![]() Maya does not try to gloss over the fact that she's black: she embraces it, along with all the distressing historical baggage that comes with it. I read this book by Maya Angelou after I finished the first part of her biography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, because I was impressed by her boldness and candour. In every new reading of a favourite poem, you will find something fresh to appreciate. Like the Akshaya Patra ("Inexhaustible Vessel") in the Indian Epic Mahabharata, which keeps on delivering food no matter how many times one approaches it, a poetry book will keep on supplying food for the intellect. What I like about poetry is that it is never completely "read". I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size "Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I will let her speak for herself, and hope her words help those of us who turned out a bit shy, or short, or insecure, or invisible, or overlooked, to grow an inch while reading: Hers is a world that CAN BE - if you believe in yourself. She finds beauty in self-confidence rather than prettiness, in effort rather than accomplishment, in dreams rather than status. She celebrates love, anger, sadness, community and loneliness from the perspective of individual experience, putting a specific, unique person in focus rather than an underprivileged group. She gives everyday life an artistically powerful voice, speaking loudly and confidently from the corner of society that unfortunately still remains invisible or indifferent to those in power.īut Maya Angelou is more than just a writer speaking for those without words of their own. ![]() Her hopes and fears, her dreams and nightmares are the stuff that humans are made on. Her direct, honest words fit any human rights discussions, any debates on racism and misogyny, any reflections on the distribution of wealth and power, privilege and entitlement. Maya Angelou's poems have accompanied my teaching for a very long time. ![]() What is it like to be a woman of colour with brilliant intellectual and linguistic power? Is it a blessing, is it a curse, is it both at the same time? Isn't it just being human, in the end? ![]()
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![]() ![]() Lewisville resident Todd Simpson, 36, said he loved going to theaters like it when he was younger. ![]() Soloman said significant progress will be seen in the next coming weeks as the weather forecast shifts. “But when the long-anticipated location finally opens, it will be worth the wait.” “Nobody is more sorry about the delay than we are,” Soloman said. No changes have been made to the planned design since Lewisville approved $306,500 of incentives in February and work was moving on schedule since the company broke ground in January, before recent rains. ![]() The opening, which was once planned for late last year, will be postponed again after a series of delays in the planning stages when the theater realized it had space to add a sixth screen, and rain.Ĭoyote had then planned for a July 1 opening but now won’t be open until early fall, said Glen Soloman, a partner in Coyote Drive-In. It continues to be one of the most talked about local stories and residents frequently ask The Lewisville Texan Journal for updates. So when Fort Worth-based Coyote Drive-In announced plans to open Lewisville location, the community couldn’t get enough of the news. There hasn’t been a theater like it in Lewisville since one closed off Business 121 in the 1970s. I think our whole team may be spending a lot of time at the Coyote Drive-In this summer – nothing beats the nostalgia of watching a movie on a big screen from the hood of a car.Published in The Lewisville Texan Journal on June 4, 2016ĭrive-in theaters have been absent from the Denton County community since The Rancho in Denton closed in the 1980s. But remember that you’re really paying $8 for TWO movies so that’s only $4 a movie! Plus the cool experience of being at a drive-in. Pricing will stay the same as the Fort Worth location’s current prices: $8 for adults, $6 for children age 4-10 and kids 3 and under for free. They’re hoping to have the Lewisville location open just in time for prime drive-in weather, so look for news of the grand opening around May. The reason for the bigger vision? Coyote Theater execs believe they can expect 250,000+ cars to visit the drive-in annually with the five screens accommodating up to 1,367 cars. Named one of Fort Worth’s “hidden gems” by the Dallas Morning News, Coyote Drive-In provides an awesome outdoor movie-viewing experience.īut Denton County residents will no longer have to make the trek out to Fort Worth to enjoy the Coyote Drive-In experience because Coyote Theater LLC was recently approved by the Lewisville City Council to build a drive-in theater on the corner of Holford’s Prairie Road and Midway just a couple of blocks from the Sam Rayburn Tollway.