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 As part of its $28 million expansion plan, the Church of the Incarnation in Uptown Dallas recently installed a 19-foot stained glass window that traveled across the ocean from the Canterbury Cathedral Stained Glass Studios in the United Kingdom The glistening electric blue background of window catches the eyes of the congregation It's a striking centerpiece in the church's Ascension Chapel with its high ceilings and and grand stone Gothic arches Here are five fascinating things about the Church of the Incarnation's new addition The production of the glass started back in 2005 but Canterbury Cathedral Studios didn’t actually start cutting glass up until two years ago There were lengthy conversations on every detail — from the window's colors to its theological framework and style Church of the Incarnation clergy wanted to pay homage to the original 800-year-old Redemption window of the actual Canterbury Cathedral This meant that the glaziers needed to use the same techniques that were used in the 13th century to keep it authentic “We had to have the glass specially mouth blown by specialists in Germany that still make glass in a medieval fashion.” These traditional methods also meant creating glass sheets with minor imperfections of color and thickness Getting the colors right for this specific window presented a challenge for the artists Since the church wanted to have the same kind of coloring made back in the 13th century the artists faced a wall when trying to get the red right colors weren’t made with pigment; they were made with metals but it was difficult to make and the formula was lost But Canterbury Cathedral Studios reached out to an American professor who studied this and figured out how the specific red was made It's a 21-century version of an authentic European cathedral window Windows that are 800 years old have suffered a lot. Oxidization, iconoclasm (where faces were vandalized because of fear of idolatry) and poor restoration have made it hard to preserve them. Bishop Tony Burton says there’s one place in the world where you can see what the windows of a European cathedral looked like the very day they were installed And that’s the Church of The Incarnation in Dallas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfxyL_uQxw4 Jessica Diaz-Hurtado is an NPR Kroc Fellow. As part of her fellowship, she’s spending several months reporting at KERA. You don't have permission to access the page you requested. What is this page?The website you are visiting is protected.For security reasons this page cannot be displayed. There will be a lot of bereft customers when the Vineyard Haven bakery and deli Life at Humphreys — a business that has been serving Islanders for three-quarters of a century — closes in May. Partners, Donna Diaz, the granddaughter of the founder of the original shop that opened 75 years ago, along with Peter Smyth, former owner of Slice of Life Cafe, have decided to move on to the next chapter of their lives. The current incarnation of Humphreys, with its legacy as one of the oldest continually run family businesses on the Island, got its start in the 1920s when founder Argie Humphreys married Diaz’s grandmother Bernice and sold bread out of the back of his car during the Depression; he also sold turnovers door to door during World War II. The couple would open their first store as a food co-op called Vineyard Food Shop in 1949, where Waterside Market is currently located. Humphreys sold pies, bread, cookies, and doughnuts until about 1952. He then took a leap that others couldn’t understand, deciding to pack up and leave downtown Vineyard Haven for a family property on State Road in West Tisbury. The shop began as a little shack, which Argie expanded over the years. In the late 1950s, Diaz’s mother baked all the cookies and cakes as a teenager, and later, when married, her husband made the bread and pies. Diaz herself has many fond childhood recollections of the shop. “I remember sitting on the sacks of flour and watching my grandfather making bread, rolling out the heart-shaped cookies, and giving us warm ones.” He also had Diaz and her cousins packaging the goodies up. “We’d race to see who could package them faster,” she recalls. Diaz says that Humphreys was a community institution from the beginning. “My grandfather was a really wonderful man. All the neighborhood kids would come, and he’d give them warm cookies out the back door. James Cagney and Katherine Hepburn used to come and have coffee. He had a whole little crew,” Diaz shares. Argie’s son Bartlett Humphreys took over the business in the 1970s. When he retired in the early 1990s, Diaz and her then-husband stepped in as the third generation to run the business, moving it to its present location in Woodland Center some 15 years ago. They also changed the menu, adding a selection of sandwiches but still using her grandfather’s fresh bread recipe — the same one used today. Diaz would eventually take over the shop a few years after divorcing her husband; nearing its 70th anniversary in 2018, Diaz began considering ways to revitalize and grow. Serendipitously, Smyth had just closed Slice of Life, his Oak Bluffs restaurant, and was looking for what to do next. “Ironically, they were looking for a baker, and a mutual friend said, ‘I’ve got a better idea,’ so Donna and I started meeting and realized it would be a good thing,” he said. Together, they rebranded as Life at Humphreys and the rest is history. You still have about a month to enjoy some of their classic sandwiches, including Humphreys Famous Turkey Gobbler with house-made roasted turkey and stuffing, accented with cranberry sauce; The Humphreys Cuban with roasted pork, ham, and Swiss cheese; Slice’s Fried Green Tomato BLT, and a Pesto Panini. Diaz reflects on her and Smyth’s six-year partnership, “We’ve become really good friends, and we are going to miss that.” Speaking about the end of an era, Smyth expresses how much he appreciates Diaz and her family. She acknowledged the loyal staff members who came with him from Slice of Life as well as the clientele who followed him. “People come in over the summer all the time and tell us, ‘I worked for your grandfather, and it was my first job.’ I want everybody to know that I appreciate it, and my family appreciates it. Honestly, I’m going to miss that the most,” she said. oh no! I wish you could sell it to someone. I enjoyed reading the history of Humphrey’s in this article. I still miss the old Humphrey’s location. Best wishes to two people who have served this island well. Now that goes a great piece of the island remember going up there all the time right at the split to go up North road or head up to South road stop and get an apple fritter I use to stop in when it was still in West Tisbury, on my way home from the Home Port..Giving out a shout out to Mark, grabbing a jelly donut and heading back to V.H, trying to gobble it down before I got home..It’s a sad day that it’s closing, a true piece of the Vineyard.. Soooo sad! I was heartbroken when Humphrey’s left West Tisbury. Such a retro piece of a vanishing Vineyard. Thanks for keeping my husband in Gobblers, and me in doughnuts! We will miss you. I have enjoyed your Belly Bombs with raspberry filling since 1978! I don’t eat donuts from anywhere else. I live in Boston and my son was married on the Island in 2019. I special ordered 40 belly bombs for Sunday after the wedding! They were a hit! Eating one was always a highlight of the week spent on the Island every year. Thank you and enjoy the next chapter in your lives. Good luck to your future endeavors and thank you to your family for the gift of Hunoreys. Many, many treasured memories in my heart thanks to your family. Started going to Humphreys back in 1987 when it was in West Tisbury will never forget the donuts and great pies too bad all the good little shops are closing an MV Martha’s menu it’s not the same anymore At the old West Tisbury location at the North Road split in the 60’ss their freshly baked loaves of oatmeal bread, sliced, toasted, and buttered were to die for! The MV Times comment policy requires first and last name for all comments. 2019Cameron Diaz at the Vanilla Sky premiere (2001).Photo: Getty ImagesSave this storySaveSave this storySaveLast week While the franchise’s newest incarnation failed to make any major impact worldly one in a tight leather skirt suit that carried a whisper of the dominatrix sleeping with a man (played by her former fiancé would continue to be the beaming girl next door just with a little more punching and jaw-breaking and Cameron Diaz at the screening of Charlie’s Angels (2000) Photo: Getty ImagesCharlie’s Angels was filmed at the height of Diaz’s career Diaz kicked bad guys to the curb in halter tops Who can forget the scene when Diaz wakes up in her sun-drenched room somewhere in Los Angeles gyrating in a pair of boy’s underwear to the tune of Tavares’s disco classic “Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel” Diaz’s costar Lucy Liu said of her character’s wardrobe: “For Cameron and it’s all about transformation and change—like turning a skirt into a tube top Something could cost $10 or $10,000—either way and people follow it.” Diaz and her Charlie’s Angels character’s wardrobe were a match made in heaven they seemed like they belonged to the same person off- and onscreen—and that’s because they basically did Liu’s observation about Diaz’s chameleonic take on fashion was surprisingly on point has perfected a more laid-back approach to the over-the-top There was plenty of unwearable excess during the post-Y2K years her costumes onscreen were never too far from her everyday her character’s wardrobe is a “girls just wanna have fun” dream after all.) She wears a heavy rotation of thigh-high boots and a barrage of useless but pretty mini scarves There are off-the-shoulder tops in fuchsia Her character as a New York–based crazed lover in Vanilla Sky was a little more pared-back but in a similar vein—just take the scene featuring Diaz’s signature booty shaking in caramel-hued leather pants her off-duty style had mainly consisted of elegantly pared-back outfits that weren’t dissimilar to those of her peer She was a fan of all-black sexy shiva-sitting looks—a turtleneck or a slip skirt—but toward the late ’90s Diaz’s personal style began to feel both more carefree and more attainable than Paltrow’s big-money minimalism You could see Diaz’s personality poking through She’d add a kicky high red shoe to a black pant or maybe wear a necklace that felt like it was pulled from a surf shop Even if she wasn’t someone who lived or died by fashion trends it was clear Diaz loved getting dressed up Diaz also displayed that innate