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2024 in Piedimonte Matese Hospital in Italy
he was the son of the late Antonio and Antonetta (Ferri) Rocchio
He leaves behind his beloved wife Vincenza (Notorantonio)
Sante was also a proud father-in-law to Roberta
He also leaves behind his brothers-in-law Antonio "Frank" Cenami
and the late Sandra Rocchio and Anna Rocchio.
dedicating his time to his family and friends
He enjoyed many blissful moments at his vacation home in Florida and his family home in Capriati
Sante cherished helping his wife Vincenza make traditional Italian delicacies like sausages
He especially enjoyed watching Italian soccer teams
often rising in the middle of the night to catch a match
Sante found great joy in the achievements of his family and extended that pride to his many nieces
and passion for life will forever be remembered by all who knew him
He leaves a lasting impact on the hearts of his family and friends
His funeral will be held on Thursday
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“This will be the largest overall investment in a women’s professional sports team in history
We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to leverage this massive private investment to revitalize and transform Santa Fe Yards into a new hub of thriving community activity
and for building connections with our community,” said Denver NWSL controlling owner Rob Cohen
“This project will reconnect neighborhoods
and boost the local economy during and after the construction process
and cultural benefits that extend far beyond the stadium’s walls
and our community with a state-of-the-art stadium that will provide us a distinct home-field advantage and will serve as the most inclusive environment in all of Colorado.”
was chosen to lead the stadium design and related design and engineering consultants
Populous is known for its dynamic design approach
which synthesizes architectural expertise and understanding of fan experience to deliver stadiums authentic to their cities and primed for economic impact
“Populous is honored to be part of a transformational project that amplifies the experience for players
and the Denver community,” said Sherri Privitera
director of women’s professional sports at design firm Populous
“We are inspired by the energy of the community and its love for the game
and we look forward to bringing a shared vision to life.”
The 14-acre redevelopment at Santa Fe Yards will feature a purpose-built professional women’s soccer stadium
and future mixed-use development in the heart of Denver
The stadium will be constructed with the ability to expand in the future to host larger crowds and marquee events
Denver NWSL will transform a site that has for decades sat dormant and undeveloped to create a world-class sports and entertainment district featuring pedestrian and bike connections
in addition to proximity to public transportation
This design reimagines the relationship between elite athleticism and community recreation
suggesting that inspiration flows in both directions
This integration of professional athletics with publicly accessible parks and everyday open space recreation spaces may reshape how young people envision athletic achievement—when excellence is visibly embedded in the community
The stadium complex stands as a physical manifestation of the idea that women’s sports deserve not just equal facilities but equal integration into our community identity
“It’s only fitting that the hottest ticket in town will be making its home on Broadway,” said Mayor Mike Johnston
“This project at Santa Fe Yards will transform an underutilized eyesore into a recreational and economic hub where memories are made
The multi-purpose stadium, park, and community district will be the anchor and catalyst for the redevelopment of the site as a transit-oriented development—one that is intended to be walkable and encourages the use of public transportation
Denver NWSL will unveil its plans for a temporary stadium and purpose-built performance center at a later date
“This announcement is a game-changer for the NWSL and a bold statement about where women’s sports are headed
Santa Fe Yards will set a new standard for what professional athletes deserve—a purpose-built stadium and entertainment district that reflects the passion of this city and our league’s continued growth,” said NWSL Commissioner Jessica Berman
“Denver is helping to shape the future of women’s soccer
and we can’t wait to see the impact this world-class venue will have on players
CAA ICON has been providing stadium advisory services for the new stadium deal and is now extending its engagement to provide full project management services as the stadium project is set to begin more formal stages of design and construction
which provides a full range of project management and strategic consulting services
and construction of the stadium working with Populous
“Today’s investment in the future of Denver NWSL is a critical step towards bringing women’s soccer to its rightful place in the major leagues, alongside the other great teams of the City of Denver,” said Jason Wright, managing partner and head of investments at Project Level, a subsidiary of Ariel Investments and one of the largest investors in Denver NWSL
Opus has broken ground on Catalyst Industrial
a new 188,054-square-foot Class A speculative industrial development on 14.26 acres located at 15030 E
Each year during National Preservation Month
Historic Denver opens the doors for the public to nominate the people and projects
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Bonne Sante Health Foods is closing next month after half a century on 53rd Street
told the Herald he is closing up shop after 54 years to retire and pursue other ventures
but it was a decision that didn’t come easy
The store was opened in 1972 by his mother
who got the idea after befriending a neighbor in England that grew and ate organic foods and generally lived “a whole different lifestyle,” Braatan said
The family had spent a year in the United Kingdom because Braaten’s father
his father took a professorship at the Lutheran School of Theology
The family mortgaged their home so that his mother could open the shop at 1457 E
just across the street from its current location
At a time when women-owned businesses were few
LaVonne Braaten was a “pioneer” with her shop
adding that health food stores were still relatively new
According to CBS, Chicago’s first health food store was opened Chatham in 1958
“People didn’t know what wheat germ and wheat bran was
“I grew up with alfalfa sprouts and Häagen-Dazs ice cream as a treat and these kind of things – that was back when Häagen-Dazs just used honey and no corn syrup.”
LaVonne Braaten ran the store for a couple decades
He moved the shop to its current storefront at 1512 E
Braaten added a vegetarian cafe to the shop
customers have come to the store for guidance
home remedies and alternative treatments for various ailments
the store has held classes and hosted nutritionists and other experts
“It carries down to teaching people how to stay healthy
or at least provided an environment to do that
But as large chains like Whole Foods and e-commerce platforms like Amazon capture more of the market share, small grocers like Bonne Sante have struggled to keep pace over the last few decades. Since the 1980s, according to research from the Institute for Local Self-Reliance
independent grocers have declined rapidly across the country
Braaten speculated that what’s made the difference for Bonne Sante is its focus on education and community
“We also are an environment to bring people together,” he said
“It was unbelievable how many friends people would see … it was a place where like-minded people could gather.”
