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And now for something completely different, something we haven't had on Pagan Spirits in a while:
Ember Snow Takes the Stage at Capital Cabaret in Raleigh November 14-15
(Los Angeles, CA / November 5, 2025) – Ember Snow is set to headline Capital Cabaret in Raleigh, North Carolina November 14-15, joining the club’s special live-podcast series as their final featured dancer.
The onscreen star will sit down with the venue’s management team for an on-site podcast conversation before hitting the stage for her first show Friday night, closing out the series in standout fashion. Fans can expect high-energy performances across both nights, plus the chance to catch Ember in an intimate interview format before she brings her unmistakable allure to the main stage.
“I love the real fan energy at club dates, and getting to kick things off with a live podcast just makes it even more fun,” said Snow. “Raleigh has always shown me a lot of love, and being the last guest in this series feels like the perfect way to kick off my first appearance there. I’m ready for a really unforgettable weekend.”
For table reservations and event details, contact Capital Cabaret at CapitalCabaret.com.
To learn more about Ember Snow, visit AllMyLinks.com/embersnowxxx
To book her for adult content work, please visit The Bakery Talent Agency at info [at] thebakerytalent.com
continentalagency.com/ember-snow or contact Derek Hay or Tony Lee at Derek [at] theleenetwork.com and Tony [at] theleenetwork.com
ABOUT EMBER SNOW:
Model, adult film star and content creator Ember Snow grew up finding escape in screens long before she stepped in front of one. Born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and immigrating to the United States at nine, she was raised in a conservative home where the internet and video games became her window to the world - and the place she first felt free to explore who she wanted to become.
Curious, introverted and creative, Ember originally set her sights on mainstream entertainment and began acting and modeling before entering the adult industry in 2017. Of Filipino descent and standing 4’11”, she first made her mark as a girl-girl performer before expanding into high-end productions for Wicked Pictures, Team Skeet and Evil Angel, among others.
With her growing creative ambitions, Ember plans to step behind the camera in the future to produce and direct her own mainstream projects. A passionate movie and TV fan and lifelong gamer at heart, she looks forward to balancing her work with exploring the world one destination at a time. To learn more, visit AllMyLinks.com/embersnowxxx.
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November 2, 2004: Vincent Van Gogh’s 47-year-old great-grand-nephew Theo Van Gogh, a filmmaker, is shot and then has his throat slit while riding his bicycle on the east side of Amsterdam. His killer is a 26-year-old man, Mohammed Bouyeri, who has ties to Egyptian terrorist group Jama'at al-Muslimin, a radical Islamist offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood. Van Gogh was a vocal critic of some Islamic practices, especially those associated with fundamentalist Islam.
November 3, 1793: Playwright and early feminist Olympe de Gouges is executed by guillotine by the French Revolution’s Revolutionary Tribunal. Although convicted of “seditious behavior” and attempting to reinstate the monarchy, of which de Gouges is not guilty, her real “crime” is criticizing the Revolution and wondering in writing if it had gone too far.
November 4, 1918: One week before the Armistice that will end the war, the poet Wilfred Owens is killed in the First World War.
November 4, 1982: The family of Dominique Dunne takes 22-year-old Dominique off life support after medical tests reveal that she has no brain activity. The young actress has been in this state since she was attacked and strangled by her estranged boyfriend on October 30th.
Her killer was convicted of manslaughter rather than murder and sentenced to only six years in prison. Dunne’s parents, Dominick and Lenny Dunne, became advocates for crime victims after the outrage of their daughter’s killer’s light sentence.
November 5, 1605: Guy Fawkes attempts to blow up the English Parliament, an act known as the Gunpowder Plot. The plot is foiled, Guy Fawkes is convicted and hanged, and burning an effigy of Fawkes becomes an English tradition.
November 7, 1837: Anti-slavery newspaper editor Elijah Parish Lovejoy is shot to death by a pro-slavery mob in Alton, Illinois, which is near Illinois’ border with “slave state” Missouri.
November 7, 1908: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are killed in a shootout with police in Bolivia.
November 7, 1980: Actor Steve McQueen dies in his sleep following surgery in Juárez, Mexico. He’d been diagnosed with pleural mesothelioma, which metastasized and caused large tumors in his neck, chest, and abdomen.
Between February and October 1980, McQueen had attempted to treat his disease with alternative therapy directed by William Donald Kelley, who called his quack treatment regimen “non-specific metabolic therapy.” In McQueen’s case, the treatments didn’t distract him from seeking conventional medicine; his doctors had already told him his cancer was inoperable and terminal. The quack “alternative medicine” did, however, cost him thousands of dollars while having no effect whatsoever on his disease. Kelley also falsely claimed in the media that his treatment of McQueen was successful, and this false claim may have cost other cancer patients their lives if they chose not to seek conventional treatment. Kelley, who died in 2005, did not have a license to practice medicine.
