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7036 Grand Geneva Way
Lake Geneva, WI 53147
Lake Geneva
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Ristoranté Brissago Details
Dining Style:
Fine Dining
(262) 249-4788
Hours of Operation:
Sunday November 18th 5:30pm-10:00pm
Dinner: Tuesday-Saturday: 5:30pm-10:00pm
Payment Options:
AMEX, Carte Blanche, Diners Club, Discover, JCB, MasterCard, Visa
Executive Chef:
Michael Sawin
Dress Code:
Business Casual
Accepts Walk-Ins:
Additional Details:
Banquet/Private Rooms, Full Bar, Non-Smoking Restaurant, Private Room, View, Wheelchair Access, Wine
Special Events & Promotions:
We invite you try a little bit of Italy June 3 – June 28.
Enjoy your choice of 3 menu items at Ristoranté
Brissago for just $33. Choose a soup or a salad, select
one of our succulent entreés, then select one of the
featured desserts. Dine with us on Tuesdays through
Saturdays from 5:30 pm to 7 pm to enjoy this offer.
Getting there
Cross Street:
Hwy 50 East & Hwy 12
Parking Details:
Self-parking is available, as well as complimentary valet parking.
A word from Ristoranté Brissago
Warm and inviting with an air of subtle sophistication, Ristoranté Brissago takes the dining experience to a new level with fresh ingredients flown in weekly from Italy. Enjoy regionally made pastas, cheeses, olive oils and desserts, as well as a wonderful selection of Italian wines. Authenticity
is apparent in every aspect, our name, Ristoranté Brissago, is taken from a small town in northern Italy on Lake Maggiori. Truly authentic Italian cuisine served in a romantic setting, amid spectacular views of the Wisconsin countryside. It's the culmination of 10 years of planning, says Executive Chef Michael Sawin . Our Bufala Mozzarella contains 100-percent Buffalo milk and arrives weekly from Campania, where they've been making the cheese for centuries. The menu invites you to sample, share and delight in something from every course. The choices - incredible. The experience - simply amazing...
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Diner Reviews
The food was wonderful! I ordered
the caprese salad to start. The imported mozzarella was amazing. My entree was a tagliatelle pasta dish. The staff was happy to modify the dish to include vegetables instead of the standard chicken. The asparagus and broccolini were great choices by the chef."
Dined on 7/29/2014
This restaurant is located inside
the Grand Geneva Resort, and as a result I found the prices to be a bit high as they often are in a 'closed' community resort. Despite that, I thought the meal was excellent as was the wine, and the focaccia bread was to die for. The wine list is all Italian as befits the menu. We had the opportunity to book a window table for two looking out over the resort woodlands and golf course during a brief storm. The sunlight on the clouds at dusk and a rainbow made a wonderful show, too. We had the Capellini and Crab, as well as a lobster dish. Both were filling and exquisite. The room was never entirely full on a Sunday night with the hotel very busy. The only reason for 4 stars is 'value'."
Dined on 7/27/2014
We returned here for the second
time for the delicious Italian food and the yummy drinks. My fiance really loves the Old Fashion drink that was made the first time we were there, but this time the bar tender made it a little different. I was still good but not the same and not as good as the first time! My fiance loves the crab pasta and ordered it again this time. The mussels are a must for the appetizer! Service is great and the staff always do something extra for special occasions. Thanks. We will be back for sure!"
Dined on 7/26/2014
The food and the service was
amazing! We eat it all and dessert was exquisite! Holly made our first experience there a very special one and she was nothing but great, knowledgeable of all menu items, and help us select out our entrees. I won't hesitate to go back again."
Dined on 7/13/2014
Food was mostly good, other than
ceaser salad too garlicky & lobster in $38 entree overcooked. Calamari app was delicious, and cappuchino was v.good too. My husband waited over 15 min for water at one point even after asking a server and busser passing by 3+ times. Was a nice evening out with live quartet in lobby and view from large window. etc but won't rush back."
Dined on 7/12/2014
Homemade Pappardelle with
Bolognese was horrible. The noodles were firm, chewy, and stuck together and they tasted like raw flour. The sauce was flavorless and watery. This used to be a tasty, higher end restaurant. Not anymore."
Dined on 7/10/2014
Food is always outstanding. But
time and time again, servers are untrained and possess little knowledge about the food or wine list. There is usually one exceptional waiter in the room (Gabriel comes to mind) and the others mostly seem clueless."
Dined on 7/9/2014
Thank you for the rose peddles on
our table. My wife and I celebrated our thirty fifth anniversary at your restaurant. I gave my wife a single red rose and it matched the peddles on the table. Our waitress was nice, and we will cherish the memory. Thank you all, and the food was exceptional. JK Chambers"
Dined on 7/6/2014
Great food and wine. Service was
great! The lobster with the homemade noodles was incredible."
Dined on 7/5/2014
My wife and I had the five course
meal which included several dishes we would not had ordered if they were explained to us as a special by themselves but we were in the adventurous mood so we went with it and we both were glad we did. With the exception of the soup all the items were excellent and the soup wasn't bad just not something we would not have again. Our server was fantastic, informative and fun. We ate at 6:30 so the place was not crowded but as the night went on it became full at which time the noise level got a bit high and there were a couple is fussy kids at times which was the only real negative. We will be going back."
Dined on 7/3/2014
After looking forward to a great
Italian meal, we were sorely disappointed. Several dishes were heavy handed in the seasoning; too much salt, wine, or garlic. Staff was understanding and attentive. Scenic view is stunning. The food preparation needs more careful attention. Wait till the staff has more experience here before dining here."
Dined on 6/27/2014
We attended a special event and
then planned for a great dinner. What a disappointment. Our server Holly/Molly was great. The food was bland, over priced and undersized. The calamari was the only thing that was good. Lasagna - bad. Pasta with meat sauce (don't remember the name) - terrible. How do you screw that up? Simple: overcook the noodles, serve them wet and cover with bland sauce."
Dined on 6/26/2014
I have always rated this
restaurant high. I have always gotten a perfect meal and great service. This time, the service was still very good, but I was a bit disappointed with my meal. Brissago is known for its Chilean Sea Bass. Whenever I stay at the Grand Geneva this is the only thing I order. Typically the sea bass is topped with a light lobster sauce. I cannot eat anything with lobster so have always asked for the Chef to give me another type of sauce that will compliment the fish. The sea bass was perfect, but the sauce that was give to me (on the side) was a chunky tomato meat sauce. Needless to say, I did not put the meat sauce on the fish. First time of many visits this has happened. Still rate Brissago high. Will return."
