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Jorge Alio became the most active participan at The world Ophthalmology Congress in Barcelona
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Doctor Jorge Alio participated in 26 talks and panel discussions. At the same time his scientific team gave 57 presentations.
Dr. Jorge Alio participated in the World Ophthalmology Congress 2018 held in Barcelona from June 16 – 19. He became the most active participant, having taken part in 26 talks, panel discussions and sessions. His scientific team was also the most active, having given 57 presentations.
In addition, Alio has interacted with the best ophthalmologists in the world in order to share and update knowledge on advances and novelties in eye health.
Dr. Jorge Alio, who has been ranked twelfth among the world's most influential ophthalmologists in the list of 100 professionals, entitled "The Power List 2018" drawn up by the British magazine "The Ophthalmologist", started his participation in the World Ophthalmology Congress 2018 on June 16th, by giving a presentation entitled "Corneal Stroma Regeneration Surgery".
On Sunday, June 17th, Jorge Alio, the medical director of Vissum Ophthalmological Corporation, participated in the panel discussion on "Unmet Needs and Translational Opportunities in IOL Technology", gave a presentation entitled "A Novel Intraocular Open-Capsule Devices for the Prevention of Posterior Capsule Opacification", gave the following speeches: "Posterior a Anterior: the Role of Integral Diagnoses in Cataract Refractive Surgery", "Ocular Surface Syndrome and Corneal Dysesthesia after Lasik: Treatment Innovations", and actively participated in "Corneal Cataract Surgery Marathon". Furthermore, Jorge Alio, the academic of the Royal Academy of Medicine of the Valencian Community (RAMCV), had the opportunity to present his project "Vision Nouadhibou", which is devoted to the construction of the first eye hospital in Mauritania.Moreover, he gave the following presentations: "Surgery of Astigmatism in Normal and Abnormal Corneas with Toric Phakic IOLs", "Waverfront Correction of the Irregular Cornea: Outco mes and Limitations With the Present Technology" and "The World Burden of Cataract Surgery: The Numbers and the Patients Suffering"
On June 18th Jorge Alio, the creator of the concept of microincisional cataract surgery (MICS) and pioneer in multifocal, toric, phakic and accommodative IOLs, shared his point of view regarding phakic intraocular lenses and offered the conference entitled "Defocus Curve Function and Contrast Sensitivity with the Different IOL Multifocal Technologies". In addition, he had the opportunity to interact with other ophthalmology professionals and discuss topics such as "The Next Technological Revolution in Refractive Surgery", "Current Ways of Keratoconus and Ectasia Treatment: from the Reticulation to the Keratoplasty" and "LASIK for High Myopia: Where and Why are the Limits?". Moreover, Dr. Alio gave a presentation entitled "Ocular Optical Quality after Small Incision Lenticule Extraction Surgery (SMILE) to Correct Myopia".
Finally, on June 19th Jorge Alio finished his participation in the World Ophthalmology Congress 2018, having participated in the panel discussion "Can We Improve Our Results in Cataract Surgery?" and "Visual Outcome in Patients Undergoing LASIK and SMILE". He also gave two speeches entitled "How long can Phakic IOL Remain in the Eye? Limitations of the anatomy" and "The Preliminary Results of the Phase III Study of a New Accommodative Iintraocular Lens". In addition, he gave a presentation "What Tools Would We Use for Cataract Surgery in Areas of Limited Resources?" and participated in the session "The Effectiveness of Case-Based Learning in Professional Health Education'.
It should be reminded that Jorge Alio has recently published an article "Cellular Therapy of the Corneal Stroma: Real Approach or Science Fiction?" in the prestigious journal "Ophthalmology Times Europe". The article is devoted to the research, carried out by the doctor and his collaborators, into extraocular mesenchymal stem cells, which could be an alternative to the classical cornea transplantation.
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Monolith on the Mesa 2020 Lineup Update: Khemmis, Mondo Drag, Heavy Temple & More Added
Posted in Whathaveyou on January 2nd, 2020 by JJ Koczan
I'll be 100 percent honest with you and say I don't know how recent the lineup additions are here, but I'm trying basically to keep up with Monolith on the Mesa 2020 and there are names listed below that weren't included in the last lineup update I got from the PR wire, so if I'm a month behind, I'm sorry. It's been a busy month. Some of those additions are significant as well, from Warhorse, Heavy Temple and Yatra making the trek from the East Coast to Mondo Drag coming from San Diego, Khemmis from Denver and Distances from the relatively nearby Albuquerque. All these and the others listed below will convene at the Taos Mesa Brewing Mothership for what's the second Monolith on the Mesa Festival, which I have very little doubt is precisely the kind of party it looks like on paper. To wit, it looks like quite a party.
I went to the fest's website and cut and pasted the lineup. That's what I did. Swiped the logo while I was there too. Full confession.
With dreams of the desert in Springtime:
Monolith on the Mesa 2020
May 28-30, 2020 at Taos Mesa Brewing
Monolith on the Mesa, a "High" Desert Experience, is an independent three-day festival entering its second year in 2020. The festival takes place at the Taos Mesa Brewing Mothership, and on the grounds of Hotel Luna Mystica, just outside of Taos, New Mexico. The festival is focused on heavy riff-rock acts from across multiple sub-genres including stoner rock, heavy psych, doom metal, sludge, drone, and retro rock. The festival includes interactive art installations and visual projections throughout the grounds to compliment the mind bending sounds of the bands. Festival capacity is limited to 1,500 to provide an intimate experience. Bands perform on the club-style indoor stage, and the scenic "earthship" outdoor amphitheater stage.
Bands Playing at Monolith on the Mesa:
Destroyer of Light
Earthride
Fatso Jetson
Great Electric Quest
Heavy Temple
Love Gang
Magic Castles
Mark Deutrom
Mars Red Sky
Mondo Drag
Mondo Generator
Mountain of Smoke
Prism Bitch
Ruby the Hatchet
Sons of Otis
Wo Fat
Yawning Man
Box office opens at 9 a.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
May 28th doors at 4 pm til 1:30 am
May 29th doors at 12 noon; outside stage til midnight; indoor stage til 1:30 am
May 30th doors at 12 noon; outdoor stage til midnight; indoor stage til 1:30 am
Taos Mesa Brewing: The Mothership
20 ABC Mesa Rd.
El Prado, New Mexico 89529
https://www.taosmesabrewing.com/
Rain or shine event! No refunds!
https://tickets.holdmyticket.com/tickets/344140
https://www.monolithonthemesa.com
https://www.facebook.com/monolithonthemesa
https://www.instagram.com/monolithonthemesa
Monolith on the Mesa 2020 promo
Tags: Black Maria, Destroyer of Light, Distances, Duel, Earthride, Fatso Jetson, Great Electric Quest, Heavy Temple, Khemmis, Love Gang, Magic Castles, Mark Deutrom, Mondo Drag, Mondo Generator, Monolith on the Mesa, Monolith on the Mesa 2020, Mountain of Smoke, Nebula, New Mexico, Prism Bitch, Ruby the Hatchet, Sons of Otis, Sun Dog, Taos, Warhorse, Wo Fat, Yatra, Yawning Man, Year of the Cobra
Monolith on the Mesa: Yawning Man, Fatso Jetson, Wo Fat, Earthride, Magic Castles & Great Electric Quest Added
Monolith on the Mesa, which kind of came out of the gate in full-fledged upstart fashion this year and put Taos, New Mexico, on the map as a destination for heavyheads from all over, continues to announce acts for its follow-up edition in 2020. The fest is set for May 28-30 at Taos Mesa Brewing, same spot it was held this Spring, and is $99 for the weekend, which doesn't sound cheap, but uh, is, considering what you get. Not exactly slumming it as regards the whole experience of the thing. To wit, the photo below looks like something I would most definitely shell out a hundred bucks to stand in front of for three days and have my ass handed to me by awesome bands. If you disagree, I suggest you take the next few months to reassess your priorities.
