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The Larson Gallery presents �Social Sacrifice,� an MFA thesis exhibition for Kim Watson, through June 7 with a closing reception from 6 to 10 p.m. Friday on the Columbia College campus. Gallery hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Both the exhibit and reception are free and open to the public. |
Orr Street Studios presents the work of Cody McLouth through July 3 at 106 Orr St. For details, visit www.orrstreetstudios.com. |
Bingham Gallery presents �Lifetime Achievement Showcase: Part Three� with the art of Jerry Berneche and Brooke Cameron through Aug. 26 at A126 Fine Arts Building on the University of Missouri campus. 882-3555. |
Artlandish Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. For details or information about art classes, call 442-2999 or visit artlandishgallery.com. |
Perlow-Stevens Gallery 2010 Spring Exhibit runs through June 26. The gallery, 812 E. Broadway, also is hosting �Art for Autism,� featuring artwork created by children affiliated with the Thompson Center for Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders through June 26 with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday. All proceeds fr... |
�The Voyage of a Contemporary Italian Goldsmith in the Classical World: Golden Treasures by Akelo� opens Friday at the Museum of Art and Archaeology, 1 Pickard Hall on the MU campus. Visit maa.missouri.edu or call 882-3591. |
The Frame Shop, 110 Orr St., Suite 105, features the mosaic tile, glass and mirror works of artist Diane Chappell through tomorrow. |
Sven�s Kafe & Gallery: Kyle Lucks� �The First 24� through tomorrow at 110 Orr St., Suite 101. The exhibit includes paintings, drawings and mixed media. |
State Historical Society of Missouri, 1020 Lowry St.: �Mark Twain & Tom Benton: Pictures, Prose, and Song� runs through Aug. 20. |
Edwin Ellis presents his nature, scenic and wildlife photography in the University Hospital lobby. |
Lenoir Woods Community Center, 1 Hourigan Drive, presents the photography of Robert Askren through July 17. Hours are 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. Call 443-8260. |
The Wonder Store gallery, 311-313 Main St. in Boonville, displays paintings, ceramics, woodwork, metal sculpture, fiber art and photography. Regular hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. Sunday. |
Centralia Historical Society Museum, 319 W. Sneed St., will host a special art exhibit through June 30. The museum is open 2 to 4 p.m. Sundays and Wednesdays. Special tours for groups can be arranged by calling (573) 682-5711. |
Columbia Art League artists will exhibit at the following locations. Visit www.cal.missouri.org. |
Lea Lichty at Barnes Insurance Group. |
Carrie Yonley at Bond Life Sciences Center. |
Lee Larrick at Boone Convenient Care. |
Randy McDermit at Boone County Government Building. |
Dan Forsythe at Boone County Johnson Building. |
Jahner Johnson at Columbia Board of Realtors. |
Leslie McCullough-Payne at the Tribune. |
Sharon Horton at Columbia Podiatry. |
Janice Coffman at Columbia Regional Hospital, CC hall on left. |
Mariel Stephenson at Regional Hospital, lobby. |
Leemer Cernohlavek at Regional Hospital, Health Pavilion. |
David Spear at Cornerstone Insurance. |
Ray Thames at D&H Drugstore. |
Amy Schomaker at Dialysis Center. |
Derek Fox at Edward Jones. |
Dean Larrick at Ellis Fischel Cancer Center. |
Bill Helvey at Merchants & Farmers Bank on Club Village Drive. |
Jack Eyler at Merchants & Farmers Bank on Rangeline Road. |
Lynn Garriott-Porter at Missouri Heart Center. |
Renate Brady, David Frech, Barb Holdren, Jennifer Market, Cindy Smith and Nancy Springer at Parkade Center. |
Will Treelighter at The Bluffs. |
Chris Frederick at UMB Bank. |
Thomas Scharenborg and Yukari Kashihara at University Hospital, east elevators. |
Marilyn Cummins, Suzi Feldwisch and Martin Spilker at University Hospital, second floor. |
Abbie Brown, Cheryl Schweitzer and Thom Smith at University Hospital, cafeteria. |
Police confiscated five bags filled to the brim with the not-so-presidential drug. |
Two Austrians were arrested after police pulled five bags filled to the brim with carrot-colored ecstasy pills made in the likeness of President Trump. |
During a traffic stop over the weekend, highway police in the northwestern German city of Osnabrück uncovered thousands of ecstasy pills made in the likeness of Trump's head. His last name is also written on the reverse side. |
In a statement on Monday, police said they confiscated the not-so-presidential pills, as well as a large amount of cash from the Austria-bound vehicle. |
The drugs were found in the car of a 51-year-old man and his 17-year-old son. The two told police they were heading home to Austria after traveling to the Netherlands to supposedly buy a car, but said that the deal had fallen through. |
Upon searching the car, police found around 5,000 pills, saying that they had a street value of around 39,000 euros ($45,800). The car's two passengers were detained and a judge issued arrest warrants for both of them. |
