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From the Mag | Creating Downtown
Posted on 2/28/13 by Susan Copeland » No Comments
Before you hit the sidewalks for the 25th anniversary Art Detour this weekend, we're revisiting artist, writer, and advocate, Susan Copeland's overview of the impact the arts have had in our downtown – originally published in the Nov/Dec 2011 edition of Downtown Phoenix Journal Magazine. Her article provides extra background for appreciating Artlink's "Detour in Time" exhibit at the A.E. England gallery, open this weekend for First Friday, and Saturday and Sunday for Art Detour.
What is it about Downtown Phoenix that interests a college student, a developer, a cyclist, a chef, an artist or an engineer?
It's the energy on the streets and the buzz in the cafes. It exists in every coffee-house conversation, every stroll down a newly shaded street, at any art opening, and in the first bite of sushi. It's the young couple with the stroller, baby and fuzzy dog walking after dark. It's the lunchtime food truck queues, the thunder of balls in the bowling alley, and the smell of fresh peaches at the market. Engaged people are creating new life in downtown Phoenix and the evidence can be seen, heard, felt and tasted.
This buzz is firmly rooted in the creative community that has worked for many years to bring downtown to life. It is evident in the history of the arts-led transformation of downtown, and how it has fueled revitalization and overcome the obstacles that challenge the continuation of this transformation.
Early Urban Arts Pioneers
The roots of this transformation can be traced through the history of Beatrice Moore and Tony Zahn, who came to Phoenix sight-unseen in 1986. They were drawn by the optimism behind the city's name, the desert and the non-hip art scene. They created the very first Art Detour, an annual tour of artists' studios with a small group of 20 art spaces. "It was a way for artists to show their own work independent from galleries. It was an educational event for the public," Moore said.
"[Art Detour] was a way for artists to show their own work independent from galleries."
– Beatrice Moore, GAMA
Moore and Zahn watched gentrification take place, often spurred by the unwitting ability of artists to make a place cool. Their first artist studio was in an old brick warehouse on the site where U.S. Airways Arena now stands. A new jail occupies the site of their second studio. Recognizing that a renter's fate is determined by his landlord, they bought their first building.
"Artists need to get ownership," Moore said. "Young artists are not planning for their future. New construction is often not affordable for studio space."
Their purchase and renovation of historic buildings along Grand Avenue not only created affordable artist studios, but also helped to transform a formerly decrepit downtown stretch of boarded-up buildings into a revitalized corridor that draws thousands of people to art openings, studios, a growing number of bars and restaurants and the annual Grand Avenue Festival.
"It is a diverse and younger crowd, and has introduced a lot of new folks to the museum."
– Jim Ballinger, Phoenix Art Museum
A Detour Takes Hold of Fridays
The success of the yearly Art Detour led another group of artists to start a monthly tour called Phoenix Arts After Hours. This gave birth to the nationally lauded First Friday, a self-guided tour of art spaces and galleries held on the first Friday of every month. It has become the core of the downtown arts scene.
The Phoenix Art Museum has participated in Artlink's First Friday art walk on and off since its inception. "We've had a very positive connection with First Friday," said museum director Jim Ballinger. "We've had anywhere from 800 to 2,000 people come through the museum on a First Friday evening. It is a diverse and younger crowd, and has introduced a lot of new folks to the museum."
Would there be as many new restaurants, condos, galleries and hotels downtown without the presence of 10,000-plus people wandering around downtown on First Friday? The presence of the creative community has brought life, vitality and identity to downtown.
"The easiest way to find a community in Phoenix is to participate, get involved."
– Cindy Dach, Roosevelt Row CDC
The Row Takes Shape
When Cindy Dach and Greg Esser moved here from Denver, they struggled to find a community. Eager to renovate and without any appealing living spaces available, they began an odyssey. Fifteen years, several buildings and many projects later they helped make Roosevelt Street a cornerstone of the downtown arts community. "The easiest way to find a community in Phoenix is to participate, get involved," says Dach. That they have. They formed the successful eyelounge and 515 artists' collectives, MADE Art Boutique, Kitchen Street Studio and the Roosevelt Row Community Development Corporation (CDC).
Wayne Rainey, Kimber Lanning and Dach/Esser all bought buildings and created art spaces within six months of each other. The prices were low enough at the time to make the spaces affordable. Dach says that artists are natural problem solvers. "We looked at the closed up buildings and dark spaces and said, 'Yeah, this sucks. How can we fix it?'"
"It's the small things that form the connective tissue that makes the big things work."
– Ed Lebow, Phoenix Public Art Director
It is this type of creativity, community involvement, forward thinking and innovation that many people believe will move Phoenix forward. Ed Lebow, Public Art Director for the City of Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture, says, "It's the small things that form the connective tissue that makes the big things work."
Small ideas yielding big results are creating an organic identity for downtown today. The little farmers' market that grew into a grocery store, coffee house, wine bar and community gathering space is another perfect example.
Community Sustenance
Chicago transplant Cindy Gentry fell in love with the historic Santa Fe Depot in the warehouse district near Jackson Street. Her goals were to create easy access to healthy food for low-income residents, help keep farmers on their land and create jobs. "Our focus was on low income people but we didn't want to do it in a vacuum," Gentry said. "We wanted to create a place where people from all backgrounds could come together."
