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tmbgareok · 1 year

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THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS ARE ON THE ROAD.

Here’s a quick summary of ALL the stuff that’s happening…

We are proud to announce that our 2 new benefit shows for FEEDING SAN DIEGO in July sold out in 8 minutes on Friday. These shows are for a very good cause, and playing the Belly Up is always a blast.

They Might Be Giants are on tour of across the US, and ALL 80 previously announced shows have sold out. International touring begins this fall. The Australian tour are on sale now, and shows are selling out. The UK tour has already been extended with new dates in England, Scotland, and Ireland

NEW YORK STATE!

We are HEADLINING the Pleasantville Music Festival on July 7th! Tickets are on sale TODAY, and here is the link to get them before the spambots

www.pleasantvillemusicfestival.com Go!

UPDATE: All our Australian shows have now SOLD OUT. Adding additional shows being investigated right now.

ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, NORTHERN IRELAND, REPUBLIC OF IRELAND

Manchester - SOLD OUT Leeds - SOLD OUT Bristol - SOLD OUT London - SOLD OUT

More shows added!

Southampton https://bit.ly/tmbg110323

Cambridge https://bit.ly/tmbg11040523

London https://bit.ly/tmbg11040523 (2nd!)

Glasgow https://bit.ly/tmbg110723

Newcastle https://bit.ly/tmbg110823

Belfast https://bit.ly/tmbg111023

Dublin https://bit.ly/tmbg111123

Nottingham https://bit.ly/3FsY39L

We are excited about these additional dates and hope to see all y’all at these new cities! Note there is a new, SECOND, London show!

and WE ARE PERFORMING WITH SPARKS AT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL THIS SUMMER!

Download a free exclusive song at TMBGshop dot com and be automatically signed up for a pre-sale ticket code later for the Hollywood Bowl show, or just get some free exclusive songs!

TMBG concert-goers in the WESTERN US

Salt Lake City, Denver, Boulder, Fort Collins, Lincoln NE, Kansas City MO, Tulsa, Dallas, Houston, and Austin: All of these shows have been successfully rescheduled and April, and all of them are sold out. Go to TMBG dot com and find your show. All original tickets are still valid and will be honored at the door!

THESE ARE FAQ for this WESTERN US FOLK

Q: I can’t find my original tickets. What should I do?

A: –Search your emails for “They Might Be Giants” or the name of the venue – your tickets or a receipt will probably appear.

–If you purchased your tickets through a big ticket agency like Ticketmaster, you had to start an account, and you will be happy to find that your tickets are still in that account right now.

–If you still can’t find the tickets, call or email the venue’s box office and ask for help. They are a much better bet than Ticketmaster. They’ll be able to find your tickets by searching your name or the email address you used with your purchase. (Be sure to provide them with the same email you purchased your tickets with—it won’t work any other way!)

Q: Are They Might Be Giants still going to perform all of Flood?

A: Yes, we are. The show is two sets, with no opener (or “An Evening with…” as they say in show business). We are on the stage EARLY-like 8pm typically. Please don’t arrive late because we aren’t going to be able to wait for you.

PLEASE WEAR A MASK TO OUR SHOW!

A note from John F.: Can you believe it? It’s 2023 and while it’s slowed down a lot, people are still getting COVID? Know folks who got it two weeks ago? We do too! We’ve got 1 request: wear a mask to our shows! Not a demand. Just a request. Just sayin’. If you are violently opposed to this idea, don’t wear a mask, but spare us your hot takes. We’ll spare you ours.

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plsbyallmeans · 5 years

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Hillary will be speaking at Pace University today!

Tune in!

Thank you 📣 @drconstance45 — for letting us all know.

#Message

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vintage1981 · 7 years

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‘Night of the Living Dead’ 4K Restoration Now Has Theatrical Distribution

Last year, George Romero raved about a 4K restoration of Night of the Living Dead that the Museum of Modern Art and The Film Foundation whipped up from the original negatives. The digital restoration was shown just a couple times at MoMA last November, and Romero noted that it’s “closer than anything we’ve seen to the definitive version of the film.”

Gary Streiner revealed mere hours before the news of Romero’s passing in July that Janus Films has acquired the 4K restoration for theatrical distribution.

Shot outside of Pittsburgh at a fraction of the cost of a Hollywood feature by a band of filmmakers determined to make their mark, George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead is one of the great stories of independent cinema: a midnight hit turned box-office smash that became one of the most influential films of all time. A deceptively simple tale of a group of strangers trapped in a farmhouse who find themselves fending off a horde of flesh-eating ghouls newly arisen from their graves, Romero’s claustrophobic vision of a late-sixties America (literally) tearing itself apart rewrote the rules of the horror genre, combined gruesome gore with acute social commentary, and quietly broke ground by casting a black actor (Duane Jones) in the lead role. After decades of poor-quality prints and video transfers, Night of the Living Dead can finally be seen for the immaculately crafted film that it is thanks to a new 4K restoration, scanned from the original camera negative and supervised by Romero himself. Stark, haunting, and more relevant than ever, Night of the Living Dead is back!

