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7:00 PM December 29, 2020
Daniel Coe and Jack Douglas, who led an online masterclass with West Suffolk College students, pictured with Ringo Starr and Rhea Fowler
- Credit: Supplied by Daniel Coe/www.DanielJCoe.com
A record producer who befriended John Lennon and has worked with all of The Beatles inspired Suffolk music students via an online masterclass.
Jack Douglas – who has also worked with Aerosmith and Miles Davis – chatted for more than an hour with music students from West Suffolk College.
Talking live from his New York studio, he was joined by composer Daniel Coe. The pair have collaborated on various album and film scoring projects since 2003.
The best last-minute holiday gifts for under $30
The best last-minute holiday gifts for under $30
Whether you have beer drinkers, pot smokers, puzzle doers or transit nerds on your list, these quickie gifts won t break the bank By NOW Staff
Toronto subway magnets
Public transit nerds can do no wrong at the Spacing store. If you know someone who doesn’t have one of these cute TTC magnets, you can grab one for $3 or sets for each subway line and the soon-to-be-defunct Scarborough RT.
$3 each, sets from $10. spacingstore.ca
Vintage shop Black Market has taken classic styles you might consider thrift-shop go-tos – animal print, sequined – and applied them to face masks. For your loved ones who can’t party on New Year’s Eve but want to look festive in the LCBO lineup.
Column: Helping a couple of ’60s hippies find a new home
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Old hippies never die. They just go to Vermont and hang out in my guest room, naked.
I’ve had these two hippies in my home since 1992. They were thrown out of a Saks Fifth Avenue display window 51 years ago, in 1969, after they caused a scandal on the sidewalks of New York City.
They are life-sized, full-frontal nude paintings depicting Adam and Eve as hippies by the Manhattan artist Douglas Semonin, who had been commissioned by Saks to create a “Garden of Eden” display window representing the “hip” attitudes of the 1960s. He painted Eve as Jane Fonda, in her role as Barbarella in the 1968 film of the same name, and Adam as the Beatles’ John Lennon, with shoulder length hair, a beard and actual sunglasses. Eve has hair the color of a tomato, a s
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Hope for stroke and dementia patients. Israel’s BrainsGate (reported briefly here previously) has developed a technology for the treatment of ischemic strokes and vascular dementia. The Ischemic Stroke System is based on an implantable electrode stimulator that increases blood flow to the brain. Clinical trials are in progress.
Hackathon for autism. Israeli innovators and entrepreneurs participated in Hackautism 2.0 – a virtual tech marathon to create innovative technological solutions for the challenges of children and adults on the Autism Spectrum. The winning teams addressed sleep quality, non-verbal communication and job finding,
Israeli blood tests for the Gulf. The OLO finger-prick blood tests from Israel’s Sight Diagnostics (reported here previously) will soon be available in medical centers across the Gulf region. The Israeli company is partnering with Dubai’s Phoenix Capital who will install OLO initially in the UAE and then other Gulf states.