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Yahoo
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Steelers Afternoon Drive: Evaluating Omar Khan So Far
Welcome to the Steelers Afternoon Drive, our new daily podcast featuring all the latest Steelers news and analysis. Alan Saunders and Zachary Smith discuss all things Pittsburgh Steelers. On today's episode, we discuss some transactional news, including the team signing veteran RB Trey Sermon and if that could have any impact on Cordarrelle Patterson. Do the Steelers have the same amount or more drama than the rest of the league? Is there just a bigger microscope on them? How much more does Omar Khan have to do to clean up the late career misses of Kevin Colbert before we can just evaluate Omar on his own timeline? Let's go for another Steelers Afternoon Drive and discuss all this and more! Advertisement Check out the show on our YouTube page, or find it on Megaphone or wherever you get your podcasts. Got a question for the guys? Leave a comment on YouTube, here on the website, or find them on Twitter at @ASaunders_PGH and @ZacharySmithPGH Hey fans! We want to see your black and gold rides! Show us your car, truck or van that's painted in Pittsburgh colors, decorated with logos or Terrible Towels, covered in bumper stickers, or uses some other way to show off your dedication to the Black and Gold. Click to check out more from Alan Saunders and the gang on the SN YouTube page. Click for full archives of the Steelers Afternoon Drive with Alan Saunders and Zachary Smith. This article originally appeared on Steelers Now: Steelers Afternoon Drive: Evaluating Omar Khan So Far
Yahoo
15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Steelers Afternoon Drive: Reaction to Steelers Schedule Leaks
Welcome to the Steelers Afternoon Drive, our new daily podcast featuring all the latest Steelers news and analysis. Alan Saunders and Zachary Smith discuss all things Pittsburgh Steelers. On today's episode, we discuss what to make of the leaks that have come out so far regarding the team's schedule. Let's go for another Steelers Afternoon Drive and discuss all this and more! Advertisement Check out the show on our YouTube page, or find it on Megaphone or wherever you get your podcasts. Got a question for the guys? Leave a comment on YouTube, here on the website, or find them on Twitter at @ASaunders_PGH and @ZacharySmithPGH Hey fans! We want to see your black and gold rides! Show us your car, truck or van that's painted in Pittsburgh colors, decorated with logos or Terrible Towels, covered in bumper stickers, or uses some other way to show off your dedication to the Black and Gold. Click to check out more from Alan Saunders and the gang on the SN YouTube page. Click for full archives of the Steelers Afternoon Drive with Alan Saunders and Zachary Smith. This article originally appeared on Steelers Now: Steelers Afternoon Drive: Reaction to Steelers Schedule Leaks Advertisement Related Headlines
TechCrunch
06-05-2025
- Entertainment
- TechCrunch
Spotify now shows how many times people listened to podcast episodes
YouTube continues to dominate the podcasting space, but Spotify is actively working to close the gap. The latest development: a new feature that lets users see how many times an audio-only or video podcast episode has been actively listened to or watched. The streaming giant revealed its new podcast metric called 'plays' on Tuesday, making it possible for users to see which podcast episodes are most popular. This is the first time a podcast metric like this will be viewable for creators and users. The plays will appear next to a podcast episode throughout the app, including the home page, episode page, and show page. It's also available for creators on Spotify for Creators and Megaphone. With this new metric for podcasts, Spotify aims to encourage users to explore podcasts they may not be familiar with, especially if they see that other listeners highly favor these episodes. For creators, this information sheds light on which episodes resonate most with audiences and, more importantly, allows them to benchmark their performance against competitors. Spotify's announcement follows its first-quarter earnings, revealing a gain of 5 million premium subscribers, totaling 268 million. This marks the second-highest total ever and the largest first-quarter increase since 2020.
