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This website may contain adult language TM & © 2025 BoxingScene.All Rights Reserved We use cookies to personalize content and ads and to analyze our traffic and improve our service while we were both living at the American Academy in Rome One day he asked if I’d like to see a video he made and sent me a link to Slow Graffiti (2017) I took out my phone and started watching it Based on Jørgen Leth’s short film The Perfect Human (1968) an empathetic evocation of both Frankenstein’s monster and the actor best known for playing the monster Just as he does when performing as Popeye or Eminem or Marcel Duchamp Alex wears elaborate prosthetics in the video creating a fantasy world so absurd and unsettling that the longing his characters portray somehow seems more human as well as music videos for musicians like Tierra Whack and St but behind the colorful pop culture references is an undercurrent of anxiety It transcends cartoonish superficiality and allows for an art that’s visceral Wanting to find out how his practice came to be walking through a mostly deserted Philadelphia neighborhood and arriving at Alex’s studio He recently moved into a cavernous brick warehouse that he’s divided into areas for designing and fabricating curtained-off area that has become a stage where he was staging and recording an opera based on the life of the Venezuelan pop artist Marisol we sat in the middle of a high-ceilinged room an offhand freedom that seems to arise from a view of the world that’s slightly askew that doesn’t assume the world is “normal” and is either brave enough or silly enough to question what normal is I’m wondering if queerness might play into this Not sexual queerness or gender queerness but a queerness of vision that sees the world from an angle or a slant Alex Da Corte There are many levels to how the word queer can be defined and used outside of sexuality and gender There’s a queer way of looking at the world Anyone who has grown up marginalized in any way be it from being queer or from having your back against the wall—not always because you’re pressed but because that’s the best place to see everybody in the room—develops a certain way of looking You develop a rich sense of how you’re rooted in the world while also nurturing an empathy and an understanding of the rest of the people at the party I don’t know if that was from growing up in Venezuela and then moving here and feeling like I didn’t fully fit in or something else and there was a fear there that I had to overcome When I watched you impersonating Eminem in THE SUPRMAN articulating what I wanted to do in the world I’ve negotiated a very complicated site: my body I have gone through horrors in the world that most young people don’t have to experience Right when I’d found a place that was safe and the trauma and violence of that has never left me Which is not to say that I embrace anxiety I’ve learned to do that by working with familiar figures and images and by saying especially if they like to rely on things that are stable You don’t want to say that the person you are will be different tomorrow—that would be unnerving and alienating the work lives in this space of understanding anxiety as part of the vast river of being I don’t want to make work that doesn’t embody the uglier things of the world because that’s what makes the world a rich place ADC My father is from Venezuela and my mother is from the States The world that completes my mother is here and the world that completes my father is in South America and the world that would complete me is both here and there I might always exist as this immigrant that has moved back and forth and never actually finds a site to land on We’ve seen the people of Venezuela fleeing and they’ll never be given a space that is safe and stable where I’m looking for a future place that can reflect back on the now it will surely be embedded in the work so long as the work is asking questions that are real and of their place and time JH How old were you when you discovered you had Crohn’s disease The disease spread subtly over the next two years This happened on the heels of the AIDS era Being a young gay person who was afraid he might be gay and quite naive about the world There wasn’t as much medicine available as there is now Find holistic ways to mitigate the disease besides pumping a bunch of chemicals into your body and praying it works but I don’t think it had to be as extreme or gnarly as it was but it did change my relationship to my body and to a stability that so many young people want and almost expect of their life It pained me to realize that what I thought I might arrive at would never come And so I spent my early adulthood renegotiating my relationship to everything I had lost and letting all the violence I experienced move through me I had to make a real promise to myself that I would find ways to see the world with hope and not become bitter I had to choose that in order not to be destroyed by the violence They were removed and pieces were cobbled together to act as a new surrogate absorption organ ADC (laughter) That is the brilliance of modern medicine I had a new round of surgeries not so long ago and during that time I started to look back at how my body went through this crazy metamorphosis Did it inform or find its way into my work “Something bad happened to me and I’m gonna make work about it” is not interesting to me You cannot deny the history of violence that lives within you and around you but that history can become something strange and cool and weird and funny and sad and anxious Slow Graffiti is just one way I thought about embodiment and how to get out of my skin My work as Eminem is related to a kind of uncanny All the ways I’m thinking about each of the characters I play—how I play them and how they play me—is related to this particularly strange scientific collision I had twenty-seven years ago that told me the body I had then was not actually the one I was going to go through life with That’s when I started thinking a lot about ghosts and skins and repossession and the ways in which the general surface of things in the world may share the same experiences I’ve had within my own skin JH It makes sense that you wouldn’t have an actor play Marcel Duchamp or Mister Rogers All the different characters you inhabit let you transcend your own personal self—your skin—and become something other practical uncanniness of being inside a prosthetic When you speak to someone while in prosthetics and they don’t see you There’s a metaphysical transference that happens—an embodiment—when I’m afforded the chance to be away from this vessel that has me chained and bound to the ground But what can I do besides try to be free in the ways that I can I’m not gonna have a pity party about it or be a victim It’s a total psychedelic state to live in and truly be outside my body The time I spend researching a person and then performing that person allows me to go to another space where my mortality as I know it is lightened JH The idea that we can have all these thoughts but that these thoughts don’t really define who we are—strikes me as almost mystical or Buddhist But skin only stretches so far before it tears and then I think about Aristotle’s notes on the persistence of vision He understood the malleability of time; he allowed for memory and scars to carry on beside us I imagine that there are limits allotted to us physical brackets that—at our best—we might bend or break This makes me think of the old rubber pencil trick If you hold a pencil with two fingers and wiggle it at a certain point with some verve it appears rubbery and defies the physical architecture of lead and wood as we understand lead and wood to be The Tao Te Ching says that the gentlest thing in the world overcomes the hardest thing in the world How do you actually leave the vessel that is yours Courtesy of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth And doubly so because you perform Boris Karloff and then the monster that he becomes I’m doing a new lecture series where I’ll be dressing up as Frankenstein’s monster I’m giving a talk at an academic symposium on collage at the Athenaeum here in Philadelphia Collage is the construction of many different spaces where their edges are called into question The person you are at the moment might just be a collage of experiences as you’ve been bumping through town until you got to where you are now Time and material culture fold into collage but we could also think about collage as something as simple as putting on your daily outfit and what that process looks like It might be yours or your boyfriend’s or your sister’s It might be from Target or a thrift store or made by your abuela we aren’t even halfway through dressing and we’ve spanned time is an amalgam of different territories that seem to have bounded edges and a noticing of what happens to the space where those edges meet and shift It’s kind of dadaist—it may signify one thing on one side where various pieces have been pulled together to build this being We always think of the monster as a fraught figure looking for an answer to the question of its self But we also could consider stepping away from the monster as it is in the novel to the person that plays the monster That’s a site of collage too: the person inside and the person outside the monster Which is to say: We all have our edges as we define them We have to think about the space between and how to bridge those edges I think we are constantly negotiating between edges JH This idea of time and collage gets me thinking about the individual frames that make up a film and because of time we end up seeing one thing like a double exposure or a series of Eadweard Muybridge photographs when going from one frame or thing to another ADC Afterimages relate to the persistence of vision and depending on how you think visually about time they may be more like puzzle pieces abutting each other JH What you’re saying about the persistence of vision seems to be an almost magical but also scientific way of understanding the world I would always buy books with the money I made from babysitting my sister and cousins Books that were not quite how-to books but trying to unlock mystical puzzles I was interested in blocks of things coming together Even though I don’t necessarily attribute this to being raised Catholic so much conversation around transfiguration and other types of magic that Christians believe in we