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The King County Prosecutor's Office has dropped charges against Matthew Oly and Bryan Krieger, who were accused of harassing and threatening Marcus Wilsonthe former manager of the Pony nightclubon Capitol Hill last September.
According to King County Deputy Prosecutor Mike Hogan, Krieger's attorney presented prosecutors with another potential suspect. Wilson was unable to positively identify whether or not the third suspect was involved in the incident, and prosecutors decided they'd have trouble making their case. Additionally, Krieger passed a polygraph test about his involvement in the gay-bashing.
According to Hogan, the prosecutors have apologized to Oly and Krieger. "[The] fear as a prosecutor, of falsely charging somebody, is always in the back of your mind," he says. "We told [Oly and Krieger] that if that's what happened, we apologize. Were not interested in convicting people that didnt do it." Hogan also says he dropped a related drug charge against Oly because "[the case] was never about drugs."


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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - A proposed constitutional amendment to
regulate, tax and legalize electronic bingo games in Alabama has
moved within one step of final passage in the Legislature.
The House Tourism and Travel Committee approved by voice vote
Tuesday the controversial bill that has dominated the 2010 session. The bill now goes to the full House for action possibly as early as Wednesday.
If approved by the House, it goes to Alabama voters for a statewide referendum in November.
The bill has mostly been supported by Democrats and opposed by
Republicans. It appears to need a few Republican votes in the House
to reach the 63-vote threshold required to approve a constitutional
One Republican committee member, Rep. Harry Shiver of Bay
Minette, said Tuesday he would vote for the bill.
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Review: 9474 The Battle of Helm's Deep
Posted 11 July 2012 - 11:47 AM
If I get time I'd like to widen the causeway and gate from 6 to 8 studs. At the moment Gandalf's cart can't get through. I guess that's a good thing because it's a set that sparks your imagination and encourages you to improve and expand the structure.
Posted 11 July 2012 - 05:31 PM
Falconer, on 10 July 2012 - 11:24 PM, said:
When I was a kid, we would play out all kinds of stories with our sets. The Falcon Knights always started in the Knight's Castle, the Crusaders always started in the King's Castle, and the Forestmen always started in their hideouts. The story possibilities were limitless. The King's Castle naturally came with the 12 soldiers who lived there.
It's REALLY strange to me that the Hornburg set comes with NONE of the soldiers who actually live there. So you really can only recreate that one scene (inadequately… no Rohirrim, no Dunlendings, no Huorns), rather than any of the other possible scenes in the entire history and alternate history of the Third Age and Fourth Age.
But maybe I'm the only one who "roleplayed" with his Lego?
That might be the problem that I have with this set and why I gave the Potter Castle the thumbs up instead. It's difficult to decipher a faction here, and a castle should have one. For HP it's the pupils, the PoP castle had a faction of soldiers, the Endor bunker had troopers for it. I have a similiar problem with the marvelous Queen Anne's Revenge, which doesn't really have a crew - well, it's 2 guys there. And there even are little sets and battle packs for upgrades, but they contain the very same 2 figures. Talking about all this, I have to assume that I want to have my playsets filled with minifigs and I am a sort of an army builder guy.
@Hive = I completely get your point, and it's only correct to emphasize on the fellowship characters and invest careful, not coming up with numerous battle packs, minifig designs etc etc. It all makes sense from a business perspective and it even makes sense from your players or collectors point of view, I am unluckily a bit more difficult to handle and despite the obviously great sets that PotC or LotR offers, I have already starting problems in imagining them together as playsets or on display. Indy was one of my favorite themes and as a nerd of explorations, archeology etc, I could endlessly play with this and imagine things but I also read that someone stated once, that the sets don't fit together and leave no room to actually interact or play with - and this still puzzles me. Enough said, I guess I'd rather stick to the 3rd XotX theme, the War of the Stars and dream my dream for an Indy revival..
Posted 11 July 2012 - 05:49 PM
Hive, on 11 July 2012 - 12:37 AM, said:
Hive, on 11 July 2012 - 01:32 AM, said:
Hive, on 11 July 2012 - 01:32 AM, said:
Hive, on 11 July 2012 - 11:37 AM, said:
Posted 11 July 2012 - 06:50 PM
Falconer, on 11 July 2012 - 05:49 PM, said:
I didn't mean to offend anyone, and I'd hardly call it a personal insult. It surely wasn't meant as a such. I'm merely trying to suggest that people might get more out of a set such as this if they forget the movie/book context for a second and let their imaginations roam free instead.
But that has always been the way with LEGO (or any other toy for that matter): if you want an abundance of figures that can oppose each other, you'll have to spend some money and invest in more than a few sets. Nothing new here in regards to this theme or even LEGO compared to other toy brands.
People are of course allowed to disagree with my viewpoint, but I'll repeat that LEGO sets today individually offers more opportunities for conflicts between opposing faction than in the old days. Would you have prefered the days of 6080 that came with 12 minifigs (yes I know we got more figs back then, but those days are long gone and expecting anything else is futile) - with ALL of them being of the faction belonging to the castle and pretty much identical? Sure, you get your foot soldier army that way... but you'd still need to buy at least one other set to be able to play out a conflict! At least nowadays, you can play out a small conflict right out of the box and won't necessarily have to buy other sets - unless you want to enlargen the battle and possibilities. Which, again, is just the way toys work.
Posted 11 July 2012 - 10:57 PM
Hive, on 11 July 2012 - 11:37 AM, said:
And yes, LotR has a lot of main characters. But that you only get ONE generic human soldier from the entire first wave? I don't expect 9 main characters and 27 generic characters, but only having one is a bit silly. Especially as it's unlikely that the Hobbit sets and other new LotR will help much in that regard either.
Main concern, perhaps not. But honestly, that's what kids do when you give them a battle set. Burying your head in the sand about it doesn't change that. The Fellowship and Sauron's/Saruman's armies don't exactly go hugging each other, now do they.
In any case, I guess in the end it's each to their own what they prefer. Even part-swapping doesn't really help that much in that you still wouldn't be easily be able to create a bunch of soldiers that have the same armor etc (i.e. uniformity). I'd prefer a means of getting some generic soldiers instead of only heroes, that's all. Your opinion/mileage may - and obviously does - vary.
Posted 11 July 2012 - 11:23 PM
Edited by SheepEater, 12 July 2012 - 01:31 AM.
Posted 12 July 2012 - 01:26 AM
tvih, on 11 July 2012 - 10:57 PM, said:
I do agree that just the one generic human soldier in an entire wave is not at all optimal. They should do a human soldier impulse set.
I wouldn't have complained if Aragon had been swapped with a soldier in this set, but I understand why LEGO felt they wanted to include at least 2 characters from the fellowship in this flagship set. And though I may get flack for this, as everyone of course loves elves, I think they could have replaced Haldir as well, saving him for another wall-add-on to Helm's Deep (like Uruk-Hai army, but with a generic elv instead of generic human) in the second wave. He's a nice exclusive fig, but feels a bit out of place to me. Come to think of it, I'm actually really impressed with the fact that this set has (so far) 3 exclusive figs. That's not something I notice that often in LEGO sets of any size.
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legomonk, on 10 July 2012 - 09:41 PM, said:
You are lucky ! I haven't seen one LOTR set in stores here in the Netherlands yet. But that gives me time to save the money I need for the sets. I have also not seen any prices for the Netherlands.
