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NEW BERN — A former guard and former inmate are going back to prison for their roles in a contraband smuggling operation at Rivers Correctional Institution, a privately-run federal prison in Winton.
Former correctional officer Raye Lynn Holley, 50, and Kenneth Dodd, 33, a former inmate, were sentenced Thursday in federal court. Dodd was sentenced to 3 years, one month in prison, while Holley, the guard, faces one year, eight months.
Dodd was one of the inmates who paid Holley and other officers to smuggle cell phones, cigarettes and other contraband into the prison, according to an investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice, the Office of Inspector General and the Federal Bureau of Investigation with help from the U.S. Postal Inspection Service.
Dodds sentence was the longest term in a case that earlier this year yielded convictions for another officer and inmate. Former inmate Roland Bazemore was sentenced to two years, six months, and former guard Rhonda Boyd to one year, eight months earlier this year.
A third officer, Rashonda Cross, has pleaded guilty to conspiring to accept bribes; she is scheduled to be sentenced in December.


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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) - Toe-licking could become a criminal offense in the Netherlands after a man who licked the toes of several women was released by police without charges.
The toe-licker, whose name was not released, was arrested in Rotterdam earlier this week after a woman who had been sunbathing said he unexpectedly licked her bare foot.
Other women had also complained, and the 35-year-old man has reportedly been pursuing his fetish for years, but prosecutors in Rotterdam said they are powerless to stop him.
``A lick over the foot doesn't qualify as a crime: there has to be some kind of objective sex act committed,'' said prosecution spokesman Cees van Spierenburg in the Rotterdam Daily newspaper. ``That's the way the law is.''
Lawmakers Peter van Heemst and Aleid Wolfsen, members of the leading opposition Labor Party, asked Justice Minister Piet Hein Donner in a formal complaint to change the law.
``How can you explain that we can prosecute someone for throwing a cigarette butt or soda can on the ground, but not for this kind of misbehavior?'' the men wrote.
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- Put out your Hot Spots for two minutes
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June 27, 2005
Despite a lack of rain, water restrictions are not yet a major concern for our area. In a Rivanna Water and Sewer meeting today, officials say stream flows are enough to keep reservoirs full.
However, they also add that water levels are still below average for this time of year. Even though there are no restrictions in place yet, officials are encouraging residents to practice water conservation.


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As missing woman's birthday nears, prayers continue
- Last Updated on 07:46 AM 09/18/13
- BY Paula I. Bryant
Hattie Gertrude Brown would turn 53 Saturday.
This year her family plans to remember their loved one on her birthday with little public attention, but they are asking for continued prayers from the community.
Brown has been missing for more than four years since she disappeared without a trace in the early morning hours of Saturday, May 16, 2009.
The charred remains of her 2003 Volkswagen Jetta were found on a Virgilina farm later that summer.
Brown was 48 at the time of her disappearance.
Still, her family says they have not given up hope.
"It's been long and painful, but we're hanging in there, keeping the faith and taking one day at a time," said Hattie's older sister, Diane Brown.
"We're still hoping, even though it's been four years, that someone will come forward with information," she added. "It's really hard for us to believe she has been gone that long."
More than four years have passed since the family last spoke with Hattie, and her siblings continue to miss her.
Following her disappearance back in May, 2009, there had been no trace of the missing woman or her car until Tuesday, July 7, 2009, when a farmer cutting hay discovered the charred remains of the Volkswagen Jetta on farmland near Virgilina.
The farmer was working on his property in the southeastern corner of Halifax County when he came upon an abandoned vehicle behind an old barn. The vehicle had been completely destroyed by fire.
Special Agent Troy LaRue of the Virginia State Police said the farmer found the burned-out Volkswagen and told his son. They contacted the Halifax County Sheriff's Office who then contacted Agent LaRue and the Appomattox Division Office of the state police.
It appeared the car was burned at the site where it was found and had been at the site for some time.
State police, the sheriff's office personnel and South Boston Police have been searching for Hattie Brown and her vehicle since they were last seen May 16, 2009 at a Sheetz gas station at the intersection of Route 501 and Route 58 in Riverdale.
A video camera captured the woman and her car at the gas station at approximately 2:33 a.m. Investigators found that she was accompanied at the gas station by her nephew, who law enforcement officers at that time described as a "person of interest" in the case.
Since her disappearance more than four years ago, Brown's family has offered a cash reward for their loved one's safe return.
Hattie Brown is a black female with brown eyes and black, shoulder-length hair. She is approximately 5 feet 4 inches tall, 155 pounds, and was last seen wearing a sleeveless top and pants with side stripes. The investigation into her disappearance also indicates that she left her residence without her purse or critical medication.
Since she went missing in 2009, two of her brothers have passed away. Andrew, who was 59, died three years ago on July 31, and Adolphus died this year on May 25 at the age of 70.
Diane said not a day goes by that she doesn't think of her missing sister.
"We won't ever give up until we find out what happened to her," she said. "With God's grace, we know one day there will be an answer."
But until that day, Brown said she covets prayers of the community on her missing sister's behalf.
Those with information about this case also can contact the Halifax County Sheriff's Office at 434-476-3334, or the South Boston Police Department at 434-575-4271.


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The eighth-annual Penny Arcade Expo, also known as PAX, is under way at the Washington State Convention Center in downtown Seattle. For three days, hundreds of video game producers are showing off their latest creations to a huge group of consumers.
"For the last few years running, the biggest releases on a gaming front have surpassed the biggest box-office sales," explained Kevin Grace from Kirkland-based 343 Industries.
Grace's company is releasing the much anticipated Halo 4 in November and is using PAX Seattle to introduce the game to the fans.
"Video games are doing very big business right now," Grace added.
In 2010, the video game industry raked in more than $25 billion. Many of the biggest games are made in the Northwest. Companies like Nintendo, Valve and Big Fish make the Seattle-area second only to San Francisco for video game creation.
"The gaming universe is everywhere," said Grace, "We've got a generation of people now where there's always been gaming for them."
Seattle-based Big Fish makes Internet and smart phone games. It made $180 million in 2010, a 30% increase.
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Services for Fred Lewis will be held Saturday, at 11 a.m., at Fifth Street Baptist Church, Meridian, with Rev. Tanya Evans officiating. Burial will be in Shady Grove Church Cemetery, DeKalb, with E.E. McDonald Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
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ANDERSON, Ind. — When it was suggested to Andrew Luck on Thursday that wide receiver Reggie Wayne might not play long enough to set NFL records alongside him, the Indianapolis Colts quarterback seemed a bit dubious.
"Tell that to Reggie," he said.