Playdates:

October 26 - 28 Athens, GA - Cine Theatre

October 26 - 31 Austin, TX - Austin Film Society

October 26 - November 2 Santa Fe, NM - Jean Cocteau Cinema

October 27 Charlottesville, VA - Alamo Drafthouse Eureka, CA - Eureka Concert and Film Center

October 27 & 28 Cleveland, OH - Cleveland Cinematheque New Orleans, LA - Broad Theater

October 27 - 29 Amherst, MA - Amherst Cinema Detroit, MI - Detroit Institute of Arts Houston, TX - MFA Houston Lexington, KY - Kentucky Theater Portland, ME - Portland Museum of Art Wheeling, WV - Towngate Theater

October 27 - November 2 Champaign, IL - The Art Theater Chicago, IL - Music Box Theatre Columbia, MO - Ragtag Cinema El Paso, TX - Alamo Drafthouse Montecillo Lubbock, TX - Alamo Drafthouse Lubbock Minneapolis, MN - Film Society of Minneapolis St. Paul Omaha, NE - Film Streams Provincetown, MA - Waters Edge Cinema

October 28 - November 2 Silver Spring, MD - AFI Silver

October 28 Fort Wayne, IN - Cinema Center Paducah, KY - Maiden Alley Cinema Richmond, VA - The Byrd Theatre

October 28 & 29 Oklahoma City, OK - Oklahoma City Museum of Art

October 30 Boulder, CO - International Film Series

October 30 & 31 Durham, NC - Carolina Theatre of Durham Portland, OR - Hollywood Theatre Wichita, KS - Regal Warren Old Town 7

October 31 Arlington, VA - Arlington Cinema & Drafthouse Des Moines, IA - Fleur Cinema & Cafe Honolulu, HI - Honolulu Museum of Art Los Angeles, CA - ArcLight Missoula, MT - The Roxy Theater Phoenixville, PA - Colonial Theatre San Diego, CA - Balboa Theater Toronto, ON - TIFF Cinematheque Yonkers, NY - Alamo Drafthouse Yonkers

October 31 & November 2 Ithaca, NY - Cornell Cinema

November 1, 5, 6 & 7 Baltimore - Senator Theatre

November 10 & 11 Vancouver, BC - The Cinematheque

November 10, 11 & 16 Pleasantville, NY - Jacob Burns Film Center

November 18 Madison, WI - UW Cinematheque

January 12 & 13, 2018 Columbus, OH - Wexner Center for the Arts

January 18, 2018 Lake Worth, FL - Movies of Lake Worth

For bookings and other questions, contact [email protected].

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#George Romero #Night of the Living Dead #Gary Streiner #Janus Films #Criterion Collection #bookings #revivals #horror films #Duane Jones #4K Restoration

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brokehorrorfan · 7 years

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Sean Phillips designed the poster for the upcoming theatrical re-release of Night of the Living Dead. George A. Romero's seminal film has been restored in its original 1.33:1 aspect ratio in 4K by the Museum of Modern Art and The Film Foundation.

The restoration will be playing around the U.S. throughout the month of October via Janus Films, beginning tomorrow night at Beyond Fest in Los Angeles. A full list of confirmed dates and locations can be found below.

The 1968 horror film single-handedly created the modern zombie. Judith O’Dea, Duane Jones, Marilyn Eastman, Karl Hardman, Judith Ridley, and Keith Wayne star.

It's rumored that Criterion will release the new transfer on Blu-ray. Stay tuned for details. Until then, catch one of the screenings below.

October 3 Los Angeles, CA - Beyond Fest

Opens October 13 New York, NY - Film Forum

October 20 - 22 Dallas, TX - Texas Theatre Seattle, WA - SIFF Cinema

Opens October 20 Denver, CO - SIE Film Center Pittsburgh, PA - Manor Theatre Salt Lake City, UT - Tower Theater

October 21 Los Angeles, CA - Cinespia Modesto, CA - State Theatre

October 24; October 27 - November 2 San Francisco, CA - Alamo Drafthouse New Mission

October 25 Ambler, PA - Ambler Theater

October 25 & 28 Milwaukee, WI - UW Milwaukee Union Cinema

October 26 Atlanta, GA - Plaza Theater Columbia, SC - Nickelodeon Theater Doylestown, PA - County Theater Princeton, NJ - Princeton Garden Theater Regina, SK - RPL Film Theatre Tucson, AZ - The Loft Cinema

October 26 - 28 Athens, GA - Cine Theatre

October 26 - 29 Hamilton, OH - Holiday Auto Theatre

October 26 - 31 Austin, TX - Austin Film Society

October 26 - November 2 Santa Fe, NM - Jean Cocteau Cinema

October 27 Eureka, CA - Eureka Concert and Film Center

October 27 & 28 New Orleans, LA - Broad Theater

October 28 - November 2 Silver Spring, MD - AFI Silver

October 28 Fort Wayne, IN - Cinema Center Paducah, KY - Maiden Alley Cinema Richmond, VA - The Byrd Theatre

October 28 & 29 Oklahoma City, OK - Oklahoma City Museum of Art

October 29 - 31 Cleveland, OH - Cleveland Cinematheque

October 30 Boulder, CO - International Film Series

October 30 & 31 Portland, OR - Hollywood Theatre Wichita, KS - Regal Warren Old Town 7

October 31 Honolulu, HI - Honolulu Museum of Art Missoula, MT - The Roxy Theater Phoenixville, PA - Colonial Theatre Pleasantville, NY - Jacob Burns Film Center San Diego, CA - Balboa Theater Toronto, ON - TIFF Cinematheque Yonkers, NY - Alamo Drafthouse Yonkers

October 31 & November 2 Ithaca, NY - Cornell Cinema

November 18 Madison, WI - UW Cinematheque

January 12 & 13, 2018 Columbus, OH - Wexner Center for the Arts

#night of the living dead #george a romero #george a. romero #george romero #duane jones

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nightmare-afton-cosplay · 4 years

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Raise a Mai Tai: These 9 Homes With Tiki Bars Are Lit!

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Tiki bars may prove to be the hottest amenity this summer. With vacation plans scuttled and large gatherings at the beach frowned upon, a backyard paradise that evokes tropical vibes looks as appealing as a well-mixed mai tai.

