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World War Z: 6 Major Differences Between The Book And The Movie

November 25, 2020

There Is No Vaccine In The Book

A huge portion of the movie is spent trying to develop a vaccine for the zombie apocalypse, and by the end of the film, one has been developed. Huzzah! But the book is very different. It’s not that there isn’t a vaccine in the novel. There is. It’s just that it doesn’t work. In the novel, a vaccine called “Phalanx” is rushed out to the market, and people begin to think that things might turn out alright, but it turns out to be a placebo. At least for the zombie plague, it is.

Phalanx actually worked fine on rabies, as the disease was, as mentioned earlier, thought to be a form of “African Rabies.” So, like the last point, the vaccine in the book is just even more biting social commentary, which is all but lost in the film adaptation.

Teena Marie, I miss you

C Reid

November 25, 2020

www.yeticket.com pays tribute to Teena Marie.

Mary Christine Brockert, better known by her stage name Teena Marie (March 5, 1956 — December 26, 2010) was an American singer, songwriter and producer. Marie, nicknamed Lady Tee, (sometimes spelled Lady T), was a protégée of funk legend Rick James, and was notable as one of the few successful white performers of R&B. She played rhythm guitar, keyboards and congas. She also wrote, produced, sang and arranged virtually all of her songs since her 1980 release, Irons in the Fire, which she said was her favorite album. She had a daughter, Alia Rose,[1] who, as of 2009, sang under the name Rose LeBeau. Marie died of natural causes on Sunday, December 26, 2010, at home in Pasadena, California.

Alicia Keys:
God bless Teena Marie & her Family! Sending Blessings &prayers I was jus sayin tht fire & desire is 1 of the most beautifully performd songs! Once a beautiful song, always a beautiful song! Certain songs jus have that “THING”! What a SANGIN Lady! Fire & Desire

MTV.com remembers Marie as “the ultimate collaborator,” reeling off a diverse list of artists the singer worked with over the years including Rick James, Faith Evans, Smokey Robinson, Common and Birdman.

Soul Train recalls Marie as an artist who broke big as a white artist in black music, and shares some classic footage of the singer on the show back in the ’80s.

Pitchfork calls Marie an “R&B legend,” and reminds us that music critic Chuck Eddy listed her 1986 album Emerald City as one of the best heavy metal albums of all time in his book Stairway to Hell. (Really.)

Rap-Up collected Twitter comments and remembrances from several R&B and hip hop stars including ?uestlove, Q-Tip, the Game, Estelle and Amerie.

Eddie Levert, founder of the R&B group the O’Jays, told CNN “there are a lot of black people who swore by her and believed in her, as far as her music was concerned.”

"Pirana" – Mongo Santamaria: Afro-Cuban Jazz

C Reid

November 25, 2020

Afro-Cuban Jazz “Pirana” por Mongo Santamaria de su album “Mongo Magic” (1983). El que toque el tambor esta condenado a darle alegria a su pueblo…

Mi canal en YouTube esta dedicado a la difusion de la Musica Cubana, la Salsa y el Tres Cubano, instrumento para tocar musica cubana y Salsa, la reina de la musica y de todos los ritmos. Visita tambien mi pagina en Facebook. Que viva la musica cubana!

Holiday Recipes: Brussels Sprout & Cranberry Salad Recipe

C Reid

November 25, 2020

Holiday Recipes: Brussels Sprout & Cranberry Salad – Too much leftover salad on Thanksgiving? Not this year thanks to Paula’s Brussels Sprout & Cranberry Salad!
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NYC Outdoor Dining: Bracing for Winter

C Reid

November 25, 2020

Outdoor dining in mid-November.
Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

“How great is this?!” one of my hardy guests exclaimed a couple of weeks back, as we sipped our whiskey in 43-degree weather and waited in the gathering winter gloom for our dinner to arrive. Where were we? Who knows? Like a weary hiker who’s been out in the wilderness for too long, the mind begins to play tricks after a while, especially if you’re a trained glutton whose job it is to dine around New York City night after night.

We could have been huddled under the stuttering, not very warming glow of a giant heat lamp somewhere in the West Village, or crouched in some dark corner of Brooklyn under a tattered, wind-blown tent. Maybe it was drizzling, or maybe, as happened just the other evening, a giant striped steam pipe was blowing that familiar eau de subway out over the little rows of tables assembled in the street.

Snug in my wool hat and at least three layers of padded nylon, I raised my glass of whiskey in the air and muttered, “Yeah, but imagine if you had to do this three or four times a week.”

