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As a research and development laboratory for the arts in all disciplines, the Wexner Center has offered significant support to artists in myriad ways since its inception in 1989. Residencies and commissions sponsored by the Wex have allowed hundreds of artists working in all disciplines from around the globe to create new work or explore new creative directions. The center's support for artists underscores a core commitment to inspire cultural curiosity and fuel the creative expression of our time, while complementing Ohio State's mission as a leading research institution. Works produced under the auspices of Wexner Center residencies and commissions often premiere here and then travel the globe, and they virtually always allow for meaningful interaction among the artists, the university community, and the public at large.
Among the diverse artists who receive production assistance each year, recipients of the Wexner Center Artist Residency Award constitute a special category. A handful of artists spanning all creative disciplines are selected annually by the center's director and curators to receive this distinction. Celebrating its 22th anniversary this season, the Artist Residency Award program (previously known as the Wexner Center Residency Award program) offers the most substantial support: considerable financial resources, along with technical, intellectual, professional, and moral support to develop new work. A total of $200,000 annually is earmarked for distribution across the center's disciplines—visual arts, performing arts, film, and, soon, education. Each residency is specifically tailored to the particular needs and rhythms of the artist. We in turn bring the full resources of the Wexner Center and Ohio State to their pursuits, often brokering collaborations across campus—not only with faculty, staff, and students in the arts and humanities, but with those in the sciences, as well as in business, law, and medicine—and in the broader local community.
Wexner Center Residency Artist Award recipients to date have hailed from four continents and numerous countries, including China, Argentina, France, Germany, Iran, Korea, the Netherlands, Spain, Thailand, and the United Kingdom, in addition to the United States and Canada. Frequently, the work produced under the auspices of the Wex travels on to major national and international venues. Wexner Center Artist Residency Award recipients have gone on to receive MacArthur Foundation fellowships, National Medal of Arts awards, Tony Awards, "Bessie" Awards (New York Dance and Performance awards), Oscar nominations, Cannes Film Festival awards, Film Independent Spirit awards, and the Wexner Prize, among other recognitions.
Find the full list of Artist Residency Award recipients (since 1991-92) at right. Artist Residency Award recipients for 2012–13 and their projects are discussed below.
Wexner Center Residency Awards 2012-13
Film/Video: Matt Porterfield
Matt Porterfield makes exquisitely shot narrative films that employ surprising documentary techniques to create portraits of working-class life. With his Artist Residency Award, the Wexner Center supports a new film currently in development. As part of his residency activities, Porterfield will do post-production work at the center's Film/Video Studio. He will also engage with local college and high school students and screen his work in a public program.
His feature, Putty Hill (set in his hometown of Baltimore), which Porterfield introduced and screened at the Wex last year, is one of the most acclaimed American indie films of recent years. Called "extraordinary" by New Yorker film editor Richard Brody, it received many "best-of" mentions for 2011 and was also included in the 2012 Whitney Biennial. Porterfield's first feature film, Hamilton, was released theatrically in 2006 and continues to tour festivals, museums, and repertory theaters around the world. He's in the final stages of post-production on his third film, I Used to Be Darker, which is expected to premiere during the 2012 fall film festival season. Porterfield, who also recently received a coveted Creative Capital grant, lectures on screenwriting, theory, and production in the Film & Media Studies Program at Johns Hopkins University.
Performing Arts: Bebe Miller Company and Palissimo
Ohio State dance professor Bebe Miller and her award-winning company will premiere the dance theater work A History September 27–30, following a series of creative Wexner Center residencies with her team of collaborators. Both reflective and forward-thinking, the evening-length duet involves mining the creative processes she has closely developed with dancers Angie Hauser and Darrell Jones, and dramaturgical collaborator Talvin Wilks. In particular, they have delved into the past decade of works, from the Bessie Award-winning Verge (2001) to Landing/Place (2005, also a Bessie winner), and Necessary Beauty (2008)—all of which were also supported by the Wexner Center. Amplified with video by Lily Skove that juxtaposes their live and virtual bodies, Miller and the dancers reveal the nuanced interpersonal dynamics that informs their creative quests. As the Washington Post has noted, "Bebe Miller is a cartographer of human emotions, mapping the landscape of the passions of her dance with luminous intelligence." And the the New York Times writes, "what makes Miller's choreography so moving are the sudden moments of mystery...coolly thoughtful yet dispatched with consummate ease."
The premiere of A History will be complemented by the exhibition Bebe Miller: Tracing History, which will be on view downtown at Ohio State's Urban Arts Space in downtown Columbus August 25–September 29, 2012. Curated by the Wexner Center's Jerry Dannemiller, this exhibition will provide further insight into Miller's trajectory as one of the leading choreographers of her generation. It will also feature a new video installation by Maya Ciarrocchi that will tour nationally as a companion piece to the performance A History.
During their Wexner Center-sponsored residency, Bebe Miller and her collaborators will offer a series of discussions, workshops, open rehearsals, and post-performance talks connected to both their performance and the exhibition that will be of particular interest to Ohio State dance students, the local dance community, and Miller's avid Columbus audience.
Bebe Miller was recently selected as one of first class of 21 Doris Duke Artists, a program that extends direct funding of up to $275,000 to outstanding performing artists. She is also the recipient this year of Ohio State's Sphinx Award, which recognizes outstanding faculty and staff members who have been role models and inspirations to Ohio State students.