These backyard paradises feature huts with thatched roofs and a belly-up-to-the-bar setup with stools, counter space, and an area for mixing drinks. Throw in some space for grilling, and a tempting Tiki bar may be key to surviving a summer of social distancing.

Floating on dreams of pineapple juice and ice, we set out to find homes for sale with Tiki bars. We found nine properties for sale across the country packing a tropical punch. And the amenity spans all price points, from $229,900 to $3,950,000, leaving you with cash to stock the bar with cocktail spirits, paper umbrellas, and ceramic Tiki mugs.

1300 River Ridge Dr, Vero Beach, FL

Price: $3,995,000

If you’re in search of a luxe bar along the waterfront, we’ve found the place. Flaunting Hollywood Regency interiors, this 5,000-square-foot home has black-and-white awning running the length of the home. But the swim-up Tiki bar in the backyard is the true highlight. A fire pit and infinity pool join the Tiki bar for entertaining fun.

Vero Beach, FL

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1415 Taurus Ct, Merritt Island, FL

Price: $459,999

Perched on a dock hugging a waterway, this three-bedroom home on a barrier island sits just south of the Kennedy Space Center. Built in 1974, the property is full of surprises. Four years ago, the owners installed a 10,000-pound boat lift, rescreened the saltwater pool, and extended the lanai. Sip a daiquiri right next to the dock and live your best life.

Merritt Island, FL

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3817 Indian Ridge Ln, Defiance, MO

Price: $884,900

Complete with faux palm trees poolside and a stainless-steel grill built into the Tiki bar, this four-bedroom home sits on a secluded 3-acre lot. On chilly nights, cozy up to the new deck’s fireplace. You’ll be the talk of the town once locals learn your Tiki bar is totally swim-up.

Defiance, MO

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1183 Claire Rd, Crownsville, MD

Price: $395,000

This ’70s-era home just 8 miles northwest of Annapolis is a delightful surprise. It comes with a Tiki bar with a faux heron, a rock waterfall and fish pond, and landscaping with tropical ferns. Five community beaches are nearby if you get the itch to—after a few mai tais—go for a swim.

Crownsville, MD

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3520 Birch Ter, Davie, FL

Price: $1,550,000

If you plan to (someday!) host a large gathering with a Hawaiian theme, this pavilion-size Tiki bar is perfect. Four open walls and a bar in the middle will ensure proper flow of fruity drinks, and the grass expanse lends itself to hula dancing. The five-bedroom custom home boasts nearly 7,000 square feet of living space, which includes an office, 22-foot ceilings, walk-in closets, and a chef’s kitchen for preparing pupu platters.

Davie, FL

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3376 Cedar Crest Loop, Spring Hill, FL

Price: $367,500

Artfully built into the side of a four-bedroom house, this petite bar is outfitted with a thatched roof and bar-height countertop. You can splash in the nearby saltwater pool or pass food and drinks through the window to your guests. And speaking of guests, the fourth bedroom has private patio access and an adjacent bath.

Spring Hill, FL

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5400 Little Pkwy, Sherrills Ford, NC

Price: $1,690,000

Log cabin and Tiki bar?! Welcome to this four-bedroom home on 26 acres just 50 miles outside Charlotte. With soaring ceilings and a refined log cabin aesthetic, this family-friendly property has a cozy feel. Poolside, the Tiki bar is its own mini log cabin with a thatched awning and bar-height counter.

Sherrills Ford, NC

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2940 Pleasantville Rd NE, Pleasantville, OH

Price: $454,510

Thirty miles south of Columbus, this two-bedroom home is set on 11 blissful acres, which offer plenty of room for outdoor entertaining. Fortunately, the current owners have done all the work, maintaining a private beach and Tiki hut. A wraparound porch further capitalizes on the wooded views.

Pleasantville, OH

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2321 Magill Ave, Clovis, CA

Price: $474,900

This Central Valley town does get warm, but the pool—and accompanying Tiki bar—is a cool relief from hot summer days. Upgrades are in abundance in case you want to bring the party indoors. The kitchen now features new quartz countertops and stainless-steel appliances.

Clovis, CA

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impulsetravels · 5 years

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playlist. 04 september 2019.

shabaka hutchings + kojey radical - no gangster // uk + ghana nicola cruz + castello branco - criançada // ecuador + são paulo mo' horizons + mr. morski - little mouse // hannover + ldn + bulgaria chancha via circuito + mateo kingman - ilaló // buenos aires + ecuador romare - gone // ldn moon boots - bimini road // bk leisure - running // auckland sir was - no giving up // sweden astrological - private world // vancouver safia - resolution // australia rapsody + mereba - myrlie // nc + philly herbert + dani siciliano - the audience // uk + arizona + sf dominique fils-aimé - good feeling (atjazz + d-malice vocal dub) // montréal + haiti + derby + bedford preditah + rachel chinouriri - animals // uk + zimbabwe mijangos - aqui se baila (afro latin mix) // tijuana waajeed + candi lindsey - deeper into blue // detroit + pleasantville dj kemit + the lounge lizards - wake up and stand up (kai alce kzr vocal mix) // atl jamila woods - betty (for boogie) // chi » LISTEN «

#Playlists

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thesinglesjukebox · 8 years

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KATY PERRY FT. SKIP MARLEY - CHAINED TO THE RHYTHM [3.77] Maybe Katy should take her Jamaican Guy and go back to the Private Life.

