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John Yanda has been a church organist/choir director for 59 years, and even though the 81-year-old has no immediate plans to retire, he has produced his final CD.

Last Sunday, he hand-delivered that CD to several members of First United Methodist Church in Canonsburg, but not before his wife one of the inspirations behind his music received the first copy.

Two other copies were given to the widows of the men Chuck Kolsosky and Tom Samuels for whom the CD was dedicated, as well as members of the Canonsburg congregation and family members in Kansas and Florida.

Yanda paid a recording company, Blacksmith Recording Studio of Belmont, Ohio, to visit the church recently to create the pipe-organ recordings just so he could bring joy to others.

Church music has been a wonderful blessing, Yanda said.

Eight of the 12 tracks are directly related to the Christian faith. Music includes Star Spangled Banner, Battle Hymn of the Republic, Onward Christian Soldiers, Over the Sunset Mountains, Elevation, In the Cross of Christ I Glory, I Am Thine, O Lord, Footsteps of Jesus, Be Still, My Soul, Bridal Chorus, Wedding March and his own Paganini Variations.

Yanda, who took piano lessons for 25 years, beginning at age 7, and pipe-organ lessons for four years, has found a lot of comfort in his lifelong love of music, and is no stranger to using it to bring similar comfort to others.

In April 2014, he performed a concert in his wifes honor at the church just because it seemed like the right thing to do, he told the Observer-Reporter in July 2014. No particular reason. Just because I continue to love her.

His wife, Carol, began living in a specialty-care home six years ago following back surgery. One year later, she was diagnosed with Alzheimers disease.

Yanda now gets teary-eyed when he recalls his frequent visits with his wife. She always tells him she loves him, he said, but he doesnt know if she recognizes him anymore.

Last year, Yanda compiled a CD, A Believer in Jesus, in honor of his wife that the Womens Business Network, McMurray Chapter, sold to benefit its team in the Washington County Walk to End Alzheimers.

Pat Tonsetic, the churchs outreach leader and a member of WBN, McMurray Chapter, said the music on that CD is very relaxing. It includes Wonderful Words of Life, Warsaw Concerto, Variation 18 Rachmaninoff, Dedication, and Prelude in G Minor Rachmaninoff. Yandas two original pieces are Johns Invention and the Bonus Track.

Yanda has been the organist at Canonsburg United Methodist since 2014. He previously served as organist at Jefferson Avenue United Methodist, Washington, for seven years; Waynesburg United Methodist for nine years; Third United Presbyterian, Washington, for 20 years; Sheraden United Methodist for five years; and Millvale Methodist for 14 years.

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by: Nicole Carr Updated: Apr 12, 2017 - 7:19 PM

GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. - Gwinnett County commuters have some of roughest, toughest Interstate 85 commutes amid the bridge-collapse reconstruction.

Well, people just arent as patient as they should be, said commuter Debbie Halcomb, noting the honking horns and drivers cutting others off in lanes.

Its why I take the bus so I dont have to deal with traffic and people driving crazy, commuter Steven Hardwick said.

These experiences are why a local psychiatrist is offering a few words of wisdom and warning against road rage.

You need to be mentally prepared for it, said Dr. David Purselle, who owns Georgia Psychiatric Consultants in Decatur. This is causing a lot of stress for people spending many hours in traffic that they wouldnt normally have to deal with.

Purselle said there are a few simple steps we can take during the longer daily commutes.

Step one: breathe.

Inhaling for four, holding for seven and exhaling for eight, Purselle said. That can be very relaxing.

Step two: listen.

There actually is a lot of good data out there showing that calming, relaxing music can reduce your blood pressure, reduce your pulse and just help you feel less stressed in general, he said.

Finally, take in the here and now.

Pay attention to the other cars around you, Purselle said. Listen to the sirens in the background. Try to pay attention to your foot on the petal. These types of things can get your mind off the negative emotions that youre experiencing.

Commuters agree its all about your attitude.

We have to make a choice between violence and peace, said David Sharp. Those are the choices that we make every day.

I mean, this too shall pass.," Halcombadded.

