We thought we'd seen the last of Fake Drake when the Canadian rapper and his OVO brand sent a cease and desist to at least one of the men pretending to be him last year. 2023 hasn't seen too many celebrity doppelgangers (that trend appears to have been left in 2022). Nevertheless, Halloween is giving people the perfect excuse to dress up in costume as their dream persona. Among our favourite looks so far have been Saweetie as the lead character from Edward Scissorhands and North West paying tribute to her dad. Read More...
Redeem now House Speaker Mike Johnson has repeatedly promoted Christian porn monitoring software Covenant Eyes. Johnson said the program helped him and his 17-year-old son stay away from the "darkness of technology." Convicted reality TV star Josh Duggar and Lakers player Lamar Odom have also used the software. Covenant Eyes, the Christian porn monitoring software repeatedly promoted by House Speaker Mike Johnson, has been used by other celebrities — infamously by convicted reality TV star Josh Duggar. Read More...
A casual listener would be forgiven for not knowing one kind of accordion music from another. But where two cultures in particular are concerned, the similarity comes with a century-old backstory involving immigration and imitation.
On the 76th birthday of Flaco Jimenez — one of the instrument's most celebrated living players — Morning Edition asks how the accordion-heavy folk music of northern Mexico came to sound so much like the polkas and waltzes of Eastern Europe. Read More...
