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Here we are at the final day of Dumb Fest 6. Today we are mixing things up and not having any shows at our usual spots of Black Sheep or Skank Skates. Instead we have two shows happening – one on the steps of the Old Illinois State Capitol downtown.
The Illinois Old State Capitol starts right at 12:30 pm with the band Bottom Bracket. Bands will be set up on to the North of the building. The show is also free! Other bands playing include Pleather, MOM, Nectar, and Ghoul Jr.
The second show is at the one and only Rock N' Roll Hardee's in the whole world, and is the third time we've gotten a chance to set up a show at their bandstand outside. Of course legendary Springfield band NIL8 will be closing out the evening there, and that show will start at 4:30 pm and likely go until 8:00 pm. Admission for that is also free. Other than NIL8 the lineup includes Special Interest from New Orleans, Spodee Boy from Nashville, Tennessee, and Pineapple RNR fron St. Louis.
Check out a facebook event for Dumb Fest 6 right here.


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Actor Lee Min Ho Wants to Play A Non-Fussy Role Next?
Actor Lee Min Ho recently described the role he'd like to play next, surprising fans with his unexpected pick!
On the most recent episode of MBC's "Section TV: Entertainment News," actor Lee Min Ho made a guest appearance for a special interview.
When asked if he had considered what roles he would like to play next, he replied, "I'd really like to play actor Kim Rae Won's character in 'Rooftop Room Cat'" (a.k.a. "Attic Cat"). He explained, "I want to play a comfortable role where I can walk around and drag my feet in slippers. I am confident I could pull it off."
Lee Min Ho also talks about being the first Korean celebrity to partake in Chinese CCTV's "Spring Festival Gala" and being moved by his fans!


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Israeli troops have killed at least seven Palestinians in Gaza Friday in an operation aimed at exposing and sealing tunnels used to smuggle arms from Egypt. At least two children are reported to be among the victims.
Israeli soldiers backed by tanks and armored vehicles moved into the Palestinian refugee camp at Rafah, close to Gaza's border with Egypt.
They were joined by special Israeli forces, including engineering units with dogs trained to uncover tunnels.
The troops, who entered the camp before dawn, ran into fierce resistance from Palestinian gunmen who battled with the soldiers until after daybreak on Friday.
Most of the casualties reportedly occurred when an Israeli attack helicopter fired on the gunmen as nearby residents attempted to find cover.
During the operation, the Israeli troops also bulldozed three houses that the Israeli army says were being used by Palestinian gunmen to fire on them.
The Israeli army also claims its troops came under attack from Palestinian militants who hurled grenades and fired anti-tank missiles.
Israeli officials claim that the Palestinians are attempting to smuggle advanced weaponry from Egypt never used by them before in the current conflict.
Among the weapons Israel says the Palestinians are seeking to acquire are shoulder-mounted anti-aircraft missiles that could shoot down helicopters.
Israel often uses attack helicopters in its operations in Gaza, including attempted assassinations of Palestinian activists.
Experts say the so-called Stinger missiles could also target Israeli jets or civilian aircraft flying over the Gaza Strip.
Israel's military mission to prevent the smuggling of such weapons from Egypt is code-named Operation Root Canal and is expected to last for several days.


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Toni Braxton and Sisters Debut WEtv Reality Show
(From left: Traci, Towanda, Toni, Tamar, Trina and mom Evelyn. All photos courtesy of Stephen Knight)
Omg, omg, you HAVE to see this show! That's what I was thinking last night after getting a sneak peek of the first episode of Braxton Family Values at a press dinner and Q&A held by WEtv at Manhattan's Pranna restaurant.
Sure, every reality show these days features a quirky family and their oh-so-unique adventures. Insert a has-been celeb, some crazy kids, a loopy housekeeper/nanny/personal assistant, and voila! Instant ratings. But this, my friends, is different. Braxton Family Values has more layers than my grandmother's strawberry shortcake. Don't believe me?
While eldest sister Toni Braxton was climbing the charts and picking up Grammys like they were nothing in the early 90s, her four singing sisters (who look just like her and all have names beginning with the letter "T") were enduring their own personal and professional dramas.
There's second sister Traci, who got pregnant just as her sisters were signing record deals and now yearns to get back on stage. Towanda, the middle sister, who is Toni's executive assistant and handles everything from tour rehearsals to finding missing DVDs at 3am. (Oh yeah, she and her husband have a "don't ask, don't tell" policy when it comes to cheating and are basically roommates for the sake of their kids. "Are you still in love with him?" asked one reporter. "No," Towanda quickly said.) Next in line is Trina, who battles alcoholism, is a wedding singer, and is in her second marriage. "I'm doing the Elizabeth Taylor thing," she told us. "I'm just gonna keep doing it ' til I get it right."