More info: bebemillercompany.org.
The Artist Residency Award to the New York City-based dance theater company Palissimo, led by Czechoslovakian-born artistic director and choreographer Pavel Zuštiak, affords the group the opportunity to rehearse and mount all three full-length sections of its enigmatic and atmospheric Painted Bird Trilogy for the first time in sequence. The trilogy (Bastard, Amidst, and Strange Cargo) is inspired by the classic Jerzy Kosinski novel of the same name set in wartime Eastern Europe, in which a brilliantly painted bird, mistaken for an imposter, is violently killed by its own flock. Zuštiak's ambitious project excavates the tale's themes of identity, otherness, displacement, and transformation in three separate, uniquely staged performance events. Each section of this tour-de-force features live music by composer Christian Frederickson (well-known to Wexner Center audiences as a former member of the chamber-rock band Rachel's). The New Yorker notes, "A vivid, often anguished, imagination shines through in Zuštiak's work."
Audience members attend either a pairing of two sections or come on the final day of performance for the full three-part experience, which will utilize both the Performance Space and the Black Box on Mershon Stage in novel configurations. The residency begins September 4, and performances are September 12 (parts 1 and 2), 13 (parts 2 and 3), and 16 (all 3 Parts), 2012. While in residence, the company will also work with a large group of local volunteers who will perform in Part 1 of the trilogy. (Those interested in volunteering should contact Sarah Swinford at 614 292-6190 or email@example.com.) In addition, company members will offer a master class and discussion for dance students at Ohio State as well as members of the Columbus dance community.
The Painted Bird Trilogy is a Palissimo production co-commissioned by the Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University, Stanica Zilina in Slovakia, La MaMa, Baryshnikov Arts Center, and Performance Space 122.
More info: thepaintedbird.org and www.palissimo.com.
Updates on Recent Artist Residency Award Projects
In March 2013, filmmaker Lewis Klahr premiered his False Aging trilogy at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York; the short film False Aging, part of the trilogy, showed at the center during Klahr's 2010 residency.
Palissimo's residency enabled the company to present their complete Painted Bird Trilogy in sequence here in September 2012. In July 2013, the trilogy was nominated for two Bessie Awards (Outstanding Production and Performance).
The Builders Association's multimedia theater production HOUSE / DIVIDED, which premiered here in October 2011, toured nationally in the 2012-13 season and was seen in New York City and at several prestigious university venues.
The wall painting artist Ernst Caramelle created and debuted in January 2012 remained on view in the center's lower lobby through July 1, 2012.
Dani Leventhal, a Brooklyn-based artist and Columbus native, is developing a new multichannel installation. She was here for a series of public events in the fall of 2011 and will return to work in the center's Film/Video Studio.
New York-based French filmmaker Marie Losier was here in April 2012 to introduce The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye, which she worked on in the Wexner Center's Film/Video Studio Program last year. She is currently working on a film on Warhol superstar Mario Montez with the support of her Artist Residency Award.
Matt Meindel, a Columbus-based filmmaker, created a new experimental animation that premiered in the Box, the center's video screening space, late in 2012. Don't Break Down also screened at the 2013 Ann Arbor Film Festival.
Filmmaker Michael Robinson shot a 16mm feature-length film in fall 2011 and has made three visits since then to do post-production work in the center's Film/Video Studio. Robinson's Circle in the Sand (2012) premiered at the 2012 New York Film Festival: Views from the Avant Garde in October and screened in March at the 2013 Ann Arbor Film Festival, where it received a jury award.
Los Angeles visual artist Paul Sietsema is engaged in an ongoing residency to create a new multimedia piece, Chinese Box, which was on view as part of an exhibition of his work in the Wexner Center galleries in the summer of 2013.
Film/Video Studio Program, Commissions, and Other Kinds of Artist Support
Among the most active "labs" at the center is our Film/Video Studio, a video and sound editing facility that also provides access to on-site staff expertise. Each year, about 20 visiting filmmakers and video artists from around the world are invited to work in the Film/Video Studio. (Some of these artists are or have been Artist Residency Award recipients.) Films and videos created or post-produced through the Film/Video Studio Program are often screened here. For example, filmmaker and New York-based Ohio native Kevin Jerome Everson spent time in the Film/Video Studio Program in May 2011 completing Chevelle, a meditation on the American auto industry that showed continuously in the Box space during the month of January 2012. Projects developed in conjunction with the Film/Video Studio Program also are frequently shown at prestigious film festivals, museums, and galleries around the world. Read more about the Film/Video Studio Program.
Throughout the year, the Wexner Center also is involved in commissions of new work by additional individual artists and companies, some of whom come to work at the center. Some projects involve working in the Wexner Center's Film/Video Studio Program, others relate to specific exhibitions, still others are connected to commissions and co-commissions in the performing arts. Here are a few recent examples. Composer/guitarist Bill Frisell's collaboration with filmmaker Bill Morrison The Great Flood was co-commissioned by the Wexner Center and performed here March 31, 2012. Choreographer John Jasperse's dance work Canyon, co-commissioned by the Wex and BAM Next Wave Festival, was performed here in April 2012. In the fall of 2011, Paula Hayes designed and installed a permanent roof garden for the Wexner Center, at the time of a solo exhibition of her work in our galleries. The garden sits above the center's underground Film/Video Theater just outside the Wexner Center's entrance. These are but a few of the recent projects created under the auspices of Wex residencies and commissions outside of the Wexner Center Artist Residency Award Program.