She was drawn to downtown because "the creative energy of the city lies here. A connection to the arts community was a logical choice." Although the Santa Fe Depot market never happened, Gentry [as executive director of Community Food Connections] did create the Phoenix Public Market, a grocery store and a thriving farmers market, with a strong emphasis on organic produce and handmade crafts, that anchors Saturday mornings downtown. Says Gentry, "The creative energy that is here in Phoenix is looking for places to get out."
"The creative energy that is here in Phoenix is looking for places to get out."
– Cindy Gentry, Community Food Connections
That creative energy is apparent in the art-centric downtown development of developer and indie rocker Tim Sprague, of Habitat Metro. Two of his current projects are the adaptive reuse of an old hotel, the Oasis, to create affordable living and work spaces for artists, and, most recently, a remodeling of the Lexington hotel that centers around arts and culture.
"Humans have talent that we should recognize and celebrate," Sprague said. "Performing arts, music, media, theatre – they are the spice of life. Art has the ability to bring people together to initiate discussion. It's an automatic switch for turning on tolerance and bringing together diverse ideas."
"The organic arts scene that developed brought focus to the downtown," he said. "It provided the cushion and continuity for things to keep happening. It brought traffic and people downtown that would not have come. It made downtown relevant."
This ability of the artistic community to create relevance and continuity was evident to George Kritikos and his wife Stacy, who left Chicago to buy and take over the Athenian Grill, a Greek restaurant on Central just south of Roosevelt. Kritikos believes that the arts community is good for the area. Historically, he watched how the arts helped in the transformation of downtown Chicago from a scary dark place. "(Mayor Richard) Daly cleaned up the streets. There was artwork, painted cows, landscaping, lighting. All of it together helped take away the scary aspect of the streets. Then coffee shops and restaurants starting popping up."
"The organic arts scene that developed brought focus to the downtown. It provided the cushion and continuity for things to keep happening. It brought traffic and people downtown that would not have come. It made downtown relevant."
– Tim Sprague, Habitat Metro
Filling the Gaps
The biggest stumbling block to this transformation in Phoenix may be the empty lots that divide all of the cool, hip things from each other. When you look down First and Third streets at night, south of Roosevelt, it is dark and scary. People are afraid to walk north from the Sheraton and Alta Lofts.
But the creative community is working on a solution for that too.
Many temporary uses for empty lots have been proposed, but shot down for fear of them becoming too popular and permanent – leading to a potential for public outcry when the temporary project has to make way for a permanent structure. Nevertheless, two artistic uses have recently been implemented.
On Roosevelt near Fourth Street, the Roosevelt Row CDC, has cleaned up, dust-proofed and put temporary lighting in an empty lot to create the First and Third Friday A.R.T.S. (Adaptive Reuse Temporary Spaces) Markets, giving small local vendors the opportunity to become part of the popular art walks. Small booths dot the lot twice each month selling everything from ice cream to hand-crafted wood items.
A few blocks southeast of the A.R.T.S. Market is Valley of the Sunflowers, another Roosevelt Row temporary adaptive reuse project, which broke ground in September, and will feature an entire block of sunflowers. It is the brainchild of Kenny Barrett, downtown resident and newly appointed project director for Roosevelt Row's A.R.T.S. program. With grant funding from Intel and volunteer support from the community, the project will produce sunflower oil that the students at the adjacent BioScience High School will help harvest. They will then use the oil to run the biofuel car that they are creating.
As little as it is, the Valley of Sunflowers project may just be one of the most important projects in downtown Phoenix in the past 10 years. It has brought together young people, artists, engineers, developers and the city to create a project that is sustainable, creative and breaks the boundaries of what it is possible to accomplish in downtown Phoenix. Most importantly, it removes the barrier of fear and apathy toward addressing the problem of the empty lots.
It is easy to see why a college student, a developer, a cyclist, a chef, an artist and an engineer would be drawn to a place like Phoenix. The vibrancy and buzz that created places like Paris, Chicago and Portland are in their infancy here. Phoenix will not recreate or become any of those places. It is creating its own identity. It is growing organically because people want this sustainable lifestyle. More and more people are choosing an authentic experience: enjoying coffee and a crepe at JoBot; shopping for handmade one-of-a-kind items at MADE; finding organic locally grown produce at the Public Market; mingling with neighbors at Faces, Places and Spaces amidst the art at Bragg's Pie Factory; or lingering over a late night imported beer at Carly's. If none of these places and events are familiar, then you are missing out on the core of the new Phoenix.
What a Grand Place It Is
Posted on 2/26/13 by Jen Urso » No Comments
There are some advantages to your bike being your only source of transportation around Phoenix. One of them is no longer being subjected to the inevitable conversation on the bus or train where someone says that Phoenix isn't a real city and has no character.
I get it. You came from somewhere else and it was so awesome you had to leave. Then you came to Phoenix expecting it to answer all of your problems and it turns out it's just as messed up as everywhere else and, on top of that, it has spiky plants, absurdly hot weather and none of the flowers you could grow back in Michigan will grow here.
When I try to pinpoint what Phoenix's character is, I often end up thinking about how our isolation and the possibility that the heat will kill you define our actions here. I also try to see this place like someone who hasn't lived here for over 15 years and accepts it with open eyes.
