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posted on: 23 January 2015, posted by: Unlimited Team
With the Round 2 application deadline a matter of weeks away, we thought it might be helpful to give a reminder of some of key dates for the upcoming round of Unlimited.
The deadline for applications is 2nd Feb and we are on hand to answer your emails, phone questions and even have skype sessions right up until that date. In February and March, the Unlimited panel will read through every application and the shortlisting process begins. The selection panel day is near the end of March and that's when we choose the successful commissions. The panel is chaired by Ruth Gould, the Artistic Director of Dadafest, and is made up of a selection of voting and non-voting supporters of Unlimited. You can see who's who on the Unlimited 2015 Panel here; it's a mix of our partners, funders and independent artists. Just to note – if your application is shortlisted but not commissioned you will receive feedback on your application; if you haven't been shortlisted, sadly we cannot offer you feedback due to high volume of applications we are expecting to receive. By the end of March you will be notified if you have been successful or not.
Round 2 is a little different to Round 1 as artists have longer to make work. This time, we can fund work from May 2015 until October 2016, and we are looking for brand new projects or ideas that have not yet been started or have only been developed as far as an initial research and development phase. In regards to 2016 – the Southbank Centre Unlimited festival will happen and there are plans to extend geographically too, so watch this space!
As part of the build up to Round 2 we have been holding Unlimited surgeries across the country, over Skype and over the phone, and so far spoken to well over 100 artists, groups and organisations. We noticed a few questions kept cropping up: how do I find a producer, how do I find venues to produce my work and how do I create a budget if I'm not sure how much everything's going to cost? If you still have any questions give our FAQ's a good read through and if not get in contact with firstname.lastname@example.com or give us a call, there is always a member of the team around who can answer any questions you may have. (The answers to those ones are: we do have a list of possible producers but suggest you ask around your contacts first to find someone who 'gets' you and your work, you don't need to have confirmed venues in order to apply and re budget – take a look at this blog post we produced for Round 1 – very useful for understanding what we are looking for in a budget.)
And finally, we are proud to announce that the Unlimited 2015/16 Launch will be held at Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff on the 26th of March! We look forward to seeing as many of you there as possible for the announcement of our 2015/16 Unlimited artists. We'll also have an online launch on that date too – so put the date in your diary and be there or log on!
Good luck with your application!
Featured image by Richard Butchins, of his 113 Things about Me R&D project.


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A woman who works with her hands is a LABORER; a woman who works with her hands and head, a CRAFTSMAN; but a woman who works with her hands, her head and her heart is an ARTIST. ~ Louis Nizer
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Transportation Inspiration DP!
I put the greeting into a box that fit it nicely and used the dashed and straight line below it to make the space more like a square and then the line, dash, line below kinda looks like a road, no?? Since I wanted to fill every space I just masked off each area with Post-Its, just lining up the sticky edges with each border and stamping each image with Memento Black onto Pure Luxury White. (Most I only had to mask on two sides but a couple I masked three...) I chose which image went where based on their sizes and to alternate them going in different directions. I love the finished "on the go" look! I matted it on Rocket Red (edged with black marker)and popped it up onto the base weight Pure Luxury White card. The greeting square is colored in red to match.
I hope this gives you some ideas about how to create DP with several images from a single set for a totally coordinated background and how easy it is to make the quick change to a square! (Next I'm going to give my grid a well-earned rest LOL!, and share a card using just shapes for a super cool pattern, I think you're gonna really dig it!) :) Stay tuned! Keep in touch! ;)
9 comments:
- lisa808 said...
Great card.
- August 18, 2009 at 1:36 AM
- Juls said...
such a great collage!
- August 18, 2009 at 3:50 AM
- Jennie said...
Melanie, this turned out great! Love the way you stamped the various modes of transportation. Great pop of red for the sentiment!
- August 18, 2009 at 6:18 AM
- Cindy H. said...
Another great, inspirational "Inspiration Mosaic" to love! I can't wait for my stamp to arrive!! Thanks for all the wonderful ideas.
- August 18, 2009 at 7:36 AM
- Sandra said...
very cool!
Thanks for the inspiration!
- August 18, 2009 at 9:56 AM
- Lori said...
So cool! Thanks!
- August 18, 2009 at 10:02 AM
- Jessie/knightrone said...
Totally cute Melanie!!
- August 18, 2009 at 8:42 PM
- Melvin said...
Looks like another fantastic block is brewing! Always fun to visit here!
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- August 19, 2009 at 5:02 AM
- Daria said...
I love the way this turned out. Perfect.
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Great Food has teamed up with DreamWorks.
One of the UK's leading kosher food manufacturers and one of the world's top film production companies might not seem the most likely pairing for a business collaboration. But that has not stopped Beth Din-supervised Great Food from securing a unique deal with US-based film giant DreamWorks as they look to target the children's healthy food market.
Great Food, which supplies to Marks & Spencer, Tesco and Prêt a Manger, have launched a "baked not fried" range of traditional deli foods for the chilled food market. They have teamed up with DreamWorks to launch the first new product in the Real Deli Baked not Fried range - a Shrek falafel snack pack.
The company, run by Richard Loebenberg and Norman Bookbinder, will pay a royalty to DreamWorks to use their graphics to market the Great Food products. They have also secured a licensing agreement with Heinz to include a sachet of tomato ketchup with every Shrek pack. The products launched on Sunday (July 18), coinciding with the release of DreamWorks's blockbuster movie Shrek Forever After.
