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1599654 | California State Route 78 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=California%20State%20Route%2078 | California State Route 78
connecting Rancho Santa Fe Road to the Vista portion opened in February 1963, at a cost of $3.9 million (about $ in dollars). The opening of the freeway was credited with helping to bring 315 jobs to San Marcos in 1963. The rest of the freeway between Nordahl Road and US 395 opened on December... | 24,600 |
1599654 | California State Route 78 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=California%20State%20Route%2078 | California State Route 78
diamond interchange on this western segment was scheduled to open to traffic on October 24, 1967, and connected the recently relocated MiraCosta College to the freeway. The interchange, previously an at-grade intersection, improved traffic flow to the college by removing the left turn across t... | 24,601 |
1599654 | California State Route 78 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=California%20State%20Route%2078 | California State Route 78
interchanges had funding by August 1970.
The construction of the Emerald Drive interchange was scheduled for the year 1971. While the El Camino Real interchange was already a diamond interchange, the state planned to add traffic signals to the ramps to accommodate more congestion from the nea... | 24,602 |
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of 1973.
## Glamis Road.
Plans to construct a road from Brawley to Glamis date from 1953; the road would provide improved access to two newer state parks. The ceding of the Chocolate Mountains to the U.S. Navy had closed a north–south road traversing Imperial County, and the government neede... | 24,603 |
1599654 | California State Route 78 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=California%20State%20Route%2078 | California State Route 78
voted to allocate $660,000 (about $ in dollars) for the Navy to give to Imperial County to construct it in February 1956. The House Appropriations Committee bundled it with 616 other projects, however, which President Dwight Eisenhower vetoed in mid-July. The allocation was eventually approved... | 24,604 |
1599654 | California State Route 78 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=California%20State%20Route%2078 | California State Route 78
the United States Navy obtained ownership from Imperial County of the old Niland–Blythe road running through the Chocolate Mountain Aerial Gunnery Range for the specified amount. The county then used this money to fund the construction of the Glamis Road, which Ben Hulse predicted would become... | 24,605 |
1599654 | California State Route 78 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=California%20State%20Route%2078 | California State Route 78
to be more busy than US 80 and to bring traffic to San Diego directly from Needles and US 66.
The Glamis road opened in August 1958, and the road from Glamis to Palo Verde was under construction at that time; the part of the road that was already open was dedicated in October. In 1959, the re... | 24,606 |
1599654 | California State Route 78 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=California%20State%20Route%2078 | California State Route 78
Hulse's efforts to have the road built were recognized. Following this, in 1965, the newly constructed section was signed as CR S78. The section from Palo Verde to Blythe shows up as part of SR 78 on maps as early as 1965, and the section from southwest of Midway Well to Palo Verde is shown as... | 24,607 |
1599654 | California State Route 78 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=California%20State%20Route%2078 | California State Route 78
dense urban area. Other routes, including routing SR 78 along I-15 south, were proposed. The majority of the Escondido City Council supported sending representatives to the upcoming California Coastal Commission meeting in January 1971 to expedite the process of construction.
A month later, a... | 24,608 |
1599654 | California State Route 78 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=California%20State%20Route%2078 | California State Route 78
and Ash Street from Grand Avenue to improve traffic flow. Five years later, signs were installed on eastbound SR 78, directing traffic headed for the San Diego Zoo Safari Park to use I-15 south to Via Rancho Parkway instead of continuing eastbound, to bypass the Escondido traffic.
City offici... | 24,609 |
1599654 | California State Route 78 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=California%20State%20Route%2078 | California State Route 78
Diego County Board of Supervisors endorsed the project that month, in order to have the best chance at getting federal funding. A spike in accidents during that year led to Representative Ron Packard proposing a way to split the costs between the governments; there were 387 accidents from Janu... | 24,610 |
1599654 | California State Route 78 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=California%20State%20Route%2078 | California State Route 78
House and Senate eventually settled on a version of the bill in March 1987, only to have President Ronald Reagan veto the bill due to "pork barrel" spending. Congress passed the bill in April 1987, overriding Reagan's veto, in the same legislation that allowed for rural Interstates to have a s... | 24,611 |
1599654 | California State Route 78 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=California%20State%20Route%2078 | California State Route 78
public relations campaign had begun to garner public support for the project, including bumper stickers saying "I hate 78".
The widening project began construction on April 14, 1989, with the first project adding two lanes between San Marcos Boulevard and I-15. Additional funding was secured ... | 24,612 |
1599654 | California State Route 78 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=California%20State%20Route%2078 | California State Route 78
I-15. The widening was complete by the beginning of 1994.