Braaten said he’s retiring to pursue other ventures
and is closing shop because none of his children expressed interest in taking over the business
but unfortunately none of my kids … they’re all out of state and they weren’t interested in pursuing that career,” he said
“The store had to come to an end at some point.”
Braaten said he had a few people look into purchasing the store
A proprietor needs an extensive knowledge of the healthy food lifestyle
and rent for the storefront – which Braaten still owns – will also be expensive
“I’ve been toiling with this for five years
knowing I wanted to do other things with my life.”
Braaten said he plans to focus on his real estate ventures
which he has been doing for the past 30 years
a sport he got a full-ride athletic scholarship for in college
He will also continue to own the downtown shop Chicago Health Foods
(He also owned Kramer’s Health Foods for several decades
another downtown health food store that his mother began.)
Braaten said the store will hold a liquidation sale
and the keys will be turned over to the fast food franchise by the end of February
Braaten said he’d heard Chick-fil-A had been planning to enter the neighborhood for a while
but the deal was ultimately worked out by a brokerage company
“Everything's turned into big chains,” he said
“There's not many independent (shops) around anymore that could pay the kind of rent that Hyde Park demands."
said the fast food eatery will open sometime this year pending construction
"We look forward to joining the Hyde Park community and serving all of our Guests delicious food in an environment of genuine hospitality and care," the statement reads
"The Chick-fil-A business is built to add positive impact to the communities we serve."
According to Block Club Chicago, which first reported the news, the shop’s current operator, Eunice Sanders, intends to open a similar health food store in Bronzeville. Braaten said he did not know many details about this venture, and Sanders could not be reached for comment as of press time.
Looking back on five decades in business, Braaten thanked several of the shop’s longtime employees. Among those he noted were Ron Brigel, who began working at Bonne Sante at 18-years-old, eventually manning its juice bar. Brigel later opened his own business sourcing loose herbs, supplying more than six health food stores around Chicago, Braaten said. He also noted Don Hannah, who was manager for 23 years.
“It’s been a great run to carve out a niche like this,” Braaten said. “And it’s really thanks to the customers more than anything, who have been very loyal, especially at a time when you can get our products, I’m sure, cheaper online.”
“It’s unfortunate to not be able to keep going, but such is life, things must come to an end,” he added.
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the problem with Ken—with his passion for Dave Matthews
and his fraternity—is that he is exactly like everyone else
whose Japanese American family has been in the United States for generations
who makes ’zines and haunts Bay Area record shops
Ken represents all that he defines himself in opposition to
The only thing Hua and Ken have in common is that
American culture doesn’t seem to have a place for either of them
Hua and Ken forge a deep friendship built on late-night conversations over cigarettes
and the textbook successes and humiliations of everyday college life
not even three years after the day they first meet
Determined to hold on to all that was left of one of his closest friends—his memories—Hua turned to writing
Stay True is the book he’s been working on ever since
This special celebration will feature a conversation between Hsu and Lucy Sante
along with music by Elliot Kleinman of Earth Dad
which will feature a book signing with Hua Hsu
Hua Hsu is a staff writer at The New Yorker and a professor of Literature at Bard College
He is the author of A Floating Chinaman: Fantasy and Failure Across the Pacific
and he publishes a zine about life and music called Suspended in Time
Hsu serves on the executive board of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop and Critical Minded
Stay True will be published by Doubleday on September 27
and is the author of seven books including
an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
and an Infinity Award for Writing from the International Center of Photography
Sante has contributed to the New York Review of Books since 1981 and to many other publications
She teaches writing and the history of photography at Bard College and lives in Ulster County
Eliot Kleinman is one half of the NYC puzzle-rock band Earth Dad
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a series highlighting authors and thinkers across disciplines
Pioneer Works Broadcast is supported by the Alfred P
Sloan Foundation Program in Public Understanding of Science and Technology
bridging the two cultures of science and the arts
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also known as the Welsh patron saint of lovers
holds significant cultural and historical importance in Wales
Santes Dwynwen's Day is the Welsh equivalent of Valentine's Day
The story of Santes Dwynwen dates back to the 5th century
sought solace in her faith after a failed love affair
Her selflessness and dedication to love earned her the status of the Welsh patron saint of lovers
making her an enduring symbol of Welsh romantic heritage
Santes Dwynwen's Day presents a unique opportunity to capitalise on the celebration of love
and hospitality establishments can create special promotions
and exclusive offers to attract couples looking to celebrate their love on this special day
or hosting Santes Dwynwen-themed events can help businesses tap into the sentimental spirit of the occasion
marketing campaigns that highlight the cultural significance of Santes Dwynwen's Day in Wales can resonate with the local community
fostering a sense of connection and tradition
Welsh-inspired products can also add a distinct touch to businesses' offerings for Santes Dwynwen's Day
Embracing the cultural and historical aspects of the celebration can not only attract customers but also contribute to the preservation and promotion of Welsh heritage
Santes Dwynwen's Day serves as more than just a romantic occasion; it is an opportunity for businesses to connect with their local community and celebrate Welsh culture
For further information please select the following link: Celebrate St Dwynwen's Day | Visit Wales
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The notorious crimes of Sante Kimes and her son Kenny are featured on NBC's 'Dateline: The Devil Wore White'
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He was best known as the leader of the Contortions
which could be said to have been punk rock’s punk rock
It was somewhere around 1978 that the face of punk rock in lower Manhattan began to change
never had a punk moment; the important bands that played at CBGB and Max’s all predated the Sex Pistols and their aesthetic of gleeful outrage
and Talking Heads each contributed to that aesthetic but were not of it
