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"Jess Swanson"
] | 2016-08-26T14:46:49 | null | 2016-08-26T08:56:00 | After a seven-hour commission meeting, C. Ann Lanese's death raises questions about the elderly's access to the public process in Fort Lauderdale. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.browardpalmbeach.com%2Fnews%2Fdeath-of-85-year-old-after-seven-hour-commission-meeting-raises-discrimination-concerns-8031829.json | http://images1.browardpalmbeach.com/imager/u/original/8034001/screen_shot_2016-08-26_at_8.00.46_am.png | en | null | Death of 85-Year-Old After Seven-Hour Commission Meeting Raises Discrimination Concerns | null | null | www.browardpalmbeach.com | EXPAND Lanese’s death has raised concerns about the elderly and their access to participation in the public process. Screenshot from Ann Lanese's Memorial (Fred Hunter Memorial)
After hearing about a $43 million, 75-foot parking garage proposed for a spot in front of her building, C. Ann Lanese attended the Fort Lauderdale city commission meeting last Tuesday night in opposition. But there were many items on the agenda, and residents commented on each one. The meeting lasted seven hours and didn’t end until 1:30 a.m.
When the 85-year-old returned to her apartment early Wednesday morning, she collapsed and broke her leg. She died from complications the following day at the hospital.
That was more than a week ago. Though the $43 million Las Olas Corridor Improvement Project passed its second reading, neighbors and friends have vowed to keep fighting. They have dedicated the struggle to Lanese’s decades-long dedication to preserving the central beach.
Paul Chettle, a Leisure Beach resident and activist, says Lanese’s death raises other concerns. “The public process is out of reach to the elderly,” he says. “There are people like Ann who want to participate, but they can’t because they don't have access to smart phones, internet, and government websites. It strains the link between public disclosure and public information.”
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A large senior population lives at the Leisure Beach towers along the Intracoastal. Many elderly residents have limited access to the internet and struggle to navigate the city website to stay up-to-date with meetings and upcoming projects. Also, many can’t drive; even if they can, most prefer not to drive at night. This makes attending a commission meeting almost impossible, especially if it doesn’t finish until 2 a.m.
Though a vast majority of residents opposes the construction of the 75-story parking garage in front of their building, the proposed project made it to second reading without many hearing about it. They were informed about the Planning and Zoning Board meeting on a “plat amendment,” but critics say the wording was vague and didn’t depict the totality of the project.
"They were not told that a plat amendment means a 75-foot story garage in front of their building," Chettle says.
Because staying informed has been so difficult, Paul Chettle and Craig Fisher, another Leisure Beach resident and activist, work as liaisons between residents and the city. Both stay organized with meeting dates, track upcoming agenda items, and help disseminate that information to the people in their building.
About 20 people over the age of 70 attended last Tuesday's meeting. Though a handful of people of all ages slipped out as the meeting carried on into the wee hours, many stayed — including Ann Lanese. “Ann was fine and in tremendously good health,” says Fisher, one of Ann's longtime friends. “I think the stress of all this and the anxiety and the hour certainly contributed to [her death].”
Fisher was particularly devastated by Lanese’s passing. When people move into Leisure Beach, he often jokes that Lanese was here first and that the 12-story condominium was built around her. A resident since 1974, she was the building’s matriarch. Even at 85, Lanese chatted with her neighbors, embedded herself in the day-to-day happenings, and was a fixture at commission meetings. At the time of her death, she was vice president of the condominium association's board.
When Fisher heard about Lanese's fall, he visited her that morning in the hospital. She was tired, he says, but coherent. That morning Fisher gave her a kiss. He told her to get better and to come home soon. He was shocked when Lanese suddenly died the following day.
“It was a sad day, and we lost a very wonderful person,” Fisher says. “This is a tremendous loss to her family and to all residents in Leisure Beach. [Ann] will be sadly missed and always remembered as someone who really cared about all her neighbors and her neighborhood for over 40 years.”
Craig Fisher, Paul Chettle, and many Leisure Beach residents are determined to keep fighting the Las Olas Improvement Project. “We’re not done with this. In Ann’s honor and memory, I’m not giving up on this. She thought it was a horrible idea.”
C. Ann Lanese leaves behind two children, four grandchildren, five great-grandchildren, four sisters, and four brothers. She was preceded in death by her husband, Ralph, and two brothers. | http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/news/death-of-85-year-old-after-seven-hour-commission-meeting-raises-discrimination-concerns-8031829 | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.browardpalmbeach.com/01b3833657e7b793c24175eb745db354e1a75700112bbcadeb5a6d332b1f9f20.json |
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"Tina Hassania"
] | 2016-08-26T14:46:19 | null | 2016-08-26T10:08:27 | How did someone like Spencer Crittenden become such a prominent figure on a television series built around improv? | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.browardpalmbeach.com%2Ffilm%2Fhow-dungeon-master-spencer-crittenden-became-the-lord-of-harmonquest-8033343.json | http://images1.laweekly.com/imager/u/original/7296616/2016-08-22_15_39_38-harmonquest_-_episode_1_-_the_quest_begins.jpg | en | null | How Dungeon Master Spencer Crittenden Became the Lord of Harmonquest | null | null | www.browardpalmbeach.com | Courtesy of Seeso
You can be forgiven for thinking that the new show from Dan Harmon, creator of Community and Rick and Morty, might come off as niche. Available on the new comedy streaming service Seeso, Harmonquest features comedians playing Pathfinder — a tabletop role-playing game similar to Dungeons and Dragons — in front of a live audience and behind a table furnished with character sheets, snacks and myriad colorful dice. The adventures that the team plays through are then animated in post — much like The Ricky Gervais Show — to illustrate the fantastical, quirky brio of the game. In other words, it’s a gathering of nerds transformed into a cartoon.
Chief among those nerds is Spencer Crittenden. He looks too socially awkward to be a comedian, with his big, beautiful bushy beard and monotone voice. On Harmonquest, Crittenden is producer, writer and “game master” — he runs the show. So how did someone like him become such a prominent figure on a television series built around a precarious device like improv? To answer this question, we must first examine the intense cult of personality built around Harmon.
Like Joss Whedon, Harmon has an unusually ardent fan base for a TV showrunner, and he’s cultivated the kind of celebrity usually reserved for pop idols or movie stars. At CommuniCon, an event where fans got to meet the stars and crew of Community, Harmon was treated like a king. On Twitter, Community groupies hang on his every word. And then there’s the long-running Harmontown: a live comedy show hosted by Harmon at the NerdMelt Showroom in Hollywood, recorded every week in front of a live audience and made available as a free iTunes podcast and paid-subscription video podcast. It’s more or less a platform for Harmon to say and do as he pleases.
Harmontown's talk ranges from trivial personal complaints to conceptual comedy riffs to political issues — the laid-back, shoot-the-shit atmosphere allows for anything to happen. Harmontown is also like group therapy, for both Harmon and the audience members he invites to the stage to talk about their physical and emotional problems. His tendency to veer into digressions is managed by “comptroller” Jeff Davis, an improv comic perhaps best known for appearances on Whose Line Is It Anyway?; the show is at its most entertaining when it features comedian guests. Regulars have included Harmon’s ex-wife Erin McGathy and Kumail Nanjiani (Silicon Valley), while the likes of Robin Williams, Laraine Newman and John Oliver have appeared as well.
Harmon occasionally talked about Dungeons and Dragons on the podcast, then eventually decided, in the middle of a show, to try playing it live. He asked the audience in front of him if anyone was a dungeon master — the organizer of an RPG game responsible for narrating the adventure and administering its details, rules and challenges. One young man waited to see if anyone else would volunteer before raising his hand: the shy, soft-spoken Crittenden. He’d mostly attended for the chance just to try talking to Harmon about D&D after the show.
“That’s what tipped the scale in me going there,” Crittenden says. “I’m an anxious person — I would never go and do something fun on my own like that.”
The hosts liked Crittenden so much they invited him back, and before long D&D was a regular improvised segment on Harmontown. The chemistry between the three men is evident. Crittenden had no comedy experience. He’s not a trained public speaker. But his laid-back nature and mastery of the game make him an excellent complement to the loquacious Harmon and irreverent Davis.
Harmonquest, then, is essentially a Harmontown spin-off, and its appeal for fans is obvious. But why should anyone else watch? For those who appreciate a good pen-and-paper fantasy game, it’s fascinating to watch comedians improvise their way through a session. They imbue the humorless RPG mechanics with a levity that’s nonetheless respectful. It’s also interesting to see a game that ordinarily takes place entirely in the imagination of its players come to life in animated form.
Courtesy of Seeso
Harmonquest appeals on another level: comedy. The Hollywood Reporter recently described a resurgence in the mainstream appeal of D&D. It listed a host of celebrities who are avid players, including comedian Patton Oswalt and Adventure Time creator Pendleton Ward. That makes sense: Improv and RPGs share “overlapping skill sets,” says Crittenden. “You’re coming at something from a new perspective, trying to see it in different ways. That’s what comedy is: looking at something from a funny angle. It’s the same mental gymnastics.”
As game master, Crittenden is solely responsible for devising the Harmonquest adventure on which the players riff. “If Dan, as executive producer and cast member, knew the story, that would betray the spirit of what we were trying to do, and so I was basically on my own to write everything,” Crittenden explains.
Harmon created the show and acts as executive producer, but got so busy with other projects early on in its development that he handed the reins to Crittenden, who now more or less runs Harmonquest on his own. When Crittenden found out that he’d be in control, he didn’t take it well. In fact, he started to hyperventilate. “I’m afraid of things changing,” he says, “but the flip side is that when things change for me I have a good time adapting.”
Crittenden believes a “gentle learning curve” made it easier for him to produce the show, thanks to Harmon’s guidance. “By the second episode, I started to get into the swing of things and getting more comfortable giving notes and stuff,” he says.
Attending that serendipitous Harmontown taping has paid off. In the last few years, Crittenden has come out of his shell. A documentary that followed Harmontown’s 2014 tour exemplifies Crittenden’s slow but sure-footed acclimatization in becoming the podcast “treasure,” to borrow one listener’s term. One endearing scene in the film shows a cute girl asking for Crittenden’s autograph, her eyes shining with excitement. After she leaves, he can’t hide his pleasant surprise from the camera. Crittenden has gone from his simple role as game master to unofficial podcast co-host. He’s gone from playing D&D in basements to playing it with professional comedians. He’s gone from zero television experience to guest-starring on Community and writing and producing Harmonquest.
“I was able to grow into that space,” he says, fully acknowledging his blessings. “I don’t think that’s a chance everyone gets.”
Crittenden’s friendship with Harmon has been an essential part of his development. And, he says, he isn’t the only one benefiting from Harmon’s mentorship. “He wants to cultivate relationships with young, talented, creative people and help them succeed.”
In addition to Rick and Morty co-creator Justin Roiland, who was virtually unknown before he came onboard that show, Harmon has helped others who are not yet in the public eye. “There’s stuff happening behind the scenes and projects that haven’t come to fruition or they’re in back-development hell,” Crittenden explains. This may come as a surprise given Harmon’s reputation for being irascible on set. But Crittenden insists these collaborations come from Harmon’s genuine desire to help people refine their ideas. “It’s really cool and charitable and kind. It’s fundamentally benevolent.” | http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/film/how-dungeon-master-spencer-crittenden-became-the-lord-of-harmonquest-8033343 | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.browardpalmbeach.com/d0592c73f186cda009ab1533f2dd89346cc1b070da22fa734e8ffe067f381b12.json |
[
"Tony Centeno"
] | 2016-08-26T12:49:59 | null | 2016-08-24T10:01:00 | Sizzla finally returns to South Florida after eight years. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.browardpalmbeach.com%2Fmusic%2Fjamaican-artist-sizzla-to-kick-off-first-us-tour-in-eight-years-at-revolution-live-8026892.json | http://images1.miaminewtimes.com/imager/u/original/8715080/sizzla-vegandeedee.jpg | en | null | Jamaican Artist Sizzla at Revolution Live August 24 | null | null | www.browardpalmbeach.com | Sizzla Kalonji performs for the first time on U.S. soil in eight years earlier this month in California. Photo by VeganDeeDee
Earlier this year, Jamaican born artist Sizzla Kalonji joined a handful of other Caribbean artists — including Aidonia, Elephant Man, and Beenie Man — who were cleared to return to the United States. Back in July, Sizzla, who was born Miguel Collins, took to Instagram to inform his fans that his work visa had finally been reinstated and to prepare them for his forthcoming 876 tour, which kicks off this week in South Florida.
After releasing a mind-boggling 71 albums to date, Sizzla’s music hasn’t always settled well with human rights groups, especially those that support the LGBT community. Although the U.S Embassy never stated an exact reason, Collins’ work visa was revoked back in 2008, which has caused him to cancel numerous tour dates. Many fans and industry insiders believed that his offensive songs like “Nuh Appologize” and “Murder Dem,” which contain inflammatory lyrics towards homosexuals, encouraged the government to keep him from returning to the country. Collins has remained silent on the subject since his return to the United States.
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The “Give Me A Try” crooner made his first appearance back in the U.S. to headline the 32nd annual Reggae On The River festival in Garberville, California. Now he’s made his way back to South Florida to perform for the first time in eight years. Tonight, August 24, Sizzla will take the stage at Fort Lauderdale's Revolution Live to perform new cuts off his latest project, 876, which dropped earlier this year, his 2013 album, The Messiah, and other fans favorites.
“When I tour, I get to meet the fans,” Sizzla told New Times at a press event a couple days before his South Florida show. “So I take the sprit of the fans with me everywhere. When I’m on stage and the people are giving me that energy, when I reach the next venue, this is the same energy that I’m going to deliver to that audience. It’s an ongoing process."
Now that he’s making waves on U.S. soil once again, Sizzla hopes to put his controversial past behind him and treat his American fan base with the sounds of well-crafted island jams from his native land. The reggae star has high expectations for what’s to come as he kicks off his 876 U.S. tour in Fort Lauderdale, which will also hit Orlando, Atlanta, and 22 other major American cities this fall.
“More love, peace, more vibrations and unity,” says Sizzla. “Expect the fans to turn out in numbers in the hundred thousands.”
Sizzla with the Fire House Band, and Vision Band.7 p.m. Wednesday, August 24, at Revolution Live, 100 SW 3rd Ave., Fort Lauderdale; 954-449-1025; jointherevolution.net. Tickets cost $39 to $69 plus fees via ticketmaster.com. | http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/music/jamaican-artist-sizzla-to-kick-off-first-us-tour-in-eight-years-at-revolution-live-8026892 | en | 2016-08-24T00:00:00 | www.browardpalmbeach.com/7acf36f5cb6b108810b66d7a1fa862d0238cbe87015a00abdcfa9d321fac328c.json |
[
"David Rolland"
] | 2016-08-26T12:56:15 | null | 2016-08-24T08:23:52 | Though Bro Safari is a DJ name that connotes all kinds of stereotypes of the EDM scene, Nicholas Weiller says he didn't put too much thought into his... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.browardpalmbeach.com%2Fmusic%2Fbro-safari-finds-a-heavy-new-sound-8005477.json | http://images1.browardpalmbeach.com/imager/u/original/8005478/1.jpg | en | null | Bro Safari Finds a Heavy New Sound | null | null | www.browardpalmbeach.com | EXPAND Bro Safari Photo by J Bajsel
Though Bro Safari is a DJ name that connotes all kinds of stereotypes of the EDM scene, Nicholas Weiller tells New Times he didn't think too much about social criticism when coming up with the moniker. "I didn't intend to call myself Bro Safari for a long time," he says. "I had a bundle of four weird songs I wanted to release, and I needed a name. Someone said 'Brostafari.' We laughed, and somehow that became Bro Safari."
Weiller says he latched on to music at an early age. In fourth grade, he took viola lessons. Those were followed by piano and guitar. He had been in rock bands in high school, but when he went to college in 1997 at the University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, he didn't have anyone to jam with and so began DJing and producing. It wasn't until he released music under the Bro Safari name in 2008 that he really found a following. Those fans will be happy to hear he's finished a new EP set to drop this fall.
"It's long been a battle with management and my agents to give me some time off from touring," explains Weiller. "I can hit a stride in the studio when I have the time. I've been able to stack up five or six new songs — some solo, some as collaborations." Weiller says the creative process in his Texas home starts with his fatherly duties. "I have a family, so every day starts getting my kid up and taking him to school. Once he's gone for the day, I get into my routine. A song comes from my head, and I paint the picture. I get over my creative blocks and have another breakthrough and another breakthrough and then another breakthrough."
That recording process is going to have to take a break as Bro Safari hits the road for his Pretty Good Tour, kicking off August 25 at Revolution Live. "My sets have been getting heavier as the year goes on. There's been a revival of the dubstep sound, and I'm into it. I try to have the show be insanity from start to finish, with no dry spots. MC Armanni Reign performs every set with me. He knows when to show restraint and when to hype the crowd."
Weiller is no stranger to South Florida, having played at Miami Music Week or Ultra just about every year for the last decade. "South Florida is always an awesome run I look forward to. I have a lot of memories of being awake at dawn." He says with a smirk that those dawns didn't involve waking up any children. "To play down there so many times and have people keep coming back makes me very appreciative."
Bro Safari. 8 p.m. Thursday, August 25, at Revolution Live, 100 SW Third Ave., Fort Lauderdale; 954-449-1025; jointherevolution.net. Tickets cost $24 plus fees via ticketmaster.com. | http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/music/bro-safari-finds-a-heavy-new-sound-8005477 | en | 2016-08-24T00:00:00 | www.browardpalmbeach.com/2117b3f1126790240397d4fe8008a18f2dc9ace7c19e7f82fc9f7723bb989799.json |
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"David Rolland"
] | 2016-08-30T14:47:08 | null | 2016-08-30T09:12:00 | Even though summer never ends in South Florida, we still find any excuse to party. Here are ten of the best Labor Day weekend festivities in Broward... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.browardpalmbeach.com%2Fmusic%2Ften-best-labor-day-weekend-parties-in-broward-and-palm-beach-8022795.json | http://images1.browardpalmbeach.com/imager/u/original/8024422/12009598_550429698439585_6817580475656133556_n.jpg | en | null | Ten Best Labor Day Weekend Parties in Broward and Palm Beach | null | null | www.browardpalmbeach.com | Alex Markow
Labor Day is the first Monday of every September. It is meant to be a tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of our country. Somewhere along the way, though, it transformed into a weekend bidding farewell to summer through pool parties, barbecues, and adult beverages. Even though summer never ends in South Florida, we like to party, so here are ten of the best Labor Day weekend festivities in Broward and Palm Beach counties.
Carina Mask
10. Aqua Mansion Pool Party.
Get the three-day weekend started right by keeping cool with a pool party in Plantation. The $20 cover charge will give you entry to swim laps — or, more likely, dance to DJs Dutty Dex, Juxxy Fire, and Sinister and Steelie Back.
EXPAND Cafe Iguana Pines
9. Café Iguana Pines.
Sunday night at the Pembroke Pines club is Soiree de Fanatiques. It features the music of Djakout #1 and Tropicana. Both live bands play variations of kompa, a Haitian merengue that takes advantage of its European and African roots.
EXPAND Rachel Lipsitz
8. Culture Room.
The Fort Lauderdale concert venue has a weekend packed with shows. Saturday night features a triple-header of local bands including indie rockers Surfer Blood, jam band the Heavy Pets, and jokester troubadour Chaucer. Sunday night is the diabolical death black metal of Blephegor.
Carina Mask
7. Adult Swim 2k16.
There will be no cartoon characters or comedy at this ultimate day-rave pool party that has absolutely nothing to do with Cartoon Network's nighttime programming block. With a pool, a ,jacuzzi, and bed cabanas the soundtrack will be hip-hop, dancehall, soca, kompa, and R&B spun by Juxxy Innocents, Iron Heart Sounds, DJ Slick Rick, DJ Swoll Joel, and more. The Saturday party starts at 4 p.m. and has a $15 cover charge.
Cog Nomen
6. Bohemia AG.
The West Palm Beach art gallery will be celebrating its third anniversary Saturday at 4 p.m. with Anniversary 3. There will be a wide assortment of bands, DJs, live performances, live art, and vendors. The free event will be selling food, beverages, gelato, and vegan sorbetto. Bands set to take the stage include Cog Nomen, Beatles Haircut, and Aceskully.
Blue Martini
5. Blue Martini Fort Lauderdale.
Saturday night is Bubbles & Bikinis, a swim fashion show and champagne special event. The $15 entry grants you live entertainment by Higher Ground, a bikini runway show, and raffle tickets to win prizes of bikini giveaways. The VIP package includes special goody bags and the chance to hang out with the models after the fashion show.
Alex Markow
4. Respectable Street's Cheesy '90s Homecoming.
Sunday night is Respectable Street's annual Cheesy '90s Homecoming party. Dress for success in your best flannel, Tivas, and Cavaricci pants because not only can you get your photo taken under their balloon-covered archway, but they're also giving away prizes for best-dressed homecoming king and queen. You'll be able to dance to C&C Music Factory and Right Said Fred powered by $3 Zima shots.
Candace West
3. B Lee Labor Day Weekend Day Party.
This Sunday party will be celebrated under the sweltering sun at the Hilton Fort Lauderdale Beach Resort. For $15, they promise you "the prettiest women and the coolest guys you'll ever meet." Music will be blasting courtesy of DJ Lucky C who they say will have you dancing all night long.
Alex Markow
2. Mike Miro + Friends at McSorley's Rooftop.
From Sunday afternoon at 4 p.m. until 2 in the morning, the rooftop of Fort Lauderdale Beach's favorite Irish bar will be blasting loud music and serving cold drinks with an ocean view. By the event's name, you can tell Mike Miro will obviously be playing some music. His friends who will also be taking over the DJ booth include Dan Carraway, James Simmons, Jess Kay, and Omar G.
Hyde Beach Kitchen + Cocktails
1. Hyde Beach Kitchen + Cocktails.
This Hallandale Beach spot is hosting a three-day, weekend-long Labor Day brouhaha. Saturday through Monday from noon to 6 p.m., they will feature a barbecue menu of hot dogs, hamburgers, chicken sandwiches, and grilled corn. Saturday's DJ will be DJ Aloona, and Sunday and Monday have DJ YSL manning the turntables. | http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/music/ten-best-labor-day-weekend-parties-in-broward-and-palm-beach-8022795 | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.browardpalmbeach.com/3065ec8614f44297243a1570e692a521f2da54e2bcdc9cee65883ca6ac5d8259.json |
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"Angel Melendez"
] | 2016-08-30T12:47:04 | null | 2016-08-30T08:05:00 | In addition to making multiple film and TV appearances, George Lopez has continually toured, often selling out wherever he goes. This Saturday, he'll... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.browardpalmbeach.com%2Farts%2Fin-honor-of-george-lopezs-thatstrue-comedy-tour-here-are-the-top-five-hispanic-comedians-8041138.json | http://images1.browardpalmbeach.com/imager/u/original/8041137/culture2-1-e96d0c79a6a4f0dd.jpg | en | null | George Lopez's #ThatsTrue Comedy Tour Hits Hard Rock Live | null | null | www.browardpalmbeach.com | Lopez: Like your funny, drunk uncle. Courtesy of Hard Rock Live
Like Chris Rock, who regularly ranted about issues affecting African-Americans, and Paul Rodriguez, a pioneer for Hispanic-American comedians, George Lopez has made it his business to examine Hispanic culture in the only way that makes sense to him: through humor.
Lopez is a larger-than-life figure — like that uncle who turns every family gathering into a true party once he begins telling boisterous and outlandish jokes. The drunker he gets, the louder and funnier he becomes. That's Lopez, and that's the guy America fell in love with in the mid-2000s while watching his self-titled ABC sitcom, following in the (very) limited tradition of Desi Arnaz and Freddie Prinze of other Hispanic-led TV shows.
He was poised to be an even bigger star before his demons dragged him down.
In addition to making multiple film and TV appearances, Lopez has continually toured, often selling out wherever he goes. This Saturday, he'll bring his latest, the #ThatsTrue Comedy Tour, to Hard Rock Live (1 Seminole Way, Hollywood; 866-502-7529; seminolehardrockhollywood.com). In honor of his upcoming show, here's a look at five of the best Hispanic comedians past and present.
(Note: Carlos Mencia is not on this list, nor will he ever be on a list of great Hispanic comedians because he's a joke thief and about as funny as cancer.)
Tom Segura. Born in Ohio, raised across the Midwest, and doing stints in Wisconsin and Florida, Tom Segura may seem like an odd choice for this list, but he does come from a Hispanic background. It's his use of the Spanish language that can surprise people when he peppers his standup with names and phrases like those in his bit "Pregnant While Mexican." Never shying away from polarizing or uncomfortable material, he also does an incredible impression of an aggressive black man and encourages all white people to give it a try (if you feel you must).
Gabriel "Fluffy" Iglesias. More often than not, Gabriel Iglesias, affectionately known as Fluffy, is charming rather than laugh-out-loud funny. Still, it's obvious he always works hard for his audiences. He once played an epic four-hour show at the Palm Beach Improv that featured five openers — all his friends and all hilarious — before he did an extended set that ended only because of curfew. One of the buddies to join him that evening, Felipe Esparza (made famous by his catch phrase "What's up, fool?"), is making a name for himself thanks to the exposure provided by Iglesias and his goofy stories about (amicable) run-ins with cops.
John Leguizamo. Starring in classics such as Carlito's Way and clunkers like Ice Age: Collision Course, John Leguizamo has had an uneven film career. His standup, however, always delivers while simultaneously dividing people into camps that either love it or hate it for the very same reason: It's raw — not "raw" as in "dirty," the way Eddie Murphy was, but emotionally raw. More than anything, Leguizamo is a storyteller. His tales dip in and out of his troubled childhood and absurd escapist fantasies before returning to a place of true pain and reflection.
Greg Giraldo. Perhaps one of the smartest men on this list, Greg Giraldo was also one of the funniest — and a tragic case of squandered talent. A native of the Bronx, Giraldo was of Colombian and Spanish descent. A graduate of Columbia and Harvard Law School, Giraldo used his brilliant mind for dark observational humor that meandered and twisted deeper and deeper into the abyss. He gained a cult following for his insult humor on Comedy Central roasts and was poised to be an even bigger star before his demons dragged him down. He died at the age of 44 from an accidental overdose of prescription pills. He took his wealth of venomous put-downs with him, and we're all the worse for it.
Al Madrigal. Although he speaks perfect English, grew up in the United States, and does a great Southern California-surfer-guy accent, Al Madrigal is a Mexican comedian — despite what some may say. As a man who's been told he's not "Latino" enough, Madrigal has made a career out of being stuck between being a white guy who doesn't quite fit in the barrio and just Mexican enough to be put on HBO Latino by white folks. When he's not doing standup, he's the senior Latino correspondent on The Daily Show, where he often tears apart ridiculous stereotypes.
Bonus honorable mention: Louis C.K. Perhaps the greatest comedian of his generation regardless of ethnicity, Louis C.K. looks like a white Irishman from Boston. Nope! He's a white Mexican from Boston. Seriously. | http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/arts/in-honor-of-george-lopezs-thatstrue-comedy-tour-here-are-the-top-five-hispanic-comedians-8041138 | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.browardpalmbeach.com/71f565e09e9de5a5d8ca7e1318fb11293f27cfa9e1a0c45d291b62952bc84d8c.json |
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"David Minsky"
] | 2016-08-30T14:47:01 | null | 2016-08-30T10:30:00 | Due South is Being Sued by a Tampa Brewery. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.browardpalmbeach.com%2Frestaurants%2Fbig-storm-brewing-sues-due-south-brewing-asks-judge-for-clarification-on-the-word-category-8038978.json | http://images1.browardpalmbeach.com/imager/u/original/8040802/due-south-category-4-ipa-hurricane-pack.jpg | en | null | Due South Brewing Co. Got Slapped With a Copyright Lawsuit | null | null | www.browardpalmbeach.com | When Big Storm Brewery owner Jonathan Golden learned that his brewery could face legal action from use of a trademark, he instead sued Boynton Beach's Due South Brewing Company. But he's not suing for damages or even asking for a trial.
Golden told the New Times that he wants to get a clarification from a federal judge on use of the word "category" in beer labels. On July 15, Big Storm was slapped with a cease-and-desist order for using a beer label that Due South said was too similar to theirs.
In the lawsuit filed on Aug. 22 in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Big Storm claims there is no evidence that Due South owns the exclusive right to the word "category."
In question is Big Storm's use of the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale — a system used to rate the strength of hurricanes — to label its seasonal series of Belgian abbey-style beers. The beers, which Big Storm has had since February 2016 and are mostly confined to the brewery's tap room — have the word 'category' to describe the alcohol potency of each one. For example, a Belgian quadrupel is a "category 4."
Due South owner Mike Halker says his brewery's been making Category 3, Category 4, and Category 5 IPAs for years. Due South held a registered trademark with the federal government for Category 5 IPA, but it has since expired.
Halker says it's more of an issue because both breweries nearly overlap in distribution territory and there is a possibility that the consumer could be confused.
Although Due South beer gets distributed to most of Florida, Halker says there is a stretch of area between Tampa and Fort Myers where his beer doesn't go, at least not yet. Golden says one of his Belgians has reached at least three accounts across the Tampa area. Breweries in other states use the category in their labels too, but Halker says he's already worked it out with them.
"If someone is using, let's say, the Category 5 name in Maryland, we don't distribute to Maryland, so it's not a big deal to us," Halker previously told the New Times.
Golden not only says that the beers are distinguishable, the hurricane scale is fair use and that's the reason why he's asking for a judge's opinion.
Here is a statement on the lawsuit that Due South owner Mike Halker emailed to the New Times:
Obviously all of the folks in the Due South family are disappointed about being sued by Big Storm. We just found out yesterday, so we're still trying to get our feet under us as far as this is concerned. It is my understanding, and my opinion as I'm not an attorney, that even though we've been brewing Category 3, Category 4 and Category 5 for over four years, they are suing us so a judge will allow them to use these names for beers they've recently released. I also believe if we lose, we also have to pay all of their attorney fees and costs. I'll reiterate, I'm not an attorney and this is simply what it looks like I'm reading. I'm a Veteran and my wife is a former school teacher so we don't know much about the way these things work. We're counting on some other folks who have experience in this type of litigation to help us navigate this issue correctly. We're keeping our chins up over here at Due South and will continue making our beer as we always do. I'd like to thank our fellow brewers around Florida who have been so supportive with this and all of the folks who continue to support our brewery in the market.
According to the U.S. Copyright Office, fair use is an exemption to copyright law that allows the use of protected works in certain circumstances, such as in news reporting or research. Courts generally rely on four factors in determining whether something is fair use.
"It's not about damages," Golden told the New Times. "We feel that we have the right to use the category system, I feel Due South has the right to use the category system. We just want to get clarity in the market."
Despite the seemingly endless bounds of creativity, name conflicts happen — even when the they aren't exactly the same — and breweries simply adjust to avoid litigation. In a similar dispute in 2014, Tampa-area Coppertail Brewing Company sued Boynton Beach's Coppertop Brewing Company—which is now called Copperpoint Brewing Company.
The point is to "police your mark" and avoid confusion, says Ross Appel, an attorney with Hollywood's Komlossy Law and has experience in dealing with brewery trademark disputes.
The product doesn't necessarily have to be exactly the same or in the same country for that matter. Earlier this month, a New York federal jury ruled that Adirondack Pub and Brewery was infringing on Canada's Moosehead Breweries for its "aggressive" marketing of Moose Wizz root beer, according to the National Post.
However, Golden says he's going to hold off on his Belgians until the judge gives his opinion.
"We are not going to continue to develop the Belgian beer program under the dark cloud of possible litigation from Due South," Golden says.
Read a copy of the lawsuit below: | http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/restaurants/big-storm-brewing-sues-due-south-brewing-asks-judge-for-clarification-on-the-word-category-8038978 | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.browardpalmbeach.com/ec82b694f64ac5296d3cb4c95b57c0378f21b66482e2e318af3b8ff025a4d10e.json |
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"Nicole Danna"
] | 2016-08-29T14:46:55 | null | 2016-08-29T09:00:00 | Grocery delivery service Instacart is now serving Broward County. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.browardpalmbeach.com%2Frestaurants%2Finstacart-expands-south-florida-grocery-delivery-service-to-fort-lauderdale-8032247.json | http://images1.browardpalmbeach.com/imager/u/original/8032250/instacart58205.jpg | en | null | Instacart Moves Into Broward County | null | null | www.browardpalmbeach.com | Instacart recently launched services in Fort Lauderdale. Photo courtesy of Instacart
Instacart, an internet-based grocery and retail delivery service where personal shoppers hand-pick and deliver items from local partnered stores, is now available in Fort Lauderdale. The expansion into Broward County marks the second market to launch in Florida outside Miami-Dade.
Starting August 24, Fort Lauderdale residents in 11 zip codes (33301, 33304, 33305, 33306, 33308, 33309, 33311, 33312, 33315, 33316, 33334) can order from retailers like Whole Foods Market, Publix, Total Wine & More, or Petco and have their groceries and/or goods delivered straight to their doorstep — all in as little as one hour.
"Customer demand to bring Instacart to Fort Lauderdale has been very high," said Nick Friedrich, the general manager for Instacart. "Our streamlined shopping and delivery experience gives customers access to the freshest and highest quality products within an hour of ordering. What's not to love?"
Unlike other delivery services, Instacart dispatches couriers to shop, avoiding the need to stock warehouse shelves or manage trucks. At some stores, including Whole Foods, Instacart has embedded personal shoppers who use devoted checkout lanes and pass off orders to drivers.
Instacart dispatches personal shoppers to gather your items and deliver them to your doorstep. Photo courtesy of Instacart
The company, founded in 2012, currently operates in 17 U.S. markets. It makes money from charging delivery fees, as well charging higher than retail prices for some items, or through commissions paid by the grocer.
The benefits for local stores are worth the extra incentive according to Jeff Jenkins, Whole Foods Market's global executive coordinator of digital strategy.
"Whole Foods Market prides itself in delivering a high level of quality to our customers," said Jenkins. "Our partnership with Instacart ensures that we can continue to maintain a high level of service while providing a creative solution to a wider customer base outside our Fort Lauderdale store."
How does Instacart work? Customers can order online or use the Instacart mobile app on their iPhone or Android devices. Once connected, select the city or store you'd like to order from, add items to a virtual cart, and choose a delivery window (within one hour, within two hours, or up to seven days in advance). Last, check out — ah, no lines! — and an Instacart personal shopper will handle the rest.
New customers can open an account online at instacart.com. The first delivery is free. Fees begin at $5.99 after your first purchase. Visit the website's FAQs page.
Nicole Danna is a food writer covering Broward and Palm Beach counties. To get the latest in food and drink news in South Florida, follow her @SoFloNicole or find her latest food pics on the BPB New Times Food & Drink Instagram. | http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/restaurants/instacart-expands-south-florida-grocery-delivery-service-to-fort-lauderdale-8032247 | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.browardpalmbeach.com/1789c9d9de4c4d29ac98358ca8ee8845a10568a6e310a14ed38657d99d0339e9.json |
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"Antonia Noori Farzan"
] | 2016-08-26T14:45:56 | null | 2016-08-26T09:18:00 | We're stuck with these four for now. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.browardpalmbeach.com%2Fnews%2Fbad-news-private-prisons-arent-going-away-in-broward-and-palm-beach-8033336.json | http://images1.browardpalmbeach.com/imager/u/original/8033339/800px-broward_transitional_center_entrance.jpg | en | null | Bad News: Private Prisons Aren't Going Away in Broward and Palm Beach | null | null | www.browardpalmbeach.com | Last week, activists around the country celebrated the news that the U.S. Department of Justice would stop contracting with private prison companies.
This unfortunately doesn’t mean private prisons are going away altogether. The ruling won’t affect the four private prisons here in Broward and Palm Beach, since none of them are federal prisons.
Here’s what we’re stuck with:
Broward Transitional Center
This euphemistically-named complex, run by the GEO group, holds as many as 700 undocumented immigrants at a time—many of whom do not have criminal records and are in the United States seeking political asylum because they face persecution and violence in their home countries. In 2012, two activists infiltrated the facility to get a sense of the conditions inside, and left with a number of disturbing stories. A man was raped with a Sharpie while taking a shower. A woman who had to undergo emergency ovarian surgery was returned to her cell that same day, and suffered from heavy bleeding. More recently, a man who suffered from a hernia the size of a baseball says he was only given Advil for three months.
Broward Juvenile Detention Center
Chief assistant public defender Gordon Weekes memorably compared dealing with this facility to playing a game of Whack-a-Mole, because new problems keep on popping up. We’ve seen kids getting attacked because they had a “snack bounty” placed on them, kids getting locked in hot vans for hours, and kids having their jaws wired shut because they were beaten up so badly. A disturbing allegation of sexual assault seems not to have been taken seriously at all. And that’s just a few selected examples from the past few months.
Palm Beach Juvenile Detention Center
Last summer, the ACLU labeled this the worst juvenile detention center in all of Florida, which is really saying something. The reason? It had the highest reported rate of sexual abuse in the state, with reports coming from a shocking 32% of all inmates. Conditions had gotten so bad that the Department of Juvenile Justice asked the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to conduct an independent review. The state ultimately opted to sever its contract with Youth Services International, which had managed the facility for years, and had Sequel Youth & Family Services take over in April of this year. The jury is still out on whether the change in management has made a difference.
South Bay Correctional Facility
The GEO Group again! Based on their name, you’d think they do something vague and semi-boring involving rocks, but they’re actually the second-largest for-profit prison operator in the country. You could say they’re the Pepsi to Corrections Corp. of America’s Coke. They also happen to be headquartered in Boca Raton.
While GEO doesn’t get name-checked quite as often as CCA, it’s no less questionable. The Center for Media and Democracy has pointed out that between 2008 and 2012, CEO George C. Zoley earned $22,315,704. Meanwhile, the company cut aggressively costs at state prisons like the South Bay Correctional Facility, leading to dangerous levels of understaffing and neglect. They’ve paid to settle hundreds of lawsuits from inmates who say their medical needs were ignored, they were sexually assaulted or beaten by fellow inmates or guards, or that they are housed in inhumane conditions.
The company gave Marco Rubio close to $190,000 while he was speaker of the Florida House, which seems to have worked out well for them, because they got a major contract with the state right around that time. They also tried to give FAU $6 million in exchange for naming the football stadium after them, which didn’t go quite so well. In what should have come as a shock to no one, FAU students responded by protesting GEO Group’s dubious human rights record until the company decided to take back the gift. | http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/news/bad-news-private-prisons-arent-going-away-in-broward-and-palm-beach-8033336 | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.browardpalmbeach.com/685f71555b1f6de46f68e74a1e8497bf0b72487431eb9e9ffab4b64625c924ca.json |
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"Claudia Dawson"
] | 2016-08-26T16:46:13 | null | 2016-08-26T10:44:00 | Eric Grutka, AKA Mr. Delicious, owner/executive chef of Ian’s Tropical Grill in Stuart, faced off against Adam Brown, executive chef at the Cooper in... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.browardpalmbeach.com%2Frestaurants%2Fchef-vs-chef-2016-week-ten-offal-ly-good-eats-and-fruity-treats-8033818.json | http://images1.browardpalmbeach.com/imager/u/original/8033899/it8a8843.jpg | en | null | Chef vs. Chef 2016 Week Ten: Offal-ly Good Eats and Fruity Treats | null | null | www.browardpalmbeach.com | Eric Grutka likes to drink his Moscow mules mind-eraser style. Studio B2/Emiliano Brooks
Chef vs. Chef is a 16-week competition at Max's Harvest hosted by chef Eric Baker that pits local chefs against one another, cooking up surprise ingredients for a panel of judges — and our tasting pleasure.
What do Hannibal Lecter, zombies, and Sicilian grandmothers all have in common (other than being huge Pavarotti fans)? Their love of eating brains, of course. And for good reason: Brains are really, really tasty. Lamb’s brains, as we learned on Wednesday night, are definitely among the best types of brains to eat (sorry, Dr. Lecter). If you’ve ever had veal sweetbreads (from the thymus gland), you’re not too far from brains. Both kinds of offal, when prepared correctly, have a creamy, custard-like texture and a delicate flavor.
Lamb’s brains, along with jackfruit and Turtle Creek goat cheese from Loxahatchee — all generously donated by uberlocal purveyor Sunshine Provisions — were the stars of the evening.
Jackfruit has been trending heavily lately due to its popularity as a meat substitute. Unripe jackfruit, when cooked, is said to have a texture like pulled chicken or pork, but the only people who actually think so are vegans. Upton’s Naturals sells packaged jackfruit in flavors like “chili lime carnitas” and features a drawing of a mustachioed 18th-century dandy as its logo, so it’s impossible for hipsters not to buy.
Adam Brown wonders how many vegans it takes to lift a jackfruit. Studio B2/Emiliano Brooks
Eric Grutka, AKA Mr. Delicious, owner/executive chef of Ian’s Tropical Grill in Stuart, wore a “Chef Knives Matter” T-shirt to the battle. Adam Brown, executive chef at the Cooper in Palm Beach Gardens, brought his A-game.
Brian Cartenuto of Tucker Duke’s Lunchbox returned to liven up the competition, this time as a judge (he lost to Grutka in Week 4), along with Rey de la Osa, resident chef at the Boca Raton Publix Aprons cooking school, and Chef vs. Chef veteran competitor Blake Malatesta.
The battle began with Grutka’s jackfruit piña colada with avocado, “young coconut meat,” dulce de leche, and rum. Cartenuto wasn’t impressed. “That wasn’t a piña colada. I love piña coladas — and getting caught in the rain,” he said.
Brown’s first plate was a pumpkin-seed-crusted goat cheese with cherry hazelnut vinaigrette and mustard greens. “The goat cheese was creamy, and the pumpkin seeds added a nice crunch,” said de la Osa.
Grutka followed up with “twelve-minute scrambled eggs,” the best scrambled eggs the competition has seen yet. He mixed goat cheese and brown butter into the eggs and topped them with salty bacon lardons, rissolee lamb’s brains, and a sprinkling of chives. After a taste, Cartenuto fell in love with his former rival.
“I’d go from a top to a bottom for you, Eric,” he said.
Malatesta said, “The eggs have the texture of ricotta cheese, with a beautiful creaminess and flavor. The bacon made up for the lack of salt. I’d eat this for breakfast any time of the day.”
Grutka's goat cheese and brown butter scrambled eggs with sautéed lamb's brains Studio B2/Emiliano Brooks
Brown’s next dish was the favorite of the night: a lamb brain fritter with red onion marmalade and salsa verde.
“The perfect bite. Sweet, vinegary, no flaws in this dish,” said Cartenuto. It had texture (crispy outside and creamy inside of the fritter), herbaceousness (the salsa verde), and a balance of sweetness and acidity (the marmalade).
Brown's lamb brain fritter with red onion marmalade and salsa verde was the favorite dish of the night. Studio B2/Emiliano Brooks
An eggy clafoutis with jackfruit caramel, served in a mini cast iron pan, was Brown’s next course. The presentation was lackluster and the texture was too chewy, but the judges agreed that the flavor was there.
Next, it was Grutka’s turn. His double-dipped goat cheese croquette with guava-jalapeño sauce and grilled lime was a menu-worthy bite you’d want to order again.
“Lemme drop it like it’s hot,” said Cartenuto. “It only needed one dip.”
Brown’s final dish was lamb’s brains with brown butter caper sauce and sautéed jackfruit. The judges appreciated the classic French preparation.
Grutka still had two more dishes up his sleeve for a total of five. Country-fried lamb brains on jackfruit-chipotle aioli had an addictive crunchy/creamy texture, with a smoky heat that built up slowly. His dessert, a goat cheese and mascarpone cannoli, rested on the same jackfruit-jalapeño sauce he used for his croquette. It worked.
“This is called cross-utilization, and it’s how we make money in the restaurant business,” said Cartenuto.
Grutka's goat cheese cannoli with jackfruit-jalapeño sauce Studio B2/Emiliano Brooks
After a brief deliberation by the judges, Mr. Delicious (Grutka) emerged as the night’s winner and will move on to the next round.
Tune in next week to see Kevin Darr (City Cellar) battle Jessie Steele (CWS) in the quarterfinals.
Chef vs. Chef takes place at Max's Harvest in Delray Beach at 10 p.m. every Wednesday through September. The 16-week event series is open to the public for a $5 donation, which benefits the Milagro Center, a Delray Beach-based nonprofit that works to enrich children’s lives through the cultural arts and academic support. Your admission gets you one glass of wine, beer, or cocktail and a seat for the culinary action. | http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/restaurants/chef-vs-chef-2016-week-ten-offal-ly-good-eats-and-fruity-treats-8033818 | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.browardpalmbeach.com/c27b9d4a0126f4b125d9f18b731522629013323e0d6ac6a1b28d0bf35b8a094a.json |
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"Nicole Danna"
] | 2016-08-31T12:47:00 | null | 2016-08-31T08:00:00 | A new culinary competition was announced for E.A.T. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.browardpalmbeach.com%2Frestaurants%2Fmiami-chefs-announced-for-new-times-eat-cooking-competition-8042717.json | http://images1.browardpalmbeach.com/imager/u/original/8042737/img_0052.jpg | en | null | Miami Chefs Announced For New Times E.A.T.! Cooking Competition | null | null | www.browardpalmbeach.com | New Times' all-new E.A.T.! event will feature a chef competition between Miami's Nuno Grullon and Ryan Martin. Photo by ??????
If you're looking forward to attending New Times' all-new food festival, get ready: E.A.T! is gearing up to be bigger, better, and more action-packed than ever before.
This week, event planners announced the names of the area's two top toques who will face off during a head-to-head cooking competition slated to take place for the first time during New Times' inaugural E.A.T.! event at the BB&T Center on Wednesday, September 21, in Sunrise.
"South Florida is a melting pot," said Aaron Michaels, founder of Culinary Convenience in Fort Lauderdale and curator of the chef competition. "And the best way to exemplify this is through food. We are so excited to have two global-influenced South Florida chefs competing against each other in E.A.T!"
Much more than a food-and-drink festival, E.A.T! will feature bites from more than 40 South Florida restaurants, unlimited drinks, live entertainment, and now an exciting chef battle where event-goers can watch as two Miami chefs — chef Nuno Grullon of Café Roval versus chef Ryan Martin of 180° @ The DRB — compete for the right to be the first E.A.T! Champion of 2016.
The culinary showdown will take place on the Monark Kitchen Stage presented by Goya, located on the BB&T Center floor, and the chefs will use cookware courtesy of Fort Lauderdale's Culinary Convenience. At-home cooks, South Florida foodies, and seasoned chefs alike will have the chance to view these culinary competitions as they prepare dishes in timed competition. The event opens to Elite ticket-holders at 6 p.m., VIP ticket-holders at 6:30 p.m., and general-admission ticket-holders at 7 p.m.