Dined on 6/24/2014
Put in a reservation there for my
wife's birthday. The only reservation time available was 5:30 but that was ok. They opened promptly at 5:30 and seated us at a window table. The flowers I ordered from open table were at the table and were great. SERVICE-The server knew every item on the menu from memory and the entire experience with her was perfect. FOOD-The quail appetizer was really good with a to-die-for sauce. Caprese salad had mozzarella that melted in your mouth. Osso Bucco was fantastic. The guitar string pasta with lobster was very tasty but the lobster would not come out of the shell with the utinsils so had to rip it out by hand. Hard to do without getting the juice/sauce everywhere. Not a big deal. LOVED the place!"
Dined on 6/21/2014
Every year my husband and I treat
ourselves to a wedding anniversary celebration at Brissago. They never fail to provide a wonderful dining experience from rose petals on a great table, to wonderful food to complimentary dessert, every staff member takes time to wish us a happy celebration and attends to every need. This restaurant is one of our all time favorites, and we have lived in Chicago and San Francisco where there are plenty of great restaurants. The food and overall experience at Brissago is second to none. Thank you for another terrific evening."
Dined on 6/17/2014
We came here expecting great food
and service. It is a pretty restaurant. The service was amateur. The execution on the food wasn't great. Table side Caesar salad was good. Homemade pasta was delicious but the chicken that came with it was so overcooked we almost couldn't cut it! Most of the dishes were fair at best."
Dined on 6/13/2014
The food was absolutely delicious
- each course was excellently prepared and the view was amazing for a romantic dinner date. Would definitely recommend this place!"
Dined on 6/11/2014
We had a table overlooking the
golf course on a sunny June evening. The sea bass was outstanding. Waitress was very helpful and attentive."
Dined on 6/8/2014
The shank was delicious....soup
was a little salty, but the staff takes care of everything right away. The tomato bread was very good and the lemon basil salad is great. they also had organic muscato!"
Dined on 6/7/2014
The staff was very attentive,
along with the manager stopping by to check in. The food was very good; service and staff was very attentive."
Dined on 6/7/2014
Our server Holly, was very sweet.
She took good care of our table. Most importantly, she was very knowledgeable about the food. She should be highly recommended."
Dined on 6/7/2014
We had our first dinner at
Brissago just a few nights ago. It was really quite nice. The atmosphere was pleasant and quiet with several tables near the window with a nice view of the golf course. Our server, Holly, was terrific and we felt very attended to during the meal without being bothered. Table side Caesar salad was delicious as was the angle hair pasta with lump crab and penne pasta with Italian sausage. A very very light Pinot (Divinti?) easy to sip with the meal. We skipped dessert but still had a lovely time."
Dined on 5/31/2014
Great for a romantic evening with
a loved one or a quiet evening with a small group of special friends."
Dined on 5/30/2014
We went to the restaurant for my
boyfriends birthday. Not only did they have rose petals on the table for him, everyone that helped us told him happy birthday! After we ordered dessert the waitress took it off our bill to help us celebrate. The food was fantastic and we will be back! "
Dined on 5/30/2014
The food was tasty when it arrived
but each course including cocktails was served in shifts of 1 or 2 people at a time, we were a party of 4. The table side Caesar was silently prepared behind the person it was for after everyone else finished that course. Dirty dishes were stacked up on the table instead of removed after each course. 2 entries arrived barely cooked. Had to ask for our water to be refilled . Over an 1 1/2 in were were eating the second try of our entrees when the waitress asked if we wanted the check now or do we want dessert. Didn't appreciate the $15.00 children menu price either. We choose this restaurant because of a great experience there years ago.......oops!"
Dined on 5/25/2014
Took mom here for Mother's Day
dinner. We had tableside Caesar dalad, bottle of Italian Pinot noir. Mom got the pappardelle and I got the pollo arrosto. OUTSTANDING. Our server made great suggestions and they even have my mother a rose after dinner. We will be back when we are in the area again!!!!!!"
Dined on 5/10/2014
This is a very fine resort
restaurant that seems to be doing quite well…it was sold out for the evening we were there. Classic caesar salad prepared table-side is a nice reminder of fine dining of another era; and it does yield a better and much fresher salad. My wife and I shared pappardelle bolognese second course and sea bass for our main. Both were prepared perfectly, were flavorful and hot. The wine list was adequate although not extensive. Service was sufficiently attentive; our server was friendly but professional. All in all, a very good experience. "
Dined on 5/10/2014
The ambiance and service are
terrific. The wine list - delicious. The food - average. Overall a lovely special occasion restaurant but the food was very average. I expected more. Would still recommend it but not for the food."
Dined on 5/3/2014
Great place for a celebration.Only
concern was the entree was warm upon arrival not hot. The overall experience was good and the service was excellent."
Dined on 4/25/2014
We celebrated our engagement here
and it was super romantic! We were seated by the window with a lake view and they placed rose pedals on our table. The dishes were so tasty and the wine selection is great! My fiance really enjoyed the Old Fashion whiskey drink make with cherries from Italy! Great service and just a perfect spot to celebrate a special occasion!"
Dined on 3/22/2014
We were here for my fiances
birthday, and while our waitress was fine, the girl who was bussing our table was beyond rude. First, she took our appetizer away when there was still half remaining and we were clearly eating it. She never asked, just picked it up and started walking away, until we stopped her and asked if we could please finish it. Near the end of the meal, she took my wine glass away, again without asking and had walked away before I could say anything about how there was still wine in the glass that I would have liked to finish. Food was good, wine was good, but overall we walked away with a feeling of being seriously rushed and not able to enjoy our food."
Dined on 3/21/2014
This was our second visit and
again, outstanding service, food, and ambiance. We had the sea bass and tenderloin. Both were cooked as requested and had exceptional flavor. We requested substitues for the breads/potatoes and had some excellent options which were offered without hesitation. A 5 star place."