Then, my dears, there's Tamar. The baby of the clan, she had a tiny taste of success as a solo artist years ago and will tell anyone who'll listen that she's tired of "doo-woppin'" as Toni's background singer. She also likes to end her sentences with "dot-com" or "dot-org" for emphasis. Example: "I'm so over this dot-com." You're either gonna love Tamar or hate her, and as someone who loves to escape from her own day by watching a little crazy on TV, I looooove her. One of my favorite scenes is when she tells a complaining Traci who is openly envious of her career, "I am not the human resources of background singers!"
Add to that Toni's health problems — she still looks great though, doesn't she? — and struggles raising an Autistic son, their mother Evelyn's recovery from the girls' cheating father, Tamar's being married to Toni's manager, and you've got a doozy of a show.
Seriously, after just one episode, I was begging the publicist to let me see a marathon. I can't do this in mere one-hour increments — or, for that matter, a single blog post. Follow me on Twitter for more inside scoop.
Braxton Family Values premieres on WEtv tonight at 9pm.


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It's seem a normal house with fully furnished.
But, when you look from outside, it looks as if a rogue twister from Kansas spat out this house, and put it on top of the hall. However, it's actually supposed to be there, looking like it could tip over at any second.
The house, called Fallen Star, is the creation of artist Do Ho Suh..
The house sits on top of the hall, jutting out 100 feet into nothingness. It is VERY securely mounted to the building it is attached to. If you walked inside, you might temporarily forget you'd be almost walking into thin air.
There is even a garden for the little cottage on top of the roof, juxtaposed against the more modern buildings around it.
Do Ho Suh never realized that this mind-bending creation would actually be realized someday.
Do you dare to step foot inside the Fallen Star? Do you dare to achieve your dream with all your focus, concentration and confidence?
It has been said that whatever you can dream of, you can achieve. Turn your dream into a burning desire. You will need to turn your dream into a burning desire in your heart. A strong will to achieve your dreams boosts self-confidence and will aid you in pulling through some of the worst stages of life. The way to turn your dream into a burning desire is to believe that your dream is achievable and that you can achieve it.
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Whitby, North Yorkshire, is home to The Raithwaite Estate, a grand country retreat comprised of two small luxury hotels and a collection of quaint private stone cottages.
Covering around 100 acres, there is a range of buildings on the Estate including: Raithwaite Hall; The Keep, an exquisite 28 bedroom hotel; The Lake House, an ultra exclusive and luxurious 6 bedroom private house; and The Fold , a collection of 7 carefully designed stone built cottages.
The Estate is nestled by the coast, on the edge of the moors. The location is suitable for a relaxing break, a couples retreat, a romantic getaway or just time out from the city. There are plenty of activities and always something to see or do. Some of the accommodation is dog friendly, and there are some beautiful woodland walks.


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October newsletter now available
A round up of Autumn news from Jazz North to our subscribers went out this week. Among the items in the newsletter are:
- Jam Experiment at Lancaster Jazz Festival,
- The Stretch Trio at Scarborough Jazz Festival,
- Digital media for musicians, Steve Lawson, Leeds 7 October
- Music for Life project for young musicians in Wakefield,
- Rodrigo Contstanzo's dfs premier of his dynamic networked software,
- Manchester Youth Jazz Collective update,
- Ashington Jazz Club win competition for Northern Line promoters,
- Future CPD events,
- Northern line update – Adam Fairhall now has portable acoustic piano,
- BBC Radio consultation, new multi-media LCoM prospectus available showing jazz pathway.
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For all those on revolution withdrawal, fear not: there are at least 20 more countries to go (many of which hilariously fall in Jim O'Neill's N-11 list - does the N stand for Next to revolt Jim?). Tomorrow, we may get the next one. Thousands of police are reportedly being drafted into the Algerian capital ahead of planned pro-democracy marches, opposition groups have said. Said Sadi, the head of the Rally for Culture and Democracy (RCD), said authorities were moving to prevent Saturday's protests in Algiers from taking place."
From Al Jazeera:
"Trains have been stopped and other public transport will be as well," he told the AFP news agency.
According to Sadi, around 10,000 police officers were coming into reinforce the 20,000 that blocked the last protest staged on January 22, when five people were killed and more than 800 hurt in clashes.
The latest rally is being organised by the National Co-ordination for Change and Democracy (CNCD), a three-week-old umbrella group of opposition parties, civil society movements and unofficial unions inspired by the mass protests in Tunisia and Egypt.
Demonstrators in the oil-rich nation have been protesting over the last few months against unemployment, high food costs, poor housing and corruption - similar issues that fuelled the uprisings in other north African nations.
At least 12 people have set themselves alight in protest against the government since January, four of those dying.
Earlier this month, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the president, said he would lift emergency powers, address unemployment and allow democratic marches to take place in the country, in a bid to stave off unrest.
However, protests in Algiers remain banned.
Don't think for a minute that the Bernank is the only person to conceive of social appeasement by dangling shiny trinkets and unemployment checks before the great unwashed. Oh yes, once Algeria goes, Bahrain is next:
Bouteflika's attempt to appease protesters is just one of many undertaken by Arab governments concerned about spreading unrest in the region.
