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Holidays 10.12
Holidays
Asexuality Visibility & Education Day
Child Rambunctiousness Appreciation Day
Children’s Day (Brazil)
Columbus Day [original date]
Commonwealth Culture Day (Northern Mariana Islands)
Cookbook Launch Day
Day of the Pluricultural Nation (Mexico)
Day of Cultures (Costa Rica)
Day of the Six Billion (1999)
Destiny Day\
Dia de la Rasa (Day of Race; Mexico)
Dia de la Raza (Latin America)
Fall Astronomy Day
Fiesta Nacional de España (Spain)
The First of October! (Dr. Seuss)
Freethought Day
Geoscience Day
Global Scream Day (30-second scream at 1200 GMT)
Harry Potter Book Day
Hemp Day (French Republic)
Hispanic Day (Spain)
Holy Translator’s Day (Ukraine)
Indigenous Peoples Day (San Francisco)
Indigenous Peoples’ Resistance Day (Belize)
Indigenous Resistance Day (Venezuela)
International Cassette Store Day
International Day Against DRM
International Moment of Frustration Scream Day
International Newspaper Carrier Day
International TFMR Awareness Day
Lady of Aparecida Day (Brazil)
Love Your Bookshop Day (Australia)
National Bandana Day (South Africa)
National Doodle Bug Day
National Education Day (Kiribati)
National Engineer’s Day (Uruguay)
National Farmer’s Day
National Fungus Day (Japan)
National Hafez Day (Iran)
National Home Fire Drill Day
National Hug a Bassist Day
National Loggers Day
National Martin Day
National Monogram Day
National Museum Day (Indonesia)
National Peyronie’s Disease Awareness Day
National Salesperson's Day
National Savings Day
National Vermont Day
Native Americans' Day
No Smoking Day (Armenia)
October Big Day
Old Farmer's Day
Piomingo Day (Chickasaw Nation)
Rice Day (Texas)
Sarandi Battle Day (Uruguay)
Superstar Day
Women Pharmacist Day
World Algae Day
World Arthritis Day
World Burpee Day
World Sloth Bear Day
World Spanish Language Day UN)
Food & Drink Celebrations
Black Jewish Drinking Day
Drink Local Wine Day
International Pinotage Day
Märzen Day
National Gumbo Day
National Know Your Lemons Day
National Pulled Pork Day
National Pumpkin Pie Day
Independence & Related Days
Asgardia (Declared; 2016) [unrecognized]
Equatorial Guinea (from Spain, 1968)
Wasteoftimeistan (Declared; 2017) [unrecognized]
2nd Saturday in October
African Penguin Awareness Day [2nd Saturday]
Fall Astronomy Day [2nd Saturday]
Global PT Day of Service [2nd Saturday]
Home Movie Day [2nd Saturday]
I Love Yarn Day [2nd Saturday]
International African Penguin Awareness Day [2nd Saturday]
International Newspaper Carrier Day [2nd Saturday]
International Pinotage Day [2nd Saturday]
Migratory Bird Day (Mexico) [2nd Saturday]
National Chess Day [2nd Saturday]
National Costume Swap Day [2nd Saturday]
National Curves Day [2nd Saturday]
National Family Bowling Day (a.k.a. Kids Bowl Free Day) [2nd Saturday]
National Motorcycle Ride Day [2nd Saturday]
National Period Day [2nd Saturday]
National Thrive Outside Day [2nd Saturday]
National Tree Planting Day (Mongolia) [2nd Saturday]
Pinotage Day [2nd Saturday]
Sandwich Saturday [Every Saturday]
Six For Saturday [Every Saturday]
Spaghetti Saturday [Every Saturday]
Universal Music Day [2nd Saturday]
World Hospice and Palliative Care Day [2nd Saturday]
World Migratory Bird Day [2nd Saturday]
World Porridge Day [Saturday of 1st Full Week]
World Squash Day [2nd Saturday]
Weekly Holidays beginning October 12 (1st Full Week of October)
Bone and Joint Health Action Week (thru 10.20)
Festivals Beginning October 12, 2024
Appleumpkin Festival (Tecumseh, Michigan) [thru 10.13]
Arkansas Rice Festival (Weiner, Arkansas)
Augusta Bottoms Bier Festival (Augusta, Missouri)
Autumn Brew Review (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Autumn Reggae Wine & Music Festival (Mt. Airy, Maryland) [thru 10.13]
Beet Festival (Sherman, Connecticut)
Blairsville Sorghum Festival Blairsville, Georgia) [thru 10.13 & 10.19-20]
Boonville Days: Texas Heritage Festival (Bryan, Texas)
Cape Cod Cranberry Day (East Sandwich, Massachusetts)
Chesapeake Virginia Wine Festival (Chesapeake, Virginia)
Chili Cook-off (Ludlow, Vermont)
Chincoteague Island Oyster Festival (Chincoteague, Virginia)
Cordell Pumpkin Festival (Cordell, Oklahoma)
Cranberry Harvest Festival (Grayland, Washington) [thru 10.13]
Davison Pumpkin Fest (Davison, Michigan)
Downtown Oyster Stroll (Westminster, Maryland)
Fall Festival (Wellington, Kansas)
Garlic & Harvest Festival (Bethlehem, Connecticut) [thru 10.13]
Georgia Apple Festival - Ellijay, Georgia) [thru 10.13 & 10.19-20]
Grape & Fall Festival (Hollister, Missouri)
Greek Festival (St. Augustine, Florida) [thru 10.13]
Hartsburg Pumpkin Festival (Hartsburg, Missouri) [thru 10.13
Harvest Celebration (Woodstock, Vermont) [thru 10.13]
Harvest Fest and Giant Pumpkin Weigh-Off (Stillwater, Minnesota) [thru 10.13]
Harvest Fest (Billings, Montana)
Harvest Fest Street Fair (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania)
International Alba White Truffle Fair (Alba, Italy) [thru 12.8]
LaFayette Apple Festival (LaFayette, New York) [thru 10.13]
Little River ShrimpFest (Little River, South Carolina) [thru 10.13]
Lobsterfest (Spring Brook, Pennsylvania)
McLoud Fall Fest (McLoud, Oklahoma)
Medford Apple Festival (Medford, Oregon)
Mount Holly Cider Days (Belmont, Vermont) [thru 10.13]
New Bedford Seaport Chowder Festival (New Bedford, Massachusetts)
Newburgh Seafood Festival (Newburgh, New York)
New Harmony Apple Festival and Fall Harvest (New Harmony, Utah)
Oak Harbor Apple Festival (Oak Harbor, Ohio) [thru 10.13]
Ohio Sauerkraut Festival (Waynesville, Ohio) [thru 10.13]
Peanut Festival (Grapeland, Texas)
Plate by Plate (San Francisco, California)
Pork Roll Palooza (Phillipsburg, New Jersey)
PumpkinFest (Aurora, Minnesota)
Pumpkinfest (Montague, Michigan)
Pumpkinfest & Regatta (Damariscotta, Maine) [thru 10.14]
Punkin Days (Floydada, Texas)
Saratoga International Flavorfeast (Saratoga Springs, New York)
Snowflake Harvest Fest (Snowflake, Arizona)
Sonoma County Harvest Fair (Santa Rosa, California)
Steak, Stein, and Wine Festival (Cameron, Texas)
Swansboro Mullet Festival (Swansboro, North Carolina) [thru 10.13]
Sweet Potato Festival (Darlington, South Carolina)
Taste & Brews Fall Fest (Canton, Georgia) [thru 10.13]
Taste of Brunswick Festival (Alberta, Virginia)
Taste of Cambridge (Cambridge, Maryland)
Tunkhannock Rotary Harvest and Wine Festival (Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania)
Valparaiso Fall Harvest Festival (Valparaiso, Indiana)
Weekend Along The Farm Trails (Sonoma County, California) [thru 10.13]
West Cape May Lima Bean Festival (West Cape May, New Jersey)
Whiskies of the World (Atlanta, Georgia)
The WhiskyX (San Francisco, California)
Wine & Food Celebration (Springfield, Missouri)
World Championship Gumbo Cook-Off (New Iberia, Louisiana) [thru 10.13]
Feast Days
Al Held (Artology)
Ayathrem begins (Zoroastrianism)
Barclay Shaw (Artology)
Carlo Acutis (Christian; Saint)
Cloud-Stamping Pentathlon (Shamanism)
Crowleymas (a.k.a. Feast for Life of Aleister Crowley; Thelema)
Day of Fortuna Redux (Ancient Rome)
Day of Giving the Black Land to Horus and the Red Land to Set (Ancient Egypt)
Edith Cavell and Elizabeth Fry (Church of England)
Edwin of Northumbria (Christian; Saint)
Eugenio Montale (Writerism)
Feasts of the Spirits of the Fire (Pagan)
Fiacc (Christian; Saint)
The Flying Sorcerers, Parts 1 & 2 (Underdog Cartoon, S2, Eps. 25 & 26 1965)
Fortuna Redux (Old Roman Goddess of Successful Journeys & Safe Returns)
Frank Sinatra Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Guido Molinari (Artology)
Herbert (Roman Catholic)
International Pastafarian Headgear Day (Pastafarian)
Lester Dent (Writerism)
Louis Brisson (Christian; Blessed)
Montaigne (Positivist; Saint)
Our Lady of Aparecida (Brazil; Christian; Saint)
Our Lady of the Pillar (Fiestas del Pilar; Christian; Saint) [Spain]
Prince Humpty Dumpty (Muppetism)
Radim Gaudentius (Czech Republic; Christian; Saint)
Robert Mangold (Artology)
Seraphin of Montegranaro (Christian; Saint)
Serge Clerc (Artology)
Wanting Wonton Day (Pastafarian)
Wilfrid of Ripon, Bishop of York (Christian; Saint)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Lucky Day (Philippines) [55 of 71]
Shakku (赤口 Japan) [Bad luck all day, except at noon.]
Premieres
Argo (Film; 2012)
Bad Times at the El Royale (Film; 2018)
The Blind Owl, by Sadegh Hedayat (Novel; 1936)
Cat-Choo (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1951)
The Caves of Steel, by Isaac Asimov (Novel; 1953)
Chimp and Zee (WB MM Cartoon; 1968)
Crazy Little Thing Called Love, by Queen (Song; 1979)
The Doctor and the Soul, by Viktor E. Frankl (Philosophy Book; 1946)
Don’t Knock the Rock (Film; 1956)
Fairy Tail (Anime TV Series; 2009)
First Man (Film; 2018)
The Gay Divorcee (Film; 1934)
Got My Mind Set On You, by George Harrison (Song; 1987)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams (Novel; 1979)
The Homeless Flea (MGM Cartoon; 1940)
Hot Noon [or 12 O’Clock for Sure] (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1953)
The Hot Spot (Film; 1990)
How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, by Dr. Seuss (Children’s Book; 1957)
The Hunter (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1931)
If I Ran the Zoo, by Dr. Seuss (Children’s Book; 1950)
Inherit the Wind (Film; 1960)
It’s in the Bag or Rocky Gets the Sack (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S6, Ep. 309; 1964)
Jesus Christ Superstar (Broadway Rock Opera; 1971)
JR, by William Gaddis (Novel; 1975)
Kick, by INXS (Album; 1987)
Lady Sings the Blues (Film; 1972)
Look Now, by Elvis Costello (Album; 2018)
Memphis Belle (Film; 1990)
Midnight Frolics (Color Rhapsody Cartoon; 1938)
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, by Virginia Lee Burton (Children’s Book; 1939)
The Narrows, by Ann Petry (Novel; 1953)
Night Life in the Army (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1942)
October, by U2 (Album; 1981)
Orientalism, by Edward W. Said (History Book; 1978)
Parlez Vous Woo (Fleischer/Famous Popeye Cartoon; 1956)
Please Try to Remember the First of October!, by Dr. Seuss (Children’s Book; 1977)
Rabbit At Rest, by John Updike (Novel; 1990) [Rabbit #4]
Rollin’, by The Bay City Rollers (Album; 1974)
The Saint Abroad, by Fleming Lee (Short Stories; 1969) [Saint #42]
A Short Weight for All Seats or One of Our Trunks (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S6, Ep. 310; 1964)
Sideways (Film; 2004)
Soda Squirt (Ub Iwerks Flip the Frog Cartoon; 1933)
Sorry Safari (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1962)
Super Pink (Pink Panther Cartoon; 1966)
Touché and Go (WB MM Cartoon; 1957)
Trout Fishing in America, by Richard Brautigan (Novel; 1967)
Tusk, by Fleetwood Mac (Album; 1979)
Ultraman: The Adventure Begins (Toho Animated Film; 1987)
Today’s Name Days
Edwin, Gottfried, Horst, Maximillian (Austria)
Maksimilijan, Serafin, Velibor (Croatia)
Marcel (Czech Republic)
Maximillian (Denmark)
Aare, Aaro, Are (Estonia)
Aarre, Aarto (Finland)
Edwin, Séraphin, Wilfried (France)
David, Horst, Maximilian, (Germany)
Andromahi, Andromahos, Valantios (Greece)
Miksa (Hungary)
Serafino (Italy)
Kira, Lase, Monvids, Valfrids, Vitenis (Latvia)
Deimintė, Gantas, Salvinas (Lithuania)
Valter, Vibeke (Norway)
Cyriak, Eustachiusz, Eustachy, Grzymisław, Maksymilian, Ostap, Salwin, Serafin, Witold, Witołd, Witolda (Poland)
Andronic, Prov, Tarah (Romania)
Maximilián (Slovakia)
Pilar (Spain)
Manfred, Valfrid (Sweden)
Christopher, Cristopher, Kester, Kristofer, Kristopher (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 286 of 2024; 80 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 6 of Week 41 of 2024
Celtic Tree Calendar: Gort (Ivy) [Day 14 of 28]
Chinese: Month 9 (Jia-Xu), Day 10 (Ji-You)
Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]
Hebrew: 10 Tishri 5785
Islamic: 8 Rabi II 1446
J Cal: 16 Orange; Twosday [16 of 30]
Julian: 29 September 2024
Moon: 69%: Waxing Gibbous
Positivist: 6 Descartes (11th Month) [Sir Thomas Moore / Campanella]
Runic Half Month: Gyfu (Gift) [Day 6 of 15]
Season: Autumn or Fall (Day 21 of 90)
Week: 2nd Full Week of October
Zodiac: Libra (Day 20 of 30)
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Holidays 3.9
Holidays
American Paddlefish Day
Amerigo Vespucci Day
Armored Warships Day
Barbie Day
Baron Bliss Day (Belize)
Chess Prodigy Day
Day of Waiting (Elder Scrolls)
Day to Mourn Slavery
Doctor’s Day (Venezuela)
Eid Al Moalim (Teacher’s Day; Lebanon)
False Teeth Day
Festival of Primal Ooze
Get Over It Day
Hit the Panic Button Day
Joe Franklin Day
Made in UK Day (UK)
National CBDB Day (a.k.a. Central Bank Digital Currency)
National Dishwasher Appreciation Day
National Heroes and Benefactors Day (Belize)
National Lina Day
National Marcia Day
National Music Day (Indonesia)
National Shane Day
National Urban Educator Day
Panic Day (a.k.a. ...
