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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.

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.

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.

A gentle podcast for tender hearts and tired minds. Curl up and drift off as host Cassandra Litten reads you softly into slumber—sharing classic tales in the public domain, dreamy poetry, and quiet original stories designed to soothe. With a little whimsy and a lot of warmth, Honk Shoo is your nighttime nook for peace, nostalgia, and a good night’s sleep. New episodes every week. No plot twists. No jump scares. Just kindness, calm, and quiet company after dark. Music by FASSounds from Pixabay (https://www.patreon.com/edmrf)

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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! 

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, ...

Poet and author Cassandra Dallett is your Badass Bookworm inviting writers and activists to talk about their projects, process, and current events. Some times there are drinks sometimes there are roundtables but there is always great dialogue and ideas.

Welcome to The Dive: On Emo & The Tarot, where we bring you into a world of endless possibility, bridging the gap between music and spirituality.

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.

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.