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Rehoboth Beach Summer Concert Series
Even though Rehoboth Beach has only 1,300 permanent residents, nearly 25,000 vacationers descend on this charming seaside town every summer - leading to it being nicknamed "The Nation's Summer Capital". Over and above its quaint wooden boardwalk, eclectic art and curio shops, and preponderance of micro-breweries, the Rehoboth Beach Summer Concert Series has been pulling large crowds to the town since its inception in 1963. This free concert series, featuring both established and emerging American bands (nearly 50 in total), is famous for bringing a carnival-like atmosphere to Rehoboth's beach front; and the broad range of musical genres on offer - from classical to folk, to jazz and rockabilly - guarantees that there'll be something for everyone to enjoy.
Venue: Rehoboth Beach Bandstand
Date: Various events throughout summer 2012 (mid-June to August)
Website: www.rehobothbandstand.com


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Adi Mizrahi is captivated by buildings in the historic German Village section of Columbus.
His book and an exhibit with the same title, "Night in the German Village," are about " photographing houses that have a history in each of them," the Israeli-born photographer said.
"Processing each image and learning the story behind each house that was built in the previous centuries made this project so complete for me," he said. "The colors, composition and the lighting around the neighborhood brought me to a new level in my photography."
His exhibit continues through March 31 in the German Village Society Meeting Haus, 588 S. 3rd St.
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Renato Montorsi's attorney, Richard Blake, told Judge John Adams at the arraignment Oct. 25 "he's concerned that Renato's medical conditions leave him incapable of assisting in his defense," Tobin said.
Tobin said Adams, Blake and the prosecution have to agree on a doctor or doctors to examine Montorsi to determine if he is competent enough to stand trial, which will take place at a hearing at a later date.
Montorsi's wife, Teresina, was released on $25,000 unsecured bond after she pleaded not guilty to one count of conspiracy and two counts of obstruction of justice for her alleged role in the cover up, Tobin said.
Montorsi and his company Kennedy Mint, 12102 Pearl Road, are each charged with one count of violation of the U.S. Clean Water Act, one count of conspiracy and two counts of obstruction of justice.
The indictment alleges Renato Montorsi and two employees attempted to dispose of two 55-gallon barrels of liquid cyanide in a dumpster outside of Kennedy Mint on April 16.
When the trash company wouldn't take the barrels, which were each marked with a poison label, Montorsi allegedly punctured the drum and let it dump into a storm drain on April 18, authorities said.On Apri 22, reports of 30,893 fish going belly-up in a three-mile stretch of the East Branch of the Rocky River first began coming in. Water samples collected April 23 by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency came back normal, but U.S. Attorney Steve Dettelbach said cyanide dissipates in water after a few days and is virtually undetectable.
After a citizen tipped off the Berea Police Department, investigators from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency showed up at Kennedy Mint April 25, and the indictment alleges Teresina stalled them at the front door while Renato hid the punctured drum in the back of the warehouse.
After investigators left, the indictment said the Montorsis took the empty drum and the full one to their Grafton home, where investigators found them on June 22.
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Shooters Heard: Interior Will Not Ban Target Practice
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I wonder why? It cannot be for votes in 2012. Gun owners, target shooters, and most hunters will not vote for the monster Obama anyway, so why would the arch leftist Interior Dept do this?
Obama and his administration like to "test" policy by implementing and then backing down when he KNOWS he will lose... too bad healthcare actually passed... he would have given up on that too!!
What a loser this administration is!
Stick to your guns... Carry and protect is my motto ;)
We have seen many lies come out of this administration. Do we dare trust them now?
Guns are vital to liberty. If We the People allow the BLM or any other aspect of government to impede the use of our pistols and rifles, in due time, they will ban their use in public altogether, making ownership of a gun near worthless except for home protection. Of course, the radical left hates liberty and loves the concept of banning all guns starting with making it hard to find a place to even shoot your guns.
Who cares? This would have been just another anti-freedom law that I would have ignored. At some point you just have to say enough is enough.
All Democrats want all weapons to be in the hands of the ideologically pure. No opponents of the Democrats should be allowed to own, handle or even gaze at a weapon or it's ammunition.
Countyfirearms laws aready protects neighbors so there is no need for more control under these pretences. Help keep public lands public!
If these lands are not protected from the masses, where will the new progressive nomenclatura build their dachas?
Recently the BLM posted "private property, no trespassing" at a remote border area in California. The Jacumba site has been used for target shooting for the better part of a century. It is unconscionable for the government to claim public property as "private". By their unlawful action, they demonstrate their intention to eliminate American gun owners entirely.
It seems our government has been hijacked by anti-American hostiles who are proceeding to loot, plunder, and pillage the remnants of our once great country.
Like the tabling of the oil pipeline, the shooting ban will be pushed through after Obama is reelected in 2012.
It's getting close to election tie and President Prancing Peacock is running scared.


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Living in the food fast lane (From the 2011 Summer issue of SONOMA)
Guy carries Morgan on his skin, in the form of Botticelli's Venus
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One school of thought holds that Guy Fieri is a manufactured brand, sort of like the Monkees, a marketing creation whipped up in a PR laboratory after months of careful analysis by studio executives charting the hottest trends in reality TV.
Proponents of this perspective insist there's no way anyone without bulletproof culinary credentials could have risen so far so fast in the food world, going from total obscurity to national celebrity, host of what, five network TV shows in less than five years? Especially with frosted hair, sunglasses permanently parked on the back of his head and what looks like pounds of bling.
Check out his Web site dude. It's a marketing machine. Products in every corner. Shades and shirts and knives and wine totes and custom-made jewelry, not to mention the bobbleheads, the key chains, and the golf balls. And that doesn't even include the DVDs, the cookbooks, and the freakin' Room 101, heavy-metal, death-head bracelets. No way. You can't get there from here. Not without a fix from above.
But an altogether different school of thought will argue that Guy Fieri, proprietor of Johnny Garlic's and Tex Wasabi's, a serial entrepreneur from the age of 10, a kid obsessed with food since at least the first grade, masterminded this whole parade, on his own, inventing the persona, creating the opportunities, designing the products, refining the brand and connecting the dots that led inexorably from a pretzel cart in tiny Ferndale, California, to the host of a nationwide television game show. Holy guacamole! Can that be true?
Well, yes and no. And how does a guy who looks like Guy become a national TV star?
Only Guy Fieri knows the truth about Guy Fieri. But if you spend a couple of candid hours with him, listening not just to what he says but to the voice with which he says it, you come away, if not confused, then at least convinced that Guy Fieri-whatever he is-is for real. Seriously.