Great Food have invested £350,000 in equipment to convert their falafel from fried to baked, reducing the fat content by 50 per cent.
Commercial director Mr Loebenberg, and managing director Mr Bookbinder - the duo have close to nine decades working in the food industry between them - are confident the new healthier products will significantly boost sales and account for up to ten per cent of the group's annual turnover.
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Sixty-five year old Mr Bookbinder, originally from Salford, has been in the food industry for close to 50 years, working at Bloom's and, more recently, Great Food's sister company, Gilbert's. He says: "There was a great deal of pressure from many of our supermarket customers, suppliers and major retailers for healthier products."
Initially, they will concentrate on converting their falafel - one of the company's best sellers - from fried to baked. But they intend to transform the entire range in time.
"It's very exciting. I think it's the first time that any type of kosher company has spent this kind of money to bring this unique concept to the market. A year ago people would not have believed a kosher company in the UK or Europe could accommodate this type of technology. We have done enough of the sums to understand that the investment is safe and viable both financially and from a community point of view.
"I can't see how any loving or health conscious parent would not take the health benefits into consideration for their children. It's a no-brainer really."
Mr Loebenberg, who founded Great Food 12 years ago, adds: "We identified that more and more children were starting to enjoy falafel and the opportunity to take a children's licence will enhance our position."
The deal takes Great Food, which has its products in every major supermarket nationwide, into the snack-food, lunch box and picnic market.
Not bad for a company started by one person which seven years ago was approaching £450,000 annual revenue. Today, the firm has grown to a team of 23 staff with revenues expected to be close to £3m this year.
The keys to success? Falafel for one. The company produces 45 million falafel balls a year from their Milton Keynes factory and sales comprise 35 per cent of total sales.
Mr Bookbinder, a grandfather-of-one, acknowledges that convenience has played a major role in driving both the company's growth and the kosher food market. "I don't know if anybody makes their own fish balls or chopped liver anymore. Why would you want to when you can buy a pack with a month's life on it?
"In the US there six million Jews, and 17 million kosher consumers. The American experience is now being repeated in the UK. Many non Jewish people buy kosher, because of its perceived high quality level." What's more, online grocery store Ocado is widening distribution of their products. "The Jewish housewife is turning to the internet for her shopping."
"The influences of European foods have also driven us forward," adds Mr Loebenberg, a former food manager at Marks and Spencer. "People travel more and there are greater communication channels between countries."
Born in South Africa, it was there that Mr Loebenberg, now 55, got his first taste of the retail world, helping out in the family business - an associate company of Marks and Spencer - at the age of 11. "I stood on coat boxes weighing sugar behind the scenes. I have happy memories of that and pinching sweets from pick and mix counters."
He moved to the UK in 1976 and joined Marks and Spencer's food department. Mr Bookbinder, who has spent 17 years in the kosher food industry, started out in the family butcher's shop in Manchester. Both acknowledge that the industry has "expanded enormously" in the subsequent years.
The Shrek collaboration, which was launched at a party at the London Jewish Cultural Centre as the weekend in association with their Fusion youth programme, is due to run for around a year to 18 months.
Mr Bookbinder says: "The potential is endless."
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Time-keeper Tom Gretonic of Boardman helped by reminding them that even the kids' race was on the clock.
Published on May 25, 2008
Elizabeth Galla, 6, and her sister Lillian, 4, of Poland needed a gentle push from their father, Bill, to start running.
Wilma DiPiore (#122) of Youngstown was just a face in the crowd until she blew by just about everyone and their mom. DiPiore, at 32 minutes and 47 seconds was the second woman to finish the race.
Steve Eurbick of Columbiana successfully finished as well, experiencing only minor fluid loss.
Bruce Maher of Salem kept hydrated throughout the race with a bottle of water.
Jenn Quinlan of Boardman pushed daughters Adrianna, 4, left, and Genevieve, 3, the entire five mile with flags that must have decreased aerodynamics. Both girls made it clear that the concept of drag does not bother them.
Kristen Etherly came in first in her age group. The five on her medal actually stands for the number of miles she ran and has nothing to do with her competitive standing. Etherly made it clear that the five did not bother her.
Race organizer Maureen Horvath presented a medal to James Stanger of Canfield for taking 3rd place in the 30-34 age group. Immediately, Stanger offered Horvath a peace sign.
L-R: Linda Rein, Dan Rein, Katie Rein and Karl Rein of Austintown. According to Linda, Katie, who has not yet turned 12, is the family's most sought after and experienced runner. Linda said Katie got local media attention after breezing through the Smokey Hallow race at age 3.
Laughing out loud, Jean McConnell of Pinacle Health Concepts went to work on Murray and many others.
While others ate, Beth Murray of Boardman laid face-down on one of the outdoor massage tables. "This is how I've always wanted to be photographed," she said.
Grill master and YMCA volunteer Van Bates of Youngstown offers up another hot dog -- a gesture Jason Schilling had become all too familiar with.
There was nothing calm about the way Jason Shilling, 13, of Boardman, devoured a burger after the race.
While resting, Pasvanis calmly replenished himself with a banana.
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Now in their late 50s, Cindy (#302) and Curt (#303) Grimm started racing in 1983 both qualifying for the Boston marathon several times since. "Running keeps us young," Curt Grimm said, "my wife looks like she's 30."