Martin, creator and owner of 180° @ the DRB in downtown Miami, joined the South Florida food scene several years ago. A Massachusetts native, his love of food and cooking began at age 13. He attended George Washington University in Washington, D.C., before moving to Manhattan, where he received his formal culinary training at the former French Culinary Institute, now known as the International Culinary Center. Chef Ryan used his training under such acclaimed chefs such as Todd Erikson of Haven and Sonny Oh of Nobu and Juvia.
Marin later left his executive chef position at the Clevelander in Miami Beach to open his own gastropub concept where he offers a menu that changes frequently based on what is fresh and what he wants to experiment with in his kitchen — everything from blowtorches and dehydrators to liquid nitrogen.
Grullon, an Internationally-renowned chef, recently joined Mark Soyka to create Café Roval, a contemporary restaurant located in a historic building located on Miami’s Upper East side. Set to open in October, the café is Grullon's latest culinary adventure for which he has crafted an innovative menu with gastronomical masterpieces inspired by "heritage, passion, and creative freedom."
The chef has been featured on Bravo’s Best New Restaurant and toured Central America with the culinary magazine, Buen Provecho. He first hit the Miami scene at Morton’s, Café Tabac, and later DeVito’s. After working with Michelle Bernstein, David Kolotkin, and Philippe Baguette, Grullon accepted an executive chef position at Metro Organic Bistro, where he was the culinary engine and creative force that drove Miami’s first and highly successful organic fine-dining restaurant.
Restaurants recently added to the event lineup include GG’s Waterfront Bar & Grill, Ciao Cucina & Bar, Ethos Greek Bistro, Shooters Waterfront, Boatyard Restaurant, JB’s on the Beach, Ceviche by the Sea, Brazaviva Brazilian Steakhouse, 180° @ the DRB, Hyde Beach Kitchen & Cocktails, Juniper on the Water, and JWB Prime Steak & Seafood.
New Times E.A.T! will take place from 7 to 10 p.m. for general admission guests. Thos who prefer a more intimate dining experience can purchase Elite tickets, which include entry to the event one hour early and access to a private VIP bar and lounge area in Club Lexus featuring exclusive entertainment and a selection of Miami’s best luxury dining establishments.
E.A.T! will take place from 6 to 10 p.m. at the BB&T Center located at 1 Panther Parkway in Sunrise. Call 1-800-745-3000, or visit NewTimesEAT.com. | http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/restaurants/miami-chefs-announced-for-new-times-eat-cooking-competition-8042717 | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.browardpalmbeach.com/b0c4254a46e09b5017907e82f6c417df53a440b4d4de26551a4f019e96104e0e.json |
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"Pete Vonder Haar"
] | 2016-08-30T14:46:51 | null | 2016-08-30T10:00:00 | Kevin Smith's Yoga Hosers may very well be the film that finally convinces audiences the emperor has no hockey jersey.g | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.browardpalmbeach.com%2Ffilm%2Fyoga-hosers-finds-kevin-smith-barely-making-a-movie-8034480.json | http://images1.laweekly.com/imager/u/original/7307573/yoga_hosers.jpg | en | null | Yoga Hosers Movie Review | null | null | www.browardpalmbeach.com | EXPAND "My love for you is like a truck, berserker..." Courtesy of Invincible Pictures
Were we wrong to root for Kevin Smith?
When he burst onto the scene in 1994, it was the most improbable of rags-to-riches movie narratives: bankrolling Clerks by selling his comic book collection and running up thousands of dollars in credit card debt. Almost overnight, he joined the likes of Rodriguez and Tarantino as indie film royalty. Unlike them, however, Smith seemed like a regular dude with mainstream tastes — an everyman in a hockey sweater — and audiences were eager to see what he’d come up with next.
Film Details Yoga Hosers Rating: PG-13 Genre: Comedy Running Time: 88 min. More Info Trailer
It seems appropriate this year to frame everything in the context of the election, which is why I'm going to compare Kevin Smith to Donald Trump. No, Smith’s not a sentient collection of racist gas spores, but as with Trump and the Republican nomination, Smith after Sundance seemed wholly unprepared once his initial efforts to succeed actually worked — and he appeared unwilling to accept the subsequent responsibilities. In any event, Smith’s post-Clerks career comes across, at best, like a great deal of unrealized potential.
Which brings us to Yoga Hosers, the second in Smith’s promised (threatened?) “True North” trilogy of movies set in Canada for no apparent reason other than that he appears to find the accents hilarious. (The first was the walrus-themed horror film Tusk.) Lily-Rose Depp and Smith’s daughter Harley Quinn play the hosers, both named Colleen. The pair works at the “Eh-2-Zed” convenience store when not holding band practice or peering obsessively into their smartphones. What might sound like fairly typical teen-movie fare eventually morphs into something more sinister involving Canadian Nazis, mutant sodomizing bratwursts and the return of Tusk’s Quebecois man-hunter Guy Lapointe (Johnny Depp).
Depp, nearly unrecognizable under bushy eyebrows and a beret (of course), and almost unintelligible thanks to a Monty Python–esque French accent, serves to move along what there is of the plot. The film meanders for nearly half its scant running time before getting to something resembling conflict. Along the way, there’s an entirely unnecessary subplot involving high school Satanists and interludes with Justin Long playing a yoga guru named “Yogi Bayer” (yes) and Tony Hale as the father of one of the Colleens. And then there are the Canadian jokes.
Then again, “jokes” implies something entertainingly humorous, whereas that lone selfie those hikers shot with Justin Trudeau was a better Canadian chuckle than Yoga Hosers’ death by a thousand “aboots.” Smith’s obsession with the Great White North is almost as puzzling as his inability to wrest anything remotely funny from the surroundings. The convenience store boasts the “world’s largest collection of artisanal maple syrups,” because it’s Canada, and everybody’s weapon of choice is a hockey stick. Because it’s Canada. There are even two minutes over the end credits of Smith and co-host Scott Mosier’s “Smodcast” of the two men cracking each other up over their Canuck impressions.
This is probably the most honest part of the film, because at its core, Yoga Hosers isn’t a movie: It’s a podcast riff given material form; a bong rip visualized; an SCTV sketch devoid of laughs. It struggles to fill an hour and a half, with most of the cast serving little purpose beyond padding things out a few more minutes. The Colleens sing two songs (Anthrax’s “I’m the Man” and Styx’s “Babe”), and the villain, Arcane (Ralph Garman), explains his evil scheme while impersonating — among others — Arnold Schwarzenegger and Al Pacino, the better to squeeze the last remaining guffaws from “Whoo-ah!” (reminder: Scent of a Woman was released 24 years ago).
Perhaps more significant is how Yoga Hosers shows Smith’s continued devolution as a filmmaker. Flawed as movies like Dogma and Clerks II were, there was always a scene or two upon which to pin future hopes. Here, only the reliably up-for-anything Long and a surprisingly game performance by Sasheer Zamata (as the girls’ school principal) are worth noting. Everything else is either rehashed material from Smith’s previous works (clerk Colleen M. is “not even supposed to be here today,” while Arcane’s riffs are reminiscent of Tracy Morgan’s quote-a-thon in Cop Out), poorly developed concepts (the Colleens’ dialogue is almost a parody of how teens actually talk) and an apparently honest desire to kill his critics.
Smith has repeatedly reminded the world that his movies “aren’t for critics,” and he has embarked on distribution schemes to support this assertion. And yet, in Yoga Hosers, he resurrects his need to get even with his detractors, a need he's expressed since Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. Many characters, including Arcane, express their hatred of “haters.” Arcane's evil creation is even specifically designed to seek out and murder critics, who it turns out were responsible for his ultimate turn to evil. It’s very Shyamalan-esque (or, at least, Lady in the Water–esque), which is interesting considering the two directors once feuded. Nothing like a shared interest to bring people together.
Yoga Hosers is lazy, unfunny and self-indulgent. It should have been binned the second the (literal) smoke cleared, and while it’s been clear for some time that Smith is either incapable of making a good movie or simply doesn’t care to, Yoga Hosers may very well be the film that finally convinces audiences the emperor has no hockey jersey. | http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/film/yoga-hosers-finds-kevin-smith-barely-making-a-movie-8034480 | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.browardpalmbeach.com/554922f707afa2e77375680dca97c509bce1b2bacf0b993552d4e02e29a0216c.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T12:59:08 | null | 2016-08-23T09:30:00 | Summertime, a tale of two women of different ages and class backgrounds who fall in love, celebrates erotic abandon but never loses its mind. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.browardpalmbeach.com%2Ffilm%2Fparis-and-limousin-are-burning-in-this-great-lesbian-love-story-7921742.json | http://images1.laweekly.com/imager/u/original/7141612/summertime.jpg | en | null | New Times Broward-Palm Beach | null | null | www.browardpalmbeach.com | EXPAND Blue is not the best lesbian romance Courtesy of Strand Releasing
Catherine Corsini’s lovely, sultry Summertime, a 1971-set tale about two women of different ages and class backgrounds who fall in love, celebrates erotic abandon but never loses its mind. Unlike Abdellatif Kechiche’s Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013), France’s most notorious treatment of a sapphic sentimental education, Corsini’s movie, which takes place in Paris and Limousin, is lusty without being overwrought. The sex scenes play not as remote extreme-sports training, as they do in Blue, but as simple, primal displays of carnal appetite.
Corsini’s intelligent decisions throughout Summertime, which she co-wrote with Laurette Polmanss, surprised me given that three earlier features I’ve seen by the director (La répétition, Leaving, Three Worlds) are undone by outrageous plot complications. And although Corsini’s latest is packed with incident — the women’s movement in France provides the historical scaffolding of Summertime — the story is a simple one.
Film Details Critics' Pick Summertime (La belle saison) Rating: NR Genre: Drama Running Time: 100 min. More Info
20ish Delphine (Izïa Higelin), whose surreptitious same-sexing has always ended in heartbreak, leaves her family’s farm to live in a garret in Paris, where she meets Carole (Cécile de France), a Spanish professor and feminist insurrectionist who lives with her Les Temps modernes–reading boyfriend. Each turned on by the other’s confidence, the women begin a romance that starts with an intoxicating, out-in-the-open kiss on a Paris street and continues, much more covertly but no less passionately, when Delphine must return to the southwest countryside after her father has a stroke.
In the effulgent bucolic splendor (photographed beautifully by cinematographer Jeanne Lapoirie), Delphine and Carole tend to farm chores and to each other’s bodies. The al fresco sex scenes, like those that take place earlier in Delphine’s bed in her cramped Paris flat, indelibly evince the heat generated by these lovers. But en plein air, they somehow seem less inhibited, despite the very real risks they run in the more conservative surroundings. A tangle of tongues, limbs, hair and hands, desire-drunk Delphine and Carole explore and devour. Their concupiscence is made all the more exhilarating by the leads’ bold performances.
De France, best known stateside for her roles in Clint Eastwood’s Hereafter (2010) and the Dardenne Brothers’ The Kid with a Bike (2011), here mines the strength in surrender as Carole relinquishes so much of what had previously defined her. Relative newcomer Higelin is an excellent seducer. Summertime is also boosted by terrific supporting players, namely Kévin Azaïs (one of the stars of last year’s Love at First Fight, a smart romantic-comedy reimaging) as a fellow agriculturist with a crush on Delphine, and Noémie Lvovsky as Delphine’s mother, wary and begrudgingly solicitous of her daughter’s houseguest.
For all of its wise, welcome focus on the libidinal, Summertime additionally succeeds in presenting the far-left fervor of the time without devolving into school-play pageantry. The demo-planning, infighting, mimeographing and processing among Carole and her comrades are honored — but not solemnized — as messy, necessary, never-ending labor. It is Carole’s commitment to something larger than herself that sparks Delphine’s interest, a dedication that expands and contracts as they discover just how political their most personal, intimate behavior really is. | http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/film/paris-and-limousin-are-burning-in-this-great-lesbian-love-story-7921742 | en | 2016-08-23T00:00:00 | www.browardpalmbeach.com/c9bda5c40b9043b8f1bff60afb44eccd26d849b33b698268b414438a5d4516c4.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:00:53 | null | 2016-08-24T10:10:41 | From Drunk Shakespeare to Shorts Gone Wild at Island City Stage, here's a roundup of the best South Florida events this week. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.browardpalmbeach.com%2Farts%2Fbest-things-to-do-in-broward-and-palm-beach-this-week-8026893.json | http://images1.browardpalmbeach.com/imager/u/original/8026895/08-27-drunkshakespearefundraiser-compliments-skye-whitcomb.jpg | en | null | Best Things to Do in Broward and Palm Beach This Week | null | null | www.browardpalmbeach.com | Catch Clayton English at the Fort Lauderdale Improv; see Thursday. Gersh
Thursday, August 25
Before Clayton English earned his laughs, he was a laughingstock. An Atlanta native and Florida A&M grad, English found himself the topic of a Creative Loafing (an Atlanta alt-weekly) cover story in 2006 detailing the struggles of recent grads paying off their college tuition. English, then portrayed as a telemarketer trying to make ends meet, was quoted at large in the article and even appeared in an accompanying graphic bearing an oversize dollar sign while dressed in his cap and gown. Little did he know then that the big old cosmic joke would eventually turn in his favor. Last fall, he won NBC's Last Comic Standing and took home $250,000 — an amount that surely covered any outstanding student loans. English has worked his way through the harsh world of standup comedy. He's come a long way from the nine bucks an hour he used to pull and is doing well in the club, college, and festival circuits with his brand of topical and observational humor. He's even had the recurring guest role of Peanut in Tyler Perry's House of Payne. Not bad for a guy on the rise. Catch English at the Fort Lauderdale Improv (5700 Seminole Way, Hollywood) at 8 p.m. Thursday, 8 and 10:30 p.m. Friday, 7 and 9:30 p.m. Saturday, and 7 p.m. Sunday. General admission tickets cost $20. Call 954-981-5653, or visit ftl.improv.com. Abel Folgar
Shorts Gone Wild, the short play collection conceived by Island City Stage and City Theatre, hasn’t always lived up to the “wild” part of its title. Expect that to change for the better this month in the companies’ fourth-annual collaboration, because this time, the plays fall under a theme that’s as bonkers as can be: politics. Seven playwrights, including five of our finest local scribes — Chris Demos-Brown, Jessica Farr, Michael Leeds, Michael McKeever, and Stuart Meltzer — contributed new ten-minute plays as part of Shorts Gone Wild: Election 2016. Because it’s an Island City Stage coproduction, many, but not all, of the shorts will address LGBTQ issues. In McKeever’s Things My Grandmother Taught Me, a friendly dinner date becomes a verbal steel-cage match between far-left and Log Cabin contingencies; Meltzer’s Lips Like Crocus centers on a couples therapy session in which cable news makes a startling cameo; and Leeds’ The Lie features an aging country-music couple that develops a novel solution to recapture the limelight. Farr’s satirical comedy might just have the bitterest sting of them all: Bernie Singles Dot Com imagines a “dystopian future of disenfranchised Bernie supporters” scavenging the web for partners with whom to survive the next apocalyptic four to eight years. The production runs Thursday through Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday through August 28 at Island City Stage (2304 N. Dixie Hwy., Wilton Manors). John Thomason
Saturday, August 27
When animal-rights advocate and publisher M Butterflies Katz went vegan 38 years ago, it was a solo event. No thriving local community of like-minded plant eaters to meet up with; no Publix frozen section stocked with Gardein, Boca burgers, and every other mock-meat imaginable; and no plethora of online resources — just odd looks and awkward shrugs when asking the local diner for its vegan options. Fast-forward to 2016, and Katz is putting the final touches on the inaugural South Florida VeganFest. She says it's a much different scenario today — they almost don't want to advertise anymore because they may be reaching capacity for the venue. South Florida VeganFest 2016 — an "all-day educational community service event and celebration of veganism" — will feature a day's worth of inspirational speakers, animal advocacy, food demos and samples, exhibitors, and community. Speakers include Dr. Michael Klaper, the Advocacy of Veganism Society's Sarah Woodcock (who will speak about a social justice approach to veganism), and Eriyah Flynn of Vegan Shift. Plus, there will be a special talk with Katz. In addition to the talks, expect fresh-pressed juices, free and delicious plant-based eats, and vegan bodybuilding demos with Torre Washington and Korin Sutton. The event runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at the Tamarac Community Center (8601 W. Commercial Blvd., Tamarac). Admission is free. Visit southfloridaveganfest.com. Terra Sullivan
Catch Drunk Shakespeare at The Irishmen; see Saturday. Courtesy of Outré Theatre Company
Remember that Shakespeare class in college in which the professor said that good old Bill tackled all of his writing projects after imbibing 36 shots of alcohol? No? Well, neither do we, but the Outré Theatre Company seems to think that's a good way of channeling the spirit of the Bard. If anything, Outré has been steadily proving their commitment to the theatrical arts with a firm grasp on established theater and a ballsy spirit of experimentation. As stated on their site, they "strive to create theatre which stimulates thought, provokes reflection, and encourages activism." Well, for this fundraiser, there will certainly be stimulation, reflection, and a serious dose of activism. In Drunk Shakespeare at Boca's The Irishmen (1745 NW Boca Raton Blvd., Boca Raton), six actors will hit that happy hour hard, get their fill of Dutch courage, and give attendees a Shakespearean experience like no other. Will Hamlet get the best of Mercutio while any of the Richards fumbles at Desdemona's fancy? Will Julius Caesar tame the twelfth night during Henry's tempest? Give us a break — you put that much booze into an actor with Shakespeare in the air and tell us those aren't possible. Heck, they might even cajole the crowd into joining the performance. In any case, this is doing the Bard right in our books at 8 p.m. Saturday. General admission tickets cost $10, $5 for students with ID. Call 954-300-2149, or visit outretheatrecompany.com. Abel Folgar
Veganism isn't simply cutting meat from your diet but all animal products — including milk and eggs. If you want to take it a step further, it's not just a diet but a lifestyle. That means not wearing your favorite leather coat anymore. But let's get back to the food: Atlas Meat-Free Deli in Hollywood is a vegan establishment that serves healthful, nutritious, and delicious food. As the Atlas name suggests, the grub is fit for a bodybuilder. Skeptical? Ask Billy Simmonds, Patrik Baboumian, and Jim Morris. Or simply look at their menu of made-to-order sandwiches using fresh ingredients and their fine selection of vegan "cheese." Meat-eaters might even be convinced. Give it a try at the Atlas Vegan Pop-Up Feast from 6 to 11 p.m. Saturday at LauderAle Brewery (3305 SE 14th Ave., Fort Lauderdale). Everything will be served à la carte, so you can try what you want and skip what you don't want. The cost is $12.99 for a large sandwich with a cold side. You know the best part of being a vegan? You can still drink beer. Call 954-653-9711. David Minsky
Play Exploding Kittens with the boys of Bangin' Banjo; see Wednesday. Courtesy of Bangin' Banjo Brewing Co.
Wednesday, August 31
What in hell is Exploding Kittens? It's a NSFW card game — created by Matthew Inman, the artist behind the online comic The Oatmeal — for people who love kittens and a little morbid humor. If you enjoy those two things, you probably like drinking beer. Bangin' Banjo Brewing Company founders Matt Giani and Adam Feingold have added the game to their repertoire for Wednesday game night. Don't worry if don't know the rules — Exploding Kittens is easy to learn, and it's a bunch of fun too. The tournament will be played in Swiss format, meaning you won't be eliminated if you lose; simply continue playing and earning points. The four players with the most points after three rounds will compete for prizes which include $40 in beer tabs, some cool Bangin' Banjo glasses, and beer. (Besides the games, at least come for the beer.) The tournament will run from 6:30 to 10:30 p.m. Wednesday at Bangin' Banjo Brewing Company (3200 NW 23rd Ave. #500, Pompano Beach). Call 954-978-3113 or visit facebook.com/banginbanjobrewing. Check out explodingkittens.com and theoatmeal.com. David Minsky | http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/arts/best-things-to-do-in-broward-and-palm-beach-this-week-8026893 | en | 2016-08-24T00:00:00 | www.browardpalmbeach.com/c6ab882047dcaad7e4ff8e6c3dbe2538e3553b695fd52052742d656c7a67677d.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T22:46:07 | null | 2016-08-26T17:02:00 | Either the PBSO got hacked, or we've entered a weird new world of snitching via social media. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.browardpalmbeach.com%2Fnews%2Fpalm-beach-county-sheriff-just-wants-to-find-a-good-plug-out-here-8034522.json | http://images1.browardpalmbeach.com/imager/u/original/8034536/screen_shot_2016-08-26_at_3.37.06_pm.png | en | null | Palm Beach County Sheriff Just Wants To Find A Good Plug Out Here | null | null | www.browardpalmbeach.com | Most police department Twitter accounts are mundane. Cops apparently really like sharing pictures of their new Ford Explorers, helpful advice about dealing with mosquitos, and selfies with their dogs. It's kind of like getting texts from your dad — if he had a crew cut and and spent significant time polishing his .44..
And, as is also the case with texts from your dad, things occasionally take a turn toward the bizarre. Case in point: on Wednesday afternoon, the Palm Beach Sheriff's Office tweeted out a message that said, "Ayy anybody know a good plug out here? Hit our line up." (Translation for actual dads: "Hey, anyone know where I can find a reliable drug dealer? Call me.")
It's since been retweeted nearly 16,000 times.
Reached by phone on Friday afternoon, two days after the tweet was posted, PBSO spokesman Therese Barbera couldn't immediately say whether the account had been hacked.
"What did it say again?" she asked. "Can you send it to me?"
After New Times emailed over a link to the tweet (which doesn't seem to have been deleted yet,) she said she'd have to check with the department's social media team and call back.
An hour has passed and still no call. We'll update this story once we find out what happened. In the meantime, a couple of guesses:
A) Hackers are trolling the PBSO.
B) Someone with access to the Twitter account made the mistake of letting their kid borrow their phone for a couple of minutes, and is about to be in big trouble.
C) We've entered a weird new world in which police departments use "hip" teen slang on social media to try and encourage people to turn in drug dealers. (This seems to be the most likely option, considering that last year, the PBSO went viral after a young woman wrote on Twitter that she was looking for weed, and the department wrote back, "Where should we meet you?" Good one, guys! LOL!) | http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/news/palm-beach-county-sheriff-just-wants-to-find-a-good-plug-out-here-8034522 | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.browardpalmbeach.com/014cd4a4cc59f54f33d513ba81f57f4b527cc1019ad363c556e6da84aec2deb1.json |
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"David Rolland"
] | 2016-08-31T12:47:10 | null | 2016-08-31T07:00:00 | The traveling band returns home. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.browardpalmbeach.com%2Fmusic%2Fjp-pitts-on-continuing-surfer-blood-without-thomas-fekete-8015058.json | http://images1.browardpalmbeach.com/imager/u/original/8015060/img_6218.jpeg | en | null | Surfer Blood at Culture Room September 3 | null | null | www.browardpalmbeach.com | EXPAND Rachel Lipsitz
Things should be good for West Palm Beach indie rock heroes Surfer Blood. They have a new album set for release in early 2017. They've had opening gigs for some of their biggest influences like The Pixies and Guided by Voices. Their song "Swim" was even heard on the awesome Netflix superhero show Daredevil. But earlier this year, the four piece heartbreakingly lost their original guitarist, Thomas Fekete, to cancer.
"Thomas was so young and had so much to give the world," Surfer Blood singer John Paul Pitts tells New Times.. "His memorial in Delray was when it hit me that I would never be able to see him again. Before that I kept thinking he was in hiding and would pop up again." Pitts channeled these emotions to inspire some of Surfer Blood's new music, which he describes as longer and more epic. "I wrote the whole record while he was in cancer treatment. Any time I got tired, I'd think of Thomas, and it gave me the will power to continue. I'm grateful for the thousand amazing memories I had with him."
Many of those memories involve touring the world together playing shows. "Being from South Florida made us curious about the rest of the world. We're so isolated. It takes ten hours to make it to Atlanta which is the next big market. Being from West Palm was great since the scene is so tight-knit, but it created a wanderlust in us. So we took the leap into touring. It's an amazing adventure and it's the only way to get known outside your hometown."
Those hometown fans will get a taste of the traveling band when Surfer Blood plays Culture Room September 3 with relatively new bassist Lindsey Mills and guitarist Mike Mcleary. "We've had two new members join over the last year and a half. Our harmonies are better than ever before with really good backing vocals." Pitts said they will take a different approach toward their set in honor of their co-headliner. "The Heavy Pets are kind of a jam band. We're going to try to do more improv since we're playing with them. I always liked how Built to Spill and Modest Mouse brought jamming into indie rock."
In spite of their deep loss, Pitts says he's proud of Surfer Blood's continued success. "It's life affirming. It feel like we're on the right track."
Surfer Blood and The Heavy Pets
7:30 p.m. Saturday, September 3, at Culture Room, 3045 North Federal Highway, Fort Lauderdale. Tickets cost $13 plus fees; 954-564-1074; cultureroom.net. | http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/music/jp-pitts-on-continuing-surfer-blood-without-thomas-fekete-8015058 | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.browardpalmbeach.com/7c89b0f6373cad0025d97f34399cd3ec2e6545485a098199ce0399e1b75973e2.json |
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] | 2016-08-31T14:47:00 | null | 2016-08-31T09:53:22 | From Girls with Guns to an animated Friday, here are the best things to do in Broward and Palm Beach this week. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.browardpalmbeach.com%2Farts%2Fbest-things-to-do-in-broward-and-palm-beach-this-week-8041148.json | http://images1.browardpalmbeach.com/imager/u/original/8041145/calendar1-1-5619137ab3217e8a.jpg | en | null | Best Things to Do in Broward and Palm Beach This Week | null | null | www.browardpalmbeach.com | Girls with guns make the rocking world go 'round; see Thursday. Courtesy of Felice House
Thursday, September 1
Good timing, or mere coincidence? Either way, with the recent conclusion of the Summer Olympics in Rio, it makes sense to continue to shine the spotlight on Brazil's vibrant culture. The celebration continues with ArtBrazil 2016, the fourth-annual monthlong event that will, for the first time, be expanded to include venues in both Miami-Dade and Broward Counties. With a variety of mediums on display — from photography and painting to sculpture and ceramics — this varied assortment of installations reflects Brazilian art and tradition in the most contemporary context. This year, more than 120 artists are expected to take part. To ensure authenticity, the organizers — ArtServe/Fort Lauderdale, visual artist/curator Jade Matarazzo, and marketing specialist Maria Fulfaro — require that all participants be Brazilian citizens, whether based in the U.S. or not. It's not surprising, then, that nearly half of the exhibitors will travel to South Florida specifically to take part. With support from the local consulate, the exhibits offer a further opportunity for the public to bask in Brazil's brilliance while allowing more than 250 Miami-Dade and Broward public-school children in grades K through 12 to visit the exhibition and interact with the artists. The event runs the entire month of September at ArtServe Fort Lauderdale (1350 E. Sunrise Blvd.), which will hold a reception September 8, and Art & Design Gallery (8690 Biscayne Blvd., Miami), which will host its own reception September 13. Visit artbrazil2016.com, or call Maria Fulfaro at 954-298-1508. Lee Zimmerman
Jean-Luc Godard, the renegade French filmmaker, famously quipped, "All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl." Another way of putting it is that sex and violence sell, and they play best in tandem - except usually in our pop culture, the guns are aimed at victimized girls, not wielded by empowered women. The new exhibition "Girls and Guns," on view at the Rosemary Duffy Larson Gallery at Broward College Central Campus (3501 SW Davie Rd., Bldg. 6, Davie), aims to correct this, showcasing the works of three female artists whose oeuvre renegotiates the relationship between women and firearms. Nancy Floyd's photographs explore the world of female competitive shooting in bold, intimate closeups; Susan Graham subverts the masculine construction of most guns into lacy, delicate sculptural objects; and Felice House rewrites Hollywood's gender politics by replacing gun-wielding tough guys from famous movies with women. Wherever you stand on the Second Amendment, this inventive collection of gun-and-girl art is unique enough to impress even the cranky Godard. Admission is free, and the show runs through September 28. Don't miss the opening reception Thursday from 6 to 9 p.m., with an artists' lecture scheduled for 7:30. Call 954-201-6984, or visit browardvpa.com/gallery. John Thomason
Instead of organizing into a centralized festival, restaurants in Palm Beach County are showcasing their best at the public monthlong event that is Flavor Palm Beach. For the entire month of September, more than 50 restaurants from Boca Raton to Jupiter are offering discounted, special prix fixe menus. Participating restaurants are offering lunch menus for $10-20 and/or dinner menus for $30-45 per person. Cuisine styles range from contemporary American to Italian and French. Some restaurants include 50 Ocean (50 South Ocean Blvd., Delray Beach), Caf Boulud (the Brazilian Court, 301 Australian Ave., Palm Beach), Meat Market (191 Bradley Pl., Palm Beach), and Tanzy (301 Plaza Real, Boca Raton), as well as steakhouses, gastropubs, and seafood establishments. Menu prices for the Rustic Inn Crabhouse, the Italian Restaurant, and Salute Market and Restaurant are to be determined. If you're new to the local restaurant scene, this may be your best chance to explore what's hip and delicious on the cheap. The event benefits the Palm Beach County Food Bank and has been doing so since 2008. Due to the popularity of the event, it may be wise to make reservations with the restaurants individually. For more information, email info@flavorpalmbeach.com or visit flavorpb.com. David Minsky
ArtBrazil 2016; see Thursday. Courtesy of Daniel Taveira Bruno
Friday, September 2
Half the movies you watched last year were based on comic books. You've spent countless hours catching lovable digital critters in Pokémon Go and even cried a bit when you caught Pikachu. And you most certainly stood, mouth agape, when the Rio Olympics' closing ceremony featured an homage to the Mario Bros. franchise. In other words, you're more than ready for this year's Animate Florida convention in two weeks. But if the weekend-long event is not enough to fulfill your entertainment needs, this month's First Friday: Pre-Animate Florida Party gaming event will be an hors d'oeuvre for the main event with a slightly more adult streak running through it. The evening will feature cosplay, tournaments, booze, and a karaoke round guaranteed to bring the best shower singers into the fray with DJ Anim8ted. Cash and other prizes will be handed out in numerous contests such as a Super Smash Bros. Wii U tourney ($5 entry), a Pokken showcase for bragging rights, and a heated Madden 17 competition ($7 entry). Combined with the usual fun gaming activities of the monthly gathering, this First Friday might not leave you with enough energy for when the actual convention rolls around September 16. First Friday takes place from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Friday at C&I Studios (541 NW First Ave., Fort Lauderdale). Call 954-357-3934, or visit c-istudios.com. Abel Folgar
Labor Day Fun meets art-gallery chic on Breakers; see Saturday. Ketzirah Lesser & Art Drauglis via Flickr Creative Commons
Saturday, September 3
Ah, Labor Day. It's the last official three-day weekend and the unofficial last day of summer. So what do you do when the weekend comes? Stay at a nice resort hotel? Go to the beach? Get your grilled-grub fix? The answer is: all of the above. Just steps from Fort Lauderdale Beach, the midcentury modern oasis that is the North Beach Village invites you to Gallery Grill Out on Breakers, a three-day cooked-meat feast with live music and good company. Their grill masters will cook a variety of kebabs made with steak, chicken, or shrimp, but more than just meat will be thrown onto the grill. Chefs will also prepare a dessert of grilled lemon poundcake with peaches and cream. The Labor Day cookout runs from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday through Monday in front of North Beach Village Design (600 Breakers Ave., Fort Lauderdale). Admission is free. Food prices vary, and reservations are required. Call the Village Cafe at 754-229-3870, or email oalvarez@nbvresorts.com. David Minsky
Sometimes, experiencing interpersonal violence can lead you to speak out against violence and to raise awareness by helping others to cultivate healthy relationships for the future. Outreach like this is made possible with organizations like the Fort Lauderdale-based nonprofit
Forget Me Not Advocacy Group, a group committed to stopping domestic violence before it starts through education, community awareness, and support.
Set up “to give our young people the tools they need - through classes, workshops, and community events - to recognize and avoid abusive situations,” founder Amy Daumit explains, “We strongly believe that by sharing our stories, and talking openly about domestic violence, we can shed light on it at a grassroots level and start creating change here at home and later with all who are willing to listen.” Saturday, the group is raising awareness with Kayak for Change fundraiser. Pop in a kayak or canoe and paddle the six-and-a-half-mile Wilton Loop at a leisurely pace. Lunch will be provided midway, and pie and coconut cocktails will be served at the end of the trip. The trip runs from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. at Atlantic Coast Kayak Company, 1937 Wilton Dr., Fort Lauderdale. Visit forgetmenotgroup.org for more info. BYOK (Bring Your Own Kayak) for a $40 donation or rent a kayak for a $60 donation. Terra Sullivan
Sunday, September 4
The Broward County arts scene wouldn’t be the thriving incubator it is today without Francie Bishop Good, the cofounder of Girls’ Club gallery and the nonprofit Funding Arts Broward and a formidable artist in her own right whose paintings and photographs have shown internationally. She is also a collector, having amassed decades of contemporary works primarily by female and minority artists. The latest recipient of her generous largesse is the Nova Southeastern University Art Museum, which recently accepted a gift of 100 contemporary artworks from Good and her husband David Horvitz. The museum is currently showcasing 70 of them in the exhibition “Belief + Doubt: Selections from the Francie Bishop Good and David Horvitz Collection.” Its contents, spanning 1978 to 2013, are filled with both boldface names in contemporary art as well as lesser-known mavericks, most of which reflect their collectors’ desire to level artistic playing fields in gender, race, and ethnicity. Show up for the Cindy Sherman film still, Ana Mendieta video, and Tracey Emin neon work, and stick around to discover the haunting Kara Walker paper cutouts, Laura Simmons’ amusing/unsettling “Dummy” photograph, Jennifer Steinkamp’s hypnotic digital animation, and much more. The show runs through January 22 at the museum, located at 1 E. Las Olas Blvd. in Fort Lauderdale. Hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday to Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday. Admission is $12 adults, $8 military, and $5 students. Call 954-525-5500, or visit nsuartmuseum.org. John Thomason | http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/arts/best-things-to-do-in-broward-and-palm-beach-this-week-8041148 | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.browardpalmbeach.com/c2d8cc12275f5d621876e143917bd200ef9d767658299adde8282d75837512f7.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T12:59:31 | null | 2016-08-24T08:51:00 | Hoffman's Chocolates has launched its very own truck called Sweet Ride serving chocolates, ice cream, and other handmade confections in South Florida. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.browardpalmbeach.com%2Frestaurants%2Fhoffmans-chocolates-launches-sweet-ride-dessert-food-truck-7962746.json | http://images1.browardpalmbeach.com/imager/u/original/7962748/13913800_1133075040064538_8424690903856859436_o.jpg | en | null | Hoffman's Chocolates Launches Sweet Ride Dessert Food Truck | null | null | www.browardpalmbeach.com | Hoffman's Chocolates has launched its own food truck. Photo courtesy of Hoffman's Chocolates
Hoffman’s Chocolates has launched its own food truck, and it's serving up the sweeter side of things. Known as the Sweet Ride, the new mobile shop peddles all of Hoffman's gourmet goodies, from chocolates and ice cream to a vast assortment of specialty confections.
"Sweet Ride South Florida is our latest innovation," said Lois Marino, director of marketing for Hoffman’s Chocolates. "This truck allows us the opportunity to bring our treats to patrons on the road, whether it be a stop on the street or for a private event."
The Lake Worth-based gourmet chocolatier’s new food truck strives to "make life sweeter," adds Hoffman’s Chocolates Sweet Ride manager Grant Belgrave. So far, the store's most popular go-to treats include the Hoffman's chocolate-covered pretzel bites, S’mores, handmade peanut butter cups, chocolate-covered graham crackers, and gourmet caramel apples.
When the Sweet Ride truck is out, customers also have the opportunity to take part in an interactive photo shoot, adds Belgrave. Everyone is encouraged to take their photo in front of the food truck, upload it to Facebook, and tag @HoffmansSweetRide for the chance to have their image appear on the truck's exterior digital photo screen.
Hoffman's Chocolate has various locations in South Florida. Visit hoffmans.com. To find out where the Sweet Ride might be making its next appearance, follow it at facebook.com/HoffmansSweetRide or on Twitter. | http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/restaurants/hoffmans-chocolates-launches-sweet-ride-dessert-food-truck-7962746 | en | 2016-08-24T00:00:00 | www.browardpalmbeach.com/8a656f03bd7654bf8e942a16d895a09c5d8d5dd6a0599056203078fe822ec850.json |
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] | 2016-08-30T12:47:14 | null | 2016-08-30T08:16:00 | Decidedly not a Barbie doll, Carmel Cafiero was known for substance at South Florida's most popular station — WSVN, Channel 7 — which changed the face... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.browardpalmbeach.com%2Fnews%2Fcarmel-cafiero-changed-the-way-miami-does-news-8041154.json | http://images1.miaminewtimes.com/imager/u/original/8730058/feature1-2-099c94397ae7de8a.jpg | en | null | Carmel Cafiero Changed the Way Miami Does News | null | null | www.browardpalmbeach.com | When Carmel Cafiero retired this past July, it marked the end of an era. Photo by Monica McGivern
Miss Cleo — AKA Cleo Harris — walks briskly across the parking lot of Sawgrass Mills mall, her face hidden behind a pair of mirrored sunglasses. But Carmel Cafiero has already recognized her.
Dressed in a plain navy suit and clutching a Channel 7 microphone, Cafiero chases down the fraudulent TV psychic, finally catching up to her outside the Burlington Coat Factory.
"A lot of my friends' parents were there to see me on the cheerleading squad, but my mom didn't get to see that."
People around the country have called Miss Cleo for free psychic readings and ended up receiving astronomical bills in the mail, Cafiero explains while shoppers walk by. How can Cleo justify that?
"See, I don't own any of that stuff," she tries to explain, clearly flustered.
Cafiero isn't buying it. "So you can say anything you want. Is that what you're telling me?"
Cleo shakes her head and turns to go inside the store. "I think you are quite finished, my dear," the TV psychic says with more than a little menace in her voice. The screen goes black.
That's Carmel Cafiero, investigative reporter and trailblazer. She was the first female news anchor in Louisiana and a groundbreaking reporter — a tough, aggressive, sometimes-abrasive single mom who let nothing stop her for decades as she exposed liars, cheaters, cons, Ponzi schemers, and corrupt business owners in America's Casablanca.
Decidedly not a Barbie doll, she was known for substance at South Florida's most popular station — WSVN, Channel 7 — which changed the face of TV news with a shoot-'em-up, "if it bleeds, it leads" style. When Cafiero retired this past July, it marked the end of an era. Now that she's gone, it's hard not to wonder if serious journalism on local television is also finished. WSVN says it's conducting a national search for her replacement, but you can be sure it won't be a tough-as-nails grandmother.
Moreover, as the internet comes to dominate the news market, the future of local TV news is uncertain. The station now devotes most of its airtime to car accidents and drive-by shootings. Meanwhile, Channel 7 has already been blacked out twice this year because of disputes with AT&T over carriage fees, suggesting not all is well at South Florida's most popular news station.
So without her, why bother tuning in?
In the '70s, Cafiero hurried home to make dinner for her daughter. Photo courtesy of WSVN
One winter night in 1970, the call came in to WWL-TV's New Orleans headquarters. There was a fire in the historic French Quarter.
As a cameraman rushed out the door, Carmel Cafiero, then a sheltered 23-year-old Loyola University student, begged her instructor, an anchorman at the station, to let her follow. "Well, as long as you promise not to sue us if you get hurt," he reluctantly agreed.
"If you watch 'Crime Check' regularly, you'll believe that black folks do nothing but commit crimes."
In a small sedan that belonged to the station, they sped to the scene, adrenaline flowing as they dodged revelers and bounced over potholes. Together, she and the photographer ducked under yellow crime tape and headed toward the flashing lights of the fire engines and squad cars. A crowd of 50 or so drunken bar patrons had gathered.
The fire turned out to be a non-event: a couple of drunks had burned a mattress. "There wasn't a story there, but it was as if something bit me — the news bug — and I became obsessed," Cafiero says now. "I mean, I just had to do this."
Growing up outside New Orleans, she'd been a popular cheerleader who played softball, organized dances, and had no ambition besides getting married and having babies. Still, she was no passive Southern belle. As her longtime friend Tobie Craig puts it: "She doesn't take any guff from anybody — never has. I think it has something to do with the fact that her parents ended up splitting up, which didn't happen a lot back then, and her mother had to work."
Her father was an architect and general contractor, and her mother worked at a large New Orleans department store after the divorce. After graduating from Jefferson Parish High School, Cafiero did a brief stint at Louisiana State University, where she says she "majored in football and boys." Two years in, she dropped out to get married. Her daughter, Courtney, was born in 1968.
Cafiero doesn't like to speak about her first marriage except to say that early on, she realized it wouldn't last. "It was dark days for me," she says. "Let's just say that. You can fill in the blanks."
That drove her to enroll at Loyola University when her daughter was still a baby.Cafiero was 22, a serious-looking woman with copper-colored hair and a deep voice that surprised people. "I didn't really know how to do anything, so I figured I needed to finish my education," she says.
When she filed for divorce in 1971, she was an unpaid intern at WVUE in New Orleans. There was no way she could work for free, pay for school, and still feed herself and her daughter, so she gave up on college. "I did not graduate, which is something I always feel bad about, but I had a 2-and-a-half-year-old, so I had to support us," she says.
A producer at WVUE knew about a job at a low-power AM/FM station in Slidell, Louisiana, on the shore of Lake Pontchartrain. Driving to the interview, Cafiero listened to the announcer read stories from the local paper into the microphone. "You could hear him turning the pages of the newspaper. I thought, Well, I could do better than that."
She was quickly hired to replace the guy and then worked six days a week, doing three newscasts per day and running the station's swap show. "People would call in and say, 'I got a pig, and I need a ladder,' or whatever, and they would trade things on the air."
When she interviewed for better jobs, she found that news directors often struggled to wrap their heads around the idea of hiring a woman. "I remember being interviewed for one station. I had a little suit on, and they asked if they could expect me to dress like that if they hired me," she says. "I said, 'Well, sure. Why? What would be the concern?' They said, 'Well, we wouldn't want you to show up in any of them there hot pants.' I was like, 'Uh, OK. Not a problem.'?"
After a quick stop at a Shreveport radio station, she broke into TV at WAFB in Baton Rouge as an on-air reporter covering politics. "There were whispers and things that if I beat somebody on a story, I had slept with somebody to get it," she says. "After a period of time, you'd have to be sleeping with the world." She was so good that soon she became the first female anchor in Louisiana.
In 1973, John Camp, a former co-worker who had moved from Baton Rouge to WSVN in Miami, let her know the station was looking to its hire its first female reporter. He suggested she apply. At the time, the North Bay Village-based station consistently came in third place in the ratings. It had the smallest staff, oldest equipment, and lowest pay.
But, former employees say, it was serious about journalism. A wall in the lobby was covered with awards. The Mariel Boatlift, the Miami River Cops, and drug wars were still in the future, but there was no shortage of excitement.
Cafiero's 88-year-old mother, whose name is also Carmel, says she had hoped her daughter would stay in Louisiana. "She knew maybe one or two people in Florida, but she had the courage to put all her worldly belongings in her car and drive there," her mother says. "It worried me, of course — a girl on the highway by herself. [But] she was the type of person who, once she made up her mind, that was it."
At WSVN, she was the only woman who wasn't a secretary. As soon as she arrived, she says, the news director asked her to promise not to get pregnant.
WSVN was notoriously demanding. Many reporters quit because they couldn't handle the workload. But Cafiero managed — even though it meant spending a large portion of her paycheck on childcare. At the end of the day, she would hurry home to Miami Shores to heat up a tuna casserole or a premade stew and see Courtney before bedtime.
"She dedicated her time to work, and my time came after her work," recalls Courtney, now a single mother herself and the revenue manager at the Setai Hotel. "It was difficult — she wasn't able to attend a lot of school events during the day... A lot of my friends' parents were there to see me on the cheerleading squad, but my mom didn't get to see that."
Soon Cafiero got the nod as weekend anchor. She would bring along Courtney, who quickly determined she didn't want to follow her mother into the often-superficial world of TV news. "I can remember I'd be waiting for my mom to finish the 11 o'clock news so we could go home," Courtney recalls. "I'd sit by the lady at the switchboard and hear 'That lady needs to fix her hair... That anchor needs a new jacket.' People are extremely judgmental."
During the McDuffie riots in 1980, Cafiero left Courtney, then 12 years old, with a friend who lived near WSVN headquarters. Cafiero reported live from the scene. "A tire company had been set on fire, so there were huge plumes of black smoke scarring the skyline," she remembers. "We were doing a live shot, and the helicopter was flying back and forth through the black smoke to illustrate what was going on. All of a sudden, the helicopter went way up high and we lost the live shot. I asked the pilot why, and he said, 'They're shooting at us.' I said, 'Go higher.'?"
Cafiero's male co-workers rarely grasped the difficulty of single motherhood. "We knew she had a daughter because we saw Courtney when we were all off and would have picnics, but at work, you would never know," recalls Wade Hill, who was the station's assignment editor until 1981. "That probably helped other women who were coming in."
On Cafiero's first day on the job at Channel 7, she was the only female reporter. Lynn & Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archives
"A tourist is set on fire, and two men are accused of the crime," a puffy-faced Rick Sanchez soberly intones while the headline "Torching Trial" appears on the screen. His petite, blond co-anchor, Sally Fitz, looks wide-eyed at the camera.
"If you thought the World Trade Center was a bold and big target for terrorists, there is more tonight — the next target may have been bolder," Sanchez continues, pausing for dramatic effect as grainy black-and-white footage of firefighters searching through debris appears. "Try Richard Nixon. Try Henry Kissinger. More when we return." They go to a commercial break.
"Sometimes there's a tie between good reporters and people who fish."
That was the beginning ofChannel 7's 10 p.m. broadcast exactly 23 years ago, on Labor Day 1993. It bombarded viewers with one gory story after another. The focus was on crime and catastrophe — the bloodier, the better. Although President Bill Clinton was visiting Miami to view the aftermath of Hurricane Andrew, he merited only a few seconds of screen time.
In the late 1980s, Ronald Reagan deregulated the television industry, and broadcast news went through massive upheaval. Corporate owners bought more stations, and sales regulations were relaxed. The result was what became known in South Florida as "The Big Switch": After close to 30 years of ownership, NBC ditched Channel 7 and its perennially low ratings, and bought Channel 4, which had been a CBS affiliate. Carmel Cafiero's Channel 7 was left with no network affiliation — and hours of empty airtime to fill.
"When we lost our affiliation, everybody said we were over and we were toast," Bob Leider, the station's general manager at the time, remembers. "At the time, no one thought you could be a bona fide station and deliver news without a network affiliation."
Leider, a jovial, squinting man with a gray comb-over who retired in 2014 but still works as a consultant to the station,recalls that Ed Ansin, who had owned the station since 1962, walked into Leider's office and told him they needed to become more aggressive. Rather than show reruns, they decided to devote seven hours a day to news — more than any other station in the nation — and spice up broadcasts with bold graphics and catchy headlines like "Kids Who Kill" and "Mauled to Death." The newscast took its visual cues from Miami Vice, which had brought a bolder and more colorful look to TV while simultaneously redefining the city.