Absolute Total Nihilists Bang Clang Day (Los Angeles)
Bang-Clang Day
Wellness Permission League’s Panic Day
World DJ Day
World Trisomy 9 Awareness Day
Zangoose Day (Pokémon)
Food & Drink Celebrations
International Spanish Omelette Day
National Cookie Cutter Day
National Crabmeat Day
National Meatball Day
2nd Thursday in March
International School Meals Day [2nd Thursday]
Nametag Day [Thursday of Name Week]
Popcorn Lovers Day [2nd Thursday]
Railroad Day [2nd Thursday]
World Kidney Day [2nd Thursday]
Feast Days
Archytas (Positivist; Saint)
Catherine of Bologna (Christian; Saint)
Cyril VI of Alexandria, Pope (Coptic Orthodox Church)
Dominic Savio (Christian; Saint)
Erotic Dancing Day (Pastafarian)
Farvardigan (Zoroastrian)
Forty Martyrs of Sebaste (Christian; Martyrs)
Frances of Rome (Christian; Saint)
Gregory of Nyssa (Episcopal Church (United States))
Jackie the Orangutan (Muppetism)
Meatball Day (Pastafarian)
Media Hiems III (Pagan)
Millard Fillmore Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Pacian (Christian; Saint)
Saitousai (Harvest Festival; Japan)
Socrates (Humanism; Saint)
Strinennia (Festival calling birds and spring to return; Slavic Pagan)
Takaosan Hiwatari Matsuri (Fire Walking Festival; Tokyo, Japan)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Lucky Day (Philippines) [17 of 71]
Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]
Premieres
Can-Can (Film; 1960)
Castle (TV Series; 2009)
East of Eden (Film; 1955)
Fort Apache (Film; 1948)
42nd Street (Film; 1933)
The Hotel New Hampshire (Film; 1984)
Joe Versus the Volcano (Film; 1990)
John Carter (Film; 2012)
The Joshua Tree, by U2 (Album; 1987)
Mike’s Murder (Film; 1984)
Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Piano Concerto; 1785)
The Ref (Film; 1994)
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (Film; 2012)
Sheep & Wolves (Animated Film; 2018)
Splash (Film; 1984)
State Fair (Film; 1962)
Sword Art Online the Movie: Ordinal Scale (Anime Film; 2017)
Take Me Out to the Ball Game (Film; 1949)
A Wrinkle in Time (Film; 2018)
Today’s Name Days
Bruno, Franziska (Austria)
Fanika, Franciska, Nedjeljko (Croatia)
Františka (Czech Republic)
Edvin, Heido, Heivo (Estonia)
Auvo, Edvin (Finland)
Françoise (France)
Barbara, Bruno, Dominik, Franziska (Germany)
Aetios, Eliana, Filoktimon, Iliana, Lysimahos, Sarantos, Sevirianos, Smaragda, Smaragdos, Vivianos, Xanthos (Greece)
Fanni, Franciska (Hungary)
Francesca (Italy)
Ausmis, Ervalds, Ēvalds (Latvia)
Dominykas, Pranciška, Visgailė, Žygimantas (Lithuania)
Sindre, Sverre (Norway)
Apollo, Dominik, Franciszka, Katarzyna, Mścisława, Prudencjusz, Taras (Poland)
Františka (Slovakia)
Catalina, Francisca, Paciano (Spain)
Torbjörn, Torleif (Sweden)
Flavia (Ukraine)
Keely, Kelda, Kelley, Kelli, Kellie, Kelly (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 68 of 2023; 297 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 4 of week 10 of 2023
Celtic Tree Calendar: Nuin (Ash) [Day 19 of 28]
Chinese: Month 2 (Yi-Mao), Day 18 (Bing-Yin)
Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)
Hebrew: 16 Adar 5783
Islamic: 16 Sha’ban 1444
J Cal: 7 Ver; Sevenday [7 of 30]
Julian: 24 February 2023
Moon: 95%: Waning Gibbous
Positivist: 12 Aristotle (3rd Month) [Archytas]
Runic Half Month: Tyr (Cosmic Pillar) [Day 14 of 15]
Season: Winter (Day 79 of 90)
Zodiac: Pisces (Day 18 of 29)
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Billy Porter (September 21, 1969) is an actor and singer. He graduated from Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama with a BFA, earned a certification from the graduate-level Professional Program in Screenwriting at UCLA, and achieved fame performing on Broadway before starting a solo career as a singer and actor.
He won the 2013 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his role as Lola in Kinky Boots. He credits the part for “cracking open” his feminine side to confront toxic masculinity. For the role, he won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical and the Outer Critics Circle Award in a Musical. He won the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album for Kinky Boots. He starred in all three seasons of the television series Pose, for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and won the 2019 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, becoming the first gay Black man to be nominated and win in any lead acting category at the Primetime Emmys.
He was included in Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2020.
He appeared on the American Talent Show Star Search in 1992 and won $100,000.
He played Teen Angel in the Broadway revival of Grease. Other shows he has been in include Topdog/Underdog at City Theatre, Jesus Christ Superstar and Dreamgirls at Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, and the song cycles Myths and Hymns and Songs for a New World.
He wrote and performed in his one-person autobiographical show, Ghetto Superstar (The Man That I Am). He was nominated for the “Outstanding New York Theater: Broadway & Off-Broadway Award” at the 17th GLAAD Media Awards.
He appeared as Belize in Signature Theatre Company’s 20th Anniversary production of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America.
He married Adam Smith (2017, separated in 2023). #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence
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22 From 2022
It's 2023 already and 2022 seemed to go by in a flash. Take a look back at some of the best albums of 2022.
Beyoncé- Renaissance
Beyonce's Renaissance did the unexpected by putting house music back into the American mainstream. The singer's late gay uncle Johnny was the main inspiration and the album cover's reference to Bianca Jagger's famous horse ride at New York City's Paradise Garage set the tone. The foundation of house music was represented with veterans like Honey Dijon and Green Velvet but the current Afrobeats sound was also present. The album received nine Grammy nominations but longtime fans really want to know if it will win Album of the Year.
Lizzo- Special
Lizzo's feel-good mix of disco, R&B, funk and hip-hop was bright and sounded like a yearlong summer. Cuz I Love You was such a big deal that some people wondered if her fourth album would be just as good. Special was inspired by self-care, sisterhood and relationships. The album was led-by single "About Damn Time" that had Nile Rodgers & Chic written all over it. Lizzo's proud acknowledgement of '70s and '80s dance music was heard throughout the album that killed any worries about her ability to have another impactful album.
Steve Lacy-Gemini Rights
Lacy's Gemini Rights is the moment he became mainstream official thanks to his TikTok hit "Bad Habit." But his obvious Prince influence and wicked abilities produced a whole album of singable ditties for the ages. The pliable falsetto, swift guitar, pure lyrics and Rick James-inspired look got Lacy ready for stardom. The brilliance he demonstrated on his 2017 demo grew and hit a critical mass and now there are many more eyes and ears curious about his next output.
Jazmine Sullivan-Heaux Tales, Mo'Tales: The Deluxe
Jazmine Sullivan's Heaux Tales was updated with 10 more songs added to the original album. The conceptual EP about Black women's relationships and sexual autonomy resonated with fans and snared a Grammy for Best R&B album in 2022. The deluxe edition gave more women a chance to tell their tale and Sullivan's fiery but raspy tone expanded space to emote. Ari Lennox, anderson.paak and H.E.R. are on the original and Issa Rae is a guest on the newer version.
Danger Mouse and Black Thought's Cheat Codes collaboration sounded like the equivalent of a rap LSD trip. Black Thought's words flowed over funky blues riffs, Western film themes, '60s rock and lazy jazz licks. Guests included Joey Bada$$, Run The Jewels, ASAP Rocky, Raekwon and Michael Kiwanuka. A posthumous contribution from MF DOOM on "Belize" was a surprise made eerie by Danger Mouse's choice of somber horns in the background.
See the rest of the list.
#beyonce#lizzo#ari lennox#syd#lucky daye#jack white#jack dine#alex isley#steve lacy#hil st. soul#mary j. blige#jazmine sullivan#ravyn lenae#joey bada$$#kendrick lamar#mahogany jones#psalm one#nas#JID#honey dijon#moonchild#flo milli#fantastic negrito#black thought#danger mouse#Spotify
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Article: The Radiant Sarah-Gabrielle Ryan: Why She's One to Watch at Pacific Northwest Ballet
Date: March 1, 2021
By: Marcie Sillman
Hollywood could make a movie about Sarah-Gabrielle Ryan's big break at Pacific Northwest Ballet.
It was November 2017, and the company was performing Crystal Pite's film-noir–inspired Plot Point, set to music by Bernard Hermann from Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. Ryan, then a first-year corps member, originally was understudying the role of another dancer. But when principal Noelani Pantastico was injured in a car accident, Ryan was tapped to take over her role.
Ryan had danced featured roles before, including Maria in Jerome Robbins' West Side Story Suite. But she had just one day to learn Pite's choreography. It was a daunting task, but she was determined not to squander her shot. After a session in the studio with Pantastico, Ryan went home and rehearsed for hours in her living room. "I learned the hell out of that role," she laughs.
Her hard work paid off. When she hurtled onto the stage, draped in a gray trench coat, she stared at the body sprawled on the floor, turned to the audience, her dark eyes opened wide in shock, and let out a horrified scream. The audience was rapt.
"The expectation was that we'd throw her onstage and she'd be tentative," says Pacific Northwest Ballet artistic director Peter Boal. "But she gave a really strong performance."
Ryan's success in Plot Point led to a string of featured roles at PNB, from the Sugarplum Fairy in George Balanchine's The Nutcracker to work by David Dawson and Donald Byrd. But Ryan is no overnight sensation; her success is the result of years of training, discipline and a passion for her art form. That passion also buoyed her during an on-going struggle with body-image issues, and her decision to establish her career a continent away from her close-knit Philadelphia family.