Īnd the Lewisville location is planned to be even bigger and better than the Fort Worth location with five screens offering double features (versus Fort Worth’s three screens), an open-air pavilion, a kids’ play area and a 10,000-square-foot restaurant! And the owners are also working on plans to include a beer garden within the massive restaurant space! I can’t wait to check out some summer blockbusters at the drive-in next summer! How about you? Prices are presently set at $8 for adults and $6 for children 11 ages 4-10. ![]() Other amenities include a central open-air pavilion with seating, a kids play area and a beer garden. There will also be a 10,000 square-foot fast casual restaurant which will be open every night two hours before showtimes begin just after sundown. The drive-in will feature six different movie screens, each showing different double features. Last Monday night the Lewisville City Council approved an amended special use permit for the theater, meaning that construction can now begin in October with an expected completion of June 2016! After a very wet Spring and Summer, delaying construction, I’m so happy to hear that the project is back on track! Don’t worry, everyone… I’ve gotten a couple questions recently about whether the Coyote Drive-In Theater of Lewisville is still actually happening. ![]() ![]() "The NYT advertising acceptability standards contain the traditional notion of prohibiting advocacy for or against a specific candidate for public office," Stables said. "Historically, news organizations have developed editorial policies around the commercial aspects of how individual readers could submit content," said Gordon Stables, director of the School of Journalism at the University of Southern California, in an email. "In many ways, an obituary may be managed much more closely to a classified ad than an op-ed or letter to the editor."Ī twitter thread showed a sales division referencing their acceptability standards for deciding to remove "from fascism" from the obit. It included the phrase stating Trump expedited her death. He wrote a piece on the whole ordeal and then the death notice was finally published from Jan. "Her passing was hastened by her continued frustration with the Trump administration," the obituary stated.įollowing the rejection of the obituary, a Courier-Journal staffer learned the company's decision to refuse the obituary was a mistake. In late 2018, the Courier-Journal, a Louisville, Kentucky, publication owned by Gannett, initially decided not to print the obit of Frances Irene Finley Williams, an 87-year-old woman, because her daughter, Cathy Duff, wrote a sentence the company flagged as negative content. Gannett has also been in the spotlight with how it has handled obituaries. The current (presidential) administration said the Times is the enemy of the people." "I thought it was really ironic," Drezner said. "The New York Times is a paper that helps us fight fascism. When editing, we reach out to the family or funeral home that placed the obit and offer guidance in rewording or removing the offensive content.Nothing derogatory toward any living person.Political comments and beliefs of the deceased are allowed.No reference to illicit use of illegal drugs references to smoking are allowed, but again, nothing related to the use of illegal drugs.No racial slurs or racially derogatory comments/names.The policy includes the following details that show whether items may be included in an obit: Gannett's obituary policy, which applies to hundreds of publications owned by the corporation across the country, allows the deceased to express political comments and beliefs. ![]() "The Ithaca Journal and Gannett's USA Today are not radical papers. To Sturgeon Drezner, that proves her point. ![]() The death notice was published in its original form in The Ithaca Journal. It seems like a careful thought of what is happening right now." "I think it's really disingenuous of the Times to say it is better suited to advocacy and opinion advertising. It doesn't feel like advocacy or opinion to me. In an email, a spokeswoman for the Times wrote that its staff has the right to exclude items from paid death notices "that are better suited for advocacy and opinion advertising." "From what? It's more than electing the people we like." "It still says 'saving our democracy,'" Kit Sturgeon said. Her brother, Kit Sturgeon, reacted as well. "I'm stunned in a slow way because I'm grieving," Sturgeon Drezner said. "It was a bit of a slow burn." The edited version would cut the last two words, leaving the sentence to end simply with: ". ![]() The original passage in question read: "Meanwhile, in lieu of flowers, friends may donate in Nick's honor to Rock Steady Boxing, to the International Rescue Committee, or to the American Civil Liberties Union - or, between now and November 3rd, write postcards, make calls, send texts, donate cash, and otherwise dedicate themselves to achieving Nick's dearest wish: flipping the Senate, soundly defeating the incumbent of the White House, and saving our democracy from fascism." After submitting it, she found out Times staff planned to omit a portion of the death notice. 