Mar. 16, 2025
Cloverdayle.Photo: Chris MeyerThree years ago, the life of country duoCloverdaylebegan to collapse.First, Chad Hamar’s dad died. Then, the couple began to lose several close friends to somewhat sudden illnesses. And then, Rachel Hamar found herself undergoing a hysterectomy, a procedure which led doctors to discover that following a stage 4 endometriosis diagnosis in 2013, Rachel had also been unknowingly suffering from conditions such asadenomyosisand fibroids. She also showed signs of pre-cancer.
Mar. 16, 2025
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Dressed in colorful clothes and goofy hats, clowns are greeting kids with hugs, smiles, balloons and candy as they cross Ukraine’s border into Moldova to escape the violence ofRussia’s ongoing invasion.
Members of theDream Doctors Project, a group of professional Israeli medical clowns founded in 2002, arrived in the Chisinau, Moldova, on aweek-long mission to make people laughas they complete what can be afrightening and heartbreaking journeyout of war-torn Ukraine.
Mar. 16, 2025
The group’s founding members, Tom Henschel, 78, and Don Crisman, 83, were both in attendance at the AFL-NFL World Championship Game at the Los Angeles Coliseum in 1967, which would later become known as Super Bowl I.
But the football fans didn’t meet until years later when they crossed paths while waiting in line for a ticket toThe Tonight Show with Johnny Carsonin 1983, they toldUSA Todayin 2019.
The then-strangers realized they both attended every Super Bowl after striking up a conversation — and with Super Bowl XVII scheduled that week in Pasadena, California, the club was born.
Mar. 16, 2025
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Sarah Uphoff, better known as Pantera Sarah due to her love of heavy metal music (Pantera is a heavy metal band), ran the show when it came to Los Angeles’ club scene in the early 2000s.
Before the days of smartphones and social media, the club promoter captured candid moments of her celebrity friends likeLeonardo DiCaprio,Scarlett Johansson, Jason Mamoa andJustin Timberlakeenjoying fun, uninhibited evenings at the nightlife spots she worked with.
Mar. 16, 2025
The Nov. 19 mass shooting at Club Qin Colorado Springs has left the LGBTQ nightspot without two of its most welcoming faces.
Tiara Latrice Kelley, a drag performer and producer at the club, tells PEOPLE that bartendersDaniel AstonandDerrick Rumpwere “really incredible people” who “were big brothers to me.”
“They were always so welcoming and always so friendly,” Kelley recalls. “They were the bartenders that you walk in the bar, and they know everybody’s drinks when you walk in.