The films will play in over 600 theaters nationwide, click on this link for details and to purchase tickets.
All four films are also being remastered in 4K Ultra HD for the first time and given a Dolby Atmos soundtrack. You can own the 4K versions of each of these films on Digital HD starting June 4th and on physical 4K UHD Blu-ray Combo Pack on September 17th.


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Wildcats Win NCAA Regional
HOUGHTON, Mich. – The Northern Michigan University Nordic ski teams wrapped up the NCAA Central Regional on Sunday (Feb. 24) afternoon at Michigan Tech. The men's team won the regional title by seven points (130-123) over Alaska Fairbanks. The women's team was edged by the Nanooks (129-124) for second place.
Wildcats Second After Regional Classic
HOUGHTON, Mich. – The Northern Michigan University Nordic ski teams raced in the classic events at the NCAA Central Regional from Michigan Tech on Saturday (Feb. 23). The men are five points (66-61) behind Alaska Fairbanks in the standings. The women also trail the Nanooks by a slim three-point (65-62) margin.
CCSA Announces 2013 All-Conference Awards
MARQUETTE, Mich. – The Northern Michigan University Nordic ski teams had seven Wildcats selected to the all-Central Collegiate Ski Association teams. On the men's side, Northern Michigan's Erik Soderman, George Cartwright and Chris Bowler; St. Scholastica's Jeremy Hecker and Alaska's Michael Fehrenbach all picked up all-CCSA first-team spots, while Michigan Tech's Luke Gesior and a quartet of Nanooks (Lex Treinen, Jonas Loffler, Tyler Kornfield and Max Olex) made up the conference's second team.
Bratrud and Ross Collect CCSA Skier of the Week Honors
MARQUETTE, Mich. – Sophomore Kyle Bratrud and junior Jordyn Ross, of the Northern Michigan University Nordic ski teams, have been named the Central Collegiate Ski Association skiers of the week. The duo played a vital role in lifting the Wildcats to a clean sweep of the CCSA titles at Mt. Itasca, as NMU claimed the men's, women's and overall trophies.
Nordic Skiing Win CCSA Title
COLERAINE, Minn. – Entering the final day of competition on Sunday (Feb. 17) at the CCSA Championships, the Northern Michigan University men's and women's Nordic skiing teams had a comfortable first place lead. At the conclusion of the day, NMU kept its lead and walked away with the title.
Wildcats Lead CCSA Championship Going into Final Day
COLERAINE, Minn. – The Northern Michigan University men's and women's Nordic skiing teams are currently competing at the CCSA championships at Mt. Itasca. On Saturday (Feb. 16) the men raced the 10-kilometer and the women competed in the 5-kilometer classic races.
Cartwright Named CCSA Skier of the Week
MARQUETTE, Mich. – Junior George Cartwright of the Northern Michigan University Nordic ski team was named Central Collegiate Ski Association's skier of the week.
Skiers Wrap Up Weekend With Classic Relays
ISHPEMING, Mich. – The Northern Michigan University Nordic ski teams wrapped up the classic relay races at the Central Collegiate Ski Association Championship on Sunday (Feb. 3). The Wildcats dominated both races, scoring 78 points each from the Al Quaal Recreation Area. "The weekend went really well," NMU coach Sten Fjeldheim said. "The conditions were next to perfect. The grooming was excellent today and the course was beautiful. The athletes really liked it."
Wildcats Win Freestyle Sprints
ISHPEMING, Mich. – The Northern Michigan University Nordic ski teams hosted the first leg of the Central Collegiate Ski Association Championshipon Saturday (Feb. 2) from the Al Quaal Recreational Center. The Wildcat men and women both won the freestyle sprints. The men scored 73 points on the day to defeat St. Scholastica (65), Michigan Tech (64), Alaska Fairbanks (54), UW-Green Bay (41), Gustavus Adolphus (33) and St. Olaf (27).
Soderman Named CCSA Skier of the Week
MARQUETTE, Mich. – Junior Erik Soderman of the Northern Michigan University Nordic ski team was named Central Collegiate Ski Association's skier of the week. The 2012 NCAA champion in the freestyle race, Soderman showed his ability in the classic tracks as well, winning the 10-kilometer event at the Saints Invitational by a comfortable 20-second margin on Saturday. The junior came within a whisker of repeating the feat in Sunday's mass start freestyle, finishing just behind teammate George Cartwright and Saint Scholastica's Jeremy Hecker in one of the most exciting finishes of the CCSA season to date to earn his second podium spot of the weekend.
Bratrud Wraps Up Week at World Junior Championship
LIBEREC, Czech Republic – Northern Michigan University sophomore Nordic skier Kyle Bratrud skied at the World Junior Championships from Liberec, Czech Republic last week. Closing ceremonies were held on Sunday (Jan. 27). "The Junior World Championship was a great experience for Kyle," NMU Nordic skiing coach Sten Fjeldheim said. "All the athletes I've had have go to the junior worlds have come back with a new perspective on what fast means. They gain a great race and cultural experience. The skiathon was Kyle's strongest race and he gained a ton of knowledge and experience that will help his career at NMU." On Wednesday (Jan. 23), Bratrud finished 46th in the 10-kilometer freestyle. He crossed the line in 25:38.4, finishing third on Team USA.
Skiers Win Saints Invitational
BIWABIK, Minn. – The Northern Michigan University Nordic ski teams won the overall team title at the Saints Invitational on Sunday (Jan. 27) after winning both the freestyle races from Giants Ridge. The women scored 74 points while the men totaled 75.
Skiers Dominate Classic
BIWABIK, Minn. – The Northern Michigan University Nordic ski teams dominated the classic races on Saturday (Jan. 26) at the St. Scholastica Invite from Giants Ridge. The women led with 67 team points while the men scored 65 on the day.
Skiers Race Classic at Twin Cities SuperTour
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – The Northern Michigan University Nordic ski teams wrapped up the Tour de Twin Cities SuperTour on Sunday (Jan. 20) with the mass start classic races at Wirth Park
Skier Race Freestyle at Twin Cities SuperTour
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – The Northern Michigan University Nordic ski teams raced in the freestyle at the Tour de Twin Cities SuperTour at Wirth Park on Saturday (Jan. 19).
Skiers Compete in Classic at U.S. Nationals
SOLDIER HOLLOW, Utah – The Northern Michigan University Nordic ski teams raced in the classic distance events at the 2013 U.S. Cross Country Ski Championships on Sunday (Jan. 6)
Skiers Race Freestyle at U.S. Nationals
SOLDIER HOLLOW, Utah – The Northern Michigan University Nordic ski teams raced the freestyle races at the 2013 U.S. Cross Country Ski Championships on Friday (Jan. 4).
Skiers Race in Classic Sprints at US Ski Championships
SOLDIER HOLLOW, Utah – The Northern Michigan University Nordic ski teams began competition at the 2013 U.S. Cross Country Ski Championships on Wednesday (Jan. 2) with the classic sprint races on the Olympic trails at Soldier Hollow. Soldier Hollow was the cross country and biathlon venue for the 2002 Olympic Winter Games.
Skiers Win Freestyle at Christmas Classic
DULUTH, Minn. – The Northern Michigan University men's and women's Nordic ski teams both finished first in the freestyle events at Saturday's College of St. Scholastica's Christmas Classic. The women scored 24 points in the freestyle followed by CSS and Michigan Tech with nine points each. The men scored 23 points followed by CSS with 14 and MTU, seven.
Nordic Skiing Preview
MARQUETTE, Mich. – The Northern Michigan University men's and women's Nordic skiing teams recently started the 2012-13 season. The Wildcats look to repeat its success from a season ago, as it had an individual National Champion, three All-Americans and swept the NCAA Central Regional Championship in 2011-12.
Skiers Sweep Top Three in Freestyle Races
HOUGHTON, Mich. – The Northern Michigan University men's and women's Nordic ski teams wrapped up its first weekend of competition on Sunday (Dec. 2) with freestyle races as part of the Wildcat Open from the Michigan Tech Ski Trails.
Nordic Skiers Dominate Classic Races to Open Season
HOUGHTON, Mich. – The Northern Michigan University men's and women's Nordic ski teams dominated the classic races at their season-opening meet, the Wildcat Open, on Saturday morning from the Michigan Tech Ski Trails. The races were originally scheduled for Al Quaal in Ishpeming but a lack of snow moved competition north. Michigan Tech and Green Bay also competed.

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Guwahati, Feb 08: Students' movements are synonymous with Assam. India's northeastern state witnessed the world's longest such movement between 1979 and 1985 when lakh of students took to the streets seeking detection and deportation of illegal foreigners in the state.