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// October 10th, 2013 // 2 Comments » // Uncategorized
Life has been a tad busy for the past year or so. Fellowship exams, in the context of growing family and long work hours means blogging fell by the wayside. I intend to change that now.
I passed my exam, which means I will be finished my surgical training in Februrary 2014. My life has already changed, as I am given more responsibility, and also take more ownership of what I do. I've operated on patients previously, but when things went bad, it felt like a shared responsibility. Now it's a lot more visceral.
Next year I will be continuing in general surgery. I will be working as a Fellow at The Northern Hospital in Melbourne. I will be on call for surgical emergencies, and probably operating late into the night when required. I will also be working in an area of general surgery that I have not spent a lot of time in before. It should be a year of new experiences.
In February 2015, I will finish up at the Northern and I have applied to work for a short term in a non-denominational christian mission hospital in Nepal. I've never been to Nepal. I've never been a missionary. And I've never asked so much of my family as when I ask them to come along for the ride. I hope it will be an opportunity to do something special. However, it should also be a time of new experiences.
I will attempt to share my journey as I develop into a junior consultant. I hope to see you come along for the ride.
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// February 7th, 2013 // No Comments » // Surgery
I leave too early, hoping that google maps has given me an accurate time estimate.
Arrive 630. Drive straight past the entrance and do a U-turn. Despite U turn, still turn into the wrong car park. End up with a long walk to a back entrance. 6:40am.
Entrance I am standing at does not open until 7am. I have no pass card. Loiter until another staff member lets me in. Wonder why staff member assumes I am a good guy.
Walk straight ahead, following the "exit" signs to the front entrance. Switch staff send me back the way I came to find my ward.
Try to get a cup of coffee, but coffee shop closed.
Retrieve my pager from the ward. Great. Enough time to do a quick post take ward round before compulsory orientation. Have no access to computers, and interns aren't present. Unable to determine which patients are mine to see, so go for coffee.
Coffee shop still closed.
At orientation lecture, pick up handouts and take place in middle of back row. Staff member lays three more stacks of forms on front desk and announces that we all need a copy. Climb over chairs to get required paperwork.
Message from husband. I forget to take schoolbag out of car. Bad mother.
7:45am. SMS conversation with my new interns instructing them to see pre-operative patients, check all ward patients to identify urgent problems and meet me in theatre to triage at 8:30am.
Fire accreditation, bullying policy, admonitions to hand in pay sheets.
8:40am. Fill in feedback form for orientation saying it has ruined my day. Still haven't seen my patients.
8:45am. Arrive in operating theatre. Reprimanded for not seeing patients yet. Asked to leave and review all inpatients before returning to theatre.
9am. Find interns and review inpatients, using emailed handover from previous registrar. Most patients do not speak english. Charts are the wrong colour, so I struggle to find bowel charts and fluid balance sheets. Hospital is a maze.
10am. Phone call from operating theatre. Why aren't I there? They need someone. Run back. Within two sentences, surgeon identifies the only two patients I haven't found yet on my ward round. Surgeon radar. Asks me to leave theatre to book an abscess drainage procedure because intern may not get it right.
Call intern to make him swap with me. Intern scrubs with consultant to finish list.
Search for radiology department. Find radiologist. Wait for radiologist to finish another procedure. Get approval for procedure. Rewrite request on different form. Find appropriate interpreter to help patient to consent for procedure. Run back to theatre.
Just in time for rectal washout. Intern still operating with consultant. I rinse, stretch and staple. Scrub in to help close the abdomen. Can you be bothered? Of course, its no bother at all.
// February 1st, 2013 // No Comments » // Family, Surgery
This year I will sit an exam. This exam is the exit exam for surgical training and is the most important exam I will ever sit.
How important?
So important that it's the main topic of conversation with medical friends. So important that I have been getting out of bed half an hour early every day to have coffee-study with a friend before ward rounds at 6:30am. So important that my husband is basically a single parent. So important that I spend a lot of my free time volunteering to be interrogated on topics I don't know well by people who may potentially employ me, and I would prefer didn't know amy limitations.
So important that today the majority of surgical exam candidates across victoria and even australia unscrubbed from operating, failed to call the next patient, and generally ignored their job to sit by their email. These are people who would give up their breakfast for a chance to "cut." The application form for the pre-exam course arrived promptly at 12pm and we all scrambled to fill it out and resubmit. First in best dressed for a course that we already all have annual leave for. The fax number was engaged for half an hour. I luckily chose to submit by email. Gotta wait to see if I got in, but I returned the form within 7 minutes.
Wish me luck!
// January 30th, 2013 // No Comments » // Surgery
One day this weekend I was caught up in a conversation with a 90 year old patient. She told me of growing up in the twenties in rural England. When her mother was "confined" with her younger brother, she would be taken down to the local village in her "pushchair" to purchase the perishables for the day (as nobody had domestic refrigeration). She told me a neighbour claimed she was just like her aunt and she would grow big and strong and this scared her, because she was scared of the aunt.
A beautiful scene, an evocative description; a moment of peace in a weekend rush. Thankyou.