I look at Grand Avenue.
Due to a little-known zoning restriction, the sweat of a lot of people, a slower process of development and a unique positioning in the geography of Phoenix, Lower Grand Avenue has managed to retain enough remnants of the early developments of this city to give us the sense that Phoenix does not have to mean generic strip malls and chain restaurants. It is one of the few places where we can look at what is still there and imagine the generations that were there before us. Phoenix is in fact not a blank slate to wipe clean and re-imagine how to rebuild for whichever developer's benefit. It has a history—one that goes back much farther than even these poured concrete and masonry buildings.
Beatrice Moore has pretty much seen it all, partly because earlier developments for the now US Airways Center and Chase Field forced her and her partner to be moved to whichever location was just on the fringe of the developer's zone. They looked to Grand Avenue with its unique, older buildings, lower prices and distance from possible development to be able to work and be creative in peace.
It seems that Grand has managed to remain this type of place. It integrates families, artists, new and old businesses, and social welfare programs. It seems quieter and slower there. There's more time for cactus to grow and for people to think, thoughtfully, about what might be best for the community. Unlike other areas of the city that have seen immediate high rise development, speculation and the battle of large chains moving in to take advantage of high trafficked areas (monstrosity at 7th Ave and McDowell, I'm looking at you), Grand Avenue has been churning on, planning for ways to make it a lively area without simply focusing on it as a one-hit destination. This is an area where people can afford to live and breathe.
Stephanie Carrico, co-owner of the Trunk Space, sees Phoenix as a small town in a big city and maybe this is its unique key to potential success. In a community where people are aware of who has lived there for generations and what businesses helped build the area, it seems more likely that people will look out for each other's interests. They're less likely to allow developments that turn the location into a concept of the location without any remaining soul.
Grand Avenue, partly because of the care people have put into adapting and reusing buildings there, is a place that makes people stop and think. Not as many people want to contend with it as they might with more hip locations because, in order to do so, you are confronted by a place that is rooted in time and actually manages to say that this is Phoenix. Now are you going to tear it down and pretend it's somewhere else, or are you going to figure out how to work with it?
Art Publishing for the People
Posted on 2/12/13 by Jen Urso » No Comments
Sometimes, one of the best aspects of living in Arizona is uncovering a gem of innovation, novelty, substance and intrigue where you never thought you'd find it. You have to look close and keep your eyes open because one day while perusing the exhibitor list for the LA Art Book Fair, you might find an amazing little publisher called Hol Art Books.
Tucked away in Tucson, founder Greg Albers has been taking advantage of the space and freedom of Arizona's wide open working environment to develop an art book publishing house that specialize in e-books. After moving his business from Boston, and recognizing the adaptability needed in a struggling economy, Albers shifted gears and became one of the first art publishers to work in e-books.
Hol Art Book's website, blog, projects and approach all exude an enthusiasm for innovating in a realm that many of us have never considered. Says Albers "It is very much a mission of patronage, and perhaps I put that more in the forefront of our activities than other publishers." The bottom line is bringing subjects, authors and artwork to the public for universal, engaged consumption.
The Hol Art Book website's "incubator" page allows authors, editors, publicists, designers and bookstore sponsors to participate and have a voice on whether a project will come to fruition. It also makes you aware of all the great potential ideas that exist in need of a platform for all the pieces to come together. Albers turns the process of publishing, from initial seed to final project, into a transparent collaborative effort—removing the intimidation of what can often be a massive project. Also, by removing the printing step, Hol Art Books makes many of these projects financially possible and no longer a far-off economically insurmountable dream.
Albers efforts to engage and include the community reach even farther than publishing their next book. Their Kickstarter project The People's E-book endeavors to create a free online program that will simplify the currently confusing process of turning a book into an e-book—opening up a new and accessible self-publishing option for aspiring writers and artists wishing to create a book project. At over 180% funded and about two weeks to go, The People's E-book will likely become a reality and change the face of personal creative publishing. Albers says "the response has been overwhelming and humbling"—a sign of someone who's inventive mind trumps his pride. Soon, we could be using e-readers to peruse a whole new medium for visual and text-based art projects. I'm already planning mine.
In addition to reaching out to the larger world to make e-book publishing available to the masses, Albers is regularly involved in the local community discussing art and books. Coming up at Tucson's MOCA, he will be leading a four-part program called "Art Reading/Reading Art: An Unbook Club" that attempts to tap into the regional enthusiasm for learning new things in combination with making the criticism of artwork approachable to all. Simply, we are capable of assessing what we see, with or without a formal art education. This series will focus on "the various, alternative kinds of texts about art that exist including Fiction, Essays, Poetry and Artists' Texts." A drive down to Tucson may be in order, or perhaps Greg Albers will consider a trip to downtown Phoenix.
Maybe you like your giant 80lb art books. You like having a shelf full of weighty titles to impress your friends. You're scared of the prospect of books becoming part of the intangible ether that will keep us from having a concrete, recorded history. To that, I would say: paper is very flammable (the library at Alexandria still burned to the ground), you have your mind to hold all these words and thoughts in and, you can always take the time to conceive of a creative, interesting way to bring ideas to the people, like Hol Art Books has. If none of that works and you still want to impress your friends, you can use this handy E-Book Shelf Surrogate and no one will be the wiser.