## Upgrades and improvements.
Several projects took place following the completion of the widening project. A realignment project took place in 1994 to remove one of the curves in the San Pasqual Valley, at a cost of $2.5 million (abo... | 24,613 |
1599654 | California State Route 78 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=California%20State%20Route%2078 | California State Route 78
as the state Assembly refused to fund the project with $5.1 million (about $ in dollars) in April 1997. However, in June 1998, the California Transportation Commission approved the funding after the San Diego Association of Governments officially requested it. Construction began in August 1999... | 24,614 |
1599654 | California State Route 78 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=California%20State%20Route%2078 | California State Route 78
SR 78 at Barham Drive was the worst "traffic bottleneck" in the county between 2010 and 2012. Thus, the interchange at Nordahl Road was also improved, and extra lanes were to be added between Nordahl Road and I-15; construction commenced in early 2012, and the new bridge opened in November. Th... | 24,615 |
1599654 | California State Route 78 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=California%20State%20Route%2078 | California State Route 78
bypass that is solely SR 111. The second phase of the bypass, from the western junction with SR 111 to the eastern junction with SR 78, lasted from February 2008 to June 2011. On the third phase of the project, from the junction with SR 86 west of Brawley to the western end of the completed by... | 24,616 |
1599654 | California State Route 78 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=California%20State%20Route%2078 | California State Route 78
however, the Oceanside City Council decided to cancel these plans in 2005, despite studies suggesting that this move would be detrimental to the traffic in the region. The City Council reinstated those plans in September 2012.
There are also plans to improve the interchange with I-5, which cu... | 24,617 |
1599654 | California State Route 78 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=California%20State%20Route%2078 | California State Route 78
I-5 northbound to SR 78 eastbound ramp was widened to two lanes to ease congestion. At 2015 meeting, the Oceanside community expressed concerns about a potential "flyover" ramp design for the new interchange. The project is scheduled for completion in the late 2020s.
A 2011 Caltrans report pr... | 24,618 |
1599795 | Wedgwood, Fort Worth, Texas | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wedgwood,%20Fort%20Worth,%20Texas | Wedgwood, Fort Worth, Texas
Wedgwood, Fort Worth, Texas
Wedgwood is a neighborhood in Fort Worth, Texas (USA), located on the southwest part of the city. It is bounded by Granbury Rd on the northwest, Altamesa Blvd on the south, McCart Ave & Westcreek Dr on the east, and Interstate 20 on the north.
Most of the street... | 24,619 |
1599795 | Wedgwood, Fort Worth, Texas | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wedgwood,%20Fort%20Worth,%20Texas | Wedgwood, Fort Worth, Texas
community is a middle class area where the houses were built from 1975 to 1981. The nearby man-made lake sets a relaxing mood; most homes price anywhere from $122-400,000.
# Schools.
The school zone is the neighborhood Fort Worth Independent School District.
## Elementary schools.
- Bruc... | 24,620 |
1599795 | Wedgwood, Fort Worth, Texas | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wedgwood,%20Fort%20Worth,%20Texas | Wedgwood, Fort Worth, Texas
ighborhood Fort Worth Independent School District.
## Elementary schools.
- Bruce Shulkey Elementary School
- J. T. Stevens Elementary School
- Westcreek Elementary School
- Trinity Valley School (Private)
- Southwest Christian School (Private)
## Middle schools.
- Wedgwood Middle Sc... | 24,621 |
1599778 | Michael Cain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michael%20Cain | Michael Cain
Michael Cain
Michael Cain (born April 2, 1966 in Los Angeles, California) is a pianist and composer.
# Biography.
Michael Cain first started playing the piano at the age of four and was quickly improvising and composing. The following year he began studying classical music, although by the age of ten it... | 24,622 |
1599778 | Michael Cain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michael%20Cain | Michael Cain
the University of Southern California, and finally ended up at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, CA., where he did both undergraduate and graduate work. Cain received a Bachelor's degree in jazz piano in 1988, and a Master's degree in fine arts in 1990.
Cain moved to New York in 1990 and b... | 24,623 |
1599778 | Michael Cain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michael%20Cain | Michael Cain
with Jack DeJohnette and joined his group Special Edition.
In 1991, Cain also began playing with the Anthony Cox quartet which featured Dewey Redman on saxophone and Billy Higgins on drums. That group did several European tours and recorded two CD's for Island Records, Dark Metals, and Factor of Faces, wh... | 24,624 |
1599778 | Michael Cain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michael%20Cain | Michael Cain
school year Michael served as the school's Diversity Coordinator, an administrative position that focused on issues of diversity in all its implications at the university level. From 1999 to the present Michael has been the director of the "Digital Playground", a music education and recording program at th... | 24,625 |
1599778 | Michael Cain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michael%20Cain | Michael Cain
as a pianist, he has played with and for musicians such as Ravi Coltrane, Billy Higgins, Marlena Shaw, Gerald Wilson, James Newton, Billy Hart, Anthony Cox, Greg Osby, Robin Eubanks, Lonnie Plaxico, Jack DeJohnette, Ralph Peterson, Dave Holland, Bobby McFerrin, Meshell Ndegeocello, Carlos Ward, Ray Anderso... | 24,626 |
1599778 | Michael Cain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michael%20Cain | Michael Cain
many others.
