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Hrushevsky, Mykhailo [Hrusevs'kyj, Myxajlo], b 29 September 1866 in Kholm, d 25 November 1934 in Kislovodsk, North Caucasus krai, RSFSR. The most distinguished Ukrainian historian; principal organizer of Ukrainian scholarship, prominent civic and political leader, publicist, and writer; member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society from 1894, the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences from 1923, and the USSR Academy of Sciences from 1929. Hrushevsky's father, Serhii, was a Slavist and pedagogue. In 1869 the family moved to Caucasia where Hrushevsky graduated from the classical gymnasium in Tiflis (now Tbilisi) (1886). While still a gymnasium student he began to write belles-lettres in Ukrainian; his first publication was a story that appeared in the newspaper Dilo in 1885. Hrushevsky graduated in 1890 from the Historical-Philological Faculty at Kyiv University where he was a student of Volodymyr Antonovych. His first scholarly publications were 'Iuzhnorusskie gospodarskie zamki v polovine XVI v.' (South Ruthenian Feudal Castles in the Mid-16th Century), Kievskie universitetskie izvestiia, 1890; 'Volynskii vopros 1077–1102' (The Volhynian Question, 1077–1102), Kievskaia starina, no. 33 (1891); and 'Hromads'kyi rukh na Ukraini-Rusi v XIII vitsi' (The Social Movement in Ukraine-Rus' in the 13th Century), Zapysky Naukovoho tovarystva im. Shevchenka, 1 (1892). While at Kyiv University he prepared for publication his award-winning undergraduate work, Ocherk istorii kievskoi zemli ot smerti Iaroslava do kontsa XIV veka (A Survey of the History of the Kyiv Land from the Death of Yaroslav to the End of the 14th Century, 1891), and then received a master's degree for the dissertation 'Barskoe starostvo: Istoricheskie ocherki' (The Bar County: Historical Survey), published in 1894. In 1894, on the recommendation of Antonovych, Hrushevsky was appointed professor of the newly created chair of Ukrainian history (officially it was called The Second Chair of Universal History, with special reference to the History of Eastern Europe) at Lviv University.
Upon arriving in Lviv Hrushevsky became active in the Shevchenko Scientific Society (NTSh). He became the director of the Historical-Philosophical Section in 1894, and in 1897 he was elected president. With extraordinary energy he reorganized the NTSh, which under his leadership became akin to an academy of sciences. He collected funds, founded a library and museum, initiated scholarly contacts with a host of academic bodies, and gathered around him many scholars, including his close collaborator for many years, Ivan Franko. Under Hrushevsky's editorship (1895–1913) the major journal of the NTSh, Zapysky Naukovoho tovarystva im. Shevchenka, was transformed from an annual to a quarterly and then a bimonthly publication. In 1895 he established the Archeographic Commission of NTSh (see Archeographic commissions), which published documents and sources for Ukrainian history in its serials Zherela do istorii Ukrainy-Rusy and Pam'iatky ukrains'ko-rus'koi movy i literatury. Much of Hrushevsky's own work was published in these journals and later republished in Rozvidky i materiialy do istorii Ukrainy-Rusy (Research and Materials toward a History of Ukraine-Rus', 5 vols, 1896–1905). In Lviv Hrushevsky developed a school of Ukrainian history that included historians such as Stepan Tomashivsky, Omelian Terletsky, Myron Korduba, Ivan Krypiakevych, Vasyl Herasymchuk, Ivan Dzhydzhora, Ivan Krevetsky, Denys Korenets, and O. Tselevych.
In 1898, together with Ivan Franko and Volodymyr Hnatiuk, he founded Literaturno-naukovyi vistnyk, the most important forum for Ukrainian literature and political discussion of its time. Hrushevsky was also one of the organizers of the Ukrainian-Ruthenian Publishing Company (1899) and the Society of Friends of Ukrainian Scholarship, Literature, and Art (1904). Hrushevsky's contribution to the development of Ukrainian education in Galicia deserves particular attention. From 1908 he headed the Teachers' Hromada and from 1910 the Provincial School Union. Soon after arriving in Lviv he began to work towards the creation of a Ukrainian university there, beginning with the organization of popular lecture series and a summer school.
In 1898 the first volume of his monumental Istoriia Ukrainy-Rusy (History of Ukraine-Rus') was published in Lviv; by 1937 another nine volumes, covering Ukrainian history to 1658, had appeared in Lviv and Kyiv. This work was the first major synthesis of the history of Ukraine ever written. In 1904 his Ocherk istorii ukrainskogo naroda (Survey of the History of the Ukrainian People) was published in Saint Petersburg (2nd edn, 1906; 3rd edn, 1911). A general overview of Ukrainian history, this work was based on the course he had taught at the Russian Higher School of Social Studies in Paris in the spring of 1903. It was succeeded by a popular Iliustrovana istoriia Ukrainy (Illustrated History of Ukraine; the first of several Ukrainian editions appeared in 1911, and a Russian version was published in 1912). Subsequently, versions of these popular histories appeared in German, French, English, Bulgarian, and Czech.
In 1904, in a collection of the Russian Imperial Academy of Sciences, Sbornik statei po slavianovedeniiu, vol 1, Hrushevsky published perhaps his most important essay, titled 'Zvychaina skhema "ruskoi" istorii i sprava ratsional'noho ukladu istorii skhidn'oho slov'ianstva' (The Traditional Scheme of 'Russian' History and the Problem of a Rational Ordering of the History of the Eastern Slavs). In this article Hrushevsky traced the history of Ukraine and of the Ukrainian people to the period of Kyivan Rus' and argued that the history of the Ukrainian nation is distinct from that of the Russian both in its origin and in its political, economic, and cultural development (the German translation of the article appeared in 1935, and the English in 1952). Although the argument was rejected by most Russian historians, who believed that the modern Russian state was the only direct descendant of Kyivan Rus' and did not accept that the Ukrainian nation had developed as a result of a separate and unique history, Hrushevsky's scheme and periodization of Ukrainian history was accepted, with some changes, by most Ukrainian historians, including those in Soviet Ukraine (until 1929), and in the emigration as the basic scheme of Ukrainian national historiography.
As a student and during his first years in Lviv, Hrushevsky devoted most of his energy to organizing Ukrainian scholarly and cultural life. In Kyiv he worked closely with Volodymyr Antonovych, Oleksander Konysky, and other activists of the older generation associated with the Hromada of Kyiv. In Galicia he began to play a more active role in Ukrainian political life. In 1899 he was one of the founders of the National Democratic party, although he quit the party soon afterwards. Hrushevsky's real political activity, however, began only after the Revolution of 1905 in Russia, which resulted in the easing of restrictions on Ukrainian life and the emergence of mass Ukrainian organizations and political parties. From then on Hrushevsky spent most of his time in Russian-ruled Ukraine, although he continued to teach at Lviv University until 1914.
Hrushevsky was a prolific publicist. In 1906 in Saint Petersburg he helped found and was a regular contributor to Ukrainskii vestnik (Saint Petersburg), the official organ of the Ukrainian caucus in the Russian State Duma. His articles on Ukrainian and international political affairs appeared in various other Ukrainian and Russian publications (especially Literaturno-naukovyi vistnyk and Ukrainskaia zhizn') and in several separate collections, including Z bizhuchoi khvyli (From the Current Wave, 1906), Osvobozhdenie Rossii i ukrainskii vopros (The Liberation of Russia and the Ukrainian Question, 1907), Nasha polityka (Our Politics, 1911), in which he sharply criticized the leaders of the National Democratic party in Galicia, and Vil'na Ukraina (Free Ukraine, 1917).
After a brief stay in Saint Petersburg, Hrushevsky transferred his activities to Kyiv, where in 1907 he moved the publication of Literaturno-naukovyi vistnyk. In 1907 he also cofounded the Ukrainian Scientific Society, modeled on the Shevchenko Scientific Society, serving as its first head and coeditor of its journals Zapysky Ukrains'koho naukovoho tovarystva v Kyievi and (from 1914) Ukraina (1914–30). In order to foster Ukrainian national consciousness among the peasantry, Hrushevsky founded and published the popular newspaper Selo (1909–11); when this was closed down by the Russian government, he established Zasiv (1911–12). In 1908 Hrushevsky was one of the founding members of the Society of Ukrainian Progressives, emerging as the universally acknowledged leader of the Ukrainian movement.
During the First World War, when the Russian government again clamped down on Ukrainian activities, Hrushevsky was arrested in the fall of 1914. After a two-month imprisonment in Kyiv, he was exiled to Simbirsk, then to Kazan, and finally to Moscow, where he remained under police surveillance. Despite this repression he continued his scholarly work and even helped edit Ukrainskaia zhizn' and the Ukrainian-language weekly Promin' (Moscow).
Hrushevsky was released from exile after the February Revolution of 1917 and he quickly emerged as the leader of the Ukrainian national revolution. On 17 March, while still in Moscow, he was elected chairman of the Central Rada. Under his direction, this body soon became the revolutionary parliament of Ukraine. In 1917 Hrushevsky became a supporter of the newly formed Ukrainian Party of Socialist Revolutionaries (UPSR), the majority party in the Central Rada. On 29 April 1918, he was elected president of the Central Rada of the Ukrainian National Republic.