November 8, 1965: 52-year-old journalist Dorothy Kilgallen dies at home of an apparently accidental overdose of alcohol and barbiturates.
November 8, 2020: Beloved Canadian-American game show host Alex Trebek dies of pancreatic cancer.
November 11, 1995: Kenule (Ken) Beeson Saro-Wiwa, who belonged to the Ogoni people of Nigeria, became a well-known playwright and environmental activist in response to the degraded environment of his native Ogoniland region caused by irresponsible petroleum waste disposal. He is assassinated by hanging under the false charge that he’d been involved in the murder of four Ogoni chiefs. Eight other activists are similarly falsely accused and executed by Nigeria’s military dictatorship.
November 12, 1981: Popular 1950s actor William Holden dies after slipping on a rug in his bedroom, striking his forehead on the bedside table, and bleeding to death while apparently too intoxicated to help himself in Santa Monica, California.
Suzanne Vega reads the account of Holden’s death in the newspaper while sitting in a diner and memorializes this diner trip in her song “Tom’s Diner.” She was a frequent patron at Tom’s Restaurant, on the corner of Broadway and 112th St. in New York, while she attended Barnard College.
Vega performs the song “Tom’s Diner” a capella on her 1987 album Solitude Standing. In 1990, English music producers Nick Batt and Neal Slateford, working under the artist name DNA, add an instrumental background to Vega’s track. The collaborative version was certified gold in the U.S. and was a #1 hit in four European countries.
The lyrics include:
“I open
Up the paper
There's a story
Of an actor
Who had died
While he was drinking
It was no one
I had heard of
And I'm turning
To the horoscope
And looking
For the funnies”
The day Vega describes must have been Nov. 18, 1981, when the New York Post carried the story about the discovery of Holden’s body. We know Vega read the story in the Post because it was the only one of New York’s then-daily newspapers that had “funnies,” or comic strips.
November 13, 1974: 23-year-old Ronald DeFeo Jr. shoots to death the other members of his Amityville, Long Island family: his father Ronald DeFeo Sr., mother Louise, sisters Dawn and Allison, and brothers Marc and John. John, the youngest, was nine years old. The house in which the familicide occurs will later become infamous as the focus of the Amityville Horror book and films.
November 14, 1928: Dr. Sabin Arnold von Sochocky, the inventor of radium dial paint used to make wristwatches that glow in the dark, dies of aplastic anemia caused by his exposure to radium. His death helps make the legal case for the so-called “radium girls,” workers in the watch factories who became sick and often died from the same exposure to radioactivity, who sued their employer for the unsafe conditions in the factories.
November 14, 1916: Masterful British short story writer H.H. Munro, who published under the pen name Saki, is killed by a German sniper while serving in the First World War. His last words are reportedly, “Put that bloody cigarette out!”
November 15, 1959: Herb and Bonnie Clutter and two of their four children, Nancy and Kenyon, are murdered by Dick Hickock and Perry Smith in Holcomb, Kansas. The murders form the basis of Truman Capote’s “nonfiction novel” In Cold Blood. All four were shot, and Herb is also stabbed.
November 16, 1960: 59-year-old actor Clark Gable, who has had a heart attack on November 6th, seems to be recovering when he suffers a second, fatal heart attack.
November 20, 1934: Poet, printmaker, and adventurer Everett Ruess is seen for the last time when he sets out to explore the Escalante River Basin in the Utah desert. Ruess’s two donkeys are discovered in February or early March 1935 in a corral he’s made for them. No other sign of Ruess is ever found.
November 22, 1963: C.S. Lewis dies in Oxford of kidney failure. Approximately seven hours later, Aldous Huxley dies of laryngeal cancer in Los Angeles. This news is overshadowed by the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy on the same day.
November 23, 1958: Despite valiant efforts to revive him, comedian Harry Einstein dies of a heart attack he has suffered during a Friars Club roast of Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball. Einstein collapses onto fellow comedian Milton Berle. Berle asks the audience, “Is there a doctor in the house?” This is initially taken by the audience to be a joke. When it became clear that Einstein needs medical attention, two physicians in the audience try to treat him. He is pronounced dead in the early hours of the 23rd.
Comedian Bob Einstein is 16 years old when his father dies; his brother, who performs under the stage name Albert Brooks, is 11.
November 24, 1991: Freddie Mercury dies of complications of AIDS in London.