In 2008, Cain joined the Faculty of Music at Brandon University in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada, where he leads several ensembles, and teaches jazz curriculum and piano.
The 2015 album "Sola" was well reviewed. JazzdaGama said "Michael Cain feels music passionately and colourfully and the exper... | 24,627 |
1599778 | Michael Cain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michael%20Cain | Michael Cain
release is "Hoo Doo", featuring Michael Cain – keys, Eric Platz and Angelo Stokes – drums, Scott Brown and Matthew Fricke – guitar, Aren Teerhuis – saxophone, Stormy Allen – trombone and Tondrae Kemp – vocals
# Discography.
## As sideman.
With Jack DeJohnette
- "Earthwalk" (Blue Note, 1991)
- "Music f... | 24,628 |
1599794 | Kraków Film Festival | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kraków%20Film%20Festival | Kraków Film Festival
Kraków Film Festival
The Kraków Film Festival () is one of Europe's oldest events dedicated to documentary, animation and other short film forms. It has been organised year after year since 1961. The Artistic President of the festival is .
It was in Kraków that the Polish movie makers such as Krz... | 24,629 |
1599794 | Kraków Film Festival | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kraków%20Film%20Festival | Kraków Film Festival
for the international festival laureates included also numerous artists who made their names as feature film directors: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Werner Herzog, Zoltán Huszárik, Jaromil Jireš, Claude Lelouch, Patrice Leconte, Mike Leigh and the recent Oscar laureate, Jan Svěrák.
Since 1998 the Festival... | 24,630 |
1599794 | Kraków Film Festival | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kraków%20Film%20Festival | Kraków Film Festival
f 2001 was Jan Švankmajer, 2002 – Werner Herzog, 2003 - Stephen and Timothy Quay, 2004 - Albert Maysles, 2005 - Yuri Norstein, 2006 - Kazimierz Karabasz.
The unique character of the Kraków festival derives not only from the programme of the competition screenings, the Dragon and Hobby Horse prizes... | 24,631 |
1599790 | 1979 (song) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1979%20(song) | 1979 (song)
1979 (song)
"1979" is a song by American alternative rock band the Smashing Pumpkins. It was released in 1996 as the second single from their third studio album, "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness." "1979" was written by frontman Billy Corgan, and features loops and samples uncharacteristic of previou... | 24,632 |
1599790 | 1979 (song) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1979%20(song) | 1979 (song)
States. The song was nominated for the Record of the Year and Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal at the 39th Annual Grammy Awards, and won an MTV Video Music Award for Best Alternative Video. In 2012, it was voted the second-best Smashing Pumpkins song by "Rolling Stone" readers.
# Recordin... | 24,633 |
1599790 | 1979 (song) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1979%20(song) | 1979 (song)
time came to choose the songs that were to appear on the album, producer Flood said that "1979" was "not good enough" and wanted to drop it from the record. This, however, inspired Corgan to finish it in four hours. The next day, Flood heard "1979" once and decided immediately to put it on the album. Corgan... | 24,634 |
1599790 | 1979 (song) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1979%20(song) | 1979 (song)
highest-charting single, reaching number 12 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 and number one on the Mainstream Rock Tracks and on the Modern Rock Tracks charts. Virgin credited the inclusion of the single's bonus tracks for driving sales. The song was nominated for the Record of the Year and Best Rock Performance ... | 24,635 |
1599790 | 1979 (song) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1979%20(song) | 1979 (song)
had for what the next Pumpkins album would sound like, "something that combines technology, and a rock sensibility, and pop, and whatever, and hopefully clicks. Between 'Bullet with Butterfly Wings' and '1979' you have the bookends of "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness". You've literally [heard] the en... | 24,636 |
1599790 | 1979 (song) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1979%20(song) | 1979 (song)
the music video for "Rocket". Originally, the band approached another director (possibly Spike Jonze) to film the video for "1979". His idea was that all the band members were residents in an alien hotel and they were all going to have specially made alien-elephant masks. This video would have cost over a m... | 24,637 |
1599790 | 1979 (song) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1979%20(song) | 1979 (song)
scenes the mountains of California are visible in the background shots. Originally, Corgan wanted a scene of violence, in which the convenience store was trashed by the teens at the end of the video, but Dayton and Faris convinced him to go for something tamer. Aside from Corgan appearing throughout the vid... | 24,638 |
1599790 | 1979 (song) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1979%20(song) | 1979 (song)
all tapes of the footage were accidentally left sitting on top of a car, and were lost as the driver departed. The group later flew back to re-shoot the party scene.
