#spring awakening italian tour

[hobipaint]

Sunshine, Inc. - Masterlist [hiatus]

summary: Every trip for Hoseok is the same. Show them around, take pictures, let them eat, souvenirs, back home. It's easy to smile while doing this, but over the years, he's been on the same route - travelling the world the same way, chasing the sun in one direction. It's only obvious that his awe has reduced. To his surprise, though, there's someone who can rival his disinterest - you.

↳ pairing : hoseok x female reader

↳ genres: fluff, angst, world tour! au

↳ disclaimers: mild cursing, discussions of mental health. warnings will be given at the beginning for each chapter.

a/n: hey there, you! this fic is currently on hiatus because I have once again been thrown on the loop de loop called exams. chapters are currently in work, but I have big ideas and even bigger drafts rn so idk when its going to come back. till then, please be patient! thank you so much for being here 💞

• Destinations:

Hey there!

Welcome to Sunshine, Inc.!

Here, we give you the list of cities for our world tour package we call Strands of Colours™. In this tour, there'll be fun, adventures, food, and maybe, some romance?

Any conditions about the travel will be mentioned alongside the cities as we travel - so rest assured as our capable team takes care of your travels.

We hope you have a wonderful trip, and thank you for choosing Sunshine, Inc.!

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• We begin with our pick up from Los Angeles - in case you're from outside LA, we can arrange for pickups from there as well. No biggie. Your necessary flight details shall be emailed to you with utmost attention paid to your preferences. Just sit back and relax; envision yourself in the flight that will begin your trip.

here is the mood you'll want in this city!

• We head on to London, the capital of the United Kingdoms, home to the Brits. Here, our tour guides shall take you along with locals to showcase the finest sights in a city that holds thousands of years of history. Lose yourself amidst the flowers that line the city's numerous parks, feel like royalty near Birmingham, and of course - try the London Eye!

here is the mood you'll want for this city!

• Next up: the French capital, Paris. Singles and couples, prepare yourself for the abundance of romance that is carefully sprinkled in the air of the city of love. Trace years of French history with heritage walks lined through the heart of the city- including a visit to the majestic Louvre. Our local guides shall also showcase to you how to experience a true Parisian experience, comme les français.

here is the mood you'll want for this city!

• Welcome to the city that holds the legacy of European football, Madrid! Tingle your party sense in the hubbub of Madrid's active nightlife, with evening strolls that show the beauty of the Spanish city. Find peace in the day with the cooling gardens and fountains of the Buen Retiro Park and the Crystal Park. Find various flavours hidden in the delicious streetfood of the city, different from the rest of the world - a truly unique experience.

here is the mood you'll want for this city!

• A city rich with history, welcome to Berlin. Our local guides shall take you back through numerous pages of the city's story, the good and bad, pleasing your senses with architectural beauties like Brandenburg Gate or Reichstag. Watch the numerous memorials of the wars this city has faced, and wonder at the beauty and peace of the city today. All while being accompanied by the best in German food.

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• After all the heat, we take you to the coolness of Zurich, Switzerland. Let us take you through one of the most luxurious cities in the world, at the foot of the Alps and home to Lake Zurich. Its numerous art galleries and museums will be sure to be of your fancy, and of course, loads of Swiss chocolate will be available for you!

here is the mood you'll want for this city!

• When in Rome, do as the Romans do! Let our guides show you around this marvelous city and its beauty that transcends generations. Enjoy popular attractions like the Colosseum and the Spanish steps, and the Italian grace that lines the cobbled pathways of the city. Also, visit the Vatican city, just a 15 minute walk from the heart of Rome.

here is the mood you'll want for this city!

• Get a feel of the Ancient Greeks in Athens while walking through its streets, aeons of power and tradition shining in its history. See the Greek architectures that are the fame of this city, interspersed with its bustling night life and modern lifestyle. There are surprises hidden in around every corner in this city - showcased to you through customized tour packages that you can choose.

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• Where Europe meets Asia, welcome to Istanbul! Experience the archaic yet modern vibe of the city, its colourful architecture and its leisurely pace. Visit the historic Silk Market, the beginning of the Silk Route; also, don't forget to join us while visiting the famed Spice Bazaar, Bursa and the other exciting destinations in this one-of-a-kind city.

here is the mood you'll want for this city!

• An ultra modern city, Dubai has proven itself as one of the most indulgent, glamorous and progressive cities in the world. Home to marvels like the Burj Khalifa, Atlantis, while showcasing the beauty of the deserts surrounding the city - let yourself soak the opulence of this city while navigating its multiple shopping areas; all the help of our guides, of course.

here is the mood you'll want for this city!

•The city that never sleeps, Mumbai is sure to awaken all your senses. The Gateway of India, this city will give you a chance to see all of its cultures mingle in one place. Watch the life of the city through its numerous theatres and galleries. Experience the hubbub of one of the most populated cities in the world along with its savoury street food with the help of our guides.

here is the mood you'll want for this city!

• Next, we visit Shanghai, the modern yet quaint capital of China. Take walks around the Bund and its 52 unique buildings, or visit the Yu Garden and the Jade Buddha temple. Soak yourself in classical Chinese art at the Shanghai Cultural Museum and more places - all carefully planned for you by our guides.

here is the mood you'll want for this city!

• Right in time for the cherry blossoms, Seoul will lead us to a spring fairyland that is filled with the natural beauty of the mountains surrounding it. The city also houses massive markets that boast of sumptuous street food and vibrant clothing, and tourist attractions like the Seoul Tower - don't miss out on any!

here is the mood you'll want for this city!

• An ultra-modern city, Tokyo boasts of multiple museums, festivals, internationally appreciated cuisine and sports clubs. This city is also rich in music and theater, with rock and pop concerts, dramas, musicals and symphony orchestras. The city also forms a base to explore all of Japan - pieces of which shall be showcased to you on this tour.

here is the mood you'll want for this city!

• Bangkok is a fascinating city: crowded, noisy, colourful and exciting. There are wonderful, ancient temples and sites, and modern malls that boast of high fashion lined in their shops. The tour shall also be including a visit to Phuket, as a getaway - be sure to be there!!

here is the mood you'll want for this city!

•Home to the Merlion, Singapore has been well known as a tourist destination for decades now. The city's simplicity in transport and beautiful architecture have made it a favourite, and the variance in attractions - from the Gardens by the Bay and Singapore Zoo to Orchard Road and Clarke Quay - makes it a wonderful place to visit. We'll make sure that you don't miss out on any!!

here is the mood you'll want for this city!

• Bali - the name of the city itself brings thoughts of tropical airs, sizzling peanuts, roaring mopeds and the gentle gamelan music. This city is hailed as one of the most popular tourist islands in the Indonesian archipelago, and with all good reasons only. Come and explore more about this island along with us in an all new style.

here is the mood you'll want for this city!

• The oldest of Australian cities, Sydney brings about a wonderful mingling of chic modern styles and energetic adventure. The city is home to famous destinations like the Opera House, and is packed with activities for everyone to give a try! Make sure you don't miss out on any while travelling with us.

here is the mood you'll want for this city!

•Finally, we make the trip back home to LA, where you'll be dropped back to your homes. We hope you will enjoy the your with us, and keep travelling with Sunshine, Inc. Thank you for your time!!

a/n: this is the masterlist for Sunshine, Inc. clicking on the cities will lead you to the chapter for that particular city -if it is confusing, feel free to leave a comment about the same! Thank you for reading 💞💞 Also, if you want to be added to the taglist you can leave a comment or ask for the same! love, hazel 🤗

[totallytrucked]

anyone here happen to know the cast of the 2013-14 touring italian production of spring awakening 👀👀👀

[hayaomiyazaki]

hey do you have any recs for lgbt period dramas in the vein of like maurice, brideshead etc?

hello anon, that truly is the million dollar question *defeated sigh*! maurice and brideshead — and i do trust you’re referring to the 1981 miniseries, truly the epitome of adaptation cinema — are very much the paragons of those languid uni romances brimming with attractive, hedonistic(, gay) poetry enthusiasts, which is a very specific sub-sub-sub-genre i know a lot of us would like to see consciously expanded 🙃 within that specifically, i’d personally recommend…

another country (1984) dir. marek kanievska

either mädchen in uniform (i prefer the 1958 version but that is only because i saw it first)

les amitiés particulières (1964) dir. jean delannoy

the history boys (2006) dir. nicolas hytner

if… (1968) dir. lindsay anderson

dead poets society (1989) dir. peter weir**

then there are some good lgbt period dramas that, while having somewhat different dynamics or more convoluted plots than the films you’re looking for, do share a lot of their sensibilities, such as…

fingersmith (2005) dir. aisling walsh

tipping the velvet (2002)

the gold rimmed glasses (1987) dir. giuliano montaldo

dorian gray (1970) dir. massimo dallamano

orlando (1992) dir. sally potter

portrait of a marriage (1990)

life in squares (2015)

wilde (1997) dir. brian gilbert

carrington (1995) dir. christopher hampton

regeneration (1997) dir. gillies mackinnon**

the talented mr. ripley (1999) dir. anthony minghella**

and if find maurice and brideshead very indicative of your interests and taste, you might also enjoy these despite their being different sub-genres within lgbt film: carol (2015) dir. todd haynes, mystère à la tour eiffel (2015) dir. léa fazer, farewell, my queen (2012) dir. benoît jacquot, yves saint laurent (2014) dir. jalil lespert, death in venice (1971) dir. luchino visconti, cambridge spies (2003), the line of beauty (2005), man in an orange shirt (2017), jeeves & wooster**; and i haven’t seen these, but they’re on my list: daphne (2007), the secret diaries of miss anne lister (2010), un amour à taire (2005), tell it to the bees (2018), oranges are not the only fruit (1990) and perhaps picnic at hanging rock, the halcyon, and anne with an e**. fingers crossed for gentleman jack and vita & virginia! you might also be interested in spring awakening as well as indecent, but theatre is a beast i won’t even pretend i know how to tackle. and this is extraordinarily random but i’ve always had a soft spot for the slowburn between ted and ralph from the fast show — god bless those who edit gay storylines and upload them to youtube! saints!

**not explicitly lgbt (my ass)

here are some of my other recs in case they interest you & you have a lot of patience for rambling:

italian lgbt film recs

spanish- & portuguese-language lgbt film recs

70s & 80s lgbt film recs

contemporary foreign lgbt recs

trans film recs

my general lgbt films tag

resources for discovering lgbt films

[binoynazareth]

The Ruminations of a Gourmet in Montana

Exploring Mesmerizing Montana

 Loving every minute of a passionate adventure through the food trails around the globe and being an ardent and avid gourmet, I decided to treat my palate to a spin around Montana to discover the health and the wealth of bison steak. With thoughts of food fit for the adventurer and being an intrepid traveler, I dreamt of traversing the diverse terrain of Montana to indulge in a treasure trove of the most authentic and delicious dishes to add to my repertoire of food tours. With the awakening of exotic appetites and the deliciously colorful carousel of the food train, my taste buds took me across the diverse terrain of Montana to capture the love of food and the pleasures that it offers to a passionate soul.