flair for playful fashion the actress was styled by sisters Clare and Nina Hallworth—known within Hollywood circles as “the twins”—who speak highly of Diaz’s fashion knowledge to this day She looked beautiful in clothes and she was a pleasure Cameron was ahead of everyone,” they write “She wore what felt right.” The duo put her in several of her most memorable looks including the Emanuel Ungaro Haute Couture kimono dress she wore to the Oscars in 2002—a look that is now considered ahead of its time but landed Diaz on several worst-dressed lists it seems Cameron’s style couldn’t look any fresher Diaz at the Academy Awards in an Emmanuel Ungaro Haute Couture kimono dress the Duchess of Windsor’s embroidered handbag from Fred Leighton Photo: Getty Images In that same 2003 Vogue cover story the writer also notes Diaz’s knack for mixing and matching designers like Stella McCartney and Alexander McQueen with her own pieces like an antique necklace that she styled as a belt or a “pair of hippie-chick jeans.” The Annie Leibovitz “she can do it all!” fantastical circus-themed shoot featured Diaz wearing a hand-painted silk and chiffon blue Dior Haute Couture John Galliano gown It’s an anecdote that perfectly captures the offbeat high-low take on fashion that makes Diaz’s style feel relevant today PERTH AMBOY - They had a shark problem around here over a hundred years ago bludgeoning the beast out of commission and into local folklore though the bay waters still have a Peter Benchley glisten in early autumn On this Sunday with 37 days until Election Day the candidates in the mayor's election - mangled by [caption id="attachment_100323" align="alignright" width="300"] Diaz and her allies.[/caption] COVID-19 - took to the streets in pursuit of Perth Amboy voters where registered Democrats outnumber Republicans 13,158 to 1,959 the biggest plurality of Dems in Middlesex County The candidates - incumbent Mayor Wilda Diaz Vas - occupy a bracket on the ballot distinct from the presidential and other federal contests but a ballot question concerning the legalization of marijuana inevitably spills into the conversation "I'm for cannabis legalization," Vas told a voter as he stood on his porch Too many kids are already vaping and drinking And now we're going to making smoking grass legal "I'm against it," the voter said unequivocally Vas made the classic argument about regulating it to make it safer and put the emphasis of his argument on enforcing existing nuisance and disorderly persons laws He galloped down the steps and headed for the next house on the block here on Ridgeley Street off main artery Amboy Avenue Vas has some history in this town as he tries to take down the Diaz Administration His father was the mayor of this waterfront city for 18 years and built a fearsome reputation as a strong mayor who turned the place around from its former downtrodden self got taken out by Diaz in a shocking 2008 upset it's impossible to campaign around here as "Joe Vas" - they have a different middle initial so the latest incarnation isn't even a junior - without reconjuring the image of that damaged elder statesman: a power broker who literally loomed over people and sufficiently scared the local male political population in a way that propelled lowkey bankteller Diaz into the arena "I'm born and raised in this town and I've seen where it was and where it was going and where it has been stuck for the past 12 years," Vas told InsiderNJ I think he made an impression on this community I think the proof is really that you don't get elected to four terms if you're not doing something good "If people want to associate me with my father and his hard work and the things he was able to accomplish But part of his argument against Diaz is that she's been in City Hall for too long His father was almost in power for 20 years is that Wilda Diaz made a promise to the voters when she ran initially that she [caption id="attachment_103422" align="alignright" width="300"] Perth Amboy City Hall[/caption] and so I'm only holding her to what she said," said Vas which is the oldest city hall edifice in use in the United States "Property values are tied to a good school district and they're not meeting the standards," said the mayoral candidate who's running with School Board hopeful Manuel Fernandez one of 17 candidates in search of four seats "They're graduating 80% of the high school but they're not meeting the basic standards of proficiency I have filed nearly 1,000 tax appeals and successfully reduced taxes for a significant portion of those 1,000 petitions so I'm the only one who has really done something to reduce taxes." How else does he expect to help Perth Amboy change course That needs to go hand in hand with efficiencies in government It's unfortunate to mention it as this vigorous candidate zigzags up and down the block but if his father championed redevelopment as mayor he also got jammed up after flipping a Vas-purchased property to a contractor for $950,000 on an inducement of state Regional Contribution Agreement (RCA) funds to help pay for the building’s renovation It's not to say that young Vas would do the same (other sons of corruption-pulverized mayors have gone to serve with distinction; Marlboro Mayor Jon Hornik - son of the late Saul Hornik - comes to mind) Vas's challenge is to convey the freshness of self in the face of 12 years of Diaz while perfuming the better aspects of the older Vas record which the candidate argues speaks for itself Fernandez walked with Vas on Sunday and the young school board candidate testified personally to the former mayor's creation of Washington Park as one of those critical quality of life improvements he enjoyed as a youth in the Vas era [caption id="attachment_103423" align="alignnone" width="4608"] Manuel Fernandez candidate for the Perth Amboy Board of Education.[/caption] If the conversation revolved around those local stories and personalities and rivalries even in the midst of a presidential campaign it spoke to the primacy and uniqueness of Perth Amboy as its own political organism But it also reflected national election fatigue and disillusion "It's not a positive election," Fernandez said of the presidential collision and they consistently seem to be for Trump because they're looking to stick it to someone And the Biden voters I've talked to are for Biden because they are against Trump So it's a contest between two groups that are against something." at least one insider ho-hummed the race as a case of too many candidates being [caption id="attachment_102171" align="alignleft" width="150"] Caba[/caption] thereby giving an advantage to the incumbent who has a solid base; though failing a shocking Nov the challengers also seem to be individually hoping for a shot at a runoff election with the mayor A local Democratic Party chairman with connections to the county cognizant of establishment irritability over Diaz going rogue Caba seems in part to quietly inhabit the hopes of those fellow area electeds who once nursed good relations with Vas and could never depend on a sustained political friendship with Diaz It was not merely out of progressive fervor that Diaz backed Bernie Sanders over Cory Booker (when the New Jersey senator was a presidential contender) and Joe Biden Pabon and Irizarry (like Caba a former Diaz running mate) have their grudges with the mayor But if the former occupied the Vas wing of the party when he ran for a city council seat only one man in the race now has the corner market on making the case for a complete reversal of this waterfront burgh back to the Vas era - courtesy of a younger version [caption id="attachment_103413" align="alignnone" width="4608"] Vas on the campaign trail.[/caption] I would like to receive emails from Insider NJ Today’s post is a review of Miguel H. Diaz’s new book Queer God de Amor from Fordham Press, an installment of the “Disruptive Cartographers: Doing Theology Latinamente” series. You can find more information about the book by clicking here Within the rich lineage of Catholic spiritual masters, St. John of the Cross (1542-1591) cuts a distinctive figure. In the English-speaking world, he is perhaps best known for his treatise on The Dark Night, a major work of mysticism to which we owe the popular idea of a “dark night of the soul.” Though St. John himself did not actually use that phrase he did describe experiences of spiritual anguish in ways that still speak powerfully to this day—one reason for the abiding interest in his work San Juan de la Cruz is equally well-known as one of the greatest poetic stylists in the Spanish language including The Dark Night (La Noche Oscura) take the form of elaborate commentaries on mystical poems he specially composed for that purpose it is even more difficult to miss the fact that San Juan’s poems are sexy he figures the relationship between God and the human soul as a romance between lovers though Juan does not always gender the soul both lover and beloved are (implicitly or explicitly) male Queer God de Amor is wonderfully provocative and illuminating One might think that San Juan’s eroticism would suggest his work as a resource for all those struggling to make theological sense of human sexuality practicing Catholics (especially LGBTQ Catholics) most scholars and many readers of San Juan downplay the erotic aspect of his writings tending instead either to “spiritualize” it (“he’s not really talking about that”…) or simply ignore it Yet there is simply “no denying the sexuality” evident in Juan’s poetry sexuality was integral to Juan’s spirituality which recognized human sexual union as the most fitting analogue for mystical union with God rather than the commentary—is not immediately about spiritual anguish or divine absence at all Drawing on an established genre of Iberian love poetry it narrates the furtive midnight tryst between a lover and his beloved and the “transformation of each into the other” that takes place when they unite “Upon my flowering chest which I kept for him alone/there he fell asleep/and I caressing him,” San Juan exults in one stanza before recounting how his lover “wounded my neck in another poem called “The Living Flame of Love” (“Llama de Amor Viva”) Juan begins by begging his lover to stop being shy and “break the veil of this sweet encounter” (“rompe la tela de este dulce encuentro”) and of the reader by Juan’s poetry—only escalates Díaz’s aim in Queer God de Amor is not to argue that San Juan’s theology is only was himself sexually active or gay; as Díaz notes Díaz’s book is up to something both more plausible and profound Queer God de Amor is an exploration of how Juan de la Cruz understood the vexed relationship between spirituality and sensuality the saint still has much