But I think after Star Wars this would be a line I would collect. Although I stopped collecting SW after they started reinventing older models.
Funny enough it is the line Artic and Winter Village I have complete. 3 Sets each.
Posted 14 July 2012 - 03:51 PM
Posted 15 July 2012 - 11:03 AM
It looks excellent
Exclusive minifigs
Introduces people to a Castle style theme who may never have had interest
Gimli! IMO one of the best minifigs ever
The door section and above - Despite the size it does look movie realistic
The Rohan flag sticker - I want alot more!
Armour prints on Theoden
The horse
No Saruman hand print on the Uruk-hai armour - looking back on the film, not many had it left on their helmets or shield, but on their chestplates instead. Would have been nice to see some on these Uruks
Lack of "generic" Rohan soldier - I agree with the complaints,they should have had at least one generic Rohan soldier
The size- I think realistically they should have aimed for the Deeping wall to be 1-2 bricks higher. With orcs next to it it looks tiny.
The Great Hall - My complaint with this is that it isn't elevated. It should be elevated to show that it is higher than the entrance point. It hides behind the entrance when really it should be able to be seen on any angle.
Lack of joining of the Great Hall to the outer walls. The idea
Only one Beserker
Aragon could have used a different print, one that highlights the chainmail he put on from the armoury perhaps?
Now I will admit I am being picky. Very picky. At the end of the day if the hand printing wasn't included on the Orc Forge set then I wouldn't think it an issue now.I would have happily paid a few extra dollars for another Rohan soldier and Beserker. I did however, enjoy building the set. It is fantastic and it does get you thinking about how you can build your castle to fortify it, as opposed to being just walls. You have key good guys to fight against a small army of bad guys. You have the exploding wall and Aragorn's leap to the causeway to enhance the playability factor. The Easter egg skull under the stairs. This definitely is one of my favourite sets for 2012.
Thanks for an awesome review ISC!
Edited by TheDarkness, 15 July 2012 - 11:05 AM.
Posted 15 July 2012 - 07:21 PM
Interesting that you DON'T need this set if your goal is to collect the whole Fellowship.
Posted 13 August 2012 - 01:15 PM
so tempting to move over to another theme!
but I've got 3 on the go so i can't otherwise i'll be broke!
Posted 13 August 2012 - 06:04 PM
CallMePie, on 08 July 2012 - 10:17 PM, said:
@reviewer : Great review, well done on the pictures and their detail.
@CallMePie: One of the best castles but in my opinion the classic yellow castle is still the best. So many bricks, figures and baseplates, it kept me busy for many months.
Edited by Kyrasdad, 13 August 2012 - 06:05 PM.
Posted 13 August 2012 - 07:38 PM
It's such à good castle. It's THE best looking castle ever build by tlc.
iI did put à little box under the great hall, and it looks even better.
This set is worth the money.
Posted 13 August 2012 - 08:51 PM
fenrir, on 13 August 2012 - 07:38 PM, said:
It's such à good castle. It's THE best looking castle ever build by tlc.
With that said, me already being a big LotR fan did help matters.
fenrir, on 13 August 2012 - 07:38 PM, said:
This set is worth the money.
Why not build a little elevation using bricks? Sorry, just being a purist.
Posted 15 August 2012 - 02:01 PM
This build quicker than I thought. I have to mention, that this is the biggest set I ever got. But it was done in several hours. I split the build on two days. On the first day, I build booklet 1+2 and the rest on the second day. Though I first wanted to split it on 3 days. But I was so in building mood, that I pulled through.
The build itself features some interesting techniques and approaches, like the headlight with cheese on some corners or the way round walls are constructed with hinge bricks and plates. Very nice. Though, it is not alike the castles that I remember from being a kid. No fixed groundplate or anything. But thats ok. Wouldn't have worked good anyway in my opinion. Another pro for the set is the amount of (for me) rare colours. Lots of dark green cheese plates, big tan plates, sand green bricks and loads of the new brick bricks. Building the whole thing was a lot of fun. Though the brick built walls were somewhat instable at first and I struggled a bit with assembling the tower. But in the end I got it done.
I really like the minifigs. Especially King Theoden and Gimli. Mostly because of the printed helmets and the printed armor. Though there are 8 minifigs, it would have been good to have 2 additional generic soldiers. There are only "heroes" for the "good" side. Even the Uruk-Hai Army set (which I still have to get) does not make the situation much better. It's really hard to build a army for the "good" side.
I really liked, that there were so few stickers (6!). But it were some big ones (Wedge Wall piece), which I didn't like. In the good old days, there were printed ones available. Even with variation, so they don't look all the same. Another good call goes to the spare pieces. Lots of cheese plates and flames. That is so awesome. The extra cape you get is even mentioned in the pieces list in the instructions, so it seems to be no mistake. But no idea which figure the cape belongs to. Perhaps for King Theoden if he doesn't wear his armor. Doesn't matter - FREE CAPE!
Well now that I have the two biggest sets built, I can finally go on to the smaller ones ;)
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|Egg whites
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|1 Cup (16 tbs), firmly packed
|Granulated sugar
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|Light corn syrup
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|1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs)
|3⁄4 Teaspoon
|Vanilla extract
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|Chopped walnuts/Pecans
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1. In small bowl of electric mixer, let egg whites warm to room temperature— about 1 hour.
2. In heavy 2-quart saucepan, combine both kinds of sugar, the corn syrup and water. Cook, stirring with wooden spoon, over low heat until sugar is dissolved.
3. Continue cooking over medium heat, without stirring, to 255°F. on candy thermometer, or until a little syrup in cold water forms a hard ball. Set aside to cool slightly.
4. Meanwhile, at high speed, beat egg whites with salt until stiff peaks form when beaters are slowly raised.
5. When thermometer goes down to 250°F gradually pour hot syrup in a thin stream over egg whites, beating constantly at high speed. Continue beating until mixture is stiff enough to hold its shape when beaters are raised.
6. With wooden spoon, beat in vanilla and nuts.
7. Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls, 2 1/2 inches apart, onto a tray lined with waxed paper, swirling each candy into a peak. Let dry at room temperature.
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Calories 2039 Calories from Fat 331
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 37 g57%
Saturated Fat 2.9 g14.6%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 0 mg
Sodium 1568.8 mg65.4%
Total Carbohydrates 430 g143.3%
Dietary Fiber 5.8 g23.3%
Sugars 408.9 g
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Legs strapped down, wires and tubes jutting from underneath her blankets, Amy Van Dyken-Rouen began to weep.
An accident on an all-terrain vehicle 12 days earlier left the decorated Olympic swimmer paralyzed and headed toward an uncertain future, yet these were not tears of sadness or anguish. They were tears were of joy - for what she still has, not what she lost.
"Yes, this injury sucks and yes, things hurt, but I'm alive and I'm so thankful to be alive, so that's why I can be positive about it," Van Dyken-Rouen said. "It helps get me through the pain."
Now, after nearly two weeks in a Scottsdale hospital, Van Dyken-Rouen, 41, is headed toward the next phase of her recovery. She was loaded onto a medical transport flight Wednesday to her hometown of Denver, where she will continue rehabilitation.
A six-time Olympic gold medalist, Van Dyken-Rouen was injured when the ATV she was driving hit a curb and sent her hurtling over an embankment near Show Low on June 6. The accident left her paralyzed just below the waist.
