the empty Firestone building is being reimagined through a large-scale The Firestone: An Artist Takeover invites residents and visitors to experience how creativity can transform urban spaces with a full day of public art-making and community activities scheduled for Saturday in partnership with the City of Seattle and the One Seattle Graffiti Team the Firestone art project aims to showcase the power of public art to activate underutilized spaces More than 20 local artists have been commissioned to participate and experiences both inside and outside the former Firestone at 1145 NW Market Street providing an opportunity for emerging muralists to gain experience with large-scale outdoor work a diverse group of artists will present site-specific installations designed to engage visitors and encourage reflection on the role of art in public life interactive exploration of how art can breathe energy into transitional spaces “The Firestone is an invitation for the public to contemplate buildings and the impact of art in our city,” said Asis “This exhibition brings together community and government to show the unique ability of the creative community to transform underutilized urban conditions into profound and memorable public experiences.” In addition to viewing the murals and installations attendees can participate in a free community paint jam throughout the day on May 17 and the event will feature live music to create a festival-like atmosphere open to all ages the Firestone project will continue to host periodic reactivations and events through the summer The goal is not only to enliven the space temporarily but also to spark broader conversations about the future of public spaces in rapidly changing neighborhoods like Ballard The Firestone building, constructed in 1973, has been a fixture along NW Market Street for decades. However, it is slated for demolition as part of a broader wave of development. Plans call for a 7-story 122-unit apartment building with ground-floor retail and parking for 73 vehicles Thanks for visiting The use of software that blocks ads hinders our ability to serve you the content you came here to enjoy We ask that you consider turning off your ad blocker so we can deliver you the best experience possible while you are here FARGO — Chris Hawley and Mike Dawson love a challenge the owners/partners and principal architects behind Craftwell Architecture + Construction insist the messier and more complex a project is “We talked so long about building a new space somewhere and in the scheme of things the west half of the 14,000-square-foot space had been transformed into the sleek modern headquarters for their design and build firm “It’s easy to do adaptive reuse on a pretty building,” Hawley says “It’s really hard to do adaptive reuse on an ugly one the former tire store/garage threw many monkey wrenches into their process Not surprising for a building that Dawson calls "a Frankenstein." That is the new and all of the quirky things he and Hawley loved Case in point: The sloping angles of the parking garage overhead meant the ceilings are tipped at different angles and varying heights They also needed to design floating ceilings with slip connections which allows them to move as much as 3 inches within the precast concrete shell of the building the flexing of the ceiling would crush the wall/ceiling connections and damage the interior finishes and possibly damage the ramp,” Hawley says the shop’s seven hydraulic bays required excavating huge cubes of earth to ensure all the hydraulic fluid had been removed the water collected atop the adjacent multi-level parking ramp and ran down each level into the Firestone building but it hadn't been cleaned out since the building was completed in 1984 “The space was uninhabitable until we reinstalled the drains installed drainage mats and installed a drain tile and sump system,” Hawley says visitors find relics of the building’s former life in the occasional exposed concrete-block wall a concrete bunker once used to house tires and the coffee tables fashioned from tires left behind But the overall look is easy elegance — like it was meant to be an architect’s office all along The reception area makes the most dramatic first impression One doesn't often walk from a ground floor entryway down into a lobby at basement level yet Craftwell’s design choices give that downward perspective an upscale finish The space is a soaring two-story atrium with wood-paneled Visitors descend a flight of steps into a reception area featuring a sleek modern reception desk bearing Craftwell’s logo Fine-boned mid-modern chairs and a lean Eames sofa with olive-green cushions are posed in a dignified arrangement The lobby leads into an open-plan office space where 30 south-facing windows fill the room with natural light “It gets way more daylight than most office buildings do,” Dawson says Craftwell’s team only needs half of this space a pickleball court (used mainly weekends) and pingpong table (used daily) occupy the unused space A bank of “breakout” rooms offer privacy for telephone calls and Zoom meetings The east end of the building has been turned into an events center capacity for up to 128 guests and catering/management by 701 Eateries The southeast corner of the building has been turned into an enclosed outdoor patio with a screened fence of perforated panels The garage where former Firestone customers parked is now used by Craftwell’s fleet construction trucks although a garage door keeps the space private closing off the garage space and the recessed corner of the old Firestone building did much to deter “a lot of not-great things happening in this ramp,” Hawley says referring to the semi-enclosed space which seemed to attract illegal activities after Firestone vacated the building in 2015 “We maybe underestimated that in the beginning a little bit," Hawley says "Now we’ve done a lot of things to improve this There’s a lot of things that need to happen that are out of our control with the city of Fargo And he and Dawson say they have no regrets about relocating their office from a south University strip mall to the heart of downtown That feeling was confirmed after the team moved into the new space last May It made Dawson's and Hawley's day when they saw teammembers get up and walk together to a nearby coffee shop multiple dining and shopping options and vibrant feel simply can’t be replicated in a strip mall or business park The partners believe it's a worthy long-term investment — both for Craftwell and for Fargo “That’s the stuff that people don’t understand is the amount we spent to make downtown Fargo better We didn’t ask for tax breaks on this thing,” Hawley says “I think what's cool about this is that it’s not really about image,” Hawley says “It’s really about a creative project that ended up being a great place for people to do their work.” NASHVILLE, Tenn. (April 16, 2025) – Firestone, a subsidiary of Bridgestone Americas (Bridgestone) today announced the debut of its latest touring tire the Affinity AS tire is a reliable and capable solution helping give drivers both confidence and peace of mind The Firestone Affinity AS tire is built to last featuring a tread compound that is engineered to defend against uneven and premature wear and comes with a limited warranty of up to 65,000 miles1  The ability of the Affinity AS tire to deliver a quiet and long-lasting ride begins with its proven tread compound which helps limit road noise and vibration The confidence-inspiring tread pattern features diagonal and lateral sipes that are designed to improve wet-weather traction and handling Noise-silencing grooves are built into the tread pattern to help reduce noise and harshness and long wear life for mainstream sedans," said Brad Robison “With impressive wet-weather grip and longevity the Affinity AS tire is built for the drivers who appreciate strong performance and good value.” The Affinity AS tire is a key addition to the Firestone touring lineup strategically positioned between the entry-level Firestone All Season tire and the Firestone WeatherGrip tire the Affinity AS tire offers an additional option to drivers who prioritize dependable all-season performance The Affinity AS tire is engineered for popular cars with 15-inch through 19-inch rim diameters The 28 total fitments will be offered with a staggered release throughout 2025 The top fitments of Affinity AS tires include the Toyota Camry The Firestone Affinity AS tire is on sale now Firestone’s development of the Affinity AS tire aligns with the Bridgestone E8 Commitment which consists of eight Bridgestone-like values starting with the letter “E” (Energy The Firestone Affinity AS tire aligns with its “Economy” and “Ease” commitments 1 50,000 Mile Limited Warranty (W Speed Rating Sizes) 65,000 Mile Limited Warranty (All Other Sizes) See FirestoneTire.com/warranty for details With impressive wet-weather grip and longevity the Affinity AS tire is built for the drivers who appreciate strong performance and good value If you're a journalist with questions about this story or other company news, please contact us Bridgestone to Exhibit at 40th Space Symposium Empowering Lunar Mobility from the Ground Up Under Extreme Conditions Bridgestone to Debut First MASTERCORE Tire for Aggregate Segment with Enhanced Load Capacity and More Tire Life Bridgestone Unveils Two New Tires with ENLITEN Technology and its Advanced Digital Service Dispatch Solution at TMC 2025 Firestone to Continue as Title Sponsor of the Grand Prix of St INDYCAR has announced penalties for the driver of the No. 40 Abel/Miller/Vinatieri Motorsports entry, Jack William Miller ahead of this weekend’s event at Barber Motorsports Park Following his participation in the INDY NXT by Firestone Grand Prix of St the driver was in violation of the following from the INDY NXT by Firestone rulebook: Failing to follow the direction of INDYCAR Rule 9.3.1.8. Using improper, profane, or disparaging language or gestures in reference to any Official, Members or anyone else or improper, profane or disparaging language or gestures in reference to, concerning or connected in any way with INDYCAR, the INDY NXT by Firestone, NTT INDYCAR SERIES or any Event and could result in additional penalties as determined by INDYCAR the penalty is considered a Non-Race Procedure Penalty Miller has been fined $5,000 and placed on probation for the remainder of the 2025 season At the INDY NXT by Firestone Grand Prix of Alabama event 40 will lose one set of tires for the weekend will not be permitted to qualify and will start Sunday’s race at the rear of the field Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker You are using an outdated browser. Please upgrade your browser or activate Google Chrome Frame to improve your experience Rachel Cockerell and Lili Anolik in conversation Online Only Chris Kraus There are rules to observe if you want