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GRAPEVINE - A pastor took the stage Sunday in Grapevine to give a much-anticipated and controversial sermon called the "Seven Days of Sex."
The sermon, which is part of a series called "Leaving Lust Vegas," challenged married couples to have sex for seven days straight.
"Doing the 'sexperiment' will take your marriage to a whole other level," said Pastor Ed Young, while giving the sermon at the Fellowship Church in Grapevine.
Young preached that coming together as one in marriage is God's way of increasing intimacy and decreasing the odds of divorce.
"If you are hearing 'no' regularly when one is in the mood and one isn't - if you are hearing 'no' regularly- something is wrong in your marriage," he said.
It's a sermon that has caught national attention, including Good Morning America and CNN. It's a message some church members said needs to be heard.
"This is where it needs to be talked about, in the church," said Craig West, a church member.
"It's a responsibility not only to God but to our marriages to be doing this," said Stacey West, Craig's wife. "As a woman, I didn't realize the needs of my spouse."
Young told the congregation to get past everyday roadblocks - such as kids, work and being tired - that could be placed around the marital bed.


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It's the day before thanksgiving.
"It's the busiest travel day of the year.
That's AAA East Penn's Theresa Podguski
"We have 43.4 million Americans that will be traveling 50 miles or more during this Thanksgiving Holiday and 37 percent of them plan to travel today(Wednesday)
Podguski says, fewer people will be sky bound this year.
"About 410,000 people will use the airlines, that's down about 5.8 percent."
Podguski, a guest on the AM Edition Wednesday morning says,
statistics show most people will return home Sunday.
Governor Tom Corbett was in West Norriton Monday to ceremonially sign the 2.3-billion dollar transportation bill approved by the legislature earlier this month. He praised the state lawmakers on both sides of the aisle that supported the measure. The new law will raise money for highway and bridge repair by raising the cost of a drivers license as well as an automobile registration card. It will also gradually increase the gas tax over the next five years. Corbett held his press conference near the construction site of a new on ramp onto Route 422.
Governor Corbett signed the Transportation Funding Bill today. A portion of the 2.3 billion dollars bill will help Montgomery and Bucks Counties
"15 million dollars in the Sellersville bypass. Almost 17 million dollars and an extension down in Lower Bucks County at Bristol Road.
That's Lt. Governor Jim Cawley, who says 127 million is earmarked for improving Route 202 in Montgomery County. Governor Corbett, PennDOT Secretary Barry Schoch and Montgomery County Commissioner Chairman, Josh Shapiro were in Norristown today discussing aspects of the funding.
Residents in Perkasie Borough can hold on to more of their income after Perkasie Borough Council passes its 2014 budget with no tax increase. Perkasie also has a budget slush fund of more than 176-thousand dollars. Council President, Jim Purcell is also eyeing the electric rate with the possibility of trying to lowering what residents pay for the utility per month. Raises were also worked in to the preliminary budget with administrators getting a 2 percent increase, while public works and electric company workers with representation will see pay increases of 3.5 and 3.75 percent. Perkasie Borough will also offer employees who choose not to take part in the family insurance plan, a flat rate of 25-hundred dollars. Employees who are single would receive 1,000. Perkasie Borough will vote on the budget during its December 16th meeting.
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Western Digital SiliconEdge Blue 256GB Solid State Drive - Specifications, Pricing and AvailabilityOld school mentality meets new technology. At least the new WD SSD has a great name.
Specifications, Pricing and Availability
Judging from the specifications, WD is ready to take on the SSD market like a HDD manufacturer. Here we see a lot of information presented in typical fashion, for traditional platter drives. Just like Seagate and their presentation of the Pulsar, we see nothing about the controller type, number of channels, ONFI rating for the flash or really anything that tells us how the SiliconEdge is going to perform in the real world. We do know that the new SiliconEdge supports Windows 7 TRIM, Native Command Queuing and SMART. No word on an internal garbage collection mechanism yet.
Reading between the lines, we can see that Western Digital has one of the very best names for their SSD line, SiliconEdge. That's right up there for SSD Name of the Year, but it is going to have to compete with Patriot's SandForce 1200 controlled Inferno that will ship with a red enclosure. The shock rating of the new SiliconEdge Blue is higher than most SSDs we have looked at in recent months. As with all SSDs, the power draw is much less than their platter based cousins. WD is supporting the new Blue with a three year warranty. The last obvious part from the information provided by Western Digital is found right in the name.
For years the company has used a naming scheme that reflects where the drive stands performance wise in their product line up. For those concerned about power consumption and other environmental matters, the Green Series was made to satisfy your needs. In the middle is the Blue Series, generally a collection of mainstream products that satisfy users looking for a nice balanced mix between capacity and performance. The enthusiast level products are found in the Black Series, an area that Western Digital has been very successful in for quite some time. That leaves our SiliconEdge drive that we are looking at today right in the middle since it comes with the Blue name. It also has us really excited to think what WD might have in the works for their SiliconEdge Black Series!
Moving beyond the name and the information provided, we found that the SiliconEdge Blue has a controller that is labeled by WD as a WD chip. We have been told by the company that they co-developed the firmware and that the drive has successfully completed over 250,000 hours in their Functional Integrity Testing (FIT) lab. That is over 1000 days of testing. I really hope they didn't do that with just one drive. Even with 100 drives that is still over 100 days of testing.
On the inside of the drive we found a massive DDR II 512MB buffer chip from ESMT. Just a few weeks ago we were surprised to see a 256MB buffer on the Crucial RealSSD C300. On its own this leads us to believe that the SiliconEdge Blue needs quite a bit of assistance buffering data being written to the drive or a tracking system that isn't very efficient. That is all right though, we are about real world performance and not all of the tech that goes into making the magic happen, as long as it works.
The press release for the SiliconEdge Blue goes live at the same time of this article and availability should follow shortly after. At the start there will be three different capacities; 64GB, 128GB and 256GB. In the press release Western Digital also lists the MSRP; those are 279.00 (64GB), 529.00 (128GB) and finally 999.00 (256GB) with all pricings being USD. We will talk more about the cost structure in the Final Thoughts page at the end. I am excited to dig into the new Western Digital SiliconEdge Blue. Follow me!
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'CPI will also fight for the rights and the wellbeing of Seemandhra people'
The Congress and Telugu Desam Party governments that ruled the State for the last six decades should be held responsible for the scenario, where the bifurcation issue has come up, said Communist Party of India (CPI) national secretary Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy.
At a public meeting here at Tumalapalli Kalakshetram on Saturday, on the occasion of the birth centenary celebrations of the former party general secretary Chandra Rajeswara Rao, he said that in the 1960s the Communist Party fought for united Andhra Pradesh, as the then Congress government had promised a massive development package for the backward Telangana region.TD, Congress responsible
The Congress and the TDP subsequently in the last 60 years, had not worked for the development of Telangana region, and hence today, CPI favours a separate Telangana. At the same time the CPI would fight for the rights and the well being of the Seemandhra people, he added.
"Mr. Modi claims that he hails from a poor family.
He probably has to take a leaf from the life of former President K.R. Narayanan, before calling himself a poor man," he alleged.
"The large scale rioting that followed post Godhra incident, had left over a 1,000 dead and about two lakh homeless and Mr. Modi was the CM of the State and he has no regret and neither has tendered an apology," said Mr. Sudhakar Reddy. "And it is even more surprising to see TDP embrace such a communal party," he added.
Earlier, recalling the contributions made by C.Rajeswara Rao, he said that the former till his last breath fought for land reforms and equitable distribution of land to the poor and the homeless.
Party State Secretary K. Narayana in his address said that Rajeswara Rao not only fought for the land rights in AP but took his fight to Uttar Pradesh and liberated the village of Lakhimpur from the clutches of feudal lords.
Nagendra Nath Ojha of Bharatiya Khet Mazdoor Union recalled how Rajewara Rao was instrumental in setting up of BKMU to solve the problems of agricultural workers.
Before the public meeting, a massive rally was organised from Chutugunta to the meeting venue.