Early Successes—and Struggles
Ryan, now 23, has been dancing since she was 3 years old, when her parents enrolled her in tap, jazz and ballet classes at a local dance studio. At age 5, her teacher recommended she pursue more rigorous ballet training at Philadelphia's acclaimed Rock School for Dance Education.
Ryan flew up the levels there, and by the age of 12, she'd advanced to the top, the youngest student in her classes. Although she held her own with high-school–aged peers, Ryan knew she was different. "Everyone was older," she says. "You were expected to look a certain way, but I was still going through puberty!"
That didn't stop Pennsylvania Ballet, which then did not have an affiliated school, from casting Ryan in its annual Nutcracker. Ryan was 10 when she danced her first role, a toy soldier. Miami City Ballet School director Arantxa Ochoa was a principal dancer with Pennsylvania Ballet at the time, but she noticed the young dancer.
"I just remember her beautiful eyes and big smile," Ochoa recalls.
Five years later, when Ryan enrolled in Pennsylvania Ballet's newly revived school, Ochoa was her teacher. "She was that ideal student," says Ochoa. "Hard worker. Very smart, very talented. To me, she had that thing, that 'It' factor."
Ochoa wasn't the only one to notice her potential. Ryan continued to win roles in Pennsylvania Ballet productions, including Balanchine's "Diamonds," videotaped for PBS. At 16, she was offered a contract with Pennsylvania Ballet's second company. From the outside, it looked like the culmination of Ryan's dream.
The reality was less idyllic. Ryan had struggled with body-image issues since her early years at the Rock School; she was particularly self-conscious about the size and shape of her thighs. She remembers one Rock School teacher asking if her Mexican-born mother made good flan. When Ryan replied in the affirmative, he told her she looked like she was enjoying too much of it. Another teacher at the school suggested she go on a liquid diet to drop some weight.
Ryan recalls other "advice," such as being told not to go out into the sun, so that her skin wouldn't get too dark. Although she took that particular comment in stride, it compounded her self-consciousness about her appearance. It also strengthened her resolve to work harder in the studio.
At PBII, Ryan was determined to show she had what it takes to succeed as a professional ballerina. But while artistic director Angel Corella told the young dancer that he liked her dancing, she says he advised her to slim down or risk fewer onstage opportunities. She valued his feedback, and her long relationship with Pennsylvania Ballet, but Ryan knew it was time to look for opportunities outside her hometown. She focused her attention on Seattle.
A New Home
Ryan had attended Pacific Northwest Ballet's summer intensive the summer after joining PBII. She was among 30 young women enrolled in Peter Boal's class that summer—all excellent dancers, he says—but Ryan stood out.
"She had this kind of go-for-broke presence," Boal says. "A gutsiness." He made a mental note. A year later, when Ryan contacted him about an audition, Boal invited her to attend class when the company toured to New York City. At the end of that class, Boal offered Ryan a contract; she joined PNB as an apprentice in the fall of 2016.
"I loved PNB's rep, I loved the idea of working for Peter," Ryan says. Although she was scared about moving across the country, she calls it "good scared."
Ryan credits Boal with helping to free her from her self-image issues, but that didn't happen overnight. During her apprentice year, Ryan attended class in "trash bag pants," concerned that if Boal saw her thighs he'd decide not to cast her. She braced herself for the all-too familiar weight talk.
It never came.
But Boal noticed Ryan's tension, how she seemed intent on proving herself every time he was teaching class or watching rehearsal. He took her aside and explained that he'd hired her for a reason—he liked her dancing—and advised Ryan simply to dance for her own love of it. By the end of her apprentice year, new contract in hand, Ryan felt she'd found a true ballet home.
Ryan also credits her new-found comfort to the camaraderie she feels at PNB. She gravitated to a small group of Latinx dancers, who reminded her of her close-knit Philadelphia family. Ryan's mother is Mexican; her father grew up in Belize. The family identifies as Latin American, speaks Spanish at home and celebrates especially their Mexican heritage. Ryan was particularly touched when one colleague, a Seattle-area native, brought her samples of Mexican dishes her own mother had prepared. Small gestures like this helped ease the young dancer's homesickness.
Ryan had another reason to embrace her new city: Not long after she joined PNB, she caught the eye of a fellow dancer, principal Kyle Davis. They've been partners onstage and off for the past three years. "She's fantastic to work with," Davis says. "She's intelligent, open to discussing how steps work and how we can better work together. I personally think that's a phenomenal quality in a partner."
Finding Her Voice
During this long pandemic year, Davis and Ryan have had ample opportunity to explore their partnership. They share a Seattle apartment with two miniature Australian shepherds, Hawk and Magpie, who make frequent cameos during the online classes the couple both take and teach.
PNB's 2020-21 season is all-digital, and when the dancers returned to the studio last August, only those who co-habitated could partner one another. In the company's opening program, Ryan and Davis reprised the pas de deux from Balanchine's "Rubies." While dancing for cameras instead of live audiences hasn't been ideal, Ryan says she's learned how to use her face to convey emotions in a more intimate way, instead of playing to the second balcony.
Beyond the pandemic, the past year also ushered in frank national conversations about race and racism, which freed Ryan to speak more openly about her Latin heritage. "It gave me a voice I didn't always have before," Ryan says. "I always knew I was different, especially in ballet, but didn't often talk about it."
Last fall she encouraged PNB to acknowledge Hispanic Heritage Month. But she also wants to see ballet open its ranks to more dancers of color, and to see them advance to the upper echelons of companies like PNB.
Perhaps she'll be one of those dancers; at 23, she still has a long career ahead of her. Although she dreams of dancing the iconic classical roles—Giselle, Juliet and Kitri—Ryan also looks forward to the contemporary ballets that are a PNB mainstay.
Boal believes she can do whatever she sets her mind to. "Some dancers, there is no ceiling to their capability," Boal says. "Sarah-Gabrielle Ryan is one of them."
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Holidays
American Paddlefish Day
Amerigo Vespucci Day
Armored Warships Day
Barbie Day
Baron Bliss Day (Belize)
Chess Prodigy Day
Day of Waiting (Elder Scrolls)
Day to Mourn Slavery
Doctor’s Day (Venezuela)
Eid Al Moalim (Teacher’s Day; Lebanon)
False Teeth Day
Festival of Primal Ooze
Get Over It Day
Hit the Panic Button Day
Joe Franklin Day
Made in UK Day (UK)
National CBDB Day (a.k.a. Central Bank Digital Currency)
National Dishwasher Appreciation Day
National Heroes and Benefactors Day (Belize)
National Lina Day
National Marcia Day
National Music Day (Indonesia)
National Shane Day
National Urban Educator Day
Panic Day (a.k.a. ...
Absolute Total Nihilists Bang Clang Day (Los Angeles)
Bang-Clang Day
Wellness Permission League’s Panic Day
World DJ Day
World Trisomy 9 Awareness Day
Zangoose Day (Pokémon)
Food & Drink Celebrations
International Spanish Omelette Day
National Cookie Cutter Day
National Crabmeat Day
National Meatball Day
2nd Thursday in March
International School Meals Day [2nd Thursday]
Nametag Day [Thursday of Name Week]
Popcorn Lovers Day [2nd Thursday]
Railroad Day [2nd Thursday]
World Kidney Day [2nd Thursday]
Feast Days
Archytas (Positivist; Saint)
Catherine of Bologna (Christian; Saint)
Cyril VI of Alexandria, Pope (Coptic Orthodox Church)
Dominic Savio (Christian; Saint)
Erotic Dancing Day (Pastafarian)
Farvardigan (Zoroastrian)
Forty Martyrs of Sebaste (Christian; Martyrs)
Frances of Rome (Christian; Saint)
Gregory of Nyssa (Episcopal Church (United States))
Jackie the Orangutan (Muppetism)
Meatball Day (Pastafarian)
Media Hiems III (Pagan)
Millard Fillmore Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Pacian (Christian; Saint)
Saitousai (Harvest Festival; Japan)
Socrates (Humanism; Saint)
Strinennia (Festival calling birds and spring to return; Slavic Pagan)
Takaosan Hiwatari Matsuri (Fire Walking Festival; Tokyo, Japan)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Lucky Day (Philippines) [17 of 71]
Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]
Premieres
Can-Can (Film; 1960)
Castle (TV Series; 2009)
East of Eden (Film; 1955)
Fort Apache (Film; 1948)
42nd Street (Film; 1933)
The Hotel New Hampshire (Film; 1984)
Joe Versus the Volcano (Film; 1990)
John Carter (Film; 2012)
The Joshua Tree, by U2 (Album; 1987)
Mike’s Murder (Film; 1984)
Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Piano Concerto; 1785)
The Ref (Film; 1994)
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (Film; 2012)
Sheep & Wolves (Animated Film; 2018)
Splash (Film; 1984)
State Fair (Film; 1962)
Sword Art Online the Movie: Ordinal Scale (Anime Film; 2017)
Take Me Out to the Ball Game (Film; 1949)
A Wrinkle in Time (Film; 2018)
Today’s Name Days
Bruno, Franziska (Austria)
Fanika, Franciska, Nedjeljko (Croatia)
Františka (Czech Republic)
Edvin, Heido, Heivo (Estonia)
Auvo, Edvin (Finland)
Françoise (France)
Barbara, Bruno, Dominik, Franziska (Germany)
Aetios, Eliana, Filoktimon, Iliana, Lysimahos, Sarantos, Sevirianos, Smaragda, Smaragdos, Vivianos, Xanthos (Greece)
Fanni, Franciska (Hungary)
Francesca (Italy)
Ausmis, Ervalds, Ēvalds (Latvia)
Dominykas, Pranciška, Visgailė, Žygimantas (Lithuania)
Sindre, Sverre (Norway)
Apollo, Dominik, Franciszka, Katarzyna, Mścisława, Prudencjusz, Taras (Poland)
Františka (Slovakia)
Catalina, Francisca, Paciano (Spain)
Torbjörn, Torleif (Sweden)
Flavia (Ukraine)
Keely, Kelda, Kelley, Kelli, Kellie, Kelly (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 68 of 2023; 297 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 4 of week 10 of 2023
Celtic Tree Calendar: Nuin (Ash) [Day 19 of 28]
Chinese: Month 2 (Yi-Mao), Day 18 (Bing-Yin)
Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)
Hebrew: 16 Adar 5783
Islamic: 16 Sha’ban 1444
J Cal: 7 Ver; Sevenday [7 of 30]
Julian: 24 February 2023
Moon: 95%: Waning Gibbous
Positivist: 12 Aristotle (3rd Month) [Archytas]
Runic Half Month: Tyr (Cosmic Pillar) [Day 14 of 15]
Season: Winter (Day 79 of 90)
Zodiac: Pisces (Day 18 of 29)
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Holidays 10.12
Holidays
Asexuality Visibility & Education Day
Child Rambunctiousness Appreciation Day
Children’s Day (Brazil)
Columbus Day [original date]
Commonwealth Culture Day (Northern Mariana Islands)
Cookbook Launch Day
Day of the Pluricultural Nation (Mexico)
Day of Cultures (Costa Rica)
Day of the Six Billion (1999)
Destiny Day\
Dia de la Rasa (Day of Race; Mexico)
Dia de la Raza (Latin America)
Fall Astronomy Day
Fiesta Nacional de España (Spain)
The First of October! (Dr. Seuss)
Freethought Day
Geoscience Day
Global Scream Day (30-second scream at 1200 GMT)
Harry Potter Book Day
Hemp Day (French Republic)
Hispanic Day (Spain)
Holy Translator’s Day (Ukraine)
Indigenous Peoples Day (San Francisco)
Indigenous Peoples’ Resistance Day (Belize)
Indigenous Resistance Day (Venezuela)
