penalty after just 30 minutes of deliberation.
Judge Tim Riley sided with the jury and sentenced Spencer to the death penalty. Spencer will become the 167th person on Alabama’s death row.
Friends and families of the victims took to the stand to speak to the judge about their loved ones during the sentencing hearing. After them, Spencer took the stand and apologized for what happened and said if he could go back in time he would change it.
Judge Riley spoke about the trial and said that he has been through many murder trials but said the crime scene photos he saw in this trial will stick with him. Judge Riley says that Spencer will be given an automatic appeal.
He also said that if a book or movie is ever made, all money from the deal will go to the state.
Spencer was charged with seven counts of capital murder after he was accused of causing the deaths of Martha Reliford, Marie Martin and Colton Lee.
During the trial, jurors heard recordings of Spencer confessing to the murders. In the recordings, Spencer goes into detail about the murders.
In the audio recording, Spencer explains that he went to Reliford’s house to steal money from her but when he realized she could report him to the police, he made the decision to kill her.
Spencer then says he went across the street to take money from Martin’s home. After stealing from her, he says on the tape that he made the decision to kill her and her seven-year-old great-grandson.
The Guntersville Police Department arrested Spencer after he was seen on security footage driving Martin’s car. At the time of the murders, Spencer was out of prison on parole.
Prior to the trial starting, there was a question as to whether the death penalty would be in play due to Spencer’s low IQ but a judge ruled that the prosecution would be allowed to seek the death penalty. An expert witness for the defense team advised the court that Spencer’s IQ was 56.
Marie Martin’s brother Junior Kitchens spoke after the sentencing saying that Spencer targeted the three most vulnerable people possible.
“They meant everything to us. There’s no closure to it. They’ll always be with us,” Kitchens said. “She had a flip phone, and that’s all she could probably operate. She probably didn’t have much money in the house. She would’ve given anything to have him go along and leave the kid alone.”
Spencer was out on parole when the murders were committed. Kitchens said his sister would still be alive if he had not been released.
“They paroled him,” Kitchens said. “He should’ve never been paroled. Then he came on the street and did whatever he wanted to, and his parole officer never checked up on him.”
Now facing the end of his life, Spencer said he wishes he could change his past.
“I’m sorry about what happened,” Spencer said. “I wish I could change everything about what happened. If I could go back and change everything I would, but I can’t.”
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VAIL, Colo. (AP) — There’s a narrow swath of sagebrush-covered hillside perched just above Interstate 70 that’s home to a Colorado treasure: the bighorn sheep that graze along that steep, craggy terrain. The land could also be used to help solve a chronic problem nearby: a dearth of affordable housing that threatens the future of the renowned resort town of Vail.
Each winter, the hamlet becomes an international ski destination, serving up fun, food, fashion and sport for thousands of visitors. But similar to hundreds of communities across the U.S., the influx of visitors and newcomers — from those who come for a few days to others who buy second homes — has made housing nearly impossible to find for the workers needed to support the region’s tourism.
“Someone explained to me that housing needs to be like infrastructure,” says Jenn Bruno, owner of a boutique in the heart of Vail. “We need to treat it like roads and bridges. And we need to make sure we have it, especially in a community like Vail, where we have one industry, and it’s tourism.”
Just weeks before this month’s season opening at the ski resort, Bruno’s only employee was a teenager who could cover a few hours a week when her schedule permits. The restaurant across the street from her shop has been standing there, closed, for around two years now.
For more than six years, the owner of the hillside in question, the publicly traded Vail Resorts Inc., has been trying to build apartments to furnish housing for around 160 of its workers on a property called Booth Heights, named after a creek that meanders from a waterfall four miles up the steep Gore mountain range. That housing would free up other apartments in town, which, in turn, would benefit a resort oasis that is awash in money and millionaires, but lacks sufficient housing for the chefs, bus drivers, ski lift operators and cashiers who keep the community humming. But environmental concerns and some long-held skepticism about a worldwide corporation running a multimillion-dollar ski empire have created a saga filled with distrust, legal filings and no easy solution to a problem that everyone agrees is not going away.
The longstanding logjam in one of the country’s iconic ski resorts offers a vivid illustration of how difficult it is for any community to come to a consensus about how to ensure people of all economic status can work and live together.
“We’re at an inflection point,” said Chris Romer, the chair of Eagle County’s version of the chamber of commerce. “The housing challenge and how we address it over the next 18 to 24 months will define what this community looks like in 20 to 30 years.”
Vail Resorts has long wanted to build apartments on a five-acre corner of the 23-acre parcel situated on the low point of a bighorn sheep habitat that rises out of a rocky field just east of I-70.
Opponents of the construction, including the mayor, Kim Langmaid, cite studies that show the sheep naturally migrate to what would be the construction area in winter, when vegetation higher up is covered in snow. Last month, shortly after the first big snow of the season, five sheep were, in fact, grazing down near the would-be construction area.
“Some people say, ‘Well, they’ll just move,’” Langmaid said. “But they can’t move anywhere else."
The story of this plot of land is intertwined with the history of Vail. It grew from the vision of Pete Seibert and Earl Eaton, two outdoorsmen who envisioned a ski area in the rugged terrain not far from an Army Alpine training center called Camp Hale. They secured $1 million in funding by luring initial investors to pay $10,000 for a condo unit and a lifetime ski pass.
As Colorado grew and the Eisenhower Tunnel on I-70 connected the state’s front range to its western slope, Vail grew, not so much as a permanent home — the full-time population is only around 5,600 — but as a resort destination. Tourists love the varied terrain on the 5,300 acres of skiable mountainside, which makes it one of the biggest ski areas in the world. An estimated 1.5 million people visit every year. That includes wealthy vacationers, some of whom bought second homes.
Increasing real estate prices and the internet-driven vacation-rental market have persistently squeezed regular workers out of the center of town. In surrounding Eagle County, the median home price for a single-family home hit $1.2 million last summer.
Advocates of the project say three acres of sheep habitat is a price worth paying, especially considering that the town’s largest employer is willing to foot the bill and find solutions for the sheep.
“We do need to mitigate that land and make sure we help the sheep herd,” Bruno said. “But I also don’t understand why people aren’t upset that in a community as wealthy as ours, with so much to offer, that we have kids sleeping in their cars, and then still helping us by getting up every day and serving us."
Robyn Smith is among the lucky few in the middle class who found what is considered affordable housing in Vail. Smith, who runs a private consulting business, and her husband, a snowcat operator on the mountain, entered a lottery for locals last year and were picked over 22 other applicants to purchase a 1,200-square-foot deed-restricted house in a 30-unit subdivision for $525,000. When another unit became available two months ago, 49 people entered the lottery for the single home.