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A weekly discussion of the tropics from the Eyewitness News Forecast Team
A mere five days remain in the 2013 hurricane season, which will go down as one of the quietest seasons in decades.
The official totals for this season are thirteen named storms, two hurricanes and zero major hurricanes.
This season's claims to fame:
Had the lowest number of hurricanes since 1982
Is the sixth quietest since 1950
Is just the third season with below-average activity since our current active cycle began in 1995
Why was it so quiet? Many of our Talkin' Tropics posts discussed the reasons for the calm conditions as they became apparent. Here they are again:
Arid air from the Sahara Desert drifted out over the Atlantic and dominated the usual hurricane formation grounds. The dry, stable conditions were the opposite of the moist, unstable environment hurricanes need to thrive.
Strong wind shear was present across the Atlantic Basin. That wind shear ripped up storms before they could really develop.
Here are the paths for this season's storms. Only two of these,Ingrid andHumberto, made it to Category 1 hurricane status. The rest were tropical storms.
Only one of these hit the United States. That was Tropical Storm Andrea, the first of the season, which formed on June 5. Andrea brought drenching rains, minor flooding and isolated tornadoes to parts of Florida, Georgia and South Carolina.
Here in Louisiana, the tropical threat remained quite low through most of the season. Our closest brush with any serious tropical weather was when Tropical Storm Karen approached our area on Oct 3-6.
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Karen was a lopsided and unhealthy storm with nearly all its rain displaced on its eastern side. It faded to a tropical depression before its low pressure center skirted near our coast. We saw minimal effects in Louisiana and Mississippi.The heavier rain stayed well to our east.
Mexico got slammed with some of the most active tropical weather this season. Eight named storms made landfall there. Three were from the Atlantic side, and five came from the Pacific.
Bottom line: our quiet hurricane season officially ends on Saturday. Dry air and strong wind shear kept things relatively calm this season.
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In a draft `handover letter' for next trade minister, Anand Sharma outlines what the priorities should be
Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma has readied a draft 'handover letter' for his successor urging him/her to continue with the existing Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) regime.
He also made a case for normalisation of economic relations with Pakistan for greater peace and prosperity of the region.
The letter, which will be handed over to the next Commerce and Industry Minister when he/she assumes office, stresses on the importance of market diversification, the crucial role played by India in the World Trade Organisation and the need to engage with East Asian and Asia Pacific countries, a Commerce Ministry official said. The Minister, who attended his last day in office on Thursday, pointed out that his Government had pursued a liberalised FDI policy and opened up crucial sectors of economy, including aviation, retail and telecom.
As a result, India received nearly $200 billion of foreign direct investment in the last five years and was rated amongst the top 3 investment destinations globally, he said.
"It is imperative for me to underscore that foreign investors need a reassurance on the stability and predictability of foreign investment regime in India. This would not only be in India's national interest but it has been a healthy tradition of our democracy," the draft letter said.
The results of the General Elections will be announced on Friday. According to the exit polls, the NDA, led by the BJP, is widely expected to form the next Government. The UPA, in its second term, took important steps in establishing better trade relations with Pakistan, which, Sharma said, the new Minister should continue. "It would be important to persist with this road map because I firmly believe that normalisation of economic relations with Pakistan lies at the heart of a peaceful South Asia," the draft letter said.
The Minister also called for careful negotiations in the proposed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership which will form the biggest trading bloc in the world. It includes the 10 countries of Asean, India, Japan, Korea, China, Australia and New Zealand.


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Great GF options. Their default menu is pretty much GF. Didn't have to ask for a special menu. We go there every time we pass through Astoria.
Nice selection of gluten free foods and deserts. Creative kitchen with careful attention to presentatin of well prepared foods.
A safe harbor for gf diets. Nice to feel safe with what you order. Dinner was yummy . Desserts were out of this world. An apple cheesecake with a caramel sauce. A flourless chocolate cake with a marionberry sauce & an apple/cranberry cobbler. The sizes are small, my husband & I shared the three desserts - yum. We returned the next day for brunch & enjoyed the wonderful lemon curd with a warm muffin.
Most of the menu here is or can be made gf. They are very aware of cross contamination issues ( I believe one of the owners may be gf by necessity). It's a bit of a splurge for my family but one we will happily make a couple of times a year as the food really is very good. Bonus that they always make my kids feel welcome which isn't always the case in higher end restaurants.
This continues to be my favorite place to eat in Astoria. Very good gluten free options. They really understand what GF means. My favorites this vacation: Hungarian mushroom dill soup, chili lime shrimp, Mayan salad, and GF French fries. They really understand what GF means. My idea of gastronomical GF heaven is eating here for the rest of my life.
Great for lunch. Everything we had was good and they were very careful with gluten free. They also had cider on tap and bonus points for offering Happy Camper brand bread. Owner has celiac. I posted on this place a few years ago and didn't have such a great experience. But this was a good experience. My daughter with celiac was just fine.
Great food and yes, gluten free options galore. A must eat!
What a great place! Great, helpful, understanding staff. Someone on staff told us that the owner is gluten intolerant and so that's why they have so many options and that it actually tastes great. In fact, if I remember right, the whole menu is gluten free except maybe three items. I think most of the patrons don't even know its gluten free! Great atmosphere too - its a converted cannery right on the water.
This is the place. Quality environment, knowledgable staff about gluten free food. Come here if you need a safe place to eat. However, their clam chowder is not the best. They do their own spin. Blah / the desserts are great.
Extensive menu, dedicated fryer, delicious food, great view, friendly staff...need I say more?
They had many choices for gf foods: entrees, appetizers, sides, desserts. I had gf chowder, gf ratatouille, and gf berry cobbler for dessert! About 85% of their menu is gf or can be made gf. They have a dedicated fryer and grill. And the food was delicious! What a wonderful date night experience!
Best gluten free menu I believe I have seen. Fish and chips! Not my choice but looked fabulous!
Love love this place. Stopped here on a road trip. Best fish & chips I have ever had (GF or not). 80% of the menu is or can be GF. Awesome dessert options. Highly recommended.
Wonderful! A little spendy, but high quality and many gf options in a lovely setting. Very attentive staff and delicious food. Limited gf vegetarian options, but they were able to accommodate a request.
So many GF options!! Bread baked daily in house and all deserts are GF. Amazing location and atmosphere.
Gluten free food here is absolutely delicious! I recommend the prime rib sandwich with auju dipping sauce. The sandwich bread doesn't fall apart, it's so good. I will be dining here again very soon. Compliments to the chef, thank you!
Great meal with my celiac family this evening. Fish and chips for the first time in four years and the silk pie and lavender cheesecake were to die for. The owner and staff were delightful. The views were beautiful as well.
This place was okay.... it took forever to get our food, the portion sizes were small for the price. They use Udis buns which are good but don't have many vegetarian options. I wouldn't come here again.
Wonderful setting and beautiful views. Menu had great options and nearly every item could be adjusted to gluten free options. This is must go to place for dining at sunset.
Fantastic food, wonderful service, awesome kid friendly menu!
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The bigger the spotlight, the bigger he plays. Leon Powe does not always see major minutes, but when he is put on a national stage, he always seems to make the most of his time. Powe tries to show the world ' and his opponents ' just what he can do when given the opportunity.
'Everybody knows their on TV, but you want to play well. You want to do your best,' he said following the Celtics 105-94 win over the Cavaliers (RECAP HERE). 'I always focus every game, I prepare the same, but there's just a certain feeling when you wake up in the morning like you know you're playing a big game.'
On Friday's ESPN-televised game, Powe posted 20 points and 11 rebounds in 26 minutes. He is averaging just 6.7 points, 4.5 boards, and 16 minutes on the season. Not only was Powe aware of the implications of the game in a close Eastern Conference race, he also understood the consequences of a poor showing.
'You've got to go out there and do well,' he said. 'You don't want to do bad because you're family and people are probably going to call you, like 'What were you doing? What happened on this play?' So I try to be extra focused too and just try to make the right reads and the right plays. I think I did everything right tonight, so fortunately I did. And that was good because some nights you aren't going to make them like that.'