Thomas Inskeep: Full disclosure: I came into this not expecting to like it, but trying to keep an open mind. But then Katy decided to show off how "woke" she thinks she is. Ooh, we're "all chained to the rhythm," but clearly should be doing more to change the world, just like Katy Perry. Some of us, however, still haven't forgotten the likes of "Ur So Gay." She can claim she's progressive etc. all she wants, but I don't buy it for a minute; Perry will do whatever she thinks will sell sell sell her records. Bizarrely, she seems to think that a cod-reggae beat is the answer in 2017? (Or more accurately, that could be the fault of co-writer Sia, who's predisposed to such notions.) Because you know what's awesome? When white artists show you how much they know about "rhythm" by featuring -- oh, I know! Let's get a member of the Marley family in here! Great idea! Perry's screechy, barely-in-tune voice doesn't help matters, of course. Here's hoping this is the beginning of the end of her career: she's like the Paula Abdul of the '00s/'10s, only without the half-decent songs and pleasant personality. There is no pop star today worse than Katy Perry, full stop. [0]

Cédric Le Merrer: Katy Perry is my mainstream barometer. When she made "I Kissed a Girl," showy but defensive female bisexuality was totally where people were at. When she made trap-pop, it became the new normal. Now Katy Perry is confusedly woke, and you can't tell me that's not the norm in 2017. Her terribly heavy-footed scansion even works in her favor thematically, as she's completely chained to that stomping rhythm. Incapable of taking any liberty from the beat, she moves around like Link wearing his iron boots. So as usual, it's a bit terrible but it also makes things easy for us weak singers wanting an easy song for karaoke, and whatever my reservations, in the end Katy and Max Martin always win me over. [8]

Megan Harrington: Who but Katy Perry would turn three minutes of arena pop into a very, very, extremely literal call for wokeness? Even her obviousness is obvious. Of course she's pivoted away from the lusty pleasure of her early hits and toward a crude attempt at "real" meaning. "Chained to the Rhythm" is, ultimately, not a very good song, but Perry is familiar, even comfortable, in her clunky movements. We'll never know that utopian future but Perry would be there, no matter the sleight of fate's hand. And "Chained to the Rhythm" in a good year is -- unsurprisingly -- the exact same song as "Chained to the Rhythm" in a bad year. She is a coin with only one side. [7]

Claire Biddles: Like a latterday Daft Punk song that's been cloned over and over again until its defining features are completely flattened out, "Chained to the Rhythm" is so insubstantial that I swear it stops existing after it finishes playing. The lyrics are full of self-drags -- she MUST have known asking "Are we tone deaf?" would be used against her in a review -- and there's something particularly desp about the way she references "your favourite song" knowing that this could never be it. [2]

Maxwell Cavaseno: The inexplicable pivot of the cheesiest, most banal to trying to edge upon wokeness is certainly not the career move you'd expect from Katy Perry off-hand but at the same time, it's been brewing. She's moved from the goofiness into a sea of power-ballads of vague ambition and motivation, so to create an anthem meant to parse through a sea of bullshit by feeding vague lines about utopia and what have you is not improbable. And not for nothing, for all Sia's weird reggae mining and her bullshit fake patois voice she built for playing Trojan RiRi, she's only just recently bothered to put an actual Jamaican on a record or get them writers' credit. And so the awkward promo-featuring of Tuff Gong's grandson is maybe a weird gesture for authenticity from someone so unlikely, but I can't be too upset given this surprisingly rare accommodation. If there's anything to say about this in particular that's a flaw, it's that in many ways it feels too calculated, in a way that Katy Perry used to never bother with. As unflattering or at times infuriating as her lack of foresight could be sometimes, there was something to be said for being so brash. [6]

Anthony Easton: When your entire genre is founded, and continually plays, with notions of black authenticity, does it mean anything that Perry plays with patois, and if it doesn't--why does she have Skip Marley, and if it does, does it mean anything that she doesn't fully commit (rhythm instead of riddim). Minus a point for talking about distortion without having any of it at all, plus a point for sneaking the word empire in. [4]

Alfred Soto: My delight at the "distortion" in a dance pop tune is mitigated by Katy Perry's odd stresses; in this case they land on the last syllable, which has the effect of howling when someone digs a high heel into your big toe. A similar travesty happens in the phrase "to the rhy-THM, to the rhy-THM." Still, the gloss suits her: if any performer would revel in being chained to a rhythm, it's Perry, who in some bars sounds like Toni Braxton. [6]

William John: She did not get away with the grating elongation of "unconditionally", so I have no idea how Katy Perry has been permitted to transgress again with such klutzy abandon; once again, we are faced with an extreme case of the wrong emphasis on the wrong syllable. As to the song's alleged "woke-ness", I proffer no comment save that it's unlikely any slumbering apoliticals will be roused by a track with empty platitudes and such narrow dynamic range. [2]

Will Adams: The trendification of aligning with social justice causes has made it easier than ever for people like Katy "Artist. Activist. Conscious." Perry to market themselves as woke with just a modicum of effort (all while continuing to act as shitty as they always have). The idea that "Chained to the Rhythm" and its vague politics have any potential for significant impact is one of the more insulting concepts the pop machine has lobbed at us in recent memory. But even if Perry had any insight, we'd still have to contend with this torpid mess of recycled Weeknd disco, indulgent Sia-isms, and Perry outdoing the awful scansion on "Unconditionally" a million times over. There's no bite to this, no feeling, and no reason to dandandance. [1]

Katie Gill: American pop music can't be THIS starved for bangers, can it? [3]

Mo Kim: Katy Perry is so bad at being radical that she needed to hire a black reggae artist as a temp for this. [3]

Scott Mildenhall: After all that apocalyptopop a few years ago it's weird that now, with the Doomsday Clock actually closer to midnight than at any point since 1953, Katy Perry doesn't sound that arsed about the walking daymare she's describing. It's not like she's known for her subtlety -- if anything it's like she's trying to undersell the hugely unsubtle "makes you think"-type statements in the lyrics. Weirder still is that "Wide Awake" already did all this without any obvious allusions to infer (and thus better), but at the very least it avoids the weirdest possibility: being completely terrible. As it's akin to an inessential Sébastien Tellier remix, it really isn't that, but it is strangely bloodless. [6]