to get out of the hospital The following text appears as the introduction to Shulamith Firestone’s Airless Spaces, reissued by Semiotext(e) and out next week. To read more on Shulamith Firestone, see n+1’s 2013 series of reflections on her life and work what have I done?” Shulamith Firestone told the young documentary filmmakers who followed her around during her last year as a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago It was 1967 and they’d chosen her as an exemplar of “the Now Generation.” “I want to catch time short and not just drift along with it,” she says to her off-camera interviewers because it’s not enough for me to just live and die.” Intense she was already aware of the marginalization and pressure exerted by men on “any intellectual woman or woman involved in the arts.” The film was called Shulie and it was finished but never released because in the end Firestone disliked it and refused to grant permission for it to be screened the filmmaker Elisabeth Subrin would make an extraordinary frame-by-frame recreation of this archival film with the actress Kim Soss playing Shulie which seemed like a brave and principled gesture like something the younger Shulamith Firestone herself might have done Firestone’s book Airless Spaces—which she described as a “series of vignettes” depicting life on the inside of public psychiatric hospitals—was published by Semiotext(e) Shulamith attended the launch of her book that we arranged at a small East Village gallery on Avenue A so the reading was done by some of her friends: among them the visionary feminist theorist Kate Millett who had shuttled in and out of psychiatric institutions Firestone leaned against the brick wall while her friends read A few months after she finished art school Firestone moved to New York and into a small East Village apartment on E 10th Street where she’d live for the rest of her life The place was between First Avenue and Avenue A—“the other side of the tracks,” as she describes it in one of these stories casually but very precisely parsing the difference between the quality of life in the neighborhoods east and west of Second Avenue The very short stories in Airless Spaces masterfully depict all kinds of minor atrocities that eventually lead to each person’s downfall: a forced shower As in Pialat’s Naked Childhood or Bresson’s Balthazar all of the characters in Airless Spaces are set on a slow but inevitable downward trajectory Firestone’s goal as a writer is to show us exactly how they got there The book contains a section called “Losers” but no antonymic section called “Winners,” because who ever wins It’s no coincidence that Firestone read a great deal of Dostoevsky The stories in Airless Spaces all demonstrate the confluence between the relatively smooth movement of institutional control and the erratic and sludgy course of the lives of its subjects The institution’s systemic actions are almost always the catalyst for the small tragedies that occur in each of these stories the system’s casual brutality has a powerful afterlife we see the resulting psychic disintegration attain a life of its own finally enmeshing the subject in paralyzed entropy As a very young woman Shulamith Firestone attended civil rights and antiwar demonstrations She briefly considered aligning herself with the Catholic Marxist organization the Catholic Worker Firestone was already disillusioned with the New Left and its marginalization of women’s concerns she cofounded a group called New York Radical Women where female activists from different leftist organizations met to discuss their concerns As Susan Faludi writes in her beautiful essay on Firestone’s life “Death of a Revolutionary,” Radical Women was the first New York group of its kind: a place where women got together to talk about their lives a place where political principles crystallized through the sharing of each person’s experience She was radicalized further when she and her feminist colleagues at a New Left demonstration were heckled and booed off the stage In 1969 Firestone organized the first abortion speak-out at Judson Church in New York She was directly or indirectly involved in dozens of radical feminist actions and groups At the same time—at age 24 and in just a few months—she wrote The Dialectic of Sex which became a feminist and radical-activist classic Subtitled The Case for Feminist Revolution The Dialectic of Sex called upon readers to conduct an analysis of the “sex war” as comprehensive as Marx and Engels’s analysis of the class struggle that occurs within dialectical materialism such an analysis would be “more comprehensive,” she wrote with an oppression that goes back beyond recorded history to the animal kingdom but the organization of culture itself.” Dialectic also famously proposed Firestone’s “‘dream’ action”—a smile boycott where “all women would instantly abandon their ‘pleasing’ smiles henceforth smiling only when something pleased them The revolution will begin when women stop smiling.” The Dialectic of Sex was released as a mass-market paperback and published in multiple languages Thousands of women read The Dialectic of Sex when it came out and felt like their lives had been changed by it I read it when I was 15 and could not stop observing the traitorous smiles of my classmates and teachers and friends Firestone wrote presciently about technology Like Kate Millet’s Sexual Politics and Germaine Greer’s The Female Eunuch The Dialectic of Sex became a very popular book and Shulamith was invited to present the feminist case on network TV Despite her extreme disdain for celebrity media culture she became a respected and recognized public figure And this turned out to be a grave problem within the New York feminist-cadre circles that she led and belonged to By the time Dialectic was published in 1970 American radical feminism was already moving toward a New Agey essentialism of moon-goddess rites and “total democracy” that seemed to borrow a page from Maoist China’s cultural revolution Leadership and all forms of distinction came to be deeply resented Those who asserted themselves as speakers were publicly criticized and then finally denounced Firestone—who refused to “democratically” share in office housekeeping tasks of her cadre—was accused of “hoarding attention” and being “too intellectual.” She was formally censured and then expelled from more than one of the groups that she had founded Firestone touches on this devastation very lightly in the story “Myrna Glickman” in the “Obits” section of Airless Spaces Her avatar Rozzie comes back into touch with her former best friend Myrna Glickman through a mutual friend after more than two decades had once collaborated with Rozzie’s powerful enemy Leslie Modrell to oust her from their “supposedly leaderless” feminist group so that Leslie could assume control and eventually run it into the ground But these struggles are now far in the past The crux of the story concerns Myrna’s less-than-spectacular life after her life as an activist—she and Leslie now meet once a week to play poker together—and how her strange turns of behavior are abruptly explained by a diagnosis of terminal brain cancer Firestone didn’t publish any more books until Airless Spaces came out in 1998 She was not diagnosed schizophrenic or hospitalized until 1987 but there must have been problems before that By the time the neighbors complained that she screamed through the night and her sister Laya flew into New York to take care of her During the next five years she cycled in and out of public psychiatric facilities regularly—never voluntarily She came to know the language and logic of institutional life intimately: the “activities” and “treats,” the “group walk” and “community,” all connoted with quotes in these stories a few younger artists and writers who all recognized Shulamith Firestone’s tremendous influence and importance—gathered around her as a kind of support group and it was during these years that she wrote these stories who was one of Shulamith’s younger friends Would Semiotext(e) like to publish Shulamith Firestone’s new I think we said yes right away before even reading it I was just blown away by the way that Airless Spaces wasn’t a memoir It wasn’t a story of her mental illness and it wasn’t driven by any attempt to reconcile or explain her descent into psychosis it was as if she’d embedded herself to bear witness to the secret as Shulamith notes wryly in her story “Stabilized Yes,” to be stable isn’t the same thing as to be happy Sometime after the publication of Airless Spaces she relapsed and in August 2012 she died in her apartment one of six siblings in an Orthodox Jewish family From her earliest youth she rebelled against them and their religion bitterly I’m struck by how Jewish they are on both a secular and spiritual level Ranging in length between a single paragraph and several pages Firestone’s stories are a lot like Talmudic mashals—exemplary stories or parables that allegorically demonstrate deeper truths or ideas it’s the way that Firestone chooses to focus on people’s very modest ambitions and goals—release from the hospital before Christmas controlling the thermostat—that breaks your heart over and over Firestone’s people become the most powerful instruments of their own unhappiness Eighty-two-year-old Pauline tortures herself over the selection of classical music in “Radio Station WISS.” And in “The Caregivers,” Berenice becomes her neighbor Cleo’s part-time caregiver simultaneously pitying her new client and deeply resenting her signing up for “activities,” repressing your “negativity,” kissing ass the hospital is a microcosm of the larger world Everything moves through channels of power Perhaps this is always our first reaction when confronted with allegory: a suspicion of gimmickry One chant-related goal is to rhyme something with “Passion doesn’t pay the rent,” so we can get a call-and-response going I started my dancing career at the Adam & Eve on the Upper East Side but soon settled into working three nights a week at the… n+1 is a print and digital magazine of literature We also post new online-only work several times each week and publish books expanding on the interests of the magazine Terms & Conditions | Privacy Policy the fire alarm in Firestone Library went off Students were evacuated as three fire trucks arrived on the scene The cause of the alarm was a small mulch fire outside of the building according to Princeton Fire Department Chief Adam Kooker The smoke from the fire was sucked into the building “We got dispatched to a smoke condition at the Firestone library,” Kooker said in an interview with The Daily Princetonian and they found a small pile of mulch outside that had brought smoke into the building.” Kooker confirmed that there was no damage in the building nor any injuries He said the cause of the mulch fire is still under investigation.  