In Bahrain, the king offered each family $2,650 on Friday.
The small oil producer is considered the most vulnerable of the Gulf Arab countries to unrest, although seen as unlikely to fall in the same way as Tunisia and Egypt.
The Bahraini government has made several concessions in recent weeks, such as higher social spending and offering to release some minors arrested during a security crackdown against Shia groups last August.
The official Bahrain news agency released a report saying: "To praise the tenth anniversary of the National Action Charter and in recognition of the people of Bahrain.... His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa ... will provide the amount of one thousand dinars for each family of Bahrain after adopting necessary legal procedures."
Activists have called for protests on February 14, the tenth anniversary of Bahrain's constitution, but it is not yet clear how widespread they will be.
And unlike Egypt, Algeria actually has more resources than just one strategically located canal.
Algeria is an important exporter of oil and natural gas and is a member of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). In 2008, Algeria produced 1.42 million bbl/d of crude oil. Algeria was the fourth largest crude oil producer in Africa after Nigeria (1.94), Angola (1.89), and Libya (1.71) and the largest total oil liquids producer on the continent. As a member of OPEC, Algeria's crude oil production can be constrained by the group's crude production allocations, but Algeria also produced 450,000 bbl/d of condensate and 357,000 bbl/d of natural gas liquids, which are exempt from OPEC quotas, bringing total oil liquids production for the year up to a total of 2.23 million bbl/d. Domestic oil consumption accounted for about 13 percent of total production.
Algeria was the sixth largest natural gas producer in the world in 2007 after Russia, the United States, Canada, Iran, and Norway. Algeria produced 3.03 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in 2007, of which 70 percent was exported and 30 percent was consumed domestically.
Don't worry though. This, and every next revolution, up to and including that of the US at the very end, are all priced in as the market goes to all time highs by the end of June 2011.
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Magnet Releasing
Reviewed for Shockya by Harvey Karten. Data-based on Rotten Tomatoes
Grade: B+
Director: Jerome Sable
Screenplay: Jerome Sable
Cast: Minnie Driver, Meat Loaf, Allie MacDonald, Douglas Smith, Brandon Uranowitz
Screened at: Review 1, NYC, 4/29/14
Opens: May 9, 2014
Kids whose parents have the money to send them to sleep-away camp are lucky indeed, assuming that no killers are prowling on the baseball diamond, the swimming pool or the bunks. That last scenario encompasses the situation found in Jerome Sable's freshman feature, "Stage Fright," a revenge fantasy photographed by Bruce Chun in rural parts of Ontario and featuring a cast that includes only two people who could classified as adults. "Stage Fright" is "Glee" with knives and kabuki masks, with a story that follows the oft-used subgenre of campy (it takes place in camp, after all) but has enough serious action to be taken as straight-out horror. Think "The Little Shop of Horrors" (a clumsy young man must feed a carnivorous plant by giving it fresh kills), "The Phantom of the Paradise" (a disfigured composer sells his soul for the woman he loves), "Cannibal" (the sole survivor of a mining expedition discovers a taste for human flesh) and of course "The Phantom of the Opera" (a disfigured genius living in the basement of a Paris opera house has a taste for a beautiful singer), "Stage Fright" is a musical.
Sable, who together with long-term partner Eli Batalion composed the all-original lyrics and music, appears to both pay homage to the youthful excitement of Broadway musical theater and mock the conventions at the same time, put together a youthful cast of the types of people that I, as a former, high-school teacher would have loved in my classes. The entire, wildly enthusiastic patrons of summer camp are expertly choreographed by Paul Becker and, particularly the kabuki phases of the movie, nicely costumed by Michael Ground.
At the center of the action is Camilla Swanson (Allie MacDonald), a 17-year-old with an exquisite voice (think of any principals in a Lloyd Webber musical such as Sarah Brighman), but has been traumatized ten years earlier to hear that her mother, musical star Kylie Swanson (Minnie Driver), was stabbed to death in her dressing room for reasons that we learn as the story unfolds. When producer Roger McCall (Meat Loaf) decides to air the play "The Haunting of the Opera" after that decade, the director considers Camilla, now working with her brother Buddy (Douglas Smith) as a cook. Buddy, similarly traumatized by his mother's murder, urges Camilla not to mix in with the types of people that musical theater draws, but the lovely lass has stars in her eyes and who can blame her?
The music is typical of Lloyd Webber's style with a mix of Stephen Sondheim, each song sounding much like the others, but we all know that since the passing of Lerner and Loewe, Rogers and Hammerstein, and others, Broadway has never been the same. Allie MacDonald, who may or not be synched, has a lovely voice and is well cast as a woman often subservient to her brother. Once the knives flash, the gore is what horror fans go to movies for: multiple stab wounds by a guy or gal hiding behind a kabuki mask and, in one homage to "Carrie," a can of bright red paint splashes down on Camilla.
