#Ed Searcy

[poetrificationfestival]

I performer che saliranno sul palco dello Spazio211

Federico Sanesi inizia a studiare percussioni in giovanissima età con i maestri Italo Savoia e Enrico Lucchini. In seguito con David Searcy presso la Civica Scuola di Musica di Milano. Si nutre di numerose e fondamentali esperienze artistiche con suo padre Roberto Sanesi, artista, poeta e traduttore. Dal 1980 viaggia in India, dove intraprende lo studio del Tabla con il Maestro Pt.Sankha Chatterjee tra Venezia, Calcutta e Berlino. Il suo lavoro di musicista si volge all'integrazione di diverse culture e linguaggi musicali ed extra musicali come teatro, danza, cinema, arti visive e poesia. Dal 2001 insegna Tabla nel Dipartimento “Tradizioni musicali extraeuropee ad indirizzo Indologico” presso il Conservatorio “A. Pedrollo” di Vicenza. Ha svolto attività didattica anche presso i Conservatori di Alessandria, Cagliari, Milano, Padova, Parma e Brescia. Ha tenuto concerti in Europa, Africa, Asia, Nord e Sud America, suonando con musicisti di tutto il mondo.

Nuria Sala Grau è nata a Barcellona, ​​in Spagna. Ha studiato le tecniche di danza moderna Graham e Limon a Losanna, Svizzera e ha continuato la sua formazione nella danza classica e contemporanea in Francia, Lione e Parigi. Ha lavorato con la compagnia di danza "Cecil P. Booth", diretta da Chantal De Launay, e al Conservatorio di Vicenza. Nel 1988 incontra Savitry Nair, con la quale inizia gli studi di Bharatanatyam. Ballerina di danza contemporanea, Nuria ha scelto l’India come luogo di formazione e la guida di celebri maestre come Krishnaveni Lakshmanan e Kamala Rani. Il suo lavoro oggi la porta a rileggere in chiave moderna e occidentale la secolarità di questa danza ieratica, dalle origini millenarie.

Barbara Giuliani, nata a Pescara nel 1979, ha frequentato il collettivo Voici la Bombe e Cochonnerie Labile; ha fondato due piccole case editrici, Barrette Indipendenti e le edizioni trepuntinidisospensione; è stata slammer e MC per PoetrySlamAbruzzo; è redattrice per la sezione Odile della rivista Neutopia; da gennaio 2019 insegna scrittura poetica presso la Scuola Macondo di Pescara; con Debora Vinciguerra, la trilogia di installazioni di poesia reale (Eptá - 2912 metri sul livello del mare - Velanidiá); direttrice artistica del FLAP (Festival di libri e altre cose sezione Poesia). Ha pubblicato le raccolte di poesia Bergamo Mantova solo andata (BCE Samiszdat - 2009), Floppy (Autoprodotto - 2015), Cloroformio (Prospero Editore - 2016), L’Aria Rancida (Gli elefanti edizioni - 2018), Bianca (Neo Edizioni - 2022), Occidente (Round Midnight Edizioni - 2023). Al Premio Roberto Sanesi presenterà una performance tratta dal suo ultimo poema inedito, Materia Madre.

[lifewouldbebetteronmars]

I’m really regretting having a super long URL rn but I love music games so-

L Lover by Taylor Swift

I Irish Eyes by Rose Betts

F Francesca by Hozier

E Elouise by The Lumineers

W Where To Find Me by New Rules

O Oh Daddy by Fleetwood Mac

U Us & Pigs by Sofia Isella

L Love & War in Your Twenties by Jordy Searcy

D Dog by Nataly Dawn

B Beige by Yoke Lore

E Eyes Closed by Ed Sheeran

B Brother by Madds Buckley

E Emotional Anorexic by Svavar Knútur

T That’s Not How This Works by Charlie Puth, Sabrina Carpenter, and Dan + Shay

T Too Few Tattoos by Pretty Jane & the Magazines

E Emily by James Arthur

R Rich Boy by Sara Kays

O Oh GOD by Orla Gartland

N Nonsense by Sabrina Carpenter

M Man’s World by Nova Miller

A All We Know by The Chainsmokers

R River by Ben Barnes

S Sweet Baby James by James Taylor

Open tag 🌈

rules: pick a song for each letter of your url and tag that many people – no repeating artists!

Thanks for the tag @hunter-sylvester

G- give me novacaine - Green Day

L- leave - jojo

E- enchanted - Taylor Swift

E- ever fallen in love - The Buzzcocks

4- 4 minutes - Madonna

T- teenagers - MCR

W- we will rock you - Queen

D- don't stop believin' - Journey

No pressure to do this :) @dreamwatch @thefruityfours

[ruminativerabbi]

Finding Friends in Unexpected Places

For years now, Shelter Rockers have heard me add the name of my friend, Ed Searcy, to the mi she-beirach list whenever we pause over an open Torah scroll to pray for our relatives and friends who have been stricken with illness. Occasionally, people ask who he is—some interested because I have been adding his name to the list for so long and others, I suppose, because it seems curious that a rabbi would ask his congregation to pray so assiduously for the recovery of a Christian clergyman without feeling the need to explain their relationship or to chart its history.

I admit it’s been a long time. Ed was diagnosed with the double whammy of multiple myeloma (a chronic cancer of the plasma cells) and amyloidosis (a rare but serious condition caused by the accumulation of proteins in the form of insoluble fibers within the tissues of one’s body) six years ago in 2011. When he told me about the diagnosis, I asked what I could do for him. His answer was that I could pray for his recovery. So that’s what I’ve been doing. Why wouldn’t I have wanted to do whatever I could to ease his burden? He’s been my friend, after all, for more than thirty years. But I’ve never written about the specific way we met, which I think I would like to write about this week.

But before I get to the past, I want to write about the present. It has been, to say the least, a worrisome week. The twenty bomb threats phoned into Jewish institutions on Monday brought the grand total of such threats to almost ninety, including some made to targets relatively close at hand to us at Shelter Rock. Nor has it been a week merely of bad words: there have also been some very bad deeds to go along with them in the desecration of the Mount Carmel Cemetery in Philadelphia and the Chesed shel Emeth Cemetery in Union City, Missouri.  In a different world, we would hardly take note of such pointless hooliganism. But the combination of threat, provocation, vandalism, and a general uptick in anti-Semitic incidents in general lends these acts of sacrilege an ominous aura they might otherwise not have.

But more unexpected—to me, at least—was the response to the vandalism. In Missouri, Vice President Pence went out of his way to visit the cemetery last Wednesday and actually took part in the clean-up. The governor of Missouri, Eric Greitens, did the same. And, while still at work at the cemetery, Governor Greitens took the opportunity to reveal that President Trump had phoned to ask him to convey the president’s good wishes to the clean-up crew for their work on behalf of the Jewish community and, more importantly, for their effort to show the world “that what happened [in Union City] the other night is not who America is.” Whatever any of us thinks about the current administration, yea or nay, the sight of the governor of Missouri and the vice-president of the United States rolling up their sleeves to restore a desecrated cemetery is a moving example of our national spirit and should be acknowledged as such.

But even more surprising was the LaunchGood.com campaign undertaken by two Muslim Americans, Linda Sarsour and Tarek el-Messidi, to raise funds, at first, to help restore the tombstones of Union City, which effort yielded $115,000 in just two or three days. And then campaign was expanded to include the effort to raise money to restore the damaged and/or toppled gravestones in Philadelphia. What the “real” motives of these people in doing this were, who knows? The cynic in me wants to imagine that this is just a good moment for American Muslims to raise their public profile in a very positive way. But the bottom line is that more than two-thirds of the donations have come from Muslim Americans, and it’s hard to see a conspiracy here even despite the million reasons to distrust unexpected largesse from unfamiliar quarters…and particularly quarters from which some of Israel’s harshest critics have come in recent years. I see that. And I certainly do not wish to assist people who otherwise work to hurt Israel and damage Israel’s reputation in their disingenuous effort to distance themselves from the charge of anti-Semitism merely by undertaking a LaunchGood campaign. I’m by nature neither a naïve person nor an overly trusting one.

Yet…even though I share the skepticism of many who have publicly questioned the motives of the givers, I’d like to think that we are witnessing an act of charitable kindness rather than a mere P.R. opportunity. A terrible thing happened. People responded…including people of whom we are reasonably wary. Still, I propose that we take the donations from Muslim America, and from so many other quarters as well, as well as the public gesture by the Vice-President and the Governor of Missouri (admittedly a Jewish person…but even so) and Pennsylvania governor Tom Wolf and Philadelphia mayor Jim Kenney, at face value, and allow them to suggest that the haven we have found in this place is real, that the patriotism we feel in our hearts for our country reflects far more than wishful thinking, and that the values that we presume to underlie the republic are intact and well. For another example of recent Muslim solicitude for our Jewish problems, this one Florida-based, click here.

And that brings me to the Reverend Searcy. My first pulpit was in Richmond, a town just outside Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. This was a long time ago. It was a season of brand new things for me: my first pulpit (although this was eight years after I was ordained, having taken a slight detour through the halls of academe on my way to the bimah), a new country, a new time zone, a new life style (it was the first time in my life I ever lived in a private home rather than an apartment), a new baby on the way…and a dozen other new thresholds to step over and new straits to negotiate.

