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Mandolin To Live Stream From Pitchfork Music Festivals London Debut

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(CelebrityAccess) — Livestreaming and fan engagement platform Mandolin is teaming up with musical tastemakers Pitchfork to live stream the inaugural Pitchfork Music Festival London. While the festival will take place at multiple venues around London from November 10 – 14, the livestream will be more limited, featuring Stereolab and Girl Band’s sets when they perform at Camden’s Roundhouse on Sunday, November 14th. Mandolin’s partnership with Pitchfork follows Mandolin’s livestream of AEG’s Firefly Music Festival in October, as well as recent livestreams of John Legend’s Bigger Love Global Experience, Planet Bluegrass’ Telluride and Rocky Grass Festivals, Lil Wayne’s UPROAR festival in LA, among others. Read More...

Sickening final phone call Rowan Baxter made before he set Hannah Clarke and three kids alight

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The sickening phone call a killer father made to a men's helpline the day before he burned his family to death has been revealed, as the parents of Hannah Clarke delivered a heart-wrenching victim impact statement. The call by Rowan Baxter to MensLine took place the day before he set fire to Hannah Clarke and their three children Aaliyah, six, Laianah, four, and Trey, three, during a school run at Camp Hill, in Brisbane's south, in February, 2020. Read More...

Banlangen: The Chinese medicine that is also used for tie-dye

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Tie-dye might invoke images of the 1960s, hippies, and Woodstock, but what about the Bai people of southwestern China? For more than 1,500 years, this ethnic group in Yunnan province has been dyeing their clothes blue using the leaves of a plant locally called banlangen (板蓝根). In the West, it is more commonly known as woad, or Asp of Jerusalem. The story goes that Bai farmers discovered the plant’s dyeing capabilities when their clothes were stained blue by its leaves. Read More...