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By LESLIE STIFELMAN
The "greatest hit" of 20th century popular music was not the creation of Michael Jackson, the Bee Gees or even the Beatles. Anyone with a sense of history will realize that the once-ubiquitous dance tune called the "Charleston" fueled a craze that has never been matched. The creator of this one-tune soundtrack to the roaring twenties was a man named James P. Johnson. Johnson was no mere tunesmith but rather a creative genius who gave birth to a keyboard-bending genre known as "stride piano." But Johnson's story didn't end there. Later in his career, he created full-scale symphonic works of jazz, the first orchestral pieces created by an African-American. But this achievement did not bring Johnson lasting fame, partially because he hid the scores to these compositions, and until recently they had been neither seen nor performed since the 1940s.
In February, 1992, Manhattan's Concordia Chamber Symphony made history by performing several of these works for the first time in nearly 50 years. Last summer, Concordia released a compact disk of James P. Johnson's symphonic works, "Victory Stride," a recording that sounds like a time capsule from the genesis of the Big Band era. Conductor Marin Alsop's unmatched prowess in the production of string jazz brings Johnson's music to life, but on the other side of the podium is an even more exciting story. The concert and the compact disk, both milestones of American musical history, would never have happened without the extraordinary efforts of Concordia's pianist, Leslie Stifleman. In the program of the 1992 concert, she told the story of her musical treasure hunt, one of the most intriguing and rewarding research experiences that any scholar could hope to undertake. The following is a reprint of Sifleman's personal account, prepared for the February 21st, 1992 concert in Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall.
|ASK anyone who invented the light bulb and you will almost certainly get the right answer: Thomas Edison. Ask the same person which one tune best embodies the spirit of the Roaring Twenties and you will also likely get the right answer, the "Charleston." But if you ask them who wrote the "Charleston," you will probably get a blank stare or a wild guess such as Al Jolson, Irving Berlin or George Gershwin.
|Surprisingly, a man named James P. Johnson composed the "Charleston," a piece that changed the course of American musical history. The Roaring Twenties, the Jazz Age, the Harlem Renaissance and the Golden Age of Broadway were all enriched by Johnson's contributions. Yet how is it that so few know this seminal figure in American music? Why did his legacy fall through the cracks into obscurity?
|Johnson's fate is not inexplicable, given the various biographical data printed about him. In various references, James Price Johnson's birth date is listed as February 1, 1891, 1894 or 1897. (The correct date is 1894.) To the readers of the Amsterdam News in the 1920s he was known as James P. Johnson, James Johnson, Jimmy Johnson, Jimmie Johnson and James J. Johnson. He is frequently confused with other noted artists of the time, including musician/statesman James Weldon Johnson, pianist/composer J.C. Johnson, composer James Rosamund Johnson and blues/boogie-woogie pianist Pete Johnson. Even his death is contested: May 5, 1954 (Downbeat Magazine) and November 17, 1955 (Queens General hospital). The carelessness in these biographical tidbits is indicative of the treatment given to the life and career of a musician whose extensive contributions to American music should have earned him instead the greatest popular and critical acclaim.
|To those who knew him best, James P. Johnson was the "Father of Stride Piano." In the legendary cutting contests of the 1920s and 30swhere popular piano players would compete against each other with increasingly difficult and dazzling compositionsJohnson was king. All the jazz greats of the time, including Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Fats Waller and Art Tatum, regarded him as their musical father. And with good reasonfor when James P. came to play, everyone stepped aside; his playing was unparalleled. He taught all of these men the basics of the stride style, and indeed much of his influence is heard in their great accomplishments. But his inspirations was felt not only among great pianists. Johnson was the favorite accompanist of vocalists Bessie Smith and Ethel Waters. The recordings he made with them are classics; he so complimented their vocal styles with his own unique voice that he was not merely an accompanist, but an equal partner.