Even though we had just finished a two-year stint in Germany, I don’t believe I had ever actually experienced real anti-Semitism until I came to Richmond. It looked calm. The people outside the congregation that I met here and there seemed pleasant and welcoming. The mayor of Richmond, Gil Blair, personally came to my installation to welcome me to his city. It all felt peaceful and good. And then, one Sunday morning only a few months after I was in place, the president of the congregation called me at 6 AM and asked me to meet him at the synagogue. I pulled on some clothes and drove over, and there I found what I had not even been savvy enough about the world previously to dread: the entire building painted with bright red swastikas and slogans so vile that even now, even after all these years, I still can’t quite bring myself to type them out for you to read. Trust me, it was awful. I was flummoxed completely. Clearly, we had to do something. But it wasn’t obvious what. Someone had already phoned the R.C.M.P. and they arrived promptly, but didn’t seem to take the painted slogans seriously as death threats (which is what they were, and unambiguously so), preferring instead to wave them away as vulgar graffiti. Eventually, they agreed to open a serious investigation. But that was still to come as I stood there in the cool morning air with the members of the Board of Trustees and pondered the best course forward.

What happened next was remarkable. The adjacent property was owned by a Catholic church, St. Joseph the Worker, and the oldest priest, whom I hadn’t even met yet, was named Father Pascale. I met him that morning when he arrived around an hour later not just to express his regrets formally and in person, but with an army of parishioners bearing pails and brushes, soap and solvent. They set themselves to cleaning the walls of our synagogue! And they did a fairly good job, although we eventually painted over the whole façade to make the vileness disappear entirely. But that was only the beginning.

We received letters from all across Canada, most of which came with checks to assist us in the clean-up. We heard from all the right people, including from the Premier of the province and the Member of Parliament who represented our riding. Mayor Blair came by several times to offer some support and encouragement. And in the context of all that good will, Ed Searcy came into my life.

In those days, he was the pastor of the South Arm United Church. He sent me a note in which he introduced himself and asked how he could help. I phoned and suggested we meet for a coffee and talk this through: I was shaken by the whole incident and wondered if he, being a real Canadian, might possibly have some insight into the larger picture I was facing that I as a newcomer lacked. And that was how I met Ed. He was kind, welcoming, reassuring. He reminded me—I’m sure he himself doesn’t remember exactly what he said, but I certainly do—he reminded me that the presence of evil doesn’t imply the absence of good…and he reminded me that the only practical way to combat the kind of viciousness and blind hated we had just encountered was to affirm our faith in the goodness of God. It was a simple sermon delivered over coffee at the edge of North America by young minister to a young rabbi. More than his insight, however, Ed extended his hand to me in friendship. And that is how I got to know Ed Searcy and why I invite the congregation weekly to join me in praying for his good health.

When I read about the desecration of that Jewish cemetery in St. Louis and the way people who aren’t “supposed” to care suddenly showed up to restore and repair the toppled stones, and how other Americans, including people who aren’t “supposed” to care about the stones in a Jewish cemetery, anted up not hundreds or thousands, but scores of thousands of dollars to assist in the restoration—I was brought back to my first experience of anti-Semitic violence on otherwise calm and quiet Geal Road in Richmond, B.C., an otherwise tranquil town filled with friendly, welcoming people.

So it turns out there are good people in the world! But that thought in turn inspires an unsettling, more-than-slightly-anxiety-producing question for us all to ponder: when tragedy, and particularly prejudice-tinged tragedy strikes other groups…does our example inspire the confidence and courage in those aggrieved souls that the efforts of so many from outside the Jewish community did in Missouri last week and in Richmond so many years ago? That, if you ask me, is the real question to take away from this whole story…and, if we dare, to answer honestly.

[insistonyourcupofstars]

Taylor Swift, "the lakes" / 5.17, "The Princess Dowry" @senamarais / Christina Rossetti, "I loved you first: but afterwards your love" / Jordy Searcy, "Love & War in Your Twenties" / Ed Sheeran ft. Taylor Swift, "The Joker and The Queen" / Geoffrey Chaucer, "Rondel of Merciless Beauty" / 5.14, "The Backup Dan" @senamarais / Florence + the Machine, "Shake It Out" / Mōzi, "Honey + Tea" / Katherine Mansfield, "Camomile Tea"

[zee-has-commitment-issues]

Here is every song on the Walty playlist, except I can't tell you why.

I had a couple asks about the Walty (Henry and Walter) playlist, so I'm just going to tell you everything that's on it. I cannot, however, tell you why these songs are on it. Some are self explanatory, others aren't. I don't want to spoil Voicemail, though, so...

Anyway, here you go:

The Story by Conan Gray

The Cut That Always Bleeds by Conan Gray

Partners in Crime by FINNEAS

Crush Culture by Conan Gray

Wish You Were Sober by Conan Gray

(are we sensing a pattern yet?)

Home by Catie Turner

ARE WE STILL FRIENDS? by Tyler, The Creator

that way by Tate McRae

Would You Be So Kind? by dodie

Dive by Ed Sheeran

Sparks Fly by Taylor Swift

Everybody Talks by Neon Trees

I GUESS I'M IN LOVE by Clinton Kane

Why Am I Like This? by Orla Gartland

The Way You Felt by Alec Benjamin

GROWING UP IS ___ by Ruel

Pacify Her by Melanie Martinez

Run Boy Run by Woodkid

Ribs by Lorde

my boy by Billie Eilish

my strange addiction by Billie Eilish

Into It by Chase Atlantic

hostage by Billie Eilish

IDGAF by BoyWithUke and blackbear

Drugs & Money - New Mix by Chase Atlantic

Don't Want My Heart by Sarah Cothran

Somebody I Fucked Once by Zolita

making bad decisions by Bea Miller

rubberband by Tate McRae

Friends Don't by Maddie & Tae

Paper Rings by Taylor Swift

Nineteen by Dylan

Home for the Summer by Sara Kays

London Boy by Taylor Swift

Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy by Queen

Hearts Don't Break Around Here by Ed Sheeran

Diana by One Direction

we made it. by david hugo

History by One Direction

You Belong With Me (Taylor's Version) by Taylor Swift

Falling Like the Stars by James Arthur

Jealous by Labrinth

Let's Fall in Love for the Night by FINNEAS

I Hear a Symphony by Cody Fry

Atlantis by Seafret

Our Song by Taylor Swift

Friendship? by Jordy Searcy

Us by James Bay

Romeo & Juliet by Peter McPoland

Seventeen by Tors

They Don't Know About Us by One Direction

Heather by Conan Gray

She by dodie

11:11 by Ben Barnes

Training Wheels by Melanie Martinez

The Anchor by Bastille

Until I Found You by Stephen Sanchez

Don't Blame Me by Taylor Swift

Flowers by Lauren Spencer-Smith

Sarah Smiles by Panic! At the Disco

Colors by Halsey

Dangerously by Charlie Puth

I Was Made For Loving You by Tori Kelly and Ed Sheeran

Arms Unfolding by dodie

Let Me Down Slowly by Alec Benjamin

You & Me by James TW

Peer Pressure by James Bay and Julia Michaels

If I Didn't Tell You by James TW

Happy For Me by James TW

If I'm Being Honest by dodie

Changed by Catie Turner

Brother by Kodaline

All I Ask by Adele

You Matter To Me by Drew Gehling and Jessie Mueller

La vie en rose by Michael Bublé and Cécile McLorin Salvant

Good Thing by Sam Smith

Leave Your Lover by Sam Smith

Moon and Back by Alice Kristiansen

Teenager in Love by Madison Beer

After You by Meghan Trainor

Hesitate by Jonas Brothers

Ok, that's the whole playlist. That is every single song on the Walty Playlist that I am writing the Walty chapter to. Some of these make more sense in the context than others. Some I added just for drama. Some make me cry because it fits them so well. Ok well, now that I've shared the playlist, I won't be answering any of the asks about it. If your ask never gets answered, that's why.

I am positively flattered that you guys seem to like my taste in music, though.

[rowansparrow]

By Any Other Name: Playlist

Hello darlings. I had lots of people send me songs that reminded them of BAON, And I think I mentioned every now and then I had certain songs in mind when writing chapters, so I thought I’d compile everything into a playlist for those of you who might be interested. :) If there are lyrics underneath a song, then that means it’s one I was actively listening to/daydreaming to when writing that scene so take that however you wish, lol. 

(My personal favorite picks have stars by them, so if you listen to nothing else I’m BEGGING you to listen to those but it’ll hurt you probably)

Enjoy, and I hope you get some cool new tunes out of this lol. 

Chapter One

***(Flashback) Reader Meets Rose: Human - The Killers “Wave goodbye, wish me well, you’ve got to let me go”

Chapter Two

Opening Night at the Rose Lounge: Yeah! - Usher (Ft. Lil John & Ludacris) ***Fives Takes the Stage: oops! - Yung Gravy Fives, Hardcase, and Jesse dance: Good Girls Bad Guys - Falling in Reverse The Captain Arrives / (Flashback) Rex tells the reader: Turn to Hate - Orville Peck “Dumb enough to take the bait, don’t let my sorrow turn to hate” 

Chapter Three:

(Flashback) Playing Sabacc: Everybody Lost Somebody - Bleachers “There’s a reason I see myself in a million faces, I reason I can’t stop it all from changing, so come on motherfucker, you survived, you gotta give yourself a break.”  Rex Calms Reader Down: Don’t Let Me Cave In - The Wonder Years

Chapter Four: 

(Flashback) Depression and Loss: The Chain - Ingrid Michaelson “Promise not to promise anymore, and if you come around again, then I will take, then I will take, the chain from off the door.” 

Chapter Five: 

***Fives and Reader in the Office: Fire Meet Gasoline - Sia “It’s a bad bet, certain death, but I want what I want and I got to get it.”  (Flashback) Rose and Reader on the Roof: Love and War in your Twenties - Jordy Searcy

Chapter Six: 

(Flashback) Rose and Reader on the Roof: Photograph - Ed Sheeran “You won’t ever be alone, wait for me to come home” Forgiving Captain Rex: Before You Go - Lewis Capaldi “I hate you, I hate you, I hate you, but I was just kidding myself.” 