would talk about paintings like the Sistine Chapel’s ceiling What I discovered in learning about them was the golden ratio and the mathematical ways in which those paintings were built and structured in that you could build a system or an image through math So the ways I drew became really analytical JH I remember being so fascinated when I first learned how to draw with perspective ADC That way of drawing really embraces coincidence in a literal sense—things meeting each other That’s just how images and structures are built I started thinking about how a lot of different things—the Pink Panther I was able to find where things that seemed very far apart coincided ADC Collage—that always has been my interest I had this animation teacher named Howard Beckerman who was an old-school animator and did hand-drawn animation where he showed two films that really changed my life The other was Frank Film by Frank and Caroline Mouris from 1973 My name is Frank and this is the story of my life But underneath that is a poem largely made up of f words that sort of apply to the things on the screen It had this flutter of collaged images that he and his wife had cut out and filmed there’s an image at the end with Frankenstein’s monster and these light bulbs on his head It was just him and his very plain way of moving through the world The film shaped how I visualized what I was interested in I wanted to be free to be myself but I hadn’t experienced that yet was able to acknowledge and put images to the fantastical world that was in his mind so plainly and have fun with it It made for this place of possibility that I hadn’t known about But I can’t make sense of how and why I’m able to like so many things How do you show the history or existence of a cornucopia of taste you develop space to absorb and then analyze difference Then you put it into the world and it’s your voice I’ve tried to navigate what all that coincidence looked like I’ll look at many different things and know that they’re actually one thing I’m not terribly interested in pronouncements of taste but I am interested in why people make such pronouncements I’m interested in the histories of how one comes to like certain things JH Which is more about what people do with what they like ADC I don’t think it’s completely arbitrary but I also do think that I’m open to coincidence it was on April Fools’ Day that my intestines were taken away I do move through the world trying to keep an open mind that these stimuli are pieces of a puzzle part of this great question I’ve been asking about the world I will never ask “Why me?” but I do often wonder “Why not JH It seems that you’re at a point now where you can just follow your instincts I’m thinking of Picasso or Matisse when they were at their most prolific taking things almost at random and being inspired by those things and making art with them you’re able to take almost any stimulus and transform its meaning ADC I don’t want to think about it that way If that was the case then I wouldn’t be writing an opera because I don’t know enough about opera to be writing one I like being in this unknown space where I’m confounded trying to find the magic that I’m interested in pursuing I want to be searching for something and feel the energy of taking a step forward without knowing where I’m going to land that is the opposite of just taking things and transforming them It’s about being willing to run into collisions and traumas and asking why JH In the opera you’re working on right now I’m wondering what those collisions and traumas are Having seen the set and the characters you’ve created about this notion that our lives are not our own and that inherently makes you accountable for how you share that space with others I’m interested in what that looks like within a group Any difference or disagreement is actually not to be feared I don’t want a puzzle where all the pieces fit together easily but I’ve written these histories for them that might reveal that all is not what it seems And then I let that tension bubble up and come forth and be worked out—or not—in front of people JH For Slow Graffiti you didn’t have a script but you had a template—Jørgen Leth’s The Perfect Human You told me earlier that the writing for that was by Sam McKinniss and I didn’t feel like I needed to do all this myself I didn’t feel it had to be this one man show even though it was about one person’s collaborative relationship with themselves I remember shooting fifty-some shots in a day or two Secession in Vienna had asked me to do a show It was intimidating to do it at such a historic and cool space like dementia and how the reshaping of memory affects the body how memory can be made manifest and physical what happens when your memory is actually my memory ADC I started thinking about Boris Karloff’s sad relationship to his self and this character that he plays there were layers where I am not Boris Karloff yet I’m playing Boris Karloff playing the Frankenstein’s monster And then I have these layers of the many people in my life who have supported me and the physical painting and erasure of myself done by my brother All these layers show how one person is actually built up and held together by so many supporters and found family I think that’s what Slow Graffiti is about Boris Karloff was looking for that all his life and I felt that there was something to be learned about perfection that’s different from how Leth had depicted it—in terms of whiteness and class and a cisgendered heteronormativity—and also that perfection is a funny thing to chase after JH What’s your relationship to making art or an opera You’ve done a lot of videos with Tierra Whack That was the first video I did with Tierra and I’ve since made four videos with her that all came out this past year JH And I see you’re wearing a Breeders T-shirt The first thing I did in this new studio was shoot her album cover and her two music videos Each kind of work affords its own complicated dance It’s always a totally different type of collage and experience And it’s different than it used to be because making music videos is not a lucrative business anymore It’s just not how people look at or think about music now and they taught me how to see and be creative MTV—which I was not allowed to watch but would sneakily—was visually so wild because Tierra reached out to make some music videos and I started thinking about her album as this holistic world a world that has everything about it living within itself That rolled into this opportunity to work with Annie [Clark It’s been this funny year of working with these three amazing women and their radically different ideas and points of view what do those cool sonic ideas look like visually ADC I drove to Oberlin last week to screen Rubber Pencil Devil something I’ve been working on since 2015—it’s very long—and maybe fifty people saw it Whereas when I put out a music video for Tierra Whack I’m for seeing art in many different places It has a freedom that painting or sculpture doesn’t have How do you get a feeling that’s in your heart to become apparent in the thing you make ADC I’m a sensitive person and feel very deeply about things I’m moved by people in the world and by other people’s stories and if I hear a funny story or see something in the street these granular little things that someone may pass by and maybe it’s heightened more and more over the years I recognize the instability of how things are in the world Most people wouldn’t feel they have the time ADC I feel like I have all the time in the world I couldn’t imagine ever being tied to a hospital bed But after spending so much time in a hospital my whole relationship to time and how I saw the world changed It became a really safe place for me to be I’m actually content staying in this room forever And when I am in the world—when I’m able to be—I want to be the best sponge and absorb it all because when I’m back in this little room with nothing I’ll have all of that to look back on and think about again John Haskell is the author of the forthcoming Trying to Be Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker Machines renowned for seamless blend of tradition and modernity Get today’s need-to-know convenience industry intelligence Sign up to receive texts from CSP on news and insights that matter to your brand CSP’s Top 202 details the largest chains in the convenience-store industry and 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allowing a run Cortes found trouble from the very first pitch – a 90.1 mph four-seam fastball at the top of the strike zone to longtime Brewer-killer Paul Goldschmidt Goldschmidt hit it to left-center field for a home run Then Cody Bellinger hit another four-seamer at the top of the zone for a homer to right-center And Judge hammered a cutter that sailed a Statcast-projected 468 feet to left one of the best lefty pitchers in the game,” Judge said “He's a guy that's going to go out there So we just tried to go out there and be aggressive in our zone ‘Goldy’ and ‘Belli’ set the table there and got things going The place was rocking once I walked up there.” When Austin Wells added a fourth Yankees home run in the first inning three-run homer off Cortes in the second inning right after the Brewers had clawed back to within 4-3 and Judge (grand slam) and Jazz Chisholm Jr hit back-to-back home runs off Brewers reliever Connor Thomas in the third and Judge homered again off Thomas in the fourth MLB’s research teams were scrambling to keep up Sign up to receive our daily Morning Lineup to stay in the know about the latest trending topics around Major League Baseball Here is some of the trivia they uncovered: • New York’s nine home runs set a single-game record for Yankees hitters and for Brewers pitchers The Brewers had yielded eight home runs in a game on five occasions • Cortes became the seventh Brewers pitcher to allow five or more home runs in a game. The last was Michael Blazek, who served up six homers in a spot start against the Nationals on that August day in 2017 including one span of homers for four consecutive batters • Cortes is the fourth Brewers pitcher to allow four or more home runs in an inning Dave Bush and Mike Caldwell are in that group • Cortes became the first pitcher since the Brooklyn Dodgers’ Ralph Branca in 1949 to allow five-plus homers and five-plus walks in a game whose pitching staff is severely thinned by injuries to start the season kept Cortes in the game as long as possible hoping he could discover