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VANESSA ANSPAUGH (Prime Love) is a performer and choreographer. She is incredibly honored to be working with this fantastic amalgam of artists in The Lily's Revenge, inparticular, Faye and Taylor. Other artists she works with include: Aretha Aoki, Jillan Pena, Jen Rozenblitz, Elizabeth Ward, & Lisa D'amour on the Swimming Cites of Switchback Sea production. Currently Vanessa is working on a piece of her own entitled, We are Weather which will be performed November 13th at St. Marks Church.
KAYLA ASBELL (Stage Manager, Ghost Warrior/Daisy/Bee) is ecstatic to be a part of The Lily's Revenge and is honored to be working with the glitter-soaked hoard involved in putting it up. She writes, directs, performs and twirls the occasional tassle from time to time. She would like to thank the cast and crew for coming together to create a community built on love, which is what "community theatre" is all about.
Jonathan Bastiani (Mary Love #1) has dreamed of performing in NewYork since his first role as the Big Bad Wolf in a kindergarten production of Little Red Ridinghood. He studied hard and played recklessly for the next 24 years, making his way here.
This one's for you, Grammy!
WORLD FAMOUS *BOB* (Card Girl) is a Burlesque Star and Storyteller. She has performed all over the world and loves NYC the most. She lives in Brooklyn with her pink toy poodle "Movie Star" and a collection of unicorns in a candy hued apartment she refers to as "The Pink Cupcake". For more info on *BOB* become her friend at facebook.com/dreamcometruegirl.
SALTY BRINE (Assistant Director, Ghost Warrior/The Tick/Bee) Actor: Othello (Dreamscape), Extra Virgin (Under St. Marks). Director: Stones in His Pockets (The Kirk). Co-creator/performer: Run For Your Lives! (D-Lounge). Co-creator/performer of Pepper Mills and Play-it-Again Sam, a cabaret act built with conspirator Justin Levine: Live at the Slipper Room, Death by Vaudeville, and a concert in Union Square. Member of the Naked Radio Writers Room @ Naked Angels. Faculty member, Playwrights Horizons Theater School, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU.
RACHEL CHAVKIN (Director, Ghost Warrior) is a director, theatre educator and the Artistic Director of the TEAM, three-time winners of the Edinburgh Fringe First Award whose work has been seen at NYC's Public Theater and Performance Space 122; Minneapolis' Walker Art Center; London's Barbican Centre; Lisbon's Culturgest; Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre. The TEAM's most recent work, Architecting, was produced by the National Theatre of Scotland. Current projects: Wonder by Steve Yockey at NYU Grad Acting, and Canary by Molly Rice with music by Molly Rice and Ray Rizzo. www.theteamplays.org.
HEATHER CHRISTIAN (Asteria/Mary/Susan) is the daughter of a blues musican and a go-go dancer. Primarily a songstress with her chamber-punk orchestra Heather Christian & the Arbornauts, she can be seen regularly at Joe's Pub and Rockwood Music Hall. Her mixed-media pop symphony, North, debuted at LaMama ETC last year. She has been seen singing Okinawan pop in Big Dance Theater's The Other Here, and as the voice of god in Mac Wellman's 1965UU. She is a core member of Witness Relocation Company (Dancing Vs. the Rat Experiment, Vicious Dogs on Premises, Haggadah). She was last seen with the T.E.A.M in Architecting at PS122, and is currently an in-house composer for the T.E.A.M.'s new work Mission Drift. www.heatherchristian.com
DARLINDA JUST DARLINDA (Bride Love) is a Burlesque Performer/Performance Artist. A Year in Rainbow was Darlinda's "living art" project; from 2007-2008, Darlinda explored a six-colored Rainbow, produced shows and blogged daily about the experience at www.yearinrainbow.com. Darlinda is on the faculty at the NY School of Burlesque. She is the recipient of the 2009 Golden Pastie Award for Most Innovative and Creative! The Village Voice calls Darlinda a "Mastermind of Bizarre Extravaganza." www.darlindajustdarlinda.com.
MATTHEW CROSLAND (Daisy Mattie/Bee/Infectious disease) can be found, most any night, slinking around downtown. He began slumming his way through NYC in 2002 and has since darkened such doorways as MOMA, SFMOMA, the Deitch projects, Pieces, the Hose, and any number of photog glamour mags. He currently resides in Alphabet city with his husband and kills mice in his spare time.
EMILY DECOLA (Puppets) is thrilled that puppets are finally hip. She works with puppetry and masks as a designer, director and performer; recent projects include Hamlet (Public Theater), Peter & Wendy and Prelude to A Death in Venice (Mabou Mines), Carrie (Co-design with Basil Twist, PS122) Women Beware Women, Pericles and Revenger's Tragedy (Red Bull Theater) and LazyTown (Nickelodeon). Emily and her two partners run The Puppet Kitchen: a full-service puppet studio in the East Village. Next up, Compulsion (Yale Rep) and a very fishy children's musical for Royal Caribbean Cruises! Seriously. She is totally delighted to be part of this spectacular epic.
DAVID DRAKE (Director, The Mad Demon) Having directed and developed all five of Lily's acts at the 2009 Sundance Theatre Lab, David is thrilled to have collaborated with everyone for its "Mad Demon" finale. Previously, David directed Taylor's The Be(a)st of Taylor Mac. This year, he staged Deborah Karpel's Songs My Mother Never Taught Me (world premiere, Ruhrfestpiele), James Parker's 2 Boys in a Bed… (Dublin premiere), and his own adaptation of Poe's Fall of the House of Usher (MICA, Baltimore). An Obie award-winning monogulist, David created Son of Drakula and The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me. In January he directs David Parr's Slap&Tickle at Rattlestick.
MIEKE DUFFLY (Bee/Kyogen) devises, writes, performs new works of dance & theater. In 2009, she played Francesca Beam in Room for Cream: A live lesbian soap opera (dir. Brooke O'Harra, La Mama), received the Altvater Fellowship (Cornerstone Theater Company), and participated in EMERGENYC (the Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics). She is currently developing the Patterns Project (more at thepatternsgroup.tumblr.com). Deep love to this entire community of queers and radical performers. Thank you Taylor for your courage!
FAYE DRISCOLL (Director/Choreographer, Love Act) was hailed as "1 of 25 to watch out for in 2008" by Dance Magazine. Her recent work, 837 Venice BLVD, was named "one of the top 5 dance shows of 2008" by the New York Times. She choreographed for NTUSA's Chautauqua! Young Jean Lee's Church and The Shipment and will be choreographing for Cynthia Hopkins new show The Truth: A One-Woman Greek Tragedy. American Dance Festival and Dance Theater Workshop commissioned her new work - look out for it at DTW in March 2010! fayedriscoll.com
JAMES TIGGER! FERGUSON (The Great Longing) is an Actor/Dancer/Stripperformance Artist who has performed in NYC & abroad for 21 years. Tigger! has been NY's premier Boylesque artist for 12 years. He won the 1st ever Mr. Exotic World title (Best Boylesque) at Burlesque Hall of Fame in Las Vegas. He has also received 5 Golden Pastie Awards, including "Most Likely to Get Shut Down by the Law" & "Most Unpredictable Performer." Called "the Boylesque King" by LA Weekly, "hysterical and acrobatic" by The New York Times & "the taboo-defying dynamo" by Next Magazine. He has acted in Shakespeare, Apollinaire, Wedekind, Horváth, a Tennessee Williams world premiere w/Julie Atlas Muz & numerous original works. He recently performed in: Cyprus, England, Hungary, Holland, Sweden, Portugal, France, Toronto, Seattle, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Provincetown & DC. www.myspace.com/tiggernyc, www.facebook.com/TiggerJames
JULIA FUNK (Production Stage Manager) New York productions include: SoloNOVA Arts Festival '09, Paper Angles, Rods and Cables, Fire Island. Currenty, she is the Managing Director of The Collective Revolver.