International Cassette Store Day
International Day Against DRM
International Moment of Frustration Scream Day
International Newspaper Carrier Day
International TFMR Awareness Day
Lady of Aparecida Day (Brazil)
Love Your Bookshop Day (Australia)
National Bandana Day (South Africa)
National Doodle Bug Day
National Education Day (Kiribati)
National Engineer’s Day (Uruguay)
National Farmer’s Day
National Fungus Day (Japan)
National Hafez Day (Iran)
National Home Fire Drill Day
National Hug a Bassist Day
National Loggers Day
National Martin Day
National Monogram Day
National Museum Day (Indonesia)
National Peyronie’s Disease Awareness Day
National Salesperson's Day
National Savings Day
National Vermont Day
Native Americans' Day
No Smoking Day (Armenia)
October Big Day
Old Farmer's Day
Piomingo Day (Chickasaw Nation)
Rice Day (Texas)
Sarandi Battle Day (Uruguay)
Superstar Day
Women Pharmacist Day
World Algae Day
World Arthritis Day
World Burpee Day
World Sloth Bear Day
World Spanish Language Day UN)
Food & Drink Celebrations
Black Jewish Drinking Day
Drink Local Wine Day
International Pinotage Day
Märzen Day
National Gumbo Day
National Know Your Lemons Day
National Pulled Pork Day
National Pumpkin Pie Day
Independence & Related Days
Asgardia (Declared; 2016) [unrecognized]
Equatorial Guinea (from Spain, 1968)
Wasteoftimeistan (Declared; 2017) [unrecognized]
2nd Saturday in October
African Penguin Awareness Day [2nd Saturday]
Fall Astronomy Day [2nd Saturday]
Global PT Day of Service [2nd Saturday]
Home Movie Day [2nd Saturday]
I Love Yarn Day [2nd Saturday]
International African Penguin Awareness Day [2nd Saturday]
International Newspaper Carrier Day [2nd Saturday]
International Pinotage Day [2nd Saturday]
Migratory Bird Day (Mexico) [2nd Saturday]
National Chess Day [2nd Saturday]
National Costume Swap Day [2nd Saturday]
National Curves Day [2nd Saturday]
National Family Bowling Day (a.k.a. Kids Bowl Free Day) [2nd Saturday]
National Motorcycle Ride Day [2nd Saturday]
National Period Day [2nd Saturday]
National Thrive Outside Day [2nd Saturday]
National Tree Planting Day (Mongolia) [2nd Saturday]
Pinotage Day [2nd Saturday]
Sandwich Saturday [Every Saturday]
Six For Saturday [Every Saturday]
Spaghetti Saturday [Every Saturday]
Universal Music Day [2nd Saturday]
World Hospice and Palliative Care Day [2nd Saturday]
World Migratory Bird Day [2nd Saturday]
World Porridge Day [Saturday of 1st Full Week]
World Squash Day [2nd Saturday]
Weekly Holidays beginning October 12 (1st Full Week of October)
Bone and Joint Health Action Week (thru 10.20)
Festivals Beginning October 12, 2024
Appleumpkin Festival (Tecumseh, Michigan) [thru 10.13]
Arkansas Rice Festival (Weiner, Arkansas)
Augusta Bottoms Bier Festival (Augusta, Missouri)
Autumn Brew Review (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Autumn Reggae Wine & Music Festival (Mt. Airy, Maryland) [thru 10.13]
Beet Festival (Sherman, Connecticut)
Blairsville Sorghum Festival Blairsville, Georgia) [thru 10.13 & 10.19-20]
Boonville Days: Texas Heritage Festival (Bryan, Texas)
Cape Cod Cranberry Day (East Sandwich, Massachusetts)
Chesapeake Virginia Wine Festival (Chesapeake, Virginia)
Chili Cook-off (Ludlow, Vermont)
Chincoteague Island Oyster Festival (Chincoteague, Virginia)
Cordell Pumpkin Festival (Cordell, Oklahoma)
Cranberry Harvest Festival (Grayland, Washington) [thru 10.13]
Davison Pumpkin Fest (Davison, Michigan)
Downtown Oyster Stroll (Westminster, Maryland)
Fall Festival (Wellington, Kansas)
Garlic & Harvest Festival (Bethlehem, Connecticut) [thru 10.13]
Georgia Apple Festival - Ellijay, Georgia) [thru 10.13 & 10.19-20]
Grape & Fall Festival (Hollister, Missouri)
Greek Festival (St. Augustine, Florida) [thru 10.13]
Hartsburg Pumpkin Festival (Hartsburg, Missouri) [thru 10.13
Harvest Celebration (Woodstock, Vermont) [thru 10.13]
Harvest Fest and Giant Pumpkin Weigh-Off (Stillwater, Minnesota) [thru 10.13]
Harvest Fest (Billings, Montana)
Harvest Fest Street Fair (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania)
International Alba White Truffle Fair (Alba, Italy) [thru 12.8]
LaFayette Apple Festival (LaFayette, New York) [thru 10.13]
Little River ShrimpFest (Little River, South Carolina) [thru 10.13]
Lobsterfest (Spring Brook, Pennsylvania)
McLoud Fall Fest (McLoud, Oklahoma)
Medford Apple Festival (Medford, Oregon)
Mount Holly Cider Days (Belmont, Vermont) [thru 10.13]
New Bedford Seaport Chowder Festival (New Bedford, Massachusetts)
Newburgh Seafood Festival (Newburgh, New York)
New Harmony Apple Festival and Fall Harvest (New Harmony, Utah)
Oak Harbor Apple Festival (Oak Harbor, Ohio) [thru 10.13]
Ohio Sauerkraut Festival (Waynesville, Ohio) [thru 10.13]
Peanut Festival (Grapeland, Texas)
Plate by Plate (San Francisco, California)
Pork Roll Palooza (Phillipsburg, New Jersey)
PumpkinFest (Aurora, Minnesota)
Pumpkinfest (Montague, Michigan)
Pumpkinfest & Regatta (Damariscotta, Maine) [thru 10.14]
Punkin Days (Floydada, Texas)
Saratoga International Flavorfeast (Saratoga Springs, New York)
Snowflake Harvest Fest (Snowflake, Arizona)
Sonoma County Harvest Fair (Santa Rosa, California)
Steak, Stein, and Wine Festival (Cameron, Texas)
Swansboro Mullet Festival (Swansboro, North Carolina) [thru 10.13]
Sweet Potato Festival (Darlington, South Carolina)
Taste & Brews Fall Fest (Canton, Georgia) [thru 10.13]
Taste of Brunswick Festival (Alberta, Virginia)
Taste of Cambridge (Cambridge, Maryland)
Tunkhannock Rotary Harvest and Wine Festival (Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania)
Valparaiso Fall Harvest Festival (Valparaiso, Indiana)
Weekend Along The Farm Trails (Sonoma County, California) [thru 10.13]
West Cape May Lima Bean Festival (West Cape May, New Jersey)
Whiskies of the World (Atlanta, Georgia)
The WhiskyX (San Francisco, California)
Wine & Food Celebration (Springfield, Missouri)
World Championship Gumbo Cook-Off (New Iberia, Louisiana) [thru 10.13]
Feast Days
Al Held (Artology)
Ayathrem begins (Zoroastrianism)
Barclay Shaw (Artology)
Carlo Acutis (Christian; Saint)
Cloud-Stamping Pentathlon (Shamanism)
Crowleymas (a.k.a. Feast for Life of Aleister Crowley; Thelema)
Day of Fortuna Redux (Ancient Rome)
Day of Giving the Black Land to Horus and the Red Land to Set (Ancient Egypt)
Edith Cavell and Elizabeth Fry (Church of England)
Edwin of Northumbria (Christian; Saint)
Eugenio Montale (Writerism)
Feasts of the Spirits of the Fire (Pagan)
Fiacc (Christian; Saint)
The Flying Sorcerers, Parts 1 & 2 (Underdog Cartoon, S2, Eps. 25 & 26 1965)
Fortuna Redux (Old Roman Goddess of Successful Journeys & Safe Returns)
Frank Sinatra Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Guido Molinari (Artology)
Herbert (Roman Catholic)
International Pastafarian Headgear Day (Pastafarian)
Lester Dent (Writerism)
Louis Brisson (Christian; Blessed)
Montaigne (Positivist; Saint)
Our Lady of Aparecida (Brazil; Christian; Saint)
Our Lady of the Pillar (Fiestas del Pilar; Christian; Saint) [Spain]
Prince Humpty Dumpty (Muppetism)
Radim Gaudentius (Czech Republic; Christian; Saint)
Robert Mangold (Artology)
Seraphin of Montegranaro (Christian; Saint)
Serge Clerc (Artology)
Wanting Wonton Day (Pastafarian)
Wilfrid of Ripon, Bishop of York (Christian; Saint)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Lucky Day (Philippines) [55 of 71]
Shakku (赤口 Japan) [Bad luck all day, except at noon.]
Premieres
Argo (Film; 2012)
Bad Times at the El Royale (Film; 2018)
The Blind Owl, by Sadegh Hedayat (Novel; 1936)
Cat-Choo (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1951)
The Caves of Steel, by Isaac Asimov (Novel; 1953)
Chimp and Zee (WB MM Cartoon; 1968)
Crazy Little Thing Called Love, by Queen (Song; 1979)
The Doctor and the Soul, by Viktor E. Frankl (Philosophy Book; 1946)
Don’t Knock the Rock (Film; 1956)
Fairy Tail (Anime TV Series; 2009)
First Man (Film; 2018)
The Gay Divorcee (Film; 1934)
Got My Mind Set On You, by George Harrison (Song; 1987)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams (Novel; 1979)
The Homeless Flea (MGM Cartoon; 1940)
Hot Noon [or 12 O’Clock for Sure] (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1953)
The Hot Spot (Film; 1990)
How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, by Dr. Seuss (Children’s Book; 1957)
The Hunter (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1931)
If I Ran the Zoo, by Dr. Seuss (Children’s Book; 1950)
Inherit the Wind (Film; 1960)
It’s in the Bag or Rocky Gets the Sack (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S6, Ep. 309; 1964)
Jesus Christ Superstar (Broadway Rock Opera; 1971)
JR, by William Gaddis (Novel; 1975)
Kick, by INXS (Album; 1987)
Lady Sings the Blues (Film; 1972)
Look Now, by Elvis Costello (Album; 2018)
Memphis Belle (Film; 1990)
Midnight Frolics (Color Rhapsody Cartoon; 1938)
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, by Virginia Lee Burton (Children’s Book; 1939)
The Narrows, by Ann Petry (Novel; 1953)
Night Life in the Army (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1942)
October, by U2 (Album; 1981)
Orientalism, by Edward W. Said (History Book; 1978)
Parlez Vous Woo (Fleischer/Famous Popeye Cartoon; 1956)
Please Try to Remember the First of October!, by Dr. Seuss (Children’s Book; 1977)
Rabbit At Rest, by John Updike (Novel; 1990) [Rabbit #4]
Rollin’, by The Bay City Rollers (Album; 1974)
The Saint Abroad, by Fleming Lee (Short Stories; 1969) [Saint #42]
A Short Weight for All Seats or One of Our Trunks (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S6, Ep. 310; 1964)
Sideways (Film; 2004)
Soda Squirt (Ub Iwerks Flip the Frog Cartoon; 1933)
Sorry Safari (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1962)
Super Pink (Pink Panther Cartoon; 1966)
Touché and Go (WB MM Cartoon; 1957)
Trout Fishing in America, by Richard Brautigan (Novel; 1967)
Tusk, by Fleetwood Mac (Album; 1979)
Ultraman: The Adventure Begins (Toho Animated Film; 1987)
Today’s Name Days
Edwin, Gottfried, Horst, Maximillian (Austria)
Maksimilijan, Serafin, Velibor (Croatia)
Marcel (Czech Republic)
Maximillian (Denmark)
Aare, Aaro, Are (Estonia)
Aarre, Aarto (Finland)
Edwin, Séraphin, Wilfried (France)
David, Horst, Maximilian, (Germany)
Andromahi, Andromahos, Valantios (Greece)
Miksa (Hungary)
Serafino (Italy)
Kira, Lase, Monvids, Valfrids, Vitenis (Latvia)
Deimintė, Gantas, Salvinas (Lithuania)
Valter, Vibeke (Norway)
Cyriak, Eustachiusz, Eustachy, Grzymisław, Maksymilian, Ostap, Salwin, Serafin, Witold, Witołd, Witolda (Poland)
Andronic, Prov, Tarah (Romania)
Maximilián (Slovakia)
Pilar (Spain)
Manfred, Valfrid (Sweden)
Christopher, Cristopher, Kester, Kristofer, Kristopher (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 286 of 2024; 80 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 6 of Week 41 of 2024
Celtic Tree Calendar: Gort (Ivy) [Day 14 of 28]
Chinese: Month 9 (Jia-Xu), Day 10 (Ji-You)
Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]
Hebrew: 10 Tishri 5785
Islamic: 8 Rabi II 1446
J Cal: 16 Orange; Twosday [16 of 30]
Julian: 29 September 2024
Moon: 69%: Waxing Gibbous
Positivist: 6 Descartes (11th Month) [Sir Thomas Moore / Campanella]
Runic Half Month: Gyfu (Gift) [Day 6 of 15]
Season: Autumn or Fall (Day 21 of 90)
Week: 2nd Full Week of October
Zodiac: Libra (Day 20 of 30)
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Senegalese celebrity leads second WOMAD 2023 announcement