or they drew upon the garage bands of the mid-1960s
or they wore tattered clothing and hacked-off haircuts—but they weren’t angry and didn’t display any particular attitude toward society
and novelty acts—you’ve never heard of any of them
Once the top bands started getting record contracts and playing larger venues
the downtown scene listed toward stagnation
I saw the shift that occurred around 1978 from a privileged position: as an employee of the Strand Bookstore
a popular place of employment for downtown scenesters and trainee bohemians with a literary bent (the equivalent for visual artists was Pearl Paint on Canal Street)
As the cheap and underpopulated Lower East Side began filling up with people from around the country who were drawn by the mystique of CBGB and Max’s
where we’d assemble to take in one another’s performances of music
we saw these new currents taking shape among our colleagues
a performance artist who worked in the typing pool and had one of the new cheap synthesizers
started a band called DNA with Arto Lindsay
who sang in a strangulated voice and played abstract-expressionist guitar
who was developing an elliptical style of drumming all her own; the off-kilter
chorus-free songs alluded to rock and roll but pointed toward terra incognita
who worked in shipping and had like so many others come from northeast Ohio
played drum—with one stick—behind a feral teenager from Buffalo who called herself Lydia Lunch
was snarling and primal and more abrasive than anything punk rock had so far managed
a guitarist who purchased review copies in a corner of the basement
a shelf-stocker recently arrived from Cleveland
both joined an outfit called the Contortions
and drummer Donnie Christensen were all seasoned players
who had played with ex-Pere Ubu legend Peter Laughner back in Cleveland
approached their instruments as if they’d found them in the woods
dissonant textures that sliced against the rhythm section
which played crisp but ragged-edged rhythm and blues
a sax player from Milwaukee who now called himself James Chance
seemed to model himself on some combination of James Brown and Albert Ayler
screaming crescendos and disputatious soliloquies on his alto
He was also white as marzipan and weighed maybe a hundred pounds soaking wet
The sight gag precluded any imputation of blackface
In 1979 Lester Bangs published a famous piece
“The White Noise Supremacists,” in the Village Voice
He quotes an appreciation of the Ramones in a punk fanzine: “This is the celebration of everything American—everything teenaged and wonderful and white and urban.” The CBGB bands did not
unlike the mainstream rock bands of their day
nor did they derive inspiration from the Black music of their own time
Disco Demolition Night was staged at Comiskey Park in Chicago
and the racist and homophobic sentiment was widely shared among the New York punks
who used to “plead for [Robert Quine] to play him his Charlie Parker records
James dismisses the magical qualities of black music as ‘just a bunch of [n-word] bullshit.’ Why
and ripping off Albert Ayler wasn’t enough
Chance was a serious sax player and student of jazz
who upon arriving in New York had spent significant time in the jazz lofts—places like Ali’s Alley
Audience members sat on couches or on the floor
and if you wanted a beer you’d go to the kitchen
where a wife or a child would sell you one out of the fridge
The shows were open-ended jams where anything could happen
and featured the most cutting-edge players of the time
from Ornette Coleman’s constellation of musicians to the Chicago-based Association for the Advancement of Creative Music
Chance also briefly studied with the great tenor saxophonist David Murray
himself just starting out in New York; his first record
an extreme player of transcendent noise who also tried repeatedly (and unsuccessfully) to marry his sound to more accessible popular music
Finally there was punk rock you could dance to
Chance’s sax playing was steeped in the free-jazz tradition, and he had the chops to pull it off. His stage act was derived from James Brown, whose career was peaking right around then. Sight gag or not, Chance was a riveting dancer, who threw himself into the moves with an impressive balance of abandon and discipline. A 1981 clip available on YouTube
while a Black woman in a pink cocktail dress picks him up and steadies him
That may be his version of James Brown’s cape routine
and Danny Ray would cover him with a cape—and a few beats later Brown would tear off the cape and rush back to the mic
His singing was about good enough for punk rock
His first New York band was a jazz-rock outfit called Flaming Youth
after which he briefly played in the first incarnation of Teenage Jesus and the Jerks
He started the Contortions in 1977 with a fleeting lineup of no wave primitives before cannily signing an experienced rhythm section
The music was startling—nobody downtown was playing like that—and an immediate sensation with those of us who were getting tired of rock and roll and spent as much time in discos as we did in punk clubs
But what made the band famous was Chance’s violations of the proscenium
While dancing he would wheel out into the audience and slap or kiss people
but then came a notable gig at the Artists Space gallery
and people started coming to the shows expecting violence
I witnessed various brawls that year: at the X Magazine benefit at the La MaMa Theater Annex; at a chaotic show with the British anarchists Crass at C.U.A.N.D.O.; and one time at Max’s I saw Chance kick an ashtray at Brian Eno from atop the first row of tables
Eno had been present at the Artists Space festival
and he had recorded his four favorite outfits (the Contortions
and Mars) and given them four cuts apiece on a compilation called No New York
Despite Eno’s fame as a sculptor of recorded sound
he did little more than turn on the tape machine while the band played live in the studio
representing the Contortions’ dynamic more faithfully than the rather bloodless studio album Buy the following year
a paradoxically striking figure—he was small and could look sixteen years old
half of a striking couple with his Taiwanese-born girlfriend
meticulously constructed dragon-lady persona
They appeared at all the important occasions
personality conflicts that had always vexed the band finally erupted
and started a band called James White and the Blacks
That band was entirely made up of crack professionals
not collaborators; the discrepancy shows on their records
which lack the warmth and singular wildness of the Contortions
I remember a gig at a fancy midtown disco called New York New York
where Chance’s tux fit the decor all too well and the music sounded like mere disco
his bleating sax reduced to a novelty prop
brother of Lester Bowie of the Art Ensemble of Chicago
broke off to start his own “punk jazz” band
That led to an efflorescence of such bands
made up of avant-garde jazz musicians playing punk-inflected dance music: Oliver Lake’s Jump Up
and more ephemeral outfits led by Olu Dara and Charles “Bobo” Shaw—not to mention their inverse