Before the lottery, Smith and her husband were renting an apartment with a broken refrigerator for $3,200 a month and were starting to seriously contemplate abandoning life in the mountains.
“I was like, ‘I can make it for another couple years at $3,200, but we’re never going to get to have a dog, or a kid, or, you know, to ever retire,” Smith said.
The town of Vail is building other small pockets of housing around town. It also has a program, funded by a .5% sales tax increase last year, to buy up properties and put them into a limited stockpile of affordable housing.
For most workers, though, the rental market is the only choice. Last year, the “fair market rent” for a studio in Eagle County — defined as the 40th percentile of typical rentals in the area — was $1,132 a month. To find that, many are forced to travel 10 miles to the west to Edwards or Avon or, if that’s not affordable, some 40 miles south on a winding mountain road to Leadville.
Another option is Minturn, about five miles west of Vail, which is where Karole Denning leases a 103-square-foot room in a dormitory-like building attached to a Mexican food restaurant. The rent recently rose from $750 to $900 a month. He commutes 10 minutes west to one job, at a radio station he runs out of the basement of a restaurant, and 20 minutes east (when the roads are clear) to another job, as a chef.
“But now Minturn’s kind of turning on us, too,” Denning said. “They keep selling these spaces for these multimillion-dollar houses to be built, which is not helping any of us.”
The 160 beds Vail Resort wants to add, at a proposed cost of $17 million, are on a parcel that was long considered off-limits for development. But about eight years ago, with the housing crisis mushrooming, a town council member asked for a study of parcels that might be available for development. Surveyors dug into the archives and found that Vail Resorts owned the land.
“They went and paid the back taxes for two years, and then they announced they were going to build housing on it,” Langmaid said.
And, in fact, the town council green-lit the project. For a time, the council even helped the resort defend the construction in court against groups concerned about how the building would impact the sheep.
The project was nearly ready to start, but turnover on the town council, driven by elections that focused on the housing shortage, brought the project to a standstill. Instead of collaborating with Vail Resorts, the town council shifted, and is now trying to condemn the property. It recently offered $12 million for the land.
Vail Resorts rejected that offer with a tersely worded letter from executive vice president Bill Rock, who recalled the project initially “had broad support from the Town of Vail and was received with significant enthusiasm by the Town’s staff and its Council.”
“It has never been about the money in this project,” said Vail Mountain COO Beth Howard. “It’s always been about bringing on incremental, affordable employee housing."
One of the council members is Pete Seibert Jr., the son of the ski resort’s co-founder. Seibert initially supported the project, but changed his mind and voted for condemnation, based, he said, on an analysis from a scientist who said the size of the habitat was appropriate for the number of sheep living there.
“I think we’ll look back at this, 40 or 50 years down the road, and be glad we decided not to build there,” said Seibert, who also believes the large, corporate nature of Vail Resorts prevents it from truly keeping the community’s best interests at heart.
The company, which is based in the suburbs of Denver and now owns 37 resorts in 15 states and three countries, insists the development would be no more disruptive to the wildlife than the 430-student school and the dozens of multimillion-dollar homes located a short walk from the construction site, all of which were built years ago on part of the sheep preserve.
The resort says no development in East Vail has gone through as thorough an environmental review as the Booth Heights project. It says high-density housing only steps away from a bus stop that provides a short ride into town is precisely what the town needs.
In trying to scuttle the project, the town offered Vail Resorts access to a 140-bed apartment building even closer to the center of town that is under construction and will be ready for occupancy next winter. The resort has not accepted that offer, saying the city should be trying to work with the resort to add as many affordable housing units as it can.
“This is a great addition. It is not a solution, but it’s an addition," Seibert said, as he walked through the construction site wearing a hard hat.
A few miles away, another possible addition, at Booth Heights, remains the way it has for decades — untouched and peaceful, save the steady stream of 18-wheelers blazing past on the interstate below.
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TORONTO – An earnings boost from wider margins helped push up shares of EQ Bank owner Equitable Group Inc. by more than 12 per cent Wednesday.
The jump came as the bank reported record third quarter earnings of $77.6 million, up from $72.5 million for the same quarter last year.
Earnings got a boost from a adjusted net interest margin of 1.94 per cent that was higher than any quarter in the bank’s history and 0.13 of a percentage point higher than the last quarter.
The jump was also well ahead of the bank’s 2022 guidance of flat to moderate growth.
“I think perhaps we were a touch cautious in projecting that to the Street until we actually saw it manifest,“ said Andrew Moor, chief executive, on an earnings call.
The bank benefited on the margins with a strategy of being more nimble and responsive to rising interest rates, he said.
“It’s been a good management approach to take very little interest rate position.”
The bank, which last week closed a $495 million takeover of Concentra Bank, saw its share close up $5.55, or 12.24 per cent, to $50.88 on the Toronto Stock Exchange on a day that saw markets generally down.
Earnings for the quarter ending Sept. 30 worked out to $2.22 per diluted share, up from $2.07 per share last year, while adjusted diluted earnings were $2.35 per share.
Analysts had been expecting adjusted earnings of $2.11 per diluted share, according to financial markets data form Refinitiv.
Scotiabank analyst Meny Grauman said in a note that while markdowns on Equitable’s fintech investment portfolio did weight, it was more than cancelled out by margin expansion.
“While that charge did indeed come in as we had expected, it was overwhelmed by very significant sequential margin expansion and elevated securitization revenue that completely took us by surprise.”
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San Francisco police chief Bill Scott speaks during a news conference with San Francisco district attorney Brooke Jenkins on Oct. 31, 2022, in San Francisco. Jenkins announced state level charges against David Wayne DePape who attacked Paul Pelosi, husband of U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, after breaking into their home. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/TNS)
The Richmond garage studio where David DePape, the suspect in the attack against Paul Pelosi, resided for at least two years, according to authorities and neighbors.(Summer Lin/Los Angeles Times/TNS)
SASan Francisco district attorney Brooke Jenkins, right, speaks as San Francisco police chief Bill Scott, left, looks on during a news conference on Oct 31, 2022, in San Francisco. Jenkins announced state level charges against David Wayne DePape who attacked Paul Pelosi, husband of U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, after breaking into their home. DePape is being charged with attempted murder, residential burglary, assault with a deadly weapon, elder abuse, false imprisonment of an elder and threats to a public official and their family. The U.S. attorney has also filed federal charges against DePape. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/TNS)

San Francisco police chief Bill Scott speaks during a news conference with San Francisco district attorney Brooke Jenkins on Oct. 31, 2022, in San Francisco. Jenkins announced state level charges against David Wayne DePape who attacked Paul Pelosi, husband of U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, after breaking into their home. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/TNS)
The Richmond garage studio where David DePape, the suspect in the attack against Paul Pelosi, resided for at least two years, according to authorities and neighbors.(Summer Lin/Los Angeles Times/TNS)
SASan Francisco district attorney Brooke Jenkins, right, speaks as San Francisco police chief Bill Scott, left, looks on during a news conference on Oct 31, 2022, in San Francisco. Jenkins announced state level charges against David Wayne DePape who attacked Paul Pelosi, husband of U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, after breaking into their home. DePape is being charged with attempted murder, residential burglary, assault with a deadly weapon, elder abuse, false imprisonment of an elder and threats to a public official and their family. The U.S. attorney has also filed federal charges against DePape. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/TNS)
RICHMOND, Calif. — To co-workers who knew David DePape a few years ago, he was a gentle, quiet carpenter who liked to watch the “Game of Thrones” and “Stranger Things” series and brought sunflower seeds to his worksite to feed birds and squirrels.
