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- Address:
2112 NW Kearney St
Portland, OR 97210Neighborhood:
Pearl District
- Cuisine:
MediterraneanPrice: $30 and under
- Dining Style: Casual Elegant
- Website: http://www.serratto.com/
- Phone: 5032211195
- Hours of Operation:
Lunch: 11:30am - 4:00pm (Daily); Happy Hour: 4:00pm - 6:00pm (Daily); Dinner: 4:00pm - Close (Daily)
- Payment Options: AMEX,Discover,MasterCard,Visa
- Cuisine: Italian, Mediterranean, French
- Executive Chef: Tony Meyers
- Dress Code: Casual Dress
- Accepts Walk-Ins: Yes
- Additional Details: Banquet/Private Rooms, Bar Dining, Bar/Lounge, Beer, Full Bar, Happy Hour, Non-Smoking Area, Non-Smoking Restaurant, Patio/Outdoor Dining, Personal wines welcome, Personal wines welcome (corkage fee applies), Private Room, Smoking Area, Takeout, Wheelchair Access, Wine
- Private Party Facilities: Serratto has two private dining rooms that can each accommodate up to 16 guests. The two rooms can also be combined to accommodate larger groups up to 40.
- Private Party Contact: Tyler Burby 5032211195
A word from Serratto
Serratto is a lively and elegant neighborhood restaurant serving authentic and innovative dishes from Italy, France and the greater Mediterranean region. The menu, which changes seasonally, is built around a commitment to using natural meats, the freshest seafood, and locally grown fruits and vegetables.Continued
The outstanding wine list and knowledgeable staff ensures a perfect wine pairing for any meal, palate, or budget.
The outstanding wine list and knowledgeable staff ensures a perfect wine pairing for any meal, palate, or budget.
With its beautiful dining room, relaxed lounge and full bar, Serratto has the perfect table!
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Serratto reviews from OpenTable diners
112 reviews since June 4, 2014
- Food4.4Service4.2
- Ambiance4.2Noise LevelModerate
neighborhood gem (71)fit for foodies (66)special occasion (58)romantic (42)notable wine list (35)good for groups (31)great for lunch (28)vibrant bar scene (13)hot spot (12)great for outdoor dining (11)great for brunch (8)kid-friendly (5)late-night find (5)scenic view (3)Show More
- Romantic & TastymadelyneDined on 9/20/2014The service was excellent, the wine tasty, the kobe beef appetizer rare and delicious, the rigatoni with house-made sausage very good. The only issue we had was with the squid ink fettucine (with smoked sturgeon) - the combined flavors of the fettucini and the smoked sturgeon were REMARKABLY strong, and we wished that we were warned about that. Other than that, this is an excellent restaurant, with an excellent menu, and good staff. We'll definitely be back.Special Features:
- EEO1Dined on 9/19/2014Dinner was wonderful. Scallops were cooked perfectly, pasta dishes good. Manhattans were great. Desserts were terrific too. The staff was very attentive.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- New FavoriteTerritimeDined on 9/14/2014Went with friends Everything was excellent service good. Comfortable setting. Will highly recommend to family and friends. Can't wait to go back and try other menu itemsSpecial Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- ServiceOpenTable Diner Since 2014Dined on 9/14/2014Waiter was nice but forgot my husbands entree. Didn't ask if others in the party wanted more wine ( other than the single glass ordered). Seemed to have to many tables to attend to. Overall a nice dining experience.Special Features:
- RogetDined on 9/10/2014The atmosphere, food and service were at the highest level. This is now by far our favorite restaurant. Count on seeing us once a month.Special Features:
- Slipping?DJC76Dined on 9/5/2014We love this place, but our experience this time was disappointing. The food was good, not great as it had been in the past, but our disappointment was around the service. It was slow and we had to ask multiple times for the same thing. It was like we were forgotten once we sat down. We will be back based on our history with the place and hope the poor service was an anomaly.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Wonderful!OpenTable Diner Since 2010Dined on 9/5/2014As always, the experience was superb! I love coming here for any occasion, be it a romantic dinner or just a quick bite to eat before going out. I always recommend Serratto when people ask where to go. Food, service, atmosphere...just wonderful!Special Features:
- WONDERFUL!PDXFoodieVIPDined on 9/2/2014Wonderful meal- birthday dinner, food was outstanding!Special Features:
- Need an accurate menuMartelloVIPDined on 8/30/2014We made a reservation because the menu posted on Open Table had duck. They had a different menu once we arrived, which was disappointing. The convenience of Open Table is diminished if I have to call to verify information posted on the site.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Still one of Portland's very bestNancyDined on 8/21/2014Serratto has always been a favorite of ours since we hosted our wedding celebration party there 5 years ago. This week I took out of town visitors and the food, service, and ambiance were better than ever. It is a bit noisy, but the tables are far enough apart so that it is not distracting. And on one of our perfect summer evenings, it is wonderful to sit by an open window and enjoy the breeze.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- just deliciousllama765Dined on 8/18/2014Although the main course was great, glad I didn't miss out on the incredible soup and perfectly dressed Caesar saladSpecial Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- A Nothwest GemmollysmomDined on 8/13/2014I took two friends here for dinner as a "thank you." I expected great food and great service and got both. We truly enjoyed our experience. If you like Bloody Marys then you might want to try Serratto's; it hits the spot. The Tomato Gazpacho soup had just the right spiced heat but refreshing coolness. The seared Ahi Tuna with Corn Fritters was flavorful, tender, and beautifully presented. And the Bittersweet Chocolate Cobbler? Well, that was an ooey-gooey warm chocolately experience in itself. And we couldn't have asked for a better server than Tabitha. Friendly, knowledgeable, and cheerful she was a delight to work with.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Wonderful ExperienceFoodloverfromNMDined on 8/12/2014People and food are outstanding! What a gem! Can't wait to go there at night!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Respect the snail.nobodyspecialDined on 8/10/2014Serratto used to be part of the slow-food movement, but the speed at which our meal progressed was all wrong. We received our entrees before finishing our salads; and our starter arrived after the entrees. Our waitress was nice enough, but her attention was definitely dominated by the eight-top right next to us. It was all she could do to make eye contact with us before waltzing away. These days in Portland, restaurants are generally better on the east side of the river.Special Features:
- DatenightVIPDined on 8/8/2014Wonderful find for a romantic dinner. Seating with views of night life along 21st in NW PDX. Food is great with wonderful specialty items leaning toward Mediterranean. Staff is helpful and timely. Nice wine list to accompany the meal. Prices are within reason.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Great NW Portland SpotAZgirlVIPDined on 8/3/2014Food was great with selections to please everyone. Our server was outstanding - personable, knowledgeable, and efficient. Only downside was the large open windows with homeless souls pushing their carts of belongings by on the sidewalk. Outside diners were seated right on the sidewalk, which I think would not have been comfortable with this going on. But it's an urban location so perhaps unavoidable.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Enjoyable eveningRbrtDined on 8/2/2014We have a 5 week old baby and decided our first romantic night out without her would be Serratto. It was great. The food is well prepared. The wine is superb. Our friendly waiter was pregnant herself and we enjoyed discussing her pending motherhood.Special Features:
- DELICIOUS AND TRULY ACCOMODATINGGigiDined on 7/31/2014We come here often, but this time we were especially touched by the outstanding service. I had thrown out my back and expected to have to stand throughout the meal--too painful to sit. But, first they brought me a rolled-up towel to place behind my back so I could sit, and then, when they saw the chair didn't quite work for me, they brought down a better chair from the upstairs dining-room. As for the food, my hamburger was fantastic, as usual (one of the best in PDX!), and they gladly substituted their great kale salad for the fries, for no extra charge...a bargain. Our L.A. guests were delighted with the delicious stuffed pequeno-peppers, tuna tartare, risotto, the amazingly tender calamari, and Kurt's perfect martinis and Negronis!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Seratto steps downOpenTable Diner Since 2013Dined on 7/27/2014I have always had great meals at Serrato. Perhaps because it was Sunday, the food was just average...the service was "reluctant". It was one of those times when you examine why a tip is expected and why the server and the restaurant deserve. I left an insulting amount - I should have left nothing.