Chapter Seven: 

***(Flashback) Reader meets Captain Rex: Line Without a Hook - Ricky Montgomery “She’s a lady, and I am just a boy. I am just a line without a hook.”  ***Rex and Reader on the Roof: If the World Was Ending - JP Saxe (Ft. Julia Michaels) “Would you love me for the hell of it? All our fears would be irrelevant.” 

Chapter Eight: 

Fives/Reader/Echo Together: Easy - The Commodores The Helmet: Unshaken - Christian Larsson

Chapter Nine: 

(Flashback) Broken Glass, Bandaged Hands: Falling - Harry Styles “What am I now? What am I now? What if you’re someone I just want around?” ***Fives’ Confrontation on the Roof: Insomnia - IAMX “You could see the madness in my eyes. I’ve lost control, please save me from myself.” 

Chapter Ten:

***(Flashback) Rose and Reader’s First Time: Dustland - The Killers Ft. Bruce Springsteen “Is there still magic in that midnight sun, or did you leave it back in ‘61? In the cadence of a young man’s eyes, out where the dreams all hide.”  ***Rex and Reader with Fives: A Letter to Georgia - The Airborne Toxic Event “Afraid of this truth that love could cause you so much pain, darling I wish it wasn’t true.” 

Chapter Eleven: 

Fives and Rex Fight: Toxic - Britney Spears (Flashback) Rose and the Children: Father and Son - Cat Stevens “From the moment I could talk, I was ordered to listen. Now, there’s a way, and I know, that I have to go away. I know I have to go.”  ***Rex Tells the Truth: The Night We Met - Lord Huron “I had all and then most of you, some and now none of you. Take me back to the night we met.” 

Chapter Twelve:

The 501st at War: Vode An (Epic Version) - Samuel Kim The Garbaks: Once Upon a Memory - Kan Gao (instrumental) Defending the Garbak Village: Bang Bang - Green Day ”Give me death or give me head. I’m daddy’s little psycho and mommy’s little soldier.”  ***Rose Sees the Missiles: A Conversation with Death - Khemmis ”As long as God in heaven dwell, your soul, your soul shall scream in hell.”  ***Rose’s Final Moments: Deadman’s Gun - Ashtar Command “You’ve given them all you can give, and luck won’t save them tonight.”

Chapter Thirteen:

(Flashback) Marry Me: Wildest Dreams - Taylor Swift “Say you’ll see me again, even if it’s just in your wildest dreams.”  ***The Ring: Runaway Horses - The Killers (Ft. Phoebe Bridgers) “Head first into the unknown, like runaway horses, in a fever till the end.” 

Chapter Fourteen:

Rex After Umbara: Everything I Love is Broken - The Airborne Toxic Event ***The Mountains and the Sea: Transatlanticism - Death Cab for Cutie “I need you so much closer.” 

Chapter Fifteen: 

***Fives Knows: Achilles Come Down - Gang of Youths “Throw yourself into the unknown with a pace and a fury defiant.”  The Outlander: Boba Fett’s Theme (The Book of Boba Fett) - Samuel Kim (Besties I am begging you to listen to this one)

Chapter Sixteen:

Out of the Fire: ONCE AGAIN, Boba Fett’s Theme (The Book of Boba Fett) - Samuel Kim. See above link. Just let the scenes segue together with this playing in the background it’ll change your life I promise. “They Called Me Rose”: Open the Door - The Mandalorian Season 2 Soundtrack.

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[onlyforthebabes]

✨HL playlists by onlyforthebabes✨

(Edited to include 🎵when you know you know (HL6), 🎵close enough to touch (HL11), 🎵burnt romances (HL13), and 🎵too far gone (HL18))

This post is long overdue, but I've finally made a master list of all the HL playlists I've published here. They're listed in the order I created them, so there are some gaps in the numbers where I haven't posted (or maybe even finished) some, but I'll update if I ever publish more! I've put a lot of thought and time and love into these playlists, so I really hope y'all find something to enjoy here.

✨🎶

🎵a truth so loud

HL. The OG. A canon inspired playlist based on some of the most iconic H/L songs. (ft. 1D, Troye Sivan, Ed Sheeran, Lorde)

🎵honey (make this easy)

HL2. There’s no denying the chemistry between them from the moment they meet - so they don’t even try. While discretely hooking up with a fellow X Factor hopeful sounds like just another part of the fun, it’s hard to ignore that this thing between them is way more than physical, and “X Factor hopefuls” has become wholly inadequate to describe where they’re going. But in the midst of all the chaos, it’s hard to resist something this good. (ft. 1D, Hozier, Lizzo, Carly Rae Jepson)

🎵no matter how sweet, no matter how brave

HL3. New fame, new friends, new feelings. Jealousy gives way to mutual infatuation, which evolves into steadfast love. Growing up too fast doesn’t feel so scary when you’ve got someone to hold onto. (ft. 1D, Fleetwood Mac, Niall Horan, The Head and the Heart)

🎵Entirely

HLFOUR. Coming soon. (ft. 1D, Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson)

🎵when you know you know

HL6. It's all about that one person... (ft. 1D, Maria Mena, Yellowcard, Beyoncé)

🎵one foot in sea and one on shore

HL10. A traveling sailor whose sense of home is the familiar warmth of local bars, a charming bartender in a seaside village, and a brief affair that leaves them both longing for a life far from everything they know. (ft. Regina Spektor, Bright Eyes, Feist, The Format)

🎵close enough to touch

HL11. Love can be frightening, for sure. (girl!direction) (ft. 1D, Louis Tomlinson, Hozier, Jake Scott)

🎵sunset couldn't save me now

HL12. Part-time suburban youth, summertime neighbors growing up together and blurring the lines of love and friendship; chasing dreams, traveling the world, and figuring out that sometimes home is a person. (ft. Sufjan Stevens, Vampire Weekend, Regina Spektor, Neutral Milk Hotel)

🎵burnt romances

HL13. A canon-compliant au where everything goes wrong, but love finds a way. (ft. The Weepies, Lewis Capaldi, Bleachers, The Head and the Heart)

🎵fell in love with the fire

HL14. Harry's long since accepted that fame comes with a closet. But a chance encounter with a friend from a past life may change everything (or, an au about identity, fame, missed connections, and giving love a chance) (ft. Florence and the Machine, Maren Morris, St. Vincent, Sam Smith)

🎵trip and i fall in

HL15. Undeniable chemistry turns a spontaneous hookup into fast friendship (with some pretty nice benefits). They know from the start it’s not exclusive, but that doesn’t stop anyone from catching feelings. (ft. Zayn, Ariana Grande, Brockhampton, Selena Gomez)

🎵learning to breathe

HL16. Harry and Louis have always been best friends, even within their close-knit group. Closeted, small town kids with little experience, an innocent first kiss turns into an agreement: to experimentally "date" in secret until high school ends. When it’s time to move on, they do. But as the years pass, they can never quite figure out how to let go. (ft. Maisie Peters, Julia Michaels, Lana del Rey, Lauv)

🎵too far gone

HL18. Love, illness, religion, and fear. A kiss between friends on a quiet winter's day changes everything. (ft. Sufjan Stevens, Brand New, Haley Heynderickx, Phoebe Bridgers)

🎵if i'm butter...

HL19. Louis’ an art student who spends his days wandering the city in search of inspiration while his hot-but-elusive craigslist roommate works ungodly hours as a baker. When the pandemic hits and the two near strangers are suddenly quarantined together, they find themselves growing closer in more ways than one. (ft. Relient K, BENEE, Fiona Apple, Samsa)

🎵pretend it isn't strange

HL20. A hopeless wanderer, lost and disillusioned with life, finds himself taken in by a small mountainside community: a friendly local band, a safe place to rest his head, and a stranger who makes it feel like home. Together they learn to let love grow. (ft. Wild Rivers, Ben Howard, Town Meeting, Birdtalker )

🎵yesterday (when you were young)

HL21. Coming soon (ft. Jon Bellion, AJR, Raleigh Ritchie, fun.)

🎵coming up lavender

HL22. New friends who feel like old ones, long drives home up the coast, and finding love in every color. Or, a girl!direction college road trip au (ft. Gretta Ray, dodie, Ingrid Michaelson, Mitski)

🎵it is what it is (till it ain't anymore)

HL23. An impending marriage, a secret affair, and either fate or bad timing. Harry and Louis fall in love one summer in rural Georgia. Years later, they meet again. (ft. Shania Twain, Kacey Musgraves, Gregory Alan Isakov, Andrew Bird)

And lastly, the playlists I've made based on other peoples' stories:

nothing but you on my mind 🎶for Nothing But You On My Mind by @absoloutenonsense

Louis Tomlinson is a PR manager hired to improve the image of royal bad-boy Prince Harry Styles. Unfortunately for him, that means being faced with the Prince's constant innuendos, incessant dirty jokes, and relentless flirting. Louis just wants to make it to Princess Gemma's coronation; once she's crowned Queen, his contract is up and he never has to see the Prince again. (ft. dodie, Julia Michaels, Dermot Kennedy, Lewis Capaldi)

little by little 🎶for Little by Little by @absoloutenonsense

Harry Styles is an omega who works at the London Planetarium, has lived in the same flat for ages, and is happy enough on his own. When he gets home from his first (horrible) attempt at dating in years, a new pregnant neighbor knocks on his door after smelling his cooking. He and Louis quickly become close, but their friendship gets complicated when Harry begins questioning who he is and what he likes. Or Harry discovers figuring out who you are is more complicated than a potato metaphor. (ft. Jordy Searcy, Bruno Major, Lizzy McAlpine, Sleeping at Last)

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When staying alive is already a constant battle, the deadliest weakness is to be in love. For Harry and Louis, finding each other sits on top of the endless list of What Else Could Go Wrong. (ft. Bastille, Hozier, Fall Out Boy, Lorde)

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Current Event-Detroit man convicted of murder deserves new trial after state prisoner admits to 2004 killing.

