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Experience the world of a cop in the 1920s when Vancouver was a seething hub of sex, drugs, booze and organized crime. Your 90-minute walking tour takes you through the streets and alleys of Chinatown on the lookout for brothels, bootlegging joints, gambling houses and opium dens. This is a must-see tour for anyone looking for the edgier side of this great city!
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The Honda Celebration of Light is not only Vancouver's biggest event, but it's also the largest offshore fireworks competition in the world and attracts up to 400,000 spectators along English Bay each evening. Operated by the Not For Profit Vancouver Fireworks Festival Society.
Daily from July 26, 2014 to August 3, 2014
The Odlum Brown VanOpen is the largest professional men's and women's tennis tournament in Western Canada and this is your chance to get up close and personal with some of the world's top tennis stars. The tournament has hosted some of the biggest names in world tennis including Maria Sharapova, Andy Murray, Marcos Baghdatis, as well as Canadians Milos Raonic, Eugenie Bouchard and Vasek Pospisil. The Odlum Brown VanOpen is a drama packed week of exhilarating tennis and good off-court entertainment.
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Enchant your evenings with the critically acclaimed concert series at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden. Celebrate the Enchanted Evening's 21st anniversary season with a range of musical performances.
Daily from July 11, 2014 to August 23, 2014
Theatre Under the Stars presents a pair of toe-tapping, laugh-inducing productions this summer with Shrek: The Musical and Legally Blonde: The Musical, running July 11 - August 23, 2014 (performances alternate evenings) at Stanley Park's picturesque Malkin Bowl. A beloved Vancouver tradition since 1940, Theatre Under the Stars promises a blonde-tastic, ogre-ific season filled with surprise, delight, and non-stop fun for the whole family.
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Come out to the North Point every Thursday evening this summer to watch a movie under the stars, featuring great Canadian talent! Bring a blanket and a lawn chair, then sit back and enjoy the show. Movies begin at dusk.
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Get fit and have fun at this outdoor, Latin-inspired, easy-to-follow dance party every Monday at 5:30 pm this summer at the North Point! No dance experience or partner is needed for this fun fitness class that is guaranteed to have you smiling.
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The Gulf of Georgia Cannery Society's annual summertime evening concert series returns on July 4th! Join us every Friday night at 6:30 pm in July and August for an evening of music. Every week will feature a different musical act, catering to a wide range of musical tastes, from blues, jazz, folk and much more! Friday nights at 6:30 pm, through July & August. Admission is by donation. Cash bar will be available. Concerts are held outdoors on the Cannery's Tank Deck, so please dress warmly for our cool summer evenings.
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Join us every Friday night for our summer music series. Music at the Cannery is an open air music series at the Gulf of Georgia Cannery National Historic Site of Canada. This event is open to all ages & features a wide variety of music. Admission is by donation. Hope to see you there.
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A few days after the draft, Press Coverage took a gander at the Buffalo Bills' chances to have their first offensive rookie of the year since Dennis Shaw in 1970.
The Bills drafted three players that could start at positions that garner consideration: quarterback EJ Manuel and receivers Robert Woods and Marquise Goodwin.
The betting public apparently likes Manuel's chances quite a bit.
The online betting site Sportsbook.com tweeted this morning that so much money has been wagered on Manuel that odds have shifted significantly.
Lot of action on EJ Manuel at 10/1 to win AP Rookie of Year, so moved to 6/1. bit.ly/bfEG8R— Sportsbook ® (@Sportsbook_com) June 5, 2013
That makes Manuel the No. 3 favorite behind the field at 2.5-to-1 and St. Louis Rams receiver Tavon Austin at 3-to-1.
The field would include Woods, Goodwin and Da'Rick Rogers because individual odds aren't posted on them.
- Field (any other player) 2.5-to-1
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- EJ Manuel, Bills QB 6-to-1
- Tyler Eifert, Bengals TE 8-to-1
- DeAndre Hopkins, Texans WR 8-to-1
- Eddie Lacy, Packers RB 10-to-1
- Geno Smith, Jets QB 10-to-1
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- Zach Ertz, Eagles TE 12-to-1
- Keenan Allen, Chargers WR 15-to-1
- Cordarrelle Patterson, Vikings WR 15-to-1
- Justin Hunter, Titans WR 15-to-1
- Matt Barkley, Eagles QB 20-to-1
- Marcus Lattimore, 49ers RB 25-to-1
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A sit-in or sit-down is a form of direct action that involves one or more people occupying an area for a protest, often to promote political, social, or economic change.