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"A severe spinal cord injury with a complete loss of motor and sensory is a very difficult challenge for any patient. However, in the hours after her operation, she was smiling," said Dr. Luis Manuel Tumialan, Van Dyken-Rouen's neurosurgeon. "She wasn't smiling because it was easy. She was smiling because of the fortitude of her inner person, something I haven't seen in the 14 years I've been doing this.
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Spurs celebrate with fans 100,000 strong
An estimated 100,000 fans in San Antonio screamed "Go Spurs Go!" in unison at the slightest glimpse of a San Antonio Spurs' player or coach floating down the River Walk.
The victory parade for Spurs' fifth NBA title was part celebration and part exorcism.
After falling 25 seconds shy of capturing the title last season only to fall in seven games to the Miami Heat, the Spurs made another run to the NBA Finals. Except this time, they closed out the Heat in five games for the team's first title since 2007.
College World Series: C.J. Hinojosa broke the College World Series' long home run drought in the seventh inning, Chad Hollingsworth and Travis Duke limited UC Irvine to four hits, and Texas beat the Anteaters 1-0 in an elimination game at Omaha, Neb.
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2nd Star Productions updates this classic with color-blind casting
Legendary acting gave The Philadelphia Story its fame. Philip Barry's so-so comedic drama about high society marriage and divorce in the 1930s is synonymous with Katherine Hepburn, who debuted the show on Broadway and starred on screen opposite Cary Grant and Jimmy Stewart. That's a hard legacy to live up to.
Renowned for outstanding musicals, 2nd Star Productions tries to update this classic with color-blind casting. But this time the troupe aims higher than it can reach.
The action covers a pivotal 24 hours in the life of golden girl Tracy Lord (Erica Miller), a privileged ice princess who finds her heart as she searches her soul to choose between three dissimilar men. The occasion is her impending wedding to establishment tycoon George Kittredge (Akili Brown). The society event summons attention from poet-cum-reporter Mike Connor (Erik Hatcher) and impish ex-husband, Dexter Haven (Joshua Hampton). George adores her as a goddess, Mike appreciates her surprising innocence and Dexter acknowledges both qualities — plus his culpability in souring their love.
Subplots center on Tracy's family: literary brother Sandy (Alex Hyder), meddling little sister Dinah (Miranda Newheart), philandering father Seth (Brian Binney) and long-suffering mother Margaret (Rosalie Daelemans), for whose sake they welcome the press in hopes of averting a public scandal. Uncle Willie (Gene Valendo) lends comic relief as resident philosopher and lecherous geezer smitten as he is with press photographer Liz Imbrie (Nina Y. Marti), who is in love with Mike. There is also the requisite black butler (Wendell Holland) and two domestics, May (Mary Retort-George) and Elsie (Lily George).
This production stumbles on relevance and credibility. As the central characters bumble through a haze of champagne and sexist humor toward an incendiary misunderstanding, a relevant question is posed.
"What place does a woman like Tracy have in the world today?"
In our era of Kardashian socialites, that 80-year-old line describes an anachronism.
Confounding credibility is the directorial concept of Tracy's interracial engagement to George. For these characters, such a union would have been unthinkable. That scenario was the impetus for a different Hepburn blockbuster — Guess Who's Coming to Dinner — 40 years later.
Stepping in for another director, Christopher Overly, who starred as Father in 2nd Star's musical Children of Eden, inherited a challenge. The principals deliver their own brand of Hepburn's fiery ice, Grant's suavity and Stewart's guileless charm, but they cannot live up to the expectation set by that charmed trio. Despite yet another award-worthy set from company founder Jane B. Wingard, this show feels immature and, at two and a half hours with two intermissions, long.
FSa 8pm, Su 3pm, thru Feb. 20. Bowie Playhouse, White Marsh Park, Bowie; $22 w/discounts: 2ndstarproductions.com.
Stage manager, Joanne D. Wilson; Costumes, Linda Swann; Lights & sound, Garrett R. Hyde
This old west melodrama could do with more bullets and less monologues
When Jane Hammond's (Natalie Portman: A Tale of Love and Darkness) husband returns to their remote homestead full of bullet holes, she knows that the Bishop Boys have found them at last. These outlaws have searched for years for the couple, vowing bloody vengeance. With her husband wounded and bleeding in their bed, Jane must leave to seek help.
Taking her daughter to a friend's home for safekeeping, she tracks down former fiancé Dan Frost (Joel Edgerton: Black Mass), a gunslinger whose talents earned him fame in the Civil War. Bitter that Jane married another man, Dan tells her she's on her own.
Wasting its potential, this Western drama needs more grit and fewer flashbacks. Director Gavin O'Connor (Warrior) fails to offer a strong point of view. He's made a love story, a revenge story, a survival story and a Western. He overreaches. By including everything, there's little to care about in a plot so thin.
Jane's character is especially undefined. She veers from delicate, traumatized flower to grim-jawed gunslinger. There's no justification for her moods, and her reactions are often out of sync with her previous behavior. She has no problem shooting a man in one scene, then argues the sin of killing. Portman does what she can to keep Jane consistent, but it's a losing battle.
Most unforgivable is the grand showdown between Jane and the Bishops. O'Connor builds up to the gunfight admirably, but the confrontation gets perhaps 10 minutes of screen time.
Neither effective melodrama nor thrilling Western, Jane is the type of film one might watch on a lazy Sunday when the remote is too far out of reach to bother flipping channels.
Bay Weekly's Dining Guide takes the guesswork out of where to go
You and the groundhog may disagree about how much more winter we'll have.
You may rejoice, or wince, at the decisions of caucusing Iowans.
But no matter your views on politics or weather, I bet you're tickled at the suggestion to go out for breakfast, lunch or dinner.
Then comes the tough question: Where will we go?
Read on to answer that.
Like Groundhog Day, Bay Weekly's annual Dining Guide comes to you at the halfway point through winter. Your spirits need shoring up. By now, your snowbird friends have all flown to warmer climes. Cold has spent its bracing effect. You've seen about all you need of snow. Your woodpile is diminishing and your heat bills soaring. Your endurance is fraying. You'd really like to get away — were it not for the chains that bind you.
An hour or two's excursion for a good meal: That's a renewable prescription for treating the midwinter blahs and brightening the seasonal-disorder blues.
Our annual Dining Guide maps your way to eating out through much of Anne Arundel and Calvert counties. Each of the spots you'll learn about in these pages will satisfy you in some special way.
For relief from the midwinter blues, February ends with Annapolis Restaurant Week. From February 22 to 28, 42 Annapolis restaurants offer special prix fixe menus at lunch, dinner and, at some, breakfast.
Speaking of breakfast, you've got choices near and far. In Severna Park, we recommend two of contributing writer and breakfast-out lover Bob Melamud's favorites, Garry's Grill and Cakes and Confections, both places where breakfast is only one option.
In Annapolis, Chick & Ruths Delly is a natural. But have you thought of John Barry Restaurant & Bar
at O'Callaghan Hotel? Brunch at Metropolitan is a treat. In Galesville, Sunday brunch at Pirates Cove. In Deale, Happy Harbor serves breakfast seven days, and Dockside does on weekends.
In Huntingtown, try Chessie's or carryout at Bowen's Grocery.
Lunch and dinner? Depends on where you are and what you want.
Want comfort food and the friendliness of a neighborhood tavern? Try Babes Boys in Upper Marlboro, Happy Harbor in Deale and Anthony's in Dunkirk.