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Summary- A man from detroit is getting a different trial after he told the judge that he was the person who pulled the trigger in 2004. Searcy is his name and he’s 41 years old and is facing life in prison for shooting another man sitting in a parked car at the airport. Searcy then wrote a letter a sent it to someone in 2015 saying that he shot the person and he is a hit man. He is serving 52 years to life in prison and doesn’t know what to do. As they were going though all of Searcy files they found that the gun he used to shoot the guy doesn’t match the bullet seen. They also say that it isn’t his first time being in a case dealing with murder. He also shot 4 other people that was blamed on a 14 year old in 2007.

Significance- I chose this article because this article came up in my journalism my 8th grade year. It seems that they keep bringing this cases back out. This article is important to society because it’s important for people to always pay attention to how people move. This impacts his family and the people he used to hang around. My opinion on this is that they need to close his case and just keep him in jail.

One Question- Is this you guys first time hearing about this case ?

Reference- Title: Detroit man convicted of murder deserves new trial after state prisoner admits to 2004 killing. Author: Ed White. Source: Fox 2 News. Published: 5 hours ago.

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CARL’S BLOG: MAMIE, AN OZARK MOUNTAIN GIRL OF COURAGE

Author’s Note:  Living dangerously was the name of the game.  Believe me, I avoided most of this stuff.  What were some of the stuff you did growing up?

9-20-20, Betty marries Ebb Gentry, Kent Barger is born, and creativity of entertainment becomes good pastime.    

On March 9, 1953, Mamie and Ed received a letter from Darlene Barger announcing the birth of their first son.  They named him Harvey Kent Barger.  He was born on March 5 in Grants Pass, Oregon. “He’s a good-looking boy.  He looks nothing like his ugly father,” Darlene said.  The birth of Kent gave Ed and Mamie eight grandchildren.  Kent and Ronnie were still outnumbered by the granddaughters 6-2.  Kent was the first grandchild born outside of Arkansas.  It was awhile before Ed and Mamie were able to see their new grandson. Oregon was a long way from Arkansas. On July 23, 1953, Betty married Elvin Gentry from Edgemont.  They were married in Searcy by the Rev. Eugene Fowler.  After they married, they moved into Betty’s house which was in the Lone Pine community.  It was the house she and J. D. Stark lived in before his death.   After Betty moved out, Edward and Mamie reassigned job responsibilities to the children who were old enough to work.   Ella Mae was given the responsibility of sweeping the house every day and helping with the dishes.  Willie and Jim took on jobs Betty had been doing.  They got rather good at helping Mamie with washing clothes and ironing.  Willie was assigned all the driving responsibilities as well as helping his father with the farm crops.  Jimmy continued to milk two cows and help with the farm crops.   Roy and Carl were given more cows to milk.  Instead of Carl milking one cow, he was given two cows to milk.   Roy continued to milk two cows and feed the hogs. It was not always work that occupied the Barger children on the farm.  They still had lots of time to play.  They enjoyed playing with their neighbor friends and cousins.  One of the things the Barger boys enjoyed doing with Lynn Stark, Arnold Fulbright, and Lavaughn and L. J. Davis was to climb to the top of persimmon tree and ride it to the ground.   After riding the tree to the ground, the boys would hold the tree down until some brave soul crawled on the top of the tree.  After the brave soul securely attached him to the top of the tree, the other boys would release the tree propelling him into the sky. This was more thrilling than a roller coaster in an amusement park.  They played cowboys and Indians, swam nude in the old blue hole, and climbed bluffs on the Little Red River.  After climbing bluffs, they would dare each other to jump from the top of the bluff onto a pine or oak tree that had grown next to the bluffs.  One slip of the hand would have meant death to any one of them. Strangely enough, everyone, except for Carl took the leap and shimmed down to the bottom of the tree.  “I had more sense than try such a dangerous stunt,” Carl said.

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College basketball wishes happy retirement to Tom Konchalski, revered inside the sport but unknown beyond

Legendary scout Tom Konchalski was standing alongside one of the many basketball courts stuffed inside the Sewall Center on the campus of Robert Morris University. He was easy to spot. It might be a challenge to locate him in a crowd of players, but among the few reporters congregating to watch the action at the Five-Star Basketball Camp, someone standing 6-6 was certain to tower above the crowd.

Konchalski stood above other scouts figuratively, as well. Few ever have had the same eye for talent, for what it is that separates a good high school basketball player from a great college basketball prospect. Hall of Fame coaches sought his opinion. All-Star players recalled how he discovered them.

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On that day in July 2000, I was visiting Pittsburgh along with my wife to spend a few days with family and friends. She was out shopping with her sister and our niece, so I had an afternoon to sneak out to the Five-Star Basketball Camp and take in the hoop scene. But I only had the afternoon. We were meeting later for dinner, and missing was not an option.

“You have to see this young man, LeBron James,” Konchalski said to me as I squeezed in next to him.

“Really? OK, when does he play? What court?”

“He doesn’t play again until tonight. You HAVE to see him,” he said.

The urgency with which he issued this declaration made it clear I was going to be missing something extraordinary, even historic. It was like being told by The New York Times theater critic that you had to get to a performance of “Hamilton,” at the Public Theater, before it got to Broadway and everyone discovered it.

Even that many years ago, however, I’d been married long enough to understand an afternoon hall pass expired when the afternoon was over. Konchalski seemed almost defeated. He knew how I’d have appreciated that moment.

Now 73, Konchalski is retiring from his life’s work of publishing the HSBI Report, the scouting service to which most every major college basketball coach subscribed, and which has carried him on a journey across more than 40 years and thousands of miles, not one of which he has driven.

A native New Yorker, Konchalski never owned a car, using public transportation for much of his travels. He also never bothered learning to use a computer and doesn’t carry a cell phone. He composed his scouting reports using a typewriter. He compiles them for coaches to peruse, and employ, not for public distribution.

“Tom is one of the best and smartest human beings on this planet,” Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski told Sporting News. “His instant recall of players, coaches, games and events is unmatched. He helped thousands of players get the opportunity to play college basketball at all levels. Every youngster that he talked about was important. With the Five-Star Basketball Camp, Tom and Howard Garfinkel created an experience for players and coaches that will not be duplicated. Tom is a true gift to the game of basketball.

Konchalski  fell in love with the game watching Connie Hawkins in the late 1950s and completed his last reports in a year that will produce such future stars as Cade Cunningham and B.J. Boston. In between he scouted Michael Jordan, who currently is being celebrated in “The Last Dance,” an epic-length documentary series on ESPN. Jordan got into one Five-Star Camp session on Konchalski’s recommendation and wound up as the best player there. 

“Tom Konchalski is one of the most kind and sincere souls in basketball,” Villanova coach Jay Wright told Sporting News. “He truly lived for others, always revering the great players, respecting every player. I think he is the most honest and precise evaluator of talent ever. One of a kind, never to be matched.”

Early in Konchalski’s career, he helped Tennessee find Ernie Grunfeld and Bernard King in New York City. The “Ernie and Bernie Show” remains one of the most revered periods in the history of Vols basketball, delivering an SEC championship in 1977 and five victories in six tries against SEC power Kentucky. It was not long after that success, in 1979, that Konchalski chose to leave his job as a schoolteacher and scout full time for Howard Garfinkel, the originator of the Five-Star camps who owned HSBI. Konchalski subsequently purchased the service from the man known to all of basketball as “Garf” and continued until now.

MORE: SN staff picks best high school basketball players they ever saw

Hofstra coach Joe Mihalich told Sporting News he followed Konchalski’s work, “Only for like 40 years! I am so sad. There may be more scouting services, but there will never be another Tom Konchalski. He is an icon, and truly loved by the entire basketball world. This is the end of an era.”

For the past decade or so, basketball writer Adam Zagoria has been Konchalski’s “chauffeur and roommate,” mostly at the annual Nike EYBL at the Peach Jam tournament in North Augusta, S.C.

Those are long days, with four to six games occurring simultaneously and often running from 9 a.m. well into prime time. Konchalski is so respected that Zagoria often would find himself frustrated by the mere act of trying to leave the community center gymnasium when the games were complete.

“It’s 11 o’clock at the end of the day and you want to go out and get some food … and it takes an added 30 minutes because everybody wants to talk to him with him and spend some time with him,” Zagoria told SN. “I’m not going to lie: That gets a little frustrating.

“Last year in the parking lot, we ran into Jamal Mashburn. He was there to watch his son. Jamal’s face lit up when he saw Tom, couldn’t have been happier to see him and shake his hand. So we spent another 10-15 minutes standing in the dark, listening to Jamal talk about how Tom first scouted him and was one of the first people to evaluate him.”

Konchalski owns an astonishing memory of the players he scouted; players who’d been in his reports would tell stories about how, even decades later, he would recognize them and immediately rattle off what school they’d attended and some of their old teammates.

He also owns an encyclopedic knowledge of the game. When returning last winter from the Hoophall Classic in Springfield, Mass., a three-day tournament for top high school teams, Konchalski and Zagoria stopped at a diner and began to discuss where this past season’s Montverde Academy team, featuring Cunningham and Florida State-bound Scottie Barnes, would rank among the best high school teams ever.

Konchalski told Zagoria the three best high school teams ever were the Power Memorial teams featuring Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Lew Alcindor) from 1963 to 1965. He also cited the Power Memorial’s 1970 team with Len Elmore, Jap Trimble and Ed Searcy, the early 1980s Baltimore Dunbar teams featuring Reggie Williams, Muggsy Bogues and David Wingate, and the 1989 Jersey City St. Anthony’s team that included Bobby Hurley, Terry Dehere and Jerry Walker.

Zagoria thought that was worth sharing with the world, so he put Konchalski’s thoughts on Twitter.

Almost immediately, Zagoria received a response from Oak Hill Academy coach Steve Smith, eager to learn where the best Oak Hill teams might fit into that discussion. When Konchalski spoke, the basketball world was listening.  

