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19 Parks near Loomis, California
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Loomis, California (map) | (916) 652-6737
Sites: 79 | Latest Rate: $42.00 | 16 Reviews
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Feb 2016 - $42.00
I know this place is suppose to be improving but it's a mess. Too many permanent RV's that haven't moved in years with trash scattered all over. The rules state 2 vehicles per site, the one across from me had 4. Way too many trees and all need trimming. I paid for a pull-through site but I had to back out because of the cars and trees in the way. The place is usable and that's about all I can say for it. - Dennis_K
Oct 2015 - $46.00
This is an old RV park with lots of what appears semi permanent residents, but no problems, tight spaces, but overall very pleased. First, not many RV Park choices this area, so we took a chance. It is very quiet despite being packed. No unrowdy behavior. Sure you can hear the occasional train, but so what? The laundry and sites are kept clean. Gravel site, tight but level. Good 50 Amp, water, etc. Convenient to the freeway I 80. They have made a lot of progress from way back. Filled most days we are here. Give them a try sometime, it's not a luxury place but they are doing their best. Good Sam discount only on separate days, they have a weekly discount rate. - Pat and Jerry
Sep 2014 - $35.00
We stayed here sight unseen based on the recommendation of friends who knew of the park, but are not RVers. It was a pleasant surprise. The park is old and dated, but very quiet (aside from occasional train) and shaded by mature trees. Our pull-through site was very large and even a rookie like me was able to pull in easily. The location is very convenient for the area. I estimate about 50% permanent residents. - Gopo
Folsom, California (map) | (916) 988-0205
Sites: 69 | Latest Rate: $46.00 | 15 Reviews
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Dec 2014 - $46.00
Very nice, clean park. CG Hosts very pleasant along with the Ranger. American River bike trail runs through the park so easy access if you are biking. Fantastic VZ cell signal...should be since the transmitter is right in the park! - IslandGuy
Feb 2012 - $55.00
Nice Park. Located in-town, good place to stay for visiting local area. Also, traffic is a bit noisy due to locations. Biking is popular but fishing is very challenging despite regular stocking. Finally, campground still gets full in spite of the high fee. - RetUSAF
Dec 2011 - $46.00
Nice long term RV park. We stayed here so we can visit our kids during the holidays. Pricey but okay. It was clean and the camp hosts were okay. Park Ranger was very nice. Very quiet. Please note that they charge you $10 a day for any visitors who stay longer than 15 minutes. Wish they had told us that when you register or I would have gone somewhere else. - Bruceaz
Roseville, California (map) | (916) 786-2023
Sites: 20 | Latest Rate: $30.00 | 10 Reviews
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May 2016 - $30.00
I was desperate for overnight parking as 4 other parks I called from Loomis to Sacramento were booked up. Placer County Fair Grounds made space for me as they were pretty booked as well. Most campsites were occupied by long term folks that were packed in like sardines. The camp host gave me a spot off to myself with electricity only which was a relief after seeing the sardine sites. I stayed by myself while my husband was on a trip and didn't feel comfortable there by myself. Ended up moving to our family's driveway the next day. Depending on what is going on at the fairgrounds could impact your visit. Some sort of races going on when I got there on a Saturday afternoon so it was loud...but was over by 7pm. Appreciated the camp hosts giving me a nice site but I just felt unsettled while there. - JeffDeb
May 2014 - $30.00
First Fairgrounds experience and it is a good one. Made last-minute search for a place near Sacramento over Memorial Weekend. Got a number to call the host. He hooked us up with full 50amp hookups in the shade with lots of room to ourselves. Probably 20 campers over several acres. It was quiet except for several events Sat night. We walked to the car races, which were fun to watch. It quieted down after 11, which was fine. We could have gone to sleep earlier if that was our desire, not too loud. We will definitely stay here next time we're in the area. - Seb
Jan 2012 - $30.00
Other recent reviews generally reflect our opinion/experience. The best I can say is that it was quiet and affordable. The campground host, was a big help getting us into a spot during a heavy rainstorm. We camped in one of the few spots by the "Beer Garden". There are lots of other sites in a nearby open field, but not recommended should there be rain in the forecast. - rncordy
Auburn, California (map) | (530) 885-0990
Sites: 66 | Latest Rate: $36.00 | 49 Reviews
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Apr 2016 - $36.00
Excellent location mid way between Sacramento and Reno/Lake Tahoe. Easy access to most sites with some sites a little larger for a little more $$. Best park in the area, the hosts are great and the price is right. Very nice clubhouse with large TV and leather couches. Small assortment of items for sale to make your stay more convenient. Only problem was a daily cleanup with a loud leafblower. That could be either a plus or a minus depending on your viewpoint. Swimming pool available for warmer weather. - Motoman
Apr 2016 - $45.00
A very nice rv park with paved pull-throughs and some back-ins. Our site was wide enough to park the truck next to the trailer. There is privacy hedging between sites and a picnic table. The site we were in was not level, but it wasn't too bad. Neighbors were friendly and there are some long term folks here. You are near a small airport so there is some plane noise. OTA signal was good as well as Verizon service. Their Wi-Fi works fairly well. We would stay here again. - jtl2
Sep 2015 - $1.00
The RV sites are very close together. They are asphalt, they have trees at the end of site but that's about it. No grass or designated area within the site to even put out a chair. We chose it because of the vicinity. It's close to wineries, Grass Valley, Sacramento, and our friends and family in the area. - Traveling Around
Citrus Heights, California (map) | (916) 344-4915
Sites: 30 | Latest Rate: $18.00 | 10 Reviews
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Sep 2015 - $18.00
Scattered throughout this mobile home community are sites for rvers. Easy check in and found the site with no problem. There is a pool and 2 laundry rooms. Really a no frills spot to stay. Stayed for 2 nights to visit sister. Very friendly neighbors and felt safe to walk at night in the community. Would stay here again if in the area. Only problem was placement of hookups. Water on the wrong side and sewer was under motor home. - mdmnkcm
May 2015 - $18.00
Needed a one night stay close to some friends who live in the area. This place certainly fit the bill! They save a few spots for RV's to sit. Full hookups, but no wifi to use. Very clean park, and very friendly staff. Would stay here again! - laurly
Apr 2015 - $35.00
Well located, quiet mobile home park with some sites for rv's. Our back in site was long and level with a concrete patio and parking for our truck. All utilities worked well and we were able to get sat service, despite lots of trees. The residents were friendly and we enjoyed our time here. We will return when next in the area. - ronboett
Lotus, California (map) | (530) 642-5830
Sites: 132 | Latest Rate: $57.00 | 30 Reviews
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Jun 2016 - $57.00
Used this as an overnight stop on the way up to Tahoe. We booked last minute and are not a member but got a nice site by the river and enjoyed the evening with new friends. Some road noise from our site at night. - kazmir
May 2016 - $10.00
This is a great little park right on the River. The sites in the D section had plenty of room to back up. Our only concern is that the town of Lotus is in a very steep valley. There is no way to get into or out of it except by winding, twisty, up and down roads -some with very little turning radius. There are big rigs in here, but we wonder how they got in and how they will get out! Friendly staff, mostly gravel roads. - Cheryl39
Mar 2016 - $5.00
The roads are somewhat improved compared to prior reviews. The main road is good, some roads are gravel, and some are still in need of repair. Roads are somewhat pot-holed and narrow, but we had no issues navigating to our spot.