|But even all this musical activity did not satisfy Johnson. His greatest wish was to compose works for the symphony orchestra, which he did with characteristic inventiveness. In daring to combine the most vital elements of jazz and classical music, Johnson created a form that expressed the African-American experience. Most importantly, as jazz scholar Rudi Blesh has said, Johnson demonstrated that symphonies can be hot.
|The name of James P. Johnson was first brought to my attention in 1986 while I was researching music for Concordia's third season at Lincoln Center. (In addition to performing as the orchestra's pianist, I help seek repertoire which exemplifies Concordia's mission of restoring and presenting American music, especially works influenced by jazz.) While rummaging through conductor Marin Alsop's closet, I came upon a recording of the noted pianist/composer William Albright playing solo piano renditions of Johnson's orchestral music. The record's liner notes referred to the many performances, four decades earlier, of the orchestral versions of these works, and reported that some of Johnson's other compositions, including symphonies, concertos, tone poems, and operas, had been performed in the early 1940s throughout the world. I was ecstatic that I had stumbled upon this information, but at the same time I was completely baffled. For here was a composer working contemporaneously to George Gershwinwho wrote works that paralleled "Rhapsody in Blue" and "An American in Paris," and was heralded by all as one of the greatest jazz pianists of the centuryand almost no one had ever heard of him. (I later found out that Gershwin and Johnson not only knew each other, but made recordings at the same time at the Aeolian Company and had collaborated in England on a show called "Plantation Days.")
|To tell the truth, I thought that it would be a simple matter to find Johnson's musicI'd only need to make a few phone calls to some libraries and publishing companies. Little did I know that it would take me five years of extensive research to put the pieces of this puzzle back together again.
|My initial excitement about James P. Johnson was soon diminished to frustration, for there was no information available on him except for a few scattered references in jazz history books and in the biographies of other artists. After weeks of running into brick walls, I luckily found the historian Dan Morgenstern, Director of the Rutgers Institute of Jazz Studies. Dan put me in touch with Scott Brown, the author of the only full-length biography on Johnson, James P. JohnsonA Case of Mistaken Identity. I am not a strong believer in fate, but by some strange coincidence Scott's book, which had been published the same month I began my research, had just become available to the public. Together, Scott and I became musical sleuths, and from then on, my enthusiasm never waned. Somehow I knew that we would eventually unravel this mystery.
|The research that Scott had done for his book was so extensive that I was able to get back to the hunt for Johnson's musical scores with an array of new ammunition. I searched for them at all the presenting organizations that had performed Johnson's orchestral music, including such unlikely places as Long Island University, the Heckscher Foundation, Carnegie Hall and even the Ladies Garment Workers Union. (I had the rather interesting experience of going through their basement in search of the missing scores.) But again, after countless hours of phone calls, attempts to contact principal participants from the original performances and additional searches through some of the country's largest research libraries, I came to another dead end.
|Scott and I were down to our last possible lead. We were both aware of a persistent rumor that Arceola Glover, James P. Johnson's daughter, had kept a trunk full of his manuscripts. Many musicians had previously approached the family for access to this music, but all of their attempts were unsuccessful (including those of Scott while working on his book). But soon after Scott's book was published, he hand delivered a copy to Arceola and her son Barry. He told them of Concordia's desire to recreate the 1945 Carnegie Hall tribute to Johnson's orchestral music, and organized a meeting between the Johnson family, Marin Alsop and myself. The family was very moved by our commitment; in the forty years since his death, they had never seen so much time and effort being put toward the revival and dissemination of Johnson's musical legacy. A great bond of trust was solidified on that first visit, and soon afterward they invited us to see their father's music. What a treasure they revealedthe full scores to "Harlem Symphony," a symphonic poem entitled "Drums," the first movement of the "American Symphonic Suite," a piano concerto entitled Jassamine, and an orchestrated version of his song "Victory Stride." And all of these works were thought to be lost!