crowds of students displaced from studying gathered outside Eyewitnesses told the ‘Prince’ they saw fire crews entering the Cotsen Children’s Library with hoses and axes “The fire alarm went off and everyone inside slowly came out because everyone thought it was a drill,” Joe McLean ’27 told the ‘Prince.’ “Once we got out everyone was right next to the entrance door … and then PSAFE and the fire department kept pushing us back “This is a pretty large building with a lot of occupancy so there actually was more stuff coming,” Kooker said “It’s a pretty significant number of trucks and people that we need to handle something like this to do it safely.” The incident occured on the second day of Princeton Preview Previewing students took interest but told the ‘Prince’ that it ultimately wouldn’t affect their decision Students were let back into the building around 3:52 p.m The University and PSAFE did not respond to a request for comment in time for publication Charlie Roth is a senior News writer and editor emeritus focusing on local Calvin Kenjiro Grover is a head Photo editor for the ‘Prince.’ MC McCoy is a staff photographer for the ‘Prince.’ Please send any corrections to corrections[at]dailyprincetonian.com Lundgaard and McLaughlin Celebrate on Barber Podium Extended Race Highlights: 2025 Children's of Alabama Indy Grand Prix Drivers React: Following Children's of Alabama Indy Grand Prix Race Highlights: 2025 Children's Of Alabama Indy Grand Prix Santino Ferrucci Makes Huge Save in Closing Laps Stay up to speed on the latest INDYCAR news exclusive offers and more — delivered straight to your inbox 2025 INDYCAR® is a registered trademark of Brickyard Trademarks View important track details including parking The 2025 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 – capable of 233 mph the highest top speed of any car ever made in America by an auto manufacturer – will lead the field to the green flag Sunday May 25 with pro football legend Michael Strahan behind the wheel.  Read More > Stunning art and fan-friendly events signal “This is May” throughout Central Indiana and beyond.  Read More > Scott McLaughlin (photo) turned the fastest lap of the two-day test on Thursday with help from extra engine boost in his No 3 Pennzoil Team Penske Chevrolet.  Read More > View a gallery showcasing the 2025 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 Pace Car.  View Photos > A look back at 2024  View Photos > Photos from the unveiling of Josef Newgarden's face on the Borg-Warner Trophy  View Photos > Three-time INDYCAR SERIES champion Alex Palou joins Doug and Drivers to talk to IMS and INDYCAR President Doug Boles about defending the Indy GP victory the quest to win an Indy 500 and more!  Watch Video > Doug Boles showcases the brand-new scoring ribbon atop the Pagoda at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway!  Watch Video > The winner of the 106th Running of the Indianapolis 500 joins Doug and Drivers to talk to IMS and INDYCAR President Doug Boles about his Indy 500 victory his ambitions for winning in 2025 and more!  Watch Video > The celebration of “The Greatest Spectacle in Racing” expands into downtown Indianapolis with the concert the night before the 109th Indianapolis 500 presented by Gainbridge Grammy-nominated country group Midland will headline the Firestone Legends Day Concert on Saturday May 24 at the Everwise Amphitheater at White River State Park in Indianapolis The celebration of “The Greatest Spectacle in Racing” expands into downtown Indianapolis with the concert the night before the 109th Indianapolis 500 presented by Gainbridge “On the final day before the Indy 500 the countdown to the green flag is full of unmatched energy and excitement,” INDYCAR and Indianapolis Motor Speedway President J “While fans enjoy the honky-tonk sounds of Midland at the Firestone Legends Day Concert at a fantastic venue in downtown Indianapolis IMS will be ready to welcome more than 350,000 fans at 6 a.m Concert tickets will be available for purchase starting at 10 a.m. ET Friday, March 28, at LiveNation.com Fans can celebrate Legends Day presented by Firestone at both IMS and throughout downtown Indianapolis Legends Day kicks off with the 109th Indianapolis 500 Public Drivers’ Meeting and driver autograph sessions at IMS Fans then can make their way downtown for the AES 500 Festival Parade and the Firestone Legends Day Concert Double Grammy nominees Midland came together at a friend’s wedding over common influences and the need for a return to post-Urban Cowboy Country bassist/vocalist Cameron Duddy and lead guitarist/vocalist Jess Carson the now five-time platinum hit “Drinkin’ Problem” set the stage for their critically acclaimed “On The Rocks” and No 1 Billboard Top Country Albums debut “Let It Roll” to unite classic country fans have been building a following that’s sold out the Houston Rodeo and Livestock Show packed a multiple-night stand at Fort Worth’s iconic Billy Bob’s and reopened North Hollywood’s legendary Palomino Club for one night only Bringing listeners a resurgence of their thick harmonies tart lyrics and steel guitar with their album “The Last Resort: Greetings From,” the retro-Nuevo trio has grown from bar band to an in-demand headliner “Barely Blue,” was released in September 2024 to critical acclaim Firestone has served as the presenting sponsor of Legends Day since it debuted in 2014 The partnership brings together two platforms – racing and country music – that have played significant roles in the rich history of the time-tested Firestone brand The 109th Indianapolis 500 by Gainbridge is scheduled for Sunday, May 25. Race Day tickets are on sale at IMS.com or by calling or visiting the IMS Ticket Office General admission tickets for Legends Day presented by Firestone start at $20 This ticket does not include concert admission May 25 with pro football legend Michael Strahan behind the wheel Stunning art and fan-friendly events signal “This is May” throughout Central Indiana and beyond Contact Us Petersburg presented by RP Funding marks the third full season that Firestone is providing alternate race tires with sidewalls made with natural rubber sourced from guayule desert shrubs These tires are marked with a green sidewall and are used at all temporary street course races This year’s green sidewall alternate tire is operating differently than year’s past which could dramatically alter strategy for Sunday’s 100-lap race In preparation for this season’s temporary street circuits Firestone intentionally provided a softer and faster-wearing alternate compound This new compound will provide more grip but will wear more quickly providing a bigger drop-off gap between the primary and alternate tire “It's going to create an interesting race,” Marcus Ericsson of Andretti Global said Last year’s winning strategy saw Pato O’Ward start on the alternate tire and pit on Lap 28 for another stint on the green sidewall rubber He pitted for the final time on Lap 66 to run the final 24 circuits on the Firestone primary tires that are more durable Ericsson started on the alternates and pit on Laps 30 and 70 both times to put on new Firestone Firehawk primary tires Scott McLaughlin produced a similar strategy in his 2022 race win starting on alternate tires but putting on primary tires during his Lap 27 and Lap 64 pit stops All 27 teams on Sunday must use one set of primary and one set of new (sticker) alternate tires for at least two laps in the race That has many in the paddock believing the race could become a three pit stop event with choosing when to use the alternates versus the primaries the most challenging decision “I think for what Firestone done has done kudos to them,” Chip Ganassi Racing's Scott Dixon said but I think in the way of racing and making it spectacular and really fun to watch and also difficult for the teams in the cars “I don't know if there's anybody on pit road but I think it's going to be extremely tough to get over 30 laps I think it's going to be tough to get more than 15 or 20 The Chip Ganassi Racing cars are always very good on degradation to give us a bit more of a window to work with.” Dale Coyne Racing driver Rinus VeeKay and Team Penske driver Will Power both question if a four-stop strategy could be in play for the drivers starting midpack and further back The conflicting mix of strategies between years is creating havoc “Everybody knew what to do with strategy last year,” VeeKay said and you're looking at all the data you have and you make a decision I think strategy becomes way more important now with this being the case I think it's what racing should be like.” Drivers Want To Entertain First FOX Audience The anticipation is high that the 2025 NTT INDYCAR SERIES season opener on the streets of St FOX Sports has used aggressive preseason promotion to kick off its first season of coverage. This includes edgy, creative commercials promoting series stars Josef Newgarden, Alex Palou and O’Ward during numerous FOX broadcasts, including its telecast of Super Bowl LIX, which attracted a record 127 million viewers. Most of the 27 drivers competing in Sunday’s season-opening Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg presented by RP Funding (noon ET, FOX, FOX Deportes, FOX Sports app, INDYCAR Radio Network), feel a responsibility to put on a thrilling 100-lap race for the expected infusion of new watchers. “You have a lot of egos, like in a cage for like, six months,” Team Penske’s McLaughlin said before winning the NTT P1 Award for Sunday’s race. “It’s a term of exuberance, you could say, but it’s just part of it. There's a lot of nervous, nervous energy, as well.” Ericsson won this race in 2023 and noticed the extra attention FOX Sports has delivered to the series. “I think FOX is a tremendous partner for us, and it's exactly what we need now,” he said. “We need to put on a show to make sure everyone that tunes into the race tomorrow is going to see a show, as well, because that's going to keep people watching. “Super thankful, and I'm just excited to be part of that. The INDYCAR SERIES has the best racing in the world. What we need is more eyeballs on that because everyone I know, they love it. It’s just to get people to give it a shot, and I'm hoping FOX gives that opportunity.” Power turned 44 Saturday but didn’t have a great birthday behind the wheel of the No. 12 Verizon Team Penske Chevrolet. A mechanical issue in practice left two-time St. Petersburg winner Power 24th on the speed chart. In qualifying, he narrowly missed on advancing to the second round and will roll off 13th in Sunday’s race. The fact he was in a race car on his birthday was a rare event. None of his 302 INDYCAR SERIES race weekends occurred during his birthday, with the closest instances occurring in 2022 with the Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg taking place on Feb. 27 and 2023 with race weekend March 3-5. Dixon Searches for