DAPHNE GAINES (Master Sunflower) most recently appeared in Three Sisters at the Classical Theater of Harlem. Some regional credits include Gee's Bend (Denver Center for the Performing Arts), Three Children (Hong Kong Fringe Theater), A Christmas Carol (Actor's Theater of Louisville). Off Broadway: Faust (Classical Stage Company), Mystery of the Charity of Joan of Arc (Target Margin Theater), Rock-opera Orpheus (HERE Arts Center), Cedar Creek (Abingdon Theater Company), Yokastas Redux directed by Richard Schechner (LaMama), Nightvision: A Vampyre Opera (The Public, BAM, and HERE), Private Battles (Judith Anderson Theater), and Dead Tech: The Masterbuilder (Smack Melon Theater). Daphne is a graduate of Circle in the Square Theater School and has a B.A. in Theater and Psychology from the University
of Georgia.
RACHELLE GARNIEZ (Composer) Performer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist Rachelle Garniez is a native of NYC. She plays regularly around town and elsewhere and has released several recordings of original songs. She has collaborated with a wide variety of artists including Keely Garfield, Sxip Shirey, Maggie Dubris, Marvin Sewell, Jenny Scheinman, and Chelsea Bacon, among others. Rachelle is a member of the neo-cabaret troupe The Citizens Band. Please visit rachellegarniez.com for more info. She is absolutely and completely thrilled to be a part of Taylor's daring and extreme vision of loveliness.
STEFANIE HOROWITZ (Assistant Director, The Deity) is a young director whose favorite directing credits include Mud by Maria Irene Fornes, Hello Again by Michael John LaChiusa and most recently Poodle with Guitar and Dark Glasses by Liz Duffy Adams. She is ever thankful to Taylor for inviting her into this project, excited by the people she has met, and in awe of what has been accomplished.
IKUKO IKARI (Tulip) is grateful for her life as a plant. Born and raised in Japan, she has lived in NYC for 10+ years. Credits include the title role of Morgan O-Yuki, Geisha of the Gilded Age (Ventfort Hall/Shakespeare & Co.), Op3lia (HERE), Songs of Dragons Flying to Heaven (HERE, North America/Netherland tour), Ikuko's Alter Ego (Flea Theater, DTW's Fresh Tracks). Thanks for everyone who's sharing this special adventure here and now.
BARBARA LANCIERS (Baby's Breath) is a company member of the Theatre of a Two-headed Calf and is one of six producers of the Dyke Division of Two-headed Calf's Room for Cream, a live lesbian soap opera playing at The Club at La MaMa. Barbara performed in the SITI Company's production of Hay Fever (Actors Theatre of Louisville) and served as Anne Bogart's assistant on Death and the Ploughman. She recently returned from working in collaboration with the Hungarian Theatre Museum and Institute in Budapest, Hungary, on a Fulbright Scholarship. She holds her MFA in Theatre from Towson University.
KRISTINE HARUNA LEE (Bride Puppet/White Rose Puppet/Bee) is an artist based in Brooklyn with interests in performance, writing and musical composition. She has performed with artists such as: NAATCO, The Talking Band, Shirotama Hitsujiya, Ralph Lee, Jim Neu, The South Wing, Yoshiko Chuma, and with Antony and the Johnsons. As a writer/director she has premiered her original work, Matsuri/Festival. She is a founding member of The Patterns Project. B.F.A NYU, Experimental Theatre Wing.. kristineharunalee.com.
MISS BIANCA LEIGH (Time/Stepmother/The Wind) is an actress, singer and writer, whose stage roles include Livia in Theatre Askew's I, Claudius, Live; Olivia in Del-Sign's Twelfth Night (performed in ASL); Madeline Andrews in Voyager Theatre's Vampire Lesbians of Sodom; and Charlotte Fauborg in Taylor Mac's Red Tide Blooming. Her film roles include Mary Ellen in TransAmerica. Miss Leigh recently performed an excerpt from her solo show, A Night At The Tombs, at PS 122's Avant-Garde-a-Rama.
DERRICK LITTLE (Makeup Designer) created the set for Taylor Mac's Red Tide Blooming and his creative makeup artistry and photography skills have produced memorable images of Taylor Mac that have been seen around the world. Derrick is an internationally acclaimed face and body painter and has created face and body art for Martha Stewart, Madonna and even Donald Trump. Derrick now has sites set on California and the world of film and television. www.bodyartbyderrick.com.
TAYLOR MAC (Writer/Lyricist/Co-Producer/Lily) has performed his work in hundreds of venues all over Europe, Australia, and North America including: The Sydney Opera House, The Brisbane Powerhouse, New York's Public Theater, London's Soho Theatre and Udderbelly, Stockholm's Sodra Teatern, Dublin's Project Arts Center, Portland's Time Based Arts Festival, Seattle's Bumbershoot Festival, The San Francisco MOMA, The Spoleto Festival (North Carolina), Vancouver's Push Festival, and every Spiegeltent in existence. He has performed solo for the BBC, been published by Vintage Press, Playscripts, Inc., New York Theatre Review, and New York Theatre Experience and is the recipient of many awards and grants. He is a proud member of New Dramatists. www.taylormac.net
ELLEN MADDOW (Mary Subprime Diety) is a founding member of The Talking Band. Works that she has written include, FLIP SIDE, DELICIOUS RIVERS, Painted Snake In A Painted Chair (2003 Obie Award) and the text and music for five pieces about the avant-garde housewife, Betty Suffer. Ellen was a member of the Open Theater. She is a recipient of the 2007 NEA/TCG Theatre Residency Program for Playwrights, and a member of New Dramatists. More info at www.talkingband.org.
NINA MANKIN (Dramaturg) is a performer, writer and dramaturg. She has been helping Taylor develop the script of The Lily's Revenge for a very long time and is pleased as punch to see it on its feet. She was dramaturg for the first part of what Taylor calls his Armageddon Couplet, Red Tide Blooming (P.S. 122) and also worked with him to develop the script for The Young Ladies Of (HERE Arts Center.) Nina has worked with numerous theatre artists and musicians (both as a performer and as a dramaturg), including, among others, Anne Bogart, Robert Een, Tony Kushner, Kristin Marting, David Levine and John Zorn. She is currently collaborating with Composer/Writer Ricky Ian Gordon on his musical Sycamore Trees (Signature Theatre.) Nina has an M.A. in Performance Studies from NYU and has read Susan Stewart.
KRISTIN MARTING (Director, Kyogens) has constructed 23 works for the stage, including 10 original hybrid works, 8 adaptations and 5 classics. For the last 15 years, she has been developing a unique hybrid directorial/choreographic form that features a "gestural vocabulary" used both as an emotional signifier and as a choreographic element. She is a co-founder and the Artistic Director of HERE, where she cultivates artists and programs all events for two performance spaces—including 14 OBIE-award winners—for an annual audience of 45,000.
GLENN MARLA (Audience Member/Poppy) is a Brooklyn-based performance artist, tranny superstar and beauty pageant queen (Miss LEZ 2006 and the reigning Mr. Coney Island). Marla has appeared in Justin Bond's Lustre and has brought their gritty theatrical daring throughout North America. Marla gained nightlife acclaim for their year-long performance project New York City's Hottest Fat Go-Go Boy exploring fat, gender and sex. Marla is currently touring their new work Tragic Magic. www.GlennMarla.com
MURIEL MIGUEL (Mary Deity #2) is Kuna/Rappahannock and is a founding member and Artistic Director of the long running Indigenous women's theater company, Spiderwoman Theater. She is a director, choreographer, actor, playwright and educator, having been instrumental in the development of a culture-based methodology for the training of Indigenous performers. Spiderwoman Theater has been honored by the Museum of the American Indian and this year will receive the Women's Caucus for Art's Lifetime Achievement Award. Muriel has an honorary DFA from Miami University in Oxford, OH and has been profiled in American Women Stage Directors of the 20th Century.