A coup d'etat led by Pavlo Skoropadsky overthrew the government of the Ukrainian National Republic. This ended Hrushevsky's involvement in government, although he continued his political activities, especially in the Ukrainian Party of Socialist Revolutionaries, and his publicistic work (in 1918 he published the collection Na porozi novoi Ukrainy: Hadky i mrii [On the Threshold of a New Ukraine: Thoughts and Dreams]). In 1919 he emigrated and increased his political-publicistic activities as a member of the Foreign Delegation of the UPSR. For the next few years he traveled widely in Western Europe trying to rally support for the Ukrainian independence movement and re-establishing scholarly contacts. In 1919 he founded the Ukrainian Sociological Institute in Vienna (later moved to Prague), which published, among others, his works Pochatky hromadianstva (henetychna sotsiolohiia) (The Beginnings of Society [Genetic Sociology], 1921), Z pochatkiv ukrains'koho sotsiialistychnoho rukhu: Mykhailo Drahomanov i zhenevs'kyi sotsiialistychnyi hurtok (On the Beginnings of the Ukrainian Socialist Movement: Mykhailo Drahomanov and the Geneva Socialist Group, 1922), and Z istorii relihiinoi dumky na Ukraini (On the History of Religious Thought in Ukraine, 1925). He also began his monumental Istoriia ukrains'koi literatury (The History of Ukrainian Literature) and edited the organ of the UPSR Boritesia – Poborete (1920–2). His political writings of this period show his increasing reconciliation with Communist rule in Ukraine and his desire to return to Ukraine to continue his scholarly and civic work; he was especially encouraged by the announcement of Ukrainization and the New Economic Policy.
In 1923 Hrushevsky was elected a full member of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (VUAN) and he left for Kyiv in early 1924. This action was severely criticized by most of the Ukrainian political emigres. At the VUAN, Hrushevsky soon resumed his role as the central figure in Ukrainian scholarship. He assumed leadership of the VUAN archeographic commission, organized a series of academic commissions to research history of Ukraine and Ukrainian folklore, and directed the training of new historians as the holder of the Chair of Modern Ukrainian History. He revived and edited (between 1924 and 1930) the journal Ukraina (1914–30), which became the main organ of Ukrainian studies. He was also the editor of Naukovyi zbirnyk Istorychnoi sektsii VUAN (1924–9) and the collections Za sto lit: Materialy z hromads'koho i literaturnoho zhyttia Ukrainy XIX i pochatku XX stolittia (6 vols, 1927–30), Studii z istorii Ukrainy (3 vols, 1926–30), and Ukrainskyi arkhiv (3 vols, 1929–31). In Kyiv, Hrushevsky continued work on his major syntheses of Ukrainian history and literature. In 1926 Ukraine solemnly celebrated Hrushevsky's 60th birthday and the 40th anniversary of his scholarly work. That same year, collaboration was renewed between the Shevchenko Scientific Society and VUAN.
Despite Hrushevsky's great achievements in this period, opposition to him grew steadily in official circles and among Marxist scholars. Increasingly, his historical scheme was rejected as 'nationalistic,' and he was criticized for not adopting the official Soviet Marxist interpretation of the history of Ukraine. In 1929 these attacks increased, and Hrushevsky was progressively forced to withdraw from his work in the VUAN. In March 1931 he was arrested and then forced to live in Moscow. There he was subjected to constant surveillance and attempts by the secret police to frame him as a major figure in a fictitious counter-revolutionary organization, the Ukrainian National Center. However, he was never dismissed from the VUAN, although the institutions that he had founded there were closed, the serials that he edited ceased publication, and most of his students and co-workers were arrested and repressed. By 1934 the school of history he had founded in Soviet Ukraine was destroyed. Still, Hrushevsky remained a productive scholar in his last years, working mostly on Ukrainian historiography of the 17th and 18th centuries; his last two articles were published in periodicals of the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1932 and 1934. Eventually the difficult conditions of life in semi-freedom abroad and the further persecutions by the Soviet regime led to a deterioration of Hrushevsky's health. He died in Kislovodsk, where he had gone for medical treatment, and was buried in Kyiv in the Baikove Cemetery.
Hrushevsky's historical approach was formed under the influence of his professor, Volodymyr Antonovych, as well as Mykola Kostomarov, Mykhailo Drahomanov, and later E. Durkheim. He belonged to the populist school (see Populism, Russian and Ukrainian) of Ukrainian historiography and stressed the primacy of social or popular interests over the interests of the state and the nation. Later in his career, perhaps as a result of his own political activities, Hrushevsky began to attach more importance to the state and the political development of the Ukrainian nation. He rejected the Norman (Normanist) theory of early Ukrainian history, and considered the Antes the predecessors of the Ukrainian nation. Using a wide variety of sources, Hrushevsky outlined the ethnogenesis of the Ukrainian nation and established the continuity of Ukrainian historical processes, even throughout the periods of Ukrainian statelessness. Elements of his historical scheme were adopted by some non-Ukrainian historians (eg, Aleksandr Presniakov, Matvii Liubavsky, Oskar Halecki).
Hrushevsky also did considerable work in the history of literature. At first this entailed short digressions in Istoriia Ukrainy-Rusy; later he turned his full attention to this topic in the important Istoriia ukrains'koi literatury (History of Ukrainian Literature, 5 vols, 1923–7; 6 vols, 1993), which examined Ukrainian literature up to the beginning of the 17th century in relation to the development of culture. He also wrote numerous articles of literary criticism and reviews. In his Istoriia Ukrainy-Rusy and a series of his lesser works, Hrushevsky examined the development of education, religious life, art, printing, and other facets of Ukrainian culture. A number of his works were devoted to ethnography, folklore, and sociology. Hrushevsky also worked in archeology, publishing a series of articles and attempting the first synthesis of the archeology of Ukraine in vols 1–3 of Istoriia Ukrainy-Rusy.
As a belletrist, Hrushevsky wrote tales, dramas, and short stories (many appeared in the collection Pid zoriamy: Opovidannia, nacherky, zamitky, istorychni obrazy [Under the Stars: Stories, Sketches, Notes, Historical Portraits, 1928]). In total, Hrushevsky wrote over 1,800 works. His bibliography to 1904, compiled by Ivan O. Levytsky, is given in Naukovyi Zbirnyk prysviachenyi profesorovy Mykhailovy Hrushevs'komu uchenykamy i prykhyl'nykamy (A Scholarly Collection Dedicated to Professor Mykhailo Hrushevsky by his Students and Friends, Lviv 1906), and a bibliography of his works from 1905 to 1928 is given in Iuvileinyi zbirnyk na poshanu akademika Mykhaila Serhiievycha Hrushevs'koho (A Jubilee Collection in Honor of the Academician Mykhailo Serhiievych Hrushevsky, Kyiv 1929).
Hrushevsky's accomplishments, as the scholar who realized the principal task of Ukrainian historiography (ie, the synthesis of the entire Ukrainian historical process), as the organizer of Ukrainian national scholarship, and as a civic and political activist and one of the most prominent figures of the period of the Ukrainian Struggle for Independence (1917–20), provoked the Bolsheviks to take a sharply negative attitude towards him, despite his return to Soviet Ukraine. The 1946 resolution of the CC of the CP(B)U, in particular, and later Soviet publications characterize him as a 'nationalist historian,' 'the ideologist of the Ukrainian counter-revolutionary bourgeoisie,' and 'the untamed enemy of Soviet rule.' The Soviet regime continued to combat Hrushevsky's scheme and its followers in history, literature, linguistics, and other disciplines until the late 1980s.
In 1966 Ukrainian scholarly institutions in the West celebrated the centenary of Hrushevsky's birth and in 1984, the 50th anniversary of his death. On these occasions, special issues of Ukrains'kyi istoryk devoted to Hrushevsky were published. In 1974 the Ukrainian Historical Association began a separate serial publication, Hrushevskiana, devoted to the study of the life and work of Hrushevsky. Hrushevsky wrote two short autobiographies: the first was published in Lviv in 1906 (repr, Toronto 1965) and the second in Kyiv in 1926 (2nd edn with notes and intro by Lubomyr Wynar, New York 1981).
After Hrushevsky's death any open discussion of his person and work was taboo in Soviet Ukraine (except for a brief period during the Second World War). His 'rehabilitation' proceeded very slowly during the Gorbachev era—it was not until near the end of the 1980s that Hrushevsky could be talked about—and even then only in a limited way. This situation changed dramatically in post-Soviet Ukraine, and Hrushevsky was soon acknowledged as the country's pre-eminent historian. His life and contributions have been the subjects of many articles, book, and conferences, and statues to him have been erected in central Kyiv and Lviv. A reprint edition of his ten-volume Istoriia Ukrainy-Rusy (History of Ukraine-Rus') was published in Kyiv in 1991–2000; his diaries of 1886–94 and two volumes of his correspondence came out in 1997 in Kyiv; and the first installment in a projected 50-volume set of Hrushevsky's Tvory (Works) appeared in Lviv in 2002. In the West the translation of Hrushevsky's ten-volume magnum opus into English (History of Ukraine-Rus', 1997–) became a major undertaking of the Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Historical Research of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies.
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Boosie has been a busy man since his early release from prison in March of this year. He wrote over 1,000 songs while incarcerated along with a book and film script on his life. Now Bad Azz brings his fashion sense to the masses. Jewel House represents what is most important to Boosie. The line is named for his family, who are the "jewels in his life."
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"If you got love for family, you gon rock Jewel House." – Boosie
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Friday, July 29, 2011
Winter Wonderland - An Angel/Fairy for Christmas
Hello friends!
8 comments:
- Linda said...