In sit-ins, protesters usually seat themselves at a strategic location (inside a restaurant, in a street to block it, in a government or corporate office, and so on). They remain until they are evicted, usually by force, or arrested, or until their requests have been met. Sit-ins have historically been a highly successful form of protest because they cause disruption that draws attention to the protest and by proxy the protesters' cause. They are a non-violent way to effectually shut down an area or business. The forced removal of protesters, and sometimes the use of violence against them, often arouses sympathy from the public, increasing the chances of the demonstrators reaching their audience.
Sit-ins were an integral part of the nonviolent strategy of civil disobedience and mass protests that eventually led to passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which ended legally-sanctioned racial segregation in the United States and also passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that struck down many racially-motivated barriers used to deny voting rights to non-whites.
Civil rights movement[edit]
The Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) conducted sit-ins as early as the 1940s. Ernest Calloway refers to Bernice Fisher as "Godmother of the restaurant 'sit-in' technique."[1] In August 1939, African-American attorney Samuel Wilbert Tucker organized a sit-in at the then-segregated Alexandria, Virginia, library.[2] Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) labor delegates had a brief, spontaneous lunch counter sit-in during their 1947 Columbus, Ohio, convention.[3]
In one of the earliest racially connected sit-ins, followers of Father Divine and the International Peace Mission Movement joined with the Cafeteria Workers Union, Local 302, in September 1939 to protest racially unfair hiring practices at New York's Shack Sandwich Shops, Inc. According to the New York Times for September 23, 1939,[4] on Thursday between 75 and 100 followers showed up at the restaurant at Forty-first Street and Lexington Avenue, where most of the strike activity has been concentrated, and groups went into the place, purchased five-cent cups of coffee, and conducted what might be described as a kind of customers' nickel sit down strike. Other patrons were unable to find seats."[5]
In May 1942, James Farmer, Jr., an organizer for the Fellowship of Reconciliation, led a group of 27 people to protest the racially discriminatory no-service policy of the Jack Spratt Diner on 47th Street in Chicago. Each seating area in the diner was taken by groups that included at least one black person. The peaceful patrons, several from the campus of the nearby University of Chicago, then tried to order; all were refused. The police were called, but when they arrived they told the management that no laws were being broken, so no arrests were made. The diner closed for the night but thereafter, according to periodic checks made by CORE activists, it no longer enforced its discriminatory policy.[6]
With the encouragement of Melvin B. Tolson and Farmer, students from Wiley and Bishop Colleges organized the first sit-in in Texas in the rotunda of the Harrison County Courthouse in Marshall. This sit-in directly challenged the oldest White Citizens Party in Texas and would culminate in the reversal of Jim Crow laws in the state and the desegregation of postgraduate studies in Texas by the Sweatt v. Painter (1950) verdict. Sit-ins were an integral part of the nonviolent strategy of civil disobedience and mass protests that eventually led to passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which ended legally-sanctioned racial segregation in the United States and also passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that struck down many racially motivated barriers used to deny voting rights to non-whites.
1957 Durham, North Carolina, sit-in[edit]
In one of the earliest sit-ins of the American Civil Rights Movement, the "Royal Seven", a group of three women and four men from Durham, North Carolina, sat in at the Royal Ice Cream Parlor on June 23, 1957, to protest practices of segregation.[7] The activists were arrested and charged with trespassing. Their efforts are now recognized via historical markers in Durham. They went to court three times; each case ended in their being found guilty.