'Four Hands, Two Hearts, One Piano' Playing Bach
Posted on 1/12/13 by Katrina Becker » No Comments
The Arizona Bach Festival continues its third season of performances through this weekend with an organ recital, a chamber orchestra performance, and last night's unusual piano duo program of Johann Sebastian Bach's Brandenburg Concertos.
When German organist and composer Max Reger arranged the concertos – originally written for various configurations of strings, winds, and harpsichord — for piano four hands between 1905-1906, he was taking another step in a long tradition. Bach often rearranged his own works for different instrumentations, recycling his melodies and themes over the years, and he was one of Reger's favorite composers; "Bach was his big, big idol," says pianist Eckart Sellheim. "Bach, Beethoven, Brahms…those three…were Reger's spiritual and compositional mentors."
A former professor at the University of Michigan and Arizona State University, Sellheim has served on the faculty and as guest lecturer at conservatories across Germany, earning a respected reputation for historical performance accuracy, with a particular interest in the fortepiano (the modern piano's predecessor). He and his wife, collaborative piano specialist Dian Baker, performed three of the six Brandenburgs last night at Central United Methodist Church.
The appeal of the Brandenburgs is complex, says Sellheim. "It's this mixture of very recognizable melodies…the rhythm, the incredibly clear structure, and the beauty of the slow movements." He elaborates, "They've become sort of a main staple of the repertory, and many people grew up with them."
Bach wrote the six concertos in the early 18th century for the noble court in Brandenburg, a northeast German state. Perhaps because of its difficulty, his music languished unheard for over a century, but today it's nearly as popular as Vivaldi's Four Seasons.
Max Reger systematically studied Bach's keyboard works and also created numerous transcriptions and arrangements of music by composers ranging from Bach to Hugo Wolf, his own contemporary. A friend of Richard Strauss and Hans Pfitzner, Reger is sometimes considered the musical link between Brahms and Schoenberg. "He was highly controversial," says Sellheim. "He ventures out into unknown fields, particularly the piano music, but never crosses the line."
"You have to realize," he continues, "it was an incredible time around the turn of the century, 1900 – there was Wolf, and Strauss, and Ravel, and Debussy…they changed the course of music." Born in 1873, Reger was a renowned organist known as "the second Bach" because of his keyboard skills. His compositions include modulations and structure flirting with 12-tone rows, but looking back to Baroque and Classical styles.
"Reger had no sympathy for the harpsichord," Sellheim says, "but Bach on the modern piano is really no problem at all – it works very fine." Reger's transcriptions are hugely challenging for the performers – according to Sellheim, the composer said he had the "greatest fun" writing them, interweaving complex lines from numerous instruments into just 20 fingers on a single keyboard.
"It's fun to play," he adds, "and as always Bach is so enticing and so interesting, fascinating…not only in the technical and musical aspects, but also rhythm." Sellheim pauses. "The feeling is always that Bach goes back to the core of music – he makes us clean and clear…it's so revealing." He laughs. "The cleaning process makes you sober, if you're not sober before, and gets you back to the origins…you need to confess something – there is no hiding. Everything is completely open."
The Festival's president, Arizona native Scott Youngs, created a seven-year "American Bach" series in his position as director of music at All Saints' Episcopal Church and Day School. After offering more than 50 cantatas along with Bach's St. John and St. Matthew Passions, he continued by developing the Festival, a non-profit organization with its own board.
"We strive to present Bach's music in a variety of ways," says Youngs. "The music is so versatile and today's taste so eclectic that we don't feel constricted by any convention. At least one concert each year is slightly 'off the wall.'" He continues, "This year's concert for piano four hands…some portions are strictly from Bach's scoring, and some portions are…through a much more Romantic and contemporary lens. Lots of notes!"
If you go
- Friday, January 11, 7:30PM at Central United Methodist Church, 1875 N. Central
Eckart Sellheim and Dian Baker play Reger's transcriptions of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos
- Saturday, January 12, 3PM at All Saints' Episcopal Church, 6300 N. Central
David Enlow performs a dramatic recital on the Visser tracker organ
- Sunday, January 13, 3PM at Camelback Bible Church, 3900 E. Stanford Dr., Paradise Valley
The Festival Chamber Orchestra welcomes violin soloist Stephen Redfield and flute soloist Elizabeth Buck
''S Wonderful' Ends And 'Love' Begins
Posted on 1/06/13 by Katrina Becker » No Comments
This weekend Phoenix Theatre offers its final performances of the all-Gershwin musical 'S Wonderful, directed by Associate Artistic Director Robert Kolby Harper. "This kind of show is really hard," he says, "not just for the director-choreographer but for the actors because they'll change clothes 50,000 times, and they'll sing 40 songs by the end of the night."
Perhaps the number of wardrobe changes is slightly exaggerated, but 'S Wonderful does cover more than 42 Gershwin tunes in its whirlwind tour of five time periods and locations. Mini-musicals take audiences to a 1939 Parisian café, a 1948 Hollywood movie studio, and New Orleans in 1957 – there's a total of five vignettes of 15-20 minutes each, all sharing the same sleek but effective Art Deco-inspired set pieces.