Indeed, the 34-year-old shows no sign of slowing down as he enters his 13th season in the league. He's coming off his sixth Pro Bowl appearance after a season in which he caught the second-most passes (106) of his career and tied for his second-highest total in receiving yards (1,355).
He was the leading receiver in Friday morning's practice with seven catches, and he needs 32 receptions this year to reach 1,000 for his career.
If he maintains last year's average of about 6.5 catches per game, he'd reach the benchmark in Week 6 at San Diego. If it takes a week longer, he'd do it at home against the Denver Broncos. In which case, the opposing quarterback might come on to the field to congratulate him.
Told only eight receivers in NFL history have cleared the 1,000-catch plateau, Wayne was duly impressed.
"That ain't bad," he said. "Let's do it. Let's try to get it done. I really feel like whenever I'm getting some kind of record or getting some kind of accolade, I'm doing something right, I'm helping this team do something, and that's all I can do is my part, and it starts with me."
Wayne's working just as hard now as he did during his rookie season of 2001. He wakes up early every morning to begin his offseason workouts, and he stays late after every practice to catch additional balls from the JUGS machine.
In fact, Wayne is more impressed that he's appeared in each of the Colts' past 173 regular season games than he is of his receptions total.


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Flagler College is a private institution that was founded in 1968. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 2,847, its setting is suburban, and the campus size is 42 acres. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. Flagler College's ranking in the 2014 edition of Best Colleges is Regional Colleges (South), 8. Its tuition and fees are $16,180 (2013-14).
Flagler College is a private, residential college located in the northeast section of Florida in the city of St. Augustine. Students admitted to the college have the opportunity to choose from more than 30 student clubs and organizations, as well as more than 10 intramural sports. Although there is no existing Greek life on campus, there are social clubs and honor fraternities for students interested in participating. All freshmen are required to live on campus during their first year unless they are living with their parents within commuting distance. Ponce De Leon Hall, the central building on campus, is a National Historic Landmark and houses roughly 480 female students. The Flagler Saints compete in the Peach Belt Conference in the NCAA Division II.
St. Augustine has the distinction of being the oldest continuously occupied European settlement in the United States. Flagler College offers a trip to Disney World at the beginning of the academic year for all first-year students admitted to the school. Students interested in making trips off campus are less than 100 miles from Orlando, Daytona Beach and Jacksonville. The campus is located roughly 4 miles from the Atlantic Ocean.
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The aim of Flagler College is to provide a supportive and challenging environment in which students acquire knowledge, exercise good citizenship, and adhere to high ethical standards. The principle focus of the college's academic program is undergraduate education in selected liberal arts and pre-professional studies; thus, the role of teaching is central to the College's mission. The purposes of the academic program are to provide opportunities for general and specialized learning; to assist students in preparing for careers; and to aid qualified students in pursuing graduate and professional studies. The objectives of student life at Flagler are to establish appropriate standards of conduct and to promote activities that will contribute to the development of self-discipline, integrity and leadership. Flagler is small, with a planned enrollment of approximately 2,500 students. Flagler College offers a limited number of academic programs. Flagler College seeks a faculty dedicated to undergraduate teaching. Flagler College maintains high standards of personal conduct. Flagler College serves the full-time traditional college age student. Flagler College seeks to use community resources. Flagler College maintains unique campus structures. Flagler College practices prudent management of resources. Flagler College provides a friendly campus environment.
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Flagler College has a total undergraduate enrollment of 2,847, with a gender distribution of 40.5 percent male students and 59.5 percent female students. At this school, 36 percent of the students live in college-owned, -operated, or -affiliated housing and 66 percent of students live off campus. Flagler College is part of the NCAA II athletic conference.
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In a sharp rebuke to his successor's handling of the NFL's bounty investigation, former Commissioner Paul Tagliabue overturned the suspensions of four current and former New Orleans Saints players in a case that has preoccupied the league for almost a year.
Tagliabue, who was appointed by Commissioner Roger Goodell to handle the appeals, still found that three of the players engaged in conduct detrimental to the league. He said they participated in a performance pool that rewarded key plays – including bone-jarring hits – that could merit fines. But he stressed that the team's coaches were very much involved.
The entire case, he said, "has been contaminated by the coaches and others in the Saints' organization."
The team's "coaches and managers led a deliberate, unprecedented and effective effort to obstruct the NFL's investigation," the ruling said.
Tagliabue oversaw a second round of player appeals to the league in connection with the cash-for-hits program run by former defensive coordinator Gregg Williams from 2009-2011. The players initially opposed his appointment.
Saints linebacker Jonathan Vilma had been given a full-season suspension, while defensive end Will Smith, Cleveland linebacker Scott Fujita and free agent defensive lineman Anthony Hargrove each received shorter suspensions.
Tagliabue cleared Fujita of conduct detrimental to the league.
"I affirm Commissioner Goodell's factual findings as to the four players. I conclude that Hargrove, Smith and Vilma – but not Fujita – engaged in 'conduct detrimental to the integrity of, and public confidence in, the game of professional football,' " the ruling said.
"However, for the reasons set forth in this decision, I now vacate all discipline to be imposed upon these players. Although I vacate all suspensions, I fully considered but ultimately rejected reducing the suspensions to fines of varying degrees for Hargrove, Smith and Vilma. My affirmation of Commissioner Goodell's findings could certainly justify the issuance of fines. However ... this entire case has been contaminated by the coaches and others in the Saints organization," it said.
Saints quarterback Drew Brees offered his thoughts on Twitter: "Congratulations to our players for having the suspensions vacated. Unfortunately, there are some things that can never be taken back."
None of the players sat out any games because of suspensions. They have been allowed to play while appeals are pending, though Fujita is on injured reserve and Hargrove is not with a team.
Shortly before the regular season, the initial suspensions were thrown out by an appeals panel created by the league's collective bargaining agreement. Goodell then reissued them, with some changes, and now those have been dismissed.
Now, with the player suspensions overturned, the end could be near for a nearly 10-month dispute over how the NFL handled an investigation that covered three seasons and gathered about 50,000 pages of documents.
"We respect Mr. Tagliabue's decision, which underscores the due process afforded players in NFL disciplinary matters," the NFL said in a statement.
"The decisions have made clear that the Saints operated a bounty program in violation of league rules for three years, that the program endangered player safety, and that the commissioner has the authority under the (NFL's collective bargaining agreement) to impose discipline for those actions as conduct detrimental to the league. Strong action was taken in this matter to protect player safety and ensure that bounties would be eliminated from football."
Meanwhile, the players have challenged the NFL's handling of the entire process in federal court, but U.S District Judge Ginger Berrigan had been waiting for the latest round of appeals to play out before deciding whether to get involved.