You know this because of the Botticelli Birth of Venus tattoo on his left forearm, with the word "Namaste" above it, one of 12 tats on his body but the only one on public display. There is a story behind that tattoo that, if you have any humanity inside you, will draw tears. It is a story that says a lot about who Guy Fieri really is. It is a surprise.
"My sister had melanoma and battled it for a year, and we just lost her in February."
He stops for a moment, collecting his thoughts as a tenderness softens his face.
"I was 22 when I saw the first huge version of Botticelli's Venus. It was early in the morning, I was in this restaurant and I remember thinking, 'Oh my God, that's my sister...beautiful red hair, beautiful complexion, tall. And every time I saw that painting I would see my sister Morgan, that was always my sister."
Fieri credits Morgan with being the family teacher. "She's the one who got me into organics, she's the one who got me into recycling, she's the one who got me and my parents to work on spiritual stuff. And 'Namaste' is what she would always say at the end of her voicemails. You know, the God in me sees the God in you. And when you start to embrace that, it's so beautiful, it's one of the most amazing things ever."
Guy stops. He seems entirely conscious of the paradox, so he addresses it, gesturing at the Venus, who is also his sister, inked on his arm.
"People say, 'Oh, Guy's got a big tattoo, and the earrings, and so on. He must be a big rocker.' I'm not a rocker, I'm a little crazy, but this is the connection to my sister, and I had this done the day before we buried her. So I teach as many people as I can about namaste."
Guy had the tattoo art transferred to a T-shirt. He distributed 150 of them to family and friends for Morgan's memorial service. "Everybody got to wear this (he raises the tattooed arm), everybody got to go away with a little piece."
Morgan remains Guy's muse, his touchstone for keeping things real, the tattoo a roadmap to his heart. "I'm surprised I could even bring it up without crying," he says, "because usually I'm in deep tears at this point."
So much for Mr. Tough Guy. Let's talk about the food part of the picture. Before you can understand how the cooking started you have to understand something about Ferndale, where his parents owned a western clothing and saddle shop. Guy was born in Columbus, Ohio, but Ferndale, the place Forbes magazine called one of America's prettiest towns, is where he grew up, a Victorian oasis minutes from California's Lost Coast, just south of Humboldt Bay and the city of Eureka.
Forbes called it "a surprising trip back in time, with just enough modern quirkiness to make it unique." Part of that quirkiness is an annual kinetic sculpture race that brings together a polyglot collection of mobile, human-powered rolling, floating art for a three-day dash over land and water from Arcata to Ferndale.
It was in that spirit, perhaps, that four-year-old Guy rode his Big Wheels around the streets of the little village, wearing a sign his mother had pinned to his shirt that read, "Please don't feed me."
The sign was necessary because Fieri was obsessed with food. "I would go around with a stick of jerky, a handful of corn nuts, a green apple, a sandwich. It was always about food, what was for dinner."
The problem was, his parents were, as he describes them, "into macrobiotic cooking, vegetarianism, fresh seafood." Guy was into meat. "It became a point of contention, me always wanting tacos and meatballs. When I was about 10 I asked my mom what we were having for dinner. She was making eggplant parmigian. I made the mistake of saying, 'Oh we're having chicken parmigian.' She said, 'No, we're having eggplant parmigian.'
"I said, why can't we have chicken parmigian like the normal families have? And she said, 'If you don't like it, why don't you cook?' So I said, OK, I will."
Guy went to the local butcher, who gave him a couple of ribeyes and suggested pairing them with spaghetti. "I just remembered that when we had spaghetti, the sauce and noodles came together, so I thought you cooked the noodles by putting them in the sauce. So I made this lumpy, mushy pasta."
For the steak, Guy remembers, "I had a little soy sauce on it, pan fried 'em, salt and pepper, and I put 'em in front of my dad. He took a bite, he chewed, swallowed. He looked at me, put his fork and knife down, I thought, 'Oh shit, I'm dead.' And he looked at me, and he says, 'You know what? This might be the best steak I've ever had.'
"And that was it, baby. I was hooked. Literally. After that I would cook everything, anything, all the time I could."
Eventually that included soft pretzels he sold from a three-wheeled bicycle cart called, "The Awesome Pretzel" that he constructed with help from his father. The first summer, as a sixth grader, he made $1,000 at the town fair. Over the course of six years he saved enough pretzel money to pay for a year in France as a high school exchange student.
Fast-forward a bunch of years, Guy ends up in Las Vegas, gets a degree in hospitality management from UNLV, runs restaurants in Southern California before deciding he wants to have his own.
In 1996 he came back to Sonoma County with a business partner, mortgaged his parents house, and opened Johnny Garlic's in Santa Rosa, an eclectic California/Asian/fusion, "If I like it we'll serve it" kind of place. It took off, more followed, he opened Tex Wasabi's, combining southern barbecue with sushi and creating inventive, outside-the-box menu items like the dirty magazine roll and koi fish tacos.
Shortly after Johnny Garlic's opened, a family came in with an unhappy child. Guy heard the kid crying, stopped by the table to see what was the matter and, according to Marcy Smothers, a former radio partner, admirer and friend, the parents told him not to worry about it, the boy wanted a taco but there were none on the menu. They'd just deal with it.
Guy excused himself, went across the street to a Taco Bell, brought back a taco, put it on a dinner plate and served it to the kid. That's Guy.
"I come," he says, "from the world of give back before you ask for anything."
He also comes from the world of do it yourself and don't give up, values he learned from his father, his true hero. "My parents never said you can't do that. They always said, sure, go for it."
The night he opened the first Johnny Garlic's he gave all the food away to anyone willing to donate eight hours-"Not your money, your personal time. Not your assistant's time, your time."-to Kid's Street Theater, a Santa Rosa nonprofit learning program.
These days he's pushing "Cooking With Kids," a national campaign to teach young people the value of growing their own food, knowing where it comes from, and learning how to prepare it. And he's launched a campaign to put Awesome Pretzel carts, like the one he had, in the hands of young people who can learn about food and business while raising money for good causes.
To do all this, of course, requires a certain amount of fame, which brings us to the second season of The Next Food Network Star. This is how Guy got his 15 minutes and turned it into a career.
"The Food Network thing was a total fluke. I mean, I'm not a reality show guy. I don't even watch TV. I'm a chef, I cook in my restaurant."
But Guy did a little self-reflection. "I'm going, why am I not eager to do this? Oh, because, probably, if I do get on, I'll get beat. Who wants to get beat? I finally had to just say, all right, enough worrying about what's in the shadows, you got to just pony up and go."
So in the month of February, his wife eight months pregnant with their second son, Guy took the plunge and got on the plane.