Katherine St Asaph: One point for every point I'm not giving this: 1. I did not expect Melanie Martinez to be where Katy Perry was positioning herself. 2. If you told me Katy Perry was doing Pleasantville, I would have expected a pinup theme. 2a. Though it's remarkable that the cover art doesn't show her face, and yet still manages to showcase her boobs. 2b. I'm sure Vigilant Citizen is on that photo. God, for the days of obscure cranks. 3. Sia still doesn't do subtext, at all. If she feels zombified, the lyric will have shambling goddamn zombies. 4. Or maybe she does, because this is a subtext-free "Chandelier," down to the isolatable "dance, dance, dance!" and "DRINK!" interjections. 4a. Someone get those ornaments out of her picket fence. Get the lens out too. 4b. Disco balls-and-chains aside, I actually don't think anyone involved was trying to avoid "Slave to the Rhythm." This is the exact kind of tweak-a-word that's Sia's main writing trick, and besides, Katy Perry did "E.T.," she doesn't care. 5. How is Katy Perry one of the few singers who doesn't sound exactly like Sia's demo vocals? Is this a sign of her being a distinctive singer, or too limited to try? 6. I blame Max Martin for the Swedish reggae. Ali Payami probably did the prechorus. 6a. Because they just had to get the funk guitar in somewhere, didn't they? This sounded much better at the Grammys, where it sounded like a more straight-ahead Martin/Payami track. 6b. With a line like "dance to the distortion," would some distortion be too much to ask? 7. I have no idea what Skip Marley is doing here and neither does anyone else. 8. Why does Woke Katy Perry just sound like the late '90s, the time of Fight Club and The Matrix and endless plaints by landfill alternative bands about the pathetic emptiness of our meaningless, consumer-driven lives? Sia was also a product of the '90s; I bet if she released "Chandelier" today that would be called political too. 9. In these days of our Pigmask Putin we're going to see a lot more of these political-shaped but anodyne "protest" songs, aren't we? Please extradite me to wherever it is that I did whatever it was to deserve this. [1]

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#Katy Perry #Skip Marley #Chained to the Rhythm

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harrythegreekblr · 4 years

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Congress paid 137 cities to join UN

https://twitter.com/ICLEI

https://iclei.org/

https://iclei.org/en/members-search.html?region=North%2520America&order_by=1

These cities have separated themselves from the U.S.

By treaty.

https://brassballs.blog/home/signs-treaties-nato-did-without-him-two-days-ago-france-italy-united-kingdom-pentagon-matthew-warren-matt-int-nato-begins-using-enhanced-satellite-services-spy-citizens-american-nsa-dnc-crowdstrike

Through a United Nations (UN) organization called:

ICLEI.

Local Governments for Sustainability.

Whatever that is.

Sustained with tax dollars spent by Congress.

Paid out through grants from these federal departments:

Homeland Security

State

Justice

Commerce

Justice

Executive Branch

Defense (Pentagon)

Health & Human Services (HHS)

https://brassballs.blog/home/nato-un-las-vegas-detroit-strong-cities-congress-pays-125-cities-give-up-control-police-loretta-lynch-attorney-general-doj-justice-department-kerry-obama-biden-global-world-defund-sawab-fbi-cia

Please enter these search words in your favorite internet search engine:

ICLEI and UN United Nations

One search resulted in this:

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=iclei+and+un+united+nations

Cities now part of the UN are:

Alameda, CA

American Canyon, CA

Antioch, CA

Ashland, OR

Atlanta, GA

Auburn, WA

Baltimore, MD

Beacon, NY

Bellingham, WA

Benicia, CA

Binghamton, NY

Birmingham, AL

Boise, ID

Boulder, CO

Brentwood, MO

Broward County, FL

Cambridge, MA

Cazenovia, NY

Cincinnati, OH

College Park, MD

Columbia, MO

Columbus, IN

Creve Coeur, MO

Davis, CO

De Moines, IO

DeKalb, IL

Delray Beach, FL

Denton, TX

Denver, CO

Dewitt, NY

District of Columbia

Dover, NY

Dublin, CA

Dunedin, FL

Durango, CO

Eagle County, CO

Eau Claire, WI

Edgewater, CO

Edinburg, TX

Edmonds, WA

Emeryville, CA

Encinitas, CA

Everett, WA

Flagstaff, AZ

Fort Collins, CO

Ft. Lauderdale, FL

Fremont, CA

Glen Rock, NJ

Grand Rapids, MI

Greenville, SC

Hattiesburg, MS

Haverstraw, NY

Hawaii County, HI

Hayward, CA

Holland, MI

Humboldt County, CA

Jefferson County, WA

Jersey City, NJ

Johnson County, IA

Keene, NH

Kennebunk, ME

Kennebunkport, ME

Kent, OH

Key West, FL

Kirkwood, MO

La Grange Park, IL

Lancaster, NY

Lakewood, CO

Larchmont, NY

Lawrence, KS

Leon Valley, TX

Los Angeles County, CA

Los Gatos, CA

Martinez, CA

Maui County, HI

Metropolitan King County, WA

Millbrae, CA

Minneapolis, MN

Monterey, CA

Montgomery County, MD

Montpelier, VT

Nashville, TN

Natick, MA

New Castle, NY

New Haven, CT

New Orleans, LA

New Paltz, NY

New Rochelle, NY

New York, NY

Newburyport, MA

Northfield, MN

Oakland Park, FL

Oberlin, OH

Olympia, WA

Orlando, FL

Oshkosh, WI

Oxford, OH

Palo Alto, CA

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ACADEMY ANNOUNCES 2020 GRANT RECIPIENTS

Mindy Kaling presents the Oscar® for Animated Feature Film to Jonas Rivera, Josh Cooley, and Mark Nielsen during the live ABC Telecast of The 92nd Oscars® at the Dolby® Theatre in Hollywood, CA on Sunday, February 9, 2020.