NFL investigators found that Vilma and Smith were ring leaders of a cash-for-hits program that rewarded injurious tackles labeled as "cart-offs" and "knockouts." The NFL also concluded that Hargrove lied to NFL investigators to help cover up the program.
Goodell also suspended Williams indefinitely, while banning Saints head coach Sean Payton for a full season.
Tagliabue's ruling comes after a new round of hearings that for the first time allowed Vilma's attorneys and the NFL Players Association, which represents the other three players, to cross-examine key NFL witnesses. Those witnesses included Williams and former Saints assistant Mike Cerullo, who was fired after the 2009 season and whose email to the league, accusing the Saints of being "a dirty organization," jump-started the probe.
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Light rain was coming down during the evening rush hour.
Late Wednesday afternoon, the thundershowers that are expected to reach the Houston area later in the evening were in central Texas.
A few light showers will continue into the evening, and by 10 p.m., there will be scattered thundershowers across the area, but none are expected to be severe.
Overnight and into Thursday morning, expect scattered showers and lows in the 50's.
The rain will clear out Thursday morning and it'll be much cooler. The morning will start off with temps in the low 50's. By noon it'll be about 10 degrees warmer, but the afternoon high is only 65 degrees.
Friday starts off cold with temps in the 40's.
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For two warm days in the Sonoma sun, the came to life in Carneros. celebrated the traditions of northern Spain with food, music, merriment and of course the wines of the extended Ferrer family.
Many members of the Gloria Ferrer wine club were in attendance, and many more besides - sometimes the sheer numbers of celebrants overtook the celebration. But the quality of the fare, from paella cooked in huge shallow pans, grilled skewered chicken drizzled with pesto, fresh gazpacho and even brownies, added up to plenty of savory tapas for the tongue.
The palette was not left out: several sparkling wines from Gloria Ferrer and their Spanish cousin in cava, Freixenet, plus chardonnay, pinot noir, garnacha and other Spanish grape found their way into the branded flutes that came with the tickets.
Then there were the Gegants de Mataro - 14-foot statues of the king and queen of Catalan, dancing with stately grace high above the heads of the appreciative crowd.
Add to that the cooking demonstrations, wine seminar, classic guitar by Eric Symons, sparkling mojitos, grape stomping, group Sardana dancing and the Sol Flamenco Dance Troupe to end the day, added up to a brief, all too brief vacation to the enchantment of Catalonia.
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By John Vogl
John Scott says no to fights every game. He thinks they're stupid, and he'd be fine if they were outlawed.
Staged fights, that is.
"The staged fighting, the fights that don't really mean anything, I can do without those," the Sabres' enforcer told The News today. "I know I've been in a few of those in my career, but there's a time and place for every fight. Sometimes they don't really matter. I can see where the league is coming from and the fans are coming from."
Fighting has once again become a hotly debated topic around the NHL after bad injuries to the Sabres' Corey Tropp and Montreal's George Parros. Hockey legends such as Steve Yzerman and Scotty Bowman have said it's time for fighting to go.
Scott agrees with only part of it and says heat-of-the-moment battles still have a place.
"It's hard to get fighting out of the game. It's so ingrained in the culture," Scott said. "I don't think when Stevie was playing he was saying that because he had guys protecting him. It's the same game, and I just don't know if they've forgot how it was or what's going on, but it's kind of annoying. They've been in hockey their whole life, and now they're trying to take my job away and other guys' jobs away just because they don't like it now. But when they played, it was perfectly fine. It's a little annoying."
Scott has been in 34 NHL fights, and as he said some have been staged. Teammate Mike Weber has fought 13 times, and probably all have been tilts brought on by emotional plays.
"It's one of those things that in hockey I believe we do need it," Weber told The News. "I believe it's one of those things that can change momentum. It's the last thing that we can control in the aspect of policing ourselves.
"Every year it's something. They're trying to change our game. We have a pretty great game, and I think it should be left alone. A lot of the things are trying to make it safer for us, but they end up not working out the way they planned. I feel you take fighting out of the game, we've lost all opportunity to police ourselves and control the atmosphere on the ice. It's going to lead to more altercations, more scrums, more big open-ice hits, then that's going to put a lot more pressure on the NHL for suspensions."
Sabres right wing Brian Flynn has only been in one fight -- he was bloodied during preseason after Scott and Toronto's Phil Kessel began punching and swinging sticks -- but he agrees fisticuffs belong in the game.
"I think it does," Flynn said. "I'm not a guy that fights, but I still think it does. You have guys like John who stick up for your teammates when they have bigger, stronger guys who are taking advantage of your smaller, skill guys. You need guys like John or Webby, who will step in there and stick up for you."
Besides, Flynn said, even penalizing fights with game misconducts wouldn't eliminate them.
"I'm sure guys would still do it," Flynn said. "I guess they'd get a suspension for it or refs would step in right away, but there's no way guys wouldn't step in for each other for a bad hit or something like that."
Sabres coach Ron Rolston is intrigued by the debate and the steps taken to curb fighting, but he also thinks it'll be around awhile.
"It's been a part of hockey for a long time, and I think it's going to be a part of hockey," Rolston said. "It's going to be interesting how it continues to go in hockey because now you've added a visor rule, you've added rules with taking helmets off, so it's going to be interesting where it goes from here with some of those rules, I think, but I think it's always going to be a part of things."
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It's hard to typecast poverty.
"When you look at the outside of someone's home, you don't know if they have electricity or water," Barbara Higgins, Stepping Stones Alliance Director, said.
Stepping Stones is an organization Chickasha which helps those affected by poverty locate resources and improve their lives.
But whether poverty means living in a house without water or homeless under a bridge, poverty comes with a unique set of challenges.
And it can happen to anyone. Higgins has written a series of articles for the Stepping Stones newsletter called "Just Imagine" that aims to put the reader in the position of someone who has found themselves in crisis such as homelessness, addiction or abuse.
One story in particular demonstrates how a total life upheaval can happen. The story begins with a mother–and very recent widow–sitting in her car in a hospital parking lot with her children in the back seat. The family was on a move across the country where "Dad" had a new job waiting. Along the way, he died in the hospital of a heart attack. Hospital bills have eaten up funds, moving expense would no longer be covered by the new employer and the family is in a strange town with no relatives or friends close by.
"It will be tomorrow before we can pick up the urn of ashes. We may not know where we are going or how we are going to get there, but we will all still be together. That thought, along with days of no sleep and worry, brogans on tears of fatigue and despair. 'What am I going to do?' you think."
Higgins said that it is a misconception that people are poor because they are lazy or stupid, but poverty may have an impact on the brain's ability to function.