WOMADelaide has revealed an extra 30 acts certain for Botanic Park in 2023, together with Senegalese star Youssou N’Dour, Scottish folk-rockers The Proclaimers, English singer-activist Billy Bragg, and multiple-ARIA-winning artist Sampa the Nice. Youssou N’Dour, pictured right here acting at Switzerland’s Montreux Jazz Pageant in 2017, will return to WOMADelaide in 2023. Photograph: Christophe Bott / EPA The newest line-up joins beforehand introduced headline acts Bon Iver, Florence + The Machine and the feather-fuelled aerial present Place des Anges by French firm Gratte Ciel, which wowed pageant goers in 2018. “We’re extremely excited to have the ability to current a full worldwide program once more with such a various array of artists from 26 nations, lots of whom are making their Australian debut at WOMADelaide subsequent March,” director Ian Scobie stated in an announcement at present. Youssou N’Dour’s set together with his band Le Tremendous Etoile de Dakar on the March 10-13 pageant will mark his fourth WOMADelaide look for the reason that inaugural occasion in 1992 when the musician – who had beforehand toured and recorded a music with WOMAD UK co-founder Peter Gabriel – gave a efficiency embedded within the recollections of those that had been current. N’Dour is claimed to “outline the essence of West African groove”, and has additionally collaborated with musicians reminiscent of Paul Simon, Bruce Springsteen, Tracy Chapman and Neneh Cherry (for the 1994 hit music “7 Seconds���). Different artists in at present’s announcement embrace Zambian singer and rapper Sampa The Nice (whose newest single “By no means Overlook” options within the Marvel movie Black Panther: Wakanda Eternally), Ghanaian-Australian singer Genesis Owusu, American rising alt-country star Angel Olsen, Norwegian folk-pop singer AURORA, French-American jazz singer-songwriter Madeleine Peyroux, and Grammy-winning banjo-playing people duo Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn. Scottish duo The Proclaimers – finest recognized for his or her 1988 worldwide hit “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)” and set to tour Australia in 2023 on the again of their newest album, Dentures Out – will make their WOMADelaide debut in 2023, whereas Billy Bragg’s efficiency might be a part of a nationwide tour that has been postponed a number of instances since COVID started. Australia’s Bangarra Dance Theatre – a part of the 2022 Adelaide Pageant program – will current their first WOMADelaide efficiency in 24 years with Terrain, which is described as a “breath-taking exploration” of South Australia’s Kati Thanda – Lake Eyre. The subsequent WOMADelaide announcement might be in late November. The complete 30 acts introduced at present are: ADG7 (Korea) Angel Olsen (USA) AURORA (Norway) Bab L’ Bluz (Morocco/France) Bangarra Dance Theatre (Australia) Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn (USA) Billy Bragg (UK) Cimafunk (Cuba) Constantinople (Canada) Foco alAire (Mexico) Gaia by Luke Jerram (UK) The Garifuna Collective (Belize) Genesis Owusu (Australia) Jaguar (UK) – DJ set Justin Adams & Mauro Durante (UK/Italy) Kee’ahn (Australia) Kefaya and Elaha Soroor (Afghanistan/UK/Italy) The Langan Band (Scotland) Madeleine Peyroux (USA) Mdou Moctar (Niger) Nakhane (South Africa) Nightmares on Wax (UK) – DJ set Pandit Ronu Majumdar & Dr Jayanthi Kumaresh (India) The Proclaimers (Scotland) Ripple Impact Band (Australia) Rizwan Muazzam Qawwals (Pakistan) Sampa The Nice (Zambia) San Salvador (France) Small Island Huge Music (Taiwan/Mauritius/Madagascar/PNG/Aus) Youssou N’Dour & Le Tremendous Étoile de Dakar (Senegal) Help native arts journalism Your assist will assist us proceed the necessary work of InReview in publishing free skilled journalism that celebrates, interrogates and amplifies arts and tradition in South Australia. Donate Right here Originally published at Sunshine Coast QLD News
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According to Cohen, that kind of parody attracts attention by creating a pairing - Jews, or at least the socially prevalent idea of Jews, and rap - that in itself is humorous by virtue of its unlikelihood.īut Drake is not parodying the hip-hop ethos - he is embracing it. Even the Beastie Boys originally posed dripping in gold chains in a satire of bling-focused gangsta rap. Jewish hip-hop has traditionally leaned heavily on parody, according to Judah Cohen, a professor of musicology and Jewish studies at Indiana University who wrote a 2009 academic article on the subject. He has dissed Drake as “an actor from Canada.” Shyne found Judaism while in prison and now lives an Orthodox life as Moses Levi. The only other non-white Jewish rapper of note is Shyne, the son of the prime minister of Belize and a former protege of Sean “Diddy” Combs. Hip-hop star Shyne and Oleksandr Feldman, a member of the Ukrainian Parliament and president of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee in Kiev, Ukraine. That kind of self-referential playfulness makes Drake a hero to a certain crowd. There’s also a post-bar mitzvah “party” that gets wild, with guests chugging Manischewitz and rapper Lil Wayne joyfully smashing a skateboard into a table. In 2012, he released a music video for his song “HYFR” that purported to be a “re-bar mitzvah” that showed Drake rapping and praying in a Miami synagogue in front of family friends and music friends. Not only did he have a bar mitzvah himself, but in 2017 he threw a bar mitzvah-themed birthday party. Drake played up his Judaism in a 2014 skit on “Saturday Night Live,” doing a satiricial re-enactment of his bar mitzvah in a wig and kippah, rapping “I’m black and Jewish/it’s a mitzvah” over a klezmer clarinet.īar mitzvahs seem to be a theme for Drake. It’s not that his Jewishness is a secret. “Jewish men in particular really know Drake is Jewish - and love that,” said Alex Fraknoi, a San Francisco-based Jewish rapper. Some of his fans, though, are definitely in on it. While public musings over his ethnicity are not uncommon on internet forums, few fans apparently ask Google if he’s Jewish - it doesn’t even come up as one of the top 10 search results for the query “Is Drake …”?
I feel like they might? Some people might know.”
“They probably - hmm, I’m not sure,” mused Pifko, a senior at Jewish Community High School of the Bay.
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Billy Porter
Billy Porter (born September 21, 1969) is an American stage performer, pop singer, film and television actor and vocal coach. He attended the Musical Theatre program at Pittsburgh Creative and Performing Arts School's School of Drama and achieved fame performing on Broadway before starting a solo career as a singer.
Porter won the 2013 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his role as Lola in Kinky Boots at the 67th Tony Awards. For the role, Porter also won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical and Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical.
Early life
Porter was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to William E. Porter and Clorinda Jean Johnson Ford. His sister is Mary Martha Ford. He is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University College of Fine Arts with a B.F.A. in Drama as well as a certification from the graduate-level Professional Program In Screenwriting at UCLA.
During the summers of 1985-1987, Porter was a member of an entertainment group called "Flash" which performed daily at Kennywood Park in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania.
Career
He played the Teen Angel in the 1994 Broadway revival of Grease!. Other shows he has been in include Topdog/Underdog at City Theatre (2004), Jesus Christ Superstar and Dreamgirls at Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera (2004) and the song cycles "Myths and Hymns" and "Songs for a New World" (Off-Broadway, 1995).
Porter wrote and performed in his one-man autobiographical show, Ghetto Superstar (The Man That I Am) at Joe's Pub in New York City in February and March 2005. Porter was nominated for "Outstanding New York Theater: Broadway & Off Broadway Award" at the 17th GLAAD Media Awards.
In September 2010, Porter appeared as Belize in Signature Theatre Company's 20th Anniversary production of Tony Kushner's Angels in America.
Porter originated the role of "Lola" in Kinky Boots on Broadway in 2013, with songs by Cyndi Lauper, book by Harvey Fierstein and directed/choreographed by Jerry Mitchell. Porter won both the 2013 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical and Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for this role.
Porter has also appeared in a number of films. He played a major role as Shiniqua, a drag queen who befriends Angel (David Norona) and Lee (Keivyn McNeill Graves) in Seth Michael Donsky's Twisted (1997), an adaptation of Oliver Twist. He has also appeared on an episode of The RuPaul Show.
He has had a musical career with three solo albums released, Billy Porter on DV8/A&M Records in 1997, At the Corner of Broadway + Soul in 2005 on Sh-K-Boom Records and Billy's Back on Broadway (Concord Music Group) in 2014. He as featured in a number of songs in the tribute album It's Only Life: The Songs of John Bucchino in 2006 released on PS Classics. He sings on Adam Guettel's 1999 album Myths and Hymns studio cast album on Nonesuch Records. He also covered "Only One Road" that was included on the Human Rights Campaign compilation album Love Rocks.
Porter wrote the play While I Yet Live, which premiered Off-Broadway at Primary Stages on September 24, 2014 in previews, officially on October 12. In addition to Porter, the cast included Lillias White and S. Epatha Merkerson.
Billy Porter released Billy Porter Presents the Soul of Richard Rodgers in April, 2017. The album, which features new, soulful takes on classic Richard Rodgers songs, includes solos and duets from the following artists (in addition to Porter himself): Tony and Grammy Award winners Cynthia Erivo (The Color Purple), Renée Elise Goldsberry (Hamilton) and Leslie Odom Jr. (Hamilton), Tony Award-winner Patina Miller (Pippin), Grammy Award winners Pentatonix and India Arie, Tony Award nominees Brandon Victor Dixon (Shuffle Along), Joshua Henry (Violet), and Christopher Jackson (Hamilton), alongside YouTube sensation and Kinky Boots star Todrick Hall and multiple Grammy Award nominees Deborah Cox and Ledisi.
Porter reprised the role of Lola in Kinky Boots on September 26, 2017, on Broadway, where he did a 15-week run.
In 2018, Porter starred in the FX show, Pose in the role of Pray Tell. Pose has been picked up for a second season to be aired in 2019. In August 2018, Porter confirmed via Instagram that he was joining the cast of American Horror Story for its eight season, subtitled Apocalypse.
Personal life
He and Adam Smith were married on January 14, 2017.
Discography
Albums
1997: Billy Porter (DV8/A&M Records)
2005: At the Corner of Broadway + Soul (Sh-K-Boom Records)
2014: Billy's Back on Broadway (Concord Music Group)
2017: Billy Porter Presents the Soul of Richard Rodgers
Singles
1997: "Show Me"/"What Iz Time"
2005: "Awaiting You"/"Time" (Live) (Sh-K-Boom Records)
2017: "Edelweiss"
Other songs
"Only One Road" on Love Rocks compilation album
"Love Is On The Way" on The First Wives Club album
"Destiny" with Jordan Hill on Jim Brickman's Greatest Hits album
"Where is Love?" with Liz Callaway
Appears in
Featured on a number of songs on tribute album It's Only Life: The Songs of John Bucchino
Adam Guettel's album Myths and Hymns in 1999
He is featured with Alan Cumming, David Raleigh and Ari Gold in a cover of "That's What Friends Are For", of 'The Friends Project' in support of the Ali Forney Center, a NYC shelter for homeless LGBT youth. The song was arranged and produced by Nathan Leigh Jones and directed by Michael Akers.
Concerts
Porter has performed at various venues in New York City, including Lincoln Center, which was broadcast on PBS in 2015 and Joe's Pub in New York City.