erstwhile punks who played sophisticated retro jazz
In 1982 Chance launched a second version of the Blacks with his brother
playing around David’s turf in the midwest
After that came a string of names—James White’s Flaming Demonics
James Chance and les Contortions—few of which seem to have made it to the recording studio
The last time I saw him was at a testimonial occasion at the Kitchen ten or twelve years ago
when Nan Goldin and Lydia Lunch were being honored for their services to the avant garde
In a room full of smug young art-world professionals
knocking over mic stands and insulting the audience
exuding an aura of Mob-run New Jersey cocktail lounges circa 1960
He might have been a guest on a Jerry Lewis Telethon
I can only hope that some savvy producer with full access to the scattered recordings he made
will eventually put together a compilation emphasizing his musical gifts
Chance was not well served by recordings in general
and the anecdotes surrounding him tend to focus on his more extreme behavior
but his innovations were contingent on the state of downtown culture at specific times
Hearing about him in years to come may be like hearing of the glories of vaudeville performers whose acts were never captured on film
Chance triggered his own downfall by wanting to be too famous too fast
The implicit racial politics of his career have aged badly in particular; young people today might find him guilty of cultural appropriation
while those of tomorrow might simply be baffled
You will just have to take my word for it that in his own time he was indelible
an opener of doors for others (if not always wittingly)
and above all the heroic figure of someone ill-favored by nature whose rampaging id pushed him to the front of the stage
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Supermarket giant Lidl has fallen in love with the Welsh language if its promotion for St Dwynwen’s Day / Dydd Santes Dwynwen is any measure
Users on social media have praised the retailer for getting behind Wales’ answer to Valentine’s Day, with a promotion tied in to the Welsh patron saint of love and romance
From this week and running until St Dwynwen’s Day on January 25
the retailer has been emblazoning its stores in Wales with signs for the day of Welsh romance
Many have complimented the retailer on embracing the Welsh language and culture
while the more cynical have suggested it’s just a calculating attempt to sell chocolates
Whatever your stance we think it’s great to see the language and Welsh culture appearing in Welsh stores
And let us not forget that legendary Welsh rappers Goldie Lookin’ Chain recently wrote a hilarious ode to Lidl’s equally iconic middle aisle
It seems in recent times as if Wales has fallen in love with the notion of St Dwynwen’s Day / Dydd Santes Dwynwen
February the 14th may be Valentine’s Day elsewhere
but here in Wales there is another date where we celebrate all things love and romance
The 25th of January is the feast day of St Dwynwen
It is a special celebration that continues to increase in popularity year on year – but who was St Dwynwen
Nowadays people recognise St Dwynwen as the Welsh patron saint of lovers – despite being quite unlucky in love herself ironically
St Dwynwen was a Welsh princess who lived in the fifth century in the area of Wales we now know as the Brecon Beacons
She was said to be the prettiest daughter of the semi-legendary King Brychan Brycheiniog’s 24 children – or 36 children
depending on which historical sources you turn to
Brychan’s family formed one of the three saintly tribes of Wales
and as time passed it is likely more and more people tried to claim descent from the holy king – hence the confusion over the number of children
Dwynwen’s legend continues to be befuddling
with there being several different versions of what happens next
The princess met a handsome Welsh prince named Maelon Daffodrill
The most common version of the story says Dwynwen fell madly in love with Maelon
but Brychan refused her to marry him because she was already promised to someone else
there are other versions of the story where Maelon rejects Dwynwen
and yet another version depicts the princess rejecting wanted advances from the prince
Dwynwen prayed to God to make her forget her prince
she was visited by an angel carrying a potion that turned Maelon into a block of ice
God then also granted the princess three wishes
that Maelon be thawed and released from the ice; secondly
that God look after all lovers; and thirdly
Dwynwen became a nun and retired to the beautiful Llanddwyn Island
It is thought this is where she was also buried after dying c
especially for lovers seeking to pray to St Dwynwen
The star attraction was a holy well complete with sacred eels or fish that
could foretell whether or not a romantic couple would be happy
While the legend of St Dwynwen is increasingly popular and well-known
Pilgrims may have visited Llanddwyn for many years in order to appeal to the patron saint of Welsh lovers
but the story of Dwynwen we recognise now may have much more modern origins
One of the earliest written references to St Dwynwen dates from the mid 14th Century and can be found in the work of the famous medieval Welsh poet and notorious womaniser Dafydd ap Gwilym
In Galw ar Ddwynwen (or Beseeching St Dwynwen) Dafydd appeals to the saint to act as his llatai – or messenger and ‘Mediatrix of our love’ – between him and his married lover Morfydd
In the poem Dafydd goes on to theorise that
Dwynwen would be the last person his lover’s jealous husband would suspect as acting as go-between
We continue to find evidence of St Dwynwen in the early modern period
including calendars from the fifteenth century which note 25th January as her saint’s day
and there is also a reference to her in a Latin Mass from the early sixteenth century
the first time we see Dwynwen’s story as we recognise it today is in the works of the notorious Welsh Antiquarian Iolo Morgannwg (1747 – 1826)
as it is now widely recognised that Iolo forged several of the supposedly Welsh ‘medieval manuscripts’ in his possession
He also fabricated ‘traditions’ like the Gorsedd ceremony which are still with us today
it is likely that the legend of St Dwynwen as we now know it is nothing more than the product of Iolo Morgannwg’s imagination
the legend of St Dwynwen gradually took hold in the Welsh psyche and became increasing popular over time
but it wasn’t until the 1960s that the first St Dwynwen’s Day cards hit the shelves in shops
such cards are commonplace and it is not unusual to see romantic couples in Wales marking the 25th of January in a special way
why not celebrate the Welsh princess who was unlucky in love and send a card to a secret crush or your dearest loved one
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‘Many have complimented the retailer on embracing the Welsh language and culture
while the more cynical have suggested it’s just a calculating attempt to sell chocolates
I rather like Lidl – not so much because of the Welsh produce that they sell
whereas Aldi’s pretty much like any other in the UK (except for cheaper prices!)
