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Consumers kept spending and businesses investing in the first half of the year, leading to healthy growth in the U.S. GDP. But there's still some apprehension about a possible recession. Here's why.

Declarations and loosened restrictions aside, for the immunocompromised or chronically ill, COVID is still a major concern.

Since 2019, Saucy Santana has been a regular presence on the social web, producing several streaming hits. But the very qualities that set him apart threatened to hold him back.

Around the world, trucks are essential everyday vehicles. In Pakistan, trucks are also canvases for dazzling works of art. Truck art has served a social good too, and helped recover missing children.

We are excited to invite you to YAAANA’s 5th Anniversary, Yiddishland California’s First Anniversary, and our Annual Fundraiser Celebration, featuring musical stars of the Yiddish stage! Yale Strom, Elizabeth Schwartz, and Lisa Fishman will perform a concert titled No End to Yiddishland! Our President, Jana Mazurkiewicz Meisarosh, will briefly report on the highlights of Yiddishland in 5782 and the plans for 5783. Enjoy great music, company, heimish nosh and drinks, all going to a great cause! WHEN | Saturday, October 8, 2022 • 7:30 p.m. Pacific Time (9:30 p.m CT, 10:30 p.m ET) WHERE | A venue in La Jolla (address provided upon registration) and via Zoom TICKETS| Tickets can be purchased HERE! • In-person: sliding scale $60 – $180; student $36 (student ID required). • Early bird tickets for $54 available until September 24 . • Online via Zoom: sliding scale $20-36. Early bird tickets for $18 available until September 24. Donation Information: Donations of $180 and up get you a shout-out at the event, a mention in the program, and a surprise Yiddishland gift at the event. Additional donations to the fundraiser for this 501(c)(3) organization (tax-deductible to the extent allowable by law) are welcome and can be made here. Your donations will help sustain Yiddishland Califonia’s cultural center in 5783. About Our Performers: Yale Strom and Elizabeth Schwartz – internationally renowned recording artists specializing in Klezmer music and Yiddish songs and artistic advisors on YAAANA Board of Directors. Click here to listen to some of their music. Lisa Fishman – a singer, songwriter, and actress, recently performed as Bobe Tsaytl in the Broadway production of Yiddish “Fiddler on the Roof” directed by Joel Gray. Click here to listen to some of her music.

Filmmaker Todd Field wrote a film specifically for actress Cate Blanchett and was ready to shelf it if she turned down the role.

Reckless behavior with money can be a warning sign of cognitive decline — and the condition can put people at risk of financial ruin. There are few institutional safeguards in place.

The social media platform also dropped the "state-affiliated" label from propaganda outlets in Russia and China.

Join us for A Haunted Holiday weekend as Gaslight Steampunk Expo welcomes the creator, Joe Benitez, and artist, Marcia Chen, of Lady Mechanika. From classic holiday ghosts stories like "Charles Dicken's A Christmas Carol" to modern holiday ghostly favorites like "Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas", we will have a weekend filled with workshops, live music, dancing, vendors, tea dueling, teapot racing, a Friday night Murder Mystery, and Sunday Steamy swap meet, plus special presentations on "Dia De Los Muertos", "Chinese Ancestor Shrine" tradition, including an ofrenda in our Display Room. Costumes are encouraged, but not required. SOCIALS: Facebook Twitter

The search for the Titan in the North Atlantic continues. When adventure travel goes wrong, who pays the price, and who's forced to take big risks mounting a rescue?