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Happ and Jays deal blow to Rays
Fine pitching puts pressure on Tampa
TORONTO -- Toronto Blue Jays pitcher J.A. Happ capped a challenging season with one of his best efforts of the year.
It was a performance that leaves him feeling good heading into the off-season. It also significantly raised the pressure on the Tampa Bay Rays in their pursuit of an American League wild-card spot.
Happ retired 11 batters in a row at one point in Toronto's 7-2 victory over the Rays on Saturday afternoon at Rogers Centre. He allowed one earned run and five hits over 7 1/3 innings.
"Overall it's a great way to finish for him," said Blue Jays manager John Gibbons. "He can go into the off-season feeling confident and healthy."
Ryan Goins and Kevin Pillar hit two-run homers in Toronto's four-run fifth inning. First baseman Ryan Langerhans scored twice and had two of the Blue Jays' 12 hits.
The Rays' loss made things even tighter in the American League wild-card race. Tampa Bay and Texas are even at 90-71 after the Rangers beat the Los Angeles Angels 7-4 earlier in the day.
Later, the Cleveland Indians (91-70) moved into sole possession of the AL wild-card lead by beating the Minnesota Twins 5-1 in Minnesota.
"We've been here before, we've been in these moments," said Tampa Bay manager Joe Maddon. "We never do things seemingly easily so let's just play tomorrow and see what happens."
Todd Redmond (4-2) will get the start today as the Blue Jays go for the three-game sweep.
"We'd like to come back and get one more win tomorrow," Gibbons said. "That's what it's all about. We'd rather be in their position, no doubt about that. But we'll come out tomorrow and play. Hopefully Redmond has a good one and he can finish on a good note and we'll see what happens.
"It's good for baseball, I know that."
Matt Moore (16-4) will get the pressure-packed starting assignment for the Rays.
"It's resiliency to infinity," Maddon said. "You have to come out and be yourselves and go out and play."
Happ missed three months of action this season after suffering a fractured skull and sprained knee when he was hit in the head by a liner on May 7. He has found his form of late after making a minor change to his delivery.
"I've been working and battling and feeling like I was close," Happ said. "I feel like finally the last several starts I've kind of been putting it together. It feels good to end on a good note..."
Happ settled down after a choppy opening frame.
Tampa Bay's Ben Zobrist opened the game with a double off the centre-field wall. Sean Rodriguez moved him to third with a sacrifice fly and Zobrist scored on a Wil Myers single.
Happ allowed one walk and had four strikeouts. Toronto reliever Aaron Loup recorded two outs in the eighth inning. Dustin McGowan gave up a run in the ninth before striking out former Blue Jays shortstop Yunel Escobar to end the game.
In the fifth, Goins took a 3-2 pitch over the wall in right field for his second homer of the season. Pillar's drive came on a 2-2 pitch from Brandon Gomes and barely cleared the wall in left for his third homer of the year.
-- The Canadian Press
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition September 29, 2013 B12
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can we or can container gardening be used as winter sowing, even when I ask it sounds kinda stupid.
But I have some big containers outside that are empty at this time and was just wondering if they could be used as winter sowing. do just like the plastic containers you folks have mentioned. put heavy type plastic over them, place them in an area where it would be safe and so on.
would appreciate your feedback on this.
Hi Mary, Welcome--
First of all--there NO stupid questions in this forum.
I have tried what you are asking and have been successful to a certain degree.
Make sure you find a way to give some head room for the new seedlings to grow so they don't hit the plastic (propping with sticks maybe?). I have found that if you try growing more than one type of seed in the container, that they "may" sprout at different times and may overrun other seeds that haven't sprouted yet.
Hope this helps.
For very large diameter pots I like to sow seeds and place a cut off 2L/3L bottle over them. This allows for different seed germination and growth needs. If using just one seed type I still use the 2L cover as it helps with spacing. There will be several 2Ls needed to cover the pot. Push them into the soil well to keep from blowing away.
For rectangular pots if using only one seed I remove the paper part of hangers from the dry cleaner and poke them in the pot to hold up a large plastic bag. Clothes pins work well to keep the plastic bag in place. Be sure to poke holes in the plastic bag for ventilation and moisture. If you place the entire container in the plastic bag don't forget to add holes in the bottom of the bag for drainage.
I use large pots all the time and I do write abovut it in How to Winter Sow and there is an FAQ for it. If the containers are very large and deep you don't need plastin on the top to retain moisture, but the plastic does keep out some windblown seeds. You can make some lovely combos for seeds and you're all set.
Here is a link that might be useful: WinterSown Container Gardening


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Help me find a lamp post?
Since most houses in our neighborhood have lamp posts I've decided to try to put one in our front yard whenever we pull up the sidewalk and put down brick. My problem is that we recently replaced the wall lights on either side of the door and over the garage and I can't find a post lamp that comes anywhere close to matching. Not only can I not find a style that makes sense with them, but I can't even find the right color...especially for the post itself, all I can find are black and white posts, would it look strange to have a black post and all copper lights?