Dined on 3/21/2014
We have visited this restaurant
three times in the past two years. The first as a reconnaissance visit for a future small group get together. We enjoyed the experience, as did the group a month later. This visit was for a birthday celebration. From splitting a pasta entrée' as an appetizer, an excellent idea by the way, heirloom tomato salad to the Chilean Sea Bass simply put, it was wonderful. Our skilled server, Samantha, provided service equal to the meal. We consider this restaurant a special place for any occasion including a week day meal."
Dined on 3/15/2014
What a lovely evening! My family
was celebrating my birthday and the table looked beautiful with the rose petals. What a thoughtful touch. Even better were the two roses that I received at the end of the evening. If that wasn't enough, the food and service were impeccable. Thank you for a great celebration."
Dined on 3/7/2014
Our original group of 4 mushroomed
and the hostess was excellent. She relocated us to a larger table in a room within the dining room that was perfect for a group and where we would not disturb others enjoying their meals. Service was great. Food terrific. Some ordered fish, some Italian entre's and all came out at the same time with perfect presentation. When we asked for more bread (which was brochette), we were promptly provided two more plates. Wine list is wonderful."
Dined on 3/3/2014
One of the nicest restaurants we
have ever visited. We would highly recommend this restaurant as a very special place in which to have dinner. This is our fourth occasion and we have never been disappointed."
Dined on 3/1/2014
My waiter was excellent and very
friendly. My meal was just right, tasted great, great wine, and friendly service. Thank you!"
Dined on 2/28/2014
We were a large group of 10 adults
and 7 children so we're given a lovely side room. The waitress was amazing with her knowledge of an extensive menu! Our only complaint was the long wait for the food. With a lot of very small children who had a big day at the water park at the resort, they were tired and hungry. We ended up rushing through our lovely meal after going through a lot of wine during the wait. $800+ later .....we do realize it is a lit of fiid to get out at one time. It was delicious!"
Dined on 2/16/2014
I thought the food was fair for
the cost of an entrée. When you pay $37 for a pasta entrée it should be memorable. Nothing memorable for my first experience at Brissago. The service was very good."
Dined on 2/15/2014
Food was great, good ambience. The
only issue the service was good but not great. Not sure if it was busy or understaffed but didn't see our server enough. I would for sure come back."
Dined on 2/14/2014
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Here's a rundown of Veterans Day 2012 facts from the U.S. Census Bureau:
Veterans Day originated as "Armistice Day" on Nov. 11, 1919, the first anniversary of the end of World War I.
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Congress passed a resolution in 1926 for an annual observance, and Nov. 11 became a national holiday beginning in 1938. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed legislation in 1954 to change the name to Veterans Day as a way to honor those who served in all American wars.
The day honors military veterans with parades and speeches across the nation. A national ceremony takes place at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.
Who They Are
21.5 million: The number of military veterans in the United States in 2011.
1.6 million: The number of female veterans in 2011.
2.3 million: The number of black veterans in 2011. Additionally, 1.2 million veterans were Hispanic; 264,695 were Asian; 153,223 were American Indian or Alaska Native; 27,469 were Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander; and 17.2 million were non-Hispanic white. (The numbers for blacks, Asians, American Indians and Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islanders, and non-Hispanic whites cover only those reporting a single race.)
9.2 million: The number of veterans 65 and older in 2011. At the other end of the age spectrum, 1.8 million were younger than 35.
When They Served
7.5 million: Number of Vietnam-era veterans in 2011: 5.1 million served during the Gulf War (representing service from Aug. 2, 1990, to present); 1.8 million in World War II (1941-1945); 2.4 million in the Korean War (1950-1953); and 5.4 million in peacetime only.
51,079: Number of living veterans in 2011 who served during the Vietnam era and both Gulf War eras and no other period. Other living veterans in 2011 who served during three wars:
- 43,942 served during World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam era.
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- 876,663 served during both Gulf War eras.
- 205,205 served during both the Korean War and the Vietnam era.
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By James Coburn
The Norman Transcript
NORMAN — Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett asked the Regional Transit Dialogue Steering Committee (RTD) if there is a consensus that one agency should be responsible for all metro rail and buses.
Citylink in Edmond is one of the service providers that offers transit in the metro area. A question to answer is whether a Regional Transit Authority would contract with current service providers or offer to provide transit itself, Douglas Rex of ACOG said at a recent RTD meeting.
Three rail corridors are suggested in the study, including a link to the $120 million modern street car system being constructed with an intermodal hub in downtown Oklahoma City. RTD calls for the hub to link Edmond, Norman, Midwest City and Tinker Air Force Base.
Edmond City Councilwoman Victoria Caldwell said the City of Edmond knows two federal funding sources for Citylink will be going away.
"So now is kind of the time to be looking at how we are going to replace that funding," Caldwell said.
The 2012 federal transportation bill changed how allocations are being made. The formula based on regional density works against the Oklahoma City metroplex, Rex said.
"We don't have a lot of ridership when compared to some of the larger cities," he said.
University of Central Oklahoma Vice President Steve Kreidler said that the City of Edmond Downtown Master Plan takes into account a possible railroad station being studied for an area south of Edmond Road and east of Broadway. The city already owns property on Third Street, including a police storage facility, parking lot and the former Edmond Senior Center.
Learning from MAPS: Scientific polling of the metro community would help identify public interest in the project, said Roy Williams, president of the Greater Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce.
"The political animal that is involved here is equally compelling and important to the actual building of all this stuff," Cornett said.
When considering the history of MAPS, Cornett said MAPS and MAPS 3 were streamlined approaches involving a sales tax to rejuvenate downtown Oklahoma City.
"It was real easy to communicate and decide yes or no. This reminds me more of MAPS for Kids," Cornett said.
City leaders had to unite school boards and principals of 24 school districts, Cornett said.
There will be opposition to anything that requires taxation, Cornett said, so the project will require tremendous consensus building. Buses, but no rail lines, run throughout northwest Oklahoma City, he said. RTD is considering bus systems feeding into rail.
Setting goals: "In the end you've got to figure out how you're going to govern it and how you're going to pay for it," Hutchison said.
"I would suggest that there's probably a question you have to ask before that — whether you want to do it at all," Rex said. "Part of the work we'll be doing in the next 18 months will help us determine that through surveying tools to get public reaction to what we might end up doing."
A short-term and a long-term timeline for the project is being studied. The RTD will set goals in areas of governance, legislation, coalition building, finance, public education and marketing, Rex said.
The committee is focusing on creating a Regional Transit Authority. RTA would be represented by elected or appointed officials to develop a plan to operate the transit project.