|My initial elation was ultimately tempered, however, by the fact that the most elusive, and perhaps the most important, item in Johnson's catalogue could not be completely recovered; "De Organizer," a one-act opera on which Johnson had collaborated with the legendary poet Langston Hughes in the late 1930s. Although this work had been performed twice with full symphony orchestra, soloists and chorus, the only surviving materials were several sketches and lead sheets for two arias. We even found evidence of many other collaborations between the two men, but no additional music. What a team they must have madetwo giants of the Harlem Renaissance working together to create a new operatic form! While I was disappointed that we would not be able to revive their entire body of compositions, I was nevertheless extremely grateful to have at least verified their historically significant work.
|A new chapter can now be written about the life and music of James P. Johnson. With the help of conductors like Marin Alsop, new generations will be able to hear his works and appreciate them in a whole new way. Concordia will also have the privilege of making the first recording of these works to ensure that they will never again vanish from America's musical repertoire.
|I'm still troubled by the nagging question: Why did it take so long for Americans to appreciate this great man's legacy. There are no simple explanations. Throughout the twentieth century composers have had to rely on the musical society that they work within to nurture their careers. Many of their compositions, as William Albright said to me recently, "dare to break down social and musical barriers, even at the risk of failure. Without the encouragement and positive feedback from the establishment, Johnson, like Scott Joplin before him, would not have been able to achieve everything that he desired, including recognition." Composers, no matter how great, need champions for their music to survive; Gershwin had Paul Whiteman, Copland had Koussevitsky and later Bernstein. Tragically, James P. Johnson had no one. From what I know of Johnson as a man he would not have been bitter. The concert that we present here tonight is a dream come true for all who knew him. For those who are just hearing of him for the first time, I guarantee you'll never hear the "Charleston" the same way again.


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If you're purchasing the PlayStation 4 this holiday season and are into first-person shooters, chances are you'll be eyeing Guerrilla Games' latest installment in the Killzone franchise: Shadow Fall. But while those shiny new graphics will catch most people's eyes, I'm more concerned with how the game plays. »

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State Rep. John Taylor's office is pursuing legal remedies to get two abandoned and unsanitary homes in Port Richmond cleaned and sealed, with some results.
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You voted, we listened. Here are the 2013 winners of the Best of the River Wards, Part I. Click through the photos below to see snapshots of each winner. See Part II for the rest of the winners.
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The Republican candidates for district attorney and city controller were at the party's annual clambake Sunday at Cannstatter's, arguing that the GOP needs to fight harder against the entrenched Democratic machine.
Danny Alvarez, the Republican candidate for district attorney, is challenging incumbent Democratic D.A. Seth Williams to a series of debates.
Marjorie Margolies, a Democratic candidate in next year's 13th Congressional District race, last week released a video on the 20th anniversary of her vote for President Bill Clinton's economic plan.
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The Windsor Residence for Young Men has received a $4,800 donation to help provide at-risk men with food, shelter and other necessities.
WRYM celebrates second birthday
Thank you, Home Depot, for your efforts
Opening of residence for homeless coincides with decline in crime rate
On October 22, 2012, the Windsor Residence for Young Men opened its doors. Previously there was no residential facility in the Windsor- Essex community dedicated to the needs of our homeless young men, 16-24 years of age. Consequently, I cannot but wonder if the dramatic decline in youth crime over the last year, 2013, is more than coincidental with our first year of operation.
Economic strides made to pull out of recession but at what cost?
Thank you for support to meet residents' needs
The Windsor Residence for Young Men would like to acknowledge the generosity of Windsor Lawyers Feed the Hungry, who, through the Law Society Foundation, have provided $12,000 to help meet our residents' needs for fresh food such as meat, dairy products, eggs, produce not locally available and such, necessary for a healthy diet needed to achieve success in school and ensure they are ready for employment.