- Lovely anniversary spot!OpenTable Diner Since 2014Dined on 7/26/2014We went to Serratto for the first time for our anniversary, and had one of the best nights yet. The staff made us feel very special and taken care of, and took care to fulfill our request for a romantic, private table. The party at our table hadn't left yet, so the host brought us complimentary champagne while we waited at the bar. Everyone was very friendly, attentive and professional. The ambiance was perfect for the occasion. And the food--the food was great! Our courses were brought to us with perfect timing, and everything was delicious. Would highly recommend this place!Special Features:
- Nice but noisysaltyoneDined on 7/23/2014This is really a lovely restaurant in a fun neighborhood; they had several large parties the night that we were there so it was quite noisy but the food and service was good.Special Features:
- Fun atmosphereEmtronDined on 7/21/2014Serratto is a great place to go for Italian food. We have gone there for our anniversary to get great food and wine. We like to sit near the open windows in the summer. The menu changes and seems to always have something new and fresh. Everything is always delicious.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Not as advertisedkrislarsVIPDined on 7/19/2014The food was good, but not as advertised on the menu. The eggplant sauce was mostly tomato, and the asparagus side was carrot with one asparagus spear. Nicely done, but not very imaginative.
- Food great, servers apatheticInloveDined on 7/19/2014We were here for our 39th wedding anniversary, which we'd indicated at the time of the open table reservation. Food was great, but servers seemed apathetic and devoid of warmth. Three different servers brought appetizer, bread and main dish to our table, and each set food down without a word. No one came back to ask us how our dinner was. Put a little damper on a romantic evening. After mentioning the special occasion ourselves after dinner, we did receive complimentary flutes of champagne and 1 free dessert. Probably won't be back.Special Features:
- Portlands Finest!LuvSteakVIPDined on 7/17/2014Serrato is amazing! The staff are experienced and attentive. The chefs creativity and quality is second to none.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Awesome ItalianSteveVIPDined on 7/15/2014Fabulous meal from the roasted beet salad, with Chèvre, and a baked artichoke to the rigatoni with spicy Italian sausage in a very subtle, but flavorful sauce. Terrific wine choices, as well. Excellent, attentive and friendly service. Trendy neighborhood restaurant standing taller than most in the area. Highly recommended.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- LunchFoodie1Dined on 7/15/2014I had lunch and the food was pretty good. It was definitely gourmet. I did order my food without onions but the chef had put green onions (or chives) on the apple bisque soup. I was thinking that we would have gotten your excellent breads with the lunch but we did not. I had the Kobe beef but the bread that it was put on was burned a bit.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Our luck ran out...UncaLarryDined on 7/14/2014We took friends from San Francisco to dinner because we've always had really good luck at Serratto. Our luck and theirs ran out. Admittedly it's been quite a while since we've been back but recipes we were familiar with have changed, presentations were modified, and ingredients varied... none of which was a good idea. The staff is, at least, still helpful and efficient. Not enough to redeem the meal, but it helped.
- GREAT RESTAURANTgrandma39Dined on 7/14/2014We celebrated our 52nd Wedding Anniversary on 7/14 at Serrattto's and were very impressed with the food, service and atmosphere!. It was our first time eating at Serratto's and we will definitely return for another dinner. Something related to the restaurant must mean snail!!! The food was excellent!!! We had the special and the service was wonderfully attentive and helpful, (Tiffany was our waitress) Parking in the lot at 21st and Johnson was wonderful. We had our ticket stamped at the restaurant and it only cost us $5.00 for parking. We walked to the restaurant through the parking lot. Street parking is hard to come by with so many houses, apt. and condos in the neighborhoodSpecial Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Succulant ScallopsPengolfDined on 7/13/2014All the dinners are amazing, but I always go back to the scallops. Absolutely amazing. Our server was very helpful with the wine as well.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Always GreatHappyDinerDined on 7/9/2014It's my stand-by for out of towners. The food is always good and, although Italian, there are wonderful salads and non-paste entrees. Something for everyone.Special Features:
- DineAwayVIPDined on 7/6/2014Second time here. Will return. Excellent food, service, setting. Interesting residential neighborhood, easily accessible by trolly from downtown.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Delicious!ItaliaDined on 7/6/2014We loved the Caesar salad-light but very tasty dressing. The Lemon Tarragon salad dressing was also exceptional. The halibut was great with english peas. The burger was very good-could have done without the barbque sauce-too sweet and a little overwhelming. The burger itself was tender and very flavorful; bacon is always good. Risotto could have used a little more Gran Padano-kind of flat in taste. Ravioli we could do without. The Creme Brulee was one of the best in town!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- dinerVIPDined on 7/5/2014Food was good as usual. My wife had halibut and I had beef tenderloin. Both were superb. Desserts were just okay.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Lovely with one caveatOregonNativeDined on 6/27/2014Food was super, dining room and service very nice, but -- and this is really small in the scheme of things for a nice anniversary dinner -- this is another restaurant where one leaves smelling of the cooking process. I would go back. I plead, however, for management to address this.
- Amazingly Delicious!!HealthyEpicureanVIPDined on 6/26/2014Unbelievable. So fantastic! The fennel and oranges and vinaigrette flavors of the beet salad all complemented each other. The homemade mushroom ravioli was cooked al dent and it was sublime. The osso bucco with gremolato had great flavor and great texture. The vegetarian dish I ordered had the most amazing textures and flavors. I will go back there on our next visit to Portland. We are from the San Francisco area. This restaurant is one of the reasons I will return to Portland.Special Features:
- Just Right ....jwymoreDined on 6/21/2014Great place to go for a nice meal. Very nice ambiance but not pretentious. Our server was super friendly and took care of all our needs. Good cocktails, acceptable wine list and good italian fare without being foo foo. Portion sizes were just right. Had a table by an open window looking out on 21st so the people watching was good too!! This restaurant remains a staple in the area and is suitable for all kinds of occasions.Special Features:
- Delicious and DelightfulFoodFunDined on 6/21/2014My husband and I and our two adult children were served dishes that were exquisite in presentation and flavor. We sat by an open window and enjoyed the lovely, warm, Portland evening while devouring the basket of light crusty bread with olive oil and then our dining choices. We each ordered a different entrée selection: I ordered the rib-eye special and it melted in my mouth. My husband had the scallops and they were perfectly seared so that the moist tenderness of the scallops was preserved and the flavor was delightful. Our kids insisted that we try bites of their meals out of the sheer pleasure of sharing their food! The wait staff was great but the seating hostess was awful. She almost ruined the experience but the food made up for it!Special Features:
- Wonderful little findChisagDined on 6/19/2014A perfect ambiance of low lighting and open room that makes you feel private and social at the same time. The salads are as good as it gets. Refreshing combinations that quietly explode on the palate. After a 13 hr day, I needed some comfort food and ordered the burger, something I rarely do in a restaurant. From the brioche bun to the perfectly medium rare burger itself, it was a delightful surprise. The double cooked frittes were a nice companion. We enjoyed it so much we returned the next night and both ordered pasta. The Italian sausage was just spicy enough to add a touch of heat without masking the flavors of the sauce and handmade pasta. The Forrest Mushroom ravioli with a hint of lemon was worth the trip alone.Special Features:
- Friend get togetherOpenTable Diner Since 2008Dined on 6/18/2014Overall a wonderful dinner spot. The mixed greens, the kale salad and the french onion soup, all very pleasing. Mushroom ravioli was fantastic. Three of us had the delicious rigatoni however two ladies asked for no mozzaarella stated on the menu due to one has an allergy and one dislikes cheese. However it still came out with parmesan shaved on it and beginning to soften/melt into the sauce which they had to eat around. I believe the server's awareness would have been much more appreciated. The table we were seated at probably was the only table affected by the sun, as it was going down it blinded me pretty much the whole time. Every couple of minutes I needed to move the table or myself around to block it b/c of no window shades.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.


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yay thank youuuu
I've also had good luck with using an iron, set to steam, about an inch above said sticker/label. Hold for 20 seconds, and voila! Peels right off.
What have you done to that hairdryer?
Thanks for this tip! Any ideas on how to remove the adhesive left over when you remove a label from a food can? Thanks in advance?
Using a hairdryer also works for removing stickers from your car. Bumper stickers, parking stickers, whatever you've got.
So I just moved into a new apartment and on one of the windows someone had stuck some sort of masking tape. It was really stuck to the window and I was afraid to peel it off and leave massive adhesive spots behind. Just took the hairdryer to it and the tape came off in full. Thanks for the tip & for no more tape filled views!