A ballot issue would be needed to take to voters for a dedicated funding source, Hutchison said. Dedicated funding would allow the expansion of bus systems as well as building a hub with a commuter rail system.
A vision to benefit future generations: Kreidler said city leaders 40 to 60 years ago made visionary decisions that they did not have to make.
"They did not have to build Stanley Draper Lake or Lake Overholser at that time," Kreidler said. "Edmond and Norman are cities that built great reservoirs long before they were needed."
In December, Russell Evans, executive director of the Steven C. Agee Economic Research & Policy Institute at Oklahoma City University, told the Edmond City Council there's a viable chance that Oklahoma City is poised to boom with economic growth in the coming decade.
How Edmond plans its piece of the economic pie could impact the prosperity of residents for generations to come, Evans said.
Of seven well-defined megalopolis areas in the U.S. in terms of population, Oklahoma City is part of the third-fastest-growing megalopolis extending on Interstate 35 from San Antonio to Oklahoma City and beyond to Kansas City. More than 1,000 people a month are moving to Oklahoma City.
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Would you drive 20 minutes out of your way to save $5 on a $15 calculator?
Would you drive the same distance to save $5 on a $125 leather jacket?
According to research from Richard Thaler at University of Chicago, 68% of respondents would drive to get the calculator but only 29% for the leather jacket. On the surface, this result is illogical – the savings is the same ($5) in both cases. The decision seems to be based on the inherent concept of getting a deal. One third off of an inexpensive calculator is a more powerful motivator than 4% of a leather jacket.
Thaler describes this irrational decision as an example of mental accounting. Mental accounting can be thought of as the home equivalent of financial accounting; both have charts of accounts, closing periods, and investment trade-offs. Unfortunately, while there are professional financial accountants, the evidence suggests that we're not very good when it comes to mental accounting.
People mentally create spending accounts with implied budgets for activities like entertainment, food, travel, and clothing. If they feel like they've overspent in one category, they will delay needed purchases in that specific category – even though they still spend on other items. A Princeton study showed this effect by asking participants to react to the following scenarios:
Imagine you just arrived at a theater and as you reach into your pocket to pull out the $10 ticket you purchased in advance, you discover that it's missing. Would you fork over another $10 to see the movie?
Compare that to a second scenario in which you did not buy the ticket in advance, but when you arrive at the theater, you discover you had lost a $10 bill on the way. Would you still buy a movie ticket?
Even though they have the same value, only 46% of those who lost the ticket were willing to buy a replacement, while 88% of those who lost the equivalent amount in cash were willing to buy a ticket. In the first case, the participants reported that they felt they were paying $20 for the movie because they were withdrawing additional money from their entertainment budget while in the other, the lost money came out of an overhead budget.
By contrast, at work we're often willing to transfer budget from one category to another. For example, if your travel budget is down to zero but you need to visit an important client, it's likely that you can use available funds from the third-party consulting budget instead. The impact on cash flow is the same.
Like financial accounting, mental accounting requires people to periodically close the books. As I've previously blogged, taxi drivers seem to balance their mental books on a daily basis. Hourly employees spend more on weekends, regardless of their actual account balances. Every year I spend less in the first two weeks of January and the last two weeks of April, even though I know holiday gift giving and tax paying won't be repeated for another year.
While some believe that mental accounting is over-hyped, I find that it often explains seemingly irrational financial behavior. Like why I've bought so many calculators on sale…
Good post. I can sell you my collection of calculators at a discount . . .
I love the rationalizations we use to justify time, budget, opportunity costs, travel, etc for both our personal lives and our business lives. We can talk ourselves into decisions that when weighed purely on the merits, are quite irrational.
Very nice. Actually the idea that we shop rationally is obviously wrong but unfortunatley very persistent.
What I miss in this calculation is actual budget I might have as a buyer. Depending on my income, I feel that spending $15 is much more in reach than $125, which maybe would make me think twice if I want to spend it even with discount.
So it very much depends on the emotions attached to it.
>>>Imagine you just arrived at a theater <<<
Well, if I would have travelled to see La Traviata in Verona I certainly would pay twice.
So it very much depends on the emotions attached to it and the energy we already spent. But actually we are pretty bad in evaluating the marginal utility (Grenznutzen), we often invest more when we already invested although we should cut our losses.
Very nice topic
Good blog,
As a college student I find this to be completely true. Most college kids like myself will try to set a limit on how much money we spend in certain categories. By advertising in college newspapers, advertisers can reach a wide variety of college students. This way when us college kids spend our limited money in a category, we pick the brand we know of the most.


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---- — Grand Traverse County residents have two well-qualified candidates running for Probate Court Judge, Melanie Stanton and Kirsten Keilitz, and their campaigns have stressed their legal and life experiences.
Stanton has cited her 20-plus years in the law and her prior career as a nurse; Keilitz has talked about her years as an attorney and her three years as Juvenile and Family Division referee for the 13th Circuit Court and Grand Traverse County.
Experience counts. But there's a lot more to this job than that — the intangibles that are so crucial in probate court, where family issues, abuse cases and more are decided: compassion, common sense, respect and the courage to do what's best even when that may cause heartache.
On that scale, we believe Kirsten Keilitz has the demeanor and emotional balance needed to take on a difficult job and serve those who come before her fairly and honestly.
We're not alone. Three years ago Keilitz was chosen unanimously by 13th Circuit Court and Family Division judges to serve full-time as 13th Circuit Domestic Relations Referee and Grand Traverse Juvenile and Family Division Referee. So far, she's gotten great reviews.
We're not concerned that Keilitz's husband Ron Schuknecht works as a bankruptcy attorney at a local law firm. Keilitz has said she'll disqualify herself if there's a potential conflict.
Keilitz got unanimous support when she was named Referee and has also gotten overwhelming backing from the legal community for her campaign in ads and letters to the editorial pages of the Record-Eagle. While some folks may look warily at lawyer endorsements, there is a clear sense she has the respect of those who have dealt with her on both sides of the bench.
Keilitz brings experience, a down-to-earth demeanor and real conviction to a difficult job. She has our endorsement.


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Sixth District Circuit Court hearings for Tucker Cipriano, 19, and Mitchell Young, 21, charged in the deadly April 16 attack on Cipriano's family, ended this afternoon with new court dates.