Higgins cited an article based on a August 2013 study by Princeton, Harvard and Warwick that showed the condition of poverty imposed a mental burden akin to losing 13 IQ points. This, Higgins said, is the equivalent of losing a night's sleep or chronic alcoholism in normal adults.
The typical diet of those who live in poverty also have an impact on the brain's ability to function.
Not enough protein–proteins being the building blocks of the body–and not enough fresh fruits and vegetables make it difficult to function, Higgins said.
"You can't live on mac n' cheese all the time–especially when it's not real cheese," Higgins said.
Poverty can also happen to people who have worked all their lives.
"People who live in poverty haven't necessarily always been in poverty," Higgins said.
If the person's income was not sufficient to save or a savings program was not offered by the employer, retirement can mean a significant loss of funds, Higgins said.
"People who only live on social security often live at or below the poverty level."
To afford medications, this means that some retired elderly live off of peanut butter sandwiches on day old bread and take half doses or even skip doses. If the medicine is taken for heart problems, for example, this means the organ fails faster, Higgins said.
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Forget "high energy"– this is frantic! His shows are always a night you won't soon forget. Dale has had numerous television appearances including, NBC TBS , The Very Funny Show, Last Comic Standing Season 6, Fox – 30 seconds to Fame and The Comedy Network in Canada.
He has also been on 2 nationally syndicated radio shows, The Bob & Tom Show and The Bob & Sheri Show. He was one of 8 finalists in "The Great Canadian Laugh Off" and he was invited to perform at The Boston Comedy Festival as well as the TBS "JUST FOR LAUGHS" Festival.
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With his improvisational style and astute observations on family, religion, relationships, and current events, he continues to be a favorite among audiences from all walks of life. Oliveira has been appearing professionally for more than thirty years, beginning as an actor in Boston and eventually moving into the world of stand up comedy.
Manny has appeared on HBO, Showtime's "Comedy Club Network" and numerous comedy specials. He can also be seen on "Laffapalooza 2006" on Comedy Central and played the part of Father Ciseroin in the film "Crossroads". Oliveira also has been a semi-regular on "Army Wives" on the Lifetime network.
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He has been heard on the Bob and Tom Radio Show and Comedy Central. His song "Obama Man" has over 3 million hits on YouTube. Greg has been described as "Mr. Standing O".
He is a fan favorite at the Just For Laughs comedy festival in Montreal, in Atlantic City and at the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas. Greg transforms himself into the decade's pop icons like Michael Jackson, Prince, Tina Turner, Mick Jagger and Aerosmith. Three kinds of comedy – one comedian – that's Greg Morton, the "Ultimate Stand-Up Comedy Act."
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Basile has entertained millions of comedy fans in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, and Africa. You can find him on"Growing Up Greek in America." This series is spoken in Greek and English and to date has sold over a quarter of a million copies.
Basile's voices and characters have been heard on Armed Forces Radio, Television, syndicated radio in North America, and on XM Satellite Radio. Basile has over 100 television appearances throughout the world, including HBO, Showtime, Comedy Central and the Jay Leno Show on NBC to name a few.
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Joey Kola has performed for hundreds of thousands of people throughout his career in the US, Canada, England. His high energy, spot on punch lines, and fast delivery assault an audience like a comedic freight train.
You may have seen him on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno", "The Late Show with David Letterman", "Comedy Central Presents: Joey Kola", "The Rosie O'Donnell Show", "Comedy Centrals: Premium Blend".
He has also made appearances on "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" with Meredith Viera, "The Apprentice", "Survivor Finales", "The Jane Pauley Show", "Wake Up with Ali and Jack" on CBS, or "The King of Queens" with Kevin James. He toured many casinos with the cast of the Sopranos as part of their live show "Comedy You Can't Refuse".
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J.J. Ramirez is one of New York's very best headliners. He is a regular at America's best clubs including The World Famous Comic Strip, The Improv and Caroline's on Broadway. On TV, J.J. has appeared on A&E's "Comedy on the Road", "Evening at the Improv", "Showtime at the Apollo",Fox's "Comic Strip Live" and Comedy Central.
In the casinos, J.J. is also well-entrenched having appeards at Atlantic City's Borgata Casino and The Tropicana in Las Vegas. He is also featured in the award winning movie "The Latin Legends of Comedy". As a comedian Ramirez leaves fellow cynics screaming for more. And as a cancer survivor, he proves that a full-throttle sense of humor can make even the most dire days a laughing matter.
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Joe Bronzi mixes award-winning with fast-pased "off the cut" crowd interaction. he has performed as the Warm Up Comedian on ABC's "Who want to be a Millionaire", ESPN's "Room for Debate" and MSNBC's "Crowd Rules". He has also guest starred on NBC's "Night Shift" and MNN's "Jamie deRoy and friends".
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The Guardian The US has agreed in principle to releasing top officials from Afghanistan terrorist group in exchange for starting process of negotiations.
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10 Absurd Laws From Around the World.
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New Hampshire Restaurant Bans Politicians
(PORTSMOUTH, N.H) Colby's Breakfast & Lunch in Portsmouth is so sick of White House "wannabes" they've put up a sign out front that reads "No Politicians, No Exceptions."
"We had some disturbances with politicians coming in and tying up the dining room, slowing down and spreading their agenda and just interrupting our clienteles' breakfast and disrupting the atmosphere," a waiter named Andrew told WBZ NewsRadio 1030.
"This has happened 5 or 6 times since the summer and we're kinda fed up with it."
Now they want to use the Constitution?
Carney Defends Cordray Recess Appointment: "Constitution Trumps Gimmicks"
White House press secretary Jay Carney says Senate Republicans gaveling in and gaveling out for seven seconds does not constitute a recess. Therefore, Carney argues, President Obama operated in a legal manner when he appointed Richard Cordray to head the consumer protection board.
"Our assessment is that Congress has been in recess, and had made every indication that it will be in recess for a sustained period of time. And that gaveling in and gaveling out for seven seconds does not constitute a recess with regard to the President's constitutional authority," Carney said at Thursday's briefing.
"Let's take the other, I guess Laura's question, somebody else says the other side, the other extreme here which is that if these gimmicks were all the Senate needed to do to prevent the president from exercising his constitutional authority — any president — then no president would ever be able to exercise [it]," Carney contended.
"We're saying this a gimmick versus a Constitutionally-enshrined authority and we feel very comfortable as a legal matter that the Constitution trumps gimmicks. Thanks."
No wonder he had to circumvent Congress to enact this disaster. But wonder, how many of the dirtbag occupiers will get a job?
(The Hill) — President Obama on Thursday will unveil a summer-jobs initiative that the White House says is already on track to create 180,000 "work opportunities" in the private sector in 2012.
