alpena has a great used record store, noise & toys, and i usually come home with an inch or two of LPs, but not this year bc they’re in the middle of moving to a new space #alas
they don’t sort by categories, just alphabetically. i usually spend hours rummaging for vintage jazz among all the rest, picking up where i left off the following year.
i have found so many gems there
any…
The FT Group's unaudited global results show 2025 revenue up 5% YoY and operating profit up 23% to £51.8M; UK filings report 1.47M digital subscribers, up 9% (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
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"Renewables met 68% of Brazil’s electricity demand during FIFA World Cup"
#Brazil #Energy #Renewables
Donald Trump has panicked over the BBC’s request for a federal court’s help in securing testimony and documents from three Trump family members in response to his $10 billion defamation lawsuitagainst the British broadcaster.
The BBC is trying to gain “politically-driven leverage” over Trump by serving subpoenas on daughter Ivanka Trump, son-in-law Jared Kushner and son Donald Trump Jr., personal lawyers for the Republican president argued in a court filing Friday.
U.S. District Ju…
Pillar of Salt
Genesis records the first health warning about sodium. Lot's wife, fleeing the burning city, looks back and turns into a pillar of salt....
https://bolesblogs.com/2026/09/23/pillar-of-salt/
#Upcoming Newly discovered lost recordings from the 1970s, “Ryusuifudou” is a vital link between two eras of #FumioMiyashita’s career — his work in Far East Family Band and his later Healing Music — filling in some of the gaps of his transitional years in Los Angeles. Available via
Netflix and Goalhanger agree to a new two-year deal to broadcast The Rest Is Football podcast through the next two Premier League seasons and the Euros in 2028 (Ned Holmes/Radio Times)
https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sport/footb…
The Newsom administration is suing five more California cities
— Calexico, Costa Mesa, Half Moon Bay, Ridgecrest and Turlock — for failing to complete state-mandated housing plans, known as the “housing element.”
Huntington Beach was the first city to face such a legal action, and it recently finalized its housing element plans following a court-order and massive fines.
The law, which has been in place since 1969, requires cities and counties every eight years to d…