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Home NEWS Galway TD calls for €15,000 grant for people to buy vacant homes
Galway TD calls for €15,000 grant for people to buy vacant homes
A Galway TD is proposing that first time buyers who purchase existing vacant homes in areas suffering from depopulation should receive a grant of €15,000.
Galway-Roscommon TD Denis Naughten says that a once off Regional Home Regeneration Grant would help address a regional imbalance in population growth by encouraging people to move to towns and villages with high residential vacancy rates.
Deputy Naughten was speaking in the Dáil during a debate on an affordable housing motion brought forward by Deputy Eoin Ó Broin.
The Independent TD said that in addressing the housing crisis in Ireland, the government should bring families into communities "where the taxpayer has already paid for infrastructure such as schools, roads, water and sewerage treatment facilities."
"Infrastructure like schools is already in place in many parts of our country but we still have a problem in locations because of depopulation. We need to address that imbalance."
It costs the Department of Housing €30,714 to put infrastructure in place for every new serviced site in this country, Deputy Naughten said, at a time when there are roughly 50,000 vacant homes in the country.
"The reality is that there are quite a number of rural villages around Ireland that have access to 1,000 Mbps high-speed broadband and that also have vacant houses while struggling to maintain student numbers in local primary schools."
"Surely, it would make sense to spend just half of this €30,000 to bring life back into vacant homes while taking some of the pressure off the housing, road and water infrastructure in Dublin and our other cities".
He suggested that this €15,000 grant could be offset against mortgage deposit requirements.
This deposit requirement can often be a significant impediment for first time buyers seeking a mortgage from a bank.
Denis Naughten
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Cinemablend: The man behind some of the sickest and most twisted death traps on the big screen is at it again. In the midst of writing the final four Saw films, Marcus Dunstan brought us another terrifying tale brimming with sinister snares, 2009's The Collector. The Collector may not have reached Jigsaw status, but folks out there, maybe not the critics, did find potential in this sadistic killer and now, he's back for more in the sequel titled The Collection.


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Our Vision.... To Be a Bridge to Transformation!
Mission Alabama is a Collaborative Strategy. We are committed to creating partnerships that allow individuals and families to access the highways of success as a means of strengthening each community. We believe that successful individuals and families are the building blocks for thriving communities. By connecting and mobilizing stakeholders across lines that have traditionally separated Alabamians, we are able to lead communities in developing transformational models.
We also believe that thriving communities are the DNA of productive cities. Therefore, a city cannot become productive unless the people that live there achieve success in their individual lives. At Mission Alabama we help communities create strategies for holistic community transformation. Our success has come from weaving the faith, corporate, government and grassroots into a concerted effort to address the spiritual, emotional, intellectual and physical poverty plaguing low to moderate families throughout the state of Alabama.
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Our Transformational Model begins with building partnerships that empower individuals to achieve personal success. Those same partners support the empowered individuals as they transform their families. Subsequently, these thriving families will become agents of change to make their neighborhoods successful. The "Point of Transformation" for a community happens when the community begins to drive this transformational process.
We will assist our partners by connecting them to opportunities that empower impoverished residents to become agents of change in the fight for holistic community transformation.
We will assist individuals and families to (those to be served through our efforts) achieve a transformed life displaying the hope of God's love and to increase their awareness of their own sufficiency within the context of community.
To our partners – To assist them in building bridges that fulfill their goal to engage impoverished individuals and families in a manner that helps them achieve holistic transformation (i.e. spirit, soul and body).
To individuals and families – To be a partner in transformation that provides the hope of God's love and the opportunity to realize self-sufficiency within the context of community.
"We have to move from throwing turkeys over the wall, to building transformational relationships!"
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"The poor in our community are not only without resources, but the poor are also hurting!"
"A community is not truly transformed until the individuals in that community experience transformation in their spirit, soul and body."
"The un-churched in our community are not those that don't come to church, but rather those that are unloved by the Church!"
"For a child to be raised without a father in the physical world is a violation. For a child to be spiritually born again without having a Church to mother them is a double violation. The Church must set the example to the world in providing for and covering all that we produce!"
Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.


Dear EarthTalk: What happens to major appliances that get carted off when new ones take their place? We have a dishwasher and a refrigerator that are both on the blink now and may need replacement. I'd rather fix them than buy new, even if it's more expensive to do so, because I don't want to add these big clunkers to the waste stream. What's your take on this?


I love Chicago's historic architecture. How can I get involved and make a difference?
Preservation Chicago is a small, grassroots advocacy non-profit. Due to our small size, our Board and volunteers play an important role in helping to further our mission.
Speak Out on Social Media: Actively promote and forward preservation oriented social media posts. The more people who know about a threatened historic building, the more likely it is that a campaign to save it will be successful.
Become a Neighborhood Preservation Leader: Chicago is a city of neighborhoods and the best defense for historic buildings is from within the neighborhood. The earlier you hear about a threatened building, the more likely an effort will be to save it. Organize others within the neighborhood who share a passion for preservation. Preservation Chicago works with many neighborhood organizations throughout the city and has found it to be one of the most important factors in successful outcomes.
Be in touch! Call, email, or come to one of our events. We are always looking to meet other preservationists.
How do I receive frequent updates on preservation efforts?
The best way to stay current with current preservation efforts is to sign up for the Preservation Chicago Facebook and Twitter feeds. Frequent and timely posts keep you informed about the historic buildings and preservation battles that matter to you.
When you sign up for the Preservation Chicago Newsletter, you can expect to receive the newsletter delivered to your email inbox once per month. Occasionally, we will send additional announcements via email.
Do I need to become a member to sign up for newsletter or social media?
You do not need to be a member to take advantage of the monthly newsletter and frequent social media posts.
However, as Preservation Chicago's budget is very modest, every membership dollar raised goes directly to assisting out ability to advocate for Chicago's historic buildings. We highly value every membership and hope that you will decide to join today!
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I'm looking for more info about how to save a building in my neighborhood.
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"""Main entry point into the Identity service."""

import abc

import six

from keystone.common import dependency
from keystone.common import manager
from keystone import config
from keystone import exception
from keystone.i18n import _
from keystone import notifications
from keystone.openstack.common import log

CONF = config.CONF

LOG = log.getLogger(__name__)

@dependency.provider('trust_api')
class Manager(manager.Manager):
    """Default pivot point for the Trust backend.

    See :mod:`keystone.common.manager.Manager` for more details on how this
    dynamically calls the backend.

    """
    _TRUST = "OS-TRUST:trust"

    def __init__(self):
        super(Manager, self).__init__(CONF.trust.driver)

    @notifications.created(_TRUST)
    def create_trust(self, trust_id, trust, roles):
        """Create a new trust.

        :returns: a new trust
        """
        trust.setdefault('remaining_uses', None)
        if trust['remaining_uses'] is not None:
            if (trust['remaining_uses'] <= 0 or
                    not isinstance(trust['remaining_uses'], int)):
                msg = _('remaining_uses must be a positive integer or null.')
                raise exception.ValidationError(msg)
        return self.driver.create_trust(trust_id, trust, roles)

    @notifications.deleted(_TRUST)
    def delete_trust(self, trust_id):
        """Remove a trust.

        :raises: keystone.exception.TrustNotFound
        """
        self.driver.delete_trust(trust_id)

@six.add_metaclass(abc.ABCMeta)
class Driver(object):

    @abc.abstractmethod
    def create_trust(self, trust_id, trust, roles):
        """Create a new trust.

        :returns: a new trust
        """
        raise exception.NotImplemented()  # pragma: no cover

    @abc.abstractmethod
    def get_trust(self, trust_id, deleted=False):
        """Get a trust by the trust id.

        :param trust_id: the trust identifier
        :type trust_id: string
        :param deleted: return the trust even if it is deleted, expired, or
                        has no consumptions left
        :type deleted: bool
        """
        raise exception.NotImplemented()  # pragma: no cover

    @abc.abstractmethod
    def list_trusts(self):
        raise exception.NotImplemented()  # pragma: no cover

    @abc.abstractmethod
    def list_trusts_for_trustee(self, trustee):
        raise exception.NotImplemented()  # pragma: no cover

    @abc.abstractmethod
    def list_trusts_for_trustor(self, trustor):
        raise exception.NotImplemented()  # pragma: no cover

    @abc.abstractmethod
    def delete_trust(self, trust_id):
        raise exception.NotImplemented()  # pragma: no cover

    @abc.abstractmethod
    def consume_use(self, trust_id):
        """Consume one use when a trust was created with a limitation on its
        uses, provided there are still uses available.

