Luther Vandross Is for Lovers

Divabetic inspiration, Luther Vandross,  sold more than 25 million albums and won eight Grammy awards, thanks to his rich voice and romantic music. Seven years after his death, music lovers around the world are remembering their favorite love songs by Luther Vandross, so snuggle up with someone you love and enjoy these classics.

Vandross’s first solo single took the R&B world by storm in 1981, hitting No. 1 on the soul singles chart. “Never Too Much” is a classic example of his catchy songwriting and smooth voice.

The next time Vandross made it to the No.1 spot was in 1986, with the equally bouncy – and equally romantic –”Stop to Love.”

In 1989, “Here and Now” not only gained Vandross his fifth No. 1 – it won him his first Grammy Award, for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance.

Luther Vandross may be gone, but his songs will keep setting romantic moods for years to come.

Written by Linnea Crowther

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Fans Want to See ‘When Harry Met Sally’ on Broadway

Last week, the world mourned the loss of three-time Oscar-nominated screenwriter, director, playwright and essayist Nora Ephron. Looking back on her long and illustrious career, Broadway.com asked readers which of Ephron’s films should become a Broadway musical. The results are in, and the film, “When Harry Met Sally,” topped readers’ wish list.

This 1989 movie charts the up and downs of a relationship that blossomed between two longtime pals and discusses the question: can good friends become lovers?  Starring Billy Crystal as Harry and Meg Ryan as Sally, the film’s screenplay earned Ephron an Oscar nod as well as a spot on Entertainment Weekly’s Top 10 Most Romantic Movies of All Time list.

From the infamous “I’ll have what she’s having” deli scene to the romantic New Year’s Eve confession,When Harry Met Sally brought a new dimension to the guy meets girl rom-com.

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Coffee Found to Prevent Skin Cancer

Researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School have found that there seems to be a relationship between increased coffee intake (meaning the more, the better) and decreased risk of basal cell carcinoma — the most common skin cancer.

“Our results add basal cell carcinoma to a list of conditions for which risk is decreased with increasing coffee consumption,” study researcher Jiali Han, Ph.D., an associate professor at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School in Boston and Harvard School of Public Health, said in a statement. “This list includes conditions with serious negative health consequences such as Type 2 diabetes and Parkinson’s disease.”

Researchers not only found a link between increased coffee consumption and decreased skin cancer risk — for example, women who drank three or more cups of coffee a day had a lower risk of skin cancer than people who drank less than a cup of coffee a month — but also a link between overall increased caffeine consumption (like from coffee, soda, chocolate and tea) and decreased skin cancer risk. Meanwhile, there was no link between decaffeinated coffee consumption and risk of the skin cancer.

In addition, there was no link was identified between increased coffee or caffeine consumption and squamous cell carcinoma or melanoma, which are two other kinds of skin cancer.

“These results really suggest that it is the caffeine in coffee that is responsible for the decreased risk of basal cell carcinoma associated with increasing coffee consumption,” Han said in the statement. “This would be consistent with published mouse data, which indicate caffeine can block skin tumor formation. However, more studies in different population cohorts and additional mechanistic studies will be needed before we can say this definitively.”

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