Television
Another World, Billy Rush, 1 episode (1998)
Shake, Rattle and Roll: An American Love Story, Little Richard, TV movie, 1999
Law & Order, Greg Ellison, 1 episode, 2004
The Big C, Eric, 1 episode, 2012
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Jackie Walker, 1 episode, 2013
Land of Lola: Backstage at Kinky Boots with Billy Porter, Host, 8 episodes, 2013
So You Think You Can Dance, Performer, 4 episodes, 2007-12
Christmas at Rockefeller Plaza, Performer, NBC, December 2014
Billy Porter: Broadway & Soul, Self, TV concert special, Live from Lincoln Center, 2015
Sinatra: Voice for a Century, Performer, TV concert special, Live from Lincoln Center, December 2015
The Get Down, DJ Malibu, 1 episode, 2016
Pose, Pray Tell (series regular), 2018
American Horror Story 2018
Film
Twisted, Shiniqua (1997)
The First Wives Club, singer (1996)
Anastasia, Ensemble (1997)
Intern, Sebastian Niederfarb, (2000)
Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema, composer, documentary (2006)
The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy, Taylor, 2000
Noel, Randy, 2004
The Humbling, Prince, 2014
Theatre
Sources:Playbill Vault; Off-Broadway Database
Miss Saigon, Ensemble/John (u/s), Broadway (1991)
Grease, Teen Angel, Broadway (1994)
The Merchant of Venice, Solanio, off-Broadway (1995)
Songs for a New World, Performer, off-Broadway (1995)
Smokey Joe's Cafe, Performer, Broadway (1995–97)
Miss Saigon, John (replacement), Broadway (1998–99)
Jesus Christ Superstar, Jesus of Nazareth, Helen Hayes Performing Arts Center, Nyack, NY (1998)
Dreamgirls, James Thunder Early, New York Actors Fund concert (September 2001)
Radiant Baby, Various, off-Broadway (2003)
Topdog/Underdog, City Theatre, Pittsburgh, PA (2004)
Little Shop of Horrors, Audrey ll (replacement), Broadway (2004)
Chef's Theater: A Musical Feast, Performer, off-Broadway (2004)
Ghetto Superstar, Performer, off-Broadway (2005) - also playwright
Birdie Blue, Bam/Little Pimp/Sook/Minerva, off-Broadway (2005)
Putting It Together, Performer, New York (2009)
Angels in America, Belize, off-Broadway (2010)
Kinky Boots, Lola, Broadway (2013-2015)
Kinky Boots, Lola (replacement), Tour (2014)
HAM: A Musical Memoir, off-Broadway (2015) - director
Shuffle Along, or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed, Aubrey Lyles, Broadway (2016)
White Rabbit Red Rabbit, off-Broadway (2016)
Kinky Boots, Lola (replacement), Broadway (2017)
Awards and nominations
2013 Broadway.com Audience Choice Award for Favorite Actor in a Musical for Kinky Boots (won)
2013 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical for Kinky Boots (won)
2013 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for Kinky Boots (won)
2013 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical for Kinky Boots (won)
2013 Fred and Adele Astaire Awards for Outstanding Male Dancer in a Broadway Show Kinky Boots (nominated)
2013 Drama League Award for Distinguished Performance for Kinky Boots (nominated)
2014 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album for Kinky Boots (won)
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Hitting the Books: How a radio telescope cost this West Virginia town its modernity
Deep in the heart of Appalachia, modern science and America's bucolic past meet at a unique crossroad of scientific discovery and luddite lifestyles. The Quiet Zone, by journalist Stephen Kurczy, is the story of a sleepy small town that hosts the Green Bank radio telescope. But the presence of this installation comes at a price: due to the telescope's exceeding sensitivity, virtually every device and appliance that emits radio waves, Wi-Fi signals, or microwave radiation is banned for square miles around. That means that Green Bank, West Virginia has about as much tech today as it did in the 1950's (maybe even a little less) — and some people very much like it that way. But not everybody. In the excerpt below, Pocahontas County attorney, Robert Martin, recounts the challenges of attempting to modernize the region without loosing a horde of gentrifiers upon it as well.
Harper Collins
Excerpted from the book THE QUIET ZONE: Unraveling the Mystery of a Town Suspended in Silence by Stephen Kurczy. Copyright © 2021 by Stephen Kurczy. From Dey Street Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. Reprinted by permission.
For every electrosensitive who wanted radio quiet, there were probably one hundred residents who wanted WiFi and cell service, and they elected the county’s officials. In early 2018, the Pocahontas County Commission passed a resolution in support of cell service throughout the county, a challenge to the very notion of a Quiet Zone. The commission assigned its attorney, Robert Martin, to contact all major telecommunications providers asking them to invest in Pocahontas.
“I’m doing my level best to get another company in here,” Martin told me in the spring of 2018. He’d invited me to his house to discuss the new cell service ordinance, and we were swigging Bud Lights at his kitchen table.
“How many cell companies have you written to?” I asked.
“All of them,” he said. “I promised the companies that we’ll get everybody in the damn county to sign up with them. I’ll sign up first! . . . I wrote a letter to everybody and said, ‘We have shit for cellphone service here, we want you to come in here, we’ll partner with you, we’ll help you however we can. Come in here.’”
At our feet were two boxers and a basset hound. In the adjacent mudroom was a 250-pound Vietnamese potbellied pig named Pig, who was snoring. Pig knew how to open the front door and pull a blanket over himself. “I’m the true image of West Virginia, aren’t I?” Martin laughed. “I got a pig living in the house.” Despite his home literally being a pigsty, Martin was always the best dressed at county meetings, usually wearing tight designer jeans, leather boots, and a crisp dress shirt, top buttons undone and a few chest hairs curling out. A blustery guy, Martin was once jailed in Marlinton for contempt of court for arguing with a circuit judge. He had a history of getting into fights at West Virginia University football games. For years, he’d also operated a hotel in Belize, paying “tens of thousands of dollars in bribes” and putting the payments on his tax returns so the U.S. government could see the corruption he was dealing with (even if he was admitting to violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act). Martin came across as a dogged lawyer who knew how to get things done. And he wanted cell service.
“You seen that commercial saying Verizon has more coverage than anyone else?” he asked me. “Pause and look at it real closely, and you’ll see right where Pocahontas County is because almost the entire Eastern Seaboard is all yellow [signifying cell coverage] and right there in southeastern West Virginia there’s this hunk about this big—it’s Poca-fucking-hontas County. I swear to God. Right fucking there we are on Verizon’s commercials.”
Martin knew well what connectivity was like outside the Quiet Zone. He had earned his law degree from West Virginia University in 1979, married a girl from Marlinton, and started his career in Pocahontas County before becoming a well-heeled insurance defense lawyer in Charleston. He’d gotten his first cellphone in 1986—it was the size of a beer bottle, with a three-foot-long antenna, and it went to bed with him every night. That attachment ended in 2012 when he moved back to Pocahontas, where he only carried an iPhone so he could listen to music in his truck. I asked if he was concerned about the impact of cell service on the electrosensitives.
“Wackos that are afraid of their brains getting fried and all that?” he responded. “Yeah, I know about them.”
“They see Green Bank as a haven,” I said.
“So? So?” He said he wasn’t going to let the electrosensitives keep Pocahontas “behind the curve” for cell service.
“But I’m here because you’re behind the curve,” I said. “That makes this place unique.”
“You think we want to deal with stone knives and axes for the rest of our existence? You’re like these fucking people who move in here and don’t want it to change, that it? We have people who have moved here in the last five to ten years and they don’t want anything to change. They’ve ‘discovered’ Pocahontas County and now nothing can change. Well, fuck, that ain’t the way of the world. We have limitations because of the observatory, because of our topography, because of our insignificant population. But we need to do what we can as government entities to make things available to people.”
“Of course,” Martin added, the cell service would have to comply with the Quiet Zone.
“We believe in the observatory, we don’t want to fuck with them,” he said. “Right now, as you and I are sitting here bullshitting, they’re up there looking for fucking E.T. And I want to give them every opportunity to do that. But I’ve got emergency services I’ve got to render in this county.”
In addition to trying to bring in cell service, Martin was assisting the county’s emergency services director, Michael O’Brien, to improve communications. The 911 center in Marlinton had difficulty broadcasting any emergency radio communications toward the northern end of the county, where Green Bank was located. O’Brien found a partial solution by installing an internet-controlled radio system just north of Green Bank in the town of Durbin, but it had minimal range and failed altogether when internet or electricity went down. Pocahontas was also one of the only counties in the state unable to adopt a “smart radio system” that integrated radios with smartphones.
On the off chance that someone made an emergency 911 call from one of the county’s few pockets of limited cell service, authorities had an especially hard time pinpointing the person’s location. “We had a dispatcher spend two and a half hours on the phone one night with a lady that was trapped in her car in a creek,” O’Brien told me. “She didn’t know where she was or how she got there. We were just keeping her calm while we sent the department to look in all the areas that had cell service.”
ACCORDING TO DELOIT TE, a 10 percent increase in mobile penetration increases total factor productivity—a key component of economic growth modeling—by 4.2 percentage points over the long run. In Pocahontas, businesspeople like Kenneth “Buster” Varner felt they needed all the help they could get to keep the county’s economy puttering along, which meant bringing in cell service.
I first met Varner in early 2017, while eating breakfast at the counter at Station 2. A heavy, jowly man, he had leaned over and asked, “Do you think the gravy is too salty?” As we shoveled down heaping plates of biscuits and sausage gravy, he told me about his various businesses. Aside from owning Station 2, he operated a half dozen enterprises involved in logging, excavation, towing, septic pumping, and auto repair. He was also a fire chief. I told him that I imagined a lot of headaches trying to manage all those things within the restrictions of the Quiet Zone.
“You have to realize that we never had cellphone service when everybody else had it, so it wasn’t anything to us,” Varner said. “It’d be more convenient, of course, if it was so you could use your cellphones all the time. But it’s a unique place to live where you don’t have them, and we take a little pride in that.” He noted how the observatory provided jobs and shared its resources, such as lending one of its diesel generators to a funeral home during a recent power outage. “That to me means a lot,” Varner said. “And having the largest telescope in the world out your back door, that’s a pretty neat conversation piece.”
“People can get ahold of me the old-fashioned way,” he added. “Call me on the landline or come look for me.”
Spending more time with Varner, however, I realized that he was hardly a Luddite. When we met again months later in his cluttered office, I found it hard to keep his attention. He kept glancing down at his iPhone to check texts and alerts he was receiving over WiFi. When he took a call, I was left to stare at a poster of a busty woman in a red bikini and firefighter helmet. When he finally put down the iPhone, I told him I was confused. Hadn’t he said he took pride in not using a cellphone?
“I thought it was rude to have a smartphone,” Varner said of his “old” perspective, apparently from just a few months earlier. “I do a lot of business on that phone, more than I ever thought in my wildest dreams that I would do.” I asked if he could ever go back to living without one. “Wouldn’t want to. It’s so handy.”
Varner had an AT&T data plan. He used Siri. He wished all his employees and volunteer firefighters could always be connected through smartphones. Instead, because of the Quiet Zone, he’d invested more than $30,000 in a specially approved radio repeater system to allow his workers to communicate via low-band radio. “I don’t want the observatory to close and for people to lose their jobs,” he said, “but it’d be more convenient for everybody.”
from Mike Granich https://www.engadget.com/hitting-the-books-the-quiet-zone-stephen-kurczy-harper-collins-153030420.html?src=rss
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[TASK 087: BELIZE]
There’s a masterlist below compiled of over 200+ Belizean faceclaims categorised by gender with their occupation and ethnicity denoted if there was a reliable source. If you want an extra challenge use random.org to pick a random number! Of course everything listed below are just suggestions and you can pick whichever character or whichever project you desire.
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Screencaps
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and whatever else you can think of / make!
MASTERLIST!
F:
Nadia Cattouse (1924) Belizean - actress and singer-songwriter.
Zee Edgell / Zelma Edgell (1940) Belizean - novelist and short story writer.
Errollyn Wallen (1958) Belizean - composer.
Sarita Diana Acosta (1959 or 1960) Belizean - Miss Universe Belize 1979.
Josephine Gault (1970) Belizean - Miss World Belize 1991 and Miss Universe Belize 1991.
Catherine Bruhier (1972) Belizean - actress and filmmaker.
Angela Gegg (1979) Belizean - spoken word artist, poet, writer, entertainer, painter, cubist, and abstract artist.
Kisha Sierra (1981) Belizean - actress.
Kalilah Enriquez (1983) Belizean - broadcast journalist and poet.
Melonie Gillette (1984) Belizean - singer-songwriter.
Felicita Arzu / Leesha Arzu (1985) Belizean - model and Miss World Belize 2007.
Christie Laing (1985) Belizean / British - actress.
Linda Blease (1985) Belizean - actress, DJ, tv producer, and socialite.
Charmaine Chinapen (1987) Belizean - model and Miss World Belize 2008.
Lisa Tucker (1989) Afro Belizean - actress and singer.
Idolly Louise Saldivar (1989 or 1990) Belizean - Miss World Belize 2013.
Kasturi Anderson (1991) Belizean, Japanese, African-American, Unspecified Native American - actress.
Becky Bernard / Becky Belinda Bernard (1991 or 1992) Belizean [Mayan] - Miss Universe Belize 2003 an Miss Costa Maya Belize 2002.
Destinee Dominique Arnold (1992 or 1993) Belizean [Mayan] - Miss Costa Maya 2013 and Miss International Belize 2012.
Rebecca Rath (1993) Belizean - Miss Universe Belize 2016.
Kadejah Kenifah Tunn (1993 or 1994) Belizean - Miss World Belize 2011.
Joyjah (1994) Belizean - instagrammer and youtuber.
Iris Carmen Salguero (1995 or 1996) Belizean - Miss Earth Belize 2017 and Miss World Belize 2016.
Christine Syme (1995 or 1996) Belizean - Miss Earth Belize 2015.