        :raises: keystone.exception.TrustUseLimitReached,
                 keystone.exception.TrustNotFound
        """
        raise exception.NotImplemented()  # pragma: no cover

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By Blogdog
Palestinians mark 49th anniversary of Israeli occupation
What Happens When An American Jew In Israel Speaks Up For Palestinians
Israel extends administrative detention of 2 Palestinian politicians
Palestinian Lawmaker Released from Israel Prison
http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13950315000382
After 14 months in an Israeli prison, Palestinian legislator Khalida Jarrar was released at the Jabara checkpoint on the de facto boundary between Israel and the occupied West Bank.
Jarrar, a 53-year-old member of the Palestinian Legislative Council and a leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), was arrested on 2 April 2015 during a night raid on her home in Ramallah, Electronic Intifada reported.
At her home in Ramallah, she reminded reporters that "There are still many prisoners, more than 7,000, including judges, parliamentarians, children and the sick."
Last December Jarrar was sentenced to 15 months in prison, including the time she'd already been held, and also ordered to pay a fine of $2,500.
She was reportedly released a month early due to prison overcrowding.
Jarrar was initially ordered held in administrative detention for six months, which was reduced to one month following international pressure.
Administrative detention is the British colonial practice still used by Israel of detaining people, almost always Palestinians, without charge or trial for indefinitely renewable terms.
The Israeli military then produced a list of 12 charges against her that focused on her prisoner advocacy and activism, including delivering speeches at meetings and rallies, visiting and honoring a released prisoner and participating in a book fair.
Israel considers most Palestinian political factions, including Jarrar's PFLP to be illegal under its military occupation regime. There are currently six Palestinian lawmakers in Israeli prisons.
Israeli Forces Open Fire on Farmers in Gaza
Israeli forces on Saturday opened fire at farmers and shepherds east of Khan Yunis in southern Gaza Strip.
Witnesses said Israeli forces deployed near a school in the village of Khuzaa opened fire at a group of Palestinians with no one was harmed, Ma'an reported.
On a near daily basis, the Israeli army fires "warning shots" on Palestinian fisherman, farmers, and shepherds entering the Israeli-enforced "buffer zone," implemented after Israel imposed a blockade on the Gaza Strip a decade ago.
Due to the high frequency of the attacks, live fire often goes unreported.
While Israel typically cites security concerns when targeting Palestinian agricultural areas, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights has reported in the past that fishermen are often targeted when they pose no threat.
Approximately 35 percent of Palestinian agricultural land in Gaza is inaccessible without high personal risk, according to the center.
Source: http://blogdogcicle.blogspot.com/2016/06/palestinian-israeli-update.html
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Attention King Soopers' Shoppers – I apologize profusely if you were subjected to my shameless display of nostalgia and longing in the baby product isle this week.
It's just this – my kid turned 5 on Sunday.
How the actual eff was the kid in this picture, which CLEARLY happened just a blink ago, now 5 full years old?
I have been a damn mess pretty much my whole life the past week or so – reminders of his completed babyhood have been everywhere.
This is Pocket Bert. Toddler Jr loved Bert so much that we had Bert in varying sizes – Pocket Bert got his name because he resided in the pocket of the diaper bag, there to comfort and amuse Jr at a moment's notice. Oh how he loved Pocket Bert so.
I can't even so much that I can't even EVEN with that one. All of them, actually. I can't open TimeHop without a box of Kleenex stationed next to me.
I knew I shouldn't – but I ventured in.
Bottle parts and teething rings and liquid gold Jr's expensive special formula…. Itty bitty, teeny tiny diapers that used to be too big for him in his first few weeks of life.
It was that last thought that got me – that was in the first few weeks of him and I… we were together in his nursery, high above the busy city below, figuring out all of those crazy products and what we needed to do… now there has been 5 years of him – and of me as his mom.
Then I went and got him a new Super Friends straw cup and a box of the shortbread cookies shaped like doggies that he loves so much and collected myself (kinda) before checking out.
Then, for some reason, the Catalina coupon dispenser shot this puppy out at me after I paid.
But my son is 5.


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Vicki Mayer is Professor of Communication at Tulane, where she researches media production and consumption in relation to economic and political transformations in media and creative industries. Her students act as co-researchers of cultural labor and creative expression in a variety of community-based settings. Her goal as an SE professor is to continue to develop ways of bringing student and community voices into the public sphere through collaborative research, digital preservation, and open access. To this end, she has launched several digital humanities initiatives, most recently ViaNolaVie, a magazine of life and culture in New Orleans. Designed with students and community members over a two-year period, the site showcases student work on the community and freelance writers and artists in the community. When completed, the website will provide public access to thousands of locally-based stories generated over the past decade and will continue to add more than one hundred stories by Tulane students yearly. Her own research has been made available through open access channels, including Jump Cut, The Columbia Journalism Review, and Public Culture. Her most recent book on the lure of local film economies and the transformation of New Orleans is available as a free download via UC Press.
Charles Acland
Charles Acland is Professor and Concordia University Research Chair in Communication Studies. He received a PhD in Cultural Studies from the Institute of Communications Research, University of Illinois. Charles Acland specializes on film institutions. His recent works on the material and objective conditions of film reception (emergence of video, DVD, movie channels) and the way they transform our relation to cinema, and on the history of research in communications have led him to study the emergence of film studies and to reflect on its past, present and future forms. He is author of Screen Traffic: Movies, Multiplexes, and Global Culture (Duke UP 2003), Youth, Murder, Spectacle: The Cultural Politics of 'Youth in Crisis' (Westview/Perseus, 1995), and Swift Viewing: The Popular Life of Subliminal Influence (Duke UP, 2012). He is editor of Residual Media (University of Minnesota Press, 2007), Harold Innis in the New Century: Reflections and Refractions (McGill-Queen's UP, 1999) with William Buxton, and Useful Cinema (Duke UP, 2011) with Haidee Wasson. With Katie Russell, Acland edits the Canadian Journal of Film Studies/Revue canadienne d'études cinématographiques.
Alexandra Juhasz
Dr. Alexandra Juhasz teaches, makes and studies committed media practices that contribute to political change and individual and community growth. She has a Ph.D. in Cinema Studies from NYU and is the author of AIDS TV (Duke, 1995), Women of Vision: Histories in Feminist Media (Minnesota, 2001), F is for Phony: Fake Documentary and Truth?s Undoing with Jesse Lerner (Minnesota, 2005), Learning from YouTube (MIT Press, 2011), The Blackwell Companion on Contemporary Documentary with Alisa Lebow (2016), and with Yvonne Welbon, Sisters in the Life: 25 Years of African-American Lesbian Filmmaking (forthcoming Duke). She is the producer of educational videotapes on feminist issues from AIDS to teen pregnancy and the feature films The Watermelon Woman (Cheryl Dunye, 1997) and The Owls (Dunye, 2010). Her current work is on and about the feminist Internet including YouTube, pedagogy, affect and community. Her personal website is: Alexandrajuhasz.com.


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Before the government can take a citizen's property through the power of eminent domain, or condemnation, it must first show the taking is for a public purpose. Once that is established, the government acquiring your property for a public use must compensate its owner by paying "just compensation." Just compensation is typically measured in one of two ways, either 1) it is the "fair market value" of the property taken by the government if the government takes an entire property; or 2) it is the fair market value of the property taken plus the loss in value to the rest of your property if the government takes only a portion of your property.
"Fair market value" is defined as the sales price in cash that a willing and well-informed buyer would pay to a willing seller for the property. Typically in a condemnation case both the government agency (condemnor) and the property owner (condemnee) will hire an appraiser to calculate this value. In most circumstances, the appraisers will use one or more of three different methods, the sales comparable approach, or the income approach.
The sales comparison approach is the most commonly relied upon approach for determining fair market value. With this method, the appraiser looks at the price at which other similar properties in the area sold for, and then determines the Fair Market Value by adjusting the price of the subject property based on various factors like location/neighborhood, quality and size of the property and buildings and market conditions. The cost approach looks at what it would cost to purchase the bare land and then build the existing structures located upon it. This approach is generally more useful when there are not many similar properties in the area that can be used for comparison. The third method, the income approach, looks at how much revenue a property generates for the owner and determines a value based on how much money it brings to the owner. This method is usually only useful where the property is used for a business that generates revenue.
Where only a portion of the property is taken – for instance, if a narrow strip of your property is needed so a street can be widened – the government must pay you the Fair Market Value of the strip it takes, and then compensate you for damage to your remaining property. One example of this would be if a parking space on your remaining property can no longer be accommodated because your driveway is reconfigured. In that situation you would be entitled to the decreased value of your remaining property due to the lost parking.
There are some things that just compensation typically does not include, first and foremost are business losses. If the property is used as a retail store and it loses sales because of the government's taking compensation is not normally available for lost profits those sales would have generated. Additionally, if the government changes the traffic pattern on the street in front of your property and this causes your location to be less desirable, you will not normally be compensated for what is called "circuity of travel." There may, however, be compensation if the actual access to your property is impeded.
Once the government has determined it needs the property, the parties must either agree to a sales price or the government must start a condemnation lawsuit – the result of which is a judgment that transfers title to the government and determines what amount of just compensation is to be paid to the owner. The process begins with the government making an offer to pay its just compensation amount to the property owner. In most cases the condemnee will hire its own appraiser to calculate just compensation, and it is typical that the government's determination of just compensation is lower than the property owners calculation. If this is not the case, the owner will most likely accept the condemnor's initial offer. If the numbers are close enough, often times a compromise can be reached before litigation begins or early in the process. However, where the numbers are far apart and both sides cannot agree to a number, the case will proceed to trial, where a judge or jury will determine the just compensation amount. At trial, each side will attempt to show that its appraiser's calculation was more accurate, and may bring forward experts to testify as to why certain circumstances should or should not impact the value of the property. The judge or jury is entitled to select either number or choose its own number somewhere in between. If the property owner obtains a judgment that is ten percent higher than the government's offer made 30-days prior to trial, the property owner will be entitled to its reasonable attorney's fees.
Beyond "just compensation," you also may be entitled to be reimbursement for other costs. Often times money is available to the owner to pay an appraiser to evaluate the government's offer, particularly when federal money is used to fund the project or the government agency has a policy requiring this. Under some circumstances, owners may be entitled to reasonable attorney's fees for time spent evaluating the agency's offer (but not typically for time spent advocating for a higher award for just compensation). If an owner is required to relocate to another property, they may also be entitled to moving expenses, depending upon agency policies and funding sources.