Wanting to introduce visitors to Chesapeake specialties? You'll find just what you want at Pirates Cove and Thursdays in Galesville.
Want pizza? Try Rocco's in Annapolis, Angelina's in Edgewater, Chessie's in Huntingtown or Brick Wood Fired Bistro in Prince Frederick. Have your pizza flatbread style at Metropolitan in downtown Annapolis.
Want classic American? How about Preserve, in Annapolis, named for a focus on pickling, preserving and fermenting? Or Brick Wood Fired Bistro, where, says owner Jason Nagers "we're all about fire."
Want ethnic? For Italian, try Luna Blu in Annapolis or Angelina's.
For Irish, try John Barry in Annapolis and Babes Boys in Upper Marlboro.
Want Swiss, sort of? Try The Melting Pot.
Want German? Naturally, it's The Old Stein Inn and Bier Bär in Edgewater.
For French, it's Café Bretton in Severna Park.
For Spanish, Jalapeños. For Mexican? Jalapeños again, when you're in the white-table-cloth mood. In the cantina mood, try Rivera's Tex-Mex café in Severna Park.
Want sushi? Tsunami, of course, in Annapolis, but you'll also be pleasantly surprised at Umai Sushi House in Deale, where Korean cuisine is the other specialty.
Want Thai? Lemongrass in Annapolis.
Want Chinese? Try Hunan L'Rose in Odenton.
Want fun with your food? Try Anthony's Bar and Grill in Dunkirk.
Want sports while you eat and drink? There's Dockside and Thursdays in Owings.
Need fish and meat to cook at home? Bowen's Grocery features an old-fashioned butcher shop plus fresh oysters and crabmeat. For more fresh seafood, try Chesapeake Seafood in Edgewater. For locally raised beef, pork, chicken, lamb and eggs, the place is En-Tice-Ment farm-raised meats in Harwood and at farmers markets.
How about some of the best baked treats in town? Cakes and Confections is the place.
All of these special places share one particular quality to recommend them to you as a Bay Weekly reader: They're our partners in bringing you this weekly paper. Without them, there'd be no Dining Guide or Free Will Astrology for you. No News of the Weird or Creature Feature. No 8 Days a Week or Sky Watch. No Bay Gardener or Sporting Life. And in their place, you'd have to find your own.
So use your Dining Guide. Keep it for future reference. Use it to figure out where to go out. Enjoy your meals, and — please — say Bay Weekly sent me.
Sandra Olivetti Martin
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Four Coast Guardsmen attempt an impossible rescue in this stirring drama
In an intense Nor'easter, The Pendleton cracks in half off the coast of Cape Cod. The men on the stern watch in horror as massive swells swallow half of their oil tanker. As they're taking on water fast, engineer Ray Sybert (Casey Affleck: Interstellar) knows that they have only hours afloat.
But all the Coast Guard's large boats are working to save another oil tanker.
A small Massachusetts town sends out the only boat left, a 35-footer captained by Bernie Webber (Chris Pine: Z for Zachariah). Webber and his team of three volunteers know the mission may mean death. Even if they can pass the treacherous breaking waves at the mouth of the harbor, their tiny boat will be tossed like a bath toy by the 40-foot swells.
With thrilling cinematography, stirring performances and lots of over-emphasized Massachusetts' accents, The Finest Hours is a crowd-pleasing drama. Director Craig Gillespie (Million Dollar Arm) contrasts the human drama with the vast sea, its relentless power gorgeously shown in the initial breakup. Like the crew, we watch helplessly as water surges into the ship.
Gillespie relies on archetypes to expedite the plot. Bernie is a quiet, almost timid man seeking to prove his mettle on this mission. Sybert is a stalwart engineer who refuses to give up. The performances of Pine and Affleck go a long way to humanizing these familiar types. Affleck in particular infuses Sybert with a crushing sense of reality. He holds little hope, but he also knows that panic will worsen their last hours.
As Bernie, Pine plays surprisingly well against type. In a Jimmy Stewart-type role, he drops his usual confidence to offer a good take on an aww-shucks hero.
Not high art or metaphor, The Finest Hours is a modern rarity: a good movie with mass appeal. Thrilling sea rescues, rolling waves and heroic performances offer a two-hour excuse to gobble popcorn and root for the good guys.
Five planets shine at dawn
Sirius the Dog Star, blazes high in the south by 10pm. The brightest star, Sirius is easy to spot, but if you have any trouble, follow the three belt stars of familiar Orion down and to the left.
Last week we traveled the Great Winter Circle, which encompasses Sirius. The Dog Star also anchors another asterism, the Winter Triangle. The other two points are Betelgeuse, marking Orion's upper shoulder, and Procyon, the Little Dog in Canis Minor, which together with Sirius, the lowest of the three, form a near-perfect equilateral triangle.
For the first time since 2005, all five naked-eye planets are visible, aligned on the arc of the ecliptic before dawn. This week they are joined by the moon, as well.
Jupiter leads the way. Old Jove in fact rises due east a little after 9pm and as dawn approaches is high in the west-southwest. Friday you'll find the moon midway between Jupiter and Spica, the first-magnitude star of Virgo. Then Saturday the moon is less than two degrees to the upper left of Spica.
To the east of Spica is Mars, which rises around 1am. Sunday before dawn the last-quarter moon is midway between Spica and Mars. Early Monday morning, the moon is just a few degrees to the upper left of Mars. Keep an eye on the red planet, as it draws closer to earth — and brighter — over the coming months.
Saturn is next in line, rising in the east-southeast after 3:30am. Before dawn Tuesday the moon is between Saturn to the east and Mars to the west. Wednesday the ringed planet is just a few degrees beneath the waning crescent moon.
Venus rises in the southeast around 5:30am, and once it's crested the horizon there should be no mistaking this morning star, which is brighter than all but the sun and moon.
The last planet, Mercury, is another matter, rising in the southeast amid the gathering glow of dawn. While brighter than most stars, the innermost planet is so tight against the horizon that you'll have an easier time spotting it with binoculars. This week Mercury is within 10 degrees of Venus but will close the gap in the coming week, climbing higher and growing brighter before daybreak.
Here's how I know which to trust
In winter's grip, there is nothing like a good nursery and seed catalog, full of colorful pictures of thriving plants, to put you in the mood for digging in the soil. These books may even encourage you to build a small greenhouse or hot bed to get started early.
Which is why mailboxes fill up with seed and nursery catalogs this time of year.
I receive many more catalogs than I keep because I discard those with altered images or illustrations to describe what they have to offer.
There's a difference between an honest-to-goodness nursery or seed producer and the books sent by wholesale distributors. Most wholesale distributors publish thin-paper catalogs full of pictures that have been enhanced using intensive colored ink or have colorful illustrations of plants and fruit. They also tend to run specials such as two to three plants for the price of one or two to three packets of seeds for the price of one.
On the other hand, a quality nursery or seed catalog business will most often provide a business history, including location and the number of family generations involved. They will also include information on breeding and propagating practices and photographs of their fields and staff. Most of this type of information is missing in catalogs of wholesale distributors.
Did you know that by law, catalogs that advertise plants must include in the ad the scientific Latin name of the plant, including genus and species. This is because the English name of plants can change from one part of the country to another, while the Latin name never changes.