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The swell brotherhood of Andy and Edwin White has resulted in a number of splendid, half-melted musical journeys over the past few years, but none quite as glorious as their main outlet Tonstartssbandhts Europe tour-documenting double live LP Overseas. Stringing together the Whites ramshackle love of old-fashioned rawk with a tousled, willfully undefinable sensibility, Overseas forged a concrete, energetic jam-band sound out of the Florida duos random sonic sketches without losing the loosey goosey attitude that made those releases so charming. It was one of the most impressive statements from a minimal guitar-and-drums duo in some time, and since then, the question has been whether the boys were capable of translating this same energy and classic rock reinvention into a full-fledged studio album or if their mojo truly was the sort of thing that only made sense in scattered Bandcamp releases and improvised basementshows.

With Sorcerer, Tonstartssbandht has gone to work on perfecting their live sound, sculpting a three-part suite of extended road rock that encapsulates what made them invigorating in the first place. A shade darker than Overseas, the grooves on Sorcerer take their time, not by bashing the Whites whimsical attitude into your head, but by slowly, smoothly creeping into the picture. Opener Breathe sees Andy White plucking out iridescent shapes on his 12-string, as a spacious, swampy intro sets in, only to give way at the crucial moment to a carefree, meandering folk strum that shapeshifts effortlessly across the tracks 11 minutes. The chemistry between Andy and Edwin is absolute magic, their call-and-response exchange so fluid and choogling that the music becomes both relaxing and bursting with excitement. The title track especially seems to go in all directions at once, skipping between altar boy harmonies and 70s boogie with little sense of a clear trajectory; but Tonstartssbandht live and breathe in this open-ended possibility, jamming as if they were carrying forth some consecrated torch clearing away the darkness to carve a new space for their joyous sense of mysticism tofrolic.

Its a pretty marvelous thing that the White brothers have accomplished, reinvigorating something as done to death as bluesy psychedelic country rock, but what really sets Tonstartssbandht apart in their pursuit is how unconcerned they seem with embodying any kind of monolithic classic rock ideal. Although retro in form, the music on Sorcerer is cloudy and untethered, sprawling endlessly in real-time like something new and alive. In Tonstartssbandhts hands, rock & roll is just a means to an end, a passageway to unlocking the innate bond between the White brothers, who approach their instruments with a similar sense of exploratory but humble dedication. As a follow-up to the massive, hypnotizing Overseas, Sorcerer is a concise distillation of Tonstartssbandhts refreshing vision, a crystal ball portraying their intimate friendship, their cosmic noodling echoing deep into thenethersphere.

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Brimbank council has shut down an illegal brothel operating less than 800 metres from two Albion primary schools.

Lena Massage opened on Perth Avenue last November under the guise of a massage parlour, offering relaxation massage seven days a week, between 10am and 8pm.

A sign pinned to the wall did not specify what treatments were available but an A4 piece of paper read: $1/2 hour = $45, 45 minutes = $65, 1 hour = $80.

Lena Massage posed as a massage parlour. Image: Alexandra Laskie

Neighbouring traders began to suspect staff were offering services that would require a sex work service providers licence.

One business owner in the small strip of shops, who did not want to be named, said she went in requesting a back massage and was turned away.

Only men would come out, she said. They turned on loud doof-doof music, not relaxing music, and people were in and out in 15 minutes.

On Monday, Brimbank council issued the landlord a planning infringement notice for breaching the Brimbank planning scheme by using the premises as a brothel.

The councils acting city development director Leanne Deans said a tip-off from Victoria Police led the council to investigate the business.

It is understood the owner is in the process of evicting the tenant, Ms Deans said.

The landlord, who asked to remain anonymous, said he had given the business until the end of April to pack up and leave.

I had a contract with them that said they would operate as a massage parlour, not a brothel, the landlord told Star Weekly. This has nothing to do with me.

Detective Senior Sergeant Cameron Reinke said police had received a number of complaints about the business since last December, less than a month after it opened.

He urged people to report suspected unlicensed brothels to the Victoria Police Sex Industry Co-ordination Unit on 9628 7191 or to Crime Stoppers.

When Star Weekly visited last week, a Lena Massage staff member said the business owner planned to reopen very far away from here.

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Sweeps is almost upon us in the local television world, meaning plenty of stories on abuse of power, pending public health crises and heartwarming looks at those making a difference.

For creative services professionals, sweeps means promos. With that in mind, we look at some Top Tracks of production music you might consider using for honest, hardworking promos that showcase and embrace.

Also make sure to check out our past Top Tracks on urgent production music for those driving, always-alerting, breaking news promos.