JULIE ATLAS MUZ (Choreography, The Deity), star of stage and screen is most famous as a burlesque dancer. She is honored that Taylor invited her to participate in The Lily's Revenge. For more info please visit www.julieatlasmuz.com
JON NATCHEZ (Clarinet, Trumpet, Flute, Tuba, Ukulele) has performed with numerous artists and groups, including Beirut, Bishop Allen, Calexico, Herman Dune, Stars Like Fleas, Shugo Tokumaru, Craig Wedren, Stephin Merritt, John Zorn, and Zooey Deschanel. He has recorded on more than 250 albums, soundtracks, and commercials, playing more than two dozen instruments. He lives in Brooklyn.
DEREK NIEVERGELT (Bass) Along with his renowned ability as a bass player and producer, Derek Nievergelt, possesses a formidable songwriting talent. He's toured the world with many Artists including Terence Blanchard and Cassandra Wilson and has worked as session musician on many Film scores, TV jingles and Albums.
He is also the proprietor of Tight Spot Recording Studios in Brooklyn. straydoghaus.com/index.php/publishing/roster/derek_nievergelt/
UNA AYA OSATO (Kyogen) is an artist and educator born and raised in NYC. For the past two years she has been performing her second one woman show RECESS nationally and internationally. Winner of "Best Female Solo Show 2009" at the SF Fringe Festival and nominated by the NY Innovative Theater Awards for "Outstanding Solo Performance," find out more at: www.recesstheplay.com. Her love for fully embodying her politics and art has also taken her to Brown Girls Burlesque where she goes by "exHOTic other."
FRANK PAIVA (Groom Deity) is ecstatic to be part of this experience. He recently made his Off-Broadway debut in The Bully for Vital Theatre Company. Other favorite shows include A Flea in Her Ear (Williamstown), Robin Hood (Theater Schmeater), and To the Edge We Run (13th Street Rep). Frank recently graduated from NYU's Gallatin School.
EDITH RAW (Bee/Pope) is a performance artist: Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award finalist, spoken word performer in New York, Chicago and D.C., featured performer in Chicago's The Vagina Monologues, Bailiwick Theater's All Girl Revue, Sissy Butch Brother's Gurlesque Burlesque. Recently in NYC: Lincoln Center's Summer Outdoor Festival, CAVE's Butoh Showcase, Art In Odd Places 2008 and Bill Young's Life in Progress II. moc.liamg|0691warhtide#moc.liamg|0691warhtide
MATT RAY (Music Director/Bandleader) has had a long career as a performer, arranger, and music director. His most recent performance credits include a reading of This Life! The Musical (2009) at the 45th St. Theater, and The Panic Is On (2008) a politically themed cabaret show performed by the Citizen's Band. Matt has played on numerous film scores and albums, and has released two albums as a bandleader — We Got It! (2002) and Lost In New York (2007). Visit him on the web at mattraymusic.com.
EMILY REA (Assistant Stage Manager) is thrilled to be working with Taylor and to be back at HERE after production managing rainpan43's machines machines machines… Recent production and dramaturgical credits include New Paradise Laboratories, The Riot Group, rainpan43, Pig Iron Theatre Co, The Lark, Seattle Repertory Theatre, The Play Company, The Assembly, Lucidity Suitcase Intercontinental/Thaddeus Philips, Commander Squish Productions, The Anthropologists, and Emmanuelle Delpech-Ramey. She is currently Production Manager and Dramaturg for New Paradise Laboratories.
SETH REISER (Lighting Design) designs lighting for theatre and dance in and around New York City. Recent credits include: Middlemen/Josie Whittlesey (Human Animals Collective), His Greatness/Tom Gualtieri, NON-Play/Mikhael Garver (The New Ensemble), Radio Play/Tommy Smith (Ars Nova), The Woman/Andrea Ferran (Columbia Stages), Transition/Tommy Smith (OtB, Public Theatre), The Vanished/Awoye Timpo (Novisi), The Seagull/Adrianna Baer (Columbia Stages), The Sleeping Giant/Larry Goldhuber, Shakespeare's Tap Sonnets/Awoye Timpo (Novisi). Upcoming: Twelfth Night/Scott Cummings (Boston College), Transfomations/Ed Berkely (Juilliard Opera), Black Snow/Mikhael Garver (The New Ensemble). Seth is a member of the New Ensemble, and the resident designer of Novisi. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife Mary and daughter Marion, they all LOVE flowers. www.sethreiserdesign.com
AARON RHYNE (Director/Video Design, Living Person) is a video artist and director specializing in theatrical video and projection design. His designs include Jerry Springer: The Opera (Carnegie Hall, The Sydney Opera House), the current revival of Stephen Schwartz' Working (The Old Globe and Asolo Rep), Frank Wildhorn's new Bonnie and Clyde (La Jolla Playhouse), The Civil War (Ford's Theatre), Amiri Baraka's Dutchman (Cherry Lane), The Last Five Years (Asolo Rep), The JAP Show (Actors Temple), Topsy Turvy Mouse (Cherry Lane), Flags (59E59), and Monica Bill Barnes' Suddenly Summer Somewhere (St. Marks Church). He has done extensive video work with Big Art Group and has toured with them through Europe and the U.S. with The House of No More and Flicker. Directing credits include InsideOut (Live Project) Playing House (HERE), Glued to Grammy (HERE), and Princess Ivona (Polish Cultural Institute). Additionally, Mr. Rhyne directs music videos, commercials, and performance projects for television. He is a graduate of Fordham University. www.aaronrhyne.com
KIM ROSEN (Red Rose) is a graduate of Playwrights Horizons Theatre School at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. She is a member of The People's Sketch Association and an occasional sound designer/DJ. Kim can also be seen in Cedar City Falls, a weekly serial at Galapagos Art Space. Licks and love to David, Rachel, and Taylor.
RANDI RIVERA (Rehearsal Stage Manager, Love Act) is a director and designer from NYC. She is a Hamilton College graduate and studied theater at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Randi has proudly worked with many performing arts companies including Dance Theater Workshop, the Atlantic Theater Company, and Venue13 at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. She is delighted to be a part of the epic that is The Lily's Revenge.
STEFAN SCHATZ (Percussion) is a versatile performer on the New York music scene. He has worked with the Mark Morris Dance Group and numerous jazz groups. He has performed on Broadway in Bombay Dreams (2005), Burleigh Grime$ (2006), and Dames at Sea (2009). In 2007, Stefan became a jazz ambassador for the US State Department and has traveled to over twenty different countries. Visit Stefan at myspace.com/stefanschatz
TINA SHEPARD (Mary Prime Deity) worked for twenty-five years with director Joseph Chaikin (Open Theater, Winter Project, Other Theater.) In 1974, together with Paul Zimet & Ellen Maddow, she co-founded The Talking Band.; she was awarded an OBIE for her performance in the Talking Band show The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol. Also: Otrabanda Company, Via Theater, SITI Company, Theater of a Two-headed Calf, Target Margin Theater. She teaches acting and aikido at NYU/ETW.
SAEED SIAMAK (Mary Love #2) has been dancing on earth for almost 2 decades. He is a passionate poet, a crafter of sorts, and a lover of life. Recently graduated from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts he is working and living in NYC.