Amun Rigstad, 34, of Youngstown takes a deep breath after finishing the race in just over 32 minutes. With over 300 people in attendance, the finish line at the YMCA's annual five-mile run offered a look at the people who jog these valley walls.
Published on May 23, 2008
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Published on May 16, 2008
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Ron Unger, director of advancement for the nonprofit ArtsQuest in Bethlehem, Pa., stands in front of the Bethlehem Steel plant. The structure will soon be incorporated into an entertainment center.
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Published on May 8, 2008
Jess McElhinny of Youngstown hangs a banner during a birthday party for the currently jailed ex-congressman, Jim Traficant, at the Royal Oaks Tavern Thursday evening.
Royal Oaks Tavern patrons with cutouts of Jim Traficant, the former congressman, currently in jail, during a birthday party Thursday.
Jess McElhinny of Youngstown passes out "Jimmy's on a stick" cutout faces of former congressman, Jim Traficant, during a birthday party Thursday.
Boys will be Boys! Tyler Fortunato, son of Nici Fortunato has fun at Gaga and Papa's house on his dune buggy, it's where the fun rides are at. He is the grandson of Cheri and Stan Savaet of New Middletown.
Published on May 2, 2008
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This is a 1971 Mach 1 Mustang. I bought this car as a demo in January of 1972. It had approx 5,000 miles on it an came with a full new car warranty for $2995 from Shivley Ford in downtime Niles. I've dated my girl friend, now wife in it. I have pictures of my son as a baby sitting behind the wheel, he is now a doctor with a family of his own. My grandson also had his picture taken behind the wheel as well. My Mach has been featured in national publications. I have kept this car 98% "factory", just the way it was in 1971. Presently it has approx 39,000 miles on it. It is my time capsule, whenever I take it for a spin, my gray hair disappears, life's troubles gets lost for a time and gas is $0.35 a gallon again! It's much cheaper therapy and way more fun! — Robert Macabobby
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Dylan George, son of Angela and Erik George and grandson of Cheri and Stan Saveet of New Midletown, gets a ride on grandpa's tractor.
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Shelley Derrow's son, Tommy, enjoys a "drive" with Peanut.
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A broad-chested and magnificently muscular Samson, having just snapped the ropes that held his wrists in bondage, towers in the center of a tall canvas. His body, barely contained by the scraps of clothing that cling to it, is full of motion: head rolling violently to the left, hair flying, arms tense with the fury of newfound freedom. A buxom woman (perhaps Delilah) cowers near his feet, and men scatter in the distance.
The image is Samson Breaks His Bonds (c. 1660), one of the earliest works on view in the L.A. County Museums current exhibition of Italian Baroque painter Luca Giordano. While perhaps not the greatest of Giordanos works, it is an awe-inspiring gesture that sets the tone for an awe-inspiring if exhausting show. Organized by LACMA in collaboration with the Fine Arts Administration of Naples and the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna and curated by LACMAs J. Patrice Marandel, it is a comprehensive survey that aims to revise Giordanos reputation for being a skillful recycler of other artists styles rather than a master in his own right. Composed of 76 full-size paintings drawn from across the span of Giordanos five-and-a-half-decade career, the shows grandiose selection certainly makes a persuasive argument. The paintings are big, luxurious and full of energy, even after three centuries of age. If Giordano was in fact obscured by time or overlooked by history, he emerges here, like Samson, with monumental vigor.
Giordano was born in 1634 in Naples, a city then ruled by Spain but heavily influenced, artistically, by the dramatic realism of Caravaggio. He had his training in the studio of Spanish painter Jusepe de Ribera, a primary figure in the style that came to be known as Neapolitan Caravaggism, and inherited from Ribera the shadowy naturalism that pervades the first few rooms of the exhibition. By 1656 he was, according to LACMAs time line, the undisputed foremost artist in Naples, and began executing commissions throughout Italy and Spain and accumulating an assortment of geographically diverse influences, including Titian, Veronese, Rubens, Velazquez and, most important, Pietro da Cortona (with whom he also studied). Giordanos colors intensified, his compositions became more complex, and the heavy, candle-lit atmosphere of his early work diffused into a clearer, less emotional but perhaps more celestial light. He was known by his contemporaries for his technical virtuosity and prodigious output, which earned him the nickname Fa Presto (works quickly), and was thought to be one of the greatest fresco painters in Europe. (Unfortunately, though understandably, there are no frescoes in the show by which to judge this claim.) If Giordano never stumbled upon that one revolutionary contribution that would secure him -- like Rubens or Poussin -- a listing on the front pages of todays art-history ledgers, he wasnt wanting for wealth and fame during his own lifetime, and his worldly satisfaction comes through in the work as a buoyant, ambitious energy that may say as much about the spirit of the era as its more radical milestones.
The paintings, true to the ideals of the Italian Baroque, are consumingly dramatic. They are tales of imprisonment, rebellion, war, love, abduction, seduction, rape and torture told in a swirling rhetoric of bodies: herculean men in clouds of billowing drapery, fleshy women whose frocks never manage to cover both breasts at the same time, prophets who glow from within, and stone-gray corpses, not to mention cherubs, centaurs and demons, livestock whose forms gods assume when lusting after mortal women, and an ever-present menagerie of dogs, goats, fowl, sheep, deer, big cats, ostriches and elephants -- all spun up in dizzying swirls of movement and drenched in decadent color. Subtle emotional variations of the sort captured by Caravaggio or Rembrandt are largely forgone in favor of sweeping actions and broad compositional gestures. The best of the paintings are like frozen but perfectly balanced hurricanes, symphonies of color and form.