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Councilor Weeden to co-host Citizens' Speak Out Jan. 21
Thursday, January 10, 2013
DOVER — For the third time since he was elected, City Councilor Michael Weeden will host a Citizens' Speak Out.
"It has been a while since I conducted one," Weeden said in a public statement. "And I feel that this time of year presents an opportunity to reach out to the public before the upcoming teacher contracts and budget process."


text: Just a quick entry of amusement. I was looking at the official town homepage for Harbour Grace, Newfoundland. Their short town history devotes several long paragraphs to the town's historical pirates, giving them more prominence than Amelia Earhart. The seventeenth-century pirates who hung out in Harbour Grace were Peter Easton and Henry Mainwaring. Apparently piracy could be a lot more profitable than fishing. For more information, see this page on the early pirates of Newfoundland or this list of Canadian piracy resources.


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A collaboration between Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery and Birmingham Library has made prints of the most expensive book in the world available through BMAG's prints website.
John James Audubon's Birds of America is the most valuable printed book in the world. A copy has belonged to Birmingham Central Library for over 100 years and was purchased by the Birmingham Subscription Library after Audubon visited England in 1830 to promote the book to potential buyers. He spent the small fortune of $115,000 bringing the book to print. The Central Library's four volume copy includes 435 hand-coloured aquatints and measures 3 feet by 2 feet unopened. The vividness of the prints were extraordinary by the standards of the early 19th century and have retained their ability to dazzle. Audubon depicted the weird and wonderful birds that he encountered as a dedicated naturalist and artist.
A selection have recently been photographed and made available to order on behalf of Birmingham Library through Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery's prints website: www.bmagprints.org.uk
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If you find pie making a challenge, check out these tools to find out which ones will make the task "as easy as pie" and which ones will have you heading for the bakery. Once you've outfitted your kitchen for pie making, check out these recipes to hone your skills.
By Sharon Franke
Pastry Blenders
Some people prefer to blend pastry dough with their fingertips. Usually they're seasoned pie makers who have "the touch." They handle the shortening lightly so it doesn't melt into the flour and know just when enough liquid's been added to keep the dough both tender and flaky. Then there are those who own a food processor and let the machine be the expert dough maker. For the rest of us, there are pastry blenders. These nifty gadgets are designed to cut shortening evenly and quickly into flour before it has a chance to overheat it's the little bits of butter or Crisco or lard that remain suspended in the dough that turn dough into a flaky crust in the oven.
We tested nine products to see how long it took us to prepare dough with them and the evenness of the shortening bits they created, as well as how comfortable they were to work with and how easily they cleaned up. In speed and dough consistency, we got wide variations. All were easy to wash, but the way they felt in our hand varied from just about perfect to painful.
Oxo Good Grips Bladed Dough Blender, $9.99
Affordable and the comfiest to hold, this blender with stainless steel blades cut the quickest it took us just a mere four minutes to make pie dough. (800-545-4411, oxo.com)
Wilton Baker's Pastry Blender, $7
What's unique about this tool is a gizmo on one end that's designed to scrape the dough out from between the wires. Sounds good but it didn't work well, and butter got trapped around it, so it didn't always emerge from the dishwasher looking pristine. However it gave fairly even results and is quite reasonably priced. (800-794-5866, wilton.com)
Amco Silicone & Stainless Steel Pastry Blender, $10.95
If you're willing to work hard for perfection, consider this tool the only one that cut flour and shortening into uniformly shaped bits. Unfortunately, it took the longest to do the job (almost seven minutes) and although it's made of silicone, the handle isn't comfortable to hold. (focuspg.com)
Best Pastry Pro, $18.49
With unexceptional performance, it's hard to justify spending so much for this tool even though the blue plastic handle was comfortable to work with. (amazon.com)
Cuisipro Deluxe Pastry Blender, $14
Using this gadget took us longer (six and a half minutes) to cut dough than with most others, and we got only fair results. (cuisipro.com)
The Pampered Chef Pastry Blender, $15.50
This pricey model gave even results, but it required more than six and a half minutes which seemed like forever because the stainless steel stick handle is so uncomfortable to work with. (888-687-2433, pamperedchef.com)
Oxo Good Grips Dough Blender, $8
Making dough with this blender was time consuming and the results were uneven, so who cares that it has a comfy handle? (800-545-4411, oxo.com)
Good Cooks Profreshionals Pastry Blender, $7
A good choice if speed is your primary requirement. Results were uneven, and the handle wasn't comfortable. Plus the wires bent out of shape as we worked. (800-421-6290, goodcook.com)
Progressive Dough Blender, $7
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Fawcett looks for exciting season
The ACAC cross country competition should be a "thriller†this fall, says Adams Central coach Terry Fawcett. Fawcett would like to think that his boys squad could be a top three competitor, but will have to race past South Adams and Leo in order to claim the top spot.
"We would have to really work hard to get past South Adams and Leo, but I hope that we place in the top three,†said Fawcett. "Bluffton has some young kids that are going to be good runners. This should really be an exciting year for the conference.â€
Junior Kyle Fawcett should lead the way for the young Flying Jets. Last year, Fawcett, a junior, posted a best time of 17:36. Coa...