to teach us today What I most appreciated about Díaz’s book was its theological depth the author draws his readers into the Trinitarian heart of San Juan’s theology bringing into focus the distinctive vision of God that informed the saint’s piety God is above all a relational communion of Persons and whose ecstatic love for one another so overflows that they cannot resist creating others to share in their love are the doubly graced recipients of divine love God seduces us to surrender ourselves ever more fully into that union And because we are ourselves created in the image of the Triune God our relationships with other human persons—including our sexual relationships— reflect Díaz invites his readers to draw this amorous vision of God from San Juan as a resource for our own spirituality both Juan’s theology and his poetry hold unique potential to help us discern the grace at work in our daily living and loving and to see our queer relationships for what they truly are: not sources of shame but participations in the “living flame” of God’s love Díaz also acknowledges that our relationships are not always vehicles for grace especially when we forget that its ultimate purpose I finished the book curious for Díaz to say more about what leading our queer sexual lives sanjuanistamente (“in the manner of San Juan”) might actually look like in practice I wished for further discussion of the appropriate role of asceticism though Queer God de Amor only begins to engage these questions it furnishes a strong theological foundation for exploring them more fully married to a gay Catholic Mexican-American; I am also the hijo and sobrino of two Spanish literature professors both of whom taught me to love San Juan de la Cruz long before I studied theology or came to terms with my sexuality a particular joy of reading this book was experiencing it weave so many parts of my life together: my family and my faith my cultural heritage and my theological training I suspect I am far from the only reader who will have this experience Queer God de Amor reminds us that those very aspects of ourselves which we may see as set apart [1] The series editors for the book rightly observe that those who belong to the “Latino” community refer to ourselves and our communities in a multiplicity of ways most often uses “Latin@” or “Latinx,” the latter of which aims to include those who do not identify with the normative gender binary I prefer the term “Latine,” which is presently less well-known in the U.S. but more widely used by queer communities in Latin America—and far less unwieldy in Spanish and website in this browser for the next time I comment Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value" This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply Seven Eastern Mennonite University students raised their voices in a call for practical peacemaking Mar Each speaker applied the Christian peace position to a contemporary concern in an 8-10 minute address of 1,500 words or less a sophomore philosophy and theology major from Mexico City Mexico was first runner-up with his speech “Unwanted Aliens: the Jewish and Hispanic Story.” Drawing on similarities between the Jewish people of Bible times and contemporary society he urged his audience to “develop relationships with your Hispanic brothers and sisters Invite them and visit each others’ congregations and set your tables for them.” a senior peacebuilding and development major from Baltimore “Being the body of Christ means allowing the model of the incarnation to challenge us radically to an embodied faith a faith that wrestles with what the incarnation of the Word of God means and the role of the body in our theology – a faith that approaches each person barefoot encountering holy ground,” Bruackmann stated Sarriott receives a cash prize and entry in the bi-national competition with winners from other Mennonite-related colleges and universities in the United States and Canada The bi-national winner will be announced in late September/early October Sarriott plans to join nine other people in SEED a two-year peacebuilding program in Colombia with Mennonite Central Committee open to students in Mennonite and Brethren in Christ universities and colleges in Canada and the United States is administered by Peace and Justice Ministries of Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) U.S The contest was established in 1974 in honor of the late C a Mennonite historian and professor at Goshen College and Bluffton University NEW YORK, Dec. 5 (UPI) -- Actress Cameron Diaz says she loved the idea of reinventing for a new audience the iconic character of Miss Hannigan in the movie musical Annie but it is a completely different movie," Diaz told reporters at a roundtable interview in New York Thursday Diaz went on to explain how her Hannigan was unlike her big-screen predecessor Carol Burnett's Great Depression-era villain "I really feel like it's a completely different performance a different character for this generation and I feel like Hannigan's issues are different," noted the 42-year-old actress She was drinking because she didn't get married Miss Hannigan is drinking because she doesn't have fame." "It's an epidemic in our society that we have to look at how many 'likes' we have and how many people follow us to validate whether or not we are seen and if we are worthy of love I think that Hannigan is just a representation of that And not until she learns that she is worthy of love and that she should love herself and the way she treats those kids is the same way she is treating herself -- even worse maybe inside -- until she learns to love herself she doesn't come around and is able to become who she really I always made sure they were warm and they were looked after Look out for your first newsletter in your inbox soon The best of New York straight to your inbox We help you navigate a myriad of possibilities Sign up for our newsletter for the best of the city By entering your email address you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy and consent to receive emails from Time Out about news Sign up for our email to enjoy New York without spending a thing (as well as some options when you’re feeling flush) Our newsletter hand-delivers the best bits to your inbox Sign up to unlock our digital magazines and also receive the latest news By entering your email address you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy and consent to receive emails from Time Out about news, events, offers and partner promotions. New York The downtown pioneer and his regulars take a look back unspools at the Celebration of Whimsy on Saturday and Diaz will be back in town from Los Angeles (where he now works as an actor when he’s not hosting parties) some of the members of Diaz’s Giuliani-era rat pack look back on the days gone by Thanks for subscribing! Look out for your first newsletter in your inbox soon! Photograph: Shutterstock"I was 21 and living on the same block as the Cock. Foxy was the first party I remember going to in NYC. It was sweaty and cramped, and Justin Vivian Bond and Jackie Beat were hosting that night. They were hilarious and totally intimidating in the most glamorous sense. I mean, I hadn't ever seen queens that sharp. I distinctly remember surveying the spectacle and thinking, Oh, okay, I wanna get this kind of loose."   Photograph: Amos Mac"Oh, hon. At Foxy, they served me my whiskey gingers in pint glasses that they passed from the bar to the stage, via the crowd. It was an unforgettable party—although I certainly can't remember much of it. The graffitti in the toilet said, READ NOAM CHOMSKY! In my opinion, that's good advice for someone while they're doing blow or getting blown." Photograph: Deidre Schoo"I really built up my performance chops at the Cock. I mean, if you can get someone to watch what you're doing instead of getting a blow job, then you know you've got skills!" "There was a Thursday when Marc Almond, Jimmy Somerville, Pete Burns and Andy Bell were all there. It was greatest queers of the ’80s! But my favorite memory is when someone lost their false teeth in the back room. We had them pinned to the wall of the DJ booth. A year later, the patron returned and claimed them."  "Working at the Cock was like deejaying on a sinking ship in the best way possible: naked people running around, fun in the back room… I was once hired to go-go dance on the bar dressed up as Linda Blair from The Exorcist. The fun really never ended at the Cock till 6am. Things like this don't happen anymore in this city. I'm so glad I was a part of the good times." tiktokfacebooktwitteryoutubeAbout us Contact us 2019ORLANDO — Dan Mullen doesn’t praise his quarterbacks often Florida’s second-year coach said once-embattled now-entrenched quarterback Feleipe Franks improved more this offseason than he did all of last season but a packed house at Camping World Stadium and a national ESPN audience finally got to see what he meant Franks rebounded from a disastrous interception with a daring fourth-quarter drive that led No The victory was UF’s second in the last eight games in the series and spoiled the head coaching debut of the Hurricanes’ Manny Diaz against Mullen It was also the perfect encapsulation of Franks — good a gorgeous bomb that sparked the game-winning touchdown for UF (1-0) “He’s not a guy that’s going to flinch,” receiver Josh Hammond said Florida Gators quarterback Feleipe Franks (13) celebrates after a touchdown during the first quarter of the game at Camping World Stadium on August 24 [ Tampa Bay Times ]The early star in front of an announced crowd of 66,543 wasn’t Franks First it was the Hurricanes’ turnover chain The latest incarnation of Diaz’s gaudy creation made its first appearance in the second quarter when Franks and Lamical Perine botched a handoff they had to watch former Freedom High standout Scott Patchan celebrating with 2,000 sapphires around his neck RELATED: Scott Patchan’s first start for Miami comes with swag The chain returned on the next drive when Jesuit High alumnus Malik Davis couldn’t handle Franks’ pitch. Then it was Miami’s new bejeweled touchdown rings, which DeeJay Dallas got to slip on after ripping off a 50-yard fourth-quarter run that gave the ’Canes a 20-17 lead. The turnover chain came out again when Franks sailed a pass off Freddie Swain’s fingers and into the hands of Amari Carter. It was Franks’ first interception in 157 passes — the second-longest streak without a pick in UF history. Miami Hurricanes safety Amari Carter (5) intercepted a pass fromFlorida Gators quarterback Feleipe Franks (13) during the fourth quarter of the game at Camping World Stadium on August 24, 2019 in Orlando, Florida. [ MONICA HERNDON | Tampa Bay Times ]Miami