Attorneys are waiting on two reports, including one that will help determine whether Tucker Cipriano is competent to stand trial and whether he was psychotic during the attack.
Both men to charges of first-degree, premeditated murder, attempted murder and armed robbery, in connection with the April 16 murder of Tucker's father, Bob Cipriano, and attacks that critically injured his mother, Rose, and brother Salvatore, 17, in their Farmington Hills home.
Young walked into the courtroom first, shackled and facing the judge from where he stood in the jury box. Assistant Oakland County Prosecutor John Skrzynski told Judge Shalina Kumar that analysis of DNA evidence had not yet been received from the Michigan State Police crime lab. He also noted that Michael McCarthy, Young's attorney, had filed several motions in connection with the case.
Kumar set a court date of Sept. 26, 1:30 p.m., to hear the motions and hold a hearing on evidence.
Tucker Cipriano walked into the courtroom next, smiling briefly at two spectators who sat in the front row. His head remained bowed as his attorney Mitchell Ribitwer and Skrzynski spoke with Kumar.
Ribitwer said he is still waiting for a written report from the Forensic Center for Psychiatry, which evaluated Cipriano. Kumar set a court date of Sept. 25, 1:30 p.m., for a pretrial conference, which will involve scheduling motion hearings and setting a trial date, which Ribitwer estimates will be sometime in 2013.
After the hearing, he said he expects the report on Cipriano's competence to stand trial within two to three weeks. He said his main concern is whether Cipriano was psychotic at the time of the attacks. There is evidence that Cipriano was using K-2, a synthetic drug, and that long-term K-2 use can lead to psychosis, Ribitwer said.
"Based on our research, he very well could have been psychotic at the time of the incident," he added.
Tucker Cipriano has been informed about the , Ribitwer said.
"I can't tell you that he's getting family support," he added, describing his client as "withdrawn" and "very despondent".
Ribitwer said he is asking for a separate trial, because some of the statements Young made to police could be damaging to Cipriano. He added that he believes those statements are false.


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The standard tactic of every mayor who wants to raise city taxes is to threaten to fire the most important city employees. The mayor asks—will you give me the extra money I want, or do I need to fire the police and firefighters?
Americans have usually been smarter than that. Every city has some fat in its budget. Every city spends money on things that may be important, but are not essential. It is the job of the mayor to make those hard choices. Keep the meat. Trim the fat. To govern is to choose.
Unfortunately, that's not the script.
At every level, from the federal government to the state of Minnesota, to the local school districts, every budget shortfall brings a cry for higher taxes. Cuts in spending will result in armageddon. The sky will fall. It will be the end of life as we know it.
At the federal level, a sequester is coming March 1st, which will trim $85 billion out of an anticipated $3,700 Billion of federal outlays this year. That's about 2 percent of yearly outlays. It's about 8 percent of the deficit for just this year.
Note that I don't use the word budget. The federal government has been operating without a budget for over 3 years. As a step toward a balanced budget, the sequester barely makes a dent, but at least it's a start.
Take a peek at just one list of federal waste (and here). Can anyone tell you with a straight face that it's not possible to trim 2 percent from federal spending? (We just spent $60 billion "extra" on hurricane Sandy relief!)
Hard-headed reporters might be expected to reveal the Chicken Little routine as a clever tactic, but this Patch article is more typical of the media's stance. It parrots the position of the president, and helps him play Chicken Little.
Governor Dayton is following a similar script, and doing well if the public opinion polls are any guide. After doing a $1 billion Vikings stadium deal, and starting this session with a nod toward the $500 million request from Mayo, he still has the guts to demand an "essential" tax increase of a net $2.2 billion. To me, the worst part of his plan is that after condemning the school shift in the 2011 session, he isn't even planning to use this extra tax money to pay it back!
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[Omnicat] <Nyaa> We will of course be playing Star Citizen. If you have a game package with alpha access, you can join our subversion efforts right here. See you in the 'verse!
[07-25, 20:31] <Scare77> Wenas
[07-25, 20:31] <MinnaSubs> maybe :)
[07-25, 19:54] <BakaYuusha> So it's a race then? :P
[07-25, 19:38] <MinnaSubs> than*
[07-25, 19:38] <MinnaSubs> @BakaYuusha we're not re-uploading what HS put up . we rip as well and sometimes we are fast then HS
[07-25, 19:04] <[TRVE]> Thank you,
Captain Obv- sarachikorita.
[07-25, 18:56] <BakaYuusha> @MinnaSubs Why are you just reuploading what HorribleSubs has already put up. Am I missing something here?
[07-25, 18:49] <MinnaSubs> we're back .
[07-25, 18:47] <Kips> whats shit or isnt shit is objective; aka why theres still siscon animes being mad. someone, somewhere likes that kinda trash
[07-25, 18:30] <Abunja> oh, sorry. my bad. its just me assuming
[07-25, 18:27] <sarachikorita> @ lifebaka and [TRVE]: 90% of everything sucks. Just ask Theodore Sturgeon
[07-25, 18:27] <Arkasia> A gaming magazine I used to read always explained that they like mecha to compensate for their small **** size.
[07-25, 18:26] <hazardous> maybe they want to make GiTS age a reality :)
[07-25, 18:09] <eternalmetal> I wonder why Japan is so into robotics?
[07-25, 17:58] <[TRVE]> And Abunja - wrong. I gladly watch and rewatch good animated cartoons.
[07-25, 17:58] <[TRVE]> Most of everything sucks, indeed. The case with anime is that it's a niche medium, known by only a small amount of people and produced by an even smaller amount of people. And only a fraction of those people has actual talent, both for writing and for direction, storyboarding etc. So you can imagine that actual worthwhile content is very scarce, even more scarce compared to wider-spread media. That's why it's worthless - good content is so rare it's practically inexistent.
[07-25, 17:52] <Senfu> I'm not taking him serious haha, just bored
[07-25, 17:21] <Abunja> dont take TRVE so seriously, lifebaka. he finds animation/cartoons unappealing so you cant do anything about it
[07-25, 17:16] <Senfu> Blahblahblah TRVE saying weird stuff again yada yada
[07-25, 17:07] <lifebaka> Ah, but of course most anime sucks. I can certainly agree with that. Most anime kinda' sucks. So do most novels, most movies, most TV shows, most of pretty much everything. What I don't agree with is saying that anime, as a whole, is worthless simply because most of it sucks.