24 death when she wrote and submitted an obituary to The New York Times. Sturgeon's daughter, Erika Sturgeon Drezner, was hoping to attract a national audience after his Aug. His last debate, posthumously, has been with an unexpected challenger: The New York Times Classifieds Department. Sturgeon's views on morality and justice led him to protest both wars in Iraq, and and he was arrested when protesting the university's financial holdings in South Africa during apartheid. Nothing stopped Cornell University professor Nicholas Sturgeon from standing up for his beliefs - not even his death. Watch Video: Video: Cornell lab plays major role in COVID-19 testing operations ![]() ![]() ![]() Renovations sponsored by the PGA of America took place in 1999. Like her father and her brother, Larry, Renee didn't draw a salary for working at the club. Her father, Bill, never saw a profit while running the course. In 1995, Renee took over as head golf professional at Clearview. Powell expanded the club to eighteen holes in 1978. He said, "I wanted this to be a place where race didn't matter where the only thing that matters is the game of golf." Racists called the club the " nigger nine." But Powell didn't care. A member of the Ku Klux Klan golfed his course, but Powell only told his daughter, Renee, about the incident. The club did experience some problems with vandalism and community hostility, but these did not impair the club's success. Once the club was open, it welcomed everyone, regardless of race. Renee would go on to become the second black woman to play on the LPGA tour. His young daughter, Renee Powell, began playing golf on the course shortly after it first opened at the age of 3. The club opened in April that same year, with Powell's wife, Marcella, helping out. He completed the first nine holes by 1948. He worked on the course during the day, growing grass and clearing the land by hand while at night, he worked at Timken. At the time, he was working as a security guard and in his spare time, he started converting the farm into a golf course. Powell moved his family to a house on the golf course. With this support, he was able to purchase a 78-acre dairy farm. Powell obtained financial support for his effort to build the golf club from two black physicians and from his brother who took out a second mortgage. First, Powell tried to get a GI loan, but was turned down. As an African American, Powell had faced prejudice when attempting to join other golf clubs in the United States, so he chose to build his own. The Clearview Golf Club was designed by Bill Powell and was begun in East Canton, Ohio in 1946. The club is named "Clearview" because Bill Powell, the designer and first owner, wanted a place that "would represent his 'clear view' of what the game should be about: access for all." The club is currently managed by Bill's children, Larry Powell and Renee Powell. It has 18 holes and covers around 130 acres of land. The club is located two miles outside of East Canton, Ohio. It is one of 13 black-owned or operated golf courses in the US. The Clearview Golf Club is currently the only golf course in the United States that was designed, built, managed, and owned entirely by African Americans. Bill Powell's daughter, Renee Powell who learned to play on Clearview, went on to become the second black woman to play on the LPGA tour. The club, which is located outside of East Canton, Ohio, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. It opened to the public and to all races in April 1948. The club was started in 1946, with Bill Powell purchasing the land and working on it in his spare time. The Clearview Golf Club (also Clearview Golf Course) was the first golf course in the United States to be built, owned, and operated by an African American. ![]() ![]() ![]() I’d recommend that you leave it just a tad rare, which helps preserve its flavor, tenderness, and moisture. Due to the resultant tenderness, it’s easy to overcook elk meat. 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These animals grow up and feed in a free-range environment, free from antibiotics and other animal feed chemicals present in beef. How Fitting Is Elk Venison for the Table Instead of Deer?Įlk and deer meats are much-sought-after delicacies, with many benefits, including being a wild source of animal protein. You can use the mild but creamy elk meat for any recipe that suits deer venison or beef. You can mask the gamey taste with seasoning with medium marinade, preserving much of its natural flavor. This wild taste is typical in all types of venison but is present more in Deer than Elk. When elk have been feeding on conifers, or if the buck was harvested during the rut, you’ll find a bit of a gamey flavor to the meat. Elk meat is a blessing for any meat eater trying to cut down their dietary animal fat intake. When adequately prepared, elk venison turns out succulent, full of flavor, and tender. This is because the hunted animals would be so lean that folks would starve for enough protein digesting fat. Deep winter would come with a condition called mal de caribou or rabbit starvation. Though many associate elk venison’s tastes with beef, it’s leaner even when the large deer are farm-raised.