missed a field goal, so the damage was limited. But given how fragile Franks’ psyche has been at times, it still could have been catastrophic. Subscribe to our free Sports Today newsletter You’re all signed up!Want more of our free, weekly newsletters in your inbox? Let’s get started. “Adversity’s the game of football,” Franks said They hoped the offensive line finally held and Franks fired a 65-yard strike to Hammond Mullen said he wasn’t sure whether he would have put Franks in a position to make a play like the bomb to Hammond a year ago “I’m putting the game in his hands,” Mullen said Florida Gators quarterback Feleipe Franks (13) runs the ball during the first quarter against Miami Hurricanes on Saturday [ ALLIE GOULDING | Times ]He completed his next pass Franks capitalized with a bruising 3-yard run up the middle and into the end zone He was hit on his next throw and didn’t see Romeo Finley lurking for an interception You can look at that as a sign of growth because Mullen again trusted him to throw the ball with the lead and 4:30 left Or you can view it as another hard-to-believe interception that would have been devastating against a better team The ’Canes had back-to-back 15-yard penalties to kill a potential scoring drive before it could truly begin “This just shows we're not ready to be a big time team yet,” Diaz said if it plays the way it did in the final sloppy minutes with a pair of pass interference penalties and an inability to corral loose balls His numbers weren’t great (17-of-27 passing for 254 yards) His two interceptions were bad and could have been worse But he also made an NFL-caliber throw on the play of the night to set up the touchdown — his touchdown — that beat in-state rival Miami Contact Matt Baker at mbaker@tampabay.com. Follow @MBakerTBTimes My first mission as a Dominican sister was in a rural area of the central Andes It’s one of nearly 50 languages spoken in Peru Four other Dominican sisters and I were responsible for the administration of a parish that included 29 small villages Dominican sisters have been representing “the official church” in these villages The sisters were commissioned by the Archdiocese of Huancayo to baptize celebrate the Liturgy of the Word with Communion the archbishop visited two or three small villages every year a priest was available to visit our parish most of the villages had Eucharist and reconciliation just once every year By coming into contact with the people from a culture different from mine I learned that the church does not look the same in every place I learned that evangelization is not a one-way process it involves “mutual enrichment.” I matured in my faith during the three years I served in that mission The people in these small villages have a deep connection with the land the means for their children’s education and medical treatments and the existence of livestock depend on the products of the earth I witnessed the faith of the people who prayed for God’s providential care every morning The people of the rural communities in the central Andes as well as indigenous people of the Amazon maintain a deep relationship and care for creation that many of us who live in urbanized industrial and technological nations have lost industrial and technological nations devastate the land rivers and air in the Andes and in the Amazon Their extractive activity and greed are bringing to the region new diseases The people are experiencing a socio-environmental crisis and displacement of indigenous nations Before these multinational companies arrived indigenous nations — Catholics and non-Catholics alike — had a lifestyle that preserved creation The catastrophic situation in the Amazon is what prompted missionaries living in those areas (bishops members of religious congregations and lay missionaries) to call for a synod Pope Francis heard their cry and called a Synod for the Amazon The synod included the input of Catholics from nine countries sharing the Pan-Amazonian region (Peru lay leaders of indigenous nations and non-Catholic social leaders have been killed defending the rights of indigenous nations and of ecosystems One purpose of the synod was to find ways to more effectively reflect the presence of God in those areas where life is threatened “How do we want to be a presence of the church and of God there?” Do we transport our way of being Catholics in developed cities to indigenous people Do we go as the Spaniards of 500 years ago did carrying the attitude that we have God and they have to learn and accept everything from us The synod calls for a conversion of attitude evangelization has involved an inculturation of the Gospel and implied respect for other cultures The incarnation is the first major example of inculturation The son of God was born as a human person within a particular culture But we also profess in our creed that he was a man Consider his encounter with the Syrophoenician woman in Mark 7:24-30 (a Canaanite in which he initially refuses to heal her daughter only to be persuaded by her to change his mind This unnamed Gentile woman is the hero of the story Jesus learned from this encounter how he was biased by his own culture and religion The origin of our Gospels also provides clear evidence of inculturation The Gospels were born within different communities and cultures The author of Mark spoke to a mixed community with the majority being Gentile Christians; the author of Matthew spoke to a majority of Jewish Christians; and the author of Luke spoke to a completely Gentile Christian community This explains why Jesus in Luke seems more like a Greco-Roman hero The writers emphasized some teachings and actions of Jesus according to the needs and lifestyle of the each of their communities This is what it means to be a member of a universal church the church was diverse because the initial leaders were sent to evangelize different communities and cultures Peter’s communities looked different from Paul’s and both were different from the Johanine communities One of the results of the two-year process of the Synod for the Amazon was the recognition of how God and God’s seeds of salvation are already present in the Amazon region the final document of the synod calls Catholics in the countries of the Pan-Amazonian region to an “integral conversion: a pastoral Because Catholics share the land with non-Catholics We are called to walk together being respectful of each other’s religious expressions to defend creation Catholics are challenged to be present in the Amazonian region We do not “bring the Gospel” to the people there We are called to recognize how the Gospel is already present there and proclaim it This is what inculturation means today around the globe We read in the Second Vatican Council’s decree on missionary activity “Ad Gentes”: “On the one hand the treasures contained in diverse cultures allow the word of God to produce new fruits and on the other hand the light of the word allows for a certain selectivity with respect to what cultures have to offer.” The interconnection that indigenous people in the Amazon have with the earth is one of the seeds of the Gospel All Catholics can learn from them how to live more sustainably we reflect on how God is calling us through his incarnation to a deep inculturation of our own here in this land We do not have to go to the Amazon to encounter other cultures This is a nation rich in cultural diversity My prayer is that we celebrate the seeds of the Gospel spread throughout the many cultures present in the United States the many ways in which we experience the surpassing truth that God Sr Mila Díaz Solano OP is a Dominican Sister of Springfield and an assistant professor of biblical studies and homiletics at Mundelein Seminary/University of St This article was adapted from a talk that Díaz delivered at Archbishop Quigley Center December 10 2019 With thanks to the Archdiocese of Chicago The owners of Below Zero Lounge in Over-the-Rhine are planning a new bar in Northside with a name that pays homage to a beloved Cincinnati entertainer from the past is named for Tillie the elephant of the Terrace Park-based Robinson Circus a popular traveling show in the late 19th and early 20th centuries She once paraded down the streets of Northside service to humanity and outstanding achievements in her role as an entertainer.” Though Tillie’s will have accents related to its namesake Diaz and Cotterill are forgoing a circus theme but want to keep the feel of Tillie’s era housed in an 1881 building that was a cobbler shop for 77 years will featuring designs by Dwellings on Madison and incorporate art deco accents located near Bistro Grace and Django Western Taco It’s gotten a complete makeover from its previous incarnation Diaz said they envision Tillie’s as an intimate neighborhood bar featuring specialty sparkling champagne cocktails named after Northside nostalgia craft beer from local breweries and a wide selection of wine plus bite-size desserts sourced from a local restaurant or bakery Diaz is a CCM musical theater graduate and has connections in that world that he’ll use to bring in live entertainment the bar’s music parlor There will be a few TVs for watching sporting and other big TV events The owners hope to have a series of soft openings beginning later this month and open to the public after the new year with a grand opening bash planned for February They’ll also strive to be environmentally friendly recycling 80 percent of waste and installing energy- and water-efficient equipment Diaz said they’re excited about the potential they see in Northside just as they were about Over-the-Rhine when they opened Below Zero there in June 2007 long before the recent boom in bars and restaurants there “It’s just going to be a lot of fun,” Diaz said of Tillie’s “It’s going to be something Northside hasn’t seen in a while.” McG's thoughts on a third Charlie's Angels strike a hopeful balance and Lucy Liu breathe new life into the ‘70s action series Two successful movies with that team working alongside director McG still have people wondering if Charlie’s Angels 3 could happen with the cinematic OGs the helmer behind those movies does have some very specific thoughts on what it might take to get things off the ground.  