That is the number of opportunities, which includes mentoring and unpaid internships, that companies have told the administration they are willing to create. Some 70,000 jobs are paid, the White House says.
The initiative was hatched after Congress failed to approve a $1.5 billion summer-jobs fund that President Obama had been seeking as part of the American Jobs Act.
"Today's announcement is the latest in a series of executive actions the Obama administration is taking to strengthen the economy and move the country forward because we can't wait for Congress to act," a White House statement reads.
Labor Secretary Hilda Solis said the "opportunities" are all new and were not jobs that would have existed anyway.
Pakistani Taliban Kill 15 Kidnapped Security Officers
MLK Jr. And Jesse Jackson Told "Racial Jokes"
Howard Dean: "The Republican Brand Stinks Right Now"
Israeli attempts to "Judaize" Jerusalem will bring about its end, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday, saying Israel's occupation of Palestinian land was the most important topic in the world.
Speaking to a delegation to the Turkish-Palestinian Parliamentary Friendship Group, Ahmadinejad was quoted by Iranian state television that the "Zionists, who have no faith in religion or even God, now claim piety and intend to take away the Islamic identity of the Holy Quds."
"This ridiculous move is in fact the continuation of the colonialist polices of oppressors, which will not save the Zionist regime, but also take the regime closer to the endpoint of its existence," the Iranian president added.
Speaking of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Ahmadinejad was quoted by Iran's official news agency Iran as saying that the "issue of Palestine is the main issue in the region and the whole world and nobody can ignore it."
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Now if the other candidates would come out like Rick did! Boom on those islamics who want this shit in our country!
DURHAM, N.H. — Rick Santorum on Friday asserted that Sharia law has no place in America.
"Jihadism is evil and we need to say what it is," he said at the Strafford County Lincoln-Reagan dinner, remarks that show how the former Pennsylvania senator continues to establish himself as the candidate most-aligned with the Republican Party's conservative base.
"We need to define it and say what it is. And it is evil. Sharia law is incompatible with American jurisprudence and our Constitution."
Santorum, invoking New York Rep. Peter King's hearing this week on the alleged radicalization of American Muslims, said that the "vast majority" of Muslims don't want to it either.
"They left because of Sharia law," he said, referring to why he believes Muslim immigrants left their home countries to come to the United States.
Santorum added, "Sharia law is not just a religious code. It is also a governmental code. It happens to be both religious in nature an origin, but it is a civil code. And it is incompatible with the civil code of the United States."
The audience loudly applauded.
Santorum, a devout Catholic, warned about Sharia at CPAC last month, and his latest comments set up a stark contrast between his world view and President Obama's efforts to court support in the Muslim world.
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Sheriff Arpaio: We will not cower to the threat of litigation
Sheriff Arpaio says the Feds simply will not show him the facts surrounding their claims and he will not comply until they do, nor will he cower to the threat of litigation. He says that he doesn't report to the US Government, he reports to the citizens of Maricopa County and he will not step down.


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3G Rumors: iPhone in Canada Next Month With... Reasonable Rates?!
I'm not going to get off on another Rogers rant here. Suffice it to say, when it comes to Canadian telcos, I'm the rat who, having learned helplessness, now lies face down on the hot plate.
However, not content to let me lie there and wither in peace, now comes this report, determined to kick poor downed me with some hope:
Sources from inside Rogers claim that the device should be available the same month as an expected US release of an updated, 3G-capable model [...] currency values are likely to place the cost of the phone itself closer to the eventual US figure. [...] The sources claim that the iPhone will qualify for Rogers' $7 on-device browsing plan, which currently allows all phones offered by Rogers (excepting BlackBerry and Windows Mobile devices) to access the web as much as they like through the carrier's officially-sanctioned browser. Whether Rogers will allow YouTube, the App Store, and other official but non-web devices to fall into the unlimited plan is unknown, though unlike with other phones Rogers will not have the choice of installing or customizing the web browser or other applications.
We'll see (or more likely, we won't see). The best indicator of future behavior being prior behavior, I figure the iPhone data plan will cost $100/month for 1GB. Prove me wrong, Rogers!
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I'd like to see the $7 plan that supports Safari and is not crippled in any way. It would be nice if they extended it to pop/imap data so that we could get our mail on the thing too.
$100 is just a tough pill to swallow for something that costs me nothing when in range of a WiFi network. I've cut off my edge plan since December and haven't looked back.
Rene, I'm hoping right along with ya on behalf of my Canadian neighbors! Maybe if we keep sending out happy thoughts? :)
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My 5-year-old poodle, Max, had just come home from cataract surgery on both eyes. The first night he mostly slept. Early the next day, he had a scheduled checkup at Blue Pearl Veterinary Partners.
The post-op medication regimen began immediately the first night. There were 4 different dugs and 5 different eye drops administered several times a day, each on a slightly different schedule.
It was so complicated that I prepared an EXCEL spreadsheet to keep track of when each medication was given. I actually got the idea from another patient at Blue Pearl, as they were discussing a pet's care.
Max was doing great, a followup visit was scheduled for a week later, and the cage containment would continue for three more weeks.
For his part, Max was ready to explore his newly rediscovered world. We set up the cage so Max could see out the window, and it was amazing to watch him re-catalog all of the things he could see in the neighborhood.
The one-week checkup showed a small scratch on one cornea, so the medication regimen changed slightly, and a three week visit was set. I had to redo the spreadsheet.
At this point, Max was allowed down on the floor for a few minutes after each medication, and he began to slowly explore the house. The rediscovery process was fascinating.
First he would go to an item like a chair, identify it by smell and then step back and just look at it, apparently rebuilding his visual memory with clues from his other senses. He literally worked his way through the entire house and back yard.
Since he had been on the losing end of most of his recent wrestling matches with Harley, he was ready to rumble every time he had a few minutes of floor time.
The major concern was any lunging motion during the first few days, which could cause the cornea stitches to tear. So Theresa and I had to play referee.
The small lizards that occupy most of our back yards and the local squirrels had been choice objectives of Max's pursuits. When he realized he could now once again see them, the game was back on. Max had begun rediscovering a world that those with sight take for granted.
Modern veterinarian medicine can do for animals almost all that modern medicine can do for us. It is nothing short of miraculous. We often think there are no miracles anymore, until you experience something like Max's return to vision, or a child healed or something in your own life.
There is, however, an exploitive side to all of this. In human medicine they exploit our fears, in veterinarian medicine they exploit our love for the helpless creatures with which we have been entrusted. They get away with it because there are enough of us who will pay the bill.
