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Taro is one of my favorite root vegetables. In Lebanon, there are many regional variations to cook it, for instance there is a recipe for taro and chickpeas stew that was a staple in my dad's side of the family, but my mom's side of the family knew nothing about. They lived about an hour apart and belong geographically to the same region!
Tag Archives: Potatoes
Taro and Potatoes with Garlic, Lemon and Sumac
Posted in Appetizers, Recipes, Vegan & Vegetarian
Tagged Garlic, Lebanese, Lebanese Food, lemon, Potato, Potatoes, Sumac, Taro, Vegan, Vegetarian
Potato, Broccoli and Cheese Soup: Recipe from 50 Simple Soups for the Slow Cooker
In my previous post, I promised our readers a recipe from the book I reviewed (50 Simple Soups for the Slow Cooker by Lynn Alley). I chose to make the Potato, Broccoli and Cheese Soup since I had the ingredients on hand.
Posted in Soup
Tagged Broccoli, Broccoli Soup, Cheddar, Cheese, Potatoes, Soup
Post-Ortho visit? Tips and Tricks
Ever had braces? Then you will certainly know what I mean: after that ortho visit where your mouth feels like it has been assaulted with a ton of metal. Oh wait! It has! All the tightening, separators, rubber bands, springs and who knows what else can kick your mouth into hit by a truck mode.
Posted in Cooking
Tagged Braces, Braces Food, Eggs, Omelette, Ortho, Potatoes, Rice, Risotto, spanish Omelette, Tortilla de Patatas
Mixed Rice and Beef Breyani
After almost a week of trying to find the right window of opportunity, I finally found the time to make the Breyani on Wednesday morning. Immediately after getting off work (at about 8am), I was off to the store to gather my ingredients. It was actually nice shopping so early in the morning since most people were either just heading to work, or were not awake yet. I'm not a fan of the holiday crowds. I always feel like I am dodging cars in the middle of a busy freeway when walking the stores this time of year.
This recipe required numerous spices of which I only had about half of. In addition, some of the spices are not used that often in every day cooking here in the US. To my relief, I found all of them but the saffron at the first store I hit. I decided to go with beef instead of lamb in this dish since buying this much lamb would surely empty my entire Christmas savings account. I also had to settle for dry spices instead of fresh ones in some cases as I did not want to drive another 30 miles to an Indian store for solely this reason. I could not believe how much saffron was at the second store. They wanted about $15 for not even a pinch of the stuff. There was even a choice between 3 brands, all about the same price! I reluctantly chose one to ensure I got the fully authentic experience.
Posted in Main Dish, Pork and Red Meat
Tagged Beef, Breyani, Coriander, Dhai, Indian, Potatoes, Rice, Saffron, South African, Yogurt
Beef Breyani: Traditional South Africa in Lebanon.
I did my shopping along the week to get all the ingredients/spices for the Breyani. I meant to prepare it on Sunday (October 6). I even asked the maid at the office where I can find a place that sells masala and similar spices. She is Sri-Lankan and I figured that they use something similar in their cuisine. She pointed a close by place, but after some asking and a lot of running around, I declared myself forfeited. I don't know if it is the maid's broken Arabic, the people who did not know the place but pointed different spice stores or it was me who did not get the directions: result was no masala. I tried the supermarket but the masala I found had most of the spices I got. I even found a Breyani mix, but again it had the same spices I already had.
Sweet Paprika Chicken in Wine
I made this recipe for my kids and I last weekend. They are not that fond of paprika, and I am not that fond of mushrooms, so I made a few adjustments to suit our tastes.
I started by cooking some finely minced garlic (about 3 cloves) and shallots (2) in a couple tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil. I try not to use too much butter if I can help it and of course I have something of a love affair for garlic! After the garlic became somewhat translucent, I added 4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts to the pan. I cooked the chicken for about 7 minutes on each side, then I added one sliced green bell pepper to the pan. I like to add vegetables like this later on in the recipe so that they maintain some of their original crispiness.
Paprika Chicken, Mushrooms and Potatoes
I have made this recipe before, so I felt comfortable to make it again, and be more adventurous with the amount of seasoning.
I did not use chicken breasts, but rather leg pieces, as my family do not eat breasts unless in a pasta. I also did not skin the legs, and as unhealthy as this is, I enjoy the taste the skin gives to the food. I seasoned the chicken pieces in a bowl with salt and pepper, but did not use the prescribed amount of paprika. Instead, I sprinkled the paprika until it covered all the chicken. I also used ground garlic because I did not have garlic powder. I used about a teaspoon and a half for luck. I love garlic, so I do tend to use more.

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In an unusual display of sunshine at Easter, the Celtic gods smiled over Maclean's 108th Highland Gathering as thousands watched, competed and played with the melodic sounds of the bagpipes in the background.
CAITLIN McInnes comes from a family of bagpipe players and was in her element at the Maclean Highland Gathering over Easter.
WHEN the Maclean Highland Gathering is in full tilt there is absolutely nothing else going on in the world – at least to those donning the kilt and sporran.


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Students come to The Immigrant Learning Center from all corners of the world and all walks of life. They travel from 89 cities and towns around Greater Boston to Malden Center five days a week because they all share the burning desire to improve their lives, and the first step is learning English. Since opening in 1992, The Immigrant Learning Center, Inc. has helped more than 10,000 immigrants and refugees from 118 countries learn English.
Student Profile from Fiscal Year 2017
Students Served: 909
Top Countries of Origin: Haiti, China & Hong Kong, Morocco, El Salvador, Brazil, Vietnam
Top Cities of Residence: Malden, Everett, Revere, Medford, Boston
Gender: 71% Female, 29% Male
Median Age: 40
Education: 70% high school diploma or higher, 42% attended post-secondary school
When new students register they are evaluated to determine their incoming English proficiency, and they are asked to set one or more goals. English is a means to an end. By improving their English-language skills, students achieve goals such as finding a job, finding a better job, being promoted, entering a training program or college, buying a home, and becoming a U.S. citizen. Some even start their own businesses.
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Once a year, the students put their emerging English skills to use producing a newsletter. Every class contributes something, and the highest-level students serve as editors. The August 2017 edition features stories about food, shopping, finding work in the United States, and it even includes a word puzzle. Read The ILC 2018 Student Newsletter (PDF).
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Each year, The ILC students produce an International Day to share their cultural heritage with each other and the community. Students delight guests with colorful attire, music and dance performances, artifacts, poster displays and food from their home countries. Through this cultural exchange, The ILC students seek to open the door for greater understanding, communication and appreciation.


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Both healthcare spending levels and growth in the US have exceeded other developed countries for many years. With healthcare costs rising at an unsustainable pace, a greater percentage of workers in the US are being enrolled in high-deductible health plans. This column estimates the relationship between high deductibles and the growth in total healthcare spending on all medical goods and services. It finds that deductible levels have a considerable effect on spending growth, and suggests that the natural next step is to explore whether or how that affects health outcomes.
Molly Frean, Mark V. Pauly, 08 January 2019
Janet Currie, Hannes Schwandt, Josselin Thuilliez, 10 August 2018
Understanding how inequalities in health are related to inequalities in income is a key issue for policymakers. This column describes how despite increasing income inequality in both countries, the development of mortality has been very different in France compared with the US. The findings show that inequalities in income and health do not necessarily move in tandem, and highlight how public policy helps to break this link.
Katherine Ho, Robin Lee, 16 September 2016
The US health insurance market is becoming less competitive due to mergers and withdrawal of services from certain states. This column examines how this affects consumers through insurance premiums and hospital reimbursement rates. Using employer-sponsored insurance data from California, it finds that the relationship between insurer competition and health care spending depends on institutional and market structure. If premiums can be constrained through effective regulation or negotiation, then reduced competition might lead to lower costs. Absent such constraints, consumers will likely be harmed.
The Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) and Asian Growth Research Institute (AGI) invite submissions of unpublished papers that focus on issues relating to aging in developing Asia. Both theoretical and empirical research papers with a policy orientation are welcome, provided the findings, conclusions, and policy recommendations are based on solid evidence and analysis. Manuscripts may focus on Asia as a whole, a group of countries, or individual economies.