A hairdryer also works great for removing old contact paper, then use orange oil to remove any remaining adhesive.
Another tip, if you can access the back side of what the sticker is stuck to (such as the thin plastic cover in the photos), you can apply constant heat as you slowly peel. I've always loved this trick.
The peanut butter method works for me - put peanut butter all over the goo and let it sit (I usually do overnight for tough adhesive) and wipe off. Totally non-toxic. Goo-gone is icky and it will strip your nail polish!
Mayonaise also works well-- I know, gross!-- but really, if you smear a little mayo on the sticker (although i usually resort to this after I've already tried to remove the sticker and it leaves behind that mess of adhesive and sticker-backing), let sit for a while, and wipe off.
This only works with real mayo, mind you. Not the imitation stuff.
I tried this on one of those pesky used book stickers and all I got was a sticky (though now sticker-free) book. Advice?
Finally a solution without hot water, soap and scrubbing. Thank you! :)
I second the peanut butter idea...Trader Joe's recently changed the adhesives on their salt/pepper grinders, and while I can make do with the plastic, the labeling just isn't so pretty...and peanut butter overnight really did the trick! Brilliant.
A mixture of fabric softer and water will help remove stickers and wallpaper. Just have to soak it nice and good.
Glad to know I'm not the only one with a gnarly looking blow dryer.
the main reason why the peanut butter and mayo work is the oils... any oil will get the residue off but the thickness of the peanut butter and mayo reduce any run off.
I've had great success with letting a wet sponge sit on the label for 10-20 minutes. Label usually peels right off. And no peanut butter to clean up!
I agree that the first line of attack should be a little soak in water (preferably hot water). I bought about 40 pieces of china on super sale, but each piece had multiple stickers and giant pieces of tape on it, identifying the clearance price. I spent DAYS trying to peel them off by hand, then soaking them with Goo Gone, then trying to scrub the Goo Gone into action. After all that effort and frustration, I decided to soak them in a sink filled with hot water and dish soap. I almost cried when I found that everything came right off. I wanted to kick myself for not trying the water first.
Baking soda + water is what I use to remove labels from beer bottles (for homebrewing). Just dump some baking soda into warm water, let the bottles sit for like 10 minutes, then peel and scrub. Comes off pretty easily.
Should work for other labels, as long as the item can be fully submerged in water.
White vinegar works too! I use it diluted in water to get rid of sticker residues or to take the labels off jars I'm going to reuse. Sometimes it takes awhile, especially with the jars, so I'm glad to know about these other things that work!
Worked like a charm!
I use hot water which is also good. Never tried adding vinegar to water. I also use this method to remove stamps from envelopes
Very useful advice, I tried to remove the stickers in this manner and is very easy and efficient!
(Rubber) eraser! A friend of mine was surprised when I removed remains of a sticker using pencil eraser. Something I've always done since I was little!
I've always just poured a little bit of lighter fluid on the sticker, let it soak for a minute then peels right off. Don't smoke but I always have a bottle of lighter fluid on hand! :)
My method of choice for removing stubborn stickers and labels is simply a cotton ball or Q-tip with a little rubbing alcohol. Easy as pie!
If the book cover isn't fabric but slick try a little bit of rubbing alcohol.
Try a little rubbing alcohol. I always use it on any surface (that's not fabric!).
Hey I got a great video showing how to easily remove labels and glue residue here:

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The nature of pro sports is it's ever-evolving rosters. It appears likely that Capitals forward Alexander Semin, the mercurial, skilled, sometimes maddening Russian who is the longest-tenured player on the team, may not be back with the organization next fall.
Semin, 28, was a 2002 first-round draft pick by Washington. He played in 52 games in 2003-04 at age 19, stayed home during the 2004-05 lockout instead of reporting to AHL Portland and then missed another full season after he claimed compulsory military service kept him in Russia for another year. But since returning for the 2006-07 season, Semin has scored 197 goals and been a key cog in the Caps' success.
The relationship may have run its course, however. Mark Gandler, Semin's agent, told ESPN the Magazine on Monday that his client, an unrestricted free agent, will test the open market on July 1. But in a conversation with the Examiner on Sunday afternoon, Gandler did not completely rule out a return to Washington. Semin has long been comfortable here, after all, and, according to sources, had never pushed for a trade.
"Trying to give you some specifics on those different issues, I'd just be speculating," Caps general manager George McPhee said when asked about the team's desire for Semin to return. "So you'll know just after I know as we move along here and get things done. And every summer is a challenge in these jobs. But there's never a summer where you don't have anything to do."
Semin's presence might be necessary after top prospect Evgeny Kuznetsov, 19, informed Washington he will remain in the KHL, according to McPhee. That could be for as long as two years – although no official announcement has been made. Either way, it deprives Washington of a relatively cheap potential replacement for Semin. Kuznetsov has a similar skillset and was recently ranked the No. 1 prospect in the world by The Hockey News.
But it is also clear that Semin is unhappy with his role here after averaging 16 minutes, 47 seconds of ice time per game – the lowest total since his rookie year (12:37). Semin has shown an aptitude for playing on the penalty kill in years past, but this season under Dale Hunter, and Bruce Boudreau before him, he was used just 1:09 when down a man – total. This is a player who saw decent short-handed ice time last season (61:23), in 2009-10 (71:40) and in 2008-09 (94:14). Semin was also rarely employed by Hunter in late-game situations when a lead had to be held. Of course, Hunter is no longer his coach, either, after stepping down on Monday. That could have an impact depending on who the replacement will be.
Now the big question: What is the market going to bear? Semin made $6.7 million this season on a one-year deal signed in January, 2011. That was a strategic move done in part because of the upcoming collective bargaining negotiations with the NHL Players' Association and the owners. Semin could certainly generate a significant contract offer from a team in the Kontinental Hockey League so there is leverage there.
But it's unclear if there is an NHL team willing to match his salary from this past season. Is he willing to take a pay cut to stay in North America? How comfortable will he be in another market? Semin has long been sheltered in Washington, where he does almost no English-language interviews and so rarely speaks to reporters. But he can absolutely speak well enough to communicate with teammates and coaches.
Still, Semin routinely wows teammates and opponents with his pure skill. He has one of the game's best wrist shots, soft hands and elite stick skills that sometime leave him overconfident and lead to penalties. He scored 21 goals this season and had 33 assists. It was his second consecutive 54-point season. Three other times he's topped 73 points. Semin has been known to sit with injuries some teammates feel he could play through – three times missing 19 games or more in a season. Yet he matched a career-high with 77 games played this season and still cut his penalty minutes from 71 to 56.
"Of course. Of course. I want to see everybody back next year, but again I hope [Semin is ] going to stay here, I don't want to leave him," teammate Alex Ovechkin said. "But again it's George's decision, it's Sasha decision, it's Sasha's agent decision…It's pretty hard, but it's a business. Everybody wants to be successful in this business and sometimes you have to make hard decision to be successful."
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One of your colleagues has figured out a new way to find pieces of trash that are orbiting the Earth at more than 17,000 miles per hour. His creativity is now earning him some prestigious recognition. Richard Rast, a senior engineer for the Air Force Research Laboratory at the Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico, is a finalist for a Service to America medal in the Science and Environment category. Read a Q&A with Richard Rast.


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October 3, 2012
Women's Tennis Postponed, Fall Season Ends
WORCESTER, Mass. – The Holy Cross women's tennis match against Stonehill, scheduled for 3:30 p.m. today, will not be played due to rain. The match has been postponed to a later date.
As a result, the Crusaders have now concluded their fall season with a 2-2 record overall. The squad will be off until the spring with that schedule announced at a later date.


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The Bridgeport Sound Tigers defeated the Springfield Falcons at home Saturday night by a final score of 3-0. Anders Nilsson made 24 saves while Anders Lee, Scott Mayfield and Mike Halmo all notched tallied for the Sound Tigers. Lee and Mayfield scored within 16 seconds of each other late in the first period, while Halmo's goal came early in the third. With the win, the Sound Tigers improve to 43 points on the season.
Lee's goal came at the 18:56 mark after sustained pressure by the Sound Tigers. Andrew Clark had the puck at the side of the net and threw it out in front. Lee had his stick in perfect position just outside the crease and tapped it in as he was being hauled down in front. The goal was Lee's 18th of the season and made it a 1-0 Sound Tigers lead.