The exploitation begins with those who manufacture drugs and medical equipment and continue through the system to hospitals, doctors and pharmacies. You hear a lot of talk about the cost of health care, but no one wants to take on the health care industry.
In recent days my thoughts returned to the lady in the waiting room at the first Vet specialty clinic I visited, and I wonder how it all turned out? One thing you can rest assured of, it was expensive.
A few days ago someone asked me how Max was doing. When I said, "really great", they ask, "How much did all of this cost"? I had to stop and think. It seemed sort of irrelevant.
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A 23-year-old bicyclist was struck and killed in an accident with a tractor trailor truck on Commonwealth Avenue on Thursday morning, according to the Boston Police Department.
The accident occurred at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday morning near St. Paul Street across the street from Boston University's Agganis Arena. Police said an 18-wheeler truck was making a right-hand turn onto St. Paul Street when the cyclist and the truck collided.
Police have not released the name of the man killed in the crash.
Commonwealth Avenue is currently shut down for all vehicle traffic east bound from Pleasant street to Saint Paul Street, according to the BU Police Department.
Police said the homicide unit is investigating the death, as well as Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley's office.
The fatal bike accident is the second in several weeks to occur in the BU/Allston area of Commonwealth Avenue, and occured just hours before a bicycle safety hearing at city hall.
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MAN, W.Va. (AP) -- A Logan County town's new $20,000 electronic sign is a victim of a school rivalry.
Mayor Jim Blevins says vandals spray-painted the sign last week with messages referencing the Chapmanville-Man high school football game on Friday night.
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On the last Saturday in September, at a few minutes before midnight, anticipation ran high outside the Clay Theatre. Overhead, reflected headlights glinted along the cables of the 22 Muni line like a Jacob's ladder. Eager voices filled the air. It's usually true that Fillmore Street nightlife drops off dramatically as you climb the northbound hill into sleepy Pacific Heights. But on this night, the Clay was lit up and lively as people gathered for the weekly screening of the cult classic, The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Notwithstanding the recent Onion headline, "Rocky Horror Picture Show's Cult Following Just Doesn't Have the Energy Anymore," it seemed like a fine turnout. And even if all these scantily yet decoratively clad bodies wound up filling less than half of the theater's 340 seats, it still counted for a perfectly respectable not-Netflix, not-the-multiplex moviegoing experience.
"We are still here at the Clay Theatre," the emcee shouted just before the show got going. "We love the Clay!" As a cheer swelled up from the crowd, he added, "'Cause this is the show that wasn't supposed to happen!"
Indeed, just a month earlier, the Clay's managers had surprised and delighted the regular Rocky Horror crowd with the news that their beloved venue would not be shutting down that week after all, as had been widely reported. A reprieve, albeit temporary, had been granted.
By then, the whole city had heard that the Clay, operated by Landmark Theatres since 1991, was hemorrhaging money and ready to close. With its lease expired, Landmark had finally decided to get out.
"For the record, we did not increase Landmark's rent when we bought the building," said landlord Balgobind Jaiswal, the Clay's owner since 2008, in a prepared statement. "We were naturally surprised and disappointed when they told us they intended to vacate."
Meanwhile, the San Francisco Film Society, presenter of America's oldest international film festival — along with several younger and smaller but increasingly frequent festivals, some of which have screenings at the Clay — had arranged to temporarily subsidize Landmark's losses and keep the theater afloat while negotiating a takeover of the lease or an outright purchase from Jaiswal. The landlord was also open to talking to any other theater operator (say, Sundance Cinemas) who might want to do business with him.
The Film Society seemed a logical next tenant. "Not that anybody wants to run a single-screen theater these days, except for us," executive director Graham Leggat says. "It doesn't appeal to commercial entities, and as a vanity project for individuals it's not a good idea. So there are relatively few organizations besides our own, or individuals, who would take this on." That's bearing in mind, too, that the Clay is already overdue for expensive upgrades, including ADA-compliant restrooms and an overhaul of its electrical and ventilation systems.
And yet, after several months and multiple offers, negotiations between Jaiswal and the Film Society hit an impasse. The parties could not — and, as of this writing, cannot — agree on what the Clay is worth.
Obviously the theater is worth something to someone. Even as its fate remains uncertain, there has been a flood of concern from the neighborhood and beyond. In that short window between the grim prognosis and the temporary reprieve, the blogosphere throbbed with grief. Commenters on the website of The New Fillmore newspaper, for instance, bemoaned the theater's impending closure as "just another step in the relentless move towards depersonalizing our city streets" and demanded, "Are we just going to let everything die a quiet death and just sit around and say 'Remember when?'"
The Clay is one of only five functional single-screen theaters in the city. The others — the Castro, the Roxie, the Victoria, and the Vogue — have adapted their business models significantly in recent years. Others haven't been able to evolve. In the past dozen years, the Alexandria has closed, the Coronet has been demolished, and the Alhambra on Polk Street became a gym.
Meanwhile, other single-screen movie theaters seem stuck in perpetual hibernation, like the New Mission, or the Metro — the official birthplace, more than half a century ago, of the San Francisco International Film Festival. When the Metro went dark in 2006, the plan was to turn it into another gym. Four years later, it's still in limbo, boarded up.
So it's not entirely unreasonable to ask how much it matters, really, if there's one less venue for the genteel, grown-up-friendly foreign films that once kept Landmark buoyant, plus the zillionth monthly midnight-movie showing of Rocky Horror. Are the enthusiasts of such offerings just prolonging an inevitable demise by trying to keep them on costly life support?
Certainly, the Clay has had to evolve since its 1910 beginnings as a nickelodeon, where noisy throngs paid five cents a head to watch short, shallow motion pictures with live musical accompaniment. At the time, in a manner that will seem familiar to anyone who sees online entertainment as a threat to traditional moviegoing, these novelties were considered dangerous to the livelihood of live theater — dangerous, even, to the social order.
"There is no question that the great number of moving-picture shows constitutes an evil in this city," a Chronicle editorial carped that year. By 1926, the showgoing masses had acquired a taste for slightly more sophisticated fare such as The American Venus, a beauty pageant comedy co-starring Oakland's Fay Lanphier, the first Miss California to become Miss America. By 1935, the theater had reopened as the Clay International, a foreign-film showcase, and continued cultivating a brand of regional urbanity thereafter.