Elusive St. Petersburg Victory Dixon has reached victory lane 58 times at 28 different tracks but is 0-for-20 on the streets of St. Petersburg. However, the six-time NTT INDYCAR SERIES champion has four podium finishes in his last eight starts on this track, and his seventh-place finish last season continued his streak of finishing eighth or better every year since 2016. “It would be big,” Dixon said of a St. Petersburg victory. “It's a place I've always wanted to win. I think we've come close several times. I think we've had seven or eight podiums. “Got to keep knocking on the door, and hopefully it's going to open at some point. I know some years we came very close, and maybe if we hadn't made a couple mistakes or even two years ago with how the caution fell and we got caught out by the blend line that kind of really hurt.” Dixon qualified his No. 9 PNC Bank Chip Ganassi Racing Honda sixth, the only CGR driver in the Firestone Fast Six. Chip Ganassi Racing celebrates its 35th anniversary in racing in 2025. Throughout the year, CGR will celebrate this monumental achievement by looking back at many aspects of the team’s 23 motorsports championships, the more than 260 race victories and the great moments and the people that made it happen. “When I look back on the 35 years, I know it’s because of the people that we have been able to consistently enjoy success, so any credit really goes to all of them,” Chip Ganassi said. “However, I must say that I look at us like a 35-year-old start-up company. Every year we need to redefine both our mission and vision. We reinvent ourselves, then regroup, and refocus. I think this is what has always kept us motivated.” Among CGR’s 23 championships includes wins in some of the biggest races in the world, such as five Indianapolis 500 wins, eight victories in the Rolex 24 At Daytona, two in the 12 Hours of Sebring and wins in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the Daytona 500 and the Brickyard 400. Gearing Up: Indy Roars to Life This Week with Sonsio Grand Prix Instant Recall: Children’s of Alabama Indy Grand Prix Paddock Buzz: Lundgaard Continues Breakout Year with Second Peerless Alex Palou Marches into May with Cruise to Barber Victory Pole Winner Alex Palou Stays on Top in Warmup; Race at 1:30 p.m. ET Stay up to speed on the latest INDYCAR news, behind-the-scenes driver content, exclusive offers and more — delivered straight to your inbox! 2025 INDYCAR® is a registered trademark of Brickyard Trademarks, Inc. February 28 - March 2 |St. Petersburg, Florida it may be because it suggests something disturbing about feminism itself Firestone had been, for a period, at the center of New York’s feminist intellectual life. By the time she walked down that street in the East Village, though, the potential her professor had once seen in her was long gone. She had for the most part stopped writing and producing visual art; she lived in isolation, delusion, and unrelenting poverty. 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Her mental health would steadily decline with only rare and partial episodes of remission As Firestone’s illness progressed through the late nineteen-eighties and nineties Her sister Laya recalled an episode in which she was summoned to New York by Shulie’s landlord: Firestone had been screaming in the night she found her sister gaunt and panhandling Firestone never regained permanent stability Her body was found in her East Tenth Street apartment in 2012; her landlord guessed that she had been dead for about a week some speculated that Firestone had starved to death Firestone’s transformation from an activist who had bravely and lucidly critiqued her world into a suffering madwoman who could not understand it or function in it has haunted the second wave herself a veteran of psychiatric institutionalization proposed that Firestone’s decline mirrored the movement’s reading a passage from “Airless Spaces” in which Firestone writes that “her life was ruined and she had no salvage plan.” “I think we should remember Shulie,” Millett said then Feminists have long understood themselves as truthtellers and as champions of a vision of women’s equality and dignity that rests more in the reality of their capacities than on the myth of their proper role But Firestone’s fate seemed to raise the grim possibility that this vision could drive women insane “Many women give up in despair,” Firestone once wrote of the feminist movement “If that’s how deep it goes they don’t want to know.” If sexism is predicated on a lie Firestone had been one of the most outspoken and audacious leaders of the radical-feminist movement the small but influential group of women who spun off from the male-dominated New Left in the late nineteen-sixties to propose a fundamental transformation of political and private life on the basis of gender equality she wrote some of the movement’s foundational tracts—including contributions to Notes the annual periodical of the New York Radical Women that she founded like the widely read 1968 essay “The Women’s Rights Movement in the U.S.: A New View.” She also founded radical-feminist organizing groups The feminist Susan Faludi noted in an obituary that Firestone’s peers called her “the firebrand,” and sometimes “the fireball.” Even by the standards of the late-sixties radical milieu is among the most sweeping and ambitious intellectual efforts of feminism’s second wave A manifesto with a broad historical remit and a utopian futurist vision “Dialectic” attempted to do for sex what Marx had done for class: explain how the sex distinction had created a hierarchy within which all other social relations were built It challenged not only marriage and the nuclear family but also how society treats children along with pregnancy itself: Firestone famously compared childbirth to “shitting a pumpkin,” and called for a technological revolution after which “children would be born to both sexes equally or independently of either.” When I first read it I was about the age Firestone was when it was published and the book’s passion and audacity impressed me I am struck most by its peculiar guilelessness Firestone proceeded with what now scans to me today as uncanny fearlessness venturing to the far edges of feminist thought Firestone’s radical-feminist circles were devolving into ineffectual infighting Ideological disagreements took on a personal sheen and activist groups—never large in size—were splintering into smaller and smaller sects It was a tendency that Firestone’s friend and fellow-radical Jo Freeman would famously term “trashing.” The factionalism and backstabbing left a bad taste in Firestone’s mouth “I don’t believe finally that the revolution is so imminent that it’s worth tampering with my whole psychological structure which is what they’re all into,” she wrote in an irate letter to her sister Laya in 1970 she largely withdrew from radical politics referred to this period as the time when the writer “plunged outside history.” but it gives readers a sense of what happened in the interim: hospitals welfare programs for the unemployable and very poor some of them no longer than a few paragraphs frightened narrators at the margins of life and though almost none are named as the author she is often recognizable in her characters Some of the vignettes are in the first person with Firestone avowing the “I”; others are in the third person with the distance of disidentification often allowing an even starker depiction of insanity’s loneliness and defeatism Many of these protagonists endure the tedium and humiliation of involuntary psychiatric hospitalizations losing days and years to paralyzing inertia and experiencing terrifying delusions of persecution and betrayal If “The Dialectic of Sex” is almost breathlessly expansive overflowing with enthusiasm for a newfound cause “Airless Spaces” is shockingly cramped—grinding The effect seems to have been felt by Firestone herself too: among the losses she grieves in “Airless Spaces” is that of her intellect “She had been reading Dante’s Inferno when first she went into the hospital,” she remembers but when she came out she couldn’t even get down a fashion rag; the words bounced off her forehead like it was steel.” Writing “The old excitement of creation did not return it fizzled by morning after her nightly medication,” Firestone writes but in Firestone’s telling they are difficult to like The characters of “Airless Spaces” are often embittered and sarcastic They are suspicious of doctors and angry at their few remaining friends Many suspect that the professed concern and kindness of the sane world is little more than patronizing falseness and disgust: they frequently do not have a firm grasp on reality painfully aware of how they seem to others They anxiously read the faces of those around them for confirmation that others see them as fearsome the patients are watched by doctors and other staff A room that inmates sneak off to nap in—a rare moment of peace—is converted into an office They are constantly being instructed to participate in the ward’s “activities”—craft and stretching regimens that insult Firestone’s characters with their false cheer A patient named Margaret had cherished the attention of her psychiatrist but flinches when she sees herself described by her doctor on a vocational training evaluation form as “well-nourished.” “Couldn’t she just call her fat or jowly and be done with it?” she thinks and worries that she is a poor candidate for the training turns in a moment from a longed-for salvation into a dangerous exposure a woman is forced to take a shower after refusing to bathe in the psych ward convinced that the water is laced with dangerous chemicals “She had waited many months because the water in her apartment had 116 different poisons in it which is how you knew they were hard poisons and not just the ‘medication’ that was pretended,” Firestone writes The woman is violently subdued by orderlies stripped naked and heaved under the showerhead It’s not until after the shower is completed that they jab her in the ass with a sedative: it is delivered not as medication Her sister Tirzah speculates that the turn occurred around 1981 when their father died; Firestone’s own writing makes it seem as if her hallucinations may have begun earlier following the suicide of her brother Danny Time is uncertain in “Airless Spaces,” too with the action divested of any mention of news or technology The hospital itself seems to exist out of time Every day in the ward is like the next: routinized Many of the characters seem to have been medicated into a stupefied affectlessness It is usually impossible to tell whether they have been there for days Firestone’s narrators are always scheming to leave either arguing uselessly with administrators about the injustice of their incarceration or playing along hoping that good behavior will get them out We never see the