Windsor commercial wins national award
Windsor Residence for Young Men celebrates anniversary
Windsor's home for homeless youth looking for clients
Rules must be followed when charities ask for funding from City Council
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The Structuralist
A biography explores Claude Lévi-Strauss' fascination with what makes cultures tick
In Claude Lévi-Strauss: The Poet in the Laboratory (Penguin Press, $29.95), Patrick Wilcken has written the biography not just of a man, but of an intoxicating intellectual moment. This was the moment of structuralism, a new way of thinking about human culture that emerged in France in the 1950s and enjoyed a worldwide vogue. The literary critic Roland Barthes, the cultural historian Michel Foucault, the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan—all were structuralists of one sort or another, and all declared their indebtedness to Claude Lévi-Strauss, the founder of "structural anthropology." Half a century later, all these names are still by-words for strenuous difficulty and theoretical sophistication; though they are classics by now, they retain the acrid perfume of the avant-garde. When people express contempt or dismay about "French theory," it is usually the structuralists they have in mind.
It is a wonderful irony, then, that this most cutting-edge and Parisian of movements can be traced to a moment of epiphany in a primitive Indian village in western Brazil. In 1936, Lévi-Strauss and his wife Dina led an anthropological expedition to study the indigenous peoples of this region, at that time barely accessible from the big cities of Brazil's Atlantic coast. One of the tribes they visited was the Bororo, and though Lévi-Strauss spent just three weeks with them, Bororo culture and myth would lie at the heart of his work for the next 60 years.
What fascinated Lévi-Strauss was not the picturesque elements of Bororo life—what Wilcken calls "the fetishized objects of the Western imagination: penis sheaths, multicolored headdresses, nose feathers, lip ornaments and body paint." Rather, he became obsessed with the way the Bororo village was laid out. By diagramming the location of the huts, Lévi-Strauss came to realize that they reflected the intricate social hierarchy of the tribe. As Wilcken summarizes:
An invisible north-south axis divided the village into moieties (that is, two intermarrying descent groups); within the moieties were clans, and within the clans, a tripartite system of castelike grades. Marriage was permitted only between moieties and within grades, with a procession of men, once married, crossing the yard to live on the other side—their in-laws' huts. The village circle was then quartered by an east-west axis running parallel to the river, the upstreamers organizing the downstreamers' funerals, and vice versa.
This elaborate organization, which Lévi-Strauss compared to a ballet, turned physical space into a map of social space, governing the lives and deaths of the Bororo. And it had evolved gradually, unselfconsiously, without the use of written language.
To Lévi-Strauss, this vision of culture as the product of hidden structures was immensely seductive. The Bororo, he said in a late interview, were "the great theoreticians of structuralism." But it took a French academic mandarin like Lévi-Strauss to turn structuralism into a worldview, and even into a fad. (At the height of his fame, in 1970, Lévi-Strauss was photographed for Vogue by Irving Penn.) In a series of influential works, Lévi-Strauss proposed that incest taboos, kinship rules, culinary practices, and primitive myths—in all their bizarre, seemingly unnecessary complexity—could be similarly explained as the permutations of a few basic rules or structures. So, Barthes proposed in his famous study S/Z, could the European novel; so, Lacan wrote, could the unconscious itself.
Lévi-Strauss' theoretical works were far too abstruse to reach a wide audience. Even fellow anthropologists were daunted, and skeptical, when Lévi-Strauss claimed to be able to reduce all myths to a mathematical formula—Fx(a): Fy(b)=Fx(b): Fa-1(y), if you're keeping score at home. But he reached a broad audience with his 1955 book Tristes Tropiques, a memoir of his Brazilian fieldwork that stringently dispels the romantic myths of anthropological fieldwork. "Travel and travelers are two things I loathe," the book begins, and Wilcken shows that Lévi-Strauss really meant it: After his Brazilian sojourn in the 1930s, he did little fieldwork, and even in Brazil his research was often hasty and haphazard. Wilcken's subtitle is "The Poet in the Laboratory," not the poet in the jungle or the desert, and most of Lévi-Strauss' career was spent in the well-equipped, well-financed institutions of French academia.