We like the riverview sites, even though they don't have sewer hook-ups. The sites are along the American river and popular for rafting. A honey wagon is available for $25.
At check in you will need to show registration and proof of insurance. This is a popular spot and the river sites were nearly full in March.
River view spots are close, but we were able to fully extend slides and awning with a little breathing room. It was helpful that park staff allowed us to park our truck in a 'common' area close by. - mtnflyer
Sacramento, California (map) | (916) 332-6244
Sites: 70 | Latest Rate: $20.00 | 15 Reviews
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Jul 2016 - $20.00
This daily rate is what it will work out to be when divided by 30 (so it may be just a bit more for the week). This is a minimum stay of 1 week RV park. Monthly rent is $545.00 which includes water, free mail forwarding service, electric (not extra), garbage, sewer and free GOOD WiFi. This park also has a laundry room and if you prefer to dry outside, there are 3 clothes lines to use for drying outside. Centrally located to everything. Walgreens, Tire store, Target, and various restaurants. - Denise M Smith
Dec 2015 - $17.00
My wife and I have spent the last six years here: from October to March. It is a great park. The manager runs a tight ship, but the same rules apply to everyone. You have a gravel suite for RV. Asphalt suite for the tow, and a concrete patio. I would have given it a 10, but for the spotty wifi. Owners don't want to invest the money. We still keep in touch with friends here.
(Lot spacing is spacious with some shade. Site surfaces are asphalt, gravel and grass and feature a patio.) - Guy Wassather
May 2015 - $17.00
Price reflects weekly (minimum stay) rate of $130- extra days were $27.50 each.
If you are self sufficient & have your own internet, this is a great park with large sites well set out with privacy from tree & gardens. Good value for nice setting. This is a mobile home park which is being converted to a RV Park - mostly RV's now. The park felt safe and has supermarkets and services nearby.
The down side is if you require internet, you need to go to the club house. The main restrooms appear to be shut down with just a single very dated shower/toilet (each) available which forms part of the clubhouse. Cleaning appears to be once a week.
We had no response to emails or telephone messages left requesting a reservation and had to keep ringing until we got through (Office hours 10-5 only). There is also quite a few sirens due to closeness to highway patrol.
We would stay here again. - Kiwigirl
Coloma, California (map) | (530) 621-2267
Sites: 96 | Latest Rate: $45.00 | 33 Reviews
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Jul 2016 - $45.00
Dust and dirt. The restrooms were not cleaned very often and were dirty. The park is right on the river and if you are there to tube, should be good. If not, don't stay there except maybe one night to visit Marshall gold discovery park and visitor center. The road into the park is very twisty and not worth doing unless you want to stay and tube the river. Constant stream of tubers going down the river and then back up through the campground to start over again. IF YOU ARE NOT THERE TO TUBE-DON'T GO. - Phoenixaway
Dec 2014 - $40.00
I stayed here with a group, so rate is reflective of this. Overall, this is a nice park. We were there when a school group was there and it was not a problem except not being able to use a hall during one day (we were told it was ours Thurs.-Sun). At my site (E), the power could only be accessed by literally lying on my stomach...and then having to use levelers so that the plug stayed in! The campground was very focused on building new cabins...would like to have seen more effort in removing the mud! Front desk were very nice. - nicholsm
May 2014 - $46.00
We had a river site. The site was a back in, flat, level, dirt site with water and electric. There are no sites with sewer on the river. Getting across the one way bridge, with a 13'6" height limit from Highway 49 was the toughest part of the drive. Verizon is the only cell carrier that seemed to work in the park. Parts of the park were closed for periods of time due to school programs and a wedding. There was a dump station available when leaving. WiFi was free, and slow, but it worked. - travelcouple
Coloma, California (map) | (530) 622-6700
Sites: 126 | Latest Rate: $65.00 | 8 Reviews
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Aug 2015 - $65.00
This "resort" is lost somewhere in the '60's. It may have been wonderful when it was first opened however it is severely run down. There are very few full hookup sites and there are none with 50 amp service. Given the extreme temperature changes in this area, it made for an uncomfortable stay. But perhaps the two most disturbing things were the $10.00 extra per person AFTER two campers and the deplorable condition of the shower/restrooms. Almost everywhere we camp today does not charge for additional people until AFTER four campers. We were shocked that we had to pay 60.00 dollars extra (three days) for our eight and ten year grandsons!! On the other hand, this is a great place for tent campers by the American River. But, keep in mind, this is NOT a camper friendly management. It's as though it's a hobby for them and frankly, the only person I saw really working was the guy emptying the trash cans. Sorry, we camped here once before (about two years) because of the catch & release pond and thought we'd give it another try. Jury is in, won't be back. - J. Kohl
Sep 2014 - $35.00
This place was awesome! We were nervous because of the reviews we read but they were so wrong. If you were being out of line then, yes, don't go there, but it was nice, safe, and clean. The staff were helpful and friendly. The campsites are a little challenging so when the young lady at the counter ask you if you want to look first, do it. My husband has awesome skills with our trailer but if you don't this could get a little hairy. We would go there again and make this our new summer spot! We also went on the holiday weekend and had no problems with electricity or shortages. - juanitae
Oct 2012 - $45.00
Clean resort on The American River. We camped here just after the end of rafting season so it was almost empty and quiet. Might be different during rafting season as two rafting companies have their base inside the park. Site was fairly level once we backed in. That was a chore. since the site was terraced on a steep road that we had to back up on. Very nice view of river. Store had almost no supplies. Good location near gold discovery park. - castleshade
North Highlands, California (map) | (916) 332-0812
Sites: 198 | Latest Rate: $30.00 | 1 Reviews
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Aug 2005 - $30.00
Nice park, great view of the mountain. Large spots. Easy access. - darthfadar


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Book your room at Millennium Madejski Hotel Reading
Get an overview of this hotel4-star family-friendly hotel, walk to Madejski Stadium
This family-friendly Reading hotel is located in the business district, within 1 mi (2 km) of Lagoona Park and Madejski Stadium. Oracle and Reading Abbey Ruins are also within 3 mi (5 km).