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In Bacchus and Ariadne (c. 1682), for example, a heartbroken Ariadne, abandoned by her lover on the shores of Naxos, is situated at the base of a smokelike spire of rock and cloud that is scattered with gracefully gesticulating bodies: sea creatures in the water around her feet, Bacchus and his rowdy entourage spilling across the rocks behind her, and a half-dozen listless gods sprawled across the uppermost clouds. The tangled upward motion of the spiral, offset by a brilliant indigo sky behind and punctuated by the circular constellation of stars that Bacchus will install for Ariadne after she dies (Corona Borealis), is a true feat of compositional engineering and breathtaking in so tall a canvas (about 103 inches).
The thematic through line in nearly all of these tempestuous dramas is the issue of power -- the sort that gods wield over mortals, conquerors over the conquered, monarchs over their subjects, the church over its flock, patrons over artists, men over women, and saints over the suffering of the physical world. Drawn from standard Western sources (classical mythology, Homer, Ovid, the Bible and the lives of the saints), Giordanos narratives hinge on archetypal struggles for dominance, whether physical, spiritual, political or sexual: Jacob over the Angel, St. Michael over the Demon, Judith over Holofernes, Paris over Helen, Apollo over Marsyas, Jupiter over Europa. Theyre gripping, psychologically complex allegories in which power emerges in an unexpected variety of guises.
In one painting, a nude Lucretia holds her arm out firmly against the aggressive advances of a clothed Sextus Tarquinius. She is portrayed as the physical force in the struggle -- her body is tense, muscular and angry, while his is nearly limp with an almost sappy romantic longing -- but its a doomed posture. According to the story, she will submit to his rape in order to spare the life of a servant, whom he has threatened to kill, and will then take her own life in shame. Two other paintings depict Hercules, that paragon of physical power, writhing helplessly on a pyre of his own creation -- a suicide attempted after his wife inflicted him with what shed believed to be a love potion but which was actually a poison that sent him into a state of unbearable torment. In The Capture of Christ (c. 1699), one of the most moving of all the works, a robed Christ figure stands in what seems the center of a battlefield, surrounded by half a dozen thick, musclebound soldiers. Though his posture is completely passive -- hand raised softly to the heart, eyes downcast -- it is all the soldiers can do to simply keep hold of him. Their muscles are strained to the limit, their expressions daunted; they seem to be wrestling not with his body but with the glow of his being, fighting against his destined transcendence, and it brings out in their fierce forms the appearance of desperate weakness.
Its a shame that the wall texts, which are refreshingly spare in quantity but relatively spotty in terms of information, dont spend more time on basic explication -- so much of the allegory thats packed into the tangled compositions of these and most Baroque paintings is bound to be lost on contemporary viewers unfamiliar with the details of classical and biblical narratives. These are rich, fascinating stories that only intensify the virtuosity of Giordanos imagery. Still, LACMAs version of Luca Giordano, 1634--1705 -- here in its only North American venue -- is a real gift to Angelenos. Its also really fun. The product of a worldly artist in the heady period of history just between the flourishing accomplishment of the Renaissance and the austerity of Neoclassicism, this is good, vigorous, passionate painting that will surely cement Giordanos good name.


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I am a manager of construction information, tools and people . I believe that hands-on manipulating of project information by all project participants is the key to achieving any meaningful improvement of the AEC industry operating within the post-gambling-era. I consider myself to be a model-based construction information practitioner (shortened to a 'BIM- meddler') rather than an 'expert' or even 'specialist'.
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If you consider what ArchiCAD inherited from Constructor (construction caliber quantities, trace reference, MEP modeling), it appears to be a great candidate for the role. Shame that Graphisoft insists in selling it exclusively as a architectural design tool.ReplyDelete
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Charles Kilpatrick arrived in San Antonio in 1950 after working for East Texas dailies. He rose through the ranks after joining the staff as a copy editor of what was then the afternoon San Antonio News. He was named publisher in 1971, when the newspaper still published separately as The News and the morning San Antonio Express.
In 1973, the Express and News became the first U.S. newspapers to be bought by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.
In an email to the newspaper, Murdoch called Kilpatrick "a great newspaper man" and "a wonderful friend and colleague."
Kilpatrick retired in 1990, three years before News Corp. sold the now-consolidated Express-News to Hearst Corp.
A memorial for Kilpatrick is scheduled for 2 p.m. July 8 at San Fernando Cathedral in San Antonio.


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More than 20,000 Connecticut residents were affected when federal unemployment insurance benefits expired on Saturday and U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal is calling on Congress to extend them.
The benefits expired after a Congressional budget that did not include an extension passed last week.
Connecticut's unemployment rate is around 7.6 percent and Blumenthal said something needs to be done to help the long-term unemployed in our state.
While some call the benefits a driver and a lifeline for the economy, not everyone on Capitol Hill agrees.
Sen. Rand Paul, a Republican from Kentucky, said the longer someone remains unemployed, the less likely they are to get back to work.
Blumenthal said a bipartisan bill would extend unemployment benefits for three months, at a cost of $6.5 billion, but some House Republicans are opposed to that cost and want a plan in place that would offset it.