"Flip-flops, board shorts, leather jacket, New York. Never been. Showed up, it was snowing. So I went in, everybody sat around the table, they were filming us, and everybody was like, 'Yes, I studied in France. I went to the Cordon Bleu. I worked under this chef.' It came to me, I said, I'm Guy Fieri, I got a son, another one coming, I own three restaurants and I've never been to culinary school. Cooked all my life, got a degree, dirt bikes, rock and roll.
"Everyone's looking at me, like, who is this character? And so we started doing the competitions, and I never went into the competitions to lose, but I never went in with, I'm going to sell my soul to win.
"And they said, are you going to change out of those shorts? I said I wasn't intending on it. They said, Yeah, we're going to need you to change. I said, could you show me where it says I have to change out of my shorts? I said, I'm from California, I wear shorts all the time. OK?
"So, I just went through the competition. People would fall off, I kept being there."
Finally, naming the winner came down to a public vote. Guy returned to a hero's welcome and an unexpected, unprecedented public campaign.
"It was overwhelming. I mean, the movie theaters put me on the marquee, on the ads between the movies, there were these road marker signs-'Vote for Guy'-all the radio stations rallied behind it."
And he won, board shorts, flip-flops, spiked hair, flashy bling, and all.
Of course, Guy being Guy, he wanted to give something back to Sonoma County.
"The first season I was on Guy's Big Bite, I'm on the set, and I said, 'OK, I'm really into this, a little of Sonoma County's finest.' I was pouring a little sauvignon blanc, and I hear this big booming over the speakers, 'CUT! Guy stay right there.' And I go, oh I'm dead, it's the big VP of production. He comes walking down, and I know I did something wrong. And he says, 'How much are they paying you?'
"I'm, who's paying me what?
"And he goes, 'Don't play stupid with me. How much are they paying you, the Sonoma County Tourism Board?' He says, 'If you drop one more line about the Sonoma County this, the goat cheese that...'
"And I said, no, no, they're not paying me anything. This is where I come from, man, it's my hometown, it's where I live.
And he says, 'Man, what balls, for you to put that out there that early.'
"And I said, I didn't know how much longer I was going to be on Food Network, honestly, I didn't think I was going to be on more than six shows. You guys already have all your super stars, why do you need me?
"And I said, I figured if I'm getting six runs at this, well damn, I'm going to throw a lot of Ferndale and Sonoma County in there."
Which brings us back to the central question. Is Guy Fieri for real?
Really? Could Botticelli paint?
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Nice, clean sculpting. I like the hat, and the face. The only thing I don't like is how the legs attach to the lower body. It looks strange to me - at least from the front view. Maybe it's just the belly fat hanging down that gives the illusion the legs are bending in strangely.
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"We are living on this planet as if we had another one to go to." - unknown
Thanks and yeah they do not look right. I will try another run at it I wanted his legs to look a bit ridiculous on an almost spherical body but they do look like they are warped. Did a very rough test pose just to see what he would look like, legs look a little better here I think. Lamp and bricks were made in maya.
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Surprised you haven't had more comments. It's a good first post. Cleanly sculpted with some character. Could use a few more details.
"We are living on this planet as if we had another one to go to." - unknown
excellent work! This piece will turn out great!
Love the concept and the character design. Really cool stuff! Maybe in profile make at least one of the scarf pieces drag a bit to show more movement? Just a suggestion. Like the base a lot too. Looking cool!
Thanks for the comments, much appreciated yeah I must put in a little more detail. I see what you mean with the scarf. Not worried about loads of comments when the few I got are talented artists. Pointpusher been following your work for years learned loads from your sculpting videos and your live streams especially that one on your texture painting workflow very helpful.
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Very cool! The sculpting looks very clean and the character carries a lot of expression. I can easily imagine a whole movie scene around him..
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Apple picking orc. Feedback welcome.
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Whoa really cool design! I really like the latest post.
The only spot I have any comments on is the back of the thigh. If it's supposed to be robot parts I think it needs to be more complex?
Thanks Nyx702. Yeah your right it does not work its meant to be some sort of amphibious humanoid so there are a lot of liquid bubble type nodules on his body. Thats what the thing on the back of the leg is supposed to be. I really should give him another pass but just sick of working on him
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I really like this, the style is right up my alley.
Glad you Like it Eric
Nice creature!
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I´d rather have a drunken Santa than a Kenyan Marxist....
I watched every part of it except for when the current occupants were shown. The remote got a workout. I think Laura Bush was the most gracious of all the First Ladies and did the best job at showing off the White House. The Barney Cam was a terrific idea.
Who cares.
Reading in the article about Moooooochelle shopping online, I remember hearing Big Ears stating the obamas DID NOT exchange gifts at Christmas. Bet he gets a new prayer rug this year, tho.Their gift to each other is vacation in Hawaii--well natch-----paid for by the taxpayer.
#2 -- ditto in my house.When Laura Bush talked about Christmas 2001, it brought back so many memories. I was a WH volunteer back then in the correspondence office -- so great! -- though they had to suspend our work because of security concerns...anyway, they had to cancel public tours of the WH that year, but did host a party for volunteers. It was amazing, and Mrs. Bush said a few words to all of us. Her tone was understated; she thanked us for our service, acknowledged that it was a sad year but that it was a season of hope. I sure do miss having her as First Lady.
Ok but the puffy soft pieces with Hillary and Chelsea were barf-inducing. Mrs O always sounds like she is reciting talking points. Yuk. Nice to see Barney again!


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April 22, 2009 Complete Bracket in PDF Format The Air Force men's tennis team will face host New Mexico on Thursday, April 23 in the quarterfinals of the 2009 Mountain West Conference Championships. The match will begin at 4 p.m. at the Jerry Cline Tennis Center in Albuquerque, N.M. Mountain West Conference regular-season champion and 38th-ranked TCU enters the 2009 MWC Men's Tennis Championship as the top seed after posting a 5-1 mark in conference play. Quarterfinal action begins Thursday, April 23, with semifinals on Friday, April 24 and the championship on Saturday, April 25, at 2 p.m. MT. No. 43 New Mexico (17-5, 4-2 MWC) is the No. 2 seed after winning a head-to-head tiebreaker with 49th-ranked Utah (16-8, 4-2 MWC), who will be the No. 3 seed. No. 61 BYU (15-10, 3-3 MWC) finished fourth in the conference standings and earns the No. 4 seed, while No. 46 San Diego State (14-11, 2-3 MWC) claims the No. 5 seed. UNLV (13-11, 2-4 MWC) and Air Force (7-17, 0-5 MWC) round out the bracket as the No. 6 and 7 seeds, respectively. Action at the 2009 MWC Championship gets underway Thursday, April 23, with No. 4 BYU and No. 5 San Diego State taking the court at 10 a.m. MT, followed by No. 3 Utah vs. No. 6 UNLV at 1 p.m. MT and No. 2 New Mexico vs. No. 7 Air Force at 4 p.m. MT. The top-seeded Horned Frogs received a quarterfinal bye and will await the winner of the BYU/San Diego State match. Semifinal contests will be played at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. MT on Friday, April 24, with the championship match set for 2 p.m. MT on Saturday, April 25.