[07-25, 16:54] <[TRVE]> And you seem to assume that "artistic merit" is the sole thing that defines quality. Besides, you mentioned a "new" medium, seemingly telling me it just needs time. I went along with both and am trying to figure out how much time it needs.
[07-25, 16:38] <lifebaka> You see, [TRVE], your question is based on the assumption that people acknowledging the artistic merit of a medium matters. I don't agree with that premise. So I won't answer that question.
[07-25, 16:34] <[TRVE]> So, how long did it take?
[07-25, 16:30] <lifebaka> Film didn't "acquire" artistic value. It always had it. People just stopped being pretentious assholes who could pretend that it wasn't important.
[07-25, 16:26] <[TRVE]> So, how long did it take for film to acquire artistic value? And how long has anime been around?
[07-25, 16:24] <lifebaka> Eh, there was a time when people didn't think that film had artistic value. There was a time when people didn't think the novel, as a form, had artistic value. So you'll have to excuse me for finding arguments that anime, or other new media, doesn't have artistic value somewhat unconvincing.
[07-25, 16:09] <OneCrazyRussian> >throwaway medium yourself
[07-25, 16:03] <[TRVE]> Plus, when a throwaway medium only sports a handful of good titles, you can't do anything else but judge it by its shit.
[07-25, 16:00] <OneCrazyRussian> Get low get low get low HEREWEGOOO
[07-25, 16:00] <[TRVE]> And lifebaka, I didn't know Twilight had anything to do with literature.
[07-25, 15:59] <[TRVE]> If Macross 7 is even remotely like the other parts of the franchise, then the bar is set really low. Come on, put more thought into it.
[07-25, 15:16] <eternalmetal> All literature should be judged by comparisons with Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination. And all anime to Macross 7.
[07-25, 14:33] <lifebaka> You could easily point the same line of criticism at any media, [TRVE]. Anime shouldn't be judged by its shit any more than literature is judged by Twilight.
[07-25, 12:54] <NotSoYans> oh, TRVE, I'm fully aware of that. Everyone has their oppinon and like it or not you will express it simehow. I still find it as a representation of society, though a scewed one. Besides because these, more or less, are artistic works, the in-universe happenings can and most certainly will not make real world sense at times. Because seriously, no one can expect a comedy to be realistic.
[07-25, 12:47] <[TRVE]> Anime nowadays is there to provide means to escape reality (among other reasons).
[07-25, 12:46] <NotSoYans> I guess TL/DR version - bugcatching makes no sense, but thanks Profuse for tellingabout it.
[07-25, 12:46] <[TRVE]> Therefore, if you claim you watch anime for different facets of human society, you delude yourself.
[07-25, 12:41] <[TRVE]> Oftentimes anime show not actual facets of an actual society, but simply how the creator would like to or imagines society to be. An anime portraying a real society is quite rare.
[07-25, 12:20] <NotSoYans> lol, yeah, sure. If you don't want to read it, don't. It's not even that important. Just some words on the internet.
[07-25, 12:16] <pky> @NotSoYans https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BydYgfCmekQ
[07-25, 12:03] <NotSoYans> Ok, so these will be my last two cents on the subject, because I don't it should be brought up in this way to begin with. Concerning bugcatching - while I could see the basis for that analogy it still is quite confusing, because while it may have originated in gay community it isn't really exclusive to them anymore, which by the way is not even mentioned in that wiki article. Also it is quite confusing Tokyo Ghoul wise. Also there seems to be high mortality rate in ghoul/human relationships and rare cases of children from those, which would make a better HIV analogy. Don't get me wrong, nor am I gay or have anything against them, actually Profuse told me an interesting tidbit of information today, so thanks you Profuse. Well, ether way I will continue watching TG and Love Stage! because I like seeing different facets of human society. Not so sure about Dramatical Murder simply because I have no idea where the story is even suppose to go. Well this is a wall at this point so I guess it will be deleted.
[07-25, 10:16] <jerxou> peroperoperopero~~
[07-25, 10:04] <usagiaddict> Then `Could not parse bencoded data` error looks like my shell's IP is banned... Couldn't be worse
[07-25, 09:50] <MisterDonut> rtorrent is whitelisted
[07-25, 09:47] <qashairy> http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/ANZX-11711 Gintama S1 Blu-ray. Fuck yeah does anyone interested to pick it up? Japs subs is included.
[07-25, 09:46] <usagiaddict> Could you whitelist rTorrent, pretty please? I'm afraid that downloading torrents with cute little girls directly from my workplace would be bad idea.
[07-25, 09:45] <MisterDonut> the BDMV i mean
[07-25, 09:28] <MisterDonut> nalo, volume 02 hasnt been uploaded yet.
[07-25, 09:04] <nozdrum> cant edit messages on nyaa?
[07-25, 08:27] <nalo> I just want Kisaragi attention lossless aha :P
[07-25, 06:53] <jerxou> what the buck
[07-25, 06:32] <parata> Mekakushitty >>
[07-25, 06:18] <nalo> So many people uploaded Mekaku Volume 1, but no one wants to do Volume 2 for some reason. :(
[07-25, 06:04] <Kips> this is a very confusing conversation
[07-25, 05:30] <nitekatt> Looks like someone here is willing to say that its completely okay to suck d..k as long as you dont get a kidney transplant from woman.
[07-25, 05:20] <()blivion> "something you would hear played live in gay clubs". <--- implying he's familiar with gay club music.
[07-25, 04:54] <eternia> getting kidney transplant from a woman makes you gay
[07-25, 02:51] <BakaYuusha> His name is Profuse so I guess we can't be surprised if he spews out bullshit.
[07-25, 02:47] <BakaYuusha> So according to @Profuse, if you're male and get any kind of organ transplant from a female or got to a coffee shop then you're gay? @Profuse owes any apology to anyone who's ever had a kidney donated or been to a Starbucks. I can't wait to see what you say next. :P
[07-25, 02:46] <Akaneon> Dr. Dre. I got a question I may. Is Tokyo Ghoul gay. To play, Putt putt golf with his friends.
[07-25, 02:21] <knowitall> neither bulimia or bugchasing are aspects of gay culture. they exist among all sexualities.
[07-25, 02:18] <Demandred> ok, i retract that statement about ghoul after watching ep 4. sigh.