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Good Day! This year's 3rd Annual 2017 DC Women's Equality Day Advocacy Action and Celebration was a huge success! While the group that attended the Advocacy Action was small, it gave a powerful voice to the reinvigorated efforts to pass the Equal Rights Amendment. To watch local news coverage of the Advocacy Action Click Here….


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Let's face loneliness in Wales together – one connection at a time
The First Minister of Wales and Welsh Government cabinet have called on the people of Wales to back the fourth Great Winter Get Together campaign as it kicks off this week.
The campaign marks a month long, UK-wide celebration aimed at tackling loneliness and isolation, and at bringing communities and people together. The idea was inspired by the late Jo Cox, who believed passionately in reducing loneliness and isolation.
Taking forward Jo Cox's vision of a "less lonely, more connected world", the campaign offers simple ways to connect in the community, and through engaging virtual events.
The Deputy Minister and Chief Whip, Jane Hutt, said:
Anyone can experience loneliness, but winter can be a particularly difficult time, and especially this year.
Connecting with friends and family through the pandemic has been difficult, but many people have found innovative ways to link up through online events, or by supporting others in their community.
From those who have stood on doorsteps to speak to neighbours who would otherwise have spent days and weeks alone; to community groups who have set up internet catch-ups for people whose families live far away; to support groups set up to help care workers; to groups of neighbours who have found valuable ways to work together, raising funds or making products to help the NHS: I want to thank each and every one of you for helping the most vulnerable people in your communities in so many different ways.
Through your ingenuity, you have connected with people who would otherwise have been isolated and alone. Thank you for everything you have done. Please continue to support your communities safely, in whatever way suits you best.
The Deputy Minister for Health and Social Services, Julie Morgan, said:
Loneliness and Isolation are feelings that can touch us at any age and any stage of our life. This year sadly feelings of loneliness have increased, however it's heartening to see the many ways people have adapted and supported their community and each other. I want to thank everyone who has made a difference.
This year I launched Wales' first ever loneliness and social isolation strategy, called Connected Communities. The strategy is the first step in helping to change how people think about loneliness and social isolation.
Ruth Marks, CEO of Wales Council for Voluntary Action, said:
The festive season can be particularly difficult for those experiencing loneliness and isolation, and this year it will affect more people than ever. There are many voluntary organisations, volunteers and community groups working hard to tackle this issue.
The Great Winter Get Together is another brilliant example of the hard work and generosity of spirit that helps tackle loneliness by creating meaningful connections.
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The Cows of Bangalore (And How I Came to Own One)
by Shoba Narayan
When the author Shoba moves back to Bangalore from Manhattan with her family, she befriends the woman she buys fresh milk from every day. Over time the two-from vastly different backgrounds-bond over not only cows but also family, food, and life.
When Shoba agrees to buy the woman a new cow (why not, she needs one and Shoba can afford it), they set out looking for just the right candidate. What was at first a simple economic transaction becomes much more without a hint of slapstick. When Shoba starts dreaming of cows, a little ayurvedic medicine is in order (cow urine tablets, anyone?). When Shoba offers her neighbours fresh cow's milk, we learn about the uses of milk in our culture. When house, the spiritual and historical role the animal plays in India is explored. And when the newly purchased cow has a male calf, Shoba must find it shelter.
In this delightful true story, readers are treated to an insider's point of view of India and the special place cows hold here. Equally, The Cows of Bangalore offers a window into our universal connection with food and its sources, the intricacies of female friendship, and our relationship with all creatures great and small.
Sarala, my milk woman, needs a cow. She tells me so when I chide her for giving me less milk one morning. It is 7 a.m. The school buses have left. I am standing outside my Bangalore home, waiting in line for fresh cow's milk. Sarala's youngest son, Selva, squats nearby, milking his mother's favorite cow, Chella Lakshmi.
I have known Sarala for ten years. I see her when I cross the road in front of my house to buy milk. She asks me for many things but, so far, he hasn't asked for a cow. Sarala is not sure how much a Holstein Friesian cow will cost. She thinks it will be Rs 40,000 or so. She has it all worked out. She will repay my loan through a supply of free milk-two litres daily, which cost me about Rs 40 a day (Rs 20 per litre at that time. Now two litres costs Rs 70 in Bangalore). Within a year, 'or two, give or take', the loan will be repaid, she says.
When I look dubious at her rate of return, she offers an explanation. 'I need you to buy me more cows. How will you do that if I don't repay your loan?' she asks.
Then she lays it on thick. 'You know, the family in the apartment below yours wanted to buy a cow for us. They like to do that, these Jains. But the timing didn't "set". When they were ready to buy, I didn't have space in my cowshed. When I had space in my cowshed, they didn't have the money. It didn't work out. You are lucky. Else why would I approach you instead of them when I need a cow?'
As a kicker, Sarala gives me naming rights to the cow that I buy-as long as the name ends with Lakshmi, the Hindu goddess of wealth. Otherwise, she says, the name won't 'set'.
If someone had told me years ago that I would write a book about cows, I would have rolled my eyes. If someone had told me then that this cow story would come to me, I would have laughed in their face. Not unkindly, but laced with a scorn I wouldn't have been able to conceal. I would have said that waiting for stories to come to you was passive and fatalistic.
I am older now and I don't have the boundless confidence of youth, the eternal sunshine of the unsullied mind. I realize now that opportunities sometimes present themselves in forms that you don't initially recognize as a story. I didn't plan to write a book about my relationship with a cow. It literally walked up to me.
Cows are a cliché in India. They make headlines and are displayed on billboards. Sometimes, they even eat billboards. They are the subject of parodies and politics, and like most stereotypes, epitomize an underlying reality: Cows are indeed holy in India.
The cow in India is a quagmire of contradictions and controversies, and also symbol of the country's sometimes polarizing politics. Having said that, this is not an explicitly political book. It is more of a personal journey. It isn't, and doesn't wish to be, a magisterial work on all aspects of the cow. Well, it sort of wishes to be a magisterial work on all aspects of the cow, but isn't one.
With these caveats, read on.
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Ultra Miami sued for violating act relating to Americans with disabilities
By James Todoroski
Ultra Music Festival Miami, America's largest electronic music festival, is on the receiving end of yet another lawsuit. The prestigious event, which was voted the world's greatest festival for the second year running this year, is facing its second lawsuit in 2017, after being sued by Ultra Europe organisers in May on a number of different claims.
Blind activist and Paralympic athlete, Juan Carlos Gil, is pursuing the organisation on the grounds that their website and live events, are not easily accessible for the visually impaired and/or those with other disabilities. Gil claims the 30-page suit is "not an indictment of Ultra whatsoever," but a "public motion for greater inclusivity."
The legal representative assigned to the case states:
"All we're asking [Ultra] to do is recognise [that] this is a very diverse population, to make all their offerings available to all people in that population. We think it'll make it a better Ultra experience and, obviously, a better Miami." "I think the biggest misperception of this law is that people don't understand that it's been law for 25 years," Dinin said. "This same law is a civil rights law".
While the matter at hand is a significantly important issue, the lawsuit is not expected to deter patrons from attending next year's 20th anniversary.
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Film Art House Round-Up: Week of March 25th 2011 – March 31st 2011
This week there's the unrated versions of KILL BILL 1 and 2 at the New Beverly, a STAR TREK series with George Takei, Walter Koenig and Nicholas Meyer appearing in person at the Egyptian, and Kubrick's 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY in 70mm at the Aero on Thursday.
7:30 PM: Star Trek Double Feature: STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KAHN (Directed by Nicholas Meyer) + STAR TREK III: THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK (Directed by Leonard Nimoy) Discussion with actor George Takei between films.
7:30 PM: EVEN THE RAIN (Directed by Icíar Bollaín). New Spanish release with Gael Garcia Bernal; won the audience award at Berlin. Screens again at 10:00 PM and Saturday and Sunday.
7:30 PM: Tribute to composer John Barry: MIDNIGHT COWBOY (Directed by John Schlesinger) + THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS (Directed by Anthony Harvey).