If you're searching for a deep, complex plot, don't bother – the simple, timeless themes of yearning, attraction, romance, and love are carried on the thinnest of storylines. It's all a vehicle for the rich music of the Gershwin brothers. And "if you're looking for linear," says Harper with a chuckle, "you're screwed, because it's not gonna happen." He shakes his head and continues, "But that's not how memories are; memories are collages, feelings…sometimes just snapshots."
A tight, talented onstage three-piece combo of piano, bass, and drums plays nearly non-stop, providing not only accompaniment but also interludes between the mini-musicals and seamless segues between styles.
So many songs in such a relatively short show might create a dizzying, abbreviated effect, but Harper says that while "there are moments where it's more snippety, there's a big group of songs where you get a nice chunk." A few of the numbers receiving more extended play include "Nice Work If You Can Get It" as well as selections from the Gershwins' beloved folk opera.
"[The songs] that I'm most excited about are from Porgy and Bess, because I get to sing a little bit on 'There's a Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon for New York,'" says actor Toby Yatso. "I'll probably never be in a production of Porgy and Bess for racial reasons," he continues, "so I think it's fun to be able to experience those songs, that music, that score, even if it's just a little taste…it's a unique opportunity."
Yatso is an Associate Artist at Phoenix Theatre, and serves on the faculty for Arizona State University's Lyric Opera Theatre program (as does Harper). He's won numerous ariZoni and Encore Society awards for his work onstage and as a director, teacher, and choreographer in shows like The Producers, Avenue Q, and Glorious.
"What I like about Toby is that he's never satisfied with just bringing the same-old same-old," explains Harper. "And he's just awesome to work with – I laugh hysterically." He smiles. "That's one of my big things in rehearsal: if we're not laughing, we're going home, 'cause life's too short. We're not curing cancer here, people – we're doing a musical revue."
"At the end of the day, if you're in a revue, yeah – sing pretty, but you've got to be funny. It can't all be about the voice, because I can get a CD and sit at home in my PJs and have a cocktail," Harper continues. "So I want people who can be interesting to watch, and move you to feel something…lift the music off the page."
The cast also includes Kaitlynn Kleinman Bluth, Jenny Hintze, Kyle Erickson Hewitt, and Jenn Taber, who stars in 'S Wonderful's mini-musical "Of Thee I Sing," embracing the role of an abandoned chanteuse. "Jenn's one of the funniest women I've ever met," says Yatso. "She can sing anything and is just so committed to everything she does…and it's fun to work with her because we're such different-sized people. And I love that – I just love the contrast of us."
The 6-foot-5-inch-plus Yatso continues, "I think I'm known because of my height, and as a unique physical presence." His character in the first vignette is a newsroom worker, a sort of silent movie standard with choreography making the most of Yatso's build. "This is so much about the physical storytelling — I get to heighten all my physical attributes…and I have a lot!" he laughs wryly.
He's delighted with all three of his female co-stars. "Jenny and I have danced together a lot – I always feel like she makes me look like a better dancer than I probably would be by myself," Yatso chuckles. "And Kaitlynn…we always felt we were so connected onstage." He smiles again, and exclaims, "When I heard it was those three women, I thought, 'I am a lucky, lucky man!'"
'S Wonderful includes plenty of dancing along with songs ranging from the less familiar ("My Cousin in Milwaukee") to beloved favorites. "Of course you can't have Gershwin without 'Someone To Watch Over Me,'" says Yatso. Harper agrees; "I don't know who can hear that song and not have a real visceral reaction to those lyrics." He continues, "I think even now…even teenagers can listen to that and go, 'Wow – yes, I feel that. That'd be awesome – I'd love to have someone watch over me like that."
"And that's the whole point," Harper says. "That's what music does, especially the Gershwins' music – it connects people in ways that are meaningful, that are deeper than just dancing in the club. It boils down to love."
Even as 'S Wonderful leaves the stage, Phoenix Theatre prepares for the world premiere of another production: Love Makes the World Go 'Round, based on the music of Bob Merrill, who wrote hits like "Mambo Italiano," "If I Knew You Were Coming I'd've Baked a Cake," and "(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?" as well as works for theatre and film like Funny Girl and Carnival. Merrill, who reportedly composed on toy xylophones, took his life in 1998 at the age of 74.
"Love Makes the World Go 'Round is set in a New York piano bar, where these three women have sort of wandered in," explains Producing Artistic Director Michael Barnard. "They're each in a different stage in their lives and their marriages – or 'not-marriages' – so they get into conversations with the help of the piano player…it's a very funny piece."
The tiny cast includes Jeannie Shubitz, Allison Houston, and Patti Davis, while the pianist is Brad Ellis, an arranger and accompanist for television's "Glee," who also worked with writer Duane Poole on the show's arrangements.
- 'S Wonderful
through January 6
- Love Makes the World Go 'Round
January 23 through February 17
- Phoenix Theatre
100 E. McDowell Rd., just east of Phoenix Art Museum
phoenixtheatre.org or 602-254-2151


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tvN confirmed on the 6th,"'ER Man and Woman' (working title) will be the follow-up drama of 'Reply 1994'. Song Ji Hyo and Choi Jin Hyuk have been confirmed as the lead cast."