I save good seed and nursery catalogs for at least three years, using older ones as references. All nursery and seed catalogs have sensational new introductions every year, most often posted on the first few pages. To learn if the variety has survived the test of time, I locate the new and improved variety that appeared three years earlier and see if it appears in the 2016 catalog. If I find that variety in the 2016 catalog with even more glorious description, I know that it has gained good reviews and they are bragging. If the description has not changed, it means that the variety is still under study.
Seed and nursery companies are in business for making money. Their intent is to offer only what sells. Since thousands of dollars are spent in developing new varieties, they cannot afford to carry varieties that do not sell.
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The waterfowl hunter is a different sort of man — or woman
The sound of a half dozen rapid shots followed by a pause, then two or three more measured reports rolled in from the nearby Magothy River. I was drinking my first coffee that morning, still in my bathrobe and looking out the front window when I heard the gunfire. It was bitter cold, windy, overcast and an altogether miserable morning. The duck hunters must be in heaven, I thought.
Foul winter weather drives migrating waterfowl down the Atlantic Coast. It also moves birds that have already arrived off open wind-riven waters to seek shelter and food along the shoreline coves and the tributaries. That's where these specialized hunters wait, crouching in blinds or shivering in layout boats next to scores of decoys, fingering long, slender shotguns and waiting for their quarry to be attracted into range.
Waterfowl hunters are not like normal people. During duck and goose seasons, spates of sunny days and moderate temperatures send them into irritable funks. Forecasts of storm warnings and gusting winds, snow or rain, overcast skies and plunging thermometers cheer them and lighten their step.
Waterfowling is a sport only for the hardy, those inured to harsh, frigid conditions and ready to expend any amount of effort in preparing for their sport. They must also be immune to long days of inaction, for experienced gunners know well that often the birds do not come to the hunter.
The sport requires specialized hard-weather clothing, tough waterproof coats and trousers with heavily insulated cores. All come in camouflage patterns designed to make the wearer as inconspicuous as possible to the migrating ducks and geese. Those birds have virtually telescopic vision.
It takes strength and good physical condition because gunning the Chesapeake requires an inordinate amount of hard labor. Preparing blinds and duck boats, lugging any number of decoys, setting them out before sunrise and carrying bags of gear: That kind of effort will raise a sweat and exhaust many before the first shot is even fired.
Challenges are often extreme. The hardy, long-traveling, powerful birds that test these gunners do not seem bound by the normal physics of flight.
I remember gunning many years ago on Lake Erie. I was in a layout boat behind four-dozen decoys on a blustery day inside Presque Isle Bay. A string of a dozen canvasbacks had plummeted in from on high. I rose up to lead the first duck by at least a half-dozen feet. My shot struck the water just behind the trailing duck as they flew off. If those geese weren't exceeding 100 miles an hour, I'll eat my hat and yours as well.
In spite of the challenges, this sport has long had a hard corps of dedicated practitioners. And make no mistake, it isn't strictly a man's sport. That shouldn't surprise anyone, especially these days, when the women in our military are earning Army Ranger badges and queuing up to compete for the most exclusive areas of Special Forces.
Woman or man, the waterfowl hunter is a different sort of individual.
Make a habit of carrying out lunch, and you'll be as bad as Jonas
Talk about leaving behind litter!
Snowstorm Jonas has left us tons to recycle. Mother Earth will do much of the job, melting the snow and filtering it into groundwater aquifers. Where the piles rise into mountains — as in RFK Stadium where D.C. snow is dumped — a tractor-trailer-sized melter hired from Indiana is speeding up the return of snow to water, which will then be treated before entering the stormwater sewer system that eventually leads to the Bay.
However all this snow melts, much of it is Chesapeake bound, sped along by our rooftops, driveways, sidewalks and roads.
Of course Jonas will stick us with the bill.
Stormwater is a recycling issue for which we'd rather not be held accountable.
On other recycling fronts, we're much more responsible.
At household recycling, many of us are champions. Throughout Anne Arundel County, yellow 65-gallon cans line our roadsides on recycling day. Second nature as that recycling seems now, it didn't happen by accident. Anne Arundel County has waged a two-decades-long campaign to achieve 44 percent recycling. We've had lots of help in learning our lesson: tutoring, free ever-larger recycling containers, curbside pickup.
Yet there's a backside to that success story. Over half of Anne Arundel household waste ends up as trash, no matter how easy it's been made for us to avoid that sad ending for the discards of our purchases.
Old habits are hard to change, and new ones even harder to form.
Retraining ourselves to restrain our carryout lunch waste is the challenge we take on in this week's feature story, Lunch to Go.
The story was born in our own habits. On most any given day, two or three people in the Bay Weekly office order carryout — with all its packaging.
Perhaps you find yourself in the same boat?
Reducing our carryout waste, Knotts writes, begins with a pledge to make lunch greener, starting with small steps.
As an office, we're creating our own habit-changing support system. Our waste inventory was Step 1, this story Step 2 in building self-awareness of our habits. Next comes stepping up to a commitment to reduce our waste.
We have Fiesta Ware dishes and our own flatware. So we're reminding ourselves and one another to tell restaurants to skip the utensils. We'll be asking restaurants that use polystyrene to make the switch, and we'll avoid them if they won't. We're handing out this article to managers when we pick up carryout.
We're also asking what each of us can do personally, based on our own habits. Some pledge to carry personal to-go kits, so we can package our own leftovers when we eat out.
Kathy's seen the video of a sea turtle having a straw forcibly removed from its nostril. So she pledges to buy and use a glass or metal straw instead of grabbing the hard-to-identify plastic straws at restaurants. (There are plenty of places to buy reusable lunch ware; her favorite is reuseit.com.)
What can you do to green your lunch? How far are you willing to go? Write firstname.lastname@example.com or visit the Bay Weekly Facebook page.
Now at home in Maryland Zoo
He wasn't a fish out of water, but just the same, he was not where he should be. The young sandhill crane was discovered in western Maryland, walking down the center lane of a highway and hanging out in a Home Depot parking lot.
The tall, gray birds with long necks and legs are normally found this time of year in the southern portions of the U.S. and northern Mexico. They are not endangered, and populations thrive in their natural range, sometimes in huge flocks. They are infrequently seen this far east, although Maryland Department of Natural Resources reports that their range is gradually spreading east. Last summer one breeding pair nested in Garrett County. Perhaps they were the parents of this wanderer?
"Our response team received multiple reports of the crane before we were able to get our hands on him," says Karina Stonesifer, associate director of Maryland Wildlife and Heritage. "Every time we would get to the site, he'd be gone. We finally met the bird about a week later, and he was pretty funny, coming toward us as if wanting to be acknowledged and then quickly dipping off and running. This was the first time any of us had ever handled this species in the wild."
The 18-month-old bird, named Garrett for the county of his discovery, was eventually captured and brought to the Maryland Zoo for medical attention.
Healthy but thin, the bird appeared unafraid of zoo staff, opting to follow them rather than keep his distance. The bird was probably being fed by humans, according to Jen Kottyan, avian collection and conservation manager at the Maryland Zoo. Thus Garrett cannot be released into the wild.
The zoo has given him a permanent home in its Maryland Wilderness Marsh Aviary.
"We have a wide array of native birds in the aviary," says Kottyan, "and Garrett seems to be settling in nicely."
Take the bus instead of riding with this comedy
Rookie cop Ben (Kevin Hart: Get Hard) is still hoping to prove himself to his future brother-in-law James (Ice Cube: The Book of Life), one of Atlanta's toughest cops. Ben's urgency to insert himself in James' cases typically ends in gunfire.