“Everybody liked him,” said Frank Ciccarelli, 76, a carpenter who employed DePape in the Bay Area.
But when DePape began talking about politics, his outlook grew darker, they said.
“It was right-wing, all the way down the line,” Ciccarelli said. “He thought climate change was a hoax and Hillary Clinton is running a pedophile ring out of a pizza parlor. It was so ridiculous that it was hard to take seriously.”
Ciccarelli and others in DePape’s life were stunned when he was arrested for allegedly attacking Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in what authorities said was a plot to kidnap and torture the lawmaker.
Since his arrest two weeks ago, much attention has been made of his extremist, antisemitic rantings and apparent belief in far-right conspiracy theories.
But interviews with those who knew him for years presents a more complicated view.
They paint a portrait of a man who began to “deteriorate” over the last year and a half, as he spent a great deal of time alone, absorbing extremist views online and shifting his political views from supporting former President Obama years ago to believing in the false “Pizzagate” conspiracy theory. His quiet, gentle exterior hid an obsession with conspiracies, said friends, who believed DePape also had a history of mental illness, drug abuse and, possibly, childhood trauma.
His boss and a neighbor both say they realized DePape, 42, was spiraling into isolation and wish they had done more to help.
“I didn’t take it seriously and I was wrong about that, obviously, although I didn’t know any better,” Ciccarelli said. “I’ve tried to help him the best as I could, but there’s something going on here that’s not obvious to most of us.”
Ciccarelli said DePape seemed normal and “cool” the last time they talked — three days before DePape allegedly broke into the Pelosis’ home in San Francisco’s exclusive Pacific Heights neighborhood in the middle of the night and attacked Paul Pelosi with a hammer.
The assault left the 82-year-old man with a fractured skull and serious injuries to his right arm and hands. The Oct. 28 attack was deemed “politically motivated” by San Francisco Dist. Atty. Brooke Jenkins. DePape’s intended target was allegedly Speaker Pelosi, who he considered to be the “leader of the pack” of lies told by the Democratic Party; he had hoped to hold her hostage and break her kneecaps, authorities said in a federal indictment two weeks ago.
DePape has pleaded not guilty to charges of attempted murder, residential burglary, assault with a deadly weapon, elder abuse, false imprisonment of an elder and threats to a public official and their family.
DePape lived in a garage of a house on Shasta Street in Richmond for the last two years, authorities said in the federal indictment. During their search of the residence, police found a sword, two hammers, a pair of rubber and cloth gloves, as well as Internal Revenue Service letters, PayPal credit cards and DMV paperwork belonging to him.
Experts on political extremism say someone who struggles to find meaning in their life may jump from one movement to another to help them make sense of the world.
In a personal blog on which DePape began posting in August, he included essays titled “Manipulation of History,” “Holohoax” and “It’s OK to be white.” He mentioned 4chan, a favorite message board of the far-right. He posted videos about conspiracies involving COVID-19 vaccines and the war in Ukraine being a ploy for Jewish people to buy land. The blog has since been taken down.
DePape’s screeds included posts about QAnon, an unfounded theory that former President Trump is at war with a cabal of Satan-worshiping Democratic elites who run a child sex ring and control the world. In an Aug. 23 entry titled “Q,” DePape wrote: “Either Q is Trump himself or Q is the deep state moles within Trumps inner circle.”
Another post referenced Pizzagate, a bogus conspiracy theory that posited that children were trapped in a sexual abuse ring in a Washington, D.C., pizzeria run by Hillary Clinton and a chief aide.
“Pizza gate is connected to Epstien hahahahha,” a DePape post from Aug. 23 read, referring to the late Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender. “My friends would be like pizza gate was debunked their is NO such thing as elite pedophile sex rings and I’m like HELLO Epstein what planet are you on?”
DePape’s daughter, Inti Gonzalez, confirmed to The Times that DePape was the author of the blog.
Jin Molnar, one of DePape’s neighbors in Richmond and a landscaper who occasionally worked with DePape, described him as “quiet” with “good manners” but said he was mostly socially isolated in his garage studio.
“It speaks to one of my largest takeaways of the whole thing is that people can live next to someone in the same house, or next door, and let them go down,” he said. “To go down … in decline mentally, or even physically, and not do anything about it.”
DePape had told Molnar that he had a difficult upbringing but didn’t go into much detail.
“He described some of the people around him getting into fights when he was growing up,” Molnar said. “And then he had dislocated his shoulders in some kind of a fight or he was throwing something down or something like that … but it was obviously physically violent.”
Several of DePape’s relatives — including his father — said they haven’t been in contact with DePape for years.
Molnar said the two had spoken a few times about conservative politics and shared a skepticism of COVID-19 vaccines. They would discuss conservative figures such as political commentator Ben Shapiro and media personality Jordan Peterson.
“I think his early life and his middle life had left him pretty bereft of good contacts,” Molnar said. “And so I think when he started to hear about that stuff … it was like a little bit of an anchor.”
Oxane “Gypsy” Taub, 53, DePape’s former partner with whom he helped raise their two sons and Taub’s daughter from a previous relationship, said DePape grappled with mental illness and believed “he was Jesus for a year,” according to the San Francisco Chronicle. DePape served as the best man in Taub’s 2013 wedding to another man.
Taub, who is incarcerated at the California Institution for Women in Corona after being convicted in 2021 of stalking and attempted child abduction of a 14-year-old boy, among other charges, first met DePape in Hawaii in 2000.
She told the Chronicle that while DePape “didn’t know anything about politics” when they first met, he backed former President Obama, opposed the war in Iraq and supported her various causes. Taub is a well-known nudist activist in Berkeley who fought against San Francisco’s nudity ban.
“In our 15 years together, we never once had a disagreement about politics because we were aligned in our views,” she said.
But DePape also struggled with drug use and at one point began living on the streets, she said. The couple broke up in 2015.
