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Glasgow Times
18-05-2025
- General
- Glasgow Times
Home sought for 'sweet and affectionate' Glasgow cat
Cats Protection Glasgow is hoping to find a home for 10-year-old Prine, described by the team as "sweet and affectionate". Christine McDowal, leader of the adoption team, said: "Prine has been completely overlooked, and we just can't understand why. (Image: Supplied) Read more: Final chance to register for Glasgow's Race for Life 2025 "After an unsettled start in life, moving between multiple homes, she was understandably scared when she first arrived. "She was overwhelmed and initially hid away. "Since being in foster care, Prine has slowly learned to trust humans again. "She has come out of her shell and shown her true, loving nature. "She has blossomed into an affectionate and playful cat, who enjoys snuggling and being petted. "She will sit close to you, chatting away and looking for you to play with her." (Image: Cats Protection Glasgow) Read more: Scottish Water issues plea as country's reservoirs hit by dry weather Christine believes that Prine would thrive in a "patient, cat-experienced home" and could live with "calm children, who will give her the time she needs to settle into her new environment." She would also be well suited to a home with a safe garden, in which she could enjoy the sun. Christine added: "Once she forms a bond with you, we are certain Prine will make a wonderful companion." Anyone interested in adopting Prince can visit the cat Cats Protection Glasgow website, phone 0345 371 2722, or email enquiries@
Yahoo
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Posthumous John Prine covers EP released to benefit fund supporting Nashville immigrants amid ICE arrests
On May 16, Nashville's Oh Boy Records released a posthumous collection of cover songs by John Prine to benefit The Belonging Fund, which supports immigrants in Nashville in moments of crisis. The EP release follows a week-long operation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Nashville that resulted in the arrest of 196 immigrants. "Oh Boy Records is proud to call Nashville home, and we're also proud to be a record label that's run by immigrants," it says on the Oh Boy Records' bandcamp. "We wanted to do something to help support the immigrant community here, and to also hopefully spread some joy to fans of John." The country-folk hero died in 2020 due to complications related to COVID-19. Oh Boy Records was co-founded by Prine in 1981 and is now run by the Prine family, including Prine's wife Fiona Whelan Prine, who was born in Ireland and immigrated to the U.S. in 1993. "Oh Boy Records is announcing the release of 'The Belonging EP Vol. 1' a collection of cover songs by John Prine. "Available for a limited time, and sold exclusively on Bandcamp, all proceeds from the sale of the EP will be given to The Belonging Fund." The label suggests buying the record for the suggested price of $10, but if listeners are able to afford more, Oh Boy says the funds are going directly to families in urgent need. The Belonging Fund was launched by the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee (CFMT) and the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County to support immigrants through a variety of needs, from housing instability and child care to transportation and food insecurity. To learn more about Prine's EP, visit ICE's operation in Nashville included 468 traffic stops made in a joint operation with the Tennessee Highway Patrol on May 8. ICE spokesperson Lindsay Williams said the operation focused on identifying those with criminal histories and that of the 196 arrested, 95 had prior criminal convictions or pending criminal charges. Speaking from detention: Nashville immigrant, 19, went out for ice cream, ended up detained by ICE and sent to Louisiana. 'We're not criminals,' he says ICE has released limited information on seven of the 196 arrested. They did not provide the names of anyone. The Metro Nashville Council Immigrant Caucus has condemned the "tactics, scope, and narrative" used by the Department of Homeland Security. "While we all share a commitment to public safety, true safety is never achieved through fear-based enforcement that harms entire communities under false pretenses," the caucus said in a news release on May 13. "Let us be clear: Accountability must never come at the expense of due process, human dignity, or community trust." 1. 'My Old Kentucky Home'2. 'All My Love (Oh Boy!)'3. 'Loretta'4. 'I Just Called to Say I Love You'5. 'Sweet and Dandy' Contributing: Craig Shoup This article originally appeared on Nashville Tennessean: John Prine covers EP to benefit immigrants amid Nashville ICE arrests
Chicago Tribune
02-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Chicago Tribune
New film ‘How Lucky Can One Man Get' captures the magic of John Prine in concert
