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The woman behind the icon known as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, the undisputed Queen of Halloween, reveals her full story, filled with intimate bombshells - and told by the bombshell herself.

Hadley Freeman brings us her personalised guide to American movies from the 1980s - why they are brilliant, what they meant to her, and how they influenced movie-making forever. For Hadley Freeman, American moves of the 1980s have simply got it all. Comedy in Three Men and a Baby, Hannah and Her Sisters, Ghostbusters, Back to the Future and Trading Places; all a teenager needs to know - in Pretty in Pink, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Say Anything, The Breakfast Club and Mystic Pizza.

The story of Stax Records unfolds like a Greek tragedy. A white brother and sister build a record company that becomes a monument to racial harmony in 1960’s segregated south Memphis. Their success is startling, and Stax soon defines an international sound. Then, after losses both business and personal, the siblings part, and the brother allies with a visionary African-American partner. Under integrated leadership, Stax explodes as a national player until, Icarus-like, they fall from great heights to a tragic demise.

Arguably the greatest choreographer who ever lived, George Balanchine was one of the cultural titans of the twentieth century—the New York Times called him "the Shakespeare of dancing." His radical approach to choreography—and life—reinvented the art of ballet and made him a legend. Written with enormous style and artistry, and based on more than one hundred interviews and research in archives across Russia, Europe, and the Americas, Mr. B carries us through Balanchine's tumultuous and high-pitched life story and into the making of his extraordinary dances.

West of Eden is the definitive story of Hollywood told, in their own words, by the people on the inside: Lauren Bacall, Arthur Miller, Dennis Hopper, Frank Gehry, Ring Lardner, Joan Didion, Stephen Sondheim - all interviewed by Jean Stein, who grew up in the '40s in a fairy-tale mansion in the Hollywood Hills. The audiobook takes us from the discovery of oil in the '20s with the story of the tycoon Edward Doheny ( There Will Be Blood) and traces the growth of corruption through the syndicates, the mob, and the movie studios.

Forged in the stress of early motherhood, The Mother Artist explores the fraught yet generative ties between caregiving and creative practice. As a young mother working at a museum, essayist Catherine Ricketts began asking questions about the making of motherhood and the making of art. Now, with incantatory prose and an intuitive gaze, she twines intimate meditations on parenthood with studies of the work and lives of painters, writers, dancers, musicians, and other creatives.

Can you imagine painting without Leonardo, opera without Verdi, fashion without Armani, food without the signature tastes of pasta, gelato, and pizza? The first universities, first banks, first public libraries? All Italian. New York Times best-selling author Dianne Hales attributes these landmark achievements to la passione italiana, a primal force that stems from an insatiable hunger to discover and create; to love and live with every fiber of one's being.

In Mind in Motion, psychologist Barbara Tversky shows that spatial cognition isn't just a peripheral aspect of thought, but its very foundation, enabling us to draw meaning from our bodies and their actions in the world. Our actions in real space get turned into mental actions on thought, often spouting spontaneously from our bodies as gestures. Spatial thinking underlies creating and using maps, assembling furniture, devising football strategies, designing airports, understanding the flow of people, traffic, water, and ideas.

Five hundred and thirty years ago, a young woman sat before a Grecian-nosed artist known as Leonardo da Vinci. Her name was Cecilia Gallerani, and she was the young mistress of Ludovico Sforza, duke of Milan. Sforza was a brutal and clever man who was mindful that Leonardo’s genius would not only capture Cecilia’s beguiling beauty but also reflect the grandeur of his title. But when the portrait was finished, Leonardo’s brush strokes had conveyed something deeper by revealing the essence of Cecilia’s soul.

Stingray’s memoir vividly shows how the energy of youth culture and an international love affair with rock ‘n’ roll forged alliances among a new generation who brought an end to the U.S.S.R.

Cassandra Aarons is the founder of Cassandra Aarons Evangelistic Ministries and the ministry was founded to give to those that are in need. Cassandra has always been dedicated to providing as much assistance as possible to aid the poor and needed, which make up a large section of the inner cities in this country. For almost a decade Cassandra has been able to offer assistance without cost to the local residents who ask for help.New podcast weblog CHECK ME OUT ON THE NOW NETWORK AND STAR107FM.COM

Years after its release, Neutral Milk Hotel’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea remains one of the most beloved and best-selling albums in all of indie music, hailed as a classic so influential as to be almost synonymous with the ongoing vinyl revival. But despite its outsized impact, a question looms even larger: why did frontman Jeff Mangum, just as the record propelled him to the brink of music superstardom, choose instead to disappear entirely? The mystery has perplexed listeners for decades—until now.

Bringing you interviews with the women who represent country music, including singers, songwriters, managers, producers, and more! A platform for women to share their stories and journeys while promoting equality in country music. It's time for fair representation in the industry!

By artists, for artists, about making a living and making art. Conversations with artists along their creative professional journey; sharing advice, and inspiration.

Welcome to Lowkey Deep - real talk, real artists. Podcast host Cassandra invites musicians from all over the world to Berlin and has real, natural, and honest conversations. They circle mainly around deeply personal and insightful stories about their work, their creative process, and life as public figures. So if you're ready to hear your favorite artist going Lowkey Deep, check out our latest episode! 

Do you have a love of horror or are you a newbie and need a guide along your journey? This is the podcast for you! Join the ghoul crew, as they talk about all the things horror. They will be joined by some special guests along the way and deep dive into what makes horror so great.

Introducing the joint electronic dance concept music project of Dj Max Rudich and producer Cassandra Kasady, where they take you on a journey into the fascinating and captivating world of electronic dance music. Immerse yourself in their unique and mesmerizing music compilations, which showcase their combined experience of over 15 years in the club scene. Explore a variety of styles including deep house, tech house, bass house, garage, ghouse, and club house, all infused with their passion and energy that flows through every beat.

Celebrate Black History Month All Year Black History/Black Futures: The Art of Resistance features Hampton Roads’ own award-winning playwright, performer, filmmaker, and professor of Theatre at Old Dominion University, Brittney S. Harris, in conversation with Grammy-nominated, multi-award winning young composer, violinist and professor at The Juilliard School in NYC, Curtis Stewart. Renowned Historian and Endowed Professor of Virginia Black History and Culture, Dr. Cassandra Newby-Alexander, will moderate this discussion, exploring each guest’s artistic genre. Together, they uncover ...

A podcast where I explain, spoil and obsess over musicals, sometimes including a guest to be along for the ride. The hope is that the guest enjoys the musical and moving forward will want to see more musicals

You deserve rest; and spaces where it feels like there is room to heal. You deserve to move through life at a pace where you feel able to breathe. Your needs matter despite what you've endured. Here you are safe+held to take what you need for your heart to heal. Join Cassandra Dias, founder of safe+held for episodes exploring the often unseen process and journey of navigating life as the human and the soul. Cassandra is a NZ intuitive artist + energy healer, her work weaves together energy healing with artistry and craft. Hear about the creative process that guides the work at safe+held, ...