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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure's sixth part, Stone Ocean, has an incredibly controversial endingbut a very different conclusion could have been in the works. Netflix's adaptation of Part 6 has brought its rewarding convolution to countless new anime-only fans. However, those fans won't know about Araki teasing the return of Golden Wind's protagonist, Giorno Giovanna.

Stone Ocean's ending features the relentlessly powerful priest, Pucci, activating a plan left behind by the late Dio to achieve "Heaven". Accelerating time using gravity, Pucci intends for a universal singularity where future fates are known. Despite their best efforts, Jolyne, Jotaro, and the others can't stop him. The young mafioso might have been just what they needed though, and the evidence JoJo's strongest protagonist was supposed to be in Florida's apocalyptic standoff is stronger than even die-hard JoJo fans realize.

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Wayne Shorter, the saxophonist and composer who was a major figure in the development of modern jazz, died Thursday at a Los Angeles hospital. He was 89.

His death was confirmed to The New York Times by his publicist Alisse Kingsley. No further information has yet been released.

A native of Newark, New Jersey, Shorter first came to acclaim in the 1950s and ’60s as the tenor saxophonist for the groundbreaking Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers and, later, the massively influential Miles Davis Quintet. Among other recordings, he played on Davis’ hit album Bitches Brew in 1969.

A favorite of jazz enthusiasts nearly from the start of his career, Shorter broke through to wider public popularity both with Bitches Brew and, in 1971, his co-founding of Weather Report, the funk-jazz fusion group he co-founded with keyboardist Joe Zawinul and bassist Miroslav Vitous. The band, with various other members, stayed together until 1986, its commercial...

Wayne Shorter, the legendary, Grammy-winning saxophonist who — in addition to his own renowned albums and work with jazz supergroup Weather Report — collaborated with the likes of Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Steely Dan, and Joni Mitchell, has died at the age of 89.

The venerated musician died Thursday morning, March 2, in Los Angeles, Shorter’s rep confirmed to Rolling Stone. No cause of death was provided. His longtime label Blue Note said in a statement Thursday, “Visionary composer, saxophonist, visual artist, devout Buddhist, devoted husband, father, and grandfather Wayne Shorter has passed...

Wayne Shorter, the skilled and innovative jazz saxophonist who was a member of Miles Davis’ Second Great Quintet before leading his own jazz-fusion band Weather Report, has died at the age of 89.

According to The New York Times, Shorter died Thursday, March 2nd, in Los Angeles.

Born on August 25th, 1933, in Newark, New Jersey, Shorter grew up in a musical family (his older brother Alan was a revered jazz trumpeter in his own right). Wayne began playing the clarinet at an early age before transitioning to saxophone.

Following a stint in the U.S. Army, Shorter moved to New York City in the 1950s and became an integral figure in the city’s vibrant jazz scene. He was a member of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers from 1959 to 1963, where he gained a reputation for his virtuosic saxophone playing and his ability to write complex and innovative compositions.

In 1964, Shorter joined the...

This quirky poem about the appointment of a cinematographer to the board of a sanatorium explores the healing powers of film

This week's poem, The Seventh Art in the Sanatorium is from a first collection, Knock Knock (Carnegie Mellon University Press) by Heather Hartley. Originally from West Virginia, Hartley has lived and worked in Paris for the last 10 years. Her poems enjoy quirky characters and odd details, the pleasures and perturbations of travel. "The Seventh Art in the Sanatorium" is one of the more serious pieces in the collection, though it, too, has playful touches.

It was the Italian film theorist, Ricciotto Canudo, who first coined the term "the seventh art", thus adding cinema to Hegel's list of six. The traditional association of the number seven with magic adds a further promise to the poem's title. The epigraph is one of those odd, suggestive snippets of information which poets often like to collect,...