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After reporting earlier this week that the 2022 Grammy awards may be postponed, the Recording Academy has officially postponed the show due to COVID-related concerns. The Recording Academy stated: “The health and safety of those in our music community, the live audiences, and the hundreds of people who work tirelessly to produce our show remains […]

During a press conference yesterday morning, Governor Kathy Hochul announced changes to the rules for visitors at nursing homes. When visitors enter a nursing home, all visitors must wear a surgical mask when visiting a home, and not a cloth one. In addition to the surgical mask rule, visitors must show proof of a negative […]

After only recently mandating the COVID-19 vaccine for health care workers, New York State Governor Kathy Hochul will soon be requiring a new booster mandate. Yesterday in a press conference, Governor Hochul stated that health care workers will be given two weeks to get the shot after they are eligible and only medical exemptions will […]

Movie Legend Sidney Poitier, the first Black man to win the Oscar for Best Actor, has died at 94. Bahamas Foreign Minister Fred Mitchell confirmed to CBS News. Mitchell was told of Poitier’s death by the family but had no other details. Poitier’s life was a series of “firsts.” In 1958, he was the first […]

Iconic Novelist Toni Morrison completed plays, poems, essays, and short stories, one of which is coming out as a book on Feb. 1. “Recitatif,” written by Morrison in the early 1980s and rarely seen over the following decades, follows the lives of two women from childhood to their contrasting fortunes as adults. Recitatif, includes the […]

The United States has seen the highest numbers of deaths In 10 years related to rabies. Reports said at least 5 people died from being infected with the virus. Some of the people that died refused to get the rabies vaccine due to their beliefs and the other people didn’t know that they were exposed […]

Ye has had quite the past year and it seems as though the grind won’t stop in 2022. West is reportedly set to headline the 2022 Coachella Festival. This mega-music event is already sold out and is scheduled to take place over two separate weekends of April 15-17 and April 22-24. Coachella will also be […]

Yesterday marked the first anniversary of the January 6th attack on the Capitol. In recognizing last year’s insurrection, President Biden had addressed the public, in which he strongly condemned the violence and said his predecessor, Donald Trump, “has created and spread a web of lies about the 2020 election.” While Biden had never actually mentioned […]

If you didn’t hear about some of the new laws in New York for 2022, one of them happened to be the approval of online sports better. Yesterday, The New York State Gaming Commission announced that Caesars Sportsbook, DraftKings, FanDuel, and Rush Street Interactive can accept wagers beginning Saturday, January 8th at 9 am. These […]

All this week, 103.9 WDKX and Jazzy T are helping you prepare for the new virtual reality known as the Metaverse. Even though it may seem like a far-away fantasy land dreamed up by the makers of Facebook, the Metaverse is already here and you need to be prepared to take advantage of it. Just […]