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Frieze Art Fair takes place every October in Regentâ€™s Park, London and this year, over 60,000 people step through the doors to take in all the art on display. There were signs of renewed confidence in the market as there appeared to be increased buying in the under $1 million range, but higher priced works still were not moving well. The good news for those who were only there to window shop last week was the fact that there was plenty of nice art to […]
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When we brought you a first look (here) at the A-list “Pop Life” exhibition at the Tate Modern yesterday, we neglected to mention that the short film “Akihabara Majokko Princess” from Murakami was included. Created in collaboration with one of Hollywood’s hottest directors, McG (Charlies Angels & Terminator Salvation), the video is yet another extension of Takashi’s renowned short film artform which previously featured Louis Vuitton, Inochi, & Kanye West. Starring Kirsten Dunst singing a cover to the Vapors’ “Turning Japanese”, the video includes footage of Dunst dancing through the […]
Last week, Tate Modern opened the doors to a highly anticipated group show based on Andy Warhol’s famous quote: good business is the best art. An ensemble made up of the top names in the contemporary art scene such as Tracey Emin, Keith Haring, Damien Hirst, Martin Kippenberger, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami, Gavin Turk, Richard Prince, and Cosey Fanni Tutti are included in this “Pop Life” exhibition (teased) and many were on hand for the opening reception. Check out all the pics after the jump…
A pretty major exhibition, “Pop Life,” is opening this week (October 1st) at the Tate Modern. The exhibition will take Andy Warhol’s famous quote “good business is the best art” as its slogan and re-examine how Warhol and legacy of “Pop Art” has influenced artists in the ways they harnass mass media to promote and create an image for themselves. Among the artists represented will be Tracey Emin, Keith Haring, Damien Hirst (video of his search for identical twins for this exhibition after the jump), […]
You’d think an artist would slowdown to take it all in after a series of major retrospectives. If it’s Takashi Murakami, then you thought wrong. Since his monstrous retrospective tourÂ ended this past Feburary in Spain, Murakami has been on a tear, creating bodies of work on almost every medium you can imagine – sculpture, canvas, print, vinyl, animation, you name it – he’s put his team from Kaikai Kiki to work. The problem is, each show usually featured only one facet of his artistic endeavors.Â So […]
Looks like the VIP’s over at BBC (Pharrell & Nigo et al.) got an early look at the Takashi Murakami show we told you about earlier that will be opening on September 15th over at the Emmanuel Perrotin Gallery in Paris.Â As expected, there were several colorways of the “Kanye Bear” (seen above) along with some “Self Portraits by Mr. Superflat. More images after the jump.
Takashi Murakami has been a busy boy. With exhibitions already planned at Emmanuel Perrotin (here) this month and Palace of Versailles (here) in 2010, it seems that Takashi wants to make sure thatÂ the “big apple”Â is not forgotten. The legendary Gagosian Gallery in New York will play hostÂ to an exhibition from September 17th – October 24th with a new body of work. This gorgeous painting being worked on looks to be a combo of Murakami’s famed “727-272” and his skulls we saw at his Brooklyn Museum […]
We saw this image that claimed to be of Takashi Murakami and Pharrell having dinner in Versailles, France in July and didn’t think much of it (perhaps they were talking about their collaboration sculpture with Jacob the Jeweler at Art Basel Switzerland). Turns out there was more to it than meets the eye when it was announced this morning that Murakami will be exhibiting at the famed Palace of Versailles in France. Sounds like eight massive works have been installed. It’s a whirlwind of a […]
In a couple weeks, Takashi Murakami will be opening his solo show at Emmanuel Perrotin in Paris entitled “Takashi Murakami Paints Self Portraits.”Â Murakami has been known to paint “self-portraits” in the past including his alter egos like Mr. DOB, Inochi, Mr. Pointy, Tan Tan Bo and Oval, but this time expect to see a set of self-portraits featuring the artist accompanied by his favorite characters. We especially are looking forward to the supposedly large painting “HIROPON, Me, And My Lonesome Cowboy,” where he is […]
The Inochi figures from Takashi Murakami, that we first featured here in April when they were exhibited at Kaikai Kiki, are finally going on sale tomorrow, August 28th at honeyee.Â The figures are small scale replicas of the Murakami sculpture (seen here) with production handled by Medicom. Limited to 200 of each of the five colorways, it will cost you a cool $1500 to bring “Zhang,” “Victor,” “Bob,” “David,” or “Yamamoto” home. More pics after the jump.


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UN security officers to assess situation in West Timor
JAKARTA, March 16 (AFP) - United Nations security officers will assess next month whether it is safe for their aid workers to return to Indonesian-ruled West Timor to assist in resettling East Timorese refugees, a spokeswoman said Friday.
"A UN security department team will go to West Timor on April 1 to determine how safe conditions are," a spokeswoman at the Jakarta office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) told AFP.
The UN and most international agency staff fled the province after three UN refugee workers were killed by a mob of anti-independence East Timorese in the border town of Atambua last September.
A "Phase 5" security status still applies to West Timor for all UN staff, prohibiting them from entering the province where tens of thousands of refugees have been awaiting resettlement out of squalid camps for up to 18 months.
The spokeswoman, however, emphasised that a UNHCR presence was "not that important" for further resettlement programmes.
"We depend on the (Indonesian government) taskforce there," she said.
"We still support the mandate of the Indonesian government in resettling ther refugees."
The taskforce would conduct refugee registrations in April with the help of the military, to determine who wished to stay in Indonesia and who wished to return to East Timor.
Keeping intimidating ex-militia leaders away from the refugees as they made their choices, cited as the major obstacle to registrations, would be "the job of the military and the taskforce," the spokeswoman said.
International observers, not necessarily from the UNHCR, would monitor the registrations, she said adding that arrangements were at a premature stage.
The taskforce would then arrange to repatriate refugees, who wished to return, before tentatively scheduled elections in East Timor on August 30, she said.
Some 250,000 East Timorese were forced over the border into West Timor by anti-independence militia gangs in the wake of the half-island territory's vote to break away from 24 years of Indonesian rule in 1999.
Estimates of the number of refugees remaining in the West Timor camps vary from almost 130,000 to 50,000.
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Some rain, but no snow for Delmarva
Keep your shovels stowed safely in the garage, folks. There won't be any snow for Delmarva this week.
Today, the forecast calls for mostly cloudy skies with temperatures in the high 30s across the Lower Eastern Shore of Maryland, according to Scott Minnick, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Wakefield, Virginia. He said his weather forecast doesn't include any chance of precipitation today.
However, temperatures tonight will drop into the mid to upper 20s, with clouds throughout. The chance of precipitation ramps up late tonight into early Wednesday morning.
Once we get into Wednesday morning, that's when we start running into some issues, Minnick said: a 40-50 percent chance of rain from Salisbury up through Georgtown. To the south, precipitation chances run even higher. Temperatures should stay high enough that this precipitation remains rain.
But north of that, in mid-Sussex County, a rain-sleet mix could be possible, including some ice pellets and a brief period of freezing rain, Minnick said. "There could be a light glaze on the trees and grass," he said.
Precipitation chances will taper off tomorrow afternoon, as temperatures warm into the mid 30s. (You heard that right: going into the mid 30s represents a warm-up for Wednesday.)
We're looking at a much more pleasant weekend, Minnick said. By Friday, temperaturess will rise in low 40s, with Saturday reaching the upper 40s. By Sunday, we're looking at temperatures in the low 50s.