Taub didn’t respond to multiple requests for interview by The Times. The San Francisco Sheriff’s Department said DePape is not accepting media interviews at this time.
Since DePape’s arrest, Ciccarelli and other friends have offered theories on how the once “shy and sweet” man they knew became one of the nation’s most talked-about accused felons.
“The simple explanation is that he was vulnerable and he was traumatized as a child,” Ciccarelli said. “He had a scar on his shoulder where he told me his grandmother poured boiling water on him. … I think he was looking for a way to heal that wound.”
(Joanne Robinson, DePape’s sister, disputed the boiling water and abuse claims in an interview with Fox News, calling the incident with DePape’s grandmother an “accident” and saying he “had loving parents.” Robinson didn’t respond to requests by The Times for an interview.)
When Ciccarelli first met DePape six years ago, DePape was unhoused and living under a tree in a Berkeley park. Ciccarelli met him outside of a lumber yard in the East Bay and asked if he needed some work. He employed DePape and started spending several hours a day with him, driving to and from jobs. Eventually, Ciccarelli helped DePape find housing in a converted garage studio in Richmond belonging to one of Ciccarelli’s friends.
In his free time, DePape played video games at a local library, Ciccarelli said. When DePape started living in the Richmond studio garage, he “had a lot more time to devote to the internet and that’s when he started to deteriorate, in the last year and a half or so.”
Ciccarelli said DePape lived an isolated life and grappled with mental illness. Ciccarelli believed he “wasn’t getting any medical help and wasn’t getting any medication.”
Although Shapiro and Peterson do not directly promulgate the type of conspiratorial thinking found in DePape’s writings, research suggests that algorithms on social media can lead users from mainstream conservative channels to more extreme accounts, such as those DePape followed.
Experts say DePape’s online activity could point to radicalization via the internet. At a time when antisemitic rhetoric was dominant on right-wing fringe sites, such as 4chan, DePape began to post screeds focused on Jewish people.
It isn’t common but people can shift ideologies abruptly, said Mark Pitcavage, a historian and analyst of right-wing groups with the Anti-Defamation League. The shift is difficult, he said, similar to someone who changes religion.
“Someone who is sort of looking for some sort of cause or meaning, they may go from movement to movement trying to find something that fills that gap,” Pitcavage said.
Political actions are also often misidentified and oversimplified, Pitcavage said.
For DePape, for example, many people online have pointed to his links to nudist movements to suggest that he adhered to liberal politics. But Pitcavage explained that nudist activism doesn’t suggest left- or right-leaning ideologies.
When there are changes in ideology, however, there are often similar links or threads that help shift the person from one ideology to another, according to Pitcavage. For DePape, that link may have been paranoia and political ideas that for years seemed centered more on conspiracies than ideology.
Molnar said DePape had once sent him a link of an article regarding the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines, which Molnar had opened and read, but he “didn’t want to start trading links” with DePape.
Looking back, Molnar said he regrets not trying harder to help DePape.
“Perhaps, I would have come to know him a little better … and maybe dissuaded him from something … but there were other people in that position too, which is an excuse,” he said.

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The Madison Arts Commission (MAC) has selected Minnesota-based metal artist Sunghee Min to create a pair of sculptures in a new median in the 200 block of S Pinckney Street. Min’s works Greeting Arc I & Greeting Arc II will flank the crosswalk leading across the median between the current NoVo Apartments complex and the soon-to-be constructed hotel on the north side of Pinckney. The median will be completed in 2023.
Two of Sunghee Min’s works were featured as part of Monona Terrace’s 2022 Art on the Rooftop exhibition. Min was a top selection of the Madison Arts Commission (MAC) for that show and is happy to be invited back to Madison to work with the City again to feature two different pieces in the median.
Min, a Midwest regional public artist based in Roseville, Minnesota, uses metal to build abstract forms. “Public art enables me to explore beyond the interests and concerns of my own aesthetics and background. I like to incorporate simple geometric shapes for its universal familiarity and recognition,” said Min. Click here to learn more about Sunghee Min.
MAC is excited about the exposure these works will receive. The S Pinckney Street median occupies a high traffic area in the downtown core and will be passed by thousands of pedestrian and drivers as well as visitors to Wisconsin’s State Capitol.
The public is invited and encouraged to attend a virtual artist talk with Sunghee Min on November 17th from 12-1pm to learn about her work & her proposed sculptures for this space. We hope to record the meeting and share it on the Madison Arts website following the event for those unable to attend.
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We sat down with Joris Delacroix and Joachim Pastor to celebrate their latest single on Armada and picked their brains about the benefits of collaborating on music and why more producers should prioritize teaming with others to make a track.
Music production is a solitary art. You spend thousands of hours alone in your studio, honing your craft and presenting it to the world, ideally playing your dance tracks to crowds and at gigs. 
But as much of a solo craft as it is, producers can find endless benefits from teaming up and collaborating with other producers. Not only can it up your creative output, but you can also learn new things, advance your career, and so much more. 
Joris Delacroix and Joachim Pastor are two producers who know this very well, and to celebrate the release of their latest collaboration, out now on Armada; we wanted to sit down and chat with these two about what they love most about collaborating. 
'Swaying' is a masterwork in melodic and club-friendly composition. Taking the best assets that each producer involved can bring to the table, each moment is packed with nuance and detail.
The central hook is formed around a soft-attacking synth pluck that slowly morphs and evolves as the track progresses. This forms the foundation of the record, where cinematic elements and cascading arps can develop in the background behind it. 
These two producers and the record they produced are a testament to collaborations being greater than the sum of their parts, which makes me excited to dive into the advice they have to say on the topic.
So give their latest single a listen-through before diving into the reasons why producers should be collaborating…
Joris Delacroix: As producing is a solitary practice, at some point, you can be stuck with my only own vision of it and tempted to apply the same processes every time.
Collaborating is an excellent way to get a different point of view about producing music, learn new tricks, and refresh my process. It helps you step outside your comfort zone when growing and helps spread your wings. You always come away from a collaboration session having learned something new. If anything, it's just a nice change of pace from producing alone in your studio for so long.  
Joachim Pastor: I believe collaborating is essential because it opens each artist to a new world of ideas and a way to do new and fresh things; it is always a good source of excitement and inspiration.
There is something special about doing creative work alongside somebody else. it lights a fire that is almost impossible to do when you're working on tracks alone in your room. You might create some idea that you think is rubbish but sparks an idea in the other person that you end up chasing and turning into a fantastic track.
Joris Delacroix: You always learn a lot when producing something with someone, whether it's from the philosophical point of view, the hardware used, etc… 
In my case, I started using many hardware synths after collaborating with artists that hooked me on it. I would have never done that if I hadn't worked on another track with that specific producer buddy who loves hardware. It inspired me to start using analog gear, and now I feel like my hardware synths are a signature part of my setup. 