November 25, 1990: Race car driver William (Billy) John Vukovich III is killed during racing practice in Bakersfield, California when the throttle on his car got stuck and the vehicle crashed into a wall. Vukovich’s grandfather had been killed during the 1955 Indianapolis 500.
November 27, 2019: Taiwanese-Canadian actor and model Godfrey Gao (born Tsao Chih-hsiang), age 35, collapses while filming the reality show Chase Me. Gao is taken to a nearby hospital, where medical personnel attempted to resuscitate him, but is pronounced dead due to cardiac arrest a few hours after collapsing.
American audiences may remember Gao best from the movie adaptation of Cassandra Clare's The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones.
November 28, 1694: Matsuo Bashō dies. A wandering poet and teacher who owned almost no worldly possessions, Bashō is considered Japan’s greatest writer of haiku.
November 29, 2001: Musician George Harrison dies at age 58 of lung cancer that has spread to his brain in a Los Angeles home belonging to his friend and former bandmate Paul McCartney.
November 30, 1882: Actress Annie Von Behren is accidentally shot and killed during a performance of Clifton W. Tayleure's play Si Slocum in Cincinnati, Ohio. Von Behren’s co-star Frank Frayne is supposed to shoot an apple off Von Behren’s head. The gun misfires and the bullet strikes Von Behren just above the eye; she dies less than 15 minutes later.
November 30, 1900: 46-year-old Irish writer Oscar Wilde dies of meningitis. His health has been in decline since he was imprisoned and sentenced to hard labor after being convicted of “gross indecency.” His crime was being in a relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas, whose father did not like Wilde.
November 30, 1923: Vaudeville and early film actress Martha Mansfield dies of severe burns in the hospital. The previous day she had been dressed in a Civil War-era costume on the set of the film The Warrens of Virginia when a crew member lit a cigarette, then carelessly tossed the match. The match ignited Mansfield’s costume, which was difficult to remove due to its hoop skirt and many layers. The film was finished and released after Mansfield’s death, but is now considered lost.
November 30, 1958: Welsh actor Gareth Jones, performing in a television play broadcast live, dies of a massive heart attack during a break in between two scenes in which his character was to appear. Jones’ character was scripted to die from a heart attack during the teleplay.
November 30, 2013: Beloved Fast and Furious actor Paul William Walker IV leaves a Santa Clarita, California charity event as the passenger in his Porsche Carrera GT. The driver, Roger Rodas, reaches speeds of up to 93 mph in a 45 mph zone. He apparently loses control of the vehicle. It crashes into a lamp post and two trees, catching fire and killing them both. Rodas was 38; Walker was 40.
Excited about Halloween this year (and a habitual autumn-lover), I've been making a few YouTube shorts while out shopping.
I also read a "spooky" (cute) board book with monsters.
And here's what I did last Saturday. Note the local authors and dancing witches.
This is a good podcast episode for Halloween: Author Colin Dickey goes to Nevada's legal brothel, Mustang Ranch, to interview some of the sex workers there, learns the ghost lore of the Ranch, and possibly has a ghost encounter of his own.
If you're an enjoyer of vintage Halloween, and in particular the Halloween of 100 years ago, here are some additional videos you might enjoy. This one recounts a 1925 journalist's understanding of the history of Halloween.
These are some Halloween newspaper clippings from October 11th through October 23rd, 1925.
Here's an interesting artifact of early 20th century culture: The Yama Yama Man.
Beltane is a sexy romance. Allie is marrying the man of her dreams, Paul Phillip. A buttoned-down lawyer, he may not be "exciting," but he makes Allie feel like a princess. Allie's twin sister, Zen, takes a chance on Allie and Paul Phillip's wedding caterer, Chris. Chris is more the hit 'em and quit 'em type, though. When Zen meets hip businessman Orlando, she thinks she's found what her sister has with Paul Phillip. Which sister will end up with her true love?
Happy 25th anniversary to the All Saints album Saints & Sinners! For the album's anniversary, the Britpop girl group has released a 25th anniversary edition with new tracks that include a remixed "Pure Shores" featuring electronic musician/dj Tourist (William Edward Phillips).
Do human beings need God in order to be good? This is the question M.M. (Mangasar Magurditch) Mangasarian answers in this 1905 book. Mangasarian believes there are many reasons to believe people can and will be moral in the absence of worshipping a deity.
Born to Armenian parents in Turkey while it was part of the Ottoman Empire in 1859, Mangasarian was an ordained pastor in the Presbyterian Church. During the United States' Progressive era, he resigned from his pulpit in Philadelphia and become an independent pastor and a rationalist. After 1900 he led the rationalist Independent Religious Society of Chicago.
