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How 'Big Eden' Found a Home for Queer Love Through Film and Country Music
In 1998, the brutal murder of Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old gay college student in Wyoming, shocked the nation. That same year, Rita Hester, a 34-year-old Black transgender woman, was murdered in Massachusetts. Their deaths reverberated across the United States, exposing the violence and discrimination facing LGBTQ+
Grace Bowers' Top 5 Songs Right Now
EDITOR’S NOTE: No Depression’s new “Top 5” series features a quick playlist in which roots musicians share what they’re listening to at the moment. It gives artists the chance to highlight their contemporaries, as well as classic songs getting them through the days. This installment comes from
Willi Carlisle Celebrates Doers and Builders on Hefty, Rollicking 'The Universal Bubba'
The spirit of “the universal bubba” revealed itself to Willi Carlisle a few years ago while at his grandmother’s house. In that very space, the folk singer-songwriter had witnessed the matriarch prepare a lifetime’s worth of meals — dicing, mincing, julienning onions with effortless skill — often with a