On the ensuing faceoff, Mayfield found the back of the net to put the Sound Tigers up 2-0 to end the first. He took a feed from Pierre-Marc Bouchard and had a skated into the high slot before he fired a wrist shot to beat Falcons goalie Jeremy Smith.
Neither team scored in the second period as Nilsson had his best period of the game. He saw 11 shots in the middle frame, but turned aside each one. The Sound Tigers killed off five of Springfield's 12 power plays in the second, and ended the night a perfect 13-for-13 on the kill.
It remained a 2-0 game into the third period, but a 5-on-3 for the Sound Tigers gave them an opportunity to extend the lead. At the 12:48 mark, Mike Halmo sent a one-timer past Smith after taking a pass from Pierre-Marc Bouchard. It was Bouchard's second assist on the night.
The Sound Tigers have two home games next weekend and will host the Albany Devils Saturday night before the Adirondack Phantoms come to Webster Bank Arena Sunday afternoon.
3rd star: Anders Lee (BST)
2nd star: Pierre-Marc Bouchard (BST)
1st star: Anders Nilsson (BST)
Nilsson Notes: Anders Nilsson's win was his first since returning to the Sound Tigers. It was also his second shutout of the season.
Lee Scores Again: Anders Lee's goal was his 18th of the season. He leads the team in goals and also has the most among all AHL rookies.
PK Perfect: The Sound Tigers went a perfect 13-for-13 on the penalty kill in Saturday's game.
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Habitat for humanity building communities in Blaine
end is to build communities and my means is houses,
said Terry Mattson, executive director of Habitat for Humanity
in Whatcom County. He was in Blaine to rally the community
around plans to build homes for several local families who
could not otherwise afford them. We believe everyone
is entitled to an affordable and adequate place to live
and grow.
Founded in Georgia in the1970s, the program has built more than 110,000 new homes using volunteer labor, donated materials and low interest loans. Weve been in Whatcom County since 1987 and in the last few years its really come alive, Mattson said. They have built 13 houses in the county so far and this year they built two homes in Ferndale and next year they will target Blaine. We feel theres a real need and there are certainly families that qualify, he said.
The first step would be selecting a family, or perhaps two, for whom to build a home. Selection is based on need and a family with children will probably be a focus, Mattson said. The neediest family who applies is the one we select.
The next element is to find a low-cost or donated lot to build the home on. If we get two lots donated well build two houses, Mattson said, adding that partial donations were also welcome. Donations to the program are tax-deductible, he said, from land to building materials.
Next comes three-pronged support from the community churches and civic clubs, government and business raising funds, volunteers and donations, Mattson said. Its an all-city project. The city will house one of its own and everybody needs to be involved.
Some members of the Blaine business community are already in the swing of things and have already helped with other Habitat projects in the county, he added. Locksmith Al Dahl has donated and installed locksets for every Habitat home built in the county. Mattson said he wants to see the community build on that foundation to form a community network of donated goods and services. We want a Blaine plumber, a Blaine electrician, Blaine contractors, Blaine windows and doors and lumber, he said. A key need in Blaine, he said, would be a local contractor to be the construction manager for the project.
The program doesnt rely completely on donations but uses a revolving loan fund to make up the difference. When the house is complete the new homeowner will pay off the loan, interest-free for the first 20 years, with payments calculated to fit with the family budget. Habitat is not a giveaway program, Mattson said. This is a hand up, not a handout. We work with them, not for them. The new homeowners are also an integral part of the construction team.
Once resources are in place the project will kick off with what Mattson calls a framing blitz, which relies heavily on lots of community volunteers. We build the exterior of the house in a weekend, he said. The whole community is involved and we can even have an ice cream social and a raffle. The capstone is when that 45-foot wall goes up and the new homeowner says lift! Its exhilarating. He said they hope to break ground on the Blaine homes in spring of 2003. By fall, a three to four bedroom, one bathroom home will be ready for the new homeowners to move into.
Mattson said he had met with city officials and local business and community leaders and felt confident the city could muster the resources to build a house. Theres a lot in Blaine, he said. Enough support to make this work. Ultimately, Mattson added, the entire community reaps the benefits. This network closes and seals the gaps in a community people can fall through, he said.
To apply for a Habitat home, to register as a volunteer or to make a donation call Habitat for Humanity of Whatcom County at


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CAMP MINDEN - Former Explo Systems employee Clifford Morrison surrendered to authorities at Bayou Dorcheat Correctional Center just after 11 a.m. Wednesday.
Webster District Attorney Schuyler Marvin said that at one time, Morrison was manager of the Explo/Camp Minden operation.
"When Terry Wright was hired, Morrison stepped back down," Marvin said. "His background is in engineering."


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Monmouth was the place to be Saturday for their 5th annual Home Show. All sorts of vendors came out, from painters to roofers and even sun room designers.
Local Retailer Deals with Possible Roof Collapse
Around 12:30 this afternoon the Galesburg Fire Department responded to a call about a possible roof collapse.
Making Valentines Day Special
Friday was perhaps one of the most romantic day of the year. Valentines day is a day everyone, no matter how old or young will celebrate.
IDOT Says Employee Dies in Stark County Accident
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — State officials say an Illinois Department of Transportation worker has died in an accident in Stark County in central Illinois.
Car and United School Bus Collide
UPDATED 2:22pm The winter storm that has seemed to deal more snow than anticipated has also dealt an accident involving a car and a school bus.
State Police in Macomb say the accident happened around 7:20 Friday morning on U.S. 67 north of 210th Avenue outside of Monmouth.
Health Department Faces Liability Coverage Gap
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Timothy Bradley crossed the threshold of pay-per-view fights when he faced Manny Pacquiao 20 months ago. Yet, instead of reveling in the experience of reaching premium fight status, Bradley had to deal with skeptics questioning the bout's outcome.
Bradley won a disputed split decision to become the first fighter to defeat Pacquiao in seven years. For Bradley, the outcry toward the decision became a noticeable side-plot in his subsequent fights.
Only a rematch with Pacquiao would allow Bradley the occasion to overcome the doubts and respond to his naysayers. Bradley finally will have his opportunity after he and Pacquiao agreed to a return bout April 12 in Las Vegas.
"This is all about redemption," Bradley said in a news conference last week, when both fighters officially announced the bout. "I need Manny. He needs me. I'm going to beat him again. I am the younger and better fighter."
Although the majority of the fight public seemingly saw it differently, Bradley, 30, said he won eight of the 12 rounds in the first fight. Two judges scored it closer —115-113 — but enough to earn Bradley the World Boxing Organization welterweight belt.
One of the judges who scored the bout for Bradley was C.J. Ross, later criticized and eventually removed as Nevada fight scorer after her ludicrous 114-114 verdict in Floyd Mayweather Jr.'s convincing performance against Saul "Canelo" Alvarez last September.
"I know the first time around no one believed that I won that fight against Manny Pacquiao," Bradley said. "But second time around I have to make it more decisive in everybody's eyes, including [the media], that I won the second fight.
"I get excited because I embrace challenges. I love when people say that I can't do something because I love to prove them all wrong like I have been doing my whole career."
While he waited for a second bout against Pacquiao, Bradley (31-0, 12 KOs) survived a late brutal assault from Ruslan Provodnikov and won a tight unanimous decision in March 2013. Bradley sustained a concussion from the fight's punishing toll, but he rebounded and won a technically sound split decision against Pacquiao nemesis Juan Manuel Marquez seven months later.
In his first bout following the loss to Bradley, Pacquiao, 35, suffered a sixth-round knockout loss against Marquez. Pacquiao (55-5-2, 38 KOs) took nearly a year off before returning to the ring with a lopsided decision win against Brandon Rios last November.
"This is nothing new to me now," Bradley said. "I'm in a different position than I was the first time I faced Manny Pacquiao. I'm more relaxed. I'm more poised. I know I'm going to be the underdog even though I'm the champion. I want to be the underdog because I'm still set out to prove that I am one of the best fighters in the world.
"I really, really want this fight and I want to prove a lot of people wrong."
Around the ring
Ten months after a technical knockout loss that marred his previously unblemished record, Miami resident Angelo Santana will make his anticipated ring return. Santana will face Hank Lundy on Feb. 21 in Cleveland.
The scheduled 10-round lightweight bout will be Santana's first since Bahoodir Mamadjonov stopped him in nine round last April in Las Vegas. A native of Cuba, Santana, 25, had won his first 14 professional fights, including 11 by knockout before the setback against Mamadjonov.