LACMA 7:30 PM: Classics from La Semaine de la Critique : MORE (Directed by Barbet Schroeder) + TRASH (Directed by Paul Morrissey).
NEW BEVERLY
7:30 PM: Shaw Brothers Night: THE AVENGING EAGLE (Directed by Chung Sung) + DUEL OF THE IRON FIST (Directed by Cheh Chang). Screens again Saturday.
Midnight Screening: FRIDAY (Directed by Mario Caiano).
SILENT MOVIE THEATRE:
7:30 PM: John Cassavetes Closing Night Party: A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE (Directed by John Cassavetes), plus rare film and videos and a panel discussion.
DOWNTOWN INDEPENDENT: 6:oo PM: I WILL FOLLOW (Directed by Ava DuVernay). New indie release. Screens again Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
Saturday March 26th
EGYPTIAN:
7:30 PM: EVEN THE RAIN (Directed by Icíar Bollaín). New Spanish release with Gael Garcia Bernal; won the audience award at Berlin. Screens again at 9:30 PM and on Sunday.
7:30 PM: Star Trek Double Feature: STAR TREK IV: THE VOYAGE HOME (Directed by Leonard Nimoy) + STAR TREK V (Directed by William Shatner). Both screen in 70mm; discussion between films with actor Walter Koenig.
7:30 PM: Tribute to composer John Barry: DANCES WITH WOLVES (Directed by Kevin Costner).
7:30 PM: JORDAN BELSON: FILMS SACRED AND PROFANE (Shorts directed by Jordan Belson).
7:30 PM: Shaw Brothers Night: THE AVENGING EAGLE (Directed by Chung Sung) + DUEL OF THE IRON FIST (Directed by Cheh Chang).
DOWNTOWN INDEPENDENT:
2:oo PM: I WILL FOLLOW (Directed by Ava DuVernay). New indie release. Screens again Sunday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
Sunday March 27th
5:00 PM: EVEN THE RAIN (Directed by Icíar Bollaín). New Spanish release with Gael Garcia Bernal; won the audience award at Berlin.
7:30: Star Trek Series: STAR TREK VI: THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY (Directed by Nicholas Meyer). Screens in 70mm; discussion with Nicholas Meyer follows the film.
7:30 PM: Michael Caine Double Feature: THE IPCRESS FILE (Directed by Sydney J. Furie) + DEADFALL (Bryan Forbes).
2:00 PM Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair. Unrated versions of KILL BILL and KILL BILL 2 (Directed by Quentin Tarantino). Screens again at 7:00 PM and Monday-Thursday at 8:00 PM. Note: Tickets are currently sold out and may be available at the door.
11:30 AM: I WILL FOLLOW (Directed by Ava DuVernay). New indie release. Screens again Tuesday and Wednesday.
Monday March 28th
8:00 PM Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair. Unrated versions of KILL BILL and KILL BILL 2 (Directed by Quentin Tarantino). Screens again Tuesday-Thursday at 8:00 PM. Note: Tickets are currently sold out and may be available at the door.
1:oo PM (Tuesday matinee): MARIE ANTOINETTE (Directed by W.S. Van Dyke II).
8:00 PM: Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair. Unrated versions of KILL BILL and KILL BILL 2 (Directed by Quentin Tarantino). Screens again Wednesday andThursday at 8:00 PM. Note: Tickets are currently sold out and may be available at the door.
7:oo PM: I WILL FOLLOW (Directed by Ava DuVernay). New indie release. Screens again Wednesday.
Wednesday March 30th
7:30 PM: A HATFUL OF RAIN (Directed by Fred Zinnemann). Actors Don Murray and Eva Marie Saint appear in person for a discussion after the screening.
7:30 PM: Tribute to composer John Barry: WALKABOUT (Directed by Nicholas Roeg).
8:00 PM: THE GODLESS GIRL (Directed by Cecil B. Demille) with live score by the Club Foot Orchestra.
8:00 PM: Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair. Unrated versions of KILL BILL and KILL BILL 2 (Directed by Quentin Tarantino). Screens again Thursday at 8:00 PM. Note: Tickets are currently sold out and may be available at the door.
5:oo PM: I WILL FOLLOW (Directed by Ava DuVernay). New indie release.
Thursday March 31st
7:30 PM: 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (Directed by Stanley Kubrick) in 70mm.
8:00 PM: Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair. Unrated versions of KILL BILL and KILL BILL 2 (Directed by Quentin Tarantino) Note: Tickets are currently sold out and may be available at the door.
- By Erica Elson
Tags: 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Hatful of Rain, A Woman Under the Influence, Aero Theater, Cinefamily, Dances With Wolves, Downtown Independent, Egyptian Theater, Even the Rain, I Will Follow, Kill Bill, LACMA, Michael Caine, Midnight Cowboy, New Beverly, Shaw Brothers, Silent Film Theatre, Stanley Kubrick, Star Trek, Trash, Walter Koenig
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The Aging of Aquarius
As 2012 is supposedly the true dawn of Aquarius, and as we are currently involved in at least one overseas military conflict with no foreseeable resolution, and as baby boomers' babies are now reaching the age of maturity, and as the state of musical theatre in America seems to be careening in the direction of over-hyped, big-budget cartoon adaptations, Hair would seem to be the ideal show not just to revive, but to re-invent for a new generation.
After seeing the Tony Award-winning production, directed by Diane Paulus, on its opening night at the Pantages on Thursday (it runs until the 23rd), however, I realized the producers made no such effort toward re-invention. Instead, the non-stop round of musical number after musical number—sung as if the characters were participating in a cocaine-fueled campfire Kumbaya session—comes off as kitschy and embarrassing for anyone (like my one-time-hippy mother and father) who may have actually lived through the Summer of Love. In that sense, the show not only fails to adapt to post-millennium politics, but also to resuscitate the actual feelings that created the 60's counter-culture in the first place.
If there was ever any plot to speak of in Hair, I didn't catch much of it in this production. Essentially, there's a commune of hippies living in New York City who spend their time singing and dancing about sex and their parents and sometimes the Vietnam War. The protagonist, Claude, a soulful lover and wanderer played efficiently by Paris Remillard, struggles to negotiate between his 'duty' to join the military and his new-found identity amidst the tribe of peace-loving protesters. There are mild hints of potentially interesting love triangles within the commune—Jeanie (the beautiful Kacie Sheik) is in love with Claude, who, in turn, loves Sheila (Caren Lyn Tacket), who really loves Berger (Steel Burkhardt), etc.—but they are glossed over, much like every other breath of complexity.
And I realize many great musicals thrive upon their emotional simplicity (why else would anyone spontaneously break into song if not propelled by some deep, irreducible desire?) The problem, though, with painting hippies, in particular, with a one-color palette is that their critics (i.e. their parents, their teachers, even their government) start to make sense in comparison. When Claude is the only person out of his entire "tribe" not to burn his draft card, for example, I respected him. He showed to be capable of individual thought. Yet still, when he is asked by why he acts and dresses the way he does, all he can do is sing a non-sensical song about…well, hair.
The cast, however, is in no way to blame for my issues with the show. In fact, I appreciated seeing actual human body-types on stage—even in the infamous nude scene—showing off realistic stomachs, flabby biceps, and of course, curls of hair. Their genuine excitement was fun (if not completely contagious), and their voices were tremendous. They collectively proved you don't need to look beautiful to be beautiful. I especially enjoyed Matt DeAngelis, who played the slinky, acid-burned Woof, and Josh Lamon, a legitimate show-stopper in his turn as Margaret Mead.
The one cast member, though, who gave the most exhilarating performance, by far, was the audience. Like a true method actor, they were "on" before the curtain even parted. It was strange. I've been to a bunch of huge Broadway shows and tours, on opening nights and closing nights, in London and New York and LA, and rarely have I seen this much palpable enthusiasm for a show. They absolutely carried the other, weaker actors on their backs the entire time, and in the end, proved the whole 2-plus hours to be a worthwhile endeavor—in my eyes—when they were duly invited on stage to sing a massive, rousing rendition of "Let the Sun Shine In." Watching with glee as middle-aged women joined young, effeminate men and dolled-up, heel-clad girls in a shamanistic rage of song-and-dance, I thought, for maybe the first time in the production, this is something my mother and father would like.
- By Joshua Morrison
Hair runs until January 23rd at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood. For more information, please visit www.broadwayla.org, or call 800-982-ARTS (2787).
Tags: Aquarius, Caren Lyn Tacket, Diane Paulus, Hair, Josh Lamon, Kacie Sheik, Let the Sun Shine In, Matt DeAngelis, Pantages, Paris Remillard, Steel Burkhardt, Summer of Love
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Reverse Discovery
A friend of mine and sometime contributor to this site Helen Kearns recently introduced me to the site, www.whosampled.com, a pretty amazing operation whereby you can look up an artist or title of a song, and the search engine supplies you with a catalog of other recordings that artist/song sampled and vice versa. The site is clearly still growing, and definitely doesn't have every musician or track you can think of. But it is symbolic of an interesting trend I'm seeing more and more in contemporary music: reverse discovery.
It's different than nostalgia in that often one reverse-discovers music they've never heard before, and instead of the present reminding them of the past, it's the past reminding them of the present. What I believe this is leading to in the music industry (and entertainment industry) at large is the reissue of old recordings, not ones that were once popular Billboard hits, but ones that may have may have silently slipped through the cliched cracks of mainstream culture.