Of course Powe's performance wasn't driven by ego. He had no choice but to come up big for the Celtics to counter LeBron James and crew. The Celtics were already playing without forwards Kevin Garnett and Brian Scalabrine before Glen Davis was ejected for a Flagrant 2 Foul against Anderson Varejao.
'There's a lot of relying on me to go in there and try to hold the paint down and just get rebounds and just play defense and score when I got some opportunities,' he said. 'And I think I did that cause we're missing a lot of people right now so I try to just do my best.'
Powe officially introduced himself to the world during Game of the 2008 NBA Finals against the Los Angeles Lakers. Considering how well he plays when the spotlight is on, expect more encore performances.
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FOG: The Story of Jacques Matthews
Lost and disorientated after a storm, fisherman Jacques Matthews finds himself washed up on an island with nothing but a thick fog to keep him company. Shortly after arriving he comes across a mysterious girl who claims she can help him on his journey. With unknown dangers lurking in the fog and a constantly shifting island Jacques is forced to trust the girl as he fights to keep his sanity and use light to guide himself through the island, unlock its secrets, find his fellow crewmen and discover what lies beyond.
Genre: Psychological Adventure
Platform(s): PC
Release Date: TBA
About the Game
FOG: The Story of Jacques Matthews is a psychological adventure game that blends deep exploration, emotional storytelling and enthralling puzzles to create a seamless and immersive experience that changes with every playthrough for every player. Unearth clues and secrets of the island by searching every nook and cranny, witness the ups and downs of Jacques Matthews and progress through the island by using your reactions, speed and brains to solve every mystery laid out before you. Then, thanks to the FOG system, you can replay the whole game again knowing that your experience and opinion of every location and character will be completely different to your previous playthroughs.
Key Features
- FOG. FOG Always Changes: With the FOG system every play through is a unique experience, with randomly generated game structure, level placement, visuals, audio, story related events and no loading screens between levels.
- Follow the Light: FOG's unique art style and use of lighting creates an eerie but gorgeous world that jumps off the screen whilst also aiding the player through the game.
- Immersive Puzzles: Delve deep into the belly of the island through immersive and engaging puzzles that test your reactions, speed, brains and mentality.
- Story Time: Witness a deep psychological story filled with atmospheric locations, intricate characters and mysterious unknowns, all with their own secrets, events and plots waiting to be uncovered.
- By the Gamers, for the Gamers: Developed alongside the GCPP (Gaming Community Portfolio Project), a project aiming to help fellow gamers build a portfolio and achieve their dreams of a job in the games industry.
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FOG: The Story of Jacques Matthews GCPP Team
Name: Arbortor Studios
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Bio: Hey There! We are Arbortor Studios. We are real film enthusiasts but what we love just as much as watching films is making them, so when we were faced with producing 5 short films based on FOG: The Story of Jacques Matthews it was something that we all really wanted to do. WE JUST LOVE A GOOD FILM!
Name: Dave Southern
Role: Voice Actor & Let's Player
Bio: I am an amateur voice actor and a Youtuber who makes gaming videos such as Let's Plays and funny gaming moments. I also make Omegle Trolling videos and work for a YouTube network called Foxital as the PR Manager where I am in charge of contacting various companys about getting deals for certain partners in the Network.
Name: Myles Jordan
Position: Let's Player & Filmmaker
Bio: Hey, I'm MylesX360. I run a YouTube channel focusing on Video Games. On MylesX360 I upload Reviews and Let's Plays on a regular basis. Because I was brought up on classics like Pokemon, Crash and Spyro, my bar for gaming is set incredibly high, and I can't wait for a new game to come along and challenge me, and to help me grow as a gamer
The Newest Member of the GCPP
By now you hopefully know what the GCPP is all about (and if you don't then get the hell out from under that rock you call a home and buy a real place to live).
It is our pleasure to announce the third member of team GCPP...
It is our pleasure to announce the third member of team GCPP...
Announcing the Gaming Community Portfolio Project (GCPP)
We here at Curiosity have always said that one of our main goals, as well as providing gamers around the globe with the best games possible, is to help people whose dream, like ours, is a career in the games industry. It is with that in mind that we are very proud and excited to announce the launch of the Gaming Community Portfolio Project...
Arbortor Studios Presents FOG Episode 1 & Power to the Players
This Saturday will be one of the biggest days in Curiosity Studios history with the beginning of two very exciting projects.
Arbortor Studios Presents FOG, the 5 part spin off series based on our upcoming game FOG: The Story of Jacques Matthews, will see its first episode released to the world...
Arbortor Studios Presents FOG, the 5 part spin off series based on our upcoming game FOG: The Story of Jacques Matthews, will see its first episode released to the world...
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Thai coup leader denies conspiracy with protesters
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BANGKOK (AFP) - Thailand's junta-leading Army Chief has dismissed allegations he plotted to seize power for years before May's coup, issuing an apparent rebuke to the leader of the protests that crippled the former government.
"It is not true" General Prayuth Chan-O-Cha said, addressing accusations that he had discussed uprooting the divisive Shinawatra clan from politics with firebrand protest chief Suthep Thaugsuban.
"I did not join any process or take part with any side," General Prayuth said late on Friday in a weekly television address to the nation.
While he did not directly reference Suthep, he was prodded into the denial after reports that the protest figurehead told a charity dinner that he had been in talks with the army chief since 2010.
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Shah Rukh Khan's mannat (wish) has been fulfilled. The heritage committee has ruled that the actor can continue to call his bungalow Mannat. Located at Bandra Bandstand, it was earlier called Villa Vienna and activist Santosh Daundkar had complained about the name change.
A heritage committee official told DNA that the name change was approved by an earlier committee in 2006. "So, we decided to uphold the decision," he said.
Despite the Mumbai Heritage Conservation Committee's approval, experts said the alteration is a violation of the Development Control Rule (DCR) 67(2). Other experts said there was no provision in DCR 67 (2) to change the names of heritage properties.
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The Gregg Rolie Band Kicks Off Spencer Theater's 2012 Summer Season in NM, 5/26
The Gregg Rolie Band kicks-off the Spencer Theater's 15th Summer Season of shows on Saturday, May 26 at 8 p.m. Packed with festival feel, this will be an outdoor concert packed with Santana hits and hefty riffs of era favorites. Enjoy lawn seating ($49) and table seating ($59). Outdoor cash bar service will be available, as will a pre-show Enchilada Buffet ($20) starting at 6 p.m. Bring blankets or chairs. Call the Box Office at 575.336.4800 or go to www.spencertheater.com for tickets.
Gregg Rolie is a constant and steady force in the evolution of rock & roll -- that heart-throbbing, shoulder-shimmeying genre of music that's captivated listeners for over 50 years. Together with Carlos Santana's searing electric guitar work, it was Gregg Rolie's compelling baritone and keyboards in "Black Magic Woman" that sent the historic tune's intoxicating rhythms to the tops of music charts around the world. That was in 1968, just one year after Rolie & Santana co-founded the Santana Blues Band, a wave-cutting formation that seized the massive Woodstock crowd with its epic sound.
The music world was never quite the same. Prior to Rolie & Santana joining forces, there had never been such a Latin-Blues infused rock & roll sound on the airwaves. The band, which thereafter shortened its name to Santana, carved the way.
Rolie was also the writer and arranger, lead singer, keyboardist & organist of the equally definitive Santana masterworks "Evil Ways," "Oye Como Va" and "No One To Depend On." His amazing vocals and extensive riffs -- together with Santana's mind-blowing guitar and fellow band members' percussion, timbales & congas -- thrust melodies like "Soul Savor" "Jingo" and "Europa" into the realm of musical perfection.
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Cougar Bench - Loveland, CO
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This clever bench is found in the older part of downtown Loveland, Colorado, USA.
posted by: Outspoken1
location: Colorado
date approved: 10/31/2014
last visited: never
Carved Chairs - Cwm Donkin Park, Swansea, Wales.