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Craft Distillers and the "Whiskey Renaissance"
In the last decade, craft beer and wine industries across the Midwest have blossomed. This is especially true in Illinois when it comes to the wine industry. New, locally owned distilleries are also starting to pop up. Between 2008 and 2012, craft distilleries in the US more than doubled. Today on Focus, we'll investigate. Host Jim Meadows talks with author and whiskey connoisseur Clay Risen about the changing definition of an "American whiskey" and about his book "American Whiskey Bourbon and Rye: A Guide to The Nation's Favorite Spirit."


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The relationship between Kimi Raikkonen and the Lotus team has been in the spotlight of late, not least because of the controversial radio message in India where the Finn was told to get out of Romain Grosjean's way. Meanwhile, the ongoing saga of the team's failure to pay its star driver has put a firm focus on the financial situation.
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Mt. Vernon Market
Mt. Vernon Market is located at the former armory building in downtown Mt. Vernon and features farmers markets, flea markets, vendor fairs, trade shows, entertainment, and other events throughout the year.
CITY: Mount Vernon
Black Diamond Vineyards
This winery offers a quiet, relaxing setting and great wine. Be sure to check out the gift shop that features handmade truffles by Heavenly Sweets, lotions, oils and candles. Special events are held throughout the year.
CITY: Nashville
GenKota Winery
GenKota's award-winning wines and ports feature reds, whites and blushes, from sweet and semi-sweet to dry. A full line of wine-related items and gift baskets are also available.
CITY: Mount Vernon
Pheasant Hollow Winery
Pheasant Hollow Winery is located in a rustic log cabin in the woods near Rend Lake. A large tasting room, huge stone fireplace, and a wraparound deck provide a great place to sample Pheasant Hollow's award-winning wines.
CITY: Whittington
Crooked Creek Winery
Enjoy fine handcrafted Illinois wines served with a personal touch in a relaxing country atmosphere. Experience the outdoor beauty of Southwestern Illinois' rolling farmland or sip wine indoors by a cozy fire.
CITY: Centralia
Bugsy's Chicago Dog
Bugsy's is Mt. Vernon's only authentic Chicago-style food! Menu includes real Chicago-style dogs, as well as a Greek menu, and much much more!
CITY: Mount Vernon
Okla-Tex Nick's Bar-B-Q
Located in Benton's Days Inn, this popular restaurant is open daily serving breakfast, lunch & dinner. The specialty is the BBQ, chicken, beef or pork. Lunch & Dinner specials, kids 10 & under free on Sunday, delivery, catering & carryouts. Bar with two pool tables. Karaoke Wed. and Sun.
CITY: Benton
Gibby's on the Green
Located on the Rend Lake Golf Course, Gibby's restaurant opens 30 minutes before the first tee time every day. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are served. Sandwiches, steaks and seafood are on the menu.
CITY: Whittington
9th Street Grill
Located in Historic Downtown Mt. Vernon (an Illinois Main Street Community), 9th Street Grill brings cosmopolitan flare and flavor to a hometown atmosphere.
CITY: Mount Vernon
Burton's Cafe
A Family-owned business for 59 years, this little roadside restaurant is known for its country home cooking. They offer about 10 flavors of homemade pie daily, but are famous for their sinful White Pie that's heaped with whipped cream and pecans. Plate lunches, ham & beans, Friday and Saturday catfish dinners. Call ahead for groups. Seating for 86.
CITY: Whittington
Martin's Restaurant & Catering
Family atmosphere. Breakfast, lunch and dinner. Daily specials. Everything's homemade. Large variety of sandwiches available. Call ahead for group, seating for 65.
CITY: Benton
Season's at Rend Lake
At Season's enjoy either casual or semi-formal dining at its best. Full service bar, seasonal favorites and specials with a beautiful view of Rend Lake golf course. Meeting and banquet rooms for up to 250.
CITY: Whittington
Sharon's Cafe
Family atmosphere with home cooked meals. Full menu. Two banquet rooms.
CITY: Salem
Great Mexican restaurant with authentic Mexican food and a great atmosphere.
CITY: Mount Vernon
Windows Restaurant
Located at the Rend Lake Resort, this friendly restaurant offers fine regional cuisine with a waterfront view. Try the Sunday afternoon all-you-can-eat fried chicken buffet.
CITY: Whittington
Chili's Grill & Bar - Mt. Vernon
Mexican food.
CITY: Mount Vernon
Silver Streak Inn
Bar & grill.
CITY: Mount Vernon
China Pagoda
Chinese Buffet 7 days a week, featuring the best Hunan, Szechwan & Mandarin Cuisine in the area. we also offer carry out, buffet to go, lunch specials, and a seafood buffet on Friday & Saturday. Located on the beautiful Benton Square.
CITY: Benton
Jerry's Bar and Grill
Offers full lunch and dinner menu along with homemade desserts. We specialize in hand-cut steaks.
CITY: Centralia
RARE Chophouse
Come and enjoy the region's most exquisite culinary experience, from the open kitchen, to our Wine Room with 1000+ wines from all over the world, to the unique culinary cuisine prepared by the one and only Chef Liz. Exceptional food and even better service await your palate here at RARE Chophouse!
CITY: Mount Vernon
Centralia House
Historic, elegant, fine dining featuring steaks, fresh seafood, exquisite entrees, cocktails and fine wine. Open for lunch, dinner and banquets for 100+.