 Who can suppress the spirit of an adventurer who can carve eternal solace with a delightful spread of food trails? The aspiring chef in me brought out a way to soar to the highest pinnacle of ecstasy while choosing a culinary adventure. Vast and wild, Montana displays wide-open spaces with the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountain, the Glacier National Park and uncultivated regions which offer the essence of adventure. There are nothing like wide open spaces which celebrate the spirit of freedom and Montana perfects the art of diversity with its snow-called peaks and innumerable hiking trails that whip up the appetite to a crescendo of palate-pleasing experiences.    

 All for the Love of Bison Steak

 My culinary journey yearned for the aroma, the texture of flavors and the fragile yet fresh natural ingredients that go to conjuring up a masterpiece. Born of the desire to taste and relish bison meat and its various concoctions, my travel through Montana took my taste buds across a heritage of a rich agriculture and products grown locally. I looked forward to the delicious treats that lay ahead of me as I went toured across the famous ghost towns for Bannock State Park, Virginia City and Nevada City with its 19th century structures and incredible artifacts. Perfect and pleasurable, Montana offers hot springs, wineries, scenic drives and great activities. Yes, in-between sight-seeing and quenching my thirst with awesome wines, I took off to enjoy the much-sought after Bison steaks, Bison burgers and Bison meatballs.

 While the gourmet and the foodie in me sampled delectable Huckleberry macaroons, steak and potato pasty, breakfast frittata, Rancher’s pizza, elk burgers and Lifty Dog, I wallowed in the delicious dining scenario. My taste buds crackled and I heard a distinct echo of my stomach congratulating me when I spent considerable amount of time relishing Bison steaks at the popular historic Montana Lodge and Bison Potstickers. Dating back to well over a 1000 years, bison meat is nutritious and tasty and has become an authentic American food. The Native American tribes used almost all parts of the bison with the bladder being transformed into medicine bags and the bones becoming shovels.

 Discovering the Brilliant Bison Food Tour

 You can almost predict my culinary travel through Montana which is one of the best bison meat producers in the U.S.A. Every nerve in me declared that I should take the food trail in Montana which leads to the best bison meat restaurants. Off I went through beautiful scenic sights which took me to the popular Cafe Kandahar which served game sausage, game paté and grilled bison tenderloin. The Andiamo Italian Grille at Big Sky Resort took me over the moon with their special Montana Osso Buco or the Chianti Braised Bison Shank which is a slow-roasted bison dish. You can imagine my delight as I discovered many other Montana restaurants which served bison entrees with the taste buds tingling from the lasagna to burgers.

While the traveler in me took off to enjoy great sights, Butte beckoned with its jaw-dropping adventures through underground tours and a much-talked about history. My innate talents as an aspiring Chef were inspired as I tasted the Montana favorites such as sausage onion soup, the famous Sleigh Ride Dinner, Buckwheat pancakes, the twice-baked potato casserole and a kaleidoscope of delightful dishes. Making a vow to visit mesmerizing Montana, I made notes in my journal for a future date to rediscover the pleasures of the palate with the brilliance of bison meat delectables.

 Binoy Naareth Takes the Taste Buds on a Gourmet Travel in Montana

[jamiehayterz]

musical ask: spring awakening

Thank you!!!

1. favorite character? Hanschen

2. favorite person to play said favorite character? I think… the guy who played him in the Italian Tour was brilliant.

3. character you relate to the most? Idk maybe Thea 

4. character you would most like to play? At this point I can only be the Adult Woman. If I were younger Wendla.

5. character you would most like to meet? Ernst.

6. most underrated character? WENDLA.

7. favorite sung line(s)? You wanna laugh, it’s too absurd, you start to ask, can’t hear a word, you’re gonna crash and burn. Right, tell me more…

8. favorite spoken line(s)? I can’t think of any right now…

9. first song you heard from the show? Probably Mama who bore me

10. song you play on repeat? The whole obc tho

11. song you skip when it comes on shuffle? The song of Purple Summer

12. most underrated song? All That’s Known

13. favorite head cannon? I don’t have any… 

14. three words that describe this show? Sadness, hormones, rock

15. overall rate? 9/10

[whatsupsac]

What’s Up With Your Weekend, 5/12/17-5/14/17:

Friday:

Stone Vintage Music Boutique: The Stone Vintage Music Boutique grand opening, a vintage music gear, accessory boutique, and new space for local musicians to hone their skills. A hometown shop on the grid, to provide the community with inspiration for years to come. Stone Vintage Music Boutique. 3-8PM. 

Concerts in the Park Kick Off: As the longest running outdoor happy hour, Concerts in the Park (CIP) is celebrating 26 years of music madness this year. Grab a cold beer, a bite to eat from one of our food trucks, and enjoy the tunes of local and national touring bands including Grizfolk, Inland, The Diva Kings and DJ Adam J tonight. Special Amgen Tour of California Team Presentation at tonight's event! Cesaer Chavez Park. 5-9PM. Free to enter.

Raley Field’s 11th Annual Brewfest: Enjoy over 40 breweries all on the field, featuring some of the region's best local brews. Kick back with a beer (or two) and enjoy live music all night. Raley Field. 6:30-10PM. $55-65.

Sacramento Ballet’s Snap Shots II: It's Mother's Day weekend. Treat your Mom to this mesmerizing performance for an experience she will treasure forever. Enjoy powerful passages from Ron Cunningham’s storehouse of masterful choreography and a world premiere piece by Darrell Grand Moultrie featuring the Ballet’s all-star dancers. The Fry-Paoletti Stage inside the CLARA. Friday and Saturday at 7PM, Sunday at 2PM. $53. The Labyrinth: The classic film starring David Bowie, The Labryrinth, plays at the Crest Theatre. 7:30PM. $7.50 for Child/Senior. $9.50 General Admission.

Sammies Showcase with: Enjoy live music featuring Sammie Nominated Artist Matt Rainey and The Dippin’ Sauce. Torch Club. 9PM. 21+. $8.

Saturday:

Oak Park Farmers Market: A diverse group of vendors selling locally produced and delicious fruits and vegetables, specialty plants and sprouts, breads, cheese, mushrooms, eggs, tamales, fresh flowers and more. The market also provides a variety of interactive activities each week, including live music from local bands, activities for children (story-telling, face painting, art projects), and information and giveaways from area non-profits and other organizations. This week the Market will feature a Bread Making Demo from Pomegranent Designs and a Vegetative Propagation Workshop by Soil Born Farms. McClatchy Park at 35th Street & 5th Avenue. 9AM-1PM. 

Decode: Resiliency + Workforce: The Hacker Lab hosts a neighborhood focused design thinking event - with status report, panel discussion and rapid prototyping - to explore the current challenges and possibilities of the Del Paso Heights neighborhood. The Greater Sacramento Urban League. 9AM-4PM. Free.

Awakening the Spirit of Yoga with Mirka Kraftsow: This practice will completely integrate all layers of the human experience through asana (poses) pranayama (breathwork) chanting, meditation and discussion. The focus will be Vijnanamaya, or the dimension of human experience representing the personality. We will explore the ways yoga practices can refine our attitudes and perceptions, our priorities, goals, and even our values. As always, the morning practice is open for the whole community to participate, while the afternoon group is for teachers and graduates of teacher training programs. CLARA Auditorium. 9:30-12:30PM and 1:30-4:30PM. $70-$135.

Solistic: Movement + Medicine: Gather on a May morning, during the height of Spring's energy, as we honor the blossoming and richness of the earth during this time. Through Movement Medicine we'll explore ways to prepare our bodies to receive lessons, ground into the moment, movements to guide listening to ourselves and empathize with others, shake off mired feelings and start anew. Sol Collective. 10AM-12PM. $15-25 Sliding Scale.

Crocker Art Museum’s “Teen Takeover”: This time it's about the youth! Element Brass Band's alter ego "FLOW" is back on Saturday, May 13th at the Crocker Art Museum for "Teen Takeover." This one of a kind jazz, and hip-hop fusion show contains a spontaneous quality. The featured emcees do not know what the band will play behind them prior to showtime. Hosted by Andru Defeye and featuring local emcees Yeshahyah Yisrael and Anarchy Alex. In addition to FLOW, a variety of other artists will be showcased for your entertainment. Crocker Art Museum. 12-4PM. 

Mother’s Day(ish): Beer & Chocolate Pairing: Celebrate Mother's Day Weekend with a flight of New Helvetia Brewing Co. beer paired with a selection of Ginger Elizabeth Chocolates. The super tasters from New Helvetia Brewing Co. & Ginger Elizabeth Chocolates have teamed up to create a delicious pairing of craft beer & chocolate bon bons. The prix-fixe flight will include 4 beers and 4 bon bons. New Helvetia Brewing Co. 12-6PM. $20 per flight.

Dress Up Wine Down: Local fashion stylist and boutique owner Felicia Strati will serve as the creative director for the runway fashion show to benefit WEAVE. More than a dozen designers and clothiers from Sacramento will participate. The Lodi Winegrape Commission will also host wine tasting with more than a dozen wineries from one of the world’s fastest growing wine regions, Lodi California, participating. The Handle District. 6-8PM.

Sunday: 

Giro ‘d Cali Birrieria: The Tour of California is racing down Q Street so it’s the perfect opportunity for Hot Italian to turn their back lot into a beer garden! Join for an all day event featuring Birra Peroni and Saint Archer Brewing Company, pizza, music, free bike valet parking, prizes, and more! Race-side seats with a beer in one hand and a slice in the other, what better way to enjoy the Tour?! Hot Italian. 12-6PM.

Sol Kids Day!: Join Ms. Unicorn, Captain Curious, the Gorilla Knitting Crew, and the ZFG squad for an afternoon of arts, crafts, music, and dance. Sol Collective. 2-4PM. $5 suggested donation. Sliding scale. No one turned away due to lack of funds.

Plugged! Open Mic Open Jam Open Floor: PLUGGED is a one-of-a-kind live music collaboration. Half open mic and half jam session, PLUGGED invites musicians and lyricists of all kinds/genres to create the soundtrack for some of Sacramento’s favorite emcees and dancers. Open to all musicians, singers, emcees, poets, and dancers of all styles. PLUGGED serves as a monthly showcase and networking opportunity in one of Sacramento’s cultural hubs, Sol Collective. 8:08-10:30PM. All Ages. $5.

[joannrochaus]

A goat who became mayor and the full worm supermoon: The eternal purpose of this life

A goat named Lincoln was recently sworn in as honorary mayor of Fair Haven, Vermont.

The town’s government does not include an actual mayor. The Town Manager says the honorary pet mayor idea was conceived to raise funds for a playground, but it became a civics lesson for kids.

On his way out of the town offices, the new mayor defecated on the floor, leaving the cleanup to the police chief and city officials.

In other news from nature, tomorrow we will be treated to a “full worm supermoon.” We understand a “full” moon. Most of us are even familiar with a “supermoon,” where the moon is so close to the earth that it appears larger and brighter in the night sky.

But why a “full worm supermoon”?

According to the Old Farmer’s Almanac, Native Americans gave the full moons of the year specific names to track the seasons. The March full moon was called the “full worm moon” because it comes at a time when the ground softens and earthworms begin appearing. They bring robins and other birds to feed, marking the start of spring.