Don’t get me wrong. I love outdoor dining as much as the next rabidly hopeful big-city gastronome. I love the romance and the neighborly camaraderie of it; I love the spectacle of lights hung in the trees, and the sense of collective energy and can-do spirit you get dining al fresco around town, especially on an unexpectedly warm, early-autumn evening. But as temperatures continue to drop, and COVID levels continue their inexorable rise, your humble critic has found himself fantasizing less about the perfectly sizzled New York strip steak, say, than about heat lamps, lap blankets, and finding a pair of gloves that will allow taking notes and utilizing a dinner fork while in the midst of a minor snow squall.

Urban igloos are here.
Photo: Noam Galai/Getty Images

Restaurants are doing their best for those of us who don’t want to risk dining inside, of course, and some are doing even better than that. During the course of my increasingly chilly rounds, I’ve seen heated TV pavilions set up on sidewalks, complete with couches and ice buckets for beer. I’ve seen clear plastic igloos for four, with zipper doors through which your server hands you dinner. I’ve seen red-painted wooden sheds that look like the kind of ice-fishing cabin you’d see out on the frozen wastes of Lake Ontario, and large, ambitious alternative dining rooms that one owner told me can cost upward of $50,000 to build.

Winter is just beginning, however, and with this latest pre-Thanksgiving cold snap, those of us who’ve spent time wandering the streets dressed for dinner in our ski outfits can already feel the grim reality of the situation setting in. Just this week, the city slapped onerous new regulations on the outdoor-dining shanty community, and many of the members of my old reliable tasting community are beginning to hunker down around their TVs and virtual fire pits, just like the old lockdown days, possibly to ponder their bean recipes and sourdough starters once more.

With schools shut down this week, and indoor dining likely to follow, has your hygge-loving critic begun pondering his old lockdown bean recipes yet? Of course not. Although for charter members of the city’s Outdoor Polar Bear Dining Club, it’s shaping up to be a long winter.

Recently, when I attempted to rally the troops to visit a small new downtown establishment — which like lots of smaller, newer restaurants around town, doesn’t yet have faithful neighborhood regulars to rely on, or the resources to purchase heated sidewalk igloos, or to construct ice-fishing huts or $50,000 dining pavilions on the the side of the street — I got a string of regretful replies. Friends were suddenly preoccupied with their Zoom-addled children, or hadn’t yet unpacked their sub-zero winter clothes. Mrs. Platt suggested we order some food to-go, and when I asked my daughters if they wanted to have a quick outdoor meal, followed by popcorn around the warming fire, they looked at me like I was insane. Even my hardy friend the Whiskey Guzzler said he had other plans when I finally tracked him down, sipping a drink in his toasty living room. “Sorry, Platty,” he replied with a slightly sheepish tone in his voice. “Try me next week, when this weather warms up.”

CS Reviews Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales Video Game!

C Reid

November 25, 2020

Rating:

9/10

Cast:

Nadji Jeter … Miles Morales / Spider-Man (voice)
Yuri Lowenthal … Peter Parker / Spider-Man (voice)
Jacqueline Pinol … Rio Morales (voice)
Fred Tatasciore … Rhino / Additional Voices (voice)
Darin De Paul … J. Jonah Jameson (voice)
Troy Baker … Simon Krieger (voice)
Griffin Puatu … Ganke Lee (voice)

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Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales Review

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Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales is the follow up to 2018’s terrific Marvel’s Spider-Man title in which players experienced Spidey’s world like never before via exciting gameplay and a radical storyline that introduced a large portion of the web head’s rogue’s gallery and saw him square off against his former mentor, Doc Ock, in a climatic, emotionally driven finale. That game also served as a wicked origin story for one Miles Morales, a nerdy kid from Brooklyn whose run-ins with a genetically engineered spider force him to take up his own Spider-Man moniker alongside Peter Parker.

Phew! That’s a lot of setup for a game review, but them’s the deets. Miles Morales continues the story established in Spider-Man. And while the game doesn’t leave the same sense of awe as its predecessor, Miles Morales still packs a wallop as a supercharged DLC — a bold and impressive new entry in the Spidey universe.

Plus, it’s an absolute blast to play.

Miles zips through a brilliantly rendered Christmas-coated New York City and tackles opponents big and small, such as the mighty Rhino, who destroys half the city in the game’s first set piece. An action sequence that leaves Peter Parker yearning for some R&R with Mary Jane. As such, Miles is put in charge of NY’s violent streets and quickly finds himself dealing with a new organization called the Underground, who wear lots of purple and follow a violent villain called the Tinkerer. Into the mix drops the Prowler, who is obviously Miles’ uncle Aaron (unless you’re one of the few who have not seen Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, in which case, sorry!), a quasi-villain stuck between his love for his nephew and allegiances to some very bad people.

The story is quintessential Spider-Man packed with double-crosses, secret reveals and epic action sequences ripped right out of the comics. As typical, everyone involved in the story, whether they be friend or foe, has some personal connection to Miles. Silly? Sure. But such contrivances coat the action-driven plot with a much-needed layer of emotion. Like its predecessor, Miles Morales actually takes the time to tell an interesting story that uses its comic book characters in interesting and unpredictable ways.