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Best restaurants in Arkansas 2019

Our readers pick the best.

The readers of the Arkansas Times have once again pushed their plates away, belched politely and named the best restaurants, chefs and dishes and other categorical superlatives for our Readers Choice issue. They sent in their nominations, we added them up and the Times, trusting in their palates, now serve up the results for your dining pleasure.

For the second year in row, readers named Petit & Keet in West Little Rock the top restaurant and gave it the best wine list award, too. The "around the state" winner for overall best was DeLuca's Pizzeria Napoletano in Hot Springs, inspiring our feature on the face of pie in the Spa City.

Scott McGehee (of Big Orange, Heights Taco & Tamale and more) added to his many Readers Choice trophies with another best chef nod. Dos Rocas, the Mexican street food and bar in SoMa, won best new restaurant in Little Rock; read more about the restaurant in a feature here.

Along with eatery and chef winners, you'll find here a list of the places our readers say you should give a shot when you've got a hankering for baked goods, barbecue, brunch, buffet, burgers and beyond.

AND THE WINNERS ARE...

Overall Little Rock

Winner: Petit & Keet

Finalists: Big Orange, The Pantry, Samantha's Tap Room, South on Main

Around the state

Winner: DeLuca's Pizzeria (Hot Springs)

Finalists: The Hive (Bentonville), Local Lime (Rogers), Mike's Place (Conway), Wunderhaus (Conway)

New

Little Rock

Winner: Dos Rocas

Finalists: Cathead's Diner, Poke Hula, Sauce(d), Watercolor in the Park

Around the state

Winner: Local Lime (Rogers)

Finalists: 501 Prime (Hot Springs), Grateful Head Pizza (Hot Springs), Katmandu Momo (Conway), SQZBX (Hot Springs)

Chef Little Rock

Winner: Scott McGehee (Big Orange, Heights Taco & Tamale Co., Local Lime, Lost Forty, ZAZA Fine Salad & Wood Oven Pizza Co.)

Finalists: Matthew Bell (South on Main), Steven Binotti (Petit & Keet), Peter Brave (Brave New Restaurant), Payne Harding (Cache)

Around the state

Winner: Anthony Valinoti (DeLuca's Pizzeria, Hot Springs) Finalists: Matthew Cooper (The Preacher's Son, Bentonville), Michael Dampier (The Ohio Club, Hot Springs), Matthew McClure (The Hive, Bentonville), Jacqueline Smith (WunderHaus, Conway)

Bakery

Little Rock

Winner: Community Bakery

Finalists: Boulevard Bread Co., Dempsey Bakery, Honey Pies, Rosalia's Family Bakery

Around the state

Winner: PattiCakes Bakery (Conway)

Finalists: Ambrosia Bakery (Hot Springs), Julie's Sweet Shoppe & Bakery (Conway), Rick's Bakery (Fayetteville), Serenity Farm Bread (Leslie)

Barbecue Little Rock

Winner: Whole Hog Cafe

Finalists: Corky's BBQ, H.B.'s Bar-B-Q, Lost 40, Sims Bar-B-Que

Around the state

Winner: Fat Daddy's Bar-B-Que (Conway)

Finalists: Craig's Bar-B-Q (DeValls Bluff), Hog Pen BBQ (Conway), Penguin Ed's Bar-B-Que (Fayetteville), Wright's BBQ (Johnson)

Brunch

Little Rock

Winner: @ the Corner

Finalists: Lost Forty Brewing, Raduno, Red Door, The Root Cafe

Around the state

Winner: Pressroom (Bentonville)

Finalists: The Arlington Hotel (Hot Springs), Arsaga's at the Depot (Fayetteville), WunderHaus (Conway), ZAZA Fine Salad & Wood Oven Pizza Co. (Conway)

Buffet

Little Rock

Winner: Star of India Restaurant and Bar

Finalists: Cathead's Diner, Franke's Cafeteria, Golden Corral, Tokyo House

Around the state

Winner: Dondie's White River Princess (Des Arc)

Finalists: Abe's Ole Feed House (Benton), Brown's Catfish (Russellville), Golden Corral (Conway)

Burger

Little Rock

Winner: Big Orange

Finalists: David's Burgers, District Fare, Petit & Keet, The Root Cafe

Around the state

Winner: Big Orange (Rogers)

Finalists: CJ's Butcher Boy Burgers (Russellville), David's Burgers (Conway),

Hugo's (Fayetteville), The Ohio Club (Hot Springs)

Business lunch

Little Rock

Winner: Cache Restaurant

Finalists: Brave New Restaurant, Capital Bar & Grill, Samantha's Tap Room & Wood Grill, Three Fold Noodles & Dumpling Co.

Around the state

Winner: Mike's Place (Conway)

Finalists: Arsaga's at the Depot (Fayetteville), Big Orange (Rogers), The Hive (Bentonville), Rolando's Restaurante (Hot Springs)

Butcher

Little Rock

Winner: District Fare

Finalists: Edwards Food Giant, Fresh Market, Hogg's Meat Market

Around the state

Winner: Weldon's Meat Market (Hot Springs)

Finalists: Paul's Meat Market (Fort Smith), Richard's Meat Market (Fayetteville)

Catfish

Little Rock

Winner: Eat My Catfish

Finalists: Doe's Eat Place, Flying Fish, Lassis Inn, Soul Fish Cafe

Around the state

Winner: Eat My Catfish (Benton)

Finalists: Bubba's Catfish (Hot Springs), The Catfish Hole (Fayetteville), Flying Fish (Bentonville), Woods Place (Camden)

Chinese

Little Rock

Winner: Fantastic China

Finalists: Chi's Asian Cafe and Sushi Bar, Mr. Chen's Authentic Chinese Cooking, Fu Lin Chinese Restaurant, Three Fold Noodles and Dumpling Co.

Around the state

Winner: China Town (Conway)

Finalists: Mulan (Conway), Jade China Restaurant (Conway), Madame Wu's Hunan Restaurant (Russellville), Oriental Gardens (El Dorado)

Coffee

Little Rock

Winner: River City Coffee

Finalists: Blue Sail Coffee; Boulevard Bread Co.; Guillermo's Coffee, Tea & Roastery; Mylo Coffee Co.

Around the state

Winner: Blue Sail Coffee (Conway),

Finalists: Arsaga's Fayetteville Coffee Roasters (Fayetteville), Jitterbug Coffeehouse (Heber Springs), Kollective Koffee (Hot Springs), Onyx Coffee Lab (Fayetteville)

Deli/gourmet to go

Little Rock

Winner: District Fare

Finalists: Boulevard Bread Co., Catering to You, Community Bakery, Jason's Deli

Around the state

Winner: Cafe 1217 (Hot Springs)

Finalists: Cross Creek Sandwich Shop (Conway), Mean Bean Cafe (Conway), Pea Farm Bistro (Cabot)

Desserts

Little Rock

Winner: Loblolly Creamery

Finalists: Cache, Honey Pies, Petit & Keet, Trio's

Around the state

Winner: PattiCakes Bakery (Conway)

Finalists: Arsaga's at the Depot (Fayetteville), The Hive (Bentonville), Rolando's Restaurante (Hot Springs), WunderHaus (Conway)

Dog friendly

Little Rock

Winner: Bark Bar

Finalists: Fassler Hall, The Fold: Botanas and Bar, The Root Cafe, U.S. Pizza Hillcrest

Around the state

Winner: ZAZA Fine Salad & Wood Oven Pizza Co. (Conway)

Finalists: Apple Blossom Brewery (Fayetteville), Crepes Paulette (Bentonville), The Farmer's Table Cafe (Fayetteville), Rolando's Restaurante (Hot Springs)

Food truck

Little Rock

Winner: Delta Biscuit Co.

Finalists: Excaliburger, Katmandu MoMo, Loblolly Creamery, Samantha's Taqueria II

Around the state

Winner: Hot Rod Wieners (Austin)

Finalists: Big D's BBQ and Catfish (Russellville), Crepes Paulette (Bentonville), Truckin' Delicious (Fort Smith), Wild Ginger (Conway)

French fries

Little Rock

Winner: Big Orange

Finalists: @ the Corner, Buffalo Grill, David's Burgers, The Pantry Crest

Around the state

Winner: Big Orange (Rogers)

Finalists: David's Burgers (Conway), Eat My Catfish (Benton), Feltner's Whatta-Burger (Russellville), Hugo's (Fayetteville)

Fried chicken

Little Rock

Winner: Gus's World Famous Fried Chicken

Finalists: Cathead's Diner, Flint's Just Like Mom's, Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, Maddie's Place

Around the state

Winner: Holly's Country Cooking (Conway)

Finalists: A.Q. Chicken House (Fayetteville), Monte Ne Inn (Rogers), Old South Restaurant (Russellville), Slim Chickens (Conway)

Fun

Little Rock

Winner: Dave & Buster's

Finalists: Big Orange, Fassler Hall, The Fold: Botanas and Bar, Petit & Keet

Around the state

Winner: Big Orange (Rogers)

Finalists: Gaskins Cabin Steakhouse (Eureka Springs), The Hive (Bentonville), The Ohio Club (Hot Springs), Silks Bar and Grill at Oaklawn (Hot Springs)

Gluten-free

Little Rock

Winner: Dempsey Bakery

Finalists: Baja Grill, Big Orange, The Root Cafe, Taziki's Mediterranean Cafe

Around the state

Winner: ZAZA Fine Salad & Wood Oven Pizza Co. (Conway)

Finalists: Hideaway Pizza (Conway), The Preacher's Son (Bentonville), Rolando's Restaurante (Hot Springs) Taziki's Mediterranean Cafe (Bentonville)

Healthy

Little Rock

Winner: The Root Cafe

Finalists: Poke Hula, Taziki's Mediterranean Cafe, Three Fold Noodles and Dumpling Co., ZAZA Fine Salad & Wood Oven Pizza Co.