But speaking of awesome bands, a bunch more have just joined the lineup, including Maryland's favorite sons Earthride. They'll make the trip west and give a bit of East Coast representation out in the desert that I can only imagine will go over like groove-rolling gangbusters. That alone would be worth the $99 in my book, let alone the likes of Yawning Man (always great) and Fatso Jetson (always great) and Wo Fat (always great), who, for those of you who don't read parentheticals (why not?) are always great, as well as Magic Castles and Great Electric Quest, whom I've not yet seen, but whose sounds are most certainly readily diggable.
Cool fest, man. These guys got something going out there in the desert.
Monolith On The Mesa prepares for second year bands include Yawning Man, Fatso Jetson, Earthride, Sons of Otis, Ruby the Hatchet, Mondo Generator, Year of the Cobra and more
MONOLITH ON THE MESA OFFERS A "HIGH" DESERT EXPERIENCE THAT DRAWS ROCK FANS FROM ACROSS THE NATION
THE MUSIC FESTIVAL PREPARES FOR ITS SECOND YEAR AND ANNOUNCES SIX MORE BANDS IN THE LINE-UP: Yawning Man, Fatso Jetson, Earthride, Wo Fat, Magic Castles, Great Electric Quest
300 early bird tickets on sale now through Black Friday
A total of 35 bands will play over three days from May 28-30, 2020. Festival promoters Dano Sanchez and Roman Barham are excited to reveal the names of five more bands today including Yawning Man; Fatso Jetson; Earthride; Wo Fat; Magic Castles; Great Electric Quest. The thirteen bands already made public online include: Sons of Otis; Ruby the Hatchet; Mondo Generator; Duel; Mark Deutrom; Year of the Cobra; Mountain of Smoke; Destroyer of Light; Love Gang; Black Maria; Prism Bitch and Sun Dog. Tickets cost $150 for three-day passes. A limited release of 300 early bird tickets for $99.99 are on sale now through Black Friday (midnight on November 29, 2019).
Dano Sanchez says "We are inspired to continue on our path with Monolith II. We want fans to come to Taos and let go of technology and constraints of urban living for three days. Let your soul breathe! What we offer is unique but still linked musically to festivals like Psycho Las Vegas, Levitation and Stoned and Dusted. We think festival goers will appreciate what we are doing here."
Monolith on the Mesa is produced as a "destination" festival offering attendees music as well as the unique and mystical Taos experience which includes crisp, clean air on the high desert mesa, surrounded by unobstructed views of the Sangre de Christo Mountains. The festival is located adjacent to the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument. This enables festival goers to enjoy activities such as hiking, river rafting, bike trails, natural and resort hot springs — all making for an immersive experience unlike any other music festival.
Tags: Black Maria, Destroyer of Light, Duel, Earthride, Fatso Jetson, Great Electric Quest, Love Gang, Magic Castles, Mark Deutrom, Mondo Generator, Monolith on the Mesa, Monolith on the Mesa 2020, Mountain of Smoke, New Mexico, Prism Bitch, Ruby the Hatchet, Sons of Otis, Sun Dog, Taos, Wo Fat, Yawning Man, Year of the Cobra
The Obelisk Show on Gimme Radio Recap: Episode 19 (Maryland Doom Fest Special)
Posted in Radio on July 22nd, 2019 by JJ Koczan
Yeah, I know, Maryland Doom Fest 2019 was like a month ago. Quit livin' in the past and all that. Well, this show was supposed to air July 5, so whatever. It got pushed back because apparently July 4 is some kind of holiday now — what.ever. — and it was kicked down the line to two weeks later with re-runs on in the interim. Did anyone notice? Did anyone care? I did. But I'm glad to have had the chance to pay homage to MDDF one way or the other, since it was such a killer time and boasted a lineup of so many good bands.
Of course I had to lead off with Beelzefuzz and Foghound, two staples of the Frederick diet, and the show unfolds from there with new stuff from Zed and Lo-Pan and Kings Destroy amid the likes of Devil to Pay and Earthride and Backwoods Payback and Greenbeard. I made sure to put Solace and Freedom Hawk and Horehound and Toke and Witchkiss in here because their sets were particularly righteous — not to mention Year of the Cobra! — and in addition to representing the headliners in Conan, Mothership and Earthride, I had to include WarHorse since their reunion set was something so particularly special and such a huge part of the festival.
For those who didn't hear the show, Gimme Radio runs the 'Gimme Brigade' which you can sign up for. I think it's $5 a month or something like that, but you get access to their full archive and help them with hosting costs, etc., so fair enough. If you got to hear this one, thanks. If not, the basic point of the thing was that Maryland Doom Fest 2019 kicked ass, which I sincerely hope also came across in the reviews.
Here's the full playlist:
The Obelisk Show – 07.19.19
Beelzefuzz All the Feeling Returns Beelzefuzz (2013)
Foghound Known Wolves Awaken to Destroy (2018)
Zed Chingus Volume*
Lo-Pan Savage Heart Subtle*
Devil to Pay Ten Lizardmen and One Pocketknife Fate is Your Muse (2013)
Kings Destroy Yonkers Ceiling Collapse Fantasma Nera*
Earthride Vampire Circus Vampire Circus (2005)
Witchkiss Seer The Austere Curtains of Our Eyes (2018)
Year of the Cobra Cold Burn Your Dead (2017)
Solace Khan (World of Fire) The Black Black (2007)
Backwoods Payback Whatever Future Slum (2018)
Toke Blackened Orange (2017)
Greenbeard WCCQ Onward, Pillager (2018)
Conan Battle in the Swamp Monnos (2012)
Apostle of Solitude Ruination Be Thy Name From Gold to Ash (2018)
The Age of Truth Come Back a God Threshold (2017)
Horehound Dier's Dirge Holocene (2018)
Freedom Hawk Danger Beast Remains (2018)
Mothership Midnight Express High Strangeness (2017)
Warhorse Lysergic Communion As Heaven Turns to Ash (2001)
The Obelisk Show on Gimme Radio airs every other Friday at 1PM Eastern, with replays every Sunday at 7PM Eastern. Next show is Aug. 2. Thanks for listening if you do.
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Tags: Apostle of Solitude, Backwoods Payback, Beelzefuzz, Conan, Devil to Pay, Earthride, Foghound, Freedom Hawk, Gimme Radio, Greenbeard, Horehound, Kings Destroy, Lo-Pan, Maryland Doom Fest 2019, Mothership, Solace, The Age of Truth, The Obelisk Show, Toke, Warhorse, Witchkiss, Year of the Cobra, Zed
Live Review: Maryland Doom Fest 2019 Pre-Fest, 06.20.19
Posted in Reviews on June 21st, 2019 by JJ Koczan
One could go on at some length about the legacy of the Stoner Hands of Doom Festival, which, like much of the pre-social-media universe, feels like part of some bygone era, when in fact the last edition was held in 2013. The Maryland Doom Fest 2019 pre-fest party — which I'll only argue with because, really, when you have nine bands playing, that's a festival one way or the other — was co-billed as SHoD XX in honor of the 20th anniversary of that fest's first edition in 1999. Two of the bands on the evening's bill were actually there in Virginia and Maryland on that weekend — Solace and WarHorse — but everyone who took the stage at Cafe 611 in Frederick, MD, was a veteran of it one way or the other. Slow Horse and Tummler remain sadly unaccounted for.
SHoD traveled — that first Arizona lineup is legendary — but spent a few pivotal years in Frederick down the road at what used to be Krug's Place, and in both mission and manifestation, there isn't a better festival to inherit the mantle than Maryland Doom Fest, though at the same time, it's never been so plain just how much MDDF has come onto its own and found its place among the wider festival sphere. The WarHorse reunion is a coup, but for the greater incorporation of Guido's as a second venue and the expansion to four days, Maryland Doom Fest has expanded its reach across borders and styles in a way that has only added to and enriched its original purpose. Earthride headlining tied it all together as only they possibly could.