The station hired an in-house composer whose dramatic music punctuated slow-motion footage of car wrecks and live shots from the scene of murder-suicides. Raw video was edited to give it a grainy, film noir quality. Reporters used a casual, chatty tone — the police chief became "Miami's top cop."
The strategy was engineered by news director Joel Cheatwood. (He later made Jerry Springer a commentator at Chicago's WMAQ in Chicago, which caused several longtime anchors to resign in protest.) Two years after losing its network affiliation, WSVN became number one in the market, according to the Nielsen ratings. By 1993, it was turning a $20 million profit.
Tourism leaders were displeased. Miami was just emerging from the turbulent 1980s, and WSVN's insistence on capturing the most lurid stories of the day hurt the city's reputation. In 1994, nine of South Florida's largest hotels blacked out the station because it was bad for business. "It is a continuous barrage of the body bags on the street and the blood coming out of them," Don Lefton, who owned the Grand Bay in Miami, complained to the New York Times.
There were also concerns that WSVN's "Crime Check," a segment that featured Sanchez — who would go on to anchor at CNN and MSNBC despite drunkenly crashing his car into a pedestrian after a Dolphins game — played up racial stereotypes. "If you watch 'Crime Check' regularly, you'll believe that black folks do nothing but commit crimes," former anchor Denise White told New Times in 1990, shortly after she left for a job in Tampa.
Plenty of criticism came from the journalism establishment. The New York Times snottily headlined a story about WSVN "It Might Be News, but It's Not 'MacNeil/Lehrer.?'" The American Prospect called its piece "Diary of the American Nightmare." It began, "The Book of Revelations does not say whether the apocalypse will be televised. But if it is, WSVN in Miami will not have to interrupt its regular programming."
Joseph Angotti, a former NBC reporter who was teaching journalism at the University of Miami at the time, began tracking how much airtime Channel 7 dedicated to violent crime. In November 1993, for instance, he found it made up 48.9 percent of the station's news coverage. The other half was mostly sex — roadside rapes, teenage promiscuity, and a high-school girls' volleyball team posing in bikinis, among other things. As a result, virtually no attention was paid to the city council or the school board — "all those other things that people probably need to hear about but don't necessarily want to," he says.
"People were saying this was the future of television news," Angotti, who now teaches at Monmouth College in Illinois, remembers. "The future, as far as I was concerned, was pretty disappointing."
Today his concerns sound hilariously retro — who actually expects to see news about the school board on local TV unless there's some kind of sex scandal? In the decade following WSVN's shakeup, almost every station in the nation switched to what became known as "Miami-style news." Soon, no matter where you were, you could turn on your TV set and watch a zookeeper being mauled by a tiger, or cemetery vandals breaking into a casket and beheading a corpse. Stations that insisted on covering serious topics such as education and the environment found themselves behind in the ratings.
Cheatwood, who got most of the credit for WSVN's turnaround, was hired as the executive director of program development for CNN and then became vice president for development at Fox News. Most recently, he had a short-lived stint at the Blaze, Glenn Beck's network. Rick Sanchez went to MSNBC and CNN, was fired after he made anti-Semitic comments directed at Jon Stewart, and now contributes occasionally to Fox News Latino. Sally Fitz left Miami for Chicago and doesn't seem to have worked in TV news since.
"There were all these conservative news people who knocked us," Leider, the then general manager, says. "The irony is that after ten or 15 years, they all started to do what we were doing. What it was — news was boring. "
Cafiero doesn't agree with the "if it bleeds, it leads" characterization of Channel 7, however. "I think we aggressively covered breaking news, that's all. People use that phrase because it's catchy, but I just don't buy it. I think people were jealous, frankly."
Cafiero and cameraman Anthony Pineda took home a coveted duPont Award for their coverage of South Florida pill mills. Courtesy of WSVN
The man's face is blurred out as he steps into a white sedan with Kentucky plates. He's wearing worn-out blue jeans and a baggy white T-shirt that hangs off his wiry frame. He twists the lid off a prescription bottle, shakes out a handful of pills, crushes them in a dollar bill, snorts the powder, and slumps back in the driver's seat. A second, heavily tattooed man in the back seat, who has been mixing crushed pills with water in a bottle, pulls out a hypodermic needle. He puts it into the bottle, sucks up some of the fluid, and then injects the mixture into his bloodstream. They drive off.
Cafiero and her cameraman, Anthony Pineda, follow in an undercover van. When the men stop at a convenience store down the road, she approaches, with Pineda right behind her. The driver, whose face is visible now, is fuming. "We have pictures of you in the car here," she says, sounding pleased with herself, "pictures of you shooting up."
"No, you don't," says the passenger, wearing a backward Hard Rock Cafe baseball cap and clutching a pack of Marlboros.
Cafiero laughs drily. "Yes, we do. Sorry."
The men look at each other, confused.
"So y'all are here from Kentucky to do what? Buy pills and take them back home?"
Unconvincingly, the driver lifts up a bottle of Mountain Dew Code Red. "I'm here to get a pop," he says.
In 2009, South Florida was ground zero for the opiate epidemic. Doctors at so-called pain clinics, most of which were located in Broward County, handed out prescriptions for oxycodone to virtually anyone who asked. Fake pharmacies and shady storefronts sold thousands of pills a day.
Cafiero and Pineda decided to investigate. The two had worked together since 1992, spending countless hours in unmarked vans, listening to oldies on satellite radio — '60s for her, '70s for him — while they collected undercover footage.
"We still had to do our regular stuff, but every time we could steal a couple of hours to do surveillance at these pill mills, we did," Cafiero says. "Every time they moved someplace, we followed them." The pair's tenacity was rewarded with a duPont Award from Columbia University, one of the highest honors in broadcast journalism.
Cafiero had found a niche at Channel 7 by going after scammers and con artists. When she became the station's consumer reporter in the late '70s, she covered fluffy topics such as hotel openings and new rides at Disney World — the kind of "soft news" often assigned to women. But the role ended up giving her the ability to report on people who had been duped by unsavory businesses — tow companies, crematoriums, animal breeders, and the like. Because Florida for decades had led the nation in the number of reported scams, according to the Federal Trade Commission, there was no shortage of material. And when Channel 7 went tabloid, it was simply an opportunity for her to become more aggressive, former general manager Bob Leider says.
"Consumer reporting was one of the things Channel 7 did well back in the '70s and '80s, and when it came time to do more news, that was one of the things they expanded," observes Andrew Barton, who teaches broadcast journalism at the University of Miami. "Carmel was part of that, both before and after... They wanted to be known as the station that's looking out for the consumer."
Over time, Cafiero's name became synonymous with those stories. In 2003, news director Alice Jacobs decided Cafiero should have her own show, which was titled Carmel on the Case.
It was a hit from the beginning. People loved watching her confront everyone from the president of the local Better Business Bureau to fortuneteller Miss Cleo. Some signature Cafiero lines:
"How can you justify giving out a million oxycodone pills?"
"I'm wondering how you're able to park in a disabled spot."
"Don't you think that, as a public official, you ought to answer our questions?"
"What do you think your father is going to say? Do you think he's going to be humiliated?"
"We've been given a video of you pleasuring yourself in your office at this school, and I need to ask you about that."
Doors were slammed in her face. Grown men tried to run away from her. Viewers loved every minute of it. As Jim DeFede at Channel 4 explains: "She knew how to do both good journalism and good TV."
Of that period, her daughter Courtney recalls, "When I was in high school, the boys were always afraid of her. They didn't want to bring me home too late because they didn't want Carmel coming after them."
But she had a softer side. Her family, friends, and co-workers describe an inveterate animal lover who doesn't like to complain about poor service at a restaurant, always answers the phone when her mother calls, and has a deep sense of compassion.
"After Hurricane Andrew, we were looking at homes that were devastated — a woman was sitting outside in a chair, and her house had been flattened," cameraman Pineda recalls. "I remember Carmel taking the woman and comforting her. She just wrapped her arms around her and tried to tell her that we were going to get through it."
In 1992, Cafiero met Bob Gordon, a construction manager who came to her house to provide an estimate on refinishing a table. Their first date was a trip to the Fort Lauderdale Swap Shop, and he insisted on picking her up Sunday at 7 a.m. "I thought he was so cute that it was worth getting up early for," she says now. "I had kind of given up."
She was hesitant to rush into a relationship. "My first marriage was a failure, so I tried to be much smarter," she says. Eventually, Gordon won her over. Nine years after they met, they were married on a fishing trip in Alaska. (Fishing is Cafiero's favorite activity. Her former co-worker Mark Potter has a theory about this: "Sometimes there's a tie between good reporters and people who fish. It's the same technique: sneaking up on things, being quiet, being patient, knowing when to strike.")
Meanwhile, she made plenty of enemies. Pineda, who is still a photographer at the station, became concerned for Cafiero's safety. "I was the one who always did all the worrying — I had to. She just wanted to go," he says. "I remember one time we approached a sexual predator who lived across the street from an elementary school. When he saw Carmel with the mike, he turned around and picked up an object that turned out to be a two-by-four but could have been a gun. We went running that time."
Cafiero says plenty of people are glad she retired — though she won't name them. In fact, for someone who spent close to five decades in the news business, she's shockingly unwilling to indulge in gossip, go off the record, or express cynicism. "If you can make things a little bit better or you can stop somebody from doing bad things... it's just amazing to me, the feeling," she explains. "It's like nothing else."
Without a doubt, the greatest high came from her series on opiate abuse. Her stories were taken to Tallahassee and shown to lawmakers, and in 2010, the Florida Legislature passed a bill requiring close monitoring of doctors who were writing pain prescriptions. That, along with a series of police raids, ultimately forced pill mills to shut down.
But critics argue her reporting was detrimental to people suffering from chronic pain. "I think Channel 7's coverage led to some of the worst laws in this state," says Broward County public defender Howard Finkelstein, a self-described fan of Cafiero's. "It was a horror show, don't get me wrong. But Florida's Legislature went crazy and passed all these laws that now have chronic-pain patients being treated like junkies."
Cafiero with WSVN cameraman Anthony Pineda (left) and producer Danny Cohen. Photo by Monica McGivern
On a Wednesday afternoon at WSVN's North Bay Village headquarters, half the people sitting in the Newsplex are slim young women draped in cardigans and blankets to fend off the air-conditioned chill. The assignment desk is quiet, aside from the buzz coming from the satellite feed. Writers and producers in noise-canceling headphones swivel on desk chairs and stare at their computer screens.
Behind the news desk sit Belkys Nerey and Robbin Simmons, waiting to deliver the 5 o'clock news. "We need high-definition makeup for these high-definition cameras!" Nerey jokes. "They show everything." Simmons laughs and nods, though it's difficult to see what either would need to hide — both are seemingly ageless, with perfectly smooth, poreless skin.
Cafiero turns cold when asked how her age affected her job security.
The low-slung building off the 79th Street Causeway looks different than it did when Cafiero arrived in 1973. Visitors are no longer greeted by a wall of journalism awards. Instead, news director Alice Jacob's office is decorated with several decades's worth of framed certificates declaring WSVN to be number one in the sweeps. A fishbowl office holds the station's social media team, which posts stories about credit card skimmers at gas stations and alligators spotted on the Rickenbacker Causeway to Facebook and Twitter around the clock.
These days, increasing numbers of viewers are giving up cable subscriptions and switching to on-demand streaming. Between 1949 and 2010, the number of people watching television grew every year. But beginning in 2010, Nielsen has documented, viewership began to fall at every station and in every time slot. In 2015, primetime broadcast ratings were down 16 percent from the previous year.
Ad revenue too is in decline. Stations around the country have been forced to lay off staff and cut back on original programming. Because it's family-owned, WSVN has so far been able to avoid a similar fate. But there's a sense of uncertainty about the future. The station still claims more viewers for its news programming than Channel 4, 6, or 10, but critics say that's only because it has more hours of news.
Which raises the question: Could anyone starting out today have a career like Cafiero's? Talk to journalists from competing stations, and you'll hear the same thing again and again: She was one-of-a-kind.
"She was a very serious investigative reporter on television, which is unfortunately a rare commodity," says Bob Norman of Channel 10.
"What amazes me most is she maintained the same quality of work throughout her career," DeFede says. "She was always dogged, always passionate, never played favorites. Carmel never phoned it in."
When she retired July 1 at the age of 68, Cafiero had outlasted everyone else at the station except the owner — which would be less remarkable if she weren't a woman. Though male reporters gain credibility as they age, women tend to disappear. In 2008, when Marilyn Mitzel, a 51-year-old health-care reporter, was terminated by WSVN, she sued for age discrimination, testifying that news director Alice Jacobs once told her: "No one wants to look at old, ugly people on TV."
"I think everyone in this business knows there's a shelf life," Mitzel says. "For women, it just comes sooner." After she celebrated her 50th birthday, she never returned to the anchor desk.
At trial, the station trotted out Cafiero, who was then 63, to testify in its defense. It didn't help the channel's case much. For one thing, out of more than 300 employees, she was the only female reporter older than Mitzel. And, Mitzel's lawyer pointed out, Cafiero was paid less than several younger and less experienced male reporters. In 2005, after 32 years at the station, she was earning $112,500 annually. Patrick Fraser and Derek Hayward made $123,500 and $117,500, respectively. A jury awarded Mitzel nearly $1 million in compensation, though that was later overturned on appeal owing to a technicality.
Cafiero turns cold when asked how her age affected her job security. "At Channel 7, it just wasn't an issue," she says. "I just worried about doing my job."
But it was hard not to notice how, at the end of her career, she stood out from the seemingly endless parade of ridiculously fit young women whose long, perfect hair and flawless makeup were impervious to heat and humidity. Cafiero had put on weight and aged visibly, and looked like what she was — a grandmother in her 60s.
Her reluctance to talk candidly is somewhat understandable. You don't last 43 years in one place by routinely pointing out examples of institutional sexism. The Carmel who confronted felons, drug addicts, and sex offenders on TV was a fighter. The real Carmel simply wanted to do her job and go with the flow. That's apparent from the advice she gave Danny Cohen, who was her producer in the last six years before she retired. "Keep your head down — that's what she always told me," he recalls. "Keep focused on what you're doing."
Despite all the barriers she broke, Cafiero takes a deep breath and pauses for a long time when asked if she considers herself a feminist. "Um. I'm not comfortable with labels. I just... I just wanted to be treated the same as anyone else, male or female... I think it's taken a long time, but if you look at newsrooms across the country, they're full of women. For those of us who came before, it does your heart good."
Women in TV journalism still get paid less than their male counterparts, are given less desirable assignments, and face discrimination if they're not young, thin, or attractive enough. But those are battles Cafiero is leaving for the young women sitting around the Newsplex. | http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/news/carmel-cafiero-changed-the-way-miami-does-news-8041154 | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.browardpalmbeach.com/f10161e0235f0f090339eb1ce7ad95fb1b9a25d5dd3ee1c19eeac55bd7e82906.json |
[
"Herbert Fuego"
] | 2016-08-29T12:46:43 | null | 2016-08-29T08:06:00 | A reader wants to know about Thai stick, and our Ask a Stoner columnist has the answers. Find out more at Westword.com. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.browardpalmbeach.com%2Fnews%2Fdear-stoner-what-is-thai-stick-8034925.json | http://images1.westword.com/imager/u/original/7633095/ask_a_stoner.jpg | en | null | Dear Stoner: What Is Thai Stick? | null | null | www.browardpalmbeach.com | Dear Stoner: What is Thai stick? Is it just an old strain of chronic from the ’70s?
The Berg
Dear Berg: Be ready to take notes if an old-timer ever tells you about the time he smoked a Thai stick, because it was probably crazier than any blunt you’ve ever had. Not to be confused with Thai or other mind-bending sativa strains that come from Southeast Asia, Thai sticks were like an early version of the caviar joints you find in dispensaries today. By taking some premium, seedless buds (which were virtually unheard of in North America in the ’60s and ’70s), skewering them on stems and tightly wrapping the natural doob with fibers from the marijuana plant — and then apparently dipping the sticks in opium — the Thai people created one trippy invention.
Like a few other fads from that time, America’s love for Thai sticks started after U.S. troops in Thailand and Vietnam got a taste of that premium herb (and opium, of course) and brought their findings back home. Because of the influx of potent flower and concentrates and new, more convenient ways to consume pot in the U.S., Thai sticks lost their luster sometime in the ’80s. Although they’re becoming endangered with time, you can still find online videos and tutorials on how to make your own, but if you’re going to dip that stick in anything, please use hash oil instead of opium. Nobody wants to experience a sequel to The Deer Hunter.
Dear Stoner: Seems like smoke shops have 100 options for joint papers nowadays. Got any recommendations, or should I stick with Zig-Zags?
Ivan
Dear Ivan: I feel your frustration. Choosing rolling papers has become almost as hard for us potheads as choosing which box of cereal to buy during a 10 p.m. run to the grocery store — and no purchase under $2 should make us think that hard. One easy tip: Always stay away from the gimmick papers — anything flavored, covered in colorful art or “invisible.” There’s no need to glitter up Colorado’s premium pot.
It’s tough for some people to stray from Tops or Zig-Zag because they grew up on those brands — but if you’re presented with options at a smoke shop or dispensary, always go the unbleached route. There’s a reason that brands like Element and Raw are sponsoring so many weed events: Stoners love them. Made with rice, Element papers are the traditional white without bleach; Raw’s papers are composed of hemp, leaving them an au naturel brown. Unless you’re at a gas station and desperate, pay the extra 75 cents for papers that are pure.
Send questions to marijuana@westword.com or call the potline at 303-293-2222. | http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/news/dear-stoner-what-is-thai-stick-8034925 | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.browardpalmbeach.com/09887c2c2884c98182994779de612a1d1d661c9276e3f4fd0293424dd619b563.json |
[
"Nicole Danna"
] | 2016-08-31T14:47:05 | null | 2016-08-31T09:19:00 | Palm Beach County residents will have new options for healthy, customizable bowls. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.browardpalmbeach.com%2Frestaurants%2Fbolay-expands-with-new-locations-in-palm-beach-gardens-and-boca-raton-8040800.json | http://images1.browardpalmbeach.com/imager/u/original/8042390/dsc_0461.jpg | en | null | Bolay Expands With New Locations in Palm Beach Gardens and Boca Raton | null | null | www.browardpalmbeach.com | PIck up a liquid meal. Photo courtesy Bolay
If a bowl filled with cilantro noodles, ponzu marinated tuna, and maple-roasted butternut squash drenched in a zingy carrot ginger sauce sounds like the perfect "healthy" meal, prepare to fill up.
Chris Gannon, son of Outback cofounder Tim Gannon, is quickly expanding his healthy eats restaurant, Bolay, with two new locations planned for the area. The restaurant, which specializes in customizable "superfood" bowls, has announced the opening of its second location at 3333 Northlake Boulevard in Palm Beach Gardens, tentatively slated to open October 29. A third Boca Raton restaurant will open at the Polo Club Shoppes at 5030 Champion Boulevard in Boca Raton on December 1.
At Bolay, diners can select from a variety of proteins, bases, vegan-friendly sides, and sauces. It starts with a choice of ponzu tuna, Caribbean-spiced steak, lemon chicken, or tofu. Bases for bowls provide several more flavor combinations with gluten-free cilantro noodles, Peruvian-style quinoa, or a marinated kale and currant salad. From there, add-on picks from a healthy selection of vegetables like roasted Brussels sprouts or cauliflower, or maple roasted butternut squash.
Eat well without cooking yourself. Photo courtesy Bolay
To top it off, an assortment of sauces provide a finishing touch from the popular cilantro pesto and spicy Thai to carrot ginger, among others. Bowls can also be paired with the store's selection of house-made, cold-pressed juices and infused teas.
Until the new stores open later this year, customers can visit Bolay's flagship Royal Palm Beach restaurant. The location recently launched an online order tool at eatbolay.com, giving guests the opportunity to order ahead to save time. Additionally, Bolay now offers catering services for homes, offices, and event spaces throughout the greater Palm Beach area.
"As we grow, we'll continue innovating and expanding our build-your-own bowl experience throughout the Palm Beach County area," said Gannon. "Our gluten free, nutrient rich ingredients aren’t special requests; they’re always-featured selections."
The new Bolay locations will be open from 10:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. seven days a week. Bolay is located at 250 S. State Road 7, Royal Palm Beach; 561-899-0111, or visit bolay-restaurant-wellington.com.
Nicole Danna is a food writer covering Broward and Palm Beach counties. To get the latest in food and drink news in South Florida, follow her @SoFloNicole or find her latest food pics on the BPB New Times Food & Drink Instagram. | http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/restaurants/bolay-expands-with-new-locations-in-palm-beach-gardens-and-boca-raton-8040800 | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.browardpalmbeach.com/c2a84cf887e316e8f1042d85a6fc1c2ebd83f2475eb9d52986674003a5197eeb.json |
[
"Jess Swanson"
] | 2016-08-26T12:54:20 | null | 2016-08-25T09:20:00 | At Delray Beach's Death Cafe, people talked about their views on death over tea and cookies. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.browardpalmbeach.com%2Fnews%2Fat-delray-beachs-first-death-cafe-people-discuss-their-imminent-mortality-8030915.json | http://images1.browardpalmbeach.com/imager/u/original/8030917/15556239073_9330c8dec0_k.jpg | en | null | People Discuss Death at Delray Beach's First Death Cafe With Suzy Anand Garfinkle | null | null | www.browardpalmbeach.com | At 6:30 p.m. on a recent Monday, six folks from across the tri-county area met at a Delray Beach condominium to talk about death. Maybe the first gathering of its type in South Florida, it was hosted by Suzy Anand Garfinkle, a kind Jewish mother of three. At her condo’s community center overlooking the pool, Garfinkle set up tea, cookies, and pastries for attendees to munch on as they took turns sharing their thoughts about dying at a table cloaked in a kaleidoscopic tie-dye cloth.
“I grew up in a family where death and dying was not discussed," Garfinkle explained. "I find myself having to unlearn death.”
There’s nothing morbid about South Florida’s first Death Café. It’s like a death-themed tea party, and Garfinkle, an upbeat and eloquent host, discusses mortality as if it were tomorrow’s weather forecast. Rather than living in denial, the idea of Death Café is to face the truth of dying in an intimate, welcoming forum. The room is filled with the people you probably bump into at Publix: a red-haired nurse, a tattooed college student, a self-help writer and her British friend. After Garfinkle speaks, she acts as a moderator and keeps the discussion flowing from person to person.
“We don’t go through loss like a movie,” she says. “It’s not as simple as, 'We came, we saw, we died, they accepted.'”
Death Café is a “social franchise” with tiny outposts across the world. It started in England and slowly spread to Portland, New Jersey, and now Delray Beach. More than 3,000 such events have taken place. It’s not about glorifying death but instead is a real conversation about one’s experiences with death, repressed fears, afterlife beliefs, and even burial wishes. According to its website, Death Café aims “to increase awareness of death with a view to helping people make the most of their (finite) lives.”
After Garfinkle, I was called on to speak. I shared the rift I’ve noticed within my own family about death — my father’s eccentric openness about dying and his wishes, my mother’s discomfort speaking about them. Then, the red-haired nurse explained the lack of communication she notices among family members when people are near death. In her job, she said, people prefer not to face death. When it happens — sometimes unexpectedly — loved ones are left fumbling to predict what that person would’ve wanted.
The self-help writer told a story about her first husband and his unexpected passing. She touched upon her mourning as a young woman and how family gives life its meaning. Her friend, a British man, explained how his father’s death nearly destroyed his family because no one was able to speak about the grief they felt.
The last person to speak was the tattooed college student. To him, though, the “little deaths,” or cycles of breakups and job losses, were more jarring than actually dying. When he was a drug addict, death was all too common, he says. Too many young people he knows are dead. Everyone leaned in closer. He shared that he had nearly overdosed and died too.
For nearly two hours, the discussion continued. There were no tears or awkward silences. Death certainly wasn’t glorified. Everyone expressed interest in attending the next Death Café, which will be held at 6 p.m. September 19. Garfinkle hopes the Death Cafés will happen every month. Everyone is welcome. For more information, visit the Death Café website. | http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/news/at-delray-beachs-first-death-cafe-people-discuss-their-imminent-mortality-8030915 | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | www.browardpalmbeach.com/e51422f62d7259f591bdadae1d8702907691120cd16216f9bf94356eebb9896d.json |
[
"Ryan Yousefi"
] | 2016-08-26T13:00:27 | null | 2016-08-25T09:56:00 | Uberpopular Lucky's Market announces its second South Florida location to open in October 2016 in Plantation. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.browardpalmbeach.com%2Frestaurants%2Fsecond-luckys-market-location-to-open-in-plantation-in-october-8031183.json | http://images1.browardpalmbeach.com/imager/u/original/8031249/lucky_s_market.jpg | en | null | Second Lucky's Market Location to Open in Plantation in October | null | null | www.browardpalmbeach.com | Ryan Yousefi
And then there were two. Following the successful launch of their first South Florida location in Coral Springs this past April, Lucky's Market has announced in October they will be opening the doors to their second store in Plantation.
The affordable natural foods market — best known for their free bacon samples and in-store bar that encourages customers to drink while they shop — has been a huge hit in Coral Springs since its opening in April. Such a hit, in fact, that we detailed why it's legitimately a better grocery option than Publix — an opinion we still stand by months later.
The new location at 7700 Peters Rd. will be the fifth Lucky's in Florida. The Colorado-based company is rapidly growing in large part due to a reputation as a fantastic option for those looking for organic, local, specialty, and gluten-free items.
Related Stories Ten Reasons Lucky's Market Is Better Than Publix
“Our goal at Lucky’s Market is to bring more fresh, healthy food at affordable prices to all people, and we are thrilled to open our fifth store in the great state of Florida,” said Lucky's founder Bo Sharon in a statement released by the chain in anticipation of their Plantation opening.
“Lucky’s Market is a one-stop shop for people who simply love good food and great deals. We look forward to stocking our shelves with as many local products as possible and making a positive and lasting impact in the Plantation community.”
The Plantation location will feature — in addition to all the goodies that come along with your usual Lucky's Market — an apothecary department that will have a do-it- yourself wall where people can buy what they need to make their own teas, salves, tinctures, healing elixirs, and more. The store, which is about 45,000 square feet, will employ approximately 140 people.
Lucky’s Market was started in 2003 by the husband-and-wife team of Trish and Bo Sharon. They bought a convenience store in Boulder, Colorado, in hopes of creating a grocery store where food lovers could shop for quality products that didn't cost and arm and a leg. The pair soon found that the farther away they got from the norm and the deeper they went toward what they thought was a fun place to shop, the better the store did.
What grew from their first store is a chain of stores located around the country that stick out like a sore thumb in an otherwise vanilla grocery industry. Customers can enjoy a $2 pint of beer and a slice of homemade pizza as they shop for organics or sit down in the coffee area and enjoy a brew and an item from their bakery afterward.
According to Lucky's Market, grand opening festivities are soon to be announced for the Plantation location. | http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/restaurants/second-luckys-market-location-to-open-in-plantation-in-october-8031183 | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | www.browardpalmbeach.com/d52c7c6e17c311f2f184a4b279981ac3e3e9cfa335a100246b461cf975ec5032.json |
[
"Pete Vonder Haar"
] | 2016-08-26T13:01:22 | null | 2016-08-25T08:00:00 | Children’s programming is actually the new refuge for old people who prefer TV like it used to be and have been driven away from prime time. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.browardpalmbeach.com%2Ffilm%2Fwhat-disneys-horrible-tween-shows-taught-me-about-parenting-and-todays-tv-comedy-8024800.json | http://images1.laweekly.com/imager/u/original/7290023/bellaandthebulldogs.jpg | en | null | What Disney's Horrible Tween Shows Taught Me About Parenting - and Today's TV Comedy | null | null | www.browardpalmbeach.com | Courtesy of Disney
It's hard out there for a TV comedy fan.
That's the case for network television, at least. Before All in the Family altered the TV comedy landscape, most sitcoms hewed closely to the formula of solving minor annoyances in 22 minutes (with the occasional “OMG Vincent Price in Hawaii” curveball). AitF dared to tackle issues like racism and sexism, and while the game didn’t change immediately, it opened the door a crack for other comedies to tackle weightier issues. That door is now the proverbial one attached to the barn, as the growth of original content on pay networks and elsewhere has exploded.
The Big Four’s feeble response to the threat posed by cable networks and streaming providers appears to begin and end with Melissa McCarthy and Jim Parsons making coy references to STDs and oral sex on prime time. Problem is, that still can’t compete with the likes of FCC-free HBO and Showtime. It also has the added drawback of driving away older audiences, increasingly the Big Four’s core demographic.
Meanwhile, kids these days (note to self: trademark that phrase) are reveling in a cornucopia of choices undreamed of by those who grew up on airwaves strangled by the Hanna-Barbera industrial-entertainment complex. With nearly a dozen cable options, not to mention On Demand and the aforementioned online streaming services, today’s children can glut themselves 24 hours a day on shows specifically programmed for them. This is a far cry from the hellscape of Saturday-morning-only cartoons, AKA Generation X’s Vietnam.
As a father of grade-school children, I adopted a brave and time-honored parental strategy to confront this reality: utter capitulation. Rather than forbid my kids from watching any TV and thereby turning them into Amish weirdos in the eyes of their peers, I elected to “get involved” — i.e. sit down and watch some of their favorite shows with them. As it turns out, I wasn’t careful and learned something before I was done. Namely, that children’s programming is actually the new refuge for old people who prefer TV like it used to be and have been driven away from prime time by Chuck Lorre and Kat Dennings’ bosoms.
The first exhibit in our traveling roadshow of parental defeat was Jessie, a Disney Channel offering that tells the story of a Texas girl who flees to the big city (New York) and — instead of becoming the subject of a Poison song — ends up hired as a nanny for the wealthy Ross family. The Ross children are four stereotypically multicultural kids whose mostly adoptive parents are mostly absent. There’s also a butler, who provides excellent joke fodder because he’s overweight, and a monitor lizard. The lizard belongs to Ravi, the boy adopted from India, and is named “Mr. Kipling,” presumably because the showrunners decided “Mr. Gandhi” was too on the nose.
Courtesy of Disney
There’s another adopted child, a girl named Zuri who comes from Uganda. Her skin color is the only thing setting her apart from the natural Ross children, which would seem to be a cultural slight, unless Disney is proposing all African children behave like the Cosbys.
Jessie was a bit of an outlier in my study, as the episode we watched was an almost note-perfect remake of the original Ghostbusters, the events of which turned out to be a nightmare brought about by Jessie eating all the kids’ Halloween candy and not, thankfully, a “men’s rights” answer to that Paul Feig movie.
Next up was Bella and the Bulldogs on Nickelodeon. Bella Dawson (Brec Bassinger) is a Texas middle-school cheerleader who becomes the quarterback for the football team. This kicks off (heh) two seasons of mildly sexist quandaries and dawning horror as the rest of the nation realizes they let 11-year-olds be cheerleaders and play football in Texas.
And although they’re fairly different shows, Bella and Jessie's mutual use of the Lone Star State was amusing (to me, as someone who lives there). For Jessie, it makes sense — few states set up the fish-out-of-water-in-NYC angle like Texas, while Nickelodeon undoubtedly figured using it as the background for a football-based TV show was a no-brainer. I mean, sports are big in California too, but you’d never set Bella and the Bulldogs there because hippies like Marcia Brady obviously can't catch a football properly.
Both shows are also fond of extended-length episodes, which are problematic when you tell your 7-year-olds they can watch “one more show” and they then proceed to lawyerball you by starting the 85-minute ep in which Jessie returns to Texas to make peace with her hard-ass military father.
More surprising than the overall banality of the shows in question was the almost complete lack of “very special” episodes. With almost no exception, no one in these programs ever deals with quandaries more challenging than an inability to connect with the opposite sex or easily circumvented school-district prohibitions against girls playing football. Routine problems like this also offer another reason for some to abandon prime-time TV and its insistence on acknowledging human ugliness.
Finally there was Bunk’d, because there are still summer-camp-comedy depths left unplumbed by Meatballs III. We watched this for five minutes before I realized I’d been had: It’s a Jessie spin-off, with three of the four Ross kids going to “Camp Kikiwaka ” in Maine for further adventures in upper-class banality and laugh-track abuse. Mr. Kipling is gone and replaced by Tiffany, a Chinese-American girl who’s super neurotic about her grades and appeasing her overbearing mother. The eldest Ross child (Emma) is also forced to compete for the affections of the camp hunk with the head counselor (Hazel, as in “Witch”). These are all things that would’ve been rejected in the writers’ room of The Love Boat for being “too cliché.”
This is when I realized the solution to the Big Four’s sitcom problem is right here under their noses. In each of these shows, Disney and Nickelodeon have managed the insidious trick of reverting to a 1950s mindset by effectively leapfrogging the intervening decades and arriving in what older whiter audiences assume to be post-racial America. Three of the kids in Jessie’s charge are adopted from places like Uganda and India, but their problems are just as banal as any Wally and Eddie Haskell faced in Leave it to Beaver.
Obviously, these are children’s shows, and the closest they’ll get to real-world issues is the kind of arm's’ length you see when a boy and girl enjoy their first slow dance at the junior-high social. But isn’t that what the Big Four’s audiences want? Don’t the same folks who keep Blue Bloods and NCIS: Walmart (or whatever) in the Nielsen top 20 prefer their conflicts to be neatly wrapped up before the Mega Millions drawing?
It was an educational experience in other ways, as well. My daughters learned that people will always conform to comforting cultural stereotypes, rural Texas is very accommodating when it comes to equal rights for women and fat people are almost (but not quite!) worthy of human dignity. As for me, I came to realize those fears of my kids running off to the big city are wholly unfounded, that Jessie’s gluttony was probably a statement about America’s stance on resource consumption and that I should immediately drop my television from the top of the nearest football stadium. | http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/film/what-disneys-horrible-tween-shows-taught-me-about-parenting-and-todays-tv-comedy-8024800 | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | www.browardpalmbeach.com/62853a309fc40daafc2643519357a9b3b82d95fe95360b4e70cd714ab3a5c388.json |
[
"Jess Swanson"
] | 2016-08-31T14:47:10 | null | 2016-08-31T09:18:00 | Incumbent Judge Matthew Destry was defeated in the local primary election, coming in fourth in the five-way race. The run-off election in November will... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.browardpalmbeach.com%2Fnews%2Fafter-sentencing-23-year-old-to-60-years-in-prison-judge-matthew-destry-defeated-in-primary-8045040.json | http://images1.browardpalmbeach.com/imager/u/original/8045100/feature1-1-95e635a1396ee7af.jpg | en | null | Judge Matthew Destry Defeated in August 30 Primary | null | null | www.browardpalmbeach.com | At times, Judge Matthew Destry has handed down sentences longer than prosecutors had sought. Photo by CandaceWest.com
Back in November, Broward Judge Matthew Destry sentenced 23-year-old Herb Smith to 60 years in prison after he broke his probation. That sentence—more than four times the prosecution's recommendation—ignited a viral online petition (that garnered more than 45,000 signatures) calling for Destry's ousting. After the outcry, Destry reversed the sentence and let the young man go free.
A New Times investigation examined Destry's sentences and found that many are excessively harsh and seemingly random. So when his judicial seat was up for re-election, Destry drew four challengers—more than any other judge this primary. The New Times criticisms have been the main campaign talking points for Destry's four opponents: Haccord Curry, assistant general counsel for the Department of Juvenile Justice, Barbara Duffy, a former Police Benevolent Association attorney, Brian Greenwald, a former Public Defender who defended Herb Smith, and Abbe Rifkin, an assistant Miami-Dade State Attorney.
At yesterday's primary, Broward voters agreed and decided they wanted a change. Destry was defeated, coming in fourth in the five-way race. The run-off election in November will pit Barbara McCarthy (who earned 29 percent of the vote) against Abbe Rifkin (who earned 24 percent).
"I'm thrilled," Rifkin tells New Times. "A portion of the voters heard my message and I hope to bring my message now to the entire voting public in November."
On Facebook, Duffy was also excited and announced: "I want to say a huge THANK YOU to everyone who stood in the rain, endured blistering heat, made countless phone calls and went to vote! Our hard work paid off and we are now to a run-off. I love you all!"
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While Destry defends the Herb Smith sentence and its reversal, it stands out when compared to other times when Destry went easy on a defendant—like when he sentenced a man who raped a middle-school girl to 2.5 years. Technically, the judge's sentences are legal and based on a set of guidelines. But last year, an appeals court overturned 11 of his rulings. The most recent overturning: his 10-year sentence of a 22-year-old non-violent offender for selling $50 worth of crack cocaine.
Howard Finkelstein of the Broward Public Defender’s Office has said, "The problem is that [Destry] doesn't see the humanity of poor people."
Ratonya Dumas, who launched the online petition against Destry last November, is relieved. She says Herbert Smith is like a son to her. Even after his sentence, she has worked tirelessly trying to raise awareness about Destry's sentences.
"Yes, I'm glad he's out of his seat," she tells New Times. "It's a start we must now work on minimum mandatory sentencing. Those guidelines must be changed." | http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/news/after-sentencing-23-year-old-to-60-years-in-prison-judge-matthew-destry-defeated-in-primary-8045040 | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.browardpalmbeach.com/b050ee6ade3aab63c15fa62d56b907d89a2cf0672670a320c329cbde1b4c5b61.json |
[
"Doug Fairall"
] | 2016-08-26T14:46:38 | null | 2016-08-26T08:52:00 | This #FloridaBeerFriday, we review a craft beer from women run brewery High Heel Brewing, Too Hop'd To Handle. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.browardpalmbeach.com%2Frestaurants%2Ffloridabeerfriday-too-hopd-to-handle-from-high-heel-brewing-8032909.json | http://images1.browardpalmbeach.com/imager/u/original/8032911/too-hopd-to-handle-high-heel-brewing.jpg | en | null | #FloridaBeerFriday: Too Hop'd to Handle From High Heel Brewing | null | null | www.browardpalmbeach.com | EXPAND Doug Fairall
Every week, we take a look at a craft beer brewed in Florida. Follow #FloridaBeerFriday for more reviews of Sunshine State brews. Get out there and #DrinkLocal.
Two weeks ago, we looked at the perry ale from new brewers High Heel Brewing, which brews out of Brew Hub in Lakeland. It's a female-focused operation, with an aim to make craft beer approachable for a different sect of women. In addition to the pear-based hybrid ale, they also produce this beer from a more mainstream beer style: a straight-up American IPA.
Too Hop'd to Handle is labeled as an India Pale Ale though comes in at 8.4 percent alcohol by volume and a whopping 89 IBUs (international bittering units). This beer, at least according to Beer Judge Certification Program guidelines, would most likely be labeled differently than what it is, as the IPA category is generally found to have ABV ranges of 5.5 percent to 7.5 percent. The Double IPA category takes things above that range. It may be semantics, but it's appropriate for beers to be labeled for consumer expectation. Indeed, with the inclusion of Belgian candi sugar (a type of caramelized sugar that has been subject to the Maillard process), Too Hop'd is a very unique IPA that spans style categorization.
Hops are the forefront of most IPAs, and this version is blessed with no shortage of green leafy flowers: Columbus, Mosaic and Simcoe hop varieties along with a rotating seasonal variety that this time happens to be Citra. On the malt side, it's built with Munich and honey malt specialty grains and, as previously mentioned, has an addition of Belgian candi sugar to help increase the fermentability, which in turn creates more alcohol.
It pours a deepish orange with hints toward red and comes with a powerful, off-white cap of foam. Aromas are sweet and syrupy, with a bit of cherry and strawberry; some light floral character is buried underneath. Flavors are resin-heavy up front, with a middle of malt sweetness that finishes with a rough lingering bitterness that tends to move between resinous sap and medicinal. Carbonation and mouthfeel are about appropriate for the style.
We were sent a sample of Too Hop'd to Handle and chose to review it.
Doug Fairall is a craft beer blogger dedicated to educating the public about all things beer, with a focus on Florida brews. He is the Brand Marketing Manager for Due South Brewing Company and has been a homebrewer since 2009. For beer things in your Twitter feed, follow him @DougFairall and find the latest beer pics on Clean Plate's Instagram. | http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/restaurants/floridabeerfriday-too-hopd-to-handle-from-high-heel-brewing-8032909 | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.browardpalmbeach.com/da32d72a08eb62cb078c9b7411904f394836b566bcd53a16e7001cd0025e28a6.json |
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"Nicole Danna"
] | 2016-08-26T12:49:29 | null | 2016-08-25T11:01:00 | South Florida BJ's Wholesale Clubs will now be home to Dunkin' Donuts locations. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.browardpalmbeach.com%2Frestaurants%2Fsouth-florida-bjs-wholesale-club-partners-with-dunkin-donuts-8030137.json | http://images1.browardpalmbeach.com/imager/u/original/8030138/1_r1229coldbrew_ooh_lo.jpg | en | null | South Florida BJ's Wholesale Club Partners With Dunkin' Donuts | null | null | www.browardpalmbeach.com | Try the new cold brew iced coffee at Dunkin' Donuts, now open inside BJ's Wholesale Club in Pembroke Pines. Courtesy of Dunkin' Donuts
Some things just pair perfectly with one another: wine and chocolate, champagne and strawberries, beer and pretzels, tea and crumpets — or, for the weekend-warrior shopper hiding inside us all, coffee and donuts.
For those of you who like to wholesale shop until you drop, here's your perfect match: BJ's Wholesale Club is ditching a number of its fast-food options and replacing them with Dunkin' Donuts stands instead.
The first store, located inside the BJ’s Wholesale Club off Pines Boulevard, opened August 9. It is the first of several Dunkin’ Donuts locations planned to open within BJ’s Wholesale Clubs throughout South Florida over the coming months, and it is owned and operated by local franchisee Mike Fallah.
"We're excited about this partnership," said Melissa Goulette, field marketing manager for Dunkin’ Donuts brands. "Over the next several months, we will be opening several more BJ’s Wholesale Club locations throughout the region, and that means BJ’s shoppers will be running on Dunkin'."
The new Dunkin' Donuts restaurant is open daily from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Best of all, guests do not need to have a BJ’s membership to visit the location. The new location offers the complete Dunkin' Donuts menu, including a wide range of hot and iced coffees, lattes, cappuccinos, macchiatos, teas, frozen beverages, sandwiches, donuts, and other baked goods.
What to order? Dunkin’ Donuts also recently debuted its new signature cold brew coffee, described as an "ultra-smooth, full-bodied beverage" prepared by steeping a special blend of coffee in cold water over an extended period of time to extract a strong, distinctive flavor. The cold brew coffee is handcrafted in each Dunkin’ Donuts restaurant in small batches, says Fallah, and served each day while supplies last.
"Our new Pembroke Pines restaurant is the perfect stop for BJ’s customers to stop during their visit," said Fallah. "It's a great partnership."
BJ's Dunkin' Donuts. 13700 Pines Blvd., Pembroke Pines; 954-436-7600; dunkindonuts.com. | http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/restaurants/south-florida-bjs-wholesale-club-partners-with-dunkin-donuts-8030137 | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | www.browardpalmbeach.com/9b7974b70c261dfc2d89aa16765c15db855feaa83cfcb1f66d533881d4b3164a.json |
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"Alan Scherstuhl"
] | 2016-08-26T12:52:35 | null | 2016-08-23T10:00:00 | Miss Sharon Jones! tells the kind of true story that makes you want to kick creation itself square in the crotch. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.browardpalmbeach.com%2Ffilm%2Fsharon-jones-wont-let-cancer-stop-the-funk-7937964.json | http://images1.laweekly.com/imager/u/original/7167708/miss_sharon_jones.jpg | en | null | Miss Sharon Jones! | null | null | www.browardpalmbeach.com | EXPAND Courtesy of Starz Digital
Barbara Kopple's Miss Sharon Jones! tells the kind of true story that makes you want to kick creation itself square in the crotch. Here's that firecracker soul singer, nearing her 60s, her boogie still majestic, her band still a tight retro marvel, her wail still the southern end of a northbound dragster. When she's onstage, her Dap-Kings lock into a groove, her sweat flies and if you're in the crowd you damn sure dance or you aren't worth knowing.
This century being what it is, and the music biz being even worse than the rest of modern life, Jones supports herself and her stiletto-sharp J.B.'s-style retro band through old-fashioned barnstorming: They haul their gear around the world and, each night, knock off a couple hundred people's socks. It's a hard, honest life, and a demanding one. The too-quick clips in this documentary's opening moments suggest the power of her hard-funk art, but to feel it for real you need a longer exposure, to get caught up in it, to surrender your metabolism.
Kopple can't let the groove work its spell, because she has a story to get to: Jones entered chemo for pancreatic cancer in late 2013. By the following February, the indefatigable singer was back on the road, crossing the globe with her band in support of a strong new album, Give the People What They Want, her sixth for Bushwick's upstart Daptone records. Kopple's film follows Jones through those tough months, showcasing her resilience, her hopefulness and her everyday eccentricity. Turns out the dynamo loves fatback and daytime talk shows, and still can't quite believe she met James Brown.
Jones was a regular person longer than she was an indie-soul star, working as a corrections officer and singing in a wedding band before finally putting a record out at age 40. So she faces her diagnosis — and financial uncertainty — like people you know might: humbly, grateful for the help and love of those around her, well aware of how much worse others might have it. The closest to a celebrity meltdown we see is when she's briefly heartbroken that a November dinner with her bandmates has fallen through — they're the closest to family she has in New York, she says. But just minutes late she's exultant: She's gotten booked on Ellen, one of her favorites.
Kopple's film is intimate and rousing. We see Jones rejecting wigs, getting her head shaved, consulting with her doctors, knocking back spinach-y smoothies prepped by the dietician friend who takes her in. On Billboard's excellent Soul Sisters podcast last week, Jones discussed how initially she considered fighting her management on even doing this movie: “Put a camera in my face while I go through cancer?" she asks. Meanwhile, we get glimpses of her band facing a season without work — some struggling to make the rent, others talking about taking out bank loans to keep Daptone alive. One of the most moving scenes shows Jones, bald and thin, working through new numbers with the Dap-Kings. The performance is a treasure even without her strutting footwork and percussive James Brown growls and shouts. | http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/film/sharon-jones-wont-let-cancer-stop-the-funk-7937964 | en | 2016-08-23T00:00:00 | www.browardpalmbeach.com/8b6ca5487ff6926737f1e5f0fe592f63ad9127468e8eebb84fb3c453043679e3.json |
[
"Nicole Danna"
] | 2016-08-26T13:01:48 | null | 2016-08-25T08:58:00 | Nisi takes over the spot formerly occupied by Thasos Greek Tavern, offering Mediterranean cuisine with an Asian twist. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.browardpalmbeach.com%2Frestaurants%2Fmiami-chef-joshua-wahler-debuts-nisi-in-fort-lauderdale-today-8027465.json | http://images1.browardpalmbeach.com/imager/u/original/8027467/chefs_at_table_2_blue_shirts_.jpg | en | null | Miami Chef Joshua Wahler Debuts Nisi in Fort Lauderdale Today | null | null | www.browardpalmbeach.com | Nisi co-owners Andreas Tsavos (left) and Joshua Wahler. Photo courtesy of Nisi
Well-known Miami-based chef and Hell's Kitchen contestant Joshua Wahler, who spent time in some of the country's most lauded kitchens including New York City's Gramercy Tavern and Spice Market and Miami's Nobu, will launching his first restaurant in Broward County this week.
