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Seymour Stein, Sire Records Co-Founder Who Signed Madonna and Talking Heads, Dies at 80 “[The studio] was in a car wash. Or an adjacent building where they stored the soap,” says Wilbur Niles, clearing up details through bursts of laughter. “I mean, we recorded at night, after the car wash closed. You couldn’t do anything on a Saturday morning when cars were being washed. I remember the concrete ceiling needed softening for the sound, so we set the drums up under a big beach umbrella.” It’s an unlikely spot for a recording studio. Nevertheless, between boxes of suds and wax, in a nondescript room in Akron, Ohio, one obscure couple recorded a future lost classic. Plotting a course through silk-smooth,...

As you may have learned by now, expectations don't always live up to reality. And, as a recent post on r/AskReddit shows, that can be true even when you embark on what you believed to be the best career in the world. Created by user u/American-pickle, it asked people, "Did you ever obtain your 'dream job' to realize it wasn't actually what you wanted—why did it not live up to expectations?" Immediately, zookeepers, flight attendants, and many other professionals started replying, explaining how the day-to-day realities such as long hours, monotony, and workload have disappointed them.#1All throughout childhood and college I wanted to be a zookeeper. When I was finally offered the internship though, it took me less than a...

Tiger Woods once said the hardest shot to hit in golf is a straight shot. I don’t think he’s wrong either. But if you’re like most golfers, chances are you ask “How do you hit the ball straight in golf?” Let’s just say it’s easier said than done. Because let’s face it, if Tiger struggles to hit the ball straight, that means the everyday golfer can really struggle. Most golfers suffer from the dreaded slice where the ball drifts from left to right. While other golfers suffer from a hook where the ball turns from right to left in the air. Both shots are nearly impossible to play consistently and can lead to a lot of missed fairways and greens. Today, we’ll help...

Some presentations are better than others. They may have gorgeous designs. Others have insanely actionable takeaways. Some just give down-to-earth advice. But the best presentations represent all three. [TAG0] And if you're looking to get started making your own presentation, why not learn from the best of the best? To help you kick your own presentations up a notch, we've curated 20 awesome PowerPoint and SlideShare decks below. When you're clicking through the presentations below, notice how they weave an interesting story through the format, design their slides, and make their presentations interactive with features exclusive to the platform on which they were created. These are all crucial elements to making an awesome presentation — ones that you can certainly...

Mario, Dracula, and Deadites are set to dominate movie theaters in April 2023. The month's film schedule offers a diverse array of options, from a highly anticipated video game adaptation to the return of a classic horror franchise and a sports movie that could be an early 2024 Oscar contender. Here are the biggest new movies to look out for in April:  The Super Mario Bros. Movie (April 5) HBO's The Last of Us just raised the bar for video game adaptations, but can The Super Mario Bros. Movie one-up it? From the studio behind Minions comes this second attempt at turning the Mario games into a movie, although unlike the disastrous 1993 version starring Bob Hoskins, this one is...