It was a 5:30 start and I rolled into the venue about half an hour before that. Already, familiar faces were in ample supply, and they'd only be more so over the course of the evening. I have the feeling it's going to be that kind of weekend. Right on.
The night went like this:
Along with Earthride and Solace (who were two for two at that point), Ohio's After the Sun played SHoD in 2000, the same year they formed. They'd return in 2001 as well. Given their style, it's pretty notable that they're actually not from Maryland itself, as their traditional take on doom definitely seemed to have been born of an awareness of the likes of The Obsessed, Pentagram, Unorthodox, and so on. After putting out an EP in 2001, they released their first full-length just last year in the form of a seven-song self-titled, and they served it well live, making a highlight out of "Delusion of Sanity" late in the set. They had a new short release, The Demise, out for the festival, and were solid, workingman's doom rock, the guttural belt-out of vocalist Doug Perry recalling earlier metallic grit while the chug of Lance Collier's bass and Rob Perkins' guitar and the thud of Bryan Kaiser's drums provided suitable backing for such conviction. The fact that they've released more music in the last nine months than in the prior 17 years shouldn't be lost, and one has to wonder what their future plans are with this feeling very much like a return set, on-stage altar and all.
This band just rocks. It hasn't been that long since the last time I saw them, and they were still one of the sets for which I was most excited. There's no bullshit to Freedom Hawk. They've got the songs. They plug in and kick ass and then they're done. Five records deep, they know they're doing it right and they play with that conviction. "Blood Red Sky," "Lost in Space," "Solid Gold," "The Darkness and the Light," "Radar," "Executioner" and "Indian Summer" made for a quick set that seemed even faster than it was, but the Virginia Beach four-piece very obviously made the most of their time. I still have "Indian Summer" stuck in my head, if that's any indication. Freedom Hawk only played the final Stoner Hands of Doom in 2013, which was held in Richmond, Virginia, and saw fest-organizers Rob and Cheryl Levey hand the reins to Brendan Burns (who at the time ran the Eye of the Stoned Goat festival), but any excuse to have them in just about any lineup is cool as far as I'm concerned. They're just doing a weekender around Maryland Doom Fest, but they absolutely brought it like they'd been on the road for weeks.
Weed is Weed
Double-duty Sherman! And on guitar, no less! With Gary Isom playing drums! With the incense-burning bong-shaped mic stand present and accounted for, Earthride frontman Dave Sherman took the stage with the three-guitar riff machine Weed is Weed to bask in crunchy nodder vibes and, as they always seem to do, have a really good time. I've been lucky enough to see them a couple times now — always in Maryland — and I don't think they've ever had the same lineup twice. Sherman playing guitar was a nice touch, and Isom's move back to drums (from guitar) was of course nothing to complain about either. They lurched into "The Bong Remains the Same" and the eponymous "Weed is Weed" and sundry other greatest hits, and the room was with them all the way. I don't know if they'd get the same reception anywhere else, but at Cafe 611, they were home, and it was a family atmosphere all the way through. The lights were green, and by the time they were done, they only seemed greener. If the East Coast had the Pacific region's same proclivity for using the word "gnarly," Weed is Weed might be the standard by which that was measured.
At some point early in the set, Deer Creek guitarist/vocalist Paul Vismara noted that it was the band's first show east of the Mississippi River in something like 17 or 18 years, and he thanked all the bands who have played their native Colorado in the meantime because, as he put it, "that's a long fucking drive." I believe it. Vismara — currently working on cover art for the next Solace record — and fellow guitarist Conan Hultgren, who also ran Game Two Records — the first Sourvein, the Halfway to Gone/Alabama Thunderpussy split, releases from Pale Divine, Negative Reaction, etc. — led the four-piece through a round of massively-riffed tonal plunge, a noisy, sludgy aggression cutting through the thickness of Hultgren's and Paul Vismara's guitars and Stephanie Hopper's bass, set to roll from drummer Marc Brooks. Their late-2018 EP, Quisling, wanted nothing for atmospherics, and their live presentation had that same sense of open-space, but neither was the impact neglected, the band hitting hard and locking into raw doom and sludge with an abandon more willful than reckless and a focus on mood that no one else would touch for the remainder of the evening.
Devil to Pay
I know Indianapolis' Devil to Pay played SHoD in 2012, because I was there. It was the one in New London, Connecticut. They also played in 2004, 2007, 2009 (I was there, too), and indeed 2013, so with five appearances total, that makes them the most-SHoDded of the bands playing the first night of Maryland Doom Fest. Not a minor distinction, but of course they've done plenty since as well, making their debut on Ripple with 2013's Fate is Your Muse (review here) and following it with 2016's A Bend Through Space and Time (review here). They're about due for a new record — though now sharing guitarist/vocalist Steve Janiak with Apostle of Solitude (playing this weekend) as well as The Gates of Slumber — and indeed they had new songs called "Heave Ho" and "37 Trillion" in the set alongside favorites like "Ten Lizardmen and One Pocketknife," which seemed to fit well alongside their melodic, heavy and straightforwardly structured songs. Like Freedom Hawk, they're rarely dug into frills of any kind, and it had been too long since I saw them, but they reminded of what a well-kept secret they are and gave me something to look forward to in their next record, whenever it might show up.
Wasted Theory
Big news coming next week from Wasted Theory. I'm not going to spoil it, but it's not a new record — according to drummer Brendan Burns that's still in the "messing around with riffs" stage, and fair enough since they released Warlords of the New Electric (review here) just last year — but it's big news. And cool news. You know, I don't always get down with where Wasted Theory land in terms of theme and whatnot, but as I watched guitarist/vocalist Larry Jackson, Jr. lead the band — Burns, guitarist Andrew Petkovic, bassist Corey Pettingill — through the set, I thought back to the first time I saw them early in 2013, and the difference six years have made in their sound is huge. On every level in terms of songs and performance, they're a more professional, realized band, and yeah, they should be with three full-lengths out, but it's still striking just how far they've come and how much work they've put in to find their place in Southern heavy rock. They've locked into their niche and set about developing as players and songwriters, and despite lineup changes they've never done anything but move forward. Look out for that news this week and join me in being vicariously happy for the band when the time comes.
Solace are chaos. So much chaos. From the about-to-fly-off-the-rails dual-leadwork of Justin Daniels and Tommy Southard to the fact that they had Danny Golin (Halfway to Gone) sitting in on drums for the set after only rehearsing with him twice, to frontman Justin Goins spilling all the beer, the New Jersey five-piece are barely able to be contained on a stage — and at Maryland Doom Fest, they weren't; Goins definitely spent some time in the crowd. They started recording their new album a year ago, reportedly, and I've already put up I think more than one news piece about it being done, but indeed, the thing's still in progress, but whatever they do, wherever they go, Solace bring that sense of punk-metal danger with them, and it's not just about a threat of violence, though maybe that too, even in the one new song they played, but the material itself has this frenetic energy to it that pushes everything into the red — figuratively and literally in terms of the lighting in this case — and when their set was done, you could almost feel the crowd at Cafe 611 exhale the breath it had been holding while they played. Hey, Solace — finish the goddamn album already. The world needs more of this kind of destructive catharsis. Badly.
Yeah, so I know Massachusetts' WarHorse only have two shows booked — this and Psycho Las Vegas in August — but I'm going to tell you straight up that this reunion is going to have to be a real thing whether they like it or not. The offers are going to keep coming. As in: "start writing songs and get your passports ready." Already on the lips of fest-goers since the start of the day, the trio of bassist/vocalist Jerry Orne, drummer Mike Hubbard and Terry Savastano laid waste to the room. If Solace were the bull in the china shop, WarHorse were the steamroller knocking over the building afterward. It was magnificent. I never saw them during their original run, but their lone LP, As Heaven Turns to Ash (discussed here), is the stuff of legend — especially in the Northeast — and within the first five minutes of "Horizons Burn Red," it was obvious they need to keep going. The set was that, plus "I am Dying," "Scrape," "Lysergic Communion" and "Black Acid Prophecy," and when they were done, people were shouting for more. Rightly so. You know how you've been listening to that record for all these years and thinking like, "Wow, this must've been amazing to see live?" Well, it still is. Tour, new songs, album, festivals, all of it. They sounded like a band ready to get their due.