PHILLIP TARATULA (Groom Love) New York credits include his critically acclaimed solo play Call Me Anne (Access Theatre); Why Won't You Let Me Be Great?! (P.S. 122); Blue Coyote's Happy Endings (Blue Coyote Theater Group); Two Gentlemen of Verona (poor tom); Ixomia (Crown Point Festival); In Search of Stanley Hammer (FringeNYC); and with Collaboration Town: 6969 (59E59 Theatres; IT Award); The Deepest Play Ever (FringeNYC) and They're Just Like Us (Red Room). Regionally, he has appeared at Portland Stage Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Huntington Theatre Co., Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre, among others. BFA, Boston University School of Theatre.
NICK VAUGHAN (Sets) is a New York based scenic and costume designer. Recent projects include ARCHITECTING (Fringe First Award 2008) & Particularly in the Heartland (Best Production, Dublin Fringe) with the TEAM, The Turn of the Screw, Albert Herring, The Beggars Opera and The Rape of Lucretia (Chateauville/Lorin Maazel) The Marriage of Figaro and L'Ormindo (Curtis Institute of Music) POOM2 and POONARC (Yoshiko Chuma) Weddings and Beheadings, Blind Spot, Le Petit Mort and S(even) (Palissimo). He received the 2005 USITT Oren Parker award and was selected for the US exhibit in the 2007 Prague Quadrennial. He's a member of the TEAM and cofounded the The Grocery: An Art Manufactory, with Jake Margolin. nicholasvaughandesign.shutterfly.com
RAE C WRIGHT (The Mary Diety #1) shares an OBIE for Sustained Excellence; appears in obscure&wonderful indies like Countertransference; the zombie-rights film Rising Up; and long-ago, Borders, w/Steve Buscemi as her jilted lover. She's author/performer of solo works that include Vicki Weaver & I…(a comedy about hate), She's Just Away!, Animal Instincts! Tales of Flesh & Tales of Blood; w/Deb Margolin penned&performed The Breaks; in May she played Bernie Madoff in Jennifer Miller's PS122 extravaganza & in August was Mum in Family at Ontologic Hysteric… www.raecwright.com!
NIKKI ZIALCITA (Subprime Love) is a movement artist. She dances for Faye Driscoll (NY) and Keith Johnson and Dancers (CA). When she is not performing, she is waiting tables. To find out more about upcoming performances or directions to the restaurants where she works, add her as a friend on FB. She sends her love and thanks to Taylor, Faye, the whole cast and crew of The Lily's Revenge, and her mom.
PAUL ZIMET (Director, The Deity) Artistic Director, Talking Band. Directed over thirty-five original works for the company. Writer: Radnevsky's Real Magic, Imminence, Party Time, Belize, The Parrot, Star Messengers, Bitterroot, Black Milk Quartet, New Cities, and two episodes, The Necklace. Village Voice OBIE award for direction, and three OBIE awards for work with the Open Theater and the Winter Project, both directed by Joseph Chaikin. Alumni, New Dramatists. Upcoming: performer, Young Jean Lee's Lear (SoHo Rep, January 2010) ; director, new Taylor Mac play, Walk (ETW, April 2010, La MaMa, Jan 2011), writer/director, Action (3LD, May, 2010).
AMELIA ZIRIN-BROWN aka Lady Rizo (Bride Deity) is a former classical actress who reinvented herself as a "cabaret superstar" (NY Mag) 5 years ago. Co-Creator of the cult caburlesque show Lady Rizo and the Assettes, this year she was released on albums with both platinum recording artists Moby (Pale Horses) and Yo Yo Ma (This Little Light of Mine). Theatre credits incl. Tony Award winner Bartlett Sher's Cymbeline (Intiman), Los Angeles dir. by Adam Rapp (The Flea) and productions with Seattle Shakespeare Company, Classic Greek Theatre and Artists Repertory Theatre. www.ladyrizoandtheassettes.com


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BREAKING: XO Music Festival canceled by venue; organizer arrested in February
UPDATED AT 12 P.M. THURSDAY: The Contra Costa County Event Park has cancelled the XO Music Festival, alleging festival promoters failed to fulfill a contractual obligation to provide liability insurance for the event. The insurance would have covered such things as security, lighting and production of the event.
The troubled festival was scheduled to take place between July 12 and 15. Several acts had alleged they were not paid or had contracts slashed. The festival's producer, Habidulla Qadir, is facing unrelated fraud charges. Still, it was neither of those things that led to the direct cancelation.
"If they would have met all of their insurance requirements, we would have allowed the festival to continue this weekend," said Joe Brengle, CEO of the Contra Costa Event Park.
The decision was made because of safety concerns to attendees, the facility and the City of Antioch.
Brengle said his organization did due diligence after the producers contacted him in the fall of 2017. The producers had previously scheduled Southeast Asian music festivals at fairgrounds in San Mateo, Pleasanton and at Great America in the South Bay.
"The feedback we got from the other venues was that the festivals went fine and that they would do another contract with them," Brengle said. The Event Park in Antioch signed a contract with Habidulla Qadir in December 2017. The contract was only for use of the facility in Antioch, not with the booking of entertainment.
Originally called the XOXO Music Festival until a legal dispute with an identically named festival in Oregon, XO has been suspect since its announcement. It originally used logo elements from BottleRock, and the festival's initial claim of seven stages has gradually been reduced to three. BottleRock is not affiliated with XO Music Festival. CBS5 reports that the festival organizer was charged with more than 40 counts of real estate fraud in February, and on Tuesday found setup for the festival hadn't begun.
The ticket processor for the event has begun to issue refunds to ticketholders. That should take several days.
The cancellation of the festival followed several months of unorthodox promotions, including over-promising on entertainment and not naming several headliners.
"It's a music festival that was boasting big '90s rap and hip-hop and I thought they needed some more diversity on their comedy line-up," says comedy producer DNA of Stand Up Santa Cruz, who was hired to book the comedy stage. "That was my initial reach out. It seemed odd. I got the feeling they didn't know what they were doing comedy-wise."
Shortly before the official cancelation bands had begun withdrawing from the festival.
"I fully planned to pull Dangermaker out if things got too shady," frontman Adam Brookes told us. "I had heard from numerous Bay Area artists that they were also pulling out."
Brett Curriden of San Francisco band Lords of Sealand took to Twitter to announce that they dropped out of the festival, citing a lack of "fair compensation" and encouraging headliner Ludacris to pull out as well.
FYI: After fighting to get fair compensation, @LordsofSealand is dropping off the @XOMusicFestival lineup. Terribly sad that we won't be sharing a stage with Ludarcris. PS @Ludacris you are playing a whack festival. pic.twitter.com/biyP052aQY
— Brent Curriden (@BrentCurriden) July 6, 2018
Ludacris, on the XO schedule for Saturday, is also on the schedule for the V103 Summer Block Party in Chicago on the same day. His tour schedule lists him in San Bernardino on Friday.
Brookes said Dangermaker had similar experiences with compensation.
"We were never paid nor offered payment, but to be paid in 'exposure' which is [nonsense]," he said. "But not too uncommon unfortunately if you're a independent smaller band, lots of people take advantage out there."
While DNA insisted on payment for all the comedians, he also saw problems with money.
"My goal was to make sure every comic was paid. I was being pushed from XO to get comics to perform for free," he told us.
"In the last several weeks I was texting him regularly that the promised payment to our headliner comic was super wonky," he explained. "I got varied responses from the 'check was in the mail (never received)' to 'PayPal isn't working for us (?)' to 'Our Venmo has exceeded it's limits.'"
Bob Rosenberg of Will to Power wrote a blog post in which he announces the band's non-involvement and outlines his suspicions from the start. Trinere V. Farrington, another freestyle artist, relayed the same story of a mass cancellation in a Facebook post.
Multiple emails to the XO Festival from RIFF have not been answered over several weeks.
