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Edgar Froese on Lanzarote, 2002. Photo: Bianca Froese-Acquaye.
WHAT IS CALLED DRAMA in musical terminology is frequently valued but often overrated: too often associated with the operatically overblown or the whining catgut of suspense. Watching the nail-biting sequences in William Friedkin's unjustly forgotten, jungle-juggernaut movie Sorcerer (1977), with its monster trucks teetering on rope bridges above a torrential Amazon in full spate, you're struck by how much the background music—a gray, insistent hornet hum of synthesized sound—helps ratchet up the desperation of the scenario in a ruthlessly restrained manner that's nothing like the Wagnerian meltdown you'd expect in such a scene from the Hollywood of today. Friedkin later said that if he had discovered the German musicians responsible sooner, he would have asked them to score The Exorcist (1973). The director had stumbled upon them performing in a derelict church in Germany's Black Forest. They were Tangerine Dream, and their chief synthesist, Edgar Froese, died suddenly this January in Vienna, age seventy.
Born on D-day, 1944, Froese settled with his family in Berlin after the war and studied piano as a teenager. By 1965, he found himself leading a psychedelic band called the Ones, at one point performing at the request of Salvador Dalí at his home in Cadaqués, Spain. Two years later, Froese founded a new group with Klaus Schulze and Conrad Schnitzler called Tangerine Dream (after the British psych band Kaleidoscope's debut LP). Their first, landmark album, Electronic Meditation, was recorded in a Berlin factory space in 1969. It's a gas giant of a record, votive and solemn in mood, cosmic in scale, yet built of recognizable materials: Mellotron, analog rumbles, and amplified flute. Somewhere between improvised music, contemporary classical, and the future direction of progressive rock, the early Tangerine Dream revealed themselves clear-sighted as to what was to come.
Tangerine Dream continued as a working unit right up until Froese's death, releasing over one hundred albums, touring all over the world, and contributing to more than sixty motion-picture sound tracks, including Michael Mann's Thief (1981) and The Keep (1983) and Paul Brickman's Risky Business (1983). For nearly five decades, Froese remained the group's lone constant, holding them on course through continual sea changes in synth technology and audience expectations. The group's watershed moment came in 1973, when Richard Branson signed them to his Virgin imprint, and their sound became incrementally less organic than on previous records such as Alpha Centauri (1971), Zeit (1972), and Atem (1973), the payoff being that they were suddenly exposed to a substantially larger international audience. The final incarnation of Tangerine Dream took great literature as its launchpad, from the Dante-inspired Divine Comedy series (2002–2006) to the group's last major recorded statement, Eastgate's Sonic Poems (2011–13), a series of tributes to writings by Joyce, Meyrink, Kafka, Poe, and others.
Froese himself hated his music being defined solely as "electronic," considering the term too redolent of arid experiments. Instead he favored resonant, sacred locations for his concerts, notably one in 1975 at Coventry Cathedral, which had been razed to the ground by German bombs during World War II then rebuilt as a modernist shrine. Exorcising the wartime ghosts of bitter enmity, the concert was broadcast to a live television audience. "Thirty years ago they came to bomb the place; today they come with synthesizers," Froese quipped at the time.
Tangerine Dream: Live at Coventry Cathedral in 1975.
Tangerine Dream played inside many of the cathedrals of Europe over the years, and Froese's music—sometimes filed under "new age"—could be seen as a counterpart to the so-called holy minimalism of composers such as Henryk Górecki, Arvo Pärt, Giya Kancheli, and others, made by channeling electrical power instead of orchestral forces to feed its expanding universe. Humans, he once said, are "lost . . . in cycles that span hundreds and thousands of years," but were blind to the environmental fate of the planet because they were too constrained by their own tiny life-cycles. Both sonically and philosophically, Froese was always seeking the biggest possible picture.
Rob Young is a writer, critic, and contributing editor of The Wire. He is currently writing a biography of the German group Can.
Jon Jerde. Photo: Joe Pugliese. Courtesy, The Jerde Partnership.
RAY BRADBURY, the science-fiction writer, lived most of his life in Los Angeles but never learned to drive. No wonder he wrote essays lamenting the lack of a town center. In 1970 Jon Jerde, a Los Angeles architect, read an article in which Bradbury described how a town square in the sprawling city might be organized. Jerde arranged to meet Bradbury over lunch, and the two men became friends. A few years later, Jerde was asked to design a mall in a derelict section of San Diego. Bradbury told Jerde that "one of the joys of travel is being lost in a great city and loving it," and he recommended that Jerde design a place "in which people would be lost but safe and filled with joy." The result, a mall called Horton Plaza (1985), has been called a "collaged fantasy land, where Spanish piazzas collide with Moorish souks" and a "carefully curated kind of trash."
With Horton Plaza's success, Jerde's reputation grew. So did the size of his projects, culminating in Minnesota's gargantuan Mall of America (1992) — some might think the name redundant. A few architecture critics might use the title of Bradbury's 1962 novel, Something Wicked This Way Comes, to describe Jerde's work, in which fake town centers replaced real ones. Still, Jerde was, according to one writer, the most copied architect of the last century. If that is so, it may be because his ersatz city streets, made with cheap materials and crude details, were easy to knock off, unlike the work of another Bradbury acquaintance, Frank Gehry, who also started out as a mall designer. (Gehry's Santa Monica Place [1980] competed, unsuccessfully, with Jerde's Universal CityWalk [1993] and Glendale Galleria [1976]–and was finally renovated by the Jerde Partnership in 2010.) Meanwhile, in a twist, Bradbury's longtime home in the Cheviot Hills neighborhood of West Los Angeles was torn down in January, angering preservationists; the architect Thom Mayne is building a new house on the site. But Cheviot Hills is pure suburb, and nothing Mayne does will give it (or the city around it) any kind of center. That was the job of Jerde, who died on February 9 at seventy-five, having helped America trade city walks for CityWalk.
Fred A. Bernstein is a writer based in New York.
Rex Ray. Photo: Miriam Santos-Kayda.