[07-25, 01:57] <Demandred> now dramatical murder, thats a different story there...had to drop it for its gayness being over the top.
[07-25, 01:56] <Demandred> i think ppl are reading to much into tokyo ghoul. why not just enjoy a dark gorey storyline and let it go at that?
[07-25, 01:53] <Profuse> @NotSoYans in gay community there is bugchasing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugchasing I think ghoul(giftgivers) eating people it's an imaginative way the writer is describing such practice.
[07-25, 01:30] <NotSoYans> Also wait a minute - if throwing up normal food symbolizes bulimic aspects of gay culture or whatever then, emm.. What the hell does eating up normal people symbolize exactly? That heterosexuals are necessary for gay survival?
[07-25, 01:12] <Dragons4life> Anyone here uses MPVPlayer?
[07-25, 01:12] <NotSoYans> I have to wonder why a person like Profuse would even be in an anime centric sites chat if he hates anime so much, but then again there are a lot of different people in this world.
[07-25, 00:50] <aers> Expert trolling Profuse.
[07-24, 23:39] <junh1024> and Shitkurashou was a chore to watch in the middle/end, and that's saiyan something
[07-24, 23:38] <junh1024> I watched OreImo S2 selectively and it was "OK"?
[07-24, 23:17] <knowitall> @BakaYuusha What gave it away? The fact that he's clearly never met a gay person in his life?
[07-24, 23:11] <BakaYuusha> 3 or 4 anime that could be considered yaoi this season.
[07-24, 23:10] <BakaYuusha> @Profuse I think you're just homophobic. Not sure why you're hating on ghoul so much when there's literally
[07-24, 21:58] <darkfire68> can anyone help me?
[07-24, 21:52] <darkfire68> Made torrent with qtorrent 3.4.2, added tracker what is the problem?
[07-24, 21:52] <darkfire68> When I want to upload a torrent, i got this: Upload failed. No torrent data could be parsed.
[07-24, 21:47] <desudesusu> Ohys-Raws must be trusted
[07-24, 21:23] <DualBlader> Neither of those are really that bad of animes.
[07-24, 21:22] <Dragons4life> @Kawaii! I don't like the opening, the ending is pretty cool tough.
[07-24, 20:43] <Profuse> yea Danganropa is bad, it's one of the worst so bad you rather watch Sakurasou no Pet na Kanojo
[07-24, 20:41] <[TRVE]> Is it that bad? All I know is it's an episodic whodunnit.
[07-24, 20:34] <Profuse> By the way coffee shop is a big gay thing here in Davie village, No gays like to be in construction so they're all into service things like Coffee shops(hence like in Tokyo Ghoul)
[07-24, 20:30] <Profuse> TRVE I watched Danganropa PLEASE don't compare that garbage to Golden Witch
[07-24, 20:28] <[TRVE]> Sometimes I still do, Arkasia. For example, when I stumble upon a supposedly influential title I haven't seen yet. Or out of necessity, like currently with Barakamon.
[07-24, 20:24] <[TRVE]> Profuse, afaik, "Danganronpa" is somewhat similar. That's all I know. And you should read the Umineko VN anyway (this is actually the only time I will ever recommend reading a VN).
[07-24, 20:23] <[TRVE]> HeroineKawaii, let's start with the fact that it's an anime.
[07-24, 20:21] <Profuse> Dude I live in Davie Village I know everything about gay. I can tell you the writer for this anime probably gay.
[07-24, 20:19] <Profuse> 1. the ghoul throw up human food, it's like symbolizing gay(many bulimic) do the same thing.
[07-24, 20:18] <Profuse> @Arkasia it's the whole vibe of the anime. Few major factors in the story
[07-24, 20:15] <pky> fkin Enter... They're just there to be skipped.
[07-24, 20:14] <pky> Deadfish don't sub shit. They just reencode the other groups' releases into hardsubbed mp4. But who cares about the OP/ED songs anyway? They
[07-24, 20:12] <MisterDonut> they dont sub. the just re-encode
[07-24, 20:10] <SinonGC> I like Deadfish subs because they sub the opening song, which means i can at least know what the song means, but they take so long and Horriblesubs is always on time ; _ ;
[07-24, 19:56] <Arkasia> [TRVE] do you still watch anime?
[07-24, 19:52] <Arkasia> I feel that many of those feminine looking, feminice voiced singers who sing about hetero romance are closeted gays. (Teenage) girls love that shit because they never see (heterosexual) men that 'sensitive' in their daily lives.
[07-24, 19:38] <AnimaxDay> ._.
[07-24, 19:32] <Profuse> @Kawaii gay people just love that fake feminine voice. It's the style that many gay musicians use to cater for the gays.
[07-24, 19:31] <OneCrazyRussian> @Profuse, he meant the visual part of the Ghoul's OP/ED. Because the songs suck-a-lot


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Start with California: land of, uh, contrasts. Southern California, where the exotic and the vernacular peacefully coexist, where skyscrapers and hot-dog-shaped restaurants sit side by side, is really three distinct, dissimilar worlds – the Valley, the Beach and the City. But in the Southern California spirit of peculiar juxtaposition, four women from these disparate corners of Los Angeles ended up in a garage together, inventing a band.
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If you thought you'd heard the last of four-part harmonies; if you'd rued the passing of bands that featured a cute one, a smart one, a quiet one and a drummer; if you'd figured that since the demise of the Beatles, the music audience had been irreversibly divided – pop-loving mall rat from axe-mad aging rocker, discerning critic from hip-wagging hit lover – the Bangles created themselves with you in mind.
They play, they sing, they rock, they swing, they wear minis. They don't have matching haircuts, but they do make music that melds diverse styles into a bright Beatlesque blast. Like the band they emulate and so admire, they want and intend to be everything to everybody, purist and populist alike. And with the recent ascent of their single "Walk Like an Egyptian" to Number One, the Bangles are proving that they just might be able to pull it off.
The Bangles – Susanna Hoffs, Debbi Peterson, Vicki Peterson and Michael Steele – are smart, ambitious, careful and determined. It isn't your average band, for instance, that hires a stylist even before signing a record contract or that judiciously paces success. Nor is it your average band that keeps utterly cool when its single goes to Number One. On the December day when "Walk Like an Egyptian" ran to the top of the charts, the Bangles were less recklessly abandoned to the good news than was their friend Gina Schock, the former drummer for the former Go-Go's, who happened to be with them when they found out. "You guys," Schock told them, "you should just enjoy this now! Tomorrow doesn't matter. Really, you should just whoop it up and enjoy it Whoop it up! And just don't worry about tomorrow!"