The "1979" video was highly acclaimed. It won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Alternative Video in 1996. It was one of Canadian cable tele... | 24,639 |
1599790 | 1979 (song) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1979%20(song) | 1979 (song)
in one of the later video's final scenes, in which a cassette tape is left on top of a car and falls off as a character drives out of a parking lot at high speed, and is subsequently destroyed by another vehicle.
# Track listing.
US 7" double A-side single
UK/US CD single/UK 12"
1996 Re-issue/Max-CD
19... | 24,640 |
1599790 | 1979 (song) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1979%20(song) | 1979 (song)
ting.
US 7" double A-side single
UK/US CD single/UK 12"
1996 Re-issue/Max-CD
1979 Mixes
Tracks 1, 2, and 4 are remixed by Roli Mosimann. Track 3 is remixed by Moby.
# Licensed uses.
The song is used in "Clerks II" and during the credits of "Gran Turismo 5". It was also released as downloadable conten... | 24,641 |
1599785 | Sacra conversazione | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sacra%20conversazione | Sacra conversazione
Sacra conversazione
In art, a sacra conversazione, (plural: "sacre conversazioni") meaning holy/sacred conversation, but normally left in Italian, is a genre developed in Italian Renaissance painting, with a depiction of the Virgin and Child (the Virgin Mary with the infant Jesus) amidst a group of... | 24,642 |
1599785 | Sacra conversazione | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sacra%20conversazione | Sacra conversazione
and academic art history is now to give the full list. The name, which only appears as a title retrospectively in the 18th century, has been explained with reference to "their rapt stillness of mood, in which the Saints, scarcely looking at one another, seem to communicate at a spiritual rather than... | 24,643 |
1599785 | Sacra conversazione | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sacra%20conversazione | Sacra conversazione
of Raphael's "Sistine Madonna" where the Virgin and Child hover in the air well above the saints.
# Development.
The "sacra conversazione" developed as artists replaced earlier hieratic and compartmented triptych or polyptych formats for altarpieces with compositions in which figures interacted wi... | 24,644 |
1599785 | Sacra conversazione | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sacra%20conversazione | Sacra conversazione
in the unusual composition of the Castelfranco Madonna (Giorgione, c. 1503). Here as in many works, the Virgin and Child are seated on a throne, but the saints stand, so in more typical examples with the throne only slightly raised on a dais, the adult heads are at about the same level. The "sacra c... | 24,645 |
1599785 | Sacra conversazione | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sacra%20conversazione | Sacra conversazione
portraits or secular scenes.
Early examples are the "Annalena Altarpiece" (c. 1438–40), "San Marco Altarpiece" (c. 1438–43) and "Fiesole Altarpiece" by Fra Angelico and the "Barbadori Altarpiece" by Filippo Lippi (1437, Louvre). Having the Virgin the same size as the other figures is often regarded... | 24,646 |
1599785 | Sacra conversazione | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sacra%20conversazione | Sacra conversazione
and Child with Saints Luke and Catherine of Alexandria" by Titian. In the first examples the setting is normally architectural, loosely representing heaven, but also, until Titian's "Pesaro Altarpiece" (begun 1519), continuing the architecture of the architectural frame and therefore that of the ori... | 24,647 |
1599785 | Sacra conversazione | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sacra%20conversazione | Sacra conversazione
and those of the church, city, diocese or religious order concerned. The mixture of figures from different periods that is normal in the type makes it clear than no historical incident is being depicted, and whatever the setting, the space should be understood as mystical rather than any actual plac... | 24,648 |
1599785 | Sacra conversazione | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sacra%20conversazione | Sacra conversazione
with the figures mostly seated or kneeling in a rather tight group, combining informality and a monumental classicism. Such compositions also drew on traditional outdoor groups featuring the Holy Family such as the Rest on the Flight into Egypt, the Adoration of the Shepherds and Madonna and Child c... | 24,649 |
1599785 | Sacra conversazione | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sacra%20conversazione | Sacra conversazione
a metaphor for the Virgin's womb, as the hortus conclusus began as a representation of the Annunciation, marking Mary's conception of Christ. These more relaxed groups were continued in Venetian paintings set in open landscape. By the end of the century, "the dominant relationships in an altarpiece ... | 24,650 |
1599785 | Sacra conversazione | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sacra%20conversazione | Sacra conversazione
rare, if only because of the number of figures involved. One exception was planned by Michelangelo for the Medici Chapel in Florence, though he left the project before the two Medici patron saints flanking his Virgin and Child were done; these were made by others following his designs.