Hotel Features
A full-service spa, a restaurant, and an indoor pool are available at this hotel. Free WiFi in public areas and free self parking are also provided. Additionally, a health club, a bar/lounge, and a coffee shop/café are onsite.
Room Amenities
All 201 rooms provide conveniences like refrigerators and coffee makers, plus free WiFi and flat-screen TVs with satellite channels. Guests will also find 24-hour room service, free newspapers, and hair dryers.Would you like to give us feedback? Share it! Opens in a new window
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Hotel Amenities
In addition to a full-service spa, Millennium Madejski Hotel Reading features an indoor pool and a health club. The hotel offers a restaurant and a coffee shop/café. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. High-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary.
Event facilities measuring 517 square feet (48 square meters) include a conference center. This Art Deco hotel also offers a spa tub, a sauna, and spa services. Onsite self parking is complimentary.
Millennium Madejski Hotel Reading has designated areas for smoking.
- 24-hour front desk
- ATM/banking
- Bar/lounge
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Coffee shop or café
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Concierge services
- Conference center
- Conference space
- Conference space size (feet) - 517
- Conference space size (meters) - 48
- Designated smoking areas
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- Express check-out
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- Number of floors - 5
- Number of meeting rooms - 4
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- Sauna
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- Television in common areas
- Total number of rooms - 201
- Year Built 2000
Family Friendly Amenities
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
- Free Wi-Fi
- Indoor pool
- Refrigerator
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Free self parking
Room Amenities
- Air conditioning
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Coffee/tea maker
- Free newspaper
- Free toiletries
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Flat-panel TV
- Free WiFi
- Hair dryer
- In-room safe
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- Private bathroom
- Refrigerator
- Room service (24 hours)
- Satellite TV service
- Shower/tub combination
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English breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning between 7 AM and 10 AM.
Cilantro Fine Dining - This fine-dining restaurant serves dinner only. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar. Open select days.
Le Cafe - This brasserie serves breakfast, lunch, dinner, and light fare. A children's menu is available.
The Atrium Bar - This bar serves lunch, dinner, and light fare.
24-hour room service is available.
Nearby Things to Do
An indoor pool and a spa tub are on site. Other recreational amenities include a health club and a sauna.
Children under 16 years old are not allowed in the swimming pool, health club, fitness facility, or spa tub without adult supervision.
- Golfing nearby
Spa Services
Karma therapy rooms has massage/treatment rooms. Services include massages, facials, body treatments, and manicures and pedicures. The spa is equipped with a sauna and a spa tub. A variety of treatment therapies are provided, including aromatherapy.
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To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
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- Roll-in shower
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Hotel Policies
Check-in time ends at Midnight
Minimum check-in age is 15
Check-in time starts at 2 PM
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
- Pets not allowed (service dogs only)
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Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- Minimum Spring Break check-in age is 15 years old.
Only service dogs are allowed
No rollaway/extra beds available
Please note: The cost of an extra bed does not include breakfast. For more details, please contact the office using the information on the reservation confirmation received after booking.
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- Fee for English breakfast: GBP 12.00 per person (approximately)
- Late check-out fee: GBP 24
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According to the trailer, he's the smoothest mutha who's ever hit the screen, a man who's super-cool and knows kung-fu. That's right, you jive turkeys, we're talking about Michael Jai White's latest film project, Black Dynamite. Set in the 1970s, White and co-writer/director Scott Sanders pay tribute to the misunderstood blaxplotiation genre by trying to create the most imperfect spoof. In the film, White's character Black Dynamite is set on a path to avenge the murder of his brother and stop The Man from distributing drugs in the black community. Dynamite's take-no-prisoners style of justice sets off a chain of events that uncovers a fiendish plot to decimate the black man.
Sanders and White are longtime friends but haven't worked on a project together in more than 10 years. The two met while filming Thick as Thieves, which Sanders directed and starred White and Alec Baldwin.
Where did the idea for Black Dynamite come from?
White: I came up with the idea after listening to James Brown's "Super Bad." Incidentally, it was the first name for the movie but another film came along and got the name before we went to market. But I had this idea and the story came to me and so I started shooting pictures as the character. Scott and I reconnected and he saw the photos I had taken. Off that picture he got the whole premise. I mean, the picture at first glance is very serious, it looks like a badass picture. Then, you look a little deeper and you go, "How ridiculous, he's got a gun and nunchucks."
Sanders: That's entirely the tone of the movie. I mean it's badass, but it's a little too badass.
Why do a blaxploitation spoof?
White: Well, I love the '70s — the movies of the '70s, the music of the '70s and on top of that, the blaxploitation era meant a great deal to a lot of people at the time.
You know that word — blaxploitation — I don't like very much. There's this negative connotation that goes along with it, even though these movies that starred black superstars at the time saved Hollywood — they saved the whole studio system. They found there was a revenue stream and people would frequent these movies over and over again, not only blacks but whites who wanted to live vicariously through strong alpha males like Shaft, Super Fly, The Mack.