Lidl’s more like a mainland European one
quite a range of spicy sausages and unusual cheeses there
Did you ever go to the market hall in Southport
they used to use a blend of Lancashire and Cheshire in their West Lancs Rarebit…years ago now
to go with the ‘butter pies’ sold locally…
No – I’ve not been to Southport for many a year
was after visiting an acquaintance of my other half who was serving a brief sentence in a local prison
so we witnessed a rather glorious sunset over the Irish Sea
The time before that was when I was a very young teenager
when a mate of mine and I stumbled upon a young couple having animated sex in the sand dunes
I’ve no experience of West Lancs rarebit
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LAS VEGAS (KSNV) — Coming to dry land comes the new film Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie on Netflix
Taking place in the real world and in the SpongeBob SquarePants universe
this film has a fun team-up.When Bikini Bottom is scooped out of the ocean
Sandy and SpongeBob head to Sandy's home state of Texas and enlist her family to help save Patrick
we stay animated as a new look to the dark knight arrives with Batman: Caped Crusader
Starring the voices of Hamish Linklater as Batman and Minnie Driver in a new twist as The Penguin
Fans of the original Batman: The Animated Series will see similarities
we look to Apple TV+ and the new series Women in Blue.Based in the early 70s and the true story of Mexico's first female police force
four women defy ultraconservative norms and join Mexico's first female police force only to discover that it's a publicity stunt to distract the media from a serial killer; they make a pact to bring the killer to justice
it’s the perfect time to reflect on love — its quiet moments
Geiriau o Gariad
which I recently adapted into Welsh and is published by Gwasg Rily
brings these themes to life in a way that feels both timeless and deeply rooted in Welsh culture
Originally written and illustrated by Jake Biggin as Words of Love
the book captures poetic reflections on love
the Welsh adaptation is particularly significant — his ties to Wales run deep
having spent much of his childhood visiting Cardiff and the Gower Peninsula
where he drew inspiration from the landscapes around him
Biggin recalls childhood visits to family friends near Swansea
garlic-scented woodlands of Gower became an intrinsic part of his creative identity
I took reference photographs on our walks in the Gower countryside,” he says
the front cover directly references a moment I caught of my own daughter sitting on a tree across a stream.”
The book’s themes were also shaped by conversations with his children
particularly during lockdown walks when they would share thoughts and worries about the world
These organic exchanges inspired the gentle narrative of Words of Love
and now Geiriau o Gariad brings those reflections into the Welsh language
ensuring that more readers can connect with its message
seeing his work translated into Welsh is both an honour and a recognition of the importance of linguistic diversity
“This is the second book of mine to be translated into Welsh
“Twelve languages die every year around the world
and publishing books bilingually is vital for ensuring the health of languages
With personal ties to Wales and a multilingual household — his children speak Catalan — he understands firsthand the significance of maintaining linguistic heritage
Geiriau o Gariad offers something truly special
It isn’t just about love in the conventional sense — it’s about connection
and those moments of quiet reflection that say more than words ever could
A moment where the characters simply stand together
With Geiriau o Gariad now available from all good bookshops
what better way to honour that than with a book that speaks straight to the heart
LAS VEGAS (KSNV) — Blowing its way into theaters comes a remake of sorts with Twisters
Starring Glen Powell and Daisy Edgar-Jones
we follow a story very close to the original Twister film that starred Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton
we follow a woman who has lost a lot and a man who wrangles tornados for digital views
And while this film's story isn't really new
themovie is still a fun ride with a lot of personality
we swipe over to Peacock and raise our swords for Those About to Die
with devious and deadly characters surviving Rome in their own way
In this story,Rome is very much in the center of the Roman Empire and as the wealthiest city in the world
and increasingly violent -- is kept in line with free food
This tale delves into the world of the games
The races at Circus Maximus are controlled by four Patrician-owned corporations
Shares in the four factions are the most valuable things in Rome
As the taste in entertainment of the populace becomes more jaded and bloodthirsty
the Colosseum is built specifically for gladiatorial combat
as well as the gladiatorial and animal combats
as is the underbelly and its flourishing betting business
thousands of people work and live -- among them many who will die for the games
we look to Netflix and The Mole as we wrap up Season 2
Things have gotten spicy and sweaty as our contestants show distrust and greed in equal parts
Catching up with the remaining contestants
I had a chance to ask Las Vegas local Deanna what she wanted to say to her hometown so we could cheer them on
With the recent developments involving the character of Lulu and General Hospital‘s not-so-secret plans to bring the character back in the form of a recast
it seems like the relative domestic calm Sam and Dante have been enjoying may soon experience some turbulence
but has become a huge fan of the “Sante” pairing
“It’s revealed different sides of him and shown new things about Dante
we’ve discussed how it actually shows different sides of both of them
Dante and Lulu’s relationship kicked off not long after Zamprogna first joined the show back in 2009
and the character — who was played first by Julie Marie Berman and then by Emme Rylan — was the actor’s only significant love interest for his first long stretch on the show
the actor had little experience playing a Dante who wasn’t intermingled with Lulu when she was rendered comatose back in 2020
“It was interesting to see who he was without her
but then he spent so much time with her and it started to feel like he was losing his own identity a little bit.”
It was refreshing for the actor when he started working more closely with Monaco
there wasn’t this dependency on each other
which it felt like Dante and Lulu constantly ended up having in the end,” Zamprogna notes
“Being back on the show [since his return in 2020]
it brings up different things in the characters and we’ve brought out different things in each other [as actors]
And Kelly is fiery and fierce and always fun to work with.”