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New York City
Veggie connoisseur Amanda Cohen fills us in on her big apple favourites
Coffee Shops
Abraço -
86 E 7th St, New
York Microscopic East
Village coffee roaster
Irving Farm - 71 Irving
Place, 89 East 42nd St,
88 Orchard St, 224 West
79th St.
They've got locations all
over the city, like a high-
end Starbucks
Intelligentsia- 180 10th
Ave at the ACE Hotel
Go for the scene
Zucker Bakery - 433 E 9th
A tiny, small-batch bakery
Runner and Stone - 285
3rd Ave, Brooklyn
Everything here is brilliant
Robicelli's - 9009 5th Ave,
If you need a cake, there
is no other choice
NoMad -
1170 Broadway & 28th Street
Pretty much the perfect
high-end brunch
Nom Wah Tea Parlor-
13 Doyers St
Old school dim sum in the oldest
teahouse in Chinatown
Big Splurge Dining
11 Madison Park -
11 Madison Ave.
Expensive and time-consuming but
so worth it
Annisa -
13 Barrow St.
This is how adults eat out
Hearth –
403 E 12th St.
It flies under the radar, but every
time I come I'm blown away
New York City: the best, the brightest, and for some, the
most daunting. It's hard to find anything in short supply
in the city that never sleeps, least of all restaurants to
eat at. Lucky for us, Amanda Cohen, owner and chef of
Dirt Candy and former contestant on Iron Chef America,
was willing to share her favourite haunts with us at
Terroir, and you! Amanda originally hails from Canada,
but since moving south, has carved out a name and
following for herself in the vegetarian food scene of New
York. Dirt Candy is the first vegetarian restaurant in 17
years to earn two stars from the New York Times, and
has been recognized by the Michelin Guide five years in
a row. She shares her thoughts about tipping, restaurant
relations, and the changing food scene in funny and
fabulous articles called Dispatches From Dirt Candy,
and published the world's first graphic novel cookbook;
Dirt Candy: A Cookbook. Check out Dirt Candy's new
bigger, brighter, more mind-bending location at 86 Allen
Street, New York, NY. (212) 228 – 7732.
Northern Spy -
511 E 12th St.
Some people like their dinner, I love their lunch
Congee Village -
100 Allen St.
Great place for congee on a cold winter's day
Kenka -
25 St Marks Place
If Japan had won WW II this is what all the college bars would be like.
Waterfront Ale House -
540 2nd Avenue
Lots of beer, free popcorn, and awesome nachos.
Casual Dining
Vic's -
31 Great Jones St.
Brand new, super-hip, but really, really good
Piora -
430 Hudson St.
Somewhere between high-end and casual, it's Asian fusion at its best
Ethnic Dining
Lan Larb -
227 Centre S, 637 2nd Ave
I eat from here at least once a week
Kokum -
106 Lexington Ave.
Some of the best Indian in Curry Hill
Hot Kitchen -
251 E 53rd St, and 104 2nd Ave.
Hot pot! Hot pot! Hot pot!


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Watering restrictions in place, same odd-even format
It's time to pay more attention to your water usage.
Like any other year, with the hot, humid temperatures and dry ground conditions comes the enactment of city watering restrictions in an effort to reduce daily demands so the city's water supply remains adequate.
As residents have been aware of in the past, simply stated - even numbered addresses are to water on even-numbered days, while odd-numbered addresses water on odd-numbered days.
To go along with the even-odd system another request is that residents not water between the hours of 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. with any other time definitely okay.
Public Works director Barry Johnson said that watering during this time frame is usually futile any way because when it's as hot, windy and dry as it has been the past several weeks most of the water evaporates before it hits the ground, only wasting valuable water resources.
This method seems to be one city residents are familiar with and has been working extremely well each year.
"West Fargo residents have been excellent in adhering to the restrictions over the years," Johnson stated. "They have been really good about complying so we haven't had to go to any type of enforcement phase."
He said the restrictions will be in place most of the summer, depending upon weather condition changes, noting the process works well in reducing daily water demands, which have really spiked lately with the 90 degree temperatures.
Crews are also presently working on refurbishing one of the city wells, which isn't providing water in the meantime which also makes a difference with daily water supply available.
Johnson said the goal is not to penalize any one, only to make sure the city water supply is being use more cautiously and efficiently during the next couple of months when the usage typically will be greater.
Anyone with any questions or seeking more information is encouraged to contact the public works department at 701-433-5400.


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After several tabloids told the public that rock & roll legend Elvis Presley hated the Beatles John Lennon because of Lennon's anti-war, pacifist views, our reporters have discovered that Elvis wasn't exactly fond of actor Warren Beatty either.
Elvis couldn't stand Warren Beatty according to the son of a member of Elvis' long-time back-up group, the Jordanaires.
"Dad spent a lot of time with Elvis and told me he, Elvis, didn't even want you to mention 'Warren Beatty' around him. Elvis referred to Beatty as 'Pretty Boy' and he used a parrot-like voice to say it", stated Owen Sanders. "Dad said that it became a joke. Someone would tell an Elvis fan that Elvis loved Warren Beatty and the poor fan would mention that when she met the king and soon they would hear a 'parrot' quoting "PRETTY BOY! PRETTY BOY!".