These are the lights we have already, they are Portfolio lights in their antique bronze finish (which is much more coppery than bronze).
House lights
Garage light
I'm not a matchy matchy person but since the house and garage lights don't match already I think if I got a post lantern that also didn't match it would be too much. Maybe I'm wrong though? Should I go with something totally different? Thank you so much for your help! From Stonegate Cottage
I spent hours and hours browsing the www.LampsPlus.com website when I wanted bathroom lights. I think they have tons of such products. But, also look at the Lee Valley Tools website. They have LOTS of great stuff too.
Have you asked anyone on the electrical forum? They might know if the posts generally come separate from the light.
If I was matching anything, I'd match the front door lights to the post light, if the post is going to be out front. If it will be toward the back, I'd match it to the style of the garage door light. Do you plan to have all of these exterior lights to come on with the flip of ONE SWITCH?
I really like the color of your house. The post could be the same color as your shutters if nothing else.
Show us where it will be located. I bought Portfolio from Lowes before, so you might try there.
moccasin, thanks I'll check those sites, here's a pick of where I think I'd like to put the lamp post...with some plantings around it and the sidewalks replaced with narrower brick paths and stone steps...
sorry about the rudimentary drawing!
Ok, Enigma, here is the first link to
and then
www.overstock.com and do the search for post lights.
I did not find any at Lee Valley Tools.
Also, try amazon.com and ebay. I had great luck ordering from Overstock with cheap shipping and it was a fast delivery. I think it was shipped direct from the manufacturer when I bought my new kitchen sink, but the service was excellent. With LampsPlus, I've had some delays in the past, but ultimately got my lights.
Forgot to add the link. I also saw some solar powered lamp posts. Have you looked at them?
Here is a link that might be useful: Bronze Lamp Posts
I'm into the solar outdoor lighting. But unless you have a good sized collector panel, they do not put out much light. If you want to light the post up for security or safety, then look for a panel which you can put into the ground around the post, and not a light which has a panel built into the top of the lamp itself. Several places sell such lights, including Lowes and Home Depot. You get the lamp and the solar collector, and then you "make" your own post.
DH has a post lamp hardwired to 110 power where his brick steps come up from the driveway, and the rock wall is about 4 foot or so tall at that point. It is not solar, and it helps visitors come to the only spot they can use to reach his front door. I want to add a little house number "flag" or bar with the house number on it, to this post. It is a very traditional light, in keeping with the feel of a cape. Like your house is too, Enigma. Let's see if I can find a picture of it.
In that kind of weather, the lamp is definitely a safety feature.
idie and moccasin, you have brought up something I was just thinking about. I went to Lowes looking for post lamps and I did find a normal pole that was the right color, no lamp unfortunately though... The salesperson there actually told me to be aware that it is apparently really really expensive to get electricity run out to a new pole. I expected maybe a couple hundred dollars but nothing too expensive! Does anyone know what might be charged for this?
Because of this (and the fuss of digging and running electricity) I would love to consider solar power (plus, no electrical bills!!!). I really can't find any out there, I thought they would be common but the few I've found look really unnatural and strange, not like normal pole lights at all. Moccasin, I'm a little confused about how to "make" a pole with a solar panel??? Are they pieces you buy and assemble or do you put it on a wooden post?
I have those small solar powered landscape lights in the garden and I don't like them because instead of the nice warm glow from my wall lights they give off a bluey light...is this true of all solar lights? I wish I knew more about them, I really love the idea!
Last year I found a solar lamp post light that had LED lighting, so used a much smaller panel to collect electricity than the old ones did. I will try to find it again. You could try searching on LED lamp post or LED solar.
Remember that Rustoleum can magically transform any light and pole with the use of a simple spray can and some blue tape.
I found a number of sites for "solar lamp posts". They give good information on the size of panel required for the amount of light wanted. Reading some of the information I didn't know that there were rechargable batteries in most of them to accumulate the solar power. You can also select the light color wanted.
I would go for solar. Adding an electrical connection could cause more issues than expected and most likely require a city approval. Solar has come a long way.
Enigma, all that I know can go in a nutshell, sorry to say, BUT I HAVE IDEAS AND OPINIONS. hehehehe
First off, if you are up north, do you have a lot of ROCK?
In the case of my DH's house, you cannot dig anywhere w/o turning up ROCKS and some are huge. (We have NO ROCKS here, so I have serious ROCK ENVY, but no way to bring them south.) He put the power line in when he built that rock wall, so it was all underground.
I'm not sure where your electrical panel might be located, but probably around the spot the overhead power cables come to your house--near your driveway and garage? The cost could run from getting a larger breaker box and power supply (old homes had 100 amp service, but most now have 200 amp service or greater, and that means a lot of work for your power company and fully licensed electrician.