Humans can give names to natural and celestial phenomena, but, as the mayor of Fair Haven reminds us, we cannot always control them.

Greetings from Israel

I am writing this morning from the Sea of Galilee in Israel. Leading study tours to the Holy Land is one of my favorite experiences each year. My wife and I traveled from Dallas through London into Tel Aviv over the weekend to join our group.

A few days earlier, rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel. A Palestinian is suspected in the killing of two Israelis in the West Bank last Sunday.  

Whenever I go to Israel, people ask if it is safe. The fact is, Jerusalem has had a lower homicide rate than the average city in the US over the last twenty years. Baltimore, St. Louis, Detroit, Washington, DC, and Chicago exceed this national average by at least three times.

However, no place is truly secure in this broken world. Ten of the twelve leading causes of death in the US are diseases; the other two are accidents and suicides. And more accidents and suicides happen at home than anywhere else.

Whatever the security of our circumstances today, it is a fact that we will all outlive our bodies. Ten thousand millennia after the last full worm supermoon appears, every human in all of human history will either be with God in heaven or separated from him forever.

The eternal purpose of this life is to prepare for that life.

“I will judge with equity.”

In Psalm 75:2, the Lord states, “At the set time that I appoint I will judge with equity.” God alone is in charge of time and the times. In the meantime, he testifies, “When the earth totters, and all its inhabitants, it is I who keep steady its pillars” (verse 3).  

Therefore, the psalmist attests, “It is God who executes judgment, putting down one and lifting up another” (verse 7).

Hebrews 9:27 is clear: “It is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment.”

What does this fact mean for our lives today?

David Brainerd and Pontius Pilate

I’ve been reading recently about David Brainerd, a missionary to American Indians in colonial days. During the winter nights, he would often go out into the forest and kneel in the cold snow where it was a foot deep. Laboring with God in prayer, he would be wringing wet with perspiration even on the coldest evenings.

God heard Brainerd and sent such a mighty revival among the North American Indians as had never been seen before. And he transformed Brainerd’s father-in-law, Jonathan Edwards, into the great preacher of the First Great Awakening.

If more prayed like Brainerd, more would preach like Edwards.

If more prayed like Brainerd, more would preach like Edwards. And Awakening would come again.

Seventeen centuries earlier, Pontius Pilate was the Roman governor of Judea, a position of enormous power and privilege. He so abused his authority that he was eventually recalled to Rome and passed ignominiously from the pages of history.

When our group visited Caesarea Maritima yesterday, we studied a replica of the “Pilate Stone,” archaeological evidence of Pilate’s time in Israel. (The original is in the Israeli Museum.) It is a stone inscription announcing that Pilate had dedicated a building, probably a temple, to Caesar.

Ironically, when the stone was discovered by Italian archaeologists in 1961, it was being used as a stair step in the local theater.

“I don’t believe in Heaven and Hell.”

The best way to prepare to meet God tomorrow is to live for him today.

This approach to life is countercultural in the extreme. George Clooney declared, “I don’t believe in Heaven and Hell. All I know is that as an individual, I won’t allow this life—the only thing I know to exist—to be wasted.” Natalie Portman agreed: “I don’t believe in the afterlife. I believe this is it, and I believe it’s the best way to live.”

Of course, their beliefs don’t change reality. If I announce that I don’t believe in the Queen of England, her existence is not threatened thereby.

“Do right and risk the consequences.”

—Sam Houston

But their beliefs do mirror those of many in our post-Christian society. If you believe that you will meet God tomorrow and you therefore choose to live for him today, expect to face the skepticism and antagonism of our secularized culture. But expect to experience the presence and peace of God in a way others cannot know.

Sam Houston advised us to “do right and risk the consequences.”

Where is his wisdom relevant for you today?

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[denisonforum]

A goat who became mayor and the full worm supermoon: The eternal purpose of this life

A goat named Lincoln was recently sworn in as honorary mayor of Fair Haven, Vermont.

The town’s government does not include an actual mayor. The Town Manager says the honorary pet mayor idea was conceived to raise funds for a playground, but it became a civics lesson for kids.

On his way out of the town offices, the new mayor defecated on the floor, leaving the cleanup to the police chief and city officials.

In other news from nature, tomorrow we will be treated to a “full worm supermoon.” We understand a “full” moon. Most of us are even familiar with a “supermoon,” where the moon is so close to the earth that it appears larger and brighter in the night sky.

But why a “full worm supermoon”?

According to the Old Farmer’s Almanac, Native Americans gave the full moons of the year specific names to track the seasons. The March full moon was called the “full worm moon” because it comes at a time when the ground softens and earthworms begin appearing. They bring robins and other birds to feed, marking the start of spring.

Humans can give names to natural and celestial phenomena, but, as the mayor of Fair Haven reminds us, we cannot always control them.

Greetings from Israel

I am writing this morning from the Sea of Galilee in Israel. Leading study tours to the Holy Land is one of my favorite experiences each year. My wife and I traveled from Dallas through London into Tel Aviv over the weekend to join our group.

A few days earlier, rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel. A Palestinian is suspected in the killing of two Israelis in the West Bank last Sunday.  

Whenever I go to Israel, people ask if it is safe. The fact is, Jerusalem has had a lower homicide rate than the average city in the US over the last twenty years. Baltimore, St. Louis, Detroit, Washington, DC, and Chicago exceed this national average by at least three times.

However, no place is truly secure in this broken world. Ten of the twelve leading causes of death in the US are diseases; the other two are accidents and suicides. And more accidents and suicides happen at home than anywhere else.

Whatever the security of our circumstances today, it is a fact that we will all outlive our bodies. Ten thousand millennia after the last full worm supermoon appears, every human in all of human history will either be with God in heaven or separated from him forever.

The eternal purpose of this life is to prepare for that life.

“I will judge with equity.”

In Psalm 75:2, the Lord states, “At the set time that I appoint I will judge with equity.” God alone is in charge of time and the times. In the meantime, he testifies, “When the earth totters, and all its inhabitants, it is I who keep steady its pillars” (verse 3).  

Therefore, the psalmist attests, “It is God who executes judgment, putting down one and lifting up another” (verse 7).

Hebrews 9:27 is clear: “It is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment.”

What does this fact mean for our lives today?

David Brainerd and Pontius Pilate

I’ve been reading recently about David Brainerd, a missionary to American Indians in colonial days. During the winter nights, he would often go out into the forest and kneel in the cold snow where it was a foot deep. Laboring with God in prayer, he would be wringing wet with perspiration even on the coldest evenings.

God heard Brainerd and sent such a mighty revival among the North American Indians as had never been seen before. And he transformed Brainerd’s father-in-law, Jonathan Edwards, into the great preacher of the First Great Awakening.

If more prayed like Brainerd, more would preach like Edwards.

If more prayed like Brainerd, more would preach like Edwards. And Awakening would come again.

Seventeen centuries earlier, Pontius Pilate was the Roman governor of Judea, a position of enormous power and privilege. He so abused his authority that he was eventually recalled to Rome and passed ignominiously from the pages of history.

When our group visited Caesarea Maritima yesterday, we studied a replica of the “Pilate Stone,” archaeological evidence of Pilate’s time in Israel. (The original is in the Israeli Museum.) It is a stone inscription announcing that Pilate had dedicated a building, probably a temple, to Caesar.

Ironically, when the stone was discovered by Italian archaeologists in 1961, it was being used as a stair step in the local theater.

“I don’t believe in Heaven and Hell.”

The best way to prepare to meet God tomorrow is to live for him today.

This approach to life is countercultural in the extreme. George Clooney declared, “I don’t believe in Heaven and Hell. All I know is that as an individual, I won’t allow this life—the only thing I know to exist—to be wasted.” Natalie Portman agreed: “I don’t believe in the afterlife. I believe this is it, and I believe it’s the best way to live.”

Of course, their beliefs don’t change reality. If I announce that I don’t believe in the Queen of England, her existence is not threatened thereby.

“Do right and risk the consequences.”

—Sam Houston

But their beliefs do mirror those of many in our post-Christian society. If you believe that you will meet God tomorrow and you therefore choose to live for him today, expect to face the skepticism and antagonism of our secularized culture. But expect to experience the presence and peace of God in a way others cannot know.

Sam Houston advised us to “do right and risk the consequences.”

Where is his wisdom relevant for you today?

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Pisa, the city of the Leaning Tower and many others

I know, I know I have been gone since my last post about the exam period, but to be honest nothing major happened since the end of that period. February was all about relaxing, recharging and preparing for the spring semester; moreover even in Italy February was about cold and sad weather and about SNOW. This latter one is quite a rare phenomenon here, even the old couples were amazed by the 4 day in a row snowing. But finally spring has come which for me is the synonym of awakening and shaking up my Italian adventures….

…If Pisa I can guarantee that the first thing coming to everybody’s mind is the Leaning Tower, but the city is much more than that, indeed it is one of Tuscany’s pearls. So we chose this town as the destination of our latest trip. We already planned to go there in the end of February, we even booked a hotel room, but because of the cold weather, the initial thesis freak out and the fact that we came back to a flat with no internet we decided to postpone our Pisa trip, so in the end we came to a decision that okey let’s go on 14th March, although we had to cut off the days and transform the initially 2-day trip to a one-day trip.

We left for Pisa at 6:35 a.m. Our train went through Genoa and went by the seaside till we arrived to Pisa at 10:20 a.m. The railway station not like the one in Genoa or in Milan, was a small friendly one, it was cc the size of the Szeged Station and for my biggest surprise it had a McDonald’s inside that did not smell like any other McDonald’s, instead it had quite a good smell :D. The square in front of the station was full with benches and some maps were put on the streets for the tourists.

We started our city tour from there. On our way we found the statue of king Vittorio Emanuele II at a square full of orange trees and cute carousals. At the corner of this nice square we found the Morale Tuttomondo painted by Keith Haring to one of the walls of the church of Saint Antonio. An interesting fact about the painting is that it is 10 metres tall and 18 metres wide and every single person symbolizes one aspect of peace.