These chairs, are engraved with the names of characters from Dylan Thomas's poems that are associated with Cwmdonkin Park, where Dylan played as a child. The Park is located in Swansea, South Wales.
posted by: veritas vita
location: South Wales, United Kingdom
date approved: 9/13/2014
last visited: 3/1/2014
banc en bois - Beaupréau,Fr
a huge school
un banc énorme
posted by: sara et gege
location: Pays de la Loire, France
date approved: 9/10/2014
last visited: 9/10/2014
Lion Benches at Langston University - Langston, Oklahoma
Two Lion benches at Langston University, whose mascot is the lion
posted by: Max and 99
location: Oklahoma
date approved: 9/3/2014
Northwest Minnesota Foundation Chair – Bemidji, MN
This wrought iron chair is located in the enclosed courtyard behind the Northwest Minnesota Foundation in downtown Bemidji.
posted by: wildernessmama
location: Minnesota
date approved: 9/2/2014
Mosaic Bench - Berkeley, CA
A mosaic bench in Berkley, CA.
posted by: saopaulo1
location: California
date approved: 8/26/2014
Oakland Port - San Jose, CA
A painted bench at Ike's showing the Oakland Port in Oakland.
date approved: 8/24/2014
Lake Merritt - San Jose, CA
A painted bench at Ike's showing Lake Merritt in Oakland.
Sunflower Bench - San Diego, CA
This bench is located in San Diego's Old Town State Park.
posted by: Metro2
date approved: 8/19/2014
Book Bench - Kansas City Central Library Garage - Kansas City, Mo.
These concrete and steel benches that look like books are placed around the Kansas City Central Library Garage located at 10th Street and Baltimore in Kansas City, MO
posted by: iconions
location: Missouri
date approved: 8/8/2014
Bench in bus shelter - Rakovo, Slovakia
Artistically carved wooden bench is installed in bus shelter, in center of village Rakovo, Slovakia.
posted by: Rikitan
location: Žilinský kraj, Slovakia
date approved: 8/5/2014
Sacella - New Britain, CT
Sacella is located on the south lawn of the New Britain Museum of American Art in New Britain, CT.
posted by: neoc1
location: Connecticut
date approved: 8/4/2014
Wild at Heart Bench - San Clemente, CA
This bench is located near the Wild at Heart store in downtown San Clemente.
posted by: bluesnote
Sitting boeddha, Meerlo-The Netherlands
Boeddha in the garden of the 'Castel of meerlo'.
posted by: superstein
location: Limburg, Netherlands
date approved: 7/31/2014
last visited: 6/13/2014
San Clemente Metrolink Station Benches - San Clemente, CA
These benches are at the San Clemente Metrolink Station.
date approved: 7/28/2014
Butterfly - Sandpoint, Idaho
The Bonner Healing Garden is located adjacent to the Bonner General Hospital located at 520 N. 3rd Avenue. You can park in their parking lot and walk into the garden and sit awhile on the Butterfly bench.
posted by: BK-Hunters
location: Idaho
date approved: 7/18/2014
Art67 Bench - Reykjavik, Iceland
This bench is located at Art67 Gallery at Laugavegur 67 in Reykjavik.
location: Iceland
date approved: 7/10/2014
last visited: 12/14/2014
Tree chairs, Kamari, Greece
A beautiful chairs made by a carving artist in Kamari, Santorini. The chunk of wood was carved, modeled and painted by the artist.
posted by: Arne1
location: Greece
date approved: 6/22/2014
Park Güell Under Bench - Barcelona, Spain
This bench is under the platform of the most famous view of the city.
location: Cataluña, Spain
date approved: 6/4/2014
last visited: 6/17/2009
Leg and Armchair - Denver, CO
This sculpture is located in the Denver Art Museum.
date approved: 6/2/2014
last visited: 4/23/2011
Razorbacks Bench - Hilltop Travel Center - Alma AR
This fancy red cut-steel bench graces the front of the Hilltop Travel Center right off I-540. It features two fightin' razorback hogs, and the words "University of Arkansas Razorbacks". Even the base gets into the act, the legs being razorback hogs!
posted by: Where's George
location: Arkansas
date approved: 6/1/2014
VW Beetle - Leon's "Real Fine" Bar-B-Que - Waxahachie, TX
A Volkswagen Beetle outside of Leon's "Real Fine" Bar-B-Que offers an alternative to chairs, booths, and tables. Located at 107 S Monroe St, Waxahachie, TX.
posted by: QuarrellaDeVil
location: Texas
Rose Garden Sofa, Dwellingup, Western Australia
An artistic seat in a small country town
posted by: blingg
location: Western Australia, Australia
date approved: 5/27/2014
Seat for two, Pinjarra, Western Australia
An artistic seat
date approved: 5/22/2014
Banc CNAR - Niort,Fr
un banc public sur le site des usines Boinot.
location: Poitou-Charentes, France
last visited: 6/8/2014
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BHOPAL: Polling for the Presidential election was conducted smoothly amidst heavy security at the Madhya Pradesh Assembly polling station on Thursday.
The Assembly has a total strength of 230. Since two seats are vacant, the total voter count here was 228. All, except Narayan Tripathi and Sunilam, both belonging to the Samajwadi Party, exercised their franchise.
Briefing mediapersons, the Returning Officer and Principal Secretary, Madhya Pradesh Assembly, A.K. Pyasi, said the first to cast his vote was the Speaker, Ishwardas Rohani, followed by the Chief Minister, Shivraj Singh Chauhan, State Ministers and other MLAs.
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|The Hereford House has one great chicken dish -- this is it.
To whet your appetite for The Pitch's annual Best of Kansas City issue, we're counting down our favorite Top 50 dishes each weekday until October 7.
When you think of restaurateur Rod Anderson's Hereford House restaurants -- best-known for juicy grilled steaks -- chicken isn't a dish that immediately comes to mind. There are three versions of the bird on the current menu: hickory-grilled (served with bearnaise or barbecue sauce), a grilled barbecue breast served with the St. Louis-style ribs, and the best choice of the trio: a succulent chicken Piccata.
The Italian word piccata is the femine form of piccato -- meaning larded. The traditional preparation calls for the dish -- chicken or veal -- to be sauteed in butter and covered in a light sauce made from the pan drippings, lemon juice and chopped parsley. The dish is believed to be a Northern Italian standard.
But every restaurant seems to put a different spin on it. Some use mushrooms; others add a little milk to the lemon-butter sauce. The Hereford House Piccata is one of the more flamboyant versions. A little more French and maybe a bit less lemony than the more simple variations on this dish, the Hereford House Piccata boasts two plump breasts that have been lightly dusted in flour, then pan-seared and drenched in a decadent bechamel blended with artichokes, fresh chopped tomatoes and tart capers.
It's a popular alternative to steak at the restaurants (and it's modestly priced, by this restaurant's standards). Go on, don't be chicken: Order it.
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No. 50: Chocolate Malt from Fox's Drug Store
No. 49: Il Parma from Bella Napoli
No. 48: Italian sausage and eggs from Cascone's Grill
No. 47: Orange Roll from Clock Tower Bakery
No. 46: Tacos de cochinita from Frida's Contemporary Mexican Cuisine
No. 45: Barbecued pork bun from 888 International Market
No. 44: Tableside fresh mozzarella from Jasper's
No. 43: Gyro Sandwich from Mr. Gyros Greek Food & Pastry
No. 42: Apple strudel from Grunauer
No. 41: Rice noodle bowl from dim sum at Bo Lings
No. 40: E-Crush from Hi-Hat Coffee
No. 39: Flight of Freshness from Fresher than Fresh Snow Cones
No. 38: Curried chicken salad from Cafe Provence
No. 37: Apple fritter from John's Space Age Donuts
No. 36: Pollo con limone e olive from Lidia's Kansas City
No. 35: Wedding-cake cookie from LattéLand
No. 34: Stroud's cinnamon rolls
No. 33: Smoked Polish from Werner's
No. 32: Burger and frites from Westport Cafe & Bar
No. 31: Paletas from Paleterias Tropicana
No. 30: Goat korma at New Cafe Tandoor
No. 29: Lemon cake from Cafe Europa
No. 28: Chocolate Mousse Torte from Napoleon Bakery
No. 27: Spring rolls from Vietnam Cafe
No. 26: French fries from LC's Bar-B-Q
No. 25: Classic Cookie's herbed-potato-and-sausage casserole
No 24: Farmer greens salad at The Farmhouse
No. 23: Egg salad sandwich from You Say Tomato
No. 22: Waldorf Salad from Bloomsbury Bistro
No. 21: Pork tenderloin sandwich from Kitty's Cafe
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Markus Schulz – Prague '11 Tracklist Announced
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This week on Inside the Arts, The Arts Council of New Orleans recognizes outstanding contributions to the cultural community with the 2013 Community Arts Awards. We talk with new CEO and President Kim Cook.