I'm all for solar too, like emagineer is. LEDs are the latest thing because the actual light emitted is greater. If those don't have the color you want, you can always filter the glass surrounding them! Put some cellophane inside the lamp if necessary.
I'm still thinking you could get a Toro system which has a solar panel stuck into the flower bed, and then low voltage cable that can be concealed 4 inches or so underground for a string anywhere from 50 feet up to 150 feet.
The cable can run up the middle of a metal pole to the lamp. OR, you can route a groove into a wooden lamp post and then use cable tacks to hold the low voltage cable in the groove as it runs up the wood post. In your neck of the woods, you don't have to worry about termites, but make any pole a treated wood. It can be painted white or black too.
I think you can also just find the lamp you like and then wire it to 12 volt instead of house power, and put in the size of socket you like.
Several years back, I had a really fine solar panel which I mounted on the roof of my cottage at MoccasinLanding. It ran to a fairly large storage battery, which I mounted onto a shelf underneath the carport. The battery was mostly out of the weather, Then from the storage battery, there was a 12 volt cable attached to a motion detector and spot light. This was very bright, and it only came on when it detected any motion within its coverage area....which was the walkway to my front door. With this setup, you could have a brighter bulb because it did not stay on all the time, just when someone was moving into your yard. In my case, this light was the only one working during several hurricanes that hit Mobile. What a comfort it was too. I think it cost about $75 including panel, battery, and light.
The point I'm making, consider all the options open to you and which would maximize your investment.
I have to say that I have been convinced! We don't have any power in the front yard to my knowledge (no outlets and even our electrical service to the house is in the back). I would love to not have to pay an electrician, I would love to be able to install it sooner rather than later and not dig an electrical line for it (also I don't like electric lines in the ground since I dig so often for planting). I spent several hours looking for solar lights, I'm still looking! They either seem to be on the unattractive side or the very expensive side, hopefully I'll find the perfect one!
So I've been rethinking just a little, looking at my "drawing" above, I'm a little concerned that in a lot as small as mine the corner picket fence, lamp post and stone column may be too many different "things" sticking up out of the yard. Should I consider a solar light that attaches to a pillar and just mount one on top of the pillar I have? That look is a little more custom/contemporary than I prefer...should I just knock down the pillar? It does make a nice place for our address numbers and separates our yard from the neighbors but I've never been a huge fan of it...I could build another corner fence instead, but is that too "frame-y"?
I tend to redesign and rethink constantly, thanks for bearing with me, I love all opinions, brutal or otherwise!
Your house is just adorable. And love the yard!
I think a lamp would look nice in the spot you picked. I was thinking that I would like to get one instead of putting regular lights around the yard. There are a couple in my neighborhood that look so pretty at night. I also like the ones with 3 lights on one pole.
Enigmaquandry, I do like the lamp post in your yard. Because it is taller and thin, it does not "fight" with the fence and post, but "tops off" the yard. It leads the eye to the center of your landscape, and to your front door. In decorating or flower arranging, threes are very pleasing, especially with a center, taller, item. I say go for the light post. A light on your brick post would draw the eye to the garage and confuse people about the yard/house/driveway. The center post light will cast light on the driveway, too, but emphasize the walkway to the door and the front door, inviting them in.


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I thought my television remote was broken the other day. I'd gotten to the part of the TV show where there was a pause in the programming. Loud and colourful 30-sec adverts started dancing across my screen, pushing everything from shampoo for women with blonde hair (note my picture, I'm a brunette) to car insurance (I don't own a car). I was hitting the fast-forward button, but nothing happened. I got as far as taking the back off of the remote to jiggle the batteries when I realised I was watching live programmed TV and I COULDN'T SKIP THE ADS.
Watching live telly, this is just something I have to put up with for now, but online is a different story. From the films we stream online to the playlists we create and share with our friends within digital music services -- consumers are now willing to pay for ad-free content in a way that we couldn't have conceived of five years ago. Forrester's Online Paid Content Forecast, 2012 To 2017 (EU-7) shows that with successful paid services for music, video, games, and news now available in Europe, the number of online content buyers in Western Europe is set to grow between 8% and 12% over the next five years, and revenue from paid content is set to grow 65% -- from €6,2 billion in 2012 to €10,2 billion by 2017.
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Yodel is the UK courier company everybody loves to hate and official delivery partner of many of our top online retailers including Amazon.com. Just back in August, Mothercare and Matalan joined John Lewis in ditching the supplier due to overwhelming customer pressure. UPDATE: Yodel got in touch to point out that the reasons these retailers no longer work with Yodel are unknown and that Yodel does not believe it to be due to customer pressure] — pressure that miserable customers are consistently applying across social media and Amazon's own online sites begging Amazon to stop using the courier. So widespread is Yodel despair — and trust me, one bad interaction with Yodel can leave one feeling despair — that an Amazon shareholder wrote to the company's investor relations department in the US to raise the issue, reported The Guardian.