Zamprogna has gotten to explore what he calls “the blended family aspect” of Sam and Dante’s coupling
as both characters have children from previous relationships (Rocco with Lulu for him; Danny with Jason and Scout with Drew for her)
“The times where we get to play that blended family element has been so interesting; it’s interesting playing a dad to a kid who isn’t your son
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Lucy Sante's latest book, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
has been widely lauded since its February release
and Beaconites will soon have an opportunity to hear from the Whiting Award-winning author in-person
Sante will appear at the main stage of the Towne Crier in Beacon on Thursday, June 20 at 7PM as part of a special off-shoot event of the Beacon LitFest
She will be joined by artist and activist Richard Eagan
a longtime Kingston resident and retired Bard professor
built a career excavating overlooked or ignored territory
Her first book Low Life explored the seedier history of New York City in rich detail and with such immediacy that it became an instant classic
Her interest in pulling the past into the present may be rooted in childhood
which she spent traveling between Belgium and the U.S
"It's led to a permanent confusion between time and space
There was a 30-year gap in culture and technology between Europe and America at that time," she said
"It was like going back and forth in time
I always had the reassurance of knowing that the past was there on the other side of the ocean."
Her two most recent works, Nineteen Reservoirs and I Heard Her Call My Name
also mine subject matter hidden in plain sight and wrestle with history
delves into the history of the New York City water system and Catskill region's reluctant and even adversarial role in its evolution
READ MORE: Writers, Readers Find Community in Beacon, NY
I Heard Her Call My Name recounts her decision at age 66 to transition to female
She was prepared to take her desire to be a woman with her to the grave until her "egg cracked"--a metaphor she returns to through the book--upon seeing her image rendered through a gender-swapping filter in a photo app
"...it gave me a full-face portrait of a Hudson Valley woman in midlife: strong
When I saw her I felt something liquefy in the core of my body," Sante wrote
The present day narrative is interwoven with her personal history from a childhood with one foot in Europe and the other in New Jersey; her young adulthood as a denizen of the Lower East Side of the '70s and '80s; and the beginnings of a literary career that would see her become one of the most astute writers of her generation
Her first book to bear the name Lucy Sante
The idea of writing about the upstate reservoirs feeding New York City germinated when Sante began living part-time in the Catskills nearly 30 years ago and had the Pepacton Reservoir nearly in her backyard
The Pepacton was a later addition to the New York City water system
the residents of Delaware County were only a generation removed or had themselves experienced the displacement and destruction of communities brought by the project
"It never occurred to me the idea of uprooting villages
But of course it's been done in many places and many times," Sante said
"That was the motivating thing: the pathos but also the mystery of it
the fact that under those waters once lay five to seven villages depending on where you were."
READ MORE: Wait, Are New York’s Catskill Mountains Not Really Mountains?
Sante has a knack for teasing out specific details that make a seemingly specialized local history interest riveting
Consider the Ashokan Reservoir and its frequent appearances in your social media feed around sunset
were moved at the expense of $42 a grave by their descendants
It's not something you're likely to forget once you learn of it
The Hudson Valley is at the center of Nineteen Reservoirs
but its impact also felt in Sante's deeply personal memoir
She credits the influence of Gen Z and students at Bard with helping her see that a gender transition was possible for her
It was somewhere around the second decade of the 21st Century that I started seeing the wave coming
the gender revolution in ones and twos and then fives and sixes," Sante said
READ MORE: Catskills Played a Unique Role in New York LGBTQ History
Sante said the friendship she formed with Leor granted her permission to not lose the rough edges and disdain for santimony at the core of her personality
I Heard Her Call My Name was written at a feverish pace and completed within two months
"Writing the book was a total liberation," Sante said "It was all waiting to burst
I'd already done all the thinking."
Gallery Credit: Keri Wiginton & Lauren Liebhaber
The Hudson Valley's imprint on Lucy Sante is felt in her most recent books, Nineteen Reservoirs and I Heard Her Call My Name.\nRead More
Lucy Sante's latest book, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
Sante will appear at the main stage of the Towne Crier in Beacon on Thursday, June 20 at 7PM as part of a special off-shoot event of the Beacon LitFest
Her two most recent works, Nineteen Reservoirs and I Heard Her Call My Name
READ MORE: Writers, Readers Find Community in Beacon, NY
READ MORE: Wait, Are New York’s Catskill Mountains Not Really Mountains?
READ MORE: Catskills Played a Unique Role in New York LGBTQ History
Anger erupted after New York City police arrested 13 people during a raid at the Stonewall Inn
a bar and safe space for the LGBTQ+ community
Advocates protested for days despite confrontations with police who resorted to turning fire hoses onto the crowd
Many say the event catalyzed the modern LGBTQ+ civil rights movement
Caitlyn Pauley
The upcoming League of Legends Patch 14.19 is expected to bring significant changes to the game
K’Sante and Tristana will undergo major adjustments
and there may also be tweaks to Lethal Tempo
combined with modifications to items and runes
will likely impact the overall gameplay as we approach the end of the ranked season
Keep an eye out for the official patch notes for the full details
The release of League of Legends Patch 14.19 will bring sweeping changes that will affect item stats
and overall gameplay dynamics as we approach the 2025 pre-season
This update indicates significant adjustments aimed at enhancing player experience and game balance
League of Legends Patch 14.19 delivers substantial adjustments focusing on gameplay dynamics
Players will find themselves adapting to new strategies that encourage more thoughtful play and cooperation in their matches
These changes set the stage for invigorating gameplay in the League universe as we look forward to the pre-season of 2025
Patch 14.19 is scheduled for release on September 25
The developers are expected to release patch previews by September 18th
Riot Games has already announced that the championship will run on patch 14.18 so this update will not be used at the World Championship 2024
particularly leading into the 2025 pre-season
Riot Games has detailed that nearly all Legendary items will undergo nerfs
The intention behind these changes is to decrease the power of items that facilitate snowballing while allowing champions’ abilities to shine more prominently
“Players have become exceptionally proficient at farming over recent seasons,”
“This proficiency has resulted in an accelerated pace that has outstripped our design intentions.”