Hi Danielle I totally agree with you the colour combination works brilliantly. I have this stamp also it is so cute but it does take quite awhile to colour in doesn't it? love Linda
- July 29, 2011 at 4:37 AM
- Marianne's Craftroom said...
I have tis image, must use it again as it is so cute and I love your colour combo. Marianne x
- July 29, 2011 at 4:57 AM
- KanataNewf said...
An absolutely lovely card, Danielle. And those papers are just perfect. Have a great holiday!
- July 29, 2011 at 8:14 AM
- Clarky J said...
This is utterly gorgeous! what a fab cute image and perfect for this weeks challenge - Thanks for being an awesome team mate and hope you have a wonderful holiday x Janet
- July 29, 2011 at 11:40 AM
- downrightcrafty said...
adorable image, beautifully coloured and fabulous papers but have to say that the sentiment is a really eye catcher
Hugs Kate xx
- July 29, 2011 at 3:58 PM
- Mags said...
Those colours are lovely (I especially like the bow!) I love those LotV Nativity images, and you've coloured this one beautifully! Have a fabulous vacation!
luv, Mags x
- July 29, 2011 at 6:31 PM
- Rufus said...
What a totally sweet card. Love the color combo. Have a fun time on your 2 weeks Mountain vacation. Take lots of pictures!
- July 30, 2011 at 12:22 AM
- dolcreations said...
This is gorgeous Danielle. I totally love that colour combination. Those LOTV images are wonderful and you coloured it beautifully! Love that colour of ribbon you used.
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Some good news. The Bountiful City Council has pulled back and stopped the new city hall project and will shortly cancel the contracts for it. From the Better Bountiful group that opposed the project:
The Better Bountiful Committee and its many supporters welcome the Bountiful City Council's decision to cancel their plans to build a new city hall. The City Council and Mayor have heard the voices of the people and will now invest funds to properly maintain our current City Hall rather than abandon it. That is a decision we welcome. We particularly appreciate those City leaders who took the time to listen and discuss the matter with us.
All major plans involving taxpayers' money are always best accomplished when citizens are allowed a voice at the ballot box. We assume the City Council will apply that principle to the proposed Downtown City Plaza, major infrastructure improvements, and all other similar plans going forward.
The city council also sent out a release citing the reason for the cancellation was to "promote community harmony over the new building." Hopefully that's the case but I doubt the motives are so pure. As Fox 13 notes: "The lawsuit was the tipping point for the city." The city council also held a special (previously unscheduled) closed session meeting to discus "pending litigation" on February 21 (6 days before the release).
The city council plans on continuing with the next pet project (the plaza) and certainly doesn't appear to embrace Better Bountiful's request that residents be able to vote on it: "The Downtown Plaza will also remain a priority, and will require a new contract to complete." They continue to justify this by saying it'll 'revitalize Main Street'. People aren't going to go shop there because of a cute plaza or gleaming city hall and Main St. isn't in disrepair (it's a pretty, quaint area). Besides locals, Main St. is a hassle to get to and doesn't have any store(s) to draw significant traffic to the area. It will remain a local shopping area unless something drastic happens (think huge project redeveloping a massive area and road infrastructure). The constant pet projects gambits justified by saying "revitalize Main St." are tiring.
I've said it many times. Politicians don't give up on pet project easily. They won't hear either. I'm glad the new city hall was stopped but one to point one last thing out: Milton Friedman continues to be proven right, these unnecessary pet projects rarely fail despite opposition. As Better Bountiful notes:
This outcome is a reflection of many hundreds of hours of hard work, many thousands of dollars, and some of the best community teamwork…
Read the above linked post and you'll understand why that quote proves Friedman right despite this being one of the rare successes by "diffused interests". If you don't see the connection, drop a comment or use the contact page.
In the meantime, enjoy the success. Ultimately, the only way to have a lasting success is to elect local/state/national representatives who respect limiting government to core functions.


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Historically, wooden dhows played a vital role in fishing, pearling and trading across the region. Ajman's Dhow Yard remains one of the world's largest dhow-building centres.
You'll find the Dhow Yard on the north side of Ajman Creek, near Al Boom Marine.
Here, you can watch master craftsmen at work, using tools and techniques that have been handed down from generation to generation. The yard also makes fiberglass dhows, powered by diesel engines, for racing events across the country.
Situated on the Ajman Creek, across the water from the Ajman Fish Market, next to Al Boom Marine.
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Whitney Kisling
Sunday, 02 February 2014 07:53 PM
After U.S. stocks gained 30 percent last year and almost everything went up, measures of Standard & Poor's 500 Index price momentum are slipping just as concern mounts that emerging markets will snuff out the rally.
Almost 160 companies in the benchmark gauge for American equities traded below their average level over the past 200 days last week, more than any time last year, when stocks posted the biggest rally since the technology bubble, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. A total of 86 stocks set one-year highs as the index hit a record Jan. 15. That's down from an average of 112 when peaks were reached in the third quarter.
Weakness in the indicators watched by technical analysts is a sign the investor euphoria is waning after 460 companies in the S&P 500 climbed in 2013, according to Bank of America Corp. While slowing momentum has sometimes been bullish when valuations shrink, Thornburg Investment Management Inc.'s Jason Brady says investors should prepare for more months like January, when equities tumbled as manufacturing growth slowed in China.
"You have to have new reasons for prices to go up," Brady, a money manager at Thornburg who helps oversee $95 billion, said in a Jan. 28 phone interview from Santa Fe, New Mexico. "Maybe there's no longer these reasons."
Reduced Federal Reserve bond-buying, political crises from Thailand to Turkey and disappointing earnings reports at Apple Inc. and General Electric Co. have sent the S&P 500 down 3.6 percent in 2014, the worst start to a year since 2009. Gains that went uninterrupted for almost a year have prompted warnings from investors such as Blackstone Group LP's Byron Wien and Nuveen Investment Inc.'s Robert Doll Jr., who say the S&P 500 is due for its first 10 percent drop since 2011.
Daily Movers
Fewer stocks are pushing the market higher when it rallies. On days when the S&P 500 has advanced, about two stocks have climbed for each that fell during the last seven months, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. That's down from a ratio of 2.5 for the rest of the bull market.
"It's one more piece of weight on the scale suggesting caution," Brad McMillan, chief investment officer for Waltham, Massachusetts-based Commonwealth Financial Network, said in a Jan. 30 phone interview. While last year's market powered forward, this year the progress is more delicate, he said.
"Would you rather be riding in a tank with tracks or on a unicycle?," said McMillion, whose firm has more than $71 billion under management. "If you're in a tank, you're probably not going to tip over, or at least it's going to take a heck of a lot more than if you're on a unicycle."
2013 Gains
GameStop Corp. has had the second-worst performance of S&P 500 stocks in 2014 after it was among the 20 best in 2013. The Grapevine, Texas-based video-game retailer cut its earnings forecast on Jan. 14 because of lower-than-expected sales of games and reduced profit margins. The shares traded at 17.9 times profit in October, the highest since 2008. GameStop's valuation tumbled to 10.7 last week after the stock fell below its 200-day moving average earlier in January.
Johnson & Johnson, based in New Brunswick, New Jersey, dropped 3.4 percent this year, slipping below its average the past 200 days on Jan. 29, after rallying 31 percent in 2013. The world's biggest maker of health-care products forecast last month that 2014 earnings would be lower than analysts' estimates. Annual profits haven't expanded more than 10 percent since 2008, data compiled by Bloomberg show.
Shares of El Segundo, California-based Mattell Inc., which traded at 19.2 times earnings in July, lost 20 percent so far this year. At $37.84, the stock is 14 percent below the 200-day moving average. Earnings growth for the world's largest toymaker, which was sued last month by MGA Entertainment Inc. for trade-secret theft, will slow to 7 percent next year after an 11 percent gain in 2014, data compiled by Bloomberg show.
More Selective
"Investors are becoming more selective and favoring companies most likely, in their minds, to have meaningful growth in earnings this year," said John Carey, a fund manager at Pioneer Investment Management Inc., a Boston-based firm that manages about $220 billion worldwide. "This year will see a more typical market, one with some rougher swings in price."
Average daily moves in the S&P 500 have increased to 0.61 percent, compared with 0.44 percent in December, data compiled by Bloomberg show. The Chicago Board Options Exchange's Volatility Index, known as the VIX, reached 18.41 last week, the highest level since October.
Refreshing Pause
Slowing momentum should be expected in a bull market entering its sixth year and after the S&P 500 surged 30 percent in 2013, according to Wells Capital Management's James Paulsen. The index has rallied 163 percent since March 9, 2009, and hasn't posted a 5 percent drop since May. Fewer companies pushing the market higher means investors are acting with more discretion, not turning bearish, he said.
"It's not that surprising that we'd see the broadness diminish," Paulsen, the Minneapolis-based chief investment strategist at Wells Capital, which oversees about $359 billion in assets, said in a Jan. 30 phone interview. "It doesn't mean anything's necessarily changed. It argues that the market's behaving more rationally. To me, this looks more like a refreshing pause than a correction."
Rallies in shares of smaller companies, banks and transportation stocks have been bullish signs in the past. During the four biggest bull markets of the last quarter century, peaks in those categories have come before the S&P 500 reached its highest level almost 90 percent of the time, data compiled by Bloomberg show.
The Russell 2000 Index of companies with an average market value of about $1 billion reached an all-time high of 1,1181.29 on Jan. 22. The S&P 500 Financials Index climbed last month to the highest point since September 2008. An index of transportation stocks reached a record Jan. 23.
