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New Netflix Documentary on Wham
You know that show biz axiom, that an overnight sensation takes years to happen?
A new Netflix documentary follows the pop duo Wham. George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley, might not have left the heaviest and most impactful footprint on the pop culture landscape during their brief but blazing five-year run in the 1980s — but it’s a footprint that resonates to this day.
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New Netflix Documentary on WhamYou know that show biz axiom, that an overnight sensation takes years to happen?
A new Netflix documentary follows the pop duo Wham. George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley, might not have left the heaviest and most impactful footprint on the pop culture landscape during their brief but blazing five-year run in the 1980s — but it’s a footprint that resonates to this day.
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Singer, Sid SriramSinger Sid Sriram was born in southern India, but his family moved to Fremont when he was just a year old. His voice and his sound are the product of his family’s legacy as carnatic traditional signers and of a childhood in the Bay Area suburbs, listening to jazz and hip hop. Sriram has already achieved fame in India, his career expanded globally after singing for Grammy-Award winning composer A.R. Rahman, and he was recently featured in an NPR Tiny Desk Concert. He joins us in our studio to sing from his new album and talk about growing up Indian-American in the Fremont and what it’s like to be more famous halfway across the world than where you went to high school.
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Artist, George McCalman“Black history,” writes award-winning artist and graphic designer George McCalman, “tends to mean the ten people who are lauded every Black History Month of every Black History Year.” McCalman upends that constricted notion in his most recent book, “Illustrated Black History,” a tribute to 140 pioneering – but sometimes unseen – Black artists, advocates and thinkers who have “sacrificed their lives and livelihoods or forfeited their homes and sanctuaries” in the course of defining American history. We talked to McCalman about those he chose to profile, paint and celebrate.
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Drug BustsNew research found that police drug busts could actually increase the number of overdoses and drug deaths. Public health experts say police must evolve their tactics to save lives.
Also, when people are facing eviction, a “rent court” judge has the final say. But there can be a big power imbalance. More than a dozen cities now say tenants have a right to legal counsel. And, a look at a Swedish startup that's aiming to become a major player in the global race for EV batteries shows how Europe is struggling for energy independence but still might not be able to reduce China's dominance in the industry.
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Germany Looks at Alternate Power SourcesMore than half of Germany's natural gas once came from Russia. The war in Ukraine changed all that. Germany speeds up its transition to alternatives – like solar power.
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