moment of release—the signing of the forms the step over the threshold into the cold daylight they often live the same way they did inside as if someone were holding her under water for months,” Firestone writes of one character and thoroughly programmed by the rigid hospital routine at precisely 5:00 p.m.” There is formal repetition here Though “Airless Spaces” contains more than fifty stories they are in many ways all the same: Firestone’s avatars all trudge grimly through their hospital stays This sameness may be in part a function of Firestone’s subject matter Institutions anonymize and repeat; mental illnesses frequently grind their subjects down into a state of paralysis Though Firestone’s characters have urgent desires they have no means of expressing or pursuing them Efforts to exert the barest control over their lives—sneaking off to nap And where there is no agency there can be no plot It’s tempting to read “Airless Spaces” as an allegory for the trajectory of the second wave with Firestone’s diminution mirroring that of the movement she was instrumental in creating is striking for how little it has to say about feminist politics One of Firestone’s stories alludes to a falling out between two members of a radical-feminist group Another story’s narrator visits the would-be Warhol assassin Valerie Solanas after hearing that she has been released from an institution for the criminally insane But the narrator shrinks from Solanas’s attempts to discuss feminist theory The recognition of their similarity seems to breed revulsion There are other cameos from mid-century celebrities: Diane Arbus is seemingly depicted in the form of Yvonne Tree a photographer whom the narrator does not quite trust; Allen Ginsberg in the guise of the Beat poet Jeremy Salzburg becomes the object of an ill-advised crush But for the most part these moments are fleeting embarrassing; the characters try to connect with these figures of Firestone’s former world This is not the social world of a feminist intellectual but the lingering dregs of a lost life she cannot reclaim her biggest trouble was she couldn’t care about anything “She sometimes recognized on the faces of others joy and ambition and other emotions she could recall having had once The vast disparity between Firestone’s former life and the one she lived as a psychiatric patient underscores the indifferent rapaciousness of mental illness Schizophrenia invaded and transformed Firestone’s mind without regard for what had been there before madness is a bit like the radical-feminist conception of gender itself: a malignant force whose power is intimate yet strangely impersonal to live successfully as a woman under patriarchy—to submit to the unfairness of gender relations to smilingly endure your subordinate status and the limits it places on your freedom and dignity—was itself a kind of well-adjusted madness a trade-off wherein women gained social approval in exchange for accepting the myth of their own inferiority Waking up to sanity meant abandoning this fantasy for the real world But it came at a cost: to be a woman who believed in her own equality with men meant to be eternally at odds with a world that denied it One way to think of Firestone’s decline is to see her as an anti-feminist cautionary tale an object lesson in how feminist politics can estrange a woman from society and render her incapable of functioning within it But another way to read the story of Firestone’s life is equally disquieting: it raises the question of whether there is any difference between madness and being the only sane person in a sick world In “Frontispiece,” the first story of “Airless Spaces,” the narrator recounts a dream in which she is aboard a sinking ocean liner “The water was slowly seeping up from below and the people aboard the ship knew that they were doomed,” Firestone writes the passengers are gathering on the highest decks “Wasn’t I looking in the wrong direction?” she asks “But I desperately searched the equipment in the basement for something that would supply an air pocket and I succeeded in finding a refrigerator into which I stowed myself.” Her hope was that she might find a place of safety A long-ago crime, suddenly remembered A limousine driver watches her passengers transform The day Muhammad Ali punched me What is it like to be keenly intelligent but deeply alienated from simple emotions? Temple Grandin knows The harsh realm of “gentle parenting.”  Retirement the Margaritaville way Fiction by F. Scott Fitzgerald: “Thank You for the Light.”  Sign up for our daily newsletter to receive the best stories from The New Yorker. has launched its Firestone Affinity AS touring tire The new tire features a tread compound that is engineered to defend against uneven and premature wear and comes with a 65,000-mile limited warranty Its compound features diagonal and lateral sipes for wet-weather traction and handling and noise-silencing grooves built into the tread pattern and long wear life for mainstream sedans," says Brad Robison “With impressive wet-weather grip and longevity the Affinity AS tire is built for the drivers who appreciate strong performance and good value.”  the Affinity AS tire is a key addition to the Firestone touring lineup without winter-specific certification.  There will be 28 total fitments offered with a staggered release throughout 2025 with nine fitments available at launch The Firestone Affinity AS tire is on sale now.  sunshine aplenty and the roar of race cars on the streets of St Petersburg – quite the start to the 2025 NTT INDYCAR SERIES on Sunday And then there was Alex Palou dousing the field with a bucket of water The winner of the past two series championships and three of the past four masterfully drove to a season-opening victory in the Firestone Grand Prix of St 16 races remain to settle this year’s title but history has shown it’s not beneficial to spot Palou much of anything When the Spaniard won his first series championship in 2021 he won the season-opening race at Barber Motorsports Park While he didn’t win another race until June his consistency helped him stay in the top three of the standings Palou opened with an eighth-place finish in St Petersburg and was in the top five in each of the next three races netting five wins in the final 13 races to win the title with a race to spare Petersburg race handed Palou a fourth-place finish he was off and running in a back-to-back championship season It’s important perspective that Palou has won races at seven of the remaining 15 venues on this year’s schedule including two wins each on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca and Portland International Raceway Petersburg had been one of the circuits that hadn’t been kind to him Palou and his crew have put the other championship hopefuls on alert who sits on Scott Dixon’s pit stand during races there’s nobody better than (Palou’s group),” Ganassi said “Us on (Dixon’s) car and the 8 car (of Kyffin Simpson) we’ve got work to do to catch up to those guys.” Even Palou understands this might be a difference-making moment in the season and he compared it to how 2021 started in his debut with Chip Ganassi Racing “(That) was my first time with the team or leading the championship what are we doing here?’” he said “Now I think we’re a bit more used to it “It’s about knowing the positives of starting off the year strong and now heading to some tracks that we know we’ve been really quick at in the past.” Other observations from a 100-lap race that ran 94 laps caution-free after the first-lap incident: March 23 with The Thermal Club INDYCAR Grand Prix at 3 p.m the FOX Sports app and the INDYCAR Radio Network Pole Winner Alex Palou Stays on Top in Warmup; Race at 1:30 p.m Bridgestone Americas (Bridgestone) announced Feb 27 a three-year extension for its Firestone brand as the entitlement sponsor of the Grand Prix of St This agreement with Green Savoree Racing Promotions marks the continuation of a successful relationship that began in 2014 The new deal keeps the Firestone name on the opening race of the NTT INDYCAR SERIES season through 2028 Pete is always an exciting event as we reconnect with fans and wave the green flag for a new season of racing,” said Lisa Boggs “We take great pride in Firestone’s rich history in the sport and starting each season at the Firestone Grand Prix of St We’re excited to extend this tradition as part of our ongoing commitment to driving excitement and innovation in racing for years to come.” The renewed entitlement agreement for the Grand Prix of St Petersburg continues to reinforce the Firestone brand’s support for the fastest racing on earth Bridgestone and Penske Entertainment announced a long-term extension for Firestone as the exclusive tire supplier for all INDYCAR-sanctioned racing “Firestone has been an integral part of the growth and success of the Grand Prix of St Petersburg as title sponsor,” said Kim Green chairman and CEO of Green Savoree Racing Promotions organizers of the Firestone Grand Prix of St “This latest extension will take our partnership to a remarkable 15-year span It’s an iconic brand that’s helped champions redefine limits in racing for generations which aligns perfectly with the energy and excitement that embody this event.” This year’s Firestone Grand Prix of St Petersburg presented by RP Funding is set for Feb FOX Deportes and the INDYCAR Radio Network will provide live coverage of the NTT INDYCAR SERIES race starting at noon ET Sunday FS1 and the INDYCAR Radio Network will broadcast the INDY NXT by Firestone Grand Prix of St Petersburg presented by RP Funding marks the start of the 26th consecutive season for Firestone as the exclusive tire supplier This year is also the 125th anniversary of Firestone’s founding Aug First look inside pFriem Family Brewers Milwaukie taproom Brewed to reach flavor-seeking drinkers across the adult beverage categories and bring them into beer Mind Haze Rage is hitting stores in a new “Rad Pack” variety 12-pack featuring the three lemonade flavors Mind Haze Lemonade Rage will also land in the single 19.2-ounce can format this spring.  “Mind Haze Rage is an evolution of an age-old style Part lemonade,” said Brewmaster Matt Brynildson committed to exploring where beer can go next Mind Haze Rage is our latest result in this pursuit and we’re thrilled to share it with the world.” Beyond style, Mind Haze has become a state of mind for those drinkers searching for new taste and exciting beverages. Alongside the launch, Firestone Walker debuts Mind Haze Rage’s wild and irreverent media campaign inspired by the neon-soaked ads of the early 90s. The launch ad can be seen here and crafted for flavor seekers,” said Chief Marketing Officer Dustin Hinz “This isn’t your grandma’s hard lemonade—it’s a bold new twist on beer.” Firestone Walker’s Mind Haze trip began with the launch of Mind Haze Hazy IPA back in 2019 expanding in 2024 with Mind Haze Brain Melter and Mind Haze Cosmic Crusher Mind Haze Rage takes the brand to new heights appealing to those seeking bold flavors and high ABV in a unique radler format.  