Less Support
While consumer spending rose more than forecast and the unemployment rate has fallen to a five-year low, the central bank is removing stimulus from the economy at a time when it is still expanding at a below-average pace. The Fed said Jan. 29 that it will buy $65 billion a month in bonds, down another $10 billion.
Gross domestic product increased 3.2 percent in the fourth quarter, matching the median forecast, according to Commerce Department figures last week. The economy will grow 2.8 percent this year and 3 percent next year, compared with the average of 3.3 percent since 1948, according to the economist estimates compiled by Bloomberg.
"People have become used to markets going up all the time," Christopher Wolfe, chief investment officer at Bank of America Merrill Lynch's private banking and investment group, said in a Jan. 29 phone interview. His firm manages $1.9 trillion in client balances. "We haven't had a correction in quite some time and there's definitely ripeness for that, but there are fundamental issues as well."
Negative Signal
About 59 percent of New York Stock Exchange-listed companies traded below their 200-day moving averages on Jan. 29, compared with more than 80 percent above in May 2013, data compiled by Bloomberg show. When that proportion falls below 60 percent, investors should read it as a negative signal, Bank of America wrote in a Jan. 27 note.
It slipped below 60 percent in April 1998, about three months before the S&P 500 plunged 19 percent. In 2007, the percentage of NYSE-listed stocks trading above their averages fell from 65 percent to less than 30 percent in a matter of weeks. The S&P 500 lost 57 percent from October of that year through March 2009, data compiled by Bloomberg show.
"The breadth has been deteriorating," Jeff Saut, the St. Petersburg, Florida-based chief investment strategist at Raymond James, said in a Jan. 30 phone interview. His firm oversee about $400 billion. "The equity market has had a heart attack. I don't think the S&P has found a short-term to intermediate-term bottom."
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A constant theme of my work has been an element of mystery. Silk-organza- fabricated forms are transparent vessels that contain mysterious elements. The small box series evolved into larger wall pieces that eventually took the form of the human body, our own enigmatic containers.
Silk organza, dye, silver leaf, silk thread. 8" x 8" x 8"
Silk organza, metal wire, dye. 4" x 4" x 4"
Silk organza, dye, metal wire, copper leaf. 7" x 7" x 7"
Silk organza fabricated. 20.5" x 17" x 13"
Silk organza, stiffener, gold leaf, metal wire. 35" x 36" x 6"
Silk organza, indigo dye, stiffener, metal wire. 39" x 32" x 5"
Silk organza, stiffener, gold leaf, metal wire. 78" x 35" x 4"
Silk organza, dye, stiffener, metal wire. 39" x 29" x 5"
Silk organza fabricated. 20" x 22" x 15"
Silk organza fabricated. 59" x 17" x 17"
Silk organza, dye, stiffener. 20" x 14" x 9"
Seeking a new language, I headed to Yaddo, an artist colony in Saratoga Springs, with an armful of metal mesh. There are many different kinds of metal mesh material such as copper, stainless steel, bras and aluminum. Ultimately I was drawn to aluminum mesh because its versatility and lightness reminded me of silk organza. I also incorporated the traditional Japanese wrapping cloth, furoshiki, used to giving gifts. What is inside? One can only guess.
Aluminum mesh, gold leaf, embroidery. 20" x 9.5" x 12"
Aluminium mesh, gold leaf, embroidery. 20" x 22" x12"
Aluminium mesh, gold leaf, embroidery. 17" x 17.5" x 9"
Aluminium mesh, gold leaf, rice paper, thread . 19" x 21.5" x 6.5"
Copper mesh, copper leaf, paint, embroidery. 22" x 22" x 12"
Aluminium mesh, oxidized silver leaf, embroidery. 15" x 20" x 13"
Brass mesh, gold leaf, embroidery. 38" x 37" x 3.5"
Aluminum and brass mesh, gold leaf, embroidery. 64" x 18" x 10"
The first meter of silk produced by a silkworm is not really silk at all. Rather, it's a coarse, uneven fibre called kibiso that resembles something between twine and waxed dental floss. Compared to its more fully-developed self, kibiso is decidedly un-silky and has for most of silk-making history been discarded as useless.
After decades of working with silk organza and metal to create transparent and translucent sculptures, I recently discovered kibiso, the coarsely textured first strand of silk a silkworm produces. Long considered a waste product of the silk spinning industry, kibiso was once discarded from silk factories. But the recent environmental movement encouraged manufacturers to reconsider the possibilities of kibiso, so they distributed it to artists and designers. Because kibiso was different from the soft, fine silk I worked with for years, it intrigued me. I started to paint it with dye and weave the coarse threads as if they were fine silk.
I immediately appreciated this material, seeing its roughness as metaphor for the beginning of any new practice. Kibiso is a remnant, so the threads need to be connected and disconnected. As my own life shifted with a relocation from New York to Virginia, I began using kibiso to articulate my personal experiences with disrupted and reconnected relationships and as a symbol for my own crossing from North to South and to a different way of life.
Kibiso and 24 k Gold leaf. 61" x 55"
Kibiso and Gold leaf. 61" x 55"
Kibiso and Gold leaf. 58" x 28"
Kibiso and Gold Leaf. 58" x 28"
Kibiso, rice paper and dye. 22.5" x 17" x 9"
Kibiso, rice paper and dye. 22" x 15" x 8"
Kibiso and gold leaf. 20" x 17" x 17"
Kibiso, gold leaf
Kibiso. 25" x 55" x 7"
Sculpture; Kibiso, dye, stiffener. 60" x 29" x 14" Drawing; Graphite on paper. 84" x 60"
Kibiso, gold leaf. 45" x 55"
Kibiso. 43" x 42"
Kibiso, dye. 87" x 60"
Kibiso, dye
Kibiso, paint. 55" x 108"
Kibiso, paint
Kibiso, paint. 58" x 48" x 4"
Kibiso, silver leaf, indigo dye, canvas. 30" x 33"
Kibiso, silver leaf, indigo dye, canvas
Ogarami choshi, silver leaf, 8.5" x 8" x 6.5"
Ogarami choshi, dye, thread
8.5" x 8" x 6.5"
Ogura choshi, wire. 8.5" x 8" x 6.5"
Ogarami choshi, silver leaf, paint. 7.5" x 7.5" x 7.5"
Kibiso. 17" x 10" x 8"
Kibiso, rice paper. 13" x 16" x 12"
On display at the Fowler Museum at UCLA September 11-January 15 2017
This dazzling exhibition features commissions by three dozen acclaimed international artists including Richard Tuttle, Cynthia Schira, Helena Hernmarck, James Bassler, Gyöngy Laky, Gerhardt Knodel, Sherri Smith, N. Dash, Lewis Knauss, Ana Lisa Hedstrom, Kiyomi Iwata, Nancy Koenigsberg, and John Garrett. It showcases these skilled artists' ingenious use—and often-expansive definitions—of fiber, while exploring the collector/artist relationship. The commissioned works come from The Cotsen Collection.
"Just when you think you're at a dead end, something happens."
Kiyomi Iwata is a Japanese artist, living in America. Her work speaks to her personal journey, marking the transitions from one stage of her life to the next. Iwata currently lives and works in Richmond, Virginia after decades of living in the New York area. Her most recent body of work is about this transition. She has been making art for decades with a long list of exhibitions and her works can be found in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Art and Design and the Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum along with many others. Her work has recently been acquired by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. She has been featured in American Craft Magazine, Dec/Jan 2016 issue, and has recently had a retrospective show, held in 2015 at the Visual Arts Center in Richmond.


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Wednesday, December 30, 2009
2000 Nein
~Our rad house in Austin which was made ultra rad during SXSW
:Hamilton Pool
~Goofballs w/Scott
:Pool parties @ Naomi and Annas but not Brad Neeley
~Life altering games of COD
:Playing at Mohawk and sounding good enough to keep the bartenders from doing their job
~Seeing that crazy Mexican guy from the Tarantino movies standing on the corner of 6th and Congress looking super thugged out
~Lady driving a fucked out car yelling, "Club people, wheeeew!" at us. Which wouldn't have been as funny if her car didn't have 7 dogs in it. Which it did.
:Snows BBQ
~Free Beer Tuesdays/Free Rentals at I LOVE VIDEO
:Meeting and petting Pierre
~End of an Ear
:Finally finding a DC character I care about who's not named Batman
~My bike, which took my ass to work and back and all over Austin. I ended up selling it for more than I paid for it. That's the advantage/problem with living in a big bike town.
:Mastering the fuck out of Mario Kart Wii with Joe and his insanely huge TV. The endless joints and 40ies of Mickeys didn't hurt our Time Trials none either, y'all.
~Kens Donuts
:ECP and all the free Toddy Tasia gave me
~Swayze Fest w/Willie
:Acquiring Count Fluffula
~Seeing my first firefly and then seeing a bunch more. Fucking magical bugs
:Driving through the most insane lightning storm I've ever seen
~The Beach (and not the shitty Neil Young album)
:Being back home and making new music and new friends
:Seeing Tom and Jeannies baby girl
~Hanging out with my pops for a few days during my birthday
:Santa Monica Boogie Boarding/The Boys Are Back In Town
~Oakland Rooftop Party/Ask a Texan
:Kenny Hall Mazel Tov'ing a plastic baby Jesus
~Driving Bob Thayer to his modeling shoot and then driving solo across the Golden Gate Bridge while the sun was rising
:Settlers of Catan
~Asterios Polyp (best graphic novel of '09 and best I've ever read)
in no particular order
this year was packed with moving, looking for work, working endless hours for free, and work in general but somethings still made it bearable
-brussels sunday veggie market
-snow on christmas
-summer vacation lyon camping in porto and lisbon
-being able to ride my bike to work
-seeing [where the wild things are] with my little sister, and being reminded of the loft and cuddle puddles
-meeting new people like marta
-marching at cop15
-trains everywhere
more importantly top ten things ive missed in 2009
-the sun
-toast punx :(
-mush feasts
-house shows
-six pack tours
-making music with friends
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
top tops
- Miguel's birthday.