the man whose real name is Joseph McGinty Nichol sounded enthusiastic to potentially return for another round of explosive antics he did include some caveats with those sentiments especially when it came to his opinion on Elizabeth Banks’ variant of Charlie’s Angels Here’s what Nichol had to say:  It would take a long discussion with those three wonderful performers who I adore I was very happy to see Elizabeth Banks take the helm and do what she did There always seems to be chatter about that I’m very happy to discuss it with Drew and Cameron and Lucy It’s just sort of like there can be a keeper of the flame and you can pass the torch with claims of their feuding behavior being nothing more than gossip and it spells an uncertain future for a potential Charlie’s Angels 3 which has Joseph leaving the matter with these final words:  Maybe we’ve got one left in us that tells a very compelling story if the opportunity presents itself They looked out for me when I was a first-time filmmaker I was very nearly fired off that film on many and Drew stood up for me and I’m forever indebted to her those are three performers where God broke the mold As one of the best movie adaptations of a ‘70s TV show the '00s reboot to Charlie’s Angels clearly still has a devoted fan base buzzing over its potential return there are a lot of moving pieces that’d need to be put together to pave the way.  maybe there's room for a crossover between the 2000 reboot Angels and the newer generation from Elizabeth Banks' film While the world of entertainment sorts itself out on these matters you can kick back with the nostalgia of that first McG-directed entry which is currently streaming free with ads on Pluto TV though that title’s more of a guideline really Passionate about entertainment since grade school the movies have always held a special place in his life Mike graduated from Drew University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science but swore off of running for public office a long time ago Mike's expertise ranges from James Bond to everything Alita Freakier Friday’s Chad Michael Murray Reveals The Backstory He Had In Mind For Jake Zoe Saldaña Teases The ‘Pain’ Neytiri Is Going To Deal With In Avatar 3 Lorne Michaels Used To 'Ban' Chris Farley From SNL Amidst Drug Addiction: 'Obviously Marcus Fenix and Kait Diaz are coming to Fortnite Chapter 3. The Gears of War characters were teased early on as Chapter 3 launched debuting officially in the Season 1 overview trailer Over the course of the original Gears of War trilogy Marcus helped define the modern image of the surly badass videogame "space marine." Kait Diaz then picked up the mantle of Gears protagonist after growing up as a member of the Stranded clan a group of survivors who shunned the militaristic rule of the COGs  Now they get to win some victory royales alongside Spider-Man and Ariana Grande the Gears characters will be available on the night of December 9 at 7 PM ET Here's what Marcus and Kait look like in-game.  it's a pretty solid conversion to the Fortnite world Marcus looks appropriately aged for his Gears 5 incarnation and Kait is wearing the same winter outfit she trekked around in on her journey in the same game The Gears of War skins are accompanied by several new cosmetic items as well There's a new glider based on the wind-powered sled Kait and company drives around in Gears 5 a couple of Locust weapons as harvesting tools As if three pickaxes and all the rest weren't enough Marcus Fenix comes with an exclusive darker outfit for Xbox Series X/S players Your only requirement is to play a match on Xbox Series X/S after purchasing the skin Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals XBOX SERIES X/S EXCLUSIVE EDIT STYLE!! pic.twitter.com/1AqUgYFHBtDecember 9, 2021 the set also includes a "Knife Tricks" emote a wall spray of Locust grunts climbing out of an Emergence Hole which is basically just a red version of the COG symbol You can earn that Crimson Omen spray by finishing the Delta One quests that have been newly added to the quest tab on the main menu While we're waiting for Marcus Fenix and Kait Diaz to drop into the fray, check out our Fortnite Chapter 3 guides for more news on the latest skins Control, this is Delta Squad. We've got a problem. Epic Games' next collaboration will be with a series it helped create. Fortnite Gears of War skins have leaked thanks to the game's official Polish YouTube channel publishing the Chapter 3, Season 1 battle pass trailer ahead of schedule While Marcus Fenix and Kait Diaz are not in the battle pass for the upcoming season it seems they won't be far behind as apparent Item Shop additions as they're teased in the same trailer as the battle pass' eight new characters You can catch Kait and Marcus preparing for battle in the leaked Fortnite trailer linked above though if you don't want any other Chapter 3 spoilers you can instead just stick to a screenshot from the leaked trailer embedded below No doubt the characters will come as part of the Gaming Legends series which already includes famous faces such as Kratos It's a series that has been updated a lot just in the past year so we can expect even more gaming icons to make the jump to Fortnite in short order Got a news tip or want to contact us directly? Email news@gamespot.com ESCLog in to comment "data-img-src" : imgSrc } = buylink %> />><%= itemTitle %> and deals sent to your inbox Monday to Friday By Scott CantrellSpecial Contributor its massive effect enhanced by the hall's rich acoustics producer of the nationally broadcast radio program Pipedreams Opening this season's series of three organ recitals there sponsored by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra Some of the chitchat with performers could have used editing Dallas has long been home to lots of great organists There's hardly room to critique each of the program's 10 performances but if any of the players wants a publicity quote they are free to use "top-notch technique and musicianship." News RoundupsCatch up on the day's news you need to know GoogleFacebookBy signing up you agree to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy The selections, all from the 20th and 21st centuries, were enterprising,and showed off everything from hushed shimmers to bone-crunching roars, undergirded by a 32' pedal reed that sounds like an enormous bass drum. James Diaz, director of music at St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church, opened with a flashy Prelude, from a 1950s Suite by American composer Paul Creston. Then came two French classics: Marcel Dupré's spinning "Fileuse" and the brilliant Toccata of Maurice Duruflé. Jonathan Gregoire, associate director of music at St. Andrew United Methodist Church in Plano, tossed off two prelude-and-fugue pairs by Henry Martin, a jazz-steeped professor of music at Rutgers University. Both the fugues in A-flat major and F minor called for virtuoso pedalwork, and Gregoire certainly delivered. Louis Vierne, the early 20th-century blind organist of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, was represented by cascades  of notes in the Final from his Fifth Organ Symphony. Closing the program, the Finale from Sunday Music by the late Czech composer Petr Eben began with fluttery figurations underlying big reed dialogues. After a gentler section, with solo voices over string chords, big tuba flourishes were trumpeted over subterranean pedal rumbles, after which the theme was thundered out by the pedals. Scott Cantrell, former classical music critic of The Dallas Morning News, has also written for The New York Times and numerous music magazines. Thank you for reading. We welcome your thoughts on this topic. Comments are moderated for adherence to our Community Guidelines. Please read the guidelines before participating. Spain's Isabel Diaz Ayuso is seeking re-election as Madrid's regional leader through blistering attacks on Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez With Spaniards set to vote in local and municipal polls on Sunday Ayuso has directed much of her campaign remarks at Sanchez deriding his time in office as a "disaster" -- and setting the tone for a year-end general election battle Known for her acerbic and polarising comments Ayuso shot to prominence as one of the best-known faces of Spain's right-wing Popular Party during the Covid pandemic Her remarks have drawn comparisons with those of Donald Trump or Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro "Sanchez hates Madrid," she said during a televised debate with candidates hoping to replace her on May 28 "It's Sanchez or Spain," she said this week she accused Sanchez of wanting to keep himself in power and "put the opposition in jail Ayuso abruptly called a snap poll aimed at capitalising on the support she had earned among some residents by minimising restrictions on the local economy presenting Madrid as the "capital of freedom." barely two years after taking power as a virtual unknown with opinion polls suggesting she could secure an absolute majority in the regional parliament which would let her govern Spain's richest region of 6.7 million people without support from the far-right Vox party A telegenic journalism graduate with a penchant for brightly coloured suits Ayuso's decision to stick the knife in Sanchez is effective it serves as a "smokescreen" to avoid "issues that are awkward for her" such as Madrid's troubled health system or its housing shortages a political scientist at the city's Complutense University "she wants to set the party line" even if it means going over the head of its more moderate leader Alberto Nunez Feijoo making clear "that her ambitions are national" said Ana Sofia Cardenal of Catalonia's Open University She is "the incarnation of a right-wing Madrid" that believes the PP "must strengthen itself ideologically on the right and engage in a polarised fight" with the left in order to "keep Vox at a distance" a political scientist at the Autonomous University of Barcelona Polls suggest that while PP would win the year-end general election it would need the support of Vox to form a government Ayuso could pose "a real danger" to Feijoo if she wins an absolute majority on Sunday and other PP candidates who are closer to him obtain a less impressive result Such a scenario brings to mind the bitter public confrontation in February 2022 between Ayuso and the PP's former leader Pablo Casado which he lost and resulted in his ouster from the party But analysts said Ayuso would struggle to apply what has been a winning approach in Madrid where voters are increasingly leaning to the right "This strategy wouldn't work in the rest of Spain as it does in Madrid," said Cardenal where the PP -- which has only three of the 135 regional deputies -- practically "doesn't exist" Get insights and exclusive content from the world of business and finance that you can trust 11-01-2022CONNECTED WORLD Ralph Lauren designed a new logo to woo a new shoppers [Images: courtesy Ralph Lauren/Epic Games] BY Jesus Diaz Ralph Lauren’s logo has been the same silhouette of a guy riding atop a purebred horse The signature Polo Pony logo is a classic design for a buttoned-up brand you’ll see a new incarnation of that logo for the