The fight will be televised by Showtime as part of its ShoBox series.


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Grated bittersweet chocolate adorns the rims of glasses filled with the after-dinner Grasshopper cocktail that's made with vanilla-infused vodka.
Yield: Makes 6 drinks (serving size: 1 drink)
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Nutritional Information
Amount per serving
- Calories: 306
- Fat: 5.4g
- Saturated fat: 0.5g
- Monounsaturated fat: 0.3g
- Polyunsaturated fat: 0.1g
- Protein: 1g
- Carbohydrate: 18g
- Fiber: 0.0g
- Cholesterol: 0.0mg
- Iron: 0.0mg
- Sodium: 3mg
- Calcium: 1mg
- 1/2 ounce bittersweet chocolate
- 2 teaspoons corn syrup
- 3/4 cup clear crème de menthe
- 3/4 cup white-chocolate liqueur
- 3/4 cup vanilla-infused vodka
- 6 mint sprigs
- Using a superfine grater, grate bittersweet chocolate onto a saucer. Use a finger to rub 1/3 teaspoon corn syrup around rims of each of 6 glasses. Roll each rim in the grated chocolate and set aside. Pour crème de menthe, white-chocolate liqueur, and vanilla-infused vodka into a shaker filled with ice. Shake until well blended. Strain into glasses (be careful not to splash off the chocolate rims). Serve each cocktail with a sprig of mint.
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A nine-year-old boy from Bement became a hero in a matter of minutes Tuesday night.
Keaton, his brother and his dad were on their way to go pickup their uncle when the unthinkable happened.
"I was scared that we all die," Keaton Wright said.
Because while driving along the Monticello Deland blacktop Sterling Wright lost control of his car, it flipped upside down and the next thing they knew they were stuck in a ditch.
"I kept asking Keaton, are you guys okay, are you guys okay? That's all I kept asking about were the kids," Wright described.
And the kids were okay and calm. Keaton got himself and his brother out of the car before saving his dad.
"I've been watching TV on survival shows on cars and car wrecks and I thought that I should just break the window so my dad could crawl out," Keaton said. "I looked in a ditch for a little bit. I finally found a rock the size of my fist."
Keaton said he used the rock he found and threw it at the passenger side door in order to help is dad get out of the car.
"I had a hard time getting my seatbelt off," Wright said. "If it wasn't for Keaton I wouldn't probably got out."
And it's a good thing he did because minutes later the car went up in flames.
"He's my hero," Wright said. "I will admit that he is my hero."
And what better way to reward a hero than with a brand new cell phone and two special words from his brother: thank you.
Keaton's fourth grade class heard about what happened and they had a special moment recognizing him as a hero.
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Things I Love About Knoxville #9 - The Fruit and Berry Patch
Located in Halls just a mile or so off of Emory Road, my family has been enjoying The Fruit and Berry Patch for several years now. Just yesterday we picked 5 pounds of the most beautiful and delicious strawberries you've ever seen (Claire is eating the merchandise in the above picture).
At various times in the spring and summer months, you'll be able to find fresh strawberries, peaches, blackberries, blueberries, apples, pumpkins, and more. We try to go a minimum of twice a year (strawberries in the spring, apples in the fall) but we're going to try to get some blueberries this year too.
If you've never been, you've got to check it out. Stop in at the old barn when you pull in and they'll give you a map of the property and tell you what's in season. From there you're on your own. The whole place is on the honor system… you pick what you want in buckets, bring it back to the shop and they'll weigh it for you and then you pay. Their prices are really great. A giant bucket of 5lbs of strawberries only set us back $10 which is way, way, way below grocery store prices for a much better product (fresh AND local… can't beat that).
I would be remiss if I didn't mention 2 other great reasons to visit. First, you've got to stop by and visit the goats. The kids love feeding the goats rotten fruit and grass through the fence. Well, Connor does… Claire will get sort of close but when the more aggressive goats start climbing the fence, she's convinced that their only ambition at that point is to eat her. The second thing… they have the most delicious fruit pies you've ever had. In the barn where you get your buckets and where you pay, look over to your left and help yourself to one of those amazing warm pockets of goodness. I recommend the apple but the blackberry is great too.
I'm so glad to see a place like this succeed. It's a really fun place to take the kids… we always make an afternoon of it. You can look them up online right here.


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Long Range Planning
Updated Information as of July 9,2014
reFORM: Zoning reFORMs for a New Chapter of City Building
An exciting wave of new development in Lincoln's core area, overcoming the lingering uncertainties of the global economic recession, has energized the entire community, creating a new layer of activity, of interesting places, and new options for living, working, shopping and recreating.
This wave of new development is fulfilling the promise for the core area that has been laid out for many years in the City's Comprehensive Plan. But the latest edition of that plan also contains a new promise - that this energy, which takes the form of taller, denser, mixed-use development, can ripple out from the core area to revitalize and enhance other parts of the City.
The reFORM proposal lays out a set of objectives and strategies for reFORMing the City's zoning code. It includes proposals to encourage this next potential layer of City development while remaining sensitive to the needs of existing neighborhoods for stability and protection.
Below are three updated documents that provide summarized visual and detailed information on the reFORM package of proposals. Please review this information, provide your comments through the comment board below or by contacting the Planning staff.
Index of Proposed Changes
Areas where proposed commercial design standards WOULD apply
Areas where proposed commercial design standards WOULD NOT apply
Next Steps
Over the next several months, Planning staff will conduct outreach efforts to stakeholders to receive comments and answer questions from the public on the latest version of the package of proposals. The reFORM Advisory Committee was reconvened to review feedback received on the updated proposal. Later this year, meetings will be held with impacted property owners, with the intention to proceed with a package, including any necessary adjustments, for approval by the Planning Commission and the City Council.
Click HERE to see a list of the 2014 meeting dates, along with links to any agendas and presentations.
reFORM Committees
The reFORM Committees met from October - December 2013 to consider the reFORM package of proposals for commercial design standards and zoning changes. Click HERE to see a list of the 2013 meeting dates and the members, along with links to the agendas and presentations.
Comment Board
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A pair of South Florida businessmen have been indicted by a South Florida grand jury on charges of conspiracy, fraud and extortion.
The indictment alleges that Daniel Carrasco, 54, and Federico Martin Gioja, 45, both of Miramar, operated several fraudulent businesses that targeted Spanish-speaking consumers.
A third person, Romino Tasso, was named in a civil suit by the U.S. Department of Justice.
The Justice Department requested that the court issue an injunction and Southern District Judge Cecilia Altonaga issued a temporary restraining order and has frozen Carrasco, Gioja and Tasso's assets along with the companies under their control.
"Protecting Americans from fraud continues to be a top priority for the Department of Justice," said Stuart Delery, Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department's civil division.
Carrasco and Gioja have been in jail since June 26 when they were initially arrested and charged.
Their arrest came after Univision reported to the U.S. Postal Inspection Service that they believed a company was involved in fraudulent activity and falsely claimed an affiliation with the television network. The inspection service investigated and arrested Carrasco and Gioja.
The two also allegedly claimed to sell various products including vitamins, lotions, medical insurance and English-language training products, but apparently did not deliver the products or delivered different products than consumers ordered.
When consumers took action and refused delivery of the shipments, Argentine phone-room telemarketers called and falsely threatened consumers with arrest, deportation or fines on their gas and electric bills, according to the indictment.
The criminal and civil complaints also stated that Carrasco and Gioja often changed the names of their companies to avoid consumer complaints and legal action against them.
"We are committed to investigating and prosecuting such fraudsters, both domestic and international, whose schemes defraud consumers," Wilfredo Ferrer, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida, said in a statement.


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The Farm Bill passed through the Senate today 64-35.
After a long week of debate and discussion, the Senate voted to proceed with the 2012 farm bill Monday night and will wrap up the bill today after several votes.
Over the next several weeks the 2012 farm bill will be the topic of discussion in the U.S. Senate. As of last week, 180 amendments to the Agriculture Committee's bill had been filed for debate.
The full Senate voted in support of continuing 2012 farm bill consideration today. The vote passed 90-8 in favor of proceeding.
House Ag Committee to begin their mark-up process for the 2012 Farm Bill. Also, the full Senate vote of the bill is scheduled to happen tomorrow.