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I am writing this in the least-adventurous circumstance one could think of. Wrapped up in a bath robe, just out the bath, laying in an unmade bed. But I got to thinking in the tub, as most of us do. I want to live. I mean I’m already doing the necessary actions of ‘living’; my heart is beating, I’m breathing and I’m sat here writing. But my little town in the South of England doesn’t make me feel alive, like I’m really living at all.
At the age of 18 I have been lucky enough to travel to three beautiful countries; Croatia, India and Spain. Now I’m sure you can relate to the sheer excitement that erupts in your body when you go away, even when it comes to the little things, like packing your bag, travelling to the airport and of course take-off. Whether the trip you take is a soul searching one, a luxury holiday or backpacking through countries you had never imagined venturing to, you will always learn and take something from it.
My first holiday was last summer, to the beautiful town of Dubrovnik, Croatia. At the age of seventeen you can imagine a girl’s holiday, especially as your first, was an absolute dream. No parents around, living at the beach, soaking up the sun and living with your best friends. The first thing I learnt from this holiday, may seem like a pretty obvious lesson, use sun cream! You may think because you don’t burn in the ‘English sun’ you’ll be okay but, you won’t. At least I was not that lucky, I spent the first day in total bliss taking in the Croatian sun and I finished the day (and the rest of the week) looking like a crabstick. So unless you like that whole half fire-truck red, half pasty as hell vibe REMEMBER TO FLIP!
India was a completely different culture, almost like a different world. It was truly enlightening, I realised how lucky I am to have my friends and family around me, that I have a roof over my head, access to a real education. I got to see one of the most beautiful sunsets and beaches I have ever seen in my life, I got to meet interesting and such polite people and I am forever grateful for that. I learnt that having ‘Delhi belly’ makes for a good laugh between you, your best friend and her Dad while your sat in a public toilet with no windows, no lights or toilet paper. I learnt about the friendship I share with Joss and how we see the world in such a similar way. It was ten days that I wouldn’t have wanted to share with anyone else and that I will never forget.
Spain taught me to live with people that I didn’t know so well, I learnt that most of my friends are incapable of washing up and that we all eat ridiculous amounts of food. I learnt that drunkenly running into a thorn bush with no shoes on, to hide from your neighbours isn’t the best of ideas. But what I did realise, it really is the people around you that make your time incredible and most importantly, I took two new friendships from this week that I will treasure forever.
I believe travelling opens you up to all kinds of people and situations, some that you would never expect. It helps you to grow as a person and see the world as a bigger place than just your life and your problems. If you are lucky enough to go away, enjoy every single moment of it, from the minute you book your tickets, to the moment your plane lands you home.
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Not being French myself, you may scoff at my taking liberties with one of the Frenchy-est of dishes. I assure you, I mean no disrespect, especially when cooking with good French wine. My recipe calls for a whole bottle! And truly, as in so many French wonders of la cuisine, I feel certain that every French chef, from amateur to mother-teur to master-teur painted their own shades of culinary color on Burgy-Beef. Vive la difference!
To be brief, Beef Bourguignon is really beef stew, but cooked with wine, herbs, and vegetables, over time, the flavors of this stew become magically and delightfully complex.
The one thing to remember about Beef Bourguignon is IT TAKES TIME. Try to do this recipe in an hour and your guests will stomp out in disgust, leaving your reputation in tatters, your spouse sobbing, and your children fighting over the peanut butter.
The good news is, you can make this dish a day or two before, and the flavor becomes even better.
I know you would feel slighted if I let l’histoire, the story of Burgy-Beef, end after that breezy intro. Your well-traveled imagination needs to savor a bit of history and intrigue. I strive to allay your fears and feed your lust for knowledge. I see you’re quivering in anticipation. You YEARN to know who started this delicious beef stew and so forth. Quiver no more.
It began with cattle, as you might guess from the name, which is not Caterpillar or Muskrat or Hind-end-of-Donkey Bourguinon. In a short phrase, it began with Charolais cattle, known for their tender, lean meat. These hoofed wonders come from the Charolles region of southern Burgundy. I confess I do not know who started this marvel of the French kitchen, but I feel safe in saying it was not a highly paid chef in a restaurant with more stars than the five Chiefs of Staff. I do know it who made it famous. Chef Auguste Escoffier with his 1903 cookbook, Le Guide Culinaire. Now, here’s the intrigue. Escoffier was later fired from London’s Savoy Hotel for cooking the books. That really stirred things up.
Julia Child made some changes to Escoffier’s original recipe, the main one being that she chose to cut the beef into cubes rather than cooking it whole. As for your chef de jour, I follow Julia.
Rather than continuing with things you will not even remember between text messages, here’s the recipe:
Beef Bourguignon Chez Stroud
3 ½ pounds (approx. 1.6 kilos) chuck roast, cut into 2 inch cubes. Don’t remove too much fat, but do remove any tough connecting tissue
750 ml Burgundy wine, or another heavy red wine
1 large onion, diced
2 stalks of celery, thin sliced
2 medium sized tomatoes, seeds removed, blended into a purée
20 medium sized mushrooms, trimmed, washed, and quartered
4 large carrots, peeled and cut into thick chunks
2 cloves garlic, diced
4 slices streaky bacon, roughly chopped
2 heaping tablespoons of Bovril or another beef concentrate
1 heaping tablespoon herbs de Province (No H de P? Use thyme, parsley, bay leaves or just use your imagination…Hey! You’re the Chef!)
olive oil, salt, pepper
1 cup water
Roux: make a paste of two tablespoons of butter mashed into two tablespoons of flour. This will be used to thicken the stew after it comes out of the oven.
You’ll also need: a large heavy bottomed pot with a lid (Dutch oven).
Put the cubes of beef in a large bowl and pour in the entire bottle of wine. Cover and let the beef marinate for a couple of hours. Why? Wine tenderizes.
Heat the oven to 250ºF (130ºC)
Remove the beef from the bowl, but save the marinade. Splash some olive oil in your large pot and brown the beef in batches. I did it with three batches. When the beef is browned, place it in a colander over a bowl (to catch the juices).
When all the meat is browned and removed, splash some more oil in the pot, then toss in the onions, garlic, celery, and bacon. Cook at medium heat until the onions are wilted and beginning to turn amber. Mix in the tomato purée, stir and cook only a few moments.
Return the beef to the pot and pour in the wine marinade and the dripping from the beef. Bring to a boil and stir in the Bovril. Add the cup of water. Add salt and pepper to taste.
Put the top on the pot, slide it in the pre-heated oven and cook for about four hours.
At the three hour point, add the carrots and mushrooms.
I like my Burgy-Beef rich and thick, so after removing the stew from the oven, I put it back on the stovetop at low heat. As it bubbles, I stir in the roux (paste) and cook the stew for a few minutes more, until thickened.
I like to serve this with plain mashed potatoes and as much wine as I can drink. The French would also accompany the meal with slices of crusty baguette. The French don’t even brush their teeth without a baguette close by.
But wait….there’s just a bit more. What does Bourgignon mean? Well in English, we say Burgundy, but in French it ‘s Bourgogne. And the French word Bourgignon (Boor-gig-yawn) comes out Burgundian in English. Beef Burgundy style! Voilá!