Plus, New Orleans native and Jazz vocalist Sybil Gage returns home, performing an evening of vaudeville and traditional jazz tunes at the Old U.S. Mint. Then, we're going to party like it's 1899, rubbing elbows with colorful characters from Louisiana's past.
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A program focused on the 198th anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans is planned Jan. 10 at 6 p.m. at the Old U.S. Mint in the French Quarter.
Tulane University graduate student Shelene Roumillat will focus on how during the 19th century the anniversary of the battle was a major holiday in New Orleans.
In the battle, fought Jan. 8, 1815 — weeks after a peace treaty ended the War of 1812 — a force of American troops, pirates and local residents routed a British Army at a plantation in St. Bernard Parish.
The 12th annual Satchmo SummerFest will be held Aug. 3-5 at the Louisiana State Museum's Old U.S. Mint.
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Goodbye, Austin. I've come to appreciate this strange relationship we have. We see each other once a year - the best and worst sides. No questions asked. And then we do it all over again. There's a name for this. What is it?
I've shipped my souvenirs (and records) home, packed my suitcase full of crap from the conference and tradeshow. Thanks to Katie and Karl for letting me crash with them. Thanks to Chris for hanging out with me, even though I always have my own agenda and am checking my phone every other second. That's what friends are for, I guess. Thanks to Kelley for taking some amazing photos (even some challenging group shots). Thanks to all the SXSW staff and the new friends I met this year, you'll all be getting an e-mail from me soon.
I need antibiotics. I need a detox. I need to sleep for two days straight. There's a name for this. What is it?
I'm saying goodbye now. Until next time.
Check out my coverage of days one through nine after the jump.
Skinny's Ballroom / New Granada Records Showcase
The PausesLed by Tierney Tough (vocals, bass, keys), Orlando's The Pauses, took the stage at Skinny's Ballroom promptly at 8 p.m. sounding like a cross between The Pixies and Shudder to Think. For fans of 90s alternative, there's a lot going on here, including pop hooks, solid melodies and plenty of groove, but what impressed me the most, was the TV. The Pauses had travelled to Texas with a television and a couple of pieces of furniture in tow. Set up directly in front of the stage (obstructing the view of the band, depending on where you stood) was an audience-facing keyboard connected to a television screen displaying looped midi images controlled by the keys and modulation wheels of the synthesizer (encased in a vintage, wooden piano frame).
The Velvet Teen
Back when my own band showcased at SXSW in 2003, my drummer Tony Dolan came back to the hotel one night, saying he had discovered the most amazing band, "The Velvet Teen." We all had a good laugh, after all, how could anyone have been better than we were, and Velvet Teen was a silly name anyway.
A couple years later, I had discovered the error of my ways. The Velvet Teen was not only an amazing band, I couldn't myself figure out a way to describe them to people. They sounded different from album to album, sometimes from track to track. They carried elements of 80s rock, synthy hooks and breathy choruses. They sounded like The Police, they sounded like Jimmy Eat World, they sounded like Muse, they sounded like absolutely nothing else. And then they released 2010's No Star.
No Star is one of my top ten albums of the past decade. The lyrics are straight out of prog-rock, flowery, medieval and optimistic, the guitars sound like an orchestra, the drums just go on for days. The 4-song EP stayed on a continuous loop in my car for a good four months (and it's the perfect length for the drive across the Howard Frankland bridge from St. Pete to Ybor City every morning).
In a live setting, TVT did not disappoint, displaying plenty of energy (jumping into the crowd with a tambourine, climbing the speaker columns) where other bands, especially on the bill that night, were satisfied to simply rely on dramatic lighting. They played some new material (one track featured just sequence, tambourine and vocal), some older material and all the songs from No Star. I bought a t-shirt, the white vinyl, and had the guys autograph their set list for Tony Dolan. You were right, Tony. The Velvet Teen is a most amazing band.
Sleepy Vikings
I got back to Skinny's Ballroom just in time to catch Creative Loafing's official 2012 SXSW selection, Sleepy Vikings. They were almost done with their set, working the crowd over with the most sombre cover of Danzig's "Mother." The audience at Skinny's was into it, but getting thin. It was our last night in Austin, and a handful of Tampa Bay folks including Shawn Beauville, John McNicholas and WMNF engineer Mark Perfetti, had all gathered at Skinny's to wish each other safe flights.
St. Patrick's Day (and my last night at South By) ended at the food truck lot at 4th and Colorado. I opted for the Longanisa Tots and a Pork Slider from the "Be More Pacific" filipino-fusion truck washed down with a Mexican Coke. Holy perfect ending, Batman.
I'm completely fucking exhausted. Bouncing back and forth between sensory overload (read: 4th St.) and chaos (read: 6th St.) every night for seven days will test you. Yesterday, I had two peak musical experiences, one of which physically brought me to tears, and today it starts all over. The steady diet of water, Emergen-C, ibuprofen, caffeine and antihistamines will have to be enough. It's time to hit the street in search of the new.
Shawn (The Beauvilles) had joined Thomas Wynn and The Believers on this recent tour as a lead guitarist, so the boys decided to return the favor and back Shawn up at a showcase at Casa Chapala, a Mexican restaurant downtown. Billed as "Beau and the Believers," and scheduled for the "acoustic" stage (the corner of the upstairs bar), the lineup included Shawn on guitar and vocals, Thomas Wynn on drums, Dave Wagoner on bass and the amazing Chris Bell on harmonica. With one rehearsal in, they got through a handful of Beauvilles songs and stretched out the set with a little improvisation. The harmonica added real authenticity and power (especially when executed by someone like Bell) to The Beauvilles' already roadhouse-ready blues rock. I truly hope to hear this version of the band (or something like it) again. It sounded true.
Ximena Sarinana
At the Easy Tiger patio, I finally got to see Ximena Sarinana perform a full set of her own music. The crowd was unruly and belligerent, while other press photographers refused to let Kelley (who was much shorter than they were) stand in front of them to get her shots. If you're one of those photographers and you're reading this, fuck you.
I was crouched near the monitors in front of the band when I started to sweat and noticed I wasn't feeling well. There was a drunk woman tapping her knobby knees on my back that obviously had no idea who Ximena was, but wanted to continually scream, "Your dress is hot, girrrllllll!" and spill her drink down my back. This is where the night took a turn.
Ximena performed an amazing set consisting mainly of material from her new album, her self-titled English debut. She was joined onstage by drummer Alex Wong (A City on a Lake), guitarist Pete Lalish and a very animated bassist, David Lizmi, and ended her set with a solo piano version of "Mediocre," the title track from her first record. Ximena was kind enough to talk to me after her set, even after a full day of giving interviews, and we discussed her recording (and personal) relationship with boyfriend Omar Rodriguez-Lopez (The Mars Volta), her vocal range (I refer to her as the "Latin Bjork"), and her strange musical identity. Sarinana has recorded volumes of music from jazz to pop to hard rock, and fits easily alongside the indie and experimental hipsters of San Francisco as she does the Mexican pop stars she went to college with that we had met the day before. Sarinana stated simply, "I don't like being put in a box." Fair enough, girl. Oh, and your dress was totally hot.