CITY: Centralia
Tommy T's Grub & Pub
Tommy T's offers home-made pizza and sandwiches in a fun, family-friendly atmosphere.
CITY: Mount Vernon
El Rancherito - Mount Vernon
Mexican Restaurant. See other locations.
CITY: Mount Vernon
Kimmy's Kitchen
Country cooking.
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The OSXL450 is an economical, non-contact thermometer that is simple to operate. Its patented laser sighting system defines the target for point and shoot measurement of temperatures from -20 to 320ºC (-4 to 608ºF). Reads surface temperatures in less than a second. Includes handy wrist strap and batteries.


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Tory Burch On Her Love Of Decorating, Entertaining, and Cheeky Phrases
The designer launches a new home collection inspired by her childhood nostalgia
By Sarah Bray
Tory Takes On Home
Walk into any Tory Burch boutique and you have an immediate sense of how much the designer values interior design. Lush fabrics, fine furniture, rich colors, and fresh flowers fill each unique store. Now, she has taken the next step with her inaugural home collection.
Burch's adoration for family is evident throughout her ever-expanding brand. (Recall the Reva flat, Burch's iconic emblem-emblazoned ballet flat named after her mother), so it's no surprise that the elegant collection is inspired by her childhood. Here, we speak with the designer about her latest venture into interior design.
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This is a liquid eyeliner infused with glitter. We can't imagine that this will appeal to most adult women, who are looking to create a sophisticated eye-makeup design, but if the occasional foray into Technicolor glitter is on your beauty list, you could do worse! The brush applies this liner evenly, though it is strictly about glitter, not adding depth and definition like a regular eyeliner would. The formula takes several seconds to set, but once it does, the glitter stays on amazingly well, which is by far the most impressive aspect of this liner.
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Publishers: How Not To Respond To A Review
Look for Mr. Goodman's comments at the bottom.
Contrast this with how the Evil Hat guys handled Pundit's review of Spirit of the Century.
35 comments:
- HinterWelt said...
Your review of the reviews sucks!!!!
On a serious note, the publisher seldom "wins" any such conflict. You can be absolutely correct, be polite about it and the reviewer totally wrong and ignorant and still look the fool. It can be trying.
That is why I often suggest to publishers to pick reviewers based on thier track record as good reviewers. No, not stacking the deck or anything but if you get a reviewer who is thorough, sticks to the facts and reviews the book (not the one similar to it that he read tree months ago or one that reads the first page out of each chapter) then good or bad, it will be accurate.
- September 15, 2009 at 11:15 AM
- Zachary The First said...
@Bill: I agree, no good can come of that combative type of display. I don't think there's anything inherently wrong in trying to correct or clarify, but do it courteously. A vague type of aggressive attack doesn't do much. I guarantee Rob and Fred picked up some sales from Pundit's review because they did just that.
Good comment, thanks!
As a publisher, I don't want to put you in a position of second-guessing, but how would you have handled such a situation?
- September 15, 2009 at 11:24 AM
- WalkerP said...
The publisher should admit fault, give some explanation as to why there are so many regional and geographical errors and then say "thanks for the review. We hope that others can overlook some of the geographical shortcomings to find the exciting adventure and we'll definitely work harder to try and improve our regional accuracy."
Hell if it was in pdf form, you could just ask the reviewer to fix all the errors, give him a small editor's fee and re-release it fixed. Then everybody is happy.
Of course, we all know Goodman's position on the pdf market...
No, he doesn't come off well at all there.
- September 15, 2009 at 11:42 AM
- HinterWelt said...
Well, first it depends, is the comment factually wrong? Is the reviewer mistaken about the geography comment? Is he really upset over the use of "glen"? If it truly is a faulty review then you need to proceed carefully and courteously but firmly.
Similar situation for me with a map for Roma by Clayton Bunce. He screwed up the Thames and had it emptying into the wrong firth. It did not affect the game since this was an insert (read the big map) as opposed to the reference maps inside. My maps were right but I had missed the errors on the end sheets.
The thread is here:
Yeah, I could have handled that better. I admit reviews are hard for me to deal with. In the end, I own the error as it is is my book and Clayton was a freelancer in my employ. He had a really good rep at the time (right before his major collapse) and the Roma Map may well have been his last project before that. Still, I think I comport myself in a friendly and informative manner in that thread (for the most part). It is a good example though, of the often super human forbearance publishers are expected to have and how I personally can come up short.
- September 15, 2009 at 12:01 PM
- Zachary The First said...
Well, you know, I have self-published all of one product, and I can see how reviews could be hard to take at times. People put a lot of labor into these products, and its hard to have them critiqued—especially when you think something is wrong or incorrect. But that's part of the hobby.
@Walker: Refresh my memory on pdfs with Goodman? Was it his comments on his Grand Tour of Gaming Stores a while back? Because I'm not remembering specifically.
- September 15, 2009 at 12:11 PM
- A Paladin In Citadel said...
Goodman games publishes some nice stuff. I have enjoyed the reviews of product, over at Grognardia. JM always seems to find a way to velvet glove any criticism of a product, but still give people a good sense of whether that product is for them.
- September 15, 2009 at 12:14 PM
- Zachary The First said...
@Paladin: I agree, Goodman has done some very nice products. And definitely some reviewers are less incendiary than others.