The pills are reportedly being sold on the darknet with the slogan: "Trump makes partying great again." |
British media reported in July that the Trump-shaped drugs were being produced in Amsterdam and trafficked into the country in large amounts. |
This article originally appeared on Deutsche Welle. Its content was created separately to USA TODAY. |
It was a simple question: Is marijuana more dangerous than alcohol? |
Yet DEA Deputy Director Thomas Harrigan wouldn’t provide an answer during a House oversight committee hearing. |
Rep. Steve Cohen, D-TN, asked because DEA Administrator Michele Leonhart insisted in January that pot is more dangerous than alcohol. |
“Marijuana is a Schedule I controlled substance that Congress has passed, Congress has agreed to,” Harrigan responded. |
They should have held him in contempt. Even just the threat of contempt for refusal to directly answer and direct question would have been enough to loosen his tongue. Ridiculous — AND this is NOT coming from any proponent of marijuana use. |
The United States today vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution condemning Israel's "iron fist" crackdown in southern Lebanon. |
The Lebanese resolution won 11 of the council's 15 votes--two more than the minimum required for adoption, barring the veto. France broke with its Western allies to support the resolution. Britain, Denmark and Australia abstained. There have been many threats reported from terrorist groups in Lebanon that a U.S. veto w... |
A fist meets a face. Bones crack. Blood spills. Sweat drips. Bullets fly. That’s right, The Punisher is back — and bad guys everywhere should beware. It’s been a year since the events of the first season of the Marvel-Netflix series, and Frank Castle has been traveling around the country trying to live a quiet life. Bu... |
In The Punisher’s second season, anti-hero Castle can’t help jumping into the fray. He's an unstoppable force who’s still working out the trauma he experienced when his family’s lives came to an end right in front of him. And the only way he knows how to do that is to act as judge, jury, and executioner to those that d... |
With everything happening onscreen, including the many loud and aggressive fight scenes, it’s easy to overlook some of the Easter Eggs and other details that make The Punisher such a rich show. However, these little things add additional meaning to the series and make it even more interesting to watch. |
In the first episode of season 2, Castle spends the night with Beth, a bartender he meets at a Michigan roadhouse. During their time together, they talk about being lonely and he says that a friend once told him that “we’re all lonely. All life is, is trying not to be.” Beth correctly guesses that it was a woman who ma... |
Castle is paraphrasing something Karen said in the fifth episode of The Punisher’s first season. Karen was concerned that Castle would always be lonely after taking down the people who took his family from him. And the nomadic existence Castle’s been living since the end of season 1 seems to be exactly the future Karen... |
In addition to his ailing wife, the series' new villain John Pilgrim has two sons, the eldest of whom is named Lemuel. It’s an unusual name, but for the religious Pilgrim, it’s a nod to his faith. Lemuel is a biblical king who’s mentioned in Proverbs. The identity of the king is uncertain and biblical scholars have spe... |
Regardless of King Lemuel’s true identity, the name’s meaning would certainly resonate with Pilgrim. Lemuel means “to God,” implying “belonging to God.” The idea that his son belongs to God fits perfectly with Pilgrim’s worldview as a born again Christian. |
While many of the other characters on the show curse loudly and often, the character Amy makes a point not to. Like a parent attempting not to use profanity in front of their children, Amy employs all kinds of strategies to avoid saying bad words. She spells things out, substitutes numbers for letters, and uses words t... |
Why? Who knows. It’s a character trait that makes her character seem that much more quirky, though. And it’s certainly good for a laugh — even Castle seems to get a kick out of it. |
Unlike DC, Marvel has typically named real places in its stories. For example, Daredevil operates out of Hell’s Kitchen while Luke Cage worries about Harlem. Yet, The Punisher bucks this trend in season 2 by spending its second and third episodes in a place called Larkville. First Larkville appears to be a small Ohio t... |
Yet, there’s no such place in Ohio. In fact, it’s the only place that’s not real among the three locations listed on the street sign shown at the beginning of episode 2. The other cities listed, Ravenna and Cuyahoga Falls, are both in Northeastern Ohio. So based on Larkville’s supposed proximity to them, if it did exis... |
After Billy Russo leaves the hospital, he meets a group of former soldiers who are reeling from the difficulty of resuming civilian life. The group soon realizes that their military background gives them the training they need to become a well-oiled criminal machine. |
