Fort Myers solo artist JR unpacks the heavy, digital baggage of contemporary isolation on his new country-rock single, "Back In The Day". Spurred by a life-threatening pulmonary embolism, the devoted father and husband found himself staring down mortality. He emerged from that scare with a poignant call for unity, cutting through today's profit-driven tech divisions and political unrest. We exist in a fractured landscape,...

Norway's many fjords are responsible for the birth of a celebrity. Ella Lockert, with her boundless vitality and undoubted skill, has always been a force to be reckoned with from the day she was born. Imagine a little Ella illuminating the stage as the smallest Santa possible in the song "Putti Plutti Pott." Add to that her singing in the children's chorus at the Norwegian Opera,...