In fact, this is already happening on a small scale. One of my newest favorite albums, for instance, Air Over Water by Wall Matthews and Rusty Clark was released this year, but all the tracks featured were originally recorded from 1974 to 1986, the year Clark passed away. Chances are you probably haven't heard of this album or these musicians, unless you reverse-discovered them through the popular British DJ, Four Tet, who illegally sampled their song "Neptune Rising" in his "She Moves She" (a fact not found on whosampled.com).
Matthew's and Clark's music is hardly irrelevant or untimely, however. They just happened to be performing and recording a few decades before vocal-less acoustic and "Imagistic"—to use a word from the subtitle of the album, "Imagistic Music for Guitar and Violin"—were readily available outside of coffee shops and experimental dance troupes.
To be fair, the name of the album does sound like an Enya-esque meditation soundtrack (though Enya is vastly underrated in my opinion, and has most likely enjoyed some reverse-discovery herself). But the actual music has no electronics, no singing, and with the exception of a few tracks, sticks to just two instruments. It could be dubbed minimalist if it were not for the full and entrenching landscapes these two instruments create.
The first song of the album, "The Two Snails Who Went to the Funeral of a Dead Leaf" is a brash, Indian-inflected violin solo from Rusty Clark, a call to the wild that dances between Philip Glass-like repetitions and something more raw and untamed. The level of musicianship is clearly marked high from the very beginning, and maintains the kind of virtuosic intensity you simply don't hear that much these days outside of a symphony.
The second track, "Gypsies," inaugurates the guitar-and-violin duets, which make up most of the album. And they are truly duets. The two instruments trade off positions of melody and landscape many times within a single song, and almost imperceptibly. Matthews finger-picks his guitar in fast, clear, ringing tones, reminiscent of Nick Drake, but with more complexity and variety. Meanwhile, Clark leads his violin through a veritable wonderland of genres, from medieval-court-like fare to free jazz to pop to what, in "Alabama Sketches" and "The Clowns," I can only describe as pastoral dread.
It's tempting to call the songs on Air Over Water cinematic, because they are so visual, but then again, the music is what dominates here, and I'm not sure if would work taken into the soundtrack of a movie. What Wall and Rusty did, instead, and what feels more natural, was use it for dancers—a far more interpretive arena of expression that, like the instrumentation itself, works with (rather than on top of or below) the sounds.
"The Clowns" is a quick favorite for any new listener to Matthews and Clark. It's ostensibly simple, with a clear, defined structure, and brings to mind a comforting type of rustic domesticity. But there's also a creeping suspicion in it, and the repetition becomes and integral part of what ultimately makes the piece so haunting.
"The Blue Heart" introduces the first bits of piano into the mix, a welcome addition, especially with its combination of music-box simplicity and dissonant jazz. It a beautiful imbalance dancing with with innocent, would-be major key melody. It borders on the noir—a dangerous and flirtatious seduction between two ballroom waltzers.
Whereas the album began with a triumphant violin solo from Clark, the album ends with an unassuming "Little Piece" by Matthews, just him on guitar, gently leading the listener out of his world, at least for now. I began to realize, then, how the idea of reverse-discovery might be inherent in some music, how even when Wall and Rusty were recording these works back in the 70's and 80's, they weren't just doing it for that specific time. They were inviting an entire future, real or imagined, to experience and discover their unique vibrations.
If you wish to reverse-discover more, you should definitely check out Matthews's Riding Horses, Heart of Winter, Zen Gardens, Color of Dusk, and Gathering the World, as well as the work of the Entourage Music and Theatre Ensemble.
Tags: Air Over Water, Color of Dusk, Entourage Music and Theatre Ensemble, Enya, Four Tet, Gathering the World, Heart of Winter, Neptune Rising, Nick Drake, Philip Glass, Riding Horses, Rusty Clark, She Moves She, Wall Matthews, whosampled.com, Zen Garden
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Secrets of Silents
Wednesday, September 8th, 2010
Here's a statistic: approximately 80 percent—maybe more—of all the silent films are lost. This is 80 percent of the early documented history of the predominant art-form of our age. It doesn't seem that important until you watch some of the few remaining films, or pieces of films, that dedicated archivists have managed to preserve.
There's a scene, for instance, from the 1923 movie Flaming Youth—which screened at this past weekend's 46th Annual Cinecon Classic Film Festival in Hollywood—that contains true magic. It takes place at a Gatsby-like get-together, lots of men in tuxes, women in flapper attire, and the host of the party decides to intitiate a skinny-dip session with all the guests. This being 1923, the scene is filmed in pure sillhouette (though it was still too controversial to play in most theatres), and the result is nearly breath-taking, if only because this is the sole existing piece of footage. The shadowy figures of men and women diving into the pool look like ghosts jumping into the abyss of their own fragile mortality.
Film doesn't last forever—its demise is inherent in the chemical properties that allow it to exist—yet it is still the most assured mode of preservation for the future, even in our digital world (as anyone knows who's ever had a hard drive crash on them). The people behind Cinecon, and particularly the Saturday afternoon program I attended that was dedicated to lost (or previously lost) films, know this more than anyone. After the screening of what's left of Flaming Youth, they showed a 1999 documentary called Keepers of the Frame. Highlighting such institutions as the UCLA Film and Television Archive, the Library of Congress, and the Museum of Modern Art, the movie takes a 'Technicolor' look at the continuing history of film preservation. Along the way, it shows the only surviving footage of President William McKinley two days before he was shot, the sole motion picture record of Alaskan Inuit in the 1930's, and actual news-reel scenes from the Hindenberg disaster.
Had these strains of film not been carefully and pain-stakingly preserved, they would have been lost, much like the prize posession of the program and entire festival was thought to be: Charlie Chaplin's third appearance in a film, called The Thief Catcher. Found by fortunate accident amidst a pile of old films inside a trunk at an antique show, the Keystone comedy does not feature Chaplin's patented "Tramp" character; he is instead cast as one of the Keystone cops. He appears on screen for maybe a minute, and despite what they say about hindsight's vision, his star quality is undeniable. He seems to already understand, even at this early stage in his career, the secret to silent film acting (and it's still true today), which is that you need a secret. You can't let your face belie your subtext—that's representational acting, as Stanislavski would say—only your physical actions. And Chaplin, whether the star or the bit-player, was a master of physical acting for the screen. His face always posessed a certain secret, and it's up to us as watchers of film, as confidantes, to preserve that secret for future generations of fellow conspirators.
For more information in Cinecon, please visit www.cinecon.org, and to pre-order a copy of the upcoming CHAPLIN AT KEYSTONE 4-disc DVD set, which includes The Thief Catcher, please visit www.flickeralley.com.
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Extra! Extra! Win Tickets to Legendary Count Basie Orchestra!
Jazz remains one of the few indigenous, American art forms, in that nothing quite like it ever existed before Buddy Bolden and Jelly Roll Morton started mixing up ragtime with the blues in an early 1900's city called New Orleans. And to understand the history of jazz, as well as its incredible influence on our culture, is to understand the history of America and American music from slavery on up. Simply put, no artist you listen to today could exist without jazz. Which is why the genre makes its sudden flares of resurgence from time to time, and why you can still walk into most hip coffee shops around the city—notably, the Downbeat Café on Alvarado—and find a slick laptop-er or two subconsciously tapping their heels to the likes of Duke Ellington or Count Basie.
This Wednesday, July 28th at 8:00 PM at the Hollywood Bowl, jazz proves its not dead with the internationally renowned Count Basie Orchestra—still going after eighty years. Known for popularizing the Kansas City-style of big band jazz, as well as initiating some of the greatest artists in history (including Billy Holiday, Jo Jones, and Charlie Parker), Basie, himself, passed away in 1984, but his band plays on under different direction and with a regenerating cast of musicians. The current Orchestra doesn't strictly adhere to its Kansas City roots (i.e. rhythmic riffs under improvised solos), but instead incoporates more of the East coast, neo-classisist style of big band jazz, with complex arrangements by director Bill Hughes.
