The Duke of York retreated from public life in November 2019 after a car crash interview with the BBC about his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, but attended the requiem mass at Westminster Cathedral on Tuesday afternoon.
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Jack Royston,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Sep. 2025
Like many of the 27 tracks on her Grammy-winning album of the year, her Cowboy Carter and Rodeo Chitlin’ Circuit Tour is a requiem to Black artists who have helped shape country music and a reclamation of Americana for those who have been shut out.
Swedish singer-composer Anna von Hausswolff, whose cathedral melodies, intense vocals and doom-laden dirges share much in common with Nordic heavy-metal culture, specializes in mystery and grandiosity.
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Bob Gendron,
Chicago Tribune,
9 Jan. 2026
Thanksgiving can be delightful or draining, a festive feast or a dispiriting dirge.
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Kevin Jacobsen,
Entertainment Weekly,
27 Nov. 2025
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