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Public and private pensions
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Health care and public and private health insurance
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Terence Cheng, Joan Costa-i-Font, Nattavudh Powdthavee, 31 July 2015
Economists have traditionally viewed healthcare as a luxury good – consumption of it will increase more than proportionally as income rises. This column challenges this view, exploiting the windfall of lottery winnings to estimate elasticities for healthcare demand in the UK. Results suggest that income elasticities for public healthcare services are close to zero. A medium to large windfall is found instead to increase the uptake of private health insurance and preventative services. This suggests that rising incomes will increase private sector demand, but will leave public healthcare demand unchanged.
Savannah Bergquist, Joan Costa-i-Font, Katherine Swartz, 10 July 2015
Limited insurance for long-term care threatens the sustainability of publicly funded social assistance programmes such as Medicaid in the US. This column looks at the effectiveness of a programme that encourages middle-income people to save for possible long-term care expenses. The evidence so far indicates that although this programme has indeed increased insurance applications, it has not increased insurance uptake.
Charles Courtemanche, 08 March 2015
One important component of Obamacare – a dependent coverage provision for young people – took effect in 2010. It allowed dependents to remain on parents' insurance coverage until age of 26. This column discusses the impact of this coverage on a number of outcomes. The results indicate that provision improved young adults' health care access, did not influence preventive care utilisation, had mixed effects on health behaviours, and improved some but not all dimensions of self-assessed health.
Alejandro Del Valle, 04 February 2015
Illness shocks can decimate the economic opportunities of the poor. Women's employment opportunities are particularly constrained by illness because their time is often diverted to the care of sick children. This column argues that the provision of publicly subsidised health insurance in Mexico has led to an increase in labour supply. This increase has occurred in part because insurance has enabled women to reallocate time away from caregiving tasks to work in the labour market. These findings suggest that health insurance does more than improve health: it also empowers women.


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However, through all the sadness, Natalie shares she's blessed to have a friend in David and in the other cast mates who have been super supportive of her. I haven't really been involved in it since this all happened, so it's been weird for me right now. When you get off the island, we're trying to make our lives work while we're not by each other all the time since we live in different states.VH1: We would like to extend our deepest condolences about your brother. How did you enjoy the overall Dating Naked experience? I feel like it was a once in a lifetime opportunity and I really found myself in certain ways that I didn't think I would. The most awkward part of me being naked was probably my date with Norman. But we talk every day, he's been so supportive with my brother passing. He's just such a great guy and our relationship just continues to grow.See full summary » A group of amateur survivalists are put to the ultimate test in the wild for 40 days with nothing but a few primitive tools. Former contestant Jessie Nizewitz sued Viacom as well as Firelight Entertainment and Lighthearted Entertainment for million after they accidentally broadcast an uncensored shot of her genital region on air. They must hunt and gather whatever they need until extraction day.
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"A good book is an event in my life." ―Stendhal
Rachel can attest that a soccer sideline is my home away from home. Can't say that I've ever written a blog post at a soccer game before, but I'm all about trying new things these days. Besides, I'm trying to appear efficient. Key word: appear. I didn't bring a book with me. Clearly, I have failed to implement Rachel's advice, which would allow me to maximize these halftime minutes. I'll just have to settle for the temperate spring sun warming my face.
I'm hoping you'll settle for some famous authors' YA picks on this sunny kid-lit Tuesday. I've chosen a couple that I'd like to read with the boys. Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl, admitted that "The Westing Game completely charmed [her] as a kid: the clever mystery, the complex characters and the nasty, fantastic Tabitha Ruth Wexler. I still read it once a year." A book that commands an annual read? I'm in like Flynn!
Why have I never heard of Eleanor Estes' Rufus M.? I'd like to think it's because I'm too young for a children's book published in 1943. But there should be a trickle-down effect where Newbery Honors are concerned, no? Author Dick Cavett fell in love with Rufus at the precocious age of three. The fact that this book is still in print says a lot. That Estes wrote The Hundred Dresses might say as much, if not more. I've gotta say the prospect of a new read is just as exciting as the goal our team just headed in the net!


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Andreas Raelert (GER) and Yvonne van Vlerken (NED) yesterday took the titles in Europe's largest half iron distance triathlon, Challenge Kraichgau with both having to fight hard for their titles in a very close race which saw both course records broken.
First out of the swim, Raelert initially gave away precious seconds to the duo Sebastian Kienle (GER) and Normann Stadler (GER) by picking the wrong change bag. Defending champion Stadler was out of the race in second place at 50 k in the bike with a flat. By then, Kienle had taken the lead and extended it to four minutes ahead of Raelert by T2. Together with local hero Thomas Hellriegel Raelert chased the leader. It took Andreas Raelert 18k into the run to catch Kienle and French Francois Chabaud. In new course record of 3:51:05 hours Raelert celebrated a victory in the battle against Kienle. Francois Chabaud as a third party crossed the finish line from France.
The womens' race was even more exciting. The favourites exited the waters of the Lake Hardtsee within a minute of each other. Julia Wagner (GER) and Rachel Joyce (GBR) went hard on the bike and by 50km, van Vlerken had caught them. By the time they reached T2, Germany's Diana Riesler had also caught the lead pack.
Changing from bike to run within one minute the race was to be decided on the run. Here, van Vlerken dominated over her rivals. In a new record time of 4:26:08 hours, van Vlerken secured the victory in the Challenge Kraichgau. The Dutch champion van Vlerken said after her victory.
The race was watched by over 45,000 spectators along the course, enjoying the exciting duel between Raelert and Kienle, one that will be repeated in five weeks at Challenge Roth, in Germany on July 10th.
Challenge Kraichgau took place on June 5th 2011 and is part of the world-wide Challenge Family. With more than 3000 participants Challenge Kraichgau is one of the most popular races in Germany on the distance of 1,9km Swim, 90km Bike and 21km Run.
For more information see www.challenge-kraichgau.com.
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7:00 pm 31 March 2012
Wow! I loved Oxford Messed Up. This book provides a very real feeling, intimate look into the thoughts of someone who suffers with OCD. Kaufman has some personal experience with a family member who suffered with OCD and the journey to help has given her tender, insider knowledge. This story will no doubt advance people's understanding and hope for sufferers of this mysterious and confusing affliction. Gloria's constant companion Oliver, is a force to be reckoned with. Henry is the one unlikely person to take on the challenge, having his own self loathing issues and illnesses. The story of Gloria and Henry (fellow Oxford student and "loomate") is one of damaged souls finding strength, acceptance, and healing for their personal demons through their shared Van Morrison obsession, and their growing love for each other. Though each faces their own struggle with family disfunction and the resulting personal damage it invokes, they care for and believe in the other with fierce intensity that brings out the best in each other. I truly enjoyed the author's impressive knowledge of all things Morrison, as well as the Plath poetry references. I would recommend this book to those who have read Matt Ruff's "Set This House In Order" (Also one of my top favorites) Andrea Kayne Kaufman has written a beautiful love story with damaged messed up people and it's all any of us hopes for.