That's not to say, however, that such Count classics as "One O'Clock Jump" or "April in Paris" won't be bouncing through the Bowl on Wednesday—along with the Dave Holland Big Band, the Dave Douglas Big Band, and yes, maybe you. Due to the overwhelming response of our last giveaways, FineArtsLA.com is once again raffling off two tickets to the Hollywood Bowl to see the Count Basie Orchestra live at 8:00 PM. Just enter your first and last name into the form below, as well as your e-mail address, and you are automatically entered into the running to win not just Wednesday night's tickets, but also the next three FineArtsLA.com giveaways. So brush up on your two-step, and dust off those dancing shoes; even if you don't win our contest, you can still buy tickets here.
Tags: April in Paris, big band, Bill Hughes, Billy Holiday, Buddy Bolden, Count Basie Orchestra, Dave Douglas Big Band, Dave Holland Big Band, Downbeat Cafe, Duke Ellington, Hollywood Bowl, jazz, Jelly Roll Morton, Jo Jones, One O'Clock Jump
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Panoramic Views: A Moving Story
Friday, July 23rd, 2010
I'm about to move neighborhoods in Los Angeles. I realize this information is of interest to very few people, and even then, of very little interest. But for the past two years, I've lived in the USC area, about two blocks away from the historic Union Theatre—also known at the Velaslavasay Panorama—and I've never once stepped inside. I've tried. When I first moved in and took my inaugral expedition around the hood, I couldn't help but gravitate toward the building. It's vastly out-of-place, an artifact from another era dropped in-between a bodega and some low-rent housing (and in fact, it is from another era: it was built sometime in the 1910's and operated for many years as a venue of multiple uses, including a playhouse, a silent-film theatre, and a meeting hall for the Tile Layers Union Local #18). When I tried to enter beneath the grand, old-fashioned marquee, however, it was closed. Ever since, it's just been that mysterious buidling (sometimes aglow) that I drive by nearly every day, and have yet to go in—either because it's closed or I have no reason. And now I'm about to move.
Fortunately, I have one last chance. This weekend, starting on Friday, but running on Saturdays as well, for five weeks only, the Velaslavasay Panorama opens its doors at 8:00 PM to present the unique and aptly located live performance of The Grand Moving Mirror of California. What is it? Good question. It's a series of moving painted scenes, which encircle the theatre like a long scroll being rolled out around the audience, and depict the journeys of early American settlers attempting to reach California during the Gold Rush of 1849. Using live narration taken from an actual 19th century script, along with musical accompaniment and radio-play sound-effects, the show celebrates and revives a 130-year-old mode of entertainment that simply shouldn't be missed.
Not bad for my last weekend in the neighborhood.
For more information about the Union Theatre, the Panorama, or panoramas in general, please visit www.panoramaonview.org, or call 213-746-2166.
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Open Your Eyes & Enjoy the Ride…To Watts, with "Meet Me @ Metro"
I am one of the few lucky Angelenos to live near a metro stop, so I was able to catch the Red Line straight down to Union Station to attend the Watts Village Theater Company's site-specific performance piece: "Meet Me @ Metro" last Sunday. In the first car I took while going to the performance a crazed woman with a suitcase was dancing and babbling unintelligibly for three fascinated children and their terrified mother. I changed cars and found myself surrounded by a group of long-haired jubilant tourists, cracking jokes at the top of their lungs about Los Angeles to anyone who would listen. Through both of these experiences I avoided all eye contact, set my face in an uninviting frown, and shrank into my chair: tricks I'd learned from four years riding the NYC subway.
At Union Station I joined the throng of expectant "Meet me @ Metro" audience members at the west entrance. We were quickly wrangled into a circle by a company of horn-honking cops circling us on tiny red tricycles and handing out yellow sticky-note tickets. With so many characters riding the subway on any normal day, it took me a minute to realize that the faux cops were part of the show and not just a bunch of lunatics. I perked up out of my guarded public transit shell as soon as I knew the show had begun.
At the center of the circle, the Watts Village Theater artistic director, Guillermo Avilés-Rodríguez, explained that the mission of this show was to redefine the Watts community as a welcoming place and to literally bring people there by using theatre. And that is what they did.
Over the next two and a half hours, twenty or so performers lead fifty audience members through the bowels of the metro, on and off of trains, out into neighborhoods, and finally to a field at the feet of the Watts Towers. We were like a mob of Hansel and Gretels following bread crumbs of narrative, history, poetry, and dance, scattered along our route through an unknown wilderness. If theatre is supposed to take you to places you've never been, then this show did. Physically.
More than the performances themselves, we were motivated on by the encouraging smiles and sheer effort the performers put into this undertaking. "The most amazing thing about this show is that we're doing it," said Mr. Aviles-Rodriguez when we began, and he was right.
The actual performances at each location were confusing, hard to hear, and underwhelming in quality. The 7th and Metro Center stop just seemed to be an excuse for the MooDoo Puppet Theater to have a man on stilts hand out postcards for their show. In Pershing Square I was struck by the irony that the audience was huddled around a performer ranting like a homeless person about loving ShangriL.A., while we turned our backs to several actual homeless people on the edge of the circle who were asking what was going on.
But whether the performances were 'Broadway quality' or not was beside the point. Back at Union Station I had let my guard down and allowed myself to see more than just where I was headed. As we traveled from station to station, I saw more art in the world around me than I had ever noticed before. Los Angeles, and the Metro specifically, is full of murals, statues, and installation art that I had always walked by with indifference. Now each piece was a part of a show, and it was if a spotlight was shining on everything from Joyce Kozloff 's film mural at the 7th & Metro stop to the music of the Watts ice cream truck playing behind the performers song. And maybe I wouldn't have seen the inhabitants of Pershing square or their plight to participate in the show if I hadn't been brought there with more open eyes.
There is so much beauty, humor, art and humanity around us every day here in the second largest city in the United States, and it took a troupe of intrepid performers taking their spectacle out of the theater and onto the street to help me see it. I thought back to my experiences on the metro before the show began and wondered how I would have experienced them differently if I had approached them with curiosity rather than fear.
The Watts Village Theater Company and their collaborators hope to make "Meet me @ Metro" an annual performance festival. If they are lucky enough to make this happen, I encourage you to take the trip. Until then, as you make your daily commute around town, imagine a spotlight once in a while showing you art where you least expected it. I promise you it will make for a much more enjoyable ride.
- By Stephanie Carrie
For more information about The Watts Village Theater Company, please visit www.wattsvillagetheatercompany.com.
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Hitchcock's Storied Sense of Humor Takes to the Ahmanson Theatre
We start off with an English gentleman. He's on stage, with his requisite pipe, telling us of the dull and boring days in a rented flat in central London that drove him to seek entertainment in a place as unlikely as the theatre. He treks off to see red curtains pulled back revealing a perfectly comic duo in only their first role of the evening: as host and the night's main act, Mr. Memory. This is the beginning of "Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps", on now at the Ahmanson Theatre.
This show is not for the theatre purist easily offended by a lack of the ever-elusive "fourth wall." This is, instead, one of the funniest, most inventive, self-reflective plays I've seen in a long while. With a cast of only four, the players cover many a persona often by simply changing their hat while still on stage. The special effects were nowhere to be seen, either, with characters holding out and shaking their own coats to simulate the wind. Various accents abounded as each actor moved between his or her alternate personalities – Clair Brownwell's initial character, Annabella Schmidt, had a very German accent (pronouncing "involved" in all sorts of incomprehensible ways) before she switched to become the blonde Scottish woman, Pamela, out to get our leading man, Ted Deasy.
Deasy played only one man – the clever, but wanted Richard Hannay – and was a delight from the moment he stepped on stage. He mastered a dry, elongated British accent and paired it with a quick-paced rapport, making the play seem almost like His Girl Friday, as directed by Mr. Hitchcock. With references to Hitchcock's films throughout, from a scene with Deasy running away from planes in silhouette a la North by Northwest to a sneaky puppet that made Mr. Hitchcock's iconic cameo for him, "The 39 Steps" is a comical tour de force.
What made the show spectacular was the work of Eric Hissom and Scott Parkinson, cast as Man #1 and Man #2, respectively. They went from train ticket takers to cops on the hunt for a murderer to inn-keepers to German spies (and their wives) to on-stage "special effects" coordinators taunting Deasy and Brownell to the end. The Men (numbers 1 and 2) interacted with each other seamlessly, moving in perfect sync when necessary and telling one another when they'd forgotten to change their hat again and they were acting as the wrong character.