The concept takes the place of Thasos in Fort Lauderdale, which closed to undergo a subtle redesign early last week.
The restaurant is a partnership between Wahler and hospitality veteran Andreas Tsavos, who first met while working at Estiatorio Milos, a high-end Greek restaurant in Miami Beach. Together, the duo also co-own and operate the newly launched children’s food delivery service, Born Foody.
Under their guidance, the elegant white stucco building at the corner of Alternate A1A and Oakland Park Boulevard has quietly shifted from Thasos' traditional Greek fare to what Wahler describes as a "more Mediterranean-based menu with Asian touches."
While the menu has changed direction, those familiar with the previous concept will notice the restaurant's interior remains largely untouched — a clean, modern, and brilliant white decor that lends itself to Nisi's fine-dining atmosphere.
New additions, however, include installation of a raw bar, which will give a crudo spin to the menu with items like marinated anchovy crostini. Highlights from the meze selections – appetizers in Greek and Middle Eastern cuisine – also include a jumbo lump crab cake with coriander, dijon mustard, and basil aioli; Prince Edward Island mussels served in a tarragon sauce; and feta cheese "sticks" wrapped in phyllo dough, drizzled with honey, and topped with sesame seeds.
Cocktails will play an important role in Nisi's menu, adds Wahler, with drinks using ingredients from lavender and thyme to chamomile offering guests a well-rounded Mediterranean experience from start to finish.
Nisi Restaurant opens its doors to the public on Thursday, August 25.
Nisi. 3330 E. Oakland Park Blvd., Fort Lauderdale; 954-200-6006; facebook.com.
Nicole Danna is a food writer covering Broward and Palm Beach counties. To get the latest in food and drink news in South Florida, follow her @SoFloNicole or find her latest food pics on the BPB New Times Food & Drink Instagram. | http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/restaurants/miami-chef-joshua-wahler-debuts-nisi-in-fort-lauderdale-today-8027465 | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | www.browardpalmbeach.com/ff6d099882fcf64b193aa403cde208d10356acca9e9c6e2b36fa2c029795ff1d.json |
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"Natalya Jones"
] | 2016-08-29T12:46:37 | null | 2016-08-29T08:06:00 | A roundup of all the food and drink events taking place in Broward and Palm Beach counties this week, August 29 through September 1 | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.browardpalmbeach.com%2Frestaurants%2Fsouth-florida-food-and-drink-events-this-week-chef-s-grand-tasting-happy-hour-for-a-cause-and-garage-soccer-8003990.json | http://images1.browardpalmbeach.com/imager/u/original/8004348/tap42-tacotuesday.jpg | en | null | The Best Things to do in Broward and Palm Beach Counties | null | null | www.browardpalmbeach.com | This pizza may not help you answer trivia questions, but who cares? Mellow Mushroom
Monday
Wine Down Monday
Burger & Beer Joint (550 S Rosemary Ave., West Palm Beach) will offer half off all bottles of wine with entrée purchase, starting at 7 p.m. Visit bnbjoint.com.
Chef’s Grand Tasting
Jardin (330 Clematis St., West Palm Beach) is offering a 15-course meal at 7 p.m. every Monday. The dinner changes weekly and costs $75. A $30 wine or cocktail pairing is available, as well. This recurring event is every Monday until August 29. Note that there are only eight seats available, so call 561-440-5273 or visit bit.ly/jardintix for reservations.
ArtsPark
ArtsPark (1 Young Circle, Hollywood) will have food trucks from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. In the past, the line-up has included Daddy’s Grill, Don Mofongo, and Il Fiorentino, with HipPOPs Handcrafted Gelato Bars as a recurring participant. Visit burgerbeast.com.
Tuesday
9th Hour Trivia at Mellow Mushroom
Mellow Mushroom (700 S Rosemary Ave., West Palm Beach) will let guests spew their useless knowledge with trivia at 9 p.m. There is no cost to attend. Call 561-653-1351.
Can you smell the goodness through the screen? Tap 42
Taco Tuesday
Tap 42 (1411 S Andrews Ave., Fort Lauderdale) will host a recurring Taco Tuesday with Bar Rita-inspired menu items. The menu will rotate weekly and will feature items such as Korean Shortrib Cheesesteak Tacos, Strawberry Margarita Guac, BBQ Pork Carnitas Tacos and hand-crafted margaritas. This will end in Fall. Visit Tap42.com.
Garage Soccer at Bangin' Banjo
Bangin' Banjo (3200 NW 23rd Ave., # 500, Pompano Beach) will allow guests to not only enjoy Taco Tuesday with food truck the Inca Mix, but to join a garage soccer league. Not sure what the latter is? Think foosball mixed with soccer simulation. This event is from 7 to 10 p.m. Visit banginbanjobrewing.com.
Wednesday
Happy Hour for a Cause
The Gilda’s Club South Florida Young Leadership Council will host a networking event at Apothecary 330 (330 SW Second St., Fort Lauderdale). Admission is free for members or $15 donation at the door for non-members. Attendees will get a free drink and appetizers. This is from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Visit gildasclubsouthflorida.org.
Thursday
Trivia Night/Thirsty Thursday at Bull Market
Thursday is the almost end of the workweek, which means that it’s technically the beginning of the weekend. Bull Market (210 SW Second St., Fort Lauderdale) offers $2 beer night at their bar trivia night at 8 p.m. Want domestic buckets o’ beer? It’s only $15. Visit BullMarketBar.com.
All Month Long
Burger of the Month
Burger Bar (4650 Donald Ross Rd., Palm Beach Gardens) is offering the Durham ranch bison burger for August’s burger of the month. The creation has maytag blue cheese butter, arugula, potato chips, and roasted tomato on toasted ciabatta bread. This costs $18.50. Visit burgerbar.com.
Dine Out Lauderdale at Burlock Coast
Burlock Coast (1 N Fort Lauderdale Beach Blvd., Fort Lauderdale) will be partaking in Dine Out Lauderdale until September 30. Guests can enjoy a three-course meal for $36. Visit ritzcarlton.com.
Pokemon Specials at Quarterdeck
Quarterdeck Restaurants (multiple locations) will serve Pokemon inspired drinks, such as the Oddish Pear Martini, Pikachu Punch and Slowpoke Strawberry Lemonade. Guests who show their Pokemon Go app to their waiter, can score a free dessert with purchase of a meal. The deal is available until September 30. Visit quarterdeckrestaurants.com.
August iPic Specials
iPic Theaters (Mizner Park, 301 Plaza Real, Boca Raton) will feature the Pegu Club cocktail and the Ooey Gooey M&Ms Sweet Pizza during the entire month of August. The Pegu Club cocktail, inspired by the James Beard award-winning NYC mixology den, is comprised of Grand Marnier, New Amsterdam Gin and lime. Ooey Gooey M&Ms Sweet Pizza is made of Nutella, pretzels, M&Ms, toasted marshmallows and chocolate disks. Visit ipictheaters.com.
Specialty Summer Cocktails
Apothecary 330 (330 Himmarshee St., #101, Fort Lauderdale) will showcase not one, but two cocktails for the end of summer season. One is the Green Tea Lavender Mojito and the other is PEAping Tom, geared toward those who like martinis. Call 954-616-8028.
Josie’s Ristorante Summer Discount
Josie’s Ristorante (1602 S. Federal Hwy., Boynton Beach) will offer 20 percent off the entire menu until September. This is for dine-in only and is not applicable with other discounts or offers. Visit josiesristorante.com.
Stout Bar & Grill Summer Happy Hour
Stout Bar & Grill (3419 N. Andrews Ave., Oakland Park) will feature half-off drinks, flatbreads, and appetizers Monday through Friday from 5 to 7 p.m. Visit stoutbarandgrill.com.
For more events, visit our online calendar or pick up the print edition of New Times every Thursday. To submit an event, use our online form.
Natalya Jones is a food and music writer covering Broward and Palm Beach counties. To get the latest in entertainment and fun things to do in South Florida, follow her on Twitter. | http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/restaurants/south-florida-food-and-drink-events-this-week-chef-s-grand-tasting-happy-hour-for-a-cause-and-garage-soccer-8003990 | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.browardpalmbeach.com/9aafb869888d2ba7628d46e82627b5adae4904bfdcd131283048d2de9d027a94.json |
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"Jess Swanson"
] | 2016-08-29T14:47:10 | null | 2016-08-29T09:08:00 | After Justin Bieber suddenly canceled the meet and greet sessions, a Broward mom is suing for not being refunded. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.browardpalmbeach.com%2Fnews%2Fbroward-mom-sues-justin-bieber-for-not-meeting-her-daughter-8034889.json | http://images1.browardpalmbeach.com/imager/u/original/8040075/justin-bieber-purpose-tour-miami-american-airlines-arena-55.jpg | en | null | Justin Bieber Sued in Broward for Canceled Meet and Greets | null | null | www.browardpalmbeach.com | Justin Bieber Purpose World Tour at American Airlines Arena. Photo by George Martinez
When Justin Bieber announced he'd be stopping in South Florida on his Purpose World Tour, Melissa Matthai threw down $1,856.35 to buy two VIP tickets for her and her 14-year-old daughter. It was a steep investment, but the Broward mom justified the price since a backstage "Meet and Greet" with the Canadian heartthrob was included. Matthai's daughter is a day-one Belieber who continues to worship the baby-faced star, face tattoos and all.
But in March, the 22-year-old singer cancelled all Meet and Greets, writing on Instagram that sessions left him "drained and filled with so much of other people's spiritual energy." Matthai's 14-year-old was devastated. Then Matthai learned her money wouldn't be refunded. Now, she's suing Bieber in Broward court for damages.
"They were upset, but so was everybody," says Scott Behren, Matthai's husband and attorney. "There were girls who gave up their quinces, girls who gave up their bar mitzvahs for these tickets."
At the time, management explained to Matthai over email that she could be refunded for her ticket in full. But in doing so, she would have to give up her two premium VIP seats. There were no partial refunds. When Matthai tried to buy two more tickets, everything at the American Airlines Arena was sold out. She kept the nearly $1,900 package in order to hold on to her seats so she could see Bieber with her daughter.
"[Bieber] refused to refund monies back to customers without them completely giving up tickets for shows that had been sold out for months," the complaint states. "Matthai attended the concert with floor seats worth $200 each on July 2, 2016, for which she paid over $900 each."
Matthai wasn't the only person who was angry. After racking up nearly $2,000 each on their credit cards, fans are pissed that Bieber didn't hold up his end of the deal. But attorney Scott Behren isn't aware of any other lawsuits.
"I wouldn't be surprised if there were other [lawsuits] in other parts of the country," he says. "As far as I'm concerned, I believe you should pay for what you actually got."
Matthai only wanted to be refunded the price of the Meet and Greet session (roughly $700 per ticket). Now the complaint lists damages in excess of $1,800 including interest and costs. The complaint mentions breach of contract, Florida's unfair and deceptive trade practices act, and negligent misrepresentation.
Behren explains that their 14-year-old daughter had seen Bieber perform while they were on vacation in the Bahamas. That was five or six years ago, he estimates, and says his daughter was a huge fan even then.
"He was a lot smaller than he is now," Behren says. "But [my daughter] has always been a fan. She really wanted to see him because she missed out meeting him [that time] in Atlantis." | http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/news/broward-mom-sues-justin-bieber-for-not-meeting-her-daughter-8034889 | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.browardpalmbeach.com/f28928821093ef3acf455f24ddc750630ec1e9c1ccd1394bec4887bf58d6b32a.json |
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"Natalya Jones"
] | 2016-08-26T14:46:05 | null | 2016-08-26T09:40:00 | A roundup of all the food and drink events taking place in Broward and Palm Beach counties this weekend, August 26 through 28. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.browardpalmbeach.com%2Frestaurants%2Fsouth-florida-food-and-drink-events-this-weekend-cheese-and-beer-pairing-wine-sampling-and-vegan-pop-up-dinner-7984266.json | http://images1.browardpalmbeach.com/imager/u/original/7984268/wholefoods_beets.jpg | en | null | South Florida Food and Drink Events This Weekend, August 26 Through 28 | null | null | www.browardpalmbeach.com | Replace these veggies with cheese and beer for Friday's Whole Foods event. Photo courtesy Whole Foods Market
Friday
Beaches and Brews
Join the World Famous Parrot Lounge (911 Sunrise Ln., Fort Lauderdale) for its monthly installment of Beaches and Brews. A $5 donation to the Everglades Angels Dog Rescue grants guests a free drink. This starts on the beach at 5 p.m., with happy hour starting at 6 p.m. in the Parrot Lounge. Visit parrotlounge.com.
Cheese an American Beer
Whole Foods Market Fort Lauderdale (2000 N. Federal Hwy., Fort Lauderdale) will offer guests the chance to partake in an American cheese and beer pairing from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Tickets are $5, with proceeds benefitting the Whole Planet Foundation. Visit cheeseanamericanbeer.eventbrite.com.
Saturday
Wine & All That Jazz
Get the chance to sample over 100 wines (if you can) at Boca Raton Resort (501 E. Camino Real, Boca Raton) from 7 to 10 p.m. Featured restaurants include Maggiano’s Little Italy, Meatball Joe, and Oceans 234. There will also be live music and raffles. General admission costs $75, and VIP costs $120. Visit bocaratonflcoc.wliinc17.com.
Eat a healthful meal thanks to Atlas, and then replace all the calories you didn't eat with beer. Michele Eve Sandberg
Atlas Meat-Free Delicatessen Pop-Up Dinner
LauderAle (3305 SE 14 Ave., Fort Lauderdale) will be the host of a pop-up dinner by Atlas Meat-Free Delicatessen. This is from 6 to 11 p.m. with an à la carte menu. Visit lauderale.co.
Sunday
Yoga at Funky Buddha Brewery
Get bendy at Funky Buddha Brewery (1201 NE 38 St., Oakland Park) with yoga class. Admission is $20 and includes one free beer-mosa or beer, a special discount on first-time Liquido purchases, a raffle ticket to win a pair of limited-edition Liquido leggings, and Funky Buddha swag. Guests must bring their own mat and block. This is from 1 to 2 p.m. Stick around after to get a henna tattoo. Visit funkybuddhabrewery.com.
Wine and Canvas at Biergarten
Wine and Canvas will be making a stop at Biergarten (309 Via de Palmas #90, Boca Raton) from 2 to 5 p.m. Guests will be able to paint a picture and enjoy food and drinks for purchase. This costs $35. Visit wineandcanvas.com.
All Month Long
Burger of the Month
Burger Bar (4650 Donald Ross Rd., Palm Beach Gardens) will be offering the Durham ranch bison burger for August’s burger of the month. This has maytag blue cheese butter, arugula, potato chips, and roasted tomato on toasted ciabatta bread. This costs $18.50. Visit burgerbar.com.
Dine Out Lauderdale at Burlock Coast
Burlock Coast (1 N. Fort Lauderdale Beach Blvd., Fort Lauderdale) will be partaking in Dine Out Lauderdale until September 30. Guests can enjoy a three-course meal for $36. Visit ritzcarlton.com.
Pokémon Specials at Quarterdeck
Quarterdeck Restaurants (multiple locations) will serve Pokémon-inspired drinks, such as the Oddish Pear Martini, Pikachu Punch, and Slowpoke Strawberry Lemonade. Additionally, guests will get a free dessert with purchase of a meal if they show their Pokémon Go app to their waiter. This is available until September 30. Visit quarterdeckrestaurants.com.
August iPic Specials
iPic Theaters (Mizner Park, 301 Plaza Real, Boca Raton) will feature the Pegu Club cocktail and the Ooey Gooey M&Ms Sweet Pizza during the entire month of August. The Pegu Club cocktail is comprised of Grand Marnier, New Amsterdam Gin, and lime. Ooey Gooey M&Ms Sweet Pizza is made of Nutella, pretzels, M&Ms, toasted marshmallows, and chocolate disks. Visit ipictheaters.com.
Specialty Summer Cocktails
Apothecary 330 (330 Himmarshee St. #101, Fort Lauderdale) will showcase not one, but two cocktails for the summertime. One is the Green Tea Lavender Mojito, and the other is PEAping Tom, geared toward those who like martinis. Call 954-616-8028.
Josie’s Ristorante Summer Discount
Josie’s Ristorante (1602 S. Federal Hwy., Boynton Beach) will offer 20 percent off the entire menu until September. This is for dine-in only and is not applicable with other discounts or offers. Visit josiesristorante.com.
Stout Bar & Grill Summer Happy Hour
Stout Bar & Grill (3419 N. Andrews Ave., Oakland Park) will feature half-off drinks, flatbreads, and appetizers Monday through Friday from 5 to 7 p.m. Visit stoutbarandgrill.com.
For more events, visit our online calendar or pick up the print edition of New Times every Thursday. To submit an event, use our online form.
Natalya Jones is a food and music writer covering Broward and Palm Beach counties. To get the latest in entertainment and fun things to do in South Florida, follow her on Twitter. | http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/restaurants/south-florida-food-and-drink-events-this-weekend-cheese-and-beer-pairing-wine-sampling-and-vegan-pop-up-dinner-7984266 | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.browardpalmbeach.com/381a5106ea1f680909c47d93083429d2128bd70aa1e12d58ae4d75ae0328a3f1.json |
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"The Norway Post"
] | 2016-08-26T12:57:54 | null | null | News from Norway, Norwegian news in English, Your Doorway to Norway.
Latest news from the local norwegian newspaper in english from Norway. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.norwaypost.no%2Fnews-politics%2Fvisit-norway%2F31097-figures-from-the-tourist-season-in-norway.json | http://www.norwaypost.no/images/stories/Travel/Hotels/Solastrandhotel/SIG_1693.jpg | en | null | Figures from The tourist season in Norway | null | null | www.norwaypost.no | Foreign guest nights increased by 10 per cent at Norwegian hotels to 927 000. This is the highest number of guest nights ever recorded for June in Norwegian hotels. Norwegian guest nights went down 1 per cent in June 2016.
Lodging revenue for Norwegian hotels decreased by 1 per cent from NOK 1 497 million in June 2015 to NOK 1 486 million in June 2016. The number of guest nights in Norwegian accommodation establishments reached a total of 3.99 million in June 2016. This is an increase of 2 per cent compared with June 2015.
Source Statistics Norway | http://www.norwaypost.no/news-politics/visit-norway/31097-figures-from-the-tourist-season-in-norway | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.norwaypost.no/9fcc77660a3e96c8970c7a50f99536b9ef810fc6eb0cf07e4cdcbfc30be7bc17.json |
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News from St. Maarten and surrounding islands. We offer Digital subscriptions classified ads, obituaries, Island news, regional news, local and international sports. Number 1 St. Maarten entertainment publication Out & About, Health and Beauty and Videos. | https%3A%2F%2Fthedailyherald.sx%2F58764-mp-emmanuel-s-jeep-torched-by-arsonists.json | https://thedailyherald.sx/templates/ja_teline_v/favicon.ico | en | null | MP Emmanuel’s Jeep torched by arsonists | null | null | thedailyherald.sx | PHILIPSBURG--One of the two vehicles that were set ablaze by two unknown persons on Tuesday afternoon belonged to Member of Parliament (MP) Christophe Emmanuel. Police have started an investigation trying to figure out why someone would target the MP.
A gas cylinder and a handgun were in the vehicle, according to reports. The Police Forensic Department was on hand until late Tuesday, taking pictures and bagging any evidence found.
Police spokesman Chief Inspector Ricardo Henson said police are investigating the MP’s arson case. He also pleaded for persons with any information regarding this incident to contact the authorities as soon as possible, for them to arrest the persons responsible for this crime.
Prime Minister William Marlin said he was not fully aware of the situation, but had heard from his wife what took place on Tuesday evening. Marlin hopes the attack was not politically motivated.
“If it is linked to the election campaign, I think St. Maarten is heading in the wrong direction. It would be sad if this is the direction one chooses to take, but I think the police investigation has to take its course,” said Marlin during Wednesday’s Council of Ministers press briefing.
Emmanuel was contacted by The Daily Herald, but declined to comment as the police are conducting the investigation.
Since activist Rene Wilson made public threats against Prime Minister William Marlin and his family, there reportedly has been a trend of increased actions and threats towards MPs. MP Maurice Lake was threatened recently and told that he was going to get shot. He filed a police report about the incident. | https://thedailyherald.sx/58764-mp-emmanuel-s-jeep-torched-by-arsonists | en | 2016-07-14T00:00:00 | thedailyherald.sx/9698aae7699c9cdf1827e6e5893622d924f1fc28da86752cf34ec77f23a3b4a7.json |
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News from St. Maarten and surrounding islands. We offer Digital subscriptions classified ads, obituaries, Island news, regional news, local and international sports. Number 1 St. Maarten entertainment publication Out & About, Health and Beauty and Videos. | https%3A%2F%2Fthedailyherald.sx%2F58642-tricky-obstacle.json | https://thedailyherald.sx/templates/ja_teline_v/favicon.ico | en | null | Tricky obstacle | null | null | thedailyherald.sx | With the political season well underway there have been some interesting electoral developments and more are likely to follow. August 8 is Nomination Day when the candidate lists have to be submitted, so the necessary juggling for positions can be expected in the days and weeks to come.
Right after that is the procedure whereby parties currently not represented in Parliament must receive support from one per cent of the most recent voter turnout to qualify for the September 26 elections, which translates to about 140 eligible citizens. By last count no fewer than six parties will be going through that exercise, which won’t make achieving the required number any easier.
At times this process has been called undemocratic and a violation of the secret vote principle, because people in line to support these candidate lists would be forced to admit their preference publicly. However, the reality is that many choose to support a “new” party so it has a chance to participate even if they might not vote that way in the actual election, so just seeing someone backing a certain list in this manner doesn’t necessarily mean anything.
As stated before, the real test for those that do qualify will be winning the first seat, because residual seats only go to candidate lists that have already earned one on their own. This seat-threshold estimated at close to 1,000 votes has proved a tricky obstacle in the past. | https://thedailyherald.sx/58642-tricky-obstacle | en | 2016-07-09T00:00:00 | thedailyherald.sx/e4cbfb1817aaa6b0902b9aa2a6cfdf06000fd9778f89774aaa3c32b2a760ceb0.json |
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News from St. Maarten and surrounding islands. We offer Digital subscriptions classified ads, obituaries, Island news, regional news, local and international sports. Number 1 St. Maarten entertainment publication Out & About, Health and Beauty and Videos. | https%3A%2F%2Fthedailyherald.sx%2F59269-container-truck-flips-over.json | https://thedailyherald.sx/templates/ja_teline_v/favicon.ico | en | null | Container truck flips over | null | null | thedailyherald.sx | A container truck loaded with tiles and other building supplies fell victim to soggy ground, flipping on its side while the driver attempted to reverse into a yard off L.B. Scott Road on Thursday afternoon. The soil was saturated by a heavy downpour that occurred earlier in the day. The wheel of the truck appeared to become stuck in the mud. The driver was unhurt in the incident. A truck section of the vehicle was detached from the container, removed and carted away. (John Halley photo) | https://thedailyherald.sx/59269-container-truck-flips-over | en | 2016-08-05T00:00:00 | thedailyherald.sx/b69734416db3f4284006adb15bff7ecd6d6c47c84a6466ebee9d91ed1a9fe8c3.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T12:58:35 | null | 2016-08-04T23:49:21 | The Daily Herald Newspaper St. Maarten - The leading newspaper for St. Maarten and the Northeast Caribbean.
News from St. Maarten and surrounding islands. We offer Digital subscriptions classified ads, obituaries, Island news, regional news, local and international sports. Number 1 St. Maarten entertainment publication Out & About, Health and Beauty and Videos. | https%3A%2F%2Fthedailyherald.sx%2F59250-local-met-service-stands-by-decision-to-issue-storm-warning-on-monday.json | https://thedailyherald.sx/templates/ja_teline_v/favicon.ico | en | null | Local met service stands by decision to issue storm warning on Monday | null | null | thedailyherald.sx | KINGSTON, Jamaica--Jamaica’s Meteorological (Met) Service is standing by its decision to issue a tropical storm warning on Monday, in the face of increased threat to the island from the system that has now been named Tropical Storm Earl.
Earl, which was Monday blamed for six deaths in the Dominican Republic, felled trees and power lines Wednesday night as it bore down on the Bay Islands of Honduras and the Caribbean nation of Belize. The approaching storm also dumped rains on nearly all of Honduras, where officials reported a lobster fishing boat was hit by a large wave in the Caribbean and capsized. Most of the 83 people on board were rescued, but the navy was looking for two missing.
Wednesday, at a press briefing at Jamaica House, head of the Met Service Evan Thompson, when asked if the local authorities had acted too soon, said: “We believe that what we did was the right thing to do, given the situation as it was.”
In an August 2 Washington Post article on Earl, chief meteorologist for an NBC affiliate in Miami, Florida, John Morales said the Jamaican Government had taken the “unusual” step of issuing a tropical storm warning before the system was even named. “In my 32 years of Caribbean forecasting, I’ve never seen it before,” Morales said.
But Thompson contended, as he had on Monday at a briefing where the nation was put on storm alert, that the National Hurricane Center (NHC) in the United States was constrained in identifying a closed circulation of the wind in the lower levels of the atmosphere. He said the US authorities were aware and had addressed that issue.
In the case of Earl, at the time when the Jamaican Government issued a warning, the NHC had to abort the schedule for its reconnaissance flight into the storm, Thompson said. “We recognise the constraints of the centre [and – Ed.] we recognised their intentions to chance some of those procedures. They have seen where the inability to go forward with the issuance of certain products is holding back the operations of the region,” he elaborated.
On Monday, Thompson explained that the NHC was at the time still referring to the system which grew into Tropical Storm Earl, as a strong tropical wave, but that there was every indication that the cyclone had advanced.
“The Center continued to refer to this system as a strong tropical wave, however, the specialists, the practitioners, the meteorologists in observing the signature of the satellite imagery would realise that this system has developed way past a tropical wave,” he said then.
“… So in the interest of preventing that loss of life, the Met Service needed to be proactive, recognising that the system, whether named or not, the characteristics were there [as – Ed.] tropical storm force winds had been confirmed [and – Ed.] rainfall intensifying had been confirmed. Whether there is a rotation around the centre or not, there are certain things that the country must do,” Thompson told Wednesday’s briefing.
He added that Jamaicans react with less urgency to warnings for systems that they think are insignificant. “The truth is if we pass out information to the public to say there is a tropical wave moving across the area and you need to take action it’s very different from saying there is now a tropical storm warning in effect and action needs to be taken, so we have to consider also the context in which we operate,” he said.
At the same time, the weather expert said the Met Service is the only agency authorised by the Jamaican Government to issue weather system warnings. He explained that many people are of the opinion that it is the NHC that issues the watches and warnings for Jamaica and that the Met Service simply disseminates these warnings.
“That is not the case. We do have discussions with the NHC, but these discussions are really to find out what some of the analysis is that they are getting and also to pass on the intention of the country. When we do inform them that we are going to tropical storm or hurricane watches or warnings, then they are the ones who disseminate on our behalf,” he explained.
Local Government Minister Desmond McKenzie also defended the Government’s decision to issue the storm warning. ~ Jamaica Observer ~ | https://thedailyherald.sx/59250-local-met-service-stands-by-decision-to-issue-storm-warning-on-monday | en | 2016-08-04T00:00:00 | thedailyherald.sx/ae48286f7e214c3eb4a51c7b9814c2fbc63be8e178af5af5ae3d7e8446a0ccc4.json |
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News from St. Maarten and surrounding islands. We offer Digital subscriptions classified ads, obituaries, Island news, regional news, local and international sports. Number 1 St. Maarten entertainment publication Out & About, Health and Beauty and Videos. | https%3A%2F%2Fthedailyherald.sx%2F58876-nipa-organises-first-graduation-ceremony.json | https://thedailyherald.sx/templates/ja_teline_v/favicon.ico | en | null | NIPA organises first graduation ceremony | null | null | thedailyherald.sx | 3a
NIPA students at the school’s first graduation on Monday evening.
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Minister of Education Silveria Jacobs speaks to the audience.
CAY HILL--National Institute for Professional Advancement (NIPA) hosted its first graduation ceremony at the Belair community centre Monday evening. Some 45 students from various sectors were present to receive their diplomas.
Minister of Education Silveria Jacobs and President of Parliament Sarah Wescot-Williams were present at the ceremony. Interim Director Alvin Rombley told students the road to their graduation had not been easy and they should be proud that they had made it.
“Your parents played a vital role to get you where you are today and for that you need to continue working hard. This is just the beginning and tonight will be remembered for the rest of your lives,” said Rombley.
Minister Jacobs, in her address to the students, encouraged them to continue their learning experience and to put into practice what they had learned during their time at NIPA.
The school’s goals are to provide premium-quality widely-recognised vocational and technical education; to offer challenging programmes to develop essential skills in critical thinking, problem-solving, effective communication and proficiency in the use of technology; and to form strong and lasting partnerships with the business community that will strengthen St. Martin's position in the tourism industry.
NIPA’s mission is to provide higher education opportunities that will prepare all students to succeed in a dynamic global economy.
The keynote speaker of the evening was Nicole Maccow, a policy worker at the Department of Youth.
The Maritime Sector graduates received Level-1 diplomas, ICT sector graduates received Level-2 diplomas and the Cooking and Hospitality Sector graduates Level-1 diplomas. | https://thedailyherald.sx/58876-nipa-organises-first-graduation-ceremony | en | 2016-07-19T00:00:00 | thedailyherald.sx/4971c274858503ff030f21815e729a481e884d8ad7134cbcd9ffe3e45f39c3e1.json |
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News from St. Maarten and surrounding islands. We offer Digital subscriptions classified ads, obituaries, Island news, regional news, local and international sports. Number 1 St. Maarten entertainment publication Out & About, Health and Beauty and Videos. | https%3A%2F%2Fthedailyherald.sx%2F59469-series-of-blasts-hit-resort-towns-in-southern-thailand.json | https://thedailyherald.sx/templates/ja_teline_v/favicon.ico | en | null | Series of blasts hit resort towns in southern Thailand | null | null | thedailyherald.sx | Four bombs exploded in the upscale resort of Hua Hin, about 200 km (125 miles) south of Bangkok, on Thursday evening and Friday morning, killing two people and wounding at least 24.
Other blasts hit the tourist island of Phuket, a resort town in Phang Nga province, and Surat Thani, a city that is the gateway to popular islands such as Koh Samui in Thailand's Gulf.
Hua Hin is home to the Klai Kangwon royal palace, which translates as "Far from Worries", where King Bhumibol Adulayadej, the world's longest reigning monarch, and his wife, Queen Sirikit, have lived in recent years. Neither were there during the attacks, as both are in hospital in Bangkok.
Friday was a public holiday in Thailand to mark the queen's birthday, which is celebrated as Mother's Day. No group has claimed responsibility, though suspicion could fall on insurgents in Muslim-majority provinces in southern Thailand.
Police detained two men for questioning over the attacks on Hua Hin on Friday, said Police Superintendent Sarawut Tankul of the tourist police at the resort. They were detained because CCTV footage showed them in the area "before, during and after the bombings," he said, declining to give more details.
Preliminary evidence showed the bombs were low-explosive devices devised to "make an announcement" rather than cause maximum harm, he said.
Ahead of the blasts, Police had intelligence an attack was imminent, but had no precise information on location or timing, national police chief Chakthip Chaijinda told reporters in Bangkok on Friday. "We just didn't know which day something would happen," he said.
Since Sunday's referendum on the constitution, there have been attacks in seven provinces using improvised explosive devices and firebombs, Chakthip said. The devices were similar to those used by separatist groups in southern Thailand, but that did not conclusively show they were the perpetrators, he said.
Police ruled out any links to international terrorism, as did Thailand's Foreign Ministry, which said in a statement on Friday: "The incident is not linked to terrorism but is an act of stirring up public disturbance."
Bangkok-based analyst Anthony Davis, at security consulting firm IHS-Jane's, questioned the police assertion that the attacks were an act of local sabotage. The coordinated bombings were "designed to terrify and to blow a hole in the tourism industry," said Davis. "The tactics used were clearly intended to minimise casualties while maximising economic and political impact. It is worth noting that no foreigners died in the attacks."
Thai authorities beefed up security at tourism spots, airports and on public transport in Bangkok. "Why now, when the country is getting better, the economy is getting better, and tourism is getting better? We have to ask why and who did it," Thai junta chief and Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha told reporters.
The attacks are bad news for Thailand's tourist sector, which has been one of the few bright spots in a sluggish economy. Tourism accounts for about 10 percent of gross domestic product and Thailand was expecting a record 32 million visitors this year.
Australia issued a travel advisory saying Australians should "exercise a high degree of caution" and warned: "Further explosions in any part of Thailand are possible."
Two blasts on Friday morning in Hua Hin came after twin explosions late on Thursday. The explosion that wreaked the most damage was near a bar in a bustling narrow alley in the town late on Thursday. It killed one Thai woman and wounded 21 people, Krisana said.
The streets were spattered with blood and debris on Friday in front of the bar where the explosion took place. The blast peppered the bar with shrapnel and carpeted the road with those too badly wounded to flee, said Chayanin Seedee, 26, who manages the premises. "Right now, we're just very scared," she said. | https://thedailyherald.sx/59469-series-of-blasts-hit-resort-towns-in-southern-thailand | en | 2016-08-13T00:00:00 | thedailyherald.sx/1f9ce2b2604a745d305f60f228102d3d30f6a148c32a6d65869e54f4f62361a6.json |
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News from St. Maarten and surrounding islands. We offer Digital subscriptions classified ads, obituaries, Island news, regional news, local and international sports. Number 1 St. Maarten entertainment publication Out & About, Health and Beauty and Videos. | https%3A%2F%2Fthedailyherald.sx%2F59185-mcgregor-children-in-iraq-at-risk-of-death-and-sex-abuse.json | https://thedailyherald.sx/templates/ja_teline_v/favicon.ico | en | null | McGregor: Children in Iraq at risk of death and sex abuse | null | null | thedailyherald.sx | Following a visit to Iraq, McGregor, an ambassador for the United Nation's children's agency UNICEF, said the situation in Iraq was becoming "increasingly desperate". He said tens of thousands of children in Syria and Iraq have been killed and 3.6 million children are now at risk, with many separated from their families, making them vulnerable to human traffickers and sexual abuse.
"Many of the children I've met in Iraq have been forced to flee their homes, risking their lives on dangerous journeys and have been exposed to unimaginable horrors," McGregor said in a statement.
An estimated 4.8 million Syrians have fled the country since the outbreak of civil war in 2011, most of them to neighbouring countries, including Iraq. The U.N. refugee agency UNHCR says more than four million people in Iraq have been forced from their homes.
McGregor, 45, known for such films as "Trainspotting" and "Moulin Rouge", travelled to northern Iraq last week where he visited the Debaga camp and spent time with Syrian refugees and displaced Iraqi families around Erbil. He described meeting a girl called Mirna who told him that her family had slept in a disused, half-built shopping mall for a year, living off food and supplies from the local community.
"This act of humanity should be replicated everywhere," said the actor, who has four children. "The world is facing an unprecedented refugee crisis and we must do more to protect the extraordinary number of children who have been torn from their homes by violent conflict."
McGregor was first introduced to UNICEF in 2004 during his British television series "Long Way Round" when he travelled by motorbike around 12 countries which included visiting various children's projects in Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Mongolia. | https://thedailyherald.sx/59185-mcgregor-children-in-iraq-at-risk-of-death-and-sex-abuse | en | 2016-08-02T00:00:00 | thedailyherald.sx/432086827f5c1368344ecb197df4a2145782c0c8014575a2940b52ff872d6e99.json |
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News from St. Maarten and surrounding islands. We offer Digital subscriptions classified ads, obituaries, Island news, regional news, local and international sports. Number 1 St. Maarten entertainment publication Out & About, Health and Beauty and Videos. | https%3A%2F%2Fthedailyherald.sx%2F58732-panama-beat-virgin-islands-seals-spot-in-next-round.json | https://thedailyherald.sx/templates/ja_teline_v/favicon.ico | en | null | Panama beat Virgin Islands, seals spot in next round | null | null | thedailyherald.sx | POND ISLAND--Panama defeated U.S. Virgin Islands 5-4 in the 17th Annual Latin American and Caribbean Junior Division Championships at the Little League Ballpark on Pond Island Tuesday.
The victory seals a spot for both teams in the next round. Panama and Virgin Islands are in Group A with Bonaire and host St. Maarten.
Panama tops the group at 2-0 and will face St. Maarten Wednesday at 7:00pm. Virgin Islands went 2-1. Bonaire finished the group at 1-2 and St. Maarten is 0-2.
While the stands were only half full it was a spirited crowd with Panama fans equipped with whistles and horns. Not to be outdone the Virgin Islanders brought out their bright white flag with the yellow eagle.
Panama fans accepted the challenge and within minutes several Panama flags could be seen among the dancing and singing fans.
In the early game Tuesday Venezuela beat Colombia 3-2. Venezuela tops the group with two wins and one loss.
Action continues this afternoon at 1:00pm as Puerto Rico faces Aruba and at 4:00pm Curaçao meets Colombia. | https://thedailyherald.sx/58732-panama-beat-virgin-islands-seals-spot-in-next-round | en | 2016-07-13T00:00:00 | thedailyherald.sx/536747c49990edf8a44b4dec451a7e35243d4aba858da37b290761759ffa64b0.json |
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News from St. Maarten and surrounding islands. We offer Digital subscriptions classified ads, obituaries, Island news, regional news, local and international sports. Number 1 St. Maarten entertainment publication Out & About, Health and Beauty and Videos. | https%3A%2F%2Fthedailyherald.sx%2F59818-hillary-clinton-receives-her-first-security-briefing.json | https://thedailyherald.sx/templates/ja_teline_v/favicon.ico | en | null | Hillary Clinton receives her first security briefing | null | null | thedailyherald.sx | Clinton, a former secretary of state, attended the meeting alone, according to a pool report.
The meeting was held at the Federal Bureau of Investigation's field office in White Plains, New York, not far from the Chappaqua, New York, residence she shares with her husband, former President Bill Clinton. It lasted a little over two hours.
Clinton's Republican rival, New York businessman Donald Trump, recently received his first briefing, as well. The two are vying for the White House in the Nov. 8 general election, which has grown increasingly contentious as they have traded barbs about racism and minority voters. | https://thedailyherald.sx/59818-hillary-clinton-receives-her-first-security-briefing | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | thedailyherald.sx/af950efbfe354f28c5558dbd76dd3fda73e52a11b8c13c4e2e7213c44e05d9fa.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T12:59:49 | null | 2016-07-19T01:28:38 | The Daily Herald Newspaper St. Maarten - The leading newspaper for St. Maarten and the Northeast Caribbean.
News from St. Maarten and surrounding islands. We offer Digital subscriptions classified ads, obituaries, Island news, regional news, local and international sports. Number 1 St. Maarten entertainment publication Out & About, Health and Beauty and Videos. | https%3A%2F%2Fthedailyherald.sx%2F58877-sarah-does-not-see-change-to-constitution-before-elections.json | https://thedailyherald.sx/templates/ja_teline_v/favicon.ico | en | null | Sarah does not see change to Constitution before elections | null | null | thedailyherald.sx | PHILIPSBURG--Government may not pursue changes to the Constitution to curb ship-jumping by tying seats to political parties rather than to individual candidates. This is the “impression” coalition partner Democratic Party (DP) leader Member of Parliament (MP) Sarah Wescot-Williams said she has gotten in recent days.
She said on Monday that while the National Alliance (NA)-led Government had not officially said it would not pursue this route to electoral reform any longer, “I did not get the impression … that Government will pursue that particular change.”
Her comments come on the heels of the Dutch Government expressing serious concerns about the removal of the so-called free mandate of MPs to vote and support issues unhindered.
The place of political parties in the electoral process and the tying of seats to individuals must be discussed. The national ordinance on the registration and financing of political parties already “strengthens parties” in the electoral process, but this changes after the election results are in, Wescot-Williams said. “We should really have a discussion about that,” she said.
Changes to the Constitution will be “a lengthy process,” she pointed out.
In the absence of that change, Wescot-Williams is working on “a code of conduct” for political parties to sign on to, related to preventing ship-jumping.
The majority of political parties require an MP to give up his or her seat should he/she decide to leave the party. This is enshrined in their articles of incorporation. Explaining the premise of the code, Wescot-Williams said that if one party required a member to give up the seat on leaving the party, that same party should not accept an MP from another party who does move away with the seat.
Also on the legislative front, the two timeshare-industry-related laws are to be tabled in Parliament for debate when session resumes in August after the summer recess. Wescot-Williams has been championing the laws, which include the establishment of a timeshare authority to regulate the industry.
Commenting on bids submitted for the construction of a new hospital, Wescot-Williams said, “This is real progress. … It is more than putting up a picture. … It is a long process and a large and irrevocable step.”
She hopes the review of the bids and other preparatory procedures will “not take too long” so the hospital can take shape. The hospital project is overseen by Minister of Public Health, Social Development and Labour Emil Lee (DP).
Wescot-Williams also briefly addressed the talk in the community about her possible nomination for the post of Governor. “I have not put myself up for Governor,” she said, adding that her focus is on the upcoming elections.
Wescot-Williams expressed condolences during her press conference to the Government and people of France after the Bastille Day attack in Nice. She said the attack “hit home” and St. Maarten has to be vigilant by keeping an eye on global issues. “We are part of the global village,” she said. | https://thedailyherald.sx/58877-sarah-does-not-see-change-to-constitution-before-elections | en | 2016-07-19T00:00:00 | thedailyherald.sx/4460c356966b76cbfbc4e5dd04b1f60c683890cb5dda31e07cbfac40e4940eec.json |
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News from St. Maarten and surrounding islands. We offer Digital subscriptions classified ads, obituaries, Island news, regional news, local and international sports. Number 1 St. Maarten entertainment publication Out & About, Health and Beauty and Videos. | https%3A%2F%2Fthedailyherald.sx%2F59201-new-golden-globes-host-fallon-starts-with-donald-trump-quip.json | https://thedailyherald.sx/templates/ja_teline_v/favicon.ico | en | null | New Golden Globes host Fallon starts with Donald Trump quip | null | null | thedailyherald.sx | Fallon, 41, will be hosting the January ceremony for the first time. He follows acerbic British comedian Ricky Gervais, who took the reins for the fourth time earlier this year, and comedians Tina Fey and Amy Poehler who did the honors from 2013-2015.
The 2017 ceremony takes place on Jan. 8 in Beverly Hills and will be broadcast live on NBC television, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which organizes the awards, said in a statement.
Fallon said on Twitter he was excited to be hosting the event, one of the biggest stops in Hollywood's long awards season. "And I'm really looking forward to spending time with the Hollywood Foreign Press before Donald Trump has them all deported," he quipped, in a dig at the Republican presidential contender's pledges to crack down on immigration if elected in November.
Fallon, a former cast member of TV sketch show "Saturday Night Live," took over NBC's flagship late night talk show in 2014, injecting the format with games and stunts. "The Tonight Show" is currently the most-watched of the U.S. late night TV talk shows.
NBC Entertainment Chairman Robert Greenblatt said Fallon was a great fit for the Golden Globes. "This is the most spontaneous and uninhibited award show on television, and Jimmy's playful, disarming comedic brilliance makes him the ideal host to enhance and elevate the sense of fun and irreverence," Greenblatt said in a statement.
The Golden Globes ceremony, an informal and boozy dinner attended by hundreds of A-list stars, is one of the biggest in the Hollywood awards season that culminates with the Oscars in late February. Some 18.5 million Americans watched the three-hour show on television this year. | https://thedailyherald.sx/59201-new-golden-globes-host-fallon-starts-with-donald-trump-quip | en | 2016-08-02T00:00:00 | thedailyherald.sx/d4f0c97dd50411110389b0825e1596f7caf512d178b8e01504feea1382c39f09.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:06:04 | null | 2016-08-18T16:52:20 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wranglernews.com%2F2016%2F08%2F18%2Fsuccess-may-taken-operatic-singer-away-home-not-heart%2F.json | http://www.wranglernews.com/wn/wp-content/uploads/OPERA-GUY-BEST.jpg | en | null | Success may have taken this operatic singer away from home but not from his heart | null | null | www.wranglernews.com | By M.V. Moorhead
Richard Ollarsaba has packed a lot of music, and a lot of mileage, into the 11 years since he graduated from Corona del Sol High School.
A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music with a Masters of Music and a post-graduate certificate from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Ollarsaba has taken his operatic baritone-bass all over the country, with gigs ranging from Minnesota Opera to Lyric Opera of Chicago.
“Currently I’m a recent grad of The Lyric Opera of Chicago, from the Ryan Opera Center Ensemble, their young artists program,” says Ollarsaba.
“It’s like a residency.” He’s soon to head back to the Windy City, where he’s under contract at the Lyric Opera as an understudy.
From Chicago he headed west, to the Intermountain Opera in Bozeman, Montana.
“In May, I did the title role in [Mozart’s] Don Giovanni.” Still more recently, this past July and August, “I was a Filene Young Artist at Wolf Trap Opera in Vienna.”
Vienna, Virginia, that is, not far from Washington D.C.
“All the productions at Wolf Trap are done by these young artists,” he explains. “It really gives us a chance to put our abilities to the test.”
In his time at Wolf Trap he performed a major role in a modern-dress production of l’Opera Seria, Florian Gassman’s rarely-performed 1769 comedy set behind the scenes in the world of opera.
“It’s only been performed a handful of times in Europe,” says Ollarsaba.
“This was really considered an American premiere.”
None of these represent the singer’s favorite role, however. “I would say to date my favorite role I’ve ever gotten to perform is that of Revered Hale in The Crucible,” Robert Ward’s operatic adaptation of Arthur Miller’s play.
Ollarsaba sang the part while in grad school, in a production by Piedmont Opera in North Carolina.
And as for a role to which he aspires? More Mozart, please: “Since Don Giovanni is something I have under my belt, I guess I’d say Figaro in The Marriage of Figaro.”
Most recently, Ollarsaba was able to take a non-opera related journey.
“After I finished up at Wolf Trap,” he says, “I took road trip from Vienna to Arizona to visit my family. It had been a year and a half since I had been in Arizona, much less in the Kyrene Corridor.