They were really good movies and there was nothing exploitive about them. They only became exploitive when Hollywood realized they could make these cheap movies and put very little effort in advertising and everything else — then it became exploitive. So to me it's unfortunate for the first time we [blacks] were seen as more than pickaninnies, bellmen and maids … and all of that gets grouped under this word "blaxploitation" that has this negative feel to it. I feel that was a renaissance.
Essentially in those films you have these antiheroes who serve the community needs of black people. …
White: You know, the antihero is pervasive in any culture. Look at Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, look at Goodfellas, look at Jesse James. They fight against a suppressive society, so I have mixed emotions about when it becomes black it becomes less than [their white counterparts].
I grew up with heroes like Jim Brown, Fred Williamson, Calvin Lockhart, Billy Dee Williams. All these were alpha males: attractive, smart, leading men who kicked ass and got the women. There's nothing wrong with that to me. During the heyday of that genre, we poked fun at moviemaking as a whole. Of course there's this overcompensation of oppressed people making movies that sometimes has a 60 dead whitey body count. When I was researching a lot of this stuff, I would watch and make notes; Slaughter: 45 dead whities; Black Caesar: 65 dead whities. I mean, there are dead bodies and then he'd go have dinner afterwards. This is a fun element. What encompassed all these movies is the pride, the paranoia and the absurdities. We really tried to put all that together with this film.


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During his recent plane flight back from Armenia, Pope Francis gave a press conference in which he discussed a number of issues, including the question of whether Catholics should apologize to homosexuals.
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He answered questions dealing with:
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I may be doing it wrong but take a peek. If I hardcode the logic, it works but not if I try to use it as a variable.
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I mean, I could add the if/else inside the foreach but wasn't sure if it adds any "overhead."


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Employees of Jo-Kell Inc., a local electrical distribution and engineering Company, presented two local charities with donations collected over the past month at their facility on Tuesday, November 11, 2008.
Bill Giermak and Martha Stewart of St. Mary's Home for Disabled Children, as well as Karen Joyner, CFO for the Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia were on site to accept the donations from Jo-Kell employees.
With the company matching the donations of their 49 employees from the past month, as well as a company sponsored "Tribute to Elvis" benefit concert on November 7th, Jo-Kell presented St. Mary's with a check for $8,740. The Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia was also on hand to receive over 4,125 pounds of food collected by employees. The donated food will help feed over 3,259 meals in the community.
"Our employees form an incredible group of generous people," said Jo-Kell's CEO, Suzy Kelly. "Throughout the year they participate in numerous community projects, two of their favorites being St. Mary's Home for Disabled Children and our local food bank," Kelly added. St. Mary's is the only pediatric long-term care residential facility of its kind in Virginia for children with severe disabilities.
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Driving down wages is an issue unless you have deflation. If wages fall but prices stay the same you have the exact situation we are in now.
Driving down wages is an issue unless you have deflation. If wages fall but prices stay the same you have the exact situation we are in now.
So with lower taxes we squandered it on socialism? Could it be that this is just an effect of capitalism? driving down costs == driving down wages.
there is plenty of evidence to support it. And if it is harmful to me then I have a right to live and you dont have a right to smoke around me. You can smoke anywhere you want, just not around me.
So constitution be damned right?
But to also be fair this primarily happens through the "report" feature. A closed group dedicated to this is not going to be reporting itself.
You seem to be confusing republican/democrat with conservatives/liberals.
Feinstein is a liberal closing in on the border of the loop to authoritarianism, as I stated in my previous post.
Citations of limiting due process? and property rights? understand that just because someone claims to be liberal does not make them liberal. Dont confuse democrat with liberal, or republican with conservative. Kim Davis for example was not a liberal.
The corporation thing is not really a thing, and would not be an individual liberties issue if it was.
As for the groceries, now you are just going off the rails, I Did no know that was a liberty, even if it is businesses giving you free plastic backs to carry things in is not an individual liberty. I dont think you know what the individual part in individual liberties mean.
they have, that you did not see it does not mean they have.. BLM has never called for people to retaliate. individual members may have, but not the organisation.
Ahh, but you missed the "individual" part. Cup sizes and the like are buisness regulations, not individual regulations. The laws in NY did not prevent you from bringing in your own cup.
Liberals in general want to protect INDIVIDUAL liberties. Due process, 1st amendment, yes even the second amendment.
Citation of liberals trying to make laws to limit your 1st amendment freedom of speech? I mean we have conservatives limiting what you watch on tv via federal laws.
They want to take away all your guns? Citation please. Most liberals want reasonable gun restrictions, not outright bans.
I like how you limit studies into "non-biased", my assumption is those that are biased are the ones that disagree with you..
Looking at the DOJ numbers blacks commit higher crimes per capita, but so do whites.
That was not the statement. It was racist because it is an over generalization of black people as a whole.
"most" Citation please? how many people are in BLM, how many have you personally confirmed as have been celebrating police deaths etc?
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Second round of pick up soccer / flag football! The location is going to be the same as last week (56 Charter Oak St, Manchester, CT). Try to bring water if you can, we can also find a place to eat afterwards if people are up for that as well.
We are also going to meet at the soccer fields at the start, for those not familiar with the park location -
- Find paved path next to woods, direction opposite of the road.
- Turn right and walk towards underpass
- Soccer fields will be on the right!
If you can, try to bring a light and dark shirt for teams.
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For those who are new to the meetup group, come join in the fun! You don't have to be great at flag football/soccer as long you're having fun by getting out the house. Even if you don't know anyone, it's okay. Everyone is on here for the same reason which is to make genuine friends. So bring your ALL STAR game on! Also, make sure to bring water/gatorade!
If I don't have your number, please send a message with your full name and number to me by clicking on my name just in case you got lost/won't make it because I'm not going to check on the site constantly while playing the sport on the field if you can't find us! Thanks!
Wish I could come!! This Sat i'll be in New Hampshire and after that zombie pub crawl. As you can see quite a busy day for me =\ but definitely next time!!
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I really wish I could join again, but I'm working at the fair on Sunday due to a need for some extra cash. I have the football flags so I'll make sure those will get handed off to someone going. Also, I'll be okay with lending my portable speakers and ipod for the background music we all enjoyed so much last time (I 'll include a cord that allows for phone hook-up). Also I'm really sorry this took WAY to long to post!! This is the first time I've been able to actually sit down at my computer all week :<.
