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For Mya Bryant — who received a scholarship to attend the program — Kids Who Care has given her the confidence to keep chasing her professional dancing dreams.
"Before, it was just like, 'I can dream... I don't really think it's going to happen,'" Mya said. "And just coming here, they're telling me, 'You can do it!' That's just amazing."
Kids Who Care is one of 43 organizations that receive grant money from the Arts Council of Fort Worth and Tarrant County. The organization is facing a 25 percent cut under the city's budget proposal — a loss of nearly $300,000.
The center will still get free rent and all the revenue from its shows, but supporters say every penny counts — and grants are on the line.
"If we cut back funding to support that in terms of personnel and space and to make those things work, then we're not reaching as far as we can," said Kids Who Care founder and executive director Deborah Jung.
Dozens of people are signing petitions and speaking at City Council meetings hoping city leaders review the proposed cuts. A vote on the issue is expected next week.
Mya Bryant and her friends hope the city takes into consideration their love for the arts.
"I just don't know what they are doing," she said. "When they see everyone perform, and they say how beautiful we are... and then they go and now they say they're cutting the budget... and it kind of makes me feel sad."
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STILLWATER, Okla. —
Over the years Stillwater High School offensive coordinator Paul Hix has ran the bubble screen hundreds — if not thousands — of times. It's usually a good way to get a couple yards here or there, but nothing too major.
Unless Jordan Brown is on the other end.
"I don't know if it's another gear or something," Hix said. "... But something magical happens once the ball gets in his hands. He's got another gear. He becomes really difficult to tackle, he sees lanes and he runs by people. It's impressive. We really had no idea until probably Midwest City that he could leave good 6A defenders behind."
Perhaps its the bright pink undershirt that he will sometimes wear during practice and games, but Brown has a knack of going from human to superhuman in a flash.
Case in point: Brown burnt Tulsa Union's defense — which has a history of producing Division I talent — for a 52-yard touchdown reception to go along with a 2-yard score.
"I just go with the flow," Brown said. "Nothing really slows down. I just use my speed and then I think, 'I got to go.'"
Even before the season began, Hix knew Brown had the talent to make an immediate impact. But even Hix didn't know how valuable the sophomore could be.
"Going into the year, getting him the ball wasn't necessarily a priority," Hix said. "He was just a piece that fit the puzzle, but as we saw what he was able to do early on against Midwest City and as Brandon (Prather) became hobbled, it became more of a priority to make sure we got him touches each week.
"We had an idea of how good he was. We saw him play as a ninth-grader, saw him catch some touchdowns and return some kicks. But you really never know exactly how soon that will translate onto the varsity field. He was definitely on our radar and a guy we thought that would contribute, but I don't think we thought that looking back after five games he would be our touchdown leader, receptions leader or yardage leader like he is."
Getting Brown touches has become increasingly more difficult over the last few weeks. The sophomore has become a bit of a marked man as of late, but even that doesn't bother Brown.
In fact, he kind of likes it.
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One of the ways he's been working to free himself more? Studying the playbook and film.
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"We're still working very hard with him on being a good receiver when he doesn't have the ball," Hix said. "He a very sophomore receiver when he's running his routes and sometimes when he's blocking."
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"I don't think I have had a kid take that same bootleg play and short-yardage throw to the house, but now every time we run it, I think we kind of get a little bit excited on the sidelines," Hix said. "He's done it three times now. If we can keep finding ways to disguise it and keep running it, I think it will be a pretty big staple of what we're trying to do."
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Andrew S. Clark
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Good benefits, decent wage for the area, San Diego has a higher cost of living (in 6 reviews)
Great benefits, awesome co-workers, and willing to help (in 5 reviews)
The upper management just keeps getting richer on the backs of those below them (in 6 reviews)
Managers and Directors are having extramarital affairs, lots of favoritism-so those people get better treatment (in 3 reviews)
"Not as good since the company went public (from what I hear)"
Pros – We get a good balance of assignments to achieve a 40-hour work week and our hours are flexible. We have good teamwork and collaboration within the (BTS) department and the enterprise. We have fun company, department, and team events. We get technical training opportunities, the location and facilities are great, and the benefits are good.
Cons – There is a constant looming threat of reorganization (i.e., layoffs), usually every three months. We also get less and less perks each quarter, including losing our training budgets.
Advice to Senior Management – Multiple layoffs in one year wasn't good for morale.
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend
1 person found this helpful
"Admission Counselor"
Pros – Great Bennies, Gym access, cafeteria, great people to work with. Great medical and dental
Cons – It's Game of Thrones here - the good guys and the bad guys get killed off eventually. Your life is numbered with this company from the moment you walk in the door. It doesn't matter if you were on top of university production that bad month counts. Oh and don't plan on taking more than 1 week of vacation off as a matter of fact don't take a vacation at all because this is a cut throat culture. Your work will be handed to someone else. Your work will diminish and you if you don't meet minimum expectations you will have a write up and or fired.
Advice to Senior Management – I know it's not my direct supervisors because they are fired and hired almost as much as us in the trenches but to those higher up- just ask yourselves some questions- does hiring and firing half of San Diego really work for you guys?