After taking some photoshoots we continued our walking tour to River Arno. By the riverside we visited the cutest church of all time (at least in my opinion the cutest one :D), the Santa Maria della Spina which was built in 1230, though not at its current position but closer to the river (anyhow still it is quite close to it) but due to the continuous flows of the river it was decided to move the church to its current place. If you believe or not all these pieces of information are not from Wikipedia but from those tiny but informative plates that are put next to each sight of the city and are written in Italian, in English and in German. These plates introduce the sights briefly which in my opinion is very useful for the average tourists visiting Pisa without a tour guide. :)

Anyway. After taking some serious selfies with the church we continued our trip through the river which for me is quite like Tisza back home :D. We walked through one of the main roads of Pisa which we called the street of uni faculties as all (or if not many) of the faculties of the University of Pisa can be found alongside this street. This street led us to the Piazza dei Miracoli and to a very funny Italian guy who was collecting signatures for a drug prevention campaign and he knew this expression in Hungarian which was really surprising for me, but the funniest part was that he said that Hungarian girls are the most beautiful ones and he knew that Ciccolina is from Hungary :D Moreover, he did not want to believe me when I told him that I had no Italian ancestors as I look so Italianish. After his statement of the beauty of Hungarian girls I could not really decide if saying that I am Italian is positive or a negative :D Anyway he also believed that my occupation is Spice Girl :D

The Piazza dei Miracoli is one of the most beautiful and most tended squares I have ever visited. Most of the biggest and most amazing sights of Pisa are focused to the area of this square. We can find here a cute fountain with little angels, the Fontana dei Putti, there is a very interesting statue of a fallen angel with broken wings the Angelo Caduto and there is a statue that symbolizes the foundation of Rome, the Lupa Capitoliana. Furthermore, we can find here the Dome of Pisa, its baptistery, the Campo Santo which is a really interesting and nice cemetery and of course the Leaning Tower is also situated here. We spent cc  hours at this Square. We went up to the tower, from the top of it there was a beautiful view of the town, although being afraid in heights climbing up to cc 58 metres leaning tower was quite a big adventure, but I strengthened myself and went up to the top of the tower where I could really feel the 5 degree gradient of the tower. In spite of my fears I am pretty sure that climbing the tower was absolutely worth the money and time. :)

After getting down from the tower we took a walk at the square which was mostly seeded with green fresh grass and we admired all the sights of the square; moreover we spent way too much time with taking photos of each other trying to save the tower, but for our excuse we took a lot photos of all the other sights as well. However, our real adventure started just right after these as we decided to go and visit Marina di Pisa and the sea. We knocked about the city looking for a bus stop for about an hour when we finally figured out how to get to the seaside, but this knocking around was worth the time for many reason. Firstly, we could see those parts of the town also that we would skip to visit in ideal conditions, including beautiful houses and trees. Secondly, our bus trip to Marina di Pisa went through the National Park of Migliarino San Rossore Massaciuccoli which was full with nice green areas, and finally we got to a village and the sea which was also worth our efforts.

At the coast we had about an hour as we had to get back to the station in time to catch our last train to Pavia, but despite the short period of time we had a fun time there. We walked on small and huge rocks, we dipped our hands to the sea, took nicer and nicer photos of the sea and the sun and had a chill time by the seaside and listened the rut of the sea. At the end of the day we left Pisa at 7 p.m. with full of experience but very tired. By the end of the day I got to like the whole town very much, I am really happy that we postponed this trip and visited Pisa now, especially as for our luck we had a sunny beautiful warm spring day, but on the other hand as this was only the beginning of the tourism season the town wasn’t full of tourists thus we could really enjoy our time. I recommend visiting Pisa with all my heart for everybody, but if you are considering a trip there, don’t forget Pisa is not all about the Leaning Tower, there are other amazing treasures in the city :)

Have a nice day everybody!

Ciao,

Gabi

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Our Entirely Subjective Guide to the Most Important Good-Weather Automotive Events of the Year

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From the March 2018 issue

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Like hedgehogs and wood frogs, many beloved vehicles go into hibernation in the winter. This garaged slumber protects them from predators such as potholes and road salt and from sliding into ravines, and it allows for the completion of deferred maintenance—or its continued deferral. But in the spring, they are awakened from their respite, flushed with fresh fluids, and driven or shipped to events around the world, where they are venerated, ridiculed, and raced, and generally given the opportunity to break down or crash and remind their owners of the fragility of life, which is a lesson that can’t be learned too often.

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Even if you don’t own a special car, you can still take part in this annual ritual. Just go to an automotive event. Don’t know which ones are best? Well, as in all things automotive, let us be your guide. Here are 20 of the most interesting gatherings of our vehicular tribe in 2018. You don’t have to go to all of them, but you should.

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Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance

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Founded in 1996 as an upstart southern competitor to California’s Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, Amelia Island has grown significantly in size and stature over the past 22 years to the point where the vehicles on display here are as prestigious as those at the world’s top car shows. Because it’s a bit less traditional, Amelia is often more adventurous in its classes and curation, so you’ll see unique concept, coachbuilt, and celebrity cars. And because it takes place on a tiny barrier island off the coast of northeast Florida, it is more self-contained than other such gatherings. Everything occurs at the Ritz-Carlton—auctions, art exhibits, lectures and discussions, sales of ephemera, manufacturer rides and drives, black-tie galas, excessive drinking, and the concours itself. This means less time slogging through traffic and more time ogling beautiful cars. The crowds have grown considerably in recent years, but the location and scale allow the event to maintain a hospitable sense of intimacy and accessibility. - March 9–11 • Amelia Island, FL • ameliaconcours.org

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Radwood at Hooptie-Con

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Don’t miss an opportunity to watch millennials make humiliating errors in appropriating ’80s and ’90s fashion while fetishizing ’80s and ’90s vehicles. A Crapcannes car-film festival, a 24 Hours of LeMons race, and an engine-heat BBQ cookoff cap off the festivities. - March 24 • Sonoma Raceway, Sonoma, CA • radwood.org

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Moab Easter Jeep Safari

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This annual tour is hosted by Red Rock 4-Wheelers and shepherds phalanxes of off-roaders, including the Jeep faithful, along 40 incredible off-road trails. To reward this fanatical brand allegiance, Jeep usually unveils a host of inspired concept vehicles. - March 24–April 1 • Moab, UT • rr4w.com

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Touge California

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This 200-mile rally on the Pacific coast is sponsored by the superb Japanophile publication Japanese Nostalgic Car. Now in its fourth year, the rally celebrates the diversity of collectible Japanese vehicles and the obsessive culture surrounding them. - April TBA • Southern California • japanesenostalgiccar.com

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Luftgekühlt V

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Five years ago, two-time Le Mans–class winner Patrick Long and his friend Howie Idelson decided to put on a car show. As, like just about everyone else, they love air-cooled Porsches, they focused their event on them. They named it “Luftgekühlt” because that word has uniquely complex combinations of consonants and because it happens to mean “air cooled” in German. They then invited cars that represented an obsessive’s history of air-cooled Porsches to the parking lot of an L.A. cycle shop and told friends to stop by. Now in its fifth year, this pop-up show has become the event for Porschephiles but somehow retains its compelling combination of cool congeniality, insider exclusivity, and extremely good taste in Porsches. Celebrities such as Jerry Seinfeld and Patrick Dempsey mix with tuners, artists, brand ambassadors, fanboys, and the kind of hip concessioners usually absent from concourses. Sign up for updates online so you’ll be in the know when this year’s location is revealed. - April 22 • Los Angeles, CA • luftgekuhlt.com

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Syncro Fest

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This off-roading/camping event is the largest gathering of all-wheel-drive Volkswagen Vanagon Syncros (and other Type 2s) in America. Given its timing near May 5, it has also gone by the culturally appropriative and humorous name Syncro de Mayo. - May 3–8 • Hollister, CA • syncrofest.com

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Southern Ohio Forest Rally

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This stretch of forest was once the battleground for a famed rivalry in the ’70s and ’80s but then went out of use for 21 years. The event, now bumped up to 130 stage miles, returned to Rally America’s schedule last year with 76 starters—RA’s biggest run in ’17. - May 18–19 • Chillicothe, OH • southernohioforestrally.com

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Isle of Man TT

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The world’s most dangerous motorcycle race features hundreds of crazed racers careening at more than 200 mph around a 38-mile loop of public roads on this rugged Irish Sea island. Watch amateurs attempt the same thing on “Mad Sunday.” - May 26–June 8 • Isle of Man • iomtt.com

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Toledo Speedway Night of Destruction

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Do you like to see big things being ruined? Ever wish you could witness a field of liveried school buses racing around a figure eight, smashing and flipping until they’re nothing but shard salad? Yeah, us, too. This year, you have two opportunities to catch the carnage. - June 1 and August 17 • Toledo, OH • toledospeedway.com

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24 Hours of Le Mans

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A prestigious and historic endurance race, famous for advanced prototype race cars. But the site also has a concert venue, fairgrounds, and a carnival in the track’s center full of 250,000 drunk, sleep-deprived cavorters. A spectacular spectacle. - June 16–17 • Le Mans, France • lemans.org

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The Broadmoor Pikes Peak International Hill Climb

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This crazed mountaintop race is the second-oldest continuously operating American motorsports event after the Indianapolis 500. With the notable exceptions of the years during which the world wars were being fought plus 1935, it has been held annually since 1916. The Hill Climb is aptly named as it entails racing up a 12.4-mile slog that features not only 156 turns but a gain of nearly one vertical mile of elevation. It ends at the 14,115-foot summit of Pikes Peak, among the tallest in the continental United States. The air is thin at the summit, with 41 percent less oxygen than at sea level, so drivers and their vehicles have to work harder to maintain power, speed, and focus. Cars, trucks, motorcycles, and quads all participate. In fact, unlike most sanctioned races, there are no limits on the type of vehicle that can enter; drivers have made the climb in overpowered semis and homemade EVs. Gravel sections used to add to the course’s harrowing nature, but since 2011, for better or worse, the entire route has been paved. - June 24 • Colorado Springs, CO • ppihc.org

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EyesOn Design

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A carefully curated, 200-plus-vehicle celebration of ideal automotive design held at the lakefront home of Edsel Ford, whose name is ironically and unfairly synonymous with ghastly automotive design. - June 17 • Grosse Pointe Shores, MI • eyesondesign.org

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Goodwood Festival of Speed

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The 26th edition of the world’s greatest automotive garden party. Held on the posh estate of the Duke of Richmond, the centerpiece is a balls-out hill-climb up the Duke’s driveway in everything from monster trucks to Formula 1 race cars. - July 12–15 • West Sussex, England • goodwood.com

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Van Nationals

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There is nothing shady about a van. Belief in this mantra, and little else, will unite some 600 vans and their drivers and occupants for “five days of hanging loose” in an area of Indiana that must be a minimum of 500 feet away from any school. - July 25–29 • Rensselaer, IN • van-nationals.com

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Bonneville Speed Week

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For more than a century, the salt flats around Bonneville, once measuring 96,000 acres but now only 30,000, have been the premier location in the human quest for maximum vehicular velocity. Bring sunscreen but leave your margarita rim jokes at home. - August 11–17 • Bonneville Salt Flats, UT • scta-bni.org

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Monterey Car Week

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The Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance has been wowing car lovers since 1950. In the intervening seven decades, the event has developed from a small sports-car show and race into a weeklong car-and-lifestyle bacchanal that blankets the Monterey Peninsula in plumes of blue smoke and champagne spume. The actual concours is a must-see, and the ancillary events are more than worthwhile. Concorso Italiano showcases vintage Italian cars, with rows of overheating De Tomasos and Lancias. Legends of the Autobahn does the same for the Germans, but with less wasted fluids. The Quail is an exercise in elite excess for the oligarchic and overrestored—cars and humans alike. The Concours d’LeMons revives beloved and maligned baroque vehicles, mostly from the ’70s and ’80s. Auctions from Bonhams, Gooding, and RM Sotheby’s feature record-setting, eight-figure classics. But our favorite show comes with admission to the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion at Laguna Seca: the chance to wander around the paddock and see, hear, smell, and feel vintage cars of every era starting up, revving, running, and racing. - August 17–26 • Monterey, CA • pebblebeachconcours.net

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Woodward Dream Cruise

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An amorphous automotive takeover of a 20-mile stretch of the first paved road in Detroit and America. If you enjoy the sound of Hemis, Clevelands, and small-blocks sitting in traffic, the Dream Cruise is for you. Prepare for full-on idle worship. - August 18 • Ferndale, MI, to Pontiac, MI • woodwarddreamcruise.com

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NHRA U.S. Nationals

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Drag racing is one of the seven wonders of the profligate world. This final race of the National Hot Rod Association’s regular season is where drivers make last-ditch efforts to qualify for the championship playoffs and to wow deafened, fume-dizzied crowds with displays of speed greater than 300 mph. Attendees are as much victims of assault as they are spectators. - August 29–September 3 • Indianapolis, IN • nhra.com

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Orphan Car Show

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Our Entirely Subjective Guide to the Most Important Good-Weather Automotive Events of the Year

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From the March 2018 issue

-

Like hedgehogs and wood frogs, many beloved vehicles go into hibernation in the winter. This garaged slumber protects them from predators such as potholes and road salt and from sliding into ravines, and it allows for the completion of deferred maintenance—or its continued deferral. But in the spring, they are awakened from their respite, flushed with fresh fluids, and driven or shipped to events around the world, where they are venerated, ridiculed, and raced, and generally given the opportunity to break down or crash and remind their owners of the fragility of life, which is a lesson that can’t be learned too often.