- "Who do you think you are?"
- Wearing dresses everyday.
- Having people still be surprised that I wear dresses...everyday.
- Smoking weed with my mom.
- 4/20 at Marina's house.
- Unwed teenage mothers.
- That one time with those certain people at that one place doing that one thing.
- The porch.
- Talking about doing something, then never doing it.
- Actually following through on something.
- Getting woken up at 8am from a call from Miguel telling me he is freaking out in the rain on mushrooms, oh, and can I please come get him.
- Getting him, Willie, Francisco and Jenn and watching the Goonies and the Goonies Cyndi Lauper music video.
- John Anthony LaPorte Esquire the 479th.
- All the books I read this year.
- Last night of Buchon.
What I look forward to in 2010: France, finally marrying a millionaire, new dresses, more beer, and more good times (aww).
Monday, December 28, 2009
Club bonerz jamz
- Singing in a band/ Halloween
- Month long bike rides with my mom
- New houses and old friends
- Discovering that I am not completely useless artistically
- Frankie Teardrop
- Late nights in the woods with loud music
- Watching the moon set with Preston and Marta
- Losing my mind with Zach and Trevor
- Realizing that I am not really going crazy
- Herbal Teas and other disgusting hippy things
- 50 pounds of chocolate
- Finally beginning to understand how awesome music is
- Matching tattoos/late night tattoo parties
- The dank 420 weed smoke
- And of course all the bike rides, hikes, dumpster dives, late night feasts, adventures and missadventures with everyone I fucking know.
Two Thousand Nine
Number Two. Not listing any new music on this list because it all sucked.
Number Three. Graduating college. It took the entire 2000's.
Number Four. After graduation, riding drunk golf carts around Cal Poly's arboretum with Willie at 5am. Then getting left at Buchon by BL because he wanted to fuck Bethany's friend. Then BL's car running out of gas on Buchon and him and friend running to my house to fuck sooner. Then BL fucking said friend both wildly and loudly as my mom and sisters were sleeping in my apartment. Being glad I was left at Buchon for all of this.
Number Five. Stealing 12 30 packs of Natural Light off a beer truck with Miguel, Trevor, Michael, and Tommy. Yeah I fucking said it on the internet.
Number Six. Both secretly and openly despising Michael.
Number Dicks. Using my dick more than I did in 2008. Watch out 2010.
Number Alf. Becoming magically allergic to cats. Thanks Stewie.
Number Z. Getting into a drunken fight with Anthony and Zeb and watching Zeb kick Anthony in the face and break his nose.
Number 420. Using a bong and vaporizer for the first times.
Number 420 x 2. xxxCxAxRxLxOxSxxx
Number 420 x Carlos. Eating hella space cakes on the way to Austin and Miguel almost killing us and nobody caring from being too stoned.
Number LA. First, Second, Third, and Fourth times going to Los Angeles.
Number AFI. Going to Ukiah for the first time.
Number Buddha. Not hanging out with Johnny.
Number Mark. Garland finally becoming less annoying.
Number Ding Dong. Being in my friend's wedding and meeting his baby daughter.
Number Dirt Dress & Tarra. A nice addition to my life.
Number F-F-F-Fuck. Becoming increasing debilitated by my speech impediment.
Number Powers. Tasha Powers getting a boyfriend and leaving me alone.
Number Puke. Finding out the co-worker I was in love with got engaged, causing me to turn really red, sweaty, and wanting to immediately throw up.
Number Toy Story. Getting Woody to finally finally hang out.
Number Yum Yum. Sidewalk Market having the daily sandwich specials.
Number M-D. Mad Dog liquor store in Austin and seeing a crowded show with people only drinking Mad Dog.
Number Gaga. Halloween!
Number Metal! Meeting and hanging out with Peter.
Number Paranoid Android. Getting stoned with Tasia and laughing at her as she freaked out.
Number Mafia Wars. Thanks Kenny :(
Number Padre. Spending a weekend with my dad and only being 90% uncomfortable.
Number Kenny Hall. I love Kenny Hall. (Also please give back my jacket and sex book. I'm sure Rosalind's had enough.)
Number Francisco. For being a dirt bag.
Number Miguel. The all-time winner.
That's my year. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
I didn't put any music. You all know what I listen to when you come over.
2009 according to emily
-that one time we played truth or dare til 6 in the morning
-my birthday
-christmas tree tattoos
-seeing mount eerie
-graduating high school
-throwing a high school party at my house when my parents went out of town
-everyone named mark slowly leaving said party when dystopia was put on
-winter formal
-strobing at da castle
-realizing how rad my dad is
-hating ireland
-christmasfuck house prom
-boofa's smokin word
-margaritaville at the razzz
-the chocolate house with park larker and harvey owen
-"jag off"
-"dear mark...... just curious"
-"gravity, i guess"
-"i'm gonna try to make it back next weekend!!! which would happen!!!!!!! so party more more hard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
-"i'm not on anybody's team...but i'm definitely not on their team"
-"oh look abu, it's not everyday you see a horse with TWO rear ends."
The few, the proud:
-mount eerie
-punkin pie
-rudimentary peni
Songs of the year:
-heartbeats - the knife
-tales of lolita - floor
-teenage time killer - RP
-thunder road - every version
-everyone is a whore - hickey
-i surrender - the adverts
-get rid of that girl - the electrocutes
-i do it rite - skip race
Sunday, December 27, 2009
Sober Jams
American Football - American Football
Slowdive - Souvlaki
The Cardigans - Lovefool
Marvin Gaye
Black Sabbath - Masters of Reality
K.P. and Envyi - Shorty Swing My Way
Paul Simon - Graceland
Sibylle Baier
Justin Timberlake - Future sex/Love sound
Real Times
1. Playing cheesy cutesy music with Zach
2. Fuck it Fest 98'
3. walking around slo in my slip and brighams leather jacket, watching the sun come up and singing Patsy Cline songs by myself.
4. Breaking that toilet in Boston
5. Riding bikes to the beach.
666. Fuck it.
7. Almost getting killed in a lightening storm in Kansas City.
8. Realizing the impending doom of 42012 and coming to grips with the reality of the inevitable WEEDPOCALYPSE..
9. Late Nights/Early mornings in the kitchen with Micheal
10. Not being a teenager anymore/Still being as angsty as ever.
Friday, December 25, 2009
Last Night
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Carlos' Favorites from 2009
AFI: Very Proud of Ya
Ovens: 44 song album
The Beach Boys: Pet Sounds
Thee Silver Mount Zion: 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons
Brain Bombs: Urge to Kill
Dry-Rot: Philistine
Ceremony: Still Nothing Moves You
Lil' Wayne: C3
This Heat: Deceit
Television Personalities: And Don't the Kids Just Love it
Billy Bao: All of it.
Drunk Driver: Fire Sale & Collaboration with Mattin
All the Skull Collector shows.
Winter Formal.
Wilder Creek shows.
Portland for a month.
Riding trains across the country alone.
All the new bands.(the one with jesse, Pain Culture, and Herse.)
Making out with Miguel.
PUNCH show.
Seeing the Ovens.
The Countless Games of spin the bottle all over this luck coast.
The Lodge.
Fighting natalye.
My new house.
Shoe moving back.(just in time.)
Wall of amps.
And most of all the UNRELENTING DOWN FOR ANYTHING attitude that comes along with this small community we've got.
Being the toast punx right here right now is going to be the best and most memorable part of my pathetic, romantic, snot nosed existence. I'm so in love!
or whatever...
End of the Decade
1.new homies
2.getting texas and count fluffula
3.working at emerald city press (i.e. rockin sweet reggae jams and smokin grass at 6 am)
4.playing at mohawk twice
5.living right near i <3 video, wheatsville, and amy's ice cream
6.trudy's migas enchiladas with queso
7.homies from CA visiting (SXSW, willie, tarra, anthony)
8.hamilton pool swimming hole
9.going to the library everyday
10.picking up new records at end of an ear
11.kicking/punching holes in the walls of both of our houses
top nicknames for our cats
tex--baby cat, texalini, tex-mex, texaco, squeak baby
count fluffula--fluffy, count puffula, fluffkin, fluffalo, count fluffulon
defining albums/jams of 2009
iggy pop - the idiot
john cale - vintage violence/paris 1919 (this was on my list last year. fuck it.)
rolling stones - exile on main st.
ty segal - lemons
elvis costello - this year's model
stone roses - stone roses
jim o'rourke - eureka
pretty things - sf sorrow
roy orbison - "leah"/"in dreams"
theme song from twin peaks
shakira - "she wolf"
roxy music - "lover"
lou reed - "satellite of love"
peter tosh - "ketchy shuby"
lil wayne - "upgrade"
david bowie - "we are the dead"
suicide - "frankie teardrop"
hilarious things said/thought by customers at the coffee shop/record store or fools in my cuesta class
1. "is that Weird Al on your button?" no, it's patti smith. "same thing."
2. "do you guys have any Beatles here?"