1958 Wichita and Oklahoma City sit-ins[edit]
The second organized lunch-counter sit-in for the purpose of integrating segregated establishments began in July 1958 in Wichita, Kansas, at Dockum Drugs, a store in the old Rexall chain.[8] In early August, the drugstore became integrated. A few weeks later on August 19, 1958, in Oklahoma City, a nationally recognized sit-in at the Katz Drug Store lunch counter occurred. The Oklahoma City Sit-in Movement was led by NAACP Youth Council leader Clara Luper, a local high school teacher, and young local students, including Luper's eight-year old daughter, who suggested the sit-in be held. The group quickly desegregated the Katz Drug Store lunch counters. It took several more years, but she and the students, using the tactic, integrated all of Oklahoma City's eating establishments. Today, in downtown Wichita, Kansas, a statue depicting a waitress at a counter serving people honors this pioneering sit-in.[citation needed]
1960 Greensboro and Nashville sit-ins[edit]
Following the Oklahoma City sit-ins, the tactic of non-violent student sit-ins spread. The Greensboro sit-ins at a Woolworth's in Greensboro, North Carolina, on February 1, 1960, launched a wave of anti-segregation sit-ins across the South and opened a national awareness of the depth of segregation in the nation.[9] Within weeks, sit-in campaigns had begun in nearly a dozen cities, primarily targeting Woolworth's and S. H. Kress and other stores of other national chains.[10]
The largest and best-organized of these campaigns were the Nashville sit-ins, whose groundwork was already underway. They involved hundreds of participants, and led to the successful desegregation of Nashville lunch counters.[11] Most of the participants in the Nashville sit-ins were college students, and many, such as Diane Nash, James Bevel, Bernard Lafayette, and C. T. Vivian, went on to lead, strategize, and direct almost every aspect of the nation's civil rights movement in the 1960s. The students of the historically black colleges and universities in the city played a critical role in implementing the Nashville sit-ins.[citation needed]
See also[edit]
- Bed-In, peace campaigns by John Lennon and Yoko Ono in 1969
- Dharna, fast undertaken at the door of an offender
- Die-in
- Human Be-In
- Lock-on
- Occupation (protest)
- Occupy movement
- Picketing (protest)
- Raasta roko
- Sitdown strike
- Teach-in
- Work-in
- ^ OF TIME AND SOUND, Requiem For A Free, Compassionate Spirit, by Ernest Galloway, published in Missouri Teamster, May 12, 1966, Page 7.
- ^ "America's First Sit-Down Strike: The 1939 Alexandria Library Sit-In". City of Alexandria. Retrieved 2009-08-22.
- ^ (NYT Mar 17, 1947: 16)
- ^ "DIVINE'S FOLLOWERS GIVE AID TO STRIKERS: With Evangelist's Sanction They 'Sit Down' in Restaurant". New York Times. 23 Sep 1939. Retrieved 7 March 2012.
- ^ "DIVINE'S FOLLOWERS GIVE AID TO STRIKERS; With Evangelist's Sanction They 'Sit Down' in Restaurant". New York Times (US). 1939-09-23. Retrieved 2010-07-20.
- ^ Grossman, Ron (February 24, 2014). "Birth of the sit-in". Chicago Tribune (1). p. 17.
- ^ Royal Ice Cream Sit-in — Durham, NC ~ Civil Rights Movement Veterans
- ^ [1]
- ^ First Southern Sit-in, Greensboro NC ~ Civil Rights Movement Veterans
- ^ Sit-ins Spread Across the South ~ Civil Rights Movement Veterans
- ^ Nashville Student Movement ~ Civil Rights Movement Veterans
External links[edit]
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sit-ins.
- Award Winning Documentary: "February One" tells the inspiring story surrounding the 1960 Greensboro lunch counter sit-ins that helped revitalize the Civil Rights Movement
- Sit-In: A Tactical Analysis, By Aaron Kreider – Essay based on research on student sit-ins.
- Almost-Forgotten History – Story of the Wichita Dockum sit-ins
- Civil Rights Movement Veterans Civil Rights Movement Veterans ~ History, personal stories, and photos of the Freedom Movement
- Sit-ins: Atlanta, Ga., Civil Rights Digital Library.
- Sit-ins: Greensboro, N.C., Civil Rights Digital Library.
- Sit-ins: Nashville, Tenn., Civil Rights Digital Library.


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Morro Bay holds off Oak Park, 28-13
Quarterback Sam Crizer threw for one touchdown and ran for two more scores to lead visiting Morro Bay High to a 28-13 victory over Oak Park in a non-league game on Thursday night.
Morro Bay (2-0) broke open a tight contest, scoring 14 points during a span of 2:10 early in the fourth quarter to seal the victory.
Trailing 14-0 late in the third quarter, Oak Park (1-1) got on the scoreboard when quarterback Dereck Deakin completed a 66-yard touchdown pass to Aiki Zapati with 1:41 remaining, cutting the score to 14-7.
Deakin, who started the season as a wide receiver, was making his first start at quarterback. He completed 3 of 8 passes for 63 yards. The Eagles starting quarterback, Brad Taylor, was out of the game with headaches and backup quarterback Connor Hill was out with a hernia.