I try to get home as often as I can, at least until something becomes available at Arizona Opera. I’ve only given a small recital in Arizona, so I’d like to perform in my home state.” | http://www.wranglernews.com/2016/08/18/success-may-taken-operatic-singer-away-home-not-heart/ | en | 2016-08-18T00:00:00 | www.wranglernews.com/c5cba82d04d3fd215062eb1248b4474772ad04971aa1e07b88cc0acd3de8f3b3.json |
[] | 2016-08-30T02:51:35 | null | 2012-01-07T17:17:06 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wranglernews.com%2F2012%2F01%2F07%2Fundersea-science-inspires-hyperbaric-medicine-doc%2F.json | http://www.wranglernews.com/wn/wp-content/uploads/alison-doctor-pic.jpg | en | null | Undersea science inspires hyperbaric medicine doc | null | null | www.wranglernews.com | Dr. Brian Paterick We’ve all heard the mostly joking conjecture that an earthquake in California someday could make Arizonaa beachfront state. That’s the last thing Dr. Brian Paterick thinks about.
Using an evolving medical science to treat patients who, so far at least, remain safely landlocked is Paterick’s No. 1 motivation.
A board certified emergency room physician at Chandler Regional Medical Center, Paterick last month received certification in Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine from the American Board of Emergency Medicine.
In addition to his role as an ER doctor, Paterick serves as medical director for the hospital’s Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Oxygen Center, which provides hyperbaric oxygen therapy to treat wounds that have not responded to traditional treatments. That same therapeutic measure is used, although only occasionally, to help patients who have gone diving and are suffering from decompression sickness, commonly known as “the bends.”
As Paterick explained, the origins of hyperbaric medicine date back to at least the late 1800s, when divers were helping to build the Brooklyn Bridge.
Many of the workers who spent time underwater creating the bridge’s supports suffered from muscle pain, a common symptom of decompression sickness. Paterick said the condition stems from nitrogen bubbles that form in the bloodstream while underwater and that do not properly dissipate if a diver comes back to the surface too quickly.
Eventually, medical researchers realized that if people with this condition were re-pressurized on land, mimicking the pressure they felt underwater, and then gradually had a reduction in pressure, the nitrogen bubbles would get out and the symptoms would go away.
Over time, Paterick said, this hyperbaric procedure was found to work on patients with hard-to-heal wounds, including diabetic foot ulcers, crushing injuries, and other problematic wounds.
“During hyperbaric treatment the patient is under pressure and breathing 100 percent oxygen, which causes more oxygen to dissolved in the bloodstream, allowing it to get to the wounds which are not getting enough oxygen.”
Originally called hyperbaric medicine, this treatment was then re-named undersea medicine but is now referred to as both, according to Paterick.
A member of the American College of Hyperbaric Medicine, the Divers Alert Network and the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society, Paterick said he thoroughly enjoys working at the wound care center, which is the only one in Arizona accredited with distinction by the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society.
Of the patients who come into the center for care, Paterick said, about 20 percent of them undergo hyperbaric treatment, and 92 percent of those recover in about 12 weeks.
Many of the patients Paterick works with have diabetes, which causes small blood vessels and capillaries to die off, meaning that, if the patient is injured, the wound tends to be stubborn and won’t heal properly.
Although the center is equipped to take care of divers, Paterick said the lack of an oceanfront environment in Arizona makes those cases pretty rare.
“We did care for a man once who went diving off Catalina (Island) and came in with symptoms of the bends,” he said.
“But a lot of doctors use the undersea component in coastal regions like San Diego, and in Louisiana where there are a lot of workers who work on the oil rigs, diving off the Gulf of Mexico.”
Paterick said he enjoys working both as an emergency room physician and at the wound care center. While both jobs are fulfilling and give him the opportunity to help people in need, working at the wound care center gives him the advantage of getting to know his patients, which is something that he really enjoys.
“In the emergency room I see them once, and that’s it. But at the wound care center, I see most of them every week for 2 to 3 months, and it’s nice to get to know them.”
After healing occurs, the patient is given an award and gets to ring a bell in celebration.
“We have a great team here helping our patients, including a great group of nurses,” he said. “The patients are motivated and thankful for the care.” | http://www.wranglernews.com/2012/01/07/undersea-science-inspires-hyperbaric-medicine-doc/ | en | 2012-01-07T00:00:00 | www.wranglernews.com/0c0fd6cee7057ae5875efe805dca4d752b0ed1a210a9027b916a514a96ca0acb.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:07:40 | null | 2016-08-18T16:44:14 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wranglernews.com%2F2016%2F08%2F18%2Fprestigious-honor-goes-ellis%2F.json | http://www.wranglernews.com/wn/wp-content/uploads/don-carlos-winner-shana-ellis.jpg | en | null | Prestigious honor goes to Ellis | null | null | www.wranglernews.com | A longtime member of Tempe’s leadership elite, Shana Ellis, has been named the 33rd recipient of Tempe Community Council’s Don Carlos Humanitarian Award.
A former Tempe councilmember and current CEO/president of The Centers for Habilitation, Ellis will be among community awardees recognized at a ceremony and dinner Sept. 28 at the PERA Club in Tempe.
Presented in partnership with SRP, the award honors individuals who have given outstanding service to Tempe, benefitting the less fortunate in lasting ways and making Tempe a better place to live.
The award is named after Tempe’s founder, Charles Trumbull Hayden, known affectionately by Spanish-speaking pioneers as Don Carlos.
“For 33 years, TCC has had the privilege of calling attention to the great works of people like Shana Ellis who serve tirelessly and gracefully to make our community better, stronger and healthier,” said TCC Board President Kim Naig.
“She has been a tenacious advocate, providing a powerful voice and countless volunteer hours to address many of our city’s human service needs,” said Naig.
Among past honorees are former Tempe Mayor Neil G. Giuliano; former Arizona Representative Harry E. Mitchell; civic activist Pat Hatton; former Tempe Mayor Rudy Campbell; former vice mayor Don Cassano and his wife Bobbie Cassano; and Leonard Monti Sr.
In addition to Ellis, TCC will honor other outstanding citizens and community organizations at the Sept. 28 ceremony:
East Valley Women’s League: Guiding Light Lifetime Achievement in Philanthropy;
Edward Baker: Spirit of Tempe Karma Volunteer Award; and
Carter Tyler Lindsay: Young Humanitarian Scholar Award and Scholarship.
The event, which is open to the public, is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 28. Tickets and sponsorships can be purchased online at www.tempecommunitycouncil.org/don-carlos or by calling 480-858-2300 by Sept. 21. | http://www.wranglernews.com/2016/08/18/prestigious-honor-goes-ellis/ | en | 2016-08-18T00:00:00 | www.wranglernews.com/dc0494c34af27ee7a5460a8170bf78d144ffc7c327c1523195cc0c43ffeb4b5c.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:03:53 | null | 2016-08-05T18:33:26 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wranglernews.com%2F2016%2F08%2F05%2Funderwater-hockey-dives-tempe-thanks-sister-city-connection%2F.json | http://www.wranglernews.com/wn/wp-content/uploads/SISTER-CITIES.jpg | en | null | Underwater hockey dives into Tempe, thanks to Sister City connection | null | null | www.wranglernews.com | By Kody Acevedo
Eighteen-year-old Taylor Snow landed in America last month and was immediately introduced to the unarguably breathtaking sights Arizona has to offer, including trips to Sedona and the Grand Canyon.
Yet, while the Lower Hutt, New Zealand native was embracing the beginnings of his month-long stay in Tempe, he couldn’t help but teach his new American pals about his favorite sport back home: underwater hockey.
“I have always enjoyed playing water sports,” Snow said. “It’s relatively unknown, but it’s nice having it be a small, community-type thing.”
Snow is entering his last year of high school in New Zealand and is spending the summer in America as part of the Tempe Sister Cities program.
The program sends Tempe high school students abroad for five weeks to live with host families and, in return, welcomes students from those cities here in Tempe.
Tempe has 10 sister cities worldwide, including Cusco, Peru; Timbuktu, Mali; Zhenjiang, China; and Snow’s hometown, Lower Hutt, New Zealand.
David Ewen, a Corona del Sol senior who stayed with Snow’s family in New Zealand earlier this year, became one of Snow’s guides-in-chief during Snow’s visit.
While the program is praised for helping to promote international good will and cultural understanding, it also leaves time for the visitors from other countries to implant some of their traditions and pastimes, which for Snow provided a platform to promote a little cultural understanding of his own.
“It would be cool to see [underwater hockey] in a bigger light,” Snow said. “If it was on TV, there would be more accessibility to actually watch the sport.”
While ice hockey is growing in popularity in America, the concept of underwater hockey is not much different.
Each game is played with two halves consisting of 10 to 15 minutes of action.
Two teams attempt to maneuver a puck with a pusher across the bottom of a pool and into the opposing team’s goal.
Each team has up to 10 players with six on each team playing at any one time in any combination of forwards (offense) and backs (defense).
Snow, who plays back, said the goalie position isn’t the same compared to ice hockey.
“The goalie plays differently. The goalie isn’t in the goal—he’s following the back of the action,” Snow said.
And, unlike water polo where the players are treading water the entire time, all the action in underwater hockey takes place at the bottom of pool—a unique twist to a water sport where players have to learn to hold their breath for a really long time.
Snow, who is entering his fifth year playing the sport, says he hopes to continue with it once he’s out of high school.
“I’ll probably be playing for a club somewhere when I’m done with high school,” Snow said.
Which shouldn’t be too hard because club teams in New Zealand range from men’s and women’s elite to men’s and women’s U23.
For now, Snow is enjoying his journey in Arizona.
“A friend of mine went last year and she said ‘you have to apply; it’s such an amazing experience,’” he said.
“We fund-raised about $2,000, and now we are here.”
Even a trip to Disneyland was scheduled during the stay, which turned out to be a nice break from the Arizona heat.
“It’s so amazing. It’s been very hot, but it’s been great.” | http://www.wranglernews.com/2016/08/05/underwater-hockey-dives-tempe-thanks-sister-city-connection/ | en | 2016-08-05T00:00:00 | www.wranglernews.com/bda2ed1829a0877256f509935019552b9fd9ff17da1e2d48276318d63ca85090.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:05:24 | null | 2016-08-18T16:46:41 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wranglernews.com%2F2016%2F08%2F18%2Fveterinarians-teach-care-first-aid-furry-friends%2F.json | http://www.wranglernews.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Veterinarians teach care, first aid for furry friends | null | null | www.wranglernews.com | Registration is underway for adult and children’s classes offered at University Animal Hospital under auspices of the Tempe Parks and Recreation Department.
Classes available during the coming season include:
Claws and Paws: A one-session class offering first-hand experience with various pet animals. Included will be a simple art project, a story, music and a tour of the animal hospital and kennels. Parents are welcome. For ages 4-6 years. Oct. 19, 6-7:30 p.m. Fee: $15.
Dogs, dogs and more dogs: Class is designed to help children care for their dog friend. Feeding, grooming, bathing, exercising and being safe around dogs will be covered.
There will be games, fun “talk about handouts,” videos and even a dog to interact with. A tour of the hospital and boarding facility is included. Parents are welcome. Sept. 12 and 14, 6:30-8 p.m. Fee: $25.
Save-A-Pet: Taught by the veterinarians at University Animal Hospital, class covers such areas as first aid, injuries, poisoning, household and environmental hazards and CPR. Tips on pet care and general health are also included as well as hands on CPR with the Resusci-dog (a canine version of the human ResusciAnnie).
There will be a question-and-answer segment as well as a tour of the hospital and boarding facility. PowerPoint presentation and an informative booklet are also included. For ages 15 to adult. Oct. 25, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Fee: $15.
Registration can be made online at www.tempe.gov/city-hall/community- services/classes- leagues (scroll down to “ On line Registration” and type in barcode. Then hit “register for classes”); in person at Recreation Offices, 3500 S. Rural Road; or by phone with credit card at University Animal Hospital, 480-968-9275.
Ask for Eva. | http://www.wranglernews.com/2016/08/18/veterinarians-teach-care-first-aid-furry-friends/ | en | 2016-08-18T00:00:00 | www.wranglernews.com/2d92d2dbc76ddb1ca22a533eb9fb7d2808b5d313f2d1106001e94434bb9833be.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T20:49:34 | null | 2012-05-20T00:03:18 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wranglernews.com%2F2012%2F05%2F20%2Fhigh-school-grads-amass-58-million-in-scholarships%2F.json | http://www.wranglernews.com/favicon.ico | en | null | High school grads amass $58 million in scholarships | null | null | www.wranglernews.com | With tuition at what the experts say are record highs, scholarships can provide an important offset to the debt college-bound students face now and potentially for years to come.
That’s what makes especially good news the announcement that $58 million in recognition awards will be going to graduating seniors at seven Tempe Union high schools this year.
Scholarships will be officially presented at commencement ceremonies at Corona del Sol, Marcos de Niza, Tempe, McClintock and other Tempe Union high schools, all at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 24, at each of the schools.CompadreAcademy’s graduation will be at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 23.
Totals going to students, by school, include $19 million to Desert Vista; $15.8 million to Corona del Sol; $12.6 million to Mountain Pointe; $6.2 million to Marcos de Niza; $3.6 million to McClintock; $1.2 million to Tempe High; and $10,600 to Compadre.
In total number of graduates, Desert Vista High School leads, with 720 scheduled to receive diplomas. Others are Mountain Pointe, 590; Corona del Sol, 530; Marcos de Niza, 440; McClintock, 360; and Tempe High, 290.
Compadre will hand out diplomas to 252 graduating students.
Valedictorian at Tempe High will be Trevor Wood. Others include Isabelle Chea, Marcos de Niza; Lillian Giang, McClintock; Madison Armer, Peggy Payne Academy; Jean Juang, Cyndia Yu, Nitin Gupta, Thaminda Edirisooriya, Brianna Duong and Michael Kim, Corona del Sol; Ajay Karpur, Mountain Pointe; Brandon Djaja, Huangang “Kevin” Zheng, Anes Sung and Jennifer Wu, Desert Vista.
The district’s Outstanding Student Achievement recognition will go to Kalila Gourche at Compadre Academy.
Salutatorians include Lizette Garcia, Tempe High; Serena Kaplan, Kristopher Koller, McClintock; Anna Weiss, Peggy Payne Academy; Brittany Irwin, Marcos; Collin Xa, Simona Kovatchera, Andrea Carpenter, Corona; and Thomas Bello, Mountain Pointe.
Presidential Scholars include, by school: Brianna B. Duong, Jean M. Juang, Simona Kovatcheva and Cyndia B. Yu, Corona del Sol; Ajay R. Karpur, Yucheng Zhang, Mountain Pointe; Ankur M. Razdan and Jeeyung “Anes” Sung, Desert Vista.
Flinn Scholars are Thomas Bello and Ajay Karpur, Mountain Pointe; Andrea Weiss, McClintock/Peggy Payne Academy; and Cyndia Yu, Corona del Sol.
National Merit Scholarship finalists, by school, are Madison Armer and Anna Weiss,
McClintock; Brianna Duong, Thaminda Edirisooriya, Nitin Gupta, Jean Juang, Michael Kim, Simona Kovatcheva, Christian Normand, Helena Olmstead, Nicole Schwalbe, Collin Xa and Cyndia Yu, Corona del Sol; Joshua Anolick, Tommy Bello, Ryan Hofmann, Ajay Karpur, Alex (Alexandrea) Martinez, Sean Sannier and Frank Zhang, Mountain Pointe; Saumya Bollam, Brandon Djaja, Katie Giel, Brenna Goodwin, Ali Icenogle, Joseph Kim, Stephen Marcucci, Jay Min, Rohitha Moudgal, Anoosha Murella, Daniel Niv, Carolyn Rath, Seung Jae Son, Anes Sung, Susan Tu, Peter Tueller, Maggie Wong, Andrew Wu, Jennifer Wu, Kevin Zheng and Jenny Zou, Desert Vista.
As to the post-high school futures being reported by students, the majority will be college bound, based on these returns from questionnaires:
McClintock: 40 percent 4-year university; 32 percent community college; 2 percent vocational; 1 percent military.
Marcos de Niza – 45 percent university; 52 percent community college.
Compadre Academy – 85 percent college; 5 percent military; 5 percent careers; 5 percent undecided.
Corona del Sol – 95 percent university; 5 percent community college.
Mountain Pointe – 91 percent university/colleges; 9 percent military/vocational/careers.
Desert Vista – 68 percent four-year college/university; 27 percent two-year college; 2 percent technical/vocational school; 2 percent military; 1 percent careers.
Other recognition is scheduled for Robert Choueiri, Corona del Sol, and Julia Thatcher, Desert Vista, ASU Leadership Scholarship.
Jennifer Wu and Huangang “Kevin” Zheng will receive the Siemens Award for Advanced Placement. | http://www.wranglernews.com/2012/05/20/high-school-grads-amass-58-million-in-scholarships/ | en | 2012-05-20T00:00:00 | www.wranglernews.com/c14d898e892ffa7ec3c24c016d50b68dbcf0f73419069af4252b98434775dc14.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T14:49:59 | null | 2015-08-17T20:37:17 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wranglernews.com%2F2015%2F08%2F17%2Fa-love-story-gone-awry%2F.json | http://www.wranglernews.com/wn/wp-content/uploads/JUDITH-STARK.jpg | en | null | A love story gone awry | null | null | www.wranglernews.com | Imagine a love story between a beautiful princess and a handsome half-god warrior. It sounds perfect—until he murders her husband and three brothers, destroys her city, captures her and turns her into a slave. This is the tangle Homer created in his epic poem, The Iliad, casting Briseis as the prize sought by both Achilles and King Agamemnon during the Trojan War.
When Judith Starkston taught in the Tempe Union High School District, she found The Iliad a student favorite. “However, I was always puzzled,” she says. “Briseis is central to the plot . She is a young priestess from a city near ancient Troy. She falls in love with her arch-enemy, the Greek hero Achilles, and yet Homer gives her only a few lines.”
This curiosity is what encourages writers to create, and Starkston’s curiosity led to extensive research. She met archaeologists and learned about DNA from fire pit residue, yielding information about the meats, spices and herbs used by the ancient Hittites.
As the idea for a novel began to form, she toured the eastern Mediterranean, visiting museums and gaining access to Bronze Age archeological sites, including some in Turkey and the ancient site of Troy. Exploring the rocky countryside and ruined buildings, she memorized the steep mountains, the valleys and waterfalls, the views and smells of Mount Ida and the Aegean Sea.
This research was distilled into her debut novel, Hand of Fire, recently chosen as a semi-finalist for the prestigious M.M. Bennett Award for Historical Fiction.
“While my book is historically accurate, you don’t need to know anything about The Iliad to enjoy it. I wrote a broadly accessible novel, raising the big questions of love and war and friendship. It’s a tale about hope and resilience, strength even in the midst of violence.”
When asked about the language in her story, she says:
“Sometimes historical accuracy must be imagined. No one today speaks Hittite. I wanted to portray social classes and show those distinctions in their speech. I created a ‘grammar of mistakes,’ and referred to it as the characters moved through their story.”
She laughs and continues:
“It was fun to create swearing. For example, a Hittite in distress can’t cry out, ‘Oh, God!’ or ‘Hell!’ because those belong to the Christian world.
So I invented ‘What by Ishtar’s lions are you doing!’
If offering advice, Starkston suggests an aspiring writer find a community of writers.
“Writing is hard work. It’s grueling and financially unrewarding, with some notable exceptions. Without friends along the way, you’ll never make it.”
Hand of Fire, ISBN 978-1-61179-295-9, is available on Amazon and at many bookstores.
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[] | 2016-08-26T13:06:55 | null | 2016-08-18T16:23:15 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wranglernews.com%2F2016%2F08%2F18%2F4-corona-found-camaraderie-years-together-med-program%2F.json | http://www.wranglernews.com/wn/wp-content/uploads/AZTEC-1.png | en | null | 4 from Corona found camaraderie during years together in med program | null | null | www.wranglernews.com | By Joyce Coronel
Four Corona del Sol graduates have spread their wings and are ready to take flight as physician assistants this month. The four will be among 90 students who graduate from the Physician Assistant program at Midwestern University in Glendale Aug. 25.
The 27-month post-graduate program is rigorous and the students are in the midst of completing their final nine rotations through core areas of medicine.
Tres Kwilosz, Jessica Dang and Laura Bohning graduated from Corona in 2009, while Danae Cook received her diploma in 2010.
All four students have one thing in common beyond their Aztec roots: job security.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment of physician assistants is projected to grow 30 percent through 2024, much faster than the average for all occupations.
Median pay for a PA in 2015 was $98,180 annually.
Physician assistants perform much of what a physician normally does, though with some restrictions.
Kwilosz, who majored in neuroscience and cognitive science at University of Arizona, said he decided in grade school that he wanted a career in health care because he wanted to help people.
“It’s actually funny because I didn’t like school and so I would pretend that I was sick,” Kwilosz said.
“I would visit the school nurse a lot. I found my passion for helping others because of that.”
Danae Cook majored in nutritional science at University of Arizona. As a child, she struggled with severe eczema and spent a lot of time at the dermatologist’s office. Those experiences led her to seek a career in health care.
“I picked PA for the lifestyle—it’s a great career option. You get into practice soon,” Cook said. So is she hoping to specialize in dermatology?
“I am kind of still making that decision but I think I’ll be in acute care and rehabilitation for neurologic and orthopedic injuries,” Cook said.
Jessica Dang majored in biochemistry at Arizona State University and will be focused on pediatrics.
“I’ve always liked working with kids, even when I was growing up. Then there was exposure in my rotation—any rotation where I’ve come across kids has been pretty great.”
Both Dang and Cook recommended that students who are interested in a career as a PA engage in volunteer work and shadowing. Dang volunteered at Chandler Regional Hospital.
“I worked at the front desk for a while and then in the ER for a while, too,” Dang said.
“I was able to shadow a physician once a week for four or five hours, and that was good for me to get more experience in the health field—seeing how an everyday office operates.”
Cook, who took AP classes at Corona, was able to finish her undergraduate degree in three years and thus join three fellow Aztecs who are a year older at Midwestern.
“I shadowed a ton when I was at Corona,” Cook said.
“Even though I wasn’t getting anything as far as classes or getting paid, I gained a lot getting prepared and knowing what to expect and what I wanted to do.”
She said her best advice for students who might want to pursue a career as a PA was to “study hard and write down goals—have goals in mind always. That’s the way to get things done.”
Kwilosz said he hasn’t decided which area of medicine he’d like to focus on yet, though he is leaning toward emergency care.
The day Wrangler interviewed him, however, he’d been offered a job in neurology.
Kwilosz said his first rotation was in emergency medicine at Banner Ironwood in Queen Creek.
“I really liked the pace. I liked the kind of patients that I saw, and I liked the variety. It kept me on my toes.”
His years at Corona, he said, were a boost.
“The faculty over there pushed me in the right direction—they were always so positive about anything I was interested in. Everybody just kind of believed that I could do whatever I wanted to do,” Kwilosz said.
Laura Bohning, who majored in investigative and medical sciences at St. Louis University in Missouri, said she always planned for a career in the medical field. During college, she considered going to medical school but after learning about the PA option, opted to go that route instead.
“I decided it was better for my lifestyle — more flexibility if I want to move around or change specialties. It was very attractive overall,” Bohning said.
She spent a year after college working as a scribe in an emergency room and the experience has led her to choose urgent care as her specialty.
So what was it like having three fellow Corona grads as her classmates in PA school?
“I wasn’t necessarily close with any of the other three people (during high school) but when we started classes we kind of all bonded over that fact.
Everyone thought it was cool that we went to the same high school,” Bohning said.
And she offered a bit of advice to students who might be considering a future as a physician assistant but find the road ahead a bit daunting:
“Don’t give up. Keep good grades and work hard and persevere and follow your dreams.” | http://www.wranglernews.com/2016/08/18/4-corona-found-camaraderie-years-together-med-program/ | en | 2016-08-18T00:00:00 | www.wranglernews.com/a16b304ea0fcb1a27304b83bffc6e1c91feb3d2f443d4e884ceff5588402bbac.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:07:26 | null | 2016-08-20T06:24:45 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wranglernews.com%2F2016%2F08%2F20%2Fprint-edition-august-20-2016%2F.json | http://www.wranglernews.com/wn/wp-content/uploads/wn082016.jpg | en | null | August 20, 2016 | null | null | www.wranglernews.com | null | http://www.wranglernews.com/2016/08/20/print-edition-august-20-2016/ | en | 2016-08-20T00:00:00 | www.wranglernews.com/afaacadadab1dd402dd9c59c4fd27c4de39f95f4aa14575dd042fdc09f627dcd.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:05:44 | null | 2016-08-18T16:48:14 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wranglernews.com%2F2016%2F08%2F18%2Faug-23-welcome-walk-planned-asu-tempe%2F.json | http://www.wranglernews.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Aug. 23 'Welcome Walk' planned by ASU, Tempe | null | null | www.wranglernews.com | There seems to be very little disagreement: Tempe can be an exciting and safe place to visit, live and get an education, due in part to a longstanding collaboration between Arizona State University and the city of Tempe.
Each fall and spring, Tempe plays host to an influx of young people beginning or resuming their experience at ASU, primed by the weather, special events, a welcoming downtown and an active Tempe Town Lake.
Just prior to the start of classes at ASU, two events will focus on the responsibilities of individuals to their neighborhoods and to each other, promoting positive community relations through an environment that supports student success, neighborhood appreciation and safety.
ASU-Tempe Community Welcome Walk events will take place 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 23 at locations near the campus.
With ASU and Tempe officials emphasizing that their top priority is the safety of everyone in the community, they note that collaboration and special attention to areas like public safety and transit are vital.
Representatives from the city of Tempe, Tempe Police Department, Tempe Fire Medical Rescue, ASU and ASU Police will knock on doors and visit with residents to talk about safety and how neighbors can support each other. Information about community resources and ASU contact information will be provided, in addition to a small gift for each household. | http://www.wranglernews.com/2016/08/18/aug-23-welcome-walk-planned-asu-tempe/ | en | 2016-08-18T00:00:00 | www.wranglernews.com/1dd60f73e59825ccfa397804f40b2e53881fa16ac8b229d25a2a7ad448701574.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:06:20 | null | 2016-08-18T16:26:51 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wranglernews.com%2F2016%2F08%2F18%2Fsunset-library-talk-explores-election-nuances%2F.json | http://www.wranglernews.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Sunset library talk explores election nuances | null | null | www.wranglernews.com | Will it be ‘Stronger Together’ or ‘Make America Great Again’?
As the presidential election looms large, West Chandler’s Sunset branch library will host “Electing the President: the Constitutional Process and History,” at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 24.
It’s all part of the Chandler public libraries’ program dubbed FRANK Talks, a series of public conversations on issues of local and national importance, led by humanities scholars and experts on the talk topic. The goal of the talks is to inspire people to practice the skill of citizenship and to listen respectfully and engage thoughtfully with one another on important issues that affect the community. FRANK Talks are free for the public, and no registration is required.
Presidential elections generate a lot of heat, but don’t shed much light on the indirect layered-election process that the U.S. Constitution’s framers created.
Dr. T.J. Davis from the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies at Arizona State University will address how and why the U.S. presidential election process works the way it does.
Chandler Sunset Library is at 4930 W. Ray Road. Information: chandlerlibrary.org. | http://www.wranglernews.com/2016/08/18/sunset-library-talk-explores-election-nuances/ | en | 2016-08-18T00:00:00 | www.wranglernews.com/e8c0cf89ad1fe629828121806718bd4e50e29585b1fa76654eeacb53516490a5.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T14:50:04 | null | 2015-08-17T19:48:50 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wranglernews.com%2F2015%2F08%2F17%2Ffor-areas-well-known-venturo-family-bracelet-was-a-gift-from-the-grave%2F.json | http://www.wranglernews.com/favicon.ico | en | null | For area's well-known Venturo family, bracelet was a 'gift from the grave' | null | null | www.wranglernews.com | Vickie Venturo ignored the insistent ringing of the telephone. It was late; the number was out-of-state.
“Please don’t hang up,” the voice said. “I have information about your father, James Paul Younger, right? ”
Venturo recalled the conversation.
“July 19, 2014. He gave a Facebook site. My jaw dropped when I saw the picture of a silver military bracelet, engraved with my dad’s name and on the back, ‘Love, Bobbie.’ I knew it was his. We have pictures of Bobbie.”
The caller put Venturo in touch with Uwe Benkel of Heltersberg, Germany, who supervises a volunteer organization that excavates military airplane crashes, especially from World War II.
The privately funded Search Group for the Missing, Arbeitsgruppe Vermisstenforschung, labors under the motto, “Bring the boys back home” and tries to restore personal items to relatives of soldiers from any country.
“It was a very long night, Venturo said. My husband, Gary, and I immediately made plans with our friends, Joe and Dorothy Young. Just this past May, we traveled to Germany.”
The four Americans drove from Frankfurt through the heavily wooded, hilly Saarbrücken district where they met the Benkel family, as well as Tim Flaus and Cornelia Inden, at a biergarten called The Fat Duck.
“There really were fat ducks on the pond and they did serve duck,” Venturo laughed. “I didn’t have any, but the menu offered duck schnitzel.”
During lunch, she talked about her dad, who retired from Tempe High School after 30 years teaching and coaching baseball. He passed away in 2008.
But the Germans wanted to know about the war days.
Venturo explained that her dad had enlisted in February 1943, just after his 19th birthday. He was sent to London, knowing there was a “big secret.”
Although he and his friends celebrated the Normandy invasion that had taken place in the recent past, they had no idea they would soon be landing there.
The German army was retreating from France, pursued by Allied troops. Sgt. Younger and the rest of his infantry division crossed the River Saar and entered German territory, fighting their way through the tangled underbrush and dense forests.
It was somewhere here, near the village of Kleinbittersdorf, that Younger lost his bracelet, perhaps snagging it in the heavy undergrowth. Not long after, a villager found it, keeping it safe for nearly 70 years.
When she read about the group’s success in returning items to soldiers and their families, the finder gave Flaus the bracelet.
After lunch, Benkel summarized his organization’s mission. Outside the restaurant, music played and children laughed.
“They’re enjoying a school holiday,” Benkel explained. Today is our Father’s Day. Appropriate for our ceremony.”
He nodded and Flaus handed Venturo a dark blue jeweler’s box.
“My hands were shaking,” she said.
“And then I opened it—and saw the bracelet. Chills! I felt like my dad was standing over my shoulder. It truly was a gift from the grave.”
Related | http://www.wranglernews.com/2015/08/17/for-areas-well-known-venturo-family-bracelet-was-a-gift-from-the-grave/ | en | 2015-08-17T00:00:00 | www.wranglernews.com/d222c571390f029ed6218b40da0398052f8f087ff30bfa1bb0b420fc587f4366.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:06:38 | null | 2016-08-18T16:32:40 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wranglernews.com%2F2016%2F08%2F18%2Ftown-hall-advises-parents-drug-proof-kids%2F.json | http://www.wranglernews.com/wn/wp-content/uploads/CatherineAnaya2-1.jpg | en | null | Town hall advises parents how to drug-proof their kids | null | null | www.wranglernews.com | By Joyce Coronel
As a new school year gets underway, the Tempe Coalition wants parents to know there’s plenty they can do to help keep their kids safe and drug-free. And they’re not just talking about it—they’re offering concrete assistance:
A “Keep Your Kids Safe” town hall meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 12 at Corona del Sol High School, 1001 E. Knox Road.
Dara Gibson, Tempe Coalition Coordinator, spoke to Wrangler News about how the organization seeks to educate and inform parents.
“We are a group of 25 community-minded individuals that work to keep our youth safe,” Gibson said.
“Our goal is to reduce underage drinking and drug abuse.”
The town hall meeting at Corona will feature several presenters, including Stephanie Siete, director of community education for Community Bridges Inc., a behavioral health provider. Siete will address the use of drugs and alcohol by youth and how risky behaviors can affect brain development.
Gibson hammered home the point. “We try to work to educate parents about the current trends and the harm that drugs do to developing brains—the brain is still developing and will be until they’re 25 years old.”
Representatives from Drug Free Kids AZ, The Pathway Program, the Arizona Liquor Control Board and other organizations will also be on hand to answer questions.
Catherine Anaya, a local media personality and former TV news anchor, will moderate the event.
Topics such as recognizing the signs or symptoms of abuse, how to safeguard the home and where to drop off unused prescription drugs will also be examined. The drug-drop-off information is crucial: 80 percent of heroin users report that they started out by using prescription pain relievers.
Another focus of the Tempe Coalition and the town hall meeting is to help parents develop guidelines for teens’ social media use, a potential minefield.
Katey McPherson, executive director of Gurian Institute, will explain how to manage kids’ social media and how to minimize their risk. Dr. Norman Saba, a pediatrician, will lend his expertise on peer pressure and mental health as it pertains to social media use.
According to the Megan Meir Foundation, named for a 13-year-old girl who committed suicide in 2006, 43 percent of students report experiencing cyber bullying during their lifetime and some 22 million students in grades 9-12 experienced cyber bullying in 2011.
According to her parents, she was a victim of cyber bullying through the social media website MySpace.
Bullying isn’t the only social media pitfall, however. The town hall will address the apps teens use to hide other apps, sexting, and what to do if a child is attracting the attention of a predator.
“What we hope for parents to gain is for them to understand that social media does influence kids, that drugs and alcohol can influence their grades, their future and have long-term consequences,” Gibson said. “A lot of our messaging is around what we call positive community norms.”
Rather than shaming and blaming, in other words, the coalition tells parents that 40 percent of kids who don’t use drugs say their reason is that they wouldn’t want to disappoint their parents.
“We tell parents, ‘Keep talking to your kids,’” Gibson said. “We try to reinforce what they’re doing positive so they know that they are taking steps to influence their children’s lives.”
Tempe Coalition works in partnership with the city of Tempe and the Tempe Community Council and is funded by a grant from the Drug Free Communities Support Program. To learn more about Tempe Coalition’s substance abuse initiatives, visit tempecoalition.org or email Dara_Gibson@tempe.gov . | http://www.wranglernews.com/2016/08/18/town-hall-advises-parents-drug-proof-kids/ | en | 2016-08-18T00:00:00 | www.wranglernews.com/7f93f3a54d62c9ea2964e3264c40342479e8671deed0880d70f3f295a19d90e7.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T14:50:08 | null | 2015-08-06T13:39:59 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wranglernews.com%2F2015%2F08%2F06%2Fteens-use-of-smartphones-heightens-cyberspace-risks-area-experts-warn%2F.json | http://www.wranglernews.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Teens' use of smartphones heightens cyberspace risks, area experts warn | null | null | www.wranglernews.com | As kids start back to school, many of them will be packing smart phones. In some cases, teachers even encourage students to use the devices in the classroom as a learning tool. But how can parents be sure their children are safe in cyberspace when they leave home?
Rawdon Messenger, CEO of TeenSafe, offered Wrangler News some startling statistics to put the issue in context.
“Five years ago, less than 20 percent of kids had smart phones. Now it’s up to 80 percent. And even though that’s a wonderful thing in terms of communication, entertainment, all the great learning — there’s so much that a device can add in value to our kids’ lives — it also brings a lot of issues.”
For one thing, there’s “sexting.” It is estimated that 40 percent of all high school students have sent or received a “sext” and 70 percent of teens admit to sexting with their boyfriend or girlfriend. Because of feeling pressured, 61 percent of both sexes engage in the behavior, but girls are asked to send risqué photos 68 percent more often than boys.
“I can’t imagine when I was in school taking a picture of myself and handing it around class or handing it to a guy. It just wasn’t something that you’d do,” Messenger said. Of course, there were other ways to get into trouble, he added, but the difference now is, kids have a device with a camera wherever they go, and a ton of pressure to fit in and be popular on social media.
Karissa Greving Mehall and Patricia Dobratz, clinical directors of The Arizona Marriage and Family Therapy Clinic, located in the Gila Springs neighborhood of West Chandler, offered words of advice regarding kids and technology.
“For most teenagers, technology and social media are a part of their daily life and can represent an extension of themselves. Along with that familiarity and identity, may come a false sense of safety online,” Dobratz said. “This is where keeping the lines of communication open with parent and children is critical, because they may be more likely to come to their parent if something is happening to them online.”
Both therapists emphasized the importance of having a proactive approach when it comes to technology. Starting when the children are young, they recommend developing a family plan about the use of devices as well as strategies for monitoring usage.
“If a parent starts to notice their child acting differently, it could be for many different reasons, however, in today’s parenting world, parents now have to consider how the influences of technology may be impacting them socially and emotionally,” Dobratz said.
Diane DeLong, senior program manager with the North Star Youth Program offered her take on the issue.
“Our youth have immediate access to worldwide social connections. As parents, we have to realize the window of danger open to them. It’s important to have conversations with your teen and to set rules about internet use,” DeLong said.
“Tell them to not feel pressured by others to do something that makes them uncomfortable. It’s important that they also understand this is truly a safety issue, not a parental control issue.”
What many kids don’t realize is that nothing on the internet is truly private. North Star urges parents to teach their kids to keep personal information and passwords private and to not add someone they don’t know to their friend list.
TeenSafe goes a bit further. For $15 per month, parents can download an app that allows them to access their children’s smart phones. Things like their location in real time, which internet and social media sites they’ve visited, what they’ve downloaded and their text messages — even if those messages have been deleted.
But does that go too far, invading a child’s privacy?
“I think it’s really all about context. It’s all about your family and your values,” Messenger said. “Some of the stuff that we see, the parents had no idea…There are so many things out there you can’t know about, and if you don’t know about them, you can’t help your child.”
According to bullying.org, only one in 10 teens tell their family they are being bullied. Some of those messages have been known to have devastating consequences. One mother Wrangler News spoke to saw messages such as “Why don’t you just kill yourself? Hurry up and die!” on her 13-year-old child’s phone.
“If you don’t know, how can you protect them?” Messenger mused.
Information: teensafe.com or www.AzMFTClinic.com | http://www.wranglernews.com/2015/08/06/teens-use-of-smartphones-heightens-cyberspace-risks-area-experts-warn/ | en | 2015-08-06T00:00:00 | www.wranglernews.com/781967bdc7ab94f91ca3cae40a6a31446077164b3ae1b3c5c1e53bfab17addc4.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:03:01 | null | 2016-07-13T16:27:41 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wranglernews.com%2F2016%2F07%2F13%2Ftransgender-bathrooms-not-diversity-issue-facing-schools%2F.json | http://www.wranglernews.com/wn/wp-content/uploads/don-mugshot-july-2016-2-102x150.jpg | en | null | Transgender bathrooms not the only diversity issue facing schools | null | null | www.wranglernews.com | By Don Kirkland
Commentary
When I was in high school in L.A. in the mid-1950s, the popular TV show “Leave It To Beaver” pretty much characterized our lives
as teenagers.
Ward, June, Wally and The Beav, along with their real-world counterparts, comprised most of the families we knew and, in the latter example, hung out with.
Oh, sure, there were some kids we considered unhip (read Eddie Haskell and Lumpy), but I don’t recall that we spent much time thinking about them or giving them a hard time because of their heritage, their appearance or how they fit (or didn’t) into what we thought normalcy should look like.
That was how things were more than 50 years ago, if you do the math.
Today’s environment is so markedly different for teens and their parents that one might think we’re living in another century—Oops: We are.
Which leads me also to realize that although we’ve made huge strides in technology, medicine and other scientific endeavors, our advances toward better understanding the ranges of human diversity seem not only less noteworthy but in many cases worse.
I regularly walk my dog for a couple of miles every morning and use the time to catch up on the news, thanks to my little pocket radio that stays tuned to NPR. And, being a news junkie, I subscribe to two papers: The Arizona Republic and The New York Times.
I can’t help but take note of the abundance of coverage involving the transgender-bathroom hullaballoo, now expanded to include the entire transgender phenomenon, which has drawn interest from many sides: those who fear their children will be exposed to an unnatural (and, if it were proven, understandably undesired) likelihood of cross-gender hanky-panky, along with those who see this new transition simply as a controversy that has been over-discussed, over-analyzed and seemingly way overblown.
So all of these somewhat random thoughts prompted me to call Jill Hanks, the Tempe Union High School District’s public-information officer, to learn just what exactly is happening in the world of transgenderism in the hallways (and, not to lose sight of the origins of this discussion, bathrooms) at Corona del Sol, Marcos de Niza, McClintock and Tempe high schools.
Jill’s measured, and I felt thoughtful, response was that high schools in the Tempe Union domain are not working on the transgender question exclusively but on the many-faceted tentacles of diversity in their entirety.
Beyond that bit of conversation, she felt that the district’s superintendent, Dr. Kenneth Baca, would be the most articulate spokesman for what’s being done in our local high schools; what if any resources may be coming into play; and what realistic hopes are being brought into focus for the long-range future.
She was right.
My request obviously wasn’t the first time Dr. Baca has been asked about this issue nor the first time he’s given it deep and, in my view, productive thought.
In a few words, Dr. Baca expresses the notion that today’s generation of teens looks at the world entirely differently than did his (and, once again, mine in 1950s-era L.A.). Nor does the transgender evolution represent a stand-alone discussion but rather has become part of a broader examination by our educational leadership exploring the entire scope of diversity-related challenges.
“We continue to address the diversity around us to help ensure that all of our students feel safe and understood and included,” Baca told me.
“We want to make it clear that it’s OK to be different. We’re all human; we may look different, we may act different but we share our commonality in many ways.”
Editor’s note: Tempe Union High Schools have announced they expect to have a newly filled Director of Diversity hired in time for the start of the 2016-17 school year. | http://www.wranglernews.com/2016/07/13/transgender-bathrooms-not-diversity-issue-facing-schools/ | en | 2016-07-13T00:00:00 | www.wranglernews.com/c05435f0c40bb7aa18f6cf5b760a668f739460998853c8c82f924bcb3fa9eb95.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T20:49:44 | null | 2011-05-02T22:50:28 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wranglernews.com%2F2011%2F05%2F02%2Fcoach-vibber-inducted-into-az-high-school-hall-of-fame%2F.json | http://www.wranglernews.com/wn/wp-content/uploads/coach-vibber-e1304404135433.jpg | en | null | Coach Vibber inducted into AZ High School Hall of Fame | null | null | www.wranglernews.com | Former long-time Corona del Sol coach Dave Vibber has been named to the Arizona High School Athletic Coaches Hall of Fame. He will be inducted along with retired Corona football coach Gary Venturo at a May 1 induction ceremony and luncheon at Phoenix Elks Lodge.
“I was very proud to be selected,” said Vibber. “There are a lot of people in the Hall of Fame that I remember as a young coach in Arizona. It will be a great honor to be in their company.”
Vibber coached three sport—football, track and wrestling—for 30 years at Corona before retiring in 2009. Although his athletic teams at Corona won the 1980 state football championship and the 1982 state track and field championship, Vibber will most likely be remembered for his accomplishments with Corona’s wrestling program. He ranks eighth in Arizona history with 403 career wins in the sport.
While Corona’s wrestling coach, the Aztecs won six Central Region championships, the individual and dual state meets in 1999, and the 2008 and 2009 individual 5A-I state meets. After winning the 2009 individual state meet, the Aztecs went on to defeat defending state champion Mesa 26-25 for Corona’s first state team wresting title.
Vibber is currently teaching P.E. full time at Madison Meadows Middle School in Phoenix, where he is also athletic director.
“I enjoy the change-up in my life as well as the different dynamics of the relationship I have with the students and my new fellow faculty members,” said Vibber. “I have no regrets about retiring from coaching, and I definitely treasure all the friendships I built with the staff and other coaches while at Corona.
“I feel so blessed to have been associated with such a great school as Corona. I marvel to this day at the hundreds of little connections I made while coming into contact with tons of great kids in wrestling, football and track,” said Vibber.
“The last couple of years at Corona, though, were a gift. They were the best in terms of records and accomplishments, and a good note to go out on.” | http://www.wranglernews.com/2011/05/02/coach-vibber-inducted-into-az-high-school-hall-of-fame/ | en | 2011-05-02T00:00:00 | www.wranglernews.com/bae166180e3ae96edbb4b52b77e79bcbf879c3d6d035ca582a7621e684dbb6be.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:07:10 | null | 2016-08-18T16:29:24 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wranglernews.com%2F2016%2F08%2F18%2Fwater-101-srp-primer-valleys-vital-resource%2F.json | http://www.wranglernews.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Water 101: An SRP primer on Valley's vital resource | null | null | www.wranglernews.com | Diving into the intricacies of Tempe’s and Chandler’s water supply wouldn’t be complete without including the Valley’s No. 1 purveyor of the golden elixir of our Valley’s existence, Salt River Project.
Thus, those interested in learning more about how SRP serves its statewide constituency will find a virtual font of information at the Tempe-based utility’s 10th annual all-day water educational forum on Monday, Oct. 24 at SRP’s PERA Club.
SRP 101-Water is designed to provide municipal and other external customers with a better understanding of SRP’s history, organization, water rights associated with shareholder and other lands, water operations, water management and planning, as well as other issues that affect SRP’s water business.
The program is free of charge, and expected to run from 8 a.m. to about 3:30 p.m. A continental breakfast and lunch will be provided.
Information Richard Siegel, 602-236-2277, or Richard.Siegel@srpnet.com. | http://www.wranglernews.com/2016/08/18/water-101-srp-primer-valleys-vital-resource/ | en | 2016-08-18T00:00:00 | www.wranglernews.com/b6bc75f33937279f8331c98c2a9232b7fbc1595e03ad4e929091757a89c48bb1.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T20:49:52 | null | 2014-02-09T20:48:09 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wranglernews.com%2F2014%2F02%2F09%2Fnoted-watercolorist-wife-celebrate-50-years-of-sharing%2F.json | http://www.wranglernews.com/wn/wp-content/uploads/Kinneys_06.jpg | en | null | Noted watercolorist, wife celebrate 50 years of sharing | null | null | www.wranglernews.com | Acclaimed Tempe watercolor artist Raleigh
Kinney says he couldn’t have made a living
through art for the last 34 years without his
business partner and wife, Darlene Kinney.
And, as the couple looks ahead to their 50th
wedding anniversary in September, they will
celebrate this Valentine’s Day together in typical
fashion—working in their booth at the Third Annual
Waterfront Art & Wine Festival in Scottsdale.
The secret to the longevity of their marriage?
“Just being in love,” Darlene Kinney said last
week in the art studio custom-built onto their Mesa
home, to which they moved after years in Tempe.
“I always tell him when I’m sitting and watching
his demos, and he’s sitting here teaching, I’m so glad
I get to go home with him.
“I think, ‘Ah-ha, he’s mine.’”
“I’ll tell you what, in this business
you need a partner,” said Raleigh, 75.
“And one of the things that Darlene has
always been is a great backer and also
the person who does the stuff behind
the scenes.”
Darlene, 71, smiled widely when
describing her role in their work: “I’m
the creative financier. I know a million
ways how to stretch one dollar bill.”
She makes the mats for framing
and handles correspondence and
workshop registrations. “I say, ‘He just
paints; I do the rest.’ ”
“For good or for worse, she is a
real critic of my work,” Raleigh said.
“She’s not afraid to say, ‘I don’t like
that painting. There’s something about
it that bothers me.’
“So I’ll go back and sometimes
make adjustments in it and sometimes
I’ll say, ‘You’re right, it’s got two focal
points; it’s not working. I’ll have to
make some major changes in it.’ Or I’ll
just junk it and do another one.”