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Monthly Archives: August 2004
TAKEN …… in Jelgava
We rubbed shoulders with the Latvian Police on our last day in Latvia. While marketing and eating in Jelgava's Citymarket, Sean's rucksack was stolen from his bicycle. The whole police reporting ordeal lasted more than 3 hours as we engaged … Continue reading
Latvian feast
Sigulda, a scenic town surrounded by greens. It was here we had our introduction to Latvian breads. A typical traditional brick house in Latvian countryside Kristine, granddaughter of our hosts in Sigulda explaining the various Latvian breads to us Homemade … Continue reading
Fire Fighters for … 1 night
Our first night in Latvia was in Valmiera and we landed ourselves in a Fire station! (This page is specially dedicated to our 2 Fire Chiefs in Singapore – Kenneth Mak and Ivan Kwok!) A Soviet era fire engine. The … Continue reading
Horse riding crash course
While riding into Valmiera, we chanced upon a horse riding ranch… Sean traded in his alloy steed for the real steed Swee Kian's first try on horseback Horse stable This stable has more than 127 years of history
A pastor's prayer
Heavenly planned meeting for us it must be for Pastor Ivo has indeed the day before been the pastor for the Estonian couple (Hi! Happily married Kristel & Lauri now bathing under the Turkish sun!) and in the very church … Continue reading
Pastor Ivo Pill
Our last day in Estonia ended in Pastor Ivo Pill's house in Sangaste. Welcome to Pastor Ivo Pill's house Cooking in Ivo's house Attending church service We left our appreciation messages in mandarin to Pastor Ivo. In return, he gave … Continue reading
Estonian wedding party
We were cycling from Otepää, almost 30km from Valga when we heard loud music from a farmhouse besides the main road. As we approached the farmhouse, we saw the white ribbons tied on the cars and it seemed to be … Continue reading
Sauna in Estonia
Mr. Urmas Kala's house was our 6th attempt knocking on doors on Alevi streetin Tartu. It had started raining, again and we were eager to seek shelter for the night. We caught Urmas in the middle of his sauna … Continue reading
Chinese restaurant food in Tartu :)
We thought we've said goodbyes to having food from a Chinese Restaurant as the price is just too much for our long journey. However, we were wrong. For sometimes, the value of the food comes not from its price but … Continue reading
A touch from a simple town of Puhja
20.8.04 was the 2nd Independence Day of Estonia, and we were seeing Estonian flags flying high in every house. It was a national holiday and Estonian relax in the cool mood, strolling along the roads, visiting some friends or simply … Continue reading


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"Home is the starting place of love, hope and dreams."
For Teresa S. Bailey, a home is truly more than just the materials from which it is made. It has been her life's work to create that special place where people can find respite, joy and a real foundation from which to grow and thrive. As a professional Realtor®, she combines her love of homes and of working with people to best serve Buyers and Sellers in the Haywood County area.
Teresa was born and raised in Haywood County. Since 1999, she has opened her home to foster care children. "Some babies grow in mama's belly, and some grow in mama's heart" is a favorite saying in their family. She is blessed to call seven children her own and is now a proud grandmother of one. As a family, they are in the great outdoors as much as possible – hiking, camping and spending time at the lake. "The mountains are beautiful, absolutely stunning, and there is something for everyone," says Teresa.
It is safe to say Teresa is familiar with the local area and school systems. She also knows homes inside and out, having remodeled and improved personal property down to the studs and sheet rock. She works well under pressure and bridges the gap between "what is" and "what could be." Whether you are looking to purchase a property in the area, need to sell or are looking for a vacation property, you are in good hands with Teresa Bailey!
Quick Facts About Teresa
- Born and raised in Haywood County.
- Completed course work at Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College and Haywood Community College.
- Prior professional experience in the medical field.
- Supports the non-profits Caring for Children and Friends of Santa Claus.
- In addition to spending time with her kids, a favorite pastime for Teresa is riding motorcycles on the parkway and taking in the beauty of the mountains.
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Each month during the academic school year, St. Rita of Cascia High School presents a notable member of each class with the "Mustang of the Month" award. Students are nominated based on their overall achievements and involvement at St. Rita of Cascia High School. In order for a student to be considered, he must excel in two of the following areas: academics, athletics, activities, or community service projects. A committee selects the winners from the nominees.
The following students were selected as the February 2016 Mustangs of the Month.
George Western, III - Freshman
George is a member of Zoe Ministries Church and graduated from Colin Powell Middle School.
During his time so far at St. Rita, George has played on both the football and wrestling teams, and is also in the band. George hopes to run track in the spring. Outside of St. Rita, George has helped out with with the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society's Light the Night Walk and is an assistant coach for the Matteson Bears.
When asked what his time at St. Rita has meant to him so far, George responded, "My time has been great, especially because the teachers looked after me even when they don't always have the time for it. Thank you to them, and my friends, for their support."
Nick Healy - Sophomore
Nick belongs to St. Walter Parish and graduated from St. Walter Grammar School.
During his time so far at St. Rita, Nick has played soccer and lacrosse and is also a member of the Spanish club. Outside of St. Rita, Nick plays on a club lacrosse team.
When asked what his time at St. Rita has meant to him so far, Nick responded, "My time at St. Rita has been great, I've met a lot of new people and I love coming to school here."
Tommy Magnavite - Junior
Tommy is a member of St. Christina Parish and graduated from St. Christina Grammar School.
During his time so far at St. Rita, Tommy has played hockey and intramurals and is also a member of the French club. Outside of St. Rita, Tommy has helped give ice skating lessons, and has volunteered at the Oak Lawn Public Library and the fall festival at Miracle Fields.
When asked what his time at St. Rita has meant to him so far, Tommy responded, "My time at St. Rita has been great. I have made so many great friends that I'll know for a lifetime and have shared many special moments with the boys. It's sad to see my time fly by."
Paul Fernandez - Senior
Paul is a member of St. Daniel the Prophet Parish and graduated from St. Daniel the Prophet Grammar School.
During his time at St. Rita, Paul has been on both the swimming and water polo team and has run track and cross country. Paul has also participated in the World Cultures Club, the Stock Club, the Spanish Club, SADD, the Chess Team, the Cooking Club, the Seinfeld Club, The Knights of Augustine, and the National Honors Society. Outside of St. Rita, Paul has volunteered at a soup kitchen at St. Daniel the Prophet Parish.
When asked what his time at St. Rita has meant to him, Paul responded, "I couldn't imagine a better high school experience than the one I've had at St. Rita. The past three and a half years have been a memorable time in my life. I love this school and my fellow Rita brothers."
About St. Rita of Cascia High School
St. Rita High School is a college-preparatory, Augustinian Catholic high school for young men rooted in the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the tradition of St. Augustine, following the Augustinian philosophy of education. Located on a 37-acre campus at 7740 S. Western Avenue on Chicago's south side, St. Rita has a 110-year tradition and legacy, is over 24,000 alumni strong and offers 16 athletic teams and 30 clubs and activities.
St. Rita aims to form each student as a whole person: spiritually, intellectually, emotionally, physically, and socially, and to provide its young men with the necessary skills to succeed in college and in life, leading to life-long learning and personal awareness.
Through the Augustinian core values of Veritas (Truth), Unitas (Unity), and Caritas (Love), St. Rita strives to develop a bond between the members of the entire family: Augustinians, faculty, staff, students, parents, and alumni.
In the spirit of our Father, St. Augustine, we will be of one mind and one heart on our way to God.


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Trailer, COMPLETE Press Release and Theatrical List for Ti West's 'The Innkeepers'!
The Innkeepers news just continues to roll in. As we just informed you the film will debut On Demand on the 30th of this month, with a theatrical release targeted for February 3rd. Well, now we've got a list of cities and dates for you hardcore fans. Check out the details and the trailer below, as well as the official press release, in it's entirety!
Innkeepers Cities/Dates:
2/3/2012 Denver, CO: Denver Film Center/Colfax Chicago, IL: Muc Box Albuquerque, NM: Guild New York, NY: Village East Cinemas Portland, OR: Hollywood Theatre Philadelphia, PA: Ritz at the Bourse Dallas, TX: Texas Theatre Houston, TX: Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas -West Oaks- Seattle, WA: Grand Illuon Cinema
2/10/2012 Tucson, AZ: The Loft Cinema
2/17/2012 Columbus, OH: Gateway Film Center 8 Madison, WI: UW-Madison Cinematheque
2/24/2012 Pleasantville, NY: Jacob Burns Film Center
3/1/2012 Charlotte, NC: Movies @ CrownPoint 12
3/13/2012 Syracuse, NY: Palace
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Welcome to The Yankee Pedlar Inn of Torrington, Connecticut, where gracious hospitality and homegrown warmth are the cornerstones of a history that dates back to 1891.
The Yankee Pedlar offers 60 individual rooms with private baths, each adorned with stenciled walls and period furniture and restored with the most modern of conveniences.
Relax, drink and dine in The Yankee Pedlar's tavern and restaurant, each of which is appointed with a crackling fireplace and rustic décor. Or mply take a stroll through the lovingly preserved lobby and allow the style and charm of yesterday to sweep over you.