Song Ji Hyo will play the role of the innocent and gentle nutritionist Oh Jin Hee while Choi Jin Hyuk will play the role of scholar student Oh Chang Min, both of who go through personality changes after divorcing one another. They become practically enemies but end up reuniting unexpectedly after six years apart as interns in an emergency room.
'ER Man and Woman' will enter filming later this month and premiere at the end of January.
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An Elizabethtown woman told police Tuesday night that her failure to buy marijuana for her live-in boyfriend prompted an attack that left her with redness around her neck, pain on the back of her head and with an apartment in shambles.
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James M. Kirby, 21, of the 2000 block of Rineyville-Big Spring Road, was stopped in Glendale around 10 p.m. and arrested following questioning by Kentucky State Police.
"Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."
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The Abraham Lincoln Birthplace is creating a new Foundation Document for the park.
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One year on. It looks like the tsunami happened only yesterday.
Japan needs more time to clear the debris, and even longer to rebuild.
The wave swept through Nobiru town, once a picture-perfect beach resort.
Today, much debris has been cleared, leaving visible only the concrete footprint of houses, like chalk at a crime scene. But many homes still stand, ruined.
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A year ago, two trains had just left this station in opposite directions when the wave hit. One was swept from the track and mangled; people in the other survived, as it had just climbed safely to higher ground.
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Pick 'Em: The parity of the CBC Kenton Trail
Only three games into conference play, all teams have lost at least once.
If you want to watch a race, tune into the six remaining CBC Kenton Trail games.
Kenton Ridge, Bellefontaine, Tippecanoe, and Shawnee are tied for first place with 4-1 conference records. Stebbins trails with a 1-2 record. Tecumseh is in last place with a 0-3 conference record. Who would have thought that after the Arrows went 5-0 in nonconference and crossover games?
The conference records are indicative of the parity in the conference. Unlike last season (when Tippecanoe was clearly the conference's best team), there is no elite team.
Dick's weekend football weather forecast: Oct. 24
The cool, wet, and cloudy weather conditions of the first half of the week gave way to partly cloudy and warmer temperatures for the Friday night and Saturday football games. We will be on the warmer western side of a high pressure ridge.
The expected weather conditions for the Friday night high school games are mostly clear skies, dry fields, light winds and temperatures in the middle 50's during the game.
Dick's weekend football weather forecast: Oct. 17
Rain showers dominated the area this week. They ended late Thursday. An area of cooler and drier conditions moves in for Friday, Oct. 17 and Saturday, Oct. 18. Even so, the playing fields could remain wet.
The weather conditions should be mostly clear skies, light winds, and Friday night 7 p.m. game time temperatures in the middle 50s.
Pick 'Em: Is rain the great equalizer on the gridiron?
Did Bellefontaine struggle in the mud at Tippecanoe after getting used to turf?
Bellefontaine was lambasted at Tippecanoe on a muddy grass field last week. Kenton Ridge sloshed through a surprisingly easy victory over Shawnee. It was a game where even Shawnee head coach Rick Meeks knew that his team had to get some offense going in the second half because traction would be at a minimum.
Bellefontaine is a speed-oriented team on its home AcuSport Stadium, which has artificial turf. Was the muddy field in Tipp City's park a factor in their loss to the Red Devils last week?
Pick 'Em: Who's in, who's out of playoff picture
Tecumseh and Kenton Ridge in good shape, Shawnee improves after win over Tippecanoe.
With only four games left in the regular season, the picture of what area teams are contending for playoff berths is clearing.
With Drew Pasteur's Fantastic 50 and Joe Eitel as our guides, let's take a look at who will be playing in week 11 and who can start prepping for winter sports.
In Clark County, three CBC games have bright playoff hopes.
Dick's weekend football weather forecast: Oct. 10
Dick calls for better weather in week 7 than the rain and wind of week 6.
The expected weather conditions for the local and Springfield area high school football games that kick off at 7:00 p.m. on Friday, October 10, 2014, is much better than the rain showers and muddy fields of last Friday.
Our area will be north of rain showers and thunderstorms that will affect southern regions. As a result, we will have partly cloudy skies, dry fields, light winds, and cool "Indian Summer" temperatures in the middle to the upper 50s throughout the game.
Pick 'Em: Do CBC crossover games need to change?
The CBC Kenton Trail gets underway with two heavyweight games on Friday with Tecumseh at Kenton Ridge and Tippecanoe at Shawnee.
It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. A tale of two cities, or in this case two divisions, speaks for itself.
The Central Buckeye Conference is split into two divisions, and this season they cannot be too different.
The six teams in the Kenton Trail Division have an overall record of 25-5, with three teams at 5-0. The worst record of any team in the conference is 3-2 (both Shawnee and Stebbins).
Dick's weekend football weather forecast: Oct. 3
Cold front will bring rain, storms and possibly disrupt week six games.
A strong cold front will be moving through the area on Friday, Oct. 3, with rain showers and thunderstorms expected along and ahead of it. The rainfall could be heavy locally, causing wet fields.
There could possibly be gusty winds with the rain showers and thunderstorms at kickoff time at 7 p.m. Game time temperatures will be in the middle to the upper 50's.