For fans of horror and/or music. Is there anyone else?
Story – B
Acting – B+
Technical – B+
Overall – B+
Rated R. 88 minutes. (c) Harvey Karten, member, NY Film Critics Online


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Daily Archives: July 29, 2011
Chemo Cravings
As I've alluded to many times before, chemotherapy hasn't yet taken away my healthy appetite. However, I was met with some out-of-the-norm food cravings in the days following my first treatment.
Yup. Wendy's would be one of them. Actually, I am one of those people who legitimately does not like fast food (as opposed to you health nuts who secretly do – you know who you are!). I was told not to eat any of my favourite foods after chemo, because chances are I may never want to eat them again. Good advice, because even though I didn't get physically ill, I'm not sure if I'll want to eat Wendy's chicken wraps again.
Mostly what I craved, and have been craving, is meat. Surrounded by bread. Namely, fried egg sandwiches.
I lived off these for the first three days after my chemo. It was all I could stomach. The thought of my usual peanut butter toast and Greek yogurt for breakfast made me gag. Yes! Peanut butter!
Another one of the big cravings was a hamburger. Again, meat surrounded by bread. I may have overdone it a little on the red meat the first few days, but without these I may have starved. Or just eaten more egg sandwiches. Some people said I may no longer like spicy things, but I'm still dousing everything in hot sauce. And mustard. And pickles. And especially hummus.
The strangest craving of all is rather a lack of craving – for sweet things. I usually have an insatiable sweet tooth, but after chemo it was completely gone. The thought of anything sweet – cake, cookies, chocolate, even fruit, yogurt and nut butters, made me feel more nauseous. I'm not sure if this will be the case every time, so we'll see what sort of craving chemo treatment #2 brings next week. Should be interesting.
In other news, I'm going to be MIA until Sunday. I'm at The Best Place On Earth!
My cottage!
We've got a family cottage in Nova Scotia and I'm finally feeling well enough to go. The first time this summer! A few relaxing days away before my next treatment will be absolute paradise.
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Ramadan is the month of the purity of one's heart and it is the month of forgiveness. This is because in this month, Allah the Exalted shows more kindness to forgiveness compared to other months of the year. It has been said in a narration that "If you are not forgiven in Ramadan, then when will you be forgiven?" [Bihar al-Anwar, Vol. 8, page 183]. If someone fails to achieve divine forgiveness and mercy in the month of Ramadan – during which the gates of divine mercy and forgiveness are open to humans – when will they have the blessing to do so?
Another meal which is served in this divine banquet and feast is the Night of Qadr. Today and in the first sermon, I would like to speak a little about our responsibilities towards the Night of Qadr. God says, "The Night of Qadr is better than a thousand months" [The Holy Quran, 97: 3]. A night that has been known as the Night of Qadr – there is some doubt about which night in the month of Ramadan is the Night of Qadr – is better and loftier than a thousand months. The believing servants of God should make the most of the hours of the Nights of Qadr. The best act at this night is praying. I will discuss with you brothers and sisters certain points about praying as well.
The purpose of keeping a vigil is to pray, to supplicate and to engage in dhikr. Daily prayers too – which are one of the Mustahab acts during the Nights of Qadr – are in fact the manifestation of dua and dhikr. It has been said in a narration that "Praying is the brains of worshipping" [Bihar al-Anwar, Vol. 90, page 300]. The brains of worshipping – or as is common among us, the soul of worshipping – is praying. What does praying mean? It means speaking to Allah the Exalted. In fact, it means feeling God close to ourselves and opening up our hearts to Him. Prayers either include a request, a word of praise or an expression of one's kindness and respect. All these things form prayers. Praying is one of the most important acts that a believing servant of God and a person who wishes to achieve salvation and bliss performs. Praying has such a role in purifying our souls.
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When the Richmond Progressive Alliance (RPA) swept the November elections and gained command of council, the group heralded the victory across the nation as a win for democracy and a loss for special interests.
But since RPA members Gayle McLaughlin, Jovanka Beckles and Eduardo Martinez (pictured from left to right) assumed council control after defeating candidates backed by Chevron, the exact opposite has happened, according to several city leaders. In what he describes as blatant hypocrisy by the radical group, Mayor Tom Butt on Friday accused the RPA of ruling upon important city matters within its organization before the issues are publicly vetted at City Hall, which could be a violation of the Brown Act.
"We now have actually two city councils," Mayor Butt wrote on his e-forum Friday. "One consists of seven elected members who meet regularly on Tuesday nights three or four times a month to conduct most of the City's routine business in public. Then we have the parallel and alternative RPA City Council, which along with a fourth member, Vice-mayor Myrick, constitute a majority who can call a meeting anytime they want to with 24-hours' notice, shut down debate, make their own rules and pass their predetermined agenda."
The RPA has repeatedly denied making council decisions at its headquarters, saying its council members think and act independently from the organization.