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AS IF TO MAKE SURE I would leave San Miguel de Allende thoroughly in love with the place — as if to hammer home the point that it is spectacularly deserving of its perennial spot among the top few on Conde Nast Traveler's annual Best Cities award (#1 in 2013) — the sunset on my final night was a breath-taker.
As my friend and I rounded the corner where Calle Relox opens up to the Jardín on our way to my last SMA dinner, we both suddenly gasped and groped for our cameras.
The day had been balmy, and the cloud patterns produced the most dramatic sunset of my two-week stay. And they do know how to light those monuments.
I had spent my last full day, finally restored to gastro-intestinal health, wandering the streets with no essential purpose but to absorb the atmosphere, have a last cup of coffee at Zenteno, a pleasant café where American boomers while away many an hour, grab a few final photos (such as that of David Kestenbaum's brass bull in front of the cultural center known as Bellas Artes, below, which had become as much a symbol to me of SMA as the Parroquia) and pick up a few more gifts and souvenirs.
A woman in Zenteno's happened to mention an exhibition of antique Mexican blankets at Bellas Artes, below, so off we trotted to see it. It was illuminating to compare the geometric designs of the locally woven blankets one sees in the markets with their more intricate antecedents.
Adios, San Miguel, but not forever.
MY TWO-WEEK VISIT TO THE MEXICAN FANTASY-VILLAGE of San Miguel de Allende is coming to an end. I have only good things to say, except in one regard: the drinking water.
It's true what they say: don't drink it. And I didn't mean to, but there it was on the table in a restaurant frequented by American tourists, where we'd been before. Without thinking, I picked it up and drained the glass. At least, I think it was that glass of water that caused me to spend more than 30 precious vacation hours in bed, a plastic wastebasket by my side. BOTTLED WATER ONLY.
Fortunately, the bed is comfortable, the internet only went down for an hour, and today I'm feeling human again.
My release from stomach misery, today's perfect weather and my impending departure have made me appreciate this place all the more.
The Spanish-style historic architecture, long vistas to the western mountains from the tops of hilly, stone-paved streets, rooftop gardens filled with thriving plants, the sophisticated Mexican modern aesthetic in certain galleries and restaurants — all that I was bound to like.
Other things have been more of a surprise. At first I was put off by there being so many North Americans present, and thought maybe there was something exploitative about it. Now I think it's probably the best thing that could happen to a Mexican town, and I'm guessing most locals would agree.
San Miguel still feels thoroughly Mexican, at least to me. But there is a sort of comfort factor in there being so many Americans here. This entire hotel is made up of us, mostly 60's and older. We meet in the lovely circular garden, and they're Democrats, I can tell. How? The hotel's community room hosts meetings of the Occupy SMA group and shows films about climate change. (The Texans who build mega-mansions up in the hills? Probably not Democrats.)
I haven't seen so much hippie-style clothing on women since 1969 — oversized earrings, fringed shawls and scarves, floppy hats, long skirts.
How to spend the days hasn't been a problem. After the photo workshop, there was an event billed as a "Beat" cantina crawl, and I feared hokum. It took us into places I'd have been afraid to go on my own: Gato Negro, the second-oldest bar in San Miguel, from 1929; El Cu Cu, the most attractive of them, from 1955; and La Cucaracha, a fluorescently-lit, scary-looking place where some seedy characters were already hanging around the bar when our group entered.
It is to their credit that I didn't realize they were actors, about to impersonate and read the poetry of Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Neal Cassady and Diane di Prima with great bawdy spirit (not all of them actually spent time in San Miguel, but… poetic license). At each stop, we drank mezcal, which I now think of as smoother tequila. Need I say it turned out to be loads of fun, and more authentic than hokey.
A word about the shopping here. It's varied and abundant. Not just the high-end galleries under the arches of old haciendas, which are reasonably priced for the quality of their textiles, furnishings, pottery, metalware, etc. But also (my bailiwick) the street markets. They are sprawling — they just go on and on — and open every day under corrugated tin roofs. Even what may look at first like schlock bears scrutiny. Many of the vendors, like Patricia, below, who sells silver jewelry, design and make their own wares.
Market-shopping here is stress-free. The vendors are not pushy; in fact, it's sometimes hard to get their attention. I'd buy more — rugs, blankets, pottery — but don't want to acquire more than I can take on the plane.
The food, it seems, can be excellent or mediocre. My favorite so far: La Mezcaleria, a chic little place, for both food and design. But you'd have to be in San Miguel a lot longer than I am to run out of places to try. And with those American dollars, we can try the most upscale places in town.
Bottom line in San Miguel: you need do nothing but walk the streets. There's aesthetic pleasure at every turn.
La Mezcaleria on Correo, with their cucumber and cilantro margarita
El Gato Negro
El Cu Cu
La Cucaracha, left to right: "Neal Cassady," "William Burroughs" (in hat), bored bartender, the director, "Jack Kerouac"
MY TIME IN SAN MIGUEL DE ALLENDE IS FLEETING BY and I have nothing to complain about. Certainly not the weather, balmy compared to New York's (though my white pants and tank tops remain in the closet).
After ten days here, with just four to go, my attitude has shifted. Instead of 'I've walked past this corner a dozen times,' the complexities of the town keep opening inward — like little hole-in-the-wall shops I at first passed by, not realizing there were hand-wrought iron drawer pulls and hinges for sale beyond the religious artifacts and the woman shaving the spines off cactus leaves in front.
Instead of, 'We've already tried that restaurant,' it's 'Let's go back again and get the [name of different dish] this time.'
Of four people whose names I was given by friends back home, I've only managed to meet up with one, and see the dream hacienda she built, with a courtyard garden, an art studio and two or three roof decks, and have a local lunch of chilaquiles (something like nachos but softer and creamier) at a corner cafe that would probably have escaped my notice.
There's plenty to do here, after all, and I'm not going to get to do it all. The once-a-month architecture tour I finally found out about happens the day I leave; I'll be on my way to the airport.
It was fortuitous that our stay coincided with the San Miguel Literary Sala, a conference that attracts writers, would-be writers and high-profile instructors from all over the English-speaking world. I did not sign up for the five-day event (what they call the "whole enchilada"), as I did not come to San Miguel to sit in hotel conference rooms, no matter how inspiring the speakers.