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Despite the anticipated cold and rainy weather Friday, the City of Dallas plans to observe the 50th anniversary of the day JFK was shot and killed and remember the person he was.
"Texans are tough and a crisp day won't prevent us from marking this important time in history," said Mayor Mike Rawlings in a statement. "We believe this important event cannot be duplicated in another location, so the commemoration will take place tomorrow as planned."
Forecasts have temperatures in the mid 30's with a 70 percent chance of rain in North Texas.
On Friday, the 50th anniversary will be observed in at a ceremony in Dealey Plaza - at the place where and at the moment of when the president was shot and killed.
"We are planning a respectful, simple, understated, respectful public memorial commemorating President Kennedy's life," said Rawlings.
A limited number of tickets were distributed, and a group called Coalition on Political Assassinations has been given space a few blocks away.
There will be no members of the Kennedy family present.
"You have to remember, the Kennedy family in the 80s made it clear they'd rather people remember Kennedy on his birthday, May 29, rather than Nov. 22, when he died," said Gary Mack, the Sixth Floor Museum's curator.
The usual Dealey Plaza crowd won't be there Friday, and noted conspiracy theorists are angry about it.
The Sixth Floor Museum, housed in the building where alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald fired the fatal shots 50 years ago, will be closed for security reasons, along with other buildings around the plaza.
"I think the mayor and his planning committee did it right," Mack said. "They call it a 50th observance. The meaning of the Kennedy assignation changes with individuals. This is solemn and respectful. And there is no reason to think it's anything other than that."
There was a much smaller, city-sanctioned, ceremony in November 1993, on the 30th anniversary. At that time, a marker was placed on the grassy knoll, designating Dealey Plaza a national historic monument.
Thousands of people visit Dealey Plaza from around the world every Nov. 22, drawn to what happened there.
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PUMA Social Attacks Denmark!
PUMA just crashed Denmark with a whole package of underground intimate concerts and PUMA social games. Upcoming bands and DJs performed in some of Aarhus and Copenhagen's most hyped venues and stores. One helicopter and thousands of hacky sacks were used as invitations. Godsbanen in Aarhus was transformed into a huge late night party while a full-size ice bar popped up in the heart of Aarhus delivering free drinks, break-dancers and Sneakers frozen inside. If you're wondering what music is used in this video - just think of "Lover" by The Echo Vamper!


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Master Dogen's 300 Koan Shobogenzo: Case 170
Any serious practitioner knows that spiritual nourishment is just as vital a human necessity as water, food, and shelter. In this discourse, John Daido Loori, Roshi, stresses the importance of feeding ourselves with what he calls "Dharma food" -- an antidote to the suffering caused by our fear, anxiety, and greed. These depleting elements lead us to separate from others and to become stuck in our differences, rather than experience our inherent unity -- the deep sense of intimacy that is the right of each one of us.
Exploring Master Seppo's koan on hunger and thirst, Abbot Loori once again reminds us of the relevance of practice as the most direct way to deal with our spiritual starvation, thus taking care both of ourselves as individuals and of the earth as a whole.
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Fewer teens becoming new cigarette smokers
A government study finds the number of kids under 18 lighting up for the first time at the lowest level in decades.
The culture and industry of smoking seem to have their own peculiar cycles. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says cigarette smoking is responsible for nearly one out of every five deaths in the U.S., including the more than 10% as the result of secondhand smoke exposure.
Between 2000 and 2004, cigarette smoking cost the U.S. more than $193 billion in health care expenses and lost productivity.
And for decades, as older smokers die off, young new smokers have taken their place. Every day close to 4,000 American kids under the age of 18 smoke their first cigarette -- and nearly 1,000 of them become brand-new, daily cigarette smokers.
But that cycle may be breaking. A new report from the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics said the percentage of 8th, 10th and 12th grade students who reported smoking cigarettes daily last year was at its lowest level in the survey's history.
According to the report, 2% of 8th-graders, 5% of 10th-grade students and 9% of high school seniors said they smoked daily in 2012. Compare that data to the survey's peak smoking years in the mid-1990s, when those numbers were 10%, 18% and 25%, respectively.
Children's exposure to secondhand smoke also went down. In examining so-called environmental smoke levels, the study noted the percentage of kids ages 4 to 11 with detectable levels of cotinine, a breakdown product of nicotine, in their blood fell from 88% in 1988-1994 to 42% in 2009-2010.
A variety of factors are in play when it comes to the decline in smoking among teens: the rising cost of cigarettes and the economic downturn, lower birth rates, a decline in overall national population growth and better education about the long-term health hazards of tobacco use.
Danny McGoldrick, vice president for research for the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, said tobacco taxes and new regulations limiting where people can smoke have also helped bring down the number of young smokers. But he told the Los Angeles Times anti-smoking campaigns have shown signs of losing their momentum among teens in recent years.
Said McGoldrick: "We need to invest in more of what has worked in the past to accelerate these declines."
We continuously vilify the evils of tobacco, rightfully so, but we never seem to hear about the bigger danger in our society.
The CDC reports that cigarette smoking costs more than $193 billion (i.e., $97 billion in lost productivity plus $96 billion in health care expenditures) annually.
At the same time the CDC reports excessive alcohol consumption cost the U.S. $224 billion annually.
It seems the alcohol lobby is better funded than the tobacco lobby.
I think more kids are realizing that it is gross, not cool. Also, most kids nowadays are more comfortable being themselves instead of what everyone expects them to be which I think makes them less likely to give into peer pressure.
Yes, drinking is still a problem, but it does not affect me as much because I usually do not go out during the time the drunkards are out. People still seem to think it is ok to smoke in or close to a bus stop though so that affects me every day. When I was pregnant, the father smoked and it affected the placenta. His drinking did not affect me or her whatsoever so I think this is why people fight harder against smoking than drinking.
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Excellent piece by Gary Groth, refuting yet again false recollections by Jim Shooter regarding Jack Kirby's '80s fight to get Marvel to return his artwork.
—Christopher Allen
Excellent piece by Gary Groth, refuting yet again false recollections by Jim Shooter regarding Jack Kirby's '80s fight to get Marvel to return his artwork.
—Christopher Allen
By J. Marc Schmidt. SLG Publishing $3.95 USD
Maybe it's unfair, but until Pixar decides to tell the animated story of a bunch of anthropomorphic egg siblings, I'm just not interested. Look, I just think if you have to give your little eggy characters stick figure limbs, and ninja outfits, then to me, you've somehow failed to work within the limits of your concept. It might as well be mice or shrunk-down humans in a big scary world or, you know, any sentient, ambulatory creature with brain function, rather than unfertilized chicken embryos. As the bio page indicates, Schmidt was inspired by Australian artist Norman Lindsay and decided to make a comic, so he sequestered himself and did it. But as far as I know, Slave Labor is under no legal obligation to publish it. I don't want to be mean, but I just didn't connect with the comic at all. You know what's a better use of eggs? Boil some spaghetti, drain the water, and while the pasta is still hot, throw in butter, olive oil, parmesan, salt, pepper and a cracked egg, and stir. The heat will cook the egg that coats the pasta, adding protein and extra flavor. Alternately, make pizza with dough, olive oil, salt, cheese and cured meat on top such as prosciutto or salami and then crack an egg on top of that while it's still in the oven. These are two good things to do with eggs. Let's end on a positive.
—Christopher Allen
Writers - Neal Adams and Dennis O'Neil
Artist - Neal Adams
DC Comics. $19.99 USD / $39.99 USD (Tabloid Facsimile)
One thing I like about Neal Adams is how much pride he takes in his work. And I don't just mean that his hard work is evident, but that he publicly takes pride in it. The Introduction to this hardcover reprint makes that clear—he thinks this is a great book that shows everyone how great comics are. You know what? He's right on both counts.
Although I have no doubt Denny O'Neil made an important contribution to the plotting of this titanic team-up, it's probably to the better that Adams ended up writing the thing—a superstar depicting the meeting of two superstars. Adams gets Superman fine, but he really understands Ali, because Adams is also a "it's not bragging if you can do it" kind of guy. Adams takes pleasure in depicting a man who is not only at the top of his game, physically, but who also has a philosophy behind what he does. Adams was never just a showy artist; he served a story, and was constantly trying to move the art form forward.