Perhaps the scene that prepared the audience best for what we were about to experience came toward the start when Annabella Schmidt, who had talked her way into staying at Mr. Hannay's flat for the night, explained her predicament. She told Hannay that she was being followed by detectives and that they would be there now beneath a street lamp near his apartment. As Hannay went to pull back the blind to see for himself, Man #1 and Man #2 rushed on stage holding a prop street lamp. They set it up and stood beneath it, their trench coat collars pulled up and black hats pulled down. Quick-witted with a hefty side of film noir, vintage international intrigue, and absolutely no magical seamlessness between scenes. "Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps" tells you what its going to do as it does it, but in the funniest way possible – just make sure you brush up on your Hitchcock.
"Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps" runs now through May 16 at the Ahmanson Theatre downtown at the Music Center. Please click here or call (213) 972-4400 for more information.
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What's What in the Art World at Large (And What To Do in LA)
We may be geographically far from, well, everywhere in the world, but that doesn't mean we can't keep up with all the arts endeavors across every which pond. So here's a bit of news (for the very serious and elite readers) and a bonus round of what's going on in LA that really deserves your attention (for those who care about little outside LA county).
First, a stop in Paris at the Petit Palais. The Parisian museum brings to the fore the artistic achievements of none other than Yves Saint Laurent. Curated by Florence Muller and Farid Chenoune, the exhibit, called Yves Saint Laurent Retrospective features gowns, menswear, some of the designer's treasured personal items used in creative pursuits, and it highlight themes used throughout the many collections in Saint Laurent's illustrious career. One ticket to France, please! {Global Post}
Onto Italy. In Milan, our very own Placido Domingo's Operalia competition has commenced. Founded in 1993, Domingo's opera competition is meant to find the cream of the crop amongst new talent in opera. The singers represent not only a range of vocal categories (from coloratura soprano to the lowest bass), but also an array of countries around the world. The competition ends May 2 (this Saturday), so you'll have a new vocalist's career to follow starting Sunday, May 3rd. We have a feeling it will be meteoric. {Culture Monster}
Not to shower the French with too much attention, though they don't mind, Sotheby's has made quite the announcement prior to the upcoming auction season. The storied (and once thought lost) private collection of legendary Parisian art dealer Amrboise Vollard is set to meet the auction block. His career was spent promoting such up-and-comers as Picasso, Cezanne, and Renoir and Vollard's collection includes not only paintings, but such enticing items as prints, drawings, and artist books. The sale will be held in London on June 22, so brush up on your British colloquialisms. {ArtInfo}
Back at home, there is much to celebrate. Dig into your pockets just a bit to buy yourself a ticket to the Architecture and Design Museum's official Grand Opening! For $75, you'll mingle with a veritable who's who of the architecture and design world in LA at the reception tomorrow night (April 27), (hint: you can also find them anywhere from Father's Office to Tar Pit on weeknights), check out the first exhibit, and bid on things at the silent auction. {A+D Museum} Also, if you haven't uploaded his schedule into your iCal already, Gustavo Dudamel has returned to the LA Phil – he's conducting pretty regularly from now through May 8 on a number of concerts all worthy of splurging for tickets. {LA Phil} This is your last chance to see LACMA's exhibit Renoir in the 20th Century. The exhibit closes May 9. {LACMA} Last, but certainly not least, turns out that parodies of Wagner and his Ring Cycle abound. LA Times' Culture Monster shows us the best of the best. {Culture Monster}
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Sassy, Classy, and Proud
Thursday, April 22nd, 2010
Until I got to LA, the world of burlesque was somewhat foreign to me. I had a vague notion of 1920's showgirls doing Bob Fosse numbers for over-excited guys in trench-coats and fedoras, a lot of nasally yammering and two-note whistles. But even this general notion of burlesque was gleaned from Looney Tunes and old movies, not real life.
Then in LA, I realized there was an actual burgeoning scene, filled with human beings, or at least the Hollywood equivalent. It seemed everywhere I went, there was some amateur poster or postcard hanging up, featuring a scantily clad woman in heavy make-up, teasing me to visit the "Saturday Night Follies" or "Beatrice's Boudoir." Thus I developed a kind of adverse reaction to the ad saturation. I felt these so-called burlesque girls were simply suburban strippers in disguise, lacking the fortitude to go the whole way. To me, it was post-feminism imploding in on itself.
Still I hadn't yet seen a burlesque show with my own two eyes, and had very little idea what it entailed. So this past Sunday night, I decided to get up off my hypocritical, ivory-stained tuchus, and check out "Red Snapper's Sassy, Classy Burlesque Revue" at The Sherry Theatre in North Hollywood.
I held some hesitation over whether to bring a notebook or not. Normally I always bring a notebook to any event I review, whether it be a gallery or a film screening, but the idea of taking notes while a girl is showing off her tasseled breasts seemed somehow creepy to me. In the end, I decided to take notebook, but keep it on the down-low.
Right from the start of "Red Snapper's Sassy, Classy Burlesque Revue" I realized how ignorant I'd been. There was a giant, inflatable bottle of Absinthe set up on the stage, three guys in sharp suits and slicked-back hair sitting behind me—each toting a bottle of champagne and going by the monikers of Frederick O'Hollywood and Patrick the Bank Robber. Burlesque, it seemed, was a kind of costume party, a carnival, a renaissance fair for those who preferred jazz with their coffee. And everyone was happy.
The first performer, one Mr. Snapper (aka Andrew Moore), the emcee of the night, got things going with a cute ukulele rendition of Irving Berlin's "Blue Skies," pitch-perfect trumpet scat-singing and all. But in burlesque, there's no such thing as cute—or even perfect—without raunch. So Mr. Snapper told a dirty joke before bringing up the premiere dancer: How does a college man propose? Answer: You're having a what?
Bebe Firefly, the first lady as it were, was the reason for the inflatable Absinthe bottle. She was dressed as a dolled-up green fairy, the kind that supposedly pops up every once in a while under the influence of the nationally illicit spirit. To the tune of a jazzy, speed-guitar riff, Bebe proceeded to mix a glass of alcohol with sugar on stage, consume it, and promptly shake her hips and bust until all that was left was a thong and some tassels. The crowd, both men and women, all hooting and hollering, loved it.
Next up was Iona Vibrator, donning an elaborate, Asian/New Orleans fusion outfit, which came off in a similarly ritualized fashion to that of Bebe's. After her: Ms. Jessabelle Thunder, who's David Lynch-esque number made me realize the hypnotizing effect of such dances. It's mostly just simple back and forth, some turns and winks thrown in, but for some reason it's just enough to keep you swaying along with them.
The show's producer and name-sake, Red Snapper, arrived on stage next, ushering the audience into the second half of the night—the more experienced girls. Snapper was obviously a crowd favorite, more than comfortable strutting around in a pair of garters and stockings, doing a kind of naughty 50's housewife parody. The supposed female empowerment associated with modern burlesque became more apparent in Snapper's performance. She possessed a definite control over her own teases, an excited familiarity with her routine that translated into a kind of feminine pride.
Panama Red followed, with Costa Brava not far behind, each showing off their own expertise with unique additions to the basic ritual of the formalized strip-tease. Whether it was Panama Red's jungle-themed chest-shake, or Costa Brava's feathered fan dance, these girls clearly knew what they were doing, and found ways to make playful what could become tiresome.
The show-stopper, both literally and figuratively, was Evie Lovelle, the seeming celebrity of the group, appearing in her last performance before a European tour. As she came out from backstage, wearing a tight corset which practically choked her tiny, tiny waist, the audience went nuts. And I could see why. She had long, black hair; gorgeous, pale skin; and a knowing smile that's typically reserved for starlets of the silent film era. She'll fit in just perfect in Europe.
Leaving the show, I talked to two female members of the audience, both of whom expressed interest in trying out burlesque themselves. They said they appreciated how the medium applauded real women, and how even conventionally "flawed" body-types could be made beautiful and powerful. As for me, I'm still not quite convinced of the transformative value in burlesque—after all, every number ends with what's known as the "final reveal"—but I will say that I had a fun time. And as it tuns out, my note-taking didn't feel that creepy at all. I suppose that's because nothing seems that creepy about burlesque. It's a celebration, rather than a perversion, and for that, I'll hoot and holler with the rest of 'em.
Photos by Holly Go Darkly
To find out about any and all upcoming burlesque shows in Los Angeles, please visit www.losangeles.Burlesque411.com.
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