LOS ANGELES, CA – The Academy Foundation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today the 96 recipients of its 2020 FilmCraft and FilmWatch grants, including recipients of the emergency grant funds announced last month in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. All of the grants, which total a combined $2.5 million in funds, are awarded based on current need to organizations that support filmmakers and reach audiences from underserved communities.

“The Academy’s first priority remains to help those in our film community most impacted by the current global crisis. Our contribution of $2 million in emergency funds to the Academy Foundation, along with the grants we bestow on an annual basis, will surely benefit struggling organizations so they may continue to encourage diverse storytelling and enrich cinema and its artists,” said Academy governor and Education Committee chair Nancy Utley.

“The Academy’s Grants committee is honored to continue to provide much-needed support to these 96 worthy organizations – their impact on the world of film is truly immeasurable,” said Marcus Hu, chair of the Grants committee.

Grants range from $5,000-$200,000. Recipient institutions and programs are as follows:

African Diaspora Film Festival, Inc. (New York, NY)

African Film Festival (New York, NY)

American Museum of Natural History/Margaret Mead Film Festival (New York, NY)

American Film Institute (Los Angeles, CA)

Arabian Sights Film Festival/Filmfest DC (Washington, DC)

Art-House America Campaign (Ann Arbor, MI)

Asian CineVision/43rd Asian American International Film Festival (Brooklyn, NY)

Asian Culture and Media Alliance (San Diego, CA)

Atlanta Jewish Film Festival (AJFF) (Atlanta, GA)

Austin Film Society (Austin, TX)

Barnard College/Athena Film Festival (New York, NY)

Berklee College of Music (Boston, MA)

Berkshire International Film Festival (Great Barrington, MA)

Big Sky Film Institute/Big Sky Documentary Film Festival (Missoula, MT)

BlackStar Film Festival (Philadelphia, PA)

California Institute of the Arts (Santa Clarita, CA)

Center for Asian American Media/CAAMFest (San Francisco, CA)

Center for Documentary Studies/Full Frame Documentary Film Festival (Durham, NC)

Chicago Filmmakers (Chicago, IL)

Chicago International Film Festival/Cinema/Chicago (Chicago, IL)

Chicago Latino Film Festival (Chicago, IL)

Chicken & Egg Pictures (Brooklyn, NY & San Francisco, CA)

Cinema Tropical (New York, NY)

Cine Qua Non Lab (Morelia, Mexico)

Columbia Film Society (Columbia, SC)

Dance Theatre Etcetera (Brooklyn, NY)

Diamond in the Raw (Culver City, CA)

Documental Ambulante AC (Mexico City, Mexico)

Dreaming Tree Foundation (Rock Island, IL)

Echo Park Film Center (Los Angeles, CA)

Educational Video Center (New York, NY)

Exceptional Minds (Sherman Oaks, CA)

Facets/Chicago International Children’s Film Festival (Chicago, IL)

Film Independent (Los Angeles, CA)

Film Society of Lincoln Center (New York, NY)

The Film Society of Minneapolis-St. Paul (Minneapolis, MN)

Firelight Media (New York, NY)

The Flaherty Film Seminar/International Film Seminars Inc. (Brooklyn, NY)

Frameline (San Francisco, CA)

GALA Inc. (Grupo de Artistas LatinoAmericanos) (Washington, DC)

George Eastman Museum (Rochester, NY)

Ghetto Film School (Bronx, NY & Los Angeles, CA)

GLAS Animation/GLAS Animation Festival (Berkeley, CA)

Hamilton College (Clinton, NY)

Independent Feature Project (Brooklyn, NY)

Indie Memphis (Memphis, TN)

Indigenous Showcase (Seattle, WA)

Inner-City Arts (Los Angeles, CA)

Inner-City Filmmakers (Santa Monica, CA)

International Documentary Association (Los Angeles, CA) International Institute for Indigenous Resource Management/Indigenous Film & Arts Festival (Denver, CO)

Internews Network/FilmAid (Arcata, CA; Washington, DC; London & Paris)

Jacob Burns Film Center (Pleasantville, NY)

Jewish Film Institute/San Francisco Jewish Film Festival (San Francisco, CA)

Kartemquin Films (Chicago, IL)

Los Angeles Filmforum (Los Angeles, CA)

Maysles Institute (New York, NY)

Media Arts Center San Diego (San Diego, CA)

Media City Film Festival (Windsor, Ontario)

Mizna’s Twin Cities Arab Film Festival (St. Paul, MN)

Montclair State University Foundation (Montclair, NJ)

Museum of the Moving Image (Astoria, NY)

Muslim Public Affairs Council (Washington, DC)

National Association of Latino Independent Producers (NALIP) (Culver City, CA)

New Orleans Film Society (New Orleans, LA)

New York Asian Film Foundation/New York Asian Film Festival (New York, NY)

New York Women in Film & Television (New York, NY)

Newfest (New York, NY)

Northwest Film Forum (Seattle, WA)

Outfest (Los Angeles, CA)

Pan African Film Festival (Los Angeles, CA)

Points North Institute/Camden International Film Festival (Camden, ME)

Portland Community Media (Portland, OR)

Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project (San Francisco, CA)