While preparing for their first robbery in the season’s seventh episode, the gang role-play the scenario. However, one of the men playing a victim of the robbery manages to get away during the simulation, to the chagrin of the others. The man is feeling cocky about his escape, though, and as he walks back to the group ... |
When The Punisher’s second season starts we quickly learn that Castle is still going by the same alias he’d adopted in season 1: Pete Castiglione. The Italian name Castiglione can be roughly translated to Castle, and it’s not the first time it’s been associated with The Punisher. In 1985 the comic The Punisher: Circle ... |
Then in 1990, a story arc in The Punisher: War Journal associated the name with Castle’s family’s roots in Sicily. On the show, Castle never shares his family’s country of origin so the name could simply be a knowing wink to comics fans. However, during season 1 Castle also mentions his wife’s grandmother was Sicilian,... |
When Russo is first re-introduced in the second season’s earliest episodes he’s wearing a mask that’s been decorated to look horrific. Viewers soon learn that it was Billy himself who drew the mask at the recommendation of his therapist. It’s an external representation of what he’s feeling internally. The face drawn on... |
However, the red, white, and blue stripes on the sides of the mask tell a slightly different story. There’s even a white star on a blue background on one side. This is a nod to Russo’s service in the United States Marines, one of the few things he still vividly remembers and thinks of positively from his life. |
Beth, the bartender that Castle spends the night with and returns to the roadhouse to see the subsequent evening, may look familiar. The actor’s name is Alexa Davalos and although she only appears in two episodes in The Punisher, she has a much bigger role in a different genre show. |
Davalos is perhaps best known for her role as Juliana Crain in The Man in the High Castle from that other streaming service, Amazon Prime. Davalos has also appeared in movies like Clash of the Titans and The Chronicles of Riddick and had a brief but memorable turn as Gwen on the Buffy spin-off Angel. As a result, fans ... |
Much is made of the scars Russo bears because of his fight with Castle at the end of season 1. Of course, they aren’t nearly as overwhelming as those borne by the comics version of Jigsaw. Yet, in Russo’s mind, he is just as disfigured as his comics counterpart. To Russo, his scarring is a constant reminder of the trau... |
Dumont, Madani, and Curtis do as well. Dumont’s whole body bears the scars of an early childhood incident where she almost lost her life after going through a window. Madani still bears a small but noticeable scar on her head from what Russo did to her in the show's first season — a constant reminder of what she suffer... |
In the comics, Billy Russo becomes the villain known as Jigsaw after his face is disfigured by Castle. The TV version of the character goes through a similar transition after Castle runs his face into a shattered mirror, yet the name Jigsaw is never mentioned. Instead, jigsaw puzzles are referenced in other ways. |
In the early episodes of season 2, Russo’s therapist, Krista Dumont, refers to Russo’s mind being like a jigsaw puzzle. He can’t remember everything that happened after the trauma he suffered so he’s still trying to find all the pieces and put them back together. Also, later in the season one of Billy’s crew says his f... |
The higher-ups at Marvel have always said that everything is connected in the MCU. Whether it’s on the movie or TV side, the events that happened in one storyline were always supposed to impact those in another. As a result, there have been multiple references to the MCU movies in the MCU TV shows. Even though they’ve ... |
The Punisher, however, has limited its references to the rest of the shared universe, especially the movie side, and this season continues that tradition. On the one hand, Karen does eventually show up representing Nelson and Murdock, and Castle asks what Murdock would think if he knew she was there. On the other, the ... |
The Punisher isn’t especially concerned with real-world events. Generally, it occupies its own space where a good guy with a gun can stop a bad guy with a gun — although it corrupts everyone. Yet, the show’s second season does make mild references to current events. |
The conflict Castle is dragged into courtesy of Amy revolves around the need to suppress some photos of the son of a wealthy couple. The wealthy couple will stop at nothing to prevent the photos from seeing the light of day. Yet, the Russians know of their existence and want to use them to influence the son, a potentia... |
When Russo’s therapist, Krista Dumont, is first introduced she comes across as an advocate for Russo with a strong interest in healing his broken mind. She may be a bit too involved, but mostly things stay professional. Then Russo breaks out of the hospital and shows up at her door after realizing he has nowhere else t... |