3. "you probably don't even know what a record looks like."
4. "do you guys have any old music on CD? I'm talkin like from the 90s."
5. "where does Don McLean fit in here?" ("here"= the greenwich village folk scene of the 1960s)
6. Grateful Dead/Pink Floyd as the biggest influences in the formation of punk rock
stoked on 2009, looking forward to 2010. i'll be 21 and done with cuesta. movin on to the next city. super cool.
Tops List 2k9
Part One
Billy Bao
Hatred Surge
The Thing (Bag It!)
Angels of Light
Charlie Feathers
Little Gold
Gone Dead Train
Abner Jay
Wooden Wand
The untouchables: Electric Light Orchestra, the Cure and Rudimentary Peni
The teenage heartthrob: TAYLOR SWIFT!!
Books (aka Science Fiction 2kForever):
Philip K. Dick
Ursula K. Le Guin
Stanislaw Lem
Harlan Ellison (thanks Tommy)
the first 30 pages of Nick Blinko's "The Haunted Head" and needing to take a long shower
North Carolina babes/Appalachian honeys
Getting a pomp
Maintaining that pomp
Realizing the 1950's were never in fashion, followed by the subsequent haircut
Smoking weed with choice babes
Going to the gym and meaning it
DIY dermabrasion (also file under: Why Tattoos Should Be Heavily Considered)
Coming out with being into BDSM to the fam (if you didn't know yet - oh hey, guess what I do on my free time...)
Growing into someone who looks less goofy with age / more goofy with trainwreck boozing
Playing RPGs with "the guys" when I'm not hurt from work, sick, or broke
Learning and enjoying true solitude and pacing myself around others
Waiting for when I fall out of blissful love with my dogs and being okay with the wait
Having my career/life goals finally gel and enjoying all that I do
You all have been great. Looking forward to next Thursday
Mark. 2009
-i walked with a zombie - roky erickson
-my rules - void
-time: the donut of the heart - j dilla
-shadows of tomorrow - madvillain
-im bored - zero boys
-memory lane - eddy current suppression ring
-i can't hang - ovens
-multicolor - yussuf jerusalem
-getting older - the clean
-dawn in the face - eat skull
-on some faraway beach - brian eno
honorable mentions
lil wayne / sun ra / daniel higgs / the hospitals / rbl possee / iggy pop
most listened to albums (in no order)
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Tops of 2009
Top 10 Best of the Best in 2009
1. Getting paid to set up a community garden with kids
2. Vegan Chili Cheese Fries in Chicago
3. Miguel
5. Graduating College
6. Pissing myself consistently throughout the year,
but only in my own bed (besides that one time)
7. Eating mushrooms before sunrise on a rainy
day at the beach with Migs, Francisco, and Jenn
8. Getting saved by Alex when we were stuck in the car,
drinking coffee, drying off, and watching
The Goonies for the first time together
9. Croce's Pizza
10. Keg in a Sauna
Honorable Mentions
winter formal, fermentation, the rothko chapel, hike through the train tunnels with preston, tommy, and mary jane, mexico (twice), giving/getting stupid tattoos, getting evicted, free trip to sac and spending boofa's birthday with him, swayze fest '09 in austin (before he died!), underground city in houston and finally eating migas, the unbearable lightness of being, cleveland
Top Five Shows of 2009
(but I can't remember many from earlier in the year)
1. RVIVR / Shang-a-Lang / Underground Railroad to Candyland / The Bananas in San Francisco
2. North Park Awesome Fast
3. South by SouthDRESS
4. Halloween Show at the Lodge
5. FUN in LA when Steve Dave went through the front window
Music I Listened to Probably Way to Many Times this Year
Otis Redding
Alabaster Skeleton
Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers
Los Saicos
The Marked Men
Elvis Costello
Paul Simon
Gentleman Jesse and his Men
Thee Makeout Party
Fuck yeah, pretty good year overall. I'm stoked to see what everyone else puts in their top lists. Hopefully it's all a bunch of awesome stuff that I forgot about.
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Friday, December 18, 2009
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Broad Fest Update
-meeting @ Boofa's on friday (around 9pm)
-some kind of flyer with list of confirmed bands by sunday
-we need at least 2 more PA's (we have 1 full one and 1 head) if you know anyone that can help us put SPEAK UP!
Friday, December 11, 2009
Broad Fest
Monday, December 7, 2009
Jerry Says
Ghost Porn
Friday, December 4, 2009
Christmas Party at The Razzz
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
I'm totally getting paid right now!


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Mike Huckabee comes this close to calling Jay-Z a pimp in new book
Hold up, Mike Huckabee. This is not the way you get yourself elected president. Just sayin'.
The former governor of Arkansas slams Beyonce and Jay-Z in his new book, "God, Guns, Grits and Gravy," which comes out Jan. 20.
U.S. News and World Report published excerpts of the book on Thursday and of course, the stuff about Jay-Z and Beyonce floated to the top.
"Huckabee hardly leaves a celebrity spared in his riffs on the corrosive effects of Hollywood culture, but he saves special scorn for hip-hop's most famous couple, Jay-Z and Beyonce," the mag writes.
Huckabee compared the duo's 2013 Grammy Award performance to watching foreplay.
(O.K., truth? We had to have a cigarette after watching that, too.)
"My reaction: Why? Beyonce is incredibly talented – gifted, in fact. She has an exceptional set of pipes and can actually sing. She is a terrific dancer – without the explicit moves best left for the privacy of her bedroom," Huckabee writes.
"Jay-Z is a very shrewd businessman, but I wonder: Does it occur to him that he is arguably crossing the line from husband to pimp by exploiting his wife as a sex object?"
Jezebel has already nicknamed Huckabee the "concern troll."
"It's almost impossible to unpack all of the racist bull**** going on in this statement, but an old white dude labeling a black man supporting and promoting his wife's work 'pimping' is pretty low," Rebecca Rose fumes on Jezebel.
The Republican Huckabee quit his show at Fox News earlier this month presumably to prepare for another presidential run.
In this new book, he also compares being screened at airports by the T.S.A. to prison rape.
Title of the chapter: "Bend Over and Take It Like a Prisoner!"


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The 1st week of the challenge were recipes set by Madeleine Shaw. These recipes were mainly vegetable based and surprisingly quite nice. Each of the 7 recipes actually made a huge amount of juice which sometimes, especially in the case of day 1, was a little too much! I generally liked the majority of these recipes with my favourite being 'Beat the Bloat' which was incredible.
The final week of this challenge consisted of recipes from a mixture of bloggers. Most of these tasted pretty decent. However, there was one that I had to substitute slightly as Sainsburys did not stock Dragonfruit when I required it. Instead, I used a Papaya which tasted pretty good. My favourite from this week was 'Tropical Tipple'.
Overall, this challenge was easier than anticipated. Making a juice every day took me literally 5 minutes from prepping to juicing. I think that I actually spent longer cleaning the juicer (dismantling, washing etc) than making a juice. In addition, I also noticed that one of the benefits for me of juicing was that my skin was so much better than normal as well as finding something healthy that I enjoyed doing.


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Sunday, 23 September 2012
Birthday Wish List 2012.1
My birthday is in mid-October, and I'm allowing myself to splurge a little, but only after serious sensible consideration and research...
These lists help me collect my mind, and possibly, by making these lists, I could buy less this month (already failed a few times). If you guys have any opinion on any of the items, whether you like them, recommend them, hate them, or what not, please let me know.
List #1:
- all from Camera Ready Cosmetics, a site which sells professional 'stage' make up and ships worldwide. the price I quote is in USD.
1. Embryolisse, Lait Creme Concentrate $30 - probably going to get the big tube
2. Kryolan, Dermacolor Mini Palette 71006, $29 - haven't decided on which colour option to get, there are quite a few... hmmm...
3. Ben Nye Bella Luxury Powder #Banana, $8.5 - 1.5 oz can last me a long time, and good to try out I suppose... but it is always out of stock...
4. Ben Nye, Glam Shadow Palette ESP-954, $70 - I want the matte browns, and the plums do look quite glamorous
5. Ben Nye Cake Eye Liner, $7 - can't decide on which shade to get, I'll definitely grab a black, but the browns and taupe look so nice to have too! the Kryolan ones are two dollars more, $9 each, are they different and should I get those instead?
6. Graftobian Hi-Def Glamour Creme Super Palette #Warm, $70 - perhaps #neutral would also work for my use. i need a bunch more of dark foundation shades, not so much lighter colours... but the undertones... hmmm...
7. MAQpro Concealer/Lip/Cheek Petite Palette EC1003PP-AI1, $24 - I remember seeing pixiwoo uses this in one of their videos.... (I put that video below)
8. Cinema Secrets, Ultimate Foundations Palette #Kit02, $24- I want more, but per shade, they are more expensive than the Graftobian... So I'm thinking of getting 1 concealer palette like this Kit 02, or 1 foundation palette with my shade... can't decide yet.