Joachim Pastor: In my career, I changed many times the software I produce with. Every time I did it, it started by collaborating with someone using a different DAW. There is no better way of learning it than making a track with someone who already knows this software. 
I love this because so many awesome new plugins are coming out lately, but I rarely want to invest time learning a new one from scratch. But working with another producer already familiar with a new plugin expedites the learning process and gets me up to speed with new production tools. 
Joris Delacroix: Expect to be surprised. As Joachim mentioned earlier, a form of energy is created when two producers are working on a track together. When you both get into a flow state together, the real magic happens that you would never have expected. 
So be prepared for that, and be ready to embrace it when some wild and out-of-the-ordinary idea starts taking shape during your collab sessions.
Joachim Pastor: I expect to work with someone who can provide something I can’t do alone but is open-minded to get my skills into it. For me, it’s all about having accurate and sincere exchanges.
This goes for me too, and I always remind myself before stepping into the studio to collaborate to be as open and honest with my collaborator as possible. 
Joris Delacroix: From the artistic side, it's always nice to get good inspiration, a fresh vibe, and also to mix different musical universes; and for the business side, it's always cool to reach a larger crowd, especially if both artists don't share the same public, it's a good way for people to discover new artists.
Joachim Pastor: I can’t answer that for every artist because every profile is different and has its edge. But for me, this is when I want to put something new and unexpected in my music, something I can’t do alone. 
And also, when I’m open-minded enough to « accept » someone else in my production process, which is not always easy for me.
Joris Delacroix: Patience, because it's not always easy to work in a new environment; humble, because the ego can ruin a collaboration, it's all about sharing and making something together, and at last, you have to be nice because nobody wants to work with a prick.
Joachim Pastor: I would say being open-minded, of course, but also being frank because it’s important not to be afraid of saying things when there is something you don’t like to keep things efficient. And finally, for me, in collaboration, this is very, very important to make every session cool and productive by being a nice person to be around in a studio because making music is all about having fun.
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He remembers video games that came on floppy disks. He remembers the transition from mixtapes to Napster. He remembers the MacBook lab in his Boston elementary school and learning HTML. But most of all, Cook remembers his days at Atlanta HBCU Morehouse College, where students were encouraged to put service first. A master’s degree had prompted the ZIP code change.
Over a decade later, Cook is the director of technology programs and curriculum at Wilkinsburg-based community center Community Forge, and a self-described hip-hop technologist. In this capacity, Cook combines his need to serve with his love of technology to teach the next generation to use technology in community-oriented ways.
So, what does it mean to be a hip-hop technologist? Just about anything you want, according to Cook, one of Technical.ly’s 2022 RealLIST Engineers honorees in Pittsburgh: It means taking the best aspects of one’s own experiences and the experiences of those around them and “remixing” them into something that benefits young people. Although Cook is aware that hip-hop isn’t always associated with positivity he focuses on a definition rooted in healing and honoring cultural traditions.
“It means that I’m using technology for my community,” Cook told Technical.ly. “I’m using it in a way that taps into our historic traditions or diasporic traditions, but also, it makes a difference right now, today, on the ground in the community, and hopefully extending into the future. When I say hip-hop technologist, I’m not trying to fit into someone else’s bubble.”
You might consider hip hop and technology to be two areas with little overlap. Yet Cook cited that from the scratching technique that Grandmaster Flash introduced to the world in the 1970s to the music production that makes the genre stand out, the two have often gone hand in hand.
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“A lot of the sound production equipment, studio recording equipment, was leveraged by hip-hop creatives, and the same thing goes to visual arts,” Cook said. “I know that the Googles and Apples and the larger ecosystem of Big Tech infrastructure, that might not ring a bell for them. But [hip-hop creatives] already established who we are and what we can do with technology.”
Prior to his current position, in Pittsburgh, Cook taught computer science and graphic design at Propel Schools and was a career readiness teacher at City Charter High School. When Cook’s not authoring curricula or collaborating with other members of Community Forge, he’s teaching, which entails going directly into schools to implement technology curriculums. He tries to keep in mind that traditional educational institutions can often “fail” young people: Growing up in a world where technology rapidly shifted from being a luxury to a necessity that was constantly in a transitional state, he considers himself uniquely qualified to connect with young people.
“A lot of what they want to do in the world revolves around them having tech skills, so I like to be right there to support them and encourage them and let them know that there are people who look like them and people who don’t look like them who want to be of service,” Cook said.
Still, access to devices remains an issue for many of the students he works with. Cook can empathize, as most of his access to technology growing up came through school, libraries, exposure to software at his mother’s job at a doctor’s office, and with his family’s support. Without those things, his interest in technology might not have been able to grow.
“They don’t have a desktop PC in their home, they don’t have a full-fledged operating system,” Cook said. “They might have a Chromebook [but] they don’t have someone in their inner circle [with] a high degree of technical fluency that can actually assist them when they run into the technical stress related to pursuing a new skill.”
Through BootUp PGH, a Community Forge program that Cook founded, the program tries to combat the issue by providing program participants with access to tech such as iPads, audio recording equipment, PCs and gaming consoles. It’s also a space, where physically or virtually, a young person between the ages of 8 and 18 can learn about video editing, ecommerce, app development, and even artificial technology. Additionally, BootUp PGH offers mentorship and an online space where kids can learn about technology.
With several years of classroom experience under his belt, Cook measures success a little differently than others might. For him, whether or not a youth STEM program went well isn’t about corporations having examples of community service to cite or even a program being fruitful in the traditional sense on the first try. It’s about making the lives of the children who participate in those programs better, he said, even if a decade later the kids involved aren’t working at those giant Silicon Valley companies.
“For me, it’s about the actual lives of young people,” Cook said. “It’s actually being on the ground and being committed to the community, regardless of the outcome.”
What advice does Cook have for the next wave of technologists? Keep it human-centric and don’t be afraid to share your skills and your discoveries with the people around you. And believe it not, he said, not every answer you need can be found in technology.
“Technology is not everything. Be a human first because that will give you insights into whatever it is that you’re trying to do, because ultimately you want to benefit humanity with your technology products,” Cook said. “Sometimes there’s a lot of lessons we can learn from putting technology down. Technology doesn’t have all the answers but humanity does.”
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"Any and everyone can be involved in the movement to support more women in music."
From pay gaps to the relative dearth of women in senior management roles, there is significant inequality in today’s workforce. The music industry is no different and the stats are even more harrowing: According to the Recording Academy's Women In The Mix study, women represent only 21 percent of artists, 12.6 percent of songwriters, and 2.6 percent of producers.