I'm not sure how else you could hope to close out the night but with Earthride, who, again, tied together the spirit of Stoner Hands of Doom with Maryland Doom Fest perfectly. There was some problem early on with the bass rig, but it got worked out and after being introduced by drummer Eric Little's daughter — he looked pretty flabbergasted — they were off and rolling soon enough into the quintessential Chesapeake nod of "Something Wicked," the title-track of their most recent album (review here), which came out in 2010. The intervening years have found vocalist Dave Sherman involved in Weed is Weed and the Spirit Caravan reunion that morphed into the current incarnation of The Obsessed, as well as other projects in the works and lineup changes in Earthride itself mostly in the bassist role — Greg Ball has handled guitar for the last several years — and true, they had the Witch Gun 7″ out in 2017, but even so, it's time for a fourth Earthride album. I was dragging ass by the time they went on, but Earthride are kingpins of Maryland's heavy underground and there's nothing quite like seeing them on their home turf. As ever, I came out of doing so with no regrets whatsoever. They are a definitive band for what Maryland Doom Fest is all about.
It was, uh, late, when I got back to the AirBNB where I'm staying a few blocks away from the venue. I crashed on the futon in this room at about 2AM and was up before 7 thinking I needed to start making coffee and writing. Correct on both accounts. Today is another packed day — they all are — but it starts a little later, so I'll see if I can't crash for a bit this afternoon ahead of making my way over to Cafe 611 again. Also need to buy a toothbrush, so yeah, I think I'll go do that. After I sort pictures.
More pics after the jump. Thanks for reading.
Tags: After the Sun, Deer Creek, Devil to Pay, Earthride, Frederick, Freedom Hawk, Maryland, Maryland Doom Fest, Maryland Doom Fest 2019, Solace, Warhorse, Wasted Theory, Weed is Weed
New England Stoner and Doom Fest II: More Lineup Announcements; Pre-Party Added
Posted in Whathaveyou on February 5th, 2019 by JJ Koczan
It's time to talk about the real potential of the New England Stoner and Doom Fest. No, I don't mean the lineup. That's awesome. You know it and I know it. I'm talking about the acronym. That's always huge for a festival. How is it abbreviated? Think MDDF or SHoD or any of the DFs spread around the universe. These things matter.
I've seen NESDF tossed around for New England Stoner and Doom Fest, and that's cool, but it's missing the opportunity. You could have a festival abbreviated NES! Who the hell wouldn't buy that t-shirt? I hereby cast my vote in the imaginary referendum on festival abbreviations for New England Stoner and Doom Fest to henceforth and forthwith and withhence be known as NES fest. Second the motion?
There's reportedly one more band to be added and reportedly several in the running for that slot, so this might not be the final update before May 3-5 gets here and NES fest kicks off (see me using the acronym already?), and the lineup for a pre-party at 33 Golden St. in New London has been announced as well, which will be headlined by Fox 45, so, you know, more of a good thing and all that.
The full lineup as has been revealed follows. Note the Wretch reunion. NES fest!
New England Stoner & Doom Fest II
The New England Stoner and Doom Festival will make its return in 2019 on May 3,4, and 5 at Altones in Jewett City, CT.
Brimstone Coven
Kings Destroy
+1 TBA
Foghound
Pale Divine
Vessel of Light
Spiral Grave
Black Road
Curse the Son
Shadow Witch
Hell Camino
Eternal Black
Thunderbird Divine
When the Deadbolt Breaks
Mourn the Light
Entierro
Bone Church
Buzzard Canyon
The Age of Truth
Void King
Horseburner
Scuzzy Yeti
Witchkiss
Benthic Realm
Faith in Jane
3 Parts Dead
Insano Vision
Old Earth Analog
Pinto Graham
The Stone Eye
Sentinel Hell
Pre-party @ 33 Golden St.:
Owl Maker
www.newenglandstoneranddoomfest.com
https://www.facebook.com/NewEnglandStonerAndDoomFest/
https://www.saltoftheearthrecords.com/
Wretch, Bastards Born (2017)
Bastards Born by Wretch
Tags: 3 Parts Dead, Benthic Realm, Black Road, Bone Church, Brimstone Coven, Buzzard Canyon, ClamFight, Conclave, Cortez, Curse the Son, Dark Ritual, Earthride, Entierro, Eternal Black, Faith in Jane, Feed the Beast, Foghound, Fox 45, Hell Camino, Horseburner, Insano Vision, Kings Destroy, Mourn the Light, Old Earth Analog, Owl Maker, Pale Divine, Pinto Graham, Scuzzy Yeti, Sentinel Hell, Set Fire, Shadow Witch, Solace, Spiral Grave, Stonecutters, The Age of Truth, The Stone Eye, Thunderbird Divine, Vessel of Light, Void King, VRSA, When the Deadbolt Breaks, Witchkiss, Wretch
Maryland Doom Fest 2019 Early-Bird Tickets Limited; Day Lineups Announced
Posted in Whathaveyou on December 28th, 2018 by JJ Koczan
The actual schedules aren't out yet for the four days of Maryland Doom Fest 2019, but even the day-splits for the massive lineup are good to know since this will be the first one with two venues and, thus, the first one with schedule conflicts (assuming the rooms run at the same time). That will invariably lead to some difficult choices, but so it goes in the land of doom — aka Frederick, MD. One way or another, the lineup is maddeningly good from its headliners in Pentagram, Conan, Earthride and Mothership right on down through the likes of Seasick Gladiator and Greenbeard, playing earlier in the day. But it's good to get some basic idea of who will be where, when, because given the swath of bands, it's going to be one to schedule where your feet are at any moment in order to miss as little as humanly possible.
By the way, how fucking awesome is the idea of Maryland Doom Fest paying homage to the 20th anniversary of the long-running/now-defunct Stoner Hands of Doom festival? That lineup could hardly be more perfect if they got Eternal Elysium over for it as SHoD once did. Especially the top three there. Unstoppable.
Here's the info. There's a lot of it:
Early Bird Discount Ends 12/31! THE MARYLAND DOOM FEST 2019 – 5th Anniversary – June 20th-23rd with PENTAGRAM, CONAN, EARTHRIDE, MOTHERSHIP, WARHORSE, 40+ More!
The Maryland Doom Fest celebrates its 5th anniversary this upcoming June and has confirmed FIFTY of today's heaviest bands to grace the stages of two venues in 2019. For the first time in its history, MD Doom Fest brings international artists, the mighty CONAN from the United Kingdom and INTERITUM from Tasmania, with 48 hallowed USA acts coming from coast to coast!
In a dual-ceremonial event, the MD Doom Fest Pre-Party on Thursday, June 20th is a 20th Anniversary celebration of the Stoner Hands of Doom Festival (ShoD), with a spectacular lineup. All bands have performed at fantastic SHoD fests of years past! The Pre-Fest / SHoD 20th Anniversary Celebration will be monumental. We invite everyone to become part of the family at The Maryland Doom Fest 2019 events for #4daysofdoom!!
