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Trombonist Justin Croushore is one of five American musicians selected for a 2013-2014 International Cultural Exchange program for classical musicians that will take him to Bosnia-Herzegovinia for 10 months to perform with the Sarajevo Philharmonic.
Sponsored by the Bosnian-Herzegovinian American Academy of Arts and Sciences in cooperation with the Sarajevo Philharmonic, the exchange program will afford Croushore the opportunity to perform in opera, ballet and symphonic concerts before returning to the United States to complete his master's degree in trombone performance at the Longy School of Music of Bard College in Cambridge, Mass. In April, he was named a Legacy Award winner by the Benjamin Franklin Creativity Foundation in Washington, D.C.
Croushore, the son of Paul and Ramona Croushore of Hebron, has been a dedicated trombone player since middle school and it has served him well. He is a 2007 graduate of Conner High School. Despite his young age, Croushore's been constantly awarded top honors for his musicianship.
As a teenager, he was recognized in the Northern Kentucky Band Directors Association for five consecutive years by attending the Northern Kentucky Select concert and jazz bands. At the age of 16, he was a member in the All State Jazz Ensemble, where he received the ranking of lead trombonist in 2006. When he wasn't practicing, he worked as a clinician, private instructor and teacher in various public school programs throughout Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana.
With his nationally recognized reggae band, The Cliftones, Croushore was twice named a recipient of the Cincinnati Entertainment Award for best reggae/world music artist in 2011 and 2012. As a classical musician, he performs regularly in various chamber groups and orchestras. He is currently a member of Auxilium Quartet, a trombone quartet from the Midwest, which promotes contemporary works for brass chamber ensembles. He has performed with notable large ensembles such as the Louisville Orchestra, Bloomington Chamber Singers, and Fillmore Wind Band. In 2011, he premiered the award-winning composition for trombone and piano, "In Spite of Thought and Reason, We Dream" by Tyler Kline at the Kentucky Center for Performing Arts. He has played in professional productions of many musicals including Hairspray and Bye Bye Birdie.
Croushore received a bachelor's degree in music education from Morehead State University, where he graduated magna cum laude. At MSU, he was awarded an undergraduate research fellowship for four consecutive years, which was used to sponsor his pursuits in brass pedagogy and performance practices. In 2012, the department of post-secondary education recognized him with the 2012 Outstanding Student Award.
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All the guidebooks will tell you that the market (Thursdays and Sundays) in Chichi is possibly the largest indigenous market in Latin America. The tour operators in Antigua, Pana, and throughout central Guatemala will tell you that this is a must-do activity. I would have to wholeheartedly agree. Sure, because of the hype you run the risk of seeing a lot of other tourists. In our experience you can still get the full flavor of the traditional aspects of the market and see plenty of locals wearing their traditional traje in all their bright colors and beautiful patterns. Better yet would be to drive there yourself or take a chicken bus so you're not on the same schedule as all of the tour buses that descend on Chichi. The market *IS* very large so it can seem as though that perhaps there aren't as may tourists as there might actually be. Our visit on a Sunday in June was that way.
Besides having the everyday items necessary for daily life like other town/village market days feature, Chichi is also known for its large selection of traditional crafts. Here you can fined carved wooden masks, figurines, and bowls, handwoven blankets, tablecloths, and pillow cases, jewelery, purses, etc. not to mention authentic traje such as cortes (skirts) and huipils (blouses). Quality varies so be sure to make your own judgement if a particular item meets your standards and make sure to bargain hard for the item. It is expected and once a price is agreed to don't worry that the vendor is getting cheated. Their business people and aren't going to settle for not making money on a deal.
Other than the traditional crafts, the other fascinating part of the market are the areas for the locals, such as the meat section, the flower mart around the steps of large Iglesia de Santo Tomas, the grains, produce, and prepared foods. This is where you'll find the locals shopping and after wandering through some of these lanes you may find yourself as the only foreigner in sight.
Some say it's too touristy and it may be more so than it used to be. But we found it to be a great experience and it would prove to be the same to anyone with a penchant for shopping for local crafts and with an interest in local culture.
And if you're a photographer, forget about it. You've got to go to Chichi!
- Pros:Great experience among the locals
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- In a nutshell:Must do on any trip to Guatemala!
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I'm your very first visitor! Looks like my kind of place, a huge market, good food, what's not to like?
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With all respect to every member of APUG, I hold Picker in the lowest esteem possible. This is only my opinion and I will not get into a flame over it, but he represents the lowest form of commercialism in photography that there ever was. I've seen his books, they are printed on lousy paper stock that will not begin to accurately reproduce an images' fine line or tones. I think this was done on purpose. The images I saw that he sighted as 'good' were muddy and banal. He would take something from Adams and turn it around. Where Adams would say "place the shadows" Pecker would say "Place the highlights". He came up with a print washer that was supposed to revolutionize print washing. It turns out his concept was entirely wrong and opposite to what really happens when washing a print.
He was a man without vision, imagination or talent, but he sure could sell snake oil.
Again, I mean no disrespect to anyone who finds him a god (small g). I just start ranting when his name is used in the same sentence with Adams.


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A quick review of last night's "The Good Wife" coming up just as soon as I invoice it...
Many things happened in "The Death Zone," including Diane finally getting wise to some of the things going on in Alicia's personal life (courtesy of Peter using the power of his office to mess with Will), Eddie Izzard getting to use about 16 different British dialects as the clever rival attorney (albeit in a storyline that talked a little too much about our impressions of the British, and vice versa, rather than just letting the differences play out), Peter being remarkably candid (and kind to Alicia) to his son, and guest star Michael Kelly being more interesting in a few minutes of screen time as political strategist Micky Gunn than he ever was on "Criminal Minds: Suspicious Behavior."