DNA expressed the same sentiment as several of the people scheduled to be involved: "Was this just inexperience and the lure of big money? Or was there something else going on? Whatever the case, it [screwed] a lot of creative souls. From the artists point of view it was a huge let down."
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The 2017 postseason marks the 10th anniversary of LeBron James' first run to The NBA Finals, when his play powered the Cleveland Cavaliers to their first championship series.
Since that 2007 Finals trip, James has been in The Finals six times, winning three championships in that span. He led the Cavs to the title in 2016 and, as the Cavs enter The 2017 Finals, we look back on how James' seven career Finals appearances have shaped both his career and the NBA at large.
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The departure from Miami lacked the drama of The Decision.
You could see this breakup coming from miles away.
After four straight grueling trips to The Finals, with NBA two titles sandwiched between crushing defeats to the Dallas Mavericks in 2011 and the San Antonio Spurs in 2014, it was time for the Miami Heat's traveling circus to close up its tent.
The Spurs had exposed the fact that the Heat's "Big Three" of LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh had eroded. They were less of a super team and more of the sort of superstar-led team LeBron had carried earlier in his career in Cleveland.
With all three of them back on the free agent market in July of 2014, the partnership was on shaky ground and Heat boss Pat Riley knew it. He publicly challenged his stars (namely LeBron) on the eve of free agency.
"You got to stay together if you have guts and you don't find the first door and run out of it," Riley said.
But it was too late. LeBron's mind was already made up. With his four years in Miami serving as the getaway experience he never had growing up in Akron and then playing for the "hometown" Cavaliers, he was ready to come home and try to deliver on the promise he'd made as a teenager to bring a championship to Cleveland and Northeast Ohio.
Remodeling an old 'home'
He broke the story himself, via an essay penned meticulously by Sports Illustrated's Lee Jenkins, instead of opting for the spectacle of another made-for-TV event. As James so simply stated in his piece, he was "coming home."
Twelve seasons into a career that had already exceeded all expectations, LeBron was once again doing the unthinkable and changing the narrative in a way few saw coming. He left Cleveland as a villain ... and returned to hero's welcome, forcing fans in "The Land" to embrace the prodigal son upon his return.
The Cavaliers were a disaster in his absence. After a 61-win season in James' final Cleveland campaign (the 2009-10 season), the Cavs went 97-215 while he won titles and accolades with the Heat. Cleveland did have an All-Star in point guard Kyrie Irving and some talented young prospects such as Tristan Thompson.
But they were far from the championship-caliber team and organization LeBron was leaving behind in Miami.
LeBron's confidence, however, was at an all-time high. It was his time. And he was ready to rewrite his own story.
"He's created his own path," said Hall of Famer and two-time NBA champion Isiah Thomas, who set the tone for the Detroit Pistons' championship era of the late 1980s and early '90s.
"When you look at Kareem [Abdul-Jabbar], Michael Jordan, and even a Bill Russell, those players have been able to carve out their own path. It's hard to measure or compare other players to them. I think when this era is over, I think it's going to be very difficult to compare any other players to LeBron James because he's been so dominant for so long."
Stepping into the overnight rebuild in Cleveland, though, would require patience LeBron simply didn't possess. First, the Cavs would be led by a rookie NBA coach, David Blatt, who had a sterling resume coaching overseas. Second, the Cavaliers had the No. 1 overall pick of the 2014 Draft, Andrew Wiggins, in tow.
But Wiggins and James would never play together. Wiggins and Anthony Bennett were dealt to the Minnesota Timberwolves in a three-team deal that landed the Cavaliers an All-Star big man: the Timberwolves' Kevin Love. Beyond that trade, the Cavs also added two former LeBron teammates from his Heat days -- Mike Miller and James Jones -- as well as veteran Shawn Marion in the offseason.
The Love trade gave LeBron a new "Big Three" in Cleveland -- himself, Love and Irving -- and a reshaped roster that would spearhead a new era for the Cavs.
Transactions aside, the tough part lay ahead for James and the Cavs. He'd have to impart the things he learned in Miami -- particularly winning at the highest level and building a championship culture -- quickly and efficiently. And while LeBron was grinding through the Eastern Conference season after season in Miami, a new power was rising in the Western Conference.
Cavs find their way while Warriors soar
Behind their dynamic "Splash Brothers" (Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson) and under new coach Steve Kerr, the Golden State Warriors took the NBA by storm. Their breathtaking style and deep roster gave them the tools to challenge the San Antonio Spurs, Oklahoma City Thunder, Memphis Grizzlies and LA Clippers for top billing in the Western Conference.
The Warriors were captivating the basketball world with their swashbuckling style and fresh new faces, while LeBron was plodding through another season filled with growing pains and adjustments that needed to be made if he was going to turn the Cavaliers into a title-worthy outfit.
What might have looked impossible from afar, though, looked like something much more calculated to those who had grown accustomed to LeBron's work over the years. After four years of Eastern Conference teams trying to catch up to the power structure the Heat built up, everything shifted to what was going on in Cleveland.
"That's when you know the guy changes the league," Thomas said. "When he got into the league and went to The Finals, every GM, every coach started building their teams and are still building their teams today to try and beat LeBron James. It's like when Lew Alcindor/Kareem Abdul-Jabbar came into the league. Everybody said, 'okay, we gotta build around that.' [Larry] Bird and Magic [Johnson], when they came into the league, it was 'we gotta find a way to beat those guys. [Michael] Jordan, when he started to ascend, everybody started building their team trying to beat Jordan. And now it's LeBron."
That was certainly the case in LeBron's first season back in Cleveland. His return for the Cavaliers what many thought it would, lifting them to the Central Division title, 53 wins and the No. 2 seed in the Eastern Conference (trailing only the 60-win Atlanta Hawks).
Midseason moves to add big man Timofey Mozgov, J.R. Smith and Iman Shumpert worked out perfectly with LeBron promising to shepherd the process and delivering on his word. Cleveland was in its groove as the 2014-15 season closed, winning 10 of its last 13 games to roll into the playoffs.
Another Finals letdown for James, Cavs
Even after losing Love to a shoulder injury for the remainder of the postseason in their first round series against Boston and Irving wrestling with knee issues throughout, the Cavaliers had no problems getting to The Finals. They swept the Celtics, beat the Chicago Bulls in six games and smoked the Hawks 4-0 in the conference finals to get there, punctuating their return to the top of the conference in short order.
"The pieces were good, I think everything fit really well," Cavaliers general manager David Griffin said during the trophy ceremony. "We had incredible coaching that integrated those pieces really well and then we have the greatest player on the planet who made it all work."
It would take more than what the Cavaliers showed through the conference finals to contend with a Warriors team that had morphed into a juggernaut by then. Even with the greatest player on the planet exhausting every ounce of what he could muster to carry a wounded team to the finish line, it wasn't enough.
Irving cracked his knee late in Game 1 of The Finals and was lost for the rest of the series, leaving LeBron to go it without either of his All-Star counterparts against a stacked Warriors crew.
Yet he willed the Cavaliers to a Game 2 win at Oracle Arena and then dazzled in a Game 3 win at Quicken Loans Arena that produced a 2-1 lead that frayed the nerves of the locals, who could see visions of a championship parade if LeBron could just count on role players like Matthew Dellavedova and Mozgov for just two more games.
But it wasn't to be. The Warriors found their form in Game 4 and ran off three straight wins, with eventual Finals MVP Andre Iguodala providing the perfect counterpunch against LeBron, to end their own championship drought at 40 years.
LeBron's work in the series -- 35.8 points, 13.3 rebounds and 8.8 assists while playing a unrelenting 45.8 minutes per game -- had people calling for him join Jerry West as the only players from a Finals-losing team named Finals MVP.