High on its hill and averting a wave of redevelopment that wiped out a handful of theaters further south on Fillmore Street in the 1970s, the Clay also became a mainstay of San Francisco's midnight movie scene, drawing crowds for years not just with Rocky Horror but also with such delicacies as Re-Animator, Pervert, Leprechaun, Conan the Barbarian, and Cannibal Holocaust. It briefly belonged to the Surf Theaters repertory cinema chain, founded by esteemed exhibitor Mel Novikoff, for whom a San Francisco International Film Festival award was later named. There is uncertainty about whether he actually booked John Waters' Pink Flamingos at the Clay in 1972, on account of being personally frightened by its dog-shit-eating, drag-queen star Divine. But for the Clay's 1985 world premiere of director Paul Bartel's Lust in the Dust, Divine and co-stars Tab Hunter and Cesar Romero appeared in person to much fanfare.
The Clay seemed to have hit its stride then, although red flags may have begun fluttering as early as 1982, when camp extravaganzist Marc Huestis reportedly bolted from a Castro Theatre screening of his own locally made romp, Whatever Happened to Susan Jane, yelling, "They'll go see this garbage, but they won't come see the Truffaut at the Clay!" Still, its special moviegoing moments have continued apace. Last year brought, among other unique offerings, the world premiere of local yarn-spinner Robert Mailer Anderson's "punkabilly horror" flick, Pig Hunt, and a lively, crowd-pleasing Q&A between director Michael Moore and SF Weekly contributor Michael Fox.
As Landmark's official website points out, the Clay has been named the city's "Best Movie Theatre for Making Out" by San Francisco magazine, its "Best Spot for a Rainy-Day Matinee" by 7x7 magazine, and, perhaps a tad less declaratively, "One of San Francisco's Best Movie Theaters" by Moviefone.com. The point is that it has a lot to offer. That it's easy to love. That it will be missed. Sort of.
It was a cool gray evening, portending autumn, when Long Bar, an upscale Upper Fillmore watering hole, convened a rally to save the Clay, with feedback invited and affirmations exchanged. Attendees of note included Leggat, Jaiswal, and Charles Kahn, the Berkeley-based architect who'd offered an advisory consultation for refitting the Metro, and whom Jaiswal has retained to evaluate the Clay's adaptive prospects as well. These include converting it into a triplex of 50-seaters, building condos on its roof, or both. In the meantime, there remained the matter of figuring out what actually did work in the Clay's business model.
"It's so different from the vending machine of the multiplex," Leggat told the tightly packed crowd. "It's more like a picnic." That practiced talking point put it quite charmingly, but also registered the essence of the challenge: In our accelerated, complicated, belt-tightened age, picnics aren't very practical.
"Will they serve wine and beer?" someone asked.
"Tell us if you want wine and beer," Leggat replied.
"Yes!" someone else shouted.
"How much more patronage is needed to make it viable?" a third asked.
"We would have to get back to you on that," Leggat said.
"Serve booze!" the second guy shouted.
But under California law, that would mean restricting admission to people of drinking age — a new and complicating variable. And, as Kahn said, "If no one comes to the theater, what's the point?"
"The programming's the point," a woman answered sharply.
Jaiswal didn't say much, but he listened. And even if the audience came off as fickle and snappish, they seemed united by a desire to see the Clay stay open for another century.
As it happens, that flood of neighborhood concern has recently grown into a citywide tsunami of cultural commemoration, specifically with regard to the evolution of San Francisco cinema culture. It arguably began with local filmmaker Christian Bruno's Strand: A Natural History of Cinema, a documentary-in-progress about Bay Area moviegoing, for which photographer R.A. McBride compiled a series of pictures of the insides of local theaters, including the Clay. They later became an essential part of local author Julie Lindow's recently released book, Left in the Dark: Portraits of San Francisco Movie Theaters, which arranged them alongside essays by various interested parties — academics, journalists, exhibitors, and others. Among them was local author Rebecca Solnit, who was in turn inspired to include a page in her own book, Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas, comparing the city's current population of operating movie theaters with that of half a century ago: Of the 74 theaters available to San Francisco moviegoers in 1958, only 10 remain. (Similarly, only six of the 60 venues photographed by McBride for Left in the Dark operate as movie theaters.)
"There's a zeitgeist right now," Lindow says. "We're in this critical moment. In cinema studies, there's a lot of interest in the communal experience, and breaking out of theory boxes." More specifically, and closer to home, that interest has focused on cinema's changing place in San Francisco culture. She recalls her pleasure at discovering what she calls "the incredible diversity of perspectives and stories," which, taken together, reveal "how integrated the theaters have been in our social landscape."
As Lindow learned, it is not hard to gather authoritative testimony about the virtues of communal moviegoing — and the endangerment thereof. "What Is Being Lost?" is the title of her first chapter, in which Solnit refers to a "clear-cutting of complexity and local difference," not at all a good thing. "I like to say that home is everything that you can walk to," Solnit says. "I also feel that democracy requires a sense of belonging and a sense of something in common. ... I think the neighborhood theaters have a sense of going to church. You are in public with your community. At the multiplexes, I look around and wonder where the people came from; it is not really my community."
Or, as local film noir maven Eddie Muller puts it, less loftily, in his own essay for Left in the Dark: "Movie houses were, evidently, an essential part of my education, both cinematic and otherwise." Muller's "The Great White Way in Noir City," takes us on the tour, lamenting that so many of its essential stops have since been "abandoned, demolished, or given over to tax-dodging temples or live sex shows."
Although it may at first seem an attractive, mild-mannered coffee-table compendium, Lindow's book is rich with colorful local moviegoing history. That makes sense, as there's plenty of it. So much, actually, that it spills over into Solnit's book, and into Bruno's film — whose opening shot, tellingly, is a view of Fillmore Street from within the Clay Theatre lobby.
Is now a good time to point out that the Clay has 535 friends on MySpace, but none on Facebook? Apparently, it's not even on Facebook. Maybe the biggest challenge to everyone with a stake in the theater's future is giving up the idea of preserving a culture that no longer really exists.
"The Clay is in the unenviable situation of being a single-screen theater in 2010," Landmark CEO Ted Mundorff says on the phone from Los Angeles. "Most single-screen theaters in 2010 are doomed, if not all of them." And, as Landmark has learned, keeping a theater open for nostalgia's sake just isn't viable. "I love people's memories, and I love that they love to remember the Clay," Mundorff says. "I read the blogs. People love to say that they go to the theater. But the fact is and the numbers tell you that people don't."
Landmark has a policy not to disclose specific box-office figures, but it's safe to assume that the chain wouldn't have given up on the Clay had it been a moneymaker. After the theater's shaky situation became public knowledge, ticket sales improved, but only briefly. "The only weekend that was significantly impacted was the last weekend of August, right after we had announced that we would close," senior regional publicist Steve Indig says, "and I'm sure folks came thinking it was likely their last chance to see a film there." He adds that the Aug. 28 presentation of Rocky Horror, at which the announcement came that the Clay would stay open at least temporarily, "was a full house, also no doubt due to the expected closure." True enough: By that precedent, September's Rocky Horror turnout seemed a lot weaker.