I KNEW REX was going to be instant family. He had a big rubber smile, and an endless stream of wit, warmth, taste—and a bottomless knowledge of Warholiana. It was the mid-1990s, and I remember thinking, This is why it's great to be an adult: because you get to know people like Rex Ray. Oddly, the night we met Rex said, "If you'd met me three months ago I would have been bitter, and you wouldn't have liked me."
"What do you mean?"
"I was working as a clerk at City Lights books, and I was the world's bitterest clerk, and I decided one day that I'm not going to be bitter anymore."
I found it difficult to believe that anyone as social as Rex could be bitter, but he said, "No, it's a decision, and I decided to stop."
Rex's decision to stop being bitter coincided with his first big show of works in San Francisco. It was a charged event—everyone knew something special was being born; it was the new, unbitter Rex Ray with his first exhibition of works that would come to be known as his mature style. I thought to myself, You know, sometimes it's just wonderful to see something effortlessly new in a gallery, its newness curling down off the wall like dry-ice fog.
After that first show, I only ever saw Rex blossom. He was a tree that only knew spring, and his work became bigger, more complex and more ambitious, and his studio grew with this drive. Everyone who knew him shared such unjealous happiness at his success.
And then it stopped. I don't know if Rex always knew it was lymphoma or if he had a misdiagnosis at the start and then only learned the truth later. We had a dinner at Zuni near the end, and he was so embarrassed to be so frail, to have his feet hurt so much just from walking from the curb to the table. He looked at me and said, "I'm Mr. Burns!" And he made light of it, but it was impossible not to see the pain. Sometimes you say good night to people, and it only means good night, but sometimes you say good night and you know it's actually good-bye, and that was how it was that night.
I miss the way Rex called you darling. I miss the way he analyzed Britney Spears's career trajectory. I miss going into Jonathan Adler and seeing his new works on the walls—and there was always new work. Rex had more drive than any artist I've ever met, and he started so much later in life. He was a lovely human being, and why do they always go first? Idiots go on forever. Rex, darling, we all miss you very, very much, and say hi to Andy.
Douglas Coupland is a writer and artist based in Canada. He is currently artist in residence at Google's Paris Cultural Institute.
Tomaž Šalamun. Photo: Roman Šipić/Delo.
TOMAŽ ŠALAMUN IS DEAD. On the other hand, as he put it:
The worst imaginable kind of fascism would be
if the soul belonged only to the living
and not to the dust and stones!
On the subject of soul, he also wrote:
The drunk sells his coat.
The thief sells his mother.
Only the poet sells his soul to separate it
from the body that he loves.
And around the subject of stones:
Red flowers grow in the sky, there's a shadow in the garden.
The light penetrates, there's no light to be seen.
How then can the shadow be seen, there's a shadow in the garden,
all around big white stones lie scattered, we can sit on them.
The dust and stones of his poetry are here, his soul is scattered here, so no, I don't think he is dead. That's all I have to say about that. Here are a few poets I asked who had something to say about him. There are many others who do too.
—Abraham Adams is an artist based in Brooklyn.
I knew Tomaž Šalamun over a long time, but saw him relatively briefly on widely spaced occasions. Each time he came to New York we would get together for a little blast of Slovenian mirth and Sloveno-American poetry. And then he would be gone, leaving me with the illusion that a close friend had just come and left on another brilliant voyage. He seemed to be at home everywhere. Perhaps even Ljubljana, which to my regret I have never seen. They say it's beautiful and sophisticated and yet obscure and off-the-radar, terms that might also apply to Tomaž and his crackling poetry.
—John Ashbery is a poet based in New York.
I have a hundred words. I met him in Slovenia, at Days of Poetry and Wine. There were dozens of us, drunk and full of sausages. "You are the strongest American poet" was the first thing he said to me. He was tanned and glowing, wearing white. I remember a brace and a cane. He had just come from China, where the Great Wall had somehow hurled itself against his leg. In the basement of a winery I pointed to his brow, with its elegant globule, and told him his third eye looked very auspicious. He pointed to my forehead and said, "Yours too."
—Ariana Reines is a poet based in New York.
At the Movies with Louie & Purdey & Michael & Tomaž
It's a new season starting
and they have to be in a different place.
—Au Hasard Balthazar
[a] Tomaž said, You're Bob Dylan, but act like Llewyn Davis. [b] I cried afterwards in the bathroom. I thought if I left the room the insect in my head would leave too. I thought the room, I thought my eyeballs, the bee in my head would go away. [c] He told me I should go see it and that it reminded him of me. I thought how cool it would be to work at a little pie and coffee place underneath the track of an elevated train. We sat under a tree at night and remained silent for a while. [d] It was the first film I saw in French with no Subtitles. She's eating spaghetti with sauce repeatedly and eating spaghetti with sauce and that's delicious. She tongues her spaghetti off her face, and there is so much flesh she has to contain within her dungarees. She's always pulling up her pants onto her hips, she has so much flesh she's full of flesh it's terrific. . . . [e] All I see are those coins bouncing in 3-D very slowly, like slow heavy rain. I was completely hypnotized the first twenty minutes, but we hated this movie. But it felt so good to see those first twenty minutes, it felt like a real life experience. And that's the truth about it. [f] After we watched it, when I asked him what he thought about it he said the film made him really angry. The kids unbury the guns buried with the corpses on the beach. I left the classroom and cried in the bathroom for 15 minutes. [g] We saw it at Le Champot. [h] JFK in Asilah: "So this is America, this is how America really is." "No sir, I heard three shots. Back, and to the left. Dadadadadadad you gotta go and get 'em." [i] El Topo was important. [j] I just remembered I was totally focused on the film. Remember there is a moment when his life passes and there is the snow falling? [k] The Social Network: Andrew Garfield drank a beer. [l] We saw this in Paris. The next day Tomaž and I ran into Werner Herzog eating chicken dinner in a train station brasserie. So when I came down the stairs, Daniel Payavis was saying they were chameleons in the scene, and I was saying they were iguanas, and then we couldn't figure out what music there was that was playing.