Around the state

Winner: ZAZA Fine Salad & Wood Oven Pizza Co. (Conway)

Finalists: Cafe 1217 (Hot Springs), Pea Farm Bistro (Cabot), Rolando's Restaurante (Hot Springs), WunderHaus (Conway)

Home cookin'

Little Rock

Winner: Homer's Restaurant

Finalists: Bobby's Country Cookin', Cathead's Diner, Franke's Cafeteria, Soul Fish Cafe

Around the state

Winner: Holly's Country Cooking (Conway)

Finalists: Hole in the Wall (Conway), Old South Restaurant (Russellville), Wagon Wheel Restaurant (Greenbrier)

Ice cream/cool treats

Little Rock

Winner: Loblolly Creamery

Finalists: Le Pops Gourmet Iced Lollies, Kilwins, Shake's Frozen Custard, ZAZA Fine Salad & Wood Oven Pizza Co.

Around the state

Winner: ZAZA Fine Salad & Wood Oven Pizza Co. (Conway)

Finalists: Andy's Frozen Custard (Conway), Daisy Queen (Marshall), Frozen Delite (Searcy), Las Delicias (Conway)

Indian

Little Rock

Winner: Star of India Restaurant and Bar

Finalists: Banana Leaf Indian Cuisine, The Indian Feast, Saffron, Taj Mahal

Italian

Little Rock

Winner: Bruno's Little Italy

Finalists: Cafe Prego, Ciao, Raduno, Ristorante Capeo

Around the state

Winner: Pasta Grill (Conway)

Finalists: Bocca Italian eatery & pizzeria (Fayetteville), DeLuca's Pizzeria (Hot Springs), Ermilio's Italian Home Cooking (Eureka Springs), Luna Bella (Hot Springs)

Japanese

Little Rock

Winner: Kemuri

Finalists: Kobe Japanese Steakhouse, Mt. Fuji Japanese Restaurant, Sekisui, Sushi Cafe

Around the state

Winner: Umami Sushi Lounge & Grill Fusion (Conway)

Finalists: A1 Sushi (Hot Springs), Fuji's (Conway), Meiji Japanese Cuisine (Fayetteville), Sumo Sushi and Steak (Bryant)

Mexican

Little Rock

Winner: Local Lime

Finalists: The Fold: Botanas and Bar, Heights Taco & Tamale Co., La Hacienda Mexican Restaurant, Taqueria El Palenque

Around the state

Winner: Local Lime (Rogers)

Finalists: El Acapulco (Conway), La Hacienda Mexican Restaurant (Hot Springs), Table Mesa (Bentonville), Taco Mama (Hot Springs)

Other ethnic

Little Rock

Winner: kBird

Finalists: Buenos Aires Grill and Cafe, Layla's Gyros and Pizzeria, La Terraza Rum & Lounge, Taziki's Mediterranean Cafe

Around the state

Winner: WunderHaus (Conway)

Finalists: A Taste of Thai (Fayetteville), Katmandu Momo (Conway), Rolando's Restaurante (Hot Springs) Taziki's Mediterranean Cafe (Bentonville)

Outdoor dining

Little Rock

Winner: U.S. Pizza Hillcrest

Finalists: Brave New Restaurant, Buenos Aires Grill and Cafe, La Terraza Rum & Lounge, Petit & Keet

Pie

Little Rock

Winner: Honey Pies

Finalists: @ the Corner, Alley Oops, Petit & Keet, Soul Fish Cafe

Around the state

Winner: Charlotte's Eats and Sweets (Keo)

Finalists: Fork and Crust (Rogers), Holly's Country Cookin' (Conway), PattiCakes (Conway), Stoby's Restaurant (Conway)

Pizza

Little Rock

Winner: ZAZA Fine Salad & Wood Oven Pizza Co.

Finalists: Damgoode Pies, Pizza Cafe, Raduno, U.S. Pizza

Around the state

Winner: DeLuca's Pizzeria (Hot Springs)

Finalists: Hideaway Pizza (Conway), Rocky's Corner (Hot Springs), SQZBX (Hot Springs), Tommy's Famous (Mountain View)

Place for kids

Little Rock

Winner: All Aboard

Finalists: Big Orange, Chuck E. Cheese's, Dave & Buster's, Purple Cow

Sandwich

Little Rock

Winner: Boulevard Bread Co.

Finalists: Burges, District Fare, Jimmy's Serious Sandwiches, Paninis and Co.

Around the state

Winner: Cross Creek Sandwich Shop (Conway)

Finalists: Cafe 1217 (Hot Springs), Patio Cafe (Conway), Pea Farm Bistro (Cabot)

Seafood

Little Rock

Winner: Flying Fish

Finalists: Cache, Kemuri, Petit & Keet, Soul Fish Cafe

Around the state

Winner: Eat My Catfish (Conway)

Finalists: Luna Bella (Hot Springs) Mike's Place (Conway), Postmasters Grill (Camden), Who Dat's Cajun Restaurant (Bald Knob)

Steak

Little Rock

Winner: Doe's Eat Place

Finalists: Arthur's Prime Steakhouse, Faded Rose, Petit & Keet, Sonny Williams' Steak Room

Around the state

Winner: Mike's Place (Conway)

Finalists: Herman's Rib House (Fayetteville), Postmasters Grill (Camden), Tamale Factory (Gregory), Taylor's Steakhouse (Dumas)

Vegetarian/vegan

Little Rock

Winner: The Root Cafe

Finalists: Cafe Bossa Nova, The Fold: Botanas and Bar, Three Fold Noodles and Dumpling Co., ZAZA Fine Salad & Wood Oven Pizza Co.

Around the state

Winner: Rolando's Restaurante (Hot Springs)

Finalists: The Farmer's Table Cafe (Fayetteville), Preacher's Son (Bentonville), Local Flavor Cafe (Eureka Springs), ZAZA Fine Salad & Wood Oven Pizza Co. (Conway)

Wine list

Little Rock

Winner: Petit & Keet

Finalists: One Eleven, The Pantry Crest, Samantha's Taproom and Wood Grill, SO Restaurant-Bar

Around the state

Winner: Luna Bella (Hot Springs)

Finalists: The Hive (Bentonville), Mike's Place (Conway), Rolando's Restaurante (Hot Springs), The Preacher's Son (Bentonville)

Yogurt/smoothies

Little Rock

Winner: TCBY

Finalists: I Love Juice Bar, Scoop Dog, Tropical Smoothie, Yogurt Mountain

Best restaurants in areas around the state:

Benton/Bryant

Winner: Eat My Catfish

Finalists: Brown's Country Kitchen, Riviera Maya, Tacos 4 Life

Conway

Winner: Mike's Place

Finalists: Eat My Catfish, Hideway Pizza, Tacos 4 Life, Stoby's Restaurant

Eureka Springs

Winner: Ermilio's Italian Home Cooking

Finalists: Cafe Amore, Gaskins Cabin, Local Flavor, Mud Street Cafe

Fayetteville/Springdale/Johnson

Winner: Bordinos (Fayetteville)

Finalists: Arsaga's at the Depot (Fayetteville), The Farmer's Table Cafe (Fayetteville), Hugo's (Fayetteville), Taste of Thai (Fayetteville)

Hot Springs

Winner: DeLuca's Pizzeria

Finalists: Cafe 1217, Luna Bella, Rolando's Restaurante, SQZBX

Rogers/Bentonville

Winner: Local Lime (Rogers)

Finalists: Hammontree's Grilled Cheese (Rogers), The Hive (Bentonville), The Preacher's Son Cafe (Bentonville), Tusk & Trotter (Bentonville) 

Best restaurants in Arkansas 2019

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Noticias de series de la semana: El futuro pinta regular para 'American Gods'

Habrá otro showrunner para American Gods

Fremantle, la productora de American Gods, le ha pedido a Jesse Alexander, nuevo showrunner tras la marcha de Bryan Fuller y Michael Green, que abandone la serie debido al descontento de los actores y a los retrasos y desavenencias con el guion -ya en su séptima versión- de la segunda season finale, que debería estar grabándose ya en lugar de los cambios que se están haciendo de episodios ya terminados. No se usa la palabra despido, pero se sabe que no participará en la edición, la producción o la postproducción. [Fuente]

Renovaciones

Netflix ha renovado Las chicas del cable por una cuarta temporada

BBC One ha renovado His Dark Materials por una segunda temporada

Netflix ha renovado Insatiable por una segunda temporada

Amazon ha renovado Absentia por una segunda temporada

Cancelaciones

La quinta temporada de Poldark (BBC One) será la última

Incorporaciones y fichajes

Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad, The Path) se une como regular a la tercera temporada de Westworld. Se desconocen detalles.

Katherine Langford (13 Reasons Why; Love, Simon) será Nimue, destinada a convertirse en la Dama del Lago, en Cursed, reinvención de la historia del rey Arturo.

Zachary Quinto (Heroes, American Horror Story) y Ashleigh Cummings (Hounds of Love) protagonizarán NOS4A2. Serán Charlie Manx, un villano aparentemente inmortal que se alimenta de almas de niños; y Vic McQueen, una artista de clase obrera con la habilidad de rastrearlo.

Chloë Sevigny (American Horror Story, Big Love) y AnnaSophia Robb (The Carrie Diaries, Mercy Street) se unen a The Act. Serán Mel y Lacy, madre e hija y vecinas de Dee Dee (Patricia Arquette) y Gypsy (Joey King).

Vincent D'Onofrio (Daredevil, Law & Order: Criminal Intent) será Vincent 'Chin' Gigante, un exboxeador que consigue convertirse en líder de la mafia genovesa, en Godfather of Harlem. Ilfenesh Hadera (She's Gotta Have It, Show Me a Hero) será Mayme, esposa de Bumpy Johnson (Forest Whitaker).