-

Even if you don’t own a special car, you can still take part in this annual ritual. Just go to an automotive event. Don’t know which ones are best? Well, as in all things automotive, let us be your guide. Here are 20 of the most interesting gatherings of our vehicular tribe in 2018. You don’t have to go to all of them, but you should.

-

-

-

Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance

-

Founded in 1996 as an upstart southern competitor to California’s Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, Amelia Island has grown significantly in size and stature over the past 22 years to the point where the vehicles on display here are as prestigious as those at the world’s top car shows. Because it’s a bit less traditional, Amelia is often more adventurous in its classes and curation, so you’ll see unique concept, coachbuilt, and celebrity cars. And because it takes place on a tiny barrier island off the coast of northeast Florida, it is more self-contained than other such gatherings. Everything occurs at the Ritz-Carlton—auctions, art exhibits, lectures and discussions, sales of ephemera, manufacturer rides and drives, black-tie galas, excessive drinking, and the concours itself. This means less time slogging through traffic and more time ogling beautiful cars. The crowds have grown considerably in recent years, but the location and scale allow the event to maintain a hospitable sense of intimacy and accessibility. - March 9–11 • Amelia Island, FL • ameliaconcours.org

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Radwood at Hooptie-Con

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Don’t miss an opportunity to watch millennials make humiliating errors in appropriating ’80s and ’90s fashion while fetishizing ’80s and ’90s vehicles. A Crapcannes car-film festival, a 24 Hours of LeMons race, and an engine-heat BBQ cookoff cap off the festivities. - March 24 • Sonoma Raceway, Sonoma, CA • radwood.org

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Moab Easter Jeep Safari

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This annual tour is hosted by Red Rock 4-Wheelers and shepherds phalanxes of off-roaders, including the Jeep faithful, along 40 incredible off-road trails. To reward this fanatical brand allegiance, Jeep usually unveils a host of inspired concept vehicles. - March 24–April 1 • Moab, UT • rr4w.com

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Touge California

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This 200-mile rally on the Pacific coast is sponsored by the superb Japanophile publication Japanese Nostalgic Car. Now in its fourth year, the rally celebrates the diversity of collectible Japanese vehicles and the obsessive culture surrounding them. - April TBA • Southern California • japanesenostalgiccar.com

-

-

Luftgekühlt V

-

Five years ago, two-time Le Mans–class winner Patrick Long and his friend Howie Idelson decided to put on a car show. As, like just about everyone else, they love air-cooled Porsches, they focused their event on them. They named it “Luftgekühlt” because that word has uniquely complex combinations of consonants and because it happens to mean “air cooled” in German. They then invited cars that represented an obsessive’s history of air-cooled Porsches to the parking lot of an L.A. cycle shop and told friends to stop by. Now in its fifth year, this pop-up show has become the event for Porschephiles but somehow retains its compelling combination of cool congeniality, insider exclusivity, and extremely good taste in Porsches. Celebrities such as Jerry Seinfeld and Patrick Dempsey mix with tuners, artists, brand ambassadors, fanboys, and the kind of hip concessioners usually absent from concourses. Sign up for updates online so you’ll be in the know when this year’s location is revealed. - April 22 • Los Angeles, CA • luftgekuhlt.com

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Syncro Fest

-

This off-roading/camping event is the largest gathering of all-wheel-drive Volkswagen Vanagon Syncros (and other Type 2s) in America. Given its timing near May 5, it has also gone by the culturally appropriative and humorous name Syncro de Mayo. - May 3–8 • Hollister, CA • syncrofest.com

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Southern Ohio Forest Rally

-

This stretch of forest was once the battleground for a famed rivalry in the ’70s and ’80s but then went out of use for 21 years. The event, now bumped up to 130 stage miles, returned to Rally America’s schedule last year with 76 starters—RA’s biggest run in ’17. - May 18–19 • Chillicothe, OH • southernohioforestrally.com

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Isle of Man TT

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The world’s most dangerous motorcycle race features hundreds of crazed racers careening at more than 200 mph around a 38-mile loop of public roads on this rugged Irish Sea island. Watch amateurs attempt the same thing on “Mad Sunday.” - May 26–June 8 • Isle of Man • iomtt.com

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Toledo Speedway Night of Destruction

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Do you like to see big things being ruined? Ever wish you could witness a field of liveried school buses racing around a figure eight, smashing and flipping until they’re nothing but shard salad? Yeah, us, too. This year, you have two opportunities to catch the carnage. - June 1 and August 17 • Toledo, OH • toledospeedway.com

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24 Hours of Le Mans

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A prestigious and historic endurance race, famous for advanced prototype race cars. But the site also has a concert venue, fairgrounds, and a carnival in the track’s center full of 250,000 drunk, sleep-deprived cavorters. A spectacular spectacle. - June 16–17 • Le Mans, France • lemans.org

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The Broadmoor Pikes Peak International Hill Climb

-

This crazed mountaintop race is the second-oldest continuously operating American motorsports event after the Indianapolis 500. With the notable exceptions of the years during which the world wars were being fought plus 1935, it has been held annually since 1916. The Hill Climb is aptly named as it entails racing up a 12.4-mile slog that features not only 156 turns but a gain of nearly one vertical mile of elevation. It ends at the 14,115-foot summit of Pikes Peak, among the tallest in the continental United States. The air is thin at the summit, with 41 percent less oxygen than at sea level, so drivers and their vehicles have to work harder to maintain power, speed, and focus. Cars, trucks, motorcycles, and quads all participate. In fact, unlike most sanctioned races, there are no limits on the type of vehicle that can enter; drivers have made the climb in overpowered semis and homemade EVs. Gravel sections used to add to the course’s harrowing nature, but since 2011, for better or worse, the entire route has been paved. - June 24 • Colorado Springs, CO • ppihc.org

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EyesOn Design

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A carefully curated, 200-plus-vehicle celebration of ideal automotive design held at the lakefront home of Edsel Ford, whose name is ironically and unfairly synonymous with ghastly automotive design. - June 17 • Grosse Pointe Shores, MI • eyesondesign.org

-

-

Goodwood Festival of Speed

-

The 26th edition of the world’s greatest automotive garden party. Held on the posh estate of the Duke of Richmond, the centerpiece is a balls-out hill-climb up the Duke’s driveway in everything from monster trucks to Formula 1 race cars. - July 12–15 • West Sussex, England • goodwood.com

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Van Nationals

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There is nothing shady about a van. Belief in this mantra, and little else, will unite some 600 vans and their drivers and occupants for “five days of hanging loose” in an area of Indiana that must be a minimum of 500 feet away from any school. - July 25–29 • Rensselaer, IN • van-nationals.com

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-

Bonneville Speed Week

-

For more than a century, the salt flats around Bonneville, once measuring 96,000 acres but now only 30,000, have been the premier location in the human quest for maximum vehicular velocity. Bring sunscreen but leave your margarita rim jokes at home. - August 11–17 • Bonneville Salt Flats, UT • scta-bni.org

-

-

Monterey Car Week

-

The Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance has been wowing car lovers since 1950. In the intervening seven decades, the event has developed from a small sports-car show and race into a weeklong car-and-lifestyle bacchanal that blankets the Monterey Peninsula in plumes of blue smoke and champagne spume. The actual concours is a must-see, and the ancillary events are more than worthwhile. Concorso Italiano showcases vintage Italian cars, with rows of overheating De Tomasos and Lancias. Legends of the Autobahn does the same for the Germans, but with less wasted fluids. The Quail is an exercise in elite excess for the oligarchic and overrestored—cars and humans alike. The Concours d’LeMons revives beloved and maligned baroque vehicles, mostly from the ’70s and ’80s. Auctions from Bonhams, Gooding, and RM Sotheby’s feature record-setting, eight-figure classics. But our favorite show comes with admission to the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion at Laguna Seca: the chance to wander around the paddock and see, hear, smell, and feel vintage cars of every era starting up, revving, running, and racing. - August 17–26 • Monterey, CA • pebblebeachconcours.net

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Woodward Dream Cruise

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An amorphous automotive takeover of a 20-mile stretch of the first paved road in Detroit and America. If you enjoy the sound of Hemis, Clevelands, and small-blocks sitting in traffic, the Dream Cruise is for you. Prepare for full-on idle worship. - August 18 • Ferndale, MI, to Pontiac, MI • woodwarddreamcruise.com

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NHRA U.S. Nationals

-

Drag racing is one of the seven wonders of the profligate world. This final race of the National Hot Rod Association’s regular season is where drivers make last-ditch efforts to qualify for the championship playoffs and to wow deafened, fume-dizzied crowds with displays of speed greater than 300 mph. Attendees are as much victims of assault as they are spectators. - August 29–September 3 • Indianapolis, IN • nhra.com

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Orphan Car Show

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These Actors Are Notoriously Troublesome To Work With

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These Actors Are Notoriously Troublesome To Work With

Individuals in present enterprise love being within the highlight, however generally they let their egos get the very best of them. However whereas some have simply earned a fame for being downright terrible to work with, others have paid the last word value for his or her poor attitudes. From not memorizing their traces to being described as “soul-crushing” on set, these actors are notoriously tough to work with.

Did any of your favorites make the listing?

Regardless of making of thousands and thousands of by means of his movie work, Val Kilmer grew to become notoriously tough to work with through the mid-’90s. Richard Stanley directed Kilmer for 3 days in The Island of Dr. Moreau and revealed, ”Val would arrive, and an argument would occur.” John Frankenheimer changed Stanley and mentioned: “I don’t like Val Kilmer, I don’t like his work ethic, and I don’t need to be related to him ever once more.” Even Kilmer’s brother thought he was a narcissist. On the time, Kilmer was going by means of a divorce and was touring world wide to work on location — maybe that’s why his habits was so troubling?