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Companies are grappling to maintain their traditional sources of competitive advantage in the age of the customer — a world where empowered consumers, commoditized products, and intense competition stretch organizational capabilities to their limits. Enter the customer-obsessed CMO who can transcend the operational status quo and lead a companywide journey to establish new sources of competitive advantage. In my presentation at Forrester's Outside In: A Forum For Customer Experience Professionals EMEA in London next week (November 6th to 7th), I will be explaining how CMOs can positively change the corporate culture around customer obsession. I will also be leading the track "Why We Need To Build A Customer-Obsessed Corporate Culture," which takes a closer look at the challenges involved.
In preparation for the event, I caught up with one of our industry speakers from this track, Veronique Tordoff, UK market customer experience leader, Philips Electronics, to talk about how Philips Electronics is dealing with these challenges. Check out a preview of Veronique's session in the below Q&A, or join me in London to hear the full story.
Posted by Christine Overby on October 30, 2012
Major events — political, natural, or economic — create a lot of eyeballs on a select set of media and stories. But as friends chimed in on Facebook, Twitter, and texts, they shared stories of who stood by them during the crisis. My colleague David Cooperstein and I were discussing what marketers did and should do during a crisis. Do your customers need to hear from you during Hurricane Sandy? We've seen a few best practices from companies that are handling communications in a helpful and dignified way. We hope they are useful to our readers in charge of customer communications, both this week and in general.
Posted by Kim Celestre on October 26, 2012
Today, at the Forrester eBusiness Forum in Chicago, Nate Elliott announced our 2012 B2C and B2B Groundswell Awards winners and finalists! One of my most enjoyable tasks as a Forrester analyst is reviewing all of the Groundswell awards submissions. And I know many of you also look forward to seeing the innovative approaches that other B2B companies use to listen to and engage with customers. This year, we received 45 entries and we judged submissions across seven categories: Listening, Talking, Energizing, Spreading, Supporting, Embracing and Mobile.
Winner: London 2012 Olympics And Paralympics Social Media Listening by Cisco Systems
Posted by Nate Elliott on October 25, 2012
A few minutes ago I had the pleasure of announcing the winners of the 2012 Business-to-Consumer Forrester Groundswell Awards at the Forrester eBusiness Forum in Chicago. I hope you'll take a few minutes to read through, not just the highlights below, but the full entries for all the finalists and all the winners — because once again this year we received many outstanding entries. It's clear that social media has reached a tipping point, where savvy companies are using social tools to pursue real business objectives rather than simply chasing fans and followers. The 2012 winners put social programs to use in their organizations — successfully marketing their wares, supporting their customers, and generating insights.
Here, then, are our B2C finalists and winners for 2012.
Social Impact (Business-to-Consumer)
Million Moms Challenge Community by Blog Frog
ABC News and the United Nations Foundation partnered with BlogFrog to raise awareness and funds around issues affecting moms and babies around the world. This program identified more than 800 social influencers and activated them to create trusted content about motherhood. In total, the bloggers reached more than 15 million readers and garnered over 31 million total social media impressions. This in turn led tens of thousands of people to get actively involved: More than 15,000 people signed up for the Million Moms Challenge Community in the first two weeks.
Energizing (Business-to-Consumer)
Posted by Sarah Rotman Epps on October 23, 2012
Today, Apple unveiled a new lineup of devices: new iMacs, Mac Mini, a 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro (which, weighing in at only a half-pound more than the Air, is sure to be a best-seller, as its predecessor was), a fourth-generation 9.7-inch iPad (with 4x faster A6X processor, expanded LTE, faster Wi-Fi, Lightning connector, improved cameras, and other refinements), and…ta da!...the long-awaited iPad Mini. As early as October 2011, credible reports from Taiwan surfaced about a 7.85-inch iPad, so it's no surprise to see this product. And yet, Apple's execution dazzles. You pick up this device—which weighs only 0.68 pounds—and it feels feather-light, perfectly weight-balanced—and decidedly not made out of plastic, as its competitor devices are.
I want to pause for a moment to comment further about the weight, because my very first impression of the first-generation was "It's heavy!," much to the chagrin of Michael Tchao, VP of Product Marketing for iPad. The iPad Mini has a larger screen than competing devices from Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and Google, but it's somehow lighter than its competitors. Here's how the weights compare, courtesy of each vendor's product specs page:
Posted by Anthony Mullen on October 23, 2012
Posted by Joanna O'Connell on October 19, 2012
Over my last two-plus years at Forrester, I've spent a lot of time thinking and writing about how the people, processes, and tools that touch digital media buying must transform. In this age of always addressable customers, where hyper-connected, on-the-go consumers' expectations of brands are higher than ever, we all know in our gut that our media planning, buying, optimization, measurement, and messaging must get smarter, faster, and more audience-obsessed.