When a mission ends in disaster, James has one chance to salvage his drug case: travel to Miami to apprehend a hacker who knows who's supplying Atlanta's dealers. James prefers to work alone, but he acquiesces to his sister's pleas and takes Ben along.
Will he kill Ben on the way?
Bland, unoriginal and offering barely a laugh, Ride Along 2 is so perfunctory that it's a wonder the actors don't have scripts in their hands. The film rehashes the plot of the first film, losing the chemistry Ice Cube and Hart built.
Director Tim Story (Think Like a Man Too) doesn't bother with pace, plot or scene, though he does lovingly pan over wet bikini bodies every few minutes to make sure people are paying attention.
Hart, who has made a career of being the shortest, loudest person in the room, continues his shtick. He screams, flails, bugs his eyes out and falls over. Though the physical gesticulations are eye-catching, Hart seems oddly flat. As he mumbles his way through the dialog, you can almost see him calculating the residual checks he'll earn from this heartless sequel.
Story seems to have an odd effect on funny men, sapping their timing. Hart isn't the only struggling comedian. Neither can Ken Jeong (Dr. Ken) find a consistent tone. Sometimes sleazy, sometimes hysterical, his hacker is unfunny and perplexing.
Oddly, straight man Ice Cube is the best comedian, as he growls at Jeong and snarls insults with just enough venom to get laughs.
Ride Along 2 is typical of the mid-January junk studios dump on unsuspecting viewers.
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Mach 1 Mustangs - 40 Years OnWritten by on February 16, 2009 Contributors: Randy Lorentzen Mickey Thompson's Historic Mustang Returns To The Salt With A (Faster) Younger Brother.
In July 1968, Mickey Thompson and his crew ventured to the Bonneville Salt Flats to set records. Only this time they didn't bring along multiengined streamliners; they brought three Mach 1 Mustangs. As you'll read in Bill McGuire's fantastic story on the man right after this feature, Mickey was the epitome of a goal-oriented person, and one of those goals was to set a slew of national and international endurance records in a production car. Ford gave him its blessing, along with three cars and engines, and Mickey set up a 10-mile oval course on the Salt Flats for his attempt.
Always the promoter, Mickey convinced HOT ROD Publisher Ray Brock and Sports Illustrated writer Bob Ottum to co-drive-and then obviously write all about it in their magazines. Rickman shot it for the cover of the Oct. '68 issue of HOT ROD, and Brock wrote a three-page story on it titled "At Least I Got My Name on the Door."
The cars were originally built by Holman Moody for NASCAR's Baby Grand American series (that ran limited races and featured ponycars). Mickey converted them to run on the Salt and gave each a different engine configuration based on the records he was going after. The hero car was the yellow one, powered by a Tunnel Port 302 from Ford's Trans-Am-series race cars. This is the one that would be driven for the C Class (183 to 305 ci). The red car was powered by a Tunnel Port 427 from the NASCAR program and ended up being used for test runs to get familiar with the Salt surface. The blue car also had a 427 Tunnel Port, but it was configured to run in a straight line. Strangely, in Brock's story there was no mention of the blue car, even though it was shown on the cover.
Brock and Ottum drove the yellow car for a little bit, but the main shoes were Mickey and Danny "On the Gas" Ongais. Mickey originally planned to set the 24-hour endurance record, but a combination of bad Salt conditions (which caused lots of high-speed spins) and some fairly minor parts breakage made them call it quits at the 500-mile mark, at which point they had already broken every Class C record in the FIA books (except for the 24-hour ones). The yellow car averaged 159.556 mph for 500 miles. The red car was to go after Class B, but the Salt would never have allowed it to run fast enough, so they shelved the idea.
A return to Bonneville a few months later found much better Salt conditions that allowed them to run the yellow car for the full 24 hours, where it averaged 157.663 mph, while the blue car (now injected and blown) grabbed 27 Class B (305 to 488 ci) records on the straight course, the fastest of which was 188.812 mph in the flying 1 kilometer. The USAC record book shows the blue car's records coming on September 15 and 16, 1968. When they were done that week, they had racked up an amazing total of 295 speed and endurance records.
After Bonneville, the three cars went back to Dearborn, Michigan. The yellow one has disappeared, probably a victim of just being beaten to death on the Salt, but its full-race small-block stayed in California with Mickey. The red car is a mystery but appears to have been raced, and wrecked, by Bobby Allison at some point. The blue car eventually made its way back to Mickey for some development work for Ford, which we'll get into later, and has stayed in the Thompson family all these years, owned by Mickey's son, Danny. It was stored in Danny's shop in pretty much exactly the same condition as it left the Salt in 1968, minus the engine. One day, while researching a book on Mickey's life, Brian Pain saw the car and knew what it was. Danny did too, obviously, and mentioned that he was thinking of selling it to send his kid to a good college. Brian called his pal Brent Hajek (pronounced high-ek), Oklahoma oilman, corn farmer, car collector, and certified good ol' boy.
Hajek has a collection of historic, championship-winning race cars that will absolutely make you faint. As soon as Brian called, Brent knew he had to have the car and struck a deal with Danny. Danny wasn't sure what engine had originally been in the car, so he included the Tunnel Port 302 from the record-setting yellow car in the deal. The car was then sent to Mustang specialist Randy Roberts at Muscle Car Restoration in Owasso, Oklahoma, for restoration-which amounted to little less than sticking an engine in it-and during the process some interesting tidbits popped up.
"There weren't any date codes on any of the body panels, the motor mounts didn't fit the 302, and there was a bunch of other stuff that was just plain mysterious," Brent says. With a big Mustang show in town, Randy gathered "all the Boss '9 and Mustang gurus that were there," according to Brent, and brought them to his shop to help decode some of the car's history. It was agreed that the Boss 429-style hoodscoop (sans any part number) was an early prototype. The team also had paperwork dated September 4, 1968, canceling a NASCAR 429 Mustang build by Mickey Thompson (it wasn't referred to as a Boss 429 yet). Brent called famed race car builder Pat Foster, who worked on the land speed project for Mickey back then, and he remembered that Ford had sent "some motor with weird valve covers" to put in the car and test before Ford canceled the project and took it in-house. So, you're probably looking at the very first Boss 429 Mustang ever assembled, as well as possibly the first '69 Mach 1 ever built. Quite a history on this little mule, huh?
In 2006 Brent and Danny took the car back to Bonneville to assist in filming a promo of the movie Gearhead about Mickey and had a ton of fun showing the car. A few months later, Brent was at a Barrett-Jackson auction, and the first Ford Mustang FR500C Boy Racer went across the block and got huge money, cementing it as a collectible. Brent had to have one, and through conversations with Ford Racing, the idea to make it a modern version of Mickey's old '69 race car germinated.
The FR500C is a road race car, so Brent sent his new toy to Holzman Race Cars in Wichita, Kansas, to convert the 'cage to SCTA specs and get everything ready for land speed racing. After that, it went to Snapp Fabrication in Hennessey, Oklahoma, for aerodynamic work. Snapp took it to Ford's wind tunnel in Michigan and, with help from SCTA's Mike Cook, aero'd the thing up for Bonneville. As that was happening, Paul Svinicki at Paul High Performance in Jackson, Michigan, was building the engine, an E85-fueled, 1,000hp 5.4L DOHC Ford GT mill with a big Ford Racing/Whipple blower. The trans is a stock Tremec six-speed that came in the FR500C (with a Spec clutch), and the rear is a Moser full-floating 9-inch.