A late March edition of Howard Stern's radio show on SiriusXM featured the host and his guest, Bill Murray, talking about John Prine. Murray had known Prine in the good old days, and talked of sometimes walking from The Second City across Wells Street to listen to Prine on the small stage at the Earl of Old Town. Stern obviously knew Prine's music and expressed his affection for it, but admitted that he had only recently discovered it. He seemed amazed that Murray had actually known Prine and respectfully listened to his memories and his vocal accompaniment to such songs as 'Hello in There' and 'Angel from Montgomery.' (As a singer, Murray should stick to acting.) Emotions and sorrow were palpable even though Prine has been dead for nearly five years. It was obvious from this short audio segment that people who knew Prine and his music remain tightly tied and that people new to both can be easily grabbed. Whatever your relationship, you should consider seeing the screening of a new film, 'How Lucky Can One Man Get.' It is a joyful film, capturing Prine during a 2010 concert at Proviso East High School in Maywood, Prine's alma mater (class of 1964) and, between songs, hearing conversation peppered with stories of family, young love, working as a mailman and memories of vanished neighborhood hangouts of his deeply influential youthful years. That concert, just like one in 1999 and this event, was a fundraiser for the Maywood Fine Arts Association, headed by Lois Baumann, a classmate of Prine's. The association provides arts instruction to the children of Maywood and surrounding communities. The audience will surely contain some gray-haired former classmates of Prine's. His widow, Fiona, and his musical director and guitarist Jason Wilber will be there too, in conversation with journalist Mark Guarino. Mark Dvorak, the great teacher, writer and performer much in the Prine mold, will begin the evening by performing some of Prine's music. The movie features Prine's three brothers, David (who died in 2023), Billy and Doug, and offers a short glimpse of the late Minnette Goodman, the delightful, diminutive mother of Prine's great friend Steve Goodman, who died of leukemia in 1984 when he was only 36. At its heart, of course, is the music that has long cast its spell, with Stern merely the latest to be bewitched and bedazzled. Among the first was the late film critic Roger Ebert, who walked one night into a club on Armitage Avenue called the Fifth Peg and saw Prine's first public performance. He would write about it for the Sun-Times, 'Prine's lyrics work with poetic economy to sketch a character in just a few words.' In short order, Prine and Goodman were 'discovered' by Kris Kristofferson, who helped them get record deals, and they were on their way. Bob Dylan, never one loose with praise, said, 'Prine's stuff is pure Proustian existentialism. Midwestern mind trips to the nth degree. And he writes beautiful songs. I remember when Kris Kristofferson first brought him on the scene. All that stuff about 'Sam Stone' the soldier junkie daddy and 'Donald and Lydia,' where people make love from 10 miles away. Nobody but Prine could write like that. If I had to pick one song of his, it might be 'Lake Marie.' I don't remember what album that's on.' It's on 'Lost Dogs and Mixed Blessings,' Bob, one of Prine's many albums. His first, 1971's 'John Prine,' remains my favorite, most of it written in an apartment on 19th Street in Melrose Park. It includes the songs 'Sam Stone,' 'Paradise,' 'Hello in There' and 'Angel From Montgomery,' which seemed to be impossible for a man as young as Prine was then to have written, so filled with emotional wisdom. He did much of his later writing in Nashville, where he eventually moved for keeps in the 1980s. The city did such an energetic job of promoting its connection to him that many still think of Prine as a native son, knowing little of those formative years in Maywood. Another person deeply affected by Prine has been Mike Leonard, the North Shore native and former longtime reporter for NBC's 'Today' show. He told me, 'I can remember first hearing him, playing his records late at night and thinking that he was writing about everyday life, people like us.' Leonard made a wonderful 30-minute documentary about Prine in 2016. 'I have been talking to a lot of kids, young people who seem to be afraid of being creative,' Leonard said then. 'They think that being creative involves some kind of wild thinking, thinking outside the box. But I think Prine is a great example of the power of thinking inside the box.' Or as Prine said, 'For me it's more like writing about what you know.' Prine died in March 2020 due to complications from COVID-19. A river of praiseful words flowed. Dave Hoekstra, former Sun-Times writer, had his touching say on his blog. So did Guarino, then in the midst of finishing his remarkable book in which Prine played a large part, 'Country and Midwestern: Chicago in the History of Country Music and the Folk Revival' (University of Chicago Press). He wrote that Prine used 'plain-spoken language to peel back the mysteries of ordinariness. The key is understatement — minimal details and those generous spaces in the music and between the verses.' That's smart and I will file it away with all the other descriptions I have heard trying to explain what John Prine created, while continuing to think of it all as some kind of magic.