THE MARYLAND DOOM FEST 2019
June 20th – 23rd, 2019 + Frederick, MD
PENTAGRAM + CONAN + EARTHRIDE + MOTHERSHIP
Year Of The Cobra + Lo Pan + Freedom Hawk + Warhorse + Pale Divine + Apostle Of Solitude + Kings Destroy + Solace + Foghound + Beelzefuzz + ZED + Wasted Theory + The Age Of Truth + Atala + Toke + Backwoods Payback + Weed Is Weed + Forming The Void + Sixes + After The Sun + Shadow Witch + Faith In Jane + Clouds Taste Satanic + Pale Grey Lore + Knoxxville + Devil To Pay + Eternal Black + Thonian Horde + Kingsnake + Greenbeard + Interitum + Benthic Realm + Horehound + Funeral Horse + Thousand Vision Mist + Deer Creek + Crooked Hills + Stone Dust Riders + Thunderchief + Wolf Blood + The Druids + Atomic 26 + Dead Sisters + Seasick Gladiator + Electric Age + Temptations Wings
+++ Early Bird Discount Weekend Passes available until December 31st +++
https://www.marylanddoomfest.com/tickets/
MD Doom Fest Pre-Party
SHoD 20th Anniversary Celebration
Thursday, June 20th
+ Cafe 611 +
+CAFE 611+
Lo Pan
Backwoods Payback
Interitum
+GUIDO'S SPEAKEASY+
Clouds Taste Satanic
Dead Sisters
Funeral Horse
Saturday, June 22nd
Apostle of Solitude
Beelzefuzz
Forming the Void
Knoxxville
Atomic 26
Greenbeard
Electric Age
Pale Grey Lore
Thunderchief
Seasick Gladiator
Crooked Hills
Sunday, June 23rd
Thousand Vision Mist
Thonian Horde
Temptations Wings
Stone Dust Riders
Early Bird Discount Weekend Passes are available until December 31st, 2018!
(Early Bird Discount is only for Weekend Passes- $74.)
On January 1, 2019, all regular price ticket options will be available.
Weekend Passes $89. Single Night: Fri. $35 / Sat. $40 / Sun. $35
Weekend Pass holders can attend Pre-Fest/SHoD for $15 at the door, all others: $30.
https://www.facebook.com/MdDoomFest/
https://www.themarylanddoomfest.com/
Apostle of Solitude, "Keeping the Lighthouse" official video
Tags: After the Sun, Apostle of Solitude, Atala, Atomic 26, Backwoods Payback, Beelzefuzz, Conan, Crooked Hills, Deer Creek, Devil to Pay, Earthride, Electric Age, Eternal Black, Faith in Jane, Foghound, Forming the Void, Freedom Hawk, Funeral Horse, Greenbeard, Horehound, Interitum, Kings Destroy, Kingsnake, Knoxxville, Lo-Pan, Maryland doom, Maryland Doom Fest, Maryland Doom Fest 2019, Mothership, Pale Divine, Pale Grey Lore, Pentagram, Seasick Gladiator, Shadow Witch, Sixes, Solace, Stone Dust Riders, Temptation's Wings, The Age of Truth, The Druids, Thonian Horde, Thousand Vision Mist, Thunderchief, Toke, Warhorse, Wasted Theory, Weed is Weed, Wolf Blood, Year of the Cobra, Zed
New England Stoner and Doom Fest II Makes First Lineup Announcement; Earthride, Brimstone Coven, Youngblood Supercult & More to Play
Welp, I guess I know what I'm doin' on May 3 and 4 next year. Calendar is marked. I was otherwise occupied during the first New England Stoner and Doom Fest earlier this year, but with the usual caveat that a piano might fall on my head between now and then, my plan is to hit New England Stoner and Doom Fest II as a priority, and the first lineup announcement has done nothing to dissuade me from that intention. Shadow Witch, Earthride, and Brimstone Coven are all vets of Maryland Doom Fest — Earthride are of course kingpins of that scene though release through NESDF-related Salt of the Earth Records — but Vessel of Light, Youngblood Supercult, Black Road, Set Fire and others it will be my first time seeing, so all the more reason to look forward to getting to Altones, which I hear kicks ass anyway.
And yes, I'm among the presenting media for the festival, but I don't have the inside track or anything on who's playing, so as the announcements come through for the bill, I'll be just as surprised as everyone else. I'm looking forward to that too. There's a good bit of diversity of sound already in the lineup, and any chance you get to see Brimstone Coven's harmonies in-person, you should do that. Bottom line is there's a lot to like here so far, so dig in, and when I see the next round come through, that'll get the same treatment.
For now, here's the first poster and the list as posted on the fest event page on Thee Facebooks:
The New England Stoner and Doom Festival will make its return in 2019 on May 3 & 4 at Altones in Jewett City, CT.
Stay tuned for details!
Youngblood Supercult
Many many more to be announced.
Earthride, Live in Los Angeles, June 13, 2018
Tags: Black Road, Brimstone Coven, Connecticut, Earthride, Entierro, Jewett City, Mourn the Light, New England Stoner and Doom Fest, New England Stoner and Doom Fest 2019, New England Stoner and Doom Fest II, Set Fire, Shadow Witch, Vessel of Light, Youngblood Supercult
Maryland Doom Fest 2019 Announces Lineup: Pentagram, Conan, Earthride, Mothership, Lo-Pan and More to Play
Posted in Whathaveyou on October 31st, 2018 by JJ Koczan
Holy fucking shit. It's a good thing Maryland Doom Fest 2019 isn't until next June, because it's going to take me that long to process how badass this lineup is. It's like JB decided this was the year everybody plays. A fourth day has been added. A second venue has been added — it's Cafe 611 and Guido's Speakeasy now — and wow. Just, fucking, wow. The headliners: Pentagram, Conan, Earthride and Mothership. And the list of bands that follows is absolutely staggering. Of course some things are bound to change between now and then, and there are announcements yet to be made about the pre-show, but really. They've absolutely, positively gone to a completely new level of festival here.
It's gonna be crowded.
And it's gonna be a blast. If you need me, I'll be booking my room at the Motel 6 in Frederick.
The announcement was simple and came just in the form of the poster — art is by Kyle Stratton, whose band Atala also make a return to the bill — and from near and far, far and wide, acts are coming in to make what looks like it'll be an absolutely unforgettable weekend (-plus) of heavy.
Here's the lineup:
MARYLAND DOOM FEST 2019 – JUNE 20-23
DOOMSTERS, GRUNGERS, SLUDGERS, STONERS, & PAGANS —
We are extremely pleased to present to you……The Maryland Doom Fest 2019 lineup!!!
50 of the heaviest, most talented bands to grace the stage.
We bring you INTERITUM from Tasmania, CONAN from England, PENTAGRAM from our soil, and an additional 47 top performing USA acts traveling from all across the continent!!
As if that's not enough, the MDDF Pre-Fest Party will be celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the SHoD (Stoner Hands of Doom) Festival with a spectacular lineup of bands who have performed at the great SHoD fests in years past!! The Pre-Fest / SHoD 20th Anniversary Celebration will be monumental in countless ways!!!!
Please support the Doom scene and share this epic event with your comrades and we will see you at #4daysofdoom !!!!
EARLY BIRD Discounted ticket sales start Dec. 17th, 2018 – for two weeks only.
This astronomical lineup and the 2019 festivities are dedicated to my very good friend and prior MDDF partner from 2015 – 2018, Mark Cruikshank!!
DooM !!! ~JB
Earthride, Live at Maryland Doom Fest 2018


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Yugonostalgic Cuisine
The Story of The Anglo-Yugoslav Café. Words by Natasha Tripney; Illustration by Ada Jusic.
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We sometimes forget how many seemingly immutable national cuisines are actually modern constructs, by virtue of how recently the nation itself came into existence. In this sense, Indian cuisine as we know it with its exact borders is only a 74 year old child (younger once you factor in Goa), coming into existence on the stroke of midnight along with its siblings West and Eastern Pakistani cuisine (who knew Radcliffe was such a gourmand?). Countries birthed themselves throughout the 20th century as empires broke apart, and food was often a handmaiden of national identity. Regional cuisines became national ones, or sometimes the regional had to be ignored and centralised to give a sense of unity and become a coherent, exportable whole, as in the case of Thailand's pad thai.
Over the last few decades, it's become clear that national cuisines are an uneasy reverse-gestalt, often adding up to less than their parts. Cookbooks have reflected this ─ while the national cookbook was the major culinary text of the late 20th century, recent years have seen a proliferation of regional cookbooks. Some emphasise commonalities across borders ─ Yasmin Khan's Ripe Figs, for instance, or Caroline Eden and Eleanor Ford's Samarkand ─ others highlight the uniqueness of different regions ─ like Alejandro Luiz's Oaxaca or Paula Bacchia's Adriatico. Sometimes, like in the case of Yugoslavia, these regional cuisines end up becoming national ones themselves.
