A group of Boy Scouts built a “hugging booth” for a nursing home in Texas. The booth has a plexiglass window that allows guests to stick their hands through large, sanitized gloves for hugging and other physical touches. So now people can hold hands and hug family members who come to visit. Someone in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania left a bartender a $500…… read more »
Check out JAMES HETFIELD of METALLICA performing at at JOE WALSH‘s 4th annual VetsAid charity concert. It happened on December 12. DAVE GROHL and producer GREG KURSTIN are doing a series called the “Hannukah Sessions”, covering tunes from Jewish artists each day. Here’s their take on MOUNTAIN‘s “Mississippi Queen”. (Warning: NSFW) ANGUS YOUNG says AC/DC‘s most regrettable song was “Love Song”, from the “High Voltage” album.…… read more »
We can’t all do big things to help, but the little things add up too: A 93-year-old veteran in Ohio named John Hobson has been whittling walking sticks . . . selling them for $3 on the side of the road . . . and donating all the money to his local food bank. Genome sequencing is used to…… read more »
More people are applying for medical school than normal, and experts think it’s a direct result of the pandemic. Seeing doctors and experts talk about it has inspired more people to go into medicine, and they’re calling it the “Fauci effect.” A guy in line at a Dairy Queen drive-thru in Minnesota said he wanted to pay…… read more »
There was a “Wayne’s World” reunion online recently that included JOE PERRY, STEVEN TYLER, ALICE COOPER, BRIAN MAY and more. It was part of JOSH GAD‘s Reunited Apart series. A Jon Bon Jovi Christmas, has been released, just in time to get you prepped for the holiday. BOB DYLAN sold his catalog to Universal Music Group for a…… read more »
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 »
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 »