Eva Longoria (Desperate Housewives, Telenovela) participará como invitada en Grand Hotel interpretando a Beatriz, primera mujer de Santiago (Demian Bichir) y antigua dueña del hotel. Jencarlos Canela (Telenovela, Pecados ajenos) será recurrente como El Rey, un cantante conocido al que ofrecen actuar como habitual en el hotel.

Melanie Griffith (Working Girl, Lolita), Claudia O'Doherty (Love, Trainwreck), Sherie Rene Scott (P.S. I Love You) y Dan Aid serán recurrentes en SMILF como la madre y la hermana de Nelson (Samara Weaving); Jackie, tía de Bridgette (Frankie Shaw) y hermana de Tutu (Rosie O'Donnell); y Hank, compañero de clase de Bridgette.

James Marsden (Westworld, X-Men), Ed Asner (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Studio 60), Max Jenkins (The Mysteries of Laura, Grey's Anatomy) y Luke Roessler (Legion, Bates Motel) se unen a Dead to Me. Marsden y Asner serán el nuevo interés amoroso de Judy (Linda Cardellini) y un anciano de la residencia en la que Judy trabaja.

Shane West (Nikita, Salem) será recurrente en la quinta y última temporada de Gotham como Eduardo Dorrance, un antiguo compañero del ejército de Jim Gordon (Ben McKenzie).

Barry Sloane (Revenge, Six) será recurrente en L.A.'s Finest como Dante, hermano de Ray Sherman (Zach McGowan).

Neal McDonough (Desperate Housewives, Arrow) será recurrente en la segunda temporada de Yellowstone como Malcolm Beck, un adinerado magnate que dirige un casino junto a su hermano.

Bob Saget (Fuller House, Entourage) será el padre D'Amico, un sacerdote con el que tendrán que hablar Kev (Steve Howey) y V (Shanola Hampton), en un episodio de la novena temporada de Shameless. Jess Gabor (Mormon for a Month) y Luis Guzmán (Code Black, Narcos) serán recurrentes como Kelly Keefe, hija de un oficial del ejército y alumna de West Point que entra en la vida de Carl (Ethan Cutkosky); y Mikey O'Shea, un contrincante de Frank (William H. Macy) en una campaña para encontrar la cara representante de un licor barato.

Elaine Hendrix (Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll, The Parent Trap) será recurrente en Proven Innocent como Susan Andrews, una desvergonzada autoridad televisiva que lidera la opinión pública.

Shaun Toub (Homeland, Iron Man) será recurrente en Snowpiercer como Terence, un antiguo conserje convertido en un peligroso gangster.

Ben Miller (Johnny English, Death in Paradise), Alexandra Roach (Utopia, No Offence), Sean Sagar (Top Boy, Our Girl), Susannah Fielding (Black Mirror, The Great Indoors), Gwilym Lee (Jamestown, Bohemian Rhapsody), Phoebe Nicholls (Fortitude, The Elephant Man), Ritu Arya (Humans, Doctors), Michael Cochrane (Downton Abbey, The Iron Lady) y Debbie Chazen (Holby City) acompañarán a Ken Nwosu en The Man.

Ted Levine (The Alienist, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom), Mel Rodriguez (Getting On, The Last Man on Earth) y Beth Ditto (Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot) se unen como regulares a On Becoming A God In Central Florida. Usman Ally (Veep, A Series of Unfortunate Events) se une como recurrente.

Xander Berkeley (The Walking Dead, Nikita) será el padre de Ben (Sam Witwer) en la cuarta temporada de Supergirl.

Noah Emmerich (The Americans, The Truman Show), Topher Grace (That '70s Show, War Machine), Robert Sean Leonard (House, Dead Poets Society), James D'Arcy (Agent Carter, Broadchurch), Nick Searcy (Justified, 11.22.63), Liam Cunningham (Game of Thrones, Clash of the Titans), Paul James (The Path, The Last Ship) y Robert Wisdom (The Wire, The Alienist) protagonizarán The Hot Zone junto a Julianna Margulies.

Lily Dodsworth-Evans (Genius), Kerri McLean (Electric Dreams), Sofia Oxenham (Grantchester), Vincent Regan (The Royals, 300), Peter Sullivan (Marcella, Entebbe) y Freddie Wise (Maleficent 2) se unen a la quinta y última temporada de Poldark. Se desconocen detalles.

Elizabeth Tulloch (Grimm, The Artist) será Lois Lane en el crossover del Arrowverse.

Craig Parker (Reign, Spartacus: Blood and Sand) será Alastair Caine, CEO de Morningstar Biotech y benefactor de la universidad en la que trabaja Macy (Madeleine Mantock), en Charmed.

Jason Dirden (Greenleaf, House of Payne), Iantha Richardson (This Is Us), Christopher Jefferson (5th Ward), Katlyn Nichol y Jelani Winston se unen a American Soul.

Mykelti Williamson (Forrest Gump, Justified) será recurrente en la tercera temporada de Lethal Weapon como Tom Barnes, quien recluta a Cole (Seann William Scott) en la CIA.

Adan Rocha (Brockmire) se une como regular a Murphy Brown. Será Miguel, inmigrante mexicano y estudiante universitario que trabaja con Phyllis (Tyne Daly).

Clementine Nicholson (Underworld: Blood Wars) será recurrente en la segunda temporada de Knightfall como Margaret, princesa de Borgoña y esposa de Louis (Tom Forbes).

Matthew Le Nevez (Offspring, The Kettering Incident) y Natasha Little (The Night Manager, Thirteen) se unen a la segunda temporada de Absentia. Serán Cal Isaac, un ex Navy SEAL que entiende muy bien a Emily (Stana Katic); Julianne Gunnarsen, agente especial del FBI que viaja a Boston tras un ataque terrorista.

Nikki Amuka-Bird (Quarry, Luther), Alex Jennings (Unforgotten, The Crown), Julia McKenzie (The Casual Vacancy, Notes on a Scandal), Sebastian Armesto (Poldark, Broadchurch), Jemima Rooper (Atlantis, Trauma) y Archie Renaux se unen a Gold Digger. Serán Marsha, antigua mejor amiga de Julia (Julia Ormond); Ted, exmarido de Julia; Hazel, madre de Ted; y Patrick, Della y Leo, los tres hijos de Julia.

Terrence J (Burlesque, Battle of the Year) y Lyndie Greenwood (Nikita, Sleepy Hollow) serán recurrentes en la tercera temporada de Star como Ryan French, un presentador con muchos seguidores; y Megan Jetter, abogada que acaba de abrir su propia firma.

Jay Reeves será recurrente en All American como Shawn Scott, antiguo amigo de la niñez de Spencer (Daniel Ezra).

Maya Lynne Robinson sustituye a Xosha Roquemore en el papel de Geena, esposa de DJ (Michael Fishman) y madre de Mary (Jayden Rey), en The Conners.

Pósters

         Nuevas series

Peter Calloway (Cloak & Dagger, Legion) escribe la adaptación televisiva del videojuego Alan Wake, sobre un novelista de éxito que viaja a un pequeño pueblo del estado de Washington para acabar con su bloqueo de escritor y allí descubre que el argumento de su último libro, que no recuerda haber escrito, ha cobrado vida. Sam Lake, creador del videojuego, producirá la serie.

Starz ha dado luz verde directa a P-Town, drama que trata la actual crisis de muertes por sobredosis de opiáceos en Estados Unidos y que se centra en Jackie (Monica Raymund; Chicago Fire, Lie to Me), una chica lesbiana de Provincetown, Massachusetts que trabaja como agente federal en el servicio nacional de pesca marina y, al encontrar un cadáver en la costa, se enfrenta a su adicción mientras se obsesiona cada vez más con resolver el asesinato. Escrita y producida por Rebecca Cutter (Gotham, The Mentalist) y producida por Jerry Bruckheimer.

ABC ha adquirido la secuela de Designing Women (1986-1993). No hay encargo de piloto aún.

Fechas

Queen America llega a Facebook Watch el 21 de noviembre

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Titans

Tráilers

Queen America

Élite

Outlander - Temporada 4

The Romanoffs

Homecoming

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

Into The Dark

Grey's Anatomy - Temporada 15

How to Get Away with Murder - Temporada 5

9-1-1 - Temporada 2

The Cry

Supergirl - Temporada 4

Lethal Weapon - Temporada 3

The Gifted - Temporada 2

South Park - Temporada 22

Daredevil - Temporada 3

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2018 NFL Preview: The Cam Newton-Norv Turner marriage is crucial for Panthers

Yahoo Sports is previewing all 32 teams as we get ready for the NFL season, counting down the teams one per weekday in reverse order of our initial 2018 power rankings. No. 1 will be revealed on Aug. 1, the day before the Hall of Fame Game kicks off the preseason.

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It wasn’t a move that got as much attention as a head coaching change, or a splashy free-agent signing, but the Carolina Panthers made a switch that is as important as any other in the NFL.

Suddenly, Norv Turner is in charge of Cam Newton’s prime.

Head coach Ron Rivera fired offensive coordinator Mike Shula, citing the desire to bring in some new ideas to an offense that had gone into a funk since a tremendous 2015 season. Immediately, Turner was rumored to be the preferred replacement, and it was no surprise when he was hired. Theoretically, Turner could be so good he gets another shot at a head-coaching job, or so bad he’s fired in a year or two. Realistically, the Panthers’ new offensive coordinator will be guiding Newton well into his 30s.