On the ensuing kickoff, Branson Gonzalez returned it 42 yards setting the Pirates up at the Oak Park 40-yard line. Six plays later Gonzalez scored on a 25-yard run and a 21-7 Morro Bay lead.
A pass interception by Pat Kelly gave Morro Bay the ball at the Eagles 7 on Oak Park's next possession. After a penalty, Crizer threw a 12-yard touchdown pass to Gardner Kennedy. Crizer completed 9 of 19 passes for 85 yards. Gardner finished with five receptions for 69 yards.
Oak Park closed out the scoring when backup running back Matt Dipaolo scored on a 23-yard run with 23 seconds left in the game. Dipaolo gained 37 yards on five carries.
"We knew that Morro Bay was going to be a very physical team," said Oak Park coach Terry Shorten. "We had too many mistakes. Offsides, motion penalties hurt us tonight. Morro Bay played a great game, they took it to us."
Following a scoreless first quarter, Morro Bay got on the board when Crizer scored on a 56-yard run with 4:05 left in the half.
Three times in the first half Morro Bay drove deep into Oak Park territory, but was turned away. Early in the first quarter Morro Bay drove to the Oak Park 3, but an incomplete pass on fourth down stopped the Pirates.
Morro Bay then drove to the Eagles 9 on its next possession, but the drive was stopped and a 27-yard field goal attempt was short.
On the Pirates' next series, Crizer was stopped on fourth-and-one by Gilad Klibanov.
Oak Park struggled in the first half, gaining just 12 yards and one first down.
Crizer, who gained 112 yards in 17 attempts, scored on a 3-yard run in the third quatrer.
Tyler Benton had an interception, Connor Phillips had a fumble recovery and Klibanov gained 24 yards in eight carries for Oak Park.
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I'm in NYC for the next couple of months and I need to climb some ice. Have rope, rack, wheels and EZPass. Can lead the easy stuff, follow just about everything else. Weekdays are best (if I can get a dog sitter) but weekends might work, too. Had GREAT luck finding rock partners in CO with MP; hope I find 'em here, too.
I am based in Brooklyn and have Tuesdays free; first season on ice (have been out 8-9 times now in the Catskills and Daks, lead a 2+ pitch and free soloed a 2 yesterday). Would be very happy to split the gas and take a mid-week run. Email!
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Hey guys I live in Brooklyn and are free during the week and have gear And are keen to head to the ice as much as possible before I have to return to The epic heat wave in Australia on the 20th feb!! Jn
Plans fell through for this Saturday so I'm at a loose end. I'm based in NYC and looking to get out on the 1st if possible. You supply a rope and wheels and I'll gladly follow on 3+ or TR. Shoot me a PM if anyone's keen Cheers, Travis
Can lead 3, can meet up in the daks! Let me know if you are interested! Rope, rack, and psych!!!
Anyone around to climb in the Catskills Monday? I'll follow up to WI4 ot TR. Have rope and gear to setup TR anchor. Coming from NYC with no car, can also meet in New Paltz or Kingston.
I'm definitely looking for new Dacks partners if anyone gets out mid-week!
Dara, If you're around when things warm up I can connect with you in the Gunks on the weekend. My GF might be in touch about ice climbing during the week.
Hey Dave...if get out with ya if you're down! Any chance you climb mid-week at all?
I'm in NYC as well, and I'm totally flexible so I can climb midweek or weekends. Really like to climb some ice this week, and as much as humanly possible for the rest of the season. I'll follow 3-4. I don't have a car, anyone from Nyc climbing this week? I can bus up if I need to though. Cheers Marco
Testing the waters to see if anyone wants to get some ice climbing in on March 1st, the extended forecast shows temps in the mid 20's. The plan is to meet and pick up a rental car at LGA ($42 split between all) and head up for some TR, maybe Asbestos wall? I've got rope and rack but obviously if it's a full car and someone else has another rope that would be good. Shoot me a PM or reply to this thread to confirm. Cheers, Travis
Hey, Coming from Northern New York with a subie- can pick up at the new Paltz bus stop. First season on ice but can follow and happy to catch. I'll usually try to bring my pup along if its a cragging day. Travis, I may be down to climb on the 1st or 2nd. I'm in Bennington on the 1st for a snowshoe race in the morning. If you want to get out that afternoon around bennington or climb on the 2nd, I'll just bring my gear over.