- September 15, 2009 at 12:22 PM
- Bonemaster said...
@HinterWelt - On the suggestion of pick reviewers based on track records, that assumes I take it that the reviewer in question was given a copy of the product to review.
Having released no products, but have received criticism from readers of my blog, I can only say that any publisher needs to be thick skinned when it comes to people reviewing their product. I try to take nothing that someone says about something I wrote personally. It seems Goodman Games forgot that here. If anything, saying nothing would have been better than what they did say. Of course part of the fallout here is that Goodman games then had a very public tweet on Twitter that really made people ask the questions, "What the Hell is this about?" and "What are they talking about?". I have to say if it wasn't for that, I would have not even known the review was out there. I guess, it just goes to prove you should never do anything while your angry.
- September 15, 2009 at 12:27 PM
- Zachary The First said...
@Bonemaster: That's right. About a day or so ago, there was some Goodman Games griping vaguely about what it appears now was the cited review. That didn't help. Perhaps taking a night to sleep on this would have been good.
- September 15, 2009 at 12:35 PM
- Wyatt said...
Now watch Goodman keep digging his own pit instead of just retracting his insult of the reviewer over twitter. Classy people, those Goodman folks!
- September 15, 2009 at 12:48 PM
- Zachary The First said...
@Wyatt: I hadn't seen anything new on it. Is he still digging?
- September 15, 2009 at 12:55 PM
- Brian said...
I'm certainly no industry insider, but from what I've heard, Mr. Goodman has a pretty good reputation. If that's true, this certainly seems a bit out of character, doesn't it?
- September 15, 2009 at 1:31 PM
- Gleichman said...
I used to do reviews back in the day, and posted a few on Rpg.net for some reason.
One for for Beyond the Mountains of Madness, and I pegged it for some very incorrect information on how firearms are to be used in extreme cold.
That rather geeky point was extremely important to the module both in what would happen in the course of the adventure and as a reflection upon how much else could be wrong with the 'background'.
The author responsed and responsed well IMO. He admitted the error, and we had a nice exchange about some of the good features of the module.
- September 15, 2009 at 1:33 PM
- HinterWelt said...
@Zach - Yeah, thick skin is good. However, it takes just one slip, one bad day, one gamer with unbridled nerdrage over the proper use of "they" on a day when you deal with umpteen other much more dire things, just one slip and you are often branded the anti-christ of game designers.
Joe is a decent guy. He was before this. His track record has always been pretty good by me. I am not going to praise him for what he did but I will cut him some slack and not paint him as some frothing mad man worse than Hitler.
Would I have handled it differently? Possibly, but maybe not if some reviewer caught me on a bad day. Even the Holy God Who Can Do No Wrong Fred Motherloving Hicks has bad days. ;)
@Bonemaster - Yeah, that is the presumption since you really cannot do anything about folks who just pick up your book and review it. Personally, anything short of thanking and moving on is probably not going to work in the favor of the publisher. Even if the reviewer is dead wrong, you are probably ahead of the game to just let it go. That was a VERY hard lesson for me to learn.
- September 15, 2009 at 1:49 PM
- Zachary The First said...
Yes, Joe Goodman has a pretty good rep, and Goodman makes some fine products. It probably was a bad day or couple of days.
- September 15, 2009 at 1:58 PM
- Matt Finch said...
I don't think Goodman flubbed it all that badly. It was a weak way to approach it, but hardly a disaster.
Okay, my confirm word was "buttparde." I just noticed that, and I am so not going there. You'd think "butt" would be a letter combination it wouldn't use...
- September 15, 2009 at 2:13 PM
- Zachary The First said...
@Matt: I wouldn't call it a disaster, but neither is it precisely a great moment, and I think it was poorly done—not so much the defending of the product, which is fine, but rather the way and manner in which it was done. I was highlighting it as an approach I would think would not serve many publishers well.
Wow. Word Verification is feeling bawdy today!
- September 15, 2009 at 2:27 PM
- Rob Conley said...
Hey at least Goodman have the guy saying that is module was and I quote
This one feels like someone ramming boiled oysters down your throat at mcdonalds.
That all I got say about it.
BTW appreciate your review on Badabaskor.
- September 15, 2009 at 3:00 PM
- Zachary The First said...
Not a problem, Rob. I know there's some products I still need to review over there, but I know I nabbed that one. :)
- September 15, 2009 at 3:16 PM
- Zachary The First said...
By the way, Rob, you, Bill, and Clash (among others) need to look at the campaign hexmap I did the other day. Find your name? :)
- September 15, 2009 at 3:24 PM
- WalkerP said...
Here's Joe Goodman on PDF's in his discussion on the success of 4e: "Third, speaking as a businessman, hobby stores are by far the largest market for games. The online market (including print, PDF, and POD) simply can't compete. As Goodman Games has matured into one of the standard stocklist items for typical game stores, I have seen my overall sales base grow steadily while online sales have dwindled. Online sales now make up a tiny fraction of Goodman Games sales. Yes, PDF sales are the fastest-growing sales segment, that is true, but the hobby market is HUGE compared to the online market - orders of magnitude larger. If you support retailers, they will support you, and that effort pays off tenfold. (There's a reason Wizards could pull their entire PDF backlist without blinking an eye. Those of us with good retail distribution are among the few observers to understand this.)"