New York Times
15-03-2025
- Health
- New York Times
Five Years On, Ghosts of a Pandemic We Didn't Imagine Still Haunt Us
Five years later, the everyday has returned to the pleasant New Jersey town of Maplewood. About the only visible trace of what was endured is the urgent plea that still adorns the caution-yellow marquee of the old movie theater. There for the last five years, ever since the theater closed at the dawn of the dread, it says: STAY HEALTHY. The letter L is tipped slightly, like someone staggered by a blow. That letter L might as well be us, upright but still staggering from a pandemic that killed more than seven million people worldwide, including 1.2 million in the Maplewoods and metropolises of America. Time's passage has granted the illusion of distance. The veils of protection have dropped from faces, and crowds are once again bellying up to the bar, their conversations carrying echoes of what was being talked about at the start of 2020, as if the last five years had been excised from the calendar. But then something noticed, something heard, unearths something buried. A message on a closed movie theater's marquee. A face mask shoved in a drawer. A silhouette of footprints on a subway platform. The strains of a familiar John Prine song, maybe 'Angel From Montgomery,' which at first makes you smile because you love all things Prine, but then you remember that he died in 2020 of complications from Covid, and before the next chord plays your mind is back in that dystopian time. The collective impulse to compartmentalize and forget has kicked in before. The flu pandemic of 1918 to 1920 infected nearly a fifth of the American population, yet an early chronicling of the 1920s that is now considered a classic of its kind — 'Only Yesterday,' written by the journalist Frederick Lewis Allen and published in 1931 — made only passing mention of the Great Influenza: just three dozen words for a national disaster that killed anywhere from a half-million to 850,000 people. A century later, that impulse to suppress has returned, muddling our sense of time. The coronavirus pandemic can seem so safely submerged in the past that we sometimes have to stop and ask ourselves: Did that really happen? It did. Five years ago this month, the World Health Organization declared a pandemic, the federal government declared a national emergency — and the United States all but lurched to a halt. Schools, offices, stores and places of worship closed, and sheltering in place, a concept antithetical to community, became an unnatural way of life. There was at first something sci-fi unreal about the coronavirus — an invisible enemy whose means of contagion remained mysterious. But then came the reality of death, by the thousands, the tens of thousands: so many that hospitals and funeral homes could not keep up; so many that bodies were stacked almost like cordwood in refrigerated trucks. The pandemic disrupted the ancient and sacred rituals of mourning, denying many the primal need to say goodbye. Unable to gather, we could not recite prayers together, or share comforting hugs or even toss a parting rose upon on a casket. We watched the burials of our loved ones from a distance, often in the cocoon of cars. Remember? As scientists raced to develop a vaccine, we lived in the uncertain, even the absurd, as government officials under pressure struggled to land upon the best course of action. Amid this life-and-death confusion, we slathered our hands with sanitizer whenever we touched a doorknob. We stood in line to walk like zombies through the disquieting stillness of supermarkets. We cotton-swabbed our noses while sitting in our cars, shoved the packed-up sample through a pharmacy's drive-up window — and waited to see if the touch of that doorknob, or the walk through that supermarket, had risked our lives. Nearly a year into the madness, a vaccine became widely available, and most of us, though not all, grasped how vaccinations would stem the contagion and save lives. New terms joined the Covid vernacular. In addition to waves and surges and hot spots, we had the three witches of variants: Alpha, Delta and Omicron. We asked one another a single question — Are you Pfizer or Moderna? — as we fretted whether we'd chosen the most efficacious vaccine. Finally, in April 2023, President Joseph R. Biden Jr. signed into law a resolution to end the coronavirus national emergency declared three years earlier. The pandemic storm, it seemed, was behind us now. Nonsense. We continue to live in its wake. The repercussions of Covid extend beyond the hundreds of people it still kills a week, beyond the many who still suffer from long Covid, beyond the ghostly restaurants and storefronts that could not withstand the sudden and sustained plummet in business. A cohort of adolescents and young adults missed out on the learning that occurs in and out of the classroom: the labs and proms and presentations and graduations. At the same time, many of their parents continue to work from the isolation of their homes, a virtual-first experience that frees up time at the expense of any creativity sparks from face-to-face contact. The pandemic turned us against one another. Were we pro-mask or anti-mask? Pro- or anti-vaccination? Did we believe in the sanctity of individual rights or in suspending certain freedoms for the communal good? The anger spurred by masks and other Covid-related rules and requirements helped to further fuel a distrust of government: a distrust embraced by those now in government. Vaccinations for the coronavirus recently saved millions of lives in this country, and yet the new head of the Department of Health and Human Services — the federal agency created to protect the health of the American public — has long been hostile to this tried-and-true method of immunization. At times it seems the collective impulse to suppress has worked too well. As though we never heard the hum of those refrigerated trucks. As though we have forgotten just how vulnerable we were, and are.
Yahoo
11-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Former Mobile Police Chief Paul Prine announces run for mayor
MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Former Mobile Police Department Chief Paul Prine has announced he is running for mayor. Body cam footage of Bay Minette shooting that killed Otis French Jr. leaked online Prine announced his run for mayor at Government Plaza on Tuesday morning — his motto being 'The People's Chief. The People's Choice. The People's Mayor.' According to a news release from the Prine campaign, his three foundational pillars include: Safety first Career Development Economic Growth Gulf Shores Post Office to present one-day Passport Fair Prine is the sixth person to announce he is running for mayor, following current Mobile County Commissioner Connie Hudson, former Mobile County Commissioner Steven Nodine, former District Judge Spiro Cheriogotis, current Alabama State Rep. Barbara Drummond, and former Mobile Police Chief Lawrence Battiste. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