Lévi-Strauss was, in fact, a creature of Paris, a species of master-thinker that could flourish nowhere else. He was born in Paris in 1908, to a Jewish family originally from Alsace—no relation to the jeans manufacturer, though he never escaped jokes and questions about it—and his childhood showed all the contradictions of the assimilated French Jewish bourgeoisie. His great-grandfather Isaac Strauss was a celebrated musician who worked with Berlioz and Offenbach and used his fortune to amass a collection of Judaica. His maternal grandfather was a rabbi, and when World War I broke out the 6-year-old Claude was sent to live with him in Versailles. Yet in Tristes Tropiques, he explains that Judaism remained foreign to him:
[My grandfather's] house stood next to the synagogue and was linked to it by a long inner corridor. Even to set foot in that corridor was an awesome experience; it formed an impassable frontier between the profane world and that other world from which was lacking precisely that human warmth which was the indispensable condition to my recognizing it as sacred. Except at the hours of service the synagogue was empty; desolation seemed natural to it, and its brief spells of occupation were neither sustained enough nor fervent enough to overcome this. They seemed merely an incongruous disturbance.
It is tempting to wonder whether this estrangement from Judaism played a role in Lévi-Strauss' search for the sacred in primitive cultures. Did his liminal position as a Jew—both inside and outside of French society—make him particularly suited to the role of sociologist, one who both inhabits a culture and stands outside of it at the same time? It is certainly suggestive that the masters of French sociology—Emile Durkheim, Marcel Mauss, and Lévi-Strauss—were all Jewish.
Yet Lévi-Strauss was sufficiently detached from Jewish concerns that, in the 1930s, he had little sense of the threat posed by Hitler. In 1935, Lévi-Strauss was one of a group of young French academics offered jobs at the newly founded University of Sao Paulo, and he spent the next four years mainly in Brazil. When he returned to France in 1939, it was just in time to be drafted into the French Army; his limited English was good enough to qualify him as a liaison officer, working with the British Army in northern France. When the German invasion led to the disintegration of his unit, he made his way south to the unoccupied zone, where his parents had also retreated.
Then, amazingly, in September 1940, Lévi-Strauss asked to be allowed to return to his old teaching job in Paris—that is, to go back to the Nazi-occupied zone. "Fortunately for Lévi-Strauss," Wilcken writes, "the official dealing with the request … refused to send anyone with such an obviously Jewish name back into occupied France." Asked about this episode in the 1980s, he blamed his own "lack of imagination" about the real danger of Nazism. Soon enough he began to realize his true position: When the Vichy government fired all Jewish professors, Lévi-Strauss "felt myself to be potential fodder for the concentration camp."
He was rescued, like so many other European Jewish intellectuals, by an invitation to teach at the New School for Social Research, in New York. In fact, the war years turned out to be a sort of idyll for Lévi-Strauss: He enjoyed living in the Village, socializing with avant-garde artists like Max Ernst, and doing research at the Museum of Natural History and the New York Public Library. Crucially, it was in New York that he met another Jewish refugee, the linguist Roman Jakobson, who gave him his first exposure to structuralist ideas. When the war ended, Lévi-Strauss was appointed by the new Gaullist government as cultural attaché, charged with escorting French luminaries on visits to New York. By the time he returned to France, in 1948, he had already drafted his first major work, The Elementary Structures of Kinship.
From this point on, Wilcken's biography has less to say about Lévi-Strauss' life, which became quietly professorial, than about his work. Strikingly, even as he was becoming the world's most famous anthropologist, Lévi-Strauss showed no appetite for further fieldwork. To write his magnum opus, the four-volume study Mythologies, he devoured thousands of books on native myth and sent out his own researchers to interview distant tribes. But he himself preferred to stay home in Paris, pondering and writing. "I try to be the place through which the myths pass," he explained, in the quasi-mystical tone that made him such a charismatic teacher.
To one student who attended Lévi-Strauss' seminars at the Collège de France, "He was the king who opened the door; the moment it seemed the philosophers' stone had been found, he shut the door again and took up another subject." All such kings of thought are eventually deposed, and Lévi-Strauss lived long enough to see his own glamour fade—he died only last year, at the age of 100. But Patrick Wilcken's skillful, highly intelligent biography allows us to understand all that Lévi-Strauss meant, as well as who he was.