Beautiful wishes,
Lazy silly Jacq :")
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It's my birthday in mid October too, I have the Embryolisse on my wish list too. I'm going to Paris so hopefully will be able to pick up a tube :) xReplyDeleteReplies
Emma, I went to Paris 2 years 3 years ago. Searched high and low drugstore but the embryolisse shelves are always sold out of this stuff. So I guess I'll order it off some website :P Good luck with you. and enjoy your birthday/ Parisian trip!Delete
My birthday is at the end of October! yay for October birthday. I love this idea-I'm going to have to follow your lead and make a Birthday wishlist too;-)ReplyDelete
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Workshop Attendee Comments
"I just finished Eric's Introduction to Thai Yoga Massage Level 1 weekend training and am thoroughly satisfied and impressed. I find it challenging to find non-ego-driven men in the healing arts and Eric is everything but. Caring, humble, knowledgeable, and a fantastic facilitator. He has broken down this complex art into very digestible modules and teaches it in a way that reaches everyone's individual learning style. He answered ALL of our questions and left us with a wonderful, well-organized, and complete workbook to reference. I plan to continue learning from this intelligent and approachable teacher."
"Eric is a great teacher, and I love learning from him. He is also so easy to connect with and exudes wonderful warm energy. Thank you for sharing your gifts with the world!"
"One of the BEST continuing education classes I have had in 29 years as an LMP. Fun, upbeat and respectful. I liked learning about the Thai language, culture and your stories from Thailand."
"Eric was very present + available during the entire course. He was also patient + kind. The class renewed my interest in massage + my passion for stretching!"
"The Acupressure Points for Bodyworkers class was clear and well-paced. I loved the combo of written, spoken, pictures, demo + practice."
"The Introduction to Thai Yoga Massage Level 1 course has been my favorite CE course yet. I greatly appreciate Eric's passion + enthusiasm. The course is very organized, yet there is room to play!"
"Eric gave space for laughter + joy. The information was presented in a clear + concise manner and with passion + an open heart. Thank you for presenting to all types of learners. I especially loved how you taught: demo followed by guided instruction."
"Very clear, organized and great pace. Written materials corresponded well with added room for note-taking. Great humor! The class was very freeing, playful and direct. Using all of our body is a better way to provide healing to others."
"This class was great for allowing all participants to feel welcomed and at ease, which really helped me."
"Fun, exciting, thorough, educational, and at a steady pace."
"All of the techniques and explanations were insightful and will be easy to integrate into my practice."
"I like how Eric talked about the spirituality when practicing Thai Massage. Eric's delivery and teaching style is so personal, intimate, and humorous and I love that!"
"Kind, energizing, genuine, collaborative, and informative. Just the right amount of content with great demonstrations."
"I like that we learned a complete sequence that could be practiced beginning to end! Structured, easy-to-follow pictures in the workbook.
"Eric has an inclusive and engaging oratorial style which helps disseminate a vast amount of information about Thai massage."
"I want to thank you for choosing to teach. Your classes are some of the clearest, most concise direction I've received in my 10 years in massage. I'm looking forward to continuing on this Thai massage path as your student."
"This class was just what I needed to revive my love for massage and bodywork. I really like all the hands-on time in class."
"I liked Eric's energy, positivity, and pace of the class. His speed and clarity of presenting the material were amazing. The class fit my style of learning in every possible way. Super hands-on and emotionally and spiritually stimulating."
"Thanks again for the tutorial today. I loved working with you and am still smiling. : ) It has been such an amazing experience learning from you and I've enjoyed every minute of it. Thank you for the gift of Thai Yoga Massage. It has added so much joy to my life. I am forever grateful. Looking forward to being a teaching assistant at your workshop. It will be an honor."
"Super class this weekend as usual. Your work inspires me."
"I especially liked the demonstrations, hands-on practice time, and comprehensive binder of handouts."
"Wow, what a class! My client came in this morning, hunched over and hardly able to walk because he threw his low back out yesterday doing yard work. I primarily used the poses from yesterday's class and he left a new man...upright and with barely any pain! Thank you so much for the very informative and fun class. You inspire me with your sincere and genuine wisdom."
"I want to thank you again for teaching such a wonderful class. The thing about you that I most appreciate is your respect and reverence for the Thai culture. It's a pleasure learning from someone so organized, knowledgeable, talented, creative, and funny. Thanks so much!"
"I am so grateful to have experienced the Introduction to Thai Yoga Massage workshop this past weekend. The handbook was clear and concise. Eric has a warm and inviting personality and made me feel at ease with his sense of humor and kindness. I feel like I am leaving with a solid foundation of skills."
"I just took your class this past weekend and wanted to let you know about my first client this morning. I integrated a few poses into my massage this morning, and I felt amazing! My client absolutely loved it as well...I feel like I have found something that can save my hands and my body from overuse. I just wanted to say thank you so much for this class. My client wants to send me to more of your classes. I cannot express how different I feel. Thank you so much."
"The handouts are very concise, detailed, and well thought-out. The demonstrations were clear, and our work was checked to see if we understood the material. Excellent class. I would definitely recommend it!"
"I loved the Introduction to Thai Yoga Massage class! Eric, you have a great teaching style, and you are light, joy-filled, warm, inclusive, and very knowledgeable."
"Eric, you have a wonderful way of attending to the details and helping individuals find their way."
"I thoroughly enjoyed your workshop this weekend!!! You did a remarkable job teaching our class a LOT of information with an amazing amount of grace, knowledge and organization. Thank you, thank you, thank you! This is one of the best workshops I've ever attended."
"Thank you for the wonderful workshop. The location was top-notch. I enjoyed your style. You are easy, patient and laid-back. After a few days of letting it all sink in, I began to incorporate my new skills into my practice. My clients are loving it, and so am I."
"Eric was very clear, moved at a great pace..quick but with plenty of detail and very willing to allow for questions. I appreciated his sensitivity to each person and his spirit-filled style!"
"I was able to apply immediately what I learned in class. And THANK YOU for making it accessible and fun. I'm having fun with Thai on the table and so are my clients. It's always energizing to try new things. People love the side-lying shoulder cradle and arm stretch over the head. Great techniques for my pregnant clients, too, who can't lie prone. Kop kun ka!"
"Eric is one of the best instructors I've learned from. He is enthusiastic and genuine about his work. His training and knowledge are unsurpassed. I loved his teaching style!"
"I appreciated your thoroughness, sensitivity, and humor. The hands-on portions of the workshop were amazing. I loved how energetic and passionate you are about this work...it really shows. Thanks again for another incredible weekend. I'm so appreciative of your willingness to share with us."
"I have to say a BIG kop kun ka to you. I have had 2 clients so far this week and they said the treatment they received was the best they have ever experienced...and, one of them was another massage therapist! Thank you so much for sharing your gifts with us. I am so excited to continue with the Thai massage and to be able to learn from you."
"This is one of the best classes I have ever taken. The material is useful, practical, and relevant to a full-time massage practice. I appreciate the emphasis on practitioner self-care and well-being."
"I loved starting each day with yoga and having you refer back to the poses throughout our practice time. I loved the idea of using my whole body - watching your body mechanics was awesome and a great reminder about flow, Qi, and energy."
"I appreciated Eric's delivery of the material and his sense of humor! The order of poses was logical to me, and it's beautiful to watch him practice the sequence. I've been wanting to take this class for a long time and am so happy to have made it!"
"I am happy to note the changes in my body from the class. It was a good investment of time and money. I appreciate the level of detail that was invested in the manual. The pictures are very helpful and the descriptions make it quite complete."
"I really appreciated your respectfulness, and how you incorporated Thai culture, gentleness, and playfulness into the class."
"I thought the integration of breath and movement was amazing. I liked the results I felt in my body and in all the people I worked on. The results were immediate and fulfilling."
"Eric kept the class very interesting...never a dull moment! Everything was well explained and demonstrated. He kept everyone involved and answered questions thoroughly and thoughtfully."
"VERY thorough! I liked the detailed instructions and pictures in the manual along with the verbal directions...very helpful!!!"
"The entire technique is so refreshing and new. I loved the amount we learned. The walk-throughs of each pose were very helpful, and all of the poses were very powerful. You should do a video too!"
"I liked the creative, out-of-the-box approach that Eric offers. Fun, experimental, open, and playful. I really loved the advanced poses we learned today."
"It was very well done...thought-out and nicely planned. It was interesting and all the time was used wisely. I was on the edge of my table the whole time!! Eric's great."
"Eric is a wonderful teacher, and he's come up with a very clear, simple introduction to Thai Massage. I liked the spiritual and nurturing aspect of Thai Massage."
"Eric added stories and experiences of his own that really brought the material to life. Eric is extremely patient and available for assistance. I just really enjoyed his spirit."
"Eric's laid-back and humorous presentation style made the weekend fun!"
"This was the most engaging class I've ever taken!! The material was presented in a way so that it was usable immediately."
"I leave here today feeling confident in giving a full Thai massage session."
"Eric is an excellent teacher! He does a great job of presenting to every type of learning style."
"I'm eager to integrate this work into my life. I'm grateful to have been here today."
"Beginning each day with yoga to support movements was a nice way to be introduced to what was to come. Nice flow - great pacing. I look forward to follow-up classes."
"Thank you for your gentle touch. You made everyone feel welcome and appreciated."
"Organized, clear, and from the heart...full cultural experience."
"Great demos, great pace, just enough information at the right speed. Eric, you're awesome. I hope to have more soon!"
"Eric was so open to questions and stayed flexible about how our class moved. He was really approachable and kept his ego out of the teaching."
"Great manual. I really appreciate the clear photos and brief, but clear, explanations."
"It is clear how much time and thought you put into this class. I never felt like my time was wasted."
"Everything Eric taught in class was so informative. I'm excited to learn more next month!"
"I love the simplicity, ease and effectiveness of Thai massage. The passion you instruct with helps as well!"
"Everything flows so easily and questions are answered competently and compassionately."
"I really liked how the added poses from Levels 2-5 improve the flow of the existing routine learned in Level 1."