Good Decision

Are you the team to trust? With this piece from APM Musics Human Documentary, youll inspire confidence and candor with an upbeat tempo.

Chasing Clouds

A bit raw, a little emotional, this cue from VideoHelpers Conflictational features an anthemic quality while letting your voiceover rock the competition.

Simple Complexities

From FirstComs The New Frontier by Jonathan Elias, this track uses a building, optimistic beat with interwoven strings to help create a human interest winner.

Speaking of upbeat promos, check out FirstComs complete playlist on the subject.

Together Apart

Acoustic and relaxing, this cue from Stephen Arnold Musics Radiant is built for morning news, with a friendly and local vibe.

One Voice

Part of Killer Tracks Up to the Minute, this song is focused on storytelling with a slow building strings that swirl into a strong theme.

Ice and Wind

Featured on Warner/Chappell Production Musics Weather playlist, this reflective cue makes you think while staying curious. Look for it on the Intricate Patterns album.

Look for more Top Tracks on NewscastStudio, as we help you find new and thoughtful production music for your next promo, tease or campaign.

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ABU DHABI // As the Sun set over Abu Dhabis port on Wednesday, art enthusiasts and experts converged at an event aimed at attracting collectors.

Six galleries that regularly participate in Abu Dhabi Art, the citys annual art fair, had set up small booths of low-priced art works.

People started to arrive at Galleries Week as evening fell and the galleries opened their doors. Visitors from across the Emirates came to see the art as well as listen to a presentation about collecting it while a DJ played relaxing music.

"This event is a fantastic idea," said Salwa Zeidan, an art collector and dealer with an eponymous gallery in Abu Dhabi.

Her gallery was one of the six participating in the event and she had a selection of work in her booth from Emirati artists.

"I made sure to take this event seriously and offer art made in the UAE as this is what the young collectors are looking for," Ms Zeidan said.

In her booth she had prints from Abdul Qader Al Rais, one of the most prominent artists in the UAE, as well as small works by Fatema Al Mazrouie and some collages by Hussein Sharif, the brother of Hassan Sharif, who died last year and was probably the best-known Emirati artist.

Galleries Week is the first event of its kind in the city. It is a tie-up between Abu Dhabi Art and Warehouse 421, the art hub located in the port.

The idea was to filter the selection of art so that for those looking to start a collection, some of the work was already finished. Although there was a maximum price tag of Dh30,000 set on the artworks on offer, most were much lower than that, with some beautiful etchings by a Tunisian artist Halim Karabibene on sale for Dh3,150 at Elmarsa Gallery from Dubai, and drawings by Emiratis Mohammed Ahmed Ibrahim and Nasir Nasrallah at Cuadro Gallery for under Dh10,000.

"For us, this was a fantastic experience," said Bashar Al Shroogi, the founder of Cuadro gallery. "It changed our perspective and forced us to think about how to present art to a new audience and how to make it accessible. Contemporary art can sometimes be quite intimidating and events like this can help reduce that."

Also on show were calligraphy pieces by Abdulaziz Al Rashidi at Athr Gallery from Jeddah and some highly detailed pencil drawings by an Italian artist known as Serse, who lives in Trieste in northeastern Italy and draws images of nature such as the sea, the horizon and storm clouds.

"Abu Dhabi has great potential," said Lilia Ben Salah, the owner of Elmarsa Gallery. "There is a growing art scene here and having something beside the annual art fair for people to come and enjoy and experience art is vital to nurture that growth."

Galleries Week runs until next Wednesday and as well as the art on sale there is a strong line-up of music performances.

Soul and funk outfit Abri and Funk Radius will be playing on Thursday night and the rock and roll, funk and blues band Carl and Reda Mafia will take to the stage the following night. Sima Dance Company from Syria will entertain audiences on Saturday as will Adam Baluch, a performer who plays the keyboard, guitar and trumpet.

Although the event is aimed at art lovers, anyone interested in art and culture is encouraged to attend.

The event is at Warehouse 421 in Mina Zayed and entrance is free. It will run from 4pm to 10pm today, 3pm to 10pm tomorrow and Saturday, and 4pm to 10pm Sunday through Wednesday. It will be closed on Monday.