Ragtag Film Society/True/False Film Fest (Columbia, MO)

Raw Art Works’ Real to Reel (R2R) Film School (Lynn, MA)

Reel Abilities NY (New York, NY)

Reel Works (Brooklyn, NY)

Rosendale Theatre Collective: Women in Experiment Schneemann/Hammer (Rosendale, NY)

SFFILM (San Francisco, CA)

SIFF (Seattle, WA)

San Francisco Cinematheque (San Francisco, CA)

San Francisco Silent Film Festival (San Francisco, CA)

Scribe Video Center (Philadelphia, PA)

Sedona International Film Festival (Sedona, AZ)

Silver Bullet Productions (Santa Fe, NM)

Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian/Native Cinema Showcase (New York, NY & Santa Fe, NM)

Streetlights (Los Angeles, CA)

Sundance Institute (Los Angeles, CA & Park City, Utah)

Toronto International Film Festival (Toronto, ON)

UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art (Brooklyn, NY)

Utah Film Center/Damn These Heels Queer Film Festival (Salt Lake City, UT)

Venice Arts (Marina del Rey, CA)

Visual Communications Media/Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival (Los Angeles, CA)

Women In Film (Los Angeles, CA)

Women Make Movies (New York, NY)

The Academy’s FilmCraft and FilmWatch grants were established to identify and empower future filmmakers from nontraditional backgrounds, cultivate new and diverse talent, promote motion pictures as an art form, and provide a platform for underrepresented artists.

The Academy Grants program provides financial support to qualifying film festivals, educational institutions and film scholars and has awarded more than $15 million since 1968.

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The Prosecutor’s Race Making Arlington Interesting

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The Prosecutor’s Race Making Arlington Interesting

One sign that this era of agitated civic life is not merely a reflection of Donald Trump or Twitter is that the agitation has penetrated, of all places, into Arlington County, Virginia.

In normal times, Arlington politics are polite and consensus-driven, almost proudly dull—the perfect opposite of the national capital that it borders just across the Potomac. A Democratic primary election for local prosecutor on Tuesday, however, underlines that these are not normal times. An ill-tempered monthslong battle between incumbent commonwealth’s attorney Theo Stamos and her aggressive challenger from the left, Parisa Dehghani-Tafti, is drawing notice and money from criminal justice advocates nationally.

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A political action committee funded by billionaire George Soros has pumped in nearly $600,000 on behalf of Dehghani-Tafti, who argues that Stamos is an overly rigid prosecutor who is too zealous in pursing marijuana cases and whose policies are particularly unfair to minority and economically disadvantaged defendants. The overall spending in the race, approaching $1 million, is roughly four times greater than usual.

The choice, and especially the racially and ideologically charged rhetoric around it, has confronted the tight, earnest community of civic players in Arlington with the preeminent question of Trump-era politics:Which side are you on?

Arlington Democrats say they can hardly recall a race that took on such personal dimensions, or offered such a sharp edge on issues. The contest has produced bracing arguments on highly charged national subjects like police brutality and mass incarceration.

In this case, however, there is a curious twist: One has to squint pretty hard to see examples of these in Arlington, certainly in comparison to places that have drawn the spotlight elsewhere. If a place as placid as Arlington is being riled up this way, something notable is going on.

Arlington’s jail population, as Stamos notes, has fallen lately to a five-year low under her tenure as top prosecutor (She was first elected in 2011, after 24 years as a deputy in the same office). There have been no notorious Chicago-style incidents of police violence, no riots protesting racial injustice.

Dehghani-Tafti, 45, who has been a public defender in the neighboring District of Columbia but has no experience as a prosecutor, is an Iranian American with two black children and identifies as a woman of color, and says this perspective helped inspire her campaign. She said she welcomes money from Soros, and says that is because she is at the vanguard of a new approach to law enforcement that makes finer distinctions about which defendants present a true threat to public safety, and is more attuned to systemic prejudice in the criminal justice system. She points out that Arlington reflects some galling national racial disparities: Although less than 10 percent of its residents are black, a majority of its inmates are.

She says the race is “very personal to me,” informed in part by her disgust after Trump’s election in 2016 and in part by watching a friend be falsely convicted before being exonerated after five years.

“I know there are some people who need to be locked up,” she told POLITICO, “but I prefer to go about this in a way that’s informed by evidence and data and bring[s] Arlington into the 21st century, not just in terms of technology but also in terms of what makes us safer but is also more humane.”

Stamos, 61, who is white, has complained that her opponent’s appeals for compassion often overlook compassion for the victims of crime. Bridling at the criticism, Stamos notes that she helped start a “drug court” to provide a better path to adjudicating these nonviolent cases.

“I’m still a prosecutor,” she said. “I’m not going to apologize for being a prosecutor. I think it’s very misguided to back away from the actual work of prosecution because that’s what does keep communities safe, it’s what gives voice to victims of crime.”

Stamos leaves little doubt that the criticism of her supposedly reactionary style is ticking her off. “Arlington County is of the most educated, progressive, engaged and enlightened communities in the country,” she said. “To postulate that unbeknownst to this very active community for the past three decades, all under the watchful eye of Chief Judge William T. Newman, who is an African American pioneer in this community, there has been this malignant and oppressive force at work … is preposterous.”

She was offering a view of her county as Pleasantville that has a familiar ring. Famous for the Pentagon, and the national cemetery, and the Iwo Jima memorial, Arlington beyond those landmarks cuts a low profile even in the Washington area. If you moved to the capital and wanted a place in the suburbs that doesn’t feel very suburban, you might choose Arlington. It has plenty of ethnic diversity, decent schools, bike trails, wooded neighborhoods a short walk from Metrorail stations with smartly planned mixed use developments around them. (As it happens, the POLITICO newsroom looks out on Washington, but is actually across the river in Arlington.) If you are in the mood, there are Asian and Hispanic restaurants galore; if not, you are rarely more than a few minutes from a Starbucks.