Don't you think high attrition rates diminish the quality experience to our students as well as waste company resources and time?
example-if you are continually firing and laying off people you are left with a young (promising?) staff that has to run around trying to figure out what they are doing- they ask the manager that doesn't have time to explain. They go see us who are performing well. We are stuck training our fellow man which takes us away from our production. Mistakes are made and things eventually work themselves out but not after days or weeks have gone by. They slip up a bit and production may go down to people trying to lend a helping hand -now the new staff isn't so promising and the current staff has lost it's luster. You then replace them with some new people that you hire. I overheard a director telling a manager that they will be firing a bunch of people that shouldn't be fired one late night when I was working my tail off.
I had 2 friends that were moved up to from core (require AT LEAST 4 students a month with crappy leads) to home grown position (required AT LEAST 8 student enrollments a month with better leads) because they were killing it working core. "Why would anyone want to take on more responsibility while getting paid the same thing" we cried? Oh ya, because you painted a picture of just a possibility they would get paid more. "It sounds like it makes sense but we don't trust you" a bunch of us thought. You then fired my friends because their production was too low for a home grown position. - You dummy- why didn't you just move them back down since you didn't give them a raise. Oh that's right you can't move them down a position for God only knows why?
Finding staff that has worked in admissions for more than 3 years is pretty rare. Keep these guys!!!
My advice is chill out on your staff that has been through thick and thin with you. If your admissions staff has been there for more than 3 years and they have a bad month or two. Chill out on them! They have obviously shown commitment to the University. Get to the root of the problem- is it our CRM that is trouble, is it the manager that is trouble, resources?
Sure you can hire 5 people to take his or her place but then they have to train 3 months, learn a ton of new things, make mistakes all over again- you already paid the first person to make these mistakes , learn and train, just have some patience and confidence they will get back on the horse.
Anyways - I'm done here Good Luck!
No, I would not recommend this company to a friend
"No Honor & Integrity - w/ company since 2007"
Pros – Free or discounted tuition offered to employees, spouses, and dependents who attend Ashford University or University of the Rockies. Casual dress and work environment.
Cons – Education and for-profit are huge contradictions. The focus is not on empowering and engaging students, its increasing enrollment and the amount of government financial aid paid to your institution. The struggling enrollment numbers have created layoffs every six months since 2012.
Advice to Senior Management – The organization is too fr gone for advice. Things are not going to change. It is up to the employees to recognize the organization does not have the students or employees best interest at heart. Collect your paycheck, learn as much as you can, get your diploma, and move on.
No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company
"Great ideas, lack of vision in realizing them"
Pros – Great people in my division. Most sites have gym and cafeteria. Great life/work balance in my dept. Challenging and fulfilling work.
Cons – Cult-like executive worship. Lack of clear vision/mission, except to turn a profit. Rampant nepotism, HR does not seem to exist for employees, but to protect management.
Advice to Senior Management – Flatten out the organization structure and do away with the rock star executive status. Get creative when it comes to laying people off. You would do better to find positions for some of the talented people who are let go b/c their positions were eliminated.
No, I would not recommend this company to a friend
"High hopes, Low return"
Pros – benefits, pay, tuition reimbursement, facilities are clean, convenient locations
Cons – culture, lack of clarity between management and other employees
Advice to Senior Management – work on having candor and clear communication
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend
1 person found this helpful
"Student Dispute Resolution Center"
Pros – The company is starting to focus on employee retention. I enjoy my co-workers and the company takes social responsibility very serious.
Cons – There are not many positions available to promote. The company needs to focus on hiring more people so the current employees are not over worked. This will allow employees to produce quality work, which will in turn make the student more successful.
Advice to Senior Management – Hire more people.
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company
2 people found this helpful
"Ups and Downs, but Headed in Wrong Direction"
Pros – Many work teams are able form strong bonds, have fun - it all depends on the manager, Director, VP of the particular area.
Will cover 100% of tuition for bachelors or masters if at their schools.
Cons – Some really bad individual management makes it awful for certain team - be sure to interview them as much as they interview you.
Salaries are low compared to industry (have not increased in years)
CEO was awarded title of "greediest CEO in America" a few years back - rightly so. While there are layoffs and low staff salaries, he earns $20-25 million per year. (At a company whose total revenue is around $800million! Totally unacceptable)
Advice to Senior Management – Get CEO and top exec salaries in line with reasonable numbers for a company no longer growing rapidly. That alone would vastly improve profitability and share price. Exec salary, distractions (like the current HR lawsuits), and lack of leadership now that company is beyond startup mode are stifling its potential.
No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company
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"Sad to see such a great place go downhill"
Pros – I worked for BPE for 5 years. The earlier years were amazing even if a bit dysfunctional at times. There was better community, camaraderie, team work, an air of cooperation, and a true desire to become better at all we did. We may not have always achieved doing a specific process better but we tried and were truly interested in improving. The team events in the department were phenomenal! We felt like a community and had events that encouraged that we be connected. I had true friends I will carry on into my other positions. We protected and looked out for each other. That all started to change when we went public.
Cons – After going public, the senior management and C-level folks made the priority the shareholders, not doing the right thing for the company or the business. Because of that the company work environment went downhill. Morale took a hit. BTS in particular kept thinking the answer to fixing all our business problems was to keep reorganizing. They would wait 6 months, then reorganize again, never letting us settle into something constructive and productive. Our efficiency kept dropping as did the desire to work as a team. The only reason I stayed for the last year was my love of the people I worked with, and second was the desire to stay in a job I had verses going in search of one.