In 1995, Joel Schumacher launched Batman Eternally, starring Kilmer because the caped crusader. The 2 had so many points with each other, at one level they refused to talk for 2 weeks throughout filming. Following the movie’s launch, Schumacher mentioned that working with Kilmer was insufferable, telling media shops: “He was being irrational and ballistic with the primary assistant director, the cameraman, the costume folks. He was impolite and inappropriate. He was infantile and unattainable. I used to be pressured to inform him that this is able to not be tolerated for another second. Then we had two weeks the place he didn’t communicate to me but it surely was bliss!”

Kilmer, who appeared in hit movies like The Doorways and Prime Gun early in his profession, has just lately battled throat most cancers and presently speaks with a rasp. He instructed CNN in 2017: “Fame is type of a multitude. You get handled otherwise, but it surely doesn’t have something to do with who you truly are.” He added: “I’d get upset when issues like Oscars and recognition failed to return my manner. I want to have extra Oscars than anyone.” Whereas he has appeared in quite a few movies for the reason that ’90s (in addition to some TV sequence), it seems the height of his profession has handed, perhaps because of his habits on set.

The subsequent actress had a promising profession forward of her, however then it crashed and burned.

In 2005, Chris Pine labored with Lohan on Simply My Luck. He referred to as the expertise and media consideration on the actress “an actual cyclone of madness, like being round The Beatles.” In 2007, there have been issues on the set of Georgia Rule, together with arriving late and never displaying as much as set in any respect. Morgan Creek Productions CEO James G. Robinson despatched her a letter, writing: “We’re effectively conscious that your ongoing all-night heavy partying is the actual cause on your so-called ‘exhaustion.’ We refuse to simply accept bogus excuses on your habits.” Her unprofessional habits even irked her co-star, Jane Fonda, who instructed her off.

In 2012 Lindsay Lohan made an look on Glee, but it surely was not a superb expertise for individuals who labored together with her. A supply from the present instructed E! Information that she was by no means on time and didn’t just like the job: “Lindsay was a complete nightmare. She was three hours late within the morning, and when she did lastly arrive, she simply didn’t need to be there. She didn’t need to work. She had not memorized her traces, and she or he saved disappearing so nobody may discover her … she has rubbed [the staffers] all of the fallacious manner by being so disrespectful of everybody else’s schedule.”

Lindsay Lohan later admitted to Oprah that she had an issue with tardiness. However she was more and more unreliable, and through her stint within the play Velocity The Plow in London, they needed to feed her the traces. She was dumped by a publicist and is reportedly tough to insure. Add that to her rap sheet of drug and alcohol offenses, and you may see why she’s struggled to achieve the trade. But, she retains getting supplied work. In keeping with Selection, she has been forged in season 2 of Rupert Grint’s sequence Sick Observe, set to air in 2018.

Subsequent, see how Edward Norton paid the last word value for being too pushy along with his artistic course.

In 2008, Edward Norton met with director Louis Leterrier to star in a reboot of Hulk. The actor agreed to the challenge on one situation: his options for the screenplay could be used within the script. Norton proceeded to make a considerable rewrite of the script only a few weeks earlier than capturing began, but it surely was far too late to alter something huge. The director added Norton’s adjustments, however Marvel hated it, notably the addition of extra dialogue and character improvement, which Norton had inserted into the script. When the Hulk returned as a part of The Avengers, Marvel changed Norton with Mark Ruffalo.

Edward Norton later wrote concerning the expertise on Facebook: “It appears it received’t work out for me…I sincerely hoped it may occur and be nice for everybody, but it surely hasn’t turned out as all of us hoped.” 4 years later he claimed that he simply didn’t like doing sequels. It wasn’t the primary time he messed with a script. In 2002, Edward Norton performed FBI profiler Will Graham within the Silence of the Lambs sequel Purple Dragon. When he confirmed up on set, he introduced the director Brett Ratner a number of pages of the script that he had rewritten (and never been requested to do). For sure, his enter was not appreciated.

Edward Norton has additionally fought with Paramount over contract negotiations, notably about showing in The Italian Job in 2002. The studio practically needed to sue the actor to look within the movie. On the set of Demise to Smoochy, he clashed with the costume designer as a result of he needed a swimsuit fabricated from hemp designed by Armani. The actor additionally demanded he make his personal edit of American Historical past X. Director Tony Kaye was so incensed, he instructed a reporter that Norton was “a narcissistic dilettante who raped the movie.” Norton’s most up-to-date movie, Collateral Magnificence, bombed on the field workplace.

Say it ain’t so! Is everybody’s favourite Glee star is definitely a nightmare to work with?

Naya Rivera starred alongside Lea Michele in Glee and the pair didn’t get alongside. Rivera recalled a time that their co-star Chris Colfer wrote an episode and introduced some canine with him to the set. Whereas Rivera didn’t title names, folks knew who she was speaking about when she wrote in her ebook that one explicit Glee star determined to “amp up her b**** issue” by making “an enormous deal concerning the canine, and demanded hand sanitizer any time one got here close to her.” The strain between the 2 girls bought so unhealthy, that their feud might have even price Rivera her job.

In 2014, Naya Rivera was so upset with Lea Michele’s habits on the set of the FOX present that she complained about it to the higher-ups. The very subsequent day Rivera discovered that she had been let go. She wrote in her ebook Sorry Not Sorry: Desires, Errors, and Rising Up: “So I assume you possibly can throw a b*** match, lock your self in your trailer, stall manufacturing but nonetheless allegedly discover time to leak tales to the press. I feel Rachel— erm, I imply Lea— didn’t like sharing the highlight. Ultimately, I do want that Lea and I had gotten alongside higher, however I’m not dropping sleep over it.”

Whereas engaged on Broadway’s Spring Awakening, Lea Michele reportedly freaked out when the air conditioner broke. Her colleague claimed the actress “saved threatening to name SAG concerning the unsafe working circumstances.” However regardless of her doubtful fame behind the scenes, Michele landed a job on the short-lived sequence Scream Queens, which was additionally created by Glee’s Ryan Murphy. She’s mentioned that she and Murphy are good associates. Michele is presently starring on The Mayor and says she seems as much as the careers of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. On her newest position, she mentioned: “I needed one thing that felt related in that type of trajectory for me.”

Discover out who one director described as “soul-crushing” subsequent.

Kevin Smith directed Bruce Willis in Cop Out and had a horrible time working with the motion star. He revealed in a 2011 interview: “It was tough. I’ve by no means been concerned in a scenario like that the place one part just isn’t within the field in any respect. It was f*****g soul-crushing.” He added that Willis was not solely an issue on set. He additionally didn’t need to pose for photos for use on the movie’s promotional poster. Smith famous, “I imply, lots of people are gonna be like, ‘Oh, you’re simply attempting responsible the film on him. ‘I had no f*****g assist from this dude in anyway.”

In 2015, Bruce Willis claimed he had scheduling conflicts relating to the stage adaption of Stephen King’s Distress and was pressured to drop out of Woody Allen’s interval piece Cafe Society. But the rumor was that Willis was fired as a result of he didn’t know the traces. Twitter person Tom O’Leary tweeted: “Yep. Fired. A buddy is on the movie. Bruce couldn’t bear in mind a line. Cue playing cards had been no assist. Solid had been dropping their minds.”

Sylvester Stallone labored with Willis on “Expendables three and though he didn’t title names, he tweeted a few co-star in 2013: “GREEDY AND LAZY …… A SURE FORMULA FOR CAREER FAILURE.”

Regardless of the issues Bruce Willis allegedly has had behind the scenes, he doesn’t appear to have an issue getting performing jobs. He starred in half a dozen movies in 2016 and 2017, though none of them had been huge cash makers. He additionally has loads on his plate for the approaching yr. He’s internet hosting the TV present Gershwin Prize for Well-liked Track and can seem within the kidnapping drama Acts of Violence. He’s additionally rumored to reprise his position as John McClane in Die Arduous Yr One. His movie Demise Want hits theaters within the spring of 2018 and he’ll additionally seem in The Bombing.

Discover out why everybody hates Chevy Chase subsequent.

Chevy Chase is notoriously laborious to work with, in response to many who’ve starred alongside the actor or directed him. Within the ebook Saturday Evening: A Backstage Historical past of Saturday Evening Dwell, the writers be aware that Chase was generally known as “a viciously efficient put-down artist, the kind who may discover the one factor someone was delicate about — a pimple on the nostril, maybe — after which child about it, mercilessly.” Chase would additionally mock the writers, telling them that their concepts weren’t superb. He gave little credit score to his colleagues throughout interviews, ordered folks round, bragged about his fame, and did numerous cocaine.

Chevy Chase was shut with SNL producer Lorne Michaels till he abruptly stop the present on the finish of his contract. He additionally fired his supervisor. In keeping with one author, “Chevy was a scumbag the way in which he left. Deceitful and dishonest about the entire thing.” Chase mentioned his cause for leaving was “cash. A number of cash.” He additionally ticked off SNL co-stars comparable to Jane Curtin and Invoice Murray. In 1985, he steered homosexual forged member Terry Sweeney seem in a sketch the place they weighed him each week to see if he had AIDS. Within the ’90s, Chase requested a feminine author to pleasure him.

Regardless of his fame for being very tough, Chevy Chase landed a job on the TV comedy Neighborhood in 2009. He famously feuded with present creator Dan Harmon, who leaked a profane voicemail the actor had left him. Chase additionally fully alienated his co-stars, a lot of whom had been girls. Yvette Brown as soon as mentioned: “Perhaps he was from a time when girls weren’t empowered sufficient to talk up.” He’s appeared in a number of movies since leaving the present in 2014, a lot of which have been bit components. 2015’s Trip grossed simply $58 million on the field workplace and acquired simply 26 % on Rotten Tomatoes.

Do you know Jenny from the block has a nasty fame?

Jennifer Lopez reportedly has an extended listing of calls for film execs should adjust to if she stars in a movie. She’s additionally been identified to have a match if issues don’t go her manner. She instructed the Hollywood Reporter in 2016: “I used to be at all times fascinated by how I may see (a person) being late or being belligerent to a crew and it being completely acceptable. In the meantime, I’d present up 15 minutes late and be berated. Like, we’re not allowed to have sure opinions and even be obsessed with one thing, or they’ll be like, ‘God, she’s actually tough.’ It’s like, ‘Am I? Am I tough as a result of I care?’”

Jennifer Lopez instructed the Hollywood Reporter that she doesn’t like being generally known as a diva as a result of she isn’t one. “I bought a moniker of being ‘the diva,’ which I by no means felt I deserved — which I don’t deserve — as a result of I’ve at all times been a tough employee, on time, doing what I’m imagined to do, and getting that label since you attain a specific amount of success,” she defined. She revealed that she usually feels “crippled to voice her opinion.” She added, “Particularly as a result of sure administrators and the boys’ membership that they type could make you’re feeling like, ‘Oh, I can’t say something.’”