So not directly critical, but pretty dismissive.
From what I'm reading from various Brits, the complaints about the geographical mistakes are very valid to a British audience. It seems particularly bull-headed or prideful to ignore this as a publisher when it could be so easy to say "whoops we didn't realize those things were so important, but now we do, thanks for letting us know."
I mean why fight it?
- September 15, 2009 at 4:31 PM
- Zachary The First said...
@Walker: You also need to look closely at the map. :)
Thanks for the reference. I do recall that part now.
I think if the module claims some level of research or accuracy in the matter of geography, then fails in that aspects, it's a valid critique. Even if it was not, there are a couple of other better ways to respond.
- September 15, 2009 at 5:15 PM
- Rob Lang said...
As a Brit, I would not be able to run this with my group. You can't suspend disbelief with that many errors. I don't need to playtest it to know my players will baulk at Tigers in Africa, Atlantic Liners docking in London (the Thames is shallow up by London) and worst of all - applying the Grid system to the city. Although the use of the word 'glen' was unfortunate, it's actually entirely wrong. Stone Henge is on the top of a moor, a very windy, exposed moor. Not in a valley. If you're going to reskin America then go for it but don't go advertising as a game set in London, or England because it really isn't.
So much effort went into the book, why not make sure the details were right? Seems either sloppy or arrogant. And with the manner in which he replied, I'm sad to see that it might be the latter. Goodwill on the internet dissolves pretty fast when you make a prat out of yourself.
- September 15, 2009 at 5:34 PM
- Tim Shorts said...
Goodman may have a good rep and my miniscule time dealing with him was always positive, but this past year he's had a few missteps that is taking large chunks out of his rep. I'm not sure what the cause is or why a simple review would bother him. Not everyone is going to like your product simple as that and they don't even need a good reason.
Good map btw. I caught a few of your 'inserts', but I missed a few.
- September 15, 2009 at 5:43 PM
- JoetheLawyer said...
Might I just take this opportunity to point out again:
- September 15, 2009 at 6:19 PM
- Zachary The First said...
Oh dear. I had quite forgotten about that by Alzurius.
- September 15, 2009 at 6:38 PM
- HinterWelt said...
I may be misreading posters here but honestly, the print distribution really does dwarf PDF, online sales and any variation of that. I am not saying I do not value it but it is at least an order of magnitude larger if not more than online sales. And, no, that is not just for me. Any publisher doing print sales will tell you likewise.
Now, that is not a slam against PDFs. It is the truth of a small (and growing) market. The blunt truth is that the digital market is not mature yet. We need a serious palm sized reader (yeah, yeah, kindle sony and the like are getting there) and the distribution to handle the volume. I spend a lot of time on this stuff and as much as I love it, I would go broke if all I did was sell digital.
- September 15, 2009 at 8:09 PM
- FASERIP said...
Ehh, at least he's not referring to himself in third person again.
- September 15, 2009 at 10:59 PM
- Stu said...
That exchange makes me sad. I own a few Dungeon Crawl Classics adventures for DnD4E, and I think they're great.
That being said, I've never actually run them, so my opinion must be invalid :-)
Responding to a negative review with belligerence is a monumentally bad move.
If a publisher is going to respond to a review at all, he should say something like, "thank you for the review, we'll take your criticisms to heart and strive to improve our products in the future."
As it is, he only damaged his company's good reputation.
Is it possible that wasn't him. Maybe a sockpuppet? I can't see a good businessman doing something that amateur.
- September 16, 2009 at 3:02 AM
I think Goodman is quite wrong when he dismisses online sales for print. Amazon is a big dsitribution channel by itself.
- September 16, 2009 at 6:34 AM
- WalkerP said...
@hinterwelt Totally agree. There is no doubt the pdf market is a tiny percentage of the overall market (but growing). The difference between what you said and what Goodman says is this:
"Those of us with good retail distribution are among the few observers to understand this"
It's like he believes he is privy to some special knowledge that makes his words profoundly more correct than any other dweeb on the internet. I fear this attitude may be spilling over into other areas as well.
- September 16, 2009 at 8:58 AM
- Zachary The First said...
Well, I think very few things set gamers off more than perceived arrogance from a gaming company or representative.
- September 16, 2009 at 11:10 AM
- HinterWelt said...
Like a company taking its own sweet time sending out play test copies and coffee for a certain blogger who graciously agreed to try both? That bastard!!! ;)
- September 16, 2009 at 11:43 AM
- Zachary The First said...
Heh—I'm trying both in the *same session*!
- September 16, 2009 at 12:07 PM
- lessthanpleased said...
In all fairness, the RPG blogosphere is a fairly tiny and insignificant corner of the RPG market as of right now (and probably always will be, just as political bloggers comprise a fairly insignificant share of the total voting public). Though it's never a best practice to piss off your customers, I have trouble believing that pissing off the entire RPG blogosphere would hurt Goodman's bottom line at anything other than the margins.
The vast majority of people in gaming stores or chain booksellers don't read RPG blogs - so this is a pretty safe demographic to piss off if a publisher of Goodman's size is having a bad day. If a smaller press posted the same tweet, however, I suspect it would be the business equivalent of seppuku.
That being said, this was definitely not the smartest thing to do.
- September 16, 2009 at 12:08 PM


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