Then we had the first major layoff in January 2012. It was the single most horrible experience in over 20 years of working I have ever experienced. I wasn't laid off but many of my friends were. And they were treated so inhumanely it ended up being a traumatic experience rather than a manageable one. Not that it would have been easy no matter what, but seeing people treated as if they were a number, a criminal or simply didn't matter was just horrible. Then I saw about 100 people leave after the fact...just from BTS. It was hard to be motivated to work for a company that no longer had any desire to be loyal to its own people.
The benefits slowly are being whittled away so that more of the expense is picked up by the employee and the quality of the benefit is going down. Because BPE had to become more fiscally responsible (and they certainly needed to do so), the team events were cut back drastically. While that makes sense, they could have been replaced with less expensive things, like a day out at the park, potlucks, or other things like that. I didn't expect my employer to pick up the tab for everything. I can contribute. As a matter of fact, people tend to take ownership and have pride in what they directly contribute to.
And BTS' senior management does a very poor job with strategic planning. And there is no excuse for it. Planning and execution should have been their primary job. And they failed to do so every year. This last year was the closest and it was still poorly structured. And forget communicating it. What was thought about stayed in the management meetings and never went any further. Poor communication and poor execution.
Advice to Senior Management – See the cons...strategic planning, communication and execution. Take some classes and learn how to do that. Most of you are simply poor at it. I really think Andrew Clark is more interested in his bonus than in his company and what he started it for. $12 million in bonuses to date this year. I would have given it back given how many people have had to be cut. And we really couldn't afford to cut in BTS. And figure out how to encourage team work without spending a lot of money. It's possible to do. I did it while there and tried to do so as an example of what could be done. You're leaders...lead.
No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company
"Entry Level Haven"
Pros – Goals are direct and understood from the top to the bottom
Cons – Opportunity for growth is very limited
1 person found this helpful
"The people are not the problem, the system is. Good people, broken system."
Pros – I know I would love my co-workers if I spent time with them outside of work. However, the system makes me dislike some of them because of what they are asked to do, not who they are. The pay is decent, manageable. I love being an exempt employee, I probably would not work here is I was asked to not be.
Cons – Since I have the job I do, I see all of the wrongs the university does as a whole, from a student's perspective. The system is definitely more valuable than the employee. I wish I would have worked here before it became a "public" company.
Advice to Senior Management – Get new management. I cannot stand it when the system is put before the employee, not a recipe for success.
No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company


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Maxwell (musician)
|Background information
|Birth name
|Gerald Maxwell Rivera
May 23, 1973
Brooklyn, New York, United States
|R&B, soul, neo soul, quiet storm, funk, jazz
|Singer–songwriter, record producer
|Vocals, piano, guitar, moog[1]
|Years active
|1991–2002, 2009-present
|Columbia Records
Gerald Maxwell Rivera,[2] known as Maxwell is a Grammy award-winning American singer-songwriter, record producer and multi-instrumentalist. His music spans R&B, funk and soul, but he is best known as one of the exemplars of the subgenre neo-soul movement of the latter 1990s.[3] After a successful debut album Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite, he released Embrya, Now and a live album MTV Unplugged. After an eight-year hiatus, he returned with the platinum-selling BLACKsummers'night, the first of a trilogy. He has received 12 Grammy nominations with two wins.
- 1 Biography
- 2 Discography
- 3 Tours
- 4 Awards and nominations
- 5 References
- 6 External links
1973–1994: Early life and career beginnings[edit]
Maxwell was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of a Haitian mother and a Puerto Rican father. His mother grew up in a devout Baptist household in Haiti.[4][5][6] Maxwell's father died in a plane crash when Maxwell was three years old.[7] The experience made him a deeply religious child, and he began singing in his Baptist church; however, he did not really get serious about music until age 17. He began writing his own songs using a cheap keyboard given to him by a friend.[8] Initially influenced by early-1980s urban R&B, Maxwell progressed rapidly, and by 1991 he was performing on the New York City club scene. Maxwell was able to gain access to a 24-track recording studio and started to record songs for a demo tape, which he circulated among his friends.[9] The demo engendered interest, and his official debut concert performance at Manhattan nightclub Nell's drew a crowd.[9] During the next two years, Maxwell wrote and recorded over three hundred songs and played frequently at small venues throughout New York City.[10] Maxwell's performances continued to draw interest and increase the buzz about him, and he was called "the next Prince" by a writer from Vibe magazine who attended one of his shows.[9] After earning a considerable reputation, Maxwell signed a recording contract with Columbia Records in 1994. He adopted his middle name as a moniker out of respect for his family's privacy.[7]
1994–1997: Urban Hang Suite and MTV Unplugged[edit]
Maxwell began working with songwriter Leon Ware and noted guitarist Wah Wah Watson to record his debut Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite in the early 1990s. Recording sessions for the album took place during 1994 and 1995 at Electric Lady Studios, RPM, Sorcerer, and Chung King Studios in New York City and CRC Studios in Chicago. When the album was finished Columbia had doubts about its potential and shelved it for a year. The album was finally issued on April 2, 1996.
Heavily inspired by the sound of classic soul music, Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite did not catch on with audiences until the release of its second single, "Ascension (Don't Ever Wonder)", which became a hit. BET's television show In Your Ear would introduce him to more than 58 million homes and Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite would go on to sell over 2,000,000 copies, earning 2X platinum status, and was nominated for a Grammy Award.