However, an examination of council meeting minutes since January shows the group has been voting as a bloc, with apparent sympathizer Vice Mayor Jael Myrick often providing the trusted swing vote.
RPA council members, with Myrick's support, voted in line on rent control, echoing complaints about affordability that have been raised for months out of RPA headquarters. In fact, a report by the The Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society at UC Berkeley that launched the call for significant renters protections was co-authored by Eli Moore, the husband of RPA supporter and community organizer Claudia Jimenez.
Mayor Butt has criticized the report as "biased and poorly researched." Regardless of whether that is true, the report worked to drum up enough support the RPA's push for rent control in Richmond.
In June, the RPA council members and Myrick also voted in favor of plugging the city's budget deficit by diverting Measure U tax dollars that had been meant for sustained road repair. Last year, Myrick was adamant about not pulling "shenanigans" on voters by diverting the tax proceeds away from roads, but later said the city's worsening financial situation had forced him to vote alongside the RPA on the issue. Myrick helped pass that budget even after the RPA tacked on additional spending measures for pet projects such as Beckles' Pride festival and an annual Saffron Strand homeless workforce conference.
Then came the space weaponry resolution. All RPA members, including Myrick, voted in favor of their resolution to support a ban on space weaponry as an anti-war measure. The RPA said it also pitched the resolution to appease conspiracy theorists who believe they are being targeted from space by the government's futuristic weapons. Myrick laterexpressed regret over the vote, after the Richmond Police Department's phones lines were overwhelmed with calls from "targeted" individuals worldwide. The councilmember later expressed concern that the vote may have had a negative impact on the mentally ill and their families.
Myrick hasn't always felt comfortable with the idea that the RPA could dictate policy both inside and out of council chambers. Earlier this year, he voted against the RPA's attempt to appoint a fourth member to fill the seat vacated by Butt's election to mayor. Myrick's rejection of a fourth RPA council member — which would have given the RPA a dominating majority and would also have greatly diminished the power of Myrick's vote — led to the appointment of the pragmatic Vinay Pimple, who is unaligned and has not supported many of the RPA measures.
Only on rare occasions has an RPA council member voted against the group's grain. Martinez did so on the Central Avenue affordable housing project. RPA members alsodisagreed on an ordinance regulating digital signs and billboards in the city.
Still, Mayor Butt compared the RPA's current rule "to the infamous Richmond city councils of decades ago."
"But it's worse," he said. "Instead of the majority of elected members meeting privately on Saturday mornings, members of the secret RPA steering committee, whom no one elected, meet with RPA City Council members to create their agenda. These steering committee members also perform, when necessary, the critical function of subverting the Brown Act, acting as illegal go-betweens to communicate with other Council members."
Councilmember Nat Bates agreed and predicted "rocky and uncertain times" ahead as a result of RPA dominance.
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John Knox commented 2015-08-03 13:28:43 -0700I agree with Barry Nel. A lot of folks in my area voted RPA just because of the Chevron thing, which I felt was always a smokescreen to mask the real agenda of these people. And no, RPA is not run from the HQ, but rather from Mike Parker's house on Bishop Ave. . .
We do need some good candidates who are smart independent thinkers for November of 2016. The Chevron slate last time around was disappointing at best.
Tony Mendicino commented 2015-08-02 10:29:34 -0700Run Daniel run…we need u on the Council!
Tony Mendicino commented 2015-08-02 10:22:37 -0700Run Daniel run…we need u on the Council!
Barry Nel commented 2015-08-01 07:45:52 -0700To the good residents of Richmond,
All I can say is that you get the council you vote for, or more correctly in this case, the one you did not vote for.
I see a lot of people on these now, anti-RPA-3 threads, that were all pro these candidates at election time, simply because they were against the so called Chevron backed candidates.
You reap what you sow.
Daniel Butt commented 2015-07-31 17:45:41 -0700"RPA council members, with Myrick's support, voted in line on rent control, echoing complaints about affordability that have been raised for months out of RPA headquarters. In fact, a report by the The Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society at UC Berkeley that launched the call for significant renters protections was co-authored by Eli Moore, the husband of RPA supporter and community organizer Claudia Jimenez."
This is the cart leading the horse. Despite that the Haas Institute (which is completely unrelated to the prestigious business school) report being rife was data manipulation and misrepresentations, it picked up by several media outlets and run with by the RPA machine. The report analyzed and compared US Census data in a manner that was expressly warned against in the data use handbook published by the US Census, the source of the data.


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Moonlight: The Big Bad Wolf (Order of the Black Swan, Book 4) by Victoria Danann
Genre: Paranormal Romance, Fantasy Romance
Publisher: 7th House
Date of Publication: May 26, 2013
ISBN: 978-1-933320-69-4 ebook
ISBN: 978-1-933320-64-9 paperback
Number of pages: 390
Word Count: 90,000
Amazon: Moonlight: The Big Bad Wolf (Black Swan 4)
Book Description
This is the fourth installment in the Black Swan serial saga. Reading in order is essential. The first book, My Familiar Stranger, is free everywhere. (Nominated for Best Paranormal Romance by REVIEWERS CHOICE AWARDS. Nominated for Best Indie Paranormal Romance and Best Indie Fantasy Romance for READERS CHOICE AWARDS. Night Owl Reviews TOP PICK.