# "In aria" ... | 24,651 |
1599785 | Sacra conversazione | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sacra%20conversazione | Sacra conversazione
the Virgin or the Assumption of Mary. The latter doctrine was still a matter of controversy in the Reformation, and a "sacra conversatione" hinting at it may have been preferred by some patrons to a full depiction, which rather required the choice of saints to be restricted to the Apostles, and ofte... | 24,652 |
1599785 | Sacra conversazione | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sacra%20conversazione | Sacra conversazione
Madonna" of 1512 are leading examples; in the latter the two saints are also kneeling on clouds, although the curtains to the sides and the ledge on which the famous angel-putti lean keep the setting tied to the earth. From the 1520s onwards Moretto da Brescia was "probably the first major Italian a... | 24,653 |
1599785 | Sacra conversazione | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sacra%20conversazione | Sacra conversazione
key texts of the church, from the Vulgate Bible, to the Church Fathers and Catholic liturgy. But in these its meaning is more like "pious conduct" or "holy community". The development of meaning of the Italian "conversazione" is also rather complex; as in English, it was a long time before the word ... | 24,654 |
1599785 | Sacra conversazione | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sacra%20conversazione | Sacra conversazione
by the "History of Painting in Italy" (3 volumes, 1864–1866) by Crowe and Cavalcaselle. They claimed "with remarkable "élan"" that Palma Vecchio was "the inventor of the large Sacra Conversazione in which full-lengths of saints hold court in the presence of the Virgin ...", suggesting a rather more ... | 24,655 |
1599785 | Sacra conversazione | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sacra%20conversazione | Sacra conversazione
of these have standing saints in an architectural setting. Rona Goffen traces the origin of the type further back, to the Trecento, examining several examples, many from the Basilica of Saint Francis in Assisi, and at half-length.
Most accounts of the development restrict themselves to Italy, ignor... | 24,656 |
1599785 | Sacra conversazione | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sacra%20conversazione | Sacra conversazione
1979, pp. 198–222., subscription required
- "Grove": Nigel Gauk-Roger. "Sacra conversazione." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Weborn 4 Mar. 2017. Subscription required
- Hall, James, "Hall's Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art", 1996 (2nd edn.), John Murray,
- ... | 24,657 |
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mes", in Jaffé, David (ed), "Titian", The National Gallery Company/Yale, London 2003,
- "NG": Glossary: Sacra Conversazione. National Gallery, 2013. Retrieved 4 March 2017
- Penny, Nicholas, National Gallery Catalogues (new series): "The Sixteenth Century Italian Paintings, Volume I", 2004, Nation... | 24,658 |
1599692 | Ken Kwapis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ken%20Kwapis | Ken Kwapis
Ken Kwapis
Kenneth William Kwapis (born August 17, 1957) is an American film and television director and screenwriter. He specialized in the single-camera sitcom in the 1990s and 2000s and has directed feature films such as "Sesame Street Presents Follow That Bird" (1985), "The Sisterhood of the Traveling P... | 24,659 |
1599692 | Ken Kwapis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ken%20Kwapis | Ken Kwapis
at Northwestern University's School of Speech, after which he traveled west to enroll in the M.F.A. program at the USC School of Cinema-Television.
Kwapis' twenty-four-minute thesis film, "For Heaven's Sake", won the Student Academy Award in 1982. The film is a contemporary adaptation of Mozart's one-act op... | 24,660 |
1599692 | Ken Kwapis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ken%20Kwapis | Ken Kwapis
adult fantasy, "Freaky Friday". For the Scholastic Book Company, Kwapis directed his first feature film "The Beniker Gang", starring Andrew McCarthy.
Kwapis' next film was "Sesame Street Presents Follow That Bird" (Warner Bros., 1985). The film was the big-screen debut of the Sesame Street ensemble (Big Bir... | 24,661 |
1599692 | Ken Kwapis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ken%20Kwapis | Ken Kwapis
second feature "Vibes" (Columbia, 1988) was made under Ron Howard and Brian Grazer's fledgling Imagine banner. Written by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, "Vibes" is the tale of two psychics (Jeff Goldblum and Cyndi Lauper) who are enlisted by a fortune hunter (Peter Falk) to divine the whereabouts of a treas... | 24,662 |
1599692 | Ken Kwapis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ken%20Kwapis | Ken Kwapis
point of view. The woman's (Elizabeth Perkins) portion of the film was directed by Silver and the man's (Kevin Bacon) by Kwapis. The film also features Sharon Stone and Nathan Lane. Soon after the release of "He Said, She Said", the film's title (coined by Silver) entered the vernacular as shorthand for any ... | 24,663 |
1599692 | Ken Kwapis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ken%20Kwapis | Ken Kwapis
a grand hotel in New York City, which is owned and operated by a tyrant in the Leona Helmsley mold (Faye Dunaway). An aristocrat of dubious origin (Rupert Everett) checks into the hotel with an orangutan jewel thief.