[a. Inside Llewyn Davis b. Shutter Island c. My Blueberry Nights d. La Vie d'Adèle e. The Great Gatsby f. Come and See g. The Mirror h. JFK i. El Topo j. Un Prophète k. The Social Network l. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans]
—Michael Thomas Taren and Purdey Lord Kreiden are poets and cotranslators based in Aubagne, France.
Tomaž Šalamun was absurdly serious about poetry, about the absurdity of his pursuit, and about friendship in poetry. Of the great poets I've known that are recently gone, perhaps Arkadii Dragomoshchenko (if a little darker) had a similar seriously absurd spirit, which seems to require also uncanny generosity toward younger poets. What else of poetry can be passed on and who to pass it on to, if not those struggling to imagine a life in poetry, which is to say an absurd life with dubious honors? Tomaž was proud of the young poets he nurtured, whether close and constant in his life, or far away and fleeting—a modest patriarch recounting the talents of his progeny. At dinner he'd say, "Look what a great poet I found." Yet, he never taught with his work and ironized any success of his own. Youthful, mischievous, and kind as an older brother, he was happy that young people dug him. He had seemingly no interest in his own talent—it was just there, he followed it, as if on "the tracks of wild game," as he called an early collection, in which, as in Poker (2003), he was striking out on several paths at once. His poems are memories that come back and mix with the present. He transforms torments into lightness, but with a rocky weight, so you can feel it. After a bottle of Malvasia in the West Village, on a whim we ordered a second, and later stumbled out, smiling. With Tomaž, one felt like a poet. Or at least it made weird sense to keep trying.
—Matvei Yankelevich is a translator and writer, and a founding editor of Ugly Duckling Presse.
A memorial gathering with readings of poems by Tomaž Šalamun will take place at Ugly Duckling Presse on Sunday, March 8 at 4 p.m.
Robert Reed. Photo: Lisa Kereszi.
I was seventeen years old when I met you. You were wearing khaki slacks and tasseled loafers. You had round spectacles.
You bellowed your most infamous assignment, fifty 22 x 30" drawings of a New Haven park, astonishing us with its rigor. An everlasting mission. A page full of charcoal might qualify as completion, but the task was a catalyst. Trees are everywhere; they are a permanent subject and continuing metaphor for representation—their differences and their inherent incompleteness—growth, death, and perspective.
Your spirit is pervasive. But my loss of the gentleman, scholar, and artist grieves me. Since your passing, the trees are unfamiliar. And more and more often I see artists cloaking industriousness with style to hide earnestness.
I remember Drawing 1 in the basement of the gray cardboard of Paul Rudolf's Art & Architecture building. Your "velvet hammer" tapped away at my malleable ego, forming it into something sincere.
You kept cynicism at bay. The trees, the charcoal, the paper, our peers, the paint were archetypical. I've never seen a bigger silver beech. We've never drawn more leaves. We could lean on the structure of your pedagogy. Its trustworthy edifices inspired quests into the woods. These same woods we would thin to furnish our studios as we graduated.
Drawing wasn't easy. You had to repot me. My young habits were the wrong soil. And I dreamt of you recently. You had a tweed shovel. You were dumping out potted students and pointing out the light source. You reminded us to look at the object, not subject ourselves to the page.
Professor Reed, you sowed my ego deeper in the dirt than I wanted to be. Drawing, painting, germination, the vulnerable position of needing resources to represent pushed me up through knowledge to understanding. Like a giant old-growth shim, you continue to level this drawn world. Thank you.
Robert Reed, Sigh Less Green, 2000, collage, 20 x 16". Courtesy of David Findlay Jr Gallery, NY.
Joseph Montgomery is an artist based in New York.
HE ASKED US to do drawings with coffee and tea, then paused and asked us in his most serious voice to consider what would happen if we added cream and sugar.
—Wiley Kestner, Yale University student, 1998
The passing of Robert Reed, a professor for almost fifty years in both the undergraduate and graduate programs at Yale University, is a great loss. A great loss not only for his wife, children, grandchildren, friends, students, and colleagues; not only for the fact that he was the only tenured African American ever in the Yale School of Art; but also for education itself as a profession, a concept, and a calling.
Reed's significance as an educator does not diminish his accomplishments as an artist. A steadfast geometric painter, his work is included in the collections of such venerable institutions as the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and the Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia (to name a few). Bob, as he was known to many, fulfilled his role as a professor by placing his artistic ego aside—a notion that has become foreign, forgotten, overlooked, or simply unfashionable in art education today.
Robert Reed, Cabbage, 2000, collage, 20 x 16". Courtesy of David Findlay Jr Gallery, NY.
Much has been said of Bob's demanding teaching style. He famously expected his painting students to produce twelve paintings and his drawing students to produce fifty drawings by the second class. In addition, students were to attend a kind of weekend art boot camp at Yale's Norfolk campus, where they worked from morning until night. He accepted no excuses for any work not fully done. Most apparent was that his methods displayed his belief in the connection between hard work and success. What was perhaps less obvious was his understanding and investment in his role as a mentor. You never found Bob in a public review making a show of his career, his knowledge, or his ego. More often than not, he remained rather quiet. He shared his wisdom willingly and rigorously in private. It did not happen in the hallways, a bar, or a restaurant. It was not confined to a class session, a semester, or a year. It was delivered personally with empathy and respect. It was not for show but for forming a dialogue, a conversation—extended, for sure—a foundation for a teacher-to-student, student-to-teacher relationship, one that continued and developed over time. Bob's was a role that was not a choice but a given: professor as mentor. In his position as professor he deeply understood it not to be about him but about "us."
Success in academia is so often measured in preapproved career checklists and awards. Bob had many of these, but they seemed to matter less to him than assisting and bearing witness to the progress of his students and colleagues. As a professor, he measured his own success by the success of those of us he had mentored. I am happy to say that I am one of the many who benefited from his generosity.