I don't mean to just lather up Adams here, but I was honestly really pleased to find how well this book holds up over thirty years later. I remember it coming out and reading my cousin's copy, but I never had my own. It turns out it's very well-plotted, with a number of interesting twists and developments, not to mention a great depiction of a respective union of two talented characters of integrity. It's also a great distillation of Muhammad Ali, a knowing primer on some of the intricacies of boxing, and a celebration of American ingenuity and resilience, and it can't have been the easiest book to put together, given that it featured a living icon and had to be approved by his religious guru. Somehow, Adams leaps the hurdles, and delivers a fun but well-thought-out story with not just the stuff above, but some pretty good fights, aliens, robots, spaceships and celebrity onlookers.
Adams is pretty corny at times, but that's the only minor complaint. There's so much more going on here than most specials of the past couple decades, with their full-page spreads and extended battles. Adams rightly found the common denominator of dignity between Ali and Superman, and even gives some to some of the alien enemies, which raises the tale up a couple notches from your average alien invasion story. And the art, forget about it. Adams is not only inked by his most complementary embellisher, the late Dick Giordano, but a young (but recognizable) Terry Austin inks the backgrounds. It's great stuff, and unlike some of the Adams reprints of recent years, the recoloring is for the most part an improvement, though noticeably different from the original book. Really one of the most enjoyable single issues of a superhero comic you'll ever read.
—Christopher Allen
It's been a busy 70th anniversary for Steve Rogers, the once and future Captain America. Between his titular series, every Avengers book, and the new Fear Itself, there's not a week that goes by where once doesn't see the star-jumpsuited soldier judging, counseling or beating someone for the good of Earth or the U S of A.
Captain America: Allies and Enemies
Writers - Rob Williams, Kathryn Immonen, William Harms, Kieron Gillen, Kelly Sue Deconnick
Artists - Rebekah Isaacs, Ramon Perez, Declan Shalvey, Renato Arlem, Greg Tocchini
I'm referring to the hardcover collection coming out May 18th, but these were the five Captain America and… one-shots Marvel published the past couple months. There's no strong theme uniting them other than whoever is in the title besides Cap is actually the star of the book. This is especially true with Captain America and the Falcon, which wastes several pages on the tail-end of an Avengers/Lethal Legion fight just to get Cap in the book. The rest is Falcon, Sam Wilson, going back to Harlem to try to help one of his old prostitutes from his pimp days get her son out of the gang life and back into a promising college football career. It's a shame that no one can write a Sam Wilson story that isn't about his criminal past or his feelings of being overshadowed by Captain America, but this one isn't too bad. At least it doesn't have the expected happy ending, though again, it might have been better with more space devoted to Sam's story rather than the labored Avengers stuff, especially if Williams could have used that time to flesh out the complexity's of the mother character, who's concerned but mercenary at the same time. I also liked how the little bit about the redwing falcon's resilience in NYC mirrored The Falcon's.
Captain America and the First Thirteen fleshes out a little of the Cap/Peggy Carter romance during a mission she's leading for the French Resistance. It's fast-paced and nicely wistful at the end, but while it features Cap more prominently than the other one-shots, that ends up being a negative. Immonen writes him as a violent, gung-ho horndog unlike most of the takes we've seen of the character over the past six decades. It's a shame, because she can be a witty writer and some of that is present in how the other characters are written here, but it's almost like she has an axe to grind here. It seems like where others have written of Peggy as Steve Rogers' first love, for Immonen she's just this nervy chick he liked to fuck during the War, until he didn't. It really wasn't necessary to tear Cap down to make Peggy and her female Resistance friend look better.
Captain America and Crossbones by Harms/Shalvey is the best of the lot, a dark espionage mission for the unrepentant killer Crossbones involving trying to clean up a government virus experiment gone awry on a small Balkan island. Shalvey captures a Crossbones who's badass but thoroughly human in proportion, Harms making him an almost completely bad egg with just a glimmer of compassion that expresses itself in a darkly comic ending. Add Captain America and Batroc, an amusing and surprisingly effective character piece by Gillen and Arlem on the type a man a villain would have to be to keep going up against Captain America with no hope of success, and you've got the only two essential one-shots of the five.
Captain America and The Secret Avengers is the weakest effort, so it's too bad it's the last one. It feels a lot like an old Solo Avengers story of some inventory piece for Marvel Fanfare or Marvel Comics Presents, so it's kind of funny that the one-shot is padded with an old MCP story starring Black Widow and Silver Sable, with art by a young, not-as-bad Rob Liefeld (others have featured Lee/Kirby Cap stories). Greg Tocchini handles the art, and it's kind of like the series of interlocking covers he did for all the one-shots in that there are some nice moments between some very awkward poses and ugly faces (the women on the covers look stoned to the gills). Deconnick comes up with a serviceable reason to get Black Widow and Agent 13 together on a mission: to save young Russian agent Tatiana from taking revenge on a corrupt girls finishing school that's really a front for assassin training for various dictators and warlords, called L.A.S.S.E.S. (don't ask). It struck me during the leader, Lady Ashley's (that's the L and A in the name, since you went ahead and asked), speech to the gathered bad dudes at the fundraiser, that Deconnick is willing at any opportunity to sacrifice logic and plausibility for jokes and would-be bright lines. Lady Ashley praises the throng for being, among other things, "soulless," but as anyone who watches the news can see, every Mubarak and Ghadafi can rationalize their bloody acts as being for the ultimate good of their people. Perhaps unintentionally, this one-shot bookends the Falcon one and they're both about trying to help a young person from making a terrible mistake with dire consequences, but here Deconnick does go for the pat ending after a suspense-free climax. The lasting memory of this one is the running joke about Sharon Carter being called Natasha's mom. If you think about it too much, the real joke is why anyone thinks former Avenger Natasha can still do undercover work.
Secret Avengers #11
Writer - Ed Brubaker. Artist - Will Conrad
"Absolutely not, Gary!" It's not enough that Brubaker brought Bucky back from the dead in an arc that made him a brainwashed Russian assassin to the newest Captain America, as well as getting Steve Rogers to hang up the shield and start a team of black ops Avengers, but to finally introduce a character into the Marvel Universe named Gary, never mind one who gets Hank McCoy pissed about something non-mutanty, is really something. Bravo, Bru. In the non-MU, most of us don't know a lot of John Steeles and Natashas and Hanks (and I've had a longstanding rule never to trust anyone named Steve that's 99% effective). But we all know a Gary, and he's often a stout, stammering fellow like this one. Whether he's also a scientist with technology that can show a subject's memories on a monitor with non-POV camera angles is irrelevant.
As far as the other, Garyless stuff in the issue, it's the first of a two-parter that will wrap up Brubaker's uneven run on the series. It's mainly a WWII flashback story with Cap and Steele against not just Nazis but kinda-sorta zombies and maybe even a Lovecraftian tentacled monster, so there's that. Conrad's art is fine but unexceptional, and is in keeping with the general stylistic range of past Cap/SA artists like Deodato, Epting, Perkins et al.
What's more interesting about this issue is that it really doesn't fit the general remit of Secret Avengers, and counting next issue and #6, that's 25% of the series thus far that's not really about black ops, Defendery team book adventures. It kind of felt from early on that Brubaker's heart wasn't really into the concept of the book, and it didn't seem like he had any real plans in mind for the team members like Ant-Man, Beast or Valkyrie who aren't currently being served in their own or others' books the way Rogers, Black Widow and Agent 13 still pretty much are in Captain America, and I think Moon Knight still has a series, right? I think it's notable that Nova and Shang-Chi amounted to little more than guest stars, and both were there to serve stories about secret societies, a recurring theme of Brubaker's. Another recurring theme is reclamation projects and redeeming the damaged or brainwashed (Bucky, Sharon, the '50s Cap, Zack Overkill from Incognito), with the latest project being John Steele. Brubaker explores these themes well, don't get me wrong; I just think it's interesting how a creator's prime directive will take over despite the purported premise of the book. Which leads me to…
Captain America #616
Writers - Ed Brubaker, Cullen Bunn, Frank Tieri, Howard Chaykin, Mike Benson
Artists - Mike Deodato, Ed McGuinness, Jason Latour, Howard Chaykin, Paul Grist, Travis Charest, Paul Azaceta
It's the 70th Anniversary issue, clocking in at over 90 pages of comics. Don't get too excited by seeing Charest's name there, as he just does a one-page distillation of the basic Cap origin/rebirth for Brubaker, but it looks good. Late greats Jim Aparo and Curt Swan have a couple late career Cap commission pieces in here as well. A big chunk of the book is by Brubaker, though. First is the beginning of "Gulag," a story taking Bucky to a Russian prison for crimes committed while he was the Winter Soldier and for which he was already tried and convicted in absentia. We've already seen Bucky in jail in "The Trial of Captain America," and prison stories are another recurring motif for Brubaker, but this begins ably enough. Although Steve Rogers' position in the current administration could ensure better treatment of Bucky by the Russians, that wouldn't be as dramatic as having him face a former Crimson Dynamo who wants to kill him, or having him battle Ursa Major, possibly to the death, would it? Deodato puts in more effort into rendering an angry bear-man than anyone has a right to expect.