Kwapis' next film, "The Beautician and the Beast" (Paramount, 1997), evokes the Ruritanian ... | 24,664 |
1599692 | Ken Kwapis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ken%20Kwapis | Ken Kwapis
Award nomination for his work as a producer-director.
In 2001, Kwapis helped develop "The Bernie Mac Show" for Fox, directing the pilot and ten additional episodes, including the series finale, "Bernie's Angels". Also for Fox, Kwapis was one of the main creative forces behind "Grounded for Life", a hybrid c... | 24,665 |
1599692 | Ken Kwapis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ken%20Kwapis | Ken Kwapis
2005, Kwapis worked on "The Office" which was an adaptation of the BBC mockumentary of the same name. He directed the pilot and twelve additional episodes, including the 100th episode of the series, "Company Picnic". His work on the third-season premiere, "Gay Witch Hunt", earned him a second Primetime Emmy ... | 24,666 |
1599692 | Ken Kwapis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ken%20Kwapis | Ken Kwapis
on the bestselling young adult novel by Ann Brashares. "Sisterhood", a coming-of-age story about four sixteen-year-old friends, stars Amber Tamblyn, Alexis Bledel, America Ferrera, and Blake Lively (her screen debut).
His next feature, "License to Wed" (Warner Bros., 2007), follows a young couple (Mandy Moo... | 24,667 |
1599692 | Ken Kwapis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ken%20Kwapis | Ken Kwapis
film is adapted from the bestselling advice book by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo, which encouraged people to learn to read romantic signals correctly. The film stars Ben Affleck, Jennifer Aniston, Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Connelly, Kevin Connolly, Bradley Cooper, Ginnifer Goodwin, Scarlett Johansson, and J... | 24,668 |
1599692 | Ken Kwapis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ken%20Kwapis | Ken Kwapis
employee not to be fired, Todd Dempsey (Ben Rappaport), goes to Mumbai to oversee the call center.
For Working Title Films, and Universal Pictures, Kwapis directed the rescue adventure "Big Miracle", starring Drew Barrymore and John Krasinski. Based on a real event that took place in 1988, the film tells th... | 24,669 |
1599692 | Ken Kwapis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ken%20Kwapis | Ken Kwapis
the half-hour Showtime pilot "Happyish", written by Shalom Auslander and starring Philip Seymour Hoffman. The project stalled after Hoffman's death, but was eventually recast with Steve Coogan. It made its debut on Showtime in April 2015 and, in addition to producing, Kwapis directed four of its episodes.
I... | 24,670 |
1599692 | Ken Kwapis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ken%20Kwapis | Ken Kwapis
Walk in the Woods" was released by Broad Green on September 2, 2015.
Recently, Kwapis returned to single-camera half-hour comedy and directed four episodes of Tig Notaro's semi-autobiographical Internet television series, "One Mississippi"—two per season in 2016 and 2017. The show was produced by Amazon Stu... | 24,671 |
1599692 | Ken Kwapis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ken%20Kwapis | Ken Kwapis
"License to Wed" (2007)
- "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" (2005)
- "Sexual Life" (2005)
- "The Beautician and the Beast" (1997)
- "Dunston Checks In" (1996)
- "He Said, She Said" (1991)
- "Vibes" (1988)
- "Sesame Street Presents Follow That Bird" (1985)
- "The Beniker Gang" (1985)
## Notable... | 24,672 |
1599692 | Ken Kwapis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ken%20Kwapis | Ken Kwapis
r Gang" (1985)
## Notable episodic television work (directing).
- "The Dangerous Book for Boys" (2018)
- "Santa Clarita Diet" (2017-)
- "One Mississippi" (2016-2017)
- "Happyish" (2015)
- "The Office" (2005-2013)
- "Outsourced" (2010)
- "Parks and Recreation" (2010)
- "The Bernie Mac Show" (2001-200... | 24,673 |
1599814 | Lima District | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lima%20District | Lima District
Lima District
Lima is a district of Lima Province in Peru. It is, however, not the Central business district of Lima, the country's capital city: this is San Isidro District.