A votre santé!
|browning the beef|
|sliced onions, celery, and finely diced garlic|
|draining the beef, but catching the juices in a bowl below the colander|
|I never make a beef stew or soup without the magic of Bovril|


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Essay On Urban Population, Megacities And Motivation The social phenomenon of urbanization and emergence of megacities in the world's inhabitation pattern is proved to be an effect that co-exists with human. The biggest launch of the early centuries was caused by the Industrial Revolution and in the latest years, Globalization, established a new basis to the issue. It has been observed to have had a most rapid growing rate in the 20th century due to mainly internal migration of native people from rural areas to cities, that in combination with the global growing birth rate and technology revolution has brought this effect to the proscenium of more economically developed countries and developing countries of the world. As a result of this, several "megacities" have been created with population over 10 million people. Urbanization has raised a series of major problems in energy supply, homelessness, pollution and destruction of natural habitats, high concentration of population and crime. Alongside with urbanization, side effects raised e.g. conurbation. In general terms urbanization is caused by the mass population searching for better living standards, more chances of employment and higher wages, as it is believed that services and economy are concentrated and mainly developed in cities.
It is undoubtedly the case that urban areas around the world increasingly suffer from congestion. In this essay, I examine the reasons for this trend and suggest some practical policies the authorities could implement to reduce the level of traffic in our cities.
Now a days, a common trend of migrating to cites for better future prospects is commonly seen, however urban life can be full of challenges and surprises for young generation. In this essay we will analyse various issues young force faces while migrating and also what steps and measures government can take to resolve this issue.
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Environmental Pollution in Arab Countries will Increase: Report
ABU DHABI — Challenges facing Arab countries especially in fresh water scarcity, desertification and, air and marine pollution, will increase because of climate change implications, according to the Arab Environment Future Challenges Report.
The presentation was made by the Arab Forum for Environmental Development (AFED), at a ceremony in Abu Dhabi on Thursday.
The ceremony was jointly organised by the Environment Agency-Abu Dhabi and AFED. The Arab region, which stretches from Morocco and Mauritania in the west, through northern Africa and the Levant, to the Arabian Gulf in the east, is a region facing distinctive environmental circumstances and challenges, the report said.
The report, compiled by independent experts, estimated that in the Arab region as a whole, the cost of environmental degradation is estimated at five per cent of gross domestic product (GDP). The report also said that some governments in the region had failed to address these mounting economic costs with effective policies.
However, the report praised the environmental work carried out in Abu Dhabi, describing the Abu Dhabi Emirate Environment Strategy 2009-2013, adopted by the emirate, as a “model” and called on Arab countries to follow this model. The report also praised the clean energy initiative ‘Masdar,’ which was launched by Abu Dhabi government. “Although they are often largely invisible or ignored, the economic costs of environmental degradation in the Arab region are growing,” stated the report. “By environmental degradation we mean issues such as air pollution. For example, the health bill paid by Arab countries for diseases caused by air pollution from transport only is $5 billion”, Najib Saab, secretary general of AFED, told Khaleej Times. “Other source of loss of income is sea pollution, which not only affects fisheries, but also severely decreases the potential of tourism”, added Saab.
Water scarcity, is a major dilemma in the Arab region. As Saab explained, 15 out of 22 Arab countries are below the water poverty line. A different kind of problem is the rise of sea levels by up to four metres in the next decades. “There are 18,000 kilometres of inhabited coastal area in the Arab region, which is going to be affected by sea water rise”, warned Saab. “Although the Arab region does not contribute more than 5 per cent to the causes of global climate change, its effects on the region will be very severe. According to recent modelling studies, the Arab region will face an increase of 2 to 5.5 degrees Celsius in the surface temperature by the end of the 21st century. “In addition, this temperature increase will be coupled with a projected decrease in precipitation of between 0 and 20 per cent. Clearly, adaptation and mitigation strategies need to be researched, discussed and implemented”, the report stressed.
Saab admitted that not all is bleak. The report is taken on an Arab road tour and so far it was well received. “In Lebanon for example, we convinced the government to include environmental degradation in their budget, which will encourage more spending on environment”, said Saab.
In Abu Dhabi the report was welcomed and endorsed by Mohammad Bowardi, secretary general of Abu Dhabi Executive Council, managing director of Environment Agency — Abu Dhabi and board member of AFED.
“Despite the magnitude of the pollution levels and environmental degradation in the Arab states, we still have a chance to stop this deterioration ”, said Bowardi. — email@example.com
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Mark, left, leads the 190-strong convoy of cyclists into Maynooth on Sunday evening. Photo: Patrick Thomas Photography.
Almost a year after a serious cycling accident changed this life Maynooth man Mark Nugent made a triumphant return to cycling by leading the 2017 Galway Cycle home from Kilcock last Sunday evening.
On April 18, 2016 Mr Nugent sustained a spinal injury in a cycling accident and is now a wheelchair user.
His story and his positivity has inspired thousands of people since then and this year’s Galway Cycle, a fundraising event run by students in Maynooth University, raised €70,000 for the National Rehabilitation Hospital (NRH) in Dún Laoghaire where he spent several months after his accident.
This was the 30th anniversary of the cycle, which has raised over €1.6 million for children’s charities over the past three decades.
Mr Nugent has taken up handcycling in the last six months or so and joined the almost 200 strong group of cyclists for the final kilometres into Maynooth from Kilcock.
It was an emotional moment for him and his family and friends as he lead the huge convoy into the Square in the centre of Maynooth.
He was accompanied by his brother Alan, fiancee Jacqueline, future sister-in-law Ruth, his father Dominic and close friend Conor Dempsey.
“I didn’t really feel a part of it on Friday (when the cyclists make their way to Galway from Maynooth) so it was important for me to do something. It was really important,” he told the Leinster Leader.
“So many other people came together to do this for the charity, and after my time at the front on the way home, I can say it was one of the best Galway Cycles that I’ve done, even though it wasn’t the longest one for me.
“When the cyclists arrived into Kilcock, there was a great buzz, a great feeling.”
But there was an extra dimension to his short but important cycle on Sunday evening. “I had never cycled by the accident point before. I wanted to get by it on my own. I felt it was something I needed to do,” he explained, which is why he cycled ahead of the main bunch for the first little while.
“It was a big thing for me, especially being so close to the (anniversary) date and everything.”
The 2017 Galway Cycle was in aid of the National Rehabilitation Hospital (NRH), Dún Laoghaire, with a particular focus on the Paediatric Family Centred Rehabilitation Unit.
The charity was picked by the students to be the 2017 recipient after it was nominated by Mr Nugent, who has completed the Galway Cycle a number of times in the past.
He accompanied the cycle on Friday in his car, driving to the various pit-stop points to meet the cyclists.
“You don’t see it when you’re cycling it, but there’s a great buzz behind the scenes, and I got to see that when I was waiting for them in Loughrea.
“From everybody getting the food ready and then afterwards during the clean up, it was just unbelievable to see all that.”
Mark’s fiancee Jacqueline Healy was a cycling marshal on this year’s event, giving him a further insight into the great work that is done behind the scenes.
“When you’re a cyclist, you just have to cycle. You really don’t appreciate what goes on behind the scenes,” he said.
Next year Mark aims to complete at least two stages of the cycle in both directions.
“That’s my goal - I’m up to 20kph comfortably, maybe even a little bit more.” He is conscious that the Galway Cycle travels at approximately 25kph.
Local Kildare company Epic Aerial Filming filmed the event.