But I signed up for a few 2-hour workshops anybody can take, and they have proved terrific. The results of one — billed as 'Mindful Photography' — illustrate this post.
We didn't get the lessons I really needed, like how to take a photo of San Miguel's magnificent churches and bell towers without their looking like picture postcards, and how to photograph the ice cream man or the lady selling calla lilies without offending them or causing them to go all self-conscious.
Instead, a group of 20 or so simply walked out of the Hotel Real de Minas, where the conference is being held, led by Dinty Moore, a seasoned Ohio-based writer and photographer, and strolled slowly and mindfully down a typical local street, taking time to absorb colors and textures and frame our photos carefully.
Some people had fancy cameras and long lenses. I had my iPhone, and that was just fine.
DOWN JACKET. Thick wooly socks. Cashmere and corduroy. Hat, gloves. If you're thinking of coming to San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, in mid-winter, put those on your list.
They're on my list for next time — and the good news is, there might be a next time, despite the unseasonable chill.
This place is pretty great. Church bells tolling constantly, for what I don't know. Friendly people, both Mexican (buenos dias, buenos tardes, buenos noches — got that down pat) and American (hi, hey, how are ya).
I love walking the stone-paved streets in the early morning on my way to Antonio's yoga class at Lifepath, admiring the local habit of sweeping and washing down the sidewalks to start the day off right.
A 3-hour-long historical walking tour, mostly of churches and the haciendas built around the central park, or Jardín, in the late 17th and early 18th century, was a great orientation. We ended at Bellas Artes, a cultural center in a historic convent, admiring social-realist and abstract murals by David Siqueros, one of the great Mexican muralists (along with Diego Rivera).
I had my boots shined in a park by an old-school shoeshine man, after a morning of walking the dusty paths of El Charco, the 200+-acre botanical garden on a dramatic site atop a canyon outside of town, where native plants remain untouched and cacti and other plants from elsewhere in Mexico are brought to be 'rescued' when sprawl or construction threaten their habitat.
Eating out three times a day is entirely possible here on a budget of $25 (including margaritas). We've discovered some good restaurants and numerous casual cafes, almost all of which have courtyards for alfresco dining and some of which have fireplaces for warming our frozen hands.
The best for classic Mexican food so far: Hecho in Mexico, with Toller Cranston's circus-like paintings and Chihuly-like glass chandeliers in five gilded rooms. The most sophisticated: Aperi, owned by Mexico's Top Chef winner, where we sampled sensational Mexican wines that deserve to be better known in the U.S., and I had glazed tomatoes with vanilla ice cream for dessert.
Other local spots where I could happily become a regular: Cafe de la Parroquia for breakfast and Lavanda for lunch.
As I type this, I'm sitting at Cafe Santa Ana in the open courtyard of La Biblioteca (the sun is shining and it's warmed up a bit), a bi-lingual library that serves as a de facto gathering spot for the huge expat community. A guitarist is strumming unobtrusively, joined occasionally by a floating flute; the only other sounds are the stone fountain burbling and voices speaking American-accented English on all sides.
San Miguel de Allende is a bubble, as my travel companion put it. Though to outward appearances, it hasn't changed in hundreds of years, it was adopted by arty Americans after WWII, helped along by the fact that the Instituto de Allende, the town's well-known art school, was accredited to accept the GI Bill, and both Esquire and Life magazines ran big spreads in the late 1940s (one featuring a nude female sunbather) that served as advertisements for the town.
And the weather, so they say, is warm and sunny.
I'M IN FABLED SAN MIGUEL DE ALLENDE, waiting for the magic to happen.
This central Mexico town of 80,000, made wealthy half a millennium ago as a way-station between the silver mines to the north and the capital 200 miles to the south, has been a favorite winter destination for North Americans since at least the 1930s, when the famous art school, Instituto de Allende, was founded.
The Beats loved it in the '50s — Neal Cassady died and was buried here — and it has since had a reputation as a haven for writers, artists and all manner of eccentrics.
I first heard of San Miguel in 1969, on a trip to the then-USSR (I was a college Russian major working as a translator). I befriended a woman whose nickname was Sis — she was in her 40s, an artist from the NYC suburbs, divorced. She was my first "adult" friend and possibly the coolest person I'd known up to that point. We exchanged addresses, and Sis sent me a postcard a few months later — from San Miguel de Allende. She'd gone down for a vacation, met a man, fallen in love, and was moving there for good.
Sadly, I forgot Sis's real name, and we lost touch. But I never forgot that postcard, full of exclamation points and little hearts. I've wanted to visit San Miguel ever since.
Now, I'm more interested in gardens and historic houses than anything else, and that's fine, since San Miguel is a UNESCO World Heritage site for its intact 18th century architecture, from the rose-colored Parroquia cathedral, which calls to mind the excesses of Gaudi, to the modest one-story buildings, painted every shade on the warm side of the color wheel, that line the hilly cobblestone streets.
I'm here with two friends, each of us for a different length of time (me for two weeks). I'm staying at a 3-star hotel, Quinta Loreto, in a $29/night room with spotty WiFi and no heat. It's clean, simple and very Mexican; white amaryllis bought this morning at a plant market in a park makes it home.
At the moment I'm wrapped in a wooly scarf, hand-loomed here in SMA and purchased yesterday, as I sit with a Corona on the long terrace of the hotel.
With just one full day to go on, it's something of a mystery to me what people do here for two weeks, a month, two months, the whole season. After last winter's whirlwind tour of Europe, I've grown used to spending two nights in a place, making a quick study of it, and moving on.
I've already wandered the most historic streets of the compact historic center and crisscrossed the Jardín, a perfect square planted with lime (?) trees pruned flat across their lower branches, several times. It's pleasant, to be sure, and I hope to cultivate the ability to relax on one of its wrought iron benches soon.
I do love peeking through archways into courtyards, many of which are cafés or shops. We've had some fine Margaritas and a few meals. The best was Peruvian — sea bass ceviche and cold lime mashed potatoes at the New York Times-recommended La Parada last night. I am optimistic about finding Mexican food as good as that you can get in NYC.