Just be sure to do it all now, because The Yankee Pedlar Inn is clong down for good in less than a week.
Oh, and so you know, The Yankee Pedlar Inn has a reputation for being haunted.ABOUT THE PRODUCTION
The origins of THE INNKEEPERS can be traced back to the production of Ti West's previous film, The House of the Devil, shot in the spring of 2008, primarily in and around the town of Lime Rock, Connecticut. During the production, the cast and crew of the film--including West, producers Larry Fessenden, Peter Phok, Derek Curl, cinematographer Eliot Rockett, production degner Jade Healy, and line producer Jacob Jakffe—reded at The Yankee Pedlar Inn in the nearby town of Torrington, Connecticut. "We were staying there because it was the closest place to the location. When I first showed up there, I thought it was a goofy place," remembers West. "But it was kind of charming; you usually stay at some Best Western on the de of the highway because you're trying to stay at the cheapest place posble."
It wasn't too long before West and company learned of the Yankee Pedlar's years-long reputation of being a "haunted hotel," an opinion held by many of the hotel's employees and redents of the town of Torrington. And that was a feeling that began to grow in the minds of the House of the Devil company during their nearly two-month stay at the hotel.
"It was one of those things: We're shooting a movie for twelve hours a day about the devil just forty minutes away from this hotel," says West. "Making a movie is such a strange, traumatic adventure, and when you get back to where you're staying after a long shooting day, it's usually a pretty bland, straight-ahead experience. You get ready for the next day and then you crash."
But the Yankee Pedlar ain't no Best Western, as West quickly discovered. While staying in his room on the top level of the three-story Yankee Pedlar, he experienced a handful of moments that could certainly be interpreted as clasc "haunted hotel" motifs, led by light bulbs that would burn out with alarming frequency (the replacement bulbs, as well) and a televion that would turn off and on by itself. But as West remembers, there was more…
"It was really an overall vibe—like someone was in the room with me. Yeah, there were nights when I was in my room and it would just feel like somebody was in there with me, near me," West recalls of his overnights at the Yankee Pedlar during the House of the Devil shoot. "It may sound bogus and I'm a skeptic as it is, but I don't ever feel that way in my life. Ever."
Skeptic or not, West was busy making a film and his daily "weird vibe" would have to take a back seat during the production. But not for too long…
As finishing touches were being put on The House of the Devil, and the movie was being readied for its festival rollout in the spring of 2009 and subsequent theatrical release in the fall, West began shifting his focus toward another movie that he was developing. But his experience at The Yankee Pedlar proved itself to be too strong to let go, particularly as it was so fresh in his mind.
By the fall of 2009, just as The House of the Devil was beginning its acclaimed theatrical run, Ti West's idea about a film focung on a haunted hotel in Northern Connecticut began to take root. What if a couple of hotel employees—generally slacker-type nine-to-fivers who begin to fancy themselves ghost hunters—set out on the eve of the hotel's clong to prove that the hotel is genuinely haunted? Utilizing one of the employee's knowledge of computer technology and the other's overall enthuasm and reality TV-inspired spunk, they could surely prove the mystery of the hundred-year old hotel. And what starts off as a slacker-styled search for proof of ghosts in a supposedly haunted hotel slowly transforms into something truly horrific? What if, indeed….
And so, The Innkeepers was born...
"Ti knew if he could present the project in a doable way, he would have something. And by propong we shoot in the same hotel we stayed in when we made House of the Devil, that was definitely something," says producer Larry Fessenden. "And Ti wrote this very sweet script..."
Ironically (or not, depending on your point of view), West's idea for THE INNKEEPERS wholly revolved around shooting at The Yankee Pedlar Inn.
"I knew that if The Yankee Pedlar would agree to let us make the movie there, then we could make it right away," says West. "But if not, if they didn't want us to shoot there, then there would be no movie. It's not a movie that could have been made anywhere else."
West completed his script and he headed out to Sundance in January 2010 to meet with MPI and pitch it.
Dark Sky Films was immediately excited about West's script, giving it a thumbs-up and approving the budget, contingent on The Yankee Pedlar agreeing to have the film shot on their premises. That left the producers with the task of approaching The Yankee Pedlar about shooting the film on location in the hotel.
"Our biggest goal was to get it greenlit, that was the first thing," says producer Peter Phok. "Connecticut has a good tax incentive for filmmaking, so that certainly helped. I know Ti writes for location—when we're locked in, he'll do a re-write to make it more specific—but for THE INNKEEPERS, it was all about the location."
What could have been a major stumbling block proved to be just the oppote.
"I couldn't believe I was making the call, to use The Yankee Pedlar for the film," remembers Phok. "But they were very agreeable to the idea—they remembered us from when we stayed there during House of the Devil, of course—and we made the deal." "Then it was a matter of scheduling the shoot and a race for getting into the hotel quickly." The Set...THE INNKEEPERS shoot was scheduled for 18 days in April 2010 and, in the great tradition of independent filmmaking, the fast-approaching shoot allowed for little more than two weeks for pre-production.
"It was a bit nerve racking going into something without a proper prep window. However Peter, Derek and myself were going into our fourth movie together in under two years, so by that point we had hit a rhythm and were operating at another level of efficiency," says line producer Jacob Jaffke. "This being my second movie with Ti, I knew what to expect and knew what he would be needing for this film, so I was able to anticipate this a bit better than we had on Devil."
As West wrote THE INNKEEPERS specifically to be shot at The Yankee Pedlar (which retains its name in the film), the hotel was to more-or-less remain in its original condition for the production. When he and his production team arrived at the Pedlar eight days before shooting was scheduled to commence, the prepping of the hotel proper was relegated to "a matter of tweaking things here and there."
A production office was set up in the Pedlar's basement and arranged for equipment, while set dresng was stored in the hotel's banquet room. For the crew, returning to The Yankee Pedlar smacked of nostalgia.
"The Yankee Pedlar staff remembered us and they liked us—we were a rowdier bunch when we were there for House of the Devil, but we'd all grown up a bit," laughs Phok. "My team had lived there for two months for Devil, and we knew the hotel, we knew the town and we knew the vendors. That's how we stayed on schedule."
Arriving in Torrington for pre-production, production degner Jade Healy (whose work on West's The House of the Devil represented first-ever feature production degner credit), set out to turn West's Yankee Pedlar "tweaking" into an on-camera reality for THE INNKEEPERS.
"Originally, we thought there wouldn't be that much to do, but as we moved through preproduction and began to shoot, we realized that there was a lot to be done," says Healy. "And we had to deal with the time element and budgetary restraints."
Much of Healy and her team's work went into some specific "antique-ing" of The Yankee Pedlar with various props that she found in antique stores and online. Older, worn-out couches and chairs, a vintage front desk bell, a drab carpet—all and more were added to the lobby and various rooms to replace more modern pieces to realize West's vion of The Yankee Pedlar. One of Healy's best add-ons was a mounted deer head, which proudly reigned over The Yankee Pedlar lobby. Healy found the deer head on Craig's List; it now hangs in West's apartment.
Perhaps the biggest phycal "change" made to The Yankee Pedlar was the necessary creation of a large bookshelf for one of the lobby walls, which was used to wholly cover up the entrance to the attached hotel bar next door.
In re-crafting The Yankee Pedlar's austere interior, Healy and her team painted over the walls of the lobby and several rooms used in the production, in addition to re-wallpapering several others. All of it jived with West's color palette specifications, which he carried with him on a list in his pocket.
Challenges came in the form of dealing with the logistics of shooting in a 100-year-old hotel. Having to work within the confines of the Pedlar's rooms (that weren't all that big) and hallways (which weren't all that wide), Cinematographer Eliot Rockett spent his pre-production days being both challenged and energized by the task of preparing the look and feel that West was looking for in his film in/about The Yankee Pedlar.
"What was really interesting about The Yankee Pedlar is that over the years, it's been added on to and remodeled, but in its own, unique way," says Rockett. "It's not like Hollywood rustic—it looks like a place that was once old and grand and that people tried to restore to its grandeur, but the people did it in a slipshod way."