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1991 Mitsubishi Mirage mileage: 113,665. When I crank the car up in park, it idles fine, but when I put it in gear, it runs ruff and almost stops. Please advise me on what you think the problem is.
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Telmex to Place Rural Phone Lines in Separate Company
The move by Telmex adds a new layer to a dispute between the company and its competitors.
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Televisa, which was elbowed out of a bidding war for rival Univision four years ago, is now having its revenge by buying in at a big discount.
Televisa to Buy Stake in Univision
Grupo Televisa agreed on Tuesday to invest $1.2 billion in Univision in exchange for a minimum 5 percent stake and a new content licensing agreement.
Lionsgate and Televisa Unite on Films
Lionsgate, in partnership with Televisa, is betting millions of dollars on the creation of Pantelion Films, which will release eight to 10 movies annually over the next five years that are aimed at Hispanic moviegoers in the United States.
Televisa to Buy 30% Stake in Nextel de Mexico
Grupo Televisa said in a statement on Monday that it has agreed to buy a 30 percent stake in NII Holdings' Mexican telecom unit for $1.44 billion in cash, giving the Mexican broadcaster a major toehold in wireless services.
Univision-Televisa Saga Continues, in Court
Televisa's lawsuit against Univision, the private-equity-owned broadcaster it once hoped to buy, began this week in Los Angeles, and the accusations flew from both sides.
Spot Runner Said to Snag Another $51 Million
Spot Runner, an Internet-based advertising network that puts local business pitches on TV and radio, expects to announce Wednesday that it has landed another $51 million from investors including British media company Daily Mail and General Trust, Spanish media group Grupo Televisa, institutional investor Legg Mason Capital Management, and the luxury conglomerate Groupe Arnault/LVMH, CNet […]
Move Networks Rounds Up $46 Million from Media Investors
Move Networks on Monday said it closed a $46 million round of Series C venture investment and cemented key strategic partnerships, as the online television technology developer seeks to develop video services for broadcasters and publishers. Leading the deal is venture firm Benchmark Capital , joined by strategic backers Comcast Corp.'s Comcast Interactive Media, Cisco […]
Mexico's Court Limits Reach of Big Media
The Mexican Supreme Court overwhelmingly voted Thursday to declare parts of a new media law unconstitutional, a blow to the country's two main broadcasters who had hoped to extend their dominance in television to the Internet and telephone service. The decision confirmed several preliminary votes by the court's members in the last two weeks as […]
Televisa Gets Green Light for Mexican Cable Buy
Grupo Televisa, Mexico's largest broadcaster, obtained conditional approval from antitrust regulators to buy a stake in a cable company in northern Mexico it plans to use to offer telephone services. Televisa will be allowed to buy 50 percent of Television Internacional de Monterrey on the condition that it offers its free channels to all pay-TV […]
Mexico's Newest TV Drama Is a Bid to Block a Third Broadcaster
Night after night for almost two weeks, Mexican television news has shown exposés on how poor people suffer from the high cost of medicines. It may be coincidence that Mexico's two competing television companies, Televisa and TV Azteca, have each chosen to focus on this particular social problem at the same time. But their findings […]
Shareholders (Just Barely) Approve Univision Deal
The Spanish-language broadcaster Univision Communications won approval from shareholders to be acquired by a group of private investors for $12.3 billion, clearing another hurdle in its long-running sale process. The vote was close, though, with Univision receiving the support of 63 percent of shareholders – only slightly more than 60 percent that was required to […]
Televisa Abandons Quest for Univision
Grupo Televisa said Monday that it will not make another offer to buy Univision Communications, the Spanish-language broadcaster that it unsuccessfully pursued in an auction earlier this year. The announcement, made in regulatory filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, appeared to signal that Mexico City-based Televisa has finally given up hopes of controlling […]
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A consortium of investors led by Grupo Televisa, Mexico's largest media company, is considering a plan to make a $13 billion bid for Univision Communications after losing an auction for the company this summer, The New York Times reported. The Televisa consortium, which includes Bain Capital and Bill Gates's private equity firm, Cascade Investments, has […]
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A consortium of private investors who won last month's bidding for Los Angeles-based Univision Communications has lined up $10.25 billion in debt financing, making the acquisition a highly leveraged transaction. Chairman A. Jerrold Perenchio and Univision's board last month accepted the $12.3-billion offer from the group, which consists of Madison Dearborn Partners, Providence Equity Partners, […]


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This year the 20 richest women in the world have a combined net worth of $232 billion derived from a diverse string of industries including mining, banking, real estate and automobies. In fact, nearly every woman in this elite ladies' club has seen her wealth increase since the Forbes 2010 World's Billionaires List.
Wu Yajun is a former journalist and editor who worked for half a decade at the China Shirong News Agency. These days, her byline reads Chairman and CEO of Hong Kong based Longfor Properties, a growing real estate concern that boasts rising stock prices and soaring sales since being listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2009. What's newsworthy about Wu, despite her amassed $5.5 billion in personal fortune?
Of the 20 richest women in the world in 2011 as determined by the Forbes 2011 list of The World's Billionaires, she's the only one who's self-made.
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The rest of this rarified group is staffed by widows and heiresses, whose family ties have left them the wealthiest women on the planet.
Christy Walton tops the list for the third time. Walton is worth $26.5 billion. Walton is the widow of Walmart scion John Walton, who died in a plane crash near the couple's Wyoming home in 2005, and hold the most wealth of the seven Walton relatives in this year's rankings.
Right behind her is L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, who moved up one spot to No. 2 and is whose wealth is calculated at $23.5 billion. L'Oreal, founded by father Eugene Schueller in 1909 boasts 23 global brands including Maybelline, the Body Shop and Lancôme, and employs more than 64,000 people.
Bettencourt has been troubled by scandal. In July she was suspected of making illegal donations to the 2007 Presidential campaign of Nicolas Sarkozy. In December she and only daughter and heir, Francoise Bettencourt-Meyer, reconciled and dropped all court cases against each other. Her daughter had petitioned courts in 2008 to investigate reported $1 billion worth of cash and gifts that Bettencourt allegedly gave to Francois-Marie Banier, 62, a well-known photographer, writer and painter whom she befriended. Daughter claimed, and Liliane denied, that Banier took advantage of her mother, who became a widow in 2007.But despite taking a financial hit in the wake of the Madoff investment fraud of 2008, the family fortune has risen since 2010.