If cookbooks are never wholly unpolitical texts, restaurants are very much the same. As today's newsletter on Yugoslav cuisine by Natasha Tripney points out, cookbooks have been used to form communal identities or foster a sense of national or regional apartness; in the same way, restaurants are just as much places to break bread as they are bordered by what the chef wants to serve (and perhaps, who they want to serve). If you've ever wondered why a city which once housed the Yugoslav government in exile (headquartered at Claridges Hotel no less) has so few restaurants from the former Yugoslav countries, then this newsletter is somewhat of an explanation. Food can conjure up a sense of home, of course, but when the memory of home is too painful and when home doesn't really exist anymore, sometimes these things tend to be kept behind closed doors, in private kitchens scented with a nostalgia meant for us alone.
Yugonostalgic Cuisine: The Story of the Anglo-Yugoslav Café, by Natasha Tripney
If the country of your birth vanishes off the map, what does it make you? What do you become? Though Yugoslavia ceased to exist almost thirty years ago, my mother still feels Yugoslavian. She was born in Kragujevac – originally in Yugoslavia; now part of Serbia – and spent the first sixteen years of her life there. When she came to the UK in the 1960s, Yugoslavia was still seen as a major socialist power: the co-founder of the Non-Aligned Movement, it offered a bridge between East and West. Governed ostensibly under a policy of 'brotherhood and unity', Yugoslavia was also a progressive country in many ways – divorce was legal, so when my mother's parents separated, she moved to London to join relatives who had settled there as refugees after the Second World War.
Like many immigrants from the region, she found herself in Notting Hill, West London, living in a flat above her uncle's café at 222 Portobello Road. The Anglo-Yugoslav café served sandwiches, omelettes and steaming mugs of tea to the Portobello market traders and – on a separate menu – sarma (cabbage parcels stuffed with minced meat), podvarak (slow-cooked sauerkraut topped with pork, the meaty juices oozing into the bed of cabbage below) and gibanica (a layered filo pie filled with cheese or meat) to an émigré clientele. Most of the food at the café was not fancy, but it was a taste of home for people in exile.
In the basement there was a club, open late, although it was essentially a drinking den popular with an older generation of Yugoslav men, who came to sit and drink and reminisce. It was a true family affair: my great-grandmother could often be found down there playing the fruit machines and surreptitiously keeping the winnings for herself, while my mother's other uncle Sava, known to most as Tony, did the cooking for both venues. He was very proud of his ćevapčići – delicious little minced-meat sausages – and he stubbornly refused to divulge his recipe. Sava took ownership of the café in the 1970s, but he was not nearly as good at running a business as he was at making ćevapčići, and it closed not long afterwards.
By the time I was born, my mother had already left London behind, and with it any connection to the Yugoslav community. Everything she had known – the infamous Notting Hill of Peter Rachman, complete with tenements and brothels; the Yugoslav cafes and restaurants – disappeared…And finally, Yugoslavia vanished too.
The region that became Yugoslavia had been part of the Ottoman Empire for nearly 500 years and, after that, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, where it occupied a pivotal geopolitical seat. It only acquired the name Yugoslavia in 1929, and later formed into six republics: Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia, Macedonia and Montenegro, and two autonomous regions: Kosovo and Vojvodina. The country's vastness was not only apparent in its religious diversity (Catholics, Muslims, various eastern Orthodox faiths and a sizable Jewish population) but also the regionality of its shared food culture. It is possible to trace its dual legacy – the Ottomans in baklava, ajvar and kajmak; the Austro-Hungarians in goulashes and layered tortes and cakes – while regional cuisines shift the country depending on borders. Croatian cuisine contains more Italian flavours, for example, while Slovenian cooking draws on Germanic traditions and Kosovan food leans towards Albanian cuisine.
Yugoslavia was never a wholly frictionless blend of cultures, but under Marshal Josip Broz Tito the country held together. After his death, things began to come apart, pulled at the seams by austerity policies and nationalist rhetoric on all sides. When the break-up of Yugoslavia finally came, it was brutal. By 1991 Slovenia, Macedonia and Croatia had declared independence; by 1992, the Bosnian war had begun. Over 100,000 people died and the Srebrenica massacre was the first genocide to take place in Europe since 1945. Many Serbs, Croats and Bosnians came to London as refugees once again.
A 1996 Independent article describes the role that food played for the tens of thousands of people from ex-Yu countries who came to the UK during the 90s. 'Dozens of bars, clubs and restaurants have sprung up in London for Croats, Serbs, Bosnians and Montenegrins, refugees from the conflict back home. And just as their homeland is split on ethnic lines, so, too, is their London.' Basement spaces in West London popped up where people could drink rakija and eat the food from home; these were new versions of my family's Anglo-Yugoslav café, though this time fragmented, explicitly divided down ethnic lines.
Unusually, though, the influx of new immigrants in the 1990s did not result in a wave of new restaurants being opened, and in London ex-Yu food is now relatively scarce. There are no high-profile Serbian or Croatian restaurants, just a few community spaces like the Serbian centre next to the Orthodox church in Notting Hill. Montenegro is represented solely by MUGI's, a café in Ealing serving roštilj', grilled meats and the inevitable gibanica. There's the Queens Arms in Kilburn where you can partake in pleskavica, the Taste Croatia stall in Borough Market, and Magaza, London-based suppliers of Bosnian brands. It seems that despite the city's love of Italian, Greek and Turkish food (all of which overlap with ex-Yu food to some degree), no one is really going out to eat Serbian or Macedonian – not even Serbs and Macedonians themselves.
There's a Bosnian term that's hard to translate directly into English, the Sarajevo-born, London-based playwright Miran Hadzic tells me: 'najeli smo se', which roughly means 'we ate our fill'. But it goes deeper than that – it suggests a need to be full. The Bosnian author Aleksandar Hemon has linked this to coming from a culture that is unpredictable, where you never know when you might eat next. My grandparents were familiar with this, having lived through the Second World War – I towered over them by the time I was a teenager. These things embed themselves in the cultural memory: my mother's relationship with food was, in turn, shaped by the shortages she experienced growing up, and even today she can't throw away a bit of stale bread without apologising first.
But the wars of the 1990s brought a different kind of trauma – they also marked the end of something that many people had believed in. The loss of a homeland, the brutal shattering of ideals, was hard to process. With friends and family going hungry during the years of siege and sanctions, is it any wonder there was scant appetite for opening restaurants, even after the war had ended?
Mystic Börek
During the last few years, however, a small ex-Yu food scene has been growing outside of the restaurant space. In South London, Spasia Dinkovski has transformed her small kitchen into a börek factory. She spends a good part of her week hand-rolling pastry, making böreks using techniques learned from her Macedonian grandmother before baking them in her domestic oven. Böreks are consumed across the ex-Yu countries with regional variations: some are coiled into spirals – like the cosmos – some baked flat; some are filled with meat, some cheese; there is zeljanica (chard and cheese pie) and krompiruša (potato pie). Most Bosnians would dispute that a filling of anything other than meat even qualifies as börek. The only thing that holds true is that flaky pastry, hot from the oven, seeping grease through its paper bag, accompanied by a drink of yoghurt and, almost inevitably, a cigarette, remains the ex-Yugoslavian breakfast of choice.
Dinkovski's Mystic Börek business has been one of the successes of lockdown, drawing on her Macedonian heritage and honouring the elder women in her close-knit family, but also showing a potential future for ex-Yu food in London. 'The older generation is slipping away,' she says, 'and I really need to do something to keep a hold of this.' Last year she started selling large filo pies with inventive, intriguingly non-traditional fillings like beef kofte, roast potato and chili or matured feta with green tomato relish and preserved peaches, which are delivered to various drop spots around London. Dinkovski has also recently expanded her business, offering Balkan-inspired menus – grilled peaches with creamy ajvar slaw, tulumbe with Turkish coffee ice cream – selling Balkan snacks like Smoki peanut puffs, and even hosting 'kafana' nights, an attempt to introduce a traditional Balkan eatery to a new audience in London.