Despite some of the most impactful music artists and songwriters being women — from Beyoncė (seven No. 1 albums) and Joni Mitchell (notably credited for influencing Prince, Chaka Khan, Taylor Swift, Neil Diamond, Herbie Hancock, Annie Lennox, among others) to Carole King (who wrote 118 Billboard 100 hits) and Taylor Swift (11 No. 1 albums and the only artist to sweep all top ten spots in the Billboard 100)  — 57 percent of women in the industry are forced to work more than one job to make ends meet. Twenty-four percent of Women In The Mix respondents worked over 40 hours a week, and an additional 28 percent log over 50 hours a week.
Music permeates every aspect of our lives. It’s a vital way in how we express ourselves and connect with others. It’s long past time that women got an equal say in that conversation. "Any and everyone can be involved in the movement to support more women in music on various levels" says Girls Makes Beats Founder Tiffany "Delilah" Miranda.
Miranda's organization is one of many dedicated to developing professional opportunities, including mentorship, for women and girls in the music industry. "Providing the tools needed goes a long way towards successful career paths," she says, adding that consumers "can support women in music by listening to, sharing, and supporting female creators."
There are a number of organizations supporting women and girls in audio engineering and production who are working hard to change this narrative. Here are six such orgs that empower women and gender-expansive people to create the future of music.
Girls Make Beats is passionate about helping young women have successful, sustained careers in music. Since 2012, Girls Make Beats has been dedicated to increased female representation in music production and empower the next generation of producers, DJs, and audio engineers by "creating real-world opportunities."
Influenced by jazz greats, like Nina Simone and Etta James, with their larger than life voices, Founder Tiffany "Delilah" Miranda had grown tired of being stifled by male producers. "This inspired me to create my own music," says Miranda. "I quickly realized how male-dominated most of the creative control spaces were and wanted to create a safe space for girls to find their own sound without having to face many of the challenges I had to overcome."
Through their various programs and initiatives, Girls Make Beats emphasizes the tenets of sisterhood, empowerment, mentorship, access and opportunity, leadership, and social-emotional learning. They recently opened an official Girls Make Beats Academy in Los Angeles and also have scholarships available, globally, for their year-round programming.
Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Women’s Audio Mission (WAM) will soon be celebrating its 20th anniversary. WAM offers training and mentorship for the "advancement of women and gender-expansive people in music/audio production and creative technology, fields in which they are critically underrepresented."
Founded by Terri Winston while she was a Professor and Director of the Sound Recording Arts Program at City College of San Francisco, WAM resides at the intersection of creativity and technology, weaving "art and music with science, technology, and computer programming" in an effort "to close the critical gender gap in creative technology careers."
WAM’s goals are twofold: Increase the number of women and gender-expansive people in the music industry (who make up less than 5 percent of its workforce), and to combat the 70 percent drop in women and gender-expansive people entering college STEM programs since 2000.
Throughout its storied existence, WAM has worked with over 22,000 individuals; been declared the "Best Hope for the Future of Music" by San Francisco Weekly; placed over 1,000 students in jobs throughout the industry (in companies like Dolby Labs, Sony, Pixar, Disney and Google); worked with award-winning artists (such as Sheila E., Kronos Quartet, Neko Case, Angélique Kidjo); and has been recognized by the White House for its innovations in education.
Legendary singer, songwriter, and producer Linda Perry of the 4 Non Blondes has teamed with philanthropist and activist Alisha Ballard to create EqualizeHer, a new initiative and organization working to help bring gender equality to the music industry. 
EqualizeHer is focused on four actionable goals: Release and distribute music produced, written, and performed by women; host live music events produced entirely by women; provide opportunities for young female artists to perform in front of live audiences to gain experience and be heard; and work with existing organizations to fill the gaps and join forces.
Through their combined efforts, they’re rallying artists like Paris Jackson (who played a live benefit for EqualizeHer at the renowned LA venue the Troubadour on Oct. 9 with Aimee Mann, Tinashe, Tish Melton, and more). Billie Eilish and Christina Aguilera have also expressed interest in being ambassadors for this organization.
From industry professionals to songwriters, She is the Music, is devoted to increasing the number of women working in music across. They’ve created an international database of women to help the industry discover, connect, and create with women, all of whom have been vetted and verified. 
Spearheaded by the inimitable Alicia Keys, along with a cadre of influential and talented women in the industry, "We want to create a model for change that affects women across all industries," Keys told Essence. "We deserve the utmost respect, and so many of these women across industries are telling our culture that time is up on double standards, and it’s over for pay inequity and colleagues who are at best disrespectful and at the worst unsafe — so it’s over for that." 
The organization also hosts songwriting sessions and mentorship programs to develop and empower the next generation of women in music. Participants work with artists and receive pertinent, experiential insight into all areas of production, business, touring, and songwriting.
"We are an independent, global network that operates as a unifying organization for women from across the industry,"  their website states, "creating strength and impact on a global scale. As an umbrella nonprofit, we also provide resources and support for female-focused initiatives that are working to create meaningful change — both through our own programs, as well as external efforts around the world."
As its name indicates, She Knows Tech, concentrates on bringing talented female-identifying producers and engineers and tech performers to the forefront of the industry. The organization provides a safe space and platform for women to give and receive training in music technology.
"Upon learning of the striking gender imbalance and lack of female role models within the industry, we started She Knows Tech to support each other and find mentors to connect, within and outside the educational space," say Founders Jasmine Kok and Meghan Smyth.
The two have amplified their mission through a series of events, culminating with the  She Knows Tech Summit.
Established in 2021, the multi-day event  includes workshops, masterclasses, a job fair, showcases, camps, and conversations moderated by GRAMMY-winning engineers, and is presented by 30+ gender expansive audio professionals. The hybrid event "created an empowering experience for our community to learn from role models that represent them in the space."
She Knows Tech has chapters in Valencia and Boston, and maintains partnerships with other organizations, like We Are Moving the Needle, She is the Music, and industry heavy hitters around the world, from the Audio Engineering Society to Spitfire Audio.
Founded by Emily Lazar, Chief Mastering Engineer for The Lodge, We Are Moving The Needle is an "inclusive organization working to create measurable change by empowering women in the recording and professional audio industry with the education, equipment and the mentorship needed to succeed at the highest levels."
Only 2.6 percent of producers and audio engineers are women, according to  the USC Annenberg Inclusion in the Recording Studio study, Lazar noted. "I​it was a sobering reality, and I knew then that I had to do something to change that. It was hard for me to understand how the music industry at large was failing so miserably at something that, in actuality, isn’t very difficult to address."
"In addition to donating scholarships, equipment, and funds to We Are Moving The Needle," says Lazar, "those in positions of power can simply hire more women. They can make a conscious effort to consider women for producing and engineering roles on every record."