Lima district is the oldest in Lima and as such, vestiges of the city's colonial era remain today in the Historic centre of Lima,... | 24,674 |
1599814 | Lima District | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lima%20District | Lima District
border with the San Martín de Porres and Rímac districts.
- East: El Agustino
- South: La Victoria, Lince, Jesús María, Breña and Pueblo Libre.
- West: San Miguel District; and the Callao Region districts of Bellavista, Callao and Carmen de la Legua Reynoso.
# Demographics.
According to a 2005 estima... | 24,675 |
1599814 | Lima District | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lima%20District | Lima District
proper) is limited by Avenida Alfonso Ugarte on the west and Jirón Huánuco (Huánuco Street) on the east. It is divided into West and East sides by Jirón de la Unión (Union Street), from which "cuadras" (blocks) are numbered beginning at 100 and changing the first numbers at the next block. Unlike New York... | 24,676 |
1599814 | Lima District | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lima%20District | Lima District
the Peruvian government palace and the Metropolitan Municipality of Lima (City Hall). It's also known as Damero de Pizarro ("Pizarro's Checkerboard").
East of the center is the Barrios Altos (Uptown) neighborhood. Here the oldest, though least stable, buildings in Central Lima are located. Two cemeteries... | 24,677 |
1599814 | Lima District | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lima%20District | Lima District
for containing the buildings for the state TV network TNP (Ch. 7), and the top two private TV networks, America Television (Ch. 4) and Panamericana Television (Ch. 5). Its main thoroughfare is Arequipa Avenue, a narrow boulevard lined with trees of all sizes. Santa Beatriz is also home to the city (and co... | 24,678 |
1599814 | Lima District | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lima%20District | Lima District
Beatriz is also home to the city (and country)'s main football stadium, the Estadio Nacional ("National Stadium").
West of the center is the Industrial Area, an industrial belt extending into neighboring Callao Region, and home to the main industries in both city and country. Most of the area is covered ... | 24,679 |
1599822 | Ricco (crater) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ricco%20(crater) | Ricco (crater)
Ricco (crater)
Ricco is a lunar impact crater. It is located in the northern part of the Moon's far side. This crater overlies the southeastern rim of the larger crater Milankovic. Less than one crater diameter to the southwest is Karpinskiy, while to the southeast is Roberts.
This is a relatively fres... | 24,680 |
1599822 | Ricco (crater) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ricco%20(crater) | Ricco (crater)
, reaching to the edge of the interior floor. The remainder of the inner wall has a slumped in places, forming a steep top section and shelves or terraces of slumped material. The most extensive terraces occur along the northwestern side, where the rim overlays part of Milankovic. The outer rampart of Ri... | 24,681 |
1599757 | Greg Puciato | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Greg%20Puciato | Greg Puciato
Greg Puciato
Gregory John Puciato (born March 27, 1980) is best known as the lead singer of the disbanded The Dillinger Escape Plan and is currently the lead singer of The Black Queen and Killer Be Killed. He is noted for reckless live performances, wide vocal range, outspoken views, and controversy stemm... | 24,682 |
1599757 | Greg Puciato | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Greg%20Puciato | Greg Puciato
a giant influence on [him]," both in the sense that he does not "feel uncomfortable in any area" and on his fondness for R&B and hip-hop. As a child, he became a fan of Guns N' Roses through MTV, which was the first band he was "obsessed with." Around the age of nine, he saw Metallica's video for "One" whi... | 24,683 |
1599757 | Greg Puciato | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Greg%20Puciato | Greg Puciato
to move to vocals because he was "too much of a control freak to let someone else sing" and could not do both at the same time, but he continued playing by himself. During that time, Puciato became a fan of funk metal bands including the Bad Brains, Faith No More, Primus and Living Colour. Pucaiato cites M... | 24,684 |
1599757 | Greg Puciato | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Greg%20Puciato | Greg Puciato
during which he was invited to join The Dillinger Escape Plan.
# Career.
## The Dillinger Escape Plan.
Puciato joined The Dillinger Escape Plan in September 2001 and first performed with the group weeks later at the "CMJ music conference" in October 2001.
In a scenario mirroring that of young Henry Rol... | 24,685 |
1599757 | Greg Puciato | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Greg%20Puciato | Greg Puciato
mimicking Dimitri Minakakis and one with his own take on the song. He was contacted shortly after by the band, auditioned in person, and was subsequently asked to join. Coincidentally, the band's first release with Puciato was for a Black Flag tribute compilation, where they covered Damaged I and II. He ha... | 24,686 |
1599757 | Greg Puciato | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Greg%20Puciato | Greg Puciato
and Jeff Caxide of Isis). Spylacopa released a self-titled EP in 2008, with vocals, as well as some guitar and piano/programming, written by Puciato. Similar programming and piano playing would appear on The Dillinger Escape Plan's "Option Paralysis" album as the bonus track "Chuck McChip". Puciato confirm... | 24,687 |
1599757 | Greg Puciato | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Greg%20Puciato | Greg Puciato
In September 2013 the band recorded their self-titled debut album at Fortress Studio in Los Angeles with producer Josh Wilbur. It was released on May 13, 2014.