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Thursday,April 13 8 AM Pieces of Peace Guests are Milana Baazov, Associate Executive Director of The Blue Card whose mission is to provide financial assistance to needy Holocaust survivors. Also, Laynee Bluebird Reyna, a descendant of the Eastern Woods people, will discuss her work as a Painter of Spirit. 9 AM Special Working Class Histories from With Good Reason. Tracking the history under your feet how enterprising outsiders shaped working class neighborhoods the truths about homelessness. 10 AM Turning Pages Special The Witches of Lublin. Lublin, Poland, 1797: While they prepare for Passover, a family of female Jewish klezmer musicians struggles for survival, but when music and love prove not enough, only the unthinkable can save them. 11 PM Under the Needle featuring Brazilian guitarist Seu Jorge, this time playing covers of David Bowie.

Friday,April 14 11 AM Reveal If You Cant Afford A Lawyer A New Orleans state-appointed lawyer refuses to represent people who cant pay. A follow up to last years story. Noon Alternative Radio Geoffrey Stone on The Fight for Free Speech on Campus. 2 PM Classical Friday Anneke hosts a program featuring English composers. 4 PM The French Touch Listen to The French Touch with Emmanuel, presenting you todays and yesterdays French pop music with large choirs as a background. Contact emmanuelgps@gmail.com for details and requests. 5 PM Happy Hour Liberacha unveils some newly acquired vintage vinyl, perfect for those listeners with a thirst for mid-century B-movie soundtracks and a gristle-tinged serving of soul jazz. Tune in for the sonic intrigue! 7 PM Bring It On Home will honor the patriarch of rock and roll, Chuck Berry. In 1977 the Voyager space craft launched a treasures trove of earths cultural achievements. Johnny B. Goode was the only rock and roll song included. In 1987, the first intelligible signal from outer space was received. In 1990. three years laterearth scientists were finally able to translate the alien message, it said simply, Send More Chuck Berry. We will be playing covers of his songs by a few of his disciples, Elvis, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Beach Boys, Jimi Hendrix and others. Join us in remembering the man who made rock and roil possible.

Saturday,April 15 7 AM Morning Glory Anneke brings you Spring.on-air!

Sunday,April 16 10 PM LA Theare Works presents The Misanthrope. Molire went beyond his usual comic inventiveness to create a world of rich, complex characters, especially in the cynical title character Alceste.

Monday,April 17 8:30 AM Special Listen Up: Music & Politics from With Good Reason. One mans quest to free Africas historical recordings from the colonial archives Teaching hip-hop diplomats how to use music for peace The struggle for racial equality in the world of jazz Composers who broke down stereotypes of blackness.

Tuesday, April 18 2 PM Desde La Bahia If you havent heard this show yetMaria Marquez has great taste in musicperfect for a relaxing AND productiveTuesday afternoon. 4:30 PM Youth DJ Project Brians back with The Wave.

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Hot sauce, broken teeth, slashed sofas and more than a few bus woes. We get the lowdown on the making of the duos second album Ultralife.

By Eugenie Johnson on 12th April 2017

Is it possible to start calling Oh Wonder a phenomenon? After the release of their self-titled titled album, London duo Josephine Vander Gucht and Anthony West booked just four gigs to promote the album in the hope that theyd be able to get straight back in the studio. Things didnt quite go to plan, in a good way. After selling out all the shows in less than a week, they ended up touring the world, playing 162 sets across 112 cities across the globe. Josephine still needs pinching though. She cant quite get her head around it all: if youd told us when we were 15 that in 2017 wed be releasing a second record, touring the world, doing what were doing, Id have been like yeah, do one!

Yet here they are, on the cusp of releasing their second album, Ultralife. On the surface, its release seems to be a little bit more traditional than their debuts. For that record, they released a song a month for a year before combining them all into a single collection. This time round theyve taken a slightly more regular approach to writing and recording. As such, they even call this second LP their debut album proper because, as Anthony explains, the first album didnt feel like an album, it was a collection of songs wed made over a year. This was conceived as a full album, Josephine adds. For me, this is the first album Ive ever written.

But this is Oh Wonder were talking about here. As Josephine says, theyve never approached anything properly. Weve done everything the wrong way round! I guess we wanted to continue being an improper band! she laughs. So its pretty unsurprising that Ultralife has had quite an interesting conception. During their manic touring period, they managed to take 30 days out and, of course, they rented an Airbnb in New York. Why? Weve always grown up writing music in homes, and its really nice to feel like youre not at work, Anthony explains. We want to be able to hear traffic, we want to be able to hear people, we want to be able to take a walk and take in some atmosphere to bounce off.

