Twenty Years of Standing Up 🆙 There are nights built for laughter, and nights built for gratitude.  This one’s a two for.

On November 9th, at David Geffen Hall in the heart of Lincoln Center, New York will host both at once.

For two decades, Stand Up for Heroes has been more than a concert, it's been a promise kept. A promise that the men and women who carried the weight of war would not carry the weight of being forgotten. This fall, that promise turns twenty.

The Republican controlled government is attempting to use federal agencies and the Postal Service to impose new restrictions on mail voting, including federally generated citizenship lists. The controversy centers on whether the president can use executive authority to impose election procedures that traditionally have been administered by states and governed by Congress

The Chinese Robot is fast but did know enough to avoid the wall. Is he red with black and blue spots all over following its fall?
The five-day games, now in its second year, are a spectacle demonstrating China’s rapid progress in advanced robotics as the technology race with the U.S. heats up, with 51 events and more than 1,000 competitions taking place including running, table tennis and soccer. (AP Video: Olivia Zhang and Liu Zheng)

Every soldier goes to war is an American Uncle Rudy has an American story that resonates with every family who waited for someone to come home, and everyone deserved must be remembered.

Here is a genuinely happy story that turns sad, and ends in an unmarked grave at NYC potters field nearby in The Bronx.

Dave "Baby" Cortez was the musician behind "The Happy Organ," The 1959 song became the first instrumental to top the Billboard Hot 100. Dave died quietly at his home in The Bronx on May 31, 2022, at age 83. Nobody noticed CC died a pauper until three years later.

He was born David Cortez Clowney in Detroit in 1938, where he'd worked as a doo-wop pianist before literally stumbling into and then plying "The Happy Organ" almost by accident.