This year’s edition of the Galway Cycle has already raised €70,000 for the NRH.
It was also the fastest edition of the event in recent memory, with the cyclists making the return leg home from Galway to Maynooth on Sunday in just seven hours - at least an hour and a half quicker than normal.
Almost 190 cyclists took to the road early last Friday morning for the first leg down to Galway, arriving into Eyre Square just before 6pm.
After spending Saturday collecting funds for the charity on the streets in Galway, they got back on their bikes just after daybreak on Sunday morning.
A mild tailwind allowed the convoy of cyclists to make good progress across the course of the day, recording an average speed of 27.4kph, almost 3kph faster than normal.
President of the event, Maynooth student Sam Ward paid a special tribute to everyone who was involved in the event, especially those who worked as support crew, Gardai and sponsors "as well as all our supporters who cheered us along the way, those who welcomed us into Galway and those who welcomed us in Maynooth.
"The Galway Cycle is an amazing experience one which wouldn't be what is is without all these people. You can't fully understand it until you experience it yourself. "
Donations are still being accepted. Click here to donate or to learn more about the event.
Photo courtesy of Patrick Thomas Photography.


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“I’m in dad mode,” Black Stone Cherry’s John Fred Young says with a laugh when I call him for an interview a few weeks ago. “It’s our first one, the first grandbaby and the first great-grandbaby on both sides so she has no hope, she’s going to be spoiled.” With a daughter approaching the one year mark, you would think the last thing on this drummer’s mind is playing music with a bunch of other sweaty guys he’s known, for the most part, since junior high school. But music has been very much on his mind of late as the popular Kentucky band finish up a new record and prep the release of a live DVD they recorded in England a year ago this month.
For Black Stone Cherry, their star has been on the rise since they first stepped out their practice house and onto stages across the south. A mixture of rock, blues and southern sweat and charm, Young, singer Chris Robertson, bass player Jon Lawhon and guitar player Ben Wells have a stellar, energetic chemistry that fans gravitate to like moths to a flame. And the new DVD, Thank You: Livin’ Live, Birmingham, UK, October 30, 2014, has certainly captured that. “Growing up watching my Elvis and Aerosmith DVDs and VHS tapes, I never thought I would be in a band that would one day be releasing one,” Wells has said about the film.
For Young, music has always been a part of his life. His father is Richard Young, guitar player and founding member of the Kentucky Headhunters, who won a Grammy in 1990 for their debut album, Pickin’ On Nashville. Taking up the drums like his uncle Fred, also a member of the Headhunters, Young and Robertson decided to start playing together following a school talent show. Black Stone Cherry would release their self-titled debut in 2006. “When we started in 2006, we were all kids on the music scene and we were always able to find and gain the respect of the older bands because we’re one of those few bands that are going today that are still true to what rock & roll used to be,” Robertson told me during an interview in 2013 when they were opening for Bad Company and Lynyrd Skynyrd. “It’s not about a bunch of make-up or computer-simulated music. It’s guitars and bass and drums and four dudes on stage.” “We’re not trying to fit into any kind of mold,” added Wells. “Granted, we have to play ball to be able to be successful, you know what I mean. But we’re not going to like cut our wrists to be successful.”
Holding true to that, the band continues to add fans everywhere they go, especially in the UK, where fans have been especially acclamatory. So choosing to film their first live DVD at Birmingham’s LG Arena was almost a no-brainer. Young talked with Glide about the adoration of the British fans, getting started as kids in the country playing rock & roll, the importance of staying true to YOUR music and what we can expect on the upcoming new album.
When did you decide you wanted to make a live DVD?
Well, we had wanted to film a DVD for some time. We built ourselves on our live reputation, if you will, and I think that over the years there’s been a lot of times where I wish we had had a film crew. Sometimes you think, “Oh my gosh, that was the best show we’ve ever done.” Obviously, you’ve got YouTube footage and everything like that but having a real film crew, you can’t do that every show. But we wanted to film it on this tour because it was our biggest tour to date, headlining those arenas, but also because our fans in the UK are insane and they have been so great to us and have stood by our side.
I remember in 2007, we went over there and it was on a whim, you know. We were opening up for some buddies of ours, Hinder, the American rock band, and they were nice enough to take us over there, and I think the type of music we were playing I think it really resonated with fans. I think when you’re from an area, like southern rock in the southern United States, you only see it at like bike rallies and you only see it at honky tonks and things like that. Over there, our style of music is embraced because it’s different, it’s unique, it’s rare over there. Like, take Volbeat for example, who are from Denmark. They do well in the States, and I don’t know for a fact but I’m sure that the reason that they probably did well over here was because they were different. I think we’re the first band from Kentucky to ever go to the UK and kind of do what we’ve done and stir up that and be a torch carrier for southern rock. I don’t know, Rickey Medlocke said that about us (laughs).
So I think us filming the DVD in Birmingham was amazing too because that was the first place we ever played in England. In 2007, we were out with Hinder and we were in Europe and we did like Sweden, Germany and France and Holland but we had three English shows. We had Manchester, Birmingham and London. And Manchester and London were incredible but I think Birmingham just had a different atmosphere, you know what I mean. Maybe because Zeppelin is from there and Sabbath. It’s a rich cultural history of music there. So for us to be able to film that video in Birmingham, it’s kind of an homage to that first little show we did there.
Do you consider Black Stone Cherry to be more in the southern rock genre?
You know, I think more than anything we were influenced by southern rock big time but we were influenced by a lot of other stuff. The list is endless. And we’re kind of from the south and we can’t help but be associated with southern music. I mean, we would never deny the great roots of growing up with like my dad’s band, the Kentucky Headhunters. That was a huge influence to us, still is. But you had Skynyrd and you had bands like the Allman Brothers and I think all those bands played a huge influence on the way that the south, the southern music scene, really flourished. I mean, Skynyrd kind of wanted to be the Rolling Stones and it was funny because they never set out to be a southern rock band. We didn’t either. We were like, no, we’re not that. But I think all the southern rock bands deny being southern rock but there’re so many different genres. You have hip hop and you have rock and you have country and I think southern rock is like that too because there’s a lot of metal southern rock bands. Look at Pantera, they were a metal band but they were really kind of southern rock in the same way. It’s hard not to be a musician of any genre and not be influenced by southern music. It’s not just southern rock but everything from the south when you look at music.
You mentioned earlier how much the British fans embraced you and also the British music press, making the cover of Classic Rock Magazine last year. But when I went out to buy it, the Red Hot Chili Peppers were on the American version.
I know. We were kind of disappointed. It was unreal that we were on the cover but it does kind of knock the wind out of your sails a little bit because you want Americans to know what you’ve accomplished. But it makes sense to me. They’re in the business of selling magazines and we’re not at that level here in the States what we’re doing over there. I hope we get there here but I think, and I hate to talk bad about anybody or anything, but I think the American mindset is very quick to kind of be on something and then if it’s not the hottest thing in the world, they’re on to something else. And I think a lot of that has to do with reality TV and just the opportunity we have to have so many things at our fingertips.
And too, England is smaller, it’s an island, and you think about the festivals that go on there and it’s a big huge music community. If you went and saw Alter Bridge, you would see Black Stone Cherry fans there. If you went and saw Black Stone Cherry, you’d see some Alter Bridge fans or Slash fans or any of those bands that are doing things over there, you’re going to see a lot of people that like the same stuff. I think more than anything, we’re just kind of fickle here when it comes to music.