In October 1996, Maxwell contributed the song "Segurança (Security)" to the AIDS-benefit album Red Hot + Rio, produced by the Red Hot Organization.
On June 15, 1997, Maxwell taped an episode of the MTV concert series MTV Unplugged in New York City, performing his own songs as well as covers of songs by Kate Bush ("This Woman's Work") and Nine Inch Nails ("Closer").[11] Maxwell clashed with his label about the release of an album of his unplugged session, resulting in the release of an EP instead[12] containing seven songs.
1998–1999: Embrya and "Fortunate"[edit]
Maxwell's second studio album, Embrya, was released in 1998, upon release Embrya was panned by contemporary music critics.[13] The album sold more than one million copies and garnered Maxwell a new alternative fanbase, but confounded urban consumers.[13] On May 26, 1999, the album was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).[14] Embrya was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best R&B Album, losing to Erykah Badu's Baduizm (1997).[15] In 1999, it won the Soul Train Music Award for Best Male Soul/R&B Album.[16] In a retrospective review for Allmusic, Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote that Maxwell "overstuffs his songs with ideas that lead nowhere" and called Embrya "a bit of a sophomore stumble, albeit one with promising moments." Arion Berger, writing in The Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004), found the songs monotonous and called the album "unfocused and pretentious ... full of overwrought, underwritten songs with obscure, fancy titles revolving around a sort of sexual gnosticism."[17]
The following year, he released "Fortunate", a single written by R. Kelly and featured on the soundtrack for the 1999 film Life. The single peaked at number one on Billboard magazine's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles and Tracks chart. To date, "Fortunate" is Maxwell's most successful single and was Billboard's number-one R&B single of 1999.
2000–2002: Now and "This Woman's Work"[edit]
Now, Maxwell's third album, was released in 2001, the album sold over 296,000 units in the U.S. in the first week, according to SoundScan, to earn him his first-ever number one album. Now's second single "This Woman's Work", a live staple of Maxwell's,[18] charted at number 58 on the Billboard Hot 100 and at number 16 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.[19][20] Despite some criticism towards Maxwell's songwriting,[21][22] Now received generally positive reviews from music critics, based on an aggregate score of 78/100 from Metacritic.[23]
The album featured the single "Lifetime" and a studio version of "This Woman's Work", the Kate Bush song Maxwell covered during his 1997 MTV Unplugged set.[24] This version of the song was released as the album's second single in 2001 and peaked in the US Billboard charts at #58 (Billboard Hot 100)[25] and #16 (Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs).[26] This version also appeared in the movie Love & Basketball.
2009-Present: Hiatus and comeback[edit]
Maxwell appeared on the 2008 BET Awards, where he performed the song "Simply Beautiful" in a tribute to Al Green.[27][28][29]
After taking several years off, Maxwell released his latest album BLACKsummers'night on July 7, 2009. It debuted at number one on the Billboard Albums Top 200 chart, his second album to receive that ranking. Maxwell said his reason for leaving the music industry for such a long period was "to just take time off. The music industry has so much competition and there was no rush for me." He performed his hit single "Pretty Wings" at the 2009 BET Awards. An audio clip of the song "Pretty Wings" from BLACK was featured on Maxwell's Myspace page in spring 2008. The full single made its world premier on the 'Tom Joyner Morning Show on April 28, 2009, after the New School/Old School Remix by Steve "Silk" Hurley. "Pretty Wings" is also sold as a digital download on iTunes. In October 2009 – to coincide with Maxwell's autumn European tour, which included dates in Amsterdam, London and Manchester – "Bad Habits" became the album's first United Kingdom single.[30]
Maxwell received six nominations for the 2010 Grammy Awards, winning "Best R&B Album" for BLACKsummers'night and "Best Male R&B Vocal Performance" for "Pretty Wings."[31] "Pretty Wings" was nominated for the "Song of the Year" which was written by Maxwell under his publishing moniker Musze.
The follow-up to BLACKsummers'night and the second installment in a planned trilogy, blackSUMMERS'night, was set to be released late 2012 but it was never released and the current exact date is unknown.[32]
Maxwell's hit song "Pretty Wings" was sung on the memorial tribute to Michael Jackson. He also covered "Lady In My Life" from Jackson's Thriller record at the Grammy Nomination Concert in 2009.