Jasmin Jael Rhamdas (1995 or 1996) Belizean - Miss World Belize 2015.
Shereen Cutkelvin (1996) Afro Belizean, possibly Scottish - singer.
Tanya Carter (?) Belizean [Afro Belizean, Indian, English, Spanish], Mexican - singer-songwriter.
Tamara Goodwin (?) Belizean / African-American - actress.
Ninah Shanice (?) Belizean - Youtuber and Instagrammer.
Tyler Savery (?) Belizean - fashion designer.
Maria Jeffery (?) Belizean [Mayan] - Miss Universe Belize 2007 and Miss Costa Maya 2007.
Rebecca Stirm (?) Belizean - fashion designer.
Adele Ramos (?) Belizean - musician, poet, author, journalist, and publisher.
Maureen Navarrete (?) Belizean - fashion designer.
Renee Sherese Martinez (?) Belizean - Miss World Belize 2017.
Denise Castillo (?) Belizean - singer.
Raquel Alejandra Badillo (?) Belizean - Miss World Belize 2014.
Alleshia Pollard (?) Belizean - model.
Chantae Chanice Guy (?) Belizean - Miss Earth Belize 2016 and Miss World Belize 2012.
Amber Rivero / Amber Renee Rivero (?) Belizean - Miss Earth Belize 2013.
Jessel Monique Lauriano (?) Belizean - Miss Earth Belize 2012 and Miss World Belize 2010.
Kimberly Ann Robateau (?) Belizean - Miss Earth Belize 2011.
Marsha / gamine.taurean (?) Belizean - instagrammer and designer.
Annlyn Nicole Apolonio (?) Belizean - Miss International Belize 2011.
Norma Leticia Lara (?) Belizean - Miss World Belize 2009.
Leilah Anne Magdalena Pandy (?) Belizean - Miss Earth Belize 2007 and Miss Universe Belize 2004.
Andrea Elrington (?) Belizean - Miss Universe Belize 2005.
Corinth Morter Lewis (?) Belizean - poet and educator.
Dalila Violeta Vanzie Montano (?) Belizean - Miss World Belize 2003.
Karen Anita Russell (?) Belizean - Miss World Belize 2002.
Shiemicka Richardson (?) Belizean - Miss Universe Belize 2000.
Viola Jeffery (?) Belizean - Miss Universe Belize 1999.
Elvia Lilia Vega (?) Belizean - Miss Universe Belize 1998.
Sharon Domínguez (?) Belizean - Miss Universe Belize 1997 and writer.
Ava Lovell (?) Belizean - Miss Universe Belize 1996.
Deborah Wade (?) Belizean - Miss Universe Belize 1995.
Melanie Smith (?) Belizean - Miss Universe Belize 1993.
Ysela Antonia Zabaneh (?) Belizean - Miss World Belize 1990 and Miss Universe Belize 1990.
Martha Badillo (?) Belizean - Miss World Belize 1989.
Andrea Shermane McKoy (?) Belizean - Miss Universe Belize 1989.
Pauline Young (?) Belizean - Miss World Belize 1988.
Janine Sylvestre (?) Belizean - Miss World Belize 1987.
Holly Emma Edgell (?) Belizean - Miss Universe Belize 1987.
Romy Ellen Taegar (?) Belizean - Miss Universe Belize 1986.
Jenny Woods / Jennifer Woods (?) Belizean - Miss Universe Belize 1985.
Lisa Patricia Ramirez (?) Belizean - Miss Universe Belize 1984.
Shirlene Dianne McKoy (?) Belizean - Miss Universe Belize 1983.
Sharon Kay Auxillou (?) Belizean - Miss Universe Belize 1982.
Ivette Zabaneh (?) Belizean - Miss Universe Belize 1981.
Ellen Marie Clarke (?) Belizean - Miss Universe Belize 1980.
Christina Margarita Ysaguirre (?) Belizean - Miss Universe Belize 1978.
Dora Maria Phillips (?) Belizean - Miss Universe Belize 1977.
Janet Joan Joseph (?) Belizean - Miss Universe Belize 1976.
Pelisamay Longsworth (?) Belizean - Miss Universe Belize 1975.
F - Athletes:
Sharette García (1969) Belizean - middle-distance runner.
Althea Gilharry (1970) Belizean - triple jumper.
Camille Solis (1971) Belizean - cyclist.
Marion Jones (1975) Belizean / Unknown Other - sprinter and long jumper.
The Belizean Bruiser / Marion Reneau (1977) Belizean - mixed martial artist.
Tricia Flores (1979) Belizean - long jumper and runner.
Emma Wade (1980) Belizean - sprinter.
Alicia Thompson (1981) Belizean - cyclist.
Kaina Martinez (1986) Belizean - sprinter.
Idania Ramirez (1988) Belizean - footballer.
Katy Sealy (1990) Belizean / Unknown Other - runner, high jumper, and javelin thrower.
Kaya Cattouse (1990) Belizean - cyclist.
Samantha Dirks (1992) Belizean - sprinter.
Simone Biles (1997) Belizean / African-American - gymnast.
M:
Evan X Hyde / Evan Anthony Hyde (1947) Belizean - writer, journalist, and media executive.
Pen Cayetano / Delvin Cayetano (1954) Afro Belizean - musician.
Nigel Miguel (1963) Belizean - actor and producer.
The Grandmaster / Leroy Young (1967) Belizean - dub poet.
Yasser Musa (1970) Belizean [Palestinian, possibly other] - poet, visual artist, and publisher.
Erik Griffin (1972) Belizean, Jamaican, Honduran [Afro Honduran, Indian, Spanish, possibly other] / Irish, possibly other - comedian and actor.
Dan Man / Allison Hemsley (1973) Belizean - actor, rapper, and musician.
Da Long / Big Dragon / Andrew Ballen (1973) Belizean, Jamaican - tv personality, content developer, and CEO.
Arlen Escarpeta (1980) Afro Belizean - actor.
Wolé Parks (1982) Belizean / African-American - actor.
LaMorne Morris (1983) Dominican / Afro Belizean - actor, tv personality, and comedian.
Houston / Houston Edward Summers IV (1983) Belizean, African-American - singer.
Jah (1986) Belizean - actor.
O.T. Genasis / Odis Flores (1987) Afro Belizean - rapper.
iLoveMakonnen / Makonnen Sheran (1989) Belizean [Afro Belizean, Indian, Chinese, Irish, Belgian, German] / Unspecified Non-Belizean - rapper and singer.
Sergio Blanco (2003) Nicaraguan [Miskito, Spanish], Belizean, Jamaican / British, French, Welsh, Finnish
Kareem Ferguson (?) Belizean - actor.
Lova Boy / Daniel Cacho (?) Belizean [Garifuna] - musician.
Hubert Escarpeta (?) Belizean - actor.
Ivan Duran (?) Belizean - musician and producer.
DJ Lindy D (?) Belizean - DJ.
Frankie Reneau / Francis Reneau (?) Belizean - pianist and composer.
Romeo Escobar (?) Belizean - producer.
DJ Buddy (?) Belizean - DJ.
Lord Rhaburn / Gerald Rhaburn (?) Belizean - musician.
MC Melo (?) Belizean - rapper.
Supa G (?) Belizean - musician.
M - Athletes:
Denfield McNab (1943) Belizean - cyclist.
Colin Thurton (1943) Belizean - sprinter.
Kenneth Sutherland (1943) Belizean - cyclist.
Errol Thurton (1944) Belizean - sprinter.
Owen Meighan (1944) Belizean - long jumper.
Robert Hulse (1946) Belizean - sports shooter.
Arthur Mapp (1953) Belizean - judoka.
Phillip Pipersburg (1955) Belizean - sprinter.
Eugène Muslar (1959) Belizean - long-distance runner.
Joslyn Chavarria (1959) Belizean - cyclist.
Damel Flowers (1960) Belizean - sprinter.
Merlyn Dawson (1960) Belizean - cyclist.
Paul Réneau (1960) Belizean - sprinter and cyclist.
Earl Theus (1963) Belizean - cyclist.
Ian Gray (1963) Belizean - middle-distance runner.
Lindford Gillitt (1964) Belizean - cyclist.
Kurt Cutkelvin (1964) Belizean - cyclist.
Warren Coye (1965) Belizean - cyclist.
Chito Martínez / Reyenaldo Ignacio Martínez (1965) Belizean - baseball player.
Wernell Reneau (1965) Belizean - cyclist.
Polin Belisle (1966) Belizean - marathon runner.
Emery Gill (1966) Belizean - sprinter.
Fitzgerald Joseph (1967) Belizean - cyclist.
John Palacio (1967) Belizean - sprinter.
Michael Lewis (1967) Belizean - cyclist.
Devon Hyde (1967) Belizean - triple jumper.
Carlton Usher (1968) Belizean - sprinter.
Douglas Lamb (1968) Belizean - cyclist.
Anthony Adderly (1968) Belizean - football manager.
Charles Lewis (1968) Belizean - cyclist.
Verno Phillips (1969) Belizean - boxer.
Michael Joseph (1971) Belizean - sprinter.
Charlie Slusher / Carlos Slusher (1971) Belizean - footballer.
Orlando Chavarria (1971) Belizean - cyclist.
Norman Nunez / Norman Nunez Pipersburgh (1971) Belizean - footballer.
Elston Shaw (1972) Belizean - sprinter.
Marlon Garnett (1975) Belizean - basketball player.
Jarbi Alvarez (1976) Belizean - footballer.
Kawan Lovelace (1976) Belizean - triple jumper.
Deris Benavides (1976) Belizean - footballer.
Jayson Jones (1977) Belizean - sprinter.
Milt Palacio / Milton Palacio (1978) Belizean - basketball player.
Mark Leslie (1978) Belizean - footballer.
Michael Aguilar (1979) Belizean - hurdler.
Selvin De Leon (1980) Belizean, Guatemalan - footballer.
Rudolph Flowers (1980) Belizean - footballer.
Eddermys Sanchez (1980) Belizean - judoka.
Shane Orio / Shane Moody-Orio (1980) Belizean - footballer.
Vallan Symms (1980) Belizean - footballer.
Stephen Lopez (1980) Belizean - footballer.
Noel Felix (1981) Belizean - basketball player.
David Trapp (1981) Belizean - footballer.
Elroy Smith (1981) Belizean - footballer.
Dion Frazer (1981) Belizean - footballer.
Alfonso Martinez (1982) Belizean - taekwondo practioner.
Victor Morales (1982) Belizean - footballer.
Trevor Lennen (1983) Belizean - footballer.
Dalton Eiley (1983) Belizean - footballer.
Jonathan Williams (1983) Belizean - hurdler.
Harrison Rochez (1983) Belizean - footballer.
Elroy Kuylen (1983) Belizean - footballer.
Woodrow West (1985) Belizean - footballer.
The Juggernaut / Joe Pacheco (1985) Belizean, Puerto Rican - mixed martial artist.
Ashley Torres (1985) Belizean - footballer.
Harrison Tasher (1985) Belizean - footballer.
Ryan Simpson (1985) Belizean - footballer.
Tyrone Pandy (1986) Belizean - footballer.
Ian Gaynair (1986) Belizean - footballer.
Brandon Jones (1987) Belizean / Unspecified - sprinter.
Deon McCaulay (1987) Belizean - footballer.
Renick James (1987) Belizean - judoka.
Evral Trapp (1987) Belizean - footballer.
Kenneth Medwood (1987) Belizean - hurdler and sprinter.
Evan Mariano (1988) Belizean - footballer.
Daniel Jimenez (1988) Belizean - footballer.
Mario Villanueva (1989) Belizean - footballer.
Amin August Jr. (1990) Belizean - footballer.
Nana Mensah / Nana-Yaw Gydeu Amankwah-Mensah (1990) Belizean - footballer.
Devon Makin (1990) Belizean - footballer.
Mark Anderson (1991) Belizean - sprinter.
Trevon Salazar (1991) Belizean - cyclist.
Andres Makin (1992) Belizean - footballer.
Michael Salazar (1992) Belizean - footballer.
Rakeem Nuñez-Roches (1993) Belizean - American football player.
Luis Torres (1993) Belizean - footballer.
Shaun Gill (1993) Belizean - sprinter.
Mike Atkinson (1994) Belizean - footballer.
Jarret Davis (1994) Belizean - footballer.
Lionel Cabral (1994) Belizean - footballer.
Jordy Polanco (1996) Belizean - footballer.
Stanley Reneau (?) Belizean - footballer.
Russell Hulse (?) Belizean - footballer.
Problematic:
Shyne / Moses Michael Levi (1979) Belizean [Ethiopian Jewish, possibly other] - rapper - Convicted of attempted murder.