Asked why Elvis disliked Beatty so much, Sanders stated that his dad never did say, but would just shake his head and laugh.
"Personally, I think it was because Elvis considered Beatty a rival for the girls and while Elvis was working hard on the road and spending two years in the army, Beatty was spending most of his time with the ladies."
A friend of Sanders also told us that he had overheard Sander's dad telling Jerry Lee Lewis, whom Elvis liked, that Beatty couldn't act. That "Bonnie and Clyde" was a horrible movie because "Beatty ruined it!"
"Elvis thought that he was a better actor than Beatty and would have played Clyde as a blues singer turned outlaw and would have SUNG "Foggy Mountain Breakdown".


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Happy birthday to Paul McCartney! When he formed Wings in 1971, what was the band's first album?
ANSWER: "Wild Life"
What else happened on this day in rock n' roll history? Here's the Rock N' Roll Diary for June 18th, from the College of Classic Rock Knowledge – 100.7 WZLX!
- 1965: The Grateful Dead performed at Frenchy's in Monterey, CA, playing for the first time with Phil Lesh in the lineup.
- 1967: The Jimi Hendrix Experience performed for the first time in the U.S. It was the final day of the Monterey Pop Festival. Jimi's sensational set ended when he smashed and set his guitar on fire.
- 1968: "In His Own Write", Adrienne Kennedy's theatrical application of John Lennon's two books opened at the National Theatre in London.
- 1977: Fleetwood Mac's "Dreams" hit # 1 on the pop singles chart. While the band placed 18 hits on the charts in the '70s and '80s, and had nine enter top ten, "Dreams" was the only one to reach the top of the charts.
- 1980: The Blues Brothers movie premiered in New York City.
- 1996: John Lennon and Yoko Ono's 1972 Chrysler Station wagon that they used to drive across the U.S. in 1975 was auctioned off at Sotheby's for $20,700.
- 2003: A set of stamps honoring the Rolling Stones was issued by the Austrian post office and sales began in conjunction with the band's concert in Vienna.
Checking out the WZLX ticket stash…
- 1972: Dave Mason was at the Aquarius.
- 1978: The Climax Blues Band played the Lenox Music Inn with the Cars.


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A celebrity photographer was struck and killed by a car Tuesday evening after trying to snap photos of singer Justin Bieber's Ferrari in Los Angeles.
Bieber wasn't in the car, which California Highway Patrol had pulled over for speeding on Interstate 405, Los Angeles Police Department Officer Cleon Joseph told Reuters. The photographer, whom TMZ identified as 29-year-old Chris Guerra, was ordered twice to return to his car. Guerra was hit by an oncoming car while trying to cross back over four lanes of traffic, Joseph said.
Bieber released a statement saying he hoped the incident "will finally inspire meaningful legislation and whatever other necessary steps to protect the lives and safety of celebrities, police officers, innocent public bystanders and the photographers themselves."
TMZ reported that rapper Lil Twist was driving Bieber's Ferrari at the time of the accident.
TMZ also reported that Guerra had called a fellow photographer earlier in the evening to say he saw Bieber smoking marijuana while driving.
A rep for Bieber did not respond to that allegation, but did say in a statement, "It's really sad that people are trying to push a story without the facts so soon after this tragic accident. Justin was not present or involved in this incident and the focus should remain on honoring the memory of the victim."
Honoring the victim's memory wasn't exactly what singer/actress Miley Cyrus had in mind when she unleashed a series of blistering tweets after news of the accident.
"Paparazzi are dangerous! Wasn't Princess Di enough of a wake up call?!" she wrote. "It is unfair for anyone to put this on to Justin's conscious as well! This was bound to happen! Your mom teaches u when your a child not to play in the street!"
Julianne Hough talks about abuse as child
Julianne Hough reveals in the February issue of Cosmopolitan that she was abused as a child.
The abuse started when she was 10, after her parents divorced and she moved from Utah to London with her brother Derek to study dance at Italia Conti Academy of the Arts.
"While I was in London, I was abused, mentally, physically, everything," she told the magazine. "I was 10 years old looking like I was 28, being a very sensual dancer. I was a tormented little kid who had to put on this sexy facade because that was my job and my life. But my heart was the same, and I was this innocent little girl. I wanted so much love."
Hough, 24, declined to identify her abuser or abusers. "I'm a very forgiving person, and I don't want to hurt anybody. What's past is past."
Hough plays the survivor of domestic abuse in "Save Haven," which opens Feb. 14.
Fantasia Barrino says anti-gay post 'taken out of context'
"American Idol" champ Fantasia Barrino wants to be clear: She supports the gay community.
The seemingly anti-gay marriage rant she recently posted on her Instagram account was "taken far out of context," according to a statement released by her reps.
Controversy started flying fast and furious when the 28-year-old singer wrote on Instagram (via goodasyou.org): "I Rise ABOVE IT ALL!!! THE WORLD IS GONE MAD. KIDS, THE GOVERNMENT THE church House … Everybody Trying!!!!!!! Its a lot that going on that the Bible speaks about we should Not be doing. Weed legal in some places, Gay Marriage Legal BUT YET IM JUDGED!!! I'm not doing Nothing for you … My Life!!!!"
That post opened a floodgate of angry comments.