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Be sure to check out the romantic comedy Cherry, which we've recently acquired here at the library. The story follows a college freshman named Aaron who falls for an older woman he meets at school. Things get complicated when the woman's 14-year-old daughter develops a crush on Aaron. Age becomes a challenging factor in both relationships, but they all manage to learn valuable life lessons before the credits roll. The movie itself is an enjoyable watch, but the real reason you'll want to catch it is that the 2010 film was shot right here in Kalamazoo. Throughout the film you can catch glimpses of locations at Western Michigan University and Kalamazoo College, various downtown storefronts, and on recognizable streets like Kalamazoo Avenue and Rose Street. Although, there should have been a really awesome public library in there somewhere…
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BUFFALO — It's the back story that's snipped off the beginning of every highlight.
The play before the play.
Daniel Paille chugged in hard down the left wall, kept the puck deep and waited for help to come.
It finally did. First in the form of Drew Stafford, then Paul Gaustad.
Eventually the puck found its way onto the stick of Tyler Myers, who flipped a harmless looking backhand that beat Dwayne Roloson.
One-nothing Buffalo.
After sitting out the first four games, Paille made his season debut Friday during the Sabres' 6-3 victory, and while he by no means lit the world on fire, he clearly contributed.
Later it was another Paille setup, this time as he crashed to the net off the right side, dragging a defender for a ride. Patrick Kaleta pounced on a loose puck, giving the Sabres a 5-2 edge in the third.
While it's great to see Paille on the scoresheet, it's puzzling how the Welland, Ont. native hasn't gotten minutes sooner. Guys like Clarke MacArthur, Matt Ellis, Pat Kaleta and now Tim Kennedy have leapfrogged Paille on the depth chart. Only an injury to Thomas Vanek finally freed up minutes for Paille to play.
Paille said before Friday's game that he's not sure why he'd yet to play.
"I'm not too sure. I think it just comes down to who they want to play right now," Paille said. "All I can do is be patient."
The reason is clear — Paille drifts. For a guy selected with the 20th pick in the 2002 draft, you'd expect he'd know his role by now. Paille doesn't. He's played in parts of five different seasons now that he got the call on Friday. And as a restricted free agent at season's end, it's hard to say where he fits in the team's plans, if at all.
And even the coaching staff still hasn't been able to figure out how Paille's wired.
When asked if he thought the benching would serve as a wake-up call for Paille, Sabres coach Lindy Ruff said Paille operates "a little differently."
"I don't know if me kicking him in the butt works, Ruff said. "He's a little bit of a different personality. Sometimes an arm around a shoulder is better for a guy like Danny. He's got a great shot and (he's) a great skater. He can dominate the physical game. It's inside him to come out and put forth a great effort for us."
Friday's effort was a good start. Although he only finished with one assist, he was on the ice for two of the team's goals. He played OK on a line with Derek Roy and Drew Stafford, but later was moved to the "energy line."
And Vanek will return. Soon. In fact, it's possible Vanek will be in the lineup early next week when Buffalo makes a Florida trip.
And then what?
Paille's big, fast and plays the half-wall as anyone when he's on his game. But that's precisely it. The Sabres have started strong for a second straight season by playing each shift hard.
If Paille can't keep up the pace, he'll probably get left behind.
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TRAVERSE CITY — She says she has been called every name in the book: freak, slut, addict and crazy. Her Mom told her, "You make me want to die!"
So begins the compelling introduction to Marlo, a homeless woman pictured in "The Other Traverse City, Part 2." The show by photographer Alan Newton opens Monday, Dec. 3, at the City Opera House, and features nearly two dozen homeless men and women in photos and stories. Together, they offer a rare personal glimpse into the lives of some of the homeless in the Traverse City area.
Newton, of Newton Photography, said he got the idea for the show in the fall of 2011 after seeing Internet photos of some of London's homeless.
"They were really intense," said the retired transplant from Los Angeles and Boston, who recently completed a project for Child and Family Services of Northwestern Michigan that involved photographing adopted children and their new families.
He approached Goodwill Industries of Northern Michigan with the notion of putting a similar face on homelessness in Traverse City, and got permission, with two codicils: that he would only interview and photograph people who were introduced to him or who approached him, and that all subjects would know the interviews and photos would be part of an exhibition.
"He wanted to take his time, meet the people and give them the chance to tell their stories, and take pictures in a dignified way, without alterations," said Ryan Hannon, street outreach coordinator for Goodwill Industries, which operates the homeless shelter Goodwill Inn and works with Safe Harbor, a rotating church shelter. "He wanted to show the human side of homelessness."