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UCLA Radio’s Best of 2017 - Music and Genre Directors
This year, UCLA Radio’s music director and genre directors compiled a list of their favorite releases this past year. Take a peek and explore some of our favorite albums of this past year.
Alison Chi - Music Director
1. SZA - Ctrl
I don’t know a single person who doesn’t like SZA’s sophomore album Ctrl. There are so few albums that can capture people’s attention these days - it’s all about the singles and never the album as a whole but something about Ctrl is cohesive from start to finish. The way each song weaves into each other is seamless and you’ll truly be rewarded if you sit down and listen to the album straight through. Is there even a single bad song on this album?
2. Giraffage - Too Real 3. Slowdive - Slowdive 4. Turnover - Good Nature 5. Land of Talk - Life After Youth 6. Cigarettes After Sex - Cigarettes After Sex 7. Julien Baker - Turn Out the Lights 8. Valerie June - The Order of Time 9. Slow Dancer - In A Mood 10. Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me
Megan Hullander - Rock Genre Director
1. King Gizzard & The Flying Wizard - Flying Microtonal Banana
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard’s Flying Microtonal Banana was the first in a series of five albums promised to be released in 2017 (one of which has still yet to come) including a concept album ridden with the drama of human and non-human emotions, a jazzy collaboration with Mild High Club, and an album given as a gift to fans - the rights of which are “owned” by all. Flying Microtonal Banana is unique in that the band customized their instruments in effort to find spaces between existing tones, or “microtones.” The album is named for one of these instruments which does, in fact, look quite similar to a banana.
2. Thee Oh Sees - Orc 3. The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Open Minds Now Close 4. Alex Cameron - Forced Witness 5. Ron Gallo - Temporary Slave 6. Ariel Pink - Dedicated to Bobby Jameson 7. Ty Segall - Sentimental Goblin 8. ORB - Naturality 9. Kikagaku Moyo - Stone Garden 10. Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile - Lotta Sea Lice
Gabe Cortina - Rock Genre Director
1. Limp Wrist - Facades
Featuring Martin from Los Crudos on vocals as well as members of Hail Mary, Devoid of Faith, By the Throat, and Kill the Man Who Questions, the versatility of Limp Wrist sound has never been more apparent. Identifying as queercore, the band has a fast hardcore sound and lyrical themes concerning gay identity politics. The mixing of album is something which also stood out to me, it’s able to polished without sounding over produced. Martin’s vocal style perfectly matches the killer riffs and speedy drums in both intensity and aggression. Halfway through this album, the band’s sound switches to a disco-ey almost dark-wave- techno sound which they pull of with perfection. This album is solid and I highly recommend it to both longtime fans of punk and people who are looking for an introduction to punk music alike.
2. Despise You / Coke Bust - Split LP 3. Gay Kiss - Rounded Down 4. Exit Unit - St 2017 5. Glue - S/T MLP 6. Lumpy and the Dumpers - Those Pickled Fuckers 7. Goolagoon / ACxDC - Split 8. Burnout - West Coast Tour 2017 CS 9. Sex Prisoner / Harm Done - Split 10. Meth Leppard - Discography 2015-2017
Gabe Punk Genre Director Top 10 Albums of 2017 from anon-10212970514769336 on 8tracks Radio
Alana Enriquez - Pop Genre Director
1. Beach House - B-Sides and Rarities
This compilation happened to be release on a day where I had only gotten around an hour of sleep the night before, and I cried within one minute of the first track. It’s Beach House at their most dreamy, their most blaring, their most haunting. Old tracks with new renditions and fresh ones meld into something spellbinding that doesn’t require the logistical unity of a formal album. B-Sides and Rarities has been on a weekly rotation for me for the entire second half of 2017, and probably for the entirety of 2018, unless they release something else for me to cry to during my morning routine.
2. Florist - If Blue Could Be Happiness 3. High Bloom - Implied Sun 4. Alvvays - Antisocialites 5. The Drums - Abysmal Thoughts 6. Slowdive - Slowdive 7. Steve Lacy - Steve Lacy’s Demo 8. You’ll Never Get to Heaven - Images 9. Pedro Infante - Cien años... pensando en ti 10. Big Thief - Capacity
Alana Myers - Pop Genre Director
1. Wolf Alice - Visions Of A Life
Looking back at this past September, I remember sitting in my apartment late at night, counting down until midnight when Wolf Alice’s second record Visions of a Life would be released. I haven’t ever heard anything quite like Visions of a Life before, and I think the reason it resonates so much with me is the way it perfectly encompasses the feelings that come with the uncertainty of young adulthood, and the feelings of life in general - love, anger, sadness, extreme joy, and everything in between. The album digs itself into darkness, but at its core, lies a piece of work that is ambitious, honest, and a solid listen from start to finish.
2. MUNA - About U 3. Tei Shi - Crawl Space 4. Declan McKenna - What Do You Think About the Car? 5. Stormzy - Gang Signs & Prayer 6. Will Joseph Cook - Sweet Dreamer 7. HAIM - Something to Tell You 8. Lorde - Melodrama 9. Paramore - After Laughter 10. Circa Waves - Different Creatures
Alex Saakyan - Pop Genre Director
1. Lana Del Rey - Lust For Life
With an album cover that graces a smile, cheek to cheek of Lana Del Rey, it is no surprise as to why this record has been nicknamed as Del Rey’s first ‘happy album.’ Retiring from the ‘sad girl’ aesthetic of her previous records, Del Rey delivers an optimistic and authentic approach to her music. With tracks like ‘When the World Was at War’ and ‘God Bless America’ we see Del Rey take a more honest approach from her Americana aesthetic as she speaks of the hard times people in this country face. With tracks like ‘Get Free’ she delivers her mission statement: “Finally, I’m crossing the threshold/From the ordinary world/To the reveal of my heart,” She’s honest, she’s free, with a much optimism and a lust for life.
2. Kendrick Lamar - DAMN. 3. Lorde - Melodrama 4. Kelela - Take Me Apart 5. Majid Jordan - The Space Between 6. Harry Styles - Harry Styles 7. Calvin Harris - Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 1 8. Tyler, the Creator - Flower Boy 9. Dua Lipa - Blow Your Mind 10. Kesha - Rainbow
Christian Wright - World Genre Director
1. Jay Som - Everybody Works
Melina Duterte’s sophomore album is a bedroom production jewel. Every song, incredibly cohesive as a whole, traverses the beautifully lush sonic worlds her mind seemingly conjures up. That’s not to say the ten tracks that span Everybody Works are simple happenstances that fall together nicely; they definitely sound like labors of love. Rather her voice, certain of itself, transmits to the listener so powerfully, making sense out of all the disorder that comes with self-doubt and personal struggle. “Won’t forget to climb,” she sings on E.W’s. final track, “For Light,” beautifully steering the qualms of trying to make it in this world.
2. Nikolas Escudero - Synthesis 3. Haley Heynderickx - Unpeeled (Live) 4. Fleet Foxes - Crack-Up 5. Bedouine - Beduoine 6. Japanese Breakfast - Soft Sounds from Another Planet 7. Lomelda - Thx 8. Hand Habits - Wildly Idle (Humble Before the void) 9. Kevin Morby - City Music 10. Wednesday Campanella - Superman
Ethan Lee - Jazz Genre Director
1. Nick Hakim - Green Twins
Nick Hakim blurs the line between psychedelic, soul, funk, rock, and jazz with his debut album, Green Twins. With lush melodies to command his songs and a spacey approach to recording production, Hakim creates his own unique sound and challenges the notions and implications of a music genre. With a brand of sound that emulates Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Hakim's soundscape fills in colorful textures with his diverse instrumentation on top of steady, pulse-like rhythms. From spacey, reflective post-R&B rock songs like "Bet She Looks Like You" to jazzy, rhythmic pulses in "Miss Chew" and slow, soulful ballads like "Needy Bees," Green Twins has just about everything you need in a debut album from an artist as complex as Nick Hakim.
2. Tyler the Creator - Flower Boy 3. Kamasi Washington - Harmony of Difference 4. Rex Orange County - Apricot Princess 5. Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah - Diaspora 6. Moses Sumney - Aromanticism 7. Steve Lacy - Steve Lacy’s Demo 8. Brockhampton - Saturation II 9. Smino - blkswn 10. Antonio Sanchez - Bad Hombre
Mark Edmonds - Electronic Genre Director
1. Moon Boots - First Landing
First Landing is Moon Boots' debut album. Moon Boots manages a deep overtone with techy-melodies. 'Never Get to You' is a standout track that will light up any dance floor or pool party.
2. Rezz - Mass Manipulation 3. Oliver - Full Circle 4. Various Artists - Anjunadeep Vol. 9 5. Illenium - Awake 6. Giraffage - Too Real 7. Four Tet - New Energy 8. Odesza - A Moment Apart 9. Cosmic Gate - Materia Chapter.Two 10. Bicep - Bicep
Beliz Urkmez - Electronic Genre Director
1. Lorde - Melodrama
For me, Lorde's music means emotion in its purest, most honest form. Her sophomore album, Melodrama, captures her youth, her growth, her path to becoming a woman of her own and loving herself and all the ephemeral experiences in between. Mastering her craft, Lorde finds a cohesion between her atmospheric synths, harmonies, beats and the bittersweet wisdom in her lyrics. Especially in "Liability," a beautiful piano-ballad where she sings, "I understand, I'm a liability/ Get you wild, make you leave/ I'm a little much for everyone." Lorde is truly one of a kind and Melodrama proves she is one of the best artists today.
2. Gorillaz - Humanz 3. London Grammar - Truth Is a Beautiful Thing 4. HAIM - Something to Tell You 5. Alexandra Savior - Belladonna of Sadness 6. Temples - Volcano 7. Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds - Who Built the Moon? 8. Wolf Alice - Visions of a Life 9. Cigarettes After Sex - Cigarettes After Sex 10. Mura Masa - Mura Masa
Alex Ivanova - Folk/Singer-Songwriter Genre Director
1. Kiran Leonard - Derevaun Seraun
This is probably the most sonically beautiful album I’ve listened to in years. 22-year-old Kiran Leonard blends voice, piano, and string trio into an album with each movement representing a different piece of literature, seeing as the album was written to celebrate the re-opening of Manchester’s Central Library. The album is intensely personal, and raw, as Leonard’s voice is in the spotlight, accompanied by mournful accompaniment. I recommend this album endlessly.
2. The Spirit of the Beehive - pleasure suck 3. Jay Som - Everybody Works 4. Joan of Arc - He’s Got the Whole This Land Is Your Land in His Hands 5. Kindling - Hush 6. Синекдоха Монток - MMXVII (Parts 1 & 2) 7. Phoebe Bridgers - Stranger in the Alps 8. Sidney Gish - Ed Buys Houses 9. Tagubu & Klimperei - I Don't Remember The First Time 10. Nnamdi Ogbonnaya - DROOL
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Shyne Running For Political Office In Belize, Diddy Shows Support
Source: photo: WENN
It has been more than 15-years since Shyne was signed to Bad Boy, but that’s not stopping Diddy from showing his support.
According to published reports, on Sunday (Jun 28) Diddy took to Instagram, to offer his support for his former artist, by announcing that Shyne was running for the Belize House of Representatives.
“BELIZE I’m so proud of my brother @shyne_bz and the journey he is on,” Diddy wrote on Instagram. “He is running for the House of Representatives and needs your support. #BadBoy4Life”
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Shyne, whose name is Moses Michael Levi Barrow, is the son of Belize Prime Minister Dean Barrow, who became the first Black prime minister of Belize in 2008, was nominated by the United Democratic Party to stand as a candidate for the Belize House of Representatives for the electors of Mesopotamia in Belize City; a position previously held by his uncle, Honorable Michael Finnegan. Finnegan, who previously announced that he wouldn’t be seeking re-election back in 2017, expressed at the time that he wanted the “Bad Boyz” rapper to be his replacement.
While Diddy’s endorsement of Shyne is great news, that wasn’t the case more than a decade ago after the two feuded for years following Shyne’s release from prison. In 1999, the lyrical MC was partying with Diddy and Diddy’s then-girlfriend Jennifer Lopez, when an altercation inside of a New York City nightclub led to Shyne firing a gun inside the club and the three music stars being arrested. Although Diddy was acquitted of charges related to the incident, Shyne was found guilty and served 10 years in prison.
After he was released from prison in 2009, Shyne was deported to his native Belize where he assumed the role of Ambassador of Music for the country.
source https://hiphopwired.com/884722/shyne-running-for-political-office-in-belize-diddy-shows-support/
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