Last August, both cars made the trek back to the Salt, with Danny set to drive the new one. The '69 car was there for inspiration and to make the first, ceremonial pass down the Salt to celebrate the opening of the 60th anniversary of Speed Week. After that, attention turned to the new car with the goal of being the fastest production E85-fueled vehicle. The record for the class they were in, C/BFALT (C for the engine size, B for blown, F for fuel other than gasoline, and ALT for Altered) was 246.4 mph.
"We didn't think it would go that fast. Running in a fuel class, with other cars on nitro, we were taking a pee shooter to a bazooka fight," Brent says. "But we wanted to be the fastest on E85." Brent is a corn farmer, after all.
Since it was a new car, the SCTA required Danny to run 175 on the first pass. He ran 174.9-close but not close enough. The next pass was faster and qualified him to run on the long, 8-mile course (5 miles up to speed and 3 miles to shut down). The first pass at full speed was a 245.9, just half a mile per hour off the record. It didn't qualify them for a shot at the record, but the next run of 251.7 mph did. For the record (backup) run the next morning, Paul put the screws to it and everyone crossed their fingers for a big number-but something in the motor let go and they were done. They broke the record but didn't set it.
More significant than the record, though, is what the effort represented: This year is the 60th anniversary of the Bonneville Salt Flats Land Speed Time Trials, the 40th anniversary of Mickey's original attempt, and the 20th anniversary of Mickey and Trudy Thompson's tragic death. This is quite a pair of cars representing quite a group of people, and the story's not over yet. Brent doesn't want to let the cat out of the bag, but we think some more high-speed antics are in store . . . and not necessarily on the Salt.
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Isn't this one of the baddest Mustangs you've ever seen? Check out the old-school shackles for tire clearance.Mustang fans will notice the '68 dash insert steering wheel and seat paired with a '69 dashpad. The lever sticking out of the trans tunnel, below the shifter, was used to engage the Hone overdrive unit used with the blown 427. The car supposedly ran well over 200 mph with this setup, but no official timeslips exist.Bonneville Salt Flats, September 1968. Note the big Roots-style blower and mechanical injection sticking through the hood.The end of the July attempt, stopped at the 500-mile mark. He just set a bunch of records, but you can see the dejection in Mickey's face. Notice HOT ROD Publisher Ray Brock's name on the door, hence the title to his Oct. '68 cover story.The road race FR500C 'cage needed some readjustment to meet SCTA's specs, which were handled by Holzman Race Cars.Power is only half the game in land speed racing. Plenty of time was spent in Ford's wind tunnel to make the car as slippery as possible. Notice the blocked-off grille and front bumper cover/air dam/splitter-no mirrors either. One neat thing shown here is the single driving light-the yellow car had a single high-intensity light (in addition to the stock outer headlights) for night driving.


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Fiction Records
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|Fiction Records
|Parent company
|Universal Music Group
|1978 - 1995 (relaunched in 2004)
|Post-punk, alternative rock
|Country of origin
|United Kingdom
|Official website
Fiction Records is a British major label record and music publishing company founded by Chris Parry in 1978 that is best known for being the home of The Cure for over 20 years. Fiction became a standalone label (still owned by Universal, but no longer affiliated to Polydor Ltd) in January 2014. Fiction repertoire is now released internationally through Caroline International (ex-North America).[1][1]
Fiction was founded by music producer, Xfm London co founder and longtime Cure manager Chris Parry as an independent record label and music publisher (the publishing company was known as Fiction Songs Ltd.). Both the label and publishing company were based in London at 97 Charlotte Street and maintained a satellite office in New York City at 850 7th Ave. Fiction was also home to UK dance label Desire originally founded in 1983 but re-launched in 1988 as a house music subdivision of Fiction Records (to which UK producer/toaster Rebel MC was signed to) as well as Non Fiction Records, a vinyl only record label for Fiction artists for their specialty and limited edition releases. Fiction was best known for their Cure releases and achieved its first #1 record in 1992 with The Cure's "Wish" album, which reached the top of the UK charts and the record's single "Friday I'm In Love" reached #1 on Billboard's Modern Rock chart. Additionally Fiction Records was home to other artists who were also signed to the publishing company as well as the label and Fiction released a number of critically acclaimed albums including Eat's "Sell Me A God" (Fiction/Polydor) in 1989, The God Machine's "Scenes From A Second Story" (Fiction/Polydor) in 1993 and Die Warzau's "Engine" (Fiction/Wax Trax!) in 1995. Other artists that were part of the Fiction discography and publishing catalog during this time included Billy Mackenzie & The Associates, Candyland, The Purple Hearts, Cult Hero and The Passions.
Starting in 1995, Fiction Records started to go dormant as a label, apart from the occasional Cure release, and focused exclusively on being a publishing company. Prior to this in 1994, Fiction Songs had partnered with BMG Music to form a joint venture publishing company and moved their New York offices to the Bertelsmann Building at 1540 Broadway in Times Square (Fiction's main headquarters in London remained at 97 Charlotte Street). BMG eventually acquired the entirety of the Fiction Songs publishing company and catalog in 2001. Besides being the publisher for the Cure and other Fiction Records artists, Fiction Songs was also over the years the publishing home to hip hop/electronic artist Stereo MC's, producer and songwriter Cameron McVey (Neneh Cherry/Massive Attack), the Jungle Brothers, Primitive Radio Gods, and NY Loose. It's worth noting that in 1992, the Fiction London address at Charlotte Street served as the first home to XFM London, an alternative rock radio station co founded by Chris Parry and Sammy Jacob. A benefit concert called Great Xpectations was held in support of the station soon after its initial launch and took place on June 13, 1993 at Finsbury Park in London. A live album of the concert titled "Great Xpectations Live" was released on July 1993 on Fiction Records and included performances by The Cure, Damon Albarn & Graham Coxon, Belly and The Catherine Wheel.
In January 2004 Joe Munns, Paul Smernicki and Beastman decided to revive Fiction Records to "give Polydor a bit more of a guitar stronghold", as their roster then consisted mostly of pop acts. The first release on the "new" Fiction was the Snow Patrol single "Run",[1] which entered the UK chart at #5. The subsequent Snow Patrol album Final Straw has since gone on to sell over 2 million copies worldwide.
The current Fiction stable includes Crystal Castles, Tame Impala, Death From Above 1979, The Maccabees, Spector, HEALTH, Mini Mansions, Fryars, Kate Boy, Meanwhile, Palace, The Amazons and Kaiser Chiefs.
Fiction has also released records by The Naked And Famous, Kate Nash, Athlete, White Lies, Yuksek, Stephen Fretwell, Ian Brown, Jacknife Lee, Delays, Alberta Cross, Guillemots and Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
See also[edit]
- ^ a b c "Interview with Jim Chancellor, A&R Fiction/Universal UK". HitQuarters. 26 October 2005. Retrieved 2009-10-20.