"I mean, I obviously knew it was going to be a tough task, and I continued to tell you guys we were undermanned," James said during the Game 6 news conference. "I don't know any other team -- and I've been watching basketball for a long time; I'm a historian of the game -- that's gotten to The Finals without two All-Stars. I cannot even remember thinking of it. I don't know if it's ever happened.
"Tried as much as we could to make up for those guys, but that's a lot of talent sitting in suits. I've had a lot of playoff runs, been on both ends, and I know one thing, that you've got to be healthy. You've also got to be playing great at the right time. You've got to have a little luck. And we were playing great, but we had no luck and we weren't healthy."
He wouldn't have to worry about it a year later, when the Cavaliers and Warriors squared off in the 2016 Finals under much different circumstances.
James, Cavs deliver on title promise
This time it was the Warriors, fresh off a record-setting 73-win regular season, who were dealing with injury issues to a star player. Curry suffered an ankle injury in Game 1 of Golden State's first-round series with Houston. Then came a knee injury later in the postseason that further hobbled him. In all, he wasn't the same player he'd been throughout the course of back-to-back Kia MVP seasons.
The Cavaliers were more or less the same crew, save for some roster tweaks like adding Mo Williams and Richard Jefferson in the offseason and trading for Channing Frye at midseason. And when the playoffs started, they were the No. 1 seed in the East (holding off the Toronto Raptors by one game) and ready for another Finals run.
Just like in Miami, the second season with Irving and Love proved to be considerably better in terms of chemistry. That proved especially true as 2015-16 wore on and Tyronn Lue replaced Blatt as coach. The pressure of a championship in Cleveland was growing and GM David Griffin, citing that Blatt had lost the team, fired Blatt after 41 games and promoted his assistant, Lue, to the top spot.
Lue's personality and connection with LeBron, and really the entire roster, was the tweak needed to change this team's DNA.
Yet none of that stopped the Warriors from taking a 3-1 Finals lead and looking like they were poised to run over the Cavaliers on their way to back-to-back titles. It appeared to be all but a formality with the Warriors seemingly in complete control.
Well, not exactly. Not with another wild twist in this saga on the way.
LeBron's best move of the entire series might have been stepping over Warriors firebrand and emotional leader Draymond Green during a fourth quarter exchange in Game 4 that completely shifted the energy in the series.
Green took offense to LeBron's move to step over him and appeared to take a below the belt swipe at LeBron during the dust up. The league reviewed the play and Green, who had dealt with discipline issues throughout the postseason, was suspended for Game 5, a potential close-out game in Oakland.
The seeds of the historical comeback were planted. That serendipity LeBron spoke of the year before, presented itself. And he and Kyrie responded with three straight games of exemplary effort and play to will the Cavaliers to a deciding Game 7 on the road.
When it was time to get it done, to finish a game that turned into a draining, slugfest down the stretch, it was James coming up with a game changing chase-down block on Iguodala and Irving draining a jumper in Curry's face in the final minutes to seal the win and end 52 years of misery for a franchise, its city and fans worldwide.
"Cleveland," an emotional LeBron screamed into the microphone during a postgame interview with ESPN's Doris Burke, "this is for you."
"History ... we're in the record books," he said. "We're the first team ever to come back from a 3-1 deficit. This is special."
Three championships. Three Finals MVPs and delivery on that initial promise to bring a title to Cleveland stamped this the decade of LeBron.
And it's not over yet. The ending to this story is still being written.
He has the Cavaliers back in The Finals for a third straight season, a rubber match if you will, against the Warriors.
It's LeBron's seventh straight trip to The Finals, a run the likes the league hasn't seen since Bill Russell's Celtics dominated the basketball world.
LeBron's decade of dominance ... and then some.
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Theatre Review: A Midsummer Night's Dream // Shakespeare Lives
Sir Bruce Forsyth, the veteran entertainer and presenter, has died age 89. He had been suffering from illness for some time and had been in and out of hospital over the last year – something he alluded to in classic good humour by reportedly saying 'I've been very, very busy… being ill!' Many people, young and old, will be saddened by his passing as this national treasure has entertained viewers for decades in classic shows like 'The Generation Game', 'Play Your Cards Right' and since 2004 'Strictly Come Dancing'.
He died peacefully at his home surrounded by his wife of 34 years, Wilnelia Merced, and his children after contracting bronchial pneumonia. Many tributes have been shared on social media from high profile names, including those that worked with him over the years. Tess Daly said she was "heartbroken" and would "never forget his generosity, his brilliant sense of humour and his drive to entertain the audiences he so loved".
Originally a struggling variety performer, Forsyth, who was born in 1928, first came to prominence in the mid 1950's when he appeared on the series Sunday Night at the London Palladium. By many he will be remembered as not only the host but the face and soul of 'The Generation Game', a BBC Saturday night staple and the number one gameshow on television in the 70's. He returned to the show from 1990 to 1995 and was also famous for 'Play Your Cards Right' which he presented in the 80's and late 90's and 'The Price is Right' from 1995 to 2001, as well as a number of unsuccessful gameshows.
Most millennials though will know him from the hugely popular dance contest 'Strictly Come Dancing'. The sequin covered BBC show which has cemented its place in British popular culture revived his slightly waning career and gave him a new audience. He carried over many of his famous catchphrases such as 'Nice to see you, to see you…nice' from previous roles to present the show with co-host Daly. Always relied upon for jokes and moral support, he would often tell contestants that they were 'his favourites'.
Forsyth left the show, which will return for its 15th series later this year, in 2014 in order to reduce his workload. He was knighted in 2011 for services to entertainment and charity following a campaign to award him a knighthood.
The man who will be remembered as much for his catchphrases and personality as the gameshows he presented, had the longest ever TV career of any male entertainer, with his first appearance being on the show 'Come and Be Televised' at the age of 11. He is arguably one of the last traditional British entertainers but he was certainly versatile and didn't let his age stop him from reaching new heights. Sir Bruce Forsyth truly played the 'Generation Game' and won.
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In an article for The Players' Tribune, former NBA player Darius Miles opens up about his early life, basketball career and struggles with depression.
The piece features several anecdotes from Miles' journey to this point, including how the East St. Louis native had a gun pulled on him as a 6th grader, how he almost died riding a Jet Ski at Alonzo Mourning's house, how he ended up with a Jordan Brand deal, and how Shaquille O'Neal once jokingly pulled him over on his way to Clippers practice:
I remember one day I was running late for practice, so I was flying down the 405. All of a sudden, I look in the rearview, and I see the flashing lights. This unmarked police truck is right up on me. Tinted windows. Big heavy-duty truck. Woop-woop. I knew I was speeding. So I pull over, and I roll the window down, and I'm reaching over into the glove compartment to get my papers … Then I hear this voice. Big, booming voice.
I'm like, Damn, they got the sergeant on me or something? I turn to look out the window, and I can't even see this dude's face he's so big. All I see is his chest.
Then he bends down and looks in the window. Big, dumbass grin on his face. It's Shaq.
Miles goes on to address how he battled depression throughout his stint in the League. When his mother passed away, he "pretty much went insane."
I would sleep in the daytime then stay up all night drinking wine and smoking weed, just to try to get out of my head. I was paranoid. I had my concealed carry permit, so I had a gun on me at all times. The worst part was that I had people who owed me a lot of money, and I just got to a point where I was seeing red, for real. I felt like I was gonna hurt somebody, or I was gonna wind up in jail.
I know dudes like me aren't supposed to talk about depression, but I'll talk about it. If a realmotherfucker like me can struggle with it, then anybody can struggle with it.
Darius eventually hit up his ex-teammate Quentin Richardson for support. The two still live down the street from each other in Florida, and Miles says "it's 2018 now and he's alright."