On April 17, 2012, Maxwell announced that he and his eleven-piece band would embark on a six-day tour, MaxwellTwoNight -M2N tour 2012 – two nights in three cities, scheduled for the cities of Los Angeles, California – Staples Center (July 20 and July 21); Atlanta, Georgia – Phillips Arena (July 27 and July 28); and Newark, New Jersey – the Prudential Center (August 3 and August 4). Maxwell was to perform his discography in its entirety. The first day of the tour Maxwell was to perform songs from his first album Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite and second album Embrya. The second day of the tour Maxwell was to perform from his third and fourth albums Now and BLACKsummer'snight, respectively. Maxwell was to be debut never-performed songs from his BLACKsummer'snight trilogy. lt was also announced that proceeds from the M2N tour merchandise would support the "Obama-Biden 2012" re-election campaign.[33] However, the tour was canceled due to vocal hemorrhaging.[34]
His Girlfriend is Bikini-clad-Model Deimantė Guobytė (* 1991) from Lithuania.[35]
- Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite (1996)
- MTV Unplugged (1997)
- Embrya (1998)
- Now (2001)
- BLACKsummers'night (2009)
- Urban Hang Suite Tour (1997)
- Now Tour (2001–02)
- Maxwell 08 Tour (2008)
- BLACKsummers'night Tour (2009)
- Maxwell & Jill Scott: The Tour (2010)
- MaxwellTwoNight -M2N (2012)
- Black Summer's Night- Part II (2014)
Awards and nominations[edit]
- Alma Awards
- 2009, Best Musical Act (nominated)
- American Music Awards
- 2009, Favorite Male R&B/Soul Artist (nominated)
- BET Awards
- 2010, Best Male R&B Artist (nominated)
- 2010, BET Centric Award (nominated)
- 2002, Best Male R&B Artist (nominated)
- 2001, Best Male R&B Artist (nominated)
- Billboard Music Awards
- 1999, R&B Single of the Year: "Fortunate" (winner)
- Blockbuster Entertainment Awards
- 1999, Favorite Song: "Fortunate" (nominated)
- Grammy Awards
- 2010, Song of the Year: "Pretty Wings" (nominated)
- 2010, Best Male Pop Vocal Performance: "Love You" (nominated)
- 2010, Best Pop Instrumental Performance: "Phoenix Rise" (nominated)
- 2010, Best R&B Song: "Pretty Wings" (nominated)
- 2010, Best R&B Album: BLACKsummers'night (winner)
- 2010, Best Male R&B Vocal Performance: "Pretty Wings" (winner)
- 2002, Best Male R&B Vocal Performance: "Lifetime" (nominated)
- 2000, Best Male R&B Vocal Performance: "Fortunate" (nominated)
- 1999, Best Male R&B Vocal Performance: "Matrimony: Maybe You" (nominated)
- 1999, Best R&B Album: Embrya (nominated)
- 1998, Best Male Pop Vocal Performance: "Whenever, Wherever Whatever" (nominated)
- 1997, Best R&B Album: Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite (nominated)
- Image Awards
- 2010, Outstanding Male Artist (winner)
- 2010, Outstanding Song: "Pretty Wings" (nominated)
- 2010, Outstanding Album: Blacksummersnight (nominated)
- 2010, Outstanding Music Video: "Pretty Wings" (nominated)
- 2002, Outstanding Male Artist (nominated)
- Soul Train Awards
- 2009, Best Male Artist R&B/Soul (winner)
- 2009, Song of the Year "Pretty Wings" (nominated)
- 2009, Album of the Year BlackSummer's Night (nominated)
- 2009, Record of the Year "Pretty Wings" (nominated)
- 2000, Best R&B/Soul Single Male: "Fortunate" (winner)
- 2000, Best R&B/Soul Album, Male: Embrya (nominated)
- 1996, Best R&B/Soul Single Male: "Ascension (Don't Ever Wonder)" (winner)
- 1996, Best R&B/Soul Album, Male: Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite (winner)
- 1996, Best R&B/Soul or Rap New Artist (winner)
- ^ Granditsky, Maria (April 1996). "A reluctant star on the rise". Retrieved July 17, 2009.
- ^ "Maxwell cancels MaxwellTwoNight tour because of health issues". CBS/Associated Press. Retrieved March 17, 2013.
- ^ "Maxwell". MTV. Retrieved March 2, 2012.
- ^ San Miguel, Celia (September 2009). "A Woman's Worth". Giant. p. 80.
- ^ Reid, Shaheem. (September 29, 2009) "Maxwell Dazzles the Ladies at Madison Square Garden – Singer's Hometown Gig Features Common, Chrisette Michele as Opening Acts". MTV. Retrieved September 1, 2013.
- ^ On the Cover: Maxwell – Let Me Love You (Giant Magazine). Thelatestmaxwellnews.com. Retrieved March 2, 2012.
- ^ a b Huey, Steve. Maxwell: Biography. AllMusic. Retrieved February 6, 2013.
- ^ Huey, Steve, "Maxwell". AllMusic. Retrieved February 6, 2013.
- ^ a b c Adams (1998), pp. 172–173.
- ^ Brennan (2002), pp. 132–133.
- ^ "Maxwell Unplugged". tv.com.
- ^ [dead link] Maxwell Unplugged CD entertainment.circuitcity.com.
- ^ a b Seyfu Hinds, Sewlyn (April 2001). "Inner Vision". Vibe (New York): 104–10. Retrieved May 5, 2013.
- ^ "American album certifications – Maxwell – Embrya". Recording Industry Association of America. If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Album, then click SEARCH. Retrieved July 16, 2013.
- ^ Erykah Badu sweeps Soul Train Awards rollingstone.com March 3, 1998
- ^ 14th Annual Soul Train Award Winners allyourtv.com/awards/ March 6, 2000
- ^ Berger et al. 2004, p. 521.
- ^ Leroy, Dan. Review: Now. Yahoo! Music. Retrieved on 2009-09-25.
- ^ "The Billboard Hot 100 - Maxwell - This Woman's Work - Chart Listing For The Week Of jun 29 2002". Retrieved 15 February 2009.
- ^ "The Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs - Maxwell - This Woman's Work - Chart Listing For The Week Of jul 06 2002". Retrieved 15 February 2009.