Newton said he took the photos over a period of five or six months, from late fall to early spring, as he built relationships with homeless people everywhere from Safe Harbor shelter locations to Community Outreach breakfasts at Central United Methodist Church. Since then several of those pictured have found homes and jobs. One has died.
Along the way, Newton said, he learned much about homelessness.
"Circumstance, a bad break or bad choices can put people in homelessness. And it's important to give people a chance to get out," he said. "It's hard to get a job if you don't know where your next meal is coming from or you don't know where you're going to sleep that night."
Newton said he chose an 8-by-10-inch head shot format to emphasize his subjects rather than their circumstances. The color photos were taken with a Canon Digital SLR camera and were not manipulated to create a particular response from viewers, as photos of the homeless often are, he said.
"They make the photos gritty. They take photos of the homeless asleep on the sidewalk, pushing a shopping cart," he said. "In this show it's just, 'Wow, they're people.' They look just like anyone else, and that's what they are.
"I tell people to come to my show to meet some of the people experiencing homelessness in the Traverse City area through their stories and photos rather than as a label and concept. The photos need to be seen along with their stories, otherwise they become what I am working to erase: 'the homeless,' instead of 'Suzanne' or 'Ken' or 'Vincenzo.'"
Four of the 23 who posed, including Marlo, a college student who left home because of beatings and demeaning behavior towards her, and who struggles with alcohol, anger and occasional attempts to hurt herself, covered their faces with their hands in order to remain anonymous. Newton said many viewers consider those portraits to be among the show's most powerful.
"The covered face says more about the struggle, shame and embarrassment that some of them experience than a regular photo ever could," said the photographer, who shoots for the City Opera House, the Traverse City Film Festival and Traverse City West Senior High sports, among other organizations.
The photos were shown in September at the 7th Annual Summit on Ending Homelessness, part of a state campaign. Newton said he hopes to give private showings for classes and other groups, followed by Q&A sessions with himself and Hannon.
The photos are not for sale and won't appear on his website, he said.
Monday's opening reception will take place from 5 to 8 p.m. Many of those who work with the area's homeless community will be there, Newton said, including representatives of Goodwill Industries, Safe Harbor, the Father Fred Foundation, Child and Family Services, food pantries and community meals programs. He also invited liaisons with Traverse City Area Public Schools' Students in Transition Empowerment Program, or STEP.
The show, a continuation of a series Newton debuted in July at The Village at Grand Traverse Commons, runs through December. Admission is free.


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LOS ANGELES, CA -- Psycho screenwriter Joseph Stefano's widow and son are in settlement talks with Fox Searchlight Pictures over the depiction of Stefano in the current film Hitchcock, which they claim wrongly credits Alfred Hitchcock's wife with Stefano's ideas and work on the classic thriller.
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Marilyn and Dominic Stefano of Agoura Hills have hired legal counsel to represent Joseph Stefano's estate in seeking compensation from the studio.
"Fox Searchlight's actions … have caused, and will continue to cause, financial damages to our client and to his intellectual property interests and injury to our client's legacy in connection with Psycho," attorney William Sobel wrote in a letter to the studio in October.
Negotiations between lawyers for Stefano's estate and the studio are ongoing. Sobel and Fox Searchlight spokeswoman Lauren Hochberg declined to comment on the status of the talks.
Hitchcock, now in theaters, is about the relationship between the legendary filmmaker, played by Anthony Hopkins, and his wife, Alma Reville, played by Helen Mirren, during the filming of Psycho.
In the official trailer, Hitchcock asks Reville if she is intrigued by the idea of having the heroine killed halfway through the movie. "You shouldn't wait until halfway through; kill her off after 30 minutes," Mirren's character replies. (Go to 1:33 in the attached video.)
That scene in particular angered Marilyn Stefano, and it is cited by her attorney in his letter to the studio.
"In fact, it is well-documented in numerous publications that our client [Joseph Stefano] conceived the … idea, and the film falsely attributes our client's work product and ingenuity to Mr. Hitchcock's wife," Sobel wrote.
Marilyn Stefano, who was on the set for the shooting of Psycho's infamous shower scene, said she was "appalled" by Hitchcock and its "lies" and "mistakes" in the depiction of her husband, of the famed director and others who were involved in making the film, which was released in 1960.