Mind Haze Rage is proudly brewed in Paso Robles California at Firestone Walker’s legendary brewery A pacific northwest based webmag covering the craft beer and cider industry BlogContactAbout Firestone CLC dance students got a personal lesson on how to express themselves through both creative writing and movement with hip-hop artist Raphael Xavier on April 8 The 53-year-old artist gave a workshop that built on the students' previous creative writing work helping them delve into the process of bringing it to life on the spot through both spoken word and movement about 20 students had done a creative writing workshop with Cynthia Larsen of Lake Erie Ink at Firestone creating poetry or prose focused on a moment of adversity in their lives led 18 students through a workshop that set those words to movement You're just bringing that life to another level," he told the student dancers who were expressing their personal experiences Xavier reminded the students that each person's writing is unique He encouraged them to find their power in both their words and movement and then go wherever you want from your imagination," he said He and DanceCleveland teaching artist Rondale Simpson of Read to Learn … Dance to Move led the students through introductions and a dance warmup he gave the dancers two minutes to choose one line from their writing and memorize it They then created movement set to their line and performed it in front of the class "You're going to attach your line to a movement," Xavier said that's how long your movement is going to be." the students each performed their movement without words Junior Amaris Kerney was first to perform movement with a line from her poem "To be sweet is a curse and a gift followed after every beg and wish The urge to uplift in a place where open minds to not exist," she said a professor of dance at Princeton University who challenges the idealization of youth in hip-hop dance will perform his work "Skiff" April 12 and 13 at Tri-C Metro Campus in Cleveland The performances are presented by DanceCleveland and Tri-C "Skiff," created through the lens of Ernest Hemingway's classic novel "The Old Man and the Sea," features original spoken word interwoven with Hemingway's text Xavier draws parallels between the fisherman's relentless battle with a giant marlin in Hemingway's story to his own journey building a dance career through the art form of breaking "Skiff" also is inspired by Winslow Homer's painting "The Gulf Stream," which pictures a Black man in a small fishing boat on a restless sea as sharks circle the Firestone students were all offered free tickets to see him perform with his company members and local performers Zhane Jackson when he performed his "Kolade-Xcope" at Cain Park enjoying not only his choreographic genius but also the mentorship that he provides to artists and students in our community and the collaborative approach he takes to his work," said Sarah Sumbrum the workshop with Xavier the next and a third wrap-up session coming the week of April 14 with a DanceCleveland teaching artist That's when the students will talk about the workshop their writing assignment and Xavier's performance His visit at Firestone was supported by the Akron Community Foundation Peg's Foundation and the Ohio Arts Council which have brought world-class dance artists to Summit County this school year for dance education and engagement That has also included classes by Lloyd Knight at the University of Akron classes by Knight and Helene Simoneau Danse at Firestone and a lecture-demonstration by Simoneau at Kenmore Community Center Freestyling at FirestoneAs part of the Firestone workshop Xavier talked to the students about dance freestyling created spontaneously without preplanned choreography He then demonstrated by performing spoken word as Simpson created movement to it I have no idea what he's gonna do," Xavier said the students did a freestyling exercise in pairs with one student reciting her creative writing line and the other freestyling through dance The student who was reciting spoke directly to the audience without looking at the dancer interpreting her words "I found my inner strength was to have confidence on stage in front of the audience," said Juelaree Carmona performing a line from her creative writing Arts and restaurant writer Kerry Clawson may be reached at 330-996-3527 or kclawson@thebeaconjournal.com DetailsPerformance: Raphael Xavier and company perform "Skiff" Information: 216-991-9000 or www.dancecleveland.org NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Feb. 27, 2025) – Bridgestone Americas (Bridgestone) today announced a three-year extension for its Firestone brand as the entitlement sponsor of the Grand Prix of St Pete is always an exciting event as we reconnect with fans and wave the green flag for a new season of racing,” said Lisa Boggs “We take great pride in Firestone’s rich history in the sport We’re excited to extend this tradition as part of our ongoing commitment to driving excitement and innovation in racing for years to come.” Petersburg continues to reinforce the Firestone brand’s support for the fastest racing on earth “Firestone has been an integral part of the growth and success of the Grand Prix of St This latest extension will take our partnership to a remarkable 15-year span,” said Kim Green “It’s an iconic brand that’s helped champions redefine limits in racing for generations which aligns perfectly with the energy and excitement that embody this event.” Petersburg presented by RP Funding has become a marquee event combining the excitement of INDYCAR racing with a stunning waterfront backdrop and a unique urban street circuit 28-March 2 to open the 2025 NTT INDYCAR SERIES season Petersburg marks the start of the 26th consecutive season for Firestone as the exclusive tire supplier This year is also the 125th anniversary of Firestone’s founding in Akron Firestone remains a trusted name in tire performance both on the road and on the track The brand’s storied history in motorsports began in 1911 with a win at the inaugural Indianapolis 500® and its roots run nearly as deep in the Tampa/St Firestone Complete Auto Care opened its first local retail location in 1933 on Kennedy Boulevard in downtown Tampa it has continued to grow and strengthen its legacy as a trusted tire and automotive service provider for the local community Both the NTT INDYCAR SERIES and the INDY NXT by Firestone development series races on the streets of St The INDY NXT by Firestone race will air on FS1 at 10 a.m and the NTT INDYCAR SERIES will make its debut on FOX network television beginning at 12 noon ET Bridgestone motorsports activities are leveraged globally as co-creation platforms to help deliver the values of the Bridgestone E8 Commitment This corporate commitment outlines eight areas where the company is focused on contributing to a more sustainable world The ongoing relationship with the NTT INDYCAR SERIES supports the values of emotion For more company news, visit BridgestoneAmericas.com We take great pride in Firestone’s rich history in the sport We’re excited to extend this tradition as part of our ongoing commitment to driving excitement and innovation in racing for years to come Firestone Launches Affinity AS Touring Tire to Enhance the Ride Quality Pennsylvania passed away surrounded by her loving family on Wednesday afternoon the daughter of the late Arthur and Grace Wiley Thompson.  mother and doting grandmother and was a member of the Wolgamuth Church of the Brethren Mary Jane was a gifted artist and owned an Art Studio where she taught art lessons    She was the widow of the late Roy W    Mary Jane is survived by her loving children:  Kenneth R 9 great-grandchildren and 7 great-great-grandchildren.  She was predeceased by her sisters officiating.  Burial will be alongside her husband in the Wolgamuth Cemetery.  A viewing will be held on Monday Memorials in Mary Jane's name can be to the Wolgamuth Church of the Brethren Wolgamuth Church of the Brethren276 Old York Road Relive the 2025 NTT INDYCAR SERIES season opener from the Streets of St Blackout and territorial restrictions may apply 9 rights) circuit incorporates streets of downtown St Petersburg and a section of runway of Albert Whitted Airport there's a tight right-hander into Turn 1 and then a quick left-hand turn Plenty of drivers have gotten into trouble in these two turns over the years There are two other long straights with heavy braking zones that afford opportunities to overtake Central California’s iconic Firestone Walker Brewing recently expanded their best-selling 805 Beer lineup with their first-ever non-alcoholic blonde: 8ZERO5 The new offering is brewed with the same dedication to quality and flavor that has made 805 Beer a staple for more than a decade The brewery says that 8ZERO5 delivers the refreshing easy-drinking experience that 805 fans know and love now with less than 0.5% ABV and just 60 calories The new non-alcoholic beer joins the brand’s flagship 805 Blonde Ale and 805 Cerveza “We believe that just because a beer is non-alcoholic it doesn’t mean it should be any less satisfying and athletes an 805 Beer for the non-alcohol occasion,” said Dustin Hinz Chief Marketing Officer for Firestone Walker Brewing Company “Whether it's from the paddle out to the podium 8ZERO5 is the first-ever non-alcoholic release from 805 Beer clocking in at less than 0.5% ABV and just 60 calories 8ZERO5 has been in development under the guidance of acclaimed Firestone Walker Brewmaster Matt Brynildson for over two years with additional testing through 805’s roster of athletes The goal was to produce a non-alcoholic beer that mirrored everything drinkers know and love in the bestselling 805 Blonde Ale.  “We’ve tasted and analyzed 805 Blonde Ale’s appeal exhaustively over the past ten years and we know all of the key elements that customers love in that beer and we wanted to capture these elements in the non-alcoholic version closely,” Brynildson said We’ve got something here that can compete with anything in the non-alcoholic space About Firestone Walker Brewing Company      Founded in 1996 by brothers-in-law Adam Firestone and David Walker Firestone Walker is a family-led second-generation brewery based on California’s Central Coast Helmed by Nick Firestone and decorated Brewmaster Matt Brynildson Firestone Walker's main brewery in Paso Robles produces a robust lineup of award-winning beers California's #1 craft beer brand; Mind Haze a top 5 national hazy IPA; and Cali Squeeze one of the nation's fastest-growing beer brands The Firestone brand family also includes iconic beers such as DBA as well as the storied Vintage Series of barrel-aged strong ales led by Parabola Firestone Walker also has two additional locations: the Barrelworks wild ale cellar in Santa Barbara County and the Propagator R&D brewhouse in Venice Firestone Walker was recently named “Best American Brewery of the Decade” by Paste Magazine.  