Dinkovski is typical of the new generation of ex-Yu chefs who are increasingly willing to celebrate the rich culinary history of the region and share it with others. Alongside Dinkovski, there's Elena Smileva, also from North Macedonia, serving Balkan brunches at her Lacy Nook pop-up and Irina Janakievska's Balkan Kitchen, which showcases the traditional techniques and the robust flavours of the region. Chef Anna Tobias, who set up her own restaurant, Café Deco, in Bloomsbury late last year and who, like me, has Serbian family on her mother's side, serves modern British food with some Serbian influences. For her, one problem is that ex-Yu restaurant food has often been 'quite unglamorous'. Traditional restaurant menus in Serbia, she says, tend to feature 'heaps of grilled meat and raw onions'. And yet Serbia's green markets are overflowing with fresh produce which isn't always reflected or exploited in traditional menus. 'The produce is insane', Tobias tells me, 'and then you go to a restaurant and wonder where all these amazing vegetables are.'
For many people in Yugoslav diaspora communities, like journalist Jelena Sofronijevic, whose documentary Telford, Little Yugoslavia was broadcast on BBCRadio 4 last year, these things were 'something that you cooked at home', not in restaurants. 'There was an emphasis on home-cooked foods and on things being made from scratch.' Sofronijevic regards herself as Yugoslav, though she was born in the UK in 1998. She also points out that while 'food could be used as a tool to foster Yugoslav identity,' it has also been used to other political ends. Over time, she explains, the contents of Yugoslav cookbooks changed to mirror shifting political priorities, with recipes no longer arranged by ingredient, but grouped along regional and national lines. When pop star Dua Lipa described ajvar as an Albanian food on an episode of Hot Ones, Balkan Twitter exploded.
Dinkovski also tells me that her mother, who arrived in the 80s, still feels Yugoslavian. To claim Yugoslav identity is one way of rejecting nationalism. 'It's safer', says Dinkovski. 'My dad had a framed picture of Tito next to the sofa. It really is a time that they miss fondly.' She knows it's not the same for everyone, and it's doubtful the Albanian population of Kosovo look back on things fondly (many people went to prison for dissidence under Tito, my grandfather included), but there's even a name for it – Yugonostalgia: a longing for a time before the war; a collective grief about what was lost when the country broke apart.
After she married a British man she met while waiting tables at the café, my mother left London and lost touch with the Yugoslav community. We did not go to church. We did not speak Serbo-Croat at home. The main connecting thread to the place where she grew up was the food she cooked; she maintained a link to Yugoslavia in her kitchen. The hot pots of čorba, a paprika-scented soup of chicken and potatoes; moussaka, made the Yugoslav way with potatoes instead of aubergines, pasulj, white beans slow-cooked and studded with nuggets of smoked pork. The smell of Vegeta, a popular Balkan seasoning made from dehydrated vegetables and a boatload of salt, can instantly make me feel six years old again.
As a teenager, I was angry with my mother for, as I saw it, marooning me culturally and linguistically. Only as I got older did I start to appreciate that sometimes it's necessary to put distance between yourself and a hard past. Then, abruptly, after half a century in the UK, my mother decided to move back to Belgrade. She lives there now; I visit when I can.
Spending increasing amounts of time in the country, my understanding of what Yugoslavia was has evolved. For a long time, I felt a shifting mix of guilt and shame – Serbs felt like the villains of the world for a time in the 1990s – coupled with a sense of failure for, as a vegetarian who barely spoke the language, not being Serbian enough. Even today it feels hard to walk a line between celebrating my heritage and rejecting the nationalism that taints it, a nationalism that leaders in the region continue to exploit, and which has made its way here too.
Growing up in the UK, I often succumbed to Yugonostalgia. There was comfort in it, solace. But it was also a trap. In the countries of the former Yugoslavia, the past remains all too present, the trauma still unprocessed. In order to move forwards, you can't keep looking back, and yet you can't afford to ignore the past either. Like Spasia, I'm aware that there's an older generation who are almost all gone now, taking with them their stories (and some, like Sava, their recipes). In thinking about what they lived through, what they brought with them and what they left behind, I have a better understanding of my own identity.
As Aleksandar Hemon has written, displacement is never just geographic: it's temporal too. Food can help bridge that gap – the smell of hob-blackened peppers from the local green market, a curl of kajmak melting into a fresh, fluffy lepinje – but in the end, food can only do so much; it cannot heal every wound, or bring back something that has been lost.
Natasha Tripney is a writer, editor and theatre critic from London who can often be found in Belgrade. You can find her at @natashatripney.
The illustration is by Ada Jusic, who specialises in illustrations with a political or social context. You can find more of her illustrations at https://adajusic.com/
Many thanks to Sophie Whitehead for additional edits.
Photo of borek credited to Alex Gkikas.
Additional Reading/Listening/Watching
'How Bosnia Came to Bayswater', Independent
'Bread is Practically Sacred', Guardian
'The Story of Ajvar', Vice
'The Death of Yugoslavia', BBC (the whole series is available on YouTube)
'My Mother and the Failed Experiment of Yugoslavia', New Yorker
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This week's guest on the Imperfect Podcast is actor Marshall Teague. Marshall is a Navy veteran, a gentleman and a scholar. He has 114 acting credits to his name, that includes the small screen and the big screen. We found out what it was like to work with Sean Connery on the set of The Rock and all of the painful details of the epic Road House fight scene with Patrick Swayze.
He's a long time friend of Chuck Norris, having starred in Walker Texas Ranger. He most recently completed work on the the indie film Road to the Well. You'll never believe how he got the role!
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shamefully pernicious: The lethal gas used by Nazis at Auschwitz, Zyklon B, was ordered by the Arizona Department of Corrections to be used for death row executions; they are also reviving a 1949 gas chamber to use as a method of execution. CBS (June 2, 2021)
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racist procedures: According to the Mapping Police Violence Project, police in North Carolina were more than twice as likely to kill Black people as white people from 2013-2021 despite only making up 22% of the population. Prosecution for these murders is rarely pursued. Indy Week (June 2, 2021)
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bloody summer: Gun violence has spiked around the country which many worry will only increase as the pandemic wanes and people enter back into society. Some cities have put money into violence prevention and community outreach in hopes of curtailing gun violence. The Washington Post (May 30, 2021)
inhumane: Parents of Marcus Smith, who was killed by police in 2018, learned the police lied about their son's death. He wanted help, but police suffocated him with a hogtie and claimed Marcus was suicidal and combative. The Marshall Project (May 24, 2021)
left out: Latinx individuals are killed at a much higher rate than white people by police, but their community is often left out of the conversation about policing and reform, and the lack of a standardized system means that Latinx victims are often reported as Black or White. The Washington Post (June 2, 2021)
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Women's Rugby World Cup 2021 to Take Place 8 October to 12 November 2022
New Zealand is now scheduled to host the Women's Rugby World Cup 2021 from 8 October to 12 November 2022.
The event had originally been slated to take place 18 September to 16 October 2021, but was postponed due to the logistical problems of hosting such an event during the ongoing global COVID19 pandemic.
The tournament has been extended from 35 to 43 days which allows all teams to have a minimum of five rest days between matches. This aligns with the approach recently approved for the men's competition.
The extension of the tournament window, also allows for a revamped tournament format that will see all matches take place on Saturdays and Sundays, with no overlap.
With the tournament starting later in the year, players and fans will also benefit from warmer weather and longer daylight hours. The pool phase will be played on the weekends of 8-9, 15-16 and 22-23 October, 2022 at Eden Park, Northlands Events Centre in Whangārei and Waitakere Stadium.