Twenty years ago, I met Robert Reed in a gallery in Charlottesville, Virginia, where I was exhibiting my paintings. He introduced himself, and a conversation began that led to many wonderful years of my teaching alongside him at Yale. As a very green professor, I watched all the notable artists I worked with for clues on how to be a better teacher, but I could not read Bob, due to the very private nature of his approach. I now understand how he embraced the role of the professor as mentor, something I still find difficult to consistently practice. Education is ultimately a conversation: a process of sharing, supporting, relating; in essence, a group activity. Bob understood this and resisted the impulse to make it into the singular, me-me-me agenda we see in so much of contemporary culture.
In the years since leaving Yale, I remained in touch with Bob. His continued support and belief in me as an artist and an educator never waivered. With each correspondence, I was reminded to try harder to be a more effective teacher and mentor. And even as I do strive to follow his example, I am sure that the hole Bob has left in art education will be very hard for all that follow to fill.
Lisa Corinne Davis is an artist and professor of painting at Hunter College in New York.


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Popcorn Ceiling Removal
I'm getting bids and need advice on how long this should take -- so I can get a handle on costs bid.
This is an 850 sq ft condo on Maui. Ceilings are 8-foot. Kitchen and baths are OK. Just remove and paint LR, hallway and BR w/dressing room. Ground floor unit.
I've had one bid that seems ridiculous. He estimates 5-6 days of work. He would resurface with 'orange peel' and paint two coats. (Do I *want* another texture?)
You will NEED another texture to hide the drywall seams.
I got 900+ square feet done (2 bedrooms and great room), one of them vaulted to 14', in just under two days including skip troweling the finish. It was a crew of three.
They spend most of the first day just taping up plastic, but they got the 2 bedrooms scraped and troweled. Day 2 was mostly the great room finishing, skip troweling and cleanup.
I painted - adding paint would have been one more day, because the texture was not dry on day 2.
We are removing our popcorn ceilings ourselves. We then hire a drywall guy to come in and smooth them out. For the last section that we did (a living room, small study, and entrance hall) it took three days for the drywall alone. My husband removed the popcorn himself after work in two days, so that could probably be condensed into a full day with prep. Add in a coat of primer and a coat of ceiling paint (with drying time in between) and yes ... I can see 5-6 days being reasonable.
As for texture, what we found is that it is personal and also somewhat regional. Orange-peel may be common in new construction in your area, or what your drywaller is used to doing. We wanted smooth, and that's what we have. You don't have to have a texture; a good drywall guy will make those ceilings look great.
Not sure how I missed this post...I practically live on this site when not scraping popcorn and removing wallpaper. I sat down just now while taking a break.
I would like to offer my services for the price of a ticket to Maui, my favorite place on this earth! If I lived on Maui, I would do it for free to thank you for all the outstanding advice you offered on the buying/selling forum.
I did the 1140 sq ft home I am selling. Removing the popcorn was no biggee (no asbestos). Then I paid a contractor friend to come over and texture the first room and figure out if I was "trainable". We practiced different textures on old drywall and then I started in the most inconspicuous room and he would critique me and coach my technique.
Turns out, you just never know what you are good at until ya try it. I actually ended up enjoying it and am pretty efficient.
Which is going to come in very handy at my new house: 1900 sq. ft. of popcorn and wallpaper. Oh how I wish it was on Maui instead of in drought-ridden, 105 degree West Texas!
You should have your popcorn ceiling tested for asbestos. Ours had it and it is from the late 70s. They were using this into the 1980s; see link. Our state requires full decontamination (a shower station was put up in our backyard) for all workers and multiple safety regs for it.
If your ceiling doesn't have asbestos, it's no big deal. Do it yourself or hire it. It is far easier to remove if someone has not come along and painted over it.
If it does contain asbestos, you really need to think twice about doing it yourself. A papermask is not going to cut it! We had contractors offer to remove it for us "under the table" but we didn't want any floating around to breathe later. We also wanted paperwork showing we'd removed it properly if we ever sell the home.
One thing we did that we regretted was have the same company do the retexturing and painting as did the decontam. Their painting subs were nothing amazing and I think charged a lot more because they were with the removal people. They have to put two layers of plastic up and they take the first one down after the asbestos is out. Have them leave the 2nd layer up for your own contractors and you'd be happier.
Here is a link that might be useful: asbestos Q&A
cattyles -- How's it going? I think of you, slaving away on your new house, when the TV weatherman tells us we are so much better off in Chicago than y'all in Texas.
colorfast -- Thank you for your concern. The condo was built in 1991. Many other units in our complex have removed the popcorn, so I'm pretty sure we are in the clean about asbestos.
Hey! Although I'm too dense to know how to post a photo, I can show you the condo in question: www.vrbo.com/8049 Do you still think my bid is reasonable? Not a LOT of ceiling there.


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Illinois State football likely won't have an easy start this year while trying to build off its first-ever appearance in the FCS national championship game.
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The campaign is inspired by the fact that each fixed geared bike is a representative of its riders personality. The campaign therefore, reflects the the bond between the rider and his bike thus becoming one.
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DATE & TIME: Friday, November 29, 11 p.m. (et)
FACTS & STATS: Site: Leavey Center (4,500) -- Santa Clara, California. Television: None. Home Record: North Dakota State 1-1, Santa Clara 2-0. Away Record: North Dakota State 1-2, Santa Clara 0-2. Neutral Record: North Dakota State 0-0, Santa Clara 0-0. Conference Record: North Dakota State 0-0, Santa Clara 0-0. Series Record: First-ever meeting.
GAME NOTES: Santa Clara begins its defense of the Cable Car Classic title Friday when they Broncos host the North Dakota State Bison at Leavey Center.
Rider and Rice are playing the other semifinal on Friday, with the winners squaring off on Saturday following a consolation game.
Santa Clara has won this regular season tournament two of the previous three years. The Broncos upended Wagner in the title game last year to win the tourney for the 16th time in its 46 years of existence.
Taking care of business on its home floor has been Santa Clara's calling card recently, winning nine of the last 10 games at the Leavey Center. The Broncos won their first two games in front of their home fans this season before hitting the road and falling to Cal State Fullerton and Notre Dame.
