Christmas Eve Jazz Jam (Canceled)," the website of the institution said as of late on Wednesday.
"I did choose to cancel our Kennedy Center Christmas Eve Jazz Jam when I saw the name change happening last Friday," said the host of the show, musician Chuck Redd.

CNN reported that Redd, a drummer and vibraphone player who has led this concert since 2006, does not currently plan to reschedule the performance. The Associated Press first reported the cancellation.

I'm sitting on the deck with the dog enjoying a holiday cocktail.

They have predicted a snowy winter so I'm trying to stock up on 70 degrees.

"A woman on the radio talks about revolution
When it's already passed her by.
Bob Dylan didn't have this to sing about,
You know, it feels good to be alive.
I was alive and I waited, waited,
I was alive and I waited for this.
Right here, right now
There is no other place I want to be.
Right here, right now
Watching the world wake up from history."
- Jesus Jones, "Right Here, Right Now" (1991)

... USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev resigned his office on live television. Hours later that evening, the red Soviet hammer-and-sickle banner was lowered from the Kremlin's towering flagpole for the last time, which was quickly replaced by the white, blue and red tricolor flag of Boris Yeltsin's Russian Federation and by next morning, the Soviet Union - that geopolitical adversary and ideological bête noire of our grandparents and parents, and the menacing harbinger of our own childhoods and younger adulthoods - had formally and suddenly ceased to exist.

It was a magical time in which, at least for that moment, it appeared to many of us as though anything and everything was indeed possible. Unfortunately, little did we also realize that the USSR's implosion and the end of the Cold War would result in a power vacuum in eastern Europe and central Asia that unleashed an entirely new set of very thorny problems upon us, with which we're still struggling to cope.

President Donald Trump's legal war on a Salvadoran immigrant was dealt a bitter blow on Friday, as a federal judge in Tennessee canceled the current date for his trial on human smuggling charges -- and will instead hold a hearing on the legality of the prosecution.

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The Guardian reports President Donald Trump is struggling to remain conscious at public events while opinion polls suggest Americans are turning against their president and Republicans make for the exits ahead of bleak congressional mid-terms next November.

"... [T]his is a guy whose legacy may well be the political collapse of Republicans in this era," said Larry Jacobs, director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance at the University of Minnesota. "Put another way, rather than asking who is going to be the inheritor of the Trump mantle and the so-called MAGA movement, we may be talking in a year or so about which candidates can escape the odious distinction of having been connected with Trump."