"How on earth did Sacha Gervasi get to direct this film?" Marilyn said. "So many mistakes, errors, changes of facts and lies."
Hochberg said Gervasi was traveling and unavailable to comment.
Joseph Stefano adapted the Psycho screenplay from the novel by Robert Bloch. He also went on to produce and write episodes of the television series The Outer Limits, Psycho IV: The Beginning and other films and TV shows. He died in 2006 at the age of 84.
Credit Where It's Not Due
The movie's depiction of Joseph Stefano and its portrayal of Reville suggesting that the Marion Crane character, played by Janet Leigh, be killed early in the film, has so angered Marilyn that she wrote her criticisms in a letter to Agoura Hills Patch.
"The script written by my husband was what turned an ugly, trashy little book into a movie watched and studied by every film class in the world, I dare say," Marilyn wrote. "But to claim that Alma revised it, and came up with the idea of killing the heroine off within the first 30 minutes, is such an outrageous lie that it infuriates me. It's taking credit from the real writer, whose dialogue is printed and quoted by so many, without crediting anyone but the great Hitchcock—and now the great Alma Reville."
"Shortly after Joe and Hitch meet [in the movie]," Marilyn wrote, "Hitch tells Alma he had Stefano write out the first few scenes, asks her to read them and she tells him—"Hire him." … There's no way Joe would have started writing any of the script without first being hired—which he was at the end of that first meeting—he would have gotten in trouble with the Writers Guild that doesn't allow auditioning.
"They have a scene where Peggy, Hitch's assistant, actually says that the credit should be: Written by Joseph Stefano and Alma Reville! (Alma says: "The people who matter know. That's all that counts.") Strangely, this little scene is not in the script the studio sends out for writing nomination. Did they ad-lib it?"
The Opening Scene
Marilyn told Patch in a previous interview that her husband had his famous first meeting with Hitchcock in 1959, shortly after reading Bloch's book, which only introduces Marion Crane as she's checking into the infamous Bates Motel.
"He was on his way to the meeting at Paramount when he wrote the whole opening scene to the movie in his head," Marilyn said. "Joe wanted to develop more of a back-story for the character, so when she dies the audience misses her."
Hitchcock was so impressed that Joseph got the job on the spot, she said.
More Criticisms
Marilyn had other criticisms of the film:
Joseph, played by Ralph Macchio, is portrayed as being nervous and disheveled, late for his first meeting with Hitchcock, and prone to talking about his personal psychoanalysis with the great director.
"[Joseph] always dressed elegantly," Marilyn wrote. "He was not intimidated by Hitch or anyone else, so he wouldn't have been nervous. And he was eager to talk about the movie, not analysis, and certainly not that he'd been in analysis so long—that might have made Hitch worry that he was too unreliable and unstable to hire."
"After a scene with Scarlett [Johansson, playing Janet Leigh], she goes into a dressing room to be fitted, and Hitch goes into his office, which evidently is right next to that dressing room, takes down a painting and stares at her through a peephole. In his office?? Since when are the two [rooms] next to each other on a set? Tacky and stupid!"
"They show Hitch first reading the book, with the cover clearly showing the slashed letters, which were designed for the film, so he was reading a book that wasn't designed yet."
"Though he's shooting at Universal-Revue [Studios], Barney Balaban (the head of Paramount) comes onto the set demanding to see footage, even though he's not financing the picture and has no right to even be at the studio."
"I found the picture mean-spirited, with lots of negative things to say about well-known people merely to make people laugh," Marilyn wrote. "It painted a portrait of this brilliant, one-of-a-kind director/producer as a greedy, malevolent, totally self-centered man who was incapable of showing appreciation and support for anyone….
"Of all the directors Joe worked with, Hitch and Marty Ritt [The Black Orchid] were the very best, the most generous and so self-assured that they liked to have the writer involved…."
Marilyn said that after Hitchcock got to know Joseph and her, he shared his expertise in wine and food with them. Hitchcock also asked if he and Alma could come to a Christmas party they were hosting.
"When they arrived at our house, he planted himself in the bow of the piano that faced the entry door," she wrote. "When people walked through that door, the first person they saw was ALFRED HITCHCOCK!....
"It's partly out of these fond memories that I'm angry and appalled that they would treat Hitch with so little respect. So I'm speaking up for him—in addition to being upset about their attempts to tarnish my husband's great contribution to this classic film that still fascinates people."
Richard Core contributed to this story.
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