What would Newton’s legacy be right now, as he heads into his age-29 season? His college legacy is set for his amazing 2010 season at Auburn. His pro legacy isn’t as well established. His NFL story probably starts with his 2015 MVP, when he led the Panthers to the Super Bowl. He has undeniably had a good career, but a great one? As a passer he has only one 4,000-yard season (as a rookie), has exceeded 24 touchdowns only once and has thrown double-digit interceptions each season. His ability as a runner is a huge plus on his resume. Only Michael Vick (6,109) and Randall Cunningham (4,928) have more rushing yards among quarterbacks than Newton, who has 4,320 yards in 109 games. Vick played in 143 games and Cunningham 161. Newton already holds the NFL record for a quarterback with 54 rushing touchdowns.

There’s a lot to like, but it feels like there could be another level for Newton. Maybe that place could take Newton back to the Super Bowl, and perhaps to the Hall of Fame. It’s now on Turner to help unlock it.

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Turner has been a good offensive coordinator for decades, though it is troubling how his time with the Minnesota Vikings ended. He quit midseason, saying he thought he was holding the offense back, though there also seemed to be differences with head coach Mike Zimmer. While Turner is mostly known for work with Troy Aikman and Philip Rivers – big, strong-armed quarterbacks who could throw it downfield, just like Newton – he also adjusted to have success with Teddy Bridgewater, who isn’t like Aikman, Rivers or Newton. Turner can adapt to fit his personnel’s strengths. Newton, however, seems to fit what he prefers. Newton has never been the type of quarterback who will work a defense underneath with precise short passes that generate a huge completion percentage. And Turner mostly hasn’t been that kind of coordinator.

As a passer, Newton should be comfortable throwing deep to Devin Funchess, first-round pick D.J. Moore and tight end Greg Olsen off play-action (Turner’s offenses have had six running backs lead the league in rushing, so a strong run game is always a foundation). Also, Turner understands what makes Newton special and won’t change that.

“He’s incredible as a runner. He’s just an amazing player at that position,” Turner said, according to the Panthers’ transcripts. “There’s two ways that he ends up carrying the ball, obviously: It’s designed runs, and then he’s made a lot of plays where he’s kept the ball in passing situations or when he drops back to throw it and the opportunity to run opens up. I think that’s a real threat to defenses. Defenses, they’re really bothered by that. He’s always got to have that as part of his game. He’s always got to have the threat to run. Depending on who we’re playing, how we’re playing and things that are going, I think it’s always going to be a part of what we do.”

The Panthers have done very well with Newton. He helped turn around a franchise that took him with the first overall pick. Carolina is 49-26-1 over the past five years when Newton starts. Had the Panthers finished a dream season in 2015 with a Super Bowl win, that would be Newton’s legacy. Ask Eli Manning or Joe Flacco how Super Bowls can carry a reputation. Instead, Newton is entering a key point in his career in which he’ll define how we remember him.

However Newton’s legacy ends up, it will be a big part of Turner’s football legacy too.

Panthers offensive coordinator Norv Turner talks with Cam Newton (1) and Devin Funchess (17). (AP)

Only one 2017 first-team All-Pro player changed teams this offseason: guard Andrew Norwell, who left the Panthers for Jacksonville. The Panthers also lost some familiar veterans: defensive tackle Star Lotulelei, safety Kurt Coleman, tight end Ed Dickson and running back Jonathan Stewart. While teams don’t want to get stuck hanging onto old veterans too long, that’s a lot of experience and production out the door. Among acquisitions, the largest contract by far went to defensive tackle Dontari Poe (three years, $28 million). The other additions were low-priced contributors: receiver Jarius Wright, cornerback Ross Cockrell, safety Da’Norris Searcy, running back C.J. Anderson. I like the first-round pick of receiver D.J. Moore, and third-round cornerbacks Donte Jackson and Rashaan Gaulden could contribute right away. Norwell was a big loss, and that knocks down the grade a bit.

GRADE: C+

The Panthers, as usual, have a lot of talent in the front seven. Tackle Dontari Poe replaces Star Lotulelei, and he should form a really good duo with Kawann Short. End Mario Addison has 20.5 sacks over the past two seasons. Once Thomas Davis returns from a four-game suspension, the Panthers have a tremendous trio of linebackers with Luke Kuechly, Shaq Thompson and Davis. There are plenty of questions in the secondary, but the front seven covers up a lot of issues.

The Panthers had one big stumbling block last season. Including playoffs, they went 11-3 against everyone not from New Orleans, and 0-3 against the Saints. The Saints won those games by a combined 36 points. Forecasting the Panthers for 2017, you have to consider they play in perhaps the toughest division in the NFL. They didn’t match up well against the Saints last season. The Falcons will be good again. The Panthers’ games against the Buccaneers come in Weeks 9 and 13, long after Jameis Winston’s suspension expires. The Panthers have a tough road, starting with trying to figure out the Saints.

Sage Rosenfels, a former NFL quarterback who played for Norv Turner, had some interesting comments to the Charlotte Observer about the relationship between Turner and Cam Newton.

“Cam has twice the talent of a Drew Brees – stronger arm, physically, just a lot of those skills. But it doesn’t feel like to me that he brings that same energy that his teammates can feed off,” Rosenfels told the Observer.

“It’s not necessarily X’s and O’s. But maybe Norv can help him bring that type of tenacity and energy to not only make Cam better and take less hits, but make his teammates around him better.”

It also sounds like Turner will be coaching Newton pretty hard.

“Norv’s demanding. He feels strongly about his offense. He feels strongly about the plays he has designed over the years, helped design, and the way he sees the game,” Rosenfels said, according to the Observer. “And he wants that offense to run smooth and be very precise, and that starts with the quarterback being very precise.

“He puts the most pressure on the quarterback more than any other position, without a doubt.”

When the offensive coordinator change was made, the conversation centered on two topics: Cam Newton, and how to get even more out of running back Christian McCaffrey.

McCaffrey, the eighth pick of last year’s draft, was solid as a rookie with 1,086 yards from scrimmage. He caught 80 passes. But the Panthers want more. Since McCaffrey isn’t a traditional between-the-tackles running back like fellow 2017 rookie Leonard Fournette – though McCaffrey has the ability to run inside – it’s important for the staff to get creative.

The good news is Norv Turner is already talking up McCaffrey, even making a comparison to Darren Sproles, who Turner coached early in Sproles’ career.

“He’s got such talent, you’re just going to keep finding ways to get him the ball and try to create more space for him,” Turner said in an interview with the team’s site. “That hard-nosed running between the tackles he can certainly do, but I don’t know that’s what you want to lead with him.

“Christian is ahead of [where Sproles was], and there are some things we can do that he did, but Christian can run wide receiver routes. So yeah, there’s a lot of things we did with Darren that apply, and there are some things that I think we can do differently with Christian.”

From Yahoo’s Liz Loza: “Christian McCaffery had a heck of a rookie campaign, as evidenced by his current draft stock. While I’m infatuated with the 22-year-old’s talent, I’m not interested in paying peak value for his services.

“The RB11 overall in half-point PPR formats in 2017, McCaffery was the most targeted RB in the league. He also hauled in the third most receptions at 80 catches on the season. How much better can he realistically do? An increase in totes is the only place for him to significantly up his production. Maybe he averages 10 carries per game – and stays healthy in the process – but that’s not a gamble that I’m willing to take in the first round. Not when perennial producers like Devonta Freeman and Jordan Howard are still on the board.”

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The Panthers had a tremendous record in close games last season. Carolina was 7-1 in contests decided by seven or fewer points, and won all four games decided by a field goal or less. No team had a better winning percentage in close games. Only Pittsburgh had more wins in games decided by seven points or less, with eight victories. As I often say in these previews, extremely good or bad records in close games don’t tend to repeat. If the Panthers went .500 in those games last season, we’re having a lot different conversation about them.

CAN LINEBACKER LUKE KUECHLY STAY HEALTHY?

Unfortunately, it’s a question we’ll ask about Kuechly the rest of his career. Kuechly, one of the league’s most dynamic players, has dealt with multiple concussions. Last year he suffered another one in a game against the Eagles, and missed one game. The Panthers’ defense looked entirely different in that loss to Philadelphia without Kuechly, and that’s no surprise. His value is tremendous. Over the past three seasons, Carolina is 26-11 when Kuechly is in the lineup and 5-5 in games he has missed with concussions (h/t to ESPN).

Hopefully Kuechly won’t have to deal with more concussion issues, but it will be a concern the rest of his career.

The Panthers have posted at least 11 wins three of the past five seasons. Cam Newton is a difference maker and if he takes to Norv Turner’s scheme, we know he can play at an MVP level. I’m not sure another 15-1 season is possible, but if the Panthers can get over the Saints hump, they could win the NFC South. And because of Newton, they could be a team that makes noise in the playoffs.

The 2013 and 2015 Panthers were dominant teams. The 2017 version was good, but a little lucky to reach 11-5. They’re not going 7-1 in close games again. That’s not to say the Panthers can’t be in playoff contention again, but some improvements will have to happen to fight regression in one-score games. Because Norv Turner has never coached a quarterback quite like Cam Newton, it’s not a sure thing the offense will click right away. The Panthers’ foundation is strong so I doubt they will collapse, but in a tough division they could see a significant step back.

I have the Panthers at a strong No. 13 on my countdown, and there are two NFC South teams ahead of them. This is a rough division. The Panthers could end up being a very good team and still finish third in their division, in a conference that has 8-10 playoff-level teams. There will be some very good teams in the NFC that don’t make the playoffs, and even though I like the Panthers, they’ll be in that group.

32. Cleveland Browns 31. Indianapolis Colts 30. New York Jets 29. Arizona Cardinals 28. Buffalo Bills 27. Cincinnati Bengals 26. Chicago Bears 25. New York Giants 24. Miami Dolphins 23. Washington Redskins 22. Tampa Bay Buccaneers 21. Houston Texans 20. Seattle Seahawks 19. Oakland Raiders 18. Denver Broncos 17. San Francisco 49ers 16. Detroit Lions 15. Tennessee Titans 14. Baltimore Ravens

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