But where and how to start?
We at Forrester have created a brand new research framework — called playbooks — designed to not only help you figure out where to start but also to give you a practical step-by-step guide to the how to help you achieve mastery in a given area.
That said, I'm very pleased to introduce our very first playbook dedicated to digital media buying to help you become the data-driven, audience-obsessed, channel-agnostic marketer you both want and need to be. With this playbook, we'll help you:
Posted by Zachary Reiss-Davis on October 18, 2012
Here's one of the biggest trends for off-domain social initiatives that I'm tracking as I kick off a new overview of social tools for B2B marketers: Marketers like you no longer want just the perfect point solution for each new social marketing campaign; instead, they want integrated solutions and are starting to use larger software packages aimed at providing complete digital marketing solutions.
This is welcome news because successful social programs should be part of your comprehensive marketing plans; they can't exist as their own island. Several years ago, B2B marketing organizations could run their social marketing initiatives in a silo, but today they must coordinate them with their lead origination and lead nurturing programs as well as with other awareness campaigns.
The three leaders in the most recent Forrester Wave™ evaluation of email marketing vendors reflect this change in their products; they all promote their social offerings front and center on their home pages, often with the same prominence as their traditional email offerings. Screenshots of each of those home pages are below.
ExactTarget expanded into social marketing beginning with its acquisition of CoTweet some time ago in March 2010.It now has a "Social Marketing Hub" as a part of its "Interactive Marketing Hub" — email marketing is just one of three product categories on its website, getting equal billing with both social and mobile marketing.
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Autobiography "Living to Tell the Tale"
GABRIEL Garcia Marquez, the Colombian Nobel-prize winning novelist, left behind one last gift for his readers and devotees before his death in 2013: his autobiography, "Living to Tell the Tale" where he recounts in his inimitable style his early life, particularly his beginnings as a writer, and the political landscape of his war-torn country.
Toponyms of Bangladesh: Footprints of History
Dara Shamsuddin in his book titled "Bangladesher Sthan Nam: Itihasher Padachinho" (in English it stands Toponyms of Bangladesh: Footprints of History) told us a story of how Bangla language, along with developments in allied areas such as social, religious, economic and political processes, has evolved in this deltaic regions through historical progression of actions and events.
Half Girlfriend
Half Girlfriend is Chetan Bhagat's latest novel. Chetan Bhagat is one of the leading Indian authors of current time and some of his books have been turned into movies by Bollywood directors over last several years.
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Helal Uddin Ahmed's "An Anthology of Bangla Poems", coincidentally comprises carefully selected 68 translated outstanding poems that have been written in the last 68 years.
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By Evan Minsker on April 13, 2013 at 11:15 a.m. EDT
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs were also in attendance for the festivities at Coachella last night. Check out the band's performance of "Maps" and "Heads Will Roll" below, and catch Coachella's live stream here.
Watch Yeah Yeah Yeahs on "Letterman"
By Evan Minsker on April 6, 2013 at 9:14 a.m. EDT
Yeah Yeah Yeahs were the musical guests on last night's "Late Show With David Letterman". Karen O, Nick Zinner, Brian Chase, and David Pajo brought along a gospel choir, the Broadway Inspirational Voices, to perform the Mosquito track "Sacrilege".
Watch Yeah Yeah Yeahs' "Sacrilege" Video, Starring Lily Cole; Plus New Yeah Yeah Yeahs Tour Dates
By Jenn Pelly and Laura Snapes on March 26, 2013 at 11:20 a.m. EDT
Yeah Yeah Yeahs have shared a video for the gospel choir-feauturing "Sacrilege", off their upcoming record Mosquito out April 16 via Interscope. (They recently performed the song live at SXSW, too.) The video stars British model/philanthropist Lily Cole kissing a whole host of men (and a woman), and apparently getting her comeuppance. It was directed by Megaforce.
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By Ryan Dombal on March 14, 2013 at 12:47 p.m. EDT
Photos by Trent Maxwell. For all of our SXSW 2013 coverage, head here.
Karen O should never, ever be taken for granted. Ten years into the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, she has reached national treasure status-- a fact pushed forth by her giddy, silly, terrifying, colorful performance at the NPR Music showcase at Stubb's. Giddy because she could not stop smiling, clearly reveling in being back onstage after a few years elsewhere. Silly because she's still pulling out that insane, bratty Gremlins voice to maximum effect, often instantly juxtaposed with her more human voice. Terrifying because she can curdle blood as well as any metal howler. And colorful because of her yellow jacket and shiny silver vest (not to mention a fluffy tinsel boa).