I was feeling worse by the minute, but stopped in for Zechs Marquis' set at the Sargent House showcase and met Claire Ramsdell, of Boston blog Allston Pudding. Sargent House is a strange hybrid that serves as management collective/label/promotion company and more. I've always wanted to learn more about the success of its business model and hung around to try to catch a few words with founder Cathy Pellow, but Zechs Marquise was pounding away like a bunch of dudes that had just gotten some new gear and wanted to jam in strange time signatures. And I was in no mood to do math.
There is a sociological phenomena known as the "doughnut effect," which states basically that as a city (or settlement) grows, the core will tend to crumble and decay as the inhabitants move outward seeking larger and better housing (a.k.a. "the suburbs"). Well, if the SXSW event were a settlement or a colony (which is hardly debatable), and the new layers upon layers of unofficial showcases and free shows that crop up around the edges of the festival proper every year are the suburbs, then SXSW has officially turned into a ghetto.
Last night was evidence of this, as 6th Street was teeming with thousands of people - more than I'd seen in five years here. They all seemed to be here for different reasons (seeing bands, spring break, getting laid, participating in a flash mob, drinking because it's the weekend, giving out CDs no one will ever listen to, drinking because it's Friday, working on a street team promoting a product no one will ever use, drinking because it's SXSW, etc.) and few of them had badges or wristbands. Don't get me wrong, at the end of the day, this 10-day period supports this city year-round and a lot of local businesses depend on it. But, as I tried to make my way from one venue to another, feeling claustrophobic in a wide open space (and on the edge of panic and anxiety), I finally understood why the locals hate it. It's not about the money. It never has been. The locals would probably pay the businesses directly if everyone would just stay home. The problem is that the majority of people that come to SXSW don't respect the city of Austin, the conference or themselves. They just want a piece of something, and they think it lives here.
Bruce Springsteen Keynote Address
We awaited the arrival of "The Boss" in the Austin Convention Center's Ballroom D. There was to be no photography, no videography, no audio recording of any kind - and that included press. Kind of a bummer since I rolled Kelley out early to attend. Russell Marsden (vocalist for Band of Skulls) was in attendance and Radiohead's King of Limbs played over the PA, echoing through the cavernous hall and keeping the still-groggy crowd from getting too restless.
With about 45 minutes left on the clock, Nora Guthrie (Woody's daughter) took the stage in honor of her father's birthday and introduced warm-up acts Eliza Gilkyson, Jimmy LaFave and Juanes. They stalled (read: performed touching renditions of Guthrie classics) while we waited for Bruce to take the stage. Colombian-born Juanes led off the classic "This Land is Your Land," and it took them a minute of awkward silence, but the audience eventually applauded. When the trio was finished, Roland Swanson, managing director and co-founder of SXSW finally introduced The Boss.
Bruce took the stage to a standing ovation and when the applause finally died down, he said, "Why are we up so fucking early?" There was much laughter. "How important can this speech be if we're giving it at noon?," he said. "Every decent musician is still asleep - or they will be, by the time I'm done."
Bruce then spent the next 45 minutes or so telling us about his musical journey. And when Springsteen started out (as he was quick to mention), he only had 10 years of actual rock music to draw on. Bruce's personal journey through music - his storied career - is really the story of rock and roll itself, meandering through the 60s, 70s and 80s, both influencing and being influenced by doo-wop, soul, country, folk, punk, alternative and metal.
"Pop has become a new language and a new cultural force," Springsteen said, and "rock continues its tradition as youth music and as a joyous argument starter." He added, "U2 is the last band [that] I'll know all four members' names."
A common theme throughout Springsteen's talk was Elvis Presley (Elvis' 1956 appearance on Ed Sullivan inspired him to create his own "transformative self"). More specifically, Springsteen based a large part of his theme on a small part of Lester Bangs' now famed obituary of The King that stated, "We will never again agree on anything as we agreed on Elvis." Bangs was implying that we as a people would never be brought together by one music again and that "fragmentation" and "solipsism" ruled the day. Bangs may have been right at the time, but Springsteen maintains that we can beat those odds - that the "genesis and power of creativity" will not be denied and that the "power and purpose of music" is what still matters. He also alluded to the fact that music itself might be the new unifying force, as evidenced by the SXSW festival, as thousands of music fans gathered to celebrate so many disparate styles and genres. "The purity of human essence and expression is not confined to tubes or microchips," The Boss reminded us.
According to Springsteen, the birth of rock and roll was the discovery of a new way of thinking about sex, race, identity and America. His description of doo wop was "the sound of bras popping all at once across [the country]." His description of Roy Orbison, "the true master of the romantic apocalypse that you knew was coming after the first night you whispered I love you." Springsteen drew comparisons between the new music of the 60s and the tortured, heartbreak of the actual artist, giving voice to the "blue-balled limp back home after the dance."
While the emergence of punk music from the likes of The Sex Pistols ("an informed darkness [whose challenge] you could not ignore") and soul ("adult music performed by men and women, not teen idols") was influential, it was the music of The Animals that truly made a mark.
"The Animals were a revelation," he said. And while poking fun at vocalist Eric Burdon's stage presence (and his inability to dance), he also credited their music with "the first appearance of class consciousness." Reciting lyrics from their hit "We Gotta Get Out Of This Place," and strumming the chords that went with them, Springsteen painted a picture his fans know all too well - the crumbling, industrial town; the greener grass of unknown places; sexual frustration and civic impotence - and joked, "That's every song I've ever written."
The takeaways were many (Springsteen still practices his swagger in front of a mirror. "Don't you?," he asked the crowd. "C'mon, ya gotta check your moves.") and his parting words, "Stay hard. Stay hungry." will ring in my head for some time. But, the real message of his keynote address lay in his closing statement. "The true artist keeps two contradictory ideas alive in their head and heart at all times." Springsteen spoke directly to all individuals harboring a creative impulse, and the time and place couldn't have been better. The musicians and artists knew exactly what he meant. The interface designers and game programmers knew what he meant, too. The speech, while broken up by brief musical interludes (strummed chord changes, snippets of songs by The Animals and Woody Guthrie) was as finely timed and crafted as one his songs. It was grand in scope, epic, yet all too brief. It brought you one step closer to understanding Bruce Springsteen - the kid from New Jersey, the struggling young artist trying to synthesize new and sometimes conflicting concepts into one concrete musical language, the producer and performer with the ultimate work ethic. It left you empathizing with the underprivileged, yet impelled to go out and simply accomplish more, to never give up or put your head down. They were the words you want to hear from any boss, "Stay hard. Stay hungry."
Torreblanca Y Amigas
We arrived expecting a solo set by Ximena Sarinana (as hers was the sole name listed on the time slot) but instead were told that the showcase would include Latin performers from as far as Mexico City and Chile and be a chance for many of these artists (who hadn't rehearsed in advance, only through demos via e-mail) to get together and "jam."
The word "jam" and "Chile" together, conjured up this image of tribesmen playing flutes on the small convention center day stage, and I was pissed. This kind of bait and switch was unprecedented. It had to have been a mistake.
But, here's how it unfolded. Apparently, these artists weren't folk musicians, they were pop bands, and what we witnessed in that hour was truly amazing, considering the circumstances. They'd all gone to college together, and had reunited here for one of the many Latin-focused showcases that music fest programmer Alicia Zertuche puts on annually.
For the most part, the backing band was Mexico City's own Torreblanca, the project of Juan Manuel Torreblanca, who acted as "a sort of MC" introducing the players as they came on and off stage - sitting in on backup vocals, accordion, piano or percussion on each other's songs. The performers included French/Mexican chanteuse Andrea Balency, Javiera Mena from Chile, and a new personal favorite, Natalia Lafourcade from Mexico City (who is apparently a big star over there, and was until then known to me as "the girl with the bow in her hair who was standing next to me at the Band of Skulls show"). The Torreblanca band also featured the beautiful and bubbly Carmen Ruiz on vocals and percussion, drummer Jerson Vazquez, bassist El Abuelo, and saxophonist el tio. Oh, and Ximena got to play a couple songs at the end.Gracias, Torreblanca y amigas. Great to meet you all.