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Can you believe it's been almost FIVE YEARS since the first National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS) was released in July 2010?
Today, Positive Womens Network -- USA (PWN-USA), a national membership body of women with HIV, is proud to announce the release of a new model for bringing trauma awareness and healing into primary healthcare settings. The conceptual framework, developed in partnership with University of California -- San Francisco (UCSF) clinician-researchers, provides a practical guide to help providers incorporate trauma-informed care into clinical practice.
The next National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS) must include factors vital to the survival and well-being of women living with HIV, according to Positive Women's Network - USA (PWN-USA), a national membership organization representing women living with HIV.
Today I write this with a heavy heart.
When I was diagnosed HIV positive in March of 2013 I very quickly learned how little services there are available to HIV-positive women. The nice woman at Planned Parenthood had very little information for me but she did hand me a short list of organizations in San Diego that provide services to HIV-positive people. There was only one place on that list that catered to women, that place was Christie's Place.
Oakland, Calif. -- Today, during Domestic Violence Awareness Month, we congratulate the White House Office of National AIDS Policy on today's release of Updates on Efforts to Address the Intersections of HIV/AIDS, Violence against Women and Girls, and Gender-Related Health Disparities.
Positive Women's Network - USA is hosting our first-ever National Leadership Summit for Women Living With HIV, this Fall! SPEAK UP! A National Leadership Summit for Women Living with HIV will be held September 17-19, 2014 in Fort Walton Beach, Fl. The Summit is designed to provide 200 women living with HIV with a learning and networking experience which supports their ability to advocate for themselves, their families, the communities in which they reside and within the larger community of women living with HIV across the United States.
Oakland, Calif. -- Today marks the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and the beginning of 16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence. Around the world, women and girls experience a wide range of violations to their dignity and safety including sexual violence, child abuse, trafficking, and intimate partner violence.
We're gearing up for World AIDS Day 2013 (#WAD2013) and have created a series of videos produced by PWNers. We hope you can use these as tools and resources to educate your community about issues related to women and HIV.
In many ways sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) is the narrative to women's lives; it encompasses puberty and sexual development, identity, body image, self-esteem, romantic and sexual desires, relationships, reproductive health, fertility desires, and life during and after menopause.
New Orleans, La. -- Today, the Interagency Federal Working Group on the Intersection of HIV/AIDS, Violence against Women and Girls, and Gender-Related Health Disparities released an important set of federal policy recommendations to address the health and rights of women living with HIV, especially women affected by violence.
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November 5 through November 25
Leevers stuff-a-truck is a community-wide effort to collect much needed non-perishable food items for the local food bank. Leevers is teaming up with local organizations to raise as much food as it can during this important time of the year. Drop off your donations before Nov. 25 to help restock the Barnes County Food Pantry.
Friday, November 16
Full Nelson Karaoke, 8:30 p.m. to midnight in the Valley City American Legion Club rooms. Also at the same time on Dec. 14. Must be 21 or older to attend. The event supports Legion Baseball.
Out on the prairie my Husband and me.
Are stuck in a our cabin with a very urgent plea.
We have no place to go –not family at least.
To sit and enjoy a good turkey feast.
Now truth be told we're really quite quirky.
So you shant put it past us that we'd eat something other than turkey.
Pizza Dave makes a frozen pepperoni to boast.
And it's not beyond me to just eat some garlic toast.
My burly husband deserves something much more inviting.
We wish a church was serving food-it would be well worth the tithing.
Those church ladies can cook this is for certain.
Those looking to score discounts and deals for holiday shopping have plenty of options as retailers across the nation open earlier and have bigger sales on Black Friday, the notorious Friday after Thanksgiving. But scoring deals on what is deemed the biggest shopping day of the year often requires camping out and rising before the sun.
The Valley City Public Schools school board discussed how special education services are paid and how the costs could be shared more equitably among a group of schools that share special education services at its regular meeting on Tuesday.