After 30 years in Tempe, the
couple moved in 2009 to a home in
Mesa with enough property to add a
30-by-35-foot studio where Raleigh
paints and leads workshops for up to
10 people.
But the story of Raleigh Kinney
and Darlene Fox began 53 years ago
back in Deerwood, Minn., where they
met on New Year’s Eve.
The start of a partnership
“My girlfriend didn’t have a
date and I didn’t either,” Darlene
remembered, so they decided to take
their chances on going stag to the
White Pine dance hall. “It was almost
midnight, and no one had come to even
ask us to dance.”
Then she saw a good-looking
young college man nearby, and she
admits she was surprised when he
approached her. “We danced, and he
took me home.”
“I thought she was great,” Raleigh
said. “We had a lot of fun that night.”
“We just kind of clicked,” Darlene
agreed. “The rest is history.”
Eighteen years later, Raleigh
Kinney was an art teacher at St. Cloud
(Minn.) Apollo High School when
he proposed taking a year’s leave of
absence and heading for Arizona with
Darlene and their two boys. He had
been steadily developing a passion
for watercolor painting and, at the
suggestion of his mentor, Canadian
artist Zoltan Szabo, he wanted to try
working full-time as a painter.
“My girlfriends told me to just keep calm, it
would pass over because it was his age,” Darlene
said, prompting a laugh from her husband. “And it
didn’t. But we had a family discussion with our boys.
They were (in) fourth grade and seventh grade.”
With the family in agreement, they sold their
Minnesota home.
“Darlene’s folks were down in St. Cloud when
we were loading the van, loading the U-Haul, and
they did not help us,” Raleigh said.
“They sat and watched us load the van, thinking,
‘This guy’s got to be an idiot.’ I’m sure as we drove
away they thought: ‘What is he thinking?’”
“It was kind of scary,” Darlene recalled. But, she
added, “I kind of liked getting out of the winters. We
had been down here visiting good friends and I knew
they were here. I guess I was nervous about it but I
was looking forward to it.”
After growing up in Tempe, their sons thanked
them for making the move.
“They just said that it widened them,” Darlene
said.
“They said that they grew. They really enjoyed
coming to Arizona and having a swimming pool. No
snow.”
Gaining a foothold
From teaching painting in a downtown Phoenix
gallery for $5 a lesson to holding classes in his
garage, Raleigh Kinney gradually developed a
following.
A chance meeting with the advertising director
for the Diamond’s stores, now Dillards, led to a
gig that he called “a great impetus as far as being
recognized as a good painter.”
“He said, ‘Would you be interested in coming
and demonstrating in the Diamond’s stores during
the holidays? We’ll set you up at the top of the
escalator. We’ll put a mirror up there. You can
demonstrate and we’ll sell a display of your artwork.
I did that for about three or four months.
“That’s really how I got acquainted with a lot of
the artists in the Valley and gained a lot of notoriety,”
Raleigh said.
“Any painter who happened to walk through
the Diamond’s store at that time, I got a chance to
meet him, so I became associated with a group of
watercolor painters.”
As the 1980s went on, “things started taking off
economically,” he said.
“So we were lucky. We started doing some art
festivals, and my name really got around.”
At their peak, Raleigh and Darlene were showing
and selling his art at 35 to 40 festivals a year.
He spent time each October for 16 years
painting on Catalina Island off the coast of Southern
California, has taught workshops around the country,
and has had his paintings published on calendars and
in such magazines as Arizona Highways.
His work is featured in three books about
watercolor painting, one of them about the history
of plein air painting – a French term for painting
outdoors – on Catalina Island.
Sharing the passion
Plein air painting is Raleigh Kinney’s specialty.
“There’s not very many watercolor plein air
painters because watercolor is harder to handle on
location,” he said.
“Plein air is a great excitement-builder. You
can go out and spend a day plein air painting and
you come back to the studio with a head of steam,”
Raleigh said. “You see the colors more vividly and
you see subtlety in the shadows that you didn’t see
from a photograph…and you remember that, and
you bring that back to the studio, and you’re excited
about painting again.”
Although it’s tough for novice painters to learn
to use watercolors outdoors, he loves to take groups
out into the desert.
“The joy of that is they get to see what real
shadows look like on location and how it reflects
the sky, or how it reflects a neighboring subject,” he
said. “So, shadows aren’t just black, shadows aren’t
just gray. They’re color. So you point that out, and it
makes their picture better and more entertaining.
“You bring a sketch back, and it may not be
a perfect sketch, but it was done in the moment.
And sometimes those pieces that were done in the
moment are the most exciting pieces that you do.”
He describes his style as “somewhat
impressionistic but realistic. I like a loose kind of
painting. I really like to see brush marks and how I
work when I’m done, so the viewer can see how I’ve
used my brush. I don’t want it to be photographic.
But I like subject matter. I’m still what you’d call a
subject-matter painter.”
His favorite subject these days is landscape, but
it has changed over the years with his experiences.
After a plein air event at a dude ranch, “I had
a stretch there when I was doing a lot of horse
paintings and riders and things like that.”
One of his favorite paintings is of his two young
sons exploring an old truck. Called “Pilot to Copilot,”
the work hangs in Raleigh and Darlene Kinney’s
bedroom.
His smaller paintings, framed, sell for $650
to $750. Medium-sized works sell in the range of
$1,600 to $2,000. The largest painting in his studio,
30 inches by 40 inches, has a price tag of $4,800.
Though original paintings often have investment
value, he advises people against buying art for
economic reasons.
“But I tell people when they buy an original that
they should not be buying it for investment. They
should be buying it because they love it, and that way
they’ll never be disappointed,” he said.
‘Say one thing’
Being an artist affects the way he sees the world.
“We’ll be driving and I’ll say to Darlene, ‘Wow,
there’s a painting. That old fence post right there
with that old wheel leaning against it and with all
the weeds growing up around it.’ She sees the whole
thing, she sees the farm in the background and the
field, and I see the fence post with an old wheel
leaning against it.”
He tries to teach that way of seeing a painting to
his beginning students.
“When you go out on location, they’ll try to paint
the whole world. You have to try to teach them to
limit what they see and try to pick a focal point. Don’t
say too many things in this painting. Say one thing.”
He calls the pattern of his three-day workshops
“inside-out.”
The first day is spent in the home studio, where
he demonstrates painting beneath a large mirror,
discusses his philosophy of painting, and takes
questions from participants. Weather permitting, the
second day is spent outside, “on location.”
“It’s good experience for them to go out and do
a sketch,” he said. “Primarily, when you go out on
a location, what you’re looking for is value: lights
against darks, where your focal point is. What are
you going to do with the background?”
On the third day, workshop participants return
to the studio to paint, often using their plein air
sketch. Raleigh and Darlene consider themselves
“semi-retired,” having scaled back the number of
festivals, shows and workshops they take part in.
“You reach a time in your life when it’s like a
tidal wave,” he said of his career. “That wave comes
in and at its peak there’s wonderful things going on
and a lot of demand, and that recedes. New people
arrive and they fill a new position, and that’s kind of
what happens.
“There’s still a lot of interest in my work and in
my teaching. But you have to stay out there and you
have to keep working. Out of sight, out of mind, so to
speak.”
Through all the ups and downs, though, Darlene
has been an important partner at his side.
“She goes with me to a lot of functions and she
becomes a part of the people that we meet, and she
gets to know them,” Raleigh said. “She comments
later on those associations and makes suggestions.
That particular thing helps an awful lot in a business
like we have.”
The Kinneys said they are not among the 1 to 2
percent of artists who become wealthy.
“When you do an art show, you don’t know if
you’re going to make a dollar or if you’re going to
make $2,000 or more,” Darlene said.
But they have enjoyed the independence and
freedom of running their own business and following
their dream. For her, Darlene said, the reward has
come in “just being able to work together, you know,
and have a good marriage.”
And, of course, to celebrate a Valentine’s Day
with the same excitement they did 50 years ago.
For information about Raleigh Kinney’s Feb.
10-12 and March 11-13 workshops at his home studio,
and the upcoming fine arts shows in Scottsdale and
Carefree sponsored by Thunderbird Artists, call
480-350-9375, write to rekwc@hotmail.com or visit
www.kinneywatercolors.com. | http://www.wranglernews.com/2014/02/09/noted-watercolorist-wife-celebrate-50-years-of-sharing/ | en | 2014-02-09T00:00:00 | www.wranglernews.com/a85719798e8e6a09b72281eadbca15bfc6506bd9e0e6c30a2643e02f8aa0cb9f.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T14:50:12 | null | 2015-08-17T16:42:14 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wranglernews.com%2F2015%2F08%2F17%2Fwest-chandler-delegation-to-join-popes-u-s-welcome%2F.json | http://www.wranglernews.com/wn/wp-content/uploads/Coleman-Fr.-John.jpg | en | null | West Chandler delegation to join pope's U.S. welcome | null | null | www.wranglernews.com | When the leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics visits the U.S. next September, West Chandler residents will be among those on hand to greet him.
Pope Francis, elected two years ago, seems to have captured the world’s imagination with his humble ways and blunt — and at times surprising — commentaries. He not only made the cover of Time magazine but has been featured on the cover of Rolling Stone — no small achievement in a publication that isn’t known for lauding religious leaders.
Father John Coleman, pastor of St. Andrew Church, will lead a group of 30 parishioners on a journey to Philadelphia to see the pope at a Sept. 26 festival and a Sept. 27 outdoor Mass expected to draw a million participants.
Founded 30 years ago when Ray Road’s speed limit was 50 miles an hour and sheep and horses grazed in the vicinity, St. Andrew’s is home to 4,000 families that worship in the expansive, mission-style church.
John Scheibt is one of them. The retired information technology professional has belonged to St. Andrew’s since the very first Mass, held in a nearby junior high on Super Bowl Sunday in 1985. He’s never seen a pope before and said he’s enthused about the trip.
When the late Pope John Paul visited the Valley in 1987, Scheibt said his parents and son went to see him, but he himself didn’t attend.
“I didn’t realize what a great experience it could be. I thought it would be a big crowd and be real crazy. OK, so I missed one of them — I can’t miss it again. I get another chance,” Scheibt said.
Coleman said the upcoming trip to Philadelphia will be the first time he’s seen Pope Francis in person. The new pope, he said, has caused a stir.
“I guess you could say he shook us up a little bit but I think that’s good. We could use a little shaking up. Sometimes we get so caught up in the rules that we forget why we have them in the first place,” Coleman said.
In particular, he noted the pope’s compassion for those who are divorced.
“I know priests that won’t deal with them at all. So I’m hoping that maybe that will change. They’re quite vulnerable when they finally decide to come to us.”
As for Scheibt, he says he’s not sure yet what he thinks of Pope Francis, but he agrees the church’s leader is size large when it comes to compassion.
“I’m concerned that a lot of what we hear about the pope is filtered through the reporters,” Scheibt said. “I think he’s misunderstood a little bit. I want to hear it for myself and see what’s going on. I do like what I’ve heard.”
The group from St. Andrew’s will tour Philadelphia and visit Villanova University before heading the Festival of Families Sept. 26. Pope Francis arrives in Washington, D.C., Sept. 22 where he will visit the White House.
He’ll also travel to New York to address the United Nations and visit the 9/11 memorial. | http://www.wranglernews.com/2015/08/17/west-chandler-delegation-to-join-popes-u-s-welcome/ | en | 2015-08-17T00:00:00 | www.wranglernews.com/278f535778e6874760f09dfe1c2217b902c23e5d023b8100387080e939399684.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T20:49:46 | null | 2013-08-08T17:54:52 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wranglernews.com%2F2013%2F08%2F08%2Fhow-our-photographer-gained-a-spot-among-the-medias-elite%2F.json | http://www.wranglernews.com/wn/wp-content/uploads/Desert_Vista_Obama_Speech68.jpg | en | null | How our photographer gained a spot among the media’s elite | null | null | www.wranglernews.com | Story by Don Kirkland
Photo by Billy Hardiman
5 a.m. Monday, Aug. 5 — I had rolled out of bed
a half hour earlier, knowing it would be a hectic
week with our upcoming edition ready to burst at
the seams. Stories, photos and ads had been flooding
in, so I wasn’t eager to take on any additional predeadline
projects.
But something our photographer had said to me
on Saturday morning as we sorted through 350 or so
pictures he had taken of the Corona del Sol football
team, and which I had dismissed because it seemed
an unrealistic undertaking, was nagging at me again.
Wouldn’t it be great, he’d suggested, if he
could get in to take photos when President Obama
arrived in town on Tuesday. This coming from an
(almost) 17-year-old high school student with lots
of enthusiasm but not much concept at the time of
what it would take to get him cleared, credentialed
and ready to go on assignment on barely a day’s notice—to
photograph the president of the United States, that is.
The more I thought about it, though, they more I
thought, hey, it really would be great for him to have such an
experience, and of course a nice opportunity to show that we
can occasionally go beyond our routine coverage boundaries
for something, well, pretty significant newswise.
So I called a contact at Tempe PD, Molly Enright, who
emailed some excellent suggestions, one of which involved
the public information director at the Tempe Union High
School District, Linda Littell.
That turned out to be the mother lode.
Linda forwarded the media application materials
she’d received from the White House (Obama’s planned
destination, Desert Vista High School, is part of the Tempe
district, and thus part of Linda’s PR domain). That document,
produced for online submission, was designed to go to
Noreen Kassam, a member of the White House advance team
for presidential visits.
And then the unexpected happened. Within
an hour came Noreen’s response: “He’s good to
go.”
So that’s the short version of how Warner
Ranch resident, Horizon Community
Learning Center junior—and Wrangler News
photographer—Billy Hardiman managed to join
Republic photographers like Tom Tingle and
David Kadlubowski, plus a who’s-who of local
and worldwide media notables, for what turned
out to be an experience of a lifetime.
To all those who helped make it happen:
A huge thank-you. From all of us at Wrangler
News. | http://www.wranglernews.com/2013/08/08/how-our-photographer-gained-a-spot-among-the-medias-elite/ | en | 2013-08-08T00:00:00 | www.wranglernews.com/4ae0e108eff308a89e26d08dcfbf7d162125e9ea7e93667f05a45c9ca3e6be13.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:04:16 | null | 2016-08-18T16:54:21 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wranglernews.com%2F2016%2F08%2F18%2Ffilm-fare-streep-reaches-high-note-comedic-40s-docu-singoff%2F.json | http://www.wranglernews.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Film Fare: Streep reaches a high note in comedic '40s docu-singoff | null | null | www.wranglernews.com | Florence Foster Jenkins—The title character was a much-loved patron of the New York classical music scene who loved to sing.
She was a nice lady, and a rich lady, and thus nobody had the heart, or the nerve, to tell her that she sounded like an angry monkey defending its tree branch.
Besides, the carefully cherry-picked audiences for her recitals found her performances funny.
In the early ‘40s she cut some records which actually received some radio airplay, and in 1944 finally gave a performance at Carnegie Hall—which, alas, legitimate music critics were able to attend.
This interesting little story from Manhattan’s high-culture scene certainly seems irresistible as movie material (there have already been several stage versions of it). But it also had the potential to make a really ugly movie.
Many of us who love music and have no talent still indulge the fantasy of performing, and it could have been agonizingly embarrassing to see the consequences of someone living that fantasy out, especially in front of a smirking audience of musical heavy-hitters.
Happily, Florence Foster Jenkins was helmed by the masterly, old-school Stephen Frears, working from a script by Nicholas Martin. Three years ago Frears brought a gentle comic energy to Philomena, which could have been a drag for very different, more serious reasons, but instead was a delight.
With Florence Foster Jenkins his touch is more broad, even farcical, but the movie has the same generous-hearted tone and emotional maturity, not to mention a lush period atmosphere.
Of course, Frears would have been helpless without Meryl Streep, bringing Florence something of the same dotty lovability that she gave to Julia Child in Julie & Julia. Simon Helberg, as Florence’s accompanist Cosme McMoon, turns his lines into a master class in effete dithering. And as St. Clair Bayfield, the failed Shakespearean and Broadway veteran who became Florence’s manager and common-law husband, Hugh Grant has rarely been better—suavely sheepish and witty in his tireless efforts to keep her reality pleasant, and deluded in his belief that he’s always successful.
Anthropoid—This historical thriller, which dramatizes the plot to assassinate Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich in Prague in 1942, keeps us tense with murmured conversations in back rooms and furtive romance between bursts of violence.
We badly want Czech partisans Cillian Murphy and Jamie Dornan to succeed in killing “The Butcher of Prague”—an SS bigwig and Chairman of the Wannsee Conference—even though we know that if they do, the reprisals will be horrible, and director Sean Ellis, who co-scripted with Anthony Frewin, uses this ambiguity to give Anthropoid a brooding mix of tragedy and exhilaration.
As written, the characterizations aren’t deep (appropriately) but the actors—the cast includes Toby Jones, Charlotte Le Bon and Anna Geislerova—bring soul to their parts. Squeamish viewers should be forewarned: Anthropoid is gripping, but it’s also Jacobean.
There are hard-to-watch scenes of torture, and the movie’s sacrificial lambs can be spotted a mile away.
Florence Foster Jenkins is rated PG-13 and plays at Tempe Marketplace, Chandler Fashion 20, Arizona Mills and other multiplexes Valleywide. Anthropoid is rated R and plays at Arizona Mills. | http://www.wranglernews.com/2016/08/18/film-fare-streep-reaches-high-note-comedic-40s-docu-singoff/ | en | 2016-08-18T00:00:00 | www.wranglernews.com/e6c07f5a6214665147cfcf3ba37aa8810dc75524c6e60f5175bb7d1109543d93.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:04:37 | null | 2016-06-16T17:36:10 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wranglernews.com%2F2016%2F06%2F16%2Flessons-dad-fathers-day-salute-mr-tempe%2F.json | http://www.wranglernews.com/wn/wp-content/uploads/Mitchell2.jpg | en | null | Lessons from Dad: A Father's Day salute to Mr. Tempe | null | null | www.wranglernews.com | By Joyce Coronel
Harry Mitchell spent 28 years teaching American government and economics at Tempe High School, but he insists it was the lessons he taught his own son and daughter that bring a smile to his face today.
Sipping coffee inside Cornucopia Café in West Chandler, the former mayor of Tempe, state senator and U.S. Congressman looked back on the years he and his wife Marianne spent raising their daughter Amy, a local teacher, and Mark, the current mayor of Tempe, and summed up the wisdom gleaned:
“It was important to support everything they did,” Mitchell said. “We kept them involved in school activities and we attended everything.
I still do that with my grandkids.”
Of course, when the kids did well, that came with bragging rights. Then there were the times when they didn’t score the winning goal.
“You still have to encourage them all the time. Whatever they’re doing is great,” Mitchell said. “You continually reinforce everything and try to keep them involved.”
At one point, Amy wanted to join a softball team. After getting stuck in right field, she grew bored.
“I said, ‘You can’t quit,’” Mitchell recalled. “Whatever they started, they had to finish. They didn’t have to do it the next year. Quitting is too easy—life’s not that easy. Everything’s not going to just fall in place.”
Mitchell said he and his wife—they were both high school teachers—kept the kids busy during the summer, often traveling to Disneyland or attending the U.S. Conference of Mayors’ annual meeting. But summers weren’t all fun and games.
“We would never let them sleep past 9 a.m. ‘You’ve got to get up. You’re not sleeping in. You have chores to do and things around the house to help,’” Mitchell would tell the kids. All those chores helped “pay their way” for the family trips, but he also wanted them to experience the real world of employment as they got older.
“I wanted them to have a summer job but not with a lot of other kids,” Mitchell said. “I wanted them to be with adults so they would learn something.” Mark worked in a cabinet shop and Amy was a volunteer teacher with a local organization.
“The other thing we did was we supported them in their activities. If they needed something, we took care of it,” Mitchell said.
Fifty years later, he still lives in the same house near Rural and Broadway. “We never moved so I guess that’s why we could afford to do things.”
Both Amy and Mark spent a lot of time at Tempe High as they were growing up, accompanying Mitchell to school activities. As coach of the freshman and junior varsity football teams as well as the sponsor for student council, Mitchell said he would take his children to help decorate the gym for school dances. “They grew up at the school,” he said.
Mark often accompanied his father to Tempe City Council functions. Mitchell served on the council and then was mayor for 16 years. He went on to become a state senator, spending eight years at the Arizona legislature, and then four years as a U.S. Congressman.
Politics was in his blood, it seems.
“My grandfather lived a block away from us and he was in the legislature,” Mitchell noted. “He would get me out of school and I’d spend the day with him at the legislature.” As Mitchell got older, he helped put up campaign signs, and when his grandfather’s vision declined, he drove him to meetings around town.
“I was always hooked on politics and government. Even in high school, I took all the social science classes you could take.” At Arizona State University, he majored in political science. Mitchell said he also hopes to be remembered one day as a good politician, “the opposite of the stereotypes.”
Even though things are so much different now compared to when Amy and Mark were growing up, Mitchell insists the fundamentals are the same:
“You’ve got to support them. They may want to dress a certain way but just stick with them. They all go through phases and fads.”
That theme of being there for loved ones continues to this day for the grandfather of five. Mitchell’s beloved wife, Marianne, suffers from Alzheimer’s and needs round-the-clock care.
Ten months ago, she became a resident in a local care center. Every morning at 7:30 Mitchell is there by her side. He spends two hours visiting with her, having conversations which he said probably wouldn’t make sense to outsiders. But that’s not what matters, he emphasized. It’s being in the moment with her.
“I want to be known as a good caregiver,” Mitchell said. “And I want to set an example.” Like the oft-quoted “Everything I ever needed to know I learned in kindergarten” maxims, he’s created his own set of guiding principles, dubbed “Everything I need to get along with people I learned from being an Alzheimer’s caregiver.” Being positive, patient, supporting and encouraging figure high on the list.
Whether as a parent or a caregiver, he said, you’re going to make mistakes. You learn things along the way, he said.
“I’ve been blessed in my life. I’ve got no regrets.” | http://www.wranglernews.com/2016/06/16/lessons-dad-fathers-day-salute-mr-tempe/ | en | 2016-06-16T00:00:00 | www.wranglernews.com/832474a47b244c7dde2d5238e9c99b33c1114094b2561240f130b92a14a888cf.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T14:50:16 | null | 2015-08-17T18:20:01 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wranglernews.com%2F2015%2F08%2F17%2Fhelping-women-to-be-masters-of-their-own-destiny%2F.json | http://www.wranglernews.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Helping women to be 'masters of their own destiny' | null | null | www.wranglernews.com | Retired Chandler Police Chief Sherry Kiyler, who will deliver the keynote message at a coming Chamber of Commerce Women in Business session, asks a simple question with a perhaps not-so-simple answer: “Who Says You Can’t?”
The talk is designed to be part inspirational and part motivational as she hopes to encourage women to be the “masters of their own destiny.”
Kiyler successfully demonstrated that approach throughout her nearly 40-year career in law enforcement. From 2004 until 2013, she served as chief for the Chandler Police Department, where she was responsible for a staff of nearly 500 sworn and civilian personnel, and all law enforcement functions in the city.
“The real message of my presentation is that most things are not ‘can and cannots.’ They are ‘want tos and don’t want tos’, or ‘shoulds or should nots’. We need to be careful about allowing others to decide what we can and can’t do,” said Kiyler.
Kiyler says she originated the idea a few years ago for a presentation she was asked to do for Intel.
“I decided I wanted to talk about how we sometimes let people tell us we ‘can’t’ do something. That was certainly my experience early on in my law enforcement career—so many times between family to friends, to peers—many people said I couldn’t do that job,” said Kiyler.
“Over time I realized that it wasn’t that I couldn’t, it was that they did not want me to do it.”
She says that it took her a long time to realize that personal choice is the main driver in career direction, as long as they exhibit physically and mentally capability.
“My hope is to share my journey with others and perhaps help them with theirs,” said Kiyler.
She began her municipal law-enforcement career in Phoenix, where she spent more than 31 years with the police department, retiring at the rank of commander in 2004.
She then moved to Chandler to continue her public service. Now, she remains active by serving as a member of a law enforcement federal monitoring team. In recognition of her civic commitment, she believes strongly in giving back and continues her community involvement.
“Over the past several years, I have personally raised over $20,000 for Arizona Special Olympics by rappelling down a 27-story building in downtown Phoenix and I will continue this tradition this December,” said Kiyler.
In 2016, she will serve as the chairperson for the International Law Enforcement Torch Conference for Special Olympics to be held in Phoenix.
In her spare hours, Kiyler spends time with family, as well as pursuing a number of hobbies, including creating stained and fused glass design.
Chamber president Terry Kimble says the Women In Business event offers a different program each month to assist women in relationship building, networking and establishing business opportunities.
The event is scheduled for noon, Tuesday, Sept. 15, at the SoHo63, 63 E Boston St. in Chandler. Tickets are $25 for members, $35 for guests and can be ordered online at www.chandlerchamber.com | http://www.wranglernews.com/2015/08/17/helping-women-to-be-masters-of-their-own-destiny/ | en | 2015-08-17T00:00:00 | www.wranglernews.com/831bd234a0b341aa8a99dfda3f717e8f37b05f10187bc604105e0a33a58cb75b.json |
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[] | 2016-08-26T12:49:56 | null | 2016-08-18T15:30:58 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wranglernews.com%2F2016%2F08%2F18%2Fya-gonna-call-ombudsman-kyrenes-new-problem-solver%2F.json | http://www.wranglernews.com/wn/wp-content/uploads/ROSALIE-2.jpg | en | null | Who ya gonna call? Ombudsman, Kyrene's new problem solver | null | null | www.wranglernews.com | By Diana Whittle
When you’ve got an issue with your child’s school or teacher, whom should you call? In the Kyrene School District, it’s the district’s newly anointed ombudsman, a full-time, staff resource for parents or community members who need a question answered, issue researched or problem solved.
As part of developing priorities for the first 90 days of her tenure, Dr. Jan Vesely, the district’s new superintendent, determined that the position could offer a boost in customer service.
The role of ombudsman, or perhaps more correctly in this case ombuds-person, has been successfully offered in other school districts across the country and in government offices as well.
“The Governing Board and I felt it was important to provide our parents and community members with a dedicated resource for addressing their concerns,” said Vesely.
“We want to make sure that this very important stakeholder group has a voice in how we run the district and has a fair opportunity to resolve any problems they may be experiencing.”
Vesely realizes that the holder of the new position may not always be able respond with the preferred solution, but within the district, she wants to make sure questions are answered and voices are heard.
Vesely designated Rosalie Hirano, a district employee from the Community Relations group, to fill the new role.
“(In her position), Rosalie will be responsible for recording each contact and following up to make sure the issue is resolved or information provided,” said Vesely.
Hirano will be responsible for tracking areas that generate frequent concerns and then report back to the superintendent for final resolution.
In addition to being the primary contact for individuals who contact the superintendent’s office to voice a concern or complaint, Hirano will be working with Kyrene’s Parent and Superintendent Council, which is made up of parent representatives from each of the district’s 25 schools.
She also will serve as a conduit between the district and diverse organizations outside the district.
“I will serve as a liaison to local community groups, such as the Tempe/Kyrene Business Advisory Council; the chambers of commerce in Tempe, Ahwatukee and Chandler; the mayors and city council members of each of the cities/towns; Native American communities; and with our legislative delegation in District 18.”
Although she is new to this role in Kyrene, Hirano says she is prepared with a specific procedure she plans to follow.
“The first step is to speak or meet with the parent or community member to gather as much information about their concern and determine what action they’ve already taken to resolve the issue.
“From there, I will then go back to the appropriate source for clarification and identify possible solutions,” explained Hirano.
“If they have a problem related to their children, I will always emphasize the importance of trying to resolve the issue with the teacher or principal,” said Hirano.”
“It is so important for parents to establish a good rapport and open communication with their kids’ teachers and principal because that’s the best way to ensure a good educational experience for their child. For problems that concern district policies or administration, I will work with the appropriate department to see if there is any way to address them and consult with Dr. Vesely as appropriate.”
Hirano believes that people mostly want to be heard or to find a resolution to their issue. She comes by her empathy naturally, as she is a parent of two former Kyrene students herself. Her children are now enrolled at Corona del Sol High School, but both kids attended Cielo Elementary and Aprende Middle School in Kyrene.
“If a parent is frustrated, I try to remember that their passion is motivated by their concern for their child,” said Hirano.
Probably the most efficient way for people to contact her is by email at rhirano@kyrene.org
She can also be reached by telephone through the Kyrene District Office at 480-541-1000.
“Be sure to provide me with as much information about the situation as possible—caller’s name, student’s name and school, a phone number and brief explanation of the concern, what action has been taken, and with whom they’ve spoken, and what outcome they seek.
“That way I can either do some research before contacting them or at least know a little bit about the situation before returning their call.” | http://www.wranglernews.com/2016/08/18/ya-gonna-call-ombudsman-kyrenes-new-problem-solver/ | en | 2016-08-18T00:00:00 | www.wranglernews.com/c0d00f0d6b7e354136022dded9ae01c64b1d915d0b63686c875cd4873de423b0.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T12:49:26 | null | 2009-11-10T10:39:18 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wranglernews.com%2F2009%2F11%2F10%2Fpesky-roof-rats-are-back-and-don%25E2%2580%2599t-let-those-cute-faces-fool-you%2F.json | http://www.wranglernews.com/wn/wp-content/uploads/roofrats.jpg | en | null | Pesky roof rats are back, and don’t let those cute faces fool you | null | null | www.wranglernews.com | Are you getting your house ready for those guests who typically start arriving as soon as the weather cools off? Here’s one you might not have been expecting: Those gnawing, worrysome and always unwelcome critters who’d love to spend some time in your warm attic this winter: roof rats.
If you haven’t heard yet, they’ve raised their nasty heads again in our south Tempe and west Chandler neighborhoods. And if you don’t have them now, you likely will, because they’re reported to be on the move throughout the East Valley.
How did they get here? Roof rats love to eat the wires under your car’s hood, so some theorize they arrived in a car from some other part of the Valley. Others think they traveled here on block fences, power, telephone and cable lines, tree to tree and through oleander bushes.
Regardless of how these annoying creatures got here, experts say that homeowners need to act now because this is the time of year roof rats love to move inside to find their preferred nesting places in the warmer upper levels of your house and garage.
Residents of Estate La Colina held a homeowners meeting Oct. 24 at Estrada Park to discuss ways to keep the roof rat infestation from taking over. Barry Paceley, known as the Roof Rat Man of the Arcadia neighborhood where roof rats were first discovered in 2001, estimated our area neighborhoods are infested on a scale of 5 to 6 out of 10.
What this means is that we may be facing a problem that could take years to control unless everyone works together to eradicate these pesky, plague-carrying vermin. The good news is that if neighbors work now to get the rats under control, the infestation can be minimized. The bad news is that once roof rats have been detected in an area, residents have to remain forever vigilant because they will never totally disappear.
Paceley and his fellow Arcadians went public about their ongoing battle with roof rats troubling this once-stylish part of Scottsdale in 2001. Since then, he has devoted a major part of his life to limiting the damage created and infestation of these roof rats that originated in Southeast Asia and typically live along the coastal regions in the United States. The Phoenix area roof rats were probably brought here from California, Paceley suggests.
The roof rat measures anywhere from 13-18 inches, including its tail, and weights 5-9 ounces. Roof rats prefer to live four feet or more off the ground. They are dark brown to black, slender, and as a neighbor advised, “really cute.”
Paceley agrees, though reservedly.
“They are cute with little bright eyes, little whiskers, little ears,” he said. “But when that cute animal is chewing up your alarm system or dying somewhere in your wall and you have to pay someone to tear out your drywall to get rid of the odor, then the cuteness fades really fast.”
In order for Kyrene Corridor neighborhoods to control this roof rat infestation on a long-term basis, every homeowner needs to take these four basic steps to implement measures to rid their property of roof rats.
Inspect your property for possible signs of roof rats. Look for citrus that is hollowed out, along with cylindrical droppings, gnaw marks on your house or trees, live or dead rats and rodent odors.
“I first realized I had roof rats when I was enjoying a moonlit night in my back yard under one of my citrus trees,” said Mark Zener.
“Little pieces of something started to fall all around me. A roof rat was sitting on a branch over my head eating one of my blood oranges and could care less if I was sitting right below him.”
Also inspect your attic and garage for signs of roof rat invasion. If you store a motorhome or boat on your property, also check to see if roof rats are living there and gnawing on the hoses and wiring. Roof rats will gnaw on anything to keep their front teeth from growing too long.
Roof rats can squeeze through a hole the size of a quarter. Usually you can tell if your attic has been invaded by checking your insulation for nesting. Also look for gnawing on any exposed wiring. Many times people first realize they have roof rats when they hear them at night in their attic or garage.
“It sounded like someone was dancing on my ceiling,” said one person at the La Colina meeting.
“I heard them trying to get into my chimney,” said another neighbor.
Inspecting your property will give you a better idea of the extent of your roof rat population and the routes these rats take on your property. You will need to intercept the roof rats with traps and non-toxic bait near these routes. Finding the routes roof rats take will influence where you place your bait and live traps.
Clean up your property by getting rid of anything that will keep rats from flourishing in your neighborhood. Roof rats need food, water and easy access to a cozy nesting site. You can reduce or remove them from your property by taking the following steps:
1. Clean up outside nesting places like woodpiles, palm trees and dense vegetation, especially Oleanders which provide a safe refuge and an ideal path of travel.
2. Promptly pick up any fallen fruit from citrus trees and pick your citrus crops immediately and completely. Citrus is a roof rat’s main source of water in the Arizona heat. Some experts suggest you completely pick your citrus now even if it is green because roof rats will still eat the fruit.
3. Do not leave pet food out, especially overnight. Roof rats typically eat fresh fruit, plant materials, nuts and seeds, vegetables and tree bark. Bird feed is a feast for them. Their favorite is cat food when they can find it.
4. Keep all garbage containers tightly covered and pick up any dog droppings every day.
5. Store bulk food in sealed, rat-proof containers that may be in your garage or outside.
6. Check for standing water from irrigation or sprinklers. Do not leave pet water dishes outside at night. Roof rats need four ounces of water a day to survive if they don’t get moisture from citrus fruit.
Your goal in cleaning up your property is to take away nesting places. By removing possible food sources you are taking away easy access to tasty meals so roof rats are more attracted to your baited traps.
“I have not caught one roof rat in my traps,” said one La Colina homeowner. “I now realize they didn’t need to go near my traps because the rats had an entire tree full of citrus to pick from.”
Seal your house from invasion before it gets any colder by covering any holes half an inch or larger with quarter-inch or smaller steel mesh, or fill them in with cement. Make it impossible for them to enter by inspecting and repairing air vents. Check to make sure you don’t have roof rats in your attic first because a dead rat can really smell up the entire house.
Reduce your roof rat population with snap traps and/or bait traps. Roof rats aren’t that bright but they are smart enough to be wary of traps, so you need place your traps in their path of travel and be patient. Bait your snap traps with peanut butter or cat foot tied on with a little dental floss. Place the trap inside a shoe box with a small hole, about two inches in diameter, in one of the bottom corners. Place this shoe box in one of the roof rats’ primary areas and tape the lid closed.
It is better to use this type of trap if you find roof rats in your attic because you can properly dispose of them and not have to suffer the smell of a dead rat. Check the trap about every other day and dispose of dead rats in a plastic bag. Traps can be purchased for under $3 each and used over and over again.
You can also purchase for around $5, or make yourself, a cylinder-type trap out of PVC pipe, to use bait to control roof rats. Roof rat bait can be purchased for less than $5 and comes in a big rectangular bar that can be broken into four large squares and placed inside the trap.
It takes about 3-5 days for the bait to work once the rat has eaten it. This type of trap has a small hole at one end so cats and other animals cannot get in.
It is recommended that you use duct tape to fasten this type of bait trap on the top of your block walls or mount them horizontally in a citrus tree. Extensions are included to help you hang this trap in your tree. You will need to check your traps regularly to make sure they still contains a large-sized piece of bait.
Call an exterminator if you are unable to do or prefer not to take steps to get rid of roof rats yourself. Calls to several pest control companies provided quotes anywhere from $1,000 to $4,000, depending on the amount of roof rat infestation.
Some people swear that cats are the best method to get rid of roof rats. Others have used something called a Rat Zapper that zaps rats dead using battery-powered electricity. You use cat or dog food for bait. When the Zapper shows you have killed a rat, you take it over to the garbage can and dump it out. No touch, no fuss, or so the ad claims. You can find the Rat Zappers on eBay, Amazon.com and from other Internet sources for about $40 each.
More information and detailed help can be found at Paceley’s , the Roof Rat Man, website http://www.roofrat.net . You can also contact him if you would like him to appear at a meeting in your neighborhood. | http://www.wranglernews.com/2009/11/10/pesky-roof-rats-are-back-and-don%E2%80%99t-let-those-cute-faces-fool-you/ | en | 2009-11-10T00:00:00 | www.wranglernews.com/783aa28b7675bde5836ed157bffd868da30f77c3bb74e4ac174e2352f90fec97.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:02:36 | null | 2016-08-05T18:58:59 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wranglernews.com%2F2016%2F08%2F05%2Ffacebook-friend-real-friend%2F.json | http://www.wranglernews.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Facebook friend or real friend? | null | null | www.wranglernews.com | By Tracy Doren
Is the world really so small? I was browsing my Facebook wall not long ago and began to wonder about all the posts I read on a daily basis:
Is everyone really having more fun than I am?
I usually check Facebook at home when I’m finishing up my day after unloading the dishwasher, folding laundry or just catching up with the latest on Netflix.
When I check my wall, it seems practically everyone I know is in Hawaii or San Diego, horseback riding in the pines or having a drink at the coolest new bar in Downtown Chandler.
I can get lost in that world for way longer than I should, and I begin to wonder how I filled my nights before friending 300 or so people and being privvy to their every move.
Years ago, my now 15-year-old daughter made one of those “from the mouths of babes” comments while looking over her older sister’s shoulder in the early days of Facebook, accusing her with, “You don’t have 614 friends.”
“Oh yes I do—it says so right here on the screen,” followed by the golden nugget: “But can you have ice cream with all of them? Cuz if you can’t eat ice cream with them, they aren’t really your friends.”
The whole family has used that as a litmus test for true friendship ever since—sometimes a glass of wine substituted for the ice cream—but the bottom line is, how many of your social media friends really are your friends?
Do you go online and check out status updates only to be left feeling empty? Asking yourself why am I not in Paris, with the love of my life, enjoying the view of the Eiffel Tower?
If they are your real friends, you know the road to Paris was paved with a whole lot of potholes, and they have paid their dues to get there and you think “good for them,” they’re finally on that long and deserved vacation…but if you are just an acquaintance or “Facebook Friend,” it may seem like all they ever do is take fabulous vacations while you slave away at your mundane life.
So if we begin to view social media as simply a highlight reel of life, then it isn’t so hard to take—the adventures, the perfect children, the new car—because everyone deserves highlights.
If you really know your friends, you’re happy for the big victories but you also know that their kids are messy sometimes, their car breaks down and they fold laundry too, but you celebrate the highlights either in person or online.
If you can’t have ice cream with them, then it may look like life is always a celebration. So is the world really small or do we just feel some strange sense of security catching a glimpse of people’s lives that maybe we shouldn’t be seeing?
Tracy Doren is publisher of Wrangler News. She has two school-age children at home, one in college, another who teaches special education classes in the Flagstaff school district. | http://www.wranglernews.com/2016/08/05/facebook-friend-real-friend/ | en | 2016-08-05T00:00:00 | www.wranglernews.com/0512accfc4e6219de574f77def56ccc5c4f092dea4c0685fa000c4d8fa19403e.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T14:49:53 | null | 2015-08-17T16:59:01 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wranglernews.com%2F2015%2F08%2F17%2Fsecurity-teams-take-advantage-of-vacation-to-enhance-campus-safety%2F.json | http://www.wranglernews.com/wn/wp-content/uploads/KYRENE-SECURITY-2.jpg | en | null | Security teams take advantage of vacation to enhance campus safety | null | null | www.wranglernews.com | Eric Nethercutt shows KTA principal Dr. Marlanne Lescher newly improved security modifications.
Students in the Kyrene School District returned to class this month and noticed things had changed a bit from when they began their summer break.
Seven Kyrene schools had their lobbies remodeled, for one thing. All Kyrene school offices have now been upgraded in an effort that began last summer with funding from the 2010 capital bond election. Schools now have two lobbies: one for students and one for visitors. Access to the rest of the school is now through a “buzzable door” controlled by office staff.
“People see our schools are closed in the summer and think that nothing’s happening, but that’s the furthest thing from the truth,” said Nancy Dudenhoefer, assistant director of community relations for the district.
“While everyone may get to take a one-week vacation, the seven weeks that our schools are not having kids in them, many other things are going on.”
Eric Nethercutt, director of transportation and facilities for the district, said that Kyrene’s standing security committee is always looking at ways to improve safety.
“Security is more of a journey than a destination. After the Sandy Hook tragedy, we decided to really look deeply at our schools,” Nethercutt said.
The Sandy Hook incident of December 2012 was the deadliest school shooting in U.S. history.
In an incident that grabbed worldwide headlines, a lone shooter entered an elementary school in Connecticut and took the lives of 20 kindergarteners and six adult staff members.
“We worked with Phoenix Homeland Defense Bureau and one of the recommendations they made was, in the spirit of continuing to increase security at already secure schools, that we take a look at our front offices,” Nethercutt said.
For over a year, the security committee worked with architects and construction experts to come up with a design. The goal was to add a layer of security but still maintain a warm and inviting atmosphere for students.
In the past, a parent, vendor or visitor could check in at the front desk, and at their discretion could walk to any door in the school.
The remodeling in the Kyrene district means there is now a separate, secure visitors’ lobby at each school.
Parents, vendors and visitors must check in at the front counter with staff who will buzz them through a door after they are approved for entry. Exterior doors have a scanner pad and require a badge to open. There are still one or two doors at each school that are keyed, Nethercutt said.
With some 18,000 students in the Kyrene school district — and thus about 36,000 parents — Nethercutt allowed that “the human condition leads to a lot of things going on in families.
One thing that does impact at times is custody battle. That’s not the reason we did this, but it adds up to many reasons why we felt the need to add that extra layer of security and have a little bit more control over the front office.”
If a parent involved in a custody battle comes to the school to pick up a child, staff will check to see if he or she is authorized to do so.
“It’s an awkward conversation but our front office staff would say, ‘No, you’re not allowed.’ In the past they may have just gone ahead and walked in the school anyway.
They can’t do that because the front offices are secure and no one will let them into the hallway,” Nethercutt said.
Other security enhancements at Kyrene schools include modification of fencing at some schools, installation of intrusion alarms and video surveillance and modifying buildings so that all classrooms that opened to the outside now open to an internal corridor. | http://www.wranglernews.com/2015/08/17/security-teams-take-advantage-of-vacation-to-enhance-campus-safety/ | en | 2015-08-17T00:00:00 | www.wranglernews.com/b330728fe1089bfd3e9f254b3983de92ce303663d25d627f5e084fd1988ce049.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T14:50:20 | null | 2015-08-17T20:03:54 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wranglernews.com%2F2015%2F08%2F17%2Fbabbo-a-trip-back-to-the-gastronomic-joys-of-tuscany%2F.json | http://www.wranglernews.com/wn/wp-content/uploads/BABBO.jpg | en | null | Babbo: A trip back to the gastronomic joys of Tuscany | null | null | www.wranglernews.com | On the back of the t-shirts worn by the servers at Babbo is a row of three circles, in the cheery red, green and white of the Italian flag. Each bears the image of a Vespa, and below them are the words:
EAT LIKE AN ITALIAN
This is a commandment I’m prepared to obey.
But what, exactly, does it mean? It could simply mean that we should eat a lot of pasta with tomato-based sauces. Or it could mean, eat like a person from Italy—always supposing that there’s any one way that Italian people eat. Or it could mean, eat like an American thinks an Italian eats; that is, like an Italian-American from Back East.
I’m not of Italian descent, but I grew up in the Northeast in an industrial city with a large Italian-American population and dozens of mom-and-pop Italian restaurants. I spent my youth eating at these places, and still binge out at them whenever I get back there.
And for whatever it’s worth, I think that, though Babbo Italian Eatery is in many ways much like other traditional family restaurants, it’s possible to eat like an Italian there quite enjoyably.
The specialty at Babbo is pasta, served in many shapes and covered in many sauces.
Recently I feasted on their basic spaghetti and meatballs.
The sauce had the thinner consistency and slightly more tart flavor I associate with certain restaurants back in my hometown, and the meatballs had a light, moist texture inside, avoiding the oppressive density that can ruin some of the meaty globules I’ve stumbled onto in other restaurants. On another visit, I had the Italian sausage over penne, with peppers—potently spicy, but hearty and satisfying.
One of my lunch companions had the penne with “marinara,” and it was here that we ran into some confusion—not with how Italians eat, but with how they speak.
I had always understood “marinara” to be a simple tomato sauce flavored with garlic and basil. My companion is a vegetarian, but a couple of bites into her lunch realized that the sauce had bits of meat in it.
We asked, and were informed that indeed, the marinara at Babbo is meaty; herbivores must specifically request the vegetarian marinara. To me, this is the equivalent of asking for vegetarian grape jelly, but no matter—we were quickly and courteously supplied with a dish of the meatless, which was yummy, and the meaty stuff went home with me, to be enjoyed for dinner that evening.
Others with whom I lunched at Babbo weren’t in the mood for pasta, but they had no trouble finding other delicious options, like the Brussels sprout and beet salad with raisins, almonds and goat cheese, or the smoked turkey sandwich with provolone and cucumbers on foccacia.
The latter came with a side of either pasta salad or “zucca chips,” a thinly sliced version of fried zucchini I found surprisingly addictive. There’s also full selection of pizzas, ranging from garlic hummus to sweet roasted pear and grape to good old pepperoni.
After all this, we decided to split a tiramisu.
Babbo’s tiramisu is the less cakey, more pudding-like sort, with a sublime flavor and a delightfully granular texture. So at Babbo, it turns out you can also indulge your sweet tooth like an Italian. | http://www.wranglernews.com/2015/08/17/babbo-a-trip-back-to-the-gastronomic-joys-of-tuscany/ | en | 2015-08-17T00:00:00 | www.wranglernews.com/3713607322e1df917a0ac42121caf503bdffe804752071bff446540ab76fa546.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T20:49:43 | null | 2014-04-20T22:41:52 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wranglernews.com%2F2014%2F04%2F20%2Ftempe-history-museum-to-host-heady-soul-pop-of-future-loves-past%2F.json | http://www.wranglernews.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Tempe History Museum to host heady soul-pop of ‘Future Loves Past’ | null | null | www.wranglernews.com | By Chase Kamp
While the Tempe History
Museum has been working
hard to chronicle the city’s
musical past in a forthcoming exhibit
of cherished local musicians, the
curators have also been celebrating the
sounds of today.
On April 26 the museum is
offering a concert featuring the soulful
psych rock of Tempe’s Future Loves
Past, a band that writes ambitious
concept albums packed with catchy
pop hooks.