first time ever Specifically designed for a Fortnite collection the new logo features the polo dude riding Fortnite’s iconic piñata llama The redesign is part of a bigger partnership between the fashion brand and the gaming platform which includes Lauren-designed in-game outfits and an IRL clothing line that complements Ralph Lauren’s chief innovation officer and the founder’s son couldn’t give me a definitive explanation as to why the company decided to change Ralph Lauren’s iconic logo and it felt fun,” he told me during a recent conversation “We didn’t do any focus groups here.” Of course there is a bit more to it than he’s letting on Fashion brands go where their customers are and their customers are increasingly in virtual worlds “We were one of the first brands to build a website to play with video games and holograms in our own stores and partner with other digital players like Bitmoji,” Lauren says But there’s a reason for this madness beyond throwing cybernetic polo horse dung into the proverbial wall to see if it sticks the quest to try new technology is not so much about the tech itself and you can’t inspire aspiration without telling a compelling story  Technology is a tool to tell those stories and the Fortnite venture is just the latest manifestation of what the brand says it has been doing all along Ralph Lauren founded the company in the late ’60s (and came up with the original logo) after watching the famous polo scene in The Thomas Crown Affair “He loved the aspirational lifestyle,” Lauren says of his father a man so rich that he organizes a bank heist just for the thrill of it Crown lives in a fantastically elegant and posh New England universe where everything seems like postcards from Martha’s Vineyard and Beacon Hill everyone wanted to be like those WASPs portrayed on the silver screen so he created a brand to help people role-play that lifestyle “My father never knew how to cut or sew or paste or stitch a product,” Lauren says and he was creating clothes because they were almost like clothes that you would live in in his movie.” The Fortnite generation probably doesn’t give a damn about McQueen they like to play games in metaverses like Fortnite which was chosen for the partnership because of how cool it felt to the company’s creative team: “It looked so modern and so exciting and so future-thinking that it really inspired us.” It seems that firing space guns in a highly stylized colorful metaverse felt like the new Thomas Crown Affair to the Ralph Lauren team Lauren says that he believes that the metaverse can be a new medium to tell stories for the brand, just like film, TV, and magazines (print). Funnily enough, this is exactly the same thing Neal Stephenson—the sci-fi author who coined the term—told me a couple of weeks ago Lauren’s idea of the metaverse includes goggles Lauren believes that virtual reality is here to stay: “There’s no doubt that everything we’re building today [referring to Meta’s Oculus] will be archaic in just a few years It’s just about embracing them so that we can build momentum as a culture to the next thing,” he says is that a clothing brand has to sell stuff And that’s ultimately the end goal for Ralph Lauren’s metaverse experiments and speaking to a new generation through a logo that’s shakes off the stodginess of the physical world If you want a virtual Ralph Lauren piece with a piñata llama polo player the company will charge 1,500 VBUX (Fortnite’s digital currency) per outfit and 1,300 for an accessory bundle the company will be selling hats and polos with the new logo from $60 to $188 A real boot that looks exactly like the boots your digital avatar can purchase inside Fortnite In a clever real-world-meets-virtual-world move the boots will be made from the same exact CAD files seems like a cool thing to have if you are an actual Fortnite head Lauren couldn’t tell me how much the boots will cost The final deadline for Fast Company’s Brands That Matter Awards is Friday, May 30, at 11:59 p.m. PT. Apply today. Fast Company & Inc © 2025 Mansueto Ventures Fastcompany.com adheres to NewsGuard’s nine standards of credibility and transparency. Learn More "Greed is good," robber baron Gordon Gecko declared in "Wall Street." As the world reels over the great recession resulting from that philosophy Hollywood is selling tickets for some moralizing over the price of greed led by Jim Carrey in a new incarnation of Charles Dickens' great skinflint Crafted through the same motion-capture techniques and computer animation used on "The Polar Express" and "Beowulf," Robert Zemeckis' "A Christmas Carol" features Carrey as Scrooge and the three holiday ghosts who show him the error of his miserly ways Documentary firebrand Michael Moore weighs in with "Capitalism: A Love Story," expanding the humor-and-heartbreak approach of his General Motors tale "Roger & Me" for an assault on the practices of corporations and financial speculators Cameron Diaz and James Marsden are forced into some serious money moralizing in "The Box," about a couple given a contraption that will deliver $1 million with the press of a button — at the cost of a stranger's life Because you might really regret it one day," Diaz said "I would hope that I would find another way to solve my problems other than having to kill somebody." Hollywood's prestige season includes entries from Academy Award winners Morgan Freeman and Hilary Swank as real-life role models Swank stars as Amelia Earhart in director Mira Nair's "Amelia," co-starring Richard Gere and Ewan McGregor in the life story of the aviation pioneer who vanished on her around-the-world flight in 1937 "Invictus" reunites Freeman with "Million Dollar Baby" and "Unforgiven" director Clint Eastwood for the story of Nelson Mandela's partnership with a rugby star (Matt Damon) who helped unify their country as South Africa's team makes an underdog dash through the 1995 World Cup Joel and Ethan Coen return to their Minnesota roots with "A Serious Man," about a physics professor in the late 1960s abandoned by his wife as he struggles with a layabout brother two problem children and blackmail and career sabotage on campus Jim Sheridan's "Brothers" stars Natalie Portman Tobey Maguire and Jake Gyllenhaal in a drama about a U.S Marine captain who returns from the dead to find that his black-sheep brother has stepped in as man of the house for his wife and kids Peter Jackson adapts Alice Sebold's "The Lovely Bones," featuring Rachel Weisz Mark Wahlberg and Susan Sarandon in the saga of a murdered girl (Saoirse Ronan) watching over her grieving family — as well as her killer — from beyond the grave "I read the book and I cried," Jackson said "If you've lost somebody and somebody close to you has passed away because it affirms the afterlife and it gives you hope And it gives you an understanding that so long as you remember people and so long as you honor their memory News | Jan 3 The earthshaking new sound of psychedelic rock was not exactly what Jack Casady was looking for in the fall of 1965 product played his bass to more rooted ends: rockabilly and rock ‘n’ roll in the old-school tradition of Fats Domino.But when Casady was invited by his childhood buddy Jorma Kaukonen to head west to the epicenter of the nascent counterculture in San Francisco there to join the rock band the Jefferson Airplane there was the promise of $50 a week (whether the band played gigs or not!) Just as important was the opportunity to do something new to play music without charts or restraints.”The great thing about it was I was coming out of a situation where no one wanted you to play original music Everyone wanted you to do cover material,” said Casady “And that was death to you creatively So I was pleased to work things out how I saw fit I came from a background where you played with charts and three saxes.”Jefferson Airplane – driven by Kaukonen’s otherworldly guitar work Casady’s groundbreaking bass-playing and the songs “Somebody to Love” and “White Rabbit” – became the quintessential band of the psychedelic movement and a far bigger commercial success than such compatriots as the Grateful Dead and Quicksilver Messenger Service The band’s “Surrealistic Pillow” album was the radio soundtrack of 1967’s Summer of Love and brought acid rock into the mainstream.****Some 37 years later Casady is about as good as it gets for a rock bassist He gets called on regularly to perform with the younger wave of jam bands like Gov’t Mule which included Casady on the roster of bass stars for its The Deep End projects Casady has also been tapped to record with Warren Zevon and David Crosby extensive “Rolling Stone Album Guide,” Casady is tagged “the most dexterous rock bassist.” Last year saw the release of Casady’s first solo album It was an improbably long time coming for someone who has been so active and noted in music but “Dream Factor” seemed the artistic release of decades of ideas and collaborations Little Feat’s Paul Barrere and the Gov’t Mule combo of Warren Haynes and Matt Abts contributing to songs Casady co-wrote with a variety of lyricists.”The short answer is fear,” said Casady from his home in southern California explaining the long wait to make an album under his name I don’t consider myself a solo player – because I don’t sing but I got a lot of encouragement from my wife Diane Quine.””Dream Factor” was a project for someone unaccustomed to writing songs in any quantity I made notes and ideas for different people I wanted to collaborate with,” said Casady.The project involved more than just music Studios in Los Angeles for the purpose of recording the album and though he notes that the studio cost one-tenth of what it would have 10 years ago Casady stocked the studio with his parents’ 1957 Hammond B-3 organ the players lines up and the record deal signed with Eagle Records it became a pleasure.”Once I started the process and had a deadline I pulled it all together,” said Casady “It was a project of joy.”