Currently, special education services, including services for blind and hearing impaired, are provided by the Sheyenne Valley Special Education Unit. VCPS partners with five other school districts; Oakes, Maple Valley, North Central/Wimbledon/Spiritwood, Hope and Page, to provide special education services.
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By Scott Schlaufman
As a fan who once sat in the seats of arenas in North Carolina watching wrestlers such as Ric Flair, Sting, Magnum T.A. and tag teams like the Rock 'n' Roll Express, "The Fallen Angel" Christopher Daniels knows the value of a live event.
"Those matches for me, that's what made me love wrestling so much, is watching these guys live and in color, do their thing," Daniels, a wrestler for Nashville-based Total Nonstop Action Wrestling said by phone Tuesday.
Throughout the years, professional wrestling has seen its share of face paint, whether on icons such as Sting, the Ultimate Warrior, or even the legendary Legion of Doom tag team.
But nobody in the business has taken it to the level that former WWE World Heavyweight and current Total Nonstop Action World Heavyweight Champion Jeff Hardy has.
Every night before he gets in the TNA ring, Hardy, 35, uses his face to create his latest artistic creation, giving each audience a look to remember him by.
For the first 20 minutes of the Valley City State University women's basketball team's game with St. Cloud State Wednesday at W.E. Osmon Field house, the Vikings struggled at times against a tough Huskie defense, but never let the game get out of hand, even mounting a story run to keep it close at halftime in the 70-45 loss.
But in the second half of the exhibition for the Vikings, which has no effect on the team's win-loss record, the pressure finally got to them.
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Band and Choir students from area high schools gathered for the Barnes County Music Festival. After working together for a day, the students combined for band and choir concerts.
The DECA store at Valley City High School is the place to purchase everything Hi-Liner including clothing, outerwear, and accessories.
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Planning a few days at home with the kids during the holidays? Whether they're crafty, competitive or adventurous, one of these activities is guaranteed to keep them occupied and even put a big smile on their faces.
1. Make Easter ice lollies
Need to tempt your kids away from chocolate? Making ice lollies could be a great way to get some vitamins back into their diets, and they'll love making them, too.
Plenty of fruits like melon, kiwi and pineapple can be blended, mixed with a little lime juice or honey to sweeten, and frozen to make ice lollies, so get experimenting!
To give your lollies an Easter themed twist, pick up Dot Com Gift Shop 's cute rabbit ice lolly makers.
2. Host an Easter egg hunt
A guaranteed way to keep the kids entertained this Easter? Organise an egg hunt.
What you'll need: Some chocolate eggs of various sizes, as well as some baskets, prompts and pointers to direct your little Easter bunnies towards their prizes. Try Lilac Coast's cute kit for a ready-made solution, or you could make your own.
Simply hide your eggs (including one special grand prize) around the house or garden and add in signs to help the kids find them. Gather the children, set them a start point and let the fun commence.
3. Bake Easter cakes
Little ones love getting messy in the kitchen, especially with the added novelty of making some themed treats. Use your favourite cupcake recipe and let the kids decorate them with some cute seasonal critters and cases like the forest themed ones from Dot Com Gift Shop.
You could even add some Easter chocolate to the mix or use them to decorate your cakes (if there's any left, that is).
4. Kiddy car wash
You probably hate washing the car, but what with the potential to get soaked playing with water, the kids will love it (as long as the weather is reasonably warm).
Arm each kid with bucket filled with some warm soapy suds and a sponge, and get dad to stay on hand with the hose. Meanwhile, you can kick back with a cup of tea.
If your children are very young then they could join in by washing their trike or bike.
5. Sports day
There's nothing like a little healthy competition to get the blood pumping, so why not host a family sports day this Easter? Best of all, it'll tire the kids out so you can send them off early to bed and enjoy some quiet time!
You can do traditional races like the egg and spoon, sack race, three-legged and wheelbarrow with things you have lying round the house. Don't forget to grab a chalk board to keep scores.