the team has chosen to make gold less potent to redefine the dynamics of gameplay at all levels
A standout feature in patch 14.19 is the introduction of item queuing
This allows players to efficiently manage their gold and purchases
as they’ll be able to mark items in their queue
helping them visualize how much gold they need to reach their next purchase
a “One Click Purchase” option will enable players to buy as many components toward a major item as their current gold permits
Another interesting change is the adjustment to mobile pings
Players will now receive notifications for various actions
leading to improved communication and teamwork
The new ‘My Bad’ ping is also introduced for players to acknowledge their mistakes to teammates
this patch brings a substantial overhaul to K’Sante
making him a more versatile and balanced champion:
Another champion receiving attention is Quinn
who will get visual updates to align her ability effects with the current art standards
Tristana also experiences a shift in her base statistics
such as adjustments to HP regeneration and attack speed
These shifts exemplify Riot’s formation of a balanced meta that can cater to numerous champions
Arguably one of the most notable adjustments in this patch is the reintroduction of the Lethal Tempo keystone
The updated version of Lethal Tempo will facilitate bonus damage upon reaching max stacks rather than surpassing the attack speed cap
champions will receive a percentage of increased attack speed
peaking at a maximum increment with bonus damage tied to this scaling
the adjustments are designed to ensure that champions can maintain their identity without excessive reliance on a singular keystone that disrupts the gameplay balance
“The return of Lethal Tempo aims to preserve the strengths of champions while carefully managing their impacts on the game,”
“Our focus remains on creating a fair environment for all champions.”
adjustments to runes like Biscuit Delivery and Presence of Mind will offer new opportunities for strategic gameplay
impacting health restoration and mana management
With nearly all Legendary items witnessing reductions in stats
players can expect a shift in itemization paths for various champions
These adjustments reflect Riot’s aim to ensure that players explore various item options without dominating the game purely through item power
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A parade to celebrate the Welsh patron saint of lovers will return to the streets of Aberystwyth later this month
The Santes Dwynwen Parade will take place on Saturday, 25 January from 2pm, with locals encouraged to attend and wear their brightest colours.
The parade will then head to Ceredigion Museum for a Twmpath.
This is the third year the parade has been held and organisers hope it will prove as successful.
This year, some of Gŵyl Cariad Aber’s artists have been working with the town council on creative packs for local schools.
Inspired by the Wish Fish from Dwynwen’s story, these packs give kids a chance to make something special to carry with them in the parade.
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during question time after a panel discussion
“You’re one of those intuitive writers,” stepping hard on the adjective
many writers are procedural or mimetic or discursive
They are raconteurs or reporters or haranguers or intellectuals
They employ front-brain operations to render a story or an idea into words
translating straight across from one to the other
A lot of my writing is basically this: I have a strong but complicated emotion about something
I couldn’t easily explain it in conversation
rife with anomalies and ambiguities and internal contradictions
wrapped around a teeming anthill of sensations
To make sense of it in writing I have to methodically break it down into its constituent parts
until I have identified every significant facet of that emotion
with the patient splayed on the operating table and all its organs numbered
hitherto unsuspected patterns will begin to emerge
This process is something I first realized when I was film critic for a monthly
so that I’d see maybe forty movies a month
I discovered that the most interesting pictures to write about weren’t the ones I loved or the ones I hated
but the ones that caused strong unresolved emotions that I would have to work out on the page
Which is to say that the writing would not be descriptive of a thought process but would manifest the thought process in itself
Going into the writing I like to cultivate a particular juncture between knowing and not knowing—having all the facts but remaining uncertain how they fit together
because if you know too little what you write will be halting and opaque
and if you know too much it will be dead on the page
whatever ideas and speculations may occupy the writer’s head
writing does not begin with an idea; it begins with a sentence
What occurs in your mind is a great swirling mass of half-formed notions
and emotions; the signal-to-noise ratio is overwhelming
Putting the thought in writing crystalizes it and gives it life
the flaws will be immediately apparent: the inconsistencies
since you cannot proceed to the next without securing the first
(It sometimes takes me a very long time to advance between sentences
but I’ve seldom done more than one draft.) Editing and writing walk together
problems of logic; the second to the music
Gustave Flaubert formulated a credo for prose writers:
When I come upon a bad assonance or a repetition in my sentences
I’m sure I’m floundering in the false
One of them is the concept of the mot juste
There are really very few true synonyms; words are highly individuated
“Hate” and “scorn” and “despise” and “execrate” all mean roughly the same thing
but not exactly; only one of them will work in any specific context
The second idea is harder to explain or defend than it is to practice: that the musicality of a phrase is a key to its truth
why should there be a relation between the right word and the musical word
Or why should the greatest compression of thought always result in a line of poetry
Writing requires the use of the whole mind
sequential half and its savage twin: unconscious
You can write something perfectly decent with only the use of the first
but without the second you will never achieve transcendence
Nineteen Reservoirs began with a desire to write about the place where I’ve lived for the last 22 years
found its narrative structure in the construction of the New York City reservoirs
discovered its moral pivot in the competing claims of city and country
was populated by newspaper accounts–since the lockdown prevented my use of archives and museums
All of these were the result of chance operations
I could not have known the result beforehand
Nineteen Reservoirs: On Their Creation and the Promise of Water for New York City by Lucy Sante
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while living in New York in the 1970s and ’80s
she had been close to the photographer Nan Goldin
a celebrated portraitist of the downtown gay and transgender communities
Sante describes herself as first and foremost a “bohemian,” a type of person of which there are “vanishingly few” these days
and the people who admired them were all around her during her New York years—yet