I was talking to Carlene Carter and she told me about being on the same bill with the Clash. They’re more open to different styles of music there.
It’s true. If you’re doing something genuine, it doesn’t matter if you’re doing hillbilly country or punk metal country, it’s not that the fans can’t tell the difference, hell, I just think there’s a better appreciation for music. I think here we’re so desensitized by all these reality TV shows. I don’t allow it in my house (laughs). And I think honestly, and I hate to say it, but I think, not to get all conspiracy-theory, but I think the government just tries to dumb us down with media and I think that we kind of allow ourselves to be subjected to that. But I think too like a lot of people that come to our shows in America, we have fans here that are just as appreciative of music and just as intelligent about music as anywhere in the world.
I just think that because we’re such a big country it’s hard for somebody in Oregon or Washington to go and see us in South Carolina. You can get on a plane but it’s the fact of it’s so diverse and so big. We travel around the country, you know, we’re a traveling circus, we go from town to town and make new fans, and we really haven’t had the radio support in this country. They play us on the radio in England but we made it over there on the ground. And that’s what we had to do over here too, it’s just that America is so much bigger. And I think when people have the chance to buy this DVD [out on October 30], I think the people that are going to buy it will be our fans, obviously, but I think other people that might get the opportunity to see it may have heard of our name but might mix it up with Buckcherry or Blackberry Smoke (laughs), which are great, great friends of ours and we’ve toured with both those guys. I think that it’ll help us some because I think that people might go, “Wait a minute, yeah, I’ve heard of them.” (laughs) So I think it’s going to be a great positive thing for us to get that DVD out.
When you and Chris first put this band together, and you’ve got so much rock & roll energy up on that stage, were you guys that aggressive when you first started?
You know, over time when we got out playing I think we found ourselves and trying to develop some level of entertainment and showmanship and things like that. But we grew up practicing in my dad and uncle’s old farmhouse and really we didn’t have a lot of room. It’s like about a 14×14 room so in there you couldn’t really move around. And I play drums hard and I’ve always kind of been a basher but I don’t think I knew how to entertain really until we got out there. When we first started out, we were doing these little clubs and the stages weren’t much bigger than the practice house room. But I think when we started doing these radio shows and these festivals, that’s when we became like, oh wow, what do we do? I remember we played Florida in 2006 and it was our first show that we actually played as a signed band and it was like in Tampa or Orlando. And man, we were just so lost cause the stage was this huge stage. It probably wasn’t big compared now to some things but it was at least a good forty feet and we were just lost (laughs). But over time touring, I think that’s what really brought us together and we kind of honed in what we do. But yeah, it takes time to get your bearings around how you perform onstage.
Did you form the band when you guys were in high school?
Well, Chris and I had known each other since kindergarten. We were buddies and his dad played guitar and my dad played guitar and I did a talent contest one year. I brought my drum set to school, played, it was horrible and Chris came up and he said, “Hey man, I’m going to get a guitar this summer,” school was about out, and he was like, “We should get together.” I was like, “Yeah, let’s do that.” So between seventh and eighth grade, Chris and I started playing music together. Then Jon, our bass player, moved up from Florida that coming school year and he was a freshman in high school and we were eighth grade. It’s funny because we hated him. Oh my God, all the girls liked him and we were like, who is this surfer dude? (laughs)
But over time we got to be friends with Jon and found out he played guitar. So we were like, “Man, Chris is playing guitar but we need a bass player.” And Chris was like, “Why don’t you play bass. My dad’s got one.” So Jon traded his, and he had a really nice Fender Strat, and he traded with Chris’s dad for like this junky bass and he just learned how to play bass. Two years later after we’d been jamming together, we met Ben from the next county over. He came down to the practice house with a buddy of ours, David, and he came in and Dave was like, “Man, you got to let him play. He’s a great guitar player.” And of course we all probably just sucked so bad then (laughs) but I remember the next day, June the 4th, 2001, we started the band, on Chris’ sixteenth birthday, with the four members and we’ve been the four ever since.
Your dad helped produce the first album. Did he let you guys be you or did he have a lot of advice and guidance?
He had a lot of advice and guidance and we wanted to kill each other but you know what, he really did let us be what we were being. But he did have a lot of influence over trying to help us write. For lack of better words, Dad’s kind of been like the fifth member of our band for years. He has helped us with so much business stuff and learning the music business, the publishing side, the touring side, how to survive on the road. You know, when we were nineteen or twenty we got a record deal and we didn’t have a clue what was going on. So we really needed my dad and we are so grateful and honored to have him help us. And also our other dads too. I mean, Ben’s dad helped us drive everywhere before we had a vehicle and Chris’ dad helped with guitars and amps. Jon’s dad bought us a camper. It was like five grand and we took it out one time and the damn thing broke down so he bought it back from us so we could do something else. We’ve just had a lot of help from our families.
But I think the biggest thing Dad did in the studio was he helped us bring a lot of the classic sounds to the band. We grew up in the practice house and we had posters of, and I can go down the list, Hendrix, Cream, Zeppelin, Mountain, Blue Cheer, Aerosmith, Elvis, Albert King, Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, all those great blues guys, even soul guys like Marvin Gaye and Otis and Wilson Pickett. I mean, everything you can imagine that would be in the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame in Cleveland, put that in a spider-infested house on a farm. We were so lucky to be around that stuff. When we were really first out there doing it, at the practice house, I mean, Limp Biscuit was huge and Korn and don’t get me wrong, we like those bands too but I remember that Lincoln Park had just came out and all these bands, and there wasn’t a lot of bands that were out around here in this area in Kentucky, but the oldest thing they were listening to and jamming to was Alice In Chains and Metallica, which everybody loves Alice In Chains and Metallica. But we had this amazing opportunity to be influenced by Frank Zappa and Mott The Hoople, things that I don’t even think kids knew. That was the reason we came out sounding the way we did and we’re very grateful to everybody cause think about it, who in their damn right mind would let four teenagers use an old farmhouse out in the middle of nowhere to just hammer out music (laughs). I mean, we didn’t have to worry about cops, we didn’t have to worry about noise, anything. We would sit out there and we still do it. We’re working on the new album, fixing to go record it, and I get nervous every time we go record cause I’m like, man, this is going to be on record the rest of our lives. So it’s got to be good, it can’t suck (laughs).
What is it sounding like so far?
Sonically, it’s hard to describe. Every band including us go, “Oh this is the greatest stuff ever, it’s our newest stuff, it’s the greatest thing ever.” It is. It is an incredible group of songs that we have come up with for this album. I really don’t know how to describe it cause a lot of them were really fresh ideas, stuff that we had written in the past month, and then there is stuff that I think is like six years old. There was some leftover stuff and there’s some things that never ever got to see the light of day. But oh man, there’s some good songs. We try to make some party anthems and we try to make those songs that have epic riffs in them where the musicians in the crowd are going to go, “Oh God, that’s the greatest riff.” (laughs)
Has Chris upped his songwriting?
He is a wonderful songwriter. He’s brilliant with recording and we’re very thankful for that. He actually mixed the DVD and we couldn’t be more pleased with how he mixed it. And that was the first time he had ever mixed a DVD. But we all four actually write and play the songs and record so it’s great cause all four of us will sit in a room and come up with lyric ideas, or on the back of the bus or wherever we’re at, and we’ll come up with guitar riffs, piano riffs, a bassline, a melody line just out of thin air, a vocal melody, and all those things kind of go into this Black Stone Cherry stew pot and form.