Pick 'Em: 'Black Attack' off to great start
Tecumseh's defense gets a test tonight with Nathan Mays and Urbana' offense.
SPRINGFIELD — Tecumseh's offense isn't blowing any opponents out of the water. Tecumseh ranks eighth in the Central Buckeye Conference on offense. The Arrows average 269 yards and 21 points per game through their first four games.
Tecumseh's offensive numbers are similar to Benjamin Logan's. The Raiders average ten yards less a game than Tecumseh and 16 points per game.
But unlike Benjamin Logan and the rest of the bottom half of the CBC, Tecumseh is 4-0. Having the conference's best defense will help make up for any offensive inefficiencies.
Dick's weekend football weather forecast: Sept. 26
The region will be on the western side of a large flat high pressure cell producing fair skies, dry conditions, light winds, and pleasant temperatures in the upper 60s to low 70s for nearly perfect early autumn weather for the local and area high school football games which kick off at 7:00 p.m. on Friday evening, Sept. 26. The fields should be dry.


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MANCHESTER — Fired Manchester police detective Stephen Coco was sentenced to a year in jail Wednesday after he pleaded guilty to driving off in his undercover police vehicle after hitting two teenage pedestrians on a Bedford residential street a year ago.
Hillsborough County Superior Court Judge Gillian Abramson sentenced Coco, who is 42, after more than three hours of a hearing that included emotional statements from the parents of one of the teens and Coco's family and friends.
"The fact (is), you were a police officer, you took an oath to protect and serve and you failed," Abramson said from the bench.
The judge denied Coco's lawyers request that his sentence begin Friday, and court bailiffs led him off to a side room.
The sentence also calls for two years of probation, a suspended prison term and restitution.
But Abramson did not go as far as special prosecutor Marc Hathaway had asked; she did not issue a recommendation against home confinement or work release.
Under a 2013 law, if a jail superintendent determines an inmate is eligible for home confinement, the superintendent can order it after notifying the prosecutor, who can then request a court hearing.
The law calls for Coco to spend at least two weeks in jail before any release.
The key dispute Wednesday was whether Coco was aware he had hit Dean Drukker and Noah Hickman after leaving a gathering at a fellow police officer's house. After apologizing to the parents of the teens, Coco said: "I did not mean to injure your sons, and I did not realize I injured them."
He blamed the March 22, 2013, accident on inattention and poor judgment.
A police investigation found Coco had a couple glasses of wine earlier in the evening. Police said most of his SUV was riding atop a snowbank when he hit the teens. Hickman was thrown 20 feet and suffered a back injury and broken elbow. Drukker was run over and suffered bleeding on the brain and a concussion.
Hickman's father said he didn't believe Coco.
"I do hope you truly confess and admit in your heart and mind what you did. It will help bring peace and you will not have to live with a lie anymore," John Hickman said.
Judge Abramson questioned how Coco could not know he hit the teens, but had the wherewithal to avoid a mailbox in the snowbank.
Abramson also said Coco's statements to Bedford police investigators — that he had not left home that night — were simply not true.
Coco's lawyer, Mark Howard, said Coco had left work and visited two friends before going home. But once home, he had stayed home.
"Bedford police believe he lied. He did not," Howard said.
An FBI agent and two retired state police troopers submitted letters on behalf of Coco, and Howard — a former federal prosecutor — praised Coco's work as an undercover drug officer. During one investigation, Coco entered a barricaded Manchester crack house several times for drug buys.
"He's got to be a little bit crazy to do what he does," Howard said.
Coco, who had recently been promoted to sergeant, was fired shortly after the accident. Hathaway said he considered Coco's 17 years as a police officer in his sentence recommendation.
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A week earlier, the Boylan Titans soccer team cruised to a 5-1 victory over the Hononegah Indians to end their regular-season campaign.
With six minutes left in their regional final game in their Class 3A regional, the Titans found themselves staring at a 2-1 deficit.
Boylan was able to tie the game, and then in the fourth overtime, Brian Klazura kicked the game-winning goal to advance the Titans to the sectional round in the Barrington Sectional.
Hononegah had defeated Guilford to reach the finals. Boylan defeated Harlem. The Titans face Lake Zurich, who won 5-0 in their regional final.
All in all, the Rock River Valley has three teams in play for state tournament berths in Naperville, one in each class. Along with Boylan, Freeport and Keith Country Day School have also advanced to the sectional round, with Freeport the top seed in their sectional.
In Class 2A, NIC-10 champion Freeport won their regional, defeating Geneseo 2-0. They will face Sycamore in the next round. Sycamore beat Belvidere North 2-1.
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In New Hampshire this played out in the general election as Maggie Hassan and other Democrats campaigned hard on hiking the tobacco tax. Though they advocated increasing state spending by hundreds of millions of dollars, the only tax Hassan and many others would advocate raising was the tobacco tax, and then only by enough to raise about $20 million a year.
Now a couple of Democratic House members want to raise the state beer tax by 33 percent, from 30 cents a gallon to 40. The money, they propose, will go to the state's alcohol abuse prevention and treatment fund. "Government serves a necessary service that isn't provided by the private sector," bill sponsor Rep. Charles Weed, D-Keene, said. And here you have the political game by which the left imposes heavier taxes than the public would otherwise accept.