But it's hard to even remember anything happened in the hour other than the first meeting of Eli and Kalinda, which was so momentous - and as splendid as one might have imagined - that Eli had to keep remarking on how strange it was that they'd never met before. Some of that is no doubt a reference to her time working for Peter - or perhaps another one of Eli's clients, before Peter and Kalinda helped each other out - but there was definitely a sense of meta from a bunch of writers who were understandably pleased to present this kind of Marvel Team-Up.
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When "Masterchef" returns for its fourth season on May 22, there will be a Utahn among the hopefuls. How long Alexandra Jones lasts remains to be seen.Fox has released a list of 95 contestants who have a shot at making the cooking competition. But that number will be trimmed to 40 on the two-hour season premiere.Jones is listed as a stay-at-home mom from Ogden, but this won't be her first experienced on a TV cooking show. In 2008, she appeared in KUED's "P Is for Potato," where she prepared a no-mayonnaise Greek potato salad and proclaimed that her lifelong ambition was to host her own cooking show.
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I Am Not Myself These Days: A Memoir (P.S.)by Josh Kilmer Purcell
Chapter OneI've just dropped my vodka glass and am having that perennial, silly internal debate about whether I should order another one — since, let's face it, I have reached the state where I'm dropping full glasses of vodka. A silly debate because it's highly unlikely that I will be able to keep a firm clutch on the next one, and perennial because I'm going to order one regardless. And then one after that.
I deserve another one, really. I've just broken the record for number of weeks anyone has won the Amateur Drag Queen contest at Lucky Cheng's. True, I did reuse the same song and wore the same outfit as I did on the first winning Thursday, but, honestly, this is uncharted territory here. Six weeks running of being voted the most talented amateur drag queen in New York City. By the audience. Pour me another, the future is stunning.
Of course I'm not just in it for the accolades. There's the prize money to be considered. One hundred and fifty dollars plus whatever the audience tips. After setting aside a portion for retirement, I must decide whether to invest the rest in food or two months back rent. Or possibly to retire on the spot and use it all for shots of vodka. I've retired approximately eight rounds tonight alone, not including the one that just hit the floor.
Okay, okay, already. I'll have another.
My little secret from the audience is that I'm not really an amateur drag queen. I'm practically a veteran, having been through the boot camp of drag queen training — Atlanta. Where men are men, and women are cartoon characters.
Not that I would be excluded from the Lucky Cheng's competition if my professional status were public knowledge. Quite frankly, the host of the contest I'd just won, Miss Understood, has enough difficulty rounding up three reasonably sober, mildly entertaining contestants every week. She's not going to become a stickler for rules and risk losing a weekly gig that pays her one hundred dollars and a free portion of sweet and sour pork. Besides, I've only been in New York for less than two months, so I guess I technically qualify as an amateur New York drag queen. Luckily, I've been able to find club work four nights a week, in addition to my day job as a junior art director at a Soho ad agency.
Miss Understood recognizes reliability, and for the moment, her name is "Aquadisiac." That's me. "Aqua" for short. Mostly just "Aqua," really. Because when I came up with the name I didn't realize that the average club-goer wouldn't catch the wordplay on "aphrodisiac." Or perhaps because it's extremely hard to pronounce with any degree of comprehension after two or three drinks. Or ten.
The name is derived from my gimmick. Every successful drag queen must have one or risk being lost in a sea of clichéd wannabes wearing Halloween novelty wigs and overstuffed bras. My gimmick happens to be fish. Goldfish usually, since they survive longest in my clear plastic tits. Not that any of them ever die in the breasts themselves. They're lovingly transferred from aquarium to tit, and tit to aquarium before and after each performance. Unless of course I happen to wake up in an unfamiliar environment, say, on a bench in Bryant Park, in which case I find the nearest faucet and refresh the tits' water supply. My mother raised me right.
I'm 6' 1" when not slouching, 7' 2" in wig and heels. My wig is blond. I wear three wigs, actually, clipped together and styled like a cross between Pamela Anderson Lee and Barbarella. My outfits are on the skimpy side: thongs, clear plastic miniskirts, vinyl boots, 22-inch corset, and a tight top with two holes cut out where the breasts should be. Into these holes slip two clear plastic domes. I purchased dozens of these clear domes from a craft store years ago. For lesser creative types than I, they were intended to be filled with holiday paraphernalia and then two of them snapped together back-to-back to form some sort of tacky oversized Christmas tree ornament. I've reengineered them with flat, mirrored backs and small holes, each plugged with a rubber stopper. They are filled with water nightly, sometimes lightly colored in honor of a holiday (for instance, tonight one's red and one's blue for the Fourth of July). The fish are slipped in through the hole in the back and the stopper is replaced. Then the tits are slipped into the evening's outfit — with small flashlights tucked underneath that shine off the mirrored backings causing the tits, and fish, to glow. All my costumes are very intricate and complicated. Marvels of modern-day engineering, really. Very often duct tape must be employed in order to keep things that mustn't be seen in places where one won't see them.
No fish has ever been harmed during an evening out. Sure, they die on a pretty regular schedule. Who doesn't? These are dime-store goldfish we're talking about. Even if I do unintentionally slash a few days off their already negligible lifespans, how many other fish can brag about meeting Leonardo DiCaprio at Limelight? Karmically, I think it's a wash.
A boy is tapping on my right breast. I tap him back on his forehead.
"If I were a petting zoo, you'd owe me five bucks. Or a drink," I say.
I have dozens of "buy me a drink" lines always on the tip of my tongue. It's imperative. I always seem to run out of retirement funds.
"They're funny. High concept," he says, still tapping on the breasts. "What're their names?"
"Left and Right. And yours?"
"Jack," he says.
"I'd shake your hand, Jack, but I have an imaginary drink in mine."
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