Really, though, Miles Morales excels at delivering an exciting open-world experience on par with the Arkham City games. You are Spider-Man! Replete with a plethora of gadgets, combat moves, and cool abilities that render all but the klutziest gamers invincible against waves of faceless baddies. Take them head-on with your venom powers or sneak up on them by employing Miles’ cloaking ability.

Or, you can take the time to swing around town, stop crime, and help the crazy NY locals with various activities. At one point, Miles rescues a cat for its owner in a harmless but entertaining side quest. Another bit sees Miles unfreeze a crane which subsequently slams into a nearby building.

Other side missions pop up throughout the game, some of them story-based, others designed to generate new tech powers for Miles to mess around with.

Set pieces are brilliant, if scarce. A wild chase through New York in which Miles pursues a villain launching waves of explosions is wild, while the much-publicized bridge sequence is as good as advertised.

Tellingly, the only out-and-out criticism I have revolves around the game’s length, which runs roughly half as long as the original Spider-Man game. Fine, but then it should probably only cost half the price, right?

At any rate, Spider-Man: Miles Morales is an exciting entry into the Spider-Verse that introduces a spectacular new web head for the world to embrace. Next time, just give him more time to shine, okay?

Note: I played the game on the ole PS4 as my abilities to obtain a PS5 over the last few weeks have fallen laughably short.

2021 GRAMMY Nominations: Flume, Disclosure, Diplo, Madeon & More

C Reid

November 25, 2020

The nominations for the 63rd Annual GRAMMY Awards are in — and here are the nominees.

As the headlines declare, Beyoncé leads the pack with nine total nominations, followed by Taylor Swift, Dua Lipa and Roddy Ricch with six each. Meanwhile, The Weeknd is noticeably snubbed with not a single mention of After Hours or “Blinding Lights” to be found.

As for the Best Dance/Electronic categories — “On My Mind” by Diplo & SIDEPIECE, “My High” by Disclosure featuring Aminé & Slowthai, “The Difference” by Flume featuring Toro y Moi, “Both of Us” by Jayda G and “10%” by Kaytranada featuring Kali Uchis, are up for Best Dance Recording. Arca, Baauer, Disclosure, Kaytranada, and Madeon are up for Best Dance/Electronic Album. Rac, Morgan Page, Louie Vega, Imanbek, and Bazzi vs. Haywyre round out the Best Remixed Recording category.

The 63rd Annual GRAMMY Awards air Sunday, January 31 on CBS.

Scroll down to see nominees in major categories and see the full list of nominations here.

2021 GRAMMY Nominations

Best Dance Recording
On My Mind – Diplo & SIDEPIECE
My High – Disclosure featuring Aminé & Slowthai
The Difference – Flume featuring Toro y Moi
Both of Us – Jayda G
10% – Kaytranada featuring Kali Uchis

Best Dance/Electronic Album
Arca – Kick I
Baauer – Planet’s Mad
Disclosure – Energy
Kaytranada – Bubba
Madeon – Good Faith

Best Remixed Recording
Phil Good – Do You Ever (Rac Mix)
Deadmau5 – Imaginary Friends (Morgan Page Remix)
Jasper Street Co. – Praying for You (Louie Vega Main Mix)
Saint Jhn – Roses (Imanbek Remix)
Bazzi – Young & Alive (Bazzi vs. Haywire Remix)

Record Of The Year
Beyoncé – Black Parade
Black Pumas – Colors
DaBaby Featuring Roddy Ricch – Rockstar
Doja Cat – Say So
Billie Eilish – Everything I Wanted
Dua Lipa – Don’t Start Now
Post Malone – Circles
Megan Thee Stallion Featuring Beyoncé – Savage

Album Of The Year
Jhené Aiko – Chilombo
Black Pumas – Black Pumas (Deluxe Edition)
Coldplay – Everyday Life
Jacob Collier – Djesse Vol. 3
Haim – Women In Music Pt. III
Dua Lipa – Future Nostalgia
Post Malone – Hollywood’s Bleeding
Taylor Swift – Folklore

Song of the Year
Beyoncé – Black Parade
Roddy Ricch – The Box
Taylor Swift – Cardigan
Post Malone – Circles
Dua Lipa – Don’t Start Now
Billie Eilish – Everything I Wanted
H.E.R. – I Can’t Breathe
JP Saxe Featuring Julia Michaels – If the World Was Ending

Best New Artist
Ingrid Andress
Phoebe Bridgers
Chika
Noah Cyrus
D Smoke
Doja Cat
Kaytranada
Megan Thee Stallion

Best Pop Solo Performance
Justin Bieber – Yummy
Doja Cat – Say So
Billie Eilish – Everything I Wanted
Dua Lipa – Don’t Start Now
Harry Styles – Watermelon Sugar
Taylor Swift – Cardigan