**** Between the Jefferson Airplane days and “Dream Factor” has been the heart of Casady’s career in Hot Tuna.The Jefferson Airplane’s heyday was fairly short as members pulled the band in various directions until there was no center left who had played together since their teenage years in D.C. The two had first come together in a late-1950s rockabilly band that covered Gene Vincent and Buddy Holly formed in 1970 as a side venture from the Airplane was first conceived largely as a blues band to allow Casady and Kaukonen to travel back in time stylistically But when the two left the Airplane in 1972 and Hot Tuna became more or less their full-time band it grew into a repository for all their many ideas electric-guitar rock on albums like “Burgers”; Casady and Kaukonen refer to the period as “Hot Tuna: The Metal Years.” Of late which has gone through many configurations but has always featured the core duo The band has focused on its acoustic blues side; they recently reissued a trio of albums of live acoustic performances.When Hot Tuna performs tonight with mandolinist Barry Mitterhoff rounding out a trio; the second set will be electric with the trio plugging in and being joined by drummer Erik Diaz.Casady has become renowned among bassists for his unique approach to the instrument The singular playing might be attributable to how many different styles and sounds he has played but Casady traces it back farther than that and played both bass and guitar for several years but on whomever seemed to be the most experimental musicians And what finally made him settle on bass was not just opportunity but the tonal quality of the instrument.”A lot of the early music I listened to – Charlie Mingus Roland Kirk – were real inspirations,” he said “I didn’t want to be a jazz player it was wonderful for me to hear how you take the instrument and work with the tone and the melodics and not use it in a traditional way.”When Casady got his first bass guitar one with which he could make a mark.”Bass brought to the band power and movement,” he said “There weren’t a lot of people playing electric bass so there weren’t many role models.”Instead of looking to bassists for inspiration Champion Jack Dupree – people who moved around on the keyboard,” he said “I took those rhythms done on the left hand and absorbed that I heard Roland Kirk and Eric Dolphy and how they went completely out of the box How Eric Dolphy played bass clarinet – I loved that tone.”The latest challenge for Casady and Kaukonen is making Hot Tuna an act that can switch from acoustic to electric mode in the space of an intermission The task is made trickier by the fact that Hot Tuna aims to play uncompromised versions of each style: When they play acoustic it is as genuinely acoustic as can be with a bass guitar in the mix Readers around Aspen and Snowmass Village make the Aspen Times’ work possible Your financial contribution supports our efforts to deliver quality your support is critical to help us keep our community informed about the evolving coronavirus pandemic and the impact it is having locally Each donation will be used exclusively for the development and creation of increased news coverage are you considering any property transactions this spring View Results As a short story writer Junot Díaz found the magic alchemy of subject and style fast -- maybe too fast was published in 1996 to explosive acclaim halcyon days for political correctness and diversity initiatives when globalism was not yet tethered to terror in the American mind "Drown" issued a yawp from the Jersey barrio a shout-out from a homeboy who hadn't escaped and wasn't sure he wanted to -- and it soared past the gatekeepers into the pages of the New Yorker and its author a darling of MFA programs nationwide By assaying the Dominican-American diaspora in lapel-grabbing prose Díaz himself became something of an oxymoron: a Guggenheim Award winner who is de facto spokesperson for an entire immigrant community "It's like a f-----g knife in me," Díaz said in an interview last year of the intense pressure of producing a follow-up With his first novel, "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," Díaz extracts that knife and lets it all out capacious and sometimes spastic voice guides us through a saga spanning three generations and two nations will immediately remind Díaz's readers of its earlier incarnation in "Drown": a punchy hyperattentive adolescent looking for ways to get laid without looking lame years of wayward philandering have left Yunior longing for something authentic The wisecracking vulnerability is still here in spades but a remorseful tone colors everything in this novel from the title to its final pages: "I wish I could say it worked out," Yunior reflects while recounting bad dreams "It's not exactly what I dreamed of as a kid." Even as he alternates between tales of the eponymous Oscar and those of Oscar's family -- sister Lola (who also narrates briefly) mother Beli and grandfather Abelard -- Yunior's voice dominates nearly every page and the novel finally reads most powerfully as his own coming-of-middle-age story Early chapters detailing Oscar's childhood adolescence and traumatic college years are among the novel's strongest especially as Yunior further insinuates himself into the plot taking the geek under his wing in part to get closer to his sexy older sister Lola "who could smile open a sun," but also out of sympathy and empathy: "In those days I had a dream of wanting to be a writer," Yunior confides half hoping that Oscar might be able to teach him Oscar begins looking more like Yunior's nerdy doppelgänger Where Yunior is fit ("I could bench 340 pounds) Where Yunior is a cavalier Casanova on campus Oscar "has the worst case of no Toto (pussy)-itis I'd ever seen." Yet Yunior knows Oscar intimately gestures and utterances as if delineating a shadow self When Oscar posts a greeting to visitors on the door of their room a language from "Lord of the Rings," pleading to the reader in a parenthetical aside: "Please don't ask me how I knew this." As the two commence a short-lived exercise regimen Yunior says: "I guess I knew more about him than I liked to admit." Díaz wrings considerable humor out of Yunior's confessions to shades of uncoolness but Oscar's true obsession and raison d'être are far more earthbound than his sci-fi fantasies: finding transcendent love "Dude fell in love the way the rest of us fall asleep" -- and unlike most of the rest of us Oscar "would actually be heartbroken" when rejected Oscar's emotional rawness and authenticity and the novel traces the strands of Oscar's peculiar emotional DNA back through familial and national histories all three of whom suffer injustice and brutality at the hands of Rafael Leónidas Trujillo the Dominican Republic's iron-fisted ruler from 1930 to 1961 The plot interweaves period chapters set in Santo Domingo with those in New Jersey and New York as if hoping to diagnose Oscar's addiction to love and Yunior's encroaching self-loathing via personal and political histories tortures and other manifold perversions of humanity darken Dominican narratives filled with beautiful and strong women seeking love and proud men crushed by their perceived failure to navigate a ruinous social system apparently addressing us: "There were no papers no opposition parties; there was only Trujillo." but in the republic of the novelist and his hero "Wao" is a smorgasbord of languages and a celebration of their diverse powers of meaning; Díaz uses Oscar's immersion in fantasy with its linguistic precisions and elaborately imagined details the suffocating absurdities of history and passion even one as tragically self-delusional as Oscar's will become may be the only means of sustaining love's power in a world gone mad with corruption and iniquity "What more scifi than the Santa Domingo?" Díaz asks That Díaz interweaves these references is ballsy and arresting: He's a geek-punk the latter of which features in passages that are not translated remain so -- effectively communicating the sense of permanent outsiderdom that is the province of the immigrant "Wao" opens with a nod to "magic realism," the most hackneyed tradition associated with Latin American fiction in the United States introducing "Fuku Americanus," or "the Curse and the Doom of the New World," brought into being by the European colonization of Hispaniola and the "magic" gives way to "realism" in the first few paragraphs The broad strokes of his global curse suddenly become very personal: "It's perfectly fine if you don't believe [in this]," the narrator tells us "In fact it's better than fine -- it's perfect fuku is eventually reconfigured as "fuck you." Roland Kelts is the author of the novel "Access," to be published later this year. His short story, "Hiropon My Heroine," can be found on Zoetrope. 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All rights reserved (About Us) The material on this site may not be reproduced except with the prior written permission of Advance Local Community Rules apply to all content you upload or otherwise submit to this site YouTube's privacy policy is available here and YouTube's terms of service is available here Ad Choices Party First Secretary and President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez leads meeting to review social programs promoted by Comandante en Jefe Fidel Castro Ruz with special determination at the beginning of the 21st century a humanist work that continues to this day Author: | perera@juventudrebelde.cu Communist Party of Cuba Central Committee First Secretary and President of the Republic Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez led a February 7 meeting at the Palace of the Revolution to review social programs promoted by Comandante en Jefe Fidel Castro Ruz with special determination at the beginning of the 21st century a humanist work that continues to this day.Díaz-Canel referred to a detailed survey the country's leadership has undertaken of each of these programs some aimed at a local level or an existing situation while others have evolved to be assimilated by ministries related to the work being done."It seems to us that some kind of updating or revitalization is needed," President Díaz-Canel Bermúdez stated adding that some programs have slowed down over time while others have advanced at a steady pace without losing sight of the fact that a group of programs have lost some momentum in their execution while others need follow-up: "What we want is to reach a stage in analyzing social work problems and work in neighborhoods attention to people with some disadvantages in our society,” so we can reach a moment of revitalization in order to move forward.” he said ideas and tasks conceived by the historic leader of the Revolution Fidel Castro was presented to begin the meeting also attended by Political Bureau members Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz Vice President of the Republic Salvador Valdés Mesa and Party Secretary of Organization Roberto Morales Ojeda.Minister of Labor and Social Security Marta Elena Feitó Cabrera addressed the meeting as well social prevention and attention to vulnerabilities and also shared concepts that have been defined by academics The Minister explained that these new concepts have been prepared together with experts and deal with the definition of human development equity and social transformation in order to focus all actions and design strategies to move forward with this work the Minister emphasized that it is a