Friday's 84-69 loss in South Bend came as a result of a 42-25 discrepancy in rebounds and a 23-9 edge in free throws for the Fighting Irish. Brandon Clark tallied a game-high 21 points and also handed out six assists, while Jared Brownridge chipped in with 16 points in the setback. Brownridge and Clark have carried the load offensively thus far for Santa Clara, pouring in 19.3 and 16.8 points per game, respectively.
North Dakota State, a heavy preseason favorite to win the Summit League, has stumbled to a 2-3 record out of the gate, last losing to rival North Dakota, 95-77, on Sunday.
Taylor Braun led the Bison with 34 points in the latest setback, while Marshall Bjorklund was the only other NDSU player to score in double figures with 11 points before fouling out. Bjorklund, who will be making his 100th career start on Friday, was one of four Bison starters to foul out, and the team's 30 personal fouls led to 33 points for North Dakota.
The Bison have an experienced roster that boasts several capable scorers despite losing Dexter Werner to a knee injury. Braun paces the club with 19.6 ppg and has also handed out over four assists per outing. Bjorklund checks in with 13.4 ppg and TrayVonn follows with 11.6, while grabbing 6.2 rebounds per game.
North Dakota State has already played a member of the West Coast Conference this season, losing at Saint Mary's by 13 points. Santa Clara is a notch below Saint Mary's, but the Broncos' homecourt advantage gives them the slight edge in this one.
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Geoffrion put up some impressive numbers in his final year at Wisconsin. He tied for 2nd in the nation in goals scored and is the captain of a Badger team playing for the national title on Saturday against Boston College.
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Over 1,000 delegates to the 41st AFSCME International Convention told the 12,000 cab drivers of this city who are trying to unionize that they are not alone.
Home care workers file for largest union election in Minnesota history
Pay is so low that many caregivers qualify for food stamps, don't get paid sick leave or health or retirement benefits.
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The fast food industry continues to get hit hard by waves of strikes and workers continue to escalate their tactics, but the question remains: What more can be done?
Union and mayor agree on contract for 121,000 NYC workers
The DC37 pact, which covers workers at 53 locals, is important as a potential pacesetter for other unions in the Big Apple.
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"This is an important victory for patients and workers all across Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Hospital sets the standard for healthcare and that standard has just been raised."
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Workers from many walks of life will join picket lines a day after Tories threatened to impose new anti-union laws if they win the next election.
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It came as no surprise that sophomore Taysom Hill is listed as the starter at quarterback, with sophomore Ammon Olsen as the backup.
"We have named Taysom the starter because of his game experience in 2012, strong leadership qualities and his breakaway speed and athleticism," Mendenhall said in a statement. "Ammon also had a phenomenal spring. I am confident in his ability. We have two very capable quarterbacks."
The Cougars wrapped up spring ball last Friday with a 70-play scrimmage at LaVell Edwards Stadium.
The spring depth chart does not include the handful of newcomers that will arrive on campus this summer.
The depth chart can be viewed on pages 21-22 of the 2013 Spring Prospectus.
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In Cesky Krumlov in the South of the Czech Republic, there are many buildings with artwork, sgraffito, and murals painted during the medieval years of its existence. This wall depicted a warrior on horseback with a God-like finger pointed down as if choosing him
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Professional Hearing & Audiology celebrates 60 years
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Professional Hearing & Audiology Clinics is offering courtesy hearing examinations through April 30 in honor of its 60th anniversary.
The practice was founded by Donald R. Kleindl Sr., BC-HIS, in 1952, and now, 60 years later, has grown to be one of the nation's oldest and largest family-owned clinics.
The practice is overseen by Donald R. Kleindl Sr.'s son, Donald R. Kleindl II, BC-HIS, ACA, MCAP.
Donald R. Kleindl II said: "Our company's mission is to provide the hearing impaired the best hearing rehabilitation available. Our services are provided by audiologists, audioprosthologists, and hearing instrument specialists equipped with the education and experience needed to offer expert care."
Professional Hearing & Audiology Clinics, inside the Camelot Medical Building, 1415 E. State St., Suite A1, Rockford, can be reached at (815) 964-3131. Visit www.ProfHearing.com for more details.
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After starting slowly, the Longhorns rallied behind tough running and a stout defense
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Roosevelt Row Activates Phoenix Alley Way for New Year's Eve Celebration
While the east coast celebrates the ball drop in New York Times Square, downtown Phoenix locals will ring in 2015 in their own creative style – with the first ever New Year's Eve Flannel Ball, hosted in an art-activated alleyway in Roosevelt Row. With attendees dressed head to toe in flannel under the Phoenix night sky, this event is poised to become a favorite downtown tradition, celebrating the uniqueness of the downtown Phoenix arts district.
"Arts is the foundation of this community," said Nicole Underwood, Director of Operations for Roosevelt Row CDC. "This inaugural art-activated celebration will be a fantastic way to ring in the New Year, with so many reasons to celebrate our area's local creative culture."
To date, Roosevelt Row CDC has created vibrancy in downtown Phoenix by activating typically vacant spaces with art, such as converted dirt lots into community gardens, repurposing shipping containers into art galleries, and now hosting an event in an alley way with music, art and local culture.
Roosevelt Row will bring together Arizonans and visitors from across valley to activate an alleyway in the arts district, where people can congregate for New Year's Eve to hear a lineup of up-and-coming local musical acts, experience "New on Old" Art Show with over 50 proud participating artists from Phoenix, enjoy food trucks, lawn games, a photo booth, a beer garden provided by New Belgium Brewing Company and other notable traditions that make the Flannel Ball a unique New Year's Eve experience.
From 9:00 pm to 2:00 am New Year's Eve night, an alleyway on 6th street and Roosevelt will come to life to ring in 2015, with an original New Year's countdown hosted by Phoenix Mayor's Art Award 2014 Recipient and host of Phoenix Storytellers, Dan Hull. The climax of the year concludes with the drop of an odd and campy Lawn Gnome Pinata.