Gallery: The Richest Women In The World
Following Bettencourt is another wealthy Walton at $21.2 billion. Alice is the daughter of Sam Walton, who with his brother James, started a general store chain in Bentonville, Ark., in 1962. Today Wal-Mart is the world's largest retailer, controlling more than $405 billion in annual sales. Walton collected roughly $420 million in dividends in 2010 and will rake in even more next year after the retailer raised its annual payouts by 20% starting this March.
The fourth richest woman in the world, Iris Fontbona of Chile, leads as quiet a life as Bettencourt's is gripping. The second wife and now widow of Andronico Luksic, her family controls Antof-- asta, one of the world's largest and most producing copper miners. Son Jean Paul serves as chairman of Antof-- asta, whose shares have doubled in the past 12 months, largely accounting for the Fontbona family's fortune increasing by $8 billion since 2010.
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The widow of John Walton inherited her wealth after he died in an airplane accident in 2005. Repeating her 2010 title as world's richest woman, she got an extra bump in her fortune because of her late husband's early investment in First Solar; shares up nearly 500% since 2006 initial public offering. But the bulk still comes from her holdings in Wal-Mart, the retailer founded by her father-in-law Sam Walton and his brother James in 1962. The philanthropist supports museums, education and organic gardening.
Liliane Bettencourt, 88$23.5 billion
L'Oreal, France
France's richest woman is heir to French cosmetic giant, L'Oreal, founded by her late father. She became the focus of a sensational family scandal; in December mother and only daughter and heir, Francoise Bettencourt-Meyer, reconciled and dropped all court cases against each other. Daughter had petitioned courts in 2008 to investigate reported $1 billion worth of cash and gifts her mother allegedly gave to Francois-Marie Banier, 62, a well-known photographer, writer and painter whom she befriended. Daughter claimed, and Bettencourt hotly denied, that Banier took advantage of her mother, who became a widow in 2007.
Alice Walton, 61
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Walmart, U.S.
The Wal-Mart heiress's Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art set to open in Bentonville, Ark., this November. While Wal-Mart's shares are up just 5% over the past year, she collected roughly $420 million in dividends in 2010 and will rake in even more next year after the retailer raised its annual payouts by 20% starting this March. Her father, Sam Walton (d. 1922), a former clerk, founded original Bentonville store with brother James 1962. Today Wal-Mart has sales of $405 billion, employs more than 2.1 million people.
Iris Fontbona & family
$19.2 billion
Mining, Chile
Second wife, and now widow, of billionaire Andronico Luksic, who died of cancer in 2005. Family controls Antof-- asta, one of the world's largest copper miners. Also holds shares in Quinenco, a consumer packaging and beverage maker, and Plava Laguna, a chain of Croatian beach resorts. Son Jean Paul serves as chairman of Antof-- asta. Antof-- asta shares have more than doubled in the past 12 months, largely accounting for the Fontbona family's fortune increasing by $8 billion since 2010's ranking.
Susanne Klatten, 48
$14.6 billion
BMW, pharmaceuticals, Germany
Inherited stake in automaker BMW from late father Herbert Quandt, who rescued it from bankruptcy in the early 1960s. A trained economist with an M.B.A., Klatten also inherited a 50% stake in chemical manufacturer Altana and has since increased her control of the company to 100% and delisted the firm. Also holds stakes in wind power outfit Nordex AG, carbon and graphite producer SGL, and Geohumus, a company that is developing a water storing granulate to be used in agriculture. In 2009 Klatten won a civil case against ex-lover Helg Sgarbi, who tried to blackmail her for millions in a salacious scandal. Sgarbi is currently in jail. Klatten's personal fortune rose $3.5 billion in the past year.
Birgit Rausing, 87, & family
$14 billion
Packaging, Sweden
After death of her husband Gad Rausing in 2000, inherited packaging giant Tetra Laval along with her three children. In 1944 her father-in-law founded the company, which revolutionized the packaging of liquids such as juices and milk. Today the company employs 31,000 people in 165 countries. All of her children sit on Tetra Laval's board. Son Jorn is head of mergers and acquisitions. Son Finn is chairman of the board of the Swedish R.R. Institute of Applied Economics, and daughter Kirsten is a horse breeder in the U.K. Birgit lives quietly in Switzerland.
Anne Cox Chambers, 91
$13.4 billion
Cox Enterprises, U.S.
Daughter of Cox Enterprises founder James M. Cox (d. 1957), who finished high school at 17 and worked as a schoolteacher and newspaper reporter before shelling out $26,000 for the Dayton Evening News in 1898. James Sr. later moved into politics. Today Cox Enterprises includes Cox Communications cable company, 17 daily newspapers, 15 TV stations, 86 radio stations, Manheim Auctions (cars) and AutoTrader.com. Fortune up $3 billion in past year.
Click here to see the full list of the world's 20 richest women.
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Bios of all 1,210 of The World's Billionaires
20 Jobs Women Are Taking Over
The World's Youngest Billionaires 2011
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You think 1.2M abortion deaths of children, yes BABIES, is a good thing? You call that progress? Just continue the status quo and let nature run it's course, eh? Hypocrite.
234 abortions per 1,000 live births (according to the Centers for Disease Control)
Abortions per year: 1.2 million
Abortions per day: 3,288
Abortions per hour: 137
9 abortions every 4 minutes
1 abortion every 26 seconds
Not true at all, but speaking of hypocrites, aren't you the one who begged that I be banned for lack of civility? Yeah, that was you. At least you didn't mention my mother in this rant, like you did in your last one. Hypocrite.
First of all, you're trying to blame me for the abortions that happen in this country. Roe v. Wade has been settled law in this country for forty years. There's a reason for that. Abortion is sometimes necessary, not always, but sometimes in order to save the life of the mother.
Secondly, do you want to force a rape victim to give birth to the child of the man who raped her? I don't. If that woman doesn't want to go through with the pregnancy, that's HER choice. I'm not in favor of making her prove that she was raped, either. That's her business. If she wants to quietly terminate the pregnancy, she doesn't need to answer to you, me, or the government. That's another thing, you right-wingers hate 'big government' unless you can use them to push your ideology onto your fellow Americans. Talk about hypocrisy!
Lastly, this issue has NOTHING to do with gun control. I don't care what you heard on 'Huckabee', there is no correlation. As far as my personal stance on abortion, I don't like it, but I must be pro choice for the reasons I've already talked about. Do you believe there are exceptions with regards to abortion, alex?