What would you do for love?
1. Storm's unexpected reply when tapped to replace Sol as the new Jefferson Unit Sovereign.
2. B Team learns the shocking truth about the origin of the vampire virus.
3. Monq races to develop a defense system to repel invasion from Stagsnare.
4. Litha volunteers her father to help to Black Swan.
5. Desperation drives Stalkson Grey to embark on an adventure beyond his wildest dreams in a bid to save the Elk Mountain werewolves from extinction. In the process he learns that true love can find you in the strangest places, even when you're far, far from home.
Excerpt from Moonlight: The Big Bad Wolf
Chapter 1
"What do you know about my sister and that prancin' prick of a fairy prince?"
Elora blinked, but in the space of that flutter he learned all he needed to know. He had found out the first night Storm brought her to poker, back at Jefferson Unit, that her very expressive face telegraphed even the tiniest nuance or feeling or thought. By now he knew her so well that she was as transparent as air. She was caught off guard because she hadn't expected that question while Ram was cooking a leisurely Sunday breakfast.
"Say that three times fast?"
"No' goin' to work this time. Stay on topic."
"You just don't like him because he can stand toe to toe with you and not be cowed by the H.O.H. elfster."
"ELFSTER!? What in Paddy's Name, Elora? And what is H.O.H.?"
"Hall of Heroes."
Ram turned away from frying bacon and gave her a look. It probably didn't have the effect he intended. He was wearing jeans, a long sleeve black tee that stretched across his chest enticingly, and a black Jack Daniels apron tied around his waist. She thought perhaps nothing was sexier than watching Ram's muscles ripple while cooking her breakfast.
"Do no' try to deflect. 'Tis I. And Paddy knows I can tell when you're hidin' somethin'." Ram looked determined.
"Speaking of hiding. You're going to have to do something about all these guys overrunning our property. Our home – the one that was intended to be our very own, very private property. Please, Ram. Make them go away."
His expression softened a little as he decided to allow himself to be temporarily derailed.
"Sol, Simon, and every one of your friends agree that we can no' leave you and Helm vulnerable after the threat those alien buggers left hangin' in the air. That goes especially for your friend, Sir Storm."
"My friend, Sir Storm?"
"Aye. Your friend. The bloody wanker suggested that I'm no' responsible enough to be entrusted with lookin' out for you. Said, 'You're no' takin' good care of my namesake's mother. I'll be forced to give the job to someone else if you do no' shape up and begin takin' it seriously'."
Elora laughed. "He said that?"
"Aye. As if 'twas all my doin' that you ended up givin' birth alone in a freezin' wolf cave. With. No. Phone."
Ram narrowed his eyes at her. "Think very carefully about what you are about to say before you say it."
Elora smiled brightly. "I was going to say that no one in his right mind could fault you."
Ram nodded and resumed turning the bacon. "Exactly. I should have reminded him what happened when he was in charge of the Baka interview at Unit Drac. He pouted for hours after learnin' first hand that the Lady Laiken does as she fuck-well pleases."
Elora concurred by nodding vigorously. "It's a burden, but you bear it well, my love."
"All kiddin' aside. I do. I really do." He began setting strips of cooked bacon out to drain the grease.
"Well, Sir Storm is going to be plenty busy with his own burdens."
"What's your meanin?"
"They're expecting."
"Expectin' a baby?"
"No. They're expecting Publishers Clearing House to pay for their villa renovation."
Ram gave her a look. "You know, I'm thinkin' there's only enough of this lovely bacon for one and, since I cooked, I really should be keepin' it for myself."
"Yes! They're expecting a baby. Litha thinks it's a girl."
"A girl!" Ram practically whooped. "Paddy's Great Balls Afire. I can no' wait to see Storm try to be da to a girl." He laughed enjoying that idea and then grew serious. "As for the buggers who violated my grandda's forest, I'll no' be givin' 'em a second chance at my family."
"Rammel. I hear you and I understand you."
"I do no' suppose the next sentence will be 'and I obey you'."
Elora smirked while she snagged a piece of bacon. "Have I ever mentioned you make great bacon?" She nuzzled his ear on the way back to her stool. "Almost as good as chocolate."
Ram pointed a spatula at her. "I swear to Paddy you have that thin'… that ADDD."
Elora started laughing. "Pot."
When his brows drew together she smiled because Helm looked at her with that same expression several times a day. They made him accidentally in a snow covered cottage, but he was made with love and now he was a little bit her and a little bit him. A miracle indeed.
"You can no' concentrate 'cause you've been smokin' dope?"
"No! 'Pot' as in 'you're the pot calling the kettle black'."