in the midst of what was surely the most accepting environment available at that time
Apart from Sante’s age when she announced her gender identity
there isn’t anything particularly unusual or new to her transition story
from an app that feminizes selfies and showed her the woman’s face she had so long denied to the online communities where she sought advice and support in coming out
She describes the physical effects of taking hormones
the process of constructing a whole new wardrobe
the stress her transition imposed on her long-term relationship
What makes I Heard Her Call My Name extraordinary aren’t the events Sante describes but the way she describes them
and furthermore it is fearlessly honest—a quality that often seems almost as rare as Sante-style bohemians
“and even more to the kind of shibboleth rhetoric (and its principal by-product
a defensive posture) that pervades much—though by no means all—of trans writing.” This pertains to the concepts in I Heard Her Call My Name as well as to the book’s language
one part describing her conventional biography—all of it lived in the persona of Luc—and the other recounting her progress since her “egg cracked” (one of the instances in which she does use trans lingo—presumably not of the shibboleth variety)
“Luc’s” history is interesting in its own right: The Belgian-born only child of indecisive Belgian immigrants
Sante spent childhood pinging back and forth between New Jersey and Belgium
the country her mother loved and forever yearned for
Luc was a foreigner who felt truly at home only in New York City
It was a run-down but still thrilling city where misfits
albeit in “hovels.” “Aside from the inevitable stereo,” Sante writes of these apartments
“they contained little in the way of current consumer goods; almost everything we owned was secondhand and likely scavenged.” Still
Luc was a punk aesthete whose friends included Jean-Michel Basquiat
certainly of an enviably authentic late 20th-century coolness
Despite being surrounded by every variety of rebel and free spirit
Lucy hid behind the facade of Luc—a male persona she describes as “saturnine
possibly ‘quirky,’ coming very close to asexual despite my best intentions.” She was and is deeply and comprehensively attracted to women
toward whom she has felt an almost abject reverence
(She often writes of not “deserving” to be one.) “I had tried so hard for so long to be a heterosexual man,” she writes
“that the need to behave like one took me over like a puppeteer whenever I found myself in the presence of a woman I found attractive.” But maleness itself
its sense of mission and conquest,” reminded her only of “the aspects of myself I most despised.”
“She often called me by feminine diminutives,” Sante writes of those early years
“I’m certain my mother wanted me to be a girl.” She feared men
and longed for a child who would be an extension of herself
her mother “searched my room on any pretext and read every bit of writing she found there
She wanted an account of everywhere I went and everyone I met.” Following each of two events signaling Sante’s independence—going off to college and getting married—her mother had nervous breakdowns and had to be hospitalized
She felt her child had betrayed her by growing up
and she never forgave Sante for “leaving” her
“we hated each other so intensely it was almost like love.”
tortuous relationship contribute to Sante’s gender dysphoria
Sante seems to think so but shows no interest in determining exactly how much—or in arguing that she was simply born that way
Making categorical declarations about such unknowable things is an activist’s proclivity
I Heard Her Call My Name is a revealing memoir
concerned only with documenting how this life and transition have felt to a single
“I don’t wish to be a spokesperson,” Sante writes in the book’s final chapter
She is less interested in establishing what made her what she is than she is in delivering a truthful accounting of what it has felt like to live almost seven decades denying “the consuming furnace at the center of my life.” The shame and unworthiness she still feels (despite supportive friends and many years of therapy) serve as reminders of just how hard it can be to shake off the bindings laid on during our childhoods
her life as Luc combined the performance of a male
intellectual identity and the relinquishing of almost every major decision to her female partners
“My marriages were succeeding monarchies,” she writes in one bravura paragraph that recapitulates lists of the lifestyle markers of the ’80s (“We ate at restaurants where you were served seven squid-ink ravioli on a plate the size of a bicycle wheel”) and ’90s (“We joined a food co-op and experimented with previously unknown leafy greens”)
“I underwent all these things passively,” Sante writes; “they were weather
as if I were visiting a foreign country and for diplomatic reasons had to undergo all the observances
While Sante’s particular predicament was unusual
this sensation of falseness will be familiar to many
You don’t have to suffer from gender dysphoria to feel that you “could mimic this or that specific behavior
but couldn’t sufficiently understand the underlying logic to knit the behaviors into a convincing personality.” A paradox of this breed of confessional writing
is that the more precisely and frankly the writer describes an individual experience
the easier it becomes for readers to recognize it as similar to dilemmas of their own
Even the one area in Sante’s life in which she felt confident
became contaminated by her unwillingness to face herself
“In the absence of any other notably masculine qualities,” she observes
it was writing that “became the principal signifier of my male identity
and gradually my social personality became coextensive with my work.” In time
“my work didn’t reflect me; I reflected it
So Luc was in many ways a walking byline.”
“I sometimes like to think of as my sad-sack ex-husband,” a hilariously homely and even fond way of accommodating a shucked-off identity
Sante’s writings have meant so much to so many readers it would be wrenching to have to dismiss them as the product of a person so self-deceiving they merely served to prop up the fraud
There has always been much truth in her work
flourishing like those renegade artists in the squalor of 1970s New York
NC — A man is wanted by law enforcement for involuntary manslaughter and drug charges following a fatal dose of Fentanyl
Duplin County officials have obtained warrants on 25-year-old Antonio Kyle Santes for his involvement in the death of 18-year-old Melana Villafranco
Deputies responded to a possible overdose death in the Beulaville area on September 14
Deputies say they located Villafranco who was pronounced dead by medical personnel
Santes told detectives that he had given her what he believed to be Xanax
a toxicity report confirmed that Villafranco died due to a fatal dose of Fentanyl
Santes is believed to be in the Kinston area
He is described as a white male with brown hair and green eyes and stands around 5 foot 10 inches tall
Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Santes is asked to contact the Duplin County Sheriff's Office at 910-372-9202 or 910-296-2150