- ^ Cinquemani, Sal. Review: Now. Slant Magazine. Retrieved on 2009-09-25.
- ^ Coleman, Nick. Review: Now. The Independent. Retrieved on 2009-09-25.
- ^ Now (2001): Reviews. Metacritic. Retrieved on 2009-09-25.
- ^ "Maxwell Borrows from NIN, Kate Bush". MTV News.
- ^ "The Billboard Hot 100 - Maxwell - This Woman's Work - Chart Listing For The Week Of jun 29 2002". Retrieved 15 February 2009.
- ^ "The Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs - Maxwell - This Woman's Work - Chart Listing For The Week Of jul 06, 2002". Retrieved 15 February 2009.
- ^ Muziek | Myspace Music. Imeem.com. Retrieved March 2, 2012.
- ^ "Video Maxwell's tribute to Al Green, BET Awards 2008 van That Marcus – Myspace Video". Vids.myspace.com. Retrieved March 2, 2012.
- ^ "Maxwell Shocks, Awes and Delights at BET Awards". Soulbounce.Com. Retrieved March 2, 2012.
- ^ "Maxwell interview by Pete Lewis, 'Blues & Soul' October 2009". Bluesandsoul.com. Retrieved March 2, 2012.
- ^ 2010 Grammy Award Nominations. Grammy.com/nominees. Retrieved December 20, 2009.
- ^ Kennedy, John (January 3, 2011). "Maxwell to Release blackSUMMERS'night in 2011". Vibe. Retrieved March 15, 2011.
- ^ [1]. Retrieved April 17, 2012
- ^ "Maxwell Cancels Tour Due to Vocal Hemorrhaging". Rolling Stone. June 23, 2013. Retrieved August 31, 2012.
- ^ Snap happy! Singer Maxwell looks like the cat that got the cream as he photographs bikini-clad model girlfriend Deimante Guobyte during beach frolic
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SYNOPSIS: When the Huntsman is ordered by the Evil Queen to assassinate Snow White in the Dark Forest, he winds up becoming her protector and mentor in an attempt to defeat the powerful Queen.
REVIEW: DGA Award nominated commercial director Rupert Sanders moves up in class as he takes on the role of helmsman of a fairy tale that has been immortalized by Disney and many others in lesser degree. This more fierce incarnation of the raven haired and ruby lipped damsel is put to paper by Rusty Forkblades writer/director Evan Daugherty, The Blind Side writer/director John Lee Hancock, and the 2011 Drive writer Hossein Amini. With both fresh eyes and veteran experience, audiences may find that they have never seen Snow White quite like this.
When the queen finds a rose blooming in the middle of a glossy snowy garden, its thorns prick her finger and sends three drops of blood into the snow. She wishes for a daughter with raven hair, lips as red as the blood, skin as white as the snow, and a strength within her as strong as the rose in the winter garden. Months later, she has a baby girl and names her Snow White (Kristen Stewart, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1). Snow becomes beloved by the kingdom as she grows up, the apple of her parent's eyes. When the queen falls ill and dies, the king falls into sorrow. When a dark army threatens his lands, the king rides into battle and rescues a golden haired prisoner named Ravenna (Charlize Theron, Young Adult).
Happy for the first time in a long time, the king makes Ravenna his wife. Queen Ravenna quickly betrays her king and takes over the kingdom. She lets her own armies onto the grounds with her brother Finn (Sam Spruell, The Hurt Locker). Ravenna locks Snow in the North tower of the castle until she comes of age and the Queen's magic mirror warns the Queen that Snow could be a grave threat or grant her eternal youth and beauty. Snow escapes to the Dark Forest. Enraged, Ravenna employs the Huntsman (Chris Hemsworth, The Avengers) to track her down and bring her to the throne. A change of heart leads the Huntsman to find and protect Snow White, leading them deeper into the Dark Forest to encounter other magical creatures, reunite with old friend William (Sam Claflin, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides), and making new acquaintances in the form of dwarfs named Beith (Ian McShane, Deadwood), Muir (Bob Hoskins, Doomsday), Gort (Ray Winstone, Hugo), Nion (Nick Frost, Hot Fuzz), Duir (Eddie Marsan, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows), Coll (Toby James, The Hunger Games), Quert (Johnny Harris, Atonement), and Gus (Brian Gleeson, The Eagle).
As with many movies that are churned out by the big studios, there are many times a race to see what version of a property is released first and to more acclaim. 1998 had its looming meteoric threats with the action-packed Armageddon versus the deeper thinkingDeep Impact. 2006 had the magic, illusions and a peek behind the mystical veil of both Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale's The Prestige versus Edward Norton's The Illusionist. And in early 1997, audiences felt the heat with both Dante's Peak and Volcano. I could go on. Here we are in 2012 with two stories of Snow White. Relativity Media distributed earlier this year with Julia Roberts and her more whimsical take of the Grimm's evil queen and the princess-turned-warrior. Now Universal Pictures and Roth Films bring forth an epic and stylistic version of the same tale with Snow White and the Huntsman. Which quest will succeed?
Director Rupert Sanders creates a world of dark enchantment with Snow White and the Huntsman. Both dark and beautiful, Sanders takes the sensibilities of the Lord of the Ringtrilogy while still honoring earlier cartoon works of Walt Disney. Once Queen Ravenna wrests control of the kingdom from the fallen king the land falls into rotting ruins, the maintenance of her beauty reflected in the muddy spartan countryside that surrounds her castle.