Jennifer Lopez, who can be a really profitable singer, has labored steadily on the massive and small screens all through her profession. Regardless of her fame for being a diva, she has no downside discovering individuals who will work together with her. She presently stars as a police officer within the TV drama Shades of Blue. In 2018, she is going to seem within the romantic comedy Second Act and the made-for-TV film Bye Bye Birdie Dwell! She is engaged on some music with DJ Khaled and collaborating with Cardi-B. She additionally seems in Guess Denims’ spring 2018 advert marketing campaign. Privately, Lopez retains busy together with her boyfriend Alex Rodriguez.

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Contemplating that Charlie Sheen was fired from the present he starred on, Two And A Half Males, it comes as no shock that he’s tough to work with. His battle with alcohol and medicines was in plain sight on the set of the hit TV present, as costars and the crew mentioned there have been occasions when Sheen “couldn’t get it collectively” they usually needed to cease filming. Whether or not he was offended, absent, or couldn’t bear in mind his traces, it was extraordinarily disruptive and pushed everybody to the purpose the place Sheen needed to be reduce.

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At his peak, Charlie Sheen was the very best paid actor on tv, but it surely additionally ended up destroying his possibilities of changing into the true actor he dreamed of changing into. At one level, he was being paid $1.eight million per episode within the sequence Two and a Half Males which individuals regarded him as charming when he first began. Nevertheless, folks started to note a change in Sheen as soon as the cash began coming in. It’s been attributed that the cash in addition to the identical outdated jokes on the present ultimately drove him loopy and sucked the present proper out of him.

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In 2017, Charlie Sheen instructed NBC’s As we speak Present that he was recognized as HIV-Optimistic and that a couple of folks knew about it, but demanded cash so as to maintain it a secret. He simply needed to clear the air and let everybody know in order that he now not needed to stay with this secret. Nevertheless, he wasn’t going to only let his analysis get the higher of him. In 2017, Sheen was in two movies titled mad Households and 9/11, proving that he isn’t totally out of the sport simply but. We’re positive that we are able to anticipate some extra motion from Sheen within the close to future.

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Though Russel Crowe is called a powerhouse actor, starring in action-packed but tasteful movies comparable to Gladiator, Grasp, and Commander: Far Facet of the World and extra. Apparently, all of his power and bruteness doesn’t simply keep behind the digicam. He has been identified get fairly rowdy on and off of the set of his movies. He’s no stranger to bodily altercations and different emotional habits. On the set of Gladiator, he even bought so upset with movie producer Brank Lustig, that he needed out of the manufacturing for worry of his personal life.

Alongside his brief fuse, Crowe has additionally been identified to make quite crude feedback about girls that he doesn’t discover to be as offensive as they are surely. In an interview with Australian Ladies’s Weekly, he commented that, “I feel you’ll discover that the lady who’s saying that the roles have dried up is the lady who at 40, 45, 48, nonetheless need to play the ingénue, and might’t determine why she’s not being forged as a 21-year-old”. The largest downside with that is that he instructed this to a lady’s journal which definitely didn’t entice many females to need to work with as they as soon as may need.

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But, his performing speaks for itself and it hasn’t appeared to cease too many administrators, producers, or different actors/actresses from nonetheless eager to work with him. He has starred in quite a few award-winning movies, and he’s not probably the most hated actor in Hollywood. He received the Academy Award for Greatest Actor for his work in Gladiator, been nominated twice extra for a similar award, and has received quite a few others. he’s been persistently making motion pictures all through the years and even has an upcoming film in 2018 titled Boy Erased. Though he could also be just a little tough across the edges, Russel Crowe is much from completed with performing.

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Because it seems whereas engaged on Star Trek for all of these years, William Shatner was not all that well-liked and was identified to have quite a few feuds occurring with completely different members of the forged. He was described as being jealous and at all times needing to be the focal point. In 2015, this stubbornness was demonstrated when Shatner determined to not go to Leonard Nimoy’s funeral due to a feud the 2 had that predated Star Trek. Though he says that he unintentionally missed his flight, that was no shock to anyone.

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One in every of Shatner’s most well-known feuds was with George Takei which has been occurring for over 5 a long time now. This animosity was fairly apparent through the Roast of William Shatner on Comedy Central when Takei actually laid in on Shatner to the purpose that it was clearly private. Though the purpose is to be as harsh as potential, it bought just a little actual when Takei closed with the assertion “F***okay you and the horse you rode in on”. In an interview with Invoice Maher, Takei even went on to say that he was so laborious to work with, that he was the one forged member that didn’t know Takei was homosexual.

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Lately, Shatner has appeared on the NBC actuality mini-series Higher Late Than By no means, which was concerning the adventures of Shatner and three different ageing celebrities as they traveled the world. He additionally has co-founded a comic book ebook sequence which wone the 2017 Unbiased Writer Ebook Awards’ Excellent Books of the Yr Unbiased Voice Award. In 2017, he additionally appeared within the animated sequence My Little Pony: Friendship is magic the place he was the voice of the character Grand Pear. Clearly, Shatner has been taking his older years to do his personal factor exterior of performing and testing the waters for brand spanking new ventures.

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It’s no secret that Mel Gibson has had a little bit of a rocky previous in his points with alcoholism, anti-Semitic remarks, and violent cellphone calls to his spouse. However working with him apparently wasn’t all sunshine lollipops and rainbows both. Round 12 years in the past, Mel Gibson received the title of probably the most hated man in Hollywood, which made many individuals draw back from working with him for quite a few causes. He was seen as a legal responsibility, violent, offended, and fully unpredictable. Many believed that he would truly by no means find yourself working once more due to his habits and noticed working with him as a loss of life sentence. That was till he cleaned up his act.

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Andrew Garfield revealed that he was “warned off” working with Mel Gibson on the movie Hacksaw Ridge, arguably the movie that rocketed him into stardom after his breakthrough Spiderman position. Garfield instructed discuss present host Graham Norton that Mel’s previous fame in not simply Hollywood however life, generally, was “an enormous factor for me to have a look at” previous to signing the contract to work on the movie. he mentioned that he’d learn and heard about every little thing that had occurred though he nonetheless admired him as an actor. However he wanted to fulfill him so as to make up his thoughts. Nevertheless, after assembly him, he knew that he’d moved on from his previous transgressions.

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Though Mel Gibson had made fairly the title for himself on either side of the spectrum some years again, his current work has proven some clear promise for the long run. After his DUI, anti-Semitic and racial remarks in opposition to African Individuals, it appeared that each one hope was misplaced for Gibson. But in 2016, he got here out along with his first directing position since 2006 along with his movie Hacksaw Ridge. He went on to obtain a directing honor on the Hollywood Movie Awards accompanying a standing ovation for his general comeback. Though it took 10 years, plainly Gibson is again and able to play ball once more.

Again in 1979, Meryl Streep instructed TIME that not solely was Dustin Hoffman tough to work with however that he has sexually harassed her the primary time they met whereas she was auditioning for Kramer vs. Kramer. Describing the interview to TIME, Steep mentioned: “He got here as much as me and mentioned, ‘I’m Dustin—burp—Hoffman,’ and he put his hand on my breast,” Streep mentioned. “What an obnoxious pig, I assumed.”

Steep went on to get the half and she or he and Hoffman famously clashed on set. In a single occasion, Meryl steered altering a climactic scene to make clear her character’s motivation. When writer-director Robert Benton agreed, Hoffman reportedly exploded and mentioned: “Meryl, why don’t you cease carrying the flag for feminism and simply act the scene?”

On prime of his now well-known beef with Meryl Streep, many others have echoed her sentiment and mentioned Dustin Hoffman is tough to work. A number of folks imagine that is do to him being a perfectionist. Wanting artistic management over every little thing associated to his efficiency in a challenge, the 80-something star even admits he’s tough. This isn’t too stunning, contemplating The Graduate star has had such an extended and profitable profession spanning greater than 5 a long time. Though he’s earned a fame for being very off-putting on set, it hasn’t curtailed his profession, and he has continued to be forged in quite a lot of roles all through the years.

If one factor’s for positive, Dustin Hoffman is effectively conscious of his fame for being tough to work with and isn’t afraid to say that he thinks this label is unfair, contemplating different actor’s unhealthy habits. “I stay in a neighborhood the place there are rather more objectionable issues being completed than disagreeing with a director,” Hoffman instructed The Guardian. “I imply, Jack Nicholson threw a tv set at Roman Polanski, Invoice Murray picked up the producer and threw her within the water, and Gene Hackman would throw a director from one finish of the room to a different, and I at all times thought, why have I bought this fame…”

Gwyneth Paltrow has had a formidable profession during the last 20 years. She’s starred within the Oscar-winning Shakespeare In Love, The Royal Tenenbaums, and Se7en, simply to call a couple of. There’s little doubt that the star is proficient, however she isn’t probably the most favored star both.

On a number of events, it’s been mentioned that Paltrow isn’t simple to work with because of her coldness and demanding nature on set. In keeping with IMDB, “Paltrow is alleged to be ultra-competitive and may be unfriendly to folks she sees as rivals. She apparently refused to talk to Scarlett Johansson on the set of Iron Man 2.”

What makes Gwyneth Paltrow’s case much more fascinating is that not solely is she notoriously unhealthy to work with, however she is seemingly hated by…everybody. At the least in response to Star Journal, she is. In 2013, the publication named her the “Most Hated Celeb.” And whereas they didn’t listing causes, it’s simple to see that they aren’t alone of their opinion. Google “Gwyneth Paltrow annoying quotes” and greater than 266,000 outcomes seem. However why precisely does everybody really feel so negatively concerning the star? Now we have a hunch….

Gwyneth Paltrow has earned herself a fame for being one of the vital pretentious stars on the market. However maybe what provides insult to damage is that she is so contradictory, claiming she’s identical to us however then at all times reminding us she’s higher. Affiliate editor Louis Peitzman says: “ the entire concept that she insists she’s relatable and like everybody else, however she makes it clear again and again that she’s simply not.”

Need proof? Listed below are a couple of memorable Paltrow quotes: “I’m actually (expletive) good at my job. People who find themselves fascinating and good know that, and that’s all that issues.” “I’m who I’m; I can’t fake to be someone who makes $25,000 a yr.” And naturally, “I might quite smoke crack than eat cheese from a can.”

Christian Bale had maybe one of the vital well-known on-set blow-ups ever, which has solidified him as one of the vital notoriously tough actors to work with in Hollywood. Whereas filming Terminator: Salvation, director of pictures Shane Hurlbut apparently interrupted an intense motion scene. Bale was greater than livid and fully exploded on set.

Bale halted all work and commenced shouting: “Am I going to stroll round and rip your (expletive) lights down, in the midst of a scene? Then why the (expletive) are you strolling proper by means of? Ah-da-da-dah, like this within the background. What the (expletive) is it with you? What don’t you (expletive) perceive?

Bale’s rant went on for practically 5 complete minutes as he proceed berating Hurlbut. Sadly for Bale, video of his episode was leaked and now stay on the web perpetually.