Watch Yeah Yeah Yeahs Perform New Songs at SXSW
By Laura Snapes on March 14, 2013 at 6:35 a.m. EDT
Last night at SXSW, Yeah Yeah Yeahs appeared at NPR's Stubbs showcase, alongside Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Youth Lagoon, Waxahatchee, and Le1f, among others.
YYYs performed several new songs from their forthcoming album Mosquito (due April 16 via Interscope), including the title track, "Under the Earth", "Subway", and single "Sacrilege". Karen O's "Elvis in Vegas, Bootsy Collins, James Brown, Elton John" look is also on full display, which she recently discussed in an Update interview with Carrie Battan.
Watch good quality footage of their whole set below (albeit with quite tinny sound):
Listen: New Yeah Yeah Yeahs Song: "Sacrilege"
By Evan Minsker on February 25, 2013 at 2:50 p.m. EST
Here's that new Yeah Yeah Yeahs song we were promised. "Sacrilege" is the first song we've heard from the new YYYs album Mosquito, out April 16 on Interscope. It premiered on Zane Lowe's BBC Radio 1 show and features a full gospel choir. Update: It features a 24-piece gospel choir and was produced by David Sitek and Nick Launay.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs to Release New Single on Monday
By Carrie Battan on February 20, 2013 at 4:25 p.m. EST
The resurgent Yeah Yeah Yeahs have announced plans to share the first song from their new album-- the follow-up to 2009's It's Blitz-- on Monday. They'll premiere the new single, "Sacrilege", on Zane Lowe's BBC Radio 1 show at 2:30 PM EST. That up there is the predictably bizarre and borderline-gross single art.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Share Second Mosquito Teaser Previewing New Song "Always"
By Jenn Pelly on February 13, 2013 at 11:40 a.m. EST
Yeah Yeah Yeahs will return this year with a brand new full-length album, Mosquito, out on April 16 through Interscope. (Again, that's the wacky cover art above, in case you have somehow managed to shake the image from your mind.) The band have already shared one video teaser for the record, and have been performing new songs live. Now they've shared yet another teaser clip, directed by KK Barrett, previewing a new track titled "Always".
Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Grizzly Bear to Curate ATP I'll Be Your Mirror in London
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ATP has announced the curators and a handful of bands for their London "I'll Be Your Mirror" events. Yeah Yeah Yeahs will headline and curate on May 4, and Grizzly Bear on May 5. Both events will take place at Alexandra Palace.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Return With New Album, Reveal Totally Bonkers Album Cover
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As promised, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs will release their fourth studio album this spring, following 2009's very good record It's Blitz!. The new one, titled Mosquito, is out on April 16 through Interscope. (And yes, that's an actual mosquito on the cover, which was designed by filmmaker/animator Beomsik Shimbe Shim).
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Jackie Mason Lovechild Sheba Mason's Hilarious Musical on Jackie's ten-year Affair with her Bellydancing Mother; Ian Wehrle as Jackie Mason, Kevin Cusick as Wooley the Schlepalong.
Called "hilarious" (Broadway World) and "engaging" (TheaterMania), The Accidental Pervert is a laugh-out-loud play that tells the awkwardly poignant story of a boy's journey into manhood after discovering his dad's video tapes hidden in a bedroom closet. Andrew subsequently develops an addiction that continues until the age of 26, when he meets his wife to be, and finds himself struggling to find the balance between fantasy and reality.
"The Accidental Pervert Will Arouse Your Socks Off!" - Village Voice
Let acclaimed performer and comedian Andrew Goffman take you on a whirlwind tour of his funny romance with magazines, video, and off-color fantasies while you roll in the aisles. However, it's not all laughs in this layered show, which ends on a touching moment of redemption as he struggles to find true love and perspective through real-life relationships.
• The Accidental Pervert has eclipsed 1000 performances in the legendary Greenwich Village area of New York!
• Award winning run in Buenos Aires, Argentina!
• Winner 2013 BEST COMEDY Award in Panama City, Panama!
• Opening in Zurich, Switzerland and the Island of Malta 2014! 2015 premiers in Kristiansand and Oslo, Norway!
So come have some good dirty fun with The Accidental Pervert! Oh, and leave the little ones home. The show has mature themes and is meant for audience members over 16.
In the parking lot of The Hummingbird, a once-glamorous motel on New Orleans's infamous Airline Highway, a group of friends gather. A rag-tag collection of strippers, hustlers and philosophers have come together to celebrate the iconic burlesque performer Miss Ruby. The party rages through the night as old friends resurface to pay their respects. A world premiere written by Pulitzer Prize finalist Lisa D'Amour (Detroit) and directed by two-time Tony winner Joe Mantello (Casa Valentina, Take Me Out), Airline Highway is a boisterous and moving ode to the outcasts who make life a little more interesting.