They certainly got that with the second-floor Brooklyn apartment. It was noisy, with people often shouting outside, and a bagel shop residing next door. The flat itself had a leaky shower, and the landlord wasnt too happy about the state that the pair left his place in. The guy tried to get us to buy him a new sofa at the end of it. He was like, you ripped my sofa! And we said we definitely havent mate, Josephine recalls. Oh Wonder wrecking shit up? Surely not. Turns out it was all a bit of a misunderstanding. We sat on the sofa, we wrote some songs, we watched a bit of The Office and thats literally all we did! He thought wed been slashing up his furniture!

If we can help people through their day, thats our job done.

Anthony West

Despite having to cope with some ripped furniture, they managed to get about half of the album written, and after managing to finish off the rest of the record they started recording Ultralife the day after their tour in December 2016 finished. Renting a (very) small studio in the capital filled with their own weird instruments theyd picked up on their travels, the pair were all set to go. But they didnt realise that as well as having to cope with being near Gatwick, theyd have to battle pretty much an entire fleet of London buses too. Literally any time of the day, theres a bus every minute, Josephine says. Its kind of hard to fight Transport For London though, so in the end they just kept the sounds of the buses as part of the record. Theres buses all the way through the album, Josephine insists. You probably cant hear them but theyre there!

You dont get too much more real than the distinctive hum of a buss engine lingering somewhere in the background. It isnt just in the atmosphere where Ultralife more organic though. The duo have been determined to move away from MIDI samples and laptops and into live instrumentation, embracing the feel theyve generated at their countless gigs. The live show really taught us that you get a lot of energy when you put people behind it, Anthony explains. Lots of people comment that the live show is intense; theres people singing, dancing, jumping around, whereas on the record a lot of people say were very chilled, late-night listening, relaxing music, Josephine adds. We wanted to make a record that met in the middle. As a result, she says the new album has just got so much more energy.

That new sense of vitality teems out of the albums first single, also its title track. While it still keeps the sense of languid warmth that ran through their debut album, everything seems brighter and bolder, the chorus being the biggest theyve produced so far. Because of its subject matter about striving to live the best life possible, Josephine says that although they werent quite sure how itd sound at first, it was always going to be a really big, festival summer anthem.

Then she reveals the twist in the tale: none of the other songs on the record sound like Ultralife! Instead, theyve decided to push the boundaries far beyond what theyve done in the past, as Anthony says: the sound and the textures, we wanted to make sure they were all different. With the first record, because of the way it was written and recorded, they all kind of sounded quite similar. So as well as some typically warming piano-centred tunes, theyve also been inspired by French disco, and rock.

Weve done everything the wrong way round!

Josephine Vander Gucht

Their latest track Lifetimes is a hip-hop flavoured number, inspired by seeing Drake live. It even has Anthony doing a spot of rapping or, as he puts it, doing a pathetic white-boy rap. Hes being very harsh on himself. Its also a track centred on climate change, and the pair think they invented a new word in the process of writing it: climaphobe. Is it a word? Anthony asks. Josephine is straight on to Google. Apparently climacophobia is the fear of climbing, but theres no such thing as a climaphobe. Yet.

While Lifetimes expands their usual narrative focus and the English language with it - Anthony explains that we never write to a brief, we just write from experience. Josephine gets really enthused talking about the curious incidents that led to writing one of the biggest, most bombastic songs on the album, High On Humans. Making her way back from Heathrow one day, she realised two girls in front of her were talking avidly about food (as you do). When it came round to the topic of hot sauce, Josephine couldnt help but get involved. I just butted in and was like, I love sriracha! We just chatted about hot sauce for 20 minutes, and I dont even know their names! she laughs. I was so hype after talking to these strangers, its not something you normally do in London. Youre supposed to ignore everyone and look really grumpy.

The unusual encounters that night didnt end there. Getting the tube, she met a drunk man covered in blood having knocked his teeth out. Ouch. Josephine experienced a similar crisis with her own teeth after taking a nasty trip a couple of years ago, so was eager to give advice. I ran up to him and said I cant help but notice that youve lost your front teeth, you must have knocked them out! She made it clear that she wasnt being funny, and just wanted to help. After that, the whole train carriage erupted into conversation, each passenger relating their own funny tales of accidental injury. Walking home, Josephine immediately started making voice memos. I got back and called Anthony and was like Anthony, Ive got a song! Its called High On Humans! And he was just like, youre a weirdo. Charming! Undeterred by his reaction, the next day Josephine sat Anthony down in the studio and was determined to write a song about her experiences. A melody was conceived, High On Humans was born.

