Gabby Samone: The Soulful Star Rising from American Idol to the Apollo

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Take a dash of gospel, stir in a serving of soul, and pour it into a heaping helping of Pop and R&B. The result? Gabby Samone—a vocal powerhouse whose electrifying performances and infectious authenticity are sending chills through the music industry. At just 23, this Baltimore native is living her dream, transforming from a church

Majors

September 25, 20260By christine

A Lot of People Talk to Animals. Not Many Listen.

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Animal coordinator Andrew Simpson has the job other people invent at ten and then get told is not a living. Scripts arrive every week. Then David Ayer’s Heart of the Beast landed with Brad Pitt, a combat German Shepherd named Odin, and New Zealand standing in for Alaska — and Simpson called it a no-brainer.

Majors

September 25, 20260By christine

RESIDENT EVIL Movie Minute

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https://www.amfm-magazine.tv/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Resident-Evil.m4a This is Paul Salfen with your KLAK Movie Minute. In theaters now is Residsent Evil, the big screen reboot of the popular video game adaptation and it's a blast. While Milla Jovovich isn't in this one, director Zach Cregger rebooted it, starring Austin Abrams as Bryan, an organ delivery driver. He gets that dreaded

Featured Music

September 25, 20260By christine

When You Reach the End, That’s When You Find the Beginning: MŌRIAH on “Home to Me” and Jimmy

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MŌRIAH is outside a Franklin coffee shop when the neighbor who taught her Logic Pro walks through the shot — mid-sentence, mid-sermon on Nashville generosity. That is the right temperature for the conversation Paul Salfen came to have. She sings Aaron Burns’s Jimmy out of the theater. “Home to Me,” written with her friend and

Movie Reviews

September 25, 20260By christine

The Tape Keeps Talking: Josh Tanner’s POSTHUMOUS Hail Mary Lands at Fantastic Fest

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At Fantastic Fest 2026, Paul Salfen sits down with Queensland writer-director Josh Tanner as Posthumous — his first feature, co-written and produced with his wife Jade van der Lei — world-premieres in the festival’s analog-horror lane. Sophie Lowe’s Zoe comes home on her 30th birthday to a stack of VHS messages her mother recorded before

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A Lot of People Talk to Animals. Not Many Listen.

RESIDENT EVIL Movie Minute

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