Trixie Whitley
The minute Trixie Whitley took the stage, literally close enough to where I could touch her, I started to well up. I had met her father, Houston-based blues legend Chris Whitley, in 2003 here at SXSW shortly before he died of cancer. He performed a beautiful trainwreck of a set at Maggie Mae's in front of an intimate crowd that somehow managed to keep the entire room in silent rapture and dumbstruck awe.
Two songs into Trixie's set and tears were streaming down my face. Partly due to exhaustion, but also because Whitley's music comes from a dark place where she struggles to reconcile the early loss of her father, reluctantly and painfully communicated in the language that he himself taught her. Their mannerisms are the same, from the strained facial expressions to their gaunt frames stomping on the stage floor - a thud that echoed out into the street and drowned out the surrounding din of rock and techno bleeding in from the neighboring clubs. Her set was even fraught with the same technical difficulties. Three times members of the audience took the stage to attempt to fix a keyboard (provided by the venue) that had way too many knobs and no sustain pedal. The audience waited patiently each time, while she sweetly apologized and thanked the crowd and sound man for their patience, all the while a visible rage growing inside of her.
By the time her set was over, there was a release of energy - part anxiety, part joy - that was palpable in the venue. We had been paid a visit by the princess of blues and soul. And we took pictures of her while she kicked like a pony and listened while she spoke to us in a language as old as man, handed down to her by one of the greats. The world never knew her father well enough, never understood him, and his memory is kept alive by the too-few brilliant albums that he managed to record, but he has left us with possibly the greatest gift of all - Trixie.
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After mailing a postcard, and watching The Christopher Brothers' impressive-but-quickly-busted street performance (see the YouTube channel), I met up with photographer Kelley Jackson at Manuel's. We had an amazing dinner and got our game plan on.
Even if both of us split up and saw one song each, there was still no way to catch it all. I wanted to see Dan the Automator's new project, Pillowfight. She's heard that singer-songwriter Emily Wells was in town and wanted to track her down. We headed first to 512 to get in line for Pillowfight, managing to snap a pic with Automator after his soundcheck.
It turned out that the lead vocalist for Pillowfight was none other than Emily Wells. She was joined by Kid Koala on the turntables, a triple threat (piano, vocals and beatbox) named Butterscotch, and an "all-star" band that included Automator himself on the laptop, Kaoss pad and mixer. They performed "Sentimental," which is the single from the forthcoming record, but the rest of the set proved to be much stronger than the lead track. For fans of Automator's Lovage record, this one is a must. Really dynamic stuff, ranging from full-on turntablism and heavy beats to sparse, sultry vocal harmonies accompanied by piano.
It was then on to The Haven to catch Band of Skulls. These guys were a surprise discovery of mine a couple years ago at SXSW, only to get home and find that half the world had already heard of them after being included on the Twilight soundtrack. I admit, that one slipped by me. But for two years now, I've been telling everyone I could about them, describing them as "Black Sabbath meets The Pretenders by way of the White Stripes." It might not be the best pitch, but it's mine.
Band of Skulls flat-out killed. Katie's boyfriend, Karl Simon, even came down for the set and was blown away. he said it was the first "proper concert" he'd seen at the festival. Basically meaning that they weren't set up on a riser in a parking lot and that the sound was decent.
Tennis and Kasabian had to wait for another day, as we needed sleep. Had to get up early this morning to get in line for the Springsteen keynote. Stay tuned.
You know, I thought it interesting that a band was setting up while I was browsing through vinyl at Waterloo Records. It turned out to be Delta Spirit, whose new record hit shelves yesterday. In the time I had my head down, the room had filled up completely. I couldn't make my way to the register, so I camped out and got some video (see below). I was then humming this song for an hour.
I got a tip (thanks, David) that St. Petersburg City Councilman, Steve Kornell, and his partner Rob had arrived in Austin for the music portion. I hit them up and we grabbed dinner at Garrido's, a sit-down, Mexican restaurant that I remembered being better two years ago, but it being the first sit-down meal I'd had in four days, I couldn't complain. We discussed the music scenes in Austin and St. Pete, talked about participatory government, recounted how many times we'd had bicycles stolen in St. Pete, and agreed to text if we found something cool.
My good friend Shawn from The Beauvilles was sitting in on lead guitar with Thomas Wynn and the Believers at the Club 606, so I busted ass across town to catch the last song. Luckily, I got some pics and video, and they sounded great! After their set, the MC took the stage and told the crowd that he was "out front listening" to their set when he overheard someone say, "Damn, them niggas got soul," and reminded the crowd that none of Thomas Wynn's band members were black.
Downtown Austin is walkable, but damn, tonight was a challenge! All the way back across town to La Zona Rosa to try and catch Santigold. I was with my friend and INMotion game designer, Chris Ledwith, and as I had a badge, we had to stand in different lines. Non-badge holders were notified that the show was at capacity and that no amount of money or showing of tits would get them in (seriously, this happened). They were only allowing badge holders, one-in, one-out. Luckily, when Theophilus London ended his set, a group of ten people decided to leave and I squeaked my way inside and muscled my way into the crowd near the stage just in time to see Santigold.
Holy shit, Santigold.
There was already an energy in the room - everyone dancing and head-bobbing to the dubstep being played between sets, and the sound at La Zona Rosa was pristine. When the band took the stage, the room exploded. They were in full costume, players outfitted in white caps with flat tops to look like albino frankensteins and the backup singers/dancers wearing colorful jackets with white sunglasses and gold pom poms. Santigold appeared wearing a gold crown and tore right into the first song. There were at least three costume changes within her 45 minute set - including black and white bowtie ensembles, sparkly gold tunics, black and white parasols and a huge white horse (which must have contained at least two crew members) that danced center stage while the dancers twirled lassos above their heads on either side. The backup dancers moved easily from expressionistic modern dance and Thriller-style zombie moves to booty shaking hip-hop and cheerleader kicks and tumbles. Santigold's voice was flawless and she sweetly and casually engaged the crowd between songs, stating at one point (when the backing track crapped out), "I'll sing a capella for y'all if I have to!" This show will be hard to top this year. A great set by a great artist.
Local Austin hard rock/metal band Scorpion Child was already playing across town when Santigold's set ended, but I hopped in a cab and made it to Hotel Vegas just in time to catch their last three songs. Scorpion Child sounds like a cross between Led Zeppelin and The Allman Brothers with a little Judas Priest thrown in for good measure, and I've been a fan of theirs since I caught them here three years ago. I spoke with singer Aryn Black (by day, a bartender at Barbarella's) about the changes in their lineup (specifically a new, and visibly younger, lead guitarist named Chris Hodge) and about their new record. Scorpion Child usually has between 3-5 appearances booked for SXSW, but this was their only date on the festival this year. When asked why, Black said, "We usually get asked to play a bunch of parties, and that just didn't happen this year."
I also ran into music blogger and German marketing director, Tina Kavanagh, who has recently worked on Suzuki's "Mehr Vagen" campaign ("vagen" means both "car" and "courage" in German) and also campaigns for Play Doh. It was fascinating to hear stories about shooting in an empty swimming pool containing a green screen lifted by balloons and how Play Doh's only German competitor is a product without a name or brand that's available widely in the market and used in elementary schools.
Trending Topics: There's been some backlash against the Homeless Hotspot project in Austin, saying that the organization is exploiting the homeless by paying them only $50/day to promote their free wi-fi locations for SXSW.
SXSW staff have denied the rumor that Gibson's sponsorship is the reason for excluding the Vintage Guitar Show (a much-lauded used gear showcase) from this year's conference. We're told the two are "totally unrelated."
SXSW has also announced the winners of 2012's Film Awards, including Battles for Best Music Video.
I suppose when you get drunk and start telling stories abut your kids it's a sign that you miss them, and that's how day four ended. I did, however manage to finally track down my new favorite local brew Thirsty Planet's Buckethead IPA at Opal Divine's, so at least it ended on a high note.