It’s amazing to see how these songs come together cause some of this stuff on the back of the bus, a lot of times we’re rolling down the road and we plug into whatever we’re using on the digital platform, and start recording guitar parts. It’s cool. There were a couple of songs that were from like 2008 that we loved, loved the songs, thought they should have been on the album and we had a label dispute or whatever, you know, and sometimes they don’t hear a song that’s a hit and they get paid to. It’s like, God almighty, how do you not hear a hit song? I mean, we were fortunate enough to have the Florida Georgia Line guys cut our song “Stay,” which is on the Devil record and I remember the label was like, “Man, we just don’t hear it as a single,” and we were like, God, you get paid to be a label and hear hits? (laughs) But thankfully those guys cut it and it went to #1 for six weeks. That don’t suck (laughs)
When you know you’re right and nobody is listening to you it can get very frustrating.
It is frustrating and it’s so different being an artist and having an opportunity to express yourself. You pour your heart out, right, to really write stuff that people connect with. And we have songs on this upcoming record that I know are going to hit people in the heart. The only difference between us and somebody who listens to music, and we feel the same emotions that people do, is that we’re fortunate enough that we can pick up a guitar or a mic or whatever, drum set, and kind of bash out those thoughts and put them down in song form. I think when you start writing lyrics and you’re rushing or you’re TRYING to write a heart-felt ballad, and I don’t even like the word ballad (laughs), but I think the softer songs we have had have always came from a place. We weren’t trying, oh we got to write a song for the chicks, we’ve got to write a song for Top 40 Adult Contemporary Radio. I think we’ve always had things that really meant things. Like “Things My Father Said,” “Peace Is Free,” “All I’m Dreamin’ Of;” those are three songs that I think never really got the light of day on radio but our fans will sing every word to them. That’s how we kind of try and write. We try to write from the heart.
You’re a very visual drummer, moving around and knocking the heck out of all those drums, so which one of the songs in your catalog takes the most energy for you to play live?
As far as energy expenditure, I think definitely the heavier stuff, the faster songs, the up tempo stuff; those require more of a physical approach. I always try to look at it like an athletic type of event, you know, and train for it. But when you’re home, it’s hard to play drums. You can pick up a guitar or a bass guitar or a keyboard. Drums, nobody wants to hear drums by themselves because they just sound like garbage, unless you’re a drummer, right (laughs). So if we’ve been off a while, some of those heavier songs are kind of hard to get back into.
I find that the hardest thing to do, and this seems so contradictory of what people might think, the hardest thing to do is play a thirty minute set because from a physical standpoint, it would be like just getting warmed up and then you stop and your muscles are like, what in the hell just happened? We don’t do too many thirty minute opening spots anymore. We’ll do forty-five or fifty but those thirty minute shows are awful cause you have to try to play all your songs, your hits so to say, in thirty minutes and that’s why I’d rather play two hour long shows because your body, for what we do, your body starts to get a second wind and you condition yourself, and your pain threshold can go beyond that. So the short, short shows are hard to do. The shortest show I think we ever did was twelve minutes at the Sweden Rock Awards last year. We did three songs and it was like, I don’t even know if I broke a sweat. It was like, man, this is insane.
You did a Ramones-type set
Yeah, Yeah, that’s right (laughs). Every song is forty-two seconds.
Saying that, which body part hurts the most when you walk off that stage?
When I walk off stage, I think most of my fatigue will come from my back and shoulders. I should probably be doing crossfit and I just don’t. I’ve got the dad bod going on from just not having time to do it so I think that’s the part that kind of hurts. But you know, after a while, like I said, you condition to it. I try to stretch and warm up and things like that before I play so I don’t go in to it ice cold.
Who was the first real rock star you ever met?
Robert Plant. My dad’s best friend and manager used to PR for Zeppelin before Bonham passed away. The Headhunters used to be a band called Itchy Brother and basically my dad called up Atlantic Records one day and he was like, “Hey, we’re a band from Kentucky,” gave them all the whole spiel, and he said, “We really need somebody to come down here and check us out cause we want to be on Atlantic.” And this guy named Mitchell Fox was the PR guy for them then and he took a flight and came down and saw the Headhunters, and they were Itchy Brother then. So he fell in love with the band and he took demos to Peter Grant and waited at Peter’s house for like three days before Peter would come downstairs. It was crazy but they liked the stuff and the Headhunters, I keep saying Headhunters but they were Itchy Brother, they were going to be the first American band to be signed onto Swan Song. Richie Sambora had a band before he joined Bon Jovi and they were going to be on there too. But Bonham passes away, unfortunately, and Swan Song was no longer and everything just went to a halt. The Headhunters became the Headhunters and Mitchell stayed with them and became their manager and to this day he’s still a family member of ours. But I went to Nashville when Jimmy and Robert were doing the Walking Into Clarksdale tour in 1997 and I got to meet Robert. It was very life-changing.
Because at that age, I was twelve, I still didn’t really grasp it; but I kind of did because I had saw how much my dad liked Led Zeppelin and how that had kind of been a staple in our house. Then as I got older, I realized, oh my God, how incredible that really was. I got to meet Jimmy Page at Wembley. We were playing with Whitesnake and Def Leppard on tour and Jimmy came to watch the Whitesnake/Def Leppard guys and he watched our set and we got to meet him and it was incredible. That was one of those things that you never forget. Those guys are real rock stars.
The worst advice you were given when you became a professional musician?
We’ve gotten bad advice. I mean, there’s bad advice every day and you kind of have to use your own judgment. But I think for young bands who are trying to aspire to go out there and make it and do it and struggle and starve to death and play rock & roll, I think the BEST advice is to not try to change who you are for a record label, for any kind of yes man or a manager or anything. Stick to your guns. If the label wants you to change the way you look, then you don’t need to be on that label. If a manager wants you to change the way you look or the way you sound as a singer or guitar player, if anybody tries to change who you are artistically, you need to be searching somewhere else. I think this is probably my best advice I could give. If anybody in the music industry tries to change you for what you are, it’s because they’ve never seen anything like you so I’d suggest running the hell away from them and find someone else who can appreciate what you are and what you can bring to the music world as your own individual self. I know when we first started, every single day somebody was telling Chris to lose weight, cause Chris is a big ole boy and he’ll tell you that. But it was really a pain in the ass for us because we couldn’t even concentrate on music because we had some A&R whack telling us, “Hey man, if you lose like forty or fifty pounds …”
I remember when we first started, we actually tried to get on Atlantic before we had our Roadrunner deal, and we’re not on Roadrunner anymore, but I remember back in the early days trying to get songs together to pitch to labels and stuff, and we went to this producer who was the biggest jerk. And he wasn’t a producer because a producer brings out the greatest positive thing that the artist can bring to the table and help structure that. And this guy was so narcissistic and he was so negative about things and I don’t know if it was from his own insecurities but that really almost damaged us as a band. I won’t say his name cause I’d hate for anybody to hear his name, but I’ll say this, he was out of Florida, you can put that in there, Sanford, Florida (laughs). But it was a big hit for us because he tried to change who we were as players. He was very condescending, and I’m not trying to get off on a negative thing, but I try to tell young kids, or anybody who is trying to play, I always say, “Look, whatever you’re doing, stick to what you’re doing. It might not be cool right now and if you’re doing anything that is trendy, go ahead and NOT do that. Don’t do that at all because by the time somebody sees you and you’re blowing up, that’s going to be long gone.”