More at 805Beer.com and FirestoneWalker.com Sign up for free newsletters and get more CNBC delivered to your inbox and more info about our products and services © 2025 CNBC LLC. All Rights Reserved. A Division of NBCUniversal Data also provided by Mind Haze Rage is brewed to reach flavor-seeking drinkers across the adult beverage categories and bring them into beer A recent BA Harris Poll showed that 60% of 21-34 year old non-craft drinkers list “I don’t like the flavor” as a reason they don’t drink more craft beer.* Firestone Walker is committed to changing that the brewery challenged itself to meet the needs of these drinkers through beer.  But this time cranked up to 8%,” said Brewmaster Matt Brynildson Mind Haze Rage is our latest result of this pursuit and we’re thrilled to share it with the world.” Firestone Walker will support the launch of Mind Haze Rage with a wild and irreverent campaign inspired by ads of the early 90s complete with vibrant neon colors. This latest ad can be seen on Firestone Walker's website. The campaign as well as experiential efforts that will drive sampling “Mind Haze Rage is a powerful extension for the Mind Haze brand family bringing drinkers seeking flavor into the beer aisle with a proven premium brand,” said CMO Dustin Hinz “This is definitely not your grandma’s hard lemonade Mind Haze Rage is intentionally disruptive The brand has been on an upswing since launching the two variants last year the Mind Haze universe is expanding beyond style and into a state of mind.  “Providing flavor seekers with high ABV isn't a new idea for beer–but packaging it into an 8% radler is,” said Tony Amaral “The response from our retail and wholesale partners has been energizing About Firestone Walker Brewing Company  Firestone Walker's main brewery in Paso Robles produces a diverse portfolio of award-winning beers California's #1 craft beer brand established in 2012; Mind Haze Firestone Walker was recently named “Best American Brewery of the Decade” by Paste Magazine More at 805beer.com and FirestoneWalker.com and data reports that power the beer and beyond industry Join our community and stay ahead with exclusive insights from Brewbound Already an Insider? Log In Bridgestone Americas (Bridgestone) and Penske Entertainment today announced a long-term extension to Firestone's role as the exclusive tire supplier of all INDYCAR-sanctioned racing The agreement will keep Firestone as the sole tire supplier for all NTT INDYCAR SERIES races the INDY NXT by Firestone developmental series and the annual Indianapolis 500 presented by Gainbridge Firestone is currently in its 25th consecutive season as the exclusive tire supplier for the series The extension reinforces Bridgestone’s ongoing commitment to driving innovation through motorsports The Firestone brand continues its rich history in open-wheel racing motorsports are our passion – always have been and always will be This is particularly true for our Firestone brand which has been part of world-class racing since winning the first Indy 500 in 1911,” said Paolo Ferrari “We believe motorsports are the ultimate challenge for premium performance and a proving ground for advancing in our goals toward sustainable innovation Our relationship with the NTT INDYCAR SERIES has been a critical part of these efforts and we are proud to keep driving forward together.” Bridgestone’s motorsports initiatives are aligned with the company’s long-term sustainability goals They also demonstrate alignment with INDYCAR’s efforts to work toward making the sport more sustainable “Our relationship with the team at Bridgestone continues to set an industry standard for success and innovation,” said Roger Penske “Firestone has been a foundational partner for our sport playing an integral role in the development of the NTT INDYCAR SERIES and its highly competitive racing We’re extremely proud to carry this long-term partnership forward into a very exciting and productive future together.” The long-term extension includes Firestone’s role as presenting sponsor and sole tire supplier of the top-tier development series The brand signed as presenting sponsor of INDY NXT in 2023 to help the sport develop the next generation of racing talent and engage new audiences The agreement also renews Firestone’s status as official partner and tire supplier of Indianapolis Motor Speedway the largest spectator sporting facility on the planet The announcement reinforces Bridgestone’s investment and commitment to its workforce in Northeast Ohio All Firestone Firehawk race tires are designed and manufactured at the Bridgestone Advanced Tire Production Center (ATPC) in Akron The facility opened in 2022 across the street from the Bridgestone Americas Technology Center (ATC) This proximity allows the Firestone Race Tire Engineering team to work side-by-side with other tire engineers to transfer insights from racing into other innovation workstreams In addition to providing tire technology and on-track support Firestone will continue its role as a key partner in the marketing and promotion of the NTT INDYCAR SERIES and INDY NXT by Firestone season-long activation features fan engagement sponsorships and signage at multiple venues It also includes robust social and digital media programs at Grace Manor in Lakeland after a lengthy illness he was the son of Ernest William and Lillian Keller Firestone Ron graduated from Lebanon High School in 1956 and Mansfield University in 1960 where he excelled as Co-Captain of the basketball team and a tennis champion beginning a devoted partnership that spanned 64 years Red dedicated 35 years to teaching history at Beaty-Warren Middle School and Warren Area High School in Warren where he also served as Athletic Director before retiring he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to teach at Millbrook Boys School in Southampton an experience that allowed he and his wife to travel extensively throughout Europe Known for his friendly and fun-loving nature Red built lasting connections with students and colleagues alike and coaching the Edinboro Off-Campus basketball team He later found joy bartending at Brandywine Restaurant in Warren greeting patrons with his trademark warmth he embraced life at Riverwood Golf Course in Port Charlotte Red was a Sunday service greeter at Lakeland’s First United Methodist Church and cherished time spent with his family Douglas Firestone (Beth) of Lakeland; grandchildren Adam Firestone (Ellen) of Washington D.C. FL; sister Susan Kline (Richard) of Lebanon; cousin Nancy Messick of Coral Gables; and many nieces and nephews He was predeceased by his parents and brother Ernest Henry Firestone and sister-in-law Shirley Buchter Firestone of Cornwall Interment will take place at Christ Church Cemetery in Stouchsburg May his memory bring comfort to all who knew him Copyright © 2025 Ogden Newspapers of Pennsylvania LLC | https://www.timesobserver.com | PO Box 188 A new era in the INDYCAR SERIES is here and we've got you covered with all the action from the streets of St Attend the full field autograph session and watch the drivers meeting in anticipation of the 109th Running of the Indianapolis 500 The day before the Indy 500 is going to be a fun one Get access to the star drivers of the NTT INDYCAR SERIES with the full field autograph session and the Public Drivers' Meeting as drivers receive their final instructions before Race Day your favorite Indy 500 veterans will have an autograph session of their own The General Admission ticket will provide the opportunity to move between the IMS infield viewing mounds and first-come first-served access to selected grandstands to watch the annual Drivers Meeting This optional add-on enables customers to offset the environmental footprint associated with their travel to the event Past programs have included restoration of natural habitats in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley One offset purchased is equivalent to the average footprint of each order businesses report their beneficial owners to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) exceeded the boundaries of the U.S the court in Firestone sided with the government.  The District of Oregon rejected plaintiffs’ request for a preliminary injunction finding that they failed to demonstrate a likelihood of success on the merits or that the balance of hardships tipped in their favor Below is a summary of plaintiffs’ challenges to the CTA, including the court’s reasoning in rejecting those challenges. For more information on the CTA, please see our Guide to the Corporate Transparency Act Summary of challenges and the court’s reasoning The ruling in Firestone is in contrast to the ruling of the Northern District of Alabama in National Small Business United, et al. v. Yellen et al. earlier this year District Judge in that case invalidated the CTA under the Foreign Affairs Powers and Congress’s taxing power under the Necessary and Proper Clause enjoining the CTA’s registration requirements for the particular plaintiffs in that case That case is currently on appeal to the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals the plaintiffs in Firestone have not yet appealed to the Ninth Circuit; if they do it could potentially set up a circuit split with the Eleventh Circuit which may require intervention by the Supreme Court to determine the ultimate fate of the CTA Husch Blackwell is ready to help with all of your CTA needs, including assessing whether you are subject to the CTA or qualify for an exemption, as well as identifying your beneficial owners and preparing a report. We will continue to provide updates as the law progresses. Contact our CTA team for more information Akron Public Schools has requested that both officers involved in the forceful arrest of a Firestone CLC student Superintendent Michael Robinson said Monday night Security footage released by the district before the meeting shows the school's resource officer repeatedly punching a student in the head while he and another officer attempted to arrest the teen last week Mayor Shammas Malik had previously announced the school's resource officer has been moved to administrative duty and would not be assigned to a school in the future no matter the outcome of a pending use-of-force investigation But Robinson said the district asked for both officers to be removed from any APS duties a 16-year-old student on his way into school was arrested for allegedly evading the school's metal detectors and trying to push past school and security personnel Video released by the district Monday showed the school's resource officer punched the student in the head at least three times before