Marcel In the heat of the afternoon, the Fort Worth blues singer Marcel — as in Brandon Marcel, a close collaborator and backing singer for Leon Bridges — crooned his way through a half-hour set while Bridges swayed and applauded from the side of the stage.
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Josh Crutchmer,
Rolling Stone,
20 Mar. 2026
On a cool December evening as raindrops polka-dotted the pavement, longtime street performer Onunze Ubaka, 72, crooned Motown classics to a virtually empty corner off the usually busy Jackson Square in the French Quarter.
The Stockton Kings faced a tough loss against the Greensboro Swarm for Game 1, but that lit a fire under the Kings going into Game 2 -- a must-win for the defending champions.
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Carmela Karcher,
CBS News,
11 Apr. 2026
MacKenzie Blackwood stopped 29 shots before finally yielding a goal late, while Gabe Landeskog, Martin Necas and Nathan MacKinnon all lit the lamp in a game that was not as close as the score indicated.
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