Tonight there's an art walk and tomorrow the weekly Sunday morning house and garden tour. And next week, by sheer coincidence, is the 11th annual San Miguel Literary Sala, a writers' conference that casts a wide net — it's "for everyone," with a focus on personal expression, according to an interview with the director that appeared in Atención, the local English-language weekly.
I'm signed up for one workshop, a photography walk and a "cantina crawl." I'd love to find yoga classes and an introductory walking tour of the historic center (surprisingly difficult).
More to follow, as I explore, discover and hopefully, relax.
Above: Hotel Quinta Loreto


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Shortly before 2 a.m. on August 15, a man approached the manager with a gun, and took her personal belongings.
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It was the summer after high school, when days were spent drinking Bacardi at the beach and the nights looking for trouble.
"Can I bum your lighter?" I asked him in Spanish. It worked. It always did. We started talking. He introduced himself. "Me llamo El Vampiro," he said.
My friends made fun of me. "His name is The Vampire?" they questioned. "Seriously?" Seriously.
We met at my favorite dive bar in Old San Juan. All the pretty, popular Puerto Rican kids hung out at this one bar up the street, but I considered everyone there to be plastic and pretentious. Instead, I opted for something a little grittier, freakier. My bar of choice was Café Culebra, where they played Nine Inch Nails, and the goth kids stood outside the doorway with their trench coats, even on the muggiest of Caribbean summer nights.
El Vampiro was a few years older than me, small-framed with jet-black hair, Bowie-inspired eyes and custom-built vampire fangs from the dentist. It was Tom Cruise before he went Scientology crazy, not Robert Pattinson. He was a weirdo and I got off on it; me, the 18-year-old Puerto Rican punk with the tongue ring, blue-streaked hair, and collection of plaid pants and studded belts.
"What's up with the one blue contact?" I asked him.
"What are you talking about?" he asked. "That's my natural eye color." Right.
After we met, we talked on the phone here and there, but a formal relationship wasn't something on my radar — everyone knows bad boys are for playing with, not staying with.
On the weekends, instead of joining his friends for their amateur Fight Club sessions, we got drunk and climbed the brick wall of the Spanish fort nearby to make out, the waves crashing against the fort and the 1860s cemetery that rests alongside it.
My mother never approved of the guys I dated, but she was particularly horrified by El Vampiro. He wasn't in college. He worked at the aqueduct and sewerage authority. He was divorced with a child and not yet a quarter of a century old. And, of course, there was the whole vampire thing.
"Can't you date normal guys?" she asked.
"I'm not marrying the guy," I explained. "We're just hanging out."
We did so for nearly a month when I invited my fang-wearing friend over to my aunt's court reporting firm, where I was alone at work. No sooner did he arrive than I pushed him onto the office chair and began to straddle his waist while I kissed him.
"Bite my neck," I told him. He stood up and pushed me off him.
"What's the matter with you?" he asked. "There's no one here. I could rape you right now and no one would know."
"Uh ..."
His response confused me more than it frightened me. Suddenly he looked smaller than usual. He looked scared.
"What are you talking about?" I asked him. "Are you going to rape me?" It was a perverse question, I realized.
"No," he said.
"Then what's the issue? We're just making out."
"You girls put yourselves in these situations where you could be hurt. You don't take care of yourselves," he said before he walked out the door. I had no idea what happened. I thought bad boys were supposed to coerce girls into doing bad things, not lecture them like a mother would do. Where was the adventure? Where was the dirt? Where was the fun? I phoned to see if he was OK, but he never picked up.
My summer romance with El Vampiro was officially over.
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This TV beats out the Sharp AQUOS (with QUATTRON) and the new Sony Bravia's. If samsung makes a 60 or 70 inch version of this TV I might buy it.
So, this TV worked well for a few months, as others have described on the site... then it began to randomly power off several times per night. I generally don't use the TV remote for anything other than powering it on, so I'd have to go pick up the remote to turn it back on.
When the problem first cropped up, I spent a few months trying to isolate the source... it appeared to be the TV, so I called for warranty service and Samsung sent a technician. The repair lasted less than three months before the powering off problem started all over again.
And here's where it becomes fun: Samsung made me replace every piece of equipment attached to the TV: my DVR, my BluRay, my DVD/surround sound... insisting that the problem was one of my devices being incompatible with their superior TV. Yet, no matter what devices I connected, if anything at all was connected over an HDMI cable, the TV would power off.
At that point, I replaced the TV with a Phillips LCD TV, and tried a Sharp TV as well. Both TV function flawlessly with all three devices connected over HDMI cables. However, swapping back to the Samsung TV finds that it continues to power itself off.
After four months, and multiple technician visits, I was offered a refund for what appeared to be an irreparable issue. All I really wanted was a functioning TV, but Samsung's executive relations team denied my refund, and told me once again: it's not the TV, but it must be a "source issue" from the DVR. (Never mind that it occurs with multiple DVRs, multiple brands of BluRay players, multiple brands of DVD/Surround Sound systems.)
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I got this TV primarily because it connects to my wireless 802.11n network (it supports both the 2.4GHz and 5Ghz bands), and it supports DLNA. I have an extensive video collection that I stream to my PS3's using software called PS3 Media Server. This is just a DLNA server, so I wanted a TV that could stream using my existing server. This TV fits that bill perfectly.
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Mike Fowler of Spartanburg wasn't amused by Tony Lanford's comments suggesting he is proud of Southerners' response to that "invasion from the North," so let the Civil War anniversary celebration begin. "Mr. Lanford, you are entitled to your opinion but not entitled to play around with the facts," begins Mr. Fowler. "Mr. Lanford, you struck a nerve with African-Americans like me with your attempt to rewrite history by trying to dilute the horror of slavery. It is what it is — the inhumane and brutal treatment of African people, not the Southerners, as you stated. The Civil War was about the emancipation of African slaves from a greedy and corrupt system called slavery. So I am grateful for Sherman's intervention and victorious interruption of the Southern culture of slavery as a way of life in the South. Now, can we all just get along?"
QUIPS HELEN GUMBERT of Spartanburg: "Christmas is behind us, and I cannot wait to see Valentine cards and anything connected with the holiday in the stores now. I bet in two or three weeks, we will start seeing Easter stuff."