a rhythm He dismissed the notion that Cortes’ former teammates picked up a tell since a visit from the athletic trainer in the second inning yielded no change Was Cortes just too keyed up to face his former team I don’t think we’re going to figure it out,” Murphy said “When guys don’t have good stuff and the wind is blowing out and you’re going against a team with that firepower The Brewers did manage to avoid some other dubious history thanks to Bauers pitching a scoreless bottom of the eighth which included a Judge lineout to left field with a four-homer game on the line Milwaukee kept the Yankees one home run shy of tying the AL/NL record for a single game (10) and avoided matching Milwaukee’s franchise record for runs allowed in a game (21) “I was joking with [Judge] when he was on deck “It was a funny moment on an otherwise not good day.” Las Doñas de la Corte announces duchesses for 2025 CoronationCorpus Christi Caller TimesSheryl McMillan announced that 21 duchesses will be presented at the 71st annual Buccaneer Days Coronation “The Court of Dazzling Radiance and Sparkling Brilliance” will be held Thursday at the American Bank Center Selena Auditorium A group of women formed Las Doñas de la Corte in 1954 to add a social component to Corpus Christi’s annual Buccaneer Days celebration The coronation is designed to pay homage to Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand’s 16th century 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Sacramento are supposed to close the same date. Those stores, and the store at The Village at Corte Madera are among nine in the state that Macy’s announced would close Other stores in the North Bay, including both Santa Rosa Plaza and Coddingtown stores, will remain open this year. The Macy’s at Northgate in San Rafael in Marin County was not on the closing list the shopping center is scheduled for redevelopment with the addition of apartments and an effort to make it a mixed-used shopping area The retail giant plans to close 150 underperforming stores over the next three years as part of a strategy that includes expanding its other high end brands such as Bloomingdale’s and Bluemercury beauty and cosmetics In August, Montgomery Village announced Bluemercury was among three stores that would be coming to Santa Rosa You can reach Staff Writer Melanie Nguyen at 707-521-5457 or melanie.nguyen@pressdemocrat.com Arhaus promises an inspiring destination for high quality furniture and home décor alongside the center’s mix of upscale retail and dining options This showroom marks the brand’s fourteenth location in California with locations nearby including Arhaus’ Walnut Creek showroom and Burlingame Studio the Corte Madera showroom will be Arhaus’ largest in the state The Arhaus Corte Madera showroom opens today at Town Center Corte Madera located at 313 Corte Madera Town Center The team behind Kentfield’s Guesthouse opens Spanish restaurant Mijo in Corte Madera If you buy something from an Eater link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics policy Chef Jared Rogers and restaurateur Dustin Sullivan will bring a new Spanish restaurant to the North Bay called Mijo on Monday Catalan-inspired Spanish restaurant in Marin [County] that had the caliber of food and drinks that we’re trying to do,” Rogers says Rogers previously cooked in Madrid and San Sebastián following his time at the California Culinary Academy he and Sullivan will take advantage of a wood oven “I wrote the menu with classic Spanish dishes and put some California-Spanish influence on there,” says Rogers who collaborated with executive chef Chris Loberg Rogers promises a spit-roasted and smoked chicken roasted over white oak for two hours that will be freshly available for orders throughout the night The chicken is a heritage breedthat’s brined Rogers bastes each bird in a saffron-herb-garlic butter that also helps smoke the poultry — “It’s a great They’ll carve the chicken tableside for guests Another favorite of Rogers off the menu is the head-on langoustines tossed with peppers and spices and fired up in the wood oven Mijo’s octopus dish also gets some time in the fire Larger dishes include a chicken- and seafood-stuffed paella There’s a seafood tower stuffed with prawns and a “ceviche del dia,” a ceviche that highlights the freshest seafood of the moment Vegetables include eggplant chips with chile honey or the ever-popular Spanish dish patatas bravas served with sherry aioli “I think this is going to be a menu where you come in one time and then you’ve got to come in three other times because you didn’t try everything,” Rogers says with daily deals on food and drinks from 4 p.m and there will also be a weekend brunch available Sullivan and Guesthouse bar manager Erin Hines worked on a drink menu with “gentle nods towards Spanish mixology,” Sullivan says such as a white Negroni that Sullivan is excited for then goes into drinks zhuzhed by Sullivan and Hines One standout mentioned by Sullivan is Mijo’s Spanish gin and tonic made with pink gin and dehydrated dragonfruit that gets pinker the longer it sits in the glass Pair that drink with the restaurant’s two patios that Sullivan hopes prove transportive — “I was going for a little alleyway street that could feel like it was in Barcelona or Santa Monica,” he says — and they’re both hoping for another hit on their hands “It’s about people coming together and laughing and enjoying,” Sullivan says “That’s the core of what we’re trying to do is fill a room with laughter and happiness We cook food that helps people make memories with the people that they love.” Mijo (55 Tamal Vista Boulevard Home / News Release / Sens Cleveland and Cortes to Host Senate Town Hall on March 22nd Annette Cleveland (D-Vancouver) and 18th Legislative District Sen Adrian Cortes (D-Battle Ground) for a legislative town hall meeting from 11:00 a.m-12:00 p.m in the Dengerink Administration Building Auditorium on the Washington State University Vancouver campus The senators will share a mid-session update and discuss the important legislative work ahead The 18th Legislative District includes Battle Ground and unincorporated Felida The 49th Legislative District includes most of Vancouver and parts of unincorporated Clark County WHO: Sen. Annette Cleveland and Sen. Adrian Cortes WHAT: 18th and 49th Legislative District Joint Town Hall Meeting WHERE: Washington State University Vancouver Dengerink Administration Building Auditorium Room 110 (VDEN 110) – 14204 NE Salmon Creek Ave. A campus map and parking directions can be found here: https://www.vancouver.wsu.edu/campus-map-directions Submit questions in advance here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/BPMTHMF Health & Long-Term Care, Chair Rules Ways & Means Health Care and Behavioral Health Oversight Oregon-Washington Legislative Action View this post on Instagram A post shared by Alondra G. Cortes 🇵🇷 (@alondraesterasrussy) Father-to-be Cortes feels 'different intensity' in spring debut for CrewMarch 9th SURPRISE, Ariz. -- Nestor Cortes is preparing on two fronts he’s preparing to pitch for the Brewers with free agency looming at the end of the season “It was definitely a good step toward the season. I feel like I needed this,” he said. “I needed to face competitive baseball. … It was a different intensity.” View this post on Instagram A post shared by Alondra G. Cortes 🇵🇷 (@alondraesterasrussy) That’s because all of Cortes’ work before Sunday had come in quiet surroundings at American Family Fields of Phoenix where he threw a series of live batting practice sessions to ensure the health of the left elbow which gave him trouble last year with the Yankees He might have been ready to pitch last week when Cortes allowed one run on four hits and one walk to go with two strikeouts in 2 2/3 innings that he pitched against hitters wearing a different uniform He didn’t mind working in relief of fellow Brewers starter Aaron Civale “He’s my locker neighbor in the clubhouse and I think it’s a similar approach to pitching though he’s from the left side,” Civale said “A lot of stuff that he does is stuff that I like to do so we can bounce some ideas off each other and continue to learn from each other.” Civale continued his own ramp-up by logging three innings and allowing two earned runs on a pair of solo homers put little stock in the result and more in building endurance “I gave up a couple of hard contacts,” Cortes said “We just turned 35 weeks [pregnant] yesterday I’m going to go and attend the birth of my child The Milwaukee Brewers placed left-hander Nestor Cortes on the 15-day injured list Sunday with a flexor strain in his left elbow further depleting the team's starting pitching The loss of Cortes leaves the Brewers with Freddy Peralta as the only healthy pitcher among those projected to be in the five-man rotation this season but it felt good enough to pitch and that's what I did," Cortes said "After that is when I started feeling more sore than usual." Cortes said the elbow didn't feel right on Friday, and on Saturday he and the team agreed he needed to go on the injured list. Left-handed reliever Grant Wolfram was recalled from Triple-A Nashville The Brewers said further testing would be done on Cortes' elbow "This is not a situation that we think is going to be a long-term issue," assistant general manager Matt Kleine said "We're still in the process of gathering information -- that'll take another few days -- but as of right now this is looking more like a short-term issue than a long-term issue." returned to pitch for the Yankees in the World Series Cortes said the reward of pitching in the World Series outweighed the risk of a potential long-term injury "If I have a ring and then a year off of baseball The Brewers were confident Cortes would be ready when spring training opened and their medical staff devised a plan to build him up carefully for the regular season we've had good communication," Cortes said and then going through the whole rehab process in the offseason gave us a better idea of where I stood with the arm "We did a really good job in spring training Milwaukee went into camp knowing they would be without Brandon Woodruff until at least May while he works his way back from shoulder surgery in September 2023. Robert Gasser was out too after undergoing Tommy John surgery last summer To shore up depth, the Brewers signed veteran left-hander Jose Quintana in mid-March He has remained in Arizona to continue building up strength after his late arrival Cortes owns