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If the weather gets the better of your plans then a board game night will make an equally fun alternative to an outdoor sports day.
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Top tip: Stay clear of long or overly competitive games which could cause the kids to get bored or start a spat. Team games are great for keeping things fair in families with kids of varying ages.
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There are signs that culinary circles are finally inching toward regarding African American heritage cooking, and variations on that theme, as cuisine. (American cuisine as distinct from European is itself a very young idea.) Chef Joe Randall, a 30-year vet of the culinary industry and the author of A Taste of Heritage: The New African American Cuisine, published this year, points to Paul Prudhomme's championing of the creole cuisine of Louisiana in the late '80s as paving the way for this acceptance.
The opening up of the culinary gates is no doubt due in large part to the media attention given to chefs like the late Patrick Clark of Odeon and Tavern on the Green, known for his French- and Southern-accented cuisine. Food & Wine's current issue has a piece on the growing reputation of black chefs outside the oeuvre of Southern cooking and describes their creations as "culinary patois" that jumble "conventional notions of ethnicity and food." An equal contribution, I'd wage, is being made by black culinary scholars and cookbook authors who are also challenging segregated notions of what is American and African American cuisine in their work, and investigating West African and Afro-Caribbean retentions as well. One of these is Harris, whose five books catalogue diaspora culinary traditions from Ghana to Mississippi.
Just what is soul food? is a tangled, well-trod debate not worth revisiting in detail here. Though suffice it to say, it is as much the food as it is the ritual of sharing the food. It is "survival food," born in slavery, says Harris. As Melba Woods told Gael Greene, "Masters gave us only the food no one wanted, hog's ears and intestines and the bittersweet greens, and we made it good to eat." And cooking soul food suggests an almost mystical ability to translate one's soul, one's essence to the plate, and presumes more channeling than skill. Soit's not surprising that contemporary black chefs have almost nothing good to say about the moniker.
Norma Jean Darden, caterer, restaurateur, and coauthor of the influential memoir-cookbook Spoonbread and Strawberry Wine (which never once uses the term soul food, though it includes recipes for chitlins and fried chicken) says it implies an ease of preparation and a simplicity of ingredients that just isn't the case. Cafe Beulah's Alexander Smalls regards it as an unfortunate carryover from the Black Powerera that has outlived its usefulness and now only serves to box in chefs and establish a code for black-owned restaurants.
Randall, of an earlier generation, isn't ready to discard it. "Trying to disassociate from soul food is like trying to be a black person and jump out of your skin," he says. "Soul food may have a negative connotation [as unhealthy food laden with fat and salt], but we have to take the term and market it to our advantage. After all, whites are cooking our food and making good money selling it back to us." He mentions chains throughout the South such as Cracker Barrel and our favorite in the Northeast, Boston Market.
If the interest in soul culture and soul food represents anything right now, it's recouping black pleasure in an era increasingly hostile to black people. (Would the Hennessy-Harvard Club fireside chat have drawn the same crowd if it were about affirmative action?) Our visibility in the cultural mirror despite our growing political disenfranchisement is another troubling reminder that comes with the popularity of nouvelle soul. Back in the kitchen, again, but not yet in the boardroom.
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Coordinates: 55°57′31.8″N 3°7′20.3″W / 55.958833°N 3.122306°W The Edinburgh Marine Gardens was a pleasure garden located on the shores of the Firth of Forth at Portobello in Edinburgh, Scotland. Opened in 1909, its attractions initially included a ballroom, circus and zoo, cinema and theatre, scenic railway, ornamental gardens and maze and a sports stadium.[1]
The Marine Gardens was closed down and taken over for military use during the First World War, leading to many of the attractions being permanently removed. The ballroom and stadium were among those which were retained; during the inter-war period, the latter staged speedway and was the home of Leith Athletic F.C. from 1928 to 1936. The area was once again required for military purposes during the Second World War, leading to the final closure of the complex. Since 1962, the location of the Marine Gardens has been occupied by a bus depot.[1]
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