Her reps quickly released a statement, saying, "Ms. Barrino is not now, nor has she ever been an opponent of the LGBT community. She has supported and performed at numerous events that are sponsored by the LGBT community. Whether it's through a live performance or placement on social media, Ms. Barrino uses every opportunity to reach out and connect with her fans, all of her fans."
Which still raises the question: What did she really mean in her post?
Barrino didn't provide much clarity in a later post, except to make it clear she doesn't want to alienate a big part of her fan base.
"It has been brought to my attention that something I said was taken out of context," she wrote. "I, Fantasia Monique Barrino, don't judge anyone because I don't want to be judged. The gay community is one of my largest supporters. I support the gay community as they support me. Bloggers please stop misrepresenting the facts."
Sofia Vergara in New Year's Eve scuffle
Someone should have told Sofia Vergara that tossing her fiance Nick Loeb and ex-boyfriend Chris Paciello in the same room on New Year's Eve is like asking to detonate the fireworks early.
Paciello was hosting the "Modern Family" actress and her fiancé in the VIP section of Miami's Story when Loeb and Vergara got into a cursing showdown, prompting a pushing-and-shoving match with someone at a nearby table. A witness told the New York Post, "Sofia stepped in to try to calm the situation, but somehow she ended up getting pushed and shoved also. Her strapless dress was torn or pulled down in the melee, exposing her cleavage in front of other people."
That's the real shame, seeing a Michelle Mason-designed dress abused in such a manner.
Vergara's 20-year-old son, Manolo, was reportedly so offended that he left the club. Apparently, he knew good ol' Mom could fend for herself.
Security tossed Loeb from the club, with Vergara leaving close behind of her own free will. The couple reportedly kissed and made up outside the club, then returned to their hotel, The Delano, for a private party to ring in the new year.
Vergara and Loeb began dating in February 2010 and got engaged in July after a brief separation two months earlier.
Kris Allen breaks wrist, reveals wife's pregnancy
Season 8 "American Idol" winner Kris Allen broke his right wrist in a head-on car collision Tuesday and then dropped the news that he and wife Katy are expecting a baby.
Allen's mom, Kimberly, tweeted a picture of her son in the hospital and noted that he would have surgery Wednesday. She also wrote how granddog Zorro was fine — "Very shook up, but not injured."
She left the bigger news to her son, who tweeted hours later: "Thank you, @Ford, for equipping me with a car that kept my whole family and the little one we have on the way safe … Yes, I got in a really bad wreck tonight, and yes, I'm having a lil baby."
And for those faithful Kris Allen fans who are alarmed by the broken wrist, have no fear. Allen assures that is "Out Alive tour is still on"
E! preps for baby Kardashian-West
Still six months to go until the birth of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West's bundle of joy, but already E! network execs are rubbing their hands in giddy anticipation.
"Kim and Kanye are an incredibly dynamic couple, and their baby news is just so exciting," network president Suzanne Kolb said in a statement to the Hollywood Reporter.
In other words, bring on the ratings boost.
"Like so many Kardashian fans, we love it when this close-knit family gets even bigger," Kolb added.
Exploitation equals money, right?
"We look forward to sharing the joy as they prepare for more diapers, more bottle and without a doubt, more fabulous baby wear."
Ah yes, you can never have too much of the Kardashians.
Hollywood Reporter also reports that the network "will continue to cover all aspects of Kim's life as it always has."
Does that mean cameras in the delivery room?
West announced Kardashian's pregnancy during his concert on Dec. 30. The couple has dated publicly since April, six months after Kardashian split from husband Kris Humphries. The Kardashian-Humphries divorce is still pending.
Today's history
Today is Thursday, Jan. 3, the third day of 2013. There are 362 days left in the year.
1521: Martin Luther was excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church by Pope Leo X.
1777: Gen. George Washington's army routed the British in the Battle of Princeton, N.J.
1861: More than two weeks before Georgia seceded from the Union, the state militia seized Fort Pulaski at the order of Gov. Joseph E. Brown. The Delaware House and Senate voted to oppose secession from the Union.
1868: The Meiji Restoration re-established the authority of Japan's emperor and heralded the fall of the military rulers known as shoguns.
1911: The first postal savings banks were opened by the U.S. Post Office. (The banks were abolished in 1966.)
1938: The March of Dimes campaign to fight polio was established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who himself had been afflicted with the crippling disease.
1949: In a pair of rulings, the U.S. Supreme Court said that states had the right to ban closed shops.
1959: Alaska became the 49th state as President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a proclamation.
1961: President Dwight D. Eisenhower announced the United States was formally terminating diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba.
1967: Jack Ruby, the man who shot and killed accused presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, died in a Dallas hospital.
1980: Conservationist Joy Adamson, author of "Born Free," was killed in northern Kenya by a former employee.
1990: Ousted Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega surrendered to U.S. forces, 10 days after taking refuge in the Vatican's diplomatic mission.
1993: President George H.W. Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed the START II missile-reduction treaty in Moscow. (However, the agreement ultimately fell apart.)
2003: Taking a brief timeout from his two-week vacation, President George W. Bush visited Fort Hood in Texas, where he rallied Army troops as the nation faced the prospect of war with Iraq. David Westerfield, the man who'd kidnapped and murdered 7-year-old neighbor Danielle van Dam, was sentenced to death by a judge in San Diego. No. 2 Ohio State won its first championship in 34 years, beating No. 1 Miami 31-24 in the Fiesta Bowl.