Dumont lets him in, but it’s not until they begin a romantic relationship that things really take a turn. What follows has echoes of the relationship between the Joker and Harley Quinn, another therapist who falls in love with him and becomes his partner in crime. Dumont’s desire to heal Russo goes into overdrive and s... |
Last season, Castle was on a mission to learn the truth behind what happened to his family. This season instead of one big lie, there are many little ones. The season kicks off when Castle meets a teenager who needs help. The catch: she’s constantly lying about who she is and why people are coming after her. At the sam... |
While The Punisher continues to explore many of themes, it's more interested in secrets and lies than ever. From the little white lies we tell the people we love to protect them, to the lies we deliberately tell to protect ourselves, and the way we twist the truth to make it easier to accept, each character is waging t... |
While Billy Russo is a familiar name to those who've read The Punisher comics, his comic book backstory differs substantially from his TV origins. In the 1986 comic The Punisher: Year One, readers learned that the villain Jigsaw was once Billy Russo, a mob enforcer who was so good-looking he was nicknamed “The Beaut.” ... |
The Russo of the TV series also got his scars at the hands of Castle and is similarly out for revenge because of it. However, his underworld origins were traded for military service and his connection to Castle started far earlier and much more positively than in the comics. |
In the ninth episode, the word “Valhalla” is graffitied in the lair of Russo’s gang, and later fans learn that it’s the name the group has given the place. In Norse mythology, Valhalla is the equivalent of heaven. However, this is not the first time Valhalla has been evoked in the MCU. |
Not surprisingly, Thor has mentioned the term in the past. Valhalla is said to be located in Asgard and ruled over by Thor’s father Odin. It’s a place where those who meet their end in battle go, so in Thor’s belief system, it would be a sacred place that he would strive to end up. By naming their lair Valhalla, Russo’... |
The teenage grifter, Amy, becomes the catalyst for the events of The Punisher’s second season. Amy’s no stranger to the harsh realities of the world and she’s also not a stranger to fans of The Punisher comics. In the comics, though, Amy is quite different. |
Amy Bendix was introduced in 1994, and was significantly younger than the 16-year-old Amy we meet on the show. The comics Amy nursed a wounded Castle back to health. However, her sheriff father found out and took Castle into custody, only to release him when Amy is taken by assassins. Amy’s been aged up and given a ver... |
For a long time, nurse Claire Temple seemed to be the glue that held the world of the Marvel-Netflix shows together. She appeared in every one of them, except The Punisher. It turns out, though, there’s another character that’s appeared in even more of the shows than Temple. That would be Turk Barrett. Not only has he ... |
Turk is a small-time criminal who various characters on the shows go to for arms and information. Over his many appearances, Turk seems to constantly be getting into trouble. Whether he’s helping out good guys or bad, he’s constantly beaten up or threatened. That continues in The Punisher’s second season where Castle u... |
The new villain introduced in The Punisher’s second season is named John Pilgrim, but those familiar with The Punisher comics have pointed out that he resembles a character called The Mennonite. Like Pilgrim, the Mennonite is desperate to heal his sick wife. While The Mennonite agrees to take out Castle in exchange for... |
Both men are deeply religious, however, The Mennonite is Amish and Pilgrim is a born-again Christian. Pilgrim’s less than righteous backstory as a member of a white supremacist gang is also eluded to on the series. The Mennonite doesn’t share that background, but like Pilgrim, when his search for Castle brings him to N... |
Early in the second season, Castle breaks his hand. It turns out, though, the injury wasn’t just for the show. Actor Jon Bernthal, who likes to do his own stunts for The Punisher, actually broke his hand during one of the show’s many fight scenes. |
According to Bernthal, the break happened during the first fight of the season on the first day of what was supposed to be a three-day shoot. Instead of telling anyone, though, Bernthal kept working and the subsequent stunts involving his injured hand just made everything worse. Castle wears a makeshift cast in subsequ... |
What did you think of season two of The Punisher? Let us know in the comments! |
THE outlook for Singapore's offshore and marine sector remains challenging and experts at Maybank Kim Eng are not ruling out more failures of weak players and another round of fresh provisions. |
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