Ram stared at her for a few beats, finally shook his head and said, "No idea."
"You don't have an expression here about the pot calling the kettle black?"
"We do no' that I know of, but I think I begin to follow your point. You're tryin' to say that I should no' be accusin' you of short attention because mine is even shorter?"
Of their own accord, his eyes drifted down to the cleavage showing between the henley buttons she'd left undone.
She chuckled. "See?"
"See what?"
She did a little shimmy and he grinned sheepishly. "Guilty." He put an orange juice in front of her. "And be careful of the sexy dancin'. You'll be gettin' Helm's milk all over your clothes again."
Elora rolled her eyes. "He gets enough. Have you seen how chubby his little face is getting?"
"Well, blood will tell."
Elora narrowed her eyes to slits. "Rammel. Paddy help you if you're saying what I think you're saying."
"All I'm sayin' is that chubby cheeks do no' run on my side of the family." When she took a mock threatening step toward him, he laughed. "Just teasin' darlin' girl. Just teasin'. You know I would no' change a hair on your head. Or his."
"Okay. All I'm sayin' is that insanity doesn't run on my side of the family." A look of horror slowly covered her face as she realized what she'd just said. She hadn't yet personally confronted what the assassin in the woods had said about the Laiwynn clan, but if it was true, it meant that cruelty and despotic behavior might run in her family.
Ram put his utensils down, wiped his hand on his apron, and offered himself for a hug. She stepped into the comfort of his arms.
"What I was trying to tell you earlier is that I've never made any secret of the fact that I won't give up my freedom to live a restricted life, no matter how luxurious or comfortable. Not for anything."
"No' even for Helm? And me?"
"That's not fighting fair and you know it."
"When it comes to your safety – and our son's – you think I care about fightin' fair? 'Tis the very last of my concerns."
"Let me put it this way. You need to come up with a more agreeable Plan B and you need to do it while I'm still in a listening mood."
"Any ideas?"
She looked down at her pretty Holland china plate, part of the set they got as a wedding present from Kay and Katrina. She had a picture of how good life was going to be there in their new home. Had the Ralengclan assassins spoiled her vision of the future to the point of ruin? Was it time to confront that possibility?
"No." When she looked back up, Ram thought he might have seen her look just a little worn. Like her aura hadn't been buffed in a while. Sometimes he caught her looking off into space and he suspected that she was thinking about what she'd been told by the Ralengclan assassin, wondering if the massacre of her family was really a coup d'etat." Armed people guarding the house. Hardly what I pictured."
"I know." Ram sat down next to her and took her hand in his. "We'll figure it out. Monq's workin' on it." He pulled up like he had an idea. The change was so subtle that no one besides Elora would have even noticed it.
"He's workin' on detectin' interdimensional activity – identifyin' the source and location. He says 'tis a logical first step toward the defense system we're goin' to be needin'."
"Yeah. I heard."
"Well…" She knew she was in trouble when he turned on that look that he had given her the first night they had met, the puppy dog plea that was so irresistible she could be manipulated out of her socks with full knowledge and complicity. She hated that. It was… manipulation by consent.
"Stop that right now!"
"'Twas just thinkin' that, for the time bein', just while we're sortin' this out, maybe we should move back into Jefferson Unit. You and Helm would be safe there. I know 'tis no' ideal, but there is the courtpark, food, and babysittin' on demand. 'Tis no' this." He looked around the room and gave a little sigh. He had put a lot of himself into renovating the property and somewhere along the way had come to understand why she loved it and pictured their little family living happily ever after there. "But we were happy at Jefferson too. We could even help Monq. Maybe speedin' thin's along a bit?"
"I'm expecting puppies."
"I truly hope no one is recordin' this conversation." Ram's mouth softened at the corners making him look so beautifully kissable that she had to lean in and remind herself if those kisses were as good as she remembered. He didn't seem to mind complying with her wish. When she pulled back, he said, "We could get Glen to keep an eye on that. The wolf pups I mean."
"This is not just some ruse that's going to get us sucked back into active duty?"
Ram cocked his head like he was having trouble with that question. "Why would I go to so much trouble to keep you safe only so I could risk gettin' you killed?"
Elora stared at Ram for a few seconds. "I'm not the only knight in the room and we both know how persuasive Sol can be when he wants something. Before I even consider this proposal, I need some reassurance that none of us, not you, not me, not the baby – none of us – are going to end up on any field assignment. Not in any capacity."
Ram nodded. "Deal."
"Okay you approve of my answer or okay we're packin' for Fort Dixon?"
"Fort Dixon, but that's all of us. Blackie too. And we need an apartment big enough for the four of us."
"Thank Paddy. I'm goin' to get a good night's sleep for a change."
She hadn't realized just how much stress the fear of assassination had caused Ram until she saw his facial muscles relax. Yeah. It was a good plan. A good choice, everything considered.