Among some of the anachronistic, stranger elements were several hallways that were renovated at some point with modern drop ceilings and old woodwork that had been repainted with a bright, white finish. Additionally, the walls that lined traditional-looking interior hallways were unaligned and off-center.
"It adds to the creepiness in a way that you can't put your finger on completely," nods Rockett. "But this hotel is crooked and weird and not quite right—it's a more off-kilter kind of place. And as the story of the movie goes on, what was initially kooky then becomes more foreboding."
The Casting...
Three very different stories accompany the casting of the three leading players in THE INNKEEPERS.
The first and arguably eaest casting coup came in the form of Pat Healy, who portrays The Yankee Pedlar's technologically literate loner, Luke. Healy was making the rounds of the festival circuit as the star of the film Great Wall of Sound several years back when he first met West, who was on the road with his film Trigger Man.
"We met briefly, shook hands and that was pretty much it," remembers Healy. "He was a nice guy."
At the time, Healy was taking a step back from his acting career for a few years to concentrate on his screenwriting (which has nce yielded Healy a handful of writing credits on the HBO series In Treatment). After seeing The House of the Devil, though, Healy wanted to get in touch with West to express his admiration for the picture. But West beat him to it with an email…
"Pat was someone I'd known for a little while after meeting him at one of the festivals and I shot him an email to see if he was interested in THE INNKEEPERS," says West. "He works a lot and I enjoy watching him on screen, so I approached him early immediately.
"Ti got in touch with me and asked me if I wanted to do the part and I didn't even have to read the script," recalls Healy.
"There's so much attention paid to paranormal events these days and that's what attracted me to THE INNKEEPERS —it's about the people who get into that area," says Healy of his initial interest in the script. "What makes them want to do that kind of thing? Are you seeing ghosts or are you long your mind?"
Casting for the role of The Yankee Pedlar's enthuastic minimum wage ghost hunter Claire took a bit longer.
After condering a number of twenty-something actresses for the role, Paxton's name came up. The one-time child performer had just appeared in the remake of the seminal Seventies shocker The Last House on the Left and was currently in New York shooting the horror entry Enter Nowhere, which co-starred Katherine Waterston, a friend of Ti West.
West called Waterston to get the lowdown on Paxton to see if she might be right for the role of Claire and to find out what she was like.
"She told me that Sara was the greatest, so I followed up with her agent," West remembers. "Then I got on the phone with Sara and decided she was the one."
"My manager called me to tell me that a guy named Ti West wanted to talk to me and read a script," Ms. Paxton remembers of initially hearing about THE INNKEEPERS "Then I'm in New York and my friend Katherine Waterston tells me that Ti was contacting her about me and I'm, like, 'Okay, this is weird--I'm hearing about this Ti from all des!'"
Though she was looking to take a little time off, Ms. Paxton spoke with West on the phone, read the script and then met with him when she returned to L.A. the next week.
"I liked the script—I liked the idea that a huge chunk of the movie just asks a mple question: 'Are there ghosts?'" says Ms. Paxton. "What attracted me to my character in THE INNKEEPERS is that she's very likable. She's just an ordinary girl living in any town being scared in a hotel."
A few weeks later—on the night of her 22nd birthday, in fact—Ms. Paxton was on a red-eye flight to Torrington, Connecticut. And a couple of days and wardrobe fittings after that, she was portraying Claire in the first day of shooting on THE INNKEEPERS.
"You want someone who's talented, yes, and someone who likes the material, but you also want someone you're going to like as a person," says West. "You need a group of like-minded people and you want to have a kind of shorthand when you have a short shooting schedule. Sara and I got along really well. She seemed super-cool and she was definitely excited about the movie. "
Just as computer and digital technology plays a major role in determining if The Yankee Pedlar Hotel is haunted in THE INNKEEPERS, so does it also factor into the casting of the accomplished Kelly McGillis as Leanne Rease-Jones, a TV actress turned psychic who checks into The Yankee Pedlar during its final week of operation and gives the redent innkeepers a lot of potentially terrifying things to think about.
Ms. McGillis was suggested for the role of Leanne relatively late in the game by the film's producers, who had recently worked with her when she starred in Stake Land. At the time her name was brought up in the spring of 2010, Ms. McGillis was in London starring in a UK tour of Terrence McNally's play Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, and West and THE INNKEEPERS team were in the midst of pre-production in Connecticut.
"We set up a Skype video chat with Kelly in London while I was at the Pedlar," West recalls. "We told her what THE INNKEEPERS was all about and she asked a lot about it and why it would be good for her."
"I liked what I read and Leanne seemed like a fun and kooky character," says Ms. McGillis. "I also liked the challenge of working with someone who's written the piece as well—they always have a very strong visual idea of what they want."
Having worked with producers Phok, Fessenden and Derek Curl just several months earlier, Ms. McGillis knew what she was getting into when she returned to the U.S. following her tour and made her way to Torrington for THE INNKEEPERS.
"I haven't actually seen a horror film nce I was a kid, and that's no offense to Ti and others who make those kind of movies," Ms. McGillis laughs. "But speaking to Ti when I was condering THE INNKEEPERS, I liked the kind of interesting, fresh perspective he seemed to be bringing to the genre." The Shoot...
The shoot for THE INNKEEPERS was scheduled for 18 days in April 2010, but it didn't come in exactly on time: the film was shot in 17 days, with principal photography wrapping one day earlier than planned.
The fact that the cast and crew of nearly 40 worked and lived in The Yankee Pedlar for the entire shoot certainly helped.
"We rented out the entire hotel and moved everyone in, though there were a couple of weddings and guests already pre-booked at the hotel that couldn't be changed," says Phok. "But it wasn't really a problem; we just adjusted our schedule and made it work."
The cast and crew primarily lived in the upper floors of The Yankee Pedlar, while the shoot utilized several of the lower rooms and hallways, the lobby and the basement. The principal crew members all agree that shooting and living on location kept the production on schedule—and often ahead of it.
"We were actually getting a little too far ahead of the production at times. Sometimes the next scenes on the schedule weren't even set up yet," remembers Rockett. "There's no time lost when you're living on location—you can walk up or down the stairs to any location you want, you can always find out what's going on and you're always just right there."
"The biggest saving grace was that we were in the same location for 17 days. We worked, ate, and slept in that hotel," agrees Jaffke. "There was one day that required us to go outde of the hotel to another location and everybody got a little kooky. You know when you would go on a field trip to the museum as a kid and how everybody just went a little extra crazy? It was like that."
Comparing a tight film shoot to a summer camp or family trip is nothing new, but in the case of THE INNKEEPERS being within shouting distance of each other 24/7 only helped to bring everyone closer to each, particularly the cast members.
"Everyone being under the same roof was a great way to get to know one another, particularly nce Sara and I met in the make-up chair for the first time right before we began shooting," says Healy. "It was a great way to make the movie. When there's not a lot of time, you've got to be good at what you do and you've got to get along."
Ms. McGillis also got a charge out of the experience of "living where I work."
"Maybe it's because I was only there for 10 days, but it reminded me of that whole xties theater thing, like I was part of an ensemble in college," she says. "It sparked that huge romantic ideal for me about the theater and being close with your collaborators in the creative process."
Only the L.A.-born Sara Paxton was thrown (just a bit) by the overall working space/living space experience. Much of that was due to the general ze of The Yankee Pedlar rooms ("Tiny!"), the overall creepiness she felt when was alone ("Definitely a strange feeling…") and the dreams she experienced over the course of the shoot.
"Every night, every night, I would wake up in the middle of some vivid, weird dream! And I wasn't the only one—so many others were having them, too," says Paxton.
Ah, yes, the dreams. Just as Ti West and the House of the Devil team had their own dreams and paranormal pangs during their stay at The Yankee Pedlar two years earlier, so did the cast and crew of THE INNKEEPERS while on the premises. (For some of their comments, see the attached Making Movies in a Haunted Hotel page.)
But if anything, The Yankee Pedlar experience seems to have inspired the team to bring in West's ghost story with a contemporary twist without a ngle a hitch.
What writer/director Ti West is most excited about is that his latest film is, well, a Ti West film that wholly retains his original vion. (That it came in on time and on budget doesn't hurt either.)