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Mr. Diaz has extensive experience defending management and corporate clients in litigation of employment discrimination claims before federal and state courts, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the Florida Commission on Human Relations. Mr. Diaz has served as trial counsel for clients in jury trials, labor and employment arbitrations administrative proceedings, and pre-litigation resolution processes. Additionally, Mr. Diaz's practice includes representation of clients in trade secret and restrictive covenant (non-compete and non-solicitation) litigation focused on protecting company assets, including litigation of preliminary injunction matters in federal and state courts.
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We aren't afraid of you
To Omar Mateen and all others who plot violence against the LGBT community: We aren't afraid of you. We know real fear. For many of us who grew up lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, our greatest fear was never your automatic weapons, your fists or anything else born in your depraved heart. Real fear was […]Continue reading
Another lively Lammy night
I'm back from New York, where we celebrated another year of excellence in LGBT literature. If you've never made it to a Lammy ceremony, I urge you to put it on your calendar. Whether you're a finalist or not, a winner or not, you can't help but be swept up in the excitement of the […]Continue reading
Love letter from North Carolina
As you probably know, North Carolina recently passed a "screw you" law against the transgender community, House Bill 2, known colloquially as the "bathroom bill" because it limits use of state bathrooms in government buildings (including schools) and rest areas according to the gender on one's birth certificate. Not without irony, HB2 started a pissing […]Continue reading
Trial by Fury — download it today
Exclusive! That's how most marketers launch their new products. You know the drill by now … that gadget you've been waiting for, that you've seen advertised on TV — it's available only at the Apple Store, only at Target stores, only at Macy's, etc. And so it is with new releases from Bella Books. Paperback […]Continue reading
Some thoughts about Chapter One
I've recently begun a new, as-yet-untitled romantic thriller. The story has been rattling between my ears for a while, but it's a departure from a girl-meets-girl romance, since it opens with a couple who have been together for several years. I finally worked out the ragged spots and managed to outline 80% of the plot. […]Continue reading
Get an advance copy of Trial by Fury
Could I tempt you to be the first on your block to read Trial by Fury? Theatre professor Celia Perone brings a campus case to celebrity women's rights attorney Theo Constantine. The case is a sure loser, but Theo can't turn it down because Celia's determination touches a nerve. Though I usually do two books […]Continue reading
A Day of Visibility
I live in North Carolina, a state that only eight years ago was considered Purple; i.e., Democratic-leaning, but still with significant pockets of GOP support. Cancel that. In 2016 our state politics are now Deep Red, enough to give Kansas a run for its money in the race for the bottom in jobs, the environment, […]Continue reading
AWP in LA on April 2
The Association for Writing Professionals holds its annual conference in LA this year. On the final day, April 2nd, I'll be taking part in a panel: Spinsters, Pretty Girls & Bears, Oh My!: Four Decades of Lesbian Writing and Publishing. (Brandy Wilson, Katherine Forrest, KG MacGregor, Karin Kallmaker, Rita Mae Reese) Small lesbian presses were […]Continue reading
Coming in May: Trial by Fury
Ahhhh!!! That sublime moment when you save your document with the words Final Version. I sent one out this morning, a dramatic romance exploring one of the most pressing issues on college campuses. Here's the blurb: Trial by Fury When a coed is viciously assaulted on the campus of Harwood University, performance studies professor Celia […]Continue reading
Fallen Pieces
It's true what they say about time speeding up when you get older. I only realized that last May when Jenny and I were packing up to leave the California desert for our summer place in the mountains of North Carolina. We've been doing the "snowbird" thing for about 12 years — before CA, we […]Continue reading
Two cat or not two cat
I'm a Cat Person. When Jenny & I first met, I had Katie & Gracie (Katharine Hepburn & Grace Jones, from whom I stole my pseudonym), she had Cody & Smokey; and we threw them together rather suddenly under one roof. Gracie liked Cody & Smokey just fine and they became the 3 Amigos. Whereas […]Continue reading


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New Tax Law Takes Effect / Americans to See Exemptions Boosted, Rates Cut, Favorite Deductions Eliminated
Jim Luther, Ap, THE JOURNAL RECORD
The law, which shifted $120 billion in taxes from individuals to corporations over five years, is the most thorough overhaul of the federal income tax in at least 33 years.
Individual income taxes dropped by an average of 2.2 percent in 1987, and when the rate reductions are fully effective a year from now, the tax cuts will average 6.1 percent. In both cases, there are losers as well: About 18.5 percent of all taxpayers will pay more this year and 15.5 percent will face tax increases in 1988 and beyond.
For typical taxpayers, none of the changes will affect 1986 tax returns, which are due by April 15. However, the law requires all workers to file new W-4 forms by Oct. 1, instructing their employers how much tax to withhold from each paycheck. The Internal Revenue Service cautions that delaying that chore too long could result in too little tax being withheld, and that could mean a penalty.
Effective with the new year, the 50 percent maximum individual tax rate dropped to 38.5 percent. It will fall to 33 percent in 1988.
The old system of 14 brackets for couples and 15 for single people is cut to five for 1987. There will be three brackets in 1988 and later years, when three-quarters of all workers will pay a flat rate of 15 percent.
Sharply increased personal exemptions and higher standard deductions mean that a four-member family will be able to make $11,360 this year before paying any income tax, compared with $7,990 in 1986. A single person may earn $4,440, up from $3,560, before incurring income taxes.
Those changes will end the income-tax liability of an estimated 6 million working poor. Other parts of the new law will make it tougher for upper-income investors to avoid the tax collector through the judicious use of deductions.
On the other hand, millions of families lose the benefits of deductions for two-earner couples, sales taxes and, gradually, consumer interest. Writeoffs are reduced for medical expenses and such miscellaneous deductions as union dues. Deductions for Individual Retirement Accounts are limited for middle- and upper-income earners, and capital gains will be taxed as ordinary income.
The new law makes major changes in a tax system long decried as overly complex and unfair. It does little to simplify, although the number of people itemizing deductions is expected to drop by about 13 million. It seeks to improve fairness by requiring that people with similar earnings and circumstances pay about the same amount of tax and that any corporation reporting a profit pay some tax.
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Those Hard-Ons are feeling Crushed
Hard-Ons have a new album about to land - their first with their old drummer Keish de Silva back as lead vocalist. Here's a film clip for lead track "Crushed" shot by Jonathan Sequiera, producer of "Descent Into the Maelstrom" and boss of Cheap Music Videos, who you need to engage if you want your band to have a filmclip without morgaging its backline.
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So I Could Have Them Destroyed Tour
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16 - Mojos, Fremantle, WA
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Your cooling and heating is vital to your home. Since this is the case, it's good to keep the HVAC system in a home working well. If you don't take good care of it, you can expect costly repairs and miserable living conditions. Continue reading to learn more about what you need to know to keep your system running.
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The licensing process can be lengthy. Since Bayview is a compounding pharmacy, we need to file specific paperwork to ensure our high standards are being met. We are working as fast as we can to get additional licenses.
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We will doing everything to protect our customers and employees from Covid-19. Starting 3/16 we will be bringing paperwork to your vehicles and taking your pets into our facility until this crisis has passed. We will bring your pets to your vehicle when they are ready to be picked up. We are sanitizing pens and clipboards with each use.
Our office is also our home so please understand our concern. Some of us have elderly and immunocompromised family members and are concerned about passing this virus onto them. We hate that we are having to take these measures during your time of loss, but feel this is something we must do to protect everyone. If you have any questions please call and ask to speak with Kathy Knighten.