The trick is to impose the tax on something (or someone) that can be portrayed as bad while dedicating the money to something (or someone) that can be portrayed as good. It is not enough to propose raising taxes for the good cause. It is the combination of good vs. bad that makes the trick work because opponents are left not defending low taxes in general, but low taxes on the Bad Thing.
Never mind that, despite Weed's assertion, Alcoholics Anonymous and other services for people with alcohol problems do exist in the private sector. Never mind that the state's alcohol abuse prevention and treatment fund already has a dedicated source of revenue - state liquor sales proceeds (which politicians divert to other uses). Never mind that the beer tax is a regressive tax. It's not about actually funding essential government services or finding the right mix of revenue sources. It's about demonizing specific sectors of the economy to squeeze from each one as much revenue as possible. And it is not going to stop with tobacco and beer.
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Homemade Gingerbread Latte
Spicy gingerbread lattes are a coffee shop favorite around the holidays. Most are made with a gingerbread-flavored syrup, but I find that you don't get quite as good results as you do at the coffee shop even when you use the same brand of syrup at home. I prefer to make my Homemade Gingerbread Lattes using ingredients that are actually found in real gingerbread instead of some artificially flavored syrup. The results are more gingerbread-y and much tastier.
This gingerbread latte starts, of course, with strongly brewed coffee. You can use espresso if you have an espresso machine. I lightly sweeten the coffee and stir in molasses, along with a pinch of cinnamon, cloves, ginger and nutmeg. Go easy on the spices, as in a small cup of coffee they will add a lot of aroma and flavor. Top off the coffee with hot or steamed milk, as well as some whipped cream, and you're ready to serve. The drink can be sweetened to taste or with more molasses, for a stronger flavor, but it is definitely a holiday in a mug.
Dark Chocolate Mocha with Instant Coffee
I visited the Smuckers headquarters in Ohio just over a week ago, and while I was there I got to spend a little bit of time in the test kitchen. Smuckers owns Folgers, which is one of the largest coffee brands in the world. I don't typically use Folgers coffee, but it was fun to taste all the different varieties of it and use it in some of their coffee recipes. One relatively new product that they were particularly excited about were the Folgers Single Serve Packets, which put instant coffee in a handy travel pack. This was a simple mocha, which I made using Folgers travel packs and dark chocolate syrup.
I like instant coffee for making flavored coffee drinks at home because it's very low maintenance and easy to customize. It is also easy to make just one or two servings in less than two minutes with basically no cleanup. In this case, I made a very short cup of instant coffee (quite strong, with much less water than recommended) then sweetened it up with dark chocolate syrup, milk and whipped cream. It may not sound as elegant as a mocha latte, but it definitely tasted delicious.
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Pumpkin Spice Coffee
A little spice can brighten up an otherwise ordinary cup of coffee – and add a little extra seasonal flavor. Pumpkin spice is a combination of cinnamon, ginger, cloves and nutmeg that is typically used to season pumpkin pie and other pumpkin desserts (hence the name), but shows up many other kinds of fall dishes. I've even used it in chili before! But like many flavors that work well in desserts, pumpkin spice also works well in coffee. You can add a splash of spice to the top of a latte, but to really get some fall flavor, I like to add this combination of spices to my coffee while it is brewing.
The amount of spice should be added to taste. You can sprinkle the spices over the grounds before turning on your coffee pot or you can blend them with your coffee beans in the coffee grinder, if you're working with whole spices. I use about 1/2 a teaspoon of ground spices when I'm working with already ground coffee, and slightly more when I'm grinding them fresh. Either way, you'll get a pot of coffee that has a wonderful aroma and a distinctly fall flavor. It is especially good when you're making coffee for a crowd and want a little something different. I topped my cup with pumpkin spice marshmallows for even more spice – and a very cute look.
Chocolate Pumpkin Spice Latte
The Pumpkin Spice Latte is a hugely popular seasonal offering at Starbucks, and many other coffee shops offer similar drinks during the fall and winter. All of these pumpkin spice drinks tend to be made with a thick pumpkin syrup that has the consistency of caramel sauce. I've experimented with coming up with a homemade version of this syrup, but have found that I get the best flavor when I simply add a dash of pumpkin pie spice – a mixture of cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg – to my coffee drinks and skip the actual pumpkin. To add back some of the richness lost by omitting the pumpkin syrup, I decided to add chocolate syrup to a drink the other day and created a Chocolate Pumpkin Spice Latte.
The latte starts with a shot or two of espresso that is stirred together with some chocolate syrup and a generous pinch of pumpkin pie spice. You want to use enough spice to get the flavor, but not so much that you'll have a block of it at the bottom of your cup. I steamed some chocolate milk and poured it on top of the drink (adding chocolate sauce to the hot milk will lose you a few bubbles, but will keep your steam wand clean), then finished the whole thing off with a drizzle of chocolate syrup and a sprinkle of spice.
You can also make this with coffee and milk that has been heated in the microwave if you don't have an espresso machine. Put the hot milk into a small bowl and beat it with a whisk for a minute or two to foam it up for a more latte-like effect. And, as always, feel free to increase the amount of chocolate to taste or to add some sugar to the espresso for a sweeter finished product.