But they do. The Bangles worry about controlling their careers, about balancing their nearly antithetical natures, about scheduling Bangle Baby Year. They worry about the way the cute one has started to overshadow the smart one and the quiet one, and they worry about keeping the drummer happy. But wouldn't you if you had their big plans – if you were kind of, sort of, patterning your band after a successful quartet like, say, the Beatles? Wouldn't you have tomorrow on your mind?
Vicki and debbi peterson were born, respectively, in 1961 and 1962, or thereabouts – all the Bangles are precisely inexact about their ages. The Petersons grew up in Northridge, a sun-streaked town on the northern rim of the San Fernando Valley, where teenage fulfillment hinges on having a perfect car or a perfect haircut or at least a perfect room of your own. Vicki had a room of her own, and she practically lived in it full time, picking out tunes on a little copy of a Rickenbacker guitar and thrilling to her favorite records, most of which predated her adolescence by a decade. Debbi divided her time between horseback riding and playing air guitar and air drums and singing into combs and hairbrushes. The Petersons' father, Milton, was an engineer at TRW, and their mother, Jeanne, did some modeling and later worked for Glenn Anderson, a California congressman. Both of the elder Petersons liked music enough to have the radio playing day and night through the intercom system of the house. As Vicki remembers it, her mother even woke the four Peterson kids to watch the Beatles on Ed Sullivan.
At Our Lady of Lourdes School, you had two choices: to be either a rebel or a goody-good. Debbi, soft-spoken and careful, opted for goody-good status. Vicki was a rebel – headstrong and impudent – but with a cause. She had no interest in drugs or the usual teenage anarchy, but she was determined at any expense to make something of her music.
By ninth grade, Vicki had formed the first of her many bands. It was a bit of a musical oddity: while car radios throughout the Valley reverberated with Seventies superbands, like Aerosmith and Led Zeppelin and Bad Company, Vicki's band was noodling around with lacy four-part harmonies and folkie finger-picked guitar, a sound borrowed from those Sixties pop records she mooned over in her room. "I was writing in the style of Joni Mitchell," Vicki says, "but my true love was the Hollies and the Beatles."
Vicki eventually bought Debbi a drum set – a calculated investment because her band needed a drummer. Debbi eventually paid her back with money she earned by working at McDonald's.
The new band, now complete with Debbi on drums and Vicki and her friend Amanda on guitars, began as Crista Galli ("a small bone at the back of the head" explains Vicki). They then renamed themselves Aishi. ("We couldn't stand having a band name that you could pronounce easily" Vicki says. "Aishi means 'life' and 'positive vibes."') Then came the Muze and the Fans and Shanti and Those Girls and finally – but, luckily, not permanently – KooKoo and the DooDooHeads.
"I never doubted that the band would work, which makes me totally irrational," Vicki says.
"I was a little worried at first, knowing that they wanted to be rock stars," says Jeanne Peterson of her daughters. "I was concerned that there weren't too many young women who were doing that."
By 1980, Vicki was an English major at UCLA, sharing an apartment in Hollywood with Debbi and another woman who had joined their band. The Los Angeles music scene, for so long saggy with bad disco and axe-happy metal bands, had just snapped back with power pop and punk. Vicki was itchy. If there ever was a time for KooKoo and the DooDooHeads (or whatever they were calling themselves that morning) and the Peterson sisters' fuel-injected folk, she felt this was it.
"There were all these bands, like the Go-Go's and the Knack, that were focusing attention on L.A.," Vicki says, "and I was afraid that it would all leave me behind."
If the Petersons are creatures of the bleached-out San Fernando basin, where cultural myth is made of two kinds of transmissions – automotive and airwave – then Susanna Hoffs is a product of the part of L.A. where birds of paradise and palms flourish in the front yard and screenplays spring eternal in the back.
Joshua and Tamar Hoffs came to the west side of L.A. in the Fifties, by way of Harvard and Yale and a brush with beatnikism; back then West L.A. was a sort of greener Greenwich Village, peopled with postbohos and bookworms planning to build a better world. The Hoffs children – two boys and the slight, sloe-eyed, dark-haired Susanna, who says she was born in 1962 – were raised in what Susanna calls "this atheist, intellectual, creative world" where emoting well (credit psychoanalyst Joshua's influence) and formalizing the results (credit screenwriter-director Tamar) were encouraged.
Susanna started with ballet at age five, continued her dancing while a student at Berkeley, switched to theater, aspired to movies, changed her major to painting, considered dancing again and then decided to find a band. For someone less ambitious than Susanna, this might have been seen as aimlessness; for her, it was more a case of casting about for the right place to make her mark. "Susanna's always been very focused, even as a child," says her father. "She has a certain dedicated, serious approach to her life, like a doctor or a lawyer might."
"You can't," says Susanna, "depend on accidents to make your career."
In 1981, after graduating from Berkeley, Susanna was determined to play music. To find band mates, she ran a classified ad in a Los Angeles weekly. She also answered one that had been placed by a woman whose roommates had just kicked her out of their band. Although she wasn't compatible with the woman who placed the ad, Susanna did hit it off with her roommates, who happened to be Vicki and Debbi Peterson.
"It was amazing," says Vicki. "It was pretty much an instantaneous thing with Susanna."
"It was weird," says Susanna, "because I'd say, 'I love the Grass Roots, I love the Hollies, I love Love with Arthur Lee.' It was just so weird they knew all those groups."
They shared a past-tense taste in music, a knack for harmonies and the staunchness and discipline to get what they all wanted – their music on the radio. So immediate was their rapport that they formed the band the night they met. Admittedly, there were some nerve-jangling moments early on. "It was really scary," says Susanna. "I remember talking to Vicki in the kitchen about a week after we decided to form the band, and I suddenly got these butterflies in my stomach. It was like I'd married a stranger. She was talking about her background and everything. It was so different from mine that although I really liked her, it was just a strange sensation."
But not strange enough to stop them. Which is how the three of them ended up in Susanna's garage in 1981, playing their tapes, talking and laying plans for taking on the world.
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