Not all of the album is as euphoric or celebratory, though. Instead, the pair have found themselves pondering more about the real nature of human connection, our sometimes shallow take on relationships in the modern age and our tendency towards self-doubt in their songs. People will sit on their own on a Friday night with Netflix or whatever and then think to themselves, why dont I have any friends? Why am I alone? I know I do, you just need people, Josephine muses. Conversely, you get periods where youre so liberated and happy within yourself that you want freedom, independence and want to be alone for a bit.

Despite living an extremely fruitful life on the surface, that internal conflict hasnt escaped Josephine and Anthony. Its a weird cyclical thing that youre constantly questioning yourself and doubting yourself, and I think that touring exacerbated that because youre miles away from everyone you love for extended periods of time and you miss them and you want people, she says. As such, theres a loose narrative arc to the new record that encompasses these two extremes. Opener Solo kicks things off at a house party that you cant wait to get away from, while closer Waste states that its a waste to be so alone.

Rather than being contradictory though, its simply a comment on the strange way the human mind works, hopefully giving some comfort to fans that theyre not alone in harbouring these seemingly inconsistent emotions. For me its a reassurance to listeners that youre not bizarre, or weird, or unusual for constantly doubting yourself, or constantly craving people or independence, Josephine says. Whatever friendship, independence and freedom means to you, you should celebrate that and not fear, not worry.

Ultralife is therefore set to be a record not just about Oh Wonder living their best possible life, but about the highs and lows of the human experience, exposing common yet under-discussed issues that we all share. If we can help people through their day, Anthony says, thats our job done.

Ultralife is out on 16th June via Island Records.

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By Nicole Chavannes

NSU is a unique and lively campus, but that doesnt mean Sharks cant band together and take an afternoon to explore the South Florida area even if that just means finding a quaint place to study.

When youre searching for a trendy spot to read, study, spend time with friends or even fly solo, look no further than Atelier3: Coffee Bar & Shop. Located in downtown Hollywood, Atelier3 is a larger-than-it-looks coffee shop that somehow feels simultaneously cluttered and spacious.

The outside of the building, like many of the buildings in downtown Hollywood, features a large colorful mural that juxtaposes harsh black and white stripes with soft floral pastels. Similarly, when you step inside, it feels like the perfect cross between your artistic friends dream flat in New York and your grandmothers cozy living room. The dcor is a mix of contemporary and traditional styles. Once you walk down the hall past the ivy-covered wall youll find the counter to order food and drinks. The menu features caf staples, like lattes and croissants, and some non-traditional additions, like empanadas and cortaditos.

From Monday to Thursday, Atelier3 is a quiet place to grab coffee and lounge in the living room atmosphere the shop creates. Low, relaxing music of varying genres plays in the background and different forms of artwork cover the walls. Littered with eclectic furniture including anything from coffee tables made of artfully arranged crates to traditional loveseats the coffee shop has comfortable seating for any purpose.

Looking to pass the time with your friends? The large bistro tables available are ideal. If youd prefer a more intimate setting, there are cozy chairs arranged in pairs throughout the caf. The stage is a good option when you are by yourself. When not in use for entertainment, it has several armchairs perfect for reading a good book or even writing your own.

On Fridays and Saturdays, Atelier3 is open later and hosts events like open mic nights, live performances, art shows and musical improv nights. Gone are the cozy armchairs that normally inhabit the stage. Instead, youll find either the featured artist of the night or the patrons partaking in the open mic night.

Whether youre looking for a place to study that gets your creative juices flowing or you want to unwind with some local artistry and music, Atelier3 is the place to go. For more information, visit Atelier3s Facebook page: facebook.com/3atelier.

Atelier3: Coffee Bar & Shop

1901 Harrison Street

Hollywood, Florida

Hours: Monday to Thursday 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Friday to Saturday 9 a.m. to 11 p.m.

Price Range: $3-$12

Caption: From Monday to Thursday, Atelier3 is a quiet place to grab coffee and lounge in the living room atmosphere the shop creates.

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