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Mumbai, Aug 16 (IANS) Bollywood admits swine flu virus has scared it but at the same time the film fraternity stresses that undue hype is not the solution. Many among them suggest that the best way out is to alert and warn citizens.
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New Delhi, Aug 16 (IANS) Television soap star Anuj Saxena of 'Kkusum' fame is looking for an image makeover and feels his Bollywood debut in a thriller is the best way out.
Sunday, August 16, 2009 7:50:25 AM
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Sunday, August 16, 2009 7:25:21 AM
Mumbai, Aug 16 (IANS) Govinda has lost oodles of weight and has a new aim in life - to shift from comedy to full-on actioners and to look as 'handsome and fit' as yesteryears actor Dharmendra.
Sunday, August 16, 2009 7:06:28 AM
Chennai Aug 15 (IANS) Bollywood filmmaker Imtiaz Ali says that Kannan, who is directing 'Kanden Kadhalai', the Tamil remake of 'Jab We Met', has carefully avoided the mistakes he made in the original version.
Saturday, August 15, 2009 6:23:48 PM
New Delhi, Aug 15 (IANS) Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty has blasted stores that are selling masks at 'three times' the price when the swine flu situation in many parts of the country is 'grave'.
Saturday, August 15, 2009 5:31:38 PM
Bollywood icon Shah Rukh Khan was Saturday questioned for two hours at the Newark airport in the US over his surname and was freed only after Indian diplomats intervened.
Saturday, August 15, 2009 1:37:38 PM
New Delhi, Aug 15 (IANS) Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni Saturday reacted angrily to Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan being detained at a US airport, saying it was not justified.
Saturday, August 15, 2009 1:02:57 PM
New Delhi, Aug 15 (IANS) Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan was detained for two hours at a US airport after American immigration officials spotted the 'Khan' in his name, his aide said.
Saturday, August 15, 2009 12:18:45 PM
Kolkata, Aug 14 (IANS) Maverick Bengali filmmaker Rituparno Ghosh says actor Prasenjit Chatterjee, who has acted in his 'Dosar' and the latest 'Shob Charitro Kalponik', is like an extension of a director and has it in him to become a good filmmaker.
Friday, August 14, 2009 7:56:06 PM
New Delhi, Aug 14 (IANS) India is in talks with Sri Lanka to bring back Indians languishing in jails there, Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor said Friday.
Friday, August 14, 2009 7:33:03 PM
So overwhelming is the response to 'Love Aaj Kal' in Punjab that Imtiaz Ali is now taking time off from his schedule in Mumbai to be in Chandigarh for a while this week, on heavy demand from the Punjabi audience.
Friday, August 14, 2009 4:57:22 PM
New Delhi, Aug 14 (IANS) Sex workers in the capital will receive free training in hairstyling, beauty and make-up thanks to a 24-hour fund raising event starting Friday.
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Jon Papernick MFA '00
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Author of The Ascent of Eli Israel and Who by Fire, Who by Blood
The Product
An action-packed novel. "Who by Fire, Who by Blood is basically a literary thriller. This guy goes back to Brooklyn to take care of his father who was a controversial judge, and he gets involved in a terrorist plot that he thinks his father has started."
The Problem
"When my agent first sent the novel out it was rejected by everybody. I realized there wasn't enough story there. There was no urgency."
The Solution
Adding more characters, which helped develop the plot, add narrative tension, and give the narrator somewhere to go. "I created an FBI agent who brought in a real tension because you don't know what his intentions are or if he's trustworthy."
Why It Works
It energizes the plot. Toward the end of the novel, the FBI agent tries to get the main character on his side by revealing that the narrator's grandfather had been a gangster in the 1930s—a piece of the story that Papernick was struggling to include in previous drafts. "What I had initially was good writing but it was dead on the page. Having the FBI agent tell him brought the material to life."
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Next up: The five-song (plus one video) EP Basic Instructions (Fantastic Plastic/Epitaph), a brisk, swaggering second helping of the pugilistic pop and thrash Chat And Business offered most thrillingly in bulk. Ikara Colt wears its influences on its sleeves --- much fun can be had by adopting Ian Curtis' voice and intoning "Radio, live transmission..." whenever the bass lines come to the fore on the Chat cut "May B 1 Day" and the grim, buzzing juggernaut "Don't They Know."
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The Columbus Dispatch - February 07, 2012 12:20 PM
No Broadway show has ever run long enough to reach the milestone of 10,000 performances.
That will change with the Saturday matinee of Feb. 11, when
The Phantom of the Opera makes history again.
What is it about this Gothic romantic triangle that has lured audiences into its subterranean
lair for so many years?
Having seen the original Broadway production when it opened in January 1988 and half a dozen
times since then on tour (not to mention its glitzy souped-up version in Vegas), I have a few
theories to share.
Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has had other long-running hits (most notably, Cats) and helped
create several other hits (Evita and Sunset Boulevard) that won the Tony award for best musical.
Yet, none of those shows lasted as long.
Director Harold (Hal) Prince – winner of 21 Tonys, more than any other individual, including
eight for directing and eight for producing the year's Best Musical –arguably has been the most
influential and successful Broadway director of the past half century. Just consider his other
achievements as the show-defining director: the original productions of
She Loves Me, Zorba, Cabaret, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Evita, Kiss
of the Spider Woman, Parade and the acclaimed revisionist revivals of
Candide (1974) and
Show Boat (1994).
Several of these classic musicals arguably are equal or superior to
Phantom, at least from a critic's perspective. But none have connected with audiences so
deeply for decades.
Part of the appeal of
The Phantom of the Opera surely is its evocative staging. Buoyed by Maria Bjornson's
Victorian-Gothic production design and Andrew Bridge's lighting, Prince wraps the story in waves of
rising and falling curtains, which symbolically almost become masks seductively concealing and/or
revealing aspects of the story just as the title character is masked only to be revealed in his
hideous-sad reality near the end.
Certainly, much of the popularity of the show stems from one of Lloyd Webber's best scores.
Whether passionate and romantic, lyrical and sweet or propulsively driving the tale with a
throbbing rock-accented beat, the songs (with lyrics by Charles Hart and additional lyrics by
Richard Stilgoe) worm their way into the audience's heads and hearts. (Some critics have dismissed
Lloyd Webber for too often borrowing tropes and notes from Puccini. Even if this charge is true –
it's certainly most plausible when considering the song Memory from
Cats – no one can deny that the classically trained Lloyd Webber has the melodic taste to
"steal" from the best.)