The free show, which starts at 7
p.m., will be in the museum’s recently
expanded community room, which
has already hosted such varied fare as
classical ensembles, country singers
and folk song archivists.
Future Loves Past, led by singer
and bassist Eric Palmer, has been
working its way around the Tempe
music scene since 2010.
The band’s dynamic debut fulllength
record, All the Luscious Plants,
was released last year, but Palmer
spoke with Wrangler News primarily
about the group’s ambitious Our Solar
System EP, an ongoing song project
that tries to capture the essence of
heavenly bodies above.
Palmer said he began writing
songs about planets and stars before
the band’s conception. Though the EP
was released digitally and on cassette
tape in March, he and his bandmates
are still compiling song ideas and
reworking existing tracks.
“There’s a lot to draw from in
mythology,” Palmer said when asked
about the inspiration for the series.
“You can use it as a vehicle for the
message you’re trying to convey.”
The EP begins, appropriately,
with “The Sun,” a shimmering funkpop
number full of light that sets the
template with bright melodies.
From there, the tracks explore
further out toward other planets and
stars.
This interplanetary concept was
even embodied in the mix. Palmer and
album producer Bob Hoag tried to
set each song’s musical landscape in
the right orbit. The bigger planets like
Jupiter and Saturn have huge drums,
higher gravity.
“As the songs get closer to the
sun, it needs to be warmer,” Palmer
explained. “As we go farther away, it
needs to sound colder.”
The middle of the record contains
a number of extended ambient
interludes that Palmer recorded
at home, some containing sound
experiments like using toy walkietalkies
to create muffled feedback and
faraway sounds, the sonics of space
travel.
One such track, “Solar Theta
Soundscape”, is a 13-minute
transmission of relaxing binaural beats.
These waves are made in a process
that involves putting two different
frequencies into the left and right
channels, tricking the listener’s brain
into moving to a theta brain-wave
state.
Though most binaural beats are
used to assist with meditation and can
be hours long, Future Loves Past kept
theirs at a brisk 13 minutes.
“You can put on headphones and
zone out on it,” Palmer said.
Though the music is ambitious
enough, Palmer also designs all the
band’s album art, going even further to
fulfill his wide-eyed vision.
“I want to create a whole
imaginary world to go into,” he said.
“Our first record is pointing you there,
but this next one is how it’s going to be
for Future Love Past, all-encompassing
concepts.”
April is “Made in Tempe” Rock
Month. Future Loves Past represents
an up-and-coming Tempe band with
the sound of soul meeting ‘70s rock.
Their sound borrows from all genres
and blends them together in a way
that’s easy to relate to and digest.
Performance at 7 p.m. Saturday, April
26. Free admission. 480-350-4311. | http://www.wranglernews.com/2014/04/20/tempe-history-museum-to-host-heady-soul-pop-of-future-loves-past/ | en | 2014-04-20T00:00:00 | www.wranglernews.com/e0b960639525e692ee69085f4e13904d0491c64a54b27f01aca5740231ee203a.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:02:11 | null | 2016-06-03T13:46:31 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wranglernews.com%2F2016%2F06%2F03%2Fturf-war-residenthoa-battle-sprouts-use-synthetic-grass%2F.json | http://www.wranglernews.com/wn/wp-content/uploads/turf-wars-kneeling.jpg | en | null | Turf War: Resident/HOA battle sprouts over use of synthetic grass | null | null | www.wranglernews.com | By Joyce Coronel
Bob Wolfe stood in front of his neighbor’s home admiring the yard’s lush green carpet, wishing he could coax the spotty Bermuda on his own property to flourish with the same manicured splendor of a tournament-quality golf fairway.
The neighbor, Jim Byrne, is a real estate attorney. Both men have lived in the upscale neighborhood, threaded with miles of bike paths and dotted with graceful greenbelts, for 30 years.
“Doesn’t it look great?” Wolfe said as he bent down to examine Byrne’s lawn. “All they did is replace grass that they already had that looked bad. They didn’t do anything else.”
Not according to the Warner Ranch Phase One architectural committee.
Byrne has been accused of violating the community’s covenants, conditions and restrictions, commonly referred to in homeowner association parlance as “CC&Rs.”
That’s because Byrne’s lawn is actually synthetic grass. Not that, it should be noted, the same tacky stuff that sprang up in suburbia during the 1960s. The modern incarnation is virtually indistinguishable from the verdant rye grass that adorns much of the Tempe neighborhood from October to May.
The architectural committees for Phase I and Phase II of Warner Ranch do not allow faux vegetation in the front yards of residents’ home. Phase III does, however.
All three neighborhoods require that homeowners submit plans in writing to the architectural committee prior to making any changes or alterations to their front yards.
Bob Wolfe submitted his request to the committee to install synthetic grass last summer and in a 5-2 vote, the board denied his request. A subsequent appeal was also denied.
In an Aug. 24, 2015, letter Wolfe provided to Wrangler News, Diana Ebertshauser, community manager of the neighborhood, stated that the committee had reviewed Wolfe’s application and denied it because “artificial turf is not considered an organic/natural part of a front yard landscape.”
Wolfe pointed to a nearby home with extensive cement in the front yard. “How is that natural and organic?” Synthetic grass, he said, is better for the environment because it doesn’t need to be watered, fertilized or trimmed.
Wolfe has hired an attorney to represent him, and Byrne, although an attorney himself, said he will likely hire separate counsel should the committee continue to insist he remove the synthetic grass he installed months ago—unquestioned until Wolfe made an application for his own property.
“I do feel this is an abuse of power,” Byrne said. “They are acting outside the scope of their authority. Their authority is based on their governing documents and the governing documents do not prohibit artificial turf.”
In a statement to Wrangler News regarding the synthetic grass brouhaha, Chad M. Gallacher, an attorney for Warner Ranch Phase I, outlined some of the architectural committee’s objections. “The decision of the Warner Ranch Master Board to disallow artificial turf was not hastily made, but was the product of deliberate and careful consideration,” Gallacher’s statement reads.
Gallacher then went on to list five reasons for the board’s decision:
“1) Artificial turf does not have the natural cooling characteristics of real grass, and can increase temperatures. 2) Dogs and cats routinely wander into front yards despite owners’ best attempts to control access. Outdoor cats, including and especially stray cats, cannot effectively be prevented from urinating in front-yard artificial turf. This can result in excessive urine odors and bacterial buildup that is not easily cleaned and washed away. 3) Weed control over time can become a problem. As water seeps through the drainage holes in the artificial turf, it provides a fertile environment for weeds. Just as weeds can emerge through the drainage holes, seeping water can create open channels under artificial turf surface. 4) It is difficult for the architectural committee to insure aesthetics, including the quality of materials and installation methods chosen, with respect to artificial turf. 5) There are alternatives for saving water, including landscaping options that do not have the negative effects of artificial turf. “
Meanwhile, Kim Christiensen, a Warner Ranch Phase III owner who had synthetic grass installed 18 months ago, said the architectural committee in his neighborhood was “very open to it” and gave its approval. Warner Ranch Phase I, II and III each has its own board and differing CC&Rs, however none specifically addresses the subject of artificial turf.
“The reason why we even considered this was because I couldn’t keep the grass growing. I had it dug up, re-sodded and everything,” Christiensen said, adding that he’d referred four or five neighbors to the company that laid the turf for him. “The (neighbors) think this is terrific. They say, ‘We get to look at this.’”
When asked if his synthetic lawn heats up in the summer, one of the objections cited by Phase I, Christiensen replied that his “grandkids play on this thing all year long. It doesn’t get too hot for us.”
Doug Kimball, president of Warner Ranch Phase III’s homeowner association, provided a statement as to why synthetic grass was permitted in the front yards of residents in his phase of the development.
“Our CC&Rs do not address artificial turf specifically, so the committee bases its decision on the overall proposal and the quality/look of the proposed turf … The HOA board “accepts the architectural committee’s judgment for approval on a case by case basis,” Kimball’s statement reads. Byrne insists he has not violated Phase I guidelines.
“It’s not structural, it’s not architectural. It’s part of landscaping maintenance,” Byrne said. “It’s real simple: I replaced real grass with artificial grass. Why would I go and ask their approval? What would they approve?”
His neighbors tell him the grass “looks real nice,” he said, and are surprised to find out it’s synthetic. “This is a situation I feel where there’s one or two people on the board dictating their personal preferences,” Byrne said.
Terry and Ron Rossello, also residents of Phase I, installed synthetic grass and have been asked by the architectural committee to remove it. Wolfe says he has gathered the signatures of more than 90 neighbors who support his campaign to allow synthetic grass in the area. Julie, his wife, hopes the HOA will evolve with the times.
“When we moved in here, you couldn’t have a satellite dish and other things. So they have kept up with the times that way, but this issue seems to be just such a stalemate.”
Editor’s note: If you have thoughts on this topic or others related to relationships between neighborhood residents and their HOAs, send your comments to editor@wranglernews.com. We’ll print those we think are of greatest interest, space permitting. Include your name and contact information, please. | http://www.wranglernews.com/2016/06/03/turf-war-residenthoa-battle-sprouts-use-synthetic-grass/ | en | 2016-06-03T00:00:00 | www.wranglernews.com/601e8aa94c1d92592a41b34a3c0d29f14cbfa3d8cab677ed43a2ab9d40a59033.json |
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[] | 2016-08-26T20:49:39 | null | 2014-04-04T22:22:22 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wranglernews.com%2F2014%2F04%2F04%2Fworlds-smallest-heart-pump-now-saving-lives-at-chandler-regional%2F.json | http://www.wranglernews.com/wn/wp-content/uploads/wn0405141.jpg | en | null | World’s smallest heart pump now saving lives at Chandler Regional | null | null | www.wranglernews.com | Story & photo by Chelsea Martin
Edward Townley is appreciative of
plenty things—most importantly
his life. Townley suffered a
massive heart attack on Jan. 10, and
Chandler Regional Medical Center,
with the use of the world’s smallest
heart pump, the Abiomed Impella 2.5,
managed to save his life.
Death having come in such close
proximity, Townley says he is thankful
every single day that he is alive.
“I remember it like it was
yesterday. I went to the store and
came back home, put the dinner on the
counter, and sat down and thought, I’m
not feeling right. Three minutes later, I
was feeling awful so I opened the front
door, called 911, and waited.”
Although Townley disregarded
early signs of trouble a year before, he
hardly missed a beat when he felt the
attack coming on.
William Orlowski, director of
Chandler Regional’s Cardiac Catheter
lab, explained that if Townley had
waited any longer, it’s likely he would
have not made it.
“What he did was perfect,” said
Orlowski. “He knew something was
wrong right away, and that’s what
saved him,” Orlowski said.
“If we can learn anything from
this situation, it’s that more people
dealing with chest pains need to act
on that immediately and go to the
hospital. Never wait—it might be too
late.”
Even with Townley’s speedy
response to the signs of his attack,
the Impella 2.5 and the cardiologist,
Ahtisham Shakoor, got much of the
credit for saving his life.
Said Townley of his role in the
lifesaving procedure:
“I was just a passenger on a bus.”
The Abiomed Impella 2.5 is a
heart pump that is 1/100th the size
of the human heart and smaller than
the width of a pencil. During an
angioplasty, it pulls blood from the left
ventricle through an inlet area near
the groin and expels blood from the
catheter into the ascending aorta.
Pumps in the Impella platform
can deliver 2.5 to 5 liters of blood
flow per minute and does not require
surgery.
“The device alleviates the pressure
and allows the patient’s heart to rest,”
Shakoor said. “After three days, Ed’s
arteries luckily opened up and the
device allowed him enough time to
recover.”
Over the past decade, there have
been significant strides in medical
research, disease treatment and the
overall improvements of patients’
quality of life.
The Impella 2.5 is no exception.
“Ed’s story truly is a great one,”
Shakoor said. “The technology we now
have in 2014 is incredible. With the use
of the technology and Ed’s willingness
to fight to survive, we are so lucky we
were able to keep him alive. Most of
the time patients that have severely
blocked arteries like Ed, they typically
don’t make it.”
Shakoor added:
“He is one of our success stories.”
Although not all hospitals in the
area are capable of providing the use of
the expensive, progressive technology,
Townley says he is grateful Chandler
Regional was within a close proximity
to his home.
“We are just so happy he made
it,” Shakoor said. “Saving a life is an
incredible feat.”
The triumphant procedure is a
big leap for Chandler Regional, gaining
one extremely pleased patient—and
the promise of more such lifesaving
opportunities—in the process.
“I feel remarkably well and it’s all
because of these incredible people and
advanced technology,” Townley said.
“Looking at these tiny devices, it is
truly amazing what has been done. It’s
just so great to be here.” | http://www.wranglernews.com/2014/04/04/worlds-smallest-heart-pump-now-saving-lives-at-chandler-regional/ | en | 2014-04-04T00:00:00 | www.wranglernews.com/8a51c9e603ab65f617c2c59adae31059acf8616341ebe19399133fb27a266ee7.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T14:50:24 | null | 2015-08-17T19:38:45 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wranglernews.com%2F2015%2F08%2F17%2Fretired-teacher-never-gives-up-in-quest-to-build-a-future-for-kids%2F.json | http://www.wranglernews.com/wn/wp-content/uploads/Chris-Rossi-and-Youth.jpg | en | null | Retired teacher never gives up in quest to build a 'Future for Kids' | null | null | www.wranglernews.com | Debbie Jacobs spent 18 years teaching before she retired last year, but she never stopped caring about children.
After spending nearly two decades in the classroom, she knew that many kids face steep challenges. Whether parents are unemployed, struggle to pay the bills or are simply not around, children can flounder.
Oftentimes, parents are so busy coping with their own issues, the children’s needs go unmet.
“Too many of our young are at risk educationally, socially, physically and mentally,” Jacobs said. All of that can really take a toll on young lives.
Jacobs decided she wanted to do something about it.
That’s when she discovered Future for Kids, a non-profit organization that focuses on helping kids through programs and camps that focus on academics, athletics and ethics.
“Volunteering with Future for Kids, you know you make a difference,” Jacobs said. “The children who attend regularly look forward to participating in the program.”
And why wouldn’t they? Future for Kids sports and fitness camps are held throughout the year and feature professional athletes, coaches, healthy breakfasts and lunches as well as free T-shirts and a DJ playing high-energy music.
It’s all meant to show kids that physical fitness can be fun. Both pro and college athletes cheer the campers on and stick around to sign autographs. Even Sparky, Arizona State University’s indomitable mascot, mugs for photos with participants.
Thrown into the mix, an array of motivational speakers share some of the challenges they themselves faced and overcame through a mixture of courage, fortitude and hard work.
Retired National Football League player Rodney Smith, founder of Future for Kids, had a strong adult mentor who encouraged him to follow his dream. Smith worked hard and attended the University of Nebraska where he played ball and focused on academics. That experience led him to eventually work alongside two other NFL players to develop Future for Kids. Since 2002, the organization has touched the lives of more than 130,000 children and their families.
Some of those families live in Tempe and participate in the cornucopia of activities for at-risk youth. There are out-of-schooltime programs, summer youth sports and fitness camps, a week-long summer program, basketball camp and winter games sports session. Ninety four percent of the kids say they hope to return to the program. With one mentor for every four children, participants get the individualized attention they need and the positive role models who inspire them to succeed at school, at sports and in the community, noted Jacobs.
Crystal Rope’s two daughters have just finished their second year with Future for Kids and she says she’s seen a big change in them. The girls, who were 9 and 12 when they began participating, are happier and more outgoing these days. They’re doing better in school, too.
“I believe it’s made a really big difference,” Rope said. “Before they were really quiet. I think by being in this program they were able to meet other kids and learn about the importance of physical activity and teamwork.”
One of the aspects of Future for Kids that she especially appreciates is the emphasis on themes like leadership, integrity, excellence and education. Future for Kids encourages lifelong learning, healthy living and diversity.
“They are happy kids and are more involved now,” Rope said. “They want to help others and they’re doing really well at school. One of them was in the spelling bee — she made it to second place — and the other one plays guitar and is involved in the arts.”
As for Jacobs, the retired teacher, she says working with young people and making a difference in their lives is a passion of hers. Future for Kids allows her to do with a commitment of just two hours, once a week.
Jeff just finished his second year as a mentor with Future for Kids. “I have been able to work with a small group of kids on a weekly basis and watch them progress as students and human beings. The experience keeps me grounded and puts every other job or activity in my life in the proper perspective,” he said.
Information: futureforkids.org | http://www.wranglernews.com/2015/08/17/retired-teacher-never-gives-up-in-quest-to-build-a-future-for-kids/ | en | 2015-08-17T00:00:00 | www.wranglernews.com/b64f11335e2b9e3c5be79219264980cf38fd62c17ad9e8c066c641ee539db124.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T14:50:22 | null | 2015-08-17T19:57:54 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wranglernews.com%2F2015%2F08%2F17%2Fteams-fine-tuning-strategies-for-approaching-football-opportunities%2F.json | http://www.wranglernews.com/wn/wp-content/uploads/MARCOS-FOOTBALL-COACH.jpg | en | null | Teams fine-tuning strategies for approaching football opportunities | null | null | www.wranglernews.com | Watch for the Aztecs to play with more purpose, passion and pride this season, according to head coach Cory Nenaber.
“We have had over a year now to implement and start to solidify a new culture and philosophy, including new expectations in our football program,” said Nenaber. “Our mantra or slogan for the season is ‘complete submission’.”
The Aztecs had a great turnout in the spring, which carried over into summer, with the players lifting weights five days a week and having some extremely competitive seven-on-seven workouts.
All of which set the stage for a productive and successful summer football camp at Heber Mogollon High School, according to Nenaber.
“Our summer camp was very successful,” said Nenaber. “It was the best one I have ever had as a head coach.”
As part of their new mantra of complete submission, the team focused on three character traits: purpose, passion and pride.
“We do everything with a purpose or reason, whether it’s easy or whether it’s hard,” said Nenaber. “We believe we should do it with passion, giving it everything we’ve got.”
“Lastly, we need to carry ourselves and complete every task with pride,” said Nenaber. “It’s who we are and represents what we are all about.”
Everything on the field is mostly positive as well after the Aztecs returned several athletes who played significant minutes last season both on offense and defense, especially toward the end of the season, according to Nenaber.
“We are light years ahead of last season, both offensively and defensively,” said Nenaber—”Not only as far as what we can do scheme-wise but we have improved our strength level tremendously over the last year, to a man.”
“We have put in a ton of time and work in the offseason, and I believe these workouts have definitely improved our strength as a team.”
The Aztecs return nine offensive players and eight defensive players who played significant minutes
last season. One in particular is quarterback
Austin Freese who played most of the snaps towards the end of the season.
“We are going with Austin at quarterback hoping he can continue to improve this season and get the job done for us,” said Nenaber. “He’s got a canon for an arm, he can throw the rock, but most of all he a competitor. He hates to lose.”
“Austin is incredibly competitive and passionate when it comes to winning. He’s also an extraordinary athlete. Those are great attributes to have in a quarterback.”
On offense, the Aztec return running back Cameron Brice, who came on strong towards the end of the season averaging about five yards per carry.
The Aztecs are returning four out of their five starting offensive linemen according to Nenaber.
On defense, I think we are going to have some kids who will have big years for us too including Alex Sheppard, Riley Burgmeirer and Jake Clemmens,” said Nenaber.
As far as leadership on and off the field, coach Nenaber will be expecting his quarterback Austin Freese to lead the team.
“You have to be a leader if you are going to play quarterback,” said Nenaber. “There are some other positions where you don’t have be a leader and still be a starter, but not at quarterback.”
Nenaber is also looking for his offensive line to take on some of the leadership roles.
“Our offensive line including Austin Dixon, Logan Bashford, CJ Schrimpf, Brandon Arrington, Logan Smith, and Matt Fick had really bonded well together,” said Nenaber. “I’d like to see them take on a leadership role together by themselves. We want to be able to rely heavily on their work ethic, their passion and how much they have improved to really get things on track as a team.”
Corona has a lot of returning players who have been “through the fire” according to Nenaber and know how low it can be but he also has some younger players he expects to challenge for more playing time.
“We have this sophomore Kobee Marion who I think is going to push for some time,” said Nenaber. “For instance, junior running back Jaylen Bryant and juniors Dylan Connor and Kaden Carter on defense.”
The Aztecs still have a lot of work ahead of them including what to do when they are struggling during games.
“One of the areas we have to figure out is how to handle adversity,” said Nenaber. “It’s a learned trait that we are working on but it’s still something we need to improve on.”
“When things are not going our way or when things are not perfect during game situations, we need to rise to the occasion and figure it out together,” said Nenaber. “We need to find a solution instead of focusing on the problem.”
Corona will be facing off against some different teams this season.
“I think our schedule is a really good one,” said Nenaber. “We will be playing quality opponents which should results in some good games.”
“Our opener against Westwood is going to be an incredibly good test to see where we are at and where we need to go,” said Nenaber. “I’ve really been looking forward to this season.”
Corona’s first game is Aug. 28 at Westwood. Next up the Aztecs will be at home against St. Mary’s on Sept. 4.
Corona Girls Cross Country
Returning four of its top five runners, Corona’s girls cross country team is setting the goal to finish the season in the top three at the Division I state cross country meet.
It may be a lofty goal after losing Kelly Naumann, Corona’s top runner with a second place finish at state last season, to graduation. Naumann, on a running scholarship at Iowa State, will be joining Corona’s other star runner, Nathan Rodriguez, who is entering his second season as a Cyclone.
After Corona’s summer running camp, coach Ari Rodriguez is excited about the potential of his returning athletes and Corona’s incoming freshman runners.
“We have a lot of returning talent and leadership that will keep us focused and competitive,” said Rodriguez.
Leading the pack is junior Renee Clary, followed by seniors MacKenzie Harder and Alexis Artiaga. Sophomore Riley Wright is the fourth returning runner from last season’s team expected to have an impact this season.
“Renee took 20th at state last year,” said Rodriguez. “She has the potential to finish in the top 10 at state this year which would really help our team move up into the top three. She is definitely one to watch.”
“MacKenzie is our most consistent runner,” said Rodriguez. “Riley struggled with injury and illness at the end of the 2014 season but I expect her to continue this season and become one of our top varsity runners.”
“I anticipate Alexis and Riley will be fighting to be at the head of the pack after being pushed by MacKenzie and Renee as the season progresses.”
Rodriguez thinks he has two sophomore runners with the potential to move up the ranks this season as well: Abby Kordiak and Cybelle Cozart.
“Both Abby and Cybelle had strong track seasons last spring,” said Rodriguez. “Cybelle started to turn it on at the end of the track season and continued to put in a lot of work this summer. She is a definite up-and-comer for the team.”
Rodriguez is predicting Desert Vista and Xavier to once again be the teams to beat but thinks Corona has the potential to be very competitive with the rest of the top 10 teams in Division I. | http://www.wranglernews.com/2015/08/17/teams-fine-tuning-strategies-for-approaching-football-opportunities/ | en | 2015-08-17T00:00:00 | www.wranglernews.com/51444457fea2913b69462334c64c5dd2b079533e26f17adf39d91a0abbdbf0c8.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T20:49:47 | null | 2011-08-15T06:27:59 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wranglernews.com%2F2011%2F08%2F15%2Fcyber-bullying%2F.json | http://www.wranglernews.com/favicon.ico | en | null | Cyber-Bullying | null | null | www.wranglernews.com | As cyber-communicating grows in popularity, bullies have become increasingly anonymous, and social scientists report trends such as victimizers exhibiting “moral disengagement” as well as a disconnect between researchers, policymakers and teachers who address bullying.
“Bullying is an international problem that has become easy with cyber-bullying,” said south Tempe resident Laura Hanish, associate professor at the School of Social and Family Dynamics in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University.
“There is certainly a proliferation of bullying via technology.”
Hanish joined two other ASU faculty members, Becky and Gary Ladd, along with other social scientists from around the world for a series of think-tank sessions on the problem.
She said researchers are noticing a “moral disengagement” trend where bullies don’t see anything wrong with what they are doing or justify their behavior with explanations such as “he deserved it.”
“The programs are still not as effective as we need or want them to be,” Hanish said.
Teachers have reported to social scientists that some children bully in front of adults in today’s schools, instead of trying to hide it from authority figures, she added.
In the past, she said, there was not much recognition of it being a problem. But, with increased awareness among parents, social scientists are working to come up with better models to combat the problem.
Although there are anti-bullying laws on the books in 47 states, including Arizona, implementing programs to successfully tackle the problem can be challenging.
“There’s a lot that we need to understand,” Hanish said. “Some of the issues that need more clarification include victim behavior and whether or not it’s better for a child to tell an adult, especially if that adult may be unsympathetic.”
Anti-bullying programs in place in schools have had varying amounts of success. Three things that are necessary to address the problem are teacher buy in, school resources to combat the problem and community concern, she said.
Hanish, whose husband owns south Tempe’s Pizza Chicago restaurant, said a disconnect also exists between researchers, policymakers and teachers. Researchers can design programs, but policymakers may have legal concerns as their primary interest.
She said teachers are often over-burdened with too many students in classrooms and up to 20 add-on programs during the school year, of which anti-bullying may be only one.
“There are some things that have happened with the economy recently, changing class sizes and making it more difficult for teachers to be aware of everything going on in the classroom,” she said.
“They may only focus on bullying for a very short amount of time.”
Through the Sanford Harmony Program at ASU, Hanish and other faculty members are working to understand and enhance the social interactions between boys and girls.
“We know that students do better if they have an environment without behavior problems or discipline issues,” she said. | http://www.wranglernews.com/2011/08/15/cyber-bullying/ | en | 2011-08-15T00:00:00 | www.wranglernews.com/905f8419eee29340546852680c8e3fff70ea525eda45bf2a61dcbca6852fcc8f.json |
[] | 2016-08-27T10:46:56 | null | 2016-08-27T10:51:54 | At last the wind has changed and we’ve got the thing that dreams are made of (for birdwatchers) – a strong easterly blowing in off the North Sea. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.driffieldtoday.co.uk%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Ftophiil-low-nature-reserve-column-with-richard-hampshire-1-8082426.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.driffieldtoday.co.uk/webimage/1.8082425.1471873977!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Tophiil Low Nature Reserve column with Richard Hampshire | null | null | www.driffieldtoday.co.uk | At last the wind has changed and we’ve got the thing that dreams are made of (for birdwatchers) – a strong easterly blowing in off the North Sea.
The reason for this is that now the arctic nights are closing in, the wading birds are on the move. Generally we can always bank upon a number of green and common sandpipers breeding in the north of the UK to stop off at our well-stocked muddy marshes on their way south, but if we get easterlies it holds greater promise.
The first to arrive was a pectoral sandpiper; so named for the distinctive band across its breast which generally hail from North America.
It could have come off the westerly winds the preceding week, but as four arrived in the UK all on the east coast it is thought it has come from Siberia across the top of Asia.
It’s the first at Yorkshire Water’s Tophill Low Nature Reserve for six years and has remained a week – much better than the 10 minutes last time.
The weekend also saw four curlew sandpipers drop in, so named for their decurved bill like a miniature curlew.
They are uncommon though this year many hundreds have dropped in down the eastern UK – a welcome bird and the first for four years. That said the winds for the coming week look spectacular – an easterly straight out of the Baltic for the bank holiday!
Yorkshire Water’s Tophill Low Nature Reserve is located four miles from the A164 at Watton and is open daily from 9am to 6pm.
Admission £3.30 adults and £1.50 concessions, for more information visit www.tophilllow.blogspot.com or follow us on twitter @tophilllow. | http://www.driffieldtoday.co.uk/news/local/tophiil-low-nature-reserve-column-with-richard-hampshire-1-8082426 | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.driffieldtoday.co.uk/bd0799c3230c2a1237cd5982d7ba4c9f3ffc4d7dd080b7e0e11ba07c953b6d3e.json |
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Yorkshire's Olympic cycling superstar Ed Clancy hopes to equal Sir Bradley Wiggins' total of five gold medals.
The 31-year-old, Barnsley born and Huddersfield raised, is already the county's most decorated athlete in Olympic history after helping to defend the men's team pursuit title from Beijing and London, picking up his third gold in Rio.
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After their win, in a video chat with Clancy at Team GB in the Olympic Village - watch it above - he told how he is now thinking four years ahead to what could be his own fairytale ending in Tokyo.
There he believes he could end up with two more Olympic golds.
That would put him level with Wiggins, aged 36, who ends his career as the most decorated British Olympic athlete with five golds, a silver and two bronzes to surpass fellow cyclist Sir Chris Hoy's tally of six golds and a silver..
Clancy, the only ever present member of the pursuit team to have won gold in the most recent three Olympics, said:: "I'm 31 now and I've got three golds. I'm going to do Tokyo, at least that's the plan.
Ed Clancy wins his third Olympic gold medal in Rio
"So who knows, I might pick up another one; two if I'm really lucky.
"In reality it's going to be very, very hard to match Sir Brad, but that's nothing to be ashamed of. He's a brilliant guy. He's been a real addition to this team. Brad's retired now but I'm grateful I've gone through two Olympics with him."
He paid tribute to National Lottery funding, distributed by UK Sport, which has given the financial support to take him and Team GB up the medals league table.
Clancy said: "My whole career started with them really. I was brought in through the talent team - British Cycling it was called back in the day and it's called Go Ride now.
Five gold medals for retiring Team GB cycling legend Sir Bradley Wiggins.
"Keep buying Lottery tickets. It's not just me that benefits from this.Without the funding, the input we've had from the Lottery and the Government we wouldn't be here."
The Yorkshireman was the beating heart of Rio's four man pursuit team, also featuring Owain Doull and Steven Burke, which saw Wiggins retire after their dramatic world record victory over Australia,
In a stand-out moment of an amazing Games for Team GB they came from behind in the pursuit final to beat the Aussies by almost a second with barely 500m of the 4,000m contest to go.
They set a new world record in the heat and broke it once again in the final, with a time of 3:50.265, in Rio's Olympic Park.
Going for gold in Rio - the GB Men's Pursuit Team
But it was against all the odds.The team failed at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow and they didn't make the podium at last year’s world championships
Clancy was suffering from his own problems, slipping a disc in his back after a training session - simply picking his bag up in the changing room. Surgery followed, forcing him to miss the European championships.
He only turned it around in recent weeks, with reports from the team’s training base in Wales that they were going well after smashing the world record in a practice session. A nd he said it felt like the best gold yet.
"Yes, I'm over the moon," he said.
"It's been a difficult time between London Olympics and getting here in 2016, not just in terms of motivation but getting over injuries and what not.
"There is an old sayting, the tougher the fight the sweeter the victory and it's so true. I've never had to work so hard for this one.
"I had to get over a back surgery in December and scrape into the team in the World Championships, just to qualify your place. It's been a tough one but crossing that line ahead of the Aussies made it all so worthwhile.
"In a typical Team Pursuit the most efficient way to get from A to B is to set off hard, reach a cruising speed which you can only just hang on to, however the problem is if you ride like that in a final the other team can just set off like maniacs, get in your slip stream and then it's very hard to get rid of them.
"So both us and the Aussies were well over world record pace for the first two or three kilometers, way over it. There was no schedule really, We went flat out from the gun. I'm guessing they just pushed it a little bit too much, too soon.
"That's pursuiting. It's easy to go fast for the first three kilometers. You've got to cross the line after four kilometers.
"I guess we just paced it that little bit better than the Aussies and came better in the last two laps.
"It's like a house of cards, as soon as you take one guy out of the equation all comes crumbling down eventually. It might take one, two, three laps...but by the time that guy's got to do his turn again, they had nothing to give so it was good for us."
Have you got something to share on the story? Were you there? What do you think? - Send your pictures, videos or story and we'll publish the best × Continue the story RIO VIDEO & 360 PHOTO: Yorkshire's Ed Clancy gears up to equal Sir Bradley Wiggins' five Olympic golds Loading ... Add up to 3 photos or 1 videos to the story There's been a problem uploading your files. Please try again. By uploading your file you agree to our Terms and Conditions × Continue the story Sign in to contribute sign in shape the news in your area... | http://www.driffieldtoday.co.uk/sport/local-sport/rio-video-360-photo-yorkshire-s-ed-clancy-gears-up-to-equal-sir-bradley-wiggins-five-olympic-golds-1-8075097 | en | 2016-08-18T00:00:00 | www.driffieldtoday.co.uk/f9f92b8d0d6c7bf704567fc5fdb1540f20a9ac1f4bd0a2c0dfca7fa7e6429ce6.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:09:41 | null | 2016-08-16T05:20:35 | HAD there been anyone in the second team piling up runs, Andrew Gale might not have played in this game. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.driffieldtoday.co.uk%2Fsport%2Flocal-sport%2Flancashire-v-yorkshire-day-three-captain-s-innings-from-andrew-gale-arrives-at-ideal-time-1-8070767.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.driffieldtoday.co.uk/webimage/1.8070765.1471300109!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Lancashire v Yorkshire (day three): Captain’s innings from Andrew Gale arrives at ideal time | null | null | www.driffieldtoday.co.uk | HAD there been anyone in the second team piling up runs, Andrew Gale might not have played in this game.
Why, the Yorkshire captain said so himself.
Yorkshire captain Andrew Gale has been hard at work in the nets. Picture: Jonathan Gawthorpe.
“If there was a second team lad who was stacking them up, and really putting pressure on, then it would be a case of leaving myself out,” he admitted prior to this match.
“But there’s no one really breathing down my neck.”
Gale, who added that he wanted to be “speaking for myself with runs”, had made 327 of them in the Championship this season at 19.23.
He had managed only one half-century in 18 innings.
Admitting that his form was “a worry”, and that he was “short of confidence”, Gale did what he has traditionally done in such situations – he knuckled down and fought with every sinew.
The result was an innings of 83 at Old Trafford yesterday which, although not the three-figure score he had set his heart on, was testimony to his character, an innings which helped Yorkshire to avoid the follow-on as they made 360 in reply to 494, Lancashire ending day three on 70-0 in their second innings, enjoying a lead of 204.
Had Gale translated his highest score of the season into his first century of the campaign, it would have been a fitting achievement.
It was on his last appearance at Old Trafford in 2014 that he had the infamous altercation with Ashwell Prince that led to him being banned and prevented from lifting the Championship trophy.
That episode was the nadir of Gale’s career, so it would have been a cathartic experience to have registered a hundred.
As it was, he could content himself with a fine contribution, one which restated his personal authority and which helped his side in a sticky situation.
That situation saw the Yorkshire score standing at 55-2 when Gale came to the crease on the second afternoon.
He and Alex Lees added 81 in 42 overs before close of play, and the pair carried on from where they left off in glorious sunshine yesterday morning.
Gale battled through to a half-century from 162 balls with six fours, with Yorkshire building a powerful platform.
But they lost the anchoring presence of Lees when the stand was worth 130, the opener falling lbw to Kyle Jarvis for a splendid 85 after starting the day on 62.
It was a composed performance from Lees, who faced 260 balls and hit 10 fours, and there was no let-up from Yorkshire as Gale found another strong ally in Jake Lehmann.
The 24-year-old Australian – son of former Yorkshire batsman and current Australia coach Darren Lehmann – soon found his feet in his first innings for the club.
With an effortlessness evocative of his father, Lehmann off-drove Jarvis to the foot of the old pavilion and promptly repeated the feat.
There was a lovely cover-driven four off Nathan Buck and a cut off Tom Smith to the backward-point rope as Lehmann raised a fifty partnership with his captain in just 52 balls.
The stand was broken moments before lunch when Gale was caught in the gully by Simon Kerrigan off Smith, playing a cut shot to a ball that deserved the treatment.
Gale was annoyed with himself for picking out the man, but it was a gutsy effort from the Yorkshire skipper.
After lunch, the visitors slipped from 272-4 to 283-7, at which point the follow-on target was still 62 away.
Adil Rashid was brilliantly caught by Haseeb Hameed at short-leg off Kerrigan, the 19-year-old taking an instinctive catch when the batsman flicked the ball firmly off the back foot.
Lehmann played-on at an attempted cover-drive off Jarvis, falling four short of a half-century, and Tim Bresnan went lbw playing back to Jarvis.
But Andrew Hodd and Steve Patterson added 58 in 17 overs, Hodd scoring a vital 43 before being superbly caught by a diving Liam Livingstone, who ran quickly to his right from slip to take the chance at full stretch after the batsman sliced a leg-side drive.
Patterson cover-drove Nathan Buck to the boundary to take Yorkshire to the magic figure of 345, before the same bowler castled him as he aimed towards leg.
Ryan Sidebottom was last out, caught behind off Kerrigan, the Yorkshireman walking before the umpire raised his finger – an example of good sportsmanship in the passionate cauldron of Roses cricket.
Smith and Hameed, the Lancashire openers, played impressively when the hosts replied.
Hameed, looking every inch a future England player, produced some delightful shots as Lancashire extended their lead in the evening sunshine. | http://www.driffieldtoday.co.uk/sport/local-sport/lancashire-v-yorkshire-day-three-captain-s-innings-from-andrew-gale-arrives-at-ideal-time-1-8070767 | en | 2016-08-16T00:00:00 | www.driffieldtoday.co.uk/19d85cc22282c90c0d9cdc4f891a438691930cc17adc805a1480571cba3eaf00.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T12:59:49 | null | 2016-08-25T09:03:23 | Talented Bishop Burton College Florists have claimed gold awards at two prestigious RHS shows. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.driffieldtoday.co.uk%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Fbudding-florists-blooming-great-success-at-rhs-events-1-8083349.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.driffieldtoday.co.uk/webimage/1.8083348.1471939444!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Budding florists’ blooming great success at RHS events | null | null | www.driffieldtoday.co.uk | Talented Bishop Burton College Florists have claimed gold awards at two prestigious RHS shows.
Shortly after securing a prestigious Gold award at this year’s Harrogate Flower Show, six floristry students have done it again and won a highly coveted title at RHS Tatton Park.
The ‘Future Florist of the Year’ award means the team automatically qualifies to compete at the world’s most prestigious flower show, RHS Chelsea, in July 2017.
This is the first time Bishop Burton College will be represented in the renowned show.
The students, all second year foundation degree floristry students, used Rio Carnival as their inspiration, creating a floral costume masterpiece inspired by the Brazilian spectacle.
Featuring exotic flora and fauna including orchids grown locally, the team of students took 10 weeks to prepare the display, hand-drawing each element of the complicated design.
The intricate build took over 100 hours to complete, and used more than 20,000 different flowers as part of the design.
Constructed and dressed prior to the event, the students had just six hours to put the colossal installation in place, remove any damaged materials and add all final touches.
Rules of the show stipulate that only three students and one tutor could work on the stand at any time, so the team worked in hourly shifts to ensure all the students participated and the display was completed in time.
The team was praised by the judges on their exquisite design and use of colour, their superb interpretation of the brief and their excellent workmanship and attention to detail. The team scored the highest grade ever recorded at the event – a stunning 87.5/100.
Bishop Burton College principal Jeanette Dawson OBE, said: “I’m exceptionally proud of the ladies and their achievement at the various shows this year.
“They have literally put in hundreds of hours outside of their studies to create these phenomenal designs and their hard work has paid off.
“I’m looking forward to what they create for Chelsea Flower Show next year– here’s hoping it will be another ‘Best in Show’.” | http://www.driffieldtoday.co.uk/news/local/budding-florists-blooming-great-success-at-rhs-events-1-8083349 | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | www.driffieldtoday.co.uk/d0b49de336cc0e17f2991e4ea13f2dbc96ed0d069955d046420e6032bb87a110.json |
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] | 2016-08-29T20:48:34 | null | 2016-08-29T20:06:13 | The age-old adage goes something like this: the fastest horse wins the Guineas, the luckiest horse wins the Derby, and the best horse wins the St Leger. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.driffieldtoday.co.uk%2Fsport%2Flocal-sport%2Fit-s-the-oldest-swinger-in-town-but-doncaster-s-st-leger-is-still-a-big-deal-1-8094848.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.driffieldtoday.co.uk/webimage/1.8094847.1472490505!/image/image.jpg | en | null | It’s the oldest swinger in town -- but Doncaster’s St Leger is still a big deal | null | null | www.driffieldtoday.co.uk | The age-old adage goes something like this: the fastest horse wins the Guineas, the luckiest horse wins the Derby, and the best horse wins the St Leger.
Sadly, that isn’t the case in this day and age. Breeding operations place more emphasis and value on speed than the kind of stamina attributes required to win Doncaster’s historic race. A Champion Stakes or the Arc are more likely to be on the agenda of the top 10f and 12f 3yos, rather than a tilt at the 14f Classic. So there is little chance of revisiting the days when Guineas, Derby or Oaks winners in the mould of Oh So Sharp (1985), Reference Point (1987) and User Friendly (1992) landed the spoils.
However, the Ladbrokes St Leger is still a big deal. It is still the jewel in the crown of a four-day festival ranked among the best in the country. One that will attract more than 65,000 enthusiastic racegoers to Town Moor next week and equate to a £25 million shot in the arm for the Doncaster economy.
It might have become fashionable to knock the race in some snooty quarters. But Leger Day is a day out beyond compare for the many doyens of Donny. And let’s face it, the race is still a Classic, for heaven’s sake. The oldest too, dating back to 1776, and one that still forms the last leg of a Triple Crown, as revered as it elusive.
Who can forget the fervent anticipation of four years ago when the crowds flocked to witness Camelot’s bid to become the first horse since Nijinsky way back in 1970 to land the Guineas/Derby/Leger hat-trick? And equally the burst-balloon-type deflation of Aidan O’Brien’s colt failing.
Who can forget either the high drama of just 12 months ago when the winner, Simple Verse, was controversially disqualified on the day, only to win the race back on appeal, leaving O’Brien, trainer of the runner-up-come-winner-come runner-up, Bondi Beach, with more heartache?
Oh yes, the St Leger continues to give, make no mistake about that. So what might the race have in store this time round?
Not surprisingly, it again revolves around O’Brien, the best trainer in the business. Notwithstanding his disappointments of 2012 and 2015, he has saddled four winners since 2001 when Milan strode to probably the most impressive victory I have seen of the great race. And a week on Saturday, he will send out the red-hot favourite, IDAHO, third in the Derby and winner of York’s Great Voltigeur Stakes, one of the main trials for the Doncaster showpiece.
A class act, the son of Galileo is almost sure to win if he stays the 14f trip. But his pedigree, his style of running and the patient way he is generally ridden instil sufficient doubts to suggest you should cast your net in search of better value.
There is still time for supplementary entries to throw a spanner in the works. But at present, Idaho’s chief rival in the market is MUNTAHAA, trained by another successful patron of the race, John Gosden, who has fielded three winners since 2006. Another not exactly bred to relish the Doncaster distance, he has made rapid improvement this term, culminating in a taking pillar-to-post triumph over 13f at Chester two weeks ago. It was only a Listed handicap, but the son of Dansili had to defy a mammoth mark of 108 against older, more seasoned rivals and also the tight turns of a track far from sure to suit such a big, long-striding colt. He’s a player.
Two horses who were behind Idaho at Epsom, RED VERDON and ALGOMETER, might well get closer faced with an extra 2f, and don’t rule out the favourite’s own stablemate, HOUSESOFPARLIAMENT, reversing Voltigeur placings. He is guaranteed to stay and will relish the galloping expanse of Town Moor. Similar comments apply to a third O’Brien contender, Royal Ascot winner SWORD FIGHTER, while ORMITO is no mug and VENTURA STORM would have to be considered if the ground turned on the Soft side.
It’s a head-scratcher that makes punters grateful the Leger Festival is not all about the main event. Classy, competitive racing abounds on all four days, while the Leger Legends contest on the opening day, featuring past jockeys, continues to delight the crowds and raise valuable money for racing charities in equal measure. Last year, it was won by Tony McCoy no less. This year, two more ex-champions, Richard Hughes and Joseph O’Brien, Aidan’s son, are in the line-up.
Day two on the Thursday is DFS Ladies’ Day, highlighted, appropriately, by a couple of Group races for fillies, the Park Hill Stakes, where Sir Michael Stoute’s ABINGDON will be primed to continue her progression, and the Sceptre Stakes, which has been earmarked by Charlie Hills for his lightly-raced 3yo, JADAAYIL.
The historic Doncaster Cup for stayers is the star attraction on the Friday when PALLASATOR will be a warm fancy to repeat his 2015 success. Vying for the limelight are three crack 2yo contests, including the Flying Scotsman Stakes won so spectacularly by the mighty Frankel six years ago. The 5f Flying Childers Stakes could throw up a thrilling duel between the unbeaten filly MRS DANVERS and Mark Johnston’s YALTA, while the Mallard Handicap on the same day might be a target for Roger Varian’s MONOTYPE.
The supporting card on Leger Day itself includes the Champagne Stakes, one of the leading juvenile heats of the season, in which RIVET and PEACE ENVOY would be interesting, and the 7f Park Stakes, which might yield as striking a winner as last year with NEMORALIA aiming to follow in the footsteps of Limato.
I’m hoping too that there might be openings over the four days for ANOTHER TOUCH, HAGGLE, EL VIP and CARTMELL CLEAVE. If not, best of luck in finding a few winners of your own.
Spectacular autumn schedule ensures the Flat season no longer fizzles out
Autumn is fast approcahing, but gone are the days when the Flat season fizzled out during September and October. On the contrary, next week’s Ladbrokes St Leger Festival at Doncaster is followed by a veritable feast of action across the world to wrap up what has been another compelling campaign on the level. Newmarket’s under-rated three-day Cambridgeshire meeting is swiftly followed by a sensational Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe day in France. Back to Newmarket it is for the two day Future Champions extravaganza. On to Ascot next for the Qipco Champions Day finale, and we haven’t even mentioned the global giants of the Breeders’ Cup in the USA and the Melbourne Cup in Australia. I love Jumps racing as much as the average racing Joe, but I couldn’t even have a National Hunt horse on my mind until late October at the earliest.
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[] | 2016-08-26T13:00:15 | null | 2016-08-24T07:49:27 | Possessing a voice to die for, Judie Tzuke is rightfully regarded as one of the finest vocalists in the land. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.driffieldtoday.co.uk%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Fthe-steve-rudd-interview-with-judie-tzuke-1-8078892.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.driffieldtoday.co.uk/webimage/1.8078889.1471614670!/image/image.jpg | en | null | The Steve Rudd interview - with Judie Tzuke | null | null | www.driffieldtoday.co.uk | Possessing a voice to die for, Judie Tzuke is rightfully regarded as one of the finest vocalists in the land.
Here, in the run-up to her appearance at Cottingham Folk Festival, “Pulse” author Steve Rudd catches up with the “Stay With Me ’Till Dawn” singer…
Judie Tzuke is putting the finishing touches to her new album.
Q. How was 2016 treated you so far, Judie?
A. With difficulties! I’ve been moving house, and that’s never easy.
Other than that, it’s been good. I’ve done a few gigs, and I enjoy doing those.
Q. So you’re back on the road. How does it feel to be touring the UK again?
A. Well, I never used to enjoy it, because I was always terrified. But then, one night in London, I lost my voice, and everything I’d ever been terrified of happened all at once on stage, yet it ended up being an amazing gig, mainly because my audience and my band were so fantastic.