AN 'ANGEL': Norman Parr at Parr 3 Automotive in Boiling Springs is an "angel," declares Ruby Smith of Boiling Springs. She had car trouble on a very cold morning recently, and Mr. Parr and an employee came to the rescue, making a house call she will never forget. "I had started down my driveway when my car just quit. I couldn't even get the key out of the ignition," she says, thankful for what happened next. "I called Norman Parr and told him my predicament, and he and one of his mechanics came out and got it cranked, took it back to the shop and brought it back to me a couple of hours later. When he brought the keys to the door, I had my checkbook out to pay him, but he wouldn't accept a penny. He said, 'Merry Christmas.' I thought and thought about what I could do, and I sent him a Christmas card and thanked him for coming to my rescue. He's a busy man, yet he took his time and the time of one of his workers to get my car running again, and all without pay. He is an angel."
JACK RUTTER of Spartanburg said it: "You know you're getting old when you check how you're going to get up before you stoop down to pick up something. And you're really old when you simply don't stoop but just let it lie there."
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The museum store at the ITC carries a wide selection of products including UTSA attire, Texas-themed clothing, neckties and jewelry. There are various decorative items including Western-themed statuettes and kitchenwares, and a small selection of holiday items with a limited supply of the Institute of Texan Cultures commemorative ornament.
The ITC museum store is an excellent source for books on Texas history and culture including specific ethnicities and outstanding individuals. Other available books include folktales and anthologies with stories from around the world, and books on Texas fare such as barbecue and Texas-based food companies.
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"I stood around on street corners imagining that a film director had to drive by and say, 'There's the girl for me.' Hoping that someone's going to go, 'She's the one,' " she said. "I really wanted to be an actress, but I just didn't think that it was possible for someone like me."
Looking at Mirren now, seated on a couch in a posh Los Angeles hotel room sipping a cappuccino, it's difficult to imagine her as a young, wide-eyed girl, yearning desperately for some type of impossible dream. Especially given the 64-year-old performer's track record of juicy roles and high honors.
After establishing herself as the firm Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison in British TV's "Prime Suspect," she went on to win an Emmy for her performance in the HBO miniseries "Elizabeth I." Then she won the lead actress Oscar for her role as Elizabeth II in 2006's "The Queen."
It's another sort of nobility that brought about her fourth Oscar nod last month: Her role as Countess Sofya, wife of the acclaimed Russian author Leo Tolstoy (played by Christopher Plummer) in the independent film "The Last Station," for which she also received Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild award nominations.
In the film, the couple share a passionate but contentious relationship. After 48 years of marriage, bearing 13 of his children and writing out "War and Peace" six times by hand, Sofya finds herself struggling against her husband's disciples for the right to his estate and life's work.
"I read it and went, 'Oh, my God, ugh! This, I want to do,'" Mirren said of discovering the part. "It was such a great role and was such a contrast to 'The Queen.' That's the trouble with playing something that successful — people just want you to do that again and again. It's always the trick in acting, if you can, to find the role that blasts the other one away. And I felt this one did."
Michael Hoffman, who directed the film, said Meryl Streep was initially attached to play the part of Sofya.
"It was great because it gave the movie an initial life, but from the point I was told Helen might be interested I thought it was a fantastic idea," Hoffman said. "She has the ease and sophistication to play the really down-and-dirty kind of naturalism."
Mirren wasn't especially familiar with the writer. She'd read "War and Peace" years earlier but didn't know anything more about his family life or that the couple were the supposed "Brad and Angelina of pre-revolutionary Russia." And, she said, she didn't really do any research into their lives.
It's perhaps what is most perplexing about Mirren: Like any great actress, she insists the work isn't all that difficult.
"I did very little preparation. I'm a lazy actress, anyway," she said, shrugging and brushing her short white hair back behind her ears. "It's not a complicated thing for me. And it doesn't need an awful lot of thinking and getting into character, like 'Would they do this, or would they do that?' I don't do any of that. I just read the scene. 'Oh, she's angry,' so I get angry."
Hoffman said Mirren freely offered thoughts about his script, in which Sofya was supposed to threaten to swallow a vial of opium. But the actress felt the hysteric scene made Sofya seem too self-pitying. "Most actors who play a character who could be seen as unsympathetic really try to find a way to ingratiate themselves with the audience. They want to be liked," he said. "Helen never does that — and because she doesn't do it, then they do like her."
Paul Giamatti, who plays Tolstoy's disciple in the film, said what he found most surprising about Mirren was how "unpretentious" she was.
"She almost immediately was funny and approachable," he said. "So any sense of, like, 'Oh, my God, I'm acting with Helen Mirren' just went completely out the window."
Mirren attributes her unassuming attitude to what she described as a humble upbringing. Her father, who traveled to England from Russia with her grandfather when he was 2 years old, made a living as a driver in London.
Even before signing on to do "The Last Station," Mirren had been intrigued by her own Russian heritage. Her grandfather left Russia before the revolution, leaving behind his mother and sisters. The remaining family wrote her grandfather letters, which she had translated into English.
A Russian research journalist later helped Mirren locate her long-lost relatives, as well as the location of her family's estate, which she went to visit shortly before filming the movie.
"That was sort of an amazing experience, and I'm sure I carried some of that in my mind and memory very much as we filmed," she said. "There was one woman in particular that my sister and I really just both loved. She was a teacher, and there was a kind of attitude to life that was a shared thing. An attitude about working hard, being independent. A very decent kind of people."
Though she maintains that most awards mean more to the film than they do to her personally, she admits that winning an Oscar was one of the most triumphant moments of her career.
"I didn't realize how much it meant to me until it happened, which is kind of weird," she said, smoothing her palms over her skirt. "I remember arriving home in London and I had my Oscar, which I was carrying in hand luggage. While I was waiting at baggage claim, someone saw me and started clapping. And then they all started applauding. And then I got my Oscar out because they were so sweet. I said, 'Do you want to see it? There it is.' And that was when I thought, 'This was really big.' It was almost better than actually getting it."
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Guys want a solid woman but they want her sexy too.
There was the story of the guy who married the nice, respectable girl his mother found for him but he was in love with a stripper who had a nice heart. Every time he got drunk, he lamented marrying the nice girl over his heart.
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