We Are Moving the Needle's  advisory board includes an embarrassment of riches in terms of experience, success, knowledge, and accolades. Their members include Alanis Morissette, Brandi Carlile, Brittany Howard, Liz Phair, Imogen Heap, Linda Perry, and HAIM.
"I always say," reminds Lazar, "‘if you can see it, you can be it. Representation matters."
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Participants in the creative and innovative incubator came away with fresh confidence.
Songwriting camps have certainly proven their worth recently and from Oct. 17–19, ASCAP and joined forces with “She Is The Music” a new mentoring initiative founded Alicia Keys, to fulfill the promise Keys made last summer toward promoting women-led creativity.

The camp partnered with powerhouses such as engineer Ann Mincieli, and with Mary J. Blige who headlined and participated in the all-female songwriting camp. United in the name of advancement, the program has potential to lead a cultural shift more respectful and nurturing toward women’s musical and creative gifts, as well as career success.
“I’ve joined forces with a group of really powerful female executives, songwriters, artists, engineers, producers and publishers to help reshape the industry that we all love by creating real opportunities and a pipeline of talent for other women,” Keys said speech accepting her Icon Award from the National Music Publishers Association last June. “We’re calling our initiative ‘She Is the Music.'” By mid-month, creative get-togethers to make progress had commenced and the ASCAP songwriting camp is an extension of that summer spirit.

“For the most part, I tend to gravitate towards female writers because there’s no substitute for people completely understanding your experience and your perspective,” said country singer-songwriter Jillian Jacqueline. “If we all get together in a room and break all the walls and the myths and concepts down to talk about what it is to be where we are and describe what we’re going through, bonds happen. Connection happens. Those are the things people can’t take away from you — the human connection. That’s why this is so essential.”

“Songwriting is an art. You have to be transparent in order to get people to look at your art,” said Blige, reinforcing the spirit of openness that made the camp such an exciting creative environment. “It’s very hard for women to come together because it’s such a male-dominated world, male-dominated industry. It makes it hard on us so we’re hard on each other … When you see us actually have the confidence and the courage to come together to do something great like this, it’s a blessing.”

“There is a culture and there is a system in place that says if you’re a woman, you’re either a girlfriend, a wife… you’re an artist, or you’re here for my pleasure,” added songwriter Priscilla Renea. “I think that’s the most encouraging thing about this, women are going to walk away feeling confident.”
Organizers were delighted with the sense of accomplishment that emerged from this October camp and look forward to holding more and inspiring others to follow their lead. Thanks to the vision of “She Is The Music,” it’s likely just a matter of time before songs everybody sings emerge thanks to this women-in-leadership model.
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Get ready for the next BTS solo release — RM's highly anticipated debut album, 'Indigo' — with all the details we have so far, from release date to preorder info.
When global hitmakers BTS announced they would focus on solo music back in June, it gave way to "BTS' Chapter 2." So far, this new era has seen a debut studio album from J-Hope, Jack in the Box — as well as a history-making Lollapalooza appearance — and a solo single from Jin, "The Astronaut." Next up, RM will show off his individual talents with a new solo album, Indigo.
As RM's fans know, he has released mixtapes and collaborated with other artists in the past. He's even branched outside of music on his own, recently announcing his role as MC on the variety show "The Dictionary of Useless Human Knowledge" and serving as an art patron for creators in his native South Korea. But Indigo marks RM's official introduction to solo stardom as a singer, and it comes at a pivotal time for both BTS and its leader.
The beloved K-pop group has been on an unofficial hiatus since June, and their break will now extend until 2025 so all seven members can complete mandatory military duties in South Korea. Luckily for ARMY, that doesn't mean the music is stopping — and for RM, it means he gets to really focus on the music he wants to make.
"Finally, my 1st album will be releasing thanks to everyone," the singer wrote in a WeVerse post. "I worked hard on it for the past 4 years … It will be very different from my past projects."
Fans will soon find out exactly what "very different" means. In the meantime, take a look at everything we know about RM's forthcoming debut solo album, Indigo.
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On Nov. 10, RM revealed in a series of Instagram stories that his debut album is slated for a Dec. 2 release. His label, BigHit Music, followed with the official announcement shortly thereafter, sending ARMY into a frenzy of excitement on social media.
RM has previously released two mixtapes, his eponymous project from 2015, and Mono from 2018. He's also released solo singles like 2017's collaboration with Wale, "Change," 2019's "Crying Over You" with HONNE and BEKA, and most recently, he featured on Balming Tiger's song "SEXY NUKIM" in September. 
All of the solo music RM has released so far has demonstrated that he can really do it all —  from slow crooning R&B, to conscious hip-hop, to moody alternative sounds. As RM teased himself, this album will be "very different" from his previous releases, so fans are likely very eager to see what new sounds he has in store.
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Although RM nor BigHit Music have revealed what the sound of Indigo will be, BigHit did give some insight into the album's content in a Weverse post.
"Through Indigo, RM delivers his candid thoughts and feelings and showcases wide-ranging music through collaborations with various artists," BigHit wrote. "We hope everyone's excited about RM's latest release!"
RM also shared in a livestream on Weverse that Indigo will be "completely different" from Mono. "If 'Mono' recorded my 2016 to '18, then I think this new album serves as my diary and archive for 2019 to '22," he said. And in a Nov. 14 Instagram post, RM also hinted that Indigo is "the last archive of my twenties."
As part of Rolling Stone's Musicians on Musicians series, RM sat down with Pharrell Williams to discuss their respective careers — and also to tease that they have a collab coming. While it hasn't been confirmed if that team-up will be featured on Indigo, RM has mentioned on Weverse that "fun friends" are included on the project.
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RM's Mono featured a white album cover, and his first mixtape cover was black and white. This time, Indigo consists of a photo of blue — dare we say, indigo — fabric. The album title will be bleached in white. Much like the title suggests, this album may be more colorful than his previous releases, as hinted by the change in aesthetic. 
If you're looking to hear Indigo as soon as possible, preorders begin on November 15. After RM has put in four long years of hard work on Indigo, the wait will surely be worth it for RM's official solo debut. 
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"I was unprepared for how much it would shift me off my axis," Cate Blanchett says of the new musical language and world she inhabited for her starring role in 'TÁR.'
"I was unprepared for how much it would shift me off my axis in a wonderful and deep way," Cate Blanchett says of her work on the sublime new film TÁR. The Todd Field-helmed film centers on the actor’s performance as the titular conductor, a woman navigating conflicted power dynamics and personal struggles while also attempting to write an orchestral masterwork.
As the film delves deeper into her psyche, that dreamlike music seems to consistently ring out just past the edges of her hearing. Paired with a score from Hildur Guðnadóttir (in her first film since her Oscar-winning composition for Joker), Blanchett’s performance allows TÁR to stretch and mold across revelatory levels of realism and tumultuous emotion. 
