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Spokane, Washington  Est. May 19, 1883

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December brings great rap albums. Accept the gifts.

I was made aware of the new 21 Savage album two weekends ago when a midsize Toyota pulled up to a Christmas tree lot pumping “Where You From,” the opening track on “What Happened to the Streets?,” now charting third on the Billboard 200. Grim tune, but hearing it this way flooded my brain with happiness. Instead of mounting an algorithmic ambush in digital space, a marquee rap release had found me by chance in the December cold, where the strange mélange of blue spruce and Camry exhaust smelled far more appealing than chestnuts on an open fire. “Ain’t a corner that we ain’t been,” 21 Savage bragged of his public omnipresence, as if having sent this emissary to the tree lot to flex on Santa himself.
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Shady Angels lead singer Brayden Moore returns home with new name and solo project, ‘Radio Flyer’

When two members of local band Shady Angels graduated from high school and lead singer Brayden Moore made the move to Bellingham to attend Western Washington University, the end of one of the most consistent young bands in the Spokane scene became inevitable. But Moore’s new environment and change of operations would foster a musical area of exploration and retrospect that has culminated in a debut solo project.
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Brigitte Bardot, icon of French cinema, dies at 91

PARIS – Actress Brigitte Bardot shot to international fame dancing the mambo barefoot in “And God Created Woman,” her tousled hair and fierce energy radiating a sexual magnetism rarely before seen in mainstream cinema.