Tickets are $15 and available for purchase at Lawn Gnome Publishing on 5th Street and Roosevelt or online at www.eventbrite.com. Admission is $20 day of the event. Tickets are limited.
The inaugural New Year's Eve Flannel Ball & Art Show is "plaidly" brought to you by Lawn Gnome Publishing, 909 Housing Collective, Roosevelt Growhouse & GrowOp, and Roosevelt Row CDC.
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A Sense of Downtown: The Arizona Room Shows Us Our Past
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Downtown is more than a grid system of streets and square miles. It is an experience made up of the sights, sounds, feel and tastes unique to the place. In this short series, DPJ contributor, Colin Columna hones in on the five senses as his guide to explore the distinct qualities of downtown Phoenix.
Setting our sights on the Burton Barr Library, near the intersection of Central Avenue and McDowell Road, we visit one of Phoenix's most invaluable, yet often overlooked, resources. The Arizona Room, located on the second floor of the eye-catching Will Bruder designed landmark, houses a meticulously curated collection of books, periodicals, journals, letters, maps and other materials relating to the city of Phoenix, the state of Arizona, and the geology, archaeology, and natural history of the desert Southwest.
The glass sided enclosure is a pre-Wikipedia time portal of first-hand accounts, primary sources, old school sleuthing and, due to the nature of the materials, writing in pencil. Within the archives are newspaper stories and handwritten letters of the westward facing pioneers, fortune seeking miners, prospectors and dreamers, and civic leaders and city boosters who homesteaded, staked out claims and labored to build a new city in the Arizona Territory of pre-1914 statehood.
Arizona Census data on mircofilm from 1870-1930 and extant city directories to 1892 provide researchers and genealogists with the names, relationships and addresses of early Phoenix households. Highly detailed citywide Sanborn maps of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, originally drafted for insurance companies to determine potential liability, today provide urban planners with insight into the historic platting of Phoenix's streets and neighborhoods and the city's population patterns of growth and mobility. Historic preservationists reference the maps to determine a building's significance and historical context.
U.S. Army Headquarters records from Fort Verde, Interior Department territorial appointment papers and historic surveyor and topographical maps offer details into the government's effort to gain control over Arizona's challenging environment and Native populations. However broad the scope of the collection, each archival document adds to our understanding of Arizona's progression from Territory, to admittance as the 48th state of the union, to today's geographic ranking the sixth largest state in the country.
The foundation for the collection began with the 1934 bequest of the personal papers and photographs of James Harvey McClintock. Journalist, historian and member of the Rough Riders, McClintock's life and exploits read like the stuff of a nineteenth century wild west dime novel. At fifteen, he joined a traveling circus headed for Phoenix and worked as a "barker" in front of the tents erected on an empty lot on West Washington Street. He directed this talent for creating "buzz" in tirelessly promoting his new hometown as President of the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce, President of the Arizona Folklore Society, President of the Arizona Archaeological Society and State Historian. Energetic and ambitious he was member of the first graduating class of Tempe Normal School in 1887, also the town's Justice of the Peace, one of the three surveyors of the future Roosevelt Dam site, lifelong friend with President and fellow Rough Rider Teddy Roosevelt and 25 year correspondent for the Los Angeles Times. As a journalist he reported on events as he lived them and as a historian he carefully archived all of the clippings.
Unlike the library's Rare Book Collection, no reservations are needed to access the Arizona Room's 33 linear feet of archival materials, which include the McClintock papers, 25,000 volumes, 2,500 maps, and 73 moving images. The room keeps the same hours as the library and is overseen by Arizona Room Librarian, Maria Hernandez. Possessed with an encyclopedic knowledge of the collection's holdings and a storyteller's gift for bringing history to life, Hernandez is more engaging tour guide than academic custodian. She describes the archives as an "ongoing project" and encourages the community to help fill in the gaps within its bookshelves.
"Personal history, family history is the history of Phoenix," she explains. "High school yearbooks, community cookbooks help tell the story of what it was like to live here. They are valuable records and need to be preserved."
Next spring the library launches an oral history project to record the memories and life stories of the people who are the life of the city.
"We want to hear from the voices of those who grew up in Phoenix during wartime, the Vietnam War era, who took part in our community's civil rights movement. We want to hear from people who got up everyday and went to work, who lived their lives in Phoenix. Who remember Royal Wax Museum, who grew up cruising on Central. We want those stories. The city is based on personal experiences."
Contact the Arizona Room to donate materials and find out more about the Oral History Project.
If You Go:
What: Arizona Room
Where: Burton Barr Central Library, 1221 N. Central Avenue, Phoenix, Arizona 85004
When: Open during regular library hours
Please Note: Due to the nature of the collection, materials may only be used in the room. Copying of most materials is available at 20 cents per page and pencils only may be used for writing. No food or drink is permitted in the Arizona Room.
All this talk about the Arizona Room at the library reminds us of a whole host of stories from DPJ's own past. Check out our From the Arizona Room stories to learn more about the fascinating history of downtown.
Actors Theatre Leaves the Stage
Posted on 12/19/14 by Katrina Becker » No Comments
Early this morning Actors Theatre (ATOP) announced the sad news of its closure. "The simple truth is that the company is out of money," says a letter sent to supporters.
Operations will cease and assets will be liquidated over the next couple of months. Planned productions of Annapurna, Stage Kiss and The Year of Magical Thinking are cancelled, and ATOP won't be able to afford to refund tickets. "We're hoping that our patrons and supporters will consider taking the expense as a tax deduction," says the company.
Actor Theatre has teetered on the brink for the past few years, sending out several pleas for help and reorganizing. Despite drastic cost-cutting measures — ending its resident company status at the Herberger Theater Center, downsizing administration to two full-time employees, and operating on a shoestring budget — ATOP maintained its high production quality, offering powerful shows with minimal stage dressing.
Organizations including Arizona Opera, Phoenix Theatre and Black Theatre Troupe provided support and venue assistance, while a devoted audience base continued to offer encouragement to the struggling company.