Welcome to Rolling Meadows Pet Crematory
We are located at 2545 Meadows Lane in Longview, Texas 75603. We are a family owned Pet Crematory that services individuals and Veterinarians in the surrounding North East Texas area. We love our pets very much, at times it's been thought a little too much, but we're o.k. with that. We know what it's like to lose a cherished pet. We understand the heartbreak and pain associated with a pets death and we feel no one should feel ashamed of the grief and mourning of a pet because it hurts just as bad, if not worse, than a human loved one for some of us. "They're not just a pet, they are part of our families".
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Rolling Meadows Pet Crematory is a family-owned business committed to providing exceptional service, offering vet clinics and pet owners prompt, courteous attention.
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Self-Propelled Seymour Slog
On Wednesday night, I got a message from Gabrielle Booth: "What are you up to on Saturday? I'm thinking biking and skiing…" Bikes and skis are my favorite things. And someone on Facebook was offering free beer to the first … Continue reading
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My First VOC Trip: Bikes, Hikes, and Lessons Learned
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Rainy Ride to Red Heather
The original plan for this trip was to ride our bikes up to Elphin Lakes where we'd go for a swim and eat a potluck style feast of snacks in the sun. However, it became apparent pretty quickly that mother … Continue reading
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Garibaldi Lake Run – Sept 15, 2018 (aka Plan B to the Annual Cheakamus-Rubble Creek Traverse)
The Cheakamus-Rubble Creek traverse is a breathtaking backcountry route through Garibaldi Provincial Park, stretching from the Cheakamus Lake parking lot to the Rubble Creek parking lot. After meeting at a VOC trail running version of the traverse in 2015, Michael … Continue reading
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Garibaldi Lake Thanksgiving Weekend Trip
Garibaldi Lake is a magnificent alpine lake beset by tall snowy mountains and massive glaciers, it is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Squamish nation – to whom we give our gratitude. Garibaldi is also known … Continue reading
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A quality VOC introduction!
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Cousin of Cave aka FAFF-FEST 2017
Participants: Nick Hindley, Tanner Dobson, Heather Filyk, George Hill, Kelsey Miller, Alastair White, Summer Ash, Aaron Yeung, Weiting Hsieh, Harlin Brandvold. Non-VOC participants: Felix Ossig-Bonanno, Alex Thexton, Ryan Edwards. Day 1 - Written by George Hill Two full cars made … Continue reading
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Island Caving Extravaganza
The trip was limited to five people; At first I was confused as to why the group size was so small, but when you find yourself in a tunnel so tight that to move forward you have breathe in, it … Continue reading
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Thanksgiving on Wheels (Four Lakes Bike Tour)
Having been VOC members for almost a year and having gone on more trips than we can count, we figured it was time to organize a trip ourselves, and Thanksgiving on Wheels was born. Ian later named it the 'Four … Continue reading
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Lake Lovely Water and beyond
30th Sep – 2nd Oct After seeing the weather forecast, plans for the weekend were a bit up in the air; shall we stay or shall we go. Amin, the trip organizer was desperately trying to organize lifts, check people … Continue reading


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Back our Norfolk broadband bid
PUBLISHED: 06:30 29 March 2011 | UPDATED: 15:16 29 March 2011
Archant Norfolk Photographic / James Bass © 2011
A rallying call has been issued to the county's business community to help secure millions of pounds in funding to bring the next generation of broadband to Norfolk.
What would it fund?
Any funding from Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) would go towards ensuring the whole of Norfolk has access to broadband speeds of at least 2mbps.
According to Karen O'Kane, head of ICT at Norfolk County Council, this could be achieved through a mixture of different technologies.
She said: "We don't want to find ourselves in a situation where lots of people end up with really good speeds but a small proportion end up with nothing at all. We are looking for a plan for the whole of the county."
That plan will need to fulfil two key requirements, according to the county council. Firstly, it must be future-proof – meaning any advancements in technology in the future can be easily incorporated into the existing infrastructure. Secondly, it must be open to as many broadband providers as possible to ensure there is a competitive market and customers are not forced to use one company.
Miss O'Kane said fibre optic cables would be the council's first choice.
It is thought fibre technology, which maintains speeds along the length of the cable unlike copper wiring, could reach 85pc of the county.
And, although the cable is expensive to lay, the equipment at either end of the cable could be updated as the technology improved, Miss O'Kane said.
For any areas not accessible via fibre cables, the council expects to see a mix of wireless transmitters – which can deliver broadband to properties within a range of between 8km and 15km – satellite, and mobile phone signals used.
As the EDP and Norfolk County Council launched their joint Broadband: Back the Bid campaign today, they called on the area's employers and entrepreneurs to tell the government how a superfast internet connection could transform their company.
Over the next two-and-a-half weeks, the county council, in conjunction with the New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership and Shaping Norfolk's Future, needs to gather a mountain of hard-hitting evidence which will show the economic benefits of bringing the latest broadband technology to Norfolk.
On April 15, those testimonials will be hand-delivered to the government as part of a multi-million pound bid to Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK).
Last night Derrick Murphy, county council leader, said: "We want Norfolk to be a place where we encourage new skills, boost the economy and create jobs. Broadband will be essential for that and will enable us to really exploit the economic opportunities for the county."
BDUK, which was set up to bring superfast broadband within reach of urban and rural communities across the country, has a total of £530m to award during this parliament.
The cost of bringing speeds of at least 2 megabits per second, and up to 40 Mbps, to the whole of Norfolk is expected to be between £70m and £80m. A successful bid to BDUK could fund at least £10m of that.
Last night Peter Waters, EDP editor, urged readers to help secure that money. He said: "For too long Norfolk has been overlooked by broadband companies. Over and over again, our towns and villages have missed out as the latest super-fast technology is rolled out to other parts of the country, leaving our communities languishing behind as they sit waiting for a page to load or an email to send.
"It is time the county took matters into its own hands but this bid will only succeed if Norfolk works together. We want to hear from every business in the county – no matter how big or small – to find out how access to better broadband would help them grow, create jobs and boost the area's economy."
BDUK believes that, by 2015, two-thirds of the country will have access to superfast broadband thanks to private sector investment and it aims to bring the "final third" up to speed.
But Karen O'Kane, head of ICT at Norfolk County Council, said in Norfolk private sector investment was likely to provide for less than half of the county, leaving more than 50pc in need of public sector support.
Last night business leaders and rural campaigners backed the EDP campaign.
Caroline Williamson, chief executive of the Norfolk Chamber of Commerce, said a fit-for-purpose broadband infrastructure was vital to ensure the county's businesses kept up with the competition. She said: "Norfolk Chamber has been lobbying hard for better broadband speeds so welcomes this new initiative.
"It will be business which drives the Norfolk economy going forward. However businesses need a better communication infrastructure to help them compete effectively. Fast broadband in no longer a 'nice to have' but essential for any modern business."
Jon Clemo, chief executive of the Norfolk Rural Community Council, said a better broadband infrastructure had the potential to address some of the major issues facing rural communities.
Better internet access would stop businesses moving out of local communities and allow more people to work from home.
He added: "It's also important in terms of strengthening communities. If you have got more people living and working in a community, there are more people around in the day which reduces the possibility of communities becoming dormant."
EDP editor Mr Waters agreed that the funding available from BDUK would not just have a positive impact on the county's business community.
He said: "This funding will bring superfast broadband to the vast majority of this rural county.
"Children struggling to get their homework done, parents desperate to find a better gas, electricity or insurance deal, and grandparents wanting to keep in touch with their grandchildren, will all benefit.
"So we also want workers to take the form to their bosses and ask them to fill it in."
Mr Murphy said he also wanted communities to get in touch with the county council to share their stories. He added: "Broadband is so important to everybody. It is vitally important that these people write in and offer their support too. This bid could bring enormous economic benefits, but also social benefits."
In tomorrow's EDP, we look at the broadband hot spots and not spots across the county.
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