For example, who doesn’t like “Uptown Funk”? That is one of the greatest funk masterpieces to come out in a long time. Love Bruno Mars. But as soon as that song came out, I saw so many bands in bars doing that or so many bands trying to lean toward that. And I’m like, dude, that’s exactly what bands shouldn’t do. I remember doing some co-writes with somebody and they were like, “Man, this pub company is looking for stuff like Bruno Mars.” And I’m like, “Why are they doing that?” By the time you get the song written, the song recorded, the song out on somebody’s record, that’s going to be gone. Not to say that Bruno will be gone, he’s a great artist and I love that guy, but that’s his style. So be original and if you feel like it’s bad advice in your gut, use your gut; stick to your guns and make the music, make the art that YOU want to make.
As a drummer, out of all the songs you have ever heard, what song boggles your mind the most in terms of the drumming?
A lot of stuff we do cause I don’t know how to play it again (laughs). I never play the same thing twice and that’s my fault. No, I think some of the greatest drumming that’s ever been on record has been from some of the greats. I look at Bonham, everybody tries to play Bonham stuff, even me, I try to play it. There’s a certain swing and a certain R&B element that Bonham had and you can listen to those tracks with all the audio pulled off for just Bonham’s drum tracks and you can hear all these little ghost notes. But I’ve heard stuff that my uncle did on record, you know, Fred Young from the Headhunters, and I still listen to him and, God bless, what drum tracks. Tony Williams, Bernard Purdie, Max Roach, Buddy Rich, Gene Krupa. Bernard Purdie, for me, is one of the greatest session drummers of all time. I think he is the most recorded drummer.
As far as stuff that would be hard to learn, that’s such an open question. You look at the progression of how drummers even had to mic drum kits to get a wonderful sound. It’s like, your drum is in the studio and you’ve got thirty-seven mics on your drum kit. Back in the day of Motown, you might have had a kick and a snare drum and maybe one overhead to capture the whole kit. They just didn’t have that many channels on the board. A lot of the stuff I like is a lot of jazz stuff too. A lot of stuff I listen to in my car when I’m just rolling around is just crazy obscure stuff. I think a lot of drum tracks that are epic are stuff that aren’t mainstream. You think, oh, “Moby Dick” is one of the greatest solos of all time. It is but then I look at stuff that also played for the song, like some of that Motown stuff. It wasn’t outlandish but what they were doing with Afro-Cuban beats and holding it down, I don’t know, it’s hard. Probably one of my favorite drummers of all time, besides my uncle and John Bonham, was Ginger Baker from Cream. And we all know that Ginger was nuts. I don’t know if you’ve ever seen that DVD [Beware Of Mr Baker] but that DVD is incredible.
What about your own drumming?
Well, to be quite honest with you, it is really hard for me to go back and play exactly what I played on record because a lot of times I will go in the studio and, okay, I know what the bass drum pattern needs to be on the chorus and what it needs to be to lock-in to keep that groove to repetition. But there’re so many mistakes I make in the studio on stuff. I try to be a perfectionist and try to make drum parts over-the-top, even if it’s just a groove is over-the-top or the fill. But I think I’m more aware as a drummer now than I was when I first started, which takes some of the green creativity away because you want to get back to that rawness, you know. But then as you progress and you work with producers that are like, “Well, when there comes a key change you got to switch cymbals, you don’t want to make this beat too complex for people to follow.” And I’m like, “I know. That’s exactly why I play rock & roll and didn’t become a CPA (laughs). So let me do what I want to do.” But I think it is hard. There’re lots of drummers that write out everything they play and I can’t do that. There’s no way I could do that. Actually, there probably is. I could do it but I just like to go in there and bash and see what comes out.
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Two games in Dubai featuring the Mahindra squad of eight-division world boxing champion Manny Pacquiao and crowd-darling Barangay Ginebra will be played on Nov. 6 and 7 as part of the PBA Philippine Cup’s elimination-round schedule.
The two squads will be joined by Alaska on the league’s return to the oil-rich United Arab Emirates.
Two Governors’ Cup games were also held in the emirate two months ago.
Though the contract between the league and the Dubai promoters has yet to be signed, a PBA source said the games are “more or less a go.”
Among the three teams, only the Aces will play two games in as many days.
Meanwhile, the league’s board of governors, chaired by San Miguel Beer’s Robert Non, is considering a 3-on-3 tournament among the league’s legends in between games to spur interest in the 41st season.
The PBA has also decided to revert to the four-days-a-week schedule, dropping the Tuesday games it staged last season, in an effort to check the league’s revenue dip that topped P18 million.
In another development, the top two picks of the last Draft—Moala Tautuaa and Troy Rosario—who could very well become the league’s newest attractions, signed maximum deals for rookies spread over three years with Talk ‘N Text.
The Tropang Texters, who picked Tautuaa first overall and then tabbed Rosario in a trade with Mahindra, gave each player a contract worth about P8.5 million, starting with a rookie monthly salary of P150,000 excluding bonuses.
Tautuaa and Rosario will fly to Taipei Friday together with the rest of the Gilas Pilipinas squad to play in the Jones Cup that starts Saturdau.
In the early 1980s, the league also came up with a one-on-one tournament in-between games.
The first game has a 4:45 p.m. start with the second kicking off at 7 p.m. to accommodate the 6 p.m. news program of league coverer Channel 5.
The new season opens on Oct. 18 at Smart Araneta Coliseum.
The league board said games should be held at the Big Dome and at Mall of Asia Arena to attract bigger crowds.
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Family of man killed outside Chandler LA Fitness seeks public's help
The family of a man stabbed and killed outside a Chandler LA Fitness spoke out Monday, seeking the public's help in solving his murder.
Detectives believe 84-year-old Shivaswamy Hosakote was killed Thursday morning in the fitness center's parking lot near Dobson and Warner roads. He was found in his black 2016 Honda sedan about 11 a.m. by gym members when they went to look at the car that had been parked poorly, said Sgt. Seth Tyler, a Chandler police spokesman.
Hosakote was taken to the hospital with multiple stab wounds, where he died from his injuries, he said.
"The family is shocked at this sudden and senseless killing, and we are unable to comprehend who would harm such a warm and generous person," Hosakote's family said in a statement Monday. "We wake up every morning thinking of Shivaswamy and how he suffered in his last moments."
Hosakote worked as an engineer for Maricopa County and was involved in Phoenix's Indian community, his family said. They described Hosakote's "booming laugh, his reassuring voice, and his words of wisdom."
"Shivaswamy was always willing to help others, taking care of all of us and spreading his warmth and joy to everyone he met. ... We will miss Shivaswamy every single day, and we can never get him back. We hope that no other family will experience the pain that has been inflicted on us," the statement said.
"If anyone has seen or heard anything, please come forward and help us find justice for Shivaswamy."
Hosakote and his wife had been married for 50 years and and a large extended family.
According to neighbor Bob van Leuven Jr., they were one of the Mesa cul de sac's original residents, moving in to the neighborhood near Country Club Drive and Guadalupe Road around 1996.
Hosakote was quiet and friendly, Van Leuven said, adding that he would see carloads of Hosakote's family members coming by the house often. A bouquet of bright flowers sat on their doorstep Friday.