It made me realise that I’ve just got to do what I do.
This “acoustic” tour that I’m doing (called the “Songs and Stories” tour) is very different in that it’s not a band thing.
I’m doing it with just one or two guitarists, and one or two of my daughters – and sometimes a keyboard player! If people in the audience have anything to ask me, that’s fantastic… and then we chat properly. It’s a much more intimate thing now.
After that “awful” gig in London, which became one of my favourite gigs of all time, I’ve been wanting to know who’s coming to see me. I want to meet them, and talk to them, and find out who they are.
I find that people in my audiences are much like me really; the only difference is that I’m up on stage, and they’re watching me.
Q. Have you ever considered writing an autobiography?
A. I haven’t. I have been asked, though, but I’d find it a bit awkward.
A lot of my stories are mine, but they obviously include other people.
I think it’s okay to talk about them in a live setting, but if I was putting my stories down on paper, I’d have to be so respectful of the people I’m talking about.
Whatever happens on stage, stays on stage!
Q. I understand that you’ve been working on a new album…
A. Well, the album (with the working title of “Woman Overboard”) is almost finished.
I did most of it a couple of years ago. It was going to come out, but then I got cancer; everything stopped, and I had to sort that out.
So it’s taken a long time to make, though it’s been “almost ready” for a while. I think we’re adding a few new tracks.
It’s an album I really like; I always like the albums when I make them.
I sometimes go off them later.
Of course, I think every album is the best thing I’ve ever done every time I make a new one!
Q. Of all the albums you’ve released over the years, of which are you the proudest?
A. I like all of them for different reasons, but I’m particularly fond of the first album, “Welcome to the Cruise”.
A singer’s or a band’s first album is an accumulation of everything they’ve done in their life.
After that, it becomes what you’ve done in between that album and the next, so my first album will always have a huge place in my heart. But I think “Secret Agent” is my overall favourite. I don’t put anything out that I don’t think is me, so I have to like my albums, otherwise there’s no point in me doing them.
The one that we’ve got out at the moment is basically an album of demos. What we often do is make demos, and then we rethink them.
The album is called “Song Club 2013.” I’m really proud of it, because people get to hear how our songs start out.
Q. How does it feel to know that “Stay With Me ’Till Dawn” has been voted as being one of the Top 50 British Songs of the past 50 years?
A. It’s amazing, a fantastic thing. I’m so lucky, because I still love it.
I don’t mind singing it every night. It’s a song that I’m proud of.
It feels right; it’s just supposed to be the way it is.
I don’t want to redo it, I like it the way it is.
Q. You’ve collaborated with everybody from Lucie Silvas to Morcheeba, Fragma to Gareth Gates. What do you enjoy most about collaborating with fellow songwriters and musicians?
A. Well, if they’re as enthusiastic as I am, and love music as much as I do, it’s just a wonderful opportunity to listen to somebody else’s ideas, and to get inspired by whatever they’re going through.
I’ve been working a lot with Tom Baxter, who I love working with.
We both absolutely love writing songs.
The writing side for me is the most exciting thing.
I think a lot of people who are like me tend to be sad people; we tend to get a bit depressed sometimes.
I think the fact that you can make something positive out of something negative is a wonderful thing.
I don’t know what I’d do if I couldn’t write songs.
When I write about something, it gets it outside of me.
Q. Have you found that writing songs has become any easier over the years?
A. Well, I have learnt to not get too hung up on a song and spend months and months working on it, because what I did when I first wrote it is very often all that was needed. I can sometimes overthink songs.
Q. So what kind of format does your “Songs and Stories” tour take? Are you mainly performing new songs, or are songs from all eras of your career getting a look in?
A. I’m doing all eras.
There are quite a few from the first album, partly because we’re performing in smaller towns and smaller arts centres instead of doing bigger cities, and there are some people who are seeing me for the first time since the eighties, and I think they want to hear songs from the first album.
Somebody even suggested that I do the whole first album with a band, like Carole King has done with “Tapestry.” It’d be a lot of fun, so who knows? We might do that next year!
l Judie will be performing at Cottingham Folk Festival on 28 August. Visit www.cottinghamfolkfestival.co.uk for more information and tickets
l For more information about Steve Rudd, or to order a signed copy of “Pulse”, visit www.steverudd.co.uk | http://www.driffieldtoday.co.uk/news/local/the-steve-rudd-interview-with-judie-tzuke-1-8078892 | en | 2016-08-24T00:00:00 | www.driffieldtoday.co.uk/ea056efdf16f38e08ae40de30663b04dd75982973e741350912f1f5dcb83141c.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T12:53:42 | null | 2016-08-01T14:55:47 | Nobodys got no class! – So sing the cast of The World Goes Round – a celebration of the Kander and Ebb songbook. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.driffieldtoday.co.uk%2Fwhat-s-on%2Fout-about%2Freview-the-world-goes-round-stephen-joseph-theatre-scarborough-1-8044414.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.driffieldtoday.co.uk/webimage/1.8044413.1470059715!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Review: The World Goes Round, Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough | null | null | www.driffieldtoday.co.uk | Nobodys got no class! – So sing the cast of The World Goes Round – a celebration of the Kander and Ebb songbook.
Well, this show has class and style in spades – it’s one of the best shows to be produced as part of the repertory in the Round in years.
The cast – all with West End pedigree – are Nigel Richards, Shona White, Laura Jane Matthewson, Ashley Samuels and Phoebe Fildes. All can ‘act’ a song as well as sing it.
The show is a revue of songs from Kander and Ebb musicals including the big hitters Cabaret, Chicago, Kiss of the Spider Woman and New York, New York plus the lesser known The Rink, 70, Girls,70, The Happy Time, Zorba, Flora, The Red Menace, Funny Lady and Woman of the Year.
The cast perform either singularly in duets, trios or all together – each given their moments in the spotlight.
The pace is quick – there’s no narrative arc just number after number – but the mood swings from melancholy to mirth in minutes .
The opening number is slowly paced And the World Goes Round – it is sung again later on – followed by the jittery, jolly Coffee in a Cardboard Cup.
Then there’s the fun of Sara Lee, The Rink - performed on skates – the sexy Arthur in the Afternoon, the sleazy Class and joyous Ring Them Bells.
All that Jazz gets the treatment from Shona White and every tear is wrung from the heartbreaker Maybe This Time by Laura Jane Matthewson.
Nigel Richards is outstanding – and shines in Mr Cellophane and I Don’t Remember You.
Of course, Cabaret is in the mix but is given a different jazzier arrangement – and the curtain comes down with the crowd pleaser New York, New York.
Get your tickets before word gets round – and it will – and this becomes a sell out.
The World Goes Round is at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, in rep, until September 3.
Box office: 01723 370541
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] | 2016-08-26T13:08:06 | null | 2016-08-22T19:17:52 | It was very much a game of two halves, with the first two days bathed in summer sunshine and the second two ravaged by rain and wind. But when the final whistle blew, the consensus of opinion was that York’s Ebor Festival had been an end-to-end thriller. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.driffieldtoday.co.uk%2Fsport%2Flocal-sport%2Fyork-s-ebor-festival-proves-it-is-one-of-the-best-meetings-team-gb-racing-delivers-1-8082839.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.driffieldtoday.co.uk/webimage/1.8082838.1471888521!/image/image.jpg | en | null | York’s Ebor Festival proves it is one of the best meetings Team GB Racing delivers | null | null | www.driffieldtoday.co.uk | It was very much a game of two halves, with the first two days bathed in summer sunshine and the second two ravaged by rain and wind. But when the final whistle blew, the consensus of opinion was that York’s Ebor Festival had been an end-to-end thriller.
Sorry about the footballing metaphors. It seems that not even the Olympics can camouflage the start of a new season. But you know what I mean. Certainly you will if you spent a day or four on the Knavesmire last week, lapping up some of the best entertainment Team GB Racing can deliver.
The trendy riposte to those who object to turning the sport into an artificial singing and dancing circus for the alcohol-fuelled masses is that racing should be fun. Well, if York’s meeting wasn’t fun, packing in as it did top-class, competitive racing, on a majestic racecourse, among sensibly-sized crowds that created a pleasant and comfortable atmosphere, then I don’t what is.
It definitely seemed to float the boats of Irish owners Aidan ‘Red’ Shiels and friends, judging by their wild celebrations after HEARTBREAK CITY’S runaway romp in the Ebor itself. Celebrations that even surpassed those the previous day of another owner, Clive Washbourn, who let rip with abandon when his juvenile colt, CONTRAPPOSTO, flew home to snatch second in the big £60,000 Convivial Maiden as a 50/1 shot.
Fun for those whose passion for racing runs as deep as Shiels’s and Washbourn’s equates to revelling in the kind of performances and storylines that emerged from York’s showpiece festival. Here’s my potted day-by-day review, complete with a handful of horses to follow:
DAY ONE (WEDNESDAY)
When the Ebor Festival was washed out by heavy rain in 2008, Juddmonte International Day became the first of four to be abandoned. This time round, the day belonged to POSTPONED, authoritative winner of the near £1 million Group One.
Roger Varian’s 5yo dismissed doubts not only about the wellbeing and form of the yard’s string, but also, and more significantly, the horse’s dubious record over 10f. One of the rare astute uses of a pacemaker, coupled with an eminently sensible ride by the brilliant Andrea Atzeni, put the fears to bed as Postponed made full use of his stamina to stride clear from the 3f pole.
A tilt at the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, for which he would surely have gone close last season but for owner Sheikh Mohammed Obaid’s fall-out with previous trainer Luca Cumani, is the logical next step. However, the outcome was also a welcome shot in the arm for the increasingly maligned King George, with the 2015 winner of Ascot’s great race beating into second this year’s winner, HIGHLAND REEL.
The opening day also featured, albeit in a sub-standard Great Voltigeur Stakes, a similarly convincing performance by IDAHO, particularly as he was only just ready after a break and was given a lot to do in rear. As we identified after the Derby, the son of Galileo is a class act, although I wouldn’t be certain that he’ll appreciate the extra 2f of the St Leger, for which he is now a short favourite. His style of running, his turn of speed and his pedigree all point to his optimum trip being 12f or even 10f.
THREE TO FOLLOW: Mutakkayef, Oceane, La Casa Tarifa.
DAY TWO (THURSDAY)
A swathe of well-fanced horses obliged during the week. But a notable exception was the 2yo Frankel filly, FAIR EVA, turned over at 4/11 in the 6f Lowther Stakes. Excuses abounded, but not from seasoned trainer Roger Charlton, who kept a cool head and wisely suggested that she was simply beaten by a speedier offspring of the great horse and is more of a miler than a sprinter. In fact, the winner, QUEEN KINDLY, looked special, and the runner-up, ROLY POLY, is improving rapidly too.
Improvement is also the key word belonging to SEVENTH HEAVEN, who powered to victory in the Yorkshire Oaks, swamping two top-notch rivals, FOUND and QUEEN’S TRUST, who were travelling much more sweetly. Aidan O’Brien’s filly has stepped up dramatically for hold-up tactics and galloping tracks.
THREE TO FOLLOW: Mustashry, Abingdon, Jadaayil.
DAY THREE (FRIDAY)
As the rain clouds hovered, punters were faced with their worst guessing-game nightmare, particularly for a fiendishly competitive renewal of the Coolmore Nunthorpe. In the end, enough rain soaked one of the fastest 5f tracks in the country to allow MECCA’S ANGEL to treat us to a textbook display of polished sprinting. When sold to the breeding sheds at the end of the season, the 5yo grey will surely fetch a fee of seven figures.
Not for the first or last time during the meeting, the runner-up ran a blinder as well, especially as LIMATO was tackling the minimum trip for the first time.
Half an hour earlier, what a delight it was too to see NEMORALIA back in the winner’s enclosure. If ever there was a Group One heroine in waiting, Jeremy Noseda’s filly is it.
THREE TO FOLLOW: Rivet, Via Serendipity, Another Touch.
DAY FOUR (SATURDAY)
Contrary to public myth, most of Irish handler Tony Martin’s UK plots and raids do NOT succeed. But this one did, with knobs on, as 5lb claimer Adam McNamara was showered with glowing praise for steering home HEARTBREAK CITY in the Ebor.
The 6yo dual-purpose gelding had to share the limelight, however, with Gimcrack winner BLUE POINT, who laughed at criticism of his defeat at Goodwood. Yes, he’d been a beaten odds-on shot on the Downs, but only in a massive step-up in class against the best UK-trained juvenile seen so far this season, MEHMAS.
THREE TO FOLLOW: a real shame that Sandown’s Solario day clashed with York. Hope that, as a result, you didn’t miss the eyecatching runs of Persuasive, South Seas and Cartmell Cleave.
Skelton’s gold medal caps the most colourful of life-stories
All kinds of sports received a boost via Team GB’s record-breaking heroics at the Rio Olympics. And thankfully, racing didn’t miss out, courtesy of Nick Skelton, father of Jumps trainer Dan and jockey Harry, who strode to a glorious gold medal. As a youngster in the mid-1970s and early 1980s, I remember watching Skelton as a rookie rider, under the wing of Ted Edgar, when showjumping was shown on primetime TV by the BBC. His tear-jerking achievement in Brazil, made all the more remarkable by his well-documented broken neck and hip replacement, caps the most colourful of life-stories both on and off horseback. I loved how he deflected credit to his admirable mount, the 13-year-old Big Star. But I will love even more the updated version of his superb autobiography, ‘Only Falls And Horses’.
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[] | 2016-08-30T06:47:26 | null | 2016-08-30T07:04:49 | Farmers across the region have been given some positive news following the huge amount of uncertainty and worry in the farming industry after the UK decided to leave the EU. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.driffieldtoday.co.uk%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Ffarmers-reassured-with-eu-funds-pledge-1-8077988.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.driffieldtoday.co.uk/webimage/1.8077986.1471597694!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Farmers reassured with EU funds pledge | null | null | www.driffieldtoday.co.uk | Farmers across the region have been given some positive news following the huge amount of uncertainty and worry in the farming industry after the UK decided to leave the EU.
Since the decision to Brexit, European funding schemes that UK farm businesses heavily rely on have been in jeopardy with farmers not knowing whether they’ll still receive the much needed financial support or not.
In a big step forward, the Treasury has announced that it will guarantee EU funded subsidies, grants and projects until the end of 2020 – a move welcomed by Yorkshire farmers and those across the region’s agricultural sector.
Talking about the Government’s pledge, Robyn Peat, managing partner at land, property and business consultancy George F White, said: “Many of our clients are farmers or those who own and manage farm businesses, and funding security has caused them a great deal of worry as we have simply not known what will happen with the funding provided by Europe’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), which is absolutely vital to the lifeblood and longevity of our farmers.
“The news comes at a time when the region’s farmers really needed some kind of stability and calm, even if it’s only a short-term solution to a long-term issue – the funding structure for UK farmers in a post-EU UK.
“We hope the Government continues to address the much needed support that our farmers need and, as work gets underway to figure out how a UK farming economy will work outside Europe, it’s vital that plans are put in place to protect our farmers and set out guarantees for not only their short-term but long-term future too.” | http://www.driffieldtoday.co.uk/news/local/farmers-reassured-with-eu-funds-pledge-1-8077988 | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.driffieldtoday.co.uk/e0e4232c31e79ea9793c5008d81e2e94b37af74ff12abc528d9a2cecbce572d9.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T12:56:56 | null | 2016-08-24T10:07:26 | The NFU’s largest ever consultation with farmers across Yorkshire and the North East will get underway today following the nation’s decision to leave the European Union. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.driffieldtoday.co.uk%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Fnfu-starts-consultation-over-brexit-vote-1-8077989.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.driffieldtoday.co.uk/webimage/1.8077987.1471597698!/image/image.jpg | en | null | NFU starts consultation over Brexit vote | null | null | www.driffieldtoday.co.uk | The NFU’s largest ever consultation with farmers across Yorkshire and the North East will get underway today following the nation’s decision to leave the European Union.
Describing the challenge as a ‘once in a lifetime’ debate, NFU regional director for the North East Adam Bedford, said it was vital to reach farmers wherever they are and whatever they produce.
The meetings are held on: Thursday 25 August - At Burstwick Country Golf Club, Ellifoot Lane, Burstwick at 8am and Askham Bryan College, Askham Bryan, York, at 7pm.
Friday 26 August - At Bishop Burton College at 8am and The Forest and Vale, Malton Road, Pickering at 1pm. | http://www.driffieldtoday.co.uk/news/local/nfu-starts-consultation-over-brexit-vote-1-8077989 | en | 2016-08-24T00:00:00 | www.driffieldtoday.co.uk/1ba8840d2de06be3e8e97b8ae65bdf2b164c86ffba4026cf64708e7556ba75d3.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T12:58:34 | null | 2016-08-26T10:50:40 | This photograph, taken from the Driffield Times and Post archives, shows New Wave Pop Singers and Theatre Group’s Sue Waldron with 2nd Driffield Blue Beavers in 2008. Do you know anyone in the photograph or why the beavers appeared in the newspaper? | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.driffieldtoday.co.uk%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Fdown-memory-lane-picture-of-the-week-1-8086634.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.driffieldtoday.co.uk/webimage/1.8086633.1472053877!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Down Memory Lane - Picture of the Week | null | null | www.driffieldtoday.co.uk | Email verification
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[] | 2016-08-28T16:48:10 | null | 2016-08-28T17:10:22 | Yorkshire take on Surrey in the semi-final of the Royal London One Day Cup at Headingley. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.driffieldtoday.co.uk%2Fsport%2Flocal-sport%2Flive-royal-london-cup-yorkshire-v-surrey-middle-order-collapse-leaves-yorkshire-facing-uphill-battle-in-bid-for-lord-s-final-1-8093417.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.driffieldtoday.co.uk/webimage/1.8093414.1472400968!/image/image.jpg | en | null | LIVE - Royal London Cup: Yorkshire v Surrey - Middle order collapse leaves Yorkshire facing uphill battle in bid for Lord’s final | null | null | www.driffieldtoday.co.uk | Yorkshire take on Surrey in the semi-final of the Royal London One Day Cup at Headingley.
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Yorkshire's Tim Bresnan (second left) is congratulated by Jack Brooks (second right) and Jonny Bairstow (right) after taking the wicket of Surrey's Kumar Sangakkara. Picture by Alex Whitehead/SWpix.com
44 overs: Yorkshire 202-6 - Bresnan 47 no; Rhodes 21 no - 54 needed off 36 balls
43 overs: Yorkshire 193-6 - Bresnan 44 no; Rhodes 15 no - 63 off 41 needed
42 overs: Yorkshire 188-6 - Bresnan 42 no; Rhodes 12 no- 68 needed off 48 balls
41 overs: Yorkshire 179-6 - Bresnan 37 no; Rhodes 10 no - 77 needed
40 overs: Yorkshire 173-6 - Bresnan 36 no; Rhodes 4no - 83 runs needed
37.1 overs: Waite out for an 38 off 60 balls - caught by Gareth Batty off the bowling of Sam Curran. Yorkshire up against it now.
THE loss of three quick wickets saw Yorkshire up against it as they took on Surrey at Headingley in the semi-final of the Royal London One Day Cup.
After restricting the visitors to 255-7 from their 50 overs – Matthew Waite leading the way with 3-48 – Yorkshire found themselves in a decent position at 75-2.
But, in the 19th over, Jonny Bairstow - cleared to play in the game by England - was caught by Dominic Sibley for 13 off the bowling of Stuart Meaker.
Just ten balls later, Bairstow’s England colleague, Gary Ballance, followed him back to the pavillion when he was caught behind by Ben Foakes for 32, handing Meaker his second victim.
Four balls later, the hosts were reeling when Jack Leaning chopped onto his stumps having scored just three.
Tim Bresnan was then joined by 20-year-old Waite with the score at 81.
The pair then batted sensibly to take their team’s score to 150-5 with 15 overs remaining.
Earlier, Steven Davies was the star of the show for the visitors, scoring a well-paced 104 off 143 balls with 10 fours and a six before becoming one of Waites’s three victims when he was caught by Will Rhodes.
Most of the damage was done in a fourth-wicket partnership between Davies and Foakes (90), the par putting on 130 before Davies exited in the 38th over.
Kumar Sangakkara, often seen as Surrey’s biggest threat, was sent on his way for just 4 when Azeem Rafiq took a catch off the bowling of Bresnan.
At the start of Yorkshire’s reply, Adam Lyth was dismissed at the start of the third overwhen caught by Sibley off the bowling of J\ake Dernbach.
Alex Lees put on 44 with Gary Ballance before shouldering arms to one off former Yorkshire player Gareth Batty that clean bowled him for 26. | http://www.driffieldtoday.co.uk/sport/local-sport/live-royal-london-cup-yorkshire-v-surrey-middle-order-collapse-leaves-yorkshire-facing-uphill-battle-in-bid-for-lord-s-final-1-8093417 | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.driffieldtoday.co.uk/7c3739943f95f81bb9d77ad0c763a8af7630173c77bd5f4963f7cfc118dee157.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:02:36 | null | 2016-08-18T15:16:58 | Dairy farmers’ net profits fell by around 25% in the year to March 2016, and could fall further this year, according to farm accountant Old Mill. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.driffieldtoday.co.uk%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Fdairy-farmers-profit-alert-after-volatility-1-8061195.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.driffieldtoday.co.uk/webimage/1.8061193.1470838679!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Dairy farmers’ profit alert after volatility | null | null | www.driffieldtoday.co.uk | Dairy farmers’ net profits fell by around 25% in the year to March 2016, and could fall further this year, according to farm accountant Old Mill.
Non-aligned milk prices dropped by around 4-6p/litre over the year, compared with 2014/15, meaning profits typically fell by more than 25%, says head of rural services Andrew Vickery.
He said: “However, profits have been extremely volatile and some producers will have suffered far greater losses.”
Supermarket-aligned suppliers fared rather better, with price cuts of between 1p and 4p/litre.
Even so, the average price on some supermarket- aligned contracts fell by more than the cost of production.
Mr Vickery added: “As a result, almost all producers – whoever they supply – have endured a large hole in profits and a steep drop in turnover, which in many cases has translated into serious cash flow problems.”
Although there are signs of an uplift in milk price, producers should not expect a rapid improvement in profitability in 2016/17, warns Mr Vickery. “At the start of the 2015/16 milk year prices were in the high 20s – even if they improve by 4p/litre the 2016/17 average may not look any better.
“And while cereal feed prices remain low, the weaker pound is making imports; particularly of proteins like soya, more expensive.”
That said, it’s not all doom and gloom. “Many people have survived the troughs and will come out with a leaner, more efficient business that will make good profits in the future,” Mr Vickery said.
“There has been a lot of belt-tightening, and the key is not to let costs of production rise again as the milk price improves.” | http://www.driffieldtoday.co.uk/news/local/dairy-farmers-profit-alert-after-volatility-1-8061195 | en | 2016-08-18T00:00:00 | www.driffieldtoday.co.uk/5bbd14e3c16b68ab538a019c45b28a1e082efc7bc64b8bb1d42f6fbf6ee2637e.json |
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David Willey pinned James Tredwell lbw for 17 with the fifth ball of the 48th over to complete a game which had ebbed and flowed to the delight of a near-capacity crowd of almost 6,000.
Adam Lyth top-scored with 88 from 96 balls, hitting a six and eight fours, as Yorkshire reached 256 for 9 from their 50 overs after being asked to bat.
Matt Coles took 3 for 39 from his ten overs for Kent and Charlie Hartley, a 22-year-old seamer playing in only his third List A game, dismissed both Joe Root, for 45, and Jonny Bairstow in his ten-over stint of 2 for 42.
Hartley, coming in at No 10, then almost took Kent home, scoring 15 in a nail-biting ninth wicket stand of 29 in 6.2 overs with Tredwell before being lbw to Adil Rashid’s googly to the last ball of the 47th over as Kent eventually could make just 245 in reply.
Kent initially slipped to 66 for 4 with Daniel Bell-Drummond, Sam Northeast and Sam Billings all out cheaply, but Darren Stevens and Alex Blake revived them with a fifth wicket stand of 86 in 13 overs.
Kent's Will Gidman celebrates taking the wicket of Yorkshire's Tim Bresnan (PA)
Blake made 50 and Stevens 54 and, when they fell to Willey and Liam Plunkett respectively, it was left to Kent’s lower order to try to get them over the line. Despite their best efforts, they could not quite do it, with Plunkett finishing with 4 for 52 and Rashid bowling some crucial overs at the death.
Blake played brilliantly for 50 from 38 balls, hitting off spinner Azeem Rafiq on to the roof of the Underwood and Knott Stand for six and also including seven fours in a counter-attacking knock that shook Yorkshire’s international-class bowling attack.
Willey, however, cleverly decided to test the 27-year-old with a succession of short balls, one of which hit Blake a nasty blow on the chin, and won the duel when the left-hander flapped at another bouncer and edged through to the keeper.
Stevens, in his benefit year, also batted with great spirit in his 500th match for Kent in all formats – and 742nd in senior cricket overall – but the home challenge faded when he fell to a magnificent one-handed caught-and-bowled by Plunkett, flinging himself to his left.
Yorkshire's David Willey celebrates taking the wicket of Kent's Alex Blake. Picture: Adam Davy/PA.
Will Gidman managed 19, uppercutting Plunkett for six, before giving the same bowler another return catch and Coles, who briefly raised Kent hopes again with a four and two sixes smeared over the legside ropes off Rafiq, was stumped by Bairstow off Adil Rashid’s googly for a quickfire 22.
Willey had earlier pinned Bell-Drummond leg-before for 2 with the last ball of the second over, an inswinging yorker that hit the batsman on the boot, and Kent lost two more top order wickets in successive overs when Northeast chipped Plunkett to short mid wicket on 23 and Billings was beaten by a Steven Patterson off-cutter and lbw for one to his fourth ball.
At least Northeast had helped Joe Denly to add 50 in 9.4 overs for the second wicket, swinging Tim Bresnan’s medium pace into the adjoining building site for six in the process, while Denly drove Patterson for a maximum over long on and had also hit four fours in a 45-ball 31 when he top-edged an attempted swivel-pull at Plunkett and skied to mid on.
Lyth sprang from the traps in the early overs, thumping Mitch Claydon through the covers for four and then hammering a length ball straight for six. Alex Lees, his opening partner, also lofted Claydon for four but, from the next ball, he pulled to deep square leg to depart for 7 and leave Yorkshire 27 for 1 after five overs.
Root then joined Lyth in a stand of 90 in 18 overs that oozed quality, but just when it seemed the England No 3 was moving up the gears he was gone, for 45 from 55 balls with only three fours, brilliantly held on the deep mid wicket ropes by Blake who sprinted to his left and leapt to hold a flat pull and give Hartley the first success of a day to remember.
Bairstow, after one sublime push-drive for four wide of mid on off Hartley, then fell for 7 as he mis-hit to Bell-Drummond at a deepish mid on to give the young seamer his second high-profile scalp.
redwell bowled a typically steady ten-over stint of off spin, though without success, and the return of Coles for the 34th over brought immediate reward when left-hander Lyth was beaten by a fine ball angled across him down the slope which he thin-edged to keeper Billings.
Bresnan and Willey were then removed in the same over, the 39th, by Will Gidman as Kent – who had bowled with discipline and fielded like tigers – began to sense Yorkshire’s unease and turn the screw.
Bresnan, having laboured to 10, scooped tamely to short extra cover and Willey flicked at a legside delivery and was smartly caught by Billings, moving to his right.
Hartley returned to finish his 10-over allocation, almost having Plunkett caught and bowled and then hitting the England one-day international on the grille of his helmet as he tried to pull a short ball that stuck in the pitch. Gidman, meanwhile, beat Ballance with successive deliveries that seamed away from him.
It was no surprise when Plunkett, who could not get going, skied Coles to Northeast at extra cover for 16 from 21 balls, leaving Ballance and Rashid to collect what runs they could from the closing overs.
Ballance, having struggled to 37 from 55 balls, was run out when Rashid turned down a third run and he could not get back to the bowler’s end and Coles pegged back Rafiq’s off stump for 1 to take his competition wicket tally to 24 at 17.41 runs apiece.
A straight four and pulled six by Rashid off Claydon in the final over took Yorkshire beyond 250 but they had looked certain to total nearer 300 when Lyth and Root were together. | http://www.driffieldtoday.co.uk/sport/local-sport/yorkshire-survive-kent-scare-to-set-up-royal-london-semi-final-date-with-surrey-1-8077413 | en | 2016-08-18T00:00:00 | www.driffieldtoday.co.uk/050b93e519d953fa3fe37c7630975faa8b4e7d5f75773ba4d387a0418758115d.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T12:54:39 | null | 2016-08-26T07:22:43 | As of last weekend, en estimated 100,000 hectares worth of cereals and oilseeds had been harvested across the UK following a week of mainly dry and bright weather. Since then however, little progress has been made although things do look slightly more promising for the upcoming Bank Holiday weekend. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.driffieldtoday.co.uk%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Fthe-grain-column-with-emma-croft-1-8083989.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.driffieldtoday.co.uk/webimage/1.8083988.1471955015!/image/image.jpg | en | null | The Grain Column with Emma Croft | null | null | www.driffieldtoday.co.uk | As of last weekend, en estimated 100,000 hectares worth of cereals and oilseeds had been harvested across the UK following a week of mainly dry and bright weather. Since then however, little progress has been made although things do look slightly more promising for the upcoming Bank Holiday weekend.
According to the HGCA, ‘wheat was the main beneficiary of the recent good weather as it coincided nicely with crops reaching maturity’. They also estimate that around 45% of this year’s winter wheat crop is now safely in the shed. Locally, this figure is a little optimistic; I would estimate that around 25% has now been harvested.
Nationally, early yields have been in line with the five year average although there are some significant regional variations at this stage. Locally, yields are mixed but the majority of samples I have seen have achieved at least the five year average although many are struggling to see a repeat performance of last year.
Prices have been volatile over the last week or so and the London LIFFE wheat future trade screen appears to be fluctuating once again in accordance with the euro/pound /dollar exchange rates. Generally speaking, the value of the pound has strengthened over the last few days, hence the decline in new crop wheat values.
Elsewhere, concerns regarding both the quality / quantity of this year’s French and German wheat crops have continued.
German wheat output is now estimated in the region of 24 million tonnes – this is a 1.2 million reduction on the initial pre-harvest estimates and if realised, it would be the smallest crop seen for four years.
Over in France (Europe’s leading wheat exporter), exports of soft milling wheat to non-European countries are expected to fall by as much as 60% this season according to various French shipping companies.
However, the above is doing little to influence the market at the moment as market attention remains focused on the Black Sea wheat harvests.
This year’s Ukrainian wheat harvest is almost complete and according to the local authorities there, average yields are in the region of 4.28 tonnes per hectare, a slight increase on the 3.94 tonnes per hectare achieved last year. Elsewhere, Russia’s wheat harvest remains on track as a record breaker and local authorities there have this week updated their estimate to 69.5 million tonnes – this is slightly behind the 72 million tonnes estimated by the USDA in this month’s WASDE, but either figure would be a record for the country.
However, both storage and cash flow issues are a problem in Russia and this season’s wheat export campaign is expected to take off with a flying start; they could be fierce competition within the global market place until at least the New Year. | http://www.driffieldtoday.co.uk/news/local/the-grain-column-with-emma-croft-1-8083989 | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.driffieldtoday.co.uk/49b63888c4e722285ed9af7c2ac56213e510086a112aae425e80d90292d1e21d.json |
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] | 2016-08-27T22:47:55 | null | 2016-08-27T22:36:55 | Staithes retained the Readers Scarborough Beckett Cricket League Premier Division title after their game at rivals Staxton was rained off. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.driffieldtoday.co.uk%2Fsport%2Flocal-sport%2Fstaithes-claim-title-as-rain-wrecks-beckett-league-programme-1-8092802.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.driffieldtoday.co.uk/webimage/1.8092801.1472333936!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Staithes claim title as rain wrecks Beckett League programme | null | null | www.driffieldtoday.co.uk | Staithes retained the Readers Scarborough Beckett Cricket League Premier Division title after their game at rivals Staxton was rained off.
The visitors were 17-0 when the heavens opened at Staxton, and the five points apiece meant that Staithes secured the title with a week to spare.
Relegated Mulgrave were 88-5 at home to Heslerton when the elements terminated play, Chris Raine aptly shining for the hosts with an unbeaten 34.
Ebberston were frustrated by the weather as they had reduced Cayton to 14-3 when rain stopped play Frankie Beal bagging 2-4, Ebberston will now need to win at home to Filey in their final game of the season, and hope that third-from-bottom Flixton 2nds slip up at home to Scalby.
Scalby were 67-0 before rain stopped play at Carr Lane against Filey, openers Ryan Labuschagne hitting 40 not out and Joe Hills 26 not out.
Hosts Nawton Grange reached 93-5 before the showers halted the action at home to Forge Valley, Charlie Allott hitting 27 and Charles Tindall grabbing three wickets.
Cloughton confirmed their return to the Premier Division after their game at home to Staxton 2nds also ended in a rain-affected draw, the visitors making 55-4 before rain brought play to a close
Pete Milner capped a cracking season for the hosts, taking 3-23.
The only game completed in this division saw Brompton ease to a seven-wicket home win against Cayton 2nds, who were relegated by this result.
Jes Riley hit 28 and Simon Stubbs 21 as the visitors were limited to 128-8, Kit McCrystal and James Allison taking 3-40 and 3-38 respectively.
Fine knocks from Mark Bruce (57no) and Tom Pateman (47no) wrapped up the win and condemned Cayton to the drop.
Wold Newton escaped the drop after their game at Wykeham was rained off with the visitors in control of proceedings.
A superb 59 from Charles Gray helped Wold Newton post 167-7.
Gray then turned in a fine spell of 4-22 to leave the hosts struggling on 89-5 when rain stopped play, the visitors having earned enough points to stay in the first division.
Champions Settrington were handed the 20 points as visitors Grindale conceded, Sherburn also being handed the points by their scheduled visitors Thornton Dale.
Bridlington 2nds wrapped up the Division Two title despite being robbed of a derby victory at home to Sewerby 2nds by the wet weather.
The visitors posted 144-9 from their 42 overs, P Davies top-scoring with 59 and P Hanson adding 38.
Brid looked nailed on to secure victory in reply after Andy Clay had smacked 61 and Elliott Traves 46 not out as the hosts raced to 119-1 from just 22 overs before rain halted the game.
Great Habton secured promotion as runners-up as they had Forge Valley at 32-2 when rain stopped play, rivals Fylingdales only making 106-6 at Ravenscar before the elements took over.
Mark Estill hit 23 for Dales and Guy Shrimpton was unbeaten on 23, while John Nelson bagged 2-26 before the close of play..
Scarborough 3rds' relegation was confirmed as they only made 40-1 from the nine overs possible in their home game with rivals Scalby 2nds.
Wykeham 2nds won the race to claim the second promotion slot in Division Three with points earned before their match at rivals Flamborough was also scuppered by the inclement weather.
The away side dismissed Flamborough for 106, Andy Dixon and Harry Burton hitting 31 apiece, Steve Day taking a superb 5-14.
Burton's 3-24 had the villagers struggling at 55-4 when rain stopped play, Ian Johnson top-scoring with 26.
Seamer 2nds' hopes of stepping up were dashed when their home game against Flixton 3rds was washed out after only 7.3 overs with the visitors on 20-1.
Ryedale looked set to close in on victory on 88-4 chasing 130 to win at Muston when the weather halted their progress.
Veteran Dave Meer smashed a superb 50 and youngster Max Truelove 29 as the hosts posted 129-9, the Pickering side halted with the game well-poised after 20 overs of their run-chase.
Division Four champions Snainton capped a dominant season with a four-wicket home win against Sherburn 2nds despite an excellent 88 not out from Dan Simpson.
The latter took the away side to 166-9, but Michael Kipling smashed a powerful 68 and Liam Cooper as Snainton wrapped up the win.
Cayton 3rds finished their season with a tense 11-run win at Filey 2nds
The visitors were dismissed for 117, Nick Hodgson hitting 38 for the villagers.
Mike Johnson's 64 not out gave Filey a great chance but top bowling from J Smith (4-20) saw them finish short on 106 all out.
Lockton finished bottom of the table after conceding to Wold Newton 2nds. | http://www.driffieldtoday.co.uk/sport/local-sport/staithes-claim-title-as-rain-wrecks-beckett-league-programme-1-8092802 | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.driffieldtoday.co.uk/812d4dc7889dd2533882786836ace9aaf37ad21f2b261f7ed560637dd464e193.json |
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Yorkshire have been there only once, but this will be Willey’s fourth appearance, having made it three times with previous club Northants.
In 2009, Willey was part of the side that lost by seven wickets to Sussex in the semi-final.
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He was just 19 years old and had an unremarkable match; he did not bat as Northants totalled 136-6, and then he bowled two wicketless overs for 16 runs.
In 2013, Willey had the antithesis of an unremarkable match when Northants beat Surrey by 102 runs in the final.
He opened the batting and scored 60 from 27 balls with six fours and four sixes, and then he took 4-9 from 2.3 overs, finishing the match with a hat-trick when he dismissed Zafar Ansari, Jon Lewis and Chris Tremlett.
Willey was on the losing side last year when Lancashire beat Northants in the final by 13 runs.
He took 2-21 from four overs as Lancs scored 166-7, and then he hit 24 from 21 balls as Northants replied with 153-6.
As no other Yorkshire player has been to Finals Day more than once, his experience will be invaluable as Yorkshire seek to win the competition for the first time.
“I guess so,” said Willey, who left Wantage Road for Headingley during the close season.
“My primary role with regards to the move to Yorkshire was to try and help improve the club’s one-day cricket, and, hopefully, we are starting to make improvements.
“There will be expectation on me to perform (at Finals Day), but that’s the case with any one-day game.
“It’s a big day out and a great day out, particularly if you’re part of the team that lifts the trophy.”
Willey, one of four Yorkshire players who appeared in the World T20 final against the West Indies in April, along with Joe Root, Liam Plunkett and Adil Rashid, has made a habit of performing on the big stage.
He did it again when helping Yorkshire book their place at Edgbaston with a 90-run win over Glamorgan in the quarter-final in Cardiff, thumping 79 from 38 balls with seven fours and six sixes.
“I like to perform on the big occasions,” he said.
“Against Glamorgan, I didn’t really have a plan; I just tried to give myself a chance to clear the ropes, and a couple of loose deliveries gave me a platform.
“We’re all looking forward to Finals Day, and fingers-crossed we can win a couple more games and get the trophy.
“We’ve got all our England lads back, which will make it a massive headache for the coaches to pick 11 players.”
The man with the headache is first-team coach Jason Gillespie, who has an embarrassment of riches at his disposal.
But you can bet that one of the first names on his team sheet will be Willey, who has a proven record for lighting up Finals Day.
“Dave’s the type of player who can change a game,” said Gillespie, whose side take on Durham in the second semi-final, with the winner playing Northants or Notts in the final.
“We’ve seen what he’s done for Northants in the past, and he can pick up wickets early and swing the ball, score quick runs and he’s always in the game.
“That’s what I really like about him, and he’s brought a lot to our team.
“We’re delighted to have him because he’s such a positive guy, happy to challenge his team-mates – which is really healthy – and very competitive, too.”
Willey’s all-round ability gives Gillespie flexibility.
He is effectively three players in one – good with the bat, ball and in the field.
“To have someone who’s great in the field, who whacks them like he does, and who opens the bowling gives us so many extra options,” said Gillespie.
“It allows us to play an extra batsman as well.
“The start he gives us with the bat is fantastic, and it’s something we probably haven’t had in T20 for a while.
“It showed with his performance at Cardiff, when people could see why we were so keen to secure his services.”
Gillespie encourages all of his players to speak in the dressing room and Willey will address the team prior to Finals Day.
Yorkshire are keen to tap into his knowledge and know-how in an effort to gain an extra edge.
“Some of our lads haven’t been to Finals Day before, and it will be good to get Dave’s thoughts in the team meeting,” said Gillespie.
“His knowledge of it will be important, and something that we can draw on, and Dave’s the type of player who steps up when needed, and hopefully he can show everyone how good he is again.
“We’ve got a lot of match-winners in our side, and it’s going to be fantastic
“There was a lot of drive and ambition from everyone at the club to get this far in the competition after everyone had written us off – that was a really good motivating tool for us – and we’re just pleased as punch to be in with a shout.”
Ben Duckett hopes Northants can sneak under the radar again, having been part of the Steelbacks side which defied the odds to win the tournament in 2013 and fell at the final hurdle against Lancashire 12 months ago.
Northants face Notts Outlaws in the first semi-final today and are the only side involved in Finals Day who have previously won the competition.
Left-hander Duckett says confidence will be high despite their lack of high-profile players.
“We haven’t got any international stars. Finals Day will be interesting to see who is talked about – Yorkshire,” said the 21-year-old Duckett.
“We just keep going under the radar but smost of our guys love the pressure. We just go out and enjoy ourselves.” | http://www.driffieldtoday.co.uk/sport/local-sport/t20-finals-day-david-willey-is-aiming-to-give-yorkshire-the-edge-1-8079713 | en | 2016-08-20T00:00:00 | www.driffieldtoday.co.uk/7d19f04095827f65f02293ab9b997eeb2ee742fc1f8743cc1967b706b1b0614f.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:05:21 | null | 2016-08-21T10:12:51 | Down through the ages many a person has put pen or quill to paper or parchment to write about friends and friendship. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.driffieldtoday.co.uk%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Fthe-church-column-with-rev-andrew-ison-1-8063357.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.driffieldtoday.co.uk/webimage/1.8063356.1470910369!/image/image.jpg | en | null | The church column with Rev Andrew Ison | null | null | www.driffieldtoday.co.uk | Down through the ages many a person has put pen or quill to paper or parchment to write about friends and friendship.
A recurring theme in all that is written is that true friends are those who can be relied on at difficult times.
Marlene Dietrich said: “It’s the friends you can count on at 4am that matter.”
True friendship is characterised by selflessness – a willingness to put one’s friends first.
Aristotle said that: “My best friend is the man who, in wishing me well, wishes it for my sake.”
I never knew the man (possibly because he died in 1737) but one Eustace Budgell gave us a succinct definition of friendship: “Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.”
And another author offered some sound advice about how to make friends, he said: “You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.” Sound advice!
Walk into any gift shop and you will find friendship bracelets and mugs and no doubt dozens of fridge magnets about friendship.
Many of them, though a bit trite and sentimental, make a lot of sense: Friends: much cheaper than a psychiatrist; Friends are for life, and life is for friends; Best friends are the people who make you laugh a bit louder, smile a bit brighter and live a bit better. Some may seem a bit dubious on the selflessness stakes such as: There is nothing better than a good friend – except a good friend with chocolate. Either way, there is clearly a market for them.
The number and variety of friendship mementoes expresses just how central friendship is to our lives, and how important good friends are to our sense of who we are.
Friendship provides an opportunity to: share and develop interests, have fun and talk and work through problems.
Our good friends know our faults and still love us; they remember important things about us: our likes, dislikes, birthdays, anniversaries etc. and they are particular and specific in their knowledge about us, they want to spend time with us, they want to go that extra mile to help us out and they care about us and are concerned we do the right thing.
We form friendships in all sorts of settings – work places, school playgrounds, clubs etc. but the best friend you could ever have is Jesus, the Son of God who laid down his life for his friends, you and me.
Jesus is the best friend you can ever have because he wants the best for us, he loves us, he can set us free from anything that has a hold over us and he offers us eternal life.
These messages you may not find on a fridge magnet in a gift shop but they are more valuable than anything. | http://www.driffieldtoday.co.uk/news/local/the-church-column-with-rev-andrew-ison-1-8063357 | en | 2016-08-21T00:00:00 | www.driffieldtoday.co.uk/a89b9917ce04c533d790d6711a4e4f5c40b630befec5596f76f2e4356dceedb3.json |
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] | 2016-08-27T10:45:56 | null | 2016-08-27T10:55:30 | Yiorkshire | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.driffieldtoday.co.uk%2Fwhat-s-on%2Fleeds-festival-the-sherlocks-rock-reading-ahead-of-yorkshire-homecoming-1-8092224.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.driffieldtoday.co.uk/webimage/1.8092222.1472291816!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Leeds Festival: The Sherlocks rock Reading ahead of Yorkshire homecoming | null | null | www.driffieldtoday.co.uk | Yiorkshire's latest Radio 1 stars The Sherlocks proved a big hit at Reading Festival last night and are now heading home to do it all again - today they play Leeds Festival.
They top along list of big name local breaking local bands - including The Wired, Fighting Caravans and Faux Pas - who are being showcased at Leeds.
Local talent is joining the the likes of Biffy Clyro and Fall Out Boy - who played Leeds last night - Foals and Disclosure, who perform tonight, and Red Hot Chili Peppers who will close Leeds Festival this Bank Holiday weekend.
For more about Leeds Festival and tickets availability visit www.leedsfestival.com
The Sherlocks, singer songwriter Kiaran Crook, 20, brother and drummer Brandon, 23, guitarist Josh Davidson, 22, and his brother and bassist Andy, 17, recently played the biggest music festival in the world, the SXSW music festival in Austin, Texas.
But this is the biggest showcase weekend for the Bolton Upon Dearne indie quartet who have over 700 gigs to their name and have also just completed their first UK headline tour, selling out venues around the country, with their latest single Last Night getting lots of Radio 1 airplay.
Last year Kiaran, Brandon, Josh and Andy drew a huge number of fans before Sunday lunchtime at Reading, but a coveted evening slot on this year’s popular Festival Republic stage meant the crowds in the south were even bigger.
On a scorching summer evening the temperature in Berkshire was almost as high as the anticipation for the band of brothers’ 30 minute seven song set.
At exactly 5.45pm the lads, playing it cool as always, bounded on stage to kick off with single Last Night followed by favourites Escapade and Heart of Gold.
They continued with epic new song Candle Light, Live for the Moment and finished with Chasing Shadows as two giant beach balls flew back and forth across the arena.
Will You Be There?, which had one of its first plays at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, was another soaring highlight.
The huge Reading turn out for Yorkshire's latest Radio 1 stars The Sherlocks
Almost all the sides to the huge festival tent were drawn back meaning the Sherlocks’ sound carried beyond the tent poles. More and more joined the audience as the gig went on and by the end of the set the place was rammed.
“That was astonishing” frontman Kiaran told us as he came off stage.
“Last year was truly memorable, but this year Reading has taken it to another level. We’re seeing crowd reactions we'd only ever seen in the north before.
“We love it down here and now we're buzzing even more for Leeds.”
* The Sherlocks play The Festival Republic stage at Leeds Festival 5:45pm, Saturday August 27 and tour nationwide in September. More at thesherlocksmusic.co.uk. | http://www.driffieldtoday.co.uk/what-s-on/leeds-festival-the-sherlocks-rock-reading-ahead-of-yorkshire-homecoming-1-8092224 | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.driffieldtoday.co.uk/35a81243452d87e558032af87234dfeb9628722ffbe53ece59a8522bc5c7019c.json |
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