This may explain Jaiswal's apparent reluctance to keep the Clay in its current form — once everybody's anguish over the theater's demise subsides, won't people just revert to not going?
"Keeping it as a theater is not a way for the owner of the property to make money," Kahn says. "It's a way to lose money." It's not that he cares only about the bottom line. It's just that, as he puts it, "If there's going to be a future for the old community film venues in our communities, it's going to require thinking about and responding to different kind of forces than existed when these were first built."
In other words, any viable future for the Clay won't be your neighborhood moviegoing of yore. It'll have to be something else, necessarily a different experience. As Leggat cautioned at the Long Bar rally, "A venue of this size can not be everything to everybody." If the SFFS takes over, for instance, it could become a gilded experience — with the theater as museumlike haven of exotic, festival fare.
As things stand, the Clay needs a new and uniquely qualified operator, and the San Francisco Film Society needs an exhibition venue that can be its base of operations. "The fact that we're 54 years old and still without a home is unconscionable to me," Leggat says. "I wish that my predecessors had felt as strongly about it as we do; we might have one by now." The society's recent efforts to expand to year-round programming have been hampered, he says, by the unruly logistics of working with multiple venues.
But the talks between the SFFS and Jaiswal remain stuck. "Where we stalled ... was on the valuation of the property," Leggat says. "We feel that he's looking at it in 2008 terms and we're looking at it in [current] terms, and the two things are vastly different." Jaiswal, who had spoken to the press only briefly during the early stages of negotiations and encouraged the Clay's friends and neighbors to "e-mail your ideas to: firstname.lastname@example.com," has since said little, and did not respond to several calls and e-mails seeking comment.
Upon reflection, it's easy to see why most people might have hesitated to buy a single-screen neighborhood movie theater in 2008 at all; even before the recession, the writing seemed to be on the wall — and in Bruno's film and Lindow's book, both begun years earlier. It's hard not to wonder whether Jaiswal really didn't know what he was in for, or, alternatively, whether he furtively intended all along to phase the Clay out of operation as a movie theater and into something more potentially profitable — much to the community's chagrin.
Of course, it is Jaiswal's prerogative to prevent his property from bankrupting him. His challenge is to know with certainty what his community really wants, and what it really will pay, then to find an operator with an equal working knowledge. Understandably, any multimillion-dollar real estate transaction, in an already uncertain sector of an already down economy, will take time. But in any case, Jaiswal's rent reprieve can't last forever. And in the coming weeks, something's got to give. No amount of commemoration, no matter how eloquent, can change that fact.
A few weeks after the initial elation over the Clay's reprieve, things seemed to be back to normal. The well-reviewed French film Mademoiselle Chambon had enjoyed a decent enough run, but inevitably, the audience had dwindled. At a recent early-evening midweek show, there looked to be fewer than five people in the house. And they were older folks, people who'd probably been home in bed during that last Rocky Horror show.
Longtime staffer Antoinette Maher was at her post behind the concession counter, exuding unhurried affability. "Everybody loves it. Everybody wants to come, but they don't come," she said. "It's like, 'When were you here last?' 'Oh, last year.' It's not a habit like it was. And they're not big on concessions, either. They're older. They have high blood pressure." She seemed not resigned, but rather pleasantly pragmatic. "In the good old days, we'd need five staff members just to handle the crowd. Not anymore."
Maher talked through her catalogue of Clay memories. "I've seen Yoko Ono here. Barbara Boxer, Dianne Feinstein. I mean, it's a Pacific Heights theater," she said. "With Life of Brian, we had evangelical protesters outside the door. But we filled the house. Oh, and we had a great time with The Piano. The drama got so intense, people were passing out. We had bodies everywhere. We had to bring in the fire department. Yep, we've had some rip-snorting times."
One patron, a slender, middle-aged woman, approached the counter to buy popcorn. She joked with Maher about having to resist buying snacks elsewhere and sneaking them in, even though it might be cheaper. "I like the theater," the woman said. "I want it to stay alive." Maher grinned.
"I understand DVDs," Maher went on. "It's easier, it's less expensive. But in a theater like this, you attend a movie. I always loved this theater. I had a choice of where to work, and I chose this."
Showtime was nigh, and the woman slipped inside to take her seat in the near-empty house. Another staffer pulled the lobby curtain closed behind her.
"I'm sad about it," Maher said, "but I've been here a long time."
Whatever happens, cinema persists. As the commemorators' efforts remind us, all urban public spaces, like cultural proclivities, have natural life cycles. "Not all single-screen historic movie theatres can be saved as venues for film," writes Left in the Dark contributor Katherine Petrin, an architectural historian and member of the nonprofit San Francisco Neighborhood Theater Foundation, which rescued the Vogue in Laurel Heights a couple of years ago. "But when one is lost, it will never be replicated."
Even the lucid nostalgist Muller recognizes the essential transience of even the most permanent-seeming cultural cornerstones — including the similarly cherished studio-owned downtown movie palaces of the 1940s. "In truth," he writes in his piece, "motion picture pleasure-domes were a fantastic aberration, built on avarice and illusion and misconceptions — like the fortunes made and lost decades later during Reaganomics and the high-tech boom." Perhaps we should count ourselves lucky to have enjoyed the more modest venues' relative versatility and longevity at all. A neighborhood theater, unlike a downtown multiplex, must cater to neighborhood needs. And some needs will change.
If the Clay is to go away, we can be sure that it won't be forgotten. For one thing, this recent wave of commemoration is useful to posterity. It's a nice funeral, with meaningful souvenirs. What Bruno, Solnit, and Lindow and her contributors share is an impulse to go deeper than the usual hand-wringing over economic and technological and demographic challenges to cinema, and to be purposeful instead of merely nostalgic. "We did this to inspire people," Lindow says. "To give hope and to not just be sad about the past. To not just be consumers and observers, but seek out communal experiences. We really wanted to build community." There is real value in mourning bygone modes of culture, as long as it allows for moving past denial: "I started out despondent, but the process of working on the book really changed my outlook."
With that earned optimism in mind, it seems fair to say that permanent closure of the Clay seems unlikely. As Jaiswal, who belongs to the Fillmore Merchants Association, told the Chronicle in September, "A boarded-up theater is horrible for the street." Although he is reportedly dissatisfied with the compromises by which that fate has so far been averted, his actions do suggest awareness, however begrudging, that a low-paying tenant still is better than none.


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The Catamounts had held the upper hand 20-14 early in the second quarter when Nubian Spanns dunk shattered the backboard on a play that was seen all around the world.
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