## The Black Queen.
He announced in an interview with "Revolver Magazine" that he was involved in a new band with Josh Eustis and Nine Inch Nails... | 24,688 |
1599757 | Greg Puciato | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Greg%20Puciato | Greg Puciato
announced that a new album called "Infinite Games" would be released on September 28, as well as the formation of a label named Federal Prisoner with frequent visual collaborator and fine artist Jesse Draxler. Puciato called the label "as much an act of refusal as it is a statement of intent", further elab... | 24,689 |
1599757 | Greg Puciato | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Greg%20Puciato | Greg Puciato
Atticus Ross and Epitaph Records owner and Bad Religion founding guitarist Brett Gurewitz. His position was mainly considered as temporary studio work, since the band never played any concerts. Puciato confirmed in 2012 that Error is "dead".
Puciato is furthermore a frequent collaborator, and guest on oth... | 24,690 |
1599757 | Greg Puciato | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Greg%20Puciato | Greg Puciato
their Wave Goodbye Tour in North America, and in Australia (both with The Dillinger Escape Plan, and solo, performing the songs "Wish" and "Mr. Self Destruct").
He contributed minor backup vocals on the song "The Marvelous Slut" on the Every Time I Die album "New Junk Aesthetic". In late November 2009 he ... | 24,691 |
1599757 | Greg Puciato | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Greg%20Puciato | Greg Puciato
Max Cavalera) the Soulfly track "Rise of the Fallen" on their record "Omen", and has on occasion performed the song live with them.
He also appears on the Architects track "Year In/Year Out" on their 2011 release "The Here and Now".
In February 2011 Puciato and Devin Townsend publicly decided to collabor... | 24,692 |
1599757 | Greg Puciato | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Greg%20Puciato | Greg Puciato
electronic duo Mixhell's track "Exit Wound".
In May 2014 Suicide Silence announced that Puciato had contributed guest vocals to a song called "Monster Within", on the album "You Can't Stop Me", their first album after the death of vocalist Mitch Lucker.
In January 2015 Puciato appeared as a murderer in t... | 24,693 |
1599757 | Greg Puciato | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Greg%20Puciato | Greg Puciato
for Jesse Draxler's 2018 visual arts book "Misophonia".
Puciato released a book of poetry and photography, titled "Separate The Dawn", on February 12th, 2019. Initially 1000 hardcover copies were made available, selling out quickly. A second pressing of 200 was subsequently made available, also selling ou... | 24,694 |
1599757 | Greg Puciato | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Greg%20Puciato | Greg Puciato
his fans, and that led him to close them all in early 2013, including Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
On July 23, 2010, Puciato's death was faked by bandmates Ben Weinman and Liam Wilson, when they posted on their Twitter accounts that Puciato had passed in his sleep. Shortly after their Warped Tour set ... | 24,695 |
1599757 | Greg Puciato | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Greg%20Puciato | Greg Puciato
metal, releasing a shirt in support of LGBT rights with The Dillinger Escape Plan, and debuting a video from The Black Queen on "Out"'s magazine website.
Puciato has been outspoken on his opinions about other musicians, especially during his tenure with The Dillinger Escape Plan, criticizing artists such ... | 24,696 |
1599757 | Greg Puciato | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Greg%20Puciato | Greg Puciato
as far as getting what I want. I'm more interested in capturing or amplifying the emotion of the song". Puciato compared writing a song to a "morphing straight line", rather than a "collection of parts".
## Incident at the Reading Festival 2002.
During The Dillinger Escape Plan's 2002 performance at the ... | 24,697 |
1599757 | Greg Puciato | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Greg%20Puciato | Greg Puciato
, I just wanted to show you this so you'll recognize it later on throughout the day" referring to other bands that would appear that day of the festival, especially Puddle of Mudd. The act caused much controversy and had them on the verge of being banned in the UK.
# Discography.
## With The Dillinger Es... | 24,698 |
1599806 | Southern Cross Austereo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Southern%20Cross%20Austereo | Southern Cross Austereo
Southern Cross Austereo
Southern Cross Austereo (SCA) is an Australian group of companies formed in July 2011 by the merger of Southern Cross Media Group and Austereo Group. The Group's parent company, Southern Cross Media Group Limited, is listed on the Australian Stock Exchange ().
Southern ... | 24,699 |
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