Woman claims she was racially profiled at Shadyside Apple store Share Updated: 9:17 PM EDT May 24, 2021 Share Updated: 9:17 PM EDT May 24, 2021
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Show Transcript SEE THE MASK POLICY. REPORTER: FELICITY WILLIAMS SAYS THE EXPERIENCE SHE HAD IN THE APPLE STORE IN SHADYSIDE WAS TRAUMATIZING. SHE SET IT STEMS OVER A FACE MASK SHE WAS WEARING AND THE STORES POLICY. I WAS AFRAID FOR MY LIFE. I HAD AN ADRENALINE MOMENT AND I HAD TO ENGAGE IN HOW TO PROTECT MYSELF. REPORTER: SHE TOLD ME OVER ZOOM SHE BELIEVES SHE WAS RACIALLY PROFILED HERE. I DON’T THINK SHE WOULD’VE CALLED THE POLICE HAD I BEEN A WHITE PERSON. REPORTER: SHE SAID IT STEMMED OVER THE MASK SHE WAS WEARING. A STORE MANAGER ASKED HER TO PUT ON A DIFFERENT MASK BECAUSE IT HAD A VENT AND IT WAS AGAINST STORE POLICY. SHE ASKED TO SEE THE POLICY BUT THE MANAGER WOULD NOT SHOW IT TO HER. I FEEL SINGLED OUT AND WHY? THAT’S WHY, IT’S NOT ABOUT THE POLICY. IT’S ABOUT THE F
May 19, 2021 11:07
A new integrated campaign from the Tasmania Tourism Board, entitled ‘The Call of the Off Season’, urges Australians to embrace the winter months ahead.
Two 15 second films highlight the range of attractions winter in Tasmania offer, claiming: “The ‘Off Season’ celebrates the colder, darker months, and everything weird and wonderful that comes with it.”
Developed by BMF, and the agency’s group planning director Thomasine Burnap, said: “The ‘Off Season’ aims to culturally redefine how the rest of Australia sees winter. It’s an invitation to embrace winter, rather than escape it. In Tassie that’s when the locals feast harder, dance longer and embrace the very wilderness that defines them.”
Bernice s Subverted Pop Shines Brilliantly on Eau de Bonjourno
Published Mar 01, 2021
9Bernice s entrancing music holds no bounds the Toronto-based group are keen to throw genre expectations to the wind, and ultimately for the best. Keeping things unexpected and askew are what Bernice excel at, and with their second LP,
Eau de Bonjourno, the follow-up to 2018 s acclaimed
The brainchild of songwriter and musician Robin Dann, Bernice are rooted in expansive experimental pop that weaves elements of jazz, electro, R&B and soul into something simultaneously complex and playful, and utterly unique. Dann wrote Eau de Bonjourno with long-time collaborators Daniel Fortin (bass), Felicity Williams (vocals), Thom Gill (keys/guitar), and Philippe Melanson (e-percussion/drums), at a Toronto Islands artist centre. Between them, they ve performed with Bahamas, Andy Shauf, Lido Pimienta, Beverly Glenn-Copeland and others, and their extensive CVs are apparent from the first song. Adding
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Out On The Coast (Basset Hound Music): “David Angel is a Los Angeles composer and arranger. He has had a rehearsal band for over 50 years. David spent many years composing and arranging for the Hollywood Film and TV world and later spent many years as a composition professor in Europe. His unique music is described as Gil Evans meets J.S. Bach. Over the years dozens of the greatest jazz musicians on the west coast have been members.The David Angel Jazz Ensemble is a Los Angeles based 13 piece jazz band, “Out on the Coast” is a TRIPLE CD set and all of the music is composed or arranged by David Angel. The style is described as “Gil Evans meets J.S.Bach” with all 13 musicians playing polyphonic lines. The band members are among the finest jazz musicians on the west coast. It is swing and Latin music reminiscent of the 60′ west coast jazz scene with impressionistic classical elements.” (https://www.bassethoundmusic.com/product/out-on-the-c