Of course, the story of
The Phantom of the Opera has often proved popular, with countless film and TV and stage
Frankly, the source material – Gaston Leroux' 1910 novel about a mysterious masked figure who
haunts the Paris Opera House and mentors an ingénue singer – is not exactly a first-rank example of
the best fiction from the Romantic school of art. (For instance, it doesn't compare in scope or
depth or spiritual heights to Victor Hugo's
Les Miserables or Edmund Rostand's
Cyrano de Bergerac, arguably the two greatest works of Romantic literature.)
Yet, as Ayn Rand argued in her book on aesthetics,
The Romantic Manifesto, that school has a powerful mass appeal. Unlike works of naturalism
or social realism, romantic works of art focus on a heroic view of life with a core emphasis on
individuals making choices to overcome obstacles and achieve their self-made destinies. Many
romantic works also offer especially compelling villains, such as the mysterious Phantom, and
gripping (if often melodramatic) plots
The Phantom (Gary Mauer) takes Christine (Elizabeth Southard) to his lair during Act One of
the tour of
The Phantom of the Opera in 2005 at the Ohio Theatre. Dispatch photo by Shari Lewis.
Psychological theories also have been employed to argue that the Broadway musical has
lasted because typical theatergoers can project themselves into the characters. For instance, the
affluent older New Yorker or visiting businessman, who takes his younger trophy wife to see a
Broadway musical ever now and then, can see himself as the talented, hard-working but misunderstood
title character, in love with a much younger woman. Take that template to an extreme and you've got
yet another incarnation of Beauty and the Beast.
Yet, Disney's more family-oriented
Beauty and the Beast, while very popular, only ran about a decade. Many similar shows have
flopped. And frankly, there aren't that many New Yorkers or rich-husband/lovely-wife power couples
to keep any Broadway show going as long as
Phantom has run.
If that theory falls a bit short, consider then a related phenomenon.
Phantom has for years been the longest-running Broadway production, it still hasn't
approached the extraordinary record of the longest-running New York theater show. That record is
still held by a small, whimsical off-Broadway musical that ran for 42 years after opening in 1960.
With the original production reaching 17,162 performances by the time it closed in 2002, this
musical still holds the record for the the world's longest-running musical
Try to remember the title....
Need a hint?
Try to remember when life was so tender
When dreams were kept beside your pillow.
Try to remember when life was so tender
When love was an ember about to billow.
Try to remember and if you remember
then follow...
Follow follow follow
Are you following me yet?
OK. The song is
Try to Remember, by composer Harvey Schmidt and lyricist Tom Jones, and their most
successful musical is
The Fantasticks.
Now here's why I bring this up: Just as
The Phantom of the Opera and
Les Miserables (still the third-ranked show on the longest-running Broadway shows list)
were adapted from works of romanticism, so was
The Fantasticks, an allegorical fable and love story loosely based on Rostand's play
Les Romanesques (The Romancers).
In short, powerful evidence shows that intelligent, well-crafted adaptations of Romantic art
can be unusually popular.
Even a pedestrian adaptation of a well-known example of Romantic fiction can prove more
popular with audiences than expected.
Comparative case in point: Composer Frank Wildhorn's musical of
Jekyll & Hyde, adapted from Robert Louis Stevenson's classic Romantic novel, ran for
close to four years despite mixed reviews. Wildhorn's musical of
The Scarlet Pimpernel, which ran for more than two years, also was adapted from a
well-known Romantic work. Yet, when the same composer worked on musicals without that romantic
pedigree, from
The Civil War to this season's shortlived
Bonnie and Clyde, they've quickly flopped. (Admittedly, that's only a partial
explanation for Wildhorn's increasing failures, which can be blamed partly on his level of talent
and a corresponding inability to find topnotch collaborators to solve the book problems, which
start with finding the right source material.)
The Phantom of the Opera became Broadway's longest-running show in history Jan. 9, 2006,
with its 7,486th performance – surpassing Lloyd Webber's
Since its U.S. debut Jan. 26, 1988 at New York's Majestic Theatre,
Phantom has grossed $845 million, more than any other show in Broadway history. Worldwide,
its grosses are estimated at more than $5.6 billion.
More than 130 million people in 27 countries and 145 cities in 13 languages have seen
Phantom onstage, making it the most successful entertainment venture of all time – beating
the world grosses of
Titanic, Star Wars and
Its romanticism, I think, is a key ingredient in the unprecedented appeal of
The Phantom of the Opera.
But the phenomenon that
Phantom has become wouldn't be possible without a host of contributing factors – from the
music and staging to the psychological resonance of its romantic triangle and its symbolism about
the social masks we all wear.
The Phantom of the Opera continues with an open-ended run at 8 p.m. Mondays, 7 p.m.
Tuesdays, 2 and 8 p.m. Wednesdays and Saturdays and 8 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays at New York's
Majestic Theatre. Tickets cost $26.50 to $131.50 at Telecharge (212-239-6200,
www.telecharge.com) For more information,
www.phantombroadway.com or Facebook:
PhantomBroadway or Twitter: OperaGhosts
Want to catch a seasonal favorite flick outside of your living room? Look no further:
Cast albums make great stocking stuffers.
They're not only the right size to fit stockings, but their songs can generate comfort and
joy year round.
Even better, though, is when the cast album connects explicitly to the spirits of the season.
Cases in point:
A Christmas Story, Elf and
How the Grinch Stole Christmas - just a few of the classic movies that have inspired solid
Broadway musicals in recent seasons.
Jay Z had the most nominations, and his album appears on a number of year-end best-of lists, but the artist took a backseat to a couple virtual hip hop newcomers when the 56th annual Grammy Awards were announced yesterday.
While Shawn Carter (a.k.a. Jay Z) grabbed 9 nominations, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis and Kendrick Lamar gave him 99 problems by taking the high-profile nominations that didn't include the genre's icon. Jay Z's Magna Carta...Holy Grail was passed over for album of the year in favor of Kendrick Lamar's Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' The Heist. Both acts were also nominated for best new artist. Taylor Swift, Daft Punk and Sara Bareilles also were nominated in the category.
The major nominations included a record of the year nomination for Get Lucky by Daft Punk and Blurred Lines by Robin Thicke featuring T.I. & Pharrell, two songs blaring from car stereos all summer. The popular Royals by Lorde also was nominated.
Jay Z wasn't the only popular music mainstay to be passed over. While his only nod in a major award category came in the form of his appearance on Lamar's album, Justin Timberlake was nominated only in minor categories for best solo pop vocal performance (Mirrors) and best pop duo/group performance with (oddly enough) Jay Z.
Kanye West was also passed over in the major categories. A year after vocally expressing distaste for the ceremony, it is not yet known whether the mercurial artist will appear at the Grammys.
Millions of people saw the live TV broadcast of
The Sound of Music, the first major TV musical in years and the first live musical on TV
in decades.