a 34-22 record with a 3.88 ERA in 137 career games (88 starts) with the Baltimore Orioles (2018), Yankees (2019, 2021-24), Seattle Mariners (2020) and Brewers has a 6.00 ERA without a decision in two relief appearances this season for the Sounds The Associated Press and Field Level Media contributed to this report 'It's good to be different': Nestor ready to bring the funk in Crew debutMarch 28th NEW YORK -- The new addition to the Brewers’ starting rotation showed up with a new look for Opening Day at his old stomping grounds. Nestor Cortes, the veteran left-hander who came over in a December trade with the Yankees will take the mound Saturday afternoon with platinum blonde hair “I thought he was a superhero,” Brewers pitching coach Chris Hook said That is especially true for Cortes, 30, whose differentness explains his 3.80 ERA over seven big league seasons, including an All-Star Game appearance for the Yankees in 2022 and an Opening Day start in ’24 all with a fastball sitting around 92 mph in an era in which 97s 98s and 99s regularly appear on scoreboards as Brewers fans will see on Saturday afternoon when he’s scheduled to make his Milwaukee debut He can vary his arm angle and the cadence of his delivery in order to make the most of his arsenal which is one of the reasons a fastball with pedestrian velocity by today’s standards ranked in the 94th percentile of run value last season When Christian Yelich stood in the batter’s box for live batting practice against Cortes in the early days of Spring Training Cortes played it straight and threw with a consistent delivery Considering it was some of the first “real” pitching Yelich had seen since July “I would love to have 97-98 [mph] instead of the funkiness,” Cortes said I’m able to have that control over my body and balance It’s worked for the times that I’ve done it.” The Brewers, who acquired him with infield prospect Caleb Durbin in exchange for Devin Williams, have a lot riding on Cortes’ sustained success in 2025. They carried only three true starting pitchers on the Opening Day roster -- Freddy Peralta A sellout crowd at American Family Field will get an early look at how the Brewers are once again piecing together a pitching staff “The ivory tower -- I call our front office the ivory tower -- has a plan in terms of depth and all that type of stuff,” Brewers manager Pat Murphy said “That’s the great thing about what [GM] Matt [Arnold] and his group have done The Brewers have their fingers crossed that Cortes will be a mainstay after he set career highs for starts (30) and innings (174 1/3) He missed time late last season with a forearm injury and took some time to find a rhythm in Spring Training but heads into his debut season with the Brewers fully healthy since he will be a free agent at season’s end is that Cortes’ wife is due to give birth to the couple’s first child in two weeks Cortes said Thursday that he was already on high alert for the call to leave it will mean another adjustment for a Brewers team that has become used to making them “This team has welcomed me with open arms,” Cortes said so it’s not like I went to the worst possible situation We’re going to compete for the playoffs and hopefully make a deep run Was it strange being back at Yankee Stadium as a visitor for the first time since 2018 “I was a little in my feelings when I got here,” Cortes said at his locker in the visitors’ clubhouse There are no statistics available for this player Thanks for visiting The use of software that blocks ads hinders our ability to serve you the content you came here to enjoy We ask that you consider turning off your ad blocker so we can deliver you the best experience possible while you are here CA — Macy's is moving forward with plans announced last February to close 66 stores the iconic department store chain said Thursday The majority of the stores are expected to close in the first quarter of 2025, the company said. Over three years in a plan described as Macy’s "Bold New Chapter," the company plans to close 150 underperforming stores while at the same time investing more heavily in 350 stores that will remain open, according to a news release Macy’s stores closing in California are: but as part of our Bold New Chapter strategy we are closing underproductive Macy’s stores to allow us to focus our resources and prioritize investments in our go-forward stores where customers are already responding positively to better product offerings and elevated service," Macy’s chairman and CEO Tony Spring said in the news release Get more local news delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for free Patch newsletters and alerts. NEW YORK -- Brewers pitcher Nestor Cortes had a return to Yankee Stadium to forget on Saturday A day later, Cortes reflected on allowing five of the Yankees' team-record nine homers and lasting two-plus innings in a 20-9 loss "So obviously didn't go the way I planned." Cortes left the ballpark after the game without speaking to reporters in what the Brewers said was a miscommunication He was at his locker about two hours before Sunday's series finale The Brewers acquired Cortes on Dec. 13 from the Yankees for former closer Devin Williams who became a fan favorite for his unique leg kicks sported platinum blond hair and got a nice reception from the crowd in baseline introductions on Thursday and I was able to be on their side and not have to face them but I think this comes with the territory of being a major league pitcher," Cortes said "You never know where you're going to end up and at some point you're going to face somebody you know or somebody that's close to you and it just happened to be yesterday." Cortes went 33-21 with a 3.80 ERA in 86 starts and 49 relief appearances over seven seasons with the Yankees He is eligible for arbitration and also can become a free agent after next season Cortes was 9-10 with a 3.77 ERA in 31 appearances and 30 starts last season He missed the final month of the regular season with a flexor strain in his pitching elbow missed the AL Division Series and League Championship Series and allowed Freddie Freeman's game-ending grand slam in Game 1 of the World Series in Los Angeles After allowing the first game-ending grand slam in World Series history Cortes stood at his locker stall for several minutes answering numerous questions Home / News Release / Cortes sworn into Senate to represent 18th Legislative District OLYMPIA – Former Battle Ground Mayor Adrian Cortes was sworn into the Washington State Senate Monday “It’s an honor to represent the 18th Legislative District and I look forward to bringing our southwest Washington values to Olympia,” Cortes (D-Battle Ground) said I worked to improve the residents’ lives by cutting utility taxes making investments in public safety and roads I’m ready to get to work on behalf of the 18th Legislative District collaborating with my Senate colleagues to increase funding for schools and early learning and support investment in our state’s small business community.”  Cortes previously served on the Battle Ground Planning Commission and was later elected to the Battle Ground City Council for three terms He served as Battle Ground mayor from 2020 to 2021 Cortes moved to the 18th Legislative District when he was 6 years old and has lived there ever since He is a second career teacher and now works for the Camas School District Cortes will serve as vice chair of the Business Financial Services & Trade Committee and a member of the Early Learning & K-12 Education and Transportation committees The 18th Legislative District includes Battle Ground Home / News Release / Cortes co-sponsors bills providing tax relief to working families Adrian Cortes (D-Battle Ground) co-sponsored four bills to provide substantial tax relief for working families Senate Bills 5768 and 5771 expand the Working Families Tax Credit (WFTC) while Senate Bill 5770 and Senate Joint Resolution 8203 provide a property tax exemption for primary residences “It’s more important than ever that we support lower- and middle-income renters and homeowners struggling to make ends meet,” Cortes said “I’m proud to co-sponsor these important bills that offer real tax relief for working families in the 18th Legislative District and across Washington state These bills deliver one of the most significant cost-of-living reductions in a generation helping most Washingtonians keep more money in their pockets.”  SB 5768 expands access to WFTC by lowering the minimum age requirement to 18 years old This bill ensures more low-income workers — including young adults just starting out — can receive financial relief through this program SB 5771 increases the WFTC to reflect the economic impact of property taxes incorporated into rental amounts charged to residential tenants This bill provides a $300 refund to people who are eligible for the tax credit and were renters for at least 183 days during the year they are claiming the credit for SB 5770 creates a primary residence property tax exemption This bill lowers taxes for people who own one home where they reside This distinction between property that is someone’s primary residence and other property provides equity in the state’s tax code SJR 8203 amends the state constitution to allow for a primary residence property tax exemption this resolution shifts more of the tax burden from those who own their houses onto people who own mansions or second homes “Washington has one of the most regressive tax systems in the country meaning low-income workers pay a higher share of their income in taxes than wealthier individuals The WFTC and primary residence property tax 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majority of their starting pitching options hit the shelf Sunday morning, the team announced it had placed starter Nestor Cortes, acquired via trade from the Yankees in December, on the 15-day injured list with a left elbow flexor strain. To take his place on the active roster, the Brewers recalled left-hander Grant Wolfram from Triple-A Nashville Cortes made his first start of the season March 29 giving up eight runs (including five home runs) in two innings against the Yankees in the Bronx Milwaukee assistant general manager Matt Kleine said Cortes’ elbow “started feeling a little scratchy” earlier last week and the team compared it to imaging done after the trade -- during the offseason Cortes rehabbed from a similar injury suffered toward the end of the 2024 regular season -- but “it didn't show any significant