The quarter-finals will take place on 29-30 October followed by semi-finals on Saturday, 5 November. The bronze final and Women's RWC 2021 final will be played on Saturday, 12 November, with Eden Park set to create history by becoming the first stadium to host both the men's and women's Rugby World Cup finals.
Michelle Hooper, Rugby World Cup 2021 Tournament Director, said, "We are excited to be hosting Rugby World Cup here in Aotearoa, New Zealand. The momentum for women's sport is continuously building and we look forward to demonstrating this to the world through the unstoppable energy that will be on display during Rugby World Cup in 2022. We can't wait to welcome the world's best women's rugby players to our shores and share the Manaakitanga so intrinsically linked to our people and our place and rugby in Aotearoa, New Zealand with them and their fans."
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When agencies implement FISMA, they must use National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) standards and guidelines. The OMB Circular A-130 compliance policy (titled Managing Information as a Strategic Resource, is one of many government circulars that is produced by the United States Federal Government to establish policy for executive branch departments and agencies.
At its core, it sets policy and establishes guidelines for the management of Federal information resources. After the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) data breach and the subsequent cybersecurity revolution, OMB released a new revision of Circular A-130 in July of 2016. The 2016 revision addresses new statutory requirements (e.g., FISMA 2014) and the enhanced technological capabilities that now require equally advanced security protocols.
Why Circular A-130 Compliance Is Important
The OMB Circular A-130 compliance policy emphasizes migrating security checks from static, point-in-time authorization processes to a more dynamic, near-real-time ongoing process.
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Maintaining IT system security control operational authorization (i.e., authority to operate (ATO)) via continuous security and privacy monitoring, assessment, and system penetration tests; and
Mitigating evolving cybersecurity threats and system vulnerabilities through the use of automated and manual processes.
As we can see, Circular A-130's main intent is to help companies modernize their IT system security using more automated and efficient tools. These tools not only help to protect sensitive data more effectively but help cloud service providers and IT providers of all kinds within the federal government net to more seamlessly improve security and collaborate efficiently.
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Is it cos I is Aussie…?
George Patterson Y&R have a rather lovely office in Melbourne, a city I love (and was fortunate enough to spend a little time in whilst seconded to our Asian hub late last year). They have a strong creative reputation in the region (and do far more than just hold the Y&R name above their door), the ad below being a shining example of that.
Australia as a nation still bears some heavy scaring with its treatment and historic policies relating to the indigenous population. The ad is simple and its deployment of split screen clips (of indigenous and non-indigenous people), to display related statistics. This shines a light on the very real and current discrepancy between goals / quality of life for these different groups.
In my humble, no trip to Amsterdam is complete without a visit to the Heineken Museum.
Interesting times ahead for the Spotify brand.
Iain G. Morrison is a senior marketer in the British Tourism Industry. And an avid lover of Spotify. Even more today than yesterday, but likely not as much as tomorrow (etc).
Let me just start with a plain, simple point. I am not a Lady Gaga fan. (Quick note, some viewers may find some of the content in the video mildly lesbionic and arguably unsuitable for <18's).
That said, she is beginning to show all the hallmarks of a recording artiste who appreciates that she isn't the best looking, nor is she the best dancer, with nothing more than a slightly above average voice. So what's going in her favour?
A masterful grasp of the modern media landscape and how to manipulate it deftly. Remind you of anyone?
So, what does this 9 1/2 minute video really tell us about Lady Gaga?
I was foolhardy in my attempts to write her off as a one hit wonder (as I also did with Steps and I was way off the mark there despite serious offences to decency and taste that should have been tried in a court of law).
If this lavish video tells us anything, it's that Lady Gaga (somewhat like her mentor of years gone by), will be around for some time yet.
If the big brands are moving in just off the back of album one, the Gaga juggernaut is becoming a serious cash cow. Ripe for milking the world over. Whilst wearing high heels and 'outrageous' outfits.
Why, oh why, oh why do people always start letters to points of view with why, oh why, oh why??? Anyhoo, as people who write to points of view often do upfront, I digress.
Let me start by saying that I am deeply fond of all things Auntie.
The BBC is rarely off in my house, office, commute etc. As with most people the right side of 40, I don't tend to bother with the radio or TV schedule anymore what with your wonderous i-player. And lets face it, that's what's kept the Asian network and BBC 6 going this long!
Fear not, I'm not going to get all 'Save BBC Radio 6' on you (despite owning a few compact discs from Cornershop). No, I need to discuss something far more disturbing. Have you been watching BBC2 of late? I think someone is purposefully trying to run it into the ground.
I know one of the many 'cost saving measures' being bandied around is cutting BBC2's afternoon schedule, but given the drivel blocking the airwaves this week, I'd go a step further and shut if off at night-time too. I mean I ask you. Outside of the farming community, who really wants to watch a sheep give birth. Lambing Live? Seriously?
Are you trying to make the Daily Mail brigade queasy whilst they sup their pre-bed cup of cocoa? (Actually, I don't mind that so much, perhaps you should aim to do that a little more).
I know the licence payer is obliged to find Kate Humble some nature nonsense to ramble on about live on TV for a week, but have you nothing better to fill the schedule with than some jumper / chop in the waiting go through childbirth? Why, even re-runs of the Tellytubbies would be preferable to being exposed to drivel such as: "I put my hand in and could feel two front feet at the entrance to the cervix," she said.
ENTRANCE TO THE CERVIX? What would Mary Whitehouse have made of this animal related filth, I ask you?
"Following up the legs, I could feel the muzzle. You don't have to pull; you gently help the ewe who is pushing anyway. It's a cliché but it was a miracle – a living thing. There was a rush and this great big slippery black lamb was lying there.".
If you wouldn't mind having a word with the controller of BBC2 and getting him to pass on his heartfelt apology (and no doubt detailed explanation of the teeny tiny demographic of three people living in rural somewhere being represented by this drivel), it would be greatly appreciated.
And if that fails, just tell him he's the weakest link (goodbye), and that he should ruddy well give Mad Men a decent scheduling slot. Say in place of lambs popping out live?
I'm sure deep down everyone know it makes sense, and watching Don Draper make babies is far more preferable than watching sheep pop them out.
Iain G. Morrison (the sheep hating Mad Men and beeb loving ad man).


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Ámon Ottó, eredetileg Altstädter Ottó (Brassó, 1879. szeptember 4. – Kolozsvár, 1921. augusztus 8.) kolozsvári postatisztviselő, gyorsírástanár, újságíró, költő, eszperantista.

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Erdélyben ő indította el az eszperantó mozgalmat.
Eszperantó klubot alapított, amelynek titkára volt. A mozgalom jelentőségét mutatja, hogy Donald Evans Parrish (1889–1969) ismert eszperantista is ellátogatott Kolozsvárra. 1913-ban eszperantó kiállítást rendeztek. Eszperantó nyelven feliratozott képeslapokat is adtak ki.

1902-ben megjelent, Leányszemek című verseskötetéről Ady Endre írt elismerő kritikát. Ugyanakkor az Új Idők is ismertette a könyvet  ("Ámon Ottó pedig csakugyan tehetség, ha nem is az eget ostromló.").

Az Erdélyi Magyar Nemzeti Tanács és a Székely Nemzeti Tanács mint az erdélyi magyarság reprezentatív képviselete, 1918. december 17-én új vezetőséget választott dr. Apáthy István elnökletével. Ennek a vezetőségnek Ámon Ottó is tagja volt. A világ összes népéhez! című kiáltványukban tiltakoztak az ellen, hogy az erdélyi magyarság sorsáról, annak megkérdezése nélkül döntsenek.

1918 decemberétől, amikor a román hadsereg elfoglalta Kolozsvárt, Ámon Ottó  az akkor induló Keleti Újság munkatársa volt.

Fiatalon halt meg tüdőbajban 1921-ben. Elhagyatott sírja a kolozsvári Balassa (ma: Aviator Bădescu) utcai régi zsidó temetőben van, a Házsongárdi temető észak-keleti sarka szomszédságában.

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 Enciklopedio de Esperanto, Budapest, 1933.

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