On the other hand, if you were an ambitious local reporter covering Arlington you typically would be finagling for a new assignment. Back in the days when theWashington Postcovered local news more seriously than it does now, it still had a hard time paying attention to Arlington. The all-day Saturday board meetings droned on interminably, marathon sessions of process and piety, and the county mostly lacked the inflamed grievances and personal rivalries and power plays that typically make local politics interesting.

In 2019, however, Arlington political veterans say the place has more dry tinder than Stamos probably realized.

The contours of the race—an established and well-known Democrat versus a china-smashing insurgent—at a superficial level invite comparisons to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and her upset last year of longtime incumbent Joe Crowley.

But the Arlington case is more complicated. There is a healthy roster of well-known establishment players in Arlington (and in neighboring Falls Church, also part of this commonwealth’s attorney district) who are backing the challenger.

In part this is because Stamos evidently underappreciated the partisan nature of the moment. In the past, she had supported an independent with a Republican past, John Vihstadt, for the otherwise wholly Democratic County Board. In normal times, this might have produced grumbling and eye rolls. But in the hyperpartisan atmosphere of Trump’s Washington, many Democrats were genuinely offended by the gesture.

A more serious blunder, at least in narrowly political terms, came in 2017, when Stamos joined mostly Republican prosecutors from around the state in opposing then-Governor Terry McAuliffe’s plan to restore voting rights to convicted felons who had served their time. Stamos said she didn’t object to the concept, but to the broad-brush way McAuliffe was trying to implement it en masse instead of assessing individual cases.

The former governor wasn’t interested in this nuance. “I’ll do anything I possibly can do to try and help you,” the unforgiving McAuliffe told Dehghani-Tafti during his endorsement announcement.

Stamos can also be rigid in ways that left critics eager to pounce. A group of 109 defense attorneys endorsing Dehghani-Tafti wrote a letter alleging that the prosecutor pumps up charges against defendants in order to induce them to accept plea bargains, and she refuses to use technology in ways that would make it easier for them to gain access to relevant discovery evidence on behalf of clients without physically going to the courthouse. (Some of those details ended up driving theWashington Post’s endorsement of the challenger.) The picture they offered was not necessarily of an abusive prosecutor, but of an unmistakable hard-ass. In earlier times that is a reputation a Virginia Democrat would covet—a way of countering criticism of being a bleeding heart.

But in a liberal-minded community the old ways may be outdated, just as Joe Biden is learning on the presidential campaign trail, when a one-time talking point—his sponsorship of the 1994 crime bill—is now something that throws him on the defensive.

Lauren-Brooke Eisen, a senior fellow at the liberal Brennan Center’s justice program, said the Arlington primary battle is “reflective of a national trend.“ In recent years, Soros’ PAC has funded a number of progressive challengers in prosecutor’s races across the country. Kim Foxx was elected in Cook County State, Ill., with hundreds of thousands of dollars funneled into her campaign. Similarly funded Aramis Ayala was sworn into office overseeing Orange and Osceola counties in Florida, shortly after which she drew fire for saying she would not ever pursue the death penalty. In Philadelphia, Larry Krasner defeated a Republican candidate with 21 years of experience in prosecution, delivering a hard-hitting campaign with more than $1 million from Soros. In Oakland, incumbent Nancy O’Malley was reelected, but only after facing a challenger supported by Soros.

Progressive challengers not backed by Soros have also unseated incumbents in Durham County, N.C., Kansas City, Kan., and St. Louis County, Mo. Even in open races, candidates with little to no background in politics—but calling for an overhaul of the criminal justice system—have prevailed over candidates with long histories in the prosecutor’s office. In Brooklyn, N.Y., for example, Eric Gonzalez won the title over five Democratic candidates—all former prosecutors.

“We’re seeing bipartisan agreement that our criminal justice system is broken,” Eisen added, “and in need of change … [which] I think fits squarely with what we’re seeing across the country with this wave of new prosecutors wanting to transform the office.”

It has been a while since such a wave—if it ends up knocking down someone like Stamos—has hit the shores of Virginia, where prosecutors often stay put for their entire careers. Fairfax County, which is adjacent to Arlington and is the largest locality in the Washington area and the state, has had only two people serve as the commonwealth’s attorney since 1967. The current occupant, Raymond Morrogh, is also facing a Soros-funded challenger in Tuesday’s primary. In Prince William County, to the west of Fairfax, prosecutor Paul B. Ebert is retiring after 52 years in office.

Beth Arthur, who has been Arlington sheriff for almost 19 years, said she doesn’t welcome elections for the office becoming politicized in the fashion they have this year. She has endorsed Stamos. “It had been my intention not to weigh in on the race publicly, but when her ethics were attacked and the police department’s ethics were attacked, I felt like it was wrong.”

But Gene Rossi, a former federal prosecutor whose district included Arlington, said the issue is less about personalities than changing standards. “In the ‘90s, when I first started doing mostly criminal cases, I was ‘put them away, throw away the key, hang them high,’” Rossi said. “But then when I entered the new century, I realized this was fool’s gold, that mass incarceration is not the answer.”

“The current commonwealth’s attorney is a good person, she’s a good trial attorney, she’s got integrity, she’s been in that office since they invented fire and the wheel,” Rossi added. “I don’t think she has the mental state of mind to move as fast as I would like in the realm of criminal justice. Virginia is moving, but it’s moving very slowly … I want it to move like a bolt of lightning.”

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