changes.” but I don't know what it is,” Cortes said I threw my bullpen -- everything as normal They wanted to see if there was something alarming but I feel like they saw what it was and didn't feel like it was going to hurt me.” Cortes said he still did not feel great leading up to Thursday, but felt good enough to make his start against the Reds. That night, he tossed six scoreless innings and struck out six to earn his first Brewers win The group determined he should not make his next start Cortes dealt with a left elbow flexor strain last season that put him on the injured list on Sept He managed to recover enough in time to pitch in the World Series for the Yankees He could not say for sure whether or not the injuries were related though it does “feel sort of similar to what I had.” we've had good communications,” Cortes said and then going through the whole rehab process during the offseason kind of gave us a better idea of where I stood with the arm we did a really good job in Spring Training Kleine said the Brewers are still in the information-gathering stage and felt it was too early to determine if Cortes will need a rehabilitation assignment He did say the team believes this situation looks “more like a short-term issue than a long-term issue,” though there is currently no timeline set he described his concern level at the moment as “pretty low.” this is another hit to Milwaukee’s starting pitching depth Freddy Peralta was the only planned starter remaining Aaron Ashby (right oblique strain) and DL Hall (left lat strain) are recovering from injuries major surgeries still have Brandon Woodruff (right shoulder) and Robert Gasser (Tommy John) on the shelf Jose Quintana also needed extra time to ramp up after signing on March 5 Wolfram is not a one-for-one replacement for Cortes and he has started one game in the Minors over the last four seasons But with injuries hitting the Brewers’ staff hard early in the year the hope is he can help cover some innings Murph [manager Pat Murphy] has said this before: We're an organization of opportunity,” Kleine said “This is why we work all offseason to get as much depth into the organization as we possibly can it's being tested a little bit right now but that's really no different than any other season.” The Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto (MOCA) just reopened for the Spring 2025 season with a slate of thought-provoking installations across painting You can catch new exhibitions and projects by Jessica Stockholder and the highly anticipated return of Alex Da Corte’s surreal exhibition, Ear Worm Alongside the exhibitions, you can check out a full lineup of events and programming The season is loaded with artist talks Internationally acclaimed artist Jessica Stockholder returns with her first major Canadian commission in 25 years, taking over Floor 1 at MOCA Toronto site-specific installation that explores the interplay of material transforming the floor into an immersive experience This work is one you'll really want to stop and observe as it's designed for gradual exploration, continuously revealing new elements In Blur, Toronto-based textile artist Justin Ming Yong transforms both the museum’s North End Gallery on Floor 1 and MOCA's elevators into unique art spaces using handmade quilts Inspired by traditional quilting techniques passed down from his mother, Yong’s work blends patterns and textures to create something that feels both rooted in centuries-old cultural traditions yet contemporary On Floor 3 of the museum, Toronto interdisciplinary artist Margaux Williamson presents a series of paintings that bridge elements of still life and surrealism and cars includes a selection of recent and newly commissioned paintings that highlights the evolution of Williamson's practice The work reflects the museum’s tones and architecture while centering her subtle yet evocative use of shadow and light Alex Da Corte’s acclaimed exhibition Ear Worm on Floor 2 has been described as a “surreal… tender… bewildering” experience With Ear Worm, Da Corte reimagines his 2018 film Rubber Pencil Devil projected across several large-scale cubes This immersive work appears alongside The Mouse Museum (Van Gogh Ear) a newly realized work and intimate experience that invites viewers into Da Corte’s wildly creative mind.  Yanks 'have weighed consequences' of potential spot on WS rosterOctober 22nd NEW YORK – Nestor Cortes understands the risks of accelerating his recovery from an injury to pitch in the World Series The Yankees left-hander said that he’s prepared to gamble for an opportunity to help his team deliver a championship The 29-year-old Cortes has not pitched in a game since Sept Yet Cortes said he expects to be on the Yankees’ roster for the Fall Classic which will begin on Friday at Dodger Stadium “The conversations have been really clear throughout the whole postseason,” Cortes said “We have weighed the consequences that this can lead up to but if I have a ring and then a year off of baseball Cortes tossed 28 pitches in a simulated game at Yankee Stadium on Tuesday after which he said he has discussed the risk of sustaining further injury (potentially requiring Tommy John surgery) with his agents Yankees manager Aaron Boone said there is a “decent chance” the club will carry Cortes envisioning him as a relief option who could neutralize Dodgers lefties like Shohei Ohtani Boone said on Tuesday that the Yankees may carry 13 pitchers for the World Series; they had 14 position players and 12 pitchers for the ALCS against the Guardians Cortes faced a group that included Oswaldo Cabrera aiming to mimic what it would be like to come out of the bullpen against Los Angeles He previously faced hitters on the afternoon of ALCS Game 5 in Cleveland I’ll be restricted to throwing 20 to 30 pitches so they’re not going to bring me in to face three righties,” Cortes said “I know those are the guys I’m going to face Cortes was 9-10 with a 3.77 ERA in 31 games (30 starts) this season ranking second on the team in innings (174 1/3) and third in strikeouts (162) He said he has been lobbying to be activated since the beginning of the postseason According to Cortes, general manager Brian Cashman refused to entertain the idea during the AL Division Series against the Royals. Boone acknowledged that there was temptation to do it when right-hander Ian Hamilton was injured during the AL Championship Series, but ultimately the club opted to activate right-hander Mark Leiter Jr. instead “The guys have definitely picked up everything and performed absolutely incredible,” Cortes said “Those games in Cleveland were tough to watch not being able to do anything or help contribute But these guys have shown that we are the team Hopefully I can just be another guy in there to help this team accomplish that goal.” AwardsCover GalleryContact Update contact infoDonate Submit a Biz Buzz announcementSchool News Submit a Chalkboard announcementSports Submit a sports scoreObituaries Submit paid obituaryEntertainment SearchCorte Madera skate park honors former Tiburon teen Scotty LappFrancisco MartinezFeb 191 min readA renovated and expanded skatepark honoring late former Tiburon resident Scotty Lapp opened Feb added 1,600 square feet to the existing park to create space for both younger and more advanced skaters “I’m just so proud of us following through on Scotty’s idea giving his friends and everyone a safe place to skate,” mom Amy Lapp said by phone last week A former Tiburon resident who attended Reed and Bel Aire elementary schools and St The family had moved from Paradise Cay to Olympic Valley in August 2021 in part to foster Scotty and brother Ryan’s promising ski careers “I can’t believe three years ago seems like a really long time ago but it also seems like yesterday,” Amy Lapp said the family founded the nonprofit Scotty Lapp Foundation which works to expand youth access to skateboarding It also has a memorial park project in North Lake Tahoe and pop-up park in Tahoe City with about 10% left to be raised by the foundation More information on the foundation’s work and links to donate can be found at its website, scottylapp.org The Ark, twice named the nation's best small community weekly accountability journalism with a mission to increase civic engagement and participation by providing the knowledge that can help sculpt the community and change lives. Your support makes this possible © 2025 The Ark, AMMI Publishing Co. 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D, Tiburon, CA 94920  |  415-435-2652  |  Privacy Policy  |  Designed by Kevin Hessel Pat Murphy has liked new Brewers INF Caleb Durbin since seeing him with the Northwoods League's Fond du Lac Dock Spiders in 2020 and '21 (Murph's son Kai played in the league)."He fits a team that plays the way we've played recently and we're as excited as heck," Murphy said 'We like the balance': Brewers acquire Cortes Durbin from Yanks for WilliamsDecember 13th The Brewers traded closer Devin Williams to the Yankees on Friday for one player who can help now in lefty starter Nestor Cortes, another who can help in the near future in infield prospect Caleb Durbin and cash It wasn’t a payroll dump and it wasn’t a straight deal of a veteran for prospects as one scout who covers both organizations put it TRADE DETAILSYankees get: RHP Devin WilliamsBrewers get: LHP Nestor Cortes certainly," Milwaukee GM Matt Arnold said “But we’re also gaining an established Major League starter and a prospect we like a lot here that fits us hopefully in 2025 We like the balance of this trade to help the Brewers.” It’s hardly a surprise that the Brewers parted ways with Williams even though they’re the two-time defending National League Central champions and he is one of their best pitchers Williams was the 2020 NL Rookie of the Year Award winner a two-time All-Star and a two-time NL Reliever of the Year with a changeup so good it has a nickname (The Airbender) and a 39.4 percent strikeout rate that ranks fourth-best all-time like former NL Cy Young Award winner Corbin Burnes going into last season Williams has one season remaining before free agency and the Brewers were motivated to flip him for at least one player who is controllable for multiple years a second baseman and third baseman with a chance to help Milwaukee make up for the departure of free-agent shortstop Willy Adames while at the same time exchanging free agents-to-be in Williams and Cortes Swapping them helped answer a need for both clubs The Brewers coveted rotation depth