- Fiction Records in Music Week - May 2015
- Interview with Fiction A&R Jim Chancellor, HitQuarters Oct 2005
External links[edit]
- Fiction Records Official Website
- Fiction Records on Facebook
- Fiction Records on Twitter
- Fiction Records on Instagram
- Shop Fiction Records
- Fiction Records Discography
- Desire Records Discography
- Non Fiction Discography
- Chris Parry Allmusic page
- Fiction Records in Music Week - May 2015
- Interview with Fiction A&R Jim Chancellor, HitQuarters Oct 2005


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Darth Vader is back and badder than ever as the Emperor's ruthless black-cloaked enforcer in James Luceno's sequel to the novelization of Episode III. A conclusion of sorts to a literary trilogy (Luceno's Star Wars: Labyrinth of Evil and Matthew Stover's Star Wars: Episode III -- Revenge of the Sith) chronicling the creation of arguably the most popular -- and complex -- villain in the history of genre fiction, Star Wars: Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader picks up in the last hours of the Clone Wars as Vader is charged with tracking down and annihilating the last of the Jedi Order.
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We now enter the next corridor-like narthex, the esonarthex. Halfway down it you see the highly ornate entrance the emperor would use when visiting church (with the mosaic above I used to open this gallery). Through the doors you get glimpses of the treasures awaiting you inside.
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BISMARCK, N.D. -- North Dakota's Board of Higher Education
has approved a schedule for discarding the University of North
Dakota's Fighting Sioux nickname and Indian head logo if two
prominent Sioux tribes hold firm in their desire to dump them.
The timeline directs William Goetz, the chancellor of the
university system, to form a committee within the next two months
to discuss the issue with leaders of the Standing Rock and Spirit
Lake Sioux tribes.
The panel should meet at least twice with Sioux leaders during
2009, the timeline says. If there is no agreement to allow
continued use of the name and logo, it says, UND should begin
planning in January 2010 to retire them.
Tribal leaders have said they want the university to drop its
nickname and logo. If their stand changes, negotiations between UND
and tribal leaders may continue until Nov. 30, 2010, according to
the timeline.
The document says the chancellor's discussion committee also
should continue its work until November 2010, even if UND is
planning at the same time to retire the nickname and logo.
Board members voted 8-0 during a conference call Thursday to
approve the document. Its goals may be changed if a majority of
board members agree to do so, board president Richie Smith said.
Goetz said the discussion committee should have six months
instead of two years to arrange meetings with tribal leaders. The
shorter time would help "get this issue behind us," he said.
"What's behind that is ... my ongoing concern about the
university, the challenges that it is facing with a decision that
continues to be undecided [and] lacks direction," Goetz added. "I
am particularly sensitive to the environment [at UND], the
UND's new hockey and basketball arena was built by alumnus Ralph
Engelstad, a fervent supporter of the nickname and logo. The
arena's floors, seats and walls have thousands of reproductions of
the Indian head logo, and its exterior proclaims it as the "Home
of the Fighting Sioux."
Unless the Standing Rock and Spirit Lake Sioux tribes endorse
UND's retention of the nickname and logo by Nov. 30, 2010, the NCAA
will ban the university's athletics teams from using them during
postseason play. UND also would be barred from holding NCAA
The deadline was part of a settlement of a UND lawsuit against
the NCAA, which challenged the process the association used to
determine that UND should be penalized. The NCAA believes the
nickname and logo promote racial divisiveness, a conclusion
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The winds of change are blowing through the sub continent, where a ruthless despot supported by his vicious military generals, and on their payroll are many hundreds of foreign mercenaries; collectively they have been, and currently are practicing mass genocide on a population of five million people, in an attempt to make them compliant and docile.
The reaction of the surrounding countries has been virtually supportive of this cruel regime, the muted response from the African Union and the world at large, has been less than satisfactory to bring about change. The self proclaimed president ou (old) Bob McCabe and his ruling party lost the previous election, but would not relinquish control or accept defeat.
Even United Nations imposed sanctions have not had the desired effect, unemployment in the country is 95%, the economy is in tatters, and the prognosis for the future is bleak, in one of the most dysfunctional countries in the world.
With the recent discovery of colossal alluvial diamond reserves, and that the renowned and well respected Kimberly Process, giving astonishing permission for these blood diamonds from this conflict zone to reach the world bourses. This massive amount of new found wealth being generated, much of it destined for the military generals. The plight of the people and the continuing atrocities are set to escalate.
Martin Shangari, the opposition leader recognising this alarming situation, and knowing that something needs to be done to free his people, has accumulated some funding. Martin also has the determination, and he now has a clear mandate from the Baobab Accord to trigger an unrelenting and ruthless international force of men who are prepared to kill and willing to die to bring about change, and instil a true democracy. Could this initiative ever hope to succeed in this modern day and age? If so, what would be the reaction of the international community?
The continent of Africa having had a long history of failures in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Congo and Equatorial Guinea of any such attempts to overthrow a government. Therefore could it be reasonably assumed that the odds are very much stacked against this type of proposed initiative?
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Perhaps the most successful proudly permed male comedian ever, Katt Williams generally looks like a pimp. He wears nice suits accented by bling, and he's frequently gnawing a cigar. That illusion vanishes the second he opens his mouth. Williams's voice is a jagged, shrill noise that drops jokes about contemporary American culture. His standup draws comparisons to Richard Pryor for its shared understanding of society and its knack for ruthlessly shredding it. His material covers topics as wide as the lapels on his suits, and the word "standup" doesn't really do justice to Williams's high-energy, flailing stage presence. He bounces around, quipping about drugs, race, and the time he was shot. The style works for him; in 2007 he was the second-highest grossing comedian in the nation. Earlier this month he shared some of that wealth during a show at the Laugh Factory in Los Angeles when he handed $100 bills to everybody in the audience. Williams's star also continues to rise away from the standup circuit. He hosted the inaugural BET Hip Hop Awards and appeared in Norbit with Eddie Murphy, the Christmas hit Perfect Holiday, and most recently the comedy First Sunday alongside Tracey Morgan and Ice Cube.
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Featuring the wintry northern setting and the border illustrations that have become a hallmark of Jan's work, readers will love watching Teeka's humorous attempts to control the rambunctious reindeer in time for their Christmas run.
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As a child, Jan Brett decided to be an illustrator and spent many hours reading and drawing. She says, "I remember the special quiet of rainy days when I felt that I could enter the pages of my beautiful picture books. Now I try to recreate that feeling of believing that the imaginary place I'm drawing really exists. The detail in my work helps to convince me, and I hope others as well, that such places might be real."
As a student at the Boston Museum School, she spent hours in the Museum of Fine Arts. "It was overwhelming to see the room-size landscapes and towering stone sculptures, and then moments later to refocus on delicately embroidered kimonos and ancient porcelain," she says. "I'm delighted and surprised when fragments of these beautiful images come back to me in my painting."
Travel is also a constant inspiration. Together with her husband, Joe Hearne, who is a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Jan visits many different countries where she researches the architecture and costumes that appear in her work. "From cave paintings to Norwegian sleighs, to Japanese gardens, I study the traditions of the many countries I visit and use them as a starting point for my children's books."
Editorial Reviews
-Brett+s precise, glowing illustrations, drawing on Swedish folk art, make this a beguiling Advent calendar of a book.+-Kirkus Reviews
-This tale with its humorous close-ups of stubborn reindeer and a sharp child protagonist should prove popular at story hours.+-School Library Journal
"Brett's precise, glowing illustrations, drawing on Swedish folk art, make this a beguiling Advent calendar of a book."-Kirkus Reviews
"This tale with its humorous close-ups of stubborn reindeer and a sharp child protagonist should prove popular at story hours."-School Library Journal
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