"This workshop is so applicable and useful. I feel like I am walking away from the course able to give an effective Thai massage."
"This class made me reconnect with my calling as an LMP. The class was very nurturing, and Eric is an awesome spirit."
"Eric, I appreciate the grace with which you present and teach this powerful style of bodywork. Your pedagogy, care, fun attitude, and especially your talent and experience all contributed to a fine experience and education. I'm inspired and grateful to discover an entirely fresh approach to healing."
"I loved the overview (very clear what we were going to cover), the brief historical context, and the content of the actual work was great. I appreciated the organization, focus, and promptness. Perfect amount of material balanced with practice time."
"The presentation was easy to understand and performed to allow the student to retain and practice with confidence. Clear and very enjoyable!"
"The class was refreshing and innovative. I gained confidence in being able to stretch someone without hurting myself."
"Eric is very generous with information. I feel I have some great new methods to bring to my practice. Eric responded to all my questions prior and during the workshop...above and beyond the call of expectation. Very appreciated!"
"Lots of good information that was presented in an open, fun manner. I appreciate your energy and enthusiasm and the opportunity to ask questions."
"Thank you for valuing and respecting various learning styles and for being so relaxing to be with."
"Learning Thai massage has changed my life, especially how I practice and view massage in general. Thank you, Eric! You really are a great teacher, and you make it easy and fun."
"The workshop was very organized...just the right amount of material in each segment. Great combination of written, verbal and hands-on demonstrations. I love your humor!"
"Eric is extremely knowledgeable and willing to help students succeed in learning the material presented."
"Your combination of teaching to different learning styles (auditory, visual, and kinesthetic) was particularly helpful and appreciated!"
"Thank you, Eric! Watching you do Thai massage is like watching a dance. You opened my eyes to what it means, on a deeper level, to heal within a therapeutic relationship."
"The workshop was professional and clear, yet light-hearted. Good balance between demo's and practice time. All the class time was relevant and essential."
"This class was amazing and even more than I had hoped for. I really liked the demonstrations of the poses and the time allowed for hands-on practice."
"I learned that taking care of myself is just as important as taking care of my clients."
"I loved the handouts, the flow and content of the class, and the overall organization. You created a very supportive learning environment and answered everyone's questions."
"Thorough, clear, and heartfelt."
"The Integrated Thai Table Massage class was very methodical and easy to understand. The material is easily adaptable to other massage modalities. Thanks!"
"I especially liked the meditation and yoga at the beginning of class."
"All of the material was informative and made sense. The organization from start to finish was perfect. Very thorough for an intro. workshop."
"I really liked the organization of the binder and thumbnail pictures. Also, I liked the flow of the class segments. There was a lot of material and the divisions felt natural and manageable."
Client Comments
"Eric's understanding of energy and the human body is amazing. He is a skilled practitioner with the highest degree of integrity. He is also one of the most grounded, compassionate, caring people I know. I first came to see Eric for acupuncture after suffering for two years with migraine headaches. It was not until I started having regular acupuncture sessions with Eric that I experienced sustained relief. It was life changing for me. I am now completely off my medication and have not had a migraine in over two years. In addition to resolving my migraines, acupuncture has helped my insomnia, muscle pain, and digestive issues. Eric is a gifted healer and cares deeply about the well-being of his clients. He creates a safe and supportive space for everyone who comes through his doors. I trust Eric completely and can't recommend him highly enough." ~ Jennifer W.
"A friend recommended Eric and now I've given his name to several of my friends. He's helped relieve me of chronic muscle tension in my hips, neck, shoulders, and lower back. Sometimes it's relaxing acupuncture, sometimes soothing and energetic Thai massage, or a combination of both. The results are long lasting. What strikes me about Eric is his ability to read my body and adapt his technique to meeting its needs. He's intuitive, caring, extremely knowledgeable, and professional. The office environment is very nurturing and sweet. Eric was born to do this work and I'm enormously grateful to have found him!" ~ Michael P.
"I saw Eric for acupuncture and Thai massage after being in an auto accident. His treatments were invaluable for both my physical and emotional recovery from the accident. He is a sensitive and compassionate practitioner with an intuitive sense for the art of healing. His studio is calming and peaceful, a little refuge in the city. I'm grateful that he was there to help me through a very stressful time." ~ Wendy W.
"I have been coming to see Eric for incredibly relaxing and healing sessions for many years. I was in a car accident which left me in a good deal of pain. After what seemed like a few short weeks of therapy, the pain was virtually gone. The combination of acupuncture and Thai yoga massage has been very therapeutic and relaxing for me. Eric is a very talented healer!" ~ Stephen H.
"After smoking for 30 years and trying five different times to quit, I finally found Eric and his healing arts practice through a referral. After the very first acupuncture session, the urge to smoke left me. And with just a few follow-ups, it has still not returned. That was almost nine months ago, and I feel better than I have since I was in my teens. I'm exercising regularly now for the first time in my life, and I'm much more in touch with my body. I continued to see Eric after the smoking cessation for other issues, such as sciatica, a recurring malady for me which he straightened out in one session using Thai massage and bodywork. Eric truly does have a healing touch. I always walk out of his place on a little cloud. I am so glad to have found him." ~ Susan R.
"I came to Eric in horrible pain from muscle spasms in my back and shoulders. For me, I had immediate relief, and the experience of acupuncture and massage is pleasant beyond belief. I look forward to my treatments and especially my pain-free existence. Eric is a true healer!" ~ Pete K.
"After three years of seeking a solution to my neck pain, Eric is providing a combination of Thai Massage and acupuncture that is finally bringing me relief. His approach of treating the whole body, not just the symptom, has been an important aspect. I highly recommend him." ~ Wendy T.
"My acupuncture/massage treatments are both therapeutic and relaxing--the best combination of all. Eric is an incredibly talented practitioner, using both skill and intuition to achieve wonderful results." ~ Jennifer U.
"For the past year, I have battled a painful left knee. The knee was just a response to other problems. Eric has helped me find relief through Thai yoga massage and acupuncture. My whole body has benefited in the process." ~ Rhea T.


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Location – For as long as most of us can remember, Bally's has held a coveted spot on the southeast corner of the strip and Flamingo Rd. It's neighbors on the other three corners include Drai's, Bellagio, Flamingo and Caesars.
The Theme – Having opened in the early '70's, the theme of Bally's is distinctly old-school, despite several remodels and upgrades over the decades.
Rooms – Bally's sports some of the cheapest rooms on the strip, even inside the more modern towers. Don't expect an expansive size, but do expect to feel like a VIP on a budget – albeit one in 1978.
Restaurants – The restaurant selection may not seem like much in comparison to the big name neighbors of the hotel. But you do get a unique connection to Paris, which gives you access to a collection of exquisite dining:
BLT Steak – Bally's famed steakhouse was tough to replace, but with its warm ambience and innovative menu, BLT Steak is fitting in nicely.
Sterling Brunch – Erase all the images that brunch in Vegas conjures and replace them with this Sunday-only extravaganza, where the main all you can eat fare is caviar and champagne.
Java Coast – Creative sweets are baked daily to perfectly complement the selection of roasted coffees and blended smoothies.
Nosh Snack Bar – The name says it all. This is where you come when you want something quick and good for on the go.
Sea – The Thai Experience – Exotic flavors from the Far East come alive in this flawlessly designed eating haven.
Buca di Beppo – Generations of Italian immigrants stand behind every plate served in this family style restaurant.
Tequila Taqueria – Let your taste buds come alive with a menu full of spicy Mexican fare, bubbling over with the fresh and inventive flair of our neighbors to the South.
Considering that you are right smack dab in the middle of the strip – and the hundreds of restaurants that reside there – the smaller sampling of eateries at Bally's shouldn't have any impact on your stay there.
Gambling – Having been built when people still came to test their luck, Bally's has an expansive casino floor complete with a separate poker room and Race & Sports Book.
Shows – Featured musicians and classic magicians are rounded out by a hilarious dinner and a show ticket, just like the Vegas of yore. Tony –n- Tina's Wedding is an improv experience, where you and the rest of the audience serve as "guests" to these nuptials gone wild.
Clubs and Bars – Live entertainment sets the tone at the hotel's Indigo Lounge. This eccentric locale has become a hot spot for those who are seeking a subtle nighttime experience on the strip. With spot on service of hand crafted cocktails, and its abundance of cozy seating arrangements, there is no reason to rush back to your room.
The Day Club & Pool– The Blu Pool was built for swimming, and is one of the few on the strip where you can go off on the deep end. Palm trees dot the perimeter, while attendants walk from lounge to lounge catering to your every whim. Cabanas, complete with TVs and a frig, are also available if you have the urge to splurge on a full day at the pool.
Shopping – Found near the race & sports book, the Bally's shopping promenade is perfect for finding an outfit in a pinch, or even décor for your wall back home. Over 20 specialty shops are featured, including a few spots to stop for a bite in between stores. Plus the amazing Grand Bazaar Shops are right outside the front door!
Other Cool Stuff –Hailed as being "Filthy and Funny" Bally's 50 Shades! The Parody puts a new spin on the wildly popular smut book. Told from an entirely different angle, the premise is twisted and contorted into a hilarious and sexy live show that has quickly become a Vegas staple.
Worth the Stay? – Location and price aside, Bally's on the Strip has seen more than its fair share of Vegas antics, yet still has a modern appeal that you can't miss. If you're shooting for ballin' on a budget, but don't want to miss out on the action, then this is a top hotel pick for you.


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