behind staff leader Freddy Peralta and Cortes has a 3.61 ERA in 126 regular-season games (85 starts) for the Yankees over the past five seasons Cortes was 9-10 with a 3.77 ERA while reaching the 30-start plateau for the first time though he dealt with a forearm injury that sidelined him from the middle of September until his return in the World Series The good news was he didn’t require surgery and encouraging results from an MRI scan several weeks ago allowed Cortes to begin his usual offseason throwing program on schedule last week He is in Las Vegas this week celebrating his 30th birthday and woke up Friday morning to a flurry of texts and voicemails informing him he’d been dealt “I’m excited about this opportunity,” Cortes said “You look at the Brewers and they’ve been in contention for a long time especially with the young group that they have I feel like I can bring something to the table for them.” “He’s somebody that’s been a major piece of a really good championship-caliber team with the New York Yankees and I think that will fit us really well especially after the loss of Willy Adames,” Arnold said “Then when you layer in the stuff and the ability to cover a lot of innings that are super valuable for us we think a combination of all of those things is going to be a really nice fit for us in 2025.” picked up one of baseball’s best closers in Williams who missed the first four months of 2024 with stress fractures in his back before logging a 1.25 ERA and 14 saves in 22 regular-season games down the stretch He lowered his career ERA to a sparkling 1.83 in 241 career games If there’s a knock on Williams he’ll aim to solve with New York Williams missed the NL Wild Card Series against the Dodgers with a cranky shoulder he missed the NL Division Series with a fractured hand after punching a wall in the wake of the team’s division clinch celebration he surrendered two runs in the ninth inning of Game 1 of the NL Wild Card Series against the D-backs when the Brewers were down a run And in ‘24, handed an opportunity to send the Brewers past the Mets in the NL Wild Card Series, Williams surrendered Pete Alonso’s go-ahead, three-run home run in the ninth inning of a Game 3 loss that provided a stunning end to the Brewers’ season In that way, Williams and Cortes share something in common -- a role in two epic postseason home runs. It was Cortes, pitching in the bottom of the 10th inning of Game 1 of the World Series, who surrendered Dodgers star Freddie Freeman’s walk-off grand slam The Brewers held a $10.5 million club option on Williams for next season but opted to decline it since his early-season injury meant he was projected to make less in arbitration the two most widely cited projection systems expect Williams and Cortes to earn nearly identical salaries for next season in the $7.5 to $8 million range once the arbitration process plays out when the AFL’s schedule was almost twice as long as it currently is frankly,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said last month elite ability on the bases as a base stealer a good defender in the middle of the diamond at second base He’s really started over the last year-plus to create some position flexibility Durbin gives the Brewers plenty of options as they attempt to replace Adames Milwaukee has two players who could fill that vacancy in Brice Turang who won the NL’s Platinum Glove last season as the league’s top overall defender a natural shortstop who manned third base for Milwaukee last year Arnold wasn’t ready to say which player the Brewers intend to move to shortstop but in the little time I’ve had to digest it since I heard the news “I know that’s a group of guys that is young and hungry with really good leadership out of [Rhys] Hoskins and [Christian] Yelich Three home runs on the first three pitches Aaron Judge followed Paul Goldschmidt and Cody Bellinger to combine for unprecedented fireworks Saturday starting one of the most memorable days of Judge's already indelible career "It was electric, from the stadium crowd to just the guys in the dugout locked in and fired up," Judge said after homering three times, including a grand slam, and setting a career high with eight RBIs in the New York Yankees' 20-9 rout of the Milwaukee Brewers Elias Sports Bureau said it was the first time a team homered on its first three pitches ever Yankees manager Aaron Boone saw Reggie Jackson who hit three home runs on three pitches in Game 6 of the 1977 World Series New York hit a team-record nine homers, matching the 1999 Cincinnati Reds against Philadelphia and one shy of the major league mark set by Toronto vs The first of the Reds' homers that day was hit by Boone Austin Wells, Anthony Volpe, Jazz Chisholm Jr. and Oswald Peraza also homered on the unusually warm 78-degree afternoon Five of the homers were off old friend Nestor Cortes dealt from the Yankees to the Brewers in December Cortes left the ballpark without speaking to reporters in what the Brewers said was a miscommunication "My heart goes out to him because he's a great great teammate," Brewers manager Pat Murphy said Wells homered in the first as the Yankees burst ahead 4-0 in the first four-homer first inning in team history. Volpe hit a three-run drive in the second for a 7-3 lead, and Judge's ninth career slam opened a 12-3 margin in the third against Connor Thomas and the Yankees became the first big league team to hit seven homers in the first three innings Judge added a two-run homer in the fourth off Thomas With a chance to become the 19th player to hit four homers in a game, Judge hit a sixth-inning fly that short-hopped the right-field wall for an RBI double. The two-time AL MVP flied out to deep left in the eighth against former teammate Jake Bauers an outfielder and first baseman making a mop-up appearance He didn't want to see a fourth home run," Judge said "Gave him the best curveball I had and he still hit it pretty good," Bauers said Batting leadoff for the first time in his 15-year major league career Goldschmidt drove a fastball 413 feet into the Brewers' bullpen in left field Wells homered starting Thursday's opening win Goldschmidt had just gotten back to the dugout when Bellinger sent a fastball into the right-field bleachers I just heard it and looked up and I saw it flying out of there," Goldschmidt said "Bleacher Creatures are jumping up and down Kind of got to step out and catch your breath there for a second before you step in the box because it kind of gets the heart rate going a little bit," he said went 468 feet and appeared to land in left field's second deck he now has 16 total bases through two games this season That's the most by any player in his team's first two games of a season over the last 100 years While proud, he didn't want to make too much of one win, framing it within last year's World Series loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers. He also noted the Yankees' sloppiness: five errors that led to four unearned runs and caused Max Fried to be removed with a high pitch count after 4⅔ innings costing him a chance to win in his Yankees debut "A lot of guys are disappointed with what happened last year and it starts with and preparing ourself now." Information from the Associated Press was used in this report Department store group acquires half of Kio Spain it didn't already own Department store group El Corte Inglés has reportedly acquired a majority stake in Kio’s Spanish unit Expansión reports the company has purchased the remaining 50 percent of Kio Networks Spain but the companies are yet to officially announce the news Terms of the deal are unclear at the moment Kio España currently operates one Spanish data center in Murcia, located on the Espinardo University Campus. Launched in 2014 in partnership with El Corte Inglés No 8 spans 172 sqm (1,850 sq ft) and 193kW across a single data hall Kio is set to launch a new data center in Paterna, Valencia, at the end of the year. Originally announced in September 2022, the company broke ground on the 1,000 sqm (10,760 sq ft) facility last year El Corte Inglés (The English Court) is one of the largest department store groups in Europe the firm is looking to diversify its revenue sources The move is an about-face for El Corte Inglés, which was previously reportedly to be looking to divest its stake in Kio España. Reports surfaced in 2020 that the company had asked BBVA to coordinate the sale of Kio Spain as it looked to offload non-strategic assets Founded in 2002 and owned by I Squared Capital since 2021, Kio operates 20 data centers in Mexico, Panama, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, and Colombia The company’s 13 core data centers offer a combined 26MW of IT capacity Kio previously had two facilities in the US, but sold them to Zayo in 2017; both are now operated by DataBank A version of this story appeared on our Spanish edition Data Centre Dynamics Ltd (DCD), 32-38 Saffron Hill, London, EC1N 8FH Email. [email protected]DCD is a subsidiary of InfraXmedia Jennie Waldow is a PhD candidate in Art History at Stanford University, where she studies postwar American art with a focus on 1960s and 1970s Conceptualism. Home 2025From 11:00 AM to 9:00 PM CDTAlex Da Corte: The Whale is the first museum exhibition to survey the interdisciplinary artist’s long relationship with painting Focusing on the past decade of Da Corte’s career this exhibition features more than forty paintings and a video that considers painting as a performative act.  