Īmerican Indian tribes and the early European settlers preferred having some salt pork or bear fat to mix in the leaner elk meat when cooking. How Does Elk Venison Taste Like Compared to Deer?Įlk and Deer are related, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that there would be a resemblance in their meat’s flavor. Its meat is coarsely textured and grainy with a darker red hue than whitetail or mule deer venison. How Does Elk Meat Differ from Deer Meat?Įlk is the second largest deer species after the moose or reindeer. 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Adolf Hitler is an example of an extremely maladjusted Taurus Sun Capricorn Moon. The overly frustrated and repressed Taurus Sun Capricorn Moon individual can become monomaniacal and tyrannical. Learn to articulate those deep-seated emotions, because if you repress them for too long you may be subject to various psychological problems such as depression, anxiety, and even paranoia. A loyal and giving person, you are always ready to lend support to a friend.Īs an individual with a Taurus Sun Capricorn Moon, you do have a tendency to hold in feelings of frustration and anger, rather than dealing with them openly. ![]() People often come to you for advice, drawn to your basic stability and worldly wisdom. Your persuasive manner works to your advantage, so you can charm and cajole the hardest heart. In addition to your creative abilities, you have a charming personality. Many Taurus Sun Capricorn Moon individuals have musical and artistic leanings, but such talents can only be explored after fear and uncertainty are conquered. ![]() So start to value your many capabilities. A bank account or a home cannot guarantee your self-confidence that can only come from within. The challenge is to shake off your fears and to live more for the moment than for some ever-threatening future. You want to assure yourself of a stable existence, and your drive for material security can easily become all-consuming.Īctually, your fears are imaginary, for you are innately surefooted, and you have the resolve and willpower to overcome any obstacle and achieve just about all that you desire. 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They’d jam in the garage of bassist Brad Houser’s parents, or in a house that percussionist John Bush and guitarist Kenny Withrow shared. It’s a long way from the Dallas digs where the band began in the mid-1980s. It’s a dream that we’ve had since we were kids, and it’s finally come to pass. “So we got a place down in Wimberley that has a big jam barn. “I wanted to have a closer proximity to the band,” explains Brickell, who’s mainly lived in the Northeast since marrying Simon in 1992. Brickell’s return date is less certain, but the key point is that she has a home base here now, too. The rest of the band is back at their respective Austin-area residences - which is a bit of news in itself, given that the Bohemians’ deep roots are in Dallas, not Central Texas.Īly was preparing for the long drive back to Blanco, where’s he’s taught music to middle-school and high-school students for years. Drummer Brandon Aly is on the Atlantic coast in Florida, helping his brother-in-law recover from back surgery. But in many ways, they’ve never been closer than they are right now.īrickell is in Maui, where she and husband Paul Simon have a place near Austin icon Willie Nelson's house there. The pair, however, dated on and off for nearly a decade after their divorce.The members of Edie Brickell & New Bohemians are on a Zoom-screen checkerboard in early February, separated physically by a span of nearly 5,000 miles from Florida to Hawaii. He was briefly married to actor Carrie Fisher, whom he divorced in 1984 after one year of marriage. He has a son with his first wife, Peggy Harper, whom he married in 1969 and divorced six years later. Beginning in May, she is due to tour the US and Canada with Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers.īrickell is Simon's third wife. The group's debut single, What I Am, was a hit in 1988 and peaked at no 7 on the Billboard Hot 100.Įarlier this year, Brickell and actor Steve Martin won a Grammy for best American roots song, Love Has Come For You. In 2003, he was given a Grammy lifetime achievement award.īridge Over Troubled Water, Still Crazy After All These Years and Graceland have all earned album of the year awards.īrickell was the lead singer of the semi-eponymous folk-rock band Edie Brickell and New Bohemians. In 1990, Simon and Garfunkel were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and, in 2001, Simon was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist. In 1982, Simon was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Simon, a 12-time Grammy winner whose monumental career spans six decades, rose to fame as one half of the US musical duo Simon and Garfunkel. "They're both victims and they have children involved, and we're trying to be very cautious of that." "There was aggressiveness on both sides," Krolikowski said. The judge ordered the couple to return to court on 16 May.