"We're a rag-tag group of people who know how to do what we know how to do," says West. "Whenever it's time to do that, don't mess it up, just let us do it. When we're left to our own devices, we do it very well together."
Ultimately, West is extremely happy with THE INNKEEPERS, a nifty, darkly humorous horror piece about a posbly haunted hotel that grew out of his own experiences staying in a posbly haunted hotel while making an earlier horror film.
"It's very different from The House of the Devil, and it's very different from what I'm going to do next, but you can still tell THE INNKEEPERS was made by me," concludes West. "It will be very interesting to see how it's received. There's enough of it that feels familiar to understand what you're getting, but it's not what people are going to expect."
Making Movies in a Haunted Hotel…
Writer/director Ti West:
I'm a skeptic as it is, but I had some weird electric things in my room. The light bulbs would burn out all the time and the TV would turn off and on by itself. It was really just a vibe—it felt like someone was in the room with you. It may sound bogus and just like what everyone else says, but I don't ever feel that way in my life. Ever."
Producer Derek Curl: I felt a ghost—I didn't see a ghost. But I'm also very sentive to them. I was tting in bed and actually jumped off because I felt something push up against me….I think the ghosts here really have a bathroom fetish, because they love screwing with people's bathrooms, whether it's the water coming on, the lights flickering, doors shutting…
Actress Sara Paxton:
It was unsettling living in that inn! One night I was in my bed reading a book after dinner; the windows were closed and suddenly the bathroom door slams and the light flicks on! It freaked me out—I was frozen. It must have been a breeze, I thought, but how could there a breeze when the windows are closed?
Cinematographer Eliot Rockett: I'm the old guy—practically everyone else on the shoot was 30 or under. The whole haunted hotel thing, whatever, I didn't experience any of that. But this hotel is crooked and weird and not quite right.
Producer Peter Phok: I remember hearing the stories of The Yankee Pedlar being haunted from Luke, the night watchman, when we were here making The House Of The Devil. Personally, I'm not a superstitious person—I've got to see it before I believe it. That said, there's definitely a creepy vibe at this hotel.
Actor Pat Healy: I'm not a believer in ghosts, but I did experience the weird atmosphere of that place, that town. And there were times when we were shooting those "scare moments" when I really felt it.
Line Producer Jacob Jaffke: Everyone had really crazy dreams. The same thing happened when we were making The House of the Devil and staying at the very same hotel. It kind of felt like you were watching Videodrome on acid in the rain...that is the only way I can describe the feeling you would have when you woke up with after a night's sleep in the Pedlar.
Actress Kelly McGillis: I never had any experiences of being "haunted" when I was there. The Yankee Pedlar was a little creepy, yes, but it also had an interesting charm to it.
SARA PAXTON (Claire) An accomplished young actress who has worked in feature films, televion shows and muc over the past decade, Sara Paxton continues to demonstrate her versatility starring as one of the titular clerks with a jones for ghost hunting at The Yankee Pedlar Hotel in Ti West's THE INNKEEPERS.
A Los Angeles native who began working in mucal theater and televion commercials as a child, Ms. Paxton's first major role was in the teen comedy "Sleepover." She was subsequently cast in a recurring role on the WB televion show "Summerland" and then as the star of the Discovery Kids televion series "Darcy's Wild Life," for which she received an Emmy nomination. The show also featured Ms. Paxton's muc track "Take a Walk," one of several of her songs that have been released on the soundtracks for "Darcy's Wild Life" and "Summerland."
The last decade has seen Ms. Paxton appearing in a number of TV shows (among them, "Will & Grace," "Malcolm in the Middle," "Wizards of Waverly Place" and "C: Miami") and, more recently, a slew of movies films. The past few years have seen Sara star in the
thriller The Last House on the Left, a remake of the Seventies cult favorite, and the comedies Superhero Movie and Sydney White starring Amanda Bynes.
PAT HEALY (Luke) A respected character actor/leading man whose resume boasts nearly fifteen years of movie and televion credits, Pat Healy stars as a low-key, computer-savvy employee of The Yankee Pedlar Inn who's curious about his place of employment's supposedly haunted history in THE INNKEEPERS
Hailing from the suburbs of Chicago, Healy first appeared on the big screen in a bit part in Home Alone 3, the third entry in the beloved Chicago-based film series. nce then, he's appeared in featured roles in dozens of films and televion, including Magnolia, Ghost World, Pearl Harbor, Rescue Dawn, Great World of Sound and The Assasnation of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and the TV shows "Charmed," "NYPD Blue," "C," "The Shield," "Cold Case" and "Grey's Anatomy."
As a writer, Healy has written or co-written three installments of the acclaimed HBO series "In Treatment," while also writing, directing, and starring in his own short film, Mullit, which played at the Sundance Film Festival.
Healy has also appeared in a quartet of stage productions mounted by Chicago's highly regarded Steppenwolf Theatre Company, including A Clockwork Orange and The Libertine.
KELLY MCGILLIS (Leanne Rease-Jones) A respected screen, stage and televion actor for the past twenty-five years, Kelly McGillis follows up her recent appearance in the highly regarded Stake Land with a star turn a fading TV actress turned psychic in Ti West's THE INNKEEPERS.
Ms. McGillis has appeared in many popular films in her career, including Peter Weir's Witness with Harrison Ford, Tony Scott's Top Gun oppote Tom Cruise, Jonathan Kaplan's The Accused oppote Jodie Foster and Alan Rudolph's Made in Heaven with Timothy Hutton. She has also appeared in numerous televion shows and mini-series, most notably in a guest-star arc on the Showtime series "The L Word."
A graduate of Juilliard School's Drama Divion, Ms. McGillis has also worked extenvely in the theater, where she has performed in clascs by Chekov, Shaw, Ibsen, Shakespeare and O'Neill. She has regularly appeared in starring roles with the prestigious Shakespeare Theatre of Washington, DC and also in a national tour of the stage play, The Graduate as Mrs. Robinson. Additional credit include starring roles in the California revival of Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes and the UK tour of Terrence McNally's Frankie and Johnny in The Claire de Lune. ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS
TI WEST (Director, Screenwriter, Editor and Producer) One of the most exciting and original filmmakers on the independent scene today, Ti West directs, edits and co-produces his original screenplay about two employees of a soon-to-be-closed hotel, who get more than they bargained for when they set out to prove that the hotel is as haunted as its reputation, in THE INNKEEPERS.
Hailing from Wilmington, Delaware, West attended New York's School of the Visual Arts (SVA), where he met producer Larry Fessenden through one of his teachers (filmmaker Kelly Reichardt). Upon graduating from SVA, Fessenden executive produced writer/director/editor West's first feature film, The Roost. Released in 2005, the Seventies-style horror entry about a group of young people who finds themselves stranded on a mysterious farm overrun by vampire bats and zombies was well-received by critics and on the festival circuit.
Shortly after its premiere at the SXSW film festival it was sold in a mid x figure deal to Showtime.
West, who had penned the screenplay in three weeks, was immediately ngled out for his uniquely atmospheric and independent-minded approach to horror filmmaking genre, which was at once wholly original and that also mindfully embraced the genre's glorious past.
West's next film, 2007's Trigger Man, was a horror-tinged thriller about three friends from Manhattan who set out on an ill-fated weekend hunting trip in rural Delaware. West added on cinematography to his roster of duties for Trigger Man, in addition to the film's writing, editing and direction. Like The Roost, Trigger Man was well-received on the festival circuit and by critics and was released by the prestigious art-house label Kino international.
In 2008 West directed The The House Of The Devil.
Set in the Eighties and concerning a babytter who discovers that her eccentric clients are plotting to use her as part of a Satanic ritual, The The House Of The Devil received nearly unanimous praise, a successful theatrical run and an outstanding response upon its DVD release in 2010. Additionally, the film was honored with awards at the Birmingham dewalk Moving Picture Festival and Screamfest in 2009.
Prior to beginning production on The Innkeepers, West wrote, produced and directed the online series Dead & Lonely in 2009 for IFC Films, concerning a awkward first date between a newly ngle young man and a shapely but shy female vampire.