Her wardrobe is filled with sharp iron and flowing malice. Farther away from the center of Ravenna's reign the Dark Forest simmers and roils with menace, largely due to hallucinogenic spores that turn every rock into a spectral nightmare. Once past the borders of the forest, the lands turn lush again as one enters the lands of the fairies. With genteel animals and lazily floating nature, one can see in live action what Disney's Snow White portrayed in its colorful version. Throughout, numerous aerial pans show various craggy and rolling hills similar to LOTR.
Charlize Theron is both wonderfully complex and evil in her work as the Queen Ravenna, complete with her own childhood back story that makes her evil demeanor just a touch more sympathetic. She exudes an beautifully sculpted icy exterior with an addiction for power and a flawless youth. Chris Hemsworth, darkening his locks, covering his solid frame in a different type of leather, and taking on a more profound Irish accent, works hard and succeeds as the tortured warrior widower desperate to reconnect with his late wife in some small measure.
Only a stray 'Hey' and 'Okay' take his dialogue out of the proper century. Kristen Stewart, although not impressive to me in The Twilight Saga until the last installment, shows heart and growth as the princess-turned-warrior. She still seems a little unsure at times, but her Snow comes through as sympathetic heroine and eventual leader. Sanders uses full-sized actors for the roles of the pint-sized dwarfs, including Bob Hoskins, Ian McShane, and Nick Frost. Although the long shots may have substituted little people in, all of the actors in close-up provides a different look and feel to the dwarfs, closer to Peter Jackson's method for LOTR than films like Mirror, Mirror orTime Bandits.
Snow White and the Huntsman runs a long 127 minutes The film could have been tightened up a little bit but Sanders presents every scene like a gorgeous rendering, paying the utmost attentions to every wonderful detail. Every shot could be a still for a frame worthy poster. An early shot of Snow White and a white stallion felt for the briefest of moments like it should have been followed by a title for a perfume ad. Even if the action or story slowed, the visuals, the CGI, or the costumes still held me spellbound.
Snow White and the Huntsman is a visual stunner, filled with enough eye-candy to fill a popcorn bucket. Theron entrances with beauty and skill. Hemsworth, Spruell, and Sam Claflin deliver performances as solid as Thor's muscles. And the raven hair and blood red iips of Kristen Stewart give me hope in her still growing ability as an actress. Sanders offers a version of Snow White filled with intrigue, beauty, and inspiration. Whose the fairest of them all? Snow White and the Huntsman is certainly close!
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May 2008
I am a die-hard, obsessive Sex and The City fan. I watched the foursome of Carrie , Miranda, Samantha and Charlotte through my years at college and beyond, cancelling HBO during the show's off-seasons to save money. I bought all the DVDs twice over (selling them to McKay when I was dead broke a few years ago while at a crappy job) and broke down and bought the $200 box set (with a pink velvet cover) when it came out. There were times when I could have kicked those girls in the head for their stupid decisions and many more times when I learned a lesson about my own friends and relationships by watching.
Yes, they are image-obsessed. Yes, they spend insane amounts of money on clothes and shoes. Yes, they seem to do nothing but go out for lunch, go shopping and go bar-hopping. But most importantly, they offered the boyfriendless women of the world a positive perspective on singlehood. It can be fulfilling, fun and rewarding. The show also gave women permission to talk candidly about sex, relationships and all the complications of adulthood. And above all else, Sex and The City showed me how important it was to maintain my relationships with my own friends. Making friends in adulthood isn't easy, and keeping the lifelong ones strong is even more difficult. But through all the changes life has thrown at me, my girlfriends have been my constant supporters. They deserve so much praise -- thank you, girls!
So, you better believe that I was at the Thursday midnight showing at the downtown Knoxville theater (and even better, Darren went with me! I have such a good boyfriend) of the much-anticipated movie. The theater was packed with cute girls in dresses, crazy hats and very high heels.When the opening credits started, the room erupted in cheers. It was marvelous. I laughed, I cried and I drooled over Mr. Big. It was perfect and satisfying. The tone and dialogue were dead-on like they didn't miss a day between the production of the show and the movie. I loved it. Thank you, Darren Star, for this wonderful creation! You have made lots of women and gay men very happy.
The New Glucose Revolution: Low GI Family Cookbook
Insulin resistance and diabetes runs in my family and I have read several of "The New Glucose Revolution" books to try to educate myself about nutrition. This cookbook, by Dr. Jennie Brand-Miller, Kaye Foster-Powell, Anneka Manning and Philippa Sandall, focuses on low-glycemic index menus for families. Basically, the glycemic index is a scale for measuring the way foods break down as glucose in the bloodstream -- the higher a food is on the glycemic index, the more rapidly blood glucose levels rise and fall, causing the inflammation and the dreaded sugar crash. Lower-GI foods break down slower and help maintain a neutral blood sugar level.
This cookbook attempts to make low-GI foods more interesting to children with recipes for baked crispy fish, soy and sesame marinated drumsticks, meatballs with spaghetti, french toast, yogurt popsicles and many more kid-geared foods. There are recipes for the adults, too, like chicken and pumpkin soup with quinoa, honey and oregano roasted leg of lamb and pearl barley risotto. Although I didn't test any of the recipes myself, they look fairly easy and not time-consuming. In addition to the recipes, the book includes a menu planner, pantry basics list, a thorough explanation of the glycemic index and how it relates to different food groups, and lots of ideas for encouraging children to be active and eat healthily.