Ĭonnecticut police said in a statement that officers responded at around 8:20pm on Saturday to investigate a "family dispute".Īt a news conference earlier on Monday, police chief Leon Krolikowski said they were each given a misdemeanor summons and one of them agreed to leave and go to another location. ![]() The pair told the judge they saw no need for a protective order and did not feel threatened by each other, according to the AP. The couple, who married in 1992 and have three children together, held hands during their appearance at Norwalk superior court, the Associated Press reported. ![]() ![]() The movie was rightly savaged by critics-Roger Ebert gave a one-star rating-and comatose performances by Peter O’Toole (wait what?) and Liev Schreiber (natch) don’t do much to prop up a script riddled with plot holes. The last was Phantoms, an adaptation of a Dean Koontz novel about a small ski resort town terrorized by a murder-ghost. ![]() Another was a bit part Shakespeare in Love which went on to win best picture at the 1998 Academy Awards. One was Armageddon, in which he showed us his skill mimicking an Australian accent and championing the erotic qualities of animal crackers. The year after Good Will Hunting dropped, Burgeoning Ben appeared in three feature films. (The Third Wheel is available for rental on AppleTV+ and Amazon, the other two are lost forever.) 32. We’d say these movies came and went, but we have no clear evidence that they came. And then in 2003, he appeared in the Miramax production The Third Wheel, in which, I don’t know, he has a goatee and owes Harvey Weinstein a favor. In 1995’s Glory Daze he plays a misanthropic hipster on the eve of his college graduation and answers the question “what if there were a version of Noah Baumbach’s Kicking and Screaming in which it was impossible to like any of the characters?” In 1997’s Going All The Way, which co-stars ‘90s indie uber-boi Jeremy Davies, he goes full matinee idol as a returning Korean War veteran. –DHĪmazon AppleTV+ NO VOTES! The Indie Boi Yearsįor a few years in the ‘90s and early ‘00s, between School Ties and the moment when we came to a collective understanding that it was AFFleck and not afFLECK, Ben took his chances with a few independent films, and…well, not every bet pays off. It’s actually less fun than it sounds, and among the lesser of Affleck’s many, many cocky on-screen alcoholics. Oh, but Affleck has a secret: he swapped airplane tickets with Paltrow’s husband, putting him on the flight that crashed and killed him. "Lifestories: Families In Crisis" A Body To Die For: The Aaron Henry Story (1994)Ĭoming off his indie triumph The Opposite of Sex, Don Roos wrote and directed this romantic…tragedy? Affleck and Gwyneth Paltrow are at the end of their real-life relationship in this one, playing a cocky advertising executive and the widow he falls in love with. I will not be elaborating on their roles. It also stars Al Pacino and Christopher Walken. This film has a 6 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, which means they were doing something so wrong that it felt right. ![]() ![]() Like, imagine being in a K hole while listening to “Love Don’t Cost a Thing” backwards. I just remember how it made me feel, and that was as high as a kite. She’s the lover of Ben Affleck in real life, which means she must be the lover of Ben Affleck’s character. Anyway, Gigli’s boss doesn’t have faith in him, so he sends a backup in the form of Ricki, a lesbian played by Jennifer Lopez. ![]() Whose younger brother? It doesn’t matter. Affleck stars as Larry Gigli, a Los Angeles mobster who is tasked with kidnapping someone’s mentally challenged younger brother. Everyone involved in this list, except for me, has failed you, the reader. What better way to establish herself than competing in her mother's beloved Miss Teen Bluebonnet Pageant? This begins as a protest against pageants and her mother, but in time, it becomes a celebration of all types of beauty, prompting other overlooked misfits to join her. "This is a generous movie, and an unrepentant fantasy at that," wrote Elizabeth Weitzman of TheWrap about "Dumplin'," "so it's hard not to meet it with openheartedness.I don’t know how Gigli ended up at the bottom. A supremely confident and witty teenager, she stands up for herself against bullies who criticize her for her weight, but standing up to her mother, a former beauty queen, is a lot harder. She prefers to be called Will, but her mother - semi-degradingly, semi-affectionately - insists on referring to her as Dumplin'. A coming-of-age story and satisfying protest comedy about people just trying to find their place in the world, "Dumplin'" boasts a cast led by comedy legend Jennifer Aniston and charismatic star-on-the-rise Danielle Macdonald. ![]() |
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