In the end, it just wasn't enough. ATOP's board unanimously voted to close, and will work with Managing Director Erica Black and Producing Artistic Director Matthew Wiener to wrap up business.
Wiener spent nearly 20 years leading the troupe after coming from a four-year stint as Arizona Theatre Company's associate artistic director in the early 1990s.
Actors Theatre's legacy includes almost 29 years of great productions, which often emphasized the company's dedication to working with talented local actors.
"Among our strongest guiding principles is to pay everyone — and that includes artists and arts workers — a living wage," said ATOP's announcement. "…But our donor base and individual and season ticket sales were not substantial enough to provide the financial resources to support the cost structure of professional artists…."
Never afraid to present work written by less-famous playwrights, ATOP took pride in kindling thoughtful conversation and inciting visceral reactions in audiences. The company will be missed.
Wire | McDowell Mountain Music Festival Lineup Announced
Posted on 12/14/14 by DPJ Staff » No Comments
DPJ's Wire series delivers news and information straight from the source without translation.
McDOWELL MOUNTAIN MUSIC FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES 2015 BANDS
Music fans listen up, the 12th Annual McDowell Mountain Music Festival presented by Deschutes Brewery proudly announces the lineup for 2015.
The lineup is as follow:
Widespread Panic, Passion Pit, Thievery Corporation, Phantogram, Portugal. The Man, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, Karl Denson's Tiny Universe, Beats Antique, Trampled by Turtles, StrFkr, Robert Delong, and Break Science.
The three-day festival will be held at Margaret T. Hance Park in downtown Phoenix, March 27-29, 2015. VIP, three-day and single-day tickets are now on sale at www.mmmf.com. After hours event passes will also be on sale at a later date. For more information about concert details and ticket prices, visit www.mmmf.com.
John Largay, President of Wespac Construction, which has produced the festival since 2004 says, "This festival is a party for the people. It's a community effort, engaging music enthusiasts to come out to enjoy an eclectic mix of talents and also to support notable charities in the Valley."
As Arizona's only 100 percent non-profit music festival, McDowell Mountain Music Festival McDowell Mountain Music Festival is proud to continue its alliance with two local, family-based, non-profits beneficiaries: Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation and UMOM New Day Center, which provides homeless families and individuals with safe shelter, housing and supportive services. Over the years, the festival has raised more than one-million-dollars in funds for charity.
Images courtesy of McDowell Mountain Music Festival.
Downtown's December Diversions: Festive and Offbeat for the Holidays
Posted on 12/13/14 by Katrina Becker » No Comments
Whether you prefer to immerse yourself in the holiday spirit or rebel against the trappings of the season, you'll find your fun downtown with a few of Phoenix's quirkier activities. Adults-only theater pushes the envelope with A Bloody Mary Christmas while unique Christmas light tours appeal to all ages, and puppetry and dance shows keep kids jolly.
Ballet Arizona offers the usual fairies and sugarplums at Symphony Hall with its spectacular, highly acclaimed production of The Nutcracker (through December 28), reinvented a few years ago by artistic director Ib Andersen. Tchaikovsky's familiar music performed by The Phoenix Symphony can't be beat, and a family four-pack includes parking, premium seats, a photo with the Sugarplum Fairy and hot cocoa.
If you prefer the music of a different Russian, try Snow Queen at Herberger Theater Center's Stage West (through Dec. 21), choreographed by Frances Smith Cohen and presented by Center Dance Ensemble. Hans Christian Andersen's tale comes to life with melodies by Sergei Prokofiev. Take a midday work break, buy or bring your lunch, and sample the Lunch Time Dance Theater option for only $6.
In addition to the occasional wickedly subversive 18+ puppet slam, Great Arizona Puppet Theater provides a steady stream of funny shows for children young and old. The Night Before Christmas (through December 28) features joyful music and stories.
For those who love cinema, FilmBar offers a glorious month full of movies in an intimate 70-seat venue with the added bonus of a beer and wine bar (alcohol with popcorn — what could be better?). December's options include The Captive, The Babadook, Bad Santa and Free the Nipple (both on the Naughty & Nice Film Series), Awake: The Life of Yogananda, and the incomparable Monty Python's Life of Brian. Foreign films include Luis Buñuel's The Exterminating Angel (El ángel exterminador) and Louis Malle's Zazie dans le metro as a double feature. And don't miss Opera at FilmBar — December 19 brings Gioachino Rossini's La Cenerentola (Cinderella) from the Gran Teatre del Liceu, starring a sparkling Joyce DiDonato and the yummy Juan Diego Flórez.
The calendar's packed at Crescent Ballroom, where Cocina 10's food and drink are complemented by the stories of Chow Bella's Eating Christmas (December 16). For a canned food donation you'll hear food-themed tales of holiday adventure (for ages 21 and older). Otherwise, try "Life's a Drag. Party Like a Queen" (December 18) with interactive games, "Truth, Drag or Dare," and drink specials all hosted by Olivia Gardens.
Phoenix Theatre serves a full plate of seasonal cheer with Holiday Classics From Screen to Stage (December 18-21), when Arizona Opera singers croon holiday favorites from films like Elf, Miracle on 34th Street, Love Actually, A Charlie Brown Christmas and more. Vocalist Dennis Rowland takes the stage with the Greg Warner Project and special guest Diana Lee for the Holiday Jazz Cabaret (December 22-24) and a range of Christmas classics. And you're sure to have a jolly holiday with Mary Poppins (through December 28), an eye-popping fast-paced feast of color, song, dance, and special effects including Valley favorite Toby Yatso as a tap-dancing, levitating chimney sweep.
Back in the realm of adults-only entertainment, Space 55 pulls out all the stops for the fifth year of A Bloody Mary Christmas (through December 21), in which Sun City retirees sing, dance, and battle a heartless homeowners' association. Set to original music by Dangerville and Samson Says, Bloody Mary showcases Toni Jourdan, Lee Quarrie, Paula McKenny and Bob Peters. 7 Minutes Under the Mistletoe (December 20) gives local performers their seven minutes in the sun with an opportunity to do whatever they want — interpretive dance, dinosaur burlesque, competitive doughnut eating, action figure battles…even naked stage magic. Who knows what you'll see?