Memorial Day ramblings
Hello readers! I hope you are enjoying the Memorial Day weekend. I spent part of me weekend going through stacks of magazines that up until now, I could not bring myself to throw away. I've been tearing out recipes and articles to keep, and dumping the rest in my recycling bin. I also took some time to peruse the stack of review copies I um, borrowed, from the secret closet at work. Nothing nefarious here, though -- I read them, review them and return them to the bins when I am finished. There are several cookbooks in my stack and this one looked especially interesting to me.
Spanish food is the lastest hot cuisine in gastronomy circles (how do I know? I love to read food magazines, especially ones that feature insanely complicated dishes involving exotic ingredients I've never heard of). There is a lot of experimentation among the top Spanish chefs and the collision of food and laboratory is getting a lot of attention. This book, from the prestigious Culinary Institute of America, contains a lot of interesting information about Spanish cuisine, regions and specialties. This isn't a book I personally would cook from, but for true foodies who relish the opportunity to create authentic dishes, it would be great to experiment with. Beautiful photos, interesting recipes and an eye to cultural detail create an appealling tome on Spanish cuisine.
Action-packed weekend
OK, so maybe not action-packed, but definitely packed. I had five days off work (miracles!) and had a really good time being leisurely. Darren and I had dinner with the Sherrods who are sadly (for us) moving to Washington, D.C., in about a month. It is so hard to find cool couple friends! There is always one of the spouses that don't click right, you know? But the Sherrods are equally fun and cool. Jimmy and Lesli -- best wishes on a new life in D.C.
My seven-month-preggers sister hauled her 3-year-old son Jonah down to Knoxville for the night on Saturday and we all rode The Three Rivers Rambler train. It was so much fun! Kind of pricey, but Jonah was definitely entertained. We overdid it on the restaurants though -- Sunspot, Wok Hay and Burger King in a two-day period. Yummy, but I think I gained three pounds overnight. Kathy and I went to the Lost Cajuns crawfish boil at the Harley dealership in Maryville. It was ok -- it poured down rain and the food was really picked over by the time we got through the line. It was nice to have crawfish though -- reminds me of home. The first time I had crawfish was at a block party on my street in Shreveport when I was about eight years old. I ate so much of it, I was sick for two days.
After Kathy and Jonah left, I watched The Wire and Dexter on DVD for a couple of days. It felt great to lay on the couch with my dogs and just putter around the house. We cancelled the TiVo and cut the cable back to basic a couple of weeks ago. We get Netflix and I really haven't missed the TiVo too much. We had to pull chairs up to the computer desk to watch Lost on the Internet, but that was kind of fun anyway. Plus, Lost and Grey's Anatomy will be over in a couple of weeks, so I won't be missing anything I absolutely love.
I have been trying to read "The Blind Assasin" by Margaret Atwood for a month, it feels like. It's interesting but it hasn't really hooked me. I'll let you know how it turns out. A lot of people love that book, so maybe it'll pick up soon. I hate to give up on it, but I need to work through the enormous stack of review copies on my bedside table.
The Loved Dog, by Tamar Geller
I need a little help. A few weeks ago, Darren and I adopted Malcolm, a 9-month-old Beagle mix from the Grainger County Humane Society. He is so lovable and friendly, but he's made of lead! Getting this curious dog to walk on a leash (while also walking my Border Collie mix Lily) has resulted in bruises, cuts and many embarrassing moments in my neighborhood. Check out his sweet face.
I have checked out a few books on positive dog training methods (no choke collars and yanking for my kiddos) and I just finished Tamar Geller's "The Loved Dog." Geller studied the relationships of members of a wolf pack while doing her Israeli military training and felt called to create a company that coaches dog owners to train their dogs with playful, nonaggressive methods. I haven't started the real training, but Geller gives a lot of good suggestions for solving common problems in her book. She also has a DVD out that I am going to look for online. The book is a bit general, but I think pet owners can easily extrapolate other training uses for her basic methods of teaching sit, down, stay, back up and other commands. She obviously loves animals very much and I am happy to have found such a friendly coach. I'll post again when I start using the training methods.
In Bruges
I went to see a movie at Downtown West on Friday night with Darren. We were torn between "Counterfeiters" and "In Bruges," but we decided "In Bruges" was more our speed this go-round. Movies set during the Holocaust always stay in my brain for a long time and we just wanted to have a nice night out. We had dinner at Savelli's and then hit the theater. The movie is about two hit men who are hiding in Bruges, Belgium, after a hit goes wrong. The two men are very different characters, played by Colin Farrell and Brenden Gleason, and they are at odds about how they feel about the "fairytale" city of Bruges. There is a cast of very interesting supporting characters including a dwarf actor, a mysterious woman who sells drugs to movie crews and her boyfriend, a Russian gun salesman and Harry Waters, a criminal mastermind played to scary perfection by Ralph Fiennes. Fiennes, Farrell and Gleason are wonderful in this film, playing characters that are complicated, lovable and despicable all at once. Go see it! It's dark, funny and beautiful.


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