2008: Sen. Barack Obama won Democratic caucuses in Iowa, while Mike Huckabee won Republican caucuses. After nearly 27 years in prison, Texas inmate Charles Chatman was set free by a judge because of new DNA evidence showing he'd been wrongly convicted of rape. Pop star Britney Spears was hospitalized after a child custody dispute with ex-husband Kevin Federline resulted in an hours-long standoff with police. The No. 8 Kansas Jayhawks won the Orange Bowl by defeating No. 5 Virginia Tech 24-21.
2012: The Iowa Republican Party held its caucuses; although Mitt Romney was originally considered the winner by an extremely narrow eight-vote margin, officials later said that Rick Santorum had in fact beaten Romney by 34 votes; however, the party refused to declare a winner, saying that eight precincts had never turned in certified results. In the Democratic caucuses, President Barack Obama ran unopposed.
Today's Birthdays
Record producer Sir George Martin (87), actor Robert Loggia (83), actor Dabney Coleman (81), journalist-author Betty Rollin (77), Hockey Hall-of-Famer Bobby Hull (74), singer-songwriter-producer Van Dyke Parks (70), musician Stephen Stills (68), rock musician John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin) (67), actress Victoria Principal (63), actor-director Mel Gibson (57), actress Shannon Sturges (45), jazz musician James Carter (44), contemporary Christian singer Nichole Nordeman (41), actor Jason Marsden (38), actress Danica McKellar (38), actor Nicholas Gonzalez (37), singer Kimberley Locke ("American Idol") (35), NFL quarterback Eli Manning (32), pop musician Mark Pontius (Foster the People) (28), rhythm-and-blues singer Lloyd (27), pop-rock musician Nash Overstreet (Hot Chelle Rae) (27) and actor Alex D. Linz (24).


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Jim (Casey Affleck) has failed to make it as a self-described aspiring writer in New York City and returns to small town Indiana to seek refuge under his parents' roof. He also failed to make a living as a dog walker in Manhattan, though that doesn't stop him from trying to impress Anika (Liv Tyler) with his professional credentials. She's not surprised he didn't reign in big money and he has to admit that he also worked at Applebee's, which doesn't quite suggest the rugged slacker individualism of his other pursuits. But it's at least a sufficiently honest confession for her to give him a chance. There's nowhere to go but up from there, but the question is how much ambition he's going to embrace.
Buscemi's own career in front of the camera is full of lowlifes, oddballs and inspired menaces from philosophizing criminals in Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs (1992) to the petty criminal turned kidnapper in the Coen brothers' Fargo (1996) to a bowling geek in The Big Lebowski (1998). He's rarely played characters drowning in ennui and trying to figure out their place in the world. That may help explain how he's breathed life and heart into characters afflicted by life's more tedious routines and escapes. While not a box office smash when released in March, the film was nominated for the Grand Jury prize at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, and features very warm and solid performances by Tyler, Affleck and the several other familiar faces in supporting roles.
For Jim, moving home isn't easy, particularly because his brother Tim (Kevin Corrigan) has already done so. Whether Jim ran away from his family or pursued greater things, he's now in the same shoes as Tim, who stayed in Indiana, had children, got divorced and now has to live with his parents so he can afford to pay child support. Jim freely admits he's a screw-up, but as he says to his brother, "your life is a goddam tragedy." And in Death of a Salesman fashion, Tim promptly runs off the road, trying to kill himself behind the wheel, but he fails at that, too, and lives to suffer another day.
With Tim out of commission, Jim's dad gives him an offer he can't refuse, namely taking over for Tim in the family business. At the their small manufacturing plant, Jim is reacquainted with his uncle, who at first seems like an ally and confidant since he's usually stoned at work and clearly is a safe harbor of no ambition. He prefers prostitution to dating, claiming that it's cheaper. But this sets up what appears to be a battle for Jim's soul: the steady but painful silence of a dysfunctional family versus the anesthetized life of downwardly mobile bachelorhood. It's a lonely road, but it's predicated on killing the pain.
Since arriving home, he takes on far more baggage than he unpacks, but Anika doesn't really add to the burden. She's a single mother and not really looking for much from Jim, which he provides. Since she's a nurse at the hospital where Tim is recovering, he can't help but run into her and we can't escape that she's there to care about him.
Jim is driven less by caring than he is by guilt, and that means that in addition to taking over his brother's job he fills in as the coach of his nieces' basketball team. Given that they are deep into a season and not only winless but completely scoreless, it would seem that there's nowhere to go but up. But Jim finds that he has no clue how to coach basketball let alone motivate anyone.
Poor relations and an unfulfilling professional life don't compel Jim to change his attitudes about being an adult, but realizing that he's not much wiser or accomplished than a bunch of children is hard for him to take. Even Anika's third grade son has a better understanding of their relationship than Jim does. When Anika and Jim talk about moving away together to a city like New Orleans or Las Vegas, it's not clear whether it's a real plan or he's just blowing smoke, but she's not going to let him have it both ways.
Jim hasn't bottomed out yet though, and he hasn't decided that he wants to get his life on track. Resolving his choices has little to do with whether he's particularly ambitious or unambitious. Like Zack Braff's character in his movie Garden State (2004), Jim's just trying to feel something; anything would make him feel more at home in his own life.
Going it alone has been less of a challenge than an escape for him. With a second chance to move out of his parents house, he's at least not in such a hurry to move out on his own.


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