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Day 64

Yesterday I flew back to Italy after a week of travels for Spring Break. I had traveled from Amsterdam to Prague to Copenhagen in about 10 days. Although it wasn't too much fun living out of a duffle bag for so many days, I'm happy I was able to go see so many new cities. Earlier in the semester I debated booking a beach trip to either Greece or Lisbon. Flying into 40° rain in Copenhagen on Thursday almost made me regret my decision, but I still love the way I was able to travel and see so much in one week. My friends and I started each city with a 3 hour walking tour to get the history and layout of where we were. For anyone traveling to a new city: take advantage of the free walking tours!!! It is truly the best way for you to get a start on the city. First of all, it's free. That's the big part. These tour guides make their money off tips (strongly encouraged) so they always have great energy and jokes to keep the tour interesting. It's worth it, I promise. If I had to pick, I'd say my favorite was Amsterdam. It was my favorite place outside of Florence. Prague was a second close, though. We made an effort to try the authentic Czech food which was mostly potato dumplings and beef goulash. Let's just say Italian food is more my style. Prague was also the warmest place we visited and the cheapest! This was a nice change of pace for all of us. The currency was strange. Getting a dinner bill that reads 1000 is intimidating at first for sure, but that's about $10 each for the table of 4 (when each person got about 3 beers). Another thing: the beer is cheaper than water... what a way to live! Copenhagen was a rude awakening after that. I went from being able to buy a HUGE beer for about $1 to buying a coffee that was around $8. Copenhagen was cool in its own way, though. It's much more city-like and has a bunch of crowded main streets. But, there's still a lot of "hygge" places. Hygge is a Danish word I learned that means cozy. Copenhagen is the 4th most livable city and the Danish are the second happiest people in the world, and after a few days there I can get why. The people are all so friendly and willing to help anyone out. My favorite place in Copenhagen was called Papirøen. This was a huge street food market where you can get the best and cheapest food. I went there for lunch one day and had to go back for dinner because it was so good. There was also an area of Copenhagen called Christiana. Christiana was very interesting because there are no laws in this area. Technically they are their own state, so the government doesn't regulate what happens on that side of the gate. Literally, a gate. On your way out of Christiana there's a sign that warns you that you're entering the EU. It sounds really weird and kinda dangerous but it was very cool. Weird to think now that Spring break is over. My friends and I wouldn't stop talking about it for a month or so and now it's another trip behind us. I landed in Florence at around 5:30 with sunny 72° weather and went straight to get a panini-- the best welcome home. I still couldn't be happier and more thankful that I get to call this place my home and I can't believe I only have 47 short days left🙁

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The Ruminations of a Gourmet in Montana

Exploring Mesmerizing Montana

Loving every minute of a passionate adventure through the food trails around the globe and being an ardent and avid gourmet, I decided to treat my palate to a spin around Montana to discover the health and the wealth of bison steak. With thoughts of food fit for the adventurer and being an intrepid traveler, I dreamt of traversing the diverse terrain of Montana to indulge in a treasure trove of the most authentic and delicious dishes to add to my repertoire of food tours. With the awakening of exotic appetites and the deliciously colorful carousel of the food train, my taste buds took me across the diverse terrain of Montana to capture the love of food and the pleasures that it offers to a passionate soul.

Who can suppress the spirit of an adventurer who can carve eternal solace with a delightful spread of food trails? The aspiring chef in me brought out a way to soar to the highest pinnacle of ecstasy while choosing a culinary adventure. Vast and wild, Montana displays wide-open spaces with the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountain, the Glacier National Park and uncultivated regions which offer the essence of adventure. There is nothing like wide open spaces which celebrate the spirit of freedom and Montana perfects the art of diversity with its snow-called peaks and innumerable hiking trails that whip up the appetite to a crescendo of palate-pleasing experiences.

All for the Love of Bison Steak

My culinary journey yearned for the aroma, the texture of flavors and the fragile yet fresh natural ingredients that go to conjuring up a masterpiece. Born of the desire to taste and relish bison meat and its various concoctions, my travel through Montana took my taste buds across a heritage of a rich agriculture and products grown locally. I looked forward to the delicious treats that lay ahead of me as I went touring across the famous ghost towns for Bannock State Park, Virginia City and Nevada City with its 19th century structures and incredible artifacts. Perfect and pleasurable, Montana offers hot springs, wineries, scenic drives and great activities. Yes, in-between sight-seeing and quenching my thirst with awesome wines, I took off to enjoy the much-sought after Bison steaks, Bison burgers and Bison meatballs.

While the gourmet and the foodie in me sampled delectable Huckleberry macaroons, steak and potato pasty, breakfast frittata, Rancher’s pizza, elk burgers and Lifty Dog, I wallowed in the delicious dining scenario. My taste buds crackled and I heard a distinct echo of my stomach congratulating me when I spent considerable amount of time relishing Bison steaks at the popular historic Montana Lodge and Bison Potstickers. Dating back to well over a thousand years, bison meat is nutritious and tasty and has become an authentic American food. The Native American tribes used almost all parts of the bison with the bladder being transformed into medicine bags and the bones becoming shovels.

Discovering the Brilliant Bison Food Tour

You can almost predict my culinary travel through Montana which is one of the best bison meat producers in the U.S.A. Every nerve in me declared that I should take the food trail in Montana which leads to the best bison meat restaurants. Off I went through beautiful scenic sights which took me to the popular Cafe Kandahar which served game sausage, game paté and grilled bison tenderloin. The Andiamo Italian Grille at Big Sky Resort took me over the moon with their special Montana Osso Buco or the Chianti Braised Bison Shank which is a slow-roasted bison dish. You can imagine my delight as I discovered many other Montana restaurants which served bison entrees with the taste buds tingling from the lasagna to burgers.

While the traveler in me took off to enjoy great sights, Butte beckoned with its jaw-dropping adventures through underground tours and a much-talked about history. My innate talents as an aspiring Chef were inspired as I tasted the Montana favorites such as sausage onion soup, the famous Sleigh Ride Dinner, Buckwheat pancakes, the twice-baked potato casserole and a kaleidoscope of delightful dishes. Making a vow to visit mesmerizing Montana, I made notes in my journal for a future date to rediscover the pleasures of the palate with the brilliance of bison meat delectables.

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Veselé Vánoce!

I’m sorry it’s been so long since I’ve posted, everybody - it has been a busy few weeks at work, which spilled over into my usual blog-writing time. Now that that’s over, I have to admit, I’ve got pretty happy subject matter to come back to - Christmas! Rob and I spent the holiday proper in Des Moines with his family, where we stayed for three days with Rob’s cousin Peter and his wife Stephanie, whom we adore. Plus, staying with them means that I get all the play-time I want with my very favorite parts of any Bratney get-together, our little second-cousins Anna Lucy and Birdie!

These two have been with me for pretty much every step of the Bratney way. I mean, here’s what Anna Lucy looked like when I met her for the first time back in 2010 (a little concerned).

And here’s what she and Birdie looked like when they were the flower girls at our wedding in 2013. So high fashion!

Aren’t they the cutest? Even though I only get to see them once or twice a year, they remember me every time and pick up right where we left off. This Christmas was no exception, and I can proudly say that Anna Lucy turned out to be a dynamite assistant when Rob and I were enlisted to help with a casual Christmas Eve dinner for the Bratney clan. First, she provided excellent supervision to Rob as we watched him put together a big pot of clam chowder. Doesn’t he look nice in that kitchen?

Even more impressively, she had the patience and coordination to help me assemble hundreds of little skewers of several varieties. Stephanie graciously provided us with everything we needed to make these little finger foods, and first on the list was a Mediterranean variety, involving artichoke hearts, mozzarella cheese, pepperoncinis, basil, and kalamata olives (my favorite!).

We also put together a few dozen with green olives, salami, and manchego cheese (sliced by a contraption that the girls found truly mesmerizing). 

Last was an Italian classic, prosciutto and cantaloupe. And we had a bunch of leftover manchego, so we threw that on there too. I was honestly surprised we had any leftover cheese to go around - the girls loved it so much that a significant amount ended up in their tummies rather than on the skewers.

Following the festive Christmas Eve spread of soups, skewers, and snacks, it was time to engage in the Bratneys’ blasphemous opening of the gifts before Christmas Day. But if it leads to cute moments of paralleled anticipation like this between great-grandfather and great-granddaughter, I guess I can’t complain.

Opening presents with a six-year old, a four-year old, their freshly awakened 14-month old sister, plus their parents and both sets of in-laws is, not surprisingly, pure chaos. But something I enjoy about this photo is that amid the chaos, little Birdie Bratney is frozen, completely enraptured by her father making her new bouncing ball functional.

After a wild night of present-opening, we came together again on Christmas afternoon, this time at Uncle Paul and Aunt Ann’s house. Baby Gemma is pretty alert for this one, keeping an eye on Grandpa Ken and looking a little too cool for school.

Just before sitting down to Aunt Ann’s Christmas dinner, Rob and I gave Anna Lucy a few pointers on how to use our camera. She really started to like taking photos when we visited for Gemma’s baptism last spring (http://omnomwithrob.tumblr.com/post/145288268042/an-offer-we-couldnt-refuse), and once we taught her how to use the focus, she was an unstoppable journalist of this holiday meal.

When dinner was served, she took a quick break from the kiddy table to join me at the grown-up’s table to document our meal, which was a very special trio of dishes from Aunt Ann’s Czech background. I thought she did as fine of a job capturing it as Aunt Ann did making it!

First up in this lovely dinner was slow-roasted duck, which I’ve learned is a Czech holiday tradition. My understanding is that the duck is seasoned with little more than salt and caraway seeds, giving the nice, fatty bird a savory and anise-like flavor. Alongside it came the usual suspects in such a traditional dinner: a simple and delicious steamed dumpling called knedliky, and some caramelized red cabbage soaked in red wine, called zelí. I loved the balance in this meal - a decadent, juicy protein, a dense, yeasty starch, and bright, acidic cabbage. I think the knedliky was my favorite part - though much of this dinner was a new flavor profile for me, I thought this was the most unique and comfort-foody part of the meal. I loved every bite of this special treat!

One of my favorite things about Peter and Stephanie’s girls is that they pretty much eat whatever they’re served - no chicken nuggets or mac and cheese for their Christmas dinner! After eating enough of this Czech feast to satisfy Mom and Dad, Anna Lucy resumed her photojournalistic escapades, taking an impressive series of photos while the adult table continued their conversations.

She even, unprompted, took a photo tour of the kitchen while dessert was being prepared. She makes me so proud! And what a dessert worth documenting - we had the most amazing little almond cupcakes topped with raspberries and whipped cream. SO delicious.

I managed to get a snapshot of the photographer herself while she indulged in some Christmas cheer :)

The night ended in the usual way, with visiting in the basement and playing with new toys. Somehow, we didn’t get a picture of Rob and me together this Christmas, but I love that Anna Lucy captured this moment of the holiday winding down. I so adore seeing things through her eyes!

Another successful Christmas, come and gone. The next day, Rob would return to Chicago for work, and I would spend some time in Kansas City with my family before coming back for the new semester. Since we had so little time together this Christmas, we are so grateful to Peter and Stephanie for hosting us, to Paul and Ann for a delicious Christmas dinner, and of course to the girls for the endless entertainment. And major shout out to Anna Lucy in particular, for so enthusiastically taking beautiful images of our time together this holiday season.

Caroline

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