Other Space 55 shows include Storyline: A Winter's Tale (December 19), part of a monthly storytelling showcase, and Resolutions! A new show for an old year (December 31), a good warm-up for your New Year's Eve party or downtown's Flannel Ball.
"Hip Historian" Marshall Shore brings a big yellow school bus to The Clarendon Hotel as the launch point for his Christmas Lights Tours (December 16, 18 & 23). "We cruise through Phoenix, Tempe and Mesa," says Shore. "I curate for the most jaw-dropping displays that I can locate." Join in the caroling and live music with your very own kazoo (provided), or sit back and enjoy Shore's talents as a storyteller while you see commercial, private home and religious displays.
If you go:
- Ballet Arizona: The Nutcracker (through December 28)
- with The Phoenix Symphony at Symphony Hall, 75 N. 2nd St.
- visit balletaz.org or call 602-381-1096
- Center Dance Ensemble: Snow Queen (through December 21)
- at Herberger Theater Center's Stage West, 222 E. Monroe
- visit centerdance.com or call 602-252-8497
- Great Arizona Puppet Theater: The Night Before Christmas (through December 28)
- in the GAPT's lovely renovated historic 1929 LDS 2nd Ward Church, 302 W. Latham
- visit azpuppets.org or call 602-262-2050
- FilmBar
- 815 N. 2nd St.
- visit thefilmbarphx.com or call 602-595-9187
- Crescent Ballroom and Cocina 10
- 308 N. 2nd Ave.
- visit crescentphx.com or call 602-716-2222
- Phoenix Theatre
- 100 E. McDowell Rd.
- visit phoenixtheatre.com or call 602-254-2151
- Space 55
- 636 E. Pierce St.
- visit space55.org
- "Hip Historian" Marshall Shore: Christmas Lights Tours (December 16, 18 & 23)
- departing from and returning to The Clarendon Hotel and Spa, 401 W. Clarendon Ave.
- visit marshallshore.blogspot.com
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After hearing much more noise than before, Kameil wakes up, he looks around drowsily. He stands up and heads for tea station.
Senior Member
Athelia wakes from her nap, seeing Shraido she smiles, "Hey, nice sleep?"
((Wake up all the Role-Players!!!!))
"Very good. I feel completely energized."
He starts running in circles at high speed.
"That hammock was a great idea/ Let me out."
He swears, and lets Sparky jump out of him. Sparky goes to hang onto the ceiling above the running Shraido.
Shraido: "You don't need to use my mouth to talk to me, you know."
Sparky: "Felt like it."
Shraido: "Good enough."
"Then I guess that'll have to do for now, though Poppy would be too busy to be able to do anything... Might be a break from all the paperwork that he's been doing lately, though he hasn't noticed me sneak in and help every once and a while... Well, at least he hadn't said anything about it... I hope they'd have time to help... It seems so many things happen all at once around here and I don't know how but Equiste seems to put himself into a lot of them." He said, thinking through a few things. He wanted to tell Kyrios about stuff but Equiste didn't like him letting out certain things about him.
Athelia giggles at Shraido and Sparky, "I really have no idea what Silvers problem was with me teaching you that spell."
Avengard simply glares at the two of them.
Sparky: "Something about splitting the soul into pieces."
Shraido: "Also, she was talking about people who eat souls. and Sparky being a free meal."
Sparky: "So I demonstrated that to eat me, they must first catch me."
Sparky makes a face at Avengard.
Shraido: "Why so serious?"
Athelia smiled at the remark about needing to catch Sparky, "I think I could catch him."
Avengard stares at Sparky, "Because... You're annoying."
Realising Kameil was in the break room, Athelia waved at him.
Sparky disappears.
Shraido: "Try now. As for you big guy, if you can't laugh you can't live."
Shraido somersaults, then continues running.
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Syrian state television aired footage on Thursday of President Bashar al-Assad swearing in new defence minister Fahad Jassim al-Freij, the first images of the president since a bomb attack on Wednesday killed three senior official at a security meeting.
State television did not say where or when the footage was filmed but it will allay suspicions that Assad was killed in the attack.
Requesting anonymity, the diplomat told The Anadolu Agency that Algerian Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra presented the initiative on Thursday during an Arab foreign ministers meeting in Egypt's resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh.
An HH-60 Sikorsky helicopter flew from Djibouti to recover the Saudi airmen in international waters.
Arab ground forces may possibly be needed in the next operation against the Houthi, whilst 4 tribesman were wounded during clashes with Houthi.
"The Germanised European Union is literally choking our country and tightening week by week the noose around the economy," he said.
Frank-Walter Steinmeier says negotiators 'close to end game' after years of talks.
Addressing the 26th Arab summit in the Egyptian resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh, Abbas called on Arab leaders to protect the ancient city and support the resistance of its people.
The official told Reuters that Yemeni authorities had received information that Iranian experts had brought in parts for the missiles at the base, located south of Sanaa.
A large number of tents were burnt in the fire but without any casualties.
The court accused all four people of forming a cell with the aim of spying on Egypt for Israel, a judicial source said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the Nusra Front and its allies have captured the north-western city. Calling themselves 'The Army of Conquest', rebels fighting for Idlib are led by al-Qaeda's Syria affiliate.
The resignation came one day after President Uhuru Kenyatta received an EACC report, which cited the names of several ministers and government officials in corruption allegations.
Spokesman Idowu told AA the situation was being addressed
Official says that attacks could last up to five or six months, hoping to restoreU.N.-backed Yemen transition. An official has also stated that Iran likely to retaliate indirectly in region as scuds observed in Yemen, pointing at Saudi territory
The UN chief said he "repeatedly condemned the attempts by the Houthis and former president [Ali Abdullah] Saleh to undermine political agreements by military force."
The AIIB has been seen as a significant setback to U.S. efforts to extend its influence in the Asia Pacific region to balance China's growing financial clout and assertiveness.
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