he was taken down to the ground who was an Akron officer working a secondary employment security job at the school did not appear to strike the student but was involved in the arrest He is continuing to work his regular job in the Akron Police Department the school district can request the removal of any officer from its school resource officer program which embeds officers into schools to provide security but also build relationships with students The second officer was not a part of that program but would no longer be able to request such an assignment in the future and would not work any secondary employment jobs in the schools or at school events The student was found to have a cellphone against APS policy but did not have a weapon He was initially charged with several misdemeanors including criminal trespassing and resisting arrest but the city announced those had been dropped pending the use-of-force investigation Robinson said he has spoken with the student's mother and plans to speak with the student soon Robinson spoke about the incident at a school board meeting Monday night reading aloud portions of a statement that had been sent out earlier in the day and answering questions from the board Board member Summer Hall asked about what additional measures could be taken to help students who may have witnessed the event or heard about it "I'm wondering if we can be proactive and not wait for students to come with an issue," Hall said Robinson said the district dispatched its crisis team and the school's principal has already initiated conversations with students "This is something that I think that we need to probably be discussing in a more deeper way in all of our schools to be very honest with you," Robinson said Board member Barbara Sykes issued an apology to the student and his family "I hope that we will work to do everything that we can to help that particular family and that particular student." She also apologized to the Firestone staff and students my sincere apologies to all of the students at the Firestone CLC that had to see this She said she had not yet watched the video of the arrest "I'm not looking forward to seeing the tape I want to think about it as it relates to my child and what I would expect and want for my child," Sykes said She called for a review of policies and procedures "What it is that we can do within our system to make sure that this doesn't happen again?" she asked a Beacon Journal reporter asked if there were procedures in place that were communicated to officers in schools about how to handle situations in which a student sets off a metal detector or resists going through them Deputy Chief David Laughlin said he couldn't speak to the exact procedure as it was an Akron schools procedure Police officers are not the primary staff used to assist students through the metal detectors The mayor noted the practice of running all students through metal detectors at the beginning of every school day is relatively new for Akron schools although metal detectors have been used in the past "This is an area that that we are going to work on going forward because all of these issues — cellphones and Yondr bags the staffing and security needs — they're all they've all been evolving and changing pretty significantly over the last few years," Malik said He also noted the contract with the school district for school resource officers expires at the end of the year "We we are going to be continuing to work with APS going forward on trying to partner and continue to improve those processes," he said Asked whether he believed the Firestone incident would prompt a larger conversation about the use of police in schools Contact education reporter Jennifer Pignolet at jpignolet@thebeaconjournal.com at 330-996-3216 or on Twitter @JenPignolet In another indication of the ongoing downturn in the agricultural economy is offering buyouts at the company’s Bridgestone-Firestone agricultural tire plant in Des Moines Bridgestone notified United Steel Workers Local 310L on Monday that it would make the voluntary separation offers for up to 130 employees “due to ongoing demand constraints in the agriculture tire sector.” Employees who take the buyout will get $35,000 Bell said he believed 112 workers had indicated an interest in taking the buyout If a full 130 workers don't accept the offer by the end of January layoffs or furloughs could make up the difference “We obviously don’t like seeing layoffs but I don’t think Bridgestone does due to the difficulty we’ve had in the past filling positions,” he said the plant made about 900 new hires but retained only 200 of those workers “Manufacturing and factory work is not for everyone,” he said “Bridgestone regularly evaluates all aspects of its business to ensure we remain competitive and that resources are allocated in a manner that best supports our business strategy Bridgestone will continue to monitor current market conditions and future forecasts across all of our businesses to review production schedules and adjust as conditions warrant.” Bridgestone-Firestone plant made layoffs in 2024The plant at 4600 N.W it employed nearly 1,800 workers but it had a larger product line then The buyout offer follows the announcement in June that the plant was laying off 118 workers a move that affected all employees with two years or less of seniority the initial layoff announcement — the first of a job cut at the plant since 1990 — was eventually amended to 89 workers with an additional 52 workers taking a 16-week furlough  A report from the Coalition to Support Iowa’s Farmers in June 2024 reported that 22% of Iowa’s economy — or $53.1 billion — is tied to agriculture from crop and livestock production to food processing and manufacturing Farmers are experiencing the biggest decline in farm income in two decades as crop prices fall The Des Moines plant manufactures tires for large agricultural and forestry equipment so its orders are entirely dependent on those two sectors of the economy “It’s been fairly slow since just before last summer,” he said where an additional 75 layoffs were announced earlier this week Several Deere suppliers in Iowa also have laid off workers And Tyson Fresh Meats in June shut down its Perry pork processing plant Kevin Baskins covers jobs and the economy for the Des Moines Register. Reach him at kbaskins@registermedia.com Firestone’s Game-Changing Tire Selection Shakes Up IndyCar Competition As the threat of heavy rain looms over the upcoming race at Barber Motorsports Park teams are relying heavily on the insights gained from the single practice session on Friday This session becomes crucial for understanding the dynamics of Firestone’s primary and alternate tires before the dry 90-lap showdown on Sunday According to Firestone’s pre-event briefing the tried-and-true softer alternate tire remains consistent with the 2024 version while the harder primary compound has been enhanced for increased durability top drivers from Friday’s practice have reported a significant shift in tire performance compared to previous races Colton Herta from Andretti Global expressed his comfort with the tire setup “It seems pretty normal to me… I expect the racing to be similar to last year as far as tire strategy.” However Alex Palou of Chip Ganassi Racing had a contrasting view emphasizing the notable difference in grip between the primary and alternate tires Palou praised the alternates for their speed and longevity setting the stage for an exciting race day Despite concerns about the added weight in the hybrid configuration drivers like Palou were pleasantly surprised by their car’s performance hinting at potential strategies to leverage the new tire dynamics to gain a competitive edge in the race With tensions running high and expectations shattered the stage is set for a thrilling and unpredictable race at Barber Motorsports Park Stay tuned as IndyCar drivers push the limits with Firestone’s innovative tire selection promising an exhilarating display of skill and strategy on the track audio and imagery - is provided by Imagn Images Reuters Connect has not verified or endorsed t Formula One F1 - Miami Grand Prix - Miami International Autodrome 2025 Red Bull's Max Verstappen and Red Bull's Yuki Tsunoda.. © 2025 M Sports - Premium news & magazine M Sports Please enter your username or email address to reset your password © 2025 M Sports - Premium news & magazine M Sports Thanks for visiting Its rare that a pilsner obtains the kind of hype and cult status as Firestone Walker Brewing and Russian River Brewing’s collaboration small-batch STiVO Created under special circumstances in 2018 the STiVO pilsner is making only it’s third appearance in 7 years STiVO is a masterful mashup of the breweries’ flagship pilsners STS and Pivo—two beers that helped spark a new generation of American craft pilsners STiVO is ultimately born of a longtime friendship between brewmasters Matt Brynildson of Firestone Walker and Vinnie Cilurzo of Russian River whose collaborative connection spans nearly 20 years STiVO won a gold medal at the 2018 World Beer Cup and was later re-released in 2022 It now returns for a limited time at all Firestone Walker locations “Vinnie and I have such similar tastes in pilsners and our recipes are so sympatico that it’s always felt like a match made in heaven—two breweries coming together on something they’re both super stoked about,” said Brynildson.  I was inspired by a few European pilsners and one pivotal modern U.S pilsner in particular—Matt’s Pivo Pils,” Cilurzo said and when he later asked me if we wanted to make a collaborative mashup of our two pilsners but it has always stayed hop forward and super drinkable.”   Another LevelBrewed at Firestone Walker’s Propagator R&D brewhouse in Venice this latest batch of STiVO builds upon the original recipe with some evolutionary tweaks that take it to another level.  Whereas the original STiVO featured all German Weyermann pilsner malts the new edition is composed of 50 percent Dingemans pilsner malts—a reflection of STS’s own shift toward this Belgian maltster in recent years The hops are once again split down the middle between Pivo’s German Saphir hops and STS’s French Aramis hops the Aramis hops in the dry hopping portion come via a cutting-edge hop extract known as Aramis Quantum Brite which was custom-made for Russian River.  “The extract just makes the hop aromas all the more vivid,” said Propagator Brewery Manager Sam Tierney and the beer will still be familiar for those who had it in the past but the collaborative tradition of exchanging ideas continues to push us in new directions.” Brynildson notes that Cilurzo was so excited about this latest batch that he’s thinking about brewing it sometime at Russian River’s brewery in Windsor “STiVO is everything that we love about a new-age craft pilsner—clean and aromatic with a subtle hop imprint,” Brynildson says