Student rush tickets are available at the box office on the day of the show when the box office opens. Tickets are $27, payable by cash or credit card, and are available to students with an ID from a degree or diploma granting institution. Tickets are subject to availability and are limited to two per valid ID.
Playwright Tracey Scott Wilson (The Good Negro, The Story) returns to The Public with Buzzer, a darkly funny, intensely gripping new play The Chicago Tribune calls "a sizzling drama about race, real estate and sexual betrayal."
Jackson left his tough Brooklyn neighborhood by winning a scholarship to Exeter, where he met Don, a play-hard rich boy who became his unlikely best friend. Now a Harvard-educated lawyer, Jackson's bought a place in the newly gentrifying area he grew up in. But Jackson's white girlfriend, Suzy, isn't so sure she belongs in a community "on the verge." When Don comes to crash with his old buddy and stay clean, his stories of the neighborhood's dangerous past collide with the growing disconnect between Jackson and Suzy, and the treacherous sexual and racial tensions waiting just beyond the door and demanding to be let in.
"I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter..."
Prepare to meet Winston Churchill. The former British Prime Minister made his mark in history as a Nobel Prize winner, respected politician, and one of the greatest leaders the world has seen. But in March of 1946, he has just lost an election, is in forced retirement, and everything he has fought for is threatening to slip through his fingers. When he receives an invitation from United States President Harry S. Truman to speak in Fulton, Missouri, he rediscovers his strength in a speech that impacts the world forever. Following a sold-out, critically acclaimed run in Chicago, Ronald Keaton brings Winston Churchill to life in a provocative, heart-warming, and hilarious tour de force performance that reveals the man behind the legend.
Fifteen-year old Christopher has an extraordinary brain; he is exceptionally intelligent but ill-equipped to interpret everyday life. When he falls under suspicion for killing his neighbor's dog, he sets out to identify the true culprit, which leads to an earth-shattering discovery and a journey that will change his life forever.
Set in Dublin in the 1960s, Da is Hugh Leonard's Tony-winning classic memory play. Charlie returns to his childhood home after his father's funeral only to find the stubborn patriarch's ghost unwilling to leave the house. As Charlie rummages through his father's belongings, he surrenders to his own memories, both hilarious and wrenching, as the complexity of his upbringing comes alive before his eyes.
For over 400 years, the Drunk Shakespeare Society has been meeting and drinking. And drinking, and doing Drunk Shakespeare. A self-proclaimed "drinking club with a Shakespeare problem," the membership invites audiences to join them for a meeting in their society lounge. The evening begins with one actor drinking more than a sophisticated amount of alcohol before attempting to lead the cast through a Shakespeare story in sixty minutes. The results are messy, outrageous, and the evening devolves into debauchery.
Uncouth family relations. Malicious infections. Upended Victorian mores. Considered shockingly indecent when it premiered in 1882, Ghosts is given chilling new life in this production, which originated at the Almeida Theatre and was transferred to the West End by Sonia Friedman Productions. Lesley Manville (Grief, National Theatre; Mike Leigh films, including Another Year and Topsy-Turvy) gives an Olivier Award-winning performance leading the cast in director Richard Eyre's (The Crucible, Broadway; The Invention of Love, National Theatre; Carmen and Le Nozze di Figaro, Metropolitan Opera) multi-award-winning adaptation of Ibsen's masterpiece.
Helene Alving has spent her life suspended in an emotional void after the death of her cruel but outwardly charming husband. She is determined to escape the ghosts of her past by telling her son, Oswald, the truth about his father. But on his return from his life as a painter in France, Oswald reveals how he has already inherited the legacy of Alving's dissolute life.
The hilarious and provocative Hand to God centers on shy, inquisitive student Jason, who finds an outlet for his burgeoning creativity at the Christian Puppet Ministry in the devoutly religious, relatively quiet small town of Cypress, Texas. Jason's complicated relationships with the town pastor, the school bully, the girl next door and—most especially—his mother are thrown into further upheaval when Jason's hand puppet Tyrone—once soft-spoken—takes on a shocking and dangerously irreverent personality all its own. As Tyrone's influence over Jason steadily grows, Hand to God explores the startlingly fragile nature of faith, morality, and the ties that bind us.
The Heidi Chronicles is a poignant coming-of-age story charting 19 characters through 13 scenes in 3 decades and 4 cities, as 1 woman and her diverse friends come to realize that the fight for what you believe in can bring you a long way… maybe. Through Heidi Holland, now a successful art historian, Wendy Wasserstein looks back on the promises of a generation in this Tony Award® and Pulitzer Prize winning play that established an exceptionally influential voice in American theater.
In its first Broadway revival, this bold reimagining led by Tony Award winning director Pam MacKinnon (Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), and Golden Globe winner Elisabeth Moss (Mad Men, Top of the Lake) in the title role, also stars Emmy nominee Jason Biggs (Orange is the New Black, American Pie) and Tony nominee Bryce Pinkham (A Gentlemen's Guide to Love and Murder).