Tyler said Hosakote was a gym member who exercised there regularly. The circumstances of his death remain unknown, and detectives are particularly eager to speak with anyone who might have seen anything in the parking lot between 9 and 10 a.m. Thursday, he said.
Those with information were asked to call the Chandler Police Department at 480-782-4130 or Silent Witness at 480-WITNESS.


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Friday, October 30, 6pm-1am -Â The Forge Restaurant & Bar,Â 432 West 41st Street, Miami Beach The Forge and Veuve Clicquot present their legendary “Yelloween” party to be held on Friday October 30, 2015. This year’s theme is science fiction staring actor and superstar Elaine Lancaster with music by Oui Sauvage aka Maxwell Blandford with live performances […]
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Alaska health officials say they’re seeing a modest increase in cases of some respiratory viruses — but so far, nothing like what other states are experiencing.
Dr. Joe McLaughlin, Alaska’s state epidemiologist, said among the viruses on the rise is respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV.
“It’s not as sudden as what we’re seeing in the Lower 48,” he said. “But we expect that rates will continue to increase fairly steadily here in Alaska.”
In the Lower 48, the RSV surge has left some children’s hospitals at or near capacity in cities including Washington, D.C., Fort Worth, Texas and Seattle. The virus causes cold-like symptoms in most people, but can have more severe effects in children and the elderly. RSV is the most common cause of bronchiolitis and pneumonia in children younger than 1 year of age, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It causes 14,000 deaths nationwide each year among people 65 and older.
In Alaska, McLaughlin said the “very steep” rise in RSV cases in the Lower 48 was mirrored by the smaller rise in cases in Alaska.
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Spokesmen at two hospitals in Anchorage, Providence and Alaska, said they have yet to see anything unusual with RSV.
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“This is not just a disease of children,” McLaughlin said.
Symptoms of RSV include a runny nose, cough, sneezing, fever, and loss of appetite. Babies may seem irritable, McLaughlin said.
Vaccines for RSV are in development, McLaughlin said, but are not yet publicly available. State officials recommended that children at high risk of RSV this season be given doses of the monoclonal antibody palivizumab, which reduces the risk of hospitalization if they catch the virus.
Flu rates are also on the rise in Alaska as Lower 48 cases increase on the South and East Coasts.
About 105 cases of the flu have been reported from labs across the state since September, according to McLaughlin. The state’s latest weekly flu snapshot shows increased flu activity in Anchorage, Juneau and Northwest Alaska, reflecting what it lists as “low levels of activity, but more than we’ve seen in recent seasons at this time.”
Lab tests of this year’s flu vaccine suggest it’s a good match for the most common strain this year, McLaughlin said. He said now is the start of flu season for Alaska and a good time to get vaccinated.
“So I actually got my flu shot last week,” McLaughlin said. “So now is a really good time to get your flu shot. If you haven’t already.”
COVID-19 activity is in general decline in the US, despite a wave of cases in Germany, France and Austria caused by its omicron BA.5 variant. McLaughlin said the bivalent booster shot, now available in much of Alaska, is strong against the variant.
“So again, another good reason for people who haven’t gotten that bivalent booster yet and who want to but have been waiting for the right time to do it,” McLaughlin said.
As with all respiratory illnesses, McLaughlin recommends taking steps to prevent their spread. These include covering coughs and sneezes, washing hands with soap and water for at least 20 seconds, and avoiding direct contact with infected people or frequently touched surfaces.
Providers of COVID-19 and influenza vaccines can be found in Alaska and the nation on the federal website vaccines.gov.
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Woodmore's Evan Ulinski (in the blue) wrestles Christian Clary from Dayton Christian in Saturday's Division III state finals at 113 pounds. Photo by Lee Welch/News-Messenger correspondent.
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After stunning defending state champion Jake Speiss with a four-point move in the final seconds during Friday's 113-pound semifinals, Woodmore senior Evan Ulinski was feeling good heading into his second-straight Division III championship match.
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Thursday Update: Following up on yesterday’s forecast, we’ve revised this weekend’s outlook for both new releases and Bad Boys for Life in the table below. Regarding the openers, The Gentlemen is continuing to show encouraging signs of drawing a solid male audience this weekend, while The Turning is moving in the opposite direction as measurable trends gravitate more toward to the lower end of similar horror releases — including underwhelming reviews.
Wednesday Report: The calm after the holiday storm will begin to set in this weekend, but there’s still good news for a box office market that’s currently up 5 percent year-to-date versus last year thanks in large part to breakout weekends from Bad Boys for Life and 1917 over the past two frames.
This weekend, two wide openers and one moderate release enter the fray. STX and director Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen will aim to rally fans of the director with his return to the hard-R, adult-driven crime comedy that shaped his early career with films like Snatch and Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels. The film has already earned $18.4 million overseas (including $10.4 million in the United Kingdom and $7.2 million in Australia), a healthy start for a film that only cost the studio $7 million to distribute.
We expect The Gentlemen will cater strictly to an older male audience, and while it may not generate quite the same excitement in North America as its UK home base, positive reviews indicate the film is on track for a healthy debut stateside. Opening in 2,000 locations could hinder it from debuting in the realm of past male-driven January films like Den of Thieves or Ritchie’s own The Man from UNCLE, but an opening in our expected range would be a generally positive result for the title.
Universal offers up another debut for a third straight week with The Turning, a PG-13 horror film catering to young female audiences. As always, original horror titles in this vein are notoriously challenging to forecast — with examples ranging from last-minute breakouts to box office duds. Currently, our models are trending in between the performances of recent genre pics Underwater and The Grudge.
Again, as a low-budget film, The Turning doesn’t need to reach extreme heights, but it does face the slight challenge of representing the third horror entry to already release in the young new year. On the plus side, none of those really stood out among the target crowd.
Roadside Attractions will also release The Last Full Measure this weekend, though the studio has only confirmed it will be a “moderate” release and an estimated location count was not made available at the time of this report. A wide enough debut could land it a debut in the top ten if it draws strong attention from military families and blue collar regions outside major cities.
As for the aforementioned Bad Boys for Life and 1917, look for the former to easily hold onto the top spot in its second weekend. The latter war epic will likely be in close proximity to Dolittle for the second and third spots. While there’s a comedown naturally expected from last weekend’s holiday-boosted performances, the positive news is that a lack of NFL playoffs this weekend may help ease many of those declines.
Opening Weekend Ranges
- The Gentlemen ($8 – 13 million)
- The Turning ($5 – 10 million)
Top 10 vs. Last Year
Boxoffice projects this weekend’s top ten films will increase approximately 28 to 33 percent from the same weekend last year, which was also one week after MLK Day. That frame saw The Kid Who Would Be King and Serenity debut as part of an overall $73.8 million top ten aggregate.
|Film||Distributor||3-Day Weekend Forecast||Projected Domestic Total through Sunday, January 26||% Change from Last Wknd|
|Bad Boys for Life||Sony / Columbia||$28,100,000||$114,600,000||-55%|
|Jumanji: The Next Level||Sony / Columbia||$6,700,000||$282,300,000||-31%|
|Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker||Disney / Lucasfilm||$4,900,000||$501,100,000||-41%|
|Just Mercy||Warner Bros.||$4,300,000||$27,100,000||-26%|
|Little Women (2019)||Sony / Columbia||$4,100,000||$92,100,000||-35%|
Forecasts subject to change as location counts are finalized before Friday
The chart above excludes releases and potential expansions from limited and platform films