The day began with Howard Rheingold. Rheingold is the grandfather of Virtual Communities, and the rise of "Community Management" among branded content and media companies continues to rely on his expertise and innovation dating back to the early 1980s. For two years now, at Creative Loafing, we grant the "Howard Rheingold Award" to site editors doing innovative and engaging work within their channel. And it's all based on a document that he drafted in the 1990s.
His solo presentation was upbeat, informative, optimistic and charming. The crowd in attendance was inquisitive, respectful and visibly engaged. The two 20-something girls handling the sound and wireless microphones were utterly fucking bored.
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Later, outside the CNN Lounge, I bumped into Jesse Thomas of the agency, Jess3. Thomas is known for the ubiquitous colorful posters and diagrams plastered all over Austin during SXSW, primarily illustrating new models of content delivery and the "State of the Internet." He's also known for his work as a Forbes contributor and as Social Media Adviser to NASA, organizing the first geosocial check-in from space. I'd been collecting their street art, posters, infographics and data visualizations for five years now and was pleased to finally meet the man behind all the artwork hanging in my cubicle at the office. Thomas was a humble dude, and gracious enough to offer to send some t-shirts and posters to the CL office for the staff. Thanks, Jesse, we'll sport them proudly.
Of course, The big news of today, was that CNN and Mashable are in talks for a deal hovering around $200 million. We'll keep you posted.
On Sunday, I was hurting (did I mention #gettingoldsucks?) and didn't leave the apartment until around 5 p.m. but we headed straight to the steadily-growing line outside The Parish and waited for 2 hours to get into the PBS party. Normally, I don't wait in lines - It's just not how I roll at SXSW, gotta keep moving - but Katie was geeked (literally) about meeting Steven Moffat (writer for shows like "Sherlock," "Jeckyll" and "Doctor Who") and his wife Sue Vertue.
While in line, we just happened to realize we were standing next to former Apple evangelist and superstar blogger, Guy Kawasaki. Guy was as cool as could be, actually asking us where some of the parties were, and telling us about all the free drinks he'd just downed at the Rackspace party at Bat Bar. Good times.
I had low to no expectations for this party and it ended up being one of the coolest and most pleasant parties I've ever been to at SXSW. Moffat was kind enough to stand at the bar while a line to get autographs and photos snaked through the venue, PBS rolled a great video intro including clips from Mr. Rogers and Sesame Street and ending with previews of their newer and more popular shows ("Sherlock," "Downton Abbey") and the catering from Beale Street was some of the tastiest food I've had in Austin. We connected with independent filmmaker, Quark Henares (His father's name was Atom, get it?) and we all got awesome retro PBS shirts on our way out the door. Mine is probably one of a few free shirts I'll actually wear. Bravo, PBS!
We made a failed attempt to track down Omar Rodriguez-Lopez at the official Los Chidos party at El Sol Y De Luna and then cut over to Coppertank Brewing Co. for Tom Hanks' Electric City presented by Yahoo! No sign of Hanks, but Blaqstarr was onstage when we arrived, turning in a truly great set that had the party moving while cyclists on stationary bikes doggedly pretended to be generating electricity for the building.
The Nokia Lab was next. It was a huge, triple-domed white structure set up in a vacant parking lot, spewing fake snow at passers-by. The Nokia crew, outfitted in white labcoats and goggles had been hyping this party on the streets all day, and we wanted badly to see what it looked like inside. It was impressive. 3-D renderings of the new Lumia 900 phone and tweets from attendees were being projected on the inside of the curved ceilings. The room was divided by yellow strips of industrial plastic hung from tubular blue frames. White cake balls and free drinks were being served, ping pong and foosball tables were set up, an interactive photo booth spat out your print while you waited and there was even room for a stage where featured artists will be performing over the next few days.
The interior of the NokiaLab
Our evening ended at Swan Dive (formerly Barbarella's) after I got a text from Shawn Beauville that our friend Brad Register's band The Tenant (formerly Summerbirds in the Cellar) was about to go on. Katie and I hustled over just in time to catch their set. The Tenant performs intense, 80s-informed rock with plenty of dynamics and hooks. If you're a fan of U2 and Foo Fighters and wish that they would one day collaborate, stop holding your breath and just buy a Tenant album. You can thank me later.
Day Two was a full one (a little too full). But registration went smoothly (big shout outs to Morgan Catalina and Amy Wanke at SXSW).
The first panel I attended was called "Brands as Patterns," moderated by Marc Shillum. There was a great image on-screen when I arrived that looked like a cross between a DNA spectrograph and a subway schedule. Those who know me, know I'm a sucker for a good infographic.
Key takeaways:
Mashable Goes Print for SXSW
The second panel of the day was Emotional Equations for Connecting With Your Customers with Chip Conley
Key Takeaways:
1. What business are we in? (Ask this five times, answers should drill deeper each time, usually by the fifth response, an "identity refreshment" should be indicated).
2. What courageous, rebellious decision have we recently made that could be perceived as brilliant or foolish?
3. What would it mean to the world if we didn't exist anymore?
A lot of the panels I pre-selected ended up being way out at The Sheraton on the other side of town (including one by friend and former Creative Loafing alum, Max Linsky), so I missed those and am hoping to listen to them all when the podcasts go up.
We also visited the Mashery's "Circus Mashimus," where Flipboard was in the house taking photos of attendees on the #redcouch and posting to their Twitter feed.
We just happened to be standing on 6th Street when a flash mob decided to head straight for us. The timing couldn't have been better (video below).
UPDATE: SXSWi is Live Streaming their interactive sessions. WATCH THEM HERE!
I'll soon be headed deep into the heart of Austin, TX to the annual South by Southwest Interactive, Film and Music Conference. Whether you know it as "SXSW" or by it's more common nickname, "South By," you know it as the place where new technologies are born and/or embraced by the masses (Twitter, Foursquare), new films are premiered and new bands are broken. It's the home of events like "LANFest" and "FlatStock" and during the music portion (in addition to the hundreds of official shows) you can also expect super-secret showcases to be announced spontaneously. Secret shows have been turned in over the years by everyone from Metallica to Foo Fighters to Muse, and if you're not on Twitter every five minutes, chances are you'll miss the set.
I'm furiously selecting the panels I plan to attend this weekend - names like, "Brands as Patterns," "Storytelling Beyond Words: New Forms of Journalism," "Designing Tomorrow's Digital/Physical Interfaces" - and will be covering them all right here, so keep checking back.
Expect some up-to-the-minute coverage of the panels and parties starting first thing tomorrow morning, and most likely some guest appearances by former Food Editor, Katie Machol!
Stay tuned to the blog, or follow me on Twitter @joranslane
If you're in Austin for the conference, and interested in seeing my schedule on the SXSocial site, here it is.
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Back in Oct, I met up with one of my best friends. We DTD once, no big deal. Nov I start spotting, get sick, yada, yada. It finally hits me I might be pg. BFN after BFN and tons of drs appts and I'm finally like, okay, so what is it? They say mono. Weird...it didn't add up. Finally starting to get better mid Dec...moving on from the idea of pregnancy and making plans for the new year. Around Christmas, I start noticing that I'm retaining water, my hair and nails are growing crazy and, OMG despite working out, I have a belly! WTF! Another BFN so I figure I'm just bloating, pms, something...have another 3-4 days of spotting (which one dr had the nerve to call a normal but lighter AF...ha!) and the belly is bigger! Okay, so maybe I'm not loosing my mind. I went back to the dr today and BFN and have to be referred to another ob/gyn and an endocrinologist to figure out these whacked out hormones.
Good news is my friend is totally supportive of whatever decision I make in whatever happens. I'm just frustrated and almost to the point of depressed b/c I have no idea and when nothing looks wrong on the outside drs just look at you like you've lost your mind. Sometimes I feel like I have...especially when I'm sporting a belly that a pg woman would be proud of. *sigh*
Okay...I just needed to vent. Thanks!