"And, let's outline what would have to happen to make it possible for us to come back here and proceed to live life the way it should be lived. By ourselves. Speaking of which, I'm also not giving up the pleasure of a weekend at the cottage – just us – forever."
"Certainly. I'm no' unreasonable."
She smiled at him lovingly and indulgently. "Of course not. You're my hero."
Book Review
If you are looking for a great paranormal romance series, please check out the Danann's Order of the Black Swan. I started this series last year, when I found the first book, My Familiar Stranger, on Amazon for free. Once I finished this book, I was hooked.
Please be aware, though, that this series must be read in sequential order for you to understand and follow the plot. Unlike other series, that may focus on one main protagonist's story, the Order of the Black Swan continues with main characters' sagas that were started in the previous books. Now, however, their story lines become subplots surrounding a featured character introduced earlier in the series.
Each book in the series focuses on a character's journey to find love. In Moonlight it's Stalkson Grey's turn.
Stalkson is a sexy alpha werewolf whose clan is becoming extinct because of the low number of female werewolf births.
To seek a solution, he turns to Monq, a scientist who works for the Order. His quest takes him to multi-dimensional worlds looking for answers, and along the way, this serious, hardened alpha falls in love. Stalkson is a dynamic character who changes as he realizes that alpha duties alone are not enough to fulfill his life.
However, finding love is never easy, and Stalkson also never expects that he will become enamored with a human living in another dimension. His plans to get Luna to love him back are comical and endearing. Danann provides a modern day spin on the classic fairytale, Little Red Riding Hood and allusions to the story are subtly interwoven into the plot.
If you like paranormal stories heavy on romance, seduction, and steamy love scenes, then you will enjoy this series. Danann's witty and humorous style of writing creates laugh-out- loud moments that immerse you in a fantasy world where paranormal beings are the norm.
I received a copy of this book from the author in exchange for an honest review.
About the Author
If you're looking for something new and different in PNR, you've come to the right place.
I write unapologetic romances with uniquely fresh perspectives on paranormal creatures, characters, and themes. Add a dash of scifi and a flourish of fantasy to enough humor to make you laugh out loud and enough steam to make you squirm in your chair. My heroines are independent femmes with flaws and minds of their own whether they are aliens, witches, demonologists, psychics, or past life therapists. My heroes are hot and hunky, but they also have brains, character, and good manners – usually – whether they be elves, demons, berserkers, werewolves, or vampires.
My first book, My Familiar Stranger, was nominated for Best Paranormal Romance of 2012 by the Reviewers' Choice Awards. Each of my books has remained on the Amazon best seller list in category every day since release. All three also earned the Night Owl Reviews TOP PICK award.
My work has been compared to J R Ward, Karen Marie Moning, Sherrilyn Kenyon, and Lara Adrian. For example:
"I do see shades of Lara Adrian's Breed books and shades of J R Wards Black Dagger books, but this story is unique enough that it stands out all on its own and can stand up along side those other books and I think given time will elbow them out of the way with the rich story telling and deep emotional core that makes you want to know more." – Kerry, Musings of a Bookworm
The Order of the Black Swan is a series that is also a serial saga. Each book is an episodic installment in an ongoing story. Join me for the adventure.
WEBSITE: http://www.VictoriaDanann.com
BLOG: http://VictoriaDanann.me
FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com/vdanann
TWITTER: @vdanann
Start the Series!
Amazon:My Familiar Stranger – Romancing the Vampire Hunters (Black Swan 1)
Amazon:The Witch's Dream – A Love Letter to Paranormal Romance (Black Swan 2)
Amazon:A Summoner's Tale – The Vampire's Confessor (Black Swan 3)
Amazon: The Order of the Black Swan COLLECTED TALES, Books 1-3 (Black Swan Anthology)
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Heavenly Bodies
By suzi click on Monday, January 14th, 2019 in Events, Reviews. No Comments
"Heavenly Bodies – Fashion and the Catholic Imagination- was an exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2018. The exhibit was in three locations – the Met Fifth Avenue in the Byzantine and medieval galleries, continued in the Anna Wintour Costume Center and concluded at the The Met Cloisters in northern Manhattan, where elements from French monasteries have been rebuilt as four cloisters.
It featured the work of designers who for the most part were raised in the Roman Catholic tradition. While their current relationship to Catholicism varied, most acknowledged its enduring influence on their imaginations. On the surface this influence is expressed through explicit Catholic imagery and symbolism as well as references to specific garments worn by the clergy and religious orders. On a deeper level, it manifests as a reliance on storytelling and specifically on metaphor – which the sociologist Andrew Greeley describes as the essential characteristic of a particular sensibility he defines as – the Catholic imagination" (excerpted from the exhibition brochure)
My favorite was the Jean-Paul Gautier which is the featured image. I also recognize that Lacroix t-shirt by with the cross from the time it was on the cover of Vogue. I went to this exhibit on a field trip organized by the San Francisco Textile Arts Council and we enjoyed curator-led tours to this fabulous exhibit.