Hamilton Spectator
03-05-2025
- Health
- Hamilton Spectator
A space to call their own
After a year-long renovation, the much-loved Gallery Gachet is re-opening with a renewed focus on accessibility, community and resilience. The overhaul reimagines the exhibition space to better showcase artists' work, while expanding the gallery's role as a creative hub. There is improved ventilation, an expanded bathroom, and enhanced heating and cooling so that the space can become a place of refuge during extreme weather. With these changes, Gallery Gachet is reaffirming its commitment to fostering an inclusive, artist-centred environment for the Downtown Eastside. At first inspection, it's not easy to spot Gallery Gachet at 9 W. Hastings St. — safeguarded by a green steel grid gate. You could easily pass by without ever knowing it's a gallery. But Gallery Gachet has long been a vital space for marginalized artists, providing a platform to showcase their work and build community. Its mission is to support those who have experienced the mental health system, substance use, or social and political marginalization through art programs that centre creativity as a tool for survival, human rights and cultural participation. Every Monday, the gallery hosts art drop-ins, fostering a supportive and thriving environment where community members can connect and create. Founded as a cooperative in 1992 and a non-profit society in 1993, Gallery Gachet takes its name from Dr. Paul Gachet — Vincent van Gogh's doctor in his final years. A supporter of struggling artists, Gachet not only treated Van Gogh after his release from the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum in France, but also advocated for him, encouraging his artistic pursuits as a form of healing. The gallery follows this spirit by providing a haven for artists with lived experience in the mental health system, many of whom identify as psychiatrized survivors. Originally located in Strathcona, Gallery Gachet relocated to the Downtown Eastside in 2000, where it has become deeply embedded in the neighbourhood. The gallery has expanded its programming beyond member-driven exhibitions to offer art that embraces community activism and social justice themes. Sol Hashemi, artist and co-founder of the Veronica Project Space in Seattle, Wash., currently holds the position of communications director at Gallery Gachet. When Megaphone asked Hashemi why it was important to have a gallery like Gachet, he responded, 'Throughout its history, Gachet has been an important space for marginalized people to come together through art.' Hashemi said that the gallery's commitment to supporting marginalized artists and communities is 'deeply rooted in its mandate and values,' recognizing the unique contributions of artists who are often overlooked by the art world, including those who are self-taught, disabled or who simply 'operate differently than the artistic mainstream.' For Hashemi, the most memorable show at Gachet to date was Dion Smith-Dokkie's This Will Be the First of a Thousand Worlds We Give Life To, a 2023 exhibition featuring stretched acrylic skin paintings and works exploring themes of mapping. Smith-Dokkie's work delves into neo-colonialism, highlighting gestures that assert Indigenous autonomy in the face of continuing settler colonial dispossession. The Gallery is a unique niche in the art community and its future looks colourful and bright. They will be holding a reception on May 8th, 6–8pm, 2025, in conjunction with the upcoming exhibition, An Injury on the Diasporic Imagination. Visit the gallery's website for details and exhibitions: . Jathinder Sandhu is a Surrey resident and a published poet, writer and member of The Shift peer newsroom. She won writing contests in high school, studied poetry post-secondary and went on to earn a bachelor's degree in communications. Jathinder also plays bass guitar.
Hamilton Spectator
03-05-2025
- Health
- Hamilton Spectator
‘Nobody can ever replace Trey'
It's hard to imagine how the Downtown Eastside will function without the steady force for good that was Trey (Ashtrey) Helten. What's not hard to see is how deeply he was loved — by the community he served, his partner and their son, his dog Zelda, his former employer Sarah Blyth at the Overdose Prevention Society (OPS), his good friend Smokey D, and by the many, many people he helped in the latter part of his short life of 42 years. When Helten failed to show up to a training at OPS on the morning of Tuesday, April 22, Blyth and a colleague went to his Strathcona home and found him unresponsive. At the time of this writing, the cause of death is unknown. Since his passing, an outpouring of love and remembrance has flooded social media and the Downtown Eastside streets he served with such integrity. Murals have begun to appear in his honour, and there is a growing movement to name one of the neighbourhood laneways — Ashtrey Alley. Helten was publicly up front that his early years were characterized by addiction; he didn't mind being called an addict, he once said on Garth Mullins' Crackdown podcast. In his recovery, he built relationships with hundreds of people and, as manager of the OPS, saved the lives of hundreds more. Blyth, who is the organization's executive director, has given many interviews since Helten's passing. For CBC Radio's Early Edition and As It Happens, Blyth recalls Helten's fierce dedication to the people he was helping. Over and above his tireless work at OPS, he was willing to drive people to appointments, detox and Narcotics Anonymous meetings. He took people to lunch or for coffee at the Ovaltine Cafe. He was passionate about doing everything he could in aid of a person's safety, recovery and comfort. In an interview with Megaphone, Blyth once said: 'I can't find words to describe what a unique person Trey is.' Helten began working at OPS in 2018. Megaphone featured Helten on the cover in September 2023, along with his dog, Zelda. Zelda — part pit bull, mastiff and king corso — like Helten could expertly detect drug overdoses. As with many extraordinary pets in the Downtown Eastside, Zelda reflected qualities of her human: intuition, compassion, intelligence and love. In the CBC As It Happens interview, Blyth acknowledged that Helten sometimes tried too hard, to the detriment of his own self-care. At one point, he relapsed into his addiction and needed to step away from his job as manager of OPS. But as his partner, Amanda Jane Rose — who is expecting Helten's second child — said on Facebook, 'Trey NEVER gave up on his recovery.' 'Trey believed that recovery was always possible. It doesn't matter if it takes you one try or one hundred. Keep coming back, keep coming back, keep coming back.' Before Christmas, Helten gave a naloxone training session to photojournalist Amy Romer, who then worked with him to write a 'Naloxone 101' for Megaphone magazine, published just last month in the April issue — in time for the nine-year anniversary of the toxic drug overdose crisis being declared a B.C. public health emergency. Helten's dedication never stopped. 'Nobody can ever replace Trey,' said Rose. 'Not in this community, not in the hearts of so many people and certainly not in my life. He was the most unique, wonderful person in the world. To me, he was perfect.' Trey Helten tributes: A tribute to Helten can be found in the latest episode of the Crackdown podcast. There will be an all day memorial in Helen's honour on Saturday, May 10 in the parking lot of the now-demolished Balmoral Hotel (100-block East Hastings Street), from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Artist Smokey D has created a memorial piece near OPS.