Da Corte is globally recognized for his hybrid installations marrying painting Da Corte’s combinations evoke mixed feelings while crossing hierarchies of high and low culture His works combine modernist color theory and the spatial experiments of post-minimalist sculpture to consider topics including consumerism illustrates the artist’s vast mining of contemporary culture a process that Da Corte describes as “analogous to the Jungian night sea journey looking backward and collecting the past as an act of commingling with spirits either cultural or personal.” This concept drawn from the Swiss psychologist Carl Jung relates to myths in which the hero is devoured by a sea monster—a whale—and descends into a land of ghosts Da Corte sees the medium of painting as “a cavity for these ghosts”—much like museums themselves forever brimming with the weight of its own history and historically itself an uncanny threshold of consumption represents “the mouth of the whale” to Da Corte beautiful trash-scape of contemporary culture The ephemeral pop culture source materials referenced in Da Corte’s paintings make evident how the things we identify with—or use to define us—evolve over time To realize this reconstructed vision of painting Da Corte stretches the medium’s traditional boundaries The exhibition incorporates Puffy Paintings in stuffed Shampoo Paintings comprised of drugstore hair products where found objects protrude from the slatted grooves found in everyday commercial displays. The remaining paintings in the exhibition are reverse-glass paintings in which the artist employs a process often used in animated celluloids and sign-making Da Corte creates the image in reverse order applying the front-most layer of paint to the back side of the glass and building up subsequent layers the exhibition encompasses the artist’s source materials and ephemera providing a fresh perspective on his process Galleries adjacent to the exhibition will present a selection of works from the Modern’s collection extending the exhibition’s deep exploration of Da Corte’s catalysts and influences Organized by the Modern and Curator Alison Hearst the exhibition is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue with a special contribution from Da Corte and essays by Hearst Let us know here. 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$5 for Students (with student id) Check-in and pre-Lecture Reception will begin at 6:15 pm in the Hamon Atrium of the Dallas Museum of Art The Forum is delighted to present Paul Masi Partner and Co-Founder of Bates Masi + Architects on May 8th Bates Masi + Architects embraces each project with extensive research simple but elegant design and the context of place to produce unique solutions as varied as the individuals or groups for whom they are designed How appropriate for this year’s Frank Welch Memorial Lecture AIA received a BA from Catholic University and his MA from the Harvard GSD He worked at Richard Meier & Partners before co-founding Bates Masi with Harry Bates “Our approach to design is about capturing the essence of an idea,” says Masi and the studio has won over 240 design awards Bates Masi has been honored as a member of the Interior Design Hall of Fame family-friendly festival to celebrate local heroes from Dallas Police and unsung City of Dallas champions like the Water Department a pup cup bar and even a helicopter—all designed to bring the Dallas community together and help people learn more about those who keep us safe every day Why did manager Aaron Boone use Cortes? Why not fellow lefty Tim Hill Cortes hadn’t pitched in a game since Sept. 18 after straining a flexor tendon in his left elbow, though he had been working out and told the Yankees he was ready He made just one relief appearance this season and had been a full-time starter since 2021 Cortes had 49 big-league relief appearances entering Friday There were at least two major factors in Boone’s decision — Cortes’ track record against Ohtani and the number of outs were simultaneously throwing in the bullpen Hill had given up just one earned run in seven appearances in the playoffs so far Cortes had been activated in the playoffs for the first time Friday morning Ohtani was just 2-for-12 (.167) with a strikeout in his career against Cortes Ohtani was 1-for-4 (.250) with a strikeout and a walk “The reality is he’s been throwing the ball really well the last few weeks as he’s gotten ready for this,” Boone said “… I don’t know if you ever love a matchup against Ohtani But I felt like Nestor could give us a shot at it.” Cortes prevailed against Ohtani. He threw a 92-mph fastball up and in the strike zone that Ohtani hit high in the air and foul to the left side. Alex Verdugo raced over and made a spectacular catch crossing into foul territory and then tumbling over a wall Then Boone signaled to the umpires to issue an intentional walk to Betts who obliterated another 92-mph fastball — this one down and in — all the way to the right-field seats Cortes said he threw the pitch about “two or three inches” too low Freeman had only a double in three career at-bats against Cortes “I got Ohtani out on a fastball up that I commanded real well and I tried to do the same to Freeman and couldn’t sit him down,” Cortes said Boone added that he might have used Hill if there were two outs he had the second-highest ground ball rate in the majors at 69.9 percent But Ohtani is among the fastest players in the majors Getting Ohtani to ground into a double play could have been difficult it would be tough to double up Shohei if Tim Hill gets him on the ground and then Mookie (Betts) behind him is a tough matchup there,” Boone said “So felt convicted with Nestor in that spot.” calmly explained that Cortes “had one situation and I had the other Cortes said that he had been ready to pitch since approximately the fourth inning he spoke about how he figured he would be expected to face Ohtani “I’m going to have to bring out the kitchen sink on him,” Cortes said at the time but all the other lefties they have in that lineup Boone decided to use Cortes in the most crucial situation of the Yankees’ season so far (Top photo of Aaron Boone making the pitching change in the tenth inning: Maddie Meyer/Getty Images ) Brendan Kuty is a Staff Writer for The Athletic covering the New York Yankees and MLB most recently as a beat reporter for NJ Advance Media Brendan was honored to receive the 2022 New Jersey Sportswriter of the Year award from the National Sports Media Association He attended William Paterson University and the County College of Morris Home / News Release / Former Battle Ground Mayor Adrian Cortes sworn into the Washington State Senate This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page PHOENIX — The last Milwaukee Brewer to pitch in the World Series was a left-handed starter working in relief at the end of the finale in St He gave up a couple of run-scoring hits to put Game 7 out of reach The last time Nestor Cortes pitched in the World Series as a lefty starter working in relief … he got an inning-ending double play that erased Freddie Freeman from the bases “Nobody remembers my second outing,” Cortes said the other morning, reflecting on his last appearance as a Yankee in Game 3 of the World Series in the Bronx last fall a franchise long overdue for another turn on the stage Cortes reached last October He came to Milwaukee during an eventful week in December that included his 30th birthday a trade from the Yankees for star closer Devin Williams and the sale of the most notorious baseball he’d ever thrown That ball fetched $1.56 million at auction and it was not the double play grounder by Max Muncy in the fifth inning of Game 3 It was a ball unique in the annals of the game: the first game-ending grand slam in World Series history Freeman swatted it off Cortes to cap the opener at Chavez Ravine Four months later, Cortes seems happy in his new surroundings. He has endeared himself to teammates by twice arranging for a coffee truck to greet them in the parking lot as they arrive at the Brewers’ complex Cortes also did this as a Yankee and plans to bring it back again later this spring The drinks come from PHX Grind Coffee in nearby Tolleson but a sign beside the menu calls it “Nasty Nestor Cafe.” “I just wanted to give the guys here something to look forward to,” Cortes said “And a lot of guys would say thank you to me Cortes’ Yankees tenure ended with a thank you from general manager Brian Cashman in a phone call after the trade He earned the goodwill with a stellar five-year performance in pinstripes: 33-20 with a 3.61 ERA with more than a strikeout per inning and an All-Star appearance in 2022 The game happened to be at Dodger Stadium, with Cortes mic’d up as he worked a scoreless sixth inning. It was a breakthrough moment, nationally, for an undersized 36th rounder who had twice been let go — and brought back — by the Yankees he did not think at all about his history on that mound He had not pitched in five weeks because of an elbow flexor strain fully prepared for the most arduous task imaginable Jake Cousins had the first chance to protect the Yankees’ one-run lead in the bottom of the 10th inning of Game 1 Tommy Kahnle and Luke Weaver had left the game Cousins’ assignment was the bottom of the order: Will Smith whose grounder slipped under the diving second baseman Oswaldo Cabrera and into right field for a single The Yankees had two lefties warming: Cortes and Tim Hill a sidearmer who tends to pitch at the bottom of the zone Cortes had a better chance to execute the high inside fastballs that could tie those sluggers up his stuff during the postseason was incredible and he was definitely a huge help,” Cortes said “But I’ve been with Aaron Boone for five years and I guarantee you Aaron Boone would give me the ball every single time in that situation.” the baseball gods had seemingly delivered the perfect script — until Cortes intercepted it He crowded Ohtani with a first-pitch fastball at 92 miles an hour but tight enough for Ohtani to foul out to left After an intentional walk to the right-handed Betts Cortes planned to beat Freeman the same way he’d gotten Ohtani “And he’s known for going the opposite way There was nothing I felt like I could have done to make the outcome better than what it was.” Maybe not, but the pitch gnawed at Cortes, who kept thinking about it even after patiently answering every question from the crowd of reporters at his locker but that didn’t mean it was fated to be a line on a Cooperstown plaque just because I replayed it in my head every single time I guess he was on the right side of the baseball where he hit the home run There were so many outcomes with that pitch.” (“You know how social media is,” Cortes said.) The worst part was the feeling that he’d let down his teammates And what lingers now is the sting of a missed opportunity “We had done enough to win that game,” Cortes said but we win Game 1 — which we should have — we lost 2 and 3 we win Game 4 and we should have won Game 5 “So people can say it slipped away from us and I’m sure everybody in that clubhouse sees it that way The reality (could have been) going back to LA leading 3-2 It didn’t happen that way and they deserve all the credit in the world For Cortes, returning will not be easy. The Brewers have won the National League Central in three of the last four seasons, but lost their home run and RBI leader, shortstop Willy Adames, to the San Francisco Giants in free agency. And while Williams allowed his own devastating