A big part of building to that point came in Blanchett’s quest to submerge herself not only in orchestral music, but in the language of music — an experience which has changed her entire world. "Since completing production, I have felt an enormous orchestral-shaped hole in my daily life," she tells GRAMMY.com. 
Where other "music films" relish the big performances, the epic expression, TÁR presents unique look at the other side of musical creativity. As Lydia Tar, Blanchett gives the audience access to the innermost thoughts and feelings that occur in rehearsal rooms and practice spaces. With that unique vantage point, in a world where everything is inherently political, Blanchett and TÁR ask the audience whether they separate the art from the artist. The film, too, asks whether the artist can achieve that feat themselves.
Fresh off the national theatrical release of TÁR, the celebrated actor spoke with GRAMMY.com about how preparing for the film impacted her personal life, the unique communicative skill of the conductor, and the film’s complex study of power dynamics.
The phrase "losing yourself in the art" has almost become a cliche, without thinking about the emotional impact that that kind of commitment will have on an actor. Before you took on this role, did you think about what kind of impact it would have on your day-to-day life and your psyche?
I was ready and hungry for the opportunity to approach the ideas so dangerously alive in Todd Field’s screenplay, but I was unprepared for how much it would shift me off my axis in a wonderful and deep way. I have never had a static sense of identity — maybe that’s why I’m an actor. So I have never feared losing myself in anything.
However, this was such an immersive and electric project, I feel somehow newly minted by it. I’m still tingling from the intensity of it all. You are laid bare in ways through your work that you can’t fully comprehend, but that you should comprehend — and that is often deeply confronting.
What was your familiarity and interest in classical music coming into this project, and how has your understanding of it changed over time?
This was a deep dive for me. Prior to this project I was a classical music tourist. I fear I still very much am, but I needed to understand the map of the canon and the institutional wrestle to bring it into the contemporary listening experience in a way that was deep and authentic. Additionally, [I needed] to be able, as much as humanly possible, to understand the secret language of musicians and composers.
All I can say is, since completing production, I have felt an enormous orchestral-shaped hole in my daily life, so something has certainly shifted. To be honest, it’s hard to discuss as I’m still processing how to incorporate the deep aspects of the musical experience into my everyday life and work.
How did learning the intricacies in the language of music and composing differ from learning an accent or language for another project?
They are very similar processes. Technical and muscular at first, but then one has to throw away the homework and just converse. Music is a language after all, and as a conductor one gets to express umpteen lines simultaneously and bring them all together. What a powerful skill!
I loved the line in the beginning of the film where your character mentions that the only real discovery is in the rehearsal, never in performance. Does that sentiment resonate with you as an actor? 
When I was at drama school, I adored rehearsal and felt too exposed by turning it all out in the performance. Over many years on stage, I have learned to relish the performance — the ephemeral, truly temporal nature of it all. The danger. I love the cut and thrust of being part of an ensemble in dialogue with an audience [that] gets to go out each night to discover something fresh.
The role and the film have a lot to do with power structures, something we don't always keep in mind when we are listening to music or watching a film. Do you think the film would have the same reception or focus if it weren't for its timing in regard to public reviews of people in power?
Art transcends politics, it transcends the quotidian, yet it can work through and beyond these boundaries whilst still touching on both experiences. That is its power. It does, as you suggest, transport us.
The film is, amongst many other things, an examination of power which is much more ancient and urgent than a critique of zeitgeist-y subjects like "cancel culture." I find it very hard to define this film. In fact, I’m loath to. I’d much prefer others to see it open-heartedly and discuss it amongst themselves.
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Obviously, you worked with a lot of musicians in this role, but how did you interact with Hildur Guðnadóttir's score?
It was integral to my understanding of the character. Lydia Tár is a composer in the midst of a composition while she is more celebrated as a conductor, but passionate about finding her voice in this form. The fact that she dedicates this piece to her daughter — the primal relationship in the film — is an indication of how central the composition is to the understanding of her emotional core. Hildur was alive to this and innately understood the performer vs. composer push and pull.
Was that something that was utilized while you were on set at all, or only something you discovered later? 
We discussed what this composition should be at length in pre-production, as I wanted to fold its sound and ambition into my own preparation. I wanted to know what Lydia was reaching for. I also needed to know the piece as Todd had written several scenes where Lydia was returning to the piece, playing it, finessing it, obsessing over a misstep in the composition — finding herself in "pastiche."
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GRAMMY winners Dan + Shay and Cyndi Lauper will perform at the 2023 GRAMMY nominations livestream event taking place Tuesday, Nov. 15, at 9 a.m. PT/noon ET. Watch the 2023 GRAMMY nominations livestream live on Live.GRAMMY.com.
The 2023 GRAMMY nominations are happening tomorrow, and the celebration just got bigger — and louder!
The Recording Academy has announced that three-time GRAMMY winners Dan + Shay and two-time GRAMMY winner Cyndi Lauper will deliver special performances and help present the nominations for the 2023 GRAMMYs as part of the annual GRAMMYs nominations livestream event, which this year takes place Tuesday, Nov. 15, at 9 a.m. PT/noon ET and streams live from the GRAMMY Museum and Latin GRAMMY Week.
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The 2023 GRAMMY nominations livestream event will stream live on live.GRAMMY.com and the Recording Academy's Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok channels. The full list of nominees for the 2023 GRAMMYs will be published on live.GRAMMY.com and GRAMMY.com following the presentation.
The newly announced performers join previously announced presenters including: 12-time GRAMMY winner and Recording Academy National Trustee John Legend; multiplatinum-selling recording artist Machine Gun Kelly; three-time GRAMMY winner Olivia Rodrigo; past GRAMMY nominee and five-time Latin GRAMMY winner Luis Fonsi; and past GRAMMY nominee Jimmie Allen.
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The 2023 GRAMMY nominations livestream event will also include: GRAMMY winner Smokey Robinson, who's also the 2023 MusiCares Persons of the Year honoree; "CBS Mornings" anchors Nate Burleson and Gayle King; GRAMMY winner and Recording Academy Los Angeles Chapter President Ledisi; and Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason jr. as presenters.
The 2023 GRAMMYs, officially known as the 65th GRAMMY Awards, returns to Los Angeles' Crypto.com Arena on Sunday, Feb. 5, 2023, and will broadcast live on the CBS Television Network and stream live and on-demand on Paramount+ at 8-11:30 p.m. ET/5-8:30 p.m. PT.
Follow the Recording Academy/GRAMMYs on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and LinkedIn, and use #GRAMMYs to join the conversation as the 2023 GRAMMY nominations are unveiled on Tuesday, Nov. 15.
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