Early in the pandemic, a successful artist in New York named Guy Stanley Philoche got on Instagram, and offered to buy art from struggling artists to help get them through the pandemic. He’s now spent over $65,000 doing it. Here’s how much we appreciate a little positivity right now: There’s a woman in Mississippi named Sonya Baldwin who’s worked at…… read more »
The Red Cross has seen a massive surge in volunteers this year – including 78,000 new sign-ups in the U.S. alone. If you can’t volunteer, maybe you could donate blood? The need healthy donors too. Mazda recently gave new cars to a bunch of people who went above and beyond this year. One of them is a teacher in New…… read more »
PAUL STANLEY says that work has been completed on the debut album from his R&B band SOUL STATION. DEEP PURPLE is planning to enter the studio in 2021 to begin work on another album. Three of EDDIE VAN HALEN‘s guitars sold at auction for $422,000. After seeing a story about it, WOLFGANG VAN HALEN clarified that the guitars did not…… read more »
One in nine Americans is struggling to get food on the table. The Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina is a nonprofit organization that has provided food for our friends and neighbors facing hunger in 34 counties in central and eastern North Carolina for 40 years. The Food Bank is an affiliate member…… read more »
Someone in Chicago dropped a gold coin and a small gold bar into two Salvation Army buckets over the weekend. Together, they’re worth around $3,700. A teacher in India just won an annual competition called the Global Teacher Prize that comes with a $1 million cash prize. And right after he won, he announced he’s taking half of the money…… read more »
A couple near L.A. had to keep pushing their wedding back. Then the bride had to quarantine after a positive COVID test, and they didn’t want to wait any longer. So she rolled with it . . . threw on her dress . . . and got married from her second-story window. The owner of a dive bar in…… read more »
BLACK SABBATH unleashed the group’s fourth album in two years in 1972 with Vol 4. Stacked with classic tracks like “Supernaut,” “Changes,” and “Snowblind,” the record harnessed the group’s surging popularity to reach the Top 10 on the Albums Chart in the U.K. and the Top 20 on the Billboard 200 in the U.S., on its path to…… read more »
Starbucks announced that for all of December, they’re giving free coffee to frontline workers. They’ve already given out more than two million cups of coffee this year. In other coffee-related news: A regular customer in Louisville, Kentucky walked into a coffee shop the other day and gave the owner a thousand bucks to pay for everyone’s coffee that day. …… read more »
Got cash? The guitar that CHRIS CORNELL used during the recording of SOUNDGARDEN‘s Superunknown album is up for auction. DAVID LEE ROTH‘s latest cartoon drawing, titled, “The Daily Catastrophe”, features SAMMY HAGAR, and the Red Rocker isn’t mad about it. In fact, he wants to buy it. NEAL SCHON of JOURNEY is releasing his solo…… read more »