homer in the postseason — to the Mets’ Pete Alonso — the Brewers will miss him Trading Williams was part of the roster churn for the Brewers, who never tank but rarely spend big Cortes has one year remaining before free agency and infield prospect Caleb Durbin “It’s always a combination of things for us,” general manager Matt Arnold said “Whether it’s present value or future value we want to try to help the team win a championship and so we felt like this did a little of both You can’t replace a guy like Devin Williams but the ability to get an established starter like Nestor and a young guy like Durbin It is unlikely that these Brewers will slay all the NL behemoths and end their persistent pennant drought he is not the first pitcher to give up a walk-off homer in the World Series opener at Dodger Stadium The Athletics’ Dennis Eckersley also served one up The very next season, Eckersley threw the final pitch of the World Series to clinch a championship (Top photo of Nestor Cortes: Dave Kallman – Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel) MLB Trade Rumors By Mark Polishuk | April 6 but Cortes said he’ll seek out a second opinion just out of due diligence but he is still building up his arm at Triple-A due to his late start to Spring Training Both Cortes and Williams are pending free agents but Milwaukee was able to save a little cash in dealing its star closer while also getting a new long-term infield piece and (in theory) a veteran arm to stabilize the rotation This injury to Cortes now possibly throws that plan out of whack and the southpaw and the Brewers can only hope that the strain is as relatively minor as it seems Between his last regular-season game in 2024 and Game 1 of the World Series which would represent a pretty big chunk of the 2025 campaign if he needs a similar recovery period this time around Wolfram’s promotion is also worth noting as the 28-year-old lefty is now on the verge of making his Major League debut An 18th-round pick for the Rangers in the 2018 draft Wolfram spent his entire career in the Texas farm system before inking a guaranteed deal with Milwaukee last December putting him onto a 40-man roster for the first time and 10.9% walk rate over 56 2/3 innings with Triple-A Round Rock in 2024 and his first two Triple-A outings for the Brewers have resulted in a 6.00 ERA over three innings Milwaukee Brewers Transactions Grant Wolfram Nestor Cortes 4 weeks ago 4 weeks ago 4 weeks ago I never ever ever want to see Elvin Rodriguez on Brewers pitching mound again there’s guys in AA that are better options 4 weeks ago Brewers are missing Colin Rea and Frankie Montas big time 4 weeks ago 4 weeks ago 4 weeks ago 2 teams playing in minor league parks with uncertainty in their future massive disparity between LA,NY and everyone else juiced baseballs and modified bats to increase offense 4 weeks ago Can’t say the balls are juiced when you’re playing in unseasonably warm weather in late March/early April 4 weeks ago tell us when baseball was the bestest ever 4 weeks ago Before Gramps had a cell phone and access to the Internet He is Tony Kubek’s and Joe Garagiola’s biggest fan 4 weeks ago Never forget a game in old Met Stadium in Minnesota when it was rainy and a guy in a business suit went for as Joe described it as a $5 baseball fell in the mud There was a small patch of grass between the end of the 3rd base stands and outfield section at the old stadium But who today wears a business suit to a game And chased the ball for his kid only to get a cleaning bill but he made it on national TV 4 weeks ago I have never seen a guy in a suit at a baseball game ever lol 4 weeks ago perhaps I’m stuck in my old ways being born in the 90s the world just passes you by I think it’s cute your generation needs another video under the main video just to maintain your attention longer than 30 seconds Since baseball is so concerned with youth appeal how about we just stream someone playing Subway Surfers between innings on TV The 7th inning stretch is just Mr.Beast giving a million dollars if a fan can hit 100MPH blindfolded As if consistency and integrity should be a “boomer” only quality 4 weeks ago “Pitching injury epidemic…Blatant abuse of deferrals”…How can you “blatantly abuse” something that is clearly within the rules of baseball and standard business practices No player is held at gunpoint to accept a contract with deferrals and baseball teams were already deferring contracts in 1974 if not earlier The deferral is an accounting practice that has been a normal part of standard business practices for many The only reason people complain about the Dodgers payroll management strategy is that their own favorite team is clueless on how to better manage payroll and revenues for maximum efficiency 4 weeks ago The other factor is the $400 million payroll 4 weeks ago “$400M payroll”..I last heard the Dodgers payroll was $320M soaring TV ratings and revenues several times your payroll you reinvest LOTS of money back into your core product 4 weeks ago Teams received around $200 million in revenue sharing plus national revenue to start the year 9 teams have spent their entire shared revenue on payroll Spend your free money on payroll before you cry about other team’s spending 4 weeks ago $400M payroll aka the Brewers total payroll over the last six years 4 weeks ago What did they do with their portion of revenue sharing? I’ll bet that the poor billionaires that own the Brewers found a way for some of that revenue sharing to end up in their hand me down suit pockets 4 weeks ago Giannis Antetokounmpo has been eating better lately!! 4 weeks ago They are building offices for the front office expansion Told they are up to over 600 people on the payroll in the organization 4 weeks ago Braun’s contract and Yelich’s had some chunks deferred Brewers are the smallest market yet range much higher in payroll consistently They invested a lot of many on the International side where they found Chourio among others as a result You see why Antanasio is in the running for next commissioner 4 weeks ago Why did the Brewers trade for this character 4 weeks ago I would have been less concerned with his stature and more concerned that before he was giving up game winning grand slams in the WS he missed 40 days at the end of the season because his elbow was torn up 4 weeks ago And the Yankees received a player who missed the first half of the season with a back injury – literally he didn’t pitch until after the All Star game- and gave up a critical HR to Pete Alonso 4 weeks ago The Yankees didn’t need Cortes (seemingly) and they knew his elbow was trash Whatever you get back for the guy you don’t need that is also injured is gravy on the potatoes 4 weeks ago Murphy couldn’t be more overjoyed after getting him 4 weeks ago I think the brewers will be lucky to finish .500 this season I mean they sure as heck won’t win over 90 again especially with this pitching staff 4 weeks ago 4 weeks ago But I thought 90 was easy because the division is weak The patchwork pitching has pulled off a few shutout(s) most of the younger bats are showing improvements Frelick is going to be a problem for teams if his exit velo on batted balls stays around the season 4 weeks ago but this rotation for the first 2 months will put them so deep in the hole that recovery will be a miracle 4 weeks ago 4 weeks ago but then the Brewers are just stupid to make that trade 4 weeks ago They could have gotten more for Devin Williams IMHO 4 weeks ago Sounds like a name for a general during the Civil War 4 weeks ago 4 weeks ago They had the choice of tungsten or Wolfram 4 weeks ago 4 weeks ago 4 weeks ago 4 weeks ago At what point do we start talking about the Brewers training staff How many injuries have their pitchers had the last few year 4 weeks ago When injuries pile up the training staff should never be overlooked he has this injury less than a year ago and only started a handful of games between the 2 I once read alot of training staffs are hesitant to do preemptive MRIs because many pitchers arms have so much damage they can’t always distinguish old and new injuries It’s just that violent of a motion that by the time they ve hit MLB their ligaments and muscles of show a ton damage and scar tissue compared to normal human arm 4 weeks ago classic comments who might follow their respective teams but don’t really know much about others Jose Quintana will be available by the end of this week Chad Patrick won the Triple Crown of pitching in AAA last year and today Brandon Woodruff is expected back by the first week of May last year’s excellent rookie will be ready in another 10 -14 days like Aaron Civale expected back in 3 weeks and Aaron Ashby later in May but the point is the Brewers will have a rotation of: Peralta this is the year the Brewers finish below .500 we just keep laughing in Milwaukee since we’ve had the best won/lost percentage in the NL Central since 2017. Log in Register MLB Trade Rumors is not affiliated with Major League Baseball Register 2025 at 7:17 pm PT.css-79elbk{position:relative;}The new AFEELA 1 sits in the AFEELA Studio at The Village in Corte Madera CA — The new AFEELA studio opened March 29 at The Village at Corte Madera and premiered the electric vehicle AFEELA 1 which was created through a collaboration of the companies Sony and Honda Sony Honda Mobility of America (SHMA) introduced the AFEELA Studio where Northern California residents can experience the technology design and entertainment-focussed features of the AFEELA 1 in a hands-on experience "Bringing AFEELA Studio to Corte Madera is an exciting step in our journey to revolutionize mobility We’re inviting visitors to engage with our technology and get a glimpse into the future of electric vehicles," said Shugo Yamaguchi The studio will be open for three months and will promote SHMA’s plans for the next generation of transportation At the grand opening event on March 21, attendees explored the AFEELA 1 up close and had the opportunity to place reservations through the AFEELA website with a fully refundable $200 fee visitors can see demonstrations from experts and learn about AFEELA Intelligent Drive and the advanced driver assistance system The AFEELA 1 vehicle is available starting at $89,000 Production is set in Ohio and is expected to begin delivering vehicles to California in 2026 AFEELA Studio and Delivery Hubs are set to open in Torrance and Fremont in the latter half of 2025 The AFEELA Studio Corte Madera is open Monday through Friday 10 a.m