Brubaker accomplishes a couple things in the next story, first taking us through Steve Rogers' feelings of frustration at not being able to help Bucky at this time, and also setting up the coming Captain America and Bucky series he's going to write with Marc Andreyko, as the story is largely a flashback Invaders adventure that gives McGuinness a chance to draw some classic Golden Age characters. Some have said it shows that McGuinness is capable of drawing with less bombast, but to me, a story with the Invaders and the Red Skull could have used more of it. Not bad, though, and it will be interesting to see Brubaker explore moral ambiguity and secret societies during the Greatest Generation/Four Color Comics era.
The rest of the stories are all about Steve Rogers' Cap during various times, by various creators, most of whom have little experience with writing or drawing him. The Bunn/Latour "Spin" is an interesting story about a farming town so devastated by the economy that they agree to let AIM set up underground weapons facilities there, while Howard Chaykin uses a fanciful premise of a Norman Rockwell painting of Cap and a young woman as the backdrop for a nice story of romance lost, times passed, and oh yeah, there's Nazis.
There's a goofy WWII Baron Blood/Invaders story where Cap briefly becomes a vampire. It's funny that Grist does the art, because he already covered so much of this material in his own Jack Staff, which is basically his own Union Jack, who has a nemesis very similar to Baron Blood. It's nice to see him go right to the source here, but Jack Staff is much better.
I wouldn't call the Tieri/Azaceta story the worst piece here, as the art is nice, and the Union Jack tale never gets going at all, but it does still leave kind of a bad taste. The idea is that there have been several clones made of Hitler over the years, and almost all have been tracked down and destroyed, but Steve Rogers finds one right in Manhattan, an art gallery curator and artist named Edmund Heidler, who apparently doesn't know who he really is. Tieri has Sharon Carter, a seasoned spy who has seen many weird things and many good people committing horrible acts (like Winter Soldier), go nuts at this news and want to turn the car around and do some sort of drive-by on Heidler, forcing Steve to practically punch her to get her to cut it out. Tieri's idea is not a bad one, that Heidler is innocent because he has none of Hitler's memories and is not himself guilty of any crimes. But the execution stinks, with a risible shock ending where Heidler can't help this urge to paint the swastika into everything, including a reproduction of the Mona Lisa. He's also named his cat Eva. Oy vey.
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Writer - Peter Milligan
Artist - James Romberger
Publisher - Vertigo. $12.99 USD
Vertigo took some well-deserved flak last year for its Vertigo Crime imprint, a series of thin hardcover graphic novels that look similar in design to real novels and cost the same, but for much simpler stories and often mediocre art. Heck, I recall at least a couple weren't even true crime novels but more along the lines of castoff Hellblazer stories.
Peter Milligan, though, he's usually worth a read, and James Romberger's online persona has always revealed him to be an individual of taste and intelligence, so one would hope that when he chose to draw something again it was going to be noteworthy. As it is, The Bronx Kill is certainly one of the better of the Vertigo Crime books, but that's not saying a lot.
The story follows Martin Keane, a writer suffering a block after a successful debut novel. His ex-cop dad is an insensitive asshole, so we want to like Martin, but going off to Ireland to research a book and leaving his wife alone for months doesn't inspire sympathy, or at least it doesn't as presented here, because it's unclear just what is pulling Martin to Ireland. Soon after returning, his wife, who had become fascinated with the stretch of land known as the Bronx Kill in New York, ends up dead there, making Martin a suspect. Martin's guilt isn't really presented as a possibility; Milligan has other fish to fry, tying the murder and the Bronx Kill landscape together, along with the prose pieces of Martin's Irish novel in progress, in a story about history and sins of fathers being visited on sons and on down.
Romberger does an admirable job of storytelling, as is the case with most of the Vertigo Crime artists. When I used "mediocre" above, what I really mean is that while some, like Romberger, have a more effective style than others, in no case does any of them really let loose with a page of breathtaking beauty or invention. They are subordinate to the scripts, Romberger more than most and with some excuse, because of the prose sections of the book breaking up the flow. It ends up a rather compromised project that probably would have worked better as a prose novel, opened up with more twists, more background and greater attention to the novel-within-the-novel. At 180 pages of comics, Milligan gives short shrift to some promising ideas, and also short changes the character of Martin, as well as giving the story a shock ending that's more sour than surprising.
—Christopher Allen


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File this under ideas you've had but never acted on. The totally genius concept of a stand-alone store devoted to your favorite, TSA-friendly beauty products will finally become a reality when Kate Duff and Alexi Mintz launch 3floz.com this week. As suggested by its URL name, the site only carries products that are 3.4 oz or smaller from an assortment of 30 brands that offer quality skincare basics. (Makeup and fragrance will reportedly be added to the list of offerings down the line.) Choose from Dr. Hauschka face creams, Jonathan Product shampoo and conditioners, and a host of body salves from Pangea Organics to properly primp out your next air travel experience. Even if you're not taking to the skies anytime soon, the smaller bottles (and smaller price tags) offer a chance to try certain brands you've always been curious about, but maybe not curious enough to shell out for the full size. [WWD]
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Seven candidates for governor in Vermont clashed over a proposal to decriminalize drugs at a recent forum sponsored by Friends of Recovery Vermont, the Rutland Herald reported June 24.
Democrat Peter Shumlin, currently president pro tem of the state Senate, has publicly endorsed decriminalization of marijuana, setting the stage for a discussion on the proposal. Five Democrats and two independent candidates attended the forum, but not Republican Brian Dubie, who is now the lieutenant governor.
Former state senator Matt Dunne, a Democrat, said he supports medical use of marijuana but not decriminalization of the drug. "We have not demonstrated as a society and a state to be able to handle addiction better connected with legal drugs," Dunne said. "And before opening up a whole new universe to a new drug that does cause a problem, we should make sure that we are addressing the drugs that are legal now."
Secretary of State Deborah Markowitz said she would consider decriminalizing possession of small amounts of marijuana, while state Sen. Doug Racine said, "The thing that scares me about the discussion of marijuana isn't the recreational use by adults. What scares me is I hear stories of 14- and 15-year-olds who are getting access to highly potent marijuana and are smoking it on their way to school."
Independent Em Peyton endorsed marijuana legalization, while fellow independent Dennis Steele said the drinking age should be lowered from 21 to 18. Shumlin said that the state would lose too much federal highway money if the drinking age was lowered.


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Thanks to a care package from Planet Beauty. com, I got to try out the Bare Escentuals Flawless Definition Mascara. I honestly would have never tried this mascara otherwise, but I was pleasantly suprised. I am a sucker for packaging and glamourous advertising which Bare Escentuals isn't necessarily known for. But all that matters at the end of the day is the results and this mascara delivers. This is an ideal mascara for defined and separated lashes. Can be worn for a natural everyday look best, but drama can be achieved with a few extra coats.
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Theatre: "Lorenzaccio"
Date: Thursday, November 29, 2012
Time: 08:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Time: 08:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Location: Little Theatre, Creative Arts building
Cost: $5-$10
Web: http://creativestate.sfsu.edu/node/4146
Sponsor: College of Liberal and Creative Arts
Contact: SF State Box Office
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Phone: (415) 338-2467
Set in the Medici court of the 16th century, this Romantic tragedy by Alfred DeMusset follows the young, rich Lorenzo on his quest to liberate Florence from the tyrannical rule of his cousin, Alessandro de Medici, only to find himself corrupted by the very forces he seeks to eliminate. Inspired by Shakespeare's "Hamlet," Professor Mohammad Kowsar directs his new translation and adaptation, looking at the corrupting influences of privilege and its consequences in relation to the human condition.
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