Best Pop Duo/Group Performance
J Balvin, Dua Lipa, Bad Bunny & Tainy – Un Dia (One Day)
Justin Bieber Featuring Quavo – Intentions
BTS – Dynamite
Lady Gaga with Ariana Grande – Rain On Me
Taylor Swift Featuring Bon Iver – Exile

Best Pop Vocal Album
Justin Bieber – Changes
Lady Gaga – Chromatica
Dua Lipa – Future Nostalgia
Harry Styles – Fine Line
Taylor Swift – Folklore

Best Rock Performance
Fiona Apple – Shameika
Big Thief – Not
Phoebe Bridgers – Kyoto
HAIM – The Steps
Brittany Howard – Stay High
Grace Potter – Daylight

Best Metal Performance
Body Count – Bum-Rush
Code Orange – Underneath
In the Moment – The In-Between
Poppy – Bloodmoney
Power Trip – Executioner’s Tax (Swing of the Axe) – Live

Best Rock Song
Phoebe Bridgers – Kyoto
Tame Impala – Lost in Yesterday
Big Thief – Not
Fiona Apple – Shameika
Brittany Howard – Stay High

Best Rock Album
Fontaines D.C. – A Hero’s Death
Michael Kiwanuka – Kiwanuka
Grace Potter – Daylight
Sturgill Simpson – Sound and Fury
The Strokes – The New Abnormal

Best Alternative Music Album
Fiona Apple – Fetch the Bolt Cutters
Beck – Hyperspace
Phoebe Bridgers – Punisher
Brittany Howard – Jaime
Tame Impala – The Slow Rush

Best Progressive R&B Album
Jhené Aiko – Chilombo
Chloe X Halle – Ungodly Hour
Free Nationals – Free Nationals
Robert Glasper – F*** Yo Feelings
Thundercat – It Is What It Is

Best Rap Song
Lil Baby – The Bigger Picture
Roddy Ricch – The Box
Drake featuring Lil Durk – Laugh Now, Cry Later
DaBaby featuring Roddy Ricch – Rockstar
Megan Thee Stallion featuring Beyoncé – Savage

Best Rap Album
D Smoke – Black Habits
Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist – Alfredo
Jay Electronica – A Written Testimony
Nas – King’s Disease
Royce Da 5’9” – The Allegory

Best Rap Performance
Big Sean featuring Nipsey Hussle – Deep Reverence
DaBaby – Bop
Jack Harlow – What’s Poppin
Lil Baby – The Bigger Picture
Megan Thee Stallion featuring Beyoncé – Savage
Pop Smoke – Dior

Best Country Album
Ingrid Andress – Lady Like
Brandy Clark – Your Life Is a Record
Miranda Lambert – Wildcard
Little Big Town – Nightfall
Ashley McBryde – Never Will

Producer of the Year, Non-Classical
Jack Antonoff
Dan Auerbach
Dave Cobb
Flying Lotus
Andrew Watt

Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical
Devon Gifillian – Black Hole Rainbow
Katie Pruitt – Expectations
Beck – Hyperspace
Brittany Howard – Jaime
Sierra Hull – 25 Trips

Best Latin Pop or Urban Album
Bad Bunny – YHLQMDLG
Camilo – Por Primera Vez
Kany Garcia – Mesa Para Dos
Ricky Martin – Pausa
Deb Nova – 3:33

Best Latin Rock or Alternative Album
Bajofondo – Aura
Cami – Monstruo
Culturo Profética – Sobrevolando
Rito Paez – La Conquesta del Espacio
Lido Pimienta – Miss Colombia

Best Folk Album
Bonny Light Horseman – Bonny Light Horseman
Leonard Cohen – Thanks for the Dance
Laura Marling – Song for Our Daughter
The Secret Sisters – Saturn Return
Gillian Welch & David Rawlings – All the Good Times

Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media
Max Richter – Ad Astra
Kamasi Washington – Becoming
Hildur Guðnadóttir – Joker
Thomas Newman – 1917
John Williams – Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Best Song Written for Visual Media
Taylor Swift – Beautiful Ghosts
Brandi Carlile – Carried Me With You
Idina Menzel & Aurora – Into the Unknown
Billie Eilish – No time to Die
Cynthia Ervio – Stand Up

Best Music Film
Beastie Boys – Beastie Boys Story
Beyoncé – Black Is King
Freestyle Love Supreme – We Are Freestyle Love Supreme
Linda Ronstadt – Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice
ZZ Top -That Little Ol’ Band From Texas

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Rick James & Teena Marie – Fire And Desire

C Reid

November 25, 2020

Great soulful duets. Enjoy!!!! R.I.P. Mr. Rick James and Ms. Teena Marie

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