The production went pretty well Thursday on NBC - no major glitches or hitches that I
could see, and the singing and acting were pretty good - enough to justify an encore with more
great musicals brought to TV. If you saw and enjoyed the broadcast, you should grab the
just-released cast album. If you didn't, the singing might prompt you to catch up with the TV show
on Hulu or NBC's website.
Cast albums are not only good souvenirs after seeing a musical, but also
a great way to familiarize yourself with great songs that tell a story.
If you haven't seen the musical yet, cast albums can introduce you to their strengths – and
sometimes, their potential flaws.
Of course, this season, cast albums (and solo albums by Broadway talents) make great stocking
If I had to pick just two cast albums as gifts for people who love good musicals and good
music, I'd recommend
Matilda the Musical – the most impressive new Broadway musicals of the past season
But there was a lot of other worthwhile theater music that came out this year.


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There is something very undignified about losing a fight with a bicycle rack. Even if you do manage to win you still can't walk away without feeling more than a little humiliated.
The problem is that there are just so many bicycles in Amsterdam and so few bicycle racks to park them in. Bicycles end up being forced in to them and tightly jammed together at all kinds of odd angles. And because it is often impossible to find anywhere else, you have no other option but to add your own bike to the tangled mess when you want to chain it up somewhere.
Parking your bicycle in a bicycle rack is an exercise in brute force and perseverance and it is very important that you don't mind (or care) if a few things get broken in the process. Peddles get trapped in wheels and handle bars become entangled with brake cables. It's like trying to force two unrelated jigsaw puzzle pieces together with a hammer (if they were both made out of sharp, rusty metal). It's a task that would send even the most calm and serene of people into a blind rage. Even when you have managed to do it (and the urge to murder has started to diminish) the real trouble has only just begun.
Because you have now 'successfully' forced your bicycle between its two rusty neighbours there is even less room for you to manoeuvre and you still have to somehow lock your bicycle to the rack.
Reaching over the handlebars won't work because you can no longer squeeze yourself between the bikes to get close enough (even when awkwardly stretching over while standing on one leg).
This often leaves you no other option but to crouch down and squeeze yourself awkwardly between the bicycles as you reach out, chain in one hand and the keys in the other, trying to lock bicycle and rack together and remain calm. However, as if this situation was not infuriating enough already you will inevitably find your goal frustratingly just out of reach when your coat or backpack suddenly becomes caught on some random bicycle part which you are now unable to free yourself from. At this point it's worth questioning how much you actually like cycling and if it is all worth it.
But eventually, after much frustrated and annoyed struggling, you finally manage to reach and successfully lock the chain around the front of your bicycle and the rack. You can relax. You have been successful…
But then you try to stand up.
Whatever random bicycle part you became snagged upon while trying to lock your bike is now the same one stopping you from backing out as well (and threatening to pull half your clothes off over your head if you try). It's like being a fly trapped in a spider web made of bicycle chains and break cables.
It is then, after a while of unsuccessfully struggling to get free a very embarrassing realisation starts to settle in. You are a grown man (or woman) trapped in a bicycle rack and you have only two options open to you. Remain trapped for several hours or face the humiliation of of having to call out for help from a random passerby (which should not be too hard because by now you've already drawn a crowd of on lookers).
And as if that was not enough you know that whichever option you choose you have to do the whole thing in reverse when you want your bicycle back.
"Cabin crew to landing positions please. Cabin crew to landing positions."
I sit up suddenly, snapped out of my day dreaming by the unexpected announcement. What? Landing? How can we be landing now?
"Ladies and gentlemen this is your captain speaking. We will shortly be arriving at Rotterdam central."
Rotterdam? I don't even know if Rotterdam has an airport? How can we be landing there? What is going on?
"The local time is 11:16pm. Weather conditions are good with a temperature of -2."
I am deeply confused, not because we are making a sudden and un-expected landing but because we are making any kind of landing at all, because I am sitting on a train, a normal, regular train that does not have wings and is not capable of flight (as far as I know it).
"We hope you have enjoyed your flight with the Dutch railway service and we hope to see you again soon."
Maybe the train driver is having a nervous breakdown…
"Dames en heren. Excuuses voor mijn alter-ego, de Engelse Kapitein. De volgende stop is Rotterdam Centraal."
…or has a split personality.
As I stare out into the cold night air of Rotterdam from the station platform where I await the arrival of my train I realize that I am a man who has been lied to. I am a man who has been wronged… I am a man suffering injustice.
The train time table clearly stated that the next train to Dordrecht would be arriving at platform 7 at 23:01 but it is 23:02 and there is no train in sight. I am annoyed. It is not the first time a train time table has lied to me.
The platform's electronic information board provides me with no assistance either. Instead it simply sits there, blank, suggesting that the train has been cancelled all together.
"This really takes the biscuit." I mutter under my breath bitterly, evoking snack food to punctuate my anger at the sheer injustice of it all.
Sure it is only a minute but that is not the point. I'm not just annoyed about this delay but all the delays we have all had to suffer in our lives. All the unexpected technical difficulties, broken signals and leaves on the line we have all had to endure.
It becomes clear to me what must be done. We the passengers must unite. They cannot ignore us all if we unify. We must rise up as one and in a united voice tell them, "One minute is not an expectable delay." Oh yes! As the spirit of rebellion rises inside me I decide that I will be that first voice. I will be heard. If they think I'm going to let them get away with this any longer they have another thing coming. If they think I'm simply going to stand here on platform 6 and…
"Oh no!"
My internal rant suddenly comes a halt as I realize my horrible mistake. I am standing at platform 6. I should be standing at platform 7. Platform 7 is directly behind me… and so is my train.
I spin around just in time to see the doors of the 23:01 to Dordrecht closing. It's so close I can almost touch it. How could I have failed to notice an entire train arriving directly behind me?
All I can do is simply watch as my train slowly pulls out of the station and begins its journey towards Dordrecht. I Sigh and check the train time table. The next train is at 23:31.
"I am a man!"
Nearby co-workers turned their heads as I strolled into the office with great pride and triumph booming from my voice. They we are all obviously deeply curious and jealous about whatever achievement had caused me to display such manly pride.
"What is it this time?" One of them asked.
"I have just successfully figured out how to ride my bicycle with no hands." I waved my hands as I relayed the story in case there was any doubt that I had hands.
"Congratulations," my obviously envious Dutch co-worker replied, "You can now do the same thing that every five year old in this country can do."
Not to be put down by this I grinded and quickly added, "And I have the language skills to match."


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- n. Slang A professional dancer, especially a tap dancer.
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- n. A professional dancer, particularly one who has paid his or her dues
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