multidimensional and complex situation with a relative nature: "No person is vulnerable per se," she said: someone is not vulnerable because they are 60 years of age or older or because they have three or more children or because they are part of a single-parent household Scholars insist on speaking of situations of vulnerability given that the analysis and identification of each case is defined by the degree of "resilience," the capacity of individuals families and communities to recover and take on adverse situations or not.The Minister also warned that social work cannot be improvised: it requires preparation to determine how to implement a designed plan especially at the provincial or municipal level This work is not often understood in its transformative function and is frequently viewed in terms of complying with instructions or submitting reports Special attention should be paid to alliances with other social actors and connecting research to action she added.The programs that have been designed to permeate and impact municipalities more efficiently These programs concern entities such as the Cuban Institute of Radio and Television (ICRT); the National Institute of Sports Physical Education and Recreation (INDER); the Ministry of Communications; the Ministry of Tourism; the Ministry of Science Technology and Environment (Citma); the Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR); the Ministry of Public Health; the Ministry of Education; the Ministry of Higher Education; the Ministry of Culture; the Ministry of the Interior (MININT); and the Communist Party of Cuba.The President of the Republic spoke about the need to systematically supervise ongoing programs "In the case of social issues related to situations of vulnerability I think we must consider how many people we are moving out of the situation of vulnerability." In this regard he referred to the value of preparing monthly balance sheets that can contribute to an annual summary in order to determine the efficiency and the impact of these programs.The population must be informed of the progress of the programs calling for computerizing each of these programs which many people think have come to a halt these days He stressed the importance of devoting time to these programs because they are the social basis of the Revolution and demonstrate the true humanist vocation of the Revolution giving continuity to the legacy of the historic leader of the Revolution Fidel Castro’s thinking.They are the incarnation of the ideal of Cuban socialism: achieving the greatest possible justice These programs are focused on social justice Díaz-Canel Bermúdez recommended some guidelines to advance in these social programs reiterating the importance of returning to the intensive training of social workers; promoting the best of our music through modern formats; updating the subjects taught via “University for All” television programs; returning to teaching chess in schools; recovering the competitive sports system; and updating the training provided computer teachers.In total consonance with Fidel Castro's thinking the President made reference to educational work in the country's penitentiary system; the development of medical genetics; efforts to ensure that every young person is engaged in either study or work; relaunching the Family Library in digital format; seeking new ways to train Art Instructors; and developing the Cuban Encyclopedia "1,000 questions-1,000 answers," available in digital format among other tasks at hand."Let's get to work," Díaz-Canel urged those present and set the tone for a gigantic but urgent effort that addresses both the physical and the spiritual growth of the Cuban people with topics dedicated to the analysis of the policy approved for this sector its relationship with the environment and the circular economy Interview granted by Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic advocated on Tuesday that Biomodulin T should be part of primary health care in Cuban communities and that doctors should be prepared there to prescribe it About a third of the way through "The Box," I had a distinct sense-memory flash halfway through an episode of Rod Serling's "Night Gallery," a show my older sisters had repeatedly warned me not to watch and it was too late to turn it off and forget what I'd already seen Going forward -- something I'd surely regret later when every other human being in the world except me would be sound asleep -- was the only way a sense of regret for deeds that haven't even been committed yet; he offers a vision of the past as a concrete place that can be revisited unironically and not just in our hazy memories; and his visual sense -- from the way he uses the actors' faces to make offhand but resonant observations about morality and conscience to his portrayal of an airplane hangar as a cavernous unwelcoming faux-heaven -- is sophisticated without being too fussy Kelly is devoted to telling his stories visually -- except when he's not And the second half of "The Box," unfortunately wants to be and just can't: His desire to overcomplicate and overexplain threatens to crush the delicacy of his other gifts At the ominous beginning of "The Box," we meet a Virginia husband and wife Arthur and Norma Lewis (James Marsden and Cameron Diaz) and their 11-ish son Walter (Sam Oz Stone) with a specific and somewhat dreamy interest in Mars Norma teaches English at a private high school The Lewises live in a nice home and seem reasonably comfortable but they face certain circumstances that suggest their expenses are about to mount a brown-paper-wrapped box lands on their doorstep Arlington Steward will call upon them later that day a '70s-looking wooden gewgaw topped by a clear glass dome beneath which is located a mushroomlike red button Kelly and cinematographer Steven Poster refuse to show it in close-up: I fell for the trick finding myself wanting to lean forward to get a better look at it the box itself will become less of a mystery -- its austere eeriness pales in comparison to that of Arlington Steward (Frank Langella) who noticing immediately -- it can't be missed -- that most of his lower jaw has been eaten away: The tissue and bone revealed beneath -- what we can see of them an unnerving image but also a strangely poetic one Steward tells Norma that if she pushes the button on that box she and Arthur will receive a million dollars in cash Steward will reclaim the box and pass it along to someone else But he treats none of these details -- not even the deco-mod wallpaper in the Lewises' kitchen -- as quaint oddities Most of these are details Kelly can't even remember firsthand (he was born in 1975) but he's both affectionate toward them and respectful of them One of his strengths as a filmmaker is that he maintains Kelly tries to gather so many ideas under this movie's umbrella: He has strong ideas about the necessity of compassion in everyday life But he can't flesh out all of these ideas properly he seems driven by a desire to overembroider and overstate The film becomes bogged down in unnecessary minutiae too much of which feels borrowed ("lifted" might be a better word) from the glory days of "The X-Files." But when "The Box" is great -- and for long stretches "The Box" is a portrait of a solid partnership being tested in a particularly horrific way Norma and Arthur slow-dance at a wedding to Scott Walker's version of the Tony Bennett hit "When Joanna Loved Me." The underwatery otherworldly vibe of Walker's voice seems to waft from another dimension itself as Arthur holds his wife close and tries to tell her about a glimpse of the afterlife he's just been given "where the sidewalk ends and despair no longer governs the human heart." That's a line the strange and wonderful Scott Walker might have written and sung himself Stephanie Zacharek is a senior writer for Salon Arts & Entertainment. Copyright © 2025 Salon.com, LLC. Reproduction of material from any Salon pages without written permission is strictly prohibited. SALON ® is registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as a trademark of Salon.com, LLC. Associated Press articles: Copyright © 2016 The Associated Press. 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This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. 2018Photo: AlamySave this storySaveSave this storySaveAll products featured on Vogue are independently selected by our editors we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through these links The phrase “sexy cardigan” is a bit of an oxymoron The modest button-up sweater is best known as a cover-up for a chilly summer office or bat mitzvah attire It’s meek Peggy Olson from Mad Men when she shuffled papers It’s for class suck-ups and vanilla valedictorians But look closely and the style signature of squares can have a cheeky pin-up touch: The September 1998 issue of Vogue rounded up eight soft-hued cardigans and their skimpy tanks and called them “Double Trouble.” Vogue Market Editor Alexandra Gurvitch puts it bluntly: “Cardigans are not just for good girls.” Photo: Everett CollectionTake it from Rose McGowan in 1999’s Jawbreaker an inky-haired high school seductress turned murderer opted for only thin purple and pink cardigans that were cropped to reveal a sinister slice of tummy The cardigan also had a late-’90s moment thanks to Cameron Diaz’s bombshell character in There’s Something About Mary who wore a modest cardigan with a cleavage-baring slinky tank top donned a canary yellow incarnation with fur-collar trim that at times showed off her navel opt for a fire-engine red Alaïa cardigan that hits just below the lower rib for some rude-chic appeal or a Balenciaga newspaper-print piece fastened by one or two buttons despite Miranda’s insistence that she is living in a rom-com In the most recent episode of And Just Like That… Miranda and Che Diaz have run into more trouble in their relationship while Che prefers a loud hang-out with her friends late into the night The pair is having difficulty figuring out how to get along and we think more and more cracks in their situationship are beginning to show It’s possible that And Just Like That… is pitching a midlife crisis storyline for Miranda Hobbes without telling fans that It’s equally likely that Miranda feels truly at home with herself for the first time and is suddenly comfortable shedding her cynicism It could explain why she’s suddenly so open to romance and the idea of kismet when before she pushed it away We won’t know what the writers are planning for Miranda and Che until season 2 wraps we are enjoying the sudden tension and the typical pain points of the relationship they are finally experiencing Whether that will lead to a breakup or a breakthrough is anyone’s guess