Mom found her soul-mate on Facebook, and he lives in Iowa. So Becca says goodbye to her beloved math teacher, bulimic best friend, neighborhood pony and her mildly deficient teenage life, and she follows her wayward mother to a new, uncharted beginning. But in this fanciful, absurdist, and intoxicating musical play from the imagination of Jenny Schwartz and Todd Almond nothing can prepare them for what they'll find.
it's opening night of Peter Austin's (Matthew Broderick) new play as he anxiously awaits to see if his show is a hit. With his career on the line, he shares his big First Night with his best friend, a television star (Martin Short), his fledgling producer (Katie Finneran), his erratic leading lady (Stockard Channing), his wunderkind director (Maulik Pancholy), an infamous drama critic (F. Murray Abraham), and a wide-eyed coat check attendant on his first night in Manhattan (Micah Stock). It's alternately raucous, ridiculous and tender — reminding audiences why there's no business like show business. Thank God!
Lancelot, Guinevere, Merlin and Mark Twain himself come tumbling your way in A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court — Jeffrey Hatcher (Tuesdays with Morrie, Columbo) adapted Mark Twain's satirical tale, directed by Ian Belknap. Wander with Twain as he time travels from the 19th Century to 6th Century England's medieval times through the eyes of Hank Morgan of Hartford, Connecticut who, after a blow to the head, awakens to find himself transported back to the time of legendary King Arthur.
This sleek and accessible production of Shakespeare's Macbeth will thrill, startle and satisfy students and adults alike—the perfect presentation for both first timers as well as Shakespeare buffs, directed by Devin Brain. One of his darkest and most powerful tragedies, Shakespeare dramatizes the psychological and political impact of when evil is chosen to satisfy the ambition for power.
A Queen for a Day is a brand new mob play by practicing lawyer Michael Ricigliano Jr. about the high stakes Mafia world. Set in an abandoned warehouse, Giovanni (David Proval) is a respected "made-man" forced into a difficult position. Torn between love, loyalty and survival, he is asked to give up his crime boss brother as part of a one day immunity deal also known as a "Queen for a Day." Giovanni is faced with the difficult choice of saving himself or keeping the secrets of his family.
Veteran actors of The Sopranos fame, Vincent Pastore, David Proval, and David Deblinger are joined by Portia to undertake this intriguing mob scenario, where we learn that immunity always comes with a price.
Entertainment with benefits! In this new three-character comedy featuring a straight woman, a seductive model, and you-know-who, audiences are welcomed into a fun-filled world of foolproof moves and insider advice that could only be culled from that most insightful of individuals: the gay man. Sex Tips for Straight Women from a Gay Man is based on the international best-selling book of the same title.
A limited number of $35.00 rush tickets will be available on a first come, first serve basis and subject to availability when the box office opens one hour prior to the performance.
On a bitterly cold London evening, schoolteacher Kyra Hollis (Carey Mulligan) receives an unexpected visit from her one-time boss and former lover, Tom Sergeant (Bill Nighy), a successful and charismatic restaurateur. When Tom's wife discovered their relationship, Kyra had walked out – on Tom, and their work together at Tom's restaurant – for a teaching job at a money-starved state school. Now, years later, Tom's wife is dead; burdened with conflicting emotions – guilt, grief, longing – he has returned to settle unfinished business. But Kyra has built a new life for herself as a dedicated teacher for the under-served youth of the East End, and Tom's arrival knocks her out of her carefully constructed equanimity. As the evening progresses, the two attempt to rekindle their once passionate relationship, only to find themselves locked in a dangerous battle of opposing ideologies and mutual desires.
Soldier X follows a young African American social worker, Monica, who falls for a returning veteran, Jay, and the subsequent love triangle that ensues when he decides he is in love with his fallen comrade's Muslim sister. The play tallies the emotional scars inflicted on our young men and women returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan. How exactly do you rejoin a society that remains as conflicted about its wars as it is with issues of race and gender?
What if Romeo and Juliet were brother and sister? Find out in this daring and provocative thriller. This heart-pounding tale of love, lust and hypocrisy is a deliciously perverse romantic tragedy. Siblings Annabella and Giovanni fall into an incestuous affair with a brutal velocity that sets Renaissance Parma aflame with its passionate force. Defiant in their desires to the bloody end, these lovers take "star-crossed" into a whole new galaxy.
This crown jewel of Jacobean drama has scandalized and enthralled audiences for four centuries with its singular journey through the fires of desire. In its first major Off-Broadway production in 20 years, this rollicking ride will have your moral compass spinning wildly.
It's 1992. Hank is struggling to keep his legendary rock club going amid changing times and changing tastes. When his beloved daughter, Lena, starts dating a rising star DJ, Hank must contend with the destructive power of the next big thing.