West was recently invited by The Criterion Collection to provide a video appreciation for the home entertainment release of Nobuhiko Obayashi's House (1977). Other filmmakers who have recorded appreciations for Criterion include Terry Gilliam, dney Lumet, Peter Bogdanovich, Paul Thomas Anderson. JADE HEALY (Production Degner) Having worked with Ti West as a production degner on The House Of The Devil, Jade Healy now brings her talents to West's latest film, THE INNKEEPERS.
Most recently, Jade served as art director on Lena Dunham's critically acclaimed Tiny Furniture. Prior to that, she took on various production and art department potions in a number of acclaimed independent productions, including Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Undead, Hell Ride, Edmond with William H. Macy, As Good As Dead with Andie MacDowell and Cary Elwes and Aa Argento's The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things.ELISABETH VASTOLA (Costume Degner) Having worked with Glass Eye Pix on three of their previous films, Elisabeth Vastola brings her experience with degning for horror to West's THE INNKEEPERS. Vastola most recently worked in both the art and costume departments of the Oscar nominated film 127 Hours. She has degned Bitter Feast, Stake Land, and Gun Hill Road (Official Selection 2011 Sundance Film Festival), among other titles. She is also the costume degner for the on-going critically acclaimed Off-Broadway production of Angelina Ballerina the Mucal.ELIOT ROCKETT (Cinematographer) A veteran cinematographer with nearly twenty feature films to his credit, Eliot Rockett continues his collaboration with Ti West on THE INNKEEPERS.
Rockett previously served as cinematographer on West's films The House Of The Devil and Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever. Prior to that, he shot such features as the superhero comedy The Specials, the Nightstalker, Dirty, Rampage: The Hillde Strangler Murders, Liberty Kid, and the straight-to-video cult favorite Crocodile, directed by Tobe Hooper.
BRIAN SPEARS (Special Effects Make-Up) Brian Spears is a special effects make-up artist who has been providing zombies, vampires, and all around gore for the past ten years to projects up and down the east coast. Brian has supplied effects to several feature films, award winning shorts and countless muc videos. After working on I Sell the Dead
he's had the opportunity to work on several projects with the emerging production company Glass Eye Pix. He's contributed plenty of nastiness to many of their new slew of pictures such as Bitter Feast, Stake Land and Hypothermia. Other credits include Plague Town, Burning Inde, Sleepaway Camp IV, Shadow of Dead Riot. Spears enjoys long walks on the beach with a fine wine and a good book but relishes the chance to dismember, disfigure and pour gallons of blood on a film set.
GRAHAM RAZNICK (2nd Unit Director / Sound Degner) Graham Reznick is a director and sound degner, originally from Delaware and currently based in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
He recently directed the critically acclaimed feature film I Can See You and the award-winning 3D short film The Viewer.
He created sound degn for Ti West's THE INNKEEPERS., as well as The House of the Devil, The Roost and Trigger Man; Jim Mickle's Stakeland; Glenn McQuaid's I Sell the Dead; James McKenney's Automatons; and Joe Maggio's Bitter Feast, among others. He has also collaborated with his colleagues at Waverly Films, editing numerous muc videos for them (LCD Soundsystem's "North American Scum") and Ron Winter (Jimmy Eat World's "My Best Theory").
Graham is currently developing The Teleport, a 3D science fiction thriller, in association with Glass Eye Pix.
JEFF GRACE (composer) Jeff Grace is an award winning composer who has scored films with appearances at the Toronto, Sundance, Venice, TriBeCa, and South by Southwest film festivals. Jeff's recent projects include Kelly Reichardt's Meek's Cutoff (starring Michelle Williams), Jim Mickle's Stake Land (winner of the People's Choice Award in the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival's 2010 Midnight Madness section), and Ti West's acclaimed The House of the Devil.
Active as a composer for concert and stage, Jeff was selected for American Opera Projects' Composers and the Voice Series where he was awarded the Tobias Picker Chair, entailing a mentorship with the celebrated composer. Jeff is also active as an orchestrator and arranger with credits including Lady Gaga, Lucia Micarelli (HBO's "Treme"), Fredrick Doci, and numerous films. From 2001-2004 Jeff worked as an asstant to Academy Award® winning composer Howard Shore on such projects as Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings Trilogy and Martin Scorsese's The Gangs of New York. In the years prior, Jeff worked as an asstant to legendary jazz composer/producer/arranger Gil Goldstein working on projects for artists such as Pat Metheny and Roy Hargrove. 1998 marked the beginning of Jeff's film and muc career working as a composer and producer at the New York muc house Ruggieri Muc where he also worked with composer Robert Ruggieri on several of his scores for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre.
PETER PHOK (Producer)
Peter Phok has produced a number of films for Glass Eye Pix and its Scareflix banner, his latest being Ti West's THE INNKEEPERS..A graduate of New York's School of Visual Arts, Phok's first film was fellow SVA classmate Ti West's The Roost, where he served as production manager and associate producer. Two years later, he co-produced West's Trigger Man, along with Larry Fessenden and West.nce then, Phok has produced eight other Glass Eye Pix films, including I Can See You, I Sell the Dead, West's The The House Of The Devil and James McKenney's upcoming Hypothermia.Additionally, Phok was the production manager on the independent features Sans Pertinence and Bittersweet Place, and the first asstant director of the films Fortune and Bristol Boys.LARRY FESSENDEN (Producer)
One of the most respected and influential figures on the New York independent film scene today, producer/writer/director/actor Larry Fessenden brings his unique and fiercely independent vion and style to the production, THE INNKEEPERS.
As a writer, director and occaonal leading man, Fessenden has put his inimitable stamp on a series of atmospheric, environmentally conscious, critically lauded horror films including Habit, Wendigo and The Last Winter. He is also the writer, with Guillermo del Toro of the script for the remake of del Toro's Spanish hit The Orphange.
Fessenden has acted in numerous movies, including Neil Jordan's The Brave One, Jim Jarmusch's Broken Flowers, Martin Scorsese's Bringing Out of Dead, Steve Buscemi's Animal Factory, Brad Anderson's Vanishing on 7th Street and Seson 9 and Glenn McQuaid's I Sell the Dead, A Glass Eye production for which he received a special Jury mention for best performance at the 2009 Slamdance Film Festival.
In November, 2010, Fessenden was honored with his first retrospective festival, "Larry Fessenden: 25 Years of Glass Eye Pix" at Brooklyn's ReRun Gastropub Theater..DEREK CURL (Producer) A senior producer at Dark Sky Films who cut his teeth producing muc videos, Derek Curl is one of the architects that yielded Ti West's THE INNKEEPERS.
Curl is the producer of such Dark Sky projects as the 2008 mutant children favorite Plague Town, Ti West's The The House Of The Devil, Bitter Feast, Stake Land, Hatchet II and James McKenney's upcoming Hypothermia.
(Line Producer) Jacob Jaffke has been involved with various productions over the past several years, most recently serving as co-producer on James McKenney's Hypothermia before his involvement with Ti West on THE INNKEEPERS.
Jaffke began his association with Ti West when he was the production manager on West's The House of the Devil. Other films on which he has worked in various production capacities include I Sell the Dead (production coordinator), and Bitter Feast (line producer).
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From: email@example.com (Katharina Unger)
Hi! As I read the setlist of your current tour I was very surprised. You (the whole band) always say how happy you're now, you're all friends, all great musicians. And then there are only two or three new song (I don't know if they are new, I don't know them...)! Why? Isn't there enough trust in the new stuff? I wonder that Steve agrees to that. If you would play more new songs maybe I would visit one of your shows.
By the way, in what relation is (I can't find it in the dictionary) the video clip of "Knocking at your backdoor" to the song, or better, what's the song about?
Dear Katharina,
In response: You are of course quite right about the friendship that exists in the band, it is more family than friends really, we do have our ups and downs but they are mild enough. Steve is a strong and vibrant part of the band and has plenty to say about every aspect of our professional lives.
Seven songs from Abandon found their way into the set shortly after the album release; think of it as chucking a big rock into a lake and then watching the ripples spread and settle, until the rock becomes part of the body of water.
Tonight (Oxford) (yes, this is not today but then, just when is today? - ed) we shall play two songs which have not even been recorded yet.
It is important for us to recognise that the overwhelming percentage of our audience only gets to see the band once in a blue moon.
The balance between the famous, the obscure, the brand new, our personal taste and improvisation is only one of the guiding factors, when deciding upon the texture of the show; musical juxtaposition being the overriding factor.
The overall ratio seems about right to us and the attendant crowds. We are, quite obviously, defenceless against absentee bitching.
The video clip for 'Knocking at your Back Door' bears no relation whatsoever to the words; which are about anal sex (I thought everyone knew that). There was, as far as I can remember, a crazy idea that there might be some chance of DP being played on MTV. With the lyrics in mind there was obviously a need for some degree of visual euphemism, ludicrous as it seemed to me.
As with 'Abandon' (and, for that matter, every other Deep Purple record that has ever been released) we shall obviously be performing a disproportionate amount of new material when the next album comes out; so you 'may' buy a ticket to one of the shows, mightn't you. (rhet.)
From: firstname.lastname@example.com
My name is Gordon and I am from Scotland.
I have been working very hard now with 4 talented young boys that have shaped up so well that a national newspaper review has just told of 'at last a band to knock Oasis of their perch," and this was broadcast on the 13th of Jan. Deliberately I have not allowed them to play any gigs, apart from the private showcase that the awesome review was made. They play rock and they play it better than most, and they are still at school. They are called Carson.
"THEY WILL BE BIGGER THAN THE Beetles" is one of many quotes that will go out to the media. Please help now before the sharks start feeding. Thanks
Dear Gordon, There is one way that I can think of to keep the sharks away:
Announce to the world that Carson, collectively and individually, intend to spend their formative years enjoying their influences and developing their skills as writers, musicians and performers, allowing character and personality to expand into something sufficient enough to resist the pernicious forces of the filthy press.
It would also help if you, as their representative, could be a little more specific about who Carson intend to outgrow. For example, when you say 'they will be bigger than the beetles', do you mean Coleoptera, dice games, heavy mallets or, possibly, shaggy eyebrows; all of which appear, in my OED, to be unlikely opponents in the category: Rock Olympics.
What you should be looking for is a more significant target than a mere beetle, so you can all glory in the aftermath; when reportage of the event might be something like 'Spotty Oinks destroy Dead Genius', great eh?
Also, I'm thinking that your 'no gig' policy might backfire on you when the boys are more mature.
I realise it was a spoof letter Gordon, but thanks anyway for giving me the chance to air a few points on an important subject.
From: email@example.com
Hi Ian,
I thought I'm dreaming when I read it on Caramba (and would have liked to be a fly on the wall in that studio). Great lyrics "see the line", everybody wants peace, but how should it should look like?
And I was listening again to a few of the Child in Time versions (not all, I've got quite a lot of them), Bombay Calling, In Rock, Made in Japan, etc. One, Live Yubin Chokin Hall, Hiroshima 1977, Ian Gillan Band, also interesting, soundquality not so good, an Angel Air production, I asked several people if this is a pirate or bootleg, and didn't get an answer, faux pas? (I've several Angel Air productions with your music, all a bit doubtful). Do they produce the cds without your approval?
Nice q+a, now the I will swear by all that is holy that your never looked tired in your entire life :-), even not for some short moments ... well, in Rostock this summer I admired the band for their alacrity?, buoyancy? (mit Schwung und einem Schalk im Nacken) on that warm day. Ok, I shut up.
Have a good time, love
Hi Jutta,
Angel Air, hmm, yes, very doubtful and totally unapproved. Don't waste your money.
From: "tony white"
hi Ian,
Cheers mate
Hi Tony,
After all, it's written and nobody knows the score better than Paul Mann, maybe not even Jon. Also, you blokes are pretty good at everything you set your hand to so it should be great in the category 'performance' by both the orchestra and the group. Enjoy it, and send reports.
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dear IAN,
Thank you so much for answering my questions....
Dear Jon,
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Both drivers and cyclists are required to obey the rules of the road. Rules include traffic laws, as well as both parties' duty to exercise caution and avoid accident or injury. While drivers are at fault in most accidents involving motor vehicles and bikes, there are instances where the cyclists are also at fault. Georgia laws see a cyclist on the road as a motor vehicle; therefore, cyclists have an equal number of laws to follow while riding.
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When Accidents Occur with No Traffic Signals
One of the easiest ways to determine who had the right of way is the traffic signal – in other words, who had a green light? When no traffic signals are present, it will come down to who was there first. For example, at a stop sign who came to the stop sign first? The party that arrived at the stop sign first would have the right of way.
The same goes for entering a street with traffic. The vehicles already on the road would have the right of way. So in a situation where a cyclist pulls out in front of oncoming traffic, the cyclist would be at fault – not the motorist that struck the cyclist.
When Traffic Signals are Present
When traffic signals are present, they control who has the right of way. Therefore, if the cyclist crosses on a red light, they would be at fault. Likewise, if the cyclist was crossing the intersection on a green light and a vehicle turning left struck them, the motorist would be at fault, because the cyclist had the green light and the right of way.
Stop Sign Accidents
A vast majority of incidents between motor vehicles and cyclists occur at stop signs. When the cyclist has a stop sign, and the motorist does not, a cyclist might ride out into the intersection in front of oncoming traffic.
However, the cyclists that do this are typically under the age of 15. That is important to note. Since children are unable to judge the severity of their actions in these situations, they are not held liable. However, if the victim been an adult the courts would consider the cyclist at fault for the incident – because they did not have the right of way.
Sometimes a cyclist has the right of way because they are on the main road. A vehicle will approach a stop sign to enter the main road and after stopping, enter the street without seeing the cyclist – causing an accident. In this case, the motorist would be at fault, because the cyclist had the right of way.
Riding Against Traffic As a Cyclist
Cyclists must follow the rules of the road, which means going in the same direction as traffic. Riding against traffic is breaking the law. Additionally, drivers do not expect to see cyclists coming at them on the street, which puts riders at high risk for a collision. So riding against traffic is dangerous, illegal, and causes numerous accidents each year. Don't do it!
Failing to Yield As the Cyclist
Another common cause of bicycle accidents with motor vehicles is failing to yield. This happens when the cyclist stops at the intersection and rides into the traffic without yielding to cars. Sometimes the cyclist does not see the motorist or misjudges their speed. In this instance, the cyclist would be at fault because they did not yield and rode into oncoming traffic.
Left Crossing Accidents
The left cross is when one vehicle is turning left across traffic to enter another roadway's traffic. When the motorist turns left, they collide with the cyclist. Typically, the driver does not see the cyclist or does not check to their left before turning. In this case, the driver would be at fault, because the cyclist was riding along with traffic.
Right Hook Accidents
Like the left cross incident, a right hook accident happens when a motorist is turning right into traffic and does not see a cyclist crossing the street with traffic, waiting at the light with them, or crossing from an opposite direction. Motorists must check both ways before crossing into traffic, even on a green light.
When Drivers Are Negligent
A driver's negligence can take many forms. Sometimes a driver skips a safety check before crossing the street, while other times a driver's actions are reckless – such as driving intoxicated and colliding with a cyclist.
When a driver disregards the safety of others, they are negligent and therefore liable for any injuries they cause.
The victim must prove that the driver's actions breached the expected standard of care while driving. For example, a motorist speeding has breached their duty to obey the law of the road and follow posted speed limits. Therefore, the driver is at-fault for any accidents they cause while speeding.
When Cyclists are Negligent
A cyclist could be sued for causing an accident as well. Negligent cyclists, despite their injuries, may be required to pay for the damages of those in the motor vehicle.
Speaking with an Attorney is Important
If you have been involved in an accident as a motorist or cyclist, report the incident to your insurance company. Then, speak with a Savannah injury attorney. Determining liability is complicated, and even the "right of way" theory might not always apply. Therefore, you need an injury lawyer with experience handling